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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-10-30

The MASK REMoyED.-Mark the fact well, all
ye Union men who have been decoyed into the
ranks of the seceders, or who were there from
the beginning of our national troubles, and have
been deceived, that Mr.. Noise, in his speech at
Charenton last Thursday, openly declared to an
audience of over a thousand of the citizens OF
this and adjoining parishes
''That if Lincoln Is elected on the 9th of No
vember, the Southern States ought to secede
from the Union.
That he (Mr. Moise,) would rather see the
Southern States rent into thousand fragments
than that they should submit to Republican
President.
And that if one or more States secede, the
general government has no power to coerce them
into submission to the Constitution and Laws"
Mark the fact, too, that our leading Breckin-
ridge men in this parish daily and confidently
predict that Lincoln is sure to be elected. So.
according to these admissions and doctrines. YOU
will be called upon some time between this and
Christmas to make ready for the revolution into
which Yancey & Go. have been preparing Of
late to precipitate us. Do you begin to get your
eyes open gentlemen 9-Franklin est. Nary 81
Union Belg -F w
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-10-30
STAUNTON, VIRGINIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 80, 1860

A DEAD WOMAN COMES TO LIFE.-A woman
was taken sick on Tuesday last, and after much
suffering, was reduced to so low state that her
case was considered hopeless. Some of the
neighbors took turns at sitting up with the dy-
ing woman, hourly expecting her dissolution
On Friday evening newly-married sister Of the
sick woman, and young girl were acting as
sitting by the bedside. After giving the sick
woman her medicine, they sat quietly sewing,
the sufferer having apparently gone to Sleep
The watchers, on looking again at the supposed
sleeper, became startled at her death-lke ap-
pearance, and examined her more closely The
body was rapidly growing cold, and the pulse
had apparently ceased to beat A looking glass
was hastily torn from the wall and placed over
the mouth of the rrostrate woman, but no
breath stain was visible. She was evidently
dead.
The watchers left the room to procure assist
ance. An elderly neighbor was sent for to 'lay
out" the body, and the messenger, meeting the
undertaken, already notified, tod him of the cir
cumstance. lie proceeded to the house, arriv-
ing about the same time with the neighbors,
who had been sdhmoned, and all parties, after
discovering the nature of the fatal disease and
talking over some OF the funeral arrangements,
Iprepared to enter the chamber of death, il orr
der to perform the last sad offices for the deceas
ed. The young girl went first into the room for
the purpose of makipg it ready for the rest to
enter. She had no sooner entered where the
body lay than succession OF piercing shrieks
struck terror into the visitors on the outside
They rushed in and found the girl in a fainting
fit. A glance around the room at once explain
| ed the cause of her terror. The dead woman
was sitting up in bed! At first the entire party
fled, screaming, from the room, but soon collect
ed their senses and returned. The dead woman
had resumed her recumbent position, and was SO
far from being defunct that she inquired, in q
weak voice, the meaning of the strange scene a.
round her. 1t seems that she had fallen into q
short trance-like sium5er, seemingly like death
itself. Just as the girl had entered the room
she had partially awakened and moved her head.
The slrieks of the terrified gill thoroughly a.
woke her, and she sat up in bed to learn the
cause of the screams. Resloratives were imme-
diately applied, and the 'detunot one" is now in
a fair way of returning to healthy existence
The climax of the disorder had passed.--N. O..
Delta Of the 17th.
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At Bennettsville, S. c., on the 10th inst, a
father and son, named Hitchings, the father an
Englishman, were arrested On suspicion of being
incendiary characters. The populace was a.
bout to bang them to the nearest tree, but it was
decreed best to try them by ajury of citizens
In their trunks were found an invoice from the
Hartford Fire arms Company, for $500 worth of
guns, revolvers, bowie-knives, cartridges, caps
DC, which had been shipped to Floral College,
N. u, by express Another invoice from the
same house Tor $500 worth of pistols and bol-
sters was found.
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POETR Y.
Campaign Song.
AIR,-"0h, Susannah.'

