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K L T F 178 El W "t - i ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. METROPOLITAN CORRESPONDENCE. LETTER XX. New York, Oct. 3. 1&53. Getting high The Lotting tower A light which never ihone View from the tummit Descent Cheap day at the Cryttat PalaceThe Miner alogical Cabinet Gold Min eral wealth Weapon of tear Natal Architecture An old revolving rifle Life-ttool and bucket The Hulse mann and Marcy Correspondence " The Mud Cabin," or the poor of England. Mr Dear Post': Did you ever get high? Par don the question, and do not for a-moment, sup- pose mac i design to be inquisitive concerning your-relations, past or present, to the Temperance Society ; but in a plain up and down sense,5peak ing perpendicularly did you, ever gt high? Were you ever, for instance, -to ask a cop 1 question on mc buujiuii, oi aioni liianc i jjid you ever ascend the loftiest peak of the Andes ? Were you ever on the top of Bunker Hill monument or, did you ever goup the Latting '.Tower in this goodly city ? In this latter-wise I got high myself, only the oth er day-. The "little folks" who accompanied me, and for whose gratification I went-, counted the tep, and made them something over 300 ; but I do not remember the odds. You know that this tall structure rises just north of; the Crystal Pal ace and was built expressly to indulge the towering ambition of -the. multitudes which the exhibition . was expected to draw i'rfto' its vicinity. I am not posted up, as the phrase is regarding the in come of 'the tower; but I greatly fear that it has been much less than its Babylonian builders anti cipated. The lantern upon its summit has certain ly never yet been lighted up with that wonderful Drummond light which was to irradiate the whole city and bay of -New York and thus enable both t'lecity fathers and the moon to economize their fjebler light during the .shining of the tower lamp. I confess to a great feeling of disapp6intm nt in this matter. That wonderful light fool my fancy, and I was impatient for the kindling of its rays. Butj alas ! I have ceased to look for it. They will never raise it now. If they only had tie exiraor- dinary Fresnel light, now exhibited in tjhe Crystal Palace, at the summit of their tower, i , would be a sight wort 'jjseein from the harbor on: the sur- ' : J. rounding shores of the river and the bar. The view froni .the top of the Latting lower is fine enough, gertainly, to compensate any one who climbs thither. It embraces a vat extent of landscape-' and water view of great beauty--and lack ing indeed only the mountainous feat u e to make it unsurpassable. The eye ranges over all the sub urb of the metropolis, and if the day is clear, takes in, without telescopic aid, the graceful out- . line, of High Bridge upon which tjhe Croton aqueduct crosses the Harlem River, in Its compul sory passage to the city. .Along the line of . the Hudson theAmerican Rhine it eoi lpasses the 'palisade-rocks' for many miles of their ruige, while upon the east river side it scans the beautiful and picturesque villages of 'Long Island, and the re mote waters of the sound. The sea-ward view, has - a vast and . curious foreground of metropolis a forest of buildings with steeples for its lofty pines, and swelling domes for the round green crowns of its mighty oaks. It is a strange and motley scene. At your feet a world in visible commotion with but feeble tokens rising to disturb the serene with which you are atmosphered. The crowds upon the balconies of the palace seem to be' children except that th y ar-j to staid andquij-t and the Crs upon the r. il-w:;ys la.e a surprising resem blance to the larger clas3 oi minature railway cars in Christmas toy-shops. ' But I must descend from my elevation, congrat ulating myself upon the possibility of c pining down without any risk of either breaking my aphorically of courser or of incurring neck met the rid'cide of your readers. Very convenient things, indeed, are stairs ; blessings on the'man who first invent ed them ! The Latting tower is not tlie only 'Speculation in the vicinity of the Crystal Palace which has turned out to be a 4 sinking fund.' You would be ps and res taurants which spring up like mushrooms in the summer, are now tenantless and closed. The nu merous exhibitions-of ravenous alligajtors mam moth cows, five lecrged pigs, tame' timers and w ild men hold their1 own with amazing tenacity. I fear that they and their owners must lie living up on short allowance; but I supine that they con trive to. pick up a good many shiNingj; from some .of 44 our country cousins who are ojnth .ir first visit to the metropolis. On Saturday the Crystal Palace wjn opened (or the first time to visiters at twenty-five cents each, and as you may suppose the attendance was great ly increased. The day was not a very pleasant one, or, in all probability, the throng wouh have been vastly greater than it was. I. think I have not vet introduced your readers to the Mineralogieal Cabinet