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lomething of the kind—why, I can't un
derstand him.
Bass. —Broker, here.
Broker. — I was just thinking, I’ve got a
little note to lift to-day ; and I don’t know
whether 1 can raise $3,000 or not; but I’ll
tun around and see what I can do. But
say, what’s the time 1 (Recognizing
Brown.) How are you Brown ? We
were just talking about you.
Brown. —Broker, I aint in the habit of
doing this sort of thing, but, Bass Anyowe
is hard up. But to cut the matter short,
will you accommodate us 1 ?
Broker. —I’ll tell you, Mr* Brown, I’ve
heard you called me a base deceiver—cut
throat dog—infernal sharp, petty-foggmg
scoundrel ; and shall 1 loan you this mon
ey 1
Brown.— I'll do it again, you paltry, in
significant, shaving rascal; you miserly
squeeze purse, you—
Broker. —XVell, well, don't get up such
a row about it. 1 don’t believe yoa said
So : and I’ll take a mortgage on that lot of
horse flesh of yours.
Brown —
Come on ; in this, there can be no dismay j
The Gen. Brown was telegraphed to-day.
Besides, I hope the the rail road stock will
pay.
(Aside to Hass)
I've sold that lot of horse-flesh, Bassy, ehl
So don’t you think we’ve “stuck ” old Bro
ker, say I— Bon Ton.
EDITOR’S DEPARTMENT.
WM. C. RICHARDS, Editor.
D. H. JACQUES, Assistant Editor.
aufjrns, (Kroraia :
•—■ —e *
Saturday Morning, Oct. 20,1549.
LETTERS FROM THE NORTH.
NO. VIII.
Philadelphia, Oct. Bth, 1849.
Jtlp dear Jacques: I have been passing a
few days in this City, and shall devote this
letter to a brief record of what I have seen;
forewarning you, however, that I have not
sought out its “ lions,” and have taken
things in a very quiet, matter-of-fact way.
Half of my visit, moreover, has been signal
ized by a storm which would have done cred
it to the Equinox, and which, I cannot help
faheying, bears some close relationship to
that tempestuous epoch. The rain fell in
torrents all day on Saturday, ami the city
Wore a most desolate aspect. We, however,
escaped the hurricane which the morning
papers from New York report as having
prevailed in that city—unroofing houses,
uprooting trees, and blowing down churches,
with sundry other extraordinary proceed
ings. Nor have we had one twentieth part
of the mud which our Eastern neighbors
must have revelled in, if I may jmlge from
the state of New York streets during a storm
which prevailed there last Monday.
Philadelphia is a very pleasant city in
pleasant weather—and a brighter morning
has seldom dawned than the present one.—
The first two days of my visit were also
very charming days, and I saw Chesnut
Street in all its glory of gay equipages,
crowded pave , showy windows, and glitter
ing merchandize. One misses here, though
not regretfully, the bustle and bewilder
ment of New York, and feels a relief from
the pressure and excitement so insepcrable
from life in that metropolis.
I have not visited cither the “GirardCol
lege” or “ Fairmount,” as I exhausted them
both in by-gone days. Nor have I even
paid my respects to Bavmtm, who has open
ed a “ curiosity shop” in a somcwlfat showy
building on Chesnut Street, the outer walls
of which are significantly emblazoned with
mammoth sea-cows, giants, wax figures, and
other novelties ! I have not yet heard Mrs.
Fanny Kemble read Shakspcarc—though I
cannot declare myself guiltless of the incli
nation or the intention of doing so. This
gifted lady is very popular with the Phila
delphians, who generally, I believe, sympa
thize with her in those matrimonial difficul
ties which have terminated, at length, in
the divorcement of herself and Mr. Butler.
The English Opera is attracting large au
diences in the city, and two Prima Donnas
arc announced for to-njght, in Norma. One
of them, Miss Rosa Jacques, is an immense
favorite, and Mrs. Seguin, the other, has a
well-earned popularity.
