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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-11-29

REs1GNAT1oN OF Rev. II. W. M.kNIGHT.
- Hhpcas, 1t has pleased God in his divine
providence to afflict our beloved pastor Rev.
ii. w. Mcknight. in such a manner as to
make it necessary for him TO discontinue his
ministerial labors for the present, and 1T has
become our painful necessity. as con"rega-
ton, tn accept his resignation; therefore.
Rcsoiced. That in doing we hereby ex-
press our deep regret at the painful necessity
of the separation. and our high appreciation
of his many Christian sraces and faithful. en-
ergetic labors of love in our midst for the last
three years. during which time he greatly en-
dcarcd himself to the hearts "t his people.
ReSoirrd That we deeply sympathize with
our beloved brother in his affl :ction and pray
God he may soon be restored to health aud
usefulness iu the church.
EnwIN JAMES,
..a.g SIMON SnIvELY,
ga j. Il LEWIS,
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MELVILLE. Pa. Nov. 8. 1870

MELVILLE Pa. Nov. 3. ISiU-
lPA1"dsLphm Lmh"rn" Obs"rr"r
The subject of the above notice is brother
of our ,ownsmen, g.. II and John Mcknight,
E>qr.. and expects to make Charles'own his
home for year or more, until his health is
sufficiently restored to enable him to enter
again upon the active duties of the ministry
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NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS
ON MARKET-HoUsE SQUARE.

NOV that The cTcitemrnt Of The War IN Europe
~ has subsidcd would like TO ca u the attention
of all per readers and their friends to my
stock of soods my store Market House square.
You will find there every Thing in the
GROCER LINE.
Teas. Coffee gar nd Flour, Of the beet brandsin
market; Hams and Eacon cut and uncut Cheese.
Crackers and table Cake. MoiasseE. Syi ups, and in
fact goods of al description that 1Use vile would
call for Saturday. II your Table Ware 10 gone,
or your Wash Tub played out, will sell you new
goods cheap any Nhcrc.
would also cali the attention Of consumers of
Forcign and Domcstic Wines, Liquors, Cigars aud
chewing obscrO
OYSTERS. OYSTERSn
Should your a ppetIts crave fine Oyster Stew or
Fry. Just III on any time from A. VI. TO
10 30 P NJ.
Com. one come all. do not charge anything to
shoS goods give in formation BY AL means bring
Cashier. Don't foIget the place. Market HUuEe
Square, opposite the old jail. The nEm~ Is
Soy 1870. JOS. ~. YESTERDAY.
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6 ROC RY LIN Z.
OYSTERS. OYSTERS!!
LADIES WAKE 10 DOLLARS A DAY,

OLICITING subscriptions to the lately enlarged
aud illustrated family magazine, LEISURE
HOURS At 81 no per year. IL IL the chen pest orig
mai illustrated monthly publi,hed. Sold only By
subscription Send Is cents Tor specimen copy and
terms, 10 !. TRAISoR KING, Ed E P'op'r:
Lei-ure hours building, Philadelphia
NovcrnI,cr 2. I-1l-4t
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LUMBER.

T1ROM this date all Lumber sold will be for CsEh
and am prepared to receive orders for all kinds
al hill lumber To be delivered the river or IN
tovnat short notice. from the Mill Of Efchebe rer
= Mannipg JAS. LA w. H0oFF-
October Is.
BLANKETS Glib Blankets and Coun'erpanes,
ID always n hand aud sold cheap. by
October H. J. GOLDSMITH
S,AUsAGE cuttersaud Filters, for sale hv
= Oct IL. JAS LAW. HooFF.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-11-29
LAMPS ANp LAMP GOODS.

LAMPS AND LAMP G0uDSS
lust TcrrIVCd a large aod ell selected STOCK OF
y Lamps &c inciude,i in hicb IL tho celebrated
FOUND BURNER, which gives 'hribls Ne nueh
light the ordinary burners also, fofee-1'..
Shades; can procure n German STUDENTS LaInp oy
simply adjusting this burner and shade TO The ofdi-
nary lampI will fit aHy size u,eoU
November l. . MH9o...
1TI0 Ts0USTRY NTERT.H3SIs-I am pre-
i pared to furnish Esseuces. Oil. PareSoIlc,
IaudanuID, &c, Country Merchants az city
wholesale prices saving the freight from Bs Itnore
this point W. NE@SOH''
TSUTTISG Boxes. Corn shelIers. Fan and Cider
u Nils for EaIe by JAS LAW HOoFF.
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LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE.

