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his elbow, and flew down stairs, obedi
ent to the screaming summons of her
husband —a pursey old gentleman, who
was already seated in the carriage, rail
ing in a loud voice, against the dilato
ry habits of women in general, and his
own spouse in particular—and the be
gilt and emblazoned vehicle drove off,
leaving the novelist in a state of self
complacency the most enviable to be
conceived.
this was the only occasion upon
which Balzac and the Princess Ilanski
had mot, until his recent visit to Ger
many, when he presented himself as
her accepted husband.
ißiiiftirs’ Brprtmrtit.
WM. O. RICHARDS, Editor.
D. H. JACQUES, Associate Editor.
(Cljnrlfstnn, $. C.:
S YTURDAY MORNING, DEC. 28, 1850.
THE VOICE OF THE CITY PRESS.
We cannot express our obligations to our
brethren of the daily press in this city, for the
very flattering manner in which they have been
pleased to speak of our Journal in connection
with the New Year, upon which it is about to
enter. Cheered by such tokens of their good
will,added to the kindred expressions on the
part of the Southern press generally, we look
backward,with the proud consciousness that we
have not toiled in vain, and forward, with the
assurance that an unexampled degree of suc
cess awaits us—leaving it no longer a problem
whether or not a Southern Literary Gazette can
be (sustained in our midst.
We shall be pardoned, doubtless, by our
readers, i'or quoting in this connection what our
city contemporaries say of us. If there be any
vanity at all in thus repeating their words of
approbation, it is certainly excusable, if not
commendable, for they speak advisedly and
from long acquaintance with the Guzette.
The Courier of the 21st instant says:
“ Southern Literary Gazette. —We would
call attention to the prospectus of anew vol
ume of this well-conducted Journal, in our
columns this morning. The only weekly peri
odical of its class now published at the South,
it commends itself to the patronage and en
couragement of all who are disposed to aid in
elevating the standard of Home Literature, and
in sustaining the etlbrts of enterprising publish
ers and writers, in our midst, to furnish us with
Southern Organs of sentiment and miscellany,
which will compare favourably in every respect
with those ot the North. In mechanical exe
cution, the Southern Literary Gazette sur
passes most of the Saturday Family Papers
which we have seen. The type is new and
beautiful, the paper of the best quality, and the
arrangement of columns, &e., in very good
taste. The stories on the outside page are
not quite so lengthy and interminable as those
of many of its contemporaries; but in poiut of
variety and solidity of matter, the contents are
at least equal to any of them. The Editors,
Messrs. Richards &, Jacques, are writers of
ability and experience, and their contributors
are principally Southern authors, whose devo
tion to the cause alone prompts their efforts for
its advancement. The publishers, Messrs. Walk
er & Richards, are determined to spare no liber
ality m their department, and it only remains
for the friends and patrons of a Home Litera
ture, generally, to promote their enterprise by a
generous co-operation.” * * *
With equally flattering appreciation of our
protracted labours in behalf ot Southern Liter
ature, the Mercury of the 23d holds the fol
lowing language:
“The Southern Literary Gazette. —In our
advertising columns this morning, will be found
the prospectus for 1851, of Messrs. Walker
and Richards, the publishers of the above nam
ed weekly paper, and the attention of our read
ers is invited to its claims to public patronage,
as there handsomely and we think fairly set
forth. The Gazette is one ot the best weekly
newspapers we know, in the class to which it
belongs. Its editors are scholarly and experi
enced writers, and it has at command abundant
resources to give it all needed variety and
completeness. In typography it is one of the
1 audsoinest papers in the Linked States.
The circulation of weekly papers of the
same general character, has always been very
large at the South, and heretofore nearly all
these have emanated from Northern cities, and
having become more or less tainted with the
prevailing anti-slavery disease there, are no
longer deserving of Southern patronage. The
Gazette ought to take their place. It is pub
lished in our midst, by men identified with the
South, and in all other respects is the equal of
the best of those papers, over which it has this
decisive claim of superiority.”
And the Evening News of the same date,
not less generous than its morning contempora-
ries, says:
“ The Southern Literary Gazette. —The per
ishable nature of those fruits of intellectual
cultivation, which require an organ more en
during than the Newspaper, and less costly
than the Quarterly or Monthly, finds in the
Weekly a fitting vehicle, while it gathers up
and chronicles all the current events which
would be otherwise passing to oblivion on the
stream of tune. In guiding and lorming liter
ary opinion among a large class ol readers, we
think it more effectual than the more expen
sive order of Periodical publications. It more
largely enters the bosoms ol tamilies ; it pene
trates to the inner world ol thought, taste and
feeling, imperceptibly moulding the character
and fashioning the manners.
I’iie Southern Literary Gazette is one of
the best of this class of publications. Its edi
tors, Messrs. Richards & Jacques, possess
experience and ability. ‘I heir selections are
characterized by taste. Their contributors are
among the most cultivated minds in the South
ern country. The Literary Gazette is in
short a faithful vehicle of Southern sentiment;
a repository of what, in Southern mind, is
worthy of being registered in that form which
lively periodical writing assumes. The typo
graphy is unexceptionable.” * * * *
Our good neighbours of the Sun, thus speak
of us:
Southern Literary Gazette. —Our people
have been so long accustomed to draw all
their literature from Northern sources, that we
have almost to break an old custom in asking
our readers to think of, and to look at some
thing in the way of literature of a Southern
growth. But it is time that we should throw
off these trammels of literary despotism, and
look at home for our literary pleasures in the
periodical way, and give at home our patron
age for the periodical efforts to please and to
improve us. Now, the Southern Literary
Gazette is just'the paper, and edited by just
the men—home made, home written, and
home printed—to claim this assistance. We
could not be so bold in asking our friends, and
the friends of the South, thus to bestow their
patronage, did we not know that the work,
for which we claim their encouragement, is as
good at least as any they could obtain at the
North, and perhaps a little better—in one
respect at least —that no column is polluted by
insuiting animadversions against the course,
the policy, and the principles of the South.
Messrs. Walker & Richards are Southern
men, and we may fairly trust our reading and
our writing to their guidance.
