Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-04-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,


Maine Law bill by one majority pit ~ Y
o. Roanoke county has voted against a county
subscription to the Lynchburg and Tennessee rail
, road.
o. Hon. Fl. A. Edmundson has been nominal
ted tor Congress by the Democrats OF the 18th dis
trict of this State.
o. Capt. Ryuders was disappointed in his ap-
plcation for federal Office, and is said to be ia
king the matter much to heart
o. The Jewetts, the Boston publishers, it 10
said, have published altogether 100000 copies Of
Uncle Toms Cabin, and now have orders for 49,
900 copies of the Key to Uncle Tom.
&C. The Congressional and other elections in
the State of Virginia, will take place on the 26th
of May, that being the fourth Thursday of the
month
&C. The House of Representatives Of Penn
sylvania has passed bill appropratipg the sum Of
GOO for the endowment of an institution in
Philadelphia for the education of idiots.
p-Ahe Chesterfield county Jail, S. c., was
destroyed by fire on the night of the Both, and
eight person 'pefished in the flames! Two of
them were persons on visit to friends in the Jail.
&C. The Richmond Enquirer states that the
profits of the Richmond gas works for the las
year, were eight per cent on cost; besides light
ing the streets for nothing.
G5- Elk United States Senator, Hon. Joseph r.
Underwood (Whig) is a candidate for Congress
in the Sd District in Kentucky, now represented
by Presley Ewing, who declines reelection. :.
e-Mr. Pulzky, Kossuth's private secretary, has
been in Washington for the last few days past
I .Ic&L H. k,- l-.-z
with the President, and having private interviews
with the Secretary of State. 4, -.
Or The Bishops of Virginia, Ohio and Maine,
have again presented Bishop Doane, of New
Jersey; substantially on the same charges as before.
; a Court of Bishops is called, 20 meet at Camden
en- the first day of September.
CO The question of subscribing 500, 900 to the
Manassa Gap Railroad is now before the people of
Rockingham county Sl50, 900 are to be subscrib-
ed by the county, and $4,000 raised by private
subscription. s@
e5- OF the population of Ohio, S6,60s are ma
tyes of Maryland. 59S of the District of Colum-
bia, 200, 634 of Pennsylvania, and S5,762 of Vir-
ginia; ll2.257 Of Germany, 81 1862 Of Ireland,
and 25 $50 of England.
CoYYEcTTcUr ELEcTIoN-As far as heard
| from, the House stands 100 Democrats TO rs
Wings the Senate, l6 Democrats to 5 Wings.
Nearly two thirds of the House will be composed
of the friends of the Maine Liquor Law. The
Senate will be opposed to the law.
eS-Hon. Linn Boyd, Speaker of the last House
of Representatives, is a candidate for reelection
to Congress. He is, however, likely 10 be oppos-
ed by candidate Of the same party to which he
belongs. The district is the Democratic Gibraltar
of Kentucky.
Dc;- The Gen. Marshall recently killed in Ken
lucky turns out not to have been tho Hon. Thomas
F. Marshall, the somewhat distinguished ex-
Congressman. as reported, but Gen. Thomas A.
Marshall, one Of The Brigadier Generals appointed
by President Polk during the Mexican war.
Tax B,LL-Uuder the present tax bin, the
tax on merchants licenses remains the same as
last year except that for all sales over SIS, 600,
the tax rs now Ten dollars, for every ten thousand
dollars excess, instead of fifteen dollars, last year.
The tax on lands is raised from lS 10 20 cents.
n5. The Wings Of Tennessee are preparing
vigorously for the ensuing State election. A
State Convention Of the party is to meet at Nash
vile. in April, 10 selecta candidate for Governor,
ard the local press bring reports Of numerous
county assemblagos held as preliminaries to that
proceeding, ,...a.:
eGz, The British steamship .lron reached Ha-
wanna on the 9th ultimo, having on board General
Santa Anna, on his return to Mexico. His wife, ;.
daughter. and large number of Mexican officials;
composed his suit. He was in good health and
spirits; and spent day or two at Hayanua, re-
ceiving attention from old and new fscady.., d.
|, The National Intelgencer learns that our
Minister at Madrid, Mr.. BARRlSGER, has sue
ceeded in procuring from the Queen Of Spain the
pardon of the Hungarians fthe Lopez expedition
| of 1851, who were made anexceptiOn to the gen..
erals pardon granted to the American and other
prisoners. 1, ,~- -, -
A GaoAN FROM YoUSG AMERIcA.--"Young
America" having been treated rather cavalierly
by the new Administration, it makes its first groan,
through the Norfolk Daily Nous. The editor of
the News says:-''There is TO conceatng the fact,
that some of the acts Of the Cabinet officers have
not met with az agreeable response from the
PEOPLE" ."2 n- ="
~ Mr.. Imboden,. of Augusta, made an able
speech in the House of Delegates last Friday
nipht. against the bill increasing the vote OF the
State in Internal Improvement Companies. He
thoroughly exposed the unjust aad obnoxious fea-
TIRES of the bill, but it was party move, and the
Democrats passed it by neatly slrlct party vote.
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No Vice President King took the oath of office
on the oath ut. at the estate of Ariadne, where
he was stayino. The oath was administered by
Judge Sharkey, in presence ola large company.
One account represented Mr.. King as not at all
improved by the sugar house treatment. 'Anoth err
states that he had to be supported by two gentle
men during the ceremony. =
re- Louisa Swartz, young girl, lived nine
DAYS on bread and water liz the woods at Newport,
| Ohio-doing penance, as she said, and serving the
Lord for aiding her to escape from aconyent IN
Belgium, where. she says, The priests detained the
virgin Mary, and sought to ruin Louisa. Upon
her return from the woods she was admitted into
the communion of the German Lutheran church.
Mrs. Stowe IN ENGLAYD.-No less than 562, :
S4S signatures have been collected or drummed
nm nv the Duchess of Sutherland and other noble
ladies' i'm order to have them attached to an ad-
dress 10 Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe (author OF
Uncle Toms Cabin which is TO be presented to
her in elegant book FORM (making some twenty
folio volumes , as soon she lands at Liverpool,
whittier she is now on her way. -. 81 Us, =
ls. The London Times is ogt in fell blast a
: panst General Perce's Inaugural. The toni
and sentiments of that address upon the SUBJECTS
ofForeion Colonization on the American Cont
ueut and upon the Compromise Measures OF icoo,
3 are severely denounced by the Times. Its strlc-
lures occupy more than column ana embrace
: aIso the new Cabinet, which does not seem to be
especially satisfactory to that great exponent of
English opinion.
Nc A legislative e,neute recently took place il
i, Paris. The Corps Legislatff, before the grant