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course adheres to the lines of the drawing, because they are oily, but to the wet stone ,t does not stick. The paper is now laid on, and with the stone passed through the press ; the result being a beautiful and ex act copy of whatever is drawn. . The stone employed for lithograpy is ofl a peculiar kind of lime and clay nature, re-1 sembling in appearance a smooth yellow] hone, yet possessing the quality of absorb-] ing water. It is found chiefly in Bava ria, though there are quarries of it in Eng land. The Bavarian stones, however, are those most universally employed, and their importation is a considerable object in com merce. They are worth in NewYotk from 5 to 10 cents per pound. EDITOR’S DEPARTMENT. WM 0. RICHARDS, Editor. D. H. JACQUES, Assistant Editor. “charleston, S. C.: Saturday Morning,...April 27,1K50. FIVIIKVI, IIONOIKK TO < \ 1,1101 X. The emblems of mourning in which our journal is arrayed, are but a faint shadow of the gloom which overspreads this city upon the day consecrated to the obsequies of Carolina’s great, departed Senator ! A sad and solemn pageant lias but now passed before us—the procession ilia; follows the mortal part of the illusiriuus dead to its bier of silent but majestic stale, where the living may gaze sorrowfully, for the last time, upon the coffin of one whom in life they honoured and loved, as in death they mourn and revere! li\attempting to lay before our readers a brief account of the obsequies, we are embarrassed by lhe necessity of preparing it as they take place, and with a very hasty and imperfect im-l [iression of their whole effect. Even while wel write, the sounds of solemn music vise and fall! in melancholy cadences upon the ear, and the! suppressed murmurs of a vast concourse of peo-| pie seem but the audible pulsations of the city's! stricken heart. At an early hour this (Thursday) morning.l the streets were tilled with throngs of citizens! and strangers. The public buildings and a very! large proportion of the stores and private dwel-l lings were hung with the emblems of sorrow.! All business was suspended, and the measured! tolling and chanting of the bells presaged sadly! the events of the day. g The sky seemed to reflect the gloom of the! city, for it was veiled in light clouds, which! gratefully subdued the temperature of the at-l mosphere, and harmonized well with the spirit! ol the occasion. ?• The body of Mr. Calhoun was brought to the city by the steamer Nina, and arrived at Smith's] wharf at 11 o’clock, under the escort of the Senate Committee, the Special Committee oil twenty-five, and a portion of the General Com mitiee of Arrangements. At half-past eleven, the firing of minute guns proclaimed the landing of the body upon its native soil, ft was there received by a detachment of three Military Companies, and under their escort conveyed upon a splendid hearse, to the Citadel, where it was surrendered by Mr. Mason, of the Sen ate, to His Excellency the Governor, who, in turn, delivered it to the Mayor of die city. Our time and space forbid us to speak particularly of the ceremonies and addresses, which occupied about half an hour. The Grand Procession was organized by Chief Marshal Magrath, and at one o’clock it began to move. The follow ing is the ORDER OF PROCESSION. Marshal. Cavalry. Music. Detachment of U. 8. Troops from Fort Moultrie. I Troops of the 4th Brigade. Marshal. Sub Committee of Ten. f Mayor and Aldermen of the City. The Reverend the Clergy of all Denominations. Bpecial Guard of Honour. PALL BKARKRS. BODY OF >IK. ( VLHOI \. I pall bkakern. special Guard of Honour. Family of Deceased. Committee of seven Senators. Committee of 25. Committee frorit Pendleton. ’ oni, mttee of Forty, ami such other Committees as ni4y have arrived in attendance on the bodv. Marshal. ... „ Music. Ills Excellency the Governor ami Suite. Meat, (.overnor. President of Senate, ami Speaker of the House of Representatives. Foreign Consuls. lv !*mW Military Officers of the United States. ‘'i! and Military Officers of the State of South Carolina. ’lembers of the Senate and House of Representatives. Revolutionary Officers and Soldiers. • nmvingt Mficersaml Members of the Palmetto Regiment ■■airman and Commissioners of Cross Roads of Charleston 4 , Neck, oinnuttees &nd Delegates from other portions of the State and of other States. Marshal. Music. The Fire Department. Marshal. p c . „ Music. rolesßor*and Students of the Colleges of the State ami •r i City. ♦•achera and Scholars of High School, and of private Academies and Schools. Teachers and Scholars of Free Schools. Instructors and Children of the Orphan House. Marshal. Music. St. Andrew’s Society. Si. Heorge’s Society. South Carolina Society. Charleston Library Society. The Fellowship Society. Herman Friendly Society. The Cincinnati. The ’7fi Association. St. Patrick's Benevolent Society. New Fugland Society. Charleston Port Society . Apprentices’ Library Society. Hibernian Society. Medical Society. Hebrew Orphan Society. Mechanic's Society. Charleston Marine Society. Typographical Society. i bar lest on Cham her of < ’ommerce. Hebrew Benevolent Society. ’ French Benevolent Society. South Carolina Mechanic’s Association. Methodist Benevolent Society. Bible Society. Fourth of July Association. The Irish Mutual Benevolent Society. Marshal. Music. Onier of Ancient Free Masons. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. I >rder of the Sons of Temperance. Independent Order of Rechabiies. Marshal. Music. Captains of Vessels. Seamen now in port. Marshal. * idzens of this State and the adjoining States. Marshal. Citizens on Horseback. The procession moved in the following order! from the Citadel Square : Down Boundary to! King, down King to Hasell, through Hasell lo| ■Meeting-street, down Meeting-street to South |Bay Battery, along the Buttery to East Bay [street, up East Bay street to Broad-street, up [Broad-street to the City Hall. ] The buildings upon the whole line of march ere hung with appropriate emblems, and at lintervals banners were suspended across the Jstreet, inscribed with simple but eloquent words |°f s<,rrnw - The chief style of drapery was ini [festoons ot black, intertwined with white, or fastened with white rosettes. The columns of the Charleston Hotel were wound with black scarfs, and the entrance to Meeting-street hung with heavy black curtains, looped with white satin cords and tassels. Other buildings were appropriately shrouded, and the gentle wav ing in the breeze of the clouds of black dra pery, shed an almost oppressive sense of gloom upon the heart. To the sound of sweet but melancholy music, the long cortege swept on, while the plumes of the hearse trembled over their noble but unconscious burden. ft was 3 o’clock when the Procession com pleted its progress and arrived before the City Hall. At the entrance of its two flights of steps, Funeral Arches were formed by Palmetto trees, around the trunks of which were twined scarfs of crape, and with whose green and fan like leaves the dark emblems of woe were inter mingled. The body was conveyed into the Hall—which had been most elaborately and tastefully de corated—and placed upon a magnificent bier, where it lies in state under the charge of an hon orary guard ot two hundred citizens. To-mor row it will be consigned, with religious rites, to a vault in the cemetery of St. Phillips’ Church— there to await the will of the next Legislature. A deep solemnity has pervaded the mighty multitude that has thus done honour to the memory ot one of the purest patriots and no blest men that ever lived. It was not an empty pageantry of assumed grief—it was not a hollow (omi of ceremony—but a deep tribute from the hearts of the living to the virtues of the dead ! It was an occasion to justify the most indiffer ent in exclaiming: “ I have that within which passeth show*; These, hut the trappings and the suit of woe. ” Thus has Carolina received the body of her son. The outward demonstration ofher mighty griet has been commenced, and amid succes sive and accumulative honours, will the ashes of the patriot he hereafter consigned to their kin dred dust. | “ Close np his eyes—and draw tile curtain close. And let us all to meditation.” The Past and the Future. ■ At this point of our progress, it is proper ■ for us to look both into the Past and into ■the Future. Though the former cannot be ■recalled or the latter foretold, yet may the ■ retrospect and the anticipation he profitable. I Two years have now elapsed since this ■Journal was commenced, amid conflicting ■hopes and fears. In the deliberate opinion ■of many judicious friends, our enterprize ■was marked with the unmistakeable signs lot failure. They could not believe its sue ■cess possible, much less probable. All the ■ past was eloquent with warning. The ■ wrecks of many well-planned adventures ■ were still strewn upon its shores, and the ■mournful requiem which commemorated ■their ill-fate, still burdened the air. Few ■there were who encouraged us to our task, ■and even those with a timidity that be- Itrayed the infection of the common fear, lit was, therefore, in despite of public opin ion that the Gazette was commenced. The circumstances of its origin were not greatly calculated to inspire public confidence in its perpetuity. A strong heart and a wil ling hand are not the surest guaranties of success; and yet these were all the securi ties we had to otter to the public. That the public accepted them, to a very generous extent, is cause for our grateful acknowl edgment. We are proud to look back and claim for our Journal that its pages have redeemed its promises. Many times have we gone to our daily toils with a heavy sky above us, and a heavier heart within; but the clouds have certainly lifted and our ■ heart has certainly grown light again. Is loot this the common history of human en- Ideavour 1 It is, and it will be to the end. ■When we consider how seldom success at tends the enterprise of man, and especially lin