.-. ; , For the Weekly Post.
Answer to Charade in last week's Post Child
hood. i ''
Answer, to Enigma Madam.'
Solution. Jum AYrcl proclaiming silence.
. . v Anna Feminine namer
i2eed Legal instrument.
l4bba Syriac name for Father. -
iUam lond word for mothers. : .
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Winston, Feb. 2d, 1852.7 .
i ; RatesSd REouLATibNa x'f Foreign Post-
. . . .... . .-- v ?cut !Cut;rmiv iui-
ii line tut; wnnm nuhhn ennm n
ciy to appreciate and understand our inland postage
system, especially the advantages of its ehean i.rL
pay feature, it is only comparative few that appear
. to be well informed as to forei
steamers, or. the regulations governing them; Ap--pendedtc,
a schedule of the days of sailing of the
IT S moll . if l- a t t . O
,and Europe, for 1852, (Saturday; being the day of
' departure from the United States, Wednesday from
England and France, and Friday from Bremen,) is
-. a statement reiterating the much needed i nfnrma-
; tion. We . annex it here, reminding the reader that
, wuuiu pe wen to preserve-it lor reterence in the
future: Baltimore. Sun.
. j.ue-singi rate ot letter postage by either of the
U. S. Lines, and the same in respect to the British
i;v. r ...... ...!
.y,j w v um aijy poiui, in uie unitecr orates,
for or from any point in Great Britian, is 2k cents,
(except when the letter is to orrpm California, or
vv, nucmi ,3 AiJ cenLs,j pre-paymeuvoptional.
Newspapers, each 2 cents United States, j and 2
cents British each country to collect its oWn' post
age, whether the paper is sent from or received In
me umtea estates. puritish newspapers usually
come British postage paid by a penny stamp, equal
to 2 cents. They must be sent in narrow bands.
pen at the ends. If the riewspaperJhoweVer, has
passed, or is to pass in transit through Great Bri-.
tain, trom or to some other, foreign country, then
the sum in each instance ito be collected in the
United States, is 4 cents for 2 of which the Un-
Letters for the 'continent of Europe, to pass ifi tran
, sit through Great Britain,; must be" pre-paid 21
; cents-yvhen the Atlantic conveyance -is bvi U. S.
; packets, ' ahd5 clints when by British packets; ex-
cept from California or Oregon, when the sum to
oe pre-paid is, in Uie lormer instance, .20 cents, and
in the latter 10 cents. Thus, in the one caie, the
Atlantic sea postage is to be collected at thd m air
in Xffioa '"in n' ITnWVl eU .1 i-- -
jhit to be collected at the office of delivery, t
; v ; Periodical works and pamplets. are not entitled
to1 transit conveyance through the United Jvitig-
dom of Great Britian and Ireland, "but thef may
be sent from the'United.S.tates to the Uui'ted King
dom, and vice, versa, at 2 cents of United' States
pdktage each if they do not exceed two ounces in
Wekrlt : .audat 4 Cents ner nnnpp nr fraotinA nn
ounce, when they exceed thati weiorht. to be collect
ed in nil ra in f li:TTnif Al Cjtntc on1 tlJ..
will be subject "to an addiiionU like charge m the
Uhitedllvingdom. When sent to or received from
. foreign countries, without passing through the Un-ite'd-lvingdom,
th;y will be clargeable with the re
gular United States rates, to be pre-paid when
sent,! and collected when received.
'' Sijigle rate of" letter postage to or from Bremen,
UV Uie 131"eiTlfin ino. ppnte nro.normonl v,.
al. . 2S"ewspapers, each 2 cents United States post
age, Which must be collected ;n the United States,
; whether ;the paper is sent froip, or received in. the
United States. Letters and newspapers other parts
i of the continent may also crolbv this line, subiect
". tondditional postasxe beyond Bremen.' :
' Single rate of letter postage to or from Havre,
;i paia an leuers sem, an.u. cunt.-t;iuc.i wu jchcis
, ed. Newspapers, each, 2 cents, which must be
'collected in the United -States, whether tlfe paper
is sent or received. ! ; , ' '
A WT)TJT4mf TW TTnn'7TT,'PTnM
: . The Burlington llawkeye has the following mar
J rlag& scene in Indiana contributed to its columns
s L By a correspondence who is a native Hoosier : ',.
i years bid. when the incident I aiia about to relate took
- place, but I remember all the particulars 'as well as
if it. vsi,ri-mT imci-nr.-, QV Ynll SOO it. VHS abollt.
dinner time one day'in the fall of the year, when
the bid man being engaged hi laying in. a supply
- of Wood for the winter, drove up his ox team witli
jf. a pretty lold;load of fuel. ;
dLL JJU VyV'VVAl 1 VV w Uli J " -
1 T.to-c1 the villanfp lmj.fl in hnd. inniiired for the
' squirei antL iwere duly directed to the house. The
youth jwas barefooted, and wore "a coarse but clean
toiiien shirt and pants,' and rough straw hat of
Some manufacture. His fair companion Was dressT
. ed in a Uue cotton frock, pink cotton apron, fine
bonnet, and coarse brbgan shoes without stockings.
