(From the Christian Journal, Harrodsburg, Ky.) SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. We neglected noticing the November No. of this periodical. B. B. Minor, Esq., its present Editor, is the successor of Mr. White, and a gentleman highly qualified for the responsible labors he has undertaken. The Messenger attained a deservedly high reputation during the last years of Mr. White's administration, and it has lost nothing by the late change. We are surprised that a periodical, which, in the opinion of many competent judges, stands at the head of American literature, and which is confessedly the most useful of all our monthlies, should be noticed so sparingly by the Western press! The Messenger has accomplished more for Western interest than any other print of the same character, and for this, at least, it deserves Western support. We would bespeak from the press generally a more earnest support of this periodical. The Messenger, unexceptionable in its typography, published at Richmond, Va., at $5 per annum, in advance. Subscriptions re ceived at this office. (From the Portland Transcript, Maine.) SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. We have received the December number, which concludes the ninth volume of this excellent work. In January a new volume will commence, and we second the call of the Editor for the friends of letters to flock to his help. As the sole representative of Southern Literature, the South should accord to it a liberal support-cherishing it with a sectional pride, which may well be indulged in for its well-won merits. Among the multiplicity of Northern periodicals, but few, if any, excel the Messenger. The Editor enters on the tenth volume with strong hopes and renewed energies, determined to make his Messenger worthy of running to and fro-a light in dark places and a brilliant star amid the gallaxy of Literature. We cordially commend it to our friends. For contributors it has some of the most talented sons of the South. Price $5 per annum. B. B. Minor, Richmond, Va. SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER, DECEMBER, 1843. "This is the closing number of the ninth volume of this able and well known monthly. Its contents are interesting and valuable. Rough Notes of Rough Adventures,' is the title of a very pleasant paper, by J. N. Reynolds, Esq. of this City, and this is followed by an extended and discriminating review of the poems of Cornelius Mathews, a continuation of the Iceland Letter,' a review of Webster's Bunker Hill Oration, and several other articles on a variety of subjects, both in prose and verse. The Editor's Table exhibits industry and a good degree of Literary talent. The Messenger under its new Editor bids fair to preserve and even to increase its ability and popularity." [Courier & Enquirer, New-York. (From the Watchman of the South, Richmond.) The SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER for November, has been on our table for several days. We think Mr. Minor is fully sustaining the former character of the Messenger. We wish well to his enterprise. The South needs such a work, and will no doubt sustain it. (From the Telegraph, Murfreesboro' Tenn.) SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. This periodical, for November, has been on our table for some weeks. Under the Editorial supervision of B. B. MINOR, Esq., a native of Virginia, it is conducted with as much taste and greater ability than heretofore. This is a Southern periodical, devoted to Southern interests and to the development of Southern intellectual resources. It is, therefore, the duty of our people to patronize this work; and we heartily wish we could persuade them to encou rage it, instead of the wishy-washy three dollar Northern Lady's Books" and fashion papers. (From the Boston Evening Gazette.) THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. We are glad to see this work has fallen into such good hands as the prospectus of a new volume just received, announces. It is an admirable monthly and deserves to be supported by a goodly army of subscribers. The Editor says "in our late excursion to the North, we were delighted at finding that the Messenger had quite a towering reputa tion there; and some of the Literati and excellent judges said it was about the best periodical in the Country. "It is true," they said, "it has not the run of some others, and doesn't go for pleasing with pictures, but its matter is solid, its aims are high, and its literature is pure." This was the style that some of the most sensible ones used, from Washington to Boston. This didn't redound to our credit, for we did not wish to appropriate what was due to our worthy predecessor. So with a good word to his memory, we very modestly declared that we thought it the best in the Union, from Georgia, where it has its base, to Maine, where its summit rises up among the new settlers on the Arostook." We hope Messrs. Jordan & Co. who are agents for the Messenger, will receive a host of applicants for the new volume which commences in January. B. B. Minor, Esq. the present proprietor and editor, is a gentleman who brings excellent qualifications for the task he has assumed. We wish him all success. SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. From some cause, we have forgotten to notice the excellent November No. of the Southern Literary Messenger, which seems to have spread its wings with new vigor, under the guidance of Mr. Minor. We do not regret, however, having delayed this notice, as we are enabled to refer to the "Spirit of the Press" throughout the country. In almost every newspaper, we see handsome compliments paid to this work, and, for our own criticism, we substitute the high opinion of the Messenger, expressed by so many respectable journals in every State, to whose columns we refer passim.