Our readers need not be apprehensive that
such praises will render us vain and cause us to
relax our exertions to improve the Gazette.
On the contrary, they will incite us to still
greater endeavour, and inspire us with fresh
zeal.
ANOTHER SPLENDID GIFT BOOK.
We had supposed that the taste and skill of
fur friends, the Messrs. Appleton, of New York,
had been quite exhausted in the production of
the several elegant volumes to which wc re
cently devoted an article. We were mistaken,
h seems, and here we have, at the eleventh
hour, but still in season for “ the holidays,” a
volume of equal artistic and literary attraction,
entitled “ The Pathways and Abiding Peaces
of our Lord.” The text of this superb volume
■i
Promise,” by the Rev. Dr. Wainwright, and it
exhibits the characteristic elegance and per
spicuity of his style, while it possesses an inter
est peculiarly belonging to the sacred scenes
which it pourtrays. The illustrations are
eighteen in number and are engraved in the
highest style ot the Art, after pictures by Bart
lett. It is impossible to conceive of a Gallery
of Pictures more truly beautiful and more
closely invested with sacred, tender and holy
associations than this. Nazareth and Bethany
and Olivet; and still more sacred than these,
Gethsemane, the garden of the Redeemer’s pas
sion ! \Y e could write a page upon each of
these scenes, but it will suffice to Dame them to
call up in the reader’s bosom a flood of solemn
and subdued thoughts.
This volume is eloquent with the combined
utterances ol Art and Religion, and it speaks to
the soul of man. We bestow upon it only just
praise when we say that it is worthy to lie with
the Bible, upon the table of every Christian
Home!
(Dar dflQßßiji Column.
The Close of the Year.
Before we shall again have the pleasure of
greeting, at their firesides, our most excellent
lriends, readers and correspondents, another
year will have closed—another column will
have been erected in honour ot the mighty
Conqueror Time. One stone more will have
fallen from the fabric of the Future, and as we
hear its solemn plunge into the dark and fath
omless waters ot the Past, an echo of sadness
will be awakened in our hearts, The lessons
of the departing year are fraught with wisdom,
and happy will it be for us if we heed them
thoughtlully—it we learn, from the reveaiings
they will make to us of our deficiencies and fol
lies in the days that are gone by forever, to be
wiser, and by help from above, better in those
which are yet to come. In giving the last sad
I arewell to the dying year, let us do so with
gratitude lor all the mercies and blessings it has
brought us, with penitence for all the sins and
follies it hath witnessed in our conduct, and,
finally, with hope that the “new year” may
bring us as much good, and when it, too, grows
old, may close its eyes upon fewer errors and
defieiences in our lives, than its predecessor.
A word more, and that of ourselves. We
close the year with grateful acknowledgments
to our friends, and more especially to a Bounti
iul Providence, for the good degree of success
which has crowned our past efforts, and tor the
cheering hopes which we are permitted to in
dulge for the future.
Accept, reader, our simple gift for the season:
A SONNET FOR DECEMBER. 1850.
Lo! now the dying year, all pale and wan,
With feeble step, and tottering, movethon,
lo join the trainof thousands long gone by,
And swell the pomp of Time’s sad pageantry.
December, c'adin hoary mail, stands by
His death-couch, and with stern yet tear-filled eye,
hooks on his monarch gasping in the strife—
Which knows no slighter conquest than his life!
On the chill air a mournful music steals,
Now low ami faint, and now in sounding peals;
’Tis Nature’s sorrow gushing from her heart.
That thus her children, one by one depart.
Farewell, old I* riend! I too will give thee tears —
Which haply may myspirit fit for coming years!
Jenny Lind in Charleston.
The long-expected Queen of Song has at
length arrived in our city. On Monday last,
at 10, P. M., the steam packet Gladiator, from
W ilmington, reached her wharf, after a long
and exceedingly stormy passage of 30 hours.
Among her chief passengers were Mile. Lind
and her suite, and Mr. Manager Barnum. Mile.
Lind was immediately conveyed to her apart
ments at the Charleston Hotel, doubtless glad
enough to exchange for their elegant luxury
tile “ home on the rolling deep,” of which she
had been the weary guest. The public interest
in her arrival was heightened by the delay
which attended it in consequence of the storm
of Sunday night, inducing some little apprehen
sion for her safety. There was no noisy de
monstration, however, and the “ nightingale ”
passed quietly to her parlour, already glowing
with light and warmth to greet her. A few
scores of people gathered at the “ Charleston,”
to note the distinguished arrival and to watch
the registering of the names of the party. Those
ot Benedict and Belletti alone rewarded their
curiosity, and it was not until morning that the
bold and handsome autograph of Jenny Lind
appeared upon the register.
In the Mercury of Tuesday morning, thero
appeared, in a quiet corner, as if shrinking from
the bustle of commerce and the strife of poli
tics, the following Sonnets, which so admirably
express our own sentiments as to the nature of
the welcome which Mile. Lind should receive
from our people, that we must make room for
them in this hasty record. Though we venture
a guess at their authorship, we shall not hazard
its utterance. Os one thing we are sure, that
such a welcome as they describe will be dearer
to Mile Lind than all the noisy eclat which
could attend her advent. We therefore cheer
fully endorse these
WELCOME SONNETS TO JENNY LIND,
UPON HER ARRIVAL IN CHARLESTON.
I.
What shall thy welcome be, fair Queen of song,
To this bright land of sunshine and of flowers?
Where golden jasmines bloom ’mid winter bowers.
And roses, all the year their fragrancy prolong?
We will not greet thee with tumultuous throng.
Or strive to mock thy wondrous vocal powers.
In wild bravos and shouts displaying ours.
To make strange contrast of the sweet and strong!
We will not gaze into thy gentle face,
Till indignation flushes in thy cheek,
That men should take thee for a raree show:
Thy greatness shall teach us better grace,
Thy modesty to every heart shall speak,
And. like deep waters, silently, our joy shall flow !
11.
A Southern welcome we will give to thee,
Bird of the distant North —-weet Nightingale!
As genial as our clime where suns prevail.
