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(Billies’ JOrjiurtment. WM. C. HICHAHDS, Editor. D. H. JAOQOES, Associate Editor. Cjinrlrstmi, §. VTURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 28,1850 NAMES. FIFTH ARTICLE. Abraham is, of course, from the Hebrew, nnd signifies/<Aer of many. It is not now often used. Adam, it is well known, signifies red earth. The author of the “Wealth of Nations” bore it with honour. Benjamin is a fine name, from the Hebrew stock, and has been borne by men of genius and renown, among whom were Jonson, Frank lin and West. The only objection to it is the facility With which it is contracted into Ben. it signifies son oj the right hand. Jacob, signifying a supplanter, is from the Hebrew. The name has, since the days of its original bearer, been borne by thousands, and has assumed various forms. James, which in t is French becomes Jacques, and in the Ital ian, Giucamo —in other forms lachimo and logo, is properly the same name. In the forms of James and Jacques it has been borne by hi igs, and by those who were greater than hi gs. In poetry it assumes the familiarized foiin o i Jamie. Alexander is from the Greek, and has the meaning of he per o) men. Alexander the Great, made it “ One of the few, the immortal natner. That were not borne to die,” So:ne ancient guisard lhymes.the historical ac curacy ol which, however, may be questioned, run thus — “ Here conies in Alexander king ofMacedon, Who conquered all the world but Scotland alone: i’o. when he came to Scotland, his courage it grew cold. To see a little nation so stout and so bold. ” The name is a great favourite in Scotland. Erasmus is fiom ihe Greek, and signifies lovely, or worthy to be loved. Henry is, we believe, of German origin, and has the signification of rich lord. It was home by the famous Eatl of Surry, by Field ing, the Novelist, and by eight English kings, li is honoured in this country by the great statesman, Clay. Henry in its familiarized form becomes Harry. Its feminizat ons are Henrietta, Henricu and Harriet, who, nine they cannot he rich lords, ought to be rich ladies. Magdalene, from the Syriac, has the sense rif magnificent. Its modern forms are Madelina, Madeline, and Madeleine —all sweet names, and favourites with the poets. Tennyson thus addresses one who boie the name: “Thou art not steeped in golden languors. No tranced Summer calm is thine, Ever varying Madeline ; Thro’ light and shadow thou dost range, Sudden glances, sweet and strange, Delicious sprites and darling angers, And airy forms ol flitting change.” Mary Howitt, puts into the mouth of the Landless Poet, the following: “Lovely lady Madeline, High-born lady Madeline, What a heavenly dream had 1 ’Neath the moou but yester-e’en. In thy gracious beauty bright, In thy bower I saw the stand, Looking from its casement out, With mu verses in thy hand.” Sybilla is from the Latin, Sibylla, a proph et >’s. Barry Cornwall has the following song, in which the name is musically interwoven with the verse: “Sybilla, dost thou love ? Oh, swear! Oh, swear! By those stedfast stars above! By this pure sweet air! By all things true, and deep, and fair ! By hearts made rich with love, Made wise by care ! Sybilla ! I love thee! I swear, I swear, — By all bright things that be ! By thyself, my fair ! By thine eyes, and motions free! By thy sting, thou honey-bee! By thy angel thoughts that flee Singing, through the golden air, l swear, I swear!” Maureen is a sweet Irish name, Ihe signifi cation of which we are not able, at this mo iin .it, to ascertain. That best of all song wri. his, Barry Cornwall, has embalmed this name a ‘‘” in his ver.-e. The following song has the r e Irish pathos: The cottage is here, as of old I remember ; flie pathway is worn, as it ever hath been: ‘hi the turl-pileil heath, there still lives a bright ember ; But,—where is Maureen ? 1 ” Lost!—Like a dream that hath come and departed, ( All, why are the loved and lost evi r seen? hath (alien, —hath flown with a lover false-hearted ; So, mourn for Maureen •weet Shannon! a moment by thee let me ponder; ’ moment look baek at the things that have been ; h .li, away to the world where the ruined ones wander, To look for Maureen! Alice, or Alicia, signifies noble, and is one fie sweetest ol female names. The poets ve m,t been neglectful of it. It was the n,line °* the Miller’s daughter of Tennyson : “ 0 that I were beside her now ! O will she answer if I call ? 0 would she give me vow for vow, Sweet A lick if 1 told her all ?*’ Deborah is 1 1 om the Hebrew, and has the ■initig of a bee. It is rather a homely name, 11 a associated in our minds with household ( ' ares and labours. I (tiDGET is too unmi.-takeably Irish to need ■ woid- on the score of its origin. It signi r-ght, but has been too long associated in ‘Hinds with chambetmaids and cooks, to be i ied in a higher sphere of life. 1 hloel-, we be believe, of Greek origin, and Unification is a green plant or herb. It is “itut.ful rutal name. Prior, “to Chloe jeal i 0U “” thus writes : U lat 1 speak,i my fair Chloe, and what 1 write 1 SllOWs I | le difference therei* between nature and art; - vhers in verse, but I love thee in prose; 1 hey have my whimsies, hut thou hast my heart.” ‘'Tara is the poetical name by which Hab- J,| n,oneof the most graceful of the En ‘ “'UK.r poets, designated the lady of his ’ “hose true name, we think, was Lucy I *'Tbert. Like the violet, which, alone, Prospers in some happy shade, Mv Castara lives unknown, I o no looser eye betrayed. ” * < ■ !► THE LIND CONCERTS. 