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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-12-15

A GEM.--A MoTHER's LovE.-When all
else have deserted you, and friends have
Withdrawn their smiles Of appreciation and
affection, and leave you to mourn over the
follies of an ill.spent life-when society has
banished you from its presence and cast you
upon the world as untitled for the company
at, tRas nedsylnpurny or the vlrtuous and up
right-when all around you is dark and
cherries, and when the future seems an arid
waste-you feel that life has become a bur-
den-there is one friend who will never for
sake you. No matter how dark the stain Of
ain that rests upon the soul, or how deep
thou hast fallen into degradation, the mother
aOiH not desert thee. When all else have
given thee up as lost and ruined, she will
stand by to comfort, to advise, and to caress.
A mothers love, who can appreciate It'll
In danger, sickness, or in death, she is the
same kind-hearted, unchanging creature.
When fortune smiles upon you, she re-
joices at your prosperity; and in the dark
hours Of adversely, to a mother you can con.
idently look for sympathy and consolation
Treat thy mother with kindness, so that wher
she lies down in The grave you will have nc
cause to curse yourself for having wounded
her gentle spirit.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-12-15
42nntha' nfpartmtnt.
SrArEsy1LLE. Nov. Goth 1852.

S-rArEsv1LLE, Nov. Goth 1852.
Mr.. EDIToR:-On the 4th inst, we had
a celebration of the S. of T., in this place,
p. M. w. P. Philip S. White, the magnus
Apollo Of the Temperance cause, was with
us and delivered two speeches in his usuai
heart searching and mastery manner
At night, when we had assembled at the
place Of Reetdn 5stEtssTiTle presented a splen.
did copy ofthe Holy Scriptures to the Sec
ton of Cadets. Mr.. Simonton responded
on the part of the Cadets.
l enclose the speeches to you, and a:
you have never been troubled by commu
nications from this Division or Section, ]
hope you will publish them.
The Section was distinguished for thei
orderly conduct and genteel deportmen
through all the proceedings ofthe day.
Yours in L. p. &F.
w. nj. CAMPREIL, A p
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-12-15
A Voice OF Warning.

We received the following Letter a few
days since, and give it insertion in our col
umns, with the hope that it may deter others
from resorting to the Intoxicating cup, and
save them from the bitter experience of the
unfortunate writer. Our deepest sympathies
are with the unhappy youth, and we trust,
aHilcting as has been the lesson, it NAV prove
OF lasting benefit to him in after years. The
writer gives us his name, but it is unnecessa-
ry to give it here:
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-12-15
Wake Forest College.

At a meeting Of the Board Of Trustees Of
this institution held at the College on Tues
day last, the Rev. John B. White, A. NJ. was
unanimously reelected President Of the Col
lege.
The Rev. J. J. Brantly, Of South Carolina,
who had been elected upon the resignation
of President White, having declined, at the
earnest solicitation of the Board the latter
was induced to decline the appointment con-
ferred on him by a literary institution in the
State Of Tennessee, and resume his former
station ut Wake Forest.
An appropriation having been made for
that purpose, President White will repair tc
the North in a few days for the purpose O.
nrocnrinc. ItTffUSU
phical and Chemical purposes and it is the
intention Of the Boardas early as practicable
to have a Profcssorship Of Chemistry, &c.
as connected with Agriculture for the sale
institution.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-12-15
In jan. Nov Oh 1890

| have once been a Son of Temperance
but when my Division went down, that is the
Division to which I belonged, l did not ioin
another, as | should have done. but tho1gbt
| could get along without belonging TO fhn
Order. But alas it did not last SO: for in
about a month | began to drink. and as I had
not drank for something over two years. very
little OF 1t made me drunk. NV Temperance
friends warned me of the danger | was in
but l needed it not, | only drank the more:
and one day in August last, l was drinkino
and got very drunk, and | shot a man that
had never harmed me, and we never had !
cross word before nor since. Court came
round and l was sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment, and when the sentence came i
nearly broke my heart. You NAV iudgeb how
l felt, for L had just commenced business and
all my arrangements were broken IN root
and branch. Now, if 1 ever live to oct ont
OF jail, have made up my mind to ioin the
Sons OF Temperance as quick as / can gat
home and there will be a meeting of the d.
vision nearest to where / live. The division
that did belong to was broken ~ nv The
earelessness OF the members and especia Nv
the non attendance of its chief officers.
Yours respectfully, u
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-12-15

