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K IT POST T I E S O IJ T TO MISCELLANEOUS. for the Southern. WfeklJ ,eachel. (: Translated from thtFrmOL ' f.. ' As your readers have already baT abundant opportunity of forming an opinion of the merits of Rachel from English! and American sources, we here present them with the ideas on the same subject 01 a r raneo Amenean, as mey ap pear in the Herald of the 4th inst. It will be seen that, with the enthusiasm characteristic of the race, the article ' con6rms and even exceeds all that has-been previously said of the great Tragedienne, "On entering the vast hall of the Metropolitan, the aspeet was truly fairy-like ; notwithstanding the unfavorable weather,. the hall was fully packed and the toilets new and sparkling with f diamonds, were by no means wanting. The tudience, it was easy to see, was composed ot the elite of the population, Ameri can an wall M (nmimi anA tVl HlsMlr fi -wpm in a large majority. The evening was com menced by "Les Droits do THomme" a new. comedy and perfectly rendered in which Ra chel did not appear -but the audience, compos ed mostly of strangers to the French language, were notable to feel its beauties; they saw too" that it was not the interest of the evening. The reception, which the public has given to Rachel, was worthy of the artiste who knew how to lay aside every appearance of quackery, with which im f n tKU-time Europwn nrtistco btvr Burround- ed themselves in arriving here. The enchant ment of ber name alone was enough for her; the tragic sceptre won aiid born by her for so many yean has no need of the hundred tongues of fame to d.aw a throng of enthusiasts. A thundering applause greeted her appearance on Ihe stage and such a reception seemed to move her deeply. tier figure, and admirable combination of lines, although at first sight perhaps ' a little harsh, beautifully combines with the impersona ' tion ofCamilla, the heroine of the play. After an anaiysis"of the play, the lloratu of Camilla, whichextfctly follows Livy's account of the bat tle, out critic thus proceeds : ' In the first act when Camilla imparts to Julia (INFlle. Brian!) her fears and her hopes, she is sublime as she declares that neither the con queror nor the slave of Rome fchall be herspouse; the play of her countenance telegraphs ber thoughts ; she has no need of speaking since every one divines what she is going to say ; the flash of her eye makes us share her love, her horror and her terror. The touching scene which follows shows us the happy lover, her prayers are accomplished 1 -morrow she will he united to the spouse of . her choice; the few words which fall like pear's from her lips com municate hope and s confidence to all that hear them. In the second aud third acta all is chanc ed : see that troubled face; the tears which !c luge her eyes; the audieuce cannot lestra'n i. r . . ..;.t j er of fear and hope, up to the moment when Julia announces tlie death of the two Horatu and the flightfjhj third. .The passage "0!i my brothers " "of Camilla is inexplicably sul- lime. out the fourth act is trie true triumph of Rachel : she is entirely chanijed, since she learn .j .1.. r i. i . . .i j ... eu tue uVMi'ti n uvt iuici . dot i i Luac ev et ' e t 1 -innr linrTil ninrf ttiftfta wavinnr fiafeliaa rf inrli'm.' "ft H"'" "& - - .-....,.. ' tion and menace, those quivering limbs tii sh disjointed words. Iler love for Curiatius ilnad awakes stronger than ever ; he dead, she ktmws nothing more. r Now the hall thrills with admi ration, solemn silence reigns throughout. Du ring the soliloquy, the entire audience hangs on her lips ; that gravely echoing voice, those har rowing accents, those impressive gesture pro duce an immense - sensation. The following scene, where her rage increases-in proporihn xs her brother speaks to her, can only be pr li ce 1 . by herself alone. Each word has an emphasis of its own ; at each phrase her voice tn-inblos more and more; each of her imprccaii a f;ills . like lightning ; despair, wrath, love and f iry in turn are painted on her countenace, m when she ends ber terrible . curses and falls stricken , f-UI VULA -rJ V. 11 VVl-' bUVJ V & Ut 1 1 b 1 1 U I " "T" 1 ' asm breaks out like a thunderclap, far surpass ing anything wo have ever known." J. II. B, Jr. C0LP0RTAGE BY THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY IN NORTH CAROLINA. : Notwithstanding the severe affliction f myself " and family during almost the whole of the past ' quarter, yet have I received liberal donations for the Tract Cause. I have been made to praise God while confined to my bed, because of the deep interest shown this cause by the friends, that so kindly visited us, which they proved in banding to me liberal amounts without my so. licitation. The people of Raleigh and other places where Colportage is understood, seeing that it reaches every creature with the great fun damental doctrines of the Bible, and that the Holy Spirit is constantly blessing the truth to the. conversion of souls and the improvement and safety of our Country, give their donations to its support with cheerful hearts and follow them with much earnest prayer. And your Agent, seeing this in the friends from all church es and classes, is greatly encouraged to press on ward in getting men and money un 1 every family in North Carolina is visited and vippHed with religious books by 6ale, at cost, if able to buy or by grant if too poor or too wicked to buy. 