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more than once saved by a man called
from the plough. Moses had been
keeping sheep lorty years before he
came forth as the deliverer of Israel.
Jesus Christ himself, during the early
part of his l'fe, worked as a carpenter.
11 is Apostles were chosen from amongst
the hardy and laborious fishermen.”
Ciiitors’ Drjiartniriit.
WM. C. RICHARDS, Editor.
D. H. JACQUES, Associate Editor.
(Tljnrlrstnii, I.
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 7, 1850.
NOTES ON THE NORTH ;
FROM THE EDITOR’S POCKET BOOK.
CHAPTER 111.
The Smithsonian Institution—lts Origin —
James Smithson — Chancery Proceedings —
The Legacy paid to Congress—A Charter
granted — Trustees—Regents — The Edifice
—Cost of Material—General Description
—Reflections on the Style—Cost of the
Building—Girard College—Professor Hen
ry—Piofessor Jewett—The Library—Pub
lic Expectation —Great results anticipated.
One of the most interesting objects to us, in
the National Metropolis, is the Smithsonian
Institution, and we propose to occupy this
chapter with a description of the beautiful edi
fice now being erected under the direction of
the National Board of Regents. A word or
two of the origin of this Institution may not
be unacceptable to some of our readers. It is
the bequest of England to America—of the
mother country to the young and thriving
daughter. In regarding it in this somewhat
figurative light, we make use of that figure of
speech which rhetoricians call metonymy and
put England for one of her sons.
Janies Smithson, a relative of the Duke of
Northumberland, died in the year 1833, and in
his will bequeathed more than half a million of
dollars to found in the United States “ an esta
blishment for the increase and diffusion of
knowledge among men.” He was a single
man, of remarkably retired habits. His name,
however, was well known in connection writh
numerous published treatises on scientific sub
jects. These are said to be twenty-four in
number, and to display much knowledge and
re.-earch. The American Government experi
enced some little delay in obtaining the large
sum thus devised to its control, and proceedings
in Chancery were instituted by Mr. Rush, the
American Minister, who at length succeeded in
securing a decree for its payment to Congress.
Upon receipt ol the money, Congress invested
it chiefly in Western bonds.
In pursuance of the object of the legator, a
bill for chartering the Smithsonian Institution
was passed by Congress in April, 1846, and the
President of the United States, the Cabinet
Ministers, and some other parties, were consti
tuted its Trustees. A Board of Regents w r as
then appointed, composed of the President, the
Mayor of Washington, the Chief Justice of the
United States, three members of each depart
ment of Congress, and six other persons. This
Board elects the Chancellor and Secretary, and
has the immediate government of the Institu
tion.
We have thus hastily glanced at the origin
and foundation of the Institute, and will pro
ceed to notice the building appropriated to its
use. It is yet uncompleted, but there is no
reason to doubt that it will be finished by the
time specified by the contract, which is March,
1852.
It is situated on an open and level mall S.
W. of the Capitol, and its picturesque appear
ance attracts the attention of every visitor. The
building is in the Norman style of architecture,
that which prevailed in the latter half of the
twelfth century, and is almost the only con
sistent example of this style to be met with on
this continent. The material of which it is
constructed is a rose-coloured, or more cor
rectly speaking, a lilac-grey sand stone, quar
ried in Virginia, about twenty-five miles dis
tant. It is certainly one of the handsomest
varieties of the sand stone we have ever seen,
and in every respect superior to that used in
any of the public buildings. We learn also
that it is delivered at twenty-five cents per
cubic foot, a cost one hundred per cent less
than that of the dull brown stone with which
the Treasury is built.
The entire length of the building is 450 feet,
and its extreme breadth 140 feet. Like all
Romanesque structures, it is, however, quite
irregular, composed of halls, quadrangles and
connecting ranges, and surmounted by square,
octagonal and campanile towers of unequal
heights. The principal entrance is upon the
north side, and is flanked by two unequal tow
ers, the western one being a beautiful octagon,
very richly ornamented. This is yet unfinished.
The central building is flanked by four towers
of various height and shape. The west wing j
is a very beautiful and lofty hull, designed as a
Gallery of Art. The ceiling of this hall, like
those of the central hull and of the main
porches, is groined and ribbed with deep Nor
man mouldings. The only exception to this
style of ceiling is that of the lecture room iu
the east wing, which is flat and panelled with
deep ribs, to adapt the room for oratorical pur
poses. It is certainly one of the finest lecture
rooms we have ever seen, and will doubtless be
the theatre of many brilliant and startling ex
positions of science.
We are digressing, however from our de
scrifftjon of the exterior of the building. The
wings are connected with the main building by
two ranges, each with a cloister and open stone
screen in front, surmounted by a true Norman
coibel course, which adds greatly to the pic
ture.-queness of the front. The windows are
generally without elaborately traced heads,
finished with the stilted semi-circular arch,
which prevails throughout the building. The
‘vest wing exhibits on the north end a circular
apse or swell, and upon the opposite end a richly
carved circular window of stained glass. At
the N. E. angle of the main building there is a
fine campanile tower, and on the S. E. corner
a double campanile. There are in all nine
towers, which are not only picturesque, but
have their internal advantages, being employed
for stair cases, elevators, flues, &c. They will
also afford admirable facilities for experiments
with falling bodies. The great central hall
will be occupied as the Library and Museum
Its Norman groined arehes will be constructed
either entirely of stone or of iron.
