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testimony supported by the most un
deniable evidence; .Tesus presented
his Divine credentials, and confirmed
his testimony by signs and wonders.
As received. It is said, “Xo man
reeeiveth his testimony;” that is, but
few. in comparison with those who re
ject. It implies
A candid hearing. This the Gospel
demands at our hands. Every thing
in religion is open and fair, it invites
us to “ come and see,” and courts our
investigation : but many reject it from
the power of prejudice.
A firm belief. It must have your
full credence, as that which is of infi
nite moment to your best interest.
.1 cordial reception. And this must
be entire in its nature, sincere in its prin
ciple. practical in its tendency, and pleas
ing in its results.
\s confirmed. We subscribe to
certain agreements by signing our hand,
and setting our seal. To this, allusion
is here made, hook at the substance
of this testimony. “God is true.”—
Even thing around us tends to con
linn this. He is so in his covenant
engagements, purposes, and promises.
Tin manner of it is strikingly express
ed—” Hath set to his seal/’ as a sol
emn and deliberate, act. Martyrs did
it with their blood, but this is not re
quired of ns. Pile importance of it will
appear, it we consider that it tends to
God s honor, our own satisfaction, and
the encouragement of others
A GOOD APOLOGY.
1 Thess., ii.. 4—o.—But as we were allowed
of God to Ik* par in trust with the Gospel, even
so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God,
which trieth our hearts. For neither at any
time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor
a cloak of covetousness ; God is witness : nor
ot men sought v.v glory, neither ot you. not yet
of other-.
la* Pere Scraphin. who lived during
the reign ut* I,tmis the Fourteenth, is
spoken of as having been a truly apos
tolical preacher, ii was common for
tin* clergy who preached before their
sovereign to pour forth upon him the
most disgusting eulogies: but Scraphin
i> mentioned as an exception. The
first time that he ascended the pulpit
in the sovereign s presence, he said to
him. “Sir. 1 am not ignorant of the
custom, according to the prescription
of which 1 am expected to pay you a
compliment. This, 1 hope, your ma
jesty will dispense with: for 1 have
been searching for a compliment in the
Scriptures, and. unhappily, I have not
found one, —/’ add s ‘Scripture flf a ti
trated.
#it(irs’ Drprtmnit.
WM. C. RICHARDS. Editor.
D. H. JACQUES. Associate Editor.
Cfjnrlrstan, 1
Saturday morning, may 11, JBSO.
MISS BREMER AT CAMP MEETING.
lu sketching hastily, and in outline, the
events of a day passed with Miss Bremer at ,
the Camp Meeting near Charleston, we trust j
we shall not be thought guilty of transcending i
the strict rules of propriety, since our readers j
are till more or less interested in the move- !
incuts’ of one whose reputation makes her ‘
rather the guest of the nation, than of the few
individuals who may have the special liappi- j
nc.-s of entertaining her. If the liberty we
take is not unwelcome to the accomplished lady
chiefly concerned, we have no reason to appre
hend the discontent of our readers.
The third person of our little party was Mrs.
H„ the amiable hostess of Miss Bremer; and it
was upon a warm afternoon on the verge of 1
Mav, that our carriage proceeded to the Rail
Road station, where we found a long train of 1
ears ready to depart for the Catnp Ground. As |
bv far the greater number of the passengers ,
were servants, and conveyed at very low fares, j
most of the cars were merely baggage wagons, j
fitted up with temporary seats, all of which i
were now crowded with negroes and mulattoes,
ot both sexes and all ages, every face beaming j
with anticipation of enjoyment at the Camp
Ground. Our party found comfortable seats in
u first class car, with perhaps three score other
white persons, among whom were several ,
whose dress and manners proclaimed them to
belong to the clerical order.
Ihe journey “by rail” was nineteen miles, I
and occupied something over an hour. At the j
Camp station, we found it motley crowd of j
whites and blacks, many of them waiting to j
return to the city in the cars which had just !
conveyed us from it. The “Camp” is situated i
ad *>ut a mile from the station, a distance which, ;
m dm somewhat oppressive warmth of the
afternoon, we preferred riding to walking, al- |
though Miss Bremer, with true European love j
for the latter independent method of locomo
tion, was quite inclined to adopt it. We found j
a crazy old carriage, with two equally crazy old
horses, and a not much less crazy old coachman,
waiting the command of any who were wil
ling to pay ‘• sevenpence” for a ride. Our
party was soon in the vehicle, and Mrs. H.'s
servant, with the large basket of bodily com
torts, behind it. The road to the Camp was
rilled with pedestrians, and it required all the
address of our driver to clear the way for his
equipage, which he did. however, with great
g'">d humour and politeness, two unfailing
characteristics of an old negro servant.
Arrived at the outskirts of the Camp, we
dismissed our sable “whip” and advanced
into the interior. Our first care was to secure
tor the ladies a share of that generous hospital
er which distinguishes alike “the Court, the
< uinp” of the Southern people. Nor was it a
difficult task. Apart from the fact that one of
the trio had several acquaintances upon the
ground, the name of our distinguished guest
was an instant passport to the good will of a
very courteous gentleman, to whose attentions
ttud the unremitting kindness of his excellent
wife, we were indebted for a degree of com
fort, while at the Camp, far beyond our expec
tations. In the behalf of their stranger guest,
u> m our own, we make this acknowledgement
tor their hospitality.
Miss Bremer was sit once presented to se
v,'i;tl of the clergymen, and finder the escort
ot one of them, we proceeded to explore the
1 amp. This is more spacious than most similar
grounds, in consequence of its proximity to a
populous city. It is situated in the pine woods,
and is flanked all around by the tents or cabins
“t the families who visit it annually. These
‘ lK ‘ vc ‘ r y numerous; probably there are nearly
three hundred in both divisions of the Camp—
” bite and black. Tliev are generally built of
h'g* or plank, and are divided into two or
‘““re rooms. Some of them arc roughly ceiled
■ ll ‘d floored, lu the lower or negro quarter of
II C ar np, the cabins are smaller and more
“°wded, to accommodate the far greater num
1’ their occupants. Many ot them are
instructed partially of canvass, but all are
<o, "fortable and fully sheltered from sun or
storm.
