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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03
= One of our exchanges observes that ten

- One of our exchanges observes that ten
men commit suicide from financial causes to
one for another. There is some truth in this.
Anguish of mind has taken the breath out of
twice the number of peopls that anguish of
the body has. The men who do the most
whistling (and whistling il the thermometer
of happinesS) are probably the poor fellows
Who are seen carrying hods up a fve>story
ladder with the mercury up among the nine
ties. Those who think oftenest of arsenic are
people given to great expectations. who build
castles in the air and dream of being million
aires, and become hypochondrinc. and fear
they are going to die in the almshouse 1t
is rare thing TO hear of hod carrier ending
his existence by hemp or prussic acid. Learn
to be contented.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03
ENFRANCHISEMENT.

The Wheeling LnteHigencer is out again in
favor of enfrauchissmcn5. Commenting on
the Virginia election, it says -
"Shall we not here in West Virginia be
able to take hint from it ? Or will the
Republican leaders here persist in the stone
blind policy by which Wells lost the support
of the best men of his party in Virginia?
We trust the position taken by the Kntelli-
gencer will lead to favorable results, but at
the same time, are forced to confess that the
Radical leaders in West Virginia are the most
intolerant, proscriptive and. INSCRIPTIONS,
that ever had control and direction of party
organization aud hence we have very little
to expect from them. Any calculations based
upon change of policy ON their part, will
prove erroneous, so long as the gilded bait of
Office is within their grasp. They know that
the hour that witnesses the enfranchisement
of the people, will sound the knell of their
political demise, and they are naturally dis
posed to postpone this to the last possible
moment.
We see but one pathway TO the liberation
Of the enthralled masses of West Virginia,
and that is not brilliantly lighted with reason
able hopes Of reaching that much desired re-
suit. Ifthroush she different Boards of Reg
istration, We can secure an honest registration
of the legal voters of the State, the present
fanatics can be swept from the places which
they now unwOrthily fill, and liberal policy
will ensue-a policy that will secure to every
man his political privileges, and give him the
opportunity of saying who shall be his judge,
and who act as his representative or tax.collec
tor. Without such registration the present
ilhberal policy is likely to be indefinitely pro-
longed in this State.
In Tennessee the Gubernasorial struggle is
being fought on this distinct issue, with strong
probabilities in favor of the election of the
liberal candidate. The election will take place
on Thursday next.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03
CONGRESS TO FIX THINGS.

The Radicals are not disposed to acquiesce
in the decision which was made by the people
Of Virginia at tho polls. The Legislature
being strongly Conservative, an attempt will
at once be made to declare vacant the seats of
all who can not take the ''iron-clad" oath
A Washington telegram to the Philadelphia
Post says:
There seems to be no doubt but that new
election will be ordered in Virginia within
the next ten days, unless General Grant in
terferes. for a close canvass shows that very
small proportion of the newly elected mem>
bers of the Virginia Legislature can take the
''iron>clad" oath. Certainly no quorum can
take it. and all the. trouble and expense of
reholding the election will ensue in the dis
tricts where the members elect cannot take
the Iron clad" The Hon. Mr.. Van Wyck
is in town to night, and on being quizzed as
to the result in Virginia after his stamping
things in Congress"
OF course an attempt will be rnade to Fix
things in Congress" The States which have
been kept out of the Union so long will not
be admitted if they attempsto come in with
conservative governors or legislatures The
Union is nothing when weighed against the
greed of the Radicals for-ofice, aud all the
political and material interests of the nation
will be sacrificed by the corrupt crew in Con
gress in order that a set of greedy cormorants
may be enabled to fatten on the public
plundsr
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03

- We regret to be informed that the mys-
ferrous and fatal disease which recently made
lis appearance among the cattle in the region
around Bristol, continues its ravages. and no
ehectuai means to arrest it have been dis
covered Up to last Saturday sixty nine cat
tie IN the immediate vicinity of the town had
died from Ifs eontagion. y great panic nre-
vailed among the people. who not onl7 fear
the loss otall their cows bat are apprehensve
that the disease may take some form ipiu-
rious to human life. We learn that a gen.
tIeman offered his cattle in Bristol, Saturday.
for fifty cents piece.
Lynchburg Republican.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03

