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THE CONSTITUTIONALISTS
AM ES GARDNER, JR.
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Marriage Ceremony*
AS READ BY SQUIRE GABLE.
You bromish now, you goot man dare,
Vat stands upon de vloor,
To hab dish voman for you vise,
And lub her ebermore ;
To feed her well mit sour crout,
Peans. puttermilk, and sheese,
And in all tings to lend your aid,
Dat will bromote her ease.
Yes, and you voman standing dare,
Do bledge your vord, dish tay,
Dat you vill dake for your husoand,
Dis man, and him opey ;
Dat you will ped and poard mit him,
Vash iron, and ment his clothes,
Las ven he shmiles, veep ven he shighs,
Dus share his shoys and voes.
I Wi ll den, I now widin dese vails,
• Mit choy, and not mit krief,
f Bronounce you both to be one mint,
Von name, von man, von pees;
1 booblish now,dese sacred panns,
Dese matrimonial ties,
Pefore mine vile, Got, Kate, and Poll,
And all dese gazen eyes.
And, as de sachred Skriptures shay,
Vot Got unites togedder,
Let no man dare ashunder put,
Let no man dare tern sever;
And you bridekroom tare, you shtop,
I'll uot let go your kollar.
Pefore you answer me dish ting,
Dat ish—rare ish mine tollar ?
(From the Home Journal .)
The Arts at Home and Abroad.
We have always endeavored, in the Home
Journal, to do waatever lay within our power
for the encouragement of the Fine Arts in
America; and in this we have always sought
to exercise an impartial judgment, and al
though bound to prefer home merit lo foreign,
under similar circumstances, yet we have never
stinted our praise of English, French or Ger
man pictures, engravings or statuary, when-
and wherever, in our estimation, it has
deserved. Indeed, without assuming to
Ourselves any superiority over our editorial
brethren in such matters, we do claim that
one of the leading objects cf the Home Journal
is to foster and encourage, in our own country,
a true and cultivated taste for the Fine Arts,
and, so far as in us lies to obtain, extendand
disseminate the knowledge and information
which will most surely lead to the attainment
of this end. The readers of our journal since
its commencement need but slightly tax their
memories to bear us out in the truthfulness of
these statements.
* Among the foreign publications which we
have often spoken highly of, is the London
Art Journal, which we consider among the
most prominent having for their object the ad
vancement of the Fine Arts at home and
abroad; but we cannot pass over silently an
article in the last March number of that work,
in which a gross and violent attack is made
upon the American enterprise of re-cutting and
re-publishing “Boydell Illustrations ofShaks
peare." This is the second article of the same
character which has appeared in that journal.
The first was in April, 1848; but we did not
think proper to notice it, although it contain
ed many gross mistatements, and was dictated
in a spirit of bitterness which betrayed the
feeling and motive of the author.
The tacts in relation to the original “Boy
dell's Illustrations of Shakspeare" oan be gath
ered into a very lew words. It teas one of the
most extensive , costly , and most successfully-execu
ted works of art in the world. It is a matter of
little consequence now whether it cost one
hundred thousand pounds, or one million.
Art Journal acknowledges that it took
Ha twenty years to complete it, and that the Brit
ish Parliament passed a special act in favour
Nos Boydell, (never before or since granted to
1 Any individual,) allowing him to dispose of the
’ original one hundred pictures by lottery. The
London Art Journal, in the article of 1848, de
nies that Sir Joshua Reynolds received a bribe
of five hundred pounds to engage in the work,
yet Allen Cunningham, in his “Lives of Emi
nent British Artists," plainly and positively
states that fact; and also many other of the
.statements given by the late John Inman, edi
ftor of the Commercial Advertiser, in his “Cu-
Irious prices ofHistory," rest upon eq aally good
/ ningham are not good authority, when des
cribing English artists, then we know not
where to look for the truth.
In the recent article of the London Art Jour
nal we find the following plain admissions,
and we quote the exact words: “The sum or
ginaliy expended by Alderman Boydell on the
production of these plates, was undoubtedly
very large;” and in another paragraph: “There
is no doubt of the plates having found their
way to America, either is there any reason for
disbelieving that Dr. Spooner and his partners
in the speculation may have expended $47,000
in the work of restoria ion."
