Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-05-24
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FOREIGN SUMMARY.-The Steamer Allan
tic is in at New York, with four days later
dates from Europe. The great aud bloody
ball is opened at last. The allied fleets in
the Black Sea have led off with the bonn
bardment Of Odessa, burning the town, dis
mounting the guns in the forts, &c. 1t does
not appear that they effected a landing
While this was going on the Russian feet
at Sebastopol came out, but retired without
showing fight. The right wing of the Rus
sian army had evacuated Little Wallachia,
and taken up its position at Bucharest. The
Turks were occupying the positions they
had left. The Russians were besieging Silis-
tria and were to have commenced the attack
on the 1st inst. In the Baltic, Sir Charles
Napier was at Stockholm with 10 sail, on
the 21st ult., waiting orders. The French
feet were blockading the Gulf of Finland
The markets were not active. Cotton dull
and had declined a little and there was a
further decline in breadstufs.
An %annular Eclipse of the Sun will occur
on the 26th instant, commencing at So min
utes past three o'clock in the afternoon, and
continuing two hours andtwenty-fve minutes,
or until % minutes after six O'Clock. The
eclipse will be central in New England, and
will be visible in all parts of North America,
OACCpU OI1O 0O4O P"A Va AAOAASOS
D9 The Salisbury Banner learns that
two cases of Small Pox have occurred at a
mine q few miles from Concord. They were
travellers in the stage through here, in COM
pany with the person whose case we men
toned some two weeks since. Measures were
taken to prevent the spread of the disease,
which it was hoped would be effectual.
FATAL ACCIDENT.-On Monday oflast week
an accident occurred at Mr.. John Wilkin-
sons Steam Saw Mill, about twelve miles
south east of Hillsboro', which resulted in
the death of Mr.. Chesley P. Horn, a young
man about twenty-five years of age. Mr..
; Horn was engaged in removing a log which
lay on the brow of hill hut being TOO heavy
, for his strength, it threw him down and pas
sed over him. Mr.. Horn fell with his head
) Upon a piece of s~cantling, against which the
log mashed his head and rested upon it.
When the log was lifted off, no appear.
ance of life remained except a slight pulsa
ton, which lasted almost an hour, when life
became tin
The RAIL RoAD.-On Tuesday the I'd in
slant, a vote was taken in the county Of era
IS ven on authorizing a subscription by thu
y county of $3.50, 900 for the extension of thu
n North Carolina Rail Road to Beaufort. Thu
result showed 666 for, and los against thu
" proposition.
In the county of Lenoir, a vote was takel
\. on Wednesday, on a subscription ofS5O,0OO
The votes were, for the subscription 42G
BE against it 128-majority for the subscription
!. The people of Kentucky seem determine
to do all in their power to wipe off the dis
grace of the verdict in the Ward trial. Th
ne marble monument which they propose
Oh erect to Mr.. Buffers memory is to be place
tss in such a public spot that men viii read il
inscription every day. Mr.. Buffers wido
is to be provided for in a manner which WI
re- make her comfortably independent and EN-
Bile her to educate her child.
IN n@ On Monday afternoon, dnring a thu
Ger squall to the north of New York, a fai
to came into that city on one of the House liz
no telegraph wires, entered the Office at the co
NJ. ner of Nassau and Wall street, and set Fl
tie, to a file of messages hanging near the OF
%rator's (Mr. Selden's) head. The ignite
les was accompanied with a sharp explosio
national FouNDRY.-Mr. Badger has ST.
ny mitted q resolution to the Senate, directi
u 1ri' inquiry as to the expediencY of AUTHORIZE
-, the President to cause an examination of
Coal Fields upon deep River, N. G. with
view to the establishment of a Nation
Foundry in that vicinity. The resoluti
has passed the Senate.
n Indignation meetings are being b.
all over Kentucky, in reference to the rect
ion, judicial outrage in the case of Matt. Wa
heir the murderer. The resolutions passed
lay, similar to those we have already noticed
vere The most notable ahe of recent date, '
held at Elizahethtown, the scene of the tri
the Ct which one Of the resolutions adopted
quested the jurors to leave the county.
> o ExPLosIoN.-An explosion took placo
> - one of the coal mines of Chesterfield Cour
cat Va, on the 18th, that resulted in the de
n"so of twenty persons. 1t is supposed to b
originated from some of the miners carel
S0O ly approaching one of the old 'damps' '
their lamps.