And as our summer breezes, warm and free.
Our raptured souls shall drink in melody
From thy sweet strains, now gentle as a tale
Os love, now swelling to a mighty gale,
That stirs the spirit like a wind-tossed sea.
We shall acknowledge thee High Priest of song,
And to thine altarsour oblations bring,
Fit tribute to thy genius and thy art;
But we will do thy gentleness no wrong,
Nor in thy path obtrusive chaplets fling,
Content to pay thee homage with the loving heart!
On Tuesday the sale of tickets created son.e
interest, perhaps we might say excitement, for
notwithstanding the high scale of prices affixed
to the tickets, the demand was exceedingly
large and urgent. Many were grievously dis
appointed, and nearly all became satisfied that
the fairer and quieter method of disposing of
the scats is by a sale at auction, where every
ticket brings the price which the buyer puts
upon it and not the arbitrary price which the
Manager is almost obliged to affix to it. The
plan has some objections, but upon the whole it
is the most republican, and the most satisfactory
to the masses, especially where the dimensions
of the Concert room are inadequate to the de
mands of the public.
We published a Programme of the first Con
cert last week. With a few slight changes,
chiefly in the instrumental pieces, it will be per
formed to-night at the Theatre, every available
seat in which was taken on Tuesday. Instead
of the * Music Lesson,’ sung by Mile. Lind as a
duo with Belletti, the former will sing the ex
quisite song ol Sweet Home, in which she
completely ravishes the setises of her auditors.
We regret that necessity compels us to go to
press before the Concert, but our regret is some
what compensated by the consideration that in
our next number we shall be able to do more j
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE.
we do not for a moment doubt that her success
here will be triumphal, and that the icy indif
ference which some of our citizens have felt,
or affected, will disappear before the genial
warmth of her soul-utterances, like snow be
fore the noon-day sun. We are happy to an
nounce that beside her Concerts this week, she,
will probably sing on the night of the 31st inst.,
the eve ot her departure from the United States
for Cuba, whither our warmest wishes and our
brightest benisons will accompany her.
Jenny Lind’s Third Concert.
We need scarcely call our readers’ attention
to the brilliant programme for Saturday night,
which appears in another column. Mile. Lind
will sing that exquisite air from the Messiah,
“ 1 know that my Redeemer liveththe cele
brated Duett with Belletti, known as “ The
Music Lesson,” one of her most wonderful
pieces ; that favourite ballad, “ The Last Rose
of Summer,” and in addition to these, her
never-tiring Echo and Bird Songs. We learn
that she will give a Charity Concert before her
departure for the Havana, on Monday or Tues
day night. In Richmond, she gave SI2OO to
the Orphan Asylums of that city. Thus does
she dispense freely the largess with which a
Bountiful Providence has enriched her.
Beaver.
The word leaver, says the Drawing Room
Journal, in the sense of a covering for the head,
is not derived, as is generally supposed, from
the animal ot that name, the fur of which is
used in the manufacture of hats, but from the
Italian word bevere, to drink, and the appella
tion had its origin in the practice followed by
the knights, formerly, of converting the helmet
into a drinking vessel, when more suitable cups
were not at hand. Our English word, beverage,
comes from the same Italian root. *
Curiosities for Our Museum.
Several drops of the “reign (rain) of terror.”
A link from a “ chain of circumstances.”
A spark of the “ fire of genius.”
Several volumes of the “ works of Nature.”
A skein of the “ thread of a discourse.”
A few yards of the “ equinoctial line.”
A walking-stick made of a piece of the
“ North Pole.” ’ *
Our Prospectus for 1851.
Kind readers, permit us to call your atten
tion to our new Prospectus, published in an
other column, and to ask you to give us the
aid of your influence, to extend the circulation
ot our paper. Commend it to your neighbours
and friends. Help us to hasten the day when
it shall be a welcome visitor in every South
ern Home. *
(Our 33nnk (Ml
The Country Year Book ; or the Field, the Forest,
and the Fireside. By William Howitt. One volume
12 mo. New York : Harper & Brothers.
This is one of those agreeable volumes which
the reader delights to have with him for plea
sure as well as leisure-reading. It is divided
into twelve sections corresponding to the
months of the year. It is the result of a close
and extended observation of life in the country
—human life rather than life in lower manifes
iations—of society in its country aspects and
relations, and we need not say that the volume
abounds with felicitous and picturesque sketches.
It is a proper (and almost necessary ) compan
ion to the author’s “ Book of the Seasons,” to
the readers of which we shall not, in vain,
commend the present volume. Its variety will
sustain the reader’s interest, without once al
lowing it to flag, and we hazard nothing in
saying that many of its Episodes are as charm
ing as any to be found in the preceding and
very popular works of the author. We shall
hereafter publish one or more of them entire,
but for the present must content ourselves with
quoting a single paragraph, as appropriate to
‘the time and the season.’
“‘What would man do if there were no
holidays from one year’s end to another! They
are as necessary as landmarks or resting-places
for travellers; and as custom —a good custom,
one to be established and perpetuated, a soci
able and endearing one—has throw'll this in our
way, let us cling to it till the journey of life is
ended.’
• Such are the feelings with which all people
relinquish the old year and await the new.
Regrets and gladness are curiously mingled.
We all of us cast
‘ One longing lingering look behind,’
yet advance to meet the ceding time as if it
were to be better than all thathad gone before.
For a moment, in the words of Alfred Ten
nyson, we
‘ Stand pensively
As one that from a casement leans bis head,
When midnight bells cease ringing suddenly,
And the old year is dead!’
But the next moment the great spirit of the fu
ture, the presentiment of good, that paves all
the mysterious way wiih alacrity, enters into
us, and we are no longer repiners over the past,
but are aspirants for the exhaustless future. Wo
feel within us the grasp ot an immortal nature;
and like the same poet in his ‘ Death of the
Old Year,’ sing to ourselves with serene confi
gence,
‘ He was full of joke and jest,
But all his merry quips are o’er
To see him die, across the waste.
His son and heir doth ride post-haste.
But he’ll be dead before.
