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Elements of Medical Jurlninulcnce. Bv Theodor*' I Uoineyn Beck. M. D_ LI.. D., Professor of Materia Med' ' tea lathe Albany Medical College. American Philo- j sojihtcal Society : Elementary edition, with Xotes by an i Association of the Mends of Book. The whole revised by Prof. C. K. Gilman. M. D.. of the College of Physi ' cians and Surgeons of New York. Philadelphia:.). I!, j Lippincott & Co. * On Gout and Rhonmatic Gout By A. B. Garrod. M. D., V. It 8.. Physician to University College Hospital. With colored and other illustrations. London: Wallan 1 Sc Maberly. Ulnstrated Register of Rural Affairs. Vol. 11.. contain i ing 440 Engravings, and Treating upon Country Dwel lings. Improving and Planting Grounds, Fruits and Flow- ! ers, Domestic Animals, and all Farm and Garden Proves- i i cs. New York; C. M. Saxton, Barker A Co. Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania. 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Boston: William t Vcazie.’ * Lyrical Poems. By John 8. Blackie, Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. London: Suth , erland A Knox. The Whiskey Demon; or The Dream of the Reveller r By Charles Maekay, L.L.D., author of “The Balanian i drlne,” etc., etc. illustrated with numerous Full-Page f Suggestive Designs, by Watts Phillips. London: Simp kin, Marshall A Co. Toems. By the author of “John Halifax. Gentleman,” with Steel Engravings from Designs by Birkct Boster. j. London: Hnrst A Blackett. ' The King of the Golden River; or The Black Brothers. By John lluskin, M. A. With 22 Illustrations. Boston: , Mayhew A Baker. Prince Charlie, The Young Chevalier. By Meredith r Jones, author of “The Boy V Book of Modern Travel,” I etc. With eight Illustrations, New Y’ork: D. Appleton * A Co. Woman’s Right to Labor; or, Low Wages aud Hard Work. Three lectures delivered in Boston, November, ISM. 1. Death or Dishonor. 2. Verify your Creden k tials, 8. “The Opening of the Gates.” By Caroline 11, S, Dali. Boston: Walker, Wise A Co. ( ID i CHESS COLUMN. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM X, f (Published in our last number, page 237.) WHITE. BLACK. h* 1. Queen e s—h 8 f Rook f B—h 8: » 2. Knight g 4—f 6 f King h 7—g 7 ft 3. Knight f 6 —d 7: f King g 7—h 7 \ 4. Rook f I—f 7+ King h7—g 8 0 5. Rook f 7—g 7 f Mate. , OPENING VIII. (From De la Bourdonnais, page 16.) WHITE. BLACK. (- 1 1. Pawn e 2—e 4 P. e 7—e 5 k 2. Bishop f I—c 4 B. f B—c 3 ft 3. Pawn c 2—c 3 Q. d B—h 4 4. Queen d I—e 2 Ktgß—f 6 p 5. Pawn d2 —d 3 Ktf 6 —g4 C. Pawn g 2—g 3 Q. h 4—f 6 (1) \ 7. Knight g I—h 3 (2) P. d 7—d G f 8. Fawn f 2—f 3 Kt g 4— e 3 (3) 9. Bishop c I—e 3 : B. c s—e 3 : P 10. Queen e 2—e 3 : B. c B—h 3: i 11. Knight b I—d 2 Ktb B—d 7 (4) i NOTES. p (1) It instead of withdrawing their queen, tho Blacks had taken the pawn of your king's bishop, you would v liave taken their bishops with your queen and gained a V piece. f (2) Although this square is not the best upon Which to bring out the Knight, the actual position of tho pieces makes this move necessary. r (8) If the Blacks had withdrawn this knight, you k would have played knight h 3—f 2, and the next move bishop c I—e1 —e Bin order to rid yourself of their king's a bishop. a (4) It is evident that the Whites have here gained P time on the Blacks. The reason is that tho Blacks I brought out their queen too soon ; and commenced an attack which they wore not able to follow up nnd snp -1 port vigorously. MATE NO. 4. (•j King against a King and two Bishops. k (From De la Bourdonnais, page 178.) ® To effect this mate, the adversary’s king must A be forced to retreat to one of the corner-squares f 1 of the chess board, where the two bishops will k- easily give him check-mate. But the Whites V • must be careful to avoid stale-mate. ' POSITION. White. Black. r King e 6 King g7. & Bishop c 2 r Bishop f 2 “ MOVES. [ 1. Bishop f 2—e3 King g 7—f 8 f 2. Bishop c 2—g G King f B—g 7 it 3. Bishop g 6 —h 5 King g 7—f 8 4. Bishop e 3—hG f King f B—g 8 5. Bishop h s—g G 7 King g B—h 8 / G. King e 6—f G King h B—g 8 I 7. Bishop g 6—d 3 King g B—li 8 8 8. King f o—g 6 King h B—g 8 ” 9. Bishop d 3—c 4 f King g B—h 8 10. Bishop h G—g7 f Mate. it We are gratified to learn (says the Charleston r Courier) that the Committee on Tournaments . and Match Games of the Charleston Chess Club f are now busily engaged in making arrangements » and in concocting rules and regulations for a s' grand Tournament. The fairness, great equality A and liberality of the plan proposed, must give j 1 entire satisfaction, and elicit universal support, f- We shall again allude to this subject. Sub- L joined is what the Spirit says of such: Just now, “Chess Tournaments” appear to be the i order of the day; a