Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-11-15

FATAL ACCIDENTAL IrISbman whose
name we have not learned, met with 2 fatal
accident on the Baltimore and Ohio R1ilrold.
near Piedmont, on Friday 81 inst. The oc-
c%urrence is thus related to US: lie had re-
fused several times to pay his fare. The con-
ductor told him he must get OH and rang the
bell to stop the train. While the train was
vet running about four miles an hour the
freshman Jumped off and fell. The wheels
of one truck passed over and crushed one of
his legs very badly. The train was stopped
and he was taken to a house near by, and
when the cars left it was not supposed he was
fatally injured but a dispatch received here
before the train arrived, announced that be
was dead, and requested, that the conductor
should Immediately return to Piedmont
He left for Piedmont accompanied by two of
the passengers who witnessed the affair. We
presume that the matter will, as it should, be
thoroughly investigated. We understand
that the passengers who accompanied the
conductor back to Piedmont exonerate him
from all blame Wheeling Intehigencer.
A B~ALrIMoREAN SnoTDEAD.-On Tuesday
a party of young men started from Cincinna-
ii, on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, on
a hunting excursion, and ieft the cars at the
little town ofOsgood, Indiana. In the after
noon three of the party, among whom was
1ODGTG DdI0 DuClbtbbhS uSAOS0 " 6tiOOb I'll q
mark for the proceeds of the days hunt, and
appointed Mr.. John l.. Thompson as umpire.
After thew had shot, Mr.. I. went to examine
the mark when Buchanan raised his gun
and said, : I think | could shoot him right
through the top of his head With the words
he pulled, the trigger. thinking that his piece
was not loaded, but to his CONSERVATION the
gun went off, and Thompson fell dead, the
whole charge entering the back part of his
skull. He was brought to Cincinnati the
next day, and was buried by the Odd Fellows
Association, of which fraternity he was a
member. Mr.. Thompson's father resides in
Baltimore. This is another dreadful result
of the thoughtless handling of firearms.
Pet. Int.
BANK ROBBERY IN MACON, GEo.-$i0,000
SToLEN.-The Macon Journal & Messenger of
the 24th states that considerable excitement
was created in that city on Monday morning,
by the an nouncement that Samuel D. Scovill,
Book keeper in the Agency Of the Marine
Bank at that place, had absconded with &c.,
900 Of the funds of the Institution. It has
subsequently appeared, says that paper, that
he left the city at 8 O'Clock, Sunday evening
on the train of the Macon and Western r all
road for Atlanta, but beyond that point it has
been impossible to trace his progress. It is
supposed, as the advertisements of fugitives
j., usually read, that he is making his way to
a free State Mr.. Scovill has heretofore
borne a very good character for industry and
subriety, and the announcement of his small
Schuylerism astonished every one. His pa
) rents, we believe, northern people, who resi-
, ded for some time in Twiggs Co., Ga, where
l he himself was born. Robert Slappy and
Haywood Hughes, Esqrs., ofthat county, we
i learn, are the securities upon his bond for
$1,000.
OUTRAGE.-On Wednesday night last, in
New York, a fragrant outrage was committed
outside Metropolitan Hall. MadameE E. Wal
lace Bouchelle, the celebrated singer, had
just left the theatre in company with two
: friends, when she saw a man raise his arm
in the act of throwing something in her face,
which she avoided by starting Backward
She escaped the blow aimed for her face, but
received the contents of a bottle of vitriol on
her dress. Before she recovered from the
! fright the wretch had disappeared. 1t is
- supposed that the attack was made by an in
dividual who had sent her threatening letters.
with the object of compelling her to leave
v the city.
II ~ SIXTEEN THOUSAND DEATHs.-Boston, Nov
A correspondent of the Atlas. writing
from Marseilles states that, the English Con
: sui, at that place, had received reliable in
formation that the most fearful ravages Q
" Cholera were devastating Messina-no les
than sixteen thousand persons having faller
victims out of a population of 10000!
= mortality hardly less than during the preva
lence of the great plague in 1743.
or DESPERATE AFFRAY.-The Richmond Dis
patch of Tuesday states that a detachment Q
to seamen, destined for the receiving ship a
Norfolk, while on their passage from Me-
k. York on board the steamer City of Richmond
broke into the cargo in pursuit Of liquor, an
finding a barrel all got uproariously drunk
before they were discovered. Whilst in TIL
lot condition they commenced a free fight wit
ma sheath knives, one man being terribly Gu
Ies and others less seriously injured.
CHARLESTON, Nov. 6.-The Courier pal
ca fishes on just authority of the leading phys
tlys clan a statement to the effect that the city
ieu now healthy, and that it is perfectly safe fl
UoS absentees and strangers to visit Charleston
HOMICIDE BY A MEMBER OF CoNGREss.-Tl
I'd Alabama papers state that the Hon. Jam,
the Abercrombie, Representative in Congre
from that State, recently killed a man in Il
Of State of Florida. The particulars are n
given, but it appears that Mr.. Abercromt
,ro- was discharged after a judicial investigated
thus implying that the homicide was Just
able.
on THE ARcrIc's LIFE BoAr.-On Saturd
DAD last' the NE DoaC IN Whicn y persons we
tbo saved from the wreck of the steamship A,
tic, was tested in Philadelphia, at the reuu,
of Messrs. Collins Of New York. Fifty-sev
men got on board, and still there was roc
for the oarsmen and twentE others. I
tho wind, at the time, was blowing a " single-r
and topsail breeze" The boat was pulled arou
,ow a circuit of nearly half a mile, and rode
the and down the waves as gracefully as a du
TWAS generally conceded that seventy pers,
car could have been saved by this boat, at
The time the Arctic was wrecked.-Pet. Int.
ON SINGULAR.-The last line ever set bv
not Charlton, Pittsburg printer, whose death
Cured recently, was this
III "And even at last the solemn hour come ?
Having done this, he staggered from
, - case, under a sudden attack of disease,
Sery in a few days died and was buried.
IN solemn hour had come.
part n4 DUNCAN K. McRAE, ESQ.,, Uni
lied, States Consul at Paris, arrived here a
or two since on a brief visit to his friends
wen Mr.. McRae, it is understood, was the bes
&C. of dispatches to the general government f
the late Conference of American Minis
gave at Ostend, Belgium. He came, and proba
0 the will return in the steamer Arabia. His,
will necessarily be short.
iured The nature of the dispatches has not tn
ut PRED; but the presumption is, from
n. D. attitude of European powers towards
IS in other, and towards this country, ana t
Lood Tho raIat;ops of nroSant hatroan Cro;n