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FOR THE SPIRIT OF TIE AG


/ am alone! this wide; wide world,
Holds not the heart that once beat for me:
I've seen my brightest hopes grow dim,
AS fades the twilight DER the sea.
The last tie that made existence dear,
By the hand of fate has been harshly riven,
And left me nought to wish or fear
But to renew that tie in Heaven.
/ once knew a soldiers leve,
And heard his earnest prayer,
That He who rules the spheres above,
Would guide my footsteps there.
Have l not seen that soldiers cheek
Saffus'd with tears of spsechless ioy.
While another lip would speak
The praises Of q Carolina boy.
And oh! the deepest, pHrest bliss,
Would then pervade my Utmost heart.
And / weald deem delight like this
Too rich and pure e'er to depart:
I felt that should the hand Of death
Fer reRd these tender ties in twain,
I'd gladly yield the nesting breath,
And join the loved and lost again.
But that soldier Is gene, anu 4 an mere.
To wander alone on this mortal shore,
And none alas! to weep that tear
Which my bosom long has bore.
oh why should / now wish to live,
When all the joys Of life have fled
When all the bliss that earth could give.
Lie buried with the silent dead?
ELLIE, CT robson
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Mistfllaneons.


Switch. Switch went the scythes, as
the men, early in the morning, were now
ing the tall grass. Round the field they
went, not minding the grassheppers that
leaped in terror, or the meadow-mice that
scampered in the thickest grass. By and
by the owner of the field came to them,
when one Of the men pointed to a little
/. stick which he had stuck in the ground,
saying with a laugh, We cut all before u.s.
sNo harm ], hope
Nothing of consequence. But see!
The gentleman vent to the stick and
there found a poor me~adow-lark, with her
head cut off by the scythe. She was on
her nest keeping her little young birds
warm, and thus the 'scythe took her life
Faithful mother!
The gentleman took up the nest o n
tanning four very small featherless birds.
What to do with them he knew not. So
he carried them home, and on his way re-
collected that near hisshouse was . faithful
old robin, which had made her nest in the
cherry tree, and also that she had just be-
gun to sit. :
On reaching the tree, there the Robin
was, to be sure, and he well knew that she
must have her own way. So he watched
her. In q few hours she few off to get
her food. The moment she was out of
sight, the gentleman climbed up and took
out the four little blue robin eggs and put
the four little larks in their place. Again
he took his place to watch!
In a short time Mrs. Robin came fying
back to her nest. She went straight to it,
and was just going to hop in it, when she
looked in. She raised her wings and
stood in utter amazement. A few mo-
ments ago she had left eggs, and now they
were birds! She stood and looked, turn
ing Der head one way and then the other,
and seeming to scan them very closely
After her amazement had gone past, she
flew off, and in a few moments came back
with the male robin. Then they both
poised themselves one on each side of the
nest, and looked in, most earnestly with
raised wings. Sure enough it was even
SO! They were birds and not eggs =
Then they began to chatter, as if talking
the matter over and explaining the state
of things. How they looked, and peered
in, and talked! After awhile they flew off
in great haste. The gentleman feared it
was all over with the little orphans. But
no! In a very few minutes they both re-
turned, each bringing a worm, with which
they began to feed them They had
adopted them, and from that hour they
Doth God take care of birds !? Yes
And he has promised to take care of his
people and their little orphan children, as
birds take care of their young.-S. s.
Times.
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struetcd through the iist of their guards,
and delivers the messa yhich truth Ell
Their security aaa emhsf their pleasures.
IF VIC do not meet b sermons, Still we
cannot escape them. &c comes to .
abodes, and taking thdearest objects of
our love as his text, terrible scrmens
does he deliver to as D what weeping
audiences sometnmeshthis silent preach
err! Yet there Is . So doctrine, an oc-
cult meaning runniTIhrough 'his dis
courses, which is oftet,ot apprehended.
Few "lay it to hear His oft repeat
ed sermons still enforche same doctrine,
still press upon us thsame exhortatioD.
/" Surely, every man alketh In a vain
show. Surely, they aaisquieted In vain.
Hero there is no Q ling city. Why
are you laboring foT4at which | will
presently take from land give TO an
other? Take no thou for the morrow.
Prepare to neet thy q"
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FoR TIE SPIRIT OF TINE AGE.
TO w. G.. Mel
CAMP DAVIS. X. c.

