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Evening star., 1869-12-01

The QCEsTIoN or MIXED SCHooL-MR-
Cooks OPTSIoS.-The mixed school question
is getting mixeder, If anything. The opinion OF
the Corporation Attorney satisfies neither side.
1t does not answer the questions asked, and does
answer question that was not asked. Least Of
all does il satisfy Mr.. Martin and those acting
with him. He, speaking doubtless in behahofthe
Colored Mems National Executive Committee,
declares that he win not be satisfied until he
gets "a decision from some authoritative tribu-
nal that any decent colored child has right to
20 into the nearest white (pubIic) school" He
objects to the limitation OF the opinion to the
case Of his own child. and says he Is making this
fight on broad grounds as a test question. Now,
Mr.. Cook is q quick-witted lawyer, as able to
give an opinion promptly, with due citation of
all the authorities, as any man we know, and we
suspect that his failure to deal with all the
points referred to him Is that he thinks the
question has taken shape that viii require its
reference TO Congress We should not be sur
prised il an early effort Is made to secure the
passage Of a bill through Congress something on
the plan OF Mr.. welker's bill, making one man
aeement Of Trustees for white and colored
schools; IL being left discretionary with the
Trustees ITO establish mixed schools in certain
cases where deemed advisable, for instance,
where the parents of both colors were 50
minded.
Virtually Mr.. Cooks opinion throws open the
white schools to the admission Of colored pupils
at the will Of the Trustees, but We DO not hear
shst any Trustee is disposed to avail himself OF
this extraordinary power. Mr.. yashon, colored
Trustee from the First District, very distinctly
takes the position that the Law Il against the ad
mission Of colored children to the white schools.
We doubt, even in the event Of Congressional
interference, il any such result viii follow as
the blending of the white and colored schools
IL may be desirable to have q single superiuten-
dence for both systems Of schools; but so little
good win result, and 50 much mischief from
mixing them, that we doubt II the idea will ad-
dress itself with any force to the common sense
OF Congress ..
Evening star., 1869-12-01


hale'y opera OF THE Jewess'' was sung at
the National Theatre, by the German Opera
Troupe, last night. While we must accord great
praise to some Of the company for their attempt
TO DO justice 30 a work which requires 30 much
strength in the leading roles, as wen as In the
orchestra and chorus, yet the performance was
not as good as 1t might have been. Himmer's
acting as Lazarus, the jew, was impassioned,
and bis singing good as usual and he had eff
cient support from Mad. Rotter, as Eufloxia,
and Weinlieh, as the Cardinal, also from. the
orchestra and chorus; but Frederick. usually
families, was hardly "emotionay' enough in
singing or acting for Rachael, and the gentle
man who was cast for "Prince Leopold" neither
sang nor acted the part. Tonight, however,
we have an opera to which the company can do
full justice, ''La Dame Blanche :" with Madame
Jehannsen In the cast, and the populor tenor,
Hsbleman, IN his great role OF George Brown.
Evening star., 1869-12-01

A LITTLE RoUGH on THE GExERAL-A
Western paper thinks that Treasurer Spinner's
failing health Is due to exertion in trying to
write his name.
Evening star., 1869-12-01

a Boston jury yesterday decided that lager
beer is net an intoxicating drink
Evening star., 1869-12-01

The annual session of the national council of
the Union League Of America, win take place
inthe city OF New York, Wednesday, December
8, at noon. IL Is expected the meeting win be
largely attended.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07
Mr.. George Peabody.

