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Rites’ Ifprtmrnt.
RICHARDS, Editor.
p ji JACQUES. Associate Editor.
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_ vTURDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1850.
NOTES ON THE NORTH;
FROM THE EDITOR’S POCKET ROOK.
CHAPTER 11.
Philadelphia in the Sunshine. — Chesnut-street
jhf Opera for the Million—Philhar
monic Concert at Musical Fund, Hall—
laurel Hill Cemetery—Monument to Joseph
q Y ea [ — Thom's “ Old Mortality”—The
I Vissahirkon and “ Pickwick ” Parties —
Philadelphia Ice Cream—Out of Boar
Shops — Omnibuses.
Philadelphia, upon a bright day, is one of the
brightest and pleasantest cities we have ever
„, en . I'nder this aspect we have had the gra
titication of viewing it, during our brief visit,
making an agreeable set-off against our recol
lection- of it, only two brief months ago,
when, instead of sunshine, there was gloom in
the -k’ and slush in the streets. Chesnut
,trect is growing very gay with attractive shop
fronts, -nine of which are really quite elegant.
Th>- city presents unusual attractions at this
season, in the way of public amusements.
Both Miss Cushman and Miss Davenport are
playing to crowded and enthusiastic houses at
did’ rent theatres. Barnum has also established
the Opera upon his card of entertainments, and
the Seguins are doing “Norma” and“Som
nambula” for the million, at the Museum, for a
quarter of a dollar! We have spared only one
evening from social engagements to public fes
tivities, and that was to a concert given at the
Musical Fund Hall, by the Philmarmonic So
ciety of this city, on Wednesday night last. It
was a brilliant affair, and reflected great credit
upon all the artistes and amateurs concerned in
it. The hall, which is a very handsome one,
and tastefully fitted up—barring the hard, un
cushioned benches—was thronged “with beauty
anil fashion,” or with what newspaper reporters
are wont to distinguish by these terms! If we
doubted the fact, we should do injustice to the
fair ladies whom we had the honour to attend—
the accomplished Mrs. N. of this city, and the
elegant Mrs. A. of New York.
The overtures of “ Norma,” “Fiorella,” and
Le Domino Muir,” were performed by the So
ciety in a truly admirable manner. Their in
strumentation was characterized by brilliance
anti precision. The vocal performances were
sustained by Signonni Bertucca, I'atti and Por
rini, of Mnretzek’s Opera Troupe. Os these
singers, Bertucca is unquestionably the best,
and we were exceedingly delighted with her
Aria and Cavatina from Morcadente—•“ Fran
cesco Donate.” She surpasses the others in
die sweetness and flexibility of her voice, which,
in its upper notes, is of the very best order of
excellence. In the magnificent Duo of the
“Stabat Mater,” the fine Soprano of Bertucca
was well sustained by the brilliant Contralto of
Signorina Perrini, and we do not remember to
have heard that grand piece more effectually
sung. We were scarcely less gratified with
the Duett from “Norma,” sung by Bertucca
and Amalia Patti. This last-named Prima
Donna is deservedly a tavourite with the ad
rnirers of Italian music, both for her effective
style of vocalization and her pleasing manners.
Signorina Bertucca has recently become Ma
dame Maretzek.
We were, yesterday, one of a pleasant party
on a visit to Laurel Hill Cemetery, five miles
from this city. It was brilliant with the ver
dure and bloom of early summer, and its
tasteful arrangement, and fine monumental
architecture, produced a most agreeable im
pression upon our mind. Comparing it with
our somewhat vague recollections of Mount
~, we think it superior in its general
effect to that famous Cemetery. It certainly
possesses one decided advantage over it, in the
immediate proximity ot the Schuylkill, sunny
glimpses of which are afforded by innumerable
green vistas. Upon a steep terrace, that de
scends to the very margin of the river, is the
monument erected to the memory of the late
lamented Joseph C. Neal, which is perhaps the
most unique memorial in the grounds. It con
sists of a rude block of marble, erected in pre
cisely the condition in which it was taken from
the quarrj. It is surmounted by an urn of ela
borate sculpture, against which leans the frame
ui a lyre. A small tablet of white marble,
affixed to the rock, bears the following simple
inscription:
JOSEPH C. NEAL.
Born 1807. Died 1847.
A tribute of affectionate regret
f ront those who loved him us a friend,
And admired him as an author.
Amid the numerous monumental devices
which till the Cemetery, we were particularly
“truck with one commemorative of a child.
It was a tablet of marble, upon which, as upon
a couch, was a sculptured pillow, impressed
with the form of a sleeping child. The only
actual emblem was it branch of a rose tree with
a severed bud.
At tln> entrance of the grounds, immedi
ately after the fine portal is passed, an object
°f no ordinary interest attracts the visitor's
attention. It is the celebrated sculpture of
“Old Mortality,” in a fine state of preserva
l; °n. A more appropriate vignette to the vol
ume of Mortality opened beyond it cannot be
imagined.
A e regard it as one of the happiest indica
tions of a growing refinement in our country,
that beautiful and attractive “ Gardens of the
Dead ” are springing up near all our cities and
larger towns; and we look forward, with in
terest, to the embellishment of our own “Mag
nolia Cemetery.”
Front Laurel Hill, our party proceeded to the
M issahickon, a quiet little stream, that flows
mmd green trees and shady nooks, and offers a
pleasant resort for “Pickwick’’ parties, as one
°1 our number facetiously designated those
Jttes champetre.
Returning to the city through the village of
Germantown, a place of much summer resort,
hut seeming to us quite barren of attractions,
we closed a pleasant excursion with ices at
Newton’s popular saloon on Chestnut-street.
