Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-03-30
GUANo.-The Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad

GUANo.-The Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad
offers to transport this valuable fertilizer at
as low rates as possible throughout the year
and it Is to be hoped that the farming interest
will profit thereby. We learn that the far
mers of Warren, Granville, and Franklin arc
applying large quantities of guano to the
forthcoming crop; and they are doing this as
the result of experience, having realized
signal advantages the past year from the use
of the article.
MELANCHOLY OccURRENcE.-Died, in Or
ange county, on the 18th inst, Miss Martha
Clark, IN the 4lSt year of her age. The de-
ceased vas in her usual health up to the time
of the providential visitation that called her
away. She was sitting in the house reading,
and being attacked with q bleeding at the
nose, she stepped to the hearth to let the
blood drop there, when her dress took fire,
and in u few moments she was 50 burned that
she died In twelve hours.
QUALIFICATION OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
A letter from Matanzas, published in the New
Orleans Picayune. gives An account of the
swearing liz of the Vice President of the United
States, Hon. William r.. King, on the 4th,
inst at La Cumbre, about three miles from
Matanzas. The writer says:
MIR. King left MatanZas on the same day
for the estate of Mr.. ChartraiE, in the partido
of Limonar, about eighteen miles from Matan-
zas. His health is very poor, and no one ac-
customed to see patients with pulmonary dis
ease in this climate but knows he cannot sur
vive very long. He may live for months in
this mild climate, but he can never be better.
The old statesman viewsh his coming fate With
calmness, as one who has foughtthe good fight
and will lay hold of eternal life
FATAL RAILROAD AccIDENTs.--Mr. Perry,
the operator on the Morse Geographic line at
Meridian, Conn.,, was instantly Killed by the ac-
conodation train from Springfield, on Saturday.
He was standing on the platform at the depot
and was in the act of handinga letter to some
persons on the cars while they were in motion
when he fell on the track, and the wheels of a
passenger car passed over his neck. l.. II.
Nichols, . fireman, was killed. and the engin-
Ger badly scaIded by an accident to the cars,
near Oneida, n. Y. on Friday night.
The recent rains have swollen the streams
near Columbus, Georgia, to such an extent
that a bridge on the Muscogee Railroad was
carried away on Friday, and u locomotive pre-
cipitated through the ~culvert, instantly killing
the engineer and fireman. None of the passen-
gers were injured.
+ THE COPPER MIxEs.-The Greensborough
Patriot speaks of the Copper Mine in Guilford
at present owned by DR.. Stith and Messrs.
, Camman & co..
: We understand that the mine becomes rich
er as the workmen go down. Between the diff
!; ferent tunnels or slopes cut in the vein there
is now ascertained to becopper ore sufficient to
: bring in market one million of dollars. This
: sounds like an astonishing yield, and we should
5 almost hesitate to mention it were it not for
reliable assurances of the correctness of the
estimate. And yet, at the bottom of the last
and deepest shaft the vein is thickest and rich
est!--promising Il remuneration to enterprise
V and labor valuable beyond precedent in The
annals Of mining in this country.
BANK OF WAsHIxGroN.-The Washington
d IN. CO Wing says that there was quitea rusI
8 for the new stock in the Bank ofW ashingtor
at the opening Of the books on Monday. Ii
y one hour and 90 minutes the whole of the new
stock was .-taken-Sl0O ,00o-and the book.
were closed.
French FLEET ORDERED TO NICARAGUA
1t is stated that Louis Napoleon is about Il
send q naval force to San Juan de Nicaragu
: to demand from the municipal authorities Their
satisfaction forfnes levied by them upon FIenc
= subjects for their refusal to comply with som
Of the demands of the authorities of that place
The French government, before deciding upo
this course, made a demand upon the BIRTHS
:. government, who replied that it had no respor
= sibility in the case, forby treaty with the Unite
: Statesit had relinquished all authority and Dc
minion there.
+ A WORLDS TEMPERANCE CONVENTION
The New York Tribune says it has been sug
e gested that a Worlds Temperance COnven
" ton be held in that city some time during tn
It approachiniDg Worlds Fair-say in Angus
next.
A CALIFORNIA DlANoSD.-1ti is stated thu
: a amond in the rough as large as a pigeon
egg, has been discovered in Toulumne count
D. California, which is to be exhibited in Stock
ton and San Francisco. and then brought t
of New York. Acorrespondent of the San Fran
te cisco Herald says it has been carefully and SC
n entifcalIy tested by Dr.. F. Banks, a graduate
IS the Medical University of Louisiana, who pr,
nounces it, beyond all doubt, to be a diane on
3. of very rare purity. 1t is said to be 'larg,
n, than the Crown Diamond OF England, whiu
t. is valued at ten millions of dollars This
" rather too tough a story to believe without flu
Their evidence of its truth
1t is said at Washington that Hon. Gree
be W. Caldwell, of Charlotte, is to be appointe
Superintendent Of the Branch Mint at til
IN place,-an Office which he formerly held.
Since confined by the Senate.
Is Oliver S. Dewey, ESQ.,, of Newberne, J
ed G., Zone of the Secretaries of the Democrat
Mt, National Convention has been appointed
he the Collectorship at Ocracoke, \. c.
lu- RICHMOND, VA, March 23.-General w
ad liam Lambert, mayor Of this city, died t
ca, day.
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RECEIPTS FOR THE AGE,
bic SINCE March 23.-$I Miss j. E. Long, Ruth,
ford; Miss S. I. Hampton, ClemmonSville; Jan