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il' T P O ST.." 54 T H SOUf COMMUNICATIONS. 1 MfiTEOPOinANCOBBESPOHDHJCIi ! LETTER LXXXIV. I . New York, Feb. 24, 1855. ! -Rrxuii CabinetThe old Serpent uith a new al-American sympathis-A pro-Slavery lecture HlCere of the Trustees of - OU Harvard ISwrfw wWfew Mork Spiritual comoca-tiL-A candid confession, and a rash recomtnendation! JtlU fable of the tailless fox-Wi Harper', neu, booh nufactory-Tneir P??! ink eSeuardr-A great poem tnprtss-- -----: eDesifn-Newsboys'. Concert-Chart f the a- trt of War. - Mr Dear Post The great topic of discus-' gionUmong us just now is the British ministry, of tie reconstruction of which we have received intelligence by the Baltic. With the exception of 4 ree individuals, it is composed of the old members with Lord Palmerston as premier. The! old serpent that has been hitherto drag ging its -flow kngth along appears again with . .L '.n mm nr two new ioints in its body. This result disappoints me, for I thought that! a completely new ministry was called for by tine exigences of the times. There is one hopi,' however, that Palmerston will infuse new life fnd vigor into the concern, and do some thing, if it be hot entirely too late, to repair the desolations which mismanagement have wrought in the British camp in the Crimea. New men " andinew measures were the need of the nation, and ' fatal indeed will be Palmerston' mistake if he follows in the footsteps of bis late "illustri- ous jpredecessor," Lord Aberdeen It is impossible to overlook the fact that Eng has so far reaped more shame than glory lam ' by ller expedition to the Crimea. It was sent out jwith such proud expectations, ana was m f so gigantic and full of grand promis, that itsel its .failure is all the more disastrous ana Humili ating. It is impossible to contemplate ; the positive destruction of the onedialf of a vast ar my Ud the iminetit peril of the other half, with out horror and dismay, but how greatly is that dismay aggravated by Hie reflection that tins destruction was not dealt by the enemy, .but was actually suicidal in its character. And this is tble case of the' British army before' Sevasto - w . . i pol.!- It is self immolated '. The British Cabi- and value for immediate publication,-aud not net ias crippled the grand military arm of the withstanding the pressure of the times they are British nation and by its miserable shHly- j rapidly extending .their lis! of new books. The shall v policy has exposed itself to tfie piiy if j not to Hi ederUion of the wc rid. Alas '. fr the glorious prestige of England the mistress of j all, the concluding part of their admirable aud the peas and the conqueior-of the soils ! liow ' unequalled Universal Gazetteer of which I has.the fine gld become dim ! j- have already spoken iu warm commendatiop in Li t us not, however, give up all as lost. your columns. "It is now complete in one niag There is vet a hope left that we mag see the j uificent volume for the low price of Jive dollars. meteor flag of England and the tri-colour of her onerous and enthusiastic Allv la belle France flying side by side from the towers and tem ples'of Sevastopol. To accomplish this Lord r Palmerston must needs stir himself with unuris "tocraii'c haste and energy. An English Pfovin cial journal says, ith equal wit and wisdom, thatjthe worst General in the British Arnty is General Jtoutim! Lord Pal merston should cashier him at once, and dismiss him from the Th old tactics an. I the old vni.vi'Wt of tike army will not answer for the new. age. Thisi is the lesson the humiliating lesson which proud England has learned (1 hope she has got'it by heart and will never forget it) in this Crimian campaign. With all my heart do I hope that she has not learned it too late. Eyery impulse of my nature springs forward to get and foster the hope inspired by the accession of Lord Palmerston . to the premier ship England's glory is too lustrous histori- callv and actually, in the past and in the pres--J ent for what she has done and what she may yet j rfo, tj he tarnished, in the eyes of the world,! aud er sons and daughters in the western world not deplore the sight, and throughout all'j our vast territory there beats, I am peisuaded, ) in spite of the dissonant tones of a few organs, a j universal throb of sympathy with our mother counjry in this her-deadly strife with a tyrant j and a despot. If I dwell much upon the topic of thje Eastern war in my letters, your readers j; will find ample apology for my so doing in the universality and engrossing nature of the theme, It wi at pr wind 1 scarcely grow less interesting than it is j 'sent, unless indeed Lord Palmerston should j up his . now -.hopeful" administration? by j patcl jin up a disgraceful peace ! : j I perceive from the Boston papers that Gen Houston has been lecturing there upon the ub-l jectOjf slavery, and that he was not only listen ed to by a very large audience but heartily . applajuded ! When I read this strange infor- ' matidn, I really felt for a moment apprehensive that the excellent old Senator had been playing into fjheibands of the abolitionists that he had sometow or another forgotten his part ll But no! jnis speech, as reported iu the journals, is true tjo himself, to his theme and to the South. And et it. was received kindly by a large Bos ton audience. Hurrah for the Tremont City ! It is pot so hopelessly radical and rotten as I feareq it was. There are some righteous men