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BOSTON IN ENGLAND.
This Boston make* no show and no noise.
It is a lazy sleepy old codger of a town, with
buckles and a cocked bat on, and ita bands in
its pocketa. But then there is something in
those pockets besides, and it did not come
without labor. Fine farms, and rich families,
are about here, and money is laid up; like
the old plate of the Corporation which was
sold at auction a few days since to the tuue
of near $3000!
Here is an amusing illustration in point. I
have been to see a Mr. Clarke, the proprietor
of an establishment maintained for the London
market. His poultry dribble in from the small
farms around in all quarters, till the business
resches an amount which it is not easy to be
lieve. He has not less than 7000 live gtese,
alone, on his premises at one time. They are
sent np picked to market, instead of the for
mer practice of driving the flocks, which
would take a fortnight perhaps. I asked him
if there were any other fowls on the ground.
" Why turkies at Christmas," he said; and it
turns out that he sends up 20 tons of meat that
week, including 3000 turkies ; slaughtering,
that is 600 a day. He supposes it may be
100 a week of the same all the season round
from Michaelmas to Lady Day : but this be
called " nothingand the 200 dozen of small
fowl weekly, during iheaamu another
" nothing?the geese are the only things he
" looks at." You may get at the business
again by the fact that he paid over $4000 this
last year for the mere carriage of this poultry
to market?picked. I|? showed me the bills.
I asked if any of his neighbors competed with
him. He thought not just now ; but mention
ed a man in this region, whom he knew, when
he had nearly twice as many geese as him
self, and over 13,000 in his yard at a time. 1
saw a three horse-power steam engine, which
is used to grind, crush, thresh, or split the va
rious grains, dtc., that are used for this flour
ishing concern. There was a small fortuno
quacking about mo, as he spoke, in the acres
(almost} of ducks, which he did not mention
at all.
O Council and the Queen.?Whatever may
be said of O'Connell, surpassing powers of
eloquence and a peculiar felicity and appro
priateness of language when he chooses, can
not be denied him. At a late meeting of his
association at Dublin, he thus spoke of the
young Queen.
" I he King is no more?the throne is filled
however?there is no vacancy in the British
throne. It is impossible for one to speak of
the Qaeen without remembering her youth
audsex?a kind of fairy vision floating along
tho horizon?I saw her the moment of her
proclamation, and as a parent and as a man I
not belp almost lpvirtg that creature
about whom so many' interesting destinies
were avowed?the happines??of the first?
the most intellectual, commercial and pros
Eerous nation upon the face of the earth?the
undred millions of subjects that she has in
the far Indies?her subjects in every quarter
of tho globe?the sun never setting over her
dominions. There sho stood, commencing,
1 trust, a career of glory to herself and hope
and happiness to her people?(cheers.) Wo
have had throe females on the throne already?
we have the reign of Mary; she agreed with
me in religious opinions, but she widely dif
fered in the mode of working out that opinion
?may Queen Victoria never imitate the ex
ample of Catholic Mary. I would not do jus
tice to the Irish people if I could mention the
name of that woman who steeped her hands
in blood in order to make people better chris
tians, who forced, them to the stake for their
religious belief, and who used the logic of the
cord and the gallows to force their consciences.
I would blush to belong to the same persua
sion, with a woman who had permitted those
cruelties, for she at least permitted them, if I
had not the consolation to recollect how dif
ferently the conduct of the Irish people was,
compared with the English during the time
of persecution?If I did not know I stood in
the city of Dublin, in which the then corpora
tion opened 74 houses for the protection of
the refugees flying from the cruelty of Catho
lic Mary in Bristol?(cheers.) The other
two female reigns have been full of glory. It
was in the reign of Anne that Marlborough
put down the power of coalesced Europe. It
was in the reign of Elizabeth that great dis
coveries were made to encourage commerce.
I am not here the eulogist of Elizabeth in all
her acts in Ireland especially, but I remember
how triumphant those reigns were and I have
a kind of right, by analogy, to express the
hope that Queen Victoria may have the pros
perity of Elizabeth without treachery or cruel
ty, and the glory gf Anne without any of the
bloodshed or little traits of paltriness which
might havo belonged to the individual her
self.
