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'A- -V 2 -P" 3. fm AS Self-Adulatici-: Dying Inebriat and would have done it lon ago had we told him our needs.) oh sv to him. ni sister, that 1 0 of sterling talents ever puffs his' 1 Extensive Eevivals of Eeligion. We leara from a friend at Lumberton, that a very extensive revival of Religion has-been in progress at that place during the last" two weeks." A very large number have professed conyrsioniny of whom have united them The last Letter of the.Dnuifciid,s.7if; own genius. You never hear, him puffing off 'i his gas about his owq.iwonderfurperforman..' i I would ratHer.

my babes, my d.rling boys, should be brought iip in the poor-houseV and run tbeir risks amonff stranr-eis. than to live. in his lordly halls, and be tempted day by day to sin by loving lips and ban J. 55 ces, and tryingto create thempression that he is one ofthe jnost remarkable and-useful I shall never write you' again, L't -rae plead with you asi one from the gr ive your aid to tho work1 of' Br irks. gage; Oh, uv dear Auiv; that should lire to tell you such it tale ray pen'must tell you this roorning.Jshut my cyes.fflclaspniy cold and almost nxralvsed hands over them to excludete fearful visionjcut it will.not away.

otitis there; reality. lAniy-my sister. my geniuses, unburied. i He goes ahead and leaves a discriminating public to award him his meed Jty- of praise, or a' j'Nst condemnation if he de- more wua too tempters ia no more wjiu tlieidle.r The wholesou1 scrjin opt for ai heln rvffM can'do" haT 3 taZ3nL7Vi eerves is. some, ana iney are nopeiess iTrt ii 1 i-MJisT reuuj seem wminK inax, i iney are -r I sistercan eo eruhthee.

So hi I 'K Tr i TVednesday, Aiignsl 1853. A Positive Arrangemkat. Suhteribera receiving their papers A'lA a red mari, are- thereb notified that in four iceh from the rem eeipt of the first number thin marked Vhcir eubteripm tiom yean will expire and unleee Ineieed.Mitki that time, the paper will be dieeontinAd. TkU rule will be inflexibly adhered to. Acknowledgment To one and all of our friends who have ad ded and are still adding names to our list of subscribers, we return our sincere and grate-' ful acknowledgments.

We now are a welcome visiter to thousands of haDnvl hemes. and we hpe to gain ready accessi of other hearts and hearths. Unejnoro number," and we enter upon a now volume. Brothers, sisters: old friends with hair of snow and younger ones with manhood's promise before you we give you a hard and true grasp. "We will try and do our duty.

You do yours in your home and neighborhood, and all will be well. The Age shall bring you news of the battle, and now and then turn aside to have many a friendly chat of matters less stern. It will be our pleasure to make our acquaintance worth five times the cost of introduction. Brother Joseph B. Guthrie sends us six new subscribers to tho Age, and also gives a pleasant account of tho steadfastness and progress of the cause at May's Chapel Division, No.

176. in Chatham county. "We thank our good brother for the kind interest he has exhibited in behalf of our paper, and hope his laudable example will be imitated by hun- dreds of our friends so that we may commence our new volume with the long-coveted five thousand subscribers. If some little effort was made, they could easily bo obtained. Friends, try 1 Postponement Convention.

The Temperance Convention, proposed to be held in Wilmington on the 27th and 28th of October next, has been postponed to such period as may be thought most advantageous to the advancement of the cause. Our Wilmington friends intend sending a large delegation to the Convention that is to meet in Raleigh on the 17th of October, and leave it to that body to appoint the time for holding a similar meeting in the town of Wilmington. As an indication of the earnestness in which they have entered into the workywe learn thev have ordered 2.000 conies ofjhe Circular issued from this City, to be circulated aniongf the people in that section of the State. We hope a like spirit of interest will pervade the entire State, and that a large and enthusiastic gathering of the friends of prohibition will be assembled here, hailing and speeding the great day of Reform. Wc would again urge the friends of the measure to be active in getting up primary meetings of the people, to appoint delegates let it not be neglected, or postponed to too late a day.

