Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1882-04-18

Mr.. NJ. 81. De Young, editor of the San
Francisco Chronicle, the leading Republican
paper on the Pacific ceast, says the vsto of
the Chinese bill will result in sending solid
Democratic delegations to the next Congress
from California, Oregon, Nevada, Colorado
and Washington Territory.
The MOrganNercury says: "Ths Charles
town Spirit and many other newspapers ere
coming out strongly in favor of Hos. Daniel
B. Lucas for Congress. He certainly is a
worthy man for the position and ought to
have it. Tho party he has SO faithfully
served can find no better man in theis ranks
Messrs. D. E. strasburg and T. N. Argen>
bright have sold thcir interest in Tho Staun-
ton Spectator to Mr.. Richard Mauzy, senior
partner of the firm. and the paper will hers>
after be conducted by Mr.. Mauzy alone Tho
spectator is enc of the very best Of cur Yir>
GINA exchanges, and has our sincere wishes
for continued success.
The Baltimore Sun, with its accustomed
enterprise and liberslity, presented to it's
subscribers, last Tuesday, map of that city,
showing the new ward and precinct divisions.
In addition to the new ward and precinct d.
visions, the map of the city itself is new
and excellent one, showing all streets, lanes,
public squares, car lines, &c.
Senator H. G. Davis and Ex-secretary
Window, VIM. Keyser, and Civil Engineer
Siekles, left Washington Thursday, for
Moorefeid, w. Va, via Winchester, Va, to
take an observation of the country between
the latter places and the mineral and lum-
Der resources of that region. From Moore
field they will extend their exploration west
ward through Hardy and Grant counties.
The most important political measure which
has engaged the attention of the Virginia
Legislature this year-the gerrymander of
the State, by which eight out of the ten con-
gressionai districts OF the State were to DO
Esde Republicsn-was defeated in the Sen
ats last Thursday. The balance of power in
the Senate was held by hIess5s Williams and
Wingfeld, two Republicans, and the Read
justers made every effort to induce these
gentlemen to give their support to Maho7e's
reapportionment scheme, but without avail.
A Washington correspondent writes to
the Wheeling Register, April 11th, as fol.
lows:
William F. Wilaon, now resident of
Martinsburg, ". Va, was, before the rebsl>
lion, an armores at 'Harper's Ferry. He
bought lot there from the United States
and built himself thereon a house. Whom
the war came on aud the Federal troops o.
eupied Harpcs's Ferry, they ineontinently
tore down Mr.. Wilson's house end made
ovens, shelters, &C., out of the brick and
material Wilson now seeks reparation.-
The red tspe department rules here have
offered him few months rent for the dam
age he sustained, but claim that thew have
no authority to pay him for the value of the
house that the troops destroyed. Dir. Will
sons friends, having laid the facts of the case
before Representative Hoge, that gentleman
has introduced a bill, the provisions of
which authorize the Court of Claims to take
Jurisdiction of this case.
Tho eOnjeotured coming lady of sbo " hite
Ho8se turns out to be q native of this ooun-
~, as appears from the following bit of
Washington correspondence of the Wheeling
Register. Says the correspondent:
Judge Blackburn, who used to live at
Martinsburg, and who is now practiciDg law
In Washington, told mo, some days since.
that Mrs. Craig Wadsworth, who has been
SO prominent at late Presidential receptions,
aud who, it is reported, is about to marry
President Arthur, was a West Virginia girl,
born and reared in Jefferson county, near the
present ccur.y scat. She belonged to the
Peters family, who once owned farm in
Jefferson, and wers descended from Richard
Peters, who is sat down as being celebrated
wit and jurist in his day and generation, and
also as being an intimate friend of General
George Washington. Tho present Mrs.
Wadsworth is granddaughter of Washing
toms friend, and is said to be as wise and
witty as her great ancestor.
President Arthur says that Gail Hamilton
told him, that she heard Henry Ward
Beechsr say that Anna E. Dickinson heard
that there was no doubt that Charlotte Cush-
man said, that Vic Woodruff thought that
LongfellOw had told Bob Ingersoll that Lolita
had declared to Ben Butler that it was gen.
orally believed that Edwin Booth said in
plain terms that he heard Gov. Mcclellan
say, that his friend Harriet Beecher Stowe
had said that Geo. Francis Train Informed
her, that it was we'll known all over the
country that Maggie Mitchell had caught
Tom Scott in saying that in his opinion it
was matter of fact and of great interest to
the public, that the author of "Ginx's Baby"
had said that John G.. Whittier told him
that Mary A. Livermore reported that evcry-
body thought that-W. A. Kohlhousen's,
Charlestown, West Virginia, and Berryville,
Virginia, we're the best places to purchase
watches, clocks, jewelry, silvet>ware and
speotaeles, or have your time>piOces repaired
in the best manner.