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WM. C. liICHARDS, Editor.
D. H. JACQUES, Associate Editor.
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SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 5,1850.
DRESS.
In these days of revolution and of protest
a „ a inst tyranny in every form, is it too much
to hope that some noble spirit, more daring
than his fellows, will even venture to raise the
standard of revolt within the domains of that
src h tyrant, Fashion, and proclaim the right of
rtu-h man, and of each woman to exercise free
dom of thought and will in matters of dress ?
As it is, we are the veriest creatures and slaves
~t'the tailor and the milliner, and are wont to
with more than popish reverence, the
‘bull’ of some Sovereign Pontiff of Fashion, en
throned in Paris or London. We build our
house:. lay out our grounds, improve and orna
ment our gardens, and choose our books and
paintings according to our own taste and judg
ment : we pursue our studies and transact our
business in our own way ; we change our food
and our drink to suit the caprices ot our appe
t.tt s, but in the affairs of dress we accept what
the “arth t of clothes” sends home to us, as
the latest style, asking no questions!
Dress iu this country, is seldom varied in any
of its essential forms or features, though in its
minor details, its mutations are constant and
endless. The coat and the hat which we
wore last season, however unimpaired their
leiauty, are no longer available, if we would
dross ala modi’. But our modern dress, with
all its changes, is never graceful, and never ap
propriate. It is stiff, uncomfortable, and awk
ward, being suited as little to convenience as to
health. It violates “the unities,” and sets all
the rules of harmony at defiance; its parts hav
ing no natural and necessary relation to each
, ther, or to the whole. Instead of the flowing
outlines, and graceful curves of the human
form, an uncouth mingling of angles, bundles,
and knots, is presented to our view. The line
,)i beauty, which naturally graces the human
form, is lost entirely. The neck is encased in
still’ cravat, and a stiffer collar, which im
pede its motions and prevent the free cireula
i :ui of the vital fluids. Then that most ridicu
lous apology for a garment called, (what a mis
nomer,( a dress coat, with its straight lines and
angles, serves to hide every graceful curve of
the arms, shoulders, and back. The vest is a
more respectable garment, but still far from
„raceful. Long, shapeless, pantaloons take
away all grace and proportion from the lower
imibs, and a tight boot cramps the foot and
covers it with corns. To crown all, we place
i pon the head, that noblest part of the human
figure, a hat, than which we challenge the most
ingenious Yankee to invent a more awkward,
ungraceful, and unnatural covering. “What in
the whole works of art,” says a late writer, “is
more unnatural, stiff and uncomfortable than a
modern hat —a mass of glue, paper, and wool,
formed into a cone or a circle, with hard lines
mid stiff, unyielding corners, presented to view
on all sides, without beauty, or grace, or com
fort, or even use, liable to be blown off with
every gust of wind, cramping the head, and
serving not only as a complete attraction for
the rays of the sun, but as a reservoir of heated
air, which continually annoys the wearer.’’
Are we men, and yet submit to this disgraceful
imposition—this most galling tyranny ? O,
shame !
To turn for a moment to the dress vs the
gentler sex, though we dare not enter into par
ticulars here, we find a similar want of grace
and fitness, though to a less extent. Bonnets,
in most of their forms, are scarcely less awk
ward and ungraceful than the hats of our sex,
and in the habilliments of the ladies, through
out, straight lines and angles predominate over
the curved and flowing lines of beauty and
grace.
The ancients were far ahead of us, in point
of dress. Their vestments were flowing and
graceful, embodying dignity and simplicity.
The most elegant, graceful and appropriate
dress was used bv the Greeks and Romans, and
was probably the prevailing dress of all the na
ti ms of antiquity. It consisted of a toga, a
flowing robe of woollen cloth, which covered
the whole body, drawn up and suspended over
the left arm, leaving the right arm free ; below
this was worn a tunic, or closer garment,reach
ing to the knees, and bound round the waist by
a belt. The Spanish dress prevailed at one
time, over nearly the whole of Europe. It
was superior to our present costume, which is
’ 1 French origin, and now prevails throughout
the civilized world.
Is it asked, whence arose the ridiculous fash
ions of the present day ? Principally from two
sources. First, from the attempts of the ill
shaped and deformed to hide their defects. In
many cases such persons have had influence
enough, through birth, position, or wealth,
to impose their style of dress upon the
well-formed, thus making their deformity the
standard of fashion. The second cause may
he found in the cupidity or the necessities of the
tailors and milliners, whose trades would no
longer support the large numbers engaged in
them, if the fashion of our garments were sta
tionary, but who are now growing rich through
the quarterly or monthly changes of style in the
cut and finish of our habiliments. All this is
quite right, as things go, and the present state
“t the matter has its advantages, we doubt not.
It, at any rate, gives a class of fops, who pos
f-rss much money and little brains, a chance to
distinguish themselves in the only sphere for
which their capacities fit them !
Any great reformation in dress is hardly to
he hoped for, perhaps, while ail the causes
which combine to perpetuate the present un
couth fashions, exist and operate in full force,
hut in the “good time coming,” of which the
i’oet sings, and in waiting for which, both wri
ter and reader may go down to the grave,
dress, we may be permitted to hope, will servo
t” adorn and beautify, and not to deform “the
human form divine.” *
GLORY.
Glory is one of those moral objects for which
we have no precise definition. In proportion
to the moral elevation of our standards, it will
be found to signify the successful achievements
of man, labouring in behalf of man. Among a
people neither absolutely barbarous, nor yet re
fined to just moral elevation, it illustrates the
f'tne of the successful conqueror, the invaders
o’ peaceful lands, the spoilers of lovely cities.
Kven among nations, whose pretensions were
sufficiently lofty, no matter what their real
claims to our admiration may have been, the
‘"‘port of the word is exceedingly equivocal,
l'wo remarkable instances occur to us at this
moment. Marcus Brutus, who slew Caesar,
whom we ordinarily speak of as the incor
ruptible patriot, was a selfish and mercenary
“surer, one of the most grasping of the Satraps
whom Rome sent forth to govern her distant
p: evinces—a man whose cupidity provoked the
censure of Cicero, aud who behaved in a man
ner, the most treacherous and selfish, in regard
t” Caesar—whom he slew, accepted office under
fun,pledged himself to his support, and betrayed
hi* trust, when the treachery could avail notli-
ing for the preservation of the country. Anoth
er instance, equaly remarkable, is that of Au
gustus Caesar, who cunningly conciliating the
venal poet, has been placed at the very fount
ain of glory, where opinion servilely keeps him
to this very day. Yet he was but a sorry
scoundrel after all—who betrayed and pro
scribed his friend, the patriot Cicero, consenting
to his murder as one of the conditions of his
own elevation to the Triumvirate—who be
haved in a manner both cruel and cowardly at
Philippi; and was base enough to desire to con
duct a woman, Cleopatra, in chains to Rome,
gracing his chariot wheels with a triumph,
which he had not the soul to merit. His refu
sal to fight in single combat with Mark Anto
ny, was proper enough, but it is quite likely that
it arose as much from deficient personal courage
as from a sense of propriety and right. We
might add another instance from Roman Histo
ry quite as remarkable in the case of Lucretia,
a woman who preferred the commission of the
crime with an equal, to a mere imputation of it
in connection wi:h an accomplice of inferior so
cial caste.
