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THS SOU T rj, w 1 1 k W post .a the plant by lying upon tt, the grass or clover dry up aa the plant gradually increased in vigor, and in aifew days it could scarcely be seen, while by its protective shading, the plants would be green and growing, and capable of resisting scorching rays of the sun. Where water is convenient to the tobacco field, the hands would after a little practice average four or five hun dred plants r.adr evening. Th ijs ten hands could plant twenty fire or thirty thousand weekly ; but the water must be near and easily obtained. In such situations where general ir rigation of the field could be made, there is no doubt butj the best effects would be produced. If properly irrigated, not too much water, but frequent applications when the ear. h was dry nd wanting rain, the tobacco would grow quick and mature early, two things that invariably produce a fine article, if the weather should prove favorable for the curing. Ilere closes this humble Iffort. If it prove beneficial to the grower of tobacco, the author will feel happy, and rejoice that therein he finds his highest reward. November 24, 1853. But I cannot write a long letter this week. and will turn at once to- my boot table, upon whiel. fipvpra! vrnm l. ' " . . '""lu' nave accumulated during the week. Last in the order of their publication but tir.,t in the popular regard at thi moment, (which is seldom, however, a just criterion of the Iieraryorm.ial mentofabook) is an impudent work from the pen of the notorious Chevalier Wykoff. It is entitled My Courtshh and its ORIGINAL POETRY. ! ' For the Southern Weekly Post. THB DYING SOLDiER ON THE FIELD OF GUILFORD. I BY D. MCNEILL. 'Twas early spring, soft breezes fann'd the hills, And birds sang sweetly from each pendent bough, While thaw ing iers made brisk the rippling rill. And inure impetuous in their headlong flow. The soft blue sky bent lovingly above, With tender sadness gazing from on high, "The zephyrs whisper'd sorrowing notes of love, in soothing accents as they flitted by. ' Sweet incense floated on the passing breeze, And nature's face was smiling and serene, Save here the smoke of battle 'mong the trees. Made dim the brightness of the charming scen j. The fife's shrill notes the dium's defiant sound, Where heroes bravely to the contest rushed, The can nons roar the armee that echoed ronnd, O'er Guilford's field the storm of death "was hush'd Where soldiers struggled, clashing'steel to steel, "Where gallant heroes their batlallions led, Where sweeping volleys, answered peal on peal, Lay bleeding masses, wounded, and the dead. A youth beside the brook that murmured by, Wounded and i.leeding, on his musket jay, Wtching the stream, by which he wish'd to die, Washing his life tide silently way. Thai lovely stream ! on which morn's rays were shed. And sparkled brightly on ih flowing tide, Had lost its crystal , smothered with the dead, Rolled sluggish onward, to deep crinisbri died. The warrior's life was ebbing to a close, f Ilia limbs were feeble, fainter still his brekth, JOMMMICATm METEOLITAN CORRESPONDENCE LETTER LXXVIII. Naw York, Jan. 13, 1855. FogPhytical and mental-Tke prospect-Mud-Ditto n. PhdadelphU-JU J3Miic, ncvs-TU great French loan The Britith army decapitated by the" Timer The probable cost of Sevastopol Ik want of work and tt, woe Unjust murmurs Go.1 heir, th -t. Mr.liohn'sbool,. " J uiivarnwiied account of the author's adventures Mr Dear Post, The weather is so gloomy and dispiriting that I positively shrink from the duty of letter writing this morning, and could wish your readers were not expecting any thing t my hands in ymir next week's i-sue. To sav that I am would not convey a just im pression of my mental complexion which could not possibly assume a hue half so bright as that tint I am rather gray-gnsly gray 1 ke the overwhelming, all surrounding, inter-penetratit..r and oanni permeating fog which just now af Acts us with its too palpable presence. It cuts off the tops of our church-steeples-extit.guisb-es the upper windows of our houses lends a w..u.j luiuuucinew to tbe figures upon the clocks at the City Hall and Tiffany', and ter minates all prospects, with" a wet blanket, so that we realize the mournful plaint of Hood and discover in all the city He knew full well that he would soon repose. In the lone grave, the silent house of deajh. From out Lb bosom, he a lock withdrew, j Which had long nestled there, a treasure dear, And held it out before his waning view, J1 Until his eye-lash moistened with a teafZ Her, whose fair ringlet now was in his hand, Was hisin promise, and would be his own, When freedom's flag should wave above the land, No longer under despot frowns to groan. Back, back his thoughts to happy moments past, To the gay Yadkin, near his true love's Home He lived again those hours, too sweet to last, When on its banks they did together roam. The tow'ring forests and thu swelling hills, K'ise proudly up, before the hero's sight, f He heard the murmurof descending rills, Whose soothing music gave his heart delight. The sun, whose chariot swift approaching even UT . L. . . I i . . " i ' 'Jung down the golden street of henv'n - ' And sighed to reach thit blissful world of limt. No Aro Upon hss lip, a smile of hope there rested, j:. 