Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-08-13

The Atlantic brings little news, except In
relation to the Spanish insurrection, accounts
of the progress and prospects OF which are
somewhat conflicting. AS near as We can
Judge from the reports, O'Donnell had taken
such ~efectual measures for crushing an OUT
break, should any occur, that after thirty
hours hard fighting in Madrid the citizens
and national guard surrendered and were
Immediately disarmed. Madrid was tran
quill. At Barcelona and elsewhere the out
breaks were trifing, and were speedily sup
pressed. Saragossa is now the head quar-
tiers of the insurrectionists, where it is repor-
ted that more than a legal quorum of the
Cortes were assembled, proclaiming "iber-
ty and the constitution" Narvaez and 9TH
er adherents of ex-Queen Christina were has
tening to the frontier, whittier Napoleon had
ordered troops.
The London Times intimates that Mr..
Dallas's proposition for the settlement of the
Central American question is likely to prove
satisfactory to England.
A. letter to the Spanish Legation at Paris
says that the difficulty between Mexico and
Spain has been honorably adjusted.
Serious disturbances had broken out at
Cassima, in the Papal State, and at Naples.
At the latter place several persons were
wounded and numerous arrests made.
lHE NlAhkETS.-l UH aQNlC6S lEOm NllS Sue
per steamship Asia had no effect on the Liv-
erpool cotton market which closed unchan-
ged and firm at the rates of the previous
Friday. Fair Orleans ID; middling Orleans
Gid. a 6 Sod; fair uplands sgd; middling
uplands 6Bd. a 6 3-l6d. Sales of the three
days 81, 900 bales, including 1000 on specu-
lation and $500 for export. The Liverpool
breadstuffs market was firm, but transaction
were to Onlva moderate extent.
WASHINGTON CRY, Aug. 8.-The steamer
Asia has arrived at New York, with latest
European News. Cotton unchanged, and
breadstuffs slightly higher.
The Spanish instruction continues.
The Central American question has been
settled. The Bay Islands have been ceded
to Honduras.
WASHINGTON, August 6.-The president to-
day communicated to the Senate a reply to
the resolution of that body calling for infor-
nation relative to the state of affairs at San
Francisco, California, together with the COR
respondence on the subject.
A letter from the Governor of California
asks the President for three thousand stands
of muskets or rifles, fifty rounds Of ammu-
milton, two mortars, three hundred shells, and
two guns of large calibre, with their amsu
milton and appliances, promising that they
shall be paid for or returned. He likewise
asks the use of the Military and Naval for
ces to suppress the instruction The Presi.
dent conceiving that there were insuferable
obstacles to the action now demanded, refer.
red the subject to the Attorney General. whose
decision. he approves.
Mr.. Gushing argues that there is no evi
dence in the Governors statements, o.
other authentic information, that in whaI
has occurred at San Francisco there was com
mitted or threatened any act of resistance OF
obstruction to the constitution, laws or ofic
ial authority Of the United States. The
President is only to be moved to action by
the Legislature of the State in which the in
surrection exist, or by the Executive Of suct
State, when such Legislature cannot be con
vened, and when imminent or extreme pub
lie disaster can be averted only by such in
terpcsition of the federal government. Ell
says that the whole constitutional power O
California has not been exerted, and it doe
not appear that the Governor took any step
to convene the Legislature, although tina
remedy might have been adopted and ha'
its e~ffectual application to the evils long be
fore any such remedy could be demande
from the President.
GREAT FLooD IN FLoR1DA.-The lamp,
Peninsular of the 18th of July gives an a,
count of a disastrous flood that has recent
visited that section of the State. 1t says
From fernando county we hear of som
plantations being entirely ruined. In som
places the richest hammock lands, in a stat
of cultivation, have been covered with san
from twelve to fifteen inches in depth, was
ed from more elevated points in others, tt
fields are submerged, crops destroyed, ar
3 the face of the country cut into ravines
/ many sinks" have been caused, as it wei
: by q CONFUSION of nature, which would see
to Indicate that we are to be favored wit
e improved facilities for taking a trip 8 South
some of them being bottomless."
WASHINGTON, August 6.-Messrs. Pryo
I of the Richmond Enquirer, and Ridgewa
of the Wing, fought a duel this morning
Bladensburg, at a distance of ten PAGES
Neither were injured. After one shot Il
C affair was amicably adjusted.
!, Storm. On the Both July, a terrif
storm prevailed north and westwar
From Washington, Philadelphia, al
Cincinnati, accounts reach us Of da1
age to property, and loss of life.
4 Prose Poem. Breathes there a m;
d with soul so dead, who never to hil
q self hath said, l will a family pap
. take both for my own and children
2 sake? If such there be let him roper
and have this paper to him sent.
q Man Killed By has ovm Co6fn.-
g About a year since a resident of Tive
r ty-ninth ST., New York, a man of co
siderable wealth, entertaining the id,
n that when he should die his relativ
j would put his body into a cheap cofi
8 bought a handsome rosewood one, lin
with white satin, and trimmed with S
y yer, for $75, and had it taken to
bedroom. He was found on Sund
4 morning dead on the floor, and the c.
Of fin beside him, and it was thought tn
Ie he had got up in the night, and
ID some means capsized the coffin, viii
q fell upon him, crushing his skull a
to causing instant death.
% Elected Again. Messrs. Brooks a
Us - Keitt, members of Congress from
to c., who resigned their seats becar
On of the vote of the House, on the Z
wv port of the Committee upon the Su
ner affair, have been elected again,
ne a nearly unanimous vote.
to South LoweU. The Fall Session
10 the School has opened prosperous
a9 Mr.. Speed, the new associate Prin
of pal, with Mr.. Bagby, is at his po