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1 Y F 0 142 u I -mm mm it ,t?: r : M ill! 'mi Mil ;r it - . - iu ii sit i METROPOLITAN CORRESPONDENCE. LETTER XI. New York, July 25th, 1853. Sighs in' the East Russia 'and Turkey Austrian move ment A contrast suggested The Ocean Telegraph What will come to pass Progress in the Palace Prob able time of completion Character of the Exhibition A - ludicrous work Too much of certain good things Ital ! ian xtatuary German statuary Objects in the naves of the Palace Genin's Show-case Life boats Bells Work laid out, j - . ! ; Mr Dear Post: I intend to devote the greater part of this letter to the drystal Palace, but before I resume my description of the wonders collected within its spacious halls, I must refer to a subject strikingly in contrast with it, and 'one which at the present time has a significance of more than orJi- nary import, jl allude to the indications of 'war in the East. The signs of the times have been ominous of troubles for some time past. Ithjas been a fact -too palpable for disguise, that Russia would gladly find a plausible pretext for an attack jpon Turkevv: Nor is her taste at all a matter of surprizewhen the appetizing nature of the morsel -hrayeVHL considered. i' Russia is lolitic. bowev- er, and moves cautiously to 'her endsT" While the public mind is excited with the order of the Rus sian Autqcrat for the military occupancy of Molda ia, as the first stepm the grand military ball, the Arctic brings word that Austsja takes the occasion of impending danger to Turkey, to press her de roands upon that, country, so recently declined to , the diplomacy of Count de Leinineren. The news - - J . .is certainly startling and ominous ; for it leaves no room for doubt as to the position the Czar will occu- - py in the' quarrel between the Autocrat and the Sul. ' tjan. I am not di posed to pursue this subject, in its possible bearings and consequences for specula tions must soon give, wayto facts, and it is not an easy matter '-though many seem, to think it is to predict the issue of such conflicts as that which 6eems to be at hand hi Europe. . I stated in the commencement of my letter that this subject was in striking contrast to the theme I should chiefly discuss in this letter. Here, in the new world, we have congregated within a grand temple of Peace, people from numerous climes, speaking various languages-, and all united in the noble endeavor to set forth the fruits and favors which Peace bestows upon the world. It seerm impossible to us, as we tread the floors of the Crystal Palace, passing peacefully from the Austrian department into that " where Turkey is represented, that at this moment, pjerhaps, the two powers are in deadly strife, and that the consequence may befatal to the peace of Europe the various nations of which are now so fraternally united in our jubilee of industry and art. There is another topic of popular interest connect ed with the old world, to which I must make a brief reference. It is the probability of the speedy establishment of telegraphic communication be tween Europe' and America. I have named Europe first, because it is from the shores of the old world that this mighty cable of wire is to be stretched towards those of the new. England has taken the start .of us in this grand endeavor, and she never talks without at the same time acting. It is yow determined that a telegraphic cable shall be stietch ed across the Atlantic from "Gakvay in Ireland, to : Halifax in the western world a distance of about J sixteen hundred miles! Various estimates have ' been made by responsible houses in England, for the accomplishment of the great work; and it will be done, perhaps, within a year from this date. ' Then, will our breakfast tables be enlivened by the intelligence .of what took place the previous day in London, in Paris, and even, perhaps, in St. Peters burgh. .The debates in Parliament, will be as fresh to us, as the speeches in our own Congress. It is supposed that the. total weight of the telegraphic I cable to be sunk between Galway and Halifax, will : not fall much short of two thousand tons, and if constructed upon the same scale with that across the British Channel, (from Dover to Calais) ;it would exceed in weight twelve thousand tons! Let us leave for a while, the rumors of war, and the feats of lightning, to traverse some of the walks of the Crystal Palace. A w-eek has made great . changes in the tout ensemble of its interior. A -hundred new objects present themselves in every . section: Whole squares, vacant a week ago, are . now decorated and gay with beautiful objects, or grave with the appliances of labor and seienee.