Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-01-17

bringing Liverpool dates to Both Dec. Cot
ton had declined 3D., -four and corn unchans
ed.
The new frem the seat Of war is not very 1
important. The storming Sevastopol is to
take place, it is said, as soon as the Turkish
endorsements come up.
Napoleon has made a great war speech be-
fore the French Legislative Council, in which
he spoke of no prospects of peace. A levy
of 40 thousand soldiers would be made for
1865. The Council voted for five million
francs for the war alone.
The British Parliament had adjourned. The
Royal assent had been given 10 the foreign
enlistment bill. This measure continues very
unpopular.
AwFUL TRAGEDY A most outrageous
murder was committed last Tuesday in the
upper part of Camden County. William Saw
yer, without provocation, as we are informed
deliberately shot a man by the name of Henry
Bray, killing him almost instantly. Bray
had been at the house of Sawyer helping
him to kill hogs, and after the work was fin
ished, at Sawyer's solicitation, he remained
all night. Sometime during the night Saw
yer had a difficulty with his wife and COM
menced whipping her. Bray hearing the
noise started to get up, when Sawyer took up
his gun and deliberately shot him down
Sawyer has thus eluded every effort to arrest
him. We are informed that both parties
-~a~A drunk ut the timear-QMN North State.
WA~sHrEeroN, Jan, 19.--The Hon. Mr.. Nor
ris U. S. Senator from New Hampshire, died
last night. A few minutes before be expired,
he was able to walk about.
WASHINGTON, Jan'y 12.-Letters have been
received here, which came by the Baltic, stat
ing that the Hon. John Y. Mason, our Min
lister to France, was attacked with paralysis
at Paris on the 9th of December, and was
very i'll when the Baltic sailed.
A CERTAIN CURE FOR ScRoFULA. Nicholas
Longworth, the famous millionaire and wine-
grower of Cincinnati, publishes the following
cure for scrofula:
Pat 3 OF. of aquafortis on a r late, on which
you have two copper cents. Let it remain
from 18 to 81 hours. Then add 4 or. of clear
vinegar. Put cents and all in a large mounted
bottle, and keep it cOrked. Begin by putting
4 drops in a tea spoon full Of rain water, and
apply it to the sore. Make the application
three times a day, with a soft hair pencil, or
made of soft rags. If Gerry painful, put
more water. AS the sore heals apply it
weaker.
request editors, in all parts of the Union,
and abroad, to copy this, and to republish il
quarter yearly it may save many lives.
n. LoNGwoRTH.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. Is, 1854.
P. S. Capt. Hardness, of our city, thefrst
person cured by this remedy, applied it with.
out water, and he informed me that he
thought it would burn his leg of; but the
next day it was cured. His was a small
sore, and had been attended to for months
by one of the best physicians, without any
benefit.
TERRIBLE ExPLos1oN-Loss OF LIFE.-Wt
learn from the Express of yesterday, that
shocking accident occurred On Tuesday, nea
Pleasant Hill, in the vicinity Of the Peters
burg and Roanoke Railroad. The boiler 0
the steam engine attached to Messrs. Beeb
& Blunt's extensive saw mill, in Greenyill
county, Va, exploded about II o'clock, scat
tering death and destruction in every dire6
ton. The building was literally torn to pie
cies, portions of the wreck being thrown to
distance of several hundred Yards. Whe
our Informant passed near the spot, distau
about fifty miles from Petersburg, three negr
men had been taken from the ruins, horribl
mangIed and bfuIted, and severai-ethe1
very badly wounded. One white man. it
thought cannot possibly recover. We couI
!, not learn the names of any ofthe parties, Il
| cars stopping but a very brief period. II
| damage we are informed, is certainly We
great.
D ANOTHER Personal---very. day confirms t
{ opinion recently put forth in our columns til
v the INSTRUMENTATION of the slave population
attributable 10 the tipping shops establish
$ by law. The latest is the trial ola male sla
Y for striking his overseer with IN intent to XII
) 1t came out on the trial that he was into
Gated. Wehad written thus far, when glanci
:, over a Petersburg paper we saw the report
10 the arrest of several colored persons, unlawf
re convened and here too, a tipping shop Y
n involved. With facts like these before the
i; viii the people Of Virginia continue the licel
7e system? IF they answer age, they know
e. penalty.
s RUSSIAN BARRARITY.-Th The Russians, at
ne all, are not the cannibals some of the Ma
n Longbows, writing to the English jodrn;
n occasionally make out. Is witness the follc
r. ing extract Of a letter from one Of the priva
of the llth Hussars, taken prisoner at B
Id klava
- 4 must say that since we have been in
to hands Of the Russians they have behaved
n gentlemen to US in every respect; and we h
he been treated equally as well as if we had b
M with our own countrymen. They have G
OF allowed us this very great indulgence of v
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