1 t: ‘ke pleasu eiu subsliti ting for a brief ‘T t I ° 1 ‘ le ’ “hit'll we projjosed to write, concern ‘at,‘ concerts of Jenny Lind, a few par- I hhs from the pen of a favourite correspond- I 1 ‘hi Gazette, who has been enticed from Ulll| y to the town, by the irresistible se ■ 1 ‘ tlS •he Queen of Song. He thus dis- I ‘discs: * Ii U| i"2 the week, Mile. Lind’s third and H l:| lh p ‘oticei ts have been heard here by even an d more delighted audiences than ■ , e u the vast area of Castle Garden, on her and, 'd second appearance. On each occa le fickets, to the number of eight or fl °usand, have all been sold, long before r °t assembling, and all hope of a de- In ‘he value of seats, however protracted “° Urn here of the tuneful Jenny, is now ‘ J 'ied. The ticket office, in the vestibule •Museum, has been in a continual state o 1 seige from “morn to dewy eve so much so as to require the constant presence of several mem bers of the police force, to prevent any usurpa tion of peace in the long and closely serried file ol purchasers, reaching from the window many feet into the street Each new comer takes up his position at the end of the line, and esteems himself happy if an hour or so’s trial of patience brings him to the other end of the row. Stepping iuto an omnibus on Thursday evening, duly gloved and eravatted for Castle Garden, I wa9 received, as I sank into the only vacant scat, with a smile from my fellow pas sengers, all obviously bound on the same errand. On “concert nights” the drivers of these vehi cles change their usual route, as if by instinct, and bring up, not at the “South Ferry,” but at the Battery. The programme of the last two Concerts was greatly enriched by the addition, or rather substitution of several of the great songstress’s most admired passages; among them that delicious scene from the Puritans, familiarly known to all the admirers of Bellini, as “Qui la voce,” the melody of which would have a place forever in the hearts of all who then heard it, had it not then been so quickly followed by the Nightingale’s matchless execu tion of the “Non Paventar,” in the Opera of II Flaueo Majico. While uttering certain passages from this grand aria, Mile. Lind so won the souls of her vast audience, that a still ness as of death pervaded the whole house. Beneath the influence of her magic tones, criticism shrinks abashed. We hear only to wonder and to enjoy ; almost forgetting that there ate such singers in the world as Steffano ni, Biscacianti or even Grisi. The one all-pei vading feeling in this city is that of complete and intense delight with Mile. Lind’s vocaliza tion, mingled with a profound admiration of her more than queenly charity. She goes to Boston this week, where, doubtless, a cordial reception awaits her.” THE MOULTRIE HOUSE. This establishment has one advantage over all of a similar kind m the States north of us. When the season at the northern watering places, is fairly over, and the visitors are driven away by bleak and chiliy winds, which usually begin at the close of September, the season on Sullivan’s Island begins to be more pleasant than ever. September, October, and Novem ber, are the most gratelul of all the months, at this lovely spot, in the whole calender. The sunny skies which we inhabit, and the soft meek warm breeze from the Gulf of Mexico, admira bly temper the otherwise ungracious approach of winter; and one who has fled with shivering from the Fall breezes at Newport, Cape May and other places, finds himself wrapt here in zephyrs ot most delicious soothing. From the day that the Sun crosses the Line, in September, and all dread of the usual equinoctial storm is ended, the Island affords the most delightful of all places of sojourn. We are happy to learn that many of our citizens are preparing to build upon it for the ensuing summer. More than twenty lots, we understand, have been staked off for this purpose. Judge Frost, we are told, is about to erect a beautiful Italian villa, and his example will be followed by others ; while Col. Gadsden is equatly resolved to mkeh i farmstead a model plantation in miniature. We are glad to learn that his purpose is to en ter largely upon the cultivation of the Date, and other choice fruits of the East, and the extreme South, for all of which the Island is admirably adapted. (Dnr dtoiji Column. The Prize Song and the Critics- The Prize Song of Mr. Bayard Taylor is pronounced by some of the newspaper critics to be devoid of merit—stale in sentiment, and un melodious in versification. This is hardly to be wondered at, considering that there were upwards of seven hundred disappointed aspi rants for the S2OO, to say nothing of the fame which the song was to bring. Many of the spiteful effusions of the papers, including that in the Literary World, we fancy, are to be very readily traced to some of the “ great re jected.” We hope our neighbour of the Mer cury is not one ot that class, though we con fess to a contrary suspicion—from the indig nant height to which he rose against the fortu nate song. We never thought or said that it was a faultless production ; but we commended it for ‘delicacy of sentiment and melody of rhythm,’ and we are not inclined to alter our judgment. The song met the approval, sub vera judice, of an intelligent committee, and it was the especial choice of Mile. Lind, who had more to do with it, we think, than newspa per critics, who, carp as they may, would be sorely puzzled to amend its alleged faults. It is due to Mr. Taylor to say that the Song, as written, contained three stanzas, the first of which was suppressed, for the sake ot brevity alone. This certainly marred the spirit and proportions of the song, as it made it necessary to aiter the first line of the second stanza to adapt it as an opening sentiment. We do the author simple justice in printing the Song as it was written, and should have been sung : ’Tin said that in silence the heart must reveal What the faltering lip to its pleading deniea. When the warmth of its beating we may not conceal, And grateful emotion i soft in the eyes. But silenceitself, in the region of song, Is music made sweeter, and purer in tone, And tiie minstrel whose hopes to that region belong, Must feel in its beautiful language alone. 11. I greet, in that language, the Land of the West, Whose Banner of Stars o’i ra world is unrolled, Whoseempire o’ershadows Atlantic’s wide breast, And opes to the sunset its gateway of gold! The land of the mountain, the land of the lake, And rivers that roll in magnificent tide— Where the soul’s of the mighty from slumber awake, And hallow the soil tor whose freedom they died ! 