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WM. 0. KICHARTis, Ed j tor.
][), H. JACQUES , Associate Editor.
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\Tl RL)AY MORNING,—MAY 4, 1850.
another way mark.
\Vk commence to-day the third annual vo-
I nine of our Journal, and the occasion is pro
perly suggestive of a few thoughts having re
nt ion to our progress. We have so frequently
i iken of the discouragements to literary effort
m the South, that we may well dispense with
,he topic for the time, and to this our will the
)MOre cheerfully consents that our mood is hope
ful and anticipate to a degree hitherto unat
tained. amid the only partial successes of two
toilsome years. Although we have had pro
tracted experience that
■‘The ample proposition that hope makes
In all design* begun on earth below,
Fails m the promised largeness—”
We are nevertheless nourishing “ a credence
in the heart,”
■ An esperance so obstinately strong,”
;1 . to enable us to mark another epoch in the
history of the Gazette, with more pleasure than
|j;tin, more determination than doubt, more
faith than fear!
The second year of our Journal has been tin
.wiitful one, and fraught with great changes
in iis condition and prospects. It commenced
with a change of name and form. That the
|i,iter of these alterations was judicious we do
not consider a doubtful point. With the former
nr have been so little satisfied as most readily ;
embrace the opportunity now afforded us of
returning to our first choice. During the pro
ress ol the year a still more important change
befell the Giizeltt—its removal from its native :
soil to that ol a sister State. To us this was
not a matter ot indifference; our attachment !
to Georgia was of many years’ growth, and !
had been intensified us well by many experien- |
,vs of kindness from her generous people, us
by mi earnest ambition to identify ourself and !
our labours with her rapidly-growing fame, and
10 contribute our humble ruite to the develop
ment of that gigantic greatness which it re
cured no prescience to recognize as her destiny, j
since ii was already foreshadowed in her daily i
advances. T forego these hopes and to sun
tier — albeit <• .iy in name—the ties which bound
a- to Georgia was neither an easy nor a wel
come condition Against merely personal eon- 1
siderations our amor pair>a would doubtless;
have been proof; hut the prosperity—die per- I
netuity of the Journal, for the sake of which
we had already made great sacrifices—was a
matter of too much moment to be overlooked.
Kvrrv consideration connected with that im
lidled it’ to the change which at length we
made in the location of the Gazette.
The advantages derived by our removal to a
metropolitan position are too evident in the j
gratifying circumstances which attend the ap
pearance of this number of our Journal to re- |
quire other explanation. In this city we found
the long-desired means to make the Gazette
w hat our pride had wished, but our poverty
denied I Here we found the golden fulcrum
upon which to place the lever of energy so
judiciously as effectually to move the massive
obstacles that opposed our progress.
Our readers will excuse the pride and plea
sure with which we lay before them to-day our
new series, in all the beauty of faultless typo
graphy, challenging comparison with any kin
dred Journal, on either side of the broad At
lantic. Some of them, we are sure, will par
lake of our enthusiasm, and none more kindly
than many friends in Georgia, whose interest
in ihe Gazette has scarcely been diminished,
although it has been transplanted from her soil.
And why, indeed,should it be? “ The South,
and the whole South,” ever has been, and ever
shall he, the motto of our Journal. It is local
only in those physical conditions which are
inseparable from its moral influence. Emana
ting from this eity.it speaks to and for the peo
ple of the entire South, inciting them to intel
lectual pi ogress and to literary achievement.
We enter upon our third annual volume with
fuller conviction than ever that the South
needs such Journals as the Gazette. We use
the plural term because we do not suppose that
i -ingle organ of this nature will for any long
period satisfy the demands of our people. To
he the pioneer of its class in the South will be
honour enough for the Gazette, and will distin
guish it even when it ceases to stand alone !
The character of the Gazette will remain
without material change, except in that pro
gressive excellence for which we shall never
cease to struggle. We shall bear ever in our
hands, hopefully and trustingly,
” A banner, with the strange device,
Excelsior!”
And should the iron hand of destiny tear that
banner from our grasp, and trail its bright folds
in the dust, we should still enjoy the proud con
sciousness of having borne it “ through sunshine
and through storm,” with an unfaltering though
overmatched purpose. We do not. however,
apprehend so sad a termination to our hopes.
I'he star of promise is in the ascendant. Its
beams cheer our heart and quicken our zeal,
let the true friends of a home literature rally
to our support, proving the truth of their asser
tions by their deeds,
“ And we’ll not tail!”
THE KNICKERBOCKER &, THE SOUTH.
Accident has thrown in our way a copy ol
lie Knickerbocker for March, iu which we find
.'i poem entitled “ Disunion by Albert Pike
ol Arkansas, denouncing the South in the most
unmeasured and fanatical terms, as seeking to
“ rase ont her name
From the league of the prouil and the free,
And a separate ideal sovereignty claim,
I,ike a lone wave flung off from the sea!”
We are politely stigmatized as “ traitors,” j
” fratricides,” and
As braggart* who forged their own chain*,
Bulled down what their forefathers built,
\nd tainted the blood in their young children’* veins
V\ ith the poison of slavery and guilt!* 9
Mr. Pike thus admonishes us, after first em
phatically pronouncing us “ mad” :
“Pause! think! ere the earthquake astonish your souls,
Anil the thunder of war thro’ your green valleys rolls!”
ami tailing thus to pause, he consigns us to •• the
deepest abyss of dishonour and shame.”
Now we have no objection whatever to Mr.
Pike's writing such ridiculous stufi as this, and
thinking it sublime ; nor do we, moreover, ob
ject to its being printed, if there are publishers
10 he found with so little sense as to publish it;
hut We desire to let the people ot the South
know who it is that vilifies them, and in what
Journals they are execrated, and “ their names
’ a*! out as evil.” The Knickerbocker has had,
111 years past, at least, a number of Southern
patrons—liberal and generous ones too. Is
‘hi* the best return it can make for their sup
l",rt, with pen and purse? The very same
number of the Magazine in which this rodo
ninutade occurs, contains a poein—doubtless a
‘■ec offering—by a South-Carolinian, one of
“ho are branded upon another page as
“ traitors.”
w ** are sick of the miserable cant which is
out in the milk and water rhymes of fa
ußfiftatu, about the treason and guilt of the
South, because she, forsooth, pretends to under
stand her own rights and institutions better
than strangers!
