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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-01-25
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CEDAR HILL, N. c., Jan. 10th, 1854.
A. NJ. GoRMAN, Eso.--Dear Bro.-Enclos-
ed send you twelve dollars for II copies of
your paper. The Temperance cause has
most gloriously trium phed in Arson County.
AT our last court, which was held last week,
In marlborough, the rummies were defeat
cd. A Mr.. William Saunders, who has a
grog shop in marlborough, made applica-
ton to renew his License, when the Court
ordered all tho Magistrates names in the
County to be called all that were present
took their seats on the bench: Saunders. con-
sIdering his case a hopeless one, withdrew his
petition to a more convenient time: the mag
lstrates understanding the manoeuvres of the
dummies, passed a resolution, not to enter
tain any petition to grant License to retail
ardent spirits on any other day except Tues
days, IN each Court week. After which a
Lra-d-y proved herselfto be of a good moral
character, and offered her petition, PRAYING
the court to grant her License to sell Ardent
Spirits. But to the honor of the court be it
spoken, she was denied the privilege of ma
king ~drunkards~ Notwithstanding the resp
luton passed by the magistrates, they mado
two other unsuccessful attempts. / think |
am not mistaken, when | say there is not a
Licensed GROCERY in Arson County. And l
hope the time is not far distant, when the
License system will be banished from our
good old State. Cedar Hill Division is not
increasing in numbers, but her members arc
all right. Wo are determined to vote for a
Temperance man, be he Wing or Democrat,
for we want a prohibitory Law.
JAS. Z. BONNOITT.
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OXFORD, N. ", Jan. II, lS04.
Mr.. EDITOR 1t is highly gratifying to
see the spirit of education so thoroughly a.
Takened in the old North State. Seats of
learning are constantly bein5 established,
and those already in operation are more lib
orally patronized than heretofore. This is
an suspicious oman, and every true citizen,
or friend to the cause of education, will hail
the fact with unmixed feelings of pleasure.
In the pleasant village of Oxford we have
three schools: two female and one male-all
OF them in 4 prosperous condition. The Ok
ford Female College is under the auspices of
the Baptist denomination yet, no sectarian
principles are inculcated, consequently per-
sons of different religious persuasions pat
ronize the school. The Rev. Samuel Wait,
D. d., is President, assisted by q competent
corps of teachers. The college is regularly
increasing in popular favor-haying had at
every subsequent term a larger number of
pupils than attended any preceding session.
Our other female school is under the man.
agement of Mr.. Samuel l.. Venable. Mr..
Venable is eminently qualified for the station
he occupies. He is experienced in teaching,
and has always given the most ample salts
faction to his patrons. By intelligence, ur-
banity and a uniformly unexceptionable bear
ing, he has attached himself by "hooks of
STEEL to our people.
The male school at this place is in charge
Of Mr.. James II. Horner-a graduate with
first distinction of the University of North
Carolina. He was prepared for College by
the celebrated Mr.. Bingham, whose reputa-
ton as q teacher is not circumscribed by the
| limits of n State. Mr.. Horner's mode of in
s~truction is similar to that of his distinguish
ed tutor, and he is q gentlemen we'll adapted
to discharge with efficiency the duties of his
calling.
1t is supposed the masonic college will go
into existence here sometime during the pres
!. ent year. The enterprise is e~nlisting the at
!, %tentlon ofour people to a considerable extent,
!, We apprehend it will enter upon a prosper.
: Gus career, and only need the fostering care
Of it's friends, to make it in process of time
not merely a monument to the masonic fra
ternity, but an honor to the State. May ev.
cry effort to promote education in North Car
DINA be crowned with success. Each indi
cation of its progress is but the harbinger Of
a glorious destiny before us. o. X.
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DIED,

