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Mention a few only. One thing particularly
‘rested us, the Columbia buggy, which was
bited at our own Fair last November, stood
.-eminent in beauty, among its Northern
mpetitoia, and reflected great credit on
Southern mechanical skill. Gilbert’s exquisite
I’olian Piano Fortes charmed every ear By the
.hiiess and delicacy of their tones. Amer
,a„ Broad Cloths were exhibited, apparently
ua l jn beauty to the finest French Cloths,
0 j (h e same remark is true of American Cas
nieres, compared with either English or
french fabrics.
\\ e lingered some time before a Working
Model of a Multiplying Engine, propelled by
Electro Magnetism, which leaves scarcely any
iom for doubt that Electricity is soon to be
made available as a motive power.
\ ship Ventilator, for emigrant vessels, at
, ao ted our notice, and repaid it too, not only
upon the score of ingenuity, but also upon that of
humanity*
We saw carding, spinning, wire drawing,
, ~| making, and innumerable other machines,
all in full play, by the force of a steam engine,
itself an object of interest and gratification.
The elegancies of the Fair were perhaps never
before equalled in degree or profusion. The
glitter of silver and gold ware, the exquisite
fn.ish of articles in papier mache, the thousand
fumisof bijout rie, all indicated the progress
of luxury in our land. As we left the Garden, a
chime of eight hells rung out a melodious peal
in the familiar measure of Old Hundred, and
ilu ii cadence was the last we heard of the great
fair at Castle Garden.
(Pnr Gossip Column.
The Mercury and Jenny Lind.
Our “ niercuiial” neighbour has at length
, ]cned his columns to accounts of the Jenny
I, nd Mania in the North, but we are sorry to
ild, that instead of presenting the ‘lights’ of
the picture, he has chosen the only shadow it ex
hibitsin the unpleasant events which attended the
last Concert in Boston. By some misconduct
cn the part of holders of promenade tickets,
many holders of premium seats were excluded
from the Hall, and in the rush of the former, a
tumult arose, with the accompaniment of
creaming and fainting ladies, and other et-cet
, as of an excitement, which, of course, des
troyed all the interest ot the Concert. The
11 pular indignation against Mr. Manager Bar
num, as the supposed cause of the disturbances,
ran high, and notwithstanding his explanations
and honourable offers of satisfaction to any who
were disappointed—the occasion is seized by
(■nine presses to denounce him for his insatiable
avarice, and to bring up against him a long
catalogue of offences, beginning with “Joice
lleth,” swelling to the “Giant,” and tapering
nil'to little “Tom Thumb.’’ With this crusade
against Mr. Barnum, we shall have nothing to
do. He has committed the mortal offence of
being successful in his money making schemes,
full as honest, we fancy, as many methods
which the world calls more dignified and hon
ourable. His engagement with Jenny Lind is
an affair of so much public importance, that
were he a very Solomon in wisdom, he could
not so conduct it as to escape censure. If the
Concerts of Mile. Lind had failed to pay ex
penses, Barnum would have been ridiculed and
denounced for his folly in making so liberal an
arrangement with her. Because they have re
alized immense sums of money, and large prof
its to the manager, he is decried as a Shylock,
and every action denounced as mercenary.
This is alike foolish and unjust. Mr. Barnum
\\ .1 - hold enough to make an offer to Jenny
Lind, which, though less tempting in amount
than European offers, induced her to visit this
country. He is reaping the fruits ot his enter
prise, and in so far as he acts openly and hon
estly, we do not begrudge him his gains. That
he tries to make money out of his present con
junction, we have no doubt, and that his greed
of gold may lead him into errors, w r e think
very probable.
We should not, however, have noticed the
strictures of our neighbour, had they been con
fined to Manager Barnum, who is, by this time,
pretty callous to newspaper squibs. Their gra
vamen, in our estimation, is injustice to Mile.
Lind, a noble, gifted, and generous woman, a
stranger in our midst. She is presented as
“'Weeping over the country, on an outrageous
tide of puffing and trumpery charity and man
utaetured enthusiasm, to the immense enrich
ment of herself, &c.” Never was there a
more ungenerous and unhandsome charge
made against a fair lady. She is further stig
matized by the gross nick-name of “Jenny
Barnum,” and the Mercury says that she is a
“creature whom we neither can classify, nor
have any disposition to study or tolerate.”
M w shame on such ungallantry ! say we. and
more seriously, we protest against the spirit, as
“ell as the language of our contemporary.
” hat does he mean by “trumpery charity,” for
sooth ? Is the bestowal of tens of thousands
°t dollars upon organized charities to increase
‘heir means of doing good “trumpery charity ?”
Is the outpouring daily, of the golden fruits of
genius, into the lap of want and destitution
trumpery charity 1 Is the consecration of all
‘he profits which may accrue from a twelve
months engagement in the New World to the
gmat purpose of giving the blessings of Eduea
t on to the poor children of Sweden “trumpery
charity ]” Our finger ends blush red for shame
as they guide the quill to write the harsh
“"rds 1 Our qoestions will find their appropri
ate answer in the generous hearts of our read
*rs - The Mercury visits upon the innocent
head of the Nightingale, the alleged sins of Mr.
Barnum, and particularly, his mermaid impos
ture, as it is termed. Now, what in the name
common sense, has Mile. Lind to do with
mat miserable affair, or why should she be
mentioned in connection with it. Was she a
Party to the matter? Does she even know
that it ever excited here a “special wonder V’
file Mercury says “she has wittingly entered
into partnership with Barnum,” and of course
y implication, with the contents of his Mu
"um—Anaconda, Giants, Fat Boys,*/ id omne
Senus. The charge is hardly worthy of denial,
Lind engaged with Mr. Barnum to sing
l)r one hundred nights, in Concert only, in
America. She knew him only through his
a S ent , as a liberal manager ; and like a true
■md noble hearted woman, she is fulfilling her
’"■■iragement, scattering her wealth like the per
umesof wild flowers, on the way sides of life,
‘ U| d nursing in her own breast all gentle and
I,o| y emotions. So far from riding on a tide of
manufactured enthusiasm, it is well known
■at she shrinks from any approach of flattery,
” A her passionate burst of tears, at the distur
ri!lCe in Boston, is eloquent to every generous
mart of her grief that she, should have been
unwitting cause ol disappointment to a sin
glt human being. ♦
*he last cut of the Mercury would be the
unkindest cut of all,” if its edge were not
hinted by the evident ill temper ot the whole
I ltr ibe. Our neighbour says, “It seems to us
II at an honest regard for the merits of other
h'teat singers would suggest that, by herself, she
18 “ ot worth the price that is set upon her.”
