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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-21
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When we think of the immense sum of hui
man misery occasioned by intemperance-of
the horrors Of domestic suffering, of the groans
of the diseased and degraded, the shrieks of
the ~drunkard's mania, of the tears of widows
and orphans, and the frightful death-chamber
where devils wait to drag their victim to their
own internal abode-we cry aloud in bitter
ness of spirit, What shall we say, what can
we do, to arrest this fearful evil, and save our
friends and neighbours from the dread doom
to which they are hurrying with mariac
speed For ten years have we tried to i'm
plore, to admonish, to warn, to alarm-but
the ravages of the destroyer sweep on with
increasing fury. Hundreds, perhaps thous-
ands, have gone down with a shrek of despair
beneath the dark waters of intemperance, who
have read from these columns of the fearful
dangers of tampering with the moderate
use of alcoholic beverages. They needed not
the warning, but laughed and drank again,
until appetite became unconquerable and they
were swept into the vortex of ruin. AND
how many will read these lines, and yet re.
fuse in time to be warned, until a like dread.
full fate overtake them.
In view Of these things, we often wonder
what to write, in order to strike the mind anC
convict the heart of those whom we labor tt
benefit: And in despair of saying any thing
better calculated to accomplish the end de
sired, we are reminded of the words of holy
writ-"1f they believe not Moses and tn,
Prophets, neither viii they believe though
one rose from the dead"
But there are some who will listen, an
with the hope of doing them good, we labo
and pray on. :
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-21

him-desolated, impoverished and degraded
by disobeyiny the commandment: 'slook not
upon the wine when it is red and who
hath wo, who hath sorrow ? they that tarryI
long at the wine, they that loved mixed wine;D
will force itself upon your memory, on be-
holding the ruined husband OF poor MINI
Rivers.
Go to IN elegant mansion hard by our own
happy iorre, and you may see the Unity
faced, stany-souled, money-clutchlng, lgno-
rant headed, mean-minded father of Charles
Percy, who is so contemptibly gripping, and
disgustingly greedy, to those who have a
soul above a new cent, that but for his annu-
al income, a human tadpole wouldn't conde-
scend to swim in the same puddle, n II the
old monarch of the underground dominions
don't have a bill of sale for him, when the
great auction day of mother Earth,s mousse
hold furniture rolls around, the wide enclo-
sure of his Satanic majesty will miss one OF
the finest pieces of human statuary, mat ever
came full and perfect from the chtsef ot AVA
RICE.
Go to a silent chamber that looks ct upon
the blue waters of our beautiful Potomac
where black eyes burn with a restless, intro
verted light, revealing the withered hopes
upon the dreary wayside of a young and iov
ing life, and a giriish face moves softly, witt
so~ul-suffering stamped upon the cold, trans
: parent brow, and 'the sins of the father
shall be visited upon the children" you wi
see verified in the innocent, hopeless heroin
of our Story-THE DRUNKARD's DAUGHTER.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-21
North Carolina Lands.

The Washington Dispatch endorses the re-
marks of the Standard, that the price of lands
in North Carolina have doubled themselves
since 1S48, and thinks it might have truth
fully said, qu~adrupled in value since that
time.
In Beaufort county, some lands have risen
500 per cent since 1S48, and we doubt not
that the swamp lands now in progress of be.
ing drained, and cleared, will do vastly better
than that in ten years. We venture the pre-
diction that there are swamp lands in Beau
fort and Craven counties, which can now be
bought for from 4 to Sc, when cleared and
drained, as they can be easily, and put under
cultivation, cannot be bought for $50 per
acre. In vindication of this prediction, we
understand that within a few days, a compa-
ny of gentlemen have visited that section
and invested thirty thousand dollars in these
lands. And we hear of one gentleman who
made ten thousand dollars within a year
past, by the purchase and sale of lands in
Beaufort county.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-21
What will the World Think?

This question has prevented many a man
and woman from doing right! They felt
impelled by a sense of duty, by stern moral
conviction, to espouse some good cause, but
were deferred because it was not popular, es-
pecialiy with some persons whose favor and
association they coveted. Or, they failed to
rebuke, and it may be they participated in some-
thing they felt to be pernicious and corrupt
ing, because it was sanctioned anG INDUCED
in by those whom they desired to be on init
mate terms with.
What is this but to0dyism pa low, syco-
phantic subserviency-to be charged with
which directly, we would resent with the
highest indignation. But if we will probe
our own feelings to the bottom, and are hon
est with ourselves, candor will extort the con-
fession, that it is because we do not believe
Col. Allthings, or the Hon. Mr.. Balderdash,
Miss nashau Mil not APP
prove, and therefore cut us. IF these things
govern or influence you, reader, write Lick
spittle, Boot-lick, or Toady against your
name, and go at once to the discharge of those
duties suggested by these soubriquets.
How few there are who do Right, because
II is RIGHT2
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-21
ne State Fair.