111. Thou Cradle of Empire! though wide be the foam That severs the land of my lathers and thee, I hear from thy bosom, the welcome of home, For song hasahomein the hearts of the Free! And long as thy waters shall gleam in the sun, As long as thy heroes remember their scars, Be the hands of thy children united as one, And Peace shed her light on the Banner of Stars ! Patent Cow Milking. We recently spent a night with a friend, who, though doing business in Gotham, yet resides upon a beautiful farm, some twenty-five miles up the Haarlem Railway. Upon retiring for the night, he told us that he designed early next morning, to make an experiment in cow milking, with anew patent apparatus. As we have quite a penchant for experiments, we readily agreed to a very early call, to enable us to see the fun. About day-light we accor dingly obeyed the summons of our host, and having donned india rubber boots, we accom panied him to the barn-yard. He bore in hi 9 hand a small box, containing the mysterious implements of his new domestic philosophy. Upon examination, we found them to consist of slender tubes of silver, each fitted with a silver piston and sliding rod, and projecting an inch into a cot or sack of india rubber, with an elas tic band around the upper edge. “Oty,” the Irish waiting man, now proceeded to attach one of these to each of the cow's teats, which he did by slipping the projecting tube into the milk orifice, and then drawing around it the mbber sack. When this was done, the piston was withdrawn by the ring attached, and from every tube there immediately flowed a full stream of milk, which continued to run freely, SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE. tor three or four minutes, discharging, mean while, at least six quarts of milk, and nearly exhausting the udder. The experiment was then repeated upon two other cows, with like result. An old farmer, and a negro servant from a neighbouring farm, witnessed the opera tion with undisguised wonder. The latter turned up the whites of his great eyes, and ex claimed— “ Golly gracious! on’y to think of tapping de cows, as es you was tapping a cider-barrel, and running her clean dry afore she know it.” It teas something new under the sun, certain ly, and justified Mose’s astonishment. The apparatus is exceedingly simple and cheap, and can be applied in a few moments, thus greatly expediting the process of milking, and yielding the milk perfectly clean. Most assuredly, if we owned a cow or cows, we should provide ourself with Knapp’s curious “ Patent Cow Milkers,” and do the thing up secundum ar tem. Eclectic Medical Institute. We have received the Circular of the Eclec tic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio. This institution is controlled by the leading members of the new or eclectic school of medicine. Its Faculty is composed of gentlemen of high standing in their profession, and its course of instruction is extensive and thorough. The leading principles of the College are, that all medical treatment should be of a safe and restorative, instead of a dangerous or de bilitant character, that knowledge should be sought freely from all sources, and that no medical creed should be enforced by proscrip tive associations. The Eclectic system of practice embraces a great number of medicines and remedial measures, not generally known or used, and its success is believed to be une qualled. Further information can be obtained by ad dressing Jos. R. Buchanan, M. D., Dean. * Burial in Cities. Burial was not allowed in cities, says Stave ly, till the time of Gregory VIII: lor then it was the priests and Monks began to pray and perform offices for souls departed, and for their more ease and belter accommodation therein, it was first indulged to have sepultures near the churches ; Gregory himself, wit li several other Popes, being buried in the outmost porch, be fore the Church of St. Peter, as Onuphius anno tates to Platina. And so it was that Cuthbert XI, Archbishop of Canterbury, happening to be at Rome, and observing the way of burial there, obtained lrom the Pope a dispensation for ma king of cemeteries or church yards, within town and cities throughout England. * Lopez and Cuba. Gen. Lopez was lately presented with a sword and flag—the latter wrought by the hands of the fair daughters of Cuba, in behalf of the Cubans residing in New-York, Philadelphia, and Boston. Miguel T. Tolon, made a speech on the occasion, and Gen. Lopez, in his res ponse said: “This flag shall be the regimental flag of the first body that shall be organized on our coun try’s soil, which shall bear the proud name of the regiment of the “Daughters of Cuba.” It shall wave above the Moro, or it shall be my winding sheet in a Cuban grave, which shall serve to mark another step in the onward march of the revolution you justly call inevita ble. * Jenny Lind and the Quakers. A friend in Philadelphia gave us the follow ing ‘item,’ which we, in turn, give to our read ders. At a quaker meeting held a few even ings since, the ‘spirit moved’ one of the good members to caution the brethren and sisters against the vanities and follies of the world, and especially the young men and maidens against “that celebrated singing woman, Jane Lind.” Mrs. Partington at Jenny Lind’s Concert. At Mile. Lind’s second Concert at Castle Garden, New-York, we had the had the pleas ure of meeting either Mrs. Partington, or one of her kin. At the close of the magnificent Cavatina from Norma, (the Casta Diva,) we he heard an elderly lady behind us remark to a friend, “Well, now, that is ondoubtedly the prettiest tune I ever heard,” and she added, “what come’s next, —let me look at the dia gram of the Consort.” (Dnr Hunk UTnhlp. The Lily and the Totem : or the HugnenoLa in Flori. da. By the Author of “The Yemassee,” “Life of Marion,” “Life of Bayard.” etc. New-York: Baker &. Scribner, 1850. The South is largely indebted to Mr. Simms for previous labours in the field of her early his tory. He has pursued his researches in this department of literature, with equal industry and success, and has made fitting record of nu merous facts and events of the greatest impor tance, which were rapidly passing from the memories of men, at the same time pointing out, as far as possible, the locale of each, and investing it with new interest, by causing us to look at it in its most picturesque aspects, and through the warm atmosphere which his own