1 lie only objection that we have ever before
‘ward to Jenny Lind is that she is “exhibited by
J ‘ : ’ Barnnm,”—an expression, the truth of
which does not excuse its coarseness. It has
been argued that if she were here upon her
own account solely, her reception would have
been ten times more ardent and enthusiastic, and
her profits much larger, at a diminished cost to
the people. But the Mercury says that Jenny
Lind, per se, is not worth the price that is set
upon her. Our neighbour forgets, that in En
gland, when she had no Mr. Barnum to arrange
her Concerts, the price of tickets never aver
aged so low as in New-York or Boston. We
have never met with the person who has heard
her upon the Continent, or in England, for the
small sum of even one guinea. His estimate
therefore, of her “worth” as a singer, is far be
low that of the musical world of Europe, and
we may add, ol America, also.
We are pained to see in the conclusion fcf the
Mercury'B article, an attempt to connect the
Lind Concerts with the prevailing excitement
between the North and South. Mile. Lind has
no prejudices against the South, no sympathies
with our enemies. Our interest in seeing and
hearing her are as great as that of any
people under Heaven, and why then seek to
excite against her the bitter blood of hostile
sentiment, and of sectional interest? Shame,
we repeat it, shame !
A Natty Epigram.
We are indebted for the following capital
‘item,’ to a beautiful and highly accomplished
young lady, whom we had the pleasure of
meeting during our last sojourn in Gotham.
A well known writer, of the present day
whose Christian name is Nathaniel, was one
night at a brilliant party in Washington, where
he managed, with his admirable tact, to secure
to himself the smiles of a certain fair lady, who
was the belle of the evening. His monopoly
was somewhat odious to the careful mother of
the charmer, who desired that her daughter
should look favourably upon another and a
wealthier suitor for her hand, of the name of
Campbell. In vain, however, did the good
old lady frown her disapprobation of the maid
en’s decided preference for our hero, and at
length she wrote, upon a card, and sent to her
daughter, a eommund that she should receive
the persevering attentions of Mr. Campbell.
Our hero, rather impudently, it must be con
fessed, took the card from the hands of the la
dy, and having read it, begged permission to
write a reply. T his was laughingly granted,
and the followingcouplet, traced in pencil, upon
the back of the card was immediately returned
to the mother, whose gravity was not proof
against the wit of the repartee :
“Dear mother! why seek you my wishes to trammel,
And strain at my ‘Nat, because I won’t swallow your
‘Campbell?”
The Lorgnette.
The beautiful article in our last week’s pa
per, entitled “A Cavatina,” was copied from
the Lorgnette, a semi-monthly brochure, is
sued in New-York, at one shilling a number
The printer, by an inadvertence, omitted the
credit which we had duly affixed to the paper
We take this occasion to say of the Lorgnette
that it contains the most graceful essays we
have met with, in American Letters. Our New
York Letter says that the author is Ik. Marvel,
the vomde plume of Mr. D. G. Mitchell.
Jenny Lind and the Union.
An exchange paper in Alabama contains a
humourous declaration, setting forth the greiv
ances of the South in the long detention of Jen
ny Lind at the North, whereby our people are
unmercifully tantalized. It proceeds to declare
that unless the matchless Syren immediately
comes hitherward, a dissolution of the Union
shall be considered as having taken place !
(Our suuk (T'ulilr.
A Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical
Sketch of Palestiue. By Rabbi Joseph Schwarz.
Translated by Isaac Leeser. Illustrated with Maps
and Engravings. One vol. Bvo. Philadelphia: A.
Hart. 5610-1850.
The great degree of interest which has, of
late, marked the popular feeling of this coun
try and also of Great Britain, regarding the
Holy Land, is likely to be satisfied by the vari*
ety of books it has called forth, and of which
the volume before is one of the most ambitious
in its claims. It is the work of a Jewish Rabbi,
who was for sixteen years a resident of Pales
tine, and who, to a thorough knowledge of He
brew Literature, and the other necessary sour
ces of information, added protracted personal
investigations iuto the subject he discusses.
His purpose was, as he tells us in his preface,
“to compose anew geography,” which should
not “resemble the many modern journals of
the constantly augmenting visits to Palestine,
in which are repeated, again and again, the old
and already known facts,”
Our critical knowledge of the geography of
the Holy Land is quite too superficial to allow
us to express an opinion of the fidelity of the
learned Rabbi’s book. It abounds in references
to tjje mod celebrated Jewish authorities, and
in this respect, we must regard it as somewhat
too exclusive of other reliable travellers.
This, though it may not impair the fidelity of
the work, can scarcely fail of exciting the ap
prehension of the general reader lest it should
be an ex parte treatise. The catholic-spirited
Ritter is lather sparing in his commendations
of the work, in its claims to extended original
observation. There can, however, be no ques
tion that it is the result of wide and diligent
research, and that it presents an unusually
large amount of information concerning the
geography and physical history of that land so
full of interest, and so linked with the most sa
cred associations and memories, as to be fitly
called the Holy Land.
The work is beautifully printed on fine pa
per, and it is finely illustrated by maps and en
gravings on stone, It quite resembles in ap
pearance, the popular work of Lynch upon
the Dead Sea, and the Jordan,to which it may
not be inaptly considered as a companion vol
ume. It may be found at Mr. S. Hart’s book
store.
Three Courses and a Dessert: comprising three
sets of Tales. West Country, Irish, and a Me
lange. With 50 Illustrations, by George Cruikshank.
Fourth Edition. London: Henry G. Bohn. New-York:
Bangs, Brothers & Cos. 1850.
Tho “Standard Library” of Bohn is already
well known to every Bibliopole, and wherever
known, it is esteemed for the high tone of its
selections, and the unequalled cheapness of its
issues. The volume before us is one of a series
called the “Illustrated Library,” which bids
fair to become as popular as the older series.
