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122 .LT.:P O S f . S0U f H I r, . FRENCH tAfcESTRY. Among the articles the French government "will send to the New Exhibition are specimens of the 'Gobelin tapestries, which are made exclusively ' by the factories of the French government. As these rare specimens of art form one of the most promi nent features of the exhibition, many will be inter ested in a brief notice of -the manufactories from which they emanate. - ' ' ' Since the days of Jan Gobelin, in 1450, the man ufacture of tapestry and carpets has made a regular progression towards the perfection which it has 'now attained. The establishment had not drawn much attention from the government till 'the time of Louis XIV., when it became so interesting a branch of French manufacture, that that monarch bought it for the state; and it has ever since re mained government property, has been supported by the government by means of a large subsidy granted each year in the budget, and, the works accomplished there are entirely at the service of the chief of the state, whoever be may be for the time being. ' "The institution has gone through as many mutations, as many seasons of- prosperity and ad versity, as the government itself. Under the repub lic the works at times ceased, and its very existence , was threatened, but the same species of national pride which sustains We. Point, sustains also this institution. " Many of the workmen are superior artists in painting, and the superintendent is gene rally one of the first painters of the day. At pres ent 120 workmen are employed on tapestry and carpets, who earn trom three to five hundred dollars a year each, and when disabled by age or. infirmity, No one is allowed to leave-after serving an ap prenticeship, and a regular number.of apprentices are admitted each year. J "- But the interest of the establishment lies in the method' in which the articles are manufactured. The web or warp is placed upright instead of hori , zontal as in most cases, and the workman sits behind n , mans, ne wonts on tue wrong siue. " ine picture which he is copying is placed behind and a little to one side of him, at which he looks from time to time, in'order that his picture in tapestry may be an exact representation of the model. The workman sits at tne back or wrong side ot Lis pieture, because J the face must present a perfectly smooth surface, ; made on the wrong side. .-The warp is white, and or tne nnest wool. - it is uouuie, mat is, nas two upright tiers of thread, with an-interval of half an .inch. Then-, with several baskets at his side," con "taining many hundred shades of colored silk and woolen thread on little, spools, the workman puts through one, "two or three threads at a time, and cuts them off, and as the 'color of theface or the object which he is forming changes, he takes another shaded thread, and so on, thread by thread, month to month,, arid year by year, till his tedious and laborious task is finished. From five to thirty -years are occupied on the larger works, on pictures, II VIII IIIV WW Itlflll lb I LI AbVllb IIIIM 111V? llt. r f C f rf ,1 rf ilia .iiianna lo' erMiitimae oo litnrtv a rnA -.Kit ouilli; JL Vll JVV.3 IO lO;llltl Oil VWC ''"hundred thousand dollars. They ai;e admired b)" manv much 'more than the orisrinal pvcture.'fio matter what may be its value ; and inferior pictures are never copied from. The tissues and the colors last for centuries. I think it can be said with safety that it is the most marvellous, the most astonishing art in its degree of perfection now known to the world, and I am sure that the mass of the Amercican people who shall have seen the very fine specimens. which it is hoped will arrive without damage at the New York fair, will verify this opinion. In tne carpet department, the process is entirely analairous. with one exception. The warp is ui right, the .carpet is always in one pi'ec, the warp is ' double, the Workman pursues his labor in the same tedious way," pufetuig in a thread at a time, but in lu-is instance Jie si is on me ngni sitiej lor me rea son that he has a velvet surface to make, and he ' must therefore cut off his woolen threads on that side. -He pitts his spool through and gives it a double turn around one of the upright threads of li a ' if o irn tltAn tufa fr iW V .ijt-l 1 1 tie fin mf'i"! fl'A m IrliVJ HI , lllli VUbl IU VIA, V l IMlj'l f.ay.. f.jtff ' the surface of the carpet regards his model, which in Yinar'Kii lioWfl t-it-jt nn nnntliv snrvnl !rf thre:i(l 4 so as to change the color, puts it through in the same way, and cuts it off as before. After he had proceeded thus a foot in width, perhaps an jnch upwards, he (Jakes a pair" of huge shears and trims the: velvety surface down to" the length, or depth rather, which he desires. All the carpets which are now in the looms of Gobelin's manufactory, are in tended for the rooms of the Empress in toe Tuile- .i 1 hi i i e " . i ries, ana ttiey an nave a na; or nail an nicijjiu depth. ' TheV are beautiful in the extreme, and far , superior to anything which can be manufactured in Persia, so long distinguished for : the softness, silkiness and ricli colorings of its carpets. All the tine carpets ot r ranee are tiuis. woven : in one piece will lait a centurv and preserve their colors. Ma- I I 1- t . t- : 1 4 4. 