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Dodge's Literary Biuseum.
93
Y : Literature and Art.
#@> Severat literary notices are una-
voidably crowded out of this number. They
will appear in our next.
Woman's Love, a True Story of the
Heart, by Eugene Sue, is the last issue in
cheap form, from the prolific press of T. B.
Peterson, the eclebrated Philadelphia pub-
lisher, of Chestnut street. The three vol-
umes of the original are here compressed
*, 4 into one, and sold for—25 cts.! The ro-
mance is characteristic of Sue—fresh with
Nature and full of her, and bold and bright
and eloquent with the subtle and polished
genius of Sue.
VALUABLE PuBLICcATION.—The indomi-
table house of the Harpers have commenced
the publication of a great serial work, to be
completed in ten numbers, entitled a De-
scriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the
World, at 50 cts.a number. Here will be
another of those important additions to the
§ libraries of the land, such as have reared
for this famous firm an imperishable reputa-
tion. » Each number will contain 182 pages.
Tne Fugitive is the title of a rhyming
pamphlet upon late Boston events of inter-
est, and published by Fetridge & Co.
Twenty years of hard study, solely devoted
to the laws of meter and rhythm, might
have improved its merits a little.
Harrer’s Magazine for July may b
had of Burnham Brothers, Cornhill.: The
leading novel feature of this number is the
series of comic illustrations of the Puffin
Family and their “4th of July upon the
Iludson.” (‘These and the series of similar
illustrations published in Boston years ago
entitled the-adventures of Jonathan‘ Old-
buck in Search of a Wife, are by far the
-best ever produced in this country. They
are equal to anything we ever saw it
Punch.) The leading feature of the Maga-
zine, Abbott's Napoleon, is drawing to a
Its extraordinary interest increases
with every issue, and is by no means the
less because it affords the American view of
Napoleon’s greatness and patriotism and the
baseness of his treacherous, outnumbering
focs. The eternal name of the Emperor
Napoleon is their eternal brand of disgrace.
PutNam’s Montury for July may be
r had of any of the leading periodical dealers.
A fine engraving of the ‘author of the Poti-
phar Papers adorns this number.
Crossy, Nicuots & Co. have received
Hunt's Merchants Magazine for July. It
contains the usual amount of valuable mer-
cantile and other business reading.
A CRITIC, in the June number of the
United States Review, describes N. P. Wil-
lis’s sacred poem’s as “ the most tailor-like
specimens of fashionable piety on record.”
We think them the very best of Willis’s
productions—they being, in distinction from
all his other writings, free from any faults of
style, egotism, or industrious affectation.
AMS. TraGepy, purporting to have |’
been written by the spirit of Shakspeare
and communicated through a “medium,”
has just appeared in New York. It is
founded on incidents in Spanish history, and
executed in the metaphysical manner of
Ilamlet, with a strong Shaksperean pro-
clivity to historical inaccuracy.
Victor Hugo has been offered $25,000
for the copy-right of his new philosophical
novel, just completed, entitled Les Miséres.
SarGEnt’s First Class Standard Reader
has already gone through four editions. It
now sells at the rate of ten thousand a
month, and is rapidly being introduced into
the reading schools of the United States.
PowELr’s great painting of De Soto
discovered in the Mississippi, after having
run the gauntlet of criticism, is now on ex-
hibition at Mozart Hall, Louisville.
ALEXANDRE Dumas has just sold his
well-known villa, called Monte Christo, at
St. Germain, which cost him 450,000 francs,
for 31,000 francs.
Europe.
Tue Turks still retain possession of Silis-
tria, and have made frequent gallant sallies
forth and made great slaughter among their
foes.