4 To Correspondents. G. M. Leasburg. Your communication would have appeared, if the postage hadbeen, paid.

Correspondents must pay their postage if they would have their letters attended to. J5F We have received a Communication, from Trenton, signed "Justice," in reply to 1 1 1, 4- r. uui. ail cuuiu epriug ur, greini wueei, vuey are at least an indispensable cog or pulley in the "world's time-piece, swung in the bottomless fob of Eternity. Others, pretending to be very modest and humble themselves, get their friends to extol them as high as Saturn, and then 'smile' complacently in their sleeve' at the supposed magnitude of their calibre.

Others borrow a dolhr and fork it over to a cheated Editor, and be, like it serf, flourishes' tho trumpet for the especial behoof of his We never see an example of this species'' of self fortification but we think of a yery'modest Phrenologist, who traveled and lectured, a few years ago. It was a point in all his lectures to remark 1 there are but three good heads in America one is the head of another the head of Webster, and the thir (reaching left hand to his own forehead,) modesty Ifprbids me to men- A sian should be content to rise or fall by his own intrinsic merits if he has genius ho will shine, no matter who tries to put out his light; if he only has impudence he will fall, and get served right too 1 Joiin llfci.L tries to poke fun at Brother Jonathan, by saying he. is given up, any body; to the acquisition of more Territory and the mighty dollar, and that such are his distinctive trails and yet the Athenanim affirms there is not an old book-stall or bookshop in London whero the Americans are not reputed the best customers. If Jonathan does travel in hodden gray" he loves to put a new idea in his head every odd moment. Jl, He, who is kind to strangers, shows -thereby that he is a aoblemanrand a citizeti of ther world, and that his heart is not a rock-bound island Isolated from other lands, but a continent withih itself, pointed at and res? pectcd by God'a-Great Universe.

I 1 We extract the following remarks from the Goldsborp' New Era, and trust the suggestions made will be duly considered. We hope all friends of Temperance, whether they be favorable to legislation at present, or not, will attend, so that we may have their counsel and aid in "doing what may be considered most conducive to the great end of relieving the State of the great evils of the liquor traffic. We prudent, judicious but determined aetion The Testperaxce Circular. Among the many objects within the legitimate scope of disinterested benevolence and pure philanthropy, is that of endeavoring to suppress vice of every form and character, and to erect a throne for virtue in every heart, and on every hearth throughout our broad country. To secure this end we believe' that the suppression of the Liquor Traffic, bjr the total abrogation the License Law, is One of the most powerful auiliaries that the friend of man can call to his aid.

For this reason, and to this end, are we aTfriend to the cause of total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors, and are uncompromising to any system that legalizes or tolerates the traffic in ardent spirits. Such being our views and feelings, wo 1 gladly lend our influence and open our columns to the propagation of those principles that must necessarily lead man to happiness, contentment, and a glorious independence, The friends of. Temperance are, moving in a cause that ought to command the support and approval of every man who hates vice, or loves virtue. They propose to hold a State Temperance Convention at Raleigh, en the 17th of next to consult and deliberate on the best and most effectual means of suppressing the Liquor Traffic, and of banishing InCemperancefrom the Old North -State The mode of doing this is now the -question at issued and we hope that on this question there will be but one opinion among the of Temperance The5 friends of Legislation have put foHh a Circular" on the subject, which, in due lime, we will lay before our readers. Wo fear, however, that a movement in advance of.

public opinion is about to be taken that will prove detrimental to the cause. This we should deeply re-, grct," and the only way to avoid such a catastrophe is to hold the proposed Convention, and then determine not only en what is prop- er, but what is expedient to be done, Deliberation ought, at this time, in an especial characterise and.regulate the movement of every inan who is a friend of this great reform. And we sincerely hope that the opponents of legislation, if any, as well as Its friends will endeavor to be represented in the proposed Conventionnot, however, to wrangle and excite angry feelings, but, as brothers and men engaged in a common to concert measures for the overthrow and discomfiture of a common enemy. of the uselessness of attempting to stop selling liquor to negroes, near places of wor- Jjh'P under the existing laws, facctious- Tv remarks This is a free country, and the sale of li V. 1, Reader, that poor wreck of humanity, up-n on whose forehead is gathering tha death sweat, is all thatis left of tho once proudi ambitious and talented son of promise.

