Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-09-13
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In his speech at the massachusetts cole
Line" Know-Nothing Wing Convention
Mr.. Robt G. Winthrop remarked, on Civ
inc his adhesion to Fillmore =
In my experience thus far, l have voted
for Presiden5 If tic United States once
with only four States, and once with only
my own State, and | am prepared, if need
be, to try how it feels to vote without any
State at ALL"
He will have a chance to "try it, the
time.
yellow FEVER IN BRooKL1tg,' new YORK
AND VICINITY. -New York, Sept. 9.--The
BROOKLYN Board of Heath reports no new
cases. Mayor Hall states Chat lie Examined
the city, proper. There are no new cases
at Governors Islsad, ana, no additional
deaths. An the sick are dong we'll.
FIRST AnR1vAb. OF SALT AND PLASTER
FROM THE SoUrffwNsp. Two car loads OF
salt and plaster came down on the Virginia
and Tennessee Railroad to Lynchburg Fri
day, from .the works and banks Of Mr.. Thos,
l.. Preston, in Smythe and Washington
counties-the first cargo of these articles cv-
er sent to Eastern Virginia from that re-
gion. DIS.
SoururRx TRAVEL NoRTH.-The Albany
Evening Journal a rabid Free Soil journal,
exults in the large amount of Southern trav-
.pf this year to the North, and halls it as an
Ieeidence that sectional Northern movements,
ard the success of Fremont, will have no
influence in loosening the ties of this Union.
DuEL.-A duel was fought on Friday af-
ternoon, between aad 5 o'clock, near Fer
~, or more properly. Washington Point,
Norfolk county, by two Of oar citizens-
The card cf Dir purkins, in the Daily News,
relative to a slanderous report, caused an i'll
diyidual whose name we have not learned
to send challenge to DR.. p, which was
promptly accepted-the weapons chosen be-
ing broad swords, and the time and place as
above mentioned.
The parties, with their friends and a ply
sician, accordingly repaierd to a field not
far from the village on the Point, and des-
perate fight took place with heavy and keen
edge swords, which resulted in the injury of
both parties. DR.. p. received deep and
severe cut in his right arm. and dealt his
lantagonist dreadful cash in his face and
On one arm, wounding him also in the abdo-
men, Tie injuries, we learn are not of a
serious nature. --Nortolh Argus ofthc SH.
JOSIAH Cole, editor and proprietor Of
the Democrat, German paper of much
influence and character, published at Easton,
Northampton county, Pa, explains how
.'accessions' are obtained to the cause of
Fremont. He says he was offered $4,000,
cash down by Mr.. Lowry of Kansas, to
come out for Fremont. This is the way
they use the ''Kansas aid," collected by
"Gcferal' Pomcroy, Captain knight, &c,
re-. \ rumor has been circulated by the
newspapers that bull Ind been received
from Rome, appointing Rev francis p. Nc.
Farland to the sen Of Hartford, Conn made
vacant BY th@ desth Of TIE late Bishop o.
Reilly, who was one of the passengers on
board the lost steamer Pacific. The Free
mans Journal of to-day (goed authority
denies that there is any truth in the report.
New York MISUNDERSTANDING six years
the municipal taxes in New York have risen
from So, $50, $50 to 7.075, lbs, being an in
crease of one hundred and twenty per cen.
tum -
nc tiitctttiS W iliiil-
bug the Germans at Hollowayyihe, Illinois,
and had f. A. Hoffman and another Ger
man to address them, But the Germans,
that they would not be allowed to hear their
favorite Mr. Bichl, all left and organized
democratic meeting, in which they resolved
that the leaders of the Republican party
are know nothings. and that Hoffman is
traitor to the German people Of America
Es7@ The first locomotive ever brought to
Keokuk, Iowa, was brought up by steam-
or ON the Sth and is ealledthe y X. lIor-
nish.' 1t was welcomed With artillery and
orations. go 81.
FEALTu OF SOUTHERN CIrIEs.-All the
cities of the South, as ..well as the North,
continue to enjoy excellent health. True,
the yellow fever prevails to a limited extent
at Charleston, but the season is two far adj
vanced to render it epidemic At New Or.
leans for the week ending the 31st ult. there
were seven yellow fever deaths and one of
cholera, but the:papers Of that city say the
general health was never better, and they
express no fears of an epidemic Norfolk,
Va, is unusually healthy There ~'ere only
SO deaths there in August, ard included
in the number were q colored persons. The
only death from any type of fever was one of
bilious fever.
RECEPTION CT TIE Hen. j. G. BREcTIN-
RIDGE AT PHItADELnIA.-4Sept. 9.-The
Democrats of this city are preparing to give
Hon. j. c. Breckenridge cordial RECEPTION
on his arrival here. He Is expected this
evening from Pittsburg.. His wife has been
here for several weeks. aud was at.parodi's
concert last evening. He will sp65k 1t the
Democratic meeting to be held here on the
18th. Hon. Rufus Choate is also expected
to speak on the occasion.
Hon. j. G. Rreck inridge did not arrive
here this evening, he having stopped at
Lancaster to visit Mr.. Buchanan.
NORFOLK AND PETuRsBuRG RAILRoAp.-
President Mallory, of the Norfolk and Pc
tursburg Railroad, in letter TO Il gentle
man of l4ynchhawgv says:
1.-The Norfolk read is rapidly approaching
completion. 1t will be graded from end to
end by November next, and we will COM
menee laying track in the spring, and will
finish it in ninety days"
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