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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-22
No Paper next Week.

1t has always been our custom to suspend
the issue Of the Age during Christmas week.
We shall not depart from this custom at this
time. 1t is the only week in the year that
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wish each a happy Christmas. To the young,
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-22
1859.

The next number of the Spirit of the Age
will bear the date of the new year 1889 We
are determined to use our utmost efforts to
make it, during that year, a better paper than
it has ever been. We feel a new stimulus
in our veins, and the fires of enthusiasm and
faith kindling in our hearts. Time is passing
away with us-we shall soon be In our graves
and when we see the bloody footprints OF
intemperance all over our land, and hear the
shrieks of his murdered victims around al
most every hearth-stone-we feel the spirit OF
resistance stirring within US and are eager Tor
a vigorous strife, before we are called hence.
The Age will wage a determined warfare
against the whiskey-god in 1859
And the other departments of the paper
will receive unusual care and attention. We
have made arrangements with gifted writers
to supply our columns with instructive and
interesting moral Stories, Essays, Biographi
cal and Historical Sketches, &C.; so that IL
all respects, we think we may safely promis'
our Patrons, that the Age shall not be SUI
passed by any paper in the country.
In the first issue for 1859, will be com
menced a Series of Domestic Stories, by
North Carolina writer not unknown to fame
which we predict will be pronounced equ'
to the Stories Of that character written b
the most eminent writer's. 1t will take SCI
eral months to complete them so we advis
all who desire the entire series, to send @
and get the paper from the beginning Of Il
year.
All of our Contributors are of the Sout
We profess to be striving to build up a Sout
ern Literature, free from the love-sick twatt
and namby-pambyism of trashy northe
journals. We think this can only be do
by securing Southern contributors. Fro
such writers we are always sure oftrue frien
to southern character and southern insti
tons.
And now, friends of Temperance and tt
Southern literature, we call upon you 70
generous and liberal support. We offer J
a irst-class journal on the very lowest teri
You can help US extend our circulation gr'
". May we not feel confident that you
do it?
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-22
Hon. Frederick Mash.

The following resolutions were adopted at
the late communication of the Grand Lodge
of Masons, held in this City:
WHEREAS, In the death Of a great and good
man, and one whose noble walk and honest
demeanor has ever reflected credit upon our
order; whose reputation is not limited to
State lines whose services to his State and
country are appreciated by all, and whom,
in life, it has ever been our pleasure to re-
spect, it becomes US as a Grand Lodge to give
an expression CT feeling in regard to his de-
cease therefore
ResoJged, That in the death of brother
Frederick Nash, the Masonic order has lost
one of its oldest and most faithful members,
a perfect and an honest Mason in every sense
of the word. That from the constellation of
! great lights which have, from time to time,
gathered around our altar, one of its most
brilliant components has departed. That in
his death a noble Mason has gone to take his
place as a perfect stone in that eternal temple
in the heavens, and a pure Christian has left
this world of cares to take his seat upon the
right hand Of the Most High.
Resotred, That in the view of this Grand
Lodge, by the death of brother E. Nashsa
uo1, anu inc State of the services Of an uD
right and righteous man.
HICcOGCcU, 1Hdb IL IL GNGT Will prlQo we
greet such men as brethren in our mystic art
and with a feeling Of sorrow we view theil
departure from our midst, and with such feel
ings in our minds, who have known him on
ly in the holy ties of Masonic brotherhood
and as a fellow-member Of society, what mus
be the sorrow in that immediate circle from
which he has been torn? Therefore, th,
Most Worshipful Grand Master is requested
to forward a copy of these resolutions to tn,
family of the deceased, and tender them ou
sincerest sympathy in their great affection
ResolDed, That the members of this Crane
Lodge wear the usual badge Of mourning 70
thirty days.
ResoJced, That a copy of these resolution
be sent to the different newspapers of thi
City with a request to publish, and that the
be spread upon the minutes.
HENRY e. COLTON,)
COLBMAN, : Com.
FL. B SHORT,
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Sqlrdof tBfAge.
RALEIGa,E.c
WEDNESDAY,. DECEMBER %, 1858.
Special Notice.

