Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-04-19
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Gar OF Russia refused to evacuate the prin-
clpalltles, whereupon England and France,
Immediately on the receipt of the news, pub
hshed open declarations of war. Letters
OF marque will not be granted against Amer
lcan vessels property on neutral vessels will
not besseized, unless it be c~ontrabaud of war.
Inc Russians were crossing the Danube in
great numbers.
A sklrmlsh occurred between the Russians
ana Turks on the bridge at the Island oppo-
site Turtakia. The Turks DESTROYED the
bridge, and 1000 Russians were percipitated
INTO the Danube and drowned.
On the 23d a large body of Russians at
tempted to cross near Oltenitza. A despe-
rate battle ensued in which the Russians
were routed with the loss of 5000 killed.
Inc Turks were also so badly cut up that
Gney mad to retire to their entertainments
Inc Russians have now, however, effected a
passage OF the river at three points.
War has now fully begun and the most
sanguinary conflicts may be looked for.
These arrivals bring intelligence of large
advances in -four, wheat and corn, with an
upward tendency. Cotton dull and falling.
n A great TODD has been made in the
Northern papers for the last week, owing to
q statement made by a correspondent of the
New York Post, that Mr.. Everett was the
writer of the celebrated Hulseman letter,
and not Mr.. Webster. Nobody believes it
however, and it since turns out that Mr.. Ev-
erett gives the contradiction to the ridiculous
statement.
IMPORTANT IF TRUE.-The Washington
correspondent of the New York Hgrald, says
that the President expects soon to receive
an answer from the Spanish government,
positively refusing to accede to the demand
made with regard to the Black Warrior affair,
together with information that England and
France have despatched strong fleets to rein
force their squadrons in the West Indies,
thus carrying out the terms of secret treaty
to uphold the Spanish dynasty at Cuba.
A great deal of anxiety is felt at Philadel-
phia, and in fact throughout the country,
because of the non arrival of the steamship
City of Glasgow. She left Liverpool on the
lst of March for Philadelphia, having on
board the usual cargo and more than three
hundred persons including the crew. Among
her cabin passengers is the Rev. j. S Reyn-
oldson, formerly pastor ofthe Baptist Church
in Petersburg. Her agents in Philadelphia,
it is said, do not share the general alarm
They believe that she has been detained, eth.
er by some trifing accident, or by having
been surrounded by fields of ice.
VERY DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN ~FLoRIDA.-The
entiro business portion of.Jacksonville, Fla.
including 70 housees, % stores, the custom
house, newspaper Offices, hotels, &c, was DIES.
troyed by fire on the 9Th inst. Loss half a
million.-Great distress prevailed in conse
quence of this disastrous occurrence.
The abstract of the Census of 1850. prepar
cd ~ Mr.. Kennedy, contains a table of the
nativities of the inhabitants of the several
States. 1t is remarked that out of 1916,
1872 free inhabitants, 4, 112,433 have migrated
and settled beyond the States of their birth
Thus 1886, 900 natives of Virginia, equal t.
26 per cent. of all it's natives at the date OF
the census 163, 900 of South Carolina, equa
to SO per cent, and 261,575 of North Carolina
equal to 81 per cent, are living in other States
Normal CoUege.-We learn that the Rev
S. M. Frost, of Fayetteville, will preach tn
Annual Sermon, and that r. P. Dick, Esq.
of our Town, has been selected to deliver tn,
address to the Literary Societies at the Com
mencement.
In the midst of the general prosperity ant
progress around us, we are pleased to learr
that this Institution is moving onward. It,
patronage is constantly increasing, and, W
are told, second to nom in the country, tn
University excepted.
We learn that it is just receiving Philoso
phical, Astronomical and Chemical appara
tus. Greensborough Patriot.
P.S. WHITE.-This great Temperance Lee
turer is now at this place. He has been speak
ing nearly every day, and sometimes twice
day, for som two months past, and has mad
a clean sweep from the seaboard to the Hol;
ton Valley. bespoke twice at Emory & Her
ry on Wednesday, Immediately after which
.ffty persons were initiated into the Divisio
including a certain kind hearted Major i
the neighborhood, who had not been longin
to the Sons.-Abingdon Terginian.
~ We learn that the mail train on tn
Raleigh and CASTOR Road on Tuesday la;
ran over q man who was stretched acros
tom Depot. He was ~ 5aarrii tfjS h Hias st LIbtt5}{|
of his legs being cut off and his skull cut
twain. Some suspicious are entertained tn
he NAV have been murdered and then place
across the track.
TRAGIcAL ScENE.-The Cleveland Deal
says in Waupacea county, Wisconsin, a f.
mer sold Il yoke of oxen, and received his p
in paper money. The man who purchased t
oxen, being in a hurry 20 start off, request
the farInerto assisthimin yOking them up.
accordingly went to the yard with the m
for that purpose, leaving the money lying
the table. On his return to the house,
found his little child had taken the mon
from thu table, and was in the act of kindli
the fire in the stove with it. From the
pulse of the moment. he hit the child a slap
the side of the head, so hard as to knock
over. and, in the fall, it struck its head agai
the stove with such force as to break its SKI
The mother, who was washing a small cl
in tue of water, in an ad jolning room,
hearing the ~iracas, dropped the child and
to the room whence the noise proceeded
was so much terrified 1T what she there beh
that she forgot the little child in the tub 70
time and upon her return to the room foI
the little one drowned! The husband, aft,
few moments reviewing the scene before h
} seeing two of his own children dead, with
1 further reflection took down his gun and b
e his own brains out!
EUROPEAN ScHEMEs.-The.w whole coul
was startled by the publication of the SCI
/ correspondence Of England and Russia in
L erence to the partition of Turkey. Rnn
. 2 of Il similar correspondence between FIR,
and Russia were brought by the last stear
u that show up the grasping disposition of
Russian autocrat in no very enviable light.
what is said below by a Washington col
pendent of Il Baltimore paper be true, it
d hibits a phase of European diplomacy :
disgusting and degrading to the civilized We
c. Implicit confidence, we know, cannot be
G. eed in the thousand and one rumors gottel
u by newspaper correspondents, and the
ST disclosures here made are sufficient to ere!
90 suspicion as to their truth. We give
a. however for what they are worth:
Oh It's rumOred here that adyices ut the {
IN Department by the last steamer. bring hi
ct important information in regard to Euro