Mr. Albert Pike and Mr. Lewis Gaylord
Clark, his literary endorser, would both be bet
ter employed than in writing and printing libels
upon the Southern people, whose attachment
to the Union ’ is quite as ardent and disin
terested as that of their Northern neighbors,
but who would still prefer disunion to dishonour,
as what true bosom would not?
Much of the mistaken sentiment prevalent
at the North concerning the institution of sla
very and the views ol the South upon the sub
ject ol “ disunion ” are doubtless referable to
abolition ballad-mongers, who spare no occa
sion to breathe out their “ holy horror ” against
slaveholders. If the people of the North see
fit to believe these oracles, there is still no rea
son why their false utterances should vex the
ear of the South, and we think that our people
owe it to themselves to withdraw all their sup
port from thofc organs which thus ungenerously
misrepresent them.
THE SCHOOLFELLOW.
We beg leave once more to call the atten
tion of parents and teachers to ths Magazine
for children—which should visit every house
hold in the South ; not simply that it is the
only work of the kind in our midst, hut be
cause it has been pronounced by the press
throughout the land, the most beautiful and ex
cellent Juvenile periodical in the country. In
cheapness, it is unsurpassed—and in the adap
tation of its contents to the minds of children—
unequalled. Not a day passes scarcely that
some parent or teacher does not tell us of its
popularity with their children. It ought to
have 10,000 subscribers, and if it were only
as well known throughout the South, as it is in
some small portions of it, this large number
would he readily obtained. It is published
in monthly parts at 81.00 per annum—ma
king a volume of 400 pages, and 150 en
gravings. 0= See Prospectus in another co
lumn.
THE SOUTHERN ECLECTIC MAGA
ZINE.
1 iie Prospectus ot this new Miscellany ap
pears in another column, and we refer to it
only to advise our readers, that if they would
secure its monthly visits at the low rate of 50
cents per annum, they must remit $2,50 cents
lor the Gazette and Magazine — post-paid—at a
eerg earlg date, for the opportunity to obtain it at
half price, will not always exist. O’ Four
hundred royal octavo pages of choice reading
matter for O’ Fifty Cents. What
Subscriber to the Gazette will decline?
<!% (teip (fnlnnm.
A Musical Catch.
A “Catch” is a composition of words and
music so arranged that the combination, aided
sometimes by the rapid utterance and the im
perfect enunciation of the singers, gives a very
different meaning to the words as sung, from
that they bear as written—the effect of which
is not at all diminished if the rendering be
humorous. The best example of a “ catch”
now present to our memory, is that of Dr. Call
cott's, which reads as follows :
“ All! bow Sophia! can you leave
Your lover, anil of hope bereave!
Go, fetch the Indian’s borrowed plume;
Yet richer far, than that, your bloom :
I’m hut a lodger in your heart,
And more than one, I fear, have part!”
These three couplets are sung by three per
formers, each commencing at only a slight in
terval of time. The first, for example, begins
“Ah! how Sophia!” and liis rapid utterance
easily transforms the words into
“ A house afire!”
especially as he repeats the last syllable thus,
“ phia ! pliia ! pliia !” At this point the sec
ond singer liegins his strain, —“ Go fetch the
Indian’s borrowed plume,” and his words are
readily construed into
“ Go fetch the Engines! Go fetch the Engines!”
a natural result of “ A house a fire !” Then
comes in the third singer, with a very noncha
lant utterance,
“ I’m hut a lodger! I’m hut a lodger!”
and why should he care about “ fetching the
engine,” if the house is “ a-lire !” By a rapid
succession of da capos, the most whimsical
effect is produced, and as we once heard a wit
say during its performance, he could easily
imagine the bells to be ringing an accompani
ment to the “catch.”
Fast Colours.
A lady of our acquaintance was urged re
cently by a voluble shop-keeper to purchase a
pretty dress pattern, with which she seemed to
be pleased. “ But” said the lady “I am afraid
that it will not wash.”
“ Oh dear, yes ma’am ! I will pledge you my
word that it will wash — wash beautifully
ma’am. They are fast colours ma’am, and if
you don’t find ’em so, I will refund the mo
ney.”
With this assurance, the lady bought and
paid for the dress. The first time it was
washed, the briliant colours ran into one ano
ther so scientifically, that only a piece of white
muslin remained.
The lady happened to mention the occur
rence to a waggish friend, as an instance of
the dishonesty of trade, he replied, “ Not at
all, madam ; on the contrary, the shop-keeper
was literally honest—he told you that the co
lors were fast, and by your own account, they
ran so rapidly as soon to get altogether out of
sight !”
Gold Pens worth having.
We write this paragraph with a gold pen
manufactured by Messrs. Spencer, Rendell <fc
Dixon, of New York, whose card appears in
our advertising columns, and it is only justice
to sav of it, that it is not only the best we ever
had, but the only one that gave us satisfaction
a whole week after we bought it. It has till
the flexibility and freedom of a legitimate
“ gray goose quill.’ and we can most cordially
recommend our readers in selecting a gold
pen, to choose above all others, one of their
making. Their large commercial pen is the
very ne plus ultra of excellence. Messrs. S.,
It. A- 1). have had the enterprise to introduce a
steam engine into their manufactory, and in
this age of speed it is n<> small object to have
a steam pen!
Typographical.
We take pleasure in calling the attention of
our typographical friends to the advertisement
of Messrs. Conner it Son, in another column
We have had dealings with them for years and
found them ever faithful, prompt, and obliging
to the uttermost of our wishes. Their new
specimen book for 1850 is before us, and af
fords abundant proof of their taste and dili
gence iu getting up new and beautiful mate
rials of all kinds. We pay the Messrs. Con
ner only a merited compliment when we say
that we know of no house in their line which
can better supply the printer with all that is
needful for his art, from a power-press to a bod
kin, and we commend them to the confidence
of all honourable typos.
