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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-21
DO YOU LOVE Any ONE2
By I.oRA.

| do not mean to ask if you love to gaze
Mt the pretty faces which CLEAN out from the
little b0nncts that pass you 10y with a quiet
smile aud 4 guod day cherily spoken by
ruby lips aud laughing eyes. Nor am | at
all curious 70 know ii there is q lady fair or
gallant knight which you would a little rath-
err attend or have attend you to the magical
exhibition or the evening singing school,
n ither d. | crave your confidence in regard
tn that chaste gold ring upon sOmefair finger
which your eye dwells upon with pleasure,
aud which transfers you back to a rural ram
BIZ, or u sunny knoll, or cheerful firesido
where fond VOWS were breathedand for aught
/ know to the contrary, untruth woven into
lovers words and sent thrilling along the
quiverius heart-striugs which no hand but q
true and honest one should dare to play upon.
/ DO not care if the bridesmaids are bespoke
aud groomsmen engaged, and satins made
up, and envelopes selected, and flowers and
gossamer veil laid by--ior between you and
l. good friend, these things are often done up
after the most approved style too, where the
little query Of Tonight has never yet been
nationally and consequently satisfactorily an
swered. Aye, il il one thing to list to words
such ~ vanity loves and thrives upon, and
when elevated to the very summit ofself COM
placency, to place the hand in another's with
n blush and whisper thine so soft and low
that the ear must bend to catch the whispered
sound md quite another to begin the long,
long days Of seclusion and care which moth
ing hut 4 thorough appreciation Of character,
concentration Of affection, and selEsacrifc-
ing interest can render bearable. And be-
lieye NE. IL is one thing to imagine the com.
fort and therefore the love wrapped up in
some lady's or gentlemau's twenty. thirty, OF
forty thousand, and an entirely different one
with that infatuation, 70 embark upon life's
stormy sea together. to breast the whirlwind,
and commotiuns no gold can allay, or watch
through the long cherries days Of wearines,
and pain no jewels can soften or s~plendoul
mitigate.
Do you love any oRe2 How doubtingly
the young mother looks up in your face a,
YOU ask il. lifts the delicate embroidery from
her lap and shaking out its beautiful folds
replies-see, jnst see the work / do for m,
child early and late l am planning new
dresses and lovely wrappings, all the tim,
thinking Of the man he will make-noble, in
telligent, virtuous, go0d-the position he vii
occupy. and the influence be will WELD. Low,
\ him and her lip smilss incredulOusly tina
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-21

H- Up from a thousand homes, once
bright as the MONDAY of love, comes the
searching appeal to remove the maddening
bowl from the helpless victims. They are
bound hand and foot by their destroyer and
they weep and pray that their bonds may be
broken and their letters severed. With a
mao infatuation they cast themselves on the
highway of death and rush to a Mecca from
whence they never return. That Mecca is
bleached by the bones Of thousands and thous-
ands who have bowed the knee to the Gar
Of the bar-room and sold their bir,hrigit for
less than a mess of pottage. Even they cry
out for deliverance and wives and mothers,
little girls and boys, implore a moral and
free people to dry up the fountain which
foods their hearts and homes with bitterness
and with agony. The records of justice an
fold their blackened lists of vagraney and
crime and hold them up as a reproach to the
nation. The ministers of a holy religion paint
the way the thirty thousand are travelling
and point to the dreadful doom that await,
them. Taxpayers groan beneath the burder
imposed upon them, yet never proclaim them
selves free and cast off the burden. Every
thing.-humanity, hopes, homes and happi
ness appeal to the people to assert their soy
ereignity and cast off the burthons ana tn
curse of the Liquor traffic. When will a FIRE
and enlightened people rise up and sway til
sceptre over this most affecting curse?
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FEBRUARY q.
Gaoits' Department.
tn the Social Oirole.
FOR rnE SPIRIT OF THE Aos.

