Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-04-06
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

sand tons of iron for this road, sufficient to Y
lay about one hundred and fifteen miles of
track.
The President has also advertised for 200 y
negro men to work on the Western Division :
of the Road. :
We learn that at a recent meeting of the /
Directors of the North Carolina Railroad, Mr.. c
Mendenhall rendered his resignation as Treas !
urer, and Andrew Mickle, Esq, of Chapel :
Hill was elected in his place. The Commit
tee appointed to examine the receipts and ex- /
penditures of the Road for the last quarter, i
found them all correct, and reported that
there were sufficient funds on hand to Justify
a dividend, which the Board declared of three !
per cent. on the one million of dollars of the
States preferred stock for the last six months.
THE MOUNT VERNON FUND.-We learn from
the Richmond Enquirer that the ladies of the
Mount Vernon Association have already sue
ceeded in collecting and paying over to Mr.. |
Washington, forthe home and tomb of WAsH-ll
INGToN, the sum of one hundred and fifty /
eight thousand three hundred and thirty
three dollars. They have yet to provide for
the payment of about forty thousand dollars,
which viii not be due, however, until 1862.
There car, therefore. be no doubt Of their ul-
innate success in this noble work.
OXFORD FEMALE CoLLEGE.-The Annual
Commencement will occur on Thursday the
26th of May.
Rev. B. CRAVEN, President of Trinity Col
lege, will deliver the address before the Clio
Society. Rev. W. T. Brooks, late Professor
Of Languages in Wake Forest College. will
preach the Valedictory Sermon before the Sc
nior Glass.
COMMENCEMENT AT DAVIDSON COLLEGE
We are requested to give notice that the next
commencement at Davidson College, N. O.,
will take place on Thursday the 14th July,
1859. On the morning of that day, Mr.. j.
G.. Chambers, Yofksville, S. c., will deliver
the grafton before the Alumni Association.
On the Wednesday preceding Commence
ment day, VIM. Eaton, Jr., ESQ, of Warren
ton, N. c., will address the Literary Societies.
And on the Tuesday evening previous, the
Annual Sermon before the Graduating Glass,
will be delivered by Rev. Robert L. Dabney,
D. D., Union Theological Seminary, Va
From the reputation which these gentlemen
have acquired, we may reasonably expect
that the occasion will be one of more than
usual interest.-M G. Pres.
Our OLDEST CITIZEN GoNE.-The venera-
BILE THOMAS III. WILLIE, is no more. On Sat-
urday last, at 4 o'clock, P. NJ, in the seven
ty-ninth year of his age, after an illness of
two weeks he quietly breathed his last
Thus our own is bereft of its Oldest citizen,
both in years and length of residence, as also
the most valued remnant of that excellent
and lamented society which fourish9d here a
generation ago.-Ogford Leisure Hour.
MARINERS BANK OF N. C.-Tbe cashier at
Elisabeth City writes amoredeeming our
issde in carIency and exchaege.'
A HUSBAND POISONED BY HIS WRE.-We
learn from the Greensboro correspondent of
the Petersburg Express, that a Mr.. Isaac
johnson of Guilford county, was poisoned by
his wife one day last week. While a pos
mOrtem examination was taking place, parts
ofthe body were taken out and placed aside fora
short time, and when they were wanted they
had been taken away together with the yes
sells in which they were placed. Great ex
citement prevails in the community wher,
this diabolical deed was perpetrated. Mrs
johnson has been committed to jail to avail
her trial at the Superior Court.
PROBABLE SETTLEMENT OF THE RIGHT O
SEARCH Q~UEsTIoN.-The Washington cores
pondent ofthe New York Herald under dat
Z the 9th instant, says s'The United State
and England having failed to come to an
e definite understanding regarding the right {
search or visit,-our government declinin
to yield and point, and the English govern
ment refusing to submit any new plan-th
s French Government have stepped in and sui
mitted a project to the English governmer
. which our government have adopted, an
which will probably settle the vexed question
1t has not yet been made public"
IMPORTANT MEXICAN RUMoR. -Washingtol
March. 3O.-A report was currently circul
,e ting here to-day, that private letters fro,
Vera Crnz state that Miramon has, or
about to sign a secret treaty with France ar
e SARDINIA, ceding them the States of Next
ic composing the Tehauntepec Isthmus, namel
Tobasco, Chiapa and Tehauntepec, for a &c
tain sum, which may enable him to carry
the war. Also, that the sloop-of-war Sarat
i ga had arrived at Pensacola, a day or two az
lie bringing important secret dispatches for t
Government from Vera Cruz, which hi
= caused an excited Cabinet discussion. Y
I'll terday the report obtained considerable CT
s, dence in the best informed circles, w
Sc thought that the extraordinary naval PREF
o. rations might have some reference to an q
o ticipated rupture with the United States.
e. THE WNE-BoTTL &c think the intima
N which is begotten over the wine bottle, h
r no heart" says Thackery. 81 never KIN,
III a good feeling come from it, or an hone
cir friendship made by 1t: it only entices m,
eff and ruins them it is only a phantom
70 friendship and feeling, called up by the
sirous blood and the wicked spells of
vine"
We publish as a great curiosity the folio
res ing characteristic letter, received by c
friend DR.. j. G. AVER, of LOWELL, Mass. fr
M the "Rebel Chief" or u~surping Emperor
China, in acknowledgement for quantities
his CHERRY PICTORIAL and CATHARTIc PHI
the Doctor sept him as a present.
To DR.. AVER in America The great cur,
Barbarian Of the outside country.
go Your present of sweet curing seeds (Pi
and fragrant curing drops, (PectoraD of
Try Cherry smell, has been brought to Hugs
Tsene-the mighty Emperor (Kaoangto)
ted the terrible stout Ming dynasty, by the or
on of heaven revived after an interval of age
9th Prince of peace CTa-ping-wang) of China,
ing central fowery land. He directed his D
ate erful Mandarines to give them to the sick
ter cording to what the Interpreters read Fl
by your printed papers (directions.) Be z
the fouudly happy, O wise Barbarian for I, va
of seu-Tsing, says it Your curing seeds
I'd sweet curing drops were given to the sick
r of his Army of the Winged-Sword, and h
'eat made them well. Be profoundly happy w
his you live, for this is known to the Mighty
ion naror of China who annrovec uo,r Sill