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y :t T POST, 202 II V CONTRIBUTIONS. ! METBOPOLHAN COEEESPOHDEHCE. :'.:. - ' letter xxv. . : ! , New York, Nov. 14, 1853. A letter missed Review of the Crystal Palace re sumed Glass manufactures Mode of silvering glass Enamelled and engraved window glass Glass staining Ceramic manufactures Few ex ampUsBecoratedporcelainEnamelledflintware Porcelain stair rods, dc Furniture and uphoU stering Extensive and brilliant display Excel lence of American furniture Varieties-A splen did mirror Marlle and its imitation Marbled ironTena Cotta Ware Slates Lara ware--In- , dia rubber fabrics Miscellaneous wares Antithe- l ms Musical instruments An organ Pianofortes, i'e. The fine arts Sculptors represented En ' gracing Medailions Penmanship Seal engrav ing Shakespeare flowers Cheap steel engravings . Crystal Palace in' the winter- Warming up ' The . iceather. My Dearost: L was sorry last week to let the day for ray letter to be mailed pass away, with out sending my wonted despatch for your columns ; but j. was unavoidably absent from the city, and too much occupied in the country, to find everi an , hour for letter writing. Did your readers miss the customary column pt metropolitan goae"""e thought that probably they did, and will welcome, the more, for the omission, my present letter quickens my desire to gratify them 4 I believe that my review of the : Crystal Palace ended with class 23. I propose, in this letter, to notice, comprehensively, the remaining eight class es of the general division. . Class 24 embraces the manufactures of glass, and also the process of staining or coloring glass. The exhibitions in this class, in the United States " department, are. not numerous, but the few exam ples to be found are exceedingly creditable. . . . The Brooklyn and the New England Glass com- panies make the largest displays, and 'of the two, -' the latter is the more extensive and varied. The-gia-s of the Brooklyn works iof great purity and brilliancy -more nearly resembling rock crystal than any other 1 have seen. It is peculiarly adapt ed, therefore, to the manufacture of lenses, and the dioptric glasses exhibited are of admirable quality. ; The New England Glass company exhibits plain, pressed and cut ware in every' variety. The fancy colored and' silvered glass they display, isoneofthe novelties in this branch of manufactures. -Vases, bowls, globes and other objects are made to resem ble polished silver, by a verv ingenious process. The ghiss vessel is blown double, and in the inter spaced solution of silver is introduced, which de posits a pellicle of the pure metal upon the surface . of the glass. Its bright lutre remains, of course, unimpaired. , j I notice, among the objects in this class, very excellent watch crystals equal, I should judge, to : the best imported .lunettes. A very beautiful style of machine engraved and 'etched window glass is exhibited by the patentees, Cooper and Belcher, of New Jersey- ',lt,l,ns heennsed by. iKa aguvta. xion ra the west gallery windows of the Crystal Palace. Of course artistic designs may be "employ-: ed, and thus windows be made ornamental with-. ; out blinds or curtains while the light is sufficient ly tempered. ' i The exa.nples of --enamelled and gilded glass are not of very unusual beauty. Mr.' I Tanning: on, of pew ork, exhibits several s-tained windows and panels the. design and colouring of which, will pear comparison .-with the best examples in the for tign.departmcnts. Great advances have been made within a few vears in the art of stainin class iuid notwithstanding the loss of the ancient meth I ."!' this art, the-modern works will be found to j.nSM-s remarkable beauty. iia.-s 2, devoted to . Ceramic manufactures, is htifl les iiunierouly exemplified in the United States than the preceding class. The manufacture of poivelain"7iiid the finer kinds of earthenware, has u.'t been extensively pursued in this country, notwithNtandiiiir the'abundauce of admirable clavs J ' ' in numerous localities. Of tine china, manufactured here there are only two or three examples. There is, however, a very extensive .display 'of porcelain , decorated here. This beautiful art is carried on in New York by Messrs. Ilaugh wont and bailey, who give constant employ n;ent to a hundred persons. Many of these are females, who perform the pol ishing and burnishing, and sometimes the gilding of the china. The specimens of this house in the Crystal Palace are truly beautiful. I must not overlook the excellent flint-enamelled ware of the .United States Pottery company, of Ver mont. It is an exceedingly hard and durable ware apDlicable to all heavy articles and not without grace and beauty, even in table services. Stair rods are now extensively made of white and paint ed porcelain- as are also door-knobs, finger-plates, Class 26 embraces the wide ranjje of Furniture and Decorative art, as applied to buildings. There are upwards of a hundred exhibitors in this class in the United States and in no department of in dustry do our artizans make a more magnificent .display. I could' fill my letter with references to . the variety and excellence of the objects