This is amply sufficient in the way of ac
knowledgment, and it narrows the question
Jk down to a single point. Are the impressions
1 from the restored plates equal to the original
> ones? On this subject, an American is equal-
ly as good a j udge as an Englishman, and hun
dreds, probably thousands, ot our ci izenshave
had a fair opportunity of comparing the origi
nal and the new impressions, side by side; and
although we will not speak of our own opin
ion, yet we fully believe that such gentlemen
as Washington Irving, William C. Bryant, G.
P. Putnam, D. Appleton and Co., jLmdley
Selden, Danforth and Hufty, Rawdon, Wright
and Hatch, and the late John J. Audubon,
John Inman, and M. M. Noah, and some fifty
or sixty more whose names have been signed
to the cer .ideates, are reliable authority to set
tle this question, the editors of the London
Art Journal, who probably never saw one of
fck -■ the restored impressions in their lives, to the
contrary notwithstanding.
As to the possibility of obtaining the origi
nal work perfect and oompiete in London or
elsewhere, we speak with confidence—it can-
not be done, except in rare instances a copy
may be bought at the breaking up of some old
library or valuable collection of engravings.
We know full well that impressions from the
worn-out plates, sing'y, and probably in sets,
can be procured in London, and possibly in
this country; but this fact of being worn-out
impressions, renders them utterly worthless,
and hence the necessity of this large outlay
in recutting and restoring the plates.
The last blow given by the London Art
Journal to demolish this work, and upon which
it is evident hangs the “forlorn hope' 1 ' of the
writer, is so rich that we give his language.
Speaking of the original engravings, he says,
“It must not be forgotten that when Boydell
first issued them, the British public was but
half educated," etc. ! Shade of Reynolds and
Benjamin West, what a genius this writer
must be ! And would any one believe, from
such language, that these engravings were
actually all executed, in the first style of line
and stipple, by such English artists as Sharpe,
Bartolozzi, Simon, Wilson, Earlom, Thew,
Middiman and W atson, and from large pic
tures, painted in the best manner, by such
painters as Reynolds, West, Beechy, Fuseli,
Northcote, Romney, Smirke and Opie ?
Now, the true secret of all this feeling of
hostility on the part of the London Art Jour
nal is easily explained. The restoration of
the Boydell plates was a bold and original A
merican project on the part of Dr. Spooner,
and, contrary to the predictions of many even
of his friends, has proved entirely successful. —
The American edition is, past all doubt, fully
equal to the original English ; and instead of
one thousand dollars, he is publishing it, with
the addition of fine descriptive letter press,
at one hundred dollars per copy, and we have
heard of more than one instance where Eng
lish gentlemen, on a visit to this country,
have subscribed for copies to take back with
them on their return. It is well known that
at present the American print market is sup
plied, in a great measure, by English engrav
ings, executed by English mezzotinto engra
vers, and the success of this American edition
of the Boydell illustrations, executed all in
line and stipple by the best engravers of the
last and present century, is beginning to in
terfere materially with this English trade. —
Instead of paying ten or twenty dollars each
for mezzotints, scraped by the present Eng
lish artists from pictures by Landseer and
others, many of our citizens prefer giving Dr.
Spooner one dollar each for a set of these su
perb line engravings.
The London Art Journal and its English
publishers are deeply and personally interest
ed in this matter, and they feel that our Ame
rican enterprise is interfering with English
monopoly of print-selling, and here lies the
whole secret of these repeated attacks upon
the “ Boydell illustrations." They will break
up the enterprise if they can ; but thay can
not.
The last article on this subject, in the
March number of the London Art Journal,
in alluding to his first article in 1848, has this
very significant paragraph: “We thought
that the remarks then made would have proved
sufficient to disabuse the minds of the Ameri
can public of any idea entertained that this
costly work was about to be circulated among
them in all ils pristine glory , but we were mis
taken,” eto. The quotation is exuct, but the
italics are our own. Yes, the writer of the
article was mis.aken, and will be again in this
second attempt of the same nature. We have
felt it to be our duty to show up this matter
in its true light, and we have evidence al
ready that, without a word from us, many had
seen through the London Art Journal’s mo
tives, and feel certain that all attempts of
English journals, interested in Eng ish pub
lications of engravingi, to disparage another
English work, because successfully restored
by American enterprise, will only result in
injury to themselves, and will unquestionab.y
increase the sale among us of the very work
they are endeavoring to break down. This
will be the case in the present instance, and
* the motives , once understood, all that the Lon
! don Art Journal, or any other foreign pubii
; cation, may say against the American Boydell,
| will only increase its popularity in the United
States, We trust that those American papers
and periodicals which have adverted to the
Art Journal article, not understanding its mo
tives, will, in a proper spirit, “ show up" the
moving cause of such violent and unmerited
attacks. It is a fact, now seen and acknow
ledged by many artists, that the publication
of this work in the United States, at a price
i which places it within the reach of almost
| every man of taste, is gradually creating a love
I for good pictures and good engravings, and
much of the trashy colored lithographs and
the badly-executed mezzotintos are giving
place to carefully-cut line and stipple engrav
ings, from well-painted pictures by American
artists. Thus good pictures beget good pic
tures, and Dr. Spooner is, by his enterprise,
and perseverance, rendering a real and lasting
benefit to artists and the arts in this country,
by assisting in cultivating %nd improving the
standard of taste among us, and in hastening
that period when America shall be second to
none on the earth in all that refines and ele
vates a nation and a people.