. supper in the cabin of our friend, Mr.
S.. we all proceeded to the “stand” for puhlic
worship. This is a vast open building, in the
centre of the ground, and presented to the
European eyes of Miss 8., a strange contrast
to the Cathedrals and temples of solid masonry
to which she had been accustomed. It is at
least 200 feet long, with a breadth of one-third
that extent, and consists merely of a huge
shingled roof, supported upon rude hewn posts
of pine, with the whole interior open to the
free winds of heaven. The whole area is co
vered with pine straw, and furnished with rude
wooden benches. As we approached it, the
scene was full of interest, and, to Miss Bremer,
in the highest degree novel and exciting. At
intervals ot thirty or forty feet, all around the
building, were erected rude tables, about five
feet high, which appeared like altars, especi
ally as they were kept constantly piled with
bright tires, that seemed as if consuming the
sacrifice. These fires shed a strong but lurid
glow upon the “ forest sanctuary,” and revealed
without a dole, mass of human beings, the
lower half teeming with black and shining
faces, and the upper half less crowded by the
whites—the women on one side and the men
on the other. In the centre of the building
stood the pulpit, a square desk, with a candle
at each corner ; and all around this, enclosing
a space several feet broad, was the railing of
the altar, at which, upon the outside, knelt, at
certain times, those who were convicted of
sin, while upon the inside were the ministers,
who prayed with them, or otherwise sought to
impart to them consolation and hope.
While we were contemplating the singular
scene, and noting the eurious effects of light
and shadow produced bv the fitful fires upon
the huge trunks of the pines, which onr imagi
nation easily transformed into tall and slender
columns supporting the dome of some vast
rustic C athedral, a sharp and prolonged blast
ol a horn startled us from our dreamings and
awoke echoes through the forest. It was the
call to evening worship, and obedient to the
summons, the whole congregation gathered ra
pidly and nearly filled the vast area of the
“stand. W e took our seats together, although
not exactly scion a regie, for it was naturally
the wish of Miss Bremer to be a “looker on
here in \ ienna,” and to go where fancy listed in
the intervals of service. It was not a little
amusing to see the furtive glances which were
directed to our party from eyes near and re
mote, as it was whispered from one to another
that a foreign lady was among them, though
comparatively few, probably, of those present
knew even the name or position of Miss Bremer.
The latter was truly an unconscious object of
attention, her whole feelings being deeply and
strangely absorbed in the scene around her.
\\ bile others watched her, and we, of her
party, with perhaps more interest than anv of
them, to gather from her eloquent face an idea
of the effect produced upon her by this new
scene of life. She was eagerly drinking in at
eye and ear the impressions of novelty and
surprise which the circumstances could not fail
to awaken. When the opening hymn was sung,
chorussed by several thousand voices, she
seemed intensely interested, and well she
might, for there was a strange and subduing
power in that vast sea of sound, whose waves
seemed to roll through the air around us with
billowy undulations. When the hymn was
finished, she turned to us and eagerly requested
that the words of the song might be repeated.
It was Cowper's exquisite hymn:
“ O for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame ;
A light to shine upon the road,
That leads me to the Lamb !*’
We repeated it to her, and site expressed her
pleasure both with the words and the melody
to which they had heen adapted. During the
prayer which followed, nearly all the vast con
gregation sunk upon their knees, and Miss Bre
mer looked her surprize to us, as the frequent
echoes and responses to the petition of the
minister broke from the lips of many worship
ers. The sermon that followed was a simple
and unimpassioned exhibition of divine truth.
So calm and impressive was the manner of the
speaker, that our friend was greatly surprized
and perhaps disappointed, for she had evident
ly expected a great swelling sound of words
and much excitement of manner. She even
thought the preacher lacking in fervour adapt
ed to the circumstances, her impressions of
those circumstances being evidently coloured
by the reports she had heard of Camp Meeting
oratory.
When the sermon was concluded, the pecu
liar features of the scene began to develope
themselves. The altar-fires were renewed;
there were even large accessions to the congre
gation, and an evident feeling that the business
of die night was now to commence.
[Our limits will not allow us to complete this
sketch in one number, and we will therefore
close it at this point, promising to finish it next
week.]
PROGRESS.
Men lacking faith in God and in man. have
said that all progress is but in a circle. This
is almost true; but in the fact that it is not
quite so, lies boundless hope for Humanity.
Society may be said to move in a spiral line.
Something is gained at every re volution, though
it may seem, to the careless observer, to return
to the same point. The reaction which followed
the triumphs of European Republicanism in
1848, did not undo all that had been accom
plished by the terrible struggles of the people
for freedom. Some points were gained which
have not been and cannot be lost.
TO EXCHANGES.
We regret to part with any of our old friends
of the press, but our exchange list Inis become
so large that we tire under the necessity of
curtailing it, and if some of our exchanges
hereafter mi - our weekly visits, they will not,
we trust, attribute it io any unkind feeling on
our part towards them. “We would gladly
exchange with every paper in the land it we
could afford it.
Country papers wishing so secure a continu
ance of the exchange with us, can do so by
publishing our prospectus or by noticing it at
length in their editorial columns. To those
with whom we must part, we say a kind—
good bye.
(Dnr item (fnltnim.
i
A Splendid Bible.
Mr. John Russell has for sale, at his well
supplied Book Store, a very elegant copy of
the Bible, printed and bound in Philadelphia ,
by Messrs. Lippencott A Cos., who exhibited it
at the last Fair of the American Institute. It
is the Bagster edition, bound in pannelled
boards and shielded with heavy gold ornaments
and clasps. Upon the gilded edges are wrought
in colours various appropriate figures and em
blems, producing a novel and elegant effect
The price is only ¥125. less by far than the
cost of a very unpretending copy of the same
book in the days “ lang syne.”
Cheap Postage.
The friends of the Cheap Postage System
have every reason to be encouraged by the
prospects of the measure in Congress. Mr.
Rusk, Chairman of the Senate Committee, has
reported a bill proposing a uniform rate of two
cents for each half ounce, if pre paid, and fire
cents if not pre-paid. It abolishes the frank
ing privilege entirely,
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE.
