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MAPLE SUGAR.-A good man will make six OF
seven hundred pounds in three weeks. The nah
that took The premium in 1916. kept all vessels
clean. He runs the hot sugar in cOnca vessels,
having half inch hole plugged at the bottom, I'M
I'll the sugar was thoroughly hard then put three
layers Of woollcn cloth on the top, and pour on
pint Of water every morning for three weeks in
succession. The water looked like brown Uolasses,
and The sugar when done like loaf sugar.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-06-27
DON'T ALL SPEAK AT ONCE!
House and Sign Painting, Paper
HGnging, &c.

FENHE subscriber would announce to his friends
u and the public that he is now out upon his
own hook, and will take great pleasure in wai,ing
upon his friends in this and tho adjoining Counties
He f1atters himself that from his long experience
in the above business his work will compete with
any done in this Country. All work entrusted to
him will be done with neatness, durability and de-
spatch. Give me call before engaging your wok
GEORGE A. ARNlENTROUT.
Staunton, May 9, lS49.-6m.
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new wreath called ''Opbelia" has found favor
with the fsshionables Of Paris and is worn at balls
1T is composed entirely Of wild flowers, which are
arranged in fantastic and Irregular STYLE as if en-
twined by Sbakespeare's gentle heroine in her flights
of mental wandering.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-06-27

DR.. Hurteaux, Of Paris, has published state
ment that the use Of tobacco is preventative a.
gainst the cholera, TO great extent Of20G0 PEG
pie engaged in lis manufacture, ne found but twelve
persons who had been attacked. Vidal, Diemer-
brook and Ruef, all agree in this opinion, and DR..
Moore says tobacco injections will cure the disease.
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-06-27

AENoLD THe rRAIroR.-At the close Of the revo
lutlonary War, Arnold retired TO ENGLAND. ,vbere
the British monarch did all in his power 10 make
HIM acceptable,but failed. DESTROYS ofmaknp Ar
mold known TO the Earl Of Bacarras, he personally
LED them together. After going through the usual
form OF introduction, Arnold extended his hand 10
the Earl. "
What, slr,' said the latter TO the King, at the
same Time drawing himself up to the proudest
height, rs this the traitor Arnold 2 and walked
haughtly away.
The hand Of Douglas was his own
Arnold challenged the Earl-they met and Arnold
who fred first missed his antagonist. The proud
nobIemau instead of dschargicg his pistol, dashed
il to the ground.
stay, my lord, exclaimed Arnold. You have
not had your shot
NO replied the Earl, indignantly. 1leave you
to The tangsn,on :" 80
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Iseady.nadc Clothing,

consisting in part, of Fine Cloth Frock, Dress and
Business Goats of all colors Silk, Cotton, Tweed
Summer Cloth and Jeans Goats Black Cloth and
Fancy Casssimere Pants, a great variety ofSum-
mer Pants; Black and Fancy Satin, Silk and Plaid
Vest, and every article for Gentlemen's underwear.
Without individually opposing anybody, we offer
our Goods cheaper than ever sold in tho town Of
Staunton, and comparing in prices with any other
establishment in the State Our connections in
Baltimore and steady receipts throughout the sea-
son, enable us TO have stock well assorted we
therefore most earnestly solicit the patronage ofthe
citizens of S,aunton and County of Augusta, and
beg leave TO inform them that they would do well
to cap and examine our stock before purchasing
elsewhere.
o. Store Room in the Basement of the Virginia
Hotel, next door to the Law Office of Baylor s.
Coiner. WALDEAUR g. POLLITZ.
Staunton, May 2, lS49.-tf.
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a YANKEE CoUNr.--A New Hampshire paper
says that Count RinzerchoF. distinguished Rus
sian General. is native of Meredith in that state
and his real name is Thomas f. Williams,
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-06-27

Thirteen f0unces are not too many for the dress
Of lady who wishes 10 be % Ia mode in London.
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THE PLACE FOR BARGAINS!
The baltimore Clothing Store.

V>IlE undersigned take pleasure in informing all
who are in want of cheap and good Clothing,
that they have opened in the town Of Staunton, a
large and well assorted stock Of
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RIVER BURIALs.-The last Carlo Delta, gives
the following account Of steamboat burial at that
place
ga child was buried at the Point last Sunday
morning. 1t had died Of the cholera on the sic amer
Winfield Scott, and was buried as il had died,
without coffin or box. A stranger placed twolt-
tie sticks at the head and foot Of the shallow grave.
which alone point the spot TO notice. The dead Of
this boat were buried coffinless all the way up,
there being no plank on board, and we suppose no
carpenter"
Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-06-27

NLWsPAPERs.-THEIRV ALuE.-Jhe Z. States
IS literally country Of newspapers No,.other peo-
PIE read so extensively. In no other country are
the masses so generally educated, and in no other
are newspapers socheap The National Integen-
Ger, published at Washington, could not be bought,
so its editor says, for 100000 1t is stated tina; one
half Of the Baltimore Patriot was sold recently for
$4,000, the Boston Atlas was sold fer $4,000,
and not long since one-ihird of the n. Y. Courier
and EquiTer was sold for $25 900. and one third Of
the n. Y. Evening Post for $4,000.
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POETR Y.
FUR TIE sTAUNToN SPECTATOR.
SONNET.