Fhilosophy of Eating-
Use but two or three kinds of food besides
bread and butter, at a single meal, and never
eat any thing between meals. You should
eat at regular hours, and but three times a day,
with two intervals of not less than five hours
each, nor more than six.
Cold water retards digestion, and so does
any liquid, if much is taken during or soon
atfcjr a meal; half a glass at a meal is enough.
From an hour of the next one, you may drink
as much water as you desire; it is best, how
ever, to drink but a swallow or two at a time,
with an interval of half a minute or more ;
otherwise you may take more than nature re
quires before you know it, just as in eating
last. If too much fuel is taken during meals
it dilutes the gastr c juice, thus weakening
its powers of digestion, and retaining the food
longer in the s'omach than is natural; it also
causes acid stomach, heartburn, fullness, bel
ching*, and bad blood ; producing, according
to circumstances, a dryness, or rawness of sen
sation in the throat, as do indigestions from
other causes, whether from quality or quanti
ty of food.
All errors as to diet arise from quantity or
quality, and I propose one safe rule to each,
applicable to all persons, and under all cir
cumstances.
As to quality , the general rule to eat that
which you like best, and which you find, by
close observation and experience, is followed
by no uncomfortable feeling about the head
and feet, cr stomach.
As to quantity , take as much at one meal as
will allow you to become decidedly hungry
by the next; this can only be determined by
consecutive observation* ; but re nember, nev
er Bwallow an attorn of food unless you are
hungry; never force a particle of od on
yourself; the brute creation cannot be in
duced to eat or drink, if slightly ill or excited,
guided only by their own blind instincts, and
we who are as much higher than they, by the
“reason," that is within us, ought to feel
ashamed to act less wisely; and yet, nine
tenths of our ailments, acute and chronic,
enter here : and nine-tenths of them might
be cured thus, if taken in reasonable time, and
if properly persevered in.
The finer all food is cut with a knife, before
put into the mouth, the sooner and easier it is
digested, on the same principle that a large
piece of ice placed in a vessel set in water will
require a longer time to melt, than if it were
first divided into many small pieces. The
gastric juice dissolves solid food from without
inward; hence food, especial.y all kinds of
meat, should be cut up in pieces not larger
than a pea, before it is placed in the mouth,
taking in as many pieces at a time as is conve
nient. The precaution would not be needed
were persons to eat slowly, and masticate their
food properly, but our national habits are oth
erwise, nor is there much hope of a speedy
change in this respect.
For an hour after dinner, and half the time
for other meals, do not lie down, do not sit to
sew, or maintain any stooping position ; do
not ride on horseback, study, strain, lift, or
perform any labor, bodily or mental; a leisure
stroll in the open air is best; or reading a
newspaper; these require no mental effort.
While walking, keep your hands behind you,
and your chin on or above the horizontal
line —and endeavor to feel in a good and cheer
ful humor with yourself and all the world.—
Dr. Hall.
(From the Albany Register of Saturday.')
Anti Rent Outrage. — We have to chronicle
another of those dastardly outrages which
have rendered this portion of the state a re
proach throughout the land.
It is generally known that the collection of
rents in this county has been impracticable
for many years in consequence of the difficulty
of serving Legal papers. The officers whose
sworn duty it is to execute all process are
elected by anti rent votes. It has been neces
sary, therefore, for the landlord to employ
other persons to make the necessary service.
Those who have been thus employed, have
been repeatedly malterated and one was shot,
a year and a half ago.