PERILS OF NEW-YORK.
Mr. Dennet, the Editor of the Louisiana
Planter’s Banner, who has been travelling
Noithward, thus vents his indignation upon the
heads of the New-York hack-men. Hit them
again, we say; we once fell into their hands,
and barely escaped with our life :
“ In New-York, our company was met by a
set of barbarians, who seemed more like a hun
gry pack of she wolves than like human beings,
demanding our trunks, and haunting us with
unceasing questions, “Will you have a hack ?”
“ Will you go with me, sir?” “Shall I take
your baggage ?” &.c. A man ought to get his
life and baggage insured, and make his will be
fore landing in that city, for meeting and get
ting rid of those hackmen is worse than a voy
age through purgatory, or a journey through a
country inhabited by cannibals. In passing
through the streets, the coaches had to pick
their way amidst drays, carts, wagons, and all
sorts of moveable things, dashing, thumping,
staving, tumbling, rushing ahead, with mad fu
ry and in hot haste, as though every mad house
and penitentiary in creation had opened its
doors, and turned its inmates loose upon one
city. If any one wishes to see a place where
people act as though they had a year’s work to
do, and only a single day to do it in, let him go
to New.York, and he will find just such a
place. *
(Dur tasiji Column.
A Welcome to Jenny Lind.
That universally acknowledged Queen of
Song, the matchless Jenny Lind, is not only in
spired, but she inspires others ; and our poet 9
and music writers, catching a spark of the di
vine fire from her, imbue with it their own crea
tions, and returning offer them, in token of ho
mage, at the shrine of her genius. Among the
favoured ones, who have been permitted to
bask in the smiles of the Swedish Songstress,
and speak with her face to face, is our fortunate
Senior, and, as we learn from the Tribune of
the 24th ult.,he has duly laid his tribute of
verse at her feet. The Tribune says:
“Last night, at 9 o’clock, Mdlle. Lind was
visited by a Quartette Club, accompanied by
Mr. Curtis, the well known Composer. In ad
dition to several excellent glees, the gentlemen
composing the Club sang a welcome o Miss
Lind, the words by Wm. C. Richards, Esq.,
Editor of the Southern lAteray Gazette, and
the music by Mr. Curtis. It was a very beauti
ful production.”
We know our readers will thank us for copy
ing the Song, which we find in a subsequent
number of the Tribune, though we cannot give
them the music of Mr. Curtis, which is highly
praised in the New-York papers: *
A WELCOME TO JENNY LIND.
i.
Though o’er thee bends a foreign sky.
And stranger forms around thee throng,
Not one but honors thee is nigh,
And welcome sits on every tongne;
Chorus,— Oh welcome, welcome to the shores,
Where peace her richest gifts outpours.
11.
Thy voice has thrilled our inmost souls.
And steeped in rapture every sense;
It’s echo still through memory rolls,
And care shall draw sweet solace thence:
Oh welcome, welcome—for thy song
To Angel lips might well belong!
111.
But not in matchless song alone
Dwells the rare magic of thy fame :
A holier spell our bosoms own
In virtues which adorn thy name.
Then welcome, welcome, to our hearts.
Till virtue dies, or thence departs!
IV.
The ear has crowned thee Queen of Song,
Nor fails in fealty to thee;
But to each heart the task belong,
To crown thee Queen of Charity !
Thrice welcome, welcome, welcome be.
Bright Queen of Song and Charity!
The Coif.
The Coif, now used, we believe, principally
by old women, was once the particular indica
tive of learned men. The sergeant's coif wa9
a habit of exclusive privilege among that class
oflegal practitioners in the time of Sir Edward
Coke. That learned judge held it in high es
teem, and, after the fashion of the time, found
for it a sage and allegorical signification. “It
is,” says he “like the helmet of Minerva, who
was truly the goddess of counsel,” making, as
we see, a pun, which is pardonable enough in a
lawyer, He adds farther, in his eulogy upon
this venerable head-piece,—and his words may
somewhat instruct us in its particular shape,
“Its four corners impart science, experience,
observation and recordation.” Have the pro
fession, with this lucid opinion before them,
done wisely in discarding this notable head
peice ? May not some of the virtues of the
practice have been abandoned with it ? We
ask with apprehension and much misgiving.
Was it right to resign it so entirely to the other
sex ? Could it not be worn apparently even to
this day, by many who certainly could not
shake noddle less wise, under any head gear ?
Something, perhaps, of tho virtues of the Coif
was lost in chauging its original shape. No
one certainly ever thought that in cutting off
its corners, we sacrificed so many of its essen
tial virtues—science, experience, observation
and recordation ! Alas ! lor the Coif! it im
ports but little of these qualities now !
To Charleston Merchants.
We would call the attention of our merchants
to the Prospectus of the North-Carolina Star,
which we publish in another column. The
Star is published at the City of Raleigh, and
from its central position and extensive cir
culation, offers a first rate medium for ad
vertising. Through its columns our whole
sale dealers can, at once, reach the mer
chants of the Old North State, with their
advertisements, and they will find it for their
interest to do so. Advertisements left at the
Gazette Office will be forwarded, immediately.
•
South-Carolina Epics.
Dr. Griswold, in the October International,
says “South-Carolina has always been prolific
of epics. Those of Mr. Simmous, Dr. Marks of
Barhamville, and of some others have beer,
tried, and the court of criticism has now be
fore it, from tho same quarter, “America Dis
covered, in twelve Books.” Here is a slight
mistake, for the Epic named is not of South-
Carolina birth, but emanates from Georgia. Its
author is the Rev. Samuel J. Cassells of Savan
nah. Os the book itself wo shall speak in due
time.
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE.
The Echo Song.
