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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-12
Passing through the Laurel gap we cane

Passing through the Laurel gap, we came
upon what are called the South Mountains.
And here we had m opportunity of witness
ing a mountain thunder storm raging in all
its fury, and threatening to burst upon Us
every moment. There was something terri
fcally grand and sublime in the scene, but
we confess we were in no situation to enjoy
and appreciate it, with the prospect of q
thorough soaking before Us. The deep-toned
thunder, with hoarse bellowings, echoed and
re-echOed among the crags and cliffs the
lightning, like streams of liquid fire, leaped
fercely and wildly down the mountain side,
while the rain reared in the distance like
the sounding of a mighty cataract. With
such a storm raging on the mountains
on our right, we pressed our jaded team on,
hoping to reach Morganton before overtaken
by it. Happily for US, in this we were sue
c~essful but very soon after reaching these
comfortable quarters, the rain came on, and
gave us ocular demonstration of what a real
mountain thunder storm is. We are satisfied
!, not TO see the like again.
Morganton is a very pretty place presen-
ting beautifully picturesque scenery, whose
rich landscapes, varied and enchanting charm
the eye and fill the heart with rapture. Ia
king our stand in the elevated observatory of
0 the "Walton House." the eye roves with adj
1 1llkL oEAOh " ILO O0Ab4So A14AA0 GIN L1O0A
tains, gaps and %vallies, that lie outstretched
before us. Near to the town stands the
"South Mountain" over whose elevated
summit a beautiful white cloud has gathered
*% and is fertilixipg with luxuriant showers,
while just below, the sunshine is bathing the
mountain side with mellow tints of golden
hue. On the other hand stand the "Black
Mountain" some five miles away, whose dark
tall forest trees look like thick shrubbery--
And again, in the distance, we see the Ions
- chain of mountains of the Blue Ridge, who's.
rounded domes and sharp, piercing summit
seem to pierce the very heavens themselves
We find here growing in abundance, tn
White Pine-a beautiful, smooth bark tree
ed, resembling our hickory in the body, wit
ess leaves or foliage like the cypress.
is We have spun out this letter to an immoc
70 crate length and must bring it to a close
~ though we must leave many things of intel
- est unnoticed. Tomorrow we leave for M;
49, rion and Pleasant Gardens the latter sal
the to be one OF the most delightful places in til
Blue Ridge region.
And now, dear reader, I must bid 20
adieu, for the present, while l go out tn
lovely moonlight evening to gaze upon
III +" The vast cathedral, boundless as our wonder,
n Its choir tho winds and storms, its organ thunde
" Its dome, the sky"
We
The August Term of the Supreme Cou
the was to have commenced here yesterday, b
ere the Jud ges have not arrived. We find he
the several young men from Eastern countie
18th applicants for license to practice law.
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Convinced of Error.

