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k la 14 , -.-I- MISCELLANEOUS uiyxi us this DAY OUR DALLx UJiJSAii. ; Where, in fiction, is there anything move strange than this fact, related in the Musical World, by K. Storris Willis ? The following strange incident happened while I was living in Germany. In the neighborhood Vienna there dwelt a young pea sant wornan who supported herself by the cultiva n Til 1 iwipm - - - . -v a. Y tion r.f von-otoKUe .iic rf in the 1 it- , ... . : . : . .. . patched to which was Iter vegetable garden. Young as she was, she had baen married, but her . husband had died, leaving her a little, girl, who j vaa nun iusl UIU HOU'U lO mil aOOUl auu I7itn i ' Ul'ih thrt (itlit.r r..'AAr... Ir, ..;1.Vl.i-1i-o1 The . - -. . . v 1 1 1 ji u 111 hit; i t 1 i t l " 1 ' j mother was still handsome, and desirous of a se- j cmid marriage. About this time, indeed, there j was vihitirig her a young man for whom she had j conceived an affection, 'and whose proposition of marriage- she was now ' beo-inning impatiently to ' , await. But no proposal was made. A very dark 1 thought finally crossed the young Woman's mind J that therejmust be some obstacle in the way, and j ! that this obstacle was, in all probability, the child, j An unnatujjr. struggle of jealousy took place, J which resulted in a fearful determination- she I I would make away with the child i Heneath her house was a deep cellar, where sin.- occasionally M.ored her vegetables. Taking her child. by the: hand one day, she led itdown stairs, and thrusting ! r it inside she closed the door, locked it, and hurrie 1 up stairs, Tfie same evening her lover came ; tliey j ;? sat chatting together, but no mention was made of , the little absentee. The next day, after a desertion : of tweiity-fonr hours, the mother went softly down and listened at the door. The quick ear of the child caught her mot.her's step, and she implored her to take her out of that dark place -he was so cold and very hungry. , No answer w. s returned, and tho mother crept quietly up stairs. In the evening the lover came again. They took supper together, and passed a" social evening. After the second twenty-four hours had passed, the mother made another visit to the child. Again the little .sufferer .heard, her, and with' feeble voice begged . for a cru.-t of bread' only one crust of bread This pulled a little- upon the 'mothers heart, but :'ne purpose was fixed. Another day passed. The ..mother went quietly down stairs ami listened. All ! - was silent. She opened softly the door the child j lay dead. Taking swiftly the body up stairs,- she j ; laid it upon .-.' bed ; and immediately making a j great outcry, called the neighbors together, telling ; . them that her child had suddenly died. And so it ' seemed. The day after there was a funeral. The child was lying in its coffin bestrewed, with flowers, brought by the little jday mates" nflhe neighbor hood, who had come to attend the funeral of their J lost favorite. The procession moVed towards the quiet Gottcsacker, (God's acre,) where was to be planted this little seed of an immortal flower. A clergyman was in attendance. The mother stood looking down upon the grave, over which the holy man was repeating, with solemn voice, " OurFath- ,. Cl .- .- , ..1 tied, ton, ilrtllUWcu illj U0.11C. ..j kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this dey-aur daily bread- " A piercing shriek, and "the"mother fell with a groan to the earth. Looking wildly around her, she then, in gibbering accents, related to the shuddering throng at the grave, the very deed her own hands .' had committed. She lived not long after. Craz ed and smitten by the hand of God, she miserably died a signal instance of retribution, and a slart- ' ling lesson upon the-words- " Give ns this dav our daily bread." " The Affghax Ladies. A work by Mk. Colin Mackenzie, upon "Life in India," recently publish- , ed, contains a description of the Aflghan ladies. It may be interesting to the American fair sex, as affording a striking contrast between the different standards of taste and beauty. , Mrs. Mackenzie, who writes in an easy, colloquial style, says : " On Thursday morning I was at breakfast when 'Muhammad Hasan Khan's ladies arrived. They came together in close; palki, not muffled: up, and one of Hasan Khan's (retainers carefully shut the door after them. One was young and pretty, with a very sweet mouth'. She had very lively, bright expressive, large dark eves, tinged with antimony; beautiful white teeth, with rosy lips ; a color in her cheek, and a complexion not darker than a Span iard's or Italian's. She had a sort of loose shirt of 'rose colored satin reaching to the hipsi with full sleeves, and fastened at the throat ; very wide srreen satin trowsers, so full " that they looked like a pet ticoat; and a row of silver bangles, six inches deep, on each arm, finished, bv a gold one,; silver chains around her neck; pretty gold earrings. soiiK-thing like the Genoee filagree, but the top of each ear disfigured and made to hang over by the weight of half a dozen large gold rings. 