We o~bservehat the grounds and buildings
On the Fair Gunds are being put in good
condition forhe ensuing State Fair, which
begins on thu 18th of October. We under
stand that noce has been given to the prop
er persons, byarge numbers, of intentions to
enter stock ID other articles for exhibition;
and as an indation of the confidence that an
imaa ense nuboer of persons will be present,
the prices p3a for the refreshment saloons
On the Fair rounds are far in advance of any
amounts pal at former exhibitions. The
Annual Adde'S is to be delivered by Hon.
David. Outlas, of Bertie-a'gentleman whose
acquirement justly lead to the expectation
of a thorous practical and scientific address
IN the industrial interests of the State.
We are GID to see that steps are being ta-
ken thus early, for the purpose of ~ensuring
aecommodatan for visitors in the city. Be-
side our Hohl accommodations, we learn that
quite a number ofprivate families have agreed
to make preparations for the accommodation
of guests sd that we hope all will be provi.
ded with comfortable eating and lodging pla
ces. We think none need stay away fol
fear of a lack of such accommodations. This
matter has been taken in hand in time THU
year, which is a guarantee that it will be wei
attended to.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-21

THE VALUE OF A LOTTERY PRIzE.-A New
Orleans letter in the Charleston Courier re-
lates an incident which illustrates in a stri-
king manner the evil that may be produced
by one lottery ticket. A young man of good
family in New Orleans, who is passionately
fond of gambling, was playing cards with con-
siderable ill-luck, and as a last throw, having
lost all his money, staked a lottery ticket
He lost. After the game was over, the win
ner, having no faith in lotteries, proposed to
throw dice for it, at twenty-five cents a chance.
A by-stander, "a poor fellow who never owned
a hundred dollars in his life" accepted the
offer, and won the ticket. A few days after
wards the HAVANA steamer arrived, and 10!
the ticket had drawn $25, 900 the original
owner who had thus thrown away a fortune, on
hearing the news, was taken with an attack
of brain fever, and is even now in a sad con-
dition it is feared he will remain an idiot
The lucky drawer of the prize Immediately
invested a round sum in an assortment of the
most flashy jewelry and garments, and has
been leading ever since a life of continued
revelry he has become a fast man, and is
following fast the road to ruin. The disbe-
lever in lotteries cannot forgive himself, and
whenever he meets a friend, stops him and
tells him the story. 1t has become such a
mania with him that his friends avoid him
and turn the corner as soon as they see him
coming. He has had several quarrels at the
gaming table, where the sight of the cards
inevitably brings the oft-told tale to his lips,
Thus one prize in a lottery has made one mar
an idiot, started another on the road to ruin
and crazed a third. A terrible price for on
prize, certainly.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-21
The Morals of our Towns.

Nothing more strikingly exhibits the cor
of the old proverb, ''man made the
town, but God made the country" than the
marked difference which almost universally
obtains, in the state of morals which exists
in town and country. Wickedness of all
kinds is not scarce even in country neighbor-
hoods, but the contrast in favor of them is
incalculable.
Wealth and idleness usually congregate In
our towns. There are the strong incentives
to sensual indulgence and debauchery of all
kinds. The drunkard, the gambler and the
hbertine seek company and association with
men-of their own character, and the greater
the number in the circle of these associations,
the more rapid is the growth of vice and the
less powerful are the cheeks upon it.
The increase of vice in our own city in late
years, is a proof of the correctness of these
views. 1t seems to be conceded on all hands,
that the quantity of intoxicating drinks con-
sumed within our corporate limits exceeds all
former periods. For many years we resisted
with all our power the increase of licensed
liquor saloons and grogshops. The tide of
drunkenness by this and other means, was
stayed in its course, but the recent policy of
our city fathers has lifted up the food gates,
and now drunkenness and its attendant vices,
were never so rife.
Our position and intercourse does not ena-
BILE us to speak from actual observation, but
there are certain unmistakable signs which
lead US to fear, that gambling and Gcentious-
ness are equally advancing. Men are be-
coming more bold and daring in their indul-
gences, and are gradually losing their self
respect and a proper regard for public opin-
ion. Corruption and utter degradation are
fast spreading their deadly virus through so
ciety. Rottenness is consuming both ends,
and the time may not be distant, when the
? moral sense of the better portion of society
= is to be shocked with the most sickening de
: tails of crime, committed unblushingly.-
Would to Heaven this were a mere dream O
ours but if half what we hear be true, it il
= enough to arouse the slumbering energies o
the better portion of our people, to beat bacl
the tide which must ere long deluge US.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-21
Cause of the Aurora Borealis.

