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LITERARY.
ImUAJI TV. MANN, Editor.
SATURDAY, DEC. 3, 1859.
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TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS.
We have received this week, the following
communications:
JAn Article in two numbers on S. S. Prentiss,
by G. H. 8.;
The Black Mask, by Emmie Emerald ;
Literary Fame, by U. L. 0.;
Fighting Boys, &c., by J. M. T.;
Model Marketing, by Hoppinjohn :
Popular Astronomy, by Latukin. Nos. 3 A 4;
TJps and Downs —in two parts —by Stella—
Randolph;
My Father’s Grave, by U'enonah accepted.
Mattie May and her Aunt Lettieaccepted.
To “ Daisy ” —The communications you speak
of have not reached us.
“ The Sister’s Influence, or the Brother Re
claimed,” is very creditable to the head and
heart of the youthful author, but the story, in
its composition, betrays too plainly the inexpe
rience of the writer, to be suitable for our col
umns. "We predict, however, that it will not be
a great while before we shall be very glad to
publish something from this promising young
pen. If circumstances permit him to cultivate
literature, and if he will cultivate it faithfully,
he may count on winning an honorable place —
that is, if—we don’t like to put another if in
here, but we must do it—if the writer be really
a very young man.
The following articles are respectfully de
clined: Hickory-Nut Gap; Charmed by a Sar
pent; Life, by G.; The Mother’s Jewels; On
the Death of Mrs. Hemans. *
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NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
Tho publisher has kindly laid upon our table
an interesting and valuable work, which all in
telligent Georgians and especially they who are
at all addicted to political life, and who are, or
wish to be, considered statesmen, should at once
possess themselves of and read. The book is
“ The Life of George M. Troup,” by Edward
J. Harden. It is a handsome volume of 536
pages, with an appendix of 22 pages, containing
several important letters of the distinguished
subject of the biography, ■which it was found in
convenient to incorporate in the body of the
work. The author modestly claims for himself
“ little merit beyond the labor of compilation.”
He says in the preface: “ Governor Troup is
generally allowed to speak for himself; few
speak so well, none more truthfully." The work
must contain invaluable information concerning
some of the most important crises of the history
of Georgia. It is published in a style highly
creditable to its Southern publisher, Mr. E. J.
Purse, of Savannah. We understand that Mr.
J. Cunning is the agent for the sale of the book
in Augusta.
"We find also on the table a pamphlet of 16
pages, entitled “ Confession of John E. Cooki
brother-in-law of Gov. A. P. Willard, of Indiana,
and one of the participants in the Harper’s Fer
ry Invasion." Published for the benefit of
Samuel C. Young, a non-slaveholder, who is per
manently disabled by a wound received in de
fence of Southern institutions. This pamphlet
may be procured at W. C. Barber’s, 219 Broad
street.
“ Eighth Annual Report of the Trustees of
the Georgia Academy for (he Blind.”
“Report of the Trustees, Superintendent and
Resident Physician of the Lunatic Asylum of
the State of Georgia.” We thank the friends
who sent to us these Reports, and shall prob
ably have occasion to recur to them in our col
umns.
“ A Catalogue of the Officers, Students and
Patrons of Stilesboro Institute iu Stilesboro,
Cass county, Ga., for 1858-1859, with Remarks,
Course of Study, Terms, Ac.” This pamphlet is
at the service of all who wish to consult it.
The Knickerbocker for December, with its
usual freight of readable matter and literary no
tices.
The Masonic Signet and Journal for Decem
ber, containing among other interesting article?!
valuable “ Memoranda of the History of Free
masonry in Georgia.” Atlanta, Ga.: Sam. Law
rence, D. G. M., Editor. This monthly is the or
gan ot the Grand Lodge of Georgia.
“■' ' "
OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.
Paris, November 10, 1859.
We havo had no manifesto, letter or extraor
dinary newspaper article of imperial authorship
or “ inspiration” since my last. The week has
been a dry one and the talk, which is mainly
about the Congress, has been of the dryest.
