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SEEING THE ELEPAHNT.-Samue B. Perry, having ar.
rived IN town few days since anxious obtain
aght OF the anaand in pursuit Of this obec he attended
the Louisiana Ball on Wednesday night last, Samuel met
many fair ladies and extremely polite gentlemen and with
one OF the latter ne soon became intimate. The gentle.
man showed him all the sights and finally proposed that
they should take stroll about Samuel readily agreed
70 the proposal and in with his recent acQuaint.
ance, the extremely polite young man, he walked down Els
panade street TO the Levee BY the accident in the
world of course two other extremely polite young men, who
were known to Samues friend, here met and after
the usual greetings, walk out back proposed The
night w9s fine, and all agreed the proposition. When
they had arrived in the back part of the First Municipality
and were in lonely street, Samues friend CHANGED to throw
his hand around in such peculiar manner that Samuel was
knocked down-whersupon the other polite young men
proceeded to dves him Of S69 in cash. revolver knife
and The whole transaction passed off in the smooth.
est manner possible and the three extremely polite young men
wished Samuel very good night, and left him lying in the
gutter He after mis- sense and to the conclu.
zion that he had seen the eephan'' He Appeared be.
tore Recorder GenoiI yesterday, and made an affidavit rea.
ting the whole of his sai story An arrest has been made
but the prisoner has not been examined.
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We acknowledge files of late Louisville papers from the
steamer Ohio.
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STEAMBOATS, OFFERED FOR SALE
~ The undersigned will receive sealed written ~ H.
proposals until II of Tuesday, the 18th inst, fAnrd
for the United States Steamboats,, they
lie at the New OHeana Barracks, viz the MONMOUTH.
low pressurs the PLANTS Err, high pressure each
separately to be addressed to him and c~iosd Proposals
for the Steamboat Monmouth, Planter the case
be- They be examined by persons wishing bid.
The privilege is reserved Of rejecting ali bids.
Terms-Cash before delivery
rnhln u Il HINT IL Or Can
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CALIFORNIA "A Farm better then a Gold
Nine. "A correspondent of the National Inteli-
gencer, from San Francisco, describes farm in
the neighborhoOd. We extract the account of the
products:
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flRE.-Ihe alarm of fire, about hafpast two O'Clock
Yesterday afternoon was caused by the burning of old
pes ana sails IN loft at the of Benve and Front
Levee streets The building was somewhat inured nv water
but the amount of damage was not large
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-03-14

THIRD DISTRICT CoURr.-'The Of Sarah Conner
W. Powers and Johnson occupied this court yegte
day. 1t was continued tor of Witnesses and will be
called again Saturday to be fixed for the following week
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MARCH u.
Steamship Ono" ships "WrsrN,usrrn ,,.rvo,,
sIoR - and "SILAs HoLMEs''
SPRING AND SUMMER CIOTUJNC.

" hy he ABOVE vessels we have Just received and are now
opening large addition stock OF
FaShjoRabie Spring aa,d Summer CZothi0a.
to which would invite the Of our friends and
ALFRED MUNROE & co.
mhl2 Ct rs Maya,;ro .,,,..
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ITO SUGAR PLANTERS-Test between M
= kendall's Biloxi Fire Brick cost 49, and the scn,nh
Fire Brick cost s35, branded Garnkirk e Seo'eh
,.u,r,, eeds's Foundry, August g. 1856
At the request Of Mr. Kendall we tut into our urnaee in
which we melt IRON at Nr Kenal's hrcE VIII ~ ~
the very best Scotch Fire Brick Tic Scotch Brck ms, u
slightly; MIR. Renda'sno ALL neither broken nv sd
yoo., Gill;; p,,, LEEDS Il Co
stand fire, at IS and the carriage VIM II EAGF p'ch 10
aus 2dptf Agent Elovi Sia,r. IS,.ff,ptE.n
f. WOOD IL CO., Ship Chambers and f3roce1s
- On Tie Levee opposite Post 81 Second Muniripality
ana NED Stores Third Municipality, have received iarss
- mis- 2ptf
w lSDoW nLAss-2W0 Boxes Window Glass assorted AKA,
" ana QUALITIES, offered for at nrce lower bHn
sou NsS oean,. Builders Gaziers Dealers are nyit
examine, anu inquire the price before purchasing,
40 NATHAN JARVIS g. CO.,
va CsrnG Of Asga.iRsa ndCsnmsn strs,tsi
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NEW o II LIE MS:
20
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH IA. 1871.
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gl)e Uaily Crescent.

