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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

ENEMIES Of the Reform will be industrious
in bringing political prejudices to bear its
mighty force against the cause. False char
ges will be made and circulated imputing
unworthy motives to the leaders, and the
saying will 60 round that il is political am
bition that prompts the host to agitate this
subject but what of all this? The friends
of the Heaven approved cause know it is no
trivial scheme of party politics. 1t is no
Whig-no Democratic scheme or measure
in the mere party Specification ofthese terms
it is a benevolent measure to drench with
water the seething fires of an earthly perdi-
ton, famed and fed by State sanction, which
has for years been burning and whitening
the most sacred interests of the nations Of
the Earth, and spreading physical desola-
ton and moral ruin on every hand. For the
abolition of this custom, the clans arc gath
ering from Hill and plain under a spotlesc
banner. The bugle stirs the brave heart,
and the march of the host sounds the doom
of the Traffic.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

Da@ The War1enton News, keeps arraying
;" facts and figures" showing the destruction
to life and property, occasioned by the sale
of intoxicating drinks-particularly among
our slave population. In his last number,
he gives the following as Z" another "Iegiti-
mate" result"
We are informed that a negro man, the
property of Mr.. Jack Winstead, was killed
near Cedar Creek, on the Raleigh & CASTOR
Railroad, on Sunday morning last. He was
dTu1lk, and had lain down on the road tho
engineer saw him and sounded the whistle
he made a move as if to get up the engineer,
supposing he would do so, did not slacken
his speed, and when too near to stop, saw
the negro lie down again by the track. The
wheels struck his head, mangling it dread
fully. These are the facts as we have heard
them related.
The question might arise in the minds of
some, Where did he get the liquor to get
drunk on :" If such a query should pass
through the thinking machine of any of our
readers, we hope they will, each, endeavor
to frame an answer satisfactory to himself.
Where do negroes obtain liquor? From our
respectable merchants? You would have to
tight were you to intimate to one of them that
he traded with negroes illegally. Where DO
they get it
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

HEARTS of STEEL give US such on every
hand; we love the bold, never-say-die daunt-
less spirit. There IS a grand sublimity in
its actions. In the sternest conflicts it wears
SO haut a crest that its foes even, send up a
deafening cheer as the plume Of the brave
comes tossing and futtering in the field
With q brave soul it strikes for its own cause.
If it falls, the feet is to the foe, and that foe
is a coward if it has not a tear for the fallen
for the brave love the brave in every tented
field.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19
RALEIGH, q. Q.
Wednesday, October 10, 1858.
Our City.

As our Paper goes to Press, our City is
thronged with strangers from different por-
tons of the State, in attendance upon the
State Temperance Convention and State Fair.
There is a regular jam. Our Public Houses
are running over, and the houses of our pri-
vate citizens literally thrown open for the
entertainment of Guests. AL, we trust, have
been provided for, and as comfortably as
circumstances will allow" The character
of our City for hospitality and generosity,
will not suffer, Notwithstanding the extensive
demand made upon its liberality.
We cannot, of course, give to-day any ac-
count of either the Convention or the Fair
next week we will tell all we see and know
about them-in the meantime, however, we
will remark, that we believe the one will tend
greatly to the moral and social happiness of
the State and the other, cause call the
world, and the rest of mankind" to believe
cold Rip" not half as sound asleep as has
been represented.
Long live and flourish the good old North
State.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19
A OF THE D

