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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. * cDnr ‘prinatß pnst-Jkg. [Under this head we shall reply to many letters, contain ing queries or suggestions upon subjects of general interest, instead of answering them, as heretofore, by post. This will save us time, and “time is money.” We are very glad to receive letters from our subscribers, and it only re quires that the postage be paid to ensure prompt attention. Eds.] E. A. N. Your friendly letter, with the ac companying article was duly received. Accept our warmest thanks for your contribution and your kind wishes. * the objectionable passages referred to occur, was, in consequence of a press of business, and urgent calls for “ copy,” put into the hands of the printer without reading. Had those passages met our eye before they were in print, they would have been suppressed. We shall take care to avoid, in the future, any similar cause of complaint. * James . 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