The Parisians have lately been excited to a
perfect frenzy of enthusiasm, with a dance
called La Siciliennc, as performed by Cerito
and her husband St. Leon.
African Colonization.
A philanthropic gentleman of Alabama, Mr.
Joseph Bryan, has petitioned Congress to build
four first class steam ships, and authorise and
require each ship to make four trips per annum
from the Atlautic ports and Pernambuco to Li
beria. Mr. Bryan thinks the following objects
may be attained:
1. The suppression of the African slave
trade.
2. The carriage of the mails from the United
States to Liberia.
3. The regulation and increase of our trade
with Liberia.
4. The promotion of the emigration of free ne
groes.
Education.
The facetious poet, Holmes, thus describes
the process of “education” at a fashionable
hoarding school. What a glorious thing is this
civilization of the nineteenth century :
‘‘They sent her to a stylish school ;
Twas in her thirteenth June;
And with her, as the rules required,
‘ Two towels and a spoon.’
They braced her back against a hoard,
To make her straight and tall,
They laced her up, and starved her down.
To make her light and small;
They pinched her feet, they singed her hair,
They screwed it up with pins—
Oh, never mortnl suffered more
In penance for her sins!”
Mnemonics.
On the 23d of October, 1440, Gillez tie Retz.
supposed to be the veritable Blue Beard, was
led in chains to the place of execution and
burned alive at the stake. “ About this date,”
says the historian, “there can be no doubt, for
the people of Anjou and Maine, bv common
consent, whipped their children on that morn
ing, so as to impress the precise date on their
memory.” The peasants of Anjou and Brit
tany still practice this queer mnemonic process.
An Ancient Throne.
M. Layard, in the prosecution of his re
searches at .Nineveh, has discovered an Assyr
ian Throne, made of ivory and inlaid with gold,
with rings in front as if for curtains. His an
tiquarian labours continue to produce results of
a most interesting and important character.
A Bibliothecal Hell.
In the Bibliotheque Nationals, at Paris,
there is a department called Hell, devoted to
bad, obscene and abominable books of all
countries and times and languages. These
books are utterly unfit to be read, but are
many of them of great pecuniary value. Re
cent investigations have revealed the fact that
within a few years this Hell lias lost not less
than two-thirds of its victims. The liooks have
been stolen.
(Our fmk iintilf.
Desultokia ; the Recovered MSS. of an Eccentric.
New York : Baker & Scribner. 1850.
Some books, which would be damned by
their manner, are saved by their matter, and
we are content to excuse inelegancies and in
accuracies of style, in consideration of the in
terest and value of the thoughts and facts con
veyed through it. Others, which possess no
great intrinsic merit, receive absolution for their
lack, on account of a racy or a brilliant style.
Works which belong to neither of these classes
must be saved—if saved at all—by an “especial
act of grace.” in default of which we tremble
for the fate of the book before us.
“ Desultoria ” is the sickly offspring of a
morbid sentimentalism, and we desire to treat
it with all the tenderness due to its unfortunate
condition ; but we have no mercy for its pre
tended friends, whose conduct in sending the
bantling out into a cold and heartless world to
“ make its own way,” cannot be too strongly
condemned. If it meets with harm, who is
responsible ?
The work is rambling and disconnected in
its character, as one is led to expect it to be
from the first clause of its title. The second
clause informs us that it is the work of an
“ Eccentric,” and seems to point to something
fresh original and bizarre. For this we look
in vain. Its thoughts are commonplace and
trite, and are expressed in a weak and puerile
style. We open the book at random, and copy
from p. 103 the following brief passage, in il.
lustration of what we have just said :
“ How different, not only are the actions of
various individuals, but how much does the
same person vary at times ? even bordering on
fickleness frequently— mure especially if he
has any thing of in his nature.
At one tirne. I had rather spend weeks in my
solitary room, surrounded by my books, than be
filling a station, the most envied bv men. At
another time, my greatest delight is in mingling
with men, observing actions, and peering into
into their motives, in the divers conditions and
stations in the vast moving world. * * *
“ And give me the sight of the mountains
that vary as you gaze on them during every
hour of the day—to those poor sea-attached
beings, who have never seen the mountains,
how surprising, how wonderful are these cloud
like formations.”
The following is rather a cloudy passage,
hut not more so than many others:
“ 1 am alone with my horse and dog ; and 1
am on one of iny mad jaunts through the
mountain region—a strange day it has been in
a meteorological view—and now the clouds
are of that singular union of blue, gray and
yellow, which characterizes a storm not far
distant—a storm of snow. Clouds are very
intelligent inanimates—hut I consider snow
clouds the most fastidious, patience-trying
things in the world—for when you have the
wind at the right point, the atmosphere, the
exact temperature, and these very aforesaid
clouds direct to the point, and you are looking
every moment for the snow—east your eye to
the heavens, and you will behold a palpable
flirtation has taken place, and your sworn
clouds are sailing off in the distant sky.”
There may be beautiful islands in this sea of
fog, but we have not yet been fortunate enough
to discover them.
The book is apparently aimless, unless, in
deed, it is intended to encourage suicide, in
which the author of the “ Recovered MSS.”
finds relief from ills which he lias not the
strength and courage to bear. Our author
rails at society as it is, but points to no remedy
ior its iisserted evils, and sees nothing better to
come. No name appears on the title page, as
author or editor, and we are ignorant when,
where and by whom the book was written.
Occasional “ Southerisms,” as our Northern
neighbours call them, like the following, for
instance,
“ Enough of clouds! and tell me, oh my
soul! what makes nature so much like she was
in a dread suspense previous to a snow-storm?”
show it to have been written south ol Mason
& Dixon’s line, and authorize us to claim it as
another addition to our stock of “ Southern
Litetature.”
Modern Literatcßß and Literary Men : being a
Second Series of Literary Portraits. By George Giltil
lan. New York: D. Appleton & Cos.
Although we cannot, in all cases, coincide
with Mr. Gilfillau in his estimates of the writ
ings and genius of the distinguished individuals
to whom he has given a nitch in his literary
Pantheon, and, moreover, are not blind to the
tinselry of his brilliant but affected and over
wrought style, we confess to a strong liking
lor his books, and especially for the volume be-
lore us. Even the verbal and syntatic leger
demain m which he so much delights, though
it offends the judgment, strangely captivates
the fancy.