I have looked in upon some of the Edito
rial oorps. I found Fitzgerald, of the
Item, as pleasant as his very clever paper,
and full of genial courtesies, proffered with
out stint. It did me good to see the hearty,
cheerful face of that prince of magazinists,
Mr. Godey, who lie trays, in his glad smile,
the consciousness that he cannot be dis
tanced in the race for popular applause.—
In the office of our namesake, the Gazette,
I met with Mr. Peterson, and improved a
slight acquaintance with him, much to my
gratification. I trust I shall not overstep
the bounds of gjopriety, in recording here
my happiness in meeting with Mrs. Joseph
<■’• Neal, the young and highly gifted asso
ciate of Mr. Peterson in the Editorial con
trol of a paper endeared Jo thousands of
readers by the memory of her husband, who
founded it, cherished it through his life,
and dying, bequeathed it to her care—a be
quest which she is most nobly fulfilling.
While pursuing my rambles among pub
lishers and. printers, I stumbled, quite inci- j
dentally, upon what proved to me the elu- |
cidation of a little mystery. You know that
I expressed my wonder as to who was the I
author of one or two article* published in
the Constitutionalist , and purporting to be
strictures on the History of Georgia, but
whioh were, in reality, only malignant per
sonal attacks upon the author of the “ His- 1
tory.” Well, I find that they were written
by a resident of this city, who has, at this
very moment, an anonymous pamphlet in
press here, but bearing on its title-page the
imprint of Savannah, and pursuing the same
theme with the newspaper articles,, in the
same spirit. As this pamphlet is evidently
designed to issue from Savannah, as a home
thrust upon the History and the Historian
of Georgia, I cannot forbear the duty of ex
posing what looks exceedingly like duplici
ty, in Mr. George Wimberly Jones, the au
thor of these ill-natured strictures. I have
been somewhat enlightened, moreover, ns to
the cause of these attacks upon a work
which, whatever its actual faults may be,
has yet won a cordial meed of praise from
such critics as Walsh, Bryant, Simms, Pal
frey, Hoffman, Judge King, and other dis
tinguished men. W hen the brochure makes
its appearance, I shall probably have the
duty of dealing with it more fully—so that
I will dismiss it for the present.
By the way, I heard Dr. Stevens preach
last night in St. Andrew’s; and although
the weather was extremely unpleasant, the
spacious edifice was well filled. For a church
erected twenty-five years ago, it is an ex
tremely handsome building. The organ is
a superior one, and the music-service was
excellent. lam told that the Doctor is one
of the most popular preachers iu the city.
He is, at present, relieved from a portion of
his clerical duties, in order that he may
prepare the second volume of his History
for the press—a labor in which he is most
closely engaged.
I have made this letter quite long enough,
and will therefore subscribe myself, in the
prospect of a speedy return,
Ever yours, W. C. R.
DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE.
Since our last, we have received the mel
ancholy intelligence of the death of Edgar
A. Poe, which occurred in Baltimore on the
7th inst. Mr. Poe was only thirty-eight
years old. Thus, in the prime of his man-
I hood, another of the “ Children of Song”
j lias suffered the transition we are wont to
! call death ! On the shores of Time, his fin
gers will wake for us the music of his won
! drous harp—“ Nevermore.”
It is hardly necessary to say of the author
| of “ The Raven” and “ Ulalume,” that he
{ was a man of genius. Even those who have
| been most severe in their strictures upon
him and his productions, and who most dis
like his transcendental extravagancies, will
| admit this. That his literary productions
are marked and marred by striking faults,
1 his most ardent admirers will as readily ac
knowledge. But, with all theit faults, it
| is evident that they have won for their au
thor an enviable reputation, as a writer.—
Their faults and their merits are alike orig
inal and peculiar.
It is to be regretted that Mr. Poe’s pow
ers were so often misdirected and misem
ployed. With his genius, learning and
taste, combined with great artistic skill and
extraordinary powers of analysis, he might,
it would seem, have left behind him works
that would have placed him in the front
rank of American writers. As it is, he has
written things that will not be forgotten.
Mr. Poe is said to have been as remarka
ble for his acquirements, as for his genius,
and to have been a man of fine conversa
tional powers, polished manners, and warm
and amiable impulses. But with all the ex
alted powers of transcendent genius, he pos
sessed also the faults and frailties which
too often attend them; but over these we
will cast the veil of charity, remembering
him only as a Scholar, a Critic, and a Poet.
oitr oossip Column.
A Palpable Hit.
