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Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-04-07

II YON'S RAT PILLS, THE MOST EFFECTUAL
A remedy used for the destruction of Rats Mice
orby WILLIAMS 4 HAYWOOD.
TXTRACTS FOR RFLAVORING.-RoseV Vanilla,
lAI Orange, Lemon, Butter Almond Cinnamon and Pine
Apple in store and for sale by
WILLIAMS HAYWOOD.
HATS AND CAPS.-FALL STYLE AND BEST
LII quality Moleskin Hats
Cloth Caps of every variety and price,
Servants Wool Hats Black Brown and Drab just received
JAMES McKIMMON.
Raleigh, Oct. Z, 1858. a.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-04-07
Norfolk, Va, Dec. Is,
mo THE PUBLIC.-THE SUBSCRIBER IS

TENO 7 II z T U B l. / C.-THE SUBSCRIBER IS
Il pleased inform the public that his CHOLERA
AND DIARRHCEA MEDICINE affords prompt
lief in the various affections of the Bowels and consequent
y satisfaction all who have used it, than any other
Medicine offered to the public. The following
among many testimonials Of its efficacy:
DR.. R. II. WORTHNGToS-Dear Sir: take much pleasure
IN a6ong my testimony 20 others IN mvor OF your remedy
for Bowel Affections &C. having frequently experienced
its beneficial results in case, we'll many
others 10 whom have given it, i carried Il bottle of it
with to Baltimore, tand here permit to would
think of travelling without money without this
remedy,) and finding many among acquantances there
who suffering with various forms of Bowel Affections,
gave freely and in did it fail to afford the
DECIDED RELIEF, it has done here.
congratulate you and especially the public the dscov
of medicine which is better calculated to protect
kind and alleviate suffering than any other Brought
before the people L. T. SPIERS.
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27
Contrasts of Society.

1t has pleased the Divine Providence, for
reasons wise, since they are His, to form the
Inhabitants of earth in moulds SO different that
each one cannot assimilate with another-lke
ill-accorded instruments, well tuned perhaps,
and perfect in themselves, but which yet can
make no harmony together, because the pitch
of The one is higher than the other. 1t has
pleased Him 10 endow our minds with feelings
known and understood by all, though difficult to
define, that draw us towards some persons in
preference to others, and while we go by the
mass with Indifference, bind us with indissolu-
bic affection to some selected few: for no rea-
son that can be given, but natural and spon-
taneous preference or perhaps some affinity OF
taste, principles and pursuits. These differ
ences and apparent discord, controlled By a
kindly spontaniety towards particular indivilu-
ais, holds society-in fact, it is society itself.
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27
Popping the Question !

The Springfield Republican. to the story
of the man, who, when told by his landlord he
could not leave his house until he paid his bill
replied, "Good, just put that in writing, make
regular agreement of it; I'll stay with you
as long as live!" adds the following:
1t must have been the same individual who,
too poor to get married, was yet too suscepti-
BILE to let the girls alone; and of whom is told
this circumstance He was riding with lady
"all of summers day. and accidentally
mems arms, awkward things, are ever in the
way--lropped an arm around her waist. No
objection was made for while, and the arm
gradually relieved the side of the carriage OF
the pressure upon it. But of sudden, wheth.
er from the late recognition of the lmpropriety
Of the thing, or the sight of another beau CON-
ing, never was known; the lady stared with
volcanic energy, and with flashing eye ex.
claimed: "Mr. B. can support myself!'
"Capital!" was the instant reply, "you are
just the girl I've been looking for these five
years-will you marry me =
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27
A Hurricane in South Carolina.

On Friday evening last a cloud rose above
the horizon IN the northwest and blew brisklv
over the town of SUMTER S. C. 1t was ac-
companled by thunder and lightning. little
hail and much rain, but presented no very
threatening aspect. In the midst of it, how
ever, a blast blew through the streets and al
though 1t lasted scarcely minute, it has left
Its mark for many day. The streets were In
every direction blocked up with fallen trees :
chlmneys were blown down, fences were nros'
trated, and some houses injured by falling trees
besides great deal Of damage done in Smaller
particulars
We suppose that wind like this has never
before been known in this vicinity. Had If
have blown for any length of time, it musthave
lett a great portion OF the town in ruins II
rushed over more rapidly than flight of birds
and was gone, swapping sturdy trunks which
had braved manya storm, and performing other
strange but incOnvenient tricks. The strangest
thing about 1t was, that the wind pitched down
from the clouds within our corporate limits. and
passed back into the upper chamber before il
had reached the outskirts of the town. We
cannot hear OF 1t anywhere else.
! Another strange thing-as we looked ont
upon the street from the window of onr sane
tum, after the rain, we distinctly saw a beauti-
tul rainbow rising up from the ground within
thirty feet OF us, and forming graceful arch
over space OF fifteen or twenty Yards. This
Is an unusual slght.-W Watchman.
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27
Preiudice.

