Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-05-08

DAY. tie proposed that Kentucky present
herself at the extra session Of Congress on
the Fourth Of July, and through her Sena-
tors and Representatives protest the settle
1ment of the present difficulties by the sword,
Kentucky in the meantime to call State
Convention to aid her Congressman in pre-
senting that protest.
The CoSFEDERATE STATES LoAN-The
demand for the loan Of the Confederate Sta.es
was so great that President Davis has deter
mined to offer the whole $15. 900, 600. Tho
amount subscribed exceeds s15, 100000.
STILL MovISG-The war feeling is still
high in Craven County, and Military COM
panies are forming in every direction In a
week from to-dsy she will have seven or
eight companies organized, music. ing some
four or five hundred men. Meetings have
been and are TO. be held in almost every
neishborhood in the county for this purpose.
NeTbeTH Progress.
'PLAsr CoRS.p-Yes, plant corn. The
ports of the South are blockaded. You can
not sell cotton and tobacco, if you make it.
Large armies must be fed. Supplies from a
distance are cut off. We must exercise strict
economy in the use of every thing eater by
hICb ab0 hOioCo dbQ ny iiai1b Of~iy
foot of land in corn, Away with tobacco
and cotton Let us plant corn. Raise beef,
pork, poaltry, and every thing that is eatable.
NJ C. Chris. Adrocate.
A FRENCH FRIGATE FOR CHARLESTON
The New York Erpress does not very well
relish the idea of Louis Napoleon sending
a ftigate to Charleston. 1t says:
THE news by the steamer Columbia, at
Halifax, is important-if true. 1t is report
ed that Louis Napoleon has despatched-or
is going to despatch-a man-of-war to
Charleston, at the solicitation of Jefferson
Davis. While there is reason to doubt the
truth of this story, in the absence of more
definite information, it ought not to occasion
any surprise if the leading European govern
ments have their fleets in our waters while
civil war is raging. 1t is customary, espe-
cially with France and England, to have
their men ot-war near by when fighting is
going on, no matter where. Their ostensi-
BILE object is to be in a position to protect
their own people and their interests, if either
should be endangered; but it not unfre-
quently happens that these fleets Of observa-
ton become active participants as well as
observers.
"a The vi gina Convention adjourned
to meet on the 18th ofJune e
Chief Justice fancy and Justices Wayne
and Campbell have resigned their offices as
Justices Of the Supreme Court of the late
United States.
The Northern troops quartered in the
Ca,.itol, are d~efacing the walls and greasing
and dirtying the building in every way.
WEST PorNr, N. Y. April 2o.-Twenty
three Southern Cadets have refused to renew
the oath of ale glance to the United States,
and left.
MAIL RoBBER ARRESTED We learn tina
q man named Charles Ii. Sleuman was yes
terday arrested and lod yed in jail here upon
unquestionable evidence of having robbed thu
mail. He has been driving the sulky mail
for about a year past, ii st to Raleigh vi;
Summeryille, then to Fair Is utf, and l~ecentl,
to Gilopolis. When arrested by the Post
master and Deputy Sheriff Ilardie, he had il
his boot letter to the Editors of this paper
from which he had distracted a years sub
sc1iption, and a letter to E.. Murray Il Co.
covering a draft for upwards of $500. II
confessed to numerous rohberies, to IN amour
of which he processes to have no idea. A
ter an examination before G.. Deming, Esq
he was committed TO Jail. He is a native {
Connecticut.
THE frequent losses by mail of late MAX
his an Important arrest, ana the pu0iic
under obligation to our efficient PoStmlste
Jas. G. Cook, for the effectual measures h
has taken to catch the rogue, and to Messr
Hardic and Deming for their hearty co-ol
era'i IN. -FayetteUiHe Observer.
A LONG JoURNEY.-On Saturday night la
VIC received a business letter which W,
mailed to US at Albemayle, Stanly Count,
on the 8th of March, 1S60,-one year, OF
month, and nineteen days ago. Ii cam
down in the Raleigh mail via Summervill
The way-bill and all looked in perfect orde
Fayetteville Obserrer.
NORTH CAROLINA SMALL NoTEs-We a
glad to see that North Carolina small not
of the denomination Of one, two, three, al
four dollars are freely passing current in o.
community. They are certainly a great CO
v~enience, particularly in times like thes
when silver and gold is worth IL to 10 p
cent. SO says the Norfolk Herald of ye
terday. 1t affords US pleasure t. add, th
The same is the case here. The North Car
| lima notes are just as good as so much gol
/ There are no soundcr or better conduct
banks in the world than those of North Ca
) olina.-Petersburq Express.
!, RICHMOND IN TIE FIELD The Conventi
: on Saturday adopted a resolution inviti
the President of the Southern Confedera
and his Cabinet TO make Richmond, or al
other place in the State, they may seize,
: the seat of Government. We hope Preside
!, Davis will accept the lnvitat;on--Richmo
Dispatch.
: HoLLowAY's PILLS AND O.NTMENr.--Cnts
eous Eruptions, as blotches, Pimples, Be
: &c., are quickly removed by a short con-
h Of these remedies; the Ointmentgises a Gle
3 ness and transparency to the complexit
while the Pills purify the blood Of all tht
humors which otherwis Use seeking outlet fol
themselves to the surface and disfi5ure I
| face and neck with u~nsightly blotches, pir
Piles, &c. No toilette table should be withC
the Ointment. Sold by all Druggists at %
62c., and 81 per box or pot.
. Davis Pain Killer gives immediate re-
:. in cases of asthma and phthisic, by takin,
o tea spoonful in molasses, and bathing
throat and stomach faithfully with the m
d icine clear. Let the flannel lie on the thr'
q until relief is found.
RECEIPTS FOR THE AGE,
SINCE LAST 1ssUE.-S1 Miss NJ d Churchwell,
Evansville; w j Whitehead, Joyners: w s Els
Jesse Murray, M Nj Swain, Locust Cottage: Ar
l. Miss Kitty Uaughtry, Blackman's Mills j B eli
Pantego; Miss Laura snsad, smithneId John
James Beauchamp, Smith Grove John Shelby, He