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T s u i H E R bi m CLT POST. 46 COMMUNICATIONS. KETEOPOIITAir COEKESPOHDESC3E LETTER LXXUI. New York, Feb. 11, 1855. European news Retirement of Lord John, RusseU Prob able change in the British Ministry The Crimean Ex pedition British blunders Negoc iations again A me morable winter Great descent of the mercury Zero and jfero-r Exploits of the cold More Snow Another Car nival The humours of sleighing Fanny fern again in the field A ruthless exposition A genuine book by a genuine author Delas Casts Mentors of Kapdeon Bo fin's January issues A new nd striking booh in Ecclesiastical Controversy. My Dear Post, The latest foreign intelli gence, (by'the steamer Atlantic, which reached this port on Thursday the 8th inst.,) is full of interest. The principal item is the abandon ment of the present coalition ministry of Great Britain, by Lord John Russel. He has resign ed his office and his retirement is regarded" as the prelude to the dissolution of that heteroge neous cabinet, which has contrived, within one short year, to cover its administration" with scarcely less than" shame and disgrace, in the operations Against Russia. Lord John Russell haa not' been, for some time, upon 'any thing like cordial terms with his colleagues. Their measures did not meet his approbation and he has more than once earnestly protested against them. Now that the conduct of the war is about to be made a subject of special and mi nute parliamentary enquiry he wisely retires; say wisely for the cabinet will certainly ;not come out of the inquisition with honor. The terrible mismanagement of affairs in the Crimea and of the British operations in the war gener ally, is a fearful charge against the government and the people of England will not be slow to 1 . A C3 see that it is brought home to the responsible parties. It appears to me, very evident from the con nected reports of the siege of Sevastopol, that the entire British army would probably have 4 sunred destructive defeat, it not anmliHauon, but for the support, and I may say protection, of their French allies. This is a mortifying thought to those who regard the glory of 1 the British arms as preeminent but mortifying aa it may be, it is true. The disasters which have ; befallen the British troops in the Crfmea,' and by which nearly three fovrths of its vast num- 1 .ii 1 1 n n lviiin i-iiiiiii.l I . it f a tin i i li i 7i ii i-. i t 1 1 1 1 w " ) " v " immediate conjequences of wretched misman agement of fatal and inexcusable mistakes on the part of the powers in control. The heart tic-kens at the bare recital of the ravages of dis ease and death among the gallant Englishmen who went to. the Crimea to cover themselves : and their country's flag with glory- not to die of hunger or to perish from exposure in an in glorious and miserable inaction. I have no heart to write of the melancholy conditio of . the English soldiery befoi e Sevastopol. Poor fol lows ! they have all the bravery and daring which .i.- t..:x: .1. '.i 1" v- i ia in wiu Lniinu Dimtiyi la jjiuvi'iuim out Mi-J have yielded to an enemy whom they never ex ; petted to meet and thaUenemv is the improv idence of the.Governmeut, which sent them out to protect its honor and glorify its hitherto con- quering banners ! It is said, that there are now - scarcely fflttn thousand British bayonets in a siate of efficiency before Sevastopol ! Ffteen thousand out of sixty thousand ! Three out of four conquered, not by Russian valor, bqt by British neglect ! It is said that the Emperor of Russia: cheered by the misfortunes of the British troops, has become bolder and is prepar ing for aggressive operations if indeed be has not already commenced them. There are ru mors of a battle before Sevastopol, on the 25th "iiioiii, in nuiuu uu j.ku39iaus neie viuionous. These rumors, bow,er, are probably false, as di : reet authentic advices from Balaklava received the previous day said that nothing new had oc curred. , It is almost too late to hope that the fearful blunders of the British ministry will be aton ed for by. a new administration. Still, with Lord John Russell, as Premier, and Palmerston as Minister of War, "(a not impossible conjunc tion in a hew cabinet !) there would be some ground to expect the reparation of the errors of the Aberdeen coalition. Surely, England will not be satisfied to bear the shame and dishonor which must rest upon her military fame, if Lord Rnglan and his Staff should be the sole remnant of her splendid army m the Crimea and it would not lake six months to reduce 'it to that, at the same fearful rate of ruin which has been going on for the past six months. Who would have dared, six months ago, to pre dict such a sad fate to that brilliant expedition which England sent out for the capture of Se vastopol I May the GOD of battles forfend ! Negociations are again the order of the day and the talk is of peace. But will Russia make concessions now with an exhausted British ar my upou her own territory which she would not make whenshe had reason to apprehend formidable aggressions from the allied armies ! I cannot suppose it possible. It seems to me that any peace, patched np now, would be essentially-worse than the status ante bellum it- self. :. ' - ' This winter is likely to be memorable for its exceedingly cold weather. Since I wrote last we have had such a fall of the mercury as is not within the memory of most of our popula tion though the oldest inhabitant " very provokingly points us back to 1811, (I believe this is the date,) when there occurred what is still called u the