All men are apt to have high conceit of
their own understanding, and to be tenacious
of the opinions they profess; and yet almost all
men are guided by the understandings ofothers,
not by their own; and may be said more truly
to adopt, than to beget their own opinions
Nurses, parents, and pedagogues, and after
them all, that universal pedagogue custom, fill
the mind with notions which it has no share in
framing; which it receives as passively as il
receives the Impressions of outward objects
aud which, left to itself, it would never have
framed, perhaps, or would have examined after
wards. Thus prejudices are established By
education, and habits by custom. We are
taught to think what others think, not how t.
think for ourselves. t
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27
Selett SHlistellaup,
Marriage and Genius.

All women, no matter how schooled, or what
their attainments, have yearning desire to
love and be loved again. The head can never
be educated at the expense of the heart, conse-
quently, if they cannot obtain such as they
could most venerate and respect, they unite
themselves to those who tender them the love
they have need of; they dream of happiness,
and awake to disappointment. They find them
selves unappreciated, their tastes shocked, their
sensibilities derided, and drag out lives of mis-
cry and wretchedness. Not alone are women
of genius thus unhappy. Men, too, are made
miserable by uncongenial minds Who can
doubt that the life of Byron would have been a
better and happier one, had his wife been one
who could have sympathised with, and under
stood him. Millions domestic Affections set
heavy on his heart Shelley's first marriage
was fraught with consequences terrible to HIM
self and others. Burns verses met with no
response from those gathered around his hearth
stone; and many others equally great have had
reason to curse in their hearts an ill-assorted
marriage.
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27
Unnatural Oppression.

A young girl in a neighboring State recently
poisoned herself with arsenic. She had fallen
in love with youth whom her mother dsliked,
and to whom she found it was impossible to be
united without being ostracised by her family.
The papers record her suicide as the result of
love. From the evidence given before the coro-
ner, We Judge it to have been urged and sug-
gested by unnecessary harshness on the part of
the mother. No one respects the rights of a
parent more than we do; but we would be
faithless to human rights, and to the interests
of society, if we regarded parental tyranny,
and heartless domestic despotsm, in any other
than most unfavOrable light. A parent does
not possess the right to crush the hopes of an
intelligent, thinking adult being, because that
being happens to be his, or her, offspring. Pa
rents too frequently oppose marriages in their
families for no sufficient reason, but merely in
obedience to some whim, or common place anti.
pathy-urged beyond that it becomes the mos
ruinous, dangerous, inexcusable and unnatnra
of expressions. 1t often drives to crime ant
death, as in the above instance.
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27
Comparative Terms.

Riches and poverty are only comparative
terms and are, moreover, slightly misunder-
stood. The worlds goods are held in common
much more than people imagine. The beauty
of marble mansions and the velvetty lawn, soft
and variegated as Brussels carpet, is enjoyed
more by the spectator, to whom its beauty is
new, than the proprietor, in whose mind famili-
arity has bred contempt; and to whom it is
more associated with the tax office and gas
bills than ideas of the beautiful. The gale
that watts the aroma of the arbor and garden,
greets the nasal faculties gratuitously with
odors more delicious than the bottled essences
of perfumery shops. Everything worth having
is shared in common-the sights that please the
eye, the sounds that delight the ear, are not
limited to the organs of millionares, and those
who own stock and houses. The philosopher
may sing with the poet any day:
Behold my souls inheritance,
How spacious. how sublime!
My tenement is boundless earth,
My field is boundless time.
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27
Protect us from "Sportsmen.n y