The -frenzied agony that flashes from hiseye, the piercing, heart-rending shrieks that he utters, the fiercegesticulation- and the deep horror with which he gaze" with mad dpair upon ri t. i i jrl xuo louiuv irtj vuik mm is aiive wiiu -uiu-. eous demonsj are all evidences that he is ex-r piring, racked with the agonies of that most; fe terrible disease, that offspring of intoxicating drinks the 'delirium tremenSj i The female him is the companion of hisbo-; som. Once, she was fair, gay and happy now, she is clad in tattered vesture a thin, torn shawl around- her shoulders is Jnsuffi-: cient to protect hei from the Vude cold blast. Thus transformed, she stands gazing upon the form of her dying, delirious husband, who has been the cause of- all her wretchedness and wo 1 Suddenly he.

springs into a sitting posture upon hia he is convulsed with the most agonizing terrorsearful forms float before his, vision, death in every hue surrounds him, and ten thousand demons howl in his ears; his fevered imagination pictures it all--he utters an awful oath; falls back up- on liis couch, and is dead 1 soul has gone to the eternal world, and his body fitted for the drunkard' 8 gravel i And yet the traffic through whose agency-this son of genius was slain, is an honorable one, clothed with the sanctity of Law 1 a traffic which annually drags thousands of v. our most promising sous iiuiu vuc uigu pe destal of manhood, forcing them to drink the verv drees of human miserv and degradation a traffic which blasts fond hopes, and pure aspirations, which nourishes every species of crime, and transforms man from an angel of light to demon incarnate, a traffic which hurls desolation into the fireside circle, prostrates the' family and lays waste the domestic affections! in short, a traffic which stands god-father for, a great share of the wretchedness, miseryand crime of the human race! 5 Drunken Woolen 1 1 IIeavex knows it is bad, enough to witnesi a bui it is tenfold more shocking to one's feelings to see ft woman reeling and drooling through tho streets' in a state of intoxication. To the credit of the sexf be. it spoken that, in the county, even in districts where drunkenness prevails, drunken women are not often seen, buVin largo cities where crime in every shape and hue can be seen "stalking abroad, drunken females may be found joining in the chorus of the Devil's rabble and shouting for the advent of His kingdom come! We wonder at a drunken woman, butt they have the same right to get drunk and enjoy themselves" as the bearded lord, but, thanks to their good sense and discretion they who choose to wallow in the mud are very few when compared with the number of drunken men. Perhaps there is a smaller proportion of drunken women in our country than in any other John O'Groat, in his Journal, says that on the streets of Aberdeen, Scotland, there were taken two thousand men, and five thousand women, drunk, during one year and that at one time there were forty five females crowded into one cell in the Police office for drunkenness 1 What a disgrace on the name of lovely woman!" Whiskey done it, immaculate whiskey tho boasted good creature of God" of some.

What a world this would be if for ev ery drunken man among we had two or five drunken women. A drunken daughter a drunken sister adrunken mother a drunken wife oh, horrible Horrible I Gentlemen, how would you like to be banged over the head vith the tongs or quilting frames for not sitting up till one o'clock at night awaiting the return of your drunken spouse from the low doggery How would you MARTry, the Reformer, threw his ink-pot at the Devil, history saith, and served him right toot ZNo threats or difficulties appalled he was a Mah, His iron nerve did not tremble when his enemies roared in his path. The rack and the blood clotted block looked omnious at but he resolved to go there though there be. as many devils in town as tiles on the house roofs. -He went- and with a giant soul that knew ho fear he faced the storm of Iniquity and Papal Despotism trembled and shook to its corner stone.

There are but few Martins in these latter days hundreds there be'riow, and it's a great pity, who have principles of moral right imbued in their bosoms, and yet fear to defend them openly lest they, loso popularity. All such are slaves. Childhood is Life's mirror, catching and reflecting every object that falls around it. An unpious, profane, impure, vulgar thought may operate upon the tender sensibilities "of a young heart like mildew falling upon a pol ished steel, the rust of which Time cannot eflace, but only grows deeper and blacker. A Novel Idea.

