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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

The PRESIDENTIAL ELEcTIoN.-The following
is q summary of the laws and constitutional re-
quirements in the election of President and
Vice President: - z = 3t-l
9. Electors meet on the first Wednesday in
December, and cast their votes. They then
sign three certiicates-send messenger with
one copy to the President of the Senate at Wash
ington before the first Wednesday in January
another by mail to the same person, and the
third delivered to the United States District
Judge where electors meet.
8. Each State provides by law for filling any
vacancy in the Board of Electors occasioned by
absence, death, or resignation. Such of the O.
lectors as are present are generally authorized
to fill any vacancy
a. The Governor gives notice to electors of
their election before the first Wednesday in De-
cember rC.r,.rlr
5. On the second Wednesday, in February, Con-
gress shall be in session and open the returns
The President of the Senate shall, N the pres
ence of the House of Representatives, open the
certificate of returns, and count the votes. The
person having the greatest number of votes for
President, if such number be q majority of the
whole number of electors, shall be the President.
6. If no person has q majority as above, the
choice is to be made from the three highest re-
turned. The members of the House, by States,
form themselves into Electoral Committees, and
the majority determine which is to be the choice
of the State-each State having only one vote.
Z. If neither of the candidates get a majority
of the States before the 4th of March, then the
Vice President shall act as President
8. If the people do not elect through their E.
lectors Vice President, then the Senate Of the
United States shall make the election from the
two highest candidates returned to them by the
Electors
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

YANKEE SPIRIr.-Hiram Pearson, of Califor-
mia, is now travelling in Europe. Recent foreign
letters say that, having arrived at Vienna,he APP
piled to the proper authorities for permission to
inspect the government buildings. He was re-
fused, on the ground that mo one,buta member
of the European Congress of Science, then in ses-
sion in Vienna, could be admitted. Thereupon
he applied to be received in the Congress as q
member stating that his diploma had been de-
stroyed by the great conhagration in San Fran
cisco. This demand was complied with, and he
was treated with the greatest consideration by
all the members of the body, except the Arch
duke Charles who took exception to his admis-
sion, as he had no diploma. Col. Pearson, feel
ing himself aggrieved at the manner in which
the Archduke's objections were made, challenged
him. whereupon the Archduke descended from
his dignity, apologised, explained, and all was
satisfactorily settled. Col. Pearson was admit
ted to the chair of Surgery and named Vice
President of the Congresst
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

COMPLIMENT TO PRINTERs.-John @. Rives,
of Virginia, in recent published letter on the
subject of public printing, has word of sugges-
ton to writers for the press, and of compliment
to the compositor whose duty it not unfrequent-
ly is to make sense out of very senseless chirog-
raphy. None buta writer for the press can
comprehend how much truth there is in the vet
eran printers remarks. Many members ofCon-
gress-and exc not few greater men-must
have been surprised at the respectable figure
they cut in print, without thinking of the toll
some labor and the exercise of the better talent
than their own, which had been expended by
the journeyman printer in putting into good
shape the message report of aspeech furnished
by them. Mr.. Riyes says:-'1 have seen the
manuscript writing Of most great men of this
country during the past twenty years, and
think | may say that not twenty of them could
stand the test of the scrutiny of one-half of the
journeyman printers employed in my office
This fact will be vouched by every editor in
the Union. To poor .journeyman' printer ma
ny great man owes his reputation for schol-
arship, and wero the humble compositors to re-
solve, by concert, to set up manuscript in their
hands-even for one little week-precisely as it
is written by the authors, there would be more
regulations slaughtered than their devils could
shake stick at intwenty- fourh hours. Statesmen
would become small by degrees and beautifully
less Many on ass would have the lions hide torn
from his limbs. Men, whom the world call wri-
tiers, would wake up of mornings and find them
selves-famous as mere Observation-Disclosures
and cheats"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