I’he superiority ol Philadelphia ice-creams to
all others, is quite proverbial. Most sincerely
do we wish that our Southern confectioners
teould refresh us. during the dog-days at least,
“hit creams and ices such as are to be found in
a hundred saloons in Philadelphia, or such as
one may obtain at the stalls in the Market, if
°ne is sufficiently democratic to be not afraid
°* eating in the market place! Philadelphia,
h>’ the way, is somewhat remarkable for its
out-of-door shops and booths. At almost
every corner, one finds a large establishment
■or the sale of candies and bons bons, or lor
b °oks, toys and small articles of common use,
exposed on tables and shelves, in large eases,
“ud covered by an awning to protect from sun
°r storm. These stalls, however, are not found
on Chesnut-street, the pavements of which are
quite narrow enough without such obstructions
10 l Fe pedestrian.
‘•'be Omnibus system is not so well “ devel
oped” in Philadelphia as in New York. If
you desire to take one of these conveniences in
dus city, the chances are that you wait ten
minutes for the one you wish to pass. We
have very rarely had patience to wait long
enough to secure one, and as to walking half a
mile in a direction opposite to the right one, for
the purpose of getting a ride back, we gener
ally prefer to walk altogether to our destination.
In New York, the only difficulty is to find a
vacant seat in either of the score of omnibuses
that passes you in the space of five minutes—a
serious difficulty only in had weather or about
tea-time!
THE BATTERY.
Our citizens have good cause to be proud of
their favourite promenade. No city in the
United States can boast a more attractive re
sort than our Battery and Public Garden.—
When the improvements now in progress shall
have been completed, little will be wanting to
make the place all that could be wished. With
the long line of the Battery on East Bay, and
a broad, smooth walk on the four sides of the
Garden, which is now being laid out in the
most approved style, and planted with trees,
shrubs, flowers and grasses, of great variety
and beauty, there is ample room for all who
may wish to resort thither to breath the pure,
fresh, bracing, sea-breeze, and cl rink in the
subtle but irresistible influences of nature, from
the unrivalled scene spread out before them.
The salubrious airs of the ocean play with the
silken curls of beauty, kiss the feverish cheek
of the invalid, and bring refreshment to all.
The ceaseless dash of the small waves of the
bay against the massive sea-walls, makes a
music which sooths the mind oppressed and
wearied with the cares of business, or vibrating
with the intense excitements of public life.
Thus is the health of the mind, as well as of
the body, promoted.
We understand that a pavilion of a light
and airy style of architecture is to be erected
in the garden, and that it is to be occupied in
the evening by a band of music. We look
with interest upon these improvements. What
ever adds to the attractions of our city cannot
fail, in the end, to add to its business and its
prosperity. -*
HUMAN INSTINCTS.
One of the great but secret causes of human
failure and perversion, is the reluctance of men
to recognize these instincts. The pride of in
tellect is not willing to refer to any other au
thority than reason, and we begin the work of
self-sophistication on the very threshhold of
existence. Os the simplest objects we contrive
to fashion mysteries—ol the simplest arts, sci
ences—and the very things of which nature
would seem to require of us the immediate
personal performance, we strangely enough
defer to a foreign authority. What more com
pletely our own providence than our own feel
ings and health, our own rights and interests,
our own spiritual nature and religion? Yet all
these concerns, which can be attended to by
no body half so properly as by ourselves, we
studiously put out of our own control. Hence,
our lawyer can give us the most complicated
and admirable system of laws, but no justice;
our Doctor, the most variously compounded
medicines, but no cure ; our Priest, every va
riety of doctrine, but no religion—certainly no
safety. But even the farmer, sophisticating like
the rest, in his ambition to make a science of
his art, too frequently fails in making a crop.
Yet, it is very certain that nothing in the
world is so easy of attainment as food, health,
justice and religion, if we will only, with com
mon honesty and diligence, take the matter
into our own hands. The things most essen
tial to all, not only to the health and happi
ness, but to the absolute safety of man, were
never intended by the Deity to be withdrawn
from his own immediate controul, and man will
never know safety in any of his interests until
he resumes all the privileges he has blindly
parted with. It seems to be clear, that among
his personal duties are these: he must earn his
own bread, learn his own bodily condition—
what is its meat and what is its poison—farm
Ins own lands, and carry on his own inter
course with heaven, to the employment of as
few intermediate agents as possible. Individu
ality, and hence, individual responsibility, is
the grand feature which distinguishes man from
every other animal.
(Titr dpDssiji Column.
“Knickerbocker” Grammar.
In the Editor’s table of the June “Knicker
bocker” we find the following announcement:
“Mr. A. Hart, late Carey &. Hart, Philadel
phia, have published, each in two handsome
volumes, illustrated with finely engraved por
traits, “ Memoirs of Marie Antoinette ,” an
extremely interesting work by Lamartine, and
“ Memoirs of the House of Orleans,’’ from
Louis Thirteenth to Louis Philippe, by W. Cook
Taylor, L. L. D.”
So Mr. Hart ‘have’ published these two
works ‘have’ he? We is delighted to hear it,
and think he am a very judicious publisher.
The Mysterious ‘ ‘ Knockings, ’ ’
These new wonders continue, in spite of the
oft repeated injuction of the press to “stop that
Knocking.” We have heard them and shall
tell our readers all we know about them, per
haps in our next number.
Infantry Tactics.
We were present, with a very witty friend,
at the late examination of the West Point
Cadets, in the science of Infantry Tactics. As
the subject of examination was announced, he
whispered to us, that the best specimen of
infantry tactics that he had ever witnessed was
exhibited by a young child manoeuvering to get
out of its mother’s arms !
