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14 T Hi SOIT no sach a thing as rest for me this side of the , grave i - saia Mrs. Biage. - vr -d:ji -:j ti, imn of remorse .. HIT. lllil 7H HH M Ili M.fl I IILT. UD WM " ,, was in his soul, and his wife's lamentations kept - wriggling in there. Air. mage uiai. uo I a fixed father. He mused a while. Suddenly a thought; luminous as a lightning bug, smiled upon his doldrums. . 44 Mrs. Bidge, I have it f -: ' " What!" M What do you say to a jaunt into the coun try t ' vWith all these children to see to ! It can't he. It would be worse than staying at home. 44 But I mean leave them here and have soine- body to care for them." 44 Easier said than done.", , 44 Til try, at all events. What do you think Mrs. Bidges !" Mrs. Bidge, struck with the force of the pro position, held up her hands in a delightful state of hope. Bidge put on his hat. 4 O, if they only would ! said Mrs. Bidge. Bidge moved to the door. Telltbem there's only eight,' said Mrs. Bidge 'Four of them are twins, and for only one week.' 7 . Bulge was gone for twety minutes, and, re ' turned from a successful ris.ion. The Bidges , were overjoyed at the protosal and had agreed. On the following day M?. and Mrs. Bidge left dull care behind them, anif went into the coun try ; while Mn and, Mrs.CBadge assumed the charge of the eight young-Bidges. Happy ar rangement of affairs. The .Badg s were so fond of children -treasures beyond their power to Since tho first years of their marriage, the Bidges had not enjoyed themselves half so well , as during the .first two days of their absence from home. O, how relieved they felt. How I thev realized the bliss of liberty: 'tin cmmo. j -------- -J " J V""Si ones to see to; no responsibility ; no noise ; no ,l i give, 11V UJCjtIS LU get ; no clothes to mend ; no children to dress, or send to school, -or put to bed. Of their com panions in rural pleasure seeking, none were more enthusiastic or gay and agreeable than they. On the third day their ardpr began to abate, and while Mr. Bulge was considering I how his business in towa waslgetting along, Mrs. Bidge also grew thoughtful , and wondered how the r children were. Not that either of them were at ... all anxious about returning. O, no. At least, both said so. On the fourth morning Mrs. Bidge was sorry that she hadn't told the Badges to write to her about the children. Who knows but what some of them were tick ? Supposing one of them shtuld die in her absence rthe little innocents -She would never forsrive herself. And thon sh began to think" of a. great many things which nobody coutd do for them like a mother. The Badges did u't know anything about it. Mr. : Bidge shared the anxiety, and his eyes would brighten: when his wife recounted a smart thin . tuch a child had said, what another had done, and what such and such a person had praised them for. During the day these feelings in creased in strength, and very little 6lep did ti- ther enjoy on the fourth night. On the fifth morning somehow the country didn'i seem so pleasant as before. There wasn't life and variety enough. They thought if the -children were only with them, they would be - penectiy contented. It was selfish in them to leava the darlings, behind. No doubt tby were all crying for them to come back. On the fifth evening, they felt so very wor ried and. lonesome that they determined to re turn to their dear home and sweet children on the following day. Meanwhile th Badorpa haA illp l,or,,lc a.ii UkvL of domestic cares. Delightful responsibilities. "What they had so long wished for was now theirs in good eariiet. They had a family to take care of. LWit children between the aes of two and twelve !,. Did any body ever see such a group of cherubs ? Mrs. Badge seemed inspired with a new life. She was here, there and everywhere and doing everything. 'She felt a pride in showing her "husband what she could do if she had a family of her own. How amiable and interested the was in everything hat could contribute to the comfort and jo- the little Bidges. Badge did all he couh' please them, in his awkward way, but Mrs. liadge was a perfect miracle of maternal affection. The children, pleased with the novelty, and the presents, and tb!e unusual indulgence, got long agreeably enough. No body scolded nor whipped them, defied them '"""& v ut uieui io oea oeiore tnev wan ted to gq. What nice, good folks thev thought the Badges were, and hoped father and mother vviuo uvxuc smju. But there is au end to all things, as the sail or said, when: the cable ran out, and the whale . hauled him overboard. Three davs nasad nA Afro Rl out Everything in the house was topsy-turvy. ine dear little Bidges, as she so oftencalled them, bad takn' advantage of the license al lowed them, and made free with the economy 01 tlie liadge household in a manner perfectlv frightful. They proved to be a set of young Alraics and destroyed everything they chose. .Lacking parental restraint, they raced and shout- to. through the house lite young fiends, and quarrelled and fought and screamed and cried, till Mrs. Badge's patience became utterly ex hausted. War, disorder,, turmoil and destruc v,vjgus,u uuua uic iuua uiuge auLunnsira tion, and added to the continual extra labors of Mrs. Badge, no wonder they wore her out. Four days had not passed