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ii, by him for (he purpose: and still
•*. t he mass sung in the chapel; still,
overV night, when the great square is
illuminating, and the casinos are filling
t Vt with the gay and the dissipated, a
j‘ e ll i s rung as for a service, and a ray
felit is seen to issue from a small
’ , t ]i"ie window that looks towards the
lace of execution, the place where on
scaffold Marcolini breathed his last.
[Rogers's Italy.
d-iiitors’ Department.
WM C. RICHARDS, Editor.
9 H. JACQUES, Associate Editor.
(fljnrlrstnu, I. <LV.
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1850.
NOTES ON THE NORTH ;
t ROM THE EDITOR’S POCKET BOOK.
CHAPTER I.
Emtiarcation — Apprehensions —“ The Sea, the
Sea, the Open Sea’’—A Sick transit—The
Detainin’ Physical Transformations —
Scenery —l cigar Taste—A Phenomenon —
Philadelphia Hackmen —“ The Osprey .”
At 4 o’clock ou tile afternoon of the Ist inst.
we embarked on the steam-ship “ Osprey,” for
Philadelphia. Her cabins were well tilled with
passengers, most of whom looked, with some
natural misgivings, .ti the ominous aspect of
die sky, and said in tones which betrayed the
id-mcerity ot their words, that “ they trusted
it would not be very rough outside.” Before
ihe first hour had expired however, many faces
disappeared from the quarter deck that were
seen there no more, until the steamer was
battling with the -trong ebb of the waters in
the Delaware river, when they emerged from
different recesses of the cabins, pale its a sheeted
ghost!
The wind had been setting briskly front the
North East for several days, and had raised a
respectable “ Sea,’’ so that we had no sooner j
eios.-ed the bar and obtained a full view of the
“ billowy expanse of ocean,” than we very
naturally began to “see saw” in the most or
thodox manner conceivable. The breeze con
tinued until we passed “ Hatteras,” and when
it subsided to a dead cairn, as it did on Mon
day, the ocean still cut such a “swell” that
some of the passengers said there was no en
during it, and absolutely refused to countenance
it for a moment. We had on board it waggish
genius, whose chief propensity wa- to make
classical puns. Ou being asked, towards the
close of the voyage, what he thought of the
passage, he shook his head and replied with a
quizzical look, “Sic transit /”
On Tuesday morning, we entered the fine
bay of the Delaware, but, unfortunately, the
dawn was too feeble to afford us a view of the
celebrated •• Breakwater,” which is a vast wall
of hewn rock jutting out from the main land
into the sea, and forming within a safe and
quiet anchorage for ships, whatever the vio
lence of the waves without. Had we entered
the Bay an hour or two earlier, our voyage up
the river would have been far more quickly
accomplished than it was, as we should have
been enabled to go up “ with the tide,” instead
of opposing it, as we did, the whole distance.
I he prevailing head winds had sufficed greatly
to retard our speed on the first half of the voy
age; and although on Monday our gallant
steamer flew on the waters, she could not quite
redeem lost time. We all regretted tills delay
ihe less, however, that it afforded us the plea
sun ot a day on the Delaware, where, with
bright skies above and placid waters beneath
us we could really enjoy the beautiful scenery
which its shores present.
The transformation among our passengers
was magical and curious. Not only new faces
appeared upon the quarter, but the whole body
of passengers underwent a change. Among
the gentlemen, dressing gowns and old sacks
were exchanged for spruce coats—slippers gave
way to polished boots—glazed caps abdicated
infavour of genuine “ Beebe's ” —and “ Maeas
a: shone forth in all its wonted lustre, from
heads that had been sadly neglected for the
-pace ot some forty-eight hours. Nor did the
ladies fail to do honour to the occasion. Some
ui them ol whom we had caught only a glimpse
ur two through swinging doors or in hasty
flights across the cabin, arrayed pour le lit,
ipoorlily, if we may coin an adverb for the
nonce!) now came forth, like Spring butterflies,
bright colours—a little trying, it is true, to
the pallour of their cheeks, hut still sufficing to
kindle a blush thereon, which in no way di
minished their beauty. Many a fair form that
ye-i.-rday shrunk not from stranger eyes,though
it was wrapped only in a sac de unit, to-day
wa> scrupulously attired in full toilet, and had
but a tape or button exhibited disarray, its
“wuer would have felt abashed! Such is the
difference between sea-sickness and restored
health.
I lie distance from the Capes of Delaware to
Philadelphia is put down at 120 miles ; and
with a strong ebb tide, it was the task of a day
■o accomplish it. The voyage was, however, a
pleasant one. The banks of the river were
clothed with the fresh verdure of Summer, and
thickly dotted with country houses, and now
ami then picturesque villages and flourishing
town-, of the latter, we noticed particularly
h‘‘ pretty capital of Delaware, Wilmington,
which within the last ten years has nearly
doubled its population, and now numbers per
na P’ 16.000. “ Delaware City,” also, 44 miles
below Philadelphia, is an improving and attract*
t'e place.
Ine banks of the Delaware are low, and
cultivated to the very margin of the river,
she farm houses are generally painted white
with red roofs, and we could not help thinking,
as we saw a group ol dwellings witli roots as
f ed as paint could make them, that they were
J li on fire, and our impulse was to ring the bell
ut ihe steamer aqd rally to their rescue. We
oppose that the cheapness of red ochre is the
ou ‘y reason for the practice, and it is greatly to
be regretted that a little vulgar economy should
s ° greatly disfigure a picturesque scene.
As we drew near the city, we encountered
h ’ ets of vessels; swift steamers shot by us like
l‘ u ge arrows, and all the river was rife with
motion. Upon the left bank, a railway train
lushed along with a speed which made us feel
a 'iuinied of our own progress, creditable as it
Was to the “ Osprey.”
