Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-08-25
GENERAL NEWS,

AT Demopolis, Alabama, there was held
recently Seymour and Blair ratification meet
ing, almost exclusively composed of colored
men, and addressed by four white and six
black speakers, and of one of the latter
Southern journal reports as follows
"Old Uncle Sandy Cameron, from Hale
said he was born in the South, was South
ern man and that the Southern men were his
friends. He had yet to learn of any good to
the black man that could come from these
yankee pedlers in secret politics. Southern
men have never lied to him or deceived him
when he was slave, nor since he was free
That God had put him and the Southern man
here upon the same soil, and that they must
either stand or fall together. The old man
gave them a scathing rebuke for being blindly
hitched in by set of travelling adventures,
who had only leagued themselves together as
kind of ladder upon which they could climb
into office; and wound up by saying that he
had rather be lathered with aquatortis and
shaved with handsaw, or live on pills hewed
out with broadaxe, than be left in the hands
of such set of scaawags."
In the last statement of the Director of
the Bureau of Statistics, that officer says that
our agricultural interests have been sensibly
depressed, and still continue so, as indicated
by wheat crop of increasing disprOportiOn
to population, by large falling off in the
wheat exports, and by the continued high
prices of this and other agricultural staples.
These phenomena are attributed mainly to
the war and its attendant circumstances
The gradual tendency Of the population to
desert the pursuit of husbandry is due to
other causes but, whatevcr the caese, = is
to be seriously dsplored.
- The National LateRiyeacer says The
rate at which we, are going to ruin-thc as
founding sums of money drawn by the tax
gatherer from the hard labor of the people,
aud spent-can be better understood when
we say that during the seventy three years
preceding the war Gas estimated recently
the whole expenditure of the Government
amounted to less than fourteen hundred mil
lions of dollars, while the Radical party in
! che one year of 1860 spent nearly nineteen
hundred million dollars.
- The Hon. George H. Pendleton, in wri>
ting of the Presidential election, says the
great battlefield is in the Northwest, and his
services will be given in the States of Indiana,
| Illinois and Ohio. These three States, cast
one>third of the electoral vote (50) required
/ for the choice of President (l49). The
/ Republicans heretofore have had large ma
/ jOrity of voters in each of them.
Mich cows in the vicinity of Newport,
Kentucky, are going blind. Not less shan
/ fifty of them have entirely lost their sight,
and it is accounted for by the fact that during
the warm weather they would stand in the
water, and THAT the reflection of the sun on
the watcy affected their sight to such an ex-
tent as to cause it 70 be ultimately lost.
- The latest letters from England show
that the drought has not seriously affected the
cereal crops, and the demand for grain from
this country will not be So large as was ex-
pected.
- The present condition of "RoIEns' His
| tory" is that Mr. Commissioner Esllins has
returned to Washington, and gone to work at
| his office