' ThrsA ivr-rA ttip.ir weddin(r dresses, and ! their se-
f vere "simplicity, and- the . thorough independence
they manifested,, made an impression upon my
;mind tliat will never be effaced.
; '" We have come to get married," said the young
man to the oldlady, my -mother, who was proper-
. lTr liicir omnniir tli nnts and kettles.
"I """J ""V"b i-)---- ;
graciously, "though you appear 1 to look very
., . il-n-.'J l,n Srtiiirf. int ilrm-A lit. lift' 11
. j " . I ' v '
Splice you in less than no time."
tS out. she bolted to giye tne iortunate mnction-
. ary due notice of the important business in hand.
" I Jbau't' 6top. till I unload this wood," said the
f old inan ; "tell them t6 come out here." ;
I Out they went.
The old man on top of the cart, and every time
J -lie threw off a stick he asked a question. Before
he was fairly" unloaded, he had the youth's whole
storyf having - ascertained the names, ages, and re
sidence of the parties, hov long he had kiiowu.the
-woman, 'if 1 he really loved her, and was willing to
labor- honestly to promote her happiness, etc
. The" young stranger gave simple and satisfactory
answers to all the questions propounded. -
In the meantime, the old lady, perfectly under
standing dad's w;ay of doing things, had sent opt
j to'; say to the people tliat a wedding was coming
off at the house ; and, by the time the wood was
unloaded, quite a crowd had collected to witness
the eeremottv. . .. ' ' : ' I
The old fellow.' having picked out the last stick,
and picked up his long goad, stood in the cart, and
j . commenced the pertormance. i
; " Jes-jiue hands," said he to the young couple.
Tf w as, doner accordinrrlv. " .
" I am satisfied with both of ye, he continued,
" x?)u've a1-perfect rierht to sret married." ' And he
united em in short order.
. "As the rafters on this are jined together, so I
- jihe ybu-T-ypu are pian and wife salute 3rour
v bride, r I don''charge you. anything for the opera
tion.! ; "Whoa taw, Buck : get along, Bright."
- And, with an eloquent flourish of his long stick,
. started for anotner .load, oij. woodavmg uie new-lv-wedded
pair amid the villagers! kissing each
other .with a very distinct and particular evidence
or satisfaction.
a That was a weddinff worth having, continued
laior Oudeslev: " I knew the couple afterward,
-and know them yet forthey are both living in a
high, stateof prosperity. ; Aud I know, their child-.
xen after them, too, and miffhty fine children they
are, for one of them is at this Very time Governor
- oi Uie outLe ui luuiaua.
Dignity 4oes not consist in possessing honors,
DUt in ueservtug ,ukui.
MISCELLANEOUS
REMARKABLE DISCOVERY-
A remarkable- magnetic discovery lias just been
niade public in England, by Mr. Butler, a scientif
ic gentleman of Brighton. A medical, gentleman
ff New York, has favored the New York Times
with the subjoined interesting account! . f
" By means of an electrical machine of great
delicacy, which is styled the Magnetoicvpe, Mr.
Rutler is not only able to demonstrate in the most
satisfactory manner the polari zation of our bodies,
and those parts where the North and South poles
are situated, but likewise the alteration which takes
place from change of position from the vertical and x
sitting positions to the recumbent, as also those
which take place ftjpm other circumstances. I He is
also able to demonstrate most clearly the difference
between the male and female currents ; and that
the latter are generally in the increase or antago
nistic state of those of man ; also, that certain po
sitions of the arms and hands,' arrest the effects off
these, currents upon -the instrument. Dead ani
mal matter, brought into contact with the hand of
the operator, or with any person, or any number
of persons forming;a chain by holding one another
by the hand, the one nearest the operator holding
his hand, and the dead matter being pUt into the
hand of the person most remote- from him, almost
immediately stops the movements produced on the ,
instrument by the electric current. 'j
, Mr. Rutler has, it seems, carried his discoveries
still further ;for he has ascertained, and is able to
prove most unerringly, that m'uciis matter, wheth
er animal or vegetable effluvia, or miasms, or min
eral or vegetable poisons ; in fact, allbstur'tces
capable, of. producing death have the same power
of stopping' the action of the instrument, arsier
ous experiments have been performed in tue pres
ence of some hundreds of lay and professional
gentlemen with theimost convincing results. Drs.
Quin and Madden, Homeopathic practitioners of
London, were present at most ot the experiments,
and were permitted by Mr. Rutler to test the ef
fect of the Hanemanhian attenuated drugs, bofti
mineral and vegetable, upon the instrument, with
a result that astonished all present; The experi
ments were made upon some fifty drugs in : their -crude
forms, as well as in" the various attenuations
from the third up tq the eighth hundredth. All
the known deadly I poisons, such as arsenic, hy
drocianic acid, ojiium, mix vomica, stramonium,
digitalis, invariably stopped the' motion of the t
pendulum. -
THE STEREOSCOPE.
