Newspaper Page Text
116
LITERARY.
WILLIAM W. MANN, Editor.
The Southern Field and Fireside
18 PUBLISHED EVKBT SATURDAY.
TERMS—S2.OO a year, invariably in advance. All
Postmasters are authorized agents.
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8, ISM.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
We do not send receipts by mail for subscriptions re
mitted. The receipt of The Souther* Field and
Fireside, after the money is remitted, will be eYi
dence to each subscriber that his money has been re
ceived and his name duly entered on the mail booh.
BACK NUHBERB.
Persons subscribing to the Field and Fireside can
be supplied with all the back numbers.
—
TERMS TO NEWS-DEALERS.
This paper is mailed to news-dealers at the rate of two
dollars and fifty cents per one hundred copies.
>si
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.
For each insertion of ten lines or less, one dollar; and
for over ten lines, at the rate of ten cents per line.
——
TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS.
We have received during the week the follow
ing articles in prose and poetry:
The Fatal Statuette, by Emmie Emerald;
A Leyer “From Mississippi,” by Rambler;
I’d be with Thee, by R. G.;
Thy Dreams be Sweet, by Maurice ;
Coming, by M. C.'B.:
The Old Oak Tree, by J. M. H.;
The Invalid’s Dream of Health, by Merlin* ;
The Sister's Influence, or The Brother Re.
claimed, by A. C. B.
7b B. 11. IF., who has kindly communicated
the article “ I, too, am a Southron,” we must say
that after considerable reflection we concluded
not to publish the manuscript in question. Sev
eral similar communications have already been
returned to their authors; with tlio understand
ing that, except under particular circumstances,
which do not exist in the present case, such
communications would in future be declined.—
We agree with our correspondent that the article
declined is a very creditable production, but we
think that the Field and Fireside is hardly its
fit depository. We hold tho MS. at the disposi
tion of B. 11. W.
To 11 Florence Lyle.'' —Have you sent to us
your real name, with the communication for
warded a fortnight since ?
7b Periplus. —Won’t you favor us with the pe
rusal of the poem of G. D. P. of which you speak?
We had received, from another friend, a note
upon the same subject, and of the same tenor
with yours, before yours reached us; and we
had already written for an explanation. We
recollect having read, years ago, the poem of
G. D. P.; but it is recalled, after all our efforts,
very indistiuctly,—and wo would like the op
portunity of comparing, as in justice should be
done, before we definitively condemn and punish.
—We accept, and will publish as soon as place
can be conveniently found for them, the following
articles; •
Stray Leaves from the Diary of a Couutry
Lady, by M. M. v
Bells, by A. Z.
The Water-Sprite, by F.
Lines to a Young Poetess, by A. R. B.
Napoleon’s Prophecy, by W. G. S.
—We respectfully decline:
A Paradox, Love and Glory.
A Paradox, Quiet.
An Anecdote about Ducks.
Lines to “Psuche.”
Lines addressed “To Woman.”
The Difference of Love.
My Childhood’s Happy Home.
Mattie Neel.
Idolatry in California.— We thank the
Reverend gentleman whose name is appended to
the following letter, for correcting the erroneous
statement of an item in our “News Summary,”
in Field and Fireside, page 101.
Walterborougii, S. C., )
30th Aug., 1859. J
Dear Sir: I observe in the Southern Field and
Fireside, (of the 20th inst.,) the following:
“The only efforts in California to christianize
• the Chinese, are by the Methodists, at Sacra
mento.”
The'exchange from which the above has been
taken, has certainly fallen into an error.
Jf there is but one denomination making efforts
to christianize the Chinese in California, it is the
Baptist denomination; and if tho Methodist de
nomination are engaged in the work, then there
is a mistake, in the remark, that they stand
alone.
Rev. J. L. Shuck has been engaged in this
work for a number of years. He once labored
in China He has been assisted bv one or more
Chinese preachers. He is a minister of the Bap
tist denomination, and resides at Sacramento.
An Episcopal minister, Rev. E. W. Tyle, also
labored there for a short time, but has now re
turned to China, his former field of operations.
A Presbyterian missionary from China, Rev.
Wm. Speer, labored there for a few years, but is
now living in another part of the United States.
I am unable to say whether Episcopal and
Presbyterian missions are still in existence, in
California.
Very respectfully yours,
B. W. WIIILDEN,
Returned Missionary from China.