stringent law was passed by the Pennsyl-
Vanla Legislature, at its last session. for the
better protection and preservation of game.
and to more etfectuslly prevent the destruction
OF lnsectlverous birds.-Er.
We want such law in this State. The
pretty songsters that come around our houses
IN city and IN country, ought to be protected.
alike from blrd-nestlng boys and bird-destroyinr
gunners' Sportsmen unite to protect the game.
and have laws for that purpose. Sportsnen do
not prey OH singing birds 1t is rash or reck-
less youths, who stroll around, and divide their
time between firing at "a mark, shooting strav
chickens, and popping over whatever featbered
Songster may be be carOlling his morning laws
from the trec-top. Economy should teach men
not to destroy the birds that live on insects
They do much more good than harm. Tbov
eat more grubs than corn, and more caterpil.
lars than cherries. Save the birds, and listen
TO their sweet songs. They will come year
after year to the same leafy tree about vour
house. and rear up their pretty broods, mari
PGSSu, with the little vines that clamb.,-
ed about your doorstep, and grow in num-
bers and In years, as the years 90 by. The
birds grow to family likeness and member.
ship, and learn to have an interest in their
human relations that have afforded them nrotec-
ton and care, and refrained not from SCATTERING
suitable food for them.
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27
Horrible, if True.

Somebody in the city of New York has writ
ten as follows to one of the leading papers of
Buffalo:
"a wicked and dangerous, socialistic sect
have sprung up of late, and established their
headquarters in Brooklyn-the city of churches
This sect style themselves Progressionists,
and have male and female agents who smuggIe
themselves into our family circles and after
three or four visits, adrOtly allude to the exist
ence and peculiarity OF their institution The
doctrine of this sect is that matrmony, as at
present understood, is a ludicrous sham; that
that man has no right to live with his wife
unless he loves her spiritually as well as physi-
cally; that women is not bound to live with
her husband unless she loves him spiritually
and physically; and that when she sees another
whom she can love better, she is morally obliged
to cut the former and take up with the latter
and so on, according'to each new fancy, until
she dies. The agents of this sect are very
numerous, and the institution itself is fill
ed with roselyIes--made up in the main of
husbands who have abandoned their wives, and
wives who have abandoned their husbands, to-
gether, as one of its agents informed me, of
bountltul supply of young men and women
who have never yet been yoked in the usual
form. As you may readily imagine, this sect
is breaking up the peace and happiness of
great many families
The NeW York Ledger, commenting upon
the above, says: We were at first inclined to
treat this story as a sheer fabrication; but
when we reflect that it can cover no dodge"
and its PRONUNCIATION, if false, could benefit
nobOdy-and when we take into consideration
the baretaced bestialties of the Mormons, whose
ranks are being largely augmented daily, we
are disposed to think it has some foundation in
truth, though, perhaps, not quite so dreadful as
is represented. If any organization of the kind
is in existence here, or elsewhere, it should be
crushed without delay. No matter what the
means used to crush such an internal confede-
racy, we say, strangle it. With such filth as
that, to be nice is out Of the question.
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27

BITTER WRrrING.-The Herald bembards
Prentice, of the Louisville journal with half
column of words, to which he replies with the
following sharp and singing rifle shot
The New York Herald accuses us directly
of being and aboltionist, on the ground of our
denuGclation Of the Missouri invasion of Kan
sas. The editor Of the Herald ifnot the great
est liar in the country, he has been for many
years the most notorious one. He has been kick
ell so often for his lies, that although he is said
to have become rich, we really doubt whether
he has not received more kicks than coppers.'
lfevery slanderous lie he has uttered were a
coal OF fire upon his back, he would be buried
under as huge mountain of fire as ever his
father the devil was.
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27

O-~ Let us know whether legislation can
make multltudes poor for the fault of few.
So writes the editor ola rum paper in an ar
tlcle about the prohibitory law. The rum traf.
hc has been held up and sustained by legisla-
ton, for years, and 10 traffic or system under
heaven has made such multtudes poor."-
1t has been scOurge and a curse throurhsut
the landmcrlme and p"verty following in its
wake. The rum fraternity have grown fat and
arrogant over this exclusive Legislation, and
writhe terribly under change which remem-
oers the long suffering "poor the victims of
the rum traffic.
The "poor rumsellers!
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27
Who is Fanny Fern I?

