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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-04-27
The Johnston Surrender.

Letter from General Sherman-Interesting
Circumstances of the Surrender Recalled
-M. Ltnco1a's Vie,cs at the Time
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- Mrs. Partington says one is obliged to
walk very circumscrumptiossly these slippery
times
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natural, therefore, that the irritation pro-
duced by the f%erocity ofthese acts should
lead to sanguinary reprisaIs, not on the
part of the Government, but ofthose who
were victims, or fear TO be so?
, 1869-08-24

new motives and new space for shouting.
He grants nothing to his friends except
an extended liberty of talk. He openly
declares that he has denuded himself of no
prerogative. He surrenders nothing ex-
, cept indeed the right to sign free-trade
treaties, a sop'to the Protectionists. In
stead Of the increased powers for which
the Chamber asked, he gives the members
the right to discuss the Estimates in chap
tiers instead otln gross-a privilege which
will enable them to make many speeches,
but which they are no more likely TO use
TOR active purposes than our own Com
mons are likely to employ their similar
or superior power. Instead of allowing
members to bring in Bills, he permits
them to make interpretations and instead
OF giving them a right to elect the Ministry,
the right of rights, for which they for
mally asked,-he graciousIy permits them
TO elect the officials of the Chamber, the
Speaker and Chairmen of Committees.
They are to have free permission and full
power to organize themselves for nothing.
One privilege, lHdeed, he comedies.
Hitherto under the imperial regime there
has been one guarantee for a members
independence. He could not accept Of
flee, low or high, unless, indeed, such Of
tlce were seml-dlyine, that of a chamber
lam, or equerry, or aid-de-caWp attached
to the august person Of the Sovereign.
This restriction has been abolished.
Members may now be ministers, and may
also be ChamberIains, courtiers, officials,
contractors, may, in fact, hold any office
IN which independence as against the
Sovereign would be contrary even TO
English etiquette. That is literally all,
the whole of the grand decree, which if
we may believe Times and the Telegraph,
and the rest Of the journals "authorized
to be sold in all kiosks in Paris" has re-
established Parliamentary government in
France. On the strength of these i'm
mems concessions, which have still to be
ratified by a Senate appointed by the
Emperor, which are only limited promises
In anticipation of inquiry, and which are
not to interfere with ''the prerogatives
more especially vested by the people in
Me" Napoleon has prematurely prorogued
the Chamber, lest, perchance, it should
criticize the gift.
But the letter has been followed by q
change of Ministry? No doubt it has, but
by what kind Of a change? The Sultan
finding that his most faithful MameIuke,
the attorney who a few months ago said
in the Chamber that he was nothing, less
than nothing, one of a band of obscure
devotees called a Ministry, had accumu-
lated on himself the odium due to the
regime, filings ont his head TO the populace
as a peace offering, but who succeeds M.
Rouherl We say nothing of the baseness
of the act, though Napoleon will never
, 1869-08-24

