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The Nevada journal., 1859-04-08
HORACE WATERS MELoDEcNs,

(Tnned the equal temperamenD
Superior in each desirable quality Can also furnish
Princes Carharts & Smiths Melodeons.. Price. from
s45 to sl25; for two reeds $780, two banks Of
KEYS $50; Organ pedal bass Moodcons $780, $275 and
$50 less. liberal discount.
Each instrument warranted to give satisfaction, or
purchase money refunded
Second Hand Pianos at Great Bargains!
Constantly in Store Price from san To s1an
The Nevada journal., 1859-04-08
Plan os, MeIodeons & Music.

1NRE LARGE I ASSORTMENT OF MUSIC MER
L chandise in the United States Pianos from Ave
icrent Manufactures OF every variety of style-fron
hose in plain rosewood cases for co. those % abe
most elegant finish. for 81 600
No House in the Union can come in competition
he number. variety and celebrity of its instrument
or the extremely low prices at which they are sold.
Horace Waters Improved Pianos,
With without iron Frames have, in their new scale
improved action power and compass cf tone equal
ng the gr nd with the beauty and durability 4 the
square Piano TIE Press and first Music Masters have
ustly pronounced them equal if not superior TO any
Dther make They guaranteed to stand the action
of e, cry climate.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-14

is simply ridiculous and absurd
Were it the uniform rule, that one duel out
of every two, resulted in the certain death of
one of the parties, and in one out of every
five, both would be certainly killed, then the
duel would be a better test of courage. if We
did not know that mortal hate or a stubborn
foolhardiness, did not often prompt men to
take the lives of others or risk their own.
But why resort to it at all, since God has
given to every man brains and a conscience.
to see and to feel what is right, and what is
due to ourselves and to our fellows? If these
ruled us, or what is far better, we were gov
erned by the great principles of reCealed re-
hgion, no difficulty would be too intricate or
too hard to be settled by mutual friends
Why 60 to the field of blood, If after all. as
in most cases, nowadays, it must be ''hon.
orably and amicably" adjusted by them ? No,
gentlemen! either the modern dueliSt lack
true courage, or the shooting rons most gen.
orally employed, are poor stuff. Can good
shots be really cool and courageous, when on.
ly ones in twenty, thirty or forty trials, tn,
mark, as big a. a man, is bit, MORALLY, fatal
ly, at the distance Of ten, twenty or forty pa
ces? Now which is itf The modern duelist
is either a poor shot, or he is scared, or hi
weapon is worthless. Which
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-14
New Goods.

Our Merchants are receiving their Fall and
Winter stoelto of Goo31 and tudging from the
large supplies, they km to6e calculating On
a large trade this season. And we are glad
to. add, that the prospect of fair crops and re-
munerating prices therefor, together with the
easy circumstances of the planters and farm
.ers of our section, give the fullest encourage
ment to thesanguine expectations of our mer-
chants, and without some unlocked for re-
~vulsion, we may safely predict for the mer-
chants of Raleigh a large and satisfactory bu-
siness for the approaching season.
To our country friends we can say with
confidence, that the stocks of dry goods, fancy
and staple, which our merchants have laid in,
are equal both in styles and assortments 20
those of any inland city or town. From the
c~ostliest robes, mantillas and shawls to the
leading domestic articles, there will be a large
and pleasing variety so that all classes and
tastes may be fully suited. The goods are
here, and here for sale, and the customers
may therefore expect to purchase at fair pri
ces. And we especially commend our readers
to those stores whose Advertisements may
f be found in our columns.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-14
CHAPTER Nv.

HE that soweth the wind, shall reap the
whirlwind."
Mr.. Raymond returned from Richmond
with a face that bore indubitable proof that
the habit he had contracted during his cleo
tioneering campaign, had been INDUCED and
increased, by participation, during his sever
al absence. The once pale but health
ful hue of his round cheeks, was superseded
by a dull red, and the clear black eyes of 9th.
er days, now looked heavy and hazy from re.
Taxed animation-constant stimulus had
burned out their rich lustre, and blood.spot-
ted the blue-tinted veins ofthe temperate man
of former years.
Nina's blue eyes clouded with silent suf
! ierlng, as time went on, and drew him slow
ly but surely towards the fearful maeltsrom
OF confirmed inebriety. She yearned in spir-
1t Tor the humble cottage and retired WAYS
OF their early welded life, when neglected by
the rich and scnsuous, his world lay beneath
the brown roof Of their coy cottage home,
and along the purple, breezy walks of their
little plebean garden. The splendor that
prosperity had showered around her, since
that humble but happy time, Knocked The
great agony of the trne heart that walked
amid its unsatisfying brilliance, back to The
beautiful, blessed years smiling up like greer
isles lying far away in the broad blue ocear
of the Past.
! Henry Raymond, the gifted and noble hear
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-14
Fo- the Spirit Of the Age.
BIBLE ~PICTUREs.-No. /.

