Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-06-27
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NEW ORLEANS. June IA.

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New ORLEANS, June IA.
The Alabama has arrived at this port with
two weeks laternews from California.
San Francisco has been again visited by a
tremendous and destructive fire, which has
destroyed property to the amount Of 49,
100000.
Amongst the buildings destroyed are the
Custom House, Union, National, Delmonico's
Exchange, City and New World Hotels
Much shipping in the harbour has likewise
been consumed.
Bosrox, June 1s.
The SHADRAcH RESCUE CAsE.-The tri-
al of Robert Morris the colored lawyer, was
suspended this morning by Judge Sprague,
and Mr.. Dana B. Walker, one of the jury
men to try the case, was pat under examina-
ton for prejury, a charge being brought a
gainst him that he took an oath to bring in
a true verdict Under the law and the evidence,
whereas it is alleged that he has long
been violently opposed to the Fugitive Law,
F and was a member Of the Committee of Wig
lance to rescue fugitives. Messrs. Seaver
and Washburn, Of our Common Council, and
3 other witnesses, testify to conversations with
: Walker in which he declared we was a mem
' Der of the Vigilance Committee and nc col
! ored man should be taken out of Massachu-
seets. The testimony was so strong against
e Walker that the Court discharged him from
the jury.
a ARREST OF CRooKs.--Adam Crooks
y the notorious abolition lecturer from Ohio
was arrested in Montgomery county, N. G..
on Sunday June 18th, and lodged in thC
= : county jail at Troy, to await his trial, tho
next term of the Court, for an offence agains
d the laws of the State. 1t is hoped that tn
Court will deal with this incendiary and fol
We eign fanatic, as the outrage of his acts de
: mand and the public safety and welfare re
F. quire.
1e The Western papers abound in details {
be the tremendous food in the Missouri an
Mississippi rivers, by which an immense
- mount Of damage has been done. Town
villages and farms have suffered. At Blu
n lington, Iowa, many houses situated ON Il
= bottom were six and eight feet under waite
At Keithsburg, Illinois, the water was up
= the second stories. At Oquawka, on Il
ny Sd instant, in all the business portion Of Il
of town, the water was deep enough to float
The steamboat.
H. We have heard nothing as yet from t
%, overflow in Louisiana.
y! The Milton Chronicle states that on t
l 4th inst, a hail storm occurred in Pers
lal. county which desolated wheat, oats, corr a
the tobacco, and killed a number Of rabbits a
'al- birds. The hail stones are represented
He have been as large as hen-eggs, and they CT
IFS cred the ground to the depth of from four
six inches. 1t was about three miles wi,
and lasted about a half an hour.
The BLooMER CosTUME.-There can
it is no mistake that the new style Of dress
the ladies-the short skirts and trowsers-
making rapid Roadway at the North. Ha
ly a paper we open that does net chroni
elk the appearance of some enterprising fem
me in this costume, and nine times out of ten
an editors who have seen them speak in ter
s, l commendatory Of the new fashion.
Tor The late fire in San Francisco destroy
. property to the amount of ten or fifteen m
ions of dollars ; but the citizens, undaunt
INK. by this great calamity, went to work fol-
and with rebuilding, and in ten days after
for fire three hundred and 61y houses were wi
re- ly or partially erected. and sir hundred bui
IN ings were going on at one time in the CT
e. The San Francisco papers confidently pret
smas that the burnt district will be entirely rebr
NV in two months.
nv Such energy is unprecedented.