Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1872-09-17
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SUPERSTITION OF THE NEeRoEs.-At the
recent session of the Shiloh Baptist Associ
alton, at Sherryville. Va, in illustrating the
dangers to which the colored people are ex>
posed, Mr.. Sydnor read printed letter which
is being largely circulated among the negroes
It was given him by colored man, and has
this singular heading: ga copy of letter
written by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
and found eighteen miles from Iconium
| seventy-6 five years after our blessed Saviour's
crucifxion, and transmitted from the Holy
City by a converted Jew, and faithfully trans.
lated from the original Hebrew copy, now in
possession of Lady Subass family, in Meso>
potamia. This letter was found under stone,
both round and large, at the foot of the cross,
eighteen miles from Iconium, near village
called Mesopotamia. Upon this stone was
turn me over All that saw it prayed to God
earnestly, and desired that he would make
known unto them the meaning of this writing,
that they might not in vain turn it over. In
the mean time little child about six or seven
| years of age turned it over, to the Arbitration
| OF all present. And under the stone was
written the command of Jesus Christ in a
| letter published by the angel Gabriel ninety
eight years after the death of our blessed
| Saviour, and carried by person belonging to
Lady Subas, and made public in the city of
| 1conium."
The letter contains some excellent advice
to the colored people, but ingeniousy inter-
woven with it is a vein of Jesuit teaching
we'll calculated to catch tho ignorant and SUI
perstitious.
CLARK's FATHER-A Grief, Stricken
Parent.-The editor of the Warren (Va.)
| Sentinel, the father of James F. Clark, the
victim of the Clark Jewell tragedy, concludes
bis account of that terrible, and to him at
least distressing affair, as follows:
"Never before have we SO fully realized the
full import of the words of King David when
suffering under similar affection: % nv son
Absalom. my son, my son Absalom Would
to God had died Tor thee, 0 Absalom, nv son.
| my SOM
"We received the kind aud heartfelt sym>
pathles OF great many of our citizens Of the
county, and many who were at court from
other counties, on the sad and mournful oc-
caslon, and we must especially name one no.
BILE spirit like the rose in the wilderness, a
green spot in the desert, Mr. James Davies. an
Englishmau by birth, who kindly rendered to
us his purse and his services in any way we
might command them. He cheerfully vol
unteered to go to Alexandria for the coffin,
DC. though he was threatened with chills.-
Such a gentleman will live while he lives. aud
after death will speak. May the good will of
Him that dwelt in the bush be with him.
And we take pleasure, also, in making hon.
orable mention of Major Thornton in tender
ing to us any money We might need, and
other acts of courtesy and kindness, which We
shall cherish in grateful remembrance
Ess" Frederick Douglass, the negro is now
running at the head of the Grant electoral
ticket in New York. In 1856, according to
the Troy Press, he made speech, from
| which the following is an extract:
:From this time forth I consecrate the la
hors ofmy life TO the dissolution of the Union:
aud | care not whether the bolt that repds it
shall come from heaven or from hell'
Aud yet the Radicals Of the Empire State
are willing to recognise him as their standard
bearer, and are going up to the polls in No.
vember next to vote for the author of such an
atrocious sentiment.
re" a writer from Gettysburg, in n letter
to the Baltimore Sun, speaking of the ex-
huming OF the Confederate dead at Gettys-
burg, says:
"There appears to be parsimonious feeling
existing among some farmers in not allowing
the exhuming of the bodies unless certain
sum is paid. In one case farmer demands
i've dollars. IN another, ten, and so on, even
to fifty. On the other hand, be it to their
honor spoken, there are many who not only
give the required permission, but even lend a
helping hand"
Sergeant Gilbert II. Bates, who, it will
be remembered, made wager some three
years ago that he could carry the American
flag through the late Confederate States with
out insult or injury, has now been challenged
to carry the Stars and Stripes from the Scot
fish border to the Mansion House on London
under the same provisions The bet is made
between Sergeant Bates and one Thomas J.
Warren, of Saybrock, Mclean county, Hi
nois, who wagers 81 900 to 500 that he can
not do it. The sergeant has accepted the
wager, and expresses his firm belief that he
can carry the flag, without let or hindrance,
named.
ADVERTISING DRUNKARDs.-A cores
pendent of the Chicago Journal, writing from
Ellenville, Ulster county, New York, says:
"ODe is amused at seeing placards posted
up at various taverns hereabou,s, proclaiming
two persons to be common drunkards. and
warning individuals against selling them lis
quor under pain of prosecution. 1t appears
that there is law on our statute books, now
almost obsolete, which stipuates that persons
can be posted as drunkards on the affidavit of
a certain number of individuals"
Es- The daily papers publish in full Mr.
| O'Couor's letter to the committee of the Louis
vile Convention, again declining its nomina>