Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-12-21

HCSED LAC OG6bIlOT ASH UEIuSS AAN0EpOOI5
dates to the I'd Dec. The war makes little
progr IS, but fayors the Turks. In Asia they
continue to have the most brilliant success.
They have captured a first class fortress, and
a Russian steamer. The report of the En-
glish and French treaty is fully confirmed.
New ORLEANS, Dee. 12.-There have been
III deaths from cholera during tho week end
ing to-day. They were mostly e~migrants.
The advices from Mexico state that Santa
Anna has been declared Dictator or Emperor
for ten years Co come.
Mr.. Gadsden, the American Minister. has
demanded an immediate confirmation of the
Gary Grant, otherwise he threatens that the
United States will forthwith seize MesiIIa
Valley.
THE Hon. REvERDY JOHNSON has been en-
ployed by the Governor of Florida to assist
the Attorney General of that State in argu-
ing the boundary question between Florida
and Georgia, which is to come up before the
Supreme Court of the United States at the
present term. The counsel for Georgia are
Judge Berrien, of Georgia, and Hon. Geo. E.
Badger, of North Carolina.
geA- The Merchants of Salisbury, we see,
are going to hold q injecting soon. for the pur-
pose liz the language of the Watchmqn) of
taking into consideration the subject ofchang-
ing the route of shipping their goods from
the Northern Cities and that it is pro-
bable they will agree upon Portsmouth, as
affording the greatest advantages in time and
cost.
HARPERs' PRINTING L PUBLISHING House
IN RUINs.-AbOut half past 2 O'Clock, on
Saturday afternoon, a fire broke out in the
building of Harper & Brothers. 80 Cliff St.,
New York, occupied as a printing and pub
EShipY holca. which hoinr 6llod with o.,pn
bustible material, was laid in ashes before
anything could be done to stop the destruc-
tive element.
Four other buildings were destroyed =
The large publishing house and bindery of
Geo. f. Coolidge & Brother, the Walton House
(of revolutionary memOry,) the Franklin
Square Hotel, and w. w. Thayers store
New York papers estimate the loss of the
Harper's at 81, 205 900, with only $3.50. 900
insurance. This makes their loss nearly a
million.
North Caroliniams in Office IN Mississippi.
Hon. John j. McRae, the Governor elect
of Mississippi; Hon. Jacob Thompson. late
NJ. c.; w. II. Muse, Secretary of State
Gen. Vim. Clark. State Treasurer D. c.
Glenn, Attorney General, and Judge Mitch
ell, a member of the Legislature of Missis-
sippi, are all said to be natives of NorthMCar.
olina.
The SCENE AT MADRID.-I ger
a diplomatic fashionabTe emenSs 4 ~ FL
$ between Mr.. Soule. Jr., of the American L
n CATION, and the Duke of Alba which h;
!, thrown that capita. into a state of excitemen
The Paris correspondentof the London ChroI
icle, writing on the 9th ult., gives the fc
0 lowing particulars Private letters from Ma,
q rid speak of an affair which took place
that capital on the fete day of st. Eugeni
and which has resulted in an affair of homo
Saturday week being the fete day of St. E
i genie.-a saint not often heard of till Lou
: Napoleon chose to give her renown by ere
ting an empress of the same name-the Ma
quis de Turgot, the French ambassador
: Madrid, gave a ball, which was attended |
all that is brilliant in the Spanish capital,
the shape of nobility or diplomacy. Amor
" the guests were the Duke Of Alba. the brot
er-in-law Of the Empress of the French, OIL
- Mr.. Soule, the newly appointed Minister
% the United States. In the course Of Il
" evening, Mr.. Soule, junior, while walkil
=" through the ball room, with Mrs. Perry, t
wife of the United States Secretary of Leg
= ton, overheard the Duke of Alba (who h
= recently been in Paris, and is therefore
= judge Of ladies' Dress, make some contem
tuous remark on the style of dress adopt
ny IlC VII vi OlC AiIC DIT 44IlllcGC | ltlOi
" err of young Soule.)
Itappears that the lady had adopted a CT
% tune which is not quite a la mode de Madr
in so far that it covered her person up to t
=, throat; whereas the most approved fashi
y among the Madrid damsels is to exhibit
~ many of the graces conferred upon them
nature as come within the bounds of dect
is cy. The remark of the Duke was, Tine
81 goes Mary of Burgundy" Mr.. Soule,
=, hearing the contemptuous expression,
CT the lady with whom he was walking, and
ing up to the Duke informed him quill ct
" Une canaiUe, and accompanied this piece
ca information witha-push. Great exciteme
rs ensued, and Mr.. Soule's father, having int
III ferred, took away the young man, who 81
c sequently addressed a challenge to the du
y which has not yet been accepted, the du
10 having found it convenient to represent t
~ whole affair as political-which it certain
III is, if the dress Of the American Ministe
NJ wife was not strictly in fashion. At
~ events, no fighting had taken place at the
r. Rod when the last dispatches left but
" a1hir vas the topic of conversation everywhe
- and the feeling was that Jonathan's positi
in it was preferable to that of the Hidalgo