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hY POST 78 i T S 0 W T many eafls made like that at Milan, aod distri buted tbera after they had touched it. tu "l784t feather, from th -wing of St Mi--chael were exhibited at Mount St. Michael, and the author- of Vathek, in his travels in Spa lid. -speaks of a feather from the wing of Ga ibriel, which be saw at the Escnnal. It is asserted that tme relics will not I uffer any false ones among them.' On one occasion for example, a number of sacred bones whicl had been dug up at Cologne, wer laid out the seats of St. Mary's, Clfurch in the Capi on ital, ait Cologne, covered with clean cloths, ana as they became dry a great smell arose from them. ys v.uV ;m.via1i9t(iv knew th at this was the work of the devil, and clothed ir hi sacerdotal gatmtsnts, proceeded to exorcism when a great horse bone jfimpea out oi ui .;Aai o. it nrnioA hv a whirlwind, and th offensive smell was succeeded by the Usual grate ful odor of relics. The wide spread devotion relic was also universal in pagan antiquity; and it is rife among the followers of Mahomet and in the more ancient religions of India ; and it seems to be so gradual a transition from o innocent weakness to a gross superstition, that minds of high intelligence are oftcu indu ced by th'e force of "habit to admit things contra, ry to the plainest dictates, of common sense. THE PSALMODIST. PraiM ye the Lord, both young men and maidens, old men find children. Let them praise- the name of the Lurd Ps. cxlviii. 1, 12, 13. 1. Singing is a most important and pleasing part df all worship, and of -nope more than of that of the family. The union of a household in this service, presents a most delightful scene. Together they attend tue reading ormesamc great truths which form the basis of all religious sentiments i.nd sound morality. ? Together they feed on the exceeding great and precious prom ises, which the Spirit has written for the afflict ed people of God. Together they offer "prayer and supplication with thanksgiving," to God, seeking all needed individual, domestic, social, and public blessings. So ought they, together, to lift up their hearts and voices in the sweet 'songs of Zion. Let all sing. Let the tiemu lous tones of feeble age, the halting lispings of tender childhood, the strong, clear notes of man, and tJiB soft and silvery voices of woman, min gle iu sweet and solemn praise, morning and evening, around the beloved hearths of Chris tian homes. 2. The Psalmodist, with all other excellencies and claims to confidence, is eminently adapted to promote the accomplishment of this great purpose. In families where the head cannot set a tune; and where there is seldom, ifever, heard the sound of praise, let the neglected or misus ed "instrument" be called into requisition, The wife or daughter can thus make a sanctified use of this kind of knowledge, wnien ouen "puffeth up," and is too frequently devoted to purposes of mere vanity and ostentation, or of mere worldly pleasure. Thus children would grow up fond of singing, attached to our church music, Church Psalmody, and Church doc trines, which are taught in this manner in a most pleasing form. If, as Dr. Alexander used to say, the reading of hymns vas a most useful devo tional exercise, how much more their singing. .. 3. And so there would be infused a more cheerful and exalted Christian sentiment in all ourChristian households, those "dwellings of Jacob," -which God loves. Better, it is true, that a family unite in reading a portion of ScriptuV6 together, than to have no family religious ser vice. Still better to add prayer to the reading of the word, but best of al! to enjoy the whole privilege that " oldjnen and children," "young men arid maidens," unitedly praise the Lord, as well as read his word, arid seek his favor. " I care not who makes the laws, if I can make the ballads of a nation," was a remark of a wise statesman, who, at once, thus evinced his deep insight of human nature, and his jiist apprecia tion of' the power of music and poetry in moul ding character Oh ! what a nation would this be, were there "light in every dwelling," and from the hearts and voices of thousands of families, morning and evening, the praises of God were uttereu ; 4. Our congregational music will never be what it ought to be, till we have more family singing. Let children be taught and trained to sing. Let them be encouraged to learn hymns by memory, and sing when alone. Singing often keeps out Satan. The question is often asked, "What can we do to improve our church music!'1. Some propose organs ; some want larger choirs; some hire musicians; we say, sing at home, at work, in the field. 5. Singing is part of heaver's blest employ ment. Let us learn the bles ed art " before we quite forsake our clay." "Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord." Home and For eign Record. A Ccbk for Drunkenness. The London Spectator mentions a curious remedy new in use in Swedish hospitals, for that form of madness which exhibits itself in an. uncontrollable appe tite for alcoholic stimulants which we commend to those of our readers wh profess an interest in the fate of the unfortunate drunkard. The process is thus described : - "We will suppose that the. liquor which the patient is addicted to drinking, is the common est in the country say gin. When he enters he hospital for the treatment, he is supplied with his favorite drink, and with no other ; if anything else is given to him, or any other food, it is flavored with gin. lie