OFFICIAL JOURNAL
or The Counsel of the Second Mantctpattty.
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but the amount of damage was not large
FIRST DISTRICT CoURr.-John Hughes was yesterday
tried in this court charge of larceny in stealing lot Of
smoking tobacco.
John Thompson wastried and found guilty of stealing seven
pieces of bonnet ribbon.
Petition for DtUorce.-Catharine Read, through her
counsel H. oNeIl filed petition for divorce from her
husband, Richard Y. Read. We omit the aIler,tons
tanned in the retuon they of public interest,"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-05-28
KIT CARSON,

A pleasant sketch ofthis famous frontiers
man is given by Santa Fe correspondent
of the National Era, who says:
The world-renowned Kit Carson has beer
here for some days past. You would no
suppose from glance at the man that HI
was the hero of so many border exploits
the terror of the wild nomad, the far-famet
Kit Carson. Twas disappointed at first sigh
of the man, and so perhaps would any one
be, who had heard merely of the character
and exploits of the man, without having seer
minute description of his contour. 1t was
only when | came closely to analyze his fea.
lures that | detected the real KIT. He was
not dressed in the outlandish habiliments
with which fancy, since the time of Boone.
instinctively invests the hunter and the trap
per, but in genteel American costume. How
he dresses when domiciled in his own run
cheria do not know nO'c, but perhaps shall
sometime during the coming spring or sum-
mer. Carson is rather under the medium
height but his frame is exceedingl ly will knit,
muscular symmetrically proportioned. His
hair, light auburn, and worn long, falls
back from forehead high, broad, and in
dicating more than common share OF intel
lect. The general contour of the face is not
handsome, and yet not unpleasing. But
that which once arrests, and almost monop-
olizes your attention. is the eye-such an
eye gray, searching, piercing, as If with ev-
cry glance he would reach the very we'll
springs Of thought, and read your very silent
imaginings. In the language OF Byron,
"-lhe wild sparkle nf his eye seemed cought
From high, and ghened with electric thought. !"
Whether better acquaintance will warrant
the expectations excited by the outward ap-
pearance, cannot yet tell.
But Kit is not altogether a SUI generis in
border exploits and notoriety. There is an
other man here at this time, who, though
not world-renowned, is no less known and
feared by all the nomadic tribes Of savages
from the Colorado to the Arkansas. Not
even the name of ka Caspn, / have been
told, will sooner set the Indian camp in mo-
ton, and put them all on the qui uipe, than
the name of Hatcher. This man is little
taller, think, than Kit, but more slenderly
made, sandy hair, light, small, blue eyes,
keen in their glance, slightly inclining to
squint, and continually dancing and flashing
about, as if all the time looking out for a
Navajoe or Apache. His glance is quick
and piercing, but not steady and penetrating
like that of Carson. His face and head are
rather small than otherwise, and do not in
dicate as much intellectually as Kits. His
movements are of the most mercurial kind,
so that you are not long in making up your
mind to the verdict, that if caught, it will
not be mapping. Such are the.two men
whose names carry more terror into the
camp Of the Nevajoes Camanches, Apa-
ches, Chios and Rappahoes, than whole
regiment of armed infantry.
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STAUNTON VA WEDNESDAY, MAY %, 1861

versity. Three years were not passed after
the day of the first kiss when the young man
was allowed to give second one to the love-
ly daughter of the Governor, as his betroth-
ed bride.
He became, later, one of the greatest
scholars in Sweden, as much respected for
his learning as for his character. His works
will endure forever among the works Of SCI
ence, and from this happy union sprang a
family well known in Sweden in the pres
ent day, and whose wealth of fortune and
high position in society are regarded as
small things compared with its wealth and
goodness Of love.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-05-28