Mhen we reached the wharf, at 4 P. M., we
“ llu essed a phenomena, which, for its rarity
a “d the improbability of its speedy recurrence,
must not omit to mention. It wms the land
'■ a steamboat’s passengers at a Philadel
’ “ ll wharf, without being annoyed to death by
a “ a 'alanche of hack drivers and porters!
aere were positively only half a dozen car
ifis in waiting, and these were so instantane-
U 'iy engaged, that their drivers had no occa
‘oll io clamour for “ a fare.”
le of this class of public serv-
v "’ 10 ini pose upon travellers, is proverbial.
“urrowly escaped being victimized, only by
■ ought experience and determined resist
<*ucp t
Phi * S ero 6 at °ry to the good fame ot
that her hackmen are not under
■ regulations, affording greater secur-
ity to the purses and to the feelings of tra
vellers.
We must not omit to pay a deserved tribute
to the “ Osprey ” and her officers. She. is an
excellent ship, and her passengers may confi
dently expect from her gentlemanly commander
and all connected with her, the most courteous
and pains-taking attention.
We must defer to a second issue of “Notes”
any reference to what we have seen or heard
iri the city of brotherly love and—firemen’s
brawls!
“ And after her came jolly June, arrayed
All in green leaves, as he a player were.”
Spencer.
June is so called front Juno, the jealous wife
of Jupiter and “ the goddess of all power and
empire, and the patroness of riches.” It is
called the “month of flowers,” hut in our sunny,
Southern clime, May has a better claim to that
title.
In Northern climates, June is perhaps the
most delightful month of the year. The forests
have just donned their robes of verdure. The
leaves ot the oak are fresh and fragrant, the
grove, the thicket and the orchard are overflow
ing with the joyous carrolling of ten thousand
birds, and the fields are covered with countless
flowers. In our climate, Summer has set in in
earnest, and, lolling in the heat, we sigh for
the fresh sea-breeze on the surf-beaten beach, or
the cool airs of the mountains. We would
escape to the “ Island,” famous in history as the
scene of Moultrie’s glorious defence, and ren
dered classic by the good “ Father Abbot” and
his worthy brethren of the “ Monastery of the
Moon,” or we would seek the Upper Country
and luxuriate amid the sublimities of the Appala
chian hills—with the thunder of its cataracts in
our ears, plunge into the terrible gorge of Tal
lulah. take a shower bath in the silvery spray of
the fairy-haunted cascade of Tacooa,or gaze on
“ Nacoochee’s vale of beauty,”
from the summit of forest-crowned Yonah.
There we might hail the month of June as the
month ot joy, and unite with the poet in his
apostrophe:
“ Fairest of Summer months, warm is our greeting,
Warm is onr love for the beautiful June. ” *
MAN.
Man should never despair of his resources or
his race. He frequently does little or nothing,
because he does not manfully attempt enough.
We are very sure (and, indeed, the experience
of every day adds to the proof,) that the true
extent of his powers has never yet been devel
oped. He, himself, is quite as much confounded
at his own achievements, when he marks them,
as any of the spectators. He is usually forced
to his best performances by what he vulgarly
calls necessity. Wo might easily find another
word and origin for the impulse which he obeys,
at such moments, and by which he performs. I
Though his reason trembles to advance, his
blood bounds to the consummation of the un
usual tasks. Verily, we too much underrate
this instinct. What is it but the God within
him, throwing aside the shackles of clay, the
impediments, and doubts and fears of a poor
earthly reason, and hurrying him onward—he,
blind the while—under the unerring guidance of
an immortal soul!
UTILITY Of’gRIEF.
But for the sorrow’s of the heart, where
would the affections find their strength ? Our
virtues, like the aromatic shrubs of the forest,
only give out their sweets when their leaves are
braised and trampled. He w’ho has not felt of
sorrow, may be scarcely said to have know n
love; since the most precious joys of the soul
arise from sympathies that are seldom known
till they are sought, and never sought till they
are necessary to soothe an infirmity or satisfy a
need.
A LEGISLATIVE SATURNALIA.
It is a custom of the law’-makers of the Old
Bay State, to devote the last day of their ses
sion to jollity and fun. The speaker vacates
his chair, which is immediately assumed by
some mirth-loving member, and all standing
rules and orders are at once kicked under the
table, and the sport commences. A bushel or
more of documents are immediately placed be
fore the. new chairman, and he proceeds to
bring a portion of them forw’ard in due form.—
The following are specimens of the Reports and
Resolves received and passed at the close of the
last session: *
The Joint Standing Committee upon the pe
tition of Josephus Napoleon George Washing
ton Van Buren Nettlefuss and 9,999 other men
and women of the county of Worcester and ad
joining States, praying that they may peaceably
secede from the Union, submit the accompany
ing report, viz :
That the petitioners have leave to “start.”
The question is on accepting the report.
Mr. Lawrence, of Belchertown, moves to
amend by providing that the commonwealth
shall furnish a balloon about the size of Noah’s
ark, to furnish the seceders with an easy and
free secession ; and further, that the gallant
chairman of our committee on military affairs,
be directed to furnish a suitable escort.
Resolved, That the Seargeant-at-arms shall
furnish each member of the legislature with a
half-pint of good merchantable bona fide pea
nuts each day during the session thereof, and
that they be furnished either roasted or raw, as
the members may choose, provided that each
must he sound and in good condition ; and the
Governor shall draw his warrant for the pay
ment thereof.
Resolved, That a committee of seventy
members of the House, and half a-dozen or so
of the Senate, be appointed to ascertain during
the recess and report to the next Legislature,
whether the sea serpent is an actual or a fabu
lous animal ; and if actual, whether he is the
real leviathan, and whether hook can be putin
his nose, with snuff on it, and w’hat he would
on the whole be likely to do about it.