Many persons are of the opinion that the
Order of the Sons.of Temperance has very
much declihed II North Carolina during the
past six months. and having so often heard
the assertion, we determined upon making
an examination into the Returns made since
January, from the different Subordinate Di-
visions. The result ofour Investigations has
been, that, whilst in some portions, "the
love of many has waxed cold, and the fine
gold become dim," and in some instances
entirely extinct, yet the great majority are
doing we'll, and present a gratifying account.
The Returns for the Quarter ending March
81, 1853, represent that, in 239 Divisions 943
were admitted into the Order, and that with
a membership of 1855 in those Divisions,
only 26 deaths had occurred. The financial
basis, or relief fund, was in good condition,
there being S., 759 paid in during the quarter,
and there remained in the Treasury of these
Divisions, so, 123, and paid out during the
quarter for benevolent and Division purposes
the sum of S4,625 80 public meetings had
been held, and $3.50 Temperance Tracts and
Papers gratuitously distributed. This we
conceive a very good account.
For tho quarter ending 30th June last, 81
Divisions reporting-716 had been received
into the Order, total membership 8,454, anc
only Is deaths. $4,919 was paid into the
Treasury of tho different Divisions, anc
So, 791 expended for benevolent and Division
purposes. Can any other portion OF our cit
zens be promiscuously taken, to the numbe
of 1854, that will exhibit so small a bill o
mortality as this? We think we may safel.
say they cannot be found.
The Returns for the quarter ending witt
the last month, are not near all in, but thos
received give promise that the operations Q
the Order for the last three months will pei
haps exceed those of the two previous quar-
tiers. The following Divisions, we notice
have done we'll in the reception of new men
bers, viz: Dial's Greek Division in Orang
received 90 EA# members Vicksville, i
Nash, 10; Indian Ridge, Currituck, Is
Woodville, Perquilnans, Is; Farmingto,
Davie, IA; Milton, II; HibritOn, Caldwell
8; Phoenix, Raleigh, 10; Mays Chape
Chatham, IA Little River, in Orange, 81
Hemhy Springs, Carolina Female Colleg
Arson, 8 I; Wake Forest, Z; Harrison's Cree
II; and a large number 5 and 6.
This is encouraging, brothers. Let us
to work anew, and with fresh vigor in the b
nevolent cause of our beloved Order-let
put into active, constant exercise, the stron
potent lever of our organization-kind pc
suasion-in winning the unfortunate in
briate from his cups-while as citizens V
make every possible proper effort to depri
the merciless liquor seller of the legal pow
to seduce him from the path of rectitude al
honor, back to his den of infamy and d
grace. Let orr banners still be inscribed
"L0YE, PURIFY AND FTDELTTY"-Love /
our fellowmen Purity of purpose and
~tention in our designs ; Fidelity, unswervi
and undying, to our cause-with the rever
emblazoned in imperishable characters
eternal HOSTILITY TO THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19
Common Schools,

While our citizens are taxed for the sup
port of our Common School system, and the
State Legislature has gone to the expense of
employing a General Superintendent, who is
actively engaged in endeavoring to make
these Schools valuable and profitable to the
rising generation, we regret to see so little in
terest manifested by the people at large, in
carrying out the provisions of the system,
and in building it up, the ornament and glory
of our beloved old Commonwealth. Thurs
day last was the day advertised by the Su-
perintendant Of Wake, to elect Committee
men in the County, and two gentlemen were
designated in said notice, as Poll-holders.-
We saw several persons returning from the
place in our District where the election acas
to be held, and they informed us that no cleo
ton had been held, nor had the Poll-holders
been there during the day! This is wrong,
entirely, such neglect. 1t is useless to be
making efforts for the improvement of our
Common Schools, if so little interest be felt
in them.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

COOP PLUcK.-An elderly maiden lady was
heard to e~xclaim, while sitting in the garden
on a whitening pink bed, not long since =
81 can bear the chill blast of adversely, I can
see old friends forsake me, / can encounter
all the changes of fortune, and suffer the
cream and butter to be stolen, but o, wretch
ed state, to live and wither-droop and die
like this poor single pink, l can't endure it,
and, by my specsl what's more, 1 WON'T
Donff" Good OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
to that, Aunt Tabitha. Amen!
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