1 A lingering smile, a peaceful, calm serene; s That Bntton's yoke, of every charm divested, - Would break be(ore the lioii-heaited Green. The smile.of pride grew brighter as in feeling He knew his life's blood but refreshed a trees, " That would ere long, o'er tyrants humbly kind'lii.g, Wave its broad plumes and bid tbe world b free. When Carolina, where the tree was cherished. When drooping lowly from the want of care. Would proudly stand, while thrones and kingdoms Perish'd, And struggling despots sunk into .fespair. When o'er this land where shouted tyrant lemons, The stars and stripes, his country's flag would wave, And when the freemen o'er these smiling region Would proudly cherish every hero's gra; The birds that warbled in the groves aroand, The little brooklet gently murmuring near; Commingling sweetly in symphonious sound,' Fainter and fainter HI upon his ear. The evening sun grew paler in the sky. And gloomy darknes hover'd in the west, . Yet all was lovely to his gl using eye. And seemed to beckon to eternal rest. His glowing mind.eio the frail cord was riv'n, Recalled the smile that for a moment stray'd. Sweet thoughts of wome, of his beloved, of heaven. And of his country until death delay'd. Normal College, 18V. t3T The song which follows appeared in this paper a few weeks ago. The reply, from the Stauuton Spectator was appended by a relation of the writer: THE MOUNTAINEER'S S0N6. ' Eemoved from the land of my birth, ; Xp 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 his nest i To Rrappk 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 strengih 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 t lsy hear me yet further away ; f But oh I from fond memory's eye . Those mountiiins can never depart, And their love-printeS im;ge shall lie' Still fresh on the leaves of my heart i , . .' : W. Jl Stnton Spectator. - , EEPLY. i ; The mountains have heard your sad song i And sing in return, come again ; ! While echo chimes loudly and long, I Again, to the hills, come again. ' No echoes enliven the ear, In the regions of wearisome plane ; The drum-head of lulls gives (he cheer; As reveille rolls, come again. The eagle majestic that flies, ' Aloft o'er the storm and the rain, Screams out as he pierces the skies Come back, to the hflls come again. But mountain's and eagle and dove My woo and entice you in Tain ; Then heed the allurtments of love V Which Whisper, to heme come stain, "No distance looking blue!" The fog is thick enough to be cut and yet " cut and run where you will yi cannot escape it ! But besides the fog we are afflicted with intol erable mud-the blackest and foulest mud im aginableof the precise consistence of batter nd over-shoes deep in every street. At the Broadway crossings j here is an army of street sweepers who manage now and then by dint of j Rigorous Druoming to make the fl.-.gstones visi ble, but who cover you, at the same time, with splotches of the filthy compound and then per tenaciousiy thrust their little red hands into y.our face, with looks and language alike en treating you for a penny ! Even our new broom, Mr. Mayor Wood, cannot keep the streets clean' in sucli indescr.bable weather as that which we .e .ow enaunng. Nothing but a flooding rain from heaven can cleanse us from the ail pa vad ing pollution. Nor is it a whit better in Philadelphia, as 1 can testify from personal observation, since 1 whs there only yesterd .y nd had to do s me smart jumping to avoid the loghs whn-1, stretch along the gutters o' that proveibialiy deanly city. But enough of mud. I find my ideas rapidly assimilating, to my subject. JsU ink also seems to be grow ng muddv and thick and I must utterly renounce the theme. The Baltic arrived on Thursday night, but brought no stalling intelligence from the shores ot ihe Ui JWo.i l. The principal item is the new and magniric-nt French loan of five hun dred millions of francs to carry -on the slow siege of Sevasiopol ! The Lorulon Times seourg es,;ith unsparing lash, the inefficient of .Raglan in the Crimea and declares" tl.t. th BritiHh army there is a body without a head! There is every probability, I should think, that the British Commander-in-chit f will derive omIt ui'-giaue in mis memorable sieire. The like matters, that , swyi riii 5joa ue earn- ed by storm but at a fearful exnense of 'l,-m life. The vast accumulation rtf ac i . uncucia ana troops in and around the city by the Uuwan will make it impossib'e for the allies to capture' the city without dreadful loss. It iil cost ten thousand men to the aides say the letter writers-whereas if the place had been stomal uiree months ago it. might- have been earned at one-third of ibis, exp nditure of life ! And per haps. nfu-r ail. the ciiy may not fall before the besiegers ! They nfay compelled to retire in disgrace. What a blow would this be to the military p.ide of England and France a blow which would humbie tl.em not -only in il,e eyes of the haughty Czar, but of the whole civilized world! lor IT! V own rai-f T ii.i .i ,,. r... . wicio luai me cris:s i at hand perhaps already pastm,d that we shall very speedily hear news that will wake us up from the lethargy into which we have be-n rocked by the long continued lullaby of "No thing important from the Crimea." Let us have a little more patience. The murmurs of the vast bodv of unemploy ed labourers in this city and the adjacent city of Brooklyn have swelled of late into something like an angry roar of discontent and have be come a nine ominous ot mischief. I sincerely hope that we shall be spared the pai opinion in Italy in his pursuit of Miss Gamble, to whom he claimed to have beeii betro;hed. Our mod ern "Coeieb's in .eareh of a wife," makes out a tale ofuibul.uion,Xn challenge the sympathy of the rmK!i. U'li,f.i. .i e , - -. ..nven;, ufyiet; 01 iuiou amusement the reader may find in the Cheva liers memoirs, I will be bouud he will discover in them not a single grain of good taste or good morals and with this negative verdict I will dismiss the book to its destiny- which is un- niioufi-.r.Ml.. . . . - ... 