Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1855-08-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

! ne estate OF The Hon. hDOoll La"lchcs whose
death has been announced is supposed to be worth
SO 100000
The Boston Advertiser and the Boston Courier,
all Wings, will have nothing to do with "Fu-
sion" in Massachusetts.
France has national debt of 1888, 600, 600,
besides the last loan, and England had . debt Of
.S773, 923, 900 some time since.
The corn crop is superintendent in Scutt coun-
ty, KY, the present year, and contracts, il is said,
are making at fifteen cents per bushe
Andrew b. Moore, Of Alabama declines the APP
polntment of Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court Of Kansas, vice Edward Fillmore, removed.
The bronze statues of Henry and Jefferson.
cast by Crawford in Europe for the Virginia
Washington Monument, have arrived in, Rich
mond and been unpacked.
1t is rumOred that Judge Elmore, of Kansas.
lntens resisting the attempt of The Government
TO supersede him. He says the President has no
right to remove him, becaEse the Executive cam
not interfere with the Judiciary
The Richmond Despatch speaks ola pamphlet
just published in that vicinity which estimates
that, within the last forty years, 81 664 slaves
have escaped from the South. or 500 annually,
and that the total loss is S27 ,740,S00.
| Colonel William w. Seaton. one of the pro-
prieors of the National EntelIigencer, has gone
to Europe on a tour Of relaxation and observation.
Col. Seaton is model American citizen, and will
do honor TO his country wherever he may go.
Some of the Philadelphia papers are throwing
out hints that the Yellow Fever is in or abou!
New York. The New York papers reply deny
ing the allegation-which they mpute to a wish
on the part of Philadelphia ts get the fall trade
The Pope has accommodated the King and
Ministers of Sardinia, on account Of the recent
confiscation of Church property, and has had
sharp correspondence with ZaIava. the Spanish
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Upon the same sub
| iect.
A SICILY SrAsoN.-It would seem from re-
port published in the Utica IN. W Teet"tallst
that July was very sickly month in Utica
The number of liquor sales, which were mostly
for medicinal purposes, was 1900; value of the
medicines, ST 1884.
! FEMALE SURGICAL STUDENrs.-The n. Y.
Medical Times says that seven young and fair
booking women may be daily seen at the New
York Hospital. following the physicians and sur
geons their rounds, and present at all oper-
atoms, on males and females.
An ELECTRO. in New Orleans lately for Judge
Of the Second District Court, resulted in the sue
cess of 2. II. Morgan, the American or K. n.
| CdlIuIudte w HidJOlhl vi ,<jO over TWO OppO-
nenis. The vote stood. for Morgan 2,7S9; fer
Kearny $50; Tor Dunlap 548.
FRosr YIsIBLE-The Western Star. publish
ed at Christiansburg, Montgomery CO., says:
"FrOst was visible on last Sunday morning. to
early risers. in the nsighborhood Of Blacksbnrg--
We are glad to learn that i! was not heavy, so as
to injure anything"
SUNDAY THEATREs.-In Cincinnati last Sun
dsy.a German theatre, giving Sunday Concerts"
was suddenly entered by detachment Of the po-
lice, and ten performers and musicians were
hurried off to the police rendezvous. Some of the
audience tainted.
Texas ELgcTIoN.-The returns of the cleo
ton in Texas show that Pease. Democrat, the
| present Governor has been elected by some ten
thousand majority The whole Democratic ticket
has been elected. Ward, Democrat has been
elected to Congress from the eastern district.
MISUNDERSTANDING Rachel, the great French
tragedienne arrived in New York on Wednesday
morning last and took lodgings at The ST. NichO-
las Hotel. She brings with her three sisers. The
youngest of whom is not yet twenty years of age,
and possessed Of uncommon beauty. Her name is
Liza.
A number of colored citizens of Boston, who
had organized under the name Of 'Nassas Oft
Guards" with the intention of forming and APP
pearing as military corps, recently applied to
The Commander in Chief fora loan of Massachu-
sets State arms. and received notice that their
application was refused.
ArRocIoUs MURpER.-A letter from Bedford,
in the Lynchburg Virginian, says "We had at
Hardy's Mill yesterday evening one of the most
cold BONDED murders that ever was perpetrated
in this section Of the State. A man by the name
Of Lester shot one by the name Of Thompson kill
ing him instantly. Lester is in Jail. Provccation
slight.
The London Times has an editorial. urging
that the Allied Army he placed under one COM
mand. 1t is remarked that the London Times
and the Manchester Guardian-both papers being
under tho immediate inspiration of the Govern
ment-have, simultaneously. editorials on the
subject, and il is to be Inferred emanating from
the Government.
The census of New York. which has just been
completed. show the total population of the city
10 be 623 243 souls, an increase of lO7 69S since
1850. This shows growth of 81 per cent, in
five years, or nearly II per cent. per annum.-
The growth from lS45 TO 1850 was from 81 600
to 5l5.000 or nearly 40 per cent. The papers
generally denounce the census as incomplete.
BACKING Our While Mr.. Franklin Dexter,
of Boston. an old and leading Wing. backs out
from the Fusion party, we observe that Mr.. Sena-
backs into the same concern. The accession of
Hamlin is nightly rejoiced over by the abolition
lists. Is this the way the national Democrats ofthe
North are backing tEer friends in the South p
An answer from the Enquirer awaited.
A LONG DRvE.-A paper in Indiana county,
Pa, chronicles the passage through the town of
Indiana of Mr. j. Grinder, Of Armstrong county,
with drove of several hundred head OF cattle for
the eastern markets, which he had bought in
Texas and driven overland, a distance of fifteen
hundred miles They looked remarkably fine
considering that they had been on the road ever
since the first of April-a little over four Dlonths
from the time Of being started.
RUMoR.-Tt is reported that President Pierce
has recently sought farm of 500 to 600 acres,
near Colesvlla, Montgomery county, Maryland
few miles from Washington, as his future resi-
dence 1t is also reported that in the event OF his
receiving the Democratic nomination for the Pres
| idency in 1856, he will run as a Maryland and
! not as a New Hampshire candidate We give
these rumors for what they are worth-.4mertcan'
Organ.
ANOTHER ARCTIC ExPEDIrIoN.--The Mon
| treal Herald states that the Arctic expedition ht-
ted out by the Hudson Bay Company, was TO
! have started from Great Slave Lake some time
since. The object of this expedition is 10 visit
the locality where according to the information
furnished by DR.. Rae, Sir John franklin and
his unfortunate companions persisted, and to as
certain more fully, if possible, respecting their sad
| fate.
PRESERVATION OF CHlEDaEH's HARDY.
Cazenao, Of the Hospital of St. LOUIS, Paris. has
published valuable paper on the hair, in which
he says that tho most healthy mode of dressing
hair of females, especially young ones,s 10 lei 1t be