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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-09-18

HIGH SCHOOL AT USTER
IL SPRINGS.-Rev. J. Is. SHEARER. A. NJ,
Of University OF Virginia, Principal and Propric-
tor. 7. II. CARPENTER, Assistant.-The next
session--of forty weeks-will begin September LIST,
1869.
TERMS $500 for all charges except lights and
towels-one-half In advance and the remainder at
the middle of the session. Contingent fee So.
Send for catalogue to BLACK Walnut post-ofice
Halifax county Va. au 25-lm
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-09-18

WANTED, sc, 900 pounds dried BLACK
w BERRIES, DRIED APPLES, PEACHES,
&C., for which we viii pay the highest market
price NtASSlE & HARVEY,
e4-3m Cary street.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-09-18
rYsrCATTOYAL.

EEISs sTANARD WILL lro REpo u III
WI bnr school on the 1sT OF OCTOBER ut no.
lao 9 race street, between Adams and Jefferson.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21
HIS EXOELLENCY.

Unheralded and unannounced, the Gev:
ernor of West Virginia so-called) visited our
county on Wednesday last He didn't come
to Charlestown, or Harper's Ferry, and SO far
as we are advised, did not honor our friends
in Middleway with visit, but contented him
self with viewing the beauties of nature as
they present themselves at the county seat.
We happened to be at Shepherdstown on the
same day, and saw his excellency at dis
lance, but not to interview, as is the habit
nowadays with great men. The truth is, as
we looked at the Governor, through our pre-
JUDGED glasses, We could discover nothing
great, unless it was that steeple-top roach
which he sports SO magnifcently. Then We
were not as loyal as many of those who sought
his presence, and who lowered around the
Governor like buzzards around defunct car
cass This was the amusing part of the show.
Stump>tailed politicians and 1ea-bitten office
holders and seekers, were running to and fro,
and as they met each other the invariable
question was, "Have you seed the Governor 2"
and the almost invariable answer was in the
school boy style, "Yes, seed him first;
seed him before you did," These questions
were propounded and answers given in the
highest state of Radical citation, and the car
rion crows evidently thought big thing had
come to town.
While in the county, the gentleman from
Wheeling condescendcd to appoint Board
of Registration for Jefferson, matter which
he has neglected to this late day, and for
which he ought to be impeached blythe Leg
islature of the State. This Board consists of
numb-skull Turner, horse-thief Traynor, and
W. E. Chambers, of Bolivar, loyal politician
about whom VIC know nothing and care less.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21

- The drought will very probably cause
the removal of a considerable population of ne
groes from Virginia. We already hear of the
departure of small bodies of them from diff
ferent sections of the southside country
some of them to Tennessee. The loss of la
Dor thus occasioned will probably be readily
made up by the introduction of immigrants
from abroad but then these immigrants, be-
ing white, will not likely be content to go into
the sections of country from which the blacks
have emisrated, but they will advance across
the border into the section where white labor
predominates, and where they will find con-
genial society. AS the whites increase in
such sections the colored people will recede
southWardly, and it must be from these re-
firing laborers that the southside must make
up its deficit until the wave of white immigra-
ton shall cross the James and take position
south of it.
1t may be reasonably maintained that this
process-this incursion of white labor and re-
treating of black southwardly-will go on
with steadiness until the colored population of
Virginia shall be greatly diminished, and that
element be no longer considerable. The cx-
cellent adaptation of Virginia to those en-
terprises of which the African race is not
suited will strongly attract white population.
As time advances, the tide of that population
will be immensely increased, and the State be
rapidly filled up. A few years will make
material change in the composition of our So
straightforward Dispatch.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21
Every department of trade in New York