In a recent conversation with a gentleman
who has filed more than one importanteffce
in the gift of the people. he remarked, that
when he first became a candidate, years ago,
so universal was the custom of treating that
he despaired of success unless he brought the
Intoxicating treat to his aid. On the first
day of the campaign, under this impression,
he bought a treat of whiskey, had the usual
proclamation made and the voters gathered
around to imbibe. He was brought up to
regard the moderate use of liquor essential
to ones health-two drains a day was his
allowance, and beyond this he never suffered
himself to go. In drinking the treat, he took
a glass at first and the thought he would
drink no more. His friends urged him to
drink, saying, I saw you drink with that man
and unless you drink with me / shall think
it unkind.' Votes were not to be lost-yoters
must not be fooled with-the gentleman drank
even unto stupid drunkenness. That night
continued the gentlemen, one of the men that
| saw get drunk on the liquor l had bought
as a treat, went home and abused his wife by
whipping her in a most shameful and shock
ing manner ; I was convinced to the error I
had committed for if that man had killed
his wife while intoxicated on the liquor / had
given him for his vote, / should forever have
held myself guilty of her murder. The next
day l resolved that, sink or swim, / would
treat no more, which pledge l have kept In
} violate.
The circumstance conveys an important
truth. The man who treats literally runs a
l great risk of getting drunk himself and clo-
: sing the campaign with the fertile seed of
drunkenness growing in his system that
r nothing but the most assiduous moral culture
8 will ever be able TO eradicate. He must drink
with those he treats lest he be thought proud
e and scornful of honest yeomanry,' a most
fatal opinion to the candidate of whom it is
!, suspicioned. Another important truth, and
t one that should be gravely digested the
; candidate who treats to Intoxicating liquors,
4; does it for the purpose Of gaining votes and
for his own personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and
Is nothing else. 1t is not the outward exhibit.
If ton of generous impulses thrObbing within
ne his bosom that prompts him to appropriate
re- so much every day to set whiskey before hi
n fellow-citizens if it were, we would witnes
re similar manifestations of generosity at Othe
M times than just before elections. Then if
IN candidate makes people drunk in order t
secure their votes, and if any one so mad
ar, commits violence either in wife whipping
is murder or what not, he ought to be held a
countable at the bar of public opinion for II
old ohence-at the bar of God he most assured
the ly will. Conscience will not be gagged f
though the man who treated and a murd,
was the result, look never so saintisb, y
day and night the fearful accusation wi
go ring in his ears = guilty, thrice guilty, oh
lch thou shedder of human blood X
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n aThe snhiect of Temneranne is

BaE@ 1.-THE subject of Temperance is so
old that it has ceased to elicit interest or at
tract attention" is a remark sometimes made
by one class of our opponents. We admit
that the subject is one which has been long
considered, but deny that there is any con-
nection between them. People do not lose
interest in a subject because it is old. If
they did, how many of the subjects which
are now agitating our country, would have
been long since dead and buried in obliy-
ion.
Besides, there are some subjects which
never do get old, and this is one of them
True it is of long duration. 1t dates its or.
igin from the time when the inspired writer
said, 'look not upon the wine when it is
red." For ages, line has been added upon
line, and precept upon precept to enforce
this admonition. Arguments have been de-
duced, examples cited, and references drawn,
all to strengthen this same great truth. Yet
men still taste of the wine that mocketh
still imbibe the strong drink that rageth
still weaken their constitutions, squandel
their fortunes, and abuse their families. i
this because the arguments have lost thei
power to convince? Does truth ever becom
weakened or impaired by age? 1t is not be
cause it is old that men withhold their after
ton, and those who advance the idea ar
conscious of it's falsity. Men have clad then
selves in the mail of prejudice, and the keeI
est darts of reason can never pierce them
Every widows moan, every orphans tea
every gasping groan from RUNS victims
a new argument for prohibition. Every rio
murder, or suicide is another call for gro
shops to be put down. Call yon this an o
theme. 1t may be 50, but not more than t
evils it seeks to remedy.
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and neighbors of President Madison have
procured a monument to be placed over his
grave. 1t is a plain granite obelisk, twenty
feet high, bearing no inscription except the
dates of his birth and death.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-12

sF We are indebted to Messrs. Fulton &
Price, Wilmington, for a copy of the Trans
actions ofthe Eighth Annual Meeting of the
Medical Society of North Carolina, held at
Edenton, April, 1857 and also, for a copy
of the Address of DR.. S. S. Satchwell, deliv-
cred on the occasion.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-08-12

sg A gentleman in paying us his sub
scription for the Age remarked, he had mo
idea of our ability to fully convert him or re-
form him so thoroughly as to cause him to
forever abandon his dram, yet he was alto
gether willing that his children shonld read
the paper and be brought up in our way of
thinking Just so men see the right and
approve it too &c. Well, if the grown men
of the present cannot be reformed, let those
who come after them be thoroughly indoctri-
mated in the principles of temperance. 4
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SgudofthA
q ALglGa C.
WEDNESDAY,, Aggg8g a.
A Positive Arrangement.