* Stone Mountain.?This extraordinary
elevation may be considered as not only one
of the most remarkable mountains in North
America, but as one of the greatest natural
curiosities in the known world. Imagine a
perpendicular wall of solid marble, live or six
hundred yards in length, and four hundred
yards high, rising in grandeur and sublimity
from the plain below. A recent traveller
states the circumference to be six iniles ; and
the height twenty-two hundred and fifty feet;
and rounding oir at the top like a dome. The
stone mountain is situated in De lvalb county,
Georgia, and is perhaps the most stupendous
of the many natural curiosities with which
our country abounds.
From tht Baltimore Tratacript.
Mr. Grant, the inventor of the carriage al
luded to in tho following paragraph from the
National Intelligencer, is now in this city, for
tho purpose of constructing here the carriage
which has been ordered by the Department.
The plan of the Concentric Wheel Carriage
is equally adapted to horse or steani power,
and we understand from Mr. Grant that it is
the intentibn of tho Baltimore and Washing
ton Turnpike Company to establish a line to
run by steam on that road between the two
cities.
Concentric Wheel Carriage.?We under
stand and are gratified to learn, that General
Towson has made a favorable report to the
Secretary of War, concerning Mr. Robert
Grant's Concentric Wheel Carriage, the ex
hibition of which in the streets of this metro
polis, and the experiments ordered by tho War
Department* under the direction of General
Towson, have been already noticed in the
National Intelligencer. We have seen a
letter from Major Cross, Acting Quarter Mas
ter General, to Mr. Grant, containing an order
from the Department for the construction of
one of his Concentric Wheel Carriages " for
experimental service, adapted to two horses
habitually, but to whtuh four horses inav '>?
applied if necessaryFor the sake of th?
ingenious inventor, who has bestowed much
pains and lime in constructing thia singular
carriage, wo are ghid to learn the favorable
character of the official report.
To prevent Horses being teased wtlh/tes.
Take two or three amall handfulla of walnut
leavea, upon which pour two or three quarts
of cold soft water, let it infuse one night, and
pour the whole the next morning into a kettle,
and let it boil for a quarter of an hour, when
cold it will be ready for use. Nothing more
ia required than to moisten a apongo with the
liquor, and before the horse goea out of the
atable let those parts which are moat irritable
be ameared over with the liquor, viz. between
and upon the ears, the neck, the flank, Sic.
Not oidy the lady or gentleman who rides out
for pleasure, will derive bonelit from tho wal
nut leavea thus prepared, but the coachman,
the wagoner, and all others who use horses
during the hot months.?London Sportsman.
i From lh? RockttUr Advertitr.
Giicat Pubchasb.?Gov. Dodge of Wisconsin h??
mado a treaty with the Chippewa Indiana, for the pur
chase of an invaluable tract The treaty waa made at
Fort Snelling in the Sioux country ; and aa there were
but 60 U. 8. aoldicra preacnt, considerable care was re
quiaite in preventing conflicts betwceu the Chippewss
and Sioux. Of the former, there were about 1000, and
of the Utter about 600 present. The tract ia elated to
contain about twenty inilliona of acrca?one-third co
verall with pine, one-fifth of aand barren* and tamarack
awatnps. and the remainder excellent land.
"The country ia bounded oil tho woat, ninety-five
inilea, by the Misaiasippi river, extending from the
Ocha-aua river on the aouth to the Isle do (lotkau on
the north. There are no pine treca on the banka of the
Miaaiaaippi, but a moat beautiful rolling prairie extend*
from fifty to sixty niilea in breadth, lieiween the pine re
gion and tho river. Thia prairie ia intercepted with
groves of the various kinds of forest trees, which aie
usually met with in latitude 46 degrees north. '1 here
are also a great number of small lakes, with high shores
and gravel margins, which afford the most lovely^and
picturesque acenery lo be found in North America."
The United Stales are to pay annually the following
amounts, for twenty years ;?$9,500 in money, $19,000
in goods, $3,000 for cstabliahing blacksmith shops, and
buying iron and steel; #1,000 for farmers for supply
ing instruction in fanning, with implements, grain,
seed, <Stc. ; *5,000 in provisions; $>00 in tobacco;
$100,000 to the half-breeds of the Chippewa nation,
and $70,000 to be applied to tho liquidation of the debts
owing by the Indiana to certain individuals named ?
