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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-07-27
HWHAT IS a DOLLAR ~

y Radical exchange, with little or no con-
Germ asks .What is dollar ?" There are
several kinds of dollars which does he mean
The bondholder's dollar, or the laboring mans
dolIar-that which the working man earns by
the sweat of his face, and which lie is COM
PEELED to pay out for his daily bread 4 bond
holders dollar means one hundred cents, but
the laboring mans dollar, say sizty-fve cents.
The boDdholder's dollar is untaxed and draws
a gold iDterost-tLe labOring mans dollar is
taxed to pay it. Never forget, when you talk
about dollars, to say whose dollar you mean.
It will prevent confusion of language and
ideas.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-07-27
Proposed National Jubilee.
The Philadelphia Age contains the follow

The Philadelphia Age contains the follow
ing:
It was not until the success of the Boston
Jubilee had been recorded that a musical
festival was thought to be the most fitting of
all demonstrations for the celebration of the
first centennial anniversary Of our country
This plan for the expression of our joy in
song all seem to regard as the BEST and the
"National Feast OF Music" is regarded and
awarded by all as a coming event. This city
is looked upon as the only proper place for its
celebration. Already steps are taken to carry
out this cherished scheme, and in this connec-
ton the following letter will be read with
interest:
PHILADELPHIA, July, 1863.
To His Erceuency U. s. Grant, President Of
the United States:
Honored Sir,-The Declaration of Inde-
pendence having been signed in the city of
Philadelphia July 4, 1T76, this city has IN
dertaken to celebrate, on July 4, 1876, the
centennial anniversary within its limits on a
scale of magnifcence and splendor befttiEg
such great event.
As feature of this celebration it is pro-
posed by the undersigned Ga primary COM
mittee) to erect building in Fairmount Park
for musical festival of one weeks duration,
the said building to afford accommodation for
one hundred thousand persons, while the per
formers shall number twelve thousand. The
audience, as we'll as the stage, Is expected to
comprise the greatest of the great, who will
be impeled by the grandeur of the occasion to
grace it with their presence.
All that science and ingenuity. art and
nature, patriotism and international courtesy,
can devise will be contributed and co operate
in this the nations jubilee.
For such cause we would ask an expression
of your kind approval, and for its success the
best wishes of your patriot heart
L. ENGELKE.
NJ. RICHARD MucKEL.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-07-27
THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.

The number of States which have passed
the Fifteenth Amendment is twenty-one, and
of these, four cannot be regarded as having
legally ratified it. The St. Louis Republican
(Democratic) accuses the Radical papers of
publishing incorrect lists Of the States which
have either ratified or assumed to ratify the
Amendment. It is we'll to bear in mind that
Iowa. Tennessee, Minnesota, and many other
States claiped by the Radicals have not acted
upon it, the following States only having done
so:-
Alabama, said to have ratified.
Arkansas, ratified March Is.
Connecticut, ratified May 13.
Delaware, elected.
Florida, ratified in juno.
Georgia, rejected
Illinois, ratified March 5.
indiana, assumed to ratity May II. No
quorum present
Kansas, assumed TO ratify February 81
The second section was imperfect.
Louisiana, ratified March l.
Maine, ratified March g.
Massachusetts, ratified March ~
Michigan, ratified March 5.
Missouri, assumed to ratify March /. Did
not act upon the second section.
Nebraska. assumed to ratfy. Certificate
on file at the State Department is informal
and insufficient
Nevada, ratified March l.
New Hampshire, ratified July /.
New York, ratified a pril Il
North Carolina, ratified March 3.
Pennsylvania. ratified March 90
Rhode Island, the Senate ratified May 81.
The amendment will probably be rejected.
because the Rhode Island Radicals believe
that under it they can no longer disfranchise
their Irish Catholic laborers.
South Carolina ratified March 10.
West Virginia, ratified March 8.
Wisconsin, ratified March 8.
This makes only twenty>one States that
can possibly be claimed for the amendment
thus far, and of these only seventeen have
legally ratified it.
Now, we have strong conviction that the
abomination will be knocked in the head by
the result of the fall elections in the North
ern States. The indications are certainly
most favorable to a Democratic triumph in
California, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York,
and we need not despair Of even Maine and
New Hampshire, under the ground-swell of
popular disgust which the Grant administra-
ton is exciting throughout the country
With the four first named States under Dem
ocratic control, the amendment would GER
tainly go under-a contamination devoutly
to be wished
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-07-27