Az Az IVA =
Will YOU take n wanderer into your circle,
asar friends IA weary dove that has but
noy left its leafy homc-may ~itnestle among
your loving hearts and resti A cad spirit,
mournful l,eart, asinking soul, n trembling
hand, will YOU take all these, andthen chide
not if the spirit droop, the heart wither, the
soul sink and the hand fail? Will you call
I;lv Ice sister, She is a mournful hearted
thin. Her eyes are used to tears, but her
spirit often weeps when they are dry. Eigh-
teen summers have cast their shadows on
hrr brow, but their winter.clonds hang
around her heart and thus it is, that her
songs are oftener sad than gay. When a
aleesnme chill, she left the old home, with
IL pnrling brook and shaded walks. Since
those days she has learned som little les
sons lessons given in love, but cOnned in
tear4. Chill ihpoPs dreams have vanished.
The rosy light Of its morning hours IS fast
neoing before the cloud.embosomed realities
Of the present. Love and happiness braided
her past /, but love and duty are now wear
ing her lie. Girlhood's golden visions arr
fading, and the strong tendrils Of woman
fate a etwinins around her heart. Life ha'
not all becn bright but while shadows cam
there was mneh sunshine and the unknown
future NAV glsam with joy or he stepped i
sorrow. Vino can telli But Father, max
her strong 10 SIGHT her Kfe-hattles, Arayell
anal In Ths AsranstlAta 'wvFx VIII -
vt And, Mr.. Editor, viii you give her stu
pie offerings an humble corner in your wo
thy paperi
May much sunshine come to NIL but
clouds do gather, may your Fathers han
lead ypu until the sunlight heameth agail
Yours. LILLY LEE.
Breezy Hin, Feb. 1855.
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EGy- A Note at the bottom of the first
printed page in Mr.. Waugh's Report was in
advertently left out ON our first page. 1t
states that there were I" Memorials before
the Committee from fortythree counties,
comprising 1851 signatures, of which 6, l03
are voters, 2,lS7 females. 81 youths" The
smallness of the number of Memnrialists is
not urged by the Chairman as one of the
" reasons " why the law prayed for should
not be passed. but it may be well to explain
the cause Of there heing no more signers.-
We know, in the first place. that there are
thousands of names afr xed to Memorials
throughout the State. that were not sent up /;
and we also know that thousands Of 9th IT
names could have been procured. if any sort
of expectation had been felt such a step
would have resulted in the passage Of the Jaw.
But they did not believe it-ue did not believe
1t, and were "pposedt" any farther memorial
ling, except through the ballot box. by send
ing the right kind nf men to legislate On the
subject. The sequel has hut proved the
correctness. of this opinion. If We want the
law, we must send men TO the Legislature
wholly and positively devoted to it adoption
we will never getit in any other way.
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Written for the Spirit efthe Age.
LIFE IN GL1MPEES.
BIT THE ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C aIIie TIL Crazed

He has gone-he has gone to the wild mountain
glen,
To the cove where the brown chestnuts grow;
And his white cottages seen through the trees now
and then,
But never by you, Callie; no, Callie, no.
The sunbeams fall on the grass at his door,
And the wood -bine blooms on the wall,
But poor, crazy Cal, you shall see him no more,
For he hides in the cove where the brown chestnuts
fall.
His love died away as the little lilies die,
When scorched by the strong summer sun,
But sorrow not, Cal for with the lilies you maybe
In the grave at the willow your hands have begun.
By and by, I will sleep in that little red grave.
While my spirit shall ride on the sky's CLASSY sea;
And the birds they will swing with the willow.
boughs wave,
And sing birding songs DER cra1ed Callie Lee.
What does the wild creature mean said
/ TO my companion with whom / was walk,
ing; but before he could give me an answer
she suatched her faded bonnet from her head
and let fall a profusion Of rich curls over
her wan cheeks.
Give wandered through the dark wood.
where the wood-bine and wild chestnu
grow, she said, and dug a lutte grave un
der the willow and picked up leaves ever
day to cover the grave, but the red morning
glory has withered, and my grave is not ye
finished. I've stood on the banks of TN
bright flashing river, and gone down to th,
depths of the wild wood when the moon wa
dark. but, All me, the voice of the charm
err. the voice Of the charmer, charm be ev,
SO wisely-alas! and she flung herself OF
the green bank by the pathway and wep
and then lay as if dead.
Follow me- said my companion auc
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-21

A Prohibitory Convention will lie held in
Atlanta, Ga, ON the 22nd inst, 10 nominate
a suitable candidate for Governor, atthe next
election.
We learn from a letter of Judge O'Nealrs,
published in tie Temperance Banner, that
p. NJ. w. P, Pa White, would re
his lectures. on the 10th inst, at Augusta. Ga.
following the line Of travel thence to Rome,
d~evoting six weeks to the work.
The MAINE LIQUOR Law has pressed the
Senate of IrdlaLa by majority of ten. This il
really good news.
Tn same law has been introduced into the
Legislature of Oregon, and there is a iair
prospect os its being passed during the present
session. Prohibition j. very popular Will Lls
s~sttlsrs.
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Gone, and no Law passed !!