There has been SO much said and published,
of late, concerning the Aurora Borealis, per-
haps the following explanation as to its cause
may be of interest to our readers. It's given
by M. de la Rive, the celebrated French as
tronomer:
"When the sur, having passed into the
Southern hemisphere, no longer heats our
atmosphere, the aqueous vapors which have
during the summer in this part
of the atmosphere begin to condense, the kind
of humid cap enveloping the polar regions ex-
tends more and more, and facilitates the pas
sages of electricity accumulated in the upper
portion of the air. But in this elevated re-
gion, and especially at this periodo of the year,
the aqueous vapors must most frequently
pass into the state of minute particles of ice
or snow floating in the air, similar to those
which give rise to the halos they form, as
it were, a kind of semi-transparent mist
These half frozen fogs conduct the electricity
to the surface of the earth, near the pole, and
are, at the same time, illuminated by these
currents or electric discharges. In fact all
observers agree in asserting that the aurora
borealis is constantly preceded by a mist,
which rises from the pole, and the margin of
which, lessdense han,theremainder, is color
eddy the first; and, indeed, it is very frequent
near the pole in the winter months, and espe-
cially in those where there is an abundance
of vapor in the air."
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-21
Giant Strides in the Nineteenth Century.

It IS a world of wonders nobody can deny,
we take up the periodicals of the day with
the expectancy of reading some news in the
abstract. The transatlantic electric cable, at
Central point n nidssoecssssanA 5EopA 1ps No from 2e1m its
nj" on land, to link the h~emispheres I but at
the same time that we justly look on this as
a convincing proof of the great smarch of in
~tellect," we must not lose sight of another
and no less great palpable evidence of what
a giant intellect, single-handed, can accom-
plish. THOMAS HOLLOWAY, whose name las
the great medical dictator of present age)
it needs no submarine telegraph to herald
from one cline to another, Las, by means of
his two remedies, a Pill and an Ointment
long established a chain of communicating
agencies around the globe, without having re-
course however to aid of electricity or a met
al wire. As the poet has designated man to
be but "a link IN the great cause ofcausa-
tton," SO may HOLLOWAY be said, through
the instrumentality of his %all-powerful RENE
dies, to have organized a Uni0ersol Dispen-
sary for the sick of all nations without regard
to creed or color, whether civilized or savage,
simple in their all sufficiency, and within the
reach of all.
What has led to these remarks at the pres
ent was a visit we paid some time since to
DIR. Holloway's establishment in New York,
and the inspection with which we were then
favored of some of the innumerable proofs
of his vast enterprise, from which we deduce
the almost inconceivable extent to which his
labors have extended, and the consequent
universal acceptation of his twin-remedies as
specifics for internal and external disease
pages might be written in adducing proofs
of this, but one will serve to elucidate the fact
in the present instance sufficient to convince
the most sceptic. In proportion as countries
are distinct and diversified, so are the means
of reaching all the scattered members of the
human family difficult to accomplish. To
do this, it would be necessary to employ an
almost " Pentecostal" array of different
tongues. Accordingly, in almost everyliv-
ing language, has this enterprising man made
known his mission to suffering humanity,
and in no less than thirty distinct dialects
have the wondrous properties of his medi-
cines been actually printed, thus in their own
tongue enabling millions to apply to their
cases these all powerful curatives.
Ssfch.
possibility OF one master mind successfully
competing with the capacities of hundreds
backed by science itself.-Phila. "Press."
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-21
What is the Matter 2

We are rceiing almost daily, encouraging
accounts Of th~a progress of the Order in va
rious parts of be State, but the subscription
list of the Ageinstead of having a corres-
ponding insrea8 is absolutely falling eff!
We have not a many subscribers as we had
a month ago, bbetween two and three hun
dredl This WI DO We fear u friends
have forgotten be-" Spirit" and are not
workingto extfd its circulation, as they
have doe. Coae, friends, stir up. Look at
the mesgre lissof receipts for several weeks
past, and go kwork to increase this impor-
tant ana esseu5al department Of our Order
and keep it inbotion.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-21
A Weekly Family News paper.
The Doctrine of Influence.