1. cost from 601 to 150.0.00:. francs."- uone are sold : "" , r ."-.T ' " II presents ;; the same as pictures in tapestry. Tlie largest caruet ever .made here was the one for the long room, or, as it is called, the Gallery of t ; e Louvre, which is 1,300 feet in length. As a shut tle is out of the question, and as each thread of the " "filling" has to be put through separately by the hand at tlie same time," the workman must keep his eye on the model and exercise his careful judg ment as to theiexact shade out ot many tnousands wbiclris. required, and he must, from time to time as in the tapestry, stop and walk off trom his picture, nd rpn-ard it! at a distance, and consult his fellow- .'Workmen, the reader may form some idea of the ' labor, the genius, and tue time wn.icn is required on these ereait works. On rn extent of fifteen feet , two workmen! can be employed. On a large carpet, sv thiitv bvi fiftV feet. one. workman makes tlie J J. I - . - ' . ,., : , j jarge. ngure in iiit; tauir, nunc twi uluci, uuu v11 each side of him, make the border up to the centre flower. . And there those patient men sit, day after day, month after month, and year after year, apparently without ever movingtheir iowri position or that of the! carpet; for in 'several visits which I have made recently, I find the same men in the tame place, engaged on the same flower or other object on the carpet, whe el last saw them. It would be too sjow an occupatiph for our fast coun- Everything needed for manufactory the dyeing, Kninninff! etc. is done on the premises In the - dyeing departrnent there is a greater amount tof talent and experience required, than in the work- ing of the tableaux. Many secrets are possessed here, which, are; unknown to the rest of the world. For several centuries a curious belief has been held rhv the neonld of Paris, and is still heldi that con demned critmnkls and others have been kept at this establishment, and fed on a certain kind of diet, for instance, they have been compelled to drink large quantities of wine, to eat much beef, and all such food as would establish a high degree of heat in the Mood and tnrougnouttnesystemgeneraiiy, in oruer that the secretion from the k'ulneys, which is used in large quantities, might impart peculiar and rare, dyeing quantities: that is, they converted the hu man body into a chemical laboratory for the elimina tion of a peculiar secretion by the kidneys, which jwssessea remarKaoie powers iu lucuiwig 1, and which coald be obtained in no other way. The .." tortures of the persons submitted to this interesting process are said to have been inexpressible, and i.ucn me uuri . iney were literally consumer vy '"" slow internal fire, and died in the midst of the most fearful sufferings imaginable. This u not tcue to the extent represented ir fact it is grossly exag- cr&ted, but -it mub mai cjiemico-yital expen- ments of this kind have been, and continue to be made, and that good results have been derived from them. . As an evidence of the extent to which this belief has exteneded,'we may mention, that the establish ment has received and pieserved various communi eations on this subject from individuals, which are curious enough. The following is a translation of one received during the last century. - "I am weary of life, and I am disposed, in order to terminate it, to submit myself to the regime' imposed by the dyers of Gobelins. To give you an idea of the services which I am in a condition to render to the establishment,'! tell you that I can drink in a day twenty bottles of wine, without losing my reason. If you wifftake me on trial, you can judge of ray capacity at. your leisure." It is easy to see where the fellow's ideas were running to ! . The Emperor has also included in his contribu tion more than a hundred specimens of the celebrat ed Sevres porcelain a nianufacture which, for per fection, beauty and value, as ornaments, is regarded by many as possessing as much interest as the Gobelin manufactory. It is an establishment which has belonged to government fir seventy -five years, is supported by government at a great expense tp the people, and the principal works, like those of the Gobelins, go into the palace of France, or are given away to foreign raonarchs as ppitiary pre sent9. Some of the large vases and pictures in the Emperor's contribution are worth ten thousand dollars. They are worth travelling many a mile to .see. - ... LETTER FROM GOV. MOREHEAD. . Office N. O. IJailkoad, ) ; Greensboro., June 9, 1853. J" To the EdUors of the Greensboro'' Patriot: ' I have the honor to acknowledge a conimunica- 1 tion from his Excellency, D. S. Keid, under date of 4th inst., requesting the president and directors of this company to have the surveys made -of the contemplated extensions of the North Carolina Railroad, eastward from Goldsborough to Beaufort Harbor, and jwestward from Salisbury to the Ten