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Year: 1860

In the course of a recent debate
in Congress, Pryor, of Virginia (Dem)
and Nelson, Of Tennessee IS. o..
had tilt, in which accounts agree
the former. who took the latter to ac-
count for no: being a true Southerner,
was completely worsied. Nelson.
who uttered strong Union sentiments.
was repeatedly and vociferously
cheered He denounced sectional
lists and stood by the Union and the
Constitution. A member asked if he
put the Union above the Constitution.
He said he put them together, for
one cannot exist without the other.
Again, he said as far as Tennessee
was concerned he could say that
no man there of any note SYM
pathizes with the disunion sentiments
In reply to a question by Pryor, he
said that as much as he would dep
recate the election of Black Re-
publican President, that of itself
would be no cause for dissolution, 70.
hey ought to wait and see whether
they would do anything injurious to
the rights of the South.


Nelson we have-ro doubt, expres.
es the true sentiment of conservative
Southern men.
Year: 1860

Rev. Martin Kellogg has been ap-
pointed to professorship in the CAL
ifornia College. BY notice in an
other place it will be seen that the
reverend gentleman will OBSCURE up
on Education at the Congregational
Chnrch on Sunday next.
Year: 1860

The latest feminine fashion, says
the ST. Louis correspondent of the
Sacramento Union, is a diamond ring
worn outside the glove. OIL the little
finger of the left hand. to which is
attached fine gold chain, terminal
ing with another ring. through which
a dainty lace handkerchief is passed.
Year: 1860




Mr.. EDITOR: You no doubt have come to
the conclusion that your old friend, ''Salie
of Ark" has forgotten her promise, or that
she has wandered so far from the Old North
State that she cares not for its "good Spirit"
But not so; am still at my post, and al
though have been slow, yet have not given
over BY the kind assistance of my better
half, am enabled to send you So 90, for
which we wish you to forward the Age to
the West. We still are in great need of it in
this part of the State, for almost daily we see
and hear of men making beasts of themselves
by the free use of alcohol We have the pro-
mise of few more names and the money too
You will perceive that one of our list lives in
Alabama he had never chanced to meet with
the ''good Spirit" until few weeks ago, when
on a visit to this State We hope he will
spread its bright pages before tire reading
community of his little town, and procure a
club soon, and large one at that.


am much pleased to see that some of our
Buncombe gentlemen are gallant enough to
contribute few dollars to the Editress.
think she richly merits our compliments and
some of our dollars too. | hope others viii
60 and do likewise. | hope we will hear
more flattering news from all the Division.
in the State, as the long winter evenings arr
approaching and tho time cannot be better
spent than for old and young to meet at tn,
Division room and discuss the glorious caus
of Temperance, and devise plans to snatch
the pvor inebriate from the hydra-heade,
monster. So come one, come all, and be Il
snd doing; spare no time until the last dro
of mean phiskey is banished from our happ
land, and we shall hear it echoed and re-echoe
that ''cold water is the best"


SALLIE OF ARK.
Year: 1860

One Lady at the Princes ball in Cincin-
natl was distinguished from the rest of the
women, by wearing no jewelry Her name
is Groesback, and we would bet small sum
she was the best dressed woman of the lot.
Baron Renfrew observed that the lady was
barren of byouterie, and selected her as a
dancing partner on that account. Over dress
ing is the crying sin of our American wo-
men, and the lady who, on SO notable an oc.
casion had the courage, self reliance and
good taste to dress with elegant simplicity,
deserves immortal memory. Let Miss G. be
illustrious forever as the woman who danced
with the Prince, and didn't wear jewels.
Year: 1860

THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE is conducted strictly upon
the CASH system. All papers are discontinued at the
expiration of the time for which they have been paid
Subscribers viii be notified WEEKS before their
time is out by CROSS MARK on their papers; and
unless the subscription is renewed the papers will be
discontinued This is O rule from which there viii be
no departure Watch for the Cross MARK, and renew
your subscription.


