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46 TIB S OU T 3 W WEE ELI P.O.-ST ! , MlSCELLAHEOaS. INDELIBLE IHIwS, A3STD PAPER . Abstract of a Lecture on the" Chemistry: of Indelible Ink nd Paper," delivered before Bacon's Cincinnati Mer cantile College, by Prof- Chas. W. Wright, and reported expressly for the Scientific American. -j ' The basis of most of the so:caIled indelible inks of commerce is the nitrate of silver, or lunar caustic; The articles written upon by the nitrate are previously moistened with a solution of; car bonate of soda ; or ammonia is added to a solu tion of niVftte of silver until the precipitate pro duced is redissolved." The latter is a dangerous preparation, as it is liable to give rise to the form ation of the fulminating silver, and explosive com pound, particularly if if it be kept for some time. Nitrate of silver, however, does not make an in delible mark, as all writing executed with it can be discharged by means of chlorine or its bleach ing salts. A truly indelible ink must contain carbon in the solid form as its basis, as this substance has but two solvents, viz., melted iron and strong sulphuric acid, neither of which are likely to be employed ia erasing writing. In the Yorm of charcoal we have numerous instances of the in destructibility of carbon. Thus in the Thames River stakes of oak have tbeen recently found, where .they are supposed to have been driven at the time of the invasion-of Julius Caesar, the surface of which was charred and 'in a state of perfect preservation. At Herculaneum the beams of the theatre were carbomized when that city was overwhelmed with lava, 170Q years ago, and are as perfectly preserved now as the day after that sad occurrence. Carbon is the basis of India ink, which is made by incorporating purified lampblack with glue, and moulding it in suitable forms. As the carbon in India ink is not in so lution, it 4oes not sink into the substance of paper like the tanno-gal late of iron, a portion of which is in. solution, but flows with difficulty from steel pens, and hence; cainot be Used as an ordinary writing fluid. - PapSr is composed of carbon and the elements of water, as can be very readily shown by bring ing it in contact with sulphuric acid, which ab stracts the water and, liberates the Carbon. It is fabricated, as is well known, out of linen or cotton rags, which are eihiced to a pulp by machinery and incorporated with a size of glue or alumina, by which, when rolled into-sheets, its tenacity is increased and it is rendered less porous. When paper is sizod with glue and written up on by common ink, containing free tannic acid, it is affected in a peculiar manner, in fact the letters rest upon a basis of leather, as tannic acid, by combining with gelatine forms that substance. When paper is boiled for several hours in very dilute sulphuric acid it is transformed into that variety of sugar which is found in grapes and honey. When heated with nitric acid, carbonic acid is evolved and oxalic acid generated, but if it be digested for a few minutes in strong nitric acid, or a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids, in equal proportions, at the ordinary temperature, and washed in water and dried, it shrinks slight ly, becomes tough, and is highly explosive, in fact it is identical in composition with the gun cotton of Sclioeiibein. . ' Various kinds' of paper have been invented to resist the ari.s of counterfeiters and formers. In 1826 the French Academy of Sciences appom ed a committee ;to discover a paper to be used for deeds, bmk notes, &c, that could not be tam pered with without detection. The device agreed upon consisted in covering the paper on both sides with microscopic stars, ajdelible ink bsing used, which would be destroyed by the chemical agents employed in erasing writing. Another process intended to accomplish the same purpose' consists in incorporating iodide of potassium, starch, and yellow prussiate of potash (with the materials for fabricating paper. When chlorine is applied to such paper to discharge writing, iodine is liberated, and by combining with the starch forms the blue iodide of starch, and the application of acids would give rise to Prussian blue, by the re-action of the iron of the ink on the yellow prussiate of potash. Neither of the above processes are of much value, however, as an expert engraver and chemist could overcome any obstacle which they might present in the prevention of forgery and counterfeiting. Parchment which was extensively used as a writing material4n ancient times, is rarely em -' ployed at the present day, except for diplomas. It is prepared from the skins of animals, and is written upon with difficulty by ordinary ink, from its generally being slightly greasy. This difficulty is readily overcome by moistening the parchment very slightly with the water of am monia, or by adding a littlejof that substance to the ink just before usingTt. If the ink contains free tanic acid, the letters rest 'upon a basis. of leather, as in the case of paper that has been sired with glue. Chess Extraordinary. Recent foreign jour nals contain references to a chess match, upon a mammoth scale, played in Germany not many - weeksago, An immense plain was divided off into squares of grass and pebble, alternating like -the cheques of a draughtboard. The four cas tles were live elephants,1 draped in, black and . white, with