'he had a crescent . shaped ornament of enamels and pearls over the left eyebrow, and a litt! pearl thing like an ear ring top stuck in one nostril. She wore a large yellow gauze veil, and the palms of her hands were stained with lienna. tier companion was j older, with handsome features, though rather too .j much marked. She was dressed in the same man: i ner, except thatffshe had no cap, and the bosom of I her purple satin tunic was -covered on each side with half rupee pieces, put on just like military medals, close to each other. The veil w as deep red, bordered . with gold, and like the .others,' large j enough to envelop her whole person. We looked at'each other's dress; they examined; my rings and ! '4 hands, seemingly surprised that they werenot stain ed. At last, each gently took hold of the' skirt of my gown, pulled it up a" little way, and seemeH to marvel at the corded petticoat. That they raised a very little, and on seeing my under garment, cried, approvingly, 4 Ah!' I never was more a mused." . ' . '' A Forgetfcl Bhidegroom. A few days ago ' a man applied in Boston for a marriage certificate, but, on' being questioned, he had forgotten the name of his intended. ' After some time spent in silent thought, he remarked that the lady was named after some city in Massachusetts, and that he rather believed it was "Worcester." But when the couple stood before the clergyman, the lady v with a reproachful look at her careless lover, stated that her name was 44 Sornerville." One house at Wheeling has killed and packed 8,000 hogs this season. '-". T 3 ForthJ; Southern Weekly Port. "AWAY TO CALIFORNIA." BY C. II. BRACKETTE. The unirersal lot -To weep, to wander, die, and be forgot. Charles Speagc. Tin waves of life's course will soon land the writer on the shores of the Pacific. ".Well, be it sy ' some one will exclaim, wno too full of people, mav think the old estates are and "good fortune go .. i u i n '.with him" some other kind friend will earnestly hope. . " Mav you prosper in your efforts " said Miss Mattie D- , two months ago, as adieus were made at Col. S V, in Virginia. Long will the kind wish be appreciated, and though disappointment corrie to shadow the blight ed prospects, finally of an anxious life, so that the exclamation is in Sargent's lines : . ' We have cherish'd fair hopes, we have plotted brave schemes, We have liv'd 'till we find them illusive as dreams, Wealth has melted like snow, that we' grasp in our hand, And the steps we have climb'd have departed like sand. Yet sliil will memory pay Miss 1) - the trib ute of ;rateful regard for her thoughtful desire, so kindljand well expressed. But, " Away to California" means much. How many ties are rudely sunde ed ? How many friend ships severed by a journey t the far off shores of the Pacific, but on will continue to crowd the mass 'till not i hill or a valley is unoccupied by the shores of the Pacific in either California or Oregon. Jmt we may hope that there is a destiny, fate, ne cessity or whatever we choose to. call it, which will induce our good. Still the view Miss Landon takes, is the writer's: "Fate is above us all," or as Shakspeare has it, What fate imposes, men must ned abide ; . it boots not to resist both wind and tide. The Duke of Alba an Apologist to Mr. Ne ville Socle. Ye gather from M. Gaillardet's. letter, of the 1st instant, in. yesterday's Courier dee Etats Uiiis, that the Duke of Alba (the brother-in-law of the French Empress,) has made the amende honorable to Mr. Neville Soule, the son of our Min ister of Spain, for the inconsiderate remarks of which he was recently -guilty at a public ball in Madrid. Various accounts have been given of the matter referred to, but M. Gaillardet'-js probably the correct one. It appears'from his statement that the Duke of Alba took it ill because Madame Soule wore a hixh-uecked dress, while all the ladies of the Court of Spain wore dresses more or less de colletees, (low in the neck,) and that he farther remarked, "See! There goes Margaret of Bur gundy !" Just at this moment, young Neville Soule passed by, and happening to overhear the slighting allusion to his. mother, immediately re torted by calling the Spanish grandee a blackguard, (polHton.) In a moment, there was a great dis turbance. Mr. Soule, the elder, immediately car ried off his son ; but the latter sent next day two friends and eye-witnesses to the Duke of A ' . jer by with instructions to demand satisfaction ' . - .:TJ... j.. . '.t... gy. At first, the Duke refused to consent to give redress in eith er way upon the plausible pretext that his adversa ry was in reality urging a political, quarrel. But the story is now that public opinion having declar ed itself unanimously against him, as is not aston ishing in a country renowned for the chivalrous re speet which it has always paid to beauty, the Duke of Alba has settled the matter by gracefully apolo gising for the offence complained 'of. For doing this hedc serves credit. Bait. Sun. 44 Murder will oct" AVrest of a Fcgi XIve. Nearly ten years ago, two planters and the overseer of one of them were traveling from one part of Texas to another. Night found them be side a river which they were unable to ford, and where they would have to wait till morning be fore they could be ferried across. The weather was fine, the travelers were well armed, and as they were accustomed to wild-wood