On Monday the 9th of January, 1854, at the
house Of his father, in Duplin county, N. c., in the
Goth year of his age, Joseph L.. Taylor, one of the
Charter members of Safeguard Division. In this
dispensation of Providence Safeguard Division,
No. $40, S. of I. has lost a Jealous and efficient
member, and society q social and pious citizen
Suitable resolutions Of sympathy were passed and
communicated to the family of the deceased.
OF consumption, in Union co., Ark, on Friday,
the 9th Of Decembcr, in the 25th year Of her age,
Mrs. Fetna Geneva Cook, wife of William L. Cook,
and daughter of the late William P. and Lucy 3.
Terrell, formerly of Wake county, North Carolina.
At Beaver creek Factory, on the 1st instant, Mr..
Fielding Howard, aged 50 years, leavingan afflicted
wife and IA children to mourn his loss.
In Greensborough, on the 18th inst, Of Paralysis,
Mrs. Nancy Ogburn, consort of e w Ogburn, Esq.,
and daughter of the late Andrew Lindsay, ESQ.,
Also, on the 9th, in the 61st year of her age, mrs
Jane Adams, relict of Mr.. Meredith Adams, former.
ly of Hillsborough.
On the 21st of Dec. Mr.. THOMAS BALANCE, Sen.
Of Mattamuskeot, Hyde CO., in the seth year Of hi
age. When Providence allows the Christian par
ent to pass his last moments amidst the comfort
of home, and surrounded by those numberles
though nameless endearments that constitute tn
charm Of the family circle, he can meet the king o
terrors, and feel no regret except at parting frOI
those whom he is thus compelled to leave forever
aud who have borne him company to those yer
portals where angels stand in waiting to take hi
! oHAAS " NASAA AS~AAN1J NAA NSAAJ A1AA ~ 0HAAA
to that blissful future which shall never end. BIZ
to the subject ofthe present notice, this last consC
lation was denied. The summons came unapprt
hended by himself, and unknown to any Of his fe
low yoyagers, and although probably sustained i
natures final struggle by his trust in the mercy
EGod, and in the merits of the Saviour, yet be passe
from the earth uncheered by a single tone of fill
or conjugal affection, and without being allowed
give his children those last words of parental az
vice which they would love to cherish with vener;
ton and repeat with fond remembrance. Mr..
was for many years a devoted member ofthe Met
odist Episcopal Church. His house was always
home for its Ministers, and his purse was ever OPT
to its call. During the latter part of hislife he W
the most active and enterprising merchant of Il
county, and had it not been for the unwise indr
gence which he never refused to those whom
considered his friends, he mighthave left his fami
in afluence. But as it was he was continually dri
en- from one expedient to another in order mere
to keep up his business, frequently borrowing lar
sums, to avoid the unpleassntRess of compelling
friends to come to a settlement. The result was
might have been anticipated. and in June of Il
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RECEIPTS For THE AGE.

SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE 81 each W d Aller
Granville S Ruth, Raleigh J A Coffin, Urine
Mills w ] Forest, Mason Hall; s ] Crawford
Pleasant Grove ] W Ellis. Kinston ; S Bangert
Newbern J Swindell, Washington 7 Walker,
Roxboro' II Tillotson, Y n Roads VIM. lei
Onslow Hardy Strickland, Duplin Mrs E Woo
Berea; Robt Reding, HiIlsboro'; VIM Clark, Wal
nut Grove; T Pullen, J I Hunter, NJ Fl Aller
Wake; J Oldham, J j Rigsbee, Chatham III {
Hatch, Oh. Hill ; S Davis, Fayetteville G Cul
broth, ] Williford, Mary's Garden w C Clayton
Oh. Hill Miss A MeColl. G f College d MeCol
lum, Alfordsville N E Davis. Wind Hill Miss I
E Coyington c Malloy, ] McDufie, Springfield
E Cross, Va; Fl II Heptinstall, Westland G V
Blacknal, W E Jones, W T Rowland, Henderson
w Pittman, Lumberton r NJ Mcintyre, Spring
field; CIV Blair, Miss K Pritchett, Va. w j
Bailey, Woodsdale R C Swain, ] A Mcqueen, C
Hill ] 7 Russell, Nutbush c Ledbetter, d J
Houstin, Greensboro J Ingram, A G Henderson
w w Adams, Yanceyviile; NJ Bingham, WataU
ga; w c Paxton, Locust Hill c A Jordan, Ply
mouth John S Boddie, Nashville ] X CosteI
Suffolk; 7 J Collision, Evans Mills W C Wen.
NJ L Carroll, John W Stacy, Shelby F; A Corbitl
Falkland; w A Long, Oh. Hill Capt J W Dobsoi
Lit. 7 S Siler, Franklin I Ward, Jackson
Brown, II L Ward, ] W NOVEL;, Colerain So F
Mann, Chatham Sc A Davis, Pink Hill; SIS W
Gragson. Graham S12 j E Bonnoitt, cedar Hill
81 Uttley, Raleigh;
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PETERSBURG MARKET.

