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The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-20
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NEW COAL ARRANGEMENT

NEW COAL ARRANGEMENT.
HNHE BALTIMORE COAL COMPANY
Il being solicited by consumers of COAL in this CITY to
establish an Agency for the exclusive sale their superior
nualy sold in the city as 49,
BALTIMORE COMPANY'S COAL
that never came from their Mines the manifest injury
of the well merited reputation of their Coal and being
srou oil securing to all consumers the pure article u-
mixed with any other Coal have appointed
Messrs. DOBBIN & WAKEFIELD
= No. sc SECOND STREET.
SOLE AGENTS for the receipt and of all Coal shipped
to Baltimore from this date.
Messrs. DoBBIN x WAKEFIELD have entered into bond
and security not to deal in receive SELL directly or in
directly, other Anthracite Coal the Baltimore
Companys; hence the public may rely with entire GER
tainty receiving the pure article and the full ton of
2,240 lbs ~ VI
They will ESTABLISH YARDS for supplying families
and make special contracts with all public institutions
manufactures iron workers. &C. by the boat load or in
larger quantity, favorable terms,
By order of the Board
THOMAS WILSON, President
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-20
fe25eod 81
GEO: d. EIRMAN SAM'L A. HOUSE,
ENHRMAN 6 HOUSE,
-LFI0UR & PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS
IN
CORN MEAL, GRAIN MILL FEED

4,
N. W. CORNER HOWARD AND PRATT STREETS
Observation-Disclosures. Newcomer h Stonebraker; c. d.
links Co; Kefauvre 4 Campbell james Hooper &
Sons Chauncey Brooks, Esq., President b. & o. RR. Co.;
Patk Gibson, Esq. Bank of Baltimore; Trueman Cross
ESQ., Cashier Commercial and Farmers Bank
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-20

COAL.
FORSTER SLACK,
SHlPPERS AND DEALERS IN ALL
oklNDS OF ANTHRACITE AND BITUMIN0US COAL
nave IN yard and prepared to deliver in good order
Baltimore Company, Sunbury Locust Gap and Iorberry
White Ash yken's Valley and Short Mountain Red Ash
for famiyuse Cumberland Coal for manufacturing
nestle purposes UPPER YARD,-Howard Street, oppo
site Centre. LOWER YARD Corner Albemarle and Alice
Anna Streets feb22 IT,
NOAL! COAL!! COAL!!i
" LII MORE CO.'S PINE GROVE.
BROAD MOUNTAIN, SHORT MOUNTAIN, LYKEN'S
VALLEY, TREvERT0N, and the celebrated PINK ASH
CoAL-from HEIL'S TUNNEL
2,2i0 lbs. to the TON,
winch am prepared to deliver at the lowest prices for
es, always on hand r.
, oince and yard, CORNER CATHEDRAL and PRESTON
fnII u 81 SOUTH street, where orders respect
mrl11y n KpausEP
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-20

PALTIMORE COAL COMPANIES

p A l. TT MORE COAL COMPANIES
- COAL-The public are hereby notified that as SOLE
now prepared to sell and deliver their very superior Coal
As We agents for other Anthracite Coal consumers
can rely upon getting the genuine article and E 1ueigh
Our arrangements of the very best character
teeing promptnes and dispatch in the delivery of coal
any point within the city limits.
Inc freghts from the mines being very low can
sell Immediate delivery alta much lower later in
the season. hence consumers will find it great saving
money to purchase their supplies at once
To enable us at all times to sell at the very lowest prices
we propose to sell for Cash. exclusively thereby saving
the consumer he cost of collecting and the per cenage
loss on bad debts
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS will be made with Manu-
factories Public Institutions and other large Consumers
D0BBIN l. WAKEFIELD, Agents,
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-20

Baltimore, May s, 1s5stf.
GOAL.
- CUMBERLAND COAL of the best quality, from the
American COmpanys and other mines in the Georges
Greek Valley constantly for by the cargo load
STICKNEY Il CO.,
ap24-u Exchange Place.
CHAs. FORSTER, JR VIM b. SLACK
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-08
us there any money in it"