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Hereafter the Password will be furnished
to no Division until after their Returns an d
the per capita tax of 10 cents for each
member has been received by the Grand
Scribe. Nor will any Division receive the
Password who has not a D. G. w. Patriarch,
except those who have a county D. G. w. P.
belonging to their Division.
All commissions to D. G. w. P's dated
before this notice are now dead.
A. W. CUMMINGS, G. w. P.
Asheville, Dec. 1858. If
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-22
For the Spirit of the Age
Treating Candidates.

Mr.. EDITOR If you remember, | prescrib-
ed a short time since, a remedy for the great
evil of treating during our e~lectioneering
campaigns, and | was pleased to see IN the
last number Of the Spirit of the Age, that the
application, or rather the preliminaries to it,
had produced a "Fluttering among the Pig
cons" But unfortunately, | think, for the
good ofour old mother who bassuffered so long
and excruciatingly from this awful scourge,
the anodine was administered too soont /
fear the practitioner who administered it was
unskilNul IN the healing art, warped in judg-
g gent Or aTyR~RssgEHio qp3EElYEa iKAftffgge1{tff6a "a CASE the cut a4 Of his is
hands and employing another more worthy
the confidence of an enlightened public.
The time has come when our people will
no longer suffer politicians to ride into office
on a barrel Of strichnine whiskey If they
will employ the most abandoned of our race,
to deal out gratuitously on the day Of elee-
tons the intoxicating draught to the unsta-
Die and ignerant of the community until they
are unable to walk alone, and then they. the
Kind and GfectioR0te guardians of the people
meet them as they escape the walls of the pol
luted dens Of iniquity, take them affection
ately by the arm and conduct them to the
ballot-box and cause them to vote for them
selves and others of the sam stripe, then I
for one say, let them "give an account Of
their stewardship"
Does it require a decision of the Supreme
Codrt to determine whether or no this an in
dictable offence? ifso, let US have it. Suppose
it doe, qqeeeiPe tie be ud 5RFfe2sl9 FB;is e 99r ferret out .his
mas cost our State enough to repienish the
treasury a dozen times, to say nothing of the
loss OF life, character, &c. Then surely we
can spare a few thousand dollars to heal this
Tuinous disease. 1t may look like depIeting
100 rapidly, but the patient has often to he
reduced very low to subdue infamatorv
symptoms which threaten life. And now 4
those who have the case in hand will not
conduct it to a favorable issue. let me sno.
gest to the good people athome to hand then
with the subject in hand and the parties con.
cerned, over to the Grand Juries, Solicitors ~
Judges OF our Superb Courts, who will "stir
up their pure minds by way of remembrance y
II the above, faithfully administered, does
not prove a panacea for the malady under con
slderatlon, | will no longer subscribe mysel-
APHYSIClAN.
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Divisions take Notice.

wish to appoint a D. G. w. P. for every
Division in the State, except those who have
a county D. G. w. P. residing in the place
where the Division is located. From each of
whom | shall expect q Report Quarterly, in
accordance with their commissions. At your
next meeting please to nominate by ballot a
suitable person for Deputy for your Division,
and send me his name and post Office.
A. w. CUMMINGS,
If Asheyille. Runcombe CO. n. G..
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ChristInas Trna

The Ladies Of the Methodist Church. Of
halelgh, have prepared a magnificent Christ
mas Tree loaded with the finest articles Of
useful and fancy articles of Needle work
"hich they intend to exhibit and offer for
SAFE IN the large School Room of the Raleigh
Female Seminary buildings, on Tbursdav
evening" the 23d instant. Ladies and Gen.
rcmen OF the City Members of the Lecisla-
lure and Visitors to the City, are respectfully
invited to attend. The purpose is, to raise
a fund to pay for anew Carpet for the Church
Ii Will doubtless be a grand and CAV assem-
olage OF the beauty and intelligence of our
City, at this festal season.
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value Of The material worked upon-he
dealt some heavy blows at the maker and
seller Of King Alcohol, 10 comparing their
DISHONEST occupations with all HONEST trades;
and closed his address with q well-timed eu-
logy upon the Daughters of Temperance y
Calls We're made for A. Speer, Esq, who
made a few remarks-after which outsiders
retired and one applicant was initiated. Thus
ended The Temperance rally" of Davie Di-
vision. We had been served by the speak
ers with a rich treat-a real feast Of good
things. We had often heard of the kindness
and hospitality Of the "Sons'' of Davie Divis-
ion, and of the beauty and intelligence of her
far daughters, but we have to acknowledge
that the half had not been told u.s." We
bespeak for them a visit by the Spirit in bodi.
ly human form.
Yours in the cause,
-
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To Old Warriors.

