Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-01-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

OYSTERS AND THE CHoLERA-The Cbarlestol
Standard traces the prevalence of the cholera i,
that city to indulgence in oysters, and says tina
many of the largest and finest of these bivalve.
which are brought to market are gathered from
brackish, not salt water This year the body o.
fresh water has extended almost to the harbor anc
even there the fresh water predominates much
more than it usually does As consequence Of
this, oysters, which require salt water, are diseas
ed ana dying; many Of them are dead; and YET
from the midst OF these dead piles are gathered q
portion OF that which is sold in the market as food
for man. 1t Will be recollected that to similar
cause was attributed the mortality from cholera al
| Apalachicola.
| Co. The Florida Senate has passed bill leay-
ing it to the people in each county in the State to
determine for themselves whether they will grant
licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors within
their jurisdiction. similar movement is on foot
in Alabama. A State Temperance Convention
lately held in that State drew up an act to be in
trcduced into the next Legislature, TOR the purpose,
as the title reads, of enabling the inhabitants of
every county, town, village and election precinct
in the State of Alabama, to protect themselves from
the evils arising from the sale of intoxicating Ii
quors."
SINGULAR CAsE.-Yesterday posse of the
police arrested an old fellow by the name of Peter
Kaye, who, together with his wife, have been
leading the life of common beggars in this city for
some years. The old woman is occasionally an
apple merchant. Their house on Eleventh street
was searched, and in bureau several hundred
dollars in gold was slowed away, and they had
chests and trunks full of fine under-clohes, blan-
kets and bedding, enough to have rugged out
regiment Begging must be very profitable
bIsiness.-LouisuiHe Courier.
REeETprs AND EXPORTS OF GoLD.-The an
nual return Of the United States Mint shows that
the gold deposites of the present year have been
s5l ,O59, 90 against. SAT- ,929, 4O5 for 1851. The
export of specie at New York for the last year is
however only S25, 066,25 against S43 ,743,209 for
1851 thus showing the excess of gold left in tho
country during the year to be $25, 1868 ,04l and
total for the two years of S29, / sc, 239.
HEIRS OF GIRARD.-It is stated that the heirs
of the late Stephen Girard are making an effort TO
OBTAIN possession ofthe estate now in the possession
of the city of Philadelphia. The heirs have filed
bill in equity in the Circuit Court and have COM
menced actions of ejectment in that Court and in
the Court of Nisi prius. This is not the first at
tempt made by the heirs to obtain this immense
estate.
EsnGRANTs TO LIBERIA.-The total number of
Emigrants sent to Liberia by the American Colo
nizaton Society and its auxiliaries is $50. From
the goth of November to the 3st of December,
the receipts of the American Colonization Society
amounted to $l0,379. The sum Of $7,l79 was
collected by the Kentucky Colonization Society in
December, all from Kentuckians.
o. Mr.. Rufus Porter, of Washington, is con-
structing machine called an aroport, for nayiga-
ting the air, and which; he says, may be in ope-
ration in two or three weeks Of pleasant weather.
The machine is one hundred and sixty feet long,
to be propelled BY steam engines, and capable Of
carrying six persons at the rate of forty miles per
hour.
o. President Fillmore's last message receives
very favorable comment in England, as it did,
save from ultra partnership, here.-"clear and
candid are the terms applied to his exposition Of
the Fisheries and Lobosq uestions,--but commen-
dation is less emphatic, we remark, when that
part of the message, touching the Cuban question;
is treated.
CANDID ConFEssIoN.-The Richmond Exam
liner. leading organ of the Southern Democracy;
make, the candid confession that Gen. Pierce "has
been carried into porar By the temporary union Of
all parties and cigues," and further adds that at
will require all Of the Presidents good sense and
resolution to award the offices in his gift so al to
keep our overgrown organization together"
G3- A Yankee has invented new and cheap
plan for boarding. One of the boarders mcsmer- ,
ICES the rest, and then eats hearty meal, the
being satisfied from sympathy. One
Of the boardcrs having recovered, mesmerized the
andlady, OH pay day, and endeayored to settle for
the whole company by paying for one, but it din't
work.
The CRYSTAL PALAcE.-An agent ofthe New
York Crystal Palace exhibition has arrived at Hal
fax rom ST. Johns, and reports that Newtound
land will be represented, and that f50O will be
raised for the purpose. An EsquimauY will be
sent to the exhibition with representations Of the
seal fisheries, specimens Of skill, mineralogy, &C..
Co We notice by their card in the Stanton
Spectator that Messrs. lmboden and Tate, two of
he three delegates from Augusta County, decline
.eng candidates forre-election. The editor of the
Spectator very properly recommends to the Wings
IF that county to hold county convention to NOM
nate candidates.-Kanatcha Republican.
o. Some of the farmers, and others, of Penn
,ylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, are selling
IF their farms and town property, and moving to
MARYLAND and Virginia They are selling their
arm land for $50 $50 and 800 per acre, and buy
ng at from 20 to 40 dollars per acre, In the last
mentioned States.-EastOn Whig.
e;- Alta supper, which he attended in Providence
few evenings since, Mr.. Thackeray said-and
le did not care how far it was repeated-thatheh had
10 intention of writing book upon the U. States.
He spoke with feeling of the great kindness and
Ill, haan it,aI in
COUNTRY.
nrs- The North American Review is of opinion,
hat the annual supply Of the precious, metals will
lot fall below a hundred millions of dollars for
many years, and that in quarter of century this
supply will deprecate money to one-haf or one
bird its present value.
A NEGRo LEGATEE,-The celebrated will Of
z. T. Hairston, of Henry county, Miss, by which
lis whole estate, amounting to half a mllioh of
dollars is given to little negro, was admitted to-
ecord at the last term Of the county court.
n,. Col Edward Coles, in long letter pub
ished in the National Intelligencer, denies that
Nathan Dane was the author of the fanIods ordi-
lance of 1857, and claims that to MIR. Jefferson
should be awarded the paternity of that measure.
ey- The Hon Charles f. Stuart, Democratic
member of the House of Representatives, has been
elected to the United States Senate by the Michi-
ran Legislature in place of Hon. AlPheus Fech;
whose term will expire on the 4th of March
&C. Bishop Ives of North Carolina, has address
ed to the clergy of his diocese statement of the
easons that impeIIed him to withdraw from the
Episcopal and to unite with the Roman Catholic
;hurch-.N Y. Jour- Com.
nz. Clifford Who. has been chosen Governor of