in it aftr all. A further confirmation of this agreeable conclusion is afforded in the severity with which some of the Boston newspapers cen sure tie action of the Board of Overseers of Ham rd IJniversity, in rejecting the nomination of Ju&ge 'Loring as Law Professor in the tTni-versit;-. Judge Loring was the U. S. Commis Vionerl in the rendition of the fugitive slave iiurns, ana tor -his fidelity to the Constitution; and laws of the United States in that case, he j has ben ostracized by a Massachusetts Board .of Trustees. It is truly gratifying to find that till the rieti of Massachusetts do not sympathize with fiiis proscription of a distinguished jurist and ajfaithful officer. ; Net week, General- Houston is to lecture twice n this city once bfore the Mercantile : Library Association, upon the topic of Texas and oice before the Y. Baptist Historical Society, upon the subject of the Indians. I hope he wi also lecture here upon the slavery ques tion, fpr there are many who would like to lis- te.n to piim,and it would be a capita! antidote to f the peoicious poison which will be infused into our Metropolitan veins by the fanatical eloquence of Wjliiam Lloyd Garrison, who is tobring up the end of the anti slavery course of lectures, whichjis annually inflicted upon us. Liquor selling is not the only traffic which violates the sanctity of the Sabbath in this city. The cigar hor and the fruit stands are eve-sores to those who walk our streets on their way to church. Measures have been taken to suppress these, and I trust they may prove effectual. There are also places in the city where the art of daguerreotyping is practised on the Sabbath, and it is gratifying to know that Myor Wood is resolved to abate this phase of our city sabbath-breaking. The Spiritualists had a grand convocation here a few days ago It was held at the Taber nade that omnium gatherum which a golden key will effectually open to any species of ism or esophy going. The principal speakers were Rev. T. L. Harris and the celebrated Judge Edmonds. The audience was first favored with some direct communications from St. John, the prophet of the Apocalypse! 1 can not find in the reported discourses of either of the speakers any solid argument for their ab surd doctrine. They either took their truth for granted by their auditors, or thought it sa fest to avoid the peril of subjecting their rea sons to the test of the popular iudsrement. In the course of the eulogy on spiritualism which Judge Edmonds pronounced, be declared that spiritualism is full of peculiar fascinations and tendsthereby to betray its followers into fanat icism ! After this strange admission on the or ator's part, is it not still more strange that he should proceed to urge upon all men the study of the new revelation, in other words to coun sel them to become fanatics like himself. With great pertinence does a newspaper critic suggest to bis consideration the fable of the fox who having lost his tail in a trap, tried to persuade his fellow foxes to cut off their tails so as to be in the fashion which he had imported among them ! I design at no distant day to give yoiur read ers a brief account of the niairAificent buildings erected by the great publishers, Harper &. Brothers, upon the ground laid bare .by the terrible conflagration of December, 1853. is without a parallel in the worTd, and affords unmistakeable evidence of the vitality aud en eigy of this great house. They already occu py the back premises with their vast "manufac turing force, and will go into the froiit stores and chambers in the ensuing Spring. The are now preparing numerous works of interest present week has brought forth from their press, three' or .four works.' There is, first o Another book of surpassing interest to the no vel reader is " .North aud South," by the au thor of" Mary Barton." As this is au Ung lish novel, it does not coueern the slavery question as its name would otherwise indicate. It is full of power and the story is managed with admirable tact -aud skill, it is just the book to chain the attention of the reader from the initial chapter to the end. " Inez, a Tale of the Alamo" is a handsome 12mo volume in which an American authoress narrat-is very vividly the story fictitious of course of "a most romantic -life iu Texas. It is designed to illustrate the insidious but positive influence of the Romish priesthood upon the social and do mestic relations'" of life. There is a good deal of power in the bookj mingled with deep pathos. Redficld has jast published the " Life of William II. Scirard, with selections from his writings," embraced in a handsome volume, , , . .,, . i u i rin.iH.n-imrt I hK will Oirtrun v hr n l-- frmw book to those admirers of the .ix-Governor and the Senator .whose purses- are not long enough to rcachuhc three octaro volume edi tion of his works. Senator Seward is an ex- traordiuary mau, and an extraordinary politi cian too some of your readers may,suy, and 1 will rant it ! and his writings, as well as his speeches, have exerted a great influence upon his adherents. I lo not think that a living man's memoirs should b published but as this is the fashion now a das, a la Harnum and Grtly, there is nothing to be s;tid against it at least to any purpose. The bulk of Mr. I laker's book, niore- over, is made up of selections from Mr. Sewards political writings, - which, of course, are legiti- mate enough 1 mean as to their publication and have no reference at all- to