“Three Courses and a Dessert,” is a quaint name
for a well-served entertainment of humour
ous stories, to which the plates have been con
tributed by the renowned Cruikshank. These
plates are none of your opaque heavy stone
ware, or delf, but genuine, transparent china,
through which the sun-gleams of wit flash
brightly and from which there comes the clear
ring of a genial humour. The stories, which
may be called the viands of the feast, are racy
and relishing, short and spicy, funny and fine
flavoured, and do no discredit to the plates on
which they are served. This volume and its
kindred issues can be obtained of Mr. John
Russell.
Th Women or the New Testament. Edited by
Rev. H. H. Weld. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakis
ton.
This is one of those beautiful volumes which
commend themselves in two respects to the
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE.
reader, by their mechanical execution, and also
by the value of their literary contents. They
are “gift books” of the first degree of merit,
such as it is a pleasure to give or to receive.
The plan pursued in the volume before us com
mends it particularly to those who are wont to
seek for the highest exhibitions of human ex
cellence in the characters of the Bible. There
are found examples of female dignity, purity,
piety, and self-sacrifice unequalled in other an
nals, and they are recorded especially lor the
benefit of the gentler sex in all after ages.
Ihe inspired Deborah, the exulting Miriam,
the confiding Esther, the pious Hannah, the
faithful Ruth, the gentle Rachel, the provident
Martha, and the loving Marys, are all beauti
ful examples of womanly excellence, the study
ol which cannot fail of ennobling the mind
and of improving the heart. The Editor of
this volume has performed his task very grace
fully, and the publishers have given it a neat
but not expensive dress.
Geneveivk ; or Peasant Love and Sorrows: By Al
phonse de Lamartine, author of “Raphael,” &c.”
Translated by Fayette Robinson, Esq. New-Vork
Stringer & Townsend. 1850.
To the lovers of the sentimental story, La
martine deserves to be commended as one of
its best living expositors. He is tender, and
plaintive, and simple, and sensuous, and where
the passions make no demand upon him du
ring the narrative, he is usually successful in
what he aims at, The story before us, is suffi
ciently described in its title page. It is a tale
ol peasant love and sorrow ; filled with the
small details of humble life, and illustrative oi
its moderate hopes,and frequent disappoinments.
I he persons whom we never know in society,
—whom we pass in the highways, as if they
were beings of an entirely different race, —into
whose lowly dwellings we never enter, —from
whose lips we seldom hear any familiar ac
counts. It is of these thafr Lamartine under
takes to teach us—it is in these that he per
suades us to converse—it is with their lowly
fortunes that he would have us take an inter
est. Dickens, as we ail know, makes use of
like materials ; but he is quite another sort of
artist. We commend it as a curious sort of
study, the comparison of this volume with
those of Dickens, wrought both out of the
same staples. This of Lamartine’s, let us say
briefly, is quite as accreditable as any of his
similar performances. Its interest is of a sub
dued and inoffensive kind, and it teaches proper
lessons of respect for humanity.
A Complete History of the Mexican War ; It
Causes, Conduct, and Consequences. Comprising an
account of the various Military and Naval Operations;
from its commencement to the Treaty of Peace.
Illustrated and explained by Maps, Plans of Battles,
Views and Portraits. By N. C. Brooks. One vol.,
Bvo. Philadelphia: Grigg, Elliott & Cos.
We notice this volume at a somewhat late
day, but as its comprehensiveness and fidelity,
give to it a value beyond that of the more
ephemeral records of the War with Mexico, a
memorial of it in our columns, will not be
out of place. Mr. Brooks possesses the
reputation of an elegant scholarship, and has
certainly proved himself to be a successful
writer. He has brought to the task of prepa
ring the complete annals of the Mexican War
literary abilities inferior to those of no other
chronicler, and a degree of candour and disin
terestedness which we think no other historian
has displayed. His stand-point is such as to
enable him to do justice to both sides,-in the
view he takes; and his honesty would forbid any
wilful perversion of the (acts in the case. We
think, therefore, that this volume presents, to
say the least, as full, clear, and reliable an ac
count of the Mexican War as any other yet
published, and we commend it to those who
would carefully review the whole subject as a
matter of history. They will find the style of
the narrative pleasing and free from those gram
matical and rhetorical blemishes which have
disfigured many of the minor works upon the
same fruitful topic.
The Bcilder’s Pocket Companion ; containing the
Elements of Building, Surveying, and Architecture-
Witb Rules and Instructions, connected with the sub
ject. By A. C. Smeaton, Civil Engineer. Philadel
phia : H. C. Baird.
This little volume will be cordially welcomed,
we doubt not, by the class of mechanics for
whom it is intended, for It presents, in a small
compass, a larger amount of valuable informa
tion, in regard to their art, than any other vol
ume extant. The growing taste for Architec
ture in all parts of our country, renders it
imperatively necessary that the builder be well
informed, and to this end he must consult the
best authorities. In the manual before us, the
author has given a concise and comprehensive
view of all the processes concerned in the crea
tion and completion of a building from its foun
dations to its finish.
The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer’s Compan
ion, comprising the Rudiments and Principles of Cabi
inet Making and Upholstering, with familiar instruc
tions, illustrated by examples for attaining a proficiency
in the Arts of Drawing, as applicable to Cabinet
Work,&c. &c. By J. Stokes. Philadelphia :H, Ca
rey Baird.
This, like the volume noticed above, is one
of a thoroughly “Practical Scries” of hand
books in the Mechanic Arts, of great value,
certainly to the artisan, since they present in a
compact form, and at a low price, all the rules
and receipts by which the most successful and
satisfactory results in practice are obtained.
The demands of the age for elegant furniture
and decorations, have given anew importance
to the arts ol the Cabinet Maker and Upholster
er ; and the Manual before us contains gene
ral instructions in both of these branches, that
cannot fail to benefit those who are willing to
learn and improve. To such we recommend it.
£jjr i'itartf Itfnrlir.
New Books. Mr. Putnam announces “Let
ters from Jamaica,” by Mr. Bigelow, of the
Evening Post, originally addressed to that
Journal. Mr. H. Carey Baird, of Philadelphia!
has issued Prof. Reid’s Edition of Grey’s Poems
It is the one of the most sumptuous volumes
ever issued in this country. The Harpers have
published William Howitt’s “ Country Year
Book,” Abbot’s “Xerxes the Great,” and Mrs-
Trollope’s “Petticoat Government.” The Ap
pletons have ready, “Evenings at Donaldson
Manor,” by Miss Macintosh, illustrated with
ten steel engravings ; also, “Our Saviour with
Prophets and Apostles,” a superb gift book,
edited by Dr. Wainwright, and kindred to
their beautiful work, “The Women of the Old
and New Testament.” Russell has it in rare
and unique bindings.
