Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1852-01-14
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

| Democratic National Contention. Dem
ocTatc National Committee of one from each Stale
assembled in Washington on the 30th Dec, and
resolved to recommend that the Democratic Ma
tional Convention TO nominate candidates for Pres
ident and Vice President, shall assemble in Balti-
more on Tuesday, the first day Of June next
They also recommend that the States be represent
ed in the convention according to the votes each
has in the electoral college.
BARNUM's MUSEUM DESTROYED NY FiRE.-On'
the evening Of the 30th ult., the largean magni.
cent stone structure on the corner of Seventh and
Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. occupied by Bar
NUNS Museum and Theatrical Saloon, was dis
covered to be on fire. and in short time the whole
building was in flames. The fine collection of
curiusiIies were all destroyed, and the structure.
one ofthe fines in she cily,s now masof smould-
ering ruins.
One dollar and half motes.-A'new species
of"pubic accommodation" has been recently in.
troduced in Washington, by The issue Of fractional
paris of the dollar, in notes Of one doar and half,
&c.. by the banking establishment of MIR. X. H.
Gaaher, in that city, The" Bank of the Union
seems to be increasing in public favor; andthe is.
sues are received with readiess by business men
north and south.
o. The FIX President ofMexic0. the world-o-
yer know Sauia Anna, family and suite; embarked
from Kingston, ST. Vincent, for Jamaica, 25ult.--
No worldly consideration. hestaied previous TO his
departure, would ever iudlce him TO return To-
Mexico.
o. Mrs. Henry Clay, it i, stated was request,
ed by her husband before he Jeff hdme.n to cone
over The mountains whaieve might be his state of
health She is an old lad,. upwards of 70, and
the head Of domestic establishment numbering 60 !
persons.
Or A Methodist Missionary, writing from Ore:
gOn, says that while he wal in San Francisco, on
his route to Oregon, he VS. informed by an intel
liqent Chnaman that thPrewere about $500 Chi
nese in the Stale uf Califunia.
o. Frederick Bremen, it is said, arrived at
Stockholm on the 22d NOVEMBER last, in season TO
be present al the funeral o. her elder sister, ISIS
Marie Bremen, from whtn she inlerits very
large fortune.
VI Salfpetre is brought from Bengal The
e.r,b from which il is o5pined is kind of mari,
fcnnd an thu sides of the ills exposed to The Nor
them and .Easleu winds, aud never in any other
situation.
No. Rev. Seplimus Tstin, the well known d.
vine, has accepted cerbhip in the department OF
the Interior at Washing,o He has been induced
TO this course from coptiEd III health.
ey- Henry Clay WILDE seventy-fve years of
age ON the i2th of Aprllnext. Mr. Webster, Mr..
Calhoun, Mr.. Cass, MrDenton and Mr.. Van Bu-
rem were all born in theTear 1882.
o. Rev. DR.. Ryder, member Of the Order Of
jesus, stated in leclre in New York, that the
number of all the Jesuitin the world is now hard.
ly three thousand.
o. There are $50 Nhig newspapers published
in the United States ; 80 Democratic, 20 Anti
Slavery, 90 Agriculture 40 Temperance, 200 Re-
ligious, and 607 aeulra and miscellaneous.
gJ- One thousand tbs Of tobacco are annually
squirted over the face creation and twelve tons
Of ivory are worn out cewing the weed every sew
en- years.
o. The first publ commencement Of the Fe-
male Medical Collegfn Philadelp hia, took place
on the Both utino. here were eight graduates.
Of Advices from IT. Louis announce def
cheney Of fully One.thd in The supply Of hogs the
present season.
| o. The city authdIies of New York have no.
tilted the Hungarian at the Irving House that
they will not pay thd bills after the 9Th inst.
oo-John T. FIourty memoriazes the Legisla-
ture Of Georgia 10 pal bill legalizng pulygamy.
Gu il Johney!
G5- In Peru, ssya London paper. horses and
rats are 50 pIenIfulnd cats so scarce that horse
is often given in exiange for a cat.
~ The cost oihe prosecutions to The United
States, in the Chftana riots up to the time II
Hannaway's acqulal, exceeds the sum of $7O,-
600.
o. Haynau WI nearly burnt 10 deah. at lie
residence in Hungry. fire having broken GU, in
| bic chamber, the Yrk of an inclndiary.