of the Exhibition. This is a commodious room erected in the angle formed by the South-side of the -palr.ee and the machine arcade. It had been arranged under the direction of Trof. Silliman fihe younger and for' the scientific visiter possesses k great : egree of at traction. The mineral wealth and resources of many countries are here represented of the wealth, California exhibits the lion's share. There is one case which contains at least a bundled thousand dollars worth of gold from the mints of the Yan-. kee Chersonesus. There is one luir);), or nugget,. which will weigh, I should fancy, twenty pounds' but the most imposing masses are iu the shape of ingots, with the stamp of the U. SfMiut upon their yellow faces. The minerals are well . ispjayed, and plainly labelled very conspicuous a notig them is an Emerald from New Grenada. It is as larje as a pigeon's egg and one of the finest probably in the world. The German collection of niiuerals is ex ceedingly valuable. England has contributed not a little to the interest of the cabinet by some mag nificent fossils and ammonites of the latter relies of the old world. Austria sends various fine speci mens. I noticed some apparently eighteen inches in diameter. The varieties of valuable ores from all parts of the American continent, and particulary from our own ample territory form no inconsidera ble part of the display. Inside the cabinet are in numerable specimens of gold and silver and copper ana jad ; while outside are enormous masses of coal and granite and .marble all the product of uuruwu uiiuea. 1M catalogue ofjthis beautiful and admirable collection is expected to appear in a few days. The revised edition of the general cata logue is now in press and its appearance is looked for with much interest. I have not yet attempted, I believe, to give your readers any account of the four great divisions of the Crystal Palace but have confined my obser vations to the objects of .tlje naves and additional buildings. I remember,' however, that I did invite Miera in one letter to the inspection of the interior Courts, occupied by classes 2, 3 and 4 in the Unit ed States. Classes 5 and G were glanced at in the machine arcade. Class 7, comprehending civil Engineering and Architecture, presents no great feature to challenge special notice, unless, it may be, a model of an elevated railway for Broadway the same one to which I referred at some length in an early letter of this series. Class 8 embraces naval architecture, and all sorts of military appli ances, .and affords material for much observation, Bough my glance thereat -will be a very hasty one. In one Court there are collected government cannon, muskets, rifles, swords, a, brilliant and formid-" able array of deadly weapons, which the selfishness and wickedness ofiiuman i.ature have rendered an essential part of national j o'.icy. Notwithstanding the diffusion of knowledge and of Christianity, the time has not yet come " when the nations shall not learn war any more." , There also are models of all sorts of vessels for navigating rivers and seas from the pilot-boat of friendly office, to the Mammoth steamship, which, in . these days, almost unites the old world and the new world. There are variousnew and most in genious modifications'of the old idea of repeating or multiplying fire arms Colt's, Porter's and half a dozen others,". contending for the 'palm of superi ority. It is. curious to 'turn from these beautiful and surprising weapons, to the collection of arms - 'from -the tower of London, and there to findguns of very rude construction, but involving the very principle which characterizes . these modern de. fctructives. '' Surely," we say as we look at the rusty old weapons with changeable barrels, " there is nothing new under the sun' Among the naval ; appliances in this class, I noticed a Life S'ool and Bucket combined. - It is convenient in either capacity on board ship, and when thrown into the sea is capable of -supporting two persons. Such an invention as this is of the first importance and must speedily be adopted by all ships. and steamboats. T have, not tune or space to .describe all the novelties which this class presents. There are new wheels for propell'ng boats new cat-sums fi r steer ing them n w methods of caulking and rigging them -ai.d a score of other new contrivances, il lustrative of the rethss ingenuity of the human mind aiid of the greatness of the interests of ' navigation. . . . 