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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09
MISCELLANEOUS.
A Genuine Love Story;
AN INCIDENT IN THE CARS.

On the whole, pleasant traits and characters
are not common on the cars. This opinion I
expressed to my friend Summer the other
day. <- a'rs
L was escortibg hottie the lovely Charlotte
D.. to whom [ was at that time devoted
Charlotte could scarcely find room to spread
her cfih0linD and arrange her volhmihous
founces. l stood up near her-there being
no vacant seat.
After few minutes, came in poor woman,
who deposited basket of clothes on the front
platform, and held in her arms stiiall child,
while little girl hung to her dress. She
looked tired and weary, but there Vas no
vacant seat to be sure Charlotte might have
condensed her large founces, but she did not.
Beside her, however, sat a very lovely and
elegant young lady, who seemed, by moving
down closer to others, to make space cnotigh
for the stranger between herself and Miss. D.
At last she succeeded, and with the sweetest
blush | ever saw, she invited the woman to
be seated Charlotte D drew her drapery
around her, and bushed too, but it was not
pretty blush at all, and she looked annoyed
at the proximity of the new conner, who was,
however, clean and decently, though thinly
clad Lggssar = ..r- S,r...g.i, :,
The unknown lady drew the little girl upon
her lap, and wrapt her velvet mantle aroind
the small, half>clad form, and put her muff
over her half-frozen, little blue hands
So great was the crowd that alone did
seeth to observe. The child shivered-the
keen wind fr5th the door blew on her un-
protected neck. l saw the young lady quietly
draw from under her cloak little wooden
shawl, which she softly put on the shoulders
of the little one the mother all the while
looking on with confused wonder After a
short time she arose to leave the cars, and
would have removed the shawl, but the un-
known gently whispered, 'No, keep it for
her." The woman did not answer, the cons
ductor hurried her out, but her eyes SWAN
with teara. noticed her as she descended
to the basement, and l hastily marked the
house.
Soon after, my unknown also rose to depart
| was in despair, for wanted to follow and
discover her residence, but could not leave
Miss D. - ,s .-, ,,... r--
How glad then, was to see her bowing as
she passed, to mutual acquaintance who
stood in the doorway. From him ere many
minutes learned hef name and address.
To shorten the story as much as possible,
that lady is now my wife. In the little
incident which introduced her to me she
showed her real character. 4 few days after
we were married showed her the blessed
crimson shawl, which l redeemed from its
owner, aud shall keep as a memento. lta
There are sometimes pleasant things to be
found in unexpected places; certainly [ may
be said to have picked out my wife in the
cars.-Retiete, Bdltimore. ~
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09
An Enlightened Old Lady.


A crowd of wounded boys were sitting
around the stove in the Bragg Hospital when
heavy jokes and left>handed compliments
were passed on different Southern States
The matlners, customs ard language were
freely criticised. Some sharp and telling
things we're said by an Albanian about East
Tennessee A Tennesscean took up the de-
fence and said:
"Well, boys, admit that there is too much
ignorance in East Tennessee, but some of her
neighbors have not much to boast Of. got
my first bad wound in '63, and as my home
was in the Yankee hands, was fu1loughed
to go where pleased, and went to Alabama.
1 took up rny abode with an old lady, who
was fire eating hatef of Yankees, and had
as little federation for blue-coat as for the
Queens English. One day, when the con-
versation turned rather gloomy upon the
prospect of the final success of the Yankees;
she few into great passion and cried out,
'Dever, never, they may captivate all the men,
they may arrogate all the women, they may
fisticate all the land, but they can never
congregate the South, never, never, never.'''
The old lady did not dream of the con-
gregate relations which the school marms
would establish with "Afric's chosen race"
in the congresated South.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09
Irishmen and Germans Read This.

