Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-10-08

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time agreed upon,appeared upon the ground,and
after the fall of Mr.. Taber, Mr. S. Chaplin, The
acting second of Mr.. Heart, notified Mr.. Conner
of his presence, and his readiness to answer the
demand of E. Magrath, Esq, for satisfaction
whereupon Mr.. Conner replied that he had nc
further demand to make. Mr.. Conner, then, in
company with his principal, retired from the
field.
A SAD PIcruaE- Coming Down from Ransas
The misguided emigrants who crowded to
Kansas early in the spring. continue to leave
that Territory in all directions. They are to be
met in scattering companies, looking half starv-
ed, sickly and miserable. Many OF them hay-
ing spent all their money, have gathered up
their little effects and crossed the river to Iowa
on their way to their homes, or to locate IN
some secluded corner of the wilderness, or patch
of prairie, where they will be at peace.
Every boat which comes from the Missouri
has among her passengers some OF these people.
We saw them once before, in the early spring,
when they went up the river, with money in
their pockets, hope in their hearts, health in
their blood, and the world before them.
They were then in companies OF hundreds;
they had family circles, and looked happy; they
took quarters in the cabins of steamboats,, and
partook of the luxury of repose and plenteous
table. They were thrifty looking emigrants,
who would do honor to any new country.
We now see them in squads of tens and twen-
sickly, and apparently poverty
stricken-crowded upon the decks ofsteamboats
almost begging their way back to their homes
they left but few months before. And civil
war in Kansas has wrought all this mischief
doomed many hopeful heart to despair and
death, and embittered the lives of hundred more
whose piteous stories the world will never
know.
The steamer New Lucy, from st. Joseph, last
evening brought down three or four families of
those people, natives of Kentucky. They had
travelled from Kansas to Jefferson City on foot,
having left the Territories to save their lives,
and being afraid to approach the river at near
er landing, lest their progress should be inter-
cepted. They were destitute when they reach
ed Jefferson City, having scarcely any clothing
and not the wherewithal to buy food. One
woman had nothing on her person but latter.
ed under-garment and blanket, and several
others of the company were in e little better
condition. They all looked sickly and dispirit-
ed, and made touching tabeaux of misery and
despair.-!t Louis Repub.
THE GREAT COMET OF 1s56.-We have on a
former occasion alluded to the probable return,
during the present year, of the great comet OF
1864 and 1856, with q tail Of ninety degrees,
and much historical celebrity. We now per.
ceive that Mr.. Hind distinguished English as
tronomer, who has furnished the best accounts
of the comets observed during many hundred
years, has enlisted Professor LitfrOw, of the I'm
perial Observatory of Vienna, in his inquiries
The result is the discovery Of the original chart
and observations of the celebrated astronomer
Fabricius, and those of the Nnremburg observer,
Joachim Heller Their opinions, supported by
that of HALEY, confirm Mr. Hind in his own,
that ths.magnificent comet may be momentari-
ly looked for. Its re-appearance, says MIR. b.,
is near at hand.
SAD CASE OF DRowNING-NoBLE CoNDUcr OF
A MorHER-On Wednesday last, says the Phil
adelphia Journal, small boy aged four years,
named Francis Queenan, was accidentally drown
ed in the Cohocksink creek, by falling from a
canal boat. His mother, who was near at hand
instantly plunged into the water in order to res
cue her offspring, and would no doubt, have
been drowned herself, but for the prompt APP
pearance of Officer Lurk, of the Nineteenth
Ward, whose attention was attracted to the
spot emanating from the crowd of SPECTATORS
The officer sprang overheard from the boat, and
with great difficulty succeeded in rescuing the
mother, but the child persisted. Such was the
frantic condition Of the parent, that it became
necessary to keep watchful eye over her some
time AFTER having made several attempts to a.
gain seek the rescue Of the poor boy.
FILLMORE IN SoUTH CARoLINA.-The Charles
on Courier contains long and patriotic letter
rom George S. Bryan, Esq, citizen of Charles
ION, in reply to an invitation received by him
10 speak at the great Fillmore mass meeting at
Tenn. Mr.. Bryan III declining the
invitation embraces the occasion to eulogize Mr..
Fillmore as a man eminently worthy of the high
station to which the people are about to raise
him. We have rarely seen handsomer tribute
paid him than in this able and excellent letter
rom one of South Cardinals generous and true
hearted sons. 1t is relief to the mind to turn
from the disunion teachings of her press and
orators to the effusion like Mr.. Bryan's, in which
good sense and sound doctrines are alike con-
,picuous.
US. NAVAL OFFICERS INsULTED.-An insult
has been offered to the officers OF the sloop-of-
war Cyane by some rowdies in the streets of
Halifax. The Halifax Recorder of the 9th ult.,
Inns relates the circumstance 1--WE are sorry
to learn that, on the evening of Tuesday last, a
oartv of the officers of the United States corvette
Cvane were grossly insnlted while passing
through some of our streets. They were fol-
owed up by crowd, who very emphatically
od them to go to Greytown,' and shouted out
various insulting expressions and opprobrous ep-
thets after them One of the insulted party,we
understand. expressed willingness to give q
licking to the best man in the crowd, but the in
lividuas who composed the latter preferred, it
seems, limiting themselves to giving the foreign
,rs piece of their mind"
LATER From EURoPE.-By the arrival OF the
Africa at New York we have three days later
Jews from Europe, the dates from Liverpool be-
no TO the goth ult. The news has but one item
# Importance. A rupture between England
md France and the Neopoitan Government was
eDorted TO be inevitable; the legations OF the
wo countries were about being recalled and a
n;nt naval force would be sent to Naples by
Snaland and France. A political refugee nam
Il Marianne had been arrested at Paris on the
h orga of nm intended attempt to assassnate
ba Fmneror on his return from Barritz.
ADVERTISEMENT.
Pulmonary Championship great scourge
f our northern climate is disarmed of half its
errors since we have remedy so singularly eff:
cacious as Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry
I is worthy of the high reputation which it en-
Dys. Oct. 8, 1S56.-1t