The exterior of the building presents very
slight buttresses and no pinnacles. Its roofs
are slated, except those of the connecting
ranges, which are metallic. The slate pos
sesses chemical advantages over tin or zinc.
The whole face of the building is finished in
ashlar, as architects term it. The stone is not
smoothed, but left with a degree of roughness
which the abrasions of Time and Climate will
only serve to diminish, whereas if the face was
smooth now it would by and by be corrugated.
We have thus hastily, and we confess awk
wardly described the Smithsonian Hall, a genu
ine creation of the Norman ages revived in the
nineteenth century. Os its picturesque effect
we have already spoken. We are not, how
ver, prepared to say that the style was well
e
chosen. Apart from its feudal associations, so
adverse to the genius of American Institutions,
we do not discover a felicitous adaptation in the
edifice to the purposes and necessities of the
Institution. We admire its richly pointed
arches, its groined roofs, its cloisters, its screens,
its corbel courses, its campanile towers, its en
tering and re-entering angles, its rose-windows,
and all the other accessaries of its florid style ;
but the question recurs, Are they suited to the
objects of the Institution ? We fear that the
most favourable answer this question can re
ceive is, that ingenuity can make the building
answer its end ; but we are very certain that a
very different style of building would have been
vastly superior to this in utility.
We make these remarks without intending to
censure the course* of those who adopted the
plan, and simply to express our opinion that
the Norman style, as indeed all of the ancient
styles of architecture, werfe better suited to the
times which originated them than they are to
the present advanced era of the world. It is
due to the Board of Regents to add here that
this beautiful edifice iias been constructed at a
very moderate co.-t, the contractor's bid for the
work completed being only $205,000. This
sum will be exceeded, in consequence of mate
rial changes in the plan of the interior finish,
but at the most the expenditure will be a very
reasonable one. The cost of the Col
lege—so often quoted as an illustration of the
manner in which great public legacies are per
verted from their actual design—cost nearly a
million and a half of dollars. Each column
of its magnificent peristyle, was erected at a
cost ol 13,000 dollars! Thirty four of these
columns cost nearly half a million of dollars—
or twice the expense of the Smithsonian Hall!
We certainly think that for its cost, there is not
in the United States a building to compare in
beauty with the latter.
We have left ourself barely space to speak of
the distinguished gentleman who now occupies
the post of Secretary ol the Institution. Pro
fessor Henry has linked his name with great
discoveries in science, and we anticipate from
his connection with this national establishment,
the most gratifying results. His great aims will
surely achieve them. Our grateful acknowledg
ments are due to Professor Jewett, the accom
plished Librarian, for the most courteous atten
tion during our visit to the Hall. He is as yet
surrounded by only a few books, the simple
nucleus of what is destined to be, we trust, a
grand and unparalleled National Library. The
managers of the Institution are regarding the
classic proverb, Festina lente; and the public
eagerness to witness some of the benefits of
Mr. Smithson’s munificence, should not unrea
sonably demand fruit before the tree which is to
produce it is thoroughly matured for bearing.
We anticipate no trifling results, and we are
willing to allow ample time for their develop
ment.
(Pnr §Dssiji Cnltmin. •
Pink and Drab.
A French gallant, whose knowledge of Eng
lish was not the most perfect, but who never
theless greatly prided himself upon it, being
present at an evening party, met there a lady
and her daughter, to whom he had been previ
ously int;odueed. The lady was dressed in a
drab-coloured silk, and her daughter in pink
satin. The Frenchman, always eager to dis
play his gallantry, approached Mrs. H. and thus
addressed her:
“ Madame, your daughter is de pink of fash
ion to-night.”
“ Ah, Monsieur,” replied the lady,“why will
you French gentlemen persist in flattering the
ladies ?”
“ Indeed, niadamc, I do not flatter. Ido
speak de truth only, as all de world will allow
that your daughter is de pink and yourself de
drab of fashion !”
Splendid Holiday Books-
We call the attention of our readers, and
particularly of “ the trade,” to the advertise
ment in another column of Messrs. E. H. But
ler &. Cos. of Philadelphia. It presents a list
of Annuals and other Illustrated Books, un
equalled, in this country at least. Mr. Butler
has displayed a faultless taste in getting up
these exquisite books, most of which we
have had the pleasure of examining in va
rious stages of progress. The engravings, the
illuminations, the typography, the paper, and
the bindings, are all in the most perfect style of
the various arts, and we take a cordial delight
in recommending them. No books will com
mand a larger or a readier sale in the approach
ing holidays. We shall take an early occa
sion of describing some of them at length.
Failure of the Mails.