their doctrine. It is ruinoureo1 in our literary circles, that Mrs. E. C. Kinney, an American lady, well known as a writer of great ability and now residing in Florence, has sent home a poem of about 2,000 lines, which is soon to issue from the press of one of our young and enterprising publishers. It is a story of Italian life and romance, and is pronounced by those who have read it, a work of remarkable power and of admirable artistic effect. The National Academy of Design, announces through its secretary, Mr. T. Adison Richards, that the annual Exhibition for the present year wdl open at the Dusselderf rooms, on the 12th of next month. It is to be a brief exhibition, and one I am told, of unusual merit To-night a real novelty will attract the atten of our citizens. This is a concert by the News boys of this city, to be given at the Tabernacle. The little urchins who, .through all weathers, pixke the air vocal with their crits of regulars and " extras," will sing to-night to an unwont- e,j audience. Thev are to be assisted bv pro- fessional and amateur musicians, and there ran be no doubt that the concert will be curious, comical and compensative ' Mr. Albert II. Jocelyn, the celebrated Wood Engraver and Electrotyper of this city has been as 44 busy a bee," for two or three months past in supplying the public deraaud for a large co lored chart of Sevastopol a id the Crimea up on which are correctly dlinea'ed all the points made famous by the operations of the antagon istic forces in the Crimea. There are portraits also of the various commanders, and pictures illustrative of special scenes and events in the war. It is a -j bird e off th th ' wuicn mas iair to De the most ens- astrous one in the annals of modern times. ' I believe tbis chart is the best of the numerous ones which have appeared, and is sold for a shil ling i But I ought not to extend this letter, and tcilj 'not So believe me youra resolutely, COSMOS. For the Southern "Weekly Post AFFECTION BEYOND THE GEAVE. We send these fond endeavement o'er the grave ; Heaven would be hell if loved ones were not there, And any spot a heaven, if we could save From every stain of Earth, and hither bear The hearts that are to os one hope and care. The Soil whereon out purest pleasures grow : Around the quiet hearth we often share, From the quick change cf thought, the tender flow Of fondness waked by smiles, the World we love below. PEitCIVAL. After the loss of the Yankee Blade on the Coast of the Pacific it is related that after the burial of Mrs. Brennan and child her husband arrived at the Scene of the disaster went on shore with spade in hand dug up his wife and hild kissed them prayed over them and then reburied them. Earth's sad lessons of thrilling scenes can scarcely afford a more im pressive example of that affection which ex ests e'en beyond the Grave than is here present ed. Still the world will scarcely heed it and will coldly p- ss on and scarcely see it. MISCELLANEOUS. THE MORMON ELDE& AND HIS WIFE V The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune gives the following extract of a private letter from a lady, narrating a true and most touching story of Mormon life : " You ask me to give a little more in detail the incident in the cars, that occurred as we were crossing the Alleghanies, of which I briefly spoke whin we met. I could not half tell you the story now, after the vividness with which it impressed me has so nearly passed away, and:if I could it would not produce the the effect it did upon me. I heard it after weeks of anxiety had weakened my system when my long and wearsome journey had left me but the strength of a child, and my restless and excited mind seized upon it in all its reality without the melioration always left to a subject by our own indifference to, and personal diseon nection with it. A wrong done to another be comesan outrage when practised upon ourselves I had, through watching and fasting, become so etherialize 1 as to Iooe sight of this selfish difference, and to see my neighbor as mvself. T felt that ali womankind had been insulted and sacrificed in the person of 'Margaret.' It was my duty not less than here to avenge it. I could have sent the aggressor tumbling into the gorge of one of those mountain torrent?, and considered it but retributive justice. " The Mormon elder came into our car, near the foot of the mountains, and sat near us. He would have been goo l-luolcing if he had looked good. He had a peculiar manner it indicated such' perfect satisfaction with himself and the world. 1 heard him say he 'had gone to Salt Lake City before the first furrow had been turn ed in the ground. I listened, for who is not curious concerning thac wonderful exodus ? I heard him tell of their great tempi.?, and how it went on stone by stoue, and with each the devil's power grew less. How new proselyte' came pouring in to swell the host that was wait ing to receive the Christ when he should come to reign a thousand years upon the earth. He was a man of no reading. His knowledge (hke Mr. Gradgri'nd's) confined to facts, but he had a natural gift for conversation, and crave a rapid and skilful outline of his subject in a wav that ! interested you at once. When the night grew j dark he came and sat behind us He had fal I len into the hands of a gentleman whose dex- i tentv in questioiintsr. ied 1 - 1 Lim on to speak feel v of himself, and so gradually thev came to the j ' peculiar institution.' He said the