Wanted to Know,
If steam-ships are used in navigating the
“ sea of troubles.”
If ships in “stays” are adicted to “tight
lacing.”
If it is owing to the rate of interment be
ing cheap that so many are “ buried in obli
vion.”
Whether the sun shone during the “dark
ages.”
How cupid, being blind, manages to aim
when he shoots his arrows.
Whether the “tale” which the ghost of Ham
let’s fathercould unfold, was “founded on fact.”
The elevation of the “pinacle of fame,”
above the ocean.
The extreme length of the “ long parlia
ment.”
If Hydropathic treatment would be likely to
cure the “eruptions” of Mount ./Etna* *
A Fish Story.
A gentleman at dinner in a public house,
observing that the fish was not quite so fresh
as was desirable, took one and put it to his
mouth and then to his ear. The landlady
asked him the reason, when he said, I had a
brother who was shipwrecked the day before
yesterday, and 1 was asking the fish it he could
give me any information of him, to which he
replied, that he knew nothing of the transac
tion, not having been at sea these three weeks!
*
A Vile Calumny Refuted.
A report was not long since circulated in the
papers, that a certain Rev. Mr. Hardy was pro
prietor and keeper of a gambling establishment
in San Francisco. His friends indignantly pro
nounced it a vile slander and offered to prove
an alibi, which they have done in a most satis
factory manner. It now appears that the Rev.
gentleman is in jail in Lockport, N. Y., on a
charge of bigamy! *
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE.
(Oar 3t?nnk (Tahir.
Standish, the Puritan. A Tale of the American
Revolution. By Eldred Grayson, Esq. In one vol. 13
mo. New York : Harper & Brothers.
We fear the excellent publishers of this vol
ume were caught “ napping ” when they under
took its sponsorship; or perhaps the contract
was made immediately after dinner, when they
were in a very pleasant and obliging humour.
On no other ground can we account for their
indiscretion, in risking a book so utterly “ flat,
stale and unprofitable,” as we are compelled to
pronounce it after a patient—no, we should say
impatient perusal. We read it from title-page
to “ finis,” with a constantly growing wonder,
first, that the author should have written it;
and, secondly, that he should have found such
publishers. That we succeeded in getting
through the book is a still greater source of
wonder to us, and we shall claim canonization
as the man who has read “ Standish.”
In sober earnest, the book is an absolute fail
ure, if indeed the author designed it as an
attempt to write a good story. It is shallow in
its plot, feeble in its execution, and as a literary
performance, almost utterly destitute of merit.
It abounds in gross faults of grammar and
rhetoric. The style is miserably loose and in
volved, and the moralizing often puerile and
pointless. This verdict may appear to be harsh
and uncalled for, if not justified by a few speci
mens, which we will take at random from the
book. Speaking of occasional differences be
tween two friends who figure in the story, he
says:
“ But the sun never was suffered to set with
ill-feelings to the other; it would have been a
sacrifice that neither would have submitted to at
so cheap a rate.”
“ Has my feeble efforts had anything to do
with all of this?” may have been tolerable gram
mar for the daughter of an ante-revolutionary
lawyer, though we have our doubts. Mr.
Grayson should have been more careful of his
heroine’s education.
We should really like to ask our author the
meaning of the following sentence. To us it
appears a little obscure:
“ She could make no reply, and by her va
cant gaze from the window, it could be in
ferred that she felt more uncomfortable while
they were there than the pleasure she had re
ceived in the large profits she had made out of
the hard labour of her fair customer.”
We quote the following portion of a para
graph describing a telescopic view of a conflict
between the “ rebels” and the British forces. It
will convey a fair idea of the author's imagina
tion and powers of description. We arc re
sponsible for the italicising:
“ The battallions in close column, were upon
the side of the hill; that which a few moments
before had been a fortification in black masses
was high in mid air. The eye-balls of a noble
charger seemed of liquid flame, as they boiled
in their sockets; the animal was in the act of
leaping a ditch, and for the moment was sus
pended in the air. The sword-blade of the
rider reflected the light a thousand different
ways, and the high black plume was in sombre
contrast to the grandeur of the moment! An
instant alter, hundreds of souls had passed
through space to eternity. It was the plume
that had been adopted to mourn for a father
and sister; and that sad catastrophe was ever
kept in view by the Emblem, as cap in hand he
cheered his men on to the conflict. The light
was succeeded by the trembling of the Earth,
and the panes of glass burst from the case
ment /”
We might multiply these specimens ad in
finitum, but surely these few will suffice to give
the reader “ a taste of the quality ” of this novel
production.
There is no lack of incident in the book, had
it been only effectively managed. The char
acters are wofully deficient in individuality;
and what the author evidently designs as wit,
is of so exceedingly subtle a nature, that it is
entirely inappreciable to our common percep
tions.
Asa native American book, we would have
praised it if our conscience had allowed us to
do so. If, as we incline to think, it is the
author’s first attempt, we counsel him to let it
be his last, at least until he has acquired a
vastly better style of writing English.
Clara, or the Discipline of Affliction. Translated from
the French of Madame Guizot. Philadelphia: A. Hart.
1850.
This pretty little hook cannot fail to interest
the juvenile reader, and the lesson which it so
effectually teaches, is calculated to have a salu
tary influence. Madame Guizot manifests a
motherly sympathy and a clear appreciation of
the intellectual and moral wants of the young.
*
1. Robin Hood and his Merry Foresters. By Stephen
Percy.
2. Talks from the Arabian Nights. Philadelphia:
A. Hart. 1850.
Here are two more books for the juveniles,
that need no puffing. All the children old
enough to read such books, will want these
beautiful little volumes. *
1. The Painter, Gilder and Varnisher’s Com
panion.
