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(Biritnrn’ Jirpnrtmrnt.
WM. O. KICK ARDS, Editor.
D. H. JACQUES. Associate Editor.
<f Jjnrirstuit, i.
S.\TrRDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1850.
NOTES ON THE NORTH ;
KRO.M THE EDITOR’S POCKET BOOK.
CHAPTER VII.
Surthern Summers and Southern Summers —
FUght from the City—Summer Retreats —
Facilities for reaching the Country—The
steamer “ Frank” and her Passengers —
Bull's Ferry—The Pallisades—A Vineyard
Tillietudlum —Fort Lee—An English
l^ne — Friends — Washington's House and
Spring Repose —A n Excursion The
Tele graph Poles —Milk and Fruit—Descent
of the Pallisades —A Dilemma—A fisher
mans hoot.
The ;.*•!>‘of summer are certainly quite as
fervid i . lii v latitudes as they are in the South,
if -eiisiitJixis. confirmed by that very reput
able witiu the thermometer, are to be credit
ed The Southron indeed complains far more
of the heat in New York than he ever does of
that in our Southern towns, and it would not
he difficult to explain, philosophically perhaps,
why he sliwuld do so. The grand difference
between the Northern and Southern summers,
is the longer duration of the latter. The hot
weather sets in with us as early as May and
~ iitmue- until October is advanced. Here, on
the contrary, the month of June begins the real
summer, and with September is the advent of
the cool autumnal breezes. During the months
July and Augu-1, the Northern heats are
necessarily intense, lor in that brief period the
fruits of the can i nave to be matured for the
nward of the hu:. andman.
Ihe city is therefore a place to be avoided
during these two months, and hence all who
can ab.-eut them elves are sure to do so.—
I'pper-teu-dom (fecit ts fashionable haunts,
and e.-tuhlisiies it.-clf, for the time, at the more
~ braird watering places ot tins legion. The
le - exclusive, but -till ambitious citizens, are
al.-o aw. v from their elegant town residences,
~r if i .rnpelled by any cause whatever to re
in., in ■* m town,” they are scrupulously “ not at
luune” to visitors. Besides these classes, how
, \ r.tbe.e aie thousands who are not ‘fashion
able dint <ii- e.t the city’s “ pent up streets,”
mid eek qu ■ i and romantic retreats along the
dunes of i i-coa-t, hay and river, or in the
more retired valleys of the interior.
i lie fuciht.es lor leaving the city are so great
that one scarcely wonders to find it half de
viled at tins .-euso:i. Steam bouts, rail-ways
aud couches, depart almost every hour for
for various points on the livers and into the
back count.y, all ot them freighted full with
people eager to breathe air uucontaminated by
tin- smoke and dust of the metropolis.
There are thousands of city families who,
during the hot weather, reside altogether in the
adjacent villages and country, visiting the city
vuy raiely, except only the head of the family,
who, it may be, pursues there his daily avoca
tu escaping every night from heat and tur
mo.l to the retreslnug coolness and repose of
the couniiy. Twenty, thiity, forty, nay, even
tilty miles, are no obstacles to the business man,
when he can ach.eve these distances in from
to two houis. Upon the Hudson River
Rail-Way, the latter period will convey him to
the Highlands, land him at the charming vil
lage of fold Spring, or if he prefers it, the ro
mm.tie local.ty of West Point. Midway be
tw.vu these points and New York are a multi
tuile of delightful places, affording to the visitor
all the charm of a rural abode. We know of
in e among them all more agreeable than Fort
Li e, upon the New Jersey shore, twelve miles
distant from the city.
Ihe ‘‘commodious steamer Frank,” as the
luhvitisetnent has it,leaves the city at 6 o’clock,
!’■ M.. and upon her we embarked, one sultry
‘'Veiling, not long agone. Perhaps there were a
liundied passengers in all, among whom there
“ere a few. like ourselves, bound for a tran
- ‘-at hniiie. Chiefly they were men of business
returning after the fatigues of the day to their
tumdies upon the cool river shore, thickly
dotted with villas and cottages, wooing enough
m their appearance to the traveller. There
weie matrons and young girls, who had been
tuiln a little shopping in the city, or perhaps to
dispose of some choice garden produce. In
w l ’ 9 tl'an an hour after we had started, the
1 tank made her first landing at Bull's Ferry,
‘ -unlet stretching some half a mile along the
:i aak ot the river, and lying completely under
the sheltering lee of the heights which, begin
ntng at Hoboken, extend almost uniformly for
many nules up the river, at an average height
I .hi!) leei These heights are composed of
rocky cliffs of brown stone, and are culled
Ihe i'allisades.” They constitute one of the
greatest beauties of this matchless river. At
ii; ferry. wo noticed an extensive vineyard,
teiraced upon the aelivity of the heights, and in
l!s ventre an elegant mansion, proclaiming
lu * ur y and enjoyment. Whether this latter
la 'V blessing is to be found there or not, we
va in say. .Most probably there is more of it
1,1 ! il ‘ of the humble cottages that nestle at
‘in- foot of the hill, or in green little coves of
the heights. A mile from Bull’s Ferry is
ui'iiiu r landing, in front of a neatly painted
held, with a -mall but tastefully arranged park.
