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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-04-09
George Francis Train Createsa sensa-
tion In the Wall Street Gold Room.

The above worthy went into the gold room
on Wall street, Thursday week, in company
with friend, and was at once forced to
make speech. He predicted panics aad
evils untold, to occur before the end of the
year. A portion of his premises present a
very striking picture of the past and the
present. he said:
'In 1860, we had recovered from the f.
nancial panic of 1857, and had not COM
menccd the panic of Rebellion aud Of war.
Prosperity all over the land FIVE million
bales of cotton on thousand plantations !;
five million tons of shipping on every ocean
agriculture well to do-mauuiacturers
prosperous-ba and insurance companies
paying good dividends-ruiroads succeeding
the petroleum wells just being developed
sixty millions of gold sent us annually
from the Pacific mincs-the Stock market
giving harvest to the broker, (applause,)-
the dry goods merchants making ntouey-in
short, prosperity all over the land, and yet
all done on currency of two hundred and
fifty millions-(applause)- )-and ''that's so.''
Now then, for another picture-1867-
five. million. tons of shipping wiped off the
sea, by Englaud's neut,ality-no FIVE millions
of cotton in the South-three hundred mil
lion sunk in petroleum-the gold mining
companies played out Oaughter) mean
that the inventor who confidently put his
$4,000 in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and
Nevada, has never seen his money. ("That's
SOD Where there is plenty of quartz there
are no stamps, no mills-and where there are
plenty OF mills there is no quartz GApplausc
and laughter.) Agricultural products are
not doing we'll. The crops have not been
rishing-woolcn and other manufacturers
are suspendiDg payment. Insurance Compa-
mic! mics arc failing iii Steamship property is dy-
ing out, The rottcrest sccurityin the street
is your so-called gilt-edgcd paper The rich
men are all poor. They are first to call their
Loans. Those patriotic radicals who put
their money into Southern cotton plantations.
have planted it there forever. (Laughter)
The West is not paying up promptly. The
South have nothing to pay The bonded
warehouses are full of foreign goods not yet
paid Ter The country is stocked with mer-
chondize. The gold market-as you see it
to day, Cloud laughter)-fitty millions sunk
IN the stock exchange, that financial Morgue
OF the laQd- d-(laughtcr)-sin January. Ia
short paralysis everywhere the dry rot in
Wall street is the new disease-brokers mar
ket-nobody paying expenses-checks ex-
changed to show. lite-a!l leans on call-no
business doing-nO industrial enterprises 90
ing on-no confidence anywhere, and this on
an expansion = one thousand millions
make your own interences, gcnt!emen-(scn-
sation )-shall so on-cries Of yes-anoth-
rpUiut.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-04-09
The Dangers of Innovation.

Ez.senat Wall, of New Jersey, recently
said, ia speech before Young Mems Demo
cratic Club. of Boston:
{" 1t is high time, If we intend to preserve
our form of government, that further inno-
v&tiOns and cncroachments were resisted
Political Innovations originate Just as path
is formed in the field. The first person Who
crosses the grass treads it down. Soon, where
the footsteps are, the grass has changed its
color. the depressions are distinct. Not long
afterwards, bits and patches of the soil, where,
very recently, the grass was Only aattcned,
are laid low. You see the naked earth, the
roots OF the grass are dried, the grass itself is
killed. 1t springs up no more; and then
the bare places gradually extend, uu Ill the
brown devours the Intervening green between.
By-and-by, the bare-worn places join one an
other, and all the grass between them is de-
stroyed, and the continuous path is formed.
Tracks enlarge TIE path on either side, and
generaly-the hedges and fences are over
thrown, and the tresspassers go in and out
Unrcstraincd.
Remember, citizens! in this hour of ipno-
Vation ana encroachment upon your dearest
rights, and be warned in time, then the beat
en- pathway, next the broken hedges and
PROSTATE fences, until despotism rides free
and unrestraincd.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-04-09
Ignorance and Inhumanity in Massa-
chusetts Cotton Mills.