cold Saturday" and our weather. scribes confirm his statement, that then the weather was even a little colder than ; it has been here this week. Perhaps it was but they cannot, after all, boast of as long-continued low temperature as we can. In some parts of Ver mont and New Hampshire the quicksilver went down so low that 'the only wonder is that it ev er got up again. Having taken forty-four steps downward, (at West Randolph for example,) why did it not' go to the bottom at once and have done with it 1 Hereabouts, it got as low as 12 degrees below Zero or as Mrs. Parting ton is reported to have said," twelve dappers below 'iVer.M That is a good idea, by the1 way, of the ingenuous old lady. Nero was u some " for cruelty butthe cold of Tuesday night was crueller still. It played all manner of wicked prank in our houses. It stopped the curent of the Croton in the pipes causing them, here and there, to burst until kitchens and base nent& were converted into ponds. It froie the water, in the gas-metres and so, in a very summary, (or rather I should say wintry man ner) " nd so put out the lights." The gas went out suddenly in parlor and hall in churches and stores any where and every where if the metre was not protected from the cold, or filled with alcohol in lieu of water. On Wednesday and Thursday the snow fell with little intermission and now it is deep up on the ground and the sleighing is most excel lent Another snow carnival is being held in our streets, and the fun is not a whit the less boisterous, for its repetition. I cannot im agine why it is that a good snow fall should quicken the wits of our omnibus drivers, but so it is. Generally morose, or at least taciturn, up on the boxes of their omnibusses, they no soon er mount the sleigh box and get four in hand, than they grow garrulous, and withal full of hu mor. "Ride up ma'am first coach up and you won'i have a better offer nia'am," said a Jehu yesterday as he saw a female standing at the corner by which he was dashing. " Plenty of room, uadies room in the sleigh and room in the gentlemen's arms don't wait for the next sleigh, that's fuller than mine." " Look out there,am Flemmmg, and don't let that lady run over your sleigh." This is said by one coachman to another, the latter driving eight in hand, attached to a vehicle as big as a canal boat in front of which a timid female is striving to get across Broadway ! At night, almost ev ery sleigh has an amateur musician on board whose solos on the come detain (anglice tin horn " make night hideous." What a rumpus Fanny Fern has managed to kick up in our midst to be sure '. (Pardon my mode of expression, but consider its appropriate ness to the subject I pray you.) Scarcely has " Ruth. Hall" begun to be forgotten as a topic of town-talk, when a large book-publishing house announces " The Life and Beauties of Fanny Fern." The book is now being printed and bound bv thousands, and alreadv is it on the way to remote places, in advance of its pub lication for the citv trade. I have looked into it, and I find that Fanny's origin and history 1 rwi i are tola in pretty plain terms, lue romance ami the embellishments or nuth Hail are rather ruthlessly used up, and " the other side of the question is displayed to the reader. It is not known to me at least, nor to the public, who is the writer of this book, but it is evidently somebody who knowgWiny "through and through." It did not require this booki howev er, to satisfy the public that however ' gifted" Fanny Fern is, she is not possessed of enough womanly grace and delicacy to save her name from common notoriety. L-ng & Brother are the publishers of the new book, and they will find Fanny a source of profit to them, w hatever she is -to her family. It is refreshing to turn from the mushroom books which a perverted taste generates in this, day, to one by a genuine author, a man whose name is linked to the histoiy of his country and his age. Such a man is Washington Irving, and his admirers all over the world will welcome a new volume from his pen, just published by Messrs. Putnam tfc Co. It is entitled " Wul furCs Roost and other papers now first collec ted." Like all of Irving's books, it is character ized by a refined taste and genial humor; There is no diminution of the charm which binds the reader to the pages of the" The Sketch-Book."1 Redfield has recently published a handsome li brary edition in four duodecimo volumes, of the Count De L is Cases, Memoirs of Napo leon." The volumes are embellished with mi merous portraits and other engraings. The Count De las Cases, was the daily companion of the renowned hero during a period of eigh teen months. He says " Admiration' made me folio,w him without knowing him, and when I did know him, Tove alone would have fixed me forever near his person." With his unequalled opportunities ana witn mis undisguised devo tion to Napoleon, the count undertook to give us his personal memoirs. They are, of course, full of extraordinary interest, and it is needless to say that they constituted -the most magnifi cent eulogy ever pronounced upon the character of the great French Emperor. The January issues of Bohn's popular volumes indicate the purpose of that indefatigable pub lisher, to increase, if that be possible the ex cellence of the different series. To the Anti quarian) Library, there is a rare addition in " The Hand-Book of Proverbs" a very thick 12mo, in which are collected the proverbs of all nations. . There is no otTier work of the kind so complete as this, which really h aves nothing for the bibliopole to desire upon the subject. I the