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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-12-09
A Valuable Farm

4 T PUBLIC SALE.-Thc subscriber Of
y iers IL Public sale, his Farm on which
he now resides, situated in Cecil county,
within miles Of Port Deposit. and near the
road Leading from that place to Lancastcr on
TUESDAY, the 26h Of DECE NBER,
1854. 1t is in a very healthy and improving
noighborhood. convenient to mills, schools
and places Of worship; and adi"ins lands of
John FClton, VIM. =. lIIincs, and others,
containing
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-12-09
Notice Of Removal.

WE have now rclIovcd to our new and
w spacious Store House, in North East.
opposite the Methodist Church. where we are
prepared t" sell new and fashionable styles
OF dress and other goods, as low aS tl.oy can
be had in the city. for cash or country pro-
lucc. and would respectfully solicit an in
spcclion Of our stock and prices, olwhich We
name i'll part
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-12-09
Men and Boys wear.

Blue, black and brown cloths. - % to 50 &C
Pctcrsham and Tcviot cloths,
very heavy; 2GO . ).
black cashmere and French
dorS|in fancy cashmere - .
S'tcd c"lors plain satnrlt, II =
plald. striped and mixed do 80 s,
brow and grry irrSry, ~ s.
Also. a large and well Sole ctcd stock Of
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-12-09
NDY'Ee'a;

WYE will not pay any dchts contracted by
w DAVIS Is. C,ss@uNr:
JAMES CASSEDAY X son.
Dee 9 en- Philadelphia
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s,sr'as 4 y.

TAME to the farm of the subscriber. about
" tn first of August last, hcifrr, > years
DID lust Sprinr. She is rcd, with some white
spots, and has sharp horns. The owner is
requested to come forward. prove Property,
pay charges and take her away.
THOMAS RUSSELL.
Dee . 3w near North East
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Erady-.alaGe elothiNg.
A IS()-

Blankets tlnncls, tickings, SliirIing. stripes.
muslins. hats, oars, boots, shoes, brosanS.
CATERS, Ne.
ALSO
Guns. game bugs. SHOT belts. powder TASKS.
tuX'S and other percussion caps. sc.
Groceries. hardware, QncrNSwarc. wooden
and willow ware. &c. HUGHES BROS.
North East Dec 8
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-12-09
SO Acres Of Land.


% acres Of it good TIMBER. and the balance
in a good state Of cultivation, and well set
with clover and other grass, with water in
every field, and under good fence, part of
which is new stone fence.
The improvements are two-story
s1laddlss Frame House with basement, and
,iisfS,,g conveniently divided; Il large frame
!'pMf'a barn, nearly good as new, with
never failing spring Of water running
10 the door Of the dwelling and passing in
front Of the COW yard, frame spring house
over a never failing spring of good water,
near the house. Also, tenant House and
Stable. Apple and Peach ORCHARD. in fun
hearing. and young trees in Il healthy state
and of various kinds set ont last spring. and
variety Of other kinds of Fruit.
Those wishing to purchase valuable pro-
perry will please eomp forward on or before
day Of Sa.p and view it. Terms will be MAIDS
known ~, day -, sale. loSs s,ion given ut
any time that will suit the purchaser.
Dcc.ts EbER rENNOCk.
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TRISTEES' SALE.

ETl virtue of a decree Of the Circuit Court
- for Cecil county. i'll Chanc Try. the undcr-
signed Trustees will offer ut Public Sale. at
the Court House door ia the town Of Eliton,
IL. LII, .-l.,..L- ,,. IL. o. Il. i.Lyt
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01

re- Davie Division, at Pennington, has
adopted the good example set by Cape Fear
and other Divisions, by sending a copy of
the Spirit of the Age to each of its members
who are square on their F. SIS books. We
received SAL for forty-one copies, and a mem
orandum, saying, $50 more to be sent."-
This is the way to do things up brown. We
have sent them our promised premiums, with
which they can supply one hundred persons
with a Tract containing valuable reading on
the great Temperance question.
nr Chapel Division, in Chatham, has
also followed suit, and we hare forwarded
the Premiums due for the same.
RF We have gratuitously distributed, in
this way, the week past, about four thousand
pages of Temperance Tracts! and have
plenty more left of the same sort, to be given
away to Divisions or individuals sending us
clubs of subscribers. Help us, and we'll help
you, in gratuitously distributing Temperance
information among the people. If any en-
titled have not received their Premiums, they
have only to let US know and the mistake
shall be corrected.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01
CHAPTER. Xxx.