There are many veterans in the army Of
"Sons of Temperance" in North Carolina, up
on whose breasts have cleaned the helmet Of
Love, Purity and-Fidelity, in many hard
fought battle, that have retired to their tents
and are not fighting for the good old Order
as they did in other days of glorious conquest.
Brother Warrior, we want to call you out
from your inglorious listlessness. We look
upon your empty casques and Plumes cover
ed with dust, and long to see them mingling
in the strife again.
Are you respondent? Let us cheer you
up again. 1t is true We have had r~eyerses,
but the tidings are not all Sad. As a glor;.
Eold war Chief of the West has expressed it
in every community, there are hearts which
have been baptised in years of strife and come
out steel, true in the past, true to-day-will
be true tomorrow and to the end. There
are bands too, of brothers and sisters, closely
knit in the bonds of a common brotherhood
and for a common purpose. They work
steadily on, in all weather, and are always
prompt, hopeful, and energetic, whose ranks
are never broken save by death, and whose
" altar-fame burns as brightly now as when
= kindled years ago. 1t is glorious TO know
that our reform has a soldiery in its ranks
: which never surrenders-the "Old Guard a
the reform-who only lay down the barnes:
to put on the shroud.
You once were actively engaged with US
we remember how v~aliantly you fought W
! want your aid again. The Philistines ar
! upon US. We have determined TO drive hin
back. Come out and help us. Go back t
your Division room-encourage the few VIII
have struggled on while you slept. Or
your Division has gone down, 90 to work a
once and revive it. You can do it. In tt
lS name of virtue, humanity and suffering inn,
" cence-in the name of Heaven and that hicI
er and holier destiny to which you aspire
'ue we beseech you come out and fight again fo
II a the Order.
Friends of our cause We must gath,
closer, and pledge each other anew. 1t is O
duty-a privilege let US term ito wor
while our day lasts. We may not see t
full glory Of the consummation so devopt
hoped for. Our children may not. But y
can be true to ourselves and true to then
aro- true to the best interests of our race true
and our country and true to Coz.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-22

OUT Door LIFE.-Just as that poetry is the
freshest which the outdoor life has the most
nourished, SO | believe that there is no surer
sign of the rich vitality, which finds its ra-
clest joys in sources the most innocent than
the childlike taste for that same outdoor life.
Whether you take from fortune the palace or
the cottage, add to your chambers o hall in
the courts Of Nature. Let the earth but give
you room to stand on well, look up. Is it
nothing to have for your roof-tree-Heayen
We console ourselves for the rare annear.
ance of the loftiest ideal of beauty. bv the
study of its commonest notifications in tho
lowest; and we are content that many things
IN the world should be less perfect. in orde,
that the world, as a whole, may be more va.
rious. And thus, in art and in life. we learr
that great lesson Of practical wisdom. while
we look upward to the stars not to trample on
the flowers that lie at our feet.
demonstrating is one Of the great con.
solations of life: it is the nurse of virtue. the
upholder in adversely, the prop of indepen.
dence, the support of Just pride, the strength.
ener OF elevated opinions; it is the shield
against the tyranny of all the petty passions;
It is the repeller of the FOOLS scott and the
knave's poison.
- Recreation (says Bishop HalD is in
tended to the mind as whetting is to the
scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which 9th.
erwlse would grow dull and blunt. He
therefore, that spends his whole time in re,
creation is ever whetting, never mowing-his
grass may grow and his steed NAV starye
as, contrarily, he that always tolls and never
recreates, is ever moving, never whetting-
laoorlng much to little purpose.
~ There is not a spider hanging on the
kings wall but hath its errand. There is not
a nettle that groweth in the corner of the
churchyard but hath its purpose. There *
not a single insect huttering in the breeze
but Accomplished some divine decree and I
will never have it that God created any man
especially any Christian man, to be a blank
to be nothing-Spusgeon.
TEAcHERs.-There is no question but what
tor yOung children, women are much better
teachers than men-a thousand times better
Inelr gentle ways adapt themselves to the
chllds nature more perfectly, and wrap round
1t like a willow. Not until a boy gets old
enough to question, if he cannot s1ccessfnllv
resist, authority, it is better for him to be
placed under the firmer hand of a male teach
er. Even at this period, and with these char
acters, women often succeed the best.
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The Legislature