classical lives there is the first volume of the great work on Natural History by the younger Pliny, of which there is, besides this, only one English translation extant that of Holland of the Elizabethan age. The value and the com prehensiveness of Plmy's work entitle it to a new English dress and to that modern annota tion and illustration without which it is almost a dead letter to the general reader of this pe riod. This new edition is translated cheidy bv H. T. Riley, Esq., of Cambridge University, who completed the labor begun by the late Dr, Bostock, to w hose hands the publisher had en trusted it. It is certainly done in a most faith ful and scholarly maimer, and lh great Roman naturalist has found at once an appreciating translator and a judicious editor, so that we may fairlv consider ham as Puny Redivivus. To the standard library, and W ell does the series deserve this name! there is an adJition of first-rate excellence in the u Life of Richard Cour de Lion, King of England by G. P. R. James." It is a new edition in two volumes, Of the merits of Mr. James' hi.-torical works it would be superfluous to say anything. They are everywhere recognized as British classics, and these memoirs of the lion-hearted King, are not a whit inferior in interest and brilliance to his Louis XIV, previously incorporated into this series. The Histories of Charlemagne and o Edward the Black Prince, by the same admira Die writer, will, it is to be hoped.be issued umiorm style with the volumes I , am now -noticing. To a more limited circle of readers the Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen, and that - ' uviuueu together in a sin gle volume of the Ecclesiastical Library, will be exceedingly welcome the former embracin period of over a century, from 824 to 440 (B, C.) and the latter an epitome of Church Histo ry, from the rise,of A nanism to the year i. O. 425. The work of Philostorgius itself is lost, but we have here an epitome compiled by Pho tius, the patriarch of Constantinople. Besides these additions to the regular libra ries, there is also one of Bohn's Extra Volumes, in which the' Boccaccio of Decameron is con tained, in a form and at a price which will make it altogether the most popular English edition of this extraordinary work now extant. Lam not surprised to learn from Messrs. Bangs, Bro. & Co. the American agents of Mr. Bohn that his books are constantly appreciating in this country. The demand for many of them is ex ceedingly large. Their cheapness and excel lence defy competition. At the risk of making this letter a long one, I must mention a remarkable volume just pub lished bv Messrs. Graves & Marks of Nashville, Tenn., and by Sheldon, Lamport fc Co., of this city. It is called " The, Great Iron Wheel, or Republicanism Backwards and Christianity Reversed." It is from the pen of the Rev. J. R. Graves of Tennessee, and is an exposition and review of the great system of Methodism, by an avowed, but apparently frank and sincere oppo nent. It containstyhat a backwoodsman would call vdrne'hard ticks" against this popular' re-1 ligious organization, which the author regards as a vast " clerical despotism" and a system of absolute Jesuitism. Without endorsing his opinions, I may venture to say that the book must create no small sensation among the nu merous orders of the clergy of the Methodist church. It will doubt-ess call into requsition their best talent to refute its charges and its conclusions. The volume is " illustrated" by some very original and curious engravings, themselves curiosities of art as well as of eccle- siasticism. Pardon me for falling into the old fault of, i ours a t length, COSMOS. For the Southern Weekly Post. WHICH SHOULD HAVE THE PREFER ENCE OF EDUCATION, THE MALE OR THE FEMALE? Delivered before the " Lilerty Lyceum. BV T. B. This is a question of the utmost practical im portance. It involves the interest, the prosper itv ai'd the happiness of posterity through all coining time. It nieii:s the profound investiga tion of the god, the wise, and philanthropic of every clime, and of every tuition. There is not a soul that treaJs the face of the earth, whose destiny is not more or less influenced by the light in which this question is iewed. The suu, in his diurnal revolution, looks not down upon the people whose interest is not affected by its decUion. It is a question of the greatest magnitude, nd should be of the most universal concern. We believe that the true interest, and greatness, itid prosperity, and happiness of all nations and ountries, and neighborhoods,- will be found to iogres paripassu with the proper develop ment of the female mind and character. Then, oh ! for the overwhelming eloquence of a Demosthenes, and the soul convincing argu ments of a Webster or a Clay, to plead with becoming cftgnitv and success, the merits of our mse. W e readily cencede the high importance of both sexes being educated ; but if oueorthe other must be neglected, ever let it be the male. Man is strong, and with his nerve of iron and face of brass, he may force his waj- through the world, though he mav have but little vantage ground. But woman is delicate, modest, of feeble nerve, and physically weak. In vain does he raise her feehie arm against the Herculean strength of man. Man reigns by the physical strength of his arm ; but woniau must reisrn bv ove. sweetness and persuasion. Then, as woman is the weaker vessel, we infer that it will require no profound reasoning nor 'fty strains of eloquence, to convince the mul titude that she should be fortified with educa tion." A good domestic and good