Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-07-22
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HALIFAX, July 15.-The steamer America,
with Liverpool dates to the 9th inst, arrived
to-day.
The Americas news is unimportant.
Revolutionary movements were NANTES st
in Naples.
A party of insurgents had seized a steam
er and proceeded to the Island of Fouseca,
and liberated 800, prisoners.
The steamer was subsequently captured
by a frigate. Many new arrests had been
made.
The bill for the redemption of the Sound
Dues passed Parliament on its second read.
ing.
The American merchants in Liverpool
gave a grand banquet on the 4th of July to
the officers of the Niagara.
The owners of the mammoth steamer
Great Eastern, state that she will be launch
cd in September. She will not proceed to
Portland until April. Her total cost will be
three millions of dollors.
FRANoE.-Gen. Cavaignac has been ofici-
ally announced as the opposition candidate
in France.
Paris advices from Kabylia announce more
victories by the French troops. It is now re-
ported that they are masters of the whole
country. M
A depression fnsthe Paris Bours has given
rise to a umo that the Government contem-
plates raising a new loan but it is believed
to be unfounded. A reduction in the rate
of discount at the Bank of France is looked
for soon.
The recent conspiracy of the Italians a.
gainst the life Of Napoleon is more serious
than was at first supposed. Twenty conspi-
rators bad been arrested.
There Is nothing new from the Spanish
Mexican question. Iafragua was still at
Madria. though meditating an early return
to Paris, where he would wait further in
structions from his government.
Advices from Paris on Friday announce
further instructions in Italy, which had been
organized under Mazzini. Two hundred
had been arrested.
At Genoa several muskets and a large
Quantity of ammunition had been seized.
The diplomatic difficulties in England and
Turkey continue.
The Belgian minister had been charged
with stirring up an agitation in the Princi
palities. He had demanded his passports
The affair was likely to assume some impor'
; lance.
r The news from China is of no importance
Operations would not be undertaken unit
d after the meeting between Lord Elgin, Ba
4 ron Gross and John Bowring, Esq.
: New YORK, July 13.-On Saturday nigh
e a moi at Seguine's Point attacked the me
9 tropolitan force guarding the new quarantin
t buildings. The engagement lasted half a
hour, firearms being freely used. One pc
liceman was wounded.
O A riot in the seventeenth ward last nigh
Q between the Irish and Germans resulted i
one German being killed and a poliecema
fatally wounded.
The rioters renewed the disturbance oflas
e night and have been fighting among them
G selves the whole afternoon, occasionly attack
!: ing strangers who ventured among them
Several persons were badly beaten, on tn
supposition that they were policemen disgui
sed. Four or five hundred policemen are O
the ground, and the military are held in re
serve in the arsenal. 1t is said that a men
Der of the common council and many of tn
nx-pnlice are active among the rioters.
quorum of the city council did not NEE
, to night, in consequence of which the polio
! are still deprived of the use of the station-hor
< SEES. Mayor Wood is not to be found.
L AT the last accounts the locality was CON
e paratively quiet.
y The riot commenced in consequence of tt
: attempt of Coroner Perry to hold an inque
y over the body of the mar who was kille
yesterday: the rioters opposing his action o
= account OF his being an American.
CRIMINALs.-On Tuesday, as some of tt
h, men were unloading some merchandise fro
y, the New York Central Railroad cars, at the
as depot in Buffalo, some coffee leaked out, ar
X it was set down for cooperage. The coope
lg in repairing the cask, had to take out one
lie the heads, and to his astonishment discove
e, ed that, instead of containing merchandise
s. as labelled, there were four kegs of gunpo'
d. der packed inside. The cask was seized a.
o taken possession of by the United Stat
Marshal. The offence is against both Sta
"A and United States statutes, the penalty beil
On a fine of not less than two thousand dolla
he and imprisonment not more than one yes
The cask was to have gone up the lake, {
Wednesday, and would have been plac
IN upon the boiler deck contiguous to the furn
40. ces. The object was to save $50 differen
of in freight. Albany AtlGs.
of DIsCovERY.-The Kosciusko Miss Chrc
icle, OF the ID inst, has the following PAL
If graph under the above heading
p We learn that a citizen of this place v
,rf so very fortunate, q few days since, VIII
~ AteAAOAiih1 III AiO III OCtbl u " lie OAt
n as to discover a very rich copper mine. !
says any quantity Of ore can be picked
~ from the surface near it. He has alrea
had, WI learn, several very handsome b
,os for his claim. Judge Henkel offered him
excellent farm and thirteen likely negro
for his discovery.
at MURDER IN MADISON PARIsH.-The Vic
burg Wing, of the 18th inst, says:
en- We learn that Mr.. Yates, a resident of t
city, and n contractor on the Vicksburg a
lat Shreveport Railroad, was murdered b
ne negro man, on Thursday evening, in
use Parish of Madison, La. Mr.. Yates und
y. took 70 punish the negro for some fault, WI
as, he drew a knife and stabbed his master
the the heart. Mr.. Yates leaves a wife a
children.
~. ~ MATRIMoNY AMONG THE Press GANG
Roswell Ellis, Esq, Junior Editor of
." Times and Sentinel, Columbus, Geo.,
united in marriage on the Sd instant. to n
Anna L. daughter of Rev. Thos. B. Slade
Columbus. The Rev. j. H. De Vote, of
ated. On the lst inst, Clement G. Brov
Esq, Editor of the Georgia Plaindea
- and Miss Arabella Pope, of Americas, W
o Joined in bonds of matrimonial, by the R
j.. P. Duncan.
YELLOW FEVER AT MoNTEvIDEo.-A
ter from Buenos Ayres, of May lst, So
"The yellow fever is ravaging Montevi
this fearfully. 1t is reported that within
that last week there have heen ms man Y as {
ten three deaths in a single day. Slight fro
sew however, now begin to nip the more ter
rood leaves and the cooled atmosphere will sup
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