nessee line, according to the provisions of the act of Assembly entitled An Act to incorporate u The Atlantic and Northr Carolina Railroad Company" and." The North Carolina and Western Bail road Company" I desire to give this pleasing intelligence to the friends of these enterprises, through your valuable paper, with an assurance that the work will be commenced at as early a day as practicable. Immediately upon the receipt ot Gov. Reid's communication, I informed 'our chief Engineer, W-alter Gwynn ; 'our board meets early in July, by which time J hope we shall have a corps of Engineers, ready for the field. ' Not a moment is to ba'lost. The deep, deep regret is, that these extensions are not now in full progress of construction The giant strides of im provement around us should arouse us to action. The ignominious and pusillanimous. complaint that Nature has done so little for us, is a libel upon the old dame. Let us see" if it be not. If tlie labors and opinions of that' distinguished Ameiican citi zen, Captain Bache, of tlie U. S. Coast Survey, to whom our commerce is already so much indebted, can have an influence on ouropinions, we have at the eastern terminus of one of these extensions one of the finest harbors at Beaufort, for all commer cial purposes, on the Atlantic coat. And if the improvements at the mouth of Cape Fear shall succeed, as it is hopel they wili, we shall. have an .other port, surpassed by (ew, if any to tlie South. Then here are the ports; the latter requiring but little aid from man ; the former made and present ed by the hand of nature in its unrivalied excel lence, j But it may be asked, what commerce have we, lo require such a port as Beaufort? Let the an swer be, the commerce of the world. Look at the location of this port placed in the end of tlye -North Carolina coast, which projects like a prom . bntory into the Atlantic, midway and within sight of the great line of navigation between the North .and the South, and within thirty minutes sail of the ocean. Nature made it for a stopping place tor commerce the half way house between the North and the South, where steamers may get their supplies of anthracite, semi-bituminous and bituminous coal, so profusely scattered on either side, and, unless I am much, mistaken, under the bed of the great Central Railway, which, by this eastern extension, will connect with that port. But there are views connected with this port to which public attention has not been sufficiently di rected. Lieutenant Maury, of the Washington Otaervatory, whose services have done more f.r navigation and commerce than perhaps any other man living, addressed a communication to one. or both houses of Congress on the subject of the commerce of the Amazon, Mississippi and Gulf of Mexico. For philosophical and statesmanlike views this paper is without a rival, and should be read and studied by every American citizen. It shows very clearly tht the trade of the whole Gulf of Mexico, including its magnificent rivers, must pass out at the straits of Florida, and that some southern port must become the emporium for that coniinerce. Hcts any port the advantage that Beaufort has? But let us take a western view of these exten sions. The road running from Beaufort along the Central Railroad to the Teenessee line, and thence along the lines already in progress of construction toMemphis, will hot vary one degree from a due west course. Ex tend the same line westward (and I predict it will be done) to the city of San Francis co, which is to baegme the fireat emporium of the East Indian trade, and who can doubt that the trade of the Mississippi Valley, as well as that of " the East Indias and China will crowd our port.' This line will vary less than three degrees from a due west course. But 'to those who do not look so far from home, let us direct their- attention to what, nature has done for us at "home. We have a ge nial cjimate; navigable bays aid rivers; cascades and waterfalis ; a soil unsurpassed for fertility, and minerals exhauslless fill the earth upon which we tread their richness equalled only by the soil that tries to hide them. That we may not be ignorant of their existence, they , peep out at every step and Jook us in the face, yet we find them not. Like the lazy laborer who, with his fellows, was caught slumbering by, his employer: the latter, by way of rebuke, said he' would give a crown to know which was the laziest in the crowd. This long,.slab-sid-, ed fellow, after a great yawn and stretch, said, "here massa, give mode money;'' " here, you lazy rascal, take it," tendering him the crown. With another yawn and effort to bring his pocket in view, "do, massa, do me de favor to jest d rap it in .dat pocket !" . Like him we look upon the coal, iron and limestone in juxta-position, but as it is not forged into ploughshares and roiled into rails, we touch it not.. Gold and copper, silver and lead, nestle together in the earth ; but as, they are not melted into pigs, ingots and bars, or coined in to currency and placed in ,our pockets, we heed them not. v Nature has not done enough for us ! ! ' No, nor. never will, until she gives us MEN men4, worthy of the aje in which they live. The President and Directors of the N. C. Rail road, Messrs. Editors, will' have the surveys made, tp your corps we look to have the work done. Let the whole press of North Carolina turn their artillery upon these points, and success must follow. Onward! and take you the lead. , J. M. MOREHEAD, , President N. C. Railroad. We should act with as much energy as those who expect' everything from themselves ; and we should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everytHing frpm God.