1 Hl,u.vMii,i w minister tor a little season to the prurient fancy o; the public and then to sink in o an utter oblivion of demerit. - , A look of a difl",-rent cIass,,fiom the same en terprising publ:sher, Derby of this city, is pretii- ly entithd Ldusand Violets, or the true gra ces of mHidenhood." Thus is a tasteful compi lation (by the hand of a lady who calk herself Komlie B0) of passage, in prie and verseJ trom the authors -of various lands. These have chiefly rehttion to girlhood and its graces and are generally very graceful and pleasing. It is a choice book for the home circle, uu folding as it does upon everv nao-e, som , . blossom of intellectual, moral, or religious senti ment. The wiihdrawal of several of the Cunard steamers between Liverpool and this port, has made the arrival of Mr. B .h.i's publications' les frequent than usual The Atlantic, how. ve., brought a half a d zen volumes which I can do i .i . . . . . .iu more man menu n in this l.-tter. T!)e seventh and eighth volumes of Souther's Life and IVork of William Cowper complete the series, vvhieh fg a mosfvaluab.e contribution to standard Et.glWi .ite.auire. The eight volumes embrace ali that was contained in the ordinal Mxteeu of the fir.4 London edition, an 1 embel lished with fifty beautiful .steel engravings. Notwithstanding this cliarm'nsr Dictorial "fi..,. the edition is publihed at the low price of one dollar a xo'ume, being embraced in the standard instead of the illustrated Librarv. A thinl volume ,.f the complete v,orks of De Foe, contains the very amt.s ng ' auto-bio rril phy of Midi Flanders," and the uo loss n m ok- ..K!.. ....l. i. rri rr- . u.iv ne nisiory of the Devil" both or union are placed by the verdict of the wo.ld among the English cosies whoever may in cline to dispute their claims to canonization ! The Cyropozdia of XmopkonAo which is ad ded " The Hellenics of Grecian History- forju another volume of the Classical Library. The second volume of the historical works of PhiloJuda-vs, (the famous coteinpomry of Jo sephusf belongs to the Ecclesiastical Library u.uuMaic(i irom the original Creek by C. i. Yonge, Esq, and is remarkable for its phil- uupuicai jHrit, and al,o for its great compie" hei.siveness of seop. These volumes, together with all the three fell!t.fii&tMr..Jln!a nes.are imported and applied bv Messrs! J3aW Brother & Co, of this ci y. ' Jn the hope of Letter times and better weath er Yours faitl.fullj-, COSMOS. MISCELLANEOUS. un and in shame of riots but there is a pestilent snirh tbe mob which will need judicious restraint and may not be easily controlled. What the em ployed workmen are to gain by their restleM spirit -abd their tuibulent demonstrations I can not conceive. The truth of the matter is. t.h a.e reaping the frur. f their own imp.udente 8 eii soi me extravagance' of employers. Ilnil llir I,a.. . .uV v-,. j.nu.eni m tn& recent perod of worK antigh wages, they might etf meiiMng ia,d up in store forjMl o.u rt agency as tne present, but they were as reckless and as fast as any das of people, and they must expect to p,y for it. They have no light to be, outrageously clamorous. While I respect and pity their real wants, I utterly condemn their turbulent spirit of complaint a gainst employers, who are harinr in a com,,. calamity. Besides, there is no, need for a man' or a woman, or a child, to starve in all this vast city. Public benevolence has'made ample pro vision against such a catastrophe, and the cases which occur are rare exceptions to the ruleea ses which unhappily escaped the eye and ear of pity. GOD is helping the poor moreover, by abating the usual rigour of the season. We' have had no cold weather since the new year began. The ton of coal supplied by our charit able corporation or some of our benevolent or ganizations to the needy family is not making way as fast as it would if the temperature of nad continued. &, mild isihe.weath- r l"ai U,e.r,ver likely to be freed from its icy fetters m mid winter. I was up at Hudson 7 Prt f th Week and Hhough T crossed the r,ver upon the ice-it was evident ly growing weak and below the HM,tan.'