The privilege of hunting and fishing, and gathering wild
rice, upon lite lands, the rivers, and the lakes included
in the territory ceded, is guaranteed to the Indians dur
ing the pleasure of the President of tho United Stale*.
The pine on this purchase will be immensely valuable
for supplying the Mississippi Valley. Some of tho
Chippewss had come 600 milea to the treaty, from the
head waters of the Mississippi and the remotest shores
of I^ake Superior.
Can thb Queen marry a subject 1?The Royal
Marriage Act of George III. reserved the power of dis
pensation to the crown in such cases. The Marriage
Act states?*'That no descendant of his Iste Majesty
King George II., male or female, (other than the issue
of Princesscs who have married, or may hereafter mar
ry into foreign families,) shall be capable of contracting
matrimony without the previous consent of his Majesty,
his heirs or successors, signified under the Great Seal,
and declared in couocd." Without thia provision, such
marriage is to be declared null and void, but such per
mission tho Queen has only to give herself, and she
may, if sho please, exalt to the dignity of King-consort
any gentleman being a Protestant, whether a foreigner
or a native of these realms.
Brbakixo the Wand.?In the account of the funeral
of the late King of England, with all ita solemn, regal
pomp, published in the lx>ndon John Bull of July 9th,
we find the following interesting rccord of the ceremony
of " breaking the wand ;" arid afterwards proclaiming
the style aud title* of the deceaacd and prcaent sove
reigns :
"The part of the Service before the Interment hav
ing been read by the Rev. the Dean of Windaor, and
Dr. Croft'a beautiful anthem been sung by ihc choris
ters of Her Majesty's Chapel Royal, and an appropriate
requiem, chaunted, the Royal Body was deposited in tho
vault, and Sir William Woods, Clarencieux Deputy to
Garter Principal King of Anna, advanced to the mouth
of the tomb, and after breaking his wand of office, and
dropping the fragmi nls into the grave, pronounced tho
stylo and titles of His late Majesty as follows :
" Thus it hath pleased Almighty God to take out of
this solitary life unto his Divine inercy the late Most
High, Most Mighty, and Most Excellent Monarch, Wil
liam the Fourth, hy the Grace of God of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain anil Ireland, King, Defender
of the Faiih, and Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of
the Garter, King of Hanover, and Duke of Brunswick
and Lunenburgh. Let us humbly bcscech that He pre
serve with long life, health and honor, and all worldly
happiness, the Moat High and Most Excellent Princess,
our Sovereign Lady Victoria, now bv the Grace of God
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Queen, Defender of the Faith, and sovereign of the
Most Noble Order of the Garter.
From the Gloucetler Democrat.
Capital Punishment.?The States of Maine and
New Hampshire have refrained their laws in regard to
capital crimes, so that, although they have not positively
abolished the punishment of death, yet the practical
operation of the late enactments, in both these States,
will probably be to save the feelings of the community
from a repetition of the shocking spectacles which have
occurred in each within a few years past. In New
Hampshire it is at the discretion of the jury to convict
capiully, or so that the punishment of death will not be
executed, and this without any evasion of the law, or
neglect of duty. In Maine, when sentence of death is
passed it is not to be executed within one year, nor
then, unless the Government, in view of all tho circum
stances of the ease, shall order it; otherwise, the con
i vict is to bo subjected to perpetual solitary imprison
ment, with hard labor and civil death.
Lotters from Rome to the 30ili ult., represent the in
habitants as io tlio greatest terror, in consequence of a
report that Ihc cholera had manifested itself within eight
leagues of that city. Tho pontifical government had
been officially informed that the disease had broken out
at Garigliano or Liri, and Bcnevcnto, and it had couse
' quenily established a great sauitory cordon at Valino
tova.