Subscribers receiving their paper with a CROSS
MARK, 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 inhexibly adhered to.
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just as our paper vas being put to press,
the following Letter was received from the
EDITOR:
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"And he died"

nv II OhCs CAoV OAO oA0
With each days creeping shadows, some
bright beam fades from some sunny home
and darkness rests where brightness shed its
halo. With every tick of time a flower droops
in the bright summer fields of life from the
busy throngs of eager hosts one after anoth-
er fall and are borne away by the surging
waves of an eternal sea, while the solemn
chant comes up like a distant wall from a
thousand mourning lips-'he died.!
An old man had lived more thar three
score and ten years until the weight of a thou
sand cares had bowed his head and bent his
body. He had seen many sorrows and en-
joyed a few pleasures. He had toiled for
those who had grown up around him, and
finished his course and he died.
A little boy baby, bright as a summer flow
er, whose p~ratling laugh was like the merry
ripple of pebbly riils, whose little life was a
perpetual May day and whose presence was
the centre of attention and worship for low
ing hearts, it was a little boy baby like this
that bloomed a little while, and he died.
A young man full of promise for a brilliant
future, full of hope and noble aspirations,
whose pathway was adorned with'roses with
out thorns, stepped proudly fourth on life's
bury stage to struggle for and attain the no.
BILE and the good-he began in earnest and
he died.
A young maiden, pure as the lilies ador
ming the meadows, was arrayed for the bri
dial scene. Her heart was warm with the
pulses of love as she turned away from thu
: where her faith and troth had been plighteC
t she cast one fond, anticipating look a dowl
the fower-strewn path opening its winding
u before her, and she died.
A strong man, on whose brow rested tn
d laurel wreath of fame and whose face wa
flushed with the fires of ambition, sat in tn
a door of his tent at the close of a days toi
- contemplating the past and laying plans fo
1T the future, 'and he died.
n AS the great heart of Time throbs il
measured pulses away, earth's sons an
u daughters are falling as the leaves fall whe
the autumn sweeps the dim aisles of the 70
n est. There are always freshly turned SOC
It. in the garden of the slumberers. The wal
IL ing anthem of the mourners for the dea
ID never ceases. The day passes, the nigl
s. cometh and goeth, and when we awake frol
to our slumbers and HE us to our several pos
er again, we miss some brother soldier, who's
CHEEKY shout in life's ardent sieges has bee
nd like fire from Heavens altar burning upC
lr- our hearts. We gaze upon the vacant pla'
IN o,r ronLs fora moment unon the ne
c, crave that has been made and upon a sa
w group of mourners, and we say, as has bee
!. said a thousand times,-'he died!
Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1857-04-03
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withheld from the public. When they
are made known, venture to conjecture
that they viii make sensation in tho
country which may have an important
bearing upon its futrc political history.
The Governor win remain in Washing
ton about week, and then return to his
native homo in western Pennsylvania
He has already had private interview
with General Cass, who gave BIN an At
tensive and friendly hearing. What will
Mr.. Buchanan-what will the rest Of tho
Cabinet do? Tho new President does
not lie on he'd Of roses.
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NEUnALofA oUnrp,

Read what M, noyden says 30 medicine ever
had certificates Ifom such respectable sources ~
eaHeF's spanish Mixture, ATE. y, iofdan. Que
Of tho ofg lnai pFopsleloFs ~ the Aslef House,
", sud lor number af yeaga ol tia Exchange
Hotel, klshmond Va, wns uurtd az IA severe attack
of Neuralgia, dy CaFief'a spanish Alkluae, The
Fsud euro effected Ia his easpIuy thisitaiuabie
variety OF dlau aaea, and VA oNcFy lnalHnra u rufe
was Effected. 10 remarks u - dinicuit 10 know
what disease "A VIII not care of relieve, And ~ q
blood pufinef,snd spring aud fall medicine ,Ao has
neye. seon Ne equal Nefecommends ~ o. alt aud
believes u 10 be tho most valuable remedy OK
tauts
Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1857-04-03