Most famous among the Songs of Jenny
Lind, is the Swedish Herd Song, to which we
have before alluded, and in which she introdu
ces the marvellous echo. While she was
singing it at her third Concert in the Castle
Garden Amphitheatre, the silence was so pro
found, that the audience was painfully disturbed
by a voice from without the Castle, and evi
dently from a boat upon the water, taking up
the strain of the Nightingale, and mocking its
cadence. Had the author of this unauthorized
“echo” been within reach of the entranced lis
teners to the fair vocalist, he would certainly
have needed a change of clothes.
Mr. James’ Note Book.
We have seen the only “Note Book,” which
this popular author makes entries in, while in
this country, and we can testify that its records
have far more to do with rail-way fares, por
ter’s fees, etc., than with “men and manner’s in
America.” It gives very little promise of
three volumes for Bently or Longman.
(Dur 3Snnk
Ths Newgate Calender : or The Chronicles or
Crime, with engravings from original designs, by
“Phiz,” In numbers, edited by Camden Pelham, Esq.,
of the Inner Temple. Philadelphia; T. B. Peterson,
1850.
For those who have a like taste with George
Selwyn, for executions, whose passion it is to
see how men commit crime, and pay the penal
ty for it, who wish to see with what ingenuity
law has contrived to practice torture, and how
desperately vice runs upon punishment—this is
the very publication. Here, the amateur may
find delight for every day in the year. Here,
he may study the vital difference between be
ing screwed, sewed, stamped, singed, burnt at
the stake, beheaded, or simply hung by the
neck. The chronicle of crime and torture is
sufficiently various, and it is here edited from
the records of the Court, by a Barrister at Law.
This is the veritable Chronicle of Pandemo
nium ! Does your taste lie in highway robbe
ry ? Here you have the glorious instances ot
the first masters of English art. Is your pas
sion simple burglary ? You have all the keys
here of an experience of three hundred years.
Would you practice piracy ? Here are in
numerable pilots for the sea. Is arson your
notion? Here are matches and combustibles.
Or, would you rise to nobleness through high
treason ? Here are the most conspicuous ex
amples. Study this volume for the mastery of
all the arts. You will find it at the store of our
young friends, Courtenay & Wienges, at the
smallest of prices—only 25 cents a number
Domkstic History of the American Rkvolction,
By Mrs. Ellett. One vol. 12mo. New-York: Baker
& Scribner.
We have heretofore commended Mrs. Ellet’s
volumes upon the Women of the Revolution,and
she has now happily completed her task by a
view of the Domestic History of those eventful
times. The Social character of the people was
of course greatly affected by the scenes and
events of the long struggle between the Colo
nies, and the mother country, and no history of
lhat period can be at all complete without this
retrospect.
The novelty of the author’s plan and mate
rial will attract a degree of attention, which
the otherwise stale topic of the Revolution
would forbid the reader to expect; and we
think Mrs. Ellet has accomplished her inter
esting task with even more success than atten
ded her earlier labours in this department of
letters. The interior view of life which her
pages present will be found to possess charac
teristics in keeping with the outward aspects of
the times. Much of the volume is occupied
with anecdotes,which, when reasonably authen
tic, are, perhaps, the very best exponents of the
domestic relations of a people. Mrs. Ellet,
tells us that the incidents she narrates do not
rest upon unsupported tradition. Those, par
ticularly which relate to the South, she has de
rived from MS. records and letters. As we
have said of the three pteceding volumes of a
series, which we may consider this volume, as
completing, it is an acceptable contribution to
the minor annals of the Revolution, and adds
much to that store of material, from which the
future historian may derive important aid in the
preparation of the complete History of the Uni
ted States.
The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with Remini*.
cenc.es of Friends and Contemporaries. In 2 volumes.
New-York. Harper & Brothers, 1850.
In view of his kindly, genial and child-like
spirit, we can pardon the too evident vanity
and self-adulation of Leigh Hunt, and love him
in spite of his faults. We had anticipated
much pleasure from the perusal of the volumes
before us, and we have not been disappointed.
The work i9 written in that free-and-easy con
versational style, which is exceedingly attract
ive in a work of this kind, and its sketches of
Coleridge,Byron, Shelley,Lamb, Horace Smith,
Keats, and other literary contemporaries, are
full of interest. Hunt’s sharp criticism on the
Yankee philosopher, Franklin, will not be rel
ished by the worshippers of that American
demi-god, but not being ourself an extrava
gant admirer of the author of “Poor Richard’s
Almanac,” or of his “scoundrel maxims,” as
the poet, Thomson calls them, we shall not
here take up the cudgel in his defence.
We shall give some extracts, hereafter, in our
Glimpses of New Books. The work is for sale
by John Russell, King-street. *
Latter Day Pamphlets. Edited by Thomas Carlyle,
No. VIII., Jesuitism. New-York: Harper & Brothers,
1850.
This, we believe, is the last, at least for the
present, of the Carlyle Pamphlets. In it the
great Hero Worshipper dismisses his English
readers to their grouse-shooting, ramadhan,
with some words of terrible meaning, in regard
to their “universal Jesuitism.” The following
charcoal sketch of St. Ignatius, cannot be said
to flatter the father of Jesuitism.
“There had been liars in the world ; alas !
never since the Old Serpent tempted Eve, had
the world been free of liars, neither will it be :
but there was in this of Jesuit Ignatius an apoth
eosis of falsity, a kind of subtle quintessence and
deadly virus of lying, the like of which had
never been seen before. Measure it, if you can:
prussic acid and chloroform are poor to it.
Men had served the Devil, and men had very
imperfectly served God ; but to think that God
could be served more perfectly by taking the
Devil into partnership—this was a novelty of
St Ignatius. And this is now no novelty ; to
such an extent has the Jesuit chloroform stupe
fied us all. This is the universal faith and prac
tice, for several generations past, of the class
called good men in this world.” *
The Mistake of a Life Time: or the Robber of the
Rhine Valley ; a Story of the Mysteries of the Shore,
and the Vicissitudes of the Sea. By Waldo Howard,
Eaq. Boston: F. Gleason, 1850.
We are indebted for a copy of this wild and
voluminous romance, to our young booksellers
‘at the Corner,’ Messrs. Courtenay & Weinges.
It is a production as thickly strewn with adven
tures, by sea and land, as Sue’s Mysteries of
Paris—adventures, too, as tragical, dark and
diabolical. The taste for this sort of literary
aliment, may, in this work, find equal satiation
and stimulus. Abduction, swindling, piracy,
burglary, daring atrocities of every kind, by
land and sea, are here woven in with wild and
wonderful romances, German mystics, and
Castellated Robbers, along the Rhine, playing
the fantastic at certain seasons, by way of relief
from the more severe duties of highway robbe
ry and murder. Here shall you learn how
cleverly a man may get into a scrape that
may conduct directly to the halter ; —yet how
dexterously he may extricate himself from the
“horse foaled by an acorn,” leaving saddle
and bridle to the beast. Such lessons are pe
culiarly valuable to those who would adopt
the vocation.
