Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-12-17
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New YoRK, Dec. 9.-The steamer Atlantic
with dates from Europe, TO the Goth Noyem-
Der, arrived here this morning.
The Anglo French alliance, though preg-
nant with speculation, was regarded as set
tied.
The Gazette Universaile Allemair has a
letter from Vienna dated the 14th, stating
that it had been announced that the Congress
of Paris would not meet a second time, and
that the Commissioners Of the Eve great pow
ers would assemble at ~Constantinople to set
tie the questions now pending as to the Prin-
CAPABILITIES, Bolgard and the Isle of Serpents.-
This is quite wrong, Nothing has been set
tied on the subject, and negotiations are still
going on.
Extraordinary activity in the Russian ship
building establishments of the Black Sea has
awakened the distrust of England, and that
power lately applied to France for the pur-
pose of making a joint representation to Rus
STA on the subject, it being notorious that the
Car has twelve men of war in the Black Sea.
II is believed that the Cabinet of the Tuilleries
! hhS6Esgt. 9aer"ed sHehs internollation opportune
The Neufchatsl question was not invested
with any serious danger.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 26.-Richardson, Spence
) & Co., quote Red Wheat at 8a9s; white 9s
2da9s l0d. Canal Flour not quoted South
ern 32sa33s Cd; Ohio 34sa35s Cd. Mixed
Corn 33s to 33s Cd white 34sa35s yellow
33s 6da33s Cd.
Consols for money "a to 94B ; for account
, GAIA GAL.
q IMPORTANT TO BETTING MEN. The Su-
preme Courts of Ohio and South Carolina
: have lately decided that the losing party in
4 a wager may recover from the stakeholder
/ the money he may have deposited with him,
" although the latter, after the determination
d of the wager, had, by the order of the depos-
itor, paid the money over to the winner.
n This decision of the Court is destined to eff
feet an entire revolution in the betting
" world.
The VoTE FOR PREsIDENT.-The returns of
the vote for President as far as received foot
le up as follows Buchanan ], 796, 277; FIRE.
mont 1925 1856 Fillmore $4,000. The
returns to come in will rot materially vary
the result. Mr.. Buchanan is over four hun
dred and sixty eight thousand ahead Of Mr..
err Fremont and Mr.. Fremont has nearly half a
million votes more than Mr.. Fillmore.-Th
combined vote for Fremont and Fillmore is
&c greater than that of Buchanan by 354,528.
A GEORGIA RAILRoAD.-The Western and
" Atlantic Railroad of Georgia makes g very
a gratifying exhibition for the year beginning
n LIST October. 1855, and ending Both Septem-
Der, 1856.
re Total receipts, 1871, 1866
~ Expenses for the same period, $50, 1888
ck The total cost of the road was about S.
~ 100000 showing a net profit for the year Of
pearly 9 per cent.
IL MELANCHOLY CASE OF IN~TEMPERANcE.-
:. The Troy Times tells a sad story Of the des-
II %truction of a young and lovely woman, by
intemperan3e. A few months since, a young
ne lady of one of the first families of that city
"A was married to a New York merchant, un.
der circumstances most suspicious for the
lg happiness of both. Lately she returned to
Id her home in Troy, discarded by her husband
LII on account of her mania for Intoxicating
ar drinks, and in a few weeks she died of brain
fever, induced by her habits. The father Of
the young lady has been called upon, mithin
at three months, to mourn the death of a wife
In and daughter by intoxication and o son
% once noble and manly, whose highest nature
has been perverted by the same cause.
Asthma.-This most disheartening com
= plant has been completely cured in many
ay instances by the use Of Wistar's Balsam 0
Wild Cherry. Surely anything that will af
in ford relief from this painful disease will b.
h. hailed as a real blessing.
he SALE OF Mr.. DEvEREUx's SLAvEs.-W,
learn that some 230 slaves of T. P. Devereux
Esq, heretofore advertised by him, and sole
at Halifax on the End inst, brought an ave
w rage of about $500 each. The most of then
it were taken by the planters in Halifax an,
surrounding Counties. But few were pur
- chased by spectators, though a number wer
" present.