The life of this noble man seems to be draw
ing to an end, and his last acts are character
lied not only by great charity, but by great
wisdom. Without wife and children-his
relatives well provided for-he has chosen to
dispose of the rest of his great fortune in his
life time, when he can see the grateful hands
that receive it, rather than wait until death
denies him the pleasure of giving. After hay-
ing expended So 100000 for the cause of ed
ucation in the war stricken South, and made
numerous other benefcent donations, both
North and South, he last week endowed a
Professorship in Gen. Lees College with the
handsome sum of 100000. He has deter>
mined to aid so literally the Institution which
George Washington founded, and over which
tho greatest living Virginian (American y
now presides. We are beggared of words to
speak Mr. Peabody's praises. Orators and
poets try in vain, for they cannot come up to
the fullness of the peoples gratitude. And
yet so unostentatious and so modest withal is
the great benefactor, that he expects no dis
play of response, but lives quietly on doing
good as he goes down to the grave. What
wisdom and modesty there is in such charity J!
When his body shall have been buried he
cannot hear posthumous oulogy, nor see the
monuments erected to his memory. Butnow,
during his life, as he watches the good he is
doing. the fragrance of ten thousand thanks
rise about him, like incense from sacred affairs
and if ever man felt he does, how more
blessed it is to give than to receive. The
ocean has not bounded his generosity nor his
fame he is to-day, the idol of Republican
America and Monarchial England. The
Queen stands by and witnesses the unwilling
Of the statue London has erected in his honor
and the people ofthis Union, North and South
claim him as their own. Two nations, sepa-
rated by the Atlantic but speaking with the
same tongue, lay aside their national differ
ences and jcalousies, that they may unite in
doing honor to George Peabody. 1.-The should
die on the soil of Virginia, would it not be ap-
propriato to lay out his grave beside that of
George hington.-Hagersto,o Mail.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07
The President,

General Grant has returned to Washington,
refreshed and invigorated, we trust, by two
months absence from the excitements and
intrigues with which the Capitol abounds.-
.Onerous duties and questions of the gravest
importance await his attention. They will
be met by mind strengthened by relaxation,
and by heart softened by the respect and af-
lection which have everywhere greeted his
progress through the country. We hope,
therefore, that the nation will reap benefit
from the mountain and seaside sojourning of
the President, that he will repay to the Peaks
of Otter the new sense of life he taught from
the White Mountains, and recalling the pleas
sures of Long Island, remember that the At
lantic breaks here upon shore which echoes
back the sound with the signs of suffering
people. Let the diamonds that flashed amid
his festive hours bring up the wasted fields
and bare floors of old Virginia, and the spank>
ing trotters he has sat behind induce a thought
of this fair land, where many former racer
lacks mule. If dwelling upon the luxury
and happiness which have marked his sum-
mer recreation he shall be led to ponder in
helpful sympathy upon the want and desolation
here-it will have been we'll that for the heat
ed term the White House empty was, and
the Cabinet room untenanted.
PeterSbur1 Inder ISeDteanLer /
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07
THE POST.O OFFICE.

The citizens who haYebusiness intercourse
with the Charlestown Post Office, were last
week surprised at the announcement that
Miss Maggie W. johnson had been removed,
and Mr.. John W. Taylor appointed in her
stead. The regret which this announcement
created, was almost universal. We are of the
number who share in the regret at the removal
of Miss johnson from Office for many reasons
chief among which was the uniform cour-
tesy she has always shown US, added to the
fact that We knew her to be large contributor
to the support of a widowed mother and de-
pendent sisters. But political intolerance
knows no charity, and radicalism has little if
any sympathy with the widow and the orphan.
OF the appointee we know very. little,
except that he came to this county from
Pennsylv ania two or three years ago, and
bought far m. He came as an avowed rad
ical, and has since kept his colors flying,
which has not had tendency to popularize
him with our people. We have heard it stated
that he is unfit for the position. He has mad
no trial yet. If he be unfit for office under
this administration, then God help him.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07

