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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-07-19
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MEDICINES OF GREAT VALUE This is
the term applied to Stabler's Anodyne Cherry Ex-
p~ectorant and Diarrhoa Cordial, by sixteen of the
best apothecaries in neutrality-suspicious. acquain-
ted with the skill and care used in their preparation.
Praise from such a source is proof of the intrinsic
merits of these { good medicines In Coughs, Colds,
Asthma. Bronchitis, Group, and Consumption in its
incipient stages, Stabler's Auodyne Cherry Expec-
torant is recommended with confidence: and for
Diarrhoea and affections of the bowels generally,
the Diarrhoea Cordial has as strong claims upon
the confidence of the community. In those diseas-
as named both these valuble medicinesha have achiey
ed an enviabIe reputation for their curative proper
ties. See descriptive pamphlets, to be had gratis
of the agents. Price of each, only 80 cents Pc
bottle, or six bottles for 81 80.
For sale in Raleigh, by P. F. PEsCUD, and b!
Merchants generally. az
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What is to be gained" say the enemies
Of our Reform, "%unless you can get a major
ity in the Legislature" Wonder what they
would think of one Of their party organs
using the same argument: Democrats, what
is to be gained by trying to elect your men
in Wake, unless you were certain you can
get a majority in the Legislature. Wings,
why try to elect your men in Iredell, unless
you know the majority Of members of the
two Houses would be Wings. Such sophis-
ticated nonsense is too ridiculous to be noticed.
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OLD TRAP. July Eth. 1854.

1t is with pleasure that l here inform you
ofthe organization ofPopular Branch Division
OF the Sons of Temperance, and of the election
and installation of the following officers E.
9. Lindsay, w. P; S. Payner, W. A; S. 7.
Moore, E. S.; Levi Walker. T.; A. A. john
son, R. S. &C., all men of the right-stamp and
the most intelligent of the place. I have no
doubt that this Division will prosper and
will soon number a great many members
May their labors prosper and their efforts be
ion every man in the community. Then
Post Office is Popular Branch, Currituck CO.
N. G. G.. w. BURFOOT.
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B5- We are in receipt of a Pamphlet
" Catalogue Of the Teachers and Students of
New Institute school, Iredell county, \. c."
which has that excellent disciplinarian and
good scholar, Rev. Baxter Clegg at its head,
with four competent Assistants. There are IS
young gentlemen and SO young ladies, as pu-
pills, in the Institution, and with its deserved
ly high character, it will doubtless receive in
the future a much larger share Of public pat
ronage. See Advertisement in another col
umn.
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HAMILTON MALE ACADEMY.
GARDNER, Principal,

WILL be opened on Monday, July 18th. and
wv close December 1st. Parents or Guardians
who wish to send their children to enc Of the first
schools in the State, and a location noted for its
health, will do well to become our patrons. No
effort will be spared to render their stay at once
The Principal has a fine apparatus for illustrating
the principles of Geography, Chemistry and Phil
osophy. Young men who desire to become sci
entifc farmers, can study Agricultural Chemis-
try accompanied with practical experiments, the
theory of analysing soils, marls, &c. Appliea-
tions must be made soon if students expect to get
a seat. Good board can be had at the Hotels or in
private families. Tuition rates from sic to SI5 O6
per session.
Address the Principal or Whitaker 4 Weathers-
bee, Hamilton, Martin county, n. C..
Hamilton, June 81, 1854. At
N. B. The Female Seminary will commence at
the sam date.
Va The Washington Wing please copy A. and
forward account.
TTNI0N ACADEMY.-The next session of this
" fourishing Institution will open on the Bird
Monday in July next. The Academy is situated
in Davie county, s miles north of Mocksville and
near Pennington. Tuition varies from SIS to SIz
per session; board S. and Sc per month. For fur
ther particulars, address
B F. EATON, Sec'y. of the Board.
Pennington, June 81, 1854. 43-6t
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PRICES

RALEIGH MARKET-wholesale Prices.
Reported expressly for the Spirit of the Age, by
JORDAN WOMBLE, Grocer and Commission Mer-
chant, Harget Street, Raleigh.-Flour 81 so to SIS
q Dbl. Corn $Ito 81 TO % bushel. Meal 81 05 a
81 10. Bacon hog round 10 to 101. Lard 10 to
lie. Butter Is "a. 20. Fresh Pork p b Z a Sc.
Fodder p hundred lbs 81 25 o. 81 40. Marketbare
of all descriptions of produce.
July IL. 1854
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NORMAL COLLEGE.