- Lacon. A Little More-Patience. Wtjat an. excellent "bit of advice for the present driving, go-ahead generation the above expression contains! It ought to be engraved on every rail-car and stage in the city it ought to raeet us at every turn, stare in the face upon every corner, and stand out in bold relief on all occasions as the mentor ot the nineteenth century. It should be raised for tho same purpose as was the brazen serpent in the wilderness- that! people imght: look and live. It would preserve more lives than all the statutory enactments that have been passed for that purpose since the days of Solon. It would save the bankruptcies, give u some. exemption at least from the explosive pow er of steam, and deliver many from the devouring waves.. There is no use expostulating. The motto of the day is go ahead." We see it in every thing . in the panting locomotives, the dashing steamers, and the swift clippers, all striving to annihilate time and space. We can see hundreds sauntering in Broadway every day, looking at the pictures in the shop-windows, or ciowds lounging about hotels, all appearing as composed as if they were never in a hurry. But let these same individuals now so quiet get on board of a rail car or a steamboat, and they would complain that the fastest were too slow. WThere this irrepressible desire for banishing distance from the vocabulary wiil end we know not, though the chances'are that all creation will some day run off the track and involve everybody in one grand catastrophe. In that event, where one of those oracles of Bunsby Wisdom, a coroner's jury, will be found to investigate the causes ot the disaster, is an interesting question for the curious. Nunneries. In Prussia, no novice can take, the veil without being first examined as to the sulfi ciency aud propriety of her motives in desiring to take this step. In Russia, no convent can receive a nun without making an application to the Synod ofMoscow, and producing an affidavit from the novice, showing that it is of her own free will and choice that she is about to enter the institution. In Bavaria, monastic vows are not allowed by law for more than three years, and the civil authorities visit all convents every quarter, not only for fiscal purposes, but in order to restore to the world and to society all nuns who may desire to relinquish the seclusion of their convents. In Austria, the inmates of conventual institutions may at any time address the civil government privately, stating their desire to leave the convents ; and such applications at once receive attention. In many of the convents of France, the vows are temporary, and the mayor of each airo'ndssement has the power of visiting any convent wheneveyer the civil authorities"of a locality think it necessary to do so. In Mexico, where the whole population is Roman Catholic,a law is established for the frequent visit ation of nunneries. During the four years prece ing 1851, the number of Roman Catholic nunner ies in England were increased by 19. The Roman Catholic Dictionary states that in 1S51 there were in England and Wales 53 establishments of that description. In 1852 the number was 62, showing an increase of 9; in 1 853, the number was an increase thirteen ; so that the number of these institutions is rapidly augmenting. There are two species of convents one of the contemplative order, and one of the active order. There are only four houses in ail England of the contemplative order. Hangman's Day. The custom of making Fri day hangman's day, is quite modern in this -country. In England, formerly, very few executions took place on ( that day. Tuesday or Saturday was generally assigned for tlie purpose. In some portions of our country, before the fe.voluiiun, the practice was the same. Saturday was more usual ly assigned for the purpose than any another dav. Richard Smith, who was convicted of the murder of Capt. Carson, was hung on a Saturday. The superstition which considers Friday unluQky, doubtless had its origin from the fact that our Saviour was crucified on that day. The belief in -the ill-omened character of Friday is spoken of by Geoffrey Vittsauf in his lament for Richard Cceu" de Leon, who was kjied on a Friday. Chaucer re fers to the same circumstance. Cooper, in one of his sea novels, tells the tale of a ship called the Fiiday, which was built on Friday, launched on Friday, and went to sea on Friday, to founder at once. Among modern Friday disasters are those of the British steamer Amazon, which left England on Friday, Jan. 2. 