is in Heaven the very atmosphere is redolent of his. favorite per fume! His room is scented with mn r his bed clothes, every tbingaround him ; every mouth ful he eats oi drinks, every thing he touches; every zephyr that steals into his room, brings to him still gin. He begins to grow tired of it begins rather to wish for something else-r-begins vj uuu uiu oppression lnioieraoie- nates u caDnot bear the sight or scent, of it longs for emancipation, and is at last emancipated ; he issues into fresh air a cured man; dreading no thin; so much as a return of that loathed per secutor which would not leave an hour's rest in his confinement "This remedy," says our co temporary, appears to have been thoroughly ef fectual so effectual., that persons who deplored their uncontrollable propensity, have petitioned for admission to the hospital in order to be cur ed, and they Lave been cured." Tub Elder Coleridge: De Quincey, in de scribing tbe life and writings of Coleridge, speaks of the father of that distinguished schol ar, poet and philosopher. He represents him aa a clergyman of profound learning, great simpli city of character, and exceedingly eccentric in his habits. Among the whims which were prompted by his good nature, was an attempt to simplify the Latin grammar, a leading feature in which simplification was to do away with the "unmeaning" name of the accusative case, and substitute" the more simple and significant one of quale quare-quiditive case. lie failed, however, in. his attempt at improvement, for which the boys at our academies must be duly thankful. As an illustration of the learned and reverend gentleman's simplicity, the following laughable anecdote is given : "Dining in a large party one day, the mod est divine was suddenly shocked by perceiving some part, as he conceived, of. his own snowy shirt emerging from a part of his babi'iments) which we will suppose to have been his waist coat. It was not that; but for decorum we will so call it. The stray portion of his own sup posed tunic was admonished of its error by a forcible thrust back into its proper home ; but still another limbus persisted to emerge, or seem ed to persist, and still another, until the learned gentleman absolutely perspired with the labor of re-establishing order. And, after all, he saw with anguish' that arrears of the snowy indeco rum still remained to reduce into obedience. To this remnant of rebellion he was proceed ing to apply himself strangely confounded, however, at the obstinacy, of the insurrection when the mistress of the house, rising to lead away the ladies from the table, and all parties' naturally rising with her, it became suddenly apparent to every eye that the worthy Oriental ist had been most laboriously stowirfg away, into the capacious receptacles of bis own habiliments under the delusion that it was his own shirt the snowy folds of 'a lady's gown belonging to his next neighbor ; and so voluminously, that a very small portion of it, indeed, remained for the lady's own use; the natural consequence of which was, of course, that the lady appeared in extricably yoked, to the learned theologian, and could not in any way effect her release, until after certain operations, upon the vicar's dress, and a continued refunding and rolling out of snowy mazes upon snowy maze?, in quantities which at length proved too much for the gravi ty of the company. Inexhaustible laughter arose from all parties, but the erring and unhappy doctor, who in dire perplexity, continued still refunding with all his might perspiring and re fundinguntil he had paid up the last arrears of his long debt, and thus put an end to a case of distress more memorable to himself and his parishioners than any " quale-quare quiditivev case that had probably ever perplexed his learning-There is only one paper in Egypt a monthly sheet, in , the Arabic language, at four dollars a year. It is devoted mainly to the powers that be, and every one in the employ of the Pacha is oblig ed to subscribe to it. For the Southern Weekly Post. ACROSTICAL ENIGMA- I am composed of 21 letters. My 1, 9, 16, 13, 18, 8, 6, 4, wasaKing of Mysia. My 2, 14, 20, 6, 4, was a deity among the Gauls. My 3, 18, 9, 6, 20, was the fabricator of the famous wooden horse. My 4, 13, 16, 3, 11, 14, was the sister of Helios. My 5, 16, 9, 11 w as one of the earliest Grecian bards. My 6, 16, 17, 20, 4, 13, 20, was a King of Ithaca. My 7, 8, 5, 21, 8, was an Egyptian deity. My 8, 14,10, 19, was ' a beautiful priestess of Venus, My 9, 18, 8, 5, 10, 6, 20, was a Greek historian. My 10, 8, 13, 4. 6, 20, was a King of Thrace. Mv 11, 3, 10, 19, was the sixth of the Roman emperors. My 12, 17, 21, 8, 14, is a Geographical name. My 13, 10, 19, 4, was the god of love, My -14, 6, 10, 17, 18, 5, 11, was a King of Sparta. My 15, 6, 1, 11, 19, is a Geographical name, My 16, 9, 19, was a philosopher of Constantin ople. - My 17, 18, 10, 3, 20, is a Geographical tame. My 18, 9, 16, 13, 4, was a King of Thessaly. My 19, 21, 8, 5, was the leader of a conspiracy against Nero. My 20, 19, 18, 8, 10, 19, 11, was a celebrated anfcient writer. ! My 21, G, 10, 11, 6, 20, was a King of the' Iiutuli. My whole is a flourishing periodical of North Carolina. Wake Forest College April 1854. Sill VERNLY. For the Southern Weekly Post. GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. I am composed of 19 letters. ' ' My 1, 15, 8; 6, 3, 18, is a country in South A - merica. " 2, 5, 8. 