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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-08-16

CLOSE OF THE SEssIoN.-The two Houses
OF Congress, or rather the presiding officers
of the two Houses and q few members of
each, met at an early hour Monday, (says
the National Intelligencer) merely to make
q formal close of the session, the bills and
resolutions which had passed having all
been enrolled, examined, and signed. The
Chaplain invoked the Divine benediction
upon the members of each body, and protec-
ton to them in their journeys homeward,
and at eight o'clock the Presiding Officers
on the first Monday in December next. The
each other with kindly greeting and an ap
parent obliviousness Of every thing that hat
occurred during the session which was no
pleasant to be remembered.
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NORFOLK MARKET.

F0r1Carded 6y A. NJ. McPHEETERS & Co.
Flour begins to come in freely and prices are
dropping; sales S. F. $50, extra SO "a $94, family
500; we look for a still further decline as the article
comes in slaves are in active demand at our last
quotations, and but few arriving; peas inquired
for, none in market; naval stores dull for all de-
scriptions; spts. turp. quoted in N. Y. market a
AZ "a 4Sc. with small demand we quote As "a
soc. in our market for retail purposes; lime rath-
er scarce; Thomaston $IB o. 81 Is; w. c. 81 Is
q 81 80; guano very plenty. august r.
FAYETTEvILLE.-cotton, sales to manufacturer
at 81; corn is lower the supply was better during
the past week, and sold at 81 %; -four, no change
sales at 81 IS to 81 IS for superfne; spts. turp
40 to Al cts per gallon raw 50 Is to 50 50 PEI
barrel.
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ASSAULT ON THE PREsIDENT.-On Friday
afternoon, rs the President of the United
States was leaving the Capitol, where he had
been approving and signing bills, a young
man named James M. Jeffards, of Charleston,
s. O., approached and extended his hand,
which the President took. The young man
was evidently in a state bordering upon in
sanity, from the effects of liquor. Immedi-
ately afterwards, as the President was en-
tering his carriage, a boiled egg struck his
hat, and Jeifards was arrested by q police
man. The Union states that the President
neither thought nor spoke Of the matter after
wards, until information was brought to him
that the young man had been arrested, when
he Immediately requested that he be dis
charged, and that his friends, if they could
be found, be sent to take care of him.
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CummnnitatiO
ron THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE.

FOR THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
A Specimen Of a Grog-seller's good Morals.
In passing around with the candidates. fthis coun-
ty, l have seen some very interesting things, one
of which I present to you below. 1t is a "Notis"
that I saw sticking upon a grog shop door at the
cross roads called the upper South West District -
1t was a meeting Of the candidates, and the vender
did not want any Temperance men about where he
lived. You can insert it in your good paper for the
benefit Of 0nslow county. SPECTATOR.
Richards, onslow county, July Is, 1854.
MOTIFS
we invite the public to attend at this place on the
10 of July 81 any person that have a horse that will
run or a gun that will shute or a dog that will tire
any person that wishes to speak any thing concern
ing the insuing election will do well to attend we
do not wish any liquer law man to stick his self in
our croude J B, Vikings
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A most extraordinary cure effected By DR.. M'Lane's
Celebrated Vermifuge.