SWIFT JUsrIcE.-A correspondent Of the
Memphis Avaldnche writes from Devils Ell
bow, Tennessee
cat Islad3 40 we learn of e summary act
Of retribution perpetrated by a heroic lady
living at Dock Batemans, on the islands On
Wednesday morning last, about one o'clock,
a coored man By the name of Green, who
had been working on the place but few
days. entered the room of this lady ana at
tempted to get in bed with her She awoke
and renched for her pistol which sho kept
near By her. and disc barged the contents of it
at him. They took effect in his right breast,
near the shoulders, passing down near his
heart. He ran two or three hundred yards
from the house and fell, where he died in
about three hours"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03
zss- The great seo-serpent story has beer

s3- The great sso-serpent story has been
revived this year. st Is said to have been
seen on Sunday lass in Newark Bay, N. j.,
BY Mr.. Andrews, who was crossing in boat.
He describes it, as seen from 4 distance of two
hundred yards, as "a monster as large as a
flour barrel, and having something of the ap-
pearauce of dogs head. 1t stretched away
along the surface, and black scaly back lifted
itself gradually from the water until it APP
peared, according to Mr.. Andrews, twice the
length of an ordinary schooner. 1t swan
easily and with but little motion, occasionally
raising its head three or four feet above the
surface with that peculiar sinuosity common
to the snake tribe. Suddenly, with tre-
meudnus splashing, it disappeared from sight,
leaving behind it a large area of seething foam.
Mr. Andrews acknowledges himself TO have
been scared almost to death at the sight, and
about came to the conclusion, so he says, that
he was to be eaten alive. IRdeed, his presence
of mind so far forsook him that he dsepped
both oars and had some officially in recovering
them. Having secured them. however, by
means of small paddle which fortunately re-
manned in the bottom of the boat, he under
took to row acsess tae bag but he had pro-
ceeded but q shorr distance when terrible
splashing from behind caused him to tura
around. and there, as he solemuly asserts, with
in dozen yards of him, was the bead of the
monster high up above the surface; and, to
add all the more to his terror, it opened Its
hideous jaws and darted forked tongue direct
~ at him. To employ the language used by
Andrews himself, the nexs thing he knew,
he didn't know anythins'-meauing thereby
that his terror was so great he apparently lost
consciousness. That was the last he saw of
the sea serpent" After reading thip wonderful
tale 1t is quite unnecessary to be assured that
Mr. Andrews is man of strict truth and
sobriety.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03
NEW ADvERFIsEMENT
A CARD OF THANKS.

WI edgments TO the citizens of Charlestown, tor
their kind and perseyering efforts to her build;
ing from destruction, during the fire of the 9th
ult. ALI who assisted, shall lie borne In her most
cherished recoilections. To the trave men the
roof. who long, and at such great risk to their
safety. fought the fiery element, too much praise
cannot be awarded; It was a spectacle causing
deeper emotions than the prospect of the entire loss
OF her property. The valuable assistance ofthe col
ored population must be recorded; in this class,
James Wi liaIns the attached servant OF her fami-
ly, conspicuous; his interest and knowledge
Of the building, enabled him to render the most eff
cient service. All will please accept the thanks of
their sincerely. grateful and obliged friend.
Chnrlestown August 5. IS6q-It.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03

THE TEMPERANCE 1ovEMENT-If Ne,o
Party to the FfeL9-Ths temperanc, people
of Maine have come ont as an independent
party and have put forward N. G.. Hck born as
their cauddate for Governor. with an evident
determination to fight it out on this lire."
This msJ prove to be the beginning Of an i'm
portant diversion from the republican party
Made up originally of the scattered fragments
of the old nhig and democratic parties, all the
isms OF the North were fused into it on the
great issue of the abolition of slavery. Now,
slavery being abolished and negro equality
being substantially established, the isms are
going back to their old notions such as labor
reform, women's rights, temperance, &c
And so the temperance radicals Of Maine are
out as an independent party, and their brethren
in several other States are moving in the same
direction. They are all to meet In National
Temperance Convention on the LIST of Septem
Der at Chicago, when there will perhaps be a
national organization proclaimed for the abnli~
ton of whiskey drinking, This is a tougher
job than the abolition of slavery; but we sus-
pect that it will contribute to abolish the
present dominant4Paf.s.-N ?. Hera!a.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03
At Burr Oak. Michigan, last week a

