Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-04-01
General Longstraat.

respected alike by TREND aud foe, and leaving
an enduring fame to posterity, was James
Longstreet, General in the Confederate
States army. A splendid officer, he had led
the boys in gray to victory on many hard
fought field, aud "Longstreets Corps" won
reputation equaled by few others on either
side. But alas when the time came that
tried mems souls, when the South was groan-
ing beneath the oppressor's heel, James Long.
street proved himself recreant son. and
Joined hands with the spoilers Friends
looked on in shame and wonder that one who
had been so gallant leader could so far for.
get the past as to become ally of political
adventurers who we're plunderinv an already
impoverished people But the climax in the
career which he has chosen since the war was
reached in the late cnlp~fe in the Crescent
City, when, as the so-called commander of
the State militia, he cooily ordered the Me>
tropolitan police to FIRE upon the citizens of
New Orleans. In the New York HeyuM ac-
count of this difficulty. Kellogg, in giving
the details of the affair to the reporter, after
stating that dispatch was received to the eff
feet that armed citizens we're assembled in
front of the Court House held by the usur-
pcrs. says:
.Longstreet then said: 4 shall give the
order TO open on Them
"'Why General answered. would YOU
fire on that crowd of people, at the risk of
sacrificing many lives, before there has been
any blood she'd"
"Ies," said lie, "that's the only way to
deal with these people. The ms.ake War;
moth always made was in not being willing
to open fire on the mob We must not fall
into the same error!'
n custom house officer Radical of the
deepest dye. mere reluctant to shed the blood
OF Southern citizens struggling for their rights.
battIin" against foul usurpaiion, than a son of
the South who had in former DAYS been SO
highly honored by his cnnrpatriots It is in>
deed picture that will Gil every Southern
bosom with abhorrcnce towards the man who
thus forgets every instinct of true manhood,
and SELLS his biithright for n mess of pottage
But as he has sown, will he reap Usur-
patton will not always be victorious and the
time will come when James 3. Longstreet will
be consigned to the oblivion which he SO
richly merits.
f-1wns'o Go.) Constitutionazst
ADvEnTlslNG.-The publishers of Mems
phis have united in giving publicity to the
annexed agreement:
''From and after this dat", we will charge
ten cents per line for the first insertion and
i've cents per line for each subsequent inser-
ton ct VII legal advert ertiscmenIs, EXCEPT such
AS may be inserted for thirty days or longer
consecu;,ve!y, which will be charged at card
rate, hy 'he square counting eight lines nom
parle!. solid, to The square. The printers fees
10 be pai in advance III every instance" This
Is an entirely proper movement, particularly
the exact'"n "t advance payment We do not
sHpr"Sc there Is publisher in Virginia whose
hooks do not present. hundreds of dollars due
in the shape Of unpaid legal advertisements.
En paper should accept work or perform ser>
vices for iitigants at less rates than they exact
from others, and this service should be invar
iaby paid for in advance. There never was.
and cannot be, any reason why this class of
advertising should be allowed credit. Let
publishers adopt the cash system with this
legal advertising, and litisants in all cases
where publication IL required as n prereGui-
site to Judgment, will soon learn to '.shell
out."-Lymchhwg RcpuLhcan
A PoHnEuoUs MAcuINE.-The Baltimore
and Obi" Railroad Company have recently
purchased and sent to Piedmont a gigantic
"M0gul" locomotive engine, to be used in
pulling heavy loads of freight up the sevep-
teen>mie grade from Piedmont to Altamont
The engine. which is numbere 425. is the
largest piece of locomotive machinery we
have ever seen. the ordinary ''canel>backs."
&c. looking like very pigmies beside it -
With its tender it weighs forty nine tons. It
was manufactured BY the Danfnrth Lncomo-
tive and Machine Company of Paterson New
Jersev. The 425 is expected to pnll twelve
or fourteen loaded freight up the grade
Railroad men are saneuine of its entire suc>
cess Cumberland afd) Ne'cs.
A SAD SCENE IN REAL LlrE.-A sad and
cFa rT4 ! |.
and death was presented on the death bed of
William a. Robinson, a destiture printer of
I.eavenworth, Kansas. few days since The
doctor who watched by that bedside witnessed
such scene as has very seldom occurred in
the history offs sorrow and rain-pro5ably never
before. As was n double watcher-for death
and birth. Robinson quilted his case forever.
and lay dead in her bed. His wife Law there
with him, and two of the three children. and
also another that first looked upon the world
almost at the instant the father had closed
his eyes upon it,
THE VIRGINIA ATTACHMENT LAW In
Virginia heretofore the man who owned 81
800 worth of real or personal pronertv might
hold it against his creditors. while the clerk
mechanic who had nothing hut his salary
was liable to have that garnished for debt
The inequality of the law in this regard has
now been corrected, the Legislature having
just passed hill exempting from seizure for
debt. by garnishee or otherwise salary of
$50 month of laboriny OF other person.
Washington Star.
CELERT.-This vegetable is said to be one
of the most potent anti>nervine remedies
known. a writer in leading periodical as
serts that he has ''known many men. and
women too, who, from various causes, have
become so much affected with nervousness.
that when they stretched ou. their hands they