Ih.> is called “ Tillietudlum,” a name which
■ le admirers of Sir Walter Scott will remember
1 “RVe been made classic by his pen. Both at
Ul ’- and at the former landing, the “Frank”
disclmrged numerous passengers, and then pro
dded another mile up the river to Fort Lee,
Wi. ie she disembarked all the rest, and moored
“ vll lor the night. “ Fort Lee” is a ro.*re
■ u ht, and with the others already named,
■us a continuous settlement at the base of
‘■ lulls, which, at Fort Lee, come boldly to
ver y margin of the river, and assume a
m ncii more precipitous and rocky aspect, leav
'd no room at their base for the habitations of
‘"an. 1
Delightfully cool and fresh came the evening j
“ “ ur lips, as the breezes of Fort Lee kissed j
welcome to its seclusion. We took up our
i .liters in a hotel which bears the name of
I 1 aviheni and to which the approach is
II vaie of the greenest and most English
es lanes we have met with for many a
- year It is much elevated and commands
’ ‘ “ of the river quite down to the city, out
1 which the fi ne steeple of Trinity rose up in
vutuiic against a twilight sky.
*■ ‘ , ' ,,l:so ur good fortune to find fri* ads and to
f"” &l l iere , at a house contiguous to the Fa
ya, the oldest house indeed in the village,
U 1 ' 1,110U3 il having been the head-quarters of
,1!ll “ton, .while he was quartered in this
l - v ’ Ihe spring from which he drank is,
. ttJlllse , religiously preserved and pointed out
visitors. After a cup of refreshing tea
( “ our triends, we planned an excursion lor
“'"filing, to begin at so early an hour that
I “‘solved to be very primitive for once in the
‘ ! °t going to bed. Sweet and refreshing
“ ur slumbers that night, with the murmurs
t r * Ver and the sighing* of the cedars
■ lnus * c in our ears.
,jj next morning was as bright and bcauti
a> We could desire. ‘l’he mists were all off
the river, and its waters flashed and sparkled in
the early sunlight, as our party clomb the spur
of the Pallisades just in the rear ot Fort Lee.
Arrived upon its summit, we revelled in a
wider and still lovelier view. In the direction
of the city, however, hung an ominously dark
cloud, which spreading from one central point
where spiral columns of black smoke were
writhing upward, indicated the scene of a dis
astrous conflagration, which we afterwards
found occurred in Brooklyn. Our path lay
along the Pallisades, from the verge of which
we looked down into the shining river, whose
waters were dotted with white sails, hanging
lazily in the calm air, and furrowed into waves
and foam by the passing of a swift steamboat,
bearing its dense freight of human beings west
ward. Afar down upon the opposite shore
sped the long trains of the rail-way, no sound
of whose wild motion reached our pinnacled
heights.
About a mile perhaps from our starting point
we came *.o the telegraph pole, par eminence,
from the loity point of which the single wire
shoots across the river to a similar pole upon
the other side. These poles are upwards of
200 feet in height, and are made firm by nu
merous ropes and chains proceeding from dif
terent points of their elevation to fastenings
upon the area below. The wire is at least 500
feet above the level of the river, upon the side
where we were. At Fort Lee, another line of
telegraph wire passes under the river in gutta
percha tubes. This method of transit is found
to be cheaper and easier than the one we have
described.
At a cottage a mile beyond ‘ the great pole,’
we obtained a pitcher ot delicious milk and
plenty of red-ripe currants, to which we paid
our compliments in a very affectionate manner.
Here, the spirit of adventure suddenly possess
ing one of our party, he must needs insist that
all ot us should accompany him to the river’s
marge, down a wild and rocky ravine or cleft
ot the heights. Who shall describe our descent!
How the ladies, with their light slippered feet,
slipped from rock to rock, clinging to shrubs
that would not hold them, and screaming out
in halt terror just us the gentlemen caught them,
and laughed at them for their fears! How we
stopped here and there to pluck the mountain
strawberry and to toy awhile with the zephyrs
that danced about the cliffs ! How, at last, we
emerged from the chasm at the very line where
the Hood-tide of the river laid its last ripple
upon the rocky beach !
Fairly down, the question arose, all at once,
liow are we to got back again ? To re-aseend
the dills we all declared “ impossible,” and to
skirt their base along the ri ,r er was no easy
task,judging from the rocks which lay around
us. We therefore made our way to a couple
of fisherman’s huts up the river, and soon en
gaged a bronzed-looking boatman “to put us
down to Fort Lee,” in a crazy old fishing boat
that was moored to the hut. With many a
laugh and jest, we “ stowed ” ourselves in the
wherry, and a pair of dilapidated oars, carried
us, with the aid of a feeble tide, slowly down
the river. We landed safely at the pier, and
thus ended our excursion, ere the noontide
heats prevailed.
MAGNOLIA CEMETERY.
We last week had the pleasure of visiting
Magnolia Cemetery. But a few month have
elapsed, as our readers are aware, since the
grounds were purchased and operations com
menced by a company of our public-spirited
and enterprising citizens, and we were surprised
at the progress which has already been made in
preparing the place for its destined uses. Still
we must look at it more in regard to its capa
bilities than to what it now is. Probably no
spot could have been selected, in the immediate
vicinity of the city, belter adapted to the pur
pose than this, or capable of being made more
strikingly effective, as a piece of funereal land
scape.
A large number of hands are now actively
employed on the grounds, and the various de
partments of the work are progressing rapidly.
The main walls of the Chapel are almost com
pleted. It is a fine gothic structure, and will
present, when finished, a striking and beautiful
appearance. Our young and talented fellow
townsman, E. C. Jones, is the architect. Every
thing about the Cemetery is now in that half
chaotic state which is characteristic of transi
tion, everywhere.
