Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-11-09
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EXECUTION OF PERRY.-On Friday last
Samuel Parker Perry suffered the extreme
penalty of the law for the murder of his wife.
There was an immense concourse of persons
from tins and the adjoining counties to wit
ness the execution. We learn that Perry
made a confession before he was carried out
to execution, in which he acknowledged that
he threw his wife into the we'll and left her
there, but that she was killed by the old ne.
gro throwing billets of wood upon her after
she was thrown in. 1t also appears that
there had been an agreement between him
and the negro, that the negro should murder
his (Perry's) wife. Whether any reliance
can be placed upon the confession or not, we
cannot say.-StGr.
TENNESSEE SENAToR.-The Washington
Union has received a telegraghic despatch from
Nashville, stating that the Hon. John Bell,
wing, is re elected U. s. Senator, having re-
ceived fifty one votes.
ARKANSAS O. S. SENAToR.-Robert W.
johnson, late member of the U. S. House of
Representatives, has been appointed by the
Governor of Arkansas to fill the vacancy in
the United States Senate, caused by the re-
signation of the Hon. Scion Borland, now
filling a diplomatic station.
TRAGEDY AT CINcINNAT1.-On Thursday
night, while Thos Smith, Jas. Freely and w.
Dickson, were standing on the corner of q
street in Cincinnati, John Hannegan rushed
out of his house, and with an axe, pitched
into them, striking at their heads, and cut
ting them all down. Freely had two cuts II
his head, and died in an hour or two. Smith
had q deep cut in the head, considered dan
gerous, and Dickson was slightly wounded
Hannegan, who escaped, mistook one of then
for man named Cam, whom he had threat
ened.
The LATE DUELATCHARLEsTON.-OnThu Thurs
day, in the Court of Sessions at Charleston
the case of the State VS.. John Dunovant, Jr
arising out of the late duel, which ~resulte
in the death of James D Legare, was commit
ted to the grand jury, OF an Indictment fo
murder, under a charge from Judge Eros
The jury, after examining witnesses, retul
ned with the finding of mo BILL
SUIT FOR DAMAGEs.-Mr. Kendall, postma
ter at New Orleans, has been sued for dam;
ges for unlawfully, it is alleged, detainin
a letter, whereby the person to whom it We
addressed lost $3.50 on a lot of lemons. II
letter containing the bill of lading Of the |
mons from Vera Cruz, it is said, was repe
tedly called for but was not delivered unit
after it was advertised.
TROUBLE AMONG THE CAMPBELL1TEs.-Th
followers of Rev. Alexander Campbell,
Bethany, Va, have become dissatisfied wi
his teachings on the subject of slavery.
remedy the evil, they propose calling a co
%vention at Cleveland, on the second Wedne
day in January next. Mr.. c.. is in favor
the gradual abolition of slavery.
Our English files by the Niagara confr
the brief statement heretofore made, of t
total loss of the ship Annie Jane, Mason CO..
mander, belonging to Liverpool, which W
driven ashore on the iron-bound coast of B;
ra Island, during the recent gales, On t
8 night of the 28th ult., when no fewer tn
b three hundred and forty-eight passengers
-. men, women and children-met with q v
: terry grave. The Annie Jane was a lar
: vessel, and sailed from Liverpool for Duet
It and Montreal, on the 9th oflast month, Wi
" some $50 emigrants, most Of them Irish ia
' lilies. The crew of twelve persons, with !
Il Bell, the chief officers and l02 passeng
were saved. We annex a few particulars
the dreadful disaster
At the time the ship struck, all the offc
and crew were below, but there were also
deck a large number of male passengers, "
e held on by ropes and rigging, and with fl
e ings of despair contemplated their fate
n Meanwhile, the great majority ofthe pass
g gers, including all the women and child
s. were below in their berths, but the strik
n of the ship gave them a fearful Weakening
e Many rushed on deck in a state of nakedn'
Ie wives chung to their husbands, and child
y chung to both, some mute from terror,
If others uttering appalling screams and eas
lie " shrieking, is there hope? The seen
i" described by the survivors as the most ag
s. izing which it could enter into the heart
a man to conceive. After the first shock
$, over the passengers rushed to the boats, tt
Or of which were placed between the mizenn
es and the poop, and the fourth lay on the
IL of the cooking-house forward. Thelight-l
TX had already lost. But the boats were O
e. earthly use, for they were all fixed down
ct secured, or lay bottom up. While the pas
rs gers were thus clustered our the boats
of within q very few minutes after the
CHI had grounded, she was struck by a sc
ly frightful potency, which instantly car
IT. away the dense mass of human beings
7" the watery waste, and boats and bulw
ga went along with them. At least 100 OF
err fellow creatures persisted by this fell sw
The wild wall of the sufferers was hear
Ter a moment, and then all was still.
Hea- In Ashe County, N. c., snow fe
=, the depth of nine inches, on the 24th.of
~ tober. On the same day it showed very
o.. about half the day at Jonesville.