school or intellectual education education will give her confidence and ability, strength and decision of character, and place her nearer upon an equality with her counterpart, man. Pope has said, that woman has no character; but if this be true it is because they have no education. Where there has been no discipline. no training of the mind to enable it to think and reason correctly what kind of character can be expected. The reasoning faculties are feeble for want of exercise, and . where there is no knowledge there can be no judgment. Woman should be educated because she is more depend ant than the other sex, and this dependence is not owing to any fault of her own. If the customs of society diJ not forbid it, the feebleness and delicacy of her physical con stitution must forever deter her from engaging in many pursuits to which man can resort for a subsistence. For her to plow the fields of her neighbor, or to mow his meadows, would be highly derogatory to. her character. Woman's character is of the highest importance, but it is easily blasted, and when once lost it is lost for ever, she never can reclaim it. But education will not only strengthen character, but it will enable her to pursue honorable avocations, and to, serve lier country in various capacities. She may teach school, than which there is not a more useful or honorable occupation, or she may become a clerk in some business, and in many other ways she may obtain a livelihood and render Jier education available. It has been said, that upon man devolves the transaction of all important busiuess, and that therefore woman needs but little education. Now it must be admitted, that at first thought, and upon a superficial view of the subject, this argument seems to carty some weight in it ; but it is abundantly more specious than real. It is true that women are somtimes so situated that they never have any great demands made upon them for vast stores of knowledge, profound learning, or consumate skill in business. The wife and the daughters of the millionaire, or of the wealty merchant who realizes his thousands every month, may live at ease and revel in luxury and splendor, utterly unconscious of the neces sity of either education or ability. The gale of prosperity: has wafted them steadily on, has loaded their table with things Wfetched, and every dainty that the most fastidious appetite could crave ; and perhaps clothed their bodies in the richest fabrics of the old world. But, alas ! how precarious is their situation. What guaran tee have they that their fortune shall be perma nent! To-morrow adverse winds Tnay blow'and bury their vast wealth in the bottom of the ocean. Those proud daughters, who but yester day rioted in luxury and boasted of their im mense wealth, are now the poorest of the poor. They are not only destitute of the means of subsistence, but they are likewise destitute of the ability . to earn a subsistence. But ev en that' parents could have a guarantee that they should themselves remain in indepen dence, it would .still be wrong and extremely unphilosophical in them, to neglect the educa tion of their daughters, because the world is full of fortune seekers, and base young men, who glory in the destruction of female character. They should be educated to enable them to discriminate between the wise and deserving, and the base and worthless among men. Though a parent may be rich and independent, he cannot reasonably expect all his daughters, if h'e have many, long to remain so. Some of them, he must expect, will marry men, who from misfor tune or inability will soon dissipate their sub stance. Then, as some one -or more of the daughteraJgT.pected to be dependent upon Aeff irrtand Vs no parent can forsee which one or ones these are to be, then all should be educated and qualified if need be for business. From the nature of the case, woman's control over her situation in life, is comparatively limi-; ted. Man's fortune is, in a great measure in his own hands. But not so with woman ; her for tune is in the hands of another. Therefore woman must be educated in order to give her vantage ground. But the grand arguments upon which we rely for the success of our cause, is to be drawn from the influence which woman exerts upon the character of man. Man's character is greatly modified by the bent it takes from the influences which surround it during infancy, childhood and youth. The magic influence of an educated, intelli gent sister has seldom been duly appreci-.ted.. Many youths and youg men are inclined to court bad company, to intemperance, to disreputable conduct, and a thousand other errors. Imagine the effect produced upon a young man, when returning from some sceue of dissipation or de bauchery, by fin intelligent and lovely sister throwing her arms around his neck, bathing his brow with her tears, and with that eloquence peculiar to her sex, dissuading him from his dis reputable course; Thousands of young men, no doubt, of high intellectual attainments, and of great moral worth, who might have figured in the moat polished circles of society, or have shone as bright constellations in the political firmament of their adored country, have been irretrievably lost for the waut of an educated sister. Nor is the influence of the w ife to be over looked. Her influence for good or for evil is immense and altogether irrisistible. What a desideratum then that she be properly educated, that she may know her duty, and be disposed to perform it. Who but the wife is it that makes home the ec'at of deiight and happiness, or a scene of confusion and disgust. A