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THE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME

SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE.
Was commenced on Saturday, the 4th of MavJ
1850 under its original name-instead Of Riekr,d.,
Weekly Gasette--as more significant of its peculiar
character, 1t beng the only weekly organ Of Litera-
ture in the entire South! II ia --'g
Greatly Enlc'ged ors hnprossd, a
Containing weekly Thirty-two Columns ~
matter. tia, moreover, IN an 81
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IRON head to foot, and upon beautaf,,T vn,r.
paper, SO that, IN mechanical excellence it is no,
surpassed by any paper whatever in the IJp;,aI
States! 1t continues under the same Ed;to.;si
direction as heretofore, and no pains or expep.e
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A Choice Family .Nsuspaper.
. as cheap as the cheapest, and as good az the
BEST! Utterly discarding the notion that a
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The Southern Literary Gazette .,
rivals the best of them in all the chaYacterstcs Of
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diffusion of cultivated and refined taste throuehc.t
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WORTHIN0TON q. 6NETHEK.
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ATTORNEY AND CoUNsELLoR AT Law,
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T'HE next annual session Of this Institution will
commence on the I'd Wednesday in October.
FACULTY.
The Right Rev. JOHN JOINS, d. d., President
and Professor of Moral Philosophy.
Judge BEVERLY TUCKER, Professor Of Municipal
and Constitutional Law.
BENJAMIN s. EwELL, Professor of Mathematics
and Astronomy.
MORGAN j. SmEAp, Phi. D. Professor of Hu-
mainly
WILLIAM F. HOPKINS, A. M, Professor
Chemistry and Natural Philosophy.
III. A. WARRINGTON, A. M, Professor Of His
tory and Political Economy.
Rev. SiLAs TorrEN, D. D., Professor Of Intel
lectual Philosophy, Bellies Lettres, and Rhetoric.
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years. Candidates for admission to the Science
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TO southern Gentlemen or Literary In
stftufiOna

A young man, graduate Of 81. Marys Col
"A lege, Baltimore, wishes to obtain as itust;o,
as Assistant in an Academy, or Private TUTOR
He is qualified to teach the highest br.nch.s -
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mistry, Mathematics and English Literature
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SIR; I have tho honor to transmit TO you herewith
copy Of the correspondents which has passed be-
tween this Department and the National Institute for
the Promotion Of Science respecting the organization
Of committee to constitute the central authority
quired by the regulations OF the Royal Commission on
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j. Knox walker,
.4tiornSg al Lac and General agent,
nFFERS his services in his profession and as
~ Agent ior the Prosecution and Collection OF
Claims before Congress and tho Departments also for
obtaining Patents.
Al business oonhded to him win be promptly a,
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THE GALLERY OF INDUSTRIOUS
AMERICANS
Daguerreotypes by Brady---EngIaved by
D'Avignon.
EDITED Ely AN ASSOCIATION OF LITERARY MEN.