joust of this nature Is now on the ) J tapis at the “Morphy Chess Rooms,” comer of Fourth > Sheet and Broadway, where thirty-two competitors <5 will contend for a handsome Chess-board and Men, pre l sented by the proprietors of that establishment. It will A be an nniusing affair, a “rough and tumble” sort of nght; yi as the combatants, who embrace among themselves play ) ers of every grade, will bo paired by lot, and odds given and received in accordance with the supposed relative jV force of each player. SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF CHESS. r From the Book of the first American Chess Congress. (Continued from F. and F., p. 287.) | About the close of the fifteenth century the y shatranj blossomed into our present phase of the I game, and the third great period, that of modern * chess, began. The vast revival of learning, the a immortal invention of Guttenberg, and the in- xks sotcxkbs xx&lh &m jsx&sbxbe. creased intercourse between nations, brought ! about by the spirit of discovery and extensions ‘ of trade, exercised a visible influence upon chess 1 as upon greater things. Although not entirely J confined to the upper and educated classes, it 1 had still been limited, in a measure, to the neighborhood of the court and the cloister; now it became known to all ranks. Further improve- ; ments, evolved by experience, were made in the fundamental laws of the game. There is reason to believe that these were not the work of one generation, but that they had been gradually progressing for two or' three centuries. The growing means of inter-communication, aided by printing, soon made them comraou to all Europe. The vizier, or counsellor of the shatranj, by a cu- ' rious philological blunder, became the queen, 1 and was raised from the rank of a minor figure to that of the most powerful piece on the board, combining the powers of the rook and the bish op. The bishop was now allowed the free range of a diagonal, instead of being restricted in bis movements to two squares at a time. The pawns were permitted, on their first move, to advance one or two squares, at the option of the player, whereas in the shatranj they were limited at all times to one step. This was a much needed al teration, as it brought about a more rapid devel opment of the contest. To obviate, in a meas ure, this enhanced [lower of the foot-soldiers, the non passar battaglia, or right of capturing in passing, was introduced in many countries. The privilege of castling, unknown in the chaturanga aad shatranj, was given to the king, at first ac cording to the Italian method, and then in the manner of the Anglo-French school. Near the commencement of this period the convenient, but not essential practice of making tlie squares or houses of the chess-board of two different colors came into vogue. These changes, once effected, and firmly established, men commenced to turn their attention more closely to the theory of the game. Analyses were made of the different openings then in use, and the exact powers of tho pieces and pawns in various positions began to be carefully studied. Systems of rules were de vised for the government of players in their in tercourse over the board with each other, and penalties laid down to insure their observance. In short, chess in its new development grew to be, if not less of a game, at least more of an art —an art requiring on the part of its successful cultivators a kind of talent as [>eculiar, and a spirit of investigation as unwearied, as those demanded by any other intellectual employ ment. FUN, FACT, AND PHILOSOPHY. (Carefully prepared for the Southern Field and Fireside) Talleyrand, speaking of a well-known lady, said, emphatically, “ She is insufferable!” Then as if relenting, he added, “ But that is her only fault.” Nahant was purchased 230 years ago by a Lynn farmer, for a suit of clothes, and instead of being a fashionable watering place, it abounded in wolves and deer. The best way to avoid being disturbed by an unpleasant thing, said Dr. Spooner, is to resolve that it shall not disturb you; but should your nerves be sensitive and unable to stand the trial, hasten by the annoyance and don’t see it. A stinging remark loses all its point when we are not oonsoious that we are aimed at. A Yankee with the yellow fever may be very properly called a Northern man with Southern feelings. Fieteen thousand dollars have been subscrib ed for the erection of a Female College at At lanta. Beautiful was tho reply of a venerable man to the question, whether he was still in the land of the living “No, but lam almost there.” Wiiy is the Ohio River like a drunkard?