GE Prof. Pennington, has been demon
s%trating the science of mental alchemy. as 4
is called, in this City, for some DAYS past
lie appears to be most successful in his ex-
periments. He speaks well, and has drawn
large and respectable audiences. Mr.. Pen
nington is a native of this County.
Prof. p will ommene a second series of nubl;e
demonstrations on Wednesday evening, 18th ms. AZ
the Odd Fellows new Hall, in the Smith building.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-12-15

MEMoRY.-The memories of childhood
the long, far away days of boyhood, the
mothers love and prayer, the voice of a de-
parted play-fellow, the ancient church and
school house, in all their green and hallowed
associations, come upon the heart in the Joy
Gus time, like the passage of a pleasantly re
membered dream, and cast a ray of their
own purity and sweetness over it.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-12-15

to the fair and rational disposition of the
matter, by the popular voice.
Partial returns from 80 Counties were
received up to the hour of putting this paper
to press, with 1889 voters names 1854 la
dies, and It's youths. Many others will
doubtless be received. They shall be pub
lished in detail in our next.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-12-15
RALEIGH. q. c.
"Wednesday, December Is, 1852,
a Rgitive

Subscribers reeiuiHg their papers 'oith a red mark
are thereby motifd that in four uesks from the re
esipt Of the first lumber thus marked their sudscriP
ton gears aciH s]pire ; and unless rene1ced aeithi'
that time, the pa3er aoiu be discontinued, THIS rat
ein be infeei6lsodhered to.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-12-15

EB Juuge Evans has been elected us
Senator for the long term from sc.
60 Chickering's immense Piano fac,o-
~, at Boston, has been destroyed by fire.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-12-15

E&| We are requested to state, that per-
sons coming to the Temperance Convention,
to be held in this city, on the 18th inst, will
be passed over the Raleigh and CASTOR Rail
road, coming and returning, at half price.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-12-15
MISS L

". NJ. CAMPBELL, A. P.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-11-03
stltrtra Irtnlrs.
From Arthur's Home Gdzette.
TIL E NJ 0RM Ms,
Latter-day Saints.

The origin, rapid development, and pre-
sent prosperity Of this religious sect, is one
Of the most remarkable and instructive
historical events of the present century,
That Joseph Smith, native of Vermont,
an obscure individual, without .uonev,
education or responsibility, should, under
the influence of an overwhelming religious
enthusiasm, successfully induce belief in
his immediate inspiration in the minds of
hundreds of thousands of people, and cause
n book entitled the Book of Mormon" to
be conscientiously received by them as of
equal authority with the Scriptures, and
n continuation OF the sacred revolutions OF
Heaven, that, in twenty years hime the
disciples of Joseph Smith should have ia
creased from six to 5000, should have
founded q State in the distant wilderness,
and compelled the government Of the
United States practically to recognise them
as an independent people with the right
of self-government; that the emissaries of
this religious sect should now be preach
ing its doctrines with success, in the most
enlightened nations in Europe, and in pa
gan countries, and that conyers should
be continually focking to the Mormon set
tlement, in the valley Of the Great Salt
Lake, from all parts of the earth; these
are facts worthy the researches of the
philosopher, the consideration Of states
men, and the pen Of the historian. Such
revelation Of the superstition and folly
Of humanity in modern times, throws a
bright light on similar events which have
occurred in former epochs of the worlds
history, the revelation and Koran Of Ma
homet, DC.
The following IS the account given by
Lieutenant Gunnison, from whose inter
esting book just published by Lippincott,
Grambo Il Co., the facts set forth in this
article are obtained, Of the origin Of the
Mormon sect:
"The founder Of the Mormon sect was
Joseph Smith, a native Of Vermont, who
ernigrated when quite youngin his fathers
family to Western New York. Accord
ing to his autobiography, published in a
series Of letters, he was Of areligious turn
OF mind, and, when seventeen years OF
age, became greatly interested in the ire
vivals Of religion often occurring among
the determinations" in that section OF
country. In one OF these times his feelings
were so powerfully wrought upon that he
gave himself up to continued prayer for
same days--and meditating still at night,
he at length arose while all tho family
we're hushed in sleep, and poured forth his
sol "agonizing" TO have made known To
hinhthe truth, among the conflicting opin-
ions ,, heard by the various sects. His
apssr,'n'anS p,s an anSsGamo suddenly illuminated
ana an, ~ 9Th hinaared and conversed "a
m.l % sssy of righte.ds'. instructed him in
"So INV >-ch upon
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TIE r NJ s..