A most extraordinary cure effected By DR.. M'Lane's
Celebrated Vermifuge.
New YORK, March 10, 1852.
rs This is to certify that I have been troubled
for almost four years with a choking sensation,
sometimes so bad as almost to suffocate me; I en-
ployed two regular physicians, but to no purpose.
1 was then persuaded totry a bottle of DIR. MLane's
Celebrated Vermifuge. 1 took two tea spoonsfull
at one dose. 1t soon began to operate, when it
made thorough work. Ut had a regular worm fac
tory within me.) Ishould judge it brought away
from me some two quarts of worms; they had the
appearance of having bursted. 1 took the remain
der of the bottle at two doses. The effect was, it
brought away about one quart more, all chopped to
pieces. now feel like a different person.
The above is from q widow lady, ~forty-six years
of age, resident of this city. For further %particu-
lars, the public are referred to Mrs. Hardie, No. 3,
Manhattan place, or to E.. L. Theall, Druggist, cor
ner of Rutger and Monroe streets.
P. S.. The above valuable medicine, also DR.. NJ
Lanes celebrated Liver Pills, can now be had al
all respectable Drug Stores in this city. Va Pur-
chasers will please be careful to ask for, and take
none but DR.. M'Lane's Vermifuge. All others
in comparison, are worthless. 9
For sale by ?. F. PESCUD, Druggist, Raleigh.
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S0@ The Ohio liquor law, which Judge
Corwin decided to be unconstitutional, has
since been decided by q full Bench not uncon-
stitutional. The Ohio State Journal says:
We understand that the constitutionality,
etc, Of the Temperance law of last winter
came before Judge BARLEY, of the Supreme
Court, and Judges Walker, Stuart, and Hurd,
of the District Court, at a late session, when
the entire Court agreed in deciding the law
constitutional, and binding upon the people
of Ohio. This is in opposition to Judge Cor
wins decision, and much more in accordance
with common sense and precedence.
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nay WE write here without q head but
not without q subject. Philanthropy weeps
bitterly, but in silence, and humanity shud-
ders ct our gloomy tale. Two men have
been murdered in Wayne County, within
the last three weeks, and two more Of our
citizens are now inclosed In the loathsome
dungeon of the felon, awaiting the verdict
Of n jury and the sentence of the law. Well
what shall we say2 Shall we reason from
cause to consequence, and trace these sad
tragedies to their proper source? or, shall
we unite with the popular voice, and, with
folded arms, float down the tide of public
opinion, caring nothing what has taken
place, or what will take place hereafter p
1t is bottles to say that liquor was the cause
of these horrid crimes! What will it avail
if we ask the enemy of social order and do
nestle peace to accompany us to the lonely
fire side and desolate abode ofMrs. Scarboro,
the widow of one of the murdered, men, and
ask him to pity her and her two small babes.
Need we ask any one to accompany us to
the grave of poor Willard, to convince him
that a fellow being has been slain ? Will
we say-oh ! may we say without giving of
fence and calling down upon us the anathe-
mas Of the entire COMMUNICATIVE liquor
murdered these two men and sent two more
to the prison house?
Well liquor is numbering it's thousands
all over the world, and Wayne County is
suffering its share of the calamity. Four
men in our prison house, charged with the
crime Of murder ! But why should zoe speak
The preachers of the gospel are among us
what are they doing! The heralds of the
cross are leading the road to heaven are
they deferred from declaring the whole
counsel Of God? A large number of our
citizens, in town and country, are protested
christiaRsi are they, by preeept and exam
pie, setting their faces against this torrent
Of iniquity u? or are they holding up the hands
Of,-and sustaining and supporting-these
that are bringing these evils upon them p
Is treating at elections a Christian duty p
We remember very we'll that some time age
We had a sermon preached against dancing
and hence we are led to inquire whether
dancing or making men drunk is the greater
san? In other portions Of North Carolina
the Church, and especially the Methods
Church, is aroused on this subject, vet oul
preachers here seem unwilling to touch i
with a forty foot pole.' We admit freely
this is none of our business, and, had no
members of the church to which we allud
expressed the same sentiments, we woul
not have had the presumption to say wha
we have oldsbOro, Era.
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The Composition of Stabler's Anodyne Cherry Ex-
p~ectorant and Diarrhea Cordial have been made
known in confidence to perhaps five hundred physi-
clans, all of whom, without a single exception,
have approved of them, and most of them acknow-
lodge that they are the best medicines they have
ever known-the former for Coughs, Colds, Asthma,
&C., and the latter for Diarrhea and Summer Com
plants, both of children and adults. IF you have
a Cough, try the former, if the Diarrhma, use the
latter, and your hopes will not be disappointed
Don't let the diseases run on, or they may take a
fatal turn; an early use of these medicines may
save your life. They should be kept ready for in.
slant use in every family. See descriptive pamph.
lets, to be had gratis of the agents. Price, only 81
cents per bottle, or six bottles for 81 so.
For sale in Raleigh, by P. F. PESCUD, and BY
Merchants generally. 49,
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GTATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, Person Coun-
~ ty, in Equity, May Term, 1884. Henry weaney
Us Pleasant Bumpass and John NJ. Winstead, Admit:
1t appearing to the satisfaction Of the Court, that
the defendant, Pleasant Bumpass, is not q resi-
dent If this State: 1t is ordered that publication
be made in Spirit of the Age, a paper published at
Raleigh, for the space of six weeks, nothing the
said Bumpasss to appear at the next Term Of the
Court of Equity, to be beld for the county of Per.
son, at the Court House in Roxboro', on the 7th
Monday after the 4th Monday in November next,
and then and there plead, answer or demur to the
said Bill, or the same viii be heard er parte as TO
him, and a decree be ordered pro confesso.
Witness, John Bradsher, Clerk and Master id
and for the said county of Person aforesaid, July
31st, 1854. JNO. BRADSHER. C. NJ. E..
Roxboro,, N. C. 5O-6t
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New York, August 7th.-The Star of the
West brings California dares to the 18th
July.
A most destructive FIRE occurred at San
Francisco on the 18th. One hundred and
sixty-seven buildings were entirely destroyed.
Eighteen Of the number were hotels and large
boarding houses. The loss cannot be less
than half q million of dollars.
At Sacramento city on the 18th, two humid
red buildings were consumed. The loss will
certainly reach 81, 000,00 On the 10th ult.,
nearly the whole town of Columbia, in Gala
veras county, was destroyed by fire. The
loss there will not fall short Of S50O,0OO.-
The mining accounts were very favorable
e grain crops will be very heavy.
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FOR THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE.

