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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-11-07
SALE FOR TAXES.

NOTICE is hereby given tina; I shall expose to
IN public sale, on Monday, the 10th day Of De-
cember next, the annexed described property own
ed by the following persons, for Taxes due thereon
to the city of Raleigh, for the year 1879, unless the
Taxes be paid before that time, viz:
Yarbrough House, fgiven in by O. Bushee,
Trustee,) parts of Lots No. So and IS;
amount due $50 80
R. r. Justice-part Of Lots No. % and % 1871
I. IL. Snow-part of Lot No. IS7 81 SO
j. NJ. Towles-paT;s of Lots Nos. 100, 30. 81,
Sc, 50, 100, IA, 15,-part of so, 81, IL, Is, 80.
81, 30 and 33-balance due so u!
Vim. Terry-part of Lot No. I 40
john c. tt ompson-part of Lot No. los s 05
Estate Of Thomas L. West-part Of Lots 70
and II IL 90
VIM. F. Collins-part Of Lot No. 81 Is IS
James w. Chadwick-part of Lot No. 23l 10 90
James E. Jordan-part of Lot No. ll3 bal
ance due 1913
An extra charge, for advertising, of one dollar,
will be required of all whose property is included
in this list
E.E. HARRIS, City Collector.
Raleigh, Oct. 80, 1855. 10-6
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Be Cheerful.

" See how the day beameth brightly before us!
Blue is the armament, green is the earth
Grief hath. no voice in the universe chorus;
Nature is ringing with music and mirth.
Lift up thy eyes, that arc looking in sadness
Gaze and, if beauty can rapture thy soul,
Virtue herself shall allure thee to gladness-
Gladness! philosophy's guardian and goal"
doleful faces. 1t is always merry itself and
seems to think its creatures should be so too.
If a cloud shadows its great brow and the
raining tear drops fall, the next hour we see
field and forest glittering with ten thousand
golden gems sparklingi in the sunbeam's kiss.
The old world is always so merry herself
that it shrinks from the poor soul that is al
ways in trouble-from him who has not phil
osophy enough to see his earthly all consum-
ed by storm or fire without a murmur who
cannot bury a friend and sing m~errily as the
clods fall; who cannot witness wrong and
outrage without murmuring over human de-
pravity who INC look upon human suf-
fering without weeping who cannot hold up
his head midst the multitude with the q
IIOtU VI lHG VIII OlEdue, DcCduSC lHG CEONI
of his napless Genin plays fippetefap in the
wind on asingle string, and his coat is adorn-
ed with patches of all sizes, colors and shapes
like a map of the world, with its continents,
islands, oceans mountains, capes and swamps.
Smile, man, smile, even if your life's sky
is thick with gloom, palpable as that once
hanging over the shores of the Nile. 1t will
render your ~neighbors happier-they are not
comfortable when looking at your rewor
phiz. Cheer up; you will feel better by it
let the sun of happiness shine in your hear
and light up a golden pathway there. YOU
are not half so miserable as you think, but i
is hard to make you believe that. Longfel
low, who is a merry telloac, says:
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
,, Life is but an empty dream I!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
. And things are not what they seem.
Why should anybody NOPE and be miser
able without good cause? Be cheerful tho
, you are surrounded with amidnighto of gloom
The darkest nights have the most gloriou
. mornings. Be cheerful. \
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DEATHS.

In this City, on Sunday night last, Mary, infant
child of Jefferson and Julia Fisher.
In Sampson county ON the 26th inst, Mary E.
Bass, daughter of Wesley Bass, aged Is years.
MocKsvILLE DIVISION, No.. IL.
October 9th 1855.
WHEREAS, an all wise Providence has this day
removed from our midst our highly esteemed and
much loved brother SHADRAcH C.. FITZGERALD,
who was endeared to US by his faitbfulness to our
cause and the cause of humanity, by his high and
honorable conduct among his fellows, and by the
constant exercise of christian virtues, therefore
hesotred, That we bow in humble submission to
the Dlsposer of human events under this affecting
dlspensation, feeling assured that his mercy has
removed our brother into a happier state Of exis-
tence.
Reso1ced, That in the death of Shadrack G..
Fitzgerald, Mocksville Division has sustained a
loss of which we are deeply sensible, and which we
do not expect soon to see repaired.
Resolred, That our heart felt sympathies are due,
and are hereby rendered to the family of our depar.
ted brother, who was to them, a kind husband and
an afectionate father, with the assurance that our
sorrOws are mingled with their own.
Resolved, That the members ofthis Division wear
the usual badge of mourning for thirty days, ano
} that the members of Pennington Division De re-
quested to do the same.
, Resolred, That q copy of these pyseesdlngs DC
presented to the bereaved widow OF our brother,
and that they also be published in the Salisbury
I. papers and the Spirit of the Age.
: JOHN H. WAGG0MAN, w. L.
+. s. Holmes r. s.
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For the Shirt of the Are.

