Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-02-04

RAscALIrY ABouNDING.-The gospel is preached
to the people regularly, all over the country-reli-
gious papers and magazines circulated in fami-
lies, and many valuable persons set good examples
before the world-tut notwithstanding all this and
more observation teaches that raScality abounds
in all classes of society. Petty thefts daily
committed-such as robbing money drawers, steal
ing clothes, and dry goods, chickens, ducks, corn,
and other eatabcs. Strolng vagabonds dealing in
counterfeit money, and diseased horses, all over
the country. Gamblers, travelling and local, and re-
sident rogues, arc all on the alert. Pous villains,
with faces sanctifed the moral law, are keeping
false accounts, and swearing TO them, for the sake
Of gain. Whiskey shops selling by the small,
in violation of the law. Drug stores training up
drunkards in high life, and affording facilities for
Sabbath drinking which can be had no where else.
The rich expressing the poor, and the poor are
content to live in rags and idlencss Country deal.
ers in produce come to town and exact two prices
for all they have to SELL and the Of real estate
in towns asking double rents to the injury of
business, and the growth of towns. Banks and cor
poraons intended for the public good, have their
favores and partial in the distribution Of favors
Families prosecute and envy each other. individuals
SANDER their betters. Persons of low origin put
airs, and falsely pretend to be more than they are
Cheating and misrepresentation are the order of the
day. generally In politics there is very little pat
riotisIn or love of country, while demagogues seek
to misead, and build up their own fortunes at the
hazard of running the country. In religion there is
drels living crowd into the church, with view to
cloak their rascay designs, and more efectually to
serve the Devil! In word, rascalty abounds among
all classes and in all countries. The Devil is stalk
ing abroad in open daylight without the precaution
to dress himself And if the present generation of
men could see themselves in the Gospel Glass, they
are as black as Hell. BroWnloac's Wing.
CoMMENDABLE.-Oneo four most enterprising mer-
| chants, well as deserving of men, finding busin-
ness entirely suspended on Monday, determined not
to be idle but with purpose as noble as his heart
is fbera started out in behalf of the poor OF city,
| Nothing daunted by the depth of the SNOW the
biting cold Of the temperature he travelled every
street. and applied to every citizcn-eelng that he
appealed for the noblest ofpurposcs and but ustrat
ed the brightest ofa the Christian graces He start
ed to raise $500 before dark, he informed u.s. and
in patriotic, aye, in Christian TOLL he struggled on,
until night when, to his eternal praise be it sad and
evidence of the generous bcrality of this commu.
nifty be recorded he ascertaned that his object had
been fully accomplished The money has been
placed in the hands of the various pastors Of the city,
and will be by them appropriately disbursed. We
| would not exchange that young gentlemans feel.
ings-the proud consciousness Of having achieved
object SO noble and praise worthy--not for all
the empty honors and applause this world could bes-
tow. Such men are not only philanthropists and
public benefactors but they are honor to the hu
man species, and the brightest ornaments of which
any community can boast. e ~ - :,
- Petersburg Express.