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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1869-06-19
NO. 50.

| ne bEEi.o Oc MOoCOW. iIC
Foreign correspondent of. the
New York Observer, recently
contributed the following article
on The Bell Of Moscow" to :ha.
journal A.
At the foot of the Ivan Tower.
in the Kremlin of Mos COW. sup
ported by a pedestal of stone, is
the largest bell in the world, and
probably the largest that ever
was made since the creation Of
man. A piece is broken out OF
its side, and the fragment is lying
near. The breadth Of the bell is
so great-it is twenty feet across
that the cavity underneath has
been used as a chapel, where as
many people can stand as in q
circle sixty feet around.
In Russia, the bell is an instru-
ment Of music for the worship of
God as truly and really as the
organ in any other country. This
fact is not mentioned in the ac-
counts we have of the wonder
full, enormous, and almost incre-
dibly heavy bells that have been
cast in Moscow ;.but it is the KEY
to what would otherwise be diff
cult to explain. It appears to
be stupid to cast bells so large
as to be next to impossible for
convenient use, in danger always
Of falling and dragging others to
ruin in their fall. But when the
bell is a medium of communica-
ton with the infinite, and the
worship of a people and an en-
pire finds expression in the ma
jestic tones of q bell, it ceases to
be q wonder that a bell should
have a tongue which requires
twenty-four men to move, and
whose music sends q thrill Of
praise into every house in the
city, and floats away beyond the
river into the plains afar.
Ascending in Ivan Tower, we
find on three successive stories,
bells to the number of thirty
four. Some of these are Of a
size to fill one with astonishment
had he not seen the giant below.
The largest is on the first story
above the chapel. and weighs
more than sixty tons.
As l lie musing, from the church
near at hand comes the softest,
sweetest tone of an evening bell.
Another tone responds. A third
is heard. The Ivan tower on the
height Of Kremlin utter his tre--
mendous voice-like the voice of
many waters. Then all the
churches and towers over the
whole city-four hundred bells
or more-in concert, in harmony
with notes almost divine, lift up
their voices in anthem Of praise
such as ! never thought to hear
with mortal ears, waves of melo.
dy, and oceans of music, deep,
rolling, heaving, swelling, sink
ing, rising, sounding, overwhelm-
ing, exalting! aeo@
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1869-06-19

A PASSIVE verb, said a teach
er, lis expressive of the nature
OF receiving an action, as, Peter
is beaten Now what did Peter
do ?" We'll, l don't know" said
the scholar, delibcrating, unless
he hollered."
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1869-06-19

A RlcHLY-DREssED lady stopped
a boy trudging along with bask-
ct, and asked: MY little boy,
have you got religion p "No,
ma'am,' said the innocent, "I'vc
got potatoes
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1869-06-19
A WILL CASE.
Dy JcDoE CLARK.

hsd just taken possession Of the worst
room ia Diggs tsv.rn-I was = young
lawyer on ny 6rst circuit, and Diggs kept
his best accommodations for the old
.,acers-when the words, II say, Bill
and Tom Mansfield burst upon me at the
s.me instant.
Tom aad 1 had been old croniss from
the time We had committed our 6r.t
iuvenile trcspass on Deacon Roxley's
watermelon. patch, till We afterwards
s,udied the sction Of that name together
il Judge Jhonpsons Office.
Il cav, Biil, We have got case and
wapt your assistance in IT,"
"Ahl" ssid I in consulting tone.
"A will case" he continued, ''fuIl oi
the incest kind Of points. and the prettiesf
woman in the world for clientr'
-Whss shout fees!- inquired, by
way Of keeping mp professional appear
anccs.
4 Hear The mercena'y wretch !" he ex-
claimed. III We succeed. thers'll BE-
plenty cfmoney; il we don't, it will BE- .
nohle csuss 70 fall in." M
.Thsfs what .hey said Of the da.hing
youag chsp that broke his neck trying 10
make two forty time with the chariot Of
ths sun, but L didn't mend bic necks
a .'Conlbund your mythology. busiuess is
business. Let me state the case"
"Ws:i sGats away." b
y This was il: y ss aAa sss ais'
Jobs Asdrews had settled ia the coun-
t,y when il vas young. He had grown
with its growth. and was the proprietor oi
ha,s : dozen farma and zone fair daughter,
the which be loved passing WE'LL"
His wife, the partner Of the earliest and
.evssest portion II his struggles, had died
many yeass bsfore, and the daughter had
becoms the mistress while yet child
The 6rss thing was 70 buy her = aplen'
did edusatios and like other not ove'
good jadgss q the srticle. he was govern
I'd in his choice moro By the gaudineas o1
the eolorisg sban by the quality Of he
texture.
At The end of The usual period, E6i4
wss. aest hems "6nishsd" d"-that ID, in
every vespset inwhich she could b totally
speiied. Il oss thing only abe remained
tksNsss; ~ lore .6os her father had
sdeA ~ power evss Of the fashionable
4 Aosss ~ purchased - town, Of
w6ieA ~ 1as made mi~tresa. and at
shi3 NJ. Bsldon. : young gentleman Of
city aslss4 4ests sand lhv too nice TO have
onV1kine - vul9as = Z visible calling.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1869-06-19