Every department of trade in New York.
says letter from that city, is now very active,
Not only the dry goods dealers, but the gro
GERS, the boot and shoe, drugs and medicines,
hardware, and Yankee notions" merchants,
are receiving as many orders as they can well
execute, compelling them to keep their pack
ers at work far in the night. In the opinion
of those who are best qualified to Judge that
the aggregate business from now till the mid
die of October will be the best for many
years. As general thing, cash or very
short credit is the rule, and business, hence,
is on healthy and conservative basis.
Arrangements have been made by the
Treasury Department, by which, after the LIST
OF October, $4,000 day can be furnished
of one, two and ten dollar notes, to be in
creased soon after to half million, day.
- The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
has refused to grant writ of error in the
case of Dr.. Scheppe, convicted of the muir
der of Miss Stinnecke, at Carlisle.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21

A sADFecENE Forty three of the miners
were buried at Scranton, Pa, on the 9th inst,
and correspondent of the New York Her.
ALT gives the following:
When the third coffin was about being
lowered into one of the long and regular row
of excavations, woman rushed forward and
with desperate energy threw herself upon the
coffin. crying, "You shan't bury my William
You shan't! You shau'tl Give him back
to me! 0rif you won't, bury me with him ]"
Finally the poor creature, betraying in her
distracted face all the strongest emotions of
passionate sorrow, was prevailed upon to let
the coffin be lowered to its place. But as the
men began to shovel the earth in on top of
it, she threw her eyes up toward heaven,
clasped her tremulous hands, and, with an ex-
preston of the widest despairiDg anguish in
her face, which those who saw will never be
likely to forget, exclaimed, "Oh, Almighty
God take me to where my, William is ~
And with frequent repetitions of this strong
imploration she passed with weary steps out
of the cemetery gates.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21
SENATOR SUMNER AND THE ADM1N1srRA

SENATOR SUMNER AND THE ADMIN1sTRA-
rIoN.-A special dispatch to the New York
Times, from Washington, says:
"There is good reason to believe that Sem
ator Sumner, who is to preside at the Massa-
chusetts Republican State Convention at Wor-
cester. on the 22d instant, designs on that &C.
casion to make an important, aud possibly a
very significant, speech on the present condi-
ton of public affairs. He is known to be
dissatisfied with the present attitude of the
Administration on the foreign questions, Cuba,
and Alabama claims, and will strongly oppose
any movement for the recognition of Cuba, to
which lie fears the Administration is already
committed. He is in favor of maintaining
the high ground of non-interfereuce. thus en-
forcing great.moral example upon Englaud's
attention, and increasing by its effect the
euormity of her wrong-doing in the hasty and
complete recognition of the Southern bellig>
erency."
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21

-Ephraim Carpenter, a farmer living near
Sigourney, Iowa, committed suicide last week
on account of fear that his crops would be
destroyed by the rain. On the morning of
his death he arose from bed about four
o'clock, aud, after putting on his clothes,
went to the door, finding that it had rained
heavily during the night. He then returned,
complaining that his oat crop would all be
lost, and lay across the foot of the bed, where
he remained short time, when he again
arose and passed out through a shed room to
the outside door. 1t is supposed that as he
passed out he took pistol from the clock
shelf unobserved by his wife, and, seating
himself on the doorstep, Immediately fred,
the ball entering the ri ht temple and lodg-
ing behind the left eye.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21
sg- At the regular monthly meeting of the

Ra- AT the regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company last Wednesday, President
Garrett made an interesting statement in ref.
erence to the business of the road and its in
creasing Western connexions The revenues
of the main stem and its branches which, in
corresponding month in 1868, were in the ag-
gregate 500, 059. 90, in the past month of
August, amounted to 81, 036, 243.29, exhibi>
ting an increase of sag, 1890, or, deducting
$40, 8S921 derived from the Lake Erie d.
vision, an increase of s205, 295.09.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21
At Oak Grove. Wisconsin. on Sunday

= At Oak Grove, Wisconsin, on Sunday
week, Mr.. Richard IIayIond was exhibiting
his horses to two visitors, aud, to show their
good qualities, hitched them to Mccormick
reaper, which he mounted, and started his
team. The horses started up suddenly, the
machine struck stone, Mr.. Hayland was
thrown from his seat, was struck by the reel,
falling on the platform and ground. The
sickle struck him on the top of the head, cut
ting his hat about the middle, passing down.
ward diagonally, severing the ear from the
scalp, cutting the carotid artery, and the arm
just above the wrist, and through the chest,
exposing to view the lungs, and cutting the
suspender on the back nearly in two. Instant
ly the men sprang to his assistance. but he
was dead when taken from the machine.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21

