Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-02-21
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tanning six men, was picked up by the c
Brig--and takento Wilmington. The b
other boat, also containing six men, landed t
near cape Hatteras, and proceeded to Nor a
folk. The life boat, with ten men, as we ]
stated in our last, was taken up by the Schr. J
Star, and the men were brought to this
place. Thus have all been saved.
Washington Wing.
BosToN, Feb. 12.-The 18th ballot
for Senator was had this morning with
the following result whole number
of votes 1872; necessary for a choice 1872
Sumner, 1873 Winthrop, 160 scat
tering, 30: blank. l..
The election for Senator has been
postponed one fortnight from to-day.
SOUTH CAROLINA ELEcTIoN.-Mon-
day last was the day fixed upon BY the
act OF the Legislature of South Carolina
for holding elections in all the districts
of the State for delegates TO a State
Convention on Southern Rights, &c
The following dispatch from the Wash
ington Southern Press is all that we
have as to the result:
Columbia s. c., Feb. 13.-Eelections
all right twelve districts heard from
and resistance is far ahead.
A PARTISAN INVENTOR thinks he has at
last discovered the long-sought desideratum
a machine for setting type. He has been
at work upon it for fifteen years, and hav-
ing completed it, has entered It for exhibit
ion at the Worlds Fair. 1t comprises both
a distributor and setting-stick is afforded
at a low price, and will set ten thousand
ems an hour. 1t is said not to interfere
with the regular appointments Of a print
ing Office, and requires nc new characters.
BIsHeP CApERs, OF SoUTn CAROLINA.
appears in the Charleston Mercury, in a
i solemn admonition to his fellow citizens,
against the madness of attempting u separ-
/. alton from the Union. Bishop Capers,
! our readers, perhaps, do not need to be
!. informed. is a distinguished divine Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Receiving PRESENTS FROM FoREIGN
: PRINcEs.--The porcelain travelling break
fast service of Napoleon, left by his will
ir to his mother, and by her grandson, The
d Prince de Canine, has by him been pre-
sented 10 Major Cass. our Charge a
Rome. as a testimonial for the latter
attentions 10 the Prince, upon the over.
throw OF the revolutionary authorities
The Prince is now in exile in Switzer;
D. land. ire service has been delivered
tn over TO Major Cas-, in Rome, in pursu
u ance Of instructions from the Prince t,
his agents in that city. But can b,
10 constitutional receive it +? asks the New
We V.,ri, Ev1raer Uhf,.h SAVES
OF "The last clause of section 8, of arti
Gle l. of the constitution seems TO US t
prohibit It's reception. Once a prince
slways a prince, we should saw thong
la in exile. and.so temporarily powerl4ss
The right to receive is certainly ques
tionable, at the least"
DELEwARE on THE COMPROMISE Me-
= AsUREs.-The Delaware. House {
Representatives have passed a series
' resolutions in relation TO the %compromis
measures,in whichthey declare the stron
:. attachment of tableware to the Union. an
g. the determination Of her people to resi-:
10 the extent Of their ability any infIa
tion of the Constitution. They expires
their cordial appreciation Of the measure
recently adopted by Congress. known
u TIE compromise measures, and declaI
T. that Delaware will stand by them in goc
-. faith. Delaware, they say, looks wit
profound contempt upon the abolitionis
Of the North, now known as the high,
=; law party of the country. and regarc
" them as destitute of all claim to the re
pect OF all order-loving and law-abidir
people. Any further agitation of II
slave question they regard as endange
ing the existence of the Union. The {
giiive slave bill is declared to be in a
r cordance with the express stipulations
US the Constitution, and Congress, for pas
s pes ing a law which rendered the act Of IL!
re- more effectual is considered as entitl
IN to the thaLks Of the country.
ere ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS MEDIUM
laIT Henry Gordan, a medium for the spirit
ase rappers, in Middletown, last week. when
ed the clairvoyant state, told those around b
ond that the spirits informed him that he must
ar to Springfield, and that he would there go
him to a trance and remain three nights and thl
ice, days. He went to Springfield, and last 81
ave day afternoon fell into trance. He p
i'm, takes ofno nourishment, scarcely breath
ore. and lies in state resembling that ola de
the more than a living person.
Iour FACT WORTH REMEMBERIHG.-fn
an swer TO enquiries by gentlemen enlist
5nt. in the enterprise of getting stock for
re- proposed Louisville and Nashville RI
YER road. we will state, upon proper auth
ity, that it is expected the cars will
Through from Chattanooga to Nashv
cor by 1st January, 1853 that the Carol
bane and Georgia roads are paying divides
The IN no case less than 6 per cent. per ann
most 4b,t@ba d;sta,