. in deed, there was only floating ice to be seen Sinoe then it must have given wav at Hudson ana we are Jitelv to have a n..; ii j wanuary. THE TROUBLES AND VEXATIONS OF A Beklioz, in his woik, Voyage M usual en Allemayne, describing the vexations' to whid, he was submitted when he went to Germany i:' order to pro luce his works before the pui l,"c a that country, gives us te fo!lovii,g tableau which "elucidates the brilliant and tiictuione r.n ,t:,:., . f i . i ., Mu ...Llco Vl as wdl as t,je O1.;g;0all , of his eccentric disposition : "The composer," says he, "who i!l attempt as I did, to g , through the world to produce his works, to what toils, to what ungrateful and un- I relenting trials must he not submit ! Does one j "Br ,a,Jt7 "e iprtuie which await him even at rehearses ? First, he has to undergo the cold look of the performers, very little cha.med to be lor his sake, unexpectedly recalled from their daily avocations, and 'o be compelled to un wonted studies. ''What th A, f , tuis If I- w want? Why, ra,her, does he not stay a; iome V Ko: wi hs;an.ii, g th.s, every one seats himself at his stand. But at the fi.st g'ance the author casts at. the ensemble of the orchestra he .nstantly discovers in it manv an ,,tf-piciou. void. He inquires of the Kipe ,wUlet lhe rea. son of this. -The first clarionet is kk; the n"v ,s fonnned ; the firt io'oncello's boy labors under a v,y severe attack of the croup; th trombones are parading, hatin for gotten to ask for leave of al.,ce for ih day the drummer hasprained his arm ; the harpi wdl not attend the rehearsal, because he nil. time to practice his part,' etc, etc. .N.,. with standing, the reheard begin-; ,he parts ar read thruusrh. most. nnstwA. :i.. 0 v, twice as stow as the au hor intended. Nothing is worse to him than this slackei.ii,ef his feelings get the advantage rr h,m . ' i.:. heated blood overcomes his temr- ' the movement, until he returns fureiblv u, onginal tempo of the place. Then the embro-dio commences ; a tremendou, cacophony tears both heart and cars, so as to make a hah n. and to necessitate a return to the slower motion! Long periods must l practiced l,v frw,-n.- FlCvious.y, with adherent orchestra, had j been run through nt u f. n ""tt rapia iice. ilns is not all: anart from il,; l j-loudness oi motion, " ' Ah. ! it Ss true ; excuse me, sir. I read the direction wrAagly. ".'Again! ; What's this, yonder noise, Mr. Drummer ? ' Sir, I have a fortisimof "No, sir; it is a mezzo forte. Bes;des, you use wooden sticks, while you ought to employ those furnished with a round head. Those sticks differ from each other as does ! while from black." We"do not know such a thing here,' replies the Kapel-meister. ' What d. you call sticks with round heads? We know h.re but one sort of drum sticks.' j ' T"is I had anticipated ; wherefore I brought some from Paris with me ; take af pair of them, wh:ch I have placed yonder there on the table. Now, are we ready ? Heavens! lh:s is twenty times to loud. Why did noit the violins take the mutei ?' - "'We have none at present; the orchestra man has ommitted to place thtm on the stands. U e shall procure some t -morrow, etc., etc. " After three or four hours' pulling and draw 1 ng about most unharmonicailfy, not a single pitce can.be made inte'ligibl j ; every thing is broken, false cold, insipid, noisy, discordant, hideous. We must let tixly or jtighty musicians withdraw under such an impression, wearied and dissatisfied ; saying everywhere that thev know -6taviicithatsigtSfieW; that this-is ahe.lih and choatic' music,' and such was never before attempted. The next an improvement is scarce ly disco verabld; it is only on tfce fluid trial that it manifests itfilf. Then only the wretched com poser commences to- breathe ;! then only the well-conceived harmonies become clearer, and the different ftythms extricate themselves, The melodies nort weep, now smile;; the connected and compact mass moves boldly After so many uncertainitie and stammeiings, the orch.sta grows, stepsj speaks, becomes man ! j Umler standing inspires with confidenle the stupefied musicians, the auihor asks for a fourth tiial, which his injerpreters, wlto af.ef all, ae the rxi' people in the world, accede toj heartily. Thi lime, fiat lag 'Lw,k out for the unancrsf You fear no raorep do you ? No, give us the genu V movement,' tia ! and I gl.t stiddenly sparkies, art manifests itself, thought glitters, the work iJ understood ! And lo ! the orcheitia r:ses, cheer ing and greeting the compose The Kaj.el mei.ster congratulates him ; and j he curious oner who, when the success was doubtful, were link ing in the corners of the room, a -w sb p upon lue sia?e lo interchange with tie musician ex clamations of delight and amazeiiiet.t, Hiring at the foreign master, on whom tjiev h .d I oked before as upon a fool and a baibar'an. II. would be glad to seek for some relief Tl. - . . . i iue jioor vy retch must now exeicise stili greater cre anu attention. Ue mu.-t return to the room before the concert, to superintend the arrant, ment of the stands; to look at the orche.-tra parts, m order to assur.e himself that they are in trooa order, iie must carefully ireview the or chestra with a red pencil in hand, and ma.k ou' on every part of the wind instruments the differ ent keys and crooks, in terms used iu Germany, instead of those employed in France; For in stance, in ths place of the terms - cm ut, en re. en re, bemol, en fa dicze ; to writej down' the e: m C, in D, in es, in Fis. This is not a I ; he Ltoanq);i for the Enylish horn, b cause the latter is no; used 1 1 the orchestra an Ko, , v, 1 1 t tie i erio It. I 1. . now Horn it imer o an would himself hesitate in tran.posii.ff it other key. He has tod.ill sep trat. ly choris.ers. c.u singers ; lf, peradvetiture, they are not wel possessed of their respective parts. ; ' But the public aheady throng at the d..r the clerk strikes the time of the pert .nuances' Extenuated, exhausted both by Lk ad mental exeitious, the compost r reaches the lead it g stand, hardly able to stand on ids le un-C-nain, extinguished, disgusted, ,in;i thj mo ment when the plaudits of the audience, the .spirits of the performers, and thd Lve for his work, transform him suddenly hiio a sort o ehctnc machine, from which invisible but real ourning irradiauons detach themsilv the performance begins ! 