III lis ihfOHl' tHC pibOl - us - NIX
Mary LoveH, filled to overlooking with
arms and ammunition for the insurgents,
and The more recent capture OF a another
vessel with a similar cargo, which, if the
news published by the foreign press be
correct, was taken by a Spanish ship of
war TO Jamaica-We do not know why,
seeing that it was in Cuba where it ought
to be tried according to right and the
practice Of all civilized nations.
Some may say Why do you not pre-
vent these things reaching the insurgents?
True enough: but still it is not an easy
thing to Theoretically seal an island having
700 leagues of coast, with many creeks,
bays, and little ports which make it every
where accessible to vessels Of small tom
mage. The powerful squadron Of the
United States, increased during the civil
war by ships made on purpose, was not
sufficient, nevertheless, to prevent the
Confederates receiving help from Nassau
and other points. We are In want OF ships
in number aud of quality such as to be fit
for this service.
To the errors spoken of above and the
help in men, arms, and ammunition ct all
kinds from abroad, there is the climate TO
be added, which at the present season is
a powerful ally for the rebels. All the
accounts from the seat Of war aRree in
stating that our yiliant soldiers and voIun-
teers are suffering horribly from cholera
and yellow fever, more mortal this year
than generally, owing to the excessive
heat and cOpiOus rains of the present sum-
mer. On account of this and the almost
insurmountabIe difficulty caused to the
movement Of troops by these same rains
in districts without roads, offensive militia
nv operations must be SUSPENDED, Instead,
therefore, Of attributjng the prolongalion
Of the struggle to the power of the in
surrection-lt now having succeeded in
taking even one small town or fixing its
residence in any given polnt, is the most
complete proof Of its weakness and in
significance.
We will now say a few words respect
ing the struggle being recognised as a war.
It will not be we, or the Government Of
Cuba, who will oppose this. Still, we
may state some reasons which Justify the
conduct hitherto followed.
What is now going on in Cuba is not
a war it is an unjustiiable rebellion the
rebels are not belIigerents, they are cri-
minals who suffer the punishment which
a law, which they know, inhicts on those
who commit the offence of which they
are guilty. What did the English do in
India with the native race which rebelIed,
and afterwards with the insurgent negroes
in Jamaica When a rebellion begins,
prompt and severe repression avoids tor
rents of blood, and the desoIation aud ruin
which, if it be not suppressed, are always
lis fatal results.
, 1869-08-24
From the Spectator.
NAPOLEON'S COMPROMISE.

LET me act as please, ana L Will let
you talk as you please" That Is the
substance of the compromise which the
Emperor Of the French has so 'gracIous-
"" and "wisely" offered to the Chamber
and the nation, and over which most of
our contemporaries have been singing
hymns of thankfulneSs. and praise to the
''iar-sighted monarch" who has once
more shown, as in Mexico, how complete
Iy he understands his epoch. We regret,
for the sake of France and Of Europe,
that we cannot join in their pnans. The
letter Of the 18th July, which they think
so marveliously wise, seems to us to con-
tain irresistible evidence of failing insight
and decaying resolution. 1t reads like
the decree of an hereditary king, aware
that the Revolution is ON It's way, bat full
Of the conviction that craftsmanship is bat
another word for vile. Foresight tie
Emperor never had, as witness his fore
cast on the American and German wars,
the absurd menace which produced the
British Volunteers, and the total failure
of his Algerian policy but till now he
has always comprehended France, always
expressed in some rough but efficient way
her latent thought. Now he fights her
on the hustings on the one point on which
she, who is stronger than the Emperor,
be his remaining strength what it may,
will take no denial, the personal govern
ment mistakes the whole drift of the
elections writes in June TO Baron de
Meckau a letter swearing he will never
give way tells Granjer de Cassagnac
early in July to state in the Pays that be
regrets having neglected the "majority, >"
q. G., the Arcadians, the party more I'M
perialist than the Emperor; and then, on
July 10Th, gives way in sucha manner as
to show the hostile world he is yielding,
yet not TO content that world and finally,
without warning, without even informing
NJ. Schneider, in a kind of spasm Of aei-
%tatiou, prorogues the Chamber. Nothing
so |iIIuSory as his reform was ever granted
to an excited people. The Emperor's
enemies, half France, preferred in the
elections one single demand, = that he
should surrender personal government,
that he should cease to be the one repre-
sentative of the people, France incarnate,
the single source Of action, the sole priyot
of power. The Emperot's moderate
friends, those who would accept his dy-
nasty while denying his rights to absolu-
tism, endorsed this demand in the Cham
Der and formulized i%t,--not perhaps with
absolutely perfect tact, for there were
other roads to their end,-into a petition
for a responsible Ministry and free Leg
i%sIative Chamber, and then before the de-
bate, with its happy changes; before the
vote, with its possible assertions before
he had even dismissed his obnoxious ad-
~yisers, the Emperor, true to his instinct
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Draining the Zuyder Zee.