Ordered, That the “best dressed man of the
Boston delegation” rise in his place, and give
the name of his tailor.
Ordered, That sundry gentlemen be a com
mittee to inquire of the codfish* how the wit
of this House compares with that of our ances
tors.
A “graven imaee”of a cod-fish is suspended in the
hall of the House of Representatives.
(Our ‘s>nnk £itblr.
El Dorado, or Adventures in the Path of Empire, com
prising a Voyage to California, via Panama, &c. By
Bayard Taylor. In two volumes. New York: Geo. P.
Putnam. 1850.
Amid all the hooks of California adventure,
this is undoubtedly destined to bear away the
palm of excellence and popularity. Its author's
deservedly high reputation, achieved by his
“ Views A-foot,” has prepossessed the public
in favour of these eagerly anticipated volumes,
and w e are not surprised to find our copy of the
work, though among the first to reach the
South, imprinted “Second Edition.” Mr. Tay
lor did not go to California impelled by “ the
greed of gold,” or in any w’ay interested in the
whirlpool of speculation, which seems to have
absorbed within its wild vortex almost every
adventurer to “El Dorado.” He w’ent “to see
and to write,” and his agreeable letters to the
New York Tribune form the nucleus of the
volumes before us, in which we have felt all the
interest inspired by a first-rate romance. They
contain, however, a great deal of materiel not
included in his letters, and even the repeated
observations are presented in new forms and
new combinations, so that they possess yet the
charm of novelty.
It is indeed a pleasure to make one of Mr.
Taylor’s compagnons du voyage to the modern
“ Ophir,” realizing, in the highest degree, all
the charms of the adventure, while happily
escaping—sinless through the agency of a too
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE
sensitive nature—all its disagreeable experi
ences; enabled to laugh with him at the thous
and hideous scenes and objects continually pre
senting themselves; and not seldom to laugh at
him, in circumstances which, to him, were
scarcely, at their occurrence, “ a laughing mat
ter.” The narrative of these volumes abounds
in the picturesque—an element supplied to profu
sion by the whole region which the author tra
versed. The graphic pen of Mr. Taylor has
invested the route across the Isthmus with a
beauty that contrasts strongly with the forbid
ding aspect attributed to it by most letter
writers. He describes the five days’ journey
from Chagres to Panama as “ decidedly more
novel, grotesque and adventurous, than any trip
of similar length in the world”; its roughness
and fatigue counterbalanced effectually by “un
surpassed scenery and a continual sensation of
novelty.” The forests of the Chagres afford
him themes for eloquent description, and we
had marked a page or tw’o for quotation. Want
of space, however, compels us to select another
and a briefer paragraph;
“ The character of the scenery changed
somewhat as we advanced. The air was
purer, and the banks were bold and steep. The
country shewed more signs of cultivation, and
in many places the forest had been lopped away
to make room fjr fields of maize, plantain and
rice. But the vegetation was still that of the
tropics, and many were the long anil lonely
reaches of the river, when we glided between
piled masses of bloom and greenery. I remem
ber one spot, where, from the crest of a steep
hill to the edge of the water, descended a flood,
a torrent of vegetation. Trees were rolled
upon trees, woven into a sheet by parasitic
vines, that leaped into the air like spray from
the topmost houghs. When a wind slightly
agitated the sea of leaves, and the vines were
flung like a green foam on the surface of the
river, it was almost impossible not to feel that
the flood was about rushing down to overwhelm
us.”
At Panama, our author saw the common
sights which have served as the staple of so
many wonder-exciting letters to the newspa
pers. He found the hotels in a thriving condi
tion, with the usual adjuncts of indifferent at
tendance and fare to match. Having preceded
his baggage, he went to bed early, that his
clothes might be washed by the morning; and
a like predicament having befallen some ladies
who crossed the Isthmus in male attire, they
were obliged to sport jackets and pantaloons
for two or three days before receiving their
dresses.
According to Mr. Taylor, Panama is one of
the most picturesque of American cities, and
he says of it: “ Although small in limit,
old and terribly dilapidated, its situation
and its surroundings are of unsurpassable
beauty.” It abounds in “ ruins,” or rather in
incomplete designs of architectural splendour,
rich in crumbling columns and broken arches
ot red sandstone. The sea-ward view is of
matchless beauty, revealing “ the sparkling
swells of the Pacific, ridden by flocks of snow
white pelicans and the rolling canoes of the
natives;” and sketching far outward along op
posite shores of nearly a hundred miles in
extent.
It would be a pleasant task to follow our
author through the successive stages of his
travel, and glean, at various points, some of the
rich harvestings of his observation and experi
ence. But we have not space in this depart
ment for such a notice of the work, and
another brief extract, to illustrate the humour
of the work, must suffice for our present pur
pose. On one occasion, while upon an excur
sion to Stockton, he and a companion were
mounted together upon a lame horse; and as
they journeyed along, they discovered “a vene
rable old animal before them, walking in the
same direction.” With little delay, tney pressed
him into service, and ‘the doctor’ rode him to
a Ranche several miles distant, where he was
unbridled and turned loose again—a precaution
wisely taken, as the custom of the miners is to
shoot a man who rides their horses without
leave.
“ As it happened, the precaution was not ill
timed ; for while we lay inside the tent on a
couple of benches, we heard an exclamation
from one outside. “ There you are !” said the
voice !” “ What do you mean, you old rascal;
how came you here? You know you never
left me before, you know you didn’t.” Then
turning to the tent-keeper, who was standing
by the cooking-hre, he enquired: “How did
that horse get here? “Why,” answered the
former, with a slight variation of the truth, “he
was driven in this morning by some men who
found him in the road, about three miles from
here. The men have gone on to Stockton, hut
left him, thinking he might have an owner
somewhere ; but he don’t look like it.” “ Three
miles !” ejaculated the voice ; “ it was six miles
from here where I camped, and the horse never
left me before; you know you didn’t, you ras
cal.” Then, coming into the tent, he repeated
the whole story to us, who marvelled exceed
ingly that the horse should have left! “He
doesn’t look to be much,” added the man; “but
I’ve had him two years among the mountains,
and never saw such another wonderful knowing
animal.”
