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NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1856. NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS, rd Fmsr Famums: Whilt & Yost, Philadel- P - Thie ia @ cleverly written satire on the affic ‘tations and peculiarities of what is called good society ia the city of Brotherly Love and Quakerly honesty —Philadetphia. With the latter quality the writer does not seem to be very highly impressed, if we may jodge by the following rather pungent pas peges:— However the Quaker of modern days may have deteri- erated in pont of humanity and benevolence frem the montane of Wie Penn, wee. st rate lost no- of 1 -making ‘wealth. Seculuen which “iintinguished the grest pte yr | model of the sect. The Quaker, in our smal one.’ The passion of getting, and the ment of keeping, are the only sentiments which a poe remain active in his bosom. Ali the other fe I» sions and affections of his nature are distilled dowo the tasteless, spiritless, colorless duties prescribed by law and public serupwously performed; but vent extortion, over-reachit frauo in trade, a life of See ee the miserits, the indissre' and the passions of mankind—and by a sleepless self- eontrol, that never deserts or betrays him, even in his Although the Quakers trust nobody, either in friend- ship or business, yet they do not at all object to others trusting in them. On the contrary, one of their most cherished objects is to inspire the confidence of the com- meaity im their strict and punctilious good faith, espe- ally in matters of money and fiduciary trust; and #0 willing is that asa, society, 0 take every one at his own vaduation, and bray in concert with him who blows his ewn trumpet the loudest, that thousands have been eompietely ruined by this fashionabie and implicit trust, without ever even suspecting the dishonesty end hy- Docrisy that had destroyed them, but which had suc- ceeded in diverting the attention of their victimin an entirely opposite direction. Amongst the social gangrenes with which Phila: delpbia is afflicted, our author seems to think that the vice of gambling is one of the most general and serious :— Gambling may be considered a national vice in Ameri- ea, and Palaceipaia bas her fall share of the practice. From the speculaor in copper stock, roa, up and @own the ‘‘coast,” seeking whom he may devour, to ‘the litle niggers of St. Mary street, pitching jes on the sidewalk for ground-nuts, a universal spirit of gam- dling pervades the city. Private houses, among tne midole class,are very frequently furnished with » card oom, where the members of the family, with some un- fortunate young man whom they have ‘‘roped in” fer the occasion, spend the night at “tip poker,” In this employment perhaps one helf our hard working young men spend the hours that ought to be devoted to sleep— a ‘bus go forth to their daily occupations, weary, stupid, i-natured, and totally unfitted for the active @utios of life. It the pictures of good soclety presented ia this book be faithfally painted, we can only say that Philadelphia, which has certain traditional claims to virtue and honesty, is Wry little in advance, on there qualities, of the hybrid upper circles of New York. Evtaxta ON THE PRESBYTERIAN LiTuRGIEs, by Charles W. Baird —M. W. Dopp, New York. The cbject of this interesting little work is, as the writer tella us, to ascertain from the history and teachings of the Presbyterian Church what may be considered its proper theory of worship, and to com- pare that ideal with its prevailing practice. The conclusions at which the writer arrives are, first, that the principles of Preabyterianiam in no way conflict with the discretionary use of written forms; and, secondly, that the practice of Presbyterian churches ebandantly warranta the adoption and the use of @och forme. ‘Without desiring to pronounce any opinion upon ite polemical merits, we can recommend Mr. Baird's book to the perusal of our readers, It possesses an interest entirely distinct from ita sectarian objecta. It {a the work, evidently, of a bighly cultivated and accompliehed mind, whieh knows how to invest any subject, no matter how dry or opposed to one’s pre- jndices, with an attraction which it is impossible to resiat. Take, for instance, the chapter entitled ‘ CALVIN’S LAST COMMUNION. It was Easter Sunday at Geneva, in the year 1564. The doors of st. Peter’s Cathedral were throwa open, and multitudes pressing eagerly through them, soon filled the broad area within. A festival of no little interest and importance convoked these crowds : foron Easter the church of Geneva was accustomed to celebrate, with more solemnity than at other periods of the year, the or- d@inance of the "a Supper. Looking aow1 Gothic mave to the opporite end of the butl discover, by the dim light of the stained w the holy table made reacy with its pure covering, and the sacred vessels glistening uw) it. On each side were seated the ministers of the chureb, and behind them the grave syndice and other magistrates of the city, in their Velvet robes of office, But it was not to these august preparatives that the eyes of the citizens were directed. ve who bad obtained room within, and the many who lingered around the entrance, seemed alike in expectancy of some arrival which was the object of this unusual cu- riosity. It is Calvin whois coming; Calvin, whose voice has sounded go often along those arches, but who never again will stand in yonder pulpit to address his people. He comes in his Inst sickness to participate once more with his beloved flock inthe emblems of the Redeemer’s love. There is deep silence of sorrow pervading this ‘vast assemblage, broken by here aad there a sob of grief not to be repressed, Bat now the throng parts, and through its midst is carried on qchatr tue feeble and emaciated freme of the great Reformer. Ho is not oid, but teil of mind has outworn the body. The pallid, gunken cheeks show the ravages of disease; yer tbe large eyes are Justrous still, and they glance with more than common earnestness over the sea of faces that are turned to meet them. Now the chair is lowered to its place before the communion table, and the breathless silence is broken by a voice from the pulpit at one side of the church, commencing the usual service of the bath worship. With what meaning fall upon the ing of the multitude those prayers which are s0 familiar to their ears, as uttered by one who shall speak them no more on earth. The introductory service ia over, and the sermon commences. Bezs is the preacher; Bers, Jong the most faithful disciple, the most able sucressor ef the great Reformer; he who in a few days will have occasicn to utter those words of heartbroken aifectio “Now that Caivin is dead, life will be less sweet, a: death lens bitter.”” We need not be told that deep ing ebowed itself in his discourse; that more than on his voice