At Burr Oak, Michigan, last week. a
young woman, aged about txenty-three years,
who had been married about five years, de-
lberately went off with her husbands young
est brother. All was done with the full
knowledge of the terribly injured husband
His wife packed up her bed and clothing in
his presence, which were placed in wagon,
together with herself and child. BY her para
mour. when they were driven about mile to
the residence of her husbands father, the
husband and another brother f,llowing Gu
foot. Here the whole matter, coutea plated
for over year. was freely and deliberately
talked over. the woman declaring that she
never loved her husband as we'll as she
did his yoEa1cst BROTHER. The young man
thsn coolly helped his brothers wife and
child into the wagon, and getting in himselS
they left for parts unknown.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03

4 PRESIDENT W1TBegT 4 CHARIOT
There was laugh this morning at President
Grants expense. He walked to Wicksr's for
his breakfast, aad Peter ses him with his
usual promptrese, asking uha, be would have.
The President said he wished. a.private room,
and his breakfas, at the earliest moment
Pess said he cSald have no private room !;
there was the restaurant, and anything he
might order woEh be served there. Where.
upon the President walked out A gentle
man sitting By, Who had, heard the refusal
with some establishment, at once asked Pete
II he knew who that was? Peter said he
didn't why that's PRESIDENT Grant,
"Well," said Pete, ''if be had rolled up in
bis chariot, like gentleman, he might have
had a private room; but how thu ID was
to know but what he was shoemaker, with
his best clothes on, and couldn't pay for any
room ?"- Washington Express, July 90.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03

The INTEREST oE TIE VIRGINIA STATE
DEBr.-The Wig spoke by authority when
it stated that General Candy, day before yes
terday, had instructed the State Auditor to
pay two per cent. of the January interest to
the extent of $3.50, 600, the amount of availa-
BILE funds to the Treasury. The General
subsequently reconsidered this determination,
after an interview with delegation of our
bankers, &c. and determined that ono per
cent should be paid
We are now authorized by Auditor Stan
ton to state that OH the 18th of August the
State authorities will, under distractions from
General Candy, commence the payment Of
the one per cent of tho January interest on
the registered bonds of the State These, in
the aggregate, amount to about fifteen mil
lions. They will also, as soon thereafter as
practicable, proceed to pay the same interest
on the coupons, which amount in round mum.
bers to about twenty millions.
RichDIOnd Wing, July 20.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03
There are now in the Philadelnhin Conn

There are now in the Philadelphia Coun-
ty Prison five persons under sentence of death.
Edwin Ford (colored), convicted of the muir
der of his brother-in>law, has been confined
Is years last February. Fho Governor in
officgar the time of his conviction and sentence
refused 10 sign his death warrant, and the
various Governors since that have NOT attached
their signatures to the fatal paper. Jerry
Dixey (cofored) has been in the same insti-
tuition six years, Patrick Farrigan FIVE years,
Newton Champion three years. and Alfred
Alexander Is months, Champion is said to
be insane,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03

= The Washipgson correspondent of the
Baltimore iSu. says Among the persistent
applicants for cle,kship in in the Internal
Revenue Bureau to-day was lady who claim
ed an appointment on the ground that she
was cordially recommended by Abraham Lin
coin She was politely Informed that her
recommendation (which she claimed had been
received from the spirit world) was of no
worldly use, and il it vas, 1t would be impos-
sible to regard it, p thsEa we're no vacancies
in that bureau.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03