DEAR SPIRIT Having recently ~solourned
for a few days in New-Berne, and having en-
joyed during my stay in that delightful town,
the hospitality of mine host of the Castor
House," l cannot resist the inclination to
back you in las upon its first Opening) call
ing attention to the claims it has upon the
public at large. | cannot conceive that a
Hotel, having the anne locality as to facilities
of travel, &C., can be better than is this Gas
ton House. 1t has not been open long enough
to enable one to say that it will always be as
nice as it is now, especially as a philosopher
french of %course) has argued that there is
no reality, and some believe it, for the Paddy
put his finger on the flea and he had fed
was not there. 1t is at this time in full tide
and real fix, with the g~entlemanly proprietor
as head-waiter and little Johnny Emmons as
~foot-waiter (for stepping of errands, &C.
l%cannot give you a description of the house
as 1t is seen from the street in front, but en-
close you a card, which will afford you a toll
cradle idea of a front view. The interior ar
rangements are excellent, and Objectionable
IN one thing only, land that may be only to
lazy old fellows like myself which is, that
there are too many short ups and downs on
the second floor. The proprietor probably
feels this inconvenience sometimes, and would
remedy it if he could. Every room is KEEP
as neat as the incest housewife could desire
and the servants, which are not so numerou'
as to be in the way, as at some houses, arr
polite and prompt. The table, that mai1
standard of travellers generally, is not sur
passed by any in the State, not even Nixon
at Goldsb0ro'.
Mr.. Editor, in conclusion, I think 20,
would particularly like the Temperance fea
ture in the house, but you could not be nue.
blamed if you mixed a little, as the water 70
drinking is not the most palatable.
LOCHEMAR.
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MARRIED,

At Castalia, in Granville county, on the evening
Of the 18th inst, by the Rev. Mr.. Burton, of Hall
fax county, Col. Whit. R.. Swain, of BERTHE county
to Miss Lucy A., daughter of Col. W.. w. Young of
Granville.
On the 18th ult., by the Rev. W. W. Albea, Mr..
John A. Henderson, of Whitmell, Va, to Miss Ma
rion E., daughter of Col. Isaac S. Gibson, of Ger
manton, N. c.
In Lee county, Ga, on the 18th ult, at the res
idence of Maj. VIM. Stegall, by the Rev. Jesse N.
Davis, Mr.. Berry Cochran, of Baker county, 10
Miss Katy Stegall. Z
Also, on the 18th ult., by the same, at the resi-
dence of Mr.. Alex. Cochran, Mr.. Benz. Snelgrove
of Sumter county, GA, to Miss Caroline Cochran
of Lee.
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"Blues."

