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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-07-15
Age of Oysters.

A London FISHERMAN can tell the age of
his flock to a nicely. The age of an oys-
ter is not to be found out by looking into
its mouth. 1t bears its years upon its back.
Everybody who has handled an oyster shell
must have observed that it seemed as if
it was composed of successive layers of
plates overlapping each other. These are
te technically called Shoots and each of
them makes a years growth, so that by
counting them we can determine at a
glance the year when the creature came
into the world. Up to the time of its
maturity the shoots are regular and sue.
c~essive, but after that time become irregu.
lar, and are piled one over the other, 81
that the shell becomes more thickened anc
bulky. Judging from the great thickness
to which oyster shells have attained, thi
mollusk is capable, if left to Its natura
change unmolested, of attaining a patri
archal longevity.
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Rev. DR.. Mitchell of Chapel Hill.

About two weeks ago this gentleman ar
rived here on his way to the Black Noun
tains, with a view of making further explo-
ratlons OF that region of country. 1t is with
pain that we have now to announce his
death. He left the Mountain House on this
side of the mountains with the intention
of crossing them to Caney River, without
a guide. 1t was ascertained that he had
never reached Caney River settlement and
supposing that he was lost numbers Of
persons started in search of him. His
body was found in the Cat-tail fork of Ca
ny River on yesterday about 8 O'clock
1t seems that he was walking on the edge of
a precipice when his feet slipped, he caught
at a branch of laurel but it broke and he fell
into a long, unending eternity. He fell 40
feet. Of him it. is needless to say anything
his reputation is the reputation of our Uni
versity and the State. To his exertions the
prosperity of the former is as much due as
any other man. He died a martyr to science
and scientific knowledge.
AsheDiue Spectator, July 9.
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Printing Matrials.

A GREAT BARGAIN can be had of the Editor
of this paper, by any one desiring to pur-
chase Press, Types, and every article for fit
ting out an extensive Printing Establishment
for a Newspaper, Book or Job Office.
of the material is as good as new, and
can be had for SO per cent less than cost. A
portion, only, will be sold to one person, if
he does not desire the whole establishment.
We see the Prospectus of several new pa
pers proposed to be established in this State
Their projectors would do well to have an
eye to the bargain here offered. Address
EDITOR SPIRIT OF THE AGE, Raleigh, N. G.
See Advertisement in another column.
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Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.-
'She wore her richest royal robes as she
walked to the scafold, and approached it
with that graceful majesty, that ever dis
tinguished her. Then DIR. Fletcher, Dean
of Peterborough ,begans, to preach, exhor-
ting her to forsake that creed sin which if she
continued she must be damned This he
repeated with the delicacy and delight in
damning their fellow being, which charac-
terize such persons. Mary begged him not
to trouble himself about her. On his per-
sisting, she turned away from him. He
walked around the scaffold, confronted her,
and began again. Then the Earl of Shrews-
bury commanded him to stop preaching
and begin to pray ; a command which the
worthy divine instantly obeyed But
meantime Mary was repeating in Latin the
Psalms for the dying.
Then she knelt down and prayed for her
son and for Elizabeth-for Scotland, her
enemies and herself; and holding up the
image of her suffering Saviour, she cried
out, 'As thy arms, 0 my God, were stretch
ed out upon the cross, so receive me unto
the embrace of their mercy and forgive me
all my SINS
Madam cried the courteous Kent, you
had better leave such Popish trumperies
and bear him in your heart And Mary
answered, Were he not already in my
heart his image would not be in my hands.
Then they bound agold-edged handker.
chief over her eyes, and she saying, 'Ot
Lord, into thy hands l commend my spir
it, knelt down.
At the first blow the executioner spill
the lower part of her skull at the seconG
he cut deeply into her neck at the third
he severed her head from her body, ant
holding it up by the long gray hair, h
said
God save Queen Elizabeth
The people sobbed and wept.
'Soperish all her enemies said the Dear
of Peterborough.
And the people sobbed and wept.
so perish all the enemies of the gospel
cried the Earl Of Kent.
And the people sObbed and wept, but n
man said Amen
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-07-15

B@ We have just printed a supply of the
latest edition of the Constitution of Subordin-
ate Divisions, which we offer for sale at 81
per hundred-postage prepaid. There are
many Divisions working under the old Con-
stitution, which contains many articles that
have been repealed and others that have been
materially changed and modified. It is i'm
portant alt should conform their actions to
the present law, and hence we have prepar-
ed ourselves to supply Divisions with ethe
latest edition. Send on and get Is, so or
100 cor s. If.
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Thoughts and Sentences.