virtuous well educated wife is to a roan, wisdom and courage, and strength, and hope, and endurance. But an. ignorant contentious, boisterous, brawling one is confusion, weakness, discomfiture and despair. While woman smiles, man delights in ardu ous toil. With cheerfulness he goes forth to meet the conflicts of the world. His feelings are daily lacerated to the utmost degree of endu rance. But if that genius who presides over home, makes it the abode of order and peace an 1 hap'piness, Lis spirits recover their equanim ity and composure, and with renewed energy and alacrity, he again goes forth to be exposed to perpetual collisions, irritations, and disap pointments. Know then that woman ministers at the very fountain heaJ of Jife and happiness, and power. In the language of nother, her ardent spirit breaches the breath oT life into all enterprise. Her more delicate moral insensibil ity is the omnipotent, unseen power, which is ever at work to purify and refine society. IIow much of a man's success, happiness and respectability, depends upon the education of his wife. His moral principles, bis benevolence, and patriotism, also, are, in a good degree, in in her hands. -'Under thee considerations how important it appears that woman shouldbe edu cated. We mean, truly educated ; not merely bespattered with Greek and Latin, but made acquainted with the useful sciences, the constitu tion of man, and domestic duties. - But it is in the capacity of mother, that hwo mau exercises her prime influence in determin ing the destinies of the world. The mother has more influence in fixing the future character of man, than all other causes combined. An intel ligent, industrious, virtuous mother is worth more to a mau than all the school teachers in the land. , Woman man s hrst and most important and most affectionate teacher. And will it be denied that the temporal and eternal interests of mankind depend more upon her 'education than upon any otner one circumstance, first im pressions are deepest and most effectual. It is the mother that instils into the intant bosom of her son, Jiis first and most enduring lessons. And is it not evident to all, that they are les sons of wisdom or folly, according as the mother is educated for her sphere of duty. As a mother, woman holds in her plastic hand, the power w hich ts to govern the destinies of the world in all coming time. She has the management of each rising generation at the very period when mind and character are developed ; and it is the impress which she gives them at that plastic age, more than anything else which' determines their future character. If she instil" into their infant souls lessons of virtue and goodness, both by precept and examples, and at the same time imbue their young minds with a love of letters, -it is more than probable that they will make wise and good men ; that they will one day be an honor to herself and a blessing to their coun try. The lessons she teaches are never forgotten, and the prayers that are uttered around her knees will re;ur to them through every period of their lives. It is natural for us to copy the example and heed the precepts of those whom we love. And how can a child fail to love its mother I Tiie first we know of life is, that we are guarded w ith unceasing care and lovo. The cradle in which we are rocked has been prepared for us by the hand of disinterested affection. The first tones that salute our ears are those of unutterable love. The affections are exercised long anterior to the development of the reasoning faculties. Then shall we not expect that the son will love his mother, and if he love her will be not heed her precepts, and imitate her example ; and if he does that, will not his notions, his habits, and his character be modified by the training she gives him ? Then is not the position of the mother one of fearful responsibility ? And how shall she be able to appreciate her exalted posi tion, or to discharge the vast duties which de volve upon her, unless she be educated? That sentiment which views female education as a matter of secondary consideration, looks not to the unbounded range of futurity, it is bound ed by the narrow limits of the present. Men should not be so selfish as to live an d provide for their own personal and individual interest alone. Nor should their foresight and anxiety stop at the interest of their immediate descendants, but it should extend to posterity. Now when men take this, the proper view of the subject, they will try to educate their daugh- ters. . . , Our competitors may ask, is not the education of the father equally important to the r$ing generation with that of the mother. We ! an swer no ; the father is less with the children ; h:s example is not so constantly before their eyes, nor does he have so lair an opportunity of teaching by precept. Man's task is abroad ; he must plow his fields, or wield his hammer, or wind the labyrinths of trade, or defy the waves of the ocean, or seclude himself in the retirement of his study. Conse quently nearly all the management of the chil dren rests upon the mother ; and if she be igno rant and unqualified for the discharge of these vast responsibilities, what hopes can we cherish for the rising generation? But woman claims the preference of educa tion, not only because the interests of society and posterity require it, but likewise because her own interest and happiness require it. We have already shown, that if she be in de pendent circumstances her education will enable her to engage in profitable pursuits. And if she be not dependent, it will enable her to edu