CAMP DAVIS, II. C.
NV own dear brother, my heart most truly feels
The secret pang which DER thy Bosom steals,
And gladly would it some kind boon impart
To heal the anguish of thy bleeding heart;
Fain wsuld l bid Hygeia fair return.
And cause the lambent hanae of hope to burn,
Which should an incense Ger thy spirits breathe,
And health's invigorating presence leave.
Ner cause the stream from life's pure fsunt to dow,
Nor bid the flush. of health renewthy cheek,
With rosy hues its grateful power to speak.
TITS He alone who form'd with matchless skill
Our mortal francs, to guide them at his will,
Can heal the wound his own kind hand has given,
To wean thy soul, and fix its hopes on Heaven;
To dwell on scenes with changeless beauty blest,
Where youth and health in bowers of pleasure rest,
Where mind expansive grasps ut perfect bliss,
Which dwells not in . fading world like this.
Here light and sla5e alternate cross he gout
n sad GRs R { a tsmSsss T5ws; VI sna ss asrx asasT9 sprrxu,
It's sable mantle round our dropping heads
Our prospects blighted-prostrate in the dust
We see our fondest schemes of pleasure thrust;
And by some hand invisible Ghe blow
L. given to all our fancied hopes below,
To teach US not to love this earth too well,
Nor on its evaneseent gleries dwell;
To break the charm which binds US strongly here.
Each hour reminds US of our funeral bier:
And raise the soul to its own home,
With joyful hope Of brighter days to come,
Where unalloyed felicity is given,
Te all who reach the brilliant csurts of Heaven.
| OF brother dear, with faiths bright piercing eye.
To that bright world beyond the azure sky,
And see what Jesus has prepared for thee
OF fruits ambrosial ON life's fadeless tree.
Believe in him, sail wisdom centres there:
And heaven win answer soon thy ardent prayer,
And give thee ell the wishes of thy heart
Which youth nor health, nsr riches can impart:
may the Saviour own my feeble lays,
And lsngthsR out thy bright and sunny days;
If not, receive thee to that bless'd abode,
To dwell forever with the Lord thy God.
HATTIE, ALFoRDsvILLE.
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b b in the Army.

War knows no Sabbath" 10 a remark
that has been many times repeated in our
hearing within the last eighteen months /;
and there Is too much truth In it. Many
officers seem to take a pleasure in ignoring
that holy day, SO that the rest that the body
needs as we'll as the soul is oftentimes for
hidden to the weary soldier, when there is
absolutely no necessity for it. He is made
to march; or to fight, or to dig on Sabbath,
when no sufficient reason can be assigned
for such labor. This is wrong--manifest-
ly wrong. It ia true that the exigsncies
of the service do require these labors on
Sabbath sometimes /; and hence it is that
the way is open for many violations of the
fourth commandment by those who fancy
themselves, when in command of a regi-
ment, as entirely superior to all erder
from Him who ordained the Sabbath as
day of rest. 1t is therefore with grea
pleasure that we find in an Order from Ger
Lee, dated July 22d, pointed instruction
to subordinate officers in reference to tn
observance of the Sabbath. He say
/" Habitually all duties except those
Inspection, will be suspended durin
Sunday to afford the troops rest, and to g
able them to attend religious services
is devoutly hoped that this order will Sc
cure a real Sabbath to many a poor soldi
who has beer cut off from the rest of Goo
holy day since he has been in the army.
~. C. Presbyterian.
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Meeting 8 Sermon.

Yes We meet them every day now
Young preachers they are, but we trust
that at least the parents of the many dear
ones recently taken, will hear and be
convinced.
Archbishop Leighton, returning home
one morning, was asked by his sister
Have you been hearing a sermon ~
"Pve met a Sermon" was the answer
The sermon he had met was a corpse OF
its way to the grave; the preacher wal
Death. Greatest of street preachers =
No laws nor penalties can silence him. n,
tramp of horses nor rafting of carriages
nor rush and din Of crowded streets ca,
drown his voice. In heather, Papal an
Protestant countries, in monarchies an
free states, in town and country, the sol
elmn pomp of his discourses 10 going on
In some countries, a man ia imprisoned fo
even dropping a tract. But what prise
will hold this awful preacher7 Whs
chains will bind him. He lifts up h
voice in the very presence of tyrapts, an
laughs at their threats. He walks unob
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The Forbidden Fruit.