castellated appendages containirig the drivers; the knights were mounted on black or snow white chargers ; the bishops were in full canonicals; the kings and queens were upon throned platforms drawn by horses, and the pawns were knight-esquirpls mounted on small barbs. Tins game lasted all day,, and was wit nessed by an immense concourse. The black king was check-mated by the white queen, aided by her knight and castle-regarded as a capitol play. Abd el Kader was once check-mated by an almost parallel move, the castle being the most important piece of machinery against him. We should think this ponderous game was very slow to play or to witness ; and as there rarely is played a game of chess without one or more persons remaining stationary, or nearly so, . from first to last, we should seriously pity the unfortunate black or white knight-esquirolwho had to sustain this distasteful part of masterly. ! ' inactivity I Give to us the broad squares of the ioho leawern ooara ana the patent Staunton chess-men, lately so common, and by the side of a cosy cannel coal fire, with bright eyes to op pose us, we will play chess until matins ring agwn-nor envy, but rather pity, the directors of the live elephant! and breathing kings and queens oi an now? upon the continental field. THE SUBOBNED WITNESS- It was quite a little dinner party in Dorches ter. -There were present, Daniel Webster, Joseph T. Buckingham, - then of the Boston i Galaxy, Charles Thatcher, Samuel Upttfn, and Josiab Bradlee, the three great merchants of Boston, Edward Everett, and Andrew Dunlap, .afterwards United States District Attorney for; Massa chusetts. ''; ' - .1 When it came Mr. Webster's turn to speak, he told of his first case in Salisbury where an old man by the name of Sear! had to defend himself against a charge of having set .his shop on fire, for the purpose of receiving his insurance money. The case was turned upon the testi i mony of a witness for the prosecution by the name of F. Fisk,whom Mr. Webster mostsolemn iy believed to have been suborned by -ia warm personal enemy of old Searle, named Emerling. This man Fisk gave his story from tbej witness stand as if-it had been written and stfidied for repetition. He used the words "the said Searle, the said' Emerling," quite out of his own natural way of speech, but from his stojy--ne cross - examination of Webster cchrmg him. He would go right back to it, making use i( the same phrases, and no bluster moved hib. The judge and jury began to be impatient; they had been led to believe, from the strong asseverations of the counsel for Searle; that he would come off triumphant ; but the testimony of Fisk, an ignorant and unlettered irian, was nevertheless so succinct and so consistent say ing nothing but about the case, and full of all facts necessary to sustain it that their minds were evidently made up, and they were only - thinking of their dinner. It was close; on two o'clock, when the court usually adjoirrned to dinner, and yet Mr. Webster continued hisques tions, with repetitions, which provoked reproof from the Court, but which, from the urbane man ner .of Mr. Webster, at last resu1 ted in an order for adjournment, to the afternoon session, with leave to Mr. Webster to go on with his investigation then to his heart's content. Old Searle seized the arm of Mr. Webster as the crowd left the court, with' all the agony of a drowning man, and whispered into his' car with trembling accents, that Fisk was only telling the lies which Emerling had taught h,im to re peat. The court and the bar went to jdine, the crowd separated. Mr. Webster stood apart, and while he was in despair in the fearful certainty of losing a case which he believed ought not to be lost, he saw the man Fisk retire to afi obscure place, and take from his waistcoat pockejt a paper which he consulted with all apparent: earnest ness. The lips of the man moved, and his ges tures were animated as he returned it to his pocket and went to the tavern bar joom and drank a glass of brandy and water. Presently the court house bell rang and the witness was again upon the stand. W ebster " You say yon never received any letter from Emerling!'' Witness "Yes. The said Emerling never wrote to me." ) Webster "Do you know his hand writing!" Witness " No, I never saw it." j Mr, Webster rose as if to look at a book lying near the witness' box, and while the attention of Fisk was drawn to this movement, Mrj Webster suddenly thrust his hand into the Iwaistcoat . pocket, where he had seen the paper placed, which the witness was perusing during the adj ournment, and quietly returned with jit to the bar, iu spite of the quick convulsive blutcli of Fisk, which was shaken, off by Mr. Webster, who after a hasty perusal of it said i " 1 hold here the whole written instructions of the man Emerling, to the witness, Fisk, the story written out by Emerling as it has been re peated by Fisk, w'ord for word, on that stand. He has jn.st declared that he never received let ters from Emerling, and did riot -know) his hand writing. Mr, Foreman, will you pleasepbe sworn, and see if vou know this writing to be that of Emerlinor !" j It was proved, it was read, it was handed to the court ; and during all this time ybu could have heard a cricket chirp in that court room. You should have seen old Searle in these mo ments as he stood behind Mr. Webster,his hands. holding hard upon the railing of the! bar, his