2. The Dyer and Colour Maker’s Companion,each
in one vol. 10 mo. Philadelphia: Henry L. Baird. 1850.
These two very neat volumes are the first
and second of a Practical Series, the value of
which to the artizan can hardly be overrated.
They contain rules and receipts for every thing
pertaining to the arts embraced in their title
pages, and the information they contain is both
reliable and complete, leaving nothing to be
desired in such manuals. The publisher well
deserves the thanks of artists and mechanics for
his commendable enterprise for giving them
such a series of guide books to the practice of
the Art-.
Romance of the Ocean, a Narrative of the Voyage of
the Wildfire to Calilornia. By Fanny Foley. Phila
delphia: Lindsay it Blakiston. 1850.
This is professedly the Journal of a young
lady, a daughter of an officer of the medical
staff, who was a passenger on board the Wild
fire, iu a voyage to California, and was written
for the amusement of a young school-mate.
Perhaps the world would have been no loser
had it never been diverted from its original in
tention. We suspect Fanny Foley is a nom
de plume, and that all the names mentioned
in the book are fictitious. Be this as it may,
the work is written in a playful conversational
style, and may serve to while away a summer
afternoon withal. It is interspersed with sto
ries and anecdotes, some of which are very
good. *
Regulations of the Citadel Academy at Charles
ton and Arsenal Academy at Columbia, with a List of
the Board ot Officers and Visitors. Columbia: A. £*.
Johnston. 1849.
The interesting and important experiment
made by the State of South Carolina, in the
establishment of these Military Schools, has
resulted in the most complete success; and the
problem, gravely questioned at first, by which
the government of the State unites with the
people in the business of education, and on the
plan proposed, is no longer a subject of misgiv
ing. The graduates have usually been of a
high order order of intellect and moral, de
stined to adorn the country and Society, with
the application to useful purposes of the most
valuable educational attainments. We hope,
at no distant period, to discuss the system at
large for the benefit of our readers in other
States. For the present, we must content our
selves with briefly representing the flourishing
condition of both Academies. The number of
pupils increases, and the field of study and ex
ercise is constantly enlarging for their benefit.
Correspondence Relative to the Catawba Indi
ans. embracing Gov. Seabrook’s Letter to the Special
Agent and Commissioners appointed by him. Columbia:
I. C. Morgan. 1849.
One of the official publications of the last
Legislative Sessions of the Assembly of South
Carolina. From this document we learn that
the remains of the once powerful nation of the
Catawba are now reduced to ninety persons, all
told, and of these seventy-eight are women and
children. In South Carolina, of these, the
number is 18 only; the rest are in North Caro
lina. They are wretchedly destitute—squalid,
mean, dissolute, worthless—dying out in spite of
all that has been or may be done with them,
and so cumbering the earth that we cannot
doubt the inevitable application of that doom
which decrees that the unprofitable tree shall
be cut down and cast into the fire. To allevi
ate this doom has been for a time the care of
South Carolina. We are glad that the State
still continues its guardianship of this wretched
remnant of a once great people.
Sketches or Scenery, and Notes of Personal Adven
ture in California and Mexico, containing 16 Litho
graphic Plates. By William Mcllvame, Jr. Philadel
phia: Lindsay &. Blakiston.
This is another California book, but differing
from its numerous predecessors in that it tells
its story in a series of pictures, tastefully drawn
on stone, from Mr. Mcllvaine’s sketches. They
embrace views of San Francisco, Sacramento,
Stockton, Sutter’s Fort and Mill, Prairie, Rfeer
and Mountain Scenes, Acapulco, Chapuitepee,
City of Mexico, and other objects of chief in
terest in that highly picturesque region. The
explanatory text is brief and modest, and the
volume makes an agreeable addition to our
sources of information about California and
Mexico.
The History of the Decline and I'all of the
Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon, Esq. With
Notes by the Rev. H, H. Milman. In six volumes.
Vol. IV. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Cos. 1850.
Two volumes more will complete this beau
tiful edition of this standard history. The vol
ume before us commences with the reign of
Theodore and ends with that of Isaac 11.
Angelus. *
Shakspeare’s Dramatic Works. With Introduc
tory Remarks, and Notes, original and selected. Boston
Edition, Illustrated. Phillips, Sampson & Cos. 1850.
This very beautiful edition of Shakspeare,
decidedly one of the very best and cheapest
which has ever been issued from the press, has
reached its sixteenth number—Macbeth. The
several issues maintain uniformly the beauty
and excellence ot type and paper and illustra
tion with which the publication begun.
iDur Cnutniijinninrs.
The Westminster Review for April,
contains several articles of much interest. In
the leading paper, Lord Jeffrey’s “ Theory of
Beauty ” is subjected to an analysis which
effectually exposes its absurdity. This theory
is thus stated:
“Beauty is not an inherent property or quality
of objects at all, and does not depend upon
any particular configuration of parts, propor
tions, or colours,” but consists entirely in the
power which certain objects possess of remind
ing the beholder of pleasing emotions which
have been previously experienced by him, and
have become associated m his mind with such
objects. Objects are beautiful “ merely because
they possess the power of recalling, or reflect
ing the emotions of which they have been the
accompaniments,” or with which they have be
come in some other mode connected. Conse
quently, “ no object can be beautiful in itself, or
could appear so antecedently to our experience
of direct pleasures.”
The next article, on “ Persian Cuneiform In
scriptions,” we have read with much pleasure;
as also that on “Junction of the Atlantic and
Pacific.” In the last mentioned paper, we have
marked several passages for future use. A
review of Eliot’s “Liberty of Rome” will he
found very readable.