Dutch engineers have long been chal-
lenged to try their power in draining
the Zuyder Zee, which before the in
undation in the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries was pastured by focks and
herds, but the colossal nature of the
works has discouraged them. Last
year an undertaking assumed a def
nate shape, and is now adopted in
principle by the Government and the
people. If it succeeds, the Dutch
will convert some 100000 acres of
stormy sea into rick alluvial soil. The
cost has been roughly put at ten mil
lions of pounds, (English). A con
siderable portion of the capital requir-
ed will be subscribed abroad, and the
powerful engines, tho centrifugal
pumps, the manufactured material
employed, as we'll as the fuel, will be
supplied by England and France.
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a Tough One.

Talk about bedbugs," said Bill
Jones, who had been across the plains.
You should have seen some of the
critters 1 met in Idaho last spring. /
stopped one night with some settlers,
who lived in a little log cabin contain
ing only one room and a loft. When
it came time to go to bed they strung
q blanket across the middle ofthe room,
and the settlers family slept on one
eide of it and give nae the tother. l
laid down to go to sleep and the bed
bugs began TO gether like luncheaters
around a free layout l tried to
kiver up and keep away from 'em but
the pesky varmints would catch hold
Of the bedclothes and pull them off
from me. They didn't think nothin'
Of draggin' me round the room if l
held on. fit EN- till about mid
night, and then looked around for
some way of escape. There was a
ladder reachin' up into the loft, and /
thought the best way to get away from
rahe bloodsuckers was to climb up thar,
30 ] did. There wasn't any bugs in
the loft, and I laid down congratulate
IN myselfon my escape. Pretty quick
]. heard the ladder squeakin' as if
somebody was comim up. Bimeby I
saw a bedbug raise himselfup through
the hole In the floor and look careful
~ around the loft. Soon's he saw me
he motioned to his chums below, the
blood thirsty cuss, and cried out, ex-
uldnIy; Come up, boys, he's her"
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"Artemus Ward" remarked "There
is something indescribably beautiful in
the true wife's devotion to her hus-
band. There is something very awful
in her grief when death takes him
away. Leaves have their time to
fall but death comes irregularly and
relentlessly. We recently heard a
most touching instance of the resigna-
ton of an afectionate woman at the
funeral of her husband. Though she
adorned him, she did not repine at his
dark hour. Looking at the remains
of her loved and lost husband for the
last time, she put on her bonnet, and
thus spoke to the gentlemen whose sad
duty it was to oficiate as pall-bearers:
You pall-bearers just go the buttery
and get some rum, and we'll start this
man right along"
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Continued on from first pace

Continued on from jarst page
zen. "I've no idea whatever OF going
y Nevada, as long az Harker & Co.
sontinue to beg the kind patrons and
friends they have hitherto proved"
The widow. looked from one to the
other of her laughing children in q
Of happy bewildermsnt.
We'll, now" she said, slowly, twill
you inform me why on earth you told
me those awful stories"
"Why, mother" said Tom, mis-
&hisvouilY. 1--WE thought perhaps a
does Of real trouble would cure you of
the imaginary ones that have made
you 20 miserable all your life long !"
"And you have solemnly promised
Us, mother, that after this You would
e~onjure up no more fancied trials to
make yourself wretched !"
well, ! don't see but what you've
got me, tight" said the widow, half
disposed 70 laugh, and half inclined to
be vexed. "Aint you shamed o your
selves, children, to go and play such
q neal trick on your poor old mother2
But ] do say fort, there be worse
troubles in the world than I've got II
The widows Thanksgiving lesson
proved an efficacious one. She never
Rrumbled any more. ~ ,--r.
Smother always secs tho sunshiny
Gde of things now said Tom, "aud
Ant it Jolly "2z orx~r
Tom was right
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State Festival of Song.