WI. c DARLINGTON. President.
JSO- F. EDw ARDS, Vice President.
D ). HARTSOoK, Secretary.
il. HOPKINS, Ass'r Secretary.
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FARM For SALE.

THE subscriber ofTers for sale what he believes to
i be the most Valuable Farm Of $50 ACRES in
Jefferson County. Il lies on the Baltimore Ohio
Railroad . about seven mIles East of Martinshnrg.
ADAM S. DASDRIDGE.
August 3. Is69-tf
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-10

to the American republic without money and
without price. Mr. Fish will not need to buy
them, and they will not desire any more inti-
mate relation with him than that of an
enemy: All that is Spanish they hate by a
natural instinct, and Mr.. Fish they Justly re-
gard as Spanish
1t is vain for the Secretary of State to
trump up these Spanish false reports for the
postponement of his doom. He is in Office
not because he is fit for it, but because no
gave presents to General Grant; his official
conduct has covered the administration and
the country with inextinguishable shame, and
no Quantity of Spanish caBards can suffice to
keep him in Office much longer. The Ameri-
can people do not require any Spanish law
yers or Spanish fathers-in-law to administer
their affairs
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FISH MAKING FIGHT.
From the N. Y. Sun.

From the N. Y. Sum-
The Hon. Hamilton Fish is making fight
n new direction against the republicans of
Cuba. He published recently in the Herald,
with all the authority of his great name as q
statesman, positive declaration that the
Cuban revolution is all over, and that there
are now no republicans in the whole island
except few bands of robbers who lurk in
the mountains, and who must soon sur
render to Mr. Fishs friends the Spaniards, or
else perish of starvation. The revolution
having been thus suppressed by Spanish arms
Mr.. Fish announces that he is going to buy
the island, and annex it to the United States
We have often heard this tale before; and
now it is nothing but an attempt on the part
of Mr.. Sidney Webster and MIR. Fish to
humbug the American people, and escape
from the disagreeable complication in which
they are personally involved. This one, the
son-in-law, is counsel for the Spanish Govern
ment; the other, the father-in-law, is Secre-
tary of State. The lawyer would naturally
like to make money out of commissions on
the purchase of Cuba the Secretary of State
wishes to keep an elevated office for which he
is utterly unfit, so that he can continue to be
a great man contrary to the decree of
nature. Between them they get up this story
of the failure of the revolution, and this pro-
ject OF buying the island.
AS for the revolution having broken down,
that is something we have heard of before.
General Dulce used to report it more than q
year ago; De Rodas has never ceased to send
kilograms to Madrid to the same purport and
| Mr.. Fish has told it on every occasion foI
| these three months-on what ridiculous
authority his recent communication to Con
| gress demonstrates. Nevertheless the re-
| publicans have steadily gained strength in
Cuba, and the Spanish forces have required
constant reinforcements to save them from
the necessity of abandoning the island And
the falsehood is just as false when published
now by Hamilton Fish as when published by
Spanish Captain General at Havana during
every month of the year.
The purchase of Cuba might have been
practicable year ago, and we are not certain
that it may not still be practicable. Every
| day that it is delayed diminishes the value o.
| the island; and if it is put off much longer
we shall not be likely to pay very extrava
gantly for the property. AS it is, the bes
| thing in Cuba is the Cuban peopleSa brave
determined, steady set of men, resolved neve
| to submit to the despotism of Mr.. Webster
| Spanish clients and Mr. Fishs Spanisl
| friends. For these people we shall not neet
to give a great deal Of money. They ar,
! Americans born, and viii naturally graVitat
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THE BURDEN OF TAXATION.