The Legislature of Pennsylvania has, among other projects, a bill for an incorporation to raise chickens. That's the kind I We go in for chickens. Budget. The. capital of this company, we understand, consists iu five dozen ShangMis, sixteen pairs of Cochin Chinas, a sprinkling oiBantys, and ten bushels of eggs.

Ex Paper. i We suppose the will do the "settin." Hearts, the stoutest, sometimes' grow faint and weary in the sea voyage of Life, and tire in struggling with the unresting tide on the great Ocean of Time. Xsenthnentol young man fell in Love the 0.the.dyteJ"fell-inta reverie, cue was taiten out immediately, and hopes are entertained for his recovery, We are authorized by J)T John LTy Walsh to 'offer his Sermon, entitled The Biblo" Standard of Temper'ancefor sale ai ithe low. rates of $8 per. hundred 50 copies for $Wr 23 for $2.

It is a "most admirable and triumphant Biblical argument in behalf pf the temperance cause, and ought to be widely disseminated. For sale at this office selves with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, ly every place have joined-tnd the uajroffiddVn 6 AT dancing, have trust. forevcK Bless the Lord for these manifestations of Bis gracious loving kindness and mereyVsV JCST" In' this connection, we may take oc casion to remark, that we had the' pleasure "of attending the Camp Meeting at Plank Chapel, in Franklin county, last week. I Several distinguished Divines were in attendance, and considerable feeling and interest, on the subject of Religion, was manifested by the largo congregations in attendance. Upwards of fifty professed conversion; and some forty others were enquiring the way to Zion.

We have never seen gathered together a larger concourse on a similar occasion." Tent-holders were fully equal to the demand made upon their generosity all were assiduously attended to and provided for and we feel under special obligations for the marked courtesy tee received. We have never seen a more sedate and well-behaved company, or a more array of ladies. counties Vere represented The Liqnor Seller. Some persons are in the haBit of blaming the liquor, seller for all the evils of intemperance. Heaven knows they have a fearful account to answer for, but all the blame is not at their dqor nor upon the Legislature which refused to listen to the remonstrances and petitions of the people but tou are to blame, reader, if by your vote you aid in putting men in office who are opposed to reform.

In a word, if you do not help to defeat the men who would perpetuate this infamous system upon community, blame no one but yourself if you find your children, kindred and friends slain at voir side by the ruthless destroyer. God and Humanity hold you responsible. Questions on the Liqnor Traffic. The Editor of the South Carolina Temperance Advocate puts the following pungent questions relative to the effects of the liquor traffic upon the public welfare Is the liquor traffic right? Has it benefittedthe world lias it ever aided in the erection of a single church school-house, college, or even hos pital, for the reception of the myriad of vic tims which this relentless curse has bequeathed to the world for its support Has it aided iii any shape towards the construction of public or benevolent enterprises? Is not the traffic wrong all -wrong Has it not injured the world in millions of cases Does it not people our jails and penitentiaries with scores and hundreds of miserable victims whose hands and hearts are steeped in crimes of the deepest dye Has humanity not been made to sicken at the sqaUidJvant and depraved human nature eking out miserable and burdened existences? Does this system of legalized wholesale de struction of human life and property support itself? Are not the people the sovereign, independent people taxed for its support We answer, they are! and can sustain the asertion by thousands of indubitable proofs. Are not drunkards made by the traffic Ought the liquor seller to have special and reserved rights guarantied by the laws of the land, which injure all other classes of more useful and quiet citizens Why not stop the selling of ardent spirits, since it is manifest that almost all our social and political troubles are occasioned thereby? Will you vote for or against legalized wholesale mischief? Let every free white man answer these cide upon the course he should pursue.

Who wants the Prohibitory Law The inebriate wants it he often sighs for the deliverance which it offers. His afflicted wife and wretched children want it. It would be to them life from tho dead. The tax-payer wants it, to relieve him from thef unjust demand upon his purse, for the support of the rumseller's victims. The ministers of religion want it, to remove one of the most fatal hindrances to the success of our religion.

The Christian and Philanthropist want it, to dry up one of the most prolific fountains of misery and crime. jggf Dr. Carson, President of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, at a late meeting, de clared it sis his opinion, that liquors, wine and malt beverages were never necessary in the treatment of any affection whatever, and ufrat there were no cases in which substancesj i p' ii 1 equally efficacious could not be found Thus testimony multiplies in the establish ment of this fact. "Ercry day we see men reeling along our streets, around some of whom cling warut affections, and before all of whom is an eternal destiny." Ex. paper.

