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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-03-17
A Mothers Love.

What sweet poetry is contained in those
three little words! Is there a sentence to be
found in any language that is more replete
with sentiment, beauty, grace or finish p
A mothers love! How noble! How self
sacri6cingl How unceasing are her efforts
in guiding Alright the footsteps of her chill
dren! What privations will she not endure;
what perils will she not encounter for the
infancy It's our mother who watches over III
with untiring devotion; who notes every
change in our looks both in sickness and
health, and, with loving arms twined around
And oh! with what perfect confidence we
nestle! Fearing nothing, caring nothing,
only to be nestled more closely and feel the
warm pressure of her lips upon our cheeks.
How our hearts bound beneath the loveful
chances of her soul-lit eyes, as she bends
them upon azsbeaming with a light so pure
and holy With what delight does she lis.
ten to our childish prattle, and observe each
winning grace! How fondly she gaZes up
on us, and what a bright future she paints
for us Then, as the thought comes that az
we advance in years, she may be taken from
us, and we be left to the cold charities of Thu
world, her heartfelt prayer. ascends to tn
Throne of Grace, b%eseeching Him to guild
and direct our steps, so that we be prepar
ed to meet her in a brighter and better world
Sorrows may come upon us, friends may fol
sake us, and the world present not one cheer
ing ray, yet will our mother cling to US wit
a love so abiding that her cheerful tone
and loving words make US forget the world
rude and bitter jests. Never, on this eartE
can we find a friend so steadfast, and one i
whom wecan repose such perfect confidenc,
as our mother. How holy is a mothers love
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Coming to it.

The Editor of the Salisbury Waterman has
just adopted the cash in advance system, in
the publication of that journal, and his sub
scribers are "backing him up nobly in this
move, by settling up the old scores and pay
ing in advance for the new. Most of the 9TH
er papers in the State have adopted it, and
find it to work well. The Spirit of the Age
was the first mover in this great reform of
Newspaper publishing in North Carolina
We have been trying it for near nine years,
and to-day finds us with over Jfce thousand
subscribers on our books, all paid IN GdCance.
And they like the system as well as we, and
nave always encouraged US to adhere to it
Such, we think, will be the experience of all
who adopt it-and we hope to see it general
among the publishers in the State.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-03-17
War with Rum.

As the Spring opens, the Esprit stirs
within us to strike harder blows at the una
bated scourge of mankind. The winter has
not frozen our campaign. We have whetted
our tomahawk and broken the pipe of peace
with rum. No flag of truce can court a
compromise. With the bright sword of Truth
we sometimes feel able to cleave our way
through b~ristling platoons of ignorance and
error. We have enlisted for the war and for
life, and the heart throbs more eagerly when
the bugle blast peals and calls us to duty
Through years of service gone we nave an
swered that call as the weeks come and went,
and as the weeks come and go for the future,
we wish to be in the thickest of the fight
1t makes us feel like shouting, huzza! when
we see the dust rising amid the ranks of
king rum.
Confiding in the intelligence of the masses,
we shall array the evils visited upon the hu-
man family by rum we will call up hosts of
mourning widows and weeping children /:
throw open doors of d~runkard's homes and
bid christian men look in upon the misery
gathered there; bid humanity to behold the
victims of drunken murders as they stiffen in
their gore around the shrine of the damming
bowl and uncover their ghostly wounds and
suicidal thrusts, that they, like the wounds
on Caesars corse, may ope their bloody lips
and plead for those who yet live, and bring
an accusation ofdeath against the iniquitous
traffic. These are a few of the weapons to
be employed in our crusade against the most
terrible scourge that ever befel the earth, and
with renewed zeal to WELD them to the stir
ring up of the christian, the humane, the
thinking portion of the community, we pray
Heaven to aid us and defend the Justice ofth,
cause.
The War still progresses. Help III fight
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-03-17
Little Graves.