Every one for his own,
The night is starry, and cold, my friend,
And the New Year, blithe and bold, my friend,
Comes up to take his own.’”
The Broken Bracelet and other Poems. By Mrs.
C. It. W. Esling. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston.
The maiden name of the author of this vol
ume, Miss Catharine Waterman, was made
quite familiar to us, years ago, by its frequent
appearance in the annuals and miscellanies.
We remember, too, the period of its change to
that of Mrs. Esling, and we have occasion
ally since noticed her progress in authorship.
She is a lady of excellent taste and of unques
tionable talent in the popular development of
Poetry. Her ideal world is that of the affec
tions, and her poems breathe a spirit of unat
leeted sympathy with the beautiful and truthful,
whether in Nature or in Humanity. We can
not assign to her a very lofty intellectual posi
tion, but may with justice claim for her the
public ear and the public favour as a writer of
graceful, oftentimes thoughful, and always
chaste poetry. She dedicates this volume to
her mother, and thus beautifully and naturally
the inscription opens:
“ For thee, my mother, do 1 gather up,
Into a garland, all my flowers of song:
Whate’er they bear of beauty, unto thee,
Their varying tones of melody belong.”
The initial poem, which gives name to the
book, is a production of considerable merit, a
story of happy love with the sad denouement
of the bridegroom’s discovery, upon the mar
riage day, by means of a picture revealed in a
shattered bracelet which the bride had worn,
that she was his own sister! The briefer po
ems are characterized by a common sentiment
of tenderness. They are pleasing both to the
ear aud to the heart of the reader whose tastes
have not been moulded in a false school. If
they should not endure for ages, they will
gladden and brighten the one which is passing
for many true and gentle hearts, and thus per
form one of the sweetest and best offices of
Poetry. The author’s name is justly placed
among those of the gifted women of our
country.
Christian Patriotism : a Sermon. By Rev. Thos, O.
Summers, D.D. Charleston: C. Canning.
One of the numerous patriotic discourses de
livered on the occasion of the late State Fast.
It is a thoughtful, vigourous and eloquent pro
duction. *
Astrea : The Balance of 111 onions. A Foem delivered
before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Vale College,
August 14th, 1850. By Oliver Wendell Holmes. Bos
ton: Ticknor, Reed &: Fields. 1850.
Like every thing else that Dr. Holmes has
publLhed, this poem has attracted considerable
attention, and has been extensively quoted in
the papers. It contains some fine passages,
marked by the keen satire, sparkling wit and
quaint diction for which its author is distin
guished, but we do not think it equal to some of
his previous efforts. We will give two or three
brief extracts.
Os the pseudo-critic who
“ Owns no allegiance but the law of place,”
he thus speaks :
“ Each to his region sticks through thick and thin,
Stiff as a beetle spiked upon a pin.
Plant him in Boston, and his sheet he fills
With all the slipslop of his threefold hills,
Talks as if Nature kept her choicest smiles
Within his radius of a dozen miles,
And nations waited till his next Revie w
Had made it plain what Providence must do.
Would you believe him, water is not camp
Except in buckets with the Hingham stamp,
And Heaven should build the walls of Paradise
Os Uuincy granite lined with Wenharu ice.”
New York and her Metropolitan pretensions,
claim our Boston poet’s attention, and his lines,
we suspect, are tinged, in a degree, by his sec
tional feelings. Among other equally naughty
paragraphs we have the following
“ God bless Manhattan! Let her fairly claim,
With all the honours due her ancient name,
Worth, wisdom, wealth, abounding aid to spare,
Rags, riots, rogues, at least her honest h-liare;
But not presume, because, by sad mischance,
The mobs of Paris wring the neck ol France,
Fortune ha l * ordered she shall turn the poine
Ot thirty Empires with her Bowc*ry boys!”
Os a different character is the subjoined beau
tiful picture of April, with which we will close
our notice :
“* At last young April, ever frail and fair,
Wooed by her playmate with the golden hair,
Chased to the margin of receding Hoods .
O’er the soft meadows starred with opening buds.
In tears and blushes sighs herself away,
And hides her cheek beneath the flowers of May.” *
Echoes or the Universe: from the World of Matter
and the World ol Spirit. By the Rev. Henry Christ
mas, M. A., F. R. S., F. S. A., &e. Philadelphia:
A. Hart. 1850.
This is one of a class of works greatly need
ed, especially in our age. The activity of sci
entific research is daily increasing. Ii is enlist
ing minds of every order and in every condi
tion—from Alexander Von Humboldt to Mary
Somerville—from Sir John Herschell to Hugh
Miller. At the same time, the Scientific As
sociations of our own and other lands, are
availing themselves of the facilities of the peri
odical press, to enlarge the boundaries of human
knowledge and diffuse a taste fonts acquisition.
As the Author of Nature and of Revelation
are the same, we always hail with pleasure
works like this, which aim to trace the connec
tion between these two grand sources of know
ledge, to point out their fine analogies and mu
tual corroborations, and make every new dis
covery of the former illustrate the wisdom and
glory of the latter—“ the word of God, which
liveth and abideth forever.”
The substance of this volume was, it seems,
originally delivered in the form of Lectures,
before a “ Young Men’s Society for Promoting
Missions.” Though appearing as a third edi
tion in London, the author says he has really
made it anew book, as well as given it a more
appiopriate title. The present title, it must bo
owned, is sufficiently sounding; but we are not
sure that, apart from the Author’s Preface, we
might not have complained of its giving “ an
uncertain sound.” With that explanation, how
ever, it is sufficiently clear. The Works of
God in the Universe of Matter and of Spirit,
are regarded as so many harmonious “Echoes”
of His Word.
Mr Hart’s reprint is in a very attractive and
readable form
Reveries of a Bachelor : or a Book of the Heart. By
lk. Marvel, Author of “ Fresh Gleanings. New York :
Baker & Scribner. 1850.
This is a pleasant and clever book—racy,
genial, cheerful, lively and sparkling. It is a
book to put one in good humour with himself
and all the world, and is, therefore, to be com
mended to all, and especially to —bachelors.