'The influence of Colportage is seen and felt in helping to check thereading of trashy and dangerous literature, as the following remarks of s Bookseller will lead us to infer. Said he, '"I am satisfied there is not half the demand here now for novels that was two year's. ago and the demand for religious books and other good lite rature has greatly increased. This I attribute in a very good degree to vour system of Cblpor- '. . vrv. ', . . It is highly cheering to witness the de ided improvement t in this part of my field. - Wh!. . . ;f - a .v;' ' twenty unreal tuuiivi wio -j mere are inrw; new, churches just" cbm'fleted, and three others about being built, and it is a remarkable fact thajt they are equally divided between three lif . ferent denominations. In thia.same section there was not a single Sabbath School four years ago, now there are fourteen in different parts of the county besides the five City Schools, . ' And dur ing the last quarter upwards, of 150 person8 have been liopefully -converted. ' i n; r . i Ood f-is constantly raising np" men in different parts of the State, who are commencing to do a noble i work-in effectually reaching out joor, ( ignorant and destitute. . Scores of families have already been; visited by them who never had a reftgious -irisj before. I3y this means hundreds f our people who are now clogs to society, may be made good and useful citizens ; as is the case of Mr. G. whom I was advised not visit thirteen months ago because of his being in delirium tre 'jnen. Iheld a" prayer meeting" at liis house, spoke kindly to him, and got him to attend Sabbath School. Soon he became interested gave up his liquor selling and drinking and at .this School, with the aid of his wife, be. has learned the alphabet and to spell. He is now a -good, religious and happy man. ; - 5 To do tfiis work" it reqiiires'good, self-sacrificing men, who are willing to labor for the usual salary of $150. These humble men and the books given away by them are to be paid for by money given from the people as they are not al lowed to sell their book at a profit. In N. C, last year we fell behind supporting our own work $1668 56 which was paid by the people of Virginia and other States. N"W I am per suaded thatN. C, will not be satisfied for this so to remnn. "What then shall we do this mem orable year of great abundance in helping for ward this work.which is helping us constantly aud faithfully both for time and eternity ? Let us resolve in God's strength at least, to support our own wirk and pay the deficiency of last year. I kw-we, have -men, and ladies too, in C? of vast wealth, who have noble christian hearts and noble patriotic spirits, and I appeal to you to look to this work carefully, understand its principles and objects fully, be satisfied of its merits and claims upon you and then give ac cordingly to its support. There are some of these persons of wealth, and wealthy churches, that, probably, would be glad to pay the entire salary of a Colporteur, as many do in ether Slates, to whom the Reports of the Colporteur is sent. One gentleman of our City ba le.l off in this. How; many more will follow his noble example? . All contributions may be forwarded to me at Raleigh, or to J. Cross, Sup't., Rich tnond, Va. To those who may not have great woi Idly riches, but rich in the faith, having Christ to dwell iu thm, and to all of every class, I appea to you, likewise, to give your money to the ex tent of your ability for the furtherance of this cause which goes every where with the one object of pointing all to Jesus, and teaching vital God liness alone ; and especially give to it your earn est prayers. Yours truly,- Wit J..W. CROWDER, Agt. of Am. Tr. Soc. for N. Carolina. Raleigh, Sept. 1st, 1855. -A Doctor of Hcmbuo. The Newburyport Heralds ia its,. Police Court R-ort, informs us that a case was - tried which afforded much amusciueut to the large crowd which had as sembled . in the ; court" room. A man calling himsi'lf Gen. Abraham Sullivan made a com plaint charging John- McMasters with larceny of sundry anicles of c'othing from his trunk. .The evidence of the Gen-, was amusing: lie testified that he was a doctor, that he should be one ; lintiihvd. years old next 4th of July that li c-ini frqiu California Jast spring, had been tln-re fie times in the past 22 years, prior to ilia' time speut 48 years among the Indians. Was burn .in Lisle, France, dont know when. It appeared that the doctor was in practice in the city, and according to his agi-nt's statement, was taking from 40 to 50 dollars a day. His card announces him as "Get Abraham Sulli van, Ductor of the Lord, who can oure all dis eases if patients wi.l do three things, viz. : Love and obey their parents ; believe in the spirit of .God, and have their hearts clean iu the sight of God aud man. lie does not enre diseases hims-lf, but simply adiuiuisteis the medicine and the Lord cures.' , McMaMers according to the evidence, was in his employ, and by the means . fale keys opened ihe trunk and took therefrom the aiti ties. From the doctor's testimony it appeared imposition than we could believe them to be, and that there is enough of ignorance and su perstition among us, to maintain one of the grossest humbug that could he conceived. The evidence of the larceny was so mixed up with . the facts concerning the doctor's court-e, that the counsel for government merely asked for a con viction upon one of the charges, that of larceny of tho handkerchief which charge was fully susia ind. A fine of $1 and costs was imposed. You Forgot Me.' A good joke is told at the expense of one of our citizens, who is the father of an interesting family of children, and a nong them a bright eyed boy, numbering four or five summers, the pet of the household, and unanimously voted the drollest little mischief alive. -On Saturday night he had been bribed to keep peace and retire to bed an hour