1 shall have too much to say of class 9, devoted tA Agricultural interests, to begin at the end of a letter. So I will reserve it for, next week, and here after pursue my observations through ail the suc- cessive classes of the great Exhibition. k In tLe political World, the correspondence of Ministers Hulsemann and Marcy, has raised some thing of a breeze though the former is so . com-. p'etly hidden in the dust which has been kicked up that, to use an expressive piece of slang lie is "no whar." A lamer attempt to justify an arrogant and illiberal government in an unwarrantable in terference with international rights, has certainly never illustrated the 4 shadows ' of diplomacy than the letter of the Austrian official. . In book-dom there are various novelties without much more than ordinary interest. I am --reading ml a book, not very poetically styled "The Mud Cab in" just published by Appletohs. It is a picture drawn and colored with the most absolute freedom, I may say with the Iargesti6f, of the poverty of England. With a terrible apprehension that it in ay be all too true, I confers to a continual feel ing of revolt at the dark anil dismal picture so utterly in contrast is it with all the familiar and cherished ideas inseparable from my thoughtsof happy England and especially of her rural delights, which Mr. Isham annihilates with a most truthless' and uncompromising hand. 44 Uncle Tom's Cabin," as a picture of social ills and shame in the South, is completely thrown into the background by 44 the Mud Cabin " upon the fair and fertile fields of "merry England." It is impossible to conceive of degradation such as that which is there pointed out. I shall refer to the book again perhaps in a critical mood, It is necessary now that I come to a some what abrupt close and subscribe myself Yours hastily, "cosmos. MISCELLANEOUS From the X. C. University Magazine. POPULAR DELUSIONS. Messrs. Editors : If at -first siht our glorious commonwealth resembles mote a colony than an homogeneous body of people, it cannot be doubted that the anglo-American race already bears features of a very, peculiar kind, which might be properly termed a national stamp. I shall not enumerate any of these, but merely remark that proportionally as the original genius of the Americans enlarges the sphere of our action, knowledge and impor tance, it also developes to the extreme, our strange aspirations for the marvellous, and our implicit faith in the veracity, learning and might of the million's pretended organs. We boast of our keenness,' and sneer at other people's credulity. A iive Yankee is, in our opiu io'n, the very personHication of human shrewdness, and a true Southron the standard of discriminating wit ; yet, nowhere else will we find enlightened communities, which, as a mass, can be so easily; deluded, depressed or carried away by enthusiasm or dejection, mirth or sadness, at " sixteen lines for one dollar." " ' . An unmerciful scraper, a hoarse songstress or a stuffed mermaid, will attract, in large cities, as well as in villages, crowds of individuals, who often stake their last quarter on the faith of a puff, boldly dec orated with the most' dazzling array of dashes, commas and exclamation points; and who invaria bly return hotae, convinced that they have heard the greatest 'fiddler in the world," tho sweetest voice 44 in the World," and seen a genuine wonder 44 of the wor'd." In ti e meantime, a Vieuxtemps, . a. Gungle er an Albcmi, will 'have to send forth truly melodious sounds to an empty house, jiut be. cause,these real artists are unwilling to be puffed up in newspapers of ail size's, and handbills of all colors, by the side of the Mustang Liniment or Jew David's Hebrew Plaster. Nor is it on the stage only that these unaccount able starts of fancy lead astray our good hearted countrymen. We ean trace them in the glowing reviews of unread or misunderstood books ; in the announcement. of wonderful cures accomplished by infallible Bread Pills ; in the notice of lectures, said to have been delivered before a fashionable and .thronged audience; when there were probably no other hearers in the room, but the eloquent lecturer, a policeman andThe sleepy reporter. These candid remarks are not exaggerated, arid, as for one, I confess to have often fallen the victim of my enthusiastic Weekly." But, pray, Messrs. Editors, how could I possibly resist ? Its leaders are so witty,' so. learned and so modest ; its dis patches in advance " both of the mail and time, so well set off; its reports of the concerts, circuses, shows and menageries, so impartial and so flowery ; its reviews of newly issued periodicals and maga zines, so erudite, so profound, so original and; yet so simple ! No, indeed, I could not ; neither could you. The most experienced eye can never detect in its unsophisticated columns a single idle asser tion, nor the least " reckless statement." , You may rend it safely, it will not "throw your 'mind "into positions calculated to confound all proper percep tion of historical truth." I confess that it some times employs terms in an " extravagantly fanciful sense," and often " sports with language," but it is always in such ambiguous sentences, flanked with so many antitheses, that you can hardly detect the real hue of its meaning. However, it is only when my impartial " Weekly " thinks it of high import to its reputation for candor and scholarship to re vive the palled taste of its readers, by a few well touched off criticisms, that it is truly great. The keen cuts are then irresistible, and