Let 11s now, in imagination, take just a
glimpse of the Cemetery as it will be a few
years hence.
A short drive over an excellent plank road,
brings us to a broad avenue, bordered on both
sides by loity and ancient pines, hung with fes
toons of gray moss, which leads, through an
appropriate gateway, into the “ city of the
dead.” We pass the lodge of the keeper, sur
rounded by t.ces, shrubbery and flowers, and,
beyond the little lake whose shining waters
bend gracefully around the point of land on
which it is situated, half embowered in its grove
of oaks, the Chapel of the Cemetery rises in all
its graceful proportions, standing out finely
from its back-ground of tall, dark pines. We
now cross the rustic bridge which spans an arm
of the lakelet and pass to the left of the Chapel,
but keep near the margin of the lake, the shores
of which are bordered with the richest verdure
and its surface studded with green, gem-like
islands. Along the shores are old oaks, with
their long trailing moss-wreaths, intermixed
with pine, cedar, and other trees. Among
these, as well as along all the gracefully curving
paths that meander through the pine groves at
our left, column, obelisk and urn of marble,
granite and tree stone, moulded into beamy by
the hand of art, rise amid the dark foliage.
The lots are often surrounded with iron fences
of graceful and appropriate forms, and planted
with flowers. Saying nothing of the beautiful
and interesting features of the scene which
meet us at every step of our progress, w’e will
now cross the Remington Bridge to the Isle of
Oaks. Here the oak trees overshadow, with
their spreading branches, the whole surface ol
the ground, and the wind sighs mournfully
through long arcades hung with gray moss,
which frequently wreaths itself around the urns
which surmount the tombs and monumental
columns. Nature here seems to join with the
bereaved in mourning the departed. Here
young Carson, who fell in Mexico, was buried,
before the Cemetery was instituted.
Leaving the Isle of Oaks and following the
winding paths along the eastern verge of the
grounds, we get a fine view of the city, harbour,
forts and the Cooper, which here resembles a
lake rather than a river. We will return by
the south shore of the lakelet. Here, among
the younger and Ircsher-leaved trees, planted
since the Cemetery was laid out, we see pictur
esque groups ol old trees —oak and cedar in
termingled, covered with the trailing vines of
the grape, the jasmine, and the trumpet-flower.
One group overshadows a fine spring of water.
On this side, as on the other, tombs and monu
ments of every variety of form and beauty
meet our gaze at every step. The view across
the unique little lake—a curiosity in itself—of
which we have so often spoken, is very fine.
Those white marble columns and tombs are
seen to great advantage across the water and
thrown against their back-ground of foliage.
We proposed simply a glimpse of Magnolia
Cemetery. We have had that and no more
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE.
But the shades of twilight are falling around us
and we must return. We pass again through
the massive gateway and leave the “ city of
the dead ” behind us.
Reader, if you visit Magnolia Cemetery now
you may think that we have overrated its capa
bilities. If you visit it ten years hence, you
will see how very far our fancy sketch falls
short of the reality which will then be presented
to your eyes.
We intended to speak of the influence, phy
sical, social and moral, of Rural Cemeteries,
but must reserve that part of our subject for
some future occasion. *
DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT.
The death ot the President has created an
almost unprecedented sensation throughout the
country. So suddenly and at such critical
juncture of our national affairs, has Providence
seen lit to call him away from the scene of his
earthly duties, that the nation seems astounded,
awed, alarmed.
We would not now, were we in a position to
do so, speak of Gen. Taylor as a partizan.
Aside entirely from party and sectional consi
derations, he had won and retained a large
space in the affections of the American people.
His is one of the glorious names on the pages
of our history. It is linked with the memories
of victorious battles—with deeds of daring, of
patriotism, of magnanimity. He was loved,
too, for his sterling and incorrutible honesty, his
noble simplicity and his eminent social virtues.
He is mourned not only as a President but as a
citizen and a man. In conclusion, we echo,
with a heartfelt amen, the eloquent Words of
Mr. Cass, in the Senate :
“ Let us humbly hope,” said he, “ that, this
afflicting dispensation of Providence may not
be without salutary influence upon the Ameri
can people and upon their representatives. It
comesiti the midst of a strong agitation, threat
ening the most disastrous consequences to our
country, and to the great cause of self-govern
ment throughout the world. It is a solemn
appeal, and should he solemnly heard and
heeded. His death, whose loss we mourn, will
not be in vain, if it tends to subdue the feelings
that have been excited, and to prepare the va
rious sections of our country for a mutual spirit
of forbearance, which shall ensure the safety of
all by the zealous co-operatien of all. We
could offer no more appropriate or durable
tribute to departed worth than such a sacrifice
of conflicting views‘upon the altar ol’ our com
mon country. In life and in death he will
equally have devoted himself to her service and
her safety.
FUNERAL CEREMONIES.
The funeral of Gen. Taylor took place on
Saturday the 13th inst. The religious services
were performed in the Executive Mansion, ac
cording to the usages of the Episcopal Church.
The body was accompanied to the burial
ground by the various civic and military pro
cessions, in the following order :
ORDER OF THE PROCESSION,
Funeral Escort, in column of inarch, (composed
of such corps of the army and the militia
as were ordered, or as reported
themselves for duty on the
occasion.)
CIVIC PROCESSION.
The United States Marshal of the District of
Columbia and his Aids.
The Mayors of Washington and Georgetown.