Two Dollars per year, if paid in adj
vance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if
paid in six months; or Three Dollars, if
payment is delayed until the end of the
year. These terms will be rigidly ad-
hered to.
Advertisements will be conspicuously
inserted at scventy-fve cents per square
of twelve lines, for the first insertion,
and thirty-seven and half cents for each
subsequent insertion. A single insertion
One Dollar. Nothing will be counted
less than square. ... ....a ...
Advertisers are requested to state, in
writing on their advertisements, the num-
Der of times they wish them inserted; or
they will be continued in the paper until
ordered out, and charged accordingly.
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A Beautiful Figure,

LIFE is beautifully compared to a foun-
tain fed by "a thousand streams, that perish
if one be dried. Ifis a silver cord. twisted
with thousand strings that part asunder,
if one be broken; frail and thoughtless
mortals are surrounded by innummerable
dangers, which make it much more strange
that they escape so long that they almost
all perish suddenly at last. We are
encompassed with accidents every day to
crush the nou!dering tenements we inhabit.
The seeds Of disease are planted in our
constitutions 10y nature. The earth and
atmosphere whence we draw the breath
of life are impregnated with death; health
is made to operate its own destruction,
the food that nourishes containing the ele-
nieuts Of decay; the soul tha. aniraates It
by vivifying first, tends to wear it owt by
its own action, death turks in ambush
along the paths. Notwithstanding this
is the truth, so palpably confirmed by the
daily examples before our eyes, how little
do welay it TO heart! We see our friends
and neighbors among us but how seldom
does it occur our thoughts that our knell
shall perhaps give the next fruitless war
ming to tho world.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-11-03
The Law of Newspapers.

1, All subscribers who do not give cx,
press Notice to the contrary, are consid,
erred rs wishing to continue their subcrip,
tons.
2. If subscribers order the discoutin.
uance Of their papers, the publishers may
continue to send them until arrearagcs
are paid. ..........
3. Ifsubscribers neglect or refuse tax
ing their papers from the offices tn which
they are sent, they are held responsible
till their bills are settled, and their papers
ordered to be discontinued.
4. The Courts have decided that refr-
sing to take a newspaper or periodical
from the office, or removing and leaving
it uncalled for, is prin'a tacie evidence OF
INTENTIONAL FRAUD.
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~ A WESTERN editor announces the
death Of lady Of his acquaintance, and
thus toucbingly adds: ...
eln her decease, the sick lost an inval-
uable friend. Long will she seem to
stand at their bed side as she was won't
with the balm Of consolation in one hand,
ead a cup Of rkubar1 IN tke other {"
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wPREsIDESr Smith, Of Marietta Col
lcge, Is now on the continent Of Europe, en-
gagged in the purchase Of books to the a.
mount Of about S. 900. This is his second
visit to Europe for such an object and tho
present purchases will establish the libra
ry on an excellent basis.
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In UNI B Err 80.
a9rirnltnral.

Es- The following we extract from a
pamphlet, titled ' AN Essay Oh the Agri-
cultural Capabilities of Chester District,
&c,
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-09-01

it would be impossible for even you TO ex.
pose me; which fact dare say you will
admit, since if ] possessed no supernatural
power could not have been aware of your
intention with regard to me. Here is your
dollar, sir, for the loan Of which receive my
sincerest thanks, and politely bowing, the
magician disappeared behind the scenes.
Randolph for moment seemed petriied
with surprise, but instantly recovering him
self he shouted ou, in his ffe-lke voice
"Come back here, sir! You are an i'm
poster, sir! and can make it apparent"
But the magician would not come back.
and Randolph was forced to accompany his
friend back to the hotel ungratl6ed, but with
no disposition to favor the practice of the
s'Black Art" with another visit.
1t is unnecessary for us to say that the
gentlemanly listener in the hotel and the
were one and the same person.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-09-01