Mr. Taylor exults greatly in the prospects of
California, and predicts for the territory a great
and glorious future. He relates many wonder
ful stories, as coming under his own observa
tion, and confirming the almost incredible
tales which we have heard from time to time,
touching the finding and sjtcnding of gold in
California. He says that he was compelled to
think that the fable of Aladin was nothing so
very remarkable after all. “ The genie,” he
adds, “will come, and had come, to many I
saw in California; but the rubbing of the lamp,
aye, there’s the rub. There is nothing in the
world so hard to the hands!”
We cordially recommend these volumes to
our readers. They will abundantly repay the
time devoted to them, both in instruction and
amusement. They form the most graphic his
tory of the Gold Region that has yet been
given to the public. Several beautiful lithotints,
from the author’s sketches, embellish the work.
Mahomet and his Successors. By Washington
Irving. In two volumes. New York: Geo. P. Putnam.
1850.
Irving’s peculiar style, the beauties of which
are too well and too widely known to need any
exposition at our hands, is not well adapted to
the portrayal of a character like that of the
Prophet of Mecca. A stronger, more nervous
and even a rougher style, would have better ac
corded with the subject. Nevertheless, Mr.
Irving has given us two very pleasant volumes.
That peculiar charm which his simple, chaste,
and graceful diction, throws around every topic
on which he treats, is not lacking here. The
whole career of Mahomet, from his birth at the
city of Mecca to his serene death at Medina,
with all its stirring and romantic incidents, and
all its mighty events, are sketched as Irving
alone can sketch. If the work lacks the dra
matic power which the subject in some of its
parts seems to demand, it is never dull or tame.
Irving’s estimate of the Prophet’s character we
deem a just one. No man who can live and
die as Mahomet lived and died, is an imposter.
He was an enthusiast and a monomaniac per
haps, but not a wilful deceiver. What he
preached he believed, and what he believed he
exemplified in his life. We cannot forbear
quoting the closing paragraph of Mr. Irving’s
sketch of his character:
“ It is difficult to reconcile such ardent, per
severing piety, with an incessant system of
blasphemous imposture; or such pure and ele
vated and benignant precepts as are contained
in the Koran, with a mind haunted by ignoble
passions, and devoted to the grovelling interests
of mere mortality ; and we find no other satis
factory mode of solving the enigma of his
character and conduct than by supposing that
the ray of mental hallucination which flashed
upon his enthusiastic spirit during his religious
eestacies in the midnight cavern of Mount Hara,
continued more or less to bewilder him with a
species of monomania to the end of his career,
and that he died in the delusive belief of his
mission as a prophet.”
The second volume is devoted to the Succes
sors of the Prophet, and is not inferior to the
first in interest; indeed to many it will prove
more interesting, as less is generally known of
the Califs, his successors, than of Mahomet
himself.
These volumes form the XII and XIII of Mr.
Putnam’s beautiful edition of Irving’s works.
*
History or England, from the Accession of James 11.
By Thomas Babington Macaulay. New York: Harper
&. Brothers. 1850.
This is anew, 12 mo. edition, of Macaulay’s
great history, printed from the last London edi
tion, with an extensive and useful index. It is
embellished with a portrait, and printed and
bound in a style of great taste and beauty.
It will meet the wants of many who cannot
afford to purchase the more expensive edition.
*
Latter Day Pamphlets. Edited by Thomas Carlyle.
Nos. Ito V, inclusive. Boston: Phillips, Sampson &.
Cos. 1850.
Messrs. Phillips &, Sampson have given us
a very beautiful edition of these birarre publi
cations. Carlyle abuses everybody and gets in
return no small share of abuse from the people
and the press. But whether men abuse or praise,
they are sure to read him. No. VI will be issued
as soon as received in this country. *
The Philosophy of Electrical Psychology: In a
Course of Nine Lectures. By John Bovee Dodds. New
York: Fowlers & Wells. 1850.
The principal aim of this volume is to prove
that Electricity is the connecting link between
Mind and Matter, and is the agent • ’lnch the
mind employs to produce all the motions of the
body. *
(Dtir iCuiitriiiponirti's.
De Bow's Commercial Review for June
has been placed on our table. It contains in
teresting and elaborate articles on “ Southern
Industry,” “Population,” “Carlyle on West
India Emancipation,” and “California,” with a
mass a statistical and other information, inter
esting to the mercantile classes. The Editor
makes the following announcement in regard
to a proposed enlargement of his work:
“ Many signal improvements will be carried
out in the size, appearance and matter of the
Review after the present number. Iti addition
to the usual papers upon Commerce, Sugar,
Cotton, Rice, Tobacco, Hemp, Manufactures,
Slavery, Railroads, Canals, Navigation, &c., a
Department purely Literary will be added, so
as to adapt the work to the character of a
parlor miscellany, as well as an industrial re
gister. It will then be the largest work for the
price in the Union, and upon a plan similar to no
other.
“ We beg our friends to stand by us and give
us their support through another year. The
ninth volume of the Review is entered upon.”
The Revieu; is published by J. B. D. De
Bow, New Orleans. B. F. De Bow, corner of
Broad and Church streets, is the Charleston
Agent.
Southern and Western Masonic Mis
cellany. The June number contains an inter
esting and well-written article, by the Editor,
Dr. Mackey, on “ The Unwritten Landmarks
of Freemasonry,” together with the usual va
riety of miscellaneous matter.