The Ruling Passion,
The late lamented Calhoun was formerly an
honorary member of the •!>. K. Society of
Franklin College, at Athens, Ga., and while
he was Vice-President of the United States he
was called upon to preside at an anniversary
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE.
meeting of the Society. Upon taking the chair
he said, in his usual dignified manner, “ Sena
tors will please come to order.” We take it
for granted that the members did not come to
order any the sooner for the President’s call.
A Case of the Chiaro Obscuro.
An exchange paper, after referring to a late
decision of the Supreme Court of Georgia, that
rail-road companies are liable for injuries sus
tained by negroes taken on the cars, without
their owners’ knowledge—even under a gene
ral pass—says:
4 A man in Macon recovered damages under the above
decision ot the Macon and Western Railroad company
for cutting oft, through his own carelessness, the leg of a
negro.* *
If it were not for the prefatory allusion to
the decision of the Supreme Court, we should
suppose, from the construction and punctuation
of the above paragraph, that a man in Macon
had recovered damages lor carelessly cutting off
the leg of a negro !
d>nr 36nnk (T'nlilr.
The Gossips of Rivertoyvn, with Sketches in Prose
and Verse. By Alice B. Neal. One vol. 12 mo.
Philadelphia: ilazard and Mitchell, 1850.
The readers of the Lady’s Book are famil
iar with the charming story which gives its j
name to this beautiful volume-*-and we do not
hesitate to say, that it is worthy of a wider re
putation than even that famous Magazine can
obtain for it. Its popularity is well attested by
the fact that in one month, the first Edition 1
was exhausted, and our notice of it, though not ■
unusually tardy, is ol the second Edition. !
The fair author has very early in life achieved ‘
an enviable position among the literary women
of her country, and she well deserves it both I
for the intellectual and moral elevation of her !
writings. In the “ Gossips’ which is to some
extent, we apprehend, “ from life” very useful
and important lessons ol charity are conveyed
to the reader’s mind, and the story is told in a
very pleasing manner.
Some ol the briefer miscellanies are very ex
cellent, and we should like in proof of our opin
ion, to quote one or two if we had sufficient
space. Instead of this, however, we will copy
the dedication sonnet, which will exhibit, in a j
beautiful light, both the intellect and the heart
of the writer. It is inscribed
TO THE MOTHER OF JOSEPH C. NEAL.
As Rutli, of old, wrought in her kinsman's field—
From the uneven stubble patiently
(lathering the corn full hands had lavish’d free,
Nor paused from suu, or air, her brow to shield—
So I have gleaned, where others holdly reap:—
Their sickles Hashing til rough the ripened grain,
Their voices swelling in a harvest strain,
Go on before me in the toilsome steep.
And thus I hind my sheaf at even-tide
For thee, my more than mother! and I come
Bearing my burden to the quiet home
Where thou didst welcome me, a timid bride ;
Where now thy blessed presence, day by day,
Cheereth me onward in a lonely way.
The portrait of Mrs. Neal which accompa
nies the volume, although a likeness, is so far
from being a flattered one, as to fail of satisfy
ing those who are familiar with the unusual
attractions of her face. It is less joyous in ex
pression than its bright original.
Woman’s Friendship. A Story of Domestic Life.
By Grace Aguilar. One vol. 12 mo. New York:
D. Appleton and Cos. 1850.
The object of this hook is expressed by the
motto upon its title-page, in the language of
the poet Wordsworth :
“ To show us how divine a thing
A woman may be made”
Happy as the author lias unquestionably been
in the illustration of her text, and beautiful as
are the pictures she has drawn of “ woman’s
friendship,” we fear there are not many Ida Vil
liers’ in the world—though we would not call
in question the geueral truth enforced by the
book, that there is a depth of tenderness and
energy of persistence in the friendship that
springs up spontaneously, as it were, between
two female hearts—kindred only by spiritual
ties. The Countess of St. Maur, is not alto
gether an ideal character—since we have no
doubt that her prototype has here and there
been found to lend a fresh lustre to the name
of woman ; but alas ! that the instances should
be the exception and not the rule. Nor do we
write this in a captious spirit— to depreciate
woman’s worth. Far be it from us to do this.
How rather would we credulously worship her
as a divinity than degrade her as an entirely
selfish being. She is neither the one nor the
other—and yet she sometimes so closely ap
proximates either extreme, as to afford us on
the one hand the original of Ida St. Maur, and
upon the other, to darken the canvass with the
revolting image of a Flora Leslie. The story is
told in a very graceful manner—and is full of in
terest and pathos. We have not space to present
an outline of it—and moteover, we intend to
urge our readers, especially our lady readers, to
give the book a careful perusal—assured that it
will both benefit and delight them. We cannot
forbear a single word of Florence Leslie, the
gentle but gifted, and at first, unfortunate girl—
who awakens in the heart of Lady Ida that
strong affection which survives absence—evil
report, and apparent shame, and is at length
crowned with its own sweet reward iu the hap
piness of the noble-hearted Florence. The
episode of the life and death of the poet Wal
ter Leslie—is very beautiful, and, indeed, the
book abounds with grace and feeling—and
commends itself to those who read with their
hearts, as well as with their intellects.
The Optimist. By Henry T. Tuckerman. One
vol. 12m0.. New York: Geo. P. Putnam. 1850.
The chapter on “ Manner” which we have
quoted from this volume, in another page of
our Journal will afford our readers an idea of
its style—which we think is characterized by
pleasant vigour and rhetorical elegance. Tuc
kerman is one of the best essayists in this coun
try, if indeed he be not fairly entitled to the
exclusive possession of the superlative we have
chosen. His previous works have won for him
an enviable reputation. The title of the book
before us is significant of its spirit and its phi
losophy. The author emulates the genial ex
ample ot the English essayists—Lamb, Gold
smith, Leigh Hunt, and others, in their efforts
to infuse into their delightful works, the very
essence of social life and happiness. He seeks
as they evidently did, to blend the amenities of
life with the bright and glowing fancies of the
mind—and thus happily to unite the utile et
dulce. The term “ Optimist” properly signi
fies ‘ the producer of the most good’—and
hence is it properly applied to him who incul
cates by the labour of his pen a cheerful and
elevating philosophy—who seeks after Truth
and Beauty wherever they may be found, and
shunning the merely theoretical and absolutely
Utopian in theories of happiness—directs the
heart to its true sources, and thus ministers to
its best and noblest sympathies.