here in cluded ; but I propose to notice them very briefly. - The great merit of American furniture, as con trasted with some of the foreign novelties, is its adaptation to use. It is seldom that the utilitarian principle is entirely lost sight of, or even made sec ondary to-mere show. -There are superb examjles of carved" buffets, book-cases, tables, chairs and oth er articles of fashionable style ; but they are also . useful and substantial. A greater degree of taste prevails than I anticipated. There are, of course, i specimens of a very florid and gross nature- but generally the reverse is true. Enamelled white and buff chamber suites are exhibited, which are medels of taste and beauty. I must not omit to mention the mirrors -which.are displayed in various parts of : the Palace. There is one of great magnificence at I the extremity of the north nave. It is of vast size, : j and the frame is an example of superb ornament ! in composition, richly gilt. It is exhibited by Waller & Kreps, of New York. The are other splendid , mirrors, but I have not space to particularize them now. There is a very extensive display of wall pa i pers and window shades belonging to this class. Class 27 is an important division, embracing : r manufactures in marble and stone or their imita tion. There are numerous contributions in this class, and particularly of mantelpieces in marble j and in mnrhleirpA irnn. Thk latter is a new mate- j rial, I mean comparatively new, and of American origin. Iron is covered by aj silicious composition, which adheres firmly and gives a perfect marble surface, susceptible of all styles of graining, veining, coloring, and of intense polish. Several contribu tors of this material, vie with each other in their display of mantels, columns, table slabs, fec. The manufactures of terra-cotta belong to this class. This is another novelty, and one of vast range of uses. Terra-cotta is composed of potter's clay, fine sand and pounded potsherd we'll min gled and put into porous moulds in the form of a paste. These moulds absorb the moisture of the clay,, which is afterwards baked at a high tempera ture, till it is as hard as stone.. All descriptions of architectural ornaments are made of this mate rial ? and at a far less cost than of stone. I notice in this class, slates of various colors blue, red and greeny so that hereafter it will puzzle us . to say what is meant by a slate-color One thing more in this class, and that is a new mm- - ware, called lava-ware, because it is made of the slags of furnaces employed in reducing ores. It is beautiful and almost as strong as iron itself. Here tofore " sla " have been counted of no value. Class 28, embracing manufactures from substances, not. woven or felted, nor included in other classes, will not detain me many moments. It includes the ornamental fabrics of ivory, horn, wood, and india rubber. Of the latter as also of gutta per cba I must observe that their variety and beauty are really astonishing. I confess to a little surprise atfseeing not only all descriptions W wearing ap parel : hose, buckets and bags of india rubber, but also of hard fabrics, such as canes, combs, brushes, knife handles, frames for pjetures, boxes, and even cabinets for furniture, all made of the wonderful gum of the Syphonia Elastica of South America. The objects of class 29 are exceedingly numer ous, for it embraces all miscellaneous works. Ilere confectionary and blacking, perfumery and paste, taxidermy and fancy work of all kinds reign tri umphant. Pyramids of shells rise up amidst trees of chocolate, and sugar houses stand upon the bor ders of silvery lakes, madejf booking glass. Dolls daintily dressed, swing in baby -jumpers, or rock in clock-work cradlesj. Buds and beasts and fishes f-tare" at yon from gay glass cases. You look through windows of transparent soap, and you in hale the perfume of all tforts and manners of es sences. Toys and trinkets-fans and feathers, pipes and pincushions, games and gewgaws, rods and reels, bask Is and boxes, gaieties and gravities, fan cies and follies, are all iniig'.ed together in the iiiot heterogeneous manner imaginable. Class 30 is the division of musical instruments, and here again our .manufacturers-make a magnifi cent' display. The chief contributors are of piano fortes, but I do not know' that there is an .instru ment in common use (lot included in the display. There is an organ, but'not such an one as I hoped might be built to pour its vast diapason through the siisles of the Palace.' The pianofortes are very beautiful. Great ex'pense. has been lavished upon the cases of nearly all which are exhibited. I cannot pass judgment upon the interior of many of them, not having heard their tone or examined their action. There is among them all, one which I should certainly choose first, an instrument made by Win. Hall fc son, (the celebrated musical house of New York.) It is of lirjttled oak wood, richly carved, and of magnificent; tone an 1 action. There are many instruments which have, more show about tllenl ; but this one comes up to my idea of real elegance. Viols and violins innumerable, harps, banjos, flutes, clarionets, and in