George Castriot, surname*! Scanderbeg, King of
Albania. By Clement C. Moore, LL. D. New-York:
P. Appleton & Cos.
In this volume, Dr. Moore has compiled a
very entertaining book, which has the charm of
novelty, for very few American readers, we
presume, know any thing at all of the renowned
Greek, Castnoti, whose exploits are scarcely
less wonderful than those of many ancient he
roes, about whom scores of books have been
written. This famous personage was the
“Scourge of the Turks,” against whom he
waged protracted war, and with very unequal
force, repeatedly overcame the armies of the
two Amuraths. Notwithstanding the incredu
lity with which Hume evidently regards the
claims of Scanderbeg to the rank of a great he
ro, there is little doubt that he is fairly entitled
to it, and the reader of the volume under notice
will gather from its pages quite a harvest of
stirring adventures, bold enterprise, and irre
pressible valour. We are indebted to Mr.
Oates for a copy.
1. Ollendorf’s New Grammar, for German’s to
learn English. One vol., 12mo.
2. Key to Ollendorf’s New Grammar. One vol., 12mo.
New-York: D. Appletonft Cos.
The world wide fame of the Ollendort serie’s
will secure for these new portions of it, imme
diate reception and favour. They are certainly
the best books extant, for the end proposed, and
as such we commend them.
Cicero’s Orations, with Notes for the use of Schools.
By E. A. Johnson. New-York: D. Appleton & Cos.
This is a well edited edition of the Select
Orations ot the great Roman Orator, in which
the text has been carefully, and we doubt not.
judiciously amended. Os this, the elegant
scholarship of Prof. Johnson is a sufficient
pledge.
Shakspeare’s Dramatic Works. Boston: Phillips
& Sampson. 1850.
We have received, through Mr. Russell,
King-street, No. 24 of this splendid edition of
the great Dramatist. Numbers 22 and 23 have
tailed to reach us. *
o)ur (fmttMjuiraim
We acknowledge the reception of the
September number of Blackwood, from Mr.
Russell, King-street.
The American Phrenological Journal
for September, has been received from the
publishers, Messrs. Fowlers & Wells, New-
York.
The Scientific American, the best me
chanical and scientific paper in the country, has
just commenced anew volume. New-York:
Munn &, Cos.
La Gazette Francaise, par ait tousles
Samedis. Prix $2,00, par an, ou scts. le num
ero. Toutes lettres et communicationsdoivent
etre adressees,(affranchiex) a Alfred Guadelet,
Editeur. 12, School-street: Boston, Mass.
The Water Cure Journal is on our ta
ble, filled with its usual variety of hydropathic
argument, anecdote, and statistics, It is an
able expositor of the water-system of practice.
Fowlers &, Wells, publishers. New-York.
The North British Review, for August,
has been received from John Russell, Agent for
the publishers. It contains, among other pa
pers, articles on “The Scottish Universities,”
“ Pendennis,” “ The English Language,”
“Wordsworth,” “In Memoriam,” and “Trial
of Prof. Webster.”
A new daily paper called The Sun,
made its first appearance, in our city, on Mon
day, the 30th ult. It is published by Messrs.
Sill &. Darr, at No. 5, Broad-street, at tour dol
lars per annum, single number, two cents. It
is a handsome and racy little sheet, and de
serves, and will, doubtless, receive a liberal
support We wish our enterprising neighbours
of The Sun the greatest success. *
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[t?nder this head we 9hall reply to many letters, contain
ng queries or suggestions upon subjects of general interest
nstead 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. - ]
W. F. H. We have sent you by mail, speci
men numbers of the Gazette. *
Rose du Sud. Many thanks for your beau
tiful poem, which we publish in this number.
Julia. We take the liberty of printing your
‘note of complaint,’ and of answering it in the
same public manner,
.NEAR NEW-YORK.
Dear Mr. Editor.—l would like to lay be
fore your pitying eye the greivances of a suffe
ring wife. I have been married about eighteen
months, and have been as happy as a poor mor
tal can be in this world ; but with the urrival of
Miss Lind, all my peace has departed ! Twice
within two weeks, has Mr. staid in town
all night to hear her sing, and once to serenade
her. If I ask for money to buy the most tri
fling thing, he cannot afford it; yet he can
spend his $5 for a ticket to one of her Concerts,
without a moment’s hesitation. He thinks of
nothing and talks of nothing but Jenny Lind !
If I try to chain his attention to household
matters, he speaks of her divine “Echo Song,”
her “arias,” and “trills,” and all such nonsense;
but will not listen to me and my wants. The
farm is going to ruin, his wife and child are ne
glected, and all for an Opera Singer! If all
this comes under my eye in the country , what
may not happen when there are twenty-five
miles between us! How many boquets and
other presents he may have sent, no one can
tell. Mr. Editor, in such a case what can a
poor wife do ? I will not scold about it, for
then he would have good cause to leave me,
and seek a pleasanter place where to spend his
time. I have entreated him to act differently,
and tried various devices to make his home
pleasant, but without success. Oh, Mr. Bar
num, Mr. Bamum ! you will have much to an
swer for, for bringing Jenny to this country !
I entreat your counsel, dear Mr. Editor, for I
know you will sympathize with
Yours, in tribulation,
JULIA.
We assure our fair correspondent “Julia,”
that we sympathize with her, only upon one
condition, which is that she is not able to ac
company her husband to town, and go with him
to the Concerts of the matchless Jenny ; for if
she stays away voluntarily, we should only
throw away our pity by expending it upon one
so evidently void of that mosi charming taste,
the love of music. But if it be true that her
music-mad husband won’t bring her to town —
won’t buy two tickets instead of one, we pro
nounce him a monster of unkindness, and ut
terly undeserving of so good and lovely a wife
as we are sure “Julia” must be. In such a
ease, we recommend her to affect a total disbe
lief of his reports about Jenny Lind’s incompa
rable singing— to declare that he is crazy, and
that she would’nt give a fig to hear the “Echo
Song, • the “Flute Song,” or any other song of
the so called “ Nightingale.” This sort of
treatment would speedily provoke him into a
desire for her to hear Jenny, which, at first de
clining to do, she might at length consent to,
and so go up to town with her husband, and
look after him herself, as a wife so well Knows
how to do.
<fjjr flnrk Cnrnrr.
