Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-04-17

April being l2l.
Through the energy of the enterprising Super
intendent, handsome and extensive buildings have
been erected arranged with special reference to the
necessities and convenences of Military Academy.
The main building is Of brick, 2l5 feet long and
three stories high another building 23O feet long,
contains the mess hall, kitchen, store rooms, sur
geon's Office, hospital, and Society hall. Two Liter
airy Societies are in successful operation among the
Cadets.
The standard of instruction in the Academy is
intended to be of high ORDER and displomas will be
awarded only to profcients. The officers who off,
ciate as instructors are COL c. c. Tew, Superin-
tendent Capt. NJ Richardson, Capt c. E. Lghtfoot,
Lieut. A. S. Gailard, and Lieut. F. Schaller; all of
@Ghom We have reason to believe, are able and eff
cient-Hilsboro' Recorder.
The VESSEL FIRED INTO AT CHARLEsToy.-The
vessel fired into at Charleston, Wednesday, was the
r. H. Shannon, laden with ice, bound from Boston
for Savannah. The Savannah Republican says:
On Wednesday she was shrouded in dense fog,
during which she drifted through mistake, over the
Charleston Bar. Soon after the fog lifted, the cap.
tain not knowing his whereabouts found himself
nearly abreast of the fort on Morris Island, and
while cogitating over his latitude and longitude he
was greeted with salute from the fort He i'm
mediately ran up his colors-the stars and stripes
but that demonstration seemed an unsatisfactory
answer to that summons. Several shots thirty-
twos) fred into his rigging of which pass
ed through his mainsail and another through his
topsail In the midst Of his dilemma, not knowing
where be was or the object Of this hostile demon
stration boat from Fort Sumter came to his relief
and being made acquainted with the facts, he lost
no time IN putting to sea. 2' 49,. "
The schooner suffered no material damage from
the shots, though one of them came most uncom-
fortably near the head Of one of the crew. Captain
Marts thinks there is no mistake aboutthe Morris
Island boys being excellent marksmen.
SINGULAR DEvELoPMENTs-Ihe Murderess of Too
Husbands.-The Milwaukee Sentinel says it is be-
leved from recent developments that Ann r Bilan-
sky, who was executed at st. Paul, Minnesota, for
the murder of her husband by administering arsenic,
was the same person who on the 9th of November,
1S49, poisoned Alex. d. Simpson, her husband in
the town Of Fayetteville, N. O. In that case ar
senc was the agent employed and after the death of
Simpson, his wife was arrested, but succeeded in
escaping to Charleston and thence to Havana where
she remained until May, 1860. She returned to
Fayetteville on the 9Th of November following, sur
rendering herself for trial, and was acquitted On
the trial Of Mrs. Bilansky she stated that she had
resided at Fayetteville, N. c., where her husband
died. The Christian name of the two women were
identical, and many circumstances in St. Paul sub
sequent to her execution have been called to mind
which tend to the belief that she and Mrs Simpson
were the same person. i5,
Fun is the most conservative element Of society,
and ought to be cherished and encouraged by all