There is in Mr. Tuekerman’s volume, much
to delight the reader whose mind is not warped
and distorted by false philosophies and corrupt
theories. The true heart will be nourished
thereby, and the thoughtful spirit find much
food for reflection.
There is a happy vein of humour running
through the book—quiet it may be, but still
like the motionless gem, sparkling and flashing
with a brilliancy depending much upon the per
ception of the reader. Without claiming for
this work a very high degree of intellectual
merit—we are free to say that it is exceeding
ly agreeable, and exhibits in a pleasing light,
the grace and fertility of the author’s taste and
fancy,
The Women or the American Revolution. By
Elizabeth F. Ellet. Volume Third. New York : Ba
ker and Scribner.
The success of Mrs. Ellet’s earlier volumes i
ot the Women of the Revolution, has induced ‘
her, she tells us in her preface—to publish ad
ditional memoirs—which are accordingly em
braced in the volume before us. There is
no inconsiderable degree of interest attached to
any authentic records of our great national
stru ggle, and it is w r ell that the part which he
roic women so nobly played in its chequered
scenes, should become a part of the country’s
history. Mrs. Ellet has performed her task
with much credit to herself—displaying a com
mendable diligence in her search after material,
and a good share of talent in her manner of
using the material thus obtained.
Many a heart will beat quicker and many
an eye glisten with interest and emotion at the
“ ,a l es ot woman’s trials” and of woman’s
dauntless courage and noble sacrifices in the
cause of her country, narrated in our author’s
pages. The new volume contains quite a num
ber ot sketches, ol which, eleven are of Caro
lina’s brave heroines—than whom nobler or j
more devoted patriots never lived.
Asa literary performance, the merit of the j
hook lies chiefly in the unity of design and
simplicity of manner which characterize it.
It is nothing more or less than a memorial of
the brave women, whose precept and example
alike, animated the hearts and sustained the
hands of their fathers, husbands, and brothers,
in a protracted and unequal contest for free
dom !
We cordially commend it and the preceding
volumes to all those who would keep alive in
their memories, the price at which American In
dependence was purchased.
■A-THEIsm among the People, By Lamartine. Boston: i
1 lumps, Sampson and Cos.
This is really an earnest and instructive, I
as well as spirited and eloquent Essay. It tells
the French people momentous truths, with a
clearness and cogency that can scarcely fail to
make an impression. It insists that a people
denying God is incapable of sustaining a Re
publican government, and must “ rush head- j
long into the government of the brute, the ties- !
potism ot the sword.” It traces the origin and j
history ot French Atheism down to the pre
sent day, and widely proclaims the fact that
France is even now the most irreligious nation
in Europe. It denounces the great sects now
infesting the Republic as thoroughly Atheistic.
Communism, Fourierism, Socialism, as “ de
grading, besotted and abject,” because all seek
to dethrone God and deify matter.
The circulation of this Essay in our country
will prove exceedingly useful. It confirms and
enforces all those lessons which have become j
stale and almost unmeaning amongst us, re
specting the indispensableness of virtue and pie
ty to a people that would govern themselves.
Poems. By Frances Sargent Osgood. In one elegant
vol. 8 vo. Illustrated by Huntington, Harley, and oth
c*rs. Philadelphia: A. Hart. 1850.
This is one of those superb volumes which
exalt the character of Art—and afford the eye
the most refined delight. Mrs. Osgood’s
poems are all grace and fancy—very daintily
blended, and in this collection they are set forth
in all the beauty of exquisite typography—vel
lum paper—and illustrated by the pencil and
the graver of the very first artists of the land.
It is a volume radiant with manifold attrac
tions—and it reflects the highest credit upon
its publisher and all employed in its prepara
tion.
Poems, by Amelia, (Mrs. Welby, of Kentucky.) A
new enlarged Edition, Illustrated with original designs
by R. W. VVeir. New York : D. Appleton and Go.
[Charleston, John Russell.
A fit companion volume to that of Mrs. Os
good,—and one to which we have before
awarded the highest praise in our power. In
typography, paper, engravings, faultless ; in its
gems of thought and language, a most precious
casket.
The Poetical and Prose Writings of Charles
Sprague. New and revised edition. New York: C.
S. Francis and Cos. 1850.
A portrait of the author’s contemplative face
accompanies this neat edition of his works—
which though not too numerous to be em
braced in a thin 12 mo. vol., are valuable for
the grace and purity of their style and the vi
gour and independence of their thought.
Latter-Day Pamphlets. Edited by Thomas Car
lyle. Nos. I. and 11.. Boston: Phillips, Sampson &
Cos.
These are precious bits of nonsense and
rant—which are very happily “ hit off” in the
article entitled “ Punch’s Police”—in another
column of our paper.
itljr fi up Ms.
The National Academy of Design.—A
friend writing to us from New York, under
date of the 25th ult., speaks of the Annual
Exhibition of the Academy of Design, as fol
lows :
“ Our Academy of Arts has just opened its
25th annual Exhibition, under the happiest cir
cumstances. The collection of pictures, and
statuary, is not only of uncounted extent and
excellence, but it is made, for the first time, in
the beautiful and commodious edifice, lately
erected for the use of the institution. The ex
hibition rooms, (no less than five in number,)
are in every respect all that could be desired,
and now that the walls are adorned with the
| beautiful creations of our gifted artists, and the
nicely carpeted floors are trodden by our love
ly maidens and gallant beaux, the scene they
| present is one not easily to be driven from the
memory. It is a matter of earnest gratulation,
that the Arts have won such a magnificent
• Home” as that now secured for them by the
Academy of Design.