- The following named gentlemen are au
thorixed TO oct ~ our agents in this Parish i:
FRAScois ASADlE, Carancro.
n. G. BRoC6sARp. Qncuc Tortue.
VAISvN BROCssARp, Cote Geiee.
B.rNvESr ROY, Rcyville.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-02-23
AN INFAMOUS JUDGE.

In all the long train of calamites that fol-
lowed as result of the war, there is nothing
more deplorable than the corruption that have
crept into the judiciary, of the country
Men whose characters would not stand the
loosest construction of virtue, and who have
never read more than the preface Of Black
stone, have found places upon the LcIca,
only to disgrace their positions and expose
their own smallness. UNDERWOOD is fit
illustration of the truth of what we have
stated, and his appointment as Judge Of the
United Suites District Court of Virginia, will
remain as an indelible stigma upon the ad-
ministration of Abraham Lincoln; and if
there were no other infames connected with
that administration, this one alone, because
of its enormity, would forever hold it up be.
fore the intelligent and good, for loathing and
detestation. Instead of holding the ''balan-
ces of justice in an even SCALE" and expound-
ing the law with impartiality, this judicial
paltroon never permits an opportunity for
vomiting his slime upon the people on whom
he is quartered, to pass unimproyed.
Last week his mockery of court was in
session in Richmond. An impudcnt negro
had brought suit before him against the
Fredericksburg railroad, for compelling his
sinking wife, greasy wench from South
Carolina to take seat in second class car.
In his Instructions to the jury, which was
composed of six white negroes and six black
ones, Underwood took occasion to say that
distinction on account of color was "rclic of
barbarism which had been properly done
away with, even in that sink OF iniquity, New
York, where it had been tolerated longer
than elsewhere, to secure Southern trade
He then branched off into the foulest abuse
of Virginians, declaring that they ';wcrc
given to drunkenness, and that the clergy
were not exempt from this fraity," a state
ment which he knew to be an infamous lie
when he uttered it. To cap the climax of
his scoundrelisrn, and to give his charge
religious coloring, he impiously laid hands
upon the bible, and read several extracts from
its sacred pages. 1t is to be presumed that
this was about the first time that this holy
book was ever subjected to his poluting touch,
as his life clearly demonstrates that he has
never been a subject of its teachings
The jury, selected forthe purpose, brought
in Verdict of 81 600 against the Railroad
company.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-02-23
Cuba and the United States.


