Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-07-15
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DEATH Onion. W i. MARCy: The
Baltimore sun of the 9th inst, says;
A telegraphic dispatch received yester-
day morning brought to the city i%Dtelli-
gence Of the sudden death. of the Hon.
VIM. j. Marcy, late Secretery Of State of
the United States. He was at the time a
visitor Of Ballstown Spa, and was up to the
latest intelligence from that point, until
this melancholy tidings, in the enjoyment
Of excellent, even robust health. He re-
tired to rest on Friday night without any
apparent ailment, and was found dead in his
bed on the morning of Saturday the fourth
Of July. Thus has passed from earth an
other Of the distinguished statesman ofour
country, and beyond question, one of the
greatest men Of the political world.
Riots ON II 4TH: Bloody riots oc-
CURED on the 4th. in N. York. Ten men
were killed, and sixty wounded.
FATAL RAILROAD AccIDENT.-The
train betweenthis city and Marietta to day,
ran off the track. One passenger coach,
containing 80 persons, fell a distance of
fifty feet. Four were killed outright and
twenty badly wounded. The escape Of any
is considered miraculous.
New YoRK, July 5.-Several riots occur
red here yesterday, the most serious of which
! originated in the Bowery, between a mob
from the Five Points and a party of Bowery
boys. The fight continued with great feroc-
7, ity Cor an hour, clubs. stones, bottles and fire
i arms being freely used, and the Five pointers
? being in the end gradually driven back
Eight persons were killed in this riot, and
about thirty, including several of the police
men, were wounded. AT one time, the ri
oters had the streets b~arricaded; thus defy
:, ing the policemen, of whom upN ards of one
!, hundred were present. Three regiments of
State troops were ordered out and kept in
Il reserve, but their services were not required,
as the riot was finally suppressed by the ex-
ertions of the police.
i In the minor riots of the day two persons
u were killed and twenty or thirty badly woun.
ded. In nearly all these disturbances the
d ex-policeman were conspicuous actors.
E With the exception of these riots among
the rowdies, the day passed off finely. The
I weather was propitious, and the military and
v civic displays were brilliant and imposing,
L. The fireworks in Brooklyn, Williamsburg
: and other suburbs were of the most gorge
10 Gus description. The pyrotechnic display o.
" the city proper was postponed on account o.
~ partial damage done to some pieces by the
J. damp weather of the week.
IL After the close of the military review, Gen
y eral Sanford gave a grand collation. at hi
- house. Gov. King, Mayor Wood and Others
III were present and made speeches in response
=, to complimentary toasts.
ST. LOUIS, July 4.-The st. Joseph (Mo.
d. Journal of the I'd publishes a statement Of
mt French trader that a body of one hundred
s- troops and fifty teamsters, of Col. Sumner
e. command, were attacked by a large body o
m Cheyenne Arapahoe Indians, 200 miles ives
de Of Fort Kearney, and all were slain! Thi
m sad report is confirmed by q trader who ar
10, rived at Pacific City, Iowa, on the I'd, an
lg also by an emicrant train from Salt Lake.
he NEW ORLEANS, July 6.-12 o'clock, noon
in A terrible fire is now raging here on the Le
ry wee, between Graner and Common streets
1t broke out in Lusk & Co.'s commissio
house, and the whole block consisting c
tie Wheeler & ForstalPs foundry, and Hughe,
10, hardware store, r. W. Adams grocery
- Snapp & Co., steamboat agency, and sever;
lr- Offices will no doubt be consumed.
FOR The rear block on Fulton street is on fir
IhoEo was SI6dG uIluCulby III SeGGlDR WaJ(
for some time, which accounts for the rap
AL spread of the flames. There is no check y
on to their progress. The loss will be immen
zen Late,.-The rear block between Fultc
ON and New Levee street is in flames.
ATTEMPTED SUIcIDE.-A Mr.. Slade,
printer, and his wife, attempted to put
end to their lives at Memphis, Tenn, a fe
on, days ago, by swallowing laudanum. Pee
lit mary embarrassment and a diseased int
me lect, produced by intemperance, are su
red posed to have been tho cause of this "a
APP move. Mr.. Slade was married some thr
IL. months since, in Missouri, against the wis
IN es and remonstrances of his wife's ~relativ,
ial. When questioned as to whether she want
J" to die, his wife replied, that if he died, S
.ot- cured in time to save their lives.
DEATH IN THE CAUSE.-THE following aft
ting incident is related in q private lett
from "a gentleman travelling in the west:
) 10 eve had a peculiar and affecting see
~. in the cars, which cast a deep sadness or
the whole day. At Michigan city, wht
> 10 we changed cars, we observed them moyi
q sick girl. The party consisted of a bro
uay er of about twenty years, a sister of abe
'eP sixteen, and the mother. The invalid
: II peared about twenty-five, very emaciat
but with those l~ustrous eyes so common
pei her disease, consumption. and which fas
mated while it panied us to look at her,
! Is The tenderness and devotion of her peoI
fty' was really beautiful. After we had &C
Md some fifty miles, while she was reclining
ton, her mothers breast, who was gently a
who carefully smoothing her hair, she suddel
raised herself and fell back dead. III
rye. followed such a scene of wild and fran
the grief, mingled with the noise Of the rushi
cars, the screams of the locomotive, and
,ited confusion of the passengers, that no poy
loo of mine can describe and this was cont
600 ued for fifty miles or more. We old tor
856 hearts found there was one little spot
quite hardened"
A.. HORRIBLE AFFAIR.-Last night the Full
was House in this city was the theatre of
woo most awful tragedy that has ever occur
in the annals Of crime. About a qua
past 8 o'clock, a young man twenty wear
age, named William Witcher, shot his f;
lilo err, Mr.. d. IL. Witcher. The ball pas
= % through the stomach and left lobe of
live, lodging near the spine. We were
n tbe formed that William, after eating sup
sec drank two glasses of brandy, his father
misc him into his room to reprimand him
mi driking, when William drew ~his pistol
deliberately shot his father. We left
i IN Witcher at half past nine-he was not d
Limo but suffering the most excruciatiug agC
hand William Immediately effected his eseap
tbot The police were on his track at 10 O'Clock
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