Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1860-12-05
NEWS OF THE A

az At Pontchatoula, on the jackson
(Miss.) Railroad, an alarming discovery has
been made. Mr.. Alfred Hennen, a lawyer of
New Orleans, who has a plantation there,
found seventy muskets in his negro quarters,
with bayOnets attached, and ammunition all
ready for use. Without doubt there are
abolitionists in our vicinity, and our ex-
changes bring us accounts of white men who
have been driven away for telling negroes that
they would be free after Lincoln's election.
A PLANTER MURDERED BY HIS SLAVE
Mr.. Robert Williams, the wealthiest planter
in Yallabusha county, Miss, was murdered
by one of his slaves, on the 18th ult, while
visiting his plantation, near Grenada. He
attempted to chastise the negro, who there
upon killed him with an axe.
Is THERE NOT SOMETHING IN MA reso-
luton has been introduced into the Georgia
lie gislature, authorizing representatives in
Congress to resist the counting of the votes
of certain States. This is to bring up the
quesion-Can States that have refused to
be bound by the Constitution be qualified to
act under that Constitution viz: the ten
States, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts. Rhode Island, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and
Iowa, which it is alleged, have dis~franchised
themselves by their State action.-Pet. En-
press.
Fox SEoEssIoN.-Ho A.. II. Dawson,
who canyassed Georgi a IN behalf Of Bell and
Everett, writes to the Charleston Mercury in
favor of Secession, and advocates separate
State action. He thinks if South Carolina
will GO out fist, it will largely increase the
secession vote in Georgia and Alabama.
49, III H. w. I'll
Times, says that a most terrible and fatal
accident, with consequences still more terri
BILE, occurred in Adams county the other day.
The story is at once the briefest and most
awful we have read of in many a year. A
woman about to churn butter, threw some
boiling water in the churn, into which one OF
the children had, unnoticed by the mother,
placed an infant, and it was instantly scalded
to death. In her frenzy the mother seized
a chair and inflicted a death blow upon the
little girl. After realizing what she had
DONE, She threw herself into the well and was
drowned.
ORDER CoUNTERMANDED.-The Montgom-
cry, Ala. Mail, has the following paragraph:
One of our Railroad Companies has coun-
fernandez an order to q Northern factory for
several hundred tons of rail. The reason il
obvious By next March we shall be out Of
|, an Union which imposes $l5 or $20a ton OF
, Railroad iron. How much will this save
Southern railroads?
An OLD MASON Probably the oldest
member of the Masonic Order in the Unite,
! States, at least in New England, is Eeenezel
Mower member OF the Morning Star Lodge
of Worcester. lie is now over a hundred
years of age, was initiated February Is. 1894
! and has thus been a mason nearly sixty-sev
$ ed years.
It DEATH OF JUDGE LARRABEE OF WIScoE
sIN.-Thc Appleton Crescent, of the It'll
SAYS: 1t is with fee lings of more than OF
of binary sorrow and regret, that we chronicl
OF the death of Charles H.. Larrabee, the men
I'd Der of Congress from this District. Judg
ct Larrabee fell from a ladder, some ten day
n ago, while experimenting repairs to hi
n, house. and was fatally injured.
- HoN. JonH c. BREcKINRIDGE.-There al
ng pears to be considerable interest manifesto
n by a portion OF the press 10 know the view
Is Of Mr.. Breckenridge in relation tothe preseI
~ crisis. Some of them So SO far as to declsr
that the Lexington, KY, Statesman, a Dem
IN. cratic journal published at the home of N
breckenridge, and his enthusiastic support
luring the late Pre- sidsntial contest, has q
IS, fined his position in the following EDITOR
10 remarks:
nc "Thcre is as yet no just cause for revol
On. ton or dissolution. The Union comman
oy. orr cordial allegiance: to it we shall be lo
est al ur,til its basis, the Constitution, has be
his actually destroyed. Kentucky will not 81
render the Union. Our people are as gala
and spirited defenders of their rights, and
o. little disposed to submit to wrong and d
NJ honor as any men who trad the soil of Am
lea. They will not permit themselves to
OF degraded nor their rights invaded but th
the do not believe the time has come for revo
ton, and will yet cling to the Union W
the devotion of the true sons of '76.
To our Southern friends NC would earnt
pal ly appeal to wait the full development
asst, Lincoln's policy, before striking the ia
/ OF blow to the Union. Kentucky is a Dor
Estate, and, as such, tho first and great