Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-05-23
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Mining Company, has been received at the ex-
tensive coach-making establishment Of Nh. A.
A. Mcclellan and there used in his forges.
His workmen are northern men, andhave used
the Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia Goa,
and pronounce this superior to any they ever
used. So much so that they think one and
a half bushels Of this will go as far as two of
the northern coal.
Capt. Mcclellan thinks the coal can be
hauled here 1.-THE plank road running within
Is miles Of the mine) and sold at a profit.
Fayetteville Car.
E At Cabarrus Superior Court, nearly
the whole Term was occupied in the trial Of
Beverly Rash, who was indicted for the muir
der Of his wife and finally convicted. An APP
peal was taken tc the Supreme Court.
The Salisbury Waterman says:
"Spirituous Liquor was, as usual, at the
bottom of this tragedy. The husband kept
a still house and sold spirits. There was
generally a debauched CROWD about him. He
drank freely himself, and she extensively
He became jealous of the companions that
he had invited to buy liquor. Her rude
drunken conduct caused him often to beat
her severely, and to maltreat her otherwise.
If he killed her it is just what might be ex-
pected: If he did not, his own life is inim-
minent peril from this most fatal evil, in
temperance"
CUMBERLAND SUPERIOR CoURT.-We
learn from the Carolinian that the negro
Damon and his wife were tried at Fayette-
vile, on the 7th instant, for the murder of
Tilghman Hunt. the negro trader. On the
morning of the 9Th instant, the jury returned
a verdict of guilty against Damon, and clear
ed the woman. Damon was sentenced to be
hung on the 9th day of June next. Messrs.
Dobbin and Sheperd for the defendant
Mr.. Solicitor Strange for the State.
NOVEL PRoPosITIoN.-The Richmond
Wing proposes that tho first business of the
+ United States Senate, on assembling next
, winter, be the expulsion of Messrs. Seward
: and Sumner from that grave and digniied
! body. Cbarge-treasonable acts.
FACTORIES AT THE SouTH.-The new
Cotton factory at Autaugaville near Ala.
bama river, is now in full operation, and
turning out excellent fabrics and yarns
The Mobile Tribune says that the Alabama
Georgia and Virginia mills now supply the
2 bulk of negro osnahurgs and unbleachet
: cotton goods required for the planting States
! 1t will not be long before bleached good
j will also be made to a large extent. Thes,
facts show that the South is gradually free
# ing herself from Northern bandage.
A PETRIEIED CORPSE IN WISCONSIN,
The Fond du Lac Journal relates the follow
4 ing very extraordinary case of rapid petrif
: cation. 'sOn the 10Th of August, I847
4 Mrs. Phelps. wife of our informant, Abne
P. Phelps, died and was buried at OaI
G Grove, in Dodge County. On the 18th q
April last, she was taken up to be remove
s to Strong's Landing. The coffin was foun
h to be very heavy, and the body to retain j,
features and proportions. After its removt
n to Strong's Landing. a distance of forty-fv
a miles, the body was examined and found I
ne be wholly pctriied-eonverted to substanc
resembling a light eolored stone. Upon tr
I al, edge tools made no more impression upo
{ it than upon marble. In striking upon Il
= body with a mental, a hollow, ringing SCUM
was produced. The disease by which 81
Ie- came to her death was chill, fever and droI
a sy, and when the body was buried it W;
n very much swollen. The ground in whie
y she had been buried was a yellow loan, an
: the body lay about three feet above the lin
r. rock"
ty The WHITE Mans NEwsPAPER.-Tl
New York Express thus notices the appea
- ance of a new paper by the above title whic
has just made its appearance in that city,
The Express says:
NO 1t is all Snowy white from the good groun
full work on which it Is printed to the able al
bic taking reading matter which adorn its W,
rk- filed columns. As its name indicates, it
Yea devoted to the white men of the country,
~ pretty large class ofpeople, but who for sor
no time past have been lost sight Of, in a bur
mo ing zeal for the black men of the country.
emit The new paper will pushits way through t
Bile world, and to a fortune, there being Just su
sa- matter in it as will find plenty Of friends a
ner multitudes of readers.
M What is remarkable, this will be about t
only white mans paper in the country. The
are some of US, the "E1press" among t
number, that wish well to the white m,
- but all we dare to think, in these times
the equality for us with the black man, a I
chance in the field Of public philanthropy,
a thought for our race and color now q
On then, as well as for the colored mans T,
and color.
der The Fayetteville Observer is mistaken
OF supposing that the effort of Petersburg
OF raise a hundred thousand dollars for
lu III Raleigh and CASTOR Road is "a spasmo
effort and that we have stopped after 3
ting a subscription of $4,000. Upwa
J. of $40, 900 have been subscribed in Pet,
burg, and the Committee appointed to I
cure subscriptions are still at work. and
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