The lady's maiden name was Sarah Paysan
Willis, and she is the sister of Nathaniel p.
Willis the well-known author and newspaper
writer. She is now widow, forty-four years
old or SO, with two children, daughters. She
was born in Maine, and married in 1887 to Mr..
Eldridge of Boston, cashier ofa bank there
He died in l946, and the widow afterwards
married Mr.. Harrington, widower with fami-
ly. In short time he left Boston for Chica-
go, in the west, they say, and has never turn.
ed up since. Mrs. +. then began to support
herself and children by contributing to the Bos
ton OItUe Branch and True Flag, and hel
assumed name--Fanny Fern-became noticed
and she soon published a collection of her 'Ferr
Leaves;' which sold well, brought her pofta.
bic return, aud now she may be classed as
successful authoress, at least. She and he
brother are not good friends, as she says Nat
did not behave like brother when she was il
obscurlty. tt. s7a as sFs7s aa'e $3.50
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27

"FoUR LINES more beautiful than these are
rarely written. The figure which it involves
is exquisite:
A solemn murmur in the soul,
Tells of the world to be,
AS travellers hear the pillows roll
Before they reach the sea-"
-BufaIO Erpress.
"Four worse lines than these are rarely
written. The figure which it involves is awful
solemn murmur 'mongst the throng
Tells how impatiently
The boarders listen for the gong
To call them in to tea.''
-ZanesUiHe (O.) Aurora.
"Four lines more truthful than these are
rarely written. The figure which cit" @ in
wolves is absolutely painful:
A solemn buzzing in your ear,
When you retire to bed,
Tells you too plain that lager beer
Is dreadful for the head"
Louisville Times.
-Four lines more striking than these are
seldom written. The figure they involve is
positively striking:
A solemn rattlng of the scoop
Tells of the tale of woe
That another barrel is gone kerswoop
Which cost 'leven dolls, or so!''
-HOUidaySburgh Standard.
"Four lines more striking than these have
seldom been written. The effects are painful
in the extreme:
A beating with the old broom-stck
Tells that man has wed
A woman who delights to lick
Him Der his sore head"
Beaver Star.
"Four more touching lines than the follow
ing have, perhaps, never been written. The
thought they inuOlue is too distressing for
human endurance:
A solemn sight it is to gaze
Upon feller sittin,
A wipn' of his eyes, bckase
His gal GIN him the mitt'n."
-BroWnsUiHe Clipper
Four more pointed lines than the subsequent
were undoubtedly never got up. They are by
our fifth poet in ordinary's deputy assistant:
A solemn thing it is to hear
A skeeter round US singn',
An awful thing it is to feel
The varmint dig his sting in.
philadelphia Bulletin.
Four more pathetic lines than the following,
perhaps, were never placed "before the peo
ple." Upon our poets bringing it forward, til,
"devil " pronounced the verse sublime:
All! solemn things are pretty, lively girls
With neat and tasty dresses,
And specially those with flowing curls,
Commonly known as " tresses."
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27

The MORALITY OF PRIsoNs.-Two men,
charged with different offences, were locked up
together, few nights since, in one of the cells
of station-house in this city. In the morning
one discovered that the other had robbed him
of $44, only eight Of which was found. 1t was
found. 1t was suspected that the culprit had
swallowed the balance. The terrors of the law
are not sufficiently powerful, it seems, to over,
come all mems depraved propensities--even in
prison.-N. y. ledger.
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27
I Going According to Rule.

The London Daily Ne,Os relates that manu-
facturer recently delivered according to con-
tract 1000 leather pouches at the War De-
ptrtment.s They were rejected because there
was one stitch less in them than contracted for.
The clerk informed the contractor that per-
hsps the Commissioners might be induced to
receive them it he would petition their honors.
The tradesmsn declined to degrade himselfin
any such way, and they were returned. But
on examining the parcels, it was found that the
accurate department had sent back 1900 in.
stead of 1000. The manufacturer explained
the mistake at the Office sagElaT xHAH II
Send the surplus back instantly, the heas
clerk cornma1ded.u az u isei asQI oAg A1
Not Instantly, was the reply before thei
honerz see them again, they must petition 70
them "a x sssx ssssI .gs 10 ..sa.9 .aagaaarl
0r Never let your tongue go before. you
thonghts. t
19fl .9inllsa ttlfsnJ wgE = ,sslssea ~ ~
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27

MORE DoDGISG. THE glory of that great
little man, Tom Thumb, has departed. His
attractiveness has diminished so greatly that
the ruse Of announcing that he was married,
was lately adopted to keep him before the peo-
pie. He is now travelling with menagerie.
That accounts tor the "dodge."
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27