Of the large number of articles bearing
attractive titles, in the last London Quarterly,
we have found time to read only two, Grote’s
“ History of Greece,” and Urquhart’s “ Pillars
of Hercules.” Urquhart’s book is “ cut up” in
the most approved style.
The Edinburgh Review for April, offers
an attractive table of contents. Among other
topics of interest discussed, are “ National Ob
servatories,” “ Sydney Smith’s Moral Philoso
phy,” “ Landorks Poetry, and “ Taxation.”
Western Literary Messenger, a plea
sant miscellany, has been received, and is, as
usual, well filled with articles adopted to popu
lar reading.
The Student, an excellent educational
magazine, published by Fowlers & Wells, has
been received.
The Scientific American is a paper de
voted to Art, Science and Mechanics, and is
undoubtedly the best periodical of the kind in
America, if not in the world. It should be in
the hands of every artizan and inventor. It is
published weekly, at $2.00 per annum, by Munn
& Cos., New York City.
The Southern Literary Messenger for
July, contains its usual variety of original
papers, and does not fall behind its predeces
sors in interest. We renew our repeated com
mendations of the work. It is a work which
the South should be proud of and delight to
patronize.
The American Musical Review, a
monthly musical and literary magazine, is de
serving of the patronage of the lovers of music.
It is published by Messrs. Huntington &. Savage,
New York City. The number before us bears
ample testimony of the taste and talent of its
conductors.
The July number of Godey's Lady’s
Rook contains contributions from Simms, Tuck
erman, Arthur, Mrs. Ellet, Mrs. Neal, and
other popular writers, and more than forty em
bellishments, among which are five engravings
from originals, two on steel and three on wood.
Sartain’s Union Magazine, for July,
lias six full page engravings and twenty-six
fine embellishments of various kinds, scattered
through it. Its literary attractions are com
mensurate with its artistic merits. Contribu
tions are given from the pens of J. Orville
Dewey, D. D., Mrs. Kirkland, Bayard Taylor,
T. B. Reed, Thomas Dunn English, R. H.
Stoddard, Frederika Bremer, Caroline May,
Phoebe Carey, and others. *
(Dur
[Under this head we shall reply to many letters, contain
ing queries or suggestions upon sub. ecus 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.
£ds.J
R. N., Clarksville, Ga. The omission of
your card was the result of a mistake, and you
know “ mistakes will happen in the best regu
lated families.” You will see we have again
inserted it. We are disposed to do justice to
all our patrons. *
R. S. T. Your poem has some merit, but
the rythnt is occasionally quite defective. We
cannot publish it at present, if ever, as we have
a large number of poems on hand which better
fulfil our requirements. It does not follow, be
cause we reject a poem, that we think it pos
sesses no merit. We can publish only two or
three original poems each week, while we re
ceive, within the same time, at least a dozen!
However great their merit, we cannot print
them all. We select from among them such
pieces as we deem most meritorious, or best
adapted to our columns. We would not dis
courage you from further attempts. *
C arlos. \ our poems are not admissible.
There is too much crudeness about them and
too little sense. Pardon us if we commend to
your attention (some others wc wot of will not
be harmed by reading it) the following hint
from the Worcester Tribune: *
“ M e do not profess to give instructions in the
art of making poetry, hut, for the benefit of
‘ those whom it ntay concern,’ we may mention
that an examination of several articles in verse,
which have lately come under our notice, has
discovered to us the fact that poetry docs not
read as smooth when a part of the lines contain
two or three more syllables than the measure
requires to say nothing of a discordant accent,
and an obscurity of moaning, or n total absence of
ideas.”
C., New \ ork. You may send through Geo.
P. Putnam, Broadway. *
Linos must send in his true name. *
Antonio. According to the best authority
at our command, the word Creole comes from
the Spanish Criolle, and was originally used to
designate the children of Spanish parents, born
in the colonies ol that country, in distinction
from the natives of the mother country. The
term finally extended itself to the neighbouring
colonies, and people spoke of the French
Creole, the Danish Creole, &,c. rite true defi
n:tion ot the word Creole, as it is now used in
the l nited Slates, seems to be .1 person of
French or Spanish descent, born in a part of
the country originally settled by the French or
Spanish. In this sense the word is used in
Florida and Louisiana. *
Muttm.
Hayne Streit.— The scene of the late tre
mendous confiaguition now presents a busy and
bustling appearance. A large body of work
men are employed, and (lie street is rapidly
rising from its ashes. The wails af Arnold’s
store are going up rapidly. We risk nothing
in predicting that tue whole line of stores
burned by the late fire, will be rebuilt and filled
with goods in time for the Fall trade. *
Protection Company.— We are glad to
learn that the Protection Company has been
fully organized. The following are the names
of its officers:
E. W. Edgerton, President,
J. H. Ladson, Vice President.
\V 11, Liam Bird, Ist Director.
Benjamin Lucas, 2d Director.
H. F. Strohecker, 3d Director.
L. A. Edmondston, 4th Director.
R. M. Butler, sth Director.
Samuel Fogartie, 6th Director.
H. S. Griggs, Treasurer.
T. Tufper, Jr.,Secretary.
Charleston Library Society.— At the An
niversary of the Charleston Library Society,
held 21st June, the following gentlemen were
elected officers for the ensuing year:
Henry A. Desaussure, President
R. B. Gilchrist, Vice President.
Wm. Logan, Secretary and Librarian.
A. R. Drayton, Treasurer.
Committee on Books. —President and Vice
President ex officio, Charles Fraser, Judge
King, Hon. T. L. Hutchinson, Professor L. R.
