Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-03-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Were moving grass in field near Weymouth.
o. Capt. Suffer (the early settler in California;
mas eased his farm, and it's stated that ne in
tends to return to Switzerland with bis family.
| &C. Since the passage of the fugitive slave act,
about hity colored persons, throughout the Free
otates' nave oeen arrested as fugitive slaves. Z
0o- Professor William E. Homer. a native of
Virginia, but for thirty years connected with the
University of Pennsylvania, died on Sunday in
Philadelphia.
e5- Among the applicants for lucrative posts
now throngng the city, there is no less than thir-
tythree ex- Governors from different States of the
kUnion.
o. The University of Virginia was never in a
more flourIshlng condition than now, the Number
Of students being, as We see from the catalogue,
AL.
&C. The Court of Appeals has granted re-hear-
ing to Parish & Co., stage contractors, in the de-
csion made against them in Shenandoah county
for $1,000 damages to passenger injured by the
upsetting of one OF their stages.
o. The Charleston Mercury rebukes the Un-
ion for its adulatioa of the Inaugural address,
The Mercury thinks it is we'll enough-rather
vague, &c.-but objects to oyerstrained praise.
Tbs "Southern wing" is, evidently. at this time,
disposed to no rash committals.
| THE TEHUANTEpEc RoUTE-The last news
from Mexico brings copy of the contract with
| Messrs. Sloo s. Co. for opening the Tehuantepec
Route. The contractors are to pay down $500,
000 in cash, and thesame sum tobe paid in month
ly instalments 900 each.
! o. Abiding to statement that the President
came from Baltimore to Washington incognito,
seated in the baggage car to avoid the crowd and
its opportunities, the Richmond Wing says "the
| Republic has come to adeplorable condition when
its President has to disguise himself TO avoid be-
ing besieged by office hunters"
0g- A Washington letter in the New York
Herald says ~t
! The Central American debate is regarded by
many as waste of time, but it will be discover
cd in due season that Gen. Pierce has taken his
position, and if Great Britain does not recede from
her pretentions and usurpation, there may be an
extra session of Congress.
o. Easter Day is always the first Sunday after
the full moon which happens upon or next after
the twenty-frst day of March, and if the full
moon happens upon Sunday, Easter day is the
Sunday after The first new moon after the
twenty first day of the present month will occur
on the twenty-ffth; consequently Sunday, the
twenty-seventh, will be Easter Day.. ....
Ca-It IS rumored that the Ohio Delegation went
to the President few days ago, TO say that tho
Democracy IF Ohio, having no member in tho
Cabinet, or Senator to represent the wishes of
the people of that State in relation to 'the spois,'
they desired to present the claims of worthy men
to Office President Pierce omitted to give them
an interview, and they retired in rage.
o. The n Y Journal of Commerce. Dem
ocratic paper, speaking of President Fillmore,
says-",rhe whole course'of his administration
has been judicious, conservative, wise. 1t has
bound the nation together by new ties it has
drawn the eye-teeth of the monster sectionalism.
History will celebrate it, posterity will do it hon
or"
N5- 1t is stated that the various expeditions that
have been fitted out within the last five years for
the discovery of Sir John Franklin. have cost an
aggregate of s75S, 466 Nearly eight years have
elapsed without tdings from the missing voyagers.
No less than fifteen expeditions in all. consisting
of thirty vessels besides boats, have been engaged
in the pursuit, and the effort is still continued.
or The Prince de Jonvile, in his answer to
the Putnam article "Have We Bourbon among
us ~ is said to deny, most emphatically, the
Dauphin part ofit,-that is to say, all in it that
goes to build up the supposition that we'have
''Bourbon among u.s." The Prince says he re-
members meeting Eleazer Williams during his
western travels and having very interesting con-
versation with him about the Indians,-but that is
all.
| MAPLE SUGAR.-At late meeting of the far
mer's Club of New York, an article was read on
the subject of maple sugar and of its great impor
lance as one Of the products Of our country. By
the late census it appears that the production OF
maple sugar in this country in 1850 was within
fraction Of thirty-four millions Of pounds. An
orchard of maple trees has been found almost E.
quail, acre for acre, with the sugar cane in produ-
cling sugar and neiasses. =
gy- Under the provisions of the act Of Congress
for the reorganization of the Executive Depart
ments the aggregate clerical force will pc
Five chief clerks of department seventeen
chief clerks of auditors, commissioners. SC; one
hundred and twenty-nine clerks Of the first class;
three hundred and thirty ofthe second one hundred
and ninety of the third and fifty of the fourth
class-makng an aggregate OF seven hundred
and thirty, at an annual cost OF nine hundred and
,hirty-one thousand six hundred dollars,
| ITALIAN NEws.-The Newark Daily, (wllose
absent editor is in position TO be well acquainted
with Italian Affairs,) says: "From private sources
we have information that everything is now quiet
in Italy, and no prospect of further disturbance ls
visible. The population Of Lombardy suffer new
rgors on account of the unhappy counses of the
authors whoever they are of the late proceedings.
Several hundred refugees, under an arrangement
with the Sandman government, were to be sent to
America in few days by public ship as candi-
dates for American favor" a..
GJ- Our naval forces contrast very poorly with!
those of Europe. Great Britain has $50 ships and
II .68l guns France, SAG ships. s 1928 guns; Rus
STA, I79 ships, 1886 guns Turkey, 66 ships,
266O guns United States, II ships, 2,345 guns
Egypt, SO ships, l,76Oguns; Holland, ia ships,
,646 guns.
Since the publication of these figures. the war
aspect of the Continent has induced the great mar
thine nations of Europe to increase their naval for
ces, so that the disparity indicated above is now
even greater.
o. A Washington letter in the New York
Courier says eI r..
Mr. Buchanan, of Baltimore, late Postmaster,
is expected to receive the chargeship of Austria.
Mr.. Stiles, Mr. Rowan, ofKentucky, Major Polk,
Hon. John w. Davis, of Indiana, Mr.. Hopkins,
of Virginia, Mr. Harris, and, indeed, nearly all the
diplomats OF the Polk regime, are present, with.
the papers in their pockets setting forth The pro-
prety ofrenstatlng them III their former situations.
| The most of them must be disappointed. Mr..
Haddock, nephew to Mr.. Webster, will probably
remain at the Court Of Portugal. Major Cass Will
represent his father at Rome.
&C. The progress Of the Maine Liquor Law is
oiyen by the New York Herald as follows: Four
StatesEMaine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and
Vermont-have adopted the Maine Liquor Law;
on the other hand, these advantages are counter
balanced By simultaneous checks Illinois has tried
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