Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-12-02
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PANIC IN THE SOUTHERN CoTToN Market
HEAVY DECLINE IN PRIcEs.-Savannah. Nov.
23.-There is a general panic in the cotton
here and at Augusta and Columbus,
with a decline. of. q + B cent. Sales at
Charleston of 300 bushels at a decline of !
y cent.
CrNcINNATI, Nov. pa severe storm oc-
Cured on Wednesday night last In Illinois.
Near Cairo. sixteen boats, containing 3OO.-
900 bushels of coal, were sunk, and one hum
dred lives lost.
There was a heavy gale here this morning,
accompanied by snow, rain and hail.
A severe gale occurred at Parkersburg.
Va, on yesterday. No boats could run.
The steamer 'sRoiobou,'' was burnt Satur-
day, and from fifty to seyenty-fve lives lost.
New York, Nov. 26.-The Vanderbilt has
arrived, with Southampton dates to the 14th
ult. She brings a million and a half in spe-
Gle, and three hundred passengers.
There has been a severe financial panic at
st. Petersburg.
The London Tins, of Saturday the 18th.
says that the relief afforded bv the 'sSuspen-
sion banks charter act was immediate. an
plfcatioTfs for discount less. Foreign exchan-
ges steady. The drain on gold from Scotland
has entirely ceased.
There has been G decfS5Se IN bullion at the
bank of England the week ending the 18th,
of upwards of FL, 800, 600, while private secu-
rites have increased nearly FL, 800, 600,
IMPORTANT FROM INDIA !-London. Wed
nesday mornng--The following telegram
was received this morning at the Foreign of
fee:
'Delhi, which fell into our hands on the
goth Of September, was entirely occupied on
the Dist, and the whole of the enemy expel-
led. In the assault of the 14th, sixty-one of
f%icers, and eleven hundred and seventy-eight
men, being one third of the storming service,
were killed and wounded.
Gen. Nicholson died from his wounds on
the 21st. The old king, said to be ninety
years of age, surrendered to Capt. Hodgson
about fifteen miles South of Delhi. He was
accompanied by his chief wife, and their lives
were spared. Two of his sons and his grand
son were also captured by Capt. Hodgson
about five miles from Delhi. They were Shot
on the spot.
Two movable columns were dispatched
from Delhi on the 23rd, in pursuit of the en-
envy. By accounts from Agra one column
appears to have reached the neighborhood of
Allyhar, and the other that of Muttra on the
Doth of September.
Gen. Havelock, with twenty-five hundred
aen, crossed the Ganges from Cawnpore on
the 18th OF September, and relieved Lucknow
presidency on the 25th, just as it was already
to be blown up by its besiegers. On the 26th
the enemy entertainments were stormed, and
on the 10Th a large part of the city was taken.
| -Four hundred and fifty were killed and woun-
ded. Gen. Neill was killed.
There had been a slight rising of the robels
l near Nassick, in the Bombay presidency, in
n kho II -lSl I'll
e killed. The Madras troops had defeated the
mutineers of the ifty-second regiment, near
Kemplee, and killed one hundred and fifty.
Brigham Young, who defes the govern
y ment and threatens the armies of the United
States, is a native of Whitehaven, Vermont,
and is fifty-siX years of age. His father was
y was a farmer, originally from a town in the vi
!, cinity of Boston,. and Young Brigham is said
u never to have been at school but thirteen
days. LIE has manifested a very strong mind
s since he has presided over the Mormons, and
4 has spread that imposfure over the whole
civilized world, sending hundreds of mission
aries to make proselytes. The Philadelphia
Ledger thinks he will probably have the in
fanny of being the first individual in the Uni
ted States elevated to a gallows for treason.
His present career is strongly in that direc-
"a ton and the fellow, while exercising unlim-
< tied power in Utah, has the impudence to talk
,e of the prosecutions he has suffered.
GLORIOUS SPoRTsMANsHIp.-We learn from
the Norfolk Argus, that On Monday, the 9th
of November, Jacob Baum, of Princess Anne,
= and Major Foreman, Of Norfolk county, re-
s, paired to the North Banks of Currituck Beach
10 n. c., to shoot wild geese. They put out g
~ dozen decoy geese, and in a short time a large
flock gathered around them. In the afternoon
u they retired for want of ammunition, and up
nd On counting up, ascertained that they had
es killed one hundred and torty-eight-two car
no loads-which were carried to Norfolk, anG
:" the majority shipped North. Mr.. Baum says
no there are millions of fowl' on Curritucl
nj Beach.
re A HOUSE FOUND EIGHTEEN FEET BELOW TIL
EARTH's STRENGTHENING the excavation O
H. a street in Lovensville, Indiana, last Tuesday
y the workmen come across the remains of
nd cabin eighteen feet below the surface of tn,
re earth. This wonderful subterranean nous
ret was about twelve feet in length, formed b
,. upright posts set in the ground, and boarde
% up with split oak puncheons, secured by woo
90 den pins. The posts, p%uncheons and pin
,ot were partially decayed, but still stuck togeth
40 er. Within the wall were found an old fash
" Toned spinning wheel, a wooden maui, severa
pairs of boots and shoes, and the identics
charred stick which the former used to pune
the fire with.-S. Louis Republican NoU. L
N ~ Rowdyism seems to run rampant i
Washington city. On Sunday night ther
was much fighting among the rowdies b
gangs, caused by the Regulators cutting dow
Nd all the American flag stats in the city. On
On man was killed and several wounded.
~ Waterman was shot in the head, it is feare
he fatally. About a dozen arrests mad,
nS There was also a fight in the afternoon, whe
~ firearms were freely used.
he GENERAL HAvELocK A BAPT1sT.-At
I'M meeting of the Hibernian Bible Society, bel
in Belfast on Thursday last, the Rev. M
Graham, of Bonn, mentioned this fact:
the "He had to tell them that Gen. HavelocI
the who is now so distinguishedin India, althoug
in a Baptist, was a member of his (Mr. CIR;
NV ham's) missionary church at Bonn, and h
Of wife and daughters were members of it fl
in seven years. He could also relate an ane
gin dote regarding that great and good maj
which he had heard from the lips of Lao
Haveloek. When Gen. Havelock, as colon
an Of his regiment, was travelling through Indi
cen he always took with him a Bethel tent,
t a which he preached the Gospel; and whe
Sunday came in India, he usually hoisted IL
mic Bethel flag, and invited all men to come an
ire. hear the Gospel-in fact he even baptize
mr., some. He was reported for this at headqua
avs tiers, for acting in a non-military and disc
we DERBY manner; and the Commander-in-Ch Chic
its Gen. Lord Cough, entertained the charg
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