LINES on the death of CHARLES E. FINCH, who
was unfortunately killed by the falling of a Flag
Pole, which he was assisting to raise on Election
day, the Sd of August, 1854.
There are sounds of bitter wailing,
Waited on the sultry gale,
Telling of heart sick ming anguish,
That makes cheek and lip grow pale;
Death has claimed another victim,
And has sped his fatal dart,
All unerring-unrelenting-
In a young and ~virtuous heart.
Oh! could love, and faith, and virtue,
Turn the shaft of death aside,
Were death only for the wicked,
Then our Brother had not died
God must call his ransomed children
From a wicked world like this,
To put on the robes of glory
In the sinless realms of bliss.
Weep not for the dear departed,
1t is sinful thus to weep,
For the good and noble hearted
Who in Jesus fall asleep
Rather joy with holy gladness,
That our Brothers griefs arc Ger,
That he is With our Emanuel,
Glorying for evermore.
Wherefore weep when he has died,
As the faithful CHRISTIANS die.
Nobly at his post of duty,
Fearing, loving the Most High;
O! rejoice, wife Of his bosom,
That our heavenly Sire above,
Took to heaven thy faithful partner,
Out of his ~undying love.
Humbly bow in resignation
To Jehovah's high behest,
And in faith embrace the Saviour,
Leaning on his loving breast:
To the widow and the orphan,
Jesus ever lends an ear;
As a Father and a Helper,
Blessed Redeemer thou art near.
We shall meet our much loved Brother,
four sins are all forgiven,
Happy with the gracious Saviour,
At the glory seat of heaven;
We shall meet our much loved Brother
'Mong a ransomed happy throng,
Singing the Redeemer's glory,
In a new celestial song.
Raleigh, 9th August, 1854. BROWN.
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g5H
Glen Anna Female Seminary.
Miss MARGARET G. NIXON, PRrScIPAL.
Miss EMILY BRANSON, Assistant.

Miss MARGARET G.. NIXON, Pn1ScIPAL.
Miss EMILY BRANS0N, Assistant.
TNHE fifth Session win commence on Wednesday
i the 18th of September.
This School, which has had Increasing prosperi-
ty from its first opening, is situated in a healthy
and pleasant part Of Davidson County, six miles
west of Normal College and twelve miles ekst Of
Lexington. Persons cotning from the cast leave
the Fayetteville Plank Road six miles from Glen
Anna, at -Hlents Store, where further directions eah
be obtained.
Joseph Shelton; Esq, and his lady, have taken
charge Of the domestic department, and the Prinei-
pal can assure parents at q distance that their ehil-
dren could not bs placed in safer hands.
TERMS: As; one half in advance, for a session Of
% weeks. This pays for tuition in the English
branches, and for board, &C., exclusive Of lights
Music $50 with no extra charge for the instrument.
French So. For Circulars containing particulars,
n. G.
Aug. IL. 50-5t-
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FRESH FROM NEW YORK:

0O BOXES of VIM. Colgate 4 Co.'s pale Soap;
~ 8 hhds. prime Porto Rico Sugar;
% bbls R. L. 4 A.. Stuart's C. Yellow Sugaf;
200 bags of Table Salt;
10 bbls. of Clarified Cider Vinegar;
10 dog. Painted Water Buckets;
so bags prime Rio Coffee;
6 half bbls. of large No. 1 Mackerelj
kegs prime Goshen Butter
10 bbls. City Mess Pork
5 bbls. prime White Leaf Lard
40 Reams Wrapping Paper;
L Case of Clark's Matches. Low f6f cash az
GEO. III. KELLEY'S.
Wilmington, August 10. so
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81 Temperance anS ffanig dasklp Nenspapr.

