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REASON AND COMMON SENSE.

Our readers my remember we have on several
occasions spoken in very eulogistic terLas of a
preparation which Dr.. Seth S. Hance, of los Bal
timore street. Baltimore, Md, has discovered for
the cure of Epileptic Fits. Now, in doing SO, we
have been actuated by the very best motives, viz
the alienation of human suffering. From circum-
stances which have lately come to our knowledge,
we fear there is a certain class of persons who are
not disposed to try this remedy in a common
sense manner. We allude to the fact of selecting
anarticular case in a town where perhaps there are
six or eight cases, and trying it on one case.
Now. perhaps the ease selected might be the only
one of the whole number that it would not cure.
This is neither doing themselves nor the medicine
Justice. If dozen persons were stricken down
with cholera in one town or neighborhood, would
they all send for a physician, or would OILY one
employ him, and wait and see ifh cured the first
patient? That plan Of procedure would be most
absurd. So in the case of DR.. Hance's remedy,
every one who has Fits should try it for a reason
able length of time. It viii not cure in a day OF
week nothing worth doing can be accomplished
at once. What is easily done, is as easily undone
The growth of time is enduring. From the mos
respectable testimony we have examined, we fee
assured that by a proper perseverance, in this RENE
dy, nine cases Of Epilepsy out of ten may be Gu
red. The Pills are sent by mail free of posta get
any part of the world. Price: one box So twt
! SIS twelve "a. You win find the address above.
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Am nv Brothers Keepsr2o

Few men are willing to admit that they
exercise Just no influence at all upon those
with whom they mingle, and by no means
will they agree that It is possible for them
10 influence other men to do evil deeds by
my act Of thcils. Self-pride constrains
them to claim that they are possessed Of some
degree Of influence among men, and self ac-
ouittal induces them to render a verdict of
not guilty when a brother goes astray from
the narrow way Of moral integrity.
A young man becomes allured by 0 of
the prevailing vices Of the day--he indul-
GEES thcrciu-becomes a blemish upon his
name-an outcast-a sot--a blasted wreck
stranded upon the coast Of Time awaiting the
high tide Of death to launch him upon the
endless voyage Of the eternal sea. He is
lost TO society-to his family-to himself
Is his purely a case Of self-immolation up
ON the shrine Of sensual qualification, or is
Inc an unwilling victim and dupe Of some
one capable Of exercising an influence over
him for evil? Was his first false step in
crime a bold stride Of his own, or was his
totteffng step steadied by the hand of some
one Of whom we might hope and expect bet
ter things2 The broad way Of ruin is
crowded with thousands Of devotees. Are
they Of their own free viii? We're they
not started in the dangerous path by the ex-
ample Of some one laying claim to high re-
spectability
When these unpleasant probabilities are
suggested, and when that busy monitor in
the human chest twits a man Of these things,
he is very apt to turn short upon his heel,
both to the moralizer and his own conscience,
and propounI the Cainish interrogatory-
Am / my brothers. keeper2" This failed to
cover the blood Of a murdered brother thou
sands Of years ago, and in every land the
blood u ten thousand Abels smokes hotly
through it to-day. In vain may the man
setting evil example before his fellows at
tempt to exoncrate himself when he sees the
victim struggling in the grasp of some raven
Gus vice, by setting up the plea that he is not
his brothers. keeper, for outraged and insul-
ted conscience will thunder in sledge ham
mer tones at The very door of his souls Sc
cret chamber" gritty! GUILTYl! GULL
TY!!r'
In various ways we are our brothers
keeper, and it behooves US to watch our own
steps with jealous care, lest innocent feet may
be allurcd into paths we dare to tread and
be led astray.
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RECEIPTS FnR THE AGE

SINCE LAST 1ssUE.-S1 John White, G E
Wright, Oh. Hill D f Spach, L N Clinard,
Salem; $40 E Wick, Enfield; Rev. Bunch,
ir., Windsor; Miss S Z Willard, Mt. Olive !;
] B Jordan, Rolesville Miss e Daniel, Ga;
So w F Yancey, Hyco Falls DR. r Hooker,
Hillsboro' j o Jefreys, Wake Miss Jane
M Henry, S c.; j Boner, Salem S. ] G
Sronce, Holly Springs, Miss. John Carr,
Mt. Olive; DR. F NJ Garrett, Falkland j A
Kimball, Exchange !; B T Hodges, Kinston
0 Mcpherson, Clover Orchard VIM Nc
Pherson, Snow Camp; NJ P Powell, Hook
erton G G Pate, Pikeville; John Ellington,
Clayton /; w II Kirsey, Milton Mrs. Mar
tina A Hudson, Wilmington; A E Mosely,
Brownsville /; w Crockett, Cockletown Miss
NJ A Middleton, Kenansville Reuben Nor
man, Exchange Hon D II Calhoun, Centre
vile, Ala Floyd, SC; ST w FL Patrick
Wadesboro' F Smith, Conwayboro' [
Little, Taylorsyille John B Kennedy, Kin
ston SIS j B Odom, Pleasant Hill, La.
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The Presidential Succession.