YVeshall occasionally insert, under this head, Riddles
Enigmas, uzzles, Charades, &c., to which answers j
post paid or free) are solicited.
miscellaneous enigma.
My 1 17 16 4 is a male name, by no means j
uncommon.
My 2 7 10 14 19 is the name of a town in
New-York.
My 3 10 5 12 6 is an oven, not heated by |
human agency.
My 4 10 6 12 is the name of an American
Publisher.
My 5 17 6 15 is one of England’s greatest
resources.
My 6 15 5 2 16 17 12 is a mighty monarch.
My 7 2 18 8 is ever heard.
My 8 18 4 13 6 19 is famous in Scottish
history.
My 9 6 11 3 14 11 15 6 was the Paradise of
an ancient nation.
My 10 4 17 5 16 is the earliest prophet on
record.
My 11 10 2 is a distinguished historical
character of the 16th century.
My 12 10 17 19 is the name of a county in
Florida.
My 13 6 19 14 6 4 is a name, synonymous
with all that is sacred and dear to the pious
heart.
My 14 31 15 6 3 is an Eastern appellation
of the Deity.
My 15 2 9 10 7 15 is the seat of thrift and
industry.
My 16 14 7 12 10 is one of the most distin
guished schools of learning of modern times.
My 17 5 14 11 6 is a town in Florida.
My 18 4 13 7 10 1 17 3 19 is of all men
living, the only one omnipresent ; for there’s no
village without him.
My 19 17 6 16 is the name of an early navi
gator.
My whole is a name that will live as long as
our country can find a historian to chronicle
the mighty deeds of its early giants.
C. B.
33r?uitir5.
The hotel, in Aiken, kept by C. H. Lan
neau, was destroyed by fire, on the 30th ult.
pressed her unwillingness to sing in a Slave
State. We do not believe it.
Gen. Lopez, the gentleman who did’nt
conquer Cuba, arrived in Mobile, on the 21st
inst.
The Adirondac Steel Works, on New-
Jersey City Point were destroyed by fire on
Wednesday last—loss $25,000—n0 insurance.
Austria, imitative of France,has ordered
signatures to be attached to all newspaper arti
cles.
The Turkish Ambassador has met with
a distinguished reception from the public au
thorities at Washington.
There appears to be well-grounded ap
prehensions of another and more extensive ex
pedition against Cuba.
Official returns presented to the House
of Commons prove lhat pauperism is rapidly
i declining in England and Wales.
On dit that Barnttm has among his
ouriositjes, the axe with which the man split
the difference.
All church yards in London are to be
closed forever on the Ist of July, 1851, when
burials are to take place in the suburban ceme
teries.
learned Jew of Amsterdam, estimates the whole
number of Jews in the world at from five to
seven millions,
Mr. Cunard says that if the Americans
do not choose to go iu his line of steamers, they
may go to h—l, which he wishes distinctly un
derstood.
Mr. Lebouehe has recently purchased,
for 200 guineas, a marble bust of Milton, made
from life,by an Italian sculptor.during the poet’s
visit to Italy.
The prospect of recovering the statue
ot the late Hon. J. C. Calhoun from the ocean
sands, in which it lies buried, appears now to
be exceedingly doubtfull.
The return of Mrs. Miller to her family
at Detroit, is announced in a letter from her
mother, widow of the late Hon. John Norvell.
The mystery is yet unravelled.
The impostures of mesmerism and clair
voyance have become so serious a nuisance in
Paris, that the Police recently made a seizure of
a great number of their practitioners. Most of
them confessed that the whole thing was an
imposition.
The Emperor of Russia has ordered the
formation of five or six lines of road connecting
the South of Russia with Odessa, in order that
the immense quantity of corn produced in this
fertile and almost virgin soil may be more easi
ly transported for export.
A small insect of a bright yellow colour,
and about the size of a cheesemite, is supposed
by the Irish farmers to generate the potato dis
ease ; as it has been ascertained that wherever
it lodges and bites, the stalks blacken and shriv
el up.
-A movement is on foot in New-York,
to compliment the London brewers for their
onslaught upon Haynau, with a silver pitcher.
We have no love for the Hungarian butcher,
but we feel little respect for the moboerats who
treated him so rudely.
A man named W. Wade, was arrested
in Elliot-st., on Monday morning, by officers
Levy and Schouboe, charged with stealing a
gold watch. Ho was brought before His Hon
or the Mayor, last night, but was recommitted
for further examination.
The Vegetarians lately held a Conven
tion, in Philadelphia, the proceedings of which
were closed with a feast, at which, says the
Pennsylvanian, there were upwards of thirty
cooked varieties of food, not including pre
serves and other side dishes. The first course
consisted of potatoes, bread, and savory dishes
of various kinds ; the second course comprised
fruits, pies, custards, puddings, moulded farina,
&c.; the desert of peaches, apples, melons,
plums, nuts, cakes, &c. &c. In the language
of the reporters, “a more rich and luxurous
dinner could scarcely be prepared.”
<Ejl? liras nf tlj? Saif.
An equestrian statue of the Queen is about to
be erected at Glasgow—the first equestrian sta
tue of a woman in Great Britain.
Steamer Lost. —The steamer Franklin, from
Philadelphia, for Wilmington, North-Carolina,
was wrecked on Cnrituck Beach, on the 14th
ult., and went to pieces, Her engine and boil
er were saved.
Rev. Dr. Hawks. This eloquent Divine has
accepted the call of the congregation of Calva
ry Church in New York, at a salary of $5,000
a year, to which is added a bonus sufficient to
settle his debts.
A New Combustible. A most interesting
discovery has been made in Russia, between
Dorpat and Norvia, of a combustible as carbo
niferous and calefactory as coal. It is of a
yellowish brown colour, with white spots, and
is the subject of much speculation, being said to
be of a much earlier geological period than any
known coal field.
The Great Destruction of Coal Mines at
Pictou. —The Halifax papers of Sep. 15th, con
tain detailed accounts of the destruction of the
Albion coal mines at Pictou, N. S. The acci
dent happened on the previous Tuesday, while
the workmen were at breakfast. Thirteen
acres fell, covering up all the mining machi
nery. It is thought that the mines will have to
be totally abandoned.
Mrs. Games. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has
applied to the Legislature of Missippi for a pen
sion, in consideration of the military services of
her late husband. What a sad reverse for the
lady, who, a year or two ago, was beleived to
be the wealthiest woman in America.
Iwtrs illtar.
MARRIED,
At Central Church, on the 26th ult., by the
Rev. D. X. Lafar, W. J. CRAFTS to JULIA
E., second daughter of the late J. M. Miller,
all of this city.
