Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-05-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Foreign News.

Tn Hermann and America have arrived
at Halifax, from L~iyerpool-the former with
dates to the 23d and the latter to the Goth
ult. The following is the substance Of their
ews
Inc London Star states that the British
abine decided on the ODD on the American
questions and will make concessions in the
Central American affairs, but determined not
to recall Mr.. Champion.
The London papers had succeeded in oh
tanning an advance copy of the treaty of Peace.
1t comprises thirty four articles and is not
much different from what had been anticipa-
ted.
The Black Sea is neutralized, all strong.
noids on IT'S shores forbidden and all war
SHIPS lnterdicted, except for police purposes.
Inc Danube is freed, Russia making a slight
concession of frontier of the Bessarabia.
Mars and the Orlmea are mutually restored.
The service remains as at present.
Wallacia and Moldavia are to have consti-
buttons which will be prepared by condition,
or otherwise be as at the commencement of the
war. Little else of interest.
Advices from Teheran state thatthe Amer
leans were endeavoring to make a treaty in
relation to m
MARKETs.-Liverpool, April 23d.-Cotton
advanced an eighth-Sales of 5000 bales
Spectators $4,000; Exporters 1000. Closed
quiet. Flour-The brokers' circular quotes
this article sitter, but not quotably higher for
some qualities, others a trife higher.
QUEBEC, May THE steam propeller N urth
America arrived at this port to-day. and her
latest news from Europe announces that the
Russian militia had been disbanded.
TIL Admiralty had ordered all the light
houses to be lighted in the CULTS of Bothnia,
Finland, and the Black and White Seas.
Cotton bad advanced I'D. of a penny. Bread
stutfs, the newspapers say, are dull, with q
declining tendency.
Maxim q Sons report good barrel -four
had advanced Is. Wheat was unchanged,
and Consols at 90.
New YORK, May7.-Meetings forthe relief
of the sufferers in the Cape Verde Islands
were held in this city yesterday. The Portu-
CUES residents subscribed $4,000 for a vessel
to be chartered to carry provisions to the
Islanders.
New YORK, May 1.-The Hon. Ogden
Hoffman, recently Attorney General of this
State, died this afternoon after a short illness.
CHICAGO, May7.-The Platte county Ar
gus, OF the I'd says that Sheriff Jones, who
was shot at Lawrence, in Kansas, is dead.
CosT OF RECLAIMING FUGIrIvEs.-The
CINCINNATI Gazette states that the whole
expense of the Gaines Slave Case. to the
people, is thirty or forty thousand dollars.
Tire" hundred and ore deputy marshals
were employed for the full term of the trial,
to whom certificates where issued, emitting
each holder to fifty-six dollars, amounting in
all to Sl6,850, besides from two to three
hundred other deputies, who drew certificates
Tor tromfve to eighteen days service, making
a sum total for deputies of $2l,4 ass. The
balance OF the sum of thirty to forty thousand
dollars was swelled up by fees, &c, charged
by the U. s.. Marshal.
EXECUTION OF SEwELL.-Riddick Sewell
suffered the extreme penalty of the law at
Hartford on Friday last for the murder of a ne
gro woman in this county d year ago. Sever
al thousand persons are represented to have
witnessed the execution. Sewell to the last
protested his Observation-Disclosures
nocent, he did not know it-in fact. knew
nothing about it.-Dem. Pioneer.
GUILroRD SUPERIOR CoURr.-We learn from
tne raciot' that nearly the whole of the
term OF the Court, week before last was oonI0
ple9 with cases on the criminal docket.
Peter johnson was tried and convicted Of
the TALL term of the Court for the murder &c
John Diamond, and the case having ham COZ
rled up by appeal to the Supreme Court Tho
uugment was there confirmed; he was now
therefore, brought to the bar of the Conrt
ana sentence was passed upon him. FRIDAY
%cution. ~ nS exc
oohh hogers, q young man, charged with
burglary pleaded guilty of grand larceny.
ana was sentenced to receive thirty-nine Lash
eS forthwith, and thirty-nine at the next term
of the Court. '0rAn
Julius and Albert, slaves of GEORGE n
Mendenhall, Esq, were put on trial for The
murder OF George, a slave of DIR. r. G Lind
say. julius was convicted of manslauotor
and branded on the left hand. Albert was
acquitted.-HjUs. Rec. was
WASHINGTON, May 8.-Mr. Herbert
sentative from California shot tho Cb;of W.:
Ter at Wizards Hotel at ii O'Clock this fore
noon. The waiter died Instantly. TnsoIanco
from the waiter was the cause Of the traoedv
DEATH OF EX-SENATOR DAWSON H.
William G. Dawson, for manv years J;i at;n
gulshed Senator of the United States f.
georgia, is reported by telegraph to have dind
ut Greensboro, in that State. on TunsdoU &c
neuralgia of the heart. "y' oi
d. III n 20 cent bottle of Perry Davis
ram Miller will seldom fail to cure cboloro
II resorted to in season. No one should ="
without it during cholera time. II vii o NC
pains Of oil kinds. cure
Ilolioway's Pills possess most ASTONISHING
powersln the cure of General Debility. Cow
OF a letter from Henry Antorne. Of Uonp:y
ton, Chlckasaw, Mississippi, to Professor
holloway: Sir suffered for number of
years from weakness and general debility.
and was brought to deaths door by the same
L was told by those l consulted that there
was no hope of my recovery, when Iresolved
to give your Pills a trial. After using them
about live weeks my health was considerably
and at the expiration of two
every symptom of my disorder dis
appeared" (Signed) Ii. ANTORNE.
DEATH OF J. G. observation-disclosures. Nav
JIG. P~ercival, the poet and at the time
5eologlst OF the State died on Friday last.
Deah ofa Revolutionary Soldier. Capt.
Logan, a soldier in the war of the
Revolution, died at his residence in Able.
.llle District, s. c., on the 14th inst. at
he advanced age of 50 years.
A Bloody Year. There were seventy
hree battles fought during the year 1855,
With an average loss of a thousand men
n each NOR than 800, 900 soldiers are
to have persisted by disease and