Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1864-02-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


Hon. n. Boyden, has been elected to the
State Senate from Rowan and Davie, to
NIL the vacancy created by the ~resigna-
tion of DR.. j. G. Ramsay.
The Mercury says, many of the soldiers
IN Gen. Beauregard's Department are re-
enlisting for the war, and that the troops
are in fine spirits and full of enthusiasm.
An Atlanta paper says, a gentleman
VINO recently came through from the
North, reported gold five TO one in New
York. tits said the brokers and the pa
pers are compelled to give false reports.
Eleven hundred thousand dollars was
funded in the city of Lynchburg on Wed.
nesday and Thursday of last week.
In Petersburg, Va, a few days ago, a
man named James Womack was found
dead on the common. The poor wretch
had, while drunk the night before, un-
dressed himself, thinking hs vas going
to bed, and laid himself deem. On the
cold ground to die. The suns beams
the next morning lighted the pale face of
the dead man, who was taking his. last
sleep.
The Progress of Tuesday says: We re.
greet to learn that there was another x
plosion at the Powder Mills of Messrs.
Warehouse & Bowes, near this city, yes.
terday. The cxplosiouwas caused by the
blowing up Of one of the incorporating
houses. The building was DESTROYED
but no n was hurt. The accident will
not stop the mills and the damage will
be repaired in a few days. Mcssrs. Wa
terhouse & Bowes are among our most
enterprising citizens, and their labors
have been of incalculable benefit to the
Confederacy.
Col. Basil Duke, of Morgan's COM
mand, has been released from the Ohio
penitentiary, by order of the War De-
partment, and transferred to Camp
Chase where he is allowed the perfect
freedom OF the camp.
Nineteen missionaries and seventy
one chaplains are in the Southern ar.
mics, from eight of the M11hodia4ssG-
fs.t'ces "a sta Tts2s 4 $50
A procession OF sixty Carriages and
other vehicles followed the remains of an
old negro to the grave in Montgomery,
Ala, last week. .
A man was arrested in Augusta on
Friday who had too many papers-hav~
| ing passes both from Confederate and
Yankee Generals.
Bishop George F. Pierce, n of the
finest orators that Georgia ever produce
ed, has consented to step aside from his
ecclesiastical duties for a brief season
and devote his great powers to the task O
~arousing his ceuntrymen to duty in th'
present crisis.
1t is stated on reliable authority tina
Gen. Gideon j. Pillow hiss been appoint
ed Chief of Cavalry, in the Department
of Gen. Polk.
During the late cold weather at th
North, ten thousand hogs, On their wa
{ to St. Louis, were frozen to death. IL
a train they were or was blocked up
the snow.
Look out for the men who are gathe,
ing up the five dollar bills. They a
20 astir already we are informed. The la
, currency bill will explain ths secret
- this abundant caution.
For the year ending November, 1sf
4,s2s books were published in Gre
Britain, of which o52 were on topics
,s. religion, s87 in biography and histol
If. 673 in poetry and general literature, a
925 works of fiction.
The amount of duties on imports C
lected in the C~onfederacy last year
I'd, said tohave been about 100000 d
lars.
Io' Corn IS represented by a Yankee
per TO be higher in the West thanit