Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1858-05-26
MISGELL Mucous.

The citizens of Lexington have held meet
ing for the purpose Of establishing direct trade
by barges with Norfolk. s.
The Hessian fly has made it's appearance IN
the wheat in some portions of Rockingham ooun.
ty, more particularly on Cub River. A large. a.
mount of wheat, we understand, has been de-
stroyed by it.
The Secretary of the Treasury has applied to
Congress for an additional loan, not exceeding
fifteen millions of dollars, to be negotiated for
period not more than ten years, at rate of in.
terest not exceeding six per cent.
COUNTERFEIT NOTES counterfeit FIVE dollar
notes of the Bank of the Old Dominion, Va, are
in circulation, and the engraving is so we'll execu-
ted as to deceive most persons, unless critically
examined. The signatures are not good.
Not more than one in ten of the members OF
the late Southern Convention approved of the
English compromise Kansas bill. The Hon. W
L. Yancey, Of Alabama, 9 decided Democrat, de.
nounced it in unmeasured terms.
The great Buffalo hunt which, according to the
newspapers, was to start from Breckenridge, Kan
sas Territory, next summer, is pronounced hoax
gotten up to give notoriety to the city Of Breck'
inridge, paper town in the hands ola few SHARP
spectators.
Several parties who composed the firm Of
Messrs Swan & 90. have been arrested at New
York and at Augusta, Georgia, for carrying on
q bogus lottery swindle Bail to the amount Of
900 was required in each case. It is said
that the receipts of the concern amounted to
$4,000 per week.
The Emperor of China does not appreciate
costly presents from "outside barbarians." The
msgnifcently bound copies of Audubon's Birds
of America, and Wilkes Exploring Expedition,
which our Government sent him, have been
found recently in the hands of Canton book-ped-
lars, who were offering them for sale at q mere
tribe.
Su1o1DR-James Davis committed suicide by
hanging, at his residence near Nortonsville, in
Albemarle, Va, on Friday last. Early in the
morning of that day Mr.. Davis persuaded his
wife and family to pay visit to q neighbor, and
accompanied them a part of their way. On
their return he was found dead.
As curious incident, taking place simulta-
neously with the searching of American vessels
in the Gulf of Mexico, we see strange move
ment set on foot in Jamaica for the purpose of
inducing black and colored fugitives from the
Southern States to seek that island, which, it is
probably supposed, will present more congo
NAL asylum than Canada for our runaway me-
groes.
Richmond boasts the largest Touring mill in
the world. It Is ninety-six feet front, one hum
dred and sixty-6ve feet deep, one hundred and
twenty-one feet high front, divided into twelve
stories. Each floor contains about 1850 SUI
per6cial feet; including the two floors in the
roof the total would be about $4,000 square
feet. or rather more than three and half acres.
Altogether, the available space within the walls
is about 100000 square feet.
ETHAN ALIENS REMAINS MIssNG. The cer-
emonies of laying the'corner stone of the Mon
ument to Ethan Allen, by the State authori-
ties of Vermont, were postponed for the reason
that the remains are missing. No trace OF f..
than Allen can be found on the spot where he
was supposed to be, and the supposition is that
his bones have been stolen or mislaid. AS YER
mont has no live heroes, the larceny ofthe
bones dead one is very deeply felt in the State.
From KANsAs-MoRE OUTRAGEs.
from Kansas continue to report outrages and
robberies by Montgomery's band of outlaws
Three hundred families are said to have been
driven out Of Lynn county. 1t is understood
that the band have sworn to drive all the pro-
slavery men out of the Territory and break up
the land sales in July. They are also reported to
have said that unless General Denver withdraws
his troops from Fort Scott, they will proceed to
Lecompton and hang him.
DEATH OF PROFESSOR HARE.-Dr. Robert Hare
died at Philadelphia on the 10Th inst. He
was one of the eminent chemists of the age and
has contributed many valuable discoveries in that
science, and was the inventor Of several of the
most valuable improvements and notifications in
chemical apparatus that now facilitate the labsrs
of the laboratory. The latter years of his life
have been clouded and his character injured by
a devotion to the illusions of spiritualism. he
was seventy years Of age at the time Of his de-
cease.
UNITED STATES NAvY.-The United States
have not more than eighty ships of war of all
classes, and only thirty in commission, or ready
for action, and these are scattered about various
parts of the world. Forty-two years ago we had
seyenty-four vessels, in good condition, with q
commerce Of only 100000 tons. Now we have
commerce of nearly five millions Of tons. We
shall have, however, the advantage, when we
do build up naval force, of being able to adopt
all the modern improvements.
The London Times has some lengthy remarks
on the extension Of the United States southwark
and saws, in effect, that absorption Of the soeake'
| REPUBLICS of Central and South america By tht
| United States cannot be long delayed should A.
merica noao pursue the course that seems Snaaai
aent. The change as regards English interest
assuming that they will honestly provide for the
existing debts of the various States in question,
cannot but be great Improvement upon their
present position. The writer thinks that far
more opposition will be shown to the extension
at home than abroad.