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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-10-04
M M umitati0ns.
For THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
LAGOON,
Or Letters 10 a Member of The Legislature Of
North Carolina.

|
Or Letters TO a Member Of the Legislature of
North Carolina.
DEAR SIR:-You have been elected to rep
resent a portion Of the people Of this State in
the next Legislature. You have been elected
to that responsible Office with your own con-
sent-you have even sought the station you
fill. Now, as a candidate before the people,
did you tell them the objects you had in
view Did you try to impress it upon the
minds of the people that you sought your
country's good? Would you not have been
deeply grievcd if the people had been other
wise impressed, than that you were a patriot ;
willing to sacrifice your own good fortunes
for the peace and safety Of your country?
Your answer undoubtedly is, "All this /
steadfastly desired" Very well. Are you
now prepared to practice what you then
preached? Are you ready to march boldly
aud fearlessly up to the discharge Of your
duty, in the performance of such acts as tend
to the salvation of the country you have so
much at heart? If this be your determine
ton, let me ask you to look around and see
what great evils are in the peoples way to
peace and prosperity. Ifin casting your eye
about you should see some monster evil, sap
ping the foundations of the public good, will
you as a true patriot turn your energies to
the removal of that evil ?
There are many evils of greater or less
magnitude, the removal of which would help
forward the prosperity and honor of our Re-
public; but as we cannot expect the last and
least of all evils to be removed from human
institutions, we would merely suggest that
the larger stumbling blocks be thrown out of
the path. And prudence always will dictate
the necessity Of striking first at the greatest
eUiI. Suppose, sir, you were thrown into q
den of lions with Colts Revolver in your
hand, would you not first of all try to lodge
a ball in the skull Of that old furious lion, the
largest and the strongest and more to be
dreaded than the rest? Then be consistent
and let your first object, after taking your
seat in the Legislature, be, to muzzle that
monster that has devoured more of human
life and comfort than all other monsters from
Adam until now. This hydra-headed mon
ster is INTEMPERANCE, as manifested IN
the use of Intoxicating liquors s a beverage
That this is the most damning vice that has
ever afflicted human society, and crushed the
hearts and blasted the hopes of man, is, ]
think full easy 20 be shown. And if l car
succeed in satisfying you of this fact, then
will you, as an honest, true-hearted patriot
throw the weight of your influence against
this ~all-ruinous vice? Will you keep the VOW
which you made before the people, whenever
you pledged yourself to do 1ohat you honest
~ thought to be for the good ofhe country /"
Yours truly, CLINTON.
TO BE CONTINUED.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-10-04

M SIGOURNEY'S SERIES OF READERS.
lNI The Illuminated American Primer; contain
ing first lessons in Reading and Spelling, ~illustra-
ted with a new Pictorial Alphabet, and a variety
of elegant wood cuts being an introduction to
Mrs. Sigourney's Pictorial Reader.
The New Pictorial Reader consisting of ORR
ginal articles for the instruction of young chill
dren. By Mrs. L. H. Sigourney. Illustrated with
over one hundred appropriate wood cuts: being
an introduction of The Girls Reading Book, and
The Boys Reading Book by the same author.
This work has been very favorably noticed in
all parts of the Union, and is very interesting and
instructive for the young, whether in school or out.
Done up in a neat volume.
The Girls Reading Book, for the use of schools.
By Mrs. L. II. Sigourney. This work has gone
rapidly through a large number of editions.
This work is an l8mo, 244 pages. 1t is pro-
nounced to be Mrs. SigOurney's best work, and
one of the purest, highest gems of the modern
press.
The Boys Reading Book, consisting of original
articles in prose and poetry for the use Of schools.
By Mrs. L. FL. Sigourney. A new edition, reduced
in price.
EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE.-"Th The present
volume has been prepared containing lessons Of
republican simplicity-of the value of time-oft le
rewards of virtue-of the duties of this life, as
they take hold on the happiness of the next
These objects have been kept in view, in the COM
position both of its prose and poetry, andthrough-
out the varied forms of narrative, biography, and
didactic essay"
The Press in every part of the country have
spoken of this work in the highest terms.
Every boy should have this book
Knickerbocker.
This is another valuable volume to our country,
from the pen of Mrs. Sigourney. Its lessons are
inculcated in q manner happily adapted to the
youthful mind for which they are intended, and
win afford them deep interest as well as instruc.
tion.-Riehmond Compiler.
For sale by III. d. TURNER,
N. c.. Book Store.
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3 Temperance ana famip Mstklp aeuspaper.