A drunken eoHoquy-he dead caued-he dis
coVery-reUohiRg proposals made TO Doctor
ID he uRdertdker-d successful ruSe.
jacques, did you drink up all the gin
last night 2 said Agnes at early dawn the
morning after the tragedy.
Don't know replied the drunkard and
he turned over on the floor with a moan.
Get up and sec, Jacky.'
'Shan't do it, wench, get up yourself, and
he vent TO sleep. And Agnes stole up from
his side and emptied the bottle Of its con-
tents at a single draught aud then laid
down again.
In a few minutes he awoke.
is there any gin, womanP
AN gone, my dear
sLiarP said he aud vent to look for him.
self. He found her words true and he
sWore.
Give me some money, glutton, and FL
send Ada to the grogshop.'
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01

A GOOD sIGN.-The day after our County
Court decided they were compelled to grant
licenses to-aalil wallae-eame legally recommen-
ded, one of the Magistrates presented US with
Serenteen new subscribers, (only three of
whom were Sons to be sent to Rolesville.-
During the week we received twelve others,
in different parts of the county! Good for
old Wake! She is going to soake up and
if our candidates do not agree to do some
thing to put away that law which compels
our Courts toperpetuate a n~uisance and com
NIT a wrong to society, the next election will
reveal sights to the politician-ers they never
dreamed of. We know they think it's al
talk, and when the tug comes they will rule
men into party lines. We warn them of Their
mistake but if they will not heed, upor
them be the consequences. Ba~ Can't oul
friends raise us one hundred new subscriber
in Wake County, by April Court? Let every
man try what he can do.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01
Spirit Of tie 9ge 8aleigg, Nortb

child corpse and concealed her in a pile of
rags under the bed, and supplying her place
with some rocks from the hearth rolled up in
tattcrs they replaced the lid and sat down in
moody silence.
Soon the undertaken returned with his aids
and the corpseless coffin was carried away.
and buried in the field where the poor and
destitute sleep the long night of death.
Jacques was more cautious after this the
next night he sought the Resurreetiohist
for the new medical College in R-x, a man
who followed his disgusting occupation for
the gold and silver it brought him, and he
had no difficulty in striking a bargain with
him he sold his dead child for FIVE pieces
of silver and she was carried away.
On a long red table in an upper room in
the Rx College of Medicine the child
corpse lay the next day, and around her were
Medical Students gathered, dressed in black,
gllstening gowns with open books before
them and bright ~sclapels in their hands pa
tiently investigating the great laws of life and
nature to enable them to battle with disease
among the living. While the flesh and bones
OF the innocent were being hewn asunder by
young men seeking knowledge with minds
purified by n love of truth, the parents of
the subject were sleeping in Drunkenness
from the proceeds of the sale of her crisped
and frozen body: they few hour after hour
to the gin bottle to obtain relief from life's
burdens by forgetting them in their debauch.
And no tear was shed in the hut for the
calamity that befel the sweet little Ada-her
of the golden tresses and mild blue eye-ex-
cept by the poor little twins.
Such is the true picture of Drunkenness!
#The man who supplies Dissecting Rooms with
material for Anatomical purposes.
To BE CONTINUED
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Temperance ann fanilg ddteeklg Nebs paper.

