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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-09-26
A Beautiful Tribute to a Wife.

Sir James Macintosh, the historian, was
married in early life, before he attained for
tune or fame, to Miss Catharine Stuart, a
young Scotch lady, distinguished more for
the excellence of her character than her
charms. After 8 years of a happy welded
life, during which she became the mother
OF three children, she died. A few days af-
ter her death, the bereaved husband wrote
to a friend, depicting the character of his
wife in the following terms:
Il was guided Che observes) in my choice
only by the blind affection of my youth. |
found an intelligent companion and a ten
der friend, a prudent monitress, the most
faithful OF wives, and a mother as tender as
children ever had the misfortune to lose. |
met a woman, who by the tender manage
ment OF my weaknesses, gradually corrected
the most pernicious Of them. She became
prudent from affection and though of the
most generous nature, she was taught fra
gality and economy by her love for me. Du-
ring the most critical period in my life, she
preserved order in my affairs, from the care
of which she relieved me. She gently re-
claimed me from dissipation she propped
my weak and irresolute nature she urged
my Incidence to all the exertions that have
been useful and creditable to me, and she
was perpetnally at hand to admonish M
heedlessness or improvidence. TO her l oao'
ackdterer Tam; to her ochatecer I shall be. Ir
her solicitude for my interest she never fol
a mor1ent forgot my feelings or my charac
ter. Even in her occasional resentment fol
which L batateo 1ften gave her cause, (woult
to God | could recall those moments ] sh'
had no sullenness nor acrimony. Her fee!
ings were warm and impetuous but sh,
was placable, tender and constant. Sucl
was she whom I lost her when her e~xcellen
natural sense was rapidly improving, ate
eight years struggle and distress had boun'
US fast together, and moulded our temper
to each other +; when a knowledge of he
worth had refined my youthful love int
friendship, and before age had deprived it 0
much of its original ardor. lost her, alas
the choice of my youth, the partner of m
mlsfortunes, at a moment when I had tn
prospect of her sharing my better days.
Home Journal.
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New Female Seminary.

1t will be seen by Advertisement of Char,
ter in our columns, that a Company of Ger
tlemen has been formed, for the purpose G
establishing at Raleigh a Female Seminary
of high grade. Stock to the amount of Ten
Thousand dollars has been taken, and there
mainder will doubtless be subscribed very
soon.
The Company was organized on the. 18th,
Constitution adopted and nine Directors cleo
ted, viz: G.. w. d. Huchings, S. II. Young,
A. M. German, 7. HI. Selby, John G. Pal
mer, Henry Porter, M. A. Bledsoe, George
T. Cooke and Rev. n. T. Reid. The site Oh
the new Institution is on Hillsboro' street.
formerly occupied by Rev. B. T. Blake's Fe-
male Classical Institute. In addition to the
commodious buildings already on the premi-
ses, the Directors have determined to have
erected forthwith a large three story brick
edifce, which will afford accommodations for
a very large number of boarding scholars.
The Company has been very fortunate in
procuring the services of Prof. VII. CHRIS
TIAN, of the Warrenton Female College,
gentleman well qualified by experience, ed
u~cation and polish, to make the Institution
inferior to none in the country. He will
gather around him a select and accomplish
ed corps Of Teachers and supply the Semina.
ry with all the Apparatus and Fixtures be-
longing to a Female School of the highest
grade. We feel confident that the accom-.
T plished Principal and Lady, will make the
Institution every thing that the high purpo-
ses of the Stockholders contemplate.
The first session will be opened about the
first of January. There are accommodation
: in the present buildings for a considerable
number of boarding Pupils, and the new ed
ifce will be completed as early as possible
4 when a very large number can be provided for
The eligibility of this Seminary and the ma
: ny advantageous facilities it possesses will
we feel confident, ensure for it a very exten
sive patronage. We presume advertisement
!, for the opening of the School will appear il
due season. In the mean time, letters of in
quiry may be addressed to c. W. D. Hutch
!. ings, President of the Board, or A. NJ. Cor
man, Secretary, Raleigh; or to Prof. w. Fl
Christian, Principal, Warrenton.
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Written for the Spirit Of the Age.
The Departing Spirit.