———
Valuk of Newspapers. -Many people like news
papers, but few preserve them; yet the most in
teresting reading imaginable is a file of old news
papers. It brings up the very age. with all its
bustle and every-day affairs, and marks its genius
and its spirit more than the most labored de
scription of the historian. Who can take up a
paper half a century back, without the thought
that almost every name there printed is now
cut upon a tombstone at the head of an epitaph ?
—>«♦
COP FRIGHTS. —By an act of Congress the duty
of attending to the operation of tho copyright
law 1 laving been transferred to the Department
of the Interior, the Secretary has made that duty
a branch of the business of the Patent Office. *
VXB SOTCKBEB BXKLB 111 tS&SSXDK.
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.
Paris, 11th Aug., 1859.
The plenipotentiaries of France, Austria, and
Sardinia, are now holding their session at Zurich.
The sessions are secret, and wil lbe kept secret
to their close. The political chronicle will, con
sequently, be nearly bare of facts as to their say
ings and doings. Os conjectures and guesses,
and prophecies, however, we shall have more
than enough—indeed have already. Two of
them only are worth mention. One is, that the
Zurich plenipos will limit their action to the ne
gotiation of a tripartite treaty and of distinct
treaties between their principals, the late bel
ligerent powers. The political reorganization of
Italy, if it lias any stability, must be the subject
of debate for a European Congress. The two Em
perors may labor at the preparation of a new
Italian system, but it must be sanctioned by the
other great powers. But as they would hardly
find it consistent with their dignity to appear in
Congress for the mere purpose of voting aye I to
the preamble and articles of Louis Napoleon’s
Italian Bill, there must be debate. My own be
lief, if not altogether so confident as it has been,
still strongly inclines towards the Congress.—
The greatest difficulty in the way is the Roman
part of the Italian question. Not only must the
Pontifical government deny the competence of
tho throe non-catholic powers, England, Russia,
and Prussia, to authoritatively discuss its affairs
and impose reforms, but these powers them
selves may have notions—we will not say of del
icacy, but—of political convenance in that res
pect. And this state of tho case suggests my
second conjecture, viz: that the European Con
gress will not be, but that an Italian Congress
will follow at no very distant date the definitive
conclusion of peace at Zurich. If Austria and
France can remain friends, that is, if the two
Emperors can work together upon Italy, such a
result is not impossible; and confederated Italy
may be constructed and set a going, as the war
and peace were made, by those two gentlemen,
without consulting their neighbors.
This course would doubly suit the taste of
Austria, who has always been opposed to a Con
gress, and who would particularly relish keeping
out Prussia and England from any share in 6ne.
She i 3 still vexed with those two powers, espe
cially with Prussia, and her vexation is not di
minished by learning that her recent warm ex
pression of it was “quite uncalled for,” and really
needs, what Prussia has requested, an apology.
I refer to the famous project of mediation. The
history of it being now fully known, and quite
curious withal, and not long, is worth repeating.
To begin, as Horace advises, in the middle.—
The advice of Horace, I am aware, was
addressed to poets rather than historians,
but this history is wonderfully rich in fiction,
which is a poetic element. And it happens to be
most abundant in fiction just in the middle,
where, as I just said, I will begin. Franz Jo
seph gave to his “peoples” and the world as his
reason for accepting the terms of peace offered
by tho Emperor of tho French at Villafranca.
