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THE SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE
IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
BY WILLIAM C. RICHARDS.
OFFICE ON COLLEGE AVENUE-OVER THE P. O.
Terms: Two Dollars per annum, to be paid strict
ly in advance. If payment is not made within the
first six months of a term of subscription, the price
will be Two Dollars and Fifty Cents ; and, it de
layed until the end of the year Three Dollars.
Advertisements relating to Literature and the
Arts, and a few others of a select nature, will be pub
lished on this page of the “ Literary Gazette ” at the
customary rates. Business Cards, (of five lines and
under,) will be inserted one year for Five Dollars.
CORRESPONDENTS
Furnishing articles by contract, or solicited favors,
will please mark their letters with their initials as it
will be a general rule not to take unpaid letters from
the post-office unless they are so marked. Commu
nications of whatever nature must be addressed to
Win. C. Richards. Anonymous communications
will receive no attention. If a writer desires to pub
lish without name or with a nom de plume, he must
still furnish the Editor with his proper name, who
will of course observe a proper secresy. Writers will
please send fair ms., written on one side of the sheet
only.
TRAVELING AGENTS.
Rev. W. Richards, Samuel P. Richards,
Charles F. White, Robert H. Richards,
J. J. Richards.
—JUST RECEIVED AT THE —
llTmiivsffsiilty 8 8 2
College Avenue, Athens , Georgia.
Miscellaneous Books,
Miss Martineau’s Household Education;
Dodd’s Life and Beauties of Shakspeare ;
Mrs. Sigourney’s Young Ladies Offering ;
Young Man’s Offering, by various Authors;
Young Lady’s Book of Good Examples ;
Macaulay’s England, Boston edition, cheap ;
Memoir of Mrs. Judson, by Fanny Forrester;
Festus ;
Simon Suggs ;
Major Jones’ Travels and Courtship ;
Marryatt’s Novels, complete, [in single vols ] ;
Carey’s Past, Present and Future ;
Wirt’s Life of Patrick Henry ;
Watson’s Dictionary of Poetical Quotations ;
Stable Talk and Table Talk;
Clatter’s Diseases of Horses ;
Do Cattle Doctor;
Sargeant’s Temperance Tales ;
Shaw’s Outlines of English Literature ;
Religio Medici;
Miss Strickland's Queens of England.
Professional Books,
The undersigned, having made large additions to
his stock of Professional Books, offers them to the
profession, for Cash, at lower prices than hitherto
sold. Among the Medical Works, are —
Meig’s Females;
Mayne’s Dispensatory;
Thompson’s Sick Room :
Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine, 4 vols;
Oarpenter’s Elements of Physiology ;
Do Human do
Dunglison’s do
Do Therapeutics, &c.;
Do Human Health ;
Do New Remedies;
Do Practice;
Do Medical Student;
Watson’s Practice;
Wood’s do
Eberle’s do
Taylor on Poisons;
Do Medical Jurisprudence;
Trail’s do
Warren’s Etherization and Child-birth;
Griffith’s Medical Botany ;
Wood & Bache’s U. S. Dispensatory.
Christison & Griffith’s do
Gardener’s Chemistry;
Druitt’s Surgery;
Morton’s Human Anatomy;
Horner’s U. S. Dissector;
Do Anatomical Atlas;
Dewee’s Midwifery;
Do Females;
Ashwell’s do
Meigs’ Colombat;
Hoblyn’s Medical Dictionary ;
Hooper’s do do
Sir A. Cooper on the Breast;
Gunn’s Domestic Medicine ;
Ewell’s Medical Companion;
Wilson on the Skin ;
Budd on the Liver;
Hope on the Heart;
Latham do do
Guthrie on the Urinary Organs ;
Clymer on Fevers;
Curling on the Testis ;
Chapman on Fevers ;
Pancoast’s Wistar’s Anatomy;
Goddard’s Wilson’s do
Vogel’s do
Mrs. Gore’s Anatomy, for Women ;
Brodie’s Select Surgical Works ;
Liston’s Elements of Surgery ;
Do and Mutter’s Surgery ;
Norris & Ferguson’s do
Muller’s do
Castle’s Manual of do
Jones’ Opthalmic Medicine and Surgery ;
Dufton on the Ear ;
VValsho on the Lungs ;
Esquirol on Insanity ;
Chapman on Viscera;
Williams’ Pathology;
Do Principles of Medicine, [Clymer];
Churchill’s Midwifery;
Ellis’ Formulary.
Call, before purchasing elsewhere, at the < Diver
sity Bookstore, No. 2, College Avenue, \ 1 r the
Nowton House.