The Judiciary committee Of the Senate,
through Senator Butler, has submitted a bill
regulating the succession Of the Presidency.
The act Of 1902 deyolves the Office first upon
the President pro tenn. of the Senate, or if
there be no such officer, then upon the Speak
or Of the House Of Representatives. Should
either OF these officers be ineligible on the
score Of age, or otherwise, or not be in exis-
tonce, an interregnum would occur. Judge
Buffers bill provides that if there be no Pres
ident pro tenn. Of the Senate, nor Speaker of
tho House, or if these officers should be incl
igible from any cause, then the Chief Justice
Of the United States shall succeed to the
Presidency, in the event of a vacancy in
that Office and the Vice Presidency after
the Chief Justice then each Of the Associate
Justices, according to seniority, to hold un
I'll the Electoral Colleges can be assembled
This law becomes important, in view of tn,
present position Of parties and party men
and the intention is to endeavor to secur
its passage during the present session.
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DEATHS.

How miable are thy tabernacles, Q Lord of
hosts"
Died, on the Sd of August, at her late
residence near Norfolk, Virginia, Mrs. Mar
garet Lindsey, wife of Col. Edm'd. c. Lind
sew, of Currituck, n. @. Mrs. Lindsey was
a daughter of highly respectable parentage,
and so amiable were all her acts and con-
duet Of life, that she gained the esteem of
all who knew her; and though she was a
woman of but few years, she had not neg
Iected to lay up for herself treasures in
heaven, and a good foundation for hope
against the day and period of her death.
Like Mary, she made choice of that better
part, which could not be taken from her.
For a few years past, this devoted christian,
distinguished for her piety, has lived a con-
sistent member of the NJ. L. Church thus
living the life of the righteous, she was pre-
pared to die the death of the saints. Like
most of other good christians, during her
short pilgrimage on earth, she was notexempt
from trials natural to the christian warfare
During the prevalence of the epidemic last
summer at Norfolk and Portsmouth, she haC
the misfortune to lose her first and only babe
a kind father and a tender mother, and tw,
promising brothers and no doubt she i
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Cay What a g%utteral shout Of JOY would
arise up from the stencil Of the dramshops
Of the land, were it known that the Order of
Sons Of Temperance was dead, and that the
gavel would never " call' Sons to labor a.
gain What exultation What drunken
royelry would rule its final DOOM
Ten thousand eyes from rum holes are
turned towards the Order now, watching
what signs may be in its sky, eagerly watch
Ing for omens that fvretell it's fall. How in
tenily they gaze and nod one to another and
predict and prophecy The palm itches to
clap aud shout an Internal huzza, when the
last star Shalt fall from its bright galaxy and
the last golden link be torn from its mystic
chain.
Ten thousand eyes brimrul of tears look
cut from humble homes to see if indeed the
noble Order is falling away. The hopes
Of old fathers, praying mothers and affec.
Tomato sisters are anchored upon it. They
thank God that it has been the means of So
wing a son, q brother, a husband from tn,
thrald I'm Of the inebriate's cup, and the tea
Of regret dims the eye when they hear of it
falling away, and from their bright homes il
the hills and the green wales they look on
TO see.
Sous OF TEMrERANcE.-Ten thousand, twice
thrice ten thousand, aye many eyes ar
looking out anxiously to see if your darlin
Order is falling away. HE to your nobl
task again, and let the beautiful pillars {
the blessed temple be seen to gather strengt
and It's walls irmness. \
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Bas- GA Meddler" has been received and
shall appear next week.
UNIVERSITY OF N. c. Aug. IL,

UNIVERSITY OF N. G. Aug. II.
Mr.. EDITOR: The belfry and bell of this
institution are among the things that were"
The belfrey was burned down on the night
of the 9th inst, and so intense was the heat
that the bell was completely melted. The
bell was a superior one, purchased by Pres.
Caldwell, some 40 or so years ago, weighing
about 800 pounds, at an expense of that
number of dollars. The timber composing
the belfry, was principally of oak and fat
pine. Some of the " Rresh'S," Soph's" and
Y JUNIORS" were playing in the early part
of the hight with fre-balls, (rag-balls satu-
rated with c~amphene,) throwing them over
the belfrey, in the tops ofthe trees and across
the campus-from the effects of which it is
supposed the accident occurred. The loss is
estimated at about 81 1000. 1856.
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MARRIED..

