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The investigation into the affairs of the Litcbfeld
Conn., Bank shows that 1888 SC have been paid to
the bank detectors in New York to induce them
report the bills to give them currency and en-
hanced and fictitious value TO the capital stock The
cashier e. L. Hou2hton, states that Runsey the first
owner or manager of the bank agreed TO pay these de-
tectors 81 900 mot to blow the bank I"
IL is stated that George Peabody the liberal American
banker thirty years ago sawed wood for his board in
New Haven, Connecticut.
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GUNNER ARRANGEMENTS The steamer
~ GEORGE PAGE will as follows:
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Reader-and If you be constant reader then dear
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A wild mountain king doubtless he was who had small
thought of resgning his sway, and with the same long
ing for notoiety have confessed above found it, poor
man, under the carn heaped over his kngly body by
generous foe. Sitting here meditative mddle-aged
person, again the grand panorama of lakes and
hills which / bcheld that day, alone, even without
sound except occasionally the much ridcued solemn
bleat' of
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1858-11-30
Senator Douglas.


Since the election In Illinois Senator Douglas
has undoubtedly become the most prominent
Democratic candidate for the Presidency in the
next canvass. The election is still long time
off, and we know not what may happen in the
mean while; but the "signs of the times" indl-
cate that if the nomination were made now
Douglas would outstrip all competitors. DIS
psrtizans at the North and West are celebrating
his supposed victory in Illinois, with vie" "
bringing him forward for the Presidency
Democratic exchange says, the Large anu en'nu-
sisstic meeting" of the Douglas Democrats at
New Haven, Connecticut is understood 10 DC out
the commencement of series all over the North
and West. at the South, where the Senator was
so recently denounced and repudiated, he has now
many friends, and a majority OF the party in this
section would no doubt at least acquiesce In his
nomination. The result of the October cleo
tons" says Kentucky paper, "has conveyed TO
these Southern Democratst the startling announce
ment that no Lecomptonite can succeed to the
Presidency in 1850" Hence many of them are
in hot haste to get into the good graces OF the
anti -LecomptOn Democracy of the North, BY
supporting Douglas, the champion. "The con-
clusion is, that the Crittenden amendment, which
was warmly supported by Douglas, and Is stiil
endorsed BY him as al admirable measure OF
paciication, is not such q terrible thing as it
was"
But the Little Giant will not walk over the
track unopposed. The Administration is still
dead set against him, and is using all Its inhu-
ence to crush him out Some Of the Southern
Fire-eaters, also, possibly having aspirations OF
their own, have undertaken to stem the tide OF
his popularity The Hon. Jefferson Davis Unit
ed States Senator, although but lately while
travelling at the North sound Union man, made
a flaming secession speech in Mississippi q few
DAYS ago, in which he took occasion to assail the
position of Douglas and defantly throw down
the gauntlet him. As Washington correspon-
dent remarks, ''it is little curious in this con-
nection, that while Mr.. Davis has so emphatically
repudisted the position of Mr.. Douglas, bis col
league here, Nc. Brown, is not only an open ad'
vocate of it. but permitted the use ofhis frank
until stopped by the Post Office Department
for the circulation of his campaign speeches In
Illinois, all over the country, thus giving those
sentiments the highest personal sanction he
could bestow."
1t is stated that Senator Douglas has gone to
New Orleans to attend to his private affairs
He will return to Chicago in week, and leave
for Washington, stopping at Cleveland, New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, at all OF which
places there will be popular demonstrations IN
his favor Even in Washington, right before the
Presidents taco, jubilee on his arrival is pro-
posed. When he takes his seat in the Senate he
will Immediately have TO confront bitter war
fare from rival aspirants for the Presidency, and
undergo severe ordeal from political catechists.
His fate depends somewhat upon the manner he
stands this tIial.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1858-11-30
Affairs of Honor.

Every newspaper reader OF refined and cult
waited taste must be heartily sick and tired of TIE
correspondence and other documents pertaining
to and growing out of those petty farces luii-
crously blszoned forth as ''affairs of HONOR
The columns Of some of our leading and most
influential journals are frequently defaced by
such publications. Men of the Blood Tub and
"Plug Ugly" stamp, who go into raptures over
the brutal achievements of the prize-fghter, and
rush by instinct to the scene of fierce encoun.
ter between two savage mastiffs, may enjoy the
perusal of the elaborate papers which usually
precede and follow the modern duel; but they
have ceased to afford even amusement to any
other class OF readers. Certainly they are dis.
tasteful IN the extreme to all who recognize the
claims OF the moral law and civil code as para.
mount to those Of an arbitrary "code of honor "
Whatever Of chivalric courtesy and knigbt,v
proves may once have been associated with tho
practice of dnelling, has been lost amid the gen.
eral disgust excited by the performances of those
who in our day steal away privily into seclu.
ded spot where they may discharge their harm.
less pistols.
We repeat, that the majority of newspaper
readers are tired of such displays, and we regret
to see the press disposed to indulge the disciples
of the ''code" in the publication Of private diff
culties in which the public does not feel the
slightest concern. We should rejoice to see
those who have the control of public journals,
at least refusing to permit their columns to be
the medium of the vulgar abuse with which one
gentleman may see fit to bespatter another.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1858-11-30
Killed by n Fall.