Reported expressly for the Spirit Of the Age,
Br RoWLETT, HARDY & Co., Com. Merchants
Dealers 4" Fertilizers, Agricultural Implements, dc
The English and Northern accounts are
very exciting for Breadstuffs. Our W mar.
ket shares the infection to a large degree.
CoRN.-Sales at Y ca 73c. Wheat, prime
white 81 IS O. Sc. prime Red 81 so q
l &c.; ordinary grades 81 60 ca l 75c.-
Cotton,-Sales of best grades go 10c.; or
binary grades 93c. Tobacco, Lugs SIS Ga 90
Common leaf $54 OH; good leafs ca $40
no fine Offering demand good.
GUANo.-In consequence of the high rate
of freight now ruling, the Peruvian Govern
ment has instituted the agents in Baltimor,
to advance the price of Guano to $50 20 &
long ton.
Sales here from store at $50 p 5000 lbs
Super Phosphate of Li~me-Sales at $45.
No material change in Groceries.
January 81, 1854.
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No Family should be without them.

N- We speak of M'Lane's Liver Pills, whic
have become an indispensable Family Medicine
The frightful symptoms which arise from a diseas
ed Liver manifest themselves, more or less, in evt
ry family dyspepsia, sick headache, obstruetio
of the menses, ague and fever, pains in the side
with dry, hacking cough, are all the results
hepatic derangement-and for these DIR. MLane
Pills are a sovereign remedy. They have new,
been known to fail, and they should be kept at a.
times by families.
DTRECTIoNs.-Take two or three going to bed
every second or third night. If they do not purg
two or three times by next morning, take one {
two more. A eight breakfast should invariabl.
follow their use.
The Liver Pill may also be used where purging
is simply necessary. As an anti-billious purgative.
they are inferior to none. And in doses of two OF
three, they give astonishing relief to sick headache
also in slight arrangements of the stomach.
G- Purchasers will be careful to ask for DR.
MLane's Celebrated Liver Pills, and take none
else. There are other Pills, purporting to be Liver
Pills, now before the public. DR.. M'Lane's Livel
Pills, also his celebrated Vermifuge, can now be
had at all respectable Drug Stores in the United
States and Canada. 80
For Sale by P. F. PESCUD, Raleigh.
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RALEIGH
Female Classical Institute.