short all the appli ances of modern music are distributed through the music courts; but 1 cannot, describe them. I have but brief space left in which to notice the obje'ets of Class 31, which embraces the Einc- Arts, par excellence. I intend to dev to a letter to the Picture Galle ry, and there we find the chief paintings of Ameri can oiiirin. Of the thirty or forty, which hanr upon the walls in the U. S. division, scarcely one deserves a second glance. Of the statuary much might be said. I have already dw"elt upon the group of works by Powers; and indeed, I have no ticed nearly all the principal figures and busts as they occur in the centre .and naves of the Palace. Powers, Ives, Kinney, Jones, Brown, Gait, Jing and Gilbert are all represented, and all creditably represent this branch of American art. ' The art of engraving is illustrated by 'numerous examples on steel, wood and stone. ; I must not omit to men tion the excellence and variety of the display made by Whitney Jocelyu & Annin, of New York, in the art of wood engraving. They certainly bear away the palm from all their rivals. The medallions in plaster, of Mr. T. D. Jones, of New York, are wonderfully life-like and beautiful. I do not think I have ever seen a more perfect suc cess in modelling than his medallion of Mr. T. Ad dison Richards, the young but eminent landscape painter, and Secretary of ihe National Academy of Pesign. Penraauship makes large claims to the public notice in the Palace, and really it is difficult to be lieve that many of the examples displayed are not elaborate specimens of engraving. The stone Seal Engraving of A. W. Francis, of New York, is exceedingly beautiful work. He is the ablest seal and heraldic engraver in this couu try. ' A very pretty piece of art is displayed by a young lady, Miss Balmano, who has grouped all the flowers mentioned by Shakespeare. Mr. Geo. Appleton of New York, exhibits steel engravings, copies of famous pictures obtained from plates produced by the new electro method. They are quite equal to the original anc1 do not cost more than a tenth of their price ; so that now the poor man may gratify his taste for beautiful engravings. I must close, for really I have transgressed my widest bounds. I am glad, however, to have com pleted my survey of the contributors from the United States to the great exhibition. I shall in a few subsequent letters,; notice the foreign depart ment, and particularly the British, French and Ger man contributions. Allow me to announce, how ever, that my next letter, will be devoted to books, art, and general topics. -.The Crystal Palace will be open all the winter. The measures adopted to warm it have proved suc cessful, and I see no reason why it should - not be thronged for months to come. The weather has been disagreeable for several days; not very cola, but raw and damp, giving a delightful glow to the social hearth, the pleasures of which are vastly multiplied with us in the winter season. But without another word save T COSMOS. For the Southern Weekly Post. a'eeminiscence, Messrs. Editors : A few hours since I cut from your paper, the following anecdote. How it became a newspaper paragraph I know not. but I do.know.that it; is true. It occurred between my father and myself, in the year 1837, in Cincinnati, Ohio: " Hiram, . my boy," said a tender father to his .son, "you must be more careful of yourself ; you have not the constitu tion of some." " Don't yon believe it : I've got the constitution of a horse. Hang it, if I don't ibelieye I've got the Constitution oi iae United States." ' You may well imagine the feelings awakened by this rerriiuise'ence. An effort of the mind to recall the attendant circumstance, had the effect to stir up subsequent events and incidents that have long lain mouldering on memory's shelves. The dust of years was disturbed, and the bright anticipations of boyhood the day-dreams of early youth thd loves and hopes of budding manhood, were unco vered and exposed ; and emotions, holy and soul subduing, caused the blood to course rapidly along the veins, the jheart to throb with sensations of pleasing painMness, and the eyes to dim with un bidden moisture. Where is now that benevolent old man, who warned me of exposure? Alas, he sleeps in his narrow home, to arouse only when the Archangel's trump shall sound. Where is that' other kind, beloved being, whose aged face peering from beneath the modest-looking Quaker cap, expressed solicitude at the remarks of the fa ther, which was quickly followed by a smile at the quaintr and unlooked-for answer ? She, too, has been lain in the cold, cold earth, and her en couraging voice falls no more upon the ear of those .she l0ed. Those brothers, too, and that lovely sister, who joined in the gay laugh which follow ed ; some of them have faded away from earth, while the others are scattered here and there throughout the land. And that constitution, the subject of tjie re mark what has it undergone I The chills and fevers of the West, the privations and exposure of a wearv march to Chihuahua, the vomito of .Mex- kico, the yellow fever of South America, the chole ra, and several sea-voyages have failed to break it down ; and the puny boy of sixteen years ago is now a hale, hearty man, who has the misfortune to know, that nearly all the companions of his early davs have fled before 'the passage of time like chafl' before the wind, and are now forgotten, save by a lew faithful and sorro'-ving-friends. Six teen years, when marked by general events in the world's history, is a short time ; but sixteen years when measured by the relics which memory trea sures up, is a vast period. 