Maine Law and Morrill, Democrats held the balance |
of power, so that Pillsbury was not presented to the
Senate, and the election ultimately fell upon Morrill,
or Crosby.
This man Pillsbury insulted the temper
ance men of his party, by treating and ma
king drunk many of the members of the
nominating Convention, and by this means
was chosen as the Democratic candidate for
Governor. The Temperance Democrats could
not and would not support such a man, and
hence they nominated Mr.. Morrill,, a good
democrat and Maine Law man, as their cam
didate. The Wings also had a candidate ;
the election came on, and neither of the three
were elected, but Pillsbury was the lowest
the choice had therefore to be made by the
Legislature between Morrill,, (democrat) and
Crosby, (Whig.) 1.-THE Pillsbury Democrats
had loved party more than they did Rum, they
could have secured a Democratic Governor
by voting for Mr.. Morrill-but they refused
to do this, and gave their support to a Wing,
rather than a temperance democrat, and
elected a political opponent!
AAAN y" W. NOAnO W tAO SASNbAOi "a Os ~
Senator: The Democratic caucus selected a
candidate who was a Pillsbury man and an
open opponent of the Maine Law, against
the strong protestations of temperance dem
ocrats-they were told he could not re,
ceive their votes yet in spite of all, he was
forced upon them as their party candidate, and
they were required to support him, with all
his liquor a~finities and proclivities. This
they positively refused to do, but gave their
votes to a political opponent who was with
them on this question, and he was elected.
Who, then, were the first boilers from party
lines? The liquor democrats refused to sus-
tain Gov. Hubbard, because he signed the
Anti-liquor bill, but instead voted for eros.
by, the Wing Candidate for Governor. The
temperance democrats refused to vote for the
liquor or Pillsbury candidate, for o. S. Sen.
ator, because of the influences by which he
was brought forward and in this, they moi
only acted as became virtuous, independent
citizens, but they had the example of thu
liquor democrats to go by. Again we ask
who, then, were the boilers or d~isorganizeri
of the party?
Here is what we understand to be a faith
full statement of the facts in the case and i
affords a wholesome warning to politician
who attempt to force their party friends t
the support of a thing against which con
science and duty sternly revolt. Men of in
t~elligence and integrity cannot be thus driven
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01
Our Progress.


We have received during the past week
nearly one hundred and fifty nesO subscribers!
This brings US up to our long desired mark of
FIVE THOUSAND subscribers-and we now set
our stakes a peg farther, and shall struggle
to have SIX THOUSAND by the close of 1854!
And if our friends work for us and the cause,
- LsaH - s,waS thraa.
as tney nave d0no I0t th5 pGsttwo 6rcnrec
weeks, we shall have them before the gear is
half out.
Como, friends, let us labor together in the
great enterprise of spreading light and infor-
nation before the people. We offer you,
what all our five thousand subscribers say is,
the gerry best paper IN the country, and at
the very lowest price a weekly paper can be
printed for-only 81 a year! We notice
many of the Northern papers are raising the
price of their subscriptions, owing to the
high price of paper (our blank paper costs
us about $4,000 a Year, and provisions but
we stick to the low notch, and all we ask is
a large list of subscribers, paid in advance,
to sustain US. A small list, or the credit sys
tenn, would wind up our ball in twelve
months.
Come, friends get up the names for US
send on your Clubs, and We'll give you a pa
per worth double the money, send you libe
raj Premiums, and promise to throttle ole
Alcohol, or-do our best in trying. Ho!-
for Six Thousand Subscribers !!
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01
The Renegades.