THE JENNY LIND LIFT.--A large pro-
portion of the ladies of New York have a.
dopted the Nightingale's fashion of lifting
their hair above their temples, thereby Civ
ing the phrenologist peep as it were behind
the curtain of some very interesting locali-
ties. ITO some ladies" says the New York
Mirror, "the style is quite becoming but to
the majority of ladies it is decidedly other
wise, giving them bold, barefaced look, re-
mlnding one Of obstinate 'cowlicks upon the
sides of their foreheads." There is another
er fashion, still more trying a lady's beauty.
1t is combing the hair backward over the
top Of the head somehow-we are not mas
tiers of the artistical term, if there be one.
To make this at all tolerable, a style of head
differing as widely as possible from Ichabod
Cranes is requisite, and then it is nothing but
a negative style after all, with no particular
grace to recommend it. In nothing is la
dys state, good or bad, more evident than in
the disposition of her hair. We have seen
fine heads tied up like corn in husk, and
so brushed up and braided up,as to give one
painful impression to look at them. 9th
ers again. with beautiful locks rolled up and
slowed away behind their ears, like a troop
ers port-manteau on his saddle, and others
stil but no matter-"handsome is that hand.
some does," and it makes not hairs differ.
ence how one wears her hair, if she only
wears her heart in the right place.
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were left in custody of the police. Yo
may imagine the establishment of the Amer
J lean Commissioners and the American ES
hibitors, when they ascertained that mos
valuable case of pistols was missing!
had been stolen between the hour of clos
ing the doors of the building on the 30th ult
and the hour of opening yesterday! On
journal, alluding to this affair, thus report
a conversation that took kplace between tn
owners or agents Of the property and tht
police
ga pretty alteration ensued. No amour
of money, they said could compensate then
for the loss, and and loud bitter were their re
grets at having been tempted to cross tht
Atlantic to assist the Britishers' show. "Ah
| guess know'd how it would be-" sale
one, sits no tarnal use of stoppin; they are
the shabbiest critters ever saw, and the
sooner we return to New York the better,
calculate" It is almost needless to say that
the parties here referred to are intelligent
and educated Americans, who could not
make use of such language; but John Bull
must throw a littl e harmless badinage at US.
At the Eastern entrance of the building
and over the gallery, a gigantic Eagle is
raised with the American flags gracefully ar
ragged on either side. Some idea of the size
of this decoration of the American depart
ment may be formed from the fact that the
Eagles wings measure forty feet from tip to
tip. This decoration can be distinctly seen
from the transept, and has a fine effect. The
words UNITED STATES" in mammoth let
ters, are placed across the end of the gal
lery; around the sides are ten small red ban
ners, having on them the same words, and
lust above them are the names of all the u
nited States painted in white on blue
ground.
Powers exquisitely finished statute Of the
"Greek Slave" stands on pedestal in the
grand centre aisle near the eastern entrance,
s. yesterday it attracted universal attention.
1t was generally acknowledged to be one Of
the most remarkable gems Of the whole ex-
hibition.
The contributions from Turkey did not
arrive at Southampton till last Saturday,
but they were sent on Monday to London,
and arrived at the Crystal Palace, where the
sappers and miners at once opened the
cases and packages. There are three thou
sand articles, consisting principally Of rich
gold embroidered fabrics, beautiful carpets
and shawls, and splendid specimens of fire.
arms. 1t is not likely that all the articles
will be arranged on the counters for two or
three weeks to come.
Most of the contributions from Russia
have not yet arrived, as, most unfortunate.
ly, the vessel by which they were shipped
was frozen in by the ice in the Baltic. 1t
is probable that by the first of June the
whole Exhibition will be in complete
state
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-05-28
THE CHARMS OF LIFE.

There are thousand things in this world
n aff]ict and sadden-but, D! how many
that are beautiful and good! The world
teens with beauty-with objects that glad
den the eve and warm the heart. We might
be happy if we would. There are Ills we
cannot escape, the approach Of diseases and
death, of misfortune, the sundering ofearth-
w. ties, and the cankei-worm Of grief, but
vast majority of the evils which beset US,
might be avoided. The course OF intempe-
rance, interviewer as it is with ell the lga-
ments of society, is one which never strikes
but TO DESTROY. There is not one bright
mace upon the record of its progress--noth-
inc to shield it from the heartiest execration
Of The human race. It should not exist--it
must not. Do away with all this-let wars
come to an enc, and friendship, charity love.
and kindness mark the intercourse between
man and man. We are too selfish, % if the
world was made for US alone. How much
happier would we be, were we to labor moro
earnestly for each others good. God has
blessed us with home which Is not all dark
There is sunshine everywhere-in the sky
upon the earth, there would be in most hearts
hearts if we would look around Us. The
stormsdie away and bright sun shines out
Summer drops her tinted curtain upon fh'
earth which is very beautiful, even when su
tumn breathes her changing breath upon It
God reigns in heaven. Murmur NOT q ne
ing so bountiful, and We can hve nafp'e
than we do. sss ssgirfs
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-05-28
MARRIAGE WOMEN.

