Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-08-13
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his way q snort Time dSo, through some mar.
passage, when he met a pretty. modest
girl. Pray, my dear said he, g what do
you call this PASSAGE "Balaam's pas
replied the girl. aAhl ther," con-
the puppy, II am like Balaam-stop-
ped by an angel" "And T." reioined the
girl, as she pushed past him, am like the
angel-stopped by an ass
SoUTH CARoL1NA.-South Carolina. with a
white population of ZIG. SOS, a total oopula.
of Cos, 507, and a federal representative
population of 514,513, has 8 colleges and
theological schools, 2O2 academies with T.
.67 pupils, and IA common schools with
IL, 1888 scholars. There are 26 Libraries in
the State aggregate number of volumes
107, 492.
A CHEAT OF PRoyERB.-We beg to state
that the proverb " Lightly come, lightly 90"
does not apply to the govt, nor to ones moth
erin law, nor to the rheumatism, nor to
freckles, nor to a light sovereign for all
these plaques come lightly enough, and vet
there is the greatest difficulty sometimes in
getting them to go.
AN OUT AND OUT TRIcK.l(To be played
in an Omnibus IF asked to go outside q to
oblige a lady" plead as an excuse that you
would, but you dare MOTOR !" you only re-
covered from the typhus yesterday and In
,%stantly there will be room for the lady, as
every gentleman will, all of a sudden, be
only too gladto go outside"
ANOTHER VIcTIM,-William Freund, of
San Francisco, formerly of St. Louis, is re-
ported to have fallen a victim to the mob
law of the San Francisco Vigilance Commit
tee. Freund having got into a difficulty with
a companion, drew a knife to defend himself,
and in the struggle slit open the belly of his
companion, causing his death in a short time.
1t is said he was Immediately arrested by the
Vigilance Committee, tried, convicted and
hung.
:" Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
In the Western part of N. c., in the far
famed county of Buncombe, there is a noun
tain peak, which only wants sixteen feet of
being the highpoint in the United States.
We grew up within one and a half miles of
that pinnacle, drawn in a direct line from
the gallery of /" childhood's home" to its
highest point. About twenty feet from
the highest point of that pinnacle, at the
base of a projecting rock stands a shrub or
small tree, about fifteen feet high, and about
ten inches in diameter near the roots. It
blooms the last of July, and it's flowers are
unsurpassed by anything we ever saw in the
finest flower gardens. When a boy we often
tried to transplant some Of it's scions in the
valley below, they disdained a denser atmos-
phere, than that which gave them being.
We have often wondered why a tree of such
transcendant beauty should be planted where
human being never can dwell, and which
deigns not to flourish in the gardens of Guilt
vation.- WoodOiM (Feras) Messenger.
The OTHER SIDE.-Any quantity of cards
are being published just now by banished
gentlemen who left California under the SUI
p~erintendance of a large number of their fell
low citizens. All the cards are in abuse of
the committee. To give both sides of the
case we publish the following extract from
the speech of Chilly Mulligan," delivered
t on the eve of his expulsion from California {:
q know that my punishment is Just and
) merited l deserve it and n8fe too. I have
t no fault to find with the Committee; they
l are all respectable gentlemen, and are act
ing right, and they ought not to stop with
! what they have done. There are a hundred
Others just as bad as | am, and deserve the
same treatment. There is no officer in the
CIby VI COuHby VI Odu EIduClSCO WHO Is legal
: ly elected. They are all thieves from their
Offices. l shall hope to hear that they have
all been made to resign.
A COMMENTARY ON SHAKESPEARE BY PUNCH,
= When Shakespeare says that the man that
u hath no music in his soul is fit for treasons
! stratagems, and spoils, he says what some
: people greatly misunderstood. He does not
u say that worthy old Brown, who can not tel
) " Rule Britannia" from +" God SAGE the Queen
. is a traitor and a william at heart. He doe
not denounce the want of musical ear. TIL
i want of that element in the. soul which an
, swers to music and is affected by music tn
want of heart-strings capable of vibrating t
r, music-to tender, plaintive, joyful, grand
Y, unearthly, glorious music-the deficiency il
at short of those sentiments which distinguisI
: man from the iackass and other brutes. I
lie man nay be wholly destitute of these senti
ments, and be able to fiddle q brilliant fan
tasia he may possess all of them, and ye
- be quite deaf, music must get to them to ez
u. cite them but in that degree wherein it ha
i'd power to excite them, it is good music.
SMILES AND FRowNs.-Which will you dc
smile and make your household happy, Q
be grabbed and make all those young one
W gloomy and the older ones miserable ? Th
u amount of happiness you can produce is il
calculable if you show a smiling face, a kin
s heart, and speak pleasant words. Wear
. pleasant countenance; let joy beam in you
- eyes, and love glow on your forehead. Thel
is no joy like that which springs from a kin
. act or a pleasant deed and you will feel
at night when you rest, at morning when yo
! rise, and through the, day when about yot
d business.-Home Journal.
A LUCKY NORTH CARoLINIAN.-The Ca
ital Prize of 500, 900, in the Fort Gaines A
Il, ademy Lottery, Glass II, drawn in Atlant
Ga, under the management of Samuel Sws
IL Co., was sold to one of North Carolina
ne Sons on a Whole Ticket He resides
Shelby, Cleaveland County.
f. HA Within the last few days we have HI
at refreshing rains, and the corn crop 8. conce
ming which serious fears were entertained.
consequence of the prolonged drought, hi
been, In a great measure, reclaimed. I'M
nd the whole, the farmers of B~uncombe w
have no cause to complain.-Ashuiue Sheet
tor.
nd
8 LESSON IN GEOGRAPHY. Annette. n
dear, what county is opposite to us on !
90 globe I" Don't know,sir." "Well now
De- said the perplexed teacher, " suppose I we
to bore a hole through the earth, and "
were to go in at this end, were would ',
come out?" "Out of the hole, sir J" repIi
the pupil, with an air Of triumph.
~ A Slight MISTAKE. The Christi;
y Advocate and Journal, in a comp
mentary notice Of "Annals of Southel
81, Methodism" saws ifs author n