Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1861-04-12


the 4th inst.
A Wattles, one Of the John Brown gang,
has been appointed u. S. Marshall for
Kansas.
The State Senate of Massachusetts, has
passed bill abolishing capital punish
ment.
The Legislature of Texas appropriated
$50, 900 to pay the members of tie Cen
yention.
Alexander Duvall has been appointed BY
the President collector of the port Of Rich
nond, Va.
Capt. A. Fl. Schultz has been appointed
United States marshal for New York, vice
Capt. Rynders.
Ex-Pg.siden Millard Fillmore has ac-
cepted an invitation to preside at the Unita-
rian Festival in Boston in May next
There is a colored woman in Charleston,
sc, who pays taxes on SIC, 900 Of real
estate and fourteen slaves.
The fugitive slv,s are moving in crowds
from the freee States into Canada. VIVA;
is the matter? Have they beck m, disgu1ted
with their Yankee brethren.
The Southern Cooperation party of Al
bemarle county, have nominated John s
Neon and Jsho L. Cochran for The Vir-
.ginia House Of Delegates.
Among the candidates already mention
ed for the vacancy on the Supreme Bench
is n FL Swayne, of Ohio. Mr.. Seward is
also named for the same place.
The Hon. VIM. Allen. member of Con:
gress from the Piqua {Ohio) District, with.
in the last two months, has lost his whole
family by that dreadful scourge, Diptheria.
John OLawrence, Union candidate, was
on Saturday last. elected Mayor of Ports
mouth, by 206 majority, over Mayor Grice.
who - filed the Office for twelve years.
The admirers of Henry Clay, in New
York, are making preparations to celebrate
the forthcoming anniversary Of his birth
day.
Two young men. arrested on suspicion Of
setting fire to Mr.. Churchman's barn las!
FALL, were examined before three Magis.
trates on Saturday and acquitted. -Speeta
tor.
The notorious Lane and Poaeroy, twt
of the 'horse thief" Montgomery's gang
have been ell cted to the u. S. Senate. Cal
Clay, Calhoun and Webster behold thos
now occupying the seats they once held
A negro barber was drawn last week t
serve as a juror in the U. S. Court in Bos
ton. What will Cuffee come to next? 0
bliged to sit on Yankee jury. He ha,
better have stayed South end wormed to
baceo.
Five hundred thousand dollars of stool
having been subscribed to the Southern Elk
press Company, the stockholders held thei
first meeting in Richmond On the 4th inst
and fully organized by the election of NJ
G. Harman, Esq, Of this place, as presi
dent.
We have been requested to call the at
tention of the 'city fathers" to that awfu
mad hole in the street leading to the Rail
road bridge, just below the Va. Hotel.
few dollars would fix it so that persons
could ride over without the necessity Of
riding on the sidewalk.
The bankers of Chicago have common
eed throwing out the bills of forty two bank.
of Wisconsin. The circulation Of these
banks is secured by Missouri, Tennessee
and Virginia skies There are about eighty
banks in the entire State. There is great
excitement among bill holders
Jas. Decide, Of D. c., has been appoint
ed to second class ($1, 200 per annum)
clerkship in the Navy Department, vice G.
G. Williams, removed; and Geo. Rye, of
Shenandoah, Va, to similar cierkship in
the Bureau of Medicine. Navy Department,
vice W D. DENLY, removed.
1t is said that Mr. A. B. Dickinson, of
New York, the new y appointed minister
to Nicaragua, was an applicant fer the Of
fee of marshal in Nebraska. His hand
writing being indistinct, the Secretary of
State thought he asked for the post of min
lister in Nicaragua, and being a friend, APP
pointed him minister instead Of marshal.
1t is stated that twenty of the rank and
file Of the army left Washington, on Thurs
day. fer Montgomery, for the purpose of
enlisting in the Southern army These de-
sertions make an aggregate of $50 army re-
cruitS for the Southern government from
she federal capitol since they have been sta
toned there by Gen. Scott.
1t may not be widely known, says the
Fredericksburg Herald, but is fact that
South Carolina seeded from the old Union
with scarcely pound of powder to defend
herself with. She has now five hundred
thousand pounds of powder, ordnance and
ordnance stores in SUPER abundance, and is