after it lias once more enlarged upon the .scientific assertions which Coffee heard John Smith and Billy. Patterson re peat so often, he majestically condescends not to carp at the whole article--and the reader feels thankful for it. As fr its puns and jeux de mots why 1 they are heralded, copied and imita ted from one end of the Union to the other, and keep public attention alive all the year round. I tell you, gentlemen, it is a very great " Weekly," Strange, to say, it is not every one who thinks so. " II was a matter of great astonishment to me, when I heard -a friend of mine finding fault, some lime last week, with that scientific periodical. It eems that in a moment of hatred for the readers of a certain 'magazine, he dared to publish a sort of essay on some ujiknown .character of ancient times. Eager to make a .show;, and still more to avoid all reckless historical statements, he laboriously dived into the archives and dusty folios of our libraries; and when perfectly sure that in point of fact and chronology, his article was unquestionable, he gave it "to the world." Few read it, none liked it, ex cept one, perhaps through k'ndness for its author, who, after all, is a pretty clever fellow. My friend was very anxious to have his lucubia. tion criticized. a I write neither for fame nor money,", said he, "and I. would xleenvit a grejd, 'L favor if any of my well-wishers would only point out to me the numberless mistakes they cannot but detect." His wishes were at last gratified. A country paper 'of very great fame and literary in fluence within the limits of its own penumbra, freelv, and for the advancement of human knowl- edge, undertook' the job. I do not remember having seen an author so completely disappointed. 4' Could you believe,". remarked he to me, with all the signs of an un wholesome astonishment, "that my censor instead of carping at some of the numerous defects of mv essay, has just selected the -" only unquestionable point ? its historical statements ; why, sir, it is its only merit! If that, great and infallible critic had only condescended to' point out the place where 1 was reckless, brought authorities to prove that my assertions were unfounded, and named the books where the contrary is shown, he might have ren dered a great service both to myself and the classi cal world for I '" gathered all the facts set forth, from authors of heretofore unimpeached veracity." Here, howerer, I was. unable to restrain myself, and asked bi.m how in the wot Id he could have the elfrontery to pitch his Plutarch, his Dio, his Bayle, against my learned ' Weekly." I immediately saw the efiiCt of my lemark ; he was unable to an swer if, and therefore yielded .the point. Yet, there was another censure, on the subject of which I found him unmanageable. 44 1 tell you, Philo," continued my astonished friend, 44 1 tell you that Bacon is not the inventor of the inductive method, and that it is wrong to say that Aristotle taught an arbitrary system of philosophy. No scholar, no man who has read, only read, the works of the Stagy rite, can possibly doubt that the whole of his meth od rests upon induction. His very syllogism is reared upon induction : 44 On the one hand, I verily believe that induction is the foundation ; on the other, syllogism springs from induction," says the great .Peripatetic in the sixth Book of his Morals.'' 44 But pray, what do you care for bare assertions on my pafjt ? A mere statement from any one on a his torical question, even from your very erudite " Weekly," is of no value whatever. I will then give you facts which must prove and convince." I raised my eyes to heaven, and prepared myself for a dry' dissertation. I knew that my friend was fond of showing his learning especially when supported by his worthless classics. But he could not 'shake my conviction. My "Weekly" is, and always will be, my authority against the world! - "That we owe to the inductive philosophy all the strides m.ade in the path of progress, is plain enough," said he, as he came back from the libra ry, carrying the heavy burden of a worm-eaten folio; 44 but you have no reason whatever to as cribe to Bacon the merit of having invented or sub stituted the laws of the inductive method. To ad vance s-uch an extravagant fallacy is a 44 remarkable disregard of the rival claims of tbese two celebri ties." Sir, the method of induction has rot only always existed, but it always was taught almost in the very ords of the Novum Organum. Aristo tle, in his First Analytics, established his doctrine by trains of reasoning; and as reasoning must pro ceed from certain first principles, as the Rev. Wil liam Whewell justly observes, it remains to know whence are these first principles obtained. ! Now Philo, hear the Stagjrite: They art the' rLult of experiente, says he', and are obtained by induction; m jtfe way of reasoning is the same in philosophy, and in any art or science : we muni collect the facts (Ta' Hyparchonta) and the things to which the facts happen, and must have as large a supply of these as possible, and then we must examine them according to the terms of syllo yisms.fi Aristotle then proceeds to show from his Problems, Creatises on "Colors," on "Sound" and his Natural History, that he has omitted none of the facts and properties which belong to i he sub ject. In the " Later Analytics," he not only says 4i that it is impossible to have universal theoretical proprositions except by induction" but he most em phatically asserts in the 44 Topica," that 44 the in ductive method of reasoning is the clearest, the most convincing, being the most easily apprehended by sense, and therefore in common msc." " You hear me, Philo ? First Book, 30th para graph of Analyt. Prior. First Book, parag. 