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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1871-10-24

Black Ba@.-Tho lIagcrstOvn Mail says
this f,h ia now being offered in that market,
from Baltimore. A correspondent Of tie
same paper. sta,ca that Mr., Griffith Of Peters.
Vile caught fHy weight ct one sitting A
Mr., Miller Of WilIiamspOrt has captured
within very short time over 1000.
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HATS,
TRIMMINGS IND
FANCY SILK GOODS

Into tho Auction House of iIoyt. Wheeler K Brad.
Icy, upon ln't Monday. the great Jew lloliday:.-
these gouds to the masses at half their value. DO
you call this rohbery' Rather the advanced and
icientifc deaa that have driven from the field for.
ever that relic .! baEbatiIn-the old, rotten, de.
Struciye
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1871-10-24


To him who would travel the O,herdown hill dead
G,Arell'we would cay Get cut Of The way, tOkU
prGISic ned or Forty kUd" whiskty, for yUhdtr
Al Tic iatsl dead islIs that mutt I0oner or later
crush you, high prirrs and the credit systtm =
What chance ID there for you in contact with
g!hi1E brnius and ambition in kttUggle aEAihIt
hope With Crauh, crushing leaders and fptcihl'
tics, seaUtrrd broadcast ever the cUUutIy! We
~ish 10 tight tlie wrong, and believe the god Of
battles 10 aver with the tight. Whcn bankruptcy
aud ruin OvcrtNkcs the victim we are always there
with the AMERICAN DOLLAR. WEtn tho ham
MR. VI the AurIiHr.c r falls upon some grand and
gigantic windshakc, littcn irT our uHnle. When
disasCr G,Stcs the lettering miliuuH!o IL tie face,
and gold alone vii! rave hun, cur pCLrCrs ar liero
with that everlasting remedy. AEd Vhrn trade lie
dull aud business sack. aud fact and flUW nlcr.
chants asleep OF drunk, and the mercantile world
a stand siili-waiunR Tor EonCthipg TO iuIn up
our sharp tauGFs aud ekirmiEl line, under the p..
tente npus,a thai direct with nn Unttriug aud Tn.
seen force, strike The decisive blow and the day 10
won, and tho victory Uurs alone! Hence the vain.
dcufIve and childish tale Of Itvlen gordf this e.
holant and malignant cry against Aaeiitn Dor!
gains They buy Dress Gocds regularly on tine
(t~icc y az Eiylc) at ~ cents hnd charge So we
buy the came thing in the Auction Rooms at % and
seIlai2j tloncu We stole them, A big horIe on
Broadway got into pinch. had 10 rHifo monry or
go und, (, threw FiFTY.sIX THOUSAND DoLi
LARS worth OF
LADIES' FURS,
HATS,
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1871-10-24

pe- Don't Jaa TO 90 TO the polls on Thurs.
day and rote for tie Democratic candidates
rLO propose TO make our State government
more simple, less c1pensi're and more Efficient.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1871-10-24
SnrrnrnrsrowY. W. Va.
LOGAN 0snUES.

Saturday Morning, Oct, q, II, {
Editor SPIRIT:
Dear sir,-I observe in the Register of this
date tina, am named OuSlhc so'caIloa PEG
pIe's Ticket" as candidate Tor "Superintcn'
dent of Public Schools aud as there is no
issue of that paper or auy other in the eoun,
,y, except yours, prior to the election, will
you please publish the following
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1871-10-24
BUT LETT



whata volume 10 there in tho enormous amount Of
cur business.
Low prices 10 everything. These tern and stub.
born facts are the dtsdlirRt weapons OF ScathinE
satirc and invcctivc that smash up in moment tho
lifelong hopes Of big profits aud internal price,;
those dflusivc drtRms that have wrecked many
noble craft upon that drlu'iTe rvck OF credit, that
might have been lniGlreIs Of the Seas. But big
profits and long credit have swept them without
mercy or discrimination into that vast vortex aud
tho Auctions have placed them and theirs Into Our
handl for the bennht OF the MASSES, THE MIL
LIONS AND THE MONEY.
These are self evident tru;hs that never die that
will live tOreveruntil the last wave u time beats
upon the ShOrca Of eternity. 4
GOODS DELIVERED EVERYWHERE FREE.
CASH DOWN.
bo- Country Produce taken 10 exchange for
G0Ods aud always sold without Ptoft.
SETH Nj. TIMBERLAEE,
S'i'i #:s \: #:::;'' Statesmen
l.. l.. SAnLER.
Oct 81, ISL.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1871-10-24