1852, on its first voyage, and the Birkenhead troop ship, which sailed the same day. The steamer was burned, aud almost all of the passengers perished ; the ship stranded, and several hundreds were drowned. Other vessels, which were commenced, finished, and sailed on other days, have also foundered; but their disasters, of course, were , not in consequence of ill luck in the dav chosen for important events in the vessel's history. !J . The Pope's Bull. This name, which is now applied exclusively to instruments issuing out of the Roman Chancery, is derived from the seals which were appended to them, being formerly ;of gold bullion. Bulls were not originally confined to popes done, but were also issued by emperors, princes, aishops, and great men, who, till the thirteenth century, sometimes affixed seals of meal, as well as of wax, t. edicts, charters, and other instruments, . though they were equally called Bulls, whether j they were sealed with one or the other. The popes i continue to ti e present day to affix metal or lead seats to tneir uuns, ana only wnen thev wi h to bestow any peculiar marks of grace and favor on sovereigns or princes are seals of bullion or gold affixed. The bull of Pope Clement VII., conferring the title of Defendir cf the Faith on Henry VII., had a seal of gold affixed to it. Bulls containing matter of. grace and favor, were suspended by strings of red and yellow silk ; but denuciatory and punitive bulls were hung by hempen cords. ". : Matrimony and Friendship. Sam Slick, in his "Wise Sws," says that the natur of matrimony is one thing, and the natur of friendship is another. A tall man likes a short wife ;a great talker likes a silent woman, for both cant't talk at once. A gay man likes a domestic gal for ho can leave her at once to nurse children and make pap, while he is enjoyin of himself at parties. A man that ain't any music in him likes it in his spouse, and so on. . W wiiuiiu., tv l-J "Ml bill CclCIl OLllCI S way. Now, friendship is the other way : you must like the same thiiigjin each other and be friends. A similarity of tastes, studies, pursuits, and recre ations w hat they call congenial soul ; a toper for a toper, a smoker for a smoker, a horse-racer for a horse-racer, a prize fighter for .a prize fighter, and so on. Matrimony likes contrasts ; friendship seeks its own counterparts. Kissing.-tA young lady of Wakefield, (Eng land,) rejoicing-in the name of Lucy Serle, wa3 re cently brought before the magistrate, charged with an assault though not of an aggravated nature. Miss Lucy, in open daylight and iu the open street, attempted to kiss a sutrly innkeeper of Wakefield. Her lawyer in justification of the offence quoted Burns' couplet of " If a body meet a body coming through the rye, If a body kiss a body, need a body cry ;" r and the justice admitted the plea and discharo-ed the case amidst the laughter of the 'spectators. An Irishman comparing his watch with the town clock, burst info a fit of laughter. Beino laaghed at, he replied, " And how can I help it? 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Docthit is our authorized agent for the States f Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. OUR COUNTRY. The approaching anniversary of the day on which our national independence was achieved, will be celebrated in the city of New York, our com mercial -metropolis, under novel and peculiar cir-. cumstances. The great Exhibition at the Crystal " Palace, h;is already drawn to our shores a large number' of intelhgent strangers, and attracted the attentive observation of the nations of Europe, to a much oreater degree than usual. The agitation excited by the writings of Mrs. Stowe and her pil grimage to the old world, has also had its effect in concentrating upon us the curi -us scrutiny of thousands, who would otherwise have remained in willing ignorance of all that transpires on this side of the Atlantic, his clear that we are now " the observed of all o servers," and that there never has been a recurrence of our national festival, whin our behavior and sentiments we'-e more fully ex posed to the examination and the criticisms of the rest of mankind. It is a proper occasion, therefore, for the indul gence of wholesome reflections upon 'themes of great national interest; upon the character and destiny of the American people, and the proper ob jects of our ambition. We cannot better employ the season of general festivity, than by meditating, in the midst of surrounding demonstrations of joy, upon those influences which are moulding our history, and determining for us the style and extent of our future glory. We have now reached the rank of a first rate power among civilized nations. Equal to any sov ereignty of Europe, and vastly superior to all cis Atlantic states combined, we occupy a position in the eyes of mankind, far more elevated and com manding than the most sanguine imagination ever conceived in the earlier days of the republic; and it becomes us, not only to realize our inioortance and strength, but to feel that Providence has as" signed to us a duty among nations corresponding to the great advantages we