EDITED Ely AN Association OF LITERARY MEN
FINDER this title will be published, during the
~ year 1850, twenty -four Portraits and Biographi
cal Sketches OF American citizens who have become
illusrious in the service Of the country Every por
ton Of the work will receive the most careful atten
ton and nothing will be spared TO render it a worthy
mad enduring monument to the great men OF the Re
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Mr.. Brady has been many years engaged, at great
expense, IN collecting Portraits tor National Gal
lery, and those which being engraved for this
work believed TO be superior to any that have
ever been taken In the accomplishment. of this grea,
object he has experienced the utmost courtesy and
encouragement from distinguished men Mr. Brady's
reputation has been too long established TO need any
recommendation. His dagueneotypes in the
highest the works OF art glowing with the soul
OF the living countenance.
The drawings and engravings OF D'Avignon have
been pronounced by Europeans of taste TO be fully
equal, and in some respects superior to those of the
best artists OF London and Paris and every i'm
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names of those men only adpi,tod whose talents
and public services have won for them honorable
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and Literature universal in their spirit, and the
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ONO.
] David L Disney
2 Leuis y Campbell
3 Hiram Bell
4 Benyanin Stanton
5 Alfred p Edgerton
6 Frederick + Green
2 E M Ellsbury
8 John l. Taylor
9 Edison B Odds
10 Charles Sweetzer
ii Geo ii Busby
~ John W,Ich
10 James M Gaylord
ID .3isrander>Horper
Is Uiiiiauf r Hunter
l6 John Johnson q D)
IL Joseph Cable
Is Cavid X. Carter
10 Eben .Ntnion
30 Joshua X Giddings
81 n S Townshend
PENNSYLVANIA.
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2 Joseph X Chandler
3 Henry ID Moore
4 John Robbins, jr
5 John McNair
6 Thomas Ross
7 John A Morrison
8 Thadeus Stevens
9 J Clancy Jones
10 Milo M Dimmick
IL II M Fuller
- @ A Grow
I3 James Gamble
IA r M Bibighous
Is William II Kuriz
I6 ] X McLanahan
II Andrew Parker
Is John l. Dawson
10 Joseph n kuhns
% John Allison
81 Thomas ~ Hone
% John W Hone
~ Carlton B Curtis
"a Alfred Gilmore
RHooE ISLAND.
| George G King
2 Benz B Thurston
SovTH CAROLINA.
l raniel Wallace
2 James l. Orr
3 Jos A Wood ward
4 John McQuesn
3 Armistesd Burt
6 William Aiken
Z William F Colcock
TENNESSEE.
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America, A. d., 1861.
. Xxx. M The Executive.
M,,..p FrLLnoKE, OF N. r., President.
WmLIAn X. KING, OF Ala, Pres't ofthe Senate
The Cabinet.
n.y,,, WEBSTER, of Mass. Sec Of State.
T.omAs Gown, Of Ohio,- Sec of the Treas
Cu.RLEs M. CONRAD, of La. Sec. of War.
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM, of N. c Sec. Of the Navy
A. II. II. STUART, Of Va. Sec. of Interior.
NATHAN X. HALL, Of N. Y. p. M. General.
JonH j. CRITrEHDEN, of KY. Att. General
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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.
THIRTY-sECoND CONGRESS.

Tern, Comms~css .March 4, 1851, and ends March 4,
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-09-06
RufnS ChOate.


Jack IIumphries, the ,piquant Boston cor
respondent of the Albany Dutchman, gives
the following otf-hand description Of Rufus
Choate: eE r.t
"Rufus Choate-famous for throwing SOM
ersrts. flip flaps, making mouths and ugly
mugs at judges anu, juries-is jawing away
in the same old Mr. Fairchild case. uprob-
ably never saw Rufus, but you've heard of
him. Well, he's great on saving hard cases
from getting their dues. He saved Tirrell,
the murderer of Ellen Bickfortl, from stretch
ing hemp; and that fact has made him in
great demand, where things are doubtful. ev-
er since He has saved many scoundrel
from well merited punishment, and, perhaps
has ATTAINED, for some, justice. Rufus ChOate
is picture to look at, and a chowder to spout.
He is about seven feet six, or six feet seven,
in his socks; supple as an eel, and aOiry as a
cork screw His face is a compound Of wrink-
les. yalcr janders,' and jurisprudence. He
has small keen piercing black eyes, and a
head shaped ike mamoth goose-egg. big end
up; his hair black and curly, much resembling
bag of wool in admirable disorder or a
brush heap in gale of wind. His body has
no particular shape; and his Wit and legal
| 'dodges' have set many II judge in a snicker,
and so confounded Jurors. as to make it al
most impossible for Them TO speak plainEng-
Iish, or tell the TRUTH for the rest of their nat
ural lives. Rufus is great on twisting and
coiling ghimselfup,squirming around and pran-
cling. jumping and kicking up the dust, when
<team's up. His oratory is first rate, and his
arguments ingenious and forcibe. He gen
orally makes a ten strike-judge and jury
down, at the end of every sentence. He is
great on flowery expressions. and high faloo-
tin 'fiuhdubs.' Strangers mostly think he's
crazy, and the rest scarcely understand what
it's all about. lie invoices his time and elo
cution. 1000 per cent over ordinary charges
for having ones self put through a course ei
law. Rufus Choate is about fifty years oi
age; perhaps over. He is considered the
ablrSt lawyer in New England, or perhaps
the United States His handwriting can't be
oeciphpred without the aid of pair of COM
passes and quadrant. His autograph some
what resembles the map of Ohin, and look:
like piece of crayun sketching done in The
dark, with Il three pronged fork He has beer
in the Senate. and may be, if he had time tC
fish for it-Prrsidrni Of the United States
lf,he Rev. Mr. FairchiId don't lick his adver
sarits (libel case) with Rufus Choate to tall
to the. jury his case isn't worth the powder
to blow it up" l.aa., .-...l .rs..F
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-09-06
Well Put.