12, is a lake in the United States. " 3, 4, 15, 9, 2, is a river in North Carolina. " 4, 16, 3, 6, is a volcano in Sicily. " 5, 15, 9, 9, 8, 18, is a country in Europe. " 6, 3, 17, is a cape on the coast of the United States. ! " 7, 8, 19, 11, is a town in Peru. " 8, 17, 3. is a small river in Austria. " 9, 11, 13, 16, 6, is a' town in Buenos Ayres. " 10, 8, 1, 18, is a gulf in Europe. j " 11, 9, 8, 6, is one of the grand divisions of the globe. . " 12, 1, 2, 11, 17, is an ancient name of a sea on the coast of Asia Minor. " 13, 6, 9, 9, 18, is a town in the Chinese Era ' pire. " 14, 6, 14, 15, 11, is an island in Oceanica. "15, 13, 9, 16, 4, 5, is a province in Ireland. M 16, 18, 19, 14; 11, is a bay on the coast of Florida. " 17, 8, 1, 4, 10, is a river in Africa. " 18, 10, 11, 13, is a sea in As a. " 19, 18, 8, 3, 4, is one of the United States. My whole was a brave general in the Revolu tionary war. H. M. G. Answer to Enigma in the Post of April 1st, is the. letter S- , To Enigma of April 8th, Southern Weekly Post. : . COHTRIBUTIONS. METROPOLITAN CORRESPONDENCE. V LETTER XLI. , - Atlanta, Ga., April 14, 1854. The Railroad City Its annals Its population A heterogeneous place Monsters Style of Ar- chitecture A stone Mountain Long tines of railway Watchmen -Macon Elegant man- 1 sions Female college TJtoughts on Female Education Wealth of Macon Rose Hill Ce metery The Spring Off. Mr dear Post : This place is sometimes very appropriately called the Railroad City, for it owes its origin to railways atd is now the point at which four important roads meet. These are tbe Georgia railroad from Augusta, the Ma con and Western road from Macon, the State road to Chattanooga, Tennessee and the At lanta and Lagrange road to the Chattahoochee I liver at West Point. The history of this town is remarkable and affords an almost unparallel- ! led instance of rapid growth. Its entire annals are comprehended within one decade. Ten years ago I passed over the ground whicb is now occupied with its thousand structures, a.nd there was not a single token of its existence.' A storehouse and post-office, in the woods, there was which bore the name of Marthavillebut beyond this there was nothing to indicate the site of a city. Now, how changed is the aspect of things. Here is a flourishing town whose corporate boundary is a circle of six miles in circumference, and within which there is scarce ly any spot that does not exhibit some evidence ! of improvement. I No accurate census of the population has J been taken, but there can be no question that j it exceeds six thousand, a number which is con- J stantly augmenting. I do not suppose that anpther such a scene as that which Atlanta pre sents is to be found wjthin the ample territory ; of the United States. It is a place of contrasts ; and anomalies a heterogeneous compound of j city and country of bustle and backwoods, of j hotels and hovels of private mansions and cot tages, of great railroad structures and shanties encompassing them in every direction. Right through the centre of the town extend numer ous parallel tracks of iron, upon which, for at least eighteen hours out of the twenty-four, huge i black monsters are perpetually gliding about in j opposite directions puffing out smoke by day and fire by night and ever aud anon uttering their unearthly screams producing a horrible din to ears not accustomed to such souuds. I have not time to give you the particulars of the progress of this city, but you can imagine that it .has been singularly rapid to have produ ced such results as these 1 have indicated, with in a period of eight years ! Until very recently the architecture of the place was of the meanest possible order. The houses and stores were built of wood, and the prevailing idea seemed to be that anvthino which would keep out the rain was good enough. Of late, however, a change has taken place, and numerous beautiful and picturesque edifices have risen up. The railway companies have built and are constructing works and station houses of great extent and of some architectural ele gance. Whole blocks of, neat Greek buildings are to be found though upon the principal bu siness street, the stores are still of the shabbiest description chiefly of wood and scarcely two alike! When a devastating fire sweeps away the whole of this combustible mass, the spirit of improvement will probably replace it with, substantial andcity-like stores with iron fronts, or, better still, with fronts and facings of the bril liant light-gray granite, which is found in the vicinity, and of which, I may say, en passant there is a mountain, over a-thousand feet high, visible from the city. This is the celebrated Stone Mountain so much the resort of curious visiters for many years past, and first fully des cribed in a rare and beautiful volume entitled "Georgia Illustrated." Atlanta is situated about half way between the cities of" Savannah and Nashville. A line of nearly six hundred miles of connected railroad unites these two cities', and the traveler may pas between them with comfort in the brief space of forty hours. This line of railroad em braces the central from Savannah to Macon, 190 miles long, the Macon and Western, to At lanta, 103 miles, the Western and Atlantic to Chattanooga, 138 miles, and the Nashville and Chattanooga 150 miles the precise total length being 581. A still longer line of continuous line of raihvay uni es Nashville and the city of Charleston the total sum of miles upon this latter route being, if I mistake not, exactly six hundred. Perhaps three-fourths of the prodtice of Tennessee, Georgia and North Alabama, which is brought to this city, finds its way to Charleston whose large banking capital, of over twelve millions of dollars, gives it immense ad vantages over its rival, Savannah, with a banking capital hitherto not exceeding three millions of dollars. I reached this city between midnight and day break and while I was proceeding along its principal street flooded with the radiance of a full moon, I saw the watchmen on their rounds, and heard their cry of " Two o'clock, and alVs well." The incident struck me as siugular. 