women sel I dom cared to marry men of thir own ap, that j """" "" ' - 1 " V' eiders, mis convineeo me mat :t the men are all hypocrites, the women are not wholly so, but that they do this for the exaltation of their souls. My lawyer, (for so I shall call the que-tioned.)a-ked whether the women were not jeal ous of each other, especially the vounger f.nes. The Saint answered ' No.' ' Some few,' he continued, ' were a little difficult, hut it was mostly confined to the young. To be sure his wife felt it when he married a second time, the rest had neve- cared.' ' Did she care so verv mtn hr continued the lawyer. ' Oh, ves, I thought at first it would have killed her. You :-ee when I became a convert, I did not under stand that part of it, because my wife and I had been so happy together. We married earlv and had scarcely been a day apart. When I want ed to go to Salt Lake she did not incline to go, because she did not se as clearly as I the truthes of our great religion but the idea of my marrying was no hindrance. It did not oc cur to her as possible, and it was not for a long time after I got there, that I thought of it mv self.' "'Margaret didnot mix with the people. She retained her old Eastern ways, and was al ways at home. I neve" let her do much work. Her hands were too small for that She was stately in her form, and she had a queer way of twisting her long hair round her head, so it looked Like a crown. The folks said she was pro'ufa,' and one or two who had daughters askedNue why I did not take a wife, and if I were not afraid ? So it came upon me gra dually, while upon her, you see, it fell like a stroke.' "'You must have found it difficult to break such a thing to her.' " ' Yes, it was hard to do. But at last I said I will do it on Thursday, and on Thursdav even ing when I came home, she w as standing in the garden, and I went and put my arm around her, and told her how it had been revealed to me that I must marrv agrin.' '"What did she say?' u ' Nothing. Not one word. She just gave one scream. I declare I shall never get that scream out of my ears. I believe I should hear it if I were on the Andes. I thought I beard it a minute ago." u The sleet rattled against the windows of our car, and the bleak midnight wind swept down the mountains, and I thought I heard it too. "The Mormon proceeded 'And then she fell like one dead. T thought she was dead, but she came to, after a while, and, woald yoa believe it, she never mentioned the subject to me. I could not find it in my heart to say a thing about it again for more than fivt months. Meantime! she had taken a cold, and did npt get Btroig again. I saw she was wearing tjlie thoughts it about her like a mourning weejl, and so, when she seemed a little better, I talked to her about the great principles of our Faith, and how those to whom the spirit revealed itself must follow its dictates, or be forever cast into Hell. And I told her she need not fear my affection for her would be divided, for I had had vision, in, which it was told me that I should love her foreTer, and that we should never die. but live together and see the thousand years of Christ's reign upon the earth, and be by Him rewarded for-our obedience aud willingness now to cast aside our selfish human will and sacrifice to Him.' u Margaret was always a true believer. But I had always been wandering in search of a rock of Faith until I anchoied here. I had heard form pulpit after pulpit, such conflicting doctrine, I could lay my hand on nothing that seemed secure, and I think she was unwilling to set me adrift againV and so she consented, My parting-from her was a dreadful one, for she moaned and wept like one in despair, and 1 was fool enough to cry, too." "'I don't wonder,' said his interlocutor. 'It is -har4 vrboUy to subdue nature, -event the call of duty ;' and he gave a low laugh. v " 'When I came back,' continued the Mor men, ' it has been just so all the time. She had never eaten and never slept, but only walked up and down always, hour after hour.' " 'Well, how did she get used to itT "' She retained the house I had first built, of course. It was large, and we had no chil dren, and she was very lonely, for I was neces sarimueh away from her. I went as often as I could, but I married in quick succession two others, and so we were much separated, and she fretted in my absence. At last it was this, of she saw the folly of resisting her fate ; she got quiet in her mind used to it in fact. People do get used to anything, you know. When the iron force of circumstances presses them on every side, and they do not know where or how to resist, they at least grow quiet. She took it into her head, after a while, that she would not live very long, and she said it was not worth while to be separated so much the little time she was here, and if T pleased, the families miht all come and live together. 1 told her she was i?ensible, and getting used to things. But she only said something to her self abcat the collapsing sides of an iron shroud, pressing oat her life. It sounded like poetry. She always had a way of picking up such old things out of books.' 