11a ! it is fe-s, that the composer, lead v s. J hen then, I con- insr hia iwm-L- a - 2 ' v. . J l Jih. unknown to the iustrumentali.-t virtuosi W ,th what frantic joy he clings to (the pleasure of hearmg his orchestra ! How he presses, em braces, and hugs the immense and unruly instru ment ! A manifold attention seizes ul,on hm . Ins eyes sees every thing ; with a wink up and down, left and right, he marshals the entii -s of the vocal and instrumental parts, k motion of his right arms command a mass bfelm, ,,. break out, which burst faraway like iharmonious projectiles ; and the next moment, in the . r-.an-pon.ts, all this motion started by him s.ops sud dei ly; he chains the attention of all At his command all arms stand mot o..leS9j ai milll i.reauueses. He J,s ens for a minute to the i. lnce ; and anew be opens the gate to the over powered Hurricane." presides over this diabolical establishment. This was a deep trap, a shaft opening into the vaults under the Inquisition. As soon as the so-called criminal had confessed his offense, the second keeper, who is always a Dominican Friar, sent him to the Father Commissary to receive a relaxation of his punishment. With hope of pardon, the confessed culprit would go toward the Npartment of the Holy Inquisitor; but in tWe act of setting foot at its entrance, the trap opened, and the world of the living heard no more of him. I examined some of the earth in the pit below this trap : it was a compost of common earth, rottenness, ashes, and human biir, fetid to the smell, and horri ble to the sight and to the thought of the be holder. But where popular fury reached its highest pitch, was in the vaults of Saint Pius V. I am anxious that you should note well that this Pope was canonized by the Roman Church es pecially for his zeal against heretics. I will uow describe to you the manner how, and the place where those vicars of Jesus Christ han dled the living members of Jesus Christ, and show you how they proceeded for their healing. You descend into the vaults by very uanow stairs. A narrow corrider leads you to the several cells, which, for sumllness and for stench, are a hundred times more horrible than the dens of lions and tigers in the Colosseum. Wandering in this labyrinth of most fearful prisons, that may be called "graves for the liv ing." I came to a cell full of skeletons with out skulls buried in lime; and the skulls, de tached from the bodies, had been collected in a hamper by the first visitors. Whoso were those skeletons ? and why were they buried in that place, and in that manner ? I have heard some Popish Ecclesiastics, try ing to defend the Inquisition from the charge ot having condemned its victims to a secret death, say that the palace of the Inquisition was built on a burial-ground belonging, ancient ly, to a hospital for pilgrims, and that the skele tons found were none other than those of pil grims who had died in that hospital. But eve- ything contradicts this Papistical defense. Suppose that there had been a cemctory there, it could not have had subterranean calleries aiitijc. lis, laid out with so great regularity; and i even if there had been such, against all prob ability, the remains of bodies would have been removed on laying the foundations of the pal ace, to leave space free for the subterranean part ofthe Inquisition. Besides, it is contra ry to the use of common tombs, to bury the 'lead by carrying them through a door at the side, for the mouth of the sepulchre is always at the top. And, again, it has never beeu the custom in Italy to bury the dead, singly, in quicK-lnue; but, m time of plague, the dead todies have been usually kid in a grave until it was sufficiently full, and then quick lime has teen laid over them to .prevent pestilential ex halatious by hastening the decomposition of the i.tiected corpses. 1 his custom was continued, some years ajfo, in the cemeteries of Naples. and especially in the daily burial of the poor. i nerelore, toe skeletons found in the Inqui sition of Home, could not belong to persons a Jed a natural death in a hospital: nor ooutd any ona, undor such a supposition, or plain the mystery of all the body being buried iu lime, with exception of the head, domains lion, beyond doubt, that that subterranean 1 . uuu couiaincd the victims of ouc of the manv secret fliartvivf . j ji mix: uuiuin.Tiy i ntiuniii. The following is the most probable opinion, if it be not rather the history of a f.ict. The condemned were immersed in a bath of slacked lime, gradually filled up to their n-eks ine nme, by little and little, enclosed the suf ferers, or walled them up all alive. The tor ment was extreme, but slow. As the lime rose higher and higher, the respiration of the victims became mora and mort pinlul, b cause more difficult- So that what with the suflocation of the smoke, and tbe anguish of a noisome heds, its beastly purlieu-, or its decay. Ail the picture ever drawn of plague and pesti- rcutr' '"'" ' worn of the inspired writer who' cnronicuHi tne woes of infidel Egypt down to the narratives f Boccaccio, De Foe, or Moltke, fdUbortof individual "bits" of(diseae and death which any one may see in "Lalf a dozen phces during half an hour's walk in Baiaklava. In spite of all our efforts, the dying Turks have ma le of every lace and street a cloaca, and the forms of humari suffering: which meet the eve at every turn, and once were wont to idiot-k n-., have now ma le us callous, and have ceased even to attract passing attention. Raise up the piece of matting or coarse nr which hat.gs across th doorwxy of .