rich fancy has thrown around it. The work before us renders still heavier our obligations, and adds to the well-earned, and deservedly high reputation of its author. The Lily and the Totem belongs to that class of works, which has been denominated the Romance of History. The work is composed of a series of “ Sketches, Picturesque and His torical, of the Colonies of Coligni in America,” in which the legendary and the romantic are skilfully interwoven with the literal facts of the strictly historical narrative. The fiction is everywhere, however, made subordinate to the fact. Mr. Simms says in his preface : “ I have been studious to preserve all the vi tal details of the event, as embodied in the re cord, and have only ventured my own “ graf tings” upon it in those portions of the history, which exhibited a certain baldness in their de tails, and seemed to demand the helping agency of art. In thus interweaving the history with the fiction, I have been solicitous always of those proprieties and of that varisemb/ance, in the introduction of new details, which are es sential to the chief characteristics of the histo ry ; seeking equally to preserve the general in tegrity of the record from which I draw my ma terials, and of that art which aims to present them in a costume the most picturesque. My labour has been not to make, but to perfect, a history ; not to invent facts, but to trace them out to seemingly inevitable results ; to take the premises and work out the problem ; recogni zing the meagre record which affords simply a general outline ; and endeavour, by a severe induction, to supply its details and processes. I have been at no such pains to disguise the chronicle, as will prevent the reader from sepa rating,—should he desire to do so, —the cer tain from the conjectural ; and yet, I trust, that I have succeeded in so linking the two to gether, as to prevent the lines of junction from obtruding themselves offensively upou his con sciousness.” The records and traditions, which have been handed down to us, of the early attempts—suc cessful, at last, ot the French and Spanish, to plant colonies in the Southern portions of this country, barren of details as most of them are> furnish materials for the historian, which have been too long neglected. A large portion of the field is still unoccupied. Os all avail able facts concerning the Colonies of Ad miral Coligni in Florida, however, the au thor of The Lily and the Totem, has made the beat possible use. The work is equally creditable to him as a historian and as a romancer. It displays the richness of hi 9 fancy, and the fertility of his imagination, no less than his fidelity and research, and unless we greatly err in our judgment, it will take a prominent place among the best productions ot its class. We cannot forbear the expression ot a hope that this exceedingly pleasant volume will be followed by others in a similar vein. Among the episodical legends which so pleas ingly break the monotony of the regular narra tive, we have read those of “Guemache,” “Ira cana,” and “Alphonse d’Erlach,” with most in terest. We class them among Mr. Simms’ happiest efforts. We shall endeavor to find room for one of them in our next. The work is handsomely printed and bound, and is creditable to its publishers as well as to its author. * 1. The Slaves or England. The Seamstress ; a Tale of Domestic Life. By G. W. M. Reynolds, author of “ Ellen Monroe,” &c. New-York : Stringer k Townsend, 1860. 2. My Peninsular Medal. By an old Peninsular- New-York : Stringer and Townsend, 1850. We owe copies of these two interesting pub lications to Messrs. Courtenay & Weinges, young and enterprising booksellers, who have succeeded to the business, just below us, for merly occupied by that veteran “of the corner,” Mr. Amos Head. The first of these stories is from a writer who has made himself famous in that dark and passionate school, of which Sue is probably the greaiest living master. Mr. Reynolds scarcely tails behind hint in intensity and power. His stories are usually of the most terrific and startling character. He does, in his horrible development of the crimes of society, for London, what Sue does for the same mate rial, at Paris. The present story is of a most tragic character. It has another quality by which to recommend it. It shows the cruelty and injustice practiced upon the poor weak wo men of a great metropolis. How they starve and suffer, and by what processes they are in evitably forced from the paths of virtue. “The Peninsular Medal” is a work of a diffe rent character. It is not so much the narrative of warlike events, as a sort of portraiture of old veterans and raw recruits, in camp and bar racks ; how they practice upon one another ; what are their sports and humours,and how they console themselves amidst the privations of the field, by recklessness and waggery. An amu sing chronicle drawn from the life. The Companion. After Dinner Table Talk. By Cliet wood Evelyn, Esq. One vol. 12nio. New-York : Geo. P. Putnam. This is a pleasant collection of good things and rare things, from a great variety of sources; just the volume to read in a railway carriage, or in odd minutes at home. It is a common place book,” but the reader will find its extracts far from being common-place. We subjoin a single specimen : The following playful colloquy in verse, took place at a dinner table, between Sir George Rose, and [James] Smith, in allusion to Craven Street Strand, where he resided. J. S.