that they were more favorable than those
which the neutral powers had a plan of propos
ing ; and then reflected lastly on the miserable
backing he had received from those who should
have been his friends. The allusion and the
bitterness of it were especially intended for
Prussia. But lost they should not be strong
enough, he directed his Foreign minister, Count
Richberg, to do them over again in a formal cir
cular to his agents at the German courts. And
the Count, cutting an uncommon sharp nib to
his pen, and dipping into ink uncommonly strong
of nutgall, did accordingly and circularly accuse
Prussia of being about to urge its unfavorable
terms of vindication, and to show the German
courts and the world how unfriendly they were,
he annexed a copy of them to his circular. They
were also published about the same time in the
newspapers. Prussia directly come out with a
denial, not only of the authorships, but of all
knowledge of the plan previous to its communi
cation by Count Richberg, and the public prints,
and has since civilly requested Austria to apolo
gize for the unfounded charge and the impolite
manner of it. Austria, with customary dilatoriness
and obstinacy, does not yet apologize. Russia
denies point Blank having anything to do with
the said plan. England neither originated nor
recommended it. In the name of the Father of
Lies and all the Diplomats of tho family, who
did originate it, then ? quoth the European pub
lic in amaze. No answer. If the Franz Jo
seph and the Count Rickberg might, could, or
would be hoaxed! May or can such big wigs be
hoaxed ? Aren't they hoaxed ? Badly, though,
very ? successively asks itself the European
public, amazement thawing away gradually into
a mild giggle. Here closes tho fictitious part of
this history, mainly contributed by the imagina
tive F. Joseph and his minister.* Like the old
lady who fell into a passion overlooking for her
spectacles which were on her own nose, the
Kaiser and his man were angrily looking
over to Berlin for the origin of this plan,
while the first draft lay under their noses, ns it
were—and they never smelt the rat 1 The fa
mous plan of mediation, so unfavorable in its
terms, that the Austrian Emperor directly saw
he could make better ones with his Imperial en
emy, was drawn up by the latter at Valeggio,
and forwarded, byway of Paris, and through
the British Foreign Office down to Verona. “The
longest way round” throw tho Austrians quite
off their scent, and kept quite out of their heads
the idea of tracking it “the shortest way home.”
And so a few days later, Franz. Joseph went half
that very way to sign the “more favorable terms
obtainable from Louis Napoleon.” And so the
two ends meet and my story is done. Heaven
grant that the formula of the old stories may be
applicable to the main actor in this : “And they
lived in peace, and died in a pot of grease”
would be a most unroyal death-bed, but some of
' Napoleon’s predecessors have received extreme
unction under less agreeable circumstances.
Notwithstanding the French disarmament by
land and sea, the English parliament, and here
and there other talking bodies, prate still of war.
War with England, war with Prussia, a general
European war. Whatever his majesty’s designs
for the future may be, his present purposes are
peaceful. “Z,’ Empire e'est la paix ” jusqu'au nati
ve l ordre. And if he wills peace, peace it is for
the rest of Europe. That all Europe should wait
upon the beck and nod of this one man, as it
really docs, is undoubtedly gratifying to the
vanity of France, and a maguifieent proof of the
great ability he lias displayed in raising himself
and drawing France after him to this high con
trolling position in European affairs ; and it is
tho eompletest condemnation of his system of
government—of the one-man system. He is
wise, prudent, and provident beyond most men.
But he can set the world by the ears to-morrow,
this one man. And man lie is, not God. An
ill digestion, a fit of spleen, any touch of human
weakness, of insanity, may befall him as it may
another. On such chance depend the lives of
thousands. Truly, our “fierce democracy,” tur- ;
bulent and more’s the shame and the pity, even
lawless as it sometimes show. 1 - itself, is better
than this.
Meantime the great mass of Parisians are in
high glee, dancing with delight, with very little
thought of politics, war, or anything else, ex
cept the great, fetes of next Sunday and Monday.
On Sunday is to be the entry of the triumphant
Army of Italy—the scenic effects of which spec
tacle are to be of a sort extraordinary even for
Paris. The actors are now rehearsing their
parts in camp at Vincennes, which serves as
green-room to the grand stage of the Boule
vards. Some fifty thousand troops are already
arrived there, and thousands more are coming
in daily. These tents spreading over the large
plain, their stacked army, their tattered flags,
the varied uniforms of the different arms, the
picturesque costumes of the Zouaves with their
bronzed faces, and of the wild Turcos with their
black faces, (a novel sight to Parisians) —the
manners of the camp—the old acquaintance to
be found there—the sons and brothers to be
looked up or to be asked after—the wonderful
stories of how bloody fields were won to be
listened to—are a part of the attractions that
daily draw Parisians by the tens of thousands
out to camp of St. Maur. The visitors them
selves become in turn a new attraction, not
less curious and entertaining than the military