LATErs FoEIGN NEws.-Fhe Steamer Can
ada arrived at New York on the 18th, bring
ing Liverpool dates to the lst inst. The war
question between Turkey and Russia remains
in statu quo. The Sultan had refused to sign
the declaration of war COTTON up against Rus
STA, but the war party were loudly clarmor-
ing for war. The Cars rejection of the
Turkish modification did not produce the cri-
sis expected.
France approves the policy of Austria and
is ready to join her.
Cotton was very dull-Breadstufs greatly
advanced.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19
..~WA~M
ny- The State Temperance Conventio,

Ia The State Temperance Convention
is in session, as we go to Press. We would
not say a word to influence or give direction
to its deliberations. We see among its mem
bers many we'll known to the State, as men
of clear heads, patriotic impulses and sound,
correct principles. They are men who know
the wishes of our people with regard to this
measure, and are equal. to the important cri-
sis before them. Into their hands we freely
commit the momentous question, feeling as
sured they will do what is right and proper,
and that which will best conduce to the at
tainment of the great end. May wise, pru-
dent and liberal councils prevail.
The Convention is quite numerously atten-
ded- alarge- number of Counties being rep
resented, ~
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

Reg Several Divisions have forwarded re-
concentrations for the appointment of D. e.
W. P's., with a request that they "be COM
missioned Immediately" This cannot be
done, as appointments of these officers must
be made by the G. w. P, who shall be elected
at the ensuing session of the G.. D. Commits
sions will be forwarded to those recommen-
ded, Immediately after the adjournment of
that body. In the mean time, Divisions will
forward their recommendations to the G. S.,
Raleigh, and the Commissions will be atten.
ded to in due time. The Deputies recon-
mended will act as such until their Commits.
sions are sent to them.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

'EMPLoYMENT-RARE CHANCE TO MAKE
MONEY! will impart ION the receipt Of 81,
postpaid) the right and knowledge of IA busi-
ness, in which no person Of energetic habits
can fail to make from three, to five dollars
per day.
also, on the same conditions as the above
[ will send an important and highly valuable
discovery, which yields to the possessor a
profit Of Is to 10000 per cent. Any person
may engage in neither ofthe above occupations,
possessing capital or not. Send in your or
ders and remittances, addressed o.
and they will receive prompt and faithful at
~tention.'
The foregoing is a specimen of several ad-
vertisements which have been sent to us lately.
We omit the name of the person, not wishing
our remarks to have any more bearing upon
him than upon others.
Such advertisements we must decline
They are calculated to mislead the public.
They may be abused to the worst purposes.
We do not charge those who have sent US
these notices, with any dishonest intention !;
but their mode of advertising is such as must
generally awaken false hopes.
To the first part of the foregoing advertise
ment we could hardly object. No one need
be deceived by it. 1t is the second part to
which we take exception this could easily
be made unobjectionable, by stating the class
to which the alleged discovery belongs, and
the object of it. For example, if a man has
discovered, as he supposes, a new mode of
making indelible ink, or a new method of
making bread, which can, in his opinion, be
made a money-making concern, let him say
so, and announce that for a certain price he
will communicate his receipt. Nobody need
be deceived or damaged by such an advertise
ment. But, merely to announce that the
advertiser, for a certain sum, will commune
cate a secret on which a fortune may surely
= be built, looks like an attempt to humbug the
| unwary, and may prove so. For these rea-
: sons we must decline such advertising.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

READER! the Age" holds you by the but
ton to ask you calmly, if you believed your
father, your brother or your son would ever
rot in a drunkard's grave, if you would not
be a stern and uncompromising advocate of
a Prohibitory Law? Remember that your
fellowmen have fathers, brothers and sons,
and that all are brothors and accountable to
a common, infexible Supreme Power.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

BUSINESS HALL, No. l." is the place
where Messrs. PECK & BELyIN have opened
a large and varied stock Of entirely ne,O
Goods. 1t is the we'll known corner of Rich
ard Smith, dec'd.,-where they have Dry
Goods, Hardware. Cutlery, Housekeeper's
Utensils and conveniences. Give them a
call-their stock is worth looking at, and
they sell cheap as anybody else, we have no
doubt.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