trembled, or was choked with a deep emotion. ‘The sermon over, the preacher descends from the pal pit, and, going to the sacred table, reads the exhortation preparatory fo the ordinance. | The consecrating prayer taid, and Beza carries to his illustrious master the symbols of redemption. Then the vast congregation, eoming forward by groups, receive the Wlessed elements ip silent devotion; and when all is through, they join in the concluding hymn of praise. Calvin is not mute; his tremu)ou voice arises with the rest, and ‘on his dying tensnce,”’ says Beza, whore eyes are fixed upon his wan no’ obscurely indicated a holy joy. They ‘al, the song of Simeon, with which, in tl orship, the celebration of the Supper is al- ways closed :— Now let thy servant, Lord, At length depart in peace; According to thy word, My waiting soul release : For thou my longing eyes haat spared Te see thy saving grace declared. To nee thy saving grace, That econ dispensed abroad, The nations shall embrace, And find their help n God : A light to Hghten every land, The glory of thy chosen band. ‘Thus consecrated by hie own dying Be yng “ager Cal- ‘vin’s form for the celebration of the Lord's Supper has come down to us, ABT HINTS—ARCHITECTURR, SCULPTURE, AND PAINT~ 1xG: By J.J.Jarves, Harper Brothers. ‘The object of this treatise is to supply a waut long felt, not only by the general public, but by the stu- dent—that of a work which should embrace both the abstract principles and rales of art, and an out. ine of its historic progress and social relations. ‘The treatise of Ruskin and other writers have been devoted to particular branches of art or to some ape- cial object in connection with them, but there is no single work which hag hitherto presented os with comprehensive and complete view of the subject It will be seen from this that Mr. Jarves has proposed © himself rather an ambitious task. He has, howe- ver, greppled with it in a spirit of lofty enthosiagm and peseionate love for it. If he haa not accom- plished all that he has proposed to himself, be has succeeded in effecting much that his predecessors hadleft undone. His work is the more arceptable to ts from the fact of ite identifying this country for the first time with the history of art, progress, and of ita seeking to awaken the intellectaal mind of America to the important inflaence which it exor- cises upon the progress of civilization itaelf, Grace- fully avd elegantly written, approaching its subject with reverent admirstion, and betraying a thorough acquaintance, not only with all the primoigies, bat with all the existing illustrations of art, whether of the ancient or modern type, this work is destined to take rank with those masterly criticiema which hava given tothe name of Ruskin sch a world-wide re putation. It is already a gratifying evidence of the correct feeling and correct taste with regard to art, which sr¢ sileptly but surely establishing themselves | in thie country, when we find a treatise of s0 mush @ecrimination and power emanating from the pen of an American writer. Haviog given our general impressions on the resulta of Mr. Jarvia’s labors, we will now proceed to lay before our readera a few of his introductory observations which have reference tothe prospects of art in the United 5 e Science alone is not sufficient for a nation’s prosperity. Religion, dwarfed into a panoply of forms, creeds and restraints, is equally insuficient by itself. Tne two, properly combined and understood, form ® strong pba- shafts of sthelam, bigotry and revololionsry cease, the mestal # be complete. Beauty, the senti- ment which has bestowed on man for his enjoy- ment— mark, not use or worship—must be superadded. Isis his free gift to loving spiri alike all, and reception re ‘no labor to obiain, Cetana ten eles Fo divorce Rae Lea things of seneey at ‘This broad princi; vine government y to. establish as I ui Led in the gradual developemeat of the ideas which | wian to present to the consideration of my fellow beings, not as anything new, but as impor- tant to be kept constantly in view for the full apprevia- tion of t ures of even apearthly existence. I particularly wish to call the attention of Americans to the one thing needful to exalt our beloved republic to a pitch of grandeur and prosperity, with consequent in- telligence and refinement, which no nation has as yes ever reached. America—I mean the United States—is but just gird- ing her loins for the race set before her. While men have to contend with stern nature, winning civilization step by step from the wilderness, they have no leisure for aught but the necessary. The useful is the next p. Then come the requirements of ease and lusury, = their attendant train of degenerating influences. Io United States we have arrived at that period of our wational career—or rather while on our frontiers the strife of man with nature is in constant progress, on our ‘we bave enaiaved her to the administration of tory us tl Upholstery, dainty furni- ture, mechanics racked to construct in quantities those things that tend to glitter or misled, machinery multi. ued for the fabrication of all objects, not only of use Sut of crnament, art d jedto manufacture, all be- speak a people with their eyes yet unopened toa sense of their full capacity for greatoess and refinement. ‘There is no halting Hee in a nation’s career. She ai. vances or recedes. If she mistake the road, others ad- vance on the right track and secure the prize, There is more bope for America in her future than for any other pation. In proportion to her hope is a\so ber dsn- ger, for the principle which bids her soar is equally ac- tive to bring her . ‘This principle ia freedom of mind, Elsewhere the governments make their subjects. In America, alone, individuals make their governmente. ‘Asia the individual, so is the government. The im- portance, then, of rightly directing not only the princi- ples but the taste—io its full significance, to be here- atter defined—is self-evident. @ Jove and fear of God is indeed the keystone to the political arch. In propor- tion ap religion demonstrates these principles in their acceptance to man, in that proportion are they wise for thia life and safe for another. But strip religion of its element of beauty, crush the taste and refinement of a nation in the anaconda gratpof bigotry, and you sbut out heaven from earth, and turn earth itself into a wil- dermess of unprofitabig duties, Heroic virtues and stern self-der are fortimes of trisl, when the soul’s energies muat be concentrated by the struggles of ex- intence into mighty efforts. But with the passing of tue storm comes the sunshive. Hearts are to so! \d ex- pand under ite (onag warmth Love is to el taste to refine them. The energies which bi America to the position of an enigma for s!l nations must still find employment. License, the fruit of mia- ¢irected passion ana effeminacy, the