Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-07-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
NJ- Gen. Arista denies through the London
that he was in favor of the annexation of Mex co
to the United States.
eo- An Anti-Beef Eating Association has been
formed in Philadelphia. The members pledge
themselves against eating any meat which costs
more IMAM eight cents pound.
D Among the passengers arrived from Liver
pool, is the Rev. DR.. Achilli, with his wife, child
J and servant. This is the same Achilli whose ID
gal controversy with the Rev Dr. Newman ex-
cited SO much interest in the religious community
0o-The .New Hampshire Patriot states that w.
w. Johnson, of Chicopee, Mass, who fired car.
non every morning from the nomination to the A.
lection of Gen. Pierce has been appointed postmas
ter at that place.
Or A late arrival from California briggs word
that the duel between Messrs Gwin and McCor.
kle had terminated without bIoodshed. Three
Intellectual shots were fired, when the matter WAS
satisfactorily adjusted.
&C. The canvass in Tennessee is carried on
with most commendabe zeal and energy by tbs
Wing journals, worthy of most triumphant vic
fattering that it will be achieved.
o. Mr. Beverly fuckers new paper Is to be
called the Washington Sentinel. 1t is to appear
on the LIST of September next. 1t is rumored that
Mr.. Daniel, ofthe Richmond Examiner, is to DO
one of the editors.
o. 1t is reported that Messrs Goggin and
Wingfeld, Of Bedford Messrs Gilmer, Whittls
and Tredway. OF Pittsylvania; and Mr.. Early, Of
| franklin, will be candidates for the seat on the
bench, made vacant by the death Of Judge Tala-
ferro.
o5- The leading journals of the Cities Of New
York and Philadelphia, express the opinion that
the old party lines of ''Natve Americans" and
''Foreigners' are being drash for a renewed vo-
lent and enlbiltered contest in the approaching
Congressional and State election.
The DouBrE- HEADED CALF.-This animal,
belonging to Mr., AS. Broaddus, of Caroline, Va.
which has two distinctly formed mouths, four nos
trs, four eyes, two tongues. and is likely to have
four horus, is en- route for New York, to attend
the Worlds Fair.-Fred. Herald.
The GILLIAN MIssIoN.-'The Washington
correspondent of the New York Evening Posi-; iii
letter dated July StH says, that Col. MedsIy has
declined accepting the post Of Minister ii Chill.
to which he was recently appointed. He speaks
positively and as if "by authority" on the subject.
GLASS PENs.-It is reported that glass pens are
now made possessing the requisite qualities 10
write with. and that they will soon sqpersede all
others. They are anti-corrosive by the most i'm
pure ink, at least as much as gold, and their cost
will be but that Of the making
60. COL Earnest, who had announced himself
a candidate for Governor of Alabama in opposition
to Col Winston the Democratic nominee, has
withdrawn from the canvass and announces his
intention to support the Wbig candidate, MIR!
Walker. COL Earnest is Democrat; and urges
his Democratic friends to vote for MIR. Walker:
/ AUpAcrous.-The .Ne.c Yorker Dsmokrat, the
organ of the German democracy in New York. has
the audacity to say, in the face of the Washing
ton Union, that .'lt holds the Baltimore platform
to be corrupt and wormeaten because, on one side.
it contains the accused and worthless pro-slavery
plank while on the other it repudates the princi-
pies Of progressive democracy"
GENERAL ScoTT-It will be remembered that
Gen. Scott met with severe accident some months
since while walking in Ninth street, New York.
We learn from the Express that he is very slow.
" recovering the use Of his arm, but it is very
doubtful if he will ever have the full use of it res
tored TO him. lie is now staying 1t West Point
for the benefit of his health.
The LATE BISHOP IvEs.-The New York
Church Herald has been furnished with letter;
written by a member of the Episcopal church in
North Carolina, to Bishop Green, which states
that 'Mrs. Ives will return home with her bro,
Their. DR.. Hobart, he having received notice from
the Pope that DIR. Ives would be ordained priest n
the Summer, and could no longer be considered as
her husband"
o5- The Danve Republican speaks Of dis
temper prevailing among the cattle of the region
thereabout, and adjacent in North Carolina. which
is very destructive. 1t HIS prevailed tor several
summers, and is the same that is noticed in our
statute book, by which cattle who have II are r.
quired to be kept up, and those dying OF 1t are re-
duired to be buried at least four feet deep.
NJ A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal
writes that the poet Alexander Smith, whose pro
auctions have recently made such sensaticnin
the literary circles of Scotland and are SO favora-
bly noticed in the English Reviews, was, in 1910,
:.seedyv and neglected individual in Wiscon-
sin-the butt for ridicue Of all the literary people
of that lk-and that after seeking in vain through
all our principal eastern cities, for just apprec'a-
ton of the merits of n volume of his poems, then
recently published, be went 10 Europe, where he
has become famous
A CRY DEsTRoYED.-In the foreign news by
the Atlantic. it is stated that, on the list Of May,
the city of Shirz, in Persia. was destroyed, With
twelve thousand Of It's inhabitants, by the shock OF
an earthquake. This is the second city in Persia,
and in former years had population Of 40,QOO
persons, but an earthquake in 1894 nearly, deg
iroyed it. 1t was formerly place OF great beam
ty, and is celebrated by the Persian poet Ha6z,
who was native of Siraz, for its beauty and fer
tility. Since the earthquake of 1924 ithas great
" declined in BOTH most Of its public structures
having been ruined BY that calamity.
ec,- The Norfolk Argus is the only Democratic
paper in the South that has defended the appoint
ment of VIM J. Brown of Indiana, (who intrigued
with the abolitionsts for election to the Speaker
ship of the House of Representatives in l049,ras
general mail agent for several of he Northwest
ern States. The Argus defends this appointment,
of the President on the ground that the standard
of public and private virtue is lower in New Eng
land. where Gen. Pierce was raised, than II is IN
the South. and that, therefore, be enteralns dit,
ieren notions from US in regard to the proprlety Of
Browns conduct