Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1854-02-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

NEWSPAPER CHAsGE.-Capt. John c. Shields
has disposed of his interest in the Lynchbrg
f Vrgiaian, and Messrs J. Mcdonald, s. T..
Peters, and ID. T. &. Peters are now its proprietos.
Or The Peace Society, of London, have sent a
deputaon to the Gar of all the Russias, in order
to persuade him TO settle the matter amicaby with
Turkey. #& ffs8
or A telegraphc despatch from Charleston re-
ports that the steamer America was burnt on the
Alabama river, January 10, and that tfiy lices
were lost? A gentleman named Moore, who was
moving West, had large number Of negroes on
board.
OFFICIAL INDusrRY-A correspondent of the
Wheeling Inteligencer complains of the faithful
ness Of the public servants in Ohio county. II APP
pears that frty justices assembled on the bench at
one time, at charge to the county of 500 for
one day IS service. 4i 81
Or Col. Benton is reported to have said to a
friend, while conversing the Nebraska question.
'Liltle Doug, (Douglas) sir, is dead, sir; little
Doug is politically dead, sir. If he fail to carry
his bill the South will kick him in the rear, sir,
and if he does carry it the North will beat his
bains out, SIR" F.t
03- A mreing Of the opponents ofthe Nebraska
bill was held in Chicago, Illinois. on the 9Th inst.
Mr. Douglas was denounced by the old line DEM
ocrats, some of them his old personal friends. Res
olutcns were passed requesting their representa-
tlves in Congress to vote against any Infringement
of the Missouri Compromise.
AMHERST CoUNTY-The proposition to sub
scribe fifty thousand dollars towards the "exten-
sion" of The Orange and Alexandria Railroad, on
which vote was taken inAmberst, Thursday last,
was carried by q considerable majority. Some
sixty thousand dollars had been previously sub
scrbed BY individuals.
Or The steamer Pacific brings the intelligence
! that Captain Watkins of the i'll fated San Fran
cisco, and the rescued soldiers and sailors who
were carried into Liverpool by The ship Antarctic,
are now on their way home by the steamship A.
merica, specially chartered for their accommoda-
ton. The ship was TO leave Liverpool on Satur-
day, January %. F
| Or Hundreds of Poles and Hungarians are has
| tening to Constantinople. Guyon has been sent
| to Asia in command. Klapka has refused COM
mand in Asia, to be near Hungary. He will
probably receive command on the Danube.-
Lord Dudley Stuart is endeavoring to get up
Polish legion. He has gone to Scumia. Some
twenty or thirty English officers are there en- am
ateurs. .
o. A pigeon roost ten miles long BY five broad,
in Franklin county. Indiana, is now swarming
with pigeons The roar of their wings on arri-
wing and departing from the roost is tremendous
and the fiocks during flight, darken the heavens.
The ground is covered to the depth fseveralinch-
es with their manure Thousands are killed by
casualties from breaking limbs of trees, and hun
dreds of hogs live upon them. Sportsmen are tired
Of killing game 50 easily obtained
VIRGINIA IMPRovEMESTs.-Th Richmond
Dispatch says that according to statement laid
before the Virginia House of Delegates by its
Clerk, the amount of appropriations asked for at
this session, is for canals, bridges, and navigation
companies 81 .623 600; for railroads 1924, 600;
for turnpikes $657 $50 for plank roads 1862 600;
making in all, $ll ,7s7 ,480 There are resolu-
tions and petitions for the construction of improve
ments still before the Committee of Roads. which
would swell the above amount to Twelve Millions.
ANTI-BEpTsI DEMoHsTRArIoY.-A large Anti
Bedn demonstration took place in Philadelphia
on Saturday night last. An address was adopted
to Senators Cass. Douglas, Mason and Everett,
styling their judgement upon the recent expression
Of public opinion upon Bedini as an unwarranta-
Bile assumption Of prerogalive, declaring the peo-
pie to be the judges of their pubc servants, and
not the servants the judges of the people. The
burning in etfigy was pronounced an appropriate
expression of public opinion towards man sus-
pected of conniving at the death and torture of
republicans. A memorial was also adopted asking
Congress 10 suspend diplomatic relations with
Rome.
e. The New York Mirror proposes an act
for the suppression Of drunkenness in that State,
It provides that when any person shall be found
drunk it shall be the duty of the police officers TO
arrest such person and detan him or her in some
suitable place until sober. and then take the person
before Justice of the Peace, who shall ascertain
BY oath or other satisfactory evidence, by win m
the liquor was sold to such drunken person. The
party convicted of furnishing the liquor shall be
fined MI less than $685. nor more than $l00. 1.-THE
party fail TO pay the fine they shall he committed
to Jail there to remain until the fine is paid, or
til the Imprisonment shah be equal to one day for
every fifty cents Of said fine.
THE GADsDEs TREATY.-The letter-writers
from Washington supply US with the most contra
dictory statements with respect 10 the fate Of this
scheme. Some say il will be sent 10 the Senate
forthwith, others say it will not be sent at all
and Others again assert that it will be materially
modified, and then sent For the present it hangs
| fire in Tie Cabinet.
| The n. Y. Herald says, the whole scheme is
one based OH most extensive system Of fraud,
and ought not to receive vote in the Senate
| Santa Anna, the spectators in the Tehuantepec
and Sloo adventures, and various other individa-
ais, iE and cut of Congress- are interested in the
| project Santa Anna, who is very needy, is TO
| finger len milIions--the balance to be divided a
mong his patriotic and enterprisng coadjutors in
getting the treaty through
A PRopHET OF EVIL Senator Clemens in a
| letter to John Van Buren,, uses the language Of
soothsayer Of woe. Take heed, o ye! Of little
faith. Hf ,.7it
II am to much engaged with professional du-
ties to pay much attention to politics bat think
have seen enough to be certain that the Nebras-
ka bill, as reported by Mr.. Douglas, will pass;
| and think can foresee the consequences. That
they will be anything but agreeable seems too
clear to admit OF doubt. A food gate will be
opened. and torrent turned loose upon The coun-
try which will sweep away in it's devastating
course every vestige Of the compromise Of 1850.
do not speak of its immediate effects look be-
yond. For the present it may be looked upon at
the South as boon, and by portion of the North
as triumph over fanatcism. The word peace
will be upon the lips Of its advocates every where.
Like the Angel of the Lord who stood among the
myrtle trees and said, 'Ve have passed to and fro
through the earth, and behold all the earth stitch
still and is at rcst-even SO we shall have 1t pro-
claimed that the country is at rest-that all is at
peace but greatly fear that they will soon find
they have raised spirit which will wing its way
through storm and tempest to the funeral pyre Of
the republic"