Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1854-02-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

i U- The Richmond Mail gives list of the i'm
portant measures now before Congress- and esti-
mates that their consideration will extend thu
session to the middle Of September-p perhaps longer.
| W- Resolutions against the Nebraska bill. with
slavery above the line of the Missouri cornbromisa
have passed both branches Of the Legislature Of
Rhode Island, unanimously.
Or Washington rumors assert that two Cabinet
Councils have been held upon General Gadsden's
Treaty, together with that negotiated by Judge
Conkling, without result.
| a 0u- Shaving occupies on an average. Is min.
sutes. man who shaves every morning for so
years, thus employs, in that time, upwards of
3oO days, of IL hours each. Is this profitable
| application Of our feeting moments?
Cst- Colonel Forney is now in the field for q.
5. Senator from Pennsylvania, and an association
is formed to urge his claims all over the State.-
50 says the Washington correspondent of tho
Democratic Union at Harrisburg. .s,5-
! The SoULE DUELs-The New York Express
says that reports from Madrid via Paris are, that
the Marquis de Turgot has had his leg amputated,
and is in dangerous condition. If he dies-asis
believed-Mr. Soule will of course have to be re-
called.
The ERIE DIsrURBAKcEs.-A meeting of the
citizens was held on Wednesday evening last. at
Faiview. Many of the Erie rioters attended and
made attempt to excite the citizens
to an outbreak, The United States Marshal il
now experimenting the repairs at Erie.
o. fire broke out in Winchester, on the
night of the 18th, and destroyed the back part of
the row from Taylor's Hotel down to the Bank of
the Valley. The Hotel and several stores and
dwellings on Main ct. caught fire, but were ex-
tingushed Loss $4,000 or $4,000. n
e5- Much indignation is felt in England against
Prince Albert, the public voice protesting that he
is tool Of Russia, and that Aberdeen is under his
influence. The Prince, it is charged, betrays all
the Cabinet secrets to Russia, Austria, and Ger
many. and the matter was expected to come be-
fore Parliament.
| o. Bedini was burnt in efigy at Louisville
recently The Courier says the ceremonies were
conducted by a large crowd of Germans, who first
flageated the efigy, and then applied the torch
to 1t. When asked what they did this for, one Of
them replied in broken English, "Vat for he come
here? Tuyfel! Ve'Mercans can take care ofour-
selves. Dunder"
o. We learn from the Washington Sentinel
that meeting of Virginans was to be held at
the United States Hotel, Washington, on Tues.
/ day evening, for the purpose of making arrange
ments for the celebration Of the first permanent
settlement at jamestown, Virginia. lis also de-
sired to form an association for the celebration Of
the day annually.
from Mrs. Elizabeth c. Smith, of Missouri, who,
| in 1916, under the assumed name of Ben New
| man, - volunteered in the Mexican war, where
she served faithfully for ten months, when her
sex was discovered. and she was discharged from
| the service "Ben' has since married, and now
applies for her pay aud bounty land. &''
Cosr OF THE CovINGToN AND ONO RoAD.-
| Mr. Christian stated that he was informed, on re-
liable authority, that it was the opinion Of both
Mr.. Fiske and Mr.. Elicit, that the Covinglon
and Ohio road would not cost more, per mile,
than the Baltimore and Ohio road from Cun,ber-
land to Wheeling, a Distance of about 200 miles,
which cost in all something over 7 Millions
The whole length of the Coyington and Ohio
road will be about 228 mles.-Ricitmond Mail.
ns- Mr.. Alexander Bodisco, the Russian Minis
ter to this country for SO long PERIOD died at his
residence in Georgetown on Monday the 3d.
He was WaIacLian noble by birth, and first
entered the public service Of Russia about fifty
years ago. A few years after his arrival in
this country, he married Miss Williams of George
town, whom he has left a young and beautiful
widow. with seven small children. Mr. BOdis-
co.'s property is valued at over halfa Million
He was "a years Of age.
o. A western paper with reference to the a
buse of the divorce law, notices the case Of a wo-
man in Indiana who has been divorced from her
husband, by whom she had two daughters, both
of whom are now divorced wives, one having OBJ
tanned her bill while her husband lay on his death
bed. In the same village, man who had mar
ried widow was divorced from her. and after
wards married the woman daughter. Both moth
er and daughter reside in the village, the latter Of
whom the man still lives with.
EFFECT OF THE NEBRASKA MovEaEYT.-A
leading Democrat now in Washington, says tho
New York Commercial, gentleman Of intelli-
pence and discernment, and friend Of the Admin
stration. thus writes To friend in that city the
| expression Of his sentiments not being designed
for publications.
1--WE anticipate very exciting scenes in Con-
press. The Nebraska bill will entirely break up
The Democratic rarty, fear. Many Southern
men are opposed to repeal of the Missouri com
promise They know very we'll that slavery can
never be carried into Nebraska, and they fear that
the repcal of The compromise while it will do them
no good, will establish precedent for the repeal
OF other laws-the fugitiye-slave law, perhaps"
Scarcity IN FRANcE.-Tt appears from an ar
| ticle in the London Times. that France VIII be
compelled To spend Is millions sterlug-very
nearly hundred millions dollars-to supply the
deficiency of breadstuffs in that country. The
Government has taken the matter IN hand, tor Its
existence depends on il, and has sent agents and
orders all over the world to purchase flour and
grain. And it is not only providing food for the
masses. but it is undertaking to give them employ
| mept Public Works are being constructed, and
millions appropriated to keep the laboring popula-
ton occupied Bankruptcy, under such creum-
stances. would seem inevitable at no distant day.
A foreign war. by Withdrawing the superfuous
mouths from France, and feeding them by the
plumber Of other counties, might defer the evil
day.
| TERRIFIC AND FATAL ExPLosIoN.-A dispatch
from New York on the 29th says: Frepch's Ball
and Cartridge Factory at Rayenswood, l., j., ex-
ploded Yesterday afternoon by which nearly ~
nersons mostly BOYS and girls, were instantly Kill
ed. Upwards of $4,000 cartridges exploded and
i houses for miles around were shaken and their
windows broken The magazine containing 800
TONS of powder narrowly escaped The. number
j generally employed was thirty All inside the
building at the time were killed except two
Three girls belonging To one family were killed.
4 Their bodies were all blown into fragments and
mingled with pieces of timber, machinery, nc;
Another account states that the number killed
already ascertained is only lS-others were shock-
Eingly mutilated and some fatally. The scene Is
terrible-scarcely fragment bigger than walk
ing-stck can be found of the building. Heads.
limbs and trunks Of human beings are scattered in
all directions. -l-,
! The NEBRAsrA AND KANSAS TERRiroRIEs.-
The Sc two territories, says the New York Herald