had dream the other night,
When all around was still;
I dreamed saw poor Breckinridge
A sitting on hill;
A corn-cob pipe was in hismouth,
tear was in his eye,
Says he they'll beat us North and South.
But Yancey, do not cry.
Oh, Fire-eaters, do not cry, said he,
Tho we are left of hope bereft,
By Bell of Tennessee.
Not tar away stood Stephen A.,
1 think | see him now,
With clenched fist and lips compressed,
And dark and frowning brow;
With sorrowing phiz, poor Breckinridge
No sooner caught his eye,
Than hands did place upon his face,
And loud began to cry.
Oh. Lord, Stephen, don't be mad with me,
There was nothing SO deceivin'
As that Bell of Tennessee.
Then in the rear there did appear,
A doleful picture drawn,
With clothes neglect and hair erect,
And features woe begone;
I'll go again to splitting rails,
Quoth he with piteous sigh,
The colored question once more falls,
So, darkies let US cry.
Oh, dear niggers, come and cry with me,
Our hopes are DER for evermore,
With Bell of Tennessee.
Then by his side there espied,
Old Buck with phiz demure;
Friend Abe, he said, I'm much afraid,
Our cause is hopeless, sure;
To Breckinridge tho was pledged,
All powers did apply,
Tho indirect, you to elect,
So Lincoln do not cry.
Oh, fanatics, do not cry, said he,
We all have fell by Old John Bell,
That halls from Tennessee.
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In the Disunion plan proposed in 1858, by
Mr.. Yancey, in letter to Mr.. Pryor, it was de-
clared to be the policy of those concerned, that
"Virginia and the other border States should re-
main in the Union, where, by their position and
their counsels, they could prove more effective
friends than by moving out of the Union, and
thus giving to the Southern Confederacy long
abolition hostile border to watch. They tAs7,
only wanted the ''Southern Confederacy" to con-
sist of the ''Cotton States"-and Virginia to be
the FLANDERS on which their battles were TO
be fought, and their interests protected. 1t is
now found important to hitch Virginia in, too"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-10-30

The Fredericksburg Herald says, that Mr..
Pryor, in his speech in Fredericksburg, made
most offensive allusion, in reference to the Doug
las wing of the Democracy, comparing them to
sort of implement used by the Chinese in their
warfare with the English-"they were the stink
pots in the hands Of the Wings used against the
great Democratic party" We wonder if Mr..
Pryor, or Mr.. Any-body-else thinks this sort of
talk is going to do anything more than properly
to incense the friends of Mr. Douglas, and cause
them to remember their traducers.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-10-30

KANsAs-Thaddeus Hyatt gives an extreme
picture of the destitution existing in Kansas
In letter to President Buchanan he says:
Thousands of once thrifty and prosperous
American citizens are now perishing for want
Winter is upon them; Of ofclothing they are nearly
bereft; food they have not to last them through
the cold season that is approaching. Of over a
hundred thousand people upon Kansas soil, six
months ago, at least one fourth or one third
have left ofthe remainder it is safe to say that
forty thousand at this moment see nothing but
exodus or starvation at the end of the sixty days
now before them; from ten to twenty thousand
look with only despairirg eyes upon November;
thousands cannot subsist a month longer unaided,
other thousands are living upon the little which
their neighbors deprive themselves of to give to
them-neighbors equally unfortunate, and with
whom the starvation is merely question of but
few days longer while still other thousands,
if not at once relieved, must perish from hunger
or the diseases that follow in its train. Some
have already died, Others are daily dying; while
the hours grow darker and the days wax longer
for the living to whom relief comes not, and
whose eyes are aching with watchings for the
succor that delays"
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THE BRAVERY OF TWO NOTED FuL1BUsTERs.
"A correspondent, writing from Panama on
the 9th inst. says: "Mora bore his fate man
fully. The file of men drawn up for his execu-
tion stood with their muskets not ten feet from
him, and yet the five balls in his body did not
kill him. ssGive me another shot, gentlemen" /"
he said ssand finish mel" He refused to be
blindfoded but stood calmly facing his execu-
TONERS. His body as well as that of Canas,
was thrown into a hole in the sand, both with
the clothes on in which they were murdered
Canas was striking fire with his steel and flint
to relight his cigarette at the moment he felt
the lead at his heart. He was shot at the foot
of the monument erected to his honor for his
many services to costa Rica, in the Plaza at
Punta Arenas.
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No CHANCE FOR BRRok1NR1DeE.-The Balti-

No CHANCE FOR BREoKINRIDGE-The Balt-
more Exchange is one OF the ablest Breckenridge
journals in the country, but in a recent number,
it admits that he cannot carry Jingle Northern
State, and exhorts its friends to vote the fusion
ticket all over the North, in order to defeat Lin
coin. This is very good advice, and we hope it
will be followed by those Breekinridgers who,
in the recent contests in Pennsylvania and lndi-
ana lent their aid to the Black Republicans in
order to punish the Douglasites. The truth is,
the only hope of beating Lincoln is, for all the
lovers of the Union to rally as one man to the
support of John Bell, who alone has the power
to quell domestic discord, and give peace to our
distracted cOuntry.i r9.-a4+,r
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-10-30