before three or four of the children had been cuffed and spanked lor sundry awful misdemeanors ; and then fculks t ; nway me oeauty of their behavior, and Mr. and Mrs. Badge leain en ta dislike children, an.l "tio-Viiwl i . . , , - -bu wi uue remm of the Bidges and the restoration of peace anu quiet , - t - : :. :: Joyous as had been the day of parting, moTe j oyous to all was that of return. There was a general yell of unaffiacted. delight, when the Bidges made their appearance, sooner than ex pected, on the morning of the sixth day. Hap pier (haa ever ' were the houses of Bidge and t Badge. They had learned lesson of lasting wisdom in less than six days. Memorable week! ihe recollection of which . is a constant check ORIGINAL POETRY Forthe Soothern Weekly Post. THE MOUNTAINEER'S SONG. Removed from the land of my birth, No azure-robed mountains in view, I deem it the fairest of earth, And still the fond image renew. No time 'the sweet sentiment chills ; I feel it, wherever I roam, That I am a child of the hills, And cherish the thought of my home. The eagle may. stoop from h& nest To prapple his prey on the plain; The magnet of love in his breast Draws him back to his eyrie again. I too, in this preference share ; Still proving the strength of the tie, I soar to my dear native air, Or think of it lost with a sigh. My fortune it never may be Again in that Eden to stray ; The tide of life s troublesome sea : Alay bear me yet further away y But oh 1 from fond memory 's eye Those mountains can never depart, And their love-printed image shall lie Still fresh on the leaves of my heart W. COMMUNICATIONS. METROPOLITAN CORRESPONDENCE. - LETTER LXXV. New York, Dec 16, 1854. Christmas shopping anticipated A pkture promised Ar rival of tlie Pacific-" Ibrtm "-A fell-Horrors of the battle of Initnnan Reinforcement of the Allies Ap prehensions Tle otJur topic of talk A commercial cri sis A shadow before vs California goldIireAn Phil adelphiaA relic burned Two steamships forfeited for nulling The Tmcs on Barnum's boi Path Hall alias Fanny Pern-A book on fwjer-rings-" Xothing xerUure-Xothlng Hate"-A podet ant-Harper's new sUtry bovks-KerwarCs pencilUngslhe late firm of cans L- Dickerson, and their successor The Schoolfel low for 18j5. Mi buildings on Chesnut St, and extending north ward on Fifth St The stocks of goods, which were consumed, were of great value, and the to tal los is put down in round numbers at $1,- 500,000. For a while the city buildings, and the famous old State House were threatened bv the devouring element. , Tlie fire destroyed an old relic of revolutionary times, a house known as the Jefferson wigwam, the place where the immortal instrument which we call the Decla ration of Independence, was fabricated. Two large steamships, the Alps, of the Cu- nard line, n 1 tlie Washingtort (American) hav ing been libelled by the U. S. revenue officers, for violation of the revenue iaws by smuggling goods into this port, were yesterday declared forfeited to the American government by decis ion ot Judge Ingersoll of the United States Dis trict Court. The owners of these ships will doubtless apply to Congress for a remission of this sentence, but whether successfully or not, remains to be seen. Smuggling is quite preva lent, and it appears that parties, little to be sus pected from their official position, are riot guilt less of the offence. Perhaps a striking exam ple of offender.-s may be of service. The Times newspaper is out with great sever ity upon the Life of Barnum, denouncing the spirit and tendency of the book as prejudicial to morality and integrity. If the Times occupied a very hgmoral position itself, this rebuke only say that it is a new enterprize, with the en-l ergy of the Harpers to give it success, and the name of Jacob Abbott to recommend it to confi dence. A handsome little volume with nume rous engravings every month, for the tiifling sum of two shillings, or the great Magazine and the Story books together for one year for Jive dollars in advance. Cheap. enough in all conscience. i Kirwais new book is entitled " Parish Pen- cillings" and it contains a large number of just such incidents as only a pastor can narrate. Their tone is always serious and sometimes deep" ly solemn. The anti-papal feelings of the au thor manifest themselves frequently in the book, and especially in the two articles which present contrasts between Bedini the Pope's magazine' and Dr. Duff, the great Scotch missionary. The vigor and the sharpness of Kirwan's style are weil illustrated in the portraits of Bedini, who if he should see them hereafter, would certainly be glad he had escaped from our shores before j they were exhibited to the American public. " Kirwan" is the non de plume of the Rev. Dr. N. Murray, a distinguished Presbyterian clergy man of New Jersey. His Thanksgiving sermon is a vigorous discourse on the perils and pros pects oi our national prosperity. The firm of Evans & Dickinson, publishers of this city, has been dissolved by the retire- of the earth is in a state of igneras fusion, and from these;, together with many other facts, they infer that thejipbole of this earth was oner in a fluid state, ahpjbf a very high' temperature that it has 'been gradually cooling for many thousand of years. T. B. prohibition with That 1 VCUbWWI V IU1 lOUtUVIVMW 1 A.l A tj Hi II L D t is a streak nnAflfW t. a l j . I Slave Law A man cided bviche; LftmaU i dianaoolis. under' th so.k TGIT RALEIGH, DEC. 23,. 