Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1854-07-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

D-The report that the Senate had rejected the
Canadian Reciprocity Treaty is contradlcted
o. Nobody ever used more certain remedy
FIR Colds. Coughs and consumption, than Flyers
Cherry Pectoral
o. Several Western Democratic papers have
put up the name of Thomas H. Benton, for tho
Presidency in 1856.
o. During the week ending Sd inst the deaths
by cholera at ST. Louis amounted to four hundred
and seven.
o. During the month of June there arrived at
New York from California, gold and gold dust 10
the amount Of Sd ,648,l42. '1'--~
Ga-The President has sent instructions to Gen.
eral Smith, of Texas, to call out the volunteers TO
quell Indian disturbances.
! o. Professor Benjamin T. Ewell has been o.
lected President Of William and Mary College in
the place of Bishop Johns, resigned.
o. At the recent municipal election in Mem
phis, Tennessee, the ''Know Notbngs" elected
their candidate for Mayor, and all the City Off
GERS, by handsome majorities.
| Go- The Bank of the Valley has declared
sem-annual dividend of S. per cents per cent
been added to the surplus fund.
| Go- Sad accounts are given of the ravages Of
the cholera at Independence, Missouri. No, Ices
than twenty persons were buried in one day
The town was nearly deserted.
| o. 1t is stated that Presbyterian Church Of
but 244 COMMITMENTS, at Vicksburg. Miss. gi~ss
from $ls, 900 10 SCI, 900 annually TO beneyolant
objects.
o. The opening Of the Panhandle Railroad,
through Brook county, to the Pennsylvania sline,
was to be celebrated by grand demonstration On
the 4ih Of July.
0a- The Philadelphia North american says
that grasshoppers, in innumerable swarms, iniest
the fields in many parts of Eastern Pennsylvania,
carrying devastation To all the vegetation bf tho
fields.
! c. The Legislative Body of France has under
consideration bill to impose tax upon Dogs
The number in the country amounts to fonr mil
lions 1t is estimated that their food costs AGO.
90 francs day, or l46 million year, equal to
| 90 millions of dollars.
! e3- Gen. WIN. D. Butler not only declines the
Governorshp of Nebraska, bat does il rather in
dignanIy. The worthy General is reported 10
have declared that he wouldn't be the Govern.
or Of Nebraska even IS they were to offer him the
whole Territory as his salary. -:~.
o. At the late commenc ement of William and
Mary College. the honorary degree of d. d. was
conferred on the Rev. Geo. d. Armstrong and
Rev. Charles Manageable Of Norfolk, and also
the degree of A. NJ. on John B. Strange Of the
Norfolk Academy.
FEMALE PosrMAsrERs. The number Of fs.
males at present holding the Office Of postmaster
Tor rather mistress) in the United States, is i2S.
they are appointed, give bonds. are commissioned,
and receive the same compensation for their ser
vices as other posmastsrs. Unmarried females
only can hold the office Of postmaster.
o. On the morning of the Fourth, light took
place between large party Of Americans and J.
rishmen at Manchester, New Hampshire. The
latter were routed and Twelve or fifteen Of their
houses Quilted and the furniture destroyed. The
Americans then attacked the Catholic Church and
broke all the windows, when the authorities and
police stopped the riot.
co. The new Catholic church at Dorchester
Massachusetts. Was blown up with gun powder,
and almost entirely destroyed on the Fourth
There was considerable excitement. Some 40
cused the Know-Nolhings. e. Others said Iho mrm
bers Of the church had deposited powder and arms
there for the protection q the church, and that the
explosion was accidental.
o. We learn from the Fredericksburg Herald
hat the farmers along the Valley of the Kappa
hammock have met with most disastrous losses in
the way Of rusted wheat. The rlsi has been 81
disastrous that il is positively asserted that not
single farmer in Northumberland, Lancaster or
Redmond, will make anything like half crnp,
whilst many will lOsc their all.
o. The citizens of Washington and Alexandria
are DESTROYS to be united by Rail Road, the
ute OF which shall be by the Long Bridge over
t." Potenac--making the distance about six miles.
This measure is upposed by the people of George
t,wn, WHO ish the road to pass through th,ir
town, and then cross the Potomac at point cboye
making distance of fourteen miles.
A SHEEP KILLEa.-A very large eagle WAS
shot in Sussex county. Virginia, 4 few days since,
On the farm OF Mr.. Joseph Il. Mason, of Peters
burg. The Express State that for sumo time this
bird had been playing sad havoc with Mr.. Mason's
lambs, having killed seventeen in all. Nopartof
the flesh of The lambs was eaten. but an incsion
was made into their throais and the blood sucked
from them until the animals were lifcless.
o. The Glasgow (Mo.) Times Of the Goth uli,
in article on the emigration to Kansas, says
Private letters state that about ten thousand
over at Weston last Saturday, and about the same
number on Sunday, while the roads are filled with
people all bound for the new Territories. A deter
mined effort is to be made to introduce slavery IN
TO Kansas, while there IS general disposition to
let Nebraska be Free"
Eo- News from the Cape Of Good Hope to May
Is. gives an account Of the legislative dsiugs of
the new republic, entirely independent of Europe,
L al, - 80
River Free State The first session ofthe Legis-
lature closed on the 9Th of April. President
making is undertaken, four candidates having been
nominated. The expectations raised by the rs-
ported discovery Of 6 Id in South Aries have not
been realized.
o. A fine lot of nearly one hundred head Of
cattle from Texas, were sent over the New York
Central Road on Wednesday of last week for tho
New York Market. The high price of bcefin all
the eastern markets still continues. and The whole
country is ransacked in order to supply the de-
maud Cattle can be purchased in Texas at al
most nominal price, and forwarded to New
York, via the Mississippi river and northern rail.
roads. so rs 10 leave good margin for profits at
the present high rates of selling. We under
stand that more Will soon follow.
o. A municipal election in the borough Of
Chambersburg, Pa, for member of the local
council in place of one who had resigned, has
resulted thus: William Heyser, regular Demo-
cratic candidate 20; Adam Vanderaw, regular
" hig candidate 22 Jacob n. Snider, Demo
Graf, but not known as candidate, l74i The
Chambersburg Wing says that not man could
he found to acknowledge that he had voted for
him. or who knew that he was running. The
secret of the result was that Mr. Snider was a.
lecfed by the new organization called know No.