We now incline to the opinion that Ik. Mar
vel of “ Fresh Gleanings,” “ The Battle Sum
mer,” and the “ Reveries,” is John Timon, of
the “ Lorgnette.” We have hitherto been in
credulous on this point. We looked in vain
for the coincidences of thought and diction,
which it seemed reasonable to expect between
the “ Gleanings” or the “ Battle Summer” and
the “Lorgnette.” Between the “Reveries”
and the “Lorgnette” we readily detect—at
least we think we do—many such coincidences.
We will make no extracts from the “Reveries,”
here, reserving for another department of our
paper some attractive “ glimpses” of the book,
which we intend to give our readers. *
The Marriage Ring, or How to Make Home Happy.
From the Writings of John Angell James. Boston:
Gould & Lincoln.
This little volume is deservedly a favourite,
for it contains invaluable counsel to the newly
married. The publishers have given this edi
tion an exquisite typographical dress, with illu
minated borders, and an elegant exterior, make
ing it more suitable for a presentation volume
than any other edition we are acquainted with.
It is for sale by Messrs. George Parks &. Cos.,
Broad-street.
The American Almanac for the year 1831. Boston:
Charles C. Little & James Brown.
This is the twenty-second volume of this
valuable work—a work too well known and
too highly appreciated to need our commenda
tion. Its astronomical, meteorological and sta
tistical departments, are equally full and accu
rate. Every professional and business man in
the country should have a copy on his desk, for
every-day reference. Messrs. McCarter & Al
len have it for sale. *
The Divorceu Wife. By TANARUS, S. Arthur. Philadel
phia: T. B. Peterson. 1850.
A novel in Arthur’s usual vein. It will be
eagerly sought by the numerous admirers of his
works. *
Eitarq IDnrllr.
Punch and the Roman Catholics. —Punch
has recently made the Roman Catholic Ques
tion an object of its severest sarcasm, and this
has so offended Mr. Doyle, one ol its able con
tributors, that he has resigned his connection
with the Journal, and in so doing, relinquishes
a salary of S3OOO per annum.
The Life of Lord George Bentick will be
written by D’lsraeli, and is to appear in the
Spring.
A Noble Lecturer. —The Earl of Carlysle,
formerly Lord Morpeth, and well known to
many in this country as a gentleman of distin
guished intellectual abilities and great social
worth, is about to deliver Lectures in Leeds,
before a Mechanic’s Institute. This fact is sig
nificant of the elevation of the Industrial classes
of Great Britain. One of his themes wilt be
‘ Life and Society in the New World.’
G. P. Putnam has just published Mrs. Cow
den Clarke’s Heroines of Shakspeare. Part I
Portia.
Kendall’s War with Mexico. —Kendall’s
Magnificent work upon the War with Mexico
will, it is expected, be ready for sale by next
month. It embraces pictorial drawings of all
the principal conflicts, with a description of each
battle, by Mr. Kendall. The illustrations are
from the pencil of Mr. Carl Hebei.
Ten state rooms have been engaged in
the Isabel for Jenny Lind and her suite.
■ The Rochester” Knockers” are at Bal
timore, making a considerable racket.
Die Hummel (The Humble Bee) is the
name of anew German paper in New York.
ster is about to become a resident of New
York.
G. P. R. James, Esq., is contributing a
new novel to the International Magazine. It
opens well.
Gen. Rusk, one of the U. S. Senators
from Texas, is said to be lying dangerously ill
at Wheeling, Va.
Hon. Daniel Webster’s wine, to the
amount of 2,159 bottles, was lately sold at
auction in Boston.
The Neapolitan Government has grant
ed the sum of 20,000 ducats to extend the ex
cavatians of Pompeii.
A magnificent hotel is shortly to be
erected in Boston, equal in size to the St.
Charles of the Crescent.
A ship cleared at Savannah for Liver
pool, on the 14th, having on board a cargo of
cotton valued at over $200,000.
Professor Risley arrived in the America,
with his new ballet troupe from Paris, and will
perform at our principal theatres.
Sir John Herschell,the great Astronomer,
is to be Master of the British Mint, vice Mr.
Sliiel. Tho salary is $7,500 a year.
The Mississippi, between St. Louis and
Cairo, is full of floating ice, and several boats
are ice-bound. Navigation is suspended.
The first article sen', to the New York
Navy Yard,to be forwarded to the World’s Fair,
is a lump of iron ore, weighing about a ton and a
half.
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has been
having private theatricals (to which large audi
ences of his friends were invited) at Kneb
worth.
Mile, Maria Lopez, a French actress,
has been arrested for being an intermediaire
between the political refugees in London and
their allies at Lyons.
€\)t lotos us tjjr Dotj.
A Monster Boat. —The Nashville Urtiou
says: “ A monster steamer is about being built
at Louisville, to run between that city and New
Orleans. She is to be 564 feet long, with 8
boilers, 36 inch cylinders, and 11 feet stroke—
to throw a water wheel 50 feet in diameter, and
is designed to make the trip between the two
cities in four days.
To Publishers of Newspapers. —Publishers
of all Newspapers are requested to send to the
Secretary of State two copies of each News
paper published by them on the Ist January,
1851, or the earliest publication after that time;
one copy to be deposited in the State Library,
and the other to be sent to the World’s Fair.
. Bituminous Coal. —An extensive bed of this
mineral has been discovered in Chatham county,
North Carolina, on the Cape Fear river, which
is navigable for vessels of from 150 to 200 tons
burthen, to within thirty or forty miles of the
coal bed, where .navigation is interrupted by
rapids.
CP William Henry Johnson, a printer, of
Maryland, will learn something to his advant
age by calling on the Post Master at Mont
gomery, Alabama. Hunt him up. Printers
are seldom in luck.
Hail Storm. —The village of Vidalia, Lou
isiana, and t he city of Natchez, Mississippi, and
vicinity, were visited with a severe hail storm
IMT tll ntght ol tko (ilk inertCAt. Tiu, Vidulia
Intelligencer says many of the hail stones were
an inch in diameter, attd covered the ground
more than an inch deep.
