Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1870-12-16
Monthly Publications.

NeU Ectecttc magazine IOf december, ana per-
ceive from notice of the publishers that they
propose to begin the New Year under another
name. 1t will be continued under the title of
The Southern Magazine. A change has also
taken place in the proprietorship, although
the accomplished scholar and vigorous writer,
Mr.. VIM. Hand Browne, will continue to dis
charge the duties of Editor Messrs Murdoch
and Hill are associatd with him as joint pro-
prietors.
| Mr.. Lawrence Turnbull, the founder of the
New Eclectic, retires from his connection with
it in an excellent valedictory, from which we
quote the following -
'In taking leave ofthe many valuable asso-
Citations and friendsl that have formed in
my present professie5l VI may be naEdaped a few
my heart-the future welfare of the South
Deeply as 1 realize the present adversities of
our people, | cannot but feel assured that there
is great destiny yet in reserve for us. The
honest love of liberty, the steadfast valor, the
noble manhood and womanhood that asserted
and maintained our independence for four
years, of such strenuous national trial, is
trust equal to the sterner task of accepting
without repining the defeat that God has sent
upon us, and of building up on q new and bet
ter foundation civilization not Inferior but
purer and stronger than that of our past. If
our youth, in whom is our hope, will but emu
late the example of our incompatible hero for
whom our hearts are bleeding this day, and
resolve that 'shuman virtue shall be equal to
human calamity and, like him, putting away
vigorously all thoughts of bitterness and re-
venge, which only injure the souls that harbor
them, will with untiring patience and industry,
with wise observation and high religious pur-
pose address themselves to the DEVELOPMENT of
the material and spiritual education Of the
country, our present calamities will soon be
repaired, as far as it is possible in the nature
of things. Nothing indeed can ever restore
those realities Of our past to which our hearts
chung so fondly-no future prosperity fill the
voids left by the glorious dead-no necroman-
cy revive the homes and sacred monuments
blasted by the breath of war To these losses
we must inevitably submit and daily the grave
is gathering to its bosom those desolated spr-
its to whom their past was their all, and for
whom no future could arise in this life But
with us who are young, and who cannot with
out derellctlon shrink from the burden of our
present and our future, there must come a re-
solute, hopeful, industrious spirit. While we
shall suffer no man or nation to rob us of the
glory Of our past, or to sully the memory of
those patriots of our blood who persisted brave
ly in righteous conflict for our freedom, we
must not quarrel with the lot which Providence
has assigned US, or waste in evil passions and
needless murmurs our souls energies which we
so need to husband for the work of private and
social reconstruction. Let US open our hearts
freely to all influences which are fully proven
to be good, and firmly close them against the
encroachments of that spurious civilization
which under various names-of Progress, HUI
man Emancipation--is corrupting and dissov-
ing the bonds of society throughout large por-
tons of the world. Above all, and including
all, let us as a people not be ashamed to own
Christ before the nations-to practice pnre
and simple Christianity in every relation of
llfe-in the family, in the school, in the mar
ket, in the forum, in the legislative hall. If
Science, falsely so-called, or the Spirit of the
Age, or any other seducer offer US substitute
for the Gospel, let us spurn it from us, and
cleave with our whole heart to that benefcent
principle t. which we owe all that is most val
liable in our present life.''
Ballou's Magazine.-The January number is
already issued, and splendid number it is in
every respect. The engravings are numerous
and we'll executed, and the stories are of the
best quality, and of such variety that even the
most fastidious must be suited with three or
Oro-Slumgullion Marriage, something that will
be readvwith interest there is Juvenile Craze,
by B. P. Shillaber; the great story of Guess,
by C. A. Stephens; the Crystal Palace, Lon
don; Panama; A Leap in the Dark, an inter-
esting novel by Frances N. Scboolcraft; Sweet
William, sketch by Theodore Arnold: 4
Happy New Year, by May Hamilton; Copenha-
gen, California story; funny tale by Darl-
ing; Teresa, a love story by Carrie F. Beebe,
Joe's Reward, by Mrs, Edison; The Spirit of
the Slave-Ship, q thrilling sea story by Geo.