"a hermit, midst of crowds, 1 fain must stray
Alone, tho thousand pilgrims fill the way
While these a thousand kindred wreaths entwine,
l cannot call one single blossom mine.
"KNow all men by these Presents" that
we hereby declare war to the hilt against
" the Blues" the disturber of mans peace,
health and happiness. Other diseases and
other curses have each their appropriate
remedy, but the Blues battle the skill of the
man learned in Medicine and Surgery. They
brave with a darkening scowl all the paten-
ted Pectorals and Tonics grin with scorn
at Spencer's Pills and Phoenix Bitters and
bid defiance to all ~Sarsaparillas and Hoben-
sacks Worm Syrup. They grapple their
victim unawares and reign triumphant like
50 many hooking and jeering fends. All
classes are open for their horrid visitations ::
the high, the low, the rich, the poor,-old
men and young women, the married and
singlo-old maids and Bachelors especially.
Under their iron grasp the rosy cheek
grows pale and blanched, the brightness Of
the eye grows dim, and grabbed frowns take
the seat Of sunlike smiles. The poor victim
cannot laugh, he cannot sing-he only gro'cls,
Their grasp makes the brave heart trem-
BILE and the proud soul quakes with evil
forebodings. The poor victim is miserable
darkness settles over his most sunny pros
poets his business seems threatened will
immediate destruction; and ruin seems in
J evitable. The smile of his wife and the gam
J bols of his children cannot arouse him. HI
d believes his family are going to be scattered
his wife to the ~almshouse, his children to tn
t Hospital and himself to the grave. If h
goes into society it all seems like a gray
yard, the songs and laughter of the joyou
throng sound like the tolling bells for a slov
moving funeral, and the busy hum of Gf
seems like a ghostly revel. The cloud darl
F.? ems and the gloom thickens, and the poo
wretch bows his head as if he had lust blu
o led his last friend.
n Oh! the Blues-the Blues! /! they poisc
life and render it a burthen. Therefor
S, war to the hilt against them. Let no OF
Id entertain them for a moment. With a bra
is will drive them from you and ever shun the
as as a " pestilence that walketh in darkne,
he and destruction that wasteth at MONDAY"
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ANOTHER FINANCIAL CRISIS.

Our Northern papers are tceming with
prognostications as to another financial crisis,
which is to be felt to an alarming extent in
this country. The state of affairs in Europe
will cause the bonds of this country to be re-
turned for redemption, and this added to the
balance of trade largely against us, will cause,
it is said, large drains of bullion from our
shores and great depression in trade and
business will Of course be the result. If old
Hard Times shows any harder face than he
wears about here already, we don't want to
see him.
Since the beginning of the present Euro
pcan war, says the Philadelphia Bulletin, we
have not had any intelligence more deeply
significant than by the last steamer, Of the
present financial condition Of France and
England. With every day the drain ofspecie
from the Bank Of France was represented as
being more and more severe, and the Bank
Of England, as our readers will remember
had raised the rates Of interest to s. per cent.
TO prevent the drain of gold which France
had so injudiciously been causing, by paying
u premium for it. Taking the views of thu
English press, one with another, on this ques
ton, it is evident that the gloomiest antici
patton ut present prevails in Great Britain
despite any amount of effort to appear cheer
ful aud to bolster up the effort by pointin.
to an increase of revenue or to the fact tina
they have already got far advanced in tn
second year of the war. The London Chron
Gle, in its city article, Oct. 3, ~undoubtedl
speaks the general feeling when it states tha
there Is at present, an unmistakable impre'
sion hat money will become dearer, the d.
mand greater and the supply less. In Franc
matters appear to be Fastening with hea'
long speed TO u crisis, and it is self-eyidel
that if the present drain of gol
from England and France to the Crime
should continue, nothing can prevent su
pension and almost an unparalleled financi
crisis. If we add to this the plain, und
uiahlo fact that every steamer continues
bring gloomier accounts Of the harvest
that il has turned out far worse in all par
Of the continent than was anticipated, an
that the government has beyond questic
been using every effort to prevent this ia
from coming to light, we have a program
of disasters which may by some u%nforese
good fortune be modified, but which nothil
short Of q miracle can prevent.
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N. G.. Railroad-West End.

Having recently passed over this section
of the Road we are pleased to state that it
seems to be well constructed and the man
agement most excellent. We learned upon
reliable authority that there had never been
any accident on the road by which human
life was endangered, and further that there
was not an officer on the road, even the most
humble, who was known to use Intoxicating
liquors-that being made a test of employ
ment. Let that rule be ~iniexibly adhered
to and we shall hear of fewer accidents and
public confidence will be more generally Sc
cured. \
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-11-07

