Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1858-04-21
5. MISCELLANEOus

The telegraphic wires from Charlottesville to
Scottsville were put in operation last week.
The bill re-organizing the Militia, makes it
obligatory upon the County Courts, preceding
the first general. muster in May, to appoint three
commissioners to superintend the election OF
Field Officers of the different regiments.
1t is stated that the President has written a
conciatory letter to Governor Wise, in which
he expresses regret that any cause of estrange-
ment should have arisen between them, suggest
ing that the Lecompton issue is but temporary.
Fuller, the Richmond Custom House robber,
plead guilty at bis trial on the 10Th, and was
sentenced to eight years imprisonment in the
penitentiary. His accomplish, Sommerville, Was
convicted, and sentenced to two years impris-
onment
Major McRae, of the United States Army, has
been ordered to rendezvous at Cincinnati, and
there hold himself in readiness to muster two
regiments of volunteers into service. This is an
indication that the President expects to call out
volunteers soon.
Both Houses of Congress have agreed to adj
journ the session on the seventh of june but the
correspondent of the Press thinks that unless the
Appropriation bills are considered and passed
soon, the Senate requiring time to consider and
amend them, if amendment be required, the day
will be put as distant as July.
ExTRAvAGANoE OF "PIoTURE Books. THE
New York Tribune states that, for lithographlng
and printing in colors single OK, for the Patent
Office Report, the sum of $1O,576 was paid to
Wagner q McGuigan-for similar service for
one bull, the sum of $10,576; for cow, the sum
of 81, 500 and for one horse, the sum Of $5,576!
The "Plug Uglies" of Washington City con-
tinue their cheerful and facetious conduct. The
other day, ten of them seized poor woman and
nearly murdered her. The whole party, as ap-
pears from the testimony in the Union, were
Germans. Of course though, they were Plug
Uglies and Know Nothings, as no outrage is ev-
er committed by anybody else.
The New York Evening Post says that new
work is about to be published by Hon. J. r.
Giddings, to be called the "Exiles of Florida"
1t will be purely historical work, based upon
and derived from documents in the archives at
Washington known to but few, but to which
Mr.. Giddings' position on committees of Con-
gress during long series of years, has given him
the fullest access.
4 letter in the Richmond Enquirer says, shat
whilst the politicians are with the President, we
assure you the masses in the South Western part
of Virginia are overwhelmingly with Gov. Wise;
and this will be fully shown when the proper
time comes. Some of them have not forgotten
the position taken by the protest in the Senate
of the United States by Messrs. Mason, Hunter
and Others, against the admission of California"
Strange things happen nowadays. Witness
the Democratic laudations of John Van Buren,,
an arch traitor in 1S4S, but now a Jealous "Na-
tional Democrat" In recent letter to the
Democracy of Cleveland, John twits Gov. Wise
as follows New York will stand by Mr. Blu
chanan precisely as she stood by General jack
son-not only without the aid, but against the
active and earnest hostility, of Mr.. Henry A.
WISE"
ANOTHER AMERICAN TELEaRApH.-Therei is
project on foot at st. Petersburg for establishing
strictly overland Geographic company with
North America. The plan has been presented
to the government by Belgian engineer, and
consists in carrying telegraphic line by Siberia,
and to establish submarine communication be-
tween Capes East and Prince of Wales, then to
join the lines to those of the United States thro'
the territories of Russia and England.
Governor Thomas Ford, of Ohio, long known
as powerful political speaker, has professed
the Union prayer meeting in Columbus and
made statement which is reported as follows:
He remarked that for long years the world had
been his master; for it be had lived 70 it he
had given his strength and heart. But now be
had chosen another and better master, the
Lord Jesus Christ. He spoke with humility of
his unworthness and ascribed his hope of sal
walton wholly to the grace of God.
THE MILLERITEs MoyINe.-The Newark On.
J.) Advertiser says that some of the leading
Second Adventists in that city have again set
period tor the destruction of the world, profess
ing to have discovered the errors of their prev-
Gus calculations, and to have finally ascertained
the exact truth. They regard the recent tinan-
cal depression and the prevailing religious ex'
ctement as signs of the last day. By the next
arrival from Europe they expect to hear of the
destruction of the city Of Rome; and this will
portend the conhagration ofthe world next sum.
-mer.