Bancroft's History of the United States.
After years of patient expectation, the public is
now to be gratified with the continuation of
Mr. Bancroft’s History. Little &c Brown an
nounce that the first of three volumes upon the
American Revolution, is far advanced in the
hands of the stereotypers. They will be en
riched by material of great value, collected
by Mr. Bancroft, during his recent mission
at the Court of St. James.
New- York Historical Society. The stated
meeting of this Society was held on the eve
ning of the Ist inst., when, among other in
esting proceedings, a paper was read by Hon-
E. George Squier, on the Archatology ofNica
ragua.
Jenny Lind’s Progress. —W T e arrogated to
ourself no singular foresight, when we predict
ed that Mile. Lind’s progress in the United
States would be an accumulative triumph. Her
star is unquestionably in the ascendant, and the
period of its culmination is more remote than
our vision can reach. She is now in Philadel
phia, receiving the ardent homage of a popula
tion, as little impressible in its higher classes,
as any in the New World. Its quaker-like
gravity has been completely overturned, and
the matchless vocalist has been crowned there,
as in New York and Boston, the undisputed
Queen of Song. Before this article reaches
our remoter readers, she will have returned to
the scenes of her first cis-Atlantic triumphs,
and will probably have resumed her sw r ay over
the musical world of Gotham. It is said that
she is to occupy the new edifice, (which some
unwise caprice has robbed of her name, and
christened Tripler Hall,) alternately with Ma
dame Bishop, who, in connection with Bochsa,
has opened it upon the grand scale of the Eu
ropean Musical Conservatoires. If this be true,
we pity Madame Bishop, for we cannot sup
pose that she can draw houses with Mile. Lind,
notwithstanding her superior orchestral accom
paniments, and the vastly lower price at which
her tickets will be sold. We may be mistaken
ip this opinion, but we confess that the effort of
some of the New York critics to elevate Mad.
Bishop to the rank of Mile. Lind as an artist,
seems to us to be the very height of the ridicu
lous! We would prize more the opportunity
to hear the latter sing once than we should to
possess a free ticket to all the concerts the
former will give from the present time to the
close of her public career. That the immea
surable moral elevation of Mile. Lind over her
quasi rival has nothing to do with our compar
ative estimate, we will not assert. On the
contrary, we are free to acknowledge that
we cannot altogether separate, in the character
of Jenny Lind, the beautiful and hannonious
elements of Genius and Goodness—of Song
and of Soul! Would that this union were
less an occasion of wonder !
The mid-winter will probably witness the
departure of Mile. Lind to the Havana, where
fresh and peculiar triumphs await her, among
the enthusiastic and generous Havanese. En
route she will pass through our city, and there
is a much deeper solicitude felt by our citizens
to be assured that she will sing here, than the
tone of our newspaper press would indicate.
The key note of public feeling is much higher
than that of some of our daily journals, which
seem to have wrapped themselves up in a man
tle of reserve, and to affect superiority to the
enthusiasm of their Northern contemporaries.
Why is this ? Surely our brethren of the daily
press are not of that class who • have no music
in their souls.’ We would not believe this of
any of them, and yet they have maintained an
astonishing degree of coldness regarding the
singing ol the Nightingale. Ah! we have it.
Not one of them, alas! has heard her sing,
and they are incredulous of her reputed vocal
sorceries. Upon this supposition we forgive
them all, and only hope that they will be per
mitted to hear for themselves the echoes of her
matchless voice, its soaring and its cadence, its
force and its passions, its purity and its sweet
ness. If they can hear her and still be indif
ferent, we shall give them up as those
“ not moved with concord of sweet sounds-’ *
Seriously, if our people desire to hear the voice
of the charmer, we should awake early. It
will be a mortification beyond endurance, If the
nightingale should fly through our beautiful
city and not alight, because we have not offered
her a gilded cage and a delighted audience for
her songs. She is accustomed to be sought
after, and child of nature though she certainly
is, she lingers most willingly where she is most
wooed. We cannot consent that the stigma
shall rest upon Charleston of repulsing, even
negatively, the brightest embodiment of high
powers in song and of great deeds in charity,
which the world has ever been permitted to
look upon. As an humble representative of the
Charleston press, we utter our disclaimer of in
difference as to whether Mile. Lind sings here
or not. The people of our city will miss such*
a treat as they cannot conceive of, if they do
not hear her. But we will not suppose it to be
probable that they are to be deprived of this
high gratification. The rumours are that she
will sing here. The Military Hall is spoken of
as the most available Concert Room in the city.
It is our impression that sixteen hundred per
sons can be comfortably seated there, and that
allowing such a press as Castle Garden exhibit
ed, two hundred more can crowd in. This
number ol auditors would yield, at $3 per
ticket, the sum of $5,400. By selling half the
seats at auction, at a premium of from two to
three dollars each, the amount could be swelled
to SB,OOO, and this sum might, we are confident,
be realized for three or four nights. It is not
probable that Mile. Lind will sing any where
else in this region—Savannah possibly except
ed—and therefore to this point will come hun
dreds from the interior in all directions to hear
his world’s wonder, and to lay at her teet a
contribution to that noble object for which her
gains in America are sacredly pledged. We
feel confident that a thousand people will make
a pilgrimage to Charleston to the shrine of this
wonderful Priestess of Song, if she. only re
mains here a few days to receive their oblations.
Thousands more from the city and parishes
would swell this number to a multitude that
would make a tribute to Jenny Lind worthy
tho generous and high-toned enthusiasm of the
South, paid to her at the portals of our “ sunny
land,” and never to be forgotten by her in her
further triumphal progress over the civilized
world!
In behalf of our readers, we earnestly in
voke the advent here of the peerless Jenny,
and pledge to her, on their part at least, a
welcome as true and fervent as any she has yet
experienced.