Such was the earnest inquiry of one of
legislators of another, as we were stopping
the other day in one Of the halls Of the Legis-
~lature, upon the reading of a billor resolution,
the provisions of which he could not hear dis
tinctly.
us there any money in it" thought we,
is a narrow, hard-f enquiry for a legisla-
tor. What's to pay we asked ourselves.
Is the Old North State bankrupt? Has she
gotten hopelessly in debt? Certainly not,
but the people are scared out of their wits,
and have sent to the legislature men of the
same stripe, who are ready to stop her in her
strides of advancement and progress. Now
is there any cause for alarm? Are the hon
est, intelligent PEG; lie of North Carolina rea-
DIV for this ? We think not. Meagre as the
honor is and poor as is the pay, there are men
in our State, who, to secure a seat in the Leg
~islature, are ready to produce and crafty thi:
morbid sensitiveness on the subject Of STATE
debt and high taxation among our people
They would block up the channels Of enter
prise and dam the currents of public spiri
to secure their own ends.
as there any money in it" Yes, an
why not? Can the State or her people bC
come richer or greater without the proper e1
penditure of money? Why not ask, 81
there any good in it's it just, feasible, n
cessary, .judicious or wise?' If so, let it |
done. We hope there are few men in ii
body, so par>inonious end sinister, as th
little-souled, stingy, half starved man, WI
asked rs there any money in it ?"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-08
The Evil Dav.

We have fallen upon evil times. Never
We're drunkenness and RIGHTEOUSNESS and
their attendant crimes more rife in the land
The enemies of God and man were never
more vigorous, willy and successful than now.
And yet the friends of humanity, and virtue.
are not asleep. They are active. and vigi-
liant, but we fear, lack confidence in the sue
cess and the speedy triumph of the great mo-
raj and religious enterprises of the day. The
enemy has come in upo n them as a food. and
hey seem to quail and SILVER as if afrighted.
Let them remember that "the race is not TO
the swift nor the battle to the stronghold
will give the victory, if we are steady and la
b%orious, and t%rustful and confding. Let the
forces OF truth, Of virtue, Of temperance rally
to their standards, remembering the greater
and more rapid the achievement Of the enc
my may be in this eciI dag, the more certain
and terrible and overwhelming will be our
victory in the day when God turns our cap
tivity- Bide your time, We friends Of human
ity and religion. The enemy will do his
worst-is making, we trust, his last great eff.
fort. Watch and fight, and soon the dawn
OF a better day, first irradiating the hill-tops,
shall pour its brightness upon all the land
Have faith in God" and the work is done.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-08
THE AGE-.-Devo ted to TenS5erance, Literature and

~ When the summer of youth is slow
ly wasting away into the night-fall of age, and
the shadows of past years grow deeper and
deeper, as if life were on its close, it is pleas
ant to look back through the vista of time
upon the sorrows and f~elicities of earlier
years. If we have a home to shelter and
hearts to rejoice with us, and friends have
been gathed together by our iresides, then
the rough places of our way-faring will have
been worn and smoothed away in the
twilight Of life, while the sunny spots we
have passed through will grow brighter and
more beautiful. Happy indeed are those
whose intercourse with the world has mo-
changed the tone of their holier feeling OF
broken those musical chords of the heart
whose vibrations are so m~elodious, so touch
ing in the evening Of age.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-08

As your sons advance towards manhood,
cease as far as possible meeting their faults
with reproof, censure or ridicule, but let your
exterior rather exhibit a loving interest in
them, while in the gentlest manner possible
you win them away from what is wrong,
coarse, unamiable, or evil. At this age your
power over them for good will lie mainly in
your power to inspire them with the tender
est flial regard. If you put on a harsh
manner, you will surely repel, and lose your
influence Mt n time when more, perhaps, than
Mt any other period in their lives, they need
to be held close to you by cords 81 the ten
derest affection. Encourage them to give
you their fullest confidence. In their little
trials, disappointment and %strifes, offer them
your sympathy, and lift them above their
weakness-no by making them conscious, to
modification, Of their imperfections, but by
inspiring them with true manly sentiments.
y wise, loving mother is a young mans pal
ladium Of safety. The thought of her is a
sphere Of protection, surrounding him all the
day, and keeping his mind pure amid a thou
sand allurements to vice. Be very careful
to do nothing that will make your sons
thoughts Of you oppressive or repellant. Oh
let your image ever lie in sunshine on hi!
heart So shall your love hold him back il
the hour Of temptation with chains of gold
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-08
GNitrrss' department,
Our view Of it.