— “ In Craven-street Strand, ten Attorney’s find place, And ten dark coal-barges are moored at its base ; Fly, Honesty, fly to some safer retreat, For there’s craft in the river, and craft iu the street. ” Sir G. R “Why should Honesty fly to some safer retreat, From Attorney’s and barges, ’od rot eni? For the Lawyers are just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom.” Life Here and There : or Sketches of Society and Adventures, at far apart times and places. By N. P. Willis. One vol. 12mo. New-York: Baker & Scrib ner. The volume before us is uniform with the same publisher’s previous collection of Mr. Willis’s Miscellanies, under names equally quaint with that of the present work. They are giving to the public, in a good library shape, many of the best things of Mr. Willis, who is unquestionably a capital story teller, and is al ways sure of his reader’s pleased attention. “Life here and There,” contains among many other well known stories, those of Edith Lind sey ; Pedlar Karl, and Ernest Clay. It is, of course, unnecessary for us to commend this book to the admirers of Mr. Willis. To others we may say that it is full of light, gossipy, and sparkling sketches, which will serve to while away many an otherwise dull hour. Miemoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, Queen of Henry VIII. By Miss Benger. With a Memoir of the author, by Miss Aiken. One vol, 12mo. The life of Queen Anne Boleyn, affords one of the most remarkable instances on record of the vanity of human ambition, even when it achieves its highest aim. It is fraught with deep and singular interest, and, as related by the accomplished authoress, is seen in a pecu liarly picturesque light. We cordially com mend the book as one in every respect, worthy of the reader’s attention. It is beautifully print ed and illustrated with an engraved portrait of Anne Boleyn. Spectacles, their Uses and Abuses. By J. Sichel, M. D., of the Faculties of Berlin and Paris. Translated from the French by Henry W. Williams, M. D., Fel. low of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Cos., 1850. This work, we doubt not, will be found a valuable contribution to Medical Literature. It occupies a place, hitherto unfilled, and as it comes from the highest European authority en tire reliance may be placed upon it. We would call the attention of the faculty to it that they may examine and judge for them selves. * The Farmer’s Guide to Scientific and Practical Agriculture. New-York: Leonard, Scott & Cos. Numbers 7 and 9, (8 missing) have been received from the publishers, through Mr. Rus sell, King-street. We have so frequently com mended the work, that we need not repeat our words of praise here. * Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution. By Benson J. Lossing. New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. No 6 of this serial has come to hand, and is not inferior to its predecessors. The illustra tions in this work are perfect gent 9 of art, in their way. * (Dur iCnutfinjiflninrs. Our thanks are due to the North Caro lina Star for its kind words in our behalf, and in behalf of the cause of literature in the South. California Weekly Courier comes to our table from San Francisco, full of golden tales, and tales of robbery, murder and Lynch law. It is published by Crane & Rice, Editors and Proprietors, at the “ low price” of $25.00 per annum, payable in advance. We have received La Gazette Fran cois, from Boston, and shall have more to say of it anon. * Harper's New Monthly. The Sep tember number-of this new, but already popu lar Magazine, is on our table. It offers the reader a vast amount of choice Literature at the lowest rate, the work being published at $3.00 per annum, and each number containing 144 pages octavo. The September issue of the Western Literary Messenger, being the first number of its fifteenth volume, has been received. The Messenger is no showy, pretentious or flashy publication, but depends upon its intrinsic mer its, which are neither few nor small, for popu larity. We wish it continued success. Sartain’s Union Magazine for October is already on our table. Among the noticea ble things in this number are, a“ Portrait” and “ Memoir” of Col. Fremont, a poem on “Au tumn,’ by R. H. Stoddard, and “ The Poetic Principle” from an unpublished manuscript of Edgar A. Poe. We have received from John Russell, King-street, the August number of the une qualled Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. It contains some capital papers, among which are “ Courtship in the Reign of James the First,” Antiquities of Scotland,” “ African Sporting,” and a story entitled “A Family- Feud,’ translated from the German. The International, for October. New \ ork : Stringer & Townsend. This is the best International yet issued, and the Interna tional is the best American Periodical now published. It is an invaluable Miscellany of original and eclectic matter, and cheap almost without a parallel. We commend it to our readers, with the utmost confidence that they will find it all that we have said, now and heretofore. (Dnr }'nst-sng. [Under this head we shall reply to many letters, contain, ing queries or suggestionsupon subjected’ 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.'] G. R. S. “ No.” Nillo. We will comply with your request. X. \ . 7j. “Lines to ” are not admissi ble. * * * \ our lines to Miss are res pectfully declined. The public, we fear would not appreciate them. Master C. — Ihe Schoolfellow was delayed last month, on account of the prevailing epidem ic, and we have n*>t been able to quite our lost ground, this month. Clara. Ihe Drawing Room Journal is published in Philadelphia, and not in New \ ork, as you suppose. Address Charles J. Dalmas, Publisher. Ann R. 1., Fort Moultrie. Your solution of the Charade is correct, and the verse very pret ty, but it catne too late for the Schoolfellow. You must ‘try again.’ W. D., Boston. ’1 he Senior Editor and both of the Publishers ol the Gazalte are absent f.ont the city. On their return, your letter will be laid befoie them. “A Subscriber,” who sent u- the Story, enti tled “ Mary Catharine Wentworth.” You must give us your name. We cannot publish anonymous articles. We do nor require that the real name of the w-ritet be given to the pub lic. Our correspondents can assume any notn de plume they’ choose, before the readers of the Gazette, but the Editors, being responsible to the public for whatever they publish, must know who is responsible to them. * (Eijr jteirnl itfnrlil. Jenny Lind’s Songs.