Blackwood, for May, is already on our
table. It has several articles on local politics,
which we cannot say are very interesting to us,
though some very clever political verses, enti
tled “The Penitent Free Trader,” have amused
us considerably. The articles on “Greece,”
“ German Popular Prophecies,” and “ The Rus
sian Campain,” are replete with interest. “ The
Peninsula Medal” and “Dies Boreales” are
continued.
The number for June of that sterling
agricultural monthly, the American Agricul
turist, has been received.
Littell's Living Age. reaches us regu
larly, and never fails to come freighted with
good things from foreign and domestic sources.
The Youth's Friend. We beg pardon
of the lady-Editor of this pleasant juvenile pa
per for our remissness in noticing her publica
tion. We duly received the first number, but
it accidentally got mislaid, and in the hurry of
business the subject was forgotten. The Friend
is published in a neat quarto form, and the
number before us is filled with articles, original
and selected, which must be interesting to young
readers. It is edited and published by Miss W.
C. Tyson, at Augusta, Ga. Terms one dollar
a year. *
iT'ljf litorq WA
A.Hart, Philadelphia, will issue immediately,
“ The Phantom World,” by Augustine Calmet.
Edited by Rev. H. Christmas. He has also in
press, Aubrey de Vere’s “ Wanderings in Greece
and Turkey.”
Ticknor, Reed Fields have just ready, an
illustrated edition of “ Evangeline,” Whitter’s
“ Songs of Labour,” Giles’ “ Christian Thoughts
on Life.” and Lowell’s “ Nooning.”
Moxon, London, has in preparation anew
poem by Tennyson of the length of the “Prin
cess,” and anew volume by Wordsworth.
(Dei* }'ritifltr }'ost-3kg.
[Under this head we shall reply to many letters, contain
ing queries or suggestionsupon subjects of general interest,
instead of answering them, as heretofore, by post. This
will save us time, and “time is money.” We are very
glad to receive letters from our subscribers, and it only re
quires that the postage be paid to ensure prompt attention,
EdsA
S. A. Blumenbach divides mankind into
five races—Caucasian, Mongolian, American,
Ethiopian, and Malay. To the Caucasian race
belong the people of Europe, their descendants
in America and some of the western Asiatics.
The Mongolian race is distinguished by the
almost square form of the head, projecting
cheek bones, broad face and flat nose. The
j American race embraces the Indians once
spread over this continent. Their character
istics are well known. The Ethiopian race
includes the negroes of Africa and their de
scendants in various parts of the world. The
Malay race is distinguished by the head being
slightly narrowed at the summit, the forehead
a little arched, the upper jaw somewhat pro
jecting, the face less narrow, and the features
better marked than in the negro. This race
includes the inhabitants of the South Sea
Islands. *
Medicus. Your second letter will appear in
our next number. *
J. 8., Jr., Montgomery, Ala. We will copy
your article on the Remington Bridge with
pleasure. *
Sopht-hed. “To Fanny” has been re
ceived. *
Robert Rosseau says he has been waiting
anxiously for six weeks in expectation of see
ing his poetry in print. We fear he will wait
at least six weeks longer. We pity him, and
we are sure that if he knew what a predica
ment the “poets” have placed us in, he would
reciprocate the feeling. *
Mechanic. We received our copy of the
“ Dictionary of Scientific Terms” through Mr-
Babcock, bookseller, King-street, and presume
he has the work for sale *
<£ttr Gossip Column.
The Dangers of “Tea.”
In the recently published work, entitled
“ Standish, the Puritan,” there is a most amus
ing blunder, the sin of which does not belong
to the author, who has too many sins of his own
to answer for without being made responsible
for those ot the printer. We mention this
simply “ to give the devil his due.”
“ As the night advanced, the storm increased,
and the dismal sounds were sent up f.om the
deep like wailings for the dead. The sounds
as ot a thousand muffled drums seemed to fol
low its cadence.
“ It George should be at tea to-night,” said
Mrs. De i’Eur to Edith.
“ The same God that has preserved him thus
lar. I doubt not, will protect him,” the latter
replied, before her mother had finished the sen
tence.”
Female Editors.
Friend Hooper, of the Chambers (Ala.) Tri
bune, is out in favour of female Editors. Hear
him:
“ M e confess we long for the time when we
shall jostle, and be jostled by, buxom widows
and lovely young ladies, among our exchanges.
Everything will look sociable then. “ A romp
with the girls!” Think of that ! And then
the sweet, delicate essays “on matters and
things in general”—the dear, delicious, tit-bit
morceaux ol scandal—the neatly-turned, tart,
bantering paragraphs about matrimony—the
inY’aluable hints about house-keeping and beha
viour at church—verily we appetize! Let us
supplicate “ womanhood,” then, to enlist. Let
us pray for the day when a sun-bonnet will be
as commonly suspended in a sanctum as shabby
old “siiks” or shining, fashionable tiles.”
“All in my Eye.”
The origin ol this expression is involved in a
good deal ol obscurity. The following scrap
oi history may throw some light on the ques
tion: Among the crown jewels of Russia,
there is an immense diamond, the largest ever
brought into Europe. It is as large as a pigeon’s
egg, and weighs 115 carats. This jewel was
once the eve oi a hideous Brahminical idol in
India. The fact that this ugly image
“Hail yet a precious jewel in his head,”
came to the knowledge of a French soldier,
and he determined to possess himself of it. To
accomplish his purpose, he pretended to re
nounce Christianity and became, apparently, a
most devout worshipper at the shrine of this
idol. He was constant and frequent in his de
votions, and his great piety, together witli the
fact that he was a convert troin Christianity,
soon made him a great favourite with the
priests, and he was admitted into the temple
and allowed the freest access in die sacred
apartments containing the paraphernalia of
worship, and to the idol itself. An length an
opportunity occurred of purloining the precious
eye aud substituting for it one of glass, of the
same size and form. This being accomplished,
our zealous convert to paganism withdrew
himself, as soon as convenient, from the Brah
minical communion and returned to Europe.