“ While the tout ensemble of the Exhibition
is thus singularly attractive, the visitor will be
still more gratified by a study of its parts ; as
strolling through the labyrinth of rooms, he
pauses continually before the works of our most
esteemed artists; the exquisite landscapes of
Durand and of his younger competitors in this
favourite department; the glorious coast scene
of Huntington—unquestionably the finest pic
ture of the kind ever painted in this country—
and the “ Cup of Water,” a sweet and charac
teristic work of the same gifted pencil ; the
“ Child’s Passage to Paradise” by Peele ; The
magnificent full-length of Pope Pius IX, the on
ly picture (we thing) ever painted from life, of
this celebrated personage ; speaking heads by
Elliott, Page, and Ingham, with some of the
happiest efforts of Rossiter, Stearns, Hicks,
May, Shegogue, Baker, Mount, Spencer, Shum
way and many others, whose names it is scarce
ly just to mention until time serves me to do
so with Jess haste than now,”
American Art Union Bulletin. This
miscellany is now issued in quarto form—and
contains a large amount of choice reading
matter connected with the Arts in this country
and in Europe. It is sent free to all subscribers
to the Art Union—from the date of their sub
scription, a fact which should induce all who
design to become members for 1850, to do so
at once. Mr. S. Hart, is the Hon. See. for
Charleston.
New Jersey Art Union. Art Unions are
multiplying in this country —and we observe
that treasures have been adopted for the early
formation of one in New’ Jersey—to be located
at Newark
(Ttir Bliisiriil itforlir.
OPERA MUSIC AT CHURCH.
The music-service at Grace Church in New
York, partakes far more of the character of
the Opera than of the Anthem, and is thus se
verely, but perhaps not unjustly, satirized by
Park Benjamin, in a Poem on Fashionable
Follies—recently read by him before some As
sociation in Brooklyn, we believe.
After objecting to the gaudy style of the in
terior of Grace Church, a fault which every
visitor must have realized to a sense of oppres
sion—he supposes someone to insist upon the
excellence of the music, (e. g.)
“ ‘ The music’s splendid.’ Grant it so ;
The Doctor’s practised and he onght to know:
YV hen last to France he voyaged for his health
He heard the Opera now and then —by stealth.
His choirs are artistes, and they ought to be—
They sing at theatres two nights of three,
The primit donna none could e’er persuade
In any other church to give her aid.
Her vocal beauty—her bewitching air—
Fill the pews here and cram the boxes there ;
When from her lips the thrilling solo flows,
Dandies and damsels cease awhile to doze:
And when she quavers to her usual pause,
A something hums like ill-suppressed applause:
While the plump parson placidly surveys—
His people’s backs all turned to meet her gaze !”
Quite an evangelical picture truly it must be
confessed —wanting only the lorgnette to com
plete it. And this in a sanctuary, which is
called “ Grace” ! Tempo res mutantur!
New Music. Messrs. Firth, Pond & Cos.,
New York, have laid upon our table the fol
lowing pieces of music which we commend to
the attention of professors and amateurs.
The Original Schottisch, composed by Jul
lien. ’Phis is a graceful and pleasing compo
sition and destined to be very popular.
The Return Waltzes, composed by E. P.
Jones.
The Wandering Melodies, Waltzes by
Gung’l.
The Celebrated Bell Waltz, by Strauss.
Les Patineurs. Waltz Brilliante from La
Prophete.
The Phoenix Waltzes, by Labritzkv and Ban
ner.
The Bridal Waltz, by Jullien.
The Juliet Polka, by Carl Lorenz.
Mary Loves the Flowers. A song by S. C.
Foster.
Nelly Bly. [A new and capital Ethiopian
Melody. Fd.]
The Song of the Beloved. (Gift Songs, No.
3.) Music by Shaw.
A ride I once was taking. [This is the cel
ebrated Song “ Tramp, tramp, tramp !” as
sung by Jenny Lind.]
Somebody's coming, but I'll not tell who.
[For the Guitar.]
The Bachelor s Song. By one of the Squad.
Music by a Spinster.
Home of my Heart. Anew ballad.
Meyerbeer’s Prophet. The magnificent
opera La Prophete has been performed recent
ly at New Orleans, with great success.
Henri Hf.rz. This distinguished Pianist
has been appointed chief of the Musical Con
servatory—recently established by the Mexi
can Government. He is to receive a high
Salary, and will reside permanently in Mexico.
Jenny Lind. Mr. Barnum has had a tick
et of admission to Jenny Lind’s American
Concerts, engraved in a beautiful style. It is
designed as a souvenir to each purchaser, of
the visit of the Sweedish Nightingale. Our
exchanges are full of anecdotes of her sweet
ness of temper and beautiful charities to the
poor and humble.
(Dnr pnuk
[Under this head we shall reply to many letters, contain
ing queries orsngee-tionsnpon subjectsof general interest,
instead of answering them, as heretofore, liy post. This
will save ns tim . and “time is money.” YVe are very
glad to receive tellers from our subscribers, and it only re
quires that the postage be paid to ensure prompt attention.
Eds.]
Gas-light. —Our correspondent wishes to
know why our “ city fathers ” do not have the.
lamps lighted on those nights when the moon
ought to shine, but, owing to the inclemency of
the weather, or some other reason, best known
to herself, does not make her appearance. We
cannot answer our correspondent’s question sa
tisfactorily, for w’e do not know the terms of
the contract which the “ Council ” has made
with the moon regarding the nights in question.
One thing is certain—the streets ought to he
lighted, whether the gas lamps are or not, and
if the moon, like a petulant and capricious pri
ma donna, fails to “ come out ” on account of
the weather, or for any other equally important
reason, and the “city fathers” have no means
of compelling her to come out, they should
order out the lamp-lighters forthwith,and in
stead of saving a few feet ol’gas, save the feet —
and necks—of not a few passengers, whose
duty compels them to be abroad in spite of the
weather. This question might have been pro
perly discussed under our scientiflc head, as it
is unquestionably a gassy (Agassiz) one.
J I've nis. You must pay more attention to
the art of versification. Your rhyme, rhythm
and metre are all defective, in the stanzas you
send us. “ Flow” does not rhyme with “ now,”
nor “credit” with “merit.” Were the accent
on the last syllables the latter might possibly
pass, but not otherwise. In the following line,
as in several others which might be named,
your rhythm is sadly at fault:
“ The dark waves broke upon the lone shore.”