THE first Term for 1854 viii begin on Wednes-
day the 10th of January, and continue FIVE months.
The number of pupils being limited, early applica-
ton for admittance viii be necessary to secure board
in the Institute.
Tuition in the English course per term $50
Ancient and Modern Languages (each) lie
Music on Piano or Guitar 20
Use of Instrument 3
Painting in Water Colors and Drawing (each) 5
&" in Oil 20
One hundred dollars paid in advance will meet
the expenses Of the Institute for bOaFd and Tuition
in all the above departments, except Oil Painting.
Tuition Fees required in advance, and all bills
must be settled at the end Of the Term.
To secure to the pupils his own constant super
vision, the Principal finds it necessary TO limit the
number of day scholars 10 twenty.
To meet the wants of some of his patrons a pre-
~paratory department is connected with the Institute
in which fifteen pupils will be carefully taught at
SIS per Term. BENNETT 7. BLAKE, Principal.
NRAEE's CREEK ACADEMY, IoOre County, N.
" G-The second session of this school, located
nine miles east of Carthage, and near the Fayette-
vile and Western Plank Road, will commcnce on
Tuesday, the Sd Of January next.
Tuition payable in advance, S., SO, $12 so and
SIS per session.
Students can be prepared here for the University
of North Carolina.
Board and washing can be obtained in the neigh
borhoOd, convenient to the Academy, at from 5 to
81 per month.
For further particulars direct post paid to the
Principal, Cranes Greek P o, n c.
A. R. BLACK, Principal.
December 18th, 1853. 18-5t.
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MARRIED.

In this City, on Monday, the 10th inst, by the
Rev. DIR. Lacy, James Reynolds, Esq, proprietor
of the National Hotel, Norfolk, to Mrs Frances
Mathews, daughter of Col. Stephen Birdsall, of this
City.
At Mt. Pleasant, on the Doth Dec, by J. J.. Mi
senhimer, Esq, Mr.. Charles P. Cox to Miss Catha-
rine Leinbarger, all of Mt. Pleasant.
In Robson county, on the 18th inst, by Daniel
W. Mclean, Esq, Mr.. Peter NJ. Macarthur to Miss
Emily j. Mcmillan, daughter of John Mcmillan,
Esq.
In Warsaw, Duplin county, on the evening OF
the 18th inst, by Rev. w. MKennedy, Mr.. Fred
erick Jones, of Wilmington, N. c., to Miss Mary
Eliza, daughter of Morris Guy, of Florida.
N5~ Wilmington Journal please copy.
In Duplin county, on the 18th ult, by Rev. w
NJ. Kennedy, David Ii. Williams, Esq, Of Fail
Bluff, Columbus county, N. c., to Miss Elizabeth
Mathis, daughter of Harmon Mathis, Esq.
In Chowan county, on the 18th December last
by Rev. Mr.. Bradford, Willis R. Williams, Esq, 0
Pitt, to Miss Harriet P. Leary, daughter Of Thos
Leary, Esq, of Chowan.
On the 18th inst, by the Rev. Franklin Powell
Dr.. John Harvey, jr., formerly of Newbern, to Mrs
Alice A Edwards, Of Greene county.
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TNHE Subscriber offers for sale a peculiar kind Of
Corn, known as the CANADA PROLIFIC
CORN, which excels any grain ever before offered
to the Southern Planters, both for beauty and in
crease It is a handsome white corn, and produces
from three to eight stalks from each grain, each
stalk bearing two to three ears of eorn-and the
suckers are as prolific as the original stalk, bearing
an equal number Of ears. I procured a small guam
tity Of this Corn through the mail, and planted
nine grains in a common sandy garden, that had
never received any other manure than from the sta
bic and barn yard, and the result was eightysi ii
silks and ffty-eight ears! Had not the droughth
come upon it at the time it did, several other ears
would have matured.
will send packages of one hundred grains each,
postpaid, for one dollar, to any one renting me
that sum and / feel confident no man who invests
this small sum for this Corn will regret the ex-
pertinent. This is not the " Sucker Corn" that
shoots at every joint-this species is as late as the
common Indian Corn and will grow as tall. All
orders to be postpaid and addressed to
ANTHONY DAVIS,
Pink Hill P. O.
GLOW Ienoir Co. N. G.
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MARKET.