1 Lad been wont to associate the watchman with his monotonous cry with the verv oldest and and grayest of towns while here where the 1 forest trees rise up amid brick and mortar, j anfl everything else is new the old custom -and the old cry seemed almost an illti.-ion of the j senses. I wondered whether or nut, it' the j moon had not shone, the w.atch would have borne i lanterns. . I have not given you any notes of my visit to Macon, where the united claims of business and "pleasure caused roi to'linger for three or four days. I have no fancy for the city of Ma con, per se. It is a sandy waste, insufferably hot in summer, and sickly withal, from its posi tion upon the banks of a muddy river. Many of its citizens reside, however, in the suburhs, which are hilly and adorned with very handsome houses-and gardens. . The most noticeable building upon the hills is the Wesleyan Female College, a Methodist schooi, to which belongs the questionable honor of being the first of the new Legion Female Colleges r&o called which exist in the South. I wish there was any satisfactory evidence that the standard of female education is elevated by tnese ambitious institutions. Some of them, IJ Knou), are nothing better than educational hot beds forcing the young mind to a merely su perficial, and of course, unhealthy development The whole system of female education in this country; let me auggest, is lamentably wrong. It proposes to build without a suitable founda tionand since it cannot find support for a solid and substantial superstructure, it exhausts itself in making meretricious ornaments and fancy appendages to a stunted and ill-proportioned mind. Parents are greatly censurable for this unhappy result, in that they allow their daughters to become young ladies before they cease to be children ! The evil is only too pre valent and loo lamentable. I would I could lift' a potential voice against it all through our laird. But to return from my digression. Macon has more wealth, perhaps, than any other south ern city of its size! The evidences oi this are numerous, but perhaps the chief one is, that its very extensive commerce is monopolized by a few merchants. These live in handsome style, in the elegant mansions I have already alluded to. " With commendable liberality and taste Ma con has laid out a large cemetery, near Ho the city. It is situated upon fhe banks of the river to which it descends by many undulations of hill an "I- dell affording innumerable natural re sources for the creatio l of such charms as make Mount Auburn and Greenwood literally " Gar dens of the dead," This cemetry is called " Rose Hill," in honor, I believe not of the queen of the flowers but of an enterprising citi zen of Macon, who bears her poetical name. I am now enjoying all the loveliness of a southern Spring. The forest is arrayed in its robe of lio-ht jrreen verdure; the multitudinous flowers are out in their gay apparel the mock ing bird makes the woods vocal with itssongs the roses blossom in the gardejis-alid over the trellised porches of the houses. Everything is beautiful at this season for the spirit of the spring seems to throw a halo over every object. I have no doubt, my dear Post, that your city is now worthy of all the praises you claim for it. I can readily imagine the luxuriance and bril liance of the foliage which clothes its noble elms, and the beauty of its well cultivated gardens. There are few of these latter tokens of a high civilization yet to be found in this city of a day. There that horrible scream warns me to pack up and be off. COSMOS. For the Southern Weekly Post. THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE. The wheel of fortune revolves with perpetual motion. It is gradually or suddenly elevating the humble and poor and bringing down the exalted and rich. Very few persons are entire ly stationary in their circumstances. It is nev ertheless true, that many families are apparent ly in the same circumstances now as twenty years ago. Their prospects in the world have undergone no important change. They dwell under the same roof, cultivate the same fields, in the same manner, '.'rive, in a measure, the same team ; yet, even these, if they have not been improved, have doubtless been gradually deteriorating. With such the wheel of fortune has revolved very gradually, or it has perhaps been vacillating. But even here it will, per haps, in the next generation undergo an entire revolution. In the agricultural community the revolutions are generally gradual. In it fortune is less whimsical. She comes to the farmer in a sober, unostentatious way, and by degrees blesses and cheers him on to renewed and great er exertions for her. With him her attach ments are more permanent, her smiles of longer duration, and her blessings less conspicuous, but more rational ad beneficial. With the mer cantile community fortune is a whimsical, fl'p pant, flirting dame. We not unfrequently see the merchant engage in his business with limi ted means. He