A Sacred Concert. —We take pleasure in
advising our city readers that a musical enter
tainment, of no common character, is in pre
paration, to be given at the First Baptist Church
9
on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 30. The
admirable choir of this church, under the di
rection of their skilful leader, Mr. Robinson,
and aided by Messrs. Speisseger and Strong,
will perform a variety of Airs, Chants, Duetts,
Recitatives and Choruses, selected from Haydn,
Handel, Mozart, Auber and others. In the pro
gramme before us, we notice the fine Duo of
“ Dearest Treasure;’’ from the Creation, which,
together with the magnificent Finale of that
Oratorio, “ The Heavens are telling,” in Re
citative and Chorus, speak well for the taste of
the direction of this Concert. The Alpine
Chorus of Stegman, and the exquisite Spanish
Hymn composed by Longfellow, are among the
gems of the bill. The Overtures are from Von
Gluck and Auber, and we have no doubt Mr.
Speisseger will perform them with his well
known skill.
As this Concert is designed to raise funds to
defray the heavy expenses incurred in improving
the Organ Loft of the Church, we bespeak for
it the liberal patronage of the lovers of Sacred
Music.
£1;? fm Ms.
Portrait of Jenny Lind. We are indebted
to Mr. Brady, for a copy of a fine lithographic
print from his daguereotype of Mile. Lind,
and we have no sort of hesitation in pronoun
cing it the best likeness of the “nightingale”
which has yet appeared in this country. It was
executed on stone by D’Avignon, whose pencil
is employed upon the admirable portraits m
the Gallery of Illustrious Americans.”
The Art Journul for September. Mr. Geo.
Virtue, of London, has supplied us, through,
Mr. Samuel Hart, of this city, with the Sep
tember number of this magnificent Journal. It
contains three very large and highly finished
line and stipple engravings, from pictures in the
celebrated Vernon Gallery, besides nearly a
hundred illustrations on wood of various sub
jects in Art. The letter-press is voluminous
and full of interest, and we honestly consider it
to be worth four times the price at which it is
published —75 cents per number. Every lover
of the fine arts should subscribe for it.
Bust of Calhoun. —We call the attention of
our readers to a very beautiful work of Art, a
miniature bust of the great departed Carolinian,
executed in Parian China, and manufactured
to the sole order of Messrs. Cameron & Cos. of
this city. The likeness appears to us to be al
most perfect, and the drapery of the bust is
beautiful. For a very small snm, the admirers
of Calhoun can now have a worthy memento
of him, wrought of a material at once elegant
and durable, for the Parian clay is said to re
tain its colour better than marble. Messrs. Ca
meron &. Cos. have also Parian busts of Jenny
Lind, Sir Robert Peel, Shakspeare, Statuettes
of the Venuses and the Greek Slave, and other
figures of great beauty and delicacy, which, as
mantle and table ornaments, cannot be sur
passed.
The. American Artists’ Association. —Under
this title, a number of the artists of New York
have organized themselves for the general pur
poses of an Art Union.
(Dttr (tatmpDnnm
The Western Literary Messenger lor
October is on our table. Jewett, Thomas &
Cos., Publishers, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Water Cure Journal for October
has come to hand, and some of our friends who
have imbibed the “Hydropathic Heresy,” are
loud in their praises of the work, and of the
October number in particular. Published by
Fowler & Wells, New-York. The American
Phrenological Journal, by the same publishers,
has been received.
The Philadelphia Messenger and Glean
er says :
“ An honest appreciation of worth impels us
to state that the Southern Literary Gazette,
published at Charleston, South-Carolina, is one
of the handsomest, as it is one of the best lite
rary newspapers printed in the Union.
Such a compliment from such a source is
very gratifying. The Messenger is a large,
handsome, and well conducted family newspa
per, and is published at only one dollar per an
num ! A. B. Hamilton, Publisher, Philadel
phia.
iT'ljp Pnrk Cnrnrr.
YVeshall occasionally insert, under this head, Riddles
Enigmas, Puzzles, Charades, &c., to which answers
post paid or free) ar e solicited.
GEOGRAPHICAL enigma.
I am composed of twenty-three letters.
My 1 3 12 10 is a town in Egypt.
My 2 17 9 2U is a county in Illinois.
My 3 810 2 8 is a county in South-Caro
lina.
My 43 8 10 1 is one of the Barbary States.
My 5 20 813 16 is a county in Alabama.
My 6 0 16 is a town in England.
My 7 5 2 8 20 is a river in France.
My 8 14 1 5 is a county in North-Caroiina.
My 9 16 2 8 1 is a city in France.
My 10 2 8 10 18 8 is a cluster of Islands in
the Mediterranean.
My II 3 2 16 is a town in Alabama.
My 12 4 2 8 is a town in England.
My 13 2 3 20 8 is a town in France.
My 14 9 17 10 6 13 1 is a town in the
Northern part of Africa.
My 15 18 13 10 4 14 8 is a river in New-
Jersey.
My 16 14 19 2 2 is a river in Mississippi.
My 17 13 6 20 8 12 is a county in Georgia.
My 18 11 9 14 8414 is a city in Georgia.
My 19 20 10 9 14 5 is a town in Abyssinia.
My 20 18 1 4 2 8 is a town in Maryland.
My 21 13 2 16 is a town in New-York.
My 22 15 6 8 21 is a river in England.
My 23 9 17 10 8 is a town in the north of
Scotland.
My whole is one of the most interesting pa
pers published in the United States.
Respectfully,
J. H. G.
Augusta, Ga.
tonitirs.
The White Mountains have donned
their white winter robes.
The population of Vermont is de
creasing.
Queen Isabella of Spain is approaching
maternity.
Tripler Hall was opened with eclilt on
the night of the 17th inst. by Madame Btshop,
Miss Davenport is performing at Boston
with great success.
Jenny Lind has visited Iranistan, Bar
num’s grotesque country seat in Connecticut.
Paine, the Water Gas man, is out with
another humbug, by which he is to impart per
petual motion to ships at sea.
The Arctic steamship, the third of Col
lins’ American Line, has gone to sea on a trial
trip.
The new Epic, “ America Discovered,”
is severely handled by the newspaper press of
the North. We shall notice it shortly.
Forty millions of acres will be given
away under the operation of the Bounty Land
Bill.
Christopher North says that he never
sees a man waltzing but he feels a fervent de
sire to kick him!
Mile. Jagello, the Hungarian heroine, is
studying the English language at a school in
Washington.