Sacred places for pure thoughts and holy
meditations, are the little graves in the
cburchy ard. They are the repositories of the
mothers sweetest joys-halfunfolded buds
Of innocent humanity nipped by the first frost
of time, ere yet . canker-worm of peridy
had nestled among its embryo petals. Cal
lous, indeed, must be the heart of him who
can stand by a little graEe-side and not have
the hottest emotions of his soul awakened to
thoughts of that purity and joy which belong
alone to God and heaven; for the mute
preacher at bis feet tells of life begun and life
ended without a strain; and surely if this be
l~youchsafed to mortality, how much purer and
boiler must be the spiritual land, enlightened
by the sun Of infinite goodness, whence ema-
mated the soul Of that brief sojournment
among usp How swells the heart of the pa
rent with m%ournful joy while standing by tht
earth bed of lost little ones? Mournful be
cause a sweet treasure is taken a~way--joyful
because that precious jewel glitters in the di
Iadem of the Redeemer.
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THANKs.-The Publisher of the North Car
Dina Planter would take this method of re-
his thanks to the Editor of the Will
mington Herald, for the full and handsome
compliment paid his Agricultural work, on
the reception of the March number. Many
others of our State contemporaries nave also
laid him under obligations by giving the work
a handsome notice while some have never
noticed it at all whether from oversight or
otherwise, we do not know.
The effort to establish a good State Agri-
cultural journal-one filled with matter sui
ted to our own soils, climate and crops, sure
ly ought to be encouraged, not only by the
Press, but by every one feeling an interest
in this important pursuit. Every other en-
~terprise of the kind in North Carolina has
failed, and it required no small degree of
courage for the present Publisher to under
take the North Caroliua Planter. But he has
assumed the risk and has published three
capital numbers-so all say who have read
them. Farmers from different portions ofthe
State are contributing to its columns, and
competent practical Planters and Horticul-
turists have charge of the Editorial depart
ments. 1t is published at the low price of
81 a year. Subscriptions and contributions
earnestly solicited. Address A. NJ. German,
Raleigh. N. G..
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Something Wrong.

Our package of papers for Pittsboro' has
twice within three weeks failed to reach that
place in due time. 1t is not our fault, for we
know that it is regularly deposited in the P.
0. here every Tuesday. Nor do we believe
the fault lies at the Raleigh P. 0. We have
good reason to believe it is sent to the R. R.
Depot every Wednesday morning, and ought
to reach Pittsboro' the same day. Who, then,
is to blame, when it does not Whose ever
fault it is, we beg them to be more careful,
and we will be under very many obligations
We hope to have no more occasion to com.
plain about it.
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For the Spirit of the Age.
INFLUENCE OF II

This subject has often been discussed by
persons of more mature minds than | pos
sess and | have not chosen it expecting
to add much that is new, to what has al
ready been heard, or read but, simply be-
cause it is we'll for us all to remember that
Fashion is a tyrant that binds with iron !.
chains, and produces much of the suffering
and misery in the world. Fashion, wo-
man and money" are said to govern the
world, instead of morality, virtue and re-
ligion but | think, fashion and money are
sufficiently powerful, leaving woman out Of
the list.
For example, look at our own country :
How dependent we are upon the tastes and
whims of Parisia inventors, for the cut OF
a coat or dress, and the style of a hat or
bonnet: We call ourselves an indepen-
dent, republican people, yet it is more than
any lady in the borders of our land can do,
to introduce a comfortable bonnet in OPP
position to a foreign Importation.
"A few years ago, a lady in Philadelphia
called upon a French Miliner to ascer-
tain whether she intended importing any
bonnets from Paris that season. The Mil
liner replied "No;" but here is a bon
net Frenchy silk, Frenchy gauze, and
Frcnchy woman make it. What more
Frenchy do YOU want 2" But the beautiful
hat met no sale, merely because it had not
crossed "the water"
France has her fashions adapted to her
people and climate; and We follow suite at
: the expense of health and comfort, and
sometimes even modesty.
To be out of the 'height" or rather
"breadth" of the fashion, is to be out OF
what is termed 'the world" Every pa
rent is aware that indulging sons and
! daughters in the vain effort to keepup with
the abeau monde is the source of evil
8 yet they silence reason by the fallaclous
= sophistry, "our children must not feel
ne ashamed oftheir appearance, or be behind"
and needless expenditures are permitted
and, perhaps, derelictions from the path OF
duty overlooked.
Need parents blame their children for
vain love of dress, and reckless expendi-
lures, when they foster both from infancy;
lie, and fail to teach a just medium?
The old landmarks of the days of Re
publican simplicity are fast wearing away
from the soil of America. Young ladie
are fashionable now, only when they cal
boast of delicate forms and pale and inter
esting looks, and snake broad their gar
ments." And young men can claim til
same rank who know best how to make
great display upon the least possible meri
land who are always ready to sneer
,s,d the old "fogies" who have the good sens
to adhere to the industrious habits, ten
perance and sobriety of our ancestors
Occasionally we meet young women (ne
ladies) whose rosy cheeks and rounde
forms bear evidence that they are not u
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Ia Fearful of accidents and mischief from
the sale of poisonous drugs, the popular will
interdicts their sale by quaeks; but the same
public voice is hushed the same popular
power is helpless the same popular feeling
is destroyed, when pointed to the worse than
physical death from recognized poisons daily
measured out in the rum glass all over the
country. We give liquor vendors the highest
sanction of the law in their sinful vocation of
dealing out to their fellowmen what is more
poisonous and morally ruinous than the vile
broth from Hecate's cauldron. We domore
we demand a revenue for the blood they
cause to be shed and for the souls they doom
to despair, and thus, virtually, become par
ties in the crime. Can a people, claiming t.
be christians, still remain careless and indiffer
ent to this important matter? If so, let tn,
barbarians shed tears of pity for us, and pou
around the feet of their heather gods thu
blood Of their bulloeks in eur behalf
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t9eAge,
RAILING .E.c.
WEDNESDAY. MARCH II, 1858.
Special Notice.