chin quivering like the mouth of a rabbit, and big tears trickling down his lank diiy cheeks. O, it was a happy freedom of truth from the fangs of wrong 1 There was not a word of hesi tation in the verdict ; and bench warrants were forthwith issued against Fisk for perjury, and against Einerliug fur the subornation of peijury. The cry of the crosvd, as they dispersed, was to the wonder, how that black-eyed fellow, Daniel Webster, looked right into the waistcoat pocket of the rascal witness. . j Pulaski's Moscment. The following is from the Savannah Courier, of the 13th ult 4 Since the commencement of the successful) search of Col. Bowen for the grave of Pulaski,; many in quiries have been made of us concerning the progress of the Pulaski Monument, aird the pro bable time of its completion. In order to sa tisfy ourselves, and those int. rested in jtheroonu mental decoration of .our city, we yesterdav ap plied to Col. Bowen, who informed its that the granite for the pedestal had already arrived in the brig Augusta ; and, furthermore, that he had Ehe day before received advices! from the contractor, Mr. Launitz, that the greater por tion of the material had recently arrived at New York from Italy, among other piece the God dess of Liberty to crown the whole; that all was in excellent order, and that the monument would be complc ted in every part and be rea dy for inauguration during the month of March. We will here state for the information of the public, who take a deep interest in the subject, that the authorized examination by medical gentlemen of the skeleton recently found, and supposed to be that of PuIaskiL is nearly, com pleted, and that the result, with all the evidence which bears upon the question of identification, and the place where Pulaski was buried, will be speedily published." ! ; i A New wax to Quench TmRST.-i-In a cer tain village lived a very honest farmer who, having a number of men hoeing in a field went to see how his work went on. Finding one of them sitting still, he reproved him for his idle ness ; the man answered," I thirst for the spirit." " Grog, you mean, I suppose," said the farmer ; " but if the Bible teaches you to thirst after the spirit, it says, also, w hoe ! every one that thirsteth.1 Ak EC DOTE OF THE LATE JCDAH ToURO. The following! anecdote,: says the New Orleans Delta related of our lamented fellow-citizen, the late JudaB Touro, gives a beautiful exem plification of the character of this most excellent and benevolent man : " A poor woman had been thrown pennyless upon- the world, by the loss of her husband, who had die4 in indigent circumstances; leaving her a large family of children to" support. She had long contended with adverse fortune, and was fast sinking under the exertions she had been forced to make to sustain herself and fami ly. In her dire' extremity she was forced" to mendicity. Begging for her daily bread, from door to door, she met with little encouragement from the cool-hearted and selfish possessors of this world's wealth. She had almost relinquish ed all hope of meeting with any success, when one day she was referred to Judah Touro, who was recommended to her by an individual al most his peer in wealth, as a very charitable man.i With fear and trembling she knocked at the door of his hospitable mansion was admit ted by a servant, and conducted to the persence of Mr. Touro. Here she related the brief story of her sufferings and misery. The benevolent man Walked to his desk and taking out his check book, filled a check and handed it to the wo man,' with instructions to call at a certain bank and I have it cashed. Cautioning her not to mention to any one the circumstance, he bade her begone, and instantly withdrew from the room, to escape the profusion of heartfelt thanks that were swelling forth from the heart. She repaired to the bank and handed the check to the cashier. That individual was amazed on ex amining it; to find that the check was drawn for $1,500 ; but be was not more astonished than the tvoman herself was, when she heard the amount. ; She was sure there must be some mistake,, and taking up the check immediately returned to the house of Mr. Touro. The old man appeared to be very angry when she again presented herself, and asking her if he bad not giveri her enough,' he added, ' Begono Ma dam for not another cent will you get from me,' andvithout giving her a moment for explana tion, he ordered the servant to conduct her out of the house. The woman, of course, had the check cashed, and since then has passed ma ny a! happy day, and still lives to bless the me mory bf her benefactor, whose kindness had placed her beyond the reach of want. Trains Introduced. A Paris letter says : Having spoken of the Imperial quadrille and of the diplomatic waltz, I ma)', without impro priety, digress to the grand event of the week the first reception of the season at the Tuille ries, and the .inauguration of trains and court mantles. This huge event, in the minds of those it was intended to interest, was of vastly more concern than the disaster of Sinope or the pas sage of the Bosphorus. The solemnity lasted j barely half an hour, but was as meteoric in bril- lia'ncy as it was in duration. This generation has seen nothing so magnificent. Three trains wer especially gorgeous and tasteful. I put them in the order of precedence. 1st. That of an American lady from Phila delphia. 