Ez-Secretary Stanton and family are at
Marlborough, VT. Mr.. Stanton, says cor
respondent, is but shadow of his former self.
He rests quietly upon the piazza, watching
his children at their play, contrast to the
vivacity of the other guests, or he walks now
and then slowly, sometimes with assistance
He is thin and pale, and in slow, feeble tones,
responds to the cordial greetings of others
Perhaps Mr.. Stanton, in his misery, will be
able to realize the pain, sorrow and wrong it
was in his power, as Secretary of War, to in
flict upon thousands of his fellow countrymen
as patriotic as himself. We wish him no
greater evil than daily consciousness of the
wrongs done By him, and through him, to
others.
Judge Dent, the Presidents brother.in>
law, was to have left Washington on Wod-
nesday last, for Mississippi, for the purpose
of competing for the conservative nomination
for Governor, despite the wishes of his great
relative. The correspondent of the Balti-
more Sun says that many of those who had
been disposed to support the Judge now ia
vor an out>and-out Democrat. The chances
are that the pluck and skill the Judge dis
played in the chastisement he gave the Sec
rotary of the Treasury will secure him the
Mississippi nomination.
- The Chicago Republican is alarmed at
what it terms the wide spread schemes to
organize party to place Chief Justice Chase
in the Presidential chair, and thinks that at
no time has it been so incumbent upon the
Radicals to abstain from entangling alliances,
and to draw party lines strictly, for "treachery
is in the camp and ambuscade lines the way"
1t is intimated that Congress will be Pc
titioned this winter by the military authors
ties in Richmond to re>establish the Freed
mems Bureau in Virginia. In view of the
failure of the crops, it is very certain that
some measures of relief will have to be in
stituted to save the poor negroes from STAR
walton.
The short corn crop, the State Journal
thinks, will produce an exodus" of negroes
from Virginia. Very likely. With no mas
ter to feed them, they must starve or steal
or steal away from their old homes. We adj
wise them to go North.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07
TIE OPINION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
ON VIRGINIA AFFAIRS.

The War Department yesterday received
from Attorney General Hoar his opinion rel
alive to political affairs in Virginia, and has
transmitted the same to General Candy for
his information and guidance. 1t depends
upon the latter to make the full text public
The Attorney General says that the Legisla-
ture must, as prerequisite, submit the Con-
stitution and their action thereon to Congress
for approval In this the test oath will not
be required. If the Constitution and the ac-
ton of the Legislature be approved, the Leg
islature becomes the Legislature of the State
of Virginia, and the provisions of the Con-
stitution fixing the qualifications of members
of the Legislature necessarily prevail, the re-
quirements of the reconstruction acts being
superseded, so far as Virginia is concerned.
But before such approval by Congress, Yir-
ginia not being in all respects State of the
Union, the Legislature, as provisional body
cannot pass laws without its members taking
the test oath. The reconstruction acts re-
quire the ratification of the Fifteenth Amend
ment to the Constitution of the United States
before the State can be admitted to represen>
tation in Congress. There is no question this
Amendment will be ratified by an over
whelming majority.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07

RETRocEssIoN OF ALExANDRIA-Sev
of the citizens of Alexandria city and county
are DESTROYS of returning to the jurisdiction
of this District, and with view of testing the
validity of the retrocession of said city and
county to the State of Virginia, have held
conference and agreed that the speediest way
of bringing about an adjudication of the matter
is, after paying their State taxes, to bring
action in the Supreme Court of the State of
Virginia for the recovery of the same, and in
case of an adverse decision to appeal to the
Supreme Court of the United States. They
will act accordingly, and have retained VIM.
A. Cook: of this city, as counsel.
Wash. Star. Sep. 2.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07

a PRETTY PIoTURE--The Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette thus
sketches what he saw. day or two since, in
the Treasury Department:
''The rooms were generally totally vacant.
In one saw brawny negro clerk, cutting
capitals on clean sheets of paper. He was
flanked by couple of white ladies, who were
adding up long columns of figures, and at his
back was lame white messenger who was
holding in his only hand tray bearing q
glass OF ice water for his friend and broth
err In another room were a couple of white
clerks and a colored sister, all very busily en-
ployed in discussing the new ORDER called
the Deduction law"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07
The National Temperance Convention.

