Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1843-06-15
E. w. PorrDExrER, Sec'ry.


wheeling Times, has been Iudely assaied by the
editor of the Ohio Republican, Ga near connection
OF President Tyler) in consequence of the State
ment made by MIR. w. conoborative of that of
Mr.. Bolts, in relation to the opinions expressed
by Mr.. Tyler in 1871, as to the course he should
pursue as Vice President, should he be required
to give the casting vote on the incorporation of
a national Bank. This assault has provoked Mr..
Wharton to farther revelations. He declares that
MIR. Tyler said to him, "INe saluaiion of this
government depends upon the election of Mr.. CYav
to the Presidency an lS44;'' and he declares that
mr.: Tyler repeated the remark several times; and
he believes that Senator Preston aud other gen.
tlemen heard the remark made once or twice.
Sno,o IN June!--The Westmoreland Inteligen-
Ger of Friday published at Greensburg, Pa.)
says "T'he weather has been cold and wei in this
region for several days past; and Thursday NOR
ming, the LIST inst, broughta severe frost, accom-
panied by a light shower of snow" They had
snow in Buffalo, New York, on the same morn
ing, and temperature to match. At Albany the
Thermometer fell in some exposures as low as
90, two degrees below freezing.
Kmpcriincnt intrusion n,ediiaied- 1t is stated by
the Boston Atlas that at the Anti-savery Conven-
ton, holden at the Tabernacle on Tuesday, it was
voted TO appoint committee to wait on Presi-
dent Tyler during his visit TO Boston, and re-
quest him to emancipate his slaves; and the
committee was also further instructed to prepare
an address, to be signed by the members of the
Convention, to be delivered to the President on
the same occasion.-Nat Int.
Death Of Mrs. Morrison.-We learn with much
regret, says the Missionary Chronicle, that Mrs.
Morrison, wife Of the Rev. j. H. Morrison, de-
parted this life on the 18th of February. She d-
ed-ln Calcutta, after lingering and painful ill
ness.
The Boston papers mention that among the
persons to be present at the celebration of the
completion Of the Bunker Hill Monument, on the
18th of June, is Gen. GIDEON Foster, resident
OF Danvers, now IS years old. He commanded
the Danvers minute men who fought in the battle
of Lexington, and has survived those who served
under him. lie ls>in the enjoyment of excellent
health, and bids fair to live many years longer
Mr.. Thomas Wilcox, aged IS years, died at
Tiverton on Friday last. Mr.. w. was probably
the last of that adventurous band, who, with Col
Barton, afterwards General Barton) as their
leader, captured General Prescott, British officer,
on Rhode Island, during the revolution, and con-
seyed him safely to Warwick.
Electromagnetic Ielegraph.-We are grati6ed
to state that the Board Of Directors of the Bati-
more & Ohio Rail Road Company have piven
permission to Professor MORSE to use the track
OF the Washington road for the purpose of carry
Ing out the intentions of the act of Congress in
reference to his important invention of the Elec-
tro-Magnetic Telegraph. One station of the Tel
egraph will be at some appropriate place in the
Guy Oh washington ana the other IN the city of
baltimore, and the communication between them
will be effected by properly prepared wires laid a.
long the line of the rail road. The object of this
arrangement is to prove what Professor NJ has
already most satisfactorily shown on less ex-
tended scale, that the length of the line of COM
munlcatlon presents no obstacle whatever to the
instant transmission Of intelligence between the
two extremes either by day or night. We pre-
dict for this ardent votary Of science the trium-
plant success that he so we'll merits
AwKwARD.-A man has recently returned TO
Louisville, after twenty years absence, TO find
that his wife supPosing him dead, had married
and buried, in the interim, two other husbands.
and was in her mourning weeds waiting Cor a
fourth applicant. They were mutually reioiced
to see each other, and forthwith called in the par
son to "hitch" them again, which was done in
due form.
.4ndubon the Orn;uoiogist.-Dr. C. B, Smith.
OF Baltimore, has received letter from this dis
tlnguished naturalist, dated son Vermilion river.
aloe miles above st. Louis. May lS, 1843,"
which states that the party are all well, in excel
lent spirits, and that they have procured speci-
mems of several new quadrupeds and birds.