those efforts which appeal to the less [palpable wants of our nature, we may well [suffer a feeling of apprehension to over- Iclottd our most hopeful mood. So has it Ibeen with us for two years past, and we ■ have learned in that period to hope less [extravagantly, and to labour still more ar jdently than before. Thus of the past. Os the future, we have so little to say, that it may be compressed into a sentence or two. The resoluteness of our purpose not to falter in the race we have com menced, will be more evident in the great improvements which our new volume will present, than we can possibly make it by mere words. We have promised that it should equal any kindred Journal in the land in typographical beauty, and we are content to let our readers compose the jury and find the verdict. Os its literary merits, it becomes us only to say that our pride and ambition would be sadly wounded if they were not to increase pari passu with] the extrinsic value of the paper. What-J ever diligent, patient and untiring endea-1 vour can do to make the Gazette worthy of I the name it bears, is already pledged for the I task. Thus for the future. J There remains to be said one word to the people of the South. The publishers of our Journal have resolved to stop the months of those who have excused their indifference to the success of Southern Li terary periodicals, by the poor excuse that they are always so much inferior and dearer than kindred works at the North. Hence forward, this charge cannot be brought, in honesty, against the Gazelte. Will the cavillers yield the point and prove their love of home and section bv aiding us? We doubt. It is to a larger patriotism than theirs that we must appeal for prompt and generous co-operation, and for effort to multiply thennmberof our patrons. Will they not help to gild the edges of the cloud of uncertainty which must inevitably over shadow our Future? i!©iaiE)© ! > wusaw ©aiiifia Letter from California. Wcgive below a brief extract from a communication just received from the Gold Land. We hope, hereafter, to give our readers frequent letters from the same source. Our correspondent is a close ob server, and a cool, dispassionate general izer, and his statements may be depended upon as strictly correct. We trust our friend will excuse the liberty we take with a private Jetter. * San Francisco, Feb. 28, 1850. Dear J . 1 am j n California at last, safe and sound. We arrived here on the 25th, and found things a little different from what we had expected. The lumber with which our ship is freighted is not likely to find a very ready market at any price. 1 am sorry for this; but though it comes a little hard now, a few months hence it will be all the same. When we first came, we heard nothing but discouraging words. We hear much now of the same sort, but also much of a different kind! Our ship will bring us nothing worth naming; she is too large. Could we get her uji to Sacramento City, we could do well in all respects.— Lumber is low—wages low—and it is not easy to get work just now, though one can get five and ten dollars a day quick enough! But this, you will understand,is not considered much! A hundred dollars a month is not looked at with any degree of satisfaction; it is called low wages.— Things at wholesale are very reasonable, hut at retail horribly high; so that you can get but little for what you have to sell, but have to pay enormously for what you wish to buy. This is the consequence of high rent and high wages. All this you know already. There is money here in any quantity. Yon cannot go into a shop or tent without seeing gold in large lots. Gods! what an amount of it! It is as plenty as mud in Ohio, but not quite so “sticky in its attachments.” It does not hang on so long; and you would think so if you could go into one of the gambling] houses and see it pass by hundreds from] hand to hand. They shower it down on| their tables just as though it did not cost] anything. I saw one man gain four oil five hundred dollars in less than twenty] minutes. But this is nothing—they make] and loose it by thousands! r You would be pleased to see how wel look getting our letters. There are two! lines formed, one whose first initial letters.! range from A to K, the other from K to Z.J You have to take your place and wait yout I time, which is often from two to five hours!! before you can get a chance to ask foil a letter, which you may or may not get.! [They are very slow and careless. If youl Itakeout a letter belonging to somebody eise| and pay for it, you cannot get your money] back. - * I think the prospect is good. lam well satisfied. I shall do as well, I think, as I expected. It is going to be hard for some, hut for me,-not very. I have been through too much already, when the mind and body both were put upon the rack, to fear any thing California can present, especially if she gives me $lO a day! 1 am, you know, one of the hopeful ones, and cannot be discouraged any way you fix it. Thousands are daily leaving