In the absence Of the Editor, this week, I
hope it win not be considered obtrusive in me,
to say a word on a subject which, while it is
OF vital Importance to the progress o ftemper-
anee that it be suppressed, also comes direct.
ly to the heart and home Of every wife and
mother in the land. I allude to the system
OF our public men treating with intoxicating
beverages, while canyassing for the s~uffrages
OF their fellow-citizens. 1t has sent to the
hearth stone more inebriated fathers and sons
brought more sorrow and anguish, not to
say cruel treatment, upon wives, mothers and
sisters thar the tongue or pen can express.
That so ungentlemanly a course should be
pursued by honorable men, seeking the votes
Of freemen, is unaccountable. ButstiIl more
is Il, that men who boast that they are free
men, will suffer one to attempt to bride their
vote with = driak Of vile whiskey. Surely
there can be no doubt but that a majority of
the enlightened citizens Of the State are OBJ
posed to this practice, whose developments
have been so Injurious, and the corruptions
and iniquitous character of which, must Gre
ate a feeling Of utter disgust against it. If
so, what should follow ? Let them resozre TO
put i down and let all good men 90 in one
straightforward line to this paramount end.
BE not turned either to the RICH. or the left
by any other issue. BE not intimidated by
the threats, taunts orsneers of mere party
ism but stick with answering fidelity to
your purpose to rebuke the custom, by refu-
sing to vote for any man who INDUCES in the
demoralizing and illegal practice. With this
arm Of power you can resist and destroy it
and with no other.
In tho name Of the Women Of the land, w
call upon all good citizens to combine agains
this evil. You can free the State Of the curse
by union on this principle at the polls. lie
us beseech you TO march steadily forward
conscious Of the rectitude and popularity G
your cause and then will fortune crow
your most ardent'hopes with inevitable victc
ry.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-08
To the Girls.

Here is a paragraph Of plain talk to the
girls, by an anonymous author, which is
worth a library of Young Ladies Books or
young ladies' Friends, or whatever may be
the title Of the w;shy-washy compounds that
are sold for the benefit of that interesting
portion of the community =
"Men who are worth having, want wo-
men for wives. A bundle Of gew- gaws bound
with a string Of flats and quavers, sprinkled
with cologne, and set in a carmine saucer
this is no help for a man who expects to
raise a family on veritable bread and meat
The piano and lace frame are good in their
places, and so are ribbons, frills and %tinsels,
but you cannot make a dinner Of the former,
nor a bed blanket of the latter. And, awful
as the idea may seem to you, both dinner and
bed blankets are necessary to domestic hap:
piness. Life has its realities as well as fan.
cies but you may make it all a matter Of
decoration, remembering the tassels and cur
tains, but forgetting the beadstead. Suppose
a man of good sense, and of course goo(
prospects, to be looking for a wife-wha
chance have you to be chosen? You may
cap him, or you may trap him or catch him
but how much better to make it an object 70
him to catch you. Render yourself WORT
catching, and you will need no shrewd moth
or to help you to find a market"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-08
Penitentiary.

Our contemporaries in the State, seem to
have overlooked the proposition before the
Legislature to submit to the people the pro-
priety of establishing a penitentiary in the
State. As yet it has attracted but little no
tice, but We are Of opinion, few propositions
will come before the Legislature of more pub
lie utility than this. Upon no question has
a greater change taken place in the public
mind il the last few years, than the necessi-
ty for an institution of this kind. Conviction
is almost universal in the sober thoughts of
our people, that death is too severe a pea
atty for many of the crimes committed among
US, and hence many a scoundrel goes unwhipt
of justice. Recently wherever we have been,
we have heard but one sentiment expressed.
Let the question be submitted to the people
and an overwhelming majority will be found
in favor of it.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-08
The Duke Of Wellington as a lover and
Husband.
faithful friend,
L. BALFOUR.