On Wednesday Morning, the 25th ult.. by
the Rev. Dr. Bachman, Mr. F. R. WICKEN
BERG, and Miss E. C, KLINCK, daughterof
John Klinck, Esq., all of this city.
(Eh? lUimsnlnnu.
DIED,
At the Water Cure, at Brattleboro, on the
evening of the 17th inst., PHILIP M. POR
CHER, of Charleston, S. C.. in his 36th year-
On the the 15th ult., Mrs. J. C. CALHOUN,
Jr., aged 22 years.
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TO canvass, for the Gazette and Schoolfellow, the States
ofSouth and North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
Young man of good character and address can make
rom SSOO to SIOOO per annum at the business. Apply
ither personally or by letter, to
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t3C References as to character will be required.
By his Excellency Wiiitmarsh 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 periods, their dependance on
Almighty God, to express their gratitude for past mercies,
and humbly to implore his blessing for the future :
Now, therefore, I,WHITEMARSHB.SEABROOK,
Governor of South-Carolina, do hereby recommend to
the people of the State to observe the FOURTH THURS.
DAY in October next, as a day of Thanksgiving, Hu
miliation. and Prayer: and to assemble at their respective
places of worship, to offer up their devotions to that Be.
ing, who has assigned us a home, rich in the best fruit* of
the Earth, and distinguished for 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 hnudred
and fifty, and the seventy.fourth year of American
Independence.
WIIITEMARSH B. SEABROOK.
B. K. Henegan, Secretary of State.
ty Every paper in the State will publish three times.
Sept 25
PROSPECTUS OF
THE NORTH-CAROLINA STAR,
A Weekly Family Newspaper, published in
the City of Raleigh.
The STAR, (having been lately improved) is now the
largest Newspaper in the State. It is printed on new type
and fine paper, and well filled with original and selected
articles of choice reading. It is devoted to Fereign and
Domestic News, Agriculture, Education, Manufac
tures, and a judicious system of Internal Improvements.
Mild, but firm, in politics.it is a decided advocate of
Whig principles; and ardent in its attachment to our
gloriousUnioii.it insists on SOUTHERN RIGHTS, as
guarantied by the Constitution.
A central position gives us great facility for collecting
the local news of the State —Election Returns, Sttpreme
Conrt Adjudications, Sic. ; and located, as we are, at the
Capital of the State, we are enabled to furnish at an early
date, full and accurate reports of o r Legislative Proceed,
ings.
TERMS.—S2.SO per annum, in advance; or $3 if pay
ment is delayed three months. 50 cents during the Session
of the Legislature.
fy Having lately made large accessions to our sub
scription list, we would suggest to the business public,
the importance of
ADVERTISING
through the medium of our columns. The Star has the
most general circulation throughout the State of any pa
per published in North-Carolina, and it may be to the in
terest of to advertisers patronize us liberally.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
1 square (16 lines) first insertion, - - - $1 00
Each subsequent insertion, .... 25
Do. for six monthss 500
Do. for one year, ...... 900
Longer Advertisements in proportion.
T. J. LEMAY & SON.
Raleigh, AT. C., Sept. 30, 1850.
N. B. —WM- C. RICHARDS, Esq-, is our only autlio
rioed Agent to receive subscriptions and advertisements for
this paper, in the City of Charleston.
T. J. Lamay & Son,
Editors and Proprietors.
Oct 5
BOOKBINDERS FURNISHING WAREHOUSE
JOHN R. HOOLE,
NO. 124, NASSAU-STREET, NEW-YORK,
la prepared to furnish every article requisite for Binders,
consisting of Muslin, of the most approved patterns and
colours; English coloured and bark Calf Skins; Morocco,
Roans, Russia Leather, coloured and bark Skivers;
Hheep Skins; comb, marble, and fancy Papers ; Head
Bank. Thread, Tv ine, Ate.
Embossing, Standing, Cutting, Laying, Finishing and
Sewing Presses: Table and Squaring Shears, Press
Boards, Ruling Machines and Pens, Type and Cases, Ho
ling Machines, Brass Ornaments, Gilding and Blank
Rolls, Stamps and Fillets. Pallets, Polishers. Agate Bur
nishers, Flow Knives, Hammers, Shears, Knives, Com
passes, Lettering Stamps. Tools and Plates from designs,
cut in a superior style, on tiie very hardest metal, with
promptness and despatch.
Oct 5
GEN IN HATTER.
314 BROADWAY, NEW -YORK,
Next door to Bnrnum'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, richness, and all the
qualities which belong to a first rate and fashionable fab
ric, to any FIVE DOLLAR HAT in the trade. Ills
stock of
FANCY HATS AND CAPS FOR CHILDREN
comprehends all the newest Paris patterns, and a variety
of superb original designs prepared under his 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 the same style as
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 he equalled
in the Union. A rich ami varied assortment of the finest
Furs also form a part of his stock, together with
CHOICE PARISIAN AND AMERICAN
UMBRELLAS.
Elegantly mounted WALKING CANES, BRUSH
ES, CARPET BAGS, RIDING-WHIPS, and other
articles.
All these, be it observed, will be sold at the most rea
sonable rates.
MODERATE PRICES AND AN EXTENSIVE
BUSINESS
being the motto of GENIN, 214 Broadway,
opposite St. Paul’s Church, and
next door to Barnum’s Museum.
WILLARD'S HOTEL.
E. D. WILLARD, Proprietor.
Pennsylvania Avenue, corner of Hth street,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
NATIONAL HOTEL.
F. BLACK, Proprietor.
Pennsylvania Avenue, corner of 6th street,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
ilpjmintra?nt9.
Travelling Agents for the Gazette.—
Rev. William Richards, Mr. Robert E. Seyle,
Mr. Matthew J. Wroton, J. J. Richards, S. P
Richards.
O” Mr. A. H. Mazyck is our General Agent
for Charleston.
O’George W. Bell is our Agent for Kershaw
and the neighbouring Districts.
O’ Warren D. Chapman is our Agent for
Spartanburg and surrounding Districts.
O’ All Postmasters are authorized to act as
Agents for the Gazette, and the same commis
sion will be allowed to them as to other loca
Agents.
THE TRAVELLER’S GUIDE.
ROUTES FROM CHARI, 3TON.
From Charleston to .Vnt- York. Leaving daily at 3 1 ,’
o’clock p. m. By Steamer to Wilmington 180 miles.—By
Railroad to Weldon 163 miles.—To Petersburg 63.—T0
Richmond 32. —To Acquia Greek 70.—8 y Steamer to
Washington 55.—8 y Railroad to Baltimore 41 ‘To Phil
adelphia 92. —To New-York 87. Total distance 771 miles.
