Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-11-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

of the 18th says:
The sales heard of day comprised gro head n.
verage weight 200 lbs. at So Is I70 do. ay wi n
bout 200 lbs. at 81 SO. and $50 av. wi. 20Olbs a,
265 per 100 lbs. net 90 do. at So Is GROSS There
were about ten or twelve houses cutting TO- day. and
Hogs beginning to arrive quite freely.
The Paris. (Ohio.) Citizen has the following -.
HoGs-The traders have been backward in en-
terng upon the hog trade, this fall-but we suppose
that The price may now be regarded as settled at
what our Farmers consider exceedingly low rates.
we heard oi sa'eson Monday last, at ST. rs per 100
lbs gross on four months, and at 81 e. and as low
as 5 80 cash.
OMNIBUS BUSINESS IN New YoRx-An ompi.
bus driver communicates some interesting statistics
10 the Evening Post:
We have three hundred and seventy six licensed
omnbuses now running, owned by some dozen or
more different proprieiors. Each omnibus costs
S55O. making their aggregate cost S206 500 Each
Omnibus 01n earns on an average $40 day. and So
GOO yaar. The whole earn $500 per day. and
81 ,l2S,OOQ a.%ear. Their expenses always rated
at So, each per day, and ) 500 year, making the
aggregate cost of the whole 1854 600 year. The
profit, therefore, of each omnibus TO its proprietor
is So day, end 81 500 year and the nett profit
OF all the omnibuses in the city, is S5G4,000
Swiss COLLEGE IN ST. LOUISA number of
professors and teachers from Geneva, who recently
arrived IN this country have purchased ground and
commenced erecting college at ST. Louis. gho
professors and teachers have gone to work in Oct
ting out the materials, quarryIng rock &C., for tho
buildings Another party is expected shortly. The.
buildings will be chiefly erected, and the grounds
improved and embelIrshed by the personal labor of
the Professors, Teachers and those connected with
them They are all, connected by family or social
Ties; Tue institution will not be sectarian and
\he widest range of collegiate edu-
RoME.-Le,ters from Rome Of the 18th saw that
much excitement prevails in TIE civ. Several
young men have been arrested for sinuinp tho Mar
settles Hymn IN the streets. Instead Of singing the
people indulge in prose Rotations Placards with
enormous letters, calling on the people for the death
OF the Red 1riumvirae and death 10 the Priests.
cover the walls OF the Eternal Ci,y.S~ Several al
temps on the lives of the French officers have been
made.
0!- The editor Of the Democrat is tickled because
the LondSn Times, the organ of the aristocracy Of
ola England, assals President Tayors Admins.
tralion. Great Britain, to be sure NAV not where
questions OF national honor and national rights are
concerned, get along as easily with this Aminisra-
ZION as she did with the last. She will find, if she
has not already found, that. in its vocabulary, $40
4U does not mean 49o.-Lou Jour.
An AGED JUDGE.-Hon Samuel S. Wilde tbe
ocogenarlan Judge of the supreme Judicial Courtof
Massachusetts, graduated at Dartmouth College in =
!o9 just oo years ago yet his eye is not dim nor
y
courts, and preserves his wanted vgor and interest
IN the dicharge of duty. He makes no use Of
glasses.
TENNEssEE.-Parties in the Tennessee Leoisla-
ture are exactly equal. The Democrats have Three
majority in one House, the Wings have uree in
me other; on JOINT ballot there is TIC Hence,
when they go into convention for elections there ia
dead lock, and nobody is elected. Thew tried to
elect Judge on the l9th ultimo but gave it up az
ter Tour baliotngs, tie and tie all the time
DANGERoUs FoUNDATIoN.-Cleveland Ohio. ia
said to beunder!adby extensive auicksand which
has lately occasloned serious landslide into the
lake, carrying with it several houses. The cavino
In, however, was gradual, and the occupants had
time To save themselves and furniture Such land
slides have occurred there before
From MExIco-Dates have been received at
New Orleans from the City of Mexico to the Goth
OF October bringing intelligence that Vii Cava, a
Lieutenant Col Of Cavalry, has raised the standard
OF revolt in favor of General Santa Auna
In Corula the instruction had been suppressed
and the leaders executed.
o. young gentleman feeling restless in church
leaned forward and addressed an old gentleman
thus
pray sir, can you tell NE rule without an ex.
ception?"
''Yes sir" he replied, ga gentleman always be-
HAYES well in church."
keNEw MExIco-DELEGATE CHosEN-A San
'es'Fe correspondent of the St. Louis Republican
states that an election has been held in New Mexi
co.. at which Hugh Smith was chosen Deliberate TO
Congress lie adds that Mr.. Smith is now on his
way TO take his seat in the House at the ensuinp
session.
90 A few days since, says letter from Quincy
In ILLINOIS, about fifty negroes, of all ages and sexes
with teams, stampoded from the Missouri side of
me river. The slaves were overhauled on Satur-
day morning, and after desperate resistance and
The loss of their leader, they were captured
PACIFIC RAILROAD SURvEY.-A corps of topo-
graphical engineers under orders in Texas
10 examine the country between Fulton on Red riy-
er and El.paso on the Rio Grand with view of
-asceraining route for the Pacific railroad The
report OF the engineers will be laid before Congress
at an early period.
Co Father Matthew has declined all public hon.
ors for The future. they arecaiculaed TO reard his
abOrsa and tax his strength loo much He desires that
if money and time are TO be expended at all. they
may be for the contamination of the main object.
tie promotion of temperance.
06- Sir Henry Lyt;on Buwer, the new accred-
tied minister TO the United States accompanied by
Lady BuIwer, left London on the 25h ultimo. for
Liverpool, there to embark for New York 10 enter
on his diplomatic duties at Washngion-.M YorIs
E1preSS.
o. wedding came off last Friday in the county
prison OF PntSburg, (Pa.) young man. now
serving out three years sentence for arson, was
married to bride who is at liberty. She went to-
prison TO marry him.
W correspondent writing from the city of Sals
Lakes, states that the laws Of the community permit
the men TO have as many wives as they can support
ana mat some of the older ones have twenty, but