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h with the people among whom they reside.” l'[, e settlement of San Francisco has 1( , n t lie most efficient aid to Mission „i v efforts in Chiim which that cause j ui ' s ever received. The Chinese resi- Jetits, in their frequent correspondence homeward, forget not to impress upon ,| u .jrcountrymen that good order and enterprise are to be found even among .| ie outside barbarians , and although j„sh, (their evil deity,) is, when atSan [ iancisco, left entirely unpropitiated, ,1 >un ceases not to rise and set with ; , same regularity as before. The French population at San Fran are more numerous than the “Ce ], -tials,” and equally respectable and orderly. Much French capital has it re accumulated; we regret to add , •..:!* much of their capital has been ,>t to them by the ruinous prices of •Tiies, with which their vessels have ; ,istlv l>"on freighted. Ciiitors’ Dcjnirtinnit. V/M C. RICHARDS. Editor. D. H. JACQUES, Associate E liter. Cljnrlfjjtan, f. SVTURDAY MORNING. DEC. 7, 1850. TilE GIFT BOOKS FOR le<sJ. THIRD NOTICE. We shall croup in this notice several very ; Or r ant vol.un ‘ which have reached us from va. mis publishers, and with it close our de- ; fcoption of the Holiday Books for 1851. Our ‘ i ; ,dcrs will giant that no previous season has ‘ 1.. n graced by n-lur or more truly valuable i I k> than those embraced in our notices. We i, • now to introduce to them anew work, be- : giug to the class of Annuals proper, and ,;„ug, oil its very tir.-t appearance, the highest ia kin literary and n;t tie excellence. Tin: Iris, an Illuminated Souvenir for 1&51, -; ~lm>hcd by Me-srs. Lippincott, Granibo &, C,. , of Philadelphia, in the same magnificent sivlc which has for years made the “ Leaflets Memory ” the first in beauty of American ,\i H.irie-. Mo expense or care seems to have lei a .-pared in the “getting up” of the “ Iris,” a ! ,t is truly a volume of rare magnificence a I exceeding merit. Its five illuminations by jvvicaux, aie the most brilliant specimens of thi- art yet produced in this country. They are .ally radiant with hues of * crimson and! U’, and with every t ut of the rainbow in , \quisite combinations. One of them is a page , i music, entitled ‘ The Iris Waltz’, a graceful . i| pleasing composition by Miss Augusta i; ante. Os the ‘ illustrations’ of the volume, wi h arc seven in number, we may say with mice, that they are among the finest steel en gravings we have ever met with in books of tins class, and are chiefly from the burins of lb mil and Mote. The literary portion of the wt rk is in keeping with its decorations. Under i„r editorial care <>i Professor Hart, it could iirlybc deficient in taste and excellence. II iiwn contributions, together with those of Kiii'li May, Alice and Phoebe Carey, R. H. S: ililard, George li. Boker, Mrs. Sigourney, Mr.-. Butler, anti half a score of other popular write..-, lend unusual attractions to its table of contents. We have not space to copy front its exquisite pages any tiling longer than the fol lowing very graceful poem : HELEN. BY R. 11. STODDARD. Sequestered from the giddy world, YV itliout a sigh resigned, She wears the vail of thought within The cloisters of her mind. Her days are passed in holy w orks, Her nights are passed in prayer, And meditation gives her lace A solt, angelic air. She has no sorrows of her own, No sins to be forgiven A seraph sent on earth awhile, To make it morelike Heaven! It is needless to predict the popularity of ” The b is.” The publishers will scarcely have :i copy left by Christmas, if the edition be not already exhausted. There is no danger in publishing annuals when they possess such it high degree of beauty both internal and ex ternal. Tiie Odd Fellow’s Offering for 1851 is t':e ninth volume of this beautiful serial, which hi’ been steadily progressing in merit and j popularity until it lakes rank among the highest j s;. i itiH-ns of its class. Appealing by its name, : ’ and by the general scope of its contents, both pictorial and literary, to a single, but very ex tensive class of patrons, it has secured their fa vour to an unexampled degree, and we know of o Annua! that at all approaches it in the ex llm oi t- sale. It is spread over all the terri i"iy ot the Union, and even in Canada it meets a laryo demand. These facts are evidence of* hie merit of the work, for its name and pecu hu character would not, alone, secure for it 1 ‘ll a huge share of the public support. The pte.-ent volume is more beautiful than its pre dccc'sors. It is an octavo,handsomely printed mul beautifully embellished with steel plates a,| d an illuminated title page. The contents ilfv enti-ely original,and are eontrihuted chiefly h y members of the Order, or by those inti ! aly connected with it. We notice the mes ot .Mes-rs. Lester, Noah, Saunders, Fos t r, Lossing, Mackellar and Cox, and ot Mrs. ,v ' ni ‘th, .Mis. Lames, Mrs. Hewitt, Mrs. Lewis, ‘b'“. li.de, .Mi>. Kirkland, and several other I ‘pillar female writers. The engravings are • to some extent characteristic and are from 1 stun s principally by native artists. The work *’ published by Mr. Edward Walker, of New a prominent member of the Order, and n is generally enriched by one or more contmu n.cations irom his own vigorous and graceful 1" 11 W e cannot too cordially commend it to i!i” c for whom it is especially prepared. 1 lie well-known publisher, Mr. A. Hart, of I’hi.udelphia, has issued for the season, two ’ both of which are well known to the public. I’m: Drawing Room Scrap Book is a very ‘■ ulsome quarto, highly embellished and well <‘ i’ it with choice articles from some of the sT.uUest writers of the age. It is edited by Amelia Lawrence, whose taste, added to tl-utol its publisher in the choice of the exqui finished plates which adorn it, makes it a ‘i that could be desired, as an ornament to the drawing room or boudoir. Ihe Gift, by the same tasteful publisher, ’ ; '°nec the choicest gift book of the American I'"'. For some years, however, it has been 1 i ended, and its re-appearance now will übtless be grateful to its old admirers. It is •> i nuice volume, whether we consider its lite -Im i -v or its artistic attractions, which, though 11111 or iginal, are derived from the ablest writers “'1 uniats, of Europe and America. Its name, “ I,: * die old memories which cluster around it, ” ,l ‘ to regain for it a first place in the F'iilic favour. * he Irving Offering, published by Messrs. 