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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-10-07

Tor the occasion and invited them, agreed as
to the Pic mic, in a word settled all the pre-
llmlnaries for a temperance demonstration.
AT an early hour on the day appointed 9th
OF August, the Divisions named were on the
ground, with provisions for a pic mic, arrayed
IN their appropriate Regalias, all formed in
hne about two hundred PAGES from the speak
ers' stand, marched together to the stand and
sat together in front and spent the day until
q late hour together, with feelings of BROTH
erly kindness and sympathy, such as | hope
those Divisions will ever feel towards each
other; and what added greatly to the interest
of the occasion. was the presence OF the Char
lotte Sax Horn band, which delighted thu
audience with thrilling and captivating music.
There was also present, a Seeion Of Cadets
from Charlotte with their Banners, which
made an impo ing appearance, and gave en-
enlargement to all those feeling deep inter-
est in the progress of the temperance cause.
As regards the crowd spoken of by your
correspondent. the good order that prevailed
throughout the thrilling and soul stirring
speeches delivered on the occasion, | believe
will be endorsed by every one present
The presentation of the Bible by Miss M.
E. Spratt and her remarks in behalf of the
Ladies of Steel Creek, to White Hall Division,
and the response and reception of the Book
by Mr. Wm. Mark, in behalf If the Division,
was all taken together, so chaste, and SO ap-
propriate, that all present appeared pleased
r and delighted.
| do not wish to be understood as attaching
blame to any thing your correspondent ha'
written, but to state what he has omitted t.
Y do (no doubt, inadvertently neither do
, cast any reflection on White Hall Division
n | know them all, they are my friends and ar
e battling nobly in the good cause.
Mr.. Editor, before lay down my pen,
wish to say a word or two as respects the L.
dies of Steel Greek and Pleasant Hill Divis
ions. They too have presented their respe,
IS tive Divisions with a neat copy of the Hol
Scriptures, and not only SO, but they ofte
grace their meetings by their presence, an
n unite their efforts and influence with that
their fathers, husbands and brothers, in 70
be warding the good cause for which they al
in associated, the cause of Temperance.
he A Sos OF PLEASANT HILL DIVISION.
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.If I DON'T, somebody else VIM

This is the s~tereotyped argument Of a mo-
torious dealer in whiskey when spoken to
concerning the evil that he is visiting upon
the families in his midst. lie is free to con-
fess that his traffic is attended with constant
~calamities, and that he is the cause of bring
ing woe and misery upon the heads Of unof-
Tending and helpless women and children,
and that no good results from bis trade. But
money can be made by selling whiskey-the
people will have whiskey-I have as much
right to make money as anybOdy-and ifI
don't sell it, somebody else WILL This is
wonderfully pungent argument. 1t might
be rendered more forcible by adding-somc-
body will sell anyhow, whether / do or not
1t is a convenient argument. When con-
science reproves the man for his evil course
it is very convenient to shelter behind the
oft repeated / don't, somebody else will
1t is a comprehensive argument, and may
be used with equal force to cover other short
comings, even "a multitude Of SINS as may
be inferred IF don't go to the devil, some
body else will, and probably a great number
will go whether ! do or not This is the
pith of the entire argument. A man is not
excusable in committing sin because some
body else enters upon forbidden ground
Thy sins be upon thee,' app lies to every in
dividnal.
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parents, how d~iffereutbaye been their paths,

parents, how differenth aye been their paths,
and how deep their s~ufferings! We have
seen them together in Lizzie's' carriage,
driving along Lake street. They are doubt
less as happy as their b~ereavements, re-
lievcd only by the consciousness of duty
faithfully performed, can permit. But
while the sufferings of that father and mo
Their may be family known from the story
of the daughter, what must have been the
mental agony of hat other daughter, un-
kindly banished from her mothers side,
and driven out into the world without a
fathers blessing? What must have been
her grief when her letters written from a
prosperous city, from the house of heI
wealthy and kind husband, telling them oil
her success aud birth of her children, were
unnoticed and unanswered? She must
have felt indeed that the hearts of that faith
er and mother, her sisters and brothers
must have been hardened against her. w,
will say no more. That scene will live il
our memory while we can remember tn
holy love of father, mother and kindred.
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@A. 6.