cate her children, and when domestic cares and ill health bar her from the pleasures of general society, it will be a source, of enjoyment and of profitable entertainment. While clouds lower, and cold and storm pierce and rage without, and she is confined to the limits of her own little habitation, she can hold converse with dis-. tant lands, or sh mav gaze uoon the wonders of antiquity. -The building of Babel, the walls of Babylon, the Pyramids of Egypt, the relicts of Herculaneum andPompei, and a thousand others come forward for contemplation, and to excite her wonder and admiration. Gentlemen of the Liberty Lyceum, that sen timent which has so long consigned woman to ignorance, superstition and degradation, is wrong, radically wrong, and we confidently hope that it will never again find an advocate upon this floor. For the Southern Weekly Post. The University Magazine for February has appeared in good time, and with an unusually attractive table of contents. We have read the entire No., through from beginning to end, and that is more than we can always say. The gentle, wise, and scholarly leading ar ticle is a gem of the first water that will adorn the whole year's volume. The Editors may felicitate themselves upon this contribution. for well we wot that such a practiced polished - pen doth not many times in a year condescend to illumine the pages of a College Magazine. nd yet, why not? Are those tender and beautiful thoughts the less admirable f.r being there? Does the value of a gem depend on its setting? Are not we the faithful subscribers to that Magazine " fit audience tho' few ?" and worthy to hear from the lips of our masters some of 'heir treasured words of wisdom other where than within the walls of the Academe? Verily if the sages who give a name and distinction to those venerable groves, would but condes cend somewhat oftener to change their gold into small coin and cive it currency ihrou.o-h the pages of their University Magazine, what bene fits would not accrue to thai buffeted, much en during Journal, and to its long suffering rea ders. The "Doctrine of the Tongue'' is the thought ful meditation of a calm observant spirit. The truth and beauty of the doctrines are set to mu sic in the flowing cadences of fitly chosen words. It is a Psalm that may be conned with ever growing pleasure and benefit. With what a tender grace are our follies touched, the secret springs of our likes 'and dislikes set forth and through and over it all there is diffused, we har dly jj know how, a plaintive air, most fitting when treating of our own and our brother's fraijities and needs, like the transparent, veil thrown over a statue, or the soft haze of an au tumn day. The three next following articles are all good. much above the usual order of College reflec Hons, and deserve to be read. The sketch of the Waldenses is well and concisely done. There is so.-nething tangible about these pieces some evidence of thought and preparation, to stimulate which among the young men, was one of the legitimate in the remaining articles whicl make up this No. What are these "Wavelets of Memory" that have been dribbling upon our defenceless heads for six months or more. Lightly lie the golden tresses, and soft lv swim the blue eyes in their liquid heaven." Sweetly sweet, is it not ? It is well there should be such an amount of littleness in them : "little white brow," " little soul," " little wings" "little blue eyes," "little grave." Let us be thankful that we get the dose horaeopathically. The Editorial Table is sensible and well con sidered, and contains an idea or two worth ex panding. A series of lectures delivered every win ter or spring at the University would be apopu lar and benificial measure ; we wonder that it has not been suggested before. Besides the advantage to the students, an able Lecturer would attract visitors from abroad, add fresh in terest to College curriculum, and diffuse a general spirit of intelligence and inquiry, sadly needed in our social circles. People will go to hear a popular lecturer who would learn in no other way. Therefore we say by all means let the Lecturer be abroad in our State. We are get ting a little too old and to be amused any longer with Ventriloquists and Magicians. Let us pay our fifty cents, children and servents half price, for something better worth our money. Let us have Lectures, curtain and other. MISCELLANEOUS WOMEN IN FRANCE. I am induced to say a word upon the very numerous employments open to females in France, which are not open to them at home The books of nine-tenths of the retail shops in Paris are kept by women. I do not remember a cafe or estaminet in the city the counter of which isnot presided at by a woman. The box-officers of all the theatres -are tended by women not only those of the evening, but those open during the day for the sale of re- srved places. The box-openers and audience- seater3 are women. And hot only do women act as sellers in such establishments, as are nat urally fittbd to them, but even in groceries, hard ware stores, woodyards, fruit stores, butcheries, &c, fec. In all these places the book-keeper is a woman, fenced in and separated from the rest by a framework of glass. The ticket-sellers at the railroad stations are -inr.inllv women. I had the pleasure of pur l r v chasing a seat daily of J& good looking person of about 24 years. From appearances, I should say she was engaged to the conductor of the 4 o'clock train. Women even guard the stations and some of the less frequented crossings. Wo men cry the rate of exchange, every afternoon, after Bourse hours ; and more numbers of the Presse and the Mousquetaire are disposed of by women than by men. I never yet saw a news boy in France, In the porter's lodges of the city. there are as many portresses a porters; and a landlord would prefer to fake, for this service, a woman without a husband than a man without a wife. In small houses, where one person only is required, that one person is a woman. Omnibus conductors submit their waybills at the transfer offices, to women, for inspection and ratification. Women book you for a seat in the diligence. 