His former series of Literary Portraits won
lor .Mr. Gilfillan a wide reputation, which will
be more than sustained by the present volume,
as its criticisms are more discriminating and
profound. Ii embraces sketches of twenty-five
writers, among whom are two Americans —
Emerson and Longfellow. The paper on
Emerson, though it contains much severe criti
cism, is, on the whole, highly flattering to the
“ Seer of Concord.” The following brief but
characteristic passages are all that we have
room to quote from it:
“ Emerson, coming down among men from
his mystic altitudes, reminds us irresistibly
at times of Rip Van Winkle, with his gray
beard and n; ty firelock, descending the Cais
kill Mountains, from his sleep of a hundred
years. A dim, sleepy atmosphere hangs around
him. All things have an unreal appearance.
Men seem ‘ like trees walking.’ Os his own
identity he is by no means certain. As in the
‘Taming of the Shrew,’ the sun and the moon
seem to have interchanged places; and yet,
arrived at his native village, he (not exactly
like honest Rip) sets up a grocer’s shop, and
sells, not the mystic draught of the mountain,
but often the merest commonplace preparations
of an antiquated morality.
“ In fact, nothing is more astounding about
the writer than the mingled originality and
triteness of his matter. Now he speaks as if
troin inmost communion with the soul of being;
Nature seems relieved of a deep burden which
had long lain on her bosom, when some of his
oracular words are uttered ; and now it is as if
the throat of the thunder had announced the
rule of three—as if the old silence had been
broken to enuciate some truism which every
schoolboy had long ago recorded in his copy
book.” * * * *
“ He is certainly, apart altogether from his
verse, the truest poet America has ever pro
duced. He has looked immediately, and
through no foreign medium, at the poetical
elements which he found lying around him.
He has “ staid at home with the soul,” leaving
others to gad abroad in search of an artificial
and imperfect inspiration. He has said, “If
the spirit of poetry chooses to descend upon
me as I stand still, it is well; if not, I will not
go a step out of my road in search of it ; here,
on this rugged soil of Massachusetts, I take my
stand, baring my brow in the breeze of my own
country, and invoking the genius of my own
words.’! Nor has he invoked it in vain. Words,
which are picturesque—sounds, which are song
—snatches of a deep woodland melody—-jubi
lant raptures in praise of nature, reminding you
afar off of those old Hebrew hymns, which,
paired to the timbrel or the clash of cymbals,
rose like the cries of some great victory to
heaven—are given to Emerson at his pleasure.
His prose i- not upon occasion, and elaborately
dyed with poetic hues, but wears them ever
about it on its way, which is a winged way, not
along the earth, but through the high and liquid
air.”
Longfellow is eulogised without stint. We
will, by and by, in our “ Glimpses of New
Books,” give our readers a peep at what he
says of the author of Evangeline. In the pa
per in question, he thus speaks, incidentally, of
American poetry and poets:
“In spite of the penumbra of prejudice
against American verse, more fugitive floating
poetry of real merit exists in its literature than
in almost any other. Dana has united many
of the qualities of Crabbe to a portion of the
weird and haggard power of Coleridge’s muse.
Percival has recalled Wordsworth to our minds,
by the pensive and tremulous depth of his
strains. Bryant, without a trace of imitation,
has become the American Campbell, equally
select, simple, chary, and memorable. In re
ply to Mrs. Hernans, have been uttered a per
fect chorus of voices—
“ Sweet and melancholy sounds,
Like music on the waters. ”
Emerson has poured forth notes, sweet now as
the murmur of bees, and now strong as the
roar of torrents ; here cheerful as the pipings of
Arcadia, and there mournfully melodious as the
groans of Ariel, from the centre of his cloven
pine. And with a voice of wide compass,
clear articulation, and most musical tones, has
Longfellow sung his manifold and melting num
bers.”
The volume contains a large mass of biograph
ical facts and no small amount of sound criti
cism, and will be found readable and interest
ing throughout.
Miss Leslie’s Lady’s Receipt Book for Cooking.
A. Hart: Philadelphia. 1850.
Shall I, a prospective old bachelor, be likely
to get my ears boxed, if I hint aloud to the
young lady readers of the Gazette, that they
take a look into this work of Miss Leslie, and
see what there is in the world, and how to
cook it. I shall run this risk, even if 1 fare
worse—to the boxed ears have added the in
junction, “ Mind your own business.” As lam
“ chalked out ” lor a member of the “ Old
Bachelor’s Club,” I shall be exempted from all
personal consideration in this matter, and my
good intentions must be placed to the credit of
universal philanthropy, when I say to all the
young ladies who hope to have homes of their
own—and some member of the Club aforesaid
ought to condole with those whose prospects
are as dubious as mine—that the work which
Miss Leslie has here given them, might be
studied half a year with great benefit, even
though the lady never had occasion to exercise
her knowledge. The mistress of a house
ought to know how — be able to tell at a glance
whether servants are versed in the best modes
of preparing food, be that food rich or simple,
high-seasoned or plain. Food, to support and
nourish the system, must be properly cooked—
prepared, if you prefer the term. There is a
weakness in domestic economy somewhere,
and many of our common articles of diet come
upon the table the embodiment of dyspepsia.
Steaks are burnt, “ done to death,” or fall far
short of the required recommendation, “ just
right.” A nice “ roasting piece ” will come to
table, the outside “ done brown ’” with a ven
geance, the second course as raw as when it
was “spitted.” Hominy is usually served up
with half an hour’s boiling, whereas hominy,
to be hominy, requires four or five hours’ cook
ing. If the mistress of the house knows how
these things ought to be done, it is easy apply
ing a remedy—if she don’t know, it will take a
few days more than a life-time lor the servant
to learn, and then the knowledge wont be
worth much. But cooking—preparing food—
is not the all ol life, though it is a great thing
to be able to serve up the simple dish ol hominy,
and make it superior to the luxurious iced
cream or Charlotte Russe, and yet a thorough
knowledge of Domesticry (do you allow such
words?; will enable the woman to do this.—
Miss Leslie takes the student by the hand and
leads her over her home that is to be, explains
the use and benefit of each apartment—the
proper mode of caring for it—gives directions
for furniture, with “ curtains to match”—and
after she hits shown the house from “ cellar to
attic,” she leaves her pupil with the motto, “A
place for every thing, and every thing in its
place.” And so, Mr. Editor, I leave this no
tice and the book. If they are out of place,
will you put them where they belong?