Pooh, crazy mani he knows not what be
Does Such was the pathetic exclamation
dropped from the lips of a young and half
heartbroken wife, as she gazed after her
drunken husband, running an iminent risk
of breaking his neck in a fit Of intoxication.
And he was crazy at the time, as much so
as the widest denizen Of the Lunatic Asylum.
A short time ago, he was a man who priced
bis character and moral integrity as much as
any man, and was as highly esteemed as a
worthy and useful citizen. But on the day
of which we write he was crazy, and what
made him HES-Three shiIlings worth of
mean whiskeyl A miserable whiskey ped
dlar was made thirty cents richer and a mans
character forfeited, his life endangered and o
wife's heart crushed as with a wheel of iron.
This was the fruit of what one ma drank,
and yet this pedlar of the vile stuff ras suf-
fered to quietly deal out his brutalizing com
pounds in open day and in the midst of o
christian community Would a trader in
anything else half as ubiquitous be suffered
to scatter the 6rebrands Of evil among his
: feIlow-men and gounscathed by the vengeance
r ofan outraged and insulted populace7 Nay,
4 verify if there was no other remedy, the
$ people, in their sovereign capacity of redres-
# sing their grievances by the popular voice
It and popular power, would hurl the man and
d his deadly agents from their midst. Bot so
N sacred is the Infamous calling Of the whiskey
pedlar, in the opinion of too many of the
h sovereign people. that to raise a voice against
ID it. is bordering on treason 10 one of the re-
coguized institutions Of this gloriously free
he republic.
Poor, crazy mani And he was crazy
i'll His life was endangered, his once fair fame
re furnished, his wife's heart crushed and a
to- miserable pedIar on whiskey full three shil-
50. lings rieherl In the name Of reason and jus
on tice. how much longer viii the people, tho
.,h free-the enlightened-the moral--the chris
nv tan people, suffer the whiskey pedlars to g
where they listeth and make everybody drunk
ar. en- that will partake Of their vile compounds
to the annoyance and modification of all mo
for raj and sober persons? It is high time tina
ee. there was an awakening upon this subject
ess The drunken scenes at all our public gathel
ard ings are becoming more and more disgustin,
,ese more drunken men are seen, more drunke
Ii. boys reel through the crowds, more rockies
profanity CRATES on the ear and everythin
disgusting is constantly increasing, until th
evening of the day of one of our public hu
the tings would startle a heather, and cause hi
and to forever forswear the religion Of a peop
as holding rule in a land where such riotinI
and evils go 'unwhipt of Justice 1t is tin
and for the people to awake. Let them AVA
lima and Acrt =
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For the Spirit of the Age.
Render to Caesar the things which are
Caesars.

Mr.. EDITOR :-Isaw in your valuable paper
of the past week, a short notice of the tenn
perance celebration at big Steel Greek Church
on the 7th of August last in which your
correspondent deeply regrets that a previous
sketch given by another, had come so far
short of doing justice to the demonstration.
Now sir, it is a matter Of deep regret to me
that your correspondent J. Reid, has himself
fallen so far short of doing justice to all those
who aided in getting up said meeting and
participated in it throughout. 1t would ap-
pear from your correspondents sketch that
White Hall Division, tfor there is no other
Division mentioned) was both soul and body
of the whole affair-but the facts in the case
will make it appear in a different light
Several weeks previous to the It'll of August,
three Divisions. viz: White Hall, Steel
Greek and Pleasant Hill, each appointed dele
gates, to make arrangements for a temper.
ance celebration. which delegates met in
committee at Steel Creek Division room, and
appointed the meeting spoken of; the time
when it should take place, nominated orators
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RP We must have more subscribers to
the Spirit of the Age. For the last six weeks
more names have been dropped, for the want
Of renewal, than new ones have come in
A good many more. And if this continues,
our list will run Town very rapidly. The
efforts made by our friends a few months
ago. fully demonstrated what they could do
when they tried. We want them to try a.
gain, and roll us up one thousand new names
by Christmas. And to induce every body
to subscribe, we offer the Age to all at 81
per annum, tOhether they come siHgly or in
clubs. sGe This proposal is to last till
Christmas next; and by that time we hope
to receive our wanted one thousandnaw sub
scribers. Roll in the names, and send III
good current money. tt.
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The Late DR.. Mitchell.

We are requested to state, that Mr.. James
NJ. Edney, of New York. is publishing a
tinted ~lithograph, in the finest style of the
art, for o. NJ. Lewis, potographist, of Ashe-
vile, N. c., representing the Falls and fatal
spot where DR.. Mitchell lost his life. 1t will
be . finished picture-9 by u inches, and
will be ready for delivery by the lst of No
vember. Orders may be sent to either of
the above parties, for early copies.
R- Against SANDER there is no defence.
He'll cannot boast so foul a Gend, nor man
deplore SO foul a foe, 1t stabs with a word,
with a nod, with a shrug, with a look, with
a smile. 1t is the pestilence walking in dark
ness, spreading e%ontagion far and wide,
which the most wary traveller canno avoid.
1t is the heart searching dagger of the assas-
sin. 1t is the poisoned arrow whose wound
is incurable. 1t is as mortal as the sting Of
! the deadly adder. Murder is its employ
mt, innocence its prey, and ruin its sport.
~Asa@ebody, most truthfully.
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Natures Safety Valve.
BEWARE OF IGNORANT ENGINEERS.