1 avitt &. Cos., of New York, appears, we be ’e > fur ihe first lime. It has chosen a fa ’ourite a | 1( | | lonoure d name, which will do ,I,Ut 'd attract the public eye to its otherwise ‘■ pretending merits. These consist in a series of graceful pictures in Mezzotint, and choice stories and sketches from the best writers. The “ Lizzie Leigh” of Dickens, the “ Maelstrom” ot Poe, Mias Sedgewick’s “ Look before you Leap,” and other favourites by Willis, Fanny Osgood, Longfellow, and a dozen other bright names, make up a most attractive “ Index,” and will secure for “ The Irving Offering” a good degree of popularity. The American Female Poets, by Caroline May, is a standard work, published by Lindsay &, Blakeston, of Philadelphia, who have issued an edition in choice binding and with beautiful illustrations for a gift book, and really we cannot think of any volume better suited for the purpose. Miss May's acknowledged taste and ability as a poet herself, has fitted her to be the editor of the Female Poets of her country ; and we are happy to bear testimony to the equal grace and fidelity with which she has executed her delicate task. Among the new names embraced in this later edition of the work, we ate L :j j y to notice that of our fa vourite correspondent, Mrs. Du Bose, of Geor gia, whose pocticai effusions, under the signa tme of “ Leila Cameron,” we had the plea sure of introducing to the public in this Journal. Her beautiful poem of “ Wachulla,” which was written for the Gazette, is given entire in Miss May's volume. The Carey sisters, of the West, are also among the new subjects of thisedition, and their beautiful verse adds a positive grace to its pages. (Our (iffßssiji Column. Over the Way. Did you ever, dear reader, fall in love with a pretty face at a window ? If you have, you can appreciate the beauty and truth of the fol lowing lines by the lamented Hood, a man of the most sparkling wit, combined with the ten derest pathos. Reeal to your mind some pas sionate affection that was suddenly kindled be tween yourself and a fair inconnue whom you saw at her chamber lattice, “ over the way and with the memory fresh about your heart, read: *’ Alan! the flames of an unhappy lover About my heart and on my vitals prey ; I’ve caught a fever that I can’t get over— Over the way! I’ve gazed too often, till my heart’s as lost As any needle in a staek of hay : Crosses belong to Love—and mine is crossed — Over tlie way! I cannot read or write, or thoughts relax— Os what avail Lord Althorp or Earl Gray? They cannot ease me of mu window tax — Over the way! Even on Sunday my devotions vary, And from St. Bennet Fink they go astray To dear St. Mary Overy—the Mary Over the way! lint how to breathe to her my deep regards, Or ask her for a whispered yea or nay— <>r other her my hand—at thirty yards— Over the way! Cold as tlie pole she is to nty adoring— Like Captain Lyon at Repulses Bay I meet an icy end to my exploring— Over the way!” Oysters-A Stratagem. An excellent joke is told of a traveller, who coining, on a cold evening, to a country tavern, found the only fire in the house so surrounded by people lliat-he could not get near it; and no one was poltie enough to rise and offer him a place. Turning to the hostler, he ordered him to put Ins horse in the stable and give him a peck of oysters. The astonished hostler very naturally observed that the horse could not eat oysters. “ Try him, and you will see,” said the traveller. The oysters were carried out and the whole company hastened to see the wonderful phenomenon ! Our joker got a com fortable place at the fire-side, which was all he desired. Soon the hostler returned and told him that the horse would not eat the oysters. “No matter,” said the traveller, “ bring them to me and I will.” * A Meteor. Avery brilliant meteor of the apparent size of the moon, was visible from Brooklyn flights, New York, on the evening of the 24th ult. It was in the west, and moved very slowly in a nearly horizontal line from north to south. It was, as we learn from the Tribune, of a fine red colour, and remained in sight while tra versing a path of 70 degrees in length. Mr. Bliss, of Brooklyn, whose house is situated on the brow of the flights, had a lull view of it, as did also the members of bis family, its progress being so slow that he had time to call them. * That Unfortunate Auxiliary. Jenny Lind is to give her first concert in Washington on the lfith instant, so that we will be disappointed in Iter reported arrival here on the 17th. —Charleston Sun. Well if our neighbour will be disappointed we suppose he must. Pity would be thrown away upon him. His ease is like that of the poor Frenchman who, falling into the Thames, cried out “ I will he drowned, nobody shall help me!” * A Gem from the Slavonic. “ Upon tbe plain an oak-tree stands. A cuckoo there doth And still she mourns and still complains, That ’tis not always Spring. How in the fields could ripen corn, If Spring were evermore? llow apples on the ore hard -trees, Were Summer ne’er to go? Or how the ears in garners freeze, Were nought hut Autumn known? How woeful were it for the maid. If always left alone!' 