—Messrs. Wm. Hall & Son. of New-York, hate published three elegant volumes, containing the Swedish Melo dies, Ballads, and Operatic Songs of Mile. Jenny Lind, as sung by her in Europe, and as they will be sung by her in this country. To praise them would be to “paint the lilly,”— and we have no time for needless tasks. A vo! ume is devoted to each class of her Songs, and they are published in the best style of the day. with vignettes. ’l'b “Swedish Melodies” will become, perhaps, the most popular of all, when they have been sung among us by the matchless voice of Jenny Lind, and their ex quisite sweetness and beauty made apparent. The enterprising publisher deserves the thanks of the musical world for this invaluable collec tion of Songs, published at such a very reasona ble price, as to ensure an immense sale. Our Charleston readers can obtain them at the Mu sic Store of Mr. George Oates. touitifs. The Statue of Calhoun has not yet been recovered. Louis Phillippe died on the 26th of Au gust. The Mercury,of this city, calls the Jenny Lind Prize Song “trash !” Well, “De gustibus non est disputandum.” On dit that there is an editor in Ala bama who has two wives. There are some in South-Carolina who have not even one. There is an Indian woman in New- York, whose name is Miss Now-ne-she-ke joke, or, “the sun in the centre of the sky.” Mr. Edmund Lafayette is at present in New-York. He is a grandson of General La fayette. There are about 250 daily papers pub lished in this country, accoiding to the New- York Tribune, of which number, 15 are issued in New-York. A compositor lately created quite a breeze, by dropping a letter fiom the title of a pious work, entitled the “Lives of the Saints.’ He made it the “ Lies of the Saints.” Col. Chesney, who commanded an ex pedition sent out by the British government, to explore the Euphrates, thinks he has ascer tained satisfactorily the site of Paradise, in Central Arminia ! The Prize Song is the subject of a good deal of conversation and speculation. It seems that the author’s first stanza has been omitted entirely, in the publication of it. We hear ru mours of the forthcoming into print of others of the competing efforts for the ptize. By an act of Congress, which look ef fect on the Ist ult., “slick quarters pass for twenty cents ; twelve and a half cent pieces for ten cents, and six and a quarter cent peiees for five cents. It would be well for our people to remember this. On Saturday last, there was washed ashore on Fire Island, about four miles in an easterly direction from the wreck of the Eliza beth, a box containing a marble statue. It represents a boy about fifteen years of age, in a state of nudity, standing in a tub of grapes. At Manzanilla, 300 men are engaged upon the preliniary work for the road across the Isthmus, and it is expeeted that 700 more would before long, be added to them. Some laborers had arrived from the Island of Ja maica. Kah-ge-ga-geh-bowh, the Ojibway Chief, and Rev E. H. Chapin, a Universalist Clergyman, of New-York, seem to have aston ished and overwhelmed the Germans, with a perfect torrent of trans-Atlantic eloquence, at he Peace Congress, at Frankfort on the Maine. The following lines form a part of a very curious “ Address to Jenny Lind,” which appeared in the IVibune. It is by one ol the Ottar family, and is called a Norannic Wel come : “ Himniglaefa down from heaven Bows her cloud-invading head, Dritanow to slumber given, Keeps the night-watch of the dead: Blothughadda, Hetring, Hravan, Hush the surging of tiie main: Bylga, Uthr, Kolga, Drain, Laugh and dimple in thy train,” G. P. R. James, the Novelist, has com menced his lectures in Boston. The Rev. Henry B. Baseom, one of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, died at Louisville, Ky„ on Sunday, the Bth inst. Gov. Towns, of Georgia, has issued his Proclamation, calling a Convention of the peo ple of Georgia, to consider what measures the late acts of Congress have rendered necessary. The New-York Post states that Mr. Skerret, the comic actor, formerly attached to the Baltimore Museum, has, by a recent death of a relative in England, become a baronet. He is now Sir George Skerrett. Mr. Ferdinand Lasteyrie, at present a member of the National Assembly of France, who married a neice of Governor Seabrook, of South-Carolina, came passenger in the same steamer wuh Mr. Lafayette. P. T. Barnum, says the Boston Trum pet, was once a Universalist Preacher, in Con necticut, was imprisoned for an alledged libel, and afterwards went penniless to New-York, where he rapidly accumulated a fortune. The Nashville Banner says that the new capitol of Tennessee, now in course of erection in that city, will, when completed, be the noblest structure of the kind in the Union. The roof is to be of iron, and no wood at all is used in its exterior. California. By the steamship Philadelphia, we have two weeks later uews from California. The Phil adelphia brought $1,000,000 in gold dust. The news from the mines is favorable. In relation to the terrible riot at Sacramento City, we give the following particulars, gathered from the Alta Californian : TERRIBLE RIOT AT SACRAMENTO! Collision between the Landholders and Sqat ters !—Major Bigelow,Assessor Woodland and several citizens killed !—Martial Law proclaimed!—Troops ordered from Brene cia !—Tremendous Excitement ! The news which the Senator brings from Sacramento is exciting in the extreme. Riot and death rule the hour ! The long expected collision between the land holders and squat ters has at last taken place. The battle has begun—God knows when and where it will end ! Capt. Van Pelt of the Senator, has furnished us witn the following information : “An armed body of the Squatters proceeded through the streets, about a quarter after one o’clock, yesterday, and were interrupted by the authorities, and opposed by portions of the cit izens. An aflf ay soon commenced, and the city was aroused to arms. Mayor Bigelow was shot in three places, and died in fifteen minutes after. J. W. Woodland, City Asses sor, was shot dead, and several citizens killed and wounded.” Our correspondent informs us that Dr. Rob inson, the leader of the Squatters, was shot through the head. His horse was first killed under him. Several of the squatters were kil led and wounded. Their ranks were swollen from the 60 first engaged in the afi’ray to a body of armed men, numbering between 700 and 800 before the Senator left. The keepers of gaming houses and sporting men generally sided with the real estate owners, or citizens proper. A tremendous force was fastaccumu