Ihe phenomena ot vision have engaged the at
tention of our most acute philosphers 'i and various
have been the theories propounded to explain the,
result of single vision with a pair of eyes, which are)
of necessity underthe influonce of two1 impressionsi
The researches of "Wheatstone have done more!
than those of any other man'to "place this phenoni
enon in a clear light. In his stereoscope We siirve
two images viewed at the angle of reflection coii
verted inta solid body, that is, a body convoy
ing to the mind an impression of length, breadth an
thickness. ' This instrument has recently been mod
ified by Sir David Brewster ; who, by cutting a leir
into halves, and placing each half so as td reprVsen
an eye the distance being between- them 2 1-4 '
inches has very beautifully imitated the mocliai. "
ical conditions of. the eye. Such an instrument i
used as a camera for photographic purposes an
daguerreotypes obtained in ityas we have seen then,
executed with great delicacy by Mr.' Claudet, ar ,
examined under a similar instrument, the binocu
lar stereoscope. ' The result is, a mimic reality c .
the most deceptive character. I '
We have looked at views of the Crystal Palac
and its varied wonders in this little iustrument
which does not very much dlier . in appearanc :
from an opera-glass extending the whole: length- '
every object represented in three dimensions,
groups of firnires, statues, &c. which have beei
copied l)Utealerre.otvjiecTpi
ditterent angles, to correspond -witn tlie diuerenc
between the ls$T eyes,-;atid which, when looke
at under ordinary conditions, present mere flat pu
tu res, correct in perspective and light and shad
They become in the stereoscope beautifully raised
in the highest relief, standing out from the sui
fapc as perfect solids to the deceived sense, j Mi .
Claudet is actively engaged in applying this inslru
ment to portraiture: and it is curious to survey
group of portraits in the stereoscope reach j on j
standing apart from every Other, and all jexhibitin ;
the rotundity of life.' . , 4
' Professor Wheatstono has just carried his in,qu
ries a step further ; and in the invention of th
pseudoscope shown how the senses may conve
false itnpressions to the mind. LondAthwnbum
W0MA1T HATER. 1 L
Many stories are related in the Northejn part c
England and in Scotland, of -Saints in the olde
time; who had so holy a jjiorror of woman, thf
they would not even look on anything thatappei
tained to them. On searching their" biography clos .
ly, however, Ave find that in their growth they, ver
generally habei victims to. the. fairer portion i
the creation. This was more particularly) the cas
with Saint Cuthbert, who, in his advanced yean
could not abide the sight of woman. : In his young ;
er days, he had the reputation of bemg what h iio :
called fast,' but when converted, his aversion t
tlis- sex became quite decided He carried this t
such an excess, tliat lies would not even allow . ,
cow to come near his-sjicred walls in Lindisfarnc .
because " Where tlierc is a cow there must be a ico
niartjajid where there is a womaii there must I '
mischief ." To, get at a respectable distance fron
the sex, he retired to one of the Fern Islands, wher
he worked numerous miracles. When he heard c
a wedding, he was in despair ; but whenever h j
heard of a woman dying, he had his convent i'
luminated. His enmity to the sex did hot ceas j
with his early existence, - j - .
After he had died and his remains were ; enshrin
ed in the cathedral at Durham, a woman cOuld riotr
approach the place without the heels -of the sain j
setting up a loud kicking against the cottin ; so, a
least, says tradition! And no' sooner did Bishop
Hugh l'udsey commence the erection of a chapef
at the east end of the ipathedral, to be dedicated to
the Virgin -Mary- a Wbman than the good Saint
Cuthburt at once showed his displeasure, by "caus
ing great rents in the building, on seeing which, it
was forthwith abandoned. Even as, late as 1333,
on the occasion of Edward III. and his Queen Fhil
lippa resting for a night at Durham, where they
slept in the priory, the saint in his coffin became
riotous ; the. monks, alarmed, ran to"the royal pair,
and the queen had to rise in the middle of the
night and escape from the sacred precincts, in her
nether garments ! Such was the extraordinary an
tipathy of the good old saint to the dear delicious
sex.
A niT. The Boston Pathfinder has the following
hard hit at the Gothamites: "TheNew Yorkers'
are in a bad vay. " They ereet churches which poor,
people cannot afford to enter, and thus obstruct the
way to IIeaven by their love of show ; and now we
learn that they are removing the obstruction at
"Hell Gate" at the public expense ! This iatter
passage was spoken of several hundred years ago
as being w ide, but it seems to have been found in
sufficient to accomodate the increasing travel from
Gotham!" -' . ; J
' " Skdw Paxcakes." -A correspondent writes us
that snow, as a substitute for eggs, k evn a better
ingredient beaten into this most homely but pop
idar, desert To this fact 'tis not amiss to call the
attention- of housekeepers, inasmuch as the Storm
King has rather overstocked the market in this
commodity, at the same time- that he has laid an
embargo upon the hens, who refuse to furnish their
eggs, except at a premium. jsaittnitore un.
DIGNITY OF THE PRESS.