An old negro man belonging to Mr.. M. G.
Hartman was found dead at Hartman & Snaps
warehouse on Monday morning last, sitting in q
chair before the stove, with deep cut just above
the right eye He had been seen early in the
morning outside of the building, but when the
gentlemen employed about the establishment
went to their business at o'clock, they found
the premises locked up. Upon forcing the shut
ter, poor old Ben was seen in the counting room
in the condition described above. Upon exam-
nation, it was evident that he bad fallen down
the cellar steps whittier he was going for wood,
and had struggled back to the countng-room af.
ter receiving the injury. A pool of blood was
found at the foot of the steps. The probability
is that after reaching the chair he fell into a
swoon from which he did not recover. A Cor
oner's jury held an inquest over the body and
rendered o verdict in accordance with these
facts.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1858-11-30
Criminal Proceedings.

An article in the last number OF the Edin-
burgh Review, on the celebrated trial Of Made
line Smith, points out the curious difference, 10
various particulars, between the criminal pro-
ceedings in Scotland and England. The ofnce
of Coroner does not exist in Scotland, nor is
there any Grand Jury. Both are long estab'
lished institutions in England, whence We have
derived them. In Scotland they have public
prosecutors in criminal trials, corresponding TO
our Commonwealth Attorneys, but there is no
such officer in England. The writer says that in
the latter country in ordinary cases, vt is lett
very much to chance to determine, not only who
the prosecutor shall be, but whether there shall
be any prosecutor at ALL" 1t is no part of the
official duty OF the Attorney General to institute
a prosecution, exceptin few specified cases, al
though he frequently does so when crime of
more than unusual magnitude has been commit
ted In all other cases the committing magis-
trate deter mines WHO the prosecutor shall be,
and the prosecution is often dropped altogether
became nobody feels sufficient interest to go on
with it. The Grown is always norninsly the
prosecutor, but in reality where there Is prl'
vate prosecutor, the conduct of the case is left
entirely to him.
When person accused of crime is arrested in
Scotland, his declaration, taken in the presence
of magistrate and two other witnesses, is used
as evidence on the trial, and the "precognition"
of the witnesses is taken afterwards, in the alb
sence of the accused. The preliminary proceed
ings in England are the same as those we are
familiar with. In England there is no limit to
the time within which a crime may be prosecu-
ted after its Preparation; but in Scotland the
lapse of twenty years from the commission OF
an offence is a complete bar to criminal proceed
ings. In Scotland the prisoners cousel has al
ways the last word with the jury. The jury
there in criminal trials consist of fifteen, and de-
eide by majority; in England the verdict must
be unanimous
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THE MoRrAaA CAsE.-A despatch has beer

THE MoRTARA Casa despatch has been
received by the Papal Nuncio in Paris, inform
ing him that the Pope has addressed "memo
rialn to all the European Courts, setting forth
the facts of the Mortara business, as represent
ed from Holy InQuistion point Of view, and
stating it to be his Holiness deliberate conclu-
sion that, as the blessed child has received the
grace of baptism, no authority, even of the Pope
himself, can be sufficient to neutralize its effect
ERGO, the child must still be withheld from
his mother and father in order to receive Chris
tian education.
The official paper at Rome has at length pub
lshed reply to the outcry of the press OF Eu-
rope against the abduction of the boy
1t says the clamor shows shat many Christians,
having lost the true spirit of the church to which
they belong, manifest, on the contrary, great
anxiety, not for the sovereign domination OF
Christ of whom they are members by baptism,
but for the authority of the natural family; not
for the rights of the church, but for the Pagan
preiudices of modern society, and those OF per-
sonsl liberty which seem to them conquest
to which everything else is to be sacrificed"
Was there ever anything so monstrous! The
''Droit," Paris newspaper, says, on the other
hand ''If at Rome all those are declared to
be pagans who think that natural right should
everywhere and always prevail, that the father
who has done nothing to forfeit his natural rights
cannot without injustice be deprived of his pa
ternal power, and that the child cannot lawfully
and rightly be detained in convent against his
own and his fathers will, we declare ourselves
pagan"
The New York Freeman's Journal virtually
defends the conduct of the Church authorities at
Roma