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Liquor the Cause

A gentleman. who had recently served on
Grand Jury al the Court for his county,
said to us:-" ii ere were an unusually large
IF presentE-ents for assanlt aud bal
terry. misdemsanors, &c, and IL every instance
liquor was proved to be the i~ustigatiag
eaase."-The record from othsr counties.
would be the saue and still the great curse
is fO-tefed by an intelligent community with
al eye jealous Of its infamous interests. The
moral pestiienee stalks boldly through q
christian land in the glare Of ar intellectual
noon. armed with the pahopIy Of legal au-
thority, with it's great quiver full Of deadly
arrows, feathered by a christian people,
Court after court writes episodes in its terri
bic history. yet the eyes Of the people are
Nilfnlly closed against its outrag,s AID its
wrongs.
Why not strike al the root Of this great
wrongf Why not sehd up /" q true biaD
against all liquor huekstsrs as public nuisan.
ees and the poisoned fountain, from which
spring assaults, disturbances, murders, etc
There is a law against /" selling BY tie small
then why not enforce III Is s.lHBg Wbisksy
too sacred a vocation for the Law to lay yio
lent hands uponi We begin to entertain
serious fears that the people secretly fear III.
rum power, and are cautious 30 not disturb
its peace lest somebody DO goaded cut o
profitable Offices 10y it, offended dignity
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PETERSBURG Z, Va.

The cause Of Temperance seems to be pros
pering finely, in our p~eighbering city of Pc
tersburg. A good friend. to whom we are
indebted for many similar fav0rs, sends for
16 copies of the Age, and otserves-"I am
happy to inform you hat We are prospering
in our Division. We haye not held a meeting
this year, without having some one to initiate;
and oftener than otherwise. from II to Is,
and several times 20 and Is. May they all be
faithful Amen ! say we. Petersburg Di.
vision is, and has always been, an active,
working Division, and its influence for good
is seen aud felt in that community to a most
gratifying extent. Off all the Divisieus d
our Order throughout the Union had been
composed of sueh sterling stuff, what might
we not have accomplished BY this time
Wake up, Suns of Temperance every where
Patriotism and humanity demands your
help.
P. S.-Siuce the above was in type, Z
member Of Petersburg Division was in oul
once, who gave a glowing account of tn,
interest manifested by the Ladies in tn,
cause. Large Plumbers visit the Division
regularly every meeting. No wonder th,
Order prospers in Petersburg.
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For the Spirit Of the Age.

Iib 1ykAlb IA OuC ASts j
On Friday the 18th February, Preslef was
hung for the murder of bis wife about Is
months ago. lie was conveyed to the gal
lows stand at 9 o'clock and addressed the
large assembly present to witness the exeeu-
ton of a fellow human being. He spoke for
one hbur and a hall, and his FIRST declaration
was, that be came to the gailovs by selling
liquor to negroes at night and or Sundays
fer the last 6 years. Forl5 years they lived
as happily as any other coupls, but 10 an
evil hour he was tempted by the devil 10 sell
liquor FIR profit, which had Effected his ru-
in. lie acknowledged that he new, r abused
or beat his wife unleSs he was drunk, which
be regretted but did not know that he bad
killed his wife until he was arrested for muir
der. ! understand that he showed no sign
of repentance.
He WAS calm to the last. He believed that
he would come out clear ; he was tried twice
and the evidence was STRONGER atths last
trial than At the first.
1t is unnecessary to comment upon this,
! as his own acknowledgment under the gal
r lows ought to convince the whole world that
r traficing in liquor will certainly ruin any
who engage in it. See what it has done IN
i this instance. Here war "a man Of family
o living together happily for Is years, took a
II notion to trade ia liquor for gam. What did
he gaInr Why nothing but he has lost
himself and killed the partner of his bosom
IS whom he promised before the altar to protect
and defend for life! And is il not a shame,
that men nowadays who profess christian
re feeling and live in a christian land, shoult
e. uphold such doctrine and give license to mel
re 10 killan NJ ruin? l cannot conscientiously be
+ lieve that men with christian feeling can re
W concile such practices and conduct with tn
I'll teachings of the Bible but he must hav'
20 received his christian doctrine from som
| grng-sellsr and you know they cannot b
d. relied IN for any good OF the kind. Thei
only object is gold, and anything for gold.
be And Mr., Editor, monstrous to relate. ate
the criminal was hung, there was more dinl
,ly ing aud fighting tnan was ever known be
in fore in Monroe So you see what effect
nd has upon an assembly of This kind. n
dOHbt there were two or three Pedlers abon
les as they are always where crowds are gathere
the together for any purpose.
the MECKLENBuRG.
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For the Spirit of the Are.