Well, the Legislature of North Carolina
has ADJOURNED, after sitting thirteen long
weeks-and yet in all that time, not a sin
gle member could find time, or muster up
sufficient patriotism ana moral courage to
introduce a Bill for any sort of relief or pro-
lection from the Liquor Scourge. From day
to day the matter was brought to the notice
of the two Houses by the presentation Of
Memorials from the People, md yet out Of
ninety-one days, no spare moment was found
to examine, discuss or l~egislate upon the
evil so grievously complained of! We do
not know that any law could have been pas
sed at the recent session, vet the People, at
least we believe a decided majority of them,
desired the introduction Of a Bill similar to
the one suggested in the Memorial of the
Grand Division laid before the General AS
sembly-viz: placing the matter in the hands
of a majority Of the people in each School
District-in order that they might see how
their respective Representatives would stand
| on so just and equitable a measure. It was
not done, however the friends ofReform
are called on a |pter the field for a.
mother two year, ksinst the monster
evil. And the { didates for the
Legislature must be hereafter" Will you
yourself, or see that some other member of
the Legislature does, introduce a Bill con-
tanning such provisions against the Liquor
Traffic as the wants and necessities of the
case demands ?" And whoever refuses to
agree to do so. will not he trusted
But, much as we have reason to deplore
the failure Of some law directly prescribing
the destructive traffic, yet we have cause to
congratulate the friends of Reform of a still
farther recognition by the Legislature of its
injurious effects upon society by the impo-
sition of additional taxes. The license fee
has been increased from $40 to $40; and an
extra tax of 5 per cent. imposed upon all IL
quors, wines or cordials made in the State
as well as those brought here from other
States.
1t is true these extra burdens heaped upor
the traffic will not tend to lessen its evils
nor will they effect anything in behalf of tn,
temperance reform, but they will raise a larg,
amount of revenue and thus take of take,
which otherwise wonld have been imposed
upon Industrial and commendable pursuits
and objects. But while they help to fill tn,
Golfers ofState, the liquorsellers, like stealth,
5 marauders, win be draining their ill-gottel
> gains from the industry and labor of tn
4 people, and all the while be empoverishin
the country, ob~structing energy and enter
prise, and visiting pauperism and crime uE
. on the people. Our public servants see an
know all this, and yet they will not advanc
. a step to remedy the crying. demoralizin
$ evil Well, the time will come when the
will have to ply the oar with a will. or
d swallowed in the vortex of popular indignl
ten. Gsd speed the day.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-21

nG- At a Constatle's election. recently,
in the d uble Springs District. in Gnilfora
county. the contest was between a gentle
man who refused to use the whisky bottle
to aid his election, and one who rode a whis-
key barrel to the polls. The result h"wever
showed that he had mistaken the character
Of the people whose votes be wanted-on
counting the votes, it was discovered that the
no treating candidate had received los. while
whiskey only polled4 AZ. Good for old Guiliord.
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Lady Contributors.

We welcome tour columns this week the
contributions of Tree new Lady writer's fer
the Age. Their aicles are brief, but chaste
and intellectual. We have the promise of
several others, so Tt, with ourformer gifted
fair Contributors, D shall be able to present
what no other paIs has been able to do, a
bright galaxy of athern Female Literary
writer's, creditable ike to themselves, and
to the Literary ctracter of the Ladies of
North Carolina anYirginia, in which States
they reside, for thmost part.
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'loH, o.. O.
Advancement.