People talk about and about it, as they do about
the weather. Do not expect that your corres
pondent will be more entertaining than the rest
of the world. Little, almost nothing new ex
cept conjecture, has come to light as to the time
and place of its meeting, or the bases of discus
sion and probable decisions. That negotiations,
now going on for an arrangement of time, place
and bases, are coming daily nearer to a success
ful term, I cannot doubt. I only repeat my old
conviction. The plan of Italian regeneration
laid down in Napoleon’s letter, meets with little
approval in any quarter. The more it is exam
ined, the more impracticable it appears. What
is the practicable plan, except to let the Italians
alone, is the most difficult of questions. And it
is from a weariness of working at it, that people
refer to a Congress with rather a loose belief
that somehow or other it must find an answer.
The importance that has been given to the
Emperor’s letter, as the programme of the Con
gressional proceedings, is overrated. For, sup
posing that all Europe were to accept it as such
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without qualification, it is to be remembered that
Congresses do not necessarily follow their pro
grammes. Tims the conference held at London
in 1830, was convogued at the appeal of the
King ot Holland, to consult upon the means of
restoring Belgium to his dominion; the Congress
of Paris, in 1856, met to sanction the principle
for which the Crimean war was undertaken, to
wit: the integrity of the rights of tho Sultan —
and it approved the all but nominal independ
ence of the Danubian principalities, and also
their political union, despite the expressed will
of the Sublime Torte; it met to settle the East
ern Questiou, and came as near to that end as
the Congress about to meet at Brussels or Paris
will come to the settlement of the Italian Ques
tion, —that is, put off the settling day.
Meantime the Italians themselves, that is, the
liberal leaders, are acting with the prudent bold
ness that is so remarkable. The assemblies of
the three duchies and of the Romagna have
been convoked to deliberate upon a proposition,
presented by their dictators, of electing Prince
Eugene do Savoie-Carignan as regent. We shall
not have before this evening or to-morrow the
result of the discussion at Florence, but there is
no doubt that it will accord with the affirmative
vote of the Bolognese and Parmesans. The
Prince is second cousin of the King of Sardinia,
admiral and commander-in-chief of the national
guard ol that kingdom. That he will accept the
office, (whether as regent for Victor Emmanuel
or as provisional dictator, is of secondary im
portance,) is not doubted. This gives a unity
and strength to the Central Italians which they
much needed. The vote of itself is the ablest
of manifestos to the address of Europe ; no di
plomatic circular ever so skillfully phrased could
argue their cause so well. What is less gratify
ing, is the manner in which the recent municipal
election in Tuscany went off, or rather fell
through ; not one third of the legal voters pre
sented themselves. Here is the great obstacle
in the way of a free popular government for
continental European people; they lack that po
litical robustness which enables an American
or Englishman to speak, write, thiuk and act on
political subjects the year round. The goddess
of liberty is not in all their thoughts; constant
devotion fatigues them, and a season of spas
modic zeal is too apt to be followed by luke
warm indifference, practical infidelity —as
has been wittily said, they love Liberty as a
mistress, the English love her as a wife.
I trust that I may not be foolishly judged an
enemy to Italian or general European freedom,
merely because I cannot indulge in hopes for
which there is no foundation. Let us keep
judgments separate from wishes in this matter.
If the French or Italians were to-day as fully
capable of self-government as some would have
us believe, the fact would be the completest
apology for the more or less despotic govern
ments that ruled up to-day. If Sambo is to-day
fit for citizenship, then is the state of slavery a
high school of freedom.
As to the Italians and the French, meantime,
they are learning; and notwithstanding the fiasco
of the Tuscan municipal elections, have, by their
conduct during the past year, furnished good
foundation for moderate hopes. Because they
get on slowly, it does not prove that they do not
get on. The royal rule of Victor Emmanuel
would be a great advance on the despotism of
the runaway viceroys of Franz Joseph. Their
chance of so much progress is rather brighten
ing.