1854. WILLIAM D. COOKE, ). ' JAMES A. WADDELL, editors. Terms TWO DOLLARS FES ANTTUH, in Advance. CLUB PRICES: Three Copies, $5 full price,. $6, iMght Copies,. ...... .12 16 Ten Copies,. 15 'm 20 Twenty Copies, 20 . .".". . 40' (Payment in till cases in advance.) !& Where a club of eight, ten or twenty subscribers is sent, the person making up the elab will be entitled to a copy extra. . P(toasters are authorized to act as Agents tor the Southern Weekly Post. Mr. H P. Docthit is our authorized agent for the btates ol Alabama. Mississippi an d Tennessee PS no flftm mrvrt I mn$ V. toll J would pass for more than it is like y to dov as J V fr" o tv -r- . . i. , . . : : . "JZ..hlTi -James j. . Diektnson continues their flour- ing business in his own name. '. You will recollect that the late firm published many pop ular juvenile looks; and'also that universally 1 OST ! V liAn lar befofe your readers in your columns, we of this goodly city of Gotham, shall be .11 the midst of the Christmas shopping excitements. Broadway will be thronged if the elements are at all nro- pitious by thousands of papas and mammas and elder brotherl and sisters and uncles and auntsf. bent on procuring Christmas gifts. The fancy stores and the bookstores and the confec tionary shop, will be the scenes of bountiful ex penditure, and weiry enough will grow the clerks and salesmen and sales w omen in all these estab lishments before the midnight hour releases them from toils that happily come like Christ mas only once a year." But as I have propos ed to mvself the task of giving you, in my next letter, a picture of Christmas shopping "in the metropolis, I will not anticipate now, further luhu to say, mat judging from the decorations and prepartions which are being made for the occasion, there is not much apprehension felt that thehard times will in ter.'ere with the customary iayess of the season; V'We have had later intelligence from the seat of war since the date of my last letter, but it didiiot amount to anything after all. The Pa cific, arrived on Wdbe-day about noon, and early in the afternoon the various newspapers issued extras, which were circulated with aston ishing rapidity. Everybody rushed to the oflices to get one, but the Counters were beseiged by sucl a hst of newsboys trying to secur a batch, that the only resource was tu buy tjaem of the boys outside, paying them an advance of a penny. I invested three cents, eager to learn the fate of Sebastopol, but suspicious at the same time that .1:1 . , ' wjC ue!, uiu not comprehend any such result as its overthrow, notwithstanding some of the more daring of the venders were crying 4 Ere's the hextra Edd 'rival of the Pereitic Capture of Sebastopol " I opened my paper and saw in great black type, the heading, "Latest from the War " " Sebastopol not taken " "No news of importance from the Crimea " I crushed the paper into my pocket, and, wondered if the thousands who were buying "Hextra Jfrlds " and ''Hextra Suns," would feel as cheap as I did! ' it is. It declares the itruth; howeverfin "saving j ii; .1 . T ' - I uiai mrnum seems to think his course of whole sale imposition upon the great gullible public, not only a very clever, but a very commendable th:n;r. and it intimates tli.ot thA OTP!! cliAivman has no very d finite idea of honor, beyond that ot. success, in his schemes of deception. The Times has the reputation of being.a times-serving print, and should not therefore fall out so savagely with a times-serving man. The chi-f ODjection which the- Times makes to the book THE DISTRICT QUESTION. Our -rvii;,i me : uuaruian, in a polite rejoinder, continues to prosecute the ar duous, task of involving us in inconsistency. 's .last article is more labored and more iDge nions than the fprtner one", but we think, we can make it clear that it has'nbt advanced his argu mem a. particle neareMhe desired concl tiiT. 1 ...... - - . 1 L. ; . : t;t t t.- ,. r - xuuergrnnfl nrl th, nn- t . . . - b me Pc. friend offchefi.rj;. ' aures trom their masters, in whi,h T-of a,. .win acquit us of any Cyras Fillmore, brother of tho " n dSe Mr. 0wu w avoia me point of his armpnt was th nrincin..! witnMa t..""4, rrtM Saul ft.. f the eat 1 1 n u omy wisoes to transter the present nowera ed guilty of the charee, but it i, ...T. ? Of the eoiirt.0 tn iwinU rC . U j- . . . wnnlrl ... r ic utstricts he "-i u ucn vcruict i i . ' i u .. . certainly advocates no new law at all fori,o jude wou,d Promis to remit the fin'. J;S? tb i . ,ur lue gt i r. - "Otic i tk. . wvu, uui uuiy Bec9 iu appoint a new cla , v"ence--i S .... . . CUS8 was aJ?reed to, and the jury there,,... A' ' ruper omcers- w auena to the execution m their verdict that the orison apT Wt Which .!. ... I r. . . K'UCr Tl e - or me oca oue; and bis proposition amounts to UftJ dollars, and be iniDrisoned nAJ nn of leaving it entirely to the discretion of these Cour room. - Ul!lntlie proper officers," whether the law shall be ex- 1 his is a beautiful state of t, the i nt it 5 ecuted or not- Wn The SWOT"!. 