.MR. EDIToR: Below you will see the ct
ymoIogy of some of the names Of the u.
States. If any of your readers can detect
any errors, or make any additions, they
would be doing good service in the cause of
knowledge.
Maine, or Meyne-so called from a prov.
ince in France.
Nep Hampshire-From Hampshire co.,
England.
Veymout-Frcnch. "Green Mountain"
Observation-Disclosures. Perhaps from Mas
sasoit.
Rhode bland-From the island Rhode in
N~arragansett bay. Rhode" perhaps from
the Greek, meaning " rose"
Connecticut or Quonektocut, Long or end
less River"
Nsw Tork.-From city of York, England.
Neec Jegsey-from Island of Jersey, Eng
land.
Psnnsytrania-From "Rena,n' and latin
g Sytra," az forest"
Delaware-From Lord Thomas Della Ware.
Aaryland-From Henrietta Maria, Queen
of Charles lst.
Tirgipia-From the pi,gin queen Eliza
beth.
Carolina-Probably from Charles 1st.
Georgid-In honor of George II.
Foridd-Latin--'' F1owery."
4ldboma-Indian. Here we rest"
. Mississippi-lndian. Father of Waters;
properly, " Great River"
Louisiana.-In honor of Louis XIV.
Tsnaessee.-Indian name of the river, s'Crook
! ed Spoon"
: Kentueky.-Indian. Ozark, and blood,
: ground"
Missouri-Nearl Synonymous with Mi;
d sissippi.
OHIO Indian. Beautiful River"
Aianessota-Indian. blue clouded W:
ter"
: Michigan-Indian. "Great Water I" r.
fering to the lake.
hdianG-Fron the word =" Indian; d
rived perhaps from the Sanserit i" Indus"
Sindhoo the sea"
ia Winois-From ar Indian tribe so Gale
nd Win some of your readers please compile
the list? CHuLAHoMA.
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e. 2s
The Plague Spreads.

NOTWITHSTANDING the great efforts that
have bren made for the last eK years to ar
rest the vice spread desolatiens caused by
intemperance, the plague yet spreads likes
dire contagion, and with each rolling year
more and more victims are consigned TO the
doom Of the drunkard. Drinking habits are
being ies lilly popuiarizeJ, and in high and
low soeiegy be Intoxicating cup IS passed
with a bola band. Few shenes are seenrsL
from ths assaults If the psstilense; il reyels
around thousands u darkened hearths; and
it breathe, a seercbing breath upon The inno-
cent and defsnseiess. The deadly plague Of
drunkenness viii not lie stayed. Itxidsns,
and deePens, and strengthens with saebf
sweeping year. The Gospelhas Asen preach
ed and the trsth Pfeclained Tor years. yet
the demon rio4sin newness Of life and rigor.
ITS blightirg iepresy srath-s and destroys
youth. manhood and old age. The duIiesE
eye can see the fearful brand upon The suiek-
en- victims, and the heaviest ear can I,ear the
sncensing wsil Of those who mourn The hfpe-
+ lsssly last. Nature cries out in the deadly
3 struggle. and her s~ignslbescons Of alirm
CLEAN cut on a desolate waste with afendish
= glare. that tells Of a corsuming fire kidding
amid the ruins Of the immortal image IF
Godr
The plague spreads through ell the green
wales Of home. and a voice Of Lamentations
goes up from desplate places Ger which the
scathing scoria Of a slumbering volcano has
swept, burying happiness. hopes and joys
forever. The deadly plague spst burns
\ brightly upon brOws to-day that once bowed
with christian reverence to the christmas
God. Men who bore hi b the temperance
standard but yesterday, to-day siuk Town be-
! meath the sicksning leprosy 81 the p-silsDee.
r. The plague spreads and clutches with
more deadly grasp the throbbipg ,itals #
communities than ever befure. Neighbor.
hoods that had won to themselves a gOodly
name for their habits of sobriety in year,
ne agOne, are now notorious for riotings and
nv drunkenness. A ~neighkor cannot have hi
5, corn husked, his house raised. his logs rolled
'ro- or bis grain harvested without the presenc,
S s Of the whiskey jog. This practice is ,gail
En-. becoming f~earfuily prevalent. Public sen
timent. at one time, had nearly frovned
down. hut the demon dies hard and in il
re- death agony rears a new and more terribl
ont head.
and The plague spreads with the sweep or
no storm-fapned prairie FIRE. az there no bali
enc in Gilead :" We would that we could soun
.rict a bugle blast that would arouse tsmpsran.
> of men to unHinching ACTION everywhere
With a zeal for the RIeRT. we invoke Il
= of cooperation Of christians and patriots to q
m Of in staying the sweep of the deadly plague
by drunkenness. .
MIA To yoHr tents, o, Lraa p .
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For the Spirit Of the Ago.