B@- We have received the proceedings o.
meetings in Orange and Hartford counties,
but as they do not Immediately bear upon
the State Convention, about to assemble, we
have laid them aside, to give place for other
meetings that do. They shall appear next
week.
The following persons were appointed as
delegates to the State Convention from a por-
ton Of Orange County, viz: A. Wheeler, Eli
sha Umstead, Ruffn Rhew, Bedford Vaughan,
Jesse V. Roberts, j. D. Umstead, John Lock
hart, Richard Peed, and Edwin Sersby.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

R9 Our old friend FENTREss looms out
this season with a largely extended stock
his beautiful and extensive store room is filled
with clothing of every description, for Men
and Boys. The purchaser can rig himself
out in any sort of suit to accommodate either
his taste or his pocket. See Advertisement
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

Er It is said that alcohol and its kindred
spirits are all ANECDOTES to the bite of the
most venemous reptiles. If 50, then there are
some men il our acquaintance who would do
we'll to get up a snake show; they could live
with the reptiles-bite and be bitten with
~impunity, SO thoroughly are they soaked with
Rum.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

sS- Our worthy friend Moore, of the War
renton News, seems to have a good opinion
OF our mettle-and We confess we don't feel
at all afeared," knowing that we have so
stalwart a hacker, fixed on SO firm a foupda-
ton. as we have in the person Of this same
=" arrentonian. Hear how he brags for us
FREE FIGHT.-The North Carolina Stan
dard, (Dem.,) the North Carolina Patriot
w hlg, andte Freedoms Blade, isui geaeriel
are all down on the Spirit of the Ace, for nd.
y%ocating a prohibitory liquor law IN this
State and as if not exactly confident of the
strength of the forces already in the ring the
last mentioned calls on brother Gales Of the
Register to pitch in" which would make
1t four to one. Now, we advise Gales to Keen
out OF the scrape. Three to one IS enoucb
especially when tie Freedoms Blade forms
one OF the number. 1t is hardly fair TO be
using deadly weapons in such a contest
nevertheless, German will, we have no Doubt
whip the whole kit and poodle" of them
provided they don't take foul hold ON him
Agitate-agitate! gentlemen truth can new
er be injured by being discussed. Keen
your t~empers-don't blackguard each other.
remember, Blade but discuss principles !:
use arguments, and let the one who gets the
worse cry "'nOugh," like a man ought. and
quit the contest. But, Gales, do you keep
out of it.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

M~ Messrs. SELBY & MURRAY are selling
off their stock at greatly reduced prices
Cali and see how low they are offering choice
and superior Goods of every description.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

BosToN, Oct 11th.-The Hon. Barnabas
Bates, distinguished as the author ofthe cheap
postage system, died last evening, after a pro-
tracted illness.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

THE DEEP RIVER COPPER MINE, of North
Carolina, is becoming productive. Already
40 barrels p it is said, have been sent
forward, and more is on the way. The lode
now working, continues to look well, and to
produce a large quantity ofcopper.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

UNLICENSED LIQUOR DEALERS SENTENCED
More than 200 persons who had plead guilty
in New York, of selling liquor without license
appeared before Judge Bebee, on Wednesday
imposed upon all, and eleven of the worst
offenders were also sentenced to short terms
of imprisonment, either in the city prison or
the penitentiary. The fines varied in amount
from $40 to $50 according to the circumstan-
ces of each case. They were given to under
stand that a second offence would be punish
ed with a greater severity.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

BY this time, to compare great things
with small, Bludgeon had a ten thousand
horse power all concentrated in himself, and
which he could WELD with one of his fin
gers. What was remarkable in his case,
his self-possession increased with the ex-
citment, and he had more shrewdness in
welding his terrible machinery than any
other man, or even himself, in the calm Of
his retirement. Now he was ready for his
assault. 1t was nine of the night. The
winds still b%reathed, and whistled, ant
ragged without; and, in the excited, appre
hcnsive state of the audience, the very
creaking of the building in which the
Sh~;aL of oom,
falling drunkard, as hemade the final plung'
of his hopeless vice.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