Time 60 hours. Fare S2O.
The “Southerner” (Steamship) leaves Charleston every
tenth day after the 27th of April, at 4 o’clock p. m. Thro’
in 60 hours. Fare (State-Room) $25.
From Charleston to Philadelphia. —The Osprey leaves
Charleston every other Saturday, at 4 o’clock, p. M. —
through in 60 hours. Fare S2O.
From Charleston to Ness-Orleans. Leaving daily at
lOo’clock a. M. By S. C. Railroad to Augusta 136 miles.
—By Georgia Railroad to Atlanta 171.—8 y Macon and
Western Railroad to Griffin 42. By Stage to Opelaka
95. —By Railroad to Montgomery 65.—8 y Steamer to
Mobile 331. —To New-Orleaus 166. Total distance 1,006
miles. Time 123 hours. Fare $39.50.
FVom Charleston to -Vrtc- Orleans, via. Savannah .daily
pat 9A. M. By Steamer to Savannah 140 miles.—By Ce
tral Railroad to Macon 190.—8 y Macon and Western Rail
road to Barnesville 40. —By Stage to Opelaka 100. —By
Railroad to Montgomery 65.—8 y Steamer to Mobile 331.
To New-Orleaus 166. Total distance 1,032 mile*. Time
77 hours. Fare $39.50.
MISCELLANEOUS TABLE.
Distances. Fare. Time.
To Athens, Ga„ 251 m. $7,95 20 h.
” Chattanooga, Tenn., 445 13,12 31
“ Columbia, S. C., 130 4,00 8
“ Camden, S. C., 142 4,00 9
“ Hamburg, 8. C„ 136 4.00 8
“ Memphis, Tenn., 740 28,00
Passengers for either of the above places leave Charles,
ton, daily, by S. C. Railroad, at 10 o’clock a. m.
SECOND ANNUAL FAIR OF THE SOUTH
CAROLINA INSTITUTE,
OPEN ON THF. mh NOVEMBER NEXT.
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 he paid to the re
ception and care of articles sent to the Fair. All articles
must be directed to L. M. Hatch, Chairman of Commit
tee of Arrangements, and be delivered by the 14th of
November.
Communications addressed to James 11. Taylor,
Chairman of Committee on Correspondence, will meet
with prompt attention.
The Hon. JOS. H. LUMPKIN, of Georgia, will de
liver the Annual Address, on Tuesday night, the 18th
November.
Arrangements have been made with the South Carolina
Rail Road Company, to let all articles intended for the
Fair, return freeot charge.
WM. GREGG, President.
E. C. Jones, Secretary.
■Mk?fo (Carte.
JOSEPH WALKER,
101 EAST BAY,
Dealer in Paper, Stationery and Account Books, Printing
and Book Binding. Also, Agent for John T. White,
Type and Stereotype Founder; R. Hoe & Cos., Printing
Press Maker; V. Mcßee Si Sons’ Paper Mills, and of va
rious Printing Inks.
JOSEPH WALKER,
AGENT FOR THE SALE OF
type, pftßeeiw and rniKTixc matemau)
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, Sic., is sur
passed by none. Constantly on hand, Brash Rule,
Cases, Quoins, Leads, Chases, Furniture, Reg.
let, Lye Brushes, Mallets, Shooting Sticks,
Proof Rrushes, Bodkins, Plainers. Also, a large
variety of
BORDERS, JOB AMD FANCY TYPE, 4-e.
ALSO, AGENT FOR
R. HOE & CO.,
CELEBRATED PRINTING-PRESS MANUFACTURERS.
Every Press, &c., made bjf 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,
101 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 x 30, 22 x 32 23 x 32,
24 x 34 , 24 x 36, 26 x 38, 26 x 40 ; and also Medium ami
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, Can, Folio, Commercial and Packet Post, Demy,
Medium, Royal and Super Royal Papers, ruled and plain,
of every variety, and at all prices—alarge stock constantly
on hand.
Wrapping, Envelope, Coloured Medium Paper,
of all kinds and descriptions always on hand and for sale
low.
STATIONERS’ HALL,
101 EAST BAY.
JOSEPH WALKER,
DEALER IN
PAPER, STATIONERY AMD BLANK BOOKS,
Has constantly on hand, a large assortment of fine Eng
lish, French and American Stationery, of every descrip
tion, consisting in part of: Sealing Wax, Wafers, Quills,
Rulers, Steelreus, Ink Stands, Slates, Water Stamps,
Pen Racks, Wax Tapers, Red Tape, Lead Pencils, India
Rubber, Desk Weights, &c.
GOLD PENS, GOLD & SILVER PENCIL CASES.
A large variety of Levi Brown ami many other marks.
INK.
Black, Blue, Red, Copying and Marking Inks, of the
best kinds.
PEN AND DESK KNIVES.
A beautiful assortment of the finest Cutlery of every de
scription.
COPYING PRESSES,
A variety of patterns and prices. Also, Copying Books,
Brushes, Oil Paper, etc.
BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY &. FANCY
BOOK BINDING.
JOSEPH WALKER,
101 EAST BAY
Banks, Public Offices, Merchants, and others, can have
their Books Ruled to any pattern, and Bound in the very
best maimer, either in full Russia, extra Russia Bands,
Full Bound, 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 \ ork.
FANCY BINDING.
Books, Pamphlets, Music, etc., hound in the neatest
and best style, either in Calf, Morocco, Russia, or plain
Sheep Binding.
In the above establishment no painsorexpensehave been
spared to have all work executed in the best maimer.
STEAM POWER-PRESS PRINTING.
WALKER Ai JAMES,
BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS
NOS. 101 AND 103 EAST BAY,
Having added to their Office, Steam Power-Presses, and
large fonts ot thp 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.
Also, having added a great variety of Fancy Types,
Borders, etc., to their already extensive Office, they are
prepared to execute
JOB PRINTING OF EVERY VARIETY,
SUCH AS
CHECKS, CIRCULARS,
RILLS-LA DING, BALL INF ITA TIONS
BILL-HEADS, BRIEFS,
RECEIPTS, HAND RILLS, ire.
which will he done in the best manner and on most rea
sonable terms.
CARD-PRESS PRINTING.
Cards of all kinds by Steam, at greatly reduced rates.