' " Some of our contemporaries," says the Columb
ian, of Cincinhaii, " are. just finding out that a
work advertised by a publisher in Boston, and, a
stereotyped puff of which has appeared in almost
every paper of the Union, is an imposture, and
with great seeming indignation exposing the frand,
and cautioning the puhlic against being gulled by it
' It is a great pity that they had not made the
discovery earlier, thus, not only saving their own
credit, but the dear people's money. The
puff we allude to was published as editorial in al
most every paper with which we exchange ; in
many of the leading literary papers appearing
prominently among their book notices, ' or other
wise conspiouously displayed.
" Now, our object in noticing the affair at all, is
not to join the hue and cry against 'the poor
publisher, for we are not of those who aided to
give the production its notoriety, but simply to
condemn ithe newspaper press for debasing itself
by the insertion of any thing in the shape of a
literary notice, or patent medicine puff and giving
it the editorial sanction without examination into,
the merits of the article, and "simply because it is
accompanied by a dollar note lor two.
: " The wbble system of throwing open the
editorial columns of a public print to any one dis
posed to employ them at ten or twenty .cents a
line, is a disgrace to the American newspaper press,
and we hope the present exposition may have
some effect in correcting the evil.
' " The system of praising books and other articles
beyond their merit, or when ignorant of their
merit, for money, is a- most censurable one, and.
calculated to bring the press into well-men tecT
contempt.
! " For our own part," says the Saturday j Eve
ning Post, " we look upon, the offers, of advertisers,
to pay ns for commending articles of which we
know nothing, or for praising them beyond their
due merits, as so many insults. Our advertising
columns are open to all advertisement? not of an
immoral character, but our editorial columns are
our own, and we speak in them only what we
know or believe to be true.
The Society of Moravians.
l A correspondent of the Newark (N. J.) Sentinel
says df the Moravians of Bethlehem, Pa.," their
worship is simple, and the expression of. earnest,
sincere devotion. I do not seo how any one could
associate with the pious Moravians without feelinjj
the refining arid elevating influence of their glowing
arid intelligent piety. They have a short litany at
9 o'clock on Sunday morning, which is read by the
minister sitting, and without robes. At half-past
ten. there is preaching, preceded by prayer and
singing. The Moravians are passionately fond of
music. They have a Philharmonic Society, and at
their meetings you will hear persons in the plainest
:walks of life performing with surprising accuracy
and taste some of the most difficult pieces of Mozart
and Beethoven. Of course they have largely in
troduced music into their worship. Besides a large
choir, they have a magnificent organ of the finest
tone, and a full band of instruments, brass and
.stringed. When all these are employed together
in the praise of Jehovah, it may well be supposed
that the venerable old church fairly rocks with the
swelling notes. The church is itself an' object of
great interest. It is very plain, but' of large and
beautiful proportions, furnished with unpainted
benches, the, brethren and sisters occupying d;ffer
ent sides. 'The pulpitis a little projection from
the wall, about a story and a half from the floor,
and entered from the session room in the rear of
the church. On each side of the pulpit are small
galleries as places of honpr for ministers, returned
missionaries,' etc., with their wives. From these
are suspended, before service, cards containing the
number of the hymns and the tunes to which the.
"J jn uie sHi'jrinjr. -ne oi uie anie-cuamoers is
adorned witlbeautitul paint!Vtr'its of
thfiir most distinguished men.'.
Colored Nobility. As the Caffir war is now
attracting considerable attention, we transcribe
from Bitillefs Miscellany an amusing description
of a Kaffir chief : '
; "pile proper dress of a Kaffir chief is a kaross or
skin, which can be "worn by no other Kaffir. Arms,
legs, and feet are left bare, and so is the head.-- J
Macomo, however, is very fond of turning out in
European costume; and as he selects his wardrobe
in a very diffusive manner, the effect he produces
is more remarkable than elegant. Judge ofiny'
surprise at seeing the great leader of ten thousand
warriors thus habited. He wore a blue dress ioat
with brass buttons, considerably too large for him,
and very much the worse for wear ; a pair of old
dragoon trowsers, with a tarnished gold stride down
the Jegs ; yellow velt-shocs ; a shocking, bad
straw hat, no shirt, no waistcoat, and no stockings !
die was mounted on a little, rough, uugroomed
pony, with a cheap, saddle and an old worn-out
bridle. In place of a riding-whip, he carried in his
hand a knot-kneerie of formidable dimensions, and
in his mouth was stuck a small blackened clay
pipe. Iu addition to this, he was by no means so
ber, though not drunk 'for Macomo,' I was inform
ed. My interview with the worthy chief was not a
long one. I was introduced to him by a man that
knew him, and 1' had a little conversation with
him, of no importance, but rather amuskig from
the manner in which it ended namely, by the
Treat chief asklno; me to lend him sixpence. Of
course I complied, and saw him two hours later in
a stateof helpless intoxication : my sixpence had
done it. Yoacan gedrunk on the most economical
terms at the Cape.'" .