CHICAGO, September 2.-The National
Temperance Convention to day adopted plat
form, as follows:
LIST. That we acknowledge the pure patriot
ism and profound craftsmanship of those
patriots who laid broad and deep the founda-
ton of the Government, securing at once the
rights of the States severally, and their in
separable Union by the Federal Constitution.
We would not merely garuish the sepulchres
of our Republican fathers, but we do hereby
renew our solemn pledges of fealty to the uu-
perishable principles of civil and religious
liberty embodied in the Declaration of Amer
lean Independence and our Federal Constitu>
ton.
3D. That traffic in intoxicating beverages is
dishonor to Christian civilization, inimical
to the best interests of society, political
wrong of unqualified enormity, subversise of
the ordinary objects of Government, not
capable of being regulated or restrained by
any system of license whatever, but impera-
lively demanding for its suppression effective
legal prohibition, both by State and the
National Legislature.
Sd. That in view of this, and inasmuch as
the existing political parties either oppose or
ignore this great and paramount question, and
absolutely refuse to do anything toward the
suppression of the rum traffic which is robbing
the nation of its brightest intellect, destroying
its natural prosperity and rapidly undermining
its very foundations, we are driven by an inn
perative sense of duty to sever our connection
with these political parties and to organize
ourselves into a national ant. dram shop party,
having for its object the entire suppression of
the traffic in Intoxicating drinks.
4th That while we adopt the name of the
Anti-Dram Shop party, as expressive of our
primary object, and while we denounce all
Reputation of the public debt, and pledge
fidelity to the principles of the Declaration Of
Independence and the Federal Constitution,
we deem it inexpedient to give prominence to
other political issues.
5th. That Central Executive Committee
of one from each State and Territory aud the
District of Columbia, be appointed by the
Chair, whose duty it shall be to take such
action as in their judgment will best promote
the interests of the country.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07
AN EXPLOSION.
The Cumberland V. R. R. Extension.

i
In discussing the relative merits of the
different routes for the extension of the Cum
berland Valley Railroad, south of the Poto-
mac river, it is not our purpose to seek con-
troversy, or our intention to shrink from it.
The article which we published on the 18th
of August arraying figures in favor of the
route through jefferson and Clarke coun-
ties, has stirred up the advocates of the Win
chester route, and they are now putting forth
their best efforts to counteract the influences
that are at work here This is all very well,
and we most cheerfully commend the spirit
of any people who seek to advance the mate
rial interests of their own community. But
let them do it fairly, and not to the preju-
dice of others.
The editor of the Winchester, Times, in
his issue of last week, in abiding to our ar
ticle, says 1--WE will undertake, as soon as we
return from the grand gathering of the Press
at the White Sulphur, next week, to explode
utterly and entirely its erroneous deductions"
If he had stopped here, we might have been
content to wait until after the mighty explo-
sion, which we hope to survive; but which
we warn him may have the same effect of
another explosive engine of great notOriety,
which
''whether aimed at duck or plover.
Recoied and kicked the owner over"
But in the astute judgment of the editor
and we all know that it is expansive and pro-
found-"Jefferson county has now as large
railroad facilities as its agricultural products
justify" Great Caesar, is this thine edict !
And are we, the people of Jefferson, men who
have been educated to think for themselves,
henceforth to go to Winchester to learn what
railroad facilities they need, and what their
agricultural products justify? Since the ed
| itor of the Times has made his "local habita-
ton and his home" in the old town, she seems
to have become to the Valley what Athens
was to Greece, or Boston is to Massachusetts,.
All light, all knowledge, all inspiration, must
emanate from that quarter. We know what
this assumed superiority foreshadows. 1t is
the spasmodic effort that always preccde de-
cay. Winchester knows that "Ichabod" is
written all over the walls of her temple
Her glory has indeed departed, and the arro'
gance of her editorial corps can never re-
store it.
Further, in allusion to our article, the
Times says, considerable irregularity is dis
played in marshalipg facts and figures to sup
port its wild conclusions" We do not claim
any marked degree of perfection for our ar
ticle-we aimed at facts and presented them
in an intelligent form-not perhaps with that
scholarly precision that would have marked
production from the polished zen of tie ed
itor of the Times; but then he ought to re-
member that we never had the advantages Of
education at the State University, with which
fortune favored him.
EXPLopE!
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07
SAN FRANCISCO, September 2.-Mr. Col

SAN Francisco, September 2.-Mr. Col
fax left for Oregon today.
The Democratic local tickets throughout
the State are elected by a decided majority
The next Legislature will be emphatic against
the Fifteenth Amendment. San Francisco
reurns the full Democratic legislative delega-
ton. The vote of the city is light; about
$4,000 names were registered and less than %
900 votes were polled The count of the
straight tickets for Mayor last night gave Nc
Coppan, Democrat, nearly 400 majority,
but the count of scratched tickets at o'clock
this evening shows that selby, Independent,
is about 125 ahead, with prospect of an in
creased majority.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07