The time has been when it was quite an
easy matter, perhaps a popular thing, to be
classed among the great Reformers of the
country, who were trying to rid society of the
evils of Intemperance. When the song of
adulation and the voice of praise saluted US
on every hand, then it was a pleasant thing
to be numbered among the friends of Tenn
perance and hailed as benefactors to society,
and hundreds came focking to our standard
to receive the smiles of the ~virtuous fair, and
the benedictions of the reverend and the good.
Then we enjoyed the pleasant past-time of
sham-battles with the arch enemy-all a.
bove was sunshine and all beneath was flow
ers. But the captivating scenes of the gau-
dy "Review" have now passed away, and
we are on the tented field, engaged in deadly
strife with our willy foe. The stern battle is
being aged, and the time that tries mems
souls is upon US, calling loudly for stout
hearted, valiant soldiers to do battle under
our gallant banner. Wherenow arc the sum-
mel soldiers which but a few brief months
ago discoursed so eloquently in behalf of the
cause of suffering humanity? Where now
the tinselled aspirants for prominence and
honor in our ranks, whose words thrilled the
heart with hope and promise? Alas they
have deserted US in the stern hour of tria
and confict-they have proved traitors to tina
cause for the maintenance of which they haC
sworn undying fidelity, and now they art
seen among the traduccrs and defamers o
the cause, heaping aspcrsions and false accu
sations upon us AM our principles, hat ever
out-rivals our bitterest enemies!
Why this sudden, this strange metamor
phosis? Whence flown all their solemn as
severations of fealty and devotion to the cause
Alas for the frailty of human nature, tn
war became too much in earnest for them
the substitution of paper-bullets (%votesl too
the place Of wind balls (wordy s~peeches) an
they found their courage deserving them, an
concluded they were in the wrong box-an
they left as! Joy go with them Has tn
cause lost any thing by the desertion of sue
men? No, indeed! Let all such retire frol
the field and give way to brave hearts, cou
ageous men, who will stand but the firmC
to their principles the iercer the battle rage
ave want no towards in our ranks
That will their colors fly
But knowing that their cause is just
Resolve to do or die"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01

nP We don't like the substitute offered
by the Old North State, by narrowing down
the question to License" or No License"
in submitting t to the People. Let it be
thus, and there will be no after-dodging =
Those in favor of prohibition to vote a ballot
containing the words, for a prohibitory
liquor law" and those opposed, the words
against a prohibitory liquor law" Ballots
cast without being SO designated to be con-
sidered blanks. The returns to be made to
the Governor, and by him transmitted to the
Legislature at its first session after such cleo
ton.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01

- t a mother seemed TO De
consumed by herdebasing passion for drink.
There she lay and witnessed her child ra-
cling around the room beating her frying
limbs in the agony Of intolerable torture
and she powcrless to aid her in the stern
conflict for expiring life, She may have
felt one pang when that poor, innocent be-
ing that had suffered SO much for her trans
erosion, turned her parched eyes to the
PROSTATE parents, and through her shrivel-
led and blackened lips uttered that endear-
ing word-motker.
90! mother, won't you ONE and help
me put out this FIRE it is burning Ada up,
motherP
IL one hallowed emotion flashed across
the blasted desert Of the woman's soul it
was but for a moment for when the child
rushed from the hut and went bowling with
keen anguish into the snow storm on the
street, that woman, whom to call mother
would be a disgrace to that holy name,
sank back upon hor bed and snorcd in a
drunken stUpori
God pity the child before the door of
that hut her blazing garments cast q glim-
mering light athwart the midnight gloom /;
the elements of destruction beat upon her
wind-snow-fre lick about her as a pre-
cious morsel The wind fans and feeds
the Hame-reeling amid the snow drifts the
fire crisps and sears her tender flesh as il
goes. Agony alone expresses the torture
Of that midnight hour. What scene in the
most elaborate tragic fiction can equal it il
horror7 There was an innocent child bat
Ting with death in the most terrific shap,
out in the midst of q snow storm and pei
ted with cutting hail--in a wind-blast tina
seemed TO shake the very elements of dark
ness with its sWaying power-and her stu
alton forced home to her by the excrucia
ting torture of her W person as the ret
flames enveloped her, broiling her into
crisp mid stiAed smoke, and the darkness
Of a winters night made visible by her ba
Eing %tatters! Within that dreary hut wer
those to whom nature taught her to fly fo
relief when death and dangers a~ssail, bu
they were drunken and knew not of her dy
ing throes. She was not a victim by he
own act, but her calamity sprang from tn
gin bottle-one Of those who suffer from I'll
accursed compounds, and, yet let it alone
one Of those living witnesses who will stan
in accusation against tn. liquor seller befor
him at the Judgement seat of the Lord
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01