Late dispatches by the Cuba cable repre-
sent state of things, which, unless exagge-
rated, may tend, if not terminated soon and
redressed, to involve the United States in the
military and political troubles of that island.
There are many Americans resident there,
and as our countrymen abroad are much given
to sightseeing, especially so entertaining
spectacle, when it may be had, as fight,
which whether a bull-fght or a battle is
equally welcome to their excitable temper
ment, and as the Spanish volunteers seem to
have habit of running muck at everybody
they meet in the streets, without much in-
quiry as to party or nationality, it is not inn
probe BILE that outrages are occasionally COM
mitted upon our people If it should turn
out that this is not accidental, but, as we can
scarcely suppose, designed, and if the gov
eminent of the island is really engaged i'll
system of annoyance and unjust restrictions
towards American citizens, the results may
be serious. 1t is difficult, however, to suppose
that Gen. Du!ce, who has already on his
hands, in the rebellion as much as he can
manage, would willingly provoke the hostil-
strained as it is by high moral considerations
from absorbing Cuba without ceremony. 1t
is important to the interests of commerce
that the conflict now going on in Cuba should
be brought to speedy termination. The
South American States and West India
Islands, by their chronic political commissions,
have been perpetual thorn in the sides of
the commercial nations. The protracted war
between Brazil and Paraguay has been carried
on, in a measure, at the expense of other ma
tions as we'll as their own, and the everlast-
ing revolutions and wars in the West India
islands have enhanced the prices of some of
their most valuable and indispensable pro-
ducts. IF Cuba, which has heretofore exhib-
tied an exceptionable stability, is to become
a prey to the same disorders, the results will
be even more seriously felt in this country,
because of our close proximity and intimate
commercial relations, and because of the mag
nitude of her foreign commerce, which, in
proportion to population, is believed to ex-
coed that of any other country on the globe,
the value of her yearly exports ranging from
100000 to s32 600, 900, and that of the
imports averaging about the SAME. The an
nual exports of sugar alone, which has taken
a rise of two and half cents since the break
ing out of the rebellion, has been of late
years from z00,000,000 to 750,000,000
pounds In view of these facts, we COM
mend to General Dulce the maxim of Cen
eral Grant, 'Let. US have peace" Certain it
is that the West India Islands, the garden
spots of the world will not be permitted
to relapse into wilderness condition through
the constant strifes and broils of their inhab-
itants. IF they cannot keep order themselves,
there are benevolent minded people in their
neighborhood who will help them TO do it,
and to render their fertile territories the
abodcs of systematic, peaceful and productive
industry.-Ba2to San.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-02-23
WHO DID 1T

Who appointed Charles H. Trayner, con-
stable for this township, now known as Grant,
but formerly as Gharlestown and osbOurn ?
We know that the Board of Supervisors of
the county have to bear the responsibility OF
the act, but with which particular member of
the Board did the iniquity originate, is ques-
ton we would like to have answered satis>
nctoriiy, and one which We mean to press
until We have the truth of the matter. What
act of disloyalty have our people recently per-
petrated, that an indicted horse thief should
be auartered upon them to act as an officer of
the law? We tell the Board of Supervisors,
ana the loyal scoundrels who infest the county
seat, that the time has arrived when they must
cease their outragcs upon the people of this
end of the county, and we would inform Mr..
Trayner that his health will be promoted by
keeping away from Grant township. He is
not wanted here, and his presence will only
be source of evaporation, and ultimately
lead to trouble Horse flesh is exceedingly
valuable at this time, and VIC don't mean to
have it endangered by the presence of one
who has already established reputation for
unfair dealing in the article. Besides his
propensity for horses, our people have other
objections to Trayner. They have not for
gotten that he was member of that Infamous
Board of Registration, that last fall struck
from the list of voters the name of every
man who was suspected of disloyalty to the
Radical party. Nor have they forgotten that
he-was the acting clerk at the meeting of the
first Board, whose papers were so mysteriously
lost. No, we want no such Trayner in our
midst Our community is an honest one,
and objects, decidedly objects, to the intro
duction of such a polluting element. Joe
Chapline as Judge is enough, without any
further infiction.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-02-23
Disabilities Removed.

On Thursday last, the Senate of the United
States did one creditable act, in passing the
bill for the removal of the disabilities of the
Virginia judges. Included in the number of
those who have thus passed the ordeal, is j Judge
PARKER of the Winchester Circuit, whose
case excited more interest than that Of any of
the other Judges, because of the madness OF
the negroes and carpet baggers about Win
chester, who were clamorous for his removal
from the position which he has adorned for
nearly twentyyears. Poor Sumner, tho chronic
growler, was especially severe upon Judge p,
but his rawlings were easily silcnced by
common sense view of the question taken by
Senator Sherman of Ohio.
The Washington correspondent of the Balti-
more Gazette, writing upon the subject, says:-
Senator Sumner is gnashiug his teeth with
rage at the passage of the bill by the Senate
removing the political disabilities of Judge
Richard Parker, after so many efforts on his
part and the part of his negro allies in Win
chester, Va, to prevent it Not satisfied with
presenting the impudent protests of negro
vagabonds, Sumner ventured in his place on
the floor of the Senate to denounce Judge
Parker as ''the atroeious Judge" A very
proper rebuke has been administered to the
cmasculated Senator by Mr.. Sherman, of Ohio
who declared that he had examined Judge
Parker's case with special care, and that his
honest judgment was that Judge Parker was
pure, upright Judge, and that his POLITICAL
disabilities should be removed. The Senate
endorsed Sherman's opinion and passed the
bill, regardless of the hoarse croakings of
Sumner, who seems to have lost the respect of
every member of that body.
A movement is now on foot before the Re-
construction Committee of the House to have
the Judges of Virginia relieved in body, as
there has been urged no special objection to
either, except in the case of Judge Parker
The Morning Republican of this city will con-
tain a brief prepared by the Hon. Joseph
Segar, of Virginia-to be presented to the
Reconstruction Committee-urging action in
the case of the Judges. All the Radical ele>
ment in Virginia, except few INSCRIPTIONS
carpet nggers about Richmond, is favorable
to retaining the judiciary of the State intact.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-02-23
The Despoiler's Track.