COMPARING BABIEs.-The fair Harriet
Prewelt, editor of the Y Yazoo Times, OF Mis-
souri,, is at issue with our loving friend, Mrs.
Swisshem, who edits the Pitlsburg Visl-
tor. 1t appears lha. both have lately, TO use
Mrs. Swisshelm's language, had an atf1lctlve
dispensation, in common parlance, baby.
The fair editor of the Yazoo Times thus
challenges her sister editor: ~.
We have heretofore neglected to congra-
,ulo.u talented contemporary, Mrs.
Swisshelm, of the Piltsburg Visitor, on the
happy affair that has made all the sour old
bachelor and old maid editors Of the coun-
try nearly die with envy-her baby. 1t is,
no doubt wonderful baby, and pretty, and
if it is only one half as smart as its mamma
it will make the worlds ear ,ngle by and
by. But what have you named il? fyou
call it Harriet, we will give it the pre.tiest
rattle that can be found in the smutty city
of Pstsburg. By the way we should like
to show babies with you. Yours, no doubt,
will do very well, considering you are free
soiler and democrat, but we will bet our
Hattie against creation. .t. ~
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-09-01

BAKED HAN1-Mos, persons boil hams.
They are much better baked, if baked right.
Soak for an hour in clean water aud wipe
dry, and then spread it all over with thin
batter, and lay it in deep dish, with sticks
under to keep it out of the gravy. When
fully done take off the skin and batter crus-
ted upon the flesh side, and set it away TO
cool. You will find it very delicious, ou'
too rich for dyspeptics. So says one OF ouF
agricultural Exchanges"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-09-01

THINKING.-From part twenty Of "My
Novel;" lin Blackwood's Magazine, we make
the following extract, showing that ''lhe
operation of thinking" as Bulwer says, "is
no! so easy, for folks unaccustomed 10 it,
as people who think-,hink -
"Here Frank stopped in his soliloquy
and did make his first desperate effort to
think
"Now, o dear reader, assume, of course.
that thou art one of the class TO which
thought is familiar and, perhaps, thou hast
smiled in disdain or incredibly at the re-
mark on the difficulty of thinking which
preceded Frank Hazledean's discourse 10
himself. But art thou quite sure that
when thou hast tried to think thou hast
always succeeded? Hast thou not often
been duped by that pale visionary simula-
crum of thought which goes by the name
of reuirie Honest old Montaigne conies-
sed that he did no. understand that process
Of sitting down TO think on which some
folks express themselves SO gibly. lie
could not think unless he had pen in his
hand, and sheet of paper before him, and
so, by manual operation, seized and con-
necled the links of ra.iocnalion. Very Of
ten has it happened to myself, when ! have
said to Thought peremptorily, 'Bes'ir thy
self-a serious matter is before thee-pon-
der it well-lhink of it, that that same
Thought has behaved in the most refractory,
rebellIous manner eivable-and instead
Of concentrating its rays into sing lie stream
Of light, has broken into all the desullory
,ints of the rainbow, coloring senseless
clouds, and running off into the seventh
heaven-so that after sitting good hour
by the clock, with brows as knit as if was
intent on squarng the circle, ! have sudden
ly discovered that might as well have q ane
oU.nrs,itdU;y 10 sieep-l have been dong
nothing bu, dream-and the mos, nonsensi-
cal dreams! So, when Frank Hazledean,
as he stopped al that medita.ive But sull'-
and leaning his arm on the chmney-plece
and resting his face on his hand, felt him
self at the grave crisis Of life, and fancied he
WAS going 'to think on it, there only rose
before him a succession of shadowy pic
tures''
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-09-01