canter of luxury, are equally stumbling blocks in her progress. She has strength and wealth, freedom and mental activity. The right direction to be given to each, is the problem to settle. Azt looks to America with open arms. How is it to be carried there? Not by misses who ran over Ea- rope aud bi back a cabin load of new bonnets, with dresres and trinkets to match; neither by women whose aim is display, and ruling principle vanity; nor by young gentlemen whose attainments are limited to the run of “cafés”? and gambling saloons. We have too many of them, and tou many of such families as that of Santa Maria della Salute, whose sole reminiscences of Kuropean travel are the number and not the quaiity of sights. We need art students, men of sincerity and who will not hesitate to go on their backs and knees, if need be, in the dust, to read the soul labguage of the mightiert minds in Europe. Europe is a storebouse of art, but its value and lessons are lost in 8 great messure upon tho nations that gave it birth. Still those silent voices speak. Out of old churches, mould toms, time bonored galleries, ‘there go forth eter principies of truth, if mghtly studied, able to guide the taste and warm the heart of youne ‘America, and urge her on in the race of renown. do noc advocate blind copying of mind, or the recep- tion of laws, whether of taste or morality, without fully proving thelr spirit; but I do advocate, and would preas ome to the heart of every American who goes abroad, the necessity, if be would do bis duty to his own coun- try, of reading and interpretng to his countrymen, 80 far asin bim lies, these sacred writings on the wall. Ta- lent is lent by God. We are to return it with usury. I write not for those light minds who find pleasure only in frivolity, apd who travel simply for excitement— their hopeless, Lwrite for my young friend of the Ve church. With earnest souls like his lies the artistic hope of America. Morevun, A TALE OF THE TWELVE HUNDRED AND Ten. Fetridge & Co. The publication of a posthumous work of Sir Walter Scott msy we!l excite incredulity as to its authenticity. It is well known that the ruin which overtcok him in his later years compelled hiu to use up every scrap of manuscript which he had lying by him, and which his unfettered judgment might have induced him to wit»hold from the pub- lic. It is little likely, then, that at this distance of time there should remain to be disentombed a work of hie of the compass aad pretension of the present one, without some trace of its existence naving been previously discovered. We are therefore disposed to regard as entirely apochryphal the story by which ita parentage is sought to be established. It has not even the features of plausibility. by which Chatterton’s and other celebrated literary forgeries have been for a time successfully palmed on ths public. Putting aside its pretensions om this score, the tale is readabie enough, and is deserving of a fair share of circulation. This it will be cer tain to attain, from the curiosity which has been excited by its attempted offiliation on the author of “Waverley.” Dorsticns—Waar He Says. Edward Livermore. The Doestics saws, maxims, and adventures may be very amusing to 4 certain class of minds, from their very questionable taste and morality, but we own that we caunot see cither wit or pur- pose of any kind in the collection. The writer is a clever phrase maker,and nothing more. He de- lights in alliteration, runs riot in wordy paradoxes, and describes verbal piroatttes after a fashion to make the reader hold his breath; but after the latter bas got through them, he is obliged to lay down the book and ask what it all means. CiintoaL Lectures on rar Diseasea or Women asp Curipnen, by Dr. Bedford. 5.5. & W. Wood, New York. Dr. Bedford, whose merits asa lectarer on the diseases of women aud children are #0 generally acknowledged by the profession, has published in the volume before us the results of his labors since be bas held the chair of obstetrics in the University of New York. Since Uctober, 1850, there have beea presented to his classes over eight thonsand cases of disease, and bis work contains but an epitome ot the various maladies peculiar to women and children, which have been discussed and treated in the clinique, which he has established in connection with his chair. The Doctor states that he has been induced to pubUiah his lectures in this form from the repeated solicitations of his pupils and other friends, and he only claims for them the credit to which they are entitled—that of being running commenta- ries upon disease, as he understands it. Beinga faithful representation of what occurred daily in the Clinique, we apprehend that the pro: fession will be disposed to sttach more value to the observations of a man of the Doctor's acknowledged talent and experience, upon the disgnosia and pathology of each case as it arose, than to a work of mere theory founded upon the remarks and deductions of others. The apology which the author makes for looseness of style and arrangement is therefore umzecessary in the eyes of the class for whose benefit this work is excla. sively intended. One of ita chief recommendations appears to us to be its freeiom from the pedantry and affectation which characterise medical treatives generally. Of its eminently practical and useful character no one can doubt who is at all acquainted with the past labors and high professional reputa- tion of Dr. Bedford. We would willingly give somo extracta from his work, but the peculiar subjects of which it treata are not exactly adapted to our co- Jumns. Brack Diamoxns, by Professor Julias Cosar Han- nibal. New York, 1955, The papers of which this volame is composed ap peared originally im the New York Picayune, which by the bye has received an accession of strength and humor by its absorption of that amusing publi- cation the Pick, the ate editor and proprietor of the latter, the Rev. Jeseph A. Scoville, retiring to cultivate health, cabbages and fat babies on his farm in New Jersey. Although the sparkling me- rite ofthe Professor's ‘Black Diamonds” are fami- Her im detail to most of our readers, we think tue collection in its complete form ia worthy of a more extended notice than has hitherto been given to it. Without entering into the question of the nataral superiority of the blacks to the whites, it mast bs conceded that the former outstrip us io the liberal use cf that figure of speech which the Jearnsd term hyperbole. Tho vulgsr, we are aware, bestow upon this a much more homely designation; but but being unwilliag to say anything tha) might 9 offensive to eare polite, we shall make no allo- sion te “fibbiag,”’ or what may be termed a passion for amplification. Assuredly, however, tho negroes do possess it par excellence. We never knew one of them yet who could not have eclipsed Goldsmith in jying, aa Johnson