-ome miei able house, from within which you be.n .wailinys and cries of pain and prayers to the Prophet,; and you will s.-e in one sjiot and in one instini admass of accumulated woes that wdl serve y.iu wi h nightmaWfor a lifetime. The dead. laid out as they died, are lying side by side with the living, aud the latter present a specta le beyond all imagination. The commonest necessaries of a hospitil are wanting; there is hot the least 0iirn aattdi!,, )csj WILLIAM D. COOKK JAMEfe A. WADDELL.JI. D. ED Tons D T l?TniJ T tit Terms-TWO DOLLARS PER athtwtt,, ! r . j la AdVi Three Copies,. . Kiuht Copies,. . 'Vn Ccjiies,. . . s I'weniy Copies, CLUB PRICES o fnj ...... (.Payment in all cages Price, :::: i!)- sent, th orsoii ii.:,L,,bT,.. '.1"' WW'M nh.,.. , copy extra. ' W'H be. J5" Postmasters are authorial . ' i the Southern Weekly . J tu ?s A , Mk. II, P. Donvrr h P ,:. , Alaiiama. Mission l Vv." I.. pecL.-d.le ., s me ..f ahssretai.aUe.lKi.J,:. both the do icv and i ;. i ! . ":u , attention' riaiil tn A i v "'VV,M' wTOHiiiiws me ra ion. Un the one haul th- iiieu is availing the foetid air can barely f Ki EDU JATION BY THE STATE Ir is. with iniieli nin it..,, ... i ' , Wj po-i i, ,n in Various ;s in t!eny struule out, t tni.it the atmosphere, save thr o' the chinks in the waMs and roofs ami, for all I can obenr, these men die without the least ef fort being made to save "th em. There thev li just as they were let gently down on the ground by the poor fellows, their comrades, who brought them on their backs from the camp with the grea est tenderness, but who were not allowed to remain with them. The sick "appear lo be tended by the sick, and the dying by the dying. !ll,,. itriiie.!' i' ro,ldl till,, C.ttliolic coute .ds that vcho.. : . u. me uvl goie.u,, IT. . .1 o. . ... ..... r"1 .W..H.U otues, are "infidel and becmsa his religiou-i iiUi ns bis ..w church, are carefully ex, tn -in ; and though iiqJ ess g,. f-1 n Sir Wed tr... ofc.i nbliciv .-,:L-L'.i becau-ie he fimls lIia iif.i.t ..r . . . ' 'te!N, ," " ecuiar m t,, ,. " -'" -"'o-e UlCOlnpf.t.ij blind submission wbieh l.;c... o oiuer lianrf. rvrtu I). . w tl- i I'fv t tl:e A PEEP INTO SEBASTOPOL. The correspond, nt of the Morning Herald writing fr ,m the camp on the 7lh, thus de'-K-ribes the apjarance of the town - f Sehasto pol, and ili.. Con htion of the Itus -ian de ences. as viewed from the oveus : Sehastopol is not iu ruins, and what is m ,iv important sti I, the defences are four times str.mg rand m .re vgoruus than the first day we o, et.ed fire. I know this statement mav make my leiters unpopular with a certain set, wh . wid se- noth.ng but victories !ind cmses for orratu'atinri " " uui u-." veriueies, u is only the truth, and 1 am confident that time wdl ii,d cate my a-sertions even in the ey.s of the pu I.e. .i,My myseii on this jioint bevond all possibility of doubt. I yesterday determined to visit the " oveus' , ur most advanced picquet post, within lWf hundred yards of the Kuian batteries, and close overlooking the' town and I'H'b.r. It is perf.cily easy to approach this place now, for5 a covered way has been con ducted to it, and both sides have, comparative ly spewing, ee-ised faring for some time. The real daiiiagd inflicted on the town of Se bitopol amounts to this: all the huts itd hv the duckyaid laborers, d the Turk sh parts of ;! wwu me wni s, are mar.v destroyed ft.ui i.,:. i . i .... ' -... .alu inmost ievi with the earth. Ti quarter appears to be the only dirty and wretc.r d pn of Sebastopo!, something of the .same knd as our Uatcliff.hii.hway. Uu wals are "u "-re ini.rked wub I,ot, b t nu st on s i .ii.il.l. ... i . rt, ueences thev are still jnrei. Onlarue barrack inside the walls a- i ,., h,cl, ou. fi e, as a-ains. a gov. rnm-m. T.i J- - p,, uvcu p ri;ciuaru direct, d, is ri.d every part, an i mt of its ioof d.st-oyed . ..u S we is ti.e ta-se with about .tv r sev enty f ,h,. h mscs nearest the walls hm b vond this i.h g ,,IS 1k.01 donp ad o- e piii-c pal ..a..S,o,!S more to the centre of the town oeeti initiied. it w..i:M i... Wl to the siinft Kr.f. - ,i the State cannot prope.ly i. c.lcrtte :nlv , I " tru:h; which belongs exclusive v to t(e rf" and thai secular instruction is V,J '. ' j less when diss. .dated ft 6m. reli..io,;s j, c ""'' j kernel as they e by opp.J.e l0 v wo;1ssa.li.ijrp,r,iesexideI:1v occrpi c;:7 Uronn. and ;.,e eg,,, d in mJi ! uliinneu wit I. I. . 1.. - m a .- u uer i a-ft ns( li e j) 1 as a d.ii:p;v i-ogative of the ih.iniaj. Chu.ch" i,n ,lnwrra"td-aiii,,,nirw.ua.1.1 lor although the christian expressly charged with ins i "un- Ulli; - III compressed breathing, they died in a mine since fearful discords arise from certain parts of the te river in wind department. The author muath, ' Trumpets, play aone What's the matter w ith you ? 