On dit that Rachel, the great tragic
actress, and Cerito, the queen of motion, are
coming to this country.
G. P. R. James, Esq. has applied for
papers of naturalization as a citizen of the
United States. We bid him cordially welcome.
At the Treinont House, Boston, on the
16th inst., the twenty-first anniversary of its
opening was celebrated by a dinner.
The omnibus is not altogether a modem
vehicle. Letters patent were granted to some
French noblemen, in 1662, for a precisely simi
ar kind of coach.
Punch thinks he can trace the noble
rank of Haynau till he finds it issuing from a
bung-hole !
Jenny Lind’s charities in Boston amount
ed to upwards of $7,000. The recipients do
not call them “trumpery !”
Jenny Lind’s Concerts in Philadelphia
have awakened the most intense and generous
enthusiasm. She is fully and truly appreciated
there.
An Exchange paper tells of a Bank Di
rector in Boston, who not only gave a man a
cent the other day but told him to keep the
change ! Pass along his name.
A London Journal, of the 12th Oct.,
now before us, contains Mrs. Joseph C. Neals
beautiful story of “The Young Bride’s Trials.”
with no other credit than the initials J. C. N. at
the close. “Render unto Caesar &,c.,”
The American Whig Review for Octo
ber is disgraced by an abusive article concern
ing Mr. James, the Novelist. Asa guest of
the country, he should have bean safe front
scurrility, and especially in a Magazine claim
ing to be respectable and high-toned.
AGENTS WANTED,
TO canvass, for the Gaiette and Schoolfellow, the States
otSouth and North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
Young men of good character and address can nialat
rom SSOO to SIOOO per annum at the business. Apply
eitherpersonally or by letter, to
WALKER & RICHARDS.
tjif References as tocharacter will be required.
CONCERT OP SACKED MUSIC.
CONSISTING OF :
SOLOS, DUETTS, & CHORUSES,
From the Oratorios of Haydn, Handel, Mozart and
other composers will take place at the First Baptist
Church, on WEDNESDAY EVENING.3Oth instant.
The proceeds to be appropriated for repairingand altering
the Organ Gallery.
The programme will appear in a few days.
Oct 26
EXCHANGE HOTEL,
EXCHANGE PLACE, BALTIMORE.
This is the most convenient Hotel to the Rail Road and
Steamboat Landings. D. DORSEY.
Oct 26
/f£*&**+*&
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its |J
“HANDSOMEST PAPER IN THE WORLD.”
THE
DRAWING ROOM JOURNAL.
A PHILADELPHIA HOME NEWSPAPER,
Devoted to Elegant Literature—The Fine
Arts — Society — Fashion — Gossip —
Morality — Health, etc.
Edited by M. M. COOK, and C. J. DALMAS, and
published every Saturday.
It is clearly and elegantly printed on beautiful type and
fine white paper, and the topics which find especial favor
in its columns, arc such as relate to the Imaginative and
Beautiful, whether ilustrated by Poetry. Music, Painting,
or Sculpture.
It is is also strictly moral and elevating in its tone, not a
word or a line ever being admitted into its columns that
may not be read aloud in the most fastidious family circle-
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
One copy One Year $2
Three copies One Year, 5
Seven “ “ “ jo
Twelve “ “ “ J 5
Twenty “ “ 20
*** P ostmasters in every section of the Union are here
by authorized to act as Agents for the Drawing Room
Journal, to receipt for and forward subscriptions to the
same, the law allowing them to frank all such letters. A
liberal commission will be allowed to Postmasters, on
clubs, or single subscribers. Further particulars may be
ascertained by addressing Charles J. Dalmas, publisher.
No. 32 South Third-street, Philadelphia, Pa.
*** The Drawing Room Journal is “as neat and fair
as a bride, and not less winsome,” says the Phiadelphia
Sun. “Printed with unusual taste, and edited with tact
and ability,” says the Saturday Gazette; “A dainty
looking sheet, and edited with spirit and judgment,” says
the Boston Evening Transcript: “one of the bes conduc
ted Weeklies in the United States, and the handsomes
paper in the world,” says the Boston Bee.
Oct 12 3 mo .
PROSPECTUS OF
THE N ORTH-CAROLINA STAR,
A Weekly Family Newspaper, published in
the City of Raleigh.
The STAR, (having been lately improved) is now tb #
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 Ecreign 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
Whi a principles; and ardent in its attachment to our
glorious Union, 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, Supreme
Conrt Adjudications, &c.; 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 or Legislative Proceed
ings.
TERMS.—S2.SO per annum, in advance; or $3 if pay
ment is delayed three months. 50cents during the Session
of the Legislature.
t W 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, N. C., Sept. 30, 1850.
N. B. —WM- C. RICHARDS, Esq-, is our only autho
rioed Agent to receive subscriptions and advertisements for
this paper, in the City of Charleston.
T. J. Lamay & Son,
Editors and Proprietors.
’ Oct 5
J. F. CHURCH, PLUMBER,
67 EAST BVY-ST., CHARLESTON, S. C.
Lead, Copper and Brass Lifting Force Pumps. Water
Closets, Hot, Cold and Shower Baths, Garden Engines,
Cooking Ranges, Lead, Pipe, Sheet Lead, Block, Tin,
hie., tic. Every description of Lead work and Hydraul
ics furnished and fixed on the most approved principles.
Orders from the Country promptly attended to. The very
best city references in regard to quality and durability of
work
Oct 12 1 year
GEN IX II ATT KB.
314 BROADWAY, NKW-YORK,
Next door to Barn urn’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. His
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 anil
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 he equalled
ill the Union. A rich and varied assortment ol the finest
Furs also lorm 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.
JOHN V. TARVER,
EXCHANGE WHARF, SAVANNAH, GA.
FACTOR AND GENERAL COMMIS
SION MERCHANT, AND DEALER
IN GRAIN AND HAY.
WILLARD’S HOTEL.
E. D. WILLARD, Proprietor.
Pennsylvania Avenue, corner of 14tA street,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
NATIONAL HOTEL.
F. BLACK, Proprietor.
Pennsylvania Avenue, corner of 6th street,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
ilfipninintnits.
Travelling Agents for the Gazette. —
Rev. William Richards, Mr. Robert E. Seyle,
Mr. Matthew J. Wroton, J. J. Richards, S. P
Richards.