9 (Dur Cniitnnjinnnm The International. New York : String er &, Townsend. November, 1850. This is an admirable number, fully up to the high standard which its previous issues had indicated. Dr. Griswold is a most industrious and compre hensive editor. All themes in Literature, Art and Science are fairly treated in the pages of his work. The ccleclic material of the present issue is singularly attractive. The Interna tional makes three volumes a year, each con taining GOO pages for One Dollar ! If miracles had not ‘ ceased,’ this would be one —of cheap ness. The only parallel it has, is the very beautiful Magazine published by the Harpers, at the same price. The Edinburgh Review. YVe have re ceived from Air. Russell, King-street, the Octo ber number af this sterling quaiteily. It is an unusually interesting number. It opens with an able paper on the English Language, in which much light is thrown upon the origin, progress and structure of the Anglo-Saxon speech. This is followed by an article on the United States, in which a strong desire is mani fested to do justice to our country and institu tions. Then we have articles on The British Museum, Ancient Gieek Language and Liter ature, The Euphrates Expedition, Emigration and Industrial Training, Difficulties of Republi can France, and Horace and Tasso. * Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine for November, presents the following attractive ta ble of contents: My Novel, part 111. The Rise, Power and Politics of Russia. Hours in Spain. Modern State Trials, part 11. Anna Hammer. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. The Renewal of the Income Tax. Mr. Russell, King-street, is Agent for the work. * SOUTHERN LI TER AR Y GAZETTE. (Our 96nnk tfalilr. A -ton Locke, Tailor ami Poet. An Autobiography. New York: Harper &. Brothers. 18j0. This book has faults enough to ruin half a dozen ordinary novels. Its incidents outrage probability ; its scenes are ludicrously incon gruous, and its leading characters often act and speak in a mannei totally out of keeping with their respective ranks, stations and circum stances. But this book is no ordinary novel, and, though its beauty and proportion are some what marred, is not ruined by these very glar ing laults. It is too full of truth and beauty— too unmistakably the offspring of genius to be thrown aside because it is inartistic in its con struction. The truth is, the author has only thought how he might most effectually bring his peculiar views to the notice of the public. He choose fiction as the best garb in which to clothe his social doctrines, but has made the fiction subservient to his ulterior design. Alton Locke, the subject of this professed autobiography, and tlie hero of the story, is the son of a bankrupt grocer, who “ died of bad debts and a broken heart,” and left a wife and two children in extreme poverty. Alton’s mother, a Calvinist of the austerest school, is thus described : “My mother moved by rule and method; by God’s law, as she considered, and that only. She seldom smiled. Her word was absolute. She never commanded twice, without punish ing. And yet there were abysses of unspoken tenderness in her, as well as clear, sound, wo manly sense and insight. But she thought her self its much bound to keep down all tender ness as if she had been some ascetic of ihe middle ages—so do extremes meet! It was “ carnal,” she considered. She had as yet no right to have any “spiritual affection ” for us. We were still “ children of wrath and of the devil”—not yet “convinced of sin,” “con ceited, born again.” She had no more spiritual bond with us, she thought, than she had with a heathen or a Papist. She dared not even pray for our conversion, earnestly as she prayed on every other subject. For though the majority of her sect would have done so, her clear logi cal sense would yield to no such tender incon sistency. Had it not been decided from all eternity? We were elect, or we were repro bate. Could her prayers alter that ? If He had chosen us, He would call us in His own good time, and if not—.” Her teachings, as may be supposed, were not very palatable to the boy-poet. The only books which Jte knew were Pilgrim’s Progress and the Bible. To these, at a later day, were added si me missionary tracts and journals, which he devoured with avidity. Alton had an uncle who had been fortunate in business and was now a man of considerable wealth and influence. Through the good offices of this relative, he was at length duly appren ticed to a tailor at the West End. What sort of a place his wotk-room was may be judged by the following extract: I stumbled after Mr Jones up a dark, nar row iron stair-case till we emerged through a trap-door into a garret at the top of the house. 1 recoiled with disgust at the scene before me ; and here 1 was to work—perhaps through life! A low lean-to room, stifling me with the com bined odors of human breath and perspiration, stale beer, the sweet sickly smell of gin, and the sour and hardly less disgusting one of new cloth. On the floor, thick with dust and dirt, ( scraps of stuff and ends of thread, sat some dozen haggard, untidy, shoeless men, with a mingled look of care and recklessness that made me shudder. The windows were tight closed to keep out the cold winter air; and the j condensed breath ran in streams down the panes, checkering the dreary out-look of chim ney tops atul smoke. The conductor handed me over to one of the men. “ Here, Crossthwaite, take this younker and make a tailor of him. Keep him next you, 1 and prick him up with your needle if he shirks.” He disappeared down the trap-door, and me- I chanically, as if in a dieam, 1 sat down by the j man and li tened to his instructions, kindly enough bestowed. But I did not remain iu peace two minutes. A burst of chatter rose as the fireman vanished,and a tail,bloated,sharp- I nosed young man next to me bawled in my ear, “ I say, young ’un, fork out the tin and pay your footing at Conscrumption Hospital!” “ What do you mean ?” “ ‘Aiiit he just green ? Down with the stumpy—a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.” “ 1 never drink beer.” “ Then never do,” whispered the man at my side ; “ as sure as hell’s hell, it’s your only chance.” There was