W. N. WHITE.
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PROSPECTUS
—OF—
RICHARDS 9 WEEKLY GAZETTE:
BEING anew and much enlarged series of the
“Southern Literary Gazette,” —the only week
ly Journal, South of the Potomac, devoted to Lit
erature and the Arts in general —and designed for
the Family Circle.
The Proprietor begs leave to announce that, on
Saturday 7 , the sth of May 7 , he will issue the first num
ber, for the second y 7 ear, of this popular and well es
tablished paper—the name and form of which he
has changed, to enlarge the scope of its observation,
and to otherwise increase its attractions.
Less exclusively devoted, than heretofore, to
literature, the arts, and the sciences,
it will be the aim of its Proprietor to make it, in
every respect,
a choice family newspaper;
“ as cheap as the cheapest, and as good as the best.”
Utterly 7 discarding the notion that a Southern Jour
nal cannot compote with the Northern Weeklies, in
cheapness and interest,
RICHARDS’ WEEKLY GAZETTE
shall be equal, in mechanical execution, to any of
them, and, in the variety, freshness and value of its
contents, second to none. Its field will be the
world, and it will contain, in its ample folds,
EVERY SPECIES OF POPULAR INFORMATION.
Especial attention will be paid to the subject of
SCHOLASTIC AND DOMESTIC EDUCATION.
Numerous articles, original and selected, from the
i best sources, will be published weekly, on
AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE,
and these departments, as, indeed, all others, will be
frequently
ILLUSTRATED BY FINE WOOD-CUTS.
Every number will contain careful and copious sum
maries of the latest
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS,
in Commercial, Civil, Political, and Ecclesiastical
Affairs. At the same time, there shall be nothing
in its columns that can be considered either Partizan
or Sectarian.
A CORPS OF CORRESPONDENTS
will contribute —some regular, and others occasion
al—Letters from the Northern Cities, and from va
j rious parts of Europe.
In the first number will bo commenced the publi
cation of
MRS. CAROLINE LEE HENTz’s PRIZE TALE,
i entitled “Percy, or the Banished Son;” and, at
the same time, wUI appear, entire,
A BEAUTIFUL SOUTHERN POEM,
entitled “ Waehullah,” for which the Prize oi
Twenty Dollars was awarded to Mrs. C. W. Du-
Bose, of Sparta —the Leila Cameron of the Gazette.
Subsequently, the second Prize Tale and Poem will
appear, with many choice articles offered in compe
tition for the prizes, and commended by the Com
mittee of Award.
The following distinguished writers will contrib
ute to the Journal:
Win. Gilmore Simms, LL. D.,
Hon. Robeit M. Charlton,
J. M. Legare,
T. Addison Richards, Esq.,
Charles Lanman, Esq.,
Hon. B. F. Porter ,
Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz,
Mrs. Joseph C. JYeal,
Mrs. E. F. Ellett,
Miss Mary E. Lee,
Caroline Howard,
Mrs. C. W. Dußose,
Miss C. W. Barber,
besides many others, whose names are highly cs
i teemed in the “ World of Letters.”
TERMS:
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CLUBS:
Os three supplied for - $5 00
Os five for p - - 8 00
Os ten for ‘ 15 00
Os fifteen for - 20 00
Os twenty for 25 00
Os fifty for - - 60 00
(tCHAII orders must be accompanied with the
cash, and should be addressed, post-paid, to
WM. G. RICHARDS,
Athens, Ga.
{JCf*lndividuals, or Clubs, forwarding their sub
j scriptions at once, shall receive the Southern Liter
ary7 Gazette to the end of the first volume, in addi
tion to a full year of “ Richards’ Weekly Gazette,”
; so that they can secure a weekly paper during four
teen months for two dollars !
N. B. —Editors who will copy, or notice fully,
this Prospectus, shall receive the Gazette regularly,
and also a beautiful Juvenile Magazine, entitled
“The Schoolfellow.”
March 3d, 1849.
—AND—
DAGUERRE O T Y P E S .
Mrs. E. 11. BLANCHARD would respectfully
announce to the citizens of Athens that she
has taken rooms at the Planters’ Hotel, where
she will he happy to wait upon them in the lino of
her profession.
Mrs. B. and Son are also prepared to take
i DAGUERREOTYPES in a superior style, at pri
ces which shall defy competition.
A large assortment of CASES, GOLD and
PLATED LOCKETS, PINS and BRACELETS,
on hand.
i Inst ruction in DRAWING & PAINTING. Pri
vate lessons, if desired.
< Athens, March 10, 1849. 43—3 t
GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN.
