Spirit of the age., 1853-05-04

a@ We are requested tc state that P. s.
White, Esq, viii lecture at Henderson on
Friday May 6t4 Saturday May 7th, at Ry-
lands Depot; 9th, 10th and llth, in Meek
lenburg CO., Va; 18th, 18th and 18th, in
Brunswick CO., Va; 10TH 18th and 18th at
Petersburg, Va, and from the 10Th of May
to the 1st July in the vicinity of Fredcricks-
burg, Va.
FoRBIDDING THE BANs.-At an enthusias-
tic meeting of the friends of Temperance held
in Maine, sometime since, the following reso-
luton was adopted, as an Offset to the for
bidding bans between Temperance and Poll
tics :.
Resolved, That in the name of God and
Humanity, the bans be forbidden between
Rum and Religion of whatever Sect and
Rum and Politics of whatever Party-and
that an Union, holy and indissolube, of affec-
ton as we'll as of interest, be proclaimed,
between Temperance Religion and Politics
of every party and every Sect.
Amen so mote it be.
ExAGGERATE THE EVILS OF IETENPEKANCE
1t it is said by some that the evils of the Lii
Qu0r Traffic are exaggerated by the advocates
of a prohibitory law. The following writer
has truly said, he doesnot live that can tell the
whole history of its woes. Exaggeration it
is impossible. The minds eye cannot take
! in the countless miseries of its motley train.
| No human art can put into that picture shades
darker than the truth.
Put into such picture every conceivable
thing that is terrible or revolving; paint health
in ruins, hope destroyed, affections crushed
prayer silenced; paint the chosen seats of ma
ternal devotion all vacant: paint home a
desert, and shame tyrant, and poverty the
legitimate child Of vice to this community and
not its prolific mother paint the dark valley
of the shadow of death peopled with living
slaves; paint landscape with trees whose
fruit is poison and whose shade is death, with
mountain torrents tributary to an ocean whose
waves are fire, put in the most distant
Oack ground the most vanishing vision of
blessed past. and into the foreground the ter.
rlbIe certainty of an accu-sed future; pain
prisons with doors that open only inwards
people the scene with men whose shattered
forms are tenanted by tormented souls, will
children upon whose lips ne smile can play, anc
with women into whose checks burrows have
been burnt by tears wrung by anguish from
breaking hearts.
Paint such picture, and when you are read,
to showit, do not let in the rays of the heavenl,
: sun, but illume it with the glares of the infer
nal fires; and still you will be bound to sa,
that your horrible picture falls short of tn,
truth.-Steuenson.
Passenger cars are running daily between
| nd Ro1 1o1O h. 1,,+x1
the mail till an arrangement is made wit
the Post Office Department-previous to a.
application for which, the Raleigh and Gas
ton Railroad Company are tohold a meetin
and determine on the question of receivin
the Il miles of road just completed betwee
1 Weldon and Gaston and that point bein
settled, the new road will become part an
parcel of the Raleigh and CASTOR Rail-roat
9 and Mr. Branch the President, will procee
n to Washington to arrange about carrying IL
!. mail daily between Norfolk and Raleigh
|. Our contemporaries and subscribers in Re-
q eigh will then regularly receive the Norfo
: papers, by mail, on the day of their public
= tion-instead of receiving them two or thr
% days old, as heretofore
t. Norfolk Herald.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, April29 Tempe
ance Hotel in this city was destroyed by fl
;. this morning, and four servants, three
: males and one man, persisted in the flame
- The boarders, of whom there were lar
- number, were in their beds, and the create
7. excitement and confusion prevailed. T
IL IL loss Of the building is S25, 900, besides viii
! the occupants lost nearly all their clothes a.
= valuables.
," GEORGE W. KENDALL, of the New Orlea
= Picayune, has been appointed Post Master
- New Orleans
~ ~ WASHINGTON, April 28-The Presidenth
- -, appointed Hon. John A. Dix, of New Yol
Minister to France, and the Hon Richa
at Kidder Meade, Of Va, Minister to Chill.
is New ORLEANS, April 28.-The Legislatu
ny to-day elected the Hon. John Slidell, U.
To- Senator for the State of louisiana He i,
democrat.