Infinite mischief has been done, is done
daily, by a class of practitioners who may,
with truth, be called medical thinkers, These
gentlemen are content to patch up the dis
eased frame, instead of re~novating the sys-
tenn. Their aim is to suppress rather than
to eradicate. Processes Holloway belongs to
a different school. His cures are not super.
fetal and temporary, but complete and perma-
nent. His theory of external diseases is
founded on reason and analogy. Assesses,
ulcers, and running sores, he looks upon as
safety valves, opened by nature, to permit the
escape of morbid matter. To suppress the
discharge without removing the cause, he
would consider about as rational as to tie
down the valve of u steam boiler while steam
was rapidly generating within. As the care
full engineer puts out the fire in the furnace
when he would stop the production of steam,
so Holloway quenches the inf1ammatory prin-
ciple which induces suppuration, before. he
attempts to close the orifice through which the
discharge takes place. Hence the extraordina-
ry cures of sore legs, open wounds, assesses,
sore breasts, and ulcers of all kinds, accom-
plished by his Ointment and Pills. These ex-
terror Affections are the induces of internal
corruption, and the effect Of the pills is to dis
infect and purify the animal fluids in which
that corruption exists. The poison carried by
the blood vessels to the surface is met and
neutralized by the Ointment, and thus the di-
sease is quenched at its sources, and at the
points where it is developed, at one ard the
same time. The result is that no relapse oc.
ours, for the poisonous elements being annihi
lated, there is nothing left, either in the re-
cesses of the system or in the ontward integu
ments, which can rekindle inflammation. The
disease is dead, past all resurrection. To film
over a yirulent ulcer, without destroying it
cause, is to throw back inflammation upoI
J the vital organs. The only name that cal
be given to such eatment is professional
, homicide Holloway utterly ignores Al
| skin-deep practice, the cures wrought by h;
remedies are thorough and fundamental.
~ Y. Sunday Mercury"
~ Reflect before you act, but VIE
g the time for action arrives. sion thinking
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Home Literature.

We h ave received the prospectus Of a N.
G. Magazine. to be edited by A. ]. Stedman,
Esq, of the N. C.. Bar, and published at the
Town of Salem, N. C. The price is three
dollars q year IN adUance. Mr.. Stedman,
pledges himself, that the mag zine will be
such as will please the most fastidious, and
will be illustrated with Engraoings and
Plates, equaling in beauty and style any
executed at the North.
Give it a fair trial, and forward your sub
scriptions, to A. j. Stedman, Pittsboro' n.
c., until the LIST Of Nov, after that to Salem,
n. G.
The first number will be issued on the Isl
of Jan'y 1858. We regret our crowded col
umns prevent US publishing, the prospectu'
in full.
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@rHOw many barrels of whiskey have
you in store inquired a gentleman passing
a large wholesale liquor establishment of one
Of its attaches. Three thousand was the
prompt reply Three thousand barrels re-
peated the gentleman, speaking very DELHI
erately, ten fights to the barrel is a low est.
mate-and how many fights is that?' .Thir-
ty thousand fights, replied the mathematical
clerk. Thirty thousand fights bsrreled up
in one housed Good gracious what a war
And he went on his way in a deep study
Besides the fights, there might be epumer,.
ted as many quarreis, riots, wife WINNINGS.
oaihs, sabbath breakiugs, gambling, diseased
iivers and twice as many foolish songs. And
all this barreled up in one house. What If
it all could break loose at once. What a
rabblel What a wiskey DIM
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As some of the Divisions manifest much
anxiety to procure copies of the new Ritual,
and seem to think they are in possession of
the G. S.. we wish to remark, that he has
ordered them to be forwarded TO him by the
M. W. 5. as soon as they are ready for dis
tribution. As soon as they come to hand,
public notice will be given through the Spir-
it of the Age.
P. S. A letter just received from the NJ.
W. S. informs US the new Rituals are not out
of the Bookbinder's hands yet. As soon as
ready for distribution they will b.. farsssn
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a1- We are gratiGed to state that we have
had petitions and limitations in old Concord
Division, No. l, at the two last meetings, and
we hear Of several others who intend COM
ing in. There is an evident interest, in our
community, outside of the Order, on the
subject Of Temperance, and if the members
of the Division will but exert themselves, our
hall viii be filed with good substantial new
recruits.
Let US go TO work in earnest, BRETHREN
Let us keep our own skirts clear of cor TAM
nation, and labor faithfully to snatch Others
from the greedy jaws of the devourer. w
hope to see a large attendance on Saturda.
night next. We are to have other initiation
then,
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What is the Cause?

