Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-08-10
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and Preston, Wings, are ascertained to be
to Congress in Kentucky. A whig
gain of two members {! Four Districts vet
to be heard from.
In Missouri, G. T. jackson, anti-Benton,
has been elected to Congress in the 3rd Dis
trict, and Saml. Caruthers, Wing, in the 18th.
Edward Bates, Wing, has been elected Judge
of the Land Courts
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Aug.2.-The cleo
ton for Governor and members of Congress
came off in this State on Monday. We have
a few scattering returns, which clearly indi-
cate that Col. Winston, Democrat, has been
elected Governor of the State by a large ma
jority. Mr.. Abercrombie, Wing, it would
appear from partial ~rcssrns, has been elected
to Congress from the second district. He
was previously a representative of that dis
trict.
New ORLEANS, July 30.--The deaths with
in the last "A hours have been 154, Of which
126 were from yellow fever.
LOUISVILLE, August IAN election was
held in this State to-day for members of
Congress and the State Legislature. Mr..
Preston, whig candidate for Congress, had
800 majority over English, democrat, ~atnoon,
and is certainly elected in the district.
REDEMPTION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT.-With
a view of Producing the public debt, the Secre-
tary of the U. S. Treasury has just issued the
following notice, which if it bring forward the
stocks to the amount indicated, may affect the
money market to some extent favorably:
Treasury Department, July 80, 1853.
Notice is hereby given to the holders of the
six per cent stockso the United States, Of the
loan authorized blythe act Of28th Janury, 1847,
and redeemabIe the 31st of December, 1867,
and of the loan authorized by the act of 3lst
March, 1913, and redeemable 30th June, 1868
that this department is prepared to purchase,
at any time between the date hereof and the
lst day of December next, to the extent of the
sum of five millions ofdollars ofthe said stocks.
~ Sunday afternoon, about 5 o'clock,
as the Rev. Mr.. CRoWDER was pre- aching to
a colored congregation in the city Of Peters,
burg, he suddenly fell in the pulpit, and was
removed in an apparently ~lifeless condition.
Up to a late hour Sunday night, he still re-
manned speeches., and great fears were enter
tanned for his life.
Norfolk Herald.
ARKANSAS US. SENAToR.-The Governor
of Arkansas has appointed the Hon. Robert
w. johnson a Senator in Congress to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of the
Hon. Scion Borland, appointed Minister to
Central America. Col. johnson was recently
a member of the House of Representatives.
~ 1t is said the official announcement of
the appointment of Mr.. Dix, as Minister to
France, will be made ia Sundays Union.
THE CASE OF MoxTAcrE-The court Of
| appeals, now in session at L%ewisburg, have
) awarded a writ of error in the case of Mon
f tague. The cause will come up for a hear
ing upon the appeal at the nextsession of the
court at Richmond in October next.
South Side Democrat.
N-Our readers will learn with regret. tina,
the yellow fever is prevailing with great sever
lty at New Orleans-the deaths forthe twenty.
- four hours ending on the 3Oth ult. amounting
to 154, of which 1876 were by the epidemic
. The N. o. Bulletin of Monday last says
" The interments in the several cemeteries ir
= the city, for She week ending on Friday night
" sum up six hundred and seventeen, of which
four hundred and twenty nine were of yellow
tever-or sixty-nine per cent. of the number 0
i~nterments. 1t should also be taken into con
~ sideration that there are about one hundred
70 deaths reported of fever generally, from whicl
it may be inferred that there were enough o
yellow fever to swell the sum to FIVE hundred
+ ms Is q terrible mortality.
)? A FEARFUL ACCOUNTING. EVERETT, lat
IS Secretary of State, As generally known as
lg gentleman of extensive information ; one VIII
" will not speak without book sui
+ jects involving statistical facts. From a com
* p~utation of his it appears that the use of alec
TX holic beverages costs the u. States Direct,
We in ten years, $40, 900, 900; has burnt or otheI
a wise destroyed $4,000, 900 worth of property
r, has destroyed 100000 lives sent 100000 t
I'd the poOr-house; caused 1900 murders an
I'd 5000 suicides; and has bequeathed to the cour
IL try 100000 orphan children.
m "The Washington Sentinel, " the new pane
e. of Beverly Tucker, will be issued in Was
be ington next month. It will be democratic
ne but independent and national, defending Ii
IS Union upon the basis of the rights Of tn
d. States, and advocatinga bold and earnest fo
cign policy.
ne farmers JOURNAL. DIR. j. F. Tompkin
" the Editor of this useful work, is now trave
ne ling the State and delivering addresses
en- the subject of agricultural improvements
OF He will visit the Counties of Rowan, Iredel
nlg Catawba, Burke, Mcdowell, Rutherfor
IN Buncombe, and Henderson during the mon
oi of August. The Journal will hereafter
- ~ published in this City, for the Editor, by '
ga D. Cooke, Esq.
nj HF J. Davidson Legare was killed
off John Dunnovant, near Charleston, S. c.,
Die a duel, on the I'd inst. Politics.
IL A despatch to the N. Y. Tribune saws.
"a Wings and 2 Democrats have been elected
er. Congress from Kentucky. A whig gain
ise three.
= FOREIGN NEws.-The latest news from E
rth rope is that the Turkish question is in Il
nd course of amicable adjustment, and all a
p~rehensions of a war have subsidized. C,
an ton and Breadstufs were in active dema
lar at advanced prices.
us, In China. the insurgents had raised t
will banner of christianity and were preparing
march upon Pekin. They had caused t
it Bible to be translated into the Chinese |;
OK guage to be circulated among the people.
ose The Protestant worship was permitted. N,
me kin was in a state of ruin, and the VIII
my province in a condition of anarchy.
An @= A TELLING sIGN.-The New "
o -" Herald, the le~adingeEgan of the liquor
terest, gives it up thu prohibition is bou
~ to triumph the coming fall, in the great ST
lb0, n Wit Uor,lu I.