" upon the CASH system. All papers are
dis continued at the expiration of the time for
which they have been paid. Subscribers
will be notified -FOUR WEEKS before their time
is out, by a CROSS MARX on their papers and
unless the subscription is renewedthe papers
will be discontinued. This is a rule from
which there will be no departure. Watch
for the CROSS MARX, andrenew your subscrip-
ton.
~ Subscribers desiring their papers
changed, must mention the Post Office, from,
as well as the one to, which they desire the
change to be made.
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The n. York Day-Book says that the news
papers throughout the country devote from
six to ten columns to the marriage of a boy
and girl in England, while four lines suffice
for the ~nuptials of Willard Fillmore, ex-Pres-
ident of the United States. The hit is a
good one. The toadyism displayed by the
American Press about these Royal eeremo-
MES has become really disgusting, a disgrace
to the country and a libel upon her repubh-
can sentiments. Who cares whether the
Princess royal wore a robe of MORE antique
and a Honiton lace veil, or a plain calico dress
without hoops or founces? We have no
doubt thai our Martha Jane OF Maria Matilda,
who was married last week or last month to
some sturdy farmer without the slightest
noise, is worth more in every trait of wo
manly nobility than all the butterflies o.
courtly fashion who could stand between
here and ST. James Palace.
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What shall be Done


We have so long battled against the rava
ges of intemperance-our voice has been so
constantly raised against the ruin which it
has spread broadcast over our land, that, YER
lily, when we witness its continued triumphs,
its awful current still deluging the nation,
our heart sickens our knees tremble and
our hand becomes too palsied to WELD with
its wonted vigor, the pen with which We
have so long hoped to overthrow it. But
sick as the heart becomes at scenes over which
Heaven weeps-feeble as our knees some
times are to stand in the breach, palsied as
our hand is, we cannot, must not, dare not
cease to sound the alarm and to rally the true
Sons of Temperance to the rescue. 1t is the
call of humanity, of true liberty, of God
that urges us on to battle with the hosts of
mans worst foe.
At several periods since we stood watch
man upon these walls, our successes and tri-
umphs led us to hope for complete victory.
Now and then the star of hope lit up bright
ly our moral horizon, and we thought surely
the day was breaking and the full orb'd Sun
of Temperance would soon speed his way to
meridian but alasl that star would grow
dim and Pickering murky clouds would gath
er and obscure it from our vision. Thank
God, that star still shines in the heavens
Ever and anon, its twinklings revive anc
cheer us, and we work. and toll, and pray 70
a better day.
Recently, a sad reaction seems to have ia
ken place. Maugre all the efforts of the friend
of truth, Justice and humanity-notwithstaT
ding the earnest labors and successes of mi
nv of the Divisions, and although the publ
mind was never more firm in its conviction
of the great evil and sin of drunkenness, y
drunkards are notwithstanding shops a
Increasingly and tempting saloons are f
ted up-young men and old men rush to Il
LIQUID fre-the devil ~rejoices over his ca
conquests and hell Is peopled with the slav
of Alcohol.
We hear it said by many who seem to
plore this state of things, 1--WE have ne'
known so much liquor drank-our eyes ha
seldom seen so many drunkards-our to-
| was never so filled with grog shops" A
: pray what are the sober doing to prevent
5 What are our magistrates, our munich
: authorities doing to block up this tide of
= EQUITY? Were they not sworn to abate +
d sances, to guard and protect the peace
e well-being of the community Have t
IT forgotten what they promised God and I'll
= country when they took that oath +? Are
5, AFRAID to do their duty? Let them then
ID place to others who will The scorn of
e. ry honest man should rest upon a public
I'd Ger calling himself a man, who is afrai
- keep his solemn oath.
Brethren, friends of Temperance! whs
to be done? Are you at work? o!
ministers of Jesus, does the pulpit thur
its denunciations-fash out its lightni
against the evil? Does the bench, the
Ip- the doctor, the farmer, the merchant,
e mechanic, do their duty? We fear not.
d. men of might-of infuence-of means, /
Ill., Give us your strong arm, to raise a bal
~ to this mighty food, that threatens to
guiph a nation of freemen.
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A CRY OF THE HEART.
Give the reed