The attorneys oi Mr. Van Rensselaer had
secured the services during two or three
months past of a very worthy and resolute
manin RBnsßelaerville, who had served pro
cess in several cases; The anti renters deter
mined to make an example of him. He had
been appointed by the surrogate a commis
sioner with two other persons to lay off a
widow’s dower in a farm in the town of Bern.
On Wednesday last he was sent for by one of
his associate commissioners residing in Bern,
and notified that they were ready to proceed
to the admeasurement. He accordingly went
to the form that was to be measured, about
seven miles from Rensselaerville and com
menced the survey.
While thus engaged carrying the chain
with one of the commissioners, and the third
having the compass, on turning the corner of
a piece of woods he discovered a band of 20 or
30 “Indians” in ambush, who immediately
sprung upon him. The cowardly assailants,
who were completely disguised, and armed
with rifles, tomahawks, &c., bound his hands
painfully tight with, a rope,bandaged hi# eyes,
and then commenced their preparations for
tarring and feathering him.
A fire was built, the tar melted, and he was
then entirely stripped of his clothing, and his
body, even his haft and face, covered with
the tar and feathers. The several articles oi
his apparel were then tarred on the inside and
put upon him and ..gain tarred on the outside
and coated with feathers. In this plight he
was marched around the neighborhood for
some hours, the scoundrels who had him in
charge being fed and treated by the inhab
itants.
It was about sunset when he was seized,
and about ten o’clock he was escorted home
ward. Two miles from his house another fire
was built, more tar warmed and poured over
him and additional feathers. After this,
when they had in vain endeavored to extort
from him a promise to serve no more papers,
he was permitted to go to his house, which he
reached about midnignt.
Upon reaching his house he endeavored to
prevent his wife from being alarmed, by as
suring her he was uninjured, and advising her
of the sight he presented. But when she
came to behold him she fainted. He was
concerned also, lest his children should be
hold the father they respected, in the plight
to which the miscreants had reduced him.
With much difficulty he restored his wife,
and in the course of the night was able to re
move the pitch from his body; having burnt
up his clothes.
This is a plain narrative of the treatment to
which a respectable and worthy citizen of this
county has been subjected, for bravely doing
a duty which is shunned by the proper legal
officers, through cowardice or worse motives.
It is impossible that any one should read it
and not feel indignant and ashamed that such
outrages have prevailed in the region for so
many years, that the law is a dead letter, and
that for so infamous an.offence against the per
son no redress can be obtained. And this is
New-York!
Daniel Webster’s Oratory—More Din
ners—The Union Safe. — L’he Picayune has
more gratifying news of Daniel Webster. Its
dispatch from Philadelphia, of date 2d April,
says :
“ He (Mr. Webster) partook: of a sumptu
ous supper last night at Bander's hotel. To
day he dined with the Legislature and Gov
ernor at Senator Camerons’.”
What an appetite and digestion the great
Daniel must have ! “ Partook of a sumptu
ous supper in the night,' and dined the next
day with the Legislature and the Governor !
Why does not the Picayune inform its readeis
what this “sumptuous supper” consisted of?
How interesting and consoling to the people
it must be to read these astounding proofs of
the capacity of our Secretary of State, and
how meritorious it is in our contemporary to
go to such heavy expense (ten cents a word)
to keep the world informed of the “ Godlike
trencher achievements. — Delta .
A Banter. —The Washington Union un
dertakes to say—
“ That if Mr. Webster, or any one else, au
thorized to speak and represent the views of
the present administration, will undertake,
over his own*signature, to answer the reports
of the Democratic Secretary of the Treasury
in favor of the low duties of the tariff of 1846,
and the general argument in favor of the doc
trines of free trade, we will publish the argu
ment of such individual, if the Republic will
agree to publish Mr. Walker’s reply to it.”
An educational establishment “ out W 3St,"
has displayed over its portals the following
rather significant sign :
Freeman and Hugos, School Teachers.
Freeman teaches the Boys and Huggs the Girls.
A Tough Job. —The last Washington Re
public contains an article more than nine col
umns long, designed to show the nad charac
ter and effects of the present Tariff; and this
nine column article is the fifth of the series.
More, we presume, are to come. The writer
is Henry C. Carey, of Philadelphia.— N. Y,
Jour. Com.
A London Boy’s Opinion op Christ.—May
hew, in his late work on “London Laoour and
London Poor,” gives the following as a Lon
don coster-boy's opinion of the Saviour :
“I have heard a little about our Saviour
they seem to say he were a goodish kind of a man;
but if he says as how a cove’s to forgive a feller
as hits you , I should say he knowed nothing about
Prof. Webster’s Family.—ln the barque
10, which sailed from Boston for Fayal last
week, went passengers Mrs. H. Webster, Miss
Catherine Webster, and Mr. S. W. Dabney
and wile, (late Miss Webster.)