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ON the first J)f July, 1837, commenced the tenth volume
of the Knickerlsicker, or New York Monthly Maga
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their efforts nave been received at the hands of the^ublic,
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Within the brief space of a little more than two vcars and
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snd in the numbers for the last yesr, by more than four
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" The progress of the Knickerbocker is still onward ft
is conducted with decided ability, is copious and varied
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our asitimnee that thoy are of a high order."?JVVw I ork
American.
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4 TIIE AMERICAN ANTHOLOGY}
A 'Magazine of Poetry, Biography, and CrUieum, I* beyub
Iirhr.it Monthly, uith tplendtd illuMtraluiiM on Steel.
WHILE nearly every country of the old world can
boast of its collected body of national Poetry, on
which tlie seal of a people's favorable judgment has been
set, and which exhibits to foreign nation* in the most
striking light the progress of civilisation and literary re
finement among its inhabilanta ; while England, especial
ly, proudly disp'sys to the world a corput poetarum the
lustre of whose immortal wreath has ahed a brighter gmry
upon her name than the most splendid triumphs which
her statesmen and her soldiery have achieved, our own
country seems destitute of poetic honors. Appeare, we
say, for although no full collection of the chef d mttvret of
our writers has been made, yet t lie re exist, and are occa
sionally to lie met with productions of American poets
which will bear comparison with the noblest and most
poliahed efforts of European genius, and which claim for
America as high a rank in the scale ol literary elevation
as is now ceded to older and in some resjieots more la*
voted lands.
Impressed with the correctness of this judgment we
propose to issue a monthly magaxine whic.li shall contain
in n perfect unmulilated form, the moat meritorious uiul
beautiful effusions of the poets of America, of the past
and present time, with such introductory, critical, anu
biographic notices as shall be necessary to a correct under
standing of the works presented to the reader, and to add
interest to tho publication. Those who imagine that
there exists a dearth of materials for such an undertaking,
who believe that the Aouian Maids have confined their
richest favors to our transatlantic brethren to the exclu
sion of native genius, will be surprised to learn that we
are already in possession of more than two hundred vol
umes of the production of American Iwirdi, from about the
year 1C30 to the present d?ur. Nor is it from these sources
alone that materials may be drawn. There arc but few
writers in our country who pursue authorship as a voca
tion, and whose works have been published in a collected
form. Our poets, especially, have generally written for
particular occasions, with the remembrance of which
their productions have gone to rest, or their effusions have
beep carelessly inserted in periodicals of slight merit and .
limited circulation, where they were unlikely to attract
notice to thcinselvc*, or draw attention to their authors?
The grass of tl.c field or flower* of the wilderness are
growing over tha ashca of many of the highly gififtl *ho,
through the wild and romantic regions of our republic,
have scattered poetry in " ingots bright from the mint ol
genius" and glowing with the impress of lieauty and the
spirit of truth, in quantities sufficient, were it known and
appreciated as it would be in other countries, to secure
to them an honorable reputation throughout the world.?
Such were Harney, author of' Crystalina' and the ' J ever
Dream,'Sands, author of 'Yamoydcn;' Wilcox, author
of the 'Age of Benevolence;' Robinson, author of 'The
Savage ;' Little, the sweet and tender poet of Christian j
feeling, the luinented Brainard, and many beside, whose
writings ure almost unknown, save by their kindred asso
ciates and friends.
With the names of those poets who within the last few
years have extended the reputation of American lite
rature beyond the Atlantic, Bryant, Dana, Percival,
Spraguc, Sigourney, Whitlier, Willis, 4lc. the public are
familiar ; and w e can assure them that there exists, though
long forgotten and unknown, a mine of poetic wealth,
rich, varied and extensive, which will amply repay the la
bor of exploring it, and add undying lustre to the crown
which encircles the brow of American genius. In the pub
lication now proposed wc shall rescue from the oblivion
to which they have long been consigned, and enilwlm in a
bright and imperishable form the numberless * gems of
purest ray,* witn which our researches into the literary an
tiquities of our country have endowed us ; and we are con
fident that every lover of his native land will regard our
enterprise as patriotic and deserving the support of the
cilixens of the United States, as tending to elevate tho
character of that country in the scale of nations, and as
sert its claims to the station to which its children entitles
it. With this conviction we ask the patronage of the com
munity to aid us in our undertaking, conscions that wc
are meriting its support by exhibiting to the world a Proud
evidence that America, in the giant strength of her Hercu
lean childhood, is,destineil ere long to cope in the arena of
literature w ilh those lands which for centuries have boast
ed their civilixation and refinement, and justly exulted in
their triumphs of their cherished sons in the noblest field
which heav?fn has opened to the human intellect.
