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

"i'SS' sohic VeSpetate ieiiOWS, cnaTDeu WIN
der. Eight persons Were killed. At the last &C
counts large party had fortified themselves, de-
termined TO resist the authorities.
ers- lnierments in Philadelphia for the week end
ing on Saturday, September 22d, amounted to 1873
of which, six were from Cholera.
| 0c,- Deaths in New York for the week ending
Saturday, 22d September, 3G6-2l from Cholera.
O. Deaths registered in London for the week
ending September LIST, were 2796-of which 1868
were from Cholera and 2S4 from Diarrhda.
CANNEr. CoAL-Amost every day the mineral
resources of Kanawha County are being brought to
light. Rich veins of Camel Coal are now discov-
cred in almost all the hills.
To- A negro man named ALrH, who lately muir
dered Mr.. j. ANDERSON, of Crawford County, Ar
kansas, captured and taken TO Bentonville,
where, by vote Of The persons present, Lynch law
was inflicted by hanging. He confessed his guilt
on the scai1old, but implicated white man in the
crowd.
eo- Tho London Times notices serious diff
Guilty as having occurred in the Wesleyan connex-
ion, England, in consequence Of the expulsion by
the Manchester Conference Of three distinguished
members, Rev. Messrs. Everett, Dunn and Grit
fith. The of offence was the refusal.by these
gentlemen to answer questions as 10 their agency
in the ely Sheets" publications censuriug fine ad
minstra,on Of the English Methodist Church
| o. The United States Mail Steam ship, Ohio,
built at New York, is the largest American sea go
ing s,eamsr in this country. 900 tons of metal in
the rough were required in the construction. Ex-
treme length 267 iee.-wdh, DC feot-depth OF
hold up to spar deck, 80 feet She has decks,
draws Is feet inches, registers 275O tons and 600
tons of fuel-total cost, $4,000.
o. Col. Ducouret, celebrated for his travels in
the interior of Africa, has addressed TO the Acade-
my of Science, at Paris, notice Of ne,c RICE of
men in that country, the Ghanes, remarkable for
being cauddted, or having tails formed by elon-
cation Of the vertebrai column.
Gj- Gone to their graves-two more patriots of
the observation-disclosures Perkins, aged 81 years, and
Thomas Brown, los, both of Warren county Ten
nessee.
O. Counterfeit half Eagles are now in circula-
iiCn, much like the original as to have been re-
ceived and paid out at one of the banks without
detection.
01- Veneraon for the female sex is carried to
such extent in San Francisco, that party of O.
regonians lately had dance around an old bonnet.
o. free negro was lately arrested for riding
Jehu- like through the streets of Richmond. He
stated that he was in pursuit of his betrothed, who
had eloped with another colored gentleman. In
consideration of his misfortune the case was dis
charged. Verify, 'the course of true love never
did run smooth"
o. Elk Governor MoREuEAD and Mai HINTON.
of North Carolina, are now in Staunton, on visit
1.-The Western Asylum. These gentlemen have
been commissioned 10 gather information relative to
The organization of such institutions, with view 10
the establishment of similar one in their state,
in accordance with an act of the last Legislature.
REsIGYATIoN OF Mr.. CALHoUN-The PhiIa-
depha North American states that private letter
was received in Philadelphia on Sunday, from a
respectable source in Charleston stating that intel
lIgence had just reached that city, announcing Mr..
Calhoun's purpose to resign his seat in the Senate
of the United States a, an early day.
QUEEN VIcToRIA's PANo.-The splendid piano
of her Majesty Queen Victoria, is completely We
neered with ivory, in sheets from fourteen TO seven
teen feet in length, and thirty inches and upwards
in width from single ELEPHANTS tooth, by spiral
process peculiar to NJ. Pape. 1t is also encrusted
and oTnamented with the rarest woods, forming O.
rgnal designs and rendering worthy of its place
in the new palace of her majesty.
G5- The editor of the Louisville Democrat still
contends pernacously, trst that Gen. Taylor new.
er made any pledges and, secondly, that he has vi
olated all the pledges he ever made 1t is strange
what sort of chaps do sometimes manage to ge
charge of Locoioco organs.-Prcntice.
The Naichez Free Trader says that Mississippi
will reject the principles of the Wings. Very like
ly. A State that repudiates honest debts, is no
unlikely to repudiae honest principles.-b.
DocToRs, ATTEND!-M de Remmer, formerl,
a banker at Hamburg, and who died lately at Ma
pies, has left by will sum of 1905 OOf TO be given t.
any person who shall discover aremedy for Cholera
The execution Of this legacy, should case arise i
cOnfded to the Academy of Medicine at Paris.
&C. The project of Kidding the city Of New YorI
, o! that no!erabe pest, the Five Points, has beer
, brought in before its Common Council in m anne
which promises success.
o. Royal marriages are much upon the tapis a
present. The Emperor of Austria is TO marry
f Saxony princess, and Prince George of Saxony {
be united TO PruSsan Princess. Nothing more
g known about the marriage of Louis Napoleon to tn
Princess of Sweden although it is said to be deter
9 mined upon.
r AN EASY RULE FOR FARMEEs.-A "quarer G
J wheat is an English measure Of eight standar