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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-04-14

that he had taken from. the enemy il the pre-
vious action. Nothing is said of the aban-
denment of guns.
We do not infer from this dispatch. that
any disaster has befallen our army. Gen.
Beauregard was pursuing the forces of Gen.
Grant who fell back until they were rein
forced With Buelps army of som seventy
thousand men, and then a second battle en-
sued. Gen. Beauregard, finding himself en-
gagged with largely superior numbers, after a
combat of several hours succeeded in extri-
eating his troops and retired in perfectly good
order to Corintb, where his own reserves
were still assembling, and where he has nos
Termed a junction of all his troops. The fact
that he was compelled to abandon on the
way a large mass of heavy stores and am
munition taken from the enemy at Shiloh.
does not militate against this view. Sue hin
cidents are common even in the best managed
retreats if made in the face of a superior en-
enemy. At Corinth a heavy struggle viii
soon take place between Buell. and Beaure-
gard, and we have but little doubt of the re-
suit.
A dispatch from Corinth on the 9th, to the
Richmond Dispatch, says, we still hold the
battle field, and it is not thought that the
enemy will advance. 1t says that Morgan's
Cavalry on the 9Th attacked the enemy in
camp and killed a large number of them, and
burned the tents of our forces which they hat
left. 1t says that Gems. GLADDEN., Bushrot
johnson and Hindman were wounded, and a
2 o'clock the firing ceased mutually on both
sides, and on Monday both armies fell back
1t is also stated that Gen. Van Dorm had
joined Beauregard at Corinth with reinforce
ments. Near that point the great battle i
to be fought
We learn from dispatches received by tn
Charlotte Bulletin on the 10th, that Com
Hollins had communicated to the War De
partment at Richmond, that three of tn
enemy's gunboats had passed Island No. 10
Of course they will encounter breakers below
1t is stated also, that five yankee batterie
commenced the bombardment of Fort PULASKI
below Savannah at 6 o'clock, AN, on tina
day. No fears were felt for the Fort.
Mcclellan continues to drain Norther
J Virginia of troops and assemblies a great ho'
in the Peninsula for the fral contest. Whe
, he has two hundred thousand men he Wi
begin to move.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-04-14
O! Whya

Why do not all persons who know the
fact that Alcoholic beverages are rulnous
abstain from the use of intoxicating drinks
AS the facts show that all men would be bet
fer without them as millions have tried 1t
and can testify from their own experience
as their testimony is uniform and conclusive;
WHY does it not carry conviction to every
individual, and control their conduct9 how
many witnesses are wanted in a court OF
tice to prove a case, even of life or deathG
More than a million good men and true, VINO
can testify from their own personal knoWl-
edge No. A thousandth part of that number
would settle any question. Why does 1t not
settle this question? Why do not all believe
that they would be better should they abstain
entirely from the use, as a beverage, OF all
intoxicating liquor2 Ifthey did not use it
they would believe this.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-04-14