' What are Consols? -Every one who reads
the accounts of the European money markets, no
doubt, desires to know what " consols " are ; and
here Ave have the. thing correctly explained, we
knowT not by whom :
' " They are three per-cent, English stock, which
had its origin in an, act of the British Parliament,
i consolidating hence the name several separate'
government stocks into one general stock, in the
act . Consolidated Annuities,' and commonly-quoted,
for brevitv, as ' consols.' When the consolida
tion took place ; 'the principal of the several funds
thus merged 'amounted to $9,127,821, "by the fund
ing of additional and" Subsequent loans -and parts of
ldans into this stock, itanlounted, on January 5th,
183T6, to' 356,768,258. Since that period, only,
one loan. has been raised, that for compensation to
the West India Planters," on the emancipation of
the slaves 20,000,000 and a few millions have
been paid' off. The total, at ttie present time, is
between 370 and 375,000,000. This stock, from
its amountiind the immense number of its, holders,
is more sensitive to financial influences than any
other, and is therefore', the favorite stock for the
operations of speculators and jobbers. Its divid
ends are payable semi-annually."
Advertising. Townsend, the Sarsaparilla man,
says his book exhibits an outlay for advertising, in
the course of five years, in the various papers of the
United States, of 800,000. TJe says for six months
he cut off all advertisements, to see if his medicines
would not go off onr their own merits just as well as
by .advertising. He lost $300,000 by it T the sales
dwindled down to nothing; for his competitors see
ing him drop off, went on advertising, and got the
start of him. .
The "Belfast! Journal tells of a chap who stepped
into a store .where liquor was kept for " medicinal
purposes," ahd produced a large bottle which he
desired to have filled. Upon being asked for what
pusposes he wanted it, he said, u mechanical he
was going to make an ox-yoke in the afternoon.'
" An Incident for Histokt. Circumstances
have been developed, by the arrival in this city
within the lasi few days of a family from California,
which are characteristic of our time and country.
They are these : In the spring of 1849 an emigrant
party started from their houses in Western Missou
ri for the land' of gold. They were among thous
ands of other hardy adventurers whose white tents
covered the Plains for many months, and made the
wild prairies bf the northwestern territory appear
like the camp of ari immense army. During the
ascent of the Sierra Nevada a daughter was born
ito one of the emigrants, and the occasion was cele
brated by a general halt of the party, and the de
votion of a day to such festivity as the place aud
their stores would permit The little stranger was
named after the great mountain near the summit
of which she ifrst saw the light, and the emigrants
resumed their5 toilsome march. The placers were
gained towards the close of the year, and a busy
multitude were soon engaged in withdrawing from
the rich valley of the San Joaquin the golden! re
wards of their toil. Our little emigrant party be
came in . a short time the centre of a large popula
tion ; houses were erected and streets laid out Sand
the period arrived when a new city should be in
corporated and named. The incident near 5 the
summit of the great Sierra was not forgotton ; jand
as the little girl, whose birth was , celebrated there
prattled upon the knees of the founders of the new
city, they declared that it should receive its name
from her, and it was called Nevada. It is now a
populous and thriving place, and surrounded by
sources of wealth and future greatness ; while the
ttle girl, whose birth occurred when it was a -wt-
e'rness and from whom the name of the great
mountain descended to it, is, after having travers
ed California, sailed the Pacific ocean, crossed the
Isthmus and the Gulf of Mexico, still fondled in her
mother's arms as they now ascended the Mississippi
towards that mother's early home. N. 0. Pica
yune.' . : '
OIL WELL AND OIL SPUING.
In Western! Virginia, nearHhe Forks of Hughes
reiver, there is an oil well and an oil spring, which
are curiosities in their' way. A correspondent, of
the Christian Advocate and Journal thus describes
them : -
This well was dug for salt, but it commenced
blowing out oil, and continues its blowings,' at in
tervals, up to the present time. Every fifty days it
blows out about fourteen gallons of oil.
ynujj 7 o-th
. , a r.
it the oil spring, vast quantities ot oil are an-
red, by sinking pits in the earth thirty
feet deep. The bed of oil lays parallel with the
bed of the river, and is generally near five feet thick.
The oil in its natural state adheres $6 ' sand, and
can only be separated from it by washing the sand
in water. The sand is washed by sinking a small
pit as deep as the bed of oil ; the pit soon fills with
water, when men go into it, with broad hoes, and
wash the sand by pulling it to! them and push-1
ing it from them. While tin's is done the oil loses
its affinity for the sand, and it immediately rises to
the top of the water ; it is then gathered by a large
Jadle, and put into large cisterns or hogsheads,
where it purifies itself; it is then put into barrels and
sent to market Some pits, fifteen feet square, have
yielded one hundred and thirty five barrels of oil.lui
all are not alike rich. The oil is valuable for weak
ness in the. breast, sprains, cuts, and bruises ; it bums
very well in lamps, and it may be used for dressing
leather, instead of fish oil ; but it makes the leather
a little too porous. " , .
Will Fish! revive after having Frozen?
