Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1848-07-26


they had declined. This arrangement not having
been made, certainly did not s,,s ,ect, or erpcct,
an an6scade reply, one or ttco months afterwards
tohcn could NOT be present
Very Respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
SHELTON +. LEAKE..
The BROKEN SwoRD-The false claims set IN
by the Cass men, that their candidate was the hero
OF the sword-breaking after Hull's surrender
is Stili occasionally put forth among persons who
have not the means Of detecting the fraud We
suppose is the "noise and confusion of the crowd''
at cleveland, that prevents Gen. Cass himself from
coming out to dscam all right to the honor proper
ly belonging TO dead hero
On referring TO Niles Weekly Repister of Sep
TENDER 10Th, 1912, we find the following para
graph. under the head of 1.-THE Surrender of De
troit ~
"When Col. .Mc.4rthur's sword was demanded
he broke it into three pieces, tore his epauleils from
his shoulder, and stamped them on the ground
and, overcome with modification, threw himself up.
on the EARTH and wept. His brave spirit will have
satisfaction for this outrage upon it,"
Col. Macarthur commanded a detachment of mi
litia from Ohio. Senator Allen who married \
daughter of the Colonel, knows perfectly well that
the attempt TO transfer from McAuthur to Cass the
honor OF Indignantly denouncing the surrender by
Hull, is as unjust as 1t is base-and vet he stands
quietly by, and sees the real hero robbed of his au
res, 10 adorn the brow OF one who made protest
against the surrender, at the time, nor murpured
until all was over !-IPinchester Republican.
DESPERATION OF THE Observation-Disclosures %
the intelligent correspondent of the Batlmore Pa
triot, thus speaks of the movements in New York
on the part of the old politicians:
"What are the Old Hunkers in New York 90
ing 10 do now? | see it stated that they propose
10 take down their Cass Electoral Ticket and frame
a new one. They are not too honest to desert Cass
altogether, and put up the same ticket which the
Barnburners will nominate in favor of Van Buren,.
If the old Hunkers do this-and it is said that Gov
Marcy has advised the step-they will swear their
ticket is Cass ticket, although they well know it
Will II elected, give the vote of the State to Van
Buren, Such Is their true character They aim
to carry the State by such move, against TAYLOR.
But it won't do! They are too late Old Rough
and Ready will carry New York by sweeping
vote. The penny and the neutral papers are al
ways pretty sure TO scent which way the wind is
blowing. They know thing or two, and they
love TO be on the strong side The Journal of
Commerce says Taylor will carry New York by a
plurality OF lOO,OOO votes, and the New York Her
aid openly proclaims that all the pills that Bran
dreth or any body else may manufacture can't save
the democratic party, because it and its candidate
are doomed past all redemp,ion!"
The ARMY BILL-An important measure PASS
ed the House o! Representatives on the 18th inst.
Mr. Bolts, from the Committee of Conference ON
the disagreeing votes of the two Houses, on the
bill to repeal The proviso OF the act of the 18th of
june 1876, which requires at the close of the war
reduction IN the number Of general officers OF the
army, made report, recommending each BODY TO
recede from some of its Positions and to adopt the
bill with notifications
This bill retains in service Generals TAYLOR.
TwigGs, and Kearney, and the fifteen additional
Majors added to the old regiments Of the army-
also the officers added to the Medical, Pay and
QuarteTmaser's department, aud the three Adm
tant GeneralS-also officers who had been transfer
red from the old army into tho regiments raised for
the war-and provides three months extra pay for
all officers and men who actually served in the war
with Mexico
The bill so agreed to was read, and the report of
the committee Of conference (incudinp the bill !
was concurred in by the House, and the Senate no.
titled thereof.
1t is supposed The Senate also concurred in the
report OF the committee, on Wednesday,
TIE -Four DAYS FIGHrING-The Boston Ad-
veriser publishes letter from an American gentle
man in Paris, giving detailed account of the re-
date June 9th
Having member of the National Guard TO drive
our carriage, we have to-day gone through every
pace and street where the contest has taken place
| The number of barbados was more than BOOT
am astonished that the insurgegts have been mas.
tered-not less than $4,000 of these people defend
ed the barbados with arms. ] will make no at
tempt TO describe the scene we have witnessed To-
day. Think of four days fighting in the streets Of
city, and two days of cannonading and firing o.
shells, and you may imagine what we have seer
to-day. | must clOse-what has occurred will
greatly strengthen the Republican cause. ! think
IT will Indefinitely, but certainly, put far off the
preensons of Henry ", Count de Paris, and Lou
is Napoleon.
| The ExPEDlENT WoN'r Dove have a1rea
dy adverted to what the Democrats call their "ban
Ply expedent" to unite the dissf1ected in n. York
The Barnburners, we believe, reject the embrace,
Of the Hunkers, and therefore the Gig is up -
| The Herald says :-Winch. Rep.
"Some of the old abolition leaders-tbo T,n,,n.
! and their asSOclateS-have come out with mani
festo against any amalgauation between the orio
nal anlislavery party-cOmprisng sixty Thousand
votes az the last Presidential eleclOn-and the new
| parry oil barnourners, set in motion by Mr. Var
| Buren,. There are differences ofopnon among al
those factions; but it is highly probable that III,
most violent, the most ultra, will carry the day.
The SWEET LITTLE FELLowil-The Loco
affect to think very little Of the detection of the
old iayorlte. But if we Judge by their acts, we
should form very different conclusion They
have already shed as much ink in abusing him a,
there was blood shed during the four DAYS in Paris
| The Albany Argus devotes eight columns day Il
him-and The Washington Union has approDria
ted not less than RDTty-flye lis last nurnha, co,