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Rev. Professor Stevens.
The New York Express , of a late date, thus no
tices Dr. Stevens’ acceptance of the rectorship of St.
Andrew’s Church.
Rev. Dr. Stevens, of Georgia, (an active member
of the late General Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, held here,) has accepted the unan
imous call of St. Andrew's Church, in Philadelphia,
to become its pastor, and will enter upon his duties
in August. He is one of the most able clergymen,
of his connection, in the country.
The departure of our friend will be deeply felt and
regretted in this community, where his fitness for the
responsible posts he now occupies is so well known,
that all are ready to acknowledge the difficulty of
supplying his place. That he resigns a field for use
fulness and for honorable dist inction, none can doubt;
and we are well aware that it must cost him no ordi
nary emotion to bring to so unexpected a close his
valuable and important labors and relations in the
college and church at this place. We know, how
over, that there are considerations higher by far than
personal interest, and to such has Dr. Stevens yield
ed in accepting the earnest and repeated call of the
vestry of St. Andrew’s Church.
He will leave in August for his new home, and
will bear with him the best wishes of his friends for
his happiness and usefulness in a field of duty conse
crated by the faithful labors of the pious Bedell.
Paper Manufactory.
It is always a pleasant task to record the evidences
of progress among our people, and as sucli we regard
‘the establishment of a Paper Mill in this immediate
vicinity. Messrs. Chase & Linton, with praise
worthy energy, have commenced this enterprise and
bo hope, in the ensuing Fall, to print the Litera
ry Gazette on paper manufactured at home. Suc
cess to this, and every similar undertaking at the
.South, say we.
Daguerreotypes.
Wo do but an act of justice to the gentlemen whose
card appears in our paper, when we say that his pic
tures are among the best specimens of photography
we have ever seen. They “ come out,” to use a
technical phrase, with great distinctness of outline,
and with much delicacy of effect.
It is oue of the features of the age that a man can
bo daguerreotyped —reproduced instantaneously, as it
were! Well do we recollect the first attempts at
photography in this country, made by Professor
Morse ; and until recently, we had a miniature of
ourself taken with one of his first instruments —so
fearfully dark and dim that we never suffered it to
appear without relating its history. Rapid indeed
have been the strides to excellence made by the pro
fessors of this Art —for now a good daguerreotype is
little, if any, inferior in delicacy to a line engraving,
while in the mere likeness it is of course unequalled.
Dr. Bushnell proposes to establish a permanent
Gallery here for the practice of his art, and we hope
ho may be successful.
Our Present Number
Is sent to friends and acquaintances in various
sections of the country where we have been un
able to have direct communication with them, and
who we have felt assured would take an interest in
the enterprise. If any one to whom this and the
next number are sent does not wish to be considered
as a subscriber we shall be glad to receive intimation
of it by the return of the number, marked “Gazette,”
Athens. We do not, of course, intend to oblige our
friends to take our Journal, in any case, but we wish
to afford them an opportunity of so doing—and the
method of refusal is so simple that we freely adopt
this plan of soliciting their aid.
Fellows’ Wadsworth & Cos.
We invite the attention of all who are engaged in
tho sale of Watches, Jewelry and Rich Fancy
Goods, to the advertisement of the above New York
House. A personal acquaintance with the gentle
men composing the firm, enables us to speak of them
with pleasure, and to commend not only their cour
tesy, but their taste and their vast facilities in every
department of their business.
Our Grateful Acknowledgments
Are due and herein tendered to our brethren of
the South, who have so cordially greeted our propo
sals to establish this Journal ; and bespoke for us the
warm and active sympathy of Southern people. We
hope to merit the approbation they have so freely
advanced. Without designing to make invidious
distinctions we should yet do injustice to our own
feelings if we did not, in this connection, assure our
esteemed friends of the “ Republic” and of the “Sa
vannah Georgian,” that their earnest encouragement
and their good wishes have cheered our hearts and
strengthened our hands for the task before us.
Notioes of Louis Blanc’s Ten Years in Paris,
and several other books, are unavoidably crowded
from “ Our Book Table” this week.
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Our Sosstp Column.