IT Mr. A. H. Mazyck is our General Agent
for Charleston.
ITGeorge W. Bell is our Agent for Kershaw
and the neighbouring Districts.
IT Warren D. Chapman is our Agent for
Spartanburg and surrounding Districts.
IT All Postmasters are authorized to act as
Agents for the Gazette, and thfe same commis
sion will be allowed to them as to other loca
Agents.
THE TRAVELLER'S GUIDE.
ROUTES FROM CHARLESTON.
From Charleston to New- Fork. Leaving daily at
o’clock p. m. By Steamer to Wilmington 180 miles.—By
Railroad to Weldon 162 miles. —To Petersburg 63. —To
Richmond 22. —To Acquia Creek 70.—8 y Steamer to
Washington 55.—8 y Railroad to Baltimore 40.—T0 Phil
adelphia 92.—T0 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 New-Orleans. Leaving daily at
10 o’clock a. m. By S. C. Railroad to Augusta 136 miles.
—By Georgia Railroad to Atlanta 171.—8 y Macon and
Western Railroad to Grittin 42. By Stage to Opelaka
95. —By Railroad to Montgomery 65. —By Steamer to
Mobile33l.—To New-Orleans 166. Total distance 1,006
miles. Time 123 hours. Fare $39.50.
From Charleston to New-Orleans, via. Savannah, daily
nat 9a. m. By Steamer to Savannah 140 miles.—By Ce
tral Railroad to Macon 190. —By Macon and Western Rail
road to Barnesville 40.—8 y Stage to Opelaka 100.—By
Railroad to Montgomery 65. —By Steamer to Mobile 331. —
To New-Orleans 166. Total distance 1,032 miles. 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, S. 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 THE 18tA 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 be 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 free of charge.
WM. GREGG, President.
E. C. Jones, Secretary.
iVnlkrr’s (Turks.
JOSEPH WALKER,
101 EAST BAY,
Dealer in Ptuier, Stationery and Account Books, Printing
and Book Binding. Also, Agent for John T. White,
Type and Stereotype Founder; R. Hoe Ac Cos., Printing
Press Maker; V. Mcßee Ac 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, Ate., is sur
passed by none. Constantly on hand, Brass Rule,
Cases, Uuoins, Leads, Chases, Furniture, Reg.
let, Lye Brushes, Mallets, Shooting Sticks,
Proof Rrusiies, Bodkins, Plainers. Also, a large
variety of
BORDERS, JOB AND FANCY TYPE, Sec.
ALSO, AGENT FOR
R. IIOE & CO.,
CELEBRATED PRINTING-PRESS MANUFACTURERS.
Every Press, Ate., 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,
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 x3 * 23 x 32
~4 x 34, 24 x 36, 26 x 38, 26 x 40 • and also Medium and
Double Medium Book Printing Paper,of different quality.
Arent torV. Mcßee & Son, Greenville, S. C., Paper
Mills. Newspaper of every kind made to order. Also in
receipt constantly, direct from the Northern Mills, Paper
ot 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,
ot every variety, and at all prices—a large stock constantiy
on hand.
Wrapping, Envelope, Coloured Medium Paper,
ot all kinds and descriptions always on hand and for sale
low.
STATIONERS’ HALL,
101 EAST BAY.
JOSEPH WALKER,
DEALER IN
PAPER, STATIONER Y AND 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; Scaling Wax, Wafers, Quills,
Rulers, Steel Pens ink Stands, Slates, Wafer Stamps,
Pen Racks, Wax Tapers, Red Tape, Lead Pencils, India
Rubber, Desk Weights, Ate.
GOLD PENS, GOLD At SILVER PENCIL CASES.
A large variety of Levi Brown and 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
scrip tion.
COPYING PRESSES,
A variety of patterns and prices. Also, Copying Books,
Brushes, Oil Paper, etc.
BLANK DOUK MANUFACTORY A 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
beat manner, either in full Russia, extra Russia Bands,
bull Bound, or Halt 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
ct work is done in New York.
FANCY BINDING.
Books, Pamphlets, Music, etc., bound in the neatest
and best style, either in Calf, Morocco, Russia, or plain
Sheep Binding.
In the above establishment no pains or expense have been
spared to have all work executed in the best maimer.
STEAM POWER-PRESS PRINTING.
WALKER JAMES,
BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS
NOS. 101 AND 103 EAST BAY,
Having added to their Office, Steam Power-Presses, and
large louts 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 reduce}; 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,
BILLS-LADING, BALL INVITATIONS
BILLHEADS, BRIEFS.
RECEIPTS, HAND BILLS, See.
which will be 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 be
services to the public as an ATTORNF. Y and COUN
SELLOR AT LAW and SOLICITOR INCHAN
C’ EK Y. Hisextensive 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 bulding occupied by
Messrs. Yeadon hi Macbeth.
Charleston, May 4, 1850.
(Dnr (Dmn Muirs.
THE SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE
IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY
WALKER & RICHARDS.
OFFICE OVER COURTENAY AND WIENGEB BOOKSTORE
Entrance on Broad-street.
TERMS.—Two Dollars per annum, to be paid strictl
in advance. If payment is not made within the first six
months of a term of subscription, the price “ill be Two
Dollars and Fifty Cents— and if delayed until the end o
the year, Three Dollars.
Advertisements will be published at the customary
rates. Business Cards, (of lour lines and under.) wi
be inserted one year for Kivt Dollars , including a su
scrip tion to the paper.
SOUTHERN QUARTERLY REVIEW.
This sterling Southern Periodical, recently published by
Mr. James S. Burges, will henceforth be issued by the
Subscribers, who respectfully solicit the continued favours
of the Southern people, and of the citizens of Charleston
n particular. The first number of the present year, form
ing the beginning of anew series, i9 now rapid y passing
through the press, and will be delivered to subscri rs on
the lath of April. Hereafter, the work will be issued at
regular periods, without delay or failure, and in a superior
style, with anew, clear and beautiful type, and on t e
best of paper. It will continue under the Editorial con
duetol W. Gilmore Simms, Esq., to whose hands it
has been confided during the past year. This gentleman,
we are pleased to inform our readers, has succeeded bap
pily in calling to his assistance such a number of Contribu
tors as will effectually place the work beyond the chances
of a deficiency, or inferiority, of Literary, i->cientiflc or
Political material. The writers for the RLVIEW in
clude the greater number of the best and ablest names of
the country. They represent the highest Literary talent
of the South, and reflect truly, with a native earnestness,
force and fidelity, the real policy and the peculiar instilu
ions of our section. The Publishers, assured by thecoun
tenauce which they have received, from every quarter ot
the South, and especially sustained and patronized by t le
most influential names in Carolina, beg leave to solici
the continued and increasing patronage of our citizens.