Nhlle Massachusetts, representatives in
Congress are overturning State governments
under the pretcnse Of protecting free labor
IN the South, the laborers of Massachusetts
are vainly appealing for q reduction Of the
daily time OF labor TO ten hours Last week
nlany witnesses appeased before committee
OF the Massachusetts Legislature, and testiG,
ed that young girls are kept in Ignorance and
compelled to work twelve hours in every
twenty.iuur to save themselves from sta-va
ton. The only question which seems to be
DISCUSSED by the Legislature is whether more
actual 9C0;M not be obtained from the
employee in ten hours than in eleven or
twelve! Annexed is the testimony of one
witness as reported in the Boston .Jo9rnuI:
"MFs. NJ. 4. Durdick had worked in cot
ton mills at intervals for eighteen veorS-at
present weaver in the Pembcrton Mills at
Lawrence. She had left wo.k at various
times on account of her health, which was i'm
paired, her physician said. by confinement in
factories. Cotton factories are cousidereJ
more unhealthy than wOoIIen. During the
last eighteen months she had lost about ten
weeks on HccoGn;. of i'll health. Tho opera
tlves in TIE same room with her had general
ly lost more time than herself on account Of
i'll health. Those who leave from sickness
do so tror4 general debility and breaking down
one ala not KNOW OF single operative who
had worked year without being sick. in
the boarding houses generally, six girls occurv
one room, measuring twenty or twenty-five
feet square. She believed, she said. She
could Go as much work in ten hours as in
eleven. The last hour of the day is very
tlresomc, and the girls are usually SO tired
that they don't care whether they work or
not More breaks, snarls, &C., happen in
that hour than in any other, although the
operatives are working by the piece. One
cause of sickness, especially Of lung diseases.
arises in the necessity of drawing the thread
from the shuttle after it is put in the l9om,
BY sucking e. it out by applying the mouth to
the opening in the shuttle. A considerable
amount of dust is drawn in upon the lungs
at the time. The thread can be drawn out
in no other way. All the operatives in her
room signed the petition for a ten hour law.
The pay of weaving out a cgt of forty
yards is thirty four cents. The average
monthly pay of good weaver is about TWEEN
ty,eisht dollars, running from four to six
looms. . =
Among the forty Eve operatives in her
room, about one half of them can write"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-04-09
Letter from Gen. Beauregard.

The following is a letter from General
Beauregard, dated March %, addressed to the
New Orleans Times -
In my humble opinion, we have but one Of
two things to do-rcSist or submit: the first
Is inadm'ssibe in our painfully exhausted con-
d:tion. -Four years ot desperate war have
taught US that The argument of the sword
eau no longer be resorted to by us to redress
our grievances. We must, therefore. svb-
mlii ; but with that calm dignity becoming
our manhood and our lost independence.
Having been overpowered in the late
struggle, we can submit to the harsh and un-
generous conditions Of cur conQuerors with.
out dishonor, and We must adopt the least Of
two evils; a futile resistance would only cause
our rivets to be driven closer; we must then
acquiescc or leave the country But we love
too dearly the land Of our birth to abandon
1t in its hour Of scverest trial. VIC should
avoid, also, bringing it, by internal dissen-
SONS, to the condition Of poor Mexico and the
unfortunate South American republics.
With regard 30 the suffrage OF the freed
men, however ohjectional it may be at pres.
cnt, it is an element of strength for the fu>
ture. If properly handled and directed, we
shall defeat our advcrSarieS with their own
weapons.
The negro is Southern born. With little
education and some property qualifications
he can be made to take sufficient Interest in
the affairs and prosperity of the South to in
sure an intelligent vote on his part.
In our future political contests with the
North, on protective tariffs, internal improve
ments, etc. the freedmen of the South will
side with the whites Of the South and of the
West, and they will thus contribute to give us
back the influence we formerly had in the
councils Of the nation
Our people should understand that the
Radicals can remain in power only so long as
the public excitement is kept up. As with
the turbid waters of the Mississippi river the
sedimentary particles are kept up at the sur
face only so long the waters are in mo.
ton, the instant the current is checked those
particles fall to the bottom thus will it be
with the Radicals when peace and quiet are
restored to the country; the Conservatives
Will then take the reins in their own hands.
aud the constitutional laws of the land will
once more prevail. I remain youys, respect,
iuliy, G. L. BEAUREGARD.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-04-09
MISCELLANEOUS.
Life'g Dark Waters.

