Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1858-10-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

Y :, on the night OF the ftn lhst. go a
The Hon. William Preston, of Kentucky, has
been appointed American Minister to Spain.
The President has appointed Dr. James Nc
Dowell, of Missouri, Consul General to Constsn-
tinople. He is the oldest son Of the late Gov.
Mcdowell, of Virginia.
The improvement of the navigationi Of the
Rivanna river was the subject of consideration
for public meeting in Charlottesville, Va, on
Monday.
The Democrats of Albemarle have held a
meeting and adopted resolutions favoring Alex
andra as the place, and December LIST as the
time for holding the gubernatorisl convention.
Hon. Deazon Smith one of the United States
Senators from Oregon, was to have left that Ter
ritory on the 10th ult., for Washington. Ore
gon, it will be recollected, has not yet been adj
mitted into the Union.
Quite number of mountain peaks in North
Carolina, near the Tennessee line, have been as
certained to be higher than Mount Washington,
for long time supposed to be the highest noun
tain east of the Mississippi. Mt Mitchell is g.
I'll feet above the sea.
THE FORCE OF ExAMpLR.-A new trade is said
to be springing up between the Utah and Piedes
Indians of Utah Territory, that of buying and
selling squaws. They have, no doubt, been
studying domestic economy of their Mormon
neighbors, and are endeavoring to improve upon
that highly moral code.
The lion-killer Jules Gerard, in letter de.
scriptive OF campaign against monstrous IL
on, states that in the Algerian subdivision Bona
there are at present no less than sixty of these
ferocious beasts, who have destroyed in one year
ten thousand head of cattle. In his hunting ex-
cursions Gerard now makes use of the Deysne
bullet, which explodes in the body of the ami
NAL.
BY the last California newspapers we have
intelligence of o Government suit against the
present holders of the New Almaden Quicksil-
yer Mines, valued, as stated in the Bill of Com
plant, at $25, 100000, with an annual revenue
of over one million of dollars. The grounds of
this suit are chiefly that the title OF the present
occupants is derived from forged and anteda-
ted Mexican announcement title.
A London paper gives the following remedy
for two evils to which the gentler sex are now
subjected, viz Excessive crnoline, and labil
ity to accidental combustion: "By adding to the
starch used in preparing these dresses table
spoonful of common alum in powdered state,
the starch makes the dress far sitter, and pre-
vents its bursting into flame when placed in con-
tact with any burning substance.
Politics in Cincinnati are waxing warm. The
commercial says "the canvass now in progress
is one of the most exciting ever KNOWN. The
city is Illuminated with torches and bonfres,
and resonate with cannon, brass bands, many
n nj ebn &c ind
night. A perfect carnival reigns. We have
never known more warmth of enthusiasm nor a
greater degree of confidence in success, than is
now manifested on both SIDES"
ADVERTISEMENT Perry Dacis's Vegetable
Pain Riller.-Vo luntarily, conscientiously, and
with lauch pleasure, we recommend to our read
ers the above named medicine. We speak from
our own observation and experience when we
say that it removes pain as if by magic from all
parts of the body, and is one of the best medi-
cines in use for checking diarrhea, and remov.
ing the premonitory symptoms of cholera Gin.
Nonpareil.
On Monday last, Court day, the democracy of
Rockbridge held meeting in Lexington, at
which delegates were appointed to represent
the county in the next Democratic Gubernatori-
al Convention, and resolutions were passed en-
dorsing the course and warmly advocating the
claims of the Hon. John Letcber, and instruct
ing the delegates to vote for his nomination as
the choice OF the Democracy of Rockbridge for
Governor.
The N. Y. Herald states that the Queen of
Spain has agents here, who have command OF
two millions of dollars to be invested in this
country. The same paper states that most of
tho nod hoodo of Furopa doino ON oct. |
i've business in the way of investments in the o.
nited States. Louis Philippe has large posses.
sions in our Republic, and Louis Napoleon has
sent from three to five millions here, to be in
vested by his agents.
THE CHESS ToURNAMEsT.-The highly inter-
esting match between Mr. Morphy and M. Har-
WITT was somewhat delayed during the past
week, says Galignani, by a temporary indisposi-
ton Of the latter gentleman. They played, how
ever, on Saturday, when the American cham |
pion obtained the advantage. The match now
stands thus: Mr.. Morphy has won four and M.
Harwitz two. Whoever gains the first seven
will be the conqueror. Large bets are DEEPEN
dent on the game.
A lad BY the name of Edward Mulligan, whose
parents reside in Ritchie Co., at Petroleum, on
the Northwestern Va. road, came to bis death
last week from the bite of rattlesnake. The |
boy was lying on the floor of the house near the
bed of his father and mother. During the night |
Mr.. Mulligan discovered that there was snake
in the bed in which he was sleeping, and in the
attempt to dispatch it, it made its escape, and in
passing the boy struck him with its fangs. He
survived twenty -four hours after he was bitten.
Forty nine of the camels belonging to the o.
nited States are now at Campo Verde, sixty
miles from San Antonio. Only one of those
imported has died, while ten have been added
by birth. These yonDg American born camels
thrive well, and promise to grow up equal in all
respects to those imported. Notwithstanding
the successful trial lately made by Captain Beae
in his explorations across the continent, there
are some officers of the army who doubt whether
anything is to be gained by the use Of camels.
RAT EMIaRANTs.-On last Sunday morning,
trail of rats were discovered in the yard at Flint
Hill. in the town of Palermo New York
There had been rain the night previous, and
the whole surface of the road was literally pack.
ed down by the passage, after the rain, of thou.
sands of these animals. They followed the road
from Flint Hill, where the trail struck the road
to Vermillion, distance of two miles, where
it was lost, having probably taken quarters with
the citizens of that place.-Pulaski Democrat.
Hon Gerrit Smith, abolitionist temperance
and woman's rights candidate for the governor
ship of New York, addressed large meeting
Wednesday evening in the hall of the Cooper
Institute He subjected himself to sitting ex.
animation, and answered all manner of questions
as to his political faith, embracing his views on
common schools, the registry law, polygamy, the
political parties prohibitory liquor law, the Me-
tropolitan police law, the burning Of the Quar-
antine buildings, &c.
From Intelligence has been received
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