Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-10-13

New I'd
near the C
fire this aftv
mense capad
lean InStitnteV
the loss will I'D
Among the IN
Forty Pi1nos.
Sewing Ma .linV
a large lot Of Sd
Jewclry, valued
Pictures estimateH
There were also bN
three hose and one Lao
engines. three Steam g
There were entries !
dred articles. but the actN
4 small portion only waS
The fire in the Crystal 4
the lumber room, and is bell
the work Of an incendiary.
The iron tower Mt the anH
portion Of the side Of the Crvy
nov only standing. EverythiH
ruinS The glass is fused in lar
The report that a man was killed
The police and Institute managel
tigating the origin Of the fire.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 6.-The Blay
or has arrived with Havana dates tdS
inst.
On the 29thultimo, a large magaziX
ei with powder, shells, and rockets expv
Twenty eight persons were killed out
and one nundred and five more were VOL
ed. Many more are supposed to he
the ruins. Ninety new sugar houses
totally destroyed. The gas works were "a
dcred useless, and the city is in perfect dark
ness. The police and troops are guarding it'll
Many buildings were damaged, and the en-
tire city was affected by the shock. Gen.
Concha, was the first official on the ground
aiding the unfortunate sufferers. The cause
OF the calamity is unknown.
Sugars have declined a trihe, the stock is
100000 boxes.
Correspondence of the Express.
PLEASANT HILL, n. c., Oct. Z, '58.
\ very large sale of land has Just been con-
clnded in this county. Mr.. H.. X Burgwvn,
has sold out his Level plantation, to Gen.
Thomas j. Person for the handsome sum of
thirty odd thousand dollars-the precise
amount ! have not learned. This is a large
tract Of land lying on Roanoke river, of I'M
common fertility Of soil, and in a high state
ct cultivation, producing the finest crops of
corn, cotton and wheat.
\ gentleman who came up from Murfrees-
horo' to jackson, informed me that a most
brutal murder was committed near the former
place on Saturday last. A man whose name
was Wilkinson Revell, who was in a drunken
trollc, became eXasperated with his wife to
such az extent that he took a loaded shot gun
and put an end to the existence of the poor
defenceless woman, by shooting her through
the body.
Anegro woman has also been recently COM
mitted to our Jail on a charge of infanticide.
So we shall have two criminal cases on dock
ct for trial at our next Superior Court.
In haste, yours,
BoNHoMMIE.
WASHINGTON, Oct. st is a mistake that
Judge Bowlin had a long interview with Gen.
CaSs to-day. Tomorrow he will receive f.
nal instructions, the purport of which it is
believed will he, that Lopez will be required to
make an apology for the insult to our flag,
and reparation to the citizens of America who
were driven out of that country and also
to acknowledge his obligation to satisfy all
other demands for redress-the amapfrt of IN
demnity TO beNiScertained through a Board
mi commissioners. Also to negotiate 4 Com
mercial Treaty, and to give a guarantee for
opening the river and its tributaries by re-
moving the restrictions on trade.
Only the Fulton and Il Commissioner will
first proceed to Assumption. If the object
be effected, he will return immediately to
Washington with the Convention. bat in the
event Of a failure, Admiral Shnhrick is to send
up n fleet and carry out the distinctly defined
policy Of the administration
The Feet after a settlement of the bust
ness at Paraguay, will show itself TO several
South American ports-particularlv those
which have unsettled accounts with this
country.
Law MAKING.-Each succeeding session
Of the wise men who are chosen to make laws
for the people, adds to the vast monument of
legislative 'abor already reared, until, as
Sheridan says, " First comes a bill imposing
a tax; and then comes in a bill to amend the
bill that imposed the tax; and then a bill to
explain the bill that amended the bill that
imposed the tax" and so on to the end, after
the style of The House that Jack Built"
". o Picyune.
MINISTER TO SPAN.-The Hon. William
Preston, of Kentucky, has received and &C
cepted the appointment of Minister to Spain.
To BE ExECUTED.-Exum, a slave, the pro-
pcrty of LOvel Atkinson, has been convicted
before the Superior Court of Johnston, NC.
of the murder of his mistress, and sentenced
to be hung on the 10th of November.
IMPORTANT DECIsIoN.-A few years since
the physicians in this section of the State,
says the Abingdon Virginian, determined to
test the constitutionality of the law taxing
them for the prtrjLege of practicing their pro-
feSsion. Accordingly DR.. n. Snead, of Wash-
ington county, refused to pay his tax, where
upon the Sheriff levied upon his horse, and
the doctor was presented for refusing to com
ply with the law, and practicing medicine
without first procuring license. At the last
Circuit Conrt held in Abingdon, Judge Full
ton declared the law unconstitutional and
quashed the indictment.
THE HIGHEsT MoUNTAIS.-It is stated that
Hon. I. l. Clingmau, Prof. Leconte of the S.
c. College, and Prof. Buckly Of New York,
nave found by measuring various mountain
peaks in Haywood and jackson counties, that
a peak Of the Smoky Mountain in the latter
county near the Tennessee line, is some %
feet higher than the pinnacle of the Black
Mountain, heretofore considered the highest
point east of the Mississippi River.
SINGULAR CoINCIDENCE.-A lady residing
in this city. whose only daughter has been
residing in New Orleans, for several years
past, ha | a most singular dream respecting
her a few weeks since, which together with
events that have occurred subsequently,, rem
derS it one Of the most remarkable cases of
prophetic dreaming to be found on record
Feeling indiSpoSed, she retired early on the
nvnpypu alluded IN apd almost iDC,aJ;o+oIx,