embarks with moderate pros pects aud humble expectations. But the winds are favorvable and the gale of prosperity wafts him straight into the port of fortune. There she may smile upon him, and caress him with ma ny promises of continued friendship. She per suades him to raise his family in luxury and idleness, teaches them to despise labcr, and to look down with contempt upon the laboring community. His children grow up inactive, and effeminate, with feeble bodie3 and feebler minds. Perhaps at this moment fortune deserts him. The markets have deceived him, or the tempest has rasfed, and his ships with all their cargoes are buried in- the bottom of the ocean. He who but yesterday was the wealthiest man in bis neighborhood is now a bankrupt. Those proud, feeble-framed sons and daughters, who but a few hours ago boasted of their immense wealth, and shunned and despised labor, are now the poorest of the poor. They are not on ly destitute of the means of subsistence, but are destitute of the ability to earn a subsistence. Thrown upon the charity of the world, without means and without, ability. . How absurd, un reasonable and pernicious in its tendency is that aristocratic spirit which prompts menfto rear their children iu idleness and an abhor rence of useful employments. One of the first blessings a parent can confer upon his offspring is to train it up in useful employments'aiKl in dustrious habits. What a pleasing thing it would be fur persons, when fortune frowns and deserts them, to have a resource within them selves, to be able to fall back, for a subsistence, to the la!xrs of their own hands. The most opulent have no guarantee that their children will long remain rich, or even in easy circum stances. Indeed, if we may judge from obser vation, the probabilities are strong against this supposition. A man could not reasonably ex pect all his children, if he have many, to con tinue independent of labor. Then as he would expect some one or more, sooner or later, to be under the necessity of laboring, and as no man can foresee which it is to be, so all should be trained and prepared, if need be, to gain a liv ing by the labor of their own hands. Tue great architect who fabricated the hu man constitution, has made active and useful employment an indispensable condition of its well-being and happiness. Without activity the physical system becomes emaciated and fee ble. The mind of man must and will be em ployed. If it is not employed in that which is right and useful it . will be employed in that which is wrong and calculated to make it mis erable. Thus we see that the Author of our being and great moral Governor of the universe, has o constituted us and so arranged things around us, that we are compelled to "da bis will or be miserable. The listless, feeble, and effem inate son, rocked in the cradle of idleness, nurs ed in the lap of luxury and taught in the school of ease and indolence, is destitute of those traits of character, aa. indomitable energy and a never-failing perseverance, which enabled his fa ther to accumulate wealth. He is incapable even of retaining that which has been bequeath ed to him. He has been raised in violation of physical and moral laws, and in his poverty and wretchedness pays some of the penalties an nexed to the violation of those laws. T. B. TRlfl Wktt Mast. Jimttjrcnt RALEIGH, APRIL 22, 1854. WILLIAM D. COOKE, EDITOR AND PKOPRIET 01 . Terms TWO DOLLARS PER AJWXTM, in Advance. CLUB PRICES: Three Copies, $5 full price,.' $6, Eight Copies 12 16, Ten Copies 15 " . . 20, Twenty Copies, 20 " 40. (.Payment in all casts in advance., QZr Where a club of eight, ten or twenty copies is sent, the person making up the club will be entitled to a copy extra $5 Postmasters are authorized to act as Agents for the Southern Weekly Post. Mr. H. P. Doutmt is our authorized agent for the State of Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. EDUCATION FOB. BUSINESS. One of the errors of the southern people in past years, w. ich has greatly retarded their prosperity, has been the habit of educating their sons almost universally for the learned profes sions. ". The idea seems to have prevailed in every class of society, the negroes included, that labor'is not genteel euotigh for a gentleman, and that1 one born in easy circumstances or affluence cannot, without a sacrifice of dignity, stoop to those employments which require much muscu lar exertion. Hence the crowded state of the two professions of law and medicine, and the general aspiration of our young men to those equivocal honors which political parties so lib erally provide. We say nothing of the pulpit, because alas, the same false pride which has filled other professions to overflowing, has only operated to deter the educated youth of the South from its sacred duties. There are, we know, certain proprieties be longing peculiarly to each of the various classes into which society naturally arranges itself, which ought always to be observed and main tained. Mutual respect depends upon the re cognition of the differences between them, and not only confusion, but disagreement and dis cord uniformly ensue, when meu in one sphere affect those habits -and manners which belong to another. But we have carried our jdeas of taste too far for our own welfare, and are just beginning to perceive that in our anxiety to preserve the robe of our personal dignity un spotted by toil, we have insensibly fallen be hind other portions of the country, and lost that social, moral and political influence which