journeyings, they soon prepared rough 'accommodations for the nidit. As they had traveled far and fast during the preceding day, the planters were soon in the enjoyment of 44 tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep,' and no sense of danger disturbed their slumbers. Not so with the overseer. P"or him. there was no sleep. Athirst for filthy lucre, his greed had banished sleep, bis blood ran. riot, and he saw red ! He knew that the planters had a iaree sum of monefl with them, and as neither he nor they were known in the section of country in which they then sojourned, he thought the oppor tunity a favorable one for possessing himself of their wealth. But in order to dw so he must first murder them. And what hindered him from do iu"1 so ? They had already, rendered themselves incapable "of defence by yielding to "Death's first cousin, sleep," and 'in a moment he could transfer them to the domains of the sterner and more ter rible of . the cousins. And he did so. A blade, murderously keen, was drawn with a hand of de moniac firmvess. across the throat of one of the planters, and a leaden death was sent from a pistol into the year of the other. Their-did the, red rob ber consider himself a man of wealth, for the sum lie had gamed by the double murder, entitled him so to thuik. He tied the country ;: went to the 1 federal capital, became i beau, and participated in wild and reckless pleasures to his hearts content. But gambling and other dissipations gave wings to his riches, and they flew awav. Eventually, being reduced to poverty, he, by the prosecution of a successful burglary, again filled his purse. But the crime was traced to him, and he was arrested, tried and sentenced for five years to the peniten tiary. Before the expiration of the term he was pardoned by President Polk, and went to reside in' South. Carolina. A strange train of circumstan ces recently pointed him out as the murderer of the two Texas planters, and a requisition of the Gov ernor of Texas to the Executive of South Caroliua was responded to by the delivery of the fugitive 9o an officer, who had charge, of the requisition. The result is, that the overseer, under the name o,f John Shultz, is now confined in the First Dis-, trict Police prison of this city, on his way to the scene of his greatest crime, and that 44 the way of . the transgressor is hard" is evidenced by the sharp clank of his iron manacles: Netc Orleans Delta. There is a bill before the Georgia Legisglature proposing to abolish public executions. SOU! THE ORGANIC AND INORGANIC MATERI-! ALS OF THE GLOBE. BY H. C. VAIL. OF THE ORGANIC CONSTITUENTS HYDROGEN This is the last of the organic constituents left for our examination. We have before stated that it is an essential constituent of all organized mat ter. Hydrogen, like oxvo-en and nitrogen, is a gase- ous bodv. It is fourteen and a halt times ngu than common air, and for this reason is used for in flating balloons. Tt not a supporter of life and combustion, but it is inflammable-burning with a dull flame; the product being water, formed by 3 union with the oxygen of the air. Durinnr tho pnmhiKstion of wood, coal, oil 0 C'vntaininsr hydrogen, water isalways formed m rvmnortinn n-WV. .n-lr.i npi.l CHS. As Stated in OUT last article, one Dart, bv weight, of hydrogen, com hli.P.1 wWh ci ,ht ,.,rta ,.f oYvircn. form a substance , Ate.. '.. ;ti,0"r ,,f the substances of which it is composed. This compound is water, which is so indispensable to our welfare. Hydrogen is slightly soluble m water one hun dred gallons of water dissolving one aim a imu Ions of this gas. ' - Hydrogen combined with sulphur in certain pro portions, forms sulphurated hydrogen-a substance which abounds in some mineral springs ; thus the Springs of Aix de la Chapelle, Germany, the Sulphur Springs of .Virginia, those at Stockport Columbia County, New Yulk, and some at Sarato- 1.. - i . r j Lra : and in many other localities are to e i..i.u springs saturated with thisfgas. It is also formed during the explosion of gunpowder. During the decay of blood, hair, flesh, urine, ex crements, the white and yolk of eggs, a pu'rid odor is evolved, which is attributable to the sulphmyted hydrogen formed by the union, of the sulphur of the decaying body and the gas hydrogen. Most vegetable substances give off this offen sive gas, when decaying. The rocks about Niagara Falls, and in many other localities are imbued with this gaseous body, and are known as foetid lime stone. The water in wells, containing old wooden pumps, is frequently rendered unlit to drink, owing to sul .pheretted hydrogen. The breathing of this gas should be avoided, as it is deleterious to health. The dark color on the walls of privies, and other places where animal or vegetable substances are putrifying, indicates its presence During the decay of wood, leaves, &c. in marsh es, ponds, and other confined localities, a light gas is given off, at the same time that carbonic acid is liberated. This gas is composed of Carbon am' k droo-en, and is called carburetted II" ' . .Hies. lhe town substance used for illuminate-- ' . , c v lork, is illuminated bv of Gosport, State of IV ' . .. .Im the decomposition ot veget tbis gas, ansip 1 , , , .Tees in a confined