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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-11-16
Marvellous Chicken Tale.

We learn that singular and very amusing
accident happened to the chickens Of Mrs.
Hamilton, near Pottcrsville, Upton county,
Tennessee, few days ago. Her husband
bought bottle of brandy cherries. After
eating the cherries the seed were thrown out,
which the chickens ate greedily. In a short
time Mrs. Hamilton found that her chickens
were all dead She told an old negro woman
that she might pick the chickens and put the
feathers in her he'd which she did readily
After picking off the feathers she carried the
chickens out and threw them away. Night
came on Mrs. Hamilton was sorely grieved
at her loss. Sleep soon swept away her
troubles At early dawn she was alarmed at
hearing old chanticleer Growing loudly and
the hens cacklng. Judge her surprise when,
on opening the door and looking out, she saw
every hen and rooster, young and old, grave
and gay, marching round cycling each other
with suspicion, many of them entirely ma ked,
while only few had wing and tail feathers.
The seed made them dead drunk
CMemPhjs Appeal
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-11-16

"A straw will make an impression on the
virgin snow; let it remain but short time,
aud horEe's hoof can scarcely penetrate it
So it is with the youthful mind. \ triding
word may make an impression on It, but after
few years, the most powerful appeals may
cease to influence it. Think Of this ye who
have the training of the infant mind, and
leave such impression thereon as viii be safe
for it to carry amid the folIiss and temptations
Of the world
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-11-16
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BALTIMORE CARDS.
GOLD MEDAL FOR 1867
Has lust been awarded to

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For the Best Pianos now made Baltimore,
Philadelphia and New York Pianos by the
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, mcnts including the AGRAFFE TREBLE,
Ivory Fronts, and the Improved French Action,
fully warranted for Five Years, with the privilege
OF exchange within ~ months il not entirely satis
factory purchaser.
Second hand Pianos and Parlor Organs always
on hand, from $50 to S3u0
Referees who have our Pianos in usc:-
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der, Mozart Musical Association of WInchester.
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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-11-16
MISCELLAN NEOUS.
Sut LoVeDgood Sets Up with Gal
One Pop Baily,

- By the light ofthe campfire, after hunters
supper, enjoyed with hunters appetite, l
am reading aloud Elizabeth Barrets descrip-
tion of kiss.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-11-16
4 Remar kable Bird Story,

Tic Ba-sran River F.ag says: Fe are
informed ay JOHN MllIglu-Gae< be will
v7ugn ior the accuracy OF the sjoTyS
-5au, 4 u4aut. 20 q znai. bird yfIianet, toe1 ?
T.--oesiou OF "a l8rzc 10Y Tiao-pill wlsifl
wIIr.s us an ornament on tho top h hisl lt|n
shop. The mill is nearly Ia the shtTa-ef 60 !,
egg. j. about Two feet Ligh aud is placed 3ef-
ucaly While ir vas st!i the bird enssft.l =
between the wings or fans, and commenced
operations on nest. aid her eggs, and fnaisN.
" hatchci them on the wElTl. Those acs-.
quaiuted with 'h.- part Of tie State, Laow z
that the wind almost constantly -DlowingCs
except early iu tile morning, that the wind
mill vas not often AT rest. Now that her four =
birds were ha,ched. how could she get tLen
out She--a0n solved the question. Out slf6
few. and quickly returned with long string.
Watching her chance. in she went with one
end OF the string, and the o.Ler naturally be-
came eutaue.si around TIE shaft, aud soon
the machinery came to dead lock. Re
iyieiug AZ her success she triumpL-ltly de-
parted taking along her brood
The Ecw York HsraH says tie Five
Hundred Millions in Cod VS. BE sum Of tie
Wall street sal- Of that terrible i.lsy.-
This am mt Of gold, upon rough es' v.aie,
allowing sixteen dollar 10 a. oumce. and siE-
teen ounces . the pound md tw" th"uaand
pounds to the ton and one Ton TO eaca cart,
would require thousand carts to move 81
and allowing twenty feet to each horse ana
cart the string OF carts would be about eight
miles long No gondcr Wall street collapsed:
"What are you doing there, Jane p
:.Why Pa. l am going to r.aiut my dolls
uiuaflre red" But what have you got to
dye it 2" Ale Who On earth told you
that ale would dye red? 2" Why, Ma said it
wss ale that made your nose red, and 4
Here Susan, take thio child
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-11-16
WANTED TO EXCHANGE.

