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RALEIGH. y. c.
WI attend promptly all business entrrStG to them
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GIORN STARCH.-A FRESH SUPPLY JUST RE
u CEIVED at the Drug Store of
WILLIAMS & HAYWOOD.
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Islacks1nitl,ing, Horse-Shoeing. &c.
EAFsEsESOI-fsYI. HAVING

HA erected Blacksmith siop-at the corner or IIar
gctt and Wilmington : - is prepared TO have all work in
the above line executed aud dispatch T lc we'll
known -im -rju, with competent assistants be ~ per-
manent!v engaged, he Is enabled have the animals
trusted To his s,od in wu:knlanike manner.
Ma -. 54-tf
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ENRESHI DRUGS, MEDICINES, &c.-WIL
Il LIAMs5 & HAIW0OD are now receying large 4ddI- add
ti0ns to Their stock of DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMI-
GALS, PAINTS OILS, DYESTCFFS, WINDOW GLASS,
PERI UMERY, &c. &C. from the most reliable Houses in
the Northern Cities c have been purchased with eye
single purity and offered for sale at such prices
and such terms shall compare avoray wian house
in the State. .
Physicians Country Merchants and Dealers generally,
surcd we please both in point of price and
quality.
Orders promptly attended to- and particular attention Civ
en- o packing and forwarding. ;,
Family Medicines and Prescriptions compounded at all
hours Of the day and night by competent person with
neatness and despatch.
We tender our sincere thanks to the citizens of Ra
legh and the surrounding country for the long and liberal
received and trust by untIn zeal and
please in the prosecution of business to merit
its continuance.
Raleigh, April 2s, 1851. 81
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JA7IES J. IREDELL,
..,rrrev and Counsellor at Law,

O1',
Attorney ct Law,
HAVING located at WILsoT J. Co. w - Fs%"1s aSogne Conn
% ,:f;ica next door to Gay Hotel -
tr,fs,r F,lrpcsn.te, July ~, 1874. -
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EAEPILATORY.-FOR REMOVING SUPERFLU-
EV GUS HAIR, for sale by
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Terms Of Advertising in the standard.

CO1nSc.IEE REi1s -AIIV1I1"! ~ .--'@''
RALEIGH, y. c.,
VIII attend The County an,i SUPERIOR fo9F'$ G1 Snd nns
J'nS,, @ @t,;ce flnery occupied by the ate Hon Will H.
HaNNt e. u. . 7SIt 16-w&Sw6m
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NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL LIFE IN
Ia SURANCE COMPANY, Raleigh n c. This Company
insHes the lives of individuals for year, Of years.
or Tor life on the Mutual PRINCIPLE the assured for life
participating in all the profits of the Company For poll
ces granted for the whole term of life when the premium
therefor amounts TO S3r may be given for half
the amount OF the premium bearing interest per
without guaranty.
The prompt manner in which all losses have been paid
by this Company together with the low rates Of PREMIUM
present great Inducements such disposed to in
slaves are insured for term of from to five years.
iur .wG-thrds their value.
All losses paid within 90 days after satisfactory proof
j. Srnrnsn n,,tnd
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TENABLE SALT.-VERY FINE AND WHITE in
IL small bags, in store and for sale by
WILLIAMS & HAYWOOD.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-04-20
TIE BIBLE.

Many sparkling passages occur III E'Gilfllan'S
Bards oftbe Bible" The following are iiiustra-
tons
It's words and lis thoughts are alike Poe:ical :;
it has gathered around lis central truths all nat
ura beauty and interest It is a temple with one
altar and one God, but iIIumn-d BY thousand
different lights, aud studded with a thousand
ornaments. Il has substantially but one dec
aralion to make. but il uttrrS II in the voices Of
the creation. Shining forth from the excellent
glory, its light has ben reflected TO a uvriad of
intervening objects, till it has become attempered
for our earthly vision Il now beams upon us
a, once from the heart OF man, and from the
coantrnance Of nature 1t has arraved itself in
the charms Of fiction. 1t has gathered new
heautrs from the work Of creation, and new
warmth and new power from the very passions
Of clay. 1t has pressed into its service the very
ANNALS Of the forest, the flowers of the field,
'hr stars of heaVen-all the elements OF nature
Ihr lion spurning the sand of the desert, the
Wild roe leaping over the mountains, the lamb
led IA silence to the Slaughter, the goat speeding
10 the wilderness, the rose bloSso.ning IN Sharon,
iae lily dropping in the valley. tie apple-tree
oo"ing under its fruit, the great rock shadow
ING weary land, The river gladdening dry
place, The moon and the morning star, Carmel!
by the sea and Tanbor in the mountains, the
e7w tom the womb of the morning, the rain
upon the moWn grass, the rainbow ene0mpasSng
dark place, the light Of Gods shadow, the
'aunder OF His voice, the wind and the earth
quake His tootstepS-alI such varied objects are
made as if naturally designed from their crea-
'on to represent Him 10 whom the book and all
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TN-MOR ROW.