At the age of %, Arthur Wellesley Tor
Wesley, as he wrote it at the time) went
to India, with the rank Of full, Colonel, OF
tanned simply by the influence Of his aris-
tocratical birth and connections, and by
money, insthe tenth year of his military
services. At that time he was engaged
to Catherine Pakenham daughter Of the
Earl Of Longford, and sister Of General Sir
Edward Michael P~akenham, who was kill
ed in the battle Of New Orleans. The lady,
who was young and beautiful, was devo-
tedIy attached to Colonel Wellesley, and
her affection was fully reciprocated. Call
ed to India, where his brother was Governor
General, to take a leading part in the wal
with Tippoo Saih, this fortunate soldier had
to leave his lady love behind. After an
absence Of eight years, during which he
won rank and renown, he returned to En-
gland, where he was met by a letter from
Miss Pakenham, informing him that the
small pox had assailed and injured the
beauty which he had so much admired,
when life vas younger and gayer with both
of them, and, with tender sadness, assured
him that she had resolved to relieve him
from his engagement. With the true
feeling Of an honorable mind, he assured
her that her beauty had not been the only
inducement to WOO and VII ter, and that
he was DESTROYS of marrying her. Accor
dinghy, the marriage took place in 1905
. within six months of his return from India
/ The only fruits of this union were two sons
t one born in 1907 and the other in 1905
e In the spring Of the latter year Welles
K ley had to leave his wife to take part j
5, the Peninsula war. lie returned for a sho1
time after the signing Of the Convention {
Cintra, but from 1909 to 1914, durin
which he rose step by step to the highe:
L honors of the English peerage, be was d.
j. tanned on the Peninsula. The strong t
IN Of married love was weakened by this prc
n longed absence, and the Duchess of We
re lingtsn, from the Waterloo victory Of l8l
a to her death in 1881, was not a happy vii
ne To the last, she deplored that a sense
ne honor had made the Duke marry HI
to against her own better judgment, when h
list beauty had become a thing Of memo
to alone.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-08
A few Thoughts for Mothers.

The immortality of the Mothers conduct
in this matter (giving her children intoxi-
eating drinks consists in intoxicating a d.
rect and mischievous falsehood. Not one
of the attributes Of assuaging pain or pro-
noting strength, that ignorance or appe-
tite has invested strong drink with, does it
really possess consequently, truth IS sacri-
feed in this important lesson, and who
shall calculate the result? Then reflect
on the cruelty of the deception, and think
of the temptation you are preparing for a
creature destined to pass through the world
full enough of tempting seductions, with
out a mother spreading the snare, instead
Of shielding her child from it; such a pa
rent is planting thorns in her child's path
that will wound both her offspring and
herself. How can a mother be 50 wanting
in ordinary reflection as to act IN the mat
ter of strong drink so differently to what
she would in any other branch Of morals?
Drunkenness is Just as great ifuot a greater,
crime against society, as theft or lying. A
good mother has very strict opinions on
these latter views she requires her chill
dren religiously to abstain from them she
practices the most perfect integrity and
uprightncss; she would treat with scorn
any argument about moderation IN steal
ing or ~falsehood; she knows that in these
cases there is no such thing as little sin ;
but yet she can drink in moderation, and
, look coolly in her children's faces as if she
had done no wrong, and taught no wick
r edness. Alas so long as mothers drink,
, be it moderately or otherwise, SO long will
!, her children grow up predisposed to be
! come drunkards. Oh then purify the
q 4 sanctuary of home from the po.lutions o
! incipient incompetence. Let the materna
# character be a moral light in great dark
r ness and above all, let the tenderness witt
e which, as mothers, you regard your off
d spring, be as wise and iudicious as it Is IN
It changable and intense. Remember, tina
y %costlier studies may be forgotten, but tn
:, lessons learned at the fre-side linger in tn
u memory and influence the heart through
all the vicissitudes of life, and Gas an ad
mired writer has justly said,) "Unhapp
is that man whose recollections of bis ow
O. mother have not to him endeared and san
titled all mothers" How beautiful an
10 wisely has Montgomery said,
IN GA parents heart may prove a snare:
cd The child she loves so well,
err Her hand may lead with gentlest care
be Down the smooth path to hell
Ter Pamper its fame, destroy its mind,
Ter Thus do the blind mislead the blind,
ost Zen with a mothers love-"
:,
ne Oh! as you would promote your ch
.er, dren's real welfare, your country's mo
ler- elevation, your own interest and happine
raj adopt the principle of total abstinence
we your children learn it from you, and
- shall be a shield and safeguard to the
pen and generations yet unborn shall rise a
,fnl call you blessed.
the Your faithful friend,
,ht, L. BALFOUR
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-08
Intemperance in High Places.