The Committee of Arrangements of the two
Houses of Congress.
The Chaplains of the two Houses of Congress,
and the officiating Clergyman of the
occasion.
PALL BEARERS. PALL BEARERS.
Hon. Henry Clay, Hon. T. H. Benton,
Hon. Lewis Cass, Hon. Danl. Webster,
Hon. J. M. Berrien, • Hon. Truman Smith,
Hon. R. C. Winthrop, x Hon. Linn Boyd,
Hon. Jas. McDowell, fe Hon. S. F. Vinton,
Hon. Hugh White, S Hon. 1. E. Holmes,
C. W. P. Custis, Esq. Hon. R. J. Walker,
Chief Justice Cranch, Joseph Gales, Esq.
Major Gen. Jesup, Major Gen. Gibson,
Com. Ballard, Brig. Gen. Henderson
Family and Relatives of the late President.
The President of the United States and the
Heads of Departments.
The Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate.
The Senate ot the Un.ted States, preceded by
their President pro tern, and Secretary.
The Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Re
presentatives.
The House ol Representatives, preceded by
their Speaker and Clerk.
The Chief Justice and Associate Justices of
the Supreme Court of the United States,
and its officers.
The Diplomatic Corps.
Governors of States and Territories.
Ex-members of Congress.
Members of State Legislatures.
District Judges of the United States.
Judges of the Circuit and Criminal Courts of
the District of Columbia, with the members
of the Bar and officers of the Courts.
The Judges of the several States.
The Comptrollers of the Treasury, Auditors,
Treasurer, Register, Solicitor, and Com
missioners of Land Office, Pensions,
Indian Affairs, Patents, and Pub
lic Buildings.
‘Fhe Clerks, &c., of the several Departments,
preceded by their respective Chief Clerks,
and all other civil officers of the
Government.
Clergy of the District of Columbia and else
where.
Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution.
Corporate Authorities of Washington.
Corporate Authorities of Georgetown.
Presidents, Prolessors and Students of the Col
leges of the District of Columbia.
Officers and Soldiers who served in the war of
1812, and in the late war.
Such Societies and Fraternities as may wish to
join the procession, (reported to the Marshal
of the DL-triet, and assigned their
respective positions.)
Citizens and strangers.
o)ur (Gossip I'nlunm.
“The Southern Eclectic Magazine.”
Circumstances beyond the control of the pub
lishers compel them to suspend, for the present,
the publication of the Southern Eclectic. If it
is found expedient hereafter to resume it, due
notice to that effect will be given. Those who
have subscribed and paid for it in advance, will
have their money returned to them, or the
amount passed to their credit for the Gazette,
as they may direct. *
Crowded Out.
The unusual length ot’ some of our articles
this week, has precluded our usual variety of
“ Gossip,” “ Brevities,” and “ News.” We
will endeavour to atone for this deficiency by
giving more next week. *
Madame Bishop's Farewell Concert.
Madame Bishop and Signor Bochsa gave
their farewell Concert, at Hibernian Hall, on
Monday evening, the 15th instant. It was at
tended by a large, intelligent and appreciating
audience. The best wishes of our citizens go
with these talented artists in their progress
through new efforts to new scenes of triumph.
They cannot fail to meet with an enthu-iastie
reception at the North, where they have been
for some time anxiously expected.
Fair of the Institute.
We would call attention to the advertise
ment of the Annual Fair of the South Carolina
Institute, published in another column. We
have more to say on this subject, anon. *
An Epigram.
A writer in Notes and. Queries gives the
following from La Monnaye. It is rather hard
on the genus homo :
“ The world of fools has such a store
That he who would not see an ass,
Must bide at home, and bolt his door.
And break his looking glass.”
(Car 3Gonk fnlilr.
Turkey and its Destiny. The Result of Journeys
made in 1847 and 1848 to examine into the state of that
country. By Charles McFarlane, Esq. In 2 vols. 12
mo. Philadelphia: Lea &. Blanchard. 1850.
The readers of Mr. AlcFiirlane’s work on
“Constantinople” in 1828,” will take up these
volumes with confidence in their interest and
integrity, and need we say, they will not be
disappointed ? They are full of information,
conveyed in a direct and agreeable
and one cannot help feeling, when he lias com
pleted their perusal, as if he had traversed the
Turkish territory from one end to the other,
seeing all the strange sights it presents, and yet
happily escaping all the intolerably offensive
smells of which our author had ‘ a realizing
sense’ wherever he went. Our space will not
allow’ us to be diffuse in our notice of these
volumes, but we must endeavour to say enough
of them to awaken the interest of our readers,
and induce them to read for themselves. They
certainly present a most vivid picture of ‘ Tur
key as it is,’ and such a panorama of strangely
mingled scenes of splendour and misery—ol
beauty and deformity—of grand resources and
meagre achievements—we have never else
where looked upon.
Twenty years had elapsed since our author's
first visit, when he again floated upon the wa
ters of the Golden Horn, and commenced his
examination ol the reputed “ reform ” achieved
in the Ottoman Empire, by the enterprise and
intelligence of the young Sultan Abdul Medjid
and his Vizier, Reschid Pasha. He went in
the full credence of the flattering tales that had
been told of the great progress’that had been
achieved by Turkey in all the elements and
results of a high civilization. He expected to
find order instead of anarchy, justice instead
of oppression, prosperity instead of decay, hap
piness instead of misery. All these things he
felt warranted to expect, and he tells us that he
went honestly in quest of them. When to this
frank utterance of his purpose, lie adds, that his
interests would have been promoted by finding
them, we are no longer at liberty to question
that his disappointment in discovering their op
posites was real and intense. Mr. MacFarlaue
was disappointed, as the reader of his very
graphic volumes will soon find out, and he will
also shine in his disappointment, especially as
he contemplates the advantages which the
people of the Ottoman Empire naturally pos
sess, and their abundant—nay, extraordinary—
resources for every species of advancement.