Advice to a Daughter. —The delicacy of
sentiment, to say nothing of the excellence of
the advice, contained in. the subjoined letter of
the late Win. Wirt to his daughter, will be
admired and appreciated by every reader of
taste:
««I want to tell you a secret. The way to
make yourself pleasing to others, is to show
that you care for them. The whole world is
like the miller at Mansfield, ‘ who cared for
nobody, —no, not he, —because nobody cared
for him.’ And the whole world will s ;rve
you so, if you give them the same cause. Let
every one, therefore, see that you do care for
them, by showing them, what Sterne so hap
pily calls, * the sweet courtesies of life,’ those
courtesies in which there is no parade;—
whose voice is too still to tease and which
manifest themselves by tender and affectionate
looks, and little kind t ots of attention, giving
others the preference in every little enjoy
ment at the table, in the field, walking, sitting
<3r standing. This is the spirit that gives to
your time of life, and to your sex, its sweet
est charm. ~ It constitutes the sum total of all
the wither aft of woman. Let tbe world see
that your first c*re is for yourself, and you
will spread the solitude of the Upas tree a
round you, in the same way, by the emanation
of a poison, which kills all the juice of affec
tion in its neighbornood. Such a girl may be
admired for her understanding and accom
plishments, but she will never be beloved.
Ihe seed of love can never grow but un
der the warm and genial influence of kind
feelings and affectionate manners.
Vivacity goes a great way in young persons.
It calls attention to her that displays it; and
if it then be found associated with a generous
sensibility, its execution is irresistable.
On the contrary, if it be found in alliance
with a cold, haughty, selfish heart, it produ
ces no further effect, except an adverse one. —
Attend to this, my daughter. It flows from
a heart that feels for you all the anxiety a pa
rent can feel, and not without a hope which
constitutes a parent’s highest happiness. May
God protect and bless you. Your affection
ate lather. * Wm. Wirt.”
An Interesting Incident. —The other day,
in convesation with Miss Dix, the Phylan
thropist daring her visit to Greenville, a lady
said to her. “Are you not afraid to travel all
over the country alone, and have you not en
countered dangers and been in perilous situa
tions!” “I am naturally timid,” said Miss
Dix, “and diffident like all my sex; but, in
order to carry out my purposes, I know that
it is necessary to make sacrifices and encoun
ter dangers. It is true I have been in my
travels through the different States, in peril
ous situations. I will mention one which
occurred in the State of Michigan. I had
hired a carriage and driver to convey me some
distance through an uninhabited portion of
the country. In starting, I di covered that
the driver, a young lad, had a pair of pistols
wi'h him. Enquiring what he was doing
with arms, he said he carried them to protect
us, as he had heard that robberies had been
committed on our road. I said to him give
me the pistols, I will take care of them. Ha
did so, reluctantly.
In pursuing our journey thorugh a dismal
looking forest, a man rushed into the road
caught the horses by the bridle, and deman
ded my purse. I said to him, with as much
seif possession as I could command, “Are you
not ashamed to rob a woman? I have but
little money, and that I want to defray my
expenses in visting prisons and poor houses,
and occasionally in giving to objects of chari
ty. If you have been unfortunate, are in dis
tress, and in want of money, I will give you
some. Whilst thus speaking to him, I dis
covered his countenance changing, and he be
came deathly pale.” “My God.” he exclaim
ed, “That voice!” and immediately told me
that he had been in the Philadelphia Peni
tentiary, and had heard me lecturing some of
the prisoners in an adjoining cell, and that he
now recognized my voice. He then desired
me to pass on, and expressed deep sorrow at
the outrage he had committed. But I drew
out ray purse, and said to him, “I will give
you something to support you until you can
get into honest employment. He declined,
at first,taking anything, until I insisted on
his doing so, for fear he might be tempted to
rob some one else before fie could get into
honest employment.”
Had not Miss Dix taken possession of the
pistols, in all probability they would have
been used by her driver, and perhaps both of
them murdered! “That toicE.” was more
powerful, in subduing the heart of a robber,
than the sight of a brace of pistols.
