Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-09-09

RUNAWAY ARREsTED.-A bright mulatto man
named Perry Green about &c years of age, was
arrested at Franklin Hotel, Tuesday night last
upon suspicion of being slave, attempting to
escape from his master. The boy applied for
passage on the Packet to Richmond, represent
ing himself as a free man on visit to Penn
sylvania-and papers purporting to be free pa
pers were abducted by him, at the instance of
Mr.. Boyd but were found to be irregular in
every particular. He was forthwith arrested
and upon his appearance at the Police office he
acknowledged, after persisting for some time to
the contrary, that he was slave belonging to a
man by the name of Price, living at Newport
Giles county, Va He had in his possession, an
Atlas and Geography, pen, ink and paper, and
had the distance regularly noted down from
Newport to Richmond. He has no doubt been
under the guidance Of some scoundrel of a Van.
kee, who i'll all probability, accompanied him
to this place, and witnessed his arrest We
warn the people to keep close watch, for nearly
every southern community has now one or
more Yankee abolition emssaries in its midst
colporteurs, book sellers, tract agents, school
teachers, and such like characters, who omit no
occasion to poison the minds of our slaves, and
then steal them; Lyncaburg Republican.
CURIOUS SrATEMENT.--It is stated that the
building for the exhibition of 1851 will contain
500 miles Of window sashes, 100 miles of putty,
~ HltICo " Lii0 HllleS LO QTlVe uHQer
cover. The building will be wholly of glass,
wood frame and iron pillars In one position
the spectator will be able TO see 1000 feet be-.
fore him in one unbroken view. 1t is believed
that the building will be 50 superb that the
public, on whose behalf the opposition has been
made, will be the first to oppose it's REMOVAL
A writer in the Builder states that $50 tons of
putty will be required to make the building.
European Times.
GREAT OVERFLOW AND DESTRUCTION OF Pro-
pERTY.--The Richmond Republican has ac-
counts from GAINESVILLE and Farmville, Va, of a
great overflow in the Roanoke Valley sweeping
off thousands of hogsheads of tobacco, almost
entirely destroying the corn and grain crops and
running hundreds of farmers.
CENSUS OF ALEXANDRIA, VA-Mr. D. Cawood
has completed taking the census of the town of
Alexandria. The whole number of inhabitants
IN the corporation is about $500, There are
,232 dwelling houses, containing 1896 families.
| he death for the year ending 1ot of June, 1850
were only 147
NUMBER OF JEWS IN THE WoRLD.-Isaac de
Costa, learned Jew of Amsterdam, estimates
the whole number of Jews now in the world at
from five 10 seven millions. He allots only &c.
900 TO the United States, where he tells us they
are treated batter than in any country in the
world, except perhaps Turkey, which is more
liberal to them than any European government
An OLD SINNER John Nanhooser lives in
Jefferson county, Tenn, aged 1872 years. He
has always voted the federal and wing tickets.
broken BANK.-The Havre de Grace bank of
Maryland, has closed and a wag thinks it will
not be opened again, unless with crowbar.
correspondent of the Boston Times recon-
naends for the cure Of diarrhea, one table spoon.
tu of fiue salt dissolved in three table spoonsful
of vinegar. He has found it an unfailing rem.
edy i'll his family.