Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-06-01
SPIRIT OF THE Devoted to Temperance,

WASHINGTON, May 25.-The States of to-
day intimates that instructions strongly in
favor of the Liberal Government in Mexico,
have been transmitted by President Buchanan
to Minister McLane, at Mexico. He says that
in all probability, the treaty between the
United States and Mexico will be definitely
concluded within thirty days.
BERLIN, Tuesday, May 10, 9, A. M.-The
solemn funeral procession Of Alexander Won
Humboldt, is now on its way to the Cathe-
dral. All that represents science, art and
intelligence at Berlin, joins in the procession.
Three Chamberlains in gold costume, bear
ing the orders ofthe illustrious deceased, pre-
cede the funeral car, which is drawn by six
horses from the'imperial stables. Upon the
car is a simple uncovered coffin of oak, adorn-
ed with flowers and ~laurels. On either side
of the car are students, bearing green palm
branches.
A line Of carriages ofimmense length closes
the procession. The Prince Regent and all
the Princes and Princesses are assembled in
the Cathedral, awaiting the arrival of the
great philosophers mortal remains. A
mournful aspect overspreads the whole town.
The HORRORS OF PoLYGAMY.-In searching
the house of Bishop johnson, charged with
murder, at Salt Lake, Utah, the United States
were not able to discover the Bishop, but
found there his ten wives. Four of these
wives are sisters, and the Bishops own n~eices,
and he has, besides these, two sisters out of
one family, and also a mother and her daugh-
ter. This is polygamy with a vengeance.
VETERAN TYPos-The Pamela, Miss, Star.
mentions having had a visit from Stephen
Singletary, who is in his sixty-ninth year,
and has worked at the case fifty years. Robert
Mcknight, Sr., now working Upon the Union
vile 6. g. Journal, is in his eighty seventh
year and has worked at the case over seventy
one years. He has never been out of the
State of South Carolina.
t WoULDN'T Go.-Thirty emancipated slaves
!. from Western Virginia, en- route for Liberia,
: under the control ofthe agent of the Colonial
ton Society, started for Norfolk by way Of
r Petersburg. Only twelve arrived; the others
: escaped, preferring slavery to freedom.
. EXCITING TIMES IN UTAHl-The Utah cor.
respondent of a N. Y. paper, states that Gen.
n Johnston had been called on by Judge Sin.
o clair for troops to act as a posse cOmitdtus tC
Z enforce the the ATTENDANCE of witnesses and
q to protect the Court during it's session a
4 Salt Lake City.
Gov. Cumming Immediately called ou'
5000 militia to resist the entrance of tn,
troops. 1t would appear from the correspon
h dence that if the troops enter, a collision il
inevitable.
1t is thought that the danger from the Nor
mon element is more imminent than ever be
of fore, and that the only way to preserve tn
country from continual and extraordinary in
subordinatlon, is the exodus of the whol'
y, body to some of the Islands in the Pacific.
)u A PARTY OF STARVING MEN ATTACK AN EN-
IGRANT TRAN!-A private letter dated at Pa
r. cifc City, Iowa, reports that a party of star
be wing Pixies Peaks emigrants, had attacke
he and captured one of the outward boun
en- trains, near O'Fallon's Bluff.
he During the melee, d. @. Oaks, the Condut
err tor, was killed, aud Mr.. Griffths, the newl
ng appointed Postmaster, who was on his wa
to take charge of the office at Aurayia, ws
hung by the desperadoes.
- DEATH OF AN ENGLISH BIsHoP.-The En-
lish papers record the death of the Rigl
Rev. DIR. Bethel, Lord Bishop of Bangor, Il
oldest prelate in the Episcopal church. II
vacant seat is worth FL, 800 per annum, wit
a patronage of eighty-one livings, the aggr
gate annual value of which is 923, 900 wit
other gifts amounting to at least one hui
dred and twenty thousand dollars a veal
Fine pickings, that and in striking contra
with the salaries of Bishops on this side Il
water, especially Methodist Bishops, who +
de- ceive $3.50 a year and their travelling expe
ses.
at How LONG DOES A SHAD LIvE.-Some W
o'y ter says: The shad lives but a single ye;
ak 1t is Matched in the early summer; descen
nst the streams as soon as large enough fee
END and fattens in the winter at the mouth
lty, the stream ascends in the spring to dep
Igh it it's spawn descends to die at the bottC
ing of the ocean" Is this true?