Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-09-06
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Cotton has declined !. Sales of
the week %, 900 bales.
Flour, western Canal 32s. Ohio 34s. Corn,
white and yellow 34s. Consois closed at 935.
The allies were investing Bomersund.-
The Crimean expedition had RssBRiled and
other affairs were unaltered.
Intelligence received by submarine tele-
graph, states that Bomersund had s1rren-
dered on the 10th, and 1000 of the Russians
were taken prisoners.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 28.-This city was
visited by one of the most terrific and awful
tornadoes yesterday (Snnday) that has ever
come within the knowledge of our people
The Fourth Presbyterian Church, which was
filed with a large congregation, was level
led to the ground during service by the fierce
ness of the wind, and melancholy to relate,
twenty-five of the congregation were Instant
ly killed. A large number are wounded,
and the distress of relatives andfriends, sur
passes all conception.-A large number of
other buildings in the city were completely
unroofed, and many blown down.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 29.-Thc Louisville pa
pers of this mornir g contain full particulars
of yesterdays tornado. The Democrat des-
cribes it as one of the most violent storms
that ever swept over that section of the coun-
try.
corner of Eleventh and Walnut street was
completely wrecked, and the entire building
fell in including the roof, rafters and brick
wall, crushing twenty of the congregation
to instant death and wounding severely ten
or twenty others. The scene was truly heart
rending. Soon a large crowd assembled and
began their search for the victims. A mother
and her three children were grouped in death.
Another scene presented a father, mother
and babe-the father lead and the mother
mortally wounded, while the little child pla-
ced beneath them remained unhutt, being
protected by the forms of its parents. In
other instances, some of the victims were
found terribly wounded and MANNED.
ToRNADo.-A fearful tornado passed over
the vicinity of Hat Creek, Campbell CO., Va,
on Sunday the 9th ult. 1t appears from q
letter in the Petersburg Express that it en-
braced a circumference several miles in ex-
tent, and almost destroyed the crop of tobac-
co. Two negroes were killed, probably by
lightning. At the church, near Hat Greek,
carriages were completely overturned by the
wind, and several ladies and gentlemen severe
" injured the church was also-much DANA
ged. The force of the wind must have been
immense for large trees were uprooted and
carried a distance of several hundred yards.
We shall undoubtedly receive accounts of
farther damage.
1t is rather singular that the terrible tor
nado in Louisville, nearly in the same lati-
tude, occurred almost simultaneously with
the one here reported.
INGENIOUS VIL1ANY.-Two strangers lately
called upon a merchant near Cairo, Indiana,
and desired to leave a box they had with
them in his house for the night. The request
was denied, but they were permitted to leave
the box in his store. The next morning he
discovered that his store had been robbed
during the night of a piece of valuable goods
and five hundred dollars in money. He OBJ
tanned assistance, and when the men called
for their box he had them secured and then
broke open the box, when, 10! out jumped
a third man, and in the box was found the
missing goods and money.
One day last week n gentlemanly looking
stranger called nPon 2 sextoA4in4 LolisHilla,
Kentucky, and ordered a child's grave dug,
offering a ten dollar bill in payment for the
service, and receiving eight dollars in return.
No child's funeral appearing at the appoin-
ted time, the sexton was led to examine his
ten dollar bill; when he found it was counter
felt.
TRIAL OF DR.. THoMPsoN.-The trial of DR..
VIM. B. Thompson before the court of Ale
ghany, on the charge of numbering Miss
Agnes G. Pharr, of Covington, began on
Monday the 2let instant. The Greenbrier
Era gives a report of the evidence given in
} OH Tuesday, by Mrs. Pitzer, who was pre-
sent when Miss Pharr died VIM. f. Morton
and John L.. Pitzer, who identified the body
at the exhumation; DIR. G.. Mcdonald, who
was present at the death of Miss P. and
DR.. J. R. Jordan of Lexington, who was
present at the post mortem examination. Of
the evidence subsequently taken (says the
Era that of Mrs. Pharr and Mai. Gillian
{ bear severely against the prisoner. The lat
l ter is the chemist who examined the stomach,
! and he testifes to finding strychnine therein
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.-The election in
the First Ward to-day for a member of the
0 Common Council, to fill the vacancy occasion
' ed by the death of Rev. Mr.. Sayra, resulted
in the choice Of Rev. Charles A. Davis, thu
? friend Of civil and religious liberty who re
r ceived 800 votes-Luther B. Smoot, the Know
g Nothing candidate, receiving 293.
i neg The new Methodist E.. Church, re
S Gently finished in this place was dedicated tt
e the service of Almighty God, Sunday, the
d 9th inst. The Dedicatory sermon was preach
y ed by the Rev. Mr.. Nicholson, Presiding Ell
der of this District. We are pleased to learl
that the subscription taken up on the occa
d sion was amply sufficient to relieve tn
0 Church from every debt, and purchase blind
h and carpeting--about 5000 having beel
o realized.-Beaufort Halcyon.
BARNUM's FIRST STEP owARD AFFLUENCI
1t may not be uninteresting at this time to tn
majority Of our readers, to inform them i
O what way Phineas T. Barnum first began t
n climb the ladder of opulence, from which tim
n forth he has been adding thousands to thou
sands, till at last he may with pFspFiety b
If counted among the millionaires Of our cour
v try.
it Several years since a drove of wild B1flIoe
" were being driven TO the city ofNew York fl
IS sale. Mr.. Barnum heard of them, and the
d conceived the idea of a great Buffalo Hun
e free to alp to take place somewhere in King
ID county Long Island. Before he made the thin
ID pbulic however, he hired each of the ferrit
d leading to Brooklyn fiom all the adjacent citi
u and islands for a single dag, and named tt
< day which he chose and the money was paid
at advance.
&c He then announced throughout all the cou
to try that a Buffalo Hunt would take place at
Te particular time, when Indians on horseba,
in with lassos would endeaver to capture the wi
in beasts. As might be expected. so novel
IN exhibition only a short distance from New Yor
h hronqed-9ammed the ferries all day long. Il
ne receipts of which belonged to the lessor, N
ne Barnum, and which for that day alone exceed,
Id twenty thousand dollars.
a. From this time Mr.. Barnum has been du
bed by every name that Snowman could