The diamond, after passing through several
hands, was, at length, purchased by the Em
press Catharine for XIO.OOO and a perpetual
annuity of XI,000! *
City and Country.
It is a curious fact that while polite is derived
from iroXi(, a city, urbane from m bs. Latin for
city, and civil from civis, a citizen, the terms
boorish, churlish, clown, villain, savage and
pagan, may all be traced back to the villages,
fields and woods. *
The New Coins.
Two new coins have been lately issued from
the United States Mint. They are a one cent
piece and a three cent piece. The new cent
weighs only twenty-five grains and the three
cent piece 12f. These pieces will be very con
venient in making change, and will, we hope,
enable us to get rid of our clumsy copper coin.
*
Value of a Syllable.
In ancient Athens, the teachers or masters
were called So phi and the pupils Sophistce, but
the masters thinking it wrong that the scholars
should have a longer name than themselves,
assumed the name of Philosophi, and thus got
the advantage in sylables! *
Rightly Named.
In the London Directory, says an English
paper, are the following names, with the busi
ness or trade of the persons bearing them an
nexed :
A. Butcher, Butcher, Orchard-street.
B. Baker, Baker, Pratt-street.
John Dorev, Fishmonger, Hungerford Market.
J. Fitwell, Boot Maker, New-street, Convent
Garden.
Cutmore’s Eating House.
Drinkwater, Publican, Kensington.
Barber, Hairdresser, White Chapel.
Cutbush, Nurseryman,, Highgate.
Tanner, Leather Factor, Leadenhall-street.
A Point of Etiquette Settled.
A dispute having once arisen between the
Doctors of Law and the Doctors of Medicine
in the University of Cambridge, England, as to
which had the right of precedence, the Chan
cellor, to whom the question was referred, asked:
“ Does the thief or hangman take precedence
at executions? “The former!” answered a
wag. “ Then let the Doctors of the Law have
precedence,” said the Chancellor. *
Wanted,
For our New Museum, the following Curi
osities :
The whip with which the sea “ lashes the
shore.”
A shoe worn on the “ foot” of a hill.
A link from a “ chain of circumstances.”
A box of “matches” which are said to be
“made in heaven.”
A small cask of the tar used in “ pitching the
voice.”
The nose from the “face of the deep.”
The rod with which men are “ stricken in
years.”
A snow-ball from the“ winter of discontent.”
A barrel made of “ staves” of music.
The spade with which the “ grave of “ obli
vion ” was dug.
A few yards of the “ thread of life.”
A subscriber who never finds fault with his
newspaper. *
The Season.
June is thus poetically glorified in the Spring
field (Mass.) Portfolio:
May coquettish,
Sometimes pettish,
Smiling often through her tears;
In rotation,
Yields her station,
And the welcome June appears.
Gentle, smiting,
Care beguiling,
Witli a rose-bud in her hair.
April, foolish,
May is coolish,
June warm-hearted is and fair. *
♦
Ikmitus.
Bayard Taylor, the poet aud traveller,
has been invited to deliver the poem before the
Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University.
Rev. John N. Maffitt died on the 29th
ult. in Mobile.
Our friends in Tallahassee, Fla., have
been feasting on water-melons. They are a
little ahead of us.
Paine’s newly invented gas from water,
is to be introduced into the Central Exchange
building, Worcester, Mass.
The British government have, at Cha
gres, a fire-proof vault, for the safe-keeping of
their specie in transitu. Every bag of gold or
bullion has a buoy attached to it, so that in case
of accident to the boat it could not sink.
Figures in ivory are now carved by ma
chinery, The process is adopted in London.
The same mode of sculpturing in marble has
been in use for three or four years.
signed on Sunday is not valid.
Some of the Jesuits who fled to this
country at the time of the Roman Revolution,
have returned to Rome.
Dickens aspires, it is said, to a seat in
Parliament. He expects to be returned for the
metropolitan borough of Finsbury.
Englishman lately made a successful experiment
at flying, at Leipsic. before an immense crowd
of spectators.
The population of the city of Boston is
now about 140,000.
A man in New York seized the dead
body of one of his boarders for a debt of *5!
According to Judge Daly of New York,
a woman cannot be legally held to answer for
a breach of promise to marry. The legal re
sponsibility is all on the side of the masculines.
A Washing and Bathing Association
has been formed in New York, of which R.
B. Mintum is President.
The “ Invasion of Cuba” has been dra
matized in Philadelphia.
The Emperor of China is dead. His
death was officially announced in the following
flowery style:
“His Majesty, the Emperor, has departed
upon the great journey, and has mounted upward
on a dragon to be a guest on high.”
Seventeen members of the Cuban Expe
dition have arrived in Savannah in a state of
great destitution.
The first evening assembly at the resi
dence of our Minister, Mr. Abbott Lawrence,
took place on Saturday, May 4th. The rooms
were crowded until a late hour, and among the
company were the Duke of Wellington, Lord
Lansdown, Lord Palmerston, and a large num
ber of the English nobility, as well as many of
the foreign ministers.
More than 18,000 persons, in New York
city, live underground, in basements, averaging
about five persons to a basement!
The London Athenteum says that Mr.
Charles Kean has secured for his theatre anew
play, written by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton.
The English post office charge on a Ca
lifornia letter, via New York, for the half ounce
is 2s 2-pi sterling, newspapers4d each.
Johh L. O’Sullivan, Esq., formerly of
the Domocratic Review, is said to be one of the
prime movers in the Cuba Expedition, and au
thor of the stirring Spanish addresses, put forth
by Gen Lopez. Mr. O’Sullivan himself spent
many years in Spain, his father having been
minister to that country, and is a highly ac
complished and chivalrous man.