44 'Did she get well." " ' No, not yet. Indeed her cough is rather worse, and she is more feeble, but she seems happy enough. She is kind to every one, es pecially the two children, and she will "vt let-. ter when the spring comes. I know- she will, be cause it has been revealed to me that she is to liw. and dwll with mo a ttn .iianl i n i ii i - i . , ! , THE JUDGE'S EIG SHIRT. The story goes that, on a certain occasion, Judge A , then on a visit to Raleigh, X. C, was notorious for leaving home without the ne cessary precautions of carrving along a second shirt. While here he was invited to attend a gay and fashionable party, to be given the fol lowing evening, at the residence of Judge P. The visiting judge was terribly perplexed about a clean shirt for the occasion, and while resolv ing in his min-1 how he should possess himself of the desired a'rti l - ( n those days ready made shirts s-ere not. as now, artich-s of merchandize.) when he was called o,n at his room bv Mr. C . another limb of the law, but not a Judje". Af ter passing the usual compliments, Judo-e A remarked ' See here, C -, I have just been iuyited to attend a party to-morrow niht, and havn't a clean shirt for the occasion! hoping, no doubt,, that his friend would proffer the loan of one of h:s. But b--i.ig a bit of a wag and relishing a good joke amazingly, he concluded to have a little fun, and at the same time leach his judicial fiiend a lesson concerning his negli gent custom. ' Oh ! said he there's no difficulty about that. I can have you one made.' 'But do you think it' can be furnhhed iu time V said Judge A . 'Xo doubt about it. I have a sh"rt-maker who is perfectly prompt and reliable, and I can vouch for iis being ready.' 'All right, then if you'll le true and attend to it' 'You may depend on it,' said th Judge's friend. ' It shall be here by half-past six to-morrow evening.' B- , in going home that night, called at the lady's and. ordered her to o-q to S 's store, get nine yards" of bleached domestic and three yards of linen, and make a shirt of it for Judge A , and deliver it at his room, on the following Evening at half-past six precisely, and charging her particularly there was to be no disappointment, and not to deliver sooner or later than half-past six. But, ilr. B- -,' expostulated the woman, 'yoa mean three shirts .don't you. of nine yards ?' " Do as I tell you, Madam. Don't you sup pose I know what size shirt is required by my friend?" Early next morning the cloth was, procured and making of the shirt entered upon. About six o'clock in the evening, C a'l attired and ready for the party called on the Judge, when he was saluted on his entrance with 'See here, that shirt has not been seen vet!' 4 Oh r said P., pulling out his watch, it is not time yet, it lacks a quarter of the! time, for I told her to have it here by half-past ix.' The couple chatted away awhile, Iwhen pres ently a timid knock at the dojr Was heard. Judge A. jumped to open, when, a little girl asked if that was Judge A 's room ! BfMTlrr I C .1 a? , -g. uaCicu i ii iue amrmative, sne con tinned, 'Here's a shirt Mr. C. told my mother to make for-, ' 4 I! rirrl, r-i it- j . , 'l w'lh 33 much ground rice as will, when boil au right, my nice little Miss.' and straight-- - , ? ,, ,., . , . . way began to prepare for donnin. the much' thlcken to.a Je',J ? it gently, stirring it, coveted garment, remarking, 'It is well made andf SWetei; to your taste; put it into a basm nJ Kanfi,i . c or torm, and serve with cream or milk. BJ nanusomeJy done up, too. Smart woman, ! ; . m ' nu' C' f Mrs. Smikes says, the reason children are so Oh ! ves: I knew sha nnU j;,. . i .u- " - u Trorr you m anv rwitwrt." rf t By this time the J udge had commenced pull ing it over hhn. He pulled, and pulled, as yard after yard passed, and still his' head was envel oped in the shirt. He wmplained'of its tize, but his friend told him he had got it twisted, but to hurry on as 'twas time they were at the party. Again he set himself to the task, and by hard struggling got through, finding himself enshrouded in a shirt five yards long and four yards broad, covering ail over the floor with its ample drapery ! 'In God's name,' said the Judge in astonish ment, ' What is this the woman has sent me!' looking with consternation upon the monstrous shirt around and beneath him. ' W hat is it I say ?' It was with much difficulty that C. could restrain his laughter, but approaching his en shirted friend and pulling the huge collar down so that he could see his lace, he gazed with ap parent wonder, and observed, ' W hat a silly stflpid woman ! I told her to get just enough to make three shirts ; instead of making three she has put the whole nine yards into one shirt! But we must hurry up and make the best of a bad bargain, for it is high time we were at the party this minute. You can push it down into your trowsers and nobody will be the wiser.' So at it the Judge went, his friend assisting him, as yard after yard was piled .away in his unmentionables, (they didnt we'ar tights in those dap) and thus he werWifag ;B.V 'party, if not "the' finest dressed, at least the . .largest shirted gentleman in the crowd. C. promised never to blow on his Judicial friend, and kept his word, until he learned that the Judge was compelled to tell it on himself, for unfortunately he carried the big shirt home, and Mrs. Judge wanted to kuow what tremen dous big shirt that was in his trunk ? He had to out with it ; and it being told by the Judge himself, Mr. C. felt at liberty to tell it!so; which he does sometimes to the infinite merri ment of all who hear him. Moral Deportment in- the Market. The subjoined advertisement, with the response from the "fat, fair, and not forty" widow, appears in a late is.sue of the Cleveland Leader : Wanted. A young man wishes to obtain board in a respectable private family -where his moral deportment and example would be con sidered equivalent. References required. Address B. drawer, G3, P. O. Dear Mr. Editor : I .find the above modest advertisement iu this morning's Leader, and as it meets my most urgent want, save one, (a hus band.) permit me to respond to the youne man's "want" through your columns. lama widow, fit, f.