The Lounger at your Table.
A Dictionary of Synonymical Terms of the En
glish Language. By the Rev. James Rawson, A.
M. Philadelphia: Lindsey & Biackistoti. 1850.
The author of this modest and unpretending,
but very useful volume, deserves the warmest
thanks of the student and the writer, for sup
plying the want, so severely felt, of a book of
the kind, at once full, comprehensive and easy
of reference. The extensive, elaborate anil
learned work of Crabb, though exceedingly
valuable to the philological student, is by no
means convenient as a manuel for the desk and
for constant use. As such a manuel, we can
not too cordially commend the book before us.
cOitr CnntpHiprnrifG.
Godey's Lady's Book, for May, has
been on our table some time. It contains a
continuation of Simms’ serial—Katharine Wal
ton, and other interesting articles. Os the en
gravings in tliis number we cannot say much.
We have received two numbers of the
Farmer and Planter, an excellent agricultural
paper, published monthly at Pendleton, S. C.,
at the low price of one dollar per annum, in
advance. We most cordially wish it abundant
success, for it deserves it. Address Seaborn
Gilman, Pendleton, S. C.
Graham's Magazine, for May, has been
received, and is full of good things, as usual.
Of Sartains Magazine, we regret to
say we cannot speak favourably— not having
received it.
The Aomonean is a Jewish paper, pub
lished weekly in New York city, by Robert
Lyon. A great deal of learning and ability
are manifested in its editorial department, to
gether with a liberality which cannot be too
highly commended, and which some Christian
papers we wot of would do well to imitate.
We have received the Phrenological
Journal and the If ater Cure Journal, for
May. Fowlers <ir Wells, New York, are pub
lishers.
The Southern Baptist., Augusta Re
public, Wilmington Commercial, and other pa
pers “ too numerous to mention,” will please
accept >ur warmest Blanks for their kind no
tices.
Dickens’ Household Words. No. 2, just
received. Too late for a notice tliis week. No.
1 has never been received. Will Mr. Putnam
please send it l
iT'ljr i'itfniri] lUorib.
Mr. Putnam has issued a large and compre
hensive Catalogue of Foreign and American
Books, with a classified Index, with prices an
nexed. To extensive book buyers this will be
invaluable, and tin; enterprising publisher de
serves the warmest thanks of the public for
introducing it gratuitously to them.
Stringer N Townsend will issue, early in
June,a “Supplementary Volume to Fish and
Fishing,” by Herbert. They have just issued
“Jenny Lind, her Struggles and Triumphs,”
and “The War of Women,” by Dumas.
Harper X, Brut hers will shortly publish
Horace Greeley’s new work. “ Hints towards
Reforms.”
The Bible in Cherokee. —The Cherokee Ad
vocate says:
“The translation of the Scriptures into our
mother tongue is a great means of disseminat
ing light and knowledge among our people, as
there are a great many who do not speak or
read the English that can read the Cherokee.
It is not uncommon to see an entire Cherokee
congregation, and the meeting conducted en
tirely in the Cherokee language, by the aid of
the translated Scriptures and hymn books.”
Victor Hugo. —lt is said that Victor Hugo
asks not less than £6,000 for anew romance
on which he is engaged, entitled La Miseres dc
Paris.
Mr Waburton, author of the “Crescent and
the Cross,” says a London paper, is about to
essay his powers as a writer of fiction. His
first work in this new vein is entitled “ Regi
nald Hastings.”
(Dttr
[Under this head we shall reply to many letters, contain
ing queries or suggestions upon subjects of general interest,
instead f answering them, as heretofore, by post. This
will save ns time, and “time i money.” \Ve are very
glad to receive letu is from our subscribers, and it only re
quires that the po- :ige he paid to ensure prompt attention.
Kds. ]
Lacy, of R , Tenn. “Cuvellier” was
duly received. We cannot publish it immedi
ately, but are not le-s thankful lor it. We
shall be pleased to have you act as Agent in
R and vicinity. We are convinced that
the people of Tennessee need only to know
our paper, to appreciate and patronize it.
Harry. Your lines are very good for a
“ first attempt,” but you aught not to think
of printing them. Only imagine an artist
sending his first painting to the National Aca
demy for exhibition! Yet sending a “first
attempt” at versification to a newspaper for
publication, is an equally absurd procedure.
Orthographicus. The “ best English Dic
tionary ” which you can procure is Richard
son’s, published in two quarto volumes by E.
H. Butler & C0.,0l Philadelphia, and undoubt
edly for sale at Russell’s. Asa mere book
of definitions and a catalogue raisonne of all
words, good, bad and indifferent, Webster’s
Dictionary is unequalled, but it is an unsafe
guide iu orthography. For an every day man
ual, we use Reid’s work in 12 mo.
S. M. L. We refer you to the Encyclopedia
Brittanica, vol. vii., page 426.
Hortf.nsia wishes to know if a woman who
studies Mathematics and Latin is a “ blue
stocking.” Not a regular has bleu, necessarily,
we think—only a little bluish.
Dan wishes to know if the following sen
tence is a correct one: “ I cannot do those
things like my brother can.” No.
C. L. Many thanks for your excellent arti
cle. We have not received the Intelligencer
since our removal to Charleston.
J. 8., Jr. The Gazette, in its present form,
probably suits a majority of our subscribers bet
ter than it would in the form you suggest. The
Southern Eclectic, of which you will find the
prospectus in another column, will contain the
choicest articles of the Gazette, in a form suit
able for binding. We shall send you that. We
shall write to you soon by Uncle Sam’s Post.
C. C. We have not room for all the good
things which appear in other papers, and can
not publish your selection at present.
iTljf tfhisirnl IV'urlfr.