Our Northern exchanges are full of com
plaints in regard to the failure of the mails from
ihe South. We have been quite as unfortunate
in iespeet to mails as our Northern friends. It
is only occasionally that we get a Northern
mail. Charleston Ed tors can sympathize with
the following lament of one of their brethren
in Washington:
“ We received three mails by last evening’s
Southern boat. It was a sort of omnibus mail,
with a vengeance upon the poor editors, who
had to wade through their varied contents.
Does the reader recollect the trumpet of Mun
chausen, in which the words were frozen up
in a very cold spell, and, when they were
thawed, broke out with a din of accumulated
sounds which stunned the senses? Just such
is the mail which was emptied upon our table
last evening. *
A Literary Mayor.
The Brooklyn Daily Advertiser gives the
following rich specimens, in illustration of the
orthographical and syntactical knowledge of
the Mayor of that city. The schoolmaster
must have been “ abroad ” when he went to
school. *
City of Brooklyn, July 30, 1850.
To Mr. P
Mr. Patrick McCormick is Lying Dead, the
Barer Wants A Coffin to Enter the Body the
Supt. of the Poor is out of town you Will
Pleas to furnish them. A Coffin of the Cheapi
est order And Charge the same to the County.
I am with Respect yours,
Copy. , Mayor.
This is to certify that the Barer has the body
of A un None man and has permission to re
move it to ffatbush porr hous for interment.
Disease drowned.
This Is to Cirtefy that Doctor A B
the Pirson Above Named is a Phesitian of
Good Regular Standing in the City of Brooklyn.
This is to certify that the Barer has permis
sion to remove the body of A. B. C. to “ holy
cros” Cemetery flatbush for interment disease,
Coroner's Inquest.
The Charleston Monument to Calhoun.
The Special Committee of the Council on
the Calhoun Monument have reported “ that
the City Council having purchased the statue of
Calhoun, by Powers, they deemed the most ap
propriate memorial that the City of Charleston
could erect to perpetuate the public love and
veneration for their departed statesman, would
be a marble Temple to contain and preserve
the statue, to be located in the centre of the
City Park.”
A Picture of April.
The following pretty conceit is from Holmes’
poem at the late Commencement and Celebra
tion at Yale College:
At last young April, ever frail and fair,
Woo’d by her playmate with the golden hair,
Chased to the margin of receding floods,
O’er the soft meadows, starred with opening buds,
In tears and blushes sighs herself away.
And hides her cheelt beneath the flowers of May. *
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE.
Portrait of Calhoun.
The City Council of Charleston has com
missioned Mr. Healy, the distinguished Ameri
can artist, now in Paris, to paint a full length
portrait of the great statesman, as he appeared
delivering his last discourse in the Senate of
the United States. Mr. Healy, as we see by a
letter from him to the Mayor, published in the
“ Proceedings of the Council,” has accepted
the commission, and the work will probably be
finished by next Spring. The artist says, in
concluding his letter: “ I consider the painting
of Calhoun as dear to my reputation, as it was
to Stuart to have painted Washington.” *
A Chance for the Small Fry.
Mr. Bamum having offered a prize of S2OO
for the best Song of Welcome to Jenny Lind,
Mr. Willis, of the Home Journal, takes occa
sion to contradict a rumour that is afloat to
ihe purport that both he and Gen. Morris will
write for the prize. He says that neither of the
Editors of the Home Journal will be competi
tors, and he makes the announcement lest any
should be discouraged from efforts to win the
prize, by the idea that the “ Brigadier” and
“My Boy ” are in the field. Magnanimous,
Mr. Wiliis!
A Bout.
A Frenchman who was learning the English
language, asked his preceptor ihe meaning of
the word “ rout.” He was informed that it
was “ a party at which people got tired.”
“ Ah be my fait,” he rejoined, “ but we have
dose same sort of parties in France too, begar,
and de rout dat did make me most tire was dat
of Waterloo!”
Paradox.
“ Truth lies in a well,” we are told.
But this i a paradox clear:
For Truth cannot lie we make bold,
In reply—to declare.
(Our %nnk (Tfllilr.
Lira and I.kttkrs or Thomas Campbell. Edited
by William Beattie, M. D. In two volumes. New
York: Harper & Brothers. 1850.
We like that style of Biography, now so
common, in which the letters and journals of
the subject are made largely available, and oc
cupy a prominent place in the narrative. This
kind of life-history possesses important advant
ages over a formal autobiography. That ap
pearance of vanity and egotism which is seldom
entirely absent in the latter, is impossible in the
former, where the author is unconsciously writ
ing his own life in his private letters and jour
nals. The letters of an individual give us an
insight into his character, which we could
hardly obtain iu any other way, and this is es
pecially the case with those written to valued
and familiar friends. And such letters from
the pens of eminent persons, are as interesting
as they are valuable. The letters of Milton
and Cowper—and those of the latter are per
haps the most charming specimens of familiar
epistolary writing ever published, form the most
interesting portiops of their biographies.
