Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-05-09
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NJ. The connection at Castor, which had
been interrupted for the last few days, is
now perfect, and travellers going North will
have no deteHticn at that place.
THE CUBAN EXPEDITION BLOWN UP.-
Some six or seven arrests have been made
New York of persons supposed to have
been engaged in getting up another expe-
dition for the invasion of Cuba. It is said
that several of the Refugee Hungarians have
enlisted in the project, than which a more
or ridiculous affair could not we'll be
conceived. Cuba must, one day or other,
belong to the United States but it will be
acquired by other agencies than those of sucA.
or dupes as are concerned in these at
tempts at getting up m~arauding expeditions.
1t seems they had bought an old cast-a-way
Steamer called the Cleopatra, and a sloop,
too old to have a name and with this i'm
posing naval force, they were going to take
Cuba Wilmington Journal.
w The Detroit Daily Tribune gives an
account of the arrest of a gang of desperadoes
that have infested that vicinity for two years.
The railroad company having suffered much
from them, engaged a man to identify him.
self with them, and after making arrange
ments necessary for their arrest, betray them
to the legal authorities. This person sue
ceeded beyond expectation, and secured the
whole gang. 1t is said they were about 80
in number, and among them three nagistra-
ties, one judge. five physicians, and four con-
stables! Oh. science /! Oh, Justice!
e A correspondent writes us from Rob
eson county, that a very large tooth was drawn
from the mouth of a horse. It measured 3
inches long and 4 inches round. Its prom
inence in the mouth prevented mastication.
SMALL Pox.--This disease has been
brought to Louisburg, by a merchant recent
ly returned from New York, and a negro
near Franklinton has taken it from him.
The disease is also prevailing at Washing
ton, n. c., where six cases have occurred.
We understand that the grand Jury of
Guilford, last week, found a bill of indict-
ment against a man named Ballard for circu-
lating a pamphlet similar to that for which
Mcbride was convicted at Foysyth Court
Ballard was imprisoned, but admitted to bail
on Monday last. He is the same man, WI
learn, against whom an Indictment was sent
in to the grand jury at last term, and found
: not a true BILL Greensboro Pat.
VAcANT-the large white house, situated
one square north of the court house, at pres
a ent under the control Of the Sheriff for thu
reception of boarders by the day, week OF
n month, is without occupants. Who wishe
$ to engage board Terms TO suit the times
c bid.
: Suddenly died, on Goth ult., Danl. Loret
Esq, (uncle of the late Col. Motz) Catawb
5 county, aged nearly 40 years.
j He stopped to examine a horses hoof, an,
fell to the earth from a rush of blood to til
head.
DECLINE IN CoTToN.-The writer of tn
" money column of the New York EXPIRES
says:
! u The intelligence by the Niagara of a flu
70 ther decline in the cotton market will not /
ID favorably construed for the stock marke
S as it will cause a scarcity of bills of exchar
X ge, and further shipments of specie may /
as looked for. We cannot but otherwise thin
n that cotton Will recede much further in pric,
:, - There is every indication of it from the a
pearance of the New Orleans and New YoI
markets.
" WASHINGTON, April 3Oth.-Peyton v
ne Moore, of North Carolina, has been appoi
ted Chief Clerk in the Navy DEPARTING,
a. Samuel j. Harris removed. DR. Y
ed S. Parrot, Chief of the Bureau of Prov
Il ions and Clothing, has resigned.
m A correspondent ofthe Washington VIII
signing himself W. B. r. Own. B. Ro
:. man, we presume) advances the theory th
Of the Atlantic is encroaching on the coast
,es North Carolina, instead of the land encroac
er- ing on the sea, as is generally supposed
his This theory he bases upon observations
eff his own and others.
IN james Lynch, Mayor of Galvay in 149
built the choir of st. Nicholas Church, a
an hanged his own son out of the window,
as killing and %defrauding strangers, withc
on martial or common law. This is the ors
of the term Lynch law.
At There is likely, says the New York Mir
ere to be a general bursting up, in Boston
,ro- fore three months come round. The enel
Ong cloths of Lowell, the negro shoes
ma Lynn, and the negro notions" of New E
lla' land generally, remain dead in the lofts
IN ui- the warehouses.
and DIFFICULTY, RENC0NTRE n PRoBA1
Jun D~UEL.-WAsHINeToN. May 1, 10 P. NJ
nm At the dinner table to-day of the Natio
wing Hotel a misunderstanding occurred batv
q ol 1t. Alvarado Hunter, of the Navy,
en- Capt. Chambourg, formerly of the Arr
t. which led to an alteration between CHI
was bourg and 1t, Nicholson, of the navy,
elo- terminated in a regular battle with ca
real ond 6ste N;cbolcon not tbo hot+or ofCb