Meeting Of the Directors Of the Central Rail
R0ad.-The Board of Directos of the Central
Rail Road met in Greensboro, on Wednes-
day, the Goth ult. Seven Directors present,
six being a quorum.
We learn that all the bids for Iron were
rejected. A proposition was made to the
Board by Alex. Springs, Stage Contractor.
rendering the transportion of the mail from
Concord to Charlotte az the Government rate,
which was declined. The Board fixed the
salaries of the Agents at the Depots from
Charlotte to Salisbury. at a much lower figure
than was expected. That of the Agent at
Salisbury at $500 at Concord S40O. The
salary of the Conductor was fixed at 5000.
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NORFOLK MARKET.

Forwarded by A. M. McPHEETERS DC Co.
Flour, this article has been heavy for the past
week with very mall sales; there is a Uery small
stock on the market, which has a tendency to make
receivers hold prices up it is being offered at $50
for superfine a SO for extra, but purchasers are
looking for an immediate decline and refuse to OPP
crate except for their present wants. Corn, there
has been no transactions in this article worthy of
note during the week. Slaves. in demand and
quick at $37 a SO for red oak, SAG % $4S for
white oak, $55 @ 60 for pipe. Groceries,, there is
a fine demand for Groceries and we have to note
an advance of l "a 14c in coffee. Sugars are fir
mer and prices looking up. Salt, L. B. 81 90 for
Factory filled, ST IS a 81 so for inferior brands.
G. A. 81 As "a 1 so. Naval Stores dull, Tar S34,
Spts. Turp. 53c cash. Guano plenty, l to 5 tons of
2e00lb $48, 5 to 10 do All, 10 to % do AZ, 25 to
so do 46!, over so tons at $50. Sept. 80.
FAYETTEvILLE.-Trade improving. Cotton, good
~supply-principal sales at s to 81cts. Corn, de-
mand good at 81 "a 81 10. Flour declined about
so cts. p bbl.-market very unsettled. Bacon,
Supply abundant-sales not easily made at 10 @
103. Spirits Turpentine A cts p gallon. Raw
do 50 IS to So 60 p Dbl. One drove Is Beef eat
tie sold at 5 @ &c.
New York, Sept. 29.-There is no cessation in
the downward panic in the flour market, and State
and Ohio have further declined soc. 10 Dbl. sales
of 5000 bbls at 81 o. 81 Is for State and 81 q
Z 37l for Ohio; Southern -four has declined 25c.,
with sales of 700 bbls. Baltimore at 81 80 a So
wheat has further declined &C., with sales of South
ern white at 81 70.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-10-04

Va When death is at the door, the remedy
which would have saved life, if administered in
time, comes too late. Do not trife with disease
Rely upon it, that when the stomach will not digest
food-when faintness and lassitude pervade the
system-when the sleep is disturbed, the appetite
feeble, the mind lethargic, the nerves unnaturally
sensitive, and the head confused-rely upon it, that
when these symptoms occur, the powers of vitality
are failing, and that, unless the mischief is promp-
ly checked, life will be shortened, as we'll as render
ed miserable. Now we know from a mass of testi-
mony, greater than was ever before accumulated
in favor of one remedy, that Hollands German
Bitters, prepared by DIR. c.. NJ. jackson, Philadel-
phia, will Immediately abate, and, in the end, en-
tirely remove all of these disorders as surely as a
mathematical process will solve a problem. Who,
then, will endure the agony, and the risk of life,
with health and safety within reach 5-2t
For sale by Williams & Haywood, and P. F. Pos
cud, Raleigh; and W. J. Eddins, Forestville.
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DEATHS.