BOOK-SELLERS & PUBLISHERS,
AV 51), Washington St, Boston.
NEWTON HOUSE,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
THE Subscriber, as proprietor of this new and
well-furnished liotei, expects (from long expe
rience, a disposition to please, and attention to bu
siness,) to make it just such an establishment as the
public wants. LOVICK P. THOMAS.
January 6, 1849. 1 ly
lIW BOOK STOJBE,
ON COTTON AVENUE, MACON, GEO
HTMIE undersigned have opened, as above, an es
_L tablishment for the sale of
BOOKS, STATIONERY, and FANCY GOODS,
and will keep on hand a full and choice assortment of
School and Miscellaneous Books,
together with Plain and Fancy Stationery, Music
for the Piano Forte, ko. All of which they will sell,
at Wholesale or Retail, at the lowest market prices.
(o=* Orders for Law, Medical and Theological
Books, respectfullv solicited
J. J. k S. P. RICHARDS.
Macon, Nov. 4, 1848.
Books, Stationery and Music.
JAMES McPHERSON & CO., beg leave to in
form their friends and the public that they have
greatly increased their supplies of
SCHOOL AND MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS,
and are daily receiving, direct from New York and
Philadelphia, choice works in every department of
Literature and the Arts, together with
PLAIN AND FANCY STATIONERY,
of every description, both American and Foreign.
They have also a fine supply of
CENTRE, SIDE AND SUSPENSION SOLAR LAMI S^
made by Cornelius & Cos., the best in the world.
Atlanta, Ga., February 10, 1848.
Dissolution of Partnership.
rpHE Copartnership heretofore existing between
_L the subscribers was by mutual consent dissolved
on the 31st ultimo, and the business will be hereafter
conducted by Mr. WM. N. WHITE, in his own
name, and on his own account. Mr. White is also
authorized to settle the unfinished business of the
concern, and all parties indebted to it, are urgently
requested to make early settlement of their ae
counts* WM. C. RICHARDS,
WM. N. WHITE.
a
The undersigned tenders his sincere and grateful
acknowledgements to his friends for the patronage
so liberally bestowed upon him in the Book business
during the past four years, and begs to inform them
that he has sold out his entire interest to bis late
partner, Mr. Wm. N. White, who will continue the
business in all its branches, and for whom he earn
estly solicits the continued favors of his friends and
the public, assured, as he is, that they will be emi
nently merited. WM. C. RICHARDS.
Athens, Feb. 1, 1849.
MUSIC ! —New Music just received at the
UNIV. BOOK-STORE.
THE undersigned begs leave to inform the pat
rons and correspondents of the late firm of W.
C. Richards, and Cos , that he will continue the busi
ness on his own account at the store
NO 2 ON COLLEGE AVENUE,
immediately under the Newton House, and hopes by
unremitting attention 1o secure a continuance of
their confidence and support. Those indebted to the
firm, are urgently requested to settle their accounts
with him immediately, that the books oftheconcern
may be closed. WM. N. WHITE.
Athens, Feb. 1, 1849.
To Teachers ami Merchants!
THE undersigned beg leave to inform Teach
ers and merchants in the Cherokee region of Ga,
that they are prepared to furnish
SCHOOL-BOOKS OF EVERY KIND
at the lowest market rates —at wholesale or retail
They pledge themselves to sell at the Macon or Au
gusta prices, and to keep on hand a good assortment
of the latest editions. They will also procure—at
the shortest notice —any new text book at the re
quest of their customers.
All orders by mail executed as promptly and
cheaply, as if made in person.
JAMES McPHERSON & CO.
Atlanta, Feb. 10, 1819. 40
IMPIIOVED PLAN.^
MR. IIAYDEN respectfully announces to the
citizens of Athens, that lie will give a thor
ough course of lessors in Penmanship, on the Semi-
Angular System, during which the principles of
writing on this plan will lie taught. This system is
more easily acquired and more rapidly written than
any other. The object, in learning to write, is per
manent.impression, and with proper attention on the
part of the pupil, such impression will bo warrented
or no recompense required.
Persons desirous of improving their writing, will
please call at the Newton House this week, where a
great variety of will be exhibited.
March 17. ts 4-5
Jmo. 11. Busiimil
IS nowin receipt of a Superior German Camera,
and will soon return to At lions, prepared to ex
ecute Daguereotypes in a stylo superior to any hith
erto executed in Up: cr Georgia. He will also he
prepaid to work sun -h below his former prices.
Athens, Feb. 16, 1819. 41—3 w.
“GAZETTE 5
St * 6*B s
ESTABLISHMENT !