enjoy. To fullil this high and noble mission, we must not only fortify our liberties and -institutions, by wise legislation and the most prudent policy, but we must estab lish the national character and arm ouivelves with that moral influence upon which its results so ob viously depend; The success of the great, inspiring enterprise in which we are engaged, must be, meas ured as well by the noble qualities which our peo-' pie may acquire from the institutions under which they live, as by the brilliancy of our achievements or the extent of our dominion. We conquer more effectually7 by example than by arms, and should be more anxious to have our principles propagated among men, than to see our national ens-igiis wa ving in triumph over territories not our own. A restless rushing into the future is certainly a characteristic of the American people. The dis satisfaction displayed on every hand, with what we have, and what we enjoy, is well calculated to sug--gest doubts to sceptical mitkas to the real value of free institutions. Wherever we turn our eyes, whether to the aspect of social or political life, we see discontent and impatience written upon the face of the nation, and a thirst for agitation and change manifested byK every community. If free dom and congenial institutions are what they are said to be, it is natural to ask, why should not our people compose themselves to the quiet pursuit of the duties incumbent upon good citizens rnd chris tians, and to the repose secured to us by popular government and equal laws, instead of conspiring together in every imaginable form of association to agi'ate the public mind, and bring about violent changes in the -public and social condition of the country ? The prevalence of so much feverishness, certainly indicates a want of tone in the national feeling, and a deficiency of that wholesome con 8ervatism which seeks as its first object to save and secure the blessings already obtained, which are in danger of being lost, through a headlong haste to improve upon them. There is one particular turn of the Arnerican mind, which is doing more to destroy the unity of national sentiment than any other cause. .It is the propensity we have toi neglect commonljects and matters of general interest, and seize upon some solitary novelty'as the great absorbing aim of our lives. In the multitude of our isms, we are in danger of forgetting those important points in which all agree, and those corn mon principles in disseminating and confirming which all could unite. It is a glaring and mischievous ' error of the times, against which good citizens and patriots should earnestly contends. But political, party spirit, may be regarded as the worst feature of our republican system. Though not inherent in it, it seems to .be inseparable from it. But there ought to be patrio.ism enough, in both of the great parties into which our people are divided, to put an end to the extravagant violence which party rage so frequently attains, and to vin dicate the national character from those unfavorable impressions which such exhibitions create abroad. When tlie Fourth of July arrives, with its hallowed associations and glorious recollections, the names of parties should, with universal consent, be forgotten, and the great themes of ourjeoraraon glory be al lowed to awaken a general national sentiment in all classies of the people. We want more enthusi asm for the bonds that constitute our strength, and Jess zeal for those distinctions which divide and weaken us. The great day of our national birth, demands a decent and gentlemanly observance at our hands. Let us not therefore profane its hour, so sacred to liberty, by such scenes as have often been witness ed, and of which we have often 'had - reason to be ashamed. How 1 -ng shall the American fla ; wave, on occasions of ;his kind, over scenes of beastly in toxication, and of shocking profanity ? How long shall the religious part of the people be repelled from the common festival, and forced to celebrate, separately and apart, the triumphs of the common cause ? Considerations of national pride, as well as those of national safety, should recall us to our selves, and to those obvious proprieties which other nations have a right to expect," in the habits of a people who feel that Providence has made them a model for mankind. INVALID:--ISM. The "Spring season"1 is almost at hand, and soon the moneyed part of our population, who have time at their commaiwl, will be moving off on va rious lines of travel, in pursuit of health and ex ciiement, at the numerous watering, places and fashionable resorts of the Union. Newport, Sara toga, Niagara, Cape May, the Virginia Springs, Old Point, Nag's Head, and many oj-her places of I less note, will be thronged with visiters, and almost I every one of these will have some plea of ill health, some dvspepsia or rheumatism or other, to reveal to their acquaintance as the true cause of their travels. At the same time every yearu (fewer per haps now than usual, owing to the greater attrac tionsthome) numbers of our countrymen, invalid clergymen especially, are found