locality, able su t .vmg cursorily examined the four bodies known as .organic, we may turn our attention to the com position of these organized substances, which are o indispensable to our existence. Casting the eye sover the table showing the composition these bodies, we are surprised that so great a, variety of substances, so different in appearance, should be formed from four elementary bodies. . These differences are supposed to arise from the proport ion of each constituent, and the order in which thev are arranged. The transformations, or .changes which these substances undergo when operated upon bv natural causes, are too numerous and com plicated to receive attention at this time. There are too classes of organic bodies one containing the four elements, Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Nitrogen, known as azotized or nitrogenized bodies. The other composed of he -three elements Carbon, Oxygen, and Hydrogen, under the term non azotized or non-nitrogenized substances. The latter compounds are more stable that" is, less easily decomposed than the form er, and during decay give off gasses without odor; while the gaseous products of the decomposition of the azotized bodies are most generally very offensive. The annexed table shows the number of atoms which enter into the composition of the bodies named - Car bon. Animal tissue,. 48 Animal membrane 48 Animal horn, nails, &c,. . 48 Feathers 48 Urine of man and animals, 10 Urea, 2 Hvdro. Nitro. Oly. grn. fun. jer.. 40 6 20 38 C, 16 39 7 17 S9 7 16 4 4 6 4 2 2 Car- Hydro- Oxt- Acetic acids, (vinegar, ... 4 3 v Alcohol 4 6 Oxalic acid, (in sorrel) ... 2 0 Carbonic acid, 1 0 Lactic acid, ( n sour milk) . 1 , 4 Malic acid, (in apples,) . . 8 4 Gum, 12 11 Starch, ' .12 16 Woody fibre . 12 10 Milk suear -. . 12 VI Grape sugar,. 12 It Caae sugar (maple &, beet) .12 It .2on. ten. 4 2 3 . 2 8 8 11 10 10 11 11 OF THE INORGANIC CONSTITUENT. Having disposed ot the organic elements, we nov have the inorganic or mineral kingdom pre senieu tor inspection. Of the many bodies which compose the mineral portion of the globe, we will only examine the ten which we find essential to the growth of plants. They are to be found in greater or less amBts in nearly all soils and plants. It was formerly sup posed that the ash. of plants was merely present in them by accident, but it was proved" lono- since, the plants could not exist without theii-rerular proportion of inorganic material, and this was I found to consist of several differpnt b..;..o TV. amount of each in different plants beinr variable dui aiwajs me same, at ttie same stage of grow-! th in plants of the same species. These inorganic materials were' derived from the disintegration of rocks, by the action xf the asmosphere, freezings and thawings of wiater de posited in their crevices, and various minute causes. When sufficiently comminuted to be easily dis solved in water, they are appropriated by plants, from which men and animals receive the" mineral' components of their bodies. The constant cropping of soils removes these materials as rapidly as they cau be prepared bv natural causes for the use of plants. Sometimes crops are grown, which will remove a greater amount in a season of some one or more of these constituents than'can be again presented in two or more years. This shows the necessity of becoming acquainted with the characteristics of each, and in what proportion they exist in plant? and when entirely removed from the soil, how to replace them. ' The names of these ten bodies, are Potash, Soda, Lime, Magnesia, Phosphoric acid, Sulphuric acid, Chlorine, oxide of iron, oxide of mano-anese Silica and Alumnia. Our next article will d'escribe Potash and its uses in agriculture. Journal of Agriculture. THE fast EDITED BY .,.., CALVIN H. WILEY, WILLIAM D. COUKC, LYTTELTON WADDELL, Jr. RALIGH, DEC. 24, 1853. Terms TWO DOLLARS PEE ANNUM, in Advance. CLUB PRICES: Three Copies, 5 full price, : 1' Eight Copies 12 " in Tea Copies, ..15 " fn Twenty Copies, 20 " - 4U- (.Payment in all cases in advance.. JCT Where a club of eight, ten or twenty copies is sen t, tho 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, N C. busi ness letters, notices, advertisements, remittances, &c, c.. should be addressed to W. D. Cooke. , JKT Postmasters are authorized to act as Agents tonne Southern Weekly Post. WILLIAM D. COOKE. Profrihor. Mr. H. P. Doctbit is our authorized agent for the State of Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. RETRIBUTION. TnE history of modern nations, as well as that of the ancients, is full of instructive examples of rew ards and punishments meted out by a superintending Pro vidence. It is profitable, sometimes to reflect upon these examples, that we may derive from them a bet ter knowledge of political truth, and be m.rc pro foundly impressed with the necessity of avoiding those national errors whic'i have proved the ruin of so many splendid prospects of national glory. We have often read, with an interest which noth ing but the tragical events of truthful history can inspire, the horrible details of the first French Ro vo lution. Many of our readers have, doubtless, dene the same.