a CURIOUS CASE.-The Randolph county
(Ind.,) Journal reports the following curious
case, either of mistaken identy or of strange
filial indifference :-"Farmlaud, in our county
is just now all alive over the return of a long
mourned dead soldier from that place In
1864 Thomas Webb, aged II, son of Squire
Webb, living on the Mississnewa River. five
miles from Farmland. enlisted in the Goth
regiment, Indiana volunteers. At the battle
Of he was seen to fall, and was reported
dead. His parents gave him up, had his flu
neral sermon preached, and mourned for him
as in his grave. His father even received
his bounty and back pay from the authorities
at Washington, the name having been drop
ped from the rolls as dead. 4 few days ago
there came to Farmland young man who
was Immediately recognized as Thomas Webb.
My God, Tom Webb, l thought you were
dead would greet him on his travels. But
he met them ALL saying they were mistaken.
His father, stepmother, and all recognized
him, but no acknowledgment would he make,
his father described certain marks as being on
his person. At first he refused to be exam
ined, but finally submitted, and the marks
were found. lie still insisted that he was
John -"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03

1t was ruE,ored in Washington on We'd
sesday that the Cabinet would meet on Fri
day last, and decide whether or not the test
oath should be exacted of the members of the
Virginia Legislature; also that Gen. Nc
Dowell would relieve Gen. Candy of command
in Virginia and that the latter would be
transferred to Mississippi
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03
A Deserved Rebnke.

The Philadelphia Age relates the circuui-
stances of a most severe but righteous rebuke
administered few weeks ago by Judge Chase,
sitting as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
to Attorney General Hoar. The way of it is
stated to have been this: Hardly had Hoar
prostituted the position which Stanbery and
an EVarts had virtuously and vigorously GIL
ed, before IL became his duty to appear in
the Supreme Court of the United States. In
the progress OF speech by him. the venera-
BILE Justice Nelson inquired: "What is the
page of the authority you are quoting, Mr..
Attorney General ?" To which the man
whom ex-General Grant gavea Cabinet place
in exchange for a library, replied: May it
please the court, decline to be interrupted
in my argument" Whereupon the Chief
Justice, assuming upon his younger shoulders
the aSront directed at his associate. and in
cidentally rejecting upon the whole bench.
br ought the Massachusetts, Attorney to his
knees at once by saying: MIR. Attorney
General, you will cease in your argument for
the present. This court. as yod will learn,
when you have become used to it's amenities,
reserves the right to question at any time,
any of its couusellors, on any poisf whatever.
YOgr rejoinder to tie question of Eiy associate
is inadmissible; and. when you have apolo-
giGed to the court for language which we
mist say was never heard before. yon may
proceed. but not until chat is done." Where
upon the legal bully collapsed and meekly
begged pardon. which it pleased the court to
allow -LOuiSUiNe Courier. Journal.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03
Al Inhuman Wretch.

The Dubuque Herald publishes an account
of the cruelty of one John Schabacher, OF
that place, for which the fellow ought to be
cOwhided from one end of the city to the
other. He was leading COW to the butcher
shop, when she became refractory, and the way
the scoundrel mutilated her the Herald tells
as follows:
He seized the cow by the tail, aud happen
ing to have butchers saw along with him,
commenced saving the tail into rags. The
COW beloved and wheeled, and rushed hither
and thither in her terror and torment, when
her tormentor proceeded to knock of one of
her horns with the but end of his saw. He
then seized her by the other horn with one
hand, and took out his jack knife aud delib>
erately cut out both her eyes.
Now entirely blind the COW tumbled into
deep ditch beside the road. when the inhu.
man wretch commenced cutting her in mer>
eiless manner. He slit her ears, stabbed her
in the legs in over Fifty different places by
actual count, cut of her teats, slit her udder
into shreds, and cut her to pieces otherwise
in ways not to be mentioned. To crown the
whole, he set a dog upon her, who finished
what he had begun. tearing her lips and nos
trels, and biting off part of her tongue
BY some meaus she was finally got to some
butcher-shop up that way aud killed, and has
been before this, mostly eaten-doubtless in
part, by some OF our readers. \ crowd was
attracted to the spot by the bellowings and
means OF the animal. aud demonstrated with
the wretch who was mutilating her, but this
only seemed to inspire him with new ferocity
and ingenuity in cruelty. The spectators
failed in their duty that they did not take
him upon the spot and serve him in the same
way he was serving the poor dumb beast.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03
III GEEICE-

I HAVE STEAM SAL MILL on the bank of
i the Shenandoah river, nenr Burny. Page cOun-
ty in fine running order, and am prepared TO fur
nisb
ANY AMOUNT OF PINE LUMBER.
of the very best quality, az short notice. Those
wishing to make large contracts viii apply imme-
diaiely. My Poet Offi.e IS Luray. Page county
August 3, ls69 Am. DAVID HUFFMAN
Esprit OF jefferson vi u copy the above and send
bill To this uffice.-Pags CoIrrisr.l
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03
ESTRAY CALF.