SHELBY, N. y. zen. "a, ". |
Mr.. EDITOR: | have just been looking over
the Age" that came this morning, and
among many very interesting things l see a
driUe you make at the eanniVance of charch-
es in allowing the making and selling, as well
as asing the s~uacJean thing" You say
:" even class leaders, and other official mem
bers do this, without open rebuke, &C."
- | am a Methodist, even a preaGher-aye a
travelling preacher Ia P. E. also,) and while
| do not deny but that the administrators of
discipline have, in many instances, been too
remiss, and as a general rule may not have
carried the war into Africd, as they should
and would have dune, under clear provision
of law, yet | must say there is room for dis
elimination, and / think the practice is now
almost everywhere to bring the influence of
CORRECTIVE discipline upon all such cases. :
Making, selling, or using, unless in cases OF
necessity, (prescribed by a physician) either
in the instance of official or l~ay-members-
and if reasoning and discussion do not in
duce a reformation. in due time expulsion
is the result ; and l have scarcely known OF
heard Of an instance, where the society, Of
quarterly conference. and public sentiment
did not sustain the Preacher in thus admin
i~strating under the rule, /" The doing of nj
harm" and the other of !" drunkenness q
drinking spirituous liquors, &C."
NV observation embraces Spartanburi
and York Districts, S. c., and the couutie
between the Gatawba and Blue Ridge, (ir
GLIDING Caldwell also,) and for the past tie
or twelve years, | am Stge d~istilers hav
been dealt with, and expelled, when they re
fused to desist, and for the most part We hay
been able to ret rid Of the topers, or mode
ate drinkers. Though here and there a fe
may linger on docEet yet, their cases sha
!, and viii be reached. Nor, there are tvs
cases only, within my knowledge, and
/ can know ia my whole region, Of class lea
3 ers distilling. and they have begun this wi
' ter, are now under ceRsure and will soon
: put right, or put out. as the quarterly CO
fer ences in both instances, unanimous
Y agreed, hy vote, to sustain the preacher
thus carrying out the law of the church al
V the dictates of common christian decency.
l have been making temperance speech
a for the last ten years, more or less, from I
o pulpit and elsewhere, in this region of t
l. country. and a portion Of the Baptist cler
"a and laity are doing their part well. | ha
rs been a member Of the temperance society
ne years-a Son of Temperance San h;
re been paying for the Age 2. l enclose yol
n dollar now for the current year, only )
tn must change it to Mrs. A. NJ. Kelly, as
as says it is her paper.
Ie, Yours, JNO. w. KELLY
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RALRIGH. E.c.
wgDR8sbAg. @AAeE 81,
A Positive Announcement,


Subscribers receiving their paper with a CROSS
MARK, are thereby notified that in four weeks
IRON the receipt Of the frss -nnnber thus marked,
their subscription years will expire and unless
renewed within that time, the paper will be dis
continued TLis rule will be inhexibIy adhered to
@ We have rejected several commuui-
cations recently, because the writers real
names were not given to MS. We must have
the names Of Correspondents confdentially
communicated to us, or we viii not publish
their communications.
BREvITY 10, that we could impress upor
newspaper writer's the necessity Of this car
dinal virtue! We have consigned severa
pieces to the flames recently, because Of thei
length. The subjects of their articles wer
good, and creditably written, but they IN
used six. eight and ten pages, when one 9
two would have been sufficient 10 express a
they had said. Yerbosity is a dreadful con
plant among writer's and speakers of IL
present day.
"'Tis of books the chief
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One More.