-Richmond Enquirer. SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. improves with every number. That for December, just The Messenger, under the auspices of its present editor, now on our table, will vie in ability and interest, with the oldest and most popular magazines of the Union. The contributors to its pages are numerous, and the editorial department is filled in a most agreeable and graceful manner. This number completes the ninth volume. Hereafter the publisher announces his determination to adhere to the cash system. Those of its subscribers in this neighborhood who are in arrears, can make their remittances through this office, and we shall be happy to forward the names of any new subscribers who may authorize us to do so. [Southern Banner, Athens, Geo. SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. The September number of this valuable periodical has been received, and reflects much credit upon the new editor and proprietor, Mr. B. B. Minor. From the ability and good taste already manifested by the present editor, we are enabled to form the most favorable conclusions for the future, and to predict that this popular periodical will lose nothing in value and interest by the demise of its late amia. ble and talented conductor. As a Southern work, identified with Southern taste and Southern interests-independently of its high general order of literary merit-the Messenger has strong and peculiar claims upon the patronage of the Southern reader;-claims which, if left unsatisfied, will be an impeachment of proper sectional pride, as well as of our taste and liberality.-Memphis Appeal, Tenn. SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. We have seen the September No. of this Periodical, and have examined with some care the character it wears under the supervision of Mr. Minor. We are gratified to see the In noticing the Nov. Messenger, the Lynchburg Virgi-ability with which it is conducted by its present proprietor. nian remarks that it is eliciting praises from all quarters; We have ever felt for this Magazine a deep and warm in and among them from the judicious critic of the National terest, because its fate was regarded as very uncertain Intelligencer, whose ability and fine taste impart great when ushered first into existence by its enterprising fathervalue to his commendations. We have not space to par- the deceased Mr. White. The contents of this No. are ticularize all the articles of the November number. The rich and varied, and we see every indication upon its face "Editors' Table" is well supplied with brief and poignant that it will continue to be an honor to Southern Literature. Literary Notices. The Editor announces, that the distin- We cheerfully recommend it to our friends, confident they guished Southern Novelist, Wm. Gilmore Simms, will be will find it in every respect worthy of a liberal support. a regular contributor to the Messenger for the ensuing year. [Free Press. Selma, Ala. CONTRIBUTORS TO THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. The following is the list of the avowed contributors to the Messenger, since its establishment. Many writers known to the Editor are omitted, and some few may be included who should not have been: and the reverse. Any additions or corrections will be cheerfully made. Convenience alone prescribes the order in which the names are arranged. James E. Heath, Richmond, Va., P. A. Browne, LL. D. Philadelphia, Prof. Geo. Tucker, University of Virginia, C. W. Everest, MALE CONTINUED. Ro. L. Wade, Boston, Rev. Jones, U. S. N., Prof. Charles Minnigerode, William & Mary, C. M. Farmer, Virginia, FEMALE. Mrs. L. H. Sigourney, Hartford, Mrs. E. F. Ellett, Columbia, South Carolina, Mrs. Seba Smith, Brooklyn New York, Mrs. E. J. Eames, New York State, Mrs. Mary E. Hewitt, New York, Miss Jane T. Lomax, now Mrs. Worthington, Chilicothe, Ohio, Miss Evelyn H. Taylor, Virginia, Mrs. Jane L. Swift, New York, Mrs. Harrison Smith, Washingtou City, PROSE WRITERS. President Thomas R. Dew, William & Mary College, James F. Otis, Boston, Hon. T. W. Gilmer, Charlottesville, Va. Dr. W. J. Edmundson, Halifax Co., Va., Jom M. Duffield, Natchez, Miss., Win. Carleton, London, England, Edwin De Leon, Columbia, S. C., Dr. W. J. Tuck, Memphis, Tennessee, 8. A. Roszel, A. M., Carlisle, Pa., Prof. J. H. Ingraham, New York, Jos. Addison Alexander, Princeton, New Jersey, MALE CONTINUED. John Tyler, President United States, Prof. George E. Dabney, Lexington, Va., W. W. Andrews, U. S. Consul, Malta, L. M. Powell, U. S. N., Horatio King, The late George Lepner, Rev. A. D. Pollock, Richmond, Va., Charles Campbell, Petersburg, Va., Judge Harper, South Carolina, Tucker Coles, Albemarle Co. Va., Prof. J. Millington, William & Mary, Prof. Robert Saunders, William & Mary, Rev. E. L. Magoon, Richmond, Va., Rev. R. W. Bailey, Staunton Va., Solon