Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-09-27
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lantIc arrived at nef wharf, This morning Will
Liverpool dates to the 9th inst.
The report that Russia had returned an
unconditional refusal to the proposals from
the Western Powers is confirmed. A Cabi
net Council was held at Vienna Immediately
on the reception of the reply. The Austrian
and Swedish ministers are expected to leave
st. Petersburgh.
Bomersund had not yet been dismantled.
Affairs on the Danube and in the Black
Sea remain unchanged.
Prince Albert and the Kings of Portugal
and Belgium are with the Emperor of France
at Boulogne.
Queen Christina is reported to have be-
come insane owing to the great excitement
to which she has recently been subjected.
LIVERPOOL MARKETS, Sept. Cotton is
in moderate demand and prices rather in fa-
vor of buyers. Sales for the last three days,
10000 bales. Breadstufs heavy, but i'm
proved at the close. White wheat IS a IS cd.
Flour, Western Canal 27s, Ohio 30s. Corn,
Yellow 35s. 3D., Mixed 34s. Cd. White 36s.
New YoRK, Sept. 21.-The Arabia has
arrived, bringing Liverpool dates to the 9th.
The only item Of news from the Baltic is,
that Bomersund has been destroyed and the
troops have all reimbarked.
It is said that our Minister, Mr.. Soule,
has left Madrid for France. The Spanish
papers say that he left on account of having
had a share in an instruction which took
place at Madrid on the 18th August.
Little or no changes in markets from pre-
vious arrival.
ORANGE SUPERIOR CoURF.-We learn from
the Hillsboro' Recorder, that the trial of Jos.
Brockwell, charged with the murder of Mr..
Jas. Davis, at Chapel Hill in March last, has
been removed to Chatham county as was
the case Of Willis Hester, for negro stealing.
On the civil docket, the Recorder says, the
appeal case of John Woods, ct al, VS.. James
Woods and Joseph Woods, on an issue of
devisGvit gel nOa, excited no little interest
from the fact that the ~testatOr, Mr.. Joseph
Woods, was one hundred and one years old
when ne made his will, and died at the age of
102. 1t was proved that his sight and mem
ory were both good at the time the will was
made that he attended to all his business,
even his domestic affairs, having lost his wife
some years previous. The verdict was in
favor Of the Notwithstanding the will.
CHATHAM SUPERIOR CoURT-We under
stand that Joseph Brockweli, whose trial was
removed from Orange, was convicted of MUIR
der in Chatham, last week. Hester, for negro
stealing, likewise removed from Orange, was
also convicted as was also a negro, charged
with setting fire to a cotton gin, or barn, in
which a man was burnt to death. So that
there are at this time three persons under
sentence of death in Chatham jail.
Ed. SPIRIT OF THE AGE
SUPERIOR CoURr OF LAw.-The Fall Term
of this Court has just closed, His Honor
Judge Ellis presiding. The Criminal Dock
ct unusually large, and the cases generally O
more than ordinary Importance. Oliver P
Hupp, whose arrest we noticed a few weeks
since, was convicted Of horse stealing anC
sentenced to receive ~thirty-nine lashes i'm
mediately, to be imprisoned until Monday
of November Court, and receive %thirty-nin'
again. Gabriel III. Whitman was convicted
of forgery and sentenced to one hour in tn,
stocks, ~thirty-nine lashes and four months
imprisonment. John Dunn was not tried TO
shooting Whitley, whose wounds did no
prove fatal. There were several other case
in which firearms were used, and His Hon
or by severe punishments, imprisonment i
every case, evinced a laudable determination
TO discourage their frequent and dangerou
use. No civil cases of Importance ar6c
Fo' SOotAer~er-
MURDER MOST FoUL.-We learn that
gentleman from Abbeville District, S. G
named Lanser was brutality murdered on th
Clinch Mountain, Granger county, Tenn,
a few days ago, by four villains. It seem
that Mr.. Lauser was buying up horses, an
was decoyed from Beams Station to an vi
frequented part of the country, by the scouI
drels, and there basely murdered for h
money. They had not, at the date of OF
information, been arrested. An old woman
in some way connected with the transaction
had been committed.-ASheUiUe Neas.
ANorHER!-We learn that John Davi
Tee a h;rbJxy rocnoafih1o oifSzon liUInn r
: Crooked Creek, in the adjoining county
' Mcdowell, was assassinated on Sunday mig
the Sd instant. A man living near him hi
been arrested and lodged in Jail at Mario
circumstances seeming to fasten the Grin
i upon him.-Lbid.
James B. Clay, son Of Henry Clay, in
note to the Lexington Observer, contradlc
8 the report published inone of the papers, tn
Mr.. George Law, of New York, had sent
It agent to Kentucky TO purchase Ashland, t
r home residence of Henry Clay, and viii
: now belongs to his son j. B. Clay. In |
is note Mr.. James B. Clay says Never ha
.e ing offered Ashland for sale, | presume n
If Their Mr.. Law, nor any one else would ventu
d to offer me the insult of proposing its p'
s. chase.
lie The CHOLERA AT KNOXVILLE TENNEss:
ut We are pleased to again welcome the appe
y ancc Of the Knoxville papers, though the hea
ne of the city is such that the cannot promise r.
I'd ular issues. The Register of the 18th IN
9, speaking of the cholera, says
I'VE learn that there was five new cases !
ne night. none of them fatal as yet, and bat {
ne of a severe character; besides these, there
G. but two cases within our knowledge which
considered dangerous. Both ofthese twolat
III cases were brought on by imprudence, not
ng say culpable carelessness or ignorance. ]
total number Of deaths up to 9th inst, W
ffty-three.'
MIRACULOUS EscAPE.-An Infant on 3
falo Robe. The Putnam County Courier st;
Ter that a Mr.. Smith of Peekville, was cross
a bridge in the town of Patterson, near
ne line Of Kent, III the county, Wednesday of
week, he was thrown from his wagon in
Ies sequence of his horse taking fright at an OF
sa ing in the bridge. His wife and infant c
were with him, an all escaped without I'M
me although the child and buffalo robe were /
1 precipitated into the stream, the child fal
leo on the robe which hoated dow the str
m bearing its precious little burden onward I
~ both were drawn ashore by gentlemen
LAY were returning from a pic, mic excursion.
IIP horses sheered off and went over the ban
hS the stream down q precipice of thirty feet,
SEES were drowned. They and the wagon y
tne drawn out about an hour after the oCcurre
PIrrsBuRG, Sept. 18.--The cholera is
ion creasing to an alarming extent, and our
ich zens are flying by thousands in every di
us ton. There have been SO deaths from
- aru aco ond Haofho