Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-01-22
General News,

The New Orleans Times says that the
sugar crop Of Louisiana will reach fifty thou
sand logheads, against sixteen thousand last
year.
Mr.. r. ". Cameron, who lost bloodcd
English horses on the steamer Hcivetia, while
on voyage across the Atlantic, has written a
letter in which lie says:
trust that my sad experience may result
IN benefit TO others. 10 hope to see importa-
tons Of mares On large scale The coming SUM-
mcr. We require theGH, and they will prove
lasting benefit to the country ! am told
by those WHO had opportunities Of judging
that the Virginia cavalry were largely indcb-
ted to their success during the late war, owing
to their horscs being 50 much better bred than
those in the United States service.
Six acres Of meadow in the town Of Mans
fell, Connecticut, were carefully prepared
and stocked with cranberry plants, three or
four years ago. This year, upward Of four
hundred and fifty bushels Of craubcrries were
gathered en- this six acre patch.
-TLereoplc fJohrson county, Tennessee,
came together at TayloravilIe, on the 9Th inst,
and passed resolutions, one OF which was q re-
quest 10 the tennessee Legislature to omen a
correspondence with the Legislatures of Viz
GINA and North Carolina, soliciting Of them
corporation in the construction Of links to
connect the proposed Atlantic, Tennessee and
Ohio railroad with tie Virginia and Tonnes
see railroad, and with the nearest line ofrail-
road in North Carolina, il the direction Of
Charlotte.
-EP;scoTal Parish schools have been cs-
tablisheG in Alexandria, Lccsburg, Norfolk,
Richmond, Petersburg. LyncLburg. and other
places in the State-iai;A!ul!v atttcnGed and
conducted hy the ladies Of the congrega>
tiou1.
The Methodist Protestant Church Of Alb
ingtoa caught fire Sunday night last, from the
stovc>pipe, and but for the timely discovery,
the Virginia" says, the ere would have got
ten such Roadway in few minutes that it
could not have been distinguished
The fire was discovered about 10 o'clock
at night. One ofthe joists was burned through.
the chimney fell upon the floor, breaking the
stove. The clustering overhead was much
injured.
The new 'Psairns and Hymns" laid be-
fore lac Presbyterian General Assembly at
Memphis, by the "ComuIiitcc of Revision, -
and adopted by that body. is soon to be pub
lished by the "CoGmit;ce Of Publication"
in Richmond.
The Boston resident artists have held c
number Of meetings With view 10. forming
an Artist Fund Society, similar to that in New
York. They vii, have, some time this month,
a sale for the benefit CT the family Of onc of
their number, lately deceased MANY pictures
ara- promised BY Boston and New York ar
lists,
Amos has nearly completed finc portrait
OF Ristori.
y very attractive collection of paintings. by
Alexander Wust is now On exhibition at Mi
ncr & SOmcrvile's Fine Art Gallery, 50 Fifth
Avenue. Mr.. Wust is an American artist.
and has only recently returned from Europe.
after an absence Of four years. Among other
views of European scenery are included his
two fine paintings, entitled a Norwegian
Waterfall by Moonlight for whichzNr. W.
was awarded by royal decree, the 3-year gold
medal at last years Exhibition at Brussels
and Mountain Torrent in Norway" foE
which he received the gold medal at the las,
Exhibition ct the Hague.
Senator Wade said to Nizsissippi Judge
a resident OF Oxford. We believe, that lie had
wholly misconceived the spirit and purposes
of the South. lie had deemed US animated
b. fixed. irremediab!e hostility to northern
people, and by this apprehension Of southern
sentiment his course in the Senate had been
shaped lie had seen aud heard enough
during IIissQjourn in those:S to satisfy hin
that he had been misled, and that his subse
quent conduct would show that he had tho
manliness to confess an error. Such is the
substance of his remarks as rccited to US
-uemPhi6 Bulletin:
= The Hannibal Republic says, that during
the past year 32S Radical political preacher
have been sent to the penHentiaries of tn,
United States, and eight Of them have beer
hung.