UST issued, the twentieth thousand of the pop
y ular Ballad, what is homo without a moth
err" This beautiful song is by ALICE HAWTHORNE,
Author of " Listen to the Mocking Bird !" Let
us live with a hope )" "How sweet are the Roses"
81 set my heart upon a Flower !" Our Good Old
Friends !" My Cottage Home !" " Song Of the
Farmer = " Pet of the Cradle !" &C., &c, &e.
These Ballads are all Of an easy and pleasing
character, well calculated for the use of ordinary
Performers. Price rs cents each also just pub
iished, "HAwTfIoRN LEAVES" being easy va
riations upon the above melodies, by the popular
Composer, Charles Grobe. Price 373 cents each.
Copies sent by mail. Address
WINNER & SINISTER,
Mns;e puhIishers ITO Eorth 9Th ST. Phila. 3
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PROPHETIC.-A few months before the vel
low fever broke out, a minister who was not
a resident of the city, while preaching in one
OF our churches, and urging his hearers to
repent, remarked that he was impressed with
the idea that Norfolk would soon be visited
with some great calamity, and declared that
he would not be in the condition of many of
the citizens for the whole world. a gentle
man present on the occasion, noticed parti-
cularly the strange prediction, and when the
fearful disease commenced it's rayages upon
the people the remarks of the preacher were
recalled to mind with singular force and ap-
propriateness.
After the fever had made its appearance on
Wide Water street and seemed to be subsid-
ing, and while the citizens were %vainly hop
ing that the mysterious and subtle agent of
destruction would spend its force in a week
or two, the resident minister of the church
alluded to. signi6ed his belief with strange
and startling earncstness, that the disease
would rage with extraordinary severity. lie
said the apparent decrease in the number OF
deaths was deceptive, and would probably
prove to be like the calm upon the ocean,
which induces the unskilled seaman to hope
that the storm would not rise and rage, and
sweep over the bosom of the deep in the wild
fury of ITS r~esistles power. But the expert
enced mariner could see the foretokening o
the cruel AID defying reign of the bowling
storm king. Il shall not lie surprised Ii,
continued. if thousands Of our citizens ar,
carried off by the pestilence that has alread,
commenced its work of death It is asingu
lar fact that the pictures Of death that b
drew, seemed so uncalied for. and were S
unexpected by some of his hearers, that re
marks were made in regardt to their alarmin
and exciting nature. Alas, the tornado {
destruction, as it were, that soon sweptawa
two Thousand of our people, was II sad an
awful reality of that which existed in th
imagination of the clergyman alluded to.
Norf0M Arqus.
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Sad Suicide.
The New Orleans Crescent Of a recent date,
records the suicide Of Daniel Williams, an
estimable young man of that city:

The New Orleans Crescent Of a recent date,
records the suicide of Daniel Williams, an
estimable young man of that city:
The desperate act was the result of grief
for the death of his wife, made morbid by
the draughts in which he vainly endeavored
to drown it. Death robbed him Of his loved
one about three weeks ago sorrow settled
upon him deeply and at last he sought So
lace in the demon strong drink-for a week
previous to his death, drinking so freely as
to incapacitate him from work. On Wednes-
day afternoon he drank at the Orleans House
with several friends. Upon parting with
them, he babe them farewell, stating that
he was going to leave and that he would new
err return. He next proceeded to Chinn &
Bottoms drug store, and, upon representa-.
lions that be had been sent for it by his en-
ployer, Mr.. Douglas, obtained two ounces oil
laudanum. Going to his room-on Perdidc
street between Rampant and Rasin-he met
his landlady, and stated to her that life had
lost all charm for him-that he was going tc
Join his wife in heaven-showed her the vial
and swallowed its contents before he coult
be prevented. lie then called for writing
material, which were furnished, but he did
not use them.-Thelandlady speedily spread
the alarm, and, with the aid of other women
in the house, did her utmost to thwart the
unhappy mans desperate purpose-adminis
tered warm milk, sweet oil, mustard, ant
even fagellation, in the hope of saving him
but all in vain. The doctor who had beer
sent for, never camc-and in two hours afte
swallowing the fatal drug, the young mai
was a corpse. He seemed to have repentet
of his act at one time. for he willingly too
the antidotes offered by the women, and al
ter wards weepingly exclaimed: at is to
late Mary, dear, I'll be with you soon !
The only writing left by the deceased, wa
the following poetic ~efusion, which tells hi
whole sad story:
1 have raised the wine cup in my hand,
And the widest strains I've sung,
Till with the laugh of drunken mirth.
The echoing air has rung.
But q pale and sorrowful face has looked,
From out the cup to me,
And a trembling whisper | have heard;
That I fancied came from thee.
Thou art slumbering in thy peaceful grave
And thy sleep is dreamless now,
But the seals of never-dying grief,
Is on thy mourner's brow.
And my heart is chill as thine, Mary,
For the joys of life are fed,
And I long to lay my aching breast,
With the cold and silent dead.
The verdict of the Corcner's inquest "
"suicide by ~laudanum." The deceased "
a native of England, twenty five years of al
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RECEIPTS FOR THE AGE,

