Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-09-06
Miscellaneous.


Complaints begin to be made 10 Richmond
and other places, of the "stringency" OF the
Banks, in the matter of discounts.
The people of Lee county in this State have
voted by large majority TO subscribe $4,000
to the Virginia and Kentucky Railroad.
A young lawyer in Chicago was recently sent
to the penitentiary in that city for ten days for
the crime of stealing ten cents.
The two sons of Robert Burns, the Scottish
poet, are at present in Ireland, where they have
been welcomed with demonstrations of respect.
Senator Toombs recently made speech at
Lexington, Georgia, in which he came out bold
ly and emphatically in favor of Douglas for the
Presidency.
During the last week, says the Winchester
Virginian, there were no duels amongst the
Richmond editors. For seven long days ''order
has reigned in Warsaw"
Vice President Breckenridge has written a
letter declining to be considered candidate for
the Presidency, preferring to be elected to the
Senate, as he expects to be from Kentucky.
1t having been stated In the newspapers that
the Hon. Mr. Zollicoffer, of Tennessee, was a
Jew, that gentleman writes to the Baltimore
American to contradict the statement.
A correspondent of the San Francisco Herald,
writing from Carson Valley, says that the peo-
pie of that would be Territory are in favor of the
Hon. VIM. Smith, extra Billy,) of Virginia, for
the Presidency.
Probably no two men occupying seats in the
Senate of the United States ever before employ
cd such language towards each other as Senators
Gwin and Broderick are now daily using in their
speeches IN California No such contest do we
remember ever hitherto to have occurred in this
country. The abuse is positively shocking"
TApvERr1sEMENT]- Rev O. Hibbard, writing
from BurInah to his father, says: | have used
Perry Davis Vegetable Pain Killer for coughs,
colds, summer complaints, burns, bruises, and
for the sting of scorpions, with uniform success.
We always keep it where we can put our hands
on it in the dark if need be.
The magnetic telegraph has been extended to
Atchson, on the Missouri river, and is still on
its way westward. From the Pacific side the
work is extending to Salt Lake city. 1t will
probably not be very long before the two will
be made to unite, and give q complete telegraph
c connection from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The New York Herald puts forth the de-
velopment of new secret political organization.
1t is composed exclusively Of Democrats; is
managed by Douglas himself, and has for its
principal object the nomination of Douglas at
Charleston. 1t is said to be well organized in
every State of the Union. As this comes from
Bennett, of course due allowance must be made
for tho correctness Of the statement.
The indianapolis Sentinel, speaking Of the late
Hon. John w. Davis, of Indiana, says He was
elected President of the Baltimore National
Convention in 1852, which nominated General
Pierce for President, and, in the exciting strug
gle attending that nomination, came within one
vote in the caucus of the Virginia delegation, OF
being their choice for President vote which
decided the nominee of the Convention.
A letter from London informs the Philadelphia
Press that Mr.. 7. @. Evans, of New York, who
recently went to London to persuade Mr.. Dick.
ems to revisit this country on reading tour, and
who offered him most magnificent terms, has not
succeeded. Mr.. Dickens, it appears, cannot at
ford, at any price, to leave England land "Al
the Year Round') for the time which his voyages
and tour would occupy.
At Old Point the party of United States sol.
diers stationed there are engaged daily in trying
to wear out gun weighing 1860 pounds. 1t
is loaded with ten pounds of powder, and car
ries ball weighing 1913 pounds. It has already
been fred more than thousand times. Near it
are two guns which were fired $500 times at
Pittsburg. The object of the firing is to test the
durability of the iron, and the gun will be dis
charged till it becomes useless.
A horrible affair took place at Scarboro', Me-,
on Sunday night, the asth nit. Mrs.. Wilson, u
white woman, wife of Samuel Wilson, coored,
who is now absent at sea, murdered her adopted
son, Frank Wilson, Cuban mulatto boy, about
Is years of age, and then endeavofed to conceal
her crime by cutting up the body, placing por-
ton of it in the oven and another portion in the
fire place, and then setting fire to the house,
having previously removed all-the furniture.