The boasted “ reforms” turn out, upon inves
tigation, to be no reforms at all, or at least in
such rare instances as only to form the ‘ excep
tions ’ which strengthen the ‘ rule.’ Our author’s
account ot the Sultan’s model farm, which is
under the management of a South Carolina
planter, is full of interest, but the interminable
delays to which Dr. Davis was subjected, by
the miserable temporising policy of the Sultan,
and which prevented the fulfilment of his judi
cious plans, cannot fail to piovoke the reader to
vexation. The promise of success was large
and provocative of the most unbounded antici
pations, but their realization was stJl remote.
Asa simple but striking illustration of the bad
policy of the Turkish system, we will instance
the fixing of a maximum price upon all pro
duce offered for sale in the markets. The
maximum of melons had been put so low, that
although they abounded in the gardens and
fields adjacent to the towns, the price would
not pay the expense of carrying them into
market; and in consequence thousands of rich
and luscious melons were rotting on the vines!
A gardener who sold some delicious figs at a
price over the maximum, was thrown into pri
son, and all his fruit confiscated, because he
took for choice figs a little more than the peo
ple were willing to pay for indifferent ones!
This is one of the practical workings of the
Tanzimaut, as the new reform code of Resched
Pasha is styled ! Nearly all kinds of fruit, and
even grain, were similarly affected by the absurd
maximum, so that the oppressed gardeners and
farmers were fain to abandon the task of rais
ing them for market.
The oppression of the Rayahs, as almost
everywhere exhibited, is a striking commentary
upon the toleration guarantied to all subjects of
the Ottoman by the famous Tanzimaut. “You
may bring,” says our author, in speaking of
criminal trials in Turkey, three hundred Rayah
Christians, and a score of Frank Christians to
boot, but their evidence cannot be taken against
that of three Mussulmen. No !—not even if
all the three he known to get their daily bread
by the practice of perjury.”
The most common complaints -which Mr.
McFarlane heard, and they were urged every
where, were of irregular and oppressive tax
ation—the outrageous abuse of the tithing sys
tem, practised by the Ushurjees, the tax-gather
ers of Turkey. This last is sometimes suc
cessfully resisted by the farmers, an instance of
which is related by our author of Ibrahim, a
Yerook Turk [Turcoman] of the romantic vil
lage of Dudakli, which he visited. Although
many of these oppressive exactions were di
rectly annulled by the Tanzimaut, they contin
ued to be inflicted upon the people by the
Ushurjees, against whom the poor Rayahs and
Armenians have little or no defence. We
must, however, dismiss this prolific topic of our
author’s hook.
The most striking feature of Turkish towns
is the filth of their streets, of which our author’s
accounts would be scarcely credible, if they
were not confirmed by the concurrent testimony
of all travellers. We cannot help quoting one
brief but concentrated passage on this point.
He is describing the city of Pera and its abomi
nations :
“ To novices, it was really difficult to avoid
falling or stumbling at nearly every step. The
streets looked as if they had been paved by
having loose stones thrown down hap-hazard ;
most of the stones had their roughest sides, or
sharpest angles, uppermost; nntny of them
were loose and rolled as we trod upon them,
and every here and there were gaping inter
stices or deep holes between. They were
never swept and never could be swept; the dust
was almost suffocating, and it annoyed the
eyes as much as the stenches did the nostrils.
We ran through a gamut of stinks; when we
got past the carrion, an odour would come out
of some of the houses too pungent to be borne
with any patience ; or a crowd of garlic-feeding
Armenians would send whiffs at us that made
us stagger as if we had been hit by grape-shot.
We groped our way through void spaces left
by some recent fires, and whereon they had left
all the unsightly ruins and the cinders and pun
gent ashes which affect a stranger like cephalic
snuff.”
We should not have quoted this paragraph
but that something akin to this was encountered
everywhere our author went, so that it is to be
regarded as a feature ol the Ottoman Empire,
under the libera! and energetic administration
of the Tanzainaut, as promulgated by Resched
Pasha!
Our space fails us, and all we can say more
of Mr. McFarlane’s book, is that it deserves a
candid reading by every intelligent reader who
feels the slightest interest in the social and po
litical condition of Turkey. It is brimful of
the most graphic narrative, and it is pervaded
by a most genial temper. When the author
can commend, he does so with a zeal that be
trays his interest in the prosperity of the Otto
man : but he is too candid to deceive his read
ers with false reports of social progress in Tur
key. He detects the shadow instead of the
substance, and declares accordingly. He points
out the defects of the policy of Resched Pasha,
and reveals the true imbecility of the young
Sultan, deploring, as will the reader, that the
progress ot Turkey is rather fancied than real.
We shall hereafter make our readers better ac
quainted with these* interesting volumes, by ex
tracts from their pages.
The Polytechnic School, the Best System of
Practical Education. An Address delivered before
the Cadet Polytechnic Society, State Military Academy,
June 14, 1850. By Edwiu Heriot, an Honourary Mem
ber. Charleston: Walker & James. 1850.
