Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-07-10
NEWS OF n DAY.

FEDERAcY TO BE RECOGNIZED ATAN EARLY
Gen. Pillow has received from an
official source, and in such a manner as makes
it perfectly reliable. information that a bearer
of dispatches has arrived from the Confeder-
ate Ministers in Europe, with adviees that
England ard France had determined to pro-
tect their commerce on the Western Cont
nent, and that, to ensure its entire safety,
each of the Governments have ordered twenty
additional ships from their respective n~ayies,
to reinforce their squadrons in the Southern
waters.
Another important point of information is, |
that negotiation for a loan had So far pro-
crossed as to have secured propositions from
different parties and powers, to the amount
of two hundred million of dollars, upon. the
security offered by the prospective cotton
crop, or that portion of it which will come in
to the hands Of the Confederate authorities,
through the confidence of the Southern peo-
pie in their Government.
The same dispatches also conveyed the
gratifying intelligence that the Confederacy
will be recognized in a short time by the
Great European powers that the blockade of
Southern ports can be of only short duration,
and that the season when our great staple is
prepared for market will see Us in free CON-
mercial intercourse with all the world, with
the single exception of our prosecutors in the
North.-Memphis Appeat, 18th.
KENrucKy CoMIsa.-ppsirIoN OF Hex.
JoHN j. Conference.-The COMPROMISE, Eric.
conversed yesterday morning with a
gentleman just from Kentucky and gathered
several items of interest. Mr.. C~rittenden's
present position, as explained by distin-
gnished politician, is thus defined He will
T1r0rOcn that Xhn NoFLAuo on--o a1all
recognize the Southern Confederacy, and that
1t shall be submitted to the vote of the peo-
pie of Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri,
whether they will join the Northern or South
ern Government. II this proposition fails,
Mr.. Crittenden will return home and raise the
standard of resistance and, on such an issue
we learn, from the very best informed sources,
Kentucky will go for revolution by at least
one hundred thousand. The people Of the
Northern portion of Kentucky are represented
to be warmly attached to the Southern cause,
and the cause of their delay, as represented,
IS the unarmed and unprotected condition of
their border. But, when Crittenden's propo-
sltlon fails, the people of Kentucky will rush
to arms with a zeal and enthusiasm for which
there has never been a parallel. We are as
sured that Mr.. Crittenden's position is that
of an overwhelming majority of the Union
men of Kentucky. The position of the Lou
isyille Journal and of Mallory is reprobated
as being but a slight remove from Abolition
ism.-Memphis Bulletin.
The TRAITOR ANDY JOHNSON This double
dyed villain reportedin Kentucky and Wash
ington that ne had been fired upon thir-
teen times in Tennessee by the Secessionists,
in his flight from that State to take shelter
under. the Lincoln Government. His in
ference from his escape without injury is
probably that he wears a charmed life but he
need rot lay the nattering JUNCTION to his soul.
A man born to be hung cannot be SHIT. The
Knoxville Register corrects his statement by
declaring that the shots he supposed 10 have
been fired at him, were onlg shots fired by the
Powells Valley picnic, on the Pinnacle, in
salutation Of their flag. 10 'nston though they
were aimed at him. 4 gull J conscience
needs no accuSer.'
FEARFUL. TORNADO IN ILLISaIs-Liues List
On the 10th instant a terribledornado swept
over Champaign county, Illinois. A cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune says
After the wind had tested the moving ca
pacity of everything portable, then came a
shower of hail, which converted cur immense
crops of ripening wheat and waving corn into
a barren waste. There are many farms in
the vicinity of Champaign City upon which
there is not a green leaf or a blade of grass
left. Wheat, oats, barley and rye are
entirely ruined. | visited many fields to
day, and found the small grain mown to
the ground as with a scythe and the stalks
were beaten and shiv cred, looking as though
they had passed through a threshing machine
Corn which was one and a half feet high
was cut off even with the ground, and tn
stalks beaten to a jelly an inch below thu
surface. Up to this date we have heard 0
five persons who were killed, and quite :
number who were more or less s%eriousll
wounded
From Mr.. YANcEY.-The Montgomery Pos
says a letter has been received from Hon
VIM. L.. Yancey, one of the Commissioner
to Europe, in which he states that our in
dependence will certainly be recognized b,
England during the month of August, an,
that he expects to be at home in SEP
TENDER.
THERE ARE Giants. IN THESE DAYs.-W
yesterday gazed with establishment at tn
talle,t specimen of humanity We have eve
~seengoing at large. He was six feet sever
inches in height, and otherwise well proper
TONED. Though only twenty-three years old
he lookedsa as if he could take a live Yanke
by the nape of the neck and shake the lf
out of him in no time. lie is the younges
of three brothers, all residents of DuplI
county, n. c., and all equaling him in height
They have come to Norfolk to fight the Yan
KEGS, and if that race of bepids will only Civ
them a chance, no doubt these sons of Ana
awill make them hear thunder. These me
would, we think, compare favorably wit
those which Caleb and Joshua saw in tn
land Of Canaan. -NorToM Herald.
A letter from Suffolk, dated July 81, says
| learn that measles are rapidly spreading i
the 3rd and 4th Regiments of n. G. Volur
teers. A number of new cases are reported
and two other houses are to be arranged fc
hospitals. 1t is however, of a mill type
and, with good nursing, it will not prov
dangerous. The ladies of the town hav
associated themselves together, and will Wis
the hospitals twice each day and minister t
the wants of the sick. In addition to tn
they meet daily to sew for the soldiers. Be
sides those thus associated, there are a nun
Der of ladies in the country around Suffol
who are doing all they can for the sick an
distressed. No ladies in any place.are doin
more for the soldiers than the ladies' of Sn
folk and vicinity. Many of the soldiers Wi
remember their kindness in after life.
RIors IN THE Observation-Disclosures Jur
25.-Bank riots have broken out in this cit,
The citizens have demolished Withell, ar
two other Bank Brokers' offices have bee
injured. The Montgomery Guards were ca
led out, but refused to obey orders to fiji
upon the citizens. The Zouaves were The