1 am now a man of thlrtvrt wo vears of n but the roadinqr of this lit tle incident makes me feel old as some forest tree, that has lived to see its neighbors wither with de cay, and rot by its side. Oh, life, thou art a strange, strange mystery a long continued dream, which .my soul longs to have unravelled and explain edt Y'ours truly, Baltimore, Nov. 7th, 1853. Eone, Character of run Turks. The temperament of the Turk is phlegmatic, and he is disposed to quiescence and indolence; hut. under the influence of powerful excitements, he passes from .i state of insensibility into the most unrestrained violence and excess. The Turk is habitually temperate. He never tastes the forbidden juice, but yet he can "get as drunk as a Christian lord." He is mild and grave, but when provoked he is infuriated. He has little fanaticism ; but when his religious feivor is kindled, it becomes a brutal frenzy. He is not habitually cruel he is sometimes generous and humane ; but he is of all men the most remorseless in his cruelty. He will not luxuriate in the ago nies of an enemy, and trample upon his victim he has little taste for the more exquisite refinement of revenge : in this respect he displays more of the demon in his worst excesses, than either Frank or Greeks I3ut then he butchers with less compunc tion, and -with a more entire contempt for human life. His eye never pities, and his heart never bleeds. Age or sex excites no commisseration in him, who, on slight provocation, or from policy, dooms the wife of his bosom to the death ot a cat, aim ms ciMiuren 10 uie uow string, lne same m- sensibilit- to the higher attributes of human nature displays itself in the smooth-faced perfidy with .which he can inveigle, in order to destroy, his un suspecting victim perhaps his old associate or guest. In fact, alike in his pleasures and his cm T 1. : :i I' - , ... eiue?, tuu iuik is an nupHssioie animal cold I v vo luptuous, and coldly cruel ; deliberate alike in good and evil, less to be dreaded when choleric than when concealing his emotions ; not! intolerant far less so, as a Moslem, than either Greek or Lat in; not ungrateful, not inhospitable, not unkind to his dependents, not incapable of generosity; but naturally arrogant, sensual, and implacable know ing no medium between the despot and the slave too generally a hypocrite in all things so much so as to please the Frank, whom he despises 7in a word, exhibiting more or less the deadening and debasing effects of a despotic government, oriental prejudices, and a pharisaical and sensual creed. Major Ringgold's Old Dog "Leo." This fine animal, the canine friend of the lamented Ring gold, who was with the gallant officer when he fell, and howled most piteously over his fallen master, has been sent by Mr. Coburn, of the.Man siou House in Washington city, to Major Crowely, of the U. S. Argus, N. Y., as a present. The noble animal has been placed in charge of G. L. Gilchrist, formerly of Washington, but at present connected with that paper. The valued relic of Ringgold will J oe fondly treasured by our cotemporary of the A,rgus, and will no doubt be a curiosity to the New Yorkers. Wash. Star.. At Montreal, on the 8th inst, there was good sleighing. MISCELLANEOUS. THE '0irnt Witt EDITED BY , CALVIN H. WILEY, r WILLIAM D. COOKE, LYTTELTON WADDELL, JaV RALEIGH, NOV. 19, 1853. Terms TWO DOLLARS FEB ANNUM, in Advance. CLUB PRICES: Three Cooies S5- full Drice.' taght Copies, 1 Ten Copies, 1 16, 20, 40. I wenty Copies 20 " ... (.Payment in all cases in advance., 65 Where a club of eight ten or twenty copies is sent, the person making up the club will be entitled to a copy extra All articles' of a Literary character may be addressed " Editors of the Southern Weekly Post, Raleigh, N3." Busi ness letters, notices, advertisements, remittances, &c, &c, should be addressed to W. D. Cooke. VT Postmasters are authorized to act as Agents tortne Southern Weekly Post. WILLIAM D. COOKE. Proprietor. Mr. H. P. Docthit is our authorized agent for the Stat e of Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF N. C. The old Spanish Mine Ferdinand de Soto, the Discoverer of the Mississippi once a Miner in N. C. My Dear Pos--It has been my fortune to bfe, in the same year, at two places where not many North Carolinians everget in a lifetime, to wit : At Curri tuck and Cherokee the extreme eastern and western points of the State. The Court Houses of these Counties, are about 650 miles apart ! At Currituck, on Roanoke. Island, the Anglo-Saxons first met the red men of America : here, at the first meeting, these .latter produced a strong impression on the minds of their future conquerors, were important as friends and neighbors, and