There is little information of a reliable ma
ture from the enemy at Newbern. 1t is said
that Burnside's feet has disappeared from
our waters, and that only some four thousand
soldiers were left to hold the town. The ru-
mors which reach US of the conduct of some
of the citizens of Newbern, Washington and
Beaufort who have remained there, is painful
indeed. 1t is said that nearly every body in
Beaufort received Burnside with open arms,
and that consequently no arrests were made
OF consequence. A number OF Capt. Pools.
Company Composed of Beaufort mem deser-
ted their post while on picket duty at Fort
Macon, and went over to the enemy at Beau
tort Immediately on their arrival there, and
have made themselves useful to him by con
Quoting his accommodating parties about the
coast.
Isaiah Respass, the Mayor of Washington,
it seems became a companion and guide of
Mr.. Burnside, accompanied him to More
head City, exploring the country and doing
the agreeable thing. Hearing of Mr.. Res
pass extreme courtesy to the Yankees, Gen.
Ransom sent him a card to visit headquarters,
near Kinston, furnishing him an escort of
forty gallant troops, and afterwards sent him
on to Richmond for further examination.
Mr.. Emanuel c.. Thomson, who it was
positively stated had been kil'edin the battle
of Aewbern, has most unexpectedly reached
his home and family in Fayetteville. He was
! among the prisoners paroled on account OF
wounds, having a very severe one on his head
He left Newbern on the 30th March, and
remained at Washington till the 9Th inst
OF those discharged with him he only remem
; bers Wm Goodrich, VIM Carter, and Sergeant
Mcdonald.
It is said that Mr.. Brock Tysor, son Of Har-
ris Tysor, Esq, is certainly. dead. 1t will be
recollected that his thigh was broken in the
battle of Newbern, and that he fell into the
enemy's hands; and this writer states that h
5 had no surgical attention till three days af-
! ter the battle when he died under the ampu-
tating process. TIL letter states also, that
n yankee officer shot Tysor's friend, Of the sam
company, who had remained to wait on him
We learn that our pickets captured min
yankees and killed three on Monday last
within six miles Of Shephardsville, Cartere
county. They have been carried to Kin
y ston. Captain Booths horse was kille
under him.
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How Makers and Sellers Argue.

It is said, 1t is not the making Of intoxi-
eating liquer, or the selling, of it, that does
the mischief; it is the drinking of it." But
does not the making and selling minister to
the drinking Does it not teach the fatally
erroneous doctrine, that the drinking oft is
right, and does it not aid in perpetuating it !?
Suppose a traitor to his country, who in
time Of war should manufacture and sell fire
arms to the enemy, should say, 1T is not
the making or selling Of fire arms that does
the mischief, it is the using 0 fthem." Would
that shield him from his country's ~indigna-
ton, or save him from the doom of a traitor ?
A traitor might say, :" never sell to the
enemy a single gun, or a sword; that would
be treason. | only sell in large quantities,
and from a respectable establishments
Would that save his life ?
The making of fire farms for the enemy and
the selling of them, by wholesale as we'll as
retail, are treason, and will subject him who
does it to a traitors doom. It is q principle
in law, that the perpetrator and the accessory
in the commission of crime are both guilty.
Men have been hangedfo for violating tins prin-
ciple. The same principle applies to the law
of God. If a man has an OK that is koan to be
dangerous, ano he does not keep HIM in, but
lets him 60 out, and that OK kills a man. the
owner is guilty. Under the Old Testament
dispensation, such a man, by the direction
of God, was to be put to death. 1t is a great
crime for a man to endanger the lives, corrup,
the character, and feed the vices of his fellow
men. IF be does it, he will be held RESPONSE
bic at the Divine tribunal.
"But," says another, "if I should not sell
somebody else would. Men will have it. AM
why may not | have the profits as well as 9th
ers." So the hig~hway-robber, and the mur
derer may say, "There is such a good oppor
tunity to make money, somebody will commi
the crime if | do not, and why may mot hay
the profits Of it as well as others y Because
if you do, goa will be q robber, or a murderer
like the others and will be partaker of the;
woes. The money you gain by doing wron
will only be a curse to you: you had bette
be without it, and rest contentad with wbs
you can gain BY diligence, enconomy, and til
blessing of heaven, in doing right. That
all to which you can get a just title, all tn;
you ought to wish for, and all which, if yo
are a wise man, you will be willing to has
The wages of sin, as are. those made by IL
sale of alcohol to be used as a beverage, WI
"at the last" like alcohol itself, bite like
serpent and sting ike an ADDER
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Father and Sons