might have palliated if not justified our pride. -We begin now to perceive that those parts of the Union in which labor is considered respecta ble and honorable, have advanced far beyond us in wealth, and intelligence, and to feel the necessity of infusing something of the same spirit into our own people, in order to recover, jjf possible, the vantage ground we have abandoned. It would be unnecessary to enquire into the causes of this error among the southern people. One obvious cause is the influence of negroes upon our; childhood. Theoretically they are 4he most aristocratic class we have, and hold it as an incontrovertible maxim that hard work is not a part of a gentleman's business. They lose no opportunity of impressing this notion upon the tender miilasofthe young who are brought up in contact with them, and in after life it is apt to be maintained by the self-respect of the ruling race. But there are other influences,. tending to the same result, which it is unimpor tant that we should consider. We wish rather to point the attention of our leaders to the fact: itself, and to urge upon them the necessity of modifying in this respect the education of cuir youth. It is highly desirable to remove the false impression to some extent, and to convince them that a great error has been committed by confounding the activity of business with the drudgery of muscular labor. We would not have our educated aud refined young gentle men to adopt the spirit of French socialism, and illustrate the dignity of labor by actual partici pation in the fatigues of the field or the work shop ; but we would open before them the vast field of commercial, manufacturing, and mechani cal enterprise, and urge them to consider that these pursuits can be elevated to their own level by a hearty dedication of their talents and ac quirements to the great objects they involve. V liy ts it that we have so few of our own citi zens, comparatively, engaged in executing and propelling the various enterprises of improve meut and development now in progress around us? We have the mind to conceive and pro ject, but the information and tact necessary to the proper execution of such things must gener ally be imported from distant States, and in spite of our pride we are compelled constantly to confess that we do not know anything about such matters. It is just such knowledge that constitutes power, and when we admit our igno rance, we also confess our weakness. Many suppose that capital alone is wanting, but it must be obvious, on reflection, that we want Still more a general acquaintance among our educated classes with the details of business and the practical sciences. We beg leave to urge onr young men of tal ents and education to consider the superior dig nity of those employments which are contribut ing most effectually to the progress of societv. It is not the professions of law, medicine, or poli tics, that are doing most to elevate our cuutry and civilijse mankind. Religion, education, com merce, and the mechanic arts are doing infinite ly more, and offer to the nobler aspirations of the young the most inviting theatres of enter prise and usefulness. We must get rid of the old negro notion that every high-minded young man must be a lawyer, a doctor, or a military man, and see that more of our youth are edu- catedin future with reference to those depart ments of business which a' false pride has left so long neglected. We have heard a ereat outcry of Tate against 1 the study of the classics, but the classics do not deserve the abuse they have received. In the literary department of education they are too little cultivated, and cannot be excluded from literary institutions without causing a forfeiture of the title. But by all means let those whom nature or circumstances have qualified for busi ness pursuits, be so educated as best to prepare them forsuch avocations, and let them no long er covet literary honors, or waste the precious years of early life in fruitless dalliance with the Muses. CATH0LIC EXCITEMENT. Philadelphia, April 12th, An indignation meeting held at the Chinese Museum to-night, composed of French and German Roman Catholics, to express their condem nation of the course of Judge Woodard, of the Supreme Court, m his recent decision in the suit of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia against the trusteeof the Holy Trinity Church, to obtain possession of the pro perty. The Germaus and French Catholics say the J udge favored the Jesuit party, and appointed a majority of the arbiters on that side. The party opposed to the Bishop among the trustees refused to give up the church, and tbe Judge committed them for contempt to prison. American Catholics were invited to participate in the meeting, and all who were opposed to the iron rule of the Jesuits and priesthood. Strong resolutions were passed, and speeches delivered in German, French and English. The affair creates much excitement. It cannot fail to gratify every ' true-hearted American to perceive among the Cbolic, popu lation of this country a grosving spiritof manly independence, which refuses to submit uncondi tionally to the tyrannical vuthdrity of their cler ical rulers. Such events as that mentioned above, revives within us tha hope thrtt a large portion of the adherents of that Church, how ever blind their faith, are yet unwil.ing to pros trate their personal and political rights at the foot of t e papal throne. We respect them for such an exercise of the liberty secured to them by our constitution, and