You fail in regard to metre, in several instan
ces. It is as necessary to keep good time in
poetry as in dancing. The tread of the lines
(lines have “feet,” why should they not “tread,”
and when they are lame, “ limp” ?) should be
measured and musical, and the rhymes should
come naturally and without effort on the part
of the reader, at the same point. The lines
which rhyme must be absolutely, in point of
time, of the same length. They must have
the same number of syllables, as a general
rule ; but there is an exception which applies
in cases where two syllables admit of being
easily and naturally pronounced in the time of
one, as in the following line of Willis :
The Spring | is here, | the tie I licate lout | eil May.
and in this:
YY’ho laugh |of vie | tory loud | est rang.
Here the three syllables “ licate foot,” occupy
precisely the same time in pronunciation, as
the iambic feet of which the rest of the line is
composed ; so with the syllables “ tory loud,”
in the other line. We will recur to this sub
ject again. In the mean time we advise you
to study Poe’6 “ Rationale of Verse,” the best
treatise ever written on the subject of versifi
cation.
Fanny complains of the habit which some
young gentlemen have of standing on the steps
and in the vestibules of the churches, on Sun
day, and staring intensely into the faces of
the htdies-r-especially of the young and pretty
ones—of whom we are bound to believe our
correspondent one. She says that however
much they (the ladies) like to be looked at
when they have disposed themselves satisfacto
rily in their pews, they are exceedingly discon
certed by a volley of impertinent glances while
they are enpied. We unite with Fanny in be
seeching the young gentlemen aforesaid not
to be peeping before the curtain rises.
“Ellie” wants to know if there is any word
in the English language that will rhyme with
orange. A friend at our elbow suggests that
door-hinge rhymes very well with it—-only a
little a-jar•
Maria Estella. —The editors of the Gazette
respectfully tender their compliments to Maria
Estella, and beg leave to assure her that she
is labouring under a very slight mistake in che
rishing the faintest suspicion that what she was
so kind as to send them “ for publication in the
poet’s corner” is poetry. It is of a totally dif
ferent genus, and, if they mistake not, rhetori
cians call it “ Proserunmad.” They beg leave,
with many grateful thanks, to return it here
with, supposing that Maria Estella would like
to preserve it in her cabinet of curiosities. If
not, however, they will be happy to make it a
present to Barnurn. Here it is.
THE SPRING.
BY MARIA ESTELLA.
The bright and soft-footed spring is come,
The birds do sing and the bees do hum,
The dowers bloom in yonder bower,
And everything owns sweet nature’s power.
The trees are putting a green livery on,
Their cold and wintry aspect is gone,
And the locust blossoms hang like a chain,
Which it makes my young heart glad to see again !
I hear the note of the croaking frog,
As I walk abroad with my favorite dog,
And the animal seems to me to say,
Spring is come and winter’s gone away.
Oh let us be thankful for the spring,
And for the vegetables which it doth bring.
And for the birds and blushing flowers
Which adorn our trees and fields and bowers!
A Student —wishes to know why the e in
the word sew, has the sound of o. Our corres
pondent will perhaps be surprised to learn that
the word sew is derived from sow —a female
swine ! It came in this way :—sus is the latin
for sow, and the bristles of this animal were
formerly used instead of needles—as they now
tire by shoe-makers, in sewing. The word
sno, to sew, was founded upon sus; and the
English sew came from the Latin sno. The
orthoepy of the word here indicates its etymo
logy, while its orthography is calculated to
mislead.
“ A Looker-on in Venice.” —The strictures
of our correspondent are personal, we fear, and
therefore unsuited to our columns, into which
we shall never intentionally admit anything in
which the malice outweighs the wit. By the
way, we will take this occasion to correct the
common mistake into which our correspondent
has fallen, in signing himself “ A Looker-on in
Venice.” The reading—in Shakspeare’s Mea
sure for Measure ” [Act V., sc. 1.] —is “ A
looker-on here in Vienna,” and there is no
propriety in mutilating the text.
Euterpe. —We think the day of the Polka
is over. Perhaps “ the wish is father to the
thought,” for we have always considered it a
most unbecoming and unladylike dance ; but
then there is a probability of its growing un
fashionable, which is of course its death-war
rant. The most likely dance to be its successor
is the Schottisch.
J. A. T. You shall hear from us in a few
days.
E. M. G. ‘Phe lines you refer to—
“ Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast.
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak,
are not Shakespeare’s. You may find them
in Congreve’s “ Mourning Bride.” Act I.
Scene 1.
Penna. One who has so exalted an opin
ion of himself, needs not our commendation.
We have no doubt that your verses, if not
immortal, are eternal,
“ For he who reads them, reads them to no end.”
Hortensia. —ln reply to your query, “ Should
a lady pay the postage on a letter to a gentle
man, written for mere friendship’s sake, and
by agreement?” we answer “ No !”
E. It is gross impudence in a gentleman to
bow, in the street to a lady whom he does not
know. Take no notice of him.
Query. The words are not strictly syno
nomous. Malaria is Latin for bad air : and
miasma is Greek for pollution.
K. Z. Study more, think more, and do not
w'rite for publication till you are sure von have
something to say.
Btfrtrnplitmi Batters.
The Tomb of Calhoun. The temporary
resting place ot’ all that is mortal to the great
and good Calhoun, is daily visited by hundreds
of persons, both citizens and strangers. Patri
otism can offer its devotions at no more fitting
shrine, and no place can be fraught with holier
influences. The tomb of Carolina’s noblest
son, who, having lived, in all his relations to
his fellow man and to God. a sincere, earnest
and truthful life, has at last fallen at the post of
duty, and been hidden from our sight forever
by the envious marble, should be a Mecca—a
shrine of pilgrimage, to us and to our children.
The marble slab which covers the tomb, and
which bears no inscription save the simple word
CALHOUN, is now covered with flowers and
evergreens, deposited in vases or woven into
wreaths, and frequently renewed by the fair
hands of Carolina’s mourning daughters. Fit
emblems are those tribute-flowess of the pure
life of him who rests beneath.