--The British department is rapidly emerging from chaos into order and splendor. So is it with the Zollvereyi, just opposite. The. British colonies have opened extensively. France, and Austria, and Italv have all multiolied-their attractions: and the Exhibition is fast assuming the appearauce of a magnificent completeness. ' The chief delay will be in the Machine Arcade, and in the beautiful, gallery above it, devoted to the Fine Arts; but even these are progressing with a most hopeful rapidity. The floor of the Arcade is now being laid, and alreadyjsome of the engines ' and machines are taking Uheir places. In a fort night, the work will.be, if not absolutely complete, yet so far done as to enable the directors to say with pride,. " Behold our umple, and its thousand monuments of industry and art and genius !:' . Do not suffex yourself to be misled by the cap " trous criticisms of some newspapers, as to the real merits of the Exhibition. I have no hesitation in saying that the American .people may be justly pjro'ud of it in almost every respect. It is not dif ficult: to find : objects of sarcasm in the Crystal Palace. I have myself, laughed heartily at the . piaster '-group representing the genius, of Ameri cawhich occupies a prominent place in the East Nave. It is such as to excite the risible faculties . of.Death.himseJfj, Most cordially do I wish" that some unlucky mischance would occur to break it into fragments, so small that human ingenuity could no more, repair it than in the famous, fable of nur- scry days . " All tlie King's horses and all the King's me i Could ever put humpty dumpty together again." ! , ; I can also enjoy a ffood humored chuckle over the lare amount: of American genius expended upon Soap tor uring it into all manner of shapes and aspects now into a bust of Washington, anon into a transparent window of iffm-stained glass ; and airain, into the semblance of peaches and ' plums! T do hot, any more than the ill-natured critics, affect, pvratnid 8 of blacking boxes ; or pago Has of bottles of hair dve; or hectacombs of bones in . the shape of teeth ; or the interiors of miljiner's shops ; or a dozen other excesses of which exhibi tors have been guilty but I cannot discover in these, any cause of serious reproach against the ge nius of the Crystal Palace, which I do, and must maintain is lofty, comprehensive and admirable ! Of jwhat shall I write ? Shall I tell you of the whitef statuary : of Italy, which gleams from green pedestals, all along the" naves and passages qf the Palace? They are attractive, both in number and in merit. A fine statue of Columbus is among the more prominent. There are Venuses of various . name, Cupids more than I h ave cou nted. Drunken , : Bacchus, and then, an exquisite figure representing 44 Faith," suggest to the observer straifge "contrasts. A beautiful work is Hat of Hagar and Ishmaerin the desert; and another, worthy to be admired, represents Tell and his child, at "the moment when he has transfixed the apple with his arrow, and fas tened it to a neighboring tree. A Flora del Cam- pidqylia (Flora of the Capitol) challenges admira tion, as does also a statue of " Eve after her. trans gression.", "Cupid and Psyche," and a weeping ? Madonna," are among the noticeable works. There are some remarkably fine heads among them Copernicus, Shakspeare and Dante; besides numerous mythological busts of noble conception. Several exquisite works, illustrative of childhood aud youth, Very naturally attract the gaze of the visiter. There are sleeping children in marble, over whose forms one feels almost contrained to hush his breathing, lest it should disturb the so-natural repose. There are childish forms, too, in the exu berance of life and in the beauty of action. A case of Cupids is not only a curiosity, but a work of much merit. sTbey are chiselled from a single block. The' Veiled Statues , of Monti, are curious specirdens of artT . They are figures, the faces of which appear to be covered with folds of such absolute transparency, that the features are in no wise con cealed. There are two or three of these veiled figures in the Palace. I must pass over without special mention, nu merous allegorical and imaginative works, of vari ous degrees of merit. No country of course, equals Italy in the number of works contributed 'to the Exhibition. Germany sends but few statues, but they are chiefly admirable. I have already named, the bronze group of Professor Kiss :the Amazon. There is another work,' in marble, which I will name. It is the Minstrel's Curse a free and beau tiful era bodiraenlL.ofhjirit of Upland's fine poem. Conspicuous: in the Western nave , are some fine castings in iron bronze, of dogs and deer, from the Netherlands. ;In the South Nave there-is a jnagnificent Warwick; vase, in marblje, upon an elaborate pedestal. I shall mention other works of art in marble and bronze as they occur to my mind, or arrest my eye from time to time. ' The most conspicuous object in the North Nave is Genin's show-case a little palace of glass, and gold leaf all to itself ornamented by a score of golded eagles, and surmounted by a huge globe !. In the case are tastefully arranged the richest of furs and robes, embroidered mantillas, dainty shoes, costly hats, and in short, all the luxuries of a grand toilette. The smiling faces of the Wax children, who inhabit the glass case, seem to be quite a greater attraction to the masses than "the Psyches, and Shepherdesses and Cupids in, marble around it. I have not-ventured yet within the precincts of a single court ; nor shall I dare to do so n this letter. And why should I, when the naves have yet a score of objects demanding mention I Is there not the curiously carved Shamrock Table, from the Emerald Isle, constructed of thirteen rare Irish