a fierce, deep earnestness in the tone, which made me look up at the speaker, hut tlie other instantly chimed in, “ Oh, yer dont, don't yer, my young Father Mathy! then yer’ll soon learn it'here if yer want to keep yer victuals down,” “ And I have promised to lake my wages home to my mother,” “ O crirniny ! hark to that, nty coves! here’s a chap as is going to take the blunt home to his mammy.” “ T’aint much of it the old un’ll see,” said another. “ Ven yer pockets it at the Cock and I Bottle, tny kiddy, yer won’t find much of it left o’ Sunday mornings.” “ Don’t his mother know he’s out ?” asked another; “ and won’t she know it— Ven he’s sitting in hi- glory Half-price at the Victory. Oh ; no, ve never mentions her—her name is never heard. Certain y not, by no means. Why should it ?” “ Well, if yer won’t stand a pot,” quoth the tall man, “ I will, that’s all, and blow temper ance. ‘ A short life and a merry one,’ says the tailor. The ministers talk a great deal about port, And they makes Cape wine very dear, But blow their lii’s if ever they tries To deprive a poor cove of his beer. Here, Sam, run to the Cock and Bottle for a pot of half-and-half to my score.” A thin, pale lad jumped up and vanished, while my tormentor turned to me : “ I say, young ’un, do you know why we’re nearer heaven here than our neighbours ?” “ I shouldn’t have thought so,” answered I with a naivete which raised a laugh, and dashed the tall man for a moment. “ Yer don’t? then I’ll tell yer. Acause we’re atop of the house in the first place, and next place yer’ll die here six months sooner nor if yer worked in the room below. ’Aint that logic and science,Orator?” appealing to Crossth waite. “ Why ?” asked I. “ Acause you get all the other floors’ stinks up here, as well as your own. Concentrated essence of man’s flesh, is this here as you’re a breathing. Cellar work-room we calls Rheu matic Ward, because of the damp. Ground floor s Fever —them as don’t get typhus gets dysentery, and them as don’t get dysen tery gets typhus—your nose ’d tell yer why if you opened the back windy. First floor’s Ashmy Ward—don’t you hear ’um through the cracks in the boards, a-pitfiing away like a nest of young locomotives ? And this here more august and upper-crust cockloft is the Conecrumptive Hospital. First you begins to cough, then you proceed to expectorate—-pit loons, as you see, perwided free gracious for nothing—fined a kivarten if you spits on the floor. Then your cheeks they grows red, and your rose it grows fliiin, Then your bones they sticks out, till they comes through your skin: and then, when you’ve sufficiently covered the poor dear shivering hare backs of the hatrys toeracy, Die, die, die, Away you fly, Vour soul is m the sky * as the hinspired Shakspeare wittily remarks.” And the ribald lay town on his back, stretch ed himself out and pietcnded to die in a fit of coughing, which last was, alas! no counterfeit, while poor I, shocked and bewildered, let my tears fall last upon iny knees. “ Fine him a pot!” roared one, “ for talking about kicking the bucket. He’s a nice young man to keep a cove’s spirits up, aud talk about ‘ a short hie and a merry one.’ Here comes the heavy. Hand it here to take the taste of that fellow’s talk out of my mouth.” “ Well, my young ’un,” re-eoinmenced nty tormentor, “ and how do you like your com pany r “ Leave the boy alone,” growled Crossth waite“ don’t you see he’s crying 1” This is given as an accurate picture of one of the better classes of tailoring establishments of London. It is called an “honourable” house in contradistinction from others of an in finitely worse character. Crossthwaite, the person under whose im mediate charge Alton was placed in the shop, proves to be a noble-hearted fellow, but a fierce Chartist. From him and a queer old Scotsman, Sandy Mackaye, who keeps a book stall, Alton gets his first lessons in literature and human rights, and soon becomes as mad a Radical as the best of them. He continues at his needle, spending all his leisure in educating himself, until he is about twenty, when he is thrown out of employment, is taken in by the kind old Scotsman, Mackaye, and gains a pre carious subsistence by writing for certain Chart ist newspapers. In the mean time he has written a large number of clever poems, and Mackaye advises him to go to Cambridge and secure the influence of a cousin, who is in col lege there, to get a volume published. He goes to Cambridge, falls in company with a Dean, and falls in love with his daughter—or rather the flame is kindled anew, for he had met her once before in a picture gallery, when he lost his heart in a very legitimate way. The Dean and one Lord Lynedale, with whom he had be come acquainted, become interested in his po ems. But they are too radical and smack too strongly of Socialism. Alton is weak enough, all for the love of Lillian, the Dean’s daughter, who had smiled on him and praised his verses, to consent to expurgate the offensive portions. Thus he becomes a flunky! All this time his better angel, in the so m of a Miss Staunton, a niece ot the Dean, and “ beautiful, but with the face of a Juno rather than a Venus—dark, impe rious, restless—lips firmly set and brow massive and projecting—a queen to be feared rather than loved”—all this time she had been warn ing him ol his danger and trying to save him from the gulf into which his folly was leading him. But he thought her his enemy and her warnings were unheeded. Alton returns to London, becomes unpopular with his Chartist friends, on account of his flunkyism, retrieves his character by a flaming speech to a tnoh ot starving peasantry in the vicinity ol the Deanery, where lie had formerly been a visitor. Arson and violence follow, and the next morning he finds himself in a prison, where he remains three years. From prison Alton returns to London. In the mean time his cousin George marries the fair Lillian, though Alton remains for some time ignorant of tlie