WEDNESDAY, NoremLer lsI 1871,
IS Head orpURE-BREp
Short=Horn Cattle,
consisting of o5 Cows and Heiter,, and 10 bulls.
These are chiefly young cattle, all Of the purcst
European and Kentucky Pedigree, md recorded
in the Short Horn Herd. Book. A Catalogue con.
tanning Pedigree will be sent to any one, on appli
cation to the subscriber.
TERMS OF SALE.-All SumI Of 300 and under,
CaIh, or Negotiable Notes for Sixty days; over
SIOO, II desired, Six Months Credit on approved
paper all bearing six pet crEt Interest
The Farm Of the subscriber AdjoinS tho Charles.
town sIntOn on the Winchester brArchO Of the RaIt.
h Ohio Railroad. The morning trains from both
Winchester and llAtper'S Ferry arrive in ample
time for the sale. JAS. NJ. RANSOM.
Oct. ,, 1871.
n" Pres, ROmn'y inslligeneer, and Lcc,1urs
Mirror copy til sale,
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NAV ADvERT1SEMENTs
The
W A T 3 R L 0 o
OF ~
Is II.
THE PANIC OF THE GREAT FALL
CAMPAIGN. ~ a54 ''t
4 GRAND GIANT SW1NDLE!
THE ADVANCE IN DRY GOODS!
No Cause for 1T.

No Cause for II
Only history repeating itSelf-AIight over Right.
II Il; only the Rich growing day by DAY Richer, and
the Poor Poorer day after day. Hence We throw
out among tic mAiies, drives and leaders aud
Ipec!AcS, to cheeE this insane, this terrible and
Criminal prsetiso of waiting Money for The plltry
consideration Of few Weeks' credit
Such az MGs0nvilo MuslinB 81 IL Bates al l6,N
AndroaCoE gin at lG Jeans at ~, MerrimacI at III
Clarke o. N. T. Spool Cotton, &c spool.
BIanketS aud cases Of FlAnnelS and Tirkings at
old time prices. We will show you prics5 thAiwill
sober you. In behalf Of your little ones, that may
never DO Crushed by that adverSity and niSlottuhO
that you and have met aud mastered, do we beg
you in the spirit Of the moSt intense eArnelthets
and Iolieitudc, to iavo your money and buy your
money. Just think Of the money you waste IN one
short yoarin paying credit prices for Buttons, Pins.
Tarec. Spool Cotton, Needles, Shoe Laees, Hooks
and Eyci and remember that when you branch out
into iiuer goods the waste 10 much heavier. 'td3
LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF REASON
aud Trust your Orn judgment.
TIE modern method Of mastering these mOnopo.
lies fAs squelched by science strategy the Ewind-
ling syslsm OF these AntedCluyian, Land HhatcS,
who buy twiee year rp0n long time, pay three
profits and in turn Hcll on longer time-demAndipg
four prices for their goods Whatabout Laurel D.
Atlantic and Lawrence Standards at l9l'
VIVA, do you think Of Lancaster, AnOIkeaga and
Bates GnEhamS At 10, when II will not buy Them
OF tic Agents What about Standard Bfearhed
Mutlins at i?l. when.ih tiRhlsSt figure for thou
sand bales 10 49, at the AillsS
Thus have we met them, thus bAve We stood by
the people; and they have on innumrrnhlc coca.
pions expressed their approval OF our Titan situg
Fle to SmSph down these prices; have expressed
their qualification and amaEemcnt at price, that
halled and stupCfsd their judgments. hey think.
ing all the while that the story Of thcse Windy
NJ onshne Merchants might be true that We had
indeed stolen cur grand LaudSlidsI,
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"a. Fl
THESE PlTlLESS AND MERCiLEss AUCTION
NAruISGH

This is the music and thusc the prices that crowd
our IureI whilst other merchants sleep upon their
counters. We claim to be working on tho short
line, the right road, have the inside track, cen.
mand the situation and acknowledge no equal.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1871-10-24

The Reverend Artful Dodger took no no.
tico Of Mr., Travers' reply, but without his
consent arranged meetings in conflict with
those appointed by tho Democratic. COnseFv.
alive Executive Committee, aud issued a
hapdbiII announcing joint discussion in va
rious places in the county, In addition to
this be published his own letter 10 the BerEe'
lg t'nioa on Saturday last, deliberately sup
pressing Mr.. TrAvers reply, although il had
been in his hands since the Tuesday before.
This dirty trick is of course apparent, and is
in keeping with the character Of the writer
lie took precious good care to absent himself
from the meetings to which he was invited to
be present. But bis excessive prccsu'ion did
not save hin, Vcnturiug into ChHrlcstown
on Saturday last, he undertook to address a
meeting at the Court. House and fell intO'thc
hands of D, b. Lucas, Esq, who aayod him
FROM uOpe to heel.
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THERE HIS in a NUTsuELL-sHAz'S THE
STORY
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NEW G0ONS.