The editor Of the Valley Spirit, of Cham
bersburg, Penn, has recently spent some time
in North and South Carolina, and witnessed
the vandal destruction by Sherman and his
hordes, in his march through those States
He thus speaks of the appalling and sicken~
ing scenes of devastation which met his eye ::
Eve crossed the track of Sherman's army
on our route from Charlotte to Columbia
No guide was needed to point out to US the
ground over which that army PASSED. Tall,
blackened chimneys stood like grim sentineIs
over it, as if the spoiler had set them there to
warn the former occupants never to return.
Though voiceless, these chmneys, from which
once curled the smoke of happy households,
speak trumpet-tonguod, and woe to those
against whom they speak If Chambersburg
in her ashes looked like the crater of hell,
this track of Sherman's looked like the road
over which the blazing wheels Of Satan's ar
tilcry had rolled, consuming all that came in
their way. For two hours we ran through
these blackened monuments OF our country's
shame. l pity the Northern man who can
look on them with compaccGcy,"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-02-23
MARRIED..

On Thursday. 18th inst, in Zio Church. Charles
town, by Rev: VIM H. Meade, Capt. ANDREW J.
MARKS, Of Louisiana, to Miss MARY V. AIS
QUITH. of this place.
At the NJ. F. Church, South, in Charles!own, on
THURSDAY, 18th inst, by Rev. J. w. Tongue Mr.
CEORG HILBERT, of Ba tinore to Miss ALLIE
this place. "
On the 9TH Of January. 1869, at"Atto Vista the
residence Of Capt Jacob EngIe, by Rev. Silas Bill
lings, Mr.. RALEIGH MOLER TO Mis- LYDIA
E. ENGLE-both of Jefferson county.
On the 9TH of January. 1869, at the residence of
the brides father, near Adamstown, Md, by Rev
MIR. Irapnell, Nj. GEORGE W. MOLER of this
county, to Miss ETTIE HARDWOOD, of Frederick
On the 10th inst, in Bolivar. by Rev j. A. Nc
Faden. Mr.. LEWIS UPRIGHT to Miss CAROIISE
Z. BRlDENER-both of this county.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-02-23
A Case Of the Retributive Justice Of
Heaven.

The retributive justice of Heaven has never
been more clearly shown or exemplifed than
in the case of the Judg and jury who acquitted
the murderer Of the lamented Bolmeyer.
The circumstances surrounding the case are
too we'll known to justify rehearsal at this
time. Briefly, brutal beast bearing the
name Of Brown, in cold blood, and without the
slightest provocat;on, assassinated Bolmeyer
Oh public street in Dayton, in broad dayl ght
in the presence Of numerous witnesses, &c" the
only reason that Bolmey-: was the editor in
chief of the Dayton Empire, Democratic
paper. Brown, being fearful of the Just in,
dignation ofthe people of Montgomery county,
prayed for a change of venue, had his case
transferred to the loyal county of Miami, and
after a mock trial was acquitted by jury
organized for that purpose by loyal Court
and Sheriff, notwithstanding the proof of guilt
was incontestatIe and overwhelming.
This was the judgment of man. Now wit.
ness the judgment of Almighty God Ecc,y
ju,yn,otn Of BOlmeyer has since been 6crcfi Of
eason, met unnatural death or committed
suicide, and as fitting capstone to this arch
of retributive justice, Judge Parsons, who
presided over the mock trial, died few days
since horrible death az the Luudtic Asylum.
at Dayton.
Verify those who 'sow the wind shall reap
the whrIwind "'
[Bucyrus OHIO Forum, FEB. Is.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-02-23
THE CAPITAL QUESTION.