" IW VIZ
MY STORE HOUSE, STOCK OF GOODS, and
w the Business winch has been successfully con-
5,ct.d t,r vcars in Boonsboro'. Washington coun-
W MARYLAND, for a small FARM. well improved,
IN the Valley Of Virginia Persons wishing to make
such an exchange, will please make immGdIats % aP-
plication TO me. .. ~ ~ CNi%'6 " i@-1'A'
Boonsboro September 2s, 1859
(NIGARS, stosies, Smoking and Chewing Iooac-
~ co-a good assortment for sale by wv -pv
October IL, 1869. w. EoI
~ENTS, and Boys' overco oats, Capcs, Gum Goats,
II Knit Jackets Kid, Buck and Sheepskln GIoyes'
for sale by = J'HOLOS+hI IL
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-15
TIE SITUATION.

The Message of the President and
the bill which passed Congress in &C
cordance with it, reveal all we now
know of the political situation in thi;
State The law leaves to the discre
ton of the President the selection o.
the time when new elections shall bt
held, and on him is devolved the des
ignation of the provisions of the pro
posed constitution which shall be vot
ed on separately. His message er
commends that elections be held in
May or June and hence it is to be in.
Tered that he will appoint an early day.
One thing is certain, however, NO
matter what else is in doubt, and it is
that the election in which consequences
of untold magnitude depend, will be
held, sooner or later, and the sooner the
business of preparation for it begins,
the better. Let it be commenced at
once, on the highways; and the by
ways; in the workshops and on the
plantations. Our resident population
who understand the law should not
leave to untriendly parties the business
of enlightening the uniformed, in re-
gard to its provisions. And care
should be taken to assure the freedmen
who, disregarding the DEGREES of the
Loyal Leagues, voted against the con.
stitu'ion at the last election, because it
prescribed a large and meritorious
class of whites, that if opportunity be
afforded by the submission of its provis-
ions separately. the pledge will be
faithfully redeemed 1t 10 oppose any
measure, witch, DISTINGUISHING none,
will secure to all. equality of privilege
iii the exc else of the ballot
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-15
The Pamela Meeting.

No formal request was needed to Sc
cure the publication Of the proceedings
of this meeting in The CLARION. We
have too much at heart the objects II
was designed to accomplish, to with
hold from them our earnest support.
The names of the persons prominent
ly engaged in this meeting afford evil
dence of the good faith in which the
movement is undertaken. The Pamela
Star states that the meeting was one
of the largest ever held in the county,
and that the resolutions were drafted
and passed by her most substantial and
influential citizens. These resolutions
deprecate the lawless acts of lrrespon-
sible parties in that county, exaggera-
ted reports of which have gone abroad
to the injury not only of the communi-
ty Immediately interested, but to the
law-abiding people of the whole State,
and they pledge the citizens 10 use all
proper means to arrest these criminal
acts.
The movement is timely. The par
ties engaged in these desperate adven-
lures could not engage in work more
calculated to do mischief to the peo-
pie. They do not correct abuses, but
furnish food on which the partisan
schemes of her malignant enemies
have foarisi ed
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-15