Il shouldn't have eaten the fruit If I
had been Eve said Annie. Il don't see
how she could be so wicked, when God
was SO kind and good to her.
Just at that moment Mrs. Granger came
and stood behind Anpie's chair. She had
heard her confident assertion, and said
gently
DO you really feel sure that you should
not have done what God commanded YOU
not to doy'
Yes, mamma. at least I'm pretty
MY dear child, there is no day of your
life that does not witness some act of dis
obedience on your part
Annie hung her head.
Every time yon are angry, every TING
you ale seash, every time You wish for 9
thing that Is not yours, you break Gods
commandments jast as much as did Adam
and Eve
What can | do, then, mamma 2 ask
ed Annie, with fearful eyes. How often
God Is angry with me [ never thought OF
it in that way before
There is butone way replied her moth
er tenderly. The Lord Jesus Christ suf-
fered and died, SO that we, who are sinners,
and can do nothing right, may be forgiven
and saved
But how do I know he will forgive me !?
asked Annie.
Because he says in the bible, Who
soevcr cometh unto me / will in 90 wise
cast out Will you try to love him,
Annie Will you ask him for your
self to forgive your sins and make you no.
Typ
Yes, mother said Annie !; and while
Mrs. Granger sat with Mary on her lap
showing her pictures, she went up silently
to her own little chamber, and offered VI
her simple but earnest prayer.
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forgiveness.

Little Nell Palmer was a sweet little
girl of about five years of age, and every
night she loved to kneel down by her
mothers side to pray. One of the pray
ers which she was in the habit of using
was the Lords Prayer One night after
being undressed, she knelt down as usual,
and began. to say, Our Father who art
in Heaven but when she got as far as
forgive us our debts as we forgive she
stopped short and burst into tears.
What is the matter my child? said
her mother.
20 ma, I did not pray at all, ard |
can't pray it, l mustn't pray it, she added.
And why not, Nelly?
because, ma, l haven't forgiven Susy
Flanders, for spelling my dolls face this
morning
But | thought you had forgiven her,
Nelly, when you saved the orange for her
to-day, from dinner
L thought SO too, ma, but you know
l haven't seen her yet, and when | think
of the great ink spot all soaked into the
wax, and think bow wicked Susy looked,
my heart feels real wicked too, and Pm
afraid if she should look so again at me, I
couldn't give her the orange or forgive
her either
Not if you remember that it is just
such as she that Christ told you to for
giveT
% dear ma, I don't know said Nelly
sobbing, poor Dolly's face will never b.
clean again, and Susy needn't have dom
it; it would be easier to bear If it haC
been an accident
Yes, | know, Nelly, and there woul
be less to forgive but if you can do
now, it will be easier for you to forgiv
greater wrongs when you get older
why, ma, what could be greater 2
Dolly's face is spoiled
1T would be greater, when you al
grown up, to have somebody put a gre'
black spot on your character by SON
SANDER. 1t il done to somebody ever
day, Nelly, and you may not escape /; an
il you cannot forgive a wrong to Doll
Will you be able to do better towards oil
against yourselfp
but ma, how can I make forgiveness
when it won't come Of itself iRto n
heart?
.'YOu can pray cArist to ssnd it, cal
your
sY-e-s,' she answered slowly, but J
rather you would ask for me frst, pie:
do, won't you, mar
So the mother besought the grace
forgiveness for her little girl, who th
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& Sad Lesson.