Give the reed
From storms q shelter-giVs the dropping vine
Something round which lie tendrils may entwine.
Give the pareh'd flower . ~rAindrop. and the meeA
oflovo's kind words TO WomAn.-MRs. HEHANI
Give me friends to love me-oh! / ask mob
for fame
To awaken the world with the sound of my
name;
IT'S a torch light at best that foul envy carl
quench-
A necklace Of tinsel which the robber NAV
wrench
The blast Of a bugle ringing out ON the gale,
That sinks into silence ut misfortune's first
wall; !
And would leave me more sad, despairing
and lone,
Than had | ne'er heard its bewildering tone.
Give me friends to love me:-'tis not beauty
seek;
Not the sparkling black eye, or the rose tin
ted cheek
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The Bride of an Evening"

am under obligations to Mr.. Lewis L.
Smith, Bookseller, Richmond, Va, for a file
of the New York Ledger, containing the
above charming Story by Mrs. Southworth.
It is only necessary to say that this is one of
her bsst l~aeeonyey to the mind of the
reader the. ex~csllenry gifts character. had
intended writinga more extended notice OF
the work, but as it can be procured SO cheap.
ly of Mr.. Smith, / recommend all to peruse
it for themselves. For 55 cents the papers
will be sent containing it. See Mr.. Smiths
advertisement, in another column, headed
1.-THE Bride of an Evening"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-03-17

MABEL VAUGHAN by the Author of
"The Lamplighter. All who have read the
thrilling story of The Lamplighter," will be
glad of an opportunity to peruse another
work from the same pen. The one 10Y on
our table seems to be equal in interest, as a
narrative, and as creditable in literary COM
position, as the former, which had so great a
TUE in this country. For sale by Pomeroy,
Raleigh.
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To Correspondents.

Our contribution box is full to o~verfowing,
and correspondents must wait patiently till
their time comes to be heard. We will make
room for such as will do to publish, as soon
as practicable, without interfering with the
variety we always desire to keep up in our
columns. Be patient.
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ted that, in a certain district, they are in the
habit of kissing the gentlemen to see if they
keep their temperance pledge. We happen
to know that certain men, unless they cease
kissing I" Black Betty,"as they call their bot
tie, will see, in the end, the very-erclana-
tioD I <
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Ode Cards.

The Grand Scribe has now on hand a sup
ply of Ode Cards for the new Ritual, gotten
up in elegant style; which he offers to Di-
visions at Is cents per dozen, postage prepaid.
Send on your orders soon, before the supply
is exhausted. st.
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With fond delight would ever bend,