1t Is the determination of the people
of Mississippi to accept the proposed
Constitution under the Grant pro
graDme if it be presented in form to
enable them "efectually to secure the
civil and political rights of all persons
within their borders, as recommended
in the Presidents message. 1t is their
lrreversible purpose TO vote it down if
it Is not submitted in this form. They
have done so once, and can, and will,
do it again. Their action has been en-
dOrsed by Congress and the President.
But we are not to believe that occa-
sion will exist tor its repetition. The
President will doubtless stand on the
policy enunciated in his Message,
which the New York Tribune, the
most influential of all the organs OF
the Republican party, thus expounds
and advocates
Gen. Grants first message to Congress on
AAoSSSA Vi 6ChNioA POAiSJ 10
wise, JuIiciUus, and timely.
Give the people Chance to vote down
the odtouS POLICY Of acknowledgements, lohich
can neuer, u any rate, be more than an irruG-
ting GAd temporary nsdkssht; rest The political
Institutions in those States upon the 6roadest
and therefore the sgtest basis Of suffrage, and
let US hare peace
Gen. Grants policy is believed to be SINH
lar To that STEADILY urged by the Tribune,
viz: CntrersGl amnesty and Ur:rerSdE SUI
JrG9e and it is certain that he is strongly
opposed TO the disrdnchtSem nj and disQuaIIf-
cation clauses contained IN the Virginia and
Mississippi constitutions. He wishes to see
these submitted separately, anu also the
county organization system. so that If they
are rejected working government may
still be promptly org tnized for the two
States in accordance with the policy of the
reconstruction acts of Congress He is OPP
posed 10 all other tess than they propose, and de
strss all these questions to be promptly and
peacefully settled.--N. Y. Tribune.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-15
Fafr pIay All ,hntis Asked.

The Pilot loses no opportunity to
repeat in effect that the District Com
mander j. Republican, and to coa-
graduate itself that the mex: election
is to be held under his supervision
so wa- Gen. Ord a Republican, so
was Gen. Mcdowell, by wEon the late
election was conducted ard so was
Gen. Gillcm. But it did not necessa-
lily follow that the party Of proscrlp-
ton was to have it al their own way.
All that the party asks which stand
with us on the platform of Gen. Grant,
AGAINST The infamous provisions of the
scheme once proposed and rejected,
and for "such constitution and laws as
"will efectualIy secure the civil and
political rights of ALL~persons," Is
fair play
Gen. Grant did not keep it a secret
that he was opposed to the scheme OF
the Convention Committee because 1t
looked to the appointment of parti-
zans who had axes OF their own to
to grind, and who would conduct the
election in the interest Of faction. 1t
will be remembered that the Stringer-
Eggleston delegation were attempting
to overcome this insuperable objection
of Gen. Grant to their scheme, when
he abruptly terminated the interview.
The significant limitations of the
Pilot, therefore, that certain parties
shave nothing to hope from Gen.
Ames," and certain other parties ''ev
erything," has no sort of terrors to
anybody. No favors are asked, or ex-
pected. He could not grant favors to
either side, in the management of tn
election, without violating the obliga-
tons of his office. All that we ask is
that he will conduct it in the spirit Of
his appointment--tairly and justly. We
preferred an army officer TO perform
this service because we knew that ii
would not be fairly done by the uu-
men who manufactured
testimony to induce Congress to set
aside the late election. and were guilty
of the tricks charged against the IN 10y
th,ir Chailain, Rev Lester W illiams.
nd by such lalr-mindel Republicans
as Junee Jetford>, Maj. Wofford Capt.
Pollard. and others who did not weary
of the work uutil they were complete
" baffieG and routed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-15
The Supreme Court and Recon-
sIructiOn.

The decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States, of which we re-
ceived information by telegraph on
Tuesday, that Congress possessed
power under the Constitution to pass
the reconstruction laws, places beyond
question all the departments of the
government ON TIE side Of those meas
ures, and takes awav from their oppo-
snrs every particle of ground of hope
of escape from their operation. They
who were the most sarguin of escape
mainly looked to that tribunal for re-
lief; but this prospect is forever closed,
and when it is coupled with the pop
ular decision at the last Presidential
and Congressional elections, in favor
of the same policy, all will concur that
it is wise to yield gracefully to what
can no more be successfully resisted.
than the DEGREES of Providence, and to
make the best of the circum stances in
which we are placed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-15