18 of Analyt. Post. Moral. Book VI, chap. 3. Topica. Book, 1 eh., X. No., my dear friend, the " via vera sed intenla" of Bacon, though so often repeated by himself and .the partial votaries of his Creed, does not entitle him to the extravagantly fanciful praises lavished on him by the vulgar and your ' Weekly." If the great Verulam really, 44 substi tuted the inductive philosophy for that arbitrary system which has descended from the Grecian sage," how is it that we owe the greatest number of mod ern inventions to Italy, whre the Baconiau philos ophy has not been even yet introduced ? Moreover, long before the publication of the Novum Organum, Lionardo declared, almost in the same words, 44 tltat the phenomena of nature ought to be. solved by a rigid investigation of facts and as a practical example, he suggested the very theory of Geology so successfully advocated now adays. The Copernican system, the Telescope and the discoveries' of GalileOj.al though based upon the inductive method, did not spring out of the " Or ganum" or 44 JSxperimentum Cruris," either. Har vey discovered the circulation of the blood ; Para celsus re-established the principles of the science of Chemistry; Agricola commenced Mineralogy; Gut temberg invented printing; Columbus and Yasco de Gama disco veied a new world, before Bacon's works were even known to his contemporaries. "Now, Philo, allow me to tell you that my ob ject in refuting the " reckless statement " of your learned " Weekly," is not to disparage Bacon, and hold up Aristotle as an infallible philosopher. No, I admire both, but I cannot possibly give to Cresar what belongs to Brutus." - " Philo, you are young, let me offer you good advice. It will never do to oppose common places generalities and idle assertions to FACTS ; and be fore boldly taxing any one with ''recklessness-" and 44 extravagance," you must always have your mind pretty well stored with logical reasons and conclu sive proofs ; else, people will say cf you w hat Bish op Berkeley w as wont to remark of the " Weeklies " of his time . " Marty an empty head is shaken at I'tcJo and Aristotle, that never compreliended their doclrlnisr PllILO-CULIiERT. HORRIBLE PHENOMENON. It is not generally known, says the Charleston' Courier, that in Barbadoes there, is a mysterious, vault, in which no one now dares to deposit the dead. It is in a churchyard near the sea-side In 1807, the first coffin that was deposited in it was that of a Mr. Goddard ; in 1808, a Miss A. M. Chase was placed in it; and in 1812, Miss D. Chase. In the end of 1812, the vault was opened for the body of the Hon.. T. Chase ; but the three first Collins were found in a confused state, having been apparently tossed from their daces. A fain, was the vault opened to receive the body of an in fant, and the four coffins, all of lead, and very heavy, were found much disturbed. In 1816, a Mr. Brew ster's body was placed in the vault, nd again great disorder was apparent among the coffins. In 1819 a Mr. Clarke was placed in the vault, and, as be fore, the. coffins were in confusion. Each time that the vault was opened, the coffins were ' replaced in their proper situation that isj three on the ground, side by side, aud the others laid on them. The vault was then regularly closed ; the door (a massive stone, which required six or seven men to move, it) was cemented by masons, and though the floor was -of sand there were no marks of footsteps or water. Again the vault was open ed in 1819. Lord Combennere was then present, and the coffins were found thrown confusedly abput the vault some with the heads down, and others up. 44 What could have occasioned this phenome- f T . t . ..... lion f m no other vault in the island had this ever occurred. Was it an earthquake which oc casioned it, or the effects of an inundation in the vault!" .These were the questions asked by a Barbadoes journal at the time ; and no one could afford a solution. The matter gradually died away, until the pres ent year, when, on the 16th of Feb. the vault was again opened, and all the coffins were again thrown about as confusedly as before. A strict investiga tion took place, aud no cause could be discovered. Was it, after all, that the sudden bursting forth of noxious gas from one of the coffins