"Leaves have their time to fall,
Flowers to wither at the north winds breath,
Stars have their time to fall-but all!
Thou hastall seasons for thine own-ohd death"
All is hushed A holy stiffness seems to
brood over earth, and the low-voiced winds
of summer whisper softly to the starry jes-
samine that hutters in this latticed easement
The snowy curtains are drawn lightly aside,
and the soft mellow light of the setting sur
streams in wreathing a halo Of radiance
around the brow Of the departing one
Friends stand around the couch of death in
agony of grief awed into silence by that
hallowed scene. As the r%ustling breeze
scatters the bright blossoms Ger his pillow
and mingle them in m~ournful contrast in his
sable locks, his gaze rests sadly on the love-
ly scene without. The dreamy landscape
bathed in the golden mists of evening, and
the sun sinking in his crimson glory to rest,
is like some beautiful dreams from which he
is just awakening. All seems striving to dc.
tain his spirit from its everlasting flight
The flowers bloom around more brightly
u ONeE DeIOro W his AdE0WSA SdAc' LIZ
hears the murmuring music of the brook il
the distance, where oft he sported when {
child, aud a faint flush iliumines his paliC
features as the memory of those days o
yore comes stealing over him like the dying
echoes of SON broken lutte. His fading
orbs linger wistfully on the scene around a
if to prolong his last gaze, and he speaks
Farewell gentle friends, We meet agail
erelongP Farewell happy scenes of m.
childhood, though ye seem dearest at partin
and no more may behold thee, but ye ar
only a fading type of brighter scenes t
which l scarf All is hushed again and hi
spirit is waited to the portals of bliss abov'
ESTELLE.
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in nine DAYS. But | don't believe the Lord
Almighty ever intended folks to cross the
ocean that soon. And they've got to travel
ing on iron horses, as they call EN-, and they
wi. carry one to New York in little end Of
no time. Who discovered this iron horse ?
l cant tell, but l think they had a long sight
better let him stayed wild, and there wouldn't
a been as many folks killed then.
Well you ought a seen how we used to en-,
Joy visiting-we didn't make little hateful
calls, like they do now; we went any day
and any hour in the day, and took our knit
ting work and stayed all day and all nigh
and had many a long talk and hearty laugh
and then we went to the open door and said
who keeps house-they said, house keepers
walk in and we went right in. We did'n
have to ring a bell, wait for a niger to COM
and let us in, and then wait an hour for tn
folks to get ready to see US.
O! vanity and yexationl But then | shall
not be vexed with all this much longer, ye
from my very heart | do pity the rising ger
Grafton. Poor things, how will they ly
through it ALT Poor things poor things.
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The Henderson Fair.

From what we can learn, the Union Fair,
at Henderson, on the 10th, 1lth and 18th {
October, promises to be a brilliant affair.
very large number of articles will be on e,
hibition, Of the industry, ingenuity, enter
prise and public spirit of the citizens {
Franklin, Granville and Warren counties
and the most ample and comfortable accom-
modations provided for the visitors. Let a
who desire to have their native pride sitimr
lated, and who can appreciate a hearty we,
come and good cheer, be sure and attend th
Union Fair at Henderson.
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W0Imme 7.
Amusing Nonchalance.

