Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-10-26
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

WARRINGTON, Oct. 1sth.-Either the Hon.
Jonn ohdell, OF Louisiana, or the Hon. Chas.
James Faulkner, of Virginia, will succeed
Mr.. Mason as American Minister at Paris.
ANOTHER ATTACK on BRowNsvuLE.-The
courier has a special despatch from New Or
leans, stating that another attack was expect
cd on Brownsville by the Guerrillas. who re-
Gently, under Cortinas, massacreed there five
citizens.
The SAN JUAN AFFA1R.-A dispatch from
Washington, dated the 10th, saws the latest
foreign adyices from distinguished sources
added to the feelings known to exist in our
government, strengthen the belief that the
San Juan difficulty will be amicably adius.
ted.
20 The steamer lately chartered to car
ry Mr.. Ward to China, has cost the
Government five thousand dollars per month,
making for the five months for which she is
engaged, the sum of twenty-five thousand
dollars.
LIBERAL BEQUEsT.-We learn, says the Sa-
vannah Republican, that Mrs. Mary Stafford.
who died in this city a few days ago, be-
queathed, in her last will and testament. a
handsome residence on Orleans Square, val
ued at some $4,000, and seventeen negroes,
70 the Methodist Church in that city, of
which she was a member.
CoTToE CRoP IN NORTH CARoL1NA.-The
Washington Dispatch says:
We understand about II, 900 bales of cot
ton were shipped from this port the past
year. Should the present crop not be ma
terially injured by the excessive rains which
have recently fallen, it will double the last
years crop, we judge. Beaufort, Pitt and
Edgecombe, if they continue to increase their
cotton crop as they have done fora few years,
will be able to ship 70 to 10o, 900 bales Of
cotton in five years from this date. We
hope they will try.
THREATENING ASPECT OF EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
The adylces by the last steamer represent the
condition of things upon the European CONT
nent to be the reverse of what it was antici.
pated they would be under the influence Of
the treaty of Villa Franco. When the strife
in Lombardy was pacificated by a grave and
solemn covenant between the two Emperors,
it was the general belief that a satisfactory
adjustment of all unsettled and disturbing
questions would follow in due season. Near
ly four months have elapsed since that impe
rial agreement was signed, and instead of wit
Messing in that interval, a harmonious pro
gress OF the parties to a general and satisfacto
ry agreement of their differences, we hav,
seen nothing but a continually increasing dis
content and excitement, growing mainly GU
of the disappointments and modification
which were inflicted upon the people of tn,
Italian States by the French Emperor. Their
is IN 'irrepressible conflict" between the in
t~erests and sentiments of these people ant
those of the despotic sovereigns with whom
they are in collision, and who war systemati
cally upon freedom of opinion and popula,
rights-a conflict that threatens to ~convuls
all Europe with its mighty heavings, an
which it is to be hoped, will finally crusl
out the last remains of absolutism in tina
quarter of the world.
I And here let us add, in conclusion, the ez
preston of our satisfaction at the generou
stand which Lord John Russell, in the nam
of the English Government, has taken to
, wards the italian patriots. In a speech dc
{ livered by him in Aberdeen On the 28th Sept
J on the occasion of his being presented wit
the freedom of that city, he came out openl
in favor of permitting the Italians to forr
: their W institutions, and manage their ow
internal concerns, provided, that in so doing
e they do not injure their neighbors. He wer
r further than this, for he protested against tn
e interference of any foreign power for the pu
n pose of preventing these people from havin
their own Government and conducting the
affairs as they like.