The style of biography which we have com
mended, and which has been adopted by Dr.
Beattie in the volumes before us, is, we believe,
the only one in which entire justice could have
been done to that true son of genius, Thomas
Campbell, who, though in a measure appreci
ated as a poet, has been sadly misunderstood
as a man. Washington Irving, who confesses
that he had entertained erroneous notions of
Campbell’s private character, thus speaks of
this work, in a pleasant chapter, introductory to
the American edition, and containing some in
teresting reminiscences:
“ It is a great act of justice to the memory
of a distinguished man, whose character has
not been sufficiently known. It gives an insight
into his domestic as well as his literary life, and
lays open the springs of all his actions, and the
causes of all his contrariety of conduct. We
now see the real difficulties he had to contend
with in the early part of his literary career ; the
worldly cares which pulled his spirit to the
earth whenever it would wing its way to the
skies. The domestic afflictions tugging at his
heart-strings even in the hours of genial inter
course, and converting his very smiles into
spasms ; the anxious days and sleepless nights
preying upon his delicate organization, and
producing that morbid sensitiveness and nervous
irritability which at times concealed the real
sweetness and amenity of his nature, and ob
scured the unbounded generosity of his heart.”
To this high praise from such a source we
need add but little. D.\ Beattie has performed
his task, often a delicate one, in a faithful and
consciencious manner, “ combining the truth
fulness of history with the tenderness of friend
ship,” and the thanks of the reading public are
due to him for his successful labours in their
behalf. We have no room for extracts here,
but will give our readers some “glimpses” of
these volumes, under their appropriate head, in a
future number. The work contains a portrait
of Campbell, and is printed in the beautiful
style which distinguishes the publications of the
Harpers. *
Europe, Past and Present: A Comprehensive Man
ual of European Geography and History ; with separate
Descriptions and Statistics of each State, and a Copious
Index. By Francis H. Ungewitter, LL.D. New York:
Geo. P. Putnam. 1850.
This work, which is comprised in a volume
of 671 pages 12 mo., deserves a more extended
notice than our very limited space will enable
us to give it. It is one of those simply useful
books which are not calculated to attract the
puffs of the press, but which are appreciated
by the student and the seeker after general in
formation. Asa manual of European Geo
graphy and History, for every day reference, it
is invaluable and fills a place hitherto unoccu
pied. The author, who is a German, now re
siding in this country, has travelled in nearly
all the States of Europe, and has had access
to abundant and accurate materials, which he
has used with true German industry and suc
cess. The Index, which contains nearly ten
thousand names, enables the reader to turn
readily to any fact connected with the Geogra
phy or History of Europe. For instance, we
were just now reading the late news of the
military movements in the Duchies of Sleswick
and Holstein, and wishing to learn something
concerning the past history of these countries,
and the nature of their relations, geographical
and political, to Denmark, we were enabled in
a moment to turn to the pages where the de
sired information is recorded. We belie v e the
authenticity and accuracy of the work can be
fully relied upon. *
Christian Thoughts on Life, in a Series of Dis.
courses. By Rev. Henry Giles. Boston: Ticknor,
Reed hi Fields.
This volume contains thirteen Sermons, or
occasional pulpit discourses, on one general
theme. The intention, as the author informs
us in his brief Preface, which governed him in
the composition of the greater number, was to
gather into compact form, fragments of moral
experience, and give some record and some
order to desultory studies of man’s interior life.
Every page almo. t bears the impress of Mr.
Giles’ peculiar eloquence. The work, we doubt
not, will prove highly acceptable to the Christ
ian public. *
The Farmer’s Guide to Scientific and Practical
Agriculture. By Henry Stephens, F. R. S. E.
New York: L. Scott & Cos. 1850.
Numbers five and six of this serial have
come to hand. Each additional issue serves to
strengthen the conviction we have heretofore
so freely expressed, of the importaace and value
of the work to the agriculturist. It will make
the most complete and reliable work on farming
ever published. It can be procured through
Mr. John Russell, King-street. *
The Annual of Scientific Discovery: or \ ear
Book of Facts in Science and Art. Edited by David
A. Wells, of the Lawrence Scientific School,'Cam
bridge, and George Bliss, Jr. Boston: Gould, Kendall
ii Lincoln. 1850.
Here is a handsome volume of very modest
pretensions, but of great value. As its title in
dicates, it chronicles the most important disco
veries and improvements in Mechanics, Useful
Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astrono
my, Meteorology, Zoology, Botany, Mineralo
gy, Geology, Geography, and Antiquities. It
also contains a list of recent scientific publica
tions, a classified list of patents, obituaries ot
eminent scientific men, and an index of im
portant papers in scientific Journals, Reports,
&c. The volume is embellished with a por
trait of the distinguished Prof. Louis Agassiz,
accompanied with a brief Memoir. Many of
the articles comprising this work have never
been published elsewhere. It will be found use
ful and interesting, both to the scientific man
and to the general reader, enabling them to see
at a glance what has been accomplished in the
world of science during the year. We trust
the enterprise will prove in the highest degree
successful, and that each coming year will add
another volume to these Annals of Scientific
Progress. McCarter &, Allen, Meeting-street,
have the work for sale. *
Gibbon’s Rome. Vol. IV. New York: Harper &
Brothers. 1850.