Gibbes, Professor F. A. Porcher.
Committee on Accounts. —Alex. H. Gordon,
Jas. Lamb, G. W. Egleston, Dr. P. C. Gaillard,
James Gregory, O. Hammond.
Madam Bishop. —The News of the 18th
inst. says:
“We have seen a letter, received to-day,
which informs us that Madam Bishop and
Signor Bochsa are to arrive early next week,
and will positively give but one Concert here,
in costume, as th<*y are compelled by engage
ment, to be in New York at the end of this
month.”
Fire-Works.— On dit that our City Council
intend to regale us with fire-works on the
“glorious fourth.” A correspondent of the
News suggests that they be exhibited on South
Bay, at the Public Garden, as a pleasanter place
than Citadel Green. *
British Consul. — G. Mathew, Esq., Her
Britanic Majesty’s Consul for the port of
Charleston, arrived in this city on the 13th inst.
and took rooms at the American Hotel. *
£jjr jiltisiral itfurlii,
American Musicians Abroad. —The Musi
cal Review says:
“ It is a gratifying fact, and one of which w r e
may well he proud, that one of the most popu
lar lecturers on music, and best vocal perform
ers of classical compositions at the present
time in Great Britain, is an American. The
writer of this is well acquainted with Mr. J. Q.
Wetherbee, and has listened to him with de
light, both as a singer and public speaker, be
fore some of the highest literary societies of
London. He has delivered courses of lectures
before crowded audiences in Liverpool, Man
chester, Edinburgh, and other large places, du
ring the year past, and with unqualified success.
Long may he be appreciated; and should he
ever again visit his native land, may he meet
with the reception which high moral worth and
eminent musical talent deserve.”
O’lt is said that the late Johann Strauss de
sired that the MSS of his last jig and polka
should be buried with him.’
ETKreutzer, the composer of many glees
and four-part songs, lately died in Rija, at the
age of 67 years.
The Authopon. —An instrument has been
constructed by Mr. Charles Dawson, of Lon
don, which is said to be capable of performing
mechanically an unlimited number of musical
compositions. The inventor, in describing it,
says:
“ Though it can play no music of itself, it
can play any music that may be arranged on a
sheet of paper supplied to it, reiurning the
sheet uninjured when the piece is done, to be
again inserted if a repetition be desired, or to
be replaced by a fresh sheet if another piece of
musice be required.”
Ijjf (Dili ftforli.
The steam-ship Canada brought European
dates to June Ist.
England. —ln English politics thre are three
great questions occupying public attention—
these are, Protection, Education and Church
Reform. The first enlists chiefly the sympa
thies of the great land proprietors, and is not
likely to be re-established ; the second is grow
ing more into favour and government patron
age ; and all except the beneficed clergy and
their friends are crying loud for the third. The
ultimate fate of the Church oppression is not
doubtful. From Ireland, we learn that the
Repeal rent has fallen off, and John O’Connell
again threatens to close doors. Mr. Reynolds
is to be ejected from his office of Lord Mayor
of Dublin, and anew Mayor elected.
France. —The fear of an immediate out
break in Paris has died away ; but the deter
mination of the republican party to protect
their rights has assumed the tone of determina
tion for the agony of despair. The electoral
law is likely to pass, nnd it is said Louis Napo
leon will follow up this victory with other
stringent measures. The reconciliation of the
elder and younger branches of the Bourbon
family begin to assume an open character. The
Monarchists are driving their game hard, and
Louis Napoleon may yet be bought off by them.
The Greek Question. —It is rumoured that
the Russian Minister has been recalled from the
court of St. Janies; but public sentiment is
growing stronger in England against any sub
mission to the haughty ambition of Nicholas.
Insinuations have been thrown out that Rus
sian money has been at work with English
journals, to create prejudice against Lord Pal
merston’s action in the Greek question.
The Liverpool papers all have articles in
praise of the U. S. steamer Atlantic.
i'rrnitirs.
An Episcopal church has been erected
at Shanghai, China.
Mustachios and tufts are forbidden, by
a recent order, to the officers of the French
| navy.
Mr. Clay has been presented with a
magnificent gold watch chain, manufactured of
California gold.
The Astor House, New York, is to be
lighted with Paine’s new gas. This will test
it fully.
Mr. Rainhard advertises that he shall
continue the business of watering streets. He
is just the man for the business. We recom
mend him.
Powers’ statue of Eve has been reco
vered from the wreck of the Westmoreland,
but in a damaged state. The extent ol the
damage is not known.
Rev. A. Chenginy, the “Canadian apos
tle of Temperance,” says that there are not
less than 200,000 Canadians in the United
States, and that this number will soon be
doubled if measures are not taken to prevent
such a result.
The people of St. Louis have deter
mined to rid their city of all nuisances by force
ot arms. Two places, the “ Loafers’ Paradise,”
and the “ Robbers’ Roost,” were broken up and
their inmates scattered by a mob, on the 25th
ult. So says an Exchange.
A Paris letter says:—“A new lottery
ol £‘24,000 in favour of distressed literary
men and artists, has just been officially or
ganized under the sanction of government.
The first prize is worth £2500, the second
£BOO, and so on.
The Bouton Bee says: “We learn that
a statement, giving ail the particulars of the
cause and results ot the difficulties between
T. B. Lawrence, Esq., and his wife, is now be
ing prepared for the public press. Such facts
will be brought to light as will convince the
world that Mr. Lawrence has acted rightly
throughout the unfortunate transaction.”
