Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-08-27
NEWS OF gHg DAY.

bringing Liverpool dates to the 9th inst
Cotton remains unchanged in pricesfrom the
last arrivals. Breadstufs had still further
declined-Flour 8 to 4 shillings, and Wheat
l shilling. No other news of interest here
is brought.
CHICAGO, Aug. 0.-It has been ascer-
tanned of Kansas that the pro-slayery men
were concentrating men, arms and amuni-
tions at different points for the purpose of a
general attack on the freesoiiers Immediately
afterthe adjournment of Congress. Twelve
block houses had been built at different
points and were well supplied with arms of
all kinds and garrisoned by Missourians.-
There was a meeting in Kansas city, and it
was resolved to send a quota. The border
towns in Missouri are extremely excited and
a general muster of the Missourians is de-
manded. The attack on Franklin by the
freesoilers was for the purpose of getting
p ossession of arms collected there. One
block house was captured with fifty stands
of arms and a cannon.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 19.-Yesterday the paper
called, the West Point Border Rufian'5 of
the 18th, arrived here, and says that on the
Monday night previous 200 free sellers at
tackedthe town OF Franklin, containing only
20 proslayery merA The fight lasted during
OnO hOuI, duA STA AfEt SOll6fS anu IOuT DFO@
slavery men were<AiHad. The post Office was
robbed and then burnt, and then the assail-
ants retreatec, carrying off the cannon be-
longing to the town.
Another report says that II free-soilers
were killed and wounded. The Government
troops occupied the town next day, and Lanes
men arrived at Topeka.
New ORLEANS, August 16.-The late storm
NUoC tho NJ ncf fauu,11o -
this section. There was a number of vessels,
besides the Manila, wrecked, and it is sup
posed all on board persisted. Many other YES
sells went ashore, Of which we have no par
~tlculars as yet. 1t is believed that the Nau-
titus foundered with all on board. The
names OF the passengers are unknown. She
was under command of Captain Thompson.
The total number of dead is now estimated
at over three hundred.
The cotton crop in Louisiana mostly es-
capped, but gloomy accounts are anticipated
in Mississippi.
SHOCKING SIGHT. At a late hour on Fri
day night, officer Dempsy found a woman ~.
IN upon the pavement in Brinton street,
beastly drunk, with an infant only two weeks
old IN her arms. transferable creature, who
had a crowd collected around her, was taken
to the station house, where she remained I'M
til morning. She stated that the child was
her own, that her name was Susan McGee-
han, and that her husband was absent from
the city. Such a scene of degradation we
have rarely witnessed ; and when the prison
er stood in front of the magistrate with hel
almost ifeless nursing in her arms, un
conscious of its mothers shame, a feeling Of
s pity was evident, not only on the part of the
e officers, but all who stood near.-She was
n discharged, with a severe reprimand. Phil
}. Sun.
UNFORTUNATE REcoNTRE. We are sorrv
to learn, that Jesse Moore and DR.. Smith
I both of Hookerton, Greene Co., had a diff
Guilty on the road, last Friday, in which Mr.
Moore received a severe, if not a fatal blow
n on the head. Our informant saw Moore OF
! Tuesday morning when it was supposed b,
was dying-he neY er spoke after he receive,
= the blow. The difficulty occurred or accoun
of some alleged rumors, circulated by D.
Smith, ~derogatorY to the character Of M,
S Moore. The difficulty has been oyer lively
~ months standing Goldsboro' Tribune.
FATAL SICKNESS. We learn, SAYS the Char
lottesville (Va.) Advocate, that there is
great deal of sickness in the Northern par
of this county. Our informant says that tn
dysentery is nearly as fatal in proportion t.
n the population in Shi6aett's Hollow as wa
the yellow fever in Norfolk and Portsmouth
n last summer. Our town and immediat
es neighborhood have been quite healthy.
The New York Times alledges that tn
al yellow fever has found a Judgment in King
tie county. 1t made its appearance three week
he ago, and since that time not less than fit
persons have died in Utrecht and that vicir
I'D ity alone. The citizens are quite panic strict
ne en-, and most Of them have fed. Nurses al
'e in great demand. For some days it was col
d. fined almost exclusively to the southern pal
n of the county,. but within a few DAYS it ha
made its appearance at Yellow Hook in IL
he England Ward of Brooklin, and several deatt
of had taken place.
p Schoo1 Master Mnrdered.