ALARMING The clergy of Mississippi have
been recommending more rigid enforcement
of capital punishment in that State, the crime
of murder being of such frequent commission
there, as to create an alarm almost UNIVERSAL
And yet this is the nineteenth century, and this
is the most enlightened country in the world!
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27

A LARGE BRIBE.-At a meeting of the Tenth
Ward Temperance Alliance, New York, in the
basement of the Allen Street Presbyterian
Church, Mr.. Allen, an aged citizen, arose and
said that he had been informed from a reliable
source, that just previous to the passage of the
FrohlbtOry Law, an ex-Alderman was sent to
Albany by the liquor dealers of that city with
the sum of $4,000 for the purpose of purchas-
ing the engraftment of certain clause into.
the Prohibltory bill favorable to the liquor trai-
fc. This $4,000, he said was pocketed by
one of the Senators, but the clause was not en-
grated into the bill.
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27

IMPERTINENcE AND WoMEN.-Among the
fair sex, impertinences from one to another
ought to be treated with Indifference. Ex-
pressions of contempt or anger provoke retorts,
and the general result is an unseemly quarrel
of words. l4 ....s
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27

MUsT HAPPEs.-Slight quarrels between
lovers tresuch common occurrences that we do
not see how they can be avoided. There are
always faults on both sides. But such things
are like April showers--soon over. Z. " .'fla
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27

GIRLS, LIsrEN.--If you have lover who
can scarcely maintain HIMSELF tell him YOU
cannot marry him. Your prudential reluctance
will be sure to stimulate him to such industrial
exertions that his worldly position will rapidly
improve. In fact you will make man " Of
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27
~%S~%

G615- The six degrees of crime are thus de-
fined He who steals million is only finan-
cier. Who steals half million is only de-
faulter. Who steals quarter Of a million is
swindler. Who steals hundred thousand is
rogue Who steals fifty thousand is knave.
But ne who steals a pair of boots or a loaf of
bread is a scoundrel Of the deepest dye, and
deserves to be lynched.
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27

WHAT Love Is.-Ioye is the most exalted, q
the most fervent Of the human passions. AS g
rivers roll to the ocean, so with lovers do all
their thoughts, instincts, and selfdenlal roll to
that mighty ocean, the human heart. Love is
the binding element of.existence, and the world
would be chaos with it. Fl .sst' s'94t 81
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27

DAGuERREorYrEs.--A exchange of por-
traits between lovers who are about to seperate
for a time, is delicate and honorable expires.
sion Of sentiment. ~ f7i%i7 fa@a sN
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27

A FAcT.-The divine passion of love is not n
in too great q hurry to occupy the heart of ia
pure woman. esoa esife .f,fs.+ .t...t.s !.
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27
GREAT NEWS FROM GOD.

Can anything severe enough be written
against the wretch who would for any purpose,
pen such heading and can the carelessness
which allowed a publisher to give the an
nouncement to the world be too highly repre-
hended, or too earnestly deplored! We think
not
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27
obscurity.

CANADA.--lS ALL THE PAST, A DREAM
- IL not, why this horrid sileacetl Tell me
quickly. Are we to have futurel /" Why
ah! /! why, my heart this sadness % ee ~
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27

z ut - ts..i . i..fH - MINNIE,
The above is from among the personal -
advertisements in one of the daily papers. If
Mime wishes to drive sadness from her
heart, she has but to sink the past and believe
feryently that she DiH experience future, in
which the most exquisite happiness, or the most
intense misery, will centrs. A future ! Yes
Mime, there is a future-you will experience
it. aGiveup clandestine correspondence--no
ing thrives that is done in secret--and cores
pond through other channels than the newsipa
Pers, or that future will likely be one, to you
Of anguish and remorse IN. Y..Ledgcr. fv
1, s9fs.aea e---@-~--~~~s-------- ~ s'.aH
I Ours AND SAucERs.--Etiquettes now allow
! the tea To he uo,ired into the saucaysn W. !.
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27

Ours AND SAucEHs.--Etiquettes now allows
the tea to be poured into the saucer. We are
rapidly discarding many useless customs. q
Smyrna times., 1855-06-27
Horrible.

A so-called spiritual medium publishes an
advertisement, for the purpose of entraping
creduolous victims, headed