earlier than usual, with the promise that he might go with the' family to cfiurch. Ou Sunday morn ing it wasiound inconvenient to put the young est through the regular course of washing and dressing necessary for bis proper appearance at the sanctuary, and the family slipped off with out him. They had not, however, more than become comfortably seated in their pew, when in walked the youngest with nothing on but a night wrapper and a cloth cap. 4 You forgot me, said he in a tone luud enough to be heard ail over the church. The feelings of tlie parents can be more easily imagined than described. -- Lafayette Indiana) Journal. Old Age. It is not well that a man should always labor. His temporal as well a$ spiritqal interest demand a cessation in the decline of ife. Some years, of quiet and reflection are necessary after a life of industry and activity. - There is more to concern him in life than incessant oo cui ation, ttnd its product wealth. He who h is been ..a drudge all his days to one raouoto nous mechanical pursuit can hardly be fit for another world. The release from toil in old age most men have the prospective pleasure of ; audf in the reality, it is as pleasing as it is useful and salutary to the mind. Such advantages, how evert can only be gained by prudence and econo my in youth ; we must save, like the ant, before we can hope to have any rest in the winter of our days. u Great cities are Satan's universities. QUEEN VICTORIA IS FltAHCE. Queen Victoria' yisit to Paris has been a suc cess of the most triumphant kind.: -Tho Parisians have expended an immense amount" of enthusi asm, ajftdthe Emperor has exhibited ' the most imperial pf hospstality? The English papers are fulT0.overn,owiny with the accounts of tlw fes tivities. . ROYAL VISIT TO THE OPEKA. The Liverpool Post, of the 24th ult., has the following in refereuce to the visit to the French Opera of , Queen Victoria aud -Prince Albert, in company with the Emperor and Empress of France : On Tuesday eveninor the state visit of her Majesty and the. Emperor to the Grand -Opera contrasted greatly "with the comparatively quiet trip to the Palace of the Versailles. The whole line of the Buulevaids was j,illuminated, the streets were thronged, and once more a grand ovation, as on the entry of her Majesty, was paid to the august visitors. The whole distance from the Champs Elysees to the hotel was one blaze of light. The entrance of the opera was tastefully dressed with crimsjn velvet and gold, and illu minated by festoons of gas, which appeared to support the rich drapery. At the top of the drapery there was an enormous golden eagle with extended wings, and the'steps of the opera had been converted into a garden of the richest : 5-M ornamented with oranre tress and vasesof now-H 0 ers. In the midst of the fairy-like scene whicl the grand entrance displayed, figured the beau tiful gold candelabras with which the dictator of the opera preceded their Maje6ties, and cenduo ted them to the State box. The staircase was ornamented by rich tapestries, with garlands aud festoons of flowers, and mirrors on every side, reflected the enchanting beauty of the scene. Seats were erected in the grand foyer, which were filled by elegantly dressed ladies. On the arrival of her Majesty, and as her Ma jesty passed through, the sight was one of in tense beauty, in which the glitter of the diamond-1, the magnificent dresses of the ladies, the uniforms and rich odors of the military and officers of the household of her Majesty and the Emperor, all bore no inconsiderable part. In the opera itself, the salle for the recepti' n of the royal visitois was fitted up with imperial splen dor and exquisite ta-te. The front was formed of embroidered velvet draped with golden chords; on the top in the centre was the imperial eaglo, and at each corner the arms of Engiaud and France. Cent. Gaudi-s in, full uniform formed a guard of honor at each side of the stage of th performance. On the, entrance of their Majesties the orches tra played a few bars of God save the Qu en." All the gentl men in the pit wore white waist-, coasts and b'ack stocks. The imperial visitors. were greeted with tumultuous appiause. Her Majesty and the Empress wore white dresses, riehly trinimed with lace. Her Majesty wore the ribbon of the Order of -the Garter and a fine tiara ol diamonds. The Empress also wore a most magnificent tiara and suit cf bril liants. The Emperor was in the dress of a gen eral of division, with the, ribbon of the Order of the Garter, and Prince Albert in the uniform of a field maishal, with the grand cotdon of ihe C gion of Honor. .Both her Majesty nd the Prince were looking remarkably well ; the Em press, however, appeared to be suffering consid erable indisposition, and its effects were strongly marked upon her beautiful and interesting fea tures. A SCHOOL INCIDENT. In my early years, I attended the public schools in Roxbnry, M iss.; Dr. Nathaniel Pren tice was our resected teacher, but his patience, at times, would get nearly exhausted by the in. fraction of the school rules by the scholars. On oue occasion, in rather a wraihy wav, he threat ened to p..nish, with six blows of-a heayy ferule, the first boy detected in .whispering, and ap pointed some a detectors. Shortly after, one of these detectors shouted, "Master, John Zeigler is whispering." John was called up, and asked if it was a fact (John, by the way,-was a favorite, both of the teacher and his school-mates ) "Yies," answeied John, 'T was not aware what I was about. 