for the mines, but it seems quite early enough. The streams are yet high, and here it is quite cold ; still the hills are green with their spring dress, and they are covered with cattle. This looks mildly beautiful, and is refreshing to one who has for fivel months been riding over the salt waves ot the Atlantic and Pacificseas. O, ’tissweetly] calm here! How different from the inces sant motion of the ocean—not a moment still—its great heart throbing eternally. J. McC. our 3300 k Cable. Diary of a Physician in California ; by James L. Payson, M. 1). New York: D. Appleton & Cos. We add another work to our California Library. It claims to be the record of actual experience in journeyings by land voyages by water, with observations on the climate, soil and resources of the country. It is a modest, unpretending book, contains a gooil deal of pleasant reading, and adds something to our stock of information in regard to El Dorado of the West. The Fathers of New England; an Oration delivered before the New England Society ofj New York, December, 1819; by Horace Bush-1 nail. j This is a well written and eloquent tri-| bate to the Fathers of New England, ft] gives them credit for their virtues and thej greatness of their mission, while it is not[ blind to their errors and failings. S He tort of the Regents of the Lunatic Asylum to! the Legislature of Mouth Carolina, November,! 1849. Columbia, 8. C. 1850. This Report gives a very 7 favorable ac count of the condition and prospects of this truly philanthropic and valuable institu tion. During the year ending November sth, 1849, 49 patients were received, 23 cured, 21 removed, 11 have died, and there now remain 108. PIIRE.NOLOGV AND THE SCRIPTURES ; by Johnl Pierpout. New York : Fowlers & Wells. I This is a Lecture delivered before thel American Phrenological Society in Newl Vork, and aims to reconcile the Science of Phrenology with the teachings of the Bi ble, or rather to show that there exists per fect harmony between the two. It bears the stamp of its author’s vigorous intellect, and will be read with pleasure by those interested in the subject of Phrenology. Princihi.es of the Human Mind, deduced from Physical Laws, with a Lecture on Fllectro-Bi ology; by Alfred Snee, F\ It. S. New York: Fowlers & Wells. Electro-Biology literally means, the rela tions of Electricity to the vital functions, and the object of this little book seems to be to prove that man is simply a voltaic! battery!! | Navai, Gi nnery ; a Concise Treatise on its 1 henry and Practice ; t>y William N. Jeffers, Jr.; one volume, Bvo. New York: I). Apple ton & Cos. ! It will not be saying too much for Mr. Jeffers’ treatise to pronounce it the most comprehensive and complete of its kind ever embraced in the same compass. It contains the Theory and Practice of Gun nery, based upon the celebrated system of Thiroux, the text of which has been made thcjiucleus of researches throughout the whole range of authorities in the science of Gunnery. The author proposes to follow this volume with twoothers, should it meet with sufficient favour. Night and Morning, a Novel, by Sir E. 4.. Bul wer Eytton. New York: Harper & Brothers. This is a cheap edition of one of Bul wer's best works, too well known to most ot our readers to require us to say anything in its favour. Shakspeark’s Dramatic Works. The Boston Illustrated edition, No 14. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Cos. This superb edition progresses with great regulatity and equal beauty. The present number contains The Winter’s Tale, and is embellished with a most charming por trait of Perdita. When it is remembered that the purchaser of this edition obtains a complete Play, splendidly illustrated, for twenty-five cents, certainly no persuasion will be required to induce all to procure it. Syllabus of a complete Course of Lectures on Chemistry, inclsding its application to the ! Arts, Agriculture and Mining. By Professor 1 E. Solly. Philadelphia: Henry C. Baird. Anew edition of this work, thoroughly revised by the author, will be quite an ac ceptable contribution to the Literature of the Physical Sciences. It has peculiar ex cellencies, readily appreciated by the Chem ist and by the diligent student in that ever expanding Science. our oossip Column. |A\ Eastern Provebb. i “Tell me who thy companions are, and I will tell thee what thou art.” This beau tiful oriental proverb finds its counterpart in our less poetical adage, “A man is known by the company he keeps.” TheJ following beautiful lines—by whom writ-1 ten we do not know—seem to have been| intended as an illustration of this proverb :| THE CLOD AND THE FLOWERS. An eastern sage, wandering through myrtle bow-| i era I One sunny day, r Pick’d up amongst the perfumed flowers, - A lump of clay. ’ He ask and, “ What flower art thou I what canstl thou be, § With scent so rare 1 f full of perfume thou seem’st to me, | As flowerets fair.” it [lt said, “ No scented flower am I, | With perfume fraught; [But being witli roses living