2d. That of the Empress of the French. 3d. That of an American lady from Virgi nia. ; This was the universal verdict. Eugenie was certainly the second in the list. The Empress wasthe only lady who dragged her train behind her.; The others carried them upon their arms, except at the moment of presentation, when they were allowed to trail them. The lessons taken fronji dancing masters in the graceful art of tail bearing, were, therefore, thrown away. (I have a right to caH a train a tail, if I like; the French word is guew) There never were but five1 women in France who wore a train with dignity and grace. Queen Hortense ; the Duch ess of Angouleme and the Countess of Simeon, at Court ; and M'lie Mars and M'll Levert, on the stage. The revival of the fashion, for the single reception of Monday night, is calculated to have caused an outlay and distribution among arti sans and sewing girls, of three millions of francs. Last night the first ball at the Palace took place. Trains were not worn, of course, as t was a soiree dansante, and the entertainment, presented no new or unusual features. Notwithstanding the hostile attitude of Rus- sia and France, M de Kissleff opened the quar- drille at the ball of the Princess MathiHe, with thej Empress, and waltzed with the fair hostess. Never was the Russian Envoy so overflowing with urbanity, never were the little interchanges of Courtesy between him and his enemies so charming and delightful to behold. A Real Yankee. One of the last stories of Yankee inquisitiveness makes the victim give bis tormentor a direct cut iu telling him he wished to be asked no further questions. The inquis itor fell back a moment to take breath, and change his tactics. The half suppressed smile on the faces of the other passengers soon, arous ed him to further exertions; and summoning up more resolution, he began again : " Stranger, per haps you are not aware how almighty hard it is for. a Yankee to control his curiosity. You'll please .excuse me, but I would really like to know your name, and what business you follow. I ex pect you ain't ashamed of either of 'em, so now won't you just obleege me!" This appeal brought out the traveller, who, rasing up to the extremest height allowed by the coach, and throwing backAis shoulders,-replied, "My name is General Andrew Washington. I reside in the State of Mississippi. I am a gentleman of leasure, and I am glad to be able to say of extensive means. I have heard much of New York, and I am on my way to see it ; and if I like it as well I'm led to expect, I intend to buy if." Then was beard a shout of laughter throughout the stage coach ; and this was the last of the conversation ! Fat and Lean. A man praising porter, said it was so excellent a beverage, that, taken in great quantities, it always made him fat. 44 1 have seen the time," said another, " when it made yon lean." r " When !" asked the eulogist. "Last night against a wall." The area of all the States of Europe is given at 8,634,632 square miles .The Chicken Fever.- The praiseworthy at tempts to improve the breed of domestic fowls which led to the introduction of the Cochin-China and other enormous birds, threatens, ' both here and in England, to degenerate into a mania for monstrosities, not at all likely to further the desired reform. Prices have already been paid, in our own country, for different varieties bf fowls, out of all proportion to their value ; and this, whether we merely consider their worth for the table, or regard their merits as progenitors of an improved stock. As in all similar excitements, the most money ' will be made by those who were among the earl iest pioneers in it, or by those who wait until the fever of the enthusiasm is over, until a reaction occurs, and until prices consequently fall. What happened during the Merino sheep speculation, and even to some extent during the Durham cattle one, is happening again, and to a new gen eration. The permanent result will be, as then, beneficial to the country at large. But hundreds, if not thousands, will pay deaily for this public good. Many a man will burn his fingers in the Shanghai excitement bnt the breed of fowls will nevertheless be improved. We do not decry the movement, be it under stood. But we wish every person, before going into the "chicken line, " seriously to count the cost." What may be a pardonable hobby, for ex ample, to the idle gentleman of fortune, may prove a very dear ' whistle' to the small farmer, who looks to a ready return for his money and time. Fancy chickens, as yet, "don't pay." That is they "don't pay" legitimately, but only for speculative purposes. No Shanghai, or other premium variety, is worth, for the table, the the moiety it brings, now that the fever is raging. Americans are a rich people: Our common food is more costly than that often served to no bles in many a European country. But we can hot afford, nevertheless, to eat," as a daily dish, fowls that cost from five to ten dollars each. The farmer, therefore, who expects to make money immediately, by the sale of high-priced fowls for the table,, emphatically " counts his chickens before they are hatched." Prices must come down vastly before Shanghais can become staples for ordiuary tables. Till they do become such, however, the demand for them will be a mere speculative one wholiy. The bubble will break, sooner or later. A wise man will take care, atf the proper time, therefore, to be