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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. AGENTS WANTED, TO canvass, for the Gazette and Schoolfellow, the States of South and North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. Young men of good character and address can make from SSOO to SIOOO per annum at the business. Apply, either personally or by letter, to WALKER & RICHARDS. By* References as to character will be required. tT'ljp .linns nf tljr 3Pnt|. 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. Ijijißiutnmits. Travelling Agents for the Gazette.— Rev. William Richards, Mr. Robert E. Seyle, Mr. Matthew.!. Wroton, J. J. Richards, S. P Richards. O’ Mr. A. H. Mazyck is our General Agent for Charleston. O’George W. Bell is our Agent for Kershaw and the neighbouring Districts. O’ Warren D. Chapman is our Agent for Spartanburg and surrounding Districts. O’ All Postmasters are authorized to act as Agents for the Gazette, and the same commis sion will be allowed to them as to other local Agents. NASH’S HOTBLi HEI BEX NASH, Propriftor. CLARKSVILLE, GA. ** Conveyances to the Falls and Naeoochee furnished at the shortest notice. VEAL AM) BROTHER', DEALERS IN WATCHES, CROCKS, JF.tVEI.HV, SILVER AXl> PLATED 11. IHE, VI.YE TABLE AJYD POCKETCVTLER Y. AXD IXEAXCY AR TIC LES OF.XERALL Y, MADISON, OA. PI. VNTKICS HOTEL, BY MRS. CAMPBELL, EAST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE, MADISON, GA. W \sill\GTO\ HOUSE, BY ROGERS & MEARA, CORNER MULBERRY AND SECOND STS., MACON, OA. “* Office of the Tallahassee Stage Line. gTATIONERCP WIIBHOUML HYMEN L. LIPMAN, IMPORTER and Wholotale Dealer in FAXC Y and STAPLE ST.'ITIOXER Y, otfers to the trade at the Stationers’ Warehouse, Ko. JR South Fourtli street, , corner of Ranstead Place, a full assortment of the best English, French, German and American Stationery, in cluding goods from the celebrated house of Thomas Rhoads N Sons, of London, and no pains will he spared tu keep the Warehouse constantly supplied with Station ery quite as good and cheap as it can be had either in New York or Boston. The newest and most desirable goods will lie constantly forwarded by agents residing in London and Paris. Catalogues mar be bad upon application. STATIONERS’ WAREHOUSE, I’d Sonth Fourth street. Philadelphia, June, 1850. ts NOTICE TO TIIE PUBLIC. THE undersigned will run a daily line of four horse 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. ‘.“Extra Coaches of all sizes can be had at any time, to 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. SAULTF.R & IVY, Stage and Livery Proprietors. Athens, Ga. June 8 SJmo EXECUTIVE IIEP VRTMENT. THE MEDALS, prepared by direction of the Legisla tare for the surviving member* of the Palmetto Regiment, 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. £'/” Every paper in the State will publish three times. Junel 3 EXECUTH E DEPARTMENT. WHEREAS the cause of Education in South Caro lina demands all the light which intelligent and experi enced minds are capable of shedding upon it, the Govern or, in pursuance of what he believes to he the public 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. e y* Every paper in the State will copy once every two weeks until day. Junel FRANKLIN HOUSE. NEW YORK, May 1, 1850. THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public that he has leased the above House for a term of years. The House has been in complete repair during the past winter and mostly furnished anew. The proprietor respectfully solicit* a continuance of the patron age heretofore so liberally received. JOHN P. TREADWELL. STATIONARY AND BLANK BOOKS, ofevery description, of the best kinds. Joseph walker. 101 East Bay. our oam Affairs. THE SOUTHERN LITERAR* GAZETTE IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY WALKER & RICHARDS. Os mck over A . Mk'aVs Book-store. Entraner on Broad-street. TERMS.