Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-04-16
NEWS OF Tng DAY.


New York, April 10.-The Herald of
this morning says it has advices from Hayti
to the 9Th ult.. which state that four English
and two French men-of-war, lately IL portion
of the Baltic feet, had arrived at Port au
Prince. Other vessels are expected, and
twelve to fourteen thousand French troops
had been disembarked at Guadalupe.
New YoRK, April l0.-The U. S. war
steamer Merrimac has been ordered to An
napolis for the benefit of the members of
Congress and of the students of the Navy
School.
The recent protest in behalf of Sloo against
the payment to Law, Roberts & Co., for car
rying the mails to Panama will have no effect
on the transmission of the mails, the quarter
ly compensation having been paid as hereto
fore.
MILWAUKEE,, Wisconsin, April 10.-The
American State council of Wisconsin have
repudiate | Mr.. Fillmore. and favor the nomi-
nation of Mr.. N. P. Banks.
ROAD MAsrER.-We learn that Capt. j. E.
Allen has been appointed Road Master on the
N. c.. Road, in place of Mr.. Sumner, re-
signed.
The New DOME FOR THE CAPIToL-The es-
timated cost OF the new dome to be placed on
the Capitol at Washington City, D. c., is
S945, 900, or say $1,000, 900, in round mum.
bers. 1t is to be of cast iron, and surely
ought to be a very magnificent affair for that
money. The National Capital, with it's i'm
mense additions and new dome, will be not
only the largest, but one of the most expen-
sive edifices devoted to legislative business in
the world.
D T. A. Lumsden, of the New Orleans
P~icayune, was examined on the 20th uit, on
the charge of attempting to kill Dennis Cor
coran Of the Delta. The charge was dismiss
ed as groundless.
We are automatically advised that the Prin-
cess Royal of England and heir apparent to
thethrone, now in the sixteenth year Of her age,
is betroth-d 70 Prince Frederick If Prussia, a
young gentlemen some nine years her senior !;
and that they will be married probably in the
course of the current year.
The contributions ofthe people. in the time
of David, towards building the sanctuary,
was not far from 100000, 900 while David
is said to have collected nearly G36, 900, 900.
The gold with which Solomon OVERLAND the
Most Holy Place." only a room thirty feet
square, amounted to more than thirty-eig ht
1lIlllOuS VI pOuuuS SteFllHp.
MULTIPLICATION OHIo.-The" Republican,
majority in the Ohio legislature have passed
q bill to amend the hd6eas corpus act. The
Cincinnati Enquirer says: five understand
its provisions correctly it gives to abolition,
lists the right of replevying fugitives from ser.
vice, by a process, from the State Courts.
which brings them, as we'll as the Marshal.
before it. The Sheriff is empowered to take
the slaves from the Marshal's iuris fiction by
force, if he ~resists. This law is a clear inva.
sions upon the sovereign right of the United
States, and will be resented as such by the
general government. It's only effect and ten
dency will be to,bring Ohio in nullifcatior
collision with the authorities at Washington
1t it a dishonest effort to evade, upon the
part of the State, its solemn compact, upor
entering the Union, to deliver up to theil
owners fugitives from service.
BA- A certain MilIerite author tried to &c
a publisher to print his book, proving tina
the world would come to an end in thre,
months, and requesting the publisher to wal
nine months for his pay. The latter dom
like the looks of the last six months.
Taken an Appeal.-We arc informed tina
the negro boy, Lockley, who was sentences
to be hung on the 10Th of May next, has ia
ken an appeal to the Supreme Court.
Damages Recovered. A suit for libel
brought by Rev. James Naylor, a Presby
terrain minister, against DR.. I. J. Garden
in the circuit court Of Charlotte county
Va, was last week decided in favor of tn
plaintiff, and $4,000 damages awarde
him.
Murder. Thomas J. Capeheart, a
overseer on a plantation near Mt. Meig'
Montgomery county, Ala, died on tn
10Th ult., of sixteen knife wounds, il
ficted by a negro he was about to cha!
tise. Two negro women were dreadful
cut by the negro for their efforts to pre-
vent the murder. C~apeheart was a natiy
of BERTHE county, n. c.
Pardon Of DR.. Graham. New Yorl
April 9th. Gov. Clark yesterday pardone
DR.. Graham, of New Orleans, imprisohe
several years for killing Col. Loring,
the st. Nicholas Hotel. a few years sine