1. The first seven years of a child are a
bill of expenses. From seven to fourteen
his profits equal his expenses. From four
teen to twenty-one his profits exceed his
expenditures enough to pay for the first
term, and having paid for himself he goes
free.
2. If man is not tall at twenty, hand
some at thirty, wise at forty, and rich at
fifty, he will never be tall, handsome, wise,
nor rich.
3. He who will begin the world with
a dollar, if he doubles his interest every
year, will in a few years be worth enough
to purchase Attico.
4. In speaking or writing, first under
stand the subject-then speak or write so
plain that others can understand it and
do all with as few words as possible.
B. Mento is an original thinker ; his
head is prolific, his mind is continually
generating new ideas, but his outlet Of
Grafton is small. Pandor, on the Other
hand, has but little furniture in the mid
die story but, having good eyes, ears
hands, and tongue, he avails himself o
what Mento has forged out for him, ant
shines bright and flies high on borrowed
: wings.
6. Most questions have two, and some
> like a cube, have six equal sides. Tur
which way you will, in sentiment or prac
tice, some. evil consequence follows. 7
r such cases, the least evil is the creates
possible good.
: Z. He who strives to do right, and col
!. quers his own i'll habits and %propensitie
8 will find but little time to censure other
From this it does not follow, that the GOO
man should justify the errors of others.
To err is manlike to repent is saintlik
. to forgiUe is Godlike. John Leland.
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Extract of a letter from Beaufort 4:

L send you herewith the returns and per
centage of Beaufort Division for the second
quarter of 1857. You will perceive by the
returns that the past quarter has not been
remarkable for a very great increase in num-
bers | am happy, however, to be able to
say, that the immortal twenty-three who
constitute the membership of Beaufort Di-
vision, are as true to the glorious cause of
Temperance as the needle is to the POLE
Our beloved Order has had a great deal to
contend with in this place, and at this time
the dealers and suckers Of rum seem to have
the advantage; but l still hope, and trust,
and belteUe that if the few faithful ones
whose voices are still heard in the Division
room continue to fight unitedly and firmly
against these allies of Satan, though their
name may be "legion," victory will ulti-
mately perch upon our banners.
Tell our brethren everywhere that Beau.
fort Division, No. SO, has determined nerey
to surrender.
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A Thrilling Incident

Returning from a visit in New Orleans,
we were fortunate enough to secure pas
sage in a line steamer with but few pas
sengers. Among the ladies one especial
ly interested us. She was the widow of a
wealthy planter, and was returning with
one only child to her fathers house. Her
devotion to the child was very touching,
and the eyes of her old black nurse would
fill with tears as she besought her mistress
mot to love that boy too much, orthe Lord
would take him away from her,
We passed through the canal of Louis
vile, and stopped for a few moments at
the wharf, when the nurse, wishing to see
the city, walked out on the guard, at the
back of the boat, where, by a sudden eff
fert, the child sprang from her arms into
the terrible current that sweeps towards
the falls, and disappeared immediately
The confusion which ensued attracted the
attention of a gentleman who was sitting
in the fore part of the boat quietly reading.
Rising hastily, he asked for some article
the child had worn. The nurse handed
him a tiny apron she had torn. off in her
efforts to retain the babe in her arms
Turning to a splendid Newfoundland dog
that was eagerly watching his countenance
ne pointed first to the apron, and then to
the spot where the child had gone under.
In an instant the noble dog leaped into the
rushing water, and also disappeared. BY
TINS time the excitement was intense, anc
some persons on shore, supposing that the
dog was lost as well as the child, they pro
cured a bloat and started off to search fo
the body. Just at this time the dog wa
seen lar away with something in his mouth
nraVely ne struggled with the waves, bu
~ was evident his strength was failing fast
ana more than one breast gave a sigh O
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FoRnrRLr. college and "prof.s.o.o

FORMERLY, college" and Professor,
were terms that meant something now an
ordinary private school is a College, and ey-
cry dancing master a professor. But in This
lowest deep there is still a lower deem. a
rum.shop keeper in Cincinnati having dnb-
bed his saloon "Mereck's college" We
think the bottom has been touched.
Wonder when he will hold his public grad
uation exercises, for the purpose of bestow-
ing his diplomas before an admiring multi
tudel We know he turns out Finished
scholars" every day, but it is only in a pri-
vate way. A public exhibition, at which he
would parade his thousands of graduates.
would be quite a sight.
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g.. rs.
Woman's Power.