Tomorrow is a time that never comes. II is
the rainbow, albeit we see IT'S base resting on
the hill directly in our path, is still, TO matter
how far we may advance, just as far removed
as when we first commenced pursuit To-Inor-
row is written by angels among the stars, and
comes not here, save in the dreams that hope
whispers to our heart.
What we most prize and cherish, and long
for, lies often in the Tomorrow. Our ideas.
our holiest affections, our sympathies, our souls
highest soarings centre there: and wealth, and
fame. and all that man believes his blessing,
beam cut of Tomorrow, as the purest diamonds
iD The dark, and light US towards their pursuit.
Therefore it is that we honor and love, and wor-
ship tomorrow; we could not live and enjoy
ourselves without it. It never comes, il rs true,
more than the ignis fataus come TO those who
follow i;--but it brings pleasant dreams, and
fills our slumberng ears with sweetest music,
and binds up our weak hearts with resolutions
and for such noble Offices it has our hearty dem
ison.
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ReautiftsE Sketch.

1t was night. Jerusalem slept as quietly a.
mid her bills as a child upon the breast Of its
mother. The nolseless sentinel stood like a sta
tue at his post and the philosophers lamp burned
dimly in the recess Of his chamber.
But darker night was abroad upon the earth.
A moral darkness involved the nations in its
unlighted shadows. Reason shed faint gint-
meriug over the minds OF men, like the cold
and inefficient shining of a distant star. The
immortality of mans spiritual nature was un-
known, his relations to heaven undiscovered,
and his future destiny obscured in a cloud OF
mystery.
II was at this period two forms Of ethprial
mould lowered over the land ofGod's chosen
people. They seemed like sister angels SEM 10
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From the phllsdeInhia ARMS.
The Democratic Party,

While all sections Of parties in New Hamp-
shire have been absorbed in the Know Nothing
organization, the Democratic party in that State
maintains nearly lis full strength. il loses some
two thousand votes. and is beaten by the COM
bined factions: bat il does not loose its poSitoh
nor its honor.
We notice th4t the Democrats of Kentucky
have just thrown down the gauntlet to the Know
Nothing party. So everywhere in the South
SO everywhere at the North. On the other
hand, throughout all New England, 10 The Mid
die States with the exception Of New York;,
and IN the South and part of the west, the whig
party has CEASED 70 be-bas merged its existence
in the secret organization and under the pro-
scrptiVe banner of this new political sect.
In New York the Seward wings under the
spur Of az impulse of spfpreservatiou, have not
only kept out Of this underground conspiracy,
but have With great gallaatry and spirit. array
ed themselves against it. But they stand alone.
They are perhaps minority OF the whig party
10 that State but in the Union they are not
only IN the minority, but without national con-
necti0n or CONFERENCE.-The their leader safe
in the Senate, they perhaps can bear this condi-
ton Of comparative isolation, till the turn OF
affairs brings them 10 their true position; but
the chances are equal that they will be thrown
oHt ofall connection with what was once the
wing party oi the Union. As to the Demo
cratic party, We think it a matter of sincerest
congrauIation that the opposition 10 if has taken
this shape. They stand uncontamnated by the
stain Of this proscriptive faction From Maine
to California. they are free from the beginning.
Their opponents have selected the principles OF
prescription for the issue Of the contest OF 1886.
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creating the impression that the bully prize
fighter had been killed by sbloody foreigners"
aud that his death was to be avenged by his
''.4merfcan" friends. They could cot succeed,
however, in kicking up riot, as they had hop
ed and it now turns ont that Pool never used
the language attributed 10 him, and that all the
parties implicated in his murder, Baker, Hyler,
Liam, Van Pe!t, Paudeen, Mclaughlin, Irwin
and Morrissey-are nativeborn citizens of the
United States. There is not a foreigner among
them. What is to be done now As they are
all Americans, we presume they are entitled 10
procession for the heroism they exhibited in
Numbering Pool without any foreign aid.
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earth upon some embassy Of love. The one
was of majestic stature, and in the we'll formed
limbs, which her snowy drapery hardly conceal
ed, in her erect bearing and steady eye, exhib-
tied the highest degree Of strength and conf
dence. Her right arm was extended in an
impressive, gesture upwards where night appear
ed to have placed her darkest pavilion while
on her left reclinpd her delicate companion, in
form and countenancr the contrast OF the other,
for she was dropping Ike the flower, when un-
moistenrd bv refreshing dews, and her bright
bot troubled eye scanned the air with ardent
bat varying glances. Suddrnlv light like the
sun flashed out from the hfarens, and Faith and
Hope hailed with rxulling songs the ascending
Star OF Bethlehem.
Years rolled away, and the stranger was seen
IN Jerusalem. He was meek, unassuming man,
whose happiness seemed to consist in acts OF be-
nevoi"Dce TO the human race There were
deep traces of sorrow on It's countenance, Though
no one knew why he grieved, Tor he lived in
the practice Of every virtue, and was loved 5y
all the good and wise. By aud by il was ru-
Horrd thet the stranger worked miracles; that
the blind saw, the dumb spake, and the dead
lpaped TO life at his touch: that when he com
maHded, the ocean moderated It's chafing tide,
and The Very thunderS articulated BIZ IS the Son
of God. Envy aS>ail+d him with the charge
oi sorcery, and the voice OF mpious Judges COR
druned him 10 death. Slowly and thcdy
guarded he ascendrd the Hill Of Calvary. A
heavy cross bput hlm TO th+ earth. Bot Faith
I-anrd upon his arm, and Hopr, dipping her
pinlons in his blood mounted TO the skies.
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5elftt l1oetrn.
From the Home Journal.
The Graves Of LOgg Ago.