said, through an iaca thick board. Tt was but lately we heard an intrepid gentlemas of sable color detailing to an admirwg audience the history of sn ingenious “French leave,” which he had taken of his master some eighteen yeara ago, in Kentucky, and of hia subsequent career. Hehal in Liverpool made # amaull fortune, ($100,) out of Henry Clay, when dead, by writing a ekeich of him for the newspapers, though he doubted whether the subject of his memoir was ever worth twenty cents to his country when living; and the account he gave of his reception of his former masier in Lon don was infinite)y more amusing than that of his attempt on the life of the grest American patriot, Sambo, hearing of hia arrival in town, condescend- ingty called upon him and gave him a friendly wel- come. He next invited him home, and politely in- troduced him to hisdanghter, (Miss 8.,) jast re- tarned from receiving a refined edusation, including the Pea-beny, in Paris; and eventually wound up by introducing him at the Reform Ciub, in London, of which the narrator, by his own account, had been elected an “ honorary member for lite.” The entertainment of the astonished Southron, after he had enjoyed the full run of the kitchen, finally wound up by a lecture from Sambo on the subjoct of emancipation,in the great hall of the club, and before the whole of the members, fully twelve hur- dred in number. Having been acquainted with London clab life for at least a dozen of years, we enjoyed heartily the boldness and uncompromising freedom of the fellow’s assertions. They did not, to be sure, ephance the favorable view which we had previously been inclined to take of his seeming trothfulness and sincerity ; but we quitted hie pre- sence impressed with an unbounded conviction of his ability in exaggeration. The author of the papers before us has ably il- lustrated this as well as many other peculiarities of the negro character. We should have stated that the literary form they assume is that of a series of lectures by the mythical,Professor whose name ap- pears on the title page, and whose white woolly head, in strong contrast with the deep gable of his interesting physiognomy, must be familiar to most of our readers. The lectures treat of the various events aud conditions of life,and as delivered by the learned Professor to an aadience, each of whom was uglier than himself, must have been highly im- pressive. A ram’a head—white face with biack horns—adorns the desk before him, by way of illus- tration ; and Haunibal’s own mouth—down which a glasgof rum and water, placed by his side, is oc- cssionally emptied--is evidently a gulf of elo. quence, thongh not exactly, like Gibbon’s, round hole in the centre of bis visage. On the contrary, it is of most ample and barndoor Gimensions, and only to be matched by the equ :lly formidable potatoe traps, male and female, which are arrayed before him. The Professor sometimes addresses these interesting specimens of humanity as “feller citizans,’on other occasions as “‘b’inbbed lams,” when the plate, which he sends aronod in the conrse of the lectare, has been satisfactorily replenished; at other times as “‘steem’d fren’s,” when the collection has been moderately success— ful; “ladies and gemmen,” or “chosen children,” when the coia bas been more than usually nu- merous; end from “dear bruddern” he suddenly changes his tone and pitches into them in the shape |- of “ignoraut hearers,” “woolly heads,” ‘dark- en’d disciples” and “‘harden’d sinners,” when his pwpit efforta chance to be welcomed with more coughs than coppers. The erudite lecturer shakes his bead on various topics. He invites his ‘‘fellow trablere” sometimes to follow him “trew dis wale ob tears;” occasionally he ponders with them on “deep reflexions; and when he becomes downright indignant and, for reasons before ex- plained, feels it incumbent on him to address them by the name of “rebellious scorpions,” bhezcon- sidera it necessary to be profoundly dogmatic. Frequently the Professor treata his audience with song; and on the rare occasions in which their liberality exceeds the uaual bounds, there is little doubt that he is ready, in the pulpit and with his own sacred person, to indulge them ina deligh'fal vision of the beauties of the dance. Unlike other gentlemen, however, who occasion- ally‘wag their paw ina pulpit’—that is, shake their heads ina pulpit,as did the illustrious Do minie Samson of old—the Profesaur, in the progress of bis discourses, @evelopes no inconsiderable store of wordly wisdom. He inculcates more con- sistency than Raymond, and more honesty thaa Greeley; though we doubt not he is inferior to the former in the alacrity with which he “jamps Jim Crow,” and hes not his pocket yet so woll filled as the other with money from the deluded Irish and confiding foreigners. Unlike Aaron Burr and other members of that hopeful family, he has hearera who trust and creditors who believe him; and we question whether the Professor, though he has no “Honorable” prefixed to his name, ever biks bis landlord, or for nonpayment is kicked out of his hotel, after having pocketed his coin, Unlike some importations whom we could name, including one alleged to be from the South- ern bench, the Professor ia au “‘ncnorable man,” end would pass as such in any sham democratic assembly, whether of hards or softs, though all members of these re-unions are of course “honor- able, very, very honorable men,” including in their ranks one half the pettifoggers of New York Unlike those personages, too, though he is neither a general nor a gentleman, ‘“‘one, Xc.,” the Profes- sor has the merit of being consiatent. He does not howl ont against slavery one day, and whine or cant about abolitioniam the next: be is not hard to-night and soft to-morrow. He seems to possess far euperior resolution to Pierce; aud in his fiercest moods, when belaboring bis “odoriferous bredern and sisters” for their parsimony, he is a"perfect gentlemen, #0 far as politeness is concerned, in comparison with Marcy. It is characteristic of this, as well as of many another work of mirth, that it was written, as the author informs us in his preface, mostly on a siokbed, and amid the wracks of physical torture. The humoroua productions of poor Tom Hood, Maginn, and numberlees sons of genius, strange to say, were composed under precisely similar cir- comatances. Cowper wrote the most laughable of all his worke in a position more fearfal etill; bis immortal pilgrimage of John Gilpin to Edmonton having been thrown off while he was laboring under the deepest mental prostration. Such cir- cumstances of course invest their humor with ad- ditional interest, and, as in the ; 1 sont instance, disarma criticism, even if there were any oppor- tunity or occasion for striking # hostile blow. The Professor, we may add, has forestalied Gresiey ip his “Episties from Europe,” and oar readers willderive much greater