Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-02-02
EDITORIAL BREYITIES.

money by another negro the arrest of another
negro, charged with Larceny; negro fight at
a negro fair; the sending Of Lucy Owens, a
negress, thirty days to Jail for drunkenness;
the arrest of Andrew jackson, negro thief;
and the arrest of William Smith, another
negro for burning up his brothers clothes.
Verify, the colored troops fight nobly.
The State of Tennessee, under loil mis-
rule, is one of the most dangerous and dis
orderly States in the country, and the city of
Memphis in that State, is one of the very
worst cities. There is not day but the local
papers are called upon to chronicle from six
to dozen outrages perpetrated by negroes, or
other loil pets, and because of these things
Radical papers insist that reports of them
shall not be printed, as it gives the city bad
reputation Really!
An elopement "in high life" occurred
few dayssince in the neighborhood of Brooklyn
Heights and Plymouth Church, BY the wife
of wealthy New York cotton-broker, former
" Baltimore belle, with the bosom friend of
the husband-one 'Lothario." When last
heard of, the absconding pair we're about mid
ocean, on board the City of Antwerp, the wife
having carried off jewelry to the amount of
$4,000, and $4,000 in money, for which,
in return, she left the following frank and
ingenious note, addressed to her husband -
Saturday Korning.-Dear Charlie: I must
to day bid you good bye forever. To-day |
leave your house, never again to return L
Iol Tow l0no i'm 7
Jain my heart and 1 know he loves me-
When this reaches you 1 will be on my way
across the sea. Your once loving TEREsE.
The Cincinnati Conlmercialsays: every
industrious working man in England carries
pauper ON his back" In this country every
laboring white man carries a niger, besides
contributing half his hard earnings to support
Jacobn Government and an aristocratlc
snobbery of National Bankers and shoddy
bond holders.
= Sumner presented paper in the Senate
the other day, protesting to be signed by 200
negroes in Winchester, protesting against the
removal of Judge Parker's disabilities. OF
course the paper was gotten up in the interest
of some Carpct>Bagger, or Scallawag, who
wants Judge P.'s place.
The judiciary Committee of the Senate
have reported against Joshua Hill-that lie
be not admitted to a seat as U. S. Senator
from Georgia. This too be it borne in mind
after Georgia had complied with all the Re-
construction acts and actually been acknowl-
edged as a State.
"A certain Rev. Mr.. Phelps, said to be
Methodist preacher from Virginia. testified
before the Reconstruction Committee to the
fact that society in Virginia was in fearfully
bad condition, that neither person nor property
was safe, and that he could not preach SER
mon there without having two revolvers in
his pocket; that he would be cgged if he were
unarmed, etc.
To this, Mr.. Brooks, member of the COM
1nittee, remarked that the reverend gentleman
would require a whole battery Of guns to
protect him in New York if he should speak
as violently of the people in the latter State
as he represented himself as speaking relative
to the interests of the citizens Of Virginia.
- Hon Edison 3. Odds, died at his res
idence in Lancaster, Ohio, on Monday morn
ing. the 18th inst. This event was of shock
ing suddenLess, he having been about in his
usual health only day or two before. Ills
death was produced by neuralgia of the heart,
superinducel by his Imprisonment and the
privations he endured political prisoner
in Fort Lafayette, where he contracted diseases
from which he never fully recovered. DR..
Olds, at the breaking out of the late war, was
aud had been, for many years, conspicuous in
the politics and party contests of Ohio, having
served several terms in the State Legislature
and in Congress from the Franklin and Pick
away District.
A dispatch from Richmond says "Gen.
Stoneman issued an order to-day appointing
Gems. Wilcox and Granger and Col. Franklin
to constitute board which shall investigate
and report on applications for any of the Offices
in Virginia, except the executive State ntices
in the Capitol, and thus enable the Command
ing General to FL the vacancies now existing,
and which it is contemplated may exist within
the next thirty days. All applications for
Office must be addressed to Col. Il. w. Stone,
Recorder of the Board, at Richmond. The
military have thus far removed 729 civil
officers, leaving about 5000 Offices whose
occupants are ineligible and to be removed.
The value of these offices range from $500 to
$4,000 per annum"
Ia The following is the text of Mrs. Lin
coins application for pension. 1t is adj
dressed to the Vice President of the United