Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-03-03
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NEw YoRx Feb a3-Niblo's Saloon

NEw YoRK, Feb. 23.-Niblo's Saloon
was crowded tonight with a brilliant audi
ence Of ladies and gentlemen to listen to Mr..
WebsteFs speech before the Historical So
ciety upon the study and uses of history.
The address throughout was distinguished
by that sloqueEce and force fer which the
speaker is so celebrated, and was heard With
the most marked and profound attention BY
his auditory.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 81, 1852.
The steamship Atlantic has arrived from
Europe. Cotton was moro active at former
prices. Naval stores were frm-rough tur-
pentine 7 shilfngs Sd per barrel-rosin Sd.
Flour Cd lower.
The House Of Representatives ordered to
engrossment on yesterday the supplemental
bounty land bill, by four majority. The
main provisions of the bill are as follows =
Section 1st grants Registers and Receivers
each so cents for the location of such war
rants. Section End entities to land, fathers,
mothers, brothers, or sisters of soldiers leav-
ing no child or widow. Section Sd makes
good to heirs warrants applied for in the life
time of the soldier. but issued in his name
after his death. Section 4th grants lands to
all actually in service, though for less time
than one month. Section 9Th grants one
huadre5.1ad sixty acres to all who were in
actual encounter, if not otherwise entitled to
that maximum. Section 9th makes the 100
acre warrants as above to be issued, assig-
nable. Section 7th extends act of 1850 to
marines and sailors serving on land, when
not entitled to prize money. Section 9th
computes length of service from mastering
in to being discharged.-Standard
IND1AEAPoL1s, Feb. 25th.--The Hon. E.
than Allen Brown died last night at 9 o'clock
He acted as one of the Vice Presidents in
the Convention yesterday, aud a few mo
ments alter entering his hotel died without
a struggle.
ca The Kentucky Wing Convention
has nominated Mr.. Fillmore for President
i and Mr.. Crittenden for Vice President
Judging from present appearances, it i
thought either Gen. Cass or Mr.. Douglas
will be the nominee Of the Democrats 70
President.
l. KETIFH OF Mr.. CLAY.-A letter from
Washington dated 2lst inst, says:
Mr.. Clay's health is at a very low ebb anc
serious apprehensions are entertained that h
will not again leave the city which has beef
the theatre of his brilliant achievements
= He has filled the measure of his nations
fame, and is no longer an object Of envy t
n those who cannot emulate his virtue.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 1852.
Many of our citizens were to-day gratiie
v on seeing Mr.. Clay riding in a carriage alon
" Pennsylvania avenue, to the capital. Il
looks feeble but cheerful.
e THE LIBRARY OF CoNGREss.-Frenc
Y journals state that, under a friendly unde,
standing existing between the French Chan
e Der of Deputies and the Congress Of the [
l. nited States, in the year 1880, duplica
l. copies-f a large number of valuable bool
4-NaEa.sl aaged hetvaan the two eo,atnie
IF and they -aeseat that, ~ view OF 'hs oe
d ~truction Of the Library of Congress, Il
French Government should now tender co
) les of these works to the United States.
re SoNs IN SHELBY-We learn hat the So
1e had a fine time of it in Shelby last Saturda
le something like a hundred of them being
"a the procession, joined by a number Of ladie
ID bless them and the Section of Cadets
T. Several speeches were made and an exceIie
ur dinner, given by the ladies, was partaken
tie, at the Female Academy. The cause is ga
by ing ground in Shelby.-Ruth. Banner.
an Phineas Ii. Johnson was hung at Uni
nd C. Fl. on Friday, the 18th inst, for the m
to der Of Mary Ann Hyatt. He confessed t
crime, but exculpated all others from pa
els cipatioH in it.
MURDER IN WAYNE. We learn by
following extract from a letter dated Col
no borough, 10th inst, that the keeper of
l II Poor-house of that County. was stabbed a
ISIS killed by an inmate, on Thursday night Ia
"a man by the name of Lane. al INN
ICES of the Poor House, stabbed the keeper,
nth Garris, last night, who died in five MINI
III after. Lane was committed to jail to q
OF Garris leaves a wife and number of childre
'un- Standard
npO We learn from the Greensborough Pat
y that the Masonic Institute, at Germantol
progressing under very fattering prospe
There are already between forty and
raa. students, and still they come.
get The Ohio State Temperance Convent
\. met at Columbus on the 25th ult. The