The National Intelligencer comments upon the
position of the Richmond Enquirer that "Vir-
ginia is hatched to the cotton States, and that
she will be dragged into common destiny with
them, no matter what may be the desire of her
people, as in truth, declaration, that the days
of Virginia's leadership are passed, and she is
henceforth to be regarded as nothing better than
a mere appendage to the Cotton States, ''hitched'
as she is to them in such manner that all pow
er of independent action is lost. The people of
Virginia will show, when their voice is heard,
that the glorious old State ia not to be hitched"
and harnessed to the Disunion car, in which the
Disunion leaders in South Carolina wish to ride.
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BRUrE OF HusBAND.-Wife, (anxiously }
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ed us just now I"
Husband, with a smile of calm delight: D
"why, my love shs ,1i,s observed we'd! rather good
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-10-30

It is fast becoming a real issue-Union or Dis
union, and it is now thought and alleged that one
of The plans Of the Disunionists is, by sort of
coup ID etat-like that by which Louis Napoleon
subverted the Republic of France and established
an Empire on its ruins-to prevent the people
great question, and to induce or juggle the Leg
lslatures into taking up the whole matter and
commencing action upon it. Let the people,
then, be alive to this subject.
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The best way to sire a Southern heartn is to
make love to a Southern belle.-Er.
And the best way to sprecpitate the cotton
region into revolution" is to marry her.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-10-30

Tim Rives, OF Petersburg, the ''old War-horse
of Democracy" made in Norfolk last week, ac-
cording to all accounts, one of most effective po-
litical speeches delivered in Virginia during this
whole canvass The Norfolk Herald says:-
ssMr. Rives contendei that the breaking up of the
Democratic party was the work of the Southern
fire-eater, as the readiest and most etfectna way
of breaking up the Union; and John O. Breck-
inridge was nominated as a mere cats paw to
insure the election OF the Black Republican nom
inee for the Presidency. The election OF Breck-
inridge was never dreamed OF, and the only re-
suit contemplated by his nomination was to in
sure the election of Liucoln. This he went on
to prove and did prove to the satisfaction OF ev-
cry candid mind. la this connection he quoted
largely from the speeches and letters of VIM. l..
Yancey, and made out chain OF evidence to es-
tablish the damning fact, that Yancey and other
OF the fre-eaters had pre-arranged the secession
from the Charleston Convention purely to carry
out their ulteror scheme of dissolying the Union.
Mr.. Rives discussed this branch If bis argument
with the ability of one who had made himself
thoroughly master OF it; and the whitening in
vective, ,caustic satire and cutting sarcasms which
he hurled at the leaders in this conspiracy, told
with powerful effect on his hearers. We speak
advisedly when we cay there were not few
weak brethren of the Breckinridge Democracy
present, who slid over TO Douglas, aud wavering
Douglas men were confirmed in the faith under
the stunning facts and arguments OF Mr.. Rives. "
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-10-30

VERY PREssINa.-A young girl who had be-
come tired of single blessedness wrote to her
true swain as follows: 81. F rFsL
"Deer Gin, cum rite off eff you are cummn at
awl. Ed Ceilings is insisting that shall hev
him, and kisses me so kontinerally that kant
holed out mutch longer, but will have kavs in,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-10-30

The SURVIVORS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY
ARMY.-A late letter from the United States
Commissioner of Pensions says that there are
now but eighty mine survivors of the army. of
the Revolution whose names were placed upon
the rolls for pensions.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-10-30

Mr.. BELL Come TO SPEAK.-The Memphis
Bulletin says that as Messrs. Breckenridge and
Douglas haye taken the stump, Mr.. Bells friends
have concluded to make an appointment for him.
He will address his fellow citizens of all parties
from the east portico of the Capitol at Washing
ton City, on the 4th day of March next, at l
O'Clock, P. M. All are invited to attend. ~
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-10-30

ZEN. CAss FOR DoUGLAs.-The Detroit Free
fress announces that Gen., Cass has declared for
Douglas: One, at least, of the Cabinet seemsto
have independence enough to support for Pres
ident whom he chooses
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-10-30
The MINUTE MEN.-The Charleston Mercury