1 II Til wmA inA . - . iuw iue cniiri . . i not be strange, awkward, and radical lecisla- tbey. will not coiiiDlv with thnir ; "J tion, thus to invest a nurelv executive nlasa nf sworn iudue shall rr;Q . . ! ''e. I J v. i . v.WMJ.d. Ill I ( -1 n ' T I , . functionaries with &nrh ;on;nn I tenco. ahrl th..n u . n SU- uu j.uuvjmiuuoiji jvw- i - uv,u iug ywrte oi a Verrli ers. emnlv nerfnrmorl T k:i. ,s Sl t rf r lula Wal HQJ.4L THE LEGISLATURE. Ve deero it unnecessary to make full report of th nrofeedinora nf thi hnAv in .n- t- 0 .u vu, wuiiuu, m iicmuu. i ne oatis of snni. as mucn interesting miscellaneous matter wouid worthless as their patriotism iiiereoy be excluded. We refer however very t , I 1U1SM I 1 AHl fc V I hu i m . l l'UIUf flfi aonermg to the compromises of tfee " stitution"? Iq our humble the essence of judicial corruption and tfV 1 - are.. as . of its transaction.,, for th mtifli-ptinn U m the CatMic institution that it will t o ' ' e V concerns the weather, which I may report as ha that it will create a swarm of crafty adventurers, , LL , . . . . i " ..w.i. vvih;iuIUIJ. " nf Z,De J0Un' PeP,e-tfae iicb01' Mr t us say in all re,pect to him and 'all fllow. 1 his work has just completed its sixth j others who advocate a mere temporary measure year, and Mr. Dickerson intends to issue almost j for the present, that in our humble judgment a immediately, the first number of the seventh ! law designed to operate for a few yeaTs only volume. No other juvenile in the country has j would not be worth a button, for want of thai the fame of the Schoolfellow. The last item j moral influence which all measures of moral re- of information nrIi!Vi 1 i...ll ; t.,. il,;. ! i: i 1 . ...v., M f;.C-?Uu njia , loilll S30UW Carry With thi'm Rnt lUic v n 1 1 .3 V-ung lady, i. . it i. hnr.r hB. t...Ki;.l....i - . , .. " 'u,l"Ht-. A very interesting and able debate oc r" - ara pruming to refu,e au.euwm ine ady Superirea. s) asks a susoension .f nuKIU ..; ' " 'e no win try. to live by their wits upon the weakness of the public. I must confess that I do not discover any great probability of such a result. It takes a considerable amount of tal ent and more tact to succeed in the art of hum- ... ouggmg the public, and those Who possess enouo-h ot these to undertake it will not need the stimu ius ot barnum s story, while thoe who do not possess them, will not be apt to follow so darino- a leader as he of Joyce Heth and FeejVe fish memory. But to wind up about Barnum, he has repeated his usual telling strokes in this famous book, iind the profits of it will enable him to gdd the whole outside and inside of his palace at tramstan, if he should incline to such a waste of gold leaf! Tl. I A. i u 11 xuc uuoh. most, laixeu about at this moment is Ruth Hall, by Fanny Fern, recently publish ed by -Mason & Brothers ot this city. So o-reat were the orders in advance for this workfthat the publishers had to delay its delivery to the trade several days longer than they intended. It is now selling iu every direction, and Bitth Hull is quite a common name among the itin erant venders of light literatim. You may have her for a companion on railways and steamboats. I have read- the book, but not " at a single sit ting,"; not "at the cost of a nights sleep" not u p ueaung neau and flowing tears," not with "passionate emotions of sympathy and ad mirationi" as so many of the quill-drivers of the newspapers ionfoee to hovJnjr done. Not I T is a matter about which it were needless to multiply words. We leave that point, and proceed to notice a misapprehension of our views into which the Guardian h'as fallen, unintention any we are willing to h Imo Kf i.:..i. i s.nar,r,oKl., il 1 . : . . iTu.t,, IS CUl "V - 'uc-nv vuristuias,-- l remain as ; culuted to do us some i ving been compelled to " let up" its extreme frigidness, but as being in consequence some what gloomy and ill tempered. Wishing you and all your readers in advance but not un-i the schoolboy says in his first epistle home, I ours dutifully, COSMOS. THE EAETH IN A STATE OF 1G2JE0US FUSION. In the progress of Geological investigations, hypothesis have been multiplied in endless va riety, to account for the various phenomena that are met with upon the face of the earth. Many of the most eminent Geologists of the present day are united in the opinion that the' whole of the interior of this earth is in a state ot igneous fusion. Indeed the injustice. He savs : " The diff-ience between us s ems to be thU i he Post advocates a general law to be obey.-d by the neonle of tho wlw.lu s;.. i. a . . i - uuw, w iieiuer tnev an for it or not : while tune being, to be obeyed by those Districts that desire it, which ought not to be objected to even by those which oppose Prohibition." Our cotempofary is mistaken in supposing we desire to see any law forced on the p-opl" against their will. No such inference can be drawn from anything we have written. What we desire is a moderate and iudicious mr.as, ; which, if enacted by the Legislature, we believe o tuere are many pne- i i l . , , nomena that cannot be satisfactorily explained "e re 7 " V ' . ... j f I We rerraid thf nnn L r - .i. upon any other supposition As we descend into the earth, there is a greadual diminution of temperature, until wc reach a depth of about 100 feet. This is ow ing to the influence of the sun upon tho surface of the earth. But after we pass that distar.ee the tpmnArnfnro k.' x ; . uegms tu increase, ana con ; tinues, as we descend, to increase as far as man! ' has ever yet penetrated. The various exeperi- ments. that have been made indifierent portions ! of the globe, do not furnish exactly the same rate of increase,but the average of all the state-: metfts made by men in different corners of the earth would, we believe, be about one decree e regard the people of North Caroli our citizens virtuous and order-lovin na as a Jommuniry, not quite found nntli o " w viiauciie my len- fnr Poi-Tr ir a. . dersrranathU h.n T t. .'J 11 lue mperature contin r .. ' x WU1U uul ieeimS es to increase at this rate, before A Hungr amr ihw Wd bread. ' The details of the battle of Iukerman as re ported in ihe Lbndon Times, afford a most dreadful picture of the horrors of this great civilized tear of the nineteenth century. The process of reinforcing the allies was going on with all possible celerity. There appears to be no longer aiy of that shiily-shailyiug, to use an expressive vulgarism,-which characterized the war in its early stages. England is now dread fully m earned, -and it is lull time, fertile posi tion of the allied forces in the trenches belore the stronghold of the, Crimea is anything but satisfactory to the western powers. I confess to some considerable appreheiiMou for the result to the attacking army, tnougii I cannot relinquish tlie nope mat it wnl not be driven away inglyri Ously. It is said that at least 12,000 men have been landed in the Crimea &inee the battle of In kerman wa fought with such a costly victory to the allies. Menu while, Russia has poured twice as many thousauds into Sebastopol. Still, if the allies do nothing to forfeit their reputation for su perior prowess,tbey witt'bestroug enough not on ly to drive back Sortie from the city, but to carry the place by assault against 150,000 of the ene my I It is fearful to coutenapiaie the result of a successful assault upon the city, and the threat ened destruction of it by the retreating Russians The destruction of life would be awful, almost without parallel in the annals of war. The other topic 'of discussion among us the war'being of course the one is the gloomy con dition of commercial affairs in our own country. We have reached a great mercantile crisis, and there is a vast upheaving of the monetary ele ments. Failures, and those of a most imposing hgure, are trequent scarcely a day passes that one or more new ones are not reported. .To di versify the record, we have reports of brokt-n banks, defalcating clerks and tellers, or it may be of forgeries, that wouldn't stay concealed ! Really, my dear Post, affairs in nearly every bu siness circle are under a cloud, dark enough to cast a shadow before us, even into the new year. This scarcity of money in our midst looks a Tit tle strange when viewed in connPrtion wth ih continued large arrivals of gold from California. The i orthern Light came in vA.f. ' over SOO,000 m spede . o telligence fronl the mines. A very destntctive fire occurred m Philadel phia" on Thursday - night, - destroying severaj that, its nnthnc: woo i .1 . .i uo auc,iinuu, ana mat tne ani mus of the book was bad and bitter. It was the personal story of the writer, told v ith lare em bellishments of fancy, doubtless, and it holds up her relatives to scorn. To this a lady should not, perhaps I may say could not stoop, no mat ter what the provocation might be. The boob is not feminine it is not delicate it is not Chri.-tiari-like in its spirit and tone, and these defects outweigh its sprightliness, its sauciness, its egotism, and its wit. "Fanny Fern" has' become "a household name" in it may be, but believe me, my dearl,st,it M soon sink with this new book of her's, mto a, merited oblivion. What would you think of a book on button I mean buttons viewed in an aMhetieal light ? r of a book upon breast-pins ? . There ha juj appeared from the press of Redfield, a very handsome volume on finger-rings. This is its title page in full, "Tne H "story" and Poetry of Finger Rings,? by Charles Edwards, Esq. 'My ringl hold dear as my finger; 'tis part of it!" And no one who takes up the book with a pshaw tor the subject of it will lay it down again without recalling the expre-sion of con tempt. It is a very curious, el.ib rate and en tertaining account of the fi-ger-ring in all aes and in its- relation to mythology, ""superstition uv, poetry, religion and love. I remember once seeing an elaborate work upon spoons and I this book upon rings seems far more likely to ! be interesting than that. And interesting it is ! exceedingly so, conveying the read, back in- I to the mystic and historic ages, and reviewing j customs and events of ti.e.far-past with vivid ef fect. Let no antiquarian or curious reader over look this volume, for to such it will prove a treasure. Messrs. Appktons have recently pupGsbed the fifth o-f the Home Books, from the popular pen - ,u. . xnese books are all illu- j trations of familiar proverbs, and they are de- ' 8UW important moral lessons. The ! vullui routing Venture, Xolhing Haver and under this somewhat daring adaoe the fair author has inculcated the safe sentiment that " God helps those who help themselves." It is a simple and touching narrative, the hero ine is a little girl, and step by step her event.fi,! way is marked from the beginning in discour- j -jurcui. to a point or success and triumph. This and its predecessors "are the books which contain true household ' words" and "Cousin Alice' is a name worthr to be a "household lxi.nl. l.l.:.J .1 . . ,uutu UCU,I1U People ot Maine as the ed itors of the Guardian may imagine. But one other point iu our friend's article demands our attention at present. Jt will be found ingeniously presented in the following pa&sage : 1" our last article we contended that the people of a Captain's District knew their own wants better than the Legislature, 4 so far as the liquor traffic is concerned.' We 10M to the same opinion yet, and we intend to make it good by argument. 