Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-06-06
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10th, as shown by the report Of the Board of T
Health, was $50. Ofthe deceased, 81 died /
Of Cholera. In the adjoining city Of Lafay-
cite, there were 5 more deaths from the same {
disease. t
There were also some cases in PointCou-
pee parish. t
Hon. John Morisett, of Monroe county, Al
ALBANIA, a member Of the Senate of that State,
died at Houston, Texas, on the 9Th Instant,
Of cholera.
Adispatch from Springfield, Illinois, dated
May 18th, says:
"The cholera has made it appearance a
mongst US very suddenly. Four deaths du-
ring the last thirty-six hours, and several new
cases this afternoon. It is on the increase"
THE COSDEN FAMILY.
A man named SHAW has confessed the
murder of the Cosden family. He states that
Taylor, Murphy, Shelton and himself, all
were present at the murder. 1t will be re-
membered that some TINT since, a woman in
Delaware was reported to have said she knew
who the murderer was. SHAW, it appears
was the man, and through her he has been
arrested.
~ The Charleston Evening News has been
sold out to a party who will conduct it on de-
cided Union principles.
BosToN, May 2S.-One hundred and seventy
members of the late Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of Massachusetts have published
an address to the people, exposing and de-
n%ouneing the bargain Of the Democrats and
Free Soilers for the election of Governor, u.
States Senator, &c.
SIR JOHN FRANKLN-The ease of Sir John
Franklin begins to assume a hopeless aspect
He has now been absent just 6 years, as he
sailed from Sheerness on the 18th of May,
eighteen forty-fve. He commanded the Ere
bus, and the expedition also consisted of sever
al other vessels.
RIGHT. That Objectionable paragraph in
the Methodist Discipline relating to slavery
y has been expunged in a new edition of the
work, published in pursuance of a resolution
passed by the South Carolina Conference al
its last annual session. The purified editor
is for sale-by John W. Stoy, Agent, Charles
ton.-Souh Gdrottnian.
New YoRK, May 3o.-A Cotton broke
and a land Spectator failed to-day. It j
n rumored that bills to the amount Of $500,
600, drawn on London by various firms here
# will be returned, and large reclamations b
II made. There are a number of startling ~
mors flying about.
ve ALABAMA-The Hon. C. C. Lanpdon. I'll
EDITOR of the Mobile Advertiser, has been non
mated in the Mobile District, as the Unio
Candidate for Congress, and Judge Bragg, 70
merly of this State, is the secession candidat
PosT OFFICE CHANGE.-Love Culbreth h,
a. been appointed Post Master at Owenvill
Sampson county, in place of Cation Hall r
oh signed.
lily SEApoARp AND R~oANoKE RAuRoAD-
nd We learn from an advertisement in the
he Y. Journal of Commerce that the Compar
= of this Road proposes to raise three hundrt
5ut and fifty thousand dollars on mortage bond
my bearing I per centum per annum interest, al
to redeemable at the Merchants Bank. in Il
'ter city ofNew York, on the 1st o August, 1876
In The entire line Of road covered by these bon
in extends from Norfolk to South Castor.
ow- the Roanoke, a distance of ninety miles. T
the total cost of this road, including the origin
will outlay, is estimated at more than a mill
di- and a half dollars. The whole amount
hey bonds authorized to be issued is four hundr
cas-, thousand dollars, and the three hundred a
in fifty thousand dollars now offered are issu
fea- manly for the payment of the heavy T I
iron with which the Company is now rel
5 i'll ing their track. The iron for the whole nj
glg ty miles is on hand. Fifty miles are /
In and in operation, and the Company expect
ON lay down the remainder as far as Weld
h Eighty mies) in July next, and to compl
rider the ninety miles to South Castor by the
and of the year.-Petersburg Democrat.
opel The HEIGHT OF IMpUDENcE.-A yo,
ear spark who boarded at one of our principal
here tels, managed, for a long time by one art
Seen or another, to postpone the payment Of
It. bill. At last the landlord became quite
ouid patient, and stepping up to bis juvenile b.
der, slapped him gently on the shoulder,
and asked him for some money. Il have no
and red cent about me at present" was the La,
e ma ic reply. "But, my dear sir" said the L
nper- lord, Il cannot afford to keep a boarding he
good without being paid. well, then" exclail
have our young philosophers "If you cannot at
hrs it, sell out to some one that can n
then, San Francisco Public Batanc
each A person took the liberty to question
n the Dumas rather closely concern;rn IL nonaa
hould cal tree. You are a ouadroo5. M Dim
7 lon he began. lam SIR quietly replied NJ.
bben mas, who had sense enough not to be asha
g the Of what ne could not conceal, And your
fatherP "A negro hastily answered
And NAV / enopire what :" vo,r r' aragd &c
we wasp AN ape, STRIP Numbered Dumas,
ther it a ferceness that made his impertinent i
iendly rogatOr shrink into the smallest possible
mbeTs pass Al ape, SIR my pedigree comm'