Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1868-04-25
rho Saore4,.u nf ,he Interior has re.


Engineer Of the Union Pacific Railroad.
stating that on The l6lh inst. the last RAN
was laid upon the summit oil lie Rocky
Mountains in the presence 81 large
number Of distinguished army oihcers and
citizens. According 10 BlnEefderl's sur
vey. the railroad crosses the mountains at
this point al an elevation Of 6,422 feet.
being the highest pon, reached By any
railroad in The world.
! On FRIDAY last, when 81. Mays Cath
Ole Church at Chicago was PACKED full
OF PEOPLE, an alarm Of fire was given, and
in the rush for egress, three women were
killed outright, and three more fatally IN
jured.
Letters from Egypt state that Of tie
sevenly.fve private vessels which have
assembled lie Nile, fifty fly the American
flag and contain parties Of Americans.
a law authorizing railroad conductors
10 make arrests has passed The New York
Senate.
cunning workman in Trenton. n.
/ =, uus ihNeHItu d san CeIIdI aHu HSIniI
ring combined.
Anna Dickinson has abandoned her
!ecturng sgemenls, her voice having
failed.
Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens tells his friends
that he has not enjoyed better health for
| five years. and that if andrew Johnson is
removed he expects 10 take part in The sp-
preaching presidential canvass.
Mr.. Seymour OF n. Y, in his speech
al the Jefferson Birthday Dinner. refer.
ling to the cruel punlshmenls visited up
on the South since the war, very happily
quoted NspoIeon's rebuke OF French
officer for his want Of feeling for wound
ed Russian "Sir. when you have gain
ed victory there are no enemes-Ihere
are only men,"
The city authorities Of Norfolk and
Portsmouth. Va, who were required by
Gen. Schofeld 10 take The iron clad oath,
have without exception notified him of
their inability to do so. Many Of them
were moi in the Southern army, but sym
palhized with it.
Captain Townsend, conservative, has
been expelled from the Mississippi re-
construction convention for his recent
rough and tumble fight With the president
OF that body.
The Legislature OF Arkansas has elect
ed Iloa. B. F. Rice and A. Mcdonald,
both republicans, 20 represent that SITE
in the United States Senate.
TIE Lexington Gazette says that
grea, mortality is prevailing among The
colored people in Lexington, and in
Rockbridge county generally. Twenty
eight blacks are said to have died near
Lexington in the last thirty days. The
mortality has created much olarn, and
the idea is gaining ground among the
more ignorant that "wiches are infesling
the county and causing deaths.
Arlington, once the beautiful and mag
nIfcent estate of G. w. P. Gusts, and
now the property Of Gen. r L. Lee,
/ though in possession Of The United Sales
Government, and on which cemeteries
/ for white and colored Federal Soldiers
/ have been located, is 10 be divided into
small farms and sold 10 coloIed people
! The mansion has gone 10 ruin, the hand.
some groves MAT once DECORATED and
! adorned the grounds, have been ruthless
/ Iy destroyed, and devastation has usurped
the place Of ancestral splendor.
The largest income in New Ilamp-
! shire is said 10 be that of proprietor Of
! preparation known as chair resiorer."
! hall dozen years ago this "restOrer"
was unknown, and to-day would probably
have been worthless but for advertising.
Thi income is from printers ink. PEG.
pie who have anything 10 sell should
make note OF the fact.
The British authorities, some time ago,
/ imprisoned an Irishnan, MIR. tombstone.
in Dowppsirick jail, for too great zeal in
proclaiminG the woes oil his unfortunate
country. lie has completed The term Of
his sentence, but will remain in Jail
month longer, preferfing TO do that rather
than give bonds TO keep the peace for six
months. His friends propose 10 compen-
safe his spferings by sending him 10
Parliament.
F. ". Poor, member of The Conven-
lion from The county Of Orange, i, is said,
has been appointed by Governor Wells,
of Virginia, his aid-de.canp, with the
rank and pay Of colonel Of cavalry.
Mrs. Keckley. the colored servant Of
Mr.. Lncolns family, says tina, on the
morning OF the assassination, President
Lincoln took up portrait Of General
Lee. scanned the face thoughIfully, and
said: ali is a good face il is the face
. OF noble, noble, brave man. am glad
tina, HE war is over al last" Looking
up at his son Robert, he continued.
"Well, my son, you have returned safely
from the front. The war is now closed,
and we will soon live in peace with the
( brave men tina, have been fighting against
US. trust that the era of good feeling
has returned with The close Of the war,
and that henceforth we shall live in
peace"
The feeling in favor Of Gen. Hancock
as the democratic and conservative csndi-
do,a nav, asiIapt Gamma