%
“Now/ by St. Paul, the Work Goes
Bravely On.” —Yesterday tne city was alive
with enthusiasm and excitement in behalf of
the Jackson Eailro id. The books of subscrip
tion were flying about in every direction, and
the most liberal Subscriptions were prompt
ly made. We could not learn the amount of
stock taken, but think it must be very large.
We think that the sum of $300,000 will °be
raised very shortly. But it behooves every
man who can aff>rd it, to come forward and
render some assistance in for warding this
great undertaking. A display of liberality
and spirit on this occasion will go far to revive
confidence and activity in every department
and profession in our city.— N, O. Delta , 2 d
inst.
Mesmerism and chloroform, according to
the London Leader, were known nearly two
centuries ago. Papin the first who pointed
out the use to which steam might be applied
as a motive power, left a manuscript entitled
“Traites des operation, sans dohur ,” wherein
he examines the different agencies by which
sensibility can be suspended during opera
tions. He did not publish it, because his col
leagues. the professors at Marburgh, violent
ly opposed his notions, and discouraged him
against putting them forth.—This was in
1681. Profoundly hurt at the bigotry of his
colleagues, and the obstacles to which science
was exposed through the reigning pedantry,
Papin quitted the medical profession to devote
himself to the study of physics, which was to
immorta ize him. His manuscript has rscent
ly been discovered at Marburgh, in Hesse —
where Papin was professor—and will, it is
hoped, soon be given to the press.
Barnum’s Elephants. —Mr. Barnum, some
time since, sent Mr. S. B. June, of West
chester county, New York, to Asia, to secure
for him an immenoe caravan of wild beasts.
Finding that he could not purchase them,Mr.
June went into the interior and employed a
party of natives, who proceeded to hunt for
elephants. In one night they succeeded in
capturing fifteen, by driving them into a pen.
One monster wasso severely wouded thnt he
died, but he succeeded in bringing thirteen
of them to Port Gable, and writes that they
are safely on board of a vessel, and that he has
a party out in search of more. The Newark
Daily Advertiser says that the cars and fix
tures for this great traveling exhibition ard
menagerie, which is also to ineludo an exten
sive museum of curiosities, are being built in
that city, lom Ihumb is also to accompany
the exhibition, with the Wisconsin giant, Mr.
Nellis, the man without arms,and Mr. Pierce
the lion- tamer. — Baltimore Sun.
Ex-Chancellor Walworth, of New York,
was married on the 17th ult., at Jacksonvi le,
Illinois, to the widow of Col. Hardin, who
was killed at the battle of Buena Vista,
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
3tugnsta, Georgia.
THURSDAY MORNINgT MAY 8
The Fine Arts in Sngiand and America.
The jealousy existing between Great Britain
and this country, in reference to all the Arts,
is proverbial. Whether they be the useful
and industrial arts, or the fine arts, the Eng
lish equally show a disposition to depreciate
American enterprizeand exalt their own. To
have come off second best in the prowess of
arms in two wars, was sufficiently galling to
British pride. But to be successfully rivalled
by Y'oung America in any of the arts of peace,
especially those which mark the progress of a
nation in refined tastes, is to the arrogant
self-consequence of aristocratic Old England,
whose purse, and whose pride,are alike inflated
beyond the modest pretensions of her repub
lican competitor, inflicts a sting which seldom
fails to elicit expressions of chagrin.
To this spirit we attribute the ill-natured
assaults upon the enterprize of Dr. Spooner
and his associates in restoring the original
plates of the
pristine beauty.
Some British journals have the liberality to
soar above that petty jealousy which is so apt
to blind the eyes to the truth, and prevent an
upright judgment upon merit. Some have the
magnanimity to view art and genius and en
terprise, and a love for the beautiful, as cos
mopolitan, born to no clime or section, and
equally worthy the favor and sympathy of
the enlightened, no matter under what sun, or
form of government, they may develope their
powers.
But this is evidently not the spirit which
actuates the London Art Journal, in refer
ence to Dr. Spooner’s American eaterprize.
We quote from the Home Journal, an article
which strikes a responsive cord, not only on
our American heart, but upon our abstract
love of justice.
We regret to see, in a Southern journal,
the Southern Literary Gazette, a disparaging
editorial, on this subject. This may arise
from the fact that the Editor is himself, an
Englishman, and therefore knows how to
sympathize with the London Art Journal.
We have not read the articles in the latter
journal, commenting on these Illustrations,
and therefore can only infer the extent to
which their spirit is infused into the editorial
of the Southern Literary Gazette. But the
latter reads very much as if it had consulted
that journal diligently for facts or assertions
on which to disparage these fine engravings.