!" Nor steel nor fire itself hath mower
Like woman in her ~conquering hour
Be thou but fair-mankind adore thee.
Smile-and a world is weak before thee ~
The poet has disclosed the whole saor..
woman's conquering power. Fair in her ~
tue, smiling in her goodness, she Yields -
influence which mailed warrior never conIs
Her strength is in her graces, her weanon :.
love and her power is resistless when tbo.o
are combined with modest merit. and d.
ted by conscious duty.
In influence woman is as much sunsror
man as affection is superior to intellect
Man represents the understanding Of ,bo
universe, and woman the will man thu
mind, woman the soul man the reason. "
man the heart. The powers of observation
and reflection are cold, useless appendagss
to the human being, unless warmed into er.
ercise and attracted to good objects by the
feelings and sentiments of the afection.ta
mind. How little, in this world. do We
think, Judge and know in comparison with
what We feel! Man may do mighty things
In the intellectual advancement of the world
"What I most prize in woman
Is her affections, not her intellect
The intellect is finite, but the affection,
Are infinite, and cannot be exhausted
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MONUMENT TO FRANKLIN,-The tomh az
franklin-ifa plain flag stone even with the
earth can be so called-is concealed from
public view by a venerable brick wall At tba
corner of Fifth and Mulberry streets. PbiIa.
delphia. The remains Of the lightnino-nbiI-
Cosopner are deposited there, in the old
burial ground belonging to Christ Church.
An appropriate monument has been accident
~ reared above them in the shape Of a
telegraph post, and the lightning is at
constant play over, if not under, the eve of
the man who first chained d it to the earth.
The States.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-07-15

AN INCIDENT AT A FIRE.-The Memphis
News gives the following incident at a re-
cent fire in that city:
Several warehouses destroyed were filed
with whiskey. As soon as the two banks
caught ire there was a stream of whiskey.
brandy, ale, rum and gin that commenced
flowing down the broad cutters toward Main
street. The liquid currents caught fire.
The blue lambert flames foated down the
broad thoroughfares of our city, and were
famed for nearly a mile by the fresh bree-
yes from the southwest. We saw a negro
endeavoring to %extinguish the fires that be
might get drunk. He brushed the floating
fires up the stream and dipped into it his fat
nose and dense lips the dam above gave
way, and there came a food of alcohol, the
negro was overwhelmed, his head took fire,
and the last we saw of him he was travelling
at railroad speed, like a torchlight process
sion, down Jefferson street.
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sa~ We clip the following from the Rus

SSF We clip the following from the Rus
~sellville. Kentucky, Herald. The name of the
unfortunate lady is not given:
DIsTREssING.-The most distressing scene
we have witnessed in a long time, was at the
Court House ON Wednesday. A young and
rather goodlooking married lady, of this
county, was examined before the Copntv
Judge, as a lunatic. The jury so pronounced
her, and she was sent On to the Lunatic
Asylum at Hopkinsville. She has FIVE chill
dren. Her husband is poor. and recently
moved to this county from North Carolina.
He appeared to feel acutely the great attic.
ton of his wife. The lady is badly deranged
but is harmless and i~noffensive. While in
the Court House she sang a song 50 plain
tive and melancholy as almost to move 10
tears those who heard her. We never behold
an afilction that more intensely excited onr
sympathy than this. God grant that this.
deeply afflicted wife and mother may be soon
inliy restored to her family, clothed in her
right mind.
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A BEAUTIFUL IDEA.-Away among the
Alleghanies-there is a spring, so small
hat a single OK, in a summers day could
drain it dry. 1t steals its unobstructive
way among the hills, till it spreads out in
the beautiful Ohio. Thence it stretches
away a thousand miles, leaving on its banks
more than a hundred villages and cities,
and many a cultivated farm, and bearing
on its bosom more than half a thousand
steamboats,. Then joining the Mississippi,
it stretches away and away some twelve
hundred miles more, till it falls into the
great emblem of eternity. 1t is one Of the
great tributaries of the ocean, which, ODE
dent only to God, shall roll and roar till
the angel, with one foot on the sea and the
other on the land, shall lift up his hands
to heaven, and swear hat time shall be nc
longer. So with moral influence. It is
rill-a rivulet-a river-an ocean, bound
less and fathomless as eternity,
H IIGVOtSLUU.
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Sqird Of t8f9ge.
RALgIGH HING.
wgDRggBAg, 3Uag 45. 1881.
A Positive Arrangement.