1t has long been theory Of ours that a
woman is always at the bottom of every
thing very good, or very bad which is done
in the world. If you can find man achie-
wing greatness, you have only to go back to
his cradle, and in the lines of the mothers
face who watches there, you will see the
lines of energy, determination, will-latent
properties they will be, if her life is calm
alone-but the properties which makes his
fortunes are transmitted to her child with
her blood and thus nourished with the first
blood drawn from her bosom. If man robs
or murders, nine times out of ten he does
SO to please, or obtain the means of gratify-
ing woman. If he tolls honestly, and &C
cumulates wealth by self-denial, it is to pour
it into her lap. In short, woman MAKES or
mars our life. The effect she has exercised
over all those whom, IN the quaint Ian
guage of an old writer, unhappy love of
possie and letters had lead astray," is shown
in late number of Leigh Hunts Journal: {:
Dryden married unhappily, and how
much OF the venomous sting of his satire,
how much of his unpoetic, coarse depreca-
ton of women has its origin therein. Adj
olson shared his fate, and we know that the
married Addison did by no means equal the
bachelor Spectator; Pope refrained from
matrimony, (his physique, indeed, was not
calculated FOR winning hearts, and may we
not imagine tnat the divine little artist
might have produced something beyond the
sphere Of mere art, had successful love and
domestic comfort warmed his heart, and so
ripened the Rape OF the Lock into high
er creation than the Dunciad? Swift also
avoided marriage heIe.ore, no man shall
know; avoided it with his heart vibrating be-
tween Stella and Venessa and descen-
ded, a very questionable moral man, through
morbid old age, to cheerless tomt; leav-
ing his character as an inexplicable enig-
ma to all times. Nay, in our days, have
we not seen Lord Byron struggling his fiery
course, without repose, without definite pur-
pose, through maze of contradiction, wrath
and prohigacy, to an awful Nowhither A
man who married most unhappily, whose
heart was cauterised by the loss Of the on
ly woman he, perhaps, ever truly loved
His writings, his actions, tell us that in his
deepest abandonment to vice, the ghost of
his first and purest love rose ever and anon
before him, to frown clear reproof upon
his wayward career. But even the loss of
Mary Chaworth might have been nullifed,
had his marriage ended well. 1t did not !;
and the unwise marriage magnifed and pro-
longed the unwise life, and prepared the
early DEATH"
These instances are striking, because the
actors in them have had the weird for a
stage, and all the mems eyes to watch them;
but the truth is quite as great applied to
mcaner men. 1t is the wife who makes the
home, and home makes the man. Whenev-
cry We see an walking among men blame
less, we take it for granted that the angel
who keeps his feet is the angel of home, a
blameless wte.
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VOL. XXVlll
SrAuN r0N SPECTATOR.
TERMS.

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tsesk, aiTipo Dollars gear, if paid IN aa'G"ee' -
Too Dollars and Fifty Csats if delayed ofy0"" "s
expiration Of The year No sabscriPo" ''', 0s 'e's''
ed for le IS time thcn sir months. ana 40
.cn De discontinued, but at e option @ me Ea't0rs
snta al srTsarages are Paia'
Ns- Al communications to the Editors, by mail,
must De nos, paid or they ,on not be attended to.
atADVERTTSEMEN1Se Of dtirtsea lines (Or
7.,,I Inserted three times for dollar, and ttcenty
fire cent, for each subsequent continuance. Larger
aS,,rti,sments in the same proportion 4hberal DIS
count made advertisers BY the year. the Gdetiser be-
ing confined to the particular Eas Of has business.
JYhen he number of times an advertisement is to be
,erted i. no, marked on the copy ID ,oi be continued TN
81 forbid and charged accordingly.
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POE I Il \.
SEE THEE STILL.
! see thee still I;

see thee still;
Remembrance, faithful to her trust,
Calls thee in beauty from the dust;
Thou comest in the morning light,
Thou'rt with me through the gloomy night;
In dreams meet thee as of old;
Then thy soft arms my neck enfold,
And thy sweet voice is in my ear;
In every scene to memory dear,
! see thee still.
see the still /;
In every hallowed token round;
This little ring thy finger bound;
This lock of hair Thy forehead shaded,
This silAen chain BY thee was braided,
These flowers, all withered, now, like thee,
Sweet Mary, thou didst Gull for me,
This book was thine, here didst thou read
This picture, ah yes, here indeed,
see thee still.
see thee still;
Here was thy summer noon's retreat;
Here was thy favorite fireside seat;
This was thy chamber, here, each day,
/ sat and watched thy sad decay;
Here on this bed. thou last didst lie,
Here on this pillow thou didst die.
Dark hour once more its woes unfold;
As then saw thee, pale and cold,
] see thee still.
see thee still;
Thou art not in the grave confined,
Death cannot chain the Immortal mind;
Let earth close DER lis sacred trust;
But goodness dies not in the dnst;
Thee, o, my Mary, tits not thee,
Beneath the cotin's lid i see;
Thou TO fairer land art gone;
There let me hope, my journey done.
To see thee still.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-05-28