-- The annals of the Reign of Terror, have for many persons a fascination which no effort of ge nius, in works of fiction, can present, and libr.-.ries of histories and memoirs relating to that dark period, have been already written and published, with no other effect than to increase the general appetite for still further details. The French press continues to teem with such publications, and another half century will hardly exhaust the materials from which they are constructed, or the curiosity of the reading world. The latest work of this character to which our at tention has been directed, is that of M. A. de Beau chesnc, on the Life, Agony and Death of Louis XVII. We have not seen it, but the December Number of the Eclectic Magazine, contains an interesting article from the Quarterly Review, in which its mosc valua ble'contents are presented to the reader; m condensed form : and many of the more strikiner " " ' -m;h M' , t , , .... . .a.cu or confirmed, are de Beauchesne has e,,f- ' i- o i i. o. From these sources the awful graphically def' . ictur- l,ie Dauphin s captivity and death, has ac quired new features of horror of which we had not deemed it susceptible. We had supposed the case so perfectly horrible, that even imagination- could not add to it a deeper coloring. The reader will, however, find that in this depth there was a lower deep of un questionable reality, too profound for the line of Fan cy itself to fathom a record of the sufferings of inno cence calculated to shock and soften the most obdu rate heart. ' It is true that the Quarterly Review is an organ of the English-Tory party, and generally inclined to re present royalty as invested with a peculiar sanctity Any inferences which it might draw from the incidents of the French Revolution must, of course, be expect ed to savor of its political views. "With that servile homage for royal blood, by which the tories have ge nerally degraded their political principles, we have no tendency to sympathize. The little sufferer, whose fate M. de Beauchesne has made the subject of his work, was not, in our view, a dangerous claimant of the throne of France, w hom political poliev might have justified lhe Convention in guarding with a jeal ous vigilance. Tlat dangerous character could only be attributed to him by tho-e who were accustomed to respect or to fear the old European ideas of here ditary dignity. We contemplate him only as an inno cent child, of eight years, born in a palace, accustom ed to the delicacies of a court, and endued with those acute sensibilities which infant natures must derive from elevadon and refinement. That such a child should be imprisoned at all, in a civilized country, seems almost beyond belief. That a great Republic, glorying in its independence and its achievrnents, should have not only confined him with boltsand bars, but tearing him from his imprisoned mother on whose lap he lay, should have shut him up in a solitary cell, from which light and air were excluded, and into which, for a long time, not even the brutal keeper was permitted to enter, where he was left many months wi-lnrnt a crumb of comfort, or a word of hope, wearing lhe same filthy apparel, sleeping in the same infested bed, covered with vermin . and .with sores, and breathing an atmosphere rendered putrid by the .-tecum iilit.ion of every species of filth that the spite of ajrreat people should have been thtis vi sited upon so innocent and helpless a victim, is a fact utteily revolting to a mind possessing any sensibility, snd one which, in a picture of fancy, would disgust the reader with its incredibility. The fact, how;eer, js beyond questioi . His life was a lingering agony, rendered as intense ' as hum-in ingenni'v could make it. Ati.ong the details are some striking evidences of a di.bolical genius in Ids persecutors. One of the monsters who enjoyed the confidence of the Conven tion, actually went to the trouble of presenting him with a parcel of toys, among which a little miniature guillotine was included, to remind him w ith a refined cruelty, altogether unexampled, of the manner in which his father had perished. These toys w ere w ith held by others, lest he might derive some little amuse-, ment from them but the fact'that they were sent is undisputed. When w e consider the awfully cruel spirit that then pervaded the mob of Paris and its ' ptditic.-d agents, and roiiovv us ceveiopment to the climax of mm,. ! who can he astonished , that the hopes of that impious people were afterwards entirely dissipated, that Eu rope grew white with the bones of its vanquished arm ies and that its master and idol was eondemed at last to die a lingering death, chained to a barren rock ! In tie disasters of the Russian campaign, in the rout of Waterloo, and the confinement of Napoleon, at St. Helena, the student of history may dicov r the evi dent pressure of a Divine hand,, visiting upon France an appropriate punishment for her impiety and inhu man crimes. The crimes of the French terrorists were all com mitted in the name of liberty and equality We may learn from this how little confidence is to be placed in mere party designations, or in the watch-words of dis organizing factions, whose usual policy is to wear a captivating mask, till the ruin iipon which they are bent is accomplished. All those