formidable as enemies. Hence they here left the impress of their genius the County, the streams, the settlements, still bear their euphoneous names, and their legends still linger among the people who can yet realize that their settlement is a new one, while the first, trench dug on American soil by Anglo Saxon hands is still to be seen. But when these new comers, after a variety of vi cissitudes, once obtained a firm footing on the soil, the aborigines vanished before them like the mists of the morning, scarcely leaving a name or tradition behind them, till they made their last stand at Cherokee. Beautiful beyond description is the view from the beach on Currituck Sound, where, the dusky natives of this great Continent stood in wonder and awe, be holding the approach, upon the pathless waters, of a new and mighty race. Beautiful as the land of a j-oung poet's dreams are the valleys of Cherokee, washed by streams wIio.mj swift gliding waters sing the music of their own names, and girt in with Blue Hills of which our harsh English language is un worthy ! The aborigines were swept away by the r;ige for gold : gold brought the new race to this Continent, and now to this god ascends, over this broad Continent, the incense of ten thousand wmoking altars. His fol lowers were as irresistible as the followers of Mahomet when they first scoured the plains of Asia, with the shout " there is no God but God and Mahomet is his prophet": a d somewhat similar is our war slogan, "there is no God but gold and forty per cent is his profit." vot lonw since several vials of quick-silver, hermet ically sealed, were found on Roanoke Ish nd, on trie tite of the old " City of Raleigh " ; and a few days ago I examined, in Cherokee, the monuments of a still more ancient search for gold iu North Carolina. About seven miles from Murphy, near the road leading to Franklin, is a low range of mountains, or rather of high, sloping bills, on the summit of which are old pits, trenches, &c, wfiich were there when the whites took possession of the country, with which ig- ' norance and superstition liave connected their usual foolish surmises and traditions. I examined these pits myself ; and, at the first glance, I felt astonished that the simplest person could have doubted their origin. On one parlieular ridge, for the space' of half a mile, there are numerous pits, now nearly tilled up, all-un- doubtedly sunk in search of metal ; and at one place, to make sure of the vein, a deep trench was dug, en tirely across the ridge, and sunk to a greater depth than the pits; this trench is still some four feet deep, and its direction, and the line of pits running northeast of it, most clearly indicate the objects of those who dug it. But since the copper fever reached this re mote region, (and what corner has it not visited?) this old Spat.ish mine, as it is now called, has been leased and explored. The original proprietors, despairing, apparently, of finding the vein of metal searched for, began opera tions soipe few hundred yards to the south, where, from the large mound of earth near it, they seemed to have sunk a very deep shaft. In this shaft the new company began operations ; and when I was there they had gone down ninety feet, and were still in the old shaft, the curbing of which was entire and sound. The water coming on them pretty freely at this depth, they have begun operations at the foot of the hill, at the mouth of an old tunnel which they are cleaning out, and which obviously communicates with the shaft. Near the mouth of thi old tunnel are the remains of a Furnace ; and here have been found scraps ot silver, pieces of crucibles, &c, &c I got from the furnace a slag which I brought away as a curiosity ; and I have since obtained a piece of a crucible with blotches of silver on it. Who worked this mine, and when was it done? There is a vague Indian tradition that some white men once procured silvei here," and that the Indians becoming jealous, they were buried in their own pit, &c. : a tradition in which I am dilposed to put very little faith. The truth is, the Indians are as much at a loss to account for these pits as we are, but they feel bound to appear to know something of them, and hence they have invented contradictory and incredible stories. I say incredible, for it is obvious that the force which worked here was a large one; not easily to be overpowered by the Savages. The work evidently was done in a very short time, for there is not the slightest trace of former habitations, and not a tree appears to have been cut, except for the mine ; and yet the amount of work done was very considerable, and the character of it indicates science, energy and force. I am thus particular, because I wish to demonstrate a most interesting proposition, viz : that the renown ed Ferdinand de Soto, the companion of Pizarro in the conquest of Peru, and the discoverer of the Missis sippi, worked this mine, in the summer of the year 1540, three hundred and thirteen years ago. As the reader may remember, this bold Spanish ad venturer organized am expedition to explore, for gold, the immense territory to which the name of Florida was then applied. . Charles