Subscriptions will be received at their Office, corner ot
East Bay and Broad streets, second story, or at 101 East
Bay. Contributors will be pleased to address the Editcr,
to their care, in Charleston.
WALKER & RICHARDS
Publishers and Proprietors Southern Quarterly Review.
NOTICE.—AII former Agencies for the SOUTHER
QUARTERLY REVIEW are discontinued. Due no
tice will be given of the appointment of Agencies by the
present Publishers.
UNRIVALLED NORTH OR SOUTH !
UE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME
OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE
Wascommenced on Saturday, the 4th ot May, 1850
undents original name —instead ot Richards Meekly Ga
ictte— as more significant of its peculiar character, it being
the only weekly organ of Literature l the entire South .
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, io
that, in mechanical excellence, itshall not be surpassed by
any paper whatever in the United States! It will contin
ue under the same Editorial direction as heretofore, and no
pains or expense will be spared to make it
A CHOICE FAMILY NEWSPAPER
“as cheap as the cheapest, and as good as the best.
Utterly discarding the notion that a Southern journal can
not compete with the Northern weeklies, in cheapness and
interest,
THE SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE
Shall rival the best of them in all the characteristics of a
truly valuable fireside Journal. Its aim will be the diffu
sion of cultivated and refined taste throughout the com
munity—and it will embrace in its ample folds every spe
cies of intelligence that can tend to this result
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS,
from many of the ablest writers in the South, will chiefly
occupy its columns, hut not to the exclusion of choice mis
cellany. selected from the best American and European
sources
The tone of the “ Gazette” will be independent in criti
cism and in the discussion of every legitimate topic, hut it
will be strictly
NEUTRAL IN POLITICS AND RELIGION !
Its columns will he occasionally embellished with
SOUTHERN PORTRAITS & LANDSCAPES,
engraved expressly for the work, and accompanied by
biographical and topographical sketches. A portrait of
the Hon. Judge Lumpkin, of Georgia, appeared in the
first number, and others will follow at monthly intervals
ITS GENERAL INFORMATION
will he copious, butcarefully condensed from the leading
Journals of all parts of the world.
Notwithstanding the great increase in the size and at”
tractionsof the paper, it will still be published at
Two Dollars Per Annum, in Advance I
It will be furnished to persons becoming responsible for
the whole number of copies, and having them sent to one
address, on the following terms:
Three copies, $5
Five copies, 8
Ten copies, 15
Fifteen copies, 20
Twenty copies, 25
Fifty copies, 60
All orders must he accompanied with the money
and addressed, post-paid, to
WALKER hi 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, S. C., the first number of the Second An.
nual Volume of
THE SCHOOLFELLOW,
which has been pronounced by some of the ablest presse
and best judges, “ The best and cheapest Juvenile Mag.
azine in the United States.” The success of this beauti
ful little work during its first year has been so flattering
that the Publishers have resolved to continue it and make
it permanent, and they therefore call upon parents, teach
erx, 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 he 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, Mias Tuthill, Caroline Howard, Miss C. VV. Bar
ber, Clara Moreton, Maria Roseau, the Editor, and many
other well known writers.
ITS PICTORIAL EMBELLISHMENTS
will he more numerous and beautiful than before; it wil
be printed upon finer paper, and no pains will be spared to
make it a most charming companion for all good girls and
hops. It will be published on the fifteenth of each month,
and will make a volume of about 400 pages and 100 en
gravings,
Five copies will be sent to one address for $4; Eleven
copies for $8 ; Twenty-three copies for sls, and Thirty
two copies for $20!!
THE FIRST VOLUME.
beautifully bound in gilt muslin, will be funushed 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 be accompanied with the cash—
if by mail, post-paid.
Clubs should be made up as early as practicable—
and those wishing volume first, should apply immediately
to WALKER & RICHARDS.
May 4, 1850. Charleston, S. C.
*** Editors copying this Prospectus, or making suitable
notice, shall receive a copy of the work without an ex
change. They will pleas send marked copies of their
papers containing it to the ‘ Gazette.”
GENERAL AGEACY
IN LITERATURE, ART and SCIENCE.
AT THE
Office of the Southern Literary Gazette .
Corner of Broad-st. and East-Bay, (up stairs,)
Charleston, S. S.
The Undersigned, Editor of the “Southern Lite
rary Gazette,” begs leave to inform the public that
he has opened a General Agency for the transaction of
any business connected with Literature, Science an*
Art. He Hill correspond with authors concerning the
publication of hooks and pamphlets upon their own ac
count, or otherwise ; execute any commission for gentle*
men forming libraries; forward subscriptions for any peri
odical work, American or European ; receive and execute
promptly commissions for any work of Art; supply accu
rate estimates ot the cost of Philosophical Instruments,
order them at his own risk and guarantee their efficiency.
All communications must be addressed, prepaid, to
WM. C. RICHARDS.
No charge will he made for any service required
by his brethren of the press, who will oblige him by pub
lishing this notice.
TUI, v t engraving.
HE subscriber would inform Authors, Publishers and
I CDJfTSi y*at he still continues to carry on the busi
ness pi LNGRAV ING ON WOOD, in all its branches-
Ills facilities are such that he is enabled toexecuteall orders
promptly, and in every style of the Art, upou the most
reasonable terms: while the experience of many years
enables him to feel perfect confidence in his efforts to give
satisfaction to all who may favour him with their patron-
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June 6
THOMAS row PERTIIW AIT
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the different States ot the L nton : Swan’s series of School
Readers Spelling Book and Primary Spelling Book •
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THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the
public that he has leased the above House tor a
term of years. The House has been in complete repair
during the past winter and mostly furnished anew. !he
proprietor respectfully solicits acontinuanceolthe patron
age heretofore soliberallyreceived. T
JOHN P. TREADWELL.