A correspondent of the Cleveland Visi tor states thf;
a lot of perch were caught in the w inter, and throwi
on the snow, where they soon froze so solid that ii
handling them many had their fins broken df'
After remaining frozen several hours, they wcr
nit into a tub bt
t ueeti m the water a while." several
them were found as lively . and actiyeas anv jfis
i . ivirtlaud, in ttie same apei
states' that in J820, he andr several other person
caught eight of ten bushels. of eels, in a stream i
Connecticut. It wyas in very cold weather, and tli
eels had been driven from a mill-pond by drawiri
off the water. (He says: " The eels were take
homer and during night were placed in a cold aii
exposed room, and were literally as stiff and almo:
as brittle as icicles.: The next morning a tub ws
filled with them, into which was poured a quantity
of water drawn from the well, and they were the. .
placed in a warm stove-room for the purpose i
thawing. In the course of an hour or two th
family were astonished to find them -resuscitated
and as active ak if just taken during summer. Th
experiment was tried with a number of tubs fit!
during the day jand with similar results.
Manna in California. The San Joauii.
Journal says that a saccharine matter of deliciou
flavor appears on the trees in California.
On the leaves of the willows which grow upo
the bank, it is found in a candied form, on the uj
per surface, early in the month of July. Th
Indians gather the sugar, and, attheir en'cainpmen'
enjoy the luxury of chewing the leaves. On th
leaves of the; white oak, also, there is a dear dt
posit of honey,; which is as transparent and fine r.
the article is ever seen, but it is of thicker consist
ency. Here, also, it collects on the flpper surfac,
of the foliage,, until the latter is borne down, whe
the saccharine matter drops in masses or lump;
Its flavor is exceedingly pleasant. On the ascen
of the Sierra Nevada there is a species of pin.
much resembling the white pine of the Atlar:
tic States, except that the leaves turn down. Tin
tree grows to an enormous height and size 27
feet in height, and 30 feet in diameter at the'bas(
and sometimes ithe trunk runs up 180 feet almos
without a limb or crook. The resinous matte
which exudes' from the bark has a rich saccharin
flavor. The Indians eat it in large quantities.
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Fifty Years Since. The paucity of newspapei
in the end of the last and beginning of the preset
century is illustrated by the following anecdot
from the London 'Post. " Not fifty years since
newrsjaper was rather a rare thing in the agricul.
ural districts of the West of London. A friend :
our elbow says, that in his early days it wasj no ut
common thing for the curate of the parish fp arriv
at the church on Sunday morning an hour befor
the service commenced, and taking his seat on
tombstone, read -aloud to his flock, previous to lr
entering the church. . On one occasion, when hot
pastor and flock were deeply interested in an articl
which the former was reading, the sexton approach
ed and told him that the hour for the service ha
arrived ; on which the old geDtleman deliberate! .
folding tlie paper,'and putting it in his pocket, said:!
Never mind, boyj, we'll finish fit when-wo com .'
out of church i
. HOUSEHOLD . MEASURES. '
As all families are not provided with scales and
weights referring to ingredients in general use by
every housewife, the following may be useful :
Wheat flour, .one pound is one quart.
Indian meal, one pound two ounces is one quart.
Butter, when soft, .one pound one ounce is One
quart. I ;
Loaf sugar, broken, one pound is one quart
White sugar, powdered, one pound one ounce is
one quart. j ; , -
Best brown sugar, one pound two ounces is one
quart- i j
Eggs,' average: size, ten eggs are one pound.
Sixteen large; table-spoonfuls are half a pint,
eight are one gill, four half a giJly &c
Miss Frederika Bremer will .(soon publish, in
England, her book on. America, called "Homes in
the New World.?
TflE WEEKLY POST.
EDITED BY C. H. WILEY & W. D. C00"KE.
EALEI6H, FEBRUARY 7, 1852.
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All articles ot a ljiterary cnaracier may oe auuic.- -
H. Wiley, Greensboro', or to the Subscriber, Raleigh; Husi
ness letters, notices, advertisements, remittances, &c, occ,
should be addressed to W. D. Cooke. ,
Advertisements of a proper character will be inserted at the
usual rates.
WILLIAM D. COOKE, PKorarETOR.
fOT Postmasters are authorized to act as Agents for the
Weekly Tost. i
r To CorkespoisDexts.- We omitted to state last
week that we' had received an Enigma from
upon " the name of an accomplished young lady
of N. C." We very much doubt the propriety
of. inserting Enigmas of this character, f Although
the motive of the author may be good, few young
ladies we think would like to see their names thus
made public. - ,
We have also received a communiclttonjrom
Ridgeray sighed S.' winch we must decline to pub
lish, as no name accompanies the communication ;
aud aside from this, we can see no good to be ac
complished by its publication.
In this connection we take occasion to say that
all communications for Jhe" Post" must be ac
companied with' the rearjiame of the author, and
the answer must accompany Enigmas.
ONE OF THE GREAT QUESTIONS OF THE
DAY
Will California become a slave State ? We are
one of those who believed from the first that slave
ry, in some form, would be inevitable in the gold
region, on the' Pacific CoaH; and daily indications
confirm that impression. ? ;
As long as gold can be gathered in lumps, on
the surface of -the earth, the gold gatherers will all
be freemen and" independent men.; no one could be
hired for any sum, to work, at such a business for
another, and slaves will not be, and cannot be trust
ed. Such a harvest of the precious metals has a
tendency to dissolve all the bonds of society, to nul
lify the obligations of contracts, destroy all confi
dence, and put an end to all' kinds of discipline.