~
Approaching MOSS uttermost bound,
Behold three fem3 e forms; toll they seem
Engaged in Garnet converse, now needless
VI passers by th&ghts deep and mighty, stir
heir souls. Drsa nigh and listto what they say.
to back, my chId en-" TO the land from whence
1scame; why sex to follow one whom sorrow
Marks hersowpZ And the 'rcft mother, struggling
Through tears lea1sd on her daughters necks, and.
kissed thent
And said, returnpg gain unto your Tome
Go leave me debIate, to find my way;
'Twere filter I khould DIR NIX of suff cup
alone
In your own fatlerland, ye will find homes,
Where fond affection dwelIs; around your path,
Lies joys may s2riDg. and We be happy still.
Why should / gaze upon such fair young brows,
All childiess as Iam-and both bereaved?
Then 0rpah wen-but Ruth replied,
"Entreat me not leave thee" or return
From following 4here thou leadest, mother. mine
For when my lifts first light went out, what and
Vas first to lift tie cup of sympathy
10 my parchcd lips, like thine? and by thy patien
sun FIRING teach ne, that to share another's woes
Is but the lighteuing Of half mine own?
Ny mother, thosart old! should f~aintness
Come Ger thee lathe way. what hand like mine
So ready to sust3n and set thee right?
II will not leavsethee z, Where'e r thou goest I
Will go; "aud phere thou lodgest," there abide
What once ~wasmire, is buried now then let
Ne to thy peopAgo: they'll claim their own!
Art thou not me? and thy God who visits
&sal ii Is : zs = rais e spss d, u
There / viii sssS some fnendly hand TO Grant
Thee aid and under Judsh,s vines, and trees,
Where bowers are clustering thiek-spend ali n
days,
In pleasing ministration to thy wants.
VIOLET VERNON.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-14
: A Weekly Family News paper.

would not decry the purity and piety of
the ministry Of Christ in our present day
they are as pure and well-intentioned as those
of other days the schools that have at
tempted to dictate Aoao to preach the patent
sermonizing of strictly defined ethics and
well digested literary pabulum, is destroying
the vitality of the preaching ability of the
Church, and degenerating it into rounded Pc
RODS, and well fortified $50 called "logicae'
arguments. Let these be scattered to the
winds-put forth the pure, simple, unaidec
by human arguments, the unadulterated Cos
pei of the Son of God; He will give it power
and energy-sinners will be converted-Hi
name will be glorified, and the Church OF tn
living God be built up on the earth.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-14
Sprdoftbe9ge,
LRIGH.E
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER IA, 1859
Sueciaf-Notice.

The SPIRIT OF THE Ace is conducted strict
" upon the CASE system. All papers are
discontinued at the expiration Of the time for
which they have been paid. Subscribers
will be notified FOUL WEEKS before their time
is out, by a CROSS MARK on their papers ; and
unless the subscription is renewed the papers
will be discontinued. This is a rule from
which there will be no departure. Watch
for the CROSS MARK, andrenew your subscrip-
| ton.
~ Subscribers desiring their papers
changed, must mention the Post Office, from,
as we'll as the one to, which they desire the
change to be made.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-14

~ John Fawcett, of Alum Greek, Bas-
|trop Co, Texas, offers a reward of 81 900 in
the Kinston Advocate, for the arrest and safe
keeping of 81. F.. Aston, who committed a
deliberate murder on the person of DIR. W. B.
Rhem on Monday, the LIST day of August last,
at Plum Grove Church, in Fayette County,
Texas. Aston is described as being about
five feet high, considerably gray-headed, dark
skin, black eyes, winks when in conversation,
slow or stammering in conversation, weighs
about 16o pounds, andis about 40 years old
He attempted to kill a man in Mississippi
and shot a man named Strother, at the same
time he killed DIR. Rhem.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-14
Beautiful Description of a Beautiful