could have pro duced this phenomenon ? If so, it is against all former experience. The vault has been hermeti cally sealed again when to be re-opened we can not tell. In England there was a parallel occurrence to this, some years ago, at Hauton, in Suffolk. It is stated that on opening a vault there, several leaden coffins, with woodjen cases, which had been fixed on biers, were found displaced, to the great consterna tion of the villagers. The coffins were again plac ed as before, and the vault was properly closed, when again, another of . the family dying, thev were again found displaced ; and two years after that, they were not only found all off their biers, but one coffin (so heavy as to require eight men to raise it,) was found on the fourth step which led down to the vault ; and it seemed perfectly certain that no human hand had done this. Loss or as Arm. When Nelson visited the Royal Naval Hospital, at Yarmouth, after the battle of Copenhagen, he went round the wards, stopped at every bed, and to every man said something kind and cheering. At length, he stopped opposite to a bed on winch, was lying a sailor who had lost his right arm close to the shoulder-joint, when the following short dialogue ensued: "Well! Jack, what's the matter with you?" "Lost my right arm, your honor." Nelson paused, looked down at his empty sleeve, then at the sailor, and said, playfully "Well, Jack, then you and I are spoiled for fishermen. Cheer up, my brave fellow." THE EDITED BT CALVIN H. WILEY, WILLIAM D. COOKE, ' LYTT ELTON WADDELL, Jr. RALEIGH, OCTOBER 8, 1853. Terms TWO DOLLARS FES AfflriTM, in Advance. CLUB PRICES: Three Copiek 5 full price, $6, Eight Copies, t. 12 Tea Copies, 15 " Twenty Copies, 20 " Pnnmv-nf in nil fount in advance.) 16, 20, 40. Where a club of eight, ten or twenty copies is sent, the person making up the club will be entitled to a copy exira All articles of a Literary character may be addressed " Editors of the Southern Weekly Post, Raleigh, NX." Busi ness letters, notices, advertisements, remittances, &c, &.C., 5 Postmasters are authorized to act as Agents lor ihe Southern Weekly Post. WILLIAM D. COOKE, Proprietor. Mr. H. P. Douthit i our authorized agent for the States of Alabama, Mississippi and Iennessee. : EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. : Falling Spring, Gkeenbrieu Co., Ta., ) September 23d, 1853. Reverend Seniors : You might naturally fear froni my, long silence, that in ray rambles through, the fugged mountains of Virginia, I had tumbled over some one of the many-44 tall cliffs " that " lift their awful forms" to the heavens in this wild and picturesque country, or had fallen headlong into some foaming, mountain torrent' and been dashed to atoms on its rocky bed. Not so, however ; for, although I have been climbing the rough meun tain sides and leaping the noisy mountain streams, nothing about me has been injured save the soles of my boots: Thanks to a preserving Providence, I am yet safe, and perhaps a little sounder than I was when 1 lef. the "sunny south," seated comfor tably, just now, beside a blazing fire, in the only store supported by the section of country around "Falling Spring." Just in front of the store, in a deep ravine, a bold stream of most delicious water gushes from the solid rock, and wends its wav to thtfiGreenbrier river, about the half of a mile dis tant. Hence the name of the little village at this point, comprising a tavern, a store, a blacksmith's shop, and a tailor's shop ; and just on the hill stands a little hut, in which, I am informed, an industri ous carpenter earns a living by his trade. Since my arrival at "Falling Spring,". I have been living in the woods, which are now literally thronged with wild pigeons on their annual tour of emigration to a .more southern clime. As I write, large flocks are bending the trees in front of the door, and I am almost tempted to exchange-my pen tor a towling-picee. I am tempted, but I have so long neglected you that I must resist. Pheas ants are also abundant on t.h snWrmiulmn- while wild ducks and other water fowl are found on the river below. Deer are not as plentiful in this, as in other sections of the country. Speak ing of deer reminds me of a recent visit to the residence of a country gentleman, who has a park of eight or ten acres, in which I saw as many of those beautiful animals, basking in the shadows of the trees or walking leisurely over the hills. To gratify my curiosity, mj obliging and hospitable friend put his dogs upon their trail. I could see the chase distinctly, and a prettier sight I have rarely ever witnessed. Away went the agile crea tures,, with heads erect and tails aloft, leaping high into the air, over bushes and rocks and even young trees,, .with as much ease and gracefulness as the most! scientific danseuse would execute .the polka. The dogs in hot pursuit and full cry seemed lub berly; when compared to the noble game they pur sued, jand yet, I am informed, there are many dogs that excel the deer in