There are storms on lifes dark waters-
Note the care-wOrn look of that aged man as
he paus2s TO rest on his staff. Once his
limbs were active, and his step firm. Once
his eye was bright, and his cheek, now pale.
gowed with the rose tint of health. But ali
have vanished, aqd .9ow behold the wreck of
the nobest work Of God. proving that he has
met the storms on life S dark waters.
Gaze on the lofty air and firm step of that
proud youth as he bids adieu to his home and
friends. No tearzdrops stain his checks, his
heart is firm, and he looks boldly TO the fu-
ture. lie sees the last mountain pcaks
which surround his home fade in the distance;
he u;tcrs no word heaves no sigh. bat will,
a happy heart still looks onward, onward
ThoughtlcSs youth! You have vet to learn
to meet with fearless heart the storms on
Ete's dark waters.
See that bright-eycd maiden as she trims
lightly along, needless alike of light or shad
ow. suile is on her ruby lip, and mirth
and glHdness beam from her eyes. Bright
flowers fill her path, flowers with a thorn
But steel your heart for the future. fair one.
Tor there are storms on lie's dark waters.
a cold, motioulcss form shrouded in the
habiiiments of the grave. White locks foatipg
over the rounded forehead on which deer
lines ofcaTe are plainly seen yet calm, heav-
enIy smile parts his lips, seeming to say, that
the storms On lies waters were safely psascd.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-04-09
Negro Suffrage.

In assuming that negro suffrage is ipevita-
BILE, the Petersburg Lnder says:
SIT is our reason that recoils, not our SEN
sibilities. We had rather the Southern me-
gro would vote than not, if he would vote in
gently-obviously because, thereby, the
influence of this section upon national legisIa-
tion would be immensely enhanced.
Being confronted, therefore, with this mat
ter it is the duty of the South to Law aside
prejudice, which was based upon vanished
order Of things, and deal with the present
thopghttully and resolutely. bravely too, for
mora! courage is necessaryto the adoption of
this course; to labor earnestly and diligently
to educate this race up to capacity for right
discharge Of this new duty, right exercise Of
this neY privilege. 1t behoOvcs us, as guar
dlans OF the interests of the present and com
ing generations OF our own people, SO to ele>
Yate the minds and improve the temporal con-
dluon OF this other element of our communi-
ty, that they shall recognize in their minds
the wisdom and feel in their pockets the i'm
portance OF so voting as to secure tranquility
and prosperity for the State aud section in
which they live, and for those people with
whom their lots are unavoidabIy cast,
They have shown their willingness. under
trying circumstances, to abide by laws neither
unquestionably established, nor strongly ad-
ministered: When we regain the power to
legislate, if ever, let such regulations be put
IN force as will convince them that our inter
ests are identical and not antagonistic.
1t is probEcmatical whether their minds he
capable of the culture and development neces-
sary to the formation of what should be. in
this century of civilization, considered good
citizen, but let the experiment be made. We
can lose nothing by trying, aad may lose
everything by neglecting it,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-04-09
A Scene.

a hearing was had on Saturday before
Judge Alexander, in the case Of Celia Kel-
ioGg against Miner K. Kellogg. This was
petition for the writ of habeas corpus made
by Mrs. Celia Kellogg, Gormerly Miss Logan,
an actress OF nOte.) for order of the court
to require her husband to permit her TO see
and converse with their child, Virginia Som
efs Kellogg, aged between six and seven years
SO US net to become entirely cs:rauced frcm
her he answer to the petition alleges that
the petitioner IL the wife of respondcnt: thot
she left him candestinelv. abandonino her
child i'll December, 1868, and that her con-
duct has been in fraud OF her husbands mar
l'al rights that she has an application for
divorce pending in the courts OF FhladclpSia:
tnat commission to take testimony in the
case Is now In Baltimore that petitioner is
here IN attendance on said commission: that
respondent is perfectly willing that she shall
sec AMI converse with her child at proDer
times and places. where the Child will not be
improperly Influenced, and has so informed
petitioner. In obedience to the order. Mr..
Kellogg produced the child in court. They
were seated near the judge. TIE mother, on
seeing her child, rtshed to embrace her,
when an effort was made to separate them,
during which one Of the counsel had his hair
smartiy pulled by Mrs. Kellogg, who imme-
S'J ".'cI l1'Hteu' anu was 1CF some time
apparently insensible. The child was re-
moved to the private room of judge AIexa1-
der, and physician sent for. With the aid
OF volatile salts Mrs. X. soon returned to con-
seriousness, and the case was proceeded with.
During the progress of the case Mrs. x. ex>
hibited great mental suffering She was
seated at the trial table by the side of her
counsel and made frequent applications of
salts, while she occasionally made suggestions
to her counsel. After the hearing of the
case Judge Alexander passed an order that
the child, Virginia Somers Kellogg. be con-
Quoted to BarnuEis Hotel, on Sunday March
3lss, at 9 O'Clock A. NJ, and there to be will
her mother until 6 p NJ, free and unmolested
from any undue influence by any one over its
feelings and actions during said period Of
time" The parties then left the court room,
and the order was no DOUBT complied with
Baltimore Sun
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-04-09
From the Lexington tKy.) observerl
A Remarkable Kentucky Law. Suit
Decided,