We had brought to our notice, a day or
two since, an incident that occurred not a
great distance from Atlanta but recently
1t seems that a young man, of unexceptiona-
Die parents, indeed, the sou of a most pious
mother-bad commenced travelling a road
at once broad aud much frequented, and
which sooner or later leads to DEATH
Coming IN contact with those who spent
their evenings in gaming and drinking he
contracted their habits, and from an exceed
soon descended, step after step, until he
became that most enviable Of bad charac-
tiers, a confirmed gambler. And this in
spite of all remonstrance Reproof was
| unheeded-tears were m~ocked-his own
mother pushed aside With impatienoe, and
declarations that he mould pursue his dis
reputable calling.
His blindness became so great-his con-
science 80 seared-that he lay down one
Saturday night, after more than a days
carousal, surrounded by distressed friends
the most prominent of whom was his
pious aud agonized mother. After he had
lain dowa, bis mother knelt at his bed =
SIDE and begged him 10 leaVe OH MS evil
practice. He told her fatty he would not.
That poor mother rose not until she had
prayed earnestly and long for her way
ward boy. Retiring to her own room, she
could not sleep on account of an Cypress
ing presentiment that some evil was alb
sent to come upon her. After tossing upor
her bed all nighs feverishly, she arose ear
ly next morning, and went again to he.
boys bedside. Alas! during that night
the destroyer blew his breath upon tina
bed, and the gambler was a corpse.
What a sad lesson Comment Nigh
be INDUCED to great profit, but a Unite
space forbids. We may refer the youns
however, to the curses written in Th
Book, to be realized by those who fail i
a proper respect for parents. The Wi.
Man says, " wickedness oyerthroweth ii
sinner" And again it is said, "The cal
die of the wicked shall be suddenly p,
out"
: We would cali upon the young men
our city, who may be guilty, to thro
, down their cards-lay this SAD occurren
> to heart, and g follow peace, with all meu
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Martha Hines Butt.

Many of our readers will remember the
name of this person, who has figured in
some of the papers, south and north, as a
writer Of trashy literature, and who once
essayad to write a rply to Uncle Toms
Cabin" W. were wondering what had
become of her, whe the following notice
met our eye. It istaken from a Norfolk
Correspondence Letter to the Petersburg
Express:
Our ladies, if suh can be possible, are
more bitter secess6nits than our men,
Their hatred il lie the fires of Vesuvius,
which will never case to shoulder and to
burS.
A rather notate instance contrary to
our text We will ere have to record. A
female a milliner'sdaughter, reared in our
midst and we'll kpwn to the fash gentry
of the North, bu particularly to Frank
Aeslie,ls the only Instance, to the credit OF
the sex DC 1t spohn, who has undergone a
change of sentimnt since the occupation.
This Cyprian, blu a short time ago ex-
pressed intensely Southern as she does
now intensely Nrthels views. She re-
ceives her Yanke, bcaux with the same de-
light that she didher numerous Confeder-
ate lovers. from whom she exacted heavy
tribute, and has transferred her admiration
} from President LAWS to the rail splitter OF
Illinois. She wiihes ON the public streets
of Norfolk" Tha Richmond may be speed
!, Ely taken," and that utter humiliation may
befall eur brave boys, among whom sh'
has a brother. IL her admiration for be
. Yankee friends, The realizes the old saying
Happy can / Do with either when tn
other dear charnsr's away Sc capaelou
Is her fancy that It reninds q of the Nor
n weglan maelstrom, which drinks IN every
It thing that CONES within the whirl OF it
is tide. Her bosom is iargs enough to con
d tain the united love or Johnston's and NJ
. Caeilsns armies combined. aud to sigh 10
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the absence of BeaHreaexd's and Halleck's.
Inns misguided creature, stepped ininfa-
my, is named Butt, Familiarity known a.
Martha haines Buttercup Butt, authoress
Of a very penderous tome entitled "Spare
Seconds" Her praises are now sung thus /:
Martha Haines Butttercup Butt.
FOR the Devil to crack you'll prove q sweet nut;
apsstate he'll get thee all stale and forsaken,
anu cage thee m-ere Richmond be taken.
| will here repeat, that not one man OF
woman of character or responsibility, hai
yet fIaternized with the Yankees.
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The I~ntenpere Father.

