Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-10-18
Miscellaneous.

ISL Vi July W Isl vi OCVODer, WeIo i,AHo,1O7
bushels.
The Georgia State Railroad has paid into the
State treasury for the year ending September
the sum of $4O2, 900 over and above expenses.
Pixies Peak gold is making its appearance
quite freely in Chicago. Several thousand dol
lars were sold to gold dealers there on Wednes
day.
The disabled steamer Quaker City is safe.-
She was found at sea by the steamer State Of
Georgia and towed into Hampton Roads on
Wednesday night. Her passengers were oil
well.
Meeker, Reed & Logan, ,nachinists, of New.
ark, have just completed draft locomotive for
propelling freight wagons acressthe plains to the
Rocky Mountains.
The latest italian rumors are sconhicting,
but have q threatening aspect. 1t was reported
that Austria and Sardinia were making warlike
preparations, and that the French Army of Oc-
cupation is to be reinforced.
We understand that on Tuesday morning last
Mr.. Michael Bowyer, of this county, was found
dead in house on the premises of Mr.. 7. b..
Heck of this place The cause of his death we
have not learned. Lexington Star.
The latest accounts from the Great Eastern
state that it was considered doubtful whether
the ship could be got ready for sea during the
month of October. The fittings and all matters
connected with her sea-going equipments had
been placed entirely in the hands of the marine
department of the Board of Trade, and this, it
was supposed, would increase the expected de-
lay.
The Black Douglas controversy promises to be
interninable. Senator Douglas, it is announced,
is preparing reioinder, over his own signature,
to Judge Blacks second reply to his magazine
essay Whether the cause of truth and sound
principle will gain much by the discussion re-
mains to be seen. The partizan purposes and
temper of the disputants do not inspire any
strong hopes in that respect.
Mr.. Lowe has nearly completed his monster
balloon, at New York, ard will commence infa-
ting it this week. 1t will take about week to
fill the balloon with gas as it will hold $4,000
cubic feet. This huge sarial ship will start for
England in the course Of two or three weeks,
taking out Mr.. Lowe, the protector, and another
man who is not yet decided upon but who will
probably be o member of the press.
SpoTs ON THE SUN.-It is stated that the spots
on the sun are unusually numerous and large this
wear. At the present time there are eleven
groups of spots visible; two of which have just
made their appearance on the western edge. A
very large spot has been recently observed near
ly in the centre, embracing central black spot
and still larger peuumbral region. 1t is said
to be undergoing daily remarkable changes.
The Republican party will gain three United
States Senators by the result OF the October cleo
tons, viz;- Senator to be elected in Pennsyl-
& h. IN,
Ohio, in place of Mr.. Pugh, and one in MINES
ota, in place of General Shields. The Senatorial
terms of Messrs. Bigler and Pugh close on the
4th of March, 1861 that Of Gen. Shields has a.
ready expired.
There is q report that the Princess Alice, of
England, Queen Victoria's second daughter, has
expressed wish to turn Romanist, thereby re-
signing her ''royal dowry." The Court papers
nsinuate that this step is preparatory to an ALI
auce with the young King of Portugal, who has
lately lost bis wife. While he was in England q
few years since he attracted the attention Of the
Princess, but religion was in the way, and the
affair was nippsd in the bud.
"Ion,n of the Baltimore Sun, writes from
Washington The State elections, held on Tues
day have not, 80 far as heard from, been very
favorable to the administration Democracy. We
are still 10 hear from Minnesota 1t is evident
from the result of the election in Pennsylvania
that the protective policy has more friends in
that State than the Democracy. But the vote
was light, and the Pennsylvania Democrats in
this city do not augur i'll for the vote ofthe cleo
ton for President in Pennsylvania in 1860.
THE GREAT EAsrERN.-A dispatch from Port
land. Me-, on the 10Th says: Frederick Cum
berland, ESQ.,, agent of the Great Eastern, who
has come to make arrangements TOR her recep-
ton, arrived here yesterday from Canada. He
has no doubt that the steamer will leave for
Portland, Me-, in the latter part of October
When he lett, the Company did not entertain the
thought of her visiting any other port in Ameri.
ca this trip, but Portland, where it was expected
she would remain about three weeks.
THE TEXAN DIFFICULTIES Orleans, Oct.
|15.-Advices from San Antonio say: Gen. Twiggs
has responded to the call for aid to be sent to
Brownsville, Texas, against the Mexican banditti
that he has not enough of men at his disposal to
drive the Indians from the frontier, and can do
nothing. The ranches on the Texas side of the
Rio Grande have been abandoned, on account Of
Indian depredations, and the citizens of San An.
tonic are raising two companies of rangers
Other places are raising volunteers, on account
A NEW YoRY DopeE.-The letter from New
York city to Gov. Wise, of Virginia, was dated
at No. 8, William street, and signed b. Donnel-
". But the New York directory contained no
such name at that house, aud all the persons OF
that name in the book were laborers, who could
not have written the letter. Latterly, howev-
er, some sharp fellow, finding the house at No.
3. William Street to let, has rented it, and set up
MD nf
"B. Donnelly, Auctioneer," seeking to make
money by the attention directed to the name.
VIRGINIA. S. Calvert, Esq, Treasurer Of
the Commonwealth, has made his annual re-
mort of the financial operations OF his depart
ment for the year ending the 30th OF September,
from which it appears that the balance of money
on hand at that date was $222,8S8, of which
SlO4, O13 is to the credit of the Commonwealth,
S42,5 to the credit of the Literary Fund,
S9.2l7 to the Board of Public Works, and
S67. 1877 to the Sinking Fund. The actual re-
ceipts for the fiscal year were $6,57l,7l1, and
the actual disbursements for same were $6,502, :
831.
RELIGIOUS REvIvAL-The Romney Intelli-
gencer says "A revival of religion, unprece-
dented in all the annals of this village, extending
through both the churches, pervading an entire
community, without distinction of age, sex, con-
dition, or color, is now in progress in our midst.
whole people finding their way to the place
of worship, where services are held daily and
nightly; the deepest solennity displayed by
them in and out of those places of public wor-
ship-when and where has the like been seen
About seventy-fve persons are numbered among
the protested converts; how many are serious,
when all seem so, there is no estimating"
A private letter from Mr.. Ward, our Minister
to China, is published, in which lie says, that
the assistance rendered by the Americans to the
English Admiral, in towing his ships, in the re-
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