~ Subscribers desiring their papers changed,
must mention the Post Office FROM, well the
to which they desire the change to be made.
Year: 1860

While we are mailing this No. of the Spirit |
of the Age, the freemen of this vast Republic,
extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Oceans, are determining the question as to
aoho shall preside over its destinies as Chief
Magistrate for the ensuing four years. Never
in the history of cur government, has the
great heart of tke nation throbbed with such
intense anxiety and alarm as to the result as
at this present moment never has the exist
ence ef the Republic been in such imminent
| peril as now. There is no Disgusting the fact
the Union as IN danger! This great Con-
federacy, which for three quarters of CEN
/ tury has been the wonder and terror of des-
4 pots the world over, and the pride and hope
4 of the oppressed and down-trodden of the
whole earth, is on the verge of volcano,
whose burning lava threatens to desolate this
fair heritage-the favored of God and the
glory of the world It well becomes every
American citizen then, when casting his bal
lot, to do so with fervent invocation to that
God who aided us in our revolutionary strug-
giles and has blessed and prospered us as was
never Nation blessed and prospered of Hea-
ven, that He would again interpose His mercy
and perpetuate the high and inestimable pri
vileges and immunities we have so loug en-
joyed-for in such times of peril, God is thu
only refuge of a christian people


1t is idle to indulge in speculations as t


the result of this days election upon the des
TIMES Of our common country, or of our owl
section. In very few days the electric iro
nerves through which we hold converse
one extreme of the continent with the othel


will thrill in ten thousand directions with th


intelligence as to how each State has cast he


vote If a majority of the votes in the Ele


toral College shall be sea pred for that cand


date, the avowed purpose and intention


whose party is, that one section shall mal
open and undisguised war upon the instit
tons and interests of the other-then ma
we expect the enacting of such scenes, IL
very anticipation of which is horrible in Il


extreme to contemplate


f We confess that the political sky is da.
and stormy in the extreme, and that the mo
hopeful may begin to despair of the Repu
lie" yet we cannot bring ourselves to belle
that the worst fears of the true lovers of t
Union will be realized in this contest. T
purpose of the Great Ruler of men and I
1 tons we do not believe has been consumn


ted in this one of His own right hand plal


ing. He may chastise us for our wickedne


and for our ingrattude for all the benefits


has bestowed upon US; but He will not p


init the Vaccinations of bad men to thw


the great purposes of His providence by ov


turning this monument of His good will
v man.


= We await the issues of this day with ca


confidence that, whatever the result, God ,


over-rule all for His glory and the welfare
/: this great nation. And feeling this assurar
n, we believe He will cause to be elected to
d. Presidency that man who will bind the Sta
~ stronger together in cords of fraternal equa


and unity, and hand down our liberties,
e, stitutions and immunities unimpaired to c
ut ing generations So mote it be-
Year: 1860

Don't be afraid of a little fun at home.
good people. Don't shut up your houses
lest the sun should fade your carpets,
and your hearts. lest hearty laugh
should shake down some of the musty
cob webs there! Ii you want to ruin
your sons. let then. think that all mirth and
enjoyment must be left on the threshold
without, when they come home. When
once home is regarded as only place
to eat, drink and sleep in, the work is be-
gun that ends in gambling houses and
reckless degradation.


Young people must have fun and rslaxa-
ton, somewhere; aud if they do not find
it at their own hearlhstones. it will be
sought in other and perhaps less proffta-
Bile places. Therefore, let the fire burn
brightly at night. and make their home
most delightful with all those little arts
that parents SO perfectly understand
Dou't repress the buoyant spirits of your
children; half an hour Of merriment around
the lamp and freight of home blots out
the re nembrance of manv care and an.
noyance during the day; and the best
safeguard they can take with them into
the world is the unseen influence of a
bright little domestic home.--LJs Illus,
trQted
Year: 1860