ON Wednesday, July 26, at 10 o'clock, A. NJ,
W Rev. S. NJ. Frost, of Fayetteville, viii preach
the Valedictory Sermon to the Graduating Class,
and on the same-day at 3 o'clock, P. NJ, R. T. Dick,
Esq, of Greensboro, viii deliver the Annual Ad-
dress before the Literary Societies.
The exercises of the Annual Commencement will
begin at ten o'clock, A. NJ, on the 9th.
The Trustees will meet on the 26.h, at one o.
CLOCK. 3. CRAVEN.
July :. 1854. IL
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Mg- We learn that at a late meeting of the Olive
Branch Division S. of T., No. 81, in Granville, it
was unanimously resolved to support no candidate
who is averse to a reform in the liquor traffic. A
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1854.

T EE0IR ACADEMY.-The fourth session of
IL this school will mmen on Monday, the 18th
of July.
sTurrIox.-s6 60, 81 90 and u so; according to
the studies. Vocal Music without extra charge.
BoARD.-Board can be obtained in good families
convenient to the school room, at IS 90 to 81 90
per month.
LocATIoS.-The location Of this school is in the
country, in a healthy and strictly moral neighbor-
hood, some TO miles from kiHsson, being free from
all temptations to viee-such as Grog-shops, gam
bling-houses, &c, it presents to young men a safe
and pleasant retreat for the prosecution of those
studies which shall prepare them for entering col
lege proper, or for the more active duties of lfe.-
For further particulars address the Principal, w. H.
Cunninggim, jr., or the Executive CommStee.
G. W. VENTERS,
JAS. NJ. HINES, Com.
THoS. W. DAWSON,
Kinston, July 9Th, 1854. 46-1m
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Vs. There will be a celebration by the Island
Creek Division, Duplin county, on the 10Th inst.
A Bible will be presented by the Ladies to the Di-
vision. All Temperance Orders and the public are
earnestly invited to attend.
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my~ The members of Harrison's Creek Division,
in Cumberland county, intend celebrating their An
niversary on the 21st instant. The friends of the
cause and the public generally are invited to attend.
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CAPE FEAR R1vER.-On the 10th inst, the
r SanotS Iofo b merlog an IN ap tbe Gane Fear l Ri1 ane
was passed in the House, by ayes Ito, nays
20, after striking out the appropriation Of
100000 to refund to the citizens Of Whining
ton the amount contributed by them for the
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A Touching Incident.

The following touching incident is related
as having occurred at the last commencement
of Rochester University:
"One member of the graduating class, Mr..
R. c. Fem, of Rochester, is totally blind.
When his theme was announced, President
Anderson remarked to the audience that Mr..
Fem, at the close of his junior year, in per-
forming some chemical experiments in private,
lost his eye-eight entirely, from the effects of
an explosion: but that, from unfagging en-
ergy, and by the aid of devoted brother and
attached classmates, he had been able to com.
plete the studies of the course with honor to
himself, and satisfaction to his teachers. He
was then led forward by his brother, while
there was scarcely a fearless eye in all that
vast assemblage Of near two thousand souls.
His subject was-"The Lost Senses the OBJ
iect was to demonstrate the proposition that
blindness is preferable to deafness. 1t was
discussed in an agreeable, able, and earnest
manner, after which Mr.. Fem retired amid
the prolonged applause of the audience"
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The Courage to do Right.