V. granted to this famous soldier the go vernment of the Isle of Cuba, with absolute power over Florida ; and he set about to organize an expe dition which attracted the attention of all Spain and Portugal, and to which Nobles, Generals and Priests flocked with eager expectations. ' From the great multitudes who pressed for admis sion into this free-booting army, De Soto selected "six hundred men in the bloom of life, the flower of the Peninsula," and among them were Castfllians, " gallant with silk upon silk," and noble soldiers glittering in burnished armour. In Cuba they were re-enforced, and in the spring of 1640, this determined band, with horses, priests, arms, ornaments to be used in mass, and chains for captives, instruments for a forge and mining implements, began its march through the swamps of Florida. In the language of Bancroft, " it was a romantic stroll of men whom avarice ren dered ferocious, through unexplored regions, over un known paths: wherever rumor might point to trie re sidence of some Chieftain of more than Peruvian wealth, or the ill-interpreted signs of the ignorant natives might seem to promise a harvest of gold." It is well known that the march was to the North west and North ; that the company parsed over part of Georgia, and that they were near the gold region of North Carolina. Of their Indian guides, Bancroft says : " The Indian appears to have pointed towards the gold region of North Carolina:" and the same historian also says, they reached the country of the Cherokees, although he thinks they probably did not cross the mountains and enter the basin of the Tennessee. He merely coniectures this, supposing the mountain barriers would discourage these now toil worn adventurers; but we now know there are easy gaps into "the ba sin of the Tennessee," and that to have marched there would have cost no more difficulty than it did to pass over other known parts of their route. ' Near Murphy in fact in much of the Cherokee country the mountains are low and sipping, and the valleys numerous ; and an expedition from Georgia could reach the old mine alluded to without having any great mountain heights to cross. It was summer when they reached the country of the Cherokees, and I have not a shadow of doubt that here, near Mur phy, in these old pits, De Soto and his renowned com pany made a desperate search to find the veins of those treasures of which their Indian guides had given such glowing descriptions. Becoming discouraged, the expedition turned to the West and South-west, and after enduring vast fatigues, suffering losses, &c., &c reached ihe Mississippi river. De Soto was the first to discover it ; and worn with fatigue, and broken in spirit, he died of a malignant fever. To conceal his death a precaution neeessary to their safety his followers wrapped his body in a mantle, and in the stillness of midnight silently sunk it into the middle of the stream. " Thus," says Bancroft, " the discovc rer of the Mississippi slept beneath its waters ; he had crossed a large part of the continent in search of gold and found nothing so remarkable as his burial piace." This celebrated expedition were in search of gold, silver, and copper; and within thirty odd miles of where they made their only effort at mining, is now worked the richest copper mine in the known world. But the Mississippi was needed before the Duck Town mines. Of these Duck-Town mines I will in my next let ter give some description. C. H. VV. THE CONFERENCE. The annual sessions of the North Carolina Confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which com menced in this place on the 9th instant, and closed on Thursday last, have been attended by large numbers of persons from a distance, and marked throughout with proceedings of great interest. The pulpit of the Methodist Church has been occupied by the clergy both day and night, and on Sunday , several of the other churches were surrendered to them, and all were at tended by large and deeply interested congregations, In the forenoon, the solemn rite of ordination, . by which eight gentlemen were inducted into the office of deacon was performed by Bishop Paine and others, and in the afternoon, the ordination of seven elders, with the'usual solemnities. The interests of various important enterprises have been ably represented be fore the Conference and the public. We learn that the. contributions raised during the year for various purposes have been unusually large. We have had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with many of the clergy who have been present at the Conference, and have been much pleased with their cordial address, their earnestness and energy of man ner, and their hearty zeal in every good work. Sent out annually on the highways and among the hedges of life, these devoted men a.e continually spreading among the people the leaven of a wholesome religious and moral infl iencc, and accomplishing for their coun an amount of good the conciousness of which may well reward them for the hardship and toil they are called to undergo. Among the distinguished preaehers who have been jn attendance upon the Conference, we notice the names of