parties who proceed upon the assumption, that the end justifies the means, are only copyists of the monsters of the French Re volution. We have them already organized and ope rating in our own land, proclaiming their spacious doc trines and policy in various quarters of the Union, and tempting the people to acts of violence and blood. Our country must be saved from reckless radicalism or we are lost. There are thousands on our soil tl- J readj who covet only an unlicensed liberty, and in is sacred name are ripe for any movement which can p mise them the benefit of a revolution in society. Let us not be deceived, but remember that the greatest crimes that ever.stained the history of the world have been committed under plausible pretexts of religion, or patriotism, or necessity. STREET PREACHING IN NEW YORK. The X, Y. papers of last week brought accounts of an arrest by the Mayor on Sunday the 18th inst., of a street preacher named Parsons, on the pretext that he was violating an ordinance of the city. On the Mon-: day following, after a few hours notice, an immense mass meeting assembled in the Park, and adopted very strong resolutions, affirming liberty of speech as an inalienable rio-ht and condemning: theonduct of the o---j f . f r . Y. i c .l Urir,. rr-ilhcrillC OI ."j ui . - vii iasi ouuuay anomei ',o'- o " those who sympathized with Parsons, i gain asseni bled, and listened to addresses from him and other i-n..n -it... :M'I II I.I I. , t c nfltTfir UTII fC3 """ci". X lie lltruia, iiiuiuugii ivo t ti he a Catholic, sustains the movement with com mendable independence, and defies Archbishop Hughes and his minions to put a stop to street preaching, the fight of .which is secured to every citizen by the Con stitution of the United States and of every individual State. So say we. The city ordinance of New York is a gross invasion of the rights of native born Amer icans, and deserves to be trampled under foot by the insulted sovereignty of the people. So far Parsons hrs been powerfully sustained. On Friday the 16th, Mayor Westervelt issued a proclamation exhorting the citizens to discourage street preaching and every species of disturbance.- He had discharged Parsons very promptly on discov ering that his discourse had been delivered on private property. The Mayor seems to us to have been gov erned by a commendable regard to the preservation of the public peace, and also to have exhibited consid erable firmness on the occasion. Archbishop Hughes, about the same time, thought proper to make himself conspicuous by addressing an ceclesidzticid proclamation, purporting to have the same object in view with that of the Mayor. He ex horts his- '-dearly beloved brethren," the rabble, to abstain from such symptoms, of impatience and re sentment as, owing to human infirmity, (mark the term,) ." a reasonable and just indignation" "might tempt them to exhibit." A more disgusting and de ceitful instance of ecclesiasticcl affectation and dupli cjty could hardly be conceived. To our minds its language, which literally expresses great apostolic moderation, conveys to the bigoted mob an unmis takeable approval of the very thing it appears on the surface to condemn. We shall look with anxiety for further news, but hope the lovers of liberty and order will succeed in prpvorTs-g me ii.cttt nea coilisioi.. Strep' r'',"1""S like that of Parsons, is an unfortunate subject on which to try the great issue which must eventually come. EDUCATION BY THE STATE. We find in the Watchman and Observer, a consi derable portion of a recent letter addressed by the Rev Dr. Thomwell, of South Carolina, to Governor Manning, on the subject of Sectarian Education, es pecially in colleges, in which he contends frith much sound discrimination and force of argument, that such influences are generally detrimental, and have a tend ency to alienate from one another the people of the same state. In Dr: Thornwell's views we, to a great extent, concur. He handles the great subject with the acuteness of ah accomplished theologian, and the comprehensive grasp of a statesman. The arguments he employs against sectarian control in colleges are still more applicable, in our judgment, to common schools. Thii,is the great question after all, which embraces all the rest, and demands of the most pro found thinkers of our country, an early investigation, and a fair solution. The common SchooL-ea,use is the last dyke, from which we can never retreat with out a fatal abandonment of all those defences which patriotism has erected against foreign and hostile in flences. Dr. Thornw ell says : Apart from the principle involved, I have other objection to sectarian education. I say sectarian educarion, for tho church as catholic and one, in the present condition of things, is not visible and corporate. What the does can only be' done through the gency of one or more of the various frag ments into which she has been suffered to split- In uV first place, it is evident, from the feebleness of the sects, that these Colleges cannct be very largely endowed. In the next place, they are likely to be numerous. From these causes w ill re sult a strenuous competition for patronage, and from this two effects may be expected to follow. First, the depression of