During the recent discussion in the Penn
sylvania Legislature to strike the word ,chite
from the Constitution, and on the Registry
bill, John Hickman the Radical member
from Chester, said:
81 may possibly see the day that I may
walk side by side with coored woman. [
have seen great many colored women that
| would rather walk with than great many
white men. l know great MANY negroes
who | think are better entitled to vote this
moment than a great many white men Who
do vote, and have long exercised the fran
chise."
Again he said . -.-
can intelligent negro is better than an
Irish Catholic and is entitled to a vote"
A. c. Rcinehl, mongrel, from Lancaster
remarked: ...--
"If Democrats give the right of suffrage to
foreign paupers to whom spelling book is
sealed mystery, and who still smell of bilge
water, and from whose garments the Celtic
aroma or the TeutoniC fragrance of the father
land has not yet been removed by the pure
air of freedom, why shoud not the coffee col
ored descendants Of the first families of the
South have voice in reconstructing the
States of their forefathers." III
Fisher, same stripe, from Lancaster,
thought ... .
"The Democratic party was composed of
bog-trotting ignorant lrishmen and swag-bel-
lied lager beer Dutch"
Langdon, of the Bradford District re-
marked that 10
"Negroes were better entitled to the cleo
tive franchise than Irishmen."
LOYALTY DEFtNED.-"Loyalt to-day
means slavery and knavery and poltrocnery
It means murder and robbery, usurpation
and outrage -....r ....
1t means the approval of the Staying of FIVE
hundred thousand of the nations best and
bravest sons; the making of three millions
widows and orphans; and the drapins of
hemisphere in mourning ...
Ii means qualification at the piling upon
the bending backs of bankrupt people
thousand years of the worlds history, was
ever beheld before-a debt which in old
fashioned Democratic half dollars, laid edge
would place an uubroken silver girdle around
the globe hundred and twenty-five thousand
miles of coin ....
"Logalty" means co1nplacent conternp platio1
Of the most accursed scheme that all the
ingenuity of hell ever devised, to drain the
pockets of the laboring masses, and swell the
bloated Golfers of the rich !
1t means contempt for the groahs of down
trodden, tax ground, beggared millions and
adulation for the pampered, the Goldfish,
bopdholding Nobility, whose insatiate maws
swallow up the earnings, the life of a nation.
St Joscph VindicatOr.
e. A. Pollard edits the New York News
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09
NO.
The Rejected Stone,

The Rev. c. III. Spurgeon, of London,
thus appropriates Relliknown Masonic ira
dition n rIr
have hearda a story-1 cannot tell whether
true or not-out of some of the Jewish rab-
bis; 1t is tale concerning the text: "The
stone which the builders refused. the same
is become the headstone of the corner" 1t
is said that when Solomon's temple was bull
ding, all the stones were brought from the
quarry, ready cut and fashioned, and there
were marked on all the blocks the places
where they were to be put. Amongst the
stones Was curious one it seemed of no
deseribabie shape, it appeared unfit for any
portion of the building. They tried it at this
wall, but ii would not ft; they tried it in an
other, but it could not be accommodated so
vexed aud angry, they threw it away. The
temple was SO many years building that this
stone became covered with mass and grass
grew around it Everybody passing by laugh
ed at the stone; they said Solomon was wise,
and doubtless all the other stones were righty
bat as for that block, they might as we'll send
it back to the quarry, for they were quite
sure it was meant for nothing. Year after
year roHed on and the poor stone was still
despised the builders constantly refused it.
Tho eyentful day came when the temple was
to be finished and opened and the multitude
was assembled to see the Grand sight. The
builders said, "Wherc is the top-stone
Where is the pinnacle They little thought
where the browning marble was, until some
one said, :. Perhaps that stone which the bull
ders refused is meant to be the top-stone."
They then took it, and hoisted it TO the top
of the house; and as it reached the summit
they found it well adapted to the place.
Loud hosannas made the weIkin ring, as the
stone whichithe builders refused thus became
the headstone of the corner. SO it is with
Christ Jesus. The builders cast him away
He was plebian de was man of poor ex-
traction; He was man acquainted with sin
iners, who walked in poverty and meanncss
hence the worldwide Ndespised him. But
when God shall gather together, in one, all
things that are In earth, then Christ shall be
the glorious consumation of all things
,h He shall be exalted; He shall be hohored;
his name shall endure as long as the sun, and
all nations shall be blessed in him, yea, all
generations shall call him blessed,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
FIELD AND FIRES1DE.
Why Don't Farming Pa17