1t is diyerting to notice the GOODNESS and
sang .froid with which certain Editors nro-
nounce the funeral obsequies of the question
of Prohibition, in noticing the recent eIao-
ions in the State of Maine. Because the
advocates of the measure have been defeated
there once in four years, and that too Nv
blending with it dangerous and unhallowed
principles, they at once pronounce Prohibi-
ton dead, and buried so deep that the hand
of resurrection will never be able to reach it.
The cause is badly beaten, say they, and IN
der the blow will sink to rise no.mofe.
Now it may be very consoling and agreea-
BILE to such to dash TIT. brains out of this adj
versary that has SO annoyed them, but we
opine it will rise again, like Banquo,s ghost
to disturb them in their hours of mirth and
reyelry. But how differently they reason
now to what they do when defeat and over
throw come upon their respective psrties.-
Then, they see nc cause for this discourage
ment whatever; their cause is stronger that
day than it haas ever been before, and thsy
rally their discounted partisans by the most
encouraging, inspiriting words and exhorta-
tons they can find in the vocabulary of hope
and promise. Beaten, but not conquered y
is their cry. "Truth crushed to earth will
rise again" "our defeat is but temporary
another trial and the day is ours" And
thus they apply the salvo to the wounded
|, feelings of their fellow strugglers for party
success and party triumph.
Well, we beg leave to follow their exam
, pie, and tell them the question of Prohibi
ton is not SO easily showed under as the,
seem to hope. The wish is doubtless fathe
to the thought but when it shall have bee
cleared from the mists of degradation, an
the stain of fanaticism and unworthy concon
r itants, Prohibition will shine forth pure an
undimmed, the conservator of social peac
and happiness, and the promoter of the n,
IS tons happiness and renown. 1t will,
h must be the universally acknowledged an
t applied remedy for the evils Of the liqu
traffic.
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LICENSE OR NO LIcENsE.-The great ques-
ton which divides the friends of Prohibition
from the rest of mankind is, whether gov
ernment shall or shall not be disconnected
with a traffic, which one side regards as i'm
moral, and the other as a fair and honest
business. 1t would hardly seem possible
that there could be, among rejecting and
patriotic men, two sides to this question:
If government is established for the good Of
the people, it should certainly not be a party
to their Generalization, and as the liquor
traffic does demoralize large numbers ofmen,
it is fairly put out ofthe pale of the Iegiti-
mate things which Government should fos-
ter. No community can properly answer
the ends of its formation, by lending itself
for money to the destruction and impoverish-
ment of its members. No amount of gold
can justify such a wrong.
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For the Spirit Of the Age.
G.. S. B. H.

For the Spirit OF the Age
10 ye into all the world and preach the {
to eUery creature"
BY JEANNE.
Go proclaim to dying nations
Tidings of the gospel plan,
Of entire and free salvation,
Offered to rebellious man.
Go proclaim, how Christ, Gods holy
Son, descended to the earth,
How a manger rude and lowly,
Witnessed the God-Saviors birth.
How he dwelt-the pure and %sinless,
With the sinful and defled,
How with %tauntings, bold and shameless,
They, the Holy One reyiled.
How he bore them all with meekness,
Meier r%esenting cen the worst,
How he suffered pain and weakness,
Hunger, WEAKNESS, and thirst.
How he bore the weight and anguish,
OF our guilt upon the tree,
: How God left him thus to languish,
Cherries in his agony.
Then frail nature, painting, dying,
Yielded up the mighty soul
" 1t is finished" loudly crying
Through the heavens the echoes roll.
1t vas finished, mans redemption
Freely purchased by his blood,
Vile, polluted mans redemption,
Purchased by the Son of God.
Go We heralds, tell the nations,
OF this wondrous, matchless love,
Bid them take this great salvation,
offered to them from above
eiruspury, Sept. 1870.
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uplifted hand, cast from the brow the wreath,
while low sweet tones would
" Tell me no more, no more ofmy souls lofty gift !!
Are they not vain
10 quench its haunting thirst for happiness 7"
And turning from these, beautiied and made
holy the homo of earthly love, where kin
dred hearts have shed poetry and peace,
around the quiet hearthstone. Poetry is a
theme Ger which I love to linger, and from
my heart | bless thee, sweet esprit of Poe
try"
Hartford County, Md.
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Written for the Spirit of the Age.
Lines

On the death of Mrs. MARY j. GoRMAN, {" who
a few minutes before her dissolution, called hel
husband, and after embracing him, asked him tt
meet her in heaven"
The hand of death is on me now,
And I must pass away
The dew is chill upon my brow,
/ can no longer stay.
Beyond the skies my Savior stands,
On him J viii rely,
To me he stretches forth his hands,
I feel tbs sweet to die.
Death hath no terrors-for I know,
That Jesus died for me
Fain would I quit the scenes below
With Christ fore'er to be.
IT'S hard to part with those we love,
But soon the conflicts DER;
Soon shall we meet in realms above,
Where parting is no more.
Loved one of earth, Adieu-Adieu
Through life, when thou hast striven,
This last request, 1 make of you
Oh meet me, safe in heaven.
Sept. Is, 1856. G. S. B. H.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-09-26