part of the show. What has most impressed
me in my visits there has been the good nature,
.the good behavior of civilians and soldiers. I
cannot say good order, for of visible order, ex
cept in the management of the tents in straight
lines and by regiments, there is next to none.—
All parts of this great tented city are open to
every one—the tents themselves as well as the
ground. All these fierce fighters whose terri
ble exploits, we have lately read so much of, are
the pleasantest, civilest fellows imaginable—the
Turcos and Zouaves who did the bloodiest of
the bloody work, being rather the most cheery
and affable of all. The first of these gentry, the
Turcos. the fellows who threw away their
cartoueh boxes at one ofthe battles, that they
might get on faster with their bayonets, are tlie
lions of the day. They are, as you know, with
few exceptions, native Africans. Some of them
jet black, and with negro features, but the ma
jority of more or less pure Moorish blood, and
Caucasian features. Only a few of them speak
more than a few words of French. With one of
these accomplished few I had some conversa
tion. He was an intelligent, well looking, eagle
nosed man, proud of his African blood and Mahom
etan faith, and spoke of ‘yon other French and
Catholics,” not sneeringly, but almost condesend
ingly, which comes to much tho same thing. He
was a volunteer, as are, I believe, all his fellows,
holding war to be a most honorable profession, and
fighting the most amusing of games. Though our
conversation ran chiefly on themes of blood and
death, it was conducted on his part in a very
cheerful strain. He evidently cherished not a
particle of malice toward the Austrians, and
when he dashed upon them with the bayonet,
had no harder feeling than did the cook, who,
“when she put the eels into the paste alive,
knocked ’em o’ tho coxcombs with a stick and
cry’d ‘down, wantons, down.’ ” He spoke with
pleasure of the prospect of soon returning to liia
home and his “papa”—the good, loving word of
the universal language, coming out gently and
almost reverently from the grim lips that uttered
terrible death-yells a few weeks ago at Solferino.
Futher on I saw another of the Turcos, an older
man than my friend, whom a little child had
taken the strango fancy to kiss; the mother had
consented (I told you the Turcos were the lions
of the day, and what will not ladies do to flatter
lions?) the soldier was nothing loth, and, squat
ted on the ground, held the child in his arms
very teuderly, admiring her as you would a
flower, and she admiring him as children new
gay playthings. Neither could understand the
other’s babble, but that was no check to the
flow of Arabic and child’s French. Before lie
would let her go, he thurst his hand under his
tent and, drawing out a tortoise port monuaie,
insisted upon giving her one of its too sole
franc pieces.
Such sights and talks as these, and number
less little? traits of camp life, the cooking, the
washing, the clothes mending, all of which
household operations were going on in the open
field in striking contrast to the housewifery
style of these ordinary performances, but not
unskilfully, make up the entertainment of a visit
to the Camp. It is the god Mars at play, not
unhelped of Bacchus; for besides a constant
flow of cheap bad wine in numberless tents and
booths around the field, the soldiers who had
leave to go into town sober, are so hospitably
beset and fraternized with by the admiring and
glorious civilians of the Faubourg St. Antoine,
that they are in great danger of returning in a
state, not of gross intoxication, (a rare vice with
the French) but of what Dr. Maguin used to call
“civilation.”
In the town of Vincennes, just by the side of
this laughing phase of war, is a military hospital.
I did not enter it in search of a sad moral to
close my pleasant day withal, but in quest-of a
legend for your readers. I wished to verify the
legend before sending it to you; true legends are
so rare now-n-days. This is true, and runs as
follows:
Once there was a beautiful lady, wife of the
Monarcli of France. And when she was “as
ladies wish to be who love their lords,” she
came one day to the town of Vincennes, and as
she was walking there, she came to an image of
the Virgin which was set in a niche in the
walk that bounded that side of the wood. And
being a devout Catholic she knelt there and
prayed to the Virgin that she might bear a son
to her lord, the heir of his name and throne, and
made a vow that, if, by Holy Mary’s interces
sion, the prayer were granted, she would build
a chapel dedicated to her worship. The prayer
was granted, for in due time a male child was
born, and the vow was kept. The chapel was
built, which is now the chapel of the military
hospital at Vincennes. And in the chapel you
may now see the same rude image of the Virgin
before which the royal lady knelt in the wood.
And under it you may read inscribed tho words
of the vow she uttered. And out at St. Cloud
you may see the Prince Imperial, who was born
a few months after they were spoken by the
Empress Eugenie.
Weight of Distinguished Revolutionary
Generals.— On the 10th of August, 1778, the
American officers at West Point were weighed,
with the following result: Gen. Washington,
209 pounds; Gen. Lincoln, 224 do; Gen. Knox,
280 do; Gen. Huntington, 182 do; Gen.Crea
tox, 106 do; Col. Swift, 919 do; CoL Michael
Jackson, 252 do; Lieutenant-Colonel Hunting
ton, 212 do; Lieutenant-Colonel Cobb, 182 do;
Lieutenant Colonel Humphreys, 221 do; Col.