Where to be well “ Suited."—There can
Ire no question that if you would be well unit
ed, you must go to an unexceptionable draper,
and if our readers are not already acquainted
with the establishments of Messrs. Edgerton tfc
Richards, of Mr. Carr, and of Mr. Willcocks,
they will find their addresses among our city
“cards.” As to “ puffing” these gentlemen, it
is entirely unnecessary —for they cannot fail of
success, since they alway “ cut the coat accor
ding to the cloth.” They could only fail to
give their customers satisfaction by shear neg
lect, and of this we feel assured that they are
incapable. We do not think that even in
seaming, much less in reality, they would do
anything that would not be regarded as fitting
and becoming.
New York Steam Ship Line.—From the
advertisement in our columns, it will he seen
that the Agents of the favorite steamship
Southerner have resolved to increase the fre
quency of her trips, and thus compensate, as
far as possible, for the withdrawal of the North
erner. The Southerner will now leave the
ports of New York and Charleston alternately
every tenth day. There is anew steamer now
building for this route, to be called “ The
Union,” in which we shall feel a more than
common interest, since we had the pleasure of
suggesting the name which her owners have
chosen for her. May she prove worthy of her
proud appellation!
Daily Route to New York. —The tide of
travel is now setting Northward, and our
friends in the interior will be glad to know
that there is a daily line from this city to
New York, with a through-fare of only S2O.
The steamboats to Wilmington are safe and re
liable, the Wilmington and Weldon railroad is
now beiug re-laid with heavy iron, and the gen
eral accommodations of the road tire vastly im
proved.
.
Travelling Agents for the Gazette.—
Rev. William Richards, Mr, Robert E. Seyle,
Mr. Matthew J. Wroton, .1. J. Richards, S. P
Richards,
O’ Mr. Mazyck is our General Agent for
Charleston.
[CF Other local Agents will be announced
speedily.
Mtm nf tljr Dni|.
Nicaragua. —The treaty w’ith Great Britain
in regard to Nicaragua was signed in Washing
ton on the 20th ult. A correspondent of the
New York Tribune says:
“ This treaty liberates every part of Central
America lrom British bondage, and attaches
that Confederacy to the United States by the
obligations of gratitude and interest.
‘‘lt re-establishes the Monroe doctrine, which
was abandoned by Mr. Polk’s Administration,
on the most substantial footing, by enforcing
the American principle more efficaciously than
W’as ever before asserted.
“ It secures the construction of the ship canal
connecting the two great oceans, by which
more than ten thousand miles of dangerous na
vigation will be saved, and the trans-shipment
of merchandize and produce will be rendered
unnecessary, and enlists the capital and co
operation of Great Britain in the immediate
advancement of that vast and most important
enterprise.”
The Steamship Atlantic. —The American
Steamship Atlantic made a trial trip on the
21st ult. from New’ York. On her return, she
made the trip from the Light Ship outside of
Sandy Hook to the Battery at (he rate of seren
tern and a half to eighteen knots, with 18
pounds of steam and 19-1 revolutions. The
Pilot said that he had taken many steamers,
American and foreign, into the harbor, but had
“ never seen the craft that could run through
the shad-poles like the Atlantic !”
Fire in New York. —A most destructive fire
occurred on Front anti Water streets, on the
24th ult. The loss is estimated at SBO,OOO.
Fire in Savannah. —A fire broke out in Sa
vannah on Thursday morning, 25th ult., about
half-past 1 o’clock, which consumed the entire
square bounded by Congress, Broughton, Jef
ferson and Montgomery streets, consisting prin
cipally of wooden buildings. The loss esti
mated at from SIOO,OOO to $120,000.
Er Anew Post Office has been established
in Lumpkin Cos., Ga., called Calender's Creek
and R. P. Honge appointed P. M.
Struck with a Fire Hall. —The British brig
Alcyone, from Glasgow. arrived at Boston, re
ports that off Cape Cod, while the men were
aloft reeling the foretopsail, in the middle of a
snow storm, a ball of fire, larger than an 18-
pound shot, struck the mainmast, and, without
any unusual noise, such as an explosion, the
mast was split in four pieces, and went over
board with all the yards and rigging attached
Steam on the Pacific. —’I'lie Baltimore
American says that one of the steamers which
recently left New r York, is going to the Pacific,
for the purpose of plying regularly between San
Francisco and the Sandwich Islands.
Explosion of Steam Boilers. —The Commit
tee on Manufactures, in the House of Repre
sentatives of Massachusetts, have reported a
Bill forbidding any person or corporation to use
any steam boiler without a fusible plug, and au
thorizing for this purpose Ashcroft’s “protected
safety plug.” The penalty for removing the
plug, or substituting for it any material less fu
sible, or for using a boiler without it, is a thou
sand dollars.
Post Offices in California —The Postmaster
General has established a number of additional
post offices in California and Oregon, at such
points as it is confidently believed will greatly
facilitate the general correspondence. ‘l’he
next steamer will carry out the commissions to
newly appointed postmasters, together with in
structions to put tlic offices into immediate
operation.
Jllfflr.
MARRIED,
At Mount Fieasjint, on the 23d ult., Dr. E.
M. Royall and Miss Ann B. Venning.
In Athens, Ga., on the 18th ult., Mr. George
Moore and Miss J. D. Frederick.
In Columbus, Ga., on the 14th ult., Mr.
Martin J. West and Miss Sarah A. Morris.
tTljf Battsalnun.
DIED,
In Macon, Ga., on the 19th ult., Dr. W. E.
Full wood, U. S. A., aged 40.
In this city, on the 16th ult., Solomon .1. Co
hen, aged 72.
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award Premiums, (in addition to specimens of Mechanism
and the Arts) for the following articles:
For the best bale of Sea island Cotton, not less than 300
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For the best bale of short staple Cotton, not less than 300
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For the best tierce of Rice.
For t lie best hogshead of Muscovado Sugar.
For the best loaf Tobacco, not less than lUG lbs.
For the best barrel of Wheat Flour.
For the best tierce of Indian Corn.