At a regular meeting of Hopewel Division, No.
81, S. of T., Sept. 10th, 1854, the following Pream-
bic and Resolutions were adopted:
WHEREAS, on the End ult., Robt. III. Hutchinson,
a member Of this Division, was removed by death,
therefore,
ResolUed, That by this visitation Of Providence
we have been deprived Of a worthy member of our
Order; and his death has filled our hearts with
deep sorrow and We condole with his family and
neighbors and sympathise with them in their be-
reavement.
RESOLVED, That as a token of respect for our de-
parted brother we viii wear the usual badge of
mourning thirty days and order a copy of the
above preamble and resolutions be sent to his
mother and family also to the Spirit of the Age,
Western Democrat and N. G. Wing, with a request
to publish them.
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Raleigh. Sept. %, Is!

IT ATEST NEW PUBLICATIONS.-Freaks of
Fortune, by ]. B.. Jones;
Easy Nat, or the Three Apprentices;
Blue Laws of Connecticut, code of 1850;
Ten Nights in a Bar Room, by 7. S. Arthur;
Masonry and Anti Masonry, by Creigh;
Crystalline, or the Heiress of Fall Down Castle,
by Shelton;
Theory Of Christianity, by Grayson;
Letters from three Continents, by NJ. T. Ward /;
Daniel, A Model for Young Men, by the Rev. w.
A.. Scott, D. D.;
Scenery of the White Mountains, with 16 plates,
by Oaks;
School Architecture, or contributions to the I'm
proVements of School Houses in the U. S., with
numerous Illustrations.
Old Redstone, or Historical Sketches of Western
Presbyterianism, &C., by Joseph Smith, d. d.
Chestnut Wood, by Dielie Linden.
For sale by II. d. TURNER, n. C. BOOKSTORE.
Raleigh, Oct. 2, 1854. s.
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RECEIPTS FOR THE ACE

SINCE OUR LAST 1ssUE.-$1 each J. G. Wilkin-
son, J. Biggert, Charlotte F. M. James, Fayette-
vile A. F. Leonard, Jacobs Fork: B. Blackwell
der, Concord J. j. Bynum, Stantonsburg J. w.
May, Marlboro; M. w. Paschall, R~idgeway J.
W. Barrett, Hilliardston DR.. R.. j. Grammer, W.
J. Harrell, Margarettsville Mrs. E. E. Ellington,
St. Tammany; D. c. Parish, Marcy Harris, Round
Hill K. 7. Stanly, Friendship; W.. Il. Bass, Ridge
way; J. F. McCorkle, Mt. Ulla J. A. Blanton,
Rutherfordton; Mrs. E. A. York, Rockford w.
Weants, Charlotte; Miss S. MINIS, Lindley's; S.
D. Elliott, c. NJ. Tucker, Greensboro; D. W. Lind
sey, Charlotte; E. Maee, Wayne; N. Hooker, W.
B. Sawyer, Craven; Sc R. II. Turnbull, Brunswick,
Va; $3.50 N. Rountree, Somerville, Sc; SIS g.. W.
Dill, Beaufort.
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DEATH OF LADY BY VIoLENcE.-A cor
respondent Of the Jacksonville Republican,
writing from the Mineral Springs under date
Of September 6, gives the following horrld
recital:
The dead body Of lady was found float
ing in the river. mt or near Sawanee Shoals
a few days ago, indicating a death oecasioned
by violence, aud supposed to have been iy-
ing ia the water eight or ten days. A post
norton examination was held, and opinions
of physicians were given to this effect, VIZ
She bore on her head and right ear, a deep
cash, supposed 10 be the result Of q stroke
fram 4 large kuils both arms unjointed al
tho elbow. several teeth broken out, and a
stone leathevn girdle encircled her waist
But one garment protected her from the heat
Of an almost vertical sun, and her back was
literally baked. To all human appearance
this subject O fsome diaboiicai machiuation
was a Young and handsome lady features
good although the flesh had almost under
rome the process Of decomposition, and
have also heard she possessed q beautiful
hand supposed to be unaccustomed to labor
No discovery has been made tending {
reveal tho name either Of the murderer or hi
victim.
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KIN BIG S {.
n. c.