RSF GENTLE HINTS TO THE GENTLER SEX.
In the course of an able lecture on the Dis
eases of Women, recently delivered by DIR.
Beford, of New York, he gave these signii-
cant hints: The lady who revels in luxury,
and has around her, even to safety, all the
comforts and pleasures which o~pulence can
secure, would gladly surrender all these COM
forts to regain the health which, it too often,
happens, she has sacrificed by her own folly
and imprudence. She once possessed a good
constitution; she relied too strongly on that
constitution she became careless, entered
into all the designations of society. ~Infatua-
ted and bewildered by the constant excite
ment of fashionable life-a devotee to pleas
ure, she is needless of the first manifestations
of disease but the disease, like the silent
night, progresses-it brings with it physical
infrmity and moral anguish-her strength is
declining-her mind weakened, and compel
led by absolute suffering to withdraw from
society, she finally invokes the aid Of a ply
stefan. He Investigates her case with great
care, and hnds that her disease is without
remedy. She may, peradventure, be labor
ing under some organic affection, which if
seen to in time would have been perfectly
manageable. Her days are numbered-and
instead of being the attraction and idol of
, the gay circle, she now becomes the victim
of the most distressing bodily suffering
: suffering so agonizing that she is impatient
= to die-and, when her last hour is come, she
: breathes a prayer of thankfulness to heaven
= that her agony is at an end. There is, gen.
= tlemen, no fiction here | am not presenting
!. you an exaggerated picture-it is true in fact
: and in detail. | have been compelled on
y more than one occasion tosay when my opin-
g ion was requested: Madam, l can do moth
ing for you your disease has made fearful
progress-it is beyond the reach of science
These words fall on the ear of the afflicted
patient with chilling and disastrous effect
: they bring to her mind with vivid truth the
painful "reminiscences of her own indescre-
tion-indiscretion which is about to consign
u her to an early grave and make d~esolate tn,
u hearts OF those to whom she was united by
ne the ties OF the greatest affection
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Written for the Spirit of the Age.
A Whisper from the Tombs.
by lone.

! stood one night beside a ~drunkard's
grave yard. Around a new made grave still
fingered the heart broken wife and pauper
children Of him who lay beneath it was in
deed a sad sight; such q sight as angels
might almost weep over. As stood silently
looking on, methought there proceeded from
the Tombs a thrilling whisper. The whis-
per formed itself into words, and they were
Beware Beware oh man, Of the wine
cupP / then wished that l had a stento-
rian voice, that | might repeat those solemn
words until they should pierce the Northern
pole, float over the nowery South and come
reverberating back from beyond the Rocky
Mountains until my beloved country should
be free from the folds of the serpent hal is
fast winding around her-until her sons take
up the cry Of Prohibition, and shall rejoice
In freedom, while the Temperance" Banner
waves proudly above them. When that day
shall arrive, will there not go up a mighty
shout until the dome Of Heaven shall almos
culver as il comes laundering upwardf Viii
there not be a resurrection of Love, Hope
Joy, which now lies buried beneath the hqui'
fire in tho intoxicating bowlS how man.
tears will be dried as that shout goes up I
the bar Of the Eternal. There would be n
need Of a drunkard's grave yard then. Th
maniacal shout Of the %reveller would b
heard in the " gorgeOusly gilded saloons" n
more, but in their place would be seen
chapel, where Sabbath after Sabbath woul
be heard the voice of prayer and thanksgi'
ing. Sons Of Temperance, / would say
you, go on. You are doing a blessed worl
and great viii be your reward. Many wi
rise up in judgment and bless you. Go OF
there are many still travelling down the roa
that leads TO a drunkard's grave. l woul
hat could speak with the power Of one WI
has already died and is now rending the a
with his fruitless cries, that / might pictul
to them the doom to which they are haste
ing. / would that all could hear that solem
whisper from the tombs. Beware Iwou
say beware, rash youth, Of the roseate wine
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For the Spirit of the Age.
Selected.