1t is a trite remark, that every man, what.
ever may be his position, has more or less
influence. Its truth is exemplifed in every
phase of society, and IN every condition OF
life and yet it is manifest, that most men
live more or less under the impression that
they have none.
Influence for good or evil, every man is
compelled to exert. Men cannot avoid it, if
they would yet it is far easier to exert IN
luence for evil than good. 1t requires no
effort to promote evil. The simple negeetto
exert ourselves for good, produces evil; how
much more when men lend themselves 10
promote vice.
Perhaps the world suffers more at this
time, from this neglect, than any other-large
numbers of men who are influential in poll
tics-who hold a tremendous power over the
thoughts of mankind, seems to suppose them
selves exempt from the responsibility to pro-
mote mems interests in any other respect
Indeed, they seem to imagine, that in order
to success in politics, they must be totally
Indifferent to mems social and moral position,
if they do not really do all they can to dam.
age them in morals.
How surprising is this? Those schemes
which propose the greatest good to mankind
which serve to elevate man socially and NOR
ally, meet with the strongest opposition from
our leading statesmen and politicians. B!
their own indulgences, they give sanction t.
every species of vice or by their indiffer
ence, promote its growth.
Now the most lasting and desirable infu
ence a man can possess, is secured by tn
exhibition and maintenance of personal vii
tue, worth and integrity. Popularity game
by any other means will not last. The higt
er inches of fame may be reached, but the
cannot be retained by any other means. "
our great men seem not to perceive this
They leave the moral and social interests
their constituencies, to be preserved and pr
NOTED by other hands, while they more
f~ectually throw barriers in their way to su
cess, by their own winking at, or their indu
gence in crime, or total indifference to man
best interests.
Has it occurred to the reader, how little
done in the land by our intelligent, wealth
and leading men, for the promotion of sobl
ETY., virtue and industry among the masses
How seldom is it that such men, who kno
they possess influence in society, exert it t
the best interests of their fellows What
much tends to the increase of idleness, i
temperance and crime, as the sanction viii,
is given to them by many of our leadil
men. either by their W participation,
their indifference to it in othersi The tim
call for a reform in this matter, which
hope will be brought about by a proper &C
sideration of this subject, on the part of O
men of influence.
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RALElG a.E.c.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 81, 1859.
Special Notice.

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ton.
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change to be made.
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SPIRIT OF THE AGE

Il 49, 49, #A
time, and if guilty Of prescription in thus ad-
dressing you, pardon it on the ground that
these thoughts are penned at random-just
as suggested by the remarks On this subject
in a late number Of the Spirit of the Age
Editors ''Sanctums' have always had a great
attraction for us, and the desire to peep in
and have a free easy chat has also prompted
the liberty. Like Irving's 'Poor devil-au-
thor" being without literary reputation and
seeking none, we fear nothing, and only
write because the spirit directs. An Editors
patience is more severely tested than that Of
any other dignitary for the public, having
his good at heart, think by subjecting him te
various species Of discipline to increase his
stock ofthat necessary article. To this, then
you may attribute your many a~nnoyances-
such as unreasonable calls, lengthy chats, &c
If ve have been too confidential, throw thi
in the fire without troubling to read it.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-21

AGaINsr GRoG.-A Correspondent of the
Newbern Daily Delta, writing from Onslow
County, and speaking of the village of Rich
lands, says:
ssThe last Legislature passed an Act, leaE-
ing it to the citizens of the village and those
residing within two miles of the Academy, to
vote for or against a "Grog Shop" and the
vote was about two to one in favor of prohi.
bition. This gave offence to some ''topers,'
who, in order to vent their spleen, on the
night after the election attacked the meeting
house. and demolished a number of window.
lights and / learn that quite a number o.
witnesses have been summoned to appear be
fore the Grand Jury at our next Superior
Court, to testify and, if possible, bring thu
offenders to Justice
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-09-21

A S~ARCoPuAGUs FOR HENRY CLAY-A mar
BILE s~arcophagus for the remains of Henry
Clay, designed to be placed in the base of
the monument now being erected to his mem
DRY in Lexington, KY, has been completed
in Philadelphia it is cut out of a solid block
of marble from Montgomery county, and b
eight feet long, three feet wide across the
breast, and two feet six inches high. The
form is that of a coffin, the interior being of
a sufficient size to admit the leaden case con.
tanning the remains.