1 was intent in working out a sum, and requested the one who sat next to reach me the arithematie that contained the rulei which I wished to see." The docior resetted his hasty threat, but told John he could not suffer him to escape the pun ishment, and continued I wish I could avoid it, but I cannot with out a forfeiture of my word, and the conseque nt loss of my authority. I will," c niinued he "leave it to any three scholars you may choose to say whether or not I omit the punisment." John said he was agreed to that, and imme diately called "out G. S., T. D., and E. P. D The doctor told them to return a verdict, which they soun did, after consultation, as follows "The master's word must be kept inviolate. John must receive the threatened punishment of six blows of the ferule ; but it must be inflic ted on volunteer proxies; and we, the arbitra tors, will receive the punishment by receiving two blows each. John, who had listened to the verdict stepped up to the doctor, and, with out stretched hand, exclaimed "Master, here is my hand ; they shan't be struck a blow I will receive the punishment" The doctor, under pretence of wiping his face, shielded his eyes, and, telling the boys to go to their seats, said he would think of it. I believe be did think of it to his dying day, but the pun isnment was never inflicted. Michael Angelo must have been a wicked wag. not overburdened with the spirit, of true faith It is said that when he was told that he had in One 6f his paintings given too florid a complex ion to the Apostles Peter and Paul, he replu-d that be had not portrayed them as they appeared on earth, but as they were likely to look iu heaven, where they blushed for the fives of their successors. vSidney Smith says, "It seems necessary that great people should die with sonorous and quo table sayings. Mr. Pitt said something not in telligible in his last moments. G. Rose made it out to be, 1 Save my country, Heaven P The nurse, on being interrogated, said that he asked for barty waler" , BASEMEHT SCHOOL-BOOMS- ; In the city, where every foot of land is worth more dollars than can be spread out on its sur face, there is some apology for occupying base ments as school rooms. But in country towns and villages, where the commercial value of the soil is of less consequence, there can be no good reason why childhood's "school-going days'' should be made gloomy and wearisome by con finement in damp and cheerlees basements. A school-room where the plastic mind of the young is to receive its first bent unto good or evil, should always ie attractive and pleasant, and by all means well ventilated. But who ever saw an underground room that Je - was pleasant and inviting? As for ventilation, that is out of the question where the ceiling is within reach of an ordinary sized man, aud the base of the windows three or four feet from the floor, or at least so high that all ventillation from that source must be like the instructions of some teachers, entirely above the heads of the pupils. Under such circumstances the air is constantly damp and chilly from the vapor which naturally rises from the ground immedi ately beneath the floor, and many basements are so constructed that they become convenient res ervoirs of impure and poisonous gases. It is well known to every physician, that du ring the prevalence of epidemics, families who live in underground rooms, suffer more than oth- - ers'ithe same n - ,, v f.. borhocHLho; oceapy airy and well ventilated apartments. Dysentery, typhus fever and cholera, as well as sciofula and consu nipt ion, make their deadly visiis to such localities, and Harpy-like prey on their inmates. Instances are by no means uncommon, in which whole families have been swept off by the dis eases which hover around these unnatural hab itations. All animals, except reptiles and fish es, require pure, dry air, and the genial warmth of sunshine, aud will languish and die without 1 it. B. N. Comings, in Common School Jour nul. THE MINISTRY AND THE PRESS. That pastor errs egregiously who fails to give the due credit to the newspaper press, as an a gent to the evils he would correct, or an instru uaentofthe good he would accomplish. The time has come when newspapers are almost un iversally read. The family that takes no news paper, is now the exception to the universal cus tom. And if companionship with a fellow in fallibly leaves some impression on the mind, much more di-es the weekly visit of a friend in the sha e of a newspaper,- beget a regard and confidence which give him incalculable power in leading the opinions and forming the char acter of those who welc ome his regular arrival. -Probably every minister can trace various er roneous and foolish notions which he meets with in some of the families of his parochial charge, directly to the newspaper they take. If so, how plain it is Unit the proper preventive or correc tor of such evils, is a newspaper of a different character ; and how can he act wisely how can he act faithfully,- if he do not do what he can to introduce such a needed antidote into sueh families ? Curious Result. A French officer, while making reconnoisance near Sebastopol, was knocked down by the wind of a cminon 11I, rtnd the shock was so severe :is to cause a paralysis of his tongue, so that he could neither move it or speak. Obtaining leave of absence he return ed to arseiiles and placed himself under elec trical treatment. After a few shocks he could move his tongue with . more facility, and a1 length, after an unusually powerful shock, his speec h was restored, and he was fully recovered. The following characteristic story is told of the Commander-in-Chief dfthe French army in the Crimea : p " Some years aro, Pelissier on parade one morning got angry with a sous ojficier of a cavalry regiment, whose tenue seemed to hirn quite defective. He abused the man mist vi olently, and cut him across the face with his whip. Hie man seized one of his pistols, and endeavored to fire at his cotumandinrr officer, but the pistol missed fire. Pelissier, swearing a fearful oath, but otherwise quite calm, said: ' Fellow ! I order you a three days' arrest for not having your arms in better order!'" A man in the commou walks of life, who has faith in perfection, in the unfolding, o the hu man spirit, as the great purpose of God, pos sesses more the secret of the universe, perceives more the harmonies of mutual adaptation of the world without and the world within him, is a wiser interpreier of Providence, and reads nobler lessons of duty in the events which pass before him, than the profoundest philosopher who wants this grand central truth.