The American Antholooy will contain complete
works of a portion of the following?the most popular of
our poetic writers?and of the others, the beat poems, and
such as are least generally known :
Adams, John Quincy Gould, Hannah F.
Allston, Washington Hallaek, Fits Freene
Barber, Joseph Harney, John M.
Barlow, Joel Hillhouse, John A.
Benjamin, Park Hoffman, Charles F.
.Bogart. Elisabeth Mellen, Grcnville
Brainerd, John O. C. Nenl.John
Brooks, James G. Peabody, B. W O.
Bryant, William C. Percival, James G.
Clark, Willis G. Pierpont, John
Coffin, Roliert S. Pinckney, Edward C.
Dana, Richard H. Prentice, George D.
Doane, George W. Rockwell, J. O.
Drake, Joseph R. Sands, Robert C.
Dwight, Timothy Sigourney, Lydia H.
Ellct, Elizabeth F. Spraguc, Charles
Embury, EmmaC. Sutermeister, J. R.
Everett, Edward Trumbull, John
Fairfield, Sumner L. Wetmore, Prosper M.
Freneau, Philip W hittier. John O.
Gallagher, William D. Willis, Nathaniel P.
In addition to the poems of tho above named authors,
selections, comprising the best productions of more than
four hundred other American w riters, will be given as the
work progresses.
The American Anthology will lie published on the first
Saturday of every month. Each numlier will contain
seventy-two royal octavo pages, printed in the most beau
tiful manner on paper of superior quality, and two or more
port raits on steel, with other illustrations.
Price, Five dollars per annum, payable in advancc.
The first number will lie published in Decejnber.
Subscriptions received in New-York, by Wiley Put
nam, iHI Broadway, and Griswold & Cambrelong, 118
Fulton street. Alf letters to lie addressed, post paid, to
RUFUS W. GRISWOLD,
See. .Y. Y. Lit. Antiquarian Association.
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PROSPECTUS OF
THE UNITED STATES MAGAZINE
AND DEMOCRATIC REVIEW.
ON the 1st of Orrone*. 1H37, will Ire published at
Washington, District of Columbia, and delivered
[ simultaneously in the principal cities of ihe United States,
a new Monthly Magazine, under the aliove title, devoted
to the principlea of tly! Democratic parly.
I ll bun long been apparent to ninny ol lb? reflecting mew
bers of the Democratic party of the United States, ihst a
periodical for the #dvocacy and diffusion of their politics
principles, similar to thoae in such active and influential
operation in England, is a deMdtaiu* of the highest im
poitance to aupply?a periodical which should unite * i?h
the attractions of a sound and vigorous literature, a poli
tical character capable of giving efficient support to the
doctrines and measures of that party, now maintained by
a large majority of the People. Discussing the great
questions of polity before the country, expounding and
advocating the Democratic doctrine through ihe most able
pens that that party can furnish, in articles of greater
length, more condensed force, more elaborate research, ,
ami more elevated tone than is possible for the newspaper
press, a Msgnzine of this character becomes an instru
ment of inappreciable value for the enlightenment und
formation ol public opinion, and for the support of the
principles which it advocates. By these means, by thua
explaining and defending the measures of the Democratic
party, and by always furnishing to the public a clear and
powerful commentary upon those complex questions ol
pulley which so frequently distract the countpr, and upon
which, imperfectly understood as ihey olten are by
friends, and misrepresented and distorted as ihey never
fail to be by political opponents, it is of the utmost impor
tance that the public should ha fully and rightly informed,
it is hoped that the periodical in question may be made to
exert a beneficial, rational, and lastiug influence on the
public mind. ,, . , ' . .,
Other*considerations, which cannot be twohighly appre
ciated, will render the eatablishment and succeae of the
proposed Magazine of very great importance- .