information from his tour BOOKS ANNOUNCED. Mr. Tue], the author of a treatise on the diplomat. ic policy of the Mexican wer, has now in the pross an Historical Analysis of the Eastern War, and of the diplomatic policy accompanying it. The work will be issued towards the end of the present month, and will contain abont four hundred dnode- cimo pages, 8 map of the Crimes, and several splen- didly engraved illustrations. Fron the table of con tents, the work seems likely to prove of great utility for the purpose of reference. PERIODICALS. Banrens’ for July ia a fair average number. By way of counterpoise to ths interest of the story of Torae) Potter, it presenta ue with a well written me- moir of Paul Jones, whick, however, gives no facts regarding him which may not be gleaned from his previous biographiee. Taylor's “ Batties in Mexico” is 8 stirring and soldierlike narrative of old Zach- ary's exploite. The paper on Besu Brummell is smartly done, but omits some passages which would have helped to point the moral of the old ruué’s ca- reer. Thackeray’s Newoomes is continued ia the present namber. To tell the trath, wo are getting heartily tirea of it. Asa satire, it is too long; a5 a story, it ia too unreal; se @ ekifal combination of both, it 19 a failure. The space allotted to it might be much mora profitably employed. The chapter entitled “ Worth Five Hundred Millions” ia froma grapbic and telling pen. The writer should attempt something more ambitious, in the stapoof a sue tained narrative. Purnan’s, for Jay, hss, aa nacal, come papers of sterling merit. Of thiv ciasw is the one entitled “PlantMammies,” from the same askilied and graceful pen to which woowe 89 many charming articles upon the beauties and mysteries of nature. The paper upon rural objscts in Esgland and Ams- rica ig written in the same spirit, sithough not by the same hand. In both we recognise that re. verence fcr the worka of God, that eye for natural beauty, and thas lofty religious fesling which ever alone impart interest to sush subjects. The articie on recent American poetry ia a just but ood hu- mored criticism on some late poetical abortions. ‘The article, ‘‘ Australiann,” from the pen of My Meagher, is continued in the present number. It possesses but little of the fire and imagization which characterizes hie speeches. That espital tale of New England life, “ Twice Married,” has attained ita s!x’h chapter. It increases in interest aa ft proceeds. The editorial notes and reviewa form as usual not the least attractive pages of the Magazine. Tue KnickERsocgEr for the present month con- tains a large amount of attractive reading. Less ambitious than ita cotemporaries, it seeks rather to amnse than to instruct, and it must be owned that in this it is successfrl. Ita papers sre light weighted, but they carry one along rapidly. Nothing dull or prosy finds admission into ite pages. Tae Unrrep Srares INsveance Gazerre for 1855 will be found one ef the most correct and usefal works of reference inal) mattera connected with the speciality to which it devotes itself that has been iesued of Jate years from our press. It contains, in addition, a number of valuable statistical articles on banks, railroads, and commercia! questions gene- rally. It is published at 79 Pine street. Our Whiteball Corrtspondence. Wairenatu, N. Y., July 11, 1855. Escape of a Prisoner—Detention of Canal Boats. A prisoner, on his way to the Clinton prison, ea- caped at the depot in this town iastevening. Hi+ name is Conrad Hoppy, and he is about twenty. three years of age. He had been convicted of bur- glary, at Albany, and sen‘exced to the State prison for five years. Ho came from Albany in the care, in custody of two officars. They had him chained by the wrist to another prisoner, whose wrists were ao manacied together. Toppy contrived to ua- fasten the ehackie which held to his co-prisoner; and just as the train commenced moving, after a short etop at the atation, he sprang suddenly through the door, leaped off, and fied. The night wes dark, acd favored his eacapo. He was seen in the course of the evening in the village, bya ma. to whom he applied to take bim in and bresk olf the shackle which still bung to nia lett wrist. He Tesided in Albany, where be parted from his deeply didtressed wife yesterday. She, at least, will be glaa to hear of his escape. There ore more than thirty canal boate, mostly loaded with lumber, now lying here in sight from the Park House, waiting for the repsir of toe break in the canal bank at Schuylerville, thirty-six mites from here. ‘There sre said to be several miles ot boats lying in the vicinity of the break, the repuir of which, it is said, will be completed this week. P. S.—Since the above was written the prisoner, Hoppy, was re-captured. He was found lying on ee Of boards in an old ebed, right hera in the vil- Res TENnEssBE a Great Stare —Accordiag to tha Memphis Eagle, the State of Tennessee stands at least a head and shoulders above all her Southern and Scuth western sisters. From the authority above quoted, we learn that she ia, par excellence, the “Volunteer State,” having always bsen ready with frem tbree to five times her quota of volunteer aol- diera whenever ber country called. She prodaces more corn than any other Sta. She raise: more hogs. She possesses the finest marble quarries in the Union. She produces, from exaaustless mines, the best and finest iron in the world. Her cotton lanters took the first premiums at the Loadon and New York World’s Fairs. So, also, did one of her wool growers. She can show the most beautitui women and tbe bravest men in the world, snd more of them in proportion to population, She hasgiven two Presidents to the republic—Aadrew Jackson and James K. Polk—and wili, probably, in the lapse of time, give two or three more—to wit, amon, other, M. P. Gentry, (Krow Notbing,) John Bell, or J.C. Jones—that is, if the two latter will oni: place themselves fairly and squarely on the Ameri- cau pistiorm. Tennesses boasts the loveliest acene ryintbe South; the most beautiful streams in the world; the bandsomest, the loftiest, the most Ame rican (because entirely Tennesseean) State Capital in the Union; and, finally, a commerciai city, seated on the eastern bank of the Miseissiypi river-—Mem git, by tame—which is bound, sooner or later, to the centre and pivotof the railway system of the South, and one of the great wealthiest, moat populous, and most powerfal cities on the Westera or any other continent. Case oF ABPUCTING AND KrpNaprrnc.