Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-07-04

REVIVAL OF THE CALIFORNIA EXCITEMENT
The arrivals Of gold and gold news from California
by the Falcon at New York, and the Crescent City
at New Orleans, are having the effect, see, To
re-invlgorale what was becoming the somewhat sa-
hated spirit of emigration to the land of gold
quite large number of vessels at Boston, Balii-
more, Philadelphia, and New Orleans, are put on
the berth for San Francisco and, on looking over
The columns Of the Express, we find there is sim,
liar Impulse at work home. Besides the
Crescent City and the Falcon, regular mail steam
erS between here andtheisthmus, the ships "Queen
Victoria" Captain Thomson "Mary MITCHELL"
barnard; "Flora," Hampstead "Far West, )" Bri
and prince de Joinvle,' Adams; barque Char
ter Oak" Smith and briggs "Camargo," Magodn,
and DR. "Hitchcock," Elwcll, are all having imme-
date despatch, and will probably sail from the port
OF New York within three weeks time.
flitherto, as it were, people who live along
the shores of the Atlantic have been only dreaming
OF I'll Dorado-a dream, powerful enough, tits true
10 spirit away from home some hundreds and thou
sands OF our ''bone and sinew." Our eyes are O.
Pened now we have got over the trance. The
palpabe reality is before There Ara
olaR N1ghls romance in the letters the lucky dig
gers wrote home 10 the newspapers for the gold itself
is here. IL has arrived by the ton already in the
Lexington" and it is coming by the cargo, as fast
as steam can bring it, in the Crescent City. The
brokers are boxing it up in their windows, the way
the gocers box up samples ofsugar coffee i'm theirs
Every body that has brother, cousin, an
acquaintance In California has some specimens to
show, and we verify believe il is owing as much to
the opporune arrival of this 'latest news" from the
yettOl0 country, setting people talking it does
again, about pIckaXeS, shOvelS, sleeves, Wheebar-
rows, and jack knives, that mems minds diver
ted from brooding over the cholera. As the cpl
demIc never thTlves well as when led by fear
and excitement, we submit whether we have not
TO thank The gold diggers, the telegraph, and the
newspapers for keeping down the disease by taking
away that which contributes powerfully to tacl-
i'ate its progress.-vN Y. Enpress.
HUNGARy.-The Magyar government has estab-
llshed revolutionary commissares, with full powers
in the comitats threatened by the enemy. The
clergy ofthe different creeds everywhere preach
ing crusade against the Russians.
A report of NJ. Messaros (late Minister or war;
states that the Hungarian army, including the free
corps amounts TO $4,000 organized troops. To
these will be added the 80 900 fresh levies which
1 the DebreeZin Parliament lately voted These
troops divided into ii corps, and commanded by
the following Generals BEN, Pole; Georgey a
| Hungarian Guyon, an Irishman Damianish, a
Croat; Perczel, Hungarian; Kiapka, Raze; Dan
nemberg, Hungarian from St. Mikosh Casper
a Slowake; Vetter a Hungarian; and Aulich, a Ger
man. Their cavalry consstof27 regiments of regu-
lars, each Of z 600 TO 400 men, and 40 900 irreg-
uars. They have 4OS pieces of artillery, most oil
which are IL and Is Founders.
! In the sitting Of the Hungarian Parliament al
Debrezin of the 18th ult., the Speaker, Nj. Amashy
addressed the House, and after referring to the well
known breach Of the national privilege of the fami
| ly Of IIapsburg Lorraine and of its expulsion from
Office lie Informs them that the Governor during the
! lneHegnum, the man whom the House and the
people had elected to that post of trust and npOr
lance, NJ. Ludwig kossuth, was prepared to as
sumo The office of First Magistrate OfHungary. and
to take his oath of allegiance to the nation. Upon
this Ludwig Kossulb the Governor of Hungary
took the following oath ID, Ludwig Koss ulh, G.
lected Governor by the National Assembly, swear
! that will maintain the declarations Independence
Of the nation in all lis consequences that ] will
yield and enforce obedience to the laws and to the
resolutions Of the National Assembly. So help me
! God ~ After this NJ. Kossuth summoned the Cab
met 10 take their oathS to the Chief Magistrate OF
She inerTegnum. All the Ministers were sworn
| and the House adjourned.