- Chan ning.r f . .. Birds and Insects. Wilson Flags:, in a late number of Hovey's Magazine, makes five classes of insects, and as many of birds, acting as natural checks upon the increase of insects. The swallows are the natural enemies of the swarming insects, living almost entirely upon them, taking their food upon the wing. The common martin devours great quantities of wasps, beetles and goldsmiths. A single bird will devour five thousand butterflies in a week. The .'moral of this is, that the husbandman should cultivate the society of swallows and martius about his land aud out buildings. The sparrows and wrens feed upon the crawl ing insects that lurk within the buds, foliage and flowers of plants. The wrens are pugna cious, and a little box in a cherry tree will soon be appropriated by them, and they will drive way other birds that feed upon the fruit hint that cherry growers should remember in spring and act upon. The thrushes, blue-birds, jays and crows prey upon butterflies, grasshoppers, crickets, locusts and the larger beetles. A single family of jijs will consume 20,000 of these in a season of tbiee months. The woodpeckers are armed with a stout, long bill, to penetrate the wood of trees, where the borers deposit their larvae. I hey live al most entirely upon these worms. Co-KKicTicuT Politics. The New Haven Reg ister says that the people of Hartford burned in effi gy their representative, Mr. Lanman, for voting for tne Missouri Compromise, and have no v burned in effigy their representative Mr. Ingram, for voting to repeal it ! The Register need not have confined itself to Connecticut. The same feeling prevailed over the whole North, and nearly every Northern man who Toted for the Missouri Compromise was defeated at the next election and politically destroyed. The same fate has attended those who voted for its re peal in the last Congress. 0iitmt SEttklg )ost. WILLIAM D. COOKE, JAMES A. WADDELL ,M. D.I ESITOKS. RALEIGH, SEPT. 15, 1855. Terms TWO DOLLAES PES ANNUM, in Advance. CLUB PRICES: Three Copies, $5 full price, f6, Eight Copies,. .......1 - Tea Copies,. -15 Twentv Couies 20 16, ,.20, .40. (Payment in all case in advance.) ft- Where a club of eisht. ten or twenty subscribersis sent, the person making up the club will be entitled to a copy extra. Cr Postrwwters are authorized to act as Agents lor the Southern Weekly Post. Ma. H. P. Douthit is our authorized agent for the States of Alabama Mississippi and Tknitessee. GERMAN EDUCATION. A late number of the Dublin University Mag azine contains a very instructive article on the German Universities, which ought to command the interest of American scholars. It throws more light upon the system of education pur sued in that land of philosophy andletters, than we have ever been ?ble to obtain from any oth er source, and treats of it in a truly liberal and discriminating manner. Some of the leading facts are worthy of being presented to thefiends of education in the Unijted States, as suggestive of our own?deficieflies7ln(of l6ce improve ments to which such information is calculated to lead. There are about twenty-five strictly German Universities which are worthy of the name Some of them are very old, but none of equal antiquity with those of Oxford and Paris. Whilst the latter had their origin in ecclesiasti cal authority, and were founded on a monastic system, the Universities of Germany were in stituted by secular power, and continue to de pend upon the Sta:e, seldom subject to the con trol of the spiritual order. They "consist gene rally of four faculties of Divinity, Law, Medi cine, and Philosophy ; under which last term is included classics, natural sciences, and history The profe-sors are simply lecturers, who have nothing to do with the students, except to deliver before them at stated hours learned ad dresses 011 the subjects they have been appoin ted to teach. There are no rules, no examina tions, no penalties or rewards, in fact no admin istiation, but such as necessarily belongs to a routine of lectures, which the students attend according to their choice, and which they can at any time abandon There is indeed a nominal government in a Seriate, cousisiiug of four deans and a rector chosen by and from ihe regular professors; but their authority is chb-fly exercised in regulating the matriculation, and the ho-towment of de- grees. lite more narant ottences are tried and punished by a Uuivetsity Judge, whose tribunal is the principal check upon the conduct of the tulent. The fol owing paragraph will afford some conceptio'i 01 the oidmary routine of. scholar's life at one of these institutions. ' ' IViCh student lives in apartments hired at some townsman s House, according to his ciioie 41 1 1 and particular requ-rements. From thence he resorts to. tlie University only for three or four hours daily, 1o xtiend tecttirvs. The rest of his time is either spent at home in