For the best barrel of Spirits of Turpentine.
For tiie best barrel of Rosin.
It is the intention of the Institute, with the consent of
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is likewise intended to select, from the specimens of “ Art
and Design,” which may be presented, such as may be
deemed worthy of especial distinction, to le forwarded for
competition to this great “Industrial Exhibition.”
The Committee on Premiums therefore earnestly appeal
to all the productive interests of our country to aid the In
stitute in thus advancing our home enterprises, and give
them reputation and character abroad.
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Guitars, Violins, Violincellos, Flutes, Clarionets, com
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Also, the largest assortment of Music in the Southern
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The above articles are all offered for sale at the lowest
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TIIE SCHOOLFELLOW,
which has been pronounced by some of the ablest presses
and best judges, “ The beet and cheapest Juvenile Mag.
azine in the United States.” The success of this beauti
ful little work during its first year has been so flattering
that the Publishers have resolved to continue it and make
it permanent, and they therefore call upon parents, teach
ers, and all interested in the rising generation to aid them
in their efforts to make the Schoolfellow all that its most
flattering judges have pronounced it.
It will lie published ill the same form as heretofore and
under the same editorial care ; and will conta n chiefly ori
ginal articles from the pens of Mrs. Caroline Gilman, Mrs.
Joseph C. Neal, Mrs, W. C. Richards, Mrs. C. W. I)u-
Bose, Miss Tuthill, Caroline Howard, Mi*: C. W. Bar
her, Clara Moreton, Maria Roseau, the Editor, and many
other well known writers.
ITS PICTORIAL EMBELLISHMENTS
will lie more numerous and beautiful than before; it will
be printed upon finer paper, and no pains will be spared to
make it a most charming companion for all good girls and
bops. It will be published on the fifteenth of each month,
and will make a volume of about 400 pages and 100 en
gratings, ‘
Five copies will be sent to one address for $4 ; Eleven
copies for $8 ; Twenty-three copies for slii, and Thirty
two copies for $20!!
THE FIRST VOLUME?
beautifully bound in gilt muslin, will be furnished in con
nection with the second Year for Two Dollars. To
clubs, it will be supplied at One Dollar for each copy.
t if” All orders must he accompanied with the cash —
if by mail, pout-paid.
Cjp Clubs should be made up as early as practicable—
and those wishing volume first, should apply immediately,
to WALKER & RICHARDS.
May 4, 1850. Charleston, S. C.
** Editors copying this Pros)ectus, or making snitable
notice, shall receive a copy of the work without an ex
change. They will please send marked copies of their
papers containing it to the ‘ 4 Gazette.”
UNRIVALLED NORTH OR SOUTH!
THE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME
OK THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE,
Was commenced on Saturday, the 4th of May, 1850,
u rider its original name —instead of Richards ’ Weekly Ga
zette—ns more significant of its iteculiar chamctrr, it being
the only weekly organ of Literature in the entire South !
It is
GREATLY ENLARGED AND IMPROVED,
Containing weekly Thirty-two Columns cf matter. It
is, moreover, in an
ENTIRELY NEW DRESS
“ from head to foot,” and upon beautiful white paper, so
that, in mechanical excellence, itshall not be surpassed by
any paper whatever in the United States! It will contin
ue under the same Editorial direction as heretofore, and no
pains or expense will be spared to make it
A CHOICE FAMILY NEWSPAPER,
“as cheap as the cheatiest, and as good as the best !”
Utterly discarding the notion that a Southern journal can
not compete with the Northern weeklies, in cheapness and
interest,
THE SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE
Shall rival the best of them ill all the characteristics of a
truly valuable fireside Journal. Its aim will be the diffu
sion of cultivated and refined taste throughout the com
munity—and it will embrace in its ample folds every spe
cies of intelligence that can tend to this result
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS,
from many of the ablest writers in the South, will chiefly
occupy its columns, but not to the exclusion of choice mis
cellany. selected from the lest American mil European
sources
The tone of the “ Gazette” will be independent in criti
cism and in the discussion of every legitimate topic, but it
will lie strictly
NEUTRAL IN POLITICS AND RELIGION!
Its columns will lie occasionally embellish.si with
SOUTHERN PORTRAITS A LANDSCAPES.
engraved expressly for the work, and accompanied by
biographical and topographical sketches. A portrait of
the Hon. Judge Lumpkin, of Georgia, appeared in the
first number, and others will follow at moi thly intervals.
ITS GENERAL INFORMATION
will lie copious, but carefully condensed I'm the leading
Journals of all parts of the world.
Notwithstanding the great increase i n iheueaud at
traction* of the paper, it will still he pnblished at
Two Dollars Per -dunum, in Meaner >
It will he furnished to clubs on the following terms:
Three copies,
Five copies, g
Ten copies, 15
Fifteen copies, 20
T weaty copies, 25
Fifty copies,
C All orders must he accompanied with the money,
and addressed, post-paid, to
WALKER & RICHARDS.
Charleston, S. C.
N. B. Editors who will copy, or notice fully, this Pros
pectus, shall receive the Gazette regularly, ami also a
beautiful Juvenile Magazine, entitled “The Schoolfel
low.”
GENERAL AGENCY
IN LITERATURE, ART ivd SCIENCE.
AT TIIK
Office of the Southern Literary Gazette.
Corner of Broad-st. and East-Bay, (up stairs )
Charleston, S. S
Thk Undersigned, Editor of the “ Southern Lite
rary Gazette,” begs leave to inform the public tbat
he has opened a General Agency for the ransactioti of
any business connected with Literature, Science and
Art. He will correspond with authors concerning the
publication of books and pamphlets upon u.eir own ao
count, or Otherwise ; execute any commission for gentle,
nten forming libraries ; forward subscription- for any peri
odica! work, American or European : receive and execute
promptly commissions for any work of Art; supply accu
rate estimates of the cost of Philosophical Instruments,,
order them at his own risk and guarantee their efficiency
All communications must he addressed, prepaid, to
WM. C. RICHARDS.
No charge will lie made for any service required
by his brethren of the press, who will oblige him by pub
lishing this notice.