con, DEAR wEAr CAN THE MATTER BE ?''-Thc
weakness of the Chicago nominee could not be
more forciby acknowledged than in the peculiar
efforts that are being made 10 prop him up with
what is called d" substantial timber" A Chicago
correspondent writes that Carl Shurz, of Wiscon-
sin, through whose demand the anti Know Nothing
plank was put into the Republican platform, insists
that Mr. Seward must be Secretary of State. or
he and those he represents will not be satisfied :"
Pennsylvania is to be further conciated with the
assurance that "Cameron will be made Secretary of
the Treasury" New England is to have Ashmun
in the Cabinet. "A place is to be reserved for
Governor Chase of Ohio, while Henry s. Lane, of
Indiana, Will be provided for in the event of his
defeat, which is considered probable" We are
further told that Frank Blair of Missouri is falk-
ed of as certain for the Attorney Gcneralship and
New Jersey is to be made enthusiastic for the
ticket by the prospect of her favorIte son, VIM L.
Dayton, becoming Secretary of the Nav. That
is proping and snoring up the 80 rail'' in fine
style We suppose that this is the way doubtful
States-thoSe that were So before the nomination,
as well as those made so by t-are to be strength
ened, encouraged and carried. They calculate
that the people will regard the supports more than


the thing supported, in casting their votes for Pres
ident.-Cin Eng
Year: 1860

About year ago. an abolitionist living
in Madison, Lake county. Ohio. employed
a negro. and admitted him 10 equal
social equality with his family. Recently
he has noticed with painful emotions that
an attachment was growing up between
his wife and the negro. On Sunday night
a week ago. the wife ran off with the ne
gro, leaving her child with her husband.
The husband attributes the whole thing
TO the abolition literature with which he
had supplied his house.
Year: 1860

The secret Of success in farming. as
we'll as everything else. is doing every
hing in the right time. The reason why
some men are always behind with their
work: their planting or sowing too late:
their crops overtaken by weeds. is because
they put off too many things for tosmor-
row that should be done tosday. He
who allows the labor Of one day to crowd
upon another.is always a liule too late with
everything, and he at once concludes that
he is born TO bad luck
Year: 1860

More than one hundred mon are bust
ly engaged in preparing the Metropolitan
hotel. in New York. for the accommodation
of the Japanese visitors. Their apartments
will be fixed up in the most luKuriaut
style.
Year: 1860

WASHINGTON, Dcc. lO-ll l.. VI


am Informed that Mr. Buchanan has rendered the Of
ace of secretary of the Treasury 10 Mr. Guthrie exec
rotary OF the Treasury under President Pierce that
be has accepted by telegraph Wy authority Of - high
a character that cannot doubt the report.


Mr Heart superintendent Of Public Printing acting
upon notice served upon him by Iaroombe English
subcrdnacs the House Printer has letter the
speaker q the House Of Representatives nimatng that
consequence y the reduction Of forty per cent an
work ordered this that he fears the work not
likely 10 % executed He has done this without
serving a notice upon either the House Printer, Or
the person whom he has always recognized Mr.. rords
attorney Ford j. In Ohio very sick There Is TO
believe that this plan get the printing out % the
hands n Ford, and give Il 20 Bowman, else to throw
of afterwards restoring the forty cent cut OF a, the
last session md for the simple purpose OF buncombc
tho author q the measure has since ACKNOWLEDGED.