We hear, every day, the remark that farm
ing does not pay. Why does it not pay?
All that the farmer raises brings high price,
and the price of labor is cheap.
Some will answer that free negroes will not
work. Very well We understand that And
we understand why man.who hires num-
ber of hands, and will not attend to them,
does not make money. But, we not unfre-
quently meet with gentleman whose hands
do work. and even he complains that farming
Is poor business. We confess, we cannot
understand that. Tobacco, corn, wheat, oats
vegetable fruits, beef, bacon, lard, butter.
chickenss ducks, eggs-everythi that
farmer raises or ought to raise, is highland
cheap, labor cheap, and in the cases we are
speaking of, admitted to be efficient, and vet
there is no proftih tho cultivation OF the soil
That is strange state of atfairs 1t would
seem to us there would be moro money in
farming now than ever before. viii some of
our readers give us an explanation
In the meantime, we venture to offer few
rettiarks which may be taken for what they
are worth. -is5
Let the farmer realize his condition fully.
Let him reflect that inasmuch as he does not
own the negroes he works he cannot realize
any profit ifonl their increase, US in the days
OF slavery. He must not have, therefore any
more about his house than he can protitably
employ.
Let him bear in mind, too, that he is not
worth half the capital as when he owned tho
slaves on his plantation. He will then work
himself, either bodily or mentally, according
to circumstances, and make all his household
work. He will get his wife cookiug-stovo
aud abolish entirely the old fashioned Kitchen;
get her Il sewing machine and fix her up gem
orally so that all household matters may be
performed with as little hired labor as posi-
be He will alter his own habits and those
of his ehidren-get up id the morning and
make his own FIRE if necessary, and stir his
children, rot havb them lying in bed as in
former times, waiting for little darkie to
brush their shoes
Farming, if managed properly 10 this couu-
try, is Obliged to pay. But tho merchant
may sell large quantity of goods at fair pri.
ces, and yet not be able to support the ex-
travagance of his family. So, d farmer may
make large crops aud sell them for high
prices, and ybt not be able to stuud up under
d hundred leakages of one sort or other. It
will not do to say that the fault is in merchan
die or in farming.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09
POETIUAL.
AFTER THE. BALI.
By /. n. HOOPER.

ny L. II. HOOPER.
sit beside my midnight fire;
ifg The ballroom roses in my hair5 s-'- -t---
Without the rain is falling fast,
And strange STORM kofcts ill the air.
Z My feet are weary of the dance.sF
The fevei whitI within my brain,
49, And something deep within my breast
III ThrObs with a ceaseless pulse of pain.
49, Yes, i have plucked the Dead Sea fruit,
And savored long its riLd of gold,
Its ashy core now freIs my lip,
Its dust is falling from my hold.
a1l7 And though j struggle to forget,
.sii And though my heart be triPiy steelcd,
] cannot Danish from my brain
vision of battle field. H.f
A vision of that solemn hour
When wen and ended is the fight,
And when upon the awful scene
r Look down the tender eyes of Night
While, pilowed on his prOstrate horse,
And pale beneath his raven, hair,
The old smile new upon his lips, .f .f
The man loved lies liteless there.
He loved me as such men can love,
sla The bravo, the noble, and the truej
He wooed me, gallant heart F-
And poet soul alone could WOO;
a. He told in burning words his love .-''
listened with a startled smile, FIrs ij'0l.
And spoke of friendship and regret as4E
And ye: loved him all the whilc.
loved him-but / loved still more
Gay balls Irritation, stylish drcssl
. To hold these fast sptlrned away
That true hearts wealth of tenderness
He left me with calm farewell
Too fond to frown too proud to sigh 81
danced and firIed as of old
rrr And he went forth to fight and die.
And still tread the self same round
fH Ofbals and operas and dress, u ia''-i
But DER my life Is creeping slow ~ rF
mist-like pa II of wearincss. .-r.
The gayest gailcp fails to stir
To bounding life my languid feet;
Listless drop my rich boquet, E.
My senses sickened by its sweet.
Cold lie the embers on the hearth, s,s-
The dark without growing graz,
And must WOO reluctant sleep
Before the dawning of the day.
Back, ghostly past into your tomb;
Close eyes; upon the unwecomed light;
am engaged for every dance -
ID Atthe grand ball to. morrow night
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09

LICE IN CHICKEN HoUsEs.-Wc have al
ways found limc-washiug efsstual when
thoroughly done. 1t must be well worked
into all cregices holes which the brush can
not reach must be stopped, and the operation
repeated till fhe desired change takes place
If the fowls are supplied in the house and
in their run with a couple Of bushels Of dust,
or better still, of wood ashes, with which
should be mixed four or fge pounds Of BIZ =,
sdlphur, theJ will use it as a bathe aDi -ck
themselves of their visitors. I'D
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09
Wanted-A Printer,

