Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1858-11-30


morning Of the Oath. eaE5s.
Late advices from Paris announce the death,
in that city, of the Hon. Benjamin F. Butler, OF
New York, former Attorney General Of the q.
nited States.
Colonel Seguin, late of San Antonio, Texas,
has been commissioned by tie Governor of Nue.
vo Leon, to raise regiment of troops in Texas
10 aid the cause of the Liberals 10 Mexico -.
The lsraelites of Richmond held meeting on
wednesday evening in relation to the Mortara
case The resolutions adopted by similar meet
ing IN Philadelphia were approved, and union
OF action recommended.
The latest letters from Mexico speak of moth
ing but ontrages upon foreigners by the factions,
forced loans, and the deporable condition of the
country generally. Anarchy seem to prevail
and the hatred against the Americans is more
bitter than ever.
Information has reached Washington in sucl
form as to place the fact beyond question that Q
large number of Mexcans residing in Sonora have
entered into league to revolutionze that State
with view to its annexation to the United
States.
There are twenty-five cent pieces in circulation
in Norfolk 80 we'll counterfeited as to defy detec
ton, except by the sound. They have no ring
in them, but fall on the counter as dead as flat
piece of lead; otherwise they are the exact re.
semblance of the genuine quarters.
[ADyERTrsEMENr.] ID pleasant travelling com.
paniOn, and one that no traveller should be with.
out, is Perry Davis Pain Killer. A sudden at
tack of diarrhea, dysentery, or cholera morbus
hoo H., md vo1
it. 1t is equally eectuali in curing scads, burns,
&c. Sold everywhere.
A missionary in the Chinese waters having dis.
tributed several copies of the Ten Commandments
on shore, they were sent back the next day with
the request that they might be distributed among
the English and French for the tracts contain
ed admirable doctrines, and those people evident
ly much needed them.
The Prince of Wales has been gazetted as a
Colonel in the English army. The order is da-
ted the 9th instant-the day ion which the
Prince completed his seventeenth year. The
London Times says: "The significance Of this
event is, that it marks the period when the heir
to the British throne Is about to take rank a.
mong men,"
TURKEY-A telegram from Beyrout announ-
Turkey. Instructions had taken place at sever
al places, and Omar Pasba was maintaining
himself at Bagdad, with difficulty. The tribes
living between Tripoli and Aleppo had revolted.
The communication was interrupted between
the Libanus and Tripoli.
Brown informs the Boston Post that of TWEEN
y-three men whom he helped to cigar light,
or loaned newspaper, twenty said Thank you
sir !" of nineteen women to whom he paid cour.
tesy-such as giving up his seat-pickiDg up a
dropped veil, shawl, or the like, only seven said,
"Thank you," and two OF them were "furri'
ners."
THE INDIANA SENAToRs.-The Indiana Senate
have passed resolution-twenty- against
twenty -two-declaring the election of Messrs.
Bright and Fitch, q. S. Senators, illegal, uncon-
and void. The same resolution is
pending in the house of representatives. 1t will
be recollected that the Senate Of the United
States at the last session decided this question in
favor of Messrs Bright and Fitch.
WILD ANIMALS IN V1RGINIA.-A letter from
Page county, Va, in the Alexandria Sentinel,
states that wolves are very plentiful in that coun
ty and very destructive to sheep-one gentleman
having lost flock of forty, last week, by these
ravenous animals. A panther, measuring six
feet from tip to tip, was killed last week while
springing from the hog pen of W. S. Modsett,
with shoat in his mouth.
In the Senate of South Carolina, Saturday,
resolutions were introduced declaring that Con-
gress has no right to interfere with the slave
trade of other nations. A Senator made q
speech urging that Congress had as well declare
trade u coffee to be piracy as the trade in slaves.
The resolutions were killed by vote of % yeas
to Is hays, which referred them to the commit
tee on Federal relations.
DEATH OF Hon HENRY Representation. Hen
ry Bedinger, late q. S. Minister to Denmark,
died on Friday morning last, at his residence,
in Shepherdstown, Va, after few days illness.
He was formerly member OF Congress from
Virginia, and in his late diplomatic position
drew up the famous treaty which settled the
Sound Dues question. 1t was but few days
since he partook of public dinner, given by
his friends on his retnrn to this country.
To equalize and ratify dates several changes
have been made in the mode of computing time.
For the present, or nineteenth century, twelve
DAYS are to be deducted from the date TO find the
old style date; for the eighteenth
century, eleven days, aud for the seventeenth
and sixteenth centuries, ten days. In 1882,
Pope Gregory directed ten days to be omitted
IN 1852 the British Parliament enacted that
eleven days be omitted and in 1900 it became
necessary to omit another day.
A league is believed to exist in the Southern
States, one of the aims of which is the augmen-
.aton of the supply Of slave labor. 1t is assert
I'd thai this league is now operating 10 the State
Of Mississippi to secure the passage of q law by |
the Legislature authorizing a system of African
pprenticeship-cla claiming that each State has a
perfect right to make such laws in this regard as
i may deem proper, and that Congress has no
right to interfere. Should they succeed in Mis-
,issippi, the contest of course will at once be ia
zen to Congress.
DECLINE IN Hoes AT CINcINNATI.-The tele-
graph shows decline in hogs at Cincinnati of
lepenty fue cents per 100 lbs. This is in accor.
lance with the annual customs in this delightful
market. Year after year droves are deluded by
nigh quotations, "premiums," &c, DC The
whole country is excited; but the amount of
hogs reach Cincinnati in numbers, the bubble
burst, prices tumble, "premiums" stop, and the
suckers" are well skinned. We confess little
sympathy for Kentucky drovers who year after
year see and yet submit to this course of things.
Journal
The Valley Democrat says ga man by the
name of Thomas Burke, was shot and instantly
killed on Tuesday last, by Fernando Crawford,
near Simmons Gap, in this county. The par.
,iculars of this tragica affair are these, as near
IS we can get them: Burke went to the woods
Of Crawford to cut some wood for his own use,
when he was met by the latter, who told him
% leave the premises, when some some high
words ensued, and Burke threw stone at Oraw
lord, whereupon the latter shot the former dead
IN the spot. Crawford was arrested and COM
nitted to our county Jail on Wednesday, to awit
an examination"
Tho New York Herald notices the fact that |