earnestly hope that the terrors of ecclesiastical censure will not again force theui into chains. This is a great question which the Catholics of Philadelphia and Buffalo have raised, wheth er they, as laymen, shall or shall not be allow ed to hold church property independently of their bUbops. We understand that these mitred gentlemen are endeavoring to establish in this' country the arbitrary method of administration which is so generally and consistently practiced, in the despotic States of Europe, by which all the Church properly of their denomination must vest in their own immaculate hands. They have even gone so far as to ask of the New York Legislature the passage of a law to this effect, and there were not wanting Protestant Ameri can demagogues in that body, to conciliate the favor of the more ignorant and bigoted Catho lics, by urging the adoption of the measure. 1 We believe it did not succeed. But it may be well to remember that this monopoly is still claimed by the bishops in virtue of ecclesiastical law, and that the not jrious Bedini, who came to this country under pretence of political business with the governments of the United States and Brazil, came in point of fact, to arbitrate the question between the congregation at Buffalo and their bishop, and decided it of course against the rights of the laity. We say it is a great question, not only reli giously but politically, and one in which the citizens of the United States of all denomina tions are deeply interested. Shall the servile too s of a foreign potentate, who wields not only religious but political influence, be made the trustees of the vast resources of the Catholic Church in the United States, responsible only to the foreign despot whom they obey for the man ner in which they employ such formidable pow er ? Neither the Sultan nor his Christian sub jects would allow the Czar of Russia, who is the head of the great body of the Greek Church, to usurp such a control over the church property in Turkey. How then can Protestant or Cath olic Republican citizens of this free country con sent to so gross a usurpation ? To resist and re buke such pretensions is not bigotry, but self respect and self-defence, and we believe the in telligent Catholics and Protestants of the United r States will unite to prevent their consummation. Prof. Agassiz, in a recent lecture before the Lowell In stitute, in Boston, stated his belief that the human race existed on the globe a hundred andfty thousand years ago. This little paragraph has been traveling the rounds of the papers for some weeks, and many persons have no doubt read it as the utterance of an oracle. If some American named Smith or Jones had said the same, it would have been regarded as presumption ; biit coming from Professor Agassiz, a Swiss savant, Who has im ported here the old skepticism which has begun to be unfashionable in Europe, it obtains curren cy in all the papers, and is eagerly swallowed by a voracious public. Come however whence it may, it is an unsupported assertion, due to the vauity of flattered and pampered science. It was truthfully and beautifully .said by the poet Young, that "The undevout astronomer is mad." But as this class of philosophers seem to have had their minds elevated and their souls puri fied by the contemplation of the heavens, so the students of geology and the associate sciences appear, in many cases, to have suffered an ob scuration of intellect and faith by some opposite influence. The soul, absorbed in such pursuits, is apt to lose its heat, light, and animation, and to become petrified as a fossil among the dark cav erns and primitive locks of the anti-deluvian world. - The W'ar. The struggle between Russia and the Western Powers has -at last commenced in earnest, and every steamer from Europe will bring-us deeply interesting news of great events. The malicious designs of tbe Czar are, thanks to the timely revelatiyu of his secret correspon dence with the British government, no longer a surmise. The cool proposition to distribute the fragments of the Turkish enfpire among the great Powers, betrayed a wish that was " father to the thought" that that empire was near its end. Who ;an doubt that he, with England and France, could have easily prevented the catastrophe he pretends to foresee as inevitable, or that he has conceived the deliberate design of hastening its occurrence! What may be the ulterior expectations of England and France, we cannot know. We may have our suspicions, which we long since expressed ; but there can be no doubt that it is their present purpose to sustain the integrity of Turkey against the Je- signs of Russia, and it will be gratifyinfr trials in oil P.Viriatian InnHs to i,l.i... ', one of the stipulations of the tripartite trear' the last decent pretext for Russian awrPs '' has been removed, by securing a reconid, Jt the rights of all the Christian subjects Sultan. ' i Instructive Narrative. The fol!,w mo-; teresting little account of a battle royal lx.u,, ' two well-known combatants, 1spTobab!yfabu!u. ' and intended to illustrate .the tug,an,J sje of our two great political parties. jft over-zealous partizans on both sides' woulj reflect for a moment thai" the coinrol!