For the last three sessions of the Lcgisla-
ture of West Virginia, the question Of a To-
cation of the capital Of the State, has en-
crossed about one>half of the time Of the
members Last week, the House of Dele
gates, by vote of % to "a, hit upon Parkers>
burg as the future capital of the State. The
Wheeling LEICESTER, in noticing the debate on
the subject, thus refers to the performances
of Mr. JOHN RUFUS SMITH, delegate from
Morgan county, and of our eminent
Grasshoppcr:
''Smith, of Morgan, picked up the frayed
ends of Carroll's anathemas, and proceeded
TO weave tangled web of ribaldry, falsehood,
malignty and gasconade. The disloyalty of
the people OF Wheeling was his chief grief,
but to this he added a prodigous array of ac-
cusations, including everything that spite
can spit, upon all topics from the sting of a
newspaper squib to the iIliberalty of pea
nut vendors. The people of Wheeling were
this, theiratmosphere was black with the smoke
of rolling mills, their newspapers didn't puff
him, their parlor doors never opened to welcome
money nobody supplied him, and, worst and
smallest of all contemplate things, nobody
in Wheeling chad ever given him a single
glass of peanuts" In this style he frctted
and fumed, giving every body to understand
that all the Deficiencies of Wheeling, not ex-
cepting the contributions of cash and pea
nuts would be supplied by Parkersburg, wax
ing warm with his theme until the pent-up
inspiration of the speaker found vent in the
perspiration of thousand pores, and then
having exclaimed in one grand feat of gestic-
ulation to which nothing short of wind>
mill in full motion could approximate, he
wouldn't stay in no such place." subsidized
from his climax of odor and oratory, and
much to everybody relief slowly but literally
''dried up"
The vindictive and intoIerant spirit which
looked out through the crashing teeth and
fierce demeanor of the eminet slang whanger
was fifty rcbuked by Mr.. Smith, of Kanawha,
who, in brief but pointed speech, held up
to deserved ridicule the malacc, not to say
meanness, which had hurled upon the House
such senseless blast of sound and fury.
As in the case Of Carroll, nobody felt dis
posed to anything but mirth over the perfor-
nance of the mighty mountebank from Nor
gan. The gentlemen in charge Of the Par
kersburg movement had enphaticalIy disa-
vowed all sympathy with either, and therefore
their rantings were merely regarded as silly
episodes in the business of the day
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-02-23

TIE POPULATION OF New YoRK.-Mr
Chas. Bruce read paper on model lodging
houses before the Social Science Association
at Albany on Wednesday, in which he said
that nowhere on the earth is there such
massing of human beings as in the city of
New York, and in no city of the size is there
so much poverty and wretchedness. In the
tenement houses the people are much more
crowded than they are in either of the cities
of England or France. In one portion of
New York city population of 10000 per-
sons to the square mile could be found. This
cannot be paralleled in the worst quarters of
London.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-02-23
THE LATEST!
company.

The Baltimore SIM of yesterday, says as
follows, in regard to then important matter
now pending in Congress. THE House of
Representatives, on Saturday, again passed the
constitutional amendment in an amended form,
striking out the provision in relation to Office
holding, and restoring that portion OF the
Senate amendment which prohibits discrimi-
nations on account Of nativity, property or
education. The result is that it will have to
go back to the Senate That BODY having
once adopted substantially the same provisions,
it will be likely to concur in it, unless it be
upon the point which relates to Office hold
ing"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-02-23

ng The London Times, in an article on
the Alabama treaty, says the want of a
definite basis of arbitration will reconcile Eng
land to rejection of the treaty by the United
States that this point should be kept clearly
in view in the event Of offers for further nego-
tiations and that England now awaits propo-
sails from America.
The Times continues: ave have done
our hest. We have gone to the verge of ma
tlonal humiliation to secure settlement of the
question at issue. We shall now wait for a
proposition from the new Administration un-
der General Grant" It is admitted that the
claims arc fair subject for friendly arbitra>
ton.