Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-02-09
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

%'S' VI C"iOiliii, OdpL- ClldililOll, Ol IEI way
from Baltimore to Norfolk, on Friday night,
was burned to the waters edge. A clergy
mar named Curtis, Of South Carolina, and
one Of the colored stewards, persisted.
OF the passengers on board his steamer,
which was burned off the mouth of the Po-
tomac, the following were from this State
r. II. Northrop, Pioneer Mills; E Clayton
and wife, Beaufort; Il. J. Gregory, Goldsbo-
rough; j. Lurrh, Mary A. Bryan, and II.
Crapon, wife and child, Wilmington John
A. Boyden, Salisbury DR.. John G.. REEVES,
Edgecombe Peter Adams, Greensborough;
and d. A.. Wicker, Raleigh.
The steamer was valued at $120, 900, and
was insured for $4,000. Adams Express
Company lost about $4,000, and the Captain
and passengers about 80, 0 more.
TIL only persons lost were Rev. DR.. Cur
It's, Of Chester, South Carolina, and a negro
man. DIR. Curtis was an Episcopal Minister,
and resided for some years, We believe, in
Hillsborough in this State.
BRIGHAM ExCoMMUNICATING.-Sain Brigham
has just performed the wholesale slaughter
Of cutting off from communion with his
church, eight hundred and sixty members
who sympathise with the Gentiles.
DEATH OF \ NAVY OFFIcER.-The Navy
Department has received information of the
death Of Lieut.. Isaac w. Hester, which &C.
Cured at Adamsville, Fla, on the 18th inst,
of consumption.
An OFFICE WORTH HAvING.-One of the
'%fattest' Offices in the gift of the people of
the city of New York is that of sheriff. His
fees, last year, amounted to 500, 2O9.
Adams & Co.'S Express was robbed
between Atlanta and Montgomery, on Fri
day, of 100000, mostly in bills on the Geor-
sia and Carolina banks. A reward of $4,000
is offered for the arrest Of the robbers.
CONFERENCE SrATrsrIcs.-We condense
from the record, a summary of the statistics
Of the n. G. Conference, as reported at the
last session. Local preachers, 1872. White
members, in full connection, 27,805. White
members, on trial, $3.50; total white mem
berS, 3l,G27. Colored members, in full con-
n%ectlon, ll,770. Colored members, on trial,
1929; total Colored members, 1919. The
whole number, white and colOrcd, in full,
and on trial, is 1926.
There are, in our bounds, 27O Sabbath
schools; 305 superintendent; 1910 teach
crS 9,311 scholars; Is, 121 volumes in libra
rics. The amount reported as having been
collected and expended for Sunday School
books, is only $463, So; but doubtless more
was expended than was reported.
70 present, at one view, a more complete
summary Of what has been done in the Con-
ference during the past year, we add that re-
ports already published, show that s 8,133,1
has been collected for missions; and 50, $685.
81 for the contingent fund.
N. @. allocate.
REV. NJ. T, YArEs.-This gentleman, who
has been a faithful missionary to China for
ten years, is visiting the Baptist Churches in
n. c. Last week he was in M~urfresboro',
and on Sunday in Wilmington, His visits
will no doubt awaken new interest in the
China Mission, to which he designs return
ing.
A FAVORED CouNTY.-It is stated that in
the county Of Jones, in this State, there is
not an inmate of the county Jail, nor It single
pauper in the poor house.
FAnMEns' BANK MoSEY.-The Greensbo-
rough Patriot, after quoting a paragraph from
the Raleigh Standard, speaking of the large
discount on the bills Of the Farmers Bank,
payable ut Elizabeth City, says: 1--WE are in
formed from a reliable source, that if the Lee
g~islaturc make the amendment to the charter
asked for by the stockholders, arrangements
will Immediately be made for the redemption
Of the bills in specie or its equivalent; and
we would advise all persons holding Eliza
beth City bills not to part with them at a
sacrifice until it is known whether the Lcgis
lature will grant the desired amendment tc
the charter; for if granted, no sacrifice will
be required,'
STATE SrocKs.-Wc note a considerable
advance in North Carolina Bonds at New
York. Sales are reported at 49, Virginia
9G4 Tennessee, 90; Missouri, 864; Louisi
ana, %.
PARAGUAY DETERMINED On WAR.-Th,
barque Daca, at New York, brings some la
ter news from Paraguay of considerable in
! tercst. The dates from Buenos Ayres are t.
the 4th of December, and from Paraguay t.
November the 10Th. LOpez's official organ
the Semiaarjo, had another fierce editorial
, supposed to have been written by the Dicta
tor himself, ~dcnOuncing the United States
for sending out a warlike expedition agains
him, and giving notice to all the world an
the rest of mankind, that the claims whic
S that expedition is to enforce, shall be resiste
to the last extremity. The seizure of tn
= territory Of Paraguay, the Seminarjo has n
doubt, is the primary purpose of the fllibuS
tering Yankees. But come what will, W
are old NO surrender is the word.'
EUROPEAN " AR-OH' IUfCH0S6 OF CuOt
o The Washington correspondent Of the Ba
y timorc Sun, says:
n zine news by the Arabia certainly ind
o Gates the probability of a general continent;
war, upon the Italian question" I'll
. speech Of the King Of Sardinia, the NOV
q mcnts Of Austria, the warlike preparations
France, and the panic in the stock market
ID all tend toward the commencement of hOsti
Al ties, at an carly day. When and how such
war will end, no one can ~foresee. But,
the course Of its complications, a state
's thin~s may arise that will be favorable to
negotiation with Spain, through the intefe
ence of France, for the purchase of Cuba /
the United States. This view of the matt
may become an argument with Congress
favor Of the thirty million bill.
- HIGn PRCE FOR ToBACCo.-On Thursdi
w. last, says a Danyille, (Va) paper, a lot
- lucs was sold in this place at $l5 per hu
lo' bred. Daring the day large quantities we
~ brought into market, and none sold for lie
~ than 50 per hundred weight. The unpre'
Z! dcnted high price of SO for Tugs was q DO
w. nile transaction, and no humbug. The lot
~ Tugs which brought that price, was grown
- North Carolina, and consisted of several hr
dred pounds.
of ~ DIR. Baunback in his travels on
he cape of Good Hope, says; | found very +
90, +Ia nntph RNOrS Of tho bG