R~ A good friend of ours is exerting him
self in obtaining signatures to the Memoir
al" A few days since, he called upon a lady
who signed it readily. At night her husband
came home intoxicated, and learning what
she had done he became enraged, abused he-
shamefully, swore an eternal separation from
her and left her as no longer his wife. The
next morning, on rejecting upon his conduct,
he returned home, begged his wife's forgive
broke in pieces his various Jugs anddecanters
and then went and signed the Memorial HIM
self The work goes on brayely. Circulate,
circulate the Memorials, friends! :
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01

nA Why is it that our political papers are
generally so dumb on the temperance ques-
ton? Is it because they think it of so little
Importance that they would lose caste by COM
ing down to it? Or is it because they are
not quite sure which is the safe side? We
arc inclined to think it is the latter. Then
let them at least urge upon their men to fall
upon some. plan in the next Legislature to
ascertain what a majority of the people wish;
the exigency of the case demands it. If a
majority are in favor of prohibiting the Ii
quor-traffc, we will rejoice as loud as the
loudest if a majority are opposed to it, we
will grasp our weapons of warfare with a
deeper zeal and labor with a Drawer heart to
enlist public sentiment against the Rum fend
until he is driven from our borders and his
scathing footprints hidden by the flowers OF
national prosperity.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01
RALEIGH, q. @.
Wednesday, March |, 1854.
A Positive Arrangement.

Subscribers receiring their papers Nth a red mark.
are thereby notified that an four eoeeks from the re-
ccipts Of the first number thus marked, their su5scrip-
ton gears 'oiU expire and unless reneced ,oitAin
that time, thepGper '0iU be Discontinued. This rule
toiU be infecibly adhered to.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01

Cooley for March is on our table. 1t is de-
cidedly one Of the best numbers ever issued.
We find it filled with substantial and enter
tanning reading, and there are several very
pretty and tasteful work patterns which the
ladies are much pleased with. The lessons
in drawing are continued, and the number
of recipes and useful practical hints is so
great as to add greatly to its value. We
commend it again to the patronage of the
fair. 1t is the Princess of Magazines.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01
Our cause it is just,
And conquer we must;
While this is our motto {:
"In God is our trust"

Citizens of Raleigh, let us rally and keep
our armor bright from this time till our next
Municipal election, determined then to wipe
out the stigma that has been cast upon us,
by the indulgence of liquor privileges and
outrages for the year 1854. Let us resolve
that THIS shall be the last year it will be toll
Grated in this community.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01
Lecture Fund.

The G. S. acknowledges the receipt of the
following amounts to this fund, viz: From
Chapel Division. Chatham SIS Banks Chap
ell, Granville $40; Triumph, Northampton.
$40; Haw Creek, A~lamance, SIS and 81
from GA Friend to the cause"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01

"HoT CoRN."-WRen we first reed
WORK bearing this title, we spoke oft 'eu 'n0
mendation. We found it contained 7 II
ries of Katy" "Whd Maggie" thdthe $40
penny Marriage" &c.-stories that
read, in the papers of the day, With ave hau
~terest, and supposed the other portion reas IN
book to be in keeping with these, but { Oh U''
time to read them. Judging favor hau w
the whole from the good opinion aoiy .
formed of the part of the book W1 Ee "a
we were acquainted, We spoke favora who
But having had our attention callS y Of
subject, we gave the book a thorou to
nation, and we have to say, as exaH
that the latter portion of it is e resi-
shocking bad taste, to say the lea My
exhibits pictures Of vice which, b it,
essary to be known in order to b er
are not fit for the eyes q all. rec
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01

ne. General Robert Armstrong, of the
Washington Union, died at his residence in
Washington city, on Thursday evening, Of
congestion of the brain, at the age of sixty
three wears.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01

%The man who supplies Dissecting Rooms with
material for Anatomical purposes.
TO BE CONTINUED.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-03-01

ALABAMA.-The whA
the movements of refoIA y e v
intemperance is assails N or
halls, and stalwart bio eo III ia
LIQUOR traffic bv fearll rs are oe"i' On
tho neonlo W. - Lss represent .,
nosaod - .L; hope of sect >
sale of ardent spirits in YsIsbama eng
the glorious work. is