Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-11-07
NEWS OF YHE BA.Y.

a large number of passengers from
Richmond, Petersburg, and other places,
among whom were many OF the refugees
She will leave at the usual hour on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday. ia. 1o
Our harbour will be soon present it's former
of vessels of every description, from
the jolly boat to the full rugged merchantmen.
Steam will pull, and blow, and roar on land
as well as on the water, and trade, commerce,
banking, manufactures, traf6cking, hucf ster-
ing, shipping, steamboating, &c., and SO on,
will go forward as in days that are passed,
and even more prosperously..
Norfolk argus, Oct 81.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.-President Pierce
has decided that General Scott is entitled to
back pay and his allowances, as Lieutenant
General, to date from the Goth of May 1847.
The decision has been communicated to Gen
eral Scott.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-Gen. Scott will re-
ceive upwards of S10,500, back pay, by vir-
ture of his brevet appointment, or about
$1,000 per annum, additional to his pay as
Major General.
A private letter by the Africa states that
although enfeebled by his recent attack of
Du1 al OlS DULL GULL LII luGC11CCL ulllu1DdIGOs
He stands deseryedly high at the French
Court.
New YoaK, Oct. 31.-The Steamer Sierra
Nevada, with New York passengers of 25th
Sept, from San Juan Del Sud put into AGA
pulco, on the 18th of October, with II deaths
from cholera, during the passage, and q
hours after her arrival.
The authorities refused to allow the dead
bodies to be brought ashore!
One week later, the Steamer ortez arrived
with no sickness on board.
FROM NoRFoLK.-The Norfolk Herald of
yesterday contains the following items:
An evidence of the increasing influx Of
returning s~exiles,' was afforded on the past
Sabbath, by the congregations in attendance
upon the services in the several churches
all of which were far more respectable in
point of numbers than for some weeks past.
The exercises generally, as we learn, were
ola highly impressive character, and most
appropriate to the solemn times upon which
We have fallen. ss.
INTERESTING FROM WAsHINGToN.-A des-
patch from Washington to the New York
Herald, dated October %, furnishes that pa
per with the following interesting items:
l. lhcIe are, L Bee. SUui9 .QOuDJS eApTeSSeu
about the advent of a new ambassador from
Russia, but | repeat that it is a fixed fact.
lie will bring, besides his regular credentials,
a confidential communication from the Car,
Of the most important character, relative to
the terms on which alone Russia will con-
sent to a peace. What | now state will be
known to the public in a few weeks. Russia
mediated between Great Britain and the
United States, and now the United States
may mediate between Russia and the Allies.
She does not ask American mediation, but
will accept it, and will at once indicate her
terms, which, as I stated in a former com.
, munication, will embrace such vast CONNER,
cial advantages for all the world that the in,
dustrial classes of France and England will
. clamor for their acceptance as soon as they
! are generally understood.
Reliable advices received by the Africa
state that Mr.. Buchanan would ere thi.
have left London fer Paris, and that he vii
probably visit Italy before returning home
' A circular letter from Denmark, relative
to a settlement of the question of the Sound
;. dues, has been received by the government
The President has entirely recovered from
. the chills and fever with which he was afec
ted.
To-day's Organ contains the valedictor
\ VI 4AAS DAAn CIlS VIII 4C1YCO u COuCG II
Who the future editor is to be is not nov
known.
In the court of Claims to-day, the testimo
ny taken in the case of Isaac Swain was ad
2 mitted, thus deciding that government store
4 are not subject to i'm post duties, and tbs
4 government is liable for injury sustained b
4 citizens in consequence of the improper COZ
duct Of its agents. The argument in tn
Florida cases was continued.
The agitation Of the slavery ques tic
is gradually but surely producing a separ;
ton of the Churches North and South. Tt
Methodists and Presbyterians were the fir,
= to break up into distinct organizations froI
y disputes arising out of this exciting topi
n and within the past week the Synod Of Il
r. Dutch Reformed Church, which has iu
OF closed its session inoNew York, refused
40 admit the Chassis of North Carolina o~nslayel
a grounds.
us ORANGE COUNTY SocIETY.-Thi< Societ
We held it's second Annual Fair in Hillsbor
&C. on Thursday and Friday of last wee
The exhibition, we are pleased to learn, W
ie- quite gratifying to the many visitors. O
8. engagements did not afford US time to ma
an examination of the various articles pl
sented we must refer our readers, therefor
to the pleasant birds eye view of them
he our correspondent In another column. L
IL Annual Address was delivered on Friday
in our esteemed neighbor and friend John \
k Norwood, Esq, to which we listened wi
al, great pleasure. The reputation of the spea
er led US to expect aniRteresting and instrr
ere tive address, and we were not ~disappointt
a Hi2sboro' Recorder.
ted
SUGGEsTIvE-There is nothing equal to
pocket full of doubloons, says the Alba
Police Gazette, for tartingupwicked though
he Jones was one Of the most steady going ]
Cd. lows in the world, till his uncle Bimel'
died, leaving him an eight hundred dol
deposit in the Or Molu Bank, Jones
3ae ceived his portion aweek ago last Frid
,Ssv The next day he left town with ma
wife.-Under ordinary circumstances, Jol
,o;Sr would have died a spotless citizen, and g,
to Paradise. The probability is now t
Jones will die a rascal, and take the do
train and bring up in the depotofB eelzeb
Think of Jones, and, when you do bless
Lord that your pocket-book is only equal
virtue and mashed potatoes.
of yp,,ow FpvrR AND CHOLERA AT Or.R
"A. TINE BELOW New YoRK.-The New Y
OF journal of Commerce of Both Oct, mi
ar the following report ION the oath il
schooner Ann Maria. Capt. Conklin, arri
nted from Savannah. The Captain, mate
VII one of the crew were sick of malignant fe
and sent to the hospital. The vessel, b.
FIJI without officers, has been cared for b,
resi- c~onsignees. The captain is not expecte