the standard of general education, so as to allure students to their halls ; and next, the preference of what is ostentatious and attractive in education to what is solid and substantial. It is true that there can be no lofty flight, as Bacon has sug gested, " without some feathers of ostentation ;" there can be no flight at all, where there are not bone, muscle and sinew to sustain the leathers. It is also a serious evil that the State should be habitually denounced as profane and infidel. To think and speak of it in that light is the sure way to make it so ; and yet this is the umlorm representation of the advocates of church education. They will not permit the State lo teach the subleet, because its fingers are unclean. Can there be a more certain method to uproot the sentiments of patriotism, and to make us feel that the' government ot the country is an enormous evil to which we are to submit, not out of love, but for conscience sake ? Wdl not something like this be the inevitable effect of the declamation and invective which bigots and zeatbts tcel authorized to vent against t".e Commonwealth that pro tects them,, in order that they may succeed in their narrow schemes? Instead ot clinging around the State, as they would clin to the bosom of a beloved parent, and concen tratingupon her the highest and holiest influences whieh they are capable of exerting, instead of teaching their children to love her as the ordinance of God for good, to bless her for her manifold benefits, and to obey her with even a r ligious veneration, they repel her to a cold and cheerless distance, and brand her with the stigma of divine reprobation. The result must be had. " The fanaticism whieh despises the State, and the infidelity which condemns the Church, are both alike the product of ignorance and tolly. God hns es tablished both the Church and the State. It is as clearly cur duty to be .loyal and enlightened citizens, as to be faithful and earnest christians." Coxgress. There has not been much doing in this body, and it is generally understood that verv little will be done before Christmas recess. We are of the opinion that, such being usually the case, they bad better not meet at all till after the holidays. Some important propositions have however been brought up if not acted upon. The Judiciary committee is enter taining the question of revising the Public Statutes of the United States. The bill for granting land in sev eral States for the indigent insane, has been introduc ed. A resolution in relation to the surplus revenue and a reduction of the tarifi will be discussed hereaf ter. The House has been debating the purchase of Mount Vernon, as the property of the nation. A bill from the Senate requiring the confirmation by that body of the appointment of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, was discussed on Thursday week. Nothing definite has however has been done. The naval committee have reported a bill for the construction of six war steamers. On Tuesday the resolution proposing the purchase of Mount Vernon, was laid on the table by a vote of 87 to 85 The measure was strenuously opposed by the Virginia dele gation. The Hon. John Kerr was called home from wi,. ington one day last week on account of the illness of his wife. We reffret in lmm l , CHRISTMAS. I To all our friends- we wish a happy if Lt Christmas. As they gather around tlJ . -v t ttio fnmilv table, wo 1,,. .1 I 'Tv- v., . ..v j --, - "vjn; iriev vj a cneenui reunion aim a piuasam in enjoy re'; thoughts which naturally suggest the -- ves on,,. , 'inc. 3 ... 5 of occasions. As the present Christmas . 1 .... ...ill 1 ri 1 r . n r,,,... T... . 1 Uiv, iiieie "-"-wmv lliau ( r - -"i 'against those frivolities which have t.0 ,fi,.n '!ar!l the solmcn festival. If it is to he ohser.''""11 decent respect should certainly he' paid to tl- ' ' of the event which it was designed to ciiimilei' "' It may benefit- all, while it saiu-t'ifi -s tlaj 0(T- '' meditate upon the bh-sdngs whii-h (.'hijtjn ' ' cooferred mo:i the world, and m ! ' ' l""C "If prno-,-,.- the diffusion of its heavenly !igh-t fi-omf t' .7"'" f ...,11. . i. j in Vm. .u.ili.i- in DL'inieiiem to the rl Q T i-tw n ItTinir . T- ! i . . .,1 , ov, v 1 . ui'-u nations enjiifc- i innueuve tue precious inheritance of civil ! liberty. We may contemplate with e,L, n. oi'l reV, ' i vj j . .iiv.i u - 1 1 I J 1, 1WII.1IN W 1 .(..,... r !. l.nnfSln ..I.:.. I. - . J- 1 l - - : u;nie Iinin one great source, and perceive the oi.li r; -'fi'-ns w,. under to celebrate it, if we celebrate thankful remembrance of our mercies. art '!a: ail will, i An old Christmas s tions for the occasion kcs sonic ut-etul ,,.. We cilc a few sian,a. ..T? cotnme melody commend themselves by. their moral. ifn,.t 1 . , "As God hath plenty to tiie-o sent Take comfort of thy 'labors, And let it never thee repent To feast thy needy "neighbors. Let tires in every chimney be That people 'they may warm them Tables with dishes covered, aj j;t i,.. .-;n 1 .1 uuuu ui.-iiL-. 