Seek not my love with earnest words,
Alas il is in yain
Thou canst not TO nv heart restore
It, sunny youth again,
Thon canst not bid the withered flowers
Wake from their autumn tomb,
To greet The morning a> OF yore,
In all their Iilr ard bloom.
Thou canst not bid departed hopes
Renew their early glow;
Nv summer sunshine faded o'er
The graves of long ago.
Nv hours Of bliss have passed away,
I've laid them all TO rest;
Each with her crowded happy dreams,
Close folded TO her breast.
Thrir palIid lips can breathe 10 more
10 whispers of the past;
Their shining eyes are softly closed
They sleep IN peace at last.
I've heaped above their resting place,
Indifference, chill a snow;
Nv brightest joys lie buried in
The graves OF long ago.
flushed are the glad and gushing notes,
That hailed my matu primes
The ioy- bells, that around my way
Rang out their merry chime.
And though the holy sounds OF night,
Fail gently as the dew,
Shedding INTO my soul peace
Nv girihood never knew;
Those merry tones OF glee no more
Are mine; but eaimer 50,
Nv heart keeps silent vigil by
The graves OF long ago.
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What is HoME withouta mother,
What are all the Joys we meet,
When her loving smiie no longer
Greets The coming Of our feet!
The days seem long. the nights are dreary,
And time rolls slowly on;
And, oh how few are childhood'S pleasures,
When her gentle care is gone!
Things we prize are first to vanish;
Hearts we love to pass away.
And how soon, e'en n our childhood,
We hehpId her turning grey:
heF eve grows dim. ser step * slow,
Her inys Of earth are passed
And sometimes e'er we learn TO know her
She has breathed on earth her last.
0lley hearts may have their sorrows,
Gfieis that quickly die away
Bu, mother lost IN childhood
Cfripges the heart from day TO day,
We miss her kind, her willing hand,
Her fond and earnest care;
And. Oh how dark is lie around US:
What Is Home without her there
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Ind, on Tuesday last, to a gentleman named
Mcdonald. He was adEniring beautiful col
lection Of every description Of reptiles on exhi-
bltion there He fooiishly attempted TO handle
a large snake, which coiIed around his body,
and, with his entire strength, succeeded in break
ing three Of Mr.. BcDonald's ribs.-Louisvaie
Dprr
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Massachusetts Frying Committee,
Making Love isa a gunnery!
testimony Of the Lady Superior.
RosroN. Anil 10. 1888.