Borland, M. D. Little Rock, Arkansas, Dr. W. S. W Ruschenberger, U. S. N. John M. Patton, Richmond, Va., J. N. Reynolds, New York, Wm. M. Blackford, Bogota, S. A. C. B. Hayden, Virginia, A. Judson Crane, Richmond, Va., T. C. Reynolds, LL. D. Richmond, Va., Major F. H. Smith, Virginia Military Institute, FEMALE. Mrs. Wm. C. Rives, Virginia, Catharine Cowles, Miss C. L. Tuthill, Connecticut, Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, Philadelphia, Mrs. Henrietta Shuck, Macao, China. D. P. Brown, Hon. R. H. Wilde, New Orleans, MALE POETICAL WRITERS. P. P. Cooke, Martinsburg, Va., L. A. Gobright, Washington City, Wm. P. Shepherd, Virginia, Prof. Henry W. Longfellow, Cambridge, Mass., C. F. Hoffman, New York, Dr. Henry Myers, Richmond, Va., Rev. E. H. Chapin, Charlestown, Mass., Rev. Rufus W. Griswold, Philadelphia, J. W. Matthews, Simpsonville, Ky., Dewitt C. Roberts, Rochester, New York, Payne K. Kilbourne, L. L. Noble, Michigan, William Falconer, Paris, France, Luzerne Ray, George W. Turner, Hon. John Quincy Adams, Mass., John Marshall, Washington College, Conn.. John M'Mullen, New York, Washington Allston, Cambridgeport, Mass., J. Strong Rice, New Haven, B. Johnson, Edisto, S. C., E. B. Hale, Putnam, Ohio, P. Spencer Whitman, George Horton, negro boy, N. C., Lindlay Murray, Judge Henry Thompson, Alabama, Geo W. Thompson, John Carroll Brent, G. B. Singleton, S. W. Inge, Alabama, B. W. Huntington, Tuscaloosa, Ala., Charles M. F. Deems, J. E. Dow, Boston, The late Edmund Law, Lewis St. Maur, S. M. Janney, Occoquan, Va., William Wallace, Louisville, L. P. Davidson, U. S. A. Thomas J. George, William Oland Bourne, Brooklyn, N. Y. FEMALE POETICAL WRITERS. Miss Lucy L. Johnson, Elfin Moor, Va., Mrs. Emma Willard, Troy, N. Y. Mrs. Ann Roy, Mathews Co., Va., Miss Lucretia M. Davidson, Mrs. Ann M. F. Annan, Baltimore, Juana Matilda Knight, Washington City, Mrs. S. J. Howe, Clark's Mills, Ohio, Miss Harriet M. Jenks, Boston, E. C. Clemens, Richmond Co., Va., Miss C. E. Gooch, Washington City, Miss E. A. Dupuy, Miss E. H. Stockton, Philadelphia, Mrs. Maria G. Buchanan, Wetumpka, Ala. Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz, Tuscaloosa, Ala. OUR EXCHANGE PAPERS and other friends of the Messenger, will greatly oblige us by inserting the following, which is much shorter than the Prospectus; or the Prospectus, if they prefer it. TO THE WHOLE SOUTH AND WEST. To you the Southern Literary Messenger, one of the few periodicals you have, presents its claims for support. Common consent places it in the front rank of American periodicals; and, reflecting as it does your own image, should you not feel proud to give it that wide circulation to which its aims, its success under great obstacles and its merits entitle it? It is published monthly, at only five dollars per annum in advance. Each number contains 64 pages of valuable matter; 16 pages more than most of the three dollar magazines and twice as much as some of them. It is thus sufficiently small for a month's reading; and large enough to contain a great variety of articles and to admit those of a more important and useful character than are ever found elsewhere. Every subscriber to the Messenger obtains a large book, that will be valuable when years have passed by. It is the cheapest periodical, for its size and value, in the United States; and what true son of yours would not contribute something to THE PRINCIPLE of cherishing a Literary organ, at home; especially when you have peculiar institutions and feelings of which the Messenger has ever been and will be the able and zealous defender. It has promoted your interests, and to you confidently appeals, for your generous and determined support. We repeat, that we aim at TEN THOUSAND Subscribers, a small fraction of those who can easily afford it; and we invoke the aid of every one who has the least sympathy with our efforts. This is the time for subscribers to come in, as we have just commenced the tenth volume.-Ed. Mess. RIGHMOND, VIRGINIA, December 29th, 1843. 66 TO CORRESPONDENTS. We like to gratify correspondents by letting them know the disposition made of their favors; but we have not had time to examine all the contributions on hand. "Lines on the Death of a Young lady;" "The Dying Sailor;" The Study of History superior to the Reading of Novels" are respectfully declined. The Stars," by "Isherwood," good in the main, but needs some alterations, which we request the author to make. " Superstitions of the Maltese People;" "Moonlight Musings," by E. B. Hale; "Lines by a Father, &c. addressed to the Mother;" "Parents' Lament over their Child," &c., by 1. McClellan, Jr.; "Goodness;" "Give me a Talisman of Love;" "Come unto me ye that Labor," &c., by Mrs. Buchanan will appear. Many others are under consideration. TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. The Messenger will be furnished to members of Congress during the session, at the subscription rate. Many members are in the habit of taking it as one of the papers furnished them by Government. They will please send in their orders immediately, that extra copies may be struck off in time. WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS, LL. D. It gives us sincere pleasure to announce to the Patrons of the Messenger and to the Public, that Mr. Simms will be a regular contributor to the