sa"'ertgs'reeeie theirpnpers ,Oith a red mark,
are THEREBY fled that in four reeks from the re-
ceipt Of the "a number thus marked, their sab
scription yedrsssU expire and unless reneoed
Uithin that & q paper ,oiH be discontinaed.-
This rule III IN adhered to.
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ptct out through tno "luuo" dT-~cTuUUs
hands gather roses in the morning to set on
the table to please a happy father.
Callie has grown Young again the bloom
that had faded from her cheek has returned
with all its youthful tints; her eye has lost
the wild and fiery glance and become softly
subdued; and her voice, once SO meIan-
choly, has become full and round with har.
mony. She is happy and lives in a sweet
little cottage half hid in the cedars.
The sianderer has become hateful and re-
pnlsive in the midst Of her own poison.
She lives in a ho.el alone: despised Of all for
the base part she played in former years.
No one visits ber-weeds grow at the door
Of her hut ; and solitary aud alone, she daily
bends towards the grave.
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ssy~ We rave bea tie lderel a second COM
munication from ~" Of Frauklinton, mp
on the subject matr of his first article; but
as itseems to havelven rise to considerable
excitement and soie unpleasant feeling in
that community, " asklea respectfully to
decline its nnhlicatln.
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~ We are frequently written to for
back Nos. of our paper. Of course, when
we have them, they are sent; but it fire.
auently happens we have none on hand
SO persons ordering back numbers and not
receiving them, may always understand We
did not have them to send.
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weeps aud sings MRkuigs little graves under
the weeping willow. She longs to 90 down
TO the grave to rest, and | should rejoice if
her time wonld Come for, poor soul, she
will have no resi- ia this world.
Carl never came back he left this house
unfinished ; and | shouldn't wonder if it
stands just 30 till it fall said my friend, ia
king a seat under the window of he cottage
on an old beach. Yes; I shouldn't Won
der if it stood just so ill time ens it down.
for Carl will never return, and he has none
nigh Of kin to look after his affairs
Tell me- said we. was Callie guilty of
any not crime, put imprudence.'
Guilty! exclaimed our friend, his feel
ings evidently highly wrought upon, 8 gull
ty! | wish to Heaven my soul was as pure
of sin as hers /; and if Carl only knew it,
he would be haunted night and day for his
rash and unjust course towards loor Callie.'
just then a gaunt and haggard face pre-
sen'ed itself al the window aud peered out
al us.
The house is haunted we exclaimed
spring'ng to our feet but not quicker than
the 5aunt figure at the window in a mo-
Bent he stood before US.
CARL exclaimed my friend in a shout.
The figure cla>ped my friends hands and his
lips moved as if yainly trying to speak
At last he EXCHANGED CalIie !! Callie !!
where is she?
Did you hear our conversation, Carl 3
|, nA YES every word hlrnt me ike fre-burnt
my very soul-carry me to her-iel me see
5 her-let me beg forgiveness for M fatal en-
ror.
| We FASTENED to where we had left the
: hapless girl who had been wrecked on life
sea by the breath of Islander, aud who
, had been deserted upon the slightest suspi
cion. She lay or the green grass bank il
s a profound sIumber. The contrast of be
rich and glossy curls with her pale face wa,
most striking. Carl folded his arms on hi
I heaving breast and stood gazing at her Iii
4 strong frame trembled as the little leaf in tn
n Autumn's wind, and his lips and cheek
a were palIid as the corpse. He gazed ca
gerly upon the form before him. A singl
k tear trembled on his eyeld and then droppe,
down on the grass at his feet. When
strong man weeps until the tears fall, Their
20 is a deep emotion in his heart. Cali
awoke from her slumber. and just before sh
r, opened her eyes a sweet smile cleaned o'e
her face, CHEEKY as the sunbeam among til
flowers. She looked dreamily and pen,i,e
ID ly around, and began her old strain-'th
charmer, the charmer has led him away
" to. the dark mountain cote where the brow
of chaStnuts grow-the voice, the yoice-oh
xe Carl she shrieked as her eyes fell upon til
re face Of the wandersr. Carl, it is you
so face, but SO sadly changed. How could 70
IS be so cruel, Carl, to stay away 50 long?
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H- Editors are public pump handles
they give drink to others. hut unfortunately
are not supposed to ever be thirsty themselves,
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FOR THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
ny ESTELLE.