It viii be seen by reference to our State
legislature proceedings, that a very stropp
ana decided vote has been given in both
Houses, for the repeal of the law MAKING 49,
office Of State G~eologist.
The House of Commons decided On Wa
neSday last, by a large vote, that Wm p
laylor' a preacher of the gospel and one Of
:ne SUING members from Chatham county.
IS entitled to his scat, as he is not in the exz
erclse oil pastoral charge, as referred to in the
constitution.
a letter was read from Judge Rufin. ae-
cepting the office of Supreme Court .Judge -
which he had been elected a few DAYS before
IL VIII be seen that the seat of Mr.. Hav.
wood, of Wake, has been declared vacant in
tne House. A writ Of election will now jsspe
Tor an election to supply the place.
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Large Tnrnin-

Through the politeness of Capt. Arlington
OF the R. 4 G. R. R., we are placed in the
possession of six Of the largest Turnips we
ever saw. They We're sent to us by W. w.
Brlckell, Esq, of Halifax, by whom they were
raised-ofthe Ruta Baga species, and we do
not believe can be beaten The six weighed
81 pounds. Who can turn-up bigger roots
than these?
P.S. The sunshine has come, and Rich
ard is himself again.
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MOTHERS DEAD!
EY VIRGINIA ,. TOWNSEND.

"The blinds arc all closed, and the srn-
shine can't get through the chinks, only in
little broken lines and dimples
Everybody seem so solemn, and they
all shake their heads, and look at me so
strangS ~solemu-ike and saw under their
breaths, poor, poor childr
"Last night, too, Papa took nc on his
knee, and Rugged me up close to his heart
and said, my poor motherless boy ? and
thcn | felt something drop right on my
head, aud I'm sure twas a great tear.
"Oh, dear. | can't run ont and play in
the grass, or do anything, there's such a
great load away down here in my heart.
! got out my playthings this morning, my
TOP, and my kite, and that pretty red bal
loon Papa got me but somehow they
didn't look as they used to, and | just put
'em all away again.
"Eyery thingscems so changed ever since
they led inc 10 look at Mammalyiug there
in the parlor, in that long box, with her
hands folded tight together rI 4psd III fr o f7fe
asked Martha il she'd always lie there,
and if she wouldn't wake up, and she said
they'd bury her away down in the ground,
and I'd never sc my mamma again until |
went up TO her in Heavenl
"Pm sure | don't know how | shall get
along without her. To think she won't
ever curl my hair again, and look in my
face with her sweet, sweet smile, and say,
my darling little Harry
And won't she come at night to my
room to hear me say Now | lay mel and
then tuck me up nice and warm in my
cribl I'm a little boy, hardly four wears
old, they say, and how can | 90 to slocr
at night without | have felt her kiss right
here N my check.
Sand what shall | do when | get into
any trouble, when | fall aud hurt myself
or the girlS aro. oraso-@-i l. III, anI
cry away ak the sorrow there
And then, how can Papa and I st Al
alone at the table without Mamma to nom
the tea, and butter my biscuit, and say ius
how big a piece Of cake | may have with
out Its making me sick!
"Oh, dearl dearl shan't | ever SEQ no
dear face again. Then Heaven is such
long way of, aHd Il | should walk al dav
shouldn't beany nearer to it Jane saws
because It's a great deal higher than tn,
stars But Id walk ever so far 10 oet /,
her. aud when / did, I'd ask God f IT,
wouldn't please to let me stay there al
ways with mamma!
There! the tears are running down rea
last on mysleeye. I'll run oft Some dorl
corner, where they won't find me, and or,
maj" NAN
Little children r,oG
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SPIRIT OF THE AGE~~~Devo ted to nemDerance Iitera5a, - ~