Messenger, for the ensuing year. Mr. Simms is too well and too favorably known, as a Poet, Novelist and Historian, to need any thing more than a bare announcement. Professors Tucker and many other distinguished writers have promised contributions. ADVERTISEMENTS. YALE COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL. and fifty dollars. For one year, eighty dollars. For less THIS Department is under the direction of the Hon. DAVID DAGGETT, LL. D., late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, and Professor of Law; and the Hon. SAMUEL J. HITCHCOCK, LL. D., Judge of the New Haven City Court; and ISAAC H. TOWNSEND, Esq., Attorney and Counsellor at Law. There are two courses of instruction and study in the School, one called the professional course, and the other called the general course. The object of the professional course is to give a thorough legal education to those gentlemen who propose to enter the Profession of Law. The design of the general course is, more particularly, to communicate appropriate information to those who wish to attend to Jurisprudence as a branch of liberal knowledge. A course with special reference to mercantile law is introduced as often as any class requests it. I. THE PROFESSIONAL COURSE. The students are required to peruse the most important elementary treatises, and are daily examined on the author they are reading, and receive at the same time explanations and illustrations of the subject they are studying. The School is divided into three reading classes. Each class is daily employed upon a lesson in the Class Book, and is separately examined, and every student can read in one or more of the three classes, as he finds himself able and inclined to perform the requisite labor. Courses of Lectures are delivered by the Instructors, on all the titles and subjects of Common and Statute Law, and of Equity. Three exercises, consisting of Lectures or Examinations of one hour each, are daily given by the Instructors, and at all of them each of the pupils is permitted to attend. A moot court is held once a week or oftener, which employs the students in drawing pleadings, and investigating and argutag questions of law. The students are called upon, from time to time, to draw declarations, pleadings, contracts, and other instruments connected with the practice of law, and to do the most important duties of an attorney's clerk. They are occasionally required to write disquisitions on some topic of law, and collect the authorities to support their opinions. The students are furnished with the use of the elementary books, and have access, at all times, to the College libraries, and to a law library, comprising every important work, both ancient and modern. The law library contains the revised Statutes, the Reports and the Digests of all the States in the Union. The course of study occupies two years, allowing eight weeks vacation each year. The months of May and Septemer are allotted for vacations. There is also a recess of about two weeks near the first of January in each year. The terms for tuition, with constant use of text books, and ordinary use of the library, are as follows, payable in advance. For the whole course of two years, one hundred than one year, ten dollars a month. For more than one year, and less than two years, seven dollars a month after the first year. The degree of Bachelor of Laws will be conferred by the President and Fellows, on liberally educated students who have been members of the Department eighteen months, and have complied with the regulations of the institution, and passed a satisfactory examination. Those not liberally educated, will be graduated upon similar conditions, after two years' membership; and members of the Bar, after one year's membership subsequent to their admission to the Bar. II. THE GENERAL COURSE. This course consists of lectures and studies on the most important subjects of jurisprudence. It commences on the third Monday of October in each year, and continues six months, with two exercises each week. An additional course will be commenced at any other season, if a class of not less than twenty members shall be formed for the purpose. The additional course will either embrace the same exercises with the general course, or will be principally directed to Mercantile Law, as the class formed for the course shall prefer. The terms are twenty dollars for the whole course, payable in advance; and five dollars a month for any less time. The professional students will have the privilege of attending the general course, and also any additional course, at pleasure, without extra charge. New Haven, Conn., January, 1844. DRINKER & MORRIS, LATE SMITH & PALMER, IMPORTERS, AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN BOOKS AND STATIONERY, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. BLANK BOOKS of every description MANUFACTURED to order and every description of BINDING executed in the best manner. December 1, 1843. BENJAMIN B. MINOR, ATTORNEY AT LAW; RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Books, Pamphlets, Blanks, Cards and Labels NEATLY PRINTED AT THE MESSENGER OFFICE. TENTH VOLUME OF THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER, The present number commences the Xth volume of the Messenger; and the time has arrived for urging its claims upon its Patrons and