Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-10-17

TUnxEr.-All honor is proclaimed to Abdel Mes
child and to the Turkish Ministry. They have no.
bly, done their duty, and refused to become panders
TO the vindictve bloodihrstiness Of Joseph and
Nicholas. The Russian Ambassador at the Port
demanded surrender Of the Hungarian officers,
Kossutli, Dembinski, and their companions.
We are rejoiced 10 find that Kossuth and nus
companions are furnished with passports from the
English Ambassador, and that every assistance to
their support will be rendered by England. The
Independence of Turkey should be secured against
the attack of Russia and its vassal, Austria.
MANTELs FROM AUGUSTA MARBLE.-Mr. Pagan
Of Winchester, is manufacturing mantel pieces of
rare beauty from new description OF marble found
in Augusta county, IL miles from Siaunton. This
stone is translucent, Of lawny straw colour Vein
ed throughout, and closely resembles agate Being
capable OF polish fully equal to that ofany marble
known, and far superior to most, its beauty in
large mass may be conceived. On tine completion
of the Plank Road from Stanton To Scotsville may
we not expect to some of this beautiful marble in
the yards Of our own skilful workmen ?-fichr,ond
Tines.
EUROPEAN Charlottesville French Cath
oc ecclesiastical council to be held the spacious
Seminary Of ST. Sulpice on the 18th ult., awakens
interest in large portion of the French communi-
~, besides the universal clergy of France. There
will be similar convocatiOn at Vienna fnr the
Catholic Church Of Germany, and it will be curl
GUS to compare the ultimate decision of each As
Bembty.
A late London letter, commenting on the 'prac-
tice of burying the dead within the limits of that
city, says that one spot ofground only IA feet square
had over $4,000 bodies buried in it within fifty
years; and 5000 within the last two years An-
other lot of of ground of less size has had over H.
OO0-bodies buried in it in nineteen years.
RELIGIOUS DISPUTE IN THE BER&UD,s.-The
Bermudian of the 18th ult states that thirty wears
Nu,~D G. al
land clergy by the people of Bermuda. Il will
soon expire. new bill included five hundred dol
lars year to the Methodist, and at this the hiph
Church party have kicked, and thrown cut the sill
in pet.
A freshet having carried mill some ways down
a stream, the miller found it with this inscription,
which some wag had chalked upon it in large let
tiers:
.'This mill went by water,
"A good deal farther than it oughtr
Mr.. Arban, French eronaut, assembled in his
balloon from the chateau des Fleurs, (he Vauxhall
of Marsaes at half past six in the evening of the
I'd inst, and alighted at the village of Pion Forte,
near Turin the following morning at half past two,
having accomplished the distance Of 400 miles, in
eight hours.
A LAW QUESTION ,--sThe estate that was left -
said an lrishman to his lawyer 'was pig and a
bushel Of potatoes, which were to be divided be-
tween the heirs, myself and brother. The Execu-
tors smut the pig up with the potatoes, and during
the night he ate them all up, and now we want to
know how we are to divide the property!"
A USEFUL MAN.-Nm. Goodwin, of New Ha-
Ven states in one of the papers of that CITY, that du
ring the last four years he has watched the beds OF
the sick and dying one thousand and one nights,
and that he was never poorer in purse, richer in
health nor higher in spirits that the present time
o. Two Doctors discoursing Of the number of
their cases respectively, the one remarked tina, he
usually cured more than75 per cent of his patients.
The other coo!ly observed, that he had never made
an accurate estimate but knew that his cures were
considerably over roo per cent.
TARRED AND FE4rHgRrD.-h man was found
In rather too intimate terms with married LADY, at
Camden, Nj, on Sunday night when the hus-
band and friends, seized him. and having pentifulIy
coated him with tar, then well teathered him, and
turned him loose.
THINGS AT RoME.-At Rome all is uncertainty.
and wholesale arrests take place without the obser-
walton of legal forms. Every one sees crisis i'm
pending; but whether it will be for good or evil is
doubtful. The misery the people increases daily,
and with it their hatred of tile priests.
o. II ever Christianity appears in Is power, it is
when 1t erecs its trophies upon The tomo; when it
takes up its votaries where the world leaves them.
and fills the breast with immortal hope in dyino
momens.-Robert Hall.
0o- A gentleman looking upon an extensive con-
aagration, expressed his surprise in three words
each the name Of an English author
dickens, Ho,oin, Bmnsr'
WNDFALL.-The Syracuse journal estimates
the amount ofmoney left there by the visitors at the
IT,