—It ap- pears that about ten o’clock on last Saturday night @ young lady, named Eveline Palmer, about fifteen esrs Old, was miasivg from her father’s residenc* i» Georgetown, whereupon the family commenced a most vigilant aud untiring search, ia order either to find her or to obtain some intormation which might lead to her recovery. Their efforts, however, dur- Lins night were unavailing, whilst those of the Sabbath were equally ao. In the meantime, how- ever, circumstances trarapired which seemed to ex- cite the euspicion that she had been carried to Bal- timore. Mr. Palmer immediately took the cars, and ‘was soon in communication with the police,t» whom he cetailed a statement of the distreasing cass. Mr. North, of the Eastern station, having received a fall description of his daughter, commenced, with the aid of his brother officers, a train of examinations. which were happily succeastul, and the disireseed father had the eatisfaction on Tae evening of meeting his child, snd once more receiving her under his tion. Mr. North, after the laborious exertions, came across her on Broadway, in company with a well dreesed young man, acd, althouga he had never scen Kant ge lady previously, at once tock them into custody. It appears that taey reach- ed here on Saturday, and took lodgings st a hoarse on the Point. The name of the young man is McKen- dree Desn, also of @ respectable family in George- town. Hé has been commitied to jail by the Jus- tice, in default of security, to answer the ch: of abducting and kidnapping the young lady.— Balti- more Sun, July 12. Brven CoUNCILMBN SENT TO JarL FoR Conreurr. —Our readera will recollect the question Jately argued before Judge Bullock on an application by Kean acd others, for a wr:t of mandamus to compel the council to grant them tavern licenres. The decision of the Court we have already given. The council in session, think- ing they knew more shout Jew than the judge, declared they would not obey the decree, Am onde ttach- ment was served upon them to show why they should not be punished for contempt. One class replied that they were ready, and they were feleased. A second party were not willing to isnue the licenses, but would ive the bond required in order that the question might Ge taken up im the Court of Appeals. No action wil’ be bad as regar until Touraday mext, A third party or faction, retured to iasue the license, but were willing to give the city hond instead of their individual ones. These last were on yerterday morning sent to jail, till enc time an they obey the decree, or give the Yequired bond. She members sent to jail were Council- men Riley, (President of the Board,) Holbrook shanks, Calies and Vaughn; aleo, Aldermen Weatherford, (Pre rident of the Hoard), and Kaye. At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, on a writ ot habeas corpus, they wore taken before Judge Pirtie, of the Chancery Court, who, after a full sno patient hearing and invartigation, remanded them to jail to fulfil the decree of the Circuit Court, or await their own renciness to give the required bond What an item of news it will be, to he sure, to go out from Louisville, that ont of 24 members of the City Counell, no leas thi ven were nent to jail for obati pacy and rebellion—and they, too, members of the “ law and order part; Lowisville Democrat, July 12. Naval Intelligence. The U. S steamer Falton sailed from Key West June 20, for Pensacola, Our Rochester Correspondence, Rocussres, Jaly 11, 1355. Celebration of the Fourth of July—A Maine Law Pro. cession—The People and their Demonstration—College Commencement—The Exercises, Orators and Graduates. ‘The two first weeks of July may be put down aa gale weeks for this section. The Fourth opens the programme, when all who are imbued with patrivt- ism in the Genesee Valley and Western New York throng the city, to give vent to their patriotic desires inauch ways se inclined We were favored this year with two cele! the people’s procession and exercises, in which ali could joim and enjoy a genuire old fazhioned “day we celebrate,” and such wae enjoyed on # rand scale. For eeversi weeke past the Maine-lawites, beitg over elated with joy, have moved everything mova- bie to make a formidable demonstration on the Fourth, and with great boaete proclaimed that they would outnumber the people's provession nine to one. Durga stresk of liberal benevolence they condescended to allow the “people” to join with them, provided they would adopt their programme, their orator being Harbor Master Burleigh. The citizens’ committee, however, were not so blue, bat went im, and hed ® procession of thousands. Ail eyes were eager to get a glimpse of tha great Meine law precession. It finally moved, and the highest estimate of numbera was two hundred and fifty out of a multitude of one handred thousand assembied here that day. Such was the great boasted Maine law celebration in Rochester, avd probably the last. This being Commensement week of the Rochester University, it attracts a large concourse of ita friends from this section, Among its eminent supporters we notice Hon. Ira Harris and John N. Wilder, Eeq,, of Albany; Robert Kelly, Esq., and Rev. Dr, Magoon, of New York; Rev. Mesars. Miller, of Con- necticut; Colver, of Detroit; and Fleishman, of Phila delphia. The prise exhibition of the sophomore class csme off on Monday evening, before an immense sudience. The young gentlemen acquitted them- selves handsomely, and elicited much praise. The fifth sxniverasry of the theological department took place om Tuesday evening, and consisted of ora. tiona by the graduating class. The exerzises were of a very interesting character, and indicated a very grstitying degree of discipline and study on the of the speakers. There were sixteen graduates in this department. On Tuesday evening the Delphic and Pithonian societies held their anniversary a; Corinthian Hall, which was filled to ita utmost capacity; ora- tor, J. W. Fowler, Esq. Waa. Pits Palmer delivered an bret Coral end well timed poem on the occasion. On Wednesdsy an immense crowd assembled to witness the Commencement exercises. Thegradaates displayed great skili of oratory, aud a power of thought that betokens much usefulness in tae life before them. The Chencellor of the University, Hon. Ire Harris, conferred the degrees. There are sixteen juates, viz.: A. K. Nott, Kennebankport, Me.; ©. D. W. Bridgman, Hoboken, N. J.; A. D. ‘Wiliams, Ann Arbor, Mich.; C. W. Tarner, Cort- lacd; D. H. Cooley, Brockport; N.S. Smith, Rod- man; M. A. Brown, Marion; J. & Otis, Rochester; wid. Learned, Willismeville; A. J. Ensign, Ridge way; J.8. Evans, Brooklyn; W. T. Fagan, Trives’ Hill; W. CO. Pract, Somereeti; N. Fox, Jr., Schenec- cele M. M. Marble, Providence, R. L; W. W. Fay, 0 5 M. ceed ie. ith @ grend banquet by the Alumni closed the fifth apnval Commenosmsnt exercises of the Rechester University. The exercises closed with great credit to the in~ stitution and its taculty and studenta. The grada ating clase dis;doyed mucn taste in the selection of the themes on which they spoke, and mush intel- leotual torce in their discussion. I was excsediogly gratified by the ier and generous spirit id played, and the absence of that partisan and sec tional cant too ofted indulged in on such