woods ? Are there not the sweet-toned bells of Meneely a whole gamut of them in. their iron turret ? Are there not the rival life-boats of Ray mond and Francis that of the latter having appa rently the capacity of a small ship, and competent to save hundreds from a watery grave? Is there not the grand side-stroke-fire engineradiant with polished steel and brass and silver, and gay with elaborate paintings? And. the christening fonts are they not worthy of mention standing as they do, near the threshhold both of the Palace and of life itself? ' . I have yet to mention, among the objects in the naves, a set of four beautiful bells from Constance, in Germany. They are inscribed with scriptural mottos, in the Teutonic character, which, however, is Dutch to the multitude! There w ill doubtless be various other walks placed in the great avenues of the Palace, as the foreign contributors comein. It is not, however, the inten tion of those who direct these matters to obstruct the passages, or in any way to crowd objects to the injury of their legitimate effect. -In my nextr I will enter the great sections of the Palace, and glance at the various contributions of4" the different countries who occupy them, in the-order observed in the official catalogue. There will be found much to elicit the admiration, and to repay the attention of the visiter. Hoping that many of your readers will come and see for. themselves, I must now subscribe myself theirs and yours, COSMOS. For the Southern Weekly Post. OLD AGE. The majestic monarch' of the forest becomes old. Though possessed of giant strength, it, too, must yield to the power of unrelenting time. The roots decay the leaves fade; the boughs fall off and the mighty fabric gradually moulders into the dust. So it is with man. He too must became old. No mortal power, no human skill can pre vent it. Of whatever country he. may be of whatever occupation in life whether minister of State or herald of the Cros whether citizen or outlaw- bond or free--all must yield to time. As old age comes on the vigor of youth departs, the sight becomes dim, the hearing . defective and the other senses likewise fail, thus leaving ma.n is olated as regards the external world. But there are consequences far more lamentable than these. The mind itself becomes enfeebled, and the mental powers, as if in sympathy with the physical, lose their activity aW become torpid. The memory, that great connecting link be tween the present and the past, fails. Then, in--deed, man's state is "truly to be pitied; debarred from all communion with the world and having the great lights of the mind darkened,- How ne cessary is it then, when our blood is warm and our nerves are strong, so to moderate our desires and regulate our passions, as to produce a calm sereni ty of mind and a quiet cheerfulness of disposition in old age, thus robbing it of half its miseries and . imparting to it joys unknown to youth.' How necessary it is to spend our youth in the pursuit of knowledge, and our time in the attempt to better the condition of. fallen humanity, so that, standing on the mount of hoary age, we may look with pleasure upon our deeds done in the green valley of youth, and; with joy anticipate the bliss ful immortality reserved for us iu the world to come. - Jcliak. A Bible Class' on a IArge Scale. We learn that a very important movement has-been made by the young men of our city, who are connected with the "Boston Young Men's Christian Associ atbn." Within, a few weeks they have organized themselves into a large class,-with a board of gov ernment, a secretary, and a leader, from their own members, and are now procuring books, maps, fec, for their especial use as a class. Their object is the study of thj Bible. And they propose to extend their investigations to all departments of knowledge, for the illustration of the geography, productions, history and inhabitants" of Palestine aud the countries adjacent, from the earliest period to the present; also to study the manners and customs of ancient nations, their forms of govern ment, and any other topics that- may serve to ex plain and illustrate the sacred oracles. Members of the class and others whom they may secure-will give, from time to 'time, familiar-lectures and reci tations before the class, upon the above subjects ; also upon the inspiration, authenticity, manner of preservation, fec, of Holy Writ, with biographical sketches of the authors, their literary characterise, tics, fec, tfce. - This class meets weekly, at their room, Tremont Temple, and bids fair to furnish our young men such facilities for becoming acquainted with the Bible a3 they can obtain nowhere else. The class have secured the services of two of. the most emi nent Biblical scholars in our land, one of whom has opened his most valuable library for the use of their leader,-and frdm which rare books of refer ence can be -obtained. These eminent gentlemen will also, as occasion may require, appear before the class, and give the results of their long and dil igent examination of that Book which is above all others. Boston Traveler. From Brook's German Lyrics. THE EING. "'I sate upon a mountain, From home-land far away, . Below me hills and valleys, , , Meadows and corn-fields lay. ' u The ring from off my firmer In reverie I drew, The pledge of fond affection She gave at our adieu. 