The Lynchburg Virginian propounds GER
tain inierrogaturirs IT, Mr.. Bocuck, the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in its district,
which we apprehend he will find difficult to
answer We should be pleased with an op-
porunityof publishing Mr.. Bocock's reply to
the suggestions and queries Of the following
paragraphs;
Mr.. Bocock holds that a State ofthis Union
has right upon causes to be judged Of by it
self, to withdraw from the Gunfederacy, and,
OF eourse-heing then an independent power
lit has righ; TO form any alliance it may
choose. II this be the right of State. it is
one which it may ai any time exercise. Many
of the citizens Of Massachusetts were opposed
to the last war with Great Britain Does Mr.
Bocock believe that. while that war was being
waged, the State of MASSACHUSETTS, could have
withdrawn from the Union. entered into an
alliance with England. and turned her arms
against the citizens of the United States.
Again, it has been proposed that the Uni
ted States should purchase Cuba from Spain,
and take it into the Union as State, as Lou
isiana and Florida and California were pur-
chased and made States of. If the purchase
were made, and hundred or so millions oi
dollars paid for the island, does he think that
Cuba would have right, the day after, tc
withdraw from the Union and return TO il
Spanish allegiance? m boo s-a rsa p,
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-09-06
The Spanish Bull Circus.

The amusemrntS in the Spanish Bull Cir
Gus at Madrid, on the 25th ruitimo, were of
more than usual brutal character. The Queen
were present. The first fight was between Il
wolf and several djgs-the dogs soon finished
him. Next hycna AID several dogs occu-
pied the area. THIN huge bear encounter
ed no less than thirteen do5s-the bear come
off victorious The last scene was that which
attracted the crowded audience, viz: a con-
test between lion and bull:
The first Was one of the finest of his species.
No sooner was he luoss into the arena and es-
pied The bull than he made towards him at
once, and attacked BIN with fury. But he on
~ succeeded in seizng the tail Of his horned
fne, by which lie eclungon with his claws
The bull, thus attacked from behind, was I'M
able to defend himself by his ,hornsi but pres
emily, the lion having bitten his tail of close
to the rump, the bull turned on him, and. fran
tic with pain, charged with tremendous fury,
tossing ihs lion. notwithstanding his size, into
the air, which SO damped the pluck Of the lat
ter that it became at once clear on which side
the victory would be determined The lion
sat down detected and moaning with pain,
while the bull charged him several times in
succession. instigated by the crowd outside the
grating more than by his own will; for. as soon
as the lion was hors de combat, the bull sought
no longer to MODEST him, and would have left
him alone but for the stimulation which was
applied to him by the spectators. The lion
was killed" ......-
Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-09-06

FRoM YrcATAN-The Balize Watchnan
has accounts from Yucatau, different from
those given by the Mexican papers lt1says
that both the bellgerent parties have mutually
ceased hostilitips, and are barely watching
each others movements. Since the last at
tack on Baclar now some time ago, when the
Indians surprised the town and took every
thing they could lny their hands on, such as
arms, clothing, DC, we have heard no tidings
whatever from that quarter. Mexico appears
to take no further interest in 1uratan affairs;
and were the Indians to make any thing like
push. they must prove successful. The
Spanish soldiers wiK not fight without pay;
whereas the Indians are fighting for freedom
and therefore, unless the former meet with
Mexican support, they will not have the means
of prosecuting the war, and must eventually
vacate the country, +-'@13 f.A