Porto Rico. —On the 25th ult. the Island of
Porto Rico was visited by a tremendous gale
from the North, which lasted five days, inun
dating the north side of the island, and con
siderably damaging the coffee, sugar and riee
crops.
Silver Mine in Vermont. —A bed of silver
and copper ore has been discovered about three
miles south east of the village of Brandon, Vt.
The ore is incorporated with milk quarts and
argillaceous slate. An average specimen anal
ized by W. H. Shepard, mineralogist, gave
31 13 per centum pure silver, and 17 09 of
copper. i
Death of Dr. Dc Benneville. —Dr. De Bon
neville, one of the most eminent physicians of
his time, died near Philadelphia on Tuesday.
His age was ninety-one years, and it is a re
markable fact that ho lias resided during that
whole period in the house where he died, hav
ing been born in it. The partner of his long
life still survives, aged 93. He leaves a large
family.
Chaplin. —We learn from the Rockville
Journal that. all the efforts to obtain bail for
William L. Chaplin, the negro abductor, have
failed.
<% Dark Cnrnrr.
Weshall occasionally insert, under this head, Riddles
Enigmas, Puzzles, Charades, &e., to which answers
post paid or free) are solicited.
Try This. —An English paper —Notes and
Queries, has the following puzzling epitaph, of
which it offers a solution. We will give it
here, without the answer, in order to afford our
readers an opportunity to try their skill upon it.
The epitaph is said to have been found in a for
eign cathedral. It is as follows: *
“ EPITAFHIUM,
“ 0 quid tuae
be est biae ;
ra ra ra
es et in
ram ram ram
ii.
MARRIED,
On St Helena Island, on the evening oi the
19th instant, by Rev. J. H. Cuthbert, the Rev.
Robert W. Fuller, of Beaufort, to Miss
Susan E. daughter of J. J. T. Pope, Esq., of
St Helena.
On the 19th instant, by Rev. B. English,
Mr. Wm. J. Lawton to Miss Susan B. daugh
ter of Major John S. Maner, all of St Peter’s
Parish, S. C.
On the 18th inst., by the Rev. J. M. Chiles,
of South-Carolina, Col. D. E. Butler, of
Augusta, Ga. and Miss Virginia T. Walton,
of Madison, Morgan county.
On the 2d inst., by Rev. Mr. Longfellow,
Mr. John Glover Drew, of the North Ameri
can Phalanx, New-Jersey, to Miss Phebe
Tisdale, daughter of Capt. George Munday, of
Fall River.
CABINET PORTRAITS.
Mr. EGAN, Artist, begs most respectfully to inform the
Ladies and Gentlemen of the City of Charleston and
vicinity, that he proposes reinainining a short time in pur
suit of the above-mentioned branch of the Art, together
with a view of benefitting his health; and in addition
would say that as he has been successful, hitherto, in his
professional career, he confidently hopes to give satistac
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 Painted if required.
Nov. 23
FRANKLIN HOUSE.
NEW YORK, May 1,1850.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his friendsand the
public that he has leased the above House for a
term of years. The House has been in complete repair
during the past winter and mostly furnished anew. The
proprietor respectfully solicits a continuance otthe patron
age heretofore so liberally received.
JOHN P. TREADWELL.
ilppQintmruts.
Travelling Agents for the Gazette.—
Rev. William Richards, Mr. Robert E.Seyle,
Mr. Matthew J. Wroton, J. J. 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 has also a
geneial 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 in Sumter and the adjoining
Districts.
CP Mr. A. H. Mazyck is our General Agent
or Charleston.
CPGeorge W. Bell is our Agent for Kershaw
and the neighbouring Districts.
CP Warren D. Chapman is our Agent foi
Spartanburg and surroundingDidtricts.
CP All Postmasters are authorized to act as
Agents for the Gazette, and the same commis
sion will be allowed to them as to other lotal
Agents.
THE TRAVELLER’S GUIDE.
ROUTES FROM CHARLESTON.
from Charleston to New- York. Leaving daily at 3).
o clock p. m. By Steamer to Wilmington 180 miles.—By
Railroad to Weldon 162 miles.—To Petersburg 63.—T0
Richmond 22.—T0 Acquia Creek 70.—8 y Steamer to
Washington 55.—8 y Railroad to Baltimore 40.—T0 Phil
adelphia 92.-To New.York 87. Total distance 771 milea.
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.
Y rom C harleston 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.-By Macon and
VVestern Railroad to Griffin 42. By Stage to Opelaka
S'7? y Rallroad to Montgomery 65.—8 y Steamer to
Mobile 331.-To New-Orleans 166. Total distance 1,006
miles. Time 123 hours. Fare $39.50.
from Charleston to JVew-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 Bartlesville 40.—8 y Stage to Opelaka 100.—By
Railroad to Montgomery 65.—8 y 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.
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MADEMOISELLE JENNY LL\D
WILL OIVK HER
THIRD GKA.ND CONCERT,
IN CHARLESTON, AT THE THEATRE,
O.V SATURDAY EVEJ\TIJ\TQ, DEC. 28, 1850.
PROGRAMME.
PART I.
Overture—Zanetta. - Auber
A-ir—“ Why do the Nations?”—(Messiah)
Signor BelleTti. . . . Handel
Air “ [know that my Redeemer liveth”—
(Messiah)—Mile. iIENNY LIND. - Handel
Solo on the Flute—Mr. Kvle. - . Tulon
Air— “On Mighty Pens’’—(Creation )
Mile. JENNY LIND. . Hayden
PART 11,
Overture-Jean de Paris, . . . Boieldieu
Duo—The Singing Lesson—Con patienza
soportiano —lll Fanatico per la Musica > —
Mile. JENNY LIND and Sig. Bellktti. Floravente
I'antasia—On the VioUnnalU—M.. U UAX -„. p rnnr i
Irish Ballad ‘TheLast Rose of Summer,” First
time in America. Mile. JENNY UND.
La Tarentella Neapolitana—Sig. Bklletti. Rossini
The Bird Song-Mile. JENNY LIND. Tauber t
The Mountaineer’s (Echo) Song—Mile
JENNY LIND.