'Women let donkeys for rides at Montmorency, and saddle them too. Women undertake the moving of. furniture, agree with you as to price, and you find them quite as responsible as men. Without multiplying instances, you will see what a number of avenues are open to females here, which in America are closed. At home, nearly all the situations obtainable by them, are either menial or involve subordination. Wo men are either servants, clerks, operatives, wait ers or type-setters. The foreman is rarely a w oman, if I may be allowed the expression. Here, however, females hold positions of author ity, responsibility and consideration, in the va rious employments of overseers and book-keep ers, and even as heads of. establishments. It has not been found that the weakness of the sex causes the empire to be any the less energet ically asserted, or obedience to be less promptly rendered. There are other capacities in which women are employed in France, which I trust and be lieve would never be accepted by women at home ; a brigade of street sweepers eontains an ecjual; number of males and females. There are females chiffoniers, and old cloth women. A complete establishment of a fruitfcor vegetable pedlar, consists of a small cart, a man to shout and sell, and a woman and a dog harnessed in to straps, to drag. In the country, women la bor in the fields and thresh and winnow in the barns. I might say that from a motive of pity, I employ an old grand-mother to weed an alley,- tend a strawberry bed, and hawthorn grove, in which I take an unnatural interest considering that they grow on land not my own. Ameri can women were not born for such occupations as these ; but I think there are many employ' ments yet monopolized by men, to which their labor might be usefully an'd conveniently di verted. X. Y. Times. Capture of an Eagle. One day last week says the New Haven Register, of the 15th inst., Mr. II. L. Allen, of North Branford, discovered a couple of large Grey Eagles tearing apart the carcass of a pig, near his premises and takino- his rifle, he succeeded in shooting one of them w hich measured seven and a half feet from tip to tip of its wings, and weighing ten pounds. Knowing that the other, would be likely to re turn, he fixed a rude trap, with the hope of tak ing it alive: and the next morning had the sa tisfaction to see his customer in limbo. As he approached the trap, however, the bird, by vio lent struggles, released, itself, and with out stretched wings and open claws and beak, came furiously at Mr. Allen; he "caught it by the throat with his left hand, into which it buried one of its talons, and commenced whipping him with its wings, while the other talon gripped around his left arm. After a hard struggle, which he says kept him unusually busy, he dragged the bird home, where he was soon se cured. His wings measured Beven feet and three quarters, from tip to tip, and he weighs 12 3-4 lbs. It is said to be one of the finest specimens of the American Eagle which has ever been taken. It is seldem one is secured alive. No Hope for Polanp. A well informed writer in the ' Life Illustrated,' expresses the opinion that the re-construction of Poland is beyond the reach of human probabilities. He says that Poland is one of the poorest countries on the globe poorer than Ireland. Twenty-four years have elapsed since the last war in Poland, and yet the wounds inflicted on the peasantry are not yet healed. Should Poland be again visited by the curse of a war which would be far more fierce than the former one, nearly a century would be requ ired for her par tial recovery. This is felt byjthe Polish peasantry whatever may be asserted to the contrary There exists no sympathetic tie between the mass of the people and the few more pugnacious nobles. Groggeries in NEW-Tork. Rev. Dr. Cheever, ot New York, is reported to have said in a recent address i " There are 7,000 groggeries in this city, 3,000 of them ae open upon the Sabbath. There ip a dram shop to every 85 of the inhabitants. It costs the city for rum and its fruits, one million dollars annually. Four fifths of the committals and arrests according to the warden's testimony, are from intemperance. There has been au increase of com-' mittals from' year to year. Tbe year just ended shows fifty thousand. )imm Mtcthlg pst. WILLIAM D. COOKE, 1 JAMES A. WADDELL.M. D. j editors. - RALEIGH, FEB. 17, 1855: Terms TWO DOLLARS PEE AinruTI, in Advance CLUB PRICES: Three Copies,. $5 ftill price,. .. . Eight Copies,..; 12 " ...."".' Ten Copies,. 15 " Twenty Copies, 20 '....'!:'. n .