We have Just learned, that on Saturday,
the 2lst ult., a Mr.. HiDshax, a citizen of
Chatham Co, was found dead on the read.
between his home and Pleasant Hill, at which
place an Exhibition had that day been held.
We have mt heard what verdict the iurx- OF
inquest rendered. but from the fact Of Mr.
IL being a drinking man, and being intoxi-
Gated at the Exhibition. it is fair TO presume
that liquor had something to do in causing
his death under the circumstances.
Thus one more is added to the fearful list
Of those who go down to the grave through
the agency Of intoxicating drinks. The past
few months has been a fruitful harvest ripen-
ing from the drinking habits Of the psople-
The startling reports Of its deeds of violence
begin to fall listlessly upon the great public
ear. because of their Frequency. Men Get
drunk and die, and we scs RELY hear an ex.
lelamation Of wonder. whiskey na5dened.
men strike deadly blows-the murderer stamp.
feeling over the murdered. and the scene
passes by as an idle tale. Scarcely a tragic
feeling throbs The public heart. What ara
we coming TOT Are we going lack wards
with raiiroad sps-d, in morals and e~iviliza
toni There must he an awakening up On
this fearful evil. The public must write n.
cessure upon the peddlrng of rhiskey soon
or late. Is nust be excluded from public
gatherings If We maintain DOR good nam,
for morality, the public must frovn vb;,ke,
reddlers frt ali gatherings of The uaoule Il,
It the court green. the elections, the plac,
where sehooiboys meet % deelaim, or wher,
christians meet 70 worship cd. The publ
1.-The people mast arouse 70 a sense Of the;
danger.
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@Ss,G: s.
LAnggS' DEPARTMENT..
L. The Shirt of the Age.

For the Spirit of the Age.
Perhaps the members of the Social
Circle may not feel any great rePaghance
70 making the acquaintance OF a Stranger
whose home is where the mountains pierce
che clouds with their lofty summits' as
they stand in silent dignity and solemn
rrandeur in their appointed places while
she crystal waters leap bright, bouyant and
snarkline from their bosoms, and the tor
rent dashes wildly over the everlasting
rocfs. and where the red man of the for
~e.t.stilI proudly treads the same soil which
his forefaihers trod. If they are willing
40 admit such an one into the /" Circle"
thev will permit the writer Of the present
article TO introduce himself as one who So
licits their acquaintance, more from a de-
siro TO be benefited by their eommunica-
tions, than from any vain notions he has
Of being able to Prove interesting to them.
The g Social Circle " What magic
sweetness fingers in that phrsset What
memories do those words awaken! What
fond associationsare eutwined around them
remember a Social Circle, where a kind
father, = devoted mother, and affeetionate
brothers and sisters composed a band whose
heartsawere linked together by the strong
cords Of love. Where, in the long winter
evenings the interesting story, the sprightlJ
saving, the pleasant Sitticism, and the IN
nocent diversions, rendered the time 81
happy, that
aThe moments winged their way wi pleasure,
and each member wished the evening
were longer. But long years ago on
meuiber left that circle. Perhaps bis 81
sence% cast a shadow over it for a time
Perehahce the merry tones of laughter ran
less free aud wild for q few short months
when they thought Of the absent one, VII
was among strangers buffetiDg the wave
of the rough sa Of life as best he nigh
unaided by p~afeAtal advice or the encou
agements Of fond brothers and sisters
But soon again all WIS sunshine and jo
And.that " social circle, still exists.
il knew another " Social Circle" COZ
posed Of fewer members, hut in it we
loving hearts whose pulses ceer beat re
ponsiTe to each other, and gen1e vote
whose tones inspired thrills of rapsare.-
Words cannot express. the ecstatic D.
the unalloyed bliss Of which that cir
Was the sce6e-that circle in which
,a Each,to each had fondly plighted,
Warnsst love till death divide"
sAIasl death did divide them. The
c8e4is broken. The rose that bloomed
s~estly Is withered. The eyes Of jet
closed. TIE once warm lips are icy q
The faulleas form is falling to dust. ,
joyous, trusting spirit that loved SO ard
kaud 90 true, is Aed-gone to a hi
more coDgenial.
saAaains there is a lonely being in
void. He would seek admittanee in
circle, the members Of which may neve
collected around one ~hearthstone, but
By the magic Of the pen may disco
swoetly together aud cheer and eneou
ono another 10 the rugged journey Of
audsmaks each better and happier as !
passing on. Win you admit him
eORPHEUi
a
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~ConwaYboro', S. c.
ANOTHER SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN
The Kingston Canada Wing says:

We announce as a positive fact that DR..
Rae, the Arctic traveller, aided by the con-
tributions Of kind friends, is building in
Kingston Dock yard an Arctic schooner, to
be ready in May, TO 60 down to Quebec,
thence to the Arctic regions, to make one
search for Capt. Frapklin's party, lead OF
alive. DR.. Rae is to command the schooner,
and the party Of hardy adyenturers to accom-.
pany him and mar his vessel are selected
and engaged. We say, to search for Capt
Franklin and his men /; because, as for the
ships Terror and Erebus, they were mos
unquestionably seen in 1851. attached to al
inceberg, drifting to the south, in the SAM,
way as was the Resolute.
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bT We bad the pleasure Of a visit. last
week, from Bro. w. w. Greene, who has been
for many years employed as Lecturer by the
Grand Division Of Virginia and who has ae-
eomphshed as much for the cause as an,
man who has ever latored in that State
Bro. Greene proposed visiting and lec,arinE
at several points in North Carolina. WI
hope his labOrs will be crowned with abun
dant success. Divisions DESIRING the servi
ces eta Lecturer might probably secure hi
services, provideda successive list Of appoint
ments could be gotten up. lie is a good Lee
%turer. atrue temperance man, and a worthy
Royal son Of the South.
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BSg The miseries of India are thus strongly
depicted, in a late number Of the London
Times:
The pestilenee (cholera broke out in Aqua
in May last, and in a few months slew up
wards Of sixteen thousand people. At Mean
Nicer, mendied two hours after being seized.
Estimates give the total loss of life at nine
ty Thousand persons. The disease every
whore seems to nave spared the women and
most certainly did not attack the European
females-a singular fact, which suggests the
idea that bad liquor may be the predisposing
cause. The mere cost TO the company of the
outbreak will exceed 100000 sterling.
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For the Spirit of the Age.
The Slsnderer.

gMHHaH" 49, 81.
of all the "unclean'' things that live and
move-that walk, creep or crawl upon the
face of the green earth, and breathe the pure
air thereof, the Slanderer, in my sight, is the
most despicabie. OF all the vices bequeath
ed by Adam to his fallen race, SANDER can
plead the least excuse: the murderer, thief,
adulterer, drankard, and profane swearsr,
may show some cause or reason, thai may go
towards palliating the crimes they commit ;
but the. Slanderer can render no excuse.
whatever, for the yenomous thrusts Of his
vile tongue, other than the qualification of a
malicious propensity to injure his fellow
man, without benetitting himself; for we
know shat he cannot possibly reap any other
reward from has infamous work than the
consolation derived from the knowledge oil
having brought the object of his malice, by
destroying his reputation, to a level with
himself. Calumny is the Slanderer's ele
ment: IN It's turb1d waters he elves. moves
and has his continual being-out of it h,
dies he drinks of it, and feeds upon it. lave
his body in 1t, and sasurates his garment.
with it. cad goes about among his neighkor
and spews it into their faces and rnhs tn
accumulated mud from his own skirts mo,
theirs. He is no respeeter of persons-no
does he confns himself to any one class :
| people: the high and the low, the poor "
the rich, friend and foe are alike objects I
his spleen.
Every town, village and neighborhood hi
its Slanderers-lwe cannot, in fact, 90 ami,
for them-they are as thick as blaciberri,
in Juns-I am talking to several of the
nosC, and I want them to LISTEN to me y
whithersoever We may go there we are So
to find this Proteus.visaged fend, doing i
hellish work of blighting the character. a,
! blasting the fair fame Of his fellow man.
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SICK HEApAcHE-I have known the sever
est headache to he helped and the nervous
headache cured by some sympathetic person
rubbing with the hands from the top Of the
head down, and )f the shoulders, after the
mesmerie manner. The most intense pain
can be soothed in a few minutes by this sim,
pie remedy, remembering to carry the hands
further away from the head when the down
ward pass is made. This will also help the
toothache nine cases out of ten.-Ohio Cult
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RIVERS AND HARBoRs.-The River and
Harbor Bill that passed Congress, proposes
to sppropriate$3 25l8e0. Among the items
are $50. 900 for Albemarle Sound, and 5000.
900 for the Cape Fear Bar. The bill pass
ed Congress by a decided majority, but
will be vetoed by the President.
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DIR. FRANKLIN was once endeavnring to
kill a turkey by an electric shock when he
received the whole force of the battery him
self. Recovering, he humeredly remarked
that instead of killing a turkey he had near
ly put an end to a goose.
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No Alcohol. TIE o~xsgenated Bitters
claim the favorable attention Of those whose
principles forbid the use Of the alcoholic slim :
ulants. This well known remedy for Dss
pepsia and Generally Debility, is richly
worth a fair trial.
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Charleston Market. The "News'' states
that cotton sold in Charleston on the 10Th
February, at prices ranging from 124 to
l3} cts.
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otis Of books the chief
Of all Projections, to be plain and brief"

pc We have given up a larger portion
than usual. of our paper, to-day, TO the news
of the day, it being Of a character in which
most Of our readers will be interested.
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n We had quite a snow on SUNDAY
night last ysgetaFon has suffered we fear
seriously BY the severe cold during the past
week.