From the ~ Y. Albion
Contraction, whether in personal or national
expenditure is not pleasant process it is so
much easier to expand-to trim our sails to
the favoring winds of prosperity-than to
take in canvas and make all taut against an
impending storm And still, unpleasant as
the task is, it is precisely what the American
people are now called upon to submit to-
During the war, when gold, the standard of
values, was rising in premium with rapidity,
the opposite sensation was afforded. Mer-
chants with heavy stocks of merchan-
disc were constantly and agreeably
employed in marking up goods for which
they found quick sale, as people were
anxious to exchange depreciating currency
for something possessing intrinsic value.
This was the era of sudden wealth, when
families with settled incomes derived from
real estate, or other sources, found the pur-
chasing power of their money suddenly cur
tailed, but when nearly all those in business
found the amount of their receipts largely in
excess of any depreciation in the intrinsic
value of the circulating medium. This con-
dition of things lasted until the close of the
war, when the issue of paper money and the
immense expenditures of the Government
suddenly ceased
From that period until the present the
tendency of monetary affairs has been towards
contraction, and fortunate is it for the COM
merce of the country that the process was
not more sudden or violent than it has been.
Gold is now only about twenty per cent.
above par, and this decline in the premium
from 260, the highest point reached since the
suspension of specie payments, has been
accompanied by comparatively little derange-
ment of the interests of the business COM
munity. That commerce is. to certain ex-
tent, prostrated and industry paralyzed is a
fact, but it may be accounted for by the
operation of other causes than the contrac-
tion of the currency. The nation is saddled
with an enormous weight of taxation-a
weight which would tell terribly upon
| its energies in the most prosperous
| times, and which is made none the lighter by
the fact that the country is passing through a
| financial crisis with respect to its circulating
medium. Taking both these depressing in
| fluences into consideration, it is matter fol
| astonishment not that trade is at stand
| STILL but that there are so few complaints anG
| 80 little real distress There does not seen
| to be much actual want among the laborins
classes, and although general dullness pre-
walls, it is evident that matters are not yet a.
their worst. They are bad enough, however
and it should be the duty of the political eco
nomist and statesman to inquire as to the
proper steps to be taken to alleviate the
| situation.
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SHALL WE FUND OUR DEBT IN AN
AMERICAN CONSOL?
From the N. Y. Tribune.

from he N. 4. ITfOuHe
Great Britain owes four thousand millions
of dollars; the United States but twenty-five
hundred millions. The annual interest on
the British debt is l20, 900, 900; on ours, very
nearly the same. In other words, we are pay
ing as much interest on the two thousand
millions of our debt that bear interest as
Great Britain pays on double the amount.
Ought we to let this mortifying contrast
continue indefinitely without making an
energetic effort to efface it?
We cannot plead that those who contracted
the debt placed it beyond our present reach.
On the contrary, they, though struggling
desperately for the life of the republic and
spending millions per day in most exhaust
ing civil war, foresaw that peace would soon
enable us to borrow at far lower rates than
were then attainable. So, when they borrowed
at $40 per cent, they borrowed for three
years only, and when they borrowed at six
per cent. they borrowed for no more than
five years, though with stipulation that
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-10
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

PHILOSOPHY OF MARIA AGE
III A New Course of Lectures delivered at the New
York Museum of Anatomy embracing the subleots:-
How 10 live and What 10 for Youth, Maturity Anc
Old Age; Manhood Generally Reyeyed The Oanse o.
ndigestion Eatuleuco Nervous Diseasea Accounted
For. MarraRe PhilosophicallY Considered, eto eto.
Pocket volumes containing these Lectures Will be fo5
Warded post ped, receipt OF 70 cents oy anofsnR
a. LFAEY Jn, s. ~ oOrnese ef FlhIH and WAhNnf
Streets phlladslphia. ]S
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

RSy~ OFFICE OF THE CITY TREASURER,
PHILADELPHIA, Dec %, l569-Warrants registered
to No 5000 will be paid presentation at this Office in
terest ceasing from date.
JOS f. MARCER,
1923 City Treasurer.
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sREOiAL NOTICES.
- OFFICE OF WFLLs. FARGO & {

nGg~ OFFICE OF WELLS, FARGO & COM
PANY. No 81 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, De
cembtr o. sNotice is hereby given that the Transfer
Book. of Wells, Fargo Company will be OLOSED on
enable tho Company to ascertain who owners OF the
stock of tho old Ten Million Capital The owners of that
stock will be entitled to participate in se distribution
of assets provided for by the agreement with the
Pacific Exprt ss Company
The Transfer Books will be opened the s9d day OF
JANUARY, at 10 o'clock A. NJ after which time the
&5OOO,0t0 new stock will be delivered
Notice is also given that the Transfer Books Of this Com
pany will be CLOSRD on the 25th day Of JANUARY,
1870 at O'CLOCK r. NJ for the purpose OF holding the
annual ELECTION OF DIRECTORS of this Company.
The books will be RFOPENED on the 9TH day of FEB
RUARY at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
l2atF7 GEORGE X OTIS, Secretary.
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j. N. KNAPP, Secretary.

my OFFICE OF CENTRAL PACIFIC RAIL-
ROAD OF CALIFORNIA, No 81 WILLIAM
STREET, NEW YORK, December IL, 1S69-The SIX
PER CENT interest coupons of first mortgage bonds
of the Central Pacific Railroad Of California, due Janu
ary1 1870, will be paid at the banking house Of Fisk
Hatch, No. NASSAU Street, New York.
p HUNTINGTON Nina. .Prnsidant
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RSg~ PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL
ROAD CO, Office, No s27 S. FOURTH Street
DIVIDEND NOTICE.