This capital edition of Gibbon’s Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire, is rapidly passing
through the press of its enterprising publishers.
Two volumes more will complete the series.
We are assured that the work is having an ex
tensive sale, which it certainly deserves. *
1. Latter Day Pamfhlkts, No. VII. New York:
Harper & Brothers. 1850.
2. Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. VII. Boston: Phil-’
lips, Sampson & Cos. 1850.
These rival editions of Carlyle’s unique pam
phlets, are both very neatly got up, and are
having an extensive sale. *
Shakspeare’b Dramatic Works, Boston: Phillips,
Sampson & Cos.
We have just received No. 21 of this elegant
edition, from the enterprising publishers. The
illustration in this number is the “ Princess Ka
tharine of France.” *
cDnr iCmitriiijiimirii's.
Sartain’s Union Magazine for Septem
ber, has among its embellishments portraits of
Fredricka Bremer and President Fillmore.—
Among the contributors to the literary depart
ment of this number, we notice the names of
Harriet Martineau, Fredricka Bremer, Mrs.
Joseph C. Neal, Anne C. Lynch, and other well
knowui writers. The music is “ A Serenade,”
by E. W. Nichols, the words by R. H.Stoddard.
We copy Mr. Stoddard’s beautiful stanzas:
A SERENADE.
The moon is muffled in a cloud,
Beside the lover’s star,
But underneath thy balcony,
I touch my soft guitar.
If thon art waking, Lady dear,
The fairest in the land ;
Unbar thy wreathed lattice now
And wave thy snowy hand.
She hears me not: her spirit lies
In trances still and deep;
But music turns the golden key,
Within the gate of sleep.
And thus I linger in her bower,
And weave a simple strain :
A little thread of melody,
To lead her back again.
The London Quarterly Review for July
opens writh a long and elaborate paper on Con
dorcet. The next article is a short one on
Spectacles, which is followed by a severe cri
tique on “ Dr. Johnson : his Religious Life and
his Death,” in which its author is dealt with in
no gentle manner. The fourth article, on the
Mechanism of the Post Office, is perhaps the
most important and interesting one in this issue.
There are articles on Ancient Agricultural Li
terature, The Austrian Revolution, and Na
tional Workshops, which we have not yet care
fully examined. L. Scott &. Co’s. Reprint. J.
Russell, King-street, \gent.
The Western Literary Messenger is a
monthly of modest pretensions but of much
merit. Its original articles arc well written
and its selections are made with good taste and
judgment.
The Southern Star, a racy and spirited
sheet, published at Huntsville, Ala., which has
before spoken kind words in our behalf, in a
late issue calls the Gazette “ the most tastefully
gotten-up paper in America,” and adds:
“ The substance matter of which it Is com
posed, both original and selected, is in keeping
with its general appearance. We heard a gen
tleman remark a few days since, that he W'ould
het a “ ten dollar bill” that there could not be
produced from among the newspapers on the
north side of Mason & Dixon’s Line, as fine a
specimen of the art of printing as the “South
ern Literary Gazette,” The paper may be
seen on file at this office.”
We are glad to learn that the Gazette finds
admirers in Alabama. We shall strive to render
it still more worthy of their high encomiums.
Will our friends in that region make an effort
to extend its circulation ? *
i I'itrrnnt IBnrlir.
A Tribute to Mrs. O'good A beautiful tri
bute is to be paid to the memory of this gifted
lady, as novel as it is appropriate. An illus
trated volume, to be entitled The Cairn, is in
the press of our American Murray, Mr. Put
nam, the literary contents of which are original
contributions from many of the leading writers
of this country, of both sexes. It has been
edited by Mrs. Hewitt, the most intimate friend
of Mrs. Osgood, and will undoubtedly possess
an extraordinary degree of interest. With the
profits arising from its sale a monument will be
erected in Mount Auburn, to commemorate the
graces and the virtues of one who in life was
tenderly beloved and in death tenderly la
mented.
Holiday Books. In addition to the “ Holiday
Books” mentioned in our paper of August 24,
we may announce the following:
Messrs. Phillips, Sampson Cos. of Boston,
will publish among others the Gems of Beauty
and Literary Gift for 1850, a third annual
issue of a truly superb annual, printed, illus
trated and illuminated in the best style of the
day, edited as heretofore by Miss Percival. The
Souvenir Gallery, a handsome quarto, writh
thirteen superior Mezzotints by Ritchie. The
favourite Souvenir, Friendship's Offering, is
also on their list, to be more beautiful than ever,
and also their beautiful Juvenile Annual, Christ
mas Roses.
Messrs. Hogan if Thompson of Philadelphia,
announce The Winter-Bloom, an annual of the
larger class, illustrated in a most beautiful and
novel manner, with nine oil coloured engrav
ings. They will also publish a series of Bible
Stories in verse, for children, twelve volumes,
each illustrated with four beautiful coloured
engravings.