It has, perhaps, been too much the fashion
of the friends of Temperance to seek for the
strongest cases, and draw their most vivid
pictures of the evils of drunkenness from the
lower walks of life-from the cutters Of de-
graduation. Most drunkards wallow in the
last stages of a debauched life. Thence,
they are to be fshed up, and restored, if
possible, if death does not do its work too
quickly. But it is not among this class
where we meet the greatest encouragements
to vice, and the greatest obstacles to general
reformation. Were drunkenness to take its
start, and make its end. among the vicious
and the vile, the efforts of the friends of re-
form would be easily successful in putting a
stop to the overwhelming ruin. Then, it
would only be necessary to make them feel
the scowl, or the persuasivcs, or the motives
drawn from the pe%cuniary or the So
cial and moral wants Of men, presented by
the middle and higher classes Of society, to
bring them to reflection and amendment.
But the greatest barrier to the success Of
Temperance is found in the habits and the
sentiments Of the higher classes. They are
the chief promoters and apologists of the use
Of intoxicating liquors. With all their boast
ed refinement and intelligence, not one Of
them in fifty have vivacity or sense enough
to pass a social hour entertainingly, without
I the aid of a glass Of wine or something
stronger. Discussion, or even light table
4 talk, drags, without the electricity of the
c glass. Parties, for conversation, for amuse-
q ment, or to do honor to a guest, are invari-
ably pronounced dull, when champagne, OF
u madeira, or cogniac, or Irish whisky do no
rule the hour Even the exciting strains O
sweet music, the lightchuckle, the chatter
y or the scream of bare-armed pretty bellies
L mingling with their chosen ones in the giddy
l. dance, fail to make a festive, joyous evening
i Alcohol must be there, in some form, to Civ
u enchantment to the occasion.
And is it not a burning shame, that mel
who occupy first positions-who are mos
or influential for good or evil, are, par ercel
Ience, the aiders and abettors by a powerful
- and d~amning example, Of drunkenness an,
its consequent crimes? Is it not a misno
he mCr-a burlesque, to call best society INTEL
.. gent, when they must call to their aid tn
- invigorating and exciting power Of alcohC
Id to make even a social hour with friends il
til hteresting and entertaining?
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-08
What a poor deyil!p

Reader, if perchance, while you are stand
ing in the midst of a group of gentlemen, en-
gagged in light cogitations, an unfortunate
drunken loafer pass on, Keeling to and fro,
poorly clad what remark would most likely
fall from the lips Of that respectable company,
on seeing him? Would it not most likely
be, with a c~ontemptuous sneer, 'what a poor
devil!' Yes, that's the slang ordinarily used
on such occasions. But what II, when
out on an errand of mercy late at night, you
were to see half dozen Of those same respect.
able gentlemen after the clock had struck onet
coming ont of an oyster or gambling saloon,
the one helping the other to find the steps
and then slowly advancing to the lamp posts
to get balanced before they attempted to nav
igate? What would you call them And
suppose if you followed them to their homes.
which they might reach before day, after
many bumps and tumble-d owns, you heard
them abusing the servants for going to bed 50
; early, or cursing the faithful dog because he
: didn't know his master, or scolding a lovely
: wife, because she sat waiting, with eyes trick
: ling, for a truant husband What would YOU
call them ? Are they rot poor devils? You
J dare not utter it. They are gentlemen, and
that's enough.
So, the world wags. 4 poor, ignorant man,
' without breeding. pity or encouragement,
= contracting the habit of drinking in early life.
. failing in his attempts to make an honest liy.
inc, becomes a drunken loafer. He receives
N nothing but scorn and contempt, and is call
ed "a poor devil" But grave commoners OF
graver senators, or learned %jurists, or spright.
y attornies, or rich merchants, or farmers vel
II to do in the world, may spend a week Of day.
and nights at the well furnished saloon or il
a private room, over the sparkling glass-o
iii may be kindly carried home and put to be
at from a gcntleman's entertainment every wee
- of their lives, and they are gentlemen still
as Out upon you, We hypocritical pretenders
80 gentility,-ye STAINLESS ~contenders for cast
tba and high position, -ye oiled-toneued blabbe
:, ers about refined society, honorable associ
"a tons and the like! Leave off your midnigI
d,- revellings, your debauchery and drunken
rbo ness, or the day is not distant, when your !
de- VIII be that Of the loafer's, and passers
will say of you, "What a poor devil :"