1t may be, dear, that I am only dreaming,
But life hath grown more pleasant than of yore;
Love from thy lips hath a holier seeming,o
And life more hopes and aims than heretofore.
1t may be there will come a dark tomorrow
And my heart awaken to a world of sorrow
"My spirit means for heel cannot hush it,
It's p~leadings haunt the stiffness of this hour
My heart is in thy clasp,-oh! do not crush it
As a wanton plaything or an idle flower.
Morn may restore the flower its bloom departed,
But there is no morning for the broken-hearted
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Spirit of tBe 9ge, 8sleigB, U0rtB-Gsrglins

when arch after arch of the vista of futurity
bursts upon thy enraptured sight, draperied
~ the rainbow die of Hope, Love and Joy.
NBcware then, oh beware of the glittering
Z cup, for there is poison contained therein
1t is a fiend in the shape Of an angel; it would
seem as if nothing were complete without it !;
but it is the grave of all thy happiness, and
leaves thee where? Echo comes rolling
back from the regions of despair, and from
the grave, and answers, in the deep dun
Geons of the lost Beware and may that
warning strike deep in the heart of some now
bound in roseate chains to the flower.
wreathed goblet, and may they turn from the
path e'er too late that leads to a drunkard's
doom and a dishonored grave.
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MELANCHOLY CIRcUMsTANcE.-On Monday
evening last a young lady, aged about II,
the daughter of Mr.. Frost, of this City, was
instantly killed by the discharge of a gun in
the hands of a negro woman, a hired servant
in the family belonging to Mr.. jenkins. The
load entered the left side of the head, just
over the ear, letting out the brains.
We learn that an inquest was held over
the body, and that the Jury returned a YER
dict of accidental death. The negro woman,
it is supposed, was carrying the gun out Of
the house, and it went off in range with the
head of Miss Frost, who was sitting sewing
in the yard. The servant was engaged il
cleaning up the house, and was directed t.
remove the gun. Altogether, it was;a singu
lar accident, and furnishes another warnin,
against the imprudent handling of loade,
firearms.
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Council OF STArE.-This body assembled
at the Executive Office, inthis City, on Thurs
day last-present, Messrs. Hawkins, Stowe,
Trollinger, Kenan, Holmes, and Love. The
vacancy in the Council, occasioned by the
resignation of William Badham, ESQ. Of
Chowan, was filed by the appointment o.
DIR. Richard billiard, of the sam County.
The Board 0 fInternal improvements, which
met on the same day, having made the States
subscription of 100000 to the North Caro-
lima Western Railroad Company, in accor
dance with the provisions ofthe charter. tn,
Governor and Council appointed the follow
ing Directors on the part of the State in saic
Road: A. IL. Caldwell and Chas. F. Fishe,
of Rowan A. M. Powell and I. w. Brad
burn, of Catawba; Alexander Clark and
Geo. E. Davidson, ofIredell land W. ". Aver
and R. G. Pearson, of Burke.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-09-26

pE- b Steamer Baltic is in with seven
days later intelligence from Europe. She
brings no news of Importance from Sebasto-
pol, and indeed nothing new from the war.
1t is dragging its slow length along with as
little prospect of termination as at its COM
mencement.
Cotton is reported dull and declined one
sixteenth to one-eighth. Breadstuffs steady
but no advance.
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The carriage in which the Queen of Eng
land proceeded to Boulogne is of considera'
BILE size, and consists of three compartments
The fist and last of these compartments
comprise a vestibule and cabinet de toilette
whilst the centre one is a handsome saloon
with divans, capable of accommodating a
bout twenty-persons. The whole is hung
with pearl-gray figured silk; the ceiling is Of
the same material, and the three compart
ments are ornamented with Venitian glass
The body of the vehicle is painted pale green
and is decorated with a~rabesqoes.