[Reporfed expressly for the Spirit oftc Age.l
By GEo.H KELLEY. Grooorapd Com, merchant.
Soft Turp. $50 virgin dip SO hard 81 Tar
declined, now selling for 81 10; Spts. Turp
steady at 58c. Coffee, Rio Is, Lag. IA, Java
5. Cotton 9 to Zoe. Meal IS a 80, by the
lot. Flour, good supply and firm at S62 on
wharf, 81 from store. Corn, some cargoes
sold at 80 62t several cargoes would sell
quick at rs to 80 ceEts. Peas in demand
scarce now. Lime l l5.by the cargo. Irish
Potatoes IS by tie hundred barrels, S3A from
store. Bacon and Lard dull at 81 a lOc. Salt
81 so by the cargo. ] 80 from store coarse
Salt 4Oc. from vessel, 55 to 60 from store
Timber scarce at Sc to $l3, as TO quality.
January 81
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Glen Anna Female Seminary.
(Sie miles '0est Of Normal CoHege.)
MISS MELINDA RRANS0N. and

(Sir miles '0est Of Normal CoHege.)
MISS MELINDA BRANS0N, and
MISS MARGARET G. NIXON, Prineipals.
The next session Will open the third Thursday in
February.
There will be ne winter vacation. Terms, for
board and tuition, lights not included, $40 per sess-
ion of five months the only extras being, SIS for
Music, and So for French.
This institution has for some years been known
as a preparatory to Greensboro Female College ;
and its present lourishing condition and increasing
patronage entirely preclude the necessity of setting
forth the advantages of its location, &c. Great
pains are taken to give a thorough preparation for the
higher course in College; while those whose limited
means forbid their going farther find here every ia
cility for procuring a good practical education.
Letters may be addressed to either of the Princi-
pals at "Thomasville P. o. Davidson Co. n. CT.
Jan. Is, 1854. Pot
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FOR THE SPIRIT OF THE AGr
TUT THE oFINII UT THE n
The Ballot BOX.
A GARD.

Mr.. GoRMAN-Dear Sir-Sinco the Editor
wrote you a few days ago, the entire edition
of the Ballot Box has been exhausted. We
have no more on hand. To days's mail, how
ever, has brought me orders for hundreds,
which Of course l cannot fill. l wish to say
to the friends of the cause that they will con-
tinue to send on their orders, and as soon as
possible they will be filed. l shall bring
out another number shortly, and hope it
will be a still stronger document than the
first. Iwishto call the attention of our friends
to the change in our plans, &C., which they
will see in the advertisement which I send
you for your paper. Please call their atten-
ton to ii, and oblige your friend.
J. F. DISOSWAY.
Greensboro, January l6, 1854.
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Dueing.

Nearly every week we hear Of one or mere
Of these barbarous, deliberate murders. We
mean just what we say in calling them delib-
crate murders; for we believe them to be moth
ing less, and c~andidlyithink it is the duty Of
legislators to treat Thorn as such. Why?-
Because the duelist kills his adversary with
malice aforethought-moved by the instiga-
ton Of the devil to spill a brothers. blood
What else is essential to murders All laws
thus far have proved insufficient to abolish
this inhuman practice, owing to the reason
that It is supposed that public sympathy and
sentiment are on the duclist's side. A gun-
powder mania seems to have infected our
country during the past year even our SEN
ators in Congress, when disputes arise, have
no means Of proving their courage but by
abiding the test Of an.exchange of pistol shots.
So it means, al least, and the few really brGve
men, who will not submit to murder or be
murdered under this heathenish system Ia
crafty a morbid populocc, are ieered at as
old graunies ! Public sentiment must be
purified Of this lust for blood. The duelist
must have the mark Of Cain scared in his fore.
head, and be classed with those who, less for.
t%unate, but not more guilty than himself, cast
their swinging shadows under the cross OF
the gihbet. Then this system of carnage
will become extinct. As long rs q duel fght
is taken as an evidence Of a brave heart, and
the guilty wretch lauded to the skies as q
hero, so long will laws, however stringent, be
Intellectual, that contemplate the abolition o
this, worse than barbarian, custom. Let TIL
entire American Press, IN Us majesty, .froU,
upon II. \
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MISSISSIPPI u. S. SENAToR.-The following
was the vote in the Mississippi legislature for
U. S. Senator: A. G. Brown rs votes. Fl. S.
Foote %, w. l.. Sharkey 7, and 10 scattering.
Mr.. Brown had previously received the nomi-
nation of Il caucus of the democratic members
of the legislature.
SUDDEN DEATH.-Ourcomnunity have been
much panied by the very sudden decease of
Mr.. Thomas d. Jones. He went to the M.
E. Church. (of which he was a very consistent
m~ember) on Sunday Evening; but being at
tackled with severe pain in the head and breast
was compelled to return home. Gle was liv-
ing with Mr.. l.. II. Missillier, in whose EN-
ploy he was at the time of his death.) Having
his head bathed, he became more comfortable
and retired to rest. Next morning he WAS
found dead in his bead. The cause of his
death was doubtless an affection of the heart
Mr.. Jones WAS a young mar of amiable dis.
position, Industrious habits, and gave promise
of becoming a very useful member of Society
His relations and friends have sustained
very great loss by his death, and the commun
ity an upright and intelligent young man.
Netcbern Atlantic.
MORTALITY FROM CHOLERA AT SEA-Th
Hamburg ship Preberlons arrived at Ney
York on Monday, from Hamburg, aftera ted
Gus passage of sc days. She lost 20 of he
passengers by cholera, including Capt. Battye.
The Hamburg bark John Hermann, also arr
we'd the same morning, had Al deaths out
l95 passengers.
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CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, sc.

