Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-09-30
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HALIFAX, Sept. 23.-The steamer Canada
arrived here to-day with late intelligence from
England.
Cotton has advanced one eighth on Amer
lean and a quater to half on others.
BreAdstufs are-steady Four firm.
Wheat quiet. Corn steady.
Provisions quiet. Lard slightly advanced.
Spirits Turpentine steady at BIS.
R ,siu steady. at 4 a AS. Fine I73s a Is.
Su gar is quiet, having declined cd.
Coffee steady and rice buoyant.
Barring of London states that money is ac-
tive and generally unchanged. Rites of bull
lion in the Bank of England, has decreased
$4,000. American stocks not mach effected
by the accounts from New York. Maryland
SIS 893. Satterthwiate says the panic in
New York caused much ~anxiety. The severe
fall brought Harvard buyers for Illinois
shares.
SHOCKING INTELLIGRNcE IA despatch da-
ted Augusta, Ga, Sept. 2lst, states thai on
Sunday last, in Pike county, Alabama, thir-
ty six persons were poisoned, of whom four
are dead, by ;arsenic In the food of the fam
lily, having been instigated to the deed by a
Hungarian or Russian, ma ned kamlska-
Thos. Frazell, the o~verseer, wife and chill,
and Frazell's grand daubhter, are dead. The
rest were recovering. The four mentioned
above all died before the morning of the next
day after taking the arsenic. The negro NO
y ssssuesem4 H0S6oen burnt as was stated IN the
first dispatch. but had been sent to Troy
Jail.
FIRE.-A fire in Charleston, on Sunday
last, destroyed property valued at $4,000 +;
insured, 50 far as ascertained, at 500. 800.
CoUNTERFEITs.-Th The Richmond Dispatch
has seen II well executed $50 note on the
Bank of Cape Fear. The Bank has never
issued DUtes of that denomination.
N~ A report reached St. Joseph. Mo-, on
the 9th inst. that Gen. James Ii. Lane, the
Kansas free State leader, has cen shot and
killed 10 a fight.
The whole number Of vessels wrecked by
the late gale is stated to be forty 9th
ers will doubtless be reported.
The Mobile Register states that $3.50, 900
have been raised in Georgia for Walker TO
make a new descent on Nicaragua.
Gg~ Andrew J.. O'Hanlon, Esq, has been
appointed agent for the payment Of pensions
at Fayetteville, in place of James Huske,
Esq, resigned.
The CAPITOL AT WAsHINGroN,-The cost
of the old building was about So 900, 000.-.
For the extensions Congress has already APP
propr;ated S4.325. 900, aud it is estimated
that 81, 100000 will be required to complete
them and the dome.
ANorER JOHN DEAN AFFA1R.-A cores
pendent of the Richmond Dispatch writing
from Petersburg, Va, on the 2lst says:
Some gossip was created 20 day, by the
rumOred appearance on our streets of a lady
from the wealthy circles Of Norfolk in com.
pany with a smart Irish lad, with whom she
had slipped off to Weldon, only a few days
since, where their fates were duly united by
the very accommodating hymenial agent a.
that place. The circumstance connected with
this romantic match are said TO form q par
allel with the late JOHNNY Dean 'aftir' in N
York. It is reported that the fair one is sole
heiress to 800, 000, and her papa is a liquor
merchat to boot. But not being anxious tt
create an excitement, we will here drop tn,
matter as quietly as possible.
AN ARGUMENT adj homiaem.-The Rev. DR.
Ross, in making a speech to a Northern audi
dieace, said-'Who are the descendants o
the New England kidnappers? What i
their wealth? Why here YOU are. all aroun
me. You, gentlemen, made the best of tina
bargain. And you have kept every dollar /,
your money from the charity of emancipatin
the slave. You have left Us, unaided, to civ
mlllIOuS' WIN ypu AUW CUIu6 10 our noID
: Will you give dollar for dollar to eoualiz
! our Ioss?'
! Many voices in the large, wealthy and il
t~elligcnt assembly cried out. Yes, Yes. "
, will, we will !! Yes, Yes,' the Doctor or
ceeded, then pour out your millions. Goo,
l may thank you personally. My own emal
cipated slaves would to-day be worth great
more than 500, 900. l need it now
= 1t is hardly necessary to add that there
no rec I'd that this proposition met with ar
. success. The practical application was |
no means popular.
A Panic IN MIssIssIPPI.-The Assista
Postmaster at Oxford, Mississippi, has kin,
ly furnished US with the facts connected Wi
the excitement among the negro populate
. of Lafayette county, instigated by an Alto
u ZIONIST named Snider, who halls from Inc
ana -
MEssRs EDITORS There was 4 great Q
element here yesterday. A man named S.
n der, from Indiana, being accused of organ
zing an insurrection among the negrot
some three hundred citizens assembled, al
near twenty negroes were examined, all
l. whom told the same tale, pointing to Snid
as their leader. A number of our m,
d wealthy families were to be murdered
1t their money. Their names were given.
10 There was no white testimony against S
d der. He was taken out of town last mig
te latter being under arrest the night previo
1t and yesterday and lynched, when he ma
,e a confession something like that of the
groes. lie was shipped on the cars this M,
If ming for your town, where he said he wor
make a good speed to his native land. S.
a HUDSON, Deputy P. NJ, Oxford Sept. 6.
Memphis Appeal
A new Post Office has been established
Brunswick county, named Lpckwood's Fu
p "A. c. Tolls IN P. M.
~ New Cotton sold in Fayetteville
y Gently at l54 cts. per lb.