In fact, it refers its readers to the London Art
Journal for 18-48, for a more full history of the
enterprize. The article in the Gazette being
probably a re-hash, especially in its preju
dices, of the English article, without the ex
tenuation of its being in an English journal.
The high reputation of the original engravings
are probably beyond the reach of the journals,
British and American, of the present day.—
But it is a singular fact that they became the
subject of fierce assailment in either, only
since the American restored plates bid fair to
reflect credit on American enterprise, and in
terfere with the business of selling English
engravings at costly prices in this country.
We pretend to no critical knowledge of ex
cellence in line, or stipple, or mezzotinto en
graving. Our judgment could add to or take
nothing from Boy dell’s Illustrations. But we
take occasion to remark that we had in years
past occasionally seen and admired detached
specimens of the original illustrations which
had found their way to this country, and ne
ver heard any other criticism pronounced on
them than that they were among the finest
specimens of engraving that Art had yet
produced.
Southern Bucket Factory. —We were, a
few days since, presented with a new and
beautiful Cedar Bucket, by our friend Mr. S.
D. Bridgeman, of Opalaki, Walker county,
Ga. Mr. Bridgeman has just completed his
Bucket Factory, and is now making Buckets
at the rate of from 12 to 18 dozen per day.
We do not mean buckets of a common quali
ty, but decidedly the finest we have ever seen
in this market; they are made of Cedar, and
beautifully polished off.
We hope our merchants will now be done
with the blue and green buckets, manufactured
at the North, and send their bills for Buckets
to Mr. Bridgeman, where they can buy them
as cheap as they can at the North ; and aside
from thi3, they will b 8 manufactured from
Southern wood and by the hands of South
ern.men. —Savannah Morning News.
We “ second the motion ” of our cotempo
rary of the Savannah News, as regards those
“ blue and green buckets.” But we take oc
casion to remind the public, that there is a
Bucket Factory in Augusta, and we would be
pleased to see our enterprizing citizens, J.
Glendinning & Co., sharing with Mr. Bridge
man, the orders of our Georgia merchants for
Buckets. At their Steam Bucket Tub and
Barrel Factory, they manuafcture exten
sively, and in a superior manner, those ar
ticles, and sell them on as reasonable terms as
they can be procured North of Mason & Dix
on’s line.
Common School Education.
Under our Special Notice head is a call for a
meeting of the citizens of Richmond county, to
be held at the City Hall, at 8 P. M., next Sat
urday, on this interesting subject. The im
mediate business for its attention will be the
appointment of Delegates to represent the
county in the proposed Convention at Mari
etta, on the 8 h of July next, to devise a
practicable scheme of Common School Edu
cation.
The subject is worthy the best feelings and
efforts of every good citizen, and we hope to
wicness an attendance at the meeting suitable
i:o the occasion.
Virginia. —The folio *ving is the official re
turn of the recent enumeration of the popula
tion of the State :
Eeastern District. Western District.
Whites ..401,540 Whites 462,609
Black, (free,). 45.783 Blacks, (free,) 8J23
Black,(slaves)4o4,793 Black,(slaves) 68,233
Total 852,116 T0ta1.,,,.. ,568,965
Showing an aggregate population of 1,421,-
081 in the whole State,
South- Carolina Convention of Southern
Kights Associations,
On Tuesday, 6th t., Mr. G. A. Tren
holm, by leave of the Convention, read a let
ter from the Hon. Langdon Cheeves, in which
he deprecated the separate secession of South-
Carolina as impolitic.
Mr. Maxcy Gregg, from the Committee of
Twenty-One, to report business, to whom all
the propositions laid before the Convention,
were referred, submitted the following Re
solutions as expressive of the sentiments of
the Convention, and an Address to the South
ern Rights Associations of the Southern
States:
RESOLUTIONS.
1. Resolved, That in the opinion of this
meeting, the State of South-Carolina cannot
submit to the wrongs and aggressions which
have bean perpetrated by the Federal Govern
ment and the Northern States, without dis
honor and ruin; and that it is necessary to
relieve herself therefrom, whether with or
without the co-operation, of other Southern
States.
2. Resolved , That concert of action with
one or more of our sister Ststes of the South,
whether through the proposed Southern Con
gress, or in any other manner, is an object
worth many sacrifices, but not the sacrifice
involved in submission.
