Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-09-25

which II is drawn, these are put beyond all ques-
ton by the plain avowal, in several parts OF the ar
tice, that it is from the hand OF an agent OF our Co
ernment, who visited the capital OF Paraguay IN an
official capacity and resided there during part of
the year 1856 1t is easy, therefore, to identify
the author of this history beyond any possibility of
mistake; so that we may well name him as Mr..
EDWARD A. HOPKINS, we believe OF Vermont OF
his employment, and of the failure OF his mission,
but not its causes, the public heard something at
the time, but only through the newspapers. No
thing that belongs to official secresy is now dis
closed by the writer; on that point OF duty he IS
| altogether guarded. He only refers to himself
enough, in the following passages. to show what
| have been his means of becoming acquainted with
| whatever facts-he states
"The advantages of the present writer are derived from
his residence the capital of Paraguay, in official capa
city during portion of the year ls456, previous which
time he is not that any citizen of the United States
had visited it. And is his object in the present
mucaon give his readers condensed of
condition from the year 1910 to the period of his departure
which he proposes add his impressions OF the true policy
of Government towards that rising people, apd Of
the important results likely just and liberal views
in their behalf should happily prevail"
"The foregoing document, well worthy of immediate
ATTENTION, quietly laid upon the Shelf and forgotten by
Nj Tyler and his State Secretary Calhoun until the request
of unknown and humble individual be Para
quay removed it from its dusty repose during the first days Of
the present Administration"
ga month previous this removal of the custom
house, the writer arrived in Ascencion United States spe-
cal agent. What the results of his mission still re-
mains profound mystery for neither has any public mem
ton been made of it any official action as yet been had
upon it, 1t to be in the category of many other things
impeousy demanding the of our Government but
yet swallowed up either in the for the succession
or the war for Mexican spoiaon'
s'I might argue want of modesy and duty if
we should discuss this occasion, the details of
mission We that time will bring them before the pub
lie in their proper shape, and meanwhile shall conne our
selves to those topics which involve the character not Of in
dvdua but Of country and which the proprietes of
official reserve can have no relation"
Most heartily do we Join in this last wish And
the ensuing session of Congress will, we trust re.
alize it.
n Worfo at Rome and The Hermit of .4roos-
took, the two next articles of the Review, have
been already copied into our columns To these
succeed IA History Of Mathematical Science"
and Its propagation in this country, which seems
sklfu, but is out Of the line of what we can pre-
tend to judge of continuation of /" The Life and
Public Services of John Rutledge of South Caro-
lima, presenting some special chapters of Revolu-
tionary annals which are full of interest further
chapter of the eccentric but clever Life and Opt
Mons of Philip Yorick; > short article, abridged
from one of the discourses of Schiller, entitled
The Bread-Scholar;' that is, "the getter of know
ledge for profit" not lasting praise-the sort of
Aladdin that would have sold his magic lamp for
sixpence, if he had found that it was to enable him
to'serve others, not himself and instead of making
him rich was only going to make him wise Alas
plenty OF such Aladdins, such Brod- Schuler,
have we all about us, in the present times and
politics sees still yaser multitude of them than
literature; under the glorious spois SYSTEM, this
learned Administration is making public office one
great university, overfowing with such disciples,
and where none others suffered TO graduate !!
notice of the "Shakspeare's Sonnets'-old Wills,
and not some recent youth Of like name-ensues
We should Judge it, from the following single sem
tence, 10 be written by somebody who has not vet
recovered from the ecstacy, the nymphoepsy, into
which people who have been etherized fs letheon-
lzed IS, perhaps, the medical expression) with
learning little German, seem now-a-days in gene
raj incurably to fall. Speaking of one of the most
dismal OF the sonnets, our critic reasoneth thus !:
" As the convulsions of nerves prevent the ex-
tension of Joyous emotion into the limits of dis
traction, throwing off the excess in LAUGHTER so
is there point beyond which grief cannot be en-
dured without suffering the fate of Ophelia. and at
which the current must turn aside into seemingly
irrelevant levity, if, when forced to remain on the
borders of madness, we would keep on the side of
sanity So very Teutonic passage makes one
doubt whether the author hath duly kept on that
/" side Of sanity" of which he so-hgh-germanica-
ly discourseth.
slight biographical sketch of THOMAS CoRwIN,
the Ohio Orator and Statesman comes next. TO
serve as text to very good but not nattered
portrait of him, which is preixed to this No.
Of the Review. The notice of his character and
public career is, of course, encomiastic: but not
IN our Judgment, whit beyond his personal worth
or his public merits. The country has riper men |:
but, Of his age, none sounder.
More gossip from new contributor - . Fo-
reign Miscellany" and some five brief Critical
Notices close the magazine.
H. DE Bows CommEncIAL REVIEW Of the South and West
| Our columns, though embodying no regular no.
nee have heretofore contained repeated citations or
references to this very mertorous journal. The
remoteness of the interests which it has chiefly re-
garded, or own consequent but involuntary lack
oil information, and the rareness and rreguarty
WIN which the magazine itself, which might have
greatly mended our attention and our knowledge,
mas reached US, must extenuate our past omissions
OF adVerung 10 its contents frequently and
more mcthodcally
apart indeed, from the series of papers offer
| ed by tins Review, little has ever been attain