-tir," and not "fortv," sole guardian of two daughters, unsophisticated beings, born and nurtured in the "piney wood of Maine. My family is 'k respectable," none of its members having been sent to the State pris on or to Congress ; and private,"' none of my relatives ever having held office, though a dis tant one did run for ases.-or. Mv irraud parents sought this country at an early age, actuated hke Mrs. Partington, with a desire "to worshij od and cheat the Indians, after the dictates of I III eir owu consciences and the custom of the times." My daughters are artless bsings, as yet un contaminated by western recklessness and dissi pation, and to them the Companionship of a young man of " moral deportment and exam ple" would certainly be " equivalent to what he might hoist in' in the way of board. Mos' happy shall I be to welcome this vouu-r man to the " comforts of a home," on condition that, always preserving h s " moral deportment and example," he shall aUend my innocents to lectures, fairs and prayer meeting, crack the butter nuts, and hold tife silk for win .iinjr, teach M.itiMa Jane graceful yt-i " moral deportment," and aid Hannah lie. nans iu mastering " Love Not:' Should occasion n-qu're, he will be expected to wipe the china, (widte with gold bands,) and to poiish the door knob. In a kluion to ordinary board, he mar exnect sausages for breakfast on Sunday morning, and fiiei potatoes on Wednesdays. Tri.lv yours and hi. MARIE ANTOINETTE CARLTON". THE ABC OF RAILROAD MANAGEMENT. There is a great deal more truth than pjetry in the following " A B C of Railroad Manage ment," and the Washington Globe . has the credit of teiiinn; u ; A stands for Accidents, frequent, alas .' B for the Bungling that hring them to pass; C is the Cheapness, the sole end and aim, D of Directors, whore "free from all blame;" E for Expenses, diminished by half. F the Few servants kept on tiie staff; G a slow Goods train, with one man to mind it, II a High presure express close behind it ; I an incline, where to stop takes so long : J is the Junction,. with point all turned wrong; K is the Knowledge of danger ahead, L by the Lights, turned (too late) into red; M is the Mystery how it took place, N the "jiXobody to blame in the case ;" O stands for. Officers, sleepy or drunk ; p for the Permanent way which had sunk, Q is thj Quagmire o'er which it had passed; , R for the Rails, which were wearing out fast ; S for the Signal the driver don't mind, Tibr the Train some two hours behind ; TJ is Uniform rate ot speed, V a Velocity frightful indeed ; W is the Wisdom (?) by which is directed X an 'Xcursion train, quite unexpected; Y is Yourself : if you travel, our measures Za newijZest will impart to your pleasures. A GOOD WAT OF CoOKIXG OsiOSS. It is & good p'au to boil onions in milk and water; it diminishes the strong taste of that vegetable. ft- is an excellent way of serving up onions to chop them after they are boiled, and put them in a-stew-pan, with a little milk, butter, salt, and pepper and let them stew about fifteen minutes. This gives them a fine flavor and they can be served up very hot. L T T T and PreS5 the ?ru,t' 8t'ain the JJ,ce' atld b" S mix n . -i . . . gaiter shoes,instead of the old-fashioned si ippess. Mothers find it too much trouble t untie gaiteis to whip children, so thty go unpunished ; but when she waa a child, the way the old slipper used to do itduty was a caution. WILLIAM D. COOKE, JAMES A. WADDELL , M. D. E D HOES. RALEIGH, MARCH 3, . 1855. Terms TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, in Aavance. CLUB PRICES: Three Copies, $5 full price,. .. Eight Copies, 12 " Ten Copies,.... ...... 15 " Twenty Coines 20 " ....?6, 16, ....20, ....40. (Payiiient in all eases in advance.) JK5" Where a tslub of eight, ten or twenty subscribers is sent, the person making up the club will Be entitled to a copy extra. Hr Postmasters are authorized to act as Agents for the Southern Weekly Post. Mr. H. P. DoumiT is our authorized agent for the States ol Alabama. Mississippi and Tennessee. AFRICAN COLONIZATION. Bt reference to a report of Proceedings in another column, it will be seen that the North Carolina Colonization Society has been reorgan ized, and that its claims are soon to be present ed in an effectual manner before the people. This interesting event furnishes us a theme upon which we feel disposed to reason with our read pers;t It; heife -lang timince th at tea. tion-of our citizens was generally turned to the great enterprise to which we refer, and we are sorry to perceive from the documents of the So ciety in our possession, that North Carolina has in this, as well as in many other things, fallen considerablv behind some of her sister States. For the purpose of reviving the interest of the intelligent, influential, and benevolent, in regard to this trulv Christian cause, we refer to a few of those prominent facts which have been brought to our notice. The American Colonization Society, of which our Siat.e Society is an auxiliary, has been in operation thirty-eight years, and has