occasions. It argued well for the tone and temper of the Uni- versity. The prize deelamations on the evening of the 9th were very gocd specimens of elocution, and in twowr three instances evinced the possession of fine native powers. The gem ot the occasion was the orstion before the hterary societies last even- ing, by John W. Fowler, Esq., President of the National Law Scnoo! in Poughkeepsie. It was pro- nounced the mightiest effort of mind—the moat end specimen of eloquence ever listened to at University commencemests. For more than two hours he beld an immense and intelligent audi- ence apelibound, The occasion, on the whole, was highly satisfac tory and creditable to this popular and valuabie in- stitution, G. R. be Our Pennsylvania Correspondence. ALtoona, July 6, 1855. Celebration of the Fourth in Blair County—Great Crowds—The Rain,and a Change of Programme — Adhesion to the Natwe Platform—The atholic Church and the Slavery Movement—An Orator about to be Shot. ‘The Americans of Blair county celebrated the an. nivereary of American independence by an open de- menatration in this place. Notwithstanding the in- clemency of the weather, the people from the sur. rounding country poured into our borough in crowds; and had the day been fine, thore would doubtless been five thousand persons in attendance. Arrange” menta had been made to hold the meeting in the open woods, but, owing to the rain, which at times during the morning came down in torrents, this was impossible; and Capt. H. J. Lombaert, Superinten_ dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with his charac. teristic generosity, tendered the Americans the use of the large fitting-up shop connected with the com- papy’s works. A stand was fitted up, and seats erected for the ladies, and at 11 A. M. the meeting was called to or” dec by M. H. Jolly, Esq., who nominated Judge qin, of Logan, aa President of the dey, and a large number of vice presidents, representing all sections ofthecounty. The Declaration of Independence was then read by M. L. Ritte, Esq., and the orator of the day, the Hon. Lewis C. Levin, of Poiladelphia, was introduced to the assemblage. His speech was re- celved with the greatest enthusiasm, and was con: tinually interrupted by shouts of applame. I regret 1 am unable to give you a sketch we his eloquent ef- fort, but it surpassed any speech ever listened to im this section of country. M. H. Jolly then read the mejority platform adopted by the National Council, and offered tne fol- lowing preamble and resolutioss, which were adopt €@ by acclamation, and amid the most entuusisstic coe ertna, the Americans of Blair county have met to- gether in ‘convention, on this, the anniversary of the irthday of siberty, to express their allegiance to Amo rimciples, asd their attachment to the American therefore, be it Resolved, That we boldly proclaim as our principles, that native born Americans only should rule America, that the naturalization laws should be rectricted t term of twenty-one years, an should be enacted by oar national ( the importation of foreign paupers Revelved, That the common schoo! atom is one of the safeguards of our liberty, and that we deprecate any at- tempt, coming from any quarter, to subvert or over- Resolved, That the American platform, which makes Americanism the parawount consideration, and leaves all other questions as of minor and secondary io a looking as it does to the prerervation of the Union as the great end to be secured by patriotic effort, commands our approval, and calls tor our support. Herolved, Yhat this echo from tue Aileehanies to the ita of eur brethren of Philadelphia, New York and itimore, shall reverberate in tones of thunder on the second Tuesday of October next, and that we pledge Mae igs fer 1,600 majority for the whole Americea icket. After the acclamations of the audience had ceased, the President introduced the Rev. Mr. Keyes to the meeting, who delivered a brilliant speech upon Catholiciem an connected with the American move- ment—<during which he proved to the entire satis faction of sll that the slavery movement that is now Mme the country, and threatens the integrity of the Union, is owing in @ great measure to the efforts of the Reman Catholic Church. During his speech, as during the whole meeting, the greatest enthusiasm was exhibited, and the meet ad- journed with six cheers for Sam and the platform. This was by far the largest demonstration ot kind ever held in this place, and everything p: off quietly, but a meeting of the Americans in the evening was interrupted by the threatened assagsi- vation of Mr. Levin, who was addressing it. A German Catholic watchmaker came out from a legerbier ealoon with # musket, which ne levelled at Mr. Levin, but was prevented trom firing by some of hia triends, who seizea him, taking the un from bis bands. Mr. Levin was not the least Gisturbed by the circumstance, but went on with his speech a8 though nothing had occurred. Aumricvs. Cholera bas made its appearance in Kentucky of late, in ville and vicinity. At May’s Lick have occured, ef which four have prev cases occurring im various directiony, imerease of mortality in the large cities. few week, warn us that the sickly seanc at band, and that perrons cannot be toe careful of diet ami habits, Our Mary len FPRANKVILLS, ALLEGHANY, ad July 9, 1865. Our National Road at Frankville— Little Meadows Battle Ground—A summer Retreat—Tracking a Hwrvicane— Timber Londs— Politics and George Law—Barefooted Populanty. For the past few days I nave explored this wild and romantic country, s« far sa the great national road, which once att:scted eo much attention aad travel, and in the coratrnction of which #0 much money and political cspital were expended, while now it is deserted ond a’most unknown to the rising generation. I wieited the famous “Shades of Death” where once towered a dense forest of lofty pines, but a nipping ‘ros came and cat them down, as “ cumberers of the ground,” to make lumber for distant markets; and now the “Shades of Death” have passed away, or b-en succeeded by Frost’s saw mills, letting in the suo lighs to cheer and gladden buman hearts, sod mate habitations for the sons of men. In the neighborhood, some two miles over Meadow Mountain, said to be fuil of iron and coal, and in~ habited by deer, I visved tie spot where Washing- ton fought the famous batile with the Indians at. Little Meadows. Near the battlefield there are 1wo mineral springs strocgly impregoated with iron, end a most excellent ho-el keot in the quietest man- ner imaginable, by br. Cross, a very good natured@ map, by the byw, and his excellent Isdy. Fora summer resort, [know of no place that can farnish ao much quiet and comfort for those who long for quiev and repose as thie traly excel- lent hotel. Tn passing over a bench of tae “‘ Meadow Moun- tain,” came upon the track of @ harricane, and raw osks and pines