hALEIUH ~. u.
A RE now receiving their fall and winter stock
IN of goods, and feel assured they can exhibit as
good an assortment, and sell as good bargains as
any house in the State.
Their stock consists in part Of fine Black and
Blue Frock and Dress Goats, brown, black, blue and
Olive Frock Sacks for business Coats, brown, black
and blue Frock and Sack over Coats, Lion Skin,
Beaver cloth, Cassimeres, DC.
Plain and fancy Cass. Pants, black Doeskin do,
black Silk and Satin Vests, fancy Silk and Velvet
do, white Silk and Satin do, very rich for weddings
and parties.
Dress Shirts and collars, Silk and Merino under
shirts and Drawers, plain and fancy Cotton and
Merino half Hose, Kid and Silk Gloves; a beauti-
full assortment of Stocks, Cravats and Pocket Hand
k~erchiefs; alot of fine Hats and Caps made by Oak
ford, Philadelphia, a fine assortment Of Cloths, Cass.
and Vestings of all grades and colors, which will be
made to order at the shortest notice, and a good fit
warranted.
Members of the Legislature and others visiting
Raleigh, are respectfully invited to call and exam
inc our stock before purchasing elsewhere
Our Terms are Cash, or six months credit to
punctual Customers.
N. B. All those indebted to the late Firm off. ].
Biggs and Co., will please come forward and make
payment, as longer indulgence cannot be expected.
Raleigh, Sept. %, 1854. At.
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North Carolina Book Store.

III ENRY d. TURNER has for sale, the Su-
III preme Court Reports, uniform sets OF single
volumes. Price reduced.
Iredelrs digest, three volumes,
Swaim's Justice,
North Carolina Form Book,
Also, at greatly reduced prices, in quantities, or
by retail, a complete assortment of School Books;
Blank Books stationary and Fancy Articles; Ju-
yenile and Toy Books all the New Publications
as seon as issued the Standard Publications in
every deparement Of Literature, Arts and Science
and in every language, Ancient or Modern,
Music Books and Musical Instruments.
Writing Desks Of Leather, Rosewood and Mahogany.
Work Boxes, do do and Paper Maekie
Walking Canes and Whips, great variety.
Choice Gold Pens in Silver and Gold Cases,
Velociped s, Gigs, Hobby Horses, Barouehea,
Wheel BarrOws, &c.
va Mathematical Instruments and Thermone-
tiers in great variety,
BOOK BINDING, in every variety, promptly
executed in the neatest manner.
va Select Garden Seeds-every variety-var-
ranted fresh and goOd-seleeted from the most an
proved Seedsmcn and Gardeners in the Northern
Country.
Raleigh. Feb. S,5ls54. "a
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SELF sruLrrTroArroN.- We are opposed
In drunkenness. and would be glad to see it
banished from the country says a peculiar
temperance man, who Immediately adds, by
wny of qualification, but we don't believe
IN ooereion. This forcing aman to be moral,
religious or temperate, always results in
injury to the cause
Such temperance men are very plenty, and
they are Just the men who take toddy' out
Of pure good will, and apologize for its exis.
tonce by reason Of the love they bear the
,%critter,' though they sneakingly affirm that
they speak in behalf Of principles, and yet
they claim to be temperance men. They
nre the best servants Of the rum god. They
are the most servieable advocates of the
license system and stultify themselves by
their inconsistent course. Let them see tC
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PRICES
RALEIGH MARKEr.-wholesale Price.