Henry Jackson, 298 do.
i—
opened more, would keep Doc
tors from the Door. —A very large quantity of
fresh air is spoiled and rendered foul by the act
of breathing. A man spoils not less than a gal
lon every minute. In about eight hours breath
ing, a full grown man spoils 408 gallons of fresh
air. If ho wore shut up in a room seven feet
long, and seven feet high, the door and windows
fitting so tightly that no air could pass through,
he would die, poisoned.
[Written for the Southern Field and Fire»ide.j
LIFE-WHEEE LOCATED.
BY N.
Life is lodged in a cell. Animal and vegetable
life, in the abstract, are the same. Both begin
in the primordial cell. This cell—whether
“Zoosperm,” “Graafian follicle,” “granule,” or
“geminal vesicle” is nothing more than a mi
croscopic bag filled with fluid. Place the web
of a frog’s foot in a strong light Look at it
throngh a compound refracting microscope. The
net work you see, is made of arteries. Select
any one of these arterial threads, and observe
the blood coursing through it It has the ap
pearance of a transparent tube, through which
a pile of gold dollars is rapidly passing. These
gold dollars are “blood discs”—cells, such as
above described. Much the same appearance is
manifested by a microscopic examination ot a
leaf. Each cell is 1 a distinct existence. It con
tains the principle of life, and the pabulum, by
which animal and vegetable forms are nourished
and produced. The sap, filled with cells in the
vegetable, and the blood filled with corpuscles
in the animal, are the sources of all life. How
these cells get out of the circulation, and go to
work to make muscle, bark, nerve, leaf, hair,
thorns, Ac., we have not space to tell. But it
has been done, in a volume of one thousand and
ninety-one pages. We simply state that the
principle is “life," the agency is a microscopic
vesicle, the production is all that is beautiful in
animal and vegetable nature. We will briefly
allude to a few of the phenomena of life as illus
trated in the “zoosperm,” or vegetable cell.
Separate a single zoosperm from its vital affi
nity to the mass which constitute a toad-stool.
It is so small that it is almost impalpable to the
senses, even by the aid of a microscope. Tho
membrane which constitutes its wall is extreme
ly tenuous. Touch it with acetic acid, and it
is lost to sight, literally dissolved into nothing.
Retouch it with potassa, and it is restored as if
by magic. And yet, in a material structure so
attenuated, that we might almost say it is
“without form and void,” is imprisoned that
wonderful principle of life, of which we little
know, except that it is embodied in this “vesture
of decay.” Take away its life, and its fluids
evaporate, leaving the cell a thing of naught.
Restore its vitality, and what inconceivable won
ders will it work 1 Even while you look, it en
larges; its fluid contents thicken; it becomes
strictured about the middle like an hour glass;
and soon it separates into two seperate cells. It
lias reproduced itself. One has become two.
Two, four—eight, sixteen—it reproduces as
long as life lasts. True to this law a fungous
granulation will cover the surface of “cedar
balls” in the space of a single wet day. Tho
mould upon preserved fruit, the green scum
upon “frog ponds,” and all such wet, weather
“cryptogamous fungi,” are but proofs of this life
power operating within a cell. Jonah’s gourd
which grew so vast in a night, obeyed the same
laws. The “red dust” which sprinkled the sails
of a vessel far out in open ocean, was vegetable
life which the trade winds had wafted from the
land as if to prove how life could be borne un
hurt upon the winged winds. The red snow of
the Arctics is but the reflected tint of innu
merable myriads of vegetable zoosperms, which
lie scattered upon the frozen bosom of the
earth. They are life-endowed cells which will
not give up their vitality, although the “frost
king” demands their death. And they are
sister cells with those which produce the dif
ferent species of stopclia which, salamander
like, live upon tho sun-scorched sands of the
desert. Hopefully clinging to the bleak and
barren sides of an iceberg, or vegetating on
the boiling brink of Geyser’s hot spring, the
zoosperm is a wonder of wonders. Well might
a learned Doctor say “it is the immediate expo
nent of the will of God.” He had pictured its
physical conformation, illustrated its dynamic
powers, and analyzed its material conditions, but
he could not solve the mystery of its being. —
His confession proved that the beginning and
the end of science is faith. Yes, within the pri
mordial cell is hidden the divine secret of vital
ity. Here reason and revelation meet to inau
gurate the birth of solemn mysteries. Its life
does not go out, as does the light when the
taper wastes away. Its death is a new birth.
