Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-04-28

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| the expenses Of the Virginia elections in June
next, no provision or appropriation having been
made by the Rump for the contingency so the
election may not be held in June
| That sneaking, stumbling, shutting fellow,
! Underwood, John c., Judge, so-called, is here
| fishing for something, or is up to some of his
old villainous tricks.
| l have good reasons for stating that there 8
| probability that Collector Smythe, of the
New York Custom House, will be removed.
The removal is merely question of time.
Orleans, leave no doubt as to the adoption of
the Louisiana constitution, by illegal votes, of
course.
Delegates from here and elsewhere, to the
Radical Convention at Chicago, by sending
their credentials to Dr. Chas. w. Dyer, chair
| man of the committee Of arrangements, will
! receive free tickets over the roads. The devil
| ish RAIDS want meeting as big as all out doors.
| 1t may split, though, or break up in grand
row between Dry Pump and Chase, or Susan
b. Anthony or some other man.
The Impeachment argument is in progress,
| and is apt to continue until Wednesday even
ing next; rule having been adopted last
| Wednesday allowing all the managers and
Presidents counsel to speak, if they so desire:
Gen. Stansberry still continues indisposed and
| has not been in the Impeachment Court for a
| week. The probability is that he will not
speak at ALL But, if we'll enough, he will
| speak Tuesday next Boutwell, spoke Wednes-
day and Tuesday, about five hours in both
| days, the sum total of which amounted to a
miserable diatribe. clustering Logan printed
dent in the Globe. would not undertake to
read it for good round sum. Hon. T. A. r.
Nelson, counsel for Andy, spoke Thursday and
Friday, seven hours in all. His effort is highly
spoken Of
It's very disgraceful, but nevertheless true,
that any amount of influence is brought to bear
on the Radical Rump Senators by influential
politicians from their own States, clamoring
that the party will be ruined, Dry Pump Grant
defeated, the ''trooly loil men of the South
prosecuted, if President johnson is not convict
ed What has all this got to do with their
oaths, perjury, their conscience, and their God ?
BY command of General Grant, the following
order was issued yesterday to the commanding
generals of the military districts, comprising the
States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Texas, and instructed to cause
l. All vessels arriving at ports within their
commands from ports infected with yellow fever,
| cholera, or other epidemic disease--but having
had no case during their passage-to be quaran
tined for fifteen days and thoroughly fumigated.
fever, cholera, or other epidemic disease Gu
board during the passage, and after arrival at
quarantine, to be quarantined for fifteen days
after the termination of the last case and thor
Oughly fumigated.
Dispatches received from London last night
say that special kilograms from Abyssinia state
that General Napier was, on the Sd instant, ad
vancing along the Bashilo river, near to the
| camp of King Theodore. The chief of Wagga
rat, who had professed great friendship for the
English when they were passing through his
territory, being now in Napier's rear, had at
tempted to cut off his communication at Anne
sey Bay, and refused transit through his do
minions Gen. Napier has promised to punish
him on his return from Magdala.
The bill known as the Jenckes amendment to
the Bankrupt law has passed the House Of Rep
resentatives. 1t extends until the lst of Janu
airy, 1869, the provision in the thirty third Sec
ton of the original bill that no discharge shall
be granted to debtor whose assets shall not
equal fifty per cent of his liabilities unless the
assent in writing of a majority of his creditors
be filed in the case. 1t will pass the Senate
also.
General Grant received a dispatch last night
from General Candy, stating the South Carolina
constitution had been adopted.
''Kernar' Forney publishes in the Chronicle
letter from kinky-headed negro over in Eu
rope, addressed to Mutton Head Ramsey, who
misrepresents Minnesota in the Rump Senate
giving an account of his experience and recep
tions at European Courts! SICILY thieving
niger sets forth that he was received by the
Emperor Of all the Russias, and the King Of
Denmark, and dined with both at which some
noble dukes were present, and that his name
was sent In to their august persOnages by Min
listers Clay and Yeamans, (nigger wOrshippers,
of course, on the recommendation of Goldfish
Sumner and Sheep head Ramsey This is all
very well in Yankee society (so-called) and
might be true if it were not for the fact that
this wandering niger is named Tom Chester
Tor Thomas Chester, as he styles hlmself) and
was a war correspondent for the Philadelphia
Press, and the most unmitigated liar and con-
summate thief to be found outside or inside any
penitentiary on the face of the earth. Chester
is such an unconscionabe thief, that he stole all
the loose change from his suffering father, who
used to keep an oyster in Harrisburg, on
northside of Market and third streets. Old
Chester had half dozen of Cushites, and the
one named Moses, he always directed to watch
Tom with the injunction, now, Moses, watch
Thomas, and see that he don't steal nothing
And this is the niger representing Forney,
Sumner and Ramsey at foreign courts! Ches-
ter ''gassed' here about knocking down Mr..
Hanna Of the Examiner, because he III ques-
toned his right to indict letter in the speaker
chair Forney reiterates the assertion, but, of
course, it s a lie, as Mr., Hanna would not take
such liberties from the "Kernal' much less
niger. SIDNEY.