ting. The war continued to rage as the Senator left. The discharge of fire arms was head in every part of the city. Martial law has been has been proclaimed, and the excitement is intense throughout Sacramento. The Gold Hunter, having on board Lieuten ant Governor McDougal,came down to Benjo la last evening, and was to return immediately with troops and arms. Couriers have been started to San Jose, and the Governor will probably repair at once to the scene of riot. Our military citizen companies in the State will probably be required to march under arms to Sacramento. It appears the squatters were proceeding to liberate two of their party confined on board the prison ship, where they had been commit ted the day previous, when they were confront ed by Mayor Bigelow and Members of the Cor poration. A little girl was wounded in the streets by a chance ball. The squatters were assembling at the corner of J and Ninth-streets in deliberation, and it was feared an attempt would be made to destroy the city by fire. Sheriff McKinney was shot through the arm. <Elje jJlnusalrmn. DIED, On the 4th instant., Mrs. ISABELLA MO SES, consort of Mr. Solomon Moses, in the 56th year of her age. On Wednesday, the 18th inst., at Richmond, Va., on her way home, after an iliness, of a few days, Miss LUCINDA E. WHITTEMORE, of this city, eldest daughter of Mrs. Lucinda S. Whittemore. On Wednesday morning, the 18th inst., at Clinton, S, C. Mr. M. J. WROTON, after two days of severe illness, aged 25. AGENTS WANTED, TO canvass, for the Gazette and Schoolfellow , the States ofSouth and North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. Young men ot good character and address can make rom SSOO to SIOOO per annum at the business. Apply ither personally or by letter, to WALKER & RICHARDS. References as to character will be required. By his Excellency Whitmarsh B. Seabrook, Govern. or and Commander-in-Chief in and over the State of South Carolina: WHEREAS.it is the duty of every religious communi ty to acknowledge, at stated perio Is, their dependance on Almighty God, to expr ‘ss *heir gratitude for past mercies, and humbly to implor • his blessing lor the future : No w, therefore, I, W H ITEM ARS H B. SEA B ROOK, Governor of South. Carolina, do hereby r*comm*nd lo the people of the State to observe the F< )URTH THU RS DAY in October next, as a day of Tnanksgiving, Hu miliation. and Prayer: and to assemble at their respective places of worship, 1 1 otfer up their devotions to that Be. ing, who has assigned ns a home, rich in the best limits of the Earth, and distinguished tor the excellence of its reli gious, political, social and civil institutions. Given under my hand and the seal of the State, at Columbia, this twenty-third day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven huudred and fifty, and the seventy-fourth year of American Independence. WHITEMARSH B. SEABROOK. B. K. Henkoan, Secretary of State. Every paper m the State will publish three times. Sept 25 Gi:\lN HATTER, - 314 BROADWAY, NEW-YORK, JVezt door to Harnum’s Museum. J. N. GENIN invites the attention of the gentlemen about to visit New-York. and the public generally, to his splendid FALL FASHION ot FOUR DOLLAR HATS for 1850. Superior in style, workmanship, richnen. and all the qualities which belon.- to a first rate and fashionable fab ric, to any FIVE DOLLAR HAT in the trade. His stock of FANCY HATS AND CAPS FOR CHILDREN comprehends a'l the newest Paris patterns, and a variety of superb original designs prepared under Ins own eye and made in his own factory. He would also call attention to his splendid. RIDING HATS FOR LADIES, and Ladies’ Riding-Whips and Gloves, of thesamestyleas those recently presented by him to Jenny Lind, so warmly approved in her autograph letter of reply. In the manu facture of ARMY AND NAVY CHAPEAUX and fatigue and undess Caps his artists cannot be equalled in the Union. A rich and varied assortment of the finest Furs also torm a part of his stock, together with CHOICE PARISIAN AND AMERICAN UMBRELLAS. 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SECOND ANNUAL FAIR OF TIIE SOUTH CAROLINA INSTITUTE, OPEN O.Y THE 18t/i NOEEM HER JYF.XT. The second annual Fair of the South Carolina Institute, for the promotion of Art, Mechanical Ingenuity, &c., will be held in Charleston, opening on the 18th November, and to continue during the week. Specimens of every branch of Industry are earnestly solicited. Premiums will be awarded —for the best speci mens, a Silver Medal; for the next best, a Diploma. For Original Inventions, a suitable premium, at the discretion of the judges. A selection will be made of the best specimen of Me chanism and the Arts—of Cotton, Rice, Sugar, Tobacco. Corn, Wheat, Flour, Rosin and Turpentine—and sent to the World’s Fair, to beheld in London in the Spring ot 1851. A large and commodious building has been selected for the Exhibition, and every attention will be paid to the re ception and care of articles sent to the Fair. AH article must be directed to L. M. Hatch, Chairman of Commit tee of Arrangements, and be delivered by the 14th oi November. Communications addressed to James H. Taylor, Chairman of Committee on Correspondence, will meet with prompt attention. The Hon. JO’S. H. LUMPKIN, of Georgia, will de liver the Annual Address, on Tuesday night, the 18th November. Arrangements have been made with the Sooth Carolina Rail Road Company, to let all articles intended for the Fair, return free of charge. WM. GREGG, President. E. C. Jones, Secretary. itfnlkfr’s (Carta. JOSEPH WALKER, lUI EAST BAY, Dealer in Paper, Stationery and Account Books, Printing and Book Binding. Also, Agent tor John T. White, Type and Stereotype Founder; R. Hoe & Cos., Printing Press Maker; V. Mcßee it Sons’ Paper Mills, and of va rious Printing Inks. JOSEPH WALKER, AGENT FOR THE SALE OF TYPE, PRESSES AND PRINTING MATERIALS Os all kinds, at New York prices, actual expenses from New York to Charleston only added. AGENT FOR JOHN T. WHITE, TYPE-FOUNDER, Whose Foundry has been in operation over forty years, and for beauty and variety of Type, Borders, &c., is sur passed by none. Constantly on hand. Brass Ri le, Cases, (1i oins, Leads, Chases, Furniture. Reg. let, Lye Brushes, Mallets, Shooting Sticks, Proof Brushes, Bodkins, Plaineks. Also, a large variety of BORDERS. JOB A -YD FANCY TYPE, <s-e. ALSO, AGENT FOR R. HUE & CO., CELEBRATED PRINTING-PRESS MANUFACTURERS. Every Press, &0.. made by them, will be furnished at shortest notice and lowest price. PRINTING INKS. Constantly on hand, a large stock of the very best war ranted Inks, Book and News Printing Inds, Fancy Col oured Inks, at greatly reduced rates, say from 75 cents per pound and upwards. PAPER WAREHOUSE, lUI EAST BAY. JOSEPH WALKER, DEALER IN PRINTING, WRINTING, WRAPPING AND EN VELOPE PAPER OF EVERY VARIETY. Printing Paper.