TINES CHANGES inventors of Steam
power, Railroads, and machinery have during
this century changed the means and courses of
living while the discoveries of science have done
even more for the advancement Of human hap
pness and the amelioration of human suffering.
Our forefathers when they were sick, drank
their bitter drugs that did not cure, and bowed
them down under diseases that are now easily
broken. They tried crude roots and herbs which
failed them. Now scientific research las dis
covered that this peculiar property of one root
and that of another was required 1t is through
this light, and on this principle DR.. AVER has
compounded his two great remedies--Cherry
Pectoral and Cathartic Pills He has concen-
trated tho curative virtues of our best vegeta-
bic remedies The result shows their origin
and their results are known in this community.
Mark the difference to patient, in the lapse OF
fifty years. Then he swallowed his bitter pill in
vain-now the sick man takes his sugared Pill
or honied Drop end soon is well again. These
adaptions of the sciences which bear upon the
security or the comforts of human life are after
all the tangible points of their vantage to man.
Without them it matters little how much may
be discovered, or what we know since it is una
valuable to our necessities and use.-Eastern
Literary Reuaew. Nov. 5.--lt.
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ADDRESS FROM THE KANSAS PR1soNERs.-Tf

ADDRESS FROM THE KANSAS PRISONERS. The
Free-State prisoners at Lecompton have pub
lished an address to the American people,
They state that they are confined in small
loathsome prison, under guard of the militia re-
Gently enlisted; and that they are unable to pro-
cure medical assistance or sufficient food or CLOTH
ing. VIM. Bowles, Free-State man, from st.
Charles, Missouri, has died since his arrest, and
it is feared that several Others will survive but
few days unless Immediately relieved. The
address is signed by 81 prisoners formerly be-
longing to Rhode Island, Massachusetts,, New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin
and Iowa
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

The whole male population OF the United
States over 81 years of age, and to be presumed,
entitled to vote, is about 5,10O,ooO ana yet the
votes cast at Presidential election seldom ex-
ceeds 100000, leaving 100000 OF lnhsoitants
who do not use their franchise. in the state OF
New York, in 1862 the voting population ex-
ceeded 100000, yet the votes returned ana not
much exceed 100000. In Massachusetts; the
white males over 81 are nearly 8oo,ooo ana yet
the vote, in 1862, was only $4,000 showing
that nearly two thirds of the adult popnlattlon,
for some cause or other had staid away from
the polls. And the proportion is nearly as
great in several other States.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

EXTRAORDINARY SALE OF AppLEs.-We have
the pleasure of pntting on record probably the
best sale of fruit ever known in this country,
and that too of Tennessee fruit. The specimens
of apples exhibited at the Fair by Mr. j. w.
Dodge, artist, raised on his farm in Cumberland
county, on the mountain, were sold at auction
on Wednesday night. They were sold by the
half dozen, and as high as FIVE dollars and twen-
ty cents per half dozen paid. The whole lot
sold, amounting to about barrel and a half of
seven different varieties, brought one hundred
and eleven dollars If any of our famous fruit
growing States in any section of the Union can
equal this, we should like to hear from them
Ndshuille Banner. leasf y So fa'
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

A STATEMENT OF THE REsULT.--We stated
some days since that an examination had been
made of the eye of murdered man, at Auburn,
New York, to test the truth of a discovery said
to have been made in England, that the last
scenes witnessed by dying man would be re-
hected upon the retina after death. The results
then given by contemporary were somewhat
indefinite. The following account Of what was
exhibited is now published:
cat first we suggested the saturation of the
eve in weak solution of atrophine, which evil
IDENTITY produced an enlarged state of the pupil
On observing this. we touched the end OF the
optic nerve with the extract, when the eye in
stantly beanie protuberant. We now applied o
powerful lens, and discovered in the pupil the
rude, worn-away figure of man, with light
coat, beside whom was round stone, standing
or suspended in the air, with small handle
stuck as it were in the earth. The remainder
was debris, evidently lost from the destruction
of the optic, and its separation from the mother
brain. Had we performed this operation when
the eye was entire in the socket, with all it's
powerful connection with the brain, there is
not the least doubt but that we should have de-
tected the last idea aud impression made on the
mind and the eye of the unfortunate man. The
thing would evidently be entire; and perhaps
we should have had the entire contour, or bet
ter still the exact figure of the murderer The
last impression before death is always more ter
rible on the brain from fear than any other
cause; and figures impressed on the pupil more
distinct, which we attribute to the largeness of
the optic nerve and its free communication with
the bram." 49,
Itmay be we'll to remark at the outset of this
very dubious discovery, that if the theory be
true it will be of little avail for the object pro-
posed, as it would be quite likely to lead to the
suspicion of the innocent as the guilty. The
last person presented to the murdered mans Wis
ion might be the ''good Samaritan" who came
IN holm him Mt his call of distress.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

