Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-04-27

- Wm.F. Phillips has been appoinicd
Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Oihce
Department in place ofJ w. Farrelly, reas-
ned. This IS the office. we believe To which IL
was said Col. Wheeler had been apPoin-
ted. The Colonel passed through this piaes
recently on his way home, and we presume nc
isto be numbered among the Disappointed
a list somewhat longer we expect titan the ah
pointed -Hiusboro' Rec.
@The atiuration Of DIR. IyEs, late Bishop
Of the Protestant Episcopal Chusch ofthe Do
cese of North Carolina, continues 10 be spoken
of in the public prints. Judge Ives, OF Con
%necticut, in a recent letter, attributes the con-
duet of his brother, the Bishop, to "a consti-
tutional tendency to mental arrangement IN
my his fathers family; and also OF certain
facts in proof such a tendency, | have no hesl-
tation in saying, are fully sustained by ny own
personal knowledge nor have | any doubts
that the conduct Of Bishop Ives, in his late de-
lection to Rome, must be attributed. at least
IN part, to that same cause, viz: a hereditary
tendency to mental arrangement, aggravated
by disease and by very great excitement
The following letter, purportlng TO be from
DR.. Ives, is published in the Guardian an En-
8 glsh Church paper:
SRI have read, with equa! Paia and sur
prise, a paragraph in the Standard. copied
from your paper, which conpels me to correct
certain grave and Injurious mlSstatements.
!. 1t is not true, as there stated. thanks be
to Gods good Providence that l have ever,
; except when under the Immediate delirium OF
typhus fever, been deprived of the use OF that
> measure of reason with which God at first
J was pleased to endow me. HiS true, however
! that | have had a brother deprived for u time
! of that blessing. But how far that circum.
stance should De visited upon me as a punish
9 meHt for following the demands of my con
: science, | will leavei it with yourselfto determine
: 2. Neither is 1t true, as you state, that US
before leaving my diocese, | drew upon it for
, and received from it, a gears salary, under
false pretence. Itis true, however, that before
: leaving my former field oflabor, to gain, if pos
: sible, relief in some way to q disquieted min,
= (the state of Chich Ihad communicated to Z
clerical member Of my Standing Committee,
| received an advance of Sir months salary
= And tits also true, that after my arrival in thi
city, my conscience. under additional light
would not allow Of longer delay liz my sub
mission, to the Catholic Church, and bcfor
i making that submission, Iwrote to my dioces
a letter of resignation.
- A Correspondent fthe Wadesboro
&c Argus, writing from Yadkin County, N. c
as relates the following curious facts: One {
my neighbors has a cat and four kittens; som
" of the children Of the family found a squirrel
nest.-In it were two young ones. Thes
d, they carried to pussy, for the purpose of feeC
Il. ing her offspring. Instead Of applying theI
he TO this purpose, her mousership-followin
nd the example of Pkaraoh's daughter in the cas-
ill OF Moses, concluded to bring the young soul
III rels up as her own. They are now all Twin
he together. cat, kittens, and squirrels, a happ
he family. The cat takes as good care of ht
bushy-tailed charge as she does Of her Ow
Sc, feline progeny, carrying them in her mout
. when they stray off into apparent DANCE
= The squirrels are now more than half grow
re- are gentle, and seem to possess none Of Il
on propensity of those playful little creatures f,
n biting and nibbling things. In fact, they see
Ill to be perfect kittens in principle, even to tt
of eating Of fish and raw meat The cat brin.
en- rats and mice for the benefit of her Household
but it is not yet ascertained whether the SOU
err reis have learned to eat, them but certain it
ust they eat raw beef.
! a A Greensboro Correspondent Of the As
vile, Necs proposes that a Convention
ing held at Salisbury in July next, at tile time
the meeting the Stockholders of the Cent
Road, to consider its extension east to Bea
fort and west to the Tennessee line, The Ne
ga seconds the proposition, and suggests that t
Western Counties appoint delegates to rep
sent the interests OF that section.
SU1cIDE.-A man by the name of John A
lii trade who had been worting in HIlshnro,
fus some months. committed suicide last week
at taking arsenic.
on @ man by the name of Kelly, "
ehl run over and killed by the Cars, on the R
elgh and CASTOR Road, on Friday night Ia
tad lie was lying drunk and asleep on the traC