The following eloquent description OF
Church's celebrated picture, The Heart Of
the Andes, is from the pen of a beautiful and
accomplished lady, but entirely deafand dumb
"a graduate of the New York Asylum for
mutes:
s.What fascinated me most, was the clouds
and the mountains in the distance. The
clouds seemed to me like those ''gates of
pearl that open into heaven. The atmos-
phere was the s~oftest, most alluring and
dreamy of any thing / had ever seen or i'm,
agined: the mountains, towering up on each
| side crowned with the richest and most varl-
ed green. And away up, so far that the eye
could scarcely distinguish il, gushed out 2
little stream, gradually widened until itreach-
es your feet, where the waters seem almost
to tarry and so clear are they, that you can
look down into them, and away beneath fan
cy you see the shells and pebbles lying
The banks of the stream on each side break
off, abruptly. while the earth seems to have
caved off, and left the roots of the trees bare,
still reaching down toward the water. On
the other side the representation slopes away
into a forest Of such luxuriance that you wish.
involuntarily that you had no other object in
life, at least for the time, than to lie on the
soft rich moss-covered earth, and let your
soul float away in that heavenly atmosphere,
up through the pearly gates of the noun
tains ; and yet, you would scarcely desire to
pass, for it is hard to imagine a Paradise
more perfect. There is one ray Of sunlight
glancing through the thickly interlaced vines
and foliage, and it falls with such softening
beauty, that it seems unnatural to believe it
only a copy on canvass. Such mingled grand
eur and enchanting softness are rarely com.
bined, even in Nature: how much more rare,
ly in the Arts"
This is a picturesque description, all the
more beautiful that it is family colored by
! that delicate, imaginate spirit, that like moon.
light through acloud, radiates through much
, Of the prose, as well as poetry, of female wri
|, ters, and gives them their peculiar charm.
e NEw DIvIsIos.-We learn from the Pc
e tersbarg papers that a new Division of thu
: : Sons was established at Gary's' Church, IA
n Prince George County, Va, . few. days ago
n by our Brother Lewellen, of the Conductor
and that it was the largest Division, for a be
: ginning. ever started in the State.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-14

A NOBLE But UNFoRTUEArE AcT.-A brakes
ma, of the Galena Railway, named Timothy
Rag~. risked his own life aud suffered the
loss OF we of his hands, day before yesterday,
an atteNptto rescue frOmdeath two children
who ~foOlis&ly tried to crawl under a car just
as Tue train started. He succeeded in pull
ing the children out ofdaDger, but in doing SO
got ms left hand under a car wheel, which
crushed it to atoms. DR.. Isham dressed the
wound and thinks he win he able to save a
portion ofthe hand. chicago (IH.) Times.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-14

FIRE IN NoRFoLK-Loss $40, 0O0.-A de-
structive fire occurred here at 2 O'Clock on
the 7th. Mechanics Hall and 6 large stores
were consumed. Loss nearly 40, 600. No
insurance on the buildings. The Excelsior
Ainstrels lost about g, 900. Bonneau's Pan
Drama of the Celestial Empire 81, 0oO-no in
surance. Cordery & De Bree, druggists,
Tarrant & Co., ~tailors, Tompkin's furniture
store. Walters & Co, paper hangers, Peppers
and Peddle's restaurants-also Elijah Un-
mans shoe store. were partially insured.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-14

IN 1lu wish fOr. A large crowd is ex-
pecta aext season, and we anticipate a mer-
ry tn think our Springs will soon be-
come a noted watering place.
The main buildingsconsists of a Hotel of
wood some fifty feet long and two stories
high, with rooms for ladies, furnished with
handsome cottage bedsteads and other neat
furniture. The dining room is separate from
the main building but only a few feet, and is
sufficiently large and comfortable. Also a
large building of brick, four stories high, the
basement included, in which is a store, we'll
supplied with foreign and domestic dry goods
"a Post office is also kept here. The apart
ment adjoining is the reception room for
gentlemen. The second story is a spacious
ballroom, furnished with a costly piano, on
which the ladies may perform their favorite
airs to their hearts content. In this room
the young ladies and gentlemen frequently
assemble and indulge in their favorite amuse-
ment, dancing, not, to their injury, I think.
notwithstanding the opinion of mang Others
to the contrary. The fourth story is con-
structed into lodging rooms for gentlemen,
nicely furnished. There are also a number
OF comfortable cabins. And the Proprietor
designs building many more. So much for
the Patrick SPRINGS. Nav much success
attend the enterprise of the Proprietor.
/ Our County, Mr.. German, is one of the
Southwestern Counties. Lands are cheaper
here than in any of the Piedmont Counties,
and are well adapted to the culture of tobac-
co, wheat, rye, and oats. A good deal of
stock is also raised here.
This County excels in the quantity, excel
lence and variety Of its fruits; and | hope in
a few years we will have an extension of the
Richmond and Danville Railroad running
nearly through the centre of our County, the
route having already been surveyed, and ouI
farmers, instead of converting their fruit in.
to 1~.Jfreaoater," with which their children are
burned upsand brought down in a & rankard's
grave, will have the means of sending it tc
market, and in return, their wives and chill
dren will receive that which will profit then
more than kicks, cuffs and blows.
Mr.. German, would not our now compare
lively happyc country become almost a Para
disc, were it not for the accursed use of alco
holic drinks as a beverage, if it was entirely
abolished? There is a Division of the Sons
of Temperance at the County site, but | an
sorry to say that not more than twenty mem
bers, | think, attend, though they still NEE
regularly, and I hope will continue to increas
in members and usefulness.
have already spun this article but to
greater length than | at first intended, an
must close by heartily wishing you gres
success in your work of love.
Yours truly,
ESTELLE.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-14

