Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1860-08-15
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

day last in Missouri for Governor and mem
bors of Congress, in Kentucky for Clerk of
the Court ofAppeals, and in Arkansas for
Governor andtw members of Congress.
In Kentucky General Leslie Coombs, the
Union candidate, is elected by from $500 to
10000 majority.
Barrett, Denl., is elected to Congress from
the st. Louis District in Missouri for the
short term, and Blair Republican, is elected
for the long torn. Sample Orr, the Union
candidate for Governor, has 4 majority ofoycr
2000 in the st. Louis District.
In Arkansas, johnson Reg. Dem, is cleo
ted Governor by probably 10000 majoritg,
over Rector, Ind. Dem.
The Ncyaro (Texas) Express, Of the 2fst,
informs US that an aboIitionist was caught at
Fort Worth, who had just distributed fifty
guns and fifty-six shooters among the ne
groes. Another man was arrested in Parker
county for Il similar act. Both men were
hung.
GEN. BICKLEY's FHLIBrsTER PRoJEcr.-
Gen. Bickley's famous pronounciamento to the
knights of the Golden Circle, warning them
to repair TO the Texas encampment by the
10th OF September, is thoroughly shown up
by the Galveston Civilian. 1t says the Amer
icanization of Mexico is doubtless a good OBJ
ject, but the Knights will find stumbling
blocks in the way. The first is that Septem-
Der is about as good a time for pestilence as
for war, on the Mexican and Texas frontierr
and If these are not too much for their ardor.
they will find that famine will prove an un-
conquerable enemy. The Civilian says the
war has about swept the stock of beeyes
from the valley of the Rio Grande, and the
drouth and other causes have prevented the
production of grain. Gen. Biekley's aver
ment that the people of Texas are enthusi-
astically in favor of his project, and had sub
scribed the sum of $500, 900, in its aid.
proves to be unmitigated bosh-for the CT
william says that the people of Texas, mani
fest no interest in this movement, and have
not the ability, if they had the desire, to
feed the adventures who may enter upon
1t. Already parties claiming to be engaged
IN the movement have been arrested for ap-
proprIatlng property Of others to supply
their own necessities, while the prospect is
still worse for those who may come. Gener-
al Buckley has been denounced as a humbue
in various parts of the South, and according
to all accounts he occupies the position of a
commander without men.
HEATED WIND SToRM.-A heated wind
storm passed over a portion of Kansas on the
9th ult, which proved nearly as destructive
to animal life as the recent tornadoes that
visited with such terrible effect portions of
Iowa. The wine arose about 101 o'clock
A. NJ, and continued until 8 o'clock in the
afternoon. AT l o'clock the mercury rose to
1l94 degrees, and continued so for about an
hour, and then began gradually to decrease.
The effect can scarcely be imagined. The
wind blew a brisk gale, carrying with it a
salty sulphurous smell. Two men in attemp-
ting to cross the country from lola to Hum
boldt, distance eight miles,) were overtaken
and persisted. There were three others at
Humboldt, who were caught out with teams,
which persisted, the men alone surviving,
and are now in a fair way to recover. There
was scarcely a chicken left in the country
Hogs and cattle fell in their tracks and suf-
located. Various reasons and coniectures as
to its cause are given, but all unsatisfactory.
DEATH OF Dr.. PREssLY.-The Due West
Telescope announces the death on the 25th
ult-, of Rev. &. e. Pressly, d. d. DR.. P.
was one ofthe most learned and distinguished
men in the A. R.. Synod of the South. He
was the first President of Erskine College.
and also, for the last thirty years, pastor of
the Associate Reformed church at Due West.
His death is a great loss to that denomination.
BETTER CONE BACK TO NORTH CARoLrNAl
The Observer of 9th inst, publishes an ex-
tract from a letter written by a gentleman in
Smith Co. Texas TO a kinsman in that place.
1t gives a gloomy account Of crops in Texas.
The drought is very destructive throughout
many parts Of the Gulf States:
There is but very little of any thing
making in the State. Corn is worth from
81 80 to 50 a bushel Wheat about the same;
bacon 20 cents flour 81 to Z cents a pound.
The corn has all dried up in the fields. We
have had no rain in this county since May
9TH, and in most of the adjoining counties
none since February 28th. Most of the far
mers have cut down their corn, and are stack
ing it to feed stock. The acorns and hickory
nuts have fallen from the trees. The grass
is nearly all dead. Stock of all kinds is
doing badly, and farmers have turned their
cattle into the fields. People who have lived
here ten and fifteen years say the drought is
worse every year. The people are leaving
here as fast as they came in; going to Ar
kansas, Mississippi, Alabama, &C."
The Texas Incendiarics-kneged Dia-
bolical Plot.
A correspondent of the Houston CTexas)
1eItSrdpn, Writing from lJallaS, the scene OF
one of the most destructive of the late fires,
processes TO give some startling particulars
In relation to the alleged plot to excite a
negro instruction in that State. The letter
is dated July q, and after stating some things
already known to our readers, proceeds
The details of the plot and its modus OPP
erandi are these: Each county in Northern
Texas has a supervisor in the person of a
white man, whose name is not given each
county is laid off into districts under the sub
agents of this william, who control the ac-
ton of the negroes in said districts by whom
the firing was to be done. Many of our
most prominent citizens were singled out for
assassination wheneyeT they made their escape
from their burning homes. Negroes never be-
fore suspected arc implicated, and the insur-
r%ectionary movement is widespread to an ex-
tent truly alarming. In some places the plan
was conceived in every form shocking to the
mind and frightful in its results. Poisoning
was to be added, and the old females to be
slaughtered along with the men, and the
young and handsome women to be p~arcelled
out among these infamous scoundrels. They
had even gone so far as to designate their
choice, and certain ladies had already been
selected as the victims of these misguided
monsters. Fortunately the country has
been saved from the accomplishment of these