The early history of the gold business in California
abundantly proves this.1 -
But when all the large lumps have been gathered,
and all the sands washed, and the search, for gold
becomes laborious, tedious, and hot so highly re
munerative Lwhen pits have to be sunk, and mills
erected, and a day's labor will produce only a dol
lar or a little more,, andtlie gold lands become par
celed out among rich f proprietors, then there will
be a demand for hirelings and slaves. The land
owners will not work their mines with their own
hands; and white men will not be hired for any
thjhg like a reasonable sum, especially in this cheap'
atfd abundant country, to delve underground, and
toil in damp, unwholesome caverns, subject to ,di-ense,-
atlir eTftain of "early decrepTtude and death.
TJierewiil be adlffjcujtp ia giiig-Timians, and
they will be worthless wjien got; and hence slave-.
ry will be inevitable. The people in California will
have slaves when it is to their interest to have them :
interest, in such things, is of paramount tsonsidera
tion' with the majority of mankind, and its influence
is as1 much felt by the canting abolitionists and
pseudo philanthropists of the age as by any other
class.
And is it not possible that the Californians orig- -inally
contemplated the introduction of slavery into'
their country ? that they prohibited it in their
Constitution simply as a matter of form, and for the
purpose of being admitted into the Union ? And
is it not possible, that the Vilmot Provisoists them
selves looked complacently at, the prospect, and
were willing to not see slavery among their friends
and kinsmen in California, provided they would act
a grave hypocrisy, and save the political credit of
their tender-hearted friends in the old States! Such
possibly may have been the state of the case rnay
more, it is probable that suchwat the understand
ing. And when slavery is needed in California, an
enterprising young New-E)ngliander can have his
slaves digging in his mines, while his philanthropic
father is obtaining high places! of honor; and profit
by crusading against slavery ; and the latter can
point his simple-hearted constituents to the free
Constitution of California, as the bright result of
his pious agitations, while the former can enrich
himself by slave labor, and save his'conscience and
his soul under the plea that hej lives in a free State,
and voted to have it a free State. Thus things will
work smoothly and gloriously for the chosen apos
tles of freedom ; they can save appearances, and do
things in name, while realities are matters of Tittle
moment But whatever may have bejbn the mo
tives of the Californiaus, and whatever ithe interest
of the disorganizes, slavery will go where it is pro
fitable, aind it will not fro whero it
all the spiritualizing cant of thle times, and all the
sublimated nonsense of the whole race of lying
prophets with which the age abound self-interest
w ill still govern mankind as in the days of old ; and
an enlightened knowledge of self-interest is all the
improvement that we want to bring on the millen
nial era. It is a1 libel on Prcjvidenee to pretend
that he has made our interests inconsistent with
our duties ; the great misfortune under which we
labor is that we do not really and truly understand
our interests. - v
But we are getting wiser in jthis.respect-not as
fast as some suppose but still we are progessing',
while Providence, by interposing incidents helps ua
on, and suggests the way. i
He wisely and benevolently teils the future from
our eyes; but when we are reajdy for. a new step
forward, he produces events which, like blazed trees
in the wilderness, point out the road. And it often
happens that when we, in our self-sufficiency, think
we see fara-head, and are straining our eyes on dim
objects, and speculating learnedly 'on them, the
finger-post of Providence 'will I wheel us suddenly
to the right or left, and over a j very different route
from what we had supposed Thus while the
abolitionists saw in the ordinance of '86 as applied
to California,- a prospect, to them very glorious, of
packing slavery into a contracted area, and thus of
Ptiliflnninir ia ovils arA rtf rrrmnrrinr Ala
this very annexation of California, with a freesoil
constitution, may have been the means inlen
the wise Disposer oi events, to irustrate tty
of fanaticism, to extend the area of slaved, jj'
extending, modify ite Condition to the aiva' , '
both master and slave. We know tU f., ,
there are slaves -rNoth Carolina slaves ;n ?
fornia, and others oni the way; and i it ""
surprise us if slavery in that State become "
of apprenticeship, tne ; slaves to become fr ,. T
realizing certain amounts for their owners.
events slaves are going to Californiaj au, sa," ' .
is thus becoming modified by its expansion, to? j
advantage of all concerned.' ! " " f
. And it,ha long seemed to us that to ne 1
destined to 'be free, the vicinity of Mexico
proper place"-the population of this country i ; i;
other people, will best suit the emancipated or. f
inhabitants of the United. States. They cannoi :'
ages pass the -gulph that divides them froin t'
Anglo-Americans; the latter must fall manvdefT -or
the former climb a giddy height eoniparerf,
their present abasement, before the two races I
break bread together, intef-mary, or sit en
side by side. And is it a boon to. the nerrro tci
hion from the patronage and protection of his rnmu
and call him a free man in a (Jounfry wiCre '. :
cannot vote, or legislate, or aspire to any social i
political emihencel Despised liy the slaves.