De Meyer.—lt was reported, some time
since, that Leopold de Meyer, the great pianist,
had become disabled and was leading a small
military band in a provincial town. The Lon
don Musical World contradicts this in toto,
and says that he is in highly prosperous circum
stances, and, if possible, a greater performer
than when in this country.
Jenny Lind. — A correspondent of the Boston
Ji u"fller, writing front Berlin, says:
“ Jenny Lit:-* is by no means homely ; she |
i3 neither too tali nor too short; form and
figure faultless ; hair datl: auburn ; eyes as elo
quent as her voice—and her manner! that is
indescribable. Bite is so sweetly unaffected
and natural in every movement, and her great !
goodness so clearly manifests itself, that you I
will yield at once, and acknowledge that all j
you have previously read and heard of her was j
but a faint tribute to her real worth.”
Piano Fortes and Music.— The world
would be a gloomy place without music ; and
we feel that we shall be contributing to the
happiness of our readers by directing their at
tention to the musical advertisements in our
columns. Messrs. Oates, Zogbaum, and Cole, :
have ample and excellent stocks of instruments !
on hand, and we do not hesitate to recommend
all of them as judicious and reliable musical
purveyors.
New Music. —Mr. Oates, of this city, has
sent us the following uew pieces of Music for
the Piano Forte, published by him at 234 King
street:
The Sunny fide Waltz. This is a graceful
and pleasing composition, by Mr. Henry T.
Oates, a son of the publisher.
Jasper Guards’ March. By a Lady of South
Carolina.
Charleston Quadrilles. By Francis Wool
cott.
Second Savannah Polka. By Francis Rzilin.
Home Street Home, Love Not, and Last
Hose of Summer, three Polkas by Rziha.
These Polkas are among the most popular of
their kind. We are glad to see that “ New
Music’ can be published as neatly and cheaply
in Charleston as in the Northern cities, and we
cordially say, success to this and every home
enterprise.
Messrs. Wm. Hall <fc Son have lately publish
ed the following Music, arranged for the Piano:
Otello, a Bouquet ot Melodies, from Rossini.
Robert le Diable, a Bouquet of Melodies,
from Meyerbeer.
Capt. Walker's March and Quick Step.
North Carolina Polka, by Louis Ernest.
Le Carnival de Venice, with variations, by
De Meyer.
Whisper one Gentle Word. A Ballad.
Allen Polka, by Anderson.
Romances de Franz Schubert, by Liszt.
Bury me in the Little Churchyard. A Song.
The Syracuse March.
Philadelphia Mazurka Quadrille.
Oh, would I were a Girl again ! Ballad.
Coralie, anew Ethiopian Song.
Susan Payne, a celebrated Negro Melody.
The Buena Vista Polka.
Why do I Weep for Thee! Ballad.
Tell me where do Fairies dwell. Duett.
iT'ijr .fin? Jlrts.
Equestrian Statue of Jackson. —The Wash
ington Republic, says that Mills’ equestrian
statue of Jackson, will probably be finished du
ring the summer and occupy its destined place
in that city. The Republic thus speaks of it :
“ Several descriptions of this admirable work
of art have been published, but none of them
can convey to the reader the thoughts and emo
tions of wonder and suprise awakened by be
holding the majestic and life-like creation of
the gifted artist. “ The aspect of the horse,”
says a very judicious critic, “ is at once fiery
and graceful,.while the iron will and indomita
ble energy of his rider are most faithfully ex
pressed.” The design of this statue is original
in that it rests upon the hind feet of the horse,
self poised, and without the aid of any extrane
ous support. 1 his has never heretofore been
successfully attempted. The equestrian statue
of Peter the Great, which has attained a world
wide celebrity, as is doubtless familiar to our
readers, is ingeniously sustained in its position
by the tail of the horse and the folds of the ser
pent upon which he treads ; but .Mr. Mills, by
a nice distribution and adjustment of the weights
of the different parts of his statue, is enabled to
dispense with these adventitious aids, and the
forms of both horse and rider, thus relieved from
every thing like artifice, are left with perfect
freedom to display the high ideal of art.”
It is said that Mr. Mills is in possession of a
plaster cast of the head of our lamented states
man, Calhoun, and accurate measurements of
his person. We trust this is true and that his
next work, will be a statue of that great man,
to occupy a place in the Federal City.
National Academy of Design. —A corres
pondent of the New York Evening Post, thus
speaks of the opening of the new rooms of the
National Academy :
“ There are few galleries in Europe that sur
pass in beauty of finish, in easiness of access,
and in good ventilation and light, the new
rooms of the National Academy of Design.
I look upon the opening of these rooms as
the commencement of anew era in art among
us. For it so happens that nearly all our young
artists who have been studying abroad during
the last few years, have returned since the last
annual exhibition ; and, in addition to this,
quite a number of French and German artists
have, during the same period, come and settled
among us. We have, therefore, a collection of
pictures in the academy now,displaying a great
er variety and amount of talent than'has ever
before been shown upon its walls.
*’ 1 he works of our younger artists are ex
ceedingly interesting. It seems but a few
months since we were regretting the loss of
Cole, Inman,Alston, and others ; but look what
a list of younger ones are hastening on to take
their places ; Rossiter, Kensett, Church, Crop
sey, Cranch, Flagg, White, May, Duggan,
Richards, Hicks, Stearns, Peale, and others
equally clever, but whose names I cannot at this
moment bring to mind.
“ I may be too sanguine, but I look upon
these young men as those who are destined to
lay the foundation of an American school of
painting. In execution and in knowledge of
the art. they are equal to the best of the mo
dern European painters. What they lack is
mind, but this will come with age arid experi
ence. Like all young persons, they are led
away lor a while with color and effect; but the
study of human nature will, I feel confident,
make them give less attention to what merely j
addresses the eye, and more to what influences I
the understanding.
1 owers Eve. —\Y e learn with deep regret
a regret that will be shared by all lovers of art,
that Powers’ statue of Eve, executed for Mr.
Preston of this State, and considered by some, [
the artist s master-piece, has been lost by ship
wreck of! the coast of Spain.