What more noble attribute of our nature
than to do right, the fearlessness of truth, cru
cifying to the obligations which it imposes,
all hypocrisy, every principle which initiates
against the advance of the soul.
The mere recognition of wrong is as much
the ability of wise man as that of fool, and
vice versa; but he who is indeed wise, thinks
not when that recognition teaches him wisdom.
The fool stumbles at the threshold of light.
He shuts his eyes to the picture that light at
fords of the true properties of his mind. BY
its low desires, its cunning devices, its unhal.
lowed pleasure, he is ever melted to delay all
determination, and to fatter himself that in
his disguise there can be no detection.
Alas! that that nature which is bound to
progress by its own origin, which claims con,
nection with God, ever should pervert the
bright properties which that origin has con-
ferred, from its uprooted progression to con-
sort with things of earth, to union of matter
without the spirit.
But Joy, unspeakable JOY, when true to its
relationship with eternity, true to its truth and
integrity, true to its innate promptings, the
soul claims to be heard against even itself, and
boldly chastises when wrong has been done;
when conscious that its errors have been of its
own choice, it applies, without shrinking, the
lust deserts which reason demands.
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Of law as fast as they rose with as much calm
ness as if he had been sitting in his own study,
utterly regardless OF the threats which every
where prevailed among the blacks. All the
subsequent cases were heard by him. After
he had disposed of the first three cases which
arose in Philadelphia, he had broken down all
violent demonstrations of opposition to the
law, and thereafter they excited Z more sur
prise or commotion than an ordinary case of
assault and battery. This was brought about
mainly by his own firmness and moral courage,
in the first instance, sustained by Judges Grier
and Kane, Of the United States Courts. By
some, Mr.. Ingraham was accused of harshness
in the hearing of those cases, but all who sat
by and heard the examination, can testify to
the patience he always exhibited, even where
it was evident that delay was the only object
counsel had in view. The fullest latitude con-
sistent with proper execution OF the act OF
Congress was freely awarded, and decision
was never given by him without first setting
out fully the grounds upon which it was based.
He was fair and impartial commissioner,
who thoroughly understood the act of Congress,
and the laws of the several Southern States.
He was born in Pennsylvania, and was about
sixty years of age At one time he was an
associatejudge Of the Court Of Quarter Ses-
sions. The Philadelphia bar has lost one OF
its brightest ornaments, and the United States
most efficient officer. In politics he was a
Democrat
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Death Of Il. ID. Ingrabam, ESQ.

The sudden death of this highly gifted
gentleman took our city yesterday by sur
prise. He was as we'll as usual on Sunday
morning, and was stricken with apoplexy at
about noon, and died at 8 o'clock the same
evening. He had been absent from the CITY
on visit TO his friends in Maryland, and
returned on Saturday. AS a LAWYER Mr.. In
graham had few superiors. His arguments
were all Of close logical character, free from
tinsel decorations; but occasionally sparkling
with the most pungent wit. An opponent
who dared enter his peculiar field Of ready
repartee with him, was sure 10 meet with
disastrous overthrow.
As commissioner OF the u. S. Circuit
Court, Mr.. Ingraham had fine opportunity
not only to display his great legal knowledge,
but also his superior moral courage. After
the enactment Of the Fugitive Slave law,
violent state Of feeling was excited in Phila.
delphia by interested parties, among both
whites and blacks. Threats amounting even
TO death were openly proclaimed, if any COM
missioner should attempt to execute the law.
At length case under The law arose, and IL
happened TO fall into the hands Of Edward
d. 1ngraham for execution. Large crowds Of
infatuated blacks surrounded me court
house, blocking up the entrances in the rear
and front, and hundreds kept watch in the
State House yard. White abolitionists were
among them, Of both sexes, encouraging TO
acts Of violence. Proceeding TO transact his
business, as If there was no crowd present,
and regardless Of personal danger to himself,
Mr.. 1ngraham never deigned 10 notice the
crowd that swarmed the courthouge. They
were as so many inanimate blocks TO him. He
examined the witnesses, and decided points
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VTRGINIA.-At Circuit Court held for
Y the city of Petersburg, at the courthouse
thereof, on Saturday, the 10th day of June, A. d.
1854:
Commonwealth Of Virginis, Plaintiff,
Against
Francis Pace, executor OF Jones Mitchell, de-
ceased. VIM. Jackson, Coy Quavis, David Scott,
James M Otter, George Taylor, Thomas McKen-
sey, Thomas Jarratt, John Updike, and Peter Val
entine, trustees of the Glfeld Church. defendants.
On the motion of the plaintiff and for reasons
appearing to the court, is ordered that all per-
sons claiming an interest in the estate Of Jones
Mitchell, deceased, free negro, late of the city
Of Petersburg, in the State Of Virginia, do appear
before the judge of the circuit court Of the city
aforesaid, the first day ofthe next term thereof
then and there 10 attend TO their interest in this
suit and that copy of the above order be pub
lished for three months in some newspaper of the
cities of Richmond and Washington respectively.
The object of this suit is to recover the estate,
consisting of two houses and lots and personal
estate, also the proceeds of property Of Jones
Mitchell, deceased, said properly being direlect,
he having died without known hears-at-law.
Copy-Teste.
July 2-3m THAD. PAGAUD, D. G.
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DooTsAND sHoEs, boots AND