Says the Tallaha tchian, "last Mon
aday was the regular time for holding
@the County Court. which of course
twas not held. as we had neither
sheriff nor Clerk. We are elnphati-
.'cally a people withouta government
-sand without officers, and yet every
thing moves on smoothly an d quietly.
Every body attends to their own bu-
..siness, in this locality, and we as yet
.shave suffered no special inconveni-
ence from this state of affairs"
This is but the echo of the report
which comes from many counties.
In the partizan effort of Congress
to confscate the Offices of the State for
the benefit of the class Of Adventures
who have come to the Sta te notorious
" and avowedly for the purpose of
obtaining them, many counties have
been placed in the condition here de
scribed. They al practically without
law, having no means of executing that
which is in existence. BY sweeping
Order, in a single day, two thousand
eight hundred Offices were vacated.
Judges. Sheritfs, Prosecuting Attor-
news, Clerks, Treasures, Boards OF
Police, Mayors, Magistrates, Consta-
bles, &C., were all stripped of their
authority. Their places in a few in
stances only have been wholly sup
plied-in others partially-and In
others not at all.
The fortitude of the people for whose
benefit and protection laws are passed,
and the civil establishment created,
is put to a severe trial but they are
proving themselves equal to it The
civil laws which protect the country
are virtually destroyed-the military
are but ? handful-and yet the same
gratifying assurances reach B from
every part If the Stale. The people
in their determination to mainain or
der and preserve peace, are law unto
themselves. We put to the Northern
Radical legislators who have iecreed
this rule OF pIoscripiion-we put to
Northern Republican journals which
have advocated 1.-THE enquiry, can
they point to any State or community
of their own, which could successfully
resist so or al a temptation to lawless
ness and violence
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-15
The Memphis Comm -rciaI COnven
ton.

We Rave taken the liberty of pub
fishing the circular letter addressed to
the writer. by the Committee of Invi-
tation of this Convention, in order to
bring before the public in the most au-
ihoritative form its object, and also to
call the attention Of the authorities of
Mississippi-State and Municipal to
the Importance of securing represen
tativos in that body additional to those
to whom special invitations may be ex-
tended, and TO the mode of appointing
them as suggested by the Committee.
This mode, and the ratio of represen-
tation, are explained in the postscript
appended to the letter.
The Committee truly remark that
the objects of the Convention are wor-
thy Of the consideration of our wisest
and most patriotic men. They en-
brace the subjects of immigration-di-
rect trade between Europe and the
Southern Ports--the connection of the
Atlantic and Pacific seaboards BY a
direct and practicable line that will
be open to travel and transportation
all the year-and the reclamation of
the broad acres of fertile lands in the
Mississippi bottom, once the seat of !
prosperous industry but now subject
TO inundation and returning to q state
Of nature.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-15

By Washington telegram it is sta
ted that the absence OF conservative
commi> sioners. fIom Washington, du
ring the prepare ton of Orders prelim
mary to the new elections, excites
remark. So tar as the anti.proscri p
ION delegations from Mississippi are
concerned, it is proper to state thai
when they left Washington there was
10 intims ton of the turn events have
taken. The decisive vote of the House
indicated that her case would be laid
over until the next meeting of Con
gress.
1t is little singular that the Com.
mittee of Nine from Virginia, have
abandoned the fed to the Destructives
We suspect it is due to the war which
imprafticahles made upon them at
home, and by which their patriotic
enorts were great paralysed. If the
Anarchists and Destructives obtain
control of the government of the Old
Dominion as they have done ia Ar
kansas, Florida, Alabama and Soutb
Carolina, may the Lord deliver the
whites as q brand from the burning
into which their own dissensions will
have plunged them
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-15
The Final Route OF fhe Gonnmatanr
OF Five.