.-Ex-Senator Wade, of Ohio. formerly
President of the United State Senate. ex~
pressed himself. at Knoxville last Thursday,
as being in favor of Senter for Governor of
Tennessee, and his policy of white enFran-
chisement and reconstruction. Liberal sens
timents seem to be gaining ground rapidly.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-07-27
GOING BACK TO THE D1sTnIcr.-Tae Al

GOING BACK TO THE DIsTMCT.-The AL
exandria correspondent of the Washington
E.rpress says:
There is some talk here of plan to rees-
tablish the District of Columbia in its old
limits by Congress, on the reconstruction of
Virginia, resuming control of the whole ten
miles square, including the town Of Alexan>
dria. 1t is said that President Grant favors
the project. OF course this is without foun-
dalton, and ne suppose the whole subject is
mere talk.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-07-27

TINHIRTH YEARS EXPERIENCE IN the TREA-
L MENr o. CrEoSlc AEn sexual Diseases Il
Physiological UisIo Gf rtdg'. The choar'rt beck
cyct ru"Iished- containing nearly 200 p"s's oLd
$50 fine plates and CnEraNings of the anatomy Of
the human organs ia a statc of health and disease,
with a treatise ON carly errors its dcpIcrHble con
sequence upon the mind aud body. with the
tho-s plan OF trcam cnt-thc only rational mud sue
C'ssu mode Ui cure. shown by report ~ cSsCs
treated truthful nd"issr To Abe married and
th"s" contcmri"ti mr. 'r'"gc VIII" entertain doubts
their PHI ysical condition Sent loe of p",tnpc
any a;lircss receipt of 25 csht-. in start, or
postal currency, by addressing DR. La CRnlN No.
n Maidrn Lane, Aiiany. y y. The author may
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\ chance su .rr~ any "i1h" above Pure i"r 25c
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You will know hat your Prize l. icfprc Won CAV
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No Blanks our trnn=ran depend on iair dealing.
REFrRESc Es.-wc select the following from many
who have lately drawn Valuable Pri.rs and Kindly
permitted us 70 puoli-h them Andrew Burr-,
ChIca 90 SlO OGD: Niles Clara =. Walker. RHiti-
more. Piano. SSsO0 :; JamsF II. Matthews. Detroit
$ 200 {: John 4. Andr"ws, Savannah. : .0uu; Miss
Agncs Sunmuu5, Charleston, PiHno, 5000 We
publish nnn"s without permission.
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and deserve their success - HNEy J,tbunS. hinuS
We know them To- be II fair drrlin" firm N J..
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should be addressed to
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July 81 1869. IIJ broadway. New York.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-07-27

NEW VERTIS ENTS.
tIRUIT PRESERVING JARS and Tin Cans. Of
L the most approved quality and beet patterns,
for sale by w. EBY
DACON.-A large lot of very superior Bacon just
ID received nd for cal by w. EBY.
July 81. 1869.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-07-27

SIX PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH.-The
Buckhannon News of the 9TH inst, has been
furnished by Mr.. Z j. Burr with an account
Of the following terrible accident:
On the night of the I'd instant, in Wash
ington township, near the mouth Of Truby's
run, on the east bank of the Buck hannon
river, Upshur county, the house known as the
Derln property destroyed by fire, and six
persons burned to death-MrS. Quick and her
three children, and tw girls of Mr.. KimbalI,
the eldest about thirteen years, and the other
ten. Mr.. John Quick, the husband and
father, had gone to HuttonsViIle, carrying the
mail from that place to Sago. His wife being
afraid to stay alone, Mr.. KimbalPs children
were called in to stay a night How the
house caught fire is not known, but is sup
posed to be accidental They were all lying
in a back room in the lower part Of the house
three in u bed. arrived at the place about
six o'clock y. NJ. | shall neye forget the
awful scene-thc house in ruins, the six
bodies burning; three lying side by side, and
the others i'll the same way at another place,
apparently just as they were lying in bed
My first conclusion was that all suffocated
before the fire reached them. Mr. Kimball,
the futher of the oldest girls, had got there a
few minutes before. The poor man was almost
frantic with grief and SORROW.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-07-27
CHARLESTOWN ACADEMY.