SHERIFF'S SALE.
pY virtue Of an Execution Of FiIi Fdeiu,, from
ID the Circuit Court Of JefCrsOn County, ". Va,
and To me directed IN iavOrof X. Lucas. lr.. late
Sheriff, against the gOoda and chattc Of ~ w.
Manning and others, will Sell for Cash, on
Tuesday, l4M dag Of Norcmber neat,
lei dNy of Jefferson Circuit Court, in trent OF the
Court house door in CharieGtoWn. The following
property, namely:
Three Work liorStB,
Three HogS and lot Of Pigs,
Nine Cattle,
Twelve Sheep,
One Wagon, one Cart,
Harness, &c.
o. Sale to take place at . o'clock, p. NJ.
GEORGE KooECE. D. s.,
For r. ". POTTEHriELD. late Saeritl.
Oct. II, ISL -ts.
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OF ~, lsil-u.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10

GLAss-BLowING.-The juvenile miner
alogist, constructing his first cabinet,
brings home, as rare curiosity, a crys-
taline stone, which shines like glass.
1t is glass-the glass of nature, the
foundation of much of modern civAiza-
ton and science, without which nei-
ther astronomy, chemistry, nor physio-
logy could ever have emerged from their
crude condition, since without it nei-
ther the telescope, the microscope, nor
the chemists vessels would have been
possible. Subjected to an intense heat,
and mixed with other substances, such
rs soda, lime, oxide of iron, oxide OF
lead, oxide Of tin, according TO the fab
ric to be wrought, it becomes ductile, is
drawn out into the most tenuous
threads, is rolled, beaten, moulded, cut
at will, yields to even the slightest
breath Of the workman, and, patterned
by him, takes any form he chooses to
impart to it. Cooling, it loses its curl
ously ductile character, and becomes
again the hardest and most brittle OF
substances. This quartz rock the boy
fancies to be precious stone. He Is
laus hed at for his wild conjecture. 1t
is chance if he be not nearer right
than those who ridicule him. Colored
in natures marvellous dye-house, it be-
comes precious only because it is more
rare. Violet, it is an amethyst; un-
crystalized and waxy in its structure, it
is chalcedony red, it is carnelian
of variegated colors, it is an agate;
Opaque, and yet colored, red, yellow,
brown, it is jasper. In word, the
same substance which is the chief com
ponent of glass is also the base of most
precious stones, yet in its commonest
form most precious of all for we might
relinquish jasper, agate, chalcedony, and
amethyst for glass, if we could obtain
the latter only by such an exchange
Harper'S Magazine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10
A Dark Transaction.
From the Syracuse Journal. Jan. q.


Not long since Marshall Wilson APP
peared in the Police Court to answer
the charge Of neglecting and refusing to
support his family. He will be remem-
bered as the tall and exceedingly polite
colored man who for some time past has
travelled the streets clad in an advertis-
ing uniform. He was always smiling
and apparently happy, and when he APP
peared in court to answer the charge
made by his wife, he assumed the air of
injured innocence, and in a very suave
manner pleaded justification, and
charged upon her conduct quite unbe-
coming a lady. Marshall insisted that
he couldn't live with her, and intimated
that he shouldn't try, and without en-
tering into the question of the duties
existing between husband and wife, the
Justice dismissed the case by granting
Mrs. Wilson an alimony Of three dollars
per week, coal and house rent. This
Marshall consented to rather than go to
the penitentiary. But beneath his oily
manner and beseeching appeals lay a
scheme of which the court knew moth
ing, and which was not developed till
one night this week. At the 500 even
ing train, Marshall might have been
seen at the Central Depot with woman
and infant child in charge, stepping on
board the train, with single friend
kissing them goodbye. In his hat
band were tickets for New York, and
in his pocket couple of checks for
baggage destined for the same place.
They were comfortably seated, when
the train started and they were borne
away.
The woman was not Mrs. Marshall
Wilson, but was the wife of Mr. Dubois,
and the mother of five children. The
friend who saw them off was the sister
of the woman. The couple have map
ped out their tour, so this sister says.
They are to see the elephant in New
York, and after that 90 to Philadelphia
and spend several weeks, when they will
remove to San Francisco. Marshall
hopes for assistance over the Pacific
and Central railroads from Senator
Revels, to whom he addressed a letter
asking it. There are few regrets ex-
pressed by the deserted, and it is not
probable that the false one will be pur-
sued.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10
ROchefOrt-His Renewal Of the "Lan.
terne.S