reading, or else with Ins comrades. Ihe absence of a link of union amohg the members of German universi ties has compelled the students almost every wlu reto form certain clubi .or clans, the sole object of which is to enjoy themselves togeth er, after true s;udnts fashion, these fraterni ties wear their own peculiar colors on their caps, flags, and breatbands ; they are organized with seniors, presidents, articles of comment or stu dents' usage, and meet at their particular inns and on especial days of every week. There you may see them si'ting together around two ob long tables, before their beer or wine-goblets, drinking and singing till late into the night, and often hidden 111 thick clouds of tobacco- smoke. Thev will discuss the duels that have been fought lately, or are going to be fought; will scueme some joke upon a sordid Philiistine or landlord ; they will agree to bring a serenade to their favorite professor ; they make their political speeches on the prospects of their fatherland, and the whimot its princes; tney annt and sing, anil sing and drink, whilst wit and sarcasm, pun and taunt, fly across the room in quick succession, and all is dissolved iu infinite laughter and merriment."' A student is generally expected, on applying for matriculation in a German University, to designate the profession of his choice, and to devote his time especially to those lectures which will fit him for its pursuit. It will thus be seen that we have nothing in this country at all analogous to a University in the German sense. In that country they are great profes sional schools, for v hich the student is prepared by nine yeais previous instiuction and discip line in a national academy or Gymnasium. The life of a scholar is there considered a fourth profession, and the faculty of Philosophy is quite as much a professional school as those of Divinity, Medicine, or Law. It is obvious there fore that our colleges in this country, correspond to what are termed gymnasia in? Germany, and judging from the information we possess, we should think the graduates of the latter gene rally surpass those of the former in substantial scholarship. The article on which our present remarks are based, gives the following account of these gymnasia: It would be impossible that the loose and inde pendent relation between the German student and his professor could prove salutary to the former, and satisfactory to the latter, it the stu dent had not obtained a high degree of mental maturity previously t? his entering on his Uni versity course, lhis is a consideration of the highest importance, if we will appreciate cor rectly the German college system. Therefore we have to-remind our readers that a German student has previously been educated at a oerman gymnasium, and has there been dulv prepared for the University, during a spaee of mne years. or no student is admitted who has not delivered up at bis matriculation an au thentic testimonial from.his gymnasium, that he has passed the established final examination in presence , of the examiners duly appointed, and before the Royal Commissioner sent for that purpose. All the elementary part of education, and a great part of what is taught at college in Englaud,-has been thoroughly acquired by the German student at oue of the gymnasia, which are all equally well fitted for preparing for Uni versity life, and form, in fact, the natural basis of the Universities. They combine an extensive and methodical instruction with a' strict discip line. From his tenth to his twentieth year, the student has there been well trained, and as it were drilled, by question and answer, by daily tasks and weekly lessons, by written exercises and memwial repetitions in one word, by all the hacknied machinery rof school tuition. In removing to college, he becomes emancipated fromsnch intellectual guardianship ; and with the jacket, he has also left his years of mental minority behind him. Henceforth he is bidden lx avail himself of the means of intellectual im provement, without any direct guidance or in terference of a master. He chooses bis partic ular vocation out of the four learned profes sors whom he will hear. He lives in complete independence outwardly and mentally, and is entiiely master of his actions and of the use he will make 01 nis time. After discussing at considerable length the comparative merits of the German system, the writer proceeds to point out some of its peculiar effects. We are not prepared to participate in these discussion , and will not even indulge in the expression of an opinion. There can, how ever, be no doubt that important h sons may be obtained from the study of the German U- nivcraitiAa which mv oTeatlv improve the Ul v o. , j o J & - college system of the Uniied States. We con elude with the following extract: fln cannot, nass bv this occasion without Bta ting some of the historical effects by which the German University system has been attended Impartial observers will admit that Germany ... 