Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-07-15

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Brooklyn Eagle:
Uncle Sam, after carrying on business for
the past eighty years, having three wars,
buying territory from France and Mexico,
building railroads, specializing in a bank,
and trading with all creation, comes out with
a snug littls balance on hand of twenty-five
millions, enough to set up several miilonal-
res, and which makes Sam a millionaire
among nations. Since our revolution, Eng
land has quadrupled her national debt, and
other nations Of Europe have run up a score
nearly in proportion, while Sam has paid of
his debts, bought real estate, and has money
laid by for a rainy day.
TIE PRICE OF New WHEAT.-There is
much inquiry among farmers as to the pro-
bable price Of early delivered new wheat
The fredericksburg (Va.) Herald of the
Oath ult., says: There have been a few sales
here at 81 so, but there is a decided indispo'
sition on the part of the millers to engage
for future delivery at this price. The best
advices from New York houses, who are in
correspondence with almost every grain
growing district in the country, advises
against such engagements and our millers
are disposed to heed what appears to them
to be some advice.
EF~ The hard case of a young widow with
$4,000, compelled to give up-her property
if she married again, has been going the
rounds of the papers. To Offset it, the San
DIV Hill Herald relates how a gentleman re-
siding in the town of Granville, Washing
ton county, died recently and willed his wife
a handsome sum-stipulating in bis will
that in case she again married the sum was
to be doubled! and" pathetically adds
the Herald, may the grass ever be green
upon his grave"
A MoTHER.-A man named Able recently
shot another at Memphis. Tenn, under such
circumstances as to make the mob determine
to hang him. They proceeded to the Jail,
took forcible possession of the prisoner, car
ried him off to a suitable place, adjusted a
rope around his neck, and were about TO
swing him up, when his mother appeared
Her agonized entreaties saved the destined
victim. Stern as was the determination of
those Immediately concerned in the move
ment to hang him, and supported as they
were by the voice of the thousands who sur
rounded them, their manhood shrunk from
inficting the doom in the presence of his
mother. Cries resounded throughout the
crowd 8 take him back" and he was taken
back and again placed in the custody of the
Sheriff"
POWER OF THE SUN.-A distinguished
chemist in a recent lecture, while showing
that all species of moving power have their
origin in the rays of the sun, stated that
while the iron tubular railroad bridge over
the Menai straits in England, four hundred
feet long, bent but half an inch under the
heaviest pressure of a train, it will bend ar
inch and a half from it's usual horizontal line
when the sun shines upon it for some hours
He stated that Bunker Hill Monument ii
higher in the evening than in the morning
of a sunny day the little sunbe ans enterd
the pores Of the stones like SO many wedges
lifting it up.
CoMMENCEMENT.-The commencement 0
Lynch burg Va, College took place Wednes
day. Rev. DR.. Reese, of Baltimore, deliver
ed the grafton. There was but one graduate
Eugene Blackford, of Lynchburg, whic1
results from the comparatively recent Origin
of the College. Three years are required 70
o thorough collegiate course, whilst the in
stitution has been in existence but two.
Giddings has written a characteristic lette
to the Tribune, in which he says that tn
"God of Abraham" is not his God that h
despises him in contempt that he is an idt
or the deity of the shareholders, and they al
right in worshirping him. He (Gidding'
= don't worship nor believe in the God of til
! Bible, but has one Of his own-that is, q
: anti'slavery Coda niger, we suppose,
some hideous creature who winks at pillag
and theft.-Neeo York Day Book.
SINGING.-A New-York paper says: 50
few Sundays ago., at one Of our fashionab
churches, the choir sang a hymn to an ope
tune which goes as follows My poor pol
- n nnnr rnl MN -oon ~nl1u%oa hoo1L
! Another line received the following rendt
ing And in the pi-and in the pi-and
i the pious he delights And still anoth
was sung: And take thy pil-and ia
thy pil--and take thy pilgrim home.'"
9 This reminds a friend of ours of q certa
u good old fugue tune which once, with a ps
"a t%ieular, but fortunate adaptation was ma
to intertWine, ooh, for a man-oh, for
' man-oh, for a mansion in the skies fro
the Soprano, with a response from the 9th
= parts of Come down sal-come down sal
come down salvation from above"
A CHAPTER OF MURDERs.-A st. Pete
le burg letter in the Gas, of Cracow, gives t
following extraordinary story
10 ga tragical drama has just taken pla'
= The agent Of Count Sch, who had be
u, to the bank to receive a sum Of Is, 900 silly
roubles, lost the packet of notes on his W
P home. TIL money was picked up by a Gle
~ who, instead of giving the property at OF
III to the owner, followed him to his house a
il inquired the name of the person who liv
- there. The finder of the money then
ne turned home, hesitating in his own mi
ne how he should act. When he arrived the
On a violent quarrel took place between him a
40 his wife, tn. latter wishing to keep the I
~ neY. The clerk, h owever, on the follow
morning, went to the house of the Count
TIC deliver the sum, but the latter would not
l,g ceive it, saying that his agent had commit
suicide in the night, in consequence of
er loss. Overcome with remorse, the clerk
n turned home where he found that during
"a absence his wife had hanged herself Fl
Ios v~exation at not having kept the money.
Immediately cut Town the body and ham,
himself with the same rope"
he HEROES OF THE PEsTILENoE.-This is
ed probable title of a book which will be %
ter llshed by the Harpers early this fall. l
of from The pen Of Miss Annie M. Andre,
tn the young lady whose voluntary services
'ed the sick during the prevalence of the Mort
The peStilence, have made her the heroing of
IN memorable occasion. It's object, says a n
YORK correspondent of the Washing
1ok States" Is to pay fitting tribute to the {
for sacrificing men and women who Joined
nd IN looking death in the face day after q
1r. and exposing themselves to all the fea,
ad, vlclssltudes of that terrible season. in OF
ny. that they might relieve the suffering, smo
the pillow of the dying, or by remedial m,
ures stay the ravages of the DESTROYER.
same oOFrnSnOndant S1 vcI ~ viii - - l