NJ. Henri Rochefort, in preface to
MS new edition of the Lanterne, says
that on re-perusing the lines written in
foreign land before publishing them
in his own country, he has to beg par
don of the public for the moderation
with which he spoke Of the Imperial
regime. Il have just re-read the proofs
of my pamphlet; compare it with the
horrors through which the empire has
compelled us to pass, with the end to
which it has led us, and | know not
how to excuse myself for being so
mild" Further on he says: Il trust
no one will suppose that | am seeking
by their reissue an easy opportunity of
proving myself to be right in spite of
the years of prison and the thousands
of francs in fines which so often proved
me to be wrong. | make no merit of
my second-sight. There are but three
ways in which fallen empires can sink
a military revolution, an instruction of
the people, a foreign invasion. To
prophesy all three was enough to secure
the certainty of not being far wrong.
Napoleon, with his usual foresight, chose
the third. The worst for us, but de-
cidedly the best for him.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10

RHETORICAL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES are
two gentlemen sitting quietly at table,
and discussing the route of a railroad TO
the North Pole. Shall the ocean be
tunneled, or shall the track be laid on
ice? 1t is a fair question. There are
good arguments, drawn from great nat
ural laws, and from the actual situation.
What is abstractly better, and what is
actually expedient, are points that may
be carefully and intelligently discussed.
And so they are. And the two gentle
men take different sides, and urge the
proper arguments. The advocate of the
tunnel shows why that is the better
plan, and the friend of the surface route
offers what seem to him conclusive rea-
sons. The tunneler does not declare
that his opponent is bloated mass Of
corruption nor does his adversary in.
sist contemptuously that the tunneler
has been bribed to support an immeas-
urable swindle. If they did so, each
would probably put the other out of the
house, and certainly they would not be
likely to be very cordial friends there
after.
What, then, is the reason that the
tunneler, parting frem his friend, pro-
ceeds to a public meeting called to con-
slider the subject of a railroad to the
North Pole, and, ascending the plat
form, vehemently declares that the pro
ject of laying track over the ice is not
only repugnant to reason and common
sense-not only are babies of eighteen
months competent to detect its shrek
ing folly-but it is vast swindle, and
and its advocates are knavish rascals
Meanwhile the friend of the ice track
goes to his meeting, and sneers at the
inexpressible absurdity of tunneling the
ocean. They'd better tunnel their wits
who advocate it, eXclaims he. They are
horde of grasping COMMANDERS of
other peoples money. They are herd
OF antediluvian asses, who try to pass off
thistles as clover. And so he perorates
as passionately as his friend, each call
ing the other swindler and fool. And
what effect is produced upon the public
mind? First, disgust and indifference,
and then consciousness that the advo.
Gates have each so covered the cause
with vituperation that it will be weary
work to dig down to the pith of the
matter. Everybody would like to un-
derstand the reasons upon both sides If
they could but calling people fools and
knaves Is not argument, and the whole
subject is demoralized.-Har Mngo-
cine for February.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10
HuniOr.