At the Trapani Theatre in Sicily lately,
says an Exchange paper, the first tenor had
just received news of the death of his mother,
and was thrown into great grief. Nevertheless,
the authorities would not excuse him from per
forming, and a guard ol gens d’armes was in
the theatre to compel him to sing or take him
to prison. The opera was Lucia di Lanimer
moor, and when he arrived at the dying scene
ol Edgardo, he uttered the well known phrase,
“Obell’ahna inamorata!” and suddenly stab
bed himselt with the dagger he wore at his
side. When he was raised from the stage he
was dead.
£jjt Dark Cnrnrr.
We shall occasionally insert, under this head, Riddles,
Enigmas, Puzzles, Charades, Stc., to which answers
(post paid or tree) are solicited.
We give, this week, a beautiful Charade,
selected from a London paper. Who will give
us a solution in verse as smooth and melodious
as that which embodies the
CHARADE?
Upon a golden ottoman, o’er which the sunbeams shine,
Reclines a iair Circassian in the balmy Eastern clime ;
\\ ithin the harem’s precincts, and far from eyes profane,
Perhaps sighing for her native hills, —but doom’d to sigh
in vain.
Her face was like a hourie’s, and o’er her shoulders fair
Flowed, gently waving with the wind, her long and jet
black hair;
And as around her playfully the halm-fraught breezes
blow,
They lift her second, which veils her first, as white as
snow.
Enough!—for how shall X essay to paint her angel form,
Or each celestial beauty that her person doth adorn ?
But see, the door is open’d wide, and armed with spear
and sword,
Before her stands, in pride revealed, the tierce pasha—her
lord.
’ ‘ Sight of mine eyes, why art thou sad to-night ?
Why are thy radiant eyelids red with weeping?
Fear’st thou for me, that in some deadly strife
I may be left upon some far shore sleeping ?
“ From our last war I’ve brought thee, love, a prize,
A glittering treasure, to enchant thine eyes—
He stoops to embrace her with enraptured soul,
And, smiling, decks her with my costly whole.
I'igijt far tljf Dark Cnrnn*.
The answer to the Geographical Enigma
published in our last number is— Southern
Literary Gazette. Answered by several cor
respondents.
Elbert L sends the following answer
to the poetical Enigma :
Your useful first I think is wheat ,
Which sown is sure to die;
Behead it and it must be heat ,
Which helps to bake and fry.
Behead again, it will display
What’s done by high and low,
At least three times in every day,
For all must eat , you know :
Transposed, it nothing makes, you see,
But what old gossips like their — tea.
The answer to the Charade is Hatred, (hat,
red.)
Jims nf tip Daq.
War with Spain. —The following despatch
appears in the New York Tribune of the 15th:
Washington, June 14.
The Secretary of State has received dis
patches from Gen. Campbell, our Consul at
Havana, informing the Government that the
Court of Alcoy (Governor General of Cuba)
peremptorily refuses to surrender the Contoy
prisoners, although proof was clear that they
shipped for Chagres without an intent of parti
cipating in the expedition.
Mr. Clayton has dispatched instructions to
Gen. Campbell to make an unqualified demand
for the prisoners, and in the event ot another
refusal, war will be declared against Spain.
Mr. Bulwer has given assurances that Eng
land will not interfere, considering the course of
the United States thus far unexceptionable.
A later despatch received in this city seems
to contradict this in toto. It is as follows:
Washington, June 17.
The National Intelligencer announces, au
thoritatively, that none of the Cuban prisoners
have been punished, and that matters will soon
be amicably adjusted. No apprehension is en
tertained of a rupture between Spain and the
United States.
The Hun. R. IC. Barnwell, Senator. —The
Nashville papers, says the Mercury, mention
the appointment of Mr. Barnwell as Senator
from this State, and his acceptance ol the same.
We presume it is authentic. It has been known
for some days that the appointment had been
tendered to him, but the great doubt of his
acceptance prevented us from noticing it. We
make the announcement with sincere gratifica
tion, and believe it will be received with the
same feeling throughout the State. No man
has a larger share of the confidence of the
people of South Carolina, or more fully deserves
it, than the Hon. Robert W. Barnwell, and the
appointment has the double good fortune of
selecting a man whom all will concede to be
worthy of it, and of drawing, temporarily at
least, iftto the public service, one who has long
psrsisted in a life of retirement.
Demand for Gen. Lopez. —The Washington
correspondent of the New York Commercial
Advertiser states that Count de la Barca, the
Spanish Minister, had demanded the extradition
of Gen. Lopez, on the charge ol treason, mur
der, robbery, arson, and other crimes ol that
class, alleging that he was a Spanish subject,
and as such amenable to her laws.
A Steamer Burned. —A despatch to the
Mercury, dated at New York on the 18th inst.
says:
The steamer Griffith, Capt. Roby, was burnt
on Lake Erie yesterday, near Cleaveland. It
supposed that there were 300 persons on board,
of which 260 perished, mostly emigrants.—
Capt. Roby, wife and child, Franklin Heath,
wife and four children, and Horace Palmer, are
among the missing.
The despatch adds:
Forrest, the tragedian,cowhided N. P. Willis
in the street yesterday.
Martinique. —The Mercury of the 19th inst.
has intelligence from Martinique, which states
that the negroes had burnt 100 houses in the
neighbourhood of St. Pierre, and had then sur
rounded the city, perpetrating the most horrid
excesses. The whites were in arms, and mar
tial law was proclaimed.
O’ At Boston, the Court has refused the mo
tion for anew trial in the case of Prfessor
Webster.
Treaty icith the Sandwich Islands. —The
U. S. Consul to the Sandwich Islands, Charles
Bunker, of Nantucket, has left in the steamer
Philadelphia for Chagres, being the bearer of the
Treaty’ recently concluded with those Islands
by the government of the United States.