In the mighty strangle of antagonist principles which is
now going on in society, the Democratic party of the Uni
ted States stands committed to the world as the deposito
ry and exemplar of thoae cardinal doctrinca of political
faith with which the crnae of the People in every age and _
country is identified. Chiefly from the want of a con
venient mean* of concentrating the intellectual anergic*
of iu disciples, this party has hitherto I teen almost wholly
unrepresented in the republic of letter*, while the
and policy of its opposing creed* are daily advocated by
the ablest and most commanding efforta of genius and
lC bTthc Unitbd States Maoaiine the attempt will be
made to remove this reproach.
The present is the tune peculiarly appropriate for the
commencement of such an undertaking. The Democratic
body of the Union, after a conflict which tested to tiie ut
termost its stability and its principles, have succeeded in
retaining possession of the executive *dmim*tration of
the country. In the consequent comparative repose from
political *trife, the period is auspicious for orjraniting and
calling to ita aid anew and powerful ally of this charac
ter, interfering with none and co-op*rating w_ith all.
Co-ordinate with thi* m*in design of The United State*
Magazine, no caie nor cost will be spared to render it, in
a literary point of view, honorable to the country, and fit
to cope in vigor of rivalry with it* European competitor*.
Viewing the English language as the noble heritage and
common birthright of all who speak the tongue of Milton
and Shakapcare, it will be the uniform object of it* con
ductor* to present only the finest productions in the vari
ous branche* of literature that can be procured, and to
diffuse the benefit of correct models of taste and worthy
execution. . .
In thia department the exclusiveness of party, which ia
inseparable from the political department of auch a work,
will have no place. Here we all stand on a neutral
ground of equality and reciprocity, where those universal
principles of taste to which we arc all alike subject, will
alone lie recognized as the common law. Our political
principles cannot be compromised, but our common litera
ture it will be our common pride to cherish and extend,
with a liberality of feeling unbiasaed by partial or minor
views. ,
Aa the United State* Magazine ia founded on the
broadest basis which the mean* and influence of the De
mocratic party in the United States can present, it is in
tended to render it in every respect a thoroughly Nation
al Work, not merely designed for ephemeral interest and
nttraction, but to continue of permanent historical value.
With this view a considerable portion of each number will
be appropriated to the following subjects, in addition to
the general feature* referred to above :
A general summary of Political and of Domestic Intel
ligence, digested in the order of the Statea, comprising all
the authentic important facts of the preceding month.
General Literary Intelligence, Domestic and roreign.
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view of all now in operation or in progress.
Military and Naval News, Promotions, Change*, Move
ments, &c.
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Biographical obituary notices of distinguished person*.
After I lie close of each session of Congress, an extra
or an enlarged number will lie published, containing a ge
neral review and history of its proceedings, a condensed
abstract of important official documents, and the acts of
the session. ,
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in this establishment from all quarters of the Union, to
collect and digest such extensive statistical observations
on all the most important interests of the country as can
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as to admit of binding by itself, and wifl be furnished with
a copious index, so that the United State* Magazine will
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scale uuattemplcd before, and ol very great importance to
all clattet, not only as affording a current and combined
view, from month to month, of th? subjects which it will
comprise, but also for record and relerence through luture
years; the value of which will increase with the duration
of the work. ...
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Magazine addresses its claim* to- the support of the De
mocratic party, tt is hoped that its other feature* referred
to above?independently of the desirable object ol boom
ing acquainted with the doctrines of an opponent thus
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To promote the popular objects in view, and relying up
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led States Magazine will lie placed on a par ut least with
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At a reeular meeting of the Democratic Republican Gen
eral Committee, of the city and county of NewOork,
held at Tammany Hall, on Thur*day evening, April fl,
1H37
The prospectus issued by Mcs*r*. I,?njrtree & O'Sulli
vnn, for the publication, at the city of Washington, of a
monthly magazine, to lie entitled the United Statea Maga
zine and Democratic Review, having been presented and
read, it was thereupon.
Hesolved unanimously, That, in the opinion of this
Committee, the work referred to in the proepectus v> ill
prove highly useful to the Democratic Party, and benefi
cial to the community; that the plan of the work api>eare
to lie judiciously adapted to the attainment of the impor
tant objects announced l?y the publishers, and we cordially
recommend it to the support of our fellow eitiren*.