out of the way. Even while the bubble continues to dilate, even while it glows with its thousand seductive colors, it is not entirely the beautiful thing it seems. This " chicken fever " if it improves the breed of fowls, creates also a taste for monstros ities. Some persons have already reached the point when they no longer care to breed the largest and finest flavored birds, but seek rather to produce novelties in appearance, habits or size, regardless of (he usefulness of the fowl for the table. Now, it is a clumsy bird, with coarse flesh, over which the " fancier " exults ; now credit is claimed because of the unrivaled ugli ness of the "fresh variety ;" and now the world is challenged to produce a chicken so small, so rediculous, or so useless. At a large poultry fair in England, for example, the Queen paid fifty dollars for a pair of bantams, whose only merit, if merit it can be called, consisted in being infinitesimally puny. But her Majesty of England is not the only lady who has gone into rapiures over " the dear little bantams." Really, if Americans and Englishmen both do not take care, the tulip mania, which once dis graced Holland, will have its rival, in our own times, in the " chicken fever-" There is such a thing as having too much even of a good thing ; and the poultry, excitement threatens soon to reach that clinfax. Phil. Ledger. The Stort of a Bonnet. When at Paris I had purchased one of the bonnets of the season, which, as every one knows, are small beyond precedent, without reflecting that I was bound for a country where the ladies display in nothing their characterstic modesty and reserve more than in bonnets at least for the ordinary pro menade retiring into profound depths of Leg horn and lace, and sometimes cloistering them selves in the shades of " uglies." The 'Parisian milliner of whom I purchased the above-mentioned bonnet, who was a reduced comtesse, and had her arras blazoned on the pla fond of her show-room, was so complaisant as to go into ecstacies over the effect when I tried it ou, crying, " Cest joli! ckarmant, jM)fuit " I saw that it was becoming, peculiarly so ; and she assured me it was not dear ; so I took it, with no fearful looking for of cockney indigna tion, surely. " Well, as I descended from ray chamber, equipped for my expedition into town, I noticed that the friend who was to accompany me looked a little struck up ; but I concluded it was with admiration at the ton of the thing ; and perhaps it was. At the station, while wait ing for the train, I had a strong suspicion that a remark I overhead of " My yes ! them is pop pies," referred to a trifle in the decorative way , belonging to my bonnet. In the railway carri age I found myself an object of rather curious regard ; but this I attributed to a certain foreign air I may have picked up on the continent ; and it was not till I was walking down Regent street that I was convinced.as to the cause of the sen sation I produced. " The head and front of my offending " was my unfortunate bonnet. It was stared at and commented upon without mercy"; shop-boys pronounced it " the last Paris stun ner;" shop-girls lifted up their eyebrows and said " Oh, my !" and an impudent young foot man, as he passed me, looked up into my face with a shrill significent whistle. At last, iu very desperation, I rushed into a shop and pur chased a black lace veil, with which I quite ex tinguished my " stunner, poppies and all. Grace Greenwood. Trt it. Any human being who will have the presence of mind to clasp the; hands behind the back, and turn the face towards the zenith, may float at ease and in perfect safety, in tolerably still water ay, sleep there, no matter how long If not knowing how to swim, you would escape drowning; when you find yourself in deep wa ter, you have only to consider yourself an emp ty pitcher; let your mouth and your nose not the top part of your heavy head be the highest part of you, and you are safe, but thrust up one of your bony hands and down yon go turning np the handle tip 'over the pitcher. THE PRISONER OF ROCHELLE- Here is a scene from the vaudeville of the "Prisoner of Rochelle," which, says a metropo litan journal, keeps the audience in a roar of laughter, every night, of its performance. Cor poral Cartouch amuses himself by going through the manual exercise, j while Leza, seated at her work table, abstractedly questions him concern ing matrimony. ! Leza. -If fi girl was to fall in love with you, Corporal, what wouldj you do f Cartouch. Manoeuvring with his musket, present arms ! L. -She would doubtless look to you for C. Support! i L. And. then what a heavy burden you'd have to C Carry. i L. Your butcher and baker would have to-V'. ! C. Charge. j L. Your prospects, of course, would not C. Advance. L. And you havet to C. 'Bout face. L. And never have any C Rest. L. Now, Corporal, pray give me your C Attention, r ' L. A man of your age is not able to bear such a ' C Load. ' L. But you m-e not in your C. Prime. L. Your wife may C 'Bout. j - L. Leave you ; but she will soon - C. Return. j L. And then you will have to bear all on your C. Shoulder. L. Would you be C Ready. .J ' L. I think you have some other C Aim. . . .