Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-21
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

not to accept the French mission. 1t is non
that the President has rendered II r.
The Hon. Charles j. Faulkner, of Virgin.
Whether he, too, will reject the glittering
prize, we are not informed.
The GROWING TOBACCO CRoP.-The Clark
Vile Tobacco Plant says that the season for
cutting has arrived, and so far as our infor,
nation extends, we believe, there is every
Of a very abundant crop, Of which
there will be a great proportion offne tobac-
co. Such, at any rate, is our view of the
crop in this immediate section Of country.
GROWTH OF TExAA-The vote of Texas ~
the late election for Governor was about sixty
three thousand. In 1850, when Texas came
into the Unien, she only poEed about eight
thousand. This shows an astounding increase
in the population of the State.
DELEGATE TO CoNGREss.AW. II. Hooner
Mormon, has been elected to Congress in
Utah Territory vice Bernhisel ignored.
APPoINTxENT.-Rev. T. W. Tobsy ofSun-
~terville, has been appointed Professor Of The
ology in Howard College, at Marion, Ala.
HOME AM GRAVE OF WAsHNGroN.-Tbe
purchase of Mount Vernon by the "LaGIes,f
the Union" has been completed 10 within the
sum of $4,000. tits expected that the two
last instalments which go to make up sHis
amount will be raised in a short time and paid
over to Mr.. John A. Washington.
A RIGHrEoUs BEoUEsT.-$10o,0 900 GIVEN
FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE Poos.-A GeOr-
gia paper says:
1.-THE late M. A. Bowder left BIZ his " III.
| the sum of one hundred thousand ,soIIars TO
the Chenille College and Military Institute.
l HAa ,<o-aC% - &L.z l0--o
piled to the payment of professors salaries
and the education of poor boys. This is wa
believe, one fthe largest requests ever made
to any one institution in the country
DEATH BY LIGHrNNG.-Mr. David d. KeI-
ly, of Duplin County, was killed by a stroke
Of Ii lightning between Magnolia and Warsaw
on Monday evening last.
AGRICULTURAL FAIR.-The Sixth Animal
{ Fair of the Cumberland County Agricultural
Society will be held at Fayetteville, on We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday, the End, Sd
and 4th days of November next
The Annual Address will be delivered on
Thursday by w. w. Holden, ESQ, ofRaleigh.
) The Society feels assured, that every eff
fort will be made by its membersa and the cit
liens to make the Fair excel any of the pre-
) vious ones, and that the Farmers, Mechanics.
Artists and Amateurs in every branch of in
dustry will be well represented. The ladies
. have never failed to make their department
interesting and we trust the next Fair will
' prove them to be, as they always have been
r our friends in a good cause
D We are determined if possible to make this
our best Fair, and we respectfully invite the
citizens of this and the ~neighboring Counties
d to give US the aid in accomplishing so impor-
g tant an object.
r REvIvALN GREENsRoRo.'-Fo three weeks,
Rev. L. S. Burkhead, pastor in charge of
the Methodist congregation in Greensboro
e has held daily meetings, preaching every
night, which has resulted in some forty or ff
ty conversions, mostly among the young Ia
dies of College. The pastor has been assis-
ted by Rev. N. III. d.. Wilson, W. Harris
III. T. Hudson, G.. P. Jones, I. NJ. Jones,
j. c. Thomas, and w. II. Bobbitt. The
meetings are still progressing.
3 A LOCK WITH THE KEY-HoLE INsIDE.-The
y impossibility of rendering a strong box alto
: gether safe against theft by means of skele
. ton keys, has led a locksmith in Frankfort
:, on-the-Main, to hit upon the ingenious ides
of constructing a strong box without any
key-hole at all, and which even the owner
y himself cannot open. Why, what's the us,
~ of such a box? you will ask. But observe
!" inside is a clock-work, the hand of which th,
owner places at the hour and minute whe,
Re he again wants to get into the box. Tn
he clock-work begins to move as soon as the Ii,
i'll is shut, and opens the lock from the inside .
ID the moment which the hand of the clock in
ID dicates. Time, depedent upon the owner. !
is. the key to the lock-a key which can neithe
no be stolen from him nor initiated.
w VICE-PREsIDENT BREcKENRIDGE. in a lette
to Judge Black, declines to be considered a
nd a candidate for the Presidency. He expect
yer to be elected U. 5. Senator in Crittenden'
AZ, place.
q: A GROWING CTTY.-Nearly nine hundre
n buildings are going up, at the present tim,
We in Brooklyn, N. Y, among which are fou
teen churches, seven factories of differer
va kinds, and nearly a dozen school houses. m
I'VE king an addition of nearly seven millions
go dollars to the taxable property of the city.
BENEVOLENT ORDER.-At a celebration
the Portland Odd Fellows, on Tuesday Il
Ills Grand Lodge stated that during seyente,
ear years since the establishment of the order
rts that State, it had expended upwards Of fisk
= thousand dollars for the relief of sick ar
Ipy destitute members. The amount u rel
or granted in the United States the last yes
- he stated, was not far from four hundr
sta thousand dollars.
y. LIST OF SUIcIDEs.-The New York Tim
has published a list of suicides which ha
D. been recorded in the papers of the Unit
- States during the last six weeks. The nu1
Der Is ffty-three IN which life was actual
80 taken, andtwenty more unsuccessful attemp
Domestic trouble was The cause in a major
of the cases, and straitened circumstances q
disappointments in business led to what CO,
h ners' juries call the rash act in Others.
,wn A MIsTAKE.-The Huntsville. Texas. IL
says that Gen. Sam Houston is to be Cove
1d's or of Texas for the next two years. This
!. a slight error. Gen. Houston will take
seat in the United States Senate, if he Iy
tns on the 4th of March, 1861, when Ed. Ola
'oen the newly elected Lieutenant Governor '
rs go into the Executive chair of Texas
ner. ASTT-MoRMoNs.-Later andimportant ne
died from Utah show that for the FIRST time in
wife, history of that Territory, a distinct politi
rthy antl-Mormon organization has been form
who Its address and resolutions consist of BIT
and severe attacks upon Mormonism.
Saints being accused of almost every polit
vile and moral crime in the calendar.
VIC OUTLAwRY.-The St Paul Times. ha
d;ed long account of the lawless doings of a b
ILsw of outlaw in Wright county, Minnesota, '
70 have gone so far as to bid defiance to
State authorities. Gov. Sibley has called