Mary Raymond had too much pride Or
ture to enter a family opposed tot receiving
her, and the misery Of refusing Charles, was
added to the great burden of her domestic
misfortunes.
Believing that circumstances justified the
deed, Charles urged an elopement, preferring
poverty and obscurity, with the object OF his
hearts first affections, to a~ffluence and world
ly honor, without her; but her fathers aw.
full curse held her firm to her purpose, and
her sobbing refusal, and look of unutteraole
wo, silenced his passionate pleadings. Pos
sessing a soul Of intensest feeling, and an or
ganism, one of the most refined and delicate
of natures workmanship, the rude fingers OF
Fate, grasping the broken buds of his youth
full hopes, pressed the slender strings OF his
+! mental mechanism too roughly, and soon
Charles Percy was borne from his brilliant
home, made desolate and dreary, by a faith
er's cupidity, to Mount Hope Lunatic Asylum,
from which he has never returned.
(ConcIusioR neat qceeE.)
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-14
PArRrck spRrNes, Va, Aug. 2eth

NEa Hr 4
Mr.. GoRMAN:-I have been spending a
short but pleasant time at this long neglect
ed, but now interesting, watering place. 1
had the pleasure ofmeeting many friends here
and making the acquaintance of many ladies
and gentlemen from a distance, and | now
pay this tribute to the happy hours passed
here.
These much-to- be-prized healing waters are
situated in a wild and romantic region. about
seven miles east of the county site. surround
ed by mountains, from the summit of which
the sceneryis most delightful and picturesque.
The wales are dotted over with pretty little
farms ~thatspeak of the thrift and industry of
the ~neighboring inhabitants while the wide
spreading forests, with sparkling streams
winding through, presents a scene extremely
beautiful, and lifts the mind from nature up
to NATURES God"
Unfortunately, for many years successive
~, these Springs have fallen into the hands
of those who were unable to make improve.
ments requisite for the accommodation Of
visitors, and hence these highly beneficial
waters were not as extensively known as
they deserved to be, though a few persons
who knew by experience their true value
were in the habit of repairing hither ever
Summer, and constructing rude log huts ant
dwellingethere throughout the season.
Recently these Springs were purchased b,
the Rev. Beverly A. Davis, a gentleman Q
superior intelligence and sagacity, by who's
u~ntiring enterprise and energy, many pei
sons different parts of the Union hav
been ded with a delightful retreat dr
TRY months of Summer. Th
eous manners of the Propri'
for him many friends, an
directed efforts will resu
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-04-22
scandaIlning witnesses.