Among other ropors to night s one 70 the eject that
serious difficulty likely 70 between two Southern
members of Congress II i reported TO have originated
consequence q o the gentlemen referring % tie
other a hoary headed old traitor


Tho debate in the senate Governor powcls resoln
ton very interesting ono, and senator Dixons
occasioncd by the utter increduity Of the
North about the real state Of feeling at the
south is the subject Of comment in huh
circles tonight; hut the prevailing sentiment s now
cvaywhere among the people that there has been talk
talk talk long enough, and the hour for action has ar
rived
Year: 1860

STEVENS SPEEcH.--We publish entire, this week,
the speech Of tried and able delegate to Congress
the debt of Oregon and Washington territories
We have not the To date upon its merits or his
full and perfect reutaton Of the ISLANDERS and charges
Of corruption which the third auditor thought proper
to hur against people. We have published it for
the good Of ALL For the benefit OF his many personal
and still greater number Of political friends that they
may still more be justified in the good opniops which
they entertain Of him. For his trlducers and enemies
that they may still concede to him that one good quail
ity which even they have not the conscience to deny
him-will, industry, and close application to the
duties their delegate. Therefore, we say to all
read IT, reflect upon it, and then award your agent
such tribute to his worth your individual conscences
may dictate. You cannot behold his labors in your
behalf without coming to some conclusions to his
availability-present or future-for the position to
which the democracy of the territory have elected
| him.
Year: 1860

facetiouS correspondent of the Sandusky Re
gtSter, writing from the oil region of Trumbull
county, Ohio, makes the following good chit at
the big stories which told about the oil diseov-
cries by some of the newspapers =


''I arrived here at a very late hour last night
on an oil train, and might well have come on
tram oit, were sixteen hours behind time L
learn ewing to the accumulation of oil the track
at this end of the road. The oil fries out of tho
ground and lubricates the rails for n great dis
tanee. We shouldn't have arrived here at all if
the passengers hadn't got out and sprinkled the
track with cigar ashes. | slipped out of bed-no-
body arises here: all slip into bed and Skip
out-at early hour this morning. and began my
Investigations. l found section embracing four
springs. Drilling is unnecessary here, the oil
bols up IN springs, sometimes to the height of 25
feet, and is caught in tin pals it comes down.
On a hot day, / told, it is no unusual thing to
see the women frying dough nuts in these jets of
the oil. The balls of dough dropped into the
jets, where they are tossed about like corks in a
fountain, until they fried by the heat of the
sun. The only species of tree which abounds here
is the slippery elm. These trees slippery a
paws in prepared glue, small bottle of which he
always carries suspended about his neck There
are few maple trees here, but no sugar is made.
as nothing but oil runs out when they tapped.
There is one considerable sized creek running
through Trumbull county which is all oil. 1t
discovered short time ago in singular manner.
Three boys went in bathing, and when they came
out greasy they couldn't stay in their
clothes. As fast they slipped them on. they
would slip off again and one of the lads, in heed
less moment, narrowly escaped slipping out of his
skin. On reaching home their parents being ex-
ceedingly frugal, wrung them out and extracted
fourteen gallons Of pure OIL from The three boys :"
Year: 1860

BY THOMAS HOOD.
All of you that are too fond OF wine,
Or any other stuff,
Take warning by the dismal fate
Of one Lieutenant Luff.
A sober man he might have been,
Except in one regard
He did not like SOFT WATER,
And took to drinking HARD.
Said he, "Let others fancy slops,
And talk in praise of tea,
But am no BOHEMIAN,


So do not like BoHEA.
If wines poison, so is tea
But in another shape
What 10 after whether one is killed
BY CANISTER or GRAPE Z"
According to this kind of taste,
He still INDUCED his droutb,
Aud being fond of PORT, he made
A PORT HOLE of his mouth.
A pint he easy could have slipped,
And not been out of sorts;
In GEOLOGIC phraze, the ROCK
lie split upon, was QUARTZ.
Year: 1860