Reported expressly for the Spirit of the Age, by
JORDAN WOMBLE, Grocer and Commission Mer-
chant, Harget Street, Raleigh-Flout ST so 10 IS
p Dbl. Corn zoe. to 81 q bushel. Meal 81 90 a
81 05. Bacon hog round 81 TO 103. Lard IL to
he. Butter Is a 20. Fresh Pork p ID Z "a Sc.
Fodder p hundred TBS ST 25 a. 81 40. Good Ba-
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MARRIED.

In this City, on the 25th ult., by the Rev. DIR.
Mason, Montfort McGee, Esq, to Miss Sally P,
daughter of the Hon. George E. Badger.
On the 21st ult., by Thomas Brandon, Esq, Mr..
Anderson F. Fox to Hiss Sarah A. Alfred all OF
Randolph coonty. N. c.
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MARKET.

GEO. H. KELLEY, Grocer and Com. Merchant.
Turpentine, soft So 80, virgin 81 ga, spirits has
declined &c, sales at 4Sc tar declined Zoe p Dbl.
on Friday but advanced again from 8 to 3 20, the
article is firm and fair demand rosin common firm
at l Is p Dbl corn, a cargo of 22OO bushels not
sold retailing at SEC bacon, stock fair with a mod
crate demand, 103 for hog round, 9 to 81 sides and
shoulders, 124 to Is hams lard scarce at III to
III in bbls, kegs 123 to BE; -four, we quote a de-
cline of soc, sales frosa. wifi, 100 bbls. at 81 corn
meal 80 to CSC, supply good fish, mulletts 1874 bbls
sold at 81 to 81; pork, a good supply 154 to Is
salt, 1900 to 1000 sacks sold at SIS to 81 65
lime selling from store at 81 so; timber, sales of 4
or 5 RATS Al to $13, as to quality coffee has ad.
vanced, lie by 100 bags, and more in small parcels
sugars has advanced, 81 to 6 N. O., 81 to 81 Porte
Rico; soaps, Colgates 81 for No. l, Pale Z to II.
Sent 20. 1874
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rs DR.. VIM. Farrow, an eminent physician of
Worcester county, Md, writes that he has used
stabler's Anodyne Cherry Expectorant and Diar-
rhea Cordial to the entire relief of such diseases
as they profess to cure that they fare happy com
binations of some of our most valuable and safe
therapeutic agents, and must be of infinite worth
to the afflicted and mankind at large and that be
: cannot do less than earnestly these
preparations to practitioners, especially in the coun-
try, where the impurity of commercial drugs is one
of the greatest obstacles to the success of the ply
sician.' IF you have a cough use the former, if the
Diarrhoa the latter; don't neglect your disease, but
take the remedy at once-they should be kept in
every family, ready for instant nse. See descrip-
tive pamphlets, to be had gratis of the agents
Price, only so cents per bottle, or six bottles for
So SO. 92t
For sale in Raleigh, by P. F. PESCUD, and by
Merchants generally.
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Another residenter of NeW York City testifes
to the good effects Of DR.. M'Lane's Celebrated Liv-
err Pills. Hear him NeU York, Aug. 80, 1852.
This is to certify that I have had the Liver Com
plant for five years, during which time I have tried
almost all known remedies, but to no purpose. Hear
inc of DR.. MLane's Celebrated Liver Pills, I con
cluded to try a box. I did SO, and am now almost
cured. 1 think one box more will effect a perma
nent cure. I can cheerfully these Pills
TO all who may suffer from liver complaint. I have
also known them used with the most happy results
in cases of sick headache, or dyspepsia.
NJ. R. SWIFT, No. 116, Attorney st.
P. S. The above valuable medicine, also DR.. M
Lanes celebrated Vermifuge, can now be had at
all respectable Drug Stores in this city. va Pur-
cbasers will please be careful to ask for, and take
none but DIR. MLane's Liver Pills. All others,
in comparison, are worthless. IS
For sale by P. F. PESCUD, Druggist, Raleigh.
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MARRIED.

