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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 30, 20 February 1863, Page 3

Nuxs and Monks. — Sister Perpe.tua was an ordinary village girl, a clumsy sister of charity, who had entered the service of Heaven just as she would have taken a cook's place. This type is not rare for the monastic orders gladly accept this clumsy peasant clay, which can easily be fashioned iuto a Capuchin friar or an Ursuline nun ; and these rusticitiesare employed in the heavy work of devotion. The transition from a drover to a Carmelite is no hard task ; the common substratum of village and cloister ignorance is a ready made preparation, and at once places the conntryman on a level with the monk. Widen the blouse a little and you have a gown. — Les Miscrablcs, by Victor Hugo. The New York correspondent of the " Times'" referring to his' last letter to Ihe dismissal of General M'Clellan fiom the chief command of the army of the Potomac, writes: — Genera! Burnsidc. who has been nominateil, some say temporarily, others permanently, to the command, is in his 40i.1i year, a eoMier l>v education, and one of the most popular commanders whom the war has produced. He is not prominent as a poliiieian. He has twice belore <1c clined the appointment, basing his refusal mainly on the fur superior fitness of M/Clellai^and partially on personal motives of private friendship for that general, iln less he shall obtain a speedy victory, which is so unlikely as to be all but impossible, he, too, will have to go into winter quarters, and suffer week by week, and day by day, a diipping of the little rain drops of detraction on the rock of his popularity, which will wenr it aw^y before the spring. Heis, of course, qti te aware of Ihe danger in which the army is pi wed by thesuldfn removal of its commander. The Confederates are not lilcely to miss the opportunity of striking a blow, if the weather and the state of the roads and riveisuill allow, and should be induced by the clamour of? the " » )n to Richmond" fanatics to follow llie retreating army of General Lee towards Gordonsville — which it is Lee's evident intention he should do — General " Stonewall" Jackson and General Stuart may appear before Washington, nnd again alarm the country for the safety of the capital and the person of the President. Such a hocus pocus as the simultaneous occupation of .Richmond by the Federals, and of Washington by the Confederates, would be an amusing incident in this dreary war, and might incline men's minds to ideas of pacification by the sheer force of its absurdity.