You will produce a great effect on our
people, said a man to one who was about to
deliver an address on temperance; for we
have Just buried a man who killed himself by
intemperance. He was the son of a respect
able mechanic who had two sons, end took
them both into his own business when they
were young. His practice was to drink
moderately two or three times a day. His
sons did the same. Before they were eighteen
they were both drunkards. The oldest hnger-
ed on to twenty three and died. The young
|. est can't live to be twenty-three. He is 60
ing rapidly the same way. The father stands
it, but the sons are ruined.
That short sentence tells the history oi
many a family of once moderate drinkers
The father" il may be, stands it; but
the sons are ruined" In many cases the faith
er also, and even the mother and daughters
as we'll as the sons, are ruined. Whole fam
lies lie side by side in the drunkard's grave
families too, who once were respectable, an
had no more idea of becoming drunkards thar
have any families or individuals who are now
however moderately, drinking Intoxicating
liquor. There is no safety but in abstinence
entire, perpetual abstinence. If man be
gins to drink this " mocker," he knows not
and he cannot know where it will end.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-04-14
Rlasphemy.

A bitter condemnation upon the authors OF
the annexed sacrilegious language, will be
visited by the ~virtuous and good all over this
Southern land. In the Senate of the Con-
federate States, the other day, Mr.. Wigfall of
Texas, said:
at will not do to talk about the justice of
our cause, the favor of Providence, or the aid
of foreign nations. We must have heavy
battalions. We have to contend against a
powerful nation, which exhibits the desper-
alton Of a gambler who stakes all that be
possesses. We are waiting here for Provi-
dence, or foreign governments, to help u.s.
We lean upon a broken reed.''
And a Florida correspondent of the Pc
tersburg Express writes:
If Davis would emulate Napoleon, in
stead of feebly initiating Washington, |
would have more hopes Of him and more con
fdence in his ability. | fear, however, he is
not the man for the times. He. relies too
much on proclamations and too little on &C
tons. Praying is out of date jus: now,a and
preaching an obsolete idea. G%unpowder anG
pluck we stand most in need of. The Chris
tian virtues may be we'll enough, but il
times like these, cruelty has become a virtue
and unscrupulousness should be a ruin!
principle. We want a devil at our head.
wish to God we had one"
Thank Heaven, neither our President, Al
my Officers, Soldiers or People, will folio,
the lead of these reckless, goddess adventur
ers and defyers of God and man. They kno'
too we'll in whom our strength lieth, to /
thus deceived and led astray by wicked, ba
men. "In God is our Trust To ignol
this aid and support, is to most surely brin
down upon us defeat, disaster and sore owe
throw. And if our leaders will follow Il
example of the great and good Washingto
instead of initiating the reckless, ambitiol
Napoleon, the People will but admire al
love them the more.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-04-14

The victory in Tennessee, the successful
stand at Island Ten, and the bewilderment
of Mcclellan from finding no enemy at Ma
nassas, and too formidable a one at York
town, will give a new complexion to affairs.
We shall soon be driving the enemy from
Virginia and Tennessee the climate will expel
him from all his positions on the seaboard
and. the confident predictions of the Northern
press Of a termination Of the war in April
will be completely exploded. He will be no
nearer his object of snhjugaticn than he was
twelve months ago, and he will meantime
have lost an army Of several hundred thou
sand men for to drive back an invading ar
my confdento OF uninterrupted success, is vir-
tually to destroy it.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-04-14

GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST
PROTESTANT CHURcH.-Rev. F. L. b. Shaver,
General Conference of the Methodist Protes-
OF Alabama, announces to the members of the
tant Church of the Confederate States, that
that body will hold its session in Montgomery,
Ala, commencing on the first TuesdaY in =
next Delegates on their arrival there, a7e
requested to apply at the Parsonage, { .aer
OF BIob and Moulton streets, TO learn tueir
homes during the session.
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BELLs.-The Methodist, Presbyterian, Bap-
fist, and Episcopal Churches Of this city,
have all donated their Church Bells to the
Government, to be melted into cannon. We
think the State and City Authorities ought
Immediately to follow the patriotic example
set by the Churches, by giving the Capitol
they will.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-04-14