by. Their scent I’ve caught.” Epigrams. Dr. Johnson defines an epigram as “a short poem terminating in a point.” The word is derived from the Greek and prima rily signified to inscribe or write upon. Here are two or three, which, if they are not new, are good. This is an anonymous one, addressed to a bombastic braggart, and will apply to others of the same class: |“ How kind has nature unto Boastful been, I Who gave him dreadful looks and dauntless mien; [Gave tongue to swagger, eyes to strike dismay, lAnd kinder still, gave legs, to run away.” Here is another, addressed to a similar subject. It is brief and pithy: “ No wonder ho is vain of coat and ring, Vain us himself, he may of anything.” One whose self-esteem supplies his lack of sense and renders the esteem of others superfluous, is thus sarcastically hit oil': “lie puffs himself. Forbear to chide, An insect vile and mean, ■ Must, well lie knows, be magnified, ? Before it can be seen.” ? iXctl) illcuco. By the arrival at St. Lout's, of a gentle man from New Mexico, dates have been received from Los Vegas to the 6th of March. Father depredations in that country still continue. The Americans are living in constant dread and fear, ami the savages are daily becoming more daring. j The writer says, a runner sent by a par ity of buffalo hunters, arrived at Los Vegas, a few days before he left. The hunters had encountered abody of Apache Indians, and an engagement ensued between them.l Two of the hunters were killed and three or four badly wounded. The Indians car ried off'all their animals, and at the time of] the runner's departure nearly all the arn-| munition of the hunters was exhausted. | The commander at this place was called Ito order out a company of military to pro ject the hunters, and render them necessary ■assistance. The Apaches, satisfied with their booty, ■ had retreated. I A few days since three Mexicans were [killed by the Indians at Vernal Springs on ■ the road from Los Vegas to Santa Fe. • Great complaints are made that sufficient ■ precaution is not observed by Colonel Monroe in granting licenses to traders— many having been in the habit of selling arms and ammunition to the hostile Indians. Notices to Correspondents. “Solitude,” “To Lucinda,” “Pulaski,”! “ I’m Sad To-Day,” “Spring,” and “To the! Young,” are respectfully declined. N. T. P. Your article on the Bible isl not written with sufficient care. We havel no time to rewrite communications. Try! again. J. L. B. Be patient. Lacy. Your story has been received. I Several articles are under consideration.! General intelligence. | J. M. Barrett. The Spartan denies most [positively that the health ol tins individu al was injured by imprisonment, as is fabe |ly alleged, and asserts that “as he stalked [forth from the comfortable lodgings with [which he had been furnished, he looked [much better every way, when he came out [of prison than when he went in.” It also [declares the opinion that the rumorof Bar [rett's death is unfounded, and that it has [been propagated for the purpose of evading [the payment of the bond for one thousand dollars given for his appearance. The Tennessee River. There*are now nine steamboats plying on the Tennessee River above the Muscle Shoals, and it is expected that the number will be increased to sixteen or eighteen. A Monument to the Texan Heroes. The bones of the decimated Meir prisoners, of the heroes who tell at Goliad, Alamo, Sa lado, and on the thrice gloriousfield of San Jacinto, are to he gathered into a common tomb on the banks of the Colorado, where a lofty monument is to he erected above them. El Dtario, of Havana, states that the owners of the Spanish steamship Gauclal quiver, which runs on the Cuban coast, have contracted for the construction, in the ■United States, of another larger vessel to |i un in connection with the G. The Gau- Idalquiver is the private property of young |< iueen Isabel, of Spain and she derives a ■ handsome income therefrom ; so profitable ■that it appears she has concluded to build ■another. The Gaudalquiver is an iron ■steamer, built to the order ofQueen Isabel, ■in England. The Falls of St. Anthony. Within the last ten months, quite a town has grown up at the Falls, consisting of 100 houses and 600 inhabitants, with extensive saw mills and a lathe machine—several good schools, and an agricultural society : and they are now erecting a large hotel, and constructing a steamboat to ply above the {Falls, both of which will soon be completed. Mount 1 esuvius. The most splendid {eruption witnessed for many years, occur red on the 12th ultimo"! The. lava has al ready destroyed the beautiful seat of Etta jano. Many lives have been lost. The inhabitants have fled to places of safety. I Cotton grown in Spain. ’The editor of| a Barcelonia paper says he has had an op-| portunity of seeing some samples of cotton I which was cultivated on the banks of the| Gaudalquiver,the superior quality of which] can compete with the best that is imported] from the American continent. He