Conductor—Mr. Benedict.
An Orchestra, composed of eminent Solo performers,
from the Jenny Lind Concerts, New York, and profes
sional gentlemen of this city, led by Mr. Joseph Burke,
has been engaged for the occasion.
Dpors open at 6 o’clock. Concert to commence at 8
o’clock.
No checks will be issued.
Diagrams of the Theatre may be seen at the Box office,
where seats may be secured, also at the Charleston Hotel
and Mr. Oates’. 1 jj ee og
TIIE CELEBRATED OAK ORCHARD ACII)
MINERAL SPRINGS.
The waters of these medicinal Springs have been anal
yzed by Professor B. Silliman, Jr., and John P. Nor
ton, of Yale College, Professor E. Emmons, of Albany,
and Dr. J. R. Chilton, of New York.
A pamphlet containing the Analysis, History of the
Springs, instructions lor use, and other interesting and im
portant matter relating thereto, may be obtained by call
ing on any of our Agents.
There are hundreds of well attested cures of a number
of diseases—(especially those affecting the stomach, bow
els, and urinary organs,) diarrhoeas, dspepsia, piles,dyscu!
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ryngitis; general debility and loss of appetite, humid
asthma, chronic laryngitis, leucorrhea and gleets, scald
head and salt rheum, habitual constipation pf the bowels,
nightsweats, the various forms of diseases arising from an
abuse of mercury ; and, in short, the numerous cures it has
performed in those various affections resulting from a scro
fulous diathesis, manifest an extraordinary activity not
found in the usual remedies.
All orders to be addressed to the undersigned, and in
each order to give the mark and mode of shipment, to
avoid mistakes.
GEO. W. MERCHANT, Lockport, N. Y.
Sold by Druggists and others, in the United States,
Canada, and the West Indies; also by DAWSON &
BLACKMAN, Apothecaries, 17 Broad-street, Charles
ton, where a pamphlet, containing the Analysis of the
Water and Testimonials, &c., may be had gratis.
Dec 28 3m
TO TEACHERS.
A LADY thoroughly competent to teach MUSIC and
SINGING, and a skilful Performer on the PIANO,
may, by applying immedsately, secure a permanent and
lucrative situation in the Edgefield Female Institute,
Edgefield C. U.,S. C. If a performer on iheGUITAR,
and capable of teaching DRAWING and PAINTING,
it will considerably add to her income.
Also, a LADY thoroughly competent to teach DRAW
ING and PAINTING IN WATER COLOURS, and
willing to assist in the Junior English Classes. Apply to
the Principal at Edgefield C. 11. 3 Dec 14
BENJAMIN F. PORTER,
(LATE OF TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA,)
Has opened an office in this city, and respectfully offers he
services to the public as an A TTORNF. >’ and COUN
SELLOR .9 TLA IV and SOL(CITOR L V CHAN
CERY. His extensive acquaintance with the population
of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia, and
with the local laws 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. Y eadon & Macbeth.
Charleston, May 4,1850.
<ENIN, HATTER.
314 BROADWAY, NEW-YORK,
Nczt door to Barnum’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 of
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 and
made in his own factory. He would also call attention to
his splendid.
RIDING HATS FOR LADIES,
and Ladies’ Riding-Whins and Gloves, of the same style as
those recently presented by him to Jenny Lind, so warmly
approved in her autograph letter of reply. In the manu
facture of
ARMY AND NAVY CHAPEAUX
and fatigue and nndess Caps his artists cannot be equalled
in the Union. A rich and varied assortment of the finest
Furs also form a part of his stock, together with
CHOICE PARISIAN AND AMERICAN
UMBRELLAS.
Elegantly mounted W'ALKING 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
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opposite St. Paul’s Church, and
next door to Barnum’s Museum.
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OF THE
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containing weekly tour columns more matter than the
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lar contributors to its columns, and it has a well regulated
corps of
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through whom all intelligence of interest, in every de
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that the Publishers have resolved to continue it and make
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of the Southern people, and of the citizens of Charleston
n particular. The first number of the present year, form
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ductof W. Gilmore Simms, Esq., to whose hands it
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the South, and especially sustained and patronized by the
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AGENT FOR
JOHN T. WHITE. TYPE-FOUNDER,
Whose Foundry has been in operation over forty years,
and for beauty and variety of Type, Borders, &c.,is sur
passed by none. Constantly on hand, Brass Ri le,
Cases, Ucoins, Leads, Chases, Fcrnitcre, Req.
let, Lye Brushes, Mallets, Shooting Sticks,
Proof Rrcshes, Bodkins, Pi.ai.sers. Also, a large
variety of
BORDERS. JOB AATD FJJfC Y TYPE, ire.
ALSO, AGENT FOR
R. IIOE & CO.,
CELEBRATED PRINTING-PRESS MANUFACTURERS.
Every Press. &c.. made by them, will be famished
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, WRINTFNG, WRAPPING AND EN
VELOPE PAPER OF EVERY VARIETY.
Printing Paper.— Constantly on hand, a large stock
ol Newspaper, of various sizes—2o x 30, 22 *32 , 23 x 32,
24 x 34 , 24 x 36, 26 x 38, 26 x 40j and also Medium ana
Double Medium Book Printing Paper, of different quality.
Agent for V. Mcßt* & Son, Greenville, S. C., Paper
Mills. Newspaper of every kind made to order. Also in
receipt constantly, direct from the Northern Mills, Paper
of all kinds.
Writing Paper. —English, French and American
Letter, Cap, Folio, Commercial and Packet Post, Demy,
Medium, Royal and Super Royal Papers, ruled and plain,
ol every variety, and at all prices—a large stock constantly
on hand.
Wrapping, Envelope, Coloured Medium Paper,
of all kinds and descriptions always on hand and for sale
low.
STATIONERS’ IIALL,
101 EAST BAY.
JOSEPH WALKER,
DEALER in
PAPER, STATIONERY 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: Sealing Wax, Wafers, Quills,
Rulers, Steel Pens, Ink Stands. Slates, Wafer Stamps,
Pen Racks, Wax Tapers, Red Tape, Lead Pencils, India
Rubber, Desk Weights, itc.
