Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-02-25
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WAKE CouNTY.-Atthe February term of
Wake County Court. last week, the fol-
taxes were laid by the Court:
For County purposes, forty'iVe cents on
the poll, and twelve cents on the hundred
dollars value Of real estate. This is a reduc-
ton of one-third of the tax for County
purposes from the last year.
For Common Schools eurposes, thirteen
tate. -
Total tax on the poll, seventy-eight cents,
and one dollar and tWenty-eight cents with
the State tax added.
Total tax on real estate, twenty-five cents,
and forty cents which the State tax added.
On melton of Wilson w. Whitaker, Esq,
a tax of twenty, five cents was levied on each
taxable slave, to pay a patrol for each district
in the County. Steps were taken to employ
an efficient patrol.
John Scott. ESQ.,, was elected County
Trustee, in place of A. K. Clements, Esq,
who declined a reelection.
The following gentlemen were elected
Wardens of the Poor for three years VIM.
r. Poole, Simon Smith, Green Beckwith,
Anderson Page, Willis S. Thompson, John
M. Fleming and Jordan Womble.-Stan.
dGrd.
The following is a copy ola dispatch re-
ceived yesterday morning from Havana, by
way of Mobile, by Henry Grinnel, ESQ.,. of
New York:
HAVANA. Feb. 18th, '57.
DIR. Kane will not live through the day.
He is dying hard. He has just taken leave
of his friends and countrymen. COLLINS.
On receiving this despatch, Mr.. Grinnel
fastened to the telegraph Office to apprise DR..
Kane's father, Judge Kane, at Philadelphia,
of the sad news. This intelligence will cause
feelings Of genuine sorrow throughout the
whole Union. Even in other lands, ard es-
pecially in England-where the adventurous
/, spirit and noble character of DIR. Kane are
as highly esteemed by thousands as they are
by his own countrYmen-the melancholy
news will inspire profound regret.
By an arrival at New Orleans on the 18th
we have dates from N~icarauga to the 10th
January:
Dates from Walker to the Sd ult., per the
Orizaha via Panama, states that the enemy
under Gen Canos appeared in the %neighbor-
hood of Rivas on the 28th of January. Gen.
H~enningsen. with a force of 400 men, at
tackled 1900 of the enemy, driving them from
UttC DOSlO'ehs ubd OuOA Z . W
Walkers whole force is 1900 men, HOO of
whom are fit for duty. All are in excellent
health and spirits. They have provisions
and ammunition sufficient to last three
months.
New York, Feb. I5.-The Coroner's yer.
diet in the Burdell case is, .shnt Mrs. Gun.
ningham and Eckel are the principals, and
: Snodgrass accessory in the murder.
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5 troductory volume of the Rev. DIR. Hawks
l History of North Carolina is nearly ready
for publication. 1t is an octave of 254 pa
ges. The volume is complete in itself, fur
: nishing the most full account that existing
materials at this day afford of the first at
tempts at colonization in Carolina. The
period embraced extends from the year 1854
9 to 1891, and includes the first voyage made
!. under the charter of Sir Walter Raleigh
In a recent letter to a gentleman of thi,
town, President Swain Of Chapel Hill, says
I'll have looked hastily into DR.. Hawks
L Introductory volume. and am pleased with it
There is evidence of greater research thai
his friends were prepared to anticipate."-
Wi. Herald.
DELIRIUM TKEMENs The N. o. Ptcayun
!; makes the following frightful exhibit. go
o the deaths in the Charity Hospital durin!
the year 1856, 20 less than fifty seven ar
attributed to delirium tremeas! This Ger
tainly is a frightful exhibit for a single in
s~titution and if to that ffty-seven be adde'
all those who, according to the verdicts o
d Coroner's %juries, have died in this city
II during the past year, from the effects q
" excessive intemperance, the list will b
% swelled up to over two hundred. Just thin
Of it, reflective reader. Within a single year
- in a single city, over two hundred huma
u beings are hunted from the paths of homo
a and responsibility by the dark demon of
1T self-fostered insanity, and are cast wit
loathing into dishonored graves. And M
ir only did they bring ruin on themselves b
4 their mad career, but innocent wives an
= helpless children were alike dragged dow
- with them to poverty, and made to suft
ills, the extent Of which will never be know
till the secrets of all hearts are made man
fest. The subject is worthy of being we
pondered by those who have set out on tt
ly way which leads to death from the effects
delerium tremens!
n pP No tidings have as yet been receive
of the missing keenerof Wadeso Point Ligh
n Mr.. E. 7. Sawyef-but all hope has BET
Is. abandoned of his being alive, Whether
attemp ted to walk ashore on the ice, bro
sP. through anu QTOWH6u, OF WD6ther lie bucCt
ded in reaching the shore and got lost in Il
no deep snow of the swamp, is a question viii,
as we hope will soon be determined But Il
Mt fact of his death is too painfully certain :.
ia Eiz. City Pioneer.
:er THE FAYETTEVILLE Coal FIELD RAILRoA
- We are grati6ed to see that the people
ge Fayetteville have determined to push fl
re ward their road to the Coal Fields. IF the
ever was a public work in North CARROLL
he that deserved State aid, it is this one ; b
nd as that has been placed beyond hope by t
%, action of the last Legislature, the scher
en- must be carried on by in ividual effort.
a town meeting held on the 18th instant,
I'd. was resolved to build the Road, and boo
were ordered to be opened for further 81
rk- scriptions to be paid in cash or work at
ge. engineers estimates. Ten miles of the re
an is graded and nearly ready for the sup
OF structure.
to SO The Corruption Investigation Go
ted mittee of the House of Representatives hI
the reported. They recommend the expulsion
his Messrs. Edwards, Gilbert, WEIGH and N
had teson, all members of the House from
xty State of New Yogk; also Simonton, the
lev porter. Mr.. kelsey made a dissenting rep
All the reports were ordered to be print
: and their consideration was postponed
yge Monday next.
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