speed. As I saw the deer leaping, with fearful carelessness, down -precipices almost impassable to man, and ascending others with equal facility, I could scarcely conceive it pos sible to capture them, save by the bullet of the ri fleman. But enough of game. I love the moun tains, let me talk awhile of them. From Staunton, I traveled in a private convey ance to Lewisburg, the "county-seat of ('reenbrier, of which will say a word presently. Since I left Staunton I have scarcely seen any thing but moun tains: r There is nothing particularly striking about North Mountain, which I crossed the first day from Staunton, but from the top of the Warm Spring Mountain how shall I describe the magnificent view that breaks upon the vision from that dizzv eminence ? .It is grand, sublime, beyond descrip tion, j It is four miles, by the road, from the eas tern base of the Warm Spring Mountain to its sum mit. Ascending, nothing is to be seen but over hanging trees, of luxuriant foliage, on either side; l ut upon reaching the top, an involuntary excla mation of wonder and admiration bursts forth from the beholder. To the east, range after nano-e of mountains he side by side, in beautiful regularity as tar as the eye can reach. Through the interme diate valleys, bold sparkling streams dash rapidly along. Far down below, at the eastern base of the mountain, may be seen the "Bath Alum Springs," a very palace in the wilderness, and to my taste, the loveliest of the many lovely spots in the moun tains, i At the western base lies the 44 Warm Spring" no less imposing in locality, if less striking in point of architectural beauty. The whole scene is one of surpassing grandeur, and as the eye dwells upon it, the mind naturally rises 44 through nature up to nature's God." "How wonderful are thv works. O, God !" "All thy works do praise thee." I neglected to state that along the North Moun tain, workmen are now engaged in the construction of the western extension of the Virginia Central Railroad. What a sight it will be to the 44 natives," when the iron horse first comes snorting over these mountain heights ! In the further progress of my journey to Lewis burg I crossed two spurs of the Alleghany Moun tains. jThe watercourses in the mountains are char acterized by impetuosity and obliquity. In ascend ing the Alleghany I crossed the same foaming little stream about a dozen times. As X said before I love the mountains, and I. feel somewhat loth to leave them for the sand-flats of the " Old North State." I even feel loth to cease writing about them, but I must hurry on to -Lewis, burg, where I have been tarrying for the last two weeks.i It is quite a pleasant and thriving little village of one thousand inhabitants, lying nine mila west of the famous White Sulphur Springs." I t but now'frequented by but few, is about " miles south-west of Lewisburg. TlH.rp newspapers published in. Lewisburg ;le Uf the Chronicle both of -which. haveloti!,ti , their appearance at the Post office by i' Mr. Wheeler,, the present editor of J,,, formerly the publisher of the 44 Souih.-n. f ' 3 ntkn Charleston. Snntl. n.....,i:.... l"rarv v iwwt.v-T v- j vai yt uji - Greenbrier is one of the finest irrazino. 'c in the State. But little attention" isiV, ''' cultivation of th earth by the fanners Cattle are now selling at most ex'r!,jt;U . and the farmers of Greenbrier ar ',,,,! ,i ''K' incr a rich reward from their m..,.,; . t doubt wnetner mere are niier cattl t'j 1. t ... any where, than those raised in this e..,uuv :' . Permit me, my dear friends, to iambi . weeks longer is this wild counirv. be (', ,,. j I V to mv Post. The leaves are l(-rnm;,10. . f """":i ;n . . ' - - 'iiii fr.-. I . t the trees, the winds are blowing Ci,j,j a,1(j , : fires feel remarkably comfortable, and 1 ,., . s be driven by stress ot weather to seek ...o i n l.i . Til! !l,,. l .i: a '"ore fe. . Yours iii the m .ui:!;-, AN APPARITION. " rc-""4; PEISIOys " ANOTHEE CULUs u Be thy intents wicked or charitable. Thou com'st in such a quettionrtH sln That I will speak to thee." Jh, i see In the literary, as in the physical heavens m' trie luminary occasionally appears, shaking r tons tail at the trembling inhabitants or il,i-i spnere. v e were reeenuv oaservmjr ih n,..,- as it moved through the western horizon tou:r1 j perihelion, and had the temerity to induie j disparaging remarks upon its p'anetarycli:.r:ie!er Th, "spectre of the skies" did not turn a Mn'-j'e out of its appointed path, to notice o'u- prcMin ,n It behave with becoming dignity, thinkhi uo ,0 ,i . that the editors of a 41 country Weekly " -wwe May ing round a point at, such an immeaMirJVu? distant below it. that theif opinions could have-no piw.;:;e influence upon it's destiny. About the hanic tiij somewhat similar apparition arrested tit aiten'ii.n ..f ' the readers of the University Magazine, mhI v,e, the hardihood to speak with equal freedom (', j :;;. trious presence, and its literary merits. Emb ,ifr:(j by the -impunity we had enjoyed before, we w , alas too rashly, to criticise, in a few -brief seiitein-,-brilliancy of its light and the density -of it- t:ii!;a; have had the misfortune to incur. its terrible. ure. The baleful influence of that ma'.iijiiai'.t-starW been poured out most unmercifully upon tin fc-. 