BGE We are gr~atifed at being able to state
there are about one hundred and Forty Young
Ladies at the Holston Conference Female
College in this place. The Institution is mo-
wing on like clock work, under the direction
of the accomplished President and his able
Assistants. Tennessee has come up nobly to
the good work. Her citizens contributed
largely to the Endowment, and scores of her
beautiful daughters are here receiving the
blessings of Education, so freely offered by
our College.-Asheriue NeDs.
A dispatch from Washington says-Those
best acquainted state that the Hon John NJ.
Clayton has prepared a very interesting letter
touching upon the question of Native Amer
icanism. He is said to favor them and the
Know Nothings. The letter will be pub
lished soon.
| learn from good authority, that a new
daily paper on the cash penny system is soon
to be published here. 1t is to be the organ
of the great National American party. About
ten thousand dollars have already been raised
towards commencing it. Substantial CAPT.
talists are said to be at the head of it.
B4 In a recent trial before the U. S. Dis
trict Court, Judge Mclean said Rum has
sunk more seamen than all the tempests that
ever blew A fact for the contemplation Of
Boyd, Speaker of Congress.
REMovED.-We hear, says the Washington Star
that Mr. Robert Cochran, of North Carolina, a 81,
600 clerk in the Office of the First Comptroller Of
the Treasury, has been removed. He was at thu
same time clerk of the committee of ways ant
means, at Sc per day with the $3.50 extra at thu
end of the session.
GLAD TO HEAR 1.-THE Philadelphia Sun of I'll
inst, says:
The Mayor still perseveres, we are happy to say
Notwithstanding the obstacles thrown in his path
in his endeavors to preserve the quiet and gooC
order which has distinguished Philadelphia, upol
the Sabbath day, since his installation into Office
And it is gratifying to observe that every respecta
BILE public housekeeper in our city aids the Mayo
in his work of reform, by keeping his place of bust
ness unopened upon that day. During Sunday
every house of note was closed, and comparativ
quiet prevailed throughout the city. Public opin
ion works wonders
Va Col. Charles Loring, who was killed at tn
st. Nicholas Hotel, New York, the other day by d.
R. IL. Graham of New Orleans, was a native I
this town, and has relations and friends living her
now; he was about 43 years of age, and was Re-
ceiver of the Public money at Benicia, near Sa
Francisco, for which port he had engaged his pas
sage. He has a brother in the U. S. Army. D
Graham is q practicing physician at New Orleans
where he OWNS a large drug store. Graham ra
him through the body with q sword cane, while
a state of intoxication.- Wilmington Herald.
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The following is the arrangement by the Judges
C,r tho E,u c;.a,;A..
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PETERSBURG MARKET.

By R0WLETT, HARDY & Co., Com. Merchants,
Corn, sales at 20 a 75c. Cotton, unchanged
we quote 9ac. Tobacco, prices have slightly de-
clined-we quote Tugs 4 80, 5 25, 5 so, q 6 so.
Leaf, common to fair Z q s so, fair to good s so
q 10, good to fine SIC, II q IA. Wheat, the
market is very unsettled and prices have declined,
at 1 SO "a 1 55 o. l 6Oc-but yesterday and to-
day lower prices have had to be taken. We note
sales of prime white to-day at Al "a 1 so and
Red 1877 "a 145c, with sales of ordinary parcels al
100 "a 11Oc. 100 a 125 % 1S0c, some pretty good
samples a tlatter prices. Guano, Peruvian SIS, Mex.
lean S35. (Aup. 12O
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MARKET.

GEO. II. KELLEY, Grocer and Com. Merchant.
Naval Stores, Tupt. has ru3ed very steady, and
has advanced &c q Dbl, 8 20 for virgin and yellow
dip; Spirits has slightly declined, Friday last sales
at 45c, now 43c Tar is in better demand and has
advanced to 2 80; Coffee, Rio sales of 200 bags at
10kc 4 mo-. Cotton, sales Of 162 bales at 81 to 90
for fair Corn meal remains Scarce sales at IL to 15c;
Flour, Fay'tt. arriving slowly, selling from wifi. at
to dealers, sales from So to 90c, s to 10000 on mar
ket unsOld Oats arriving freely, sales at &c;
Lumber for river 10 to IL for flooring; Provisions,
n C Bacon IL to III hoground, 124 to IS hams,
sides and shoulders 101; Lard N C scarce ii to III /;
Pork, Northern mess, Is to 16; Salt very scarce,
sack 81 Is /; alum Coo. Aug. II.
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PRICES CURRENT.


