Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-10-24

'we do not believe foreign affairs have been so
mseraby %'smanased at any period Of our history as
took to discharge the duties OF tho Office Of Secretary of
State. - Union.
The Union may well complain.of,h the manner in
which Mr.. Clayton has handled its '.ioreign rela-
tons" During the last administration they had a
good time Of it, comparatively speaking. The
King of Prussia had the uso OF the United States
navy yards, in fitting out war-s,eamers to keep the
rebellOus Germans in subsection. MIR. Clayton put
a stop to that business, aGd of course denounc
ed by all the supporters ofthe monster spirit of the
reactionary movement in Central Europe.
Again, Mr.. Buchanan did not desn to notice NJ.
Poussin's first communication upon the matter of
nj. Ports tobacco speculation, and SO the Unions
French "relatons' did not get into snar with
Mr.. Buchanan. Mr.. Clayton, however, treated
Nj PoussiI's despatch with more consideration and
courtesy and, for so doing, was thanked pretty
much as the captain of the French ship Eugene
acknowledged Commander Carpenters generosity
in getting his vessel of tie reef of Rise. The
Union's "French relations" behaved very "mis-
erably' throughout that business.
Again: The Union's British relatonso caught
up naked Indian and made him king of the Mus
quito, and through him laid claim TO valuable
coast upon the gulf of Mexico. All this was done
whilst Mr.. Polk was President, Mr.. Buchanan
Secretary Of State, and the Union was organ. We
learn, FROM some omnous grumblinSs i'm the Union
that lis British relations have not enjoyed the
IMMUNITY ''snce Mr.. Clayton undertook todischarge
the duties of Secretary of State"
1t was generally believed that a man by the
name of Rey was kidnapped at New Orleans, and
taken to Havana, at the instance of the governor
general of Cuba, and through the nstrumeniay
of the Spanish consul at New Orleans. The Gov
eminent demanded, in a manner which made tri-
fling dangerous, Reys release and his prison doors
were opened and himself brought back to the Uni
ted States. The Spanish government has not a
vowed the act charged against its officers, has
the governor general acknowledged his participa-
ton in the wrong. But whether they do or not,
the Spanish consul has been held to answer before
our own tribunals; and if an American jury find
him guilty of the outrage alleged against him, one
| of the Unions "foreign relations" will be apt To
do the State some service in very secure place
Indeed, the Union's foreign affairs do not flour
ish under MIR. Clayton's management of the office
of Secretary of State but foreign affairs of the u
nlied States do, and this we think of more import
ance to the people than the success of any body's
'hreign relations. Washington Republic.
The TRANCED CHILD AT BANGoR-Readers
probably remember the story of the little girl at
Bangor, who apparently died of Cholera, bat revv-
ed, and said she had been to Heaven, where she
saw her mother and where she was to 90 again on
the following Sunday. The Bangor Wing of the
18th gives the sequel as follows:
On Sunday afternoon Mr. Daniel Warren a very
worthy, religious man, who has been much among
the cholera patients, feeling perhaps, little moved
by curiosity, called to the little girl and address,
ing her cheerully, told her that she appeared better
and would soon be well, and get out in day or
two.
"Bnt Pm going TO mother again at four O'Clock :"
she quietly and softly said
"When, tomorrow 2"
"No, today
MIR. Warren endeavosed to turn her attention to
hopeful prospects of recovery but the little sufferer
was fast sinking away-the death rattle was heard
and she ceased to breathe, her pulse stopped
and the fxedness of death impressed upon her
beautiful counienance She dead. Mr.. War
rem looked at the town clock, in the distance, from
the window for there was no clock in the house,
and il four O'Clock.
While bordering upon, to him, the singular coin
cdences in this case, and abont half an hour had
passed, new signs of life appeared, and again the
spirit ofthe sweets girl returned She asked for water
and said she was tired and sunk away into a quiet
sleep.
Since then she has been gradually recovering but
the elder sister who watched her so tenderly, and
who would so willingly have accompanied her to live
with her mother in heaven, was the next day taken
with the cholera and the following day died and
was buried.