MAGAZINE. VOL. IV., 1859. OCTOBER-MARCH. CHARLESTON : STEAM POWER PRESS OF WALKER, EVANS & CO., NO. 3 BROAD STREET. 1859. INDEX TO VOLUME IV. ..300 Extracts from Home Journal... A Little Lesson for Little Ladies... 73 An Hour among Medals and Coins. 69 A Meeting with De La Roche......152 A Journey due North............ A Winter Thought.. A Letter from Europe.. ..339 Great Republic Monthly..... .....471 .368 History of Civilization, by Buckle... 81 ..424 Historical and Biographical Essays 456 .151 of John Foster.... 85 ...179 42 History of Frederick the Great, by Thomas Carlyle..................... .276 ...518 Household Book of Poetry. .....348 ....529 Historical Magazine..... .384 ...571 16 Household Edition of the Waverly .384 66 Saturday Press.. ....... .562 .... 87 ..204 .219 ....... 89 ..166 On the Authorized Version of the Oration, by C. E. B. Flagg.......... 95 Obituary of Dr. P. C. Gaillard.......467 ...374 Story of a Boulder... .284 ......526 ...... ..540 ..566 96 52 ..246 .281 .337 .379 ..... ..384 The year 1780, dear readers, found the fortunes of South Carolina at the lowest-her metropolis in the hands of the enemy: her territory everywhere overrun by his troops. She had fought in vain, had succumbed, after ag conflict and a close leaguer, in which her resources were exhausted. Her regular troops were all in captivity -her militia scattered, and without a leader. Her sister States of the South, only not so helpless as herself, as not having been made to pass through the same fiery ordeal, are slow in giving her succor. Her Northern sisters have shown no disposition to help her, in any way, whether with men or money; and Congress, which did little for her, when a little more succor might have saved her, is now prepared, according to the report, to make terms for the other States, leaving Georgia and herself to their fate; in other words to sacrifice these two feeble colonies, rather than prolong a conflict of which they have become heartily tired! Where shall Carolina turn for help or hope? The British are in all her High Places. Her towns are garrisoned by foreign legiona ries. Her fields are overrun by thousands, who reap them with sword for sickle; and, scattered throughout her forest country, traversing her roads and watching her rivers, there are swarms of savage auxiliaries, red men, and painted tories, from the Cherokee, the Muscogee countries, and the provinces of Florida, who harry the settlements with steel and fire-hounding on everywhere their dogs of blood and rapine. She is, seemingly, prostrate, at the foot of the Invader, and his bugle blasts echo, peal upon peal, the exultation which proclaims his victory complete! A time was it, in a phraseology sufficiently hacknied, to try men's souls. As if all times were not calculated to try men's souls, wherever there are souls worthy of the trial! It is by such trial of the soul that God decrees its usefulness; upon which it rests whether it shall be a living soul at all-trains it, by sharp and constant exercise, for develop |