The financial affairs of the Legations are in de
cidedly better condition than when they were
under priestly misrule; at least we have the au
thority of the provisional ministers for the state
ment that the last quarterly balance is one and a
half million francs better than it was for the cor
responding quarter last year;—while at Rome
the monthly deficit, since the revolt of the Ro
magna, is estimated at 300,000 crowns per
month. Garibaldi, who is likely to become the
commander in chief of the forces of united Cen
tral Italy, has removed his head quarters to Ri
mini. This approach toward the positions of tho
Papal troops and Naples is regarded by sensible
people as a defensive measure only. The prob
ability of a conflict between him and the forces
of the Pope and of Naples, the imminence of
which has of late been grossly exaggerated, is
more remote than ever. The city of Bologna
has offered its keys to Victor Emmanuel —a gift
which, if accepted, lias a political value quite
different from the ordinarily inexpensive muni
cipal presents of the kind. More than a thou
sand persons in Rome have subscribed for the
purchase of two swords of honor, to be pre
sented to Victor Emmanuel and Napoleon.—
The emigration from Mantua is said to have di
minished the population of that city more than
one half since the peace of Villafranca; the fu
gitives from Venetia in the same period, not
withstanding the efforts of the Austrian police
to restrain it, amount to fifty thousand. Sub
scriptions to the Sardinian loan flow in super
abundantly, and will probably amount to two
hundred millions, twieo the sum called for. Al
though the terms on which the loan was issued
were very favorable, these results furnish a
gratifying proof of the prosperity of the country
and of confidence in the government.
The French preparations for the Anglo-French
castigation of the Chinese are going on vigor
ously and on a large scale, and of course in ac
cord with those of England.
Marshall O’Donnell has left his post as head
of the Spanish ministry, to put himself at the
head of the army which is to act against Mo
rocco. On his way from Madrid to Cordova he
was greeted with enthusiasm. The Spaniards
appear to be very proud of their little war.—
From a diplomatic correspondence between the
cabinets of London and Madrid, just published
in the English papers, wo learn that the latter
has given to the former the most explicit prom
ises that no territorial conquest shall be made
on the African coast. The condition of Spanish
finances offers what commercial men call good
“ collateral security” for these promises—3 per
cents, at 43. Land on the African coast is ex
tremely expensive to European holders. The
cost of that French farm in Algiers was one hun
dred million francs annually for years after the
conquest, and it has never produced much of
anything but fine crops of Zouaves. It is only
a nursery for generals, of which indeed it has
grown fine varieties. At this very time there
are thirty thousand fighting men busily engaged
in fencing, out on the Morocco frontier. While
the Spanish are patriotically enthusiastic for the
war upon their old enemies, the Moors, the latter
are fanatically roused to meet the Infidels. With
tbe Mussulmans it is a holy war; the battle field
lies on the shortest route to their paradise, while
that of the fighting followers of the Prince of
Peace, one may fear, is an opposite direction.
In Germany a better enthusiasm is awakened
this week in favor of the celebration, through
out the land, of the centennial anniversary of
the birth of Schiller. Not a town nor village in
all Germany, that does not have its Schiller-Fest.
Nay, in all other lands whither Germans have
wandered—here in Paris, over in London, across
the ocean in New York, across the continent
again in San Francisco, they are paying simul
taneous honors to the memory of their great
poet. Here is German unity: here is a true na
tional fete. The thoughts of millions of Ger
mans all gather about the cradle where, in the
little town of Marbaeh, their second greatest,
their noblest poet first saw the light, one hun
dred years ago to-day.
The preparations for the festival have been
going on for a long time, and on the literary side
we have quite a library of volumes appropriate
to the occasion. Among these may be cited a
new and thoroughly complete fine edition (S<e
cularausgabe) of the poet’s works; His Life and
Works, by Pallesks; Schiller and his Cotempo
raries; an Offering for the Tenth of November, by
Julien Schmidt. Schiller and his Times, a Festal
Writing ( Festschrift) for the Secular Anniversary
of his Birth, a magnificent typographical as well
as literary monument; then there are portraits
of the poet and illustrations of scenes and per
sonages in his poems. In Berlin, a statue is to
be erected to Schiller by public subscription, the
Prince Regent heading the list with SB,OOO.
The future heir to the Prussian throne, going
over to England just at this time to celebrate
the less notable birth-day of his brother-in-law,
the Prince of Wales, finds it politic to make liis
excuses to the Municipality of Berlin in this
wise: ‘‘ln England, also, we shall be witness of
the high esteem in which our great national poet
is held, and still shall be present in spirit at the
fete which our country celebrates.”