-Two Dollars per annum, to be paid strictly in advance. If payment is not made within t e rst six months of a term of subscription, the price w i re Dollars and Fifty Cents-nnA if delayed nntil the end oi the year, Thrt e Dollars. Advertisements will be published at If customary rates. Business Cards, (of tour lines and under.) will be inserted one for year for Eire Dollars, tnc u mg asn i seription to the paper. SOUTHERN I.RTEHLI HIA I FA\ . This sterling Southern Periodical, recent >pu ► ie< > Mr. James S. Burges, will henceforth be issued by the Subscribers, who respectfully solicit the continue* at ours of the Southern people, and ot the citizens ot ar e ton in particular. The first number of the present year, orm mg the beginning of anew series, is now rapn > P* through the press, and will be delivered 10 *” crl er ’ the 15th of April. Hereafter, the w ork will be issued at regular periods, without delay or failure, an in a superior style, with anew, clear and beautiful tji>e, am on t e best of paper. It will continue under the s t oria ton duct ot VV. Gilmore S.mms, Esq., to whose hands it has been confided during the past year. This g nt email. we are pleased to inform our readers, lias succeeded hap. pily in calling to his assistance such a number oi Contribu tors as will effectually place the work beyond the chances of a deficiency, or inferiority, ot Literary, •-* 0 or Political material. The writers for the RE\ II.Y\ in clude the greater number of the best and ablest names ol the country. 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The subscribers will commence on the Ist June next, the regular issue of anew Monthly Miscellany, to be entitled THE MU THER.X E( IJE(TIC M VOAZIXE. As it< name indicate*, the work will be made up ot select ed material, consisting chiefly of choice articles from the Southern l.itcrarp Dozette, but not confined exclusively to that source. Many of the contributors to our weekly journal will doubtless merit a better fate than that to which they will be consigned by the very conditions ol iheir pub lication, and it ts to embody such papers in a permanent shape that the “ Eclectic*’ is designed. We deem it unnecessary to add more than simply the TERMS OF PUBLICATION. 1. The Southern Eclectic will be published on the firsi of every month, in numbers of 32 royal Bvo. pages, printed from new type, in double columns, on fine paper, and em bellished with a fine wood engraving of some distinguished Southern character or Southern landscape. 2. It will be furnished to subscribers folded *o as to be subject to newspaper postage only, at the low price ot One Dollar per annum. 3. Subscribers to the Southern Di ter arp (gazette will be upplied with both Paper and Magazine for ‘l'wo Dollar*- and Fifty Cents in advance. 4. The Eclectic will also be put up in a neat cover and the edges trimmed, at $1,25 per annum, or 12* cents per number. All orders must be accompanied with the money, and if sent by mail post paid, or they will not be attended to. .r&4 Address WALKER & RICHARDS, Charleston. CXRIVALLKD NORTH OR fcOLTII 5 THE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME OF THE SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE, Was commenced oil Saturday, the 4th of May, 1850, undents original name —instead ot Richards’ Weekly Ga zette —as more significant of its peculiar charaeier, it being the only weekly organ of Literature in the entire South ! It is GREATLY ENLARGED AND IMPROVED, Containing weekly Thirty-two Columns of matter, il is, moreover, in an ENTIRELY NEW DRESS “ from head to foot,” and upon beautiful v* bite paper, so that, in mechanical excellence, it shall not be surpassed by any paper w hatever in the United States ! It will contin ue under the same Editorial direction as hereto:bre, and no pains or expense will be spared to make it A CHOICE FAMILY NEWSPAPER, “ascheapas the cheapest, and as good as the best!” Utterly discarding the notion that a Southern journal can not compete with the Northern weeklies, in cheapness and interest, THE SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE Shall rival the best of them in all the characteristics of a truly valuable fireside Journal. Its aim will be the dittu sion of cultivated and refined taste throughout the com munity—and it will embrace in its ample folds every spe cies of intelligence that can tend to this result ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS. from many of the ablest writers in the South, will chiefly occupy its columns, but not to the exclusion of choice mis cellany. selected from the best American anil Enropean sources The lone of the “ Gazette” will be imlei>endentin criti cism and in the discussion of every legitimate topic, but il will be strictly NEUTRAL IN POLITICS AND RELIGION ! Its columns will be occasionally embellished with SOUTHERN PORTRAITS & LANDSCAPES, engraved expressly for the work, and accompanied by biographical and topographical sketches. A portrait of the Hon. Judge Lumpkin, of Georgia, appeared in the first number, and others will follow at 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. 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