Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 150, Ed. 1 Monday, February 19, 1866 Page: 2 of 14
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rateable aadMJoredy lew miracalott*,
discovered themselves onsongbk Now
detected only to be alighted, which
later aetenee hto njoieed In and oaed.
Considering, however, the very few
grwaarfknowiedge which thooe adlent,
0HtedoM old men acquired, not-'
withstanding thele long seclusion and
search, it U more pleasing to enter-
tain the theory, occasionally put forth
with much plausibility, that wider
the symbol ot a transmuting atone,
from prefeoo and scorning
eyeat^r aahwlf ftiiiSc lore and
eahaliatic mummery, they sought
nothing but spiritual tenth. There
may be aome reason for raising them
to the dignity of hermetic philoso-
(lying them place in the
d of lofty-minded mye-
ttes, who eentury after century eonae-
-crated themselves to the solution of
the 8phyn*'« riddle. Throughout all
antiquity the clearest and rosiest light
from heaven has first and long ex-
isted upon the sublime peaks of indi:
" J ' Intellects, before it crept downy
human
Willi
His burning eloquence aud magnet-
ic showing of power silencea all fur-
ther opposition, and this part of the
noem closes thus,' '' ' 4
D"}"™ b*U"e 1 *hatl eoompll.b thlsl
fife. ' I erer did belle?® I
Par. rtojBwordMhsWIwverfctefrmoatmybrain 1
ISS&fiSs&si
eaM,,pIJ*8®llw«itr««wta«r< i*i ...
We now, pae* over three lengthy
pftrto of-the poem, filled with magnift-
eent lines all abbuse with thought and
y.- We do not multiply words
fjpon the splendor of this poem; it is
too evident. We come to the fifth
and i*at part, entitled " Paracelsus
A^ains,^ remaAing parenthetically
that Michal had died, and that Para-
had learned bia fatal error from
I** lips of a dying poet. Aprile, (who
had felled in aspiring only to'love, as
he himself to know,) and had been
burled from tliiR duey pinnaclo of his
triumphant assurance into unguiah
£!: W.« •
, Featua is introduced sitting by the
^pallet- of his friend, in a dark, close
cMl of the Hospital, and moaning
over himthwu
his wild and paradezioallife
has irnf** a poem,
part of it is entitled "Pjirft-
" opens in a gac-
sia
Michal,
He Comforts
_ hearts, and declares
oua assurance that fee
to a grand renown
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and looks "as if where'er
there stood a atar," and lor
jay they
because of him,
them,-
L i?i™- - ' '■
k
I fears by recoun-
ting bow he had hatched Paraoelsne
in his jpowth and moods, and how
when he grew ho remiss in hb Mud-
les and so strangely calm and silent,
he deemed R
if Paraoel-
ahead, and has
marked that he
BThe
strong aspixer answers
HMM
&va$SB
®siyi
I&'W
SsEBfsaS
leoufeaaiqn of hi* eon tempt
sweet Michal
To this be makes a long and splen-
did answer, in which be touches upon
this dangerous and well-nigh awtul
truth,—awful beeom*t a trnth, and yet
if followed to* fcr and too aolely, mad-
lice that way:
0* tttmooed upldftdor u
iiSSStor *u*bt
rulnad AuptoUl
f Bow grand thou we
whu struck th« down—
• him e
At any rate, Aureole Paracelsus, of
" " century, the physician
sad magician, was a flamed
m marvellous man. He was skill-
* lift astrology and magic, and con- wnibu # w to stay
jrtanfc with all oriental charlatanry.
" Important discoveries j* j With heart-bursting love and infln-
j performed wondarM ^ patfio* Pestua pi 1
__ raised to a pressor's chat* iiwh^-4W< «iLit wnr
in the Dniveraity of Basil, and afteri
wards driven from it with execration
He wandered over the
"*aWftft wt fuml plAOd b
ISptexTOrA0
. FaraoeJans partially
tiuilliugly murmnta, •
i'm ■ ■ <mmi wtwn1*
aiwassr.
MMfknaat,
II kftowf
t« nM U«v I too
3?Se continues to babble Wildly over
''-fl ^ ■
ww7 mi
w«rmwood'tta
m he grows pitifully humble:
otteaevra bv bwA!
b«, 4e« VtHu* UT ■ *.
,Te *ib UUok**t|H*t U look
Uookt round.
SM "i"
my own and know it not.
In the intensity of his compassion