44 I held it like a spy-glass Before mv dreaming eye, j And. through the hooplet peepin The world began to spy. or .4- " Ah. bright, green, sunny mountains, And fields of waving gold! In sooth, a lovely picture - ? For tuch fair frame to hold " Here many a neat, white cottage. Smiles on the wooded steep;1 There scythe and sickle glisten. Along the valley's sweep ! " And farther onward stretches .'" The plain the stream glided through, And (boundary guards of granite), Beyond, the mountains blue, j u Cities, with dtffcjes.of marble, And thickets, fresh and green,' , And clo ids that, like my longings, Towards the dim distance lean, 44 Green earth and bright blue heaven. ' The dwellers and their land All this, in one fair pictute. My golden hoop-fram spanned. ' ' 1. 41 Ohf fairest of fair pictures. To see, by Love's ring spanned, The green arth and blue heaven, The people and their land !" THE JEWS. The Rev. Mr. Duffield, of Detroit, who has spent the winter in the East, in a letter from Jerusalem, says: One of the most affecting sights I have witness ed during my travels was encountered yesterday, P.M. I repaired to the appointed spot to hear the lamentations of the Jew? over their desolated temple and scattered nation. The site of the an cient temple is now occupied by the Msque of Omar. ISo Christian or Jew is abowed by the proach that the Jews can make to it, is to the large and massive stones of the wall which Solomon built from the bottom of the narrow ; valley or ra vine called the Tyropean, fur the purpose of sus taining and forming the terrace oV arches, which were built from the face of the rock on its four sides, and on which the temple on Mount Moriah was originally' constructed. I saw thirty-five Jews, standing or seated, near these stones, all of them bowing, and restlessly swinging to and fro, while they read their Scrip tures in the Hebrew, and some weeping bitterly as they uttered their wail of distress. One man sobbed as if his heart was ready to break, while he stood reading, and trembling with einotionTn his whole frame. Women, with white scarfs thrown over their , heads, passed mournfully along the wall ; , some kissed the stones with their lips, others laid their hands on tbera, and then kissed their hands, whilst most sat or squatted in a Turk-like position, reading parts of their liturgy in Hebrew. I ventured, with a courteous salutation, to look upon the page, from which an aged man was quietly reading. He politely pointed his fin ger Jo the place. He w,as readingthetth, 59th and 60th Pslams. The whole scene was so deeply moving, exhibiting in such a powerful light the sad reality of the Jew's great national sorrow, and caused, such a rush of solemn thoughts in my mind, that I was quite overcome by it. Aurora Bokealis. A vast number of theories and hypotheses have engaged the attention and in genuity of philosophers regarding the; Aurora Bo realis. Anion j; ot her things it has been ascribed to particles thrown off from the su i's atmosphere, to reflections of the sun upon the polar ices, to broken up comets; and to electricity in vacuo; while in an earlier age it awakened superstitious terrors, beinor deemed ominous of war, pestilence and famine, and a fearful supernatural precursor of the day of judg ment. The revelations of science have brushed away those delusions, and late experiments and discove ries show that it is an atmospherical phenomenon, that all the elements necessary to account for it exist in the air, and are regulated and governed by asmospherical laws, as plainly as the rainbow, or the lines which glow in the evening sky. The basis or "substrata" of the Aurora is un mistakably a light, thin, transparent vapor, ap proaching the condition of the cloud, called Cirus by the meteorologists, each stratum peculiarly sus ceptible of magnetic influences. . ' Mr. Faraday in his recent explanation of the power and force of electro magnetism, states that " the magnetic force invests the earth from pole to pole, rising in one hemisphere, and passing over the equatorial regions into the- other hemisphere, which comprises its circuit of power." These " lines of magnetic force" rise at a greater angle in the high than in the equatorial latitudes. In the higher latitudes they encpunter,' and act upon, and irradiate the vaporous media. which form the basis of the Aurora Borealis while the corrus-cations-the fantastic motions the sunny hues the almost heat lightning glances, and the prisma tic colors are due to the electro-magnetic light re flected on the watery part ot the vapor, and the chemical agitation of the elements, in the mysteri ous meteorological processes." It, appears from the forgoing, data that the Au rora Borealis consists of a translucent humid vapor, analagous to and not higher thau the "clouds, infla ted, condensed, spread abroad, and otherwise modi fied by a "meteorological process evolved." Cleveland Plaindealer. . , Enemies. liave you enemies? Go straight on and mind them not. If thy block up your path, walk around them, and do your duty regardless of their spite. A man who has no enemies is seldom good for