Messrs. Appleton if Cos. of New York, wrill
publish, besides the elegant companion volume
to the Women of the Bible, which we alluded
to, The Christmas Guest, or Evenings at Don
aldson Manor, illustrated by several fine en
gravings. This is a collection of charming
stories and sketches by Miss Maria J. Mcln
tosh, an announcement w hich will commend it
to our readers Also, “ Sacred Stwnes, or
Passages in the Life of our Saviour,” embel
lished with sixteen superb engravings. They
announce Kendall’s Maxican I Par, a series of
pictures, writh descriptions, the plates beauti
fully colomed.
James, the Novelist. This distinguished
and popular author is domiciliated at Jamaica,
Long Island. It is said by good authority that
he wrill shortly deliver a course of Lectures in
some of the Northern cities, upon the ehivalric
ages. \\ e most cordially and earnestly invite
him to favour the people of our beautiful city
writh his presence and his lectures, for both will
be very welcome.
The Great Trade Sales. Next week will
commence, in New York, the semi-annual
Trade Sale of Books, by Messrs. Bangs,
Brother & Cos., who have issued a catalogue of
unusual extent and variety. The great rival
sale ol Messrs. Cooley & Keese began on the
26th ult. and is not yet completed. This firm
hold their sales in anew and magnificent hall,
some distance up Broadway. Mr. Keese has
certainly done credit to his reputation, as also
to his new’ domain, by the sparkle of his writ
while “ knocking down ” the fruits of Genius,
I alent and Industry. We shall refer hereafter
to these great Sales.
Staitirs.
Mr. McKennon has resigned the office
of Secretary of the Interior.
Hon. John Schnierle w-as elected Mayor
of Charleston, on Monday, the 2d inst.
General Scott has been ordered to fix
his head-quarters at Washington City.
There is a church in Feltville, N. J.,
whose members do not believe in any creed.
Prof. Webster was executed on the 30th
ult.; he died penitent and without a struggle.
The Hon. Wm. J. Grayson has been re
appointed Collector of the port of Charleston.
At the last accounts, there was little
doubt but that the statue of Calhoun would be
recovered.
The Northern mails are very irregular,
their failure being the rule and their reception
the exception.
The Sea Serpent made his appearance
off Casco Bay, the other morning, but they
would not let him in.
Mr. Buchanan, the tragedian, lias been
engaged at the National Theatre, in Boston,
and was to appear about the 2d of September.
Miss Davenport, the favourite aetress ;
commences an engageme.nt at the Walnut
street Theatre, Philadelphia, on the 9ih of Sep
tember.
At the late Annual Commencement of
the University of Georgia, the degree of LL.D.
was conferred upon the Hon. John McPherson
Berrien.
Dr. Gerard Troost, for a long period a
Piofessor in the University at Nashville, and
Geologist of tae State of Tennessee, died
lately, much lamented.
Mrs. Mowatt is reported as rapidly re
covering her health, under the treatment of the
celebrated Dr. Wilson, at his Water Cure esta
blishment at Melvern.
Our countryman, Healy, the artist, is
occupied, in Paris, upon a large picture, (18 by
25 feet,) for the city of Boston, representing
Webster in the Senate.
The man that isn’t afraid of thunder,
talks of going to Brandywine Springs next
week w ithout asking his wife. So says the
Item man of Philadelphia, and he knows.
A Western editor announces the arrival
of a twelfth responsibility “ at his house,” and
makes the following appeal immediately after:
“ More subscribers wanted at this office.”
The Sandwich Island girls will leap
from a precipice fifty feet high into the sea.
The traveller does not state whether they will
leap up again or not. Diving Belles, indeed !
At the late Commencement of Yale
College, one of the toasts —“ Our Alumni of
the South”—was responded to by Mr. Gould,
of Georgia, who introduced a brief eulogy on
Mr. Calhoun.
John Neal announces “to all whom
it may concern,” that he is preparing a History
of American Literature, in two large volumes
octavo. Authors are requested to furnish him
with copies of their works.
A card appears in the New York pa
pers announcing the withdrawal of Anna Bish
op, from the operatic spectacle of “Judith,” at
the Astor Place Opera House, in consequence
of the non-fulfilment of her engagements by the
manager.
Somebody says: “ The Devil never
troubles a busy man.” This we know to be
false. Show us a busier man than the editor,
and yet he is fortunate if he has no more than
one “devil” to trouble him, especially when
“ copy ” is short.
At the late session of the Scientific As
sociation at New Haven, Prof. W. R. Johnson
pronounced the stone of w'hichthe Washington
Monument is being constructed, of a very in
different quality. He says that if the column
is carried to the height intended, it must crush
under its own weight.
Among the recent deaths by cholera at
Milwaukie, Wisconsin, is that of the Rev.
