Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1832-07-27
IRELAND.


1itheS, the Gospel, and The Bdyonet.-
The desperate fidelity with which
the peasantry adhere to their resolution
of perSevering in passive resistance to
tithes, is very remarkable. A correspon-
dent informs, that all auction of distrain-
ed cattle took place on Monday, on a
town-land ne r Rathangan, in presence
of loo, 900 people. There were portions
of five regiments (having two pieces of
artillery and about 300 police, to super
intend the proceedings The mutt
tude were addressed by the parish priest,
(the Rev. Mr.. Dune his curate (the
Rev. Mr.. Waters, the Rev, M. Bren-
nan, p. p. of Kildare, and Mr. Christie
pher Quih of Robertstown. There was
not the slightest violation of the peace,
and as soon after the sale as the names of
purchasers were announ ced by the auc-
tioneer the vast assemblage dispersed.
Our informant states that he has at
tended auctions, at which the owners of
cattle worth Go apiece, suffered them to
be sold for IS. On one occasion he saw
two cows and two heilers knocked down
for IS, cd. per head !!
Dublin Morning paper.
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Cholera.-Dubiin, May 29.-Total ca
ses in Ireland, (including Dublin and
Cork, from the commencement, 62I4-
deaths, 1863.
<SeEAp-
We had an opportunity of seeing one
of the neatest things in the way OF
presents we ever met with. 1t was a
walking stick, of arbor Vita, cut from a
tree growing at the tomb of Cicero,
transmitted as gift to Mr. Clay, from
an officer of the Navy, now in the Med
iterranean. 1t has head ofagate, or
some stone resembling it, which is sur
rounded, where it joins the stick, by a
silver band bearing this inscription
"FRoM TIE ToMB OF CICERO FOR HEN
RY CLAY" This is compiment,a at re-
ceiving which, no man of any sensibili-
ty, situated as the Orator Of the West
is, but must feel highly graiifed. 1t
was accompanied by an elegant Letter
from the Unconstitutional Int.
4 false alarm.-Our citizens were
greatly alarmed on Monday night by the
arrival Of an express from the country
stating that about twenty negroes were
in state of insurrection within six miles
of the town, who had already commit
ed sundry depredations, &c. The mill
tary were Immediately ordered out, and
| detachment sent in pursuit of the sup
posed insurgents, but they soon returned
without finding the enemy-none such
in fact existing, save in the excited i'm
aginations of few people in the neigh.
borhood, whose fears had outran their
| discretion, and who had mistaken an at
tempt by several negroes 10 rob meat
house for a revolt Winchester Virg.
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| COUNTERFEITER DETECTED.
A man who Is known to have resided
in the City ofRichmOnd, some years a.
90, and whose name is ArchiJud S.
Armstrong, passed through this place a
| few DAYS since. Whilst his horses were
eating az one Of our public houses, he
went into two ofthe Stores, and purcha-
sed pair of stockings in each he paid
for them by getting, at both places. a
ten dollar Note changed, on the u. S.
Bank, payable at Philadelphia. On the
succeeding day, it having been discov-
cred that be had passed several notes OF
the same description, at the public hou-
ses in th;5 county, he was pursued by
three of our active citizens, who arrest
ed him twenty three hours after their
departure, in the town Of New London,
Campbell 7~ - Mr. Arms; -ong Lay.