In Wake county, on the 9th inst, by Rev.
R. I. Heain, Mr.. Robert r. Badders and
Miss Annie E. Walton.
On the morning of the 9th inst, at the resi-
dence of Benjamin Bailey, Esq, in the coun-
ty Of Sussex, by the Rev. G. w. Parham,
Mr.. Junius G. Simmons, Editor of the Wei
don Patriot, to Miss Martha A. Seaborn, OF
said county.
On Wednesday the 23d of July, by VIM.
Laws, Esq, Mr.. Robert B. Thompson, to
Miss Elizabeth Barlow, daughter Of Mr..
VIM. Barlow.
s Standard and Register please copy.
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For the Spirit of the Age.


The 4th of July was celebrated by the
members of Triumph Division, No. ia, S. of
T., and the friends of Temperance at Rob-
erts' Chapel, Northampton County, N. G.
The exercises were commenced by singing
the Opening Ode of the Division, prayer was
then offered by Rev. J. N. Hoggard. The
Declaration Of Independence was read by j.
d. Boone, followed by some appropriate re-
marks by Mr.. Hoggard, who introduced j.
j. Yeates, ESQ.,, who arose and entertained
the company for more than an hour in a very
appropriate address both to the day and the
cause we are engaged in.
After the address, the company were in
vited to the grove to get dinner, which had
been prepared by the people of the surround
ing country.
Dinner being over the company returned
to the church, and was addressed by Park,
w. P, who gave the whole history of the Di-
vision, and closed by an earnest appeal to
the audience in behalf OF the Temperance
cause, and invited all who wished to become
members to come forward and give their
names, none came, but several spoke Of join
ing and think will yet.
After his address the Closing Ode of the
Division was sung and all retired to their
homes. We had a very pleasant time and
every thing passed off quietly, with the ex-
c%eption of a few who like to take their drains
and are engaged in dealing out the poison,
Gus stuff to their ~neighbors. These had
something to say about some remarks that
were made against their nice and orderly
houses, as they sometimes term them, but
we have not any regard for what they say,
and we intend to do our duty although we
are few in number (as you may see by oul
returns, only numbering %ffteen) yet we
know it requires long and united efforts t9
succeed in any enterprise, and there is worH
for us to do as we are situated in the mlds
of several soul-destroying and perniclou'
shops placed at nearly every fork OF the road
A MEMBER.
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GermantOn Female Seminary.

rVHE next session of this institution, will com
Il menee the last Thursday in July, 1856, and
close in My 81. No winter vacation. Summer
vacation Of two months. There will be a public
examination at the close Of the Spring session.
Expenses:
Tuition per session of 5 months, Primary De-
plrtment $40 Academic, II so Coliegiats, Is !;
Incidentals about 81. Board, including washing,
fuel and servants attendance, $40.
Extras:
Music on the Piano and Guitar, so each; Lam
guages, each, IS; Drawing and Embroidering, each
S.; Oil Painting, $50. No deduction for lost
Tune except in cases of protracted illness. Ad-
dress Mrs. Ann Eliza Mays, Principal, Geruanton,
N. C.
June l4th, 1856. 42-tIsept.
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PETERSBURG MARKET.
Carefully Corrected By