anything he is made, of that kind of material which is so easily worked, that it resists nothing, while every one who thinks for himself, and speaks whtit he thinks, is always sure to have ene mies. They are as necessary to him as fresh air; they keep him alive and active. A celebrated cha racter, who was1 surrounded by enemies used to, remark: They are sparks, which if you do not blow go out of themselves. Let this be your feeling, while endeavoring to live down the scandal of those who are bitter against you. If you stop to dispute, you do but as they desire, and open the way for more abuse. Let the poor fellows talk there will be a re-action, if you perform your duty ; and hun dreds who were once alienated frora'ybu, will flock tx you-affd acknowledge their error Follow this advice and you will never have cause to regret it. John Adams was once, called upon for a con tribution 011 behalf of Foreign Missions. 44 1 have nothing to give for that purpose," said he, " but there are in this vicinity six ministers, not one of wnpm win preacn in the other's pulpit Now 1 will give as much as any other person,, for the pur pose of civilizing and christianizing these clergy men. 0 . Mix ignorance with sudden wealth, and we pro duce a chucklehead, whose insolence will be equal to a hundred pounds to the square inch. We can imagine no greater nuisance than an ill bred man suddently raised to the rank of a millionaire. CHOOSING HUSBANDS. ' 44 When a girl marries, why do people talk of her choice I In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred has she any choice ? Does not the man, probably the last she would have chosen, selected her ?' A very clever correspondent has sent the editor of an exchange, a letter containing this query, and she makes out her case very ably. She says : 44 1 have been maaried many years ; the match was considered to be a very good one, suitable in every respect age, position and fortune. Every one said I had made a good choice. hy, my dear Mr. Editor, I loved my husband when I mar ried him, because he had by un waned assiduity, succeeded in gaining ray affections ; but had 'choice been my prjvilege, I certainly should not have chosen him. As I look at him in his easy chair, sleeping before the fire, a huge dog at his feet, a pipe peeping out at one of the many pockets of his shooting coat, I can but think, how different he is from what I would have chosen. My first penchant was a fashionable clergyman, a perfect Adonis : he was a flatterer, and cared but little for me, tnougn I have not yet forgotten the pang of his desertion. My next was a barrister ; a young man of immense talent, smooth, insinuating manners ; but he, too after talking, walking, dancing, and flirting, left me in the lurch ! Either of them would have been my 4choice' had I so chosen ; but ray present hus band chose me, and therefore I married him ; and this, I cannot help thinking, must be the w ay with half the married folks of my acquaintance." There is both sound sense and truth in this ; but is it riot better that men should choose than, that they should be chosen ? And is not our corres pondent probably much happier with her present husband, shooting jacket, pipe and dog inclusive, than she would have been with either the fashiona ble clergyman or the clever- barrister ? Men are proverbially inconstant ; and, after marriage, when the trouble and' inconvenience of children begin to he felt, and when1 (the most trying time of all,) the w ife begins to neglect her husband for. ho,f children, unless there was originally a very strong attach ment on the husband s side, there is little chance of happiness. A wife's affection, on the contrary, always in creases after marriage; and even if indifferent be fore, no well disposed woman can help loving the father of her children. Children, on her side, are; a bond of union, and though she may appear, for them, to neglect some of those little attentions which men seem naturally to expect, it is only be cause the child is the more helpless being of the two, and tlie true women always takes the side of those who are the. most feeble. It is a strange but melancholy fact that when young girls fancy them selves in love, they are seldom if ever happy-, if they marry the object of their choice. The fact is, in most cases, they find the husband they have cho sen quite a different person as an individual, from the imaginary object he appeared as a lover. The imagination of most girls is stronger than the judgment ; and as soon as tho first idea of love is awakened in a female heart, the imagination is set to work to fancy a lover, and all possible per fections are assembled together in the young girl's mind to endow the-object of her secret idolatry. The first man whose appearance and manners at tract a girl on her entrance into society, is general ly invested by her with the halo of these thoughts, and she fancies herself violently in love without the loast real knowledge of the man she supposes her self in love with. No wonder, then, that it she marries she is miserable. The object of her love has vanished, never to return ; and she finds herself chained for life to the man she detests, because she fancies she has been deceived in him. On