Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-09-06
Cabin Reveries and Jokes on the Fore
castle.


ALI HANDS AHoY! The anchor is hauled
and we start on our sixth annual voyage with
all sail and spar taught and trim. With our
crew of more than FIVE thousand jolly lads
and @lasses, we shall have a merry time of it.
Cur course will be pretty much the same as
heretofore the old war dog is given a place
on deck again, and more than one "long
Tom" peeps out from his hammock. We
shall keep the guns we'll shotted and pointed
across the bow of every suspicious looking
craft on the wave, even though it carry all
the stolen "liyery of Heaven" at its mast
head; and ifsome hapless "hull" gets bIowed
moonwards, it is more their fault than ours.
4 LOVE has no brighter flower in its gar
den than its own abiding confidence. 1t is
that unhesitating reliance, thatunselfsht trust,
that FIRE, interchange of thought and feeling,
that perfect repose ofthe hearts secrets, and
communion of thought, which binds hearts
together more fondly than the dearest of hu-
man ties-more enduring than the vow and
oath of the altar. Would that the sway of
that confidence could be universally acknowl-
edged then would human happiness and
human love have a permanence that it never
before hath known.
T THE YANKEE catechises and guesses be-
cause of his i~nsatiate thirst for knowledge {;
he whites shingles down to the little end of
nothing because his ingenuity is always in
venting; he sings hymns and psalms because
he is piously disposed he whistles to keep
his spirits up and he grows rich because he
is Industrious. VtUe h Yankee!
The S~CHooLMAsTER was at a celebration
on the Fourth, and gave the following math-
ematical toast The fair daughters of Amer
ica-may they add virtue to beauty, subtract
envy from friendship, multiply amiable ac-
complishments by sweetness of temper, d.
vide time by sociability and economy, and
reduce scandal to its lowest denomination.
The master is a fraction of this glorious
Republic, but by no means a Uulgar one-nay
verify.
"PITY THE SORROWS" of a poor Editor,
reader dear. Such a day as this! O! it is
Spology enough'i it seems for serving up the
cheapest and coarsest Of all literary dishes.
How can a man write anything? How can
he chain down wandering thought, and forge
bright links oflogic, and condemns paragraphs,
and polish wit till it sparkles like a blessed
soda fountain, when the thermometer is stand
ing 1902 above Caesar" right at his elbow !;
and the big brine drops falling from his
streaming browlik rain He can't! That's
the conclusion of the whole matter and yet
he must, or lose a hat full of subscribers and
go to Starved Desert and die with a eucum-
Der rind in his mouth. The parson may
preach one of Whitfeld's sermons the law
yer may postpone his case at his clients
cost the Poet and Novelist can eat water
dy walks by ripping rilis contemplate
dandies can do just as they please, but alas !!
and woe! be unto the poor painting, wind
sucking Editor, if he does not come out as
prim, as fresh and vigorous as a clover boss
ON the brightest morn in May, when all crea,
ton and the meadow too is alive with boba-
links.
4 LOVE one human being warmly and
purely, and you may make sure that you are
not irreclaimably lost. The heart is as the
sun set in the intellectual heavens, it sees
nothing, from the sparkling dew.drop to the
rolling ocean, but a faithful mirror, which il
warns with a genial ray and fills with OBJ
jcct' lovely to the eye.
TWe saw it stated some time since that The
peple Of Iowa were using Shanghai chickens
to pillow with. We didn't believe it, however
at first. We now learn that a Buckeye
gent is about to out Shanghai all the worlc
and China, by breaking a rooster to the sad
die. Success seems probable-having don
at the last trial a mile in 2, 40l
PosTsCRIPT. The Rooster had an advan
tage over the horse Goliah, on Saturday
=, Goliah, the steed, had to be spurred, Will
Shanghai spurred himself-nearly to death
+ LADIES are somewhat like unto Frenc
watches-pretty enough to look at-sweet ia
ces and delicate .hands-but somewhat diff
: cult to regulate when once set "agoing" an
''agoing."
= IMAM is a curiosity the less useh has fo
money the more he worships it. Misers ar
always folks of small stomachs and no XII
. people.
/. BACHELORS are not entirely lost to tn
n refnements of sentiment. Vide the follow
ing toast offered by one of the much abuse
fraternity at celebration :-"Ladtes.-ST