Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1846-12-03
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The Hon. Shelton #. Leake is a candidate e.,
reelection to Congress in the Albemare district.
Dr. MtGutiey is delivering course of popula,
lectures, IN Charlottesville, on the Evidences ol
Christianity. "
Inc Potomac (Jeilerson) Rife company. under
the command of Maj Hamtramck. have tendered
their services 10 the Governor
The Grand jury of the City of New York have
investigated the Infamous outrage committed in the
ia'e elecllon, by bringing in prisoners from Black
"ellS Island TO vote, and made presentment.
The Hon. John Quincy Adams has had sliobt
attack of paralysis. from which he was recove1inn
at the last accounts
The powder mill of JAS Beatty. esq. ncar Raj
tlmore, blew up few DAYS ago. and five Of the
workmen Were killed.
! 1t is said that both the Pennsylvania T.. = So
majors voted the Wing ticket at the late election
Tins needs confirmation
! In the list Of articles for which prerniums ,vero
awarded at the Agricultural Fair in Lewis countv
New York, is the following BEST Comforter,
Miss Harriet Sheldon''
U-Ihe steamer Atlantic, which plies between
new ork and Boston, was driven aground in
gaze lew Gays ago, and forty lives were lost.
@G-Flour, in Richmond, dull at So so
- Experiments have been made in Richmond with
Gun Cotton, manufactured at Mr. O. A. Strpcl,ar,s
laboratory, which proved entirely satisfactory On
grain of the Cotton, at the distance oP ton MOO
drove pistol ball through one inch plank III
charge was increased TO two grains which shot Tho
ball through two | inch planks, and burs.ed the
pistol. '"o
1t is said that Macintosh. the celefro,ed Won
kee India rubber manufacturer has contracted for
raising the Great Britain Steamer. affer the moe,
sklliui English Engineers have Abandoned the nro-
ject. P'o-
The Charleston Patriot announces that the ..paI-
metto Regiment Of South Carolina. has been "r
dered by the Governor OF that State to nren,r, to
go to Mexico in obedience to the late rcousiton If
the President i''''''o' vi
we learn from an article in the Romnev JnteIl
gencer, that destructive malady. called Soye
i"odt Is raging IN the neighbOrinp counties. UonD
sure s! rendeton, and Hardy in Virginia Mr.. David
smith has lost Two children Mr.. VIM. CunnnC'
nam, one Capt. A. Keteman, one Mr.. Isaac
oonr 90 three Mrs. Mary Whetsel three; Mrs.
t'acIllf two; Mr.. Layton, two Mr. Van -. Bond
TWO; Mt Johns. Bond. three Mr. Jacob Wise
one and Mr.. Martin Wise. two or three ,Tbc
uiseasc Is represented to be oathsone and wretch
t t i'lalacy which has thus far bafcd the skill of
the medical faculty.
iowA.-The Iowa Gazette of the t4tb uI,inoo
(LocofOco) re aflrms that the I,ocococos have =
majority IN the State Legislature on Joint ballot of
% or - and that they have carried their entire
State ticket by or COO majority
-, wliter IN the New Orleans Tropic AYERS that
inc SZ'UOo.OOO seized upon by Santa Anna were ia
Ken with the sanction of Great Britain This. we
imagine, is grautou5 assertion-and not the loss
key TO be 50. If it be true as is stated in another
quarter, that Mr.. Pakenham, the British Minister
10 inc United States, was a stakeholder TO the ev-
ZEN Of SlOOOO, in the Conducta plundcred by the
Mexican General. Wv
. CRUEL AsD UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT. The
Albany Evening Journal respectfully reouesfs the J
'ul'or OF the Washington Union to publish in that :
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