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j PROSPECTUS . ~
TO THB
L AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE,
V rot 183?.
rtvg dollars rKE vm.
(,h? fir*1 of Jauuary waa publish* d the first number of
I -hr^L',",a'1 rolu"M!^ American Monthly Magazine
I bis ?Uouuuenc? the aecond year of " the New Series
j 01 the African Monthly." One year baa paaaed since,
by il.he .Ur/V?,f * England Magazine with this
well eatublimd periodical, the resources of a publication
whirh had plW^nialy almorbcd those of the American
Monthly* Ke?i.m?nd of the United States Magazine,
were all concentflBA^a. the American Monthly Maga*
zine , giving at dHyraad a basis to the work aa to
i !?""?' cra^BfcAjnaure ita permanency
rhi- number of pages, whicHW^^i^^nth excee.le.l
one hundred, was at the stuuc tc
room for an additio ,al aupply of nriginalam^H^MHk^
number of the work throughout the year baa beenonT^
I merited with an engraving, executed by the first artist, j",
; the country. How far the literary contents of the Muga
l^c *i'h these secondary improvemeni^
i the oublic are the Ixiat judges. The aim of the uropr.rtor-'
baa Ijeen from the first u> establish a perHxlical which
should have u lone and character of ita own ; and which
while rendered sufficiently amusing to ensure ita circula
i tion,?hould ever keep for ita main object the promotion ul
food taste, and aound. vigoroua and fearless thinkinit. m,
on whatever auhieet it undertook to diacuas ; which, in a
word, should make iu way into pul.lie favor, and establish
lU claim, to consideration, mther by what aliould l?
found in its pagea than by any eclat which the num. * of
popular contributors, or the diaaemination of laudatory
paragraphs, could confer. Nor has the American Monthly
had any reason to regret having adopted and followed out
1 the course prescribed to itaelf from the first. It baa in
deed Iom both contributora and aul?cril>era l?v thv tone of
some of it* papers; but by the moie eiilightened w Iw have
indited of the tendency of Ihe work iu the aggregate and
not hy its occasional difference ofopinion w ilb themselves
it has l>een sustained w ith spirit and liberality. It |,:u'
l<een enabled to merge from infancy and dependance upon
extrinsic circtimstancea; and the <|uiekeuing power o!
many mmda, laboring aueceaaively or in unison, has in
fused vitality into the creation while ahaping it into form
uutil now it has a living principle of ita own. It han |?!
come something, it is hoped, which "theworld would not
willingly let die,"
Out though the aubacription list ofthe American Monthly
has enlarged with the publication of every numlier durin ?
the laat year, it is not yet sufficiently full t0 justify the
publiahera in carry ing into effect their plan of liberally
compensating lioth the regular contributors and every v* ri
ter tluit furniahea a casual paper for the week. Nor till
literary labor in every department of a periodical is ade
quately thu- rewarded, can it fully austain or merit tin
character which an occtaional article from a well naul
popular pen may give. 1
If these views be just, there is no impertinence in ap
pealing here to the public to assist in furthering them by
promoting the prosperity of the American Monthly Maga
The work which la under the editorial chagre of C F
HMfiaM and Park Benjamin, Eaq. will continue to be
8ubhahed simultaneously on the first of every month, in
lew Yorfc, bv George Dearborn & Co., in Boston by Otis,
Hroaders & Co., communications received at the Office
No. 38, Gold Street, New York.
PROSPECTUS OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER,
THOMAS W. WHITE, E0ITOE AND PEOfltETOK
TH'S IS A. MONTHLY MAGAZINE, devote,)
A chiefly to literature, but occasionally finding room
for artirlts that fall within the acope of Science ; and not
professing an entire diadain of tasteful .rim,on*, thonali
ita matter baa been, as it will continue to be, in the mam
original.
Party politics And controversial theology, aa far as pes
aible are jealously excluded. They are aometimes so
Wended with discussions in literature or in moral science
otherwise unobjectionable, aa to gain admittance for the'
sake of the more valuable matter to which they adhere
. 'never that happens, they are incidental only ; not
primary. They are dross, tolerated only because it can
not well be severed from the sterling ore wherewith it is
incorporated.