Subscribers receiving their paper with a CROSS
MARX, are thereby notified that in four weeks
from the receipt of the first number thus Marked
their Subscription years will expire; and unless
renewed within that time, the paper will be dis
continued. This rule will be i~nfexibly adhered to.
nSz~ The Editor is absent this week. His
Correspondents will be attended to on his
return home.
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Highest Price for Tobacco Yet.

Messrs. BROMLEY & Hicks, Of Petersburg.
Va, made sale ofonef fine Manufacturing HID.
Tobacco on Friday Bird inst, at West Hill
Warehouse, for Messrs. Pully & Paschan. Of
Granville country, N. c., for the enormous
sum of>S52 per 100, being the II PRICE
paid this season
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Extract of a letter from the d. G. w. P. OF

Arson Division, at Wadesboro':
Enclosed / send the per centage of Arson
Division, No. 10, which is SIS 20. We now
number ia members initiated the quarter
Ju-t ended Oh Beat this who can?
The Temperance cause in this section was
never SO prosperous as at this time. You
hear OF little else in the streets, and numbers
are uniting with the Order whose influence
will be felt in favor of the glorious cause in
which we have been so long engaged. Had
l time | would like to indulge in some re-
Elections, but must defer it until another
opportunity. Enclosed are the names and
money for five new subscribers.
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BE- A correspondent informs us that a
young lady in Granville county, N. c., on
the 26th of june, caught a fish with a hook
and line, out of Meadows millpond, on Tar
river. which was twenty-five inches long.
Wonder if it was a gudgeon2
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Dg- A letter from Hyco Falls, Halifax
county, Va, says:
Our Division is in a thriving condition it
contains some 40 members and nearly as
many lady visitors. We have doubled our
numbers IN the last six months. | trust
that our noble cause is gaining everywhere.
and that ere long it will be triumphant over
this entire country.
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Educational State Convention.

We have just returned from the Educa-
State Convention, which assembled at
Warrenton on Tuesday last. In the absence
of Prof. Wheat, the President, the Convex
ton was called to order by E. W. Ogburn,
Esq, of Guilford, one of the Vice-Presidents
Some twenty-seven Counties were repre-
sented by about one hundred and twenty-five
delegates.
On Wednesday, at II O'Clock, the writer
of this, W. w. Holden, delivered an address
before the Convention and a large audience,
en- the subject of education and especially of
public instruction and on Wednesday even
ing eloquent and interesting speeches were
delivered by Prof. Phillips, DR.. Alexander
Wilson, William Eaton, Jr., Rev. Mr.. Chris
tian, and Prof. Webster.
The Convention had not adjourned when
we left on Thursday. The greatest harmony
and enthusiasm prevailed.
On Thursday morning, an Educational
State Association having been permanently
formed, the following gentlemen were elected
Its officers for the ensuing year: President
DIR. Alexander Wilson, of Alamance: Vice
Presidents, b.. W. Ogburn, of Guilford, Prof.
Philips, OF Orange, William Robinson, of
Wayne, w. H.. Blake, of Fayetteville, Prof.
Walters, of Wake, Prof. Johnston, of Char
lotte; Corresponding Secretary G. W. Brooks.
of Raleigh; Recording Secretary, W. II. Bass,
of Warren.
The absence Of Mr.. Wiley, the State Su-
perintendent, occasioned by severe sickness.
was deeply felt and regretted.
The hospitality of the people of Warrenton,
and of the surrounding country, manifested
towards all, was profuse, generous unboun.
ded.
We were gratifed to see the public men Of
Warren-headed by the venerable and dis
tlnguished Weldon N. Edward-come for
ward and take so deep an interest in the pro
} ceedings of the Convention. But we have ne
time now to enlarge upon the MANY agreea
BILE incidents, nor indeed to give any of The
regular proceedings. They Shall appear in
our next.
But we may add, for the encouragement O
the friends of education in all parts of tn,
n State, that the Convention was regarded O,
all hands as successful j; and that we lool
! with confidence for the most ~salutary an,
happy results, not only from this, but from
the action of the State Association which wa
formed, and from future Conventions. TIL
e good work is yet, it is true, comparatively
its infancy-6ut 1t sOiU 90 on, difusing it
y benefits and its blessings throughout ever
= portion of our beloved State.-Sfandard.
AHARD CUsToMER.-ANew York naner re-
Of an old German woman, 20 years of age.
-
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AHARD CUsroMER.-ANew York paper tell
Of an old German woman, 20 years of age. a
rag-picker, whom the police had made %yarious
attempts to arrest, but they were foiled by
five ferocious dogs, who would allow no one
to come near her den of filth. At last the
officers armed themselves with reyoIvers and
when the dogs came at them thew shot three.
The woman, who was armed with a nitchfork.
was then mastered, but had to be tied. The
Justice sent her to the penitentiary for 6
months.
The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-04-25
A Vito Foroboding her Murder by her
Husband