81
For mortal grace could never lend
A sight more fair, than wandered BY
In that frail thing-a gentle girl
Trembling on life's most joyous hour
And all unconscious of the power
Which lay cen in the lightest curl
That waving in the summer air
Glanced golden in her flowing hair.
How shall l say how beautiful
Seemed the sweet phantom to me then
Her eyes how soft-no poets pen
Inspired by Cynthia's self can tell.
Her cheeks how farther lips how red
The witching magic of her smile
And from her eyes escaped the while,
The light of a high soul, which shed
A glory round this gentle maid,
In robes of purest white arrayed.
In 'beauty's light" she glided there
As moves the swan on some blue lake,
And cen that fair scene seemed to take
A new enchantment from her air:
And many a lover, eager-eyed,
The wayelets flashing meath his oar,
Followed despairing, evermore
Upon the streams unceasing tide
Watching the smile which seemed to say,
Unwilling was each fatal may"
=
The vision changed, and | beheld
As dimly, thro' a nasty veil,
A crowd of shadows, cold and pale,
Upon the stream, whose pillows swelled
And toss'd the frail boats on its breast:
And many a lovely freight was wrecked,
And many a shape, but late erect,
Now bent lonely and depressed
Elected in silence sadly on
Some too--the fairest one-were gone!
Where was that gentle lady then,-
Whose beauty fingered in my mind?
With longing eyes, | sought to find
Some vestlge of her passing-when
Across the wave | saw appear
A bark whose lovely inmate seemed
To bear some trace of her who'd cleaned,
On my first vision, bright and clear,
As the pure ray of vesper's star
Soft shining in the azure far.
'IsoGs she in truth-yet, changed! A0ao
changed!
For cares had dimmed her deep dark eye,
And sorr0D's touch, too bitterly,
Had DER her noble beauty ranged;
Pdte OdS her cheek, and sad her face,
And the long tresses of her hair 3.
Fell dropping DER her forehead fair
AS if to hide each ~tell-tale trace
Which grief and shattered hopes had left
Of dark past of joys bereft.
Yet time and ills had not availed
To rifle all the charms that late
Had decked the lady's youthful state
And tho the brilliant glow had paled,
Which on her face had once been seen
Still tho the shade of bitter care,
Visible in her altered air,
There fingered, gentle and serene,
The light of a high soul and pure
Equal to triumph or endure.
Not only in that tottering shell
Was she upon the rivers tide,
For nesting by the mothers side
Three cherubs lay! what words can tell
; The tender looks of deathless IOoe
She bent upon the lovely band
Guarded by her feeble hand!
8 Perchance twas only these could move
Her spirit to withstand the blows
Z Of Gduerse fate-of wearing woes.
On a lone island of the sea
Where flowers in myriads filed the so
: And bright-eyed shapes the green cart
e trod,
The lady, with her jewels three
> Wandered the pleasant shades among;
: Once more, her smiles were light and fr
Il And happier hours had caused to flee
The memory of dark days and long
The boat was drawn up on the shore,
For the long journeys cares aoere Ger!
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81 Peterson for April is before us, and
we can recommend this number as very in
teresting. 1t is offered at 81. Direct to G.
j. Peterson, 306, Chestnut Street, Philadel-
phia. Peterson and the Age for $3.50,
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~ The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that Thomas Green. the
present owner of the F~auquier VA mhlos
Sulphur Springs. is entitled to a tract OF land
in the State of Texas, of $4,000 acres anu
valued at more than 90, 100000.
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To Mrs. M. R. t, of Southampton Co. v,

w. q
Once gazing in a waking dream,
Down the far vista of the past,
l saw, as in a mirror glass'd,
The flowing of a mystic stream,
On whose smooth waters seemed to glide.
The shapes of many dear to me:
And things departed seemed to be
Restored upon that silver tide,
Which flowing onward to the sea
Imaged the stream of memory.
Fair phantoms moved upon the wave
And eyes familiar flashed on me:
Soft voices murmured melody
And smiles-bright lips of beauty gave.
In fairy boats the figures sailed,
Selfurged upon the waters breast
And each mild creatures brow caress',
With garlands of sweet flowers and wild
Shone with q lustre fair to see
From care, and grief, and sorrow free.
One bark there was, on which my eve
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Here we have the Poets dream Of the
Phantom Ship" of life which though
dreamy, yet how real to the waking scenes
of stern reality. The lines are beautiful. and
mirror forth the fate of many a barque on the
ltempestous sea of life.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-25

EOR SALE-A three-stOr and basement BRICK
Il HOUSE, No ~ Fat 3j,h.t. viii ell tho modern ia
p,rstu~It AppJ ~ the Irou Foundry, Es's isi-s. seU
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