Dr. Smith, President of Randolph Macon College, Va.; Rev". Dr. Early of-the same State, and Rev. Dr. 1 Sehon of Kentucky. A Chinese convert was also present, in national costume. Bishop Paine has presided over the deliberations with great ease, propriety, and dignity. The Rev. Dr. Baird of the Presbyterian Church has been in Raleigh during the past and the earlier part of the present week, for the purpose of present ing to the Conference and the public the claims of the American and Foreign Christian Union, of which he is Secretary. Several interesting addresses have been delivered by him in the Methodist and Presbyterian churches. The Society he represents is composed of individuals from the various evangelical denominations in the United States, and has for its object the spread of Christian truth in Catholic countries and among th Catholic, emigrants who flock to out shores. The cause is a noble one, and its foundation and success are chiefly due to the zeal, energy, and tact of Dr. Baird, who has. spent much of his life, both in Europe and America, in laboring for Ihe same objects for which the society was organized. In our last issue we pu Wished a card addressed to the Warrenton News, Standard, Register, Star, and Weekly Post, by Gen. M. T. Hawkins, calling atten tion to a mistake in the list of Premiums awarded at the late Fair. We have since examined the original report of the Committee on Horses, and find the en try as follows: "". K 'Marriott, 3 year old Fillyf '. B. Leathers, 2 year old," " M. T. Hawkins, 1 year old? Ah. in the last two cases, it was not specified whether they were fillys or colts, it was supposed to be the same as the item immediately preceding them ric.KC ihe mistake. Correction. In the Catalogue of Premiums award ed at the late Agricultural Fair, the Diploma awarded to Miss J1 Olivia " of Duplin County for a Quilt, No. 584, should have been to Miss " Kate Oliver," of Du plin. In thi3 connection, we take occasion to say, that the list published in the Post was printed from the official record, and that any mistakes which may have occurred are not necessarily attributable to the print er. On: the contrary, we believe a correct copy of the register Icept by the officers of the Society was pub lished n this paper. Agricultural Society. At the last County Court of Duplin County, an Agricultural Society was or- gamzeu uuuw very layoraoie auspices. The Society commenceu operations wun about eighty-eight mem bers, who elected, as their President Jere. Pearsall f T nr:ii: i r. ' 4. -nine, T.aiiams ana u. McMillan were selected as vice presidents; S. M. Grady and J. B. Kelly Secretaries; and Dr. N. W. Herring Treasurer. tioub. Our citizens will have an opportunity t0 of seeing ihis beautiful painting, executed by , Virginia Artist, from a design Titian. THI la riftw vno tfthA collection in iha 1 j-. 'udi jo ivrw - - r -"v rfienum i the Louvre at Paris. The Painting rrg feet onrl' T faef in width, and reorpspnic ieL ' as life. We had the pleasure of examining this . : - . mrures a t.. n'B io..w.", - uiai our will be fully repaid by a visit to it. cilizen, Drowked. We learn that Corbijt Edwards of ) county, was drowned on the loth of this month' " Yadkin river, at Trading Ford, in Davidson Co ' attempting to cross,, in a State of intoxication r body was recovered, but the horse and buggy been found after several days search. 11 had not home with a little son, on some distant expedif' but, fortunately, the lad was not with him at the'l'0"' of his death. The river was so swollen by the to render a'safe passage impossible. 18 ; Consecration. By Divine permission, the co cration of the new Episcopal Church in Raleigh take place on the 1 1th of December ensuing" attendance of the clergy and laity of the dioce aJ of all other persons desirous Of being present at h ceremony, is respectfully requested. j The Rt. Rev. Dr. Atkinson, newly consfcrot i Bishop of North Carolina, arrived in this city last veej and preached in the Episcopal church nn q.. 3 ' pre mornific LITERARY NOTICES "The Homes of the New World, Impressvl merica, by Frederika Bremer, in two .tohml New York, Harper & Brothers. ; We have been lately examining into the content of this new work of Miss Bremer's, and must confess that it has entertained us considerably. It is aWavs interesting to know what distinguished foreigners have to say of our country and its institutions and we were particularly curious to see what sortofa picture would be presented by the little Swedish novelist, in consequence of certain hints of its charac ter which appeared some time ago in the Philadel phia Saturday Evening Post. We are happy to Mv that, in many respects, her testimony is far less een. -surable than we had anticipated. Comparatively lit. $le of her time was spent in the South, and in herre marks upon our manners and institutions, there is sometimes a degree ot moderation observable vhkh is creditable to, her candor and her good serine considering the prejudices to which all foreigners are liable, and the influences to which he was exposed in this country. But there is a sufficient amount of abolition cant in some paragraphs to gratify theUttt of