A. L. Tobias was elected Secretary of
the South Carolina Insurance Company on the
llthinst. vice M. W. St. Amand, resigned.
N. P. Willis says of the present style of
ladies’head gear: ‘‘Was there ever anything
more deforming and frightful than the bonnets
wuh heart-shaped fronts! It looks like room
left tor a swelling and its poultice on each
temple.”
Queen Victoria is thirty-one years old
and the mother of seven children.
The name of the new Prince is Arthur
Patrick Aibert.
The mysterious “ knoekings” have com
menced at Richmond, Va. The “spirits” seem
to be coming South.
Great quantities of opium are said to be
used in New r York for its inebriating qualities.
The Hon. Caleb Cushing is said to own
more land in the l'ar West than is comprised in
the whole island of Great Britain.
William Pelby, well known as an actor
and theatrical manager, died lately in Boston.
A project for tunnelling the Alps for
railroad purposes, is about being carried into
effect. The tunnel will be seven miles in length,
nineteen feet high, twenty-five feet broad, and
will admit of a double track. Its estimated
cost is two millions and a half of dollars. It
is to be bored under Mount Genevre, and unite
the valleys of Chambery and Susa.
The Emperor of China has forbidden
any of his subjects to go to California.
Father Mathew has administered the
pledge in New Orleans to thirteen thousand
persons.
<Tijr Unrk Cnrnrr.
Weshall occasionally insert, under this head, Riddles,
Enigmas, Puzzles, Charades, &.C., to which answers
(post paid or free) are solicited.
A correspondent sends us the following:
A GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA.
I am composed of twenty-three letters—
My 1,10, 8,14,10, is a mountain in Arabia.
My 2,7, 9,6, 14,8, 1, is a city in France.
My 9,7,14,9, is a chain of mountains in Russia.
My 4, 14, 17,3, 1, is & river in Spain.
My 5, 14,15, 22, is a county in Kentucky.
My 6, 13, 10, 12, is a lake in North America.
My 7, 10, 2, is a Spanish term for river.
My 8, 14, 10, 8, is a town in Palestine.
My 9,10, 2, 8,1, is a city in France.
My 10, 1, 14, 10, 18, 5, is one of the books of
the old Testament.
My 11,3,8,10, 1, is a city in Africa.
My 12, 14,1, 21, is oue of the cardinal points.
My 13, 3,22, 5, is one of the books of the old
Testament.
My 14, 13, 10,0, 1, is one of the signs of the
Zodiac.
My 15,2, 3,12,8, is a city in France.
My 10, 0,14,15, is a division of time.
My 17,13, 0,12,8, 6, is a county in Illinois.
My 18,1, 10, 14, is one of the grand divisions
of the Globe.
My 19, 2,8, 0, is also a division on the earth.
My 20, 14, 21, 2,8, 22, 2,8, is a town in
Georgia.
My 21, 7,3, 11, 5, is that to which man should
strictly adhere.
My 22,13,12, 8,4, is a city in Austria.
My 23,14,15, 13, 0, is a lake in Lapland.
My whole is what every family in the South
should have. D. W. C.
These are from an English paper:
ENIGMA.
My useful first must die, ‘tis said
In holy writ, just look!
Now, from my first cut off my head,
Then it will help to cook.
Behead again, without delay,
’Twill quickly bring to sight
What’s practised by us every day,
To please our appetite.
If you transpose, then it is what
Old gossips often use ;
If good, how they will laugh and chat:
If bad, they will abuse.
CHARADE.
My first ’s part of a gentleman’s dress :
My last ’s a colour smart;
My whole ought never to possess
A palce within your heart.
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Reception of Mr. Elmore's Remains. —The
remains of our worthy and lamented Senator
arrived in this city on Saturday last, in the Wil
mington boat. Teey were received by a Com
mittee of the citizens of Charleston, and a
Committee from Columbia. A procession was
formed of the citizens, and the remains escorted
from the steamer to the railroad depot, where
they were taken charge of by the Committee
from Columbia, l’he family of the deceased
accompanied the remains from Washington.
They all left in the cars for Columbia at 10
o’clock.
The Riot at Panama. —A correspondent of
the New York Tribune, under date of May
11th, gives the following account of the late
riot at Panama:
The Editor of ‘The Panama Echo was rob
bed a week since of a trunk containing §6OO,
by a boy, a native of St. Johns, Nicaragua,
named Ansel mo Cartenas, who was employed
by him as a carrier of his paper. A reward of
§l5O for its recovery was offered. A few days
having elapsed, the editor got track of the thief,
and employed two Americans to go and arrest
the lad. This they did yesterday, but in con
veying him through the city the boy escaped—
the natives aiding, by driving off the Americans,
throwing stones, and brandishing their knives
and spears. The boy was again arrested about
4 o’clock this afternoon, and conveyed by the
Americans to the printing office of The Echo,
where he acknowledged the theft, and promised
to go and show them, and deliver up the money.
But in an instant the natives rushed in with
their knives and stones, and, before the alarm
could be given, stabbed an American by the
name of William Seinsler, of Yonkers, New
York, )who was waiting here for the arrival of
the steamer W. ,1. Pease, he expecting to act as
bar-keeper on board,) and hilled him instantly.
This aroused all the Americans, who have been
firing into the natives, and they in turn throw
ing stones, &.e. I have seen several who were
awfully pelted by stones and stabbed, and badly,
if not mortally wounded.
* # * * *
The native mob were greatly excited and
enraged. They could hardly contain them
selves, and would have been desperate beyond
control, were it not for the better part of the
native men and women, who coaxed and per
suaded many to desist. lam sure I saw the
life, of more than one American saved by the
interference of the natives themselves.