DoUBTFUL.-The report that Mr.. Mines
expressed his preference for the Winchester
route for the Cumberland Valley railroad
The Times started it, and the other papers of
the town echo it. They all claim to have
heard Mr. NJ. make the remark. Might not
the anxiety of these editors on the subject
have conjectured the report, or their imagina-
tons induced them to torture some other re-
mark of Mr.. ID. into the statement which
they put forth. Mr.. Mines wants railroad
toshis section, and he prefers that route which
is most likely to get it there soonest. From
one days association with our people, and
with his own practical ideas on the subject,
he can easily see that we mean work down
here-and not talk, as is the case along the
upper line. We have no uneasiness as to his
position. Pull some other string, gentlemen,
there is nothing in the world to be made by
'rawing that cord.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21
PROBABLE HOMICIDE IN WARRENToN.

PROBABLE HOMICIDE IN WARRENTON.-
A man named Davis was stabbed in Warren
ton on Saturday night last by John Edd, for
merly of this city, in the abdomen. with a
cheese knife, and it is thought will die from
the effects of the wound. His dying deposit
ton was taken this morning. Ed has been
arrested and lodged in Jail. Passengers on
the Warrenton train this morning state that
Davis left gun in Edd's store on Saturday
morning, and at night when he called for it,
was told by Ed that he could not have it un-
till he paid bill he owed him. Davis said,
'When 1 left my gun here thought left it
with a gentleman" Edd then seized the
knife, walked from behind the counter, and
plunged it into Davis's abdomen.
EAlerdndria Gazette.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21

ExPLos1oN-If, within the next week, or
month, or year, or any other time, our readers
should hear sound resembling distant thun-
der, or feel sensation akin to that produced
by an earthquake, we beg them not to be
alarmed The editor of the Winchester Times
has threatened to explode our statements in
regard to the advantages of the Jefferson route
for the location of the Cumberland Valley
railroad, in its extension south of the Potomac.
AS we have no means of knowing the exact
time at which to expect this explosion, we
deem it prudent to give this caution to the
public.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21

re- "Data," the Washington correspon-
dent of the Baltimore Sun says that the cable
telegram setting forth that General Sickles
had written note to the Spanish government
threatening recognition of Cuba in case
speedy action was not taken on the basis of
settlement submitted by the United States, is
not credited in official circles here. There
can be no doubt that Gen. Sickles is doing all
he can to push matters, but the authorities at
the State Department do not think he would
write such note without first receiving in
structions to do it.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21

UNBoTTL1NG BUTLER.-General Butler
occasionally says good thing. In regard to
the gibe of Grant about his being "bottled up
at Bermuda Hundreds, he says he knew that
if he was "botsled up" Grant would never
rest till he got him out. This indicates not
only the irrepressible, but undiscriminating
character of Grants taste. for spirits. Any
thing more revolving was never preserved in
alcohol than Ben. Butler. and what must be
the appetite that could bolt even Ben. for the
sake of drink.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21
NOTICE.

MR.. JAS. W. LEAGUE has an interest in my
firm will be LEAGUE GRANTHAM
return my thanks for the liberal patronage re-
ceiyed for the last twenty four years, and solicit
continuance for the new firm. respectfully re-
quest all persons indebted TO call and pay az soon "a
Pos5oIe. Debts due me prior to the war must be
paid by the let of October, or will be eoraneIIed -
Middlevay, Sept. 81, 1569-st.
THE BEST.-CAI and see the Best Gum soTiog
NTIn IN inc market before purchasing else
where. for sale by McCURDY DUKE
A LII the approved Guanos and Fertilizer for saIe
"a by McCURDY & DUKE
7.S0 BUSHELS Yellow Corn, for sale in Iota 10
September 81, 1853. MccURDY L DUKE
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21
A WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO Four Chill