-. L. And you'd throw all your epistles into C Fire. j (Fires the musket.) Sensibility. The; N. 0. Bee relates the fol lowing, among other ; incidents connected with the burning of the Georgia. An individual was pointed out to us among the survivors. He was apparently about forty years old from Georgia., On our inquiring if he had lost any of his family, he replied "no, no body but my wife and a small gal." "How many childrer had ypu sir?" Seven in all." "No dad," said a strapping boy of 17 you had eight there was Jini arrd Dave and Sal etc., etc., " Well, I b'iieve you're right," said the father and we walked on. On relating the circumstance in the cars as an evidence of what we consider a total desti tution of sensibility, a passenger remarked "ybu are mistaken, sir. He is a man of very tender feelings. While he was telling me about $900 all, in $5 gold pieces, that he had left in the clerk's hand the big tears rolled down his cheeks. He is not wanting jtn sensibility, if you only touch him in the right place." Appearance. " How do you think peared at the party last evenim'-?" ap- " Oh fiuelv as usual." "Do you really think so?" "Certainly I do." "Do you think I appear as well at a paity as at a ball?" " Yes, though I have never taken particular notice." "Now, really tell: rne honestly will you?" "To be sure, I'll tell you honestly if I tell you at all." " Well, now I am anxious to know when do you think I appear the best?" " WThen you are at home minding your own business, madam." Not Much of a Shaker, bct can Shake Some. A young chap from New York City, visited the Shakers at Lebanon, and as he was wandering through the village, he met a stout hearty specimen of the shakers, and thus ac costed him : " Well Mr. Broadbrim, are vou much of a Shaker ?" . j "Nay, not much," was the reply, "but I can do a little in that way." He then seized the astonished Gothamite bv the collar, and nearly shook him out of his boots. The Horses of this United States. We find the following statistics ia the Boston Tran script : The first horses brought into any part of the territory at present embraced in the U. S. were landed in Florida by Cabeca de Veca, in 1527, forty-two in number, all of which perished or were otherwise killed. The next importation was also brought to Florida by De Soto, in 1539. In 1608 the French ! introduced the horse into Canada. In 1609, the English landed at James town in Virginia, having seven horses with them. In 1629, Francis Higgison imported horses and other domestic animals in the Colony of Massa chusetts Bay. In 1725, the Dutch Company imported horses into New York. In 1750, the French of Illinois were in possession of a con siderable number of horses. According to the census returns for 1850, there were 4,335,459 horses in the United States, exclusive of those in cities, which were not returned. The four and a half millions of It rca oni ft nlo tn 1.a TTIi. 1 f. .iilUa3 ... uro uuaeu otates, constitute a proportion of one to five of the inhabitants. New York has one j horse to seven persons. Pennsylvania one to six and six-tenths. Ohio one to four. Kentucky, one to three free in habitants. In Ohpo and the new States oi the Northwest the increase of horses has kept pace with that of the population. The number of horses in the United States ia more than three times as large as that in Great Britain. A recent report in France,shows that there are in that country 3,200,000 horses. PxNleaves, as a top dressing, has in several instances. desinwAs) tK . , --7 gruwm ot wire- grass wnere it had. been applied. Fights are easily got up. All that is required are three participants-two block-heads and a pint of new rum. m$mt MU foist EALEIGH, FEI25, 1854; WILLIAM DtOOKE, EDITOR AK rRI TOR. Terms TWO DOLLAES PHl iNUM, in Advance. , CLUB PMPS: Three Copies, $5- &rice . . . -. . 6, Eight Copies,. if i ..... ...... , Tea Copies, - .18 1 , - Twenty Copies, 20 1 ... . w. (Payment in oil castfy advance., W Where a club of eight, tet twenty copies is sent. th nnmon makinff UD ttie CIUO WJ" ciiwucu .v wW extra JCr Postmasters are authorizfto act as Agents for ihe Southern Weekly rost. Mr H. P. Douthit is our awized agent for the; State of Alabama, Mississippi t Tennessee. NABBOW-MINJDNESS. I , Men of all professions ajf-ipt to acquire con tracted and prejudiced vi of things not im mediately related- to theiA'n pursuits. The clergyman, accustomed tofbathe a theologicaj atmosphere and to deyotf iost of his time to subjects of a peculiarly fvated or recondite nature, often fails to appfcate the claims of truth of another kind, andpmetimes betrays culpable indifference towJs great and imporf tant issues upon which arlispended the dearj-, est interests of society. W sometimes see disf cussions going on in religkfpapers upon points of difference so minute, til however vast they may appear to the writers;e absolutely invisi ble to others, and certainlSnsignificant, coir pared with the great essenll doctrines of this Christian faith. ' The physjan, also, lives in a medicinal atmosphere. H ideas are very apt to be tinctured with the prlerties of his drugs, and his views and sentimeil in regard to gen eral subjects are often as uund and perverse as the constitutions of his pSents. He despises quackery in medical practibut it is astonish ing how independent and, Cjn mercenary may be his opinions on questiB relating to the health and comfort'bf the dy bolitic. He is very rational and cbnservati! inrespect to the animal economy, but you wm ofen find himja bold theorist and reckless pxpeimentalist p political or social economy, jln egard to law yers, the observer will soon find, that