AN AMERICAN SwINDLE In PARls.-The fol
lowing paragraph is from Paris letter to the
New York Express: SIS
''Some months since an association was or
ganized in Paris, calling itself COLONIZATION
Society," and claiming to own million OF acres
of land in Western Virginia. Grants OF tnis
land were sold at very low prices, ana Tue Dait
was taken very we'll amongst thG aSa ands
when it was found out the ti'le 10 Inc iahas
terly worthless. the fact being that many of the
lands were already occupied by people who had
bought the property from t the Plate tate Of Virgin
ia, under the law which enabled the Common
wealth to sell unclaimed real estate to pay taxes.
In short. the affair was swindle.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

LOUIS NApoLEoN.-It is stated that arrests
continue to be made in Paris of individuals sus-
pected of conspiring against the life of the En-
peror. The conduct OF his Majesty on the occa-
sion of his return to Paris, and since, gives the
impression TO the public that these arrests are
based upon facts which fully warrant the utmost
rigor of the police His entry into Paris was
private. unannounced as regards the hour, and
made under the most cautious circumstances
His carriage which was closed, was surrounded
by mounted men, and instead passing over
the usual route, they passed rapidly through the
city by the river Quays.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05
Rlacl,wood,s Magazine.

Contents of the October number: l. The Ath-
elings or the Three Gifts.-Part v, 2, Wayside
Songs, original and translated, 8. Our Tour in
the Crimea, 4. Mr.. Buttle's Review, 8. Family
History, 6. Seaside Studies.-Part Ill, Z. A
New Una, 8. African Travel.
Republshed by l., Scott & Co., 40 Fulton St.,
Now York. ut So year.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05
STAUNTON SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.

The PRoeRAMMEroF DIsUNIoN.-The great
body of the people are so devoted to the Union
that they are disposed to regard the declarations
of such men rs Gov Wise, and PrestonS. Brooks,
with indifference, if not contempt. Neverthe-
less, it is ,inquestionable that there are in the
States ew5mad spirits, who would, under GER
tain circumstances, deliberately urge and advo-
cate a separation of the confederacy. The Edge
field Advertiser, South Carolina journal, for
example, has ventured to submit programme
as follows: - ffef -
LIST. The Southern Governors are to call their
Legislatures together. ,--s.-
ID. The Legislatures are to elect delegates to
Southern Congress.
Sd. That Congress is to assemble at Milledge.
vile, Georgia
4th. Its first work will be the election of a
temporary President.
9th. 1t will then proceed to form new Con-
stitution.
9Th A commission will be forthwith appoint
ed to meet similar commission from the North
to divide the public property.
If all this be peaceably carried out, the new
government will at once go into operation, and
probably enter into treaty of some sort, at the
start.
If otherwise, we must do the best we can.-
But no one apprehends either war or any ma
terial shock to the business transactions of the
world.
The New Orleans Bee ventures to suggest
various objections Firstly, "there are sundry
Governors who would not agree to call their Leg
islatures together Governor Morehead, of Ken
lucky, the Governor of Delaware, and, in all
probability, the Governors of Maryland and
Tennessee, would object decidedly to the pro-
posed course Consequently, the Southern Con-
gress, which is to meet at Milledgeville, would
be but an imperfect representation Of the slave
holding States. Secondly, the commissions North
and South would fail to agree the North would
object strongly to division of the public pro-
perry, and would monopolize all it could grab.
Thirdly, the process of negro stealing would be
carried out with fifty fold the activity it now
presents, as the North would not be restrained
by either constitutional or legal scruples. Fourth
ly, this fact, together with the impossibility of
bringing about Southern unanimity of feeling,
would effectualy preclude peaceabe dismem-
berment of the Union, and war would be an in.
evitable result. Lastly there is not State south
of the Potomac with the single exception of
South Carolina, in which the Disunionists are
not in a minority Hence, they would be de-
feated in their reasonable and wicked purposes,
beyond the shadow of doubt"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05
TIE HIenEsr MOUNTAIN IN THE WoRLD.-The
4e..,;1, &c non uorsation at Calcutta il the


