Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-04-23
Col. Walker and Central America.

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By latest accounts from Nicaragua, it is
tated that Col. Walker and his army have
net, with a serious reverse in Costa Rica, so
Is to render his success again very doubtful.
Sleissengcr, with four hundred men. was
we'll fortified at Hacienda and Santa Rosa,
he was attacked by the Costa Ricans.
ind entirely defeated. Nineteen prisoners
courtmartialed, and shot by the Costa
Ricans. They were chiefly Irish and Dutch.
Report says Walkers party was surprised
by the Costa Ricans, with a wolfe. leaping
walls and with knife and b%ayonet, cutting
down all they encountered, taking prisoners
or dispensing the remainder.
The Costa Ricans had 16 killed and 25
wounded. Ninety of Walkers men were
found dead, and it is supposed others perish
ed in the woods.
The cholera vas making great ravages at
Nicaragua among the natives and Walkers
army. Some Of his people had taken the
English mail from Greytown for Co sta RIGA
VIII atgreat truth is contained in this little
paragraph. 1t speaks with the force of
reason, and power of eloquence:
Let a man have all the world can give, he
is still! miserable if he has a groveling, inlet
tered, undevout mind. Let him bave his
gardens, plenty, ornament and qualification,
while at the same time God is not in his
thought and let another have neither field
with an enlarged mind-a mind which can.
CONSIDER them as demonstrations of his
power, his wisdom, his goodness and truth
this man is greater, as we'll as happier, in
his poverty; the one is a little higher than the
beast, the other a little lower than an angel.
A GREAT RETREAT FOR DRUNKARDs.-It is
ar honor to Maine, and it attests its wisdom
and the efficiency of its Temperance Legisla-
ton, that it is coming to be regarded as one
or eat Retreat" for the victims of strong
drink. A gentleman in England lately wrote
to a friend in Maine, to make provisions for
n Young British notleman, whom the use of
intoxicating liquors had almost ruined and
whose only hope was that he might find a
country where there was no such temptation.
1t is the boast of America that she is the
refuge of the subjects of every sort of political
oppression. Who is insensible to the crown
ing glory which it will give her Institutions
and her Laws, to become the Retreat and the
Asylum of the victims of Intemperance.-
Prohi6itioniSt
WoMAN.-An exchange says that, "God
intended all women to be beautiful, as much
as he did the roses and the morning glories
and what he intended they should become,
they would, if they should obey his laws, and
cut Incidence and corset strings and indulge
in freedom and fresh air. For O girl to ex-
pect to be handsome with the action Of hel
lungs dependant on the expansive nature O
q cents worth of tape, is as absurd as to look
for tulips in a snow-bank, or a full grown
oak in a little fower-pot."
JEWELS FOR ETERNITY.-Are your Jewels
the grateful hearts of the poor? If they are
then they will never lose their ~lustre, but
shin e brighter and brighter the longer yor
wear them. lwouldrather have one grateful
tear from q famished child | had fed, thar
all the jewels that glisten on q queens brow
l would rather carry light and JOY to one
desolate home, than call the kingdoms of thu
world my own.-Spencer.
HoHoway'S Ointment and PWs,a wonderful
Cure Of Ulcers in the Leg.-Frederick Illiff
of Houston, Texas, was afflicted for eigh'
years with seven ulcers in the leg, like tn,
keys of a flute, which discharged continual,
and rendered his life one of the creates
Indebtedness and misery many remedie
were tried in vain, he became worse, at las
(; he had recourse to Holloway's Ointment an,
Pills, and by persevering with these rcmedie
| according to the printed dire ctions for min
: weeks, he was radically cured, and is no,
able to walk better than ever he was in hi
: life.
Just Pu6lished-A new edition of the Pc
}, pies Pamphlet, giving the rise and progre;
and wonderful cures Of Davis Vegetab
Pain Killer, from 1910 to the present tim
given gratis by the agents of this valuab
y medicine. 1t is richly worth a perusal.
), kidnapping. A negro girl, about |
lie years old, belonging to Mr.. A. Little,
,s Wadesboro', n. c., was kidnapped tU
lie weeks ago, and has not been recovered
Beware of strangers.
a Sabbath and Rail Roads. The Roa
D. oke and Seaboard Rail Road have recent
lie suspended all operations OF the SabbatI
&c This company, since the late accident,
like King David, who said, cit is GOV
!. 10 for me that l have been afflicted, for tn,
sought l Thy precepts."
Burned at the Stake. The negro W
is murdered Mr.. Capeheart, an overseer,
r. Mt. Meigs, Ala, on the 1st inst, was
@' ken out by the citizens on the next d
10 and burned to death. He a~cknowledg
ed his guilt while at the stake.