BrecsmrfGge's Administrator and Heirs
0s. Lees ErecutOrs Gaei. aei.OtAers.-This case
In the length of time of its continuance. the
character OF its contestants, the counsel en-
gagged, and the circumstances surrounding
it's, perhaps, the most remarkable in the
history of Kentucky Jurisprudence. With
Its merits we have nothing to do. In 1895
John Breckenridge and George Nicholas
perhaps the two ablest aud most distinguished
men in Kentucky of their day, and from
whom have descended men Of, perhaps equal
intellect, made contract with John Lee, an
early and wealthy settler; for the purchase of
Blackwell!s claim for over 10000 acres of
land in what is now Bath county Breckin-
ridge and Nicholas, and: perhaps others. form
ed the original iron works company of that
county, Breckenridge sold to Walter Beall
and Nicholas, taking mortgage. Beall and
Nicholas sold to Thomas Dye Owings, taking
a mortgage
Lees executors made Breckinridge's estate
pay the first purchase money, and Breckin-
ridges heirs sued to recover from BealYs
Nicholas.s and Owings's estates the money
thus paid. This suit was commenced in
lSl L and has been constantly on docket ever
since. 1t was originally commenced in the
Federal Court, in which case the celebrated
Colonel John Allen was one of the counsel.
NuAeFous anu conI!chng CLAIMS were iQv0lv-
ed in this suit The claims of Luke Tier
man, Elliott, Meredith, Smith and Others, all
finally purchased by Robert Wickliffe, Sr.,
who became largely interested. and to whose
skill, vigor and unyieldipg determination,
may be principally assigned the duration Of
the long struggle. The most remarkable
men of Kentucky, for three generations, have
been connected with this case, either as con-
testants. lawyers, judges, witnesses, &c.
Out of this, in part, grew the famous per-
sonal controversy between Robert WickliFe,
Sr., and Rev. Dir. Robert j. Breckinridre-
that war Of giants. We understand that the
Court of Appeals decided substantially in fa-
of Breckinridge's heirs: The amount in
yolyed, with interest and cost, is between S2O,-
900 and $4,000.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-04-09

SOUSTR.
Would, oh Poeti that VIC cn,rl.l wrcr-
1hRt pain from our stern hearts might Green
In tears, wh nke gentle dew would tFIns -
10 "llhercd hopes' second sP, ing!
Our childish tears hsd>littIc stav.
WewePt our youthful griefs away
And the record is written OF lt,rc c,rcs
our sHauO~eu eyes and binnchcd hairr.
Oyer the graves of. buried hcpc.,
Qtt have fallen the bitter drups
Btter. yet sweet, for they lightcncd the !,rcn st
vi anguish, that else to the earth had uress,,,I.
Many tear may trcochery wiring
FROM hsart too proud TO own its sting,
0it is the calm face turned TO the wall
That thc scorching drops unsecn NAV Iall-
But let 'hc;n fall, aud the angaiahcd heart
vi Its weary load has lost part. a
But the Deepest Grief is silent hero
4hc heaviest Sorrow has tear
EoF Frlde, Tor Shame, for Rage, D!sdain,
h"Ve sc"Tched TO d'OusSht t"at blessed rain.
Would, oh Poet that we could weep!
Aud wIt'' those tears away could svSep
The sense OF deep and bitter wrong
Ahat mas burned IN our tortured hearts SO long.
But never more ay Tic stream brrst forth
From that fount inf lhc heart whose teurs Luye
birth
For the ,Rightcou. Cause thai is overborne,
For the ChIeitain by CHAINS and prison worn
For the broken Sword, for the Banner furIcd
For tue stormy sky, aud the dar lceucd world
Sing, oh Poet! the wondrnus sto-v
or all our sgr tness, all cur erIorT
Sing of OR heroes, living aud dead
Ot n country lost, of honUr hrd,
~ the Iowly gravcs where our heroes sIcep
That strangers, hearing Thy strains NAV |vsen.
toTGs, alas! we weep no more
our taSlS Is stcrncr,- to endure
frederick county, March 81, 1867.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-04-09
.The Bpltimore Gc.ette thinks. 49, on

The Baltimore Gazette thinks, that on
ono account, it is a pity that Congress closed
its session so soon-for the Radicals having,
apparently, finished. for the present. their
measures fog harassing and devastating the
South, and being quite at a loss to know what
70 do next, had hit upon the happy expedi-
cnt of quarreiiing among themselves. and the
consequence was, that the public were begin
ming to get good deal of information from
Estates evidence, as to matters and things
past and present." /:
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-04-09
Small Farms and Fruit.

