Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1864-08-22


MAMMALIAN SENDS A COMMISSIONER IoeTah
CoNFEDERAeY.-lt is asserted, says the New York
Herald, by the Southern sympathizers IA New
Orleans that Macmillan Las already SEPT private
ly a commissioner to the rebel ausho,iies at Rich
mend. The most jubilant individuals i'll the
world are the secessionists of this city, who bUast
that the Confederacy will be recognized BY France
,ud England within three mouths.
Burnside has been relieved of the command CT
be 18th Army Corps, and has arrived. at .l.i-
more. Wilcox j. in temporary command Of the
..corps.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal THE. Presi.
dent of the Chesapeake and< Ohio Canal
Estates that the damage done to the Canal and
to the boats by the late rebel raid, will keep
back over 100, 600 tons Of coal from the
Washington market this season. Workmen
have been employed upon the badly damag-
ed section of the Canal at Antietam, but the
rebel forces in the vicinity have driven
them away. =
FARLEY 8 RESULTS AT MARTINsBURa.--I
A Washington writer says
The rebels*obtained at M~artinsburg alone
sufficient material to furnish their army for
a rssiodAf eight months, and probably for
la longer time, all Of which, Invaluable to
the interests Of the rebe lion, have been.
carefully and leisurely gathered up by the
foe and transported to Richmond.
FROM TExAs.-A private letter from Tex
as says that the prospect of a heavy crop in
that part of the Confederacy is promising.
1t also states that the people are in fine
spirits, and the Yankees" have nearly all
eft the Texas coast
:. augusta CAron. and Sent.
HEAVY RoBBERY.-We learn that the
shop of Mr.. Paker OVERLY, on Wilmington
street, in this city, was robbed on Saturday
night of about one pint Of silver coin. small
pieces, ard a considerable quantity of" cur
rency," and also a quantity of liquor.
Thank God" said a. Virginia lady to
one of Hunters myrmidons, when passing
through Bedford County, {" you cannot
blockade eternity. That door Of escaped is
always open. That~haven Of repose and
safaty is always accessible"
THE YANKEE PREF TER Rev. Thee
dore Tiltou, edit r of the New York Independent
r1ublihes a long letter in his paper, 10 which b,
states as an urdeniab!e fact that Seward, at tn
&: late Baltimore Fair, was so drunk as. to have dis
j. graced himself and ipsult@d bis friends
. DEATH.--The body in death is like a tire
: striker and stripped by lighting the soul i
b death is like a bird escapingffrom an opel
cage, 10 prepare the soul orpassing to
l.. better habitation is the great business Of tn
$ present life.
E A blockade amer ran into Charleston O
The night of the Sd inst. Our released O
l. fcers Report that since they have been col
: sssaea Gharleston five blockade rune
a EoUIvocAL.~I hope, my friend, if ev
= you come within five miles of my hou
e again you will stay there all Knight.
The Montgomery Mail, of the I'd insta
says corn is a drug in that market at
~ per -bushel.
to A frog fell out of a block of sandstor
m which sumo workmen were breaking
"a Johnstown, Pa, a few days since. T
ne stone was known not to have been disturb
y [sinosat was quarried, thirty years ago a
~. how Tong the frog, which was squeezed
= fat as a cent, had been in it before that c
, only be a matter of conjecture. Imme
me ately on falling out the reptile began to sw
we and move, and IN a short time became gu
rs lively.
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