Thomas Carlyle is on the London committee
of arrangements. The Prussian government is
trying to repair its very unpopular blunder of
refusing permission to the grand torch-light pro
cession through the streets of Berlin, which was
to have been the most brilliant as well as the
most national feature in the ceremonies of the
day, that is, of the night. The Austrian govern
ment seized the opportunity of catching a little
popular favor at so cheap a rate, and putting
itself in favorable contrast with its rival. The
Emperor wrote to the Viennese committee in the
most cordial terms of approval, and informed
them that ho gave the name of Schiller to one of
the new squares of tho city. The celebration,
thus encouraged, commenced there on the night
of the Bth, with a torch-light procession that
was magnificent. The Germans in Paris have
arranged for this a grand entertainment in the
Empress’ Circus on the Champs Elysees. An
orchestra of 500 musicians will perform selec
tions from German operas, and two pieces com
posed for the occasion by Mverbeer; songs by
the German choral societies of Paris; recita
tions of original poems, and readings from Schil
ler’s Don Carlos and minor poeu.s, complete the
programme for this evening. To-morrow there
is to be a great banquet.
To change from one illustrious German to an
other. While all these merited honors are gath
ered about the great poet’s cradle, there is quar
reling going on over the great philosopher’s
grave. You will not have forgotten that Hum
boldt left by will his movable property, includ
ing his library, to his valet, Seyffert, who had
served him for forty years. Seyffert demanded
the delivery of the property in legal form,
against which certain relatives of the deceased
protested. The delivery, however, was ordered
by the proper tribunal at Berlin, when the rela
tives appealed, and have obtained from a higher
court, a delay of three months, within which
time to produce proofs in support of their pro
test. This contest excites great interest in Ber
lin, where the learned and bookish world is anx
ious to know what will become of Humboldt’s
large library. The collection of books is pecu
liarly valuable, from the number of works of the
first class of merit in literature, the arts and all
the sciences. Many of them are presentation
copies from the most eminent men of the cen
tury, enrielfed with precious autographs.
——
[For the Southern Field and Fireside.]
“EXCELSIOR!”
IN SOME OF ITS POPULAR ACCEPTATIONS,
BY FANNY FIELDING, OF NORFOLK, VA.
You, for instance, my dear fellow-feminine*
have a soul “ above buttons,” haven’t you ?
I thought so.
Then it’s a hum-drum —work-a-day sort of em
ployment, the looking up of linen and planning
of puddings—the superintending the dusting de
partment, and, mayhap, twirling a broom in
your own fair fingers—is’t so?
Your husband wants his dinner at precisely
o’clock, and your poetic soul that loves to
drift away to realms of dreamland, annihilating
time and space, must, forsooth! be summoned
to punctuality—word killing to the contemplative
mind! by odorus —(or odious?) goose-andonions,
or it may be—if the purse run low, by comesti
bles less savory.—Then that horrid bell! —a din
followed up by a dinner!
You still cherish reminiscences of the break
fast of which your lord required you to partake
before ten o'clock —unchristian specimen of man
must he be!—ln future, if business require him
down town too early for indulgence of your ear
ly morning visions, why! it’s no fault of yours!
You never could bring yourself into tho old
beaten track— three meals a day. No need you
should.—You are too thoroughly etherialized for
such common-place measures, or else—to what
end are poetry, romance and the fine arts? Here,
at least, you have achieved one triumph!—Mr.
Jedediah Jones knows that you do not care for
the evening tea—that you never give him any,
so he does not come homo for it.
Little Jones’ babies are early consigned to the
capricious mercies of strange Irish nurses, cold
cows’ miik—and, if it may so chance—the milk
of human kindness, daintily doled out to meet
the demands of wilful little brats, thus far un
taught in tbe refining influences of “sweet"
“ Proverbial Philosphy ” “ absorbing ” Romance
and “ spirit stirring ” Poem.
Yours is a higher calling than that of house
keeper and nursery-maid to his honor—Jones.—
Your aspirations soar a little more heavenward.
Poetry, music, morceaux for the magazines.—
Ah 1 here is your realm !
A book—a guitar, and one of Rhoads <i - Sons,
or Gillott's fine pointed steel implements for
torturing strange secrets out of the blank “fools
cap ” or “ letter sheet,” — delightful I The
whole programme which you have drafted for
yourself, is charming! Mrs. Jones—Adele—
Wilhelmina —Zepbyru— Idealis—(your whole
galaxy of noms-de-plume drawing at once upon
me,) delightful I my congenial spirit with soul
above buttons! only but for that “ aside " reve
lation of some half-dozen buttonless little boys,
which picture does rather militate against the
entire harmony of the system indicated.