The dissolution of every cell is the genesis of
similar forms of being which themselves “go
forth, increase, and multiply,” until earth, sea,
and air become vivid with living organisms.—
And what a beautiful adaptation of means to
ends? This elemental germ is so small that
it is invisible, and yet it is so secure that pon
derable matter cannot crush out its life. Could
ingenuity have devised a “receptaculum vital”
more perfectly answering the necessities of the
case? So simple in its formation, yet it is a per
fect chemical laboratory, as its office in the ani
mal economy proves. It presides over the func
tions of secretion, absorption, nutrition, and in
a word supplies all the wants of vegetation
and animation. Within its narrow compass it
gives scope for the operation of the same dy
namic forces which have cracked the surface of
an “iron ribbed world.” It is the condensation
of power immense, the limitation of life illimi
table. It is a proof that immaterial power, which
heretofore was a “law unto itself,” has been
brought into captivity to the weakest of material
laws—laws which will enslave it until time
ends and eternity begins, for since the creation
“breathed into it the breath of life,” it has never
died. Thus, though an infinitesimally small
subject, yet is it one that is pregnant with large
results. A text for the moralist, a question for
the materialist, a theme for the philosopher, a
moot point, and a mystery to them all. The
materialist is surely the farthest removed from
the truth. He “lies in cold obstruction,” who
imprisons his hopes and unfolds his reasons
within the area of a cell whose status is change,
whose life is death. Were it not best to believe
it an inspired book of Genesis, and in such in
dexes although small pricks to their subsequent
volume, to see the baby figure of the giant
mass of things to come at large?” In the pri
mordial cell science has found a “sorted resi
dence against the tooth of time and the rasure
of oblivion”—a residence more permanent than
the pyramids. A grain of wheat which chanced
to become encased in the gum used for the
preservation of Egyptian Kings—a grain of
wheat which has preserved its vitality for un-
Itold ages—a single grain of wheat has recently
reproduced itself an hundred fold. We eat tho
same bread to-day which Pharaoh eat on yester
day- Life in the germ, life in embryo, life in
the initiative—truly it is tho divine inauguration
of a solemn mystery, dawning in mystery as
morning dawns in mist.
The Elastic Egg. —Take a good and sound
egg, place it in strong vinegar, and allow it to
remain twelve hours; it will theu become soft
and elastic. In this state it can be squeezed
into a tolerably wide-mouthed bottle : when in,
it must bo covered with water haring somo so
da in it. In a few hours this preparation will
restore the egg nearly to its original solidity,
after which tho liquid should be poured off and
the bottle dried. Keep it as a curiosity to puz
zle your friends for an explanation how the egg
was laid in the bottle.
CHESS COLUMN.
GAME 111.
give below a game of Phil ulor, reported by •
celebrated French author and chess-player Bourdon
not*:
White.
1 P from d 3 to d 4
2 P from c 2 to c 4
8 P from e 2 to e 4 (2)
4 P from d 4 tod 5 (4)
5 Ktfrombl tocß
0 P from f 2 to f 8
7 Kt from c 8 to a 4 (6)
8 K from h 1 to g 1:
9 Kt from a 4 to c 8
10 B from flto c 4; (9)
IIP from g2to f 8: (10)
12 B from c 1 to e 8
18 Q from d 1 to d 2
14 B from e 3 to b 6:
15 K castles to c 1
16 R from g 1 to g 5
17 Q from d 2 to e 8
18 Kt from c 3 to e 4
19 P from f 8 to e 4: (11)
20 K from c 1 to b 1
21 Q from e 8 to c 5 :
22 K from d 1 to e 1
28 K from b 1 to c 2
24 R from g 5 tog 8
25 R from g 8 tooß
26 P from d 5 tod 6 (12)
27 R fromb 8 tob6:
2S K from e 1 to d 1
29 R from b 6 to b 71
80 B from c 4 to d 5 (13)
81 R from d 1 to d 6:
82 R from d 5 to d 2
38 R from d 2 to e 2
84 P from e 4 to d 5 :
85 R from b 7 to e 7
36 R from e 7 to e5:
37 R from c 2 to e 5:
8S K from c 2 to c 8
39 P from a 2 to a 4 (15)
40 P from a 4 to a 5
41 R from e 5 to e 1
42 R from e 1 to g 1
43 K from c 8 to c 4
44 P from a 5 to a 6
45 K from c 4 to c 5:
46 K from c 5 to b 6
47 P from a 6 toa7
48 R from g 1 tog 2 : (17)
49 P from b 2 to D 4
50 R from g 2 toh2
51 P from b 4 to b 5
62 K from b 6 to c 6
53 P from b 5 to b 6
64 P from b 6 to b 7
NOTES.
