Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-09-25
mIsCELLANEoUs ITEMS.

MISCE Ian E0Us ITEMS.
o. France has Just notified Switzerland iha, she has ts
ken under her protection The monks OF ST. Bernard who
have suffered good deal OF persecution The reason Of
this Intervention that France has bestowed oihe nuks
most Of the property held by lhen One Of Der bfSyest
Generals, Desalx, lies buried the mOnsserY This
was at the order Of Napoleon, who said II will give Des
ak the prOudes monument in 'e world lie shalt have
the Alps for his pedestal and The monks Of ST. Bernard for
his guardians"
o. gentleman from Georgia, native and former res.
dent Of Virginia. cs Yesterday, and avers that
The mrelng at Alacon which I'll 6eorgia invited 10
attend and preparations made for at east fifty housad did
mol exceed, all told $50 number Our nfunsnt also
S'aes ha compared with the Georgian people, the Dis
nniuh's's 40 not amount 10 curporas guard IN number
Richmond Whg
o. on Saturday afternoon Joshua Pusey ascended with
balloon from Reading, Pennsylvania. He started at half
past four 0cnck and descended Haddngton few miles
west OF the Schuyki nver about half past seven. He
says that during his voyage when al an altitude Of Two
miles he was Oyeriaken in snow su,m and what w.s
strange him, ard will perhaps be su To every bdy wac
the fact that the snow fakes assembled.
o. Last week. the editor of The Bstun Atlas travelled
though The interior of Name and at every place at which
he sopped. inquiry, he heard complains Of The almost
entire failure ut The potato crop. the chief and valuable
crap of The State The appeared black and decayed
The failure Of The Pn,aoes in Maine Will be severely fet
not only in that Stale, but throughout the New England
States.
Gd- The census of Milwaukee, Wisconsin shows pop.
ulaton Of twenty Thousand and twenty six In 1884, ony
sixteen years agU, Solmn Juneau the sole white male
nhabtant of the In the spring of that year the first
frame building put up there Even n 1910, but ten
years ago. Milwaukee could only number huh
dred inhabitants.
W The N. Y. Tribune has despatch giving the FOL-
lowing the probable apponees fur the Territory Of Ush
Brigham Ymng. Governor Seth Blair District Attorney;
Joseph l.. Haywood Marshall ZprubbabeI Snow, (Ohio,j
John w. La'sOn. New YOrk) Judges.
o. new salt called The "bydroerrocyante of potash
and wrea, has been discovered Nv Monsieur Band who
announces 10 the French paper Unier <dea, that s
Tar more efcaclOus than qnlnne IN ~ all ma
larous diseases. Mr.. Band has tried a6 md it has
succeeded in many cases where quinne and 5nic have
failed.
The WHxEtiKe BRIDGE CAsE.-We learn from che
Piltsbug psp9sof Friday last that Chancellor WaIworti
has nshe6hg The necessary deposili0ns in the ab0ye
case. and viii be presented to the Supreme Court Of
The " next meeting, when decision will doubt
81 E1l(ffRa correspondent Of the Boston Traveller
says not Be Generally known,shat quite a large
number 0fsaves row lobe found amOna the Mormuns
Of Salt Lake. introduced into that cHnity by Southern
who have connected themselves with those people from
time To, time"
Gt The Little Rock Democrat Of The Both ult., says
thai Dr. John P Brackyle. of lafayette county, Ark,
passed through that city on his way Washington PROS
claim for $4,000 with interest for several yearson
the French Government. The papers in the case,
to the Doctor by The death Of his father. t,s
o. Mr. Muses. johnson, whilst poughug on The farm
of Joseph lorner Esq, New Baltimore Fauquier Co..
Va found small earthen pot containing about $500 in
gold and silver coin. Ii had evidently been buried for many
years.
o. correspondent of the New York Tribune says that
Col. A. NJ Mitchell will the election ut Hon Hen
ry ii. Sibey, who recently chosen represent The
Territory Of Minnesota in Congress. Slbley'smapriy was
rs votes.
CO. great improvement in the manufacture Of watches
has just been made in Geneva, by which watch keys
rendered unnecessary. Dy simply turning 10 he
handle. the watch wound up, and another movement
gulales The hands.
Or Governm Qniiman, of Mississippi. has appointed
Stale Central COmnltee consisting OF twelve gentlemen,
select such articles may be submitted by Inc citizens
Ut that Stale most suitable for exhibition al the grea 10.
duslria Convention be held Ludun ia May, 1851.
Co. The Nashville Banner says that the Capital Of
Tenn, in Of erection IN that city will, when
Completed be the nobest of the kind Inc Unon.
The roof to be OF iron, and wuod az al used in ito
exterior.
o. Mr. Albert G. Williams, wealthy farmer Of Bed
ford County Va, almost instantly killed in The neigh
bOT0d o! Fredericksburg The 7ib instant by The scc
denial discharge OF IwIing piece in the hands vi
panOn while cunning excur>un.
n5. Mr. Iayard, in excava,ing beneath the great pyra
mid Nmrod, had penetrated mass Of nasnry, within
which he had discovered the tomb and statue OF Ssdana
paus with full annals Of that nonarchs reign engraved
The walls.-.N y Post
e> Judges Johnsun Wood, and the Rev. Mr.. Edwards
are The Wing, Democratic and Free No candidates for
Governor Of O!o. The three mel at cleveland short
o..
feet.
&C. Mrs Myra Clark Gaines has applied to the legisla-
ure Of Mississippi fora pensn, 10 consideration Of The mil.
ary services Of her late husband. hat sad reverse Tor
the lady who, year two ago, was believed ~ be The
VT althlest woman IN America.
Or The Winchester Virginan says The wheat, far as
theshe9, Promises better qnahy. Than al one time anil
cipatpd. The late timely rains have improved The curn
though il will still be considerably under an average crop
in Frederick and The counties adjoining.
n3.A Frenchman lately fell over the cliff at Forksone
was carried the nearest nu aud subscription was Tade
for his relief This cured him. lie had selected an easy
fall and without bruse, got the wnd TALL" which no
wanted.
1s- In the list of arrivals at San Francisco California on
the 3Oh of july at the Waverly House. notice the
name m ex Guvernur Smith, VI Va His professional cafd
is advertised.
y- John j. Audubon The great American naturalist, has
been stricken with blindness and The melancholy TACT The
subject of beautiful em, which appears in the September
number of Gralan,, from the pen of Park Brnjsmln.
n-M Cuvier states that whale may live ten thousand
years and that pair whales may have the domestic pleas
ure OF living count not less than Of their on
spring.
0t, The officers having in charge Gen. Hinton, charged
with roSbnp the u S. mail. srnved at Cleveland On the
9Th inst 10 default Of SIS 600 bail, the prisoner was CON-
united to Jail.
o. Some hearess scoundrel has bern in the habit for
soe lime past poisoning The cows in the neghbhood Oh
ST. Lnus Missouri II is said the onIy object which could
prompt such vany is the procuring Of the hide
ms. The ooDuIaon Of Richmond as sscer,ained by Mr..