—Be cause it takes in the Mononghahela, goes past Wheeling, gets a licking at Cincinnati, and Falls at Louisville. Florida and Louisiana have a less elevation above the sea thannnyof the other States of the Union. A considerable portion of Louisiana is less than a hundred feet above tide water, and no part of the State has an elevation of more than five hundred feet above the sea. Cherish patience as a favorite virtue. Always keep it about you. You will find use for it of ten. The editor of the Eldorado (Texas) Times has a child named Kansas. The editor of the Wedowee Mercury says he would be afraid to call a child Kansas, for fear it would never have any Constitution. The administration of the oath in civil cases is of high antiquity. See Exodus, xxii, 10. Swear ing on tho Gospels was first used in 528. The oath was first administered in judicial proceed ings in England by the Saxons in 600. The words, “So help me God, and all saints,’’ con cluded an oath till the year 1550. It is undoubiedlya duty to acquire riches, not for the condition which they make, but for the power they confer. The wisdom, however, pro perly to employ them, demands even more earn est study and honest endeavor. A young member of the bar thought he would adopt a motto for himself, and. after much reflection, wrote in largo letters and posted up against the wall the following: “ Suum Cuique," which may be translated, “Let every one have his own.” A country client coming in cxpres3- sed himself much gratified with the maxim, but added, “ You don't spell it right.” “ Indeed! then how ought it to be spelt ?” The visitor re plied, “ Sue ’em quick.’’ The Scientific American states that there are in the city of New York about two hundred thousand smokers, each using two cigars daily, making four hundred thousand cigars everyday. These, at an average of four cents each, make the enormous sum of $16,000 daily consumed in smoke, in New York alone. Fools are ruled by their humor; but wise men by their interest. An Irish servant having entered the drawing room, with the mistress' favorite poodle wringing wet. — “Howis this, Bridget; how came Fido to get so very wet ?" inquired the lady. “ An’ faith, mum, an’ it was little Tommy that had tho tiny baste lashed to the end of a powl, and was washin’ the winders wid him.” At a late sale of old United States coins in Philadelphia, the following prices were obtained: 1794 dollar, $11; 1793 ehain-cent, $5.25; 1831 half-cent, $11.50 ; 1791 Washington cent, $G.75. There are truths which some men despise be cause they have not examined them, and which they will not examine because they despise them. PERSONAL. UVepored expressly for the Southern Fielil and Fireside.] —Hon. K. A. Nisbet, of Macon, Ga., was in Augusta for a few days this week, called by the Young Men’s Christian Association of this city to deliver the third monthly lecture before the . Association. The subject of his lecture, “The | Obligation aud Responsibility of Private Judg- j ment,” was treated by Judge Nisbet as a chris- ■ tian philosopher in his usually able and interest- i ing manner. The Honorable speaker sustained j upon this occasion his deservedly high repula- I tion. He is widely known as a profound think- | er. a skillful logician and a ripe scholar. —lntelligence has been received at Washing- , ton on the 21st inst. by telegraph, announcing | the death of the Hon. Linn Boyd, of Kentucky. —J. C. Gaxuooly, the converted Brahmin, is writing a book to correct the erroneous ideas of Americans with regard to Hindoo religion. —Hon. John Belton O’Xeall has been elec ted Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, of South Carolina, and Hons. Job Johnson and Bexj. F. Duxkin, Associate Judges. —James L. Petigru, of Charleston, has been elected Commissioner to complete the Codifica tion of the Statutes, of South Carolina, vice Bel linger, deceased. —Rev. Mr. Cilkey, who recently abducted from Dexter, Me., the daughter of Rev. Mr. Witiierell, of that place, lias been arrested in Illinois. The abducted girl was with him. —Baron Solomon Rothschild, ajunior mem ber of the Paris house of that name, arrived in the Persia on the Bth instant. It is said that lie will make an extended tour in this coun try. —Tho Persia brought the intelligence of the death of Mrs. Garrick, a wife of the nephew of the great actor. She died at Sunderland a short time since, after having been on the stage for sixty-five years. She is the last of the name connected with the stage. —James Hawerth, president of the California Stage Company, states that he is prepared to enter into contract with tne Government to run a daily mail between Sacramento City and St. Louis, for $1,000,000 per annum, making the trip in fourteen days. —The statue of Henry Clay, by Hart, was shipped from Havre for New Orleans on the sth of November, on the ship Fanny Fern. It