"Ifcu! quanto minus est. cum rclquis cersni,
guam tai nestinisse"
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THE LATEST ARRIVAL.

TUST received fresh supply of Confectionaries,
- consisting in part Of the following articles.
ORANGES, ALMONDS,
LEMONS, PALMNUTS,
sHy FIGS, ENG. WALNUTS
PRUNES, PECANS,
DATES, FILBERTS, t
RAISINS, GROUND PEAS,
together with supply of CANDIES and other
Confectonaries Of his own manufacture, all of which
will be sold low for cash, or on short credit TO
punctual customers.
Nj. GUSHING.
ALSO-Pickled Oysters and Sturgeon.
Stauuton, May %, lS49.
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-06
THE CONSUL AT PARIS.

The journals of the Opposition are call
ing loudly for the removal of Mr.. ROBERT
WALSH, the Consul at Paris! This is odd
enough. Why did they not ask their own
administration to remove him. Was Mr..
BUCHANAN delicate on the subject of med
ding with an old brother Federalisti Or
was it convenient TO employ the pen of a
ready writer to laud the doings of Mr..
PoLKi
We certainly would not interpose a
word in behalf of Mr.. WALSH. But the
prayer of the Opposition is little insidi-
Gus. Mr.. WALSH would no sooner be
dismissed, than the opposition press would
set up cry of "proscription" from Maine
to Georgia. We should have it placarded
every where-"another head off for opin
ions sake"
The New York Euening Post, which is
strong on the liberty of conscience, begs
the Administration to have the kindness
to remove Mr.. Walsh, on the ground that,
being professional writer for the periodi-
cal press, che is bitterly prejudiced in
favor of absolutism, and he permits no &C.
casion to pass for villifying and calumniat
ing those who are engaged in the struggle
for constitutional freedom"
The Post alleges that Mr.. WALSH, SYM
pathizing with Louis Philippe, attempted
to write down the revolution of lS4S, in
voked on the actors in that revolution the
contempt of Christendom, and used all his
abilities and the advantages of his position
to throw obstacles in the way of establish.
ing the republic, and to effect the restora-
ton Of the monarchy-and was habitually
guilty of grossly disappearing the mo-
tives and conduct of the defenders of lib
erty throughout Europe. His position as
our Consul, the Post insists, "makes our
country and government in some degree
responsible for what he is doing" The
Post adds;
"It was but few months ago that Mr. Walsh,
in one of his letters for publication in this country,
declared, apparently upon the authority Of conf
dental official communications from those who had
the power to bring about the fulflment Of their own
prophecies, that most all Of those who had been
efficient leaders in the movements before which the
monarchy fell and the revolution was effected,
would soon be in prison, or IN exile, or would have
fallen by the sentence Of courts-msrtia. And this
statement he made with satisfaction hardly con-
cealed, and the event has well proved the accuracy
of his information. He has been the jealous de-
fender Of ali the usurpatons Of Louis Napoleon and
the apologist Of the outrage upon Rome. Such a
man certainly is unfit 70 represent this government,
in any capacity, any where, at any time, but most
especially 10 he unfit TO I'll the station he now does
at Paris We fear that the rumor that il 10 not in
tended to remove Mr.. Walsh is well founded His
retention would be a crime against the cause Of
freedom, which we trust no administration would
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-06
NOBODY DID 1T.
The taIIest Plume clipped.