recoin-l mends that the cultivation of this most use ful plant he extended to every part of the peninsular of Spain, the soil and tempera ture of which he says, are calculated to give rich results. The editor flatters him self that an intelligent speech lately made by Don Felix Rivas before the agricultural society at Madrid, may produce the effect of extending the cultivation of cotton. I The steamer Wilson G. Hunt, Capt. [Small, hence from California, put intoßer linuda on the 11th lilt., in a most deplora- Ible condition, Raking, foremast gone and Iher upper works nearly torn to pieces, I having narrowly escaped foumiering at I sea, during a violent gale of wind, on the |7th ult. Eleven Camels were imported into [Baltimore last week from the Canai) [lslands. They are intended for the Far | West, to test whether they can be raised [and acclimated. Counterfeit half eagles are in cir- Iculalion in various parts of the country.— A large number have made their appear ance in Richmond, Ya. The Editor of the Richmond Timex was shown a $5 gold piece purporting to be of the emission of 1843, so admirably executed as to mislead even the most wary. It was defective in weight, however, tey"’ The Louisiana Statesman says that an insect so small as to require microsco pic eyes to detect, is destroying the orange trees in that vicinity, and on the sea coast. I Suspicious Circumstance. We are in- Idebted, says the Mercury of the 23d inst., Ito Capt. Mygat, of the smack Majestic, for [the following: | Capt. Mygat sailed from Tybee on Sat- Inrday morning; about 11 a. m. made a [schooner off St. Helena Light Boat, with a [British flag at half mast; run down for her, [and found her to be deep, painted black [with painted ports, black mastheads, and [topmasts very long ; had on her stern Ade laide, of Baltimore. Her officers and crew |as far as could be seen, consisted of one [white man and six negroes, the latter all [on the quarter deck. The former hailed in | had English,and wished to know if they were [near Cape Hattcras. On being informed of [their position, they stood in for the land a short time, and then put about and follow ed the smack nearly to Stono, when they hauled off Southeast. They worked the vessel badly, and did not appear to know the coast, or understand navigation. Ittsy"Lieut. Col. John McLellan, of the Topographical Corps of Engineers, has re ceived orders to take charge of the expe dition for running the Mexican Boundary Line. The party will consist of forty ci vilians with two mounted companies of soldiers. They will leave on the 15th of .May next for El Paso, where the survey commences. ’■ | Handsome Present. Prior to his. depar ture for the West. Gov. Ujhazy and family called upon Mile. Jagello, at the Irving House. Before he left, the guests of Mr. Howard made up a purse of $325, and preJ it to him as a parting token of their regard. — N. Y. Tribune. A company of New York Model Artists attempted to give one of their inde cent exhibitions at Baltimore, lately, but they were set upon by the police, arrested and sent to jail. Loss of the ship Champlain. We find the following in the Savannah papers : Consulate of the United States, Havana, April 10, 1850. Sir: The ship Champlain, of Philadel phia, 624 tons, R. R. Decan, Master, on her passage from New York to New Or leans, sprang a leak near the Isaacs, on the 3d instant. It is supposed that she struck a wreck, as there were seven fathoms on each side, and in a short time went down. The master and crew represent that there was no opportunity of even saving their clothes. The crew arrived in this port yes terday, on board the bark Crusoe. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Robert B. Campbell. To the Collector of the Port of Savannah. Severe Hail Storm. The Western Texan says : “We were visited on the evening of Tuesday the 27th inst., by one of the se verest hail storms that has visited this sec tion of country for years past. About sun set, the sky was suddenly overcast with clouds, and in half an hour the hailstones, as large as hen’s eggs, were pouring down with a rush. The storm lasted about half an hour.” Lute Snow. The Richmond Enquirer ol ■Thursday says: “It snowed for several hours yesterday, 17th instant. On Sunday iast we examined several fruit trees, and found that there was much fruit still un touched by the cold—we cannot say what will be the effect of the cold weather since.” The Cane Crop. The Franklin La. Ban ner of the 21st inst. says : “ We notice in many places in the par ish that cane is in fine condition. The planters have succeeded generally in get ting a much better stand than they expect ed last winter when the seed was being in jured by the worm. The injury done to the seed has not been extensive enough to do serious injury to the coming crop.wl.ich has been an agreeable disappointment to the planters.” Windfall. An American lieutenant ir. the navy, well known in New York, has lately, by the death of an aunt of his in England, become the heir