The North Carolinian

ELIJAH SPENCER.—Our readers recollect the arrest and confinement of Elijah and Herbert Spencer, (father and son,) last spring under a charge of burning Montgomery Court House, and their recent escape from the jail of the county. We were favored a few days ago with the perusal of a letter from a gentleman in Tennessee to his brother in this place, stating that the old man, Elijah, in passing the neighborhood of the writer in his flight, was attacked suddenly with disease (fever we believe,) and died but a day or two before the date of the letter. It was understood and believed there, that the young man Herbert, had passed through that section of country in his flight to Texas.—Ashboro' (N. C.) Citizen.