THE YELLOW FEVER IN TEXAs.-By advices
from Galveston to the I'd inst, we learn there
had been no perceptible decline in the yellow
fever there and that 40 deaths had occurred
during the four days ending the Goth ult.-
The News says that the average deaths are
about ten a day. Among the victims is H.
III. Smith, editor of the Journal. Hon. r. L.
Wheeler was lying ill. The weather for
some time past had been cool and unusually
pleasant. The city Council of Galveston had
suspended the quarantine ordinance as to
vessels paying a tax of one dollar each pas
senger, from and after the lst instant. AT
Indianola, during the last five weeks, there
had been so deaths, but the disease is now
abating. The fever is also prevailing to a
slight extent at Victoria. At Houston there
were Is deaths for the three days ending on
the 18th ult.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19

In CHAINs-A SCENE FOR FATHERS
On a Sabbath evening, when the services of
the day were over, and [ directed my steps
towards the next appointment, / alighted at
an inn, and was ushered into the common
room appointed for travellers. 1t was nearly
dark, and the only light in the room was
that proceeding from the fire, around which
q number of persons were sitting. Taking
my seat among them, my eyes were soon ar
rested by the sight Of two persons sitting
together with downcast eyes, sad and sor-
rowful and soon afterwards | perceived that
their hands were manacled, and themselves
bound fast to each other; and on inquiry
learned that they were on their way to the
Penitentiary of our State, there to remain
for ten or twelve years, for robbery commit
ted in concert. The one was an old man,
the other a younger one. Shall inform
my readers, they were a father and his son
What a sight! And who, think you, was
first and chief in guilt? Was it the father
or tho son? DID the son say to the father,
Father, let US stealT Impossible. The
lips Of a son could scarce utter the words
except first taught by the father. Is it the
son that teaches the father to utter words OIL
~blasphemy, hat raises the accursed cup sc
his lips, and SAYS, Father, drink Or i
it notthe father thatteaches his infant child
by precept, perhaps, as we'll as example, tt
swear, and pour the first fatal drop into biz
opened lips?
The scene | have described followed me
for a long time from day to day, from churcl
to church, and seemed ever before my eyes
l could not raise up in the pulpit and lool
upon the congregation, butitseemed renewed
before me. 1 thought I saw parents aRC
children, husbands and wives, sitting sid,
by side, bound by invisible chains of sil
stronger than links of iron, and going on
ward, not to some temporary prison, but t
an eternal one, from whence there is no es
cape. What thought, that on some Sab
bath day, and in som house ofGod, parent
and children may be sitting side by side, an
moving onward, as fast as the wings OF tim
can bear them, to some eternal abode
darkness and misery-thc parents leadin
the way in wickednesS and guilt! Let a
parents examine themselves well, and sc
how deeply guilty they are by reason
their evil oxample.-Bishop Meade.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-10-19
1858.
"The Surplus Revenue.

The pockets of Uncle Sam, says the Gin
cinnati Times, seem to be running over, and
the question is mooted, what shall be done
with the spare cash, and what policy ought
to be adopted to prevent future accumulation?
We never had a surplus. and therefore do
not possess any experience in 6nanciering. on
a large scale, so decline to offer our old rela-
tive any advice; but we are like nearly all
poor devils, we have no objection to speculate
on other peoples money, and will proceed at
once to say a few words on this tonic. We
suppose 1t is a fact; though we cannot realize
it; that it is a great trouble to have more mon
ey than one knows what to do with Int con-
ceding this point, we would remark, that the
claims of benevolence are strong; give it to
the poor-editOrs, for instance, who. though
constantly pumping the fertilizing waters of
thought and memory upon the land. never
get a fat take ofthe fruits they have aided
IN developing and scattering broadcast.