4ol One of the most Interesting musical
geEents of the season will be the State
Festival Of Song, to be held at Mans
field, Ohio, on the l9th-23d of April
inclusive, under the auspices of the
Philharmonic Society of that place.
It is proposed to rally a chorus of
under the direction of a competent
conductor and assistants, and combin-
ling with this chorus able -solists to
give as a finale the Oratorio of the
"a Creation entire ~
-'m9The Committee of Arrangements is
now in correspondence with, and hope
TO procure the services of Mr.. Julius
Eichberg, Principal of the Boston
Conservatory of Music, and author of
several popular operas, as Director of
the Convention. The services of Mr..
j. NJ. Wilder, basso, of New York,
have been secured as bass soloist in
the oratorio, in which role he is said
to be unrivaled in this country. They
arc also in correspondence with a pop
ular soprano soloist of Boston, whom
they are confident of securing. The
other solo parts will be in TIE hands
ofconapetent vocalists. A4t 1G
The festival is held at the desire of
prominent musicians of Central and
Northern Ohio, who desire to close
the musical season of 1863 by a
grand jubilee of song: and Mansfield
has been selected on account of its af-
fording ready access from all parts of
the State by the railroads radiating
nom that point, 90 ass
The Philharmonic Society of Mans
fields one of the best established
musical associations in the State, and
was for some time under the direction
ofProf X. f.. Hennings, now of this
city.
The committee of gentlemen from
this society will work theoretically and
endeavor to make such complete ar
rangements that the festival cannot
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HOW LOST
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DMO

Notice is hereby given that / vii
present a petition to the Commission
ers of Ashland county on the first
Monday in March 1869, praying for
a road in Hanover township, begin
ming at the state road leading from
L~oudonville to Mount Vernon, on
the line between the lands of James
CarnagY and John Feichter and run
ming due east to the terminus of said
line, thence bearing north of east
about twenty rods, thence south of
east about sixty rods through the
lands of James Carnagy, thence in a
a north easterly direction across the
corner of forty acres of land owned
by Adam Raby, and continuing in
said direction through the lands of
George Fulmer to ~intersect the Ball
Alley road.
ISAAM VERNON
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hearty cooperation of al lovers OF
good music.
The first rehearsal will be held at 2
P. NJ, April 10th.
A miscellaneous concert will be Civ
en- on Wednesdsy night; a matinee on
Friday afternoon, and tho oratorio
Friday night.
Circulars, With full information,
will be issued in due time; until then,
any desired information may be OBJ.
tanned by addressing Mr.. j. NJ. Jolley,
President of the Philharmonic Socie-
ty, at Mansfield Cleveland AHsieal
H0R.
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sHERIFFS SALE.
Rachel Buchanan
John Buchanan.

John Buchanan. Lra5JX
3 State of Ohio, Ashland county, So. sIgt
By virtue of Snndry writs of Fl. Fa. vs..
defendant, issued from the court of Com
mon Pleas of Ashland county, Ohio, dated
January % A. D.. 1869, and to me directed.
I will! sell at public sale on the premises
of John Buchanan one mile west of Per-
rysburg, Ashland CO. 9, on Thursday the
a. N. on said day the following Goods and
Chattels, to wit, seven heado of horses, three
head of Cattle, 425 head of sheep, 6 head.of
hogs, 2 two horse wagons. l set single bug
gy' harness, l single buggy, / one horse
wagon, l one horse cart, / pair hobs, 20
tons of hay, ! corn and cob mill, 2 large
iron kettles, 10 soaps of bees, 2 cider mills,
+! parlor stove, Hot of buggy and wagon
IRONS, 4 grind stones, l set blacksmith tools,
] turning lathe, ! log ehainJtweIherse
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Sum Natural History-FIeas.
BY JOSH BILLINGS.

