Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-05-08
FOR THE sPIRIT.oF THE AGE.
Observanda.-No l.

Friendly READERS There has been, and
there still are, many kinds of spirits in the
world. There are spirits of honor and of
dishonor, spirits of pleasure and of sorrow,
spirits of kindness and of crabbedness, spir-
its of lenity and revenge, good spirits and
evil spirits, the spirit of the press and the
SPIRIT OF THE AGE. There are ardent spirits
and devil spirits-which are the worst of all
spirits--and a thousand and one more names
[ might give, but that would weary you.--
And as variety Is the spice of life that gives
it all its flavor" | will change the subject by
recommending to your kind regards the Spir-
it through the medium of which | now ad.
dress you, hoping that you all will continue
to aid that Spirit in it's weekly missions in
the cause of humanity.
In the days of spiritual rapperism, in the
village of RI, once stood an old hotel,
deserted by all it's former inhabitants, propri-
etor, boarders, visitors and travellers; and
occupied for a time by Alonzo alone, who
waited on his customers by day, and spent
the long and weary nights in as lonely a soli-
tude as if he had been in some dreary cave
in some desert mountain, with nothing to
break its silence but the screaming of the
panther, the bowling of the wolf, or the boot
ing Of the owl
And though he was an unbeliever in
spiritual rapping," many were the raps and
many were the rats that went round the lone
some walls of that old hotel, disturbing his
believer, many a startling revelation might
have been made to him there, where nothing
but rats and bugs would have disturbed his
INSTRUMENTATION with the spirits that gil
ded unseen around those lonesome walls,
where many a deed of darkness had been
!, perpetrated, and where the minions of old
! Bacchus once held absolute sway in opposi-
ton to the peace and happiness of society
and the dignity of law. But though the place
was ungenlal for such an intercourse-ifa any
! place on earth can be-yet AlonZo received
no communication from the trapping spir.
4 its" But many were the spirit drinkers that
= staggered around the corner when tue setting
suns last rays bad ceased to gid the wes-
! tern horizon. And many a muttered curse
: and devilish slang Fl ON the lips of degraded
! humanity greeted Extensively upon his ear
And many a Bacchanalian yell rert the ali
i around that old hotel, and echoed through
= its dreary halls, as if ONE of his imps from
old Pandemonium had been sent oaG
satanic majesty to disturb the quietude o
AlonZo.
But where now are all those r~evelers? Ech
answers where-no other response. Not on
POt ioiNA iOfOl obiO cSAAAOliE Oil Jth
| known. Though the Sons once organize
G in that village, and for a time, seemed to wiel
: a salatary influence, yet public opinion wa
I not strong enough in their favor, and the III
y faithfulness of many members broke tn
IN ranks of the Division, the remainder becam
Z, diSheartened, and for many years they hav
as been entirely disbanded. And some VIII
ne had been taken up from degradation, an
n who had apparently become useful member
s. of society, have gone, like the dog and tn
y SOW, to their filthiness again. Some. still liz
rs ger upon the verge of life, a curse to societ
10 and a nuisance to themselves. And SON
have long since gone to the drunkards gray
N, But let us return to the old hotel. Alon7
). has spent some weary hours there in wa
10 dering thoughts upon the present and tt
at past history of his solitary abode. He b
NY gins to seek for some recreation of mind, ar
IN his attention is suddenly arrested by the NJ
'ne ses, and for his own amusement, he takes h
JUS. Den and writes the blowing