Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-28
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

PROBABLE MURDER.-Mr. o. P. Simms, |
clerk at the Exchange Hotel, Richmond, Va,
was shot on the Goth inst, by r. Fl. Melton,
a boarder, from Louisiana. He was not ex-
pected to live at last accounts. The shooting
was unprovoked. Liquor was at the bottom
Of it. 4
LATE FALL PREDICTED gentleman who
is something of an amateur naturalist, pre-
diets a late fall, and predicates it upon the
Martins leaving some ten days later than usu-
al this year.
MORMON 0UTRAGEs.-Assassination and
murder seem to be the order of the day in
Utah, Notwithstanding there is a standing
army of .. S. soldiers there. The Mormons
appear to shoot down the 'Gentiles' in cold
blood, without hindrance from any one, and.
without the least fear of punishment. A
late dispatch from Salt Lake City contains,
an account of the shooting and killing Of Ser
geant Pike U. s. A., by a Mormon by the
name of Spencer, in front of the Salt Lake
Hotel. The murderer escaped, and no effort
was made to arrest him.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 20.-The Overland Mail,
with California dates to the 18th August has
arrived. 1t was reported at Oregon that Capt.
Walters, with a command of 140 men, had
OONh ubdcodOICCu Wy tU6 OndkG lDuldDS at
Warm Springs. The report was credited at
} Fort Dallas.
San Juan dates to the Goth represent that
affairs were unchanged. American troops
were still in possession, and had considerably
increased.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept, 20th.-There was a
s shooting ARRAY here last night between DIR.
Robt. M. Graham and Earnest Toledano, in
which the former was shot dead. 1t was a
. political difficulty. DR.. Graham is the same
q person who shot Maj. Loring at the st. Mich
olas Hotel, in New York, some few years since
q IMPORTANT ARREsT.-Seyeral times within
the last two months, attempts were made tt
throw the passenger train On the Ohio anC
Mississippi Railroad off the track at differen
points along the line. The Mayor of Cincin
If natl placed the matter in the hands of Detec
s. tive Reany, who proceeded to the points
y where the attempts had been made, and h
was so successful in ingratiating himself il
Is their favor that he learned when the next at
tempt was to be made and actually caugh
two of the gang in the very act, who are con
y. fined in the Jail of Salem, III. Their objeC
was plumber. They certainly deserve to hav
: summary punishment.
y GAMBLING IN WAsHINGToN.-The Washing
ton States, says: Washington is now as M
!" ~torious for its gambling establishments q
ne any other city on the face of the earth. l
Ic- no city of the United States are gambling e.
adjustments so public as they are here, {
gamblers so numerous. They throng tn
n, sidewalks, in some parts of our city, in crowd
nv yet who ever has been known to interior
with these gentryP Our police, instead
arresting these fellows as Migrants, ~associa'
with them and this will be continued, III
nd til our citizens some day or other take ma
IT. tiers into their own hands, or elect municip
y officers who will have the nerve to dischar.
- their duty faithfully, by exterminating ev
ry gambler den in the city. Our columns
J.. the next canvass for mayor will be hostile
iii any man who will not pledge himself to
complish this end.