Welcome, dear reader, yea, thrice welcome art
thou, this balmy morning in May, to a seat by our ‘
side, where it will be our delight, if thou art not cvn- j
ical, to amuse thee with our careless gossip. Wt
down then —there ! on that mossy knoll, which is hill
in the shade of the old oak, and hear what thy garru
lous friend has to say. Peradventure there may be
something to make thee glad or merry, and if, on the ;
other hand, it should make thee sad, still will it be |
well; for sadness is the forerunner of wisdom. And
now tell us, as t hou wouldst tell a bosom friend, what
thinkest thou of the first number of the Southern
Literary Gazette I Speak plainly, as if the Editor;
; thereof, were very deaf or away. ‘An excellent issue
he fcas made’ eh I Well! thy judgement is indispu
tably excellent—and we would endorse thy verdict,
if it would not be set down to the score of vanity, and
we are not quite old enough yet, to be allowed to lie
vain as well as garrulous. How happy it would make j
i us if we knew that this was the verdict of all those
who have read our first number! We have not done
all we wished to do however. Some very kind and
cherished friends whose assistance we hoped for in
getting it up, were not able to be present. This we
deeply regretted; but as they will yet come, we shall
not complain. We begun, too, in somewhat too
much haste—as some of the materiel was delayed a
week beyond our expectations, and it came barely “in
season to enable us, with great diligence, to be punc
tual to the appointed day, for our appearance. Is not
our Journal beautifully printed, and are w t c not deep
ly indebted therefor, td our friend Mr. W heler,
whose taste controls that department I Ilis share in
the credit belonging to our appearance, is certainly
not small. Rut thou art actually dropping asleep in
the midst of our prating. Well, well—we did not
think so soon to weary thee. But sleep on while we
look after some little matters that devolve on us.
.... [After a brief interval the Editor resumes
his gossip the gentle reader having finished his
short nap.] . . . . Passing a few moments since into
our office, and overlooking me MS. which our excel
lent superintendent was putting into type, he re
marked that a word had just suggested to him a
conundrum, the merit of which he would allow us
to estimate after we had discovered the answer: —
“Why is a cunning man like a henpecked hus
band!” With the aid of his MS. we were not
long in replying: Beecause he is shrewd; and had
not Mr. W been a bachelor, we should cer
tainly have told him that be was shrewed himself!
.... Dear reader, have you not laughed heartily i
over the capital sketch by the lamented Hood, enti
tled “Black, White and Brown;” and do you not think
it an excellent hit at the pseudo philanthropy of those
people who, in their pious horror of slavery, refuse to
eat sugar or wear cotton goods! By the way,- the di
lemma of the poor Yorkshireman with his mouth half
full of the horrid ‘ black dose’ of Miss Morbid, reminds
us of an incident in the table-life of the celebrated
Ethan Allen. During bis capt ivity in England, which
lasted nearly all the period of the R evolutionary War,
he was dining on one occasion at the house of a no
bleman. Among tho rarities on the table, were
pickled olives; and Allen being invited to take one
of them did so, and transferred it at once to his mouth.
The taste of the morceau proving by no means agree
able, he supposed, from the evident popularity of the
viand, that he had unfortunately taken a spoiled one,
and he thought to make it palatable by taking anoth
er with it. He therefore put a second in his mouth,
but that, too, was bitter. He tried a third, and by
this time there was no “room to let” in his mouth.
In this dilemma he turned to a lady on his right hand,
and exclaiming,with his wonted profanity —“Madam,
by your permission, I will put these cursed things
down there;” he ejected the disagreeable trio from
his mouth on to the floor at his feet ! Speaking of
Et han Allen, as Ollapod was used to say, we are again
reminded of a similar mishap that befel a worthy of
the name of Billy Robertson, generally known in the
vicinity of Waynesboro, in this State, as “Black
Billy.” Dining one day at the table d’hote, and
seated next to the hostess, he was helped to soup.—
Calling for pepper, he took from the castors the cruet
of cayenne, a plentiful supply of which fell on his al
j most boiling pot age. He had no sooner imbibed a
generous spoonful of the twice-heated fluid, than he
discovered the imposibility of his swallowing it, and
after rolling it about in his mouth with commendable
diligence for some seconds, he finally received the un
welcome deposit in his pocket handkerchief, and
turning to the lady, exclaimed with great, gravity—
I “ There Madam, any other darned fool than me,
would have swallowed that stuff!” .... Louis
Phillipe’s recent departure from his throne and from
his country, probably affords the best instance, on
record, of taking French leave ! .... In our next
number we shall commence a regular department,
under the head of “ Notices to Correspondents.”-
| For the present week the few words we have to say
may not be amiss in this column Wc have
; received, from our old and very welcome contribu
j tor, M. E. L., the story of “Libussa’s Lamp,”
and shall speedily present it to our readers
To the proposition of E. M. we say most decidedly—
No ! And now, dear reader, adieu until our next.