1 . mi: 1 U' boasts ot students wuo are wining anu ao e to exert themselves in the highest degree po?sible, Their vloddina disposition has become a stand ing jest to some English writers, who could be foolish enough even for a moment to depreciate the zeal and fervor of those youthful and disin- tirestedarchereyafter. truth.? Is not the toil - scineand selfrdietated, unwearied patieneeAft the Get manstudenV over his midnight lamp, quite as worthy of respect and praise as the daily reading hours of an Oxford or Cambridge student, who often works for prizes or honors, under the direction of his tutor? And who that truly appreciates learning and science will ever indulge in sneering at the means and trouble by which it must be acquired ? The German Universities have no cause to disclaim the epithet with which their adepts are honored, as long as German University-men are sought and respected, and as long as their writings, the fruit of their plodding qualities, are read aud appreciated. With equal-truth it may be said of the Ger man Universities that they promoted individu ality of intellect and opinion almost to an ex cess ; of course, for every one is there led, nay. compelled to think and judge fur himself, and to take nothing on tiust. It is certainty true - that lately a great many learned novelties and doctrinal schools have been hatched at the Ger man Univer-ities. We do not want to deny iu fact it would be usel ss that Germany is possessed of the largest amount of intellectual fertility. Its Universities have, indeed, put forth all kinds of theories sometimes useful, but often fantastic iu many ca-es profound, in some revolutionary; hete with an air of vene rable antiquity, there again with the artificial hot-hone forcing of modern wit. Homoeopathy has come from Germany mesmerism had its origin there hydropathy emanates from thence; rationalism and mysticism, too, hr.yo their ad herents there in innumerable shades and ramifi cations. Pantheism is maintained by some phi losophers ; scepticism is the result f others' views, and schools follow each other there, thick and quick. Leibnitz, Kant, Fichte, S. belling, Hegel have peopled the German Universities w ith their followers. Go to a University, there are not two doctors in law or divinity who ho'd the same opinions; and even their lectures often have a strong admixture of individual views and even polemics : the students, of course, choose their party too for. themselves.: This mushroomlike fertility" of doctrines in Germany forms a striking contrast to the steady, undevia ting march of intellect in the learned circles of Oxford and Cambridge, Dublin or London: At the British Universities, doctrines and education are infinitely more positive and alike. All the students receive, within each College, one and the same kind of education ; they are all taught in the same fixed way, and depend for their opinions almost solely on tlie opinions of thoir tutors or professors, who do not muoh dif fer from each other. For this reason it ofen appears to observing foreigners as if the intel lects of English University-men wer all mould ed in one and the same national fchape, and stamped by the same influence; nor can it be astonishing that the authoritative character of English University education should have this effect. Compare with them an adept from a German University, and you will find him usu ally swayed by a restless and independent, nay, frantic desire of research and of theorizing on his own account. There is, undoubtedly, much danger as well as some good with either of these two different tendencies, which it is not our bu siness. But we may, without great fear of er ring, set it down as a fact, that the German U- niversity system, devoid as it is ot the principle of authority, has gained in intellectual fertility, in the quick growth of science, in production of individual views, whereas it has, at the same time, lost in steadiness and concentration of aim, and in unity and firmness of doctrine, which have their own particular good, not in science, but in moral and political views, and may rather be said to beloug to the proper ties of English education. HYPOCRITICAL BENEVOLENCE The Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post contains an extract or two from the Inquirer of that city, favorable to the proposition, which has been frequently suggested before, that Con gress should make an appropriation for the pur chase and colonization of the entire slave popu lation of the South. The Post after saying there is very little difficulty in such a plan, " so far as the North is concerned," proceeds to show that there H little hope of the acceptance of such terms by the South, in the following very ob jectionable remarks : " But if we understand the present position of the South slavery is no longer considered au evil by the controlling public opinion, but a f ositive good, to be perpetuated and extended, f this be the case, the South while thanking the North perhaps for its offer would not ac cept it because it would requite what she would consider a greater or less sacrifice on herpait. .While we therefore take it for granted that such offers on the part of Northern men' will not be favorably responded to by the present public sentiment of the South, still it may not be useless to inform tne oiuzens ot tlie South that such thing are repeatedly suggested at the North, and meet the warm support and appro val of large numbers of Northern men. One effect of such knowledge may be--if there be no other to soften and assuage the violence of feeiing which is now raging." Now we must say in the first place, that the Saturday JEvening Post has entirely misrepre sented the South, if it means that our people desire the extension of slavery by the direct, positive exercise of political power. The South simply objects to the exercise of such a power for the prohibition of slavery, and demands that the common territories of the United States may be freely settled by citizens of both sections of the Union, without restrictions prejudicial to the interests of either. If the S. E. Post can not see the difference it is owing to that blind ness which false sentiment so generally inflicts. Again,. we consider the professed will- of the North to bear her nronnrt;.. gun " ionization of g.w, bo mucn affectation wi,:. suma me test ot practical ex cann Perirnem , profess to be governed by a lofty d benevolence ! Why then do tho,. , j. . , , -' "'axe us erase conditional upon the action of the v Why do they not, in their individual oriT ted capacity, purchase and emancipate . V ur people, ho-w , distRed thev maw Ka fti.t i , 1 r .., w vuwu-.it 10 be to s scneme as mat referred to in th e article Ur review, would certain'r - ... Jpf Northern buveis. We . , . . . " ' -U I.ill L.,-,.. u t'.i, e Hie at a lo. k 1 1... - .I. . XT .. ' I "leielnr, ,u yyuy me northern people. 