GOLD PENS, GOLD & SILVER PENCIL CASES.
A large variety of Levi Brown ant many other marks.
INK.
Black, Blue, Red, Copying and Marking Inks, of the
best kinds.
PEN AND DESK KNIVES.
A beautiful assortment of the finest Cutlery of every de
scription.
COPYING PRESSES,
A variety of patterns and prices. Also, Copying Books,
Brushes, Oil Paper, etc.
BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY & FANCY
BOOK BINDING.
JOSEPH WALKER,
101 EAST BAY
Banks, Public Offices, Merchants, and others, can have
their Books Ruled to any pattern, and Bound in the very
best manner, either in full Russia, extra Russia Bands,
Full Bound, or Half Binding, and nuide of the very best
English blue laid, French and American papers, made
expressly to order, at the same price that the same quality
of 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 manner.
STEAM POWER-PRESS PRINTING.
WALKER and: JAMES,
BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS
NOS. 101 AND 103 EAST BAY,
Having added to their Office, Steam Power-Presses, and
large fonts of the latest kind of Book Type, are prepared
to execute all kinds of
BOOK AND PAMPHLET PRINTING.
in the very best manner, and at greatly reduced prices
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, I CIRCULARS,
BILLS-I^ADING, BALL INVITATIONS
BILLHEADS, BRIEFS.
RECEIPTS, I HAND BILLS, <S-e.
which will he dene in tlie Lest msnnes end on most rea
sonaoleTerms.
CARD-PRESS PRINTING.
Cards of all kinds by Steam, at greatly reduced rates.
JAS. E. SPEAR A CO’S.
EMPORIUM OF
FINE WATCHES. FASHIONABLE JEWELRY.
STERLING SILVER WARE,
RICH HOUSE FURNISHING ARTICLES,
AND RECHERCHE FANCY GOODS.
235 KING-STREET, OPPOSITE IIASELL.
J. E. S. ki 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.
Theirstock of Duplex, patent Lever. Anchor and Cy
linder WATCHES, has been selected with great care
from the most celebrated manufactories of” Europe, and
cased expressly to their order in Open, Hunting and Dou
ble Hunting cases, including a few beautiful, extra small
inlaid and enameled Ladies’ Watches, suitable for wear
ing with the new style of Chatelaines.
Their stock of JEWELRY comprehends all of the
latest styles, with many original, chaste and elegant de
signs, and of quality from the cheapest to the most
expensive.
Theirstock of STERLING SILVER WARE is not
to he surpassed in chasteness of design or beauty of work
manship, including many articles of entirely new patterns.
Their stock of Boise Furnishing 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 fonnd the best English Plated
Tea Setts, Waiters, Cake Baskets, Castors, Cruet Stands,
Urns, Tea Kettles. Vegetable Dishes, Butler Boats, Toast
Racks, Egg Stands, Nut Crackers, Ice Tongs, &c.
A superior article of Plated or Aibatta Spoons, 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 sets : Papier Mac-lie Work
Boxes, Tables, Writing Desks, Prayer Books, Albums,
Music, Porte and Note Folios, heautilu ly inlaid with
pearl; Card Baskets, Card Cases, Porte 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.
ParianMarbleandPapierCotta Statuettes and Figures.
Richly furnished (French) Work Boxes and Dressing
Cases, Bohemian Glass Toilet Bottles and Paper Weights,
Music Boxes, from 2to fi tunes ; French Mantle Clocks,
of various patterns ; Mantle Vases and Ornaments, Ebony
Watch Stands, Coral Beads.
They would particularly call attention to a lot of very
splendid Spanish and French Dress FANS, of elegant
designs, varying in price from $1 to S4O, 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 PRICES AND QUICK RETURNS.”
CLEVELAND’S
DR UG AND CHEMICAL ESTABLISHMENT,
207 KING-STEEET, BELOW THE LEND,
Charleston, S. C.
Hit* received, in addition to the former extensive stock,
by the late arrivals from Europe, a large 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 the most complete stocks of
French, German, English and American Drugs, Che
micals, Valuable Family Medicines, Perfumery, tec.
Soaps, Brushes, Combs, and other Fancy and
Miscellaneous Articles in this country.
Also, all the various Patent Medicines, F*ills, Sarsapa
rilla*, Liniments, Ointments, Salves, Ba sams, Syrups.
for sale or advertised by any other Drug Establish
ment in this city. Nov lti
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WILLARD’S HOTEL.
E. D. WILLARD, Proprietor.
Pennsylvania A venue, corner of litk street,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
NATIONAL HOTEL.
F. BLACK, Proprietor.
Pennsylvania Avenue , corner of 6(A street ,
. WASHINGTON, D. C.
EXCHANGE HOTEL,
EXCHANGE PLACE, BALTIMORE.
This is the most convenient Hotel to the Rail Road ant
Steamboat Landings. p DORSEY
Oct 26
W ILLIAM H. BARTLESS,
h OR HARD L\'G <S- C OMMISSION JUERC HAJYT
brown’s w harf, foot of vendue range.
= He . w j! 1 e* ve , his particular attention to Receiving
an T*” S .” °d.' g e ?Patienceas Secretary
and Forwarding Agent of the South Carolina Rail Road
Company, gives him peculiar facilities in this line of busi
negß - Nov 10
j. f. churchTplilmberT
67 EAST BAY-ST., CHARLESTON, 6. C.
Lead .Copper and Brass Lifting Force Pumps. Water
CloseG, Hot, Cold and Shower Baths, Garden Engines,
Cooking Ranges, Lead, Pipe, Sheet lead, Block, Tin,
blc., oic. Every description of Lead work and Hydraul
lra Innushed and fixed on the most approved principles.
Orders from the Country promptly attended to. The very
work Clty refcrences ’ ll regard to quality and durability of
Oct 12 1 y
JOHN VT TAKVEK,
EXCHANGE WHARF, SAY ANNAH, GA.
FACTOR AND GENERAL COMMIS
SION MERCHANT, AND DEALER
IN GRAIN AND HAY.