<Dur 3300fc Static.
The Life of the Chevalier Bayard, “ Ihe Good
Knight, sans peur et sans reproche .” By W. Gil
more Simms. One vol. 12mo. pp. 400. New \ork:
Harper & Brothers.
Mr. Simms has given ui a very pleasant volume in
the Life of Bayard, and one for which we think the
youth of our country should cordially thank him. —
The history of the Chevalier was full of incident and
adventure, and his character and career, beautifully
illustrate the power of early virtuous training. Bay
ard had a good mother, and this perhaps is the grand
secret of his distinguished excellence, making him
justly entitled to the description sans peur et sans
reproche. We have read with deep interest, the
chapters of this book, and commend it cordially to
those who desire to receive both instruction and
amusement from what they read. It is well suited
for the family circle, and affords admirable lessons
for the young. We have given in another place a
chapter, from which the interest and merit of the
work may be fitly estimated. The Harpers have is
sued the work in a very neat and tasteful style. It
is illustrated with fine wood cuts.
The Boys’ Treasury of Sports, Pastimes and
Recreations. With nearly 400 Engravings.—
One vol. lfirno. 412 pp. Philadelphia: Lea &
Blanchard.
How vividly this book recalls to our mind the
‘ scenes of our childhood,’ by its delightful pictures of
the in-door and out-door sports in which we were wont
to participate. We have an English copy of the vol
ume now, and it stirs the blood in our veins whenever
we look over it. The American edition is very beau
tiful, having all the illustrations of the original. It
has been somewhere said, and we think not without
justice, that “we have no boys in this country.”—
Our youth pass at once from childhood to manhood,
or, at least, to its appearance. They become men
in manners, too early, and know nothing at all of the
heathful, invigorating delights of the long season of
English boyhood. For their sakes we would it were
otherwise. And we commend to parents who wish
to have their children grow up into well developed
manhood, in its proper time, to protract and throw
all possible charms around the season of early youth
To this end let them select for their next holiday
gilt to their boys, the handsome volume under notice.
Chambers’ Miscellany of Useful and Enter
taining Knowledge. Edited by Robert Cham
bers. No. 1. 16‘mo. Boston: Gould, Kendall &
Lincoln.
This is a sac simile reprint of the Scottish edition,
and the publishers will unquestionably do t he public
a service by issuing the whole series in semi-monthly
numbers, as they propose. When a copy of the
work, as far as issued in Scotland, fell into our hands
recently, we regarded it as a great acquisition to our
library ; and we are sure every intelligent reader will
avail himself of the opportunity now afforded him, of
purchasing the whole senes, at 2d cents pervolume!
Each volume contains several complete works—either
perfect or abridged—and certainly either of them is
well worth the price of the whole. A\ e hope the
worthy publishers will sell tens of thousands of the
work, and we are actuated in making this wish, by
a consideration of the public good rather than theirs.
Valentine Vox, or the Adventures of a Ven
triloquist. By Henry Cockton. Philadelphia:
Carey & Jlart.
The publishers have supplied us with anew Edi
tion of this very amusing volume. It is probably too
familiar to our readers to require our saying more
than this. It is a work combining much philosophi
cal observation, with incidents of the most laughable
description. A perusal of it could not fail to “ shake
the cobwebs out of a man’s brain.”
I he Conquest of California and New Mexico;
By the forces of the United States, in she years
IS Ki & ’47. By James M. Cutts. Anew Edition.
Philadelphia : Carey & llart.
j. iiis is the title ot a volume of nearly 300 pages,
illustrat ed with engravings, plans of bat Me, The
narrative is simple, and embraces outlines of the are
# in
ogiaphical ciiid historical fcuturßs of the country 5 in
connection with the movements of the American Ar
my, in the recent campaign.
C.esar De Bello Galljco Philadelphia: Lea &
Blanchard.
This is one of a series of classical volumes, edited
by Drs. Schmilz &. Zuinpt. The original edition
was issued in Edinburgh, and has obtained great pop
ularity there, from the beauty of the text, closely
imitated in the American copy—and the value of the
annotations. We commend it to our classical readers.
Dombey & Son. Complete in one vol., with illus
trations. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard.
Doubtless thousands of eager readers have devoured
the concluding numbers of this admirable romance,
and the suspense in which they have been kept for
nearly a year, now ended-they will probably re-peruse
it with increased interest and gratification. It is one
ol the very best works that Dickens has ever written,
and its popularity is attested by the fact that there
aie five American editions, besides newspaper re
prints.