principal topic of conversation at Calcutta is the
discovery of the highest mountain in the world.
At the meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
on tho 9th August Major Thuillier announced
that Col. Waugh Surveyor General of India,
had completed his computations of the positions
and elevations of the peaks Of the Himalayas. -
The result was to depose the mountain Kanchin-
iinga from its throne as the highest point on the
earth's surface. That distiction belongs for the
present to peak 100 miles from Kanchinjinga
and between that mountain and Kanmandoo.-
This peak is ascertained to be 20,0O2 feet above
tie sea level; Kanchinjinga is 2s,l56 feet; and
Dewalagirl the mountain which 'school geog-
raphiesh persist in calling "the highest noun
tain in the known world" is only 26, 1876 feet
The mountain has no name Ineligible to civil
lied men, and Col. Waugh has therefore ven
tured to denominate it mount Everest" after q
former surveyor general.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

FEARFUL CASE OF SouNAMBULIsM.-A Night
Adrenture.-We copied yesterday from Pitts
burg exchange brief announcement Of recent
case of somnambuism near that city. The par
ticulars furnish vivid picture of this singular
phenomenon, and the narrow escape of the pa
rent from injuring his child with gun in the
dark should be warning to Others not to DO
too hasty. The case, as stated, occurred at Oak
land, the private residence of o gentleman, and
the account says:
"Hearing footsteps upon the stairs about mid
night, and suspecting burglars might be about
the premises the gentleman rose from his bed
and took down a double -barreled gun, with
which in his hand he proceeded to the door o.
pening into the hall. Reaching the door, he APP
piled his ear to the key hole, and heard what he
thought rustling of garments upon the stairs.
Hastily drawing chair to the door he stepped
upon it and inserted the gun through the tran
som. Just then the thought occurred to him
that it might be his daughter who sometime
previously was addicted to walking in her sleep.
Passing out into the hall, with the gun still in
his hand, to be used in case circumstances war
ranted it, he found the apartment entirely va
cant, and lighting the lamp, he then assembled
the stairs. Imagine his surprise and terror on
looking out of the chamber windows to see o
mong the branches of a tall tree which grew
there, his daughter, dressed in her night habli-
ments and seemingly utterly unconscious of her
perous position. Without uttering word or
making sound calculated to frighten her he
stepped out of the window himself, and winding
one arm tightly about the waist of the sleeping
girl, he with great exertion managed to regain
the hall with his precious burthen. The surprise
of the young lady when she awoke and was in
formed Of her perilous adventure can be better
imagined than described .r9 80
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05
Snicide.

We regret to learn that Mr.. Jacob Brubeck,
q respectable citizen of this county, committed
suicide one day last week by hanging himself to
the rafters of his barn, after an Intellectual at
tempt to kill himself by cutting his throat with
q razor. We have heard no reason assigned for
no ar
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05
Political Meeting.