How much of the heart-crushing histor' of Intemperance, remarks the Cayuga Chief the tallest warrior in the Temperance army-is there in the abovft brief sentence Every drunkard has family or kindred. There are fe'W who have not some to love them; to weep over them and to suffer with them. There is many a strong bond which-binds them to. the living, and many a link which is rudely broken when they go down to premature graves; God only knows the floods -of bitter, tears which have fallen upon their last resting They, were all somebody's sons," said the angel woman who wept when the warrior ho drunk-r dead were borne by her door. ards thathave fallen before the destroyer were all- somebody's sons Merciful God I how many mothers have been robbed of their children and their aged hearts filled with unut-terable woe 1 (- -t Commodore Shubrick's Despatches by Mr.

Paulding, of the Fulton, represent the con dition of the fishing ground' squadron, and! the apparent aspect of affairs in that quarter, in a very favorable light we apprehend. Our Correspondent writes-' Near-youngflady and geitlerlan rVthe I i wealth uj Jomihenthoi arni of womo'n who are already, luarshalcd to hght the moral battle for humanity Woman must dothe work; man is too busy; he "has wealth'to make, fame' to" gain, honor to 00- How can be stop to save, did 1 say 7 no is puiung aown inaKing goiu inrougu. fersxwitKrgoId coined' from strong men's' hearts, wives' tears, and orphans wails. Let woman uie worK, nor stay ucr nanu tin the monster 6in is crushed beneath the iron hoof of law. Farewell lean write no more.

God pre- serve thee, is the dying prayer of EM1L.1 wrote Uhe dtine wife over the corpse of her husband and is there but one such' case in this goodly land is there but one father leading bit- cbilderen to ruin one easy mother, making no effort for her 'loved ones but one sister Amy lajughing to scorn those who would save the weak or wavering from destruction. WeTuiow there are thousands, and we trust this record of truth may reaeh their hearts. Beautiful HlustratiQiL Rev. Mr. Wiilets, of Philadelphia; in ill us-' trating the blessedness of cultivating a liberal spirit uses this figure: says, 'that little fountain yonder away, yonder in the mountain, shining like a thread tif silver through the thick sc5, and arkling like a diamond in its heaithtnl activrty.

It is hurrying on with tinkling feet to' beuf its tribute. to" jthe river. See, it passes a stagnant pool, and the poo), bails its 'Whither away, master stream et going to the river to bear this cup of water God has ine. r'Ah, ywi arc very foolish for that you'll aecd itbefbre the summer's over. It has been a backward spring, and we shall have a hot summer to pay for it -you.

will dryjup said the am to die so soon, I had better work while life lasts. IfT aiu likely to lose this treasure from the beat, I had better do good witli it while I have So on it went, blessing and rejoicing in its eowisse. tlie poel eoailod teoenplacently at it own husicanded all its resources, leting not a drop steal away. Soon the mid-summer heat came down, and it fell upon the little stream. But the trees erow-ded to its brink and threiTiOut their shelte ing branches over it in the day of adversity; for at, brought Tefresruaeiit nd life tothesu and the sun treepeS through the branches and smiled complacently pm its dimpled face, and seemed to uIt' not in my heart to harm And the birds sipped its silver tide, -and sung praises; the powers breathed their perfume upon its lepom; the beasts of tine eld loved to linger near its banks, tiic husbandman's eye always spart- led with joy, as be leefcet upun the line vendrant beauty thatanarfced ktcourse throogli kis fields and meadows; aiwL; so on- it went, blessing And felessod cf aJil Aud where was the pradent pool? Alas in its inglorious inactivity, it grew sickly xwl pestilential.

