Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-06-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


o. An illiterate correspondent who is given to
sporting, wants to know when the "Anglo Saxon
Iace,'' so much talked about, is to come of.
DS- A man named Wilson, was committed to
Jail in North Carolina, on Sunday last, on the
charge of whipping negro girl to death.
eg- Two Wing deputies to the U. S. Marshal
in North Caroina.w hose salaries together amount
ed to the sum of sixteen dollars per year, have
been removed from office.
0D- The Milwaukee Sentinel states that hog ,
weighing | 100 pounds, has been shipped from that
place to New York, for exhibition at the Fair at
the Crystal Palace.
ExrRAoRDrwARY--A cow belonging TO Milton
Buchanan, of Lincoln. Indiana, recently gave
birth to seven calves. This is the most extraor-
binary and prolific cow ever mentioned in print.
The cow with her little flock, however, all died
0u-The appointment of Almonte as Envoy from
M exco to the United States, satisfies us that, no
matter how warlike may be the language of San
ia Anna towards our country, it is his intention to
"speak daggers but use none" -Bdlt. american.
tsJ.The Maine Law liquor bill passed the New
| York Senate on Tuesday, with a clause submit
ting it to a vote Of the people Of the State. The
Courts of New York have already decided that
law which is made to depend on vote Of the PEG.
pie is unconstitutional.
EXECUTIONS IN GREAT BRTAIr.-During the
fifteen years ending in 1852, 998 persons were
convicted of capital crimes in Great Britain, of
whom l52 were executed GIT transported for life,
and the remainder had their sentences committed
to lighter punishments.
o. Among the individuals whom Gen. Pierce
has appointed to Office there are at least four that
wrote and published lives of him during the Pres.
idential canvass. If heshail ever be candidate
again, there will be, we have no doubt ,one or two
hundred lives of hm.-Lo,isriLle Journal
Go- During discussion between Drs Draper
and Watson at Boston, DR.. w. stated that in the
course of four years and half he had taken from
the citizens Of Boston and vicinity, one hundred
barrels Of blood and had administered fory-nine
pounds of mercury!
o. 1t is stated that counterfeit SOS on the Mer-
chants Bank, Newbern, and los and As on the
Bank Of the State and 3's and l0's on the Cape
Fear, are in circulation. AS North Carolina mo-
ney circulates pretty freely in this region, it will
be well to look out for them.
o. It is said that all the weeping willow trees
in this country and England originatedfrom a
twig set out by Pope, the poet. He received
present of figs from Turkey, and observing twi
in the basket he set it out in his garden, where il
soon became fine tree.
o. A lady who lost her husband not long since,
by railway accident in England sued the rail-
way company, and recovered about $40 600 dam
ages. The damages were calculated on the basis
of his professional income. and the average length
al hx,I 60
o. Five years ago, Santa Anna was hooted out
of Vera Cruz with his wooden leg. lie is now
President of Mexico. A month after Mulloney
attempted suicide, he was running for Congress.
We care not how dark your prospects may be,
keep on living, and the time will come whenyou
will get ahead of them. Arsenic was made for
rats and towards.
03- Mr.. Paul Seymour, editor Of the San Fran
cieco Journal, visited the Atlantic cities last JAN
uary, on business, and has not~been heard from
since he left New York for Boston. He neither
arrived here, nor have his partners in California
heard anything of him. He had considerable a.
mount of money with him, and foul play is sus-
pected. Boston .4tlas.
o. At the recent session of the Maryland Leg
slatufe, law was passed in accordance with the
requirements OF the new constitution, securing all
the property belonging to woman at the time Of
her marriage, together with all subsequently, ac-
quired by her after marriage, it not being liable for
the debts of her husband unless il has been trans
ferred to her in prejudice ofthe rights Of his cred
tOrs.
o. Cough stated in his lecture at Trenton. n.
j.; that 100000 persons had signed the pledge,
and connected themselves with the Washington
an movement: that of this number 100000 had
refrigerated and violated the pledge, and either
filled drunkard's grave, or were miserable drunk
ards that the original mtver of the project now
kept low groggery in Baltimore, and was the
best customer himself
MOUNT VERwoN-The National Intelligencer
confirms the rlmor that Mr.. John A. Washington
has disposed of Mount .YerrAoh 10 a company COM
prising Northern and Southern men, for the large
sum Of 100000 The IHtelligencer is glad to
learn that the terms of safe reserve to Congress
the privilege of taking it. The purpose to which
the property is TO be applied has not been made
public.
REPORTED MuRDER.@The Belfast Signal pub
fishes a rumor of murder of young woman in
Unity, Me-, by French pedlar. The rumor
states that the pedIaf stabbed her several times,
then put her body into cart and drove on to a
farmers dwelling, where he desired to exchange
his cart for buggy wagon to 60 TO Bangor, and
leave the former in the barn until his return
The farmer did not see fit to make the exchange
but loaned him instead an old saddle, and the ped
lar left having previously put his cart in the barn.
Several days afterwards an awful stencil proceed
ed from this vehicle, land the farmer having called
the assistance of several neighbors, it was broken
open, and the body Of a young female, as above,
discovered.
The BRITISH COMMISSION TO THE CRYSTAL
PALAcE-Sir Charles Lyell and Mr.. Whitworth
arrived in the Canada at Boston. The Earl of
Ellssmere, Prof. Wilson, and Mr.. Wallace, ar
rived in the frigate Leander. Mr.. c. w. Dixie,
the other member of the Commission, arrived in
the Pacific He was one of the most efficient
members of the Royal Commission for the great
London Industrial Exhibition of 1851. He was
the only member of that Commission who refused
| to receive any recompense whatever. lie was
offered by the Queen the honors of knighthood,
(which he declined. Mr.. Dixie is the proprietor
of the London Atheneum, and will be warmly
welcomed by his brethren ofthe editorial fraterni-
ty.
M We would say to the editor of the "Stann-
ton Vindicator" that he is in error when he asserts
that the "Fillmore Administration" removed the
late Democratic Postmaster at Romney. His
surrendering the office, at the time no did, was a
voluntary act Not so, however, with the Wing
incumbent of the office under the Pierce Admins
tration-no sooner in power than the mandate goes
forth and he is decapitated- thrown out of Office
merely because he did not belong to the domi-
nant party-although she gave general satisfac-
ton" in the management Of the Office. 1t is true
that but for an afiliction, which at the time de-
prived us of using our pen, we should have N
formed the Administration that We were unwht
ing to serve it any longer as Postmaster, and thus
have spared it the trouble of making us feel thl