In Greensboro on the morning of the 26th inst,
bv the Rev. B.. L. Beall, Charles E. Shober, Esq,
Of Salem, N. c., to Miss Mary A. Gilmer, daughter
Of John a Gilmer, Esq.
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".

THE COPARTNERSHIP OF CASHWELL Il
PARKER is this day dissolved by mutual con-
sent. D. Cashwell will attend to the settlement of
the firms affairs, and continue the Commission Bu-
siness in his Own name.
D.. CASHWELL,
J. A. PARKER.
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NOTICE.

WILL be let, in Roxboro', on the 10Th of oc-
w tober, 1854, the building of the new Meth
odist Church to be a neat framed building, of
suitable size, lathed and plastered; a turn key job.
For a more minute description of the building ap-
ply to any member of the building committee
The amount of subscription is about $1100.
g.. d. SATTERFIELD,1
CHARLES MASON, Con-.
VIM. R.. READE,
RoXborn'. Sentemhar % 1871 5-9t
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SITUATION WANTED.

A young gentleman, graduate of Randolph Ma
IA con College, and who has taught school two
years, desires q situation as Assistant in an Acad-
envy or High School.
Testimonials Of qualification can be had by ad-
dressing E. L. B., yorktown, Va.
July 20, 1854. 4T-tf
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~PETERSRURG MARKET.

By ROWLETT, HARDY & Co, Com. Merchants,
Corn, sales at soc; cotton, sales at 81 q sec, as
in quality a few bales of new have been sold at
latter price; wheat, for the past week the receipts
a good milling and shipping demand last Friday
and Saturday prices Of prime worked up to 81 20
a | Y, and these rates were we'll supported up to
to-day, when we have to report a decline of 10 "a
lie, caused by a corresponding movement in all the
northern markets ordinary to good qualities 81 10,
l 20, l 80, l 40, l so tobacco is active at last
weeks prices manures in good demand at I'M
changed rates. September 30.}
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REPORT ON TENPERANcE.-The following
Report was made by the Convention on Tenn
perance to tho Western Baptist Convention
Of North Carolina:
God made mau upright but hehas sought
out many inventions. Among the worst,
was the Distillation Of Spirituous Liquors,
which has cursed the human family for the
last seven or eight hundred years, like its
author, robbiug man Of health, honor, pro-
perty and life, until the people Of God have
cried unto him, and he hasheard their groan-
ings and has, we trust, come down to deliver
them and has delivered some Of them in
the United States already, by the passage
of prohibitory laws while His Satanic Ma
iesty is sitting on the arch-stone of his king
dom, crying : Liberty Liberty A.! by political
and religious demagogues misrepresentlng
the Maine Liquor law, and %denouncing the
heralds Of the cross who advocate the princl.
pie Of total abstinence, calling them hypo'
critics and every hard name. Notwithstand-
ing all this, we say God is in the Reform
Let US continue to cry to him and victory is
ours.
We can scarcely find a community in which
there is not an advocate for the true princi
pies Of temperance and not one minister 0
any note, in the bounds Of the Western Con
v%ention, that will assist in the organization
Of q church, without a temperance clause II
the constitution or supply a church tina
will hold a distiller or retailer in fellowship
or in any visible way favor dram drinking
In view Of these facts, we feel greatly en-
Outraged, aud may God add his blessing t
all our efforts. Amen.
LEWIS McCURRY, Chairman.
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NOTICE is hereby given, that application win
IN be made to the next Session of the General As
sembly of North Carolina, to prohibit the sale Of
intoxicating liquors within two miles Of the Town
of Clinton.
Clinton. September 90. 1854. Al.