will be inaugurated with great ceremony on the 12th of next April, the anniversary of Clay’s birth. The site for its erection will be on Canal street, at the intersection of Royal and St. Charles, New Orleans. —The New Orleans Christian Advocate an nounces there the arrival of Bishop Pierce and family, from California via Texas. The Bishop has been absent about a year, we believe, and made tlie trip to California and back by the over land route from Texas—a long and a fatiguing journey—without accident. Ilis health is im proved, but he is not looking as robust as when he left. —The members of the House of Representa tives cannot draw their pay until the election of a speaker, whose warrant on the treasury is ne cessary for that purpose. In the meantime, how ever, Mr. Glosbrexxer, sergeant-at-arms ot the last House, has advanced various member sums amounting in the aggregate to forty or fifty thousand dollars, which he has generously rais ed on his individual credit. -Ex-President Pierce left Boston on Thurs day afternoon, accompanied by Mrs. Pierce, en route for New York, where, early in January, they embark for Nassau, tho capital of New Providence, one of the group of Bahama Islands. The island has been recommended by the high est medical authority in Boston as promising, by its climate and other surroundings, beneficial results to the health of Mrs. Pierce, which it is found cannot bear the severity of a New Eng land winter. —Minister Yancey, who has just returned from South America, brings with him a present from Gen. Urquiza, President of the Argentine Confederation, to the Hon. James B. Bowlin, of Mo., who was for some time the guest of Gen. U. ' on his return from Paraguay. This present con sists of a massive gold snuff box, chased exquis itely with carved ornaments. Around the rim of the top are set forty-two large brilliants, (dia monds,) and upon raised (carved) initials of the recipient—J. B. B.—are set forty-one smaller diamonds, covering them entirely. This present is said to have cost $5,000. —lt is understood that James T. Nisbet, Esq., is about to vacate the Editorial Chair of The Au gusta Constitutionalist, in order to resume the practice of Law in the city of Macon, in connec tion with his father, lion. E. A. Nisbet. He will be accompanied to his new residence by the respect of this whole community,of which he has been for several years a member, and by the kindest wishes and regrets of all who have had the privilege of numbering themselves among his friends in social intercourse. Success and hap piness attend him, wherever he lives, whatever his pursuit! He will adorn any Profession to which he devotes himself. —Richard Reals, the Englishman, who was on tho list of John Brown’s Provisional Govern ment as Secretary of State, has been found in Austin, Texas. Reals says that, ascertaining the desperate means that Brown had decided upon, lie, two years ago, left the conspirators and went to England. On returning to this country, he arrived at New Orleans, many months since, where he sincerely reseauted his abolitionism, and forever abandoned it. Since then, he has , resided in New Orleans, Mobile and Texas. Tlie ! Austin Intelligencer says: _ We yesterday suggested to the friends of Mr. j Reals the propriety of placing himself uncondi i tioually at the disposition of the President of the ' United States. We are glad to say that he has done so. and has also offered to surrender him self to Gov. Wise, and has notified these author ities that l c shall remain here until their wishes are known. William Gilmore Simms was born in Charleston, South Carolina, April 17, ISOG. Ilis father, who bore the same name was of Seotcli ! Irish descent, and having failed as a merchant in Charleston, removed to Tennessee, where he held a commission in Coffee’s brigade, under General Jackson, ip the Seminole war. His mother was Harriet Ann Augusta Singleton, of a distinguished Virginia family, who early be came residents of South Carolina, and were ar dent patriots in the Revolution; Col Singleton, of the Partisans, having been, if we are not mis taken, our author’s ancestor. Before he had passed his infancy ho lost his mother, and was intrusted to his grandmother. He never re ceived a collegiate education, we believe; but as much might be said of Irving, and many of the most celebrated writers of America and Europe. — [Art Journal. Ora FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 27, 1859. Mr. Editor: I shall endeavor at this place to jot down the other occurrences of our journey. By my last we were left near Firano in the Yut tellraa. Emerging from which region, we soon came upon the magnificent remains of a stately feudal castle of those most serene Dukes ”of Visconti, who, with