— Constantly on hand, a large stock of Newspaper, of various sizes—2o * 30, 22 x 32 , 23 x 3:. 24 x 34, -4 x 36, 26 x 38, 26 x 40 ■ and also Medium and Double Medium Book Printing Paper, of different quality. Agent for V. Mcßee & Son, Greenville, S. C., Paper Mills. Newspaper of every kind made to order. Also in receipt constantly, direct from the Northern Mills, Paper of all kinds. Writing Paper.— English, French and American Letter, Cap, Folio, Commercial and Packet Post, Demy, Medium, Royal and Super Royal Papers, ruled and plain, o! every variety, and atall prices—alarge stock constant!) on hand. Wrapping, Envelope, Coloured Medium Paper, of all kinds and descriptions always on hand and for sab low. STATIONERS’ HALL, 101 EAST BAY. 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Full Round, or Half Binding, and made of the very best English blue laid, French and American papers, made expressly to order, at the same price that the same quality cf work is done in New York. FANCY BINDING. Books, Pamphlets, Music, etc., bound in the neatest and best style, either in Call:’, Morocco, Russia, or plain Sheep Binfling. In the above establishment no pains orexpensehavebeen spared to have all work executed in the best manner. STEAM POWER-PRESS PRINTING. WALKER At JAMES, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, NOS. 101 AND 103 EAST BAY, Having added to their Office, Steam Power. Presses, ami large touts of the latest kind of Book Type, are prepared to execute all kinds of BOOK AND PAMPHLET PRINTING, in the very best manner, and at greatly reduced prices. 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Office on Broad-street, in the building occupied by Messrs. Yeadon St Macbeth. Charleston, May 4,1850. our <Ptn Affairs. THE SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY WALKER & RICHARDS. Office over A. Head’s Book-store. Entrance on Broad-street. TERMS.—Two Dollars per annum, to be paid strictly in advance. If payment is not made within the first six months of a term of subscription, the price will be Two Dollars and Fxftp Ceafs-and if delayed until the end of the year, Three Dollars. Advertisements will be published at the customary rates. Business Cards, (of tear lines and under.) wil be inserted one year for Fin Dollars, including a sub - scrip tion to the paper. “southern ouartekly review. This sterling Southern Periodica I. recently pub,.shed by Mr James S Burges, will henceforth be issued by the Subscribers, who respectfully solicit the continuedl favour, of the Southern people, and of the citizens of Charleston in particular. 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THE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME OF THE SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE Was commenced on Saturday, the 4th of May, 1850 anderits original name —instead of Richards’ Heekip Ga .ette —as more significant of its peculiiP” character, it being >be only weekly organ of Literature I die entire South . GREATLY ENLARGED AND IMPROVED, Containing weekly Thirty-two Columns of matter. is, moreover, in an ENTIRELY NEW DRESS “ from head to loot,” and upon beautiful white paper, re that, in mechanical excellence, it shall not be surpassed b tny paper whatever in the United States! It will ec=tm ue under the same Editorial direction as heretofore, audit* pains or expense wil! 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 iot compete with the Northern weeklies, in cheapness and interest, ~, THE SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE Shall rival the best of them in all the characteristics of a truly valuable fireside Journal. Its aim will be the diflu. -ion of cultivated and refined taste throughout the com. niunity—and it will embrace in its ample folds every spa 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 ol choice mis oellany. selected from the best American and European sources The tone of the “Gazette” will be independent in critj ism 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. 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On the 15th of January, 1850, was published at Charleston, S. C., the first uamber of the Second An. naal Volume of THE SCHOOLFEJ.LOW, 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 Pnblishers 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. foseph C. Neal, Mrs, W. C. Richards, Mrs. C. W. Du- Bose, Miss Tuthill, Caroline Howard, Miss C. W. Bar her, Clara Moreton, Maria Roseau, the Editor, and many other well known writers. 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Jane 6 THOMAS, COM PERTH WAIT At C0.,~ BOOKSELLERS, PUBLISHERS AND STATIONERS, 523 market-street, Philadelphia, Publish Mitchell’s Geography and Atlas, Primary Geo graphy, Intermediate Geography, Ancient Geography and Atlas Universal Atlas, with nearly eighty beautifully edoured Maps; Pocket Mapso! the United State* and of the different S ates ot the Union ; Swan’s senes of School Readers, Spelling Kook and Primary Spelling Book; Greene s Enghsh Grammar, and Greene’s Analysis of the English La"gua ? e:F A. Adams Arithmetics, parts 1 811(12; Peniiock s Histories ot England, France Rome and Greece; P.cott sser.esof Elementary Books in learn! mg French; Frost s I. nited States, &e And they offer for sale at the lowest prices the 1-ireest prices the largest stock in the countr) of SCHOOL CLASSICAL, LAW. MEDICAL,THEOLOGICAL and MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS Orders solicited. 6mo July IS FRANKLIN HOUSE. NEW YORK, May 1, 1850. 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