browen, uprooted aud scat ip every direction for several rods in width, and for miles in succession, ia attestation of tae strength of “the prince of the power of the air.” The coun- try and crops look d:!.a du,and there will be an abundant harvest hereab ate. Trode over hundress and thousands of acres of beautiful land which «iu yield 100,000 feet of oak and pine lumber to tnes ra. Coe “Montsone Compa- ny tract contains the beet forests of white oak and white pine I bave ever rean, and ita harvest of lum- ber alone will make tne company exceedingly rich, The only political elem-n« alive seems to be the Know Nothings, for the present admiuistration has annibilated al! vitality aud auion in the democra.ic party, while the wniz party died with Gen. Taylor. te Law seoma to b+ kiown on these mountain heights, and be is the only man who seems to stir the hearts of these !unters. Perhaps he has twravel- ed on the national road barefooted when a boy? Did not Gen. Cass, #hen a candidate, aay that went to Michigan, when a oy, barefooted? Will not & candidate run better ba ef oted? To day I leave for the West. M. Our Georgtu Correspondence. Avousra, (Ga.) July 7, 1855. American Feeling in the state—Address of Judge Cone—Incidents of the Meeting--General Policy— Prospects in South Carolina. Judge Cone, of Georgia, the acknowledged author of she Southern planka tn the national platform, de- livered an addrena to the citizens of Augusta on the 6th inst. He is a man of no crdinary powers, pos sessed of great firmness and deliberation, and dis- tinguished himself in the Jate Philadelphia conven. tion by “the speech” whi b decided the fortunes of the American party, aod purged ita ranks of the factious element of abolition. The Judge shirked vove of the ticklish points in the platform, in his address, aad elucidated the article which bears hard upon the Papiats in such a manner as to silencs the outcries of his Hibernian auditors. When he adverted to that article which is destined to correct the evila of foreiga influence, the toreign and Irish party “kicked,” aad attempt. ed to disturb the speaker by outcriss peculiar to geese and serpents, while some “ broth of a boy” attempted to chow hia knowledge of history by ask ing, “‘Who discovereo America?” The lucky apewer from a young American, of “ St. Patrick be jaber,” turned the laugh aga'nst the Milesian, and the Judge proceeded ‘o elucidate his point in mild bot firm Anguace proving conclusively hat the pri- vileges which foreigue:s epjoy in this country are hose of our courtesy and generosity—not nataral ights. She Judge bore hard uvoa the democ:atic party,! which has s0 suddenly beoomathe staunch champion of Papacy and foreign influence; and showed the «fidelity of Pierce’s admmistration to the South ig ita truest and blackest color, by on exposé of the curse of Reeder, the abolition Governor of Kansas, ope of the pets of the Kitcnen Cabiuet. When the Jadge came to tonch upon the “ wild bunt after office,” und the democreis required an, explanation of the phrase, ne told them that there were three hunared applicants for the va+ cancies in the Court of Cisims, (three in number, bleed ie pened gave earnest eninge ress; and, if we may believe report, Georgia givea ‘good account of berself in the approaching contest. We wish we could the same of South: Carolina; but the one han aud twenty four foreign citizens, made there in three days, show a degree of turpitude in the demooratic wire-pullera of that cnce honorable old State which we were not prepared to expect. Meliora speramus. AMERICAN, Our Indiana Correspondence. Vincennes, Ind., Jaly 5, 1855. Opening of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad— The Company Present—Scenes by the Way— Prairie Beauties and Land{Culthation—Recep- tion at Vincennes—-Tre Ladies, a Dinner and Grand Ball, The iron band covnecting the Wabash valley with the Mississippi river was completed July 30th, and the opening or insugar.tion took place yeater- day. By the polite invitation of H. D. Baon, Pre- sident, over five hundred of the mos prominent citizens of St. Louis and #djoining cities participated in the event, among whom were the Hon. Edward | Bates, Mayor King, ex-Governor Laue, of New) Mexico; Judge Breeze, Messrs. Bacon, Belcher, | Cabot, Gisscow, Warre and Sam Gaty. The com- pany left St. Louis about 74 A. M., and after crossing | the river to Illinois, they found the train elegantly | decorated with flags, and the old iron horse waa ready to depart with the company. A farewell cheer to the crowd at the depot and we soon burried along | over the new laid track. A fine band of masic was in attendance, and favored the inhabitanta| of the numerous villages on the route with music. | ‘The traveller, as he hu:ries along through the coun- try, will be surprised that the city of St. Louis did not perceive the immerse advantages which thia road presented as a means of incressing ita trade. For here we passed through prairies rich with | flowers, and now elegant in their summer apparel; | wild roses trailing slong the ground, and various blooming plants which Jent a varied and pleasing | charm to the ese. These prairies extended mile upon mile, far as the eye could reach, s perfect ocean of beauty. Where the soil was cul:ivated the corn looked rich and thick; the rye, the wheat and the osta were growing heavy with their products; the whole of these vast prairies present the finest soil, which scarcely ceeds any labor to make it productive. There was land sufficient to cultivate ail the wheat necessary to make the West the granary of the world; and now that the road is finished which opens all these fields to @ market, it will soon teem with grain and iacrease im population. It is railroads which open to us all the Itmitable spaces of our country, and which also ends to unite closer States. Faction may meet action, and party meet party, but no political rea- oping ever convinces or eradicates opinions; but it. is the bringing together of the le of ent States, when they ma; \eetpuanes-opeapa nd witness the error ot prejadice, that will tend to harmonize the public feeling, # railroad will also, when finished to Cincinnati, open the shortest route to the East, and even the connections sre such that the trade from the East can flow by con- nections through this channel. The citizens of Vincennes turned out in a body. The isdies dressed in their holiday costume, and the men perfectly uproarious with sboutiag. Tha bridge over the Waberh was decorated with flowers snd greens. The dinner was prepared for five poe and everything necessary was bountitully supp . An elegant ball was given in the evening, where Jour humble servant saw mach to admireia beanty; acd at Jast time progrersed onwards, passed over the anniversary of our National Ladependence, and witneseed one mere evidence of the progressive apirit of the American people, Compe Haroup,