within this period accomplished results of which our whole country mav well be proud. Its objects, as clearly expressed in the second article of the Constitution, are as follows: "The object to which its attention is to be exclusiyely directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing, with their own consent, the free people of color residing in our country, in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem expedient. And the Society shall act, to effect this object, in co operation with th-j General Government, and ,-u.h of the Slates as may adopt regulations on the subject." S eadily and earnestly pursuing these, ends, within limits so wisely prescribed, the American Colonization Society has succeed ed in planting upon the western coast of Afri ci, the germ f an infernal empire, destined like our own early settlements on this continent, to expand and eover with the blessings of Christi anity and civilization, the most benighted quar ter of the globe. Liberia, now an in.lependant republic, orgauiz-d after the mod-1 of our own constitution, stretches along the western coast of that continent for six hundred miles, and for a considerable distance into the interior, and em braces a population cf over two hundred thou sand people, ten thousand of whom are free co lored emigrants from the United States, or their descendants. Its nationality has already been iec -gaized by nearly all the great Powers of the world, except the United States, and its commercial relations with both Europe and America are every year assuming new and im portant aspects. Its nourishing settlements are blessed with numerous churches, schools, mis sionary establishments, and all the more impor tant elements of progress and improvement, and the benign influence of Christian and free insti tutions is rapidly spreading towards the interi or of the continent, tending with a happy di rectness to the ultimate overthrow of the slave trade and its attendant horrors. As an illustration of the "rowing commerci al importance of -Liberia, it may be mentioned that a regular line or four English mail steam ers is now constantly running in monthly trips to the coast ot' Africa, and touching at the ports of the republic ; and the British govern ment, with a wise foresight, has determined to admit the staple products of the country into British ports, free of duty. We hope it will not be long before our own government may be in duced to adopt a system of intercourse and ex change, equally calculated to foster the interests of the new republic. The number of emigrants from the L'nited States has within a few years greatly increased, aud amounted in 1853 to 783. Of this num ber 56 were from our own State, and the report represents their condition in their new home as favorable and prosperous. We are not enthusiasts, and have no idea of indulging in a fashionable rhapsody on the sub ject of colonization ; but we speak the result of deliberate judgment, when we say that none of the benevolent enterprises of our day can ap peal to so many considerations, both of huma nity aud of self interest, and that we know of none in which the vicious influence of fanati cism has meddled so little. It is a cause in which great heads and great hearts have met and mingled their thoughts and sentiments, and have found it worthy of their devotion. It is excelled by none in the grandeur and purity of its designs, and while it issues in innumera ble blessings to another land, reflects a health ful influence and unquestionable g ory on our own. ITALY- A law having been enacted io Sardinia for the sale of the estates of convents and churches, it being arranged that the latter' shall be supported by the State, .the I'ope haspuDiished an allocation, delivered bHore the Cardinals . against the measure. He dnonnces the Sardinian go vernment, and declares the enactment to be of no effect. last ruics. litre it is again ! Sardinia is now a king dom of the second rank in Europe, the only one ; of the Italian Statts that has dared to maintain a regular constitutional representative govern ment. The spirit of its administration is deci dedly liberal, and the principle of religious to leration has been recognized in a number of measures removing old disabilities from the Protestant Waldensesin the mountains of Pied mont. The Papal government has watched this tendency to liberalism with great jealousy, and several misunderstandings have occurred between the courts of Rome and Turin. Not in the least intimated by pontifical frowns, the Sardinian Parliament, proceeding from one ne cessary reform to another, has at last struck a decisive blow at the corruptions of the ch hureh ; and thereupon that bid nullifier makes 's fro .4 an the charges recentlymade, that sh ie claim. .... premacy over civil .governments, by pronour cing the acts of the Sardinian government no effect " What have those to S8J now, w!l0 t . .1 f-M 11 - nave t-usiaiueu nanuier in env inn. .1 t " -I-: . - " """"the J. vjjc cjttiius BiiL.il i-ujn emacy S About th time that gentleman was making ,:s the Pope-was preparing this edict aainst e Very i. dinia, wdiich asserts the power-he so ir- disclaimed. eio( l'leiitlv AN INVITATION. It is positively asserted that both the '-Ay . ing" and the "Weeping Vn-gin" are to be br, , ' Z to this country, out of compliment to ti American (?) prelates who figured i t!ie f" of the "immaculate conception." "Ve h'' ' these interesting dolls will not fail to make tit' promised visit There are certain poiitici-.n our minds eye, whom we shall recommend .ti dry nurses aud pages to 'attend them on'th. pilgrimage. WTe could name some of the cor I editorial, who could perform with uijimj,eac!j ble solemnity on such an occasion. There aT also some wax babies at Rome, which ou to be brought overjw an act of special graCe 'to our cotempt.raries; tor cwfilTtSlBfifSmltl tfle dis asters which they seem "io apprehend. Xudeed we would be glad to see old I'io himself, wh( as he pronounces an annual benediction' upon the donkeys of his capital, would fin 1 a uiauj ioug-earea subjects ot the sam si, favor in our free confederacy. ':ai W, e a u.L t those who believe the assertion of his servauti the demagogues, that he is a warm iYi.