the most rabid of the party. The book, however, is fairly chargeable with two grave faults of another kind; one in which the aa thor does a gross injustice to individuals, who had, according to her own showing, entertained her, with a confiding and cordial hospitality, by writing put and publishing the details of their private affairs and pri vate sentiments. This is done with a treacherous freedom in several instances, which exhibits anything but a grateful sense of the many favors that were showered upon her. We will mention only the case of the Hon. Joel R. Poinsett, of South Carolina, who seems to have treated Miss Bremer with marked at tention, and has received in return a long, half-complimentary, half-sneering notice in her book. The other fault to which we refer consists in the injustice she has done American Society by assuming that certain Northern visionaries, such as theEmer sons, the Beechers, the Channings, and such like, are the most favorable exponents' of American sentiment and character. She appears to have fallen into tbe hands of that conceited clique as soon as she arrived II on our shores, and to have become so much enamor ed with their free-thinking habits, if not with their opinions, that she could scarcely think or write of .my. thing else. -The Southern reader will be very apt to become disgusted with her tiresome gossip and cant about those eccentric egotists, male and female, who are endeavoring to make themselves the centres of so is;: many little systems of Yankee philosophy-who are trying to build at least a lasting notoriety upon fon, the the unsubstantial basis of transcendentalism. Writing from St. Paul's, Mi nnesot.-ij she says, " when- voices, such as those of Channing, and Emer son, and Beecher, and Bellows, lift themselves in the councils, and when Lucretia Motts speak there alo r-jj y. for freerlom nonrn anA tl .;r.v.tc r.F .,-jn n vihcn t Christian Indian States, Nebraska, &c, stand pawfri- T l' ciuvi lilt; iititiia ui viiiaii " ly side by side of Minnesota, then it may be a Am dred years then will I return to Minnesota, ioM ebrate a new fete of the spirits ; and Hffl return thither inspirit!'' A beautiful representation this of the intellectual greatness of our, country, that such men and women as these should be regarded as the master spirits that preside -over its destiny. In P3"' feet accordance with these sentiments, MissBreoer has ascribed a certain degree of respectability dignity to the various little schemes and silly experi ments in the organization of society which half-cracked visionaries are testing at the North, and she seems actually to believe that these experiments are to re sult in some grand and as yet . undeveloped tnodin tion of man. One might even imagine her to be a lit tle tete montee herself, if we did not know how to in terpret the language of German sentimentalism-80 much dees she say, in dark mysterious sentence?, certain inward life that animates her and other mp11- cal philosophers. The book is full of inaccuracies, which are probs bly excusable, in regard to American geography topography, but there U, after all, much in it to enter tain and instruct the reader. The Lady's Book for December has been received since our last. ' It is an interesting number, abo ing in reading adapted to the feminine ta9te'jt the season. Aur ensravinsrof Christ healing the sick, copied fro" j - --w wv lunmyii fSIUlrVO OUIbVUi V -- - 11 celebrated picture of Wes is instructive and affect 'f not elegant as a work of art. Graham for the month is also a od nuffiVr The publishers announce the names of a very Pr0 ising corps of contributors for 1854. i Bryant, fellow, Saxe, Grace Greenwood, and Headly, liant names, all engaged . to furnish articles to i'8 umns. Mr. Headly will commence in the March an illustrated life of Washington, and his many mirers will, of course, look out with unusual me - for the next vojume of Graham. pJ We have also received the December No. o terson's Magazine, which we have not see" i fr ny months. The publisher seems determined o der hi Magazine acceptable to the public byj able exertions. He announces that it will .j. improved for 1854. in paper, type, md readme ter. He says, " it is now the only original per of its class, and the stories of Mrs. tephess, i .i.t -r. ., lone worm subscription price. It is the best guide for w i ur miii iifAF -T " ivi i ftt laru'ii 1 1 1 . aiu - ions also, the plates being superb steel ones, in TVT. V 1, J ro,;i.olnhi3 It IS V" v The leading embellishments are magn. ificent unts. n is empnaucaiiy juag. r t , iu is national in character ; and really the enwp . T. I i 11 If -.;.ia tT T)U1 a i. .i world, as the terms will show; viz. l C0P; V,m tff res $5, 8 copies $10, with a premmfn orin ee sub tree dollars for evere person sending J. to three scribersbr more." Address the puhiisne'.-, Peterson, No. 102, Chestnut Phihdelptn h i. jn i1 in j 33 3s! S e t to 1 5 0 I Si u I J 4 C i js i t is l 6 ai al i in id i ? ds Ot n ii : c f' la: .01 ,if I lit: !n "HI ? 1 w 4 '. jr P Jnj The Jc; mi The Preside Green. Th Uno. G Gfti sa!e '$ h ac i i : ad or to I. e. on lie I. ch n ,V 3n M lu : i I la f ' 3, i I ir p 4,