\\ e are glad to see this well-written and
eminently practical discourse in print, and we
congratulate our Iriends of the Polytechnic So
ciety oil having selected, for their Orator, one
who has so faithtuliy and conscienciously per
formed his task. Mr. Ileriot’s oration is not
made up, as too many discourses of the kind
are, ot mere classical declamation. It deals,
in a thoroughly practical way, with the errors
and deficiencies of our educational systems
and points out the true remedies, as we be
lieve, lor existing evils. The importance of
promoting an integral and harmonious de
velopment of the student’s powers, by com
bining physical with intellectual training, is
made, as it should he, a prominent point. But
the most important topic discussed is, in our
estimation, that of Normal Schools. In this
country, the professional education of teachers
is most sadly neglected. It is thought neces
sary that the lawyer, the physician, and the
clergyman, after passing through the ordinary
collegiate course, should devote several years to
studies having special reference to their calling,
but the teacher who, even more than they,
needs a professional education, is supposed to bo
fully qualified, on leaving his Alma Mater , to
enter at one- upon the arduous and responsible
duties of his office. (We leave entirely out of
the account here the host of ignorant charla
tans who infest the country and bring discredit
upon the profession, by attempting to teach,
with almost to education of any kind.) Mr.
1 Idiot’s suggestions in regard to connecting a
Normal School with our State Military Acade
my, is worthy of serious consideration. He
says:
Our military schools are increasing, not only
in the number of their pupils, but in the reputation
of their professors, and the proficiency of their
graduates. But they might, with advantage,
go a step higher, and extend their sphere of use
fulness. Provision might be made for the edu
cation of a certain number of resident graduates,
annually, who desire to pursue the vocation of
instructors of youth. They should be taught,
not only how to acquire knowledge*, hut to im
partit in the most familiar and satisfactory man
ner. Special attention should be given lo the
laws ol discipline, and the acquisition of this
faculty urged, as of the first importance. How
ever intellectually gifted the teacher may he, the
mass of parents regard strict disciplinarianism
as the loi.iest test ot qualification. The moral
of this theory is of doubtful tendency. I speak,
now, in reference to the practical effect of it in
our common schools, according to the old, long
recognized inodes of extorting o’ edience. For,
in a military point of view, discipline is, of
course, the foundation-stone of the whole edu
cational structure. *****
It is readily admitted, that something more
than brilliant acquirements is necessary to the
success of an instructor. Habits of strict dis
cipline are undoubtedly essential. Ai.d there
are none more capable of commanding than
those who have learned to obey. So long as
method, in this particular, is to be consulted, it
is important to choose that which is not merely
most effectual lor present pu poses, but most
lasting in its effects. It must arouse the ambi
tion of youth, by creating grades of distinction
to which lie may aspire, and causing him to feel
himself a responsible agent—not a mere au
tomation, to he flagellated into submission, like
a “marsh-tackey,” or a “learned canary-bird!”
It must inculcate obedience, asasteppmg-stooe
to authority, and make its subjects feel rather
honoured that degraded by its exercise. It
must combine kindness with sternness, and by
placing all on ; i equality, stimulate a feeling of
“ esprit du corps which will render duty and
pleasure synonymous. Such is the discipline
ol the Polytechnic Schools; and it is this
which has secured, and is still working for
your noble institution, its rapidly increasing ca
reer of prosperity. The State could not do a
more acceptable service for the educational in
terests of the rising generation, than by provid
ing for the endowment of one or more Normal
Professorships iu an institution which has al
ready repaid her liberality ten-fold, by sending
forth, annually, from its walls, young men of
promise and moral worth, practically educated,
and drilled in habits of seif-denial, punctuality
and economy, to take an active part in her
works of public utility, and the development of
her industrial resources.
A Normal School has been established at
Albany, (New York,) by an Act of the Legis
lature, lor the instruction and practice of teach
ers of common schools. Each county is enti
tled to send a number of pupils equal to twice
the number of its members of Assembly.—
Another is in successful operation in Massa
chusetts ; one in Norway, Maine, and another
about to be established in Vermont.
Your institution needs only this appendage,
to place it on a par with those of its kind in
Europe, and I am glad to see that 1 am sus
tained m this opinion, by the late message of
the Governor to the Legislature. The advant
ages which it now affords you, are, however,
such as you will find, probably, in no future
station which you may fill.
Our limits forbid further extracts or remarks,
and we close by commending the Discourse to
the attention of our citizens. It is from the
press of Walker & James, and is a beautiful
specimen of typography. *
The Old Oak Chest. By G. P. R. James, author of
“ Dark Scenes in History, ” &c. &c. &c. New York :
Harper & Brothers. 1800.
Were we disposed to attack Mr. James,he isso
securely ensconced behind a double wall ofprint
ed volumes, raised by his own untiring industry,
and defended by such a host of ardent admirers,
that we fear our light artillery would have little
effect. We have never admired Mr. James’
style of novel writing, neither have we sympa
thised with those who have greeted with a
sneer and a contemptuous curl of the lip, every
new issue, from his prolific pen. We have not
denied that he possesses talent, because he has
partially failed to please us.
