Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-04-09

lie was of Pa, had been AZ years
in the service and up to his death was in
command of the Navy Yard at Gosport.
Galena, Ill, April la terrible fire
broke out IN ths place, this morning, in the
heart OF the city. commencing near the De
House. and destroyed 80 buildings in
GLIDING tn Catholic Church of the city. The
hotel after much difficulty was saved. The
is very great, and as yet is unknown.
New Orleans, March 29.-On the 9th Of
March Col. Walk-r issued a proclamation
that he was invited by the Democrat
ic party of Nicaragua, to assume the power
he had DONE. He had pursued and strug-
gied to carry out the principles of the revolu-
ton OF ls54, and as the Legitimist party were
refuseing all efforts at cancellations there was
left for him but war.
The Costa Rica Government also had is
sued an address to the people of Central
America. calling earnestly on them to rise in
and destroy the American Invaders.
MARSHALL NEY-A correspondent of the
Salisbury Waterman gives out a statement
that Marshall Ney's execution wasall asham,
that he escaped to this country having been
fired at with blank cartridges, &c. Things
are not done thir sort of way by military
men, and any6TE who has seen an execution
of a criminal by military law, will at once
perceive th2t the thing is almost impossible.
Besides the brave and honorable Ney would
never have consented to close his life with a
dodge, and thus tarnish with posterity a
reputation far more dear than life to him as
all his antecedents up to that period prove
beyond question.
AN INTERESTING PIcTUrE.-Mr. Buchanan,
the American Minister, has sent hon e from
London an original portrait of John Hamp-
den, the celebrated English Patriot, who was
one OF the first to res list the encroachments
of the Stuarts, and to assail the prerogativos
of the Crown, in the great struggle for pop
ular rights which led to the establishment of
the English Commonwealth, and subsequent
ly planted on this soil the republican germs
which have grown up into a nation of free
men. This portrait belonged to Mr.. John
McGregor, member of Parliament for Glas-
cow. and is presented by him, though Mr..
Buchanan, to the Congress of the United
States. 1t is one of the only two original
portraits of Hampden, now in existence.
1t is estimated that the clergy cost the Uni
ted States six million dollars a year the
criminals twenty millions the dogs ten mill
ions, and the lawyers thirty-fve millions.
Hotel for Sale. The 'YarboroughH House,"
one Of the largest Hotels in Raleigh, is to be
sold at public auction on the 10Th May next.
authorizations OF QUININE. The high price
at which sulphate of q~uinine can now be had
in it's purity has led to it's extensive adultera-
tino. Physicians and the public should be
on their guard, and only obtain the article
from safe and reliable hands, else they may
be using arsenic peperine or strychnine, for
all these are employed for adulterating pur-
poses.-Nedical Gazette.
HAzEL-EYED GIRLS. Major Noah says that
"hazel eyes inspire at first a Platonic senti-
ment, which gradually but surely expands in
to love as securely founded as the rock ofGib-
raltar. Awoman with a h~azeleye nercr slopes
from her husband! never chats scandal, never
sacrifices her husbands comfort to her own,
never finds fault, never talks too much nor too
little always is an entertaining, Intellectual,
agreeable and lovely creature" We never
knew" says a brother. editor, "b1t one unin-
teresting and unamiable woman with hazel
eye, and she has a nose which looked, as the
Yankee says, like the little end Of nothing
whitfield down to a point" The grey is the
sign of shrewdness and talent. Great think
ers and captains have it. In women, it indi-
Gates a better head than heart. The dark ha-
eel is noble in insigniticance, as in its beauty.
The blue eye is amiable, but may be feeble.
The black-take care.
THAT BLESSED BABY The King ofR Rome,
son of Napoleon l., was born the Goth Of
March: the King of Algiers, son of Napoleon
H., it is expected was born the same day.
Paul Dubois was the accoucheMr of Maria
Louise; Paul Dubois, son, is the accoucheu1
+ of Eugene. Paul Dubois, father, slept in q
/ certain room and bed adjacent to the room
of thu EOonrocc Mania T.Onico fnr furo 1una6o
before and two weeks after the birth of the
King ofRome; Paul Dubois, son, is now sleep
ing in the same room and on tho bed as were
! occupied by his father forty years ago! Car
imitation further go?
Vacancy Filled. William G. Sin gleton
4 has been appointed by the President, Collec
tor of Customs at Newbern, N. c., to fill tn,
vacancy created by the death of Thomas S
. Singleton.
l. What an Aboltiontst! The property 0
Cassius M. Clay, the great Kentucky aboli
e ZIONIST, is advertised to be sold at auction, an
includes tUenty-taco slaUes, men, aoomen an,
children!
n In luck. Mr.. j. Brown, of Har
county, Ga, who Subscribed as the fathe
Of twenty-nine children, has discovered
rich vein of gold which yields from a SINAI
~ painful of earth a penny weight Of gold
e. The old man and his little boys, with thei
mortars and pans, make from five to 81
ne dollars per day.
N. C. Railroad. The following is
- . statement of produce sent from the depc
If at Graham, during FIVE months ending L
ne March Domestics, 104,519 lbs. AouI
I'd 1000 bbls. /; wheat 1891 bushels t.
" bacco, 30,1l0H brandy, $3.50 gallon
dried fruit, 693 Ana6els nnions,} p busl
n els !; oabbages, Is dozen ; butter and lar'
cd 1871 lbs. corn meal, 995 bushels.
Ter Profanity Punished. On Monday,
i ~ Savannah, John Tanner, contractor f
;es sweeping chimneys, had his contract +
he voked, and was fined $50, for using vi
lent and p~rofane language in the present
EN- of ladies.
1T Medical College. The Annual Coz
20 mencement Of the Richmond Medic
College took place on Thursday evenin
T. 10th ult. Diplomas were given to tive
ON t~y-nine of the students. The valedicto
address was delivered by DR.. Wexford.
asst Acquitted. Reid, the young law stude
at Chapel Hill, who killed Cheek in tn
rbt vicinity a few weeks ago, has been acqu
ted. The Jury returned a verdict of j.
ley tifable, homicide.
ier- Enormous Fraud. The amount of t
'nis defaloaton of Garland, the Treasurer