THIS School will open on MONDAY, SEPTEM-
Der 9th, 1869, and close the LAST DAY
OF JUNE, 1870
The course of instruction will embrace lain,
Greek. French, Natural Philosophy, Book Keeping,
the usual course OF Mathematics preparatory for
College, while strict attention will be given to all
the Eugrish branches c. MOORE.
July 27, ls69-5t. II. HUNTER.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-07-27
Ingenious Invention by a Virginian.

One of the most ingenious pieces of me-
chanism has been completed and patented by
Mr. B. W. Ogburn. of Mecklenburg, Va.
The invention consists of zeal culating"
scale which for the simplicity of its operations
and the ingenuity displayed in its construc>
ton, cannot easily be excelled, and from the
many advantages it possesses it is we'll worthy
of the attention of persons in all branches of
trade requiring the use of such an article
The inventor obtained patent for the scale
about year since. but has been unable to
place it before the public until the present
time. The improvements over scales now in
use are that it will, by adjusting a movable
pivot to the number denoting the price of the
article per pound. show at glance the value
of whatever is placed upon it. by the number
at which the pea stops when the scale halan-
ces It will also give the value of any amount
of goods sold by weight at any price per
pound by simply placing the pivot at the price
per pound, and the pea at the number demo
ting the amount desired to be invested. The
weight of any article can be ascertained as
readily as with other scales. and any fractional
part of pound can he OBJ tanned by two easy
adjustments of the weights. Through its use
the Inconvenience of making calculations
lie entirely dispensed with, thus rendering it
Invaluable to persons whose business requires
the operator to be frequently calculating. the
amount and price Of goods, which can he OBJ
tained by glance at this scale. The first of
the kind that has thus far been manufactured
mva be seen in operation at the hardware store
of Messrs Walter s. Moore & Co., No. 4 Light
street-BdtinOre Gazette
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500 ovner. Of Colburn, 8 apd rcd Jnskel Fa,eu,..

SteubeuviIle, Ohio, Female Seminary.
nELIGHTFULLT situated on the banks of tho
~ Oaio. Forty years IN successful operation.
Unusual Advantages in solid and ornamental
brauChes. School year of forty weeks beg STP-
TENEEs :, 1869. Entire expense abuut : 5 20 week
IIcsnfy FIRE per deduction for Daughters HnrJ-
tsTS. send Tor Catalogue to REV. CHAS {. BEAT
TN ID. D., LII D.. Superintendent, or REV. A. NJ.
REID. 4 NJ. PriucipaI
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-07-27
A Terrible Mystery.