INTERMEDIATE ARTrHMETIc.-We have re-
ceived from the publishers, Messrs. Sterling,
Campbell and Albright, of Greensboro, Elk
tracts from an intermediate Arithmetic for
Schools by S. Lander, A. NJ, Principal of
high Point Female Seminary. From a casual
glance at these pages, we are pleased with
the design and method of Mr.. Lander, and
think there will be no difficulty in iptrodl-
cling his arithmets into the schools of th'
South. Mr.. LIS reputation as a teacher =.
mathematics will not suffer from this etfortas
book-making.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-04-14

GENERAL 'SToNE-wALL' JACKSON A Man
OF PRAYER.-A writer in the Religious Her.
aid says that at the union p-rayer-meeting in
Winchester, General 'Stone-walp Jackson
was present one afternoon and led in PRAYER.
Would that all our officers were men Of prav-
er.
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~ A gentleman who has just escaped
RON Nashville, Tenn, says there are abont
i've thousand sick, and not more than five
hundred well, Federal soldiers in that citv.
and that the former were being buried at the
rate OF nifty a day, while assertions were rap
idly thinning the ranks of the latter.
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SOUTHERN MONTHLY FOR APRIL.-We are
in receipt of this excellent Southern Periodi-
cal. 1t is a capital No. We have before
spoken at length of our appreciation of the
work, and commended it to public patronage.
Enclose So to Messrs. Hutton & Freeligh,
Grenada, Miss, and try it for a year.
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MORE elusive are indebted to kind
friends for clubs of subscribers received since
our last acknowledgement, viz: J. R. Means
Of Co. I, 7th Regiment n. c.. Vols; NJ. j.
Moore, Walnut Cove ; j. G. Roberts, Gull
ford; Pleasant Henry, Murphy; W. P. Bar
nett, Pineyille e. S. Field, Mountain Island;
and one or two others whose names have es-
capped our recollection. We assure all of our
! most sincere gratitude.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-04-14

SUFFOLK AND NoRFoLK.-It is now posi-
lively known that McClelland is Withdrawing
his troops from Western Virginia and con-
centrating them on the Peninsula, with a view
to uniting with Burnside at Suffolk for an
attack on Norfolk. The Merrimac alone, it
is believed, can prevent the carrying out this
plan.
There was a rumor in Norfolk on Thurs.
day last, which was however d.scredited, that
about 800 Of our militia had been captured
by the Yankees between Elizabeth City and
South Mills. 1t was also reported that the
Burnside feet was concentrating at Edenton
for a supposed advance upon Suffolk. 1t
needs confirmation.
TIKI LATE BATrLE.-The following state
ments, will serve to show the locality OF the
great battle fought.
Our scouts, report the enemy in large
force at Shiloh Church, three miles south
west Of Pittsburg, and Is miles north east of
Corinth. 1t was stated by those who visited
the epemy's camps, that they were preparing
to march by TIE Hamburg road, upon Co
ri9th. This fact doubtless induced our Gen.
erals to make the attack, and fastened the
engagement.
BuelIs column, reported to be 70, 900
strong, has removed to Pulaski, 40 miles
northwest of Huntsville, Ala.
1t is supposed that it is the intention of
the enemy to unite with the Tennessee col
unn at Savannah, on the Tennessee river
They are rebuilding all the burnt bridges as
they advance.
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Obliged To Ensmall.