he other hand, the marr-who, with very par donable vanity, fancied himself loved for bis own merits, and who was perfectly unconscious of the secret delusions of the girl, becomes, when he finds her changed after marriage, quite indignant at her caprice. The friends and relatives on both sides share in the same feelings "what would she have?" they cry " she married for love and for the conse quences." , i The consequences are, indeed, in such cases, gen erally sad enough. ien the first delusion is dis sipated, and the truth, in all its hard and stern re ality, comes forth fr)m the veil that has been thrown around it, both parties feel indiofiiant at the false 'position in which they find' themselves. Mutual recriminations take place, each accusing the other of deceit and ingratitude ; while t he. apparent injus tice of those accusations, which is felt by each party alternately, first wounds the feelings, and ihen, if re peated, rankles in tlie wound till it becomes incurable. A Model Recommendation for Office. The Knickerbocker for July contains a number of speci mens ot letters trom orhce-seekers and their friends. We copy one of the best fr om Mr. Twist to Govern or Marcy, on beh.alf of a gentleman who is readv at any moment to die fr.r his country'and a fat office: " The bearer, Mr. Van Buren Phips, is an appli cant for some easy office, and I am happy to sav, is an out-and-out Democrat. He voted for Van Buren in '40, for Polk in '5t, and in '48, being somewhat puzzled with the claims of tha contend-. ing factions, polled two votes, one for Van Buren and one for Mr. Cass, evincing a spirit of concilia tion and high-toned principle which puts to the blush all other compromise measures. Mr. Phip, l ean. "truly say, is an active, energetic, and indus trious Democrat, but is unable to discharge very many out-door duties, as he is- suffering under a , physical disability, having two years since spraiued his ankre badly. The circumstances at tending this physical disability may not be unin teresting, as illustrative of the Democracy inherent in the man. They are these : lie was engaged with some yotpig Democrats raising a hickory-pole. They had accomplished their object, and you no Phips determined to place the stars and stripes upon the top of the pole. For this purpose he commenced climbing; but alas ! having. arrived at me uizzy neignt or ten ieet, the pole gave way, and he was hurled miserably upon the earth, with, a severe contusion upon the fleshy part of the leg, and with his left foot sprained terribly. Apparent ly not realizing the extent of the injury, he waived the tattered ensign over his contused frame, and gave three hearty cheers for James K. Polk.' Such Democracy ought not to go unrewarded'; and I hopejou will be able to place our unfortunate friend in some easy position where his physical disability will not be antagonistic to his progressive Democ racy." A Little Incident. A bachelor friend of ours was riding a day or two ago through Athol, in this State, when he overtook a little girl and boy ap parently on their, way to school. The little girl appeared to be five or six years old, and was as-' beautiful as a fairy. Her eyes were lit up with a gleam of intense happiness, and her cheeks glowed with the hues of health. Our bachelor friend looked at her for a moment admirino-lv. She met his glance with a smile, and with "an earrer voice saluted'him with, " Uave von got a baby"? " He was struck aback by tlie question, and some thing like a regret stole over his mind as he look ed upon the animated and beautiful little face be fore him. ;'V he answered. "Well," she re plied, drawing her tiny form proudly up, we have " and passed on, still smiling, to tell the jovous news to the next one she might meet. What a world of happiness to her was concentrated in that one idea-the baby ! And in her joy she felt as if all must have the same deiight as herself; and it was a matter of affectionate pride to her that lifted her little heart above the reach of ordinary envy, for in the baby was her world, and what l -e had she to crave f Such was the reflection of our friend, and he remembered it long enough to tell us yes terday in State street. Boston Post, THE mast EDITED BY CALVIN H. WILEY, WILLIAM D. COOKE, LYTTELTON WADDELL, Jr. RALEIGH, AUGUST 6, 1853. Terms TWO DOLLARS PES AN1TCTM, in Advance. CLUB PRICES: Three Copies, $5 tull pnee, Eieht CoDies 12- ..... Tea Copies, 15' u 20- " ... 20, ...40. (Payment, in all cases in advance.) 