of property worth £15,000. A Patriot gone. Israel Hunt, Esq., who shared in the terrible conflict on Bunker’s Hill, and in other stirring events of the Rev olution, died at his residence in Nashua, N. H., on the 2d inst., at the ripe old age of ninety-six years and six months. He was buried with military honors. Special Notice. , The present series of the Gazette is com pleted with this number. YVe earnestly hope that we shall not be obliged to part company, at this time, with any of our subscribers; but if there are those who, from any cause whatever, intend to discon tinue their subscription)! we beg of them to remember that the law requires of them to give us previous notice, and this notice must be accompanied with all arrearages to the end of the currrent volume. We would call the attention of our subscribers to the prospectus of the Eclectic Magazine, which, if they desire to secure at 50 cents per annum, they must send on the amount with their next annual subscription in ad vance. Our New Series. The third volume of the Southern Literary Gazette will be commenced next Saturday, May 4. The number will be a beautiful specimen of printing, and will contain a finely engraved portrait of Hon. Joseph Henry Lumpkin, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Georgia. New subscriptions should be sent in as early as possible. Subscribers in Arrears. We have not often called upon our friends to remit their subscriptions, but it is now important that all who are in ar rears, for either the past volume or the two past years, should remit the amount due immediately. It is quite difficult for us to collect, through our agents, the dues of subscribers in remote parts, and we there fore call on such, especially, to respond to our request! £ il A D j'J Z i D a if. The Shakspeare Calendar. Prepared for Richards’ Weekly Gazette. Amir. 21st.—Abelard died. 1142. “ Love is your master, for he masters you : And he that is yoked by a fool Should not, methinka, be chronicled for wise.” Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act i., .Scene 1. April 22d. —Peace of Aix la Chapelle. 1848. “This peace is nothing but to rust iron, increase tailors, and breed ballad makers.” Coriolam s, Act iv., Scene 5. April 23d. —Shakspeare died in Eng land, and Cervantes in Spain. 1816. “O, insupportable! Ob. heavy hour! Methinks it should now be a huge eclipse Os sun and moon, and that the affrighted glube| .Should yawn at alteration.” Othello, Act v., Scene 2. [ April 24th.—Torquato Tasso died.] 1595. \ “ His grief grew puissant, and the strings of life] Began to crack ” ‘ ! King Lear, Act v., Scene 3. April 25th. —Cromwell born. 1599. “I shall desire to see what this child does.” Henry VIII., Act v., Scene 4 Apßii.26th. —Daniel De Foe died. 1731. “ A fellow of most excellent fancy.” Hamlet, Act v., Sceno 1. April 27th.—Sir William Jones, the Orientalist, died. 1794. “Is this the man! Is ’t you, sir, that know things V’ | Anthony ani> Cleopatra, Act i., Scene 2. Rif HARDS* WEEKLF GIZETTE IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY RICHARDS & VALOR. Office over A-. Head’s Hook Store. te?* Entrance upon Broad Street . Terms : — Turn Dollar* per annum, to be paid strictly inadvance. If payment is not made with in the first six months of a term of subscription, the price will bo Two Dollars and Fifty Cents —and, if delayed until the end of the year Three Dollars. Advertisements will be published at the cus tomary rates. Business Card s, (of four lines and under,) will be inserted one year for Five Dollars, including a subscription to the paper. A NEW DOLL AR MAGAZINE. the CHAPEST EVER UNDERTAKEN IN THE SOUTH. I he subscribers will commence, on the Ist Jun* next, the regular issue of anew Monthly Miscel lany, to be entitled the SOUTHERN ECLECTIC MAGAZINE As its nnme indicates, the work will be made up of selected material,'"consisting chiefly of choice articles from the Southern Literary Gazette, but not confined exclusively to that source. Many ol tiic contributions to our weekly jour nn 1 will doubt - less merit a better fate than that to which they will be consigned, by the very conditions of their publication, unit it is to embody such papers in a permanent shape that the “Eclectic” is designed We deem it unnecessary to add more than simply the TERMS OF PUBLICATION. 1. Thp Southern Eclectic will lie published on the tiisf of every month, in numbers of 32 royal 8 vo. pages, printed from new type, in double columns, on fine paper, and embellished with a fine wood engraving of some distinguished South ern character or Southern landodscupe. 2. it will be furnished to subscribers folded so as to be subject to newspuperpostage only, ut the low price of (ine Dollar per annum. 3 Subscribers to tiro Southern Literary Ga zette will lie supplied with both Paper and Maga zine for Two Dollars and Fifty Cents in advance. 