3. Resolved, That we hold the right of Se
cession to be essential to the sovereignty and
freedom of the States of the Confederacy;
and that the denial of that right would fur
nish to an injured State the strongest {addi
tional cause for its exercise.
4. Rssolved, That this meeting looks with
confidence and hope to the Convention of the
People, to exert the sovereign power of the
State in defence of its rights, at the earliest
practicable period and in the most effactual
manner; and to the Legislature, to adopt the
most speedy and effectual measures towards
the same end.
■
The Report was made the special order for
Wednesday morning.
The Mew York and Erie Ra Iroad has made
the most profitable day’s work ever accom
plished by a railroad, perhaps. By a proviso
of a law of the State of New York, the $3,-
000,000 which the State had loaned the com
pany is no longer due, in virtue of the com
pany having laid a single track from the Hud*
son River to Lake Erie, and run its engines
over it before the middle of May. This is
what the law required to secure the release,
and the feat was performed one day last week.
•G, MAY 8
The Appalling Occurrence at Danvillb.
The Lewisburgh Chronicle of Wednesday
gives the particulars of the injury to the Me
thodist Church at Danville, by lightning on
Sunday last :
The congregation were kneeling in prayer,
just before the sacrament was to be adminis
tered. There were no previous indications of
a storm, except a slight sprinkle of rain, and
a cloud which seemed to be gathering in a
northerly direction. The steeple was first
struck, and much shattered. After reaching
the main building, the electric fluid divided
into two separate currents—one passing
through the ceiling and along the chain by
which one of the lamps was suspended, (both,
of which latter were demolished) directly
down into the midst of the crowded congre
gation; tearing up the floor and pews •onsid
erably, and instantly killing Mrs. Pencil and
inflicting alarming injuries upon her sister,
Miss Yastine, and eight or nine others, most
ly females, besides stunning and otherwise
partially affecting many other persona.
The ladies dre ses were much torn, as well
as set on fire, and in some instances ripped
completely open to the flesh by the force of
the terrific boh. Mrs. Pencil's person bore no
external marks of injury, but, most of the bo
dies were scorched and discolored to a greater
or less extent. The other current passed out
through the brick wall by the front door, tear
ing off the facings and prostrating a young
man named Jones, who was just at that mo
ment in the act of entering. The lightning
struck his right shoulder, tore his right boot
to fragments, and blistered his flesh from
shoulder to heel so badly that the skin peeled
off when his shoes were removed.
Our informant, a gentleman of this place,
who was in the chapel at the time, says it was
the most appalling scene of consternation and.
distress he ever witnessed.
The chapel is a new building, and th e en
tire elevation of the steeple, or dome, is about
eighty feet, and had no lightning rod; though
we understand one had been contracted for,
and was expected to bs put up in the course
of the summer.
The South Caolina pREBBTTER'*.—\Ye
learn by the Laurensville Herald <jJ 2d inst.
that the South Carolina Presbytery, which as
sembled at Laurensville, S. C. “adjourned on
Saturday last, at 4 o’clock, p. m. after a busy
session of three days, during which much
important business was transacted. The
meeting continued through the following
Sabbath, when the solemn and imposing’
sacrament of the Lord’s Supper was adminis
tered to about one hundred and fifty com
municants, in the presence of a crowded andl
overflowing house. Indeed the meeting was
well attended during the entire session, and
on Sunday, the congregation was so large that
it was divided, and a serenion was preached
to a full house in the Female Academy,’’
Cotton in Liberia. —A letter from the Horu
H. Teage, dated Monrovia, Feb. 13th, speaks
of the effort to cultivate cotton in that Re
public, as successful, A vessel was soon to
load with cotton.
Extensive Damage to the Cotton and Tr /
Crops by Frost. bacco
Nashville, May a.-We have hr d h
rains in this section, and a killing f rQßt i«V
night caused much damage to thr ‘ J“
tobacco plants. The greater oait ‘l°V™
already up are thought to ha\ e P been
ItUDyviLLE, May 2._We haTe had a seve ’ re
I. here, causing gree t destruction to the
tobacco plants.
bacco plants suffered in this district from
heavy frosts*.
Ins Supreme Court.— The Supreme Court
of (Georgia commenced its semi-annual ses
sions in tnis place yesterday, the Judges with
their usuai punctuality all at their posts. The
ease on the docket are not numerous, but
wejgpresume sufficiently so to occupy the at
tention of the Court for the present week.-
Milledgevllle liecorcler, Qth inst.
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