44 country -Weekly," and we tremble in apprehre of pestilence and war. The article to which wc alluded was entitled "L. Wortldes of Democracy," and was prefaced bva r "Introduction." It was the unintelligible .akarii, of the latter that particularly impressed itself on 6.r minds at tho time. We wonder now at our. own in. fatuation in attempting to estimate, i!. It was 1Jm indeed to assault, single-handed and aloni a pvas authority entrenched behind such a formidable barri cade of books. Such an array f learned r.-fereiicH had seldom been seen-in an American perior al. The catalogue ot a great library seemed to have been dtci-1 mated in order to overwhelm the reader with an,-. The President and professors of the University doubt less stood amazed at tho sudden appearance of.surh a prodigy of erudition, and had their iinaginalii'm haunted for several nights thereafter with the hi sis of forgotten worthies. No wonder that the editors of a poor 44 country Weekly " should tremble at theco: sequences of their own temerity. A writer in the last number of the Magazine, wio signs himself 44 Philo-Gilbert," but exhibits in tie vindictive tone of his article so much amour en wounded vanity, and resentment, that we arc con c i .... : ...i r.At:.... 1.;' ?j- . . ' ... .' .. ,. .-iiaiucu iu uciiee nun lueniicai with ' Gilbert" lam self, has made the general character of this paper tw object of a bitter satire, the motive for which urn apparent, and the- specifications .so inapplicable, U we do not intend to compliment him by a forma! refu tation. We turn away in the spirit of forgiveness from his harmless efforts to inspire "his readers win contempt for the Post," to pay pur gpoj-humorei addresses once more to his formidable 44 Introduction." Had he felt the contempt which he labors lo express he would more probably have passed 'by our little no tice in silence. In regard to that notice, we have onfy lo sir tUt we regularly acknowledge the receipt ot Ik curious" periodicals with which we exchange, for the pre of calling public attention to their merits. We'!" always taken special pleasure in welcoming the Uni versity Magazine in this manner, and only advened t the defects of the article to whickwe refer, thatosr general commendation of its (the Mag azinu's) chartf ter might not seem too. indiscriminate. We dkUiii any disposition to wound or injure the writer, for" knew not who he was, and could therefore LaveU no motive to excite his personal resentment. From the statement of 44 Philo-Gilbert'" we no learn that one of .our criticisms happened to relate-1" 4 the only unquestionable point " n his article. seems that this great author has appeared before world in a condition the reverse of that of Ac! ille '3 the Trojan War. He is m-vulnerable in only '' point, and, strange to say, our random shaf; toeli effect precisely there ! And it appears to us equally stran? that a wound, inflicted upon the only part that-us1 susceptible of a Wound, should be sufficient to dist-1" per the whole man ! , When we read the statement that " Bacon or rttitr Aristotle," gave to Newton 44 the laws of the indued philosophy," we did not discover-any thing very u questionable'" in the form in which it was made-1l,;t rather inferred that it remained an unsettled quest'-'"-in the writer's own mind, to which of those " svoribie was chiefly due the wonderful revelations of tiie ZK" English Astronomer. He seemed mi the wiiole- ever, to incline to the. nUmk nf the Stauynte, ... aiiUi although no profound Grecian ourselves, we lhn make a passing remark upon the obscurity in K his language involved the subject. The article0. "Philo.Gilbert" leaves us no room to doubt that the enumeration of 44 worthies" found in ti)e'.af troduction," Lord Bacon, the great iffauirurator 6 mnrlrfi r.Kilc.;... - .1 clillt - .. j.uavjjujj was mentioned j;i ""e . designedly, and that 44 Gilbert "-was disposed to' varaoe hi n-i-. . i, vei eiatic" of mankind TT- : . t i. i. ,W we Oe tlie "un is 11, lie iisnS) .ere greatest number of modern inventions to w -the Baconian philosophy has not been even yet w duced?" Now we believe that English writers ally agree to characterize this '' Baconian piiaoi0J-gj. as pre-eminently inductive, and we understand ' bert " to maintain that it was not Baeon But M who .roused the human mind from its forptorj put Newton and the other great modern in vcS'1'orT of physical nature in the path of usefulness and g -We beg leave to say that whilst the 44 iadactivf.fr odn of reasoning was noticed by Aristo'.le, 1 ductive philosophy, " to the spirit and example o ' all the great inventions and discoveries of mouV1 rope, Italy included, are due, was just as n0l0rlij introduced by Bacon, as a new era in miiitary 44 Po jqet. pas ' , - j --.I