lation for a short time, and made a few remarks men. He has done more, perhaps, than any other person to the Volunteer Companies, expressive of the living to incite the ambition of young authors, and to raise confidence with which he had always relied upon sively to the pursuits of trade and the learning of the up a literary class among a people devoted almost excluthe Volunteer service. Governor Floyd, Ex-price-current. Of Mr. Willis it is scarcely necessary to President Tyler, and Commodore Warrington, say a word. He is at once an honorable gentleman and were each called out, and also made brief patri-a brilliant writer, an ornament to the literature and the otic speeches.

The events of the day were closed with a display of beautiful Fireworks at night, from the Capitol Square and Gamble's Hill, and by a magnificent Masonic Ball, given at the Union Hotel.

society of his country. The Editor regrets the tone of his contributor's remarks with regard to these gentlemen the more, because he happens to know (what doubtless his valued contributor did not,) that Mr. Poe had received frequent attentions at their hands, which he was ever ready warmly to acknowledge. As for the edition itself, the Editor of the Messenger has already had occasion to On Saturday morning, at 9 o'clock, the Pres-speak of it, and as for Mr. Lowell the article contains not one word too harsh for him. ident, in an extra train, left for Washington,— The Editor regrets to have to add a list of typographithe thousands who had come from their peaceful cal Errata for the article in question. In the first senhomes and profitable labors, rapidly dispersed,-tence read "residuum" for residium," on the 172nd page, the excitement was stilled,-the pageant was 2nd column, 19 lines from the top, for, "in a very small minority, &c.," read, on a very small minority, &c.:" same column and page, 7 lines from the bottom, read "Kaleidoscope" for "Kalaidescope"-173rd page, 1st column, 25 lines from bottom, for "pudent," read "impudent"— next line read “an" for "au"-and on page 176, 2nd column, 2 lines from bottom, for even them" read " even then."

over.

The 22nd of February, 1850, has left upon the Metropolis the calm of satisfaction and pride resulting from the conscioosness that a noble deed has been performed.

It was evident that Gen. Taylor was greatly gratified with the demonstrations of regard and affection which he met with in Virginia. On bidding farewell at Acquia Creek, to Mr. Kinney, of the Senate, he grasped his hand in a most earnest manner, and said in a tone full of emphasis and feeling,—“Sir, I never thought that my old heart would have gushed over with such emotions as it has for the last few days."

To one other subject we must allude, adding our own testimony, as far as we may, to the truth of the statement contained in the following extract from the Richmond Whig:

แ

* Messenger for February, 1850.

A TRIBUTE OF REMEMBRANCE. We publish below the proceedings of the College Society of which our lamented friend, Cooke, was a graduatemember, upon the occasion of his death. It is fitting tribute to the memory of one whose loss has called forth an universal sorrow.

WHIG HALL, COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY, PRINCETON. Extract from the Minutes of the American Whig Society: Whereas, It has pleased an all-wise Providence to re

rers, PHILIP PENDLETON COOKE, a graduate member of this Society, whose brilliant poetical genius reflected high honor on this Institution, while it gave promise of a widely increasing and enduring reputation, therefore be it

"The extreme decorum with which this cele-move from the circle of his numerous friends and admibration was conducted, reflects the highest credit on Virginia, and in no other portion of the United States, do we believe it could have been equalled in this respect. Not a fight nor a quarrel took place, as far as we have yet ascertained, and there were not a half-dozen drunken men in the crowd. Indeed there was scarcely any disturbance of any kind whatever."

EDITORIAL NOTE.

Resolved, That we do deeply sympathise with the family and friends of our deceased Brother, praying that he who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb may suitably comfort their hearts in this their bereavement:

Resolved, That in token of our respect for the lamented deceased, we wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of the deceased, and published in the Charlestown Free Press and Southern Literary Messenger.

BY ORDER OF THE SOCIETY.

The Editor of the Messenger deems it proper to say with reference to the article on Edgar Allan Poe, that it was furnished to the printers during his absence from the city, and he did not see it before the sheets had gone through the press. He cannot permit the present Our table is loaded with new works which we have number of the Messenger to go forth without the expres- no room to review in our present number. A carefully sion of his regret at the general tone of the criticism as prepared critical notice of the Iconographic Encyclopedirected against two of the Editors of the collected edi- dia, published by Rudolph Garrigue of New York city, tion of Mr. Poe's works-Messrs. Willis and Griswold. edited by Professor Baird of Dickinson College, Pennsyl This latter gentleman is well-known to the public as a la-vania, together with several other notes of recent publi borious and successful worker in the fields of American cations, are unavoidably deferred. They shall appear in letters, and to those who are honored with his personal our next number, when we shall carefully bring up the acquaintance, as among the kindest and most estimable of list of current literature to the date of the publication.