WELL, if a hatch hand a no hand
har hand hess hand a hee don't
spell 'orse, then my name hain't 'Enry
ill.,"
PEOPLE who are always fishing for
compliments do not need very long
lines. They will get their best bites in
shallow water.
IT WAS a wise negro who, in speaking
of the happiness of married people, SAL
Dat ar ponds altogedder on how dey
joy deyselves."
"HAvE you ever broken horse ?"
inquired horse jockey. No, not ex-
actly, but have broken three or four
wagons"
AT A recent railway festival, the fol-
lowing striking sentiment was given
"Our Mothers-the only faithful ten
ders who never misplaced a switch"
THE extravagant tendency of the
present generation suggests to clergy
man the inquiry whether it would not
be better to devote half of ones ener-
gies to learning to live on very small
income, than to devote all of ones en-
ergies in struggling and waiting for a
large income?
A JUDGE of the Indiana Supreme
Court was accosted by the hotel boot
black, the other day, with demand for
:" q quarter. SIR" He turned upon the
sable-hued American and Indignantly
asked him, What do you take me for,
sir p ooh | know you; you're one of
them can-can fellers," pointing to the
Variety Theatre.
THERE is story eXtant Of an absent
minded man who had the toothache.
He was quarry-man by profession, and
he concluded that the best way to rid
himself of the afflicted tooth would be
to blast it out So he filled his mouth
with powder, fired a slow match, and ran
around the corner to get out of the way
of the result. When the explosion oc-
CURED he was surprised to find how close
it seemed. 1t was very successful so far
as the tooth was concerned; but when
the Mont Cents tunnel chap went home
the general aspect Of his mouth resem-
bled that of the Delaware gap. The
dentist says he would not undertake 10
fit him with a set of teeth, of the neces-
sary size, for less than thousand dol
lars.
AN amusing story is told by sailor
who, in recent combat, had the luck to
capture Prussian subaltern. On the
road to Paris the latter asked his captor,
who had been chatting him numerically
on the length of time the Prussians took
to reduce the city, d" How do you fare IN
your capital?" GLOW do we fare why,
first rate" was the reply. "Then your
oxen are not yet exhausted, as we mag
ined they were?' "Oxen oh, they have
been eaten long since" You have large
hocks Of sheep, then ~ "No, indeed,
they disappeared simultaneously with
the bullocks." "Ah understand; you
have still horses to fall back on? wish
we had; we devoured them long SINCE
:" What the devil do you eat, then?" was
the astonished inquiry. "What do we
eat?" replied the sailor, with the greatest
gravity in the world "have you not
heard in your camp?" mo" "Why,
we eat our prisoners, of course, and find
them delicious" The young Prussian
turned pale at the thought, and did not
venture another remark till his arrival
at his destination.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-10
Formation of the Florida Reef.

Two prominent features seem super
imposed on the Atlantic face of our
coast the peninsulas of Cape Cod and
Florida. The latter is still growing, and
| it is well ascertained that nearly all the
peninsula has been built up from the
sea bottom by species of corals and
other marine animals now living and
operating there. Centuries have passed
while this vast tract has been built up.
But erroneous notions have been formed
regarding their rate of growth.
A brick, having a specimen of mean
drina upon it one inch in diameter, was
placed under water in the year 1860 by
the writer, at Tortugas, with the view of
determining the rate of growth of cor
ais. When taken up in 1861, just one
year after, it had increased TO two
inches in diameter, and was over half
an inch in thickness. The large aqua
rum, which was built at the water-side
for observation of marine objects, con-
tanned many other specimens, and it
| was observed that the branch corals
grew even more rapidly, some attaining
| five to six inches in one year.
The various forms of branch corals,
ers and fans are familiar to most. Our
museums are well stocked with fine
specimens. The Free Academy at New
York has fine collection of every spe-
cies known to the waters of our shores.
A large fragment Of the Reef, as it ap-
pears, with many of its various inhabi
tants, and two fine head of brain coral,
each two feet in diameter, are among
them.
One species of astr@a, unlike most
of the corals that have circumscribed
growth, spreads out ledge-like, and
knows no boundary, no definite form.
This particular species seems to be the
principal element in reef-building its
individual polyp is small, but the con-
gregation is vast, and tier after tier
rises until the surface is reached, when
acres, miles of this one variety lie
dead and decaying, and furnishing a
strong foothold for another element
of Matchmaking, not less sure and ire
sistible
The mangrove now performs its part.
A long cigar-shaped fruit is formed, the
seed of which terminates within the
small inconspicuous flower before it
drops, and presents the strange spec
tacle Of young tree, already rooted
and ready to put forth its leaves as soon
as it drops and finds foothold. These
young trees are like the young magno-
liza; designed to live and thrive in the
salt soil, they float over the shallow wa
ter, and take root wherever they touch
the bottom. The rootlets then make
fast to the reef mud, throw out side
shoots, like so many flying buttresses,
and put forth from the top or smaller
end tuft of rich glossy green leaves.
The trunk does not reach below the wa
ter. Here is network Of rootlets
wherein the debris of the ocean is en-
tangled, and within which dead leaves
and fragments of shells collect to fern
the meagre soil. Miles of reef become
planted in this way.-Haper'S Magazine