BOOTS AND SHOES, BOOTS AND
id Shoes Still at the Old Stand, south side OF
Pennsylvania avenue, between Sixth and Seventh
streets opposite Browns Hotel. A. HOOVER
& SON are still at the old place, south side OF
Pennsylvania avenue between 9th and 7fh streets,
opposite Browns Hotel, where they would be
pleased to see their old customers and the public
in general, and where will be found complete
assortment of Ladies', Misses, and childrens,
Gentlemens, Boys, and Youths Shoes and Boots,
OF all styles and prices:
FOR LADIES
Cloth Button-heeed Caters, with and without tips.
French Lasting Button and Heeed Caters.
Cloth Baton Caters, without heels
French Toilet Slippers, French Lasting and Kid.
Do black and white Satin Caters
Do bronze and black Kid &c Morocco Slippers.
Plain Lace Caters, all colors.
Morocco and Kid Boots and Jeaersons, thick and
thin soles.
FOR MISSES AND CHILDREN.
Black, bronze, and coored foxed and tipped gaiters
Tan colored do do asuperior article.
Do tipped and plain Morocco Boots, thick
Bronze, black, and green Jenny Lind Boots.
Cloth and lasting button Caters
Morocco Boots and JefIersons thick and thin soles
FOR GENTLEMEN.
Patent Leather Boots of superior quality.
Do do pegged, for 20.
hid-top congress Galters, piack anu coiofeo, SIN
gle and double solcs.
Calf Congress Caters, single and double soles.
Calf Oxford Ties and Montereys, do.
Patent Leather Pumps and low.quartered shoes.
A superior article Of sewed boots, spring shanks.
With general variety ofsewed and pegged boots.
FOR BOYS AND YOUTHS.
All we can say in this line is, we are prepared to
supply all demands of boots and shoes in va
riety Of styles.
FOR SERVANTS.
Our assortment in this department - complete,
and we feel confident we can furnish good ar.
ticle and at fair prices.
Thankful for past favors, we still solicit con-
tinuance Of custom. We think, by keeping a
good article and selling at fair prices, that we will
be able TO please We would invite call before
purchasing elsewhere.
Motto Quick sales and small profits Don't
forget the right store, but call at
A. HOOVER e. SONS,
Opposite Browns Hotel bet 9th " 7th sis7
Oct 72-eodIm south side.
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There is some talk of having baby show"
in California, upon which Mr.. Spoons, o. g.,
writes as follows for the San Francisco Sum-.
Our Baby.
At our house, al home, we've sweet little baby,
As fat as a coon in the fall
And for mischief fun, music, or whatever may be,
Of brats, he's the general of all!
With Cheeks like two roses,
The prettest of noses
Endeared is our Moses,
BY every fond tie;
In fair and foul weather,
He serves as a tether,
To bind us together Hsea
My Betsey and l.
From morning. full blossomed, till night draws her
curtain,
His means for employment meier fail;
And though hushed be his gable of music we're
certain,
When he drags the old cat by the tail.
Now calling, and bawling,
And falling, and sprawhng,
And mauling, and squalling,
AT work and at play;
In the dish-water padding,
Or FOWLER pack-saddling,
Or about fddle-faddling,
He passes the day.
Tho his third year is ended this present September
He's equal 10 any at five;
AT two, he could aput out" as well, remember,
As the best shoulder striker" alive;
In consideration
OF his qualification,
I'm in contemplation
OF placing him where H
All the Mrs. Duncans,
And all Mrs. Funkins
Will say he's some pumpkins
And that is-"THE FAIR"
There's naughtcan escape his minutest inspection
Displayed on the toy sellers boards;
And be helps himself too without fear detection,
To the incest the pantry Affords
He's just in condition
To meet competition,
At the grand exhibition,
The rogue, with too eyes =
There's one thing-depend ont;
To make quick end ont,
If he can lay hand ont
He sure takes the prize. Spoons, 0. @.
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Paltry shaves.