Wanted-a printer, says an advertiser.-
Wanted-a mechanical curiosity, with brain
and fingers-a thing that will set so many
type per day-a machine that will think aud
act, but still maehine-a being who under
takes the most systematic drudgery, yet one
that the ingenuity of Inan has never supplan.
ted ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, a printer.
printer, yet for all his sometimes dissi-
pated and reckless habits, WORKER at all
times and hours, day and night, sitting up in
close and unwholesome office, when gay
crowds are hurrying to the theatres and other
light entertainments later still when the
street reveler5 are gone and the city sleeps,
in the fresh air of the morning, III the broad
and gushing sun light, some printer is at his
case with his eternal and unyaryihg click
click Laugh at his faults as you may, scorn
him ds you will, the world has failed to pro-
duce his substitute or his equal.
Click Clickl the polished types fall into
the stick the mute integers are trarshalled
into line, and march forth as immortal print.
Click aud the latest intelligence becomes
old Thought, principle; simple lend liv-
ing sentiment ~
Click Click from grave to gay, glow
ing sentiment-are in turn closed by the mute
and impressive fingers of the machine, and
set adrift in the sea of thought. He must
not think of the future, nor recall the past !;
must not think of home, of kindred, of wife,
nor of baby; his work lies before him, and
thought is chained to his copy.
You know him by his work, as your eyes
rest upon those mute evidences of his cease-
less toll. Correspondents, authors, and ad-
yisers who scorn the simple medium of your
fame, think not that he is Indifferent to the
gem of which he is but setter; subtle
ray may penetrate the recesses of his brain,
or the flowers he'gathers may leave some of
the fragrance upon the toll worn fingers But
when you seek friend, companion, adviser
when you want Judges, Legislators, Cover
nors, and Presiatnts-O, ye people, aaEer-
tise: .1#
"Wantod,Ta "a printer.''saI 'z-sssa
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09

CtRIS6 HEYs OF SETrINo.-
the Mr. E,,,oIo,,d FARMER sav 4 writer 10
his hens of sitting. by sbp, sthat he cured
'tub HAVING an incl, ot t~,c ting them in u
tom. He keeps them = of water on the bot
and nuts them mn tb( acre during the day
cured the FIRST da- roost at night. Ifnot
s.watar rt,r1D ar >, he treats then, to the
clad ~ sfsna other day, when they will be
on their feet
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09

= The Board of Directors of the Orange
Alexandria and Manassas Gap Railroad have
contracted with gentleman from one of the
Northern States to complete the Manassas
Gap Railroad from Timberville to Harrison
burg by the 1st of October.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09

IIME ARoUNb AppLE ThEEs.-The Gin
cinnati Enquirer says: 1--WE have known
some farmers make it rsgjilar practice for
a succession Of years to throw caustic limo
around their apple trees in the spring and
and Summer. We once hoticed that a tree
standing in the iftmcdiatc vicinity of our
dwelling had all at once pitt forth with re
newcd energy, and we were dt loss for some
time to define the cause. On examination
we found that quantity Of lime, which had
accidentally been spilled, and rendered worth
less by becoming mixed with the refuse on
the stable floor, had been thrown at the foot
and around the tree, and to this, as the prin-
ciple cause, We Immediately accredited tho
revivesence and renewed qualification OF the
tree.
"Takihg the hint from the iheident, so
Purchased twelve casks of lime, and applied
halfa bushel to each of the trees in our or
chard and found that it produced immediate
beneficial effects. Not tho health of tho
trees only, but tho duality of the fruit also
was greatly improved. This application will
be especially beneficial in soils where there is
arcdundancy Of vegetable matter. We would
advise our farmers in some places, especially
in new forest lands recently cleared, aud on
low lands, to make trial of this experiment
and see whether it is not deserving OF tho
high decentralization it secures"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09

