Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1865-09-05
GENERAL NEWS.

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be released from Fort Pulaski on parole.
Several cases of yellow fever have occurred
in New Orleans.
New YORK. drinks about fifty million gal
Ions of water per day.
The Emperor of Brazil has taken the fed
in person.
j. G. Breckenridge and J. NJ. Mason are
announced to arrive in Canada in few days
1t is reported that General Price and sever
al other Confederates have been made gener-
al officers in axnlian's army.
Rev. R. j. Breckenridge has been elected
President of the United College of Washing
ton and Jefferson, at Canonsburg, Pa.
In 1920 thirteen years after the first settle
ment of jamestown, Dutch ship from the coast
of Guinea entered James river, and sold twenty
Of her slaves to the colonists
The wife of Lewis Washington, relative
of the Father of his Country, is now in
Washington seeking the restoration of her
husbands confscated estates,
Frank Blair's friends say that he will be
sent to the United States Senate from Missou-
ri, and then he will renew his warfare against
Chief Justice Chase Franz neither forgets
nor forgives.
The last Washington on dit is to the effect,
that when, few days ago, the President was
indirectly blamed by an over-oficious radical
for the speed with which he granted pardons,
his reply was "that Speed had nothing to do
with it."
Every able bodied negro who was once
Wade Hampton's slave is now hired by him
men at SO per month, women at So, without
ton this season, and means to give free-negro
| labor fair trial
Major-General John G. Breckenridge, late
Secretary Of War of the Confederacy, is cx-
pectedto arrive In Canada within few days
Mr. Mason, Commissioner Of the Confedera-
cy in London, and ex-senator Of the United
States, will accompany him.
A Row AT ST. PAUL's.-The School
Board Of St. PauPs, Minnesota, have voted
to exclude negroes from the schools There
is an existing State law imposing inc Of
fifty dollars on trustees and teachers who re-
fuse them admission, and tho friends Of the
celored people are determined to enforce it.
The excitement, consequently, runs high.
MISS BRADDoN.-A correspondent who has
seen her, describes Miss Braddon as cred
haired, stout, rather vulgar looking coekney wo-
man Of thirty. odd,'' and says she has been an
itin Grant actress and known great destitution.-
| The combined sale Of her books in England has
been six hundred thourand copies, in America
two hundred AMI fifty thousand. She has made
in the past four years about forty thousand
pounds and funded half Of it.
a Proposition for Freednen.-The man
aging director of an influential company in
France, formed under the auspices of the
French Government, engaged in Developing
the resources Of French Guiana, South Amer
lea, has applied tothe Bureau of Freedmen to
know if it is possible to obtain, in large num-
bers, the Freedmen Of the South to 90 to Cav
enne, with their families, where they would be
we'll fed and treated, and where Che prejudice of
caste IS not so strong against them as in this
country. No action has yet been taken on the
proposition.
i IMPORTANT To DsTTLLERs. Many per-
sons throughout the country are engaged in
making brandy from apples and peaches who
are under the impression that the same is
not liable to tax when the same is made for
their own use. This is an error. For every
gallon Of brandy manufactured, the distiHer
is liable to a tax Of $3.50, and it is also nee.
essary to obtain license before engaging in
the manufacture, which can be procured
from the Assessor and Collector of the Dis
tict. Distillers will probably save themselves
some trouble and expense by making a
note of the above facts.
A HINT TO. TIE NEGRoBs.-It is q GER
tain fact, we think, that strenuous efforts will
be made by the Southern States to obtain
an adequate supply Of white labor from Eu-
rope. And this, as the New YORK. Herald
suggests, should serve as a hint Of warning 20
the negroes. The downfall of slavery has
opened in our Southern States vast and in
viting field for European immigration, and
the Southern blacks must 90 to work cheer
fully, steadily and Systematically, or they
will be rooted out, except in the swamps, by
white labor.
Progress Of the Cholera IN Essrope 1t APP
pears from the last foreigo journals that the
cholera continues its desolatlng march. At
Oonstantinople it seems to be sweeping right
and left, and though the population of that
city now is much reduced by death and the
flight of the inhabitants, the mortality has
reached a frightful maximum. In Italy the
desease is MAILING slow, but evidently sure,
progress. A ramon had reached London that
! it had made it's appearance in Rome, but 1t
does rot seem to be confirmed. At Barcelona,
Spain, stampede of the inhabitants has COM
menced, in anticipation Of the dread visitor.
| IMPORTANT TO BLAcKsMITHs.-The fol-
lowing is among the recent internal revenue
decisions "Where blacksmith's annual
receipts, whether derived from new work
done, or from repairs, (section a. or from
increased value given to horse-shoes partly
finished by more completely finishing them
(secion 95,) or from all three sources COM
bined, exceed one thousand dollars, he re-
quires manufacturers license. Butreceipts
derived from the mere act of shoeing horses,
should not be included in the amount since
the mere shoeing of horses is not a manufac
ture"
Trouble an Southeastern Tirqinia-A