The beasts of the field put their lips to it, but turned awajwitlioutdrinliitg; the breeze stopped and seod it by intnieif, bat shrunk chilled away. It caught the malaria in the contact, and carried the ague through the region, md the inh abiiM eaugbt it and to juove avraj; and at last the very frogs cast their vonom upon th pool and deserted it, and heaven in nary to man smote it with a hotter breath and. dried it up. 'But dkl uot the little stneam exhaust "it el? Oh, rw! God aw Ao that it enjiet its full cu the.rivar nd the river br it an to the sea, and the.oa -ekouied it, asui the sun smiled upon the saea, and the seasean up its incense to greet the and the cloaaKis! caught in their capacions bosoms the incenses from the sea, and the wkais, like wahiag eaaght the chariots of the clouds and hone thea awayaway to the mountain that gave the little fountain birth, and, there they tipped the brimming cup, -aad poured the grateful bantism down and God it, that the'little fountain, though it gaves fully aud-d froely, never ran dry. And if God so WesH the furastain, will ho not Mess you, my friends, if 'as ye have freely received, also freely givei Be assured he Touching Case of Conjuil Affection.

A touching case, illustrative of canjual love, occurred at Memphis, Tenu a. few days since. A man and his wife were coming up the rirer, when tke husband took sick and was supposed to hare died. When they arrived at that city, tho-wife had a coffin purchased, and her husband was deposited in that last home of the dead. Just before the moment of closing the coffin, however, and the final interment of the deceased, the bereaved and agonised wife insisted upon once more looking upon, and the cold remains )f tliedeeeased partaer of her, bosom Whether it was her warm embrace or return-lag consciousness; eertain it is that the supposed-corpse suddenly cvineed signs of life and he proper restoratives being applied, within twenty-four hours the invalid was enabled td preeeci on his journey, with every prospect of a spoedy recovery, owing his life to the untiring devotion and lore of his true and faithful wife- i Air Unlucki Califorxiav.

A letter from California relates many peculiar sights and incidents, one of which is abouta rich voung man having to turn tcatlierwomai. "1 bare met a young man who at home moved in the best circles of society, and is a gentleman every inch of him, failing to make anything in the mines, went into a certain town, and actually hiok in washing, and cleansed, for his bread, the filthy garments of those who, at home, he would not acknowledge as acquaintances. It was an amusing sight to see him at the wash tub, soaking and scrubbing the dirty linen of his motley patrons, swearing at his fully and upbraiding his luck." A Man Nine Feet A giant, nearly nine feet in height, is shortly expected to arrive tn Madrid. He is a native of Lachar, in the province of and is only.twen-' ty-three. years of age.

He eats as much as five men, walks with extreme rapidity, and has been twice married, but both his wives are dead. His object in visiting Madrid is to demand the hand of a female of great beaut v. who keens a coffee' house, i He isdfv scribed as so "great a cowaroV that he will aW low a -child to ill-treat him." 'Washington Items.Wc copy the follow- ing items from the Washington City'StarT anataaie.nrom tetters received here from St. it appears that Colonel Ben-' ton's friends inMissouri are already prepar-vi ing to ringhimout forthe Presidency in 1856 against all parties and' all conventions'' Post office route Ageia: Patrick Mc-Gowan7Jof Raleigh C.t vice II. If.

Pot-' ter, removodt on railroad route between Hal-'-eigh N. and Hicks ford Va. 3, art now, even "now; lifting sparkling to-the brim; with hope and love Yes; even must do it. Hard and thankless as -is' the task, it will be mcrekmdJydoneLj my band, than lovo will poften 'every word and. sorrow and deep piy: veil; every A -Amy, William is -dead th lo ved and loving brother: wy loved, aud i loving? hus band is' dead.

Even now while 1 write these fearful words, the long wLito sheet yon corner, hides away frorajrmy, sight, the manly form, the fair broad brow and laughing lip of William. Oh God that this were all that I could tell you that a fever had wasted him, that consumption had gnawed away his vitals, that the murderer had struck him in the dark. Bat alas I no I none 'of these forms of came to him, to rob the monster of his appalling fonii' I must still my throbbing heart and wipe the cold sweat of agbny from my brow, and tell you all, aye tell you all, not to wound bu to warn, lest those who are now growing up to manhood, in the fine paths he trod, may reach the final goal of life ereaas he. You kaow, dear we were married, five years ago (Oh that fatal yesterday) William stood rthwitli eroWd as tho emhodimeut of aohle manhood. ust returned from his long tour ofcollegiate eUdy, 'let loosed as lie ifixpresed fit, in the great pasture of life.