1 replying to this the Post asked : 4 If tho peoplf adistrict know heir own wishes better than the Legislature are they not more competent to legislete accord ' in to those wishes ? Certainfy not, and r our C onsftution We deny thft the peopll has any legislation to perform in connexion wub j he aw we propose They have nothing r0 do but to g.ant or withhold lic-nse. According e artesian well., tW . , . i A K . ir. lUB "Has this " " "ecu iormea in 1 ie tourt a ie.M.s ntv readers, cupjed the Senate a good part of last week, on the proposition of Gov. Graham to proviSe for an open Convention to remodel the Constitution, as a substituteVor legislative amendment. Sovft- ral of the f)jfer- have acquitted TlierfiseTres wan great neuii, ana oenverea statesman like 'arinnienta which $ would have been' worthy of any deliberative b dy. The amendment cf Mr. Graham was finally voted down on Wednesday, and the Fiee Suffrflgo bill passed by the consti tutional majority. We see a bill has passed its first reading in the Commons, exempting females from being com pelled to give evidence in ojxn court. We do not 1 now what may be the action of the Legis lature, but the movement will commend itself obiohsIy to the good -sense and good taste of the pubi c. Another important proposition is t provide for the employment of a competent agent to piocure all available documents bear ing upon the ea-ly history of our State. We rejo'ce to see this indication of interest in our early anuak and hope an effort wid be made to rescue tlie scattered and mutilated records from oblivion. A spi.it. d debate occurred in the House on Wednesday, ,.n the engrossed lesolution fur the relief of the X. C. Rnlroad. This resolution, af ter amendment, was finally passed. The foSlow- jg geuuemen were elected to the office of Counselor of State : O. R. Kenan, M. T. Haw kins. Benj. Trullinger, Samuel L. Love, Qwen Holmes, Laikin Stowe, and Win. Uadham. mat we ciitaca no blame tion with ourluilure to rj think, howevir, that thof it seldom reaches its deitiuation. result of very diligent inquiry. This is the The American As-ocmuox for t.p VANCEMEXT OF EdL'CATIOX will hold JtB annual meeting in Washinnn ... , next, the nifufn, ...:n i ,. j ro-m otxne Smithsonian Institute. ieetu.e mt!e children iuugmij io ivir. ameiou ,f the X. C were urut to UeaUi last week man s .plantation, havinr le Arrr,.s. on that gent le- C's. orders left alone in n contrary to Mr. - We have received a pamphlet copv ff i!,rer fromDr. Dunglison on the Blind Ii.stitutioiof Europe, add.essed to the Board of M..,, S i the Pennsylvania Ins:i;ution. V0 - fl q u-rv niuch obliged to the sender for so valuable "a escend to the depth of one mile, we shall find heat sufficient to boil water, and before we descend forty miles, we shall find heat sufficient to melt all known rocks. Th A i fT. fi.n4- " rr i u"iUl'1" uuines, anora an argument in favor of there being a great source of heat in the in terior of the earth. These wells uniformly have a temperature in proportion to their depth. 1 he existence of numerous thermal m various localities, affords anoth in favor of our hypothisis The waters of these springs are of differ degrees of temperature, from blood heat that of boilin? water. Vast numbers of these sprin-s occur in re gions remote from any modern volcanic action The lofty summits of the Alps, and of the Pyernees or of the Ozark mountains, are the lo calities ofmany of these wonderfn exhibitions of Salctes at Sax Francisco. When the re port of the capture of Sebastopol reached' San Francsco, a salute was fired from the English and French vesels in the harbor. The report turning out to be premature, the Russian Con sul fired a salute in return, from the Zeuobia, an American vessel, sailing under American col ors, and commanded by an American captain. What can this mean? Is it possible that, the j prejudices of our people against the allied cause is so great as to teuiot them to prostitute the American flag to such a purpose ? This is an other act of disgraceful treachery to our nation al principles. document. .Usury Laws. Quite a genera! movement is beinnrmade for th f i Boyce of South Carolina has bio sulject.in Congress, and it is als. ''Ug'ht up the so enra2riiir iLa attention of the LegUatures of South Carolina, New York, and several other States. . Christmas. We tender to "all our readers the congratulations of the season, aiIC them as comfortable a time as possible wuiu.g weeK, wnicti to us is always the most disagreeable in the whole vear. " I wish during Governor of I7xu rvi o.,., it o ...... ut. un.piue, j . n. A. has been appointed by President Pierce to succeed Brigham Young. It is doubtful wheth er the nomiuatio will be confirmed by the ben-ate. Yellow Fever. Dr. William Humboldt, a son of the celebrated Prussian satxjn( is at IJa- ana, inculcating the theory that yei low fev ler springs argument DOWer. Is i hod V ' r . . i I If the power that has hererr,f,o y , jrhe Court be transferred TobTppTwtn hat make them any morof a legisffe bSv than he Court .