they a?e frequently chargeable with the same kind jof inconsistency. Within the sphere of their pro fession they are cautious and conservative. From the nature of their studies tey are habituated to calm and close investigion, and to gjve much weight in their judgrrlnt to authorities and precedents drawn from gemote antiquity. But they are too prone to viev every thing in the light of a litigation. Mary of them seem to think all the great controversies that agitate the world are but a strife for pow er or interest, and that the greatest issues are to be met and parried with as much quibbling1 ind sophistry as the respective parties can command. j The more a man confines his thoughts within the narrow bounds of a particular system,: the more narrow-minded and illiberal he must be- come.s All professions and all parties are subject to the same influence and liable to the same error. It is the great error of our country land our time .Societyjis minced into sects, parties, and associations to such a iogree that, were it not for a hind of comity that has; sprung uj be tween them, the mass would rapidly and inevi tably tend to a speedy dissolution. The? log rolling principle adopted in our legislative bodies, has begun to be applied to all the great move ments of the day. A and B temporarily elax some little of their mutual hostility, for the pur pose of overwhelmkig C, and resume j their wonted antagonism when they, have divided ' the spoils. Necessity has done for society? what could not be effected by patriotism or charity, and has thus far disarmed the violence of con flicting opinions of some of its dangerous power. Many persons, like the Chinese geographers, seem to regard the position they occupy as the centre of the universe. They first assume that their opinion, or creed, or hobby, of whatever kind it may be, is the great first object of human contemplation, and then measure the impor tance ot everything else by this arbitrary stan- dard. Distance does not lend enchantment, but only contempt to their view. Objects that at tract little of their attention are regarded as ab solutely insignificant, and they do not reflect that every image formed on the retina of the mental, as well as of the bodily eye, is produced by converging rays of light. There is sometimes a question raised in regard to the apparent size of the moon, and the controversy has been known to become too animated for the occasion. Precisely similar are many of the disputes that oceur in society between enthusiasts pf different classes. The more their thoughts are concen trated upon particular topics, the more they are withdrawn from others, and objects once prom inent before the mental eye, diminish as . they recede, till the deluded observer ceases to ap" preciate them. Every citizen should be a philanthropist, every philanthropist a philosopher, and every philoso pher a Christian. Society contains a great many uu rauge inemseives. under one or another of these classes, but they are too much dissociated, and too often antagonistical. In this country' Christianity is j - twiv ucuttaeu dj ine ex cessive sectarianism of many of its cham Our philosophy is generally remarkable rather for cynical prejudices than for an enlarirerl ality, and our philanthropy assumes the form of an amazon instead of an angel. Everv entbn siast appears to regard the hobby upon which he is mounted as a WC,,0 'i Kuupauu kji course the importance of the rider grows in proportion to the dimensions of his steed, and the world soon appears to his imagination like a panorama, m which he , i. the central figure at whose feet all observations are to be made. On the other hand the sneering cynic, who refuses to mount a hobby or to participate at all in enterprises of active usefulness, is no less important in his own estimation, but looks abroad upon the ever changing scenes and evolutions around him with a colder and more heartless egotism, whi ch satisfies its appetite with the sentiment of con tempt for the rest of mankind. It s hard to Bay which of these forms of human perverseness is most hostile and dangerous to society. They' are both very common, and should be more generally deplored.. It is very important for those Who aspire to ttd lead others, to take itaged'rf things,' and frequently to occupy some nlw of observation. Engineers who' lay down "nes ot our great improvements are obfige do tlllc in j. ." . l , u umci iu seieei a praciicaote rcf ureat commanders are accustomed to exam .11 A. - . '" " T an uie points on an exoosed frontier. Tfn v.. Py one, Psition all the time is impolitic an ratal, i ne same rule ought to guide ouf publi J men. Our great men, who are great ither ii general estimation or their own, ought tb dives uiemseives oi an unreasonable prejudices anc singularities, and sometimes view the interesb ot society and their country from other pjositions than those which the ties of sect or parnUquj,-! them to maintain. This is the only! Wavin which truth and sound policy can be ll acind in the midst of so manv THefir,;,,.- i ' - - j "viiug innuvnees wnicn continually surround them. T dency of parties is to repel one anotlL ten- l i an.) unfortunately, the more this partv zea a - a . i . T s exi;r- uisti, ujc more intense ana repulsive it L It is absolutely necessary that it should ified and moderated by frequent cil'ort rect in the mind those errors of the r, U:'U It 1 J.