The following anecdote we overheard re
cently, in a New England Rail Road car.—
A quiet-looking gentleman being seated at
the table <V hole of one of the hotels in Al
bany, during the session of the Legislature,
was a little annoyed by the excessive dis
play of courtesy among the “ members,”
who continually spoke of, and addressed,
each other, in the customary language of
the legislative hall—as, for example —-“Will
the honorable gentleman from Niagara pass
me the butter”—“ I will thank the honora
ble gentleman from Genesee to hand me the
black pepper”—or “ I will trouble the hon
orable gentleman from Ontario to help me
to a bit of that salmon.” At the first lull in
the storm of “ table talk,” our hero, with a
very grave face, addressed one of the color
ed waiters as follows : “ May I take the lib
erty of asking the honorable gentleman from
Ethiopia to hand me the salt!” It is due to
the good sense of the “ honorable*”, to add,
that the joke was taken in good part, nnd
created a most general and hearty burst of
laughter !
The Difference.
A few evenings since, we were passing
down the North River in one of the steam
boats that ply between Hudson and New
; York. They are slower than the regular
i “ line” boats—and upon this occasion, the
| Fairfield had a heavy freight-barge in tow.
One of the passengers enquired of the C'ap-
I tain if he expected “ to put us in to break
-1 fast ?” and upon receiving a negative reply,
he added—“ Then, of course, you expect to
put breakfast into us 1” Our merriment at
the pun was not at all diminished by the re
collection of a similar one, related of a dis
tinguished professor of Chemistry in the
[ University of Edinburgh. He Was manipu
lating. one day, with oxygen gas, and had
occasion to use some in a large bladder—
India-rubber bags being unknown in those
days. His assistant enquired of him how
j they should get the oxygen into the bladder,
’ to which the professor replied, that there
would bo no difficulty in that, and suggest
ed that it would have been far more perti
nent to have asked how they should get the
bladder into the ox again
I Lame Poets.
; “ Sh:ik-|M’are, Ilyron and Scott, were lame!
poets.”— Exchange.
So are ■, and , and ,
and n score of others, whom we eouhi name. !
but will not, lame poets — so eery lame, that
even their verses limp most painfully. *
Amor—Roma.
Hugh Dougherty, a correspondent of the j
-Veto York Tribune, points to a novel and 1
curious, but rather fanciful, confirmation ;
of the idea that the Church of Rome is Anti- j
Christ—the reverse of the spirit of Love. I
which is the spirit of Christianity. Reverse !
iiiiiii©® waiiiiW ©i3iiii a
the letters of the Latin Amor, and it gives
you Rom a. Reverse the spirit of Love, and
you have the spirit of the Inquisition.
*
Climbing Parnassus.
Mrs. E. Oaks Smith, a Now England poet
ess, has lately, says the I lome Journal, as
cended to the summit of the highest moun
tain in Maine. She is thought to bo the
first women who ever accomplished the feat.
She travelled fifty miles on foot, and “ camp
ed out,” to get up there. This is travelling
for health and enjoyment, with a meaning
The plan of sitting cramped up in a stage
coach, or lolling in a state-room of a steam
er, and calling it travelling, is mere mock
ery. Mrs. Smith’s fifty miles would contain
more incidents of travel, more enjoyment,
than five thousand in the ordinary way.
Another Poet.
A correspondent, who avers that he has
not only paid six months “ superscription”
to the “ gazette,” but has sent us five let
ters, post-paiil, (in this matter lie lias shown
himself a frentleman, if not a scholar,) con
taining “ Compositions” for our paper, com
plains that we take no notice of him or his
productions. To gratify our friend, who
has such an itching to see himself in print,
we will publish two or three stanzas from
one of his “Compositions.” The extract is
from a “ poem” addressed to the Sons of
Temperance. We print it verbatim et lite
ratim et punctuatim: *
“ Tho drunkards to tho Bottle gow tharc trobels
thare benighting .
The girls to the Bottle go thay say thare teeth to
whiteiug
I shanld like to know Dear friends what are tho
Sons of Temperance doing
For if it ante stopted in the bud the girls will bee
Chewing
Thay say young men Tobacco Chew and why not
thay at leasure
Take a little snuff Thay say and l!ub thair teeth
at Pleasure
ower Hickory twigs thay all cut down to use the
poisonaus stuff
and it (’hills my blood to see thair lips stuck fast
with the snuff.”
oitr Cook (fable.