the Public. The character and objects of the work are now fully known, and also how far these objects have been attained. The test of nine years has conclusively shown, that Southern energy, talent, taste and liberality can sustain a Literary journal, inferior to none, and, in the opinion of many impartial judges, superior to all of the periodicals published in the United States. What assurance does not this give for the future! That energy shall not flag; that talent is improved by past exercise, invigorated and polished for yet higher triumphs; sparks are kindled that once appeared to be extinguished; and new-born genius is spreading its wings for noble flights. That Liberality is nourished by renewed prosperity; and men, lately stinted in mental luxuries, or having learned in adversity the cheapness and blessedness of Literary solaces and delights, will open purse and heart to receive every pure intellectual offering. The Messenger solicits, nay shall claim their patronage; for its character and contents shall ever be worthy of encouragement and approbation. Relying upon its own excellence, as it always has done, it must and shall prove itself most worthy of support. Its contributors always have been of the first order of talent, native and cultivated, vigorous and polished; and such they will continue to be. A list of the avowed writers for the work will soon be published; and the public can then see by what names and what pens, the Messenger has been sustained, adorned and honored. Its matter shall be choice, embracing prose and poetical articles, of the first beauty and merit, mostly original, sometimes selected. Pleasure shall ever be combined with utility and moral improvement; and the characteristic solidity of its matter shall be, in a great degree, still preserved. This must arise necessarily from the character of its contributors and the lofty aims of the work. Rejecting the foam and froth, it will present the pure clear waters of the fountain. Where the waters fall, with noise and clamor, the froth is found; but the Messenger dips where they flow off gracefully in a pellucid stream. Measures of public policy and general utility have always been discussed with eminent ability in the Messenger, which has even had the honor of originating measures for the action of Congress. The people of the West are now rejoicing in the establishment of a Naval Depot, at Memphis, and commissioners have recently arrived there to carry the plan into operation. They should not forget, that the Messenger was the advocate, and one of her ablest contributors the author of the scheme. The West is, in many essential circumstances, identified with the South, and both require an agent like the Messenger, to vindicate their institutions, to maintain their interests, to reflect their sentiments and to illustrate and uphold their Literature. In all the wide spread West and South, there are few Literary periodicals; (though many of the newspapers display a good deal of literary taste,) whilst in the North, there are multitudes and new ones springing up every week. The Messenger claims and intends to be a DISTINCTIVE, but NOT AN EXCLUSIVE SOUthern Work. The Price of the Messenger has been objected to by some. Five dollars is a very convenient sum for many reasons; but convenience is no ground for demanding it. There is no monthly in the U. States of the size and character of the Messenger, that does not charge five dollars; whilst many, North and South, charge more in proportion. If one attend five or six fashionable concerts, take five or six box tickets to the theatre, or subscribe to one ball, or one political or club dinner, he cheerfully spends five dollars. Shall he not much more readily spend it for the Messenger? If it be worth having, it shall be worth the full price that has always been asked. The terms could not be reduced without greatly disparaging the work. A portion of each number will be devoted to reviews and notices of new works, and the circulars of extensive publishers; and readers will be presented with the current Literary intelligence. Those who are willing to trust to this programme of Vol. X. can send in their orders immediately, according to the Conditions prescribed. CONDITIONS OF THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. 1. THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER is published, in monthly numbers. Each number contains not less than 64 large super-royal pages, printed on good type, and in the best manner, and on paper of the most beautiful and expensive quality. 2. The "MESSENGER" hereafter will be mailed on or about the first day of every month in the year. Twelve numbers make a volume,---and the price of subscription is $5 per volume, payable in advance. THE YEAR COMMENCES WITH THE JANUARY NUMBER. NO SUBSCRIPTION RECEIVED FOR LESS THAN A YEAR, BUT SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED ANY TIME DURING THE YEAR. 3. The risk of transmitting subscriptions by mail will be assumed by the proprietor. But every subscriber thus trans- 6. No subscription will be discontinued while anything remains due thereon, unless at the option of the editor. RICHMOND, VA., Nov. 1843. POST MASTERS will please send OFFICIAL NOTICES of discontinuances, as the Law directs, and not return the Messenger. The notice is free. The other is not. |