Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-08-02
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NEW York July 27.-Yhe Africa arrived
at her wharf to day, with a large number Of
passengS 4 three days later intelligence,
she havj ed from Liverpool on the 18th.
There e. more fighting between the
Russians ana 3 on the Danube
Other affairs a. Aanchanged.
The Spanish insurgents maintain themselves.
ETERrapL Markets, July 15th.-Flour
has declined rs. during the week wheat 3 to
sd. corn active at lower rates. Baltimore
-four is quoted at 344 to 35s. ; corn $685.
Cotton has been dull all the week, and suffer
ed a decline. Consols closed at 913 to 6l5.
The cholera is raging at Niagara with in
creavirulence. The mortality is said to be
horrible. A despatch from Buffalo says it is
unprecedented in its ravages. The living have
fed precipitately in the greatest CONSERVATION
and dismay, and left the dead unburied TO be
devoured by the hogs.
CoNGREss.-Eforts are being made to give
the President the ten millions of dollars ask
ed for in his Cuba. message.
The recent movement of Mr.. Singleton, to
call upon the President for information, and
that of Mr.. Barksdale for an appropriation
of ten millions of dollars, to be placed at the
disposal of the President, is thought to be
part of a plan to get another war message.
and place the President in a position to ne
gotiate for or seize Cuba, as circumstances
might dictate. With the 100000 at his
disposal, and the already organized fllibus-
tiers, shrewd observers of events think the
latter course would be pursued.
CAPE FEAR RIVER BILL APPRovEr.-On
Saturday, President Pierce signed the Cape
Fear River Bill, and announced his approval
in a short message, which we publish below.
The brief explanation given in this message
leaves little room to doubt that the President
will veto the River and Harbor Bill.
To the Senate Of the United States:
l have this day given my signature to the
act making further appropriation for the
improvement of the Cape Fear River, North
Carolina
The occasion seems to render it proper
for me to deviate from the ordinary course OF
announcing the approval of bills by an oral
statement only, and, for the purpose of pre-
venting any misrepresentation which might
otherwise arise from the phraseology of this
act, to communicate, in writing, that my ap'
proval is given to it on the ground that the
Instructions, which the proposed a~ppropria
ton is intended to remove, are the result Of
acts of the general government.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
WASHINGTON, July %, 1854.
EXAMINATION.-Ihe examination or tn
Students of Davidson College will commenc
on Monday the 7th Of August inst.
The Board of Trustees meet by adjourn
ment on Tuesday, at IL o'clock, A. M.
There will be public speaking by tn
Representatives of the Literary Societies G
College on Wednesday, with the Annua
Grafton by SAM'L F. PHILLIPS, Esq, of Cha
pei Hill.
The exercises of Commencement will tax
place on Thursday the 10th.
The JAPAN TREATY. This important docr
ment was ratified by the Senate in secre
session on Saturday, and it is stated ths
several Senators were in favor of removin
the injunction of secrecy-the majority, how
ever, were not in favor of the proposition
How the New York papers got hold of tt
Treaty we do not know.
BUFFALO, July 26.-Miss Fillmore, daugl
ter of Ex-presideut Fillmore, died at Aurol
at eleven o'clock this morning. She left he
yesterday to spend a few days at Aurora
In the night she was taken with dysenter
and sank rapidly. When her father, broth
and Doctor White reached her, about II
O'Clock this morning, she was SO far gone
to be unable to recognize them, and died
half an hour thereafter. The distressil
event casts the deepest gloom over our emit
community. She was % years of age.