JEfie &rts ana Sciences.
A New Telegraph.
Mr. Bain, an English gentleman claims to have
invented anew Magnetic Telegraph, which possesses
in the opinion of competent judges, such decided ad
vantages over Professor Morse’s instrument, as to
leave no doubt that the latter will be completely
superceded by it. The performances of Mr. Bain’s
Telegraph are described as ‘surprising,’ and its chief
superiority, to all other instruments, consists in its
greater rapidity of operation. Other advantages
are claimed for it, but shey are not yet described.
It is already patented in England, and in extensive
use there. The patent for the United States is al
ready applied for, and a line will be established be
tween New York and Boston, as soon as it is secured.
We shall attempt very briefly to describe the differ
ence between Bain’s and Morse’s Telegraph. Tho
latter is probably familiar to many of our readers,
who are aware that the operator, at one extremity
of a line, has to write each letter in succession ; and
for every word that he communicates he must make
a certain unvarying combination of dots. Os course
intelligence is transmitted only as fast as he can
make these combinations.
With Bain’s instrument, however, a different
method is pursued, and a division of labor among
ten, twenty or m me operators will diminish the time
of communication in the exact ratio of the person#
employed in writing. The writing is performed as
usual by a combination of dots, but these are made bv
a simple instrument upon strips of paper, and the
whole message is thus written out by one or by a
score, on one or twenty strips of paper.
The perforated strips are then wound upon a me
tallic cylinder, with a delicate style, so adjusted that
its point can fall into the perforations and touch the
cylinder. The rod and cylinder both being connec
ted with the Battery, the electric circuit will flow
through a circuit thus formed wherever the style
touches the cylinder. When it passes over the un
pierced portions of paper, no current flows, since the
paper breaks the circuit. Now if, at the other end of
the route, a similar cylinder is wound with blank
paper, and a style, chemically prepared, so adjusted
as to rest upon it ; whenever the circuit is formed on
the first cylinder, the blank paper at the other end
will receive a corresponding mark; and when the
first style passes over the intact strip no mark will be
produced. In this way the message to be transmit
ted can be sent with astonishing rapidity—as fast, in
deed, as the prepared strips can be rolled oft’ the
cylinder.
We may have failed to make this subject very
clear to our readers, as it is difficult to explain scien
tific processes in words. It will enable many of them,
however, to estimate rightly the advantages claimed
foi Mr. Bain’s Instrument.
We must not omit to remark, in this connection,
that Professor Morse, through his agent, Amos Ken
dall, Esq., claims to have originated the system ot
marking, adopted by Mr. Bain, and to have entered
a caveat for it in 1847. At present the two inventors,
therefore, are contending for the right of patent to
this method ot marking, and of course for the honor
of the discovery. We can only say “ Justitia fiat,
codum ruit.”
2Tfje American s)rcss.
John Donkey.
Do not. suppose, dear reader, that there is any thing
implied in the juxtaposition of the above names, for
although John Donkey does honor to the American
weekly L rcss, we are far from hinting that the press
has anything in common wiih the common Donkey.
We set out simply to say that John Donkey certain
ly does bray charmingly—and we have laughed,
many a time, a capital treble to his bass performances,
that would not permit us to pursue the simple tenor
of our usual sober way, but has frequently placed a
bar to our serious efforts, and occasioned us to lose
time in paying attention to his siugular crotchets. —
Let us pause awhile, however, to say a word in be
half of John Donkey that we hope to have occasion
to repeat.
He is decidedly the best of the American imitators
of “Punch,” that King, or, as the Chartists would like
us to write it perhaps, that President of Fun. There
is always more or less sterling wit in Donkey's leaves,
which are not cabbage leaves, dear reader, by any
means ! and we would as soon miss our dinner as u>
lose the sound of his melodious voice, or the sight of
his waggish—face. May his y -ears he long!
Neal’s Saturday Gazette.
This is decidedly the best Family Newspaper pub
lished in the country, and one which we can, and do,
with sinere pleasure, commend to the public patron
age. It attained a high position during the life-time
of its late amiable Editor, Joseph C. Neal, Esq.,
and it has lost nothing of its excellence under the
joint editorship of Mrs. Neal and Mr. Peterson. —
Pure and select in every department, and, withal,
presenting more original matter than any of its con
temporaries, it is just the paper needed for th*
family circle. It is a large and handsomely printed
sheet, at only two dollars per annum.