Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-09-16
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
Our suggestion few days ago concerniD

"Let the survey be. made, by all meaus.-.
The people have been urging the matter for
years. The expense willsbe but trifine in
comparison to the great good that will accrue
to the people"
We trust, continues the Register, that some
member of the legislature who is competent
for the task will prepare bill in relation to
the matter and have it ready for adoption at
the adj ourned session to commence next month
The advantages of such survey are SO APP
parent and the benefits to be derived frona an
authoritative statement of the value of the
mineral resources of the State are SO great,
that we can scarcely think the enterprise will
meet with serious opposition in any quarter.
All over the country attention is being at
tracted to the natural wealth of West Virginia,
but as yet little is known of it except from
the letters of newspaper correspondents OF the
casual observations of railroad passeugers.-
What is needed for the information of our
own citizens as well as of capitalists in other
States, is such exact and scientific invcstiga-
ton is contemplated by the proposed survey
The report of the results of such survey
made by the authority and under the auspices
of the State government will receive greater
credencc and accomplish far more good than
if it be merely the work of private enterprise
and conducted by those who have lands to SELL
@ General Longstreet has written let
ter from Lynchburg to Ro w. Hughes, Esq,
published in the Richmond State Journal, in
which he takes exception to the reported re-
mark of Colonel Withers, in his Warrenton
speech, that he CLongstreeD s'pot only &C.
cepted the issue, but went over for money!"
and calls on the Colonel for particulars. He
promises, as soon as the allegation is put in
shape so that he can take hold of it, sto
prove to the world that there is not word of
truth in it, nor even reason for it except in
malice" He also says: "Another Virginian
Rev. Mr.. Pendleton, aiming to avail himself
of the prejudice gotten up on false Statements
goes back nine or ten years to attack my
record as a soldier. will say to him, as I
have said in reference to other charges, that
it is too vague and indefinite as it stands to
be met by the evidence of witnesses. But if
ye will give the names of the staff officers of
General Lee, and the general and staff officers
of the First Corps of the Army of Northern
Virginia who are coguizant of facts, as he as
serts them, will undertake to prove by his
own witnesses, that his statement is also false"
RESPECTFULLY DEcLINED.-The grand
old hero, General Joseph E. Johnston, having
been requested by Mr. Cuthbert, of the New
York Heruzo; to reply to certain political
questions, replied in the following pointed
manner:
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
August 2G, 1873.
q. CWh6ert, Esq. -
DEAR S1R-I have had the honor to re-
ceive the note of o,day, in which you ask
me, on the part of the New York Herald, to
reply to certain political questions.
1t would give me pleasure to have the priv
ilege of doing so, but not being citizen of
the United States do not publish my polit-
ical opinions. Most respectfully yours,
j. i. JOHNSTON.
General Beauregard also declined an inter-
view on the question of "Cmsarism."
GE- The New York Tribune let its foot
slip and goes back On its protested Conserva-
tism, in publishing letter purporting to have
been written by old John Brown, tho leader
of tho Harper's Ferry Instruction, shortly
before his execution in Virginia, addressed to
the Rev. Luther Humphrey, brother of the
Rev. Iephaniah Humphrey, of Philadelphia,
with tho following heading: "An Unpub-
lished Letter from the Martyr of Harper's
Ferry"
&c" The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company have just had their new pavement
on Camden street, in front of their depot, in
Baltimore, completed at cost of $40, OOO.-
1t is said to by very durable. The pavement
was put down by an English company. The
surface is smooth as an ordinary sidewalk,
whilst wagons can hardly be heard crossing it,
1t is said that number of the Paris boule>
wards are paved in this manner
RE- In the whole South, from the Potomac
and Ohio rivers to the Gulf of Mexico, saws
the New York World, there is no Republican
at all except among the negroes, cerpet-bag>
gers, and Federal officers. There is no South>
ern State Of which the Republicans could
keep control after the next election if Wash
ington influences were withdrawn.
Gs~ The London Sunday School Union
has requested that October 10Th be observed
as a day of prayer for Sabbath schools through
OUT the world. The request has been con-
veyed to American schools through the New
York Sunday School Union.
&c" The result of the California election
is the utter humiliation of the republican
party, which last year swept the State for
Grant. The railroad question predomiuated,