fact. Old Mackaye now dies on the evening preceding the memorable 10th of April, which was to have seen England revolutionized and the Chattel-triumphant. But the Chartists re turned home that day full of shame, disappoint ment and despair. Alton now falls sick, and awaking one day from a deilriuim, finds his good angel, Miss Staunton that was, but who is now Countess of Ellerton and a widow, watching over him. She had never lost sight of him, and unknown to him, had heretofore contrived to he of use to him. Under her kind nursing lie recovers. The Countess reads Ten nyson and the Bible to him, and he finally be comes converted to a iiving faith in Christianity. He is soon after sent to Texas, for the im provement of his health, but dies before he reaches land. Thus the story ends. Asa novel, Alton Locke is a failure. Still it is a book that will be read and cannot be read iu vain. It is in its frequent episodes that its greatest beauty is found. In these the author evidently feels himself at home and writes with ease, vigour and great graphic skill. The so cial theories of the work are very vague and unsatisfactory, hut the social evils so vividly depicted are but too real. These, think what we may of Socialism in its numberless forms, still stare us in the face and demand of us, not only as philanthropists but as men and citizens, our earnest efforts for their removal. * Annals of the Queens of Spain. By Mrs. Anita George. Vol. 11. New York: Baker & Scribner. When the first volume of this work appeared we noticed it in terms of earnest commenda tion, and expressed our desire to see the con tinuation. In this volume, Mrs. George has fully confirmed our favourable Dpinion of her merits as a biographer of the Spanish Queens, and we have no longer any hesitation whatever in placing her woik upon an equality with Miss Strickland’s Lives of the Queens of England. We will not affirm that Mrs. George’s style is marked by all the excellencies that are com bined in that of Aliss Strickland, but it is never theless exceedingly graphic, terse and perspicu ous, and carries the reader along with a never flagging interest. The Life of Isabel occu pies the whole of this second volume, and it af fords admirable scope for the powers of our authoress. She is no servile imitator certainly, for the portrait which she has presented of Spain’s most renowned Queen, is in strong con trast with that which the brilliant pencil of Prescott has drawn, and indeed with almost all the portraitures of this sovereign. To Mrs. George, Isahel appears no paragon of human excellence, and while she accords to her many amiable and beautiful traits of character, she lifts the veil which her too-flattering biogra phers have either wilfully refused to look be neath, or failed at all to detect, and we see Isabel in a far less enchanting light than here tofore. The policy which would seem to huve inspired all her public acts, was the establish ment of a despotic monarchy, and in the pro secution of this aim she shrunk from no ex cesses of cruelly. Her bigotry created the ter rible power of the Inquisition, and thus, calling to the aid of the Throne the influence of the Altar, she gave her sanction to the most un holy and tyrannical alliance ever consummated in the annals of History. In the “Conquest of Granada”—nextto the discovery of the “New World ’’-y-the grandest event of her brilliant reign, whole hecatombs of victims were sacri ficed to her insatiable ambition and to her ruth less fanaticism ; and the lapse of centuries has not sufficed to blot from human memory and execration her treatment of the miserable Jews. Such are the lights in which our authbress presents the character of the world-renowned ‘ Isabel the Catholic,’ but while she has thus assumed the delicate and responsible duty of the iconoclast and boldly torn down the image which History had set up for mortal worship, she has not been blind to those moral and mental powers of the Spanish Queen which so powerfully contributed to the splendour of her career. Without presuming, in this brief notice, to decide upon the fidelity of our author’s portrai ture, we cannot dismiss the book without re peating our gratification with its style and spirit, both alike excellent. A General View of the Fine Arts, Critical and Historical, with an Introduction by I). Huntington, M. A., A. M. New Vork: G. P. Putnam. 1851. This pleasant compendium of Art is the pro duction of a lady who, while employed upon it, was also “ practically engaged with the palette and colours.” YY'e have a bird’s eye view of the arts of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, from the time of the first Greek school to our times, with biographical notices of the most distinguished artists and brief criti cisms upon their chief works. The well-known artist, Mr. Huntington, who writes the intro duction to the volume, thus speaks of its merits: “ V\ hile it embraces so wide a field, it is at the same time clear, concise and richly attrac tive in its details. By its simple and natural arrangement, ijs completeness in all parts, and the ease with which any class of art, era, or in dividual artist may be referred to, the work is rendered admirable for popular use. For the same reason it might be introduced, with great advantage, as a text hook, into the higher schools and academies.” This la>t suggestion appears to us an admir ble one. Youths of both sexes “ finish their education,' 1 as the phrase is, and even though they sometimes acquire some little skill with the pencil, they are entirely uninstructed in the history ol Art, and are lamentably ignorant of its true attractions and its general spirit. We trust the teachers into whose hands this volume may fall, will act upon Mr. Huntington’s sug gestion and remedy this great deficiency in popular education. **** Heaven, or an Earnest and Scriptural Inquiry into the Abode ot the Sacred Dead. By the Rev. H. Harhaugh. One volume. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston. This book possesses a two-fold interest, as a philosophical and as an evangelical treatise. Y\ e have read it with a lively interest, and have been delighted with the spirit which pervades it. It discusses, in a most thoughtful and re verent manner, the following points: 1. The Materiality of Heaven, which it affirms; 2. Its Locality, which it suggests; 3. The immediate beatification of the Saints after their death, which it also affirms; and, 4. The Sympathy between Heaven and Earth, which is considered as three-fold, viz : Divine, Angelic and Saintly. The author has given us his own highly intelli gent and rational views in a modest hut clear and decided manner, and allows us to compare and contrast them with the various theories of other writers on the nature of the heavenly world. The work appears to us to be thor oughly imbued with an evangelical spirit, and tlie reader is obliged to feel that the writer has ‘ sought a better country, eveu a heavenly’— that he is one of those who pant for heaven. A beautiful sentiment from Stilling, the German author, forms the motto of the title page— ” Blessed are they that are home sick, for they shall go home”—and tlie heart of the pious reader, wanned by the glowing picture of the “ new Jerusalem” which our author presents to view, may well experience the spiritual home sickness which shall be rewarded with a “home” so glorious and so enduring. (Dur ]}nu\t [Under this head we shall reply to many letters, contain ing queries or suggestions upon suhjectsof general interest instead of answering them, as heretofore, hy post. This will save us time, and “time is money.” We are veri glad to receive letters from our subscribers, and it .only re quiresthat the postage be paid to ensure prompt attention. Eds. ] Messrs. Editors : I regret exceedingly the very questionable tas'e, on you: part, which in duced the insertion of the story entitle 1 “Mu sical Neighbours,” in your paper of 23d ult., to say nothing of your calling attention to it as likely to be “ extensively appreciated.” As caterers for the public, your columns should be an index of the general taste ; and no article should be admitted which is calculated, by its tone, extensive circulation and extreme notoriety, to dampen the ardor and thereby re press the efforts of any youthful seeker in the arduous paths of science, or to deprecate the industrious and worthy labours necessary to professional success. In my opinion, it would have been far more creditable to your taste, as Editors of a Journal which has so properly lavished unlimited enco miums on “ tlie Divine Jenny,” it* you had po litely declined the story as one decidedly calcu lated to promulgate more acerbity than plea surable feeling, and at the same time to have taken the occasion, as an excellent opportunity for commenting mildly, in the way of a sug gestion to such as might be engaged in devel oping “ the hidden soul of harmony,” either as a recreation or as a means of livelihood, that, however worthy their efforts, they should have due regard to the comfort or convenience of their immediate neighbours, by limiting such efforts within tit bounds of that hour of night “ when grave-y. is yawn” at the farthest. This certainly might have been a less potent mode of redressing such a grievance than ridi cule, but you v. oild have had some compensa tion, through the medium of your organs of self-esteem, in refusing to “pour out the vine gar ” of some old maid’s wrath upon the heads of many who may have unwittingly offended Iter. Without further comment on the bud taste of that writer, (a female,) in making the sacred songs in question a means of arriving at such an unenviable di.-tinction, permgpme, a con stant reader of your very interesting paper, with the best wishes for its welfare, to subscribe myself, ALEXIS. There! we have given you a hearing, and have only a very few words to say in reply. In regard to the “ questionable taste ” involved in the writing and publishing the article in ques tion, you may perhaps remember the old Latin proverb: De gustibns non est disputandum. You will find, in general, tint people have too much confidence in their own taste to adopt yours in its place. You certainly do not sup pose that “ The Musical Neighbours” was written to bring music and musical performers into disrepute! How absurd ! Its lesson is perfectly obvious, and is much more effectually conveyed than it could have been in a prosy essay. If you have been guilty of any trans gressions in the direction indicated, we hope you will go and sin no more. What you mean by your hints in regard to that respectable sis terhood, the “old maids,” we are sure we can not tell. If you intend to insinuate that our fair correspondent—the author of “ The Musi cal Neighbours,” belongs to that class, we will not answer for the consequences ! * £ije jfhm of tljr Dmj. Governor Quitman. —Some strange reports are afloat, says the Sun, in relation to Governor Quitman, resulting from his connexion with die Cuban expedition. The Vicksburg Whig says that it is rumoured in that city that a writ from a Court now in session in New Oilcans, de manding ihe appearance of Gov. Quitman at its bar to undergo an examination in regard to his alleged implication in the Cuba enterprize of Alay last, has been received at Jackson— that the Governor refuses to answer the de mand, and threatens to call upon die people of Mississippi for protection, and that Judge Ghol son, of the U. S. Court, now sitting in Jackson, has expressed a determination to use the federal authority in him vested, to execute the writ to the full purport of its requisition. Mr. Webster, a Washington correspondent of the New Turk Tribune says, will be imme diately called upon to prepare a report to Con gress upon the real stale of the question be tween this Republic and Great Britain relative to the encroachment of the latter power upon the defenceless