Ine
1t seems that nobody has plundered the
Treasury in Mr.. DENBY's case, and yet
there are Sl55, 900 gone Mr.. DENNY is
not to blame-of course not; for though he
is ''techr ically" liable, he never received
the money. Mr.. OSBORNE is not to blame;
for though he had the money, he had also
the privilege Of specializing NTH ii y and
it is all gone to the receptacle of things
lost upon earth, though diridend is limited
at for the benefit of the United States.
Judge MASON is not implicated, though he
was Secretary of the Navy, and Mr.. DEN
BY was his temporary agent at Marseilles,
receiving commission of Al per cent on
his advances and on his disbursements, as
we learn from the Blue Book. But this large
commission was not enough for one of the
elite of the distinguished Democrats Of
Richmond. In addition to that commits
sion, it seems that it was part of the bar
gain that Mr.. DENBY, or, what is the same
thing, Mr.. DENBY's agent, should have
the privilege of venturing all his Govern
ment deposites in commercial speculations.
Now, so far from their being nobody i'm
plicated in this transaction, we contend
that each and all of these gentlemen were
implicated. If the Sub-treasury law was
duly observed by the late administration,
how could this defalcation have happened
We were told by Mr.. Polk officially, sew
eral times, that the object of the Sub-trea-
sury law was to prevent the application Of
public funds to private uses. The law
was expressly framed for this purpose.
Did not Mr. Mason know that it was a
violation of that law TO place Government
money in the hands of a commercial house
in Richmond to speculate with, under The
pretence Of forDarding IL TO Francel Did
not Mr.. OSBORNE know that he was part
ner in an iHegal transaction Did not Mr..
DENNY know that he was exposing him
self, by the transaction, to penal liabilities
The result of this operation is, to strip
the late administration of its finest feather.
The financial reputation Of Mr.. WALKER
rests on the operation of the Sub-treasury.
One thing above all others that the Sub
treasury act was warranted to do, was to
keep the public money safe. Moore has
made way with some thousands Of it.
COLLINS has used up from one to two hun
dred thousand dollars. DENLY has made
ducks and brakes of one hundred and fifty
FIVE thousand dollars. Still further delin-
quencies are known to have taken place
in the Navy Department, with the details
Of which the public has not yet been en-
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bringing forward claims, and procuring
the issuing of land scrip and making sale
of it for his clients. He will aver, We
doubt not, that as far as he knows--and
h has euery means Of knovlsdge-neither
Mr.. EWING nor Mr.. HENRY STANsBURY
Through whom there is an attempt to inn
plicate Mr.. EwING) had ever made any
purchases of land warrants from any one,
or of scrip, from any original party, ex-
cept through attorneys capable Of guarding
the rights of their clients. That the con-
duct of both those gentlemen was in all
things highly honorable /; that not word
of complaint was, as far as he knows, ever
uttered against either Of them by any Of
the parties in interest. We have no doubt
that he has informed the senior editor of
the Union of all this, and has told him that
what has been urged in that paper against
the honorable conduct of Mr.. Ewing was
wholly unfounded-a mere personal cal
jimmy, as impolitic as it is unjust.
We believe that the gentleman to whom
we refer has no disposition to do injustice
to Mr.. EWING, and no reluctance to bear
testimony to the propriety and uprightness
of his conduct in these transactions.
Under these circumstances, though we
did not expect an honest recantation, we
felt some surprise at the repetition of the
SANDER. 1t is for our contemporary to
judge whether it is polite to persist in the
falsehood, when he knows that the discon-
ISOLATE widow, of whom Mr.. Ewing pur-
chased, wore pantaloons, and the helpless
little orphan stood six feet high in his stock
ings.
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be guilty of, without mourning almost universal
popular Reproduction"
Now, if any thing should happen to MIR.
WALSH, we hope that the Opposition will
except him from the list of martyrs. If
the late administration has left to the pre-
sent such an inheritance of Objectionable
of6ce-holders, that its own friends call
upon President TAYLOR to remove them,
we hope they will leave off shedding such
copious tears on the occasion of every fig
urative decapitation.
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-06
MIR. EWING,

An article in the Union of the Sd instant
renewing the slanderous attack of that pa
per on Mr.. EWING, recalls our attention
once more to that subject.
1t is well known that the land warrant.
of the officers and soldiers Of the Virginia
State line were purchased up, or got up
from or for the original owners, by few
active and intelligent persons, generally by
lawyers who made it for the time part Of
their professional business; that they some
times took an assignment from the persons
whom they represented-sometimes a
power of attorney, by virtue of which they
sold and transferred the scrip, when is
sued, to their purchasers. Now, to the
application.
In our paper of the 18th July, speaking
of the publication by the Union of the
pretended copy of part Of report made
by the Secretary of the Treasury to Con-
gress in 1S42, purporting to show certain
items of land scrip purchased by Mr.. Ew-
ING, and of whom purchased-we say,
that the record was falsifed in this, that
"by emitting intermediate assignments, or
the names in the assignments of attorneys
who are publicly known as large dealers,
it brings the name of Mr.. EWING in the
connexion of immediate purchaser of the
original parties, thus giving countenance
to the falsehood which it does not directly
assert"
In reply to this our contemporary says
that "the name ofTHoMAs EWING appears
as first assignee in every item except
three charged against him."
So far, well. There are, then, three
items in which our contemporary admits
that the record is falsified, in his pretended
copy. How much faith and credit are to
be given to the rest of itl This, he adj
mits, is done by quietly suppressing the
name of the intermediate assignee. But
this is not all. He wholly omits to notice
the other branch of our charge. That he
bad suppressed "the name in the assign
ments Of attorneys who are publicly known
as large Dealers" And this to bring Mr..
EWING into transaction with widows
and Orphans" on whom an imposition
might be pracfised. How is this' Has
not the Union even an assertion to brace
up this branch of the falsehoodi
In ours of the 25th, we referred to the
son-in-law of the senior editor of the
Union, not by way of accusation or re-
proach, but as reliable gentleman
member of the family of man who ought
to control that paper, and guard its col
umns from known and wilful calumny.
We referred to him as person having
full knowledge of the subject, and who
knew and could attest to the utter false
hood of every charge affecting in the
slightest degree the honor or integrity Of
Mr.. EwiNG. That gentleman is familiar
with the whole transaction, having been
himself largely engaged as attorney in
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-06
SOCIAL ARISTOCRACY.
The Consul AT Lyons.