O’Spurious American Eagles, well calculat
ec to deceive, are in circulation. They have in
some instances been taken by the Banks.
The Cotton Crop. —The Fort G aines (Ga.)
Enterprise of the Bth instant says:—The ac
counts from all parts of the country in relation
to the growing crops continue to be unfavour
able. We have lately been in Alabama, and
have seen some cotton over there that will not,
without some change, m ike 100 pounds to the
acre.
The Albany (Ga.) Fatriot of the 7th inst.
say’s:—The cotton and com crops in this county
are generally some three weeks later than usual,
and we now hear much complaint of injuries to
the cotton plant from lice.
Proof Paint. —Orders have been received
for a large quantity of Blake’s Fire Proof
Paint to cover the great Cathedral in the City
of Mexico, which was seriously injured during
the attack upon the city by our troops in the
late war. It is to be put up in packages to be
taken by mules from Vera Cruz to the City of
Mexico. This is a strong evidence of the value
and utility of this remarkable article.
31. Poussin. —Poussin, whose impetuosity
led him into the difficulty with Secretary Clay
ton, which caused his recall as Minister Pleni
potentiary to the United States from France, is
now in Paris, one of the most radical members
of the Red, or extreme Democrats.
Calhoun, Ga. —A new County Seat, in Gor
don county, Ga., has been located at the Rail
road Depot, hitherto known as Oathkaloga,
and has received the name of Calhoun, in
honour of our lamented Statesman, the Hon.
John C. Calhonn
ErThe President has recognized George
Benvenuto Mathew, as Consul of her Britanic
Majesty for the States of North and South Ca
rolina, and Arthur T. Lynn as Consul for Gal
veston, Texas.
U’A destructive fire took place at Alexan
dria (La.) on the 6th inst., which consumed be
tween thirty and forty houses, embracing two
squares, with the Washington Hotel.
EPln Honesdale, Pa., on the 7th, during a
severe thunder storm, a yellowish substance fell
in great quantities, which was subsequently
tried by chemists and found to be sulphur.
ETPresident Taylor has recently purchased
a splendid Sugar plantation, 25 miles from New
Orleans, on the left bank of the river—price
!j537,000.
O’The President has recognized James F.
Meline as Consular Agent for France, for Cin
cinnati.
O'The Duke of Wellington had a service
of plate presented to him by the Portuguese
Government, which is worth half a million
dollars.
UTMax Maretzek, it is now understood, has
three theatres under lease: Astor Place, New
York ; Chestnut-street, Philadelphia ; and Fe
deral-street, Boston.
O’Hon. Wm. Weed, Secretary of State, in
Connecticut, died at Danbury, in that State, on
the 14th inst., at the age of fifty years.
O’The Indians pronounce Minnesota as if
written Mini Sotah, signifying turbid water.
I3ijnira r 5 illtar.
MARRIED,
At Johns’ Island, on the 28th ult., Theodore
A. Beckett, Esq., of Edisto Island, and Miss
Mary L., second daughter of Horace Walpole,
Esq., of the former place.
In this city, on the 13th inst., Mr. Albert
Tyrrell and Miss Leonora Phillips of St.
Thomas’ Parish.
Blnttsnlfmit.
Departed this life, on Saturday, the Bth of
June, in the 54th year of his age, Mr. Joseph
Jackson, a native of Oxford, England, but for
a number of years a resident of this city.
The writer of this tribute to the memory of
the deceased, became acquainted with him a
few years since through his son. No one whose
privilege it was to visit the studio of the de
ceased, but will remember the gentle and polite
attentions, which he was at all times ready to
extend to visitors, and never did he evince, by
manner or expression, any indisposition to
point out the minutest beauties of the numer
ous paintings which often adorned his gallery.
Os late years, his art in reviving the long lost
features of many a family’s ancestry, has called
forth expressions of praise and admiration.
Asa husband, he was devoted—as a father,
kind and indulgent—as a friend, sincere—and,
as a man, strictly honest in all his dealings
with mankind. For the last few months, his
thoughts were turned to the subject of his soul’s
salvation, and his trust was, as we have every
reason to believe, placed in the atoning blood of
the Lamb. Although deprived of speech du
ring the few days of his last illness, yet, by the
gentle pressure of the hand, he intimated to a
sorrowing wife and children that all was well.
And he breathed out his last as calmly as an
infant falling into sweet and gentle repose.
A Friend.
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beautiful Juvenile Magazine, entitled “The Schoolfel
low.”
THE BEST AND CHEAPEST JIVKMLK
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On the 15th of January, 1850, was published at
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nual 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 beauti
ful little work during its first year has been so flattering
that the Publishers have resolved to continue it and make
it permanent, and they therefore call upon parents, teach
ere, and all interested in the rising generation to aid them
in their efforts to make the -Sr hunt[felloir all that its most
flattering judges have pronounced it.
It will be published in the same form as heretofore and
nnder 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. W. Du-
Bose, Miss Tuthill, Caroline Howard, Miss C. W. Bar
her, Clara Moreton, Maria Roseau, the Editor, and many
other well known writers.
ITS 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 for all good girls and
bops. It will be published on the fifteenth of each month,
and will make a volume of about -100 pages and 100 en
gravings,
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copies for *8 ; Twenty .three copies tor *ls, and Thirty
two copies for *20!!
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clubs, it will be supplied at One I),Mar for each copy.
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to WALKER & RICHARDS.
May 4. 1850. Charleston, S. C.
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he has opened a General Agency for the transaction of
any business connected with Literature, Science an-
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