Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-08-23
Miscellaneous.

census, and IN seventeen parishes there is dt
crease of over 5000 whites since 1866, viii
the blacks have largely increased.
The Government of Rome has awarded to NJ
Edward N. Perkins, of Boston, the sum Of $3
400 as damages for the robbery OF his party d.
ring the Perugia massacre.
1t is said that the character of American Flor
stood vastly higher in foreign markets ten {
twelve years ago than it does at present. Tb
demand, nevertheless, is much larger than theI
The administration is said to be turning ou
one at time, all the Clerks in the Governmen
offices at Washington, who are suspected of bein
| favorable to the Presidential pretensions of MI
Douglas.
At meeting of the "American Party" Q
Camden On. ~ the Hon. Willard Fillmore wa
nominated as a candidate for the Presidency il
1860. Commodore Stockton participated In th
proceedings of the meeting. ss.rs3
The New York Times says that the ground
upon which the Opposition won the late victor.
in Tennessee is 'sground upon which the conser
vative Northern Opposition can equally stan'
and fight in the approaching Presidential can
yass."
Two unhappy little lads drowned themselve
in boat load Of wheat, lying at wharf in Mil
waukie, last Saturday. The little fellows jump
ed in for frolic, and sunk almost as if ia water
Their bodies were found standing straight up
and hats on.
One of the most significant signs of confidence
in the permanence of peace is to be found in thu
fact of the celebration of two hundred marriages
in the different churches of Paris on q recen
Saturday. High and low, rich and poor, are
rushing to the altar. Z
ADVERTISEMENT. 1.-The Peoples Pamphlet,
which may be had (grstis) of dealers in Da.
Wis Vegetable Pain Killer, abounds in certi6.
Gates of the most reliable character, and such as
will convince the most incredulous that it is in
valuable as family medicine.
The Charleston Mercury, in commenting on
the result of the election in Texas, attributes the
defeat of the Estate Rights Democracy to the
advocacy, by their candidate for Governor, of
the revival of the slave trade, or at least of re-
peal of the Federal laws by which the importa-
ton of Africans is prohibited.
The latest ''fashion" announced from Europe
is that of dressing very plainly when going to
church. Some of the ladies of the first circles
90 up to worship in plain calico. 1t is sought
to encourage the attendance of the very poor,
who have hitherto withheld their presence for
lack of Sunday clothes.
LARGE TUNNEL.-The "big tunnel" on the
Covington and Ohio Railroad, In Greenbrier
County, Va, is 400 feet long and 700 feet
below the surface of the earth. 1t is 400 feet
longer than the Blue Ridge tunnel. The width
is twenty seven feet, to accommodate double
track, and the height is % feet.
The Rajah of Cashmere has sent tent of
shawls as present to Queen Victoria, with q
bedstesd of carved gold, the whole valued at
The Rajah Hundersing has just been
married at Lahore to an English lady, Miss
Hodge 1t is the frat marriage of the kind
which has taken place. The Prince is a pagan.
and immensely rich
We learn from the Laporte Qndiana) Union
that remarkably singular lynching affair &C.
Cured in South Bend on Friday night last. A
woman of bad repute was tarred and feathered
by women, assisted by two men, and one of the
men was afterwards whipped by the citizens for
taking part in an affair that belonged entirely to
the women.
The excavations at Wroxeter, in Shropshire,
England, are carried on with vgor, and the pub
lie are freely allowed to inspect the work. Car
riages and pedestrians arrive daily in great mum.
bers at the site of the ancient Uriconium, and
the spot promises to become one of the the "ions"
that every tourist must visit. 1t is called the
Pompeii of England.
The announcement that Charles Dickens in
tends to visit this country in the Fail for the col
lection of new batch of American Notes." is
more than mere rumor. The distinguished au-
thor is under engagements to give sixty "Read-
ings," according to pre.arraDged programme,
at various points, for the very reasonable remu.
neration of twenty-five thousand dollars cash at
the start, and onefourth of the net profits of the
exhibition.
There are already three vacancies in the
Congress before it has even assem-
bled Hon. Thomas l.. Harris, (Dem,) of the
Sixth Illinois District Hon. Cyrus Spinck, (Rep)
of the Fourteenth Ohio District, and Hon. VIM.
O. Goode, of the Fourth Virginia District, have
died since their election. Special elections will
be held in each of these Districts this fall, that
their successors can take their seats at the OPEN
ing of the session.
The New York Herald estimates that the three
hotels at Saratoga make sixty-three thousand
dollars season. Saratoga, Newport and Cape
Nav united, clear about half million. 1t is
hundred fashionable summer resorts, large and
small throughout the union, whose profits prob.
ably amount to ten millions of dollars. The large
hire. and petty items of expenditure, swell enor-
mousy the general cost of living.
TIE REBELLION IN CHINA-The Overland
Friend of China, in an article referring to the
great rebellion in China, remarks that there was
no very clear evidence that it would succeed, or
no great certainty that the government would
be able to subdue it. A letter from one of the
provinces in partial possession of the rebels states
that the insurgents were publishing the Bible,
or certain parts of it, dsmolishng idols or GER
tain Budhistic images, opening schools, &c. 1t
is said however, that the insurgents have i'm
bibed gross errors, and that the Bible printed by
them is the version of Gutzlaff, in whole or in
pa,t, in which his phraseology and that of others
are blended perplexingly.
WEATHER PREDIoTIoNs.-Pro Henry, at the
Scientific Association, gave an account OF the
method pursued each day at the Smithsonian
Institute to record and predict the weather.
They have map of the United Statee hung
upon q board with pins stuck through at the
points where the observers of the Institution are
stationed. The Institute has daily reports by
telegraph from many of these points. Each
morning an assistant hangs q cord on the pins
to indicate the state of the weather-black if
raining, green if snowing, brown if cloudy, and
white if fair. All storms travel East and thus
they are enabled to predict with great certainty
the condition of the weather twelve hours in
advance.
The steamer Asia, arrived at New York, brings
three days later advices from Europe, but no news
of any marked Importance. The Zurich Confer
ence was to meet on the 9th inst Until its de-
alterations and conclusions were made known, af-
fairs were not likely to assume any new aspect.
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