(V which they are'engaged appears to niaiiy,,,, headed and sober-minded men, just ns unjj,r, j fied and absurd as the duello, between tie u, and rat, and that a political triumph is 3 ly about as worthy of monumental 'p,erpetuat'.j 1 as that in the fable, they would prolal.1v r.Kr some little of their violence, and behave tt;t', more rational dignity for the future. ! Frog -and Rat. A desperale encounter t. 4 place between a frosr and a rat, at a brook nar t t slaughter house of Uri.ih Wigrin. in this town, j rat came down to the brook to drink, and disnv,,.. ing a frog, " with force and arms" made nti aita upon hiai, by making a firm grasp w ith his teJ,v no sooner did the rat make his hold th.nn ti e fn plunged into the water, dragging his ant.v.nn :-t with him where he remained until thera' was coif, pelled to let go, and made for dry land, closely p!lr. sued by the frog. As soon as the frog :pjvar ,i above water, he was Hgain attacked by the r.it,a; a second time the latter became the subject for er, j water bathing. This feat was several lime )er. formed, until the rat, from exhaustion and dm., ing, fell a prey. After the froir became nsi:r,.,j that his antagonist wa de:id, he seated hims. lf on his carcass, with all the comphiisance hw.h j. ble, where he remained for half an hour, exulting over his bard won victor)'. Borer Gazette. e Another Victim. A man named A. Amis, a carpenter residing in this city, was fun; dead on Monday morning last in the ru-iid., r. 1 j - j? 1 i 1. 1: .. 11 noou 01 several places wuere liquor is soi l, ;u! ; an inquest was held over the body by ('.!.. .t: Scott. Verdict, died of intoxication. This man leaves a helpless family to struggle ur)tu-cf against the calamities of life, andcold nnisi le the heart that feels no coinmiseration for them. The manifest increase of drinking in our ci.tn munity will, we very much fear, before the veal I is out, add others to the number of t ose ahva dy so bereaved and desolate. 5 1-EMOCRATIC 'OXVEXTIO i nis t oov ron-i 1 .1 I FT II 1 T 1 i T - . , 'I'l 1 , venea in tue uomitions xiau on vv etnevjav at noon, and organized temporarily by the appoint ment of the Hon. Asa Biggs as Chairman. It ttie afternoon the Hon. Abiam Rencher was aj. pointed President, with several Vice President in . v mi i ana secretaries. un inursuay morning the Committee reported Col. Thomas Bragg fl Northampton, as the nominee for Goverc'r, which nomination was ..unanimously 'con tin in-J by the Convention. Complimentary. We acknowledge our ob- ligations to the Staunton Vindicator lor ilie handsome and flattering notice of the Pout and its conductors, contained in its lat issue lu one. We take pleasure in recording it atnotH our archives, and desire to assure tbe Vindica tor that, politics aside, we are pleased with its own devotion to our common cause in tht Southland hope that party ties will never bg allowed to confine in servile bondage to partv behests the independent spirit of the Southern press. The Rev. Dr. Sampson of the Union Theolo gical Seminary, Prince Edward county , Va. ; died at his residence on Saturday the 8th iust. Ha was a man of great learning and high character and has left a void not easily filled. Snow. rThere was a spitting of snow here on Monday last, but the ground was wet and it would, not lie. Snows in this region are gener ally too conscientious for that. Congress. We have nothing very interest ing to record of the action of this body since our last, except the rejection of the Gadsden Treaty by a large votejn tbe Senate. Charleston Convention.- This body ad journed on the 17lh to meet again in N w Or-, leans on the second. Monday in January, 1855. Frost -was quite heavy and destruct-be in this place and Vicinity on the night of Tueday. LITERARY NOTICES. We omitted; last week to notice the great improvement and enlargement that has taken place in the Farmer's 'Joiknal. It i tjo' published by W. D.Cooke cVJ Co., Dr. Tompkins continuing as formerly its editor. We thii.k the character of this valuable monthly is now estab lished, and its enterprising airftspirited editor has every reason to be proud, of the success f Ids tfforts. A new Prospectus has been is-ued with the last, or April .number, which is the first ot the 3d volume, and we invite the attention of the public to its contents. " The National Magazine for May has been received, and is full of interesting articles noiK of them too long for the patience of the reader. The:LADiEs' Keepsake, for April, has al been received, and appears to possess. its usual meists. We are indebted to a friend for a handsome ly printed copy of the Funeral Discourse .of the Rev. Dr. Sprague, on the death of the late Iu-v. Dr. Joshua Bates, of Massachusetts. Breach or Promise. A damsel of 20 years of age recently sued a widower ajed 45, in Indiana, for breach of promise, and Lid her damages at $1. 000. The testimony was that the defendant had visited her four different .limes, and that the plain tiff once rode behind him, on his jrey marc, from church, and th it she had upon one occasion, sent her 14 gay Lothnrio" a sugar kiss verse, of about the following effect: " Why go yon lop-si'ded, thus all alon, Why not take a rib, to re-place thine own ?" The jury, after mature deliberation, awarded the fair suitor $90 damages for her crushed affections," believing that sum sufficient to planter up hor bro kan heart. Louisville Courier The Cholera. The cholera begins to make its appearance on the Mississippi, river. By the last foreign news it was also beginning to n.ake its ap pearance in various places in Great Britain, and in various places on the continent. It i stated that there were fifteen cases of cholera on board the steamer Bell Key, on her recent passage from New Orleans to Cairo. 1 IN-
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