The aristocracy of Locofocism is ex-
ceedingly shocked at the appointment Of
JAMES HEUDEBERT, of Jackson, Missis-
sippi, as consul to Lyons. 1t worries the
elite of the distinguished Democrats more
than any other event Of the day, except
the defalcation of Mr.. DENBY. They dc
not consider the colonel gentleman. He
is not Hknown" in the fashionable circles,
favorably. He is plain man, engaged in
humble pursuits, the keeper Of a restaurant.
They do not pretend to impeach Mr..
Heudebert's character. They do not deny
his honesty, capacity, or good manners;
but they dispute his accomplishments for
figuring in the ''literary and fashionable
circles of Lyons" The Locofoco .Missis-
sippian sneers at the distinguished fgure''
he will make in those circles. The Cincin-
natl Enquirer copies the sneers Of the Mas
sissippian, and the Democratic Union
transfers the whole article to its columns,
as piece of rare fun for the elite. b
The fact that Mr.. Heudebert is poor
man, and that his calling is that of an eat
ing-house keeper, was not unknown to the
many highly respectable individuals, in
GLIDING many Democrats, who recon-
mended him to the favorable consideration
of the Government. Like many other
emigrants, he was reduced by reverses in
his own country to poverty, and being too
proud to beg, he was willing to turn his
hands to any honest employment that
would afford livelihood. The appoint
ment was well-deserved compliment to
the honest though humble French emf
grant, who is thorough American in
heart, and thorough republican.
We should like to be furnished by the
elite with catalogue of the pursuits and
professions to which they would confine
public employments. They have voted il
not to be the genteel thing to keep an eat
ing-house, though one lives honestly and
pays his debts; the vocation is ''low," and
is blackballed by the elite. If Mr.. Heude-
bert had only kept commercial house, y
and lost $155,000 for the United States
in illegal Expectations" with Government
funds, it would have been all right-and
he could have got certificate of charac-
ter from any number of distinguished
| Democrats
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-06

The following extract is from lie .Nonitetr, of
Montreal, journal printed in French and advo-
eating the independence Of Canada:
Canada Will become free, and will be annexed
TO the United States in five years. Upper Canada
will form one State, Lower Canada second, and
New Brunswick third. Independence Of the
country will be obtained by means Of petitions adj
dressed to the parent country, signed by men Of all
parties, and among others by sixty thousand
French Canadians. Lord Elgin will never go back
to England. The FIRST Governor Of the State OF
Lower Canada will be a man Of middle age, who,
just now, is living very retired, equally unknown
10 all parties. He IL a Canadian in heart and feel
ing. His mother is Canadian, but his father is OF
English origin, though born in Canada. II is this
double character, meeting IN him, which will cause
him to be advanced 10 the Presidency by the almost
unanimous voice of the people. Louis Joseph
Papineau will not be one Of the first declare him
self in favor Of annexation, though he longs for il
with all his heart. His name will be glorious in the
future (dons rapenir) All the Canadians will unite
10 send him az their representative TO the Senate in
Congress Believe this, or believe II not, suits
you; il will turn out the same in the end"
WY pos'r nv TAKE sIDEsl--Messrs. Richie e.
Burke, Of the Union are very much excited because
Old Jack won't define his position, and take sides
eiiher with the North or the South. They seem to
think there is scarcely in the number Of those en-
gagged IN those sectional contests and that affords
fine opening fcr the President Of the United Staies
10 make himself President OF portion Of the dis
United States. II is certainly hard that General
Taylor should turn deaf ear to the well-meant en-
treaties Of two such prudent advisers and sincere
friends.-smisassiPpi Souiherner.
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lightened. What, then, becomes of Mr..
WALKER's sovereign panacea' How stands
the quack prescription that was, if taken in
time, to cure the most desperate case OF
defalcationl 1t will furnish us melan-
choly satisfaction, some day, to compare
the magnificent promises Of the late adj
ministration on this subject with its wretch
ed performances. The ''only' constitu-
tional treasury, in spite of Presidential
certificates to the contrary, cannot keep
the elite of Locofocoism from misusing the
peoples money. Nn