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C." Busi ness letters, notices, advertisements, remittances, &.c, &c, should be addressed to W. D. Cooke. ftXPostmasters are authorized to act .as Agents lor the Southern Weekly Post. w WILLIAM D. COOKE. Proprietor. V. B7Palmer, the American newspaper agent, is duly em powered to take advertisements and subscriptions at the rates required by us. His receipts will be regarded as payments. Mr. H. P. Douthit is our authorized agent for the States of Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. THE CAUSE OF LEARNING. That the people of this country are still far be hind those of England, France,1 and Germany, in tbev cultivation of learning, is universally admitted and generally lamented. The comfort derived from the fact that this is " a new country," is daily di minishing, because it loses its significance as we advance in age, and our mortification is constantly increasinr as we become more Conscious of our su periority in almost every other element of national greatness. In the extent of our empire, the noble fret'donf of our institutions, and the practical ener gy of our people, we need not fear comparison with any other civilized power. Our arms have been gloriously successful, our commerce whitens every sea with its adventurous sail, our agriculture is at the same time feeding and instructing the world We are unsurpassed in ingenuity, enterprise, and eloquence, and it is only in the more quiet walks of literature -and the arts, that we are compelled to shrink from a comparison with older countries, and to acknowledge our inferiority. The cause of let ters still languishes in a land which abounds in fa cilities and conveniences for their successful culti vation. We are not a literary people, because we are not a learned people. The diffusion of knowledge among us, is a just theme of national priile, but profound learning is another thing, which can, aa jet, be boasted of by few of our citizens. There is a mistaken impression deejdy fixed in the Ameri can mind that a scholastic life is a dull, stflpid, and unprofitall3 mode of existence, which men would never pursue, if the brighter and more attractive paths of business ambition were not closed, against them. Hence, few of our youngf men seem dis posed to devote themselves to such a retired life, and'they rush headlong into the whirl and turmoil of a professional careef, or .into the angry vortex of political agitation, without casting even a wistful eye to those calm retreats where the triumphs of intellectual labor are achieved. " " The worst consequence of this national neglect is perceived in soc ety itself. We associate togeth er in this country for business, tor feasting and drinking, and for agitation, but never for the pur pose of enjoying an elevated and refined intellec tual cominuuion. If we converse at all, it is ricrid ly confined to business, or politics, or the news. Those who venture into the field of letters and taste, are ridiculed as disagreeable pedants, and few have the courage to incur such danger. We call the classics a bore, and laugh at the muses as 'f we regarded them as so many lisping, sentiraen-t-r l'school misses, whose performances never rise above the level of a weekly composition. Our taste is decided in. its preference fr the lightest and most perishable kind of literature. WTe are easily en tertained with newspapers that deal largely in ac cidents and theatricals, with wishy-washy nouve lettes, and driveling contributions to our monthly magazines, but the books of the age, the great pro ductions -of great minds, are seldom appreciated. Macauley, Alison, Arnold, Whately, Chambers, Prfecott, Bancroft, are thrbwu contemptuously, aside to make room for the paltry performances of a host of penny-a-liners, who record over and over again the same old sentimental histories for the entertainment of the idle and the vain. ' We would rejoice to see a change in this respect take place among our people. The number of those who read for instruction and improvement is lamentably small. Few of those who' have leisure and taste for these pursuits, are qualified to enjoy thetgreat original productions of antiquity. The literature, the polity, the superstitions and tradi tions of the ancients are no longer the subjects of investigation and correspondence among our promi nent men. We are in ; danger of losing sight of them altogether, and thus departing entirely from theF great models by which the judgment of the world have hitherto been governed. This should not be. We owe it to ourselves and to posterity, to preserve the access we have enjoyed to the treas ures of antiquity open for all generations to come we in iu om uauuuai cuaracter to renne as much as possible the intellect and manners of our people, that we may compete with other nations for the triumphs of learning and science, as we now do? for the commerce and wealth of the world. Our march, if it is to be truly glorious, must be upward as well as onward, in every department of industry and enterprise. Improved. The StanAarJ u . ...uc iu appearance lasf week in a new and very handsome'dress. It is now phy. a very pretty specimen of newspaper typogra- Madame Bishop is concortir,,. : u- In n rt - iu me uuy oi ; TELEGRAPH WATER-CARKIT We saw this singular apparatus in 0pe jr few days since in .Virginia, and was very2i-' tertained in witnessing the simple and direct W ner in which it performs its office Tu , rt to enable persons to convey water fi0ni a f f.l ' source to their door or kitchen, without r-'r sending for it ; and this it accomplished wjtT?F ''' ease and promptitude "as to surprjse tjle !';pr The machinery is very simple, c. nsist1J1fT (lf and crank, a large wire extending over a 'P of posts trorn the house to the spnngor well J V ac01 hic!i ,,1 a little car on wheels adapted bucket suspended from it, and a and unwinds as occasion requires. B v turn;. . w crank, the cord is wound upon t draws the car forwards as far as th crank, the cord is wound upon tlle wt ie first to, 1 Tho rpvfrspd nor t inn rf Vn v and the car and bucket pass don tlJe T'f wire to the water, by their own weight ' "1 ' the cord is given out Irom the wheel, which ' 5, r,..,.vV MMwuuu. vvne the ba4 vw.v-c.v... v.. r.., c. JOuC.. weigiit attach). one siue causes it to uip ana nil, the crank js turned as at first and the cord rlro,. a . is bucket, back to the .noint. In this lnanner a small hw WJ c incic gaiiuuo vi nain uvn a distance of hundred yards as soon as he could the ordinary methods. Wen T rannnl snpalr iif tho rr-irf !nl ..:'. iuYenui.