-...J 'r! fcoines. l' mod to cur-" Oliinrr -li-.-or-mind. wmuii u lias pruuueeu. me power of s rflftinn is tlin Kcf .... w OI;1 o.,.e;U which can rise superior to the pride -of a' consistency,-and add the fruits of experi. the stores it has already acquired. The habit we have now endeavored- trate is one which every member of would find it mr-fnl tr .,....:.. nee (o lilU-. jOel.-ty .. . ,lv.u,n. rj-yerv the present day is liable to the ti lV HI mptatiol eith- er to attach himself with lrrational artlor m n.fiai piujeci, or to retire in l .e : i ...... the ,ujvvi tjiuca criticism and do nothing sneer at what others have done. It is v sirablfi to nvnul th Hit I'V (,- -Auenies. e. must learn w .rvi uoviui anu eiidPfiivir ,... Ill - lw awiuer oiss!i"s among our tellow men, with a. hand nuai u uisereet. e must neit)er r eyes away in coid indifcrenec from th Claims i .vV su. VrtUSt-, nor gaze so intensely upon Use- one object as to become entranced bv it luiiis a stream termed from the c.onjtribn- uons or innumerable fountains, and aid oiifrii may a to now in opposite directions ii, ; i . i j men are mingled at last tide. in a common CLERICAL POLITICIANS. We notice that everalof the Northern have been making themselves indecent lerirv v con " "" eurassa agitation hos,at its height iu that excitable clime. Not billy has Henry vard Beecher made his appear nee on the political platform :n New York city, I p unite with. John P. Hale and other demagogues in i rri denouncing the measure now before C QHcres. but the Rev. E. N. Kirk, of Boston, wl 'm we had supposed satisfied with his well dl .served clerical honors, has seen fit to W N ZD and the Missouri Compromise into hi brat-kit pulj.'t ad; tQ and devote the sacred hours of the Sabi sectional agitation, TV, tlemen that interests lis to any great: C-XteliU We make a note of it as very discied. iab!e to themselves and their profession, howeye liann Ihey . This Oluicr.l less it may be to the Americau Uuijnj disgust, through thej do not alanr us. are but types of a great aud grower ev interference of ministers cf the gopel in affairs, is a gross indecenty (jtite as giuss as the appearance of women iu lie pulpilj and at the bar. It is however just asfooliah as it indecent. The only way itwhich the free soil party can ever accomplislunything in tWress is by purely political maneuvering. Tlte more the moral question intjrJes into that body, the weaker must that part econie, for thek.bvious reason that politiciansfene and all, enttrtain a profound abhorrence of lictiinonious fanfaicism. There is not in either fuse sufficient religious influence to afford a dnt mask under which the monster could hide deformities.: jLet not these clerical politieianabiagine that their de monstrations can add o"tarticle to the strength of the anti-slavery partyo Congress. Tjiey am have no other effect tin to rob that j-arty of the little pretence to pofeal plausibility which it has been endeavoring employ in lie work of agitation. ' ' It is truly mortifying see ministers of the gospel thus throwing tliiselves into tie mud dy whirlpool of section; tor party strifjel We wonder thy cannot see at slavery, as a politi cal question, has no mo business in the j uipit, than slavery as a religas question hajs in the halls of legislation. We nder they do not see that consistency require;, them to utn'uiace every territorial bill whi does not exulude, as far as can be, every spec; of vice and immoral ity from the bounds of si territory We would recommento ali our cler tators the pure examples! their master cal a- and. iiis apostles, who scrupuloi confined themselves, to the propagation of rgious truth, abd took no part in the factions ij conspiracies of their time. Even Boanerges 1 not thunder :;iirainl. l rr " . - uieueroas the Pdates ahe Caesars of the Ko man world, though subsion to their rule re quired an amount of hristian patience. t which few professors of f day seenr willing to aspire.. - : j WILMINGTON iD HAVANA- ; We have observed wi a great deal ,f pleas ure that the iiierchankrn.1 capitalists bf Wil mington are projecting line ol si tanners be tween that port and Hank We wbntU-r that such a line has not beehitablisbed before this. The idea so long prevalt that nature Iras -ur-rounded 'the commerce 'North Carolina with insuperable difficulties, ihappily begijming to vanish, as we become tore enterprisjng better acquainted with o'jesources. The posi tion of Wilmington is dineutly advantageous for communication andiade with the West Irjdjes, and we fortunateiproduoe.on t Far and its accessible twttaries many which meet a constant tapand injthos' ie Cape articles islands. jbuccess, we say, to Jt prouiijing enterprise and all who may engagtn it- II is one of the most cheerins evident have Wn of an ad- -.'-' - h vancing prosperity in oubounus f We can see no good Ason whi Wilmington should not become the icdium oja niost Hour- isBing foreign trade. TimproleDient on the nyer, by which the agricliural a mineral jro may find an ducts of a highly producte regi outlet through Eayettevle, and the: extensive railroad communication he IS Un ta enjoy with other parts of thcState, 11 furnish her wth enviable facilities, tc the ul or neglect of which be will be response toierself WoDe L f 1 1 I - . ! , I
Southern Weekly Post (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Feb. 25, 1854, edition 1
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