(1) The capture of a piece Is indicated by two point*
(:) ut the c nihp tile move.
Check to the King is indicated by a dagger (+) at the
end of the move.
(2) If you should push this pawn only one sqnnre,
your queen's bishop would be hampered, during half
the game.
(8) It instead of playing this pawn, the Blacks had
supjiorted that of the gambit, they w ould have lost the
game.
(4) If yon had played Pd4to e 8 you would
have lost the advantage of the attack.
(5) If the Blacks had made any other move, it woald
have been necessary to push I* f 2 to f 4, which would
have procured entire liberty of action for your piece*.
(6) Instead of playing this knight to rid yourself of
their king's bishop, you might have taken the pawn of
the gambit, but you would then have lost the game.
(7) If instead of taking this Knight the Blacks had
played B c 5 to d 4, you might have attacked it by play
ing Kt g 1 toe 2, and taking the next move.
(S) If the Blacks had pushed P b T to b 5 to support
the pawn of themimbit, they would have lost the game;
and if instead of one of these two moves, they had pre
ferred to move Pfs to e 4:, you would have replied by
moving P f 8 to e 4 :, and the Blacks would not have dared
to move Ktftf to e 4:, because you would then have
won the game by playing Qd 1 toh 5t
(9) This is a curious move. If you had moved Pf 8
toe 4 : you would have lost the game.
(10) By taking with this pawn you open for your rook
a passage upon the adversary’s queen.
(11) To connect itself with the queen's.
(12) To open passage for your rook and bishop.
(18) To prevent the advance of the adversary's pawns.
(14) If the Blacks should support this pawn they would
lose the game.
(15) If instead of pushing this pawn you had moved
K e 5 to c 6: you would have lost tno game, because your
king would havo prevented your rook from approaching
to close the passage to the adversary’s knight's pawn.
(I®) I* the Blacks should not take your pawn they
would lose their own, and the game immediately.
(17) If instead of taking their pawn, you had taken
their rook, you would have lost the game.
(18) You take their rook, and as their pawn will cost
yours, it is evident that it is a drawn game.
SOLUTION OK PROBLEM IL
Published in our last No, page 109.
White* move queen from a 2 to g 8
Now, Black* cannot move without affording to the ad
versary opportunity for giving a check-mate the next
move.
PROBLEM ItL
(From Bourdonnai*.)
WHITE. BLACK.
Pawn on g 2 Kook on c 1
King on h 8 Queen ou e 1
Kook on g 4 Knight on f 5
Bishop on c 5 • King on h 5
Knight on d 8 Pawn on g 6
, Pawn on h T
White moving from 1 to 8
Black moving from 8 to 1
hite to play, and mate in three moves. Solution to
above I roblem will be given in our next number.
NEW BOOKS.
From the N. T. Saturday Pres*, for tho week ending
August 27,1859: s
Morphy s Uatch Games; being a full and accurate ac
count of his success abroad, defeating, in almost every
instance, the Chess celebrities of Europe. Edited, with
copious and valuable notes, by Charles Hcntv Stanly,
author of the “Chess-player's Instructor.” Embellished
with a superb steel portrait of Paul Morphy, from a pho
tograph by Brady. New York: Robert M. DeWitt,
Recollections, by Samuel Rogers, of Personal Conver
sational Intercourse with Charles James Fox, Grattan,
I orson Horne Tooke, Talleyrand, Sir Walter Scott, Ed
mund Burke, Duke of Wellington, and others. With a
preface by Samuel Rogers. Edited by Mr. Rogers’
nephew, Wm. Sharp. 1 v01.,12m0. Printed on tinted
Boston : Bartlett A Mills, 1859.
Tb® of Faith. An address to the Alumni of
the Divinity School of Harvard University, Cambridge,
Given July 19, 1859. By Henry W. Bellows, I>.