1 ou must souird a third, and you give a chord of the second. The seco d trumpet in C has a D : sound Vi i fn, - . , n ..' . ' j i ; xue nrst lias a wh ch should sound F. Emit C. Fie I hor for! you give a B j. "'Nosr; I play what is written, " I say no ; yon are a whole step lower.' 44 4 Sir, I am sure I sound C.' Come, what pitch is your trumpet f M E " Ila 1 so is it Here is the mistake. V..,. should take the F tuulJ)et., . Father Gavazzi on (he Iuqulsitioo. Father Gavazzi, bavins, been auJsti.m. K., afiiendin Canada as to the Inquisition at xvume auu now the valorious Padre hellish flsfM:i .l . - i vcaunmcm wucd ne went! gives in renlw K f.A;n . I . r ; wwW,u 1U '.cresting answer -i. x. Crusader. Iv DkarSir: In answerin fons concerning the palace of the Inquisition at Rome, I should say that 1 Can oily give a few superficial and imperfect notes, j So short was the time that it remained open to the pub so great the crowd of person's that pressed to catch a sight of it, and so intense the horror inspired by that accursed place, that I could o oDla,u a more exact and particular imp sion. i ! found the m 1849. jour ques manner n.osc non mie amt desperate. Some time after their death, the heads would naturally separate from the bodies, and roll away into the hollows left by the shrinking of the lime. Any other explanation of the fact that may be attempted will be found improbable and unnatural. You may make any use of these notes of m your publication, that yon please, can warrant their truth. 1 wish, that writers, speaking of this infamous Tribunal of a. . 1 . . . me mqmsmon, would derive their information from pure history, un.uiojiled with romance for so many ad so. great are the historical atrocities of the Inquisition, that they would M-e than suffice to arouse the destesfation of- thousand worlds. I know that the Popish iu. poster-priests go about saying that the InquM tion was never an ecclesiastical Tribunal, but :. 1 uc. But you will have shown the contrary iu ,uu' "uu m:'J also add, in ord.-r quite to lying preachers, that the palace of the Inquisition at Rome, is under the shadow of the palace of the Vatican; thaftbc keepers of the Inquisition at Rome are, to this .b. Dom.mcnn Friars; and that the Perfect of ue mquismon at Home is the Pope in person I have the honor to be Your affectionate servant, Alessandro Gavazzi. easilv .fii oj , .i . . . " i,r ueuotied, and all are whi e as snow, and b.stan )y show shot marks. The pleiidhUtruc.ure h.ch we call the "Paithe o,."-ihe Goxemment Houseand, indeed Othsoftheluldiigshownotraceon: jury. Ine streets which I eoud see, and which of course, were those nearest our batteries, were al, in a most enviable state of cleanliness gO Hl order. these were numerous bodies of .ounging ho .ut unconcernedly, with their n." kef p,led upon the pathways. Many ci vilians pIlSse.l to and fro, and now and then an ammuuKon wagon; but I saw no trace of ei.her Zr;rd,i,d",,'0rt'tLerVebicI- ofthet dinary description. Of the earth woiks around Sebastop,.!, it is more ,l.fft,...U . . 1 ,s neaic with accuracy. So nu- .-rous are these defence, that of then, it is quite 'npossib to gain at 'one a near and exten ive v ew As ,ar as I can judge, from .raver-,,- arly two- h.rds of the allied lines the enemy's l-auerus apared genera ly i;l COod uoik n.r order. r es- for they 1 found no instruments of torrn were destroyed at tbe time of the first French u-smn and because such instrumints were jot used afterwards by the modern Inquisition. Idid, however, find, in one of the bons of -ceonu court, a tumaee, and the remains of , ms. i snail never bi able to be lieve that that furnace was used for the living it not being in such a place, or of sutih a kiud. as to be of service to them. Every thing, on the contrary, combines to persuade me that it wm maae use of lor horrible deaths consume the remains of the victims J uorial executions. A nothcr object of horror I found between the great hall of judgment, and the luxurious apartment of the Chief Jailer frit CasWc,) the Doiniaicaa Friar who and to Inquisi- From the Correspondence o! the London Times DEEADFUL COHDITI N OF THE TURKS x o&lu&iLLAVA. nhe Turks are employed in makW a actually making roa, at kst , lu wj , oe i.om tue town, past headquarters, up to No. 5 B 'ttery. They are also employed in i,andinr on shore and piling shot and shell. It U &mtZ ingto wateh th,j miserable creatures work 7;B ,D rows the "e Pa the shot from the fU to the beach with a laZy a,r, which ison- u'ar "ten an unusua ly big fellow turns T Then the groans, the rol- l ng of eyes, the convulsive struI, tl(e grut w .ic.i pass hke electric shocks from man to man with the 68-,ound sh.rt or J 8-inch mortar, are really astonishing, but at last the globe of melal seems to acquire heat, and is dropped in tie mud like a hot potato bv a sufierinsr M.iftlman. They are really weak and wretched. m.t natu rally, but owing to sickness and bad living. An to the town itself, words cannot describe its filth, its horrors, iu hospital, its burial, iu dead and dyjng Turks, ita crowded lanes; iu 1 .e-whole of the enemy's h.tter es are now PM.tl by a d ep ditch in from with and ros of stockades and chevaax de trse. From this f.ict alone it is evident that they are guarding against, and, theref ore, fear an.assault. But it is principally of the north side which, I wish to sprnk. - The tremendous ex.ent of the new redoub s -u oatterics which I saw thrown up all oneii.s'(; ,. . 