1, cu:HHcipa .on fcso int-nelv, (p, tlllt work ii.to th.ir iit.,. 1 i hi k - nanus, and ft ar with their custom.iry aUnh.' v;lat ' cue them for so much delav ' 1 ' un ls it not a ; )l to postpone to a mo e convenient ",e0 peratice a duty ? ' U" vu !a Wji nJ.-iit.l it ... 1. . I f- ..w 1 c 11:11 uiiio, say 11 .11,.' on'tlrs subject, but ihjs wi Sllffi;(1 ,o J'JJ the difficulties suggested In' t',e $ y " me.c devils f ine. uity,, to ,xvh'u, 7 against the South, and to seen tlie X0rlu a j.ist censure for pref ,rins p0i;i.a! ' ! rm "se of em :,"-lr,j. PUBLIC ADDRESS. 1 An address will bs delivered ' u , MaiSqnare, before thTi v ,irR' Jwjuiversary, on 6a mdav ja)' evening next, the 15th inst. Jtadiis and -inlem-u are respectfully invited to atieed. XJWJILC.lLfi. l f.Jlii ... .. . . -W. readers to the details of the rava-.s o -t,e f obtained from the Petersburg 'Etpms. 'fhe dition of the afflicted cities is so ha I that change mu.t now be for the better. There arej. new cases in Suffolk. Among die r, cent dea'h are Dr. Collins, President of he Seaboard Roanoke R. R., and tlm Rev. Jjr. Chisholm") i 1. T7" ! I V m i uie r,piscon;ii vnuic i. ).- f .1. moud, the founder of the Stethoajopo, died J Sunday last. After a Feason of i,!t,nse ,oat j have now the prosp.ctof a change" of 'weathers wtueb may operate favorahlv on tl.e epidemV Heaven grant the citizens of the Norfolk a-A rottMiiouth a speedy reli f ! i Some corresDonJtiiii fYom Y...7..n. - . . I r -'vjhuir ItCt-niir tion had g-nerally stampeded, and thoe ItfJ were generally of the clas called " sinnm.v How then, na-k, does it happen tLal s, ma ministers ti:iv. lail.-ik tori.t. .-. r I "v""" tv iiie (icrsirov several others i.cvovc-rcd, and the Presbytenat ( Church m i-ortsnv uth has lost both its elders V ADESBOKOIGH WkEKI.V XeWS." 'W'. have received sexeral nuiuheisr. of a new papal oeating tins n one, winch i pnuii.-hed at Vadts- borough by AIesrs. J. T. Powell and E. A. Biition. It is a she. t of good size handseme apj earanc-.yincl we.l. tilled, it is jh u r,d in pi litiis. Passu ore Williamson. T:i wretched th;.( who i a U-eu nominated as caud date for Ca;.al Commi.-sioned, at I'iUsbu;, ha failed i ah is si- peal to the Supreme Court ..'i'c-iii;v.iin'ak liberation. 'I bt hody, as iinu-h as JvnuE J. Kane, deserves all honor for ii- tintii ess at; hd. lity to ihe Constitution ;uu. t!t- laws. Ld Dot iho.-e of our fr.i i.ds, w ho insist r-j o-e r.iai atory . ii.t-nautes, forget that a remnant oluvlie?.- patuois leiiiains in ev-ry northern S;attf wlof have not bowed the ki.ee to I.a.I. Variola Var xklloioes. Toe p oplt ate Newljcn.e, rind in tha part of 'he .S.a; -.sctais nave bee.i ;re;.tly eerci,sed about incites: prev.-ii.ii g in that town, to which tin dotlos have applied the.loieg..i, g iei-hiiie.tit' . In w ity it belongs to rasi s of genuine, small p"X, oc curring mon' the vaccinated. Ii is in k varioloid, or modified small-pox. Encampment. -The citizens of 1'a'tim'f who have taken the lead in fjir"uihiijg ai JSorfolk and Portsmouth, have procured teo-1 trom the V olunteer companies of that cu,m erected a large encampment for the refugees d the farm of Jos. Segar. Eq., near IL.mpion. J8F As many persons will probably be cult ing to the State Fair about the iniddle of Octet' an excellent opportunity will be afforded i send or bring new pupils to the Instijuti' d the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind. The Butcheries in China. Dr. Wentworth, a Methodist missionary, writing from ShanghfH" der date of June 18th, says: "At Canton the chief amusement of the imperii- ists IS rilttinnr nflT hofiAa f ionlononl .liiflPS. Ol 'i United States Navy, told me he saw one hnndnl and fifty decapitated there in one day rfntiT This is equal to the French guillotine or Ciw nati slaughter house." Mr. Williams writps from Canton that execatiM- sand men were butchered there last wfeV, five or six times that number at Shanking. the.p',cf of the capture of the merst of the unhapy w' of this indiscriminate murder. Settled. WTe are pleased to see that .heW pending difficulty between the Post Office D! ment and Mr. Caldwell, the president id South O lina Railread Comnanv- has been settled all"?' and that a c.ntract for a double daily mail serf )uiiru.n M ; ..:u i rv.i i,; ki hn The September number of the SethoM has been received since our hist, arid eviJellt contains much interestinfj matter fur the pt) cian. There are several valuable flat lDtt need for the purpo se of illustrating an iiDP,rU selected article on the morbid analuroy pathology of Phthisis. The present cduc this promising repository of southern w4: literature are Dis. Goodridge A. 'n Richmond A. Lewis. Vmvr 'T.reits'a T.-rtj?e' rJl7I?rrE 0t London, and New-York Fashions, for Sep.'"11. is als bef-te ns, with its profuse ai d patterns and designs The b tck nnni''. not been notiod in our aUnce fors0"""', Once for all we wotiM now sav that this p . ation stands nn'nv:illed in the esteem cf t'e . ies hereabouts, and is worthy of the most h support. LITERARY NOTICES
Southern Weekly Post (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
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