The smallest animal of the brute
creation, and the most pesky, IL the
Fleas
They are about the, higness of an
onion seed, and shine like . bran new
shot
They spring from low places, and
can spring furtnef I'D fsster thar eHv
Sf the bug brutes.
They bite wus than the muskeetoze.
for the bite On a run, one flea will 20
aul over a mans suburbs, in 2 min
nits, and leave him as freckled as the
meazels. %
1t is impossible to do anything well
with flea on you except swear, and
heas amt afraid of that the only way
is quit buziness ov aul kinds and hunt
for the flea, and when you have found
him he amt there. This is one of the
flea mysteries, the ~fakulty they have
of being entirely lost jist as you haye
found them.
don't suppose there is ever killed
on an average, during emmy one year,
more than 16 leas in the whole of the
OHieoN oatcS vi ALneIlcd5 unless IneFe
Is q casualty of some kind-once In a
Rhile there is a dogEgets drowned
sudden, and then there NAV be a few
feas lost. ss- m-r' ~
.za They are about az hard to kill az a
fax seed IL, and if you don't mash
them as fine as ground pepper they
viii start bizness on a smaller kapital
jist as p~estiverous as ever.
There IL lots ov people who have
never seen a flea, and it takes a pretty
smart man to see one anyhow; they
don't stay long in a place.
If you eve ketch a flea, kill him
before yu du enything else; for if you
do put it off 2 minuts, it may be too
late .s39 81
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SHERIFFS SALE.
Richard Winbigler,
John Melheim. ct al.

o.o9gr John Melheim, ct al ~ I4s
State of Ohio, Ashland county, IS.
ri By virtue of a certain order of sale
VS., defendants issued from the Court
of Common Pleas, of Ashland county
Ohio, dated March 10, A. D. 1868,
and to me directed, I will sell al pub
lie sale at the door of the Court House,
in said county, on Saturday, the 24th
of April, A. D. 1868 at two
o'clock P. NJ. of said day, the follow
ing described lands and tenements to-
wit: Bounded on the south end by
William McNulty's lot, and on the
east by lot sold by Sampsel to Potter
said lot herein mortgaged is so feet
front and supposed to be 160 north
and south in the town of Ashland in
said county, together with the privi-
leges and appurtenances thereunto be-
nnoinn-.Annraised al, 5000 Farn.1
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| NS w NC
! late to think about that, I
agine, when the wedding
d, and passage taken in the
steamer for the wedding
the way, Frank, how long
'emain in Europe?"
say, some years I believe.
thinks a residence in Paris
Ihghtful. L dop'tagree with
brides, you know, are privi-
AVE their own way. I'll tell
Howard, the prettiest pink
Naples shall be sent to hang
+ ivory neck of Mrs. Wal
how fond you are of child
e wrong there, my boy-I
fond of children, generally
but 1 don't know who could
ng that little brown-eyed
,ook up the newspaper as he
the conversation gradually
to the all-entrancing subject
foreign and domestic.
years have ebbed and flow
channel of time, and
Tracy had just taken
their elegant home after
idence abroad. 1t was even
gilded clock ON the mantel
the hour of seven, the fire
ar In the ornamented CRATE,
'wers in the several vases on
If the chimney-piece were
in their hues than
I'd blossoms on the suberb
yet. Frank Tracy who had
handsome youth into a
man of about forty, stood
" before the fire, while his
ldedlooking wife reclined
n the lustrous shine of the
andeliers. There was only
present to break the mono
conjugal tete-a-tete, and he1
old acquaintance Howard
ish, Frank, you wouldn't
with your fingers ON
|, it makes me so nervous,
Sc you do not care for that"
Mrs. Tracy, petulantly.
our pardon, my love ; 1
are that I was annoying !
the servant bring up
tie ?" pursued Mrs. Tracy
er eyebrows. {
and enquire Z" {
worth while. If we
in la belle Paris, 1
servants understood their t
III preferred Paris as areLl
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a SPLEEN DID
FARM FOR Safe

offer my farm sale siiuatedtwo miles
land a half South of the fourishins
twn Of Ashland Thisfarm contains
.S5 ACRES
OF excellent black soil land, Is acres of
which is in timber, the balance cleared
and under good fence; a good orchard
of fruit and a good sugar orchard of
800 trees. Also a good bank barn.
4ox7o feet, with well in barn yard
The dwelling house is frame and in
good condition, with never failing well
of water at the door, spring house, and
never failing running spring water
through the farm. This is one Of the
best pieces of land in Montgomery
township. any person desiring a
good farm, will do we'll to call and see
this one. Enquire on the premises of
o.etB HOUCK,
Ashland ,s,s, [1ssS
For further particulars inquire
j. d Jones. r-lrc9v
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