Reviewa and Critical Notices occupy their due space
in the work; and it is the editor's aim that they should
have a threefold tendency?to convey in a condensed
form, such valuable truths or interesting incidents as are
?emlKxIied in the works reviewed,^?to direct the reader's
attention to books that deserve to be read,?and trt warn
him agaiMt wasting lime and money upon that large num
ber, which merit only to be burned. In this age of pulili
cations, that by their vsriety and multitude distract and
overwhelm every undiscnminating atudent, impartial
criticism, governed by the views just mentioned, is one of
the most inestimable and indispensable of auxiliaries, to
him who does wish to discriminate.
Essays and Tales, having in viewutility or amusement,
or lioth, Historical Sketches,?and Reminiscences of
events too minute for history, yet elucidating it, and heiglit
ening its interest,?may be regarded aa forming the staple
of the work. And of indigenous poetry, enough is pub
lished sometimes of no mean strain?to manifest and to
cultivate the growing poetical taste and talents of our
country.
Tho times appear, for 'several ressons, to demand such
a work?and not one alone, but many. The public mind
i? feverish and irritated still, from recent political strifes:
I he soft, assuasive influence of literature is needed, to
allay that fever, and soothe that irritation. Vice and folly
are rioting abroad : They should be driven by indignant
rebuke, or lashed by ridicule, into their fitting haunts.
Ignorance lows it over an immense proportion of our
people. Every spring should lie set in motion, to arouse
Ihe enlightened, and to increase their number; so that the
great enemy of popular government may no longer brood,
like a portentous cloud, over the destinies of our country'.
And to accomplish all these ends, what more powerful
agent can be employed than a periodical, on the plan of
rPi c?fe"?er' 'h*' l>Un be Init carried out 111 practice,
rhe South, peculiarly, requires such an agent. In all
the L nion, south of W ashington, there arc but two literary
periodicals Northward of that city, there are probably at
least twenty-five or thirty ? Is this contrast justified by
the wealth, the leisure, the native talent, or the actual
literary taste of the Southern people, compared with those
of the Northern ? No: for in wealth, talents, ami taste,
we may justly claim at least an equality with our bre
thren; and a domrslie inatitutiou exclusively our own,
beyond all doubt affords us, if we choose, twice the leisure
for reading and writing, which they enjoy.
It was from a deep sense of this focnl want, that the
word Sou THRUST waa engrafted on the name of li in
I periodical; and not with any design to nourish local pic
I judiees, or to advocate aup|*>a?.d local interests. Far from
any such thought, it is the editor's fervent wish to see the
North and South hound endearingly together forever, in
the silken bands of mutual kindness and affection f ar
from meditating hostility to the Worth, he has already
drawn,and he hopes hereafter to draw, much of his choicest
matter thence; ano hapny indeed w ill he deem himself,
should hi. pages, by making each region know the other
better, contribute in any essential degree to dispel It.e
lowering clouds that now threaten the peace of both, and
to brighten and strengthen the sacred ties of fraterii-l
love.
rr f ^ Southern Literary Messenger has noyv reached the
fifth No. of its third volume. How far it has acted out the
ideas here uttered, it is not for the editor to say lb
Micves, however, that it falls not further short of them
than human weakness usually makes practice fall short ol
theory. r
The Messenger is issued monthly. Each numl>er of the
work contains (34 larjre super-royal pa^rs, printed in tli'1
very handsomest manner, on new type, and on pnper
equal at least to that on which any other periodical is
printed in our country.
No subscription will l?e received for less than a volume,
and must commence with the current one. The price is
?5 per vojume, which must be paid in all cases at the line
of aubacribing. This is particularly adverted to now 10
avoid miaapprehensinn, or future misundcrslsndiiiy??<
no order will hereafter he attended to unless accompanied
with the price of subscription.
The postage on the Measeni;er is six cents on any sin
gle No. for all distances under 100miles?over 100 miles,
ten cents.
All communications or letters, relative to the Messen
ger, must be addreased to Thomas W. White.
Southern Literary Messenger Office, Richmond, Va
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