RALEIGH MARKET-Wholesals Prices.
expressly for the Spirit of the Age, by
JORDAN WOMBLE, Grocer and Commission Mer-
chant, Harget Street, Raleigh-Flouf 81 to 81 so
q Dbl. Corn IS to 90c. p bushel. Meal 81 90 a
81 10. Bacon hog round 81 to 103. Lard ii to
12c. Butter Is q 20. Fresh Pork q ID 2 q Sc.
Fodder % hundred lbs 81 % q 81 40. Marketbare
of all descriptions of produce.
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Spirit Of tBe Ags 8deigB, NotR Carolina.

intelligent man is obliged to gaze at it in adj
miration. | know of nothing else of the kind,
and the lapse of time will only tend to en-
nance its attractiveness. Posterity will find
new beauties that now lie hidden.
As wonderful as this bridge is, there is an
engraving or resemblance under the arch,
that is of no ordinary consideration COM
pared with the whole. There is a perfect
resemblance of an eagle with a lion, appa-
rently exhausted, under its wing. There we
see where God himself has made the resem-
blance of the ensign of England trampled
under that Of America. Oh !! shades Of the
revolution, could you not see the symbol of
victory I! Patrick Henry, when he gave the
ball a start, here could have read its destiny /;
when he spoke of the God of hosts fighting
our battles, here he could have seen the re-
atty, where His own fingers penciled the
result from time immemorial. Washington,
the father of his country, here in his own
State, indelibly inscribedby Nature, he could
have seen the eagle whose wings he upheld
here too he could have seen the lion, whose
head he pressed down. They are both plain
ly here, emblematic of what we have realized,
and may they grow deeper and deeper in the
rock, till firmly fixed, they will remain while
the arch itself stands.
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Aug. l. 1854.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1854-07-19
MEDICINAL.
AFFLrcTED READ

mr., ptrIA NrDTC Al, HOIjSE.-Established Is
| wears ago by DR. KINKELiN. Inc OLDEST surest ana
=. nd t re all forms secret diseases OF the skin, and
solitary habits Of youth IS p MN AE, & ~ 1 " & corner
nd a haf squares from The Exchange, Philadelphia.
sfoEe Particular Notice.-There is q habit which
boys leach each oer at tie academy or eoegea habit in
dued IN when by Themselves solitude growing with
th. ,y 10 manhood aud which, if not abandoned in due
time only begets serions obstacles 10 matrimonial hap
Due gives rise to series of protracted nsidous and
devastating affections Few of those who indulge in this
peInicio1 practice the consequences until they
ind the nervous system shattered feel strange and unac
cOuntabe feelings vague fears IN the mind The individual
becomes feeble he unable to labor with accustomed vlg
or apply his mind study his tardy and weak
be is duh and reSolue the countenAnce is doHneaSt The
ewes without natural iusire sameaeedness is apparent
7css symptoms tehica S59std aake0 tie attention Of
those similarly afflicted.
1.-THE victim be conscious of the of his decay aad
having renquished the odious practice he suffers under
those terrible nocturnal emissions which weaken and shame
him. producing mental and physical prosration. If he
emancipate himself before The practice has done It's worst
and enter malrimony, his marriage Is GnlEl aud bis
senses tell him that dis is caused 6y bis ear y iollsS
Too many think they viii hug the secret 10 their OVID
hearts and themselves. Alas how often u hs ida
deusion, and how many promising yc4ih ~lc might have
been an ornament Sacieiy has faded from The eaIth
Young Men let no f4lse nloiesty deter you from
making your known 10 who om edacstn and re-
spectaby alone befrend YOU lie who places himself
under DR. KINKEIN 5 treatment may relglousy eonhde
his honor a. gentleman and IN whose bosom Will be Tor
ever locked The secret OF the patient,
Country Notwithstanding it inconTenisnt to make
personal application by stating their case explicitly TO
gether with all their symptoms (pef letter postpaid have
forwarded them chest containing Dr. h. medicines,
appropriated accordingly, and be cured al home
Structures og the ureiha weakness and constitutional de-
bilty promptly eured ard t vgOr restored All letters
post pdld.
~ remittance of % cents in a letter post paid ei-
dressed DR. Knkeln Phiadelphia will his book
on the Secret Infr1nies Of Youth. sepH-wly