Brtrnfinlitnu dV.aiim.
1 he b ike Department. —The Anniversary
of the hire Department of our city was cele
brated on Friday, the 3d instant, by an im
posing parade. W e have rarely seen an exhi
bition oi the kind that has been equally credit
able to those engaged in it. The presence of
the Oglethorpe Fire Company, from our sister
city of Savannah, added to the interest of the
occasion. After the parade, the various Com
panies engaged in the usual exciting contests
for supremacy. Everything was conducted
with the most perfect order and good feeling.
In discipline, efficiency and friendly feeling,
our Fire Department is not exceeded by any in
the country.
The A, R. Taft. —The barque A. R. Taft,
of Boston, which went ashore on Stono Break
er on Sunday, it is feared will become a total
wreck, the tide flowing over her deck at high
water. Large quantities of damaged goods
have been recovered by the pilot boats and
smacks which have visited her.
Fire. —The rear of a frame building in Meet
ing street, a few doors below the Theatre, was
discovered to be on fire on Saturday afternoon.
Being surrounded by wooden buildings, appre
hensions were entertained of a serious confla
gration, but these were happily put to rest by
the prompt and efficient action of our fire com
panies, and the fire was extinguished with but
trifling injury.— Mercury ..
tTljf (Dlit Itfnrlii.
The steamer Cambria arrived at Halifax on
Monday. She left Liverpool on Saturday,
April 13th, at which time the Niagara had not
arrived.
There has been a decided improvement in
the Cotton market. All descriptions of Ameri- ;
can had advanced fully one eighth. Fair Or
leans is quoted at 7£; Mobile 6s; Upland (if.
Indian Corn is a trifle lower.
We give a brief synopsis of the political
news:
ENGLAND.
The English Ministry having been defeated
in Parliament on two or three minor questions, I
gives force to the general belief that they will
be compelled to resign. D’lsraeli the leader of
the opposition, having recovered his health, the
Protectionists have been inspired with new
courage.
FRANCE.
The assembly have been engaged during the
week in discussing the electoral law for the
suppression of the clubs. It is not expected that
the committee on the Press will report until
after the elections, whtch come off on the 2sth
of April.
At a meeting of the delegates for the republi
can press of Paris, to recommend a candidate
for the Seine, M, de Geradin obtained a major
ity of votes.
ITALY.
Letters of the 4th from Rome, state that fi
nal arrangements have been made for the Pon
tifl’s return. He would arrive at Turicero
on Sunday. This determination was made
notwithstanding the contractors of the loan
have given notice of their intention to limit
the amount of the loan to the sum already paid.
The Senate of Turin is debating a law for
the abolition of ecclesiastical privilege-.
A large French fleet.and an American squad
ron are at Naples.
GREECE.
The Greek question has not been adjusted
and in the event of the failure of the friendly
offices of France there is every reason to ap
prehend serious difficulty i*.-tween England and
Russia, as the former, in the event stated, has
given Admiral Parker express orders to en
force a complete blockade of the coast of
Greece. Should he do so, the Emperor of Rus
sia has given assurance of his intention to ad
vance to the assistance of King Otho.
No authentic advices of a later date than
March 28. have been received from Athens, at
which time the result of the meeting held two
days previously, between Baron Gros and Mr.
Wyse, had not transpired. The meeting is
said to have been of a very amicable, character;
but if a telegraphic dispatch dated Athens, April
2d, published in the Breslau Zeitung can he
credited, the good offices of France have failed
to effect a satisfactory settlement of the dif
ficulty.
(Tljr jiinas us tljr |)nt[.
Cuba. —Appearances indicate that there is
something serious and formidable in the much
talked of prospective struggle for the inde
pendence oi Cuba, ami that Spain is alive to
the dangers which threaten her “ (Jem Island.”
La J*atria says that the naval force on the coasts
of Cuba is to be greatly augmented. On the
subject of these preparations, the New York
Sun holds the following language :
“ The formidable preparations of the Span
iards indicate, and truly too, that the move
ment in and out of Cuba, for the freedom of
that Island, is no puny affiair. The Spaniards
are preparing for a terrible struggle, and they
they will have it, though the odds are greatly
in their favour. July 4th, 1850, the anniversary
of the Independence of “Los Yankees,” is
approaching, Senors of Spain ! Send on your
steam frigates and your seventy-fours! The
free Cubitus will have use for them.”
Georgia Bituminous Coal. —We are inform
ed, says the Augusta Constitutionalist, that
an inexhaustible bed of Bituminous Coal exists
in Walker county, just beyond the Tunnel, and
very near the Rail Road. It is the property of
.Mr, Cravens, who designs working it in con
nection with a Company at Chattanooga, and
we learn that on the completion of the Tunnel,
we may expect large supplies of the article in
this market.
Cuba. —Gen. Lopez, it is stated, has actually
sailed for St. Domingo, with the intention of
assisting the Spanish portion of the population
to overthrow the blacks, and afterwards mak
ing that island a rendezvous for future opera
tions against Cuba.
Magnificent Present. —The gold snuff box,
richly studded with diamonds, which revolver
Colt received from Sultan Abdul-Medid, is said
to be a rare specimen of workmanship, and to
have cost $2,500.
Philadelphia Mint. —The Mint at Philadel
phia is about to receive alterations and addi
tions, which, when completed, will enable it to
coin, when worked to its full capacity, at least
$3,500,000 per month, or forty two millions
per annum.
Macon. —We are pleased to learn that ex
tensive preparations are in progress for rebuild
ing the burnt district. The buildings are to be
ot brick, and in the most approved modern
style.
China. —lt is proposed to raise our Charge
ship to China to a lull mission. The reasons
given, are that the Chinese, like many other
people, are impressed with the importance of a
nation in proportion to its Ambassadorii. show,
and that the salary of a chargeship, $4,500 with
outfit, is not sufficient to support our representa
tive at Canton or Pekin with dignity.
Infantile Mortality. —ln the rural parts of
England 47 per cent, and in Massachusetts 40
per cent die, while they are going through the
process of development ; but in New Orleans it
is estimated that only 3fl 98-100 per cent die
under 20. The chief fatality there occurs with
ages from 20 to 40.