"A New York farmer makes the following
suggestions in regard to email farns:
In many cases where large farms are divi-
ded, there is no orcliard The enter,,r;siu,,
beginner may do well by raising small frn;ts
while his orchard is growing. A neirhbor
Is ma king more out OF the Dooli,lIe rasnber.
r'es, by selling. fruits and plpnts-botb prown
on the same land-from aCaGw acres. tl,an
most men make on one hundred acres by com
mon farming. These aud other small fruit.
may be grown between the rows of app!e
trees IN young orchard. The growers Of
small fruits may also do better by growing
strawberries, raspberries and blaekJcrr1es. 20
as 10 have succession all through the season;
thus requiring less help at any orc time,
controlled.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-04-09
An Important Acquisition.

1t is believed that the President commpni-
Gated to the Senate, in its executive session
on Saturday: treaty with Russia, by which
that Power surrerders to the United States
the sovereignty over all of Russian America
and the adjacent islands. It is understood
that the price to be paid for this territ,ry is
about 100000. THE treaty Will proba.
bly, bq taken up this week by the Senate.
should that body be convened by procIana-
t>on Of the President, as seems to be expected
The importanc? of this acquisition OF ter
ritory will be appreciated by reference to its
extent and position. 1t covers $4,000
square miles, and has about 10000 inhabit-
ants. 1t comprehends all the American
coast of the Pacific and adjacent islands north
Of the parallel Of 54.4O, extending some
600 miles, and nearly excluding British
America from the ocean. It's chief value
lies in its fisheries and its fur trade. The
principal settlement is New Archaneel, a
town Of about 1000 inhabitants on the is
land of Sitka. OF the population of Rus
sian America about 50,00O are Esuuimuux.
and the remainder are Russians, Crcoles,,
kadiocks, and AleetOs.- IFqshinqton .Stor,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-04-09

No MAN CAN SERVE Two MASTERS
"When ycu see dog following two men"
says the Rev. Ralph Erskine, il ore of his
sermons, you know not to Which of them he
belongs while they walk together; but let
them come to parting road; and one go one
way, and the other another way, then vou
will know which is tie dogs master. So At
times, will you and the world 90 hand in
hand While the man may have the world
and religious profession too, We cannot tell
which Is the mans master, God or the world :
but stay till the man comes to a parting road :
God calls him this way, and the world calls
him that way. Well, if God be his master.
ne follows religion, and hates TIE world but
II the world be his master, then he follows
the world and'the lusts thereof, and lets God,
and conscience, and religion go
The town elections in Ohio and Mis-
sour seoni to go, generally, in favor of the
h2QlG3lS,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-04-09

PRACTICAL HIHrs.-A coating of three
parts lard and one of rosin applied to farm
tools Of iron or steel will effectuaIly prevent
rust. Common nails heated rci-hot and
dropped into cold water will clinch and an
swer the purpose of wrought nails The
sharp corner of a common Indian arrow head
or flint will cut glass cfTectualiy. 4 good
wagon jack may be made OF two pieces OF
boards, two or three feet long. Place tho
board in front of the wheel, one end on the
ground and the other just under one Of the
spokes, close up to the fellow; then take hold
OF spoke on the opposite side of the wheel
and lift, at the same time place the second
board under the axle tree. In this vav a
loaded wagon may be lifted with ease'-
hGs'y nails may be drawn from wood without
difficulty, by first giving them blow hard
enough to start them a little.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-04-09

LASD IEAsURE.-Every farmer sbould
have rod measure, a light pole Just 1GI feet
long, Tor measuring land By little prsc,
'ice he can learn to step rod at i've steps.
which will answer very well for ordinary farm
work Ascertain the number of rods in
width aud length of the land you wish to
measure, and multiply one number by the
other, and divide by 460, and you will have
the number of acres, as I60, square rods
make an acre.
If you wish to lay of one square acre, meast
acre; or 122 rods square will give the salile
quantity, two and half rods over an actk
The Boston Posi- says that blaektlaer-
gyman in Tennessee aspires tostbe guI Ina
tOrial chair of that State. Well, if he lhas 4
church, has he not right to spiDs. a