The Nashville (Tepu) onion says most
frightful, gloomy and unexpected discovery
was recently made by a fisherman while ply
ing his avocation on the river, short dis
lance below the mouth of Richmond Greek,
near the farm Of Mrs Bass, eight miles from
Nashville. On nearing the bank of the river
in his canoe, he was Mortified at beholding
spectacle which at once made his blood run
cold. The object which met his vision was
the remains of what was once apparently
beautiful woman, lying in death, with her
head partially out of the water. She was
perfectly nude. Fish swarmed around her
body by hundreds, and buzzards perched
upon the exposed head. The birds had tramp
ed the ground for twenty feet around the
corpse They had picked out the eyes, eaten
the cheeks until the CHASTITY jaw bones of a
once fair an animated face were left in bold
relief The ears and an arm were gone, and
only u few tresses of a luxuriant growth of
hair had been left upon her head. After the
buzzards had been satiated with flesh, the fish
had uibbled her neck to the bone, and had
carried away the pieces of flesh which the
ravenous birds had dropped into the water
Having tied her body around the breast and
covered it over us best he could. he hurried
to Nashville for Coroner Geo w. Norvell.-
That officer was too unwell to go, and couse-
quently deputized Mr. Charles NJ. Stewart in
his stead Mr.. Stewart and jury left in
conveyance early yesterday morning to hold
an inquest over the remains
1t was discovered that, notwithstanding the
fshermans precautions to cover the uDfortu
nate woman, buzzards had again been there
and torn away what little flesh remained on
her head. She taken out Of the water
aud examined 1t was found that she had
been bIutally outraged, her clothing stripped
from her body by some violent hands, her
shoulder deeply wounded with some sharp in
strument, and that her breasts had been torn
and lacerated till they presented a horrible
spectacle Her form had evidently been one
of great beauty and symmetry. From her
wisdom teeth, which had just grown even
with her gums, and other indications. the jury
was Of the belief that she was woman of
nineteen or twenty years. The bones of her
face and head generally indicated small and
regular features. She was about five feet in
height 1t supposed that she had been in the
river for about two weeks. So much had the
body decomposed that the jury was compelled
to bury her near where she was found in a
bed of leaves and earth. The jury rendered
a verdict that her person had been grossly
outraged, and that she came to her death
through violence, from the hands of some
person unknown. and that she had been cast
into the river by the murderer to prevent de-
lection.
Though this deep mystery of the Cumber-
land may never be revealed, nevertheless the
old adage that murder will ont" may
yet be verified by the final discovery of the
murderer and his speedy punishment.
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- Not person or paper says word for
poor BoFle, and he is the most disconsolate
individual extant
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SHEPHERDSTOWN AND HALLTOWN
TURNPIKE COMPANY.

A PUBLIC MEETING will be held on Saturday,
~ the 18th of August, at HALLTOWS. and on
Saturday. the l4th of August, al SHEPHERDS
TOWN, to discuss this road, and organize under
the charter.
a full attendance L desirable.
THE ISCoRPoRATORs.
July u, Is69-3,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-07-27

Dick Yates has got the jim-jams, ant
very badly too
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-07-27

l. better than GOT regular shaped Axes for these
reasons: FTSf.-lt cuts deeper. StcOR6-It don't
stick in rhc wood. IAId-It does not ia the ha no
Fourth Il, time is wasted in taking the Axe of
the cut Fyh-WIth the same labor you will ,in
one third work than with regular Axrs. Red
paint has nuIhng to do with the good qualities OF
this Axe, for all our Axes painted red II your
hardware store docs not keep goods. we will
gladly answer inquiries nil yo.r orders direct,
give you the name of the nearest dealer u no
LIPPINCoTT & BAEEwELL.
Fritsburgh. Pa,
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- The warm weather has made the divorce
business in Chicago unusually brisk.
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FOR SALE.

TWO HORSES-one a good Barshear Leader,
i and the other a. Young Mare-for cash or on
time, note aud security required.
r. RIoS LUCAS.
Lestown, July IT, Ise9-4t
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NEW ADvERTIsEMENTs
ONLY ONE DOLLAR

CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY Lebanon, Tenn,
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WANTED.

WANTED.
GOOD BLACKSMITH, to whom will he give
"a constant employment and good wages
JOHN n. SHEWBRIDGE.
Summit Point. July 81, Is69-lm.
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EMPLOYMENT iirf pays. For particulars. ad-
Il dress 5. NJ. SPEScER & Co., Brattleboro, Vt
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-04-07
Trust in Jesus.