life appear light and beautiful it cheers I'M
der difficulties, it comforts when sorrowful,
it gives new hope TO the Responding sufferer
and is indeed one Of those dear, familiar spir-
its which hover round our hearth-stones, and
instill those gentle teachings into our hearts
which polish up the dark corners which have
become dusty with neglect. Let us all cult
vate this charming virtue within ourselves
and help to inculcate it in others. A cheer
ful person is an ornament in the dear circle
at home, and in the social circle abroad.
SUSIE
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.Egy
GSitrcss' Department.
Mother is Dead"

Such arc the mournful, startling words
contained in a letter from a little cousin
friend, just entered on his teens, telling me
that death has robbed him Of his dear, devo-
ted Mother. my Father is too much crush
ed and broken by the fatal blow to be able
10 write, and he bids me break to you the
melancholy intelligence. We have no Moth
or ut our nome now-Mother is dead"
ALI dear little Julian, your tender, sensi-
tive heart may in some degree appreciate the
inexpressible loss that has befallen you; but
as you pass on in your years Of MOtherless
loneliness, you will more and more under
stand how great that loss has been for
yours was a Mother whose tenderness, love
and pious care was worth more than all the
world beside, to you and the dear little bro
theirs and sisters who with you now weep
over her cold silent remains. know what
II Is to lose one Of the best Of Mothers, and
do deeply sympathise with the bercaved or
phan group as they gather around the fire.
side and with fearful eyes talk about the
sainted missing one. God pity the Mother
less children.
But you have a ford and dcting Father
one who viii be to you all bat a Mother. /
know his noble, generous heart know
how keenly the iron Of this affection has
pierced his inmost soul But he knows tc
whom 10 20 for comfort-and he knows he
never went in vain. BE dutiful children Ia
him. Around you alone now twines the
%''silyer chord' which death has broken from
another. May you and he in this bereave
mert be able 20 realize how precious is thai
blessed promise" All things shall work to
getherf for good, to them that love the Lord
Love and serve Him Julian and as you ar,
the eldest Of the childreR Of your saintet
Mother, teach them that she has gone t
Heaven and waits to meet them there.
have Just been reading a touching littl
Story applicable to your stricken home, an
I copy it here for you to peruse:
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The


What else is he who, for a paltry sum-, is
licensed to 60 throughthe county Staying his
hundreds and thousands, and robbing help
less children Of the very necessaries of life
And how horrible to know, that the laws of
the land, which ~jurists tell US are intended
for 1.-THE protection of the weak against the
strong provide no power with which to stay
the handof the bloody assassin One would
suppose thatirfhis enlightened age and coun-
try, our statutes would condemn and punish
such a character in the severest manner
But, alas alas in them be finds his irmest
friend, his benefactor, his rock of defence!
o. the bloody-minded and bloody-handed
liquor seller How many murders, direct
and indirect is he the author of! We had a
mostreyolting instance in this county (Moore)
last Friday night. Joseph Oldham killed
Neil Savage, while in a state of intoxication.
A liquor seller sold him that which steeled
his heart aud nerved his arm for the murder.
Gus deed. And the law sanctions his Office
of death and destruction, and recommissions
him to go on in his bloody work Glow
long, O! Lord; how long" will such laws
such lawmakers andsuch inhuman monsters
as they commission, be tolerated in a social
ed christian nation? AMERICUS.
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10 Jucens.-Your Incident" smacks
rather strongly of invidious p~ersonazitu. and
the characters might be identified and appro-
prlated and a disturbance follow. We svm-
Pathlse with your views. but Ladies bair 2
involved, we must decline publishing the ar.
ticle.