10 DESTROY TIRE Cur WORM Tho
Practical Farmer says an excellent plan to
keep off the cut worm from corn is to drop
about tablespoonful of coarse salt on tho
top of the hill soon after planting This il
carried down by the raihs, and acts as fer.
tilizer, besides killing tho cut worm.
Salt is peculiarly cbhoxious tot his class Of
insects, and perhaps all cIasses Instead of
puttihg the salt on the hill, some farmers
spread about btshels to the acre broadcast,
upon their corn field after piowing in and be.
fore narrowing. This is a very profitable ap
plication. Farmers should bear these facts
in mind when they plant corn this spring
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09

A child ten years old, daughter of Mr..
Glen, who lives near Harman's Church, in
Powell's Fort, in attempting to cross Passage
Creek, on the 10th instant, fell from the foot
bridge near its fathers house, and was
drowned.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09

DECISION IN THE SHEPHERD WILL CASE
IN New ORIEANs.-The Orleans Times Of
May says: -
Judge Thomas yesterday delivered very
lucid decision in the Shepherd will case,
which was argued last week by some of our
most distinguished lawyers. The decision is
in favor of the heirs of r. d. Shepherd on
all the grounds set up by his counsel. The
famous sealed letter is decided not to be d
will, having none Of the characteristics of
such an instrument, and its tenor, as proved,
leaving r. D. Shepherd full discretion in the
disposal of the property bequeathcd to him
by his brother. On the point whether such
letter created substitution, Judge Thomas
decided that if it were so it would only be
vulgar substitution, which under the law was
without effect. On the point of the alleged
concealmentand suppression of the said sealed
letter the judge said that the testimony showed
that the letter had not been concealed or
disposed Of in any manner to justify the
presumption against II. D. Shepherd that he
had acted as spoliator. 1t had been in the
possession of Jonathan Montgomery and
Judah Touro, and had been shown to One Of
the heirs Of James Ii. Shepherd who freely
communicated its contents.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09

i, IshS ~ UL HrHTs-A bit of glue dissolved
:" IN milk and water will restore Grape
Gibbons of every kind should be washed
Il cold suds and not rinsed
If your fat irons are rough, rub them Titfs
fine salt and it will make them smooth.
Scotch snuff put in holes where erfcLess
come out will destroy them.
Wood ashes and eommoa salt wet with
water will stop crack Of a stove.
Hall a cranberry, it IS is said, bound On a
corr will soon kill ii.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09

= Commodore NJ F. Maury, who was cleo
ted to professorship in the Virginia Militia
ry institute, by the Board of Visitors, seve-
raj months ago, has accepted the appointment
aud is expected to arrive about the last of
June
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09
Grant as a Soldier.

What General Scott called tsthe economy
of life by. 4meaps of head ,work, - will be
sought for in vain in the campaigns. of Gen
eral Grant His successes have been won
by prodigal expenditure of his soldiers
In his last and greatest campaign he pitted
an enormous army against small one, and
sacrificed twice as many men as General Lee
had under his command. It is not justice
but adulation, to. praise him as if he had
conquered an army as large as his own. 1t
is not Justice but an affront to humanity to
"a give him as much credit as if he had achieved
. the same result without such wholesale sac
rifces of men. The following is an authen-
tic statement of the respective forces and
losses of Generals Grant and Lee between
the Rapidan aud the Jamess -.
Grant on assuming command May 4. 1864
had of effective men besides the reserve,
when he crossed the Rapidan, 125, 900.
Lee at the same date had an effective force
of 1000, aaa 2tf at-
Grants reinforcements up to the battle
Cold Harbor, June 8, were $4,000. ~ 1855"
Lees rcinforcements, up to the same date,
were 49, 600. .E
Grants total force, including reinforcement
was $4,000. W a
Lees total force, including reinforcement
1ss Returns to their respective Governments,
showed that when both armies had reached
the James, June 10, the number of Grants
army that had been put hors dw combat was
117000. =
Up to the same date, the number of Lees
men who had been put hors du combat was
10000. Hfj af
The two armies then met in front OF Peters
burg.
We have been at some pains to ascertain
and verify these figures, and we vouch for
their substantial accuracy. We shall take
good care that they do not escape the notice,
nor slip the recollection of the country. We
cheerfuly concede to General Grant the
merit of success, but it is right that the coun-
try should know the terrible cost at which
that success was purchased Y. World.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-09

The fly has made considera BILE inroad on
the uplands wheat in Shena ndoah and some
of the adjoining counties.