af Legisa'''e 9Ppcia' C"'nlhillee' aPPoih-
tFd 10 Investigate TIE charges against Inc NHh-
neFy COMMITTEE, hrid an aojouFneh meeting al
thr o'ale Rouse thIS morning. Al thP opening
OF the meeting, ne Chairman, Sir. Carpenter,
/ 81 me senate stated ihat he was a9S9hl from
iHT senate noafd al me ''the OF MS appointment
90 zoe committee ana as ht was parry oireS.-
y lhtefeSlFd III zoe INVESTIGATION, ne ortheo Il
10 oe ms duty 10 decline serving, "hieh ne
SAo"'a 90 Oh the opening OF tnP 9rhale' ne
lherTioFt c4i'ea upon Nf. '1riilin' o. oHaFirS-
iowa. OF the iiouSr, 10 take me et'if' l6f
COMMITTEE nad summoned me !aa!ps eohaeciFa
~ilh me set'oo' a' 1sokhpf}, or ol Ndoh'' ftr
i1'''5 'ii'' 4A'"!Sld' "dS F''S''' a.
~, "lFni"s 90 '"F l"e'''"@'
-, L'"F 9uPe' ,"' " dS d'1o"'l'd" ~ 'a'-
WI Nay l'aq,' W'' S'd''" '"d' H''e ""u ''H nFl
q S.a'F"'T'' "' '.t translation, S's"eu .! H'e
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S'att''Fhl was r'a0 " tue 0''a.'',a - Es ''''
'''''eV' Hr S1tTihent y '.'"'"'y '"F s"'e a.
,"'' i'uO''sl'yu ~ ''F 10's1l'S.1 ~ ',,''''l.',-
'''T tn'h f"c''"eu % On [Ad',',a'on u '''e Ia
y ""PV'p'' VINO t'SlI'F' aS '"'.""S'
s"ouI" juuST 'nat ''iP commute huh"'7i'G
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"a af.,r .h.. -. i,J I,r arL ~ ~, ,as
onc.a Co,hoI;c :, s. ngorr.. .,l,,,rc, p.l,;-
,,or. ,-,l no, ha ,sirad 8, c5rrcb
10 as,..I ,,,.. # ,ToIa ~. b;,, ,,.r,Is;,r -
,;s;. ,,,.,-s,:,r -. ,,.,7,l4 i;I.s - h,r. so,,s
,,i,.asaat co,,.ar1ol;o, ,,.;,, ds-l;nod
iny him permission he asked If the Bishop
would object to his visiting me: said he would
not. thonob we received but FEW yisjtsrs: ne
shook hands With me twice and appeared very
familiar: was nuch offended at his conduct
then, and feel more Indignant every time
io'nN oi It told ne committee when they
entered 'he room 'nat a ladH was SUCK; "nrn ,oe
I Ln'n'o'Fs OF the committee entered heI caah'oeF
was present; they hent 50 ciosiy 10 he' mat
SAr mas since stated 'na' sfP lpIi toeiF hrea'a J
han previously desired the patient to Ffma!n
quiet as II aSIrrP' II me committee entered !:
"liie was conducting part oi the cnmm''teF,
. o'hrr members OF II were gong about the mouse
hy themselves, examining the Closets SINKS, &c
was bot present ""rn one OF NE gentlemen
'oo| Roia o. tne rosary / Poh 0rihS asked II
SAe co"id disefioe 'he gentleman VINO eeSirro an
lh'"flITW VITO hef' ine witness ellliea 'hal st-
e''p3a iao' "e'i aT&cFIoe h'"' OBJ 'ha' s'le cooa
recognize hIm u sue saw hti"'
Mr.. Evans, OF the Senate, was then intro
dacrd, whecerpon the witness said that be was
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SpYing Eleetions.