DIVIDEND NOTICE.
The Transfer Books Of the Company will be closed
FRIDAY, the 3lst instant, and reopened TUESDAY
January H. 1870
A dividend OF FIVE PER CENT has been declared on
the Preferred and Common Stock, clear of National
State taxes payable in CASH. and after January H.
1870 the holders thereof they shall registered
the books of the Company the 3lst instant. All
payable at this Office All orders for dividend must be
witnessed and stamped. s. BRADFORD,
II 226Ut Treasurer.
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Esy~ OFFICE OF THE HOUSTON AND
TEXAS CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY, No.
50 WALL STREET, NEW YORK, Dec e. ls6a.-The
Coupons of the Mortgage Bonds of this Company, due
Jan 1870, will be paid in gold coin and after that
date, at the National City Bank, New York.
1911 15t ID. H. PAIGE, Yice-President.
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which, however regretable, possessed no great
importance for the public. But these times
are not ordinary. We are approaching in this
State one of the gravest crises a civilized
community has ever had to encounter, and
grave crises call for plain speaking. The bar,
we repeat, is the guardian of our jurispru-
dence and our judicial morals, andif it is going
to resolutely refuse the trust, and even its
foremost men take for their motto ''The
Devil take the hindmost," the people ought to
know Of it in time.
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asSsn OFFICE OF THE UNITED SECURITY
LIFE INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY
OF PENNSYLVANIA S. k. corner FIFTH and CHES-
NUT Streets
PHILADELPHIA Dec 81, 1869
The Annual Election for Directors of this Company will
be held at their Office WEDNESDAY, January IL,
1870, al IL O'Clock A. M.
j lot @. +. BELTS, Secretary.
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heSy> OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF DIREC
TORS OF THE AMERICAN MERCHANTS
UNION EXPRESS COMPANY, No. tl3 BROADWAY,
NEW YORK, November 90, 1859
The Board of Directors of the American Merchants
Union Express Company have this day declared dividend
Of THREE DOLLARS $3.50 per share the outstanding
capital stock of the Company payable the 10th day Of
January next.
The transfer books will be closed the sls day OF De-
cember next at o'clock p NJ and reopened 10 o'clock
A. NJ. on the 10th day of January next.
BY order Of the Board
lsa15t j. N KNAPP, Secretary.
The Portland daily press., 1870-06-20
ON Nj Err CIAL,


Receipts by Railroads and Steamboats,.
STEAMER DIRIGo, FROM New YORK 90 bales
COTTON 81 do ras II do buraps, 80 bags coffee, IS do
RICE 10 do shot, 10! dOz DrOOws % halls dales, 20
moving m CHI mes, IS chess tea CT boxes iobaC co,
30 do salel atus ITO do starch 16 do SOAP do clocks
10 DO pipes, 80 do raisins, so do onions 40 do car
springs 40 bbs glass ware, CT do saltpetre. 90 do
ions, 70 do brlmstOne 81 kegs spikes &C 40 white
LEAD, 10 wheels, 156 bdls paper 800 do splice
bars, % do iron, IS bars do, 70 plates do % bbs
lamp black, hhds do, do iron O e. 95 do tobacc O.
carriage, horses, fountain, 200 pigs sunories
STEAMER Forest CITY. FROM BosToN-5O bags
pea eqis boxes is 81 b % boxes oranges 20 ro
hams 10 cases shoes, 20 pork 10 casss yeI9aW
metal u pcs castings 10 hall bbls beer, 25 pkgs fur
nlure loO pkss to Primo IS Express, leo do to order
- Eer Canada and mp country, wagon 2O5 green
hides, 20 bales buffalo hides, 20 bags dive VOID. II
rolls leather. chests tea, Q bags waste, bdls
scythes, 10 bales wool, 10 empty barrels 10 bales
moss, 100 pkgs to order.
PORTLAND & KENNEBEC RAILRoAp-3cars shin
giles, do boards, do barrels, do calves do ties
do bricks 402 bds paper 20 cases oil cloth 25 bales
trusses, 20 DO BATS piano forte hides, 2 casks
potash, q DDS binds, do sash, IA cases goods 10
pkgs merchandise, q cars freight for Boston.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY 1889 cans milk 900
Dds Hour cars old rails do ore 10 do lumber do
sundries. For shipment east 70U bbls -four
MAINE CENTRAL RAILRoAD-o5 mutto,s 81 bxs
scydhes W M shingles 80 CO DIS abs 700 sides lea H.
CT, Ze pxseggs, u cases merchandise.
The Portland daily press., 1870-06-20
The following are the forenoon quotations of Rail-
7ay Stocks. VI -,'AAA
Domestic VI arkeas.