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Executed with Neatness and Despatch
__ AT THIS OFFICE.
R. J. MAYNARD,
BOOK BINDER
Over the “ Southern Banner” Office, 5
ATHENS, GEOGRIA.
ALBON CHASE,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER I\
Books, Stationery, Fancy Goods, Perfumeru
Paper Hangings, fyc., fyc., fy c ., “’
Opposite the College Campus, and under the South,
cm Banner Office.
Orders filled at the Augusta prices!
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
JAMES McPHERSON & CO ~
DEALERS IN
BOOKS, STATIONER Y, MUSIC AND MT’
SI GAL INSTRUMENTS, FANCY GOOD”
PAPER-HANGINGS, MAPS, & c . & c . kc.
Atlanta, Georgia.
~ WM. N. WHITE*
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BOOK-SELLER,
—AND DEALER IN —
Stationery, Music fy Musical Instruments,
Lamps, Cutlery Fancy Goods, ifc. ifc.
Or ders fi lied at the Augusta rates!
COLLEGE AVENUE, ATHENS, GA.
FELLOWS, WADSWORTH & CO.,
No. 17 Maiden Lane, New-York,
IMPORTERS OF
English and French Watches, Jewelry , Silver
and Plated Ware, Fancy Goods, ifc.
THEY have constantly on hand watches from the
manufactories of Robert Rokell, 31. J. Tobia
<s* Cos., Johnon , Bold-t, Taylor, Jno. Cragg, Wm
3lartm, 31. Tobia, T. F. Cooper and others, as
well as all the varieties of Geneva and Swiss work.
OCr’ A general assortment of Fancy Goods, suited
to the sales of Jewelers, Druggists, and others, Gold
Pens, Allen & Thurber’s Revolving Pistols.
May 13, 1848. Ltf
W. B. CHERRY.
Surgeon fy Ale chan i cal Dentist,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
r>P*Office on Dr. Reese's lot; near the Episcopal CL
HOUSE AND LAND FOR SALE.
THE SUBSCRIBER, intending to move from
the State, offers for sale his House and Land in
the Town of Athens, The Land comprises two hun
dred and ninety-six acres, of which about a hundred
is well wooded, and the rest in good arable condition.
The property is situated in the upper portion of the
Town. The Dwelling is handsome and convenient,
the ont-houses all new, and the whole in perfect re
pair. There is an excellent Spring near the Dwell
ing, and also a fine well of water.
For terms of sale, apply to C. F. McCay, or to
ANDREW BAXTER.
Athens, Oct. 12. 32-ts
CLASSICAL & MATHEMATICAL
MALE SEMINARY.
HHHE Fifth Semi-annual Term of this Institution
X will commence on Monday, January Ist, 1849,
in the building before occupied, to which an adjoin
ing lot has been added for play-ground. The num
ber of pupils and rates of tuition to continue as be
fore. In the reception of applicants to fill vacancies
particular attention lias been given, both in respect
to age and qualification, which will secure a better
classification, and afford time, so as to give History,
(’(imposition and Elocution a sufficient prominence.
\ aeancies, that may occur from dismission, will bo
filled by those who first applv.
A. M. BCUDDER, Principal-
Athens, Ga., Dec. 23, 1848. 33
Hou(hem Mutual Insurance Company*
WM. M. MORTON, AGENT AT ATHENS
urhns Company is now firmly established, and d>-
X iiig an extensive business. Risks will be taken
not only in towns, but in the country, on Dwellings,
Gin-Houses, Mills and Factories.
‘File following parties are among the Btockltf>a
ers of the Company at this Agency : T
Asbury Hull, T. Bradford, Wm W. Clayton, ■ •
S. Linton, Albon Chase, Dr. 11. Hull. Henry
Jr., E. L. Newton, Dr. E. R. Ware, F. Lucas,"■
J. Mays, Y. L. G. Harris, C. B. Lyle, A. J -Brady,
George Pringle, M.- E. McWhorter, D. Holmj
Rev. Dr. Iloyt, L. J. Lampkin, Rev. 8. Landrum,
J. J. Huggins, W. Baynon, T. R. It. Cobb, Dr-f-
M. Beese. Green B. liaygood, W. C. Rmhar s
Cos.. ar.d Wm. M. Morton. .
Parties, desiring to effect insurance on their p
perly in this vicinity, will make application 0
subscriber. WM. M. MORTON
Athens, Nor. 25th, 1848. .... JE.
FERRY & COT
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS tS”
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Trunks, fyc-
HItOAD-STREET, ATHENS, GEORGIA-