The working-men of the country, and the
city more particularly, are subject TO multi.
tude Of paltry shaves, by which their earnings
are locked and their comforts abridged to no
uncomfortable extent. A dollar is, or ought
to be, one hundred cents, but we defy the man
who takes his silver dollar its representation
to market or the grocery store to get more
than ninety-six cents for it. One of the TWEEN.
ty-fve cents in the quarter vanishes down into
fractions, that utterly delude the power to con-
vert the coin into sugar, butter, coffee, or tea.
On one dollar it may be a trifing matter, but
on the weeks wages Of ten it amounts 10 the
rather important sum Of forty cents, and in the
course Of the years transactions, ten, twenty
or thirty dollars have been sponged out Of the
rightful owners pockets into some other per-
sons bank account. 1t is the duty of Congress
TO give us coinage that will not admit of
fractions Of the smallest unit Of currency.
Those little jokers, the Spanish shilling and
sixpence, go back and forth in their capacity
as thieves Of four per cent on the poor mans
dollar, until they are worn as thin as miser's
visage, and pass their weekly orbit of petty
larceny with unerring regularity. The knave.
ry has lasted long enough, and these light and
slippery customers ought to be at once ban
ished from the till, and melted up at the mint.
". J.. National Democrat.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
From ,be scientific American.

From the Scientific American.
VXTOOD GAS.-In reply to the statement
wv in your paper of the 7th instant, that am
incorrect as 10 McConners patent OF 1881, permit
me 10 say that McConnelrs patent OF that date
contemplates the making Of gas, tar, pltch, and
charcoal from pine wood. The patent was granted
for the apparatus. The recent patent Of McCon-
nell is for process in making gas from wood, and
not for an apparatus. The application was made
for his apparatus and process, but the Patent once
refused TO consider both subjects under one appl,
cation, ruled out the claim TO the apparatus, and
granted the patent for the process, which consists
merely in subjecting the products of the destruc-
tive distillation Of wood TO higher degree OF heat
than that necessary to their development. Lieu
tenant Porter was party TO an interference De-
clared between himself, Mcconnell, and Two Ger
man chemists. Mr.. Porter, however, did not In
tend to claim the principle Of "reheating," and
having been informed by the Patent Office
that if he claimed this he would be party
to the contest, he thereupon disclaimed AZ, the
Office removed him from the interference, and
granted him patent before the interference
between the remaining parties was decided. His
patent was granted for an apparatus, the use OF
which necessarily involves McConnelIs claim 10
he re-heating, and which, of course, Is subordl-
naie to McConnell's patent. Mcconnell proved
his invention clearly back TO lS49 and triumphed,
and as the German chemists state IN their foreign
patent Of 1851, that wood gas cannot be made
available without the relocating, so II has been
found here. The advantages claimed for wood
gas are many, and although not superior 10 coal,
rosin, or oil, under all circumstances, yet il has
been found to be decidedly SO under some, A re.
cent investigation in the city of London showed
that cubic foot of soil taken anywhere in the
city, contained poison enough 10 kill man. These
were sulphuretted hydrogen and bisulphuret Of
carbon, derived from the infliration of the gas
through the soil from old and leaky pipes, etc
The gas from wood is not disagreeable 10 the
smell, and is not deeterious any further than pure
carburettedhydrogen. .g.
CHAS. G. PAGE.
Washington, D. O., Oct. 7h, 1858.
"a Nov TT arf l--.H
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st. Petersburg Eating Arrangements.

We come to the pastry cooks, which offer
the piroga, an oily fish cake, a tempting NOR
sci to Muscovite. Little benches are placed
round tables, on which is put this dainty, COW
cred with only canvass, for it must be eaten
hot. A pot of green oil and a stand of salt
are ready, and on the entrance of purchaser
the cake is dipped into the jar and being
sprinkled with salt is presented to him. But
among the most singular articles is the frozen
meat-in winter-which the Russian butcher
saws into slices of about an inch or two in
thickness. Persons who are unable to pur.
chase whole bird, for instance, can buy a
wing, a leg, or any part he fancies by itself
The favorite dish of the Russians is
shtshee or cabbage, made thus: Six or seven
heads Of cabbage are chopped up and mixed
with half pound of barley meal, quarter Of
pound of butter, some salt, and two pounds
of mutton cut into small pieces, with jug Of
guass. With the poor the meat and butter
are left out; the rich have other ingredients.