Again—oh, dear Cora Angelica! an angel—
over the left shoulder, of course, suggests, en pas
sant, the talismanic effect of a feminine physiog
nomy pleasantly presiding over the mahogany
at which a masculine party is making his morn
ing meal—of a good-byo kiss and a cheerful
earnest “ God-bless-you 1” to ward away the
sins to which men of business do most incline.
Is there anything in it? Again the angel—oh
most material angel!—dares whisper of punctu
ality and puddings, and say that if these and
their concomitants diffuse a ray of conffort
through the domestic sky—if they promote di
gestion, and thus promote cheerful tempers, and
thus promote a healthy satisfaction in ourselves
and those around us, and thus promote genuine
home happiness, even these are not beneath the
consideration of such souls as drink in poetry
from the only genuine source—the eternal Good,
which, only, is the Beautiful.
Another suggestion from my officious monitor,
relative, among other things, to juvenile Joneses.
—What pretty poetry in a child’s Prayer!—ac
cents of faith lisped by infant lips;—words of
wisdom stamped upon such tiny coral tablets; —
the Great Jehovah, bending His own ear to list
to baby-prattle! 1 know you cannot longer de
ny yourself the charmed touch of that little hand
in yours—you cannot resist the spell wrought
by those sweet young eyes upturned to invoke
the blessing which will surely not be withheld,
as, kneeling at your knees, “ Our Father,” —
seemed to breathe a magic language you have
never heard before.
A few more officious hints: —A bright fire —
a clean-swept hearth—a well-trimmed lamp when
that poor, tired man comes home, it may be, sick
ened with the comfortless world without —with
the duplicity of doings “upon ’change.'’ The poe
try-book—the guitar—your favorites —and mine,
may all have a place there. A table neatly laid
for two —a cosy cup of simmering tea, a taste
fully if not elaborately prepared repast; other
embellishments will naturally suggest them
selves, in conversation, Ac., and with these few
hints, and others of which these may be sug
gestive, saith the Angel, results may be reach
ed, not unworthy to crown the highest aspira
tions of her whose motto is Excelsior.
COLUMN.
[For the Southern Field and Fireside.]
* MAY DAY.
’Tis the first of May, and, from hedge and bower.
Come inhale the sweet fragrance of the woodbine flower*.
The wild rose is decking the low cottage wall
That in beauty outvies the proud palace hall.
Then come, little children, in gladness and glee;
We'll roam in the wildwood, so gay and so free,
And gather the mosses that grow in the dell,
And drink the cool waters from Nature's own well 1
The daisies are springing, the violets peep out;
From hill-side and meadow list the plow-boy's shout!
The black-birds are twitt'ring from bush and from tree,
White wild-flowers are flinging their sweets o'er the lea.
We’ll bathe our hot brows in the cool, sparkling rill.
And with its pure nectar our goblets we'll fill;*
And out hearts shall be light, and our frolic be free
As the zephyr that dallies with flower and tree.
We'll roam o'er the valleys, and climb up the hill,
Our baskets with berries and buttercups fill;
With sweet-brier and myrtle each brow we will twine,
While we list to the winds as they sigh thro’ the pine.
I know a sweet bower, way down in the glade.
Where the sun cannot pierce to dispel the cool shade;
There the mocking-bird sings thro' the live-long day,
While echoes awake and prolong his glad lay.
Then come, young and old, from business and books;
Drive care from your hearts, drive frowns from your looks;
The air is all humid with dew from the flowers,
And laden with sweets from the jessamine bowers.
Then come to the wildwood, come wander with me,
And listen to childhood in innocent glee;
Come join in our frolics, forget every pain.
And live for one moment thy youth o'er again!
Np.wbern, N. C. Sue.
Anagrams. —Hero is a collection of curious
Anagrams for the amusement of young folks,
and perhaps of the older folks, too —why not?
But first let me tell the young tolks—and if
there should be any of the older folks that don’t
know (and I wouldn’t wonder if thero were),
why, they may hear, and not let on as if they
were listening—but first, I say, let me tell the
young folks what an Anagram, is. Anagram is
a word composed of two Greek words: ana,
which means again, and gramma, which means
a letter. An anagram, therefore, is the trans
position, or change of the place of the letters
composing a name, or word, or sentence, by
which the same letters are made to express an
other name, or word, or sentence. Thus, with
the letters composing the name of the celebrated
physician Galen, you may, by change of place,
or transposition, make the word Angel; and
Galenus (the'Latin for Galen) is found to be the
‘ anagram ’ of Angelos (the Latin word signifying
Angel).