Banks of Honor. —The French have just
started anew idea— Banks of Honor. These
j institutions are to loan small sums to the meri
torious poor, without bond, writing or promise
j pay, and nothing but a naked pledge to re
| turn the loan, which is not to exceed 200 francs
j ($37.50) to each applicant. Loans are to he res
j tricted to the industrious and honest poor, who
have been unfortunate from fire, want of em
ployment, sickness, or murrain among their
j cattle, or for some such reason, and to no others
illipniiitnirnts,
Travelling Agents for the Gazette.—
Rev. W iliiam Richards, Mr. Robert E. Seyle,
Mr. Matthew J. Wroton, J. J. Richards, S, P
Richards.
O’ Mr, A- H, Mazyck is our General Agent
for Charleston.
O’ Other local Agents will be announced
speedily.
Bpro’g Jlltar.
MARRIED,
In New York, on the 24th ult„ P. C. Von
Schaich and Anna Hinckley, daughter of
Jno. W. Mitchell, Esq., formerly of this city
On Waccamaw, on the 25th ult., Josiah S.
Tknnent and Mary R., daughter of John H.
Tucker, Esq.
Jthmsnlnmi.
DIED,
Iu Augusta, Ga., on the 3d inst., Mrs. Mary
Josephine Paxton, wife of Wm. Y. Paxton,
Esq. of this city.
Wept by all who knew her, and appreciated
virtue and good nature, this lady lies dead, like
some spotless flower, stricken from its parent
stem in all its purity and innocence. In vain
the fond regrets of husband and friends deplore
their los3, and recall her innocent spirit. May
the same kind hand that has taken her to its
protection in another world, wipe away ,he
tears of her bereaved friends, and mm an ap
parent calamity to a blessing.
“ I saw her opertin* virtues hloom.
And ianor-cuce unfold,
Too “non to fade!” P,
In Beaufort District, on the 27th ult.. Mrs. |
R lbecca P. Ei.lts, wife of Nathaniel Ellis,
Esq., in the 36th year of her age.
(’ll MILLS LOVE,
(Partner and Successor of the late firm of Jos. Thomson
<V Cos.)
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INKIWLLED NORTH OR SOUTH’
THE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME
OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE
Was commenced on Saturday, the 4tl, of May 1850
undents original name-la, lead of Richards’ HeeklyGa.
zene-as more s.gmhcant of it, peculiar character, i, being
the only weekly organ of Literature in the entire South !
GREATLY ENLARGED AND IMPROVED
Containing weekly Thirty.,wo Columns of matter.’ It
is, moreover, in an
ENTIRELY NEW DRESS
from head foot,” and upon beautiful white paper so
that, in mechanical excellence, itshall not be surpassed’ by
any paper w hatever in the United State,! I, will contin
e under the same Editona. direction as heretofore , Z no
| pains or expense will lie spared to make it
A CHOICE FAMILY NEWSPAPER
. “as cheap a, the cheapest, and as good as the’bes,
I tterly discarding the notion that a Southern journal can
not wtth the Northern weeklies, i„ cheapness and
THE SOUTHERN LITERARY CA7FTTP
Shall rival the best of them in all the a
truly valuable fireside Journal. I„ aim will be the dirt’n
smitol cultivated and refined taste throughout the com
muiuty-aud ,t will embrace in its amp le f oM s everyT
cies ot intelligence that ran tend to this result
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS
from man, of the ablest writers i„ the South, wiU chiefly
occupy it- columns, bn, „o, to the exclusion choice n,i
cellany. selected from the be-t Y.nerie- ~ .it
-vniern ,„n and huropean
The tone of the “ Gazette” will be ind,pendent in crip,
cism and in the discuPHion of
will be strictly ° leß,,,n ‘ at * ‘‘>l'“-. I H
NEUTRAL IN POLITICS AND RELIGION’
Its columns will lie (AcvaNionallv uriK.j;; .i ir i • .
SOI.'THERN PORTRAITS A L^mOa'pE.
engraved expressly for the work ...
biographical and topographical -tretene-
firs, Jill follow a,’ monthly Jrv£
ITS GENERAL IN FOR VIATIOX
W'ld lie copious, but carefully condensed from the leading
Journals of all parts of the world *
Notwithstanding the great increase i u the size and at
tractions of the paper, it will „m l(e publish^
Two Dollars Per Annurr., ,
It will he furnished 10 clnhi „n th#*
rp. .on the following terms:
1 hree coni'::-,
•*■*-
jr ive copies,
Ten copies,
Fifteen copies,
Twenty copies,
Fifty copies,
T ,w n,ns t lie accompanied with the money,
and addressed, post-paid, to
WALKER it RICHARDS.
Charleston, S. C.
N. B. Ethtors who will copy, or notice fully, this Pro*,
pectus, shall receive the Gazette regularly, and also a
beautiful Juvenile Magazine, entitled “The Sehoolfe!
low.”
GENERAL AGENCY’
IN LITERATURE, ART and SCIENCE
AT THE
Office of the Southern Literary Gazette.
Corner of Broad-st. and East- Bay, (up maim.)
™ tt a ■ ac, Charleston, S. S.
Thz Undersigned, Ed,tor of the - Southern Lire
rary Gazette, begs leave to inform the public that
he has opened a General Agency for the transaction of
any business connected with Literature sl • ,
A-, ii ~,-n a A-ncratupe, Science and
Art. He will correspond with
... _ . 11,1 authors concerning the
publication oi hooks and pamphlet- niuw ■
• “uiimieis upon their own ac
count, or otherwise : execute ......
. ... . ute an ) eonuw-sioii for gentle
men tunning libraries ; forward ~
... , , . ’ w anl ‘•ttbsoriptions tor one peri
odical work, American or European ; receive and Execute
promptly co.mmssuuis tor any work of Art; snnply accu
rate estimates of the cost of Philosophic,! Illst ru„,e,u.
orderthem a, his own risk and guarantee tneir efficiency
aVU communications mu*t be addressed, prepaid, to
WM. C. RICHARDS.
charge will be made for any service required
by his brethren of the press, who will oblige him by pub*
lihaing this notice,,