'T hf f. mm n mI,, , ., pnnoph- up tt.ich that ,.!,., ! ,s . Sen... ,M,Uca:o,i ,.sa,:,v aiui ,,; s.ty o, .ve.y r..p,.bl an Stnfe, w Sl, , -; rffr,M,N,e,u for t,e:r i-vafo,, l:,:; i"t. ..gece Hi.d M'nue of ihe .-e,,,,,.:,! . us to pro est. against a,,, ,eH. ,0 f,r' aMe. Hie.eaUmpts d.er, dn and d.ltrv common school svsten,. ! ' F.isttotlieV.i.cif.ieof.dtt.Hi.J ,,r ,lB - 'le e,dersnMid it to b..de,.ied!iJi:,Itle bfa'e ha, a right, or ny obi g,ti01, , - H, l--defor,lUg.ne,,lc1;,ll4i;; ; c;.d,o of ti e people, This fmn I dm. ed on either hd as n A , C (i 1 'si,l liii'liun . "'inistrv l.:i4e !,. the iniiiiH t ie I . .. i : . i i ui " '"-""'S i nat.ons ihe do inculcated by their divine Head, it by. t nows that the whole busi. ev er intcn,!. 1 I . T ,u ,u ue commuted to their J.vJ A l,an. statement makes it evident th,, M wti.g,-and cyphering, ,llU 'i... I'- ""..u of Ia.ra.nre, ,it..n. aud M.ce, fe s.ruhr I,r.1Ilches of i Mil h theaj ustohca! commis Uileef v i. A I. : . iL '-s dangerous !,; 'Miise ,1 l.rac- e:. i- i .1 , . , , 1 fi u u must fJnhv th,.h,.dsofticva,onsd,,JhlU,jUs!iill1o LmtedSats, hur for C;il ,s u. ii L or god.wh.ch ight ,r.,e , ,;i t the saf. tv ,,f" , n, : .- , J J,, IIie Jc.'l are-opplfed to the jr,.li( ra "ee,a,ld w ird only ate ,,,.;, -,,, U r hg,,ir ;i,,d sufestiuo,, the iiuwill .n,ri.i..- i i t; .i.. . , 1 lo "w P 11 l.iidertli.-ir.i.f.aie.e.a n . re- OI.VluUs oljewi..,,, th,,,, t!,e nad.qtlael oVot.s to tl.e great wor k of ulu a the s Js. Wh.n tl.erefure it is soleim l a-se te. iliaj d UC1.1011 is the exclusive function of the Chitr, h, belonging in n., degree to the State, a do. uiL ii propou de I against which a strong p, tg.-nnM .seasUy es; a!. .shed, on the gi Jttml tl,;.tj che ' Ci.urch either will not. or cannot ,l.scI..-.rrJ ,1,,. fiicv claimed for it by its champion-. It il i.,-' cumbent of course upon the Chinch t . si o tl.nt -he has the actual power to p, illrii. this L, bif,rehe un.leifc.kes, or her advocai.s f.riluT, to deny the right of the State to do the sLme thing. J j - Against this right of the Slate, we have iefin o argument, of more than sni.eihVi A ...Irk. ged by any wi-ter. location is, prii.iuYlk , iyl,t of dividual citizennd we ciii ''ihejeoleiiKiy dci.-a,e tl.iV, as ue!- ..,er p avers iu th. ir 4i - T .tie. iL ls assumed I octnnes ami m mU i 'I Cj ll c:i:S ashless ol'cluca:.. ,. .., J. i'iS iiict.ori, 's " ii J.a. L ih.i ; f i r i . ; u j t r i s lll.we.se ;iir.Ji- 'jn in art; r-p re entalives in jti.c y others to be an dt- i' '"o, -uei r e i irom iJtaven. an.liiiot o ine: consent of (lie pe p. i.) "owev.rca; not be.st.s i i "uu is altogether lucoNieut Such ; in hi. I- sta ned by thesciijituf.', With the -n rii of our mstitions. Ju J)U ely n n,a v j)e. c guize the sanctity of ,uinb.enf)J Coul(u ,g dedly as any one; but w canM aJmit tJJt jhe.. au.holity;fti(erAfAis,,l!lr . ..J. Jamily, in the matter of seeu .,..,. 4 jnifll l tile U.V lielv . 1 .. . V l thecity, did, iudenL astonish m... I,,,''WrUul nio.,, from the circular caith-work and Mar,e)lotoer, (the latter now a mere pile ot rubbish,) round to the sea ne.r Cape Constantino, is one long hue of ledoubts and batteries. Malta, Gibraf tar, or the lines of Chatham all in one would be far more vulnerable than lhso fonr.v.i . entrc nchments covered with infantry, pits, and deep ditches in front, and protected by scarped banks, stockades and masses of cannon. Ihav seen many of what are called first class fortress es but the present aspect of Sebastopol miht vie with airy. hLWI,E T .a-The lawyer :.h: M '' ed note, cutan L- q..H....uue, t a Hair, mad e an entry, raised a fin- a nau. got up a CH,e frarae1 n .ST:??' tl- -abs.x,llaned and M whole court,"-all in one day-has nce la.d down the law " and turned owDenfc-r War with the Ihdians appsehehokd. Wash- tnaton. Jan It rt .. . r " wn. ocow spprehend-a trouble- wme and protacted war with the Indians in the est. TJiere sre symptoms of l .rge combinations of the Smux,' who seem to be impres d with th. idea that tbej cauuoldeur anayai bay. app'iiitcd depositary! of .. oo.l I... .1 ... .;!,.. i . . uc ii one i.iis iiid e V ' " t0 UtllC's- Wheiepareits cho.se t,, confide ,he education of, heir ctiWri-., to persons app.jillteU ,y Uja dio m cl.on to such a transfer on the sco're d A so.ute fli iL - u...i t i . f ' " ,ur Uii same reas -n, we cmi V thHf lh1-"e parents, i their capa.i.vif tei.s, .avo the riyht-iimited bv no sj.ecil senpturai restriction-of confiding this office io persons appointed under the authority of tfle State. It is a popular right recognized bv the sp;nt of our fundamental laws, ai.d ag.ilt wh ch no fair construction of the scriptuies ci be adduced I i In another number, we propose to sav a few' words in legard to the policy of sn.sh.hun'.r i,.- dcious Mwen. of Common Spools incveir &ta e of ti.e Union. - - n. t. vi.A. a win oe s.n in our nes columns l i i i .. ...n ue nope neretoftre entertained by sonie,j that the Spai.isl, government would consent toj se.l Cuba, has been completely b'aI. TliJ -i-..., wones, Dd Peoole are united in their opposition. IlL?rESS r Mr. Mason. The Hon. J. hn Y. Mason, our mi.dsier to Franc , is h ing dang r OLsIy ill at Pai, fi-oa M almd oaralyis. r "1 fi t
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