-ii, as tiiai, must ue uetermined hy ence ; but we have been much amused a and ested in witnessing this curious process Hlii v rr -lAii Kf on ovniiin-ifiAn sf it .,, t J t. ' L 1' T. x i. J 1 ii Vircrima. has been disnnsfl of uA ti.. . lc oe tne case in iNortn Carolina. Our roadtrs have already seen it, but it was a novelty to and we have ventured tor that reason to ' COOiir;; .our impressions to-paper. DOWN WITH THE GEOGGEEIEs. W7herever we go, we see the awful evil; that curse which' has so long desolated our mk, We hear constantly of brilliant youth, and venera ble ape, withered and consumed by the destrovin vice, of mothers, wives,- and1 danglers, rjj. wretched and brokenhearted by its fatal tWins tion ; and we ask ourselves how long is this scou-rj to' last w hen will society, aroused to- its d.-.n?er drive the dread demon from its bosom M i speaK or uie vice itseir, not ot tlie instrumtntalitv : , 1 Mi 1 1 vn. it emjiioys ior sen indulgence, .lliere u suc'u vice prevailing 'in almost every commuuuy.arf it is. insidiously hardening the hearts, :ii.Ju:,r.-:: consciences, and destroying the livgs of its voiirkl They resort at first- to the delusive gratification J the sake of health, or consolation, or convivial.J joyment, tut whilst they are dallying with its light, they are gradually enslaved, and neither tW nor affection, however eloquent their appVals, a effectually sever the chain. How bitter the te this vice is now wringing in secret from Lpefe eyes ! How keen the pangs it is innietitig, everr day, upon hearts that throTntr vam Tore mi has produced ! What is its cause, aud what lb remeuy ? The cause of all this sin and sorrow mav 1- found in the drinking habits of the people. Tli habits are fostered by various causes, hut mores pecially by the, temptations held out by the w: number of houses and shops established allow the country for the very purpose of creating ai. pandering to the vicious propensities of men. L groggeries, and other similar establishments, e. school-houses of intemperance,' c ime ami infer and must be put dow n, or -the dreadful wort demoralization and ruin will still go on with a!. 'i horrible results. Haw this can be pru.lenth s; safely accomplished, we are not prepared orf4 hed to determine. Legislation of sotte sort, h ted at the source of the evil, is evidently rt and yet there are delicate' rights belonging natcnf : ly to man, which are liable to be violated byik'i any measure adopted for this end. Tlienf' must be respected, and some radical remedy h ' plied at the same time to the awful cursor! yielding to no other means,-seems to rtqus the hands of society, the most stienuous eierc of the law-making power for its removal. A QUEER BOOK. We. have recently been amusing ourselves an odd sort of a volume, entitled " IstctvI Memoradle and Use-ful," by Rev. S. HA D. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y., which we tliins deserves a place among the curiosities of literals'- The interviews were with Dr. Chalmers, " Pr.fr merson. President Adams, a French lady and Mormons. Out of the materials derived from uet the author has constructed the most rain volous, conceited, pedantic, abusive, and at thesatt' t.l IT! A ftriA Sf t Vt k n.L mittinct nA and entertaining books we ever saw. We cy$ ly never did see one which .combined so mmjtj posite qualities in so small a compass. It ' n amusinp- to nhsprvn tli nrt.ktie. manner w the Dr. has brought himself into contrast wit giccn, uix-u wuuin ue mxroauces, rt-yui-v ing the interlocutors and calling himself ' rtrr f m. 1 I " i 1 .Aon one. The curious manner in which Dr.-Co stantly preserv'es fchat place, by keeping the ff hand in the argument or conversation, is vu : of all aH his.pr mind or his comnlacenev. biit preserves throug in iha mll.t : . e r.( Ii iimilitT- ... iuiuji m sincere proressiou v air of conscious superiority and jcool stls tion. -i ' ui me pages, tne auxu"' philosopher, in others like a-professed humor a bigoted controversialist. We have never the English language concentrated to bitterness as tins eminent, divine has contn exnresR fnworrU nm lmHiren in tbe cborr Healls them forgers, conspirators and otlierB ty names, and accuses them of crimes secon in atrocity to that of Judas. But on the the Dr. appeara to us a kindly sort of m8"',50 pleased with hiroself that he is not particU, prone to complain of other people. zest and vivacitv about the style of his narr' which the reader is apt to enjoy as wen self. : i e ... -nn nm end t"1- lume 'as one of the composite order .There book in our, lana-uasre which abounds in ,ure.J culoua Thetorici Incongruous metaphor8