Father Beauprez, a Catholic clergyman, much
beloved by his congregation at that place. He
fell a victim while ministering to the sick and
dying, and his funeral was attended by nearly
the entire population of Milwaukie,
(Eljt If ins nf tjje Dittf.
The Dead of 1850.—The following persons
of distinction have deceased in 1850 :
Hon. John C. Calhoun, April 1, - aged 68
Rev. J. Newland Maffit, May 25, - “ 49
Hon. Franklin H. Elmore, May 29, - “ 60
Hon. Sargeatit S. Prentiss, July 1, - “ 54
Gen. Zachary Taylor, July 9, - “ 66
Adam Ramage, July 9, - - “79
S. Margaret Fuller, July 19, - - “ 42
Sir Robert Peel, July 2, - - “63
Duke of Cambridge, July 5, - - “ 77
Silver Ore in Kentucky. —The following is
from the Knoxville Register: We understand
that specimens of silver ore found near the
Cumberland Falls, in Kentucky, were exhibited
a few days since in our city by Mr. Lewis Ben
tro, of that State. We also learn that the
qualities of this ore have been tested by a skill
ful assayer, who certifies that the yield is suffi
ciently large to afford a profitable investment to
those who may embark in the business.
Caution. —Lieut. M. F. Maury, U. S. Navy,
of the National Observatory, gives notice in the
Washington papers that the ship Solon, Buck
man, when off the eastern entrance of the
Straits of Magellan, Cape Virgins bearing about
W. N. W. six or seven miles, struck upon a
dangerous and unknown shoal iti two and a
half fathoms. The position of this danger is
not, says Lieut. M., accurately given, nor is its
extent known.
Life Insurance tends to Longevity. —Those
individuals best acquainted with the action of
the mind and its relations to the body, will not
doubt for a moment that corroding care and
deep anxiety for the future have a powerful in
fluence in aiding disease to accomplish its end
Amongst the most powerful agencies in giv
ing quiet to the mind at such times, is the confi
dence reposed in Life Insurance, if the party is
so fortunate as to hold a policy.
Cholera. —The Cholera is prevailing to an
alarming extent among the German population
of Alleghany city, opposite Pittsburgh. A
Board of Health has been formed, and proper
sanitary measures introduced with the hope of
staying the epidemic.
From, the Choctaw Nation. —The elections
which were recently held, are said to have
passed off without disorder of any sort, and
temperance was observed throughout. The
school examinations also took place a short
time since. They are described as having given
unusual satisfaction, while they would have
been creditable to children of the same age and
term of schooling in any of the States.
UTA man in Litchfield, Conn., dug a grave,
put a coffin in it, and put himself in the coffin,
after swallowing a large dose of laudanum.
Finding himself alive next morning, he got up
and hung himself. A minister preached, last
Sunday, over his grave.
The Cause of Colonization. — The West
minster Review says: “The Americans are
successfully planting free negroes on the coast
of Africa ; a greater event probably in its con
sequences than any that has occurred since Co
lumbus set sail for the New World.”
Er’R.ev. Adoniram Judson, the renowned
Baptist Missionary to India and Burmah, is
again in very low health, and has been con
strained by medical advice to take a sea voy
age, which will separate him four or five months
from his family and his missionary labours.
Heavy Loss. —The Pottsville (Pa.) Register
estimates the loss by the recent flood to the
Schuylkill Navigation Company, by money
expended for repair and diminution of tolls, at
about SIOO,OOO. Twenty-one loaded boats
were stranded in a field near Pottstown.
The New York Tailors. —The tailors have
stopped “ striking ” now, and have gone to
work to open a large shop, on the co-operative
union plan, situated in Nassau-street. They
propose to find work and good wages, for one
another, by these means.
Kossuth's Halits in Exile. —Kossuth is said
to divert the hours of his captivity by educating
his children, labouring in a little garden within
the walls of the fortress, and by indulging in
an occasional game of skittles, with the com
panions of his political and military struggles.
The Philadelphia. —The steamship Phila
delphia, Capt. Pearson, left New York on
Wednesday afternoon for Chagres, via King
ston, Jamaica, with one hundred and eighty
passengers, nearly all bound to California.
Important Decision. —The Appellate Court
at Nuevo Leon has affirmed the judgment ol
tbe Court of Matamoras, decreeing in favour
of Capt. Glover for $55,000, that amount hav
ing been seized by the Custom House.
O’The Havre de Grace Bank has failed to
redeem its notes, which are selling in Baltimore
at 50 cents on the dollar.
lpuo , s altar.
MARRIED,
In New York, on the 15th ult., Mr. Chart.es
McElleran, of that city, iind Miss Ellen M.
Cambridge, of Charleston.
In New Orleans, on the 14th ultimo, Mr.
Richard G. Taylor, of Georgia, and Miss
Florenda Williamson, of that city.
In Washington, on the 29th ult., Lieut. John
S. Garland, U. 8. A., and Mary Trcxton,
daughter of John H. Houston, Esq., of that
city.