DREN.-We are Informed by the Bristol Neps
that very poor family passed through
Wyheve on Tuesday Saa evening late and
the hight, with no canopy but that of heaven n
to shield her from the pelting rain, and no
friend but lazy husband, the woman gave
birth to four children. The husband was too
lazy to carry straw from a neighboring stack
yard and make the woman rude bed. She
was found among the rocks and brush exposed
to drizzling rain.-Lynchburg Necs
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21

1t is said that the Administration will
not push the Cuban business, but allow mat
tiers to drift along as they have been doing,
in the hope that the Spanish Government will
finally accept the Sickles proposition.
Determined not to support bad nomi-
nation for certain State Office in Wisconsin,
Racine paper publishes the rest of the ticket
at the head of its columns, and concludes
with, "For Superintendent of Public, In
struction, Any Other Man."
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21

Is IT So ?-For several days we have been
entertained with rumor-vague it is true
that the authorities of the Baltimore g. Ohio
Railroad have ordered reduction in their
freight charges areduction amounting almost
to one>third. Is this so? We hope it is,
and if SO, it is prompted of course by desire
to do simple justice to shippers, and is in no
sense attributable to the probabilities of an
other road through the Valley of Virginia
Justice though tardy, is sure-and so are
death and taxes,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21
IDi.pa,ch to the Evening Telegraph
Horrible Murder in Cincinnati.
The Clothes R!jaed and lie Body thrOpn into
a DITCH

CINoIHNATI.i September 15,-John NJ.
Kruetz, respectable butcher residing at No.
263 Wade street, has been in. the habit of RI
sing before o'clock on market days to pre-
pare for the mornings work. He kept his
horse in the stable Of widow woman who
lives on Belts alley between Wade and
Everett streets, just around the corner from
his residence.
Yesterday morning he arose, as usual, about
8 o'cloek-left the house for the purpose of
Harvesting his horse a few minutes after
he had gone pistolreport was heard by Mrs.
Kruetz. She did not at once surmise the ter
rible truth. A very few minutes of unac-
customed delay. however, on the part of her
husband sufficed to awaken her anxiety. She
went to the corner, and saw the horse ready
harnessed and wagon standing by the open
door of the stable.
To the latter she went at once and called.
Receiving no answer, she was hurrying back to
call the eldest daughter when she stumbled
upon the form of her husband lying lifeless in
the gutter by the wagon. She shrieked muir
der, and ran home, meeting the daughter at
the door. Together, and Joined by the
aroused neighbors, they returned to the corpse.
1t appeared that the entire right side of the
upper part of the head of the murdered man
was gone Even the brain was missing, and
it was not found till daylight revealed it scat
tered horribly upon the boarding of the OPP
posite stables. A small pocket-pistol, empty,
lay by the body, and had apparently been the
instrument of death. The pockets of Kreutz
had been turned inside out, and his pocket
book, empty, was found few feet from where
he Law. The deceased was forty nine years of
age, and leaves a wife and five children.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21
A colored Ku. Klux Khan has appeare

IA coIored Ku-k1ux Khan has appeared
in Tennessee. Recently blatant negro, who
made himself very offensive in the prosecu-
ton of colored men who supported Senter,
was driven out of Obion county, Tennessee,
by band of men, wearing white paper caps
and otherwise disguised, who called upon
him one night and advised him to leave
He accepted the hint and departed
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21
NEW ADvERTIsEM ENTs.
LARGE AND NEW STOCK
Fall & Winter Goods.
OPPOSITE THE BANK CORNER.

