Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-09-22

OF South Carolina, In his speech:
Magic wires are stretching themselves in all
over the earth, and when their
mystic meshes shall at length have been
perfected. our globe itself viii be endowed
with a sensitiveness which VIII render it i'm
possible 10 touch it upon any one point and
the touch not be felt from one end of the
world to the other. And this work is bu.
just commenced it is but the breaking of
the dawn of the worlds great jubilee. 1t
promises a day of more refinement, more in
teilectual brightness, more moral elevation,
and of consequently more human felicity,
than the world has ever seen from its crea-
ton"
The Corn CRoP IN OHIo.-The Shelby
County Ohio Democrat SAYS the Ohio corn
crop will be an abundant one, and thinks
that the farmers who anticipated a contrary
result were more scared than hurt.
- Gov. Wise, of Virginia, is down on
horse racing. Race tracks. he says, impov-
eris' a people and dwindle the horse to a
pony
Lady Byron, the widow of the poet, sue
ceeded % the Baronetcy Of Wentworth, a few
months ago, and is now a Peerless in her own
right, rs we'll as a Dowager Baroness by her
uiiiol LuDdLS LlaTIIage /
YELLOW FEVER IN New ORLEANs.-A dis
patch, dated the 10th, at New Orleans, says;
The fever reportof the asst "a hours shows
that the epidemic is increasing again. The
increase in the number of deaths, as compar
ed with the previous days report, being 10.
In the Charity Hospital the disease is on
the increase-the fever deaths during the "a
hours ending noon today twenty against
twelve yesterday. The total number of deaths
in the hospital during the week ending to-day
were 13l, an increase of four as compared
with the previous week.
The fever deaths during the week were 118,
an increase of five. The total number Of adj
missions into the hospital during the week
were 293, against 357 the previous week.
THE FINALE OF THE NoRwALK CALAMITY
The wretched engineer, Edward Tucker,
who, it will be remembered, some years ago,
ran Il train of cars belonging to the New
Haven Railroad Company. through the draw
bridge over NOrwalk river, at Norwalk, CT !,
which caused such a fearful loss of life, COM
mitted suicide on Thursday last in New York,
by cutting a vein in his arm. The conduc-
tor on this Inflated train, we believe, COM
mitted suicide the day after the accident.
RAN-CRoP PROSPECTS, &c.-On Wednes-
day and Saturday evenings last we had fine
shower of rain, which we learn was general
in this section.
We have heard some planters say that not
withstanding the drought, they will make fair
crops of corn. It has been remarked that
there is enough of old corn in the country to
supply the wants of the people even if a third
Of a crop is only made this year. But we
think the present crop will prove far better
than has been apprehended.
Those who ought to know say that the
drought has made it unusually healthy in al
portions of the country. So, what our friend;
have lost in the way of poor crops, they have
probably saved by being free from disease anC
doctor bills Charlotte Democrat.
THE GRAVE OF A DEPARTED HoPE.-HoN
sadder is it than any spot of earth where NOR
tality lies buried! Not the marble sarcopha
gus that covers the remains of kings, or tn,
revered tomb where sanity ashes lie, cal
awaken such mournful emotions. No solemn
hearse, with wailing mourners,f followed whel
the occupant was lain there in its final repose
There was a quivering of the lip, a moisten
ing of the eye, perhaps a tear and a groan
and all was past. JOY, peace and happines
fled forever; despair shrieked a hoarse dirge
dllu II udIh OAOOAllIH PlCGSiASCt tOoh u
her endless vigils over the scene. No fowe
grows there not even one spire of grass ca
find a soil in which to thrust its roots an
thence draw vitality. 1t is dry, trodden, an
waste. No genial showers shall ever moiste
and dissolve its clods, making them agents
producing the fragrant herb or fruit-bearin
plant. The rain, wind and sunshine may e,
ert their influence upon it, but they will onl
leave it harder and harder still. No quail
or emotion can ever break upon its %stillnes
Perhaps at the resurrection morn, this hop
too. shall arise from its grave clods, cast avs
its ccrementS and dissolve itself in fruitiC
amid the glory of Heaven.
No NIGHT THERE.-Who has not passt
nights Of watching and WEAKNESS ? Oh no
i~ovfully does the light of day beam upon
after a night of tossing to and fro upon a b.
of pain 4 night Of a~ffiiction is full of an
iety and care. Though it is the time to slee
vet how often we are kept waking Al
+ then, many, very many of our days are da
and sombre. How our spirits are affectC
even by the state Of the skies and the weat
err! Sickness. and pain are not ~visitants
darkness only they continue their raVag
by day. But in that abode of glory and blf
sedness-the home of the ransomed of God
there will be no night. For 'the Lamb
God will be the light thereof" Glorious ola
Bright, peaceful, eternal not darkened wi
clouds and tempests as are our days on cart
The light of that day is like unto a sto
most precious, even like ajasper-stone Gle
as crystal.
"There wiU be no night there" No 81
sons of weeping-of watching-of death. :
? will be peace, eternal peace. The conff
will be ended-the battle fonght-the victo
: won and the everlasting portion OF the SC
will he a dwelling-place in the New Jeru'
lem, where the glory of God lightens it, a
5 the lamb is the light thereof.
My soul, grid myself anew for the race.
; Bless God that this earth with its int
r mingled lights and shadows is not thy a
ding place. Endure meekly all the ills
: mortal life, rejoicing in confident expectati
= of the glory to be revealed. Let thy fa
= gain new strength in the devout and adori
: contemplation of that glory which shall
thy light forever.
The Hartford Courant gives the follow
r as 4" a specimen of New Haven literature
!, said to be a bona ide correspondence"
q "SIR-Your account has been standing
a two years l must have it settled imme
d ately."
n To which was sent in reply
+ ~"SIR-Things do usually settle by stal
a ing; | regret that my account is an exc
% ton. If it has been standing too long, S