Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-01-04
Excerpts from u Correspondence.

A friend sends us seven new subscribers
from Iredell county, and writes =" The
Temperance reformation is gaining rapidly
in this county-there are many among us
who are not Sons, and have opposed the Sons
aSapinStitution. who. nevertheless, are stroIsr
advocates for a Prohibitory law. The pre-
iudices which have existed Against the Order
are fast giving way, and If tie professed
friends of Temperance are fai Tntul and dill
gent, the time will soon be whFn scores and
hundreds will be added to the kbld water ar
nav. A gentleman in this plaPe who had a
distillery, and who clamorousY opposed the
Temperance movement, not long since tore
down his Still house and sold his Stills for
old Copper. May all others follow his no
BILE example. Send out your "SPIRIT," the
sure antidote for eU1 spirits-circGlate Tracts,
let the warning, convincing voice of the Lee
turer be heard, and King Alcohol will soon
be dethroned and his army put to flight. No
time should be lost-let the Memorials be-
gin to be circulated, all necessary steps be
taken. and the issue made at once, and not
wait till lust before the Election, if we want
to succeed in ~electing men to the Legislature
opposed to the odious liquor traffic. | am
not a Son of Temperance, but an outsider
but nevertheless an out and out Prohlbltory
law.man. send a small sum as a contrlbu-
ton for Lecturers, and some subscribers to
the Age"
gag- A gentleman from Yadkin county,
saws: I'VE believe the Temperance cause is
increasing steadily in our community and
if the ~prohibitory law was put to the popular
vote, we firmly believe it would receive the
vote of a majority of our people,
~ A friend, writing frem Lenoir coun-
ty, compliments the Age with the following
gratifying remarks Believing your paper
to be the best and cheapest published in the
State, land think | could safely say in the
United States) / have induced a friend of
a mine Though he is somewhat opposed to the
temperance cause) to send on for it, the a.
mount of whose subscription you will find
a. enclosed. am also proud to say, further,
that | sacredly believe 81 which l paid you
for the Age, to be sent to a young lady, has
been the means of saving her father from a
y, drunkard's grave! What a blessed invest
ment, and what a rich per centage it yielded.
He is a very intelligent, respectable gentle
~ man, but in consequence of the temptation:
which constantly beset him, he was fast fall
an ing into the pit of inebriacy. lie is now
thoroughly reformed, and an out-and-ou
J." Prohibitory law man May you go on, con
quering and to conquer, until your Heaven
blest paper shall be found in every family, an,
'uV our glorious old State rejoice in the expulsion
ak of the d~amning beverage from her borders.
ne,
oct B@- MATRIMoNY is thus defined by a bach
elor: Hot buckwheat cakes-warm beds
comfortable slippers-smoking cofee-roun
he arms-re' lips-(ahem !)-etc. etc.-shirt
e%xulting in buttons-redeemed stockings
bootjacks-happiness, &c.
SINGLE BLEssEDNEss is thus defined by
ext Benedict; Sheet iron quilts-blue noses
frosty rooms-ice in the pitcher-unregene
ated linen-heelless socks-coffee sweetene
with icicles-gutta-percha b~iscuits-fapI
sed, s~teak-dull razors-corns-coughs and che
ac- ics-rhubarb-aloes-misery, &c. Ugh!
IT, If these things be true, we rejoice that v
in are neither one or 'tother! \