SINCE LAST IssUE.-$1 S. R. Norfeet, J. H.
Riddick, Sunsbury j. NJ. Brown, Albemarle ;
John Newton, Bushy Fork N. D. Edwards, Hook
erton Josiqh Wick, Nashville (S5} C. J. Rice,
York, S. c.; C. W. Askew, Murfreesboro' W. G..
Winstead, Olive Hill Fl. S. Averitt, Moore's Creek;
I. w. Rcddick, Windsor J. S. Henderson, Hope
we'll O. G.. Foard, Cowansville; Miss Mary Elms.
PineviIle; Saml. Taylor, R. II. Abermethy, Jas,
Biggert, v. P. Walden, P. j. Lowrie, Charlotte J,
P. Houston, Monroe; R. D. Jones, Blue Wing
Miss Sarah ]. Forlines, Va. Miss Roanna Jordan
Garysburg; W.. I'll. Burgess, Franklinsville Georr,
C. Lewis, Normal College; Miss NJ. C. Coalter
Tenn. T. r. Murray, Normal College; C. A. Hart
Newbern; Mrs S. Jerman, Duplin; James S. Lew
is, Young's X Roads; 7. House, CASTOR; J. J. No
bles, Greenville A. Hayes, W. B. Hayes. T. B
Hayes, S. c.. Mrs. E. White, shiloah; W. T. Med
lin, Wilson; Miss S. NJ. Cross, Renalson.
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G~ Tnvalids recovering from the effects Of
Fever, Bilious Diseases, or long continued Illness
of any kind, will find Carriers Spanish Mixture
the only remedy which will revive their dropping
constitutions, expel all bad humors from the blood,
excite the liver to a prompt and healthy action,
and by its tonic properties, restore the patient tc
life and vigor.
We can only say TRY 1T. A single bottle il
worth all the so-called Sarsaparillas in existence
It contains no Mercury, Opium, or any other nox'
ious or poisonous drug, and can be given to IT,
youngest infant withouthesitation
See the certificates Of wonderful cures around
the bottles. More than FIVE hundred persons il
the City of Richmond, Va, can testify to its goot
effects See advertisement. -
For sale by F. F. Pescud aud Williams d Hay
wood, Raleigh and W.. J. Eddins, Forestville.
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Spirit of tBs 9ge> 8alsjgB, yortB- @arolina>

FIREMAN. FUNERAI.-The unusual sound
of martial music in cur streets Yesterday,
called us to the door to witness a procession
of the United Fire Company, in attendance
upon the funeral of a!deceased member. The
company presented a full front, and with
their snowy uniform, had a very imposing
effect as they fled along. with solemn tread,
to the sad strains Of a dirge from the Penn
sylyania's Band.-NorfoM Herald.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-11-07

RALEIGH AND CASTOR RAILRoAD.-The
stockholders in the Raleigh and CASTOR Rail
road company held their annual meeting in
this City on last Thursday. Jon. D. Hawk
ms, Esq. was appointed Chairman, and Maj.
w. W. Vass acted as Secretary.
Messrs. Vass, Hamilton and Roulhac were
appointed a committee to ascertain the a
mount Of stock represented who reported
that COG shares were represented in person,
and 253l shares by proxy. Alfred Jones, Esq,
of Wake, held the States proxy.
The reports of the President and Of the
committee on finance were read and adopted
and a dividend Of six Per cent. declared.
A resolution was passed instructing the
President and directors to rebuild the bridge
over the Roanoke, at CASTOR. as soon as they
are satisfactorily assured that the Petersburg
and Greensville company will relay then
road with heavy iron rails.
A resolution was also passed instcucting
the Directors to make s~emi-annual, instead
of annual dividends, if they found it practi
cable
The following gentlemen were re-electe
Directors for the ensuing year on the part Q
stockholders, viz Thomas Miller and r. A
Hamilton, of Granville, G. w. Mordecai, {
Raleigh, and DR.. w. j. Hawkins, of Wal
rem.
The following gentlemen were appointe
on behalf of the State viz CASTOR Fl. Wi
der, Allen c. Perry and J. G. King.
AT a meeting of the directors held on En-
day, r. A. Hamilton, ESQ.,, was chosen Pres
dent.