| WILL offer Al public sale on Halurda, ,iho leih
! day Of April A. ., 1897, al o'clock y, NJ, 10
font % Linek 4 rarqnhat's store ,irookyllie 10,
diana, iva OF ihe mohi desirable sand valuable
unlmpfoyed i0la 10 aald town, i,lnHon Main nuf'
Garry, rsG, and known a. lhs "rySe, LOIS, y he.
Ing lola No, ~ and a. w Amos nulleT's Plat, Tbs
lots are very hanisomely situated for residence,
and enclosed With good post and rail- fence, with
nuit trees aud other nhfnhharl thereon,
The terms ave, Que Third cash ia hand ,one.third
IN one year aud cue Third IN two years, with ln.
tofeai, waving all valuation aud apptnlaemeHt
lava, JNo, ", FARQunAR,
mAtpy IN MP fac
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TO THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF
FRANKLIN COUNTY.

TO THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
At meeting OF tho Board Of Commissioner
~ Of FRANKLIN county, Ind. began on the 2d day
of March A. u. 1857, and held NJ the Court House
IN the town OF Iirookville, IN taid county. The
following order OF said Board was made aud en-.
tered Of Record az March Term, 1857. to.wlts
Whereas humorous petitions having boon flied
with The Board Of Commissioners TOW here, pray.
Ing tho said Board to erect bridges ut suitable
points &c ross the White Water river. 10 the coun.
" or Franklin, indiana. Tho Board having duis
considered the said petitions, have determined %
erect The following bridges upon tho condition.
hereinafter mentioned, to.witi one ~ the town
of Laurel. aud nne ht thu town Of Rockville,
across the wcsi fork OF White Water river. one
az or near Cedar Crofe--one M or near New ffen.
ton, across White Water f,or--ono at tho town
OF Brook vile across tho .ast hrk OF said river,
and one across the east fork OF White Water riv.
cf ~ 90 nunf where tho turnpike leading from
brook Vile 10 Fairfield cfosaue said river
And u is hereby made the duty % the inspec.
tors of hiecloh az The elections ~ be held in said
county on the ufst Monday ~ Aprll, A. u. it5',
10 ask each qualined flpclor who may vote al
said election whether he u Ia iayof u bridges ol
against bridges, aud thai tho answers TO ,ho qnes.
ton put 70 such election b, The Inspector be noted
on q beck 70 DO kept lof that purpose by lhe
clerks Of said election aud u u further made the
duty oi the Inspector aud Judges VI said election
Ia The several townships Of this count, 10 ceftf,
10 The Auditor OF this county, The Number 0f such
votes either toe ~ against bridges, aud make fos
turn OF The Same ~ the time required by law W
make return IT Poll books and lnlly papers OF
said election 10 he tlefk ~ The Franklin Circuit
Court,
Ordered rs the Doatd that tho Auditor Of this
county u hereby required 70 furnish copy ~ me
foregoing order OF determination 10 the hdllon
OF the "Ffanklln nomoefato aud "indiaRa An,
etlean," printed aud published 10 the town ol
lifook vile, inf publication from lhu date of the
foregoing order until The unl Monday IN Apfll, A
N
Nv }JiiN ". auicK, Auditor
MAFVhptw OF Franklin tuunty Ind,
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For Sale.

A FLOODED MARE, shout ~ hands hish,
a works well In buggy, single OF double,
three excellent colts, AID war old. Any man
who wants good brood marc With o1tm qualities
aud IL willing "a pay cool price Tor her ~ eat'
OF on time, can DO accommodated by calling 81
this ofiice.
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THE PR0HlBITI0NIST.