-exiled from then countenance of the whites'!
here in the condition of the victims of leprosy .
Oriental countries, an outcast, ljateful to him, ;
and loathsome to all khcrs. To sjend hkii to Af
looks hke a step backwards, his very instincts, u
him to: dread that land of gloom and shadow, vi, .-,
his fathers sen'ed a fearful bon lago to ighori
and ice. He dreads that gloomy coasj, youii,
make him believe that Liberia js a sjtiall din.' .
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lighted spot, but he feels that it-isTjut a glimmer:,
and flickering taper in. the niidst jf a vast'jonu
of darkness and moral "death. . He instHictiv,-:
fears that this little taper will be swallowed in ;(
immeasurable and rayless shadows of an a!!-
rounding night; and as man's
natural
upwards, the American negro, partially civ
shudders with horror as he looks back on the div;ir
abodes ' of barbarism from which ho has eseaiw
i
Then,.Avhere can he go when acbident orjcirai
stances make him free ? Will, hi not find k;;
to his taste in Mexico ? Ilerehe 4an be a free ma
among free men not so far abovd
the Anglo-Americans ; here is a
his level as ,u
bhinate suited t
his nature, occupations proper for his disjositi.:.
and acquirements, and associates .with conge::L.
manners andsentiments.
The half-breeds, peons-, leperos,
ccc, &
will r-
ceivc iiim into the bosom of their
Isociety ; andjlii..
amalgam of, semi-barbarous negroes, tame Indian
mulattoes, and mongrels of all natjions will live
der a government exactly adapted jto such a jH'.ipl-.'
while their- vicenage to the Angl(j-Americaits, v'i
tend gradually to elevate them in the scale of bcinj ..
Then let slavery go to California md to Texas; L;
it line all tlie border country betweeu us -and tlia; ", ;..
nation, to which alone the negi-o can lok;it'L
pleasure when hoping and expecting freedom,
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INCREASING INTEREST IN EUROPEAN Q
V POLITICS.
are vastly more important to ni republicans tlm
formerly ; and a reader of the city newspapers may.
readily suppose that there is a cohtinuaUup-heaviiij
aftjoBg the masses in the old World. . In this cas
the. wikJb is partly father to the thought ; and an .
additional anJ chief cause of this constant expecta
tion of explosions, OM-,the others side of the Atlan-
tic, ii the annihilation or spto hy steam. - We arc
placed, as it were, on the very j borcfons of the oU . '
countries; we laeaf from them several times a
week, and our enterprising editors have' correspon
dents in all their cities.- It is the business of these
correspondents to see convulsions and revolutiona- "
ry movements ; and it is the wonder of our people,
now that they are close neighbors of despotic gov
ernments, that such things- can be quietly borne, i
If we were side-by-side with China We would be
perpetually looking for revolutions there; whije .
countries far distant from us are not suppsed to
change at all. When we were farther off from
Europe we did notook for. revolutions there; aud it
does seem toi us that there is tiow as little pc-os-pect
of repyublicanism there as there was a century .
ago. The French' were always revolutionary; 1
but that revolution there does notjmean democracy
we have lately had overwhelming evidenced Seven
eights of the people have voted to change a republic
into a military Dictatorship : lmw "many other na
tions m Europe would vote differently- Our peo
ple are getting a-head of events!; their good wishes
for degraded humanity abroad makes trhem -see
things through, a vastly magnifying medium, -The
time is not yet for xp publieahism in Europe ; and p
a premature attempt by foreigners to fasten it on a
people not prepared for it, will defeat the very end (
in view, put a stop to the progress of frqe fninciples,
which our example is fostering.and end in the de- -structjon
of liberty on both sides of the Atlantic.
The masses in Europe are in the condition of a
patient stowly recovering from a long and, danger- ,
ous fever; theif safety depends on a careful nurs- ;
ing, and their progress up will be slow and difficult ;
Health and strength cannot be ; forced on the inva
lid ; and the attempt to put . him directly on his
feet by cramming him with rich strong diet, will
push him at onice into the jpave.
Impatience is the bane of our people ; and well I
and vigorous, themselves tliey cannot understand
how it is possible for longkliseasd hunranity ia
Europe to'advanee so slowly from its confinement.
We ought to recollect that! only Omnipotence can
say to ..tlie s ick, Take up tliy . bed and walk." j -
A NEW FEATURH.
It is our purpose to furnish all the information
to be obtained, in regard-to :the progress of educa"
tion in NolctCarolina ; and j with this view we in- ,
tend to publish accounts of the condition and ope
ration of the CommonSehodl system, in the sever
al counties. We expect to give the names of the
Superintendent and of. their Chairmen, with ab- i
straets of the reports, shewirg the number of chil
dren at school, the number of school districts, a
mount of taxes laid, &c, &c J . '
Our object will be, First, ti let the friends of ed
ucation see what progress it is making ; and Second,
to excite emulation and rivalry among the different
counties j '
.In the mean time we ask bur friends not to be
sparing jof communications containing information .
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