Here is a collection of some curious and ex
cellent anagrams:—
Lawyers: Sly ware.
Parishioner: I hire parson.
Presbyterian: Best in prayer.
Revolution: To love ruin.
Penitentiary: Nay I repent it.
Patience: A nice pet.
Catalogue: Got as a clue.
Misanthrope: Spare him not.
Democratical: Comical trade.
Encyclopedia: A nice cold pie.
Festival: Evil Feast.
Gallantries : Great sin, all.
Arthur Wellesley (who became the Lord Wel
lington of the French Wars, fifty years ago,)
finds an anagram in the following words : Truly
he'll see war.
Victoria, regina in Old England becomes an
agramatically, Victoria, rei/n in a golden land !
Horatio Nelson (who gained the great naval
victory of the Nile, over the French, Ist August
1798) gives the beautiful Latin anagram—
Honor est a Kilo. (Honor is from the Nile.)
[For the Southern Field and Fireside.]
My dear little Children: I have devoted
most of my time to your advancement and in
terests. Although I do not know, and have
never even seen many of you, I wish you to
read a few words I have now to say to you.—
With the consent of the editor of this paper, I
will sometimes drop a line to you. You must
pay good attention to what I say.
There are some little boys who think it’s very
smart to be bad. But this is not so. The
merest dunce, the dullest boy you know, can be
if he chooses, one of the worst Did you ever
know a boy such a dunce that he could not
swear, and lie, and steal, and use all sorts of
bad words, and be a truant, andi be disobedient
to his parents, and break the Sabbath, and do
lots of other wicked things? I never did.—
Now, if a dunce can do all this, of course it re
quires no sense to do it; and therefore you are
mistaken in thinking it is any sign of smartness
to be bad. Now, if it is not smart, stop it!—
Why should you stop it? Because the best
friend you have, and the greatest Being that
lives—God—says so! He who gave you life,
who gives you health and strength, who gave
you your kind parents, and who guards you
safely while you sleep at night—the great and
good God says you must not do these things.—
Don tbe bad! There’s plenty of amusements
and other things to do, that are not wicked.
If you can read, get your book and read it; if
not, get your papa or mama to tell you some
pretty little stories about good children. When
you get tired of reading and stories, play some
game that mother permits—such as drafts, or
dominoes, or kiteing, or ball, or base; chase
tlie hoop in the yard, if mother will let you—
or walk out in the woods and hear the little
birds sing among the trees, the bees humming
around the blossoms. But don't throw stones
at the birds, nor set traps for them, nor rob
their nests, nor, when you get older, shoot
the poor little birds. And you must think,
sometimes, how good, how great must be that
Being who made and preserves all the beautiful,
curious and wonderful objects around you, and
think, when you are tempted to do wrong, that
it is He, as well as your father and mother,
whom you offend hnd grieve when you are bad.
I have given you this little piece of plain chat
to think upon. Remember, it is from one who
loves little children, who gives his time and
talents and labor to them, and who is willing to
continue to work for them as long as -life and
health shall last. Remember what I tell you,
my dear little ones, and carry it in your hearts.
Your true friend, James.
—
[For the Southern Field aud«Fireside.]
ENIGMA.—NO. XI.
I am composed of eleven letters:
My 4,5, 9, 10 and 11, form the name of an
ancient King whose touch , according to mytho
logical account, possessed a most remarkable
property.
My 2, 10 and 6, is a heathen deity, the patron
of sportsmen and reputed originator of the pas
toral pipe.
My 11, 5,4, 7,8, 5,9, 1 and 11, is an ancient
Greek poet, noted as the “ writer of lambics.”
My 4,3, 11, 5,6, 5. 11, 11 and 10, a Numid
ian King who figured in the second Punic war
and died at the advanced age of 97 years, leav
ing fifty-four sons.
My 2 and 7, a river of Italy.
My 4,1, C, 7 and 6, » Thessalonian General
in the army of Cyrus the younger.
My 4,1, 11, 11, 10, 8 and 10, is the ancient
name of a city of Sicily.
My 4,1, 4,8, 7 and 6, an ancient and magnif
icent edifice, the pride of ancient Thebes, now
fallen into ruins; but presenting striking evi
dence of its former grandeur.
