Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-04-09

In the recent election by the RepuDNcans
''The Dutch have taken Holland.
It is reported that nearly five hundred bull
| dings hoated past Chattanooga during the re-
! cent freshet.
negro man was killed at Yorktown last
Saturday in an affray with United States SOL
| diers.
Brownlow is quartering negro troops IN va
rious places throughout Tennessee, ito preserve
| order in the coming elections.
Ex.Copfederate Gen. Smith P. Bankhead
was beaten to death at Memphis, Tennessee, on
the LIST inst, it is supposed by policeman who
| had been discharged at his instance
1t is a subject of congratulation with the
friends of peace, that Congress has adjourned.
AS long as that body was in session, there was
nothing but agitation!
On Saturday night, the 3Oth ult. the LindelI
Hotel in ST. Louis the largest and finest hotel
in the United States, ii not In the World' was
totally destroyed by fire.
A terrier dog was sold at public auction IN
Petersburg Wednesday, by the sheriff, to salts
| fly an execution in his hands. 1t brought TWEEN
ty-three dollars. This is probably the first pro-
ceeding of the kind in Virginia.
| Gov. Orr, of South Carolina, has published
| a letter giving an account OF the RESTITUTION
prevailing at the South, and especially IN South
| Carolina and making an earnest appear fof as
| sistance.
The fashion of fifty years ago of wearing black
court plaster on the face, has just been revived
in New York, and number of bellies now APP
pear in full dress, with sable spots in close prox-
unity to charming dimples.
| The Boston Commonwealth favors the aboli-
| ton Of the Presidency, but the Antl-Olavery
| Standard stops at no such half way house; 1t
proposes the abolition of the President the SUI
| preme Court, and the Senate-''the three re-
naming oligarchies. !"
| Mr. Summer gave notice in the Senate, on
| Saturday week, that on the first "Wednesday IN
July he would call up the bill for universal sui,
| frace throughout the United States. He had
reason to believe, he said, that there would be
a quorum present on that day.
WHAT WILL TAKE PLACE WHEN WOMEN
VoTE. And also in that day the man who hath
beautiful whiskers shall beat the homeiy man
of wisdom for governor, and the youth who
waltzes with exquisite grace shall be chief OF
police in preference to the man of practleed sa-
gacity and determined energy.-Mark 1todin.
| The suffrage question is beginning to be agi-
tated throughout the State Of Kansas. The
proposition to amend the constitution, allowing
the negroes to vote, gill, it is said be adopted;
to allow women to vote, rejected. An attempt
| is being made to carry female suffrage through
on the probability of impartial manhood suf-
frage.
ACCEPTANCE OR SUBMISSION. "A dis
tinguished Alabamian-d distinguished alike IN
peace and war, and living not thousand miles
from the scene Of the great act OF acceptance,
the Selma meeting says, in a private letter.,
II am on Bill APPS platform Endure all
things, and accept nothing, "-1uontgome'y
-Adgertiser.
HARD ON THE RADICALs.-In ALI article
growing over the result of the Connecticut cleo
tons the World says that 1.-The nineteen months
which intervene between now and presidential
election will witness the decline and fall OF
party which has done more mischief, shed more
| blood. suuandered more treasure, kindled more
diabolical passions and inflicted deeper wounds
on constitutional government, than any other
political party that ever existed IN the world.
! Fossr. IyoRY.-The north Of Siberia and
the island of Lakow consist mainly OF an ag-
glomeration of sand, Of ice, and Of elephants
teeth. With every storm the seq throws on the
shore quantities of fragments OF the skeletons
! of mammoths The inhabitants collect the pre-
cious bones, and drive thriving trade by eX-
porting them to China and Europe This COM
merce has been carried on with China for five
hundred years, and with Europe for a century,
yet the product Of these strange mines seems to
be not at all diminished.
WHEN DID REBELLION CEASE ?-Congress,
in laws passed during the war, expressly decar-
ed that certain acts for the suppression OF the
rebellion, should continue in force ''untI the
President of the United States should declare,
bu proclamation, that the rebellion had ceased. "
The President has so declared. He has official
" proclaimed that the rebellion has ceased and
he did it by authority expressly conferred upon
him by Congress itself. 1t is not competent,
therefore for Congress to assume, in the face
of its own action that the rebellion still exists.
N r Times.
LUsUs NATURE.-At Berry's 'Place" res
taurant, opposite the Times Office, there is on
exhibition Juvenile sprig of the porcine crea-
ton which is truly wonderful. 1t has two bod
les, eight legs, one head, and three ears, one of
which protrudes right cut Of the back Of the
head. In proportions, the pigs are about the
size of two young ones just Uttered, each body
being perfect, as also is the head, but which is
large enough for two This curiosity was pro-
duced in Louisa county, and was of a litter Of
eight other natural pigs We learn that it
lived for fifteen minutes after being born.-
Rich. Isnass.
INJUNCTION AGAINST THE MILITARY EEeoN-
sTRUCTIoN ACT We understand that applica-
ton will shortly be made to the United States
Supreme Court, in the names of the States OF
Mississippi and Alabama, and such other States
as may become parties to the cause, to enjoln
all proceedings to subject the people Of those
States to military rule under the regent act of
Congress, because it will infict irreparabie in
Jury on said people, and for other reasons
The case will be conducted, it is said, by Judge
Sharkey of Mississippi and Charles o Conner,
ESQ. of New York The Jackson Mississippian
says that Governor Humphreys has given the