-nd ,-' toleration and free government! Let his , '. nesscomeon with all his automata " i . r readv to ru-u it,.,' . ,.,. ,,e ani, io s.a blood of St. Januarius. that" li every year. We would also like to s- ,u "Holy Coat" of Treves, which has Wen mi raculously preserved eighteen hundred andtif. ty years. A picture ol the church that A .1.1 W,;5 transported through, the an- from pa -wuin uc cuLei laimiig, aini wv coiilj mention a great variety of " curiositi..,"' ,.; -might be temporarily and appropriately ,u,ej at Barnum's Museum. Such as lult'a1 iila arm-bones ot one and the same saint, !oe nails of certain b!esed martyrs, as fc-ar.t a of vm c fir tl dernyril i et.il. .... i i . . sixth or eighth century. Some c f th arti cles might be distributed through t!:t states and deposited for examination at the offices' of editors interested iu the cause. ""e r-j.-at again that the " Winking Virg-n,'" the - Weed ing Virgin," and as many -more hnmlags as may come, will be welcome! The Jesl-its' Oath. A writer in the Stand- ' ard, signing himself Aletha. furnish t,, tW paper the communication of Charles Henry Stonestreet, S. J., Provincial r-f the Jesuits iu Maryland, to the Washington Union; in which it is explicitly denied that the "Jesuits' Oath," recently published hi this and many other pa pers, is genuine. This is quite possible.-as we ftre informed by the writer that those who have assailed the Catholic church " know abtiht hj nothing" about the system referred to. "W-. think, however, if this be true, that it is h -'i time the iiublir-. diil l-hnw mth; ,i subject The sin of the Jesuits does not c -ns st so much in their creed, as in their unprincipled practices. Mr. Stonestreet says their principles are those of" the Catholic Church. 'f rur.-e they are. And what are those principles ? He; ausuers in me janrruage ot the Superior (ieu' ral In fact and in risjht, the Jesuits are, and declare them relves, entirely unconnected witlKaiiy political party, be it what it may. Always and everywhere they'say to all, by their teaching and by their conduct: 'Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, ai.d to Gd iLs things that are God's.' (Mark, 12, 17.; Such are the principles which the Society of Jesus has always held, and Irom which it will never depart." Very satisfactory statement, is it not ? Does not every day's observation refute these deceit ful generalities ? Do they render to God that which is Uis, when they render divine iron!,)) to the Virgin, and a whole army of sainis '! Do they render to Caar, that which ii, Csesat-, when they pronounce his laws " null and void ? " . We challenge a reply. t. h' " State RicThts." We observe, that Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, professes to be a 'state rights " man,tand to hold, in the main, tD the Virginia aud. -Kentucky resolutions on that subject.. This is not the first ir.d cation we have seen of a determination anions? Nor thern anti-slavery politicians to steal Mr. u.'- -houn's old ullificauon thunder, and wi- ti -:s bolts agaiajst the South.' "State rights'' in deed ! Ths doctrine' that a State has the rM, not only to; nullify an ordinary law of Congress but also toj'set at naught and trample under foot a plain provision of the Constitution, in moral turpitude and treasonable audacity, com pletely eclipses the glory of South CaroTica. . Slavery is a State institution altogether, says Mr. Wilson, and as a 44 State rights " man, he will not interfere with it But is it not plrn that this double-faced Senator means by all this, that the rights of the Southern people in the free States, in the territories, and in the District of Columbia, are not recognized by him? We want no "state rights" of that sort. It is but another name for abolition;sm and treason. It is but anpther phase of that unprincipled species of politics which makes a -mockery of patriotism, cf oaths, and of honor. The Weather Health of the Com mo i tt. The month of February has been marked in this region by unprecedented contiuuauce of cold weather. . The poor in their open houses must be suffering incalculably. We are sorry to add that pneumonia, and other diseases inc dent to the season, are very common. In some families all the members are suffering simultane ously, and the need of good nurses is severely felt. . JCW We are indebted to Mr. J. B. Ezel!,' Agent for Adams & Co.'s Express, for a late copy of the Weekly Placer .Times and Tran script published at San Francisco, California. He has our thanks for the favor. I 3 " The X. C. Native Sentinel"' is the name of a new Know Nothing papr just start ed at Elizabeth City. Its appearance is prepos essin. .
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