Stephens has been pronounced guilty
of poisoning his late wife, aud we are
not prepared to find fault with the YER
diet Of the jury. We are constrained to
admit that it comedies with our convic-
tons But his trial, let us take this oc-
casion to say, although conducted, as far
as District Attorney Waterbury is con-
ccrned with marked ability and decorum,
was, in other respects, 4 most disgrace
full exhibition Of ribaldry and obsconity
Nearly erery citaess icas put on trial,
We maintain, as well as the prisoner at
the bar, (if not by the court, at least
by the counsel, with the tacit permission
Of the court, and their good names were
pounced upon and torn to pieces, without
rcmorse, as though they had been lambs,
tied hand and foot, and left amid flock
of wolves for slaughter. The Misses
Bell werc-shamefully treated, simply be-
cause they happened to be witnesses for
the prosecution The most inscriptions
efforts were made to degrade them just
as If the acquittal Of the prisoner de-
pended not so much upon establishing
lis innocence of murder, as establishing
their lewdness through his Instruments
lily. The perjury, therefore, on the
trial, was fearful aud brazen, and the
whole scene one that should afflict a cor
rect mind with sad forebodings No
wonder the witnesses to a deed of blood
sink from an ordeal so terrible. No
wonder they refuse to voluntarily present
themselves aud have to be dragged forth
when wanted, to advance the cause Of
public justice. As long as our courts
permit witnesses to be thus insul:ed in
speech, and outraged in feeling and rep.
utation, by reckless lawyers, who mis-
take vulgarity for wit, and barbarity for
acutcness, so long will decent citizens
keep aloof from their association, anC
prefer to see the guilty escape rather
than the innocent shall be traduccd
without remedy. for doing their duty
~ y. Sunday Times.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-04-22

"A n EW STOCK,
AND
The latest Paris Fashions
FOR
LSESSG@-RIalE
TNHE subscriber, having just returned from
Il New York, is now receiving one Of the
largest and most varied assortments Of
FANCY SPRING GOODS
ever offered in the District, to which he most
respectfully invites the attention of citizens and
strangers. This stock consists in part Of the
following styles:
The latest French patterns for Bonnets
Dress Trimmings, Embroideries
Head Dresses, RLands, Flowers
Lace Mitts, Mantillas
Guipure Laces, in all widths and STYLES
Real Lace Sets, Cambria & Swiss Rufling
Black Point Lace, all widths
Real Brussels Thread and Yalenciennes Laces
Grenedine, Berege and Tissue Wells
Black point lace Wells
Lace Wells, in all qualities
Love and Grape Wells
Black velvet Ribands
Cambria Swiss, Marseilles and Mourning Sets
HOOP SKIRTS, the very best quality.
@s- Ladies wishing PATTERNS for them
selves or children, can obtain them at the
shortest notice, and at fair prices.
Having tested the system he adopted some
months since, of buying and selling for cash.
he feels confident that he is thereby better en-
abed to offer greater inducements to those who
viii favor him with their patronage
DRESSES MADE in the latest French style.
at the shortest notice,
NJ. WILLIAM,
Fancy Trimming Store,
mar II opp. Centre Market, Washington.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-04-22
LEISURE DAYS.


nm Wednesdays and Fridays, from 10 a.
~ M. to p. M, we are most at leisure, and
devote these hours to selling remnants giving
samples, and showing our stock to persons who
prefer to buy leisurely, and to all others who
like to look through the stock without any in
tention Of making purchase.
We respectfully suggest these days and
hours as the most opportune periods for the
objects indicated.
We also name in this connection that Mourn
ing Goods only and no other articles will be
sent out Of the store for the inspection of in
yalids; in all other cases customers will de-
eide in the store what they want.
II takes from twelve to fifteen hundred dol
lars annually 20 repair the positive and actual
damages we sustain by the "pulling to pieces
at home" Robes, Embroderies, Cloaks,
Shawls, and Dress Goods generally and spc-
cially suffer. This does not include the vast
and useless labor required Of hook-keeper 10
prevent errors and confusion in accounts
quite inevitable where goods 90 out for in
spection.
Rejecting, and other persons, we trust, will
see the actual necessity Of this rule but
whether they do or not our statesmen are all
instructed to decline letting goods 90 out for
home inspection.
All bills rendered monthly for payment in
cash; notes and payments in small instruments
will not answer our purpose.
5;1- One price only, marked in plain fig
ures, and no deviation.
PERRY & BROTHER,
Extensive dealers in all kinds of first-class
Dry Goods for family consumption.
nov 20 Washington, D. c.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-04-22
Notice 10 Creditors.


NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber
~ has obtained from the Orphans Court Of
Montgomery county letters Of administration
G. 7. A. on the personal estate Of ABRAHAM
7, SHEcEELs late OF said county, deceased
All persons having claims against said deceas-
ed, are hereby warned 70 exhibit the same,
with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, on
or before the Goth day Of March, 1860 other
wise they may, by law, be excluded from all
benefit of said estate. Persons indebted 10
said estate are requested to make immediate
payment. Given under my hand this goth Of
March, 1850 WM. THOMPSON Of r..
april lat Administrator G. 7. A.