- We think not. The 4 fune I tjons ' o the Legislature are not tran Lr d t J the DeoDle hv tho n.t..- ,lu loi J "-'hhiju or nnr ,1 i j measure, nor does it assume that tne j ure is less competent to perform its dntthan I the Pu7Ki ? f a Captain District. Why : T i cause the duty of the Le,slr, J X. ent r. ,.n.-.,f k j c : -CU5l;5 wnen .- , ,luu mVes ,t t j. ueers lor execution. Gov. Swain's Lectcre. The distinguished j v ally ol Jortu afolJua ; m cU inoculat on delivered a lecture in the hall of the House o-i ' . Common, on Monday evening last, on the hisf .ory of that institution. We reirret that we Hi.i er ir We are indebt! to the lion. JohnJCorr ioi hear of it m ti.n. ,rtat..i T.v ..... Z Z "I'an.m ot the I ru-d ,v unviiii. I IUIUIUK kllOWIl SfQloc I V.. ,i- 7i r . . . .4 t 3 I 1 1 . i.; i c .1. i i m.ijr ui me iecturer, Uowewr, we are satisfied j hat the encomiums of those who were more for- J uuate were not misapplied. We hope the earnest ! ur thanks. r which he will jdeaso acc(r,t wvy oi me interests ot the Uuiwrsity by ui uistingiusned Piesident will have Its du -ct upon the Legislature and .he public. le tf- XS No paper will be issued from this office next week, in order that our hands mav erijj.iv a little resP:te during the holidays. - " up to e nronpr nf. 1 he Liwtlnf j vocting will constitute every vo nS a proper officer for the execution of he moM important provision that it will contain It the writer of the foregoing h as fortrtten thn next sentence in our i-i.. i r. .. . , "V'J lo ms nrst criticism, follow,, the one he has quoted in -thi. ..... ,rr..r,t. . 11 . . f"1"' i nuuiu remma him n o tnto U LA L K. t . . : ' I (I I f I 1 VU I U i III II I T-. n-t . J I i r iciijiua uim that we therein : 7 , u u ie weight is deri- '"ncny a.imitt,d, that if comofno, ( b - ' vrd from the existence of numerous deep seat- j wh"'' very obviously, fi,. or all I ed volcanos met with iu various na,,, nf I ification. i denended ' 1 Globe Voleanos are of two different I their own wiJ.es, tl, rZZZ the active and the extinct. . - be mo. e competent 'to d,ciJo row if these were confined to some particu- j Prohibitory law than the LegUlatJJe But we ar locality the cause mi.bt be regarded as j nied that such an acquaintance with their own r0 f CheU,iCaI Ganges at -heS was the prineipa, ,,ement of the co,,;" But th h ; , i ' rCqU'r-ed- Ur 'Wnt waa and con- But the phenomena of volcanos are just such ,)DU be, that the Constitute has nronerl v as we would be led to . . ri supposing tne ! uo.ucM anu responibility of L- wnoie interior ot the earth a melterl n.n ' lation to the re , , r-r-raUi mu wiiole peo- ! Die. and ihat thor.,f . n. . r r . '. 4U,C It connicts with the spirit of our government to leave it to the dis cretion of the peoDle ofK .t:o.:. L .. t uioiii;l woeiner a Invitation to Salisbury. We very much egret that" multiplied engagements will prevent j to cover the ground us from complying with the courteous invitation ! from the committee on behalf of the citizens 'of Kowan, to be present at their Railroad cele bration on the eusuing 4th of January. The completion of the North Carolina Railroad to that place furnishes an occjsion of rejoicim in uicn Wd would gladly participate with Snow. -We had a sprinkling of s own Wednesday morning last not enough however XS We .hear that Mr. Elliott exp. (t; to u..Ke anotner ua loon ascension from this c in a short time. IV ,ow citizens in that region. Com. SrocKTON has published a letter in Ta- our fel- j vor of Native American doctrine. cgis it slowly coolinf. Assuming the thickness of the Earth's crust to be 50 miles, the contraction of this envelope one 13,000th part of an inch, would force out .uter enougn to torm one of the mous eruptions ever recorded. VV hen we consider the number of active vol canosby land,and beneath the sea, togetbe, with the enormous quantity of mattei. th.t from lima a' ' tutf til ii m a a cjcuicu ironi th most enor- ollnteeks for Russia. Mr. Roosevelt, of N'ew York, has gne to St. Petersburg to enter ei vice in the Russian army. It is said that eveial other Americans contemplate the same ' 'hing. Thesrf are beautul specimens of the i I m ni-ii.lr. ,.L a I - 1 . ! uaracier, woo nire th -lie model d r-kAA v uiiu, iu suea taeir jlood in furtherance of its ambition. These sym pathizers with Russia are a disgrace to the re- 'ubhean cause. LITERARY NOTICES. gs actual and t ossi- Laxgdon; Boston, Philips, i i 1 1 - 7 i,"ou,a Perat; within their bound. or uot But the Guardian now denies that any of the functions of the Legislature would be transfer red from that body to the people, of the several districts, and appeals to the di.screri.n..,, ers of th(eniintir . - i.t . " j vuui 13. name. 1 A beautiful little volume, a pocket edition of flirt TiAntno T t Z " "'7 nfts just been published by Appleton, who havenw three editions of the poetical wo.ks of this famous AmenVn rt The latest publications it the Harrr, a th first number of their Aonthlv storv-WVs for childien, a volume andfe sermon from the pen of Kirwan, the great Antagonist of Popery in. this quarkr, the Amiiean Cummins I mav venture to call him, 6f ih- stnr.WV T We renlv rime ;r iditionally, and POllI-tB -. i , , j . nutiuer L ..iiiinifi finr....... -. . i i . .ttfcc wumQ tbelr jurisdictjoQ o! not, the courts would to all lnteols ,nd rscs participate in the act of legation, just I. the President of the tt..;..i . ,J u. u oules participates by signing or vetoing a bill. He is not a 4g- !, f ti i .u j lDe general P5nion leRWIaLye p0er8 So .u na ,b. pepe of tbe so it;c?