States of Central America, Ni caragua, Honduras and San Salvador. Splendid Watch. —The Washington Re public describes a most superb watch. It is encompassed with diamonds of magnificent beauty. Its value is ten thousand dollars! It is to be disposed of by ralile, there being five hundred chances at twenty dollars each. Three hundred of them are already taken. [O’The Newfoundland Times gives fact|| establishing the probability that the whol™ island is rising out of the ocean with a rapidity which threatens, at no distant period, to mate rially atfeet, if not utterly destroy, many of the best harbours on the coast of Newfoundland. Commodore Stewart, dining a few days ago with the President of the United States, re marked that he had dined with every Presi dent with the single exception of the lamented Taylor. Those Knockings I —Willis’s Home Journal says that “ the knockings” are now heard in many houses in New York, by persons who carefully conceal the fact from dread of noto riety. A Costly Dish. —At the late York banquet, Mr. Soyer placed before Prince Albert a dish which cost 100 guineas—the most expensive in the annals of modern cookery. Mr. James. —James, the novelist, has not taken steps towards becoming a citizen of the United States. Mr. James says he cannot an nul his obligations of fealty to the Queen, cre ated by the oath of allegiance, but he intends to make this country his residence. Emigration Turning Hack. —The Kilkenny (Ireland) Moderator of the 2d ult. states that a considerable number of persons who recently emigrated to America, returned home last week, being disappointed in their expectations of earn ing a livelihood in the New World. Deep Snow. —The Syracuse (N. Y.) Star says, that about 9 miles of that city, the snow on Wednesday was very deep. In Otisco and Tuily, it was full Tor 5 feet deep in some places where it was drifted. Hon. Seth Barton, while American Charge d’Affairs in Chili, married a lady of high stand ing in that country. She died at New Or leans, however, on the 14th ult., aged 26, of cholera. The New Light Man. —Mr. Paine, the “new light” man, will soon visit Europe for the purpose of making the necessary arrange ments to secure patents of his newly invented light. Jlppuiiitiiii'iits. Travelling Agents for the Gazette.— Rev. William Richards, Mr. Robert E.Seyle, Mr. Matthew .1. Wroton, .1. .1. Richards, S. P. Richards. Mr. Thomas P. Walker, of Columbia, S C., is our duly authorized agent for our publi cations in Richland District. He his also a genetal commission as travelling agent, and we commend him cordially to our friends wherever he may come. Rev. N. Graham and William G. Barrett, Esq., of Sumterville, have both consented to act as our agents iii Sumter and the adjoining Districts. 0 = Mr. A. 11. Mazyek is our General Agent for Charleston. JjpGeorge W. Bell is our Agent for Kershaw and the neighbouring Districts. ET Warren D. Chapman is our Agent for Spartanburg and surrounding Di tricts. [Hr 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 TRAYEELEK’B GUI UK. ROUTES FROM CHARLESTON. From Charleston to New- York. Leaving ilaily at 3 ! j o’clock P. m. By Steamer to Wilmington 180 miles. — By Railroad to Weldon 162 miles.—To Petersburg till. —To Richmond 22. —To Acquia < ‘reel; 70.—8 y Steamer to Washington 55.—8 y Railroad to Baltimore4o. —To Phil adelphia 92.—T0 New-York 87. Total distance 771 miles. Time 00 hours. Fare S2O. The “Southerner” (Steamship) leaves Charleston every tenth day alter the 27th of April, at 4 o’clock p. m. Thro’ in 60 hours. Fare (State-Room) $25. From Charleston to Philadelphia. —The Osprey leave** Charleston every other Saturday, at 4 o’clock, p. m.— through in 60 hours. Fare S2O. From Charleston to Nrw-Orleans. Leaving daily at 10 o’clock a. M. By S. C. 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AGENTS WANTED, TO canvass, for the Gazette and Schoolfellow, the State o( South and North Carolina,Georgia and Alabama. Young men ot good character and address can make from SSOO to SIOOO per annum at the business. Apply eitherpersonally or by letter, to WALKER & RICHARDS. References as to character will be required. ( UIIMT PORTRAITS. Mr. EGAN, Artist, begs most respectfully toinform the Ladies and Gentlemen of the City of Charleston and vicinity, that he proposes renminining a short time in pur snit of the above-mentioned branch of the Art, together with a view of benelitting his health ; and in addition would say that as he has been successful, hitherto, in his professional career, he confidently hopes to give satisfac tion to those who may honour him with their patronage. Studio above the store of Mr. Epping, Chemist, No. 277 King-street. N. B. Life size PORTRAITS Fainted if required. Nov. 23 HK\J VM IN F. 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Ilis stock of FANCY HATS AND CAPS FOR CHILDREN comprehends all the newest Paris patterns, and a variety of superb original designs prepared under Ins own eye and made in ids own factory. He would also call attention to bis splendid. RIDING HATS FOR LADIES, and Ladies’ Riding-Whips and Gloves, of thesamestyle 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 ‘unless Caps his artists cannot he equalled in the Union. A rich and varied assortment of tlie finest Furs also lornt a part of his stock, together with CIIOICF PARISIAN AND AMERICAN UMBRELLAS. Elegantly mounted WALKING CANES, BRUSH ES, CARPET BAGS, RIDING-WHIPS, and other articles. All these, be it observed, will he 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 l next door to Barnum’s Museum. (Dttr cOruii Mflirs._ _ THU SOUTHERN LITER VRY GAZETTE IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY WALKER & RICHARDS. ■ — • OFFICE OVER COURTENAY AND WIENGES ’ BOOK STORK Entrance on Broad-street. TERMS. —Two Dollars per annum, to bepaid strictly n advance. It'payment is not made within the first si> months of a term of subscription, the price will be Tice Dollars and Fifty Cents— and if delayed untilthe end ol the year, Three Dollars. Advertisements will be published at the customary rates. Business Cards, (of tour lines and under.) will be inserted one year for Vice Dollars, including a sub scription to the paper. EF*A 'Ely VOLUME EUR 1851..