Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-06-04
GENERAL HRWS ITEMS.

moud, the evidence 20 sustaining the accu-
satiOn. When Russell Vas arrested in Wash.
ington, the police of q it city eDdeavored IA
force him to have his icture taken, for the
purpose of placing it the rogues' gallery,
but he persistently r4Gsing to do SO, they
marched him around b all of the hotels,
where, in the presenceef the crowds assem-.
bied, they pronounced him thief lie is
represented to have wsP bitterly when thus
publicly exposed, and have earnestly pro.
tested his innocence.
Mr.. Richard G.. 2 ashington died ut his
residence in Wasbit N, last week, in the
sixty -G.,ssEth-yRz.ss. 9lisaek
descendant OF LnwreRce Washington, the
elder brother of George Washington, aad
was born in WeSmoreland county, Va. He
had been a resident Of Washington for many
years and occupied at the time of his death
the PositioH'of chief clerk in the appointment
Office of tie Post Office Department, ard had
been connected with this Department for over
twenty years He was one of the few TO-
naming Of the old citizens. and had always
been esteemed for his integrity and the many
excellent virtues which adorned his character
He was, also, at the time of his death, one of
the vestry of the Church Of the Epiphany.
- Another Massachusetts saint has fallen
from grace. lie Was pastor Of the Baptist
Church at East Abingdon, Il member of the
State Legislature, a school committeeman and
prominent Good Templa:. The scOuudreHs
name is Serene Howe, and his offence, de-
bauching the young. Details of his infamous
conduct are not fit to be printed in any paper
They are 50 disgusting that not even Com
mittec OF the Legislature could listen to them.
As soon as his crimes we're discovered, Howe
sent his resignation to the Legislature. packed
u few traps and Gccamped from Abingdon
under cover OF night. lie was very earnest
and patriotic moral idea man.
A special meeting of the New York
Union League Club, on Thursday evening
week, it was resolved that Jefferson Davis
was guilty of crimes for which he should have
been detained in prison until tried /; that the
baiIIng ot him was wrong, and that the Club
saw nothing in the action of Horace Greeley
in bailnG Jefferson Davis calling for any
proceedings ON their part.
The Porochial reports for last year, sub,
mitted at the late Council OF the Protestant
Episcopal Church of Virginia show: Bap-
tisms, total adults and infants. white aud col
"red, T2l, COMMITMENTS. white and cUIored,
6,522, Conirmatioms, 631; Marriages, 4Sl !;
s. 5. Scholars 4.S55; Teachers, Si7; Con,
tributions, S45, ,l83.4G.
- Mr.. Il. \. Rollins, Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, in a publication dated from
his department 18th Instant, draws the atten-
tlon OF all parties interested to tie fact thai u
new wAiskcy meter has been adopted, aud
that g no distiIer shal! continue in business
alter the 10Th day of the prcseut mouth un-
less he shall have made application for me-
ter" He believes that its adoption " will
lessen the number Of those authorized to dis
til. and thus, to some exteut, render easier
the suppression Of fraud"
"A chemist of Narseilles, France, pro.
fesscs to have invented Il new preparation of
Greek fire, which should put an end to all
war. With this terrible agent of destruction,
the inventor claims that be could enveIop in
flames an army Of 100000 men, or a navy,
from distance of 1000 yards, within less
than Eve minutes.
The UerGH and other Northern papers
speak very freely Of ultimate reputation Of
the national debt. When the financial and
commercial ruin which are fast approaching.
come upon the country with all their terrors,
it will not be difficult to organize controlling
party upon the principle Of Iepudiaton.-
The negroes Of the South and the poor aud
oppressed tax payers Of the North will readily
favor the schCme the best and only meaus
OF escape from iutOlerable burdens.
Some talk having been occasioned in
this community. says the Winchester Times,
on account Of the reported marriage of a
white woman to black man, We have made
inquiry INTO the matter and the report to be
true. The groom is black man. raised aud
formerly owned by citizen of Winchester
the bride is white woman, for some time
resident of Winchester. The marriage cere.
mony was performed by a colored clergyman.
- Information has been received that
Judge Watrous, United States District Judge
Tor The district of Texas. has decided that
the order Of Gen. Griffin, requiring jurors to
take the iron clad OATH Is illegal aud unau>
thorized, and that the Federal and State laws
regulating the qualifications of the jurors
should govern practice in the courts.
The McLure House in Wheeling is now
lighted with petrole0> calcium gas, which gives
most soft and brilliant light. This gas is
the invention of DIR. j. H. Connolly, of that
city. who has sold the right to the Petroleum
Calcium Gas Light Company. who are now
putting up works for its manufacture, and
selling territorial rights
II The Brazil eamship, South America,
sailed from New York on thursday for Rio.
taking out 10 passengers, mostly from New
York and Pennsylvania, who 20 out as emi-
grants. under encouragement offered by the
BRAZILIAN government in grants of land.
j In the Albemarle Circuit Court, Tues
day week, negro man named John Lewis
was sentenced to the penteutary for one year
for breaking into a stable, and in another case
to five years durance for stealing saddle
He had already been sentenced in the same
Court to eight years imprisonment for horse
stealing.
The New York Day Book. the leading
organ of the Democracy of the United States,
is out in strong article favoriug the nomi.
nation of JEFF. Davis and Edgar Cowan as