“ The Old Gak Chest ” is a story of quite a
dramatic construction, and the extraordinary
circumstances on which it is founded are devel
oped with considerable effect. The pivotal
characters are three brothers of widely differ
ing dispositions, who, with their families and a
female foundling, form the central groups around
which everything is made to revolve. The
plot hinges on the abstraction of a will from
the Old Oak Chest. Some of the subordinate
characters are exceedingly well drawn. Promi
nent among these are Torn Notbeame, the
taciturn inn-keeper, and Dr Porteous, an old
Scotch physician. On the whole, we think
the volume before us inferior to the author’s
earlier works. We cannot make any extracts
which will serve to give the reader an insight
into the mysteries of the story, but here is an
incidental observation on social life, which we
will copy, in closing, as we deetn it worthy of
thoughtful attention :
“ Os course it made a great difference in
men’s estimation of ltis character, that he was
prosperous instead of unfortunate. It may be
considered as an invariable axiom, that, al
though good men are not always prosperous,
prosperous men tire always good—at least in
the estimation of nine hundred and ninety-nine
men out of every thousand in the world. Peo
ple deal mildly even with recorded crimes in
the case of the prosperous; and the good folks
of Dingle and Halcombe.and all the neighbour
hood, said sweetly, in speaking of Mr. Bagshot,
that he had sown his wild oats, and would
doubtless be a very different man now. One of
his first acts, indeed, tended to conciliate es
teem. There are white spots in the devil; and,
though by this time he was avaricious as well
as greedy, he took care of his old mother. He
had no principle upon earth; but nature has
principles which often supply the place of those
we want. He married, too, a stout, ill-favoured,
pock-marked girl, with a large nose, who had
a thousand pounds at her command. He was
not reported to be the best of husbands; but
she was soon relieved from a somewhat hard
and unpleasant life by death. She left one boy,
whom his father diligently brought up in the
way he should go.” *
Pictorial Field Book or thi Revolution. By
Benson J. Loosing. New York: Harper & Brothers.
1850.
No. 3 of this exquisitely beautiful pictorial
work has come to hand. The wood cuts are
in the highest style of American art, and the
typography is equally admirable. Os the lite
rary character of the work we are not now
prepared to speak, not having found time to
read the numbers received. *
The War of Women ;or Rivalry in Love. By Alex
ander Dumas. New York: Stringer & Townsend.
This is a feeble translation of one of Dumas’
characteristic stories, and we cannot recom
mend our readers to give it what we ourself
have withheld from it—an attentive perusal. It
would certainly not repay them.
m ♦ m
tOur (Cmitfiitpnrarirs.
The Southern Quarterly Review for
July, presents an attractive table of content ,
and well sustains the high reputation of the
work. The leading article, entitled
“ California Gold and European Revolution,”
is rather speculative than practical, but it is
both thoughtful and suggestive of thought. It
is elegantly written, though abounding rather
too largely perhaps in quotation and metaphor.
“ Ellet’s Women of the Revolution ” is an
article of a more popular character. We do
not think the influence of the family on the
social and political organizations of a country
overrated in this article, though more import
ance is given to it than is usually accorded.
The family is the germ of all social organiza
tions, and the earliest form of government was
doubtless the patriarchal, in which the head of
the family was recognized as supreme ruler of
the tribe or clan. The writer attributes the
origin of the American Revolution to the
wealthy, educated and aristocratic classes of
society rather than to the mass of the people,
who are generally supposed to have been the
prime movers.
Lamartine’s “ Les Confidences ” and “Ra
phael” are m .de the text of a discriminating
paper on “ Sentimental Prose Fiction.”
“ Tuckerinan’s Essays and Essayists,” is the
title of the fourth article. The remarks of the
writer on Addison and his school of Essayists,
though they may not be considered strictly or
thodox, are, in our estimation entirely just.
In the fifth article, “ Lyell’s Second Visit to
the United States,” is severely but justly criti
cised.
“Physical History of tho Jewish Race” is
the sixth article. The subject is discussed with
reference to its bearings on the question of the
Unity or Diversity of the Human Race. The
grounds assumed by the writer may be inferred
from the following propositions, laid down by
him at the commencement:
Ist. That from the time of the Patriarch,
Abraham, to the present, the Jewish race has
preserved its blood more pure than any other of
antiquity ; and that, consequently, its original
type ou(/ht to be the same now as then.
2d. That the original type brought by Abra
ham from Mesopotamia, four thousand yea s
ago, has been substantially handed down to the
descendants of the present day.
3d. That, although the Jewish race has been
subjected, during this immense extent of time,
to every possible variety of moral and physical
influences, in the four quarters of the earth, yet,
in no instance has it lost its own type, or ap
proximated to that ot other races.
4th. That, if this race has thus preserved its
type unchanged, for four thousand years, and
under all known influences which could change
a race, it follows, as a corallary, that no physi
cal causes exist which can transform one race
into another, as the negro into the white man
The seventh article—“ Jury Trial and the
Federal Court ” —we have not yet found time
to read.
“Philosophic Theology’’ is a continuation of
the notice in a former number of Mr. Miles’
late work.
The ninth article is a brief review of Piitz’s
“ Manuel of Ancient Geography and History.”
The Critical Notices of this number are co
pious and discriminating. *
The July number of that pleasant family
magazine, The Western Literary Messenger,
is duly on our table.
The American Cabinet, a paper of ster
ling merit, has just commenced anew volume.
Go (ley's Lady's Book for August has
been received.
Blackwood. This best of the monthlies
has just closed its sixty-seventh volume, with
the June number. Now is a favourable time to
subscribe. Address Leonard, Scott & Cos.,
New York. *
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tenance which they have received, from every quarter ot
the South, and especially sustained and patronized by t ie
most influential names in Carolina, beg leave to so icit
the continued and increasing patronage ot our citizens.
