Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-11-30
POLITICAL BREVIPIEs.

- The National Republican says that the
President, in recent conversation, stated that
his message would not exceed probably two
columns of an ordinary newspaper-twenty
or thirty pages of cap paper. He will confine
himself to facts and recommendations, and
will not indulge in elaborate arguments upon
any subject. The message will be sent to
Congress in manuscript and will be kept open
until the last moment in order that any new
matter that arises may be incorporated if
necessary. While the plan of the message
has all been mapped out in his mind, the
President has not yet devoted much of his
time to its preparation.
In order to make it utterly impossible
for the Supreme Court to stand as barrier
between the destructive party and the rights
of the people, Senator Drake. of Missouri,
somewhat infamously known. is already in
Washington with n bill to take from the Su.
premc Court its appellate Jurisdiction in all
political cases This is particularly aimed at
the question of reconstruction. as pending in
the Yerger and McArdle cases. This biIf
will come up the first day of the session,
and will most thoroughly muzzle the Supreme
Court. as a reward to that tribunal for it's
cowardly postponihg of important cases.
Dispatches from Washington say that
Senator Sherman is busily engaged in pretat-
ing bill for finding the public debt, which
he wifi present early in the coming session of
Congress. The bill will embrace all the fea-
lures of the bill introduced by him during the
last session. with the exception of the rate
of interest at which the debt is to be funded.
1t is said this will be lower than was previous
ly contemplated by Mr., Sherman.
General Garfield and several other men,
bers from the West, who have heretofore beer
III favor of contracting the volume of the cur
rency, now announce themselves in favor of
speedy resumption of specie payments.
- Senator Johnston, of Virginia, in ac-
knowledging the receipt of his credentials as
endorsing the principle of the fifteenth amend
,nent, and hoping that it will soon become a
part of the constitution, and advocating the
observance of exact and complete good faith
in the payment of the public debt, and advising
the casting behind of all dead issues.
- The Iuka (Miss) Gazette uses the fol-
lowing peculiar language in speaking of one
Lowering, who is said to be an Indiana carpet
bugger, who was somehow slid into judicial
honors down in Nj Mississippi:
His head is about as large as coon's, and
recedes so rapidly from the root of his nose
that if stream of water were poured per-
pendicularlJ upon his brow, more of it would
run off the back of his head than off his face
His organs of intellect, if ne ever had any,
have vacated, and taken up their abode in the
posteri3r part Ct bis brain, which makes the
cerebellum appear like market basket hung
to the back OF his head. His teeth seem to
be all gone, and his gums closed up to keep
his chin out of danger. His nose looks like
the butt end of blood beet, and his eyes like
auger>kolcs in a musk melon rind.
The report of General o. o. Howard.
Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau,
shows that the cost of the Bureau since Its
organization has been s13, O29,s16. He re-
commends that the bounty and educational
divisions be continued, and concludes by as
serting that "the law of self-preservation will
justify Congress in establishing a general
system of free schools throughout the South, !
if the States themselves do not furnish them |
at an early day"
= The elections take place in Mississippi |
and Texas, Tuesday, Ito tday.)
- The mountains west of Harrisonburga are /
covered with snow to- the depth of several