~ IA L q IL l. " N D.
GTocers and Commission Merchants.
WHEAT-We have again to note a further de-
cline In this article. Some buyers early in the
day kept up last evenings prices, but others again
would only pay 81 SO for prime white, others
again withdrew from the market, fearing a further
decline. At the close of business we quote 81 so
fer prime white and l 35 to ! SO for red.
ToBACco-The marke. opened this morning with
an active demand at very full prices for all des-
criptions. We quote Lugs at 6 to 81, mostly at 63
to u common leaf at 9 TO 104 good and fine
from IL to $40.
CorToN-rhe market is dull and lower, with
sales at III to IL.
CoRN-We quote at roe, and in demand.
BACON-There has been considerable ae witty
IN the market at advanced rates. We quote shoul-
dcrs III to II sides. 13c.
MAcKEGEL-No. 3, Boston inspection, 81 a 81.
GUANo This article continues firm at S55.
LARD-Va. in kegs Is a Is, western in biol. 124
q 13.
HERRIses-N. c. cut are scarce, and No. l we
quote 81 a 81, No. 2, RE sra 81.
SUGARs-Prices of all kinds are some higher,
and the market very firm here, and in the north
we qoote coffee sugar l04 a II, crushed l3 a IA,
powdecc 13d a 144, loaf l42 a l5c.
MoLAssEs-Syrup Al a Is, w. I. in hhds. As a
so, n. O. in bbls. So a 6Oc.
CoFFEE-This article without change.
Nails a 5 as to quality.
lRoN-Swedes very scarce and high, many sizes
not to be had. August l6.
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LAND FOR SALE.

W TRACTS in Granville County, Z miles
west of Franklinton Depot, containing upwards of
200 acres of good bottom land in both tracts.
will! sell them together or separate. They are d.
vided by the public road leading from Oxford to
Raleigh. I viii give from one to ten years indul-
genee. Apply to Rev. B. B. Hester, who will show
and bargain the land.
Also, 4 one acre lots at Normal College, joining
the College Square one well improved. with a
commodious dwelling; has Is rooms. / will sell
any one or all of the lots. Apply to the subscri-
Der ct Normal College.
T. LAWRENCE.
August 9, 1856. 50-5t
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o ONLY 81.

an the receipt of 81, will be mailed TO any per-
" son a recipe of a remedy for Horses, while
suffering with Bolts or Grubs, which was never
known to fail to give ease in their greatest agony,
if given in time. Many valuable horses have been
saved from an untimely death by this remedy, and
if given as advised. and it fails, the money will be
refunded. No person who has a horse should be
without this recipe. Other remedies will be added.
which will be conducive to health and thrift, and q
great preventive of d%istemper, which horses are
subject to. Address the P. NJ. Of Hill p. o.,
Wake county, n. C.
Nav IL, 1856. 5I.2m
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AGENTS! AGENTSi


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(postpaid) a fnll descriptive catalogue of my books,
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among which will be found some Of the best selling
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YEAEA1E SE8EINA.RT.
nDHHNCDnDn, NJ

RKAE AAE 8KAEINAA
GREENSBORO, n. @.
THE next session of this Institution viii com
mence on Friday, the LIST Of August
The course of study is designed to embrace eve
ry thing necessary to a substantial and ornamen-
>tal education. Great prominence is given to the
solid branches. Neither labor nor expense has
teen spared to secure instructors of the highest
qualifications in their various departments, and to
make Edgeworth second to no Institution In the
country, in every thing necessary to a complete
education.
For circulars containing terms, course of in
s~trdction, he, apply to
RICHARD STERLING, Principal.
Greensboro june %, 1856. 44-2m
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EIGHTEEN YEAEs OD.-There is a period
in the life of every young man, over which to
pass safely requires the most skilful naviga-
ton. To double this point is more dangerous
to the moral characters. than for a navigator
to double Cape Horn. The whirlpool of pride,
and the quicksand of self-eonceit yawn upon
them, and are to the young mar what Scylla
and Charybdis were to the ancients. This
period is from sixteen to twenty one years Of
age, and during this time, a young man is
subject to what is commonly called the 'eigh-
teen years old fever though, owning to the
precoclty Of some, they are attacked as early
as sixteen. The effects ofthis disease arealto-
gether different from those morbid complaints
to which the human system is subject; instead
Of washing away, it produces a general infla-
ton of the intellect, if l may so express it,
which renders the subject more like a bladder
filled with wind than a rational being.
A young man under the influence Of this
disease, is a perfect wiseacre be is too know
ing to learn from the experience of age he
knows best what is his own interest; his
parents and all who have gone before him,
are, in his opinion, fools he imagines himself
to be the first Of every wise generation, and
therefore construes every friendly admontition
into an attempt to coerce him or to abridge
his privileges. He discovers the down Of
puberty upon his chin, and believes that the
application Of a razor to his phiz would put
on the finishing touch for if he has a X beard
and shaves, he must, of course, be a man
and above all, the ladies dislike q beardless
man.
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U0Inme Z.

now in Heaven shouting her trials Ger. &
kind husband nd surviving relatives are
left behind to grove the irreparable loss Of
one whose noble example as a christian in
her earthly career. cannot fail to exert good
influence over the community in which she
lived. Her bereayed husband is too a fol-
lower of Christ. May he live to initiate the
example of his once loving and afectionate
companion. JAMES WHITsoN.
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PASTOR ABscoNDED.-Rev. Mr.. Dewitt,
Pastor of one Of the Catholic churches, OF
Philadelphia, married a wealthy young lady.
"a member of his church. He has been Treas
urer of a Catholic Temperance Society, and
Banker for a great many people. He has
absquatulated.
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THE ORIGINATED BITTERS.
From the Boston Olive Branch.