Subscriptions will be received at their Office, corner of
East Bay and Broad streets, second story, or at 101 East
Bay. Contributors will be pleased to address the Editor,
to their care, in Charleston.
WALKER & RICHARDS,
Publishers and Proprietors Southern Quarterly Review.
NOTICE. —All former Agencies for the SOUTHERN
QUARTERLY REVIEW are discontinued. Due no
tice will he given of the appointment of Agencies by the
present Publishers.
UNRIVALLED NORTH OR SOUTH!
THE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME
OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE,
Was commenced on Saturday, the 4th of May, 1850,
undents original name —instead of Richards Weekly Ga
zette —as more significant of its peculiar character, it being
the only weekly organ of Literature in the entire South *
It is
GREATLY ENLARGED AND IMPROVED,
Containing weekly Thirty-two Columns ot matter. It
is, moreover, in an
ENTIRELY NEW DRESS
** from head to foot,” and upon beautiful white paper, so
that, in mechanical excellence, it shall not be surpassed by
any paper whatever in the United States ! It will cc-tin
ue under the same Editorial direction as heretofore, and no
pains or expense will be spared to make it
A CHOICE FAMILY NEWSPAPER,
“as cheap as the 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 thediflu
ston 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 ot choice mis
cellany. selected from the best American and European
sources
The tone of the “ Gazette” will be independent in criti
cism and in the discussion of every legitimate topic, but it
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 intervals
ITS GENERAL INFORMATION
will be copious, butcarefully condensed from liie leading
Journals of all parts of the world.
Notwithstanding the great increase in the size and at
tractions of the paper, it will still be published at
Two Dollars Per Annum, in Advance !
It will be furnished to persons becoming responsible for
the whole number of copies, and having them sent to one
address, on the following terms:
Three copies, $5
Five copies, 8
Ten copies, 15
Fifteen copies, 20
Twenty copies, 25
Fifty copies, 60
ty All orders must be accompanied with the money
and addressed, post-paid, to
WALKER & RICHARDS.
Charleston, S. C.
N. B.—Editors who will copy, or notice fully, this Pros
pectus, shall receive the Gazette regularly, and also a
beautiful Juvenile Magazine, entitled “The Schoolfel
low.”
THE BEST AND CHEAPEST JUVENILE
MAGAZINE IN THE UNITED ts FATES.
On the 15th of January, 1850, was published at
Charleston, S. C., the first number of the Second An.
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 i arents, teach
era, and all interested in the rising generation to aid them
in their efforts to make the Schoolfellow all that its most
flattering judges have pronounced it.
It will lie published 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. VV. Du-
Bose, Miss Tuthill, Caroline Howard, MissC. W. Bar
ber, Clara Moreton, Maria Roseau, the Editor, and many
other well known writers.
ITS PICTORIAL EMBELLISHMENTS
will be more numerous and beautiful than before; it wil
be printed upon finer paper, and no pains will be spared to
make it a most charming companion for all good girls and
bops. It will be published on the fifteenth of each month,
and will make a volume of about 400 pages and 100 en’
gravings,
Five copies will be sent to one address for $4 ; Eleven
copies for $8 ; Twenty-three copies for *ls, and Thirty,
two copies for *20!!
THE FIRST VOLUME.
beautifully bound in gilt muslin, will be furnished in con
nection with the second Year for Two Dollars. To
Clubs it Will be supplied at One Dollar for each copy.
tp* All orders must be accompanied with the cash—
if by mail, post-paid.
Z&” Clubs should be made up as early ah practicable—
and those wishing volume first, should apply immediately
to „ WALKER & RICHARDS.
May 4, 1850. Charleston S C
*•* Editors copying this Prospectus, or making’suitabie
notice, shall receive a copy of the work uithout an ex
change. They will pleas send marked copies of their
papers containing it to the * Gazette.”
GENERAL AGENCY
IN LITERATURE, ART and SCIENCE.
AT THE
Office of the Southern Literary Gazette.
Corner of Broad-st. and East-Bay, (u j stairs,)
Charleston, S. 8.
The Undersigned, Editor of the “ Southern Lite
rary Gazette,” begs leave to inform the public that
he has opened a General Agency for the transaction of
any business connected with Literature, Science an-
Art. He will correspond with authors concerning the
publication of books and pamphlets upon their own ac
count, or otherwise ; execute any commission for gentle,
men forming librar.es; forward subscriptions for any peri
odical work, American or European ; receive and execuet
promptly commissions for any work of Art; supply accu
rate estimates of the cost of Philosophical Instruments,
order them at his own risk and guarantee t teir efficiency.
All communications must be addressed, prepaid, to
. , L „ WM. C. RICHARDS.
Cy No charge will be made for any service required
by his brethren of the press, who will oblige him by pub.
lishing this notice.
THE subscriber would Authors, Publishers and
, r pSiffil aim ‘ nues t 0 carry on the busi-
A V ING ON WOOD, in a 1 its branches-
His facilities are such that lie is enabled to execute all orders
promptly, and in every style of the Art, upon the most
reasonable terms: while the experience of many years
enables him to feel perfect confidence in his efforts to give
satisfaction to all whofavour him with thejr patron-
ORR, 151 Fulton-street, New York.
June 6
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‘■’VHE subscriber respectfully informs iiis friends and the
public that he nas 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 solicits a continuance of the patron
age heretofore so liberally received.
JOHN P. TREADWELL.