Mrs Knight, whose husband was
recently convicted of her murder il
Maine, left letter, dated August 20
1856, Qhirty-eight days before hel
death) and deposited with Mrs, Han
nah Rice, to be opened by her daugh
ter, Mrs. Harriet n. Jordan, after the
writer's death which reads as follows
believe my husband wants to kill
me. He has given me poison once
since ! have been sick, and made one
attempt with the razor. He came
home last night. left his boots ont doors
went up the back stairs and down the
front into the sitting room. | heard
him in the dark, and told him the can.
die was in my room on the stand. He
made me no answer. spoke again
tie came into the bedroom and said he
did not want any candle; took his
clothes off and got in bed. This was
nine in the evening. AT twelve he
woke me up by shutting my bedroom
door. sprang up and lit light, and
he got into bed. did not see a razor
in the bed room. ! saw it out of the
case in the sitting room. He got up
before it was light and went out doors;
and came back to bed and got up in
the morning and went out. When he
came in he put it on the shelf in the
secretary, and went out to milk, and
got up and saw it. He said he tool;
it out last night and had not time to
shave; and put it in his pocket out of
tha case. Isaw a bill of salt and fish
he borght in Portland. dated July l, on
Commercial wharf. | think one name
was Dana. eighteen and fjfty-siX. He
did not let me know, did not know
the meaning till he gave me dose
Que morning. | vomsmited it up froth
ond foam.
MARY KNIGHT.
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The CoMET.-The comet, predicted
to destroy the world in June, according
to the n. Y. Herald, has already made
it's appearance. That paper of the
Sd says it was seen in the city on the
Tuesday night previous, by an emf.
nent astronomer connected with one
of the learned institutions, and the re.
suit of his observations will soon be
given to the public. 1t is rs yet only
visible with a telescope, but as it is
rapidly approaching the earth, it may
soon be seen by The naked eye. It is
now about five degrees east the star
known as Andromeda, and is moving
South. This comet was first seen by
Prof. D. Arrest, at Deipsic, on Feb. %,
and on the Goth March, at Newark,
N. j., Van Arscale. 1t was also seen
last Friday night, at the National OBJ
rervatory in Washington.
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TRI.WEEKLY PAPER IN HUNTS.
VILE, ALA.

Below will be found the Prospectus
of the Weekly independent the
regular publication OF which, as stated
in last weeks Journal, is about to be
commenced by Messrs. Wigs e. Dew
Mr.. Wigs will be its Editor, and he
is lust the person to make an interest
ing newspaper. He has for many
wears been connected with the press in
different places, and besides he is u
practical printer.
We never think Of Mr., Wigs with
ont being reminded Of the thousand
and one favors generously bestowed
upon US during near four years OF
time spent under his kind tuition in
the printing art. We can never cease
to be grateful, Mr., Wigs, although
the only requital we can noe offer Is
thanks.
y * "Often good turns
Are shutlled off with such uncurront pay
But, were my worth, as is my conscience, firm,
You should find better dealing"