D. New York :C. 8. Francis A 00.
Ancient Dominions of Maine, embracing the earliest
lacts, the recent discoveries of the remains of Aboriginal
Towns, the Voyages, Settlements, Battle Scenes and in
cidents of Indian Warfare, and other incidents ofUgtpry,
together with tho religious development of
within the ancient Sagadahoc, Sheepseod, and IYrmHlmd
precincts and dependencies. By Itufus King Bewail, au
thor of “Sketches of the City of St Augustine.” 8 vo.
♦2. Boston :E. Clark A Co.
Biennial Digest for 1557 andlSs9, on the plan and in
continuation of Brightly's Analytical Digest of the laws
or tho United States, and completing It to the present
date. By N. Brightly. Philadelphia : Kay A Bro.
Recreations of a Southern Barrister. With an intro
pincott l’c» eV ' T ' J ° nCS- Philode, l ,hia :J - p - L, P*
Natural Philosophy forSchoolsand Academies. By J.
I. Quackcnboss. New York : D. Appleton A Co.
Roman Orthoepy. A plea for the Restoration of the
I™ c S y stem of Latin pronunciation. By Prof. John F.
Richardson,.Professor of the Latin language and Litera-
A r Ci» n Universit >’ °* Rochester. New York, Sheldon
Elementary Algebra, for the Use of Common Schools
““Academies. By John F. Stoddard, A. M„ and Prof.
W. D. Hencie, of the Southwestern Normal School.—
New Y ork : Sheldon A Co.
Modern Philology ; Its Discoveries, History, and In
fluence with maps, tabular views, etc. By Beni. W.
Dwight. New York :A. S. Baines A Burr.'
Books ix Press.— Horae Subsecivie. By John Brown,
M. D. Sidney Dobell’s Poems. Blue and Gold Aph
orisms from the writings of Rev. F. W. Robertson. Ed
ited by hJs Father. The Bandit Priost; or, Brigands be
yond the Atiantie. By Capt. May no Reid. Tfeknor A
Fields, Boston.
The Dog in Health and Disease. Comprising the va
rious modes of breaking and using him for tiunting,
coursing, shooting, etc., and including the points or char
acteristics of toy dogs. By Stonehenge, uuthor of “The
York, "i*'* L C Saxton, Barker A Co., New
The Mysteries of the Desert. Translated from the
French of M. du Couret. W. A Townsend A Co., New
York.
The Rectory of Moreland ; or, M v Dutv. J. E. Tilton
A Co., Boston. *
Eorty Yearsin the Wlldncrness of Pills and Powders ;
or, The Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physi
cian. By William A. Olcott, M. D. J. P. Jewett A Co.,
Boston.
Higher Christian Education. By B. W. Dwight, A.
8. Barnes A Burr, N. Y.
Black.
P from d 7 to d 5
P from d 5 to c 4 :
P from e 7to e 5 (8)
Pfrum f 7 to f5(5)
Kt from g 8 to f 6
B from f 8 to c 5
B from cstogl; (7)
K castles to g 8 (8)
P from f 5 to e 4 :
P from e 4 to f 8 :
B from c 8 tof 5
Kt from b 8 to d 7
Kt from d 7 to b 6
P from a 7 to b 6:
K from g 8 to h 8
P from g 7 to g 6
Qfrom <lB to d 6
B from f 5 to o 4 ;
R from f 8 to e 8
Q from d 6 to c 5
Pfrom b 6 to c 5:
K from h 8 to g 7
P from h 7 toh 6
Kt from f 6 to h 5
P from b 7 to b 6
P from c 7 to d 6:
R from a 8 to d 8
Kt from h 5 to f 6
K from g 7 to h §
Ktfrom f 6 to d 5 :
R from c 8 to f 8
R from f 8 to f 4
P from d 6 to d 5
R from d 8 to d 5 :
P from g 6 to g 5 (14)
R from d 5 to e 6:
R from f 4 to f 2 t
R from f 2 to h 2:
P from g 5 to g 4
P from g 4 tog 8
P from g 8 to g 2
R from h 2 to h 31
R from h 8 to g 8
R from g 3 to g 7
P from h 6 to h 5
P from h 5 to h 4
R from g 7 to a 7 : (16)
R from a 7 to h 7
P from h 4 to h 8
K from h 8 to g 7
K from g 7 to g 6
K from g 6 to g 5
K from g 5 to g 4
R from h 7to b7: (18)