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


TExAs-Adyices from Texas have been
received at New Orleans to July IS. Great
excitement prevailed at Rio Grande in con-
sequence of the Mexieans refusing to give
up a runaway slave. An armed party of
Texans had threatened to capture Preside.
1t is said there are 1000 fugitives in Mexi-
co. The crops are good.
E The gross returns Of import duties.
during the year ending June Both, amounts
to more than SAT 900, 900. The receipts
from Public Lands, from the imports on the
Pacific coast, and from other sources, will
swell the whole amount to near $50, 00O,-
900.
Oliver Brown, a soldier of the Revolu-
ton, died at Templeton, on the 18th inst.
MIR. Brown was the last survivor of those
who were engaged in the fight at Concord,
April 10, 1875.
LOOK AT THIs.-Of the 537 deaths in
N. York last week 354 we're under 5 years
of age. Shocking. Distillery milk is char
geable with much of this mortality.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 1851.
We have reports of another great fire at
San Francisco, on the End of July. which
destroyed ten squares with a loss of two or
three millions.
The Legislative, Assembly of France has
rejected a proposition for a revision of the
Constitution, to adopt which required a
three fourths vote.
WoS IN a RArrLE.-A correspondent
of the Louisville journal tells a pretty good
story of a negro rattle which came off some
where in Mississippi. The owner of a black
boy named Bill put him up to be ratified for.
A bystander bought a chance and gave it
to the negro, who threw highest, won him
self, and put himself up again at $780,
His old master threw high, but Bill tied
him, and in throwing off, Bill lost, and
went home quite contented with $500 in
his pocket. The Tribune copies the story,
50 we suppose it is all fright. The fact that
Bill, after winning his freedom, put himself
up to be ratified for a second time, is a forci-
bic illustration of the horrors of slavery"
CAsUALTY.-Two daughters of Mr.. Jno.
Libengood, resident about four miles from
Salem, were struck by lightning during
the thunder storm of Tuesday, Will stand
ing at the fire place. One. aged aboat I6l
years, was instantly killed the other, al
severely stunned, revived in a short
time.
NEWS FROM CUBA.-The arrival ofthe Is
abel from Savannah confirms the accounts of
revolution in Cuba. An instruction oc-
cured on the 4th day of July at Puerto
Principe. A late arrival from Nuevitas
that a battle had been fought on the
18th day of July, which lasted II hours, and
IN which the Spanish troops under Col. Con
II lost 0 men-the Col. himself having
been taken prisoner. The patriots had ma
ny wounded and five killed. The eastern
Of the island seems to be in complete
In the Sus of Tuesday morning we
ind a declaration of Independence, which,
bears date July 4th, 1851.
q The Cholera seems to be gradually
from all the towns on the Miss
In Quincy, during the week ending
on the 18th inst, there had been 20 deaths
being falling off of ten, compared with the
preceding week. It still prevails, however,
to some extent, at different places in the in
terror, but is not now alarmingly severe in
my Inv HOPO h2 HHuuiSeu luab II Will SOOu
pass away altogether.
EXTENT OF THE UNTvERsE.-It NAV give
idea of the extent of the Universe. toll
know the length of time required for light,
which travels .192. 006 miles an hour, to
from different celestial objects to this
earth. From the moon, it comes in one
and a quarter seconds from the sun, height
minutes from a star of the first magnitude,
three to twelve years, from a star Of the
fifth magnitude. sixty-six years from a star
of the twelfth magnitude, four thousand
years. Light, which left a star of the twelfth
magnitude when the Israelites left Egypt,
has not yet reached the earth. Our entire
solar system itself travels at the rate of thirty
five thousand miles an hour among the fixed
stars.
AHINT 70 LAWYERS Sir John Scarlet.
afterwards Lord Abinger, the eminent En-
ggllsh lawyer, accounted for his success with
juries as follows /: g take care to press
home the n principal point Of the case,
without paying much regard to the others.
l find, also, when I exceed half an hour in
pie ading, that I am doing mischief to my!