A doctor who was once visiting Chris
tian patient, had himself been anxious to
feel that he was at peace with God-the
Spirit of God had convinced him of sin and
need, and he longed to possess 'that peace
which the world cannot give" On this oc-
casion, addressing himself to the sick one,
he said: 81 want you just to tell me what
it is, this believing and getting happiness
faith in Jesus and all that sort of thing that
brings peace" His patient replied: "Doc-
tor, / have felt that l could do nothing, and
1 have put my case in your hand-I am
trusting in you. This is what every poor
sinner must do in the Lord Jesus" This
reply greatly awakened the doctors surprise,
and new light broke in on his soul. els
that all ?" he exclaimed, "simply trusting in
the Lord Jesus? see it as 1 never did be-
fore. He has done the work" Yes, Jesus
said on the cross, cit is finished, and "who-
soever believeth on Him shall not perish,
but have everlasting life" From that sick
bed the doctor went happy pan-rejoicing
that his sins had been washed away in the
blood of the Lamb.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-04-07
Poverty in the Parsonage.

The following remarks from the pen of
DIR. Guthrie are commended to the consider
alton of our readers:
The calamity which stand in dread of,
and which, next to the withdrawal of the
divine blessing, is the greatest Church can
suffer, is that the rising talent, genius, and
energy of our country may leave the minis
try of the Gospel for other Professions
"a scandalous maintenance" Matthew Hen
ry says, "makes scandalous ministry. =
And I will give another, equally true:
"The poverty of the parsonage will develop
itself in the poverty of the pulpit" have
no doubt about it. Genteel poverty, to
which some ministers are doomed, is one of
the great evils under the sun. To place a
man in circumstances where he is expected
to be generous and hospitable, to open his
hand as wide as his heart to the poor, to
give his family a good education, to bring
them up in what is called genteel life, and
to deny him the means of doing 80, is
enough, but for the hope Of heaven, to en-
bitter his existence.
In the dread of debt; in many daily NOR
Notwithstanding, perhaps, some old &C
quaintance, whom he dared not ask to his
table, lest his prudent wife should frown
upon his extravaganza: in harrassing fears
what shall become of his wife and children
when his head lies in the grave; man of
cultivated mind and delicate sensibilities has
trials to bear more painful than the priva-
tions of the poor.
1t is bitter cup, and my heart bleeds for
brethren who have never told their sorrows,
concealing under their cloak the fox that
gnaws at their vitals.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-04-07
For THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
A Call to the Ministry.

Mr.. Editor,-I have just been reading the
essay of DR.. Dab2ey on the subject of
"Call to the Ministry" And l beg you to
allow me, through your columns, to say that
l regard it as the most sound and valuable
discussion of the subject that l have yet seen.
1t presents, in my humble opinion, the true
and only true view of the grounds on which
the question is to be decided. by any whom
it may concern. And being written with so
nervous pen, am sure that few who take
it up will lay it down without giving it
thorough perusal.
But my object is a more practical one
than that of mere commendation. Let me
recommend to pastors, and to other Chris
tians who would desire to induce proper
consideration of subject so practical to
many of our brothers, sons and church men,
bers, and of so much moment as respects
the interests of the Church and the world,
to put this admirable treatise in the hands
of our prOfessedly piOuS young men, accom-
panying this use of it with their prayers
that God may give those dear youth the
heart to do their duty to Him who bought
them with His blood, and to dying world.
The writer of this feels deeper interest
in the subject in view of some of his own
remembered experience of difficulty in re-
gard to the question, and of the peril of fail
ing to make choice which, though he can.
not believe himself able to glorify in such
fruits of his ministry as many of his breth-
ren, he can say that, for all the world, he
would not now be willing to forego the re-
membrance of life given, though but too
imperfectly, to the work of winning souls to
Christ L.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-04-07

Let no poor worm of the dust then, sup
pose he is initiating David when he hates
another worm like himself. "The religion
of hate is not derived frcm the Bible. Poor
blind creatures as we are, would "deal dam
nation round the land" Jonah wanted all
the Ninevites destroyed, and was vexed be-
cause they were not; Peter would call down
fire on the Samaritans. The feeling with
too many of US is, that God is too slow in
furnishing those we esteem our enemies. We
are told that, ''if mans ways please the
Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at
peace with him." Let US then, with deep
humility of heart, strive ''to love our ene-
miles, do good to them who despitefully use
us and persecute US, that we may be the
children of our Father who is in heaven.
This is God-ike, and true moral greatness,
and we can only thus attain that true
"peace'' which the world can neither give or
take away SUB UMBRA.