The Singer’s Mawal— For Teachers, Pupils,
and Private Students. By F. A. Adams, A.
M., G. F. Root and J. E. Swcetser. New
York: John Wiley. 1*49.
This little volume has some points of ex
cellence, and will commend itself to the in
telligent teacher of the delightful science of
Vocal Music. It is quite practical in its
method and comprehensive in its scope. —
Designed chiefly as a book for classes, it is
still available to the individual student.—
The early chapters, on the cultivation of
the organs of the voice, are quite an impor
tant feature of the work.
Root & Swketsek's Collection of Church Mu
sic, comprising many of the most popular and
most useful Tunes in common use, together
with a great variety of new and original Psalm
and Hymn Tunes, Sentences, Motells, An
thems, Chants, &c. New York : John Wiley.
1849.
There are so many new Collections of
Church Music, that it is difficult to discrim
inate between them. If, however, the abil
ity of the compilers is any guaranty of tbe
excellence of a music book, the present may
be safely regarded as a valuable addition to
church psalmody. The work contains many
new tunes, and new adaptations of favorite
airs—furnishing a great variety of styles
and effects. The Pcstalozzian method, so
deservedly popular, is the basis of the ele
mentary part of the w-ork. The authors re
fer the student to the “Singer’s Manual,”
prepared by llcv. F. A. Adams, under their
supervision.
The mechanical excellence of the work is
not its least merit, and we hope it will be
come as popular as it deserves to be.
Success in Life. The Merchant. By Mrs. L.
C. Tuthill. New York: Geo. I’. Putnam.—
1850.
Emerson says—
“ One thing is forever good ;
That one thing is—snoeess
and he speaks truly; therefore all aids to
the attainment of success should be eagerly
sought, ami gratefully received. With this
reflection, we opened the attractive-looking
volume, the title of which we have placed at
the head of this article. A friend, in whose
judgment we have great confidence, had
spoken of it in strong terms of commenda
tion, and we therefore expected much grat
! ification in its perusal. We have not been
[ disappointed.
After citing several eminent examples of
Success in Mercantile pursuits, with some
remarks on the Progress of American Com
merce, Mrs. ‘Tuthill proceeds to speak of the
“ Elements of Success,” among which she
includes Knowledge, Integrity, Industry,
Economy, Perseverance, Foresight, Enter
prise, Punctuality, Courtesy, .1 Good Wife,
&c., &c. Let not the reader infer from this
array of common-place themes, that the
book in question is dull and prosy. No
thing can be further from the truth. Eve
ry page is replete with interest, as well as
instruction.
We most cordially commend the work to
young men, and especially to those who are
preparing to seek success and honor in the
paths of Commerce.
We are glud to learn that this volume is
to be followed by five others, on the same
plan, entitled “ The Lawyer,” “ The Me
chanic,” “ The Artist,” “ The Physician,”
and “ The Farmer,” respectively. The re
maining volumes will l>e looked for with
interest. *
FronTenAC: or the Atotarho of the Iroquois. A
Metrical Romance By Alfred li. Street, fine
vol. 12mo, New York: Baker &. Scribner.—
1849.
Sir Walter Scott's genius comiielled us to
admire his exquisite metrical stories, aud
we have, in consequence, a penchant for
such matters. It was, therefore, with inte
rest that We took up Mr. Street's book—nnd
although its throe hundred pages were some
what ominous of weariness, we confess to a
very considerable degree of pleasure in their
perusal. Fi ontenac is a simple tale, based
upon some incidents in the border history
of Canada and New York. It is divided in
to nine cantos, whose sequence is natural,
and the interest of which is agreeably sus
tained. The author is a poet of the daguer
reotype school—skilled in minute scene
painting—fond of details, and elaborating,
sometimes, simple incidents, to the detri
meat of the general effect of his work.—
There are many very beautiful passages in
Frontenac—while, on the other hand, there
are frequent blemishes, especially of versifi
cation, and feeble, common-place diction.—
We have not time nr space, now, to examine
it critically, and shall content ourself with
selecting a random passage or two, as speci
mens of the whole. Here is a picture of In
dian stealth and treachery—describing the
murder of Count Lavergnc :
“ Near and more near, with eyes of flame,
Tbe Indian creeping, creeping, came,
Until he paused and drew
His hatchet; then loan’d quickly back,
And from his clutch iu whirling track
The glittering weapon flew;
It fell iqion tho soldier’s head,
Who, as gushed out a stream of red,
Groaned deep, and started from his bed,
Convulsive, to his knee ;
In vain; in vain ; tho hatchet drank
Again bis blood, and down he sank
Beneath his enemy.