4. Ihe Eclectic will also he put up in a neat cover and the edges trimmed, at $1.25 per annum or 12 1-2 cents per number. IkstiC All orders must be accompanied with the money and sent by mail postpaid, or they will not be attended to ‘¥ywp Address WALKER & RICHARDS, Charleston. TO PRINTERS. FOH SALK, tin* Font of Burgcois, of 300 lbs., ami Font of Minion, •( |SO Pm., I bit tin pa per is printed with—at a low price. March 22. SOUTHERN QUARTERLY REVIEW. r f^HIS sterling Southern Periodical, recently X published by Mr. James S. Burges, will henceforth be issued by the Subscribers, who re spectfully solicit the continued favors of the Southern people, and of the citizens of Charles ton in particular. The first number of the pres ent year, forming the beginning of anew series, is now rapidly passing through the press, and will be delivered to subscribers by the 15th of April Hereafter, the work will be issued at reg ular periods, without delay or failure, and in a superior style, with a now, clear and beautiful type, and on the best of p iper. It will continue under the Editorial conduct of VV. Gilmore Simms, Esq., to whose hands it has been confided during the paH year. This gentleman, we are pleased to inform <ur readers, has succeeded hap* idly i*> calling to bis assistance such a number of Contributors a> will effectually place the work beyond the chances of*adeficiency, or inferiority, of Literary, Scientific or Political materiel. The writers for the KKVIEW include the greater number ol the best und ablest names of the coun try They represent the highest Literary talent or the South, and reflect truly, with a native ear nestness, force and fidelity, the real policy and the peculiar institutions of our section. The Publishers, assured by the countenance which they have received, from every quarter of the South, And especially sustained and patronized by the most influential names in Carolina, beg leave to solicit the continuance and increasing patronage of our citizens. Subscriptions will be received at their < Office, corner of East Hay ami Broad streets, second story, or at 101 East Bay. Contributors will be pleased to address the Edi tor, to their care, in Charleston. WALKER & RICHARDS, Publishers and Proprietors Southern Quarterly Review. N O T I C E . —All former Agencies nr the SOUTHERN QUARTERLY REVIEW are discontinued. Due notice will be given of the appointment of Agencies by the present Publish ers. March 23 Unrivalled North or South! THE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME OF THE SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE WILL be commenced on Saturday, the 4th of May. 1860, under its original name—in stead of Richards’ Weekly Gazette —as more sig niflcarit of its peculiar character, it being the only weekly organ of Literature in the entire South ! It will be Greatly Enlarged and Improved, Containing weekly Thirty-two Columns of mat ter. It will appear, moreover, in an ENTIRELY NEW DKESS “ from head to foot,” anil upon beautiful white paper, so that, in mechanical excellence, it shall m t be surpassed by any paper whatever in the* United Sta tes! It will continuo under the same Editorial direction as heretofore, and no pains or expense will be spared to make it A CHOICE FAMILY NEWSPAPER, “ as chenpas the cheapest, and as good as the beat!’* Utterly discarding the notion that a Southern journal cannot compete with the North ern weeklies, in cheapness and interest, The S uthern Literary Gazette Shall rival the best of them in nil the character istics of a truly valuable fireside Journal. Its aim will be the diffusion of cultivated and refined taste throughout the community—and it will em brace in its ample folds every species of intelli gence that can tend to this result Original Contributions, from many of the ablest writers in the South, will chiefly occupy its columns, but nut to the exclusion of choice miscellany, selected from the best American and Luropcan sources The tone of the “ Gazette” will be indepen dent in criticism and in the discussion of every legitimate topic, but it will be strictly NEUTRAL IN POLITICS AND RELIGION! Its columns will be occasionally embellished with SOUTHERN PORTRAITS & LANDSCAPES, engraved expressly for the work, and accompa nied by biographical and topographical sketches. ■ A portrait of the Hon. Judge Lumpkin, of (eor l-ria. will appear in the first number, and others ■at monthly intervals. I ITS GENERAL INFORMATION I will be copious, but carefully condensed from the ■leading Journals of all parts of the world. 1 No! withstanding the great increase in the sine land attractions of the paper, it will still be pub lished at Two Dollars Per Annum , in Advance f It will be furnished to clubs on the following terms: Three copies, $5 Five copies, 8 Ten copies, 15 Fifteen copies, 20 Twenty copies, 25 Fifty copies, 60 All orders must be accompanied with the money, and addressed, post paid, to RICHARDS & WALKER, Charleston. S. C. N. B.— Editors who will copy, or notice fully, this Prospectus, shall receive the Cazette regu larly, and also a beautiful Juvenile xMagaziue, entitled “The Schoolfellow.” March 9, 1850.