GOING soUTH-The disastrous drought in
Virginia and the consequent inevitable search
ty of provisions next winter, will drive thou
sands from Virginia to more favored regions.
The Danville Times hears that a farmer in
that vicinity, who employs forty blacks, has
determined to remove to the South, where
"the negro can get good wages, and the plan
ter make money by working large farms and
living somewhat after the old style" The
Times says:
"With regard to our colored population,
henceforth, there will be star leading them
continually towards the sunny cline of the
South. Virginia is destined, we believe,
sooner or later, to be laid off int small farms,
and filled up with industrious immigrants
from other States"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07

SALES OF PRoPERTY.-MissE Z. S. Shep>
herd has purchased the Brooks property on
German Street, for the sum of 81 400
Mr.. Abraham Harris has purchased the
Brick dwelling on the corner of Princess and
German Streets, opposite Enters Hotel, of
Col. John T. Gibson, for the sum of 50 900.
+ iShepherdstoton Register.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07
MARRIED..

In Strasburg, Va, September LIST, 1869, by Rev.
A. c. Hopkins, Mr.. ARTHUR w HAWKS, OF this
place, to Miss JESSIE /. LEACHE, formerly of
Fauquier county, Va.
On the 3lst of August. at "scampton,'' at the
house of Mr.. Charles A DinkIe, by the Rev. A C.
Hopkins. Mr.. BENJAMIN A. MYERS to Miss
MAGGIE E. STOUFFER-koth of York Co. Pa.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07

PRoGREss.- week a negro by the
name of George d. Stephens qualified as
Sheriff of Essex county, Va. His deputy,
a white man by the name of Amos d. Johns
son, also qualified at the same time. Ste
phens is the first and only negro Sheriff in
Virginia.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07
YALLEY ITEMS.

From our Valley exchanges We cory the
following items =.
The Augusta County Faifwin commence
on Tuesday, October 18th.
Mr.. Thomas W Bryan, of Mt jackson,
found young crocodile, several inches in
length, packed in a barrel of sugar
= The Winchester Presbytery of the Pres
byterian Church, viii meet in Romuey, W.
Va, on Wednesday, the 18th of September
next.
"A rumor is current in Winchester, touch
ing the prospective removal to that place of
Rev DIR. White, Assistant Bishop of the
Episcopal Church in Virginia.
- The Corner Stone of the New Metho-
dist Church at Edinburg, Shenandoah county,
Va, will be laid with Masonic ceremonies, on
Thursday the 9th of September.
Sally Spencer, colored girl in Harrison
burg, gave birth, few days ago, to a male
child without arms The infant is a hale,
hearty, vigorous child, and seems to be perfect
in all respects, except the arms. In the place
where one of the arms ought to be, on the
right side, there is a solitary finger.
= Having, in our last issue, noticed the
three-legged calf, we can now boast of having
a double headed snake in our midst. 1t has
two heads, naturally formed, with mouth,
tongue, eyes, &C., in each. 1t is of the house
species and was found among nest of twenty,
by young Baker, on the farm of his father,
Edwin S. Baker, about four miles from town.
Winchester Nee1s.
Our readers will be gratifed to hear that
increased zeal and earnestness has been given
to the Temperance movement in Virginia.
The Rev. DIR. Young, the State Lecturer of
the Friends of Temperance in the State, has
travelled 5000 miles since the End of April,
canvassing the State. He has loctured lis
times in favor of total abstinence and against
the liquor traffic; $500 have signed the
pledge during the canvass AZ new Councils
have been organized and re organized. The
number of Councils now in Virginia is 90,
many of them large and very active, such as
Berryville Timberville, Christiansburg, Mid
dlebrook, and many others. These Councils
have reclaimed some erring ones who were
near the gates of death; they have reformed
and are happy in the enjoyment of the bless
sings of Temperance. Buckingham Register.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07

A Philadelphia Presbyterian has, du-
ring the last five years of his life. built e
church every year at his own expense, spend
ing thus far $4,000.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-07

- Private letters from Jefferson Davis
states that accounts of his i'll health are great
ly exaggerated He will probably continue
to reside in the United Kingdom for the rest
of his life