1101 nailll I'loiJ). Good customs they may bi.' uhtised, 1 Vt Inch makes rich men so shick This feast is to relieve the y.nn; And not to drunken U.u c!ius." lib WOMAN'S EIGHTS IN IT?ALY. The University of Hob.jrua has had ,litr,.rtIlt , riods several distinguished lVni.de prr.feL,,r. 1 , fourteenth century, Novella di: AxpitL-, frequc-t'l occupied her father's chair, and her beiu ty was v'i ' off from the students by a curtain.' Lacra I5asmw1s professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, and her lectures were attended by le'.-.rned ladies of France and Germany. She received the honorary decree of LL. D. More recently, Madonna mIxzoliu , professor of anatomy, while her hushjind" lilW t e chair of surgery. Matilda Tambkosi has in 0j times rilled with learning the chair of Greek liters!; She was the predecessor of Mezzofaxtj.'. We j. tucsc icitia iiuiu tue nines 01 11 01. "lnunan. f It will be perceived that tl-c right of jn-omen to pr ouc iu.MUiie employments has been oiten clairul I and exercised at Bologna. There a?e Kery few net humbugs under the sun. These precedents, howeur. do not quite reconcile us to curtain lectures, even if j the lady is a beauty. So much the wjrse for that.- ! And besides, in lecturing on anatomy, t le descriptions of a lady must necessarily be limited before a ma'e ! audience There are certain branches of the subject f which could not be faithfully t. treated, by a mode.; woman, no matter how many curtains were hargm f1 between her and the audience. ' No wonder the men of Italy are effeminate, if tie J women are so masculine. We hope nfever to see the I day when such a confusion of the sexej; and their (L- ! ties shall show itself in ther elevated cjrtles of Ama- I can Society. 1 ahu c ky. i ne m; v. papers were a cool deal occupied last week with the suit of Fry, an open manager, against Bennett of the Jlerabl, for malicious and injurious articles in his paper." Bennett had .vusveu me manager, by the severity of las j criticisms and denunciations, and now in his turn h I has been severely fried by the plaintiffthe jurv hav- mS assessed the damages laid at $20,000, at half that " little sum. This is pretty severe, but if the whole pres of the country were fi ,ed in proportion, the respects ble sum that would W realized would so,,,, build the Pacific railroad.. Ye ympathize profoundly within? j bottom of Bennetts purse. I The Star in the East, a prominent IVtnp. r ncc pa- I per in this State, expresses its willingness t. have t e word " sacramental" inserted in the-.M.,im La-me- 1 morial now circulating through the cnmitiv We presume it will be done, as nothing would in..rcr. tainly kill that law in North Carolina lha n an attempt to forestall ecclesiastical action in a mittc-r hc!on;'iig to the several churches exclusively. It i pnm.Ur held that unfermented grape juice is hot trim it all, and of course, if that is true, it is not! a siirkUe atu cle for sacramental purposes. ! x Accidest. On last Sunday moriiin? the rn:iil trait leaving this place was thrown off the track m ; r Hen derson, owing to a displacement of :! -.witch, ard" the new Engine, the Graham, seriously inj'irtd. None of the passengers or hands snth-red inat.-rially. The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad must hi? careful not to sacrifice its high character for saf.tv to life limb. We see it stated that the Hon. Henry A. d Virginia has been recently married. Smth.' 'va.e g'-ss that every poor old bachelor shmdd : a like-Wisf. Very good advice 'so far as ,U wa -' ' idal career is concerned, but in oth.r infers theyhssd better do other-Wise. , ' . ' The Lost Cutter Hamilton-. The holy ( tain Rudiilpli, of the lost cuMer Hamilton. w;; f- on Monday last and interred in the city of Ch vi-on- LITERARY NOTICES. In the Adrertiser of this week will be f--t:nd a advertisement of Leonard Scott a- ('. f V"" ','rk, in whieh their plan for the continued rttpub'tcatk' "'' the British Quarterlies and BlacUeoi'.' .Va.'.inel fully detailed. We invite the earl'. aiuni uotf readers to it, as it holds on! great h rhj -fu.. o ibe lovers of first class periodical Jiu-raW.-. ht SCen that Viu t. .... i i- J... frit-fi'r ... I'uuii&iiers nave rraue niwi,'6'-u the new year, by which they will be nish these cheap republications about fore gn and more costly conies' cu'. .aided t" fur' las M'om . s tn i. . nlraitt"- The advantage of subscribing fbromcior all of t now at the beginning of theyear, wilil strike cerj one who will examine the terms. . f To the. intelligent reader it will hardly be llC(',s to say more than a word in reconinicda:i'' ' nl celebrated British periodicals, the page.i of so constantly overflowing with the ch"i vest li:erarf productions of Europe. These are the ch"- " nels of the most cultivated intellect of Britain. the Organs of tho oront ri .rh..s whose cuiifli''-s . B . , m - " mut ii atvi i nv vi.'sjf' -it, iw.i-. - - tion of public policy iu the church or the State, theory in the progress of science or the :rt9, ?x triumph or failure of" genius in any ot its err flights, is sure to meet with a full discussion, imated and learned, if not always iiripartial '" in their teemingcolunins. Here the gre;it pesi'I4e, negative powers of the national mind come i"10, lision, and the conflict is necessarily brilli;n, e ,. faininrr anil l'ncf rnofM-A Tr iVti iAiintrV it 1 -- umv BUti nas inee nveo wajrs-popsrible to obtain, fesh and new, the heff r
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