THHE undersigned having purchased in Philadcl-
L phih large and superior stock of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS.
now opening them at the store opposite the old
selection of this stock and embraces such
most needed by the community.
FOR THE LADIES',
we have an assortment of DRESS GOODS. equsl
If not superior anything that has been offered In
and style Of Fashionable Goods from the ches pest
Calico to the most superior Wooden and Silk Pat
terms. Also: Hosiery, Shoes, Caters: Gloves, and
a call. feeling setisfed that supply them
with any article they may desire.
IN GENTLEMEN'S WEAR,
have very complete line OF Goods. among
and Ves.ings. In addition, TO supply immediate
wants, we have large selection of REA DY- MADE
CLOTHING, of good quality and superior make.
Our stock of
BOOTS AND SHOES,
HATS AND CAFS,
is SO extensive that there be no difficulty in
supplying the wants of any and all callers:
FOR HOUSEKEEPERS,
we have many articles that are desirable and in
wiling, such Queensware OF best quality, Glass
ware, Wooden and Hollow " are, and many other
articles which we need not name.
G roc RE
In this line shall keep every article embr aced
in the entire catalogue-we name in part, Sugars
of every grade. Rio, Java and Laguyra Cofees
Teas OF different qualities Syrups Molasses Spices
&c. In short, in every branch, we mean that our
establshment shall be perfect, near SO as the
trade will justify.
no Having discontinued entirely the sale of Ii
quor in every shape and form, have made this
change In our business to accommodate the
which We offer presents superior inducements to
the community;
Give CAL.
BROWN x HENDERSON.
September 81, 1869.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21
NOTICE

T ETTERS Of Administration have been granted
IL to the undersigned on the estate Of Adam L.
Demory, deceased. All persons having claims
against the said estate will please present them to
the administrator, and those indebted 10 the estaIe
will make payment to him at once.
WIN. II, TRAVERS,
Administrator Of Adam L. Demory, decd.
CharIestown, Sept q, ls69-3t. IF. P.l
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21

-Whiskey men in the West have been
buying up whiskey under the impression that
Congress will increase the tax. But it seems
that there is prospect of still further re-
duction of the tax.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21
HAIRED.

On Tuesday evening. I4th inst at Middlewav,
bv tho Rev. J. w. Tongue MIR JAMES E. WAT
SON to Miss ELIZABETH ROBERTS, daughter of
Mr.. VIM ]. Roberts-alI of this county.
In the NJ E. Church at Shepkcrdstown, on Tues-
day morning last, by Rev. G. w. Feelmyer. MIR.
r. s. NJ. HOFFMAN to Miss MOLLIE, eldest
daughter of Mr.. Henry Cameron-ali Of Shepherds
town.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21

a TERRIBLE SrcRY.-A dreadful report
was everywhere current ON the streets yes
terday to the effect that former well known
citizen of this county, who moved to Mis-
souri, some time since with his wife and her
sister, had been shot and killed by his wife,
who also at the same time killed her sister,
on account of discovering criminal intimacy
between her two victims. The parties are all
highly respectable, and are connected with
some of our best citizens. We made una
vailing inquiries in every direction, but could
learn nothing detiuite to confirm the horrible
story. We sincerely hope, for the good Of
all parties concerned, that there exists no
foundation of truth in the rumor.
[LynchJury RcpuLIicdn.
LAND SALEs-240 acres, eight miles from
Pamela, on the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac railroad, the property of r bert
S. Houston, to +. A. Hackett, ui New York,
for 81, 900 cash.
Also, $40 acres. four miles from Pamela,
the property of +. S. Chapman, to Charles
Fuller, of Cattaraugus county, New York,
for SO, 500.
Also, 16 acrss on the old Turnpike road,
six miles from fredericksburg the property
of William Richardson, to f. FL. Taliaferro,
for s450.-FfelericksJury Ne0es.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-09-21
NEW ADvERTIsEMENTs.

CosiErHINc NEw.-In musical circles the Ea-
- TEY oseAss the rage. They the most
durable and have the finest tone. remarkable Tor
their ssrfsfsess and poorer. The HcE Au1aGnG and
Hor EbiEanfe are the greatest novelties and beat
ventions ever Introduced J. ESTEY 4 CO Brat
tleboro. VT, Sole Manufacturers