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SIXTEENTH VOLUME.

A new volume of this long-established and favorite monthly will be commenced on the 1st of January next. In issuing its Prospectus, the Editor does not deem it necessary to publish any long list of contributors or to indulge in any fulsome laudations of the Magazine. Its character is well-known throughout the country. For nearly sixteen years it has occupied the first rank of excellence in periodical literature. The Editor is determined to maintain its standing, by filling it with articles from the best pens in the country. The contents will embrace

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TRIBUTES TO THE FEBRUARY NO. Ballads," "Florence Vane," &c., we copy a SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER.-No peri-beautiful poem by that gifted and too early lost child of Song.

[Daily Cincinnati Gazette.

From the Washington Globe. SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER for Febru

SON, Editor and Proprietor.

In another column will be found an extract from the article on Pericles, which want of room obliges us to reduce to narrower limits than we wish, and to narrower than the article, on account of its merit, deserves.

odical is more welcome to our table than this one published at the capital of our own State. Its sober Quaker-like cover, with its fine clear type and white paper-those desiderata to weak eyes are exactly to our taste. The literary matter is of such a character as to need none of ary, 1850. Richmond, Va: JOHN R. THOMPthe adjuncts which other works of the kind seem to require. As Virginians, as Americans, we are proud of the Southern Literary Messenger. The February No. which is now before us, is quite a treat to the intellectual epicure; its leading article on the "Life and Times of Pericles," is the finest written essay on the most brilliant The Excursion to Ireland is by an American period of Athenian history, we ever read. The who traveled last year in that most wretched writer displays not only a thorough knowledge country. At every step almost he encountered of the history and literature of the period, but he writes con amore. The character of Pericles and of the Athenian people, the two great parties who divided Athens, the lofty character of the Attic Drama, the causes which led to the Peloponnessian War, the jealousy of Sparta and the awful pestilence which devastated Attica, are all To read this account, and others, of that ap delineated as if by an eye witness. We read it parently doomed country, is enough to make as we would the letter of a friend giving us an one's blood run colds but how much more hareccount of scenes he himself had witnessed. A rowing must it be to witness the scenes of suffervery good criticism on "Critics," by H. T. Tuck-ing that are described-suffering that seems to erman, follows--four chapters of The Seldens be too general to admit of a hope that anything of Sherwood," with a number of other articles in like effectual relief can be applied. prose and poetry, enrich its pages.

[Rockingham Register.

naked and starving human beings-men, women, and children-some in a perfect state of nudity, and some with no clothing but loathsome rags; some suffering greatly from want of food, and some so far gone that food even would be too late to save them,

From the N. Y. Tribune. "SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER" (Feb.) edited by JoHN R. THOMPSON, Esq., holds an SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER.-There is eminent rank among our current monthly perino periodical published in the United States, odicals. It has secured an extensive and robust which is welcomed to our table with more cor- popularity by its purely literary merits, independiality than this. Month after month, year after dent of the usual machinery of clap-trap, capiyear, it comes along, with its unpretending look, tals, and astounding specimens of engraving. and its broad, clear pages of manly writing and The contributions to its pages are generally from sober, wholesome thought. Long ago, the ripest favorite writers, and betray a high order of inscholarship and the best intellect of the South tellectual cultivation, and a pure and classical made it their medium of communication with taste. As a periodical adapted to the use of edthe thinking minds of the country, and it is their cated, refined families, in which they can be almedium yet. From an early day it had among ways sure of finding an attractive varety, with its contributors several of the most graceful and an elevated tone of thought and feeling, it would scholarly essayists of the North, and it retains be hard to point out its superior. The present them still. Its more imaginative department is number has a tempting table of contents, inclu likewise well supplied, and its critical départ-ding original articles on "The Times of Periment bears evidence at all times of care, discrim- cles," "Hazlitt as a Critic," "An Excursion in ination, independence and honesty. Its able and Ireland," with several poetical pieces of more assiduous editor and publisher, John R. Thomp- than ordinary merit. son, deserves well of intellectual circles, for, his persevering avoidance of clap-trap in conducting the Messenger, and his steady efforts to make its pages useful as well as entertaining.

From an appreciating and beautiful notice, in the February number, of the late Philip Pendleton Cooke, of Virginia, author of the "Froissart

Southern Literary Messenger is as solid, instructive and satisfactory as ever. One rise from its perusal like a man who has appeased his hunger from a well filled table-in the best possible humour with the whole world.

[Cadiz (Ohio) Republican.

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