Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-02-14

Jersey had called yesterday and paid all of his
Indebtedness. Mr.. Clay started when Mr.. Scott
spoke, looked at him few seconds, burst into
toars, and left the bank overwhelmed No man
ever had such friends. Such, sir, is brief mar
rative an incident in the life of the Speaker e. |
lect; and here, sir, where Mr.. Clay lived, his
personal friends are rejoiced that he has been
honored with the Speakership.
UNION OoUNsELs-The Hon. VIM. @. Rives. |
of Virginia, is out in long and able letter a
gainst the South Carolina Disunion Convention. |
He says:
How would the system of absolute free trade, |
patronized by the cotton States, accord with this
condition of things in Virginia With one of
her staples-tobacco- heavily burthened
with taxation by foreign Governments than any
known production of the earth, and which, from
the necessities of their systems of revenue will
continue to be so burthened, aud with rising
manufacturing establishments of her own, could
there be an act of more suicidal rashness than
for Virginia to place herself in situation, in
which king cotton" by undisputed preponder-
ance in the councils of separate Southern Con-
federacy, would be enabled to throw her ports
wide open to the free and indiscrmnate admis-
sion of the manufactures and productions of for
eign countries, without any regard to her dis
tinctive and vital interests
glance at these things to show that in the
utopia of Southern confedefacy, we should
have no more harmony and concord-in some
things, far less-than in the grand continental
temple dedicated by our fathers to American
unity, peace and freedom. Let Us be content
with the noble structure which they have be-
queathed 10 us; desiring neither general con-
ventlon TO botch Ii, nor sectional convention 10
subvert it. If evils arise from time to time
and have no disposition TO extenuate the mag
ntude of those which have fallen us-et US
seek remedy for them within the Union as it
is. 1t is the peculiar felicity of tederative Re-
public like ours, as | have already remarked,
that it affords remedies, within the pale of the
Constitution, for The defence of the public liter
ty, unknown to any other system OF government.
IMPORTANT SUIT DEolDED.-The Virginia
Court of Appeals at Richmond, on Monday de-
cided the long pending suit of the Rinchmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Compa-
ny 0s. the Virginia Central and Orange & AL
exandria Railroad Companies, favorable to the
former, instituting an injunction future travel
over the combined roads forming the central
route from Washington 10 Richmond, and de-
creeing an account to be rendered by the Cen
trail roads of ali money received thereon from
through tickets to the present time, deducting
the fare received on such during the disability
of the Fredericksburg route by ice 10 the P0to-
mac. Also decree against each of the COM
bined Companies for its share of the proceeds ::
aud each of the combined roads are bound for
the other if the decree against either prove in
effectual
A card from COL Fontaine in the Richmond
Dispatch, corrects some mistakes into which
that paper had fallen Mr. f. says: The decree
has not been finally adjusted, but this is certain
" known, that the Court has decided every
point in the case against the r., +. q 2. r. Z.
Co., except the right to carey exclusively the
through passengers from Richmond to Wash
ington, and Cice oersa, by continuous railroad
in cars running through, or with the aid of
free ticket, and that the amount of the recovery
in money for the past will not probably exceed
one-tenth of that which your article intimates,
which was, We believe, about $3.50 600.
CONGRESSIONAL COLLISION. Friday last.
on the Capitol grounds at Washington, Mr.. Ed
mundson, member of Congress from Virginia.
made an attack upon MIR. Hickman, of Pennsyl-
vania. The Washington Star says Messrs. Ed
mundson and Keitt and Vice President Breckin-
ridge were together and met Mr.. Hickman,
when Edmundson walked up to Fl. and some
words passed between them in reference to a
speech made by the latter on occasion of a late
serenade. Finally Edmundson struck Hickman
on the head and was following up the assault,
Hickman endeavorng to close with him, when
the bystanders interfered. The correspondent
of the n. Y. Tribune says Hckman's hat was
only knocked off, MIR. Clingman, who was pass
ing, having caught Edmundson's arm. He says
also that the alleged provocation for this at
tack was an insulting reflection upon Virginia,
contained in recent speech of Mr.. Hickman,
in which he charged that seventeen men and a
cow had frightened the State.
ATTEMPTED ARREST OF CoPPIE-HIs ESCAPE.
"A few days ago an officer from Virginia, ar
rived at Des Monies, Iowa, with requisition
from the Governor of Virginia, on the Governor
of Iowa, for the body of young Ooppie, brother
OF the one who was executed at CharlestowD,
for participating in the Harper's Ferry disturb
ance. Young Coppie, after the arrest of his
brother and John Brown, managed to escape to
Canada, but recently returned to his home at
Spring Grove, Iowa
Gov. Kirk wood on examining the Virginia
officers papers, stated that they were informal
and refused his warrant. The officer then
sought the aid Of the United States Marshal but
in the meantime. a friend of Coppie started on
horseback to inform bin of his DANGER and it
is presumed be escaped before the q. S. Marshal
could reach his house.
Mr.. MeInmiDger. of South Carolina, the spe
cial messenger to Virginia, has been called "a
conservative Unionist," and 'indsposed to meas
Strangely does such declaration sound, when it
is remembered that as late as 1852, after the
passage of the compromise measures, be said, in
the South Carolina Legislature, that she had
rather South Carolina was attached to the Gov
eminent of Great Britain, she was previous to
the Revolutionary War, than to remain mem
Der of this Union"
THE WAR IN MoRoooo.-It is stated there were
sixty thousand Moors engaged in the battle OF
CostelIegos. Col Tassara about SO years OF age,
a younger brother of the Spanish Minister at
Washington, distinguished himself greatly at
the head of his regiment of Hussars, and was
wounded in the engagement. Most OF the higE
officers of the Spanish army are young men,
The army had been INSTRUCTED in operations and
suffered much from constant rains. Spain is
prosecuting the war with vigor and will have
before long force of $4,000 men in Morocco.
The SOUTH CAROLINA CoMMIssoNER,-Co
Memminger, having waited several weeks in
vain, for the response of the Legislature to the
proposition Of South Carolina, has taken his de-
parture Tor Charleston He leaves very agreea-
bic impressions among those who enjoyed his
society while here, and we can only regret that
the nature OF his mission was such as TO preclude
Virginia from prompt and cordial acquiescence
In IL. With his departure end the LAST hopes OF
the Southern Convention.-Rich Wig