Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-08-15

State, is yeryseyere. Corn, on light, san
dy soil, is irretrievably lost, and the planters
are cutting it up for fodder. The cotton
crop had also suffered materially and even
should rain now come. it would not insure a
good crop. On the road towards Tuscaloo-
sa a gentleman passed thousands of large
forest trees which had withered and died
AT Tuscaloosa there had been no rain of
consequence since April last.
BALr1MoRE, AUGUST 8.-The murderers
Of the Cosden family were hung to-day:in
the presence Of 5000 people, whose beha-
vior was very orderly.
The prisoners assembled the gallows with
firm steps, Taylor and Murphy made short
addresses positively denying their guilt.
When they were slung of the rope Slip
.pedfrom Murphy's neck and he fell violently
to the ground, a distance of Is feet; this
occurrence caused a thrill of horror amongst
the spectators. Murphy was picked up in
sensible with his throat terribly lacefated by
the rope: he soon however revived.
Taylor and Shelton, in the meantime,
swung in the air hfeless corpses, dying with
but few struggles. When they were cut
down, Murphy was again brought on the
scaffold, and in a few minutes be was swung
off, and died easy. The crowd quickly dis
persed.
MORE STABBING.-Lynchburg is be-
coming famous for tragical occurrences.
On Thursday last, in an alteration, Ben
jamin 4. Sumpter ran a sword cane
through the body Of a man named Leay,
who, it is thought, will die in conse-
quence. Sumpter is in jail.
Love AND MURDER.-We have a Ger
man in prison, guilty of the murder of a
young lady whom he loved. Briefly the
circumstances are these: The pris-
oner was a servant in the family of Mr..
Scholten, and became enamored of his
daughter. He declared before, as the
testimony shows, that he intended 10
make a declaration of love, and, if not
received, he would shoot the girl. He
made his declaration of love-the lady
indignantly repulsed him. He went and
got a double-barrel gun, came into the
house where the lady and her mother
were. and told her he had a present FOR
her, pointing 10 the gun. She said,
" You are not going TO shoot, surelys'
He replId, am, firing one barrel
and afterwards the other, the loads taking
effect in the head, scattering her brain;
all over the room. The young lady wa,
> beautiful and accomplished. The pris
oner made a sham attempt 10 kill himself
; He is quite young, and a very ~iunocen
looking fellow.-Palmyra (JNo,) Wing
; July17.
A SECOND CALIFoRN1A.-At Martin
gold mine in Yorkville, S. c., a piece O
gold was recently found about the sig
and shape of an ordinary sized man
foot, valued at about $4,000.
{ Three hands dug twentS-one and a hal
! pounds from the same mine in six week:
J. W- A citizen of North Carolina recent
addressed the Hon. Daniel Webster on th
" subject of Secession, and propounded the 70
lowing i~nterrogatory: $40 you Believe tia
! a State has the right to secede from the Z
Mon 81 Mr.. Webster returned the foIlowin
reply:
~ The Constitution of the United States II
cognises no right of secession, as existing i
: the people of any one State or number
States. 1t is not a limited Confederation
but a Government; and it proceeds upo
the idea that it is to be perpetual, like otht
: forms of Government, subjected only to /
y dissolved byreyolution.
I~confess I can form no idea of ~secessio
y but as the resultof a revolutionary movement
&c How is it possible, for instance, that Seut
!, Carolina should secede and establish a Go
eminent foreign to that of the United State
thus dividing Georgia, which does not seceC
=" from the rest of the Union
y. Depend upon it, my dear sir, that the s
%cession of any one State would be bat d
=" first step in a process which must newt
bly, break up the entire onion into more
NC fewer parts.
What T said at Capon Springs was
= argument addressed to the North, and int
7 ded to convince the North that il, By its
periority of numbers, it should defeat the c
he Grafton of a plain, u~ndoubted,and undenial
re- injunction of the Constitution, intended
he the especial protection of the South, such
hat proceeding must necessarily end in the bres
red ing up of the Observation-Disclosures is to say
a revolution.
he 1 am, dear sir, with respect; your 0
@serv't, DANIEL WEBSTER.
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