BENJAMIN F. PORTER,
(LATE OF TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA,)
Has opened an office in this city, and respectfully offers hi
services to the ;iublic as an ATTORNE Y and COUN
SELLOR AT LAW and SOLICITOR IN CHAN
CERY. His extensive acquaintance with the population
of Alabama. Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia, and
with the local jaws of those States, will enable him not
only to impart important information to merchants, but to
introduce customers.
He will take claims on persons in those States and for
ward them to responsible agents, for whose fidelity he will
answer.
Office on Boad-street, in the balding occupied by
Messrs. Yeadon & Macbeth.
Charleston, May 4, 1850.
©nr ©tun 3lffairo.
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Mr. James S. Burges, will henceforth be issued by the
Subscribers, who respectfully solicit the continued favour,
of the Southern people, and of the citizens of Charleston
in particular. The first number of the present year, form
ing the beginning of anew series, is now rapidly passing
through the press, and will be delivered to subsenber, by
the 15th of April. Hereatler, the work will be issued at
regular periods, without delay or failure, and in a superior
style, with anew, clear and beautiful typo, and on the
best of paper. It will continue under the Editorial con
duct ot W. Gilmore Simms, Esq., to whose hanus it
has been confided during the past year This gentleman,
we are pleased to inform onr readers, has succeeded hap
pilv in calling to his assistance snch u number of Contnbn.
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elude the greater number of the best and ablest name, o
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present Publishers.
UNRIVALLED NORTH OR SOUTH !
HE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME
OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE
Was commenced on Saturday, the 4th of May, 1850
underits original name —instead of Richards’ Weekly Ga
.cite —as more significant of its peculiar-character, it being
the only weekly organ of Literature t the entire South
11 GREATLY ENLARGED AND IMPROVED,
Containing weekly Thirty-two Columns of matter,
is, moreover, in an
ENTIRELY new dress
“from head to foot,” and upon beautiful white paper, to
that, in mechanical excellence, it shall not be surpassed b
any paper whatever in the United States! It will ccntm
ue under the same Editorial direction as heretofore, and ni
pains or expense will he spared to make it
A CHOICE FAMILY NEWSPAPER
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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 of a
truly valuable fireside Journal. Its aim will be the diflu
sion of cultivated and refined taste throughout the com
munity—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 of choice mis
cellany. selected from the best American and European
sources
The tone of the “Gazette” will be independentm cnti
cism and in the discussion of every legitimate topic, but it
will be strictly
NEUTRAL IN POLITICS AND RELIGION !
Its columns will be occasionally embellished with
SOUTHERN PORTRAITS Si LANDSCAPES,
engraved expressly for the work, and accompanied by
biographical and topographical sketches. A portrait ot
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 leading
Journals of all parts of the world.
Notwithstanding the great increase in the size ami at
tractions of the paper, it will still be published at
Two Dollars Per Annum, in Advance !
It will be furnished to persons becoming responsible for
the whole number of copies, and having them sent to one
address, on the following terms:
Three copies,
Five copies,
Ten copies,
Fiftuun oopir,
Twenty copies, 25
Fifty copies,
or All orders must he accompanied with the money
and addressed, post-paid, to
WALKER Si RICHARDS.
Charleston, S. C.
N. B.—Editors who will copy, or notice fully, this Pro
pectus, shall receive the Gazette regularly, and also
beautiful Juvenile Magazine, entitled “The School!
low.”
THE BEST AND CHEAPEST JUVENILE
MAGAZINE IN THE UNITED STATES.
On the 15th of January, 1850, was published at
Charleston, 8. C., the first number of the Second An.
nual Volume of
THE SCHOOLFELLOW,
which has been pronounced by some of the ablest presses
and bestjudges, “ The best and cheapest Juvenile Mag
azine in the United States.” The success of this heauti
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 j udges 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 he 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 Bent to one address for $4 ; Eleven
copies for $8 ; Twenty-three copies for sls, and Thirty
two copies for $20!!
THE FIRST VOLUME.
beautifully bound in gilt muslin, will be furnished in con
nection with the second Year for Two Dollars. To
clubs, it will be supplied at One Dollar for each copy.
All orders must he accompanied with the cash —
if by mail, post-paid.
Lg’ Clubs should be made up as early as practicable—
and those wishing volume first, should apply immediately
to WALKER Si RICHARDB.
May 4, 1850. Charleston, 8. 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 SCIESCF
AT THE
Office of the Southern Literary Gazette.
Corner of Broad-st. and East-Bay, (up stairs,)
Charleston, S. 8.
The Undersigned, Editor of the “ Southern Lite
rary Gazette,” begs leave to inform the public that
he has opened a General Agency for the transaction ot
any business connected with Literature, Science ar.-
Art. He will correspond with authors concerning the
publication of books and pamphlets upon their own ac -
count, or otherwise ; execute any commission for gen tie
men forming libraries; forward subscriptions for any peri
odical work, American or European ; receive and execute
promptly commissions for any work of Art; supply accu
rate estimates of the cost of Philosophical Instruments,
order them at his own risk and guarantee their efficiency.
All communications must be addressed, prepaid, to
WM. C. RICHARDB.
iy No charge will be made for any service required
by his brethren of the press, who will oblige him by pub
fishing this notice.
. ENGRAVING. _ ,
THE subscriber would inform Authors, Publishers and
Printers, that he still continues to carry on the busi
ness of ENGRAVING ON WOOD, in all its branches-
His facilities are such that he is enabled toexecute all orders
promptly, and in every style of the Art, upon the most
reasonable terms: while the exi-erienee of many years
enables him to feel perfect confidence in his efforts to give
satisfaction to all who may favour him with their patron
age. N. ORR, 151 Fulton-street, New York.
June 6
THOMAS, CO \V PERTH WAIT d i 40.,
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
coloured Maps; Pocket Mapsof the United States and of
the different States ot the l nion : Swan’s series of School
Readers, Spelling Book and Primary Spelling Book ;
Greene s English Grammar, and Greene’s Analysis of the
English Language ; K A. Adams’ Arithmetics, parts 1
and2; Pennock s Histones of England, France, Rome,
and Greece; Pteott s senes of Elementary Books in learn
ing French; Frosts United States, Sic.
And they offer tor sale at the lowest prices, the largest
Pf. lc ?LS£A a S*®£ in the country of SCHOOL,
LAW- MEDICAL, THEOLOGICAL
and MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS,
ty Orders solicited. G mu July 13
FRANKLIN HOUSE.
NEW YORK, May 1, 1850.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the
public that he has leased the above House for a
term of years. The House has been in complete repair
during the past winter and mostly furnished anew. Ihe
proprietorrespectfully solicits a continuance of the patron
age heretofore soliberallyreceried. p TREADWELL .