A meeting of the American party was held in
Richmond on Friday night last, which was adj
dressed by o. p Baldwin Esq, OF Richmond,
and J. d. Imboden and Richard Mauzy, Esqrs.,
OF this place.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

THE OCEAN TEIEGRApH.-The project of con-
Meeting England and America by the telegraph
cord appears at present in the fairest way OF ac-
cempishment Scierce testifes to the practica-
bility of the scheme, capital is freely provided
for its accomplishment, and the most untiring
energy and determination are actively exercised
to insure success. Professor Morse's announce
ment of the successful transmission of the cleo
trio fluid through two thousand miles OF tele-
graphic wire, proves, as fully as experiment can,
that there are no insurmountable difficulties IN
the way of putting England and America into
instantaneous communion. The complete lnsula-
ton, properllaying, and preservation of the wire
along its hundreds of miles of ocean bed, may in
volve desiderata of very difficult accomplish
ment, but we have full confidence that the inge-
nuity and perseverance necessary to surmount
them will be forthcoming, and the present CEN
fury be rendered remarkable by the completion
of task which more than any other will de-
monstrate the power of science and the progress
of man. -9+a
The difficulties that now lie in the way of the
stretching of the telegraph cable from continent
to continent will no doubt be greatly lessened
BY the inventions and expedients which the at
tention directed to the subject will tend to pro-
duce Already, we see it stated in the English
papers, that another company is forming to make
telegraphic communication (ubmarine) by a
newly invented rope, which possesses very high
conductibility, and is so light that the entire
cable can be conveyed in one ship from shore to
shore. The cost is comparatively small the
laying down of the cable is computed at only
100000. This sounds well, but its realiza-
ton is another matter. It is the invention of
Mr.. James Allen, of Edinburg
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

GREAT CHANGE IN THE CoAsT LINE.-ln 1902,
an English ship stranded near New Rochelle
Such have been the changes in the sea, that the
wreck now lies in the midst of cultivated field
thirteen feet above the sea, and around it are
two thousand acres of cultivated land.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

CHILD EATEN BY A BEAR.-Near Rocky Point,
in Greenbrier county, Va, on Thursday week,
at the residence of Vim. T. Mann, George Fox,
about 10 years old, was Instantly killed and part
ly eaten up by large pet bear, belonging to Mr..
Mann. This boy had on the day previous killed
ground-hog and in carrying or SHINING the
same got some blood on his clothes. Not having
changed his clothes, the bear, probably excited
by the scent of the Blood lay hold of him a.
round the body and squeezed him until his ribs
were broken, then knocked him down with his
paw and eat very nearly all the flesh off his face
and legs before he was dead. There being no one
about the house but lady, she was unable to
relieve him.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05
I'm Dit.

It is currently rumored that DR.. +. l. strlo-
ling, Superintendent and Physician OF the !" est
ern Lunatic Asylum, has expressed his determine
ton TO hand in his resignation 10 the Board OF
Directors at their next meeting.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

WEsLEYANs IN GREAT BRITAIN.-At confer
epce of the Wesleyan Methodsts, recently as
senbled at Bristol, England, it was stated that
the total number of members in the connection
in Great Britain is 263, sS5-an increase of 2,977
over last year. Pr ~
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

PRESBYTERIAN MIssIoNs.-The receipts OF the
Boards of the Presbyterian Church (Old SCHOOL,
for September are reported as follows: Domes-
tic missions, S4,O7024; education, 81 1925;
foreign missions, s4,73S.O2; publication, So, 294:-
81; donations and sales, inclusive, and church
extention, S9SS12 Total, $16,653.25.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

The Emperor of Russia, it is said, has resolv-
ed to introduce the Gregorian calendar into
Russia, and thus to do away with the difference
of twelve days between the old style and the
new. This change will greatly aid the de-
velopement of commerce between Russia and the
rest of the Christian world. 20.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

PorATo Crop IN IRELAND.-The Banner fUl-
ster an influential Irish paper, says the potato
crop of Ireland, north and south,is the best rails
ed in the country since 1889. The average re-
tail price is TO 4 IL pence per stone OF IA
DoundS
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-05

STABLE P1es-A hog exhibited at the Chilli
cothe, Ohio, fair last week, weighed 1926 lbs,
and measured feet in length, and about the
same in girth. He was two years and three
months old. Mr.. j. B. Yates, OF Falmouth, Va
also has one of the largest hogs in that State
He is two years and one month old; his length
from the end of the snout to the end OF his tail
is feet measures G feet inches around the
body; foot II inches around the fore leg near
the body; his heighth is feet 1-2 inches.