exploring the gla ciers of Switzerland or the sands of Arabia, for the avowed purpose of invigorating their shattered constitutions, and laying in a stock of health for the ensuing winter. ) The sum or the whole is. that ill-health is a fashionable attribute of American society, and that our conversation would entirely flag, were it not for the mutual complainings with which it is invariably seasoned. The valetudinarian propensity of Americans, is becoming proverbial all over the world. The im pression exists that we are a nation of invalids; and this impression is due, in the first place, to the fact, that we are more subject than any other; civil- j ized people to those depressing diseases which attenuate the frame and subject the mind to pain- ful despondency ; and, in the second place, to another fact, that as a people we are afflicted with too much imagination,. and are too prone to foster those little conceits of ill-health which arise from that cause. - . There can be no doubt that gastric and nervous diseases prevail more extensively :u this country than in Europe. Travelers generally testify to the greater robustness of the English and the Germans, and it is said that an American, is recognized as easily by his dyspeptic look, as by anything else that can indicate his origin. It would demand too much space to inquire into the causes of this na tional infirmity, but we think it is very apparent that our hurried mode of life, our .neglect of sys tematic and cheerful exercise, and the greedy man ner in which our meals are devoured, are the prin cipal of those which a fair examination of the ub ject would lead us to recognize. It is a melan choly reflection, but true nevertheless, that very few active, hearty7, and vigorous old men are to be found in any American community. In most cases, a too ardent devotion to business, and too much exertion in the battle of life, has worn out the body', as the sword cuts its scabbard; or,' on the other hand, a torpid, unambitious spirit has allowed the physical person to degenerate into a lubberly phlegmatic mass, incapable alike of work or pleas ure. The " mens sana in corjjore sano" is seldom seen amongst us. But the tendency of the national disposition to ward hypochondriasis, is not altogether due to physical causes. There is something in the state of society that leads towards the same result. It may be traced philosophically to a variety of influ ences which cannot now be considered." Ourcoun. try is peculiar ; its past, present, and future, all differ from those of other; lands, and of course we must expect some peculiarities in the national character. This is certainly one of its most unfortunate fea tures, for imagination, long indulged, gives con firmed reality in the end, - to hose maladies which were, at first, but harmless fictions of its own inven tion. . It is much more important for us to endeavor to .get rid of this infirmity, than to investigate its origin. It is time that we should be forgetting the phantasms that have tortured us so long, and turn ing our minds to the more substantial and attrac tive objects which the interest and the glory of the country have placed before us. The individual must be more neglected, and society more regarded as the object of our care, and that for whose bene fit we are called to live.' We have a high and holy national mission to fulfil, which should more and more engage our sympathies, and stimulate our exertions. ' ' ' Panorama. We had thejdeasure of inspecting Russell Smith's interestingjPanorSraa of the Holy Land, during its exhibition in this city, and take pleasure in expressing a favorable opinion of its merits. Crowds were attracted to the Town Hall every evening during its stay in Raleigh, and all who went were highly pleased. We advise all who may ' have the opportunity, in other portions of the State, to visit the painting if they desire to see a correct and graphic representation of some of the most interesting localities mentioned in sacred history. JS& We hear deplorable accounts, of the corn crop from all quarters. The long absence of rain must make it a short one, as was tbe oats in this iegion. ' HOT WORK. Thk great Outlaw will case has bP ing many of bur citizens to the Coo it FT !t .. . . lQlUfi j ing the las two weeks, a multitude of - were examined and a vast amount of W 1 "1 onH nittenosa disolaved bv in. v.i. . -., - i.iir nr.. Q:..- 1.. . ... . DOlU BUies. no. omwii-ijr pitletl til '. . . : ii,i f .n 'e Inn, .. - - . ' it mere A, 1 this intensely hot weather, listening wit, tj commendable patience to aninvestir-lt;, 'efi"i were comueiieu. uvui icuuws. t,- -; .1 remarkable for its minuteness and ii I.... ., l . , . "-"Sid. T I mict mi prpst.innr and nmiKini,. .. . 'j 0 -yrtU ot t,e(. nation was that which related to the m of the signature.of the will. In ad litiot witnesses who testified in regard tn n 3 -10 uieij It, ledge of the handwriting of the tcL t experts were examined most searcl iivlv ? strokes, turns, and angles of the iiidividu. j and fractions of letters, and the shadows diflerent shades' of ink used in w r tiiia-ti ' - . . , o 111 - in?