Follow him, If you ID a heart to do it,
as he staggers along, n and then licking
the ground, till he reaes his once peace
ful home. "He's.eAssx" cry the little
innocents, as they lol Through the win
dow, but it is not the OF JOY, that vel
comes the parent as approaches bis ten
der family al mo- the cry of fear
of horror. See thel flee from him as
from a monstsr-lookt the broken heart
ed mother, as she taAs up her affrighted
boy and bathes him VII her tears. "Ah,"
says she TO her childrs! /" your father once
loved you-once he I'd me-he was a
husband, and a providA parent; bat now
we arc torsaken ; you little tender feel
feel the nipping trcst our bodies shivel
with cold ; your ~tatterdl clothes are falling
from you, and | have new ones to give
you are hungry, but lave no bread fol
you ; the necessities oafe your father wa
once wont to bring kme to cheer GU,
hearts are o chanA for the bottle
the demon has furnisef him with, per
hap S as the reward OF bis days's labor
Oh, cruel employer che and beheld tn
fruits of your iniquity ;ke the miseries ca
tailed upon the wretch,d mother, and tn
worse than fatherle.s children, by you
thirst Of gain" Let Tho Imagination sup.
ply the remaining paIa Of the awful pic
| ture.
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Fresh Medicines GToiIet Articles

TINE subscriber has the pleasure of announcing
u to his friends and the public generally, that ali
war and interruption OF trade, he has procured q.
fresh supply of Medicines, Toilets, and other articles
in his line, which he has been unable TO furnish for
some time past. He has to pay CASH for all he buys,
and hopes that such of his patrons as do not pay
pw T6n baye mmt CONE an - ft M1 seat If sua = = - e IN a fpr :
independence and dearest interests, will pay up their
arrearages, or a part at 1eas.. so that he may be able
to meet pressing demands, and keep MS SLOck re-
plcnished.
nH All orders from the country unless from
prompt and reliable p~arties) will go unnoticed, if not
accompanied with. the CASH, or It's equivalent.
Il, p. L.
Druggist, Raleigh, \. C.
August d. 1851. L
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A NOBLE EXAMPLE For A SOLDIER.
Chaplain James b Averitt says of the
lamented Gen. Ashby-" AS his tent mate
from the 18th of June, 1861, to the close
of his eventful life, I never saw him ill.,
dulge in a game of chance, use an oath or
any expression which could offend the
most polite ear and he was entirely free
from dissipation of all kinds" What a
noble tribute to one who has had no supe-
rior for gallantry daring since the war com
menced!
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LosT.-Gen. Stonewall jackson ia lost
again. He keeps jumping about from one
place to another, and, like the " Irish
mans Hsa," when you put your finger upon
him, " he amt there" The Rockingham
Register says it is thought that Gen. Pope
is in search of him. We hope he may sue
coed in finding him, as bis friends around
here are anxious to hearfspm hIm.--RtcA.
nsond Wing.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

PAYS ALL LOSSES PROMPTLY
nIRECTORS:-John A Mebane. Cyrus P Msnden
~ hall, DPWeir, James N Garrett, T ii Jones, n
d Wilson, VIM Barringer, David Mcknight, NJ s
Sterling, Greensboro; w A. Wright, Wilmington
Alexander Miller, Newberne DIR VIM c Ramsey,
marlborough; Rev r c Maynard, Franklinton; <
+ Watson, Watsonvills Al York, Coacsrd Rev
Craven, Triaity College.
OFFICERS.
N hid WILSON, President.
JED LINDSAY Vice President.
JOHN A. GILMER, Attorney.
PETER ADAMS, Secretary and Treasurer.
N. II. ID. WILSON,
C.G. YATES, Executive Committee.
JIM \
AL communications on business of the office shouIe
be sent to PETER ADAMS, Secretary, +,
43f GEeensborough, N. c.
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prayed for herself, and to her mothers
surprise, added also, The Lords Prayer
And she whispered as she rose up:
Il wasn't afraid to SAP that then, ma,
for [ felt forgiveness coming into my heart
when we were praying and | shan't be
afraid to give the orange tomorrow.
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T~HoMAsvLLE, NORTE

TOWNSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
TIME FALL SESSION WILL COMMENCE TIE
fourth Wednesday of July, 1Se2- Session II
weeks. Board, washing. fuel and room, $40 LIZ
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