From the Boston Olive Branch.
Among the many popular medicines which have
acquired a high reputation, we believe none have
been found Of much benefit to dyspepsia, asthma,
and similar complaints, till the Oxygenated Bit
ters, by many aud various trials and experiments,
has been found a sure and radical remedy-a de-
sideratum long desired by physicians. It's gredi-
ents have been shown by chemical analysis to be
harmless and safe and from the testimonials Of
many of our first citizens who have been be-ef ted
by it, we feel assured that those indisposed with
tho above complaints can rely upon those Bitters
with safely.
These celebrated Bitters have received the high
est testimonials ever offered in favor of any medi-
cine.
Seth W. Fowle & Co, 13s Washington Street,
Boston, Prop letols. Sold by their agents every
where.
For sale by all the Druggists in Raleigh, Colds
boro,' aud throughout the State.
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MARKET.
Exported for the Spirit Of the Age, by
a. NJ. MCPHEETERS & Co

A. NJ. McPHEETERS & Co.,
WHOLESALE GRoCERs & COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
WILLS WHARF, NORFOLK, va.
Flour, receipts have been larger since our last
and our market is now we'll supplied with old and
new; We quote old 5. f. 81, a II, extra s, fami-
ly 81, new S + u, extra 81 to 81, family 9 a 81 I;
bacon, market bare and prices advancing, we quote
western shoulders lie, sides 134, Va. hoground,
al, hams lie; groceries, market poorly supplied,
and prices continue to rule high sugar, n. o. 81
a 81, P R none on the market; G. liz, : -, crush
ed IA, loaf 144 molasses, n. o. IS a 60, P R SIS a
134, Java 153 a 16; rice ST a 81 salt, G A sI2 a
Is, blown II a Il; cotton, LIZ a IL wheat, ARR
walls Of new and quick sales, red 50, white 81 g.,
at which sales were mad9 to-day. August Is.
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GOVERNOR AND LEGIsLATURE.-All the Coun-
ties in the State, says the Standard of Fri
day last, have been heard from but nine, to-
wit, Carteret, Cherokee, Currituck, Davie,
CASTOR, Hyde, Jackson, Macon and Watauga.
Gov. Bragg's vote in 70 Counties is, 50,0S8,
Mr.. Gilmer's, 1888. Assuming that the
nine Counties to be heard from, vote as they
did in 1854, Gov. Bragg's majority would be
1882. But he has no doubt gained IN these
Counties and his majority will range be-
tween twelve and thirteen thousand.
We expect by our next to be able to COM
plete the Governors table, and to state also
the exact majority in the Legislature.
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SsE~ Read the beautifully classic prodSc-
ton of our gifted fair Correspondent, on our
first page, and then award to Female Genius
the high award of merit it deserves.
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WHAT DO THE PHYSICIANS SAY?

my- Listen to the testimony of an eminent ply
sicician in favor of M'Lane's Vermifuge, which is
now universally acknowledged to be the best in
use even members of the medical faculty (who
are so often opposed to the use ofpatent Medicines
cannot withhold their approval of this invaluable
remedy
LIND, Stark Co. Ohio, Jan s, 1S49.
I have use1 DR.. MLane,s Worm Specific in my
practice, and am prepared to say that the unpar-
alleled success with which l have prescribed
its use, both for children and adults, in
duces me to say the most in its favor of any speci-
fc or patent medicine ever before brought to my
notice. The mode of administration, the smallness
OF the dose. and the certainty of its eficacious eff
fects, give it, in my opinion a decided advantage
over any other medicine Of The kind before the
public.
rs Purchasers will be careful to ask for DIR
MLane's Celebrated Vernifuge, manufactured by
Fleming Eros. Of Pittsburg, Pa. All other Vermi
fuge, in comparison are worthless. DIR. MLane'
genuine Yermifuge, also his celebrated Liver Pills
can now be had at all respectable drug stores
None genuine without the signature of
FLEMING BROS