-,, ,n6o,f"-"-.p-tiO0fl ' ' 1. . ulf.'S.Cret'0n' A' " to vv.v 'cgiaiaiive power. Rnt the ZTJJTZ bw?' aDd the Legislature has " " im? 1,rn!td discreti to them, because their acquaintance with indivn,! for license must be more accurate and extensive. I bis is at least the opinion of the jurists. Their local knorledge makes them more competent than the Legislature to decide noon the fitness of individuals. But neither they nor the peo ple of single districts are better qualified than the Legislature to settle the principle of entire f rirnliikifii. 1.. pm piuiiiuHuii iaw were nasw, j:.- conviction that t h int ., , . !.t ,rt ' wunaiiy, and r giooe is m u,wu oi me countv a malted siat i . : . . - : .l...h . . J , tt..Uui. irresistipiy forced un on our mmds There are, in number, about 300 active volcanoes Tbe amount of 'matter thrown from some of these, seems incredible The greatest eruption recorded iD modern time., is that of Skaptar Jokul in Iceland, saW to have occurred iu 17S3. There in r the crater two streams of lava, which flowed id opposite directions. One of them i Said to nova Kaam 1f . M . v : M mues broad, and 50 miles Ion-. Wth tT 7 miIeS brad' 8nd 40 -length. There average depth being about 100 Many villages, tosrether with Qnnn !.:.. , inhabitants were buried beneath the mighty mass. (See Hitchcock's Geology ) ' Every schoolboy has read about the erup- 2T2 HtDa ?ndofVesQ-s'd about tL fete of Herculanenm, of Pompeii" and nf otaoiae. From the arguments which we have now mentioned, Gologfets infer that afl the- interior ou. The Pook. "The;xor ye. Lave always with u." - He that giveth to the poor, lendeth -to be L ra. These are hard times, and the pinch J,eas snuid remind the benevolent that aa.iy in our midst are badly protected from the old. Much of the money destined to be ex- ended nextw.ek in the customary fiivolities, ould be better invested in a little extra liberal- to ihe destitute around us. A Peiest Fined. A Catholic priest has een fined $500, at Chicago, for personal injury 'o a ciippled boy, for d. dining to do penance r whi-jKjring at ma-s. The priest did not in nd, it would seem, to injure the boy so severe- v, but the jury very properly made him an ex mple, to show that physical coercion to Catb.9- c ceremonies will nt be tolerated in the United iates. rTHEK and the ladies. ine New York entists have made certain rev-lations conceni nor the effect of ether "whiIi .,u . . .. o i put ladies i tl.e.r guard against the too Traquent use of it, i well as. chloroform, in their private interviews un aentists and doctors. It is said that it of uiem oenave in a very unlady-like iiuucr. LotA MoxTKs aoais. This little fury at- ?nipted to horsewhip an editor in California, a 1 r weeks since, but the gentleman snatched tlie hip from her hand, and laughed ather abuse.. Ida Mat, a orv of thin ble. By Mary Saraon fe Co. This i another Wort rf -fw. selves outo De character. ' "iv ju.-imi.c ine evils ol slavery a k! incrt-ase the anti slavery feeling 'pr -mailing at the North. It lepresenU a white as smuggled into slavery, and pretends to give her histoiy and experiences in that condiiiop. It is by no means equal to Uncle Tom's Cabin in dramatic interest, and therefore less pernici ous in its tendency ; but the object of the writr-r is to employ hctiorrto eff.-ct'an object which by simple details of fact could not be accompli',, and we therefore regard it as one of the bad books m hicb Northern industry is now soLk- lific. We are indebted to the publishers for a copy. ! The Life of P. T. Baknum. bv himlf W , York. liedf.'d .' ! This autobiography, which has been so fonir announced, with so many clap-t.ap devices to secure a large circulation, has at last readied our table, and proves on perusal about as in er- ' esting as the history of such a man could well he. Barnum is a very great man in the estima tion of many people at the Xorth. and of course his narrative, which is probablyhe most truth ful thing he has ever published, bids fair to be as successful as any of his en tei prises. Mr. Bar num is very candid, but his cand -r conist in a complacent and chuckling avowal of a misspent life; and his autobiography is an appropriate close to such a career. The tendency of his book is to depredate virtue aDd honor, and to elevate low cunning to the same uignity with intellectual and moral worth. Our hopei is however that the poison is too apparent to efiect much mischief. Every intelligent reader of h:s book must perceive that although he lives iti a palace and has surrounded himself with the splendor of a nabob, P. T. Barnum is an exam ple of notoriety and wealth acquired at a heavy
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