#3 Till) BEST AND CHEAPEST JUYEXILF MAGAZINE IN THE UNITED TATES. On the Ist of January, 1851, will be published at Charleston, S. 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Contributors will be pleased to address the Editcr, to their care, in Charleston. WALKER & RICHARDS Publishers and Proprietors Southern Quarterly Review. NOTICE. —A 1 former Agencies for the SOUTHER QUARTERLY REVIEW are discontinued. Due no tice will be given of the appointment of Agencies by tbt present Publishers. UNRIVALLED NORTH OR SOITII 1 .THE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME OF THE SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE Was commenced on Saturday, the 4th of May, 1850 underits original i amt —instead of Richards’ Weekly Ga zette— as more significant of its peculiar character, it being the only weekly organ of Literature l the entire South! It is 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, rr that, in mechanical excellence, itshall not be surpassed Oy any paper whatever in the United States ! 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Cos. would invite the attention of the public, and strangers visiting Charleston, to their extensive stock, which they are confident will compare favourably with any ever offered in elegance, variety, taste and WORKMANSHIP. Their stock of Duplex, patent Lever. Anchor and Cy linder WATCHES, has been selected with great care from the most celebrated manufactories of Europe, and eased expressly to their order in Open, Hunting and Dou ble Hunting eases, including a few’ hi autilul. extra small inlaid and enameled Ladies’ Watches, suitable for wear ing with the new r style of Chatelaines. Their stock of JEWELRY comprehends all of the latest styles, with many original, chaste and elegant de signs, and of every quality from the cheapest to the most expensive. Their stock of STERLING SILVER WARE is not to be surpassed in chasteness of design or beauty of w ork manship, including many articles of entirely new patterns. Their stock of House Fpunishing and Fancy Goods comprises a great variety of articles, suitable for ordinary use or elegant display, which would well repay the time spent in examining. In the assortment may be found the best English Plated Tea Setts, Waiters, Cake Baskets, Castors, Cruet Stands, CJrns, Tea Kettles, Vegetable Dishes. Butter Boats, Toast Racks, Egg Stands, Nut Crackers. Ice Tongs, &c. A superior article of Plated or Albatta Snoons, Forks, &c : , almost equal to silver: Balanced Ivory handle Knives and Forks, in sets of 51 pieces, or Knives only ; Japaned Waiters, singly or in sef> : Papier Mache Work Boxes, Tables, Writing Desks, Pray r Books, Albums, Music, Porte and Note Folios, lx ’ilolly inlaid with pearl; Card Baskets, Card Cases, i v.rte Monaies, Porte Boquets, Salt Cellars. Coral and Bells. Snuff Boxes, Lan cet Cases, Suspender Buckles, Nutmeg Graters, Fruit Knives. Napkin Rings. Combs, &c. of fine silver. Parian Marble and PapierCotta Statuettes and Figures. Richly furnished (French) Work Boxes and Dressing Cases, Bohemian Glass Toilet Bottles and Paper Weights, Music Boxes, from 2 to 6 tunes ; French Mantle Clocks, of various patterns ; Mantle Vasesand Ornaments, Ebony Watch St ends, Cora! Beads. They would particularly call attention to a lot of very splendid Spanish and French Drew FANS, of elegant designs, varying in price from $1 to MO, Also, Pearl, Shell, Enameled, Silver and leather Portemonies and Card Cases, from 50 cents to sl2. With many other articles, suitable for presents for the approaching holidays and weddings. Purchasers will find it to theiradvantage to examine the above stock, their motto being “ MODERATE PRICKS AND QUIC K RETURNS.** CLEVELAND’S DR UO AND CHEMICAL ESTABLISHMENT, 201 KING-STKEET, BELOW THE BEND, Charleston , S. C. Has received, in addition to the former extensive stock, by the late arrivals from Europe, a larire and well selected Stock of DRUGS, CHEMICALS. PERFUMERY and FANCY ARTICLES, which will be sold at a small ad vance from the previous cost. The proprietor now offers one of most complete stocks of French, German , English and American Drugs, Che m icals , Valuable Fa in ily Medic in cs , Pel u mery , 4*r. Soaps , Brushes , Combs , and other Fancy and Miscellaneous Articles rn this country. Also, all the various Patent Medicines, P ills, Parsapa rii'as. Liniments, Ointments, Salves. Balsams, Syrups, &.c., for sale or advertised by any other Drug Establish ment in tills city. Nov 16 a c>>v WILURVB HOTEL. E. D. \V ILLARD, Proprietor. Pennsylvania Avenue, eovlter of \Ath street, WASHINGTON, D. C. NATIONAL HOm. F’ BRACK. Proprietor. Pennsylvania Avenue , corner of 6th street , WASHINGTON, D. C. EXCHANGE HOTEL, EXCHANGE PLACE, BALTIMORE. This is the most convenient Hotel to the Rail Road aud Steam lion t Landings. D DORSEY Oct a; ” lI.LIAM H. BABTIiBSH, FOR WARDING &■ COMMISSION MERCHANT BROWN’S wharf, foot of vendue range. s <■!, He will give his particular attention to Receiving and Forwarding Goods. Ilis long experience as Secretary and Forwarding Agent of the South Carolina Rail Road Company, gives him peculiar facilities m this line of busi Nov 10 ‘ J. F. CHURCH, PLUMBER, 67 EAST BAV-ST., CHARI.KSTOX, S. C. Lead, C’opi>er and Brass Lifting Force p, w . Hot, Cold a,,d Shower'‘LthTGa H EK Cooking Ranges, Lead, Pipe, Sheet Read. &e &c. Every riesenption of Lead work and Hv irau"- u;s famished jJ fixed on the most approvd principle. Orders fromi the Country promptly attended o. The veVy work C, *y refrreUC " l,l reear(l 10 WKtf and durability of !_?* 1 y JOHN V. TARYEIi, EXCHANGE WHARF, SAVANNAH, GA. FACTOR AND GENERAL COMMIS SION MERCHANT, AND DEALER IN GRAIN AND lIA Y.