The following i is a summary of what has
occurred during the last three weeks at
Silistria :
Up tothe 16th of May nothing of any
importance had taken place, but in the morn-
ing of that day the Russians had completed
their bridge across to the smaller Danubian
island, and before night set in, the two
© banks of the river were connected. On
the 17th, some 18,000 Russians crossed to
the right bank of the river, and a battering
train followed. From the 19th to the 21st,
the fire of the Russian artillery was direct-
ed against the out-works of Arab-Tabiassi,
and it is supposed that the Turkish mine, of
ee}. : :
which Mussa Pacha speaks in the bulletin
forwarded the day before yesterday, had
been formed near this spot. On the 2ist
and 24th, three attempts were made to take
the outworks on the north-east side of the
fortress by storm. On the 29th and 30th
*| May, six attacks were made, but in spite of
the cloquence of Prince Paskiewitch, who
continually ,reminded the men of the high
reputation which the Russian army had
2 oa eae
always maintained, the unfortunate victims
of ambition were cach time repulsed with
prodigious Joss. There was a most fearful
carnage on the nights of the 29th and 30th,
when the garrison made sallies upon their
already discouraged enemies. The fortress
1s now. also invested on the south side,
(Shumla) and west side, (Turkutia.) The
operations of the Russians are principally
directed against fort Abdul Medjid, which is
behind, that is, to the south and west of the
town and fortress. The trenches are opened
in the usual way, but the men are assisted
in their labors by the effects of these small
mines, called by the French fougasse, whose
chambers are but six or eight feet below the
surface of the earth.
Omar Pacha’s army, which has recently
been reinforced by 26,000 regular troops
from Widdin, is now estimated at 106,000
infantry, 14,000 cavalry, and 140 guns. It
is satisfactory to learn that the Turkish
commander at present has no intention of
descending into the plain to give the Rus-
sians battle. The guns of Silistria and the
pestilent exhalations from the lowlands near
the Danube, may be safely left to do the
work of death for some time to come.
The two armies will soon be complete,
and, itis said, will turn the flank of the
Russians by the Danube, supported by the
fleets. The fleets are near Varna. Scha-
myl has joined the Circassians in the plains.
The last English division embarked at
Constantinople on the 5th. Prince Napo-~
Jeon had embarked for Varna.
It is evident that the Turks and their al-
lies are beginning to assume the offensive,
but nothing very decided was expected be-
fore the end of June. It seems decided
that 70,000 troops shall go to Varna, and
40,000 to Sebastopol.
Persia has decided to send an army of
observation to the frontiers of the empire.
The force will be concentrated at Aber-
berdschan, under Gen. Azis-Khan, one of
the best warriors of Persia and hostile to
Russia.
The-number of troops embarked from
France and Algiers for Turkey, up to the
10th of June, is officially stated to be 72,000
men. The embarkation of troops is still
going on with great activity.
The movements of the Russian troops
continue to puzzle the spectators. It was
thought that they were earnestly preparing
to retreat from Wallachia, and consequent-
ly also from Turkish territory on the right
bank of the Danube ; or they are about to
concentrate their forces in Moldavia, to-
wards the Transylvanian frontier, with a
view of showing fight to Austria. They
pillaged Lesser Wallachia in leaving it;
took possession of the archives and public
money, and despoiled convents and chureh-
es. Count Orloff, the younger, is reported
to have died from a wound in the eye,
received at Silistria.
The London Times “saya: “The next
movements of the Russian army on the
Danube, and the fate of Silistria, upon the
arrival of the allied troops at’ Varna, will
determine whether Prince 'Gortschakoff or
Marshal St. Arnaud is to assume the offen-
sive. If the Russians are actually prepared
to advance upon Bulgaria, which does not
appear to be the case, the primary object of
the campaign is the destruction of the army
of invasion; but if, as last accounts would
lead us to believe, the demonstration of
Austria is already compelling Prince Pas-
kiewitch to fall back on the Sereth and the
Pruth, then the most effectual blow that
can be aimed at Russia, and the most pow-
free government which could harbor those
who might be considered as his enemies; it
is, therefore, that Constantinople, like St.
Petersburg and Warsaw, should be subject
to Russian’ protection and to Russian influ-
ence. (Cheers.) I say to you at once, that
such a consummation would be fatal to the
Hberties of Europe. Task you to oppose’
uch a consummation. I believe that Brit-
ish hearts, and British courage, and’ British
means, are equal, in conjunction with our
allies, with the sympathies of Europe, and
not only Europe, but of the whole world,
to achieve success, and I earnestly pray that
God may give the victory to her majesty’ 'S
arms for that purpose. (Loud cheers.)”