1t was great triumph for the cause
of truth and justice when Gen. Grant,
firmly rejected the scheme. of the Con
ventien Committee to declare the de-
feated Constitution ratified, or falling
in that, to install the irresponsible con-
claye as the supreme authority of the
State and when he accepted the
proposition of Messrs, Simrall, Brown
and Watson on the part of the con-
servatives and of Messrs Jetfords,
Warner, Wofford and Fisk, on the
part of the r-minded Republicans,
which was substantially embodied in
his message and received the form Of
law by the prompt action of Congress.
1t would be uncandid to claim that
the plan adopted meetS our entire ap-
prevail From the beginning, the
Southern States have been ungener-
ousIy dealt with. Mr.. Johnson dealt
harshly with them in overthrowing
the governments which were in exis-
tence at the close of the war when they
were in the very act of adopting mea-
sure to restore themselves to the Union.
And from that time to the present, they
have been loaded with insult and re-
proach, and the prey of the eontending
factions of the dominant party.
But they are not in condition to
dictate the terms of the restoration OF
their relations with the Cover nment of
the Union, and are reduced to the ne
cessity of choosing between measures
none of which fully accord with their
own wishes.
The most cruel and Ubiquitous of all
the plans devised in the interest of a
selfish and heartless faction, was the
scheme proposed by the Convention
and rejected by the voters. 1t provi-
ded for the Acknowledgement of large
classes Of worthy citizens without ref
erence to former political creeds, and
would have organized hell of discord
and confusion in our peaceful and law
abiding community. After the rejec-
ton Of the plan, to FIJI up the measure
of villiany, it was proposed by the baf-
fed agents Of the Convention, to in
duce Congress to set aside the election
and in defiance Of its own pledges and
the popular verdict to recognize the
bogus constitution as the organic law
of the State and the defeated candi-
dates as the persons duly chosen to
put it into operation.
The counter project to this villain
Gus expedient of the conspirators was
the plan proposed by the Conservative
and liberal Republican delegations,
and which received the emphatic en-
dorsement of the President to which
Congress, responding to his recon-
mendation, gave the form and effect of
law. The substance of the measure is
that it secures to the people the right
to strike out from the proposed Con-
stitution its proscriptive features and
to choose good men to administer it
when put into operation.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-15

writer In the Banner Of the South
| Gather Ryan's paper under date Of Alex.
andria, Va, March oath, says
And now about that letter; and what
now say, | have direct as spoken by Long
street himself when in an adjoining county
TO this last year visiting a valued friend.-
lie says that after the war closed he was In
New Orleans. also. many other Confederate
Generals, and on a certain occasion, being
in conversation with some Of his brother
officers, it was thought that they were look
ed upon with distrust and hate by the Uni
ted States authorities, that a letter written
by some one or more of those on the subject
would be benefit to the South. Longstreet
being the ranking General. was pitched up
on To write the letter. Gen. J.. says be
Thought some expression from him or all Of
them accepting the situation would be Of
benefit 10 the South. He says the letter
was written by himself and afterward
handed around among his brother officers
for their consideration, some Of whom APP
proved altogether, some altered some Of the
exDressions. and the letter was then return
ed to him Gen. Longstreetl for publication
1t was published and you know the storm
IL raised and now comes the disgraceful
part Of the proceeding, Those very gener-
ais who approved Of that letter skunk from
our loved general, aud left him alone 10
bear the brunt of the reproach, called up
to the South by that letter. Not one has had
the manliness to acknowledge that he knew
ANYTHING Of It.; and Gen. Longstreet with
that doggedness of disposition which rem
dered his corps inyincible, said he was able
TO bear it all, and would not murmur, that
that letter had caused trouble enough, let IL |
stop with him.
Nor did he depart from this determine
ton, except on one occasion, just after the /
letter was published, he met one ofthe gem
erals referred to above on the street. who |
crossed TO the other side. not
wishing TO recognize him. A few days ar
terward, as Gen. Longstreet sat in the St.
Charles Hotel in conversation with some |
friends this genral came In but did not re-
c0gniZe Longstreet; smartlng under this In
suit, he called to the former and said II
wish to cay to these gentlemen In your pres
snce, that you were one OF the men who
proposed this letter, and the last one who
read It before publication, and az much In
'ha mud a. In the mire."
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-15
Rev. Lester Williams, Chaplain Of

Rev. Lester Williams, Chaplain OF
the Convention, in his statement to the
Reconstruction Committee, said that
the issuance of the proclamation of
the Committee of Five claiming to
have carried the elections in this State,
on the day of the election of Gen.
Grant, was a coincidence which SAVIOR
ed of fraud to which they expected
to make the new President a party.
But the scheme failed. The General
refused to "ratify;;" and recognizing the
defeat of the proposed constitution on
account of its many denominations, he
advised new election with the priv.
ilege of separate votes on the obnox-
ious features.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-15

The foregoing Is The call issued by
the Committee Of citizens who were
requested to initiate proceedings with
reference to the important interests
therein referred to. Addresses will be
delivered by Hons. WIN. YERGER, G.
E. HOOKER and other gentlemen, in
furtherance Of the contemplated pro
iecfs