Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-01-29
General News,

Chicago has 150, 600 900 feet of lumber
piled up in its lumber yards
"A of Gen. Breckenridge is in an
importing dry goods house in New York city.
The New York assomblymcn have voted
themselves dead heads on railroads
The American Bible Society printed last
year ! ,ll9.259 copies of the Scriptures
In France. man who spoke dsrespect
fully Of the Emperor in a stage coach has
been fined 500.
The smallpox prevails to a considerable
extent at Salisbury, Salem and other towns
| i'll North Carolina.
We learn that freedman living near
Riceville, Va, had quarrel with his vile
about month ago. when he deliberately took
| his little sou, aged ten years, and chupped his
head of with an axe! The body was then
thrown in the woods as prey for wild beasts
and the fowls Of the air, and the diabolical
deep kept secret, until Il few DAYS AGO it was
accidentally discovered. The head could not
be ouud.-DanrWe Times.
! The Nuw York Tribune has an appcal
| ON behalf OF many thousands OF colored peo
! pie now-ln the District Of Columbia who re.
main on hand says ihc Iri6umc. land have
! greatly oEerstockcd the local market for such
labor as they can perform. Peace id euess
Privation, suffering; hence, in some cases
! thriit!essncss, decentralization and crime"
The freedmen are deserving the plauta-
tions i'll Louisiana by hundreds. their con.
tracts having expired, and the full amount
! OF their wages having been laid to them
Their money will soon be spent. They re-
fuse to work except at exorbitunt rates.
The Newborn Cbmmcariu saws that
within radius Of thirty miles of that citv
| uurluU the last twniyn G, ~,
! been pcrpcra;ed not fewer than one hundred
| cases OF rape, murder. arson and buruIarv IN
| say nothing Of the hundreds Of cases of mi
| nor offences against the law. These offences
are committed, in nearly every instance. by
| negroes, and the COmmcrcitI urges the as
sembling Of public meetings to take some ac
| ton to reprcss the evil.
| In the bills incorporating the WASHINGTON
| Coal and transportation Company; and the
| Metropolitan Hire and Marine Insurance Co.
! OF Washington, introduced into the House of
Representatives the other day, Mr.. Went
worth moved to insert in the list of corpora
tors: III both bills, the name of Jno Il. john
son, a colorcd nan. Both bills were laid
! over.
Aunt NIilly," a colored woman former.
~ belonging to Capt James NJ. Harris. re-
siding near Rockfsh Gap, in Nelson county.
n.
the Itil instant in the one huntlscd end tLi.
| tI.$'rh yea" Of he" Gyc. She was born in
| I5I, IN the beginning OF the reign of George
| II. She was contemporary of Pope. Swift
and boiIngbroEe-though probably she new
err heard OF them huriO'fcsCiUc Chronicle.
The City Council Of Georgetown have
| sent in petition to Congress against the
! Aqucduct OF the Alexandria Canal over the
Potomac, and Instructed a committee to press
its consideration before that body The OBJ
grct Is to prevent the use of the Aqueduct.
| We presume Congress will not meddle with
vested rights, secured by contracts and set
tied by courts.-Aher. Ga=.
In Colin county. Texas, pork sells for
| SIX cents pound, butter at twelve and a
| half cents, eggs at ten cents a dozen. wheat
one dollar bushcl, and flour four dollars n
hun red weight. Corn is ratified of at fiftv
| cents 4 bushcl. These rates are for specie-
In Eusk county st-fcd pork readily brings
! six cents, corn-fad seven cents. There il an
abundant supply Of food in that region. par-
ticularIy of hog hOminy. East Texas is un
! qucstlOnably one of the best countries in the
world for raising pork
| We learn by the Knoxville ConlmerciaZ
that the voting for city officers in that CITY.
| on Saturday last, resulted in the election of
the Conservative candidates. The ComD,cy-
| ct"< publishes the result of the election in a
| poster style on its third page, and hopes the
Cnlon League OF that city will not attempt
IN the future to make the city election a par
| ty issue.
Good for the home of BrownIow.
MIR. Greeley lectured in Washington on
. the Lessons Of the late war" Whilst he
! was sufficiently Radical for even the Radic-
! ais, On many subjects, he ''argued that pun
! ishment Tor d;sloyalty should be summary and
/ limited; but when postponed the justice ceas
! ed. The spirit of the age is against inflict>
! ing further punishment upon the impoverish-
/ ed and chastened South aud, in conclusion.
! he said he knew that every soldier of the vic
tOrious army rejoiced that not another drop
! of blood had been added in punishment for
/ an evil, which at most was but the conflict of
! sectional IDEAS"
/ The New Orleans Times saws that Cen
| eral Hood, at the MaGuire dinner in that
city, latter speaking Of the deeds of va!or
performed by soldiers and officers in the late
: war, turned upon his crutch, and, with an
earnest eIoquence, as unexpected as it was
su"hn'e' pronounced glowing apostrophe to
+ peace. No man who heard the utteranccs Of
/ the broken soldier on that occasion could
TAI! TO be impressed by his sincerity. He
had seen enough of war; enough of its sick
enIng and desolating Consequences. and he
looked forward with prayer and hone to an
era OF peaceful industry, when the sword and
spear should be forgotten in the use of those
more worthy implements-the plowshare and
the pruning hook-aud the thunder of mr..
dnance be replaced by the hum of trade and
the buzz OF machinery
''Such is the desire and earnest PRAYER of
the great majority Of the Southern people"