The Editor of the n. G. Presbyterian gives
notice, that FROM his last issue, he will be
compelled to reduce the size of his sheet,
owing to the large advance on the price of
paper-it being double now, what it was a
few months ago.
A close-fsted fellow cam into our office
last week, and wanted to know if we expec-
pected to return to our large sheet soon ? and
if so, he would subscribe. We told him we
could not afford it while paper was so high
that the blank paper alone, at present pri-
ces, would cost, of the original size, more
than our subscription price; but as soon as
paper. came down to former prices, that we
should resume our large sheet. rs left
witAout subscribing and we are glad of it.
For any man who wants an Editor to furnish
a paper for less money than it costs him to
produce it, must be a mean, stingy, unjust
man; and we wish to have nothing to do
with such an one. We did not ask his
name, and hope We viii never know but
we do hope he may see this paragraph and
thus learn our opinion of him.
Like the Editor Of the Presbyterian, we.
were compelled to one of three courses--to
suspend altogether-to raise the price Of SUBJ
scription, or diminish the size of the paper.
This latter course we thought the best; and
wo,are happy to know it gives general salts
faction to our subscribers-the number of
which is about five thousand, as usual.
The Wilmington Daily Journal has been
compelled, also, either to reduce the size of
bis paper, or increase the price. lie has
chosen the latter, and has raised the terms of
subscription 50 higher than before.
~ The large majority of our exchanges
in this and from other States, are opposing
the proposed conscript bill now before Con-
gress. We cannot see the necessity for any
5 such tyrannical and unjust measure, especi-
, ally when more troops are rushing to arms
! under the volunteer system, than the gov
4 eminent calls for. Let the counter plan
: remain, and all viii be well. Resort to com
I pulsion and tyranny in forming our armies,
. and the enthusiastic, patriotic ardor of the
[ people is withered, while they feel that they
are the mere victims of military oppression
and usurpation. We hope the measure will
W be defeated in Congress; but we fear it viii
: be adopted.
:" MORE CLUBs.-We are indebted to kint
Do TrsnpJ- e.. ,l..lz = .-I-oy.na~, noaosroI cSpa
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ready been done But. it has been accom-
plished by very small portion of the Ladies
Of Ellsworth, and we need and desire the
cooperation of all VIII not every one
whose eye falls upon these lines, ask herself
what Size can ID in aid Of the object. and
having decided this question, do something
promptly, tia: the work may not stop. The
freight upon the box we have Just forwarded,
has left US almost destitute of funds, and we
need money to purchase such articles as are
not usually cJntribut d We want calico
and delaino for making quilts, e5miortables
and double gowns, and even that wlAlr is
partly worn can be used to advantage. -
Bundles OF old linen are never out of place
in hospital stores, Part worn cotton cloth
makes good baudagcs. Pieces Of colored
flannel, or any wooden cloth will make such
vests as the soldiers need to help protect
them from cold Cotton flannel for shirts
and drawers. cotton, bleachcl or unblcached,
stockings, towels. sheets and Wllnw-eascs,
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on one Of tue members q the Brass Band Of til :.
city.
pR. LlGHFHiLL,-Dear Sir:-Alaw me 70 ex-
press my gratitude to you, by this public ac-
acknowledgement, for the great benefit received
while nDier your care. For nearly three years
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many Physicians about il, but could NOT get any
reliet. some would tell me that eat4trh vas in
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Yours with many thanks,
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rorRTu LECTURE BY DIR. N. R, rrlslrrR,
REPORTER.

ECircumstauces in the case Col KERR
gan have transpired within few dlys which
tx upon him. without doubt, the fact Of his
having furnished information to the enemy.
as previously alleged.
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4ours, with many thanks,
a TIIIAN DEL ANEy
Bangor, Nov. T. ISL.

I From the Bangor Fveqmg Ta,s, VT. 90, lsGl ]
MoRE CuREs BY DR. LIGHraILL.-Iast saturday
Dr. Lighthili operated Mrs James kobbi ns
tor cataract aud blindness # two years stand :
with perfect success restoring her to sight. Mrs.
Gohbins resides in Exeter, but the operation was
performed at the house Of Mrs. J. Clark, on Ham e
mond street. She is 60 years old.
Dr. Lghthill also performed operation on Mr..
IL. b. Forbes. of Enfield, for eye, With like
success. Both Dyes are now perfectly straight
Dir. Ii ghthii meets with uninterrupted success in
the numerous cases he takes 10 hand.