And, ns in pangs of parting life,
The quivering soldier lav,
The savage drew his gleaming knife,
And wrenched the scalp away.”
Wc have marked one expression with ital
ics, as an instance of the poet’s faultiness of
diction. “ A stream of red” does certainly
convey to the reader’s mind the idea of
blood, but it is neither forcible nor elegant,
and mars, we think, the general beauty of
the passage.
The following is a description of an In
dian torture-scene, and well displays the
poet’s power of painting by words :
“ .Shooting and leaping the Huron* went —
Wildly and fiercely their limbs they bent;
As each one passed, he thrust bis knife
Deep in the stem We-an-dah’s flesh,
Who, though all over were wounds from the strife,
Though at each thrusting burst out afresh,
In torrents, the smoking and purple gore,
Unflinching, unshrinking, the torture bore.
As peeled from his body the skin in strips,
The death-song rose to his scornful lips—
Rose to Ilia lips, while his haughty eyes,
Sought the pure depths of the rosy skies.”
Mr. Street has not confined himself to
any particular measure in the structure of
his verse, for though, in the main, it is octo
syllabic, it embraces a great variety of stan
za, and often presents very abrupt transi
tions. We are half inclined to think that
the poem is too long, or, at least, that if it
had been told in half the number of lines, it
would have been more effective. It is, how
ever, a very interesting romance, and de
serves to be extensively read and admired.
The History of Pexdevms—His Fortunes and
Misfortunes, His Friends and his Greatest En
emy. By W. M. Thackeray. New York :
Harper & Brothers. 1849.
The readers of “Vanity Fair” will need
no other recommendation of “ Pendennis,”
than the name of its author. As far as we
can judge by the perusal of Part I, the lat
ter will not fall behind the former iu inte
rest.
“Vanity Fair” established Mr Thacke
ray’s reputation on a firm basis. Asa sa
tirical delineator of the fashions and foibles
of society, he holds a high rank. He makes
our social fictions appear so supremely ri
diculous, that we are absolutely ashamed of
them.
The wood-cuts with which “ Pendenniß”
is illustrated, are capital.
We shall copy some passages from this
book, in another department of our paper.
We will give herd a single paragraph on the
JVewspaper Press :
“ They were passing through the Strand as
they talked, and by a newspaper office, which was
all lighted up and bright. Reporters wore com
ing out of the place, or rushing into it iu cabs;
there were lamps burning in the editors’ rooms,
and above, where the compositors were at work,
tho windows of the building were in a blaze ot
gas. ‘ Look at that, Pen,’ Warrington said: —
• There she is—the great engine—she never sleeps.
She has ambassadors in every quarter of the world
her couriers upon every road. Her officers march
along with armies, and her envoys walk into
statesmen's cabinets. They are übiquitous. Yon
der journal has an agent at this minute giving
bribes at Madrid, aud another inspecting the
price of potatoes in Covent Garden. Look! hero
comes the foreign express galloping in. They
will be able to give news in Downing street to
morrow ! funds will rise or fall—fortunes be made
or lost; Lord B. will get up, and holding the pa
per in his hand, and swing the noble Marquis in
Itis place, will make a great speech; and Mr.
Doolan will be called away from his supper at the
Back Kitchen ; for he is foreign sub-editor, and
sees the mail on the newspaper sheet before he
goes to his own.’ And so talking, the friends
turned into their chambers, as tbe dawn was be
ginning to peep.” *
£l)c (Dlir tllorlb.
By the steamer Caledonia, we have Liv
erpool dates to the 29th ultimo.
