Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-01-27
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IL o'clock, a fire broke out in the large flour
and corn mill, owned by Hiram W. Tyler,
located below the new gas works, at Rockets,
and the building was consumed, with its con-
tents Our fire companies repaired to the
scene of the conflagration with all possible
haste, but so great was the distance, that the
work of destruction was nearly complete be-
fore their arrival. The loss was estimated at
$4,000 (rather above the mark, probably on
which there is an insurance of only $1,000
There is reason to believe that the fire was
the work of an incendiary. Mr.. Tyler has
sustained repeatedly losses by the burning of
his property, within the past year or two,
WELDON, Jan. 10th, 1858.
| write in great haste to communicate some
intelligence which has this moment reach
ed me.
A gentleman from Suffolk informs me that
a negro killed three white persons in Gates
county, North Carolina, a day or two since,
and was himself pursued afterwards and found
and killed. There was considerable excite
ment in Suffolk, owing to the prevalence of
an opinion that the negroes had risen in Gates.
The women and children, as my informant
says, were very much frightened.
have time to write no more.
In haste, ESTRANGERo.
Correspondence of the Raleigh Register.
SUFFOLK, Va, January 10.
Mr.. SYNE.-This morning about 10 o'clock
information reached this town that a colored
insurrection had broken out between South
Quay and Holly Neck, in Nansemond County,
and some families of whites massacred. The
town instantly rose in arms and sent out a
scouting party on horseback to the scene
of the reported outrages, who returned about
II o1olooly th;g poOrpipr ond raportad fhof
Yesterday a little after 3 o'clock in the after
noon a deranged negro man, belonging to Mr..
t Benton, Gates Co., n. c., had attacked a
white man, named Whitme Jones, on the
: road near South Quay, and murdered him by
2 splitting his skull open. The negro then went
to the house of Mrs. Harrison Howell, a wild
, ow, whom he likewise murdered. By this
r time a party had started in pursuit of him.
! When he reached the house of Rev. Uriah
Rawls, a young man, named David Rawls was
there with a gun. Mr.. Rawls fired twice at
him. The negro fled to a pond of water
where he was shot by the party in pursuit.
S Much excitement still prevails.
Yours, &C., J.. d. B.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.@5Mr. GYin,s bill
{ tween the Big Sioux and the mouth of the
Kansas rivers, to San Francisco, and grants
e alternate sections Of land on each side Of the
road, and $12, 800 per mile, payable on the
IT completion Of % miles, till $25, 100000 be
h reached. The amounts thus advanced will
be returned in mail service, etc. Five per
a cent bonds will be issued, the President to
IL receive bids and make the contract for TWEEN
in ty-fve years, and locate the road.
u LATER FROM UTAH,-Later information from
- Utah discredits the report that the Mormons
~ are emigrating. 1t is stated that the Indians
nc under Mormon leaders are preparing to cut
, off the spring supplies to the U. s.. Govern
ment trains.
ST LOUIS, Jan. 20.-A dispatch received
mere from Kansas, signed by F. P. Stanton
gives the vote on the 21st ult., in this terri
=. tory, as $500 for the Lecompton constitution
and that Of the poll of the 4th inst, as 1000
against it. The first vote, it will be ~recolleC
to ted, was taken in accordance with the re
ng quirements of the convention which francs
he the constitution, the latter only under tn
Dut subsequent act passed at the extra session
er, the Legislature.
I'VE
mo- The ATLANTIC AND y. c.. RAILRoAD.-W
iii rejoice at the prospects of an early completio
vis. of the Road. The last Beaufort Journt
We says:
ave learn from the american AdcOcG
= that the connection between Mr.. Stanly's ar
to Mr.. Washington's contracts will be made ca
ook ly this week. The cars will then run hroug
Gus to Mr.. William Waters eight miles abo7
der. Kinston-about eighteen miles from Gold
this borough.
aid On this end, the track has been laid abo
and fifteen miles from Morehead City, on Go
en- Morehead's contract, and on it there remai
3 G. but two or three miles of track to be laid.
ton On Mr.. Woods contract, which conneC
, foe with Morehead's, there are sixteen miles y
lops to be laid, there being only two miles at pr
zee ent completed.
hem BY this it will be seen that there yet
inue mains thirty-four miles of the whole track
nks. the road to be completed-eighteen miles
the contract above Kinston, to connec NJ
bern with Goldsboro', and sixteen miles
"a this side Of Newbern. 1t is confidently
20 ped, Cat least by the friends of the work
= this end) that the cars will be able to
~ through sometime during the present yea
ct to DEATH OF THE SHERIFF OF DUPLIN.-
nla learn from the Wilmington Journal that
arch Sheriff of Duplin, j. ID. Alternately, E
died on Monday last, Of typhoid fever.
lslon A.. was q native of Nash, and aged 33 ye
thful
those WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-It is underst
that the War Department is about to dispa
anime Gen. Scott to the Pacific coast, for the
You pose of organizing a force to operate aga
groce- the Mormons on that side.