SALT FOR FIXING AMMoNlAIN MANURE.
1t is we'll known that in close stable, where
there are many horses, there is very pun
gen, smell affecting the eyes and nose par
ticuarly when the stable is being cleaned
out. This smell is occasioned by the fly
ing off of amonia, which is the essence and
value of manure, and which volatlIizes or
flies off at very low temperature-even
the warmth of the manure in stable will
send it off-and it goes off in great quanti-
ties by the common heat of manure in
farm yard, whether in heaps or not. There
is very cheap and simple remedy for this.
Before you begin to clean out your stable,
dissolve some common salt in wafer; IT
four horse stable, say four pounds of salt
dissolved in two buckets of waller and pour
ed through the nose Of waterproof over the
stable floor, an hour or so before you begin
10 move the manure, and the violate salts
of ammonia will become fixed salts from
their having united with the murlallc acid
of the common salt, and the soda thus llbe-
rated from the salt, will quickly absorb car
bonic acid, forming carbonate of soda; thus
you will retain with your manure the am
monia which would otherwise have flown
away, and you have new and important
agent thus introduced, viz the carbonate OF
soda. As this is mos. powerful solvent
of all vegetable fbres, and seeing manures
have to be rendered soluble before they can
act upon vegetation, it will be at once aP-
paren, that the carbonate of soda so intro
duced must be m los. powerful and valuable
agent.-Eng. Journal.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-09-01

HoME.-I know of no passage in classi-
cal literature more beautiful or affecting than
tha, where Xenophon, in his Anabdsis, des-
cribes the effect produced on the remnant
Of the ten thousand Greeks, when, after
passing through dangers without number,
they al length ascended sacred mountain,
and from its peak and summit caught sg CHI
of the sea. Dashing their bucklers, with 3
hymn of Joy they rushed ,umuluously for
ward. Some wept with the fulIness of their
delrious pleasure, others laughed and more
fell on their knees and blessed that broad
ocean. Across its blue waters, little float
ing a-brds, the memorials Of their happy
homes, came and famed their weary souls.
All the perils they had encountered, all the
companions they had lost, all The mIserles
they had endured, were in On instant for
gotten, and nought was with them but the
gentle pbanloms of past and future Joys
One was again securing on his fleet steed
across the hoof-lrodden plains of Thessaly;
another reclned beneath the flnwer'crown-
ed rocks of Arcadia, and gazed into the
dreamy eyes of her whose form, amid battle
and bivouac, was ever with him; third re-
called ,ha. proud day when, before the
streming eyes Of his over joyed parents, and
amid the reclamation of all Greece, he bore
off amid competitors the laurel wreath OF
the OIympian victor.
Oh, home! magical spell, all-powerful
home how strong must have been thy in
1uence, when thy faintest memory could
cause these bronzed heroes of a thousand
fights to weep like fearful women! Will
the cooling freshness of desert fountain
with the sweet fragrance Of flower founc
in winter, you came across the great waters
to those wandering men, and beneath .h'
peaceful shadow of your wings their souls
found rest Selected.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-09-01

CouRrlNG IN THE RIGHT WAY.-"Get
out you nasty puppy, let me alone or III
tell ma" cried our Silly to her loV-
/ er Jake- who was about ten feet from
her, pulling dirt from the chimney jam.
81 arn't techlng you, SAL" responded Jake.
"WelI, perhaps then you don't intend 10
neither, do yer? :"
"No, don't" .'.,
"Cause why, you're too tarnal scary, you
long legged, pigeon ,oed, gangIed kneed fool
you; you haven't got .arnal bit of sense,
get alone home with you."
"Now Sal love you, and you can't help
it; and if you don't let me stay and court
you, my daddy will sue you'rn for tina: COW
he sold him luther day. By jingo, he said
he'd do it,"
"Well, look here, Jake, if you want to
court me, you had better do it as white
man does that ,hing-not set off there,
as if you thought was pizen." .-t-
"How on airlh is that, Sal?" .s..g.
"Why, sit right up here, by my side and
hug and kiss me as if you had some Of the
bone and sinner of nan about you. What
do you suppose a woman's only made too
look at, you fool' No they're made for
practical results, as Kossulh says, to hug,
kiss and sich like"
"WelI," says Jake, drawing long breath,
if | must, suppose then | must for DO love
you, Sal," and so Jake commenced sliding
up to her, like hog going to war. Laying
his arm gently on Sal's shoulders, we
thought we could here Sal say ...... -
"That's the way to do it, old hoss; that's
acting like white man, too" .t.
"Oh, Jerewsalem and pancakes!" exclaim-
ed Jake, ''if this amt better than any punk
in pie marin ever made-crackey! buck
wheat cakes and maple sugar amt no WHARF
along side Of you, Sal, how love you Z"
Here their lips came together, and the re-
por. ,ha. followed was like pulling horses
foot out of the mire.