Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-03-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS


o. Nearly every barrel of -four used in Cub
Is imported from Spain; the duty upon America
Hour being nine dollars a barrel. p. g
%. 1t is said the Sianese Twins have been en-
gagged BY some Northern speculator, at salary O
S5,O0O year, to give exhibitions. -:
o. A bitter war is just now going on in Ohio
between Catholic and Protestant, growing out o
the alleged opposition of the former to the Public
School System there. -. -,
0a- 1t is not uncommon for Spanish ladies +
possess hundred fans. They collect and hoart
them, as German collects pipes, as geologis
hunts after specimens
VIRGINIA CENTRAL Acknowledging from
passengers and freight, for the month of February
1898, Sl5 ,536,7S; being an increase of nearly
III per cent, on the receipts of February, 1852.
@0- Grew" Antoinette Brown (woman) has
two invitations to settle as Pastor of Religion, So
cieties in New York-one of them in TToy So
the Tribune tells us.
o. In Havana no gentlemen, unless he ia ,
priest, goes to church. But the ladies' go. and
! the gentlemen cluster around the door, and hand
the ladies to their Yolantes when the mass is over
o. One of the most interesting relics in PhiIa.
delphia may be seen in North Second street. viz
the first lightning rod erected by DR.. Franklin
which still stretches It's attenuated fingers towards
the heavens.
% The Baltimore American says that Mr..
King, the Vice President of the United States.
did not take the oath of Office, on the 4th instant
although recent letters from Matanzas profess
to give circumstantial accounts of the ceremony.
eg-Mr. Udolpho Wolf, charges some .remorse-
less Villain" with taking snapp judgment upon his
"Aromatic Schiedam, Schnapps, ",in buying up
the old bottles which once contained his genuine
medicine, and filling them, with Holland Gin.
o. The Bishop ofLavando, Southern Tonquin,
thinks thousand persons are killed yearly in that
country by tigers. The Inhabitants prospect" the
tiger as an "evi divinity" and in speaking of it
call 1t Ong (Mr. or Great Father.)
AMERICAN BELLIES AT "A PREMIUM IN Pans.
1t 10 rumored that Madame R-,of Paris.
late Miss L, of New York, is appointed one the
DANES dhonne,r to the Empress; and that Mrs.
r., formerly Miss c., of New York city, has re-
ceived similar appointment. o..
A True REpUBLIcAN.-Judge Ruffin. late
Chief Justice of the State of North Carolina. has
accepted the appointment of Justice of the Peace
In Alamance county,i in that State, and is now en-
gagged in the discharge Of the duties of Chairman
of the County Court there.
H- Thomas de Quincy has written an article
tor hogg's Instructor. which is copied in No. 462
Of Llttels Living Age, arguing that the utter de-
probation of gold is near at hand and inevitable,
unless the solitary hope be realized that the gold
quarrles may soon be eXhaas,ed.-,. -.
oo- Mr. John Burns, of Jefferson county. has
presented the editor ofthe Charestown Free Press
with mess OF new potatoes, being the growth of
this winter. He buried his potatoes last fall cov-
erng them with earth and fodder In this con-.
ditlon vegetation took place, producing new crop
averaging in size hens egg.
o. Mr.. McClelland, who has been chosen by
Mr. Pierce as one of his Cabinet advisers, served
three terms in Congress, and "voted for the Will
mot Proviso throughout" In ls4S. he was sent
on mission to the Congressional District repre-
sented by Mr.. Wilmot-the author ofthe Vilmot
Proviso-for the purpose of securing the Freesoil
vote for Gen. Cass. e'~s.:s az: IN
New ORLEANS March 2O.-We learn bv an
arrival from Vera Cruz, that the Mexican Com
missloners sent out to solicit the return of Cen
Santa Anna; returned to Vera Cruz on the 4th ;
inst. They report that Gen. Santa Anna will
accept the Presidency of the Republic. He
breathcs vengeance against Gen. Arista, and har-
bors strong hostility to the United States. 80.
RECEIPTS OF AUSTRALIAN GoLp.-The New
York Commercial publishes an extract from let
ter dated London, March a, in which il is estma-
ted that there will be received from Australia, in
all this year, twenty millions of pounds sterling,
and the writer's belief is that money will be
cheaper in England, during 1858. than ever
known. There is every prospect of a good ex-
port trade as the year advances. go. -
90 There are in the United States eighteen
owns named Alexander; twenty eight, Adams
;wenty-one, Cass; forty nine, Jefferson; five,
Lamartine; forty-four, Franklin; nineteen La
fayete; thirty nine, Washington; eight, Kossuth
twentynine, Monroe; twenty eight. Clinton:
seventeen, Carroll; eleven, Polk fity-six, Jack
son F.; eleven, Bunker Hill; and nineteen, Buena
Vista. Nc, ..
&c WeSee it stated that the most lucrative of
our consulships is that at Panama, which is rated
at between thirty-five and one hundred thousand
dollars per annum. Havana is next. then Liver
pool. and afterwards in order comes Bneno. Ayres,
Natanzas, Hayre, Alexandra, and Hong Kong,
or Canton. Tho commercial agency at ST. Thorn
as, Danish West India Islands, is said to be worth
from six to ten thousand dollars q year. =.
o. 1t seems that the Pope sofa some Faus on
the relics of his late office, which the Bishop of
North Carolina carried with him. The London
Roman Catholic Standard states that after DR..
ives had received confirmation and communion
from the hands of the Sovereign Pontiff. as TO-
ken Of fillal duty, he presented to the Pope his
pictorial cross, ring, and episcopal seal, used by
him in his former capacity. They were accept
ed, and are to be hung memorials at the shrine
of St. Peter.
&C. A Washington correspondent of the New
York Journal of Commerce. says
1t is a remarkable fact, that the Senate, though
they have been clustering and fllibustering for
long time, IN regard to the Central American af-
fairs. have no definite information on the subject
Mr.. Mason has always guarded his declarations,
by admitting that he had no official or certain
knowledge that the Clayton Bulwer treaty had
been violated by Great Britain"
09- The Washington correspondent ofthe New
York National Democrat gives currency to a some
what wonderful revelation, according to which
number of wealthy Californians have entered into
a negotiation to buy out the Sandwich Islands from
their present sovereign, with the view of having
them annexed to the United States as county Of
California. The negotiation, it is asserted, had
been brought to successful termination, but the
weak-mindedkng was afterwards induced to with
draw his assent. The Califomians have not given
The project up, but are endeavoring to bring the
king back to his bargain.
Oo- British elections, even at this hour of the
century, are apt to be savage affairs The Lon
don Times, in viewing some of the evidence as to
the prevalent practices, says Pr'
ga Lancashire farmer had received an order
e c--l. l. Al. n
election, with the instruction THAT the best fight
nr men and pOachers would be preferred - At