The only cloud of war which now seems to
threaten a storm, hangs over Turkey. If
the Sultan persists in his refusal to deliver
up the Hungarian fugitives, he may find
the Cossacks knocking at his gates some
bright morning. The Czar is only waiting
for an excuse to annex the dominions of the
Sublime Porte to his Great Empire. But
what will France nnd England say nnd do ?
We shall see.
Liverpool Cotton .Market. We have again
to report a quiet cotton market. During the
past week prices of the American are with
out change, but at the same time we may re
mark that it has been difficult either to buy
or sell on satisfactory terms. This contin
ued dullness is not attributable to nny
change in the accounts received of the grow
ing crop, which are still unfavorable, but
to the discouraging state of the Manchester
market, which, as yet, exhibits no signs
improvement.
France. France now enjoys a perfect
tranquility, and there is no prospect at pres
ent of another political agitation. Indeed,
public opinion is apparently becoming more
and more averse to revolutions, in propor
tion as the increase of trade and commerce
exhibits the advantages of internal tranquil
ity.
Mr. RiTes, who succeeds Mr. Rush as
Minister of the United States to the French
Republic, has arrived in Paris.
Hungary. The latest Telegraphic ac- I
counts state that in Hungary the greatest
confusion still prevails.
At Comoro the officers and men are in a
desponding state, laboring under the convic- I
tion that resistance against the Combined
Austrian and Russian forces is useless. ;
Gcorgey*s conduct his helped to Increase
this feeling. The London News condemns
Gcorgey's conduct, nml states that Kossuth,
Beni and BemMnski are at Widden, in a
state of positive destitution.
Turkey. Accounts from Constantinople
of the 1 fJtli of September, state that the Km
peror ofltussia eta ploys no arguments at
Court for his demand for the delivery of the
l’olisli and Hungarian refugees at Widden,
but says in letters that he will consider the
escape of one of them ns casus belli. If the
Sultan does not give a simple yes or no to
his aid-de-camp, he threatens to return to
Warsaw. The Sultan persists in his
resolution, and is backed by the Foreign
Ministry and the Grand Vizier, Mahomot
Ali Pacha, but a great majority of the Coun
cil are alarmed at the threatening tone of
the Czar’s note, and no official announce
ment of the Council's decision had conse
quently been made. There is reason to be
lieve that the Turkish Government, urged
on by the English and French Envoys, will
reject the demand. It is supposed that the
Emperor of Itussia will put his threats of
war into force, should the answer of the Sul
tan be in the negative, although nearly the
whole of the Turkish fleet is in the Golden
Horn, quite ready for service, and could de
fend the entrance of the Bosphorus ; yet the
Turkish army bears no proportion to the
forces that would be brought against them.
The Emperor would march against the Tur
kish frontier in a few days. Sixty thousand
Turkish troops nre concentrated around
Constantinople, but the English fleet could
not reach the Goldeu Horn sooner than fif
teen or sixteen days. The Russian flest
could be within the Bosphorus within twen
ty-four hours.
The greatest anxiety prevails among all
classes. The greater majority are opposed
to war, as destructive to commerce and in
dustry. There are British subjects among
the refugees confined in Wedden. General
Guyon, Longworth, and O’Donnel are nam
ed.
£l)e fitcrarn tDorlir.
.Mrs. Trollope. Anew novel, by Mrs.
Trollope, entitled “ The Old World and the
New,” is announced.
Miss Pardoe’s new work, “ The Court
and reign of Francis the First, King of
1 ranee ”is about to be published, by Lea
& Blanchard, Philadelphia, who have also
just ready for publication Ilumbolt's “ As-
I pects of Nature.
Harper &( Brothers have in press “Glimp
ses of Spain,” by S. T. Wallis.
ff. S. Osgood, the painter, was, at last
accounts, digging gold and doing well. He
had previously been gathering the dust, by
peddling newspapers.
Major Ripley,V. S. A.,is about to issue a
work entitled “ Mexico and the United
States.”
Miss Frederica Bremer,the celebrated au
thoress, wns nmong the passengers by the
the Canada. Her appearance in this coun
try will create some sensation in literary
circles.
The Late Mrs. Butler. Mrs. Fanny
Kembl c, late Mrs. Butler, lias resumed licr
readings of Shakespeare in Philadelphia.