Published Monthly, BY Tho Esecuslye (o,am,l.
tao OF the n. Y. State Temperance soclat,. An.
-. MsSos' .as'nssr % ~ kseea,ise colagli.
cate ~ The Cause IN ihe Nation, contribute OF
their Wisdom nnd cloquenVc io IA fslnmna
With the Number far Janaap. i-s., IA begins
Vol. ~.
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and ercuiates 10 every siulc. n intho adheFent
Of 40 one political party, the opponent Of "A
ether. facredly devoted 10 tho suppress Ion of
the Liquor Traffic, aud The cxtlfpAllnn of lnsem-
pcrance on all other questions Witch divide Inc
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DR.. Robaok's Scandinavian Reno
diea.
ssthe blood "a the ITO, 4" sayh seTiplufal 20 says
sciences alec, Nspal eolsapii0a lfola She blood,
aud NO disease can eklst ~ tho s,stnm, nf. 70
lhls lask snaetuAlY, It's powerful vegetable
detofsent. aud cures all lnfna of disease nlmpf
because u removes The common CAUSE oln disease
from The lllu,nuslalnlnF nnli, llenpu laappalpnl
~ miraculous cures sfFnlnia, lnclplonl pnauulp
ton, eFuplnns, tuiRofs,d} apepaa, liver rolnplalnt
rheumatism. swelljnEs OF the olnls, nnh all nlpes
tlans tu,e Internal efEhpis Witch DO np lifoeppd
rom maifnfMAiNn.
hro advertisement.
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TURNPIKE NOTICE.
PUBLIC SALE.

frIiE undersigned Will sell al his residence, two
mlies south OF Molamora, on Pipe Greek, on
Saturday, February 81 Al 10 o'clock, the follow
Ing property to.wit
30 head of Hogs, 3 mich csws, 2 head stock
Cattle, Farming utensils, Household and Kitchen
Furniture, &o. Terms made known on day OF
sale. NOAH N. WILSON.
Jan o. 3wf
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NOTICE.

Sotlceis HEREBY giyon, that application WILDE
madc 10 the Auditor OF Franklin county. Ind.
10 Issue certificate fof lots Nos. and bclng tho
n. r. Of n. E.nnd n. w. ofN. E. quarter 81 sec.
tion TO- town 10, range ie. In said county IN lieu
of those lssued,o The undersigroi by the school
Commissioners, aud which have been lostor dee.
iroyed.
Jan. 10 GEO. HOLLAND
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NlrTGE.

a IL PERSONS whns' aeceanis .i,h iAo AM
a dofs ,ned have hsen standing nNrF ono YraI.
ar fcQueslad Ia call aud aeHu lhi sans tiloro
lhl fsi al laH. ifal. "a pocl 80 must have hfead
dee m nAvls. .
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MtfcstEtl.'s NV \ tYfDNar
NAP VI TILL BhI7e6 S7lYTg
erica, West india lsiaaar.

tubas dc., fc.
rsiiiS NkW AND WILL kXFCl'rFn 4tpt4
! i've tees four inchcs d, I've ftnt ~ lnei,. Ia
nxsfnirk view 81 ihc whole lnilld sinlrs. nnd
nc sonihafh klaica nl 1loslco nni tho coatlai
Ahcfiean States, uith ,lr uoritlan no.tl.a II
H"ath America u hAa Iusi bern iss,lti nI a r,,,.
i"s we leflll1ns 81 ihf tpuns anl fIiies nf KaI.
80, anu ~ i'' hetiffn ronsis ~ snn indsrrn.
- ~ in1it iiu4ls 80 tts arfufnfs rr.n,..l
en- - had nHp ~ Hfenis. roe sNbsff.asr tf.l
van we d'Auf4ni fulllnHs pl tAis AID lIintnllr
With suel eicoufafoiacli as iho n,sflft IN 80.
Map deserves. ~ '''
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Blank Deeds, &c.

| Thcre has sst been issuod atthis ofieo new
We have also, Quit Claims, Mortgages, Commls
ionrrs' Deeds, old form Deeds, summons aud
subpenas'
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BOOK 81.

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Pioneers al the We
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cial Note, and Note Paper, by the Foam or qule,
THE MAGAZtNt.s will DO furnished VI
city pflees--vs eanis for Harper, aud no, cor The
way Will please call soon.
deeie sGlL John " KRELv.
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