Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-05-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

MlSCELLANE OOS.
. CHURCH DEsTRoYED-We learn that the Cath
Ole chapel of the Blue Ridge station, near the
q Mountain Top" was destroyed by fire on Thurs
day night, the 23d ut.
e LYNCH LAw.-The Warrenton papers state
that negro man in Rappahannock county, a
few days since, for having informed upon some
of his associates who had been stealing, was ia.
) ken out and hung. The negroes are all in Jail.
Fifty.seven old line Democrats of Berkeley
the Hon. Vim. Lucas through the columns of
the Martinsburg Republican, the regular Demo-
cratic paper.
The stream of immigration at New York is
! vergng to the food tide. For the past week
the arrivals reach nearly 10000, and for the
!, year thus far $4,000, being within fraction OF
double that of last year TO the same time, when
it was 1892.
The Cincinnati Commercial suggests with
some apparent chuckling that the negroes of
of Washington city, who were taught to believe
, they would be free in the event of Fremont's e.
lection, might have made the attempt to poison
Mr.. Buchanan!
FROM SALT LAKE.-Adyices from Utah to the
25th of February have been received. The news
looks warlike. The Legislature had passed an
act for the organization of the militia of the ter
ritory, and school had been opened to teach
I infantry and cavalry tactics. The Deseret News
has an article intending to prove that the Fed
eral Government has no power to appoint terri
torial officers.
THE CAMPAIGN BEGUN.-The Petersburg Ex-
press says "a gentleman from Amelia informed
US yesterday that the chinch bug campaign had
fairly and fercely begun in that aud the adjoin-
ing counties. Among the wheat crops in the
immediate vicinity of our informant's place of
residence they were doing their work of devas-
taton with savage ferocity- of bugs
were at work in every direction"
THE BuRDELL MURDER TRIAL-The Attorney
General of the State is to be associated with
the District attorney of the city, for the prose-
cution in the trial of Mrs. Cunningham this
week. Mr.. Dean and Mr.. Clinton are engaged
| for the defence. Ecke has retained Mr. Ora
ham as his counsel The prisoners will be tried
separately, Mrs. Cunningham being FIRST placed
at the bar.
| The New York Herald learns that new FL
clustering movement is on foot in that city,
and that small vessel was chartered by some
friends of Santa Anna, and is about to be sent
off for Tampico, or some place in that vicinity,
with two or three thousand muskcts, lot OF
cartridges, and few men to kick up ruinpus
in the State of Tamaulipas preliminary to
grand move of the friends of the ex-Dictator, in
and out Of Mexico.
Orders have been received at the Philadelphia
Navy Yard to have the Minnesota ready for sea
By the 9Th of May. A cabin is being construct
ed upon deck for the accommodation of the Com
modore and Captain, their cabins below having
been giyen ~ 10 the Chinese Minister, WIN. b.
Yeed. The Minnesota Will 20 10 Norfolk, 10 re-
eeive the arxasnsert osSyi-zlly Intended for the
CoIorlGo, Nr, Reed NIL eaa5srk Il Norfolk,
uhea the Miaine,ssrl viii rro,ass1 q her mission
TO China
Ca0Nru r9 e.D Aana9n.-%e a-s informed,
srqs ui,s B,ist.m E,s,, riiil1 Hon H1fCs Cloate
Will he sent ~ China. arat, S0Eeyer. By the Gov
srnlafn1 IL Minisrsr Pl=lipoten,iary, but that
Es h,.s been snszIzed Il 8 large salary to 60 out
80 Canton us@rs be viii be employed IN lettering
re.l es.st.. It l. said that his peculiar style OF
cFaEr0zrsthy will enable him to put on those in
t=r=..inz hieroglyphics at a much cheaper rate
than the Chinese painter can do it.
Hoe EpIDEMc.-A Philadelphia letter Of the
18th says
ga singular disease seems to be prevailing a.
mong the hogs in our vicinity. and in some H.
stances families are taken sick after making q
dinner on pork The disease, however, did not
make its appearance to any great extent in our
city until Sunday, wheE II broke out with great
violence among the swine along the Schu! XIII
front. Upwards of hundred died in few
hours. It is said that the animals were poison
ed. but the general belief is that they were at
tackled with the same disease that has swept Oft
thousands in the Western country, particularly
a. fio1it tyf n
lery localities.
ANoRHER DAUGHTER.--The last steamer
brought the gratifying intelligence that Queen
Victoria has another baby. We believe this ar
rival makes round dozen ;perhaps more. one
year has been the average maintained by this
exemplary matron, for the last twelve or fifteen
wears. The Commons will be called on to pro-
vide on adequate support for the new comer,the
bells will ring, and Bull will shout his honest
breast out of his jacket, at the privilege of
fostering another scion of royalty! Perhaps
Golden and Bright may grumbe little. but
grumbling is right secured to all Englishmen
by Magma Charta, and as iDalienable as the roy
al prerogative to supply the throne with heirs.
Rich. Dispatch.
The Trenton American says the books, pa
pers, drafts, notes of hand, &c, OF the United
States Bank to the amount of forty tons, have
been purchased by Messrs. Bottom & Co., of
that city, and will be remade into paper. Ten
tons of this vast amount is Of correspondence,
autograph letters of the first statesmen, politi-
clans, and financial men of this and other coun-
tries. Drafts upon the Rothschilds for hun.
dreds of thousands of dollars, certificates OF
stock transferred to leading bankers in Europe,
checks and drafts from Clay, Webster, Adams,
Calhoun, Houston, Crockett Cas-, DC, &C., all
lie scattered, ready for the important transfor-
nation into clean, unsn)lied, white paper
From this large mass of papers some idea may
be formed of the business of this institution,
which once occupied such a prominent posi-
tion.