NEW YORK, June 1s.-Cotton dull and louer.
s sae ' on S Sae nplands 21sc Fou-re
ern du'I and declining; superfne State so "a ID;
extra DO 90 e 49, choice ito d IL % 30; faTcy do
do 70 q 10; superfine Western SO 1 * cnoce
mon 10 good extra Western 80 @ 10; choice DO do
eru heavy sales 400 bbls. common to fair extra 70
"a rs; good to choice do 10 q 10 90. Wheat heavy
and lower; sales e, 900 bush; No. Spring at %;
Winter Red and Amber Western at I Al a. / 10 -
Corn lower; sales 80 900 bush.; new Mixed Western
80 80 g q; CD do 40 at g. Oats lower; sales l2s-
Beef eady; sales 800 bis plain mess at ii 90
Is 90; n W extra do at Is 90 a Is so. Pork more
aud August at 80 Is a 80 81; new mess at 40 70 g
30 Is; prime at % on q 20 49, Lard dull; sales $50
tierces; steam rendered at 10 "a 16sc kettle do at
q 32c Whskey steady; sales $50 bills; Western
free at % o5t Rice quiet; sales 30 tierces Car
alma at g sac Sugar firm; sales 700 hhds.; Mus
No. IL. DUO. standard. at 1otc Coffee quiet. Mo-
lasses dull Naval Stores quiet; Spirits Turpentne
crude at lc eneS It &c Taow steadg as saie;
at 81 a 9rc. Wool dull and heavy; domestic fee cs
a. 40 "a 50c tubbed at 5Oc; pulled at at SO a 43c
Texas at q q 2s1e; California at % q aic. Hides
rather more steady. Linseed steady at 22O a 2 81,
gold. Freights to Liverpool dull; Cotton per steam
5r non r per sal IS grain per steam wheat sgd;
CHICAGO, June 1s-Flour uncbanged. Wheat
declining at II q 2o2 lor No.2 Corn steady at
SIC for No.2. Oats firm at 4ssc for No2. High
Wines firm at O1t q 10l. Provisions quiet Live
Hogs dull at 80 q SOD for tair to choice Cattle
more act We at 325 q 8 co for common common to
extra prime steers.
CINCINNATI, June is Whisky frmer at % "a
o. Provisions unchanged; mess pork at 80 80.
Lard at 16lc.
NEW ORLEANS. June 1S.-Cotton dull and lower;
Middling uplands at 1890.
MOBILE. June Is. - Cotton dull; Middng up
lands at 19lc.
SAVANNAH, June ls.-Cotton active; Middling up
lands at 19Ic
CHARLESTON, June 1s.- Cotton dull; Middline
uplands at Zoe.
The Portland daily press., 1870-06-20


been expelled Of who has resigned dutiig the
same Congress while the resolution for his ex
pulsion was pen ling, it shall be in order before
administering the oath to him to refer the case
to the committee which had in charge the reso-
luton of expulsion, or the House may at once
act on the case. He said that reference to a
committee would be treating the case with a
consideration to which it was not entitled. II
was mere question whether the House would
stand by its unanimous resolution that this
man was unworthy of holding seat in the
House.
After further discussion the question was
postponed until Tuesday next after the morn
ing hour, and the House proceeded with the
business reported from the Committee on
Claims
AT er disposing of large number of private
claims MIR. Mercur of Pennsylvania, from the
Judiciary Committee reported bill to amend
the act of June II, 1864, changing and defining
the boundaries of the eastern and western dis
tricts of Virginia.
Mr.: Schenck of Ohio gave notice that on
Monday next, after the morning hour, ne
would move to proceed with the business on
the Speakers table and the House at 4 o'clock
adjourned,