The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-04-22

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these are necessary for the trituration of food
by the gzzard, fowl having no other teeth, and
mastication being as essential to their diges-
ton as to that of their superiors
We sincerely recommend to any one who
intends to keep poultry, either for the sake of
eggs or fowl for the table, to read Mr.. Rich
ardson's treatise. Every species of fowl is here
described and pictured. There are also draw
ings of houses box-nests, water-cans, and all
suitable appliances. The Spanish fowl is the
best for laying eggs, and the general directions
for their selection are, "hens with the pens of
their wings blackish-not all black, but partly
50; gray and white hens are not so profitable"
The cock should be in perfect health feathers
close, and rather short; chest compact and
firm; full in the girth lofty and elastic gait;
thigh large and firm; beak short, and thick at
its Insertion age from year and q half to
three years and a half NJ Nj.
DwIGHT's JOURNAL OF MUsIc--A weekly
newspaper in form, devoted mainly to the art
of Music, and incidentally to all the Fine Arts
and Polite Literature particularly Critical
Notices of Concerts Operas, &c; Notices of
New Music; Musical News gathered from for
eign and American papers Essays on Musical
Styles, Periods, Authors, Theories, Instru-
ments On Music in its moral social, and re-
ligious bearings; TRANSACTIONS from the best
German and French writer's upon Music and
Art; Occasional notices of Sculpture, Painting
Architecture, Poetry, the Drama Original and
selected Poems, and kindred matters The
paper is under the editorial care of lohn s.
Dwight of Boston, well and generally known
TO the musical world, of good standing in liter
ature and art among all men. The specimen
sheet is of convenient form and beautiful APP
pearance, and in its getting up and contain
ings gives excellent promise for the future.
We arc fast becoming musical people; the
encouragement we offer to all the world brings
to our service the very elite of the harmonic
tribe so soon as they have matured their pow
ers and established their fame where they hap
pen to spring into fashion and it is of no slight
importance that our taste should receive the
current cultivation which the best endowed
and educated musicians among us can give us.
The qualifications and resources of the editor
of this journal are most ample; the man is
maryellously well suited for the post. We
have not time at this moment to indicate the
special fitness of Mr.. Dwight for the chair of
ii in, tha rioH of tha
demand for this would require an analysis of
music, display of its relations and uses, and
a theory of its mission to the people of this
country, and its agency in forming our opin-
ions and tendencies and so affecting our des-
tiny:
BY the bye, the appearance of this journal
just now helps to explain the appearance of an
article in Graham's Magazine for April which
we confess at first puzzled as much as it offend
ed u.s. 1t purports to be reply to Dwight's
article on Mozart's Don Giovanni, which was
published in Graham's February number. The
reply, or rather the assault upon Dwight-for
it was aimed at the man with bitterness
which nothing but personal feelings could
awaken-this reply is remarkable for the i'm
pudent coarseness of its personalities and the
audacity with which it presumes upon the stu
pidty of its readers The heavy end of the
attack is charge of plagiarism against Mr..
D.; and to support it, parallel columns from
Hoffman and Dwight are paraded in pretended
proof of the theft These passages we read
over three times, before we could believe the
complete effrontery of the imposture. There is
nothing in the passages cited to sustain the
charge, nothing that can have that effect upon
any reader, except the audacity of assertion by
which the holiness of conviction is counterfeit
ed. In the course of the article, Mr.. d. is
charged with all sorts Of libertinism OF primer
pie, all sorts of profigacy of philosophy, and the
most desperate covert designs against the mo-
rality and religion of the age; and, finally,
threatened with a vertable fire and birthstone
hell in the next world, for the reason that he
is supposed to doubt its literal existence. Be-
sides this the writer INDUCES in frequent black
guard pleasantries about Socialism, Phalanx
Literature, and Woman's Rights Conventions,
and such other bigotries and bitternesses as
rascal with turn to serve will resort TO- in
the confidence that nothing is toe mexn to af-
feet the fools he wants to manage.
The explanation, the only one that meets the
case, is, that all this abuse was written by a
rival musical publisher, or by his procurement,
and set afoat in good time to affect MIR.
Dwight's subscription list at its commence
ment, or before his paper could tell its own
story to the public.
That Mr.. Dwights article was original and
new in every turn Of thought and every form Of
expression need not be supposed. There is no
such originality in any writer who has read
anything; but with the inconsistency that
sticks like fate to such falsehoods, while Hoff-
man is credited with the ideas and utterances,
Dwight is charged with the alleged immortality
of the article!
By the way, and besides, the appearance of
this unhandsome thing in Graham is little
marvellous; fairer courtesy was due from him
to one of his own contributors, than to send an
anonymous libel after him into the hands of
such of his patrons as could be imposed upon
by it. 1t looks shabby-the first shabby thing
that We have seen in Graham, and the last
that We fear. A really clever man could not
do such thing twice in his life
We would have it understood that we utter
no opinion upon the question of Dwight's
originality. in the proper sense of the word
our mescal reading does not qualify us for
that but we say that the charge is in no wise
supported by the article to which we allude
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