Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1850-11-15
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with regard to the Lieutenant Gov {
ernor, the result is yet uncertain. Cor {
nell, the whig candidate, although on the
" union " ticket, was not on the anti-rent
ticket with Mr.. Hunt. The probability
is that Church, the democratic candidate,
who was on the anti-rent ticket, is cleo
ted. Since, rendered certain.
WISCONSIN ELECTION.
MILWAUKEE, Nov. SIN the first dis
trict, Durkee, for Congress, has about L.,
500 majority. Milwaukee county gives
1,4s7 majority for Gilmore, democrat,
but the wings, however, generally voted
for Durkee, which elected him.
In the second district Eastlan, demo-
crat, is elected-majority not known.
In the third district Doty is elected by
two thousand majority.
The Legislature is largely democratic,
there being twenty majority on Joint bal
lot which secures an United States SEN
ator in place of Mr.. Dodge.
NASHVILLE CONVENTION.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov 7th.-The
Southern Convention will certainly con-
vene next Monday, in this city. Ar
engagements are making at the hotels TO
accommodate delegates, many of whom
have already engaged rooms. The Con-
v%ention will be opened by the previous
presiding officers. 1t is said that this
State will not be represented.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
BosToN, Nov. 8.-The democrats held
a large meeting last night. Numerous
speeches were made maintaining the
constitutionality Of the fugitive slave law,
and declaring that as long as it remain
ed a law it must be maintained.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 8th.-Sales of
Cotton yesterday 5000 bales-lower quo
~tations easier. Middling 10 3-8 cents.
FUGITIVE SLAVES AT THE NORTH
A pamphlet published at Washington,
! estimates the number Of slaves who have
escaped from the South, in the last for
! ty years, at 61,624, or 1900 annually,
a and the total loss $27, 100, 800. The
main element in determining these re-
a suits is the difference between the actu-
al increase of the free black population
s of the North from one census to anoth-
:, er, and what the increase would have
: been had it been confined to natural
causes. The author states that the
slave population of the South doubles
once in 80 years,-that the free negroe:
of the South double once in 25,-tha'
the free negroes of the North and Yves
double once in 40 years from the natu.
raj increase alone,-that the free ne
groes of the South are the most stable
and least migratory of any class of pop
%ulation in the United States, leaving GU
u of question their migration to other Slav,
States,-that considerably more Of tn
free negroes migrate from the free State
I 10 the Slave States, than from the Slav,
} States TO the Free States-and that for
h. ty-nine fftieths of all native negroes c
b. the Slave States who are found in til
ID Free States were fugitive slaves wher
We they left the Slave States.
at SAD Acc1DENr.-On Friday last tn
10 Engineer Of the train coming North, dis
n covered, when a few miles below Duo
ley's Depot, a mar lying across the trac
at the distance of about a hundred yard.
al with his head upon one rail and his FOE
Sc upon the other. He Immediately use
y, every effort to stop the train befor
Oh reaching him, and ordered one of tn
IT. men to Jump from the locomotive, ri
n forward and drag him out of the way, /
g. meanwhile blowing the whistle as lou
ly as possible. 1t was all in vain. tt
a whistle could not arouse the sleeper, II
:, servant could not drag him from IL
track, the cars could not be stopped
IN, The top of the unfortunate mans hei
lui was crushed entirely off, as was also h
III foot, which adhering to the wheel W
IN. carried some distance. Brains and bloC
w. were scattered around, presenting a hi
ri eous spectacle. The man had be,
ext drunk the day before, and it is suppos
his that he had placed himself across 4
as road in a fit of intoxication. He was
IN man of respectable standing, and up
ION this time sober in his habits. His nal
+. was Marshall Thornton. II must ha
the been a severe blow to his family a
nat friends, for whom though we knew the
IN not, we feel the sincerest sympathy.
re- IMMENSE SUPPLIES OF GoLD.-Thl
he steamers arrived at New York last we,
in with California gold dust. The Che
bv KEGS gold dust mounts to two millit
sfnl and the amounts chiefly in the hal
of the passengers, brought by the &c
gia ($693, 900, and Empire City, to N
bv York, and by the Alabama, at New {
MS cans, will reach to at least a million MI
v If According to our advices, two MILL
and a half, destined for the United Sta
l. NJ were at Panama when the Cherokee
heir Chagres Including the shipments
England and Valparaiso, says the f
he aid, the exports of gold dust from {
Raj. %ifornia, within a month, dating back f
Fav. the last arrival at Panama, will exc
eight millions of dollars. If such an