Lie was the gayest of lie gay. lie tola 'us that evening, wita a prooq. look, that during his eight fyearsstudy; be had not drank -one drop of ardent spirits or 'wine. He had made the resolve, to 'touch not, taste not, handle till tine completion of fits istudiee; till he was old enoitgk to ecstrol tiimself, till his habite were forad; anr da you rememberfit, Amy, oil! do yau remcui ber'it, ere I had been: ten minutes a bride, his father brought him the wine-cup; and pledged him in a sparkling glass 'to his new wife Ah, how I trembled and shrank from that father rst kiss, how my heartBisgare tnej how it ihobbed rhen 1 vw WiVAnri, my adored Williaac, yielding to a temjjBtation.follQwing a father's exaraplej and grasping without.a8eeniihg thouglii h-- tents of that cup. -r 4 -1 'Nonsense, nonsense, Em ily said our: father1, when I tfWifrtly whispered, i'J6rit Wil-liam, you have persevered so long, don'tcom-mehce pow, but rather renew ypurcovenant, aind resolve never to5 dciftk eveja wiive, OiTon-senHQ, Emily; a Uttle wide woiift iiurt kivifc I Relieve in temperance 'as much as' any one, bat this 'sparkling Catawba' won't hurt a la-, dy.

Come, you mustnotj teach him any of jour squeGimxh I knew the that tbe-feparkling Cawiba had 'worked eft tl to my husband's he would hevethave spoken thus to in e. He, the kind, the generous, polite5 a.k.d dignified, to talk to me then of being squeamish. knew well that there was' a devil in tho cup even of 'sparkling Again, and again Williaai wits pressed to drmk. This was the first step. iWe'cime West came to a city where all men, asjt where, indulged in wina.

My husband felt himself strong to resist jtcmptatian; Jlis table could not be set without wine. Uow couldba teSase to others what was always offered to Thu, Amy, itwas that he fell. Not in those haunts of wickedness where the low and beastly bow themcelves iotoihe dust ia seasealteni; sot by the wicked depraved into sin jind shame but by his own? fireside, at the. altar of home, with his wife and children Aroiind him, nis little ones stretching their rarmb to embrace him, and his wife pleading ven lovingly against his- did go down to led by a father's hand, dared iby father's ckample. Kear year fee grew worse, tHl, unwilliag thatl should ee Biinv drink, he learned to tarry iat the oce, the hotel, the club roon, into the weary watches of the night; audthen he grew eold and Itard, and shall I say itto thoe, Ajacy trntal.

His bloated cheek, his red rimmed his distorted face, told every passer-by tho tale. Business forsook him; friends forsook him; virtue, religion, Dianliness forsook hi mi. Uuw ouild they iacry with 4Je druak- J'y Xl 4 Months ago, fhe pl rlt of WUTiam djed-Yesterday the breath left his suffering body And he' is dead. -Oh! doublydead to us. Vott-will remem brhQxTfis minded, noUe br-other tho embodiment of all that was good and manly.

I must remember 2aim as the dying raaaiac ishrieking In hisuzony, and fighting with a madman's fury witn legions ofipvils. Ilcmeniler him with glaring and-bloodshot jejes, witli foaming mouth-, uttering erofi and groaes and 'deafening, 1 I mustremember him as themu'r Aerer of our it was his baud thsft-in -a moment dealt the fatai hlow tlist jpreerBita-ted'nlm'down the long flight of stairs, which fall, yf ended his life.f Spare me, oh Emily, spare mo hear you cry; 'why hasreii yoa told "me all this Why, if my brin ther is gone, you blight his memory th In pity let mo rememer the good ml the noble Have you! ttbaght of tho a-gony thatJbbis recital will give his i grey haired mother, or of the pangs that will grieve, his father's soul, of his young brothers' and sisters just bursting into -womanhood Cauld you B.ot have spared us this recital, thrown the mantle of charity orr the errors of a jdead tuisband i Gladly would I have spared yoit "oil ttVy sister, my mother, fatlier and my brothers. Crladly would I have hid his sia in ray own heart, and locked them in the casket of love A3 strong as woman's heart e'er knew. But a stern duty said no. His father still orders the wiae to be placed befons his -guest, with his own hand he filktke tempting glass for his son.