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elude the greater number of the best and ablest names of
the country. They represent the highest Literary talent
of the South, and reflect truly, with a native earnest,,ess,
force and fidelity, the real policy and ’he Peculiar instilu
turns of our section. The Publishers, assured by thecoun
tenanee which they have received, Irom every quarter of
the South, ami especially sustain. <i and patronized by the
most influential names in Carolina, beg leave to so iu
the continued and increasing patronage ot our citizens.
Subscriptions will be received at their Office, corner o
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.—AU former Agencies for the SOL TIIERN
QUARTERLY REVIEW’ are discontinued. Due no
tice will be given of the appointment of Agencies by the
present Publishers.
unrivalled north oh south !
THE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME
OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE
Was commenced on Saturday, the 4th of May, 1850
underits original name —instead of Richards’ Heektp Ga
zette —as more significant of its pe< uliar character, it being
the only weekly organ of Literature in the entire South !
It is
GREATLY ENLARGED AND IMPROVED,
Containing weekly Thirty-two Columns of matter. I.
is, moreover, in an
ENTIRELY NEW DRESS
“ from head to foot,” and upon beautiful white paper, so
that, in mechanical excellence, it shall no. be surpassed by
any paper whatever in the United States ! It will ccrft.n
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
‘The southern literary gazette
Shall rival the best of them in all the characteristics ol a
truly valuable fireside Journal. Its aim will be the diffu
sion of cultivated and refined taste throughout the com
munity—and it will embrace in its ample folds every spe
cies of intelligence that can tend to this result
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS,
from many of the ablest writers in the South, will chiefly
occupy its columns, but not to the exclusion of choice mis
cellany. selected from the best American and European
sources
The tone of the “Gazette” will be independent in criti
cism and iu the discussion of every legitimate topic, but it
s*ill lip vtru*t 1 v
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 the lending
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, inJldvc t e
It will he 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
ey 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 SPATES.
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 parents, teach
ers, and all interested in the rising generation to aid them
in their efforts to make the Schoolfellow all that its most
flattering judges have pronounced it.
It will be published in the same form as heretofore and
under the same editorial care; and will contain chiefly ori
ginal articles from the pens of Mrs. Caroline Gilman, Mrs.
Joseph C. Neal, Mrs, W. C. Richards, Mrs. C. W. 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 sls, and Thirty
two copies for $20!!
THE FIRST VOLUME,
beautifully hound in gilt muslin, will he furnished in con
nection with the second Year for Two Dollars. To
dobs, it will be supplied at One Dollar for each copy.
t3*~ All orders must be accompanied with the cash —
if by mail, post-paid.
Clubs should be made up a early as practicable—
and those wishing volume first, should apply immediately
to WALKER & RICHARDS.
May 4, 1850. Charleston, S. C.
** Editors copying this Prospectus, or making suitable
notice, shall receive a copy of the work without 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.
Comer of Broad-st. and East. Bay, (upstairs,)
Charleston, S. S.
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 ot books and pamphlets upon their own ac.
count, or otherwise ; execute any commission for gentle’
men forming libraries; 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,
orderthem at Ills own risk and guarantee their efficiency.
All communications must ht addressed, prepaid, to
WM. C. RICHARDS.
C.'e*” No charge will be matte for any service required
by his brethren of the press, who will oblige him by pub.
lishing this notice.
ENGRAVING. „ ,
Til E subscriber would inform Authors, Publishers and
Printers, that he still continues to carry on the busi
ness of ENGRAVING UN WOOD, in all its branches-
His facilities are such that he is enabled toexecnteall orders
promptly, and in every style of the Art, upon the most
reasonable terms: while tbe experience of many years
enables him to feel perfect confidence in his efforts to give
satisfaction to all who may favour him w ith their patron
age. m N. ORR, 151 Fulton-street, New York.
June 6
THOM \S. t'OW PERTH \\ AIT a GO.,
BOOKSELLERS,
PUBLISHERS AND STATIONERS,
523 market-street, Philadelphia,
Publish Mitchell’s Geography and Atlas, Primary Geo
graphy, Intermediate Geography, Ancient Geography
ami Atlas, Universal Atlas, with nearly eighty beautifully
coloured Maps; Pocket Maps of the United States and of
the different States ot the Union ; Swan’s series of School
Readers, Spelling Book anil Primary Spelling Book :
Greene s English Grammar, and Greene’s Analysis of the
English Language ; F. A. Adams’ Arithmetics, parts 1
, p eiinock s Histories of England, France, Rome,
and Greece; Picott’s series of Elementary Books in learn
ing French; I rost’s United States, kr.’
And they offer for sale at the lowest prices, the largest
prices the largest stock in ,he country of SCHOOL,
CLASSICAL, LAW, MEDICAL.THEOLOGICAL
ami MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS.
tjfU Order* solicited. 6mo July 13
FRANKLIN House.
NEW YORK, May 1,1850.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the
public that he has leased tiie above House lor a
term of years. The House has been in complete repair
during the past winter and mostly furnished nnew. ine
proprietor respectfully solicits a continuance ot tne pairon
age heretofore so TR e AD WELL.