the Sforza family, were, during so many generations, the pest and scourge of the Milanese and circumjacent terri tories. Arriving at Sondrio in the evening, we were transferred to a genteel government (now Sardinian) post-carriage. It was half-past one o’clock in the morning when we arrived at Co lico, at the head of like Como. Here we slept in a wretched inn until the dawn of day, soon after which we embarked on one of the little steamers for the lower end of lire lake. The mountains near by were covered with fresh fallen snow, though we had had a warm rain on the road. Arriving at Como after three or four hours, the town looked as though there were on all sides a festival. In all directions—on the boats near the shore, at the hotels and private houses, and high up on the towers—the green, red and white colors of Savoy, with the white cross in the centre, floated gaily, with here and there the French tricolor keeping it company.— It was joyous to see the light and life and vi vacity, ana young hope, of a people that had lately gone through such vicissitudes. We had time to take a late breakfast, and visit the Cathedral and Brolettoof Como, before taking the mid-day train by Monza to Milan.— Soon making our toilets, the first thing we did at Milan was to rush to the superb Cathedral, and mount to the top, to catch a view of the panoramas whence we had come and whither we were going, while the lovely weather lasted. Thirty or forty miles to the north, in the direc tion of Como, was the Sierra, or range known here as the “ llesegone,” so charmingly de scribed in the “ Promessi Sjmi ” of Manzoni. Yet much farther and more to the left, was the magnificent “ Ortler Spitz," and attendant chain of mountains, while toward the east these Rhe tian Alps passed into the Julian, and far down you could see where the “blueFriuli moun tains” ought to be. North-of-west were the passeß of the Splugen and Simplon; nearly duo west the enormous mass of Monte Rosa, with the needle of Mont Cervin (Matterhorn) shooting into the skies nearby; and yet further south, Mont Blanc. Below, on all sides, were the mag nificent plains, and canals, the far-off cities, vil lages, and lofty towers of liberated Lombardy, sparkling and shimmering in the soft radiance. At your feet the whole city seemed to have produced an au umnal crop of tri-colored flags ; all was joy and festivity, and honest exultation, but mixed with sighs of regret for poor Yenetia, who literally sits weeping in her palaces on the Adriatic. The city was alive with officers and soldiers in varied costumes. Conspicuous among them were the Zouaves with their easy-flowing gait and devil-may-care manner—those same Zouaves who have covered themselves with glory on every field. That portion of these troops called Turcos had been here, but were gone. They were, most of them, of the Moorish race, but some of them were Abyssinians or of that breed—powerful as Hercules and as black as jet. Their wildness and oddity were stil! the theme of conversation. It was said that in’go ing into the second or third stories of houses, they preferred the lightning rods or water pipes, and, when these were not at hand, they loved to make a pyramid, or mount over each other’s shoulders up to the windows. To complete the population of Milan, were a good many French women with their families, who had come to visit husbands, brothers or sons in garrison there. We stopped to admire the marble roof of the Cathedral, the lace-like tracery of towers and pinnacles, the innumerable statues poised high in air, and the wonderful series of flying buttresses of this majestic temple, when we descended to dinner, after taking a few glances at the stupendous proportions and miraculous beauty of tire interior. It was well that we made the ascent; no other chance presented it self during our stay of seeing the panorama we had witnessed. You know that Milan, as a city, is the least interesting of all the Italian towns. Os Roman remains, there are almost none except a few col umns. The authors quoted by Murray tell you that it was sacked by Attilla, A. D. 452—when Venice was founded, and that it was razed to its foundations in 1162, by Frederick Barbarossa. With the exception of some churches—the Bre ra and a few other palaces, the Amphitheatre and arch of triumph of the first Napoleon, it cannot boast of any architectural display. I prefer to take your readers to an “ institution ” —which I regard as one of the highest expres sions of a refined civilization —I mean the opera and ballet at the immense “La Scala ” theatre. The opera was one of the comic ones of Rossi ni—“ Matilda di Spabraan." There are eighty five pieces in this orchestra —probably more, as I count while sitting in the platea. This