His mother smiles complacently and makes no effort, and Amy, my sister Amy nnd.h'er ioverj pip the dainty weir coyly from the same! glass. Amyaadker lover, he pure and good and strong but not purer or stronger thaa, wasvWilliam-in thei UtlJ 9 jaiuj cmJkVfc yv uiuif viiu will do you 'good never mind Emily she belongs to the fanatics who preaeh that every man who wants a glass now and then for exhilaration, must become a drunkard forsooth, somehow, vulgar wretcht hisi fallen in a riot housjpS Nevectawbmaniuleyou, Willr Oh by lhat disfigured eorpse beneath yon winding by the agony -of the tearless wife, (no tears have soothed me since he died) by tho cries of orphaned children," who now ist' depend oa charity lor bread, let mo implore you. Amy, to -take -your stand against the' destroyer, Save your younger brothers the fearful doom; savo you lover if it be not too late; save your father. 'Twos for thia and this only have penned these lines; Tor this that I have laid-open deeb' and incurable wounds of my peart, in their hideous deformation; To-morrow they may lay him by his son in the poor-house churchyarof. There I shall soon follow him, for poverty, shame and abuse have done their work.

I did not drink the dark waters of death hut 'ho who was dearer to me than my own life drank them, and they have killed me. If our father, cares for the children; (I know he will -fchrr over the signature of ijMuestiqns without bias or prejudice, and de lished inourcolumns on the 27th ult. do not deem it at all necessary to insert? the article from Justice," from the fact that we are clearly and strongly under thempress-ion that the writer entirely misanpvehends the spirit and motive of his article. We firmly believe he intentLd a well-deserved compliment to the Sherif of Jones county, for the manly course he pursued in arresting an infuriated inebriate. Had we believed any ironical or unkind allusion was intended, we should not have published it and- we are still of the opinion nojsueh motive influenced the writer of Trtth." It gives us much pleasure, however, to learn from Justice," that the licensed liquor dealer," referred to by "Truth" is not member of the Methodist Church, as was asserted.

He has been, we understand, but such is not the case "Justice" is ctrr- rcct in saying that wa Church has rinng'py it ii i for the Temperance reform than the Method dist to their high praise be it spoken anl a liquor selling Methodist is almost au ano-mally, rarely to be-found. There at a few however, and we believed Truth" intended a merited rebuke to the instance existing (as he doubtless thought) in None will, we believe, be more glad to liarn than Truth," that the liquor seller in, Trenton, is no Methodist now. A We are requested to state that, the Editor of the Wednesday Messenger, published at Hillsyille, Carroll county is In need of hands. Two or three good, steadr Printers can procure employment, at the Kaleigh prices. T7- Texas Lands jlsd Debts.

Those having 1 Tate in our columns. Business entrusted to.their.care. will beaithfully and promptly attended to. f. Superior The Judges of the" Superior "Courts IfavO allotted the Circuits 1 among as follows, viz: Edenton, udge Ellis Newbern, Bailey jHillsboroV Saunders Wilmington, Settle Salisbury, Dick Morganton, Caldwell.

quor a lawful business spirits are necessary to health as' much at church as anywhere else. What right has any man or set of men to" interpose an edict to the use of that 'which is legal, rightproper, and indispensaUe. It is; true, thepractice is very corrupting to the negro population, but to put it entirely out of their reach, and the reach of those who en- courage them would bo unconstitutional and inexpedient--don't you sec r-'- The Noith Carolina.Democrat".ha$ passed into the hands of Messrs. N. JJ and 3Ij -Palmer and its place of publication changed fronv Yancey villa to Milton.

It is quite a crodiblo sheet in appearance and editorial ability We learn from the Democrat that the prevailing reports of the unhenlthi-, ness of Milton have b'een greatly exagerated, and that thp few casejof that now- o. occur are mild and We unite with our City cotempora--ries in expressing the hope that some steps' will be taken "in aid the sufferers at New Orleans vji However little the amount, it wilt be gratefully appreciated, and the no- ble Howard I Association. will make good use', of it. jThe Northern cities have done well -the generous South must, not ho behind- Lot something be done, delay,.