TNHE Subscriber continues to carry on the Man
Il ufacturing of Carriages, Buggies, Sulkies, and
Vehicles of every description, at Lumberton, N. c.,
in a superior style and of the best workmanship.
All work done at his establishment warranted
for twelve months.
REPAIRING neatly executed and promptly at
tended to.
Ploughs and all other Farming Implements made
to order and kept constantly on hand for sale.
HORSE-SHOEING done in the best manner.
Thankful for the liberal patronage he has re-
ceived, he will endeavor to merit, and hopes to re-
eeive its continuance.
JOHN W. RODGERS.
Inmhnrtnn- Ian % 1874 2l-2t
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year he surrendered the whole of his large prope
ty to his creditors. The detection consequent {
this transaction was so great as completely to u
dermine his already impaired health, which gradl
ally and sensibly failed until the moment of his di
solution.
Mr.. B. was a man of the most unbounded hosp
tality, of untiring industry, a kind husband, an il
dulgent father, and a citizen whose value to Il
county will not shortly be forgotten.-Com.
2I-1t. paid.
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Miss JENNIE NJ. BRANDON, PRINCIPAL.
Miss LAURA CUTHRELL, ASSISTANT.
The Trustees take pleasure in inviting parents
and guardians to patronise this school, as greater
advantages cannot be offered by any school of
like character in the State. Young ladies who de
sign entering either of the Colleges at Murfreesboro'
may be prepared at this Academy for either of the
classes.
Terms, per session Of five months, from SO to
$14, for English branches.
Latin and French languages So.
Music on Piano, with use of instrument SIT.
Good board, including lights, washing, &C., per
month, from SIS to 81.
Pupils will be received at any time during the
session and only charged from time of entering !;
though no deduction will be made for absence, un-
less in eases of protracted sickness.
There will be no vacation at the end of the pres.
ent session, which will end on the 5th February
There will be a public examination at the end of
the next session, which VIII be about the 5th of July
next.
THOS. BROWN,
SEc'Y OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
| Colerain, BERTHE Co., N. C. Jan. 20, 1854. 21-3m
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BaA. We must not omit to offer thanks to
our Editorial brethren who have 50 kindly
welcomed US to the literary pasture grounds.
wan our cap Uader oar arm, "thankeo,
dear friends"
We shall try to conduct ourself as to give
olfonceto no one, and to handle the tools of the
craft rs handsomely as woknow how. If We
occasionally poke our peA- at certain mem
bcrs of the flock, it will not be in wrath, bu.
because we think the individual is having
more than his share Of fun 50 please tax,
notice. 4