A later despatch represents the city as re
stored to quiet. The boy accused of the rob
bery had been arrested by the proper authorities
and committed to prison to await his trial. It
is added that the American citizens and resi
dents there are incensed at the conduct of our
countrymen in this affair. *
Cuban Invaders in Prison. —A letter from
an eye witness in Havana, under date of May
21, to a friend in Boston, states that he saw one
hundred and sixty of the captured Cuba invad
ers marched into the Prison of the Moro Castle.
It must have been a melancholy scene.
i'pmpj JUtnr.
MARRIED,
In this city, on the 2Gth ult., John P. Fred
erick and Miss Mary Elvira Izi.ar, both of
Orangeburg District
In Sparta, Ga., on the 9th instant, Mr. John
P. Charlton, of Savannah, and Vliss Emily
A. Taylor, of the former place.
In Augusta, Ga., on the 15th inst., S. Mark
ley Lee, Esq., of Charleston, and Miss Eliza
Rudolph, youngest daughter of the late F. S.
Lee, of that place.
In middle Florida, on the 25th April, Dr. T.
B. Lamar, of Oxford, Ga., and Miss Sarah B.
Bailey, of the former place.
Near Columbus, on Bth inst.. Col. H. J. La
mar, of Macon, and Miss Valaria B. Jones.
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Coaches front Athens to Madison Springs, travel
ling time not to exceed four hours, as I). Morrison has just
finished the entire road, aud it cannot he excelled by any
road in the State. They will also keep extra Coaches at
tlie Spring to take passengers to Clarksville, Gainsville,
Sulphur Spring, Tallulah, and Toccoa Falls.
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take passengers to Pendleton, Greenville, S. C., and taken
over the best road in the State, only one night from Athens
to Pendleton, and that at a good Hotel.
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June 8 SJmo
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being ready for distribution, the Officers and Privates are
requested to present their names, as early a* possible, to
the Captains or Commanding Officers of Companies, who
will thereupon report to the Governor.
By order. B. T. \Y ATTS, Secretary.
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wish, suggests to the Teachers throughout the State, the
propriety of assembling at Columbia, on Friday, the ISith
of July, to consider the subject of Free Schools, the pre
paration at home of Elementary and other books for the
use of our Schools, the best means of insuring the progress
of Education, and other kindred matters.
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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 monthly interval*
ITS GENERAL INFORMATION
will be copious, but carefully condensed from the leading
Journals of all parts of the world.
Notwithstanding the great increase in the size ami at.
tractions of the paper, it will still be published at
Tiro Dollars Per Annum, in Adcavce !
It will be furnished to persons becoming responsible for
the whole number of copies, and having them sent tu out
address, on the following terms:
Three copies, gj
Five copies, g
Ten copies, 15
Fifteen copies, 20
Twenty copies, 25
Fifty copies, ,j 0
tTV All orders mnsi he accompanied w ith the money,
and addressed, post-paid, to
WALKER RICHARDS.
Charleston, S. C.
N. It.—Editor* who will copy, or notice fully, this Pros
pectus, shall receive the Gazette regularly, and also a
beautiful Juvenile Magazine, entitled “The Schoolfel
low.”
Tin: BUST WO CHEAPEST .Il \ i:\ILF
MAGAZINE IN THE UNITED STATES.
On the loth of January, 1850, was published at
Charleston, S. C., the first number of the Second An.
tinal Volume of
THE SCHOOLFELLOW,
which has been pronounced by some of the ablest presses
and best judges, “ The best and cheapest Juvenile Mag
azine in the United States.” The success of this beanti
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 be published in the same form as heretofore and
under the same editorial care; and will contain chiefly ori
ginal articles from the pens of Mrs. Caroline Gilman, Mrs
Joseph C. Neal. Mrs, W. C. Richards, Mrs. C. \Y. Du
Bose, Miss Tuthill, Caroline Howard, Miss C. W, Bar
ber, Clara Moreton, Maria Roseau, the Editor, and many
other well known writers.
ITs 5 PICTORIAL EMBELLISHMENTS
will be 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 lor all good girts and
Imps. It will be published on the fifteenth of each month,
and will make a volume of about 400 page- and 100 en.
gratings.
Five copies will be sent to one addre* for $4 ; Eleum
copies for *8 ; Twenty-three copies for *l6, and Thirty
two copies for *i0!!
THE FIRST VOLUME.
beautifully Imund in gilt muslin, will be furnished in con
nection with the second Year for Two Dollars. To
clubs, it will besupplied at One Dollar for each copy.
tW~ All orders must be accompanied with the cash—
if by mail, post-paid.
CST Liuba should be made up as early as praetioible—
and those wishing volume first, should apply uumediately
to WALKER RICHARDS.
May 4, 1850. Charleston, 8. C.
*** Editors copying this Prospectus, or making suitable
notice, shall receive a copy ol (lie work without an ex
change. They will pleas send marked copies of theit
papers containing it to the ‘ Gazette.”
GENERAL AGENCY
IN LITERATURE, ART and SCIENCE
AT THE
Office of the Southern Literary Gazette.
Corner of Broad-st. and East-Bay, (up stairs,)
Charleston, 8. S.
The Undersigned, Editor of the “ Southern Lite
ran Gazette,” begs leave to inform the public Q,,
he has opened a Geueral Agency for the iransactfoa ot
any business connected wills Literature, Science an
Art He will correspond with authors ounce,ning the
publication ol books and pamphlets upon their own at,
count or otherwise; execute any commis-son to, gentle
men forming libraries ; forward subscriptions for any peri
od.cal work, American or European ; receive and execute
promptly commissions tor any work of Art ; supply accu
rate estimates of the cost ol Philosophical Instrument*,
order them at his own risk and guarantee their efficiency
All communications must be addressed, prepaid, to
WM. C. RICHARDS
No charge will be made for any rpquireC,
by his brethren of the preeg, who will oblige him by pah.
lishing this notice.