num ber is increased according to necessity, to 125 persons. The tenor, base and barytone, and one soprano are admirable, and Low superior iu vocalization, in quick impulsive thought, in vi vacity, pantomine and all that, to the heavy Germans whom we left behind! And yet let me do justice to the Germans. Their instrumenta tion is better than the Italian; but in all other respects there is nothing to be said. The opera and ballet are of Italian origin and growtli— and there are certain characters in it which have never been well filled except by Italians. In the present piece, the way in which the charac ter of the poor dependent, hungry and heart sick poet was rendered, was never seen north of the Alps, or in Western Europe, unless it was done by an Italian. There are some’things that just as clearly belong to climate, character, and language with the mental conceptions expressed by it, as that certain fruits, trees, breeds of ani mals, &c., are found in particular localities. You may transplant them to less genial skies and colder temperaments, but they are no more the same. The ballet was Cleopatra. Imagine the in comparable pantomine of the Italians—the sce nery and situations displayed on a stage two or threo hundred feet deep, with a proscenium of immense height and width. Besides the first dancers, there is a perfectly educated corps of sixty or seventy lovely girls, and as many males —for this is the great European school for these dancers, and even in Paris and London you see nothing like it. The first scene is a magnificent and far seceding Egyptian hall in Cleopatra's palace. She sits on a throne, with Mark Antho ny by her side. Ministers, maids of honor, priests and priestesses of Isis, and numerous at tendants, all in perfect costume, surround her. The grouping and dresses of this immense throng where all is “ order not understood,” are bewil dering. The orchestra sounds a dance. From either flank, floating in gossamer, come out two at a time, the converging lines of the dancers. AVhile all is joy and festivity, like a thunderclap comes Proculius, with a summons from Octavius Cmsar. The second act is in a garden contigu ous to the palace. Cleopatra gives her relue tant consent that her troops, in the coming com bat, shall go over to the Romans. She is dis tracted between her love for Anthony and her fear of gracing in the streets of Rome the tri umphal procession of the Conqueror. Antho ny suspects her treason, and returua from bat tle mortally wounded. The third act is in a pub lic square of Alexandria, which C:csar enters in triumph, to receive the homage of a subject peo ple. Cleopatra appears, and kneels at his feet, hoping to conquer him by her beauty and her tears. He promises to visit her in her palace. The fourth act is m a magnificent room of Cleo patra's palace, with an elevated alcove at the bottom, partially closed by rich curtains. The Queen is preparing herself for the interview.— A voluptuous light, like pink and ashes of roses combined, pervades the alcove, and the peerless beauty of the Queen is reflected from various metallic mirrors. Her sighs and tears change to radiant smiles, on the appearance of C;esar, and more dances begin. Will Cicsar sign the decree which gives to her sons, by Mark Antho ny, the crown? The Roman is not conquered by these blandishments. Despair succeeds, but the proud Queen will never grace a Roman tri umph, and her minister Egizio has already pro vided the fatal asp. Casar arrives to find her dying. Another act, with solemn dances, (can you imagine such a thing ?) concludes the piece. In the last act, there were four hundred persons on the stage! On another evening, we saw a ballet entitled “ The Star.'' It is a market day and a merry making. The villagers celebrate it with dance’s and feasting. Among the men. are Pacco and Gaetano. who love Berta and Lucietta, respect ively. Berta is the pride of the country, and Pacco is poor, so that her father forbids a be trothal. Pacco says—“ I will go to distant lands to seek my fortune, and will not return without the money your father requires. The exchange rings after the good old fashion. She promises to wait for him and does wait. The scene is a sea port and a vessel drops anchor in the offing. A boat approaches. The captain steps on shore in quest of sailors. Pacco and Gaetano, both moved by the same impulse, gladly take service with him. They are to sail in the morning and night is falling. As Berta waves her adieus, she sees her natal star shining sweetly forth in the sky. She implores this star to follow and pro tect her lover. The next Quadro or picture is called “ the finnamat ,” and it is hardly too much to say that never did the natural sky with its soft moonlight and glittering