My whole is the name of a Statesman and
Soldier, in praise of whose virtue and bravery all
writers concur. M. W. D
Mobile, Ala.
[The above was almost rejected for error
(it is corrected) in No. 7.]
Answers: —Enigma No. 9—James Gardner;
10—Tri-Weekly Constitutionalist.
ipjr* Answers have been received during the
week from T. H., of Columbus, to 7 and 8; W.
V. 8., Hayneville, Ga., to 5; W. G. R., Tuscaloo
sa, Ala., to 7 and 8; Alonzo, of Tuiggs, to same;
W. C. A., Lafayette, Ga., to same ; M., of Craw
ford, Ga., and A. J. D. W., of Augusta, to Nos.
9 and 10.; Little Willy, of Columbus, Ga., to
No. 9.
iW The Enigma sent from 11 Greenwood ” is
gratefully acknowledged. It has been submit
ted to the Editor who says “it wont do.” The
author will know why without further explana
tion.
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PROBLEM 2, BY “JAMES.”
There are three numbers. The Ist and 2d
added together equal the third; —the Ist and
3rd added together equal twice the second; the
2d and 3rd added together equal 5 times the
first; and the sum of the three numbers equal
120! What are the 3 numbers?
Answer to Problem /., by James :—J of } is 1-6
6 times 5—30 the answer. ;
Proof:—jr of 30 is 15
i“ 30 “ 10
10 times 15 is 150
or 5 times 30 is 150
Alice.
jgp “A. Longstreet II.” says an error was
made in printing liis Solution to James’ Problem.
It should have read thus :
|of the number, multiplied by of the num
ber, is equal to 1-6 of the No., multiplied by the
cumber—
Which, by the problem, is equal to the num
ber multiplied by 5, —
Consequently, 1-6 of the number is equal to
5, but sis 1-6 of 30. Therefore 30 is the num
ber required.
CHESS COLUMN.
Mr. Editor: —l regret extremely the trouble I
have given you, and send the following solution
of Problem (by “James,”) published in the F.
& F., page 197 and amended page 212.
SOLUTION.
WHITE. BLACK,
1 Knight a s—b 7: f K a 4—b 4
2 Pawn c 2—c 3 f Mate.
“ James.”
Solution of Problem by R. S. P., of Charles
ton. (Published in our last number, page
212):
WHITE. BLACK.
1 Queen g I—c 5 Kt b s—d 6
2 Queen c s—e 5 f K o 6 —e 5
3 Knight b 2—d 3 f K e s—e5 —e 6
4 Knight d 3—c 5 mate.
MATE, NO. 3.
King and Queen against a King and one Rook.
(De la Bourdonnats, page 1T1.)
This is a forced mate in almost all positions of
the pieces. But there are situations into which
the King and Queen, by inadvertence of the
player aiding the skill of the other party, may
be brought, in which tho execution of this mate
will be found impossible.
To accomplish this check-mate, the King
which has but the Rook, must be driven to one
of the border-rews of the chess board, and the
party haviug a Queen effects this by maintain
ing liis King always immediately opposite the
adversary King, and using the Queen in aid of
this purpose, either by checking the adverse
King or assuming annoying positions. Having
driven the adverse King to a border-row, the
party having the Queen will compel the other
party to separate his Rook from his King, which
will afford an opportunity to take it by a donble
mate or give the check-mate.
Especial care should be taken by the party
having tho Queen, to prevent the other party
from getting a stale mate (which counts as a
drawn game,) by the sacrifice of his Rook. —
The opportunity frequently occurs in this end
game. (5)
POSITION.
White. Black.
King on f 5 King on d 7
Queen on e 5 Rook on d 6
MOVES.
1 Queen e s—b 5 f K d 7—e 7
2 Queen b s—b 7 f R d 6—d 7
3 Queen b 7—b 4 f K o 7—d 8
4 King f s—e 6 K d B—c 8 (1)
5 Queen b 4—b 5 (2) R d 7—c 7
6 King e 6—d 6 R c 7—a 7 (3)
7 Queen b s—e 8 K c B—b 7
8 Queen e B—d 7 • K b 7—b 8
9 Queen d 7—d 8 ■ K b B—b 7
10 Queen d B—c 7' K b 7—a 6
11 Queen c 7—c 6 • K a 6—a 5
12 King d 6—c 5 (4)