The very latest news from the seat of
war announces that the Russians have been
defeated, June 15th, with great slaughter,
solely by the Turks, at Silistria, and been
driven across the Danube. Mussa Pacha,
the ‘lion-hearted Turkish commander, we
lament to say, was killed. It is stated that
the Russian general, Prince Paskiewitch,
was mortally wounded by a spent-ball.
Prince Gortschakoff and other Russian
chief officers were severely wounded. The
struggle at Silistria lasted 29 days! and the
brave Turks won the final triumph, unaided
by any of the lazy French and English.
It is stated that the. Emperor Napoleon
has intimated to the Austrian government
that the French will interfere to suppress
any revolutionary movement in Hungary or
Italy while Austrian troops are engaged
against the Russians. A similar declaration
is expected from England.
The Circassians are commanded by Emir
Magmot, Schamyl’s lieutenant, and are re-
ported to have defeated the Russians at
“Darial Sear Karesch,” with great loss to
the enemy.- Schamyl was in full march
upon Tiflis, no date given.
A conspiracy to assassinate the French Em-
peror during his promised visit to the bath
of Pyren has been discovered. In the de-
partments of the Seine and Garonne 150
arrests were made.
erful diversion in favor of our several allies,
is that which should crown the present cam-
paign by the fall of Sebastopol, and we
trust that no time will be lost in undertak-
ing an expedition which would be so useful
to our policy and so glorious to our arms.”
The Times strongly urges the taking of Se-
bastopol, and thinks that its capture, togeth-
er with the occupation of the Crimea, would
repay all the cost of the present war.
The great Baltic fleet has done this:
blockaded the Baltic coast of Russia, taken
a few merchant ships, destroyed a few gun-
boats, and 28,000 barrels of tar! by way of
bonfire for their triumphs, we suppose.
We extract the following from Lord John
Russell’s recent address to the electors of
London: .
“ My hope is that this war will meet with
the success which from its object and from
its motives it deserves; but this I will say,
that no insufficient peace ought to be made ;
that we ought not to lay down our arms un-
til we have obtained sceurity for the future
—that having made the great exertions
which we have made—that “having had our
eyes opened to the designs of Russia, and
the other nations of Europe likewise having
had their eyes opened to those designs—we
should be the most. silly of mortals if we
should sign an insecure peace, which would
leave it to our present enemy to bide his
time, until, by the dissensions of the other
powers, and by the weakness of some of
those powers, he should find a better oppor-
tunity of accomplishing his design. Let us
consider for a moment what that design is.
I will give it from no unfair interpretation
of that which has been said by the Emperor
e Russia himself. It is that the principali-
ties which he occupies, and Bulgaria, should
be held under his protection ; it is that Con-
stantinople itself should not be occupied
a> Oak HA t, on the 3d and 4th, was
elegantly decorated and wonderfully jam-
med. We peeped in fora few moments,
and were glad to get away again, so dense
was the throng in all the sales departments. -
Simmons was as calm and smiling as a May
morn, and presided like a Napoleon over
the exciting scene. ' ‘
Swepisn InMiGRrants- —A party of 50
or 60° Swedish immigrants, of both sexes,
young and old, passed by our office last
week; with wagons and baggage, destined
for the interior. They bore a banner in-
scribed, “ Hail Columbia! “Land of Free-
dom! . We will be no burden to Massachu- »
setts.”.. They were a tidy, hardy-looking
company.. Such immigrants are welcome
additions to the ranks of the free. They
know their rights, and ask no more. They
know their duties, and perform them.
600,000 BOTTLES OF SPALDING'S
PT_ ED PS Fy Eg A NP CASTOR OIL, have
been sold. It is decidedly
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HAVOC AND DESTRUCTION!
EAD. SHOT, for Bed Rugs—CRUDE CAM-
PHOR for Moths and Tneeets—Tat EXTER-
MINATOR for Rats and Mice—Cockroach, Ant and
Beetle KILLER.
All the above articles are notorious for their cer-
tainty in exterminatin;
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either by its present government, or by any
Feeinont Meet, opposite Mneenm, Boston ton, Mass.
“itd « RUSSELL SPALDING, PF: roprictor.
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