stars appear more grand and lovely or more distant. Pacco, who has lingered about the steps of Berta, falls asleep under her balcony. Noiselessly, as if by some agency superior to man's, soft clouds de scend one after the other —the rose tints here and there passing into the deeper shades of night. Pacco dreams. He sees, and you see, a silver}- light gradually pervading these clouds, which begin to rise and float silently away. Suddenly a star quicker than thought shoots down from above diagonally athwart the stage, and imme diately an image of Berta—the real Berta in pu rest white—floats in an airy car across the scene. The clouds have dispersed, and far in the distance you'See the “brave o'erhanging Ar mament fretted with golden tires.” You can distinguish the lively twinkle of the fixed stars from the milder lustre of the planeis. Pacco awakes and relates his dream to Gaetano. The scene has changed again, and encouraged by this happy augury they set forth. I never saw .anything equal to the incomparable beauty of this scone. As an artistic effect, I had seen its equal in the same La Scala theatre, fourteen years previously, but that was awful I It was the incantation scene in the oi>ern of “ Roberto il Diavolo.” The moon shone sweetly down in to the court of a ruined convent. Sedges and parasites are flaunting in the night air on the walls, and the court is encumbered by funereal monuments. Open doors here and there lead into blank darkness, while all along through far extending corridors and open areas are ranged fifty or sixty sarcophagi, each with its white, marble image above —the hands all folded on the breast. All is as silent as death, when these images slowly anse, and by the ghastly light you see other shades, with white drapery sweep ing the ground, come trooping in, two and two. from the open door ways, moving forward as if by no human agency. Slowly they advance, un til they form an immense throng of wandering ghosts under the proscenium. In an instant the gas is let on, the music changes from minor to major, the white veils have disappeared—you cannot sec how —in groups through the floor, and 120 or 130 sylphs in ballet costume stand before you. Ido not stop here to explain from the story the propriety or, ns some of your readers will say, the impropriety of this scene, for it is high time to follow our friend Pacco in his adventures. The third Quadro is a cabin of South sea sav ages. The luxuriant foliage shows it to be in one of those “ blissful islands of the Pacific ,” so well described by Malte Brun in his physical geography. Savage manners, savage dances. Ac., —when a horrible tempest bursts over the scene. Pacco and Gaetano have been ship wrecked, and are led in, captives, with all kinds of ill treatment. The fourth picture is the sump tuous palace of the Prince Abul, with gardens circumjacent, where are fruits and flowers, vines that run along trellises, and where fountains throw up their spray into the sun light. The chief has condemned our travelers to death, be cause they cannot purchase their ransom, when the Star and her suite appear, offering presents to the savages and entertaining them with dances. Life is conceded, but not liberty. The beauty of the harem finds Pacco, gives him rare jewels and points to a boat prepared for their flight. The Star appears again and averts the temptation. Pacco and Gaetano escape alone in the boat—to fall, in the fifth picture, into a band of brigands, who take them to a gloomy cavern, where the rich booty of jewels, Ac., is al>out to be distributed, when a troop of Gip seys appears, of which Stella (the Star) is the queen. It is needless to say that our friends are delivered from this danger, too. Their escape is favored this time by Petronilla, the wife of the chief, whose jealousy prompts the good action. The sixth and last picture is the sea port again. Jugglers, charlatans, fortune tellers, Ac., Ac., encumber the stage, where are booths with buyers and sellers. A vessel ap proaches. It is Pacco and Gaetano. Somehow they have saved their jewels and are received with a most hearty welcome. Reciprocal em braces. hand shakings and congratulations.— Amid universal joy the lovers are united, and the curtain fulls—“ Cala il Sipario.” as the Ital ians say. Yours, J. L. L. ■ .HARRIED. On the evening of the 15th inst., by the Ecv. Wm. I>. Martin, Col. B. A. Westbrook, to Miss Iren* McMatii. daughter of the lute Col. Jno. H. McMath, all of Green villo. Geo. Perpetual harmony their life attend, And Venus still the well-matched i*iir befriend. May she, when time has sunk him Into years Love biin still well, and cherish his white hairs • Nor he perceive her charms through age decay, But think each happy sun his bridal day. 245