Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-02-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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DECLINES A. Long, Esq, one of the
Editors Of the Greensboro Patriot, who ad-
his interest in the Patriot for sale,
has withdrawn the advertisement and says
he shall henceforth devote his entire time and
energies to the paper.
1t is now reported, says the Charleston
Courier, that Col. Colt will soon establish an
arms factory in Georgia, in connection with
Mark a. Cooper.
~ \ Correspondent of the Baltimore
Clipper, dated Jan. 80, 1861, says:
That some compromise will now be pass
ed, is a fixed fact. Twenty-three out of the
twenty-five Pennsylvania Representatives, a
large number from New YoIkand New Eng
land, all the Democrats, and many Republi-
cans from the great West, and of course all
conservative Southern men, are understood
to favor a plan to be composed OF Corwin's
and the border State propositions respec-
lively.
.Sg7 A friend writes us, (says the Iredelr
EXpress) that two distinct shocks of an earth
quake were felt at Morganton, North Caro-
lima, recently. The citizens were much
alarmed.
The same shocks, as we learn from the
Ca:olinian, were felt at Franklin in this State.
IT SAVED MY LIFE. Such is the repeated
testimony Of hundreds of persons of all ages,
with regard to the magic effect of Perry
Davis Pain Killer. When every medicine
fails, his seems 10 possess a perfect charm
over the various diseases incident to man
! Lind Sold hv I",rr;efc na,acaIr
"TuIRTY-SIx THIRTY."-The reader who is
curious to know exactly where runs this oft
mentioned line, will get a clear idea of 1t by
taking the map and tracing it as follows: 1t
commences at the point on the Atlantic coast,
where the dividing line between Virginia and
North Carolina commences passes along the
line dividing those States along the line be-
tween Tennessee and Kentucky along the
line between the States of Missouri and Ar
kansas, thence through the territory of the
Cherokee nation, through New Mexico, stri-
king the eastern boundary OF the State of Cal
%ifornia, a short distance south of Monterey
bay. On the South of that line there are
about 800, 600 square miles, including Indian
reservations, while on the north there are
about 1,3 900 square miles.
AN IRREPREssIBLE CoEFLICT.-Thc Boston
Daily Advertiser, Lincoln, praising the ad
mirable speech of Hon. Thomas Corwin," and
the New York Tribune, Lincoln, reading out
Corwin from the party because he made it
Nobody can blame the Tribune for acting on
the instinct of self preservation. Corwin
talked as follows:
Every society had the right to protect its
W interests and welfare when those inter
ests become mcnaced by danger. lie wished
to say that every man who had anything to
do with the concerns of the Government,
whether he be a newspaper editor, or other IN
dividual, who goes abroad through the States,
circulating publications, with intent to excite
domestic instructions, should be seized and
punished and it was in the power OF every
State Government to punishtha intent accor-
ding to the constitutional definition OF treason.
He was the last man in the world who would
interfere with the institution Of the Press ;
but the man who went about the country cir
c~l1lating documents, with intent Of exciting
domestic instruction against the law-any
man who would thus raise his suicidal arm
against the Southern bosom, and raise his frat
ricidal arm against his brothers heart-he
would have him duly and c~ommcnsurately
punished
The New York Tribune has done as much
as any press to endorse and circulate the Help
er treason decentralization Post.
GOLD BurroNs FOR NEwBEKN.-The sun
of 500 900 in specie, passed through this
city Yesterday morning, per Adams Compa
ny's Express, for the Bank of Commerce, al
Newbern. Moth Carolina. Those OF ouI
readers who have allowed themselves to be
shaved out OF eight per cent discount or
North Carolina notes, will observe this fact
: and freeze on to their Newbern paper, If they
are fools enough to DC cheated before ther
! eyes out of any other. Pet. Express.
Supposed TO BE LosT-Serious apprehen
sions are entertained for the safety of thu
shin Laugd, Capt. R. b. Pescud now owe
due at Boston about 80 days. Capt. Prscu,
z was tho Youngest son of the late Edwart
Pcscud, of Petersburg, and has a brothe
now residing in our midst, and many nea
and dear relatives at Raleigh, n. Z.
SUPREME CoURT.-By Pearson, c. j. Il
Q Tonlinson VS.. Payae, from Wilson, affirming
. The Judgment. In Williams VS.. Schlmmer
horn from Moore, affirming the judgment
! in Williams VS. Daniel, in equity, from Wa
zen. demurrer ailo ed and bill dismissed
Ii HUT VS.. Frasier, in ,quity, from Graz
vile,
By Blttle, j. In State VS.. Glover, froI
! Gui iord, declaring that there Is no erro
:, La arTeT vs.. IGooOlHS, III equity, IFOl
u Beaufort. decree reversed and reformed
- in Aston vs.. Lee, in equity, from Halifa1
u dismi>sing the bill with cos,s. In Beddar
VS.. Hart, In equity, from Pitt.
!" BY Manly, j. In Mendenhall VS.. Paris
FROM Guilfo d, affirming the judgment. |
. Bland VS.. Scott, from Chatham, judgme
u reversed and Cenire denoUo. In Eborn VI
- - Waldo, in equity, from Martin, dismissin
=; the bill. In Mitchell VS.. Ward. in equit,
from Martin, reversing the order.
THE VERY BEsT!-No DOUBT OF Ir?-
a WHAT?-Why, Heimstreet's Inimitable Ha
Ill Restorative. Everybody who uses it recon
ort r4Sit.
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