Qursraos.--If twenty-seyen inches Of
ero o;ve. three inches Of water, how much
Mill w;ll = cow give whenfed on ruta-baga
tmrnens3 % , .4nspsr.-Multply the fakes Of
snow by the hairs in the cows tail then
divide the product by turnip; add pound
Of chalk, and the sum will be the snswer,
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DIR, Patrick C. Irvine

HAVING settled in Staunton, respectfully offers ms
III professional services 10 the citzcns OF the place and
xc;n;ty HI, NAV be found at his Office four door a.
bove the Virginia Ro,el all hours, except when pro-
fessioually engaged
Staunton April %, 1851 -3m.
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D, Reamer,

GENERAL FORWARDING AGENT and
" COMMISSION MERCHANT, Scottsvilie' Vlrg'a-
ia devotes bis undivided personal attention 10 receiving
Goops, MERCHANDISE AND PRoDucE;
sad to sales of Produce consigned to him
April 2, l95l.-6m.
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.Inhn n. MoGue,

ATTORNEY At LAW, Staunton, Virginia. "Ina aui
"A Anvus,,. Nelson, and Rockbrdge Bounty Land
Claims entrusted to him will receive prompt attention
&C. Office on Augusta Street. immediately above 'ne
Post Office Corner
Siaunton, Dec. 25 le50.-ly.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-05-28

g. In England, Scotland and Wales
there is but one voter to every II inhabi-
tats in Ireland one in SO.
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nr IT. A. RarkaleY.

oFFERS his profcssion services to the citizens OF
W Staunton and the surrounding country. Office al the
late rcsidcuc. Of his father.
Staunton, April TO- l55l.-tf.
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&C. An enthusiastic individual in the pit
ofthe st. Charles theatre, New Orleans, who
vociterously encored Jenny Lind in the"Last
Rose of SIMMER" for the third time, find
Ing. his "cail'' not responded to, rushed out
and made his way down among the quad
room dower-girls on St. Charles street, ask
ing-"Have you got the last rose of sum-
mer? I'll give fve-Pll give ten dollars
for the last rose of summer"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-05-28

CHEAp Wlra.-We insert the following
paragraph, a. the tallest specimen of a lie
yet published
A woman who neither eats, drinks, nor
dresses, land Is averse to all manner of change,
is, indeed, curiosity! Among the news
by the late foreign arrivals such phenom-
enon is thus described:
ga very courteous phenomenon of physi.
ology is now existing at Jujurieux, in the
department of the Ain. There lives young
girl who for the last three years has not ta-
ken the smallest particle of food Or drink.
She is of course, weak and her legs are
paralized. With the exception of this in
firmity she is in good health, and does not
feel any pain. Her thinness is extreme
and it is said that her bowels are so dry
that, when she moves they make noise
similar to that produced by the tail OF rat.
tlesnake. This girl is always in bed and
does not feel any desire to change her mode
Of living"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-05-28
William B. Johnson,

ATTORNEY AT LAW, Staunton' VTsinfs-r,iiac'
"A Uses in the Courts Augusta ROckbridge, Rocking
ham and Albemarle.
1T, Office on Beverly Street, one door West Of the
Eagle Hotel.
Staunton, Jan. %, 1851.
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= r COCHRAN. THOMAS BUTLER
C. r, Cochran 6 Co.,

DEALERS. wholesale and Rs,ah in ca S,a,,o S"s ro-
yiry,nia. one door below Breckinridgc X Cowne's
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a. .. DoakinS,

nEALER in Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Beverly
~ Street. S,auntOn, Virginia cid Stand oi Co""e
Deakins.
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HENRY BARE.

yrSpy RARE. wa STERRETT
Bare s. Sterrett,
nElLERS in Cloths, Cassimeres, Nestiags &c'' &c
U New Street. Stauutoa, Virginia. Tailoring carried
on IN AZ ia branches.