Margaret Fuller. The New York Mir
ror says, that, Miss Fuller, who has been
in Home for several years, has been marri
ed to an Italian Count.
William Gilmore Simms. John Russel,
of Charleston, has just published “ The Cas
sique of Accabee; a Tale of Ashley river :
With Other Pieces,” by W>n. Gilmore
Simms.
Mr. Calhoun. The N. Y. Courier an
nounces that a work by Mr. Calhoun, “On
the elementary principles of the Govern
ment, and the Constitution of the United
States ” will be published at an early day
by the Messrs. Harper.
©cncral intelligence.
Health of Charleston. The following
■ paragraphs from the Courier of the 10th
inst., contains the latest inteligencc we
have received in regard to the Yellow Fever
| in Charleston:
| “ This morning we publish the official re
port of the Hoard of Health, which gives the
information that there were eighteen deaths
by Strangers Fever, during the week end
ing on the 6tli instant Os these it will be
seen that 8 were natives of Ireland, 4 of
Germany, 4 of Scotland, and two of the
United States.
Eight of the eighteen died in the City
; Hospital, being a strong evidence that the
| disease prevails principally among those
j who are not careful in their habits, and do
not seek a medical attendance promptly.—
At the same time we state that at no former
period, within our recollection which ex
tends over a period of near thirty years —
have the cases been of so mild a character,
| or so readily yielded to Medical treatment.
The .Yorthener. The steam ship North
oner will be withdrawn from the New York
and Charleston line for a few weeks, for
the purpose of furnishing her with a pair
of new w heels.
Late anil Important from California.
\ The New York Evening Post of Friday,
says : “ In a private letter just shown to us,
from a respectable gentleman of this city,
now in California, dated September 1, it is
stated!
“General Riley and Hutler King arc not ex
l*cted to live.”
Financial Movements. The liank of the
, State of Georgia has established an Agency
at Rome, Ga. Vi. E. Alexander is the A
: gent
We are also informed, says the Savannah
Republican, that an Agency has been es
tablished at Sparta, in this State, by the
Planter’s Bank.
Coffee We understand, says the Repub
lic, that there was, a few days since, a car
go of Rio Coffee in Charleston, for which 10
cents was offerer!, and refused. It is said
to be held at 12 1-2 cents. If this is true,
it will soon be time to recommend the use
of mild decoctions.
tleorgia tiohl. The Dah'.onega Watch
man, of the lltli inst., says i “We have
just seen a piece of Gold, found by William
Keenum on the Yalioola, within a few miles
of this place, weighing 10 dwts. aud 23
gr ins.” J
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Prepared for lticbHivß* Weekly Gazette.
October 11tli.—Tombs of the Kings of
France destroyed. 1703.
“Whymay not imagination trace tlie noldo
dust of Alexander till lie find it stopping a bung
bole.” Act v, JSccne 1.
October 15th.—Mrs. M'Lenn, the poet
css. known ns L. E. L., died. 1838.
“ And when yon would say something that is sad,
Speak how I fell.”
[Henry VIII , Act ii, Scene 1.
October 16th.—Bonaparte arrives at St.
Helena. 1816.
“ They have tie I me to the stake ; I cannof fly,
But bear-like I must fight the course.”
[Maibeth, Act v, Scene 7.
October 17th.—Wolscy deprived of the
Groat Seal. 15*29.
“ Hear the king's pleasure, cardinal: who com
mands you
To render up the great seal presently
Into our hands.”
[Henry VIII, Act in, Scone 2.
October 18th.—Sarah, Duchess of Marl
borough, died. 1744.
“ Art thou not second woman in the realm t”
Hast thou not worldly pleasure at commaml,
Above the reach or oouipavs of thy thoughts 1”
[2 Henry VI, Act i. Scene 2.
October 19th.—Corner-stone of Wash
ington Monument laid. 1847.
“ Whose remembrance yet
Lives in men’s eyes; and will to cars and tongues
Bo theme and bearing ever.”
[ Cymbeline, Act iii, Scene 1.
October 20th.—Ship-inoncy first levied.
1034.
“ These exactions
Whereof my sovereign would have note, they are
Most pestilent to the bearing ; and to bear them.
The back is sacrifice to the load.”
[Henry VIII , Act i, Scene 2.
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