ZANE to the premises of the subscriber, near
~ Rppon, about twp months ago,a
RED BULL-CALF,
about Gig hteen months old. Has on him some white
spots, and crop off right The of this IN
ima ia requested to come forward, prove property,
pay charges and take him away.
DANIEL HEFFLEBOwER
August g. 1861
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03

--otho K. Pate, youngest brother of Coz
Fl. Clay Pate. killed under Stuart at the bat
tie of THE Yellow Tavern, in 1864, having
qualified at the Alexandria Theological Sem.
mary is now pastor of an Episcopal concrs-
cation in Owelsboro', Kentucky.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03
A CARD:
JEFFERSON INSTITUTE.
CHAREEST WIN, VIRGINIA.

TNHE next session viii commence. on MONDAY.
SEPTEMBER I3th, lS5S, and close on the LAST
FRIDAY IN JUNE, 1870.
Being provided with competent Assistants, every
advantage for thorough course in English, the
Langua ges, Drawing, MtsiC Piano and Organ,
will be afforded Particular attention will be paid
to Music, and pupils will be required to play At the
,Iuscal Sorees. when the friends the pupils can
have opportunity to judge of their progress
Vocal Music viii be taught in classes as well as
by private Lesson. -
For Circulars. Terms, &. apply to the Principal.
August 5, 1869. Mss. a. NJ. FORR EST.
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= Hon. A. D. Packer, brother of e4-Go1-
ernor Packer, and late Associate Judge of
Lyeoming county, Pa, died on the 26:h inst,
aged e. years.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03

- Bassett, the colored United States Min
lister to Hayti, arrived at Port au Prince
on the 18th of June, and was received in a
particularly fatteriug manner. He is the
guest of Mr.. Hollister. his wife predecessor,
until President SaInavs returns, when he will
present his credentials.
S D. Henket raised on one field of II
acres. near New Market, Shenandoah county,
$50 bushels of wheat which weighed Ga
pounds to the bushel-32 bushels to the acre
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03

C,ToNE- WARE, !,F.IE "a, and 5 gallon
- Stone Jars; and saIon Tomato Jars Spit
toons and Milk Pans just received from the manu-.
factory for sale by w EBY.
CLoYEs.-Heavy Buck Cloves Lii ht do, Gaunt-
VI lets. Buckskin and ST eepekia do. for FsIe by
August 3. 1863. ". EBT.
- WEEPSTAKE Threshing Machine, warranted
10 clean grain for market faster and better than
any machine in the United States-fye sold this
ssason--for sale BY JAS. LAW. HOoFF.
DOCKET Corn Shelter, which will take all the
Il grains of-either Of boiled OF raw Coma good
article for housekeepers, for sale by
August }. JAS. LAW HoOFF.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-08-03
COW P4STTRE.

T CAN furnish excellent TOoAsan clover Pasture
near town for about eight town for the n II
two months, at S<I.59 per month.
Aug. 3, IS69-3t. JOHN o. YATES
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NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS!
Whs have not Raid their Tax

THIS Tax hEs been due for nearly year and
i must be settled up Mt once. eIHe nust die
train md sell property. Nord to she wise 10 sUE
ficient
Jnhn ". Grantham's Stnre, THURSDAY OF
EACH wEEB, for the purpose Of receiving Taxes
due above stated
: will also attend in gARPER,s. ~ RRY. 81 Mr..
Jarnes-iacGTaW's Store. on SATURDAY OF EACH
" EER, for the Purpose Of receiving Taxes due in
Hnrp-r's Ferry and Bolivar Townships.
90 Prompt. atbsntiGn TO this notice will GaVe
much trouble and expenss-