In the midst of the money panic OF the
times, speculatious are plentiful as to the
causes that have produced it. Some attri-
butte it to the spirit of wild aud uncheck-
ed speculation that has for the last few years
prevailed. Another to the extravaganza OF
the times. Another to the necessary opera
ton of the laws of trade. And various 9TH
ers are suggested; but we have seen none
of our fnanciers who have given any portion
of the blame to Intemperance, although lis
well known to be the great expansion agent
that has led to much of the extravaganza and
fast living so much deprecated and desean-
ted upon.
The secular press has been for months past
crying ELECTROMAGNETIC economy J
-don't.waste SO mach money On dress, on
gilded palaces, glittering equipage," &c.
but none have a~dded-don't spend SO much
money on liquors ALL and every other
species of personal economy is recommended,
but III this prolific source Of extravaganza
But, we ask, is not this an important item
IF that princely merchant had in his Sala
mander, all the money he has expended fol
costly wines and brandies this year, be woult
have an abundance to m set his liabilities
and defy the crash. And if that man o
smaller means had saved what he had spen
for liquors, he could snap his fingers at har'
times, while be jingled the hard dollars j
his grim yisaged 'front.'" and his famil
. wonId ha eecura from tho suffaring uhic
now threatens to overwhelm them. An
many a young man would feel himself III
dependent, if he had in his pocket, what
foolishly put into the grog sellers drawer.
: The aggregate of each liquor drinkers b
would astonish him, if counted out befo
r him in hard dollars. and would go far
wards liquidating all liabilities now pres
\ ing. Take the amount Of money spent up'
the ten thousand liquor dealers of Nor
Carolina, and appropriate it to the necessa
purposes Of living and Of business, and he
s little of panic or of suffering would be exp
# fenced in our community.
/ We say then, that if the money spent
: liquor in this State, and the country at lar,
could be turned into legitimate busin'
IS channels, there would be less of crying ''ht
times" than now. Let us think of tn
- things, and endeavor to labor to turf
r quor capital to some other use.
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Splrdof Age,
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Special Notice.

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Circumstances Alter Gases /,

A paragraph has been going the rounds of
case, in the South, by which some thirty
persons had been poisoned, of which several
had died. 1t was stated that the guilty per-
petrators had been seized ty an i~ncensed
populace and summarily executed. To the
credit of the ~law-abiding character of that
|. people, this latter statement was untrue /;
but before its contradiction, we did not see
the first word of reprobation, in any of our
ty wretches are in the hands of the law, the
universal cry is" let sentence of death
be speedily executed upon them"
We join in the demand for severe Justice
upon the inhuman monsters but have We
not other prisoners in our country, who are
dealing out to their fellow-citizens that which
they knoW to be poison, and which is taking
the lives Of their victims almost daily? We
hear no diatribes against them. Suppose il
were announced that here in North Carolina
we had twenty thousand men, who were en-
gagged daily, in the business of poisoning
their ~neighbors and it was well known that
the law provided no punishment for such
atrocity, but, on the contrary, protected then
in their cruelty, fostered their crimes. ant
stigmatized as I" unconstitutional" every at
tempt at redress who would hesitate tt
Justify any amaunt or description of ven
geance which the friends of their victims
might infict upon them? Is not this a par
allel case with the liquor traffic and the Ii
gu r dealer?
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EaP A mistake occurred in the printing
of the Circular transmitting the Password
for the present Quarter. Corrected copies
have been forwarded to all to which special
a~ttention"is directed.
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If Mr.. Jao. J. Hankias-will let US know
where to change his paper from, his request
will be attended to.
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sa- The Publishing Committee of the
American Tract Society have put forth a cir
cular stating their determination not to COM
ply with the resolutions passed at the last
annual meeting in regard to printing tracts
IN the subject of slavery.
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Raleigh Debating Club.

At a regular meeting of this Club the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the ensuing
term of three months. from the first Of Octo-
her to the first of January:
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Reflect before you act, but when
the lime for action arrives, stop thinking"
was a maxim of General jackson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-27

Observation-Disclosures Guyot, of Cambridge.
intends to publish exposition Of the creation of
the universe upon the basis of nebular hypothesis
embracing the eternal fire theory one that can
be sustained. IL is not commended that the evil
dence in favor of the centre of the earth being a
mass of fire is Of positive nature as in that case
the reasoning would cease TO be Hypothetical.
But the evidence for the affirmative is regarded
accumulative, and TO such degree that il has
been considered by vast majority of the scien-
tfic world as almost conclusive. Even admitting
what is alleged as the cause Of the high tempera-
ture of springs and mines il is argued that il by
no means follows that to the same origin may be
traced the source of the fire poured from the bow
els Of the earth. Prof DOremus is of the opinion
that the crust of the earth must have been formed
by the cooling process, and that the metals being
exceedingly dense, must abound more largely
deep down than near the surface. The whole
earth is four or five times dense water. while
the crust is only two and half times; therefore
the interior must consist Of metals which are
eight, ten twenty, or even more times as dense az
water