TICKLE HoosIER GIRL.-The Terre Haute, In
diana, Journal tells a story of tickle Hoosier
girl who went from that State to Marshall. Illi-
nois recently, to get married, and who deservesto
stand as companion to the Mississippi girl who
married one man in the afternoon, eloped with an
other at night, and came back 10 her husband re-
pentant the next day. The girl, with her lover,
was at hotel where returned Californian was
stopping and while the lover out hunting a
preacher to marry them, the Californian saw her
name on the register and sought her out. He
proved to be old lover to whom she was once
engaged. He reproached her for deserting him.
She cried and begged for forgiveness. stormy
scene ended in her promising to break her present
engagement and go back to the arms of the Cali
fornian. Just as this arrangement was complete
the other lover returned, and was very naturally
astounded at finding another man in his place.
Explanations followed, and the girl being puzzled
as badly Macbeth between her two lovers. for
she could be happy with either, tother dear
fellow away" they withdrew to decide the matter
themselves The Californian finally resigned his
pre-emption, and the other married the girl at
once, the Californian acting as groOmsman.
Year: 1860

We think, on the whole, official swindling in
Austria is little more systematic and scien-
tific than it has become in this country. A
letter in the London Times, mentions very
curious mode by which Army contractors plum
dered the Government. They agreed to de-
liver cattle at so much head in Mantau. The
cattle were driven in at one gate and counted,
driven through the town, out at another
gate and around the city the to first gate, were
counted again. SO on until the same cat
tie had actually been counted fire times The
contractors also sold the hides but unfor-
tunately they could only deliver the hides of
one.fffh as many cattle as they had received
pay for from the Government. This is little
ahead of our City Railroad schemes but we
are young people, comparatively, and have
wonderful facility at learning.
Year: 1860

would go mad with anger. Not one of us
that would, were the veil of other peoples
opinion lifted SO that each of us would sssee
ourselves as others see us,'' or could think
himself or herself other than the most abject,
worthless being on earth except-those he OF
she hated.


Queer but substantial necessities, these lit
tie deeeits which we daily practice, to which
those oftenest resort who are the 1oudest
mouthed in condemning the great bugbear,
ssThe Hypocrisy of Society,"
Year: 1860

A NEGRO Turns WHITE.-The Eufaula, Alabama,
Spirit says that on a steamboat plying upon the
river Chattahoochee, there is old negro pilot,
whose skin has within few weeks changed its col
from ebony black to dazzling white His neck,
arms and hands have delicacy of hue not
passed by that of the most beautiful Circassian,
and his lips fresh and red cherries the rest
of his body is bleaching in the same way There
is no statute provision which will compel one to
believe this story
Year: 1860

A piece of road in Concord, Mass, which
had been in use about five years, suddenly disap-
peared few days since. 1t was laid out across
swamp, and was some six to seven rods in extent.
A man and one-horse team were at work on ii at
the time, and had a narrow escape.
Year: 1860

Iventured down to the lower deck, after
dark, that night, and made my way
through the labyrinth of freight, machin-
cry and cattle; and the men, found, were
disposed of very much like kennel of
dogs. Most of them were asleep, wherever
they could find corner or resting place
for the head; here and there is a group
gambling by the light of the furnace fires,
some stretched like wet clothes over the
hogsheads ,of,tobacco, but no sign of any
thought tofaccommodation of for them. The
contrast between the level of abandoned
men, and moaning cattle, and the splendid
luxury of the floor above-alI afloat over
the same keel and guided bY the same
helm-was, to say the least, suggestive.


we had quite French dinner, exceed
ingly high-seasoned aud suUptuous; and,
in the evening, there was. quite variety
of amusement. Two or three youug ladies
among the passengers kept the piano going
at one end of the long and brilliantly
lighted saloon, and, at the other. several
professional gamblers spread their tables,
and there were large audieOces for BOTH
To look at, the gay scene within, itiwas
hard to realize that we were, meantime,
gliding swiftly through such an untrodden
wilderness as met the eye with but step
outuponsthsd deck.
Year: 1860

, hereby guaranty tnzt in case the foregoing ha Or
- for Of thecasses tserein named he accepted he
or they S within days AFTER the receipt Of the contract AZ
the post office named designated The con
tract Tor The same with good and sufficient 5uFetss N case
sad snail fail to enter into aorssad We
guaranty make good the difference oGsr 81 the
said --a and that which may be accepted


Signatures Of two guarantors. c D.