Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-08-03
LITERARY NOTICES.


MARTIN MRRnrvALE, his mark, is the quaint title
of serial story. Published by Phillips, Sampson,
& Co.. Boston.
We have received three numbers, which
have awakened much interest among the read
ers Of fiction. t
ESSAYS on tho Formation and Publication Of opin-
ions, tho Pursuit of Truth, and other subjects.
BY Samuel Bailey. Boston: Ticknor & Fields.
For sale by Taylor Maury, Washington, D. O.
This is new edition Of a very able work.
The following profound and just observations
will progresses every intelligent reader in favor
of the book: For these reasons, man Of
thought, although he would forfeit the oharac-
ter Of philosopher, and deserve the pity, if not
the contempt Of every inquirer after truth, By
eyincing the slightest fear Of any arguments,
by avoiding any book, lest it should produce
change in his opinions, would be perfectly JUS
tilted in stunning such company or such
writings as have tendency to peryert the
imagination. In the one case, he can receive
no impression which he osn have any proper
reason for avoiding; in the other, he is exposed
to disgusting or degrading images, which, when
they have once become familiar, may intrude
amidst the purest and most serious medita-
tionsp This is sound philosophy, and warrants
the conclusion that the author possesses q just
discrimination between the liberty and the Ii
cense Of thinking and writing. 1
HANDBOOK OF GERMAN LITERATURE. New York
ID. Appleton. For sale by X Fspham, Washing
ton, ID. G.
It contains poems and fctions by eminent
German authors, with an introduction in Eng
lsh.
D- A riot occurred yesterday in Thirteenth
street, New York. 1t appears that the Rev.
Mr.. Mallory, Catholic priest, went TO sec the
sick wife Of an Irishman named Calligan.
Permission to see her was refused by Calligan,
and, on tho priests insisting, he received a Sc
verc blow. Some twenty or thirty lrishmen
soon assembled, and Mallory was badly injured
Twelve arrests were subsequently made.
E- A citizen Of Roxbury, Massachusetts,,
has brought suit against Mayor Smith, the U.
States Marshal, and other officers, for injuries
sustained during the rendition Of Burns. The
damages are laid at $4,000.
10 The papers Of St Johns, N. B., state
that there is general cholera panic in that
city. Many families are fleeing from the
soourgo The deaths average twenty-five or
thirty per day.
10 The corner stone Of tho Western Pres
byterian Church, Washington city, was laid
yesterday afternoon, at five o'clock, with ap-
propriate ceremonies
n The Wings Of tho sixth Congressional
district Of Maine have nominated Noah Smith,
of Calais, for Congress He was Speaker Of the
last House Of Representatives Of Maine
10 AT Syracuse, yesterday morning, an
Irishman, named Patrick Cannon, shoe
maker, living in Salina street, found bis wife
dead in bed He had beaten her in the night.
n5- The Reciprocity Treaty was ratified by
the Senate, yesterday, by vote Of 80 TO II.
BURyINe Two WIvEs IN WEEK---At Buff
falo, last week, man is said 10 have lost his
wife by cholera, married another the next day,
and lost her also BY death on the day follow
ing Erehange.
Such creatures should not be taken into the
account, whom the number OF the human fam-
y is estimated. But these are they who bring
disease and death into every community.
H5- Hon. Henry X. Jackson, Of Georgia,
Minister to Austria, IL Is said, il on his way
home and intends to resign bis posision.