= The MINUTE MEN.-The Charleston Mercury
says: Weare glad to see the people of our State
everywhere preparing for the crisis which is at
hand As an offset to the 'Wide Awakes" of
the North, sMinute Men, organizing in sl
the principal Districts of South Carolina. Their
object is to form an armed body of men, and to
join in with our fellow-citizens now forming in
this and our sister States as 'sMinute Men,
whose duty is to arm, equip and drill and be
ready for any emergency that may arise in the
present perilous position of the Southern States.
In Kershaw, Abbeville, and Richland Districts
the organization is already complete and power
fnl, embracing the flower of the youth, and led
on by the most influential citizens. The badge
adopted Is blue rosette-two and half inches
In diameter, with military button in the GER
tire, to be worn upon the side of the hat. Let
the important work go bravely on, and let every
son OF Carolina prepare to mount the blue
cockade.n
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The MOOrs.

The Moors, in the ages that they resided in
Spain, were a more civilized race by far than
the Spaniards. This is evident from the most
cursory perusal of the chronicles of those times.
Who has not fingered with wrapt fascination
over the pages of Washington Irving aud Pres
colt, in which they describe the glories of the
Alhambra and other indications of Moorish re-
finement and greatness? 1t was not until the
reign of Philip III, in the seventeenth century,
that the Moors, by an arbitrary and foolish edict
of the weak King, were expelled and banished
from Spain. by that act Spain lost hundreds of
thousands of her most useful and industrious
citizens. They very generally took refuge in
that portion of Northern Africa called Morocco.
The Moors carried with them into the ancient
home of their race in Africa the civilization and
much of the wealth which they had acquired in
the Peninsula. They carried with them an i'm
placable hatred of the Spanish race-a hatred
which was for a century or longer almost sus-
tanned, if not augmented, by the cruel treatment
of the Moors, Christians and Mohammedans, who
were desrous of remaining in Spain. but whom
the Inquisition and war ultimately drove across
the straits of Gibraltar.
The Moors mixed race, of various origin
-Numidian and Mauvtanian, Rome, Vandal,
and Saracen or Arabian They are better look
ing people than is commonly supposed. In the
interior of Morocco, there are some races OF wild
negroes, athletic and ferocious enough. They
may be seen at Tangiers occasionally, in compa-
nes OF ten or fifteen men, going from house to
house, to amuse the people by dancing to the
music of ''bones" for castanets, small drums, and
strings of little bells around their ankles! The
population of Morocco is not halt that OF Spain.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-10-30
The Kanawha Riflemen at the Grave of
the Heroes.

the Heroes.
Upon historic ground, where once fierce battle ragged
Where once the red man and the white engaged
Hark now the artillerys boom the plaintive dirge
IT'S not the battles nor bloody clash of arms,
'Tis not the savage war-whoop's dread alarms
IT'S not contending foes. swept by the battles
But tits gallant band, where sleep the mighty
braves,
Paving the warriors honor to the Heroes in their
graves.
Pause strangers, pause! and drop the soldiers
tear,
For not the bones of Cowards lie buried here,
But as brave men, and true, as e'er fought the
savage foe
Rest here upon their laurels till time shall be no
more.
With military honors salute, ye gallant band!
The graves of the Heroes who fell fighting for their
land
Thou art the first to pay them honor there!
Then let the solemn dirge be waited on the air
Meet tribute of respect to the immortal names
That art Freedoms proud heritage, and Fame's.
lis said, "whereer the great have lived or died,
GA charm pervades the very air;
''And generous spirits oft will step aside
''To pour the hearts deep homage there"
IT'S thus, oh, gallant soldiers thou actest well thy
part,
TIE seek that long neglected spot of earth
That thou might'st honor the virtue of departed
worth,
And shed the noble sympathy of soldiers heart.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-10-30

The SOUTHERN UNIoN-A late letter from
Washington contains the following insight into
the plan of operations of the disunionists:
IF Lincoln be elected President of the United
States, the disunionists are bent on erecting a
Southern confederacy if possible. The plan as
announced by distinguished official, in the
Treasury Department, is for the Governors Of
the several Southern States to call their respec-
tive Legislatures into extraordinary session, and
prepare for the immediate inauguration of Mr..
Breckinrdge as the President of the Southern
Union'" f Hfw rsusasf aia
There is no doubt in the world that the Yam
cey ''precipitators" will set about dissolving the
Union and establishing Southern Confederacy,
the moment the election Of Lincoln is ascer-
tanned
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-10-30

Let the tears OF the poor find more compassion,
but not more justice, from thee than the appli-
cations of the wealthy aslss