We notice that, throughout the State, very
general disposition towards Fusion Of the ele-
ments opposed to know-NothingiS was appa-
rent at the late township elections. Asamatter
Of course there was little awkwardness and
constraint II the first attempt in many places
and where tha, was the case It was unsuccessful
but wherever heartily and sincerely entered in-
TO the result was generally favorable. In Som
erspt county it succeeded in large majority ol
the instances in which it was tried in Beaver
county an even member of the townships SO far
reported were carried in Westm0feiand county,
the InfeiHgencer (which is X. n. paper says
that the prople did pretty much as they pleased,
and that is equivalent to saying that they did
moi Go as the K rs. pleased IN Chester county
the FusiOnists have carried all the townships
beard from at the last report and in Lancaster,
according 10 the report of the Examiner, the
FuSionists carried forty Out OF tltyfve districts.
The Washington Common 'rea}ta gives COM
plete list Of the results in that county, but fails
TO say anything Of the issues presented at the
polls.
The Lancqsfer Eramiaer says
GIVE have examined the returns of the sew
eral townships with sou.- care, and guided by
respecting the issues decided in the yariouS Gs-
trctS. we have come to the conclusion that at
The present time there is an effective and relia-
be antl-Know Nothing majority in the county
Of from two 10 three thousand votes. The best
sitting we can give the returns from the recent
township elections, indicates such to be the
case.
''If all who are opposed TO allowing secre;
oath-bound societies TO control the politics OF the
county viii unite in support of the same candi-
date next fall-aud we have no doubt that such
will be the case-they can succeed by at leas,
twenty-five hundred majority, and probably
more. The Know Nothing food has apparently
reached its highest point in this county and al
though new members are occasionally added,
the Withdrawals and expulslons will be more
numerous. One PECULIARLY of the Know Moth
ing disease Is, that no person has il twice. 1t
resembles the measles in this respect. which
nearly everybody is bound TO have once-bnt
only once.
"The ssober second thought" is already be-
ginning 10 operate. Before next October, many
proud and noble spirits which are already fret
ting under the bonds they so thoughtlessly self
imposed, viii have escaped from the tyranny OF
the order and joined the band ofoutside freemen!
"The Beqoer .7rgus is alarmed at the Fusion
movements in that county, and strives to stir up
old party feelings 10 prevent their success
There was time when artiul appeals 10 The
preudices OF Wings and Democrats would have
kept them apart, irreconcilaby ;,but that time
is past, and the sooner this fact is appreciated
the better. It is one OF the favorable indications
ofthe day that mea hitherto divided by the Bit
terness of ''the old grudge" can now be brought
in hearty co-operation.-Pdt Gazette
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II Die TRUE AMERIcAN."-This excla-
nation, attributed to PooL, the New York pugI-
st, shortly before his death, was emblazoned
upon banner at his funeral. The object Of
Pools Know Nothing friends, in displaying
this banner, was to induce riot, if possible, by
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-04-20

Love, JEALOUSY AND MURDER.--A cores
pendent of the Richmond Djspafch, writing
from Wythevile, Va, under date of the ID inst.
states that on Saturday night last most shock
ing tragedy occurred 10 Wytbeyillr, by which
one OF the oldest and most influential citizens of
that town was instantly killed, and three other
persons dangerously wounded. The particulars
Of the bloody affair are as follows For some
lime past, man named ]. Austin Graham has
been paving his attentions TO the daughter OF a
wealthy old gentleman named w. r. SpilIer,
who is reported to be worth about 100000
Graham was unsuccessful in his suit, from iht.
fact that the young lady loved, and was en-
gagged 10 b. married to physician named DR..
Hamrt. Graham, on account OF this state OF
things, has been very violent, and threatened
10 take the life Of his rival the first opportunity
that offered. On Saturday night, about 10 o
clock. h~ entered The Wythevlle Hotel, kept
by Mr. Thomas J. Bovd, where Mr.. Spiiler, the
father of the voung lady. was sitting, in compa-
nv with Mr.. c. T. Trigg, Teller of the Exchange
Bank at Abingdon, Mir. c. Cox, an attache of
the hotel. and Mr.. Terry, of WytheTIIe. Sta
ham drew a revolver, and commenced firing IN
to the crowd, killing Mr.. Spiller at the FIRST fire.
EIr. Cox is very badl; wounded, but will, it is
thought, recover. MesSrs. Terry and Trigg
We're wounded, but not seriously. The murder
or fed Immediately after the commission of the
bloody deed, and at last account had nos been
arrested.
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of the vanguard Of the great march Of man, the
old column gliding slow, but guiding certainly
to future lands Of promise, both in the life that
is and that which cometh hereafter.
While other hooks are planets shining with
reflected radiance, this book, like the sun, shines
with kindred and nnborrowed light.
Other books after shining their little season
NAV perish in flamPs frrc~r than those which
destroyed TIE A AIexandfan library; this most in
essence remain fine as gold, but lnconSuua5ie as
asbestos in the general conilagration.
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A SNAKE BREAKIgG a MANS RIBs "A most
transaction occurred at Madison,