-J7 - 6, lfi, ..8u, ..40. (Mraymcni in an cases in aaraner.) Where a club of eight, ten or twenty sabscrib sent, the person making up the club will beoniwl ,rs's copy extra. -uuikd tu a itCr Postmasters are authorized to act a A. the Southern Weekly Post. A!?ents or ' Mr. H. P. Docthit is our aiithorWoil r .. ., States ot Alabama. Mississippi and Tennessee ! THE BEST POLICY. Evcy new developement of northern politics tends to confirm the opinion we have lon en tertained, that general public' Sentiment, in. tliat quarter of the Union, is decidedly hostile to tl,e rights of the south. The election of Gardner and Wilson in Massachusetts, of Seward and Clark in New York, Trumbull in Illinois and Durkee in Wisconsin, together with the anti slavery resolutions of the Legislatures' of Miclii gan and Illinois, and the Democratic State'Cun vention in Ohio, all demonstrate, bevond a ques tion, that whatever names the parties may wear they are more or less pervaded by, a spirit at war with the principles of the Federal Constitu tion, and the integrity of the Union. In this condition of our national affairs, soutli- em men are anxiously meditating on the ben means of saving the country and theme!vcs.--t. : :n i .i. a. xl m oini uigeo, ou me pars oi some Ol our po- ticians, that we must continue to rely furt.,. tection upon the strategetrcal movements ofwiu or another of the great political parties which divide the country.. But, leaving out of view the adverse teachings of experience, ij, may well be doubted whether any party which places it self upon ground satisfactory to the south, can in the nature of things, ex peel to cominaul even a respectable minority-of northern votes. The signs of the times, are calculated to dissi pate so delusive a hope'i There are also soroe who insidiously and indirectly hint at the polity of allying the south with th foreigners and Ca tholics, who are alleged torbe less influenced bv a fanatical opposition to slavery than any other portion of the northern people Such a sug gestion is not only deeply wounding to the feel ings of the members of the different Frotestant churches in our section of the Uuion,'but, in our judgment, is quite as erroneous and dangerous as any that could be made. The South is to a greater extent American and Protestant, than any other part of the Union. The great bulk of the foreign' and Catholic party lies north of Mason and DixonTs line. An alliance with them would still be an alliance with a northern faction, and that in a decided minority, with less power to support us than any that could be named. Nothing would more embitter the feel ing of the northern people against us, and, we may add, nothing would so fully justify that bitterness. The republicans and Protestant d the south, could notform a party coalition wVn the foreign infidels and'Catholics of the North, without a shameful dereliction of their own cherished principles, and a disgraceful confession of their weakness and desperation. The great mass of foreigners who arrive at northern ports from Europe, are either infidel jacobins, or slaves -of the Romish superstition. The people of our intelligent and polished southern communities are least of all prepared for a coalition with such semi-barbarians. We are conservatives ; thty are radicals. We are republicans ; they are the blind followers of a church which has stood crod mother to nearly all the despotic governments ; of modern Europe, and to the Inquisition it- ; self. What then must be d-ne ? We say in the first pjace that the southern people must take fraternal counsel among themselves. There is . no northern, no foreign oracle which they can consult with safety. We must moreover culti vate a spirit of harmony and concession, and so construct our cause that all southern patriots may embark in it without subjecting themselves ; to obloquy and contempt. The spirit of southern : ultraism must be exorcised, and the absurd idea abandoneel that slavery is the only one of our institutions for the preservation of which it is worth while to contend. Fire.-eating has too long been a fashionable feat among our pTSjitic' ans. Many have seemed inclined to dea' m'h slavery as a matter of imagination, ra her than a matter of fact, and have, like the Gmk p 's invested the object of their adoration and vows with a complete suit of celestial charms. The enamoured Apollo, madly pursuing the object of his passsion, " Hopes what he seeks, with flattering fancies fed, And is by his own oracles misled." It is important that Southern men shoulA no longer contemplate slavery in this f.incit'ul spirit, but treat it hereafter as a stubborn fad, to Be K dealt with in a temperate, Christian spirit Sla very, as it exists among us, is no more a subject of denunciation on the one hand, or extravagant eulogy on the other, than the nose on one' own face. It is there, and cannot be removed without the most serious consequences. Our stijongest position, relative to the North, is that wv i . . I 1 1 ii r j. : 1 1 1 1 j . . I . iii r s-i,. 1 1 i ( 1 1 1 1 r I I i i r. - " constitutionally ours, and that we are detenuin ; el with the help of Heaven, to preserve to the last all our constitutional rights in regard to it. If we may be permitted to reiterate a senti ment which we have often expressed, we wouU again declare that the Bible and the Coxstitc tios are the main pi liars of Southern deface. The anti-slavery spirit is essentially anti-Christian. The abolition leaders at the North, have ; either openly rejected the authority ofthe Scrip tures, or insidiously undermined that authority, by appealing to their own sentiments, a " higher law," for the government of human action. The best friends of the Souttfin those ; states, are those who adhere with orthodox te nacity to the plain teaching of the word oi God. The Bible sanctions the relation of mas' er and slave, and it is impossible for a roan wbo believes fend reveres it, to become a fanatic on that subject It is obvious therefore that these who advise us to acceptjthe alliance of the Ro mish Church as a means of defence against fo"