Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-05-27
MISCELLANEOUS.


: Alexander Riyes, Esq, of Albemarle county,
has consented to deliver the annual address be-
y fore the Greenbrier Va. Agricultural Society in
;, August
Q The Charlottesville Advocate says as many
2 as 100 presentimentS were made against one
person for illegal sales of ardent spirits, by the
. Grand Jury OF Albemarle.
l. HIGH Price FoR CoRN.-We learn. gentle
: man OF this county was offered for his entire
stock which amounted 5000 bushels, 81 so per
bushel.- Grenada (Aiss) Republican.
Q Among the items of intelligence by the last
/ arrival from Mexico, it is stated that Mexican
woman of the capital was, on the Goth of April,
I delivered of Seren male children at one BIRTH
Mrs. Susan Kslipg, whose trial for arson, was
|, in progress when our paper went to press last
week, was acquitted on Friday last, the jury
rendering verdict of not guilty.-Rockingha
Register.
Rev. II. S. Osborne, Principal of the Piedmont
Institute, Liberty, Va, has received and accept
ed the appointment of Professor of Natural Sci
ence in Roanoke College, and will enter upon its
duties at the commencement OF the next session.
CRIME IN New ORLEANs.-The books of the
Coroner show that during period of fifteen
months, from February Sth, 1856, to may 18th
1857, there were 70 murders, Is infanticides, 90
suicides, and 100 deaths from intemperance in
New Orleans.
SCARCITY OF FEED-Feed is so scarce in Cat.
araugus n. Y, that the Randolph Wing ex-
presses apprehensions that much of the land
will 60 untitled this season. on account of want
of strength in the teams to do the work. Oats
are selling at 81 per bushel for seed
| The Ohio Legislature, we observe by an ex-
change paper, refuses to allow negroes partici-
patton in the militia laws. 1t would certainly
seem proper, that if the abolitionsts extend the
privilege Of voting to the negroes, they should
also allow them to share in the fighting.
| MISUNDERSTANDING the four months end
ing May 1st, II, 214 emigrants left Bremen for
the United States in AZ vessels, while during the
same period last year, only 1884 passengers in
33 vessels sailed from there. thus showing an in
crease of 4, 230, over the number who emigrated
last year.
In the Wythe County Court, on Monday, the
attempt to obtain license for an ordinary in the
town of Wytheville, was revived before ma
jority of the Justices, summoned for the purpose
There were some twenty-seven Justices on the
Bench, and the vote stood sixteen against eleven
for the application.
FROM KANsAs-The Lecompton correspond
ent of the Republican says that by the advice Of
Secretary Stanton, Mr.. Weer the District At
torney, has entered nolle prosequis on all the
charges for treason. The prosecutions for usur-
patton of Office will probably be disposed OF in
the same manner.
The Annual Conference Of the Thinkers or
Dunkards will be held in Washington county,
Maryland, commencing at Wht-Suntide. The
Conference will be general one, embracing
representatives from every part of the United
States, some Of whom have already arrived from
Illinois and other Western States.
FROM THE ALTAR TO THE ToMB.-At Cleve-
land, Miss, on the evening of the 9Th inst Mr..
W. D. McKree, principal of Georgetown Acade-
my, in that State, was married to Miss Mary
Roberts, and at midnight, during the rejoicing
of the bridal pvrty present, fell dead in their
midst.
ENGLISH POTTERY .-Stafordshire in England,
is the great seat of the porcelain and pottery
manufactures. No less than 10000 persons are
employed in the works, and the annual value Of
the porcelain manufactured amounts to about
$40, 600, 900 per -three-fourths of which
are exported.
DEATH OF JUDGE CoNwAY-Judge Eustace
Conway. of Fredericksburg, lately elected TO sue
coed Judge Lomax on the bench of the Circuit
Court, died on Wednesday morning last. His
disease is known to medical men rs fungus ham
itodes, or species of soft cancer The deceased
was an exemplary christian, and universally re-
spected
LADIES WANTED OUT WEsT.-The editor of the
Iowa Reporter calls with stentorian voice for
ladies to come West. lie says: "The last census
report shows that there are $3.50 more males
than females in Iowa. This was taken in June
and does not include the Spring or Fall emigra-
tor. We are now minus at least 10000 ladies
10 make up our quota !"
GREAT RAILROAD CELEBRATIoN.-The citizens
of Cincinnati are making extensive arrange
ments for the great celebration of the formal
opening of the Cincinnati and Marietta, and the
Ohio and Mississippi Railroads. A town meet
ing was held at Cincinnati, on Monday evening,
on the subject, and several committees appointed
to make all necessary arrangements for the re-
ception and entertainment OF the guests. At
St. Louis they expect to receive about three
thousand visitors.
A CHURCH Row.-Sixteen members of Doctor
George B. Cheever's church in New York, last
week invited him to resign his PASTORAL charge
over the Church OF the Puritans in that city, dis
liking his course on the matter of tile Supreme
Court bred Scott decision. Monday night there
was d meeting of his church and congregation
aud quite violent discussion ensued, ending
| finally, however, in the adoption OF a resolution
sustaining DIR. Cheever. Some of the members
have threatened to leave the church.
INFLUENCE OF ErHER.-A Miss Kissiman, a
pupil at Miss Adirons Seminary Jamaica, Long
Island, left the institution last Monday for the
| Of bav inc a pytr0ctpd
fist to whom she applied advised her to inhale
ether, with the intention of lessening the pain.
After the ether was administered, the girl re-
membered nothing more until she found herself
on board of one of the Norwhich boats on her
way to Boston, which city she reached, ard was
found wandering about the streets.
Gov. SMITH AND Know NoTHINGIsM.-"An
Observer" in the Alexandria Gazette says: 1t
is not generally known, that pending the organ
ization of the last House of Representatives,
caucus of the Know Nothing members Of Con-
gress, was held at Ex-Governor Smiths room,n
Washington, with locked doors. After this cau-
Gus, Mr.. Carlisle, the only agoued Know Moth
ing member from Virginia, nominated the Ex-
Governor for Speaker, who was supported for
that office by the Know Nothing members.
CuIycm BUG.-Farmers in the neighborhood
of the city are complaining heavily OF the in
] loads being made on the growing wheat crop,
I by the chinch bug, and some Of them fear that
their fields will be rendered barren waste
A gentleman informed US yesterday morning,
that myriads Of these insects were to be seen up
on the fences in his neghborhood, and that veg
citation of all kinds was alive with them. The
present wet cold spell it is hoped, will check the
ravages of these insects, and enable the crop to
grow up-Rich Dispatch.