II is summer time. The earth is dressed in
cmrrald ROLES and the gentle breeze makes
pleasant music amid the green leaves. Wild
birds carol forth the songs in sweet melody
MN" n"a tSS er@os rr rl gJ1ss ny fyJl H KlSSlyG J tRfK seosi K:
mid this scene of beauty sports a fair child,
so fragile and so beautiful that he seems like
one 0f those pale treasures Of Spring which
he grasps with sach eager hand. The ze-
phyrs toy gently with his silken carls. Ever
nnl anon his clear silyery laugh rings out as
hegazes at his image in the sparkling waters,
or "a hers the shining blossoms. All is
life and beauty but the scene fades from
view.
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Death.

All is changed now! Sweet Summer has
come and goHe, fed like q bright dream to0
beautiful To last. The earth is decked in all
the brilliant dyes Of autumn, and the flowers
of summer have faded ON the hillside and all
around are marks of the dying year. But
let rs lock into the darkened room. A few
struggling sunbcams have found their way
through the closed shutters and rest sadly
amid the locks Of = fair child now lying in
the calm siecp of death. Flowers are in his
hand, but they lie dropping on his pillow.
Thus il is with Life The lark shadow oil
death ever hOvers around all that is beautiful
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Money and its Abuses.

The first application made of what is ia
miliarly known as money. was to wise and
useful purposes. No Invention. perhaps, has
ever bad so great an influence over the des-
TIMES of men ; more than anything else it
shapes the course and form of his progress
sive civilization. In this respect its history
is as instructive as it is curious. 1t is one
Of the great civilizers and the Zane or anti
dote of barbarity. But when money came to
be regarded as +" the sinews of war when
it became an abettor to other conflicts than
those encountered by man in his struggles
with the world-when it became the great
theme oflife-the all-absorbins object Of pur-
suit, and in a great degree the metallic stan.
dard of eminence and honor, then was this
blessing turned into a curse-into i" the
bane Of bliss, and source Of Woe" In view
of this condition, Thomas Hood wrote in al
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so society $he was gaining, sought to
work her ruin. sCallie was as innocent as
she was amiable{ and capable of being vic
tlmized without ever suspecting harm.
With plausible and subtle stories, care
fully linked With actions and words of the
unsuspecta nAthe base wretch who
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Good Medicines.

is estimated that AYERS ChERKv PICTORIAL AND Ca
THAHrIr PITTS have done more to promote the public
health an other cause There can be no ques-
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thousand of cures OrcOds, coughs, Asthma crop, u-
era, bronchitis, &c, very much reduced the proportion
OF deaths from consumpve diseases in this country
The PilSare good the PccoIul and will cure more
complaints.
Everybody needs more or less pusins Purge the blood
from its impurities. Purge the bowels, LiyeI and the
whole viscetal system from distractions Purge out he
diseases which asten on the bodyto decay hut
for diseases should die only old age Taxa ami
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too strong to yield.
Ayers Pills do thrust disease not only while it is
weak but when it has taken stronghold Read the
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less dangerous but still threatening ailments, such as PIN
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petite, Irregularities, Dizziness in the head coLs lever
Dysentery. and indeed every variety of COM ains lo
which Purgative remedy is required.
These random Statements hut are authenticated
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TRY them once, ard you will he without them.
Price p cents per bnv-5 hnXes Gnr 81.
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and sold by all Druggists in Wheeling
A. L. GOOD 4. tn, Wheeling
as5 wholesale and retail agents.
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the south side Of the bar or harbor, and about two
miles from the sea. the harlot is about a mile
wide, with several inlets- one Of which runs out
between the two hills and separates KarabelnaI,
Is this portion OF the city is called, from the city
proper. Across this inlet IS temporary bridge;
little south of east from the marine barracks, and
about berst, or three.quarters of mile, from
them, is the hill on which stood NIalakof tower,
and which is now defended by bastIon ON
grand scale. The Mason buildings are situated,
as il were, at the foot OF the hill, and from them
to the tower is the portion Of the city called Kara
eelHai. A udge runs down from the Malakoff hill
TO tue bay. On this ridge we have two excellent
baSt;ons; but the ground where they IRE situated
considerably lower than the hills fronting them,
which are held by the French On which they have
some excellent guns. From the MalakoG lower.
running all around the city, is succession Of
snaller hills, those Immediately adjoining the city
being held by US and the others by The enemy
We have ten baSliOuS besides the SIalakoE tower
on this side of tile bay. These form complete
semic,rcle, or encitcle the city on this side.