-, ment. It was sut.j,?cted to microscope ' . '1 L -i 1.. . 1 ' . 1 l uissecteu ,auu analysed, till language aU failed to answer the subtle distinctions Sll,r" by the questions propounded to the wituH' e tiiougiit &eeuu tunes as tlie lawyer auji' victim on the stand were navigating alotio- row and rugged channel of a sinV . j ' . 4 j , m m stream, uowu oucno, aim irom shore to ' that all the perils of a' vovaire on th M;..- would have to be encountend hpfnvo !... 1,1 - v iucv arrs 11. : t. ..... 11 . s ai tneir uestiimuou. .ai as nara rowing ar)( tugging for the poor fellows at thP oar, man at the helm allowed no respite, and druve headlong craft with persevfcring wi 1 alonTti)e,4. gerous deep.- How glad those weary and fellows must have felt, when they escarp " ii teciinicai tortures ot the aw. nn f., , 1 . .' "UU Hi!,. selves free once more from the in quisitnees tioner ! No wondej;. the ingenious gentlemen of tLe'-. are celebrated for the sharpness of tlieir They are whetted to an edge on so mam-incases. Tlhere is no intellectual exercise equ, -that partaining to their calling, for the d eV ment of the subtlest energies of the minj. '. trains them to the keenest analysis, and liable tes them to the utmost exertion of iute!lecui strength. THE MAIL ! THE MAIL ! THE iMAIL ! The administration of this department of the pa';, service grows worse and worse. . On soraeudvs? the week we get no northern mail at all, aiida: other times, when it is 'received, it is only after .v. ing in the Raleigh Post OiSce about tuckelw.r At present this mail arrives here at night bv tin Raleigh and Gaston Rail Road, and is not ojt; .'Il I - .1 1 tin aoout beven next morning. Aooiit tnew hour ' the mail for the north is closed, so iLaui business letter, arriving early one evening, can, ;; be answered in less than thirty-six hours. blame no one in particular, but surely we have 1 right and a. reason to complain, that a coiiiimira of such importance should be subjected to a drjrst f -ft 01 rnconvenience so intolerable. It is now understood that the Raleigh insist!- Company will not recede from tlieir position,; that they intend to connect regularly with the S board and Koanoke Ro.-.d at Weldaiiy aceutdingv: present. arrangement, whatever may be determin; upon by othe.r companies. It is a'so niidursu; that the express train between Peterslmrj ate Wilmington is. to be discontinued. As the ma! to be taken from the Railroad and sent to Ihiltif by stages across the country, it is obvious that: confusion will soon be worse confounded, and ik the inconveniences we now endure will be inert ed btymd endurance. It is bad enough for the people of the Capitals f North Carolina to be compelled to wait tiiUw o'clock A. M. for letters and papers received atife Post Office early the preceding evening If muttt-rs grow any worse, we hope they wi ll: refuse to subiri; to a system that treat? their interests and Labi with such unjustifiable disregard. jI5? The Emperor of Russia has gi ven the Sa tan of Turkey eight days to consider his ultima Its principal point requires, that the membe the Greek Church in Turkey shall be suljeS religious matters to the ecclesiastical authority St. Petersburg. It is hoped and believed that uSt Sultan, sustained as be is by all his; suhjecttusi by England and France, will make a successful sistance. ' jgST Mr. Godraan, the proprietor of the " SocA err Family Friend " at Columbia, S. C, offa' sale one half of his paper. ,He finds the combing duties of editor and publisher too onerous for os man, and wishes to transfer one or the oth-TS these departments to other hands. His offers serves attention. S3T The annual examination of the pr!'i6 the North Carolina Institution for the De;fa!!l Dumb and the Blind took place on Wedneaty last. Diplomas were awarded td Miss Isabel Camerox, of Fayetteville, and Miss Louisa Walker, of Guilford county, N. C.tliose t young ladies having been at the Institution sevPl years, the- period required for a complete ecu of instruction. It is said that the Chinese rebels have bees defeated before the gates of Nankin. LITERARY NOTICES. The July No. of the " Ladies' Keepsake aSD" Library " has been received. Also, the June No. of the " Westerh Hort tcral REviFv,"one of the greatest favorites, abou ' ing, as usual, in every variety of useful maiterF laming to. the subject of cultivation. There has also been laid on our table the lst a small but neat and interesting periodical, e" 1 "The Casket." It is published bi-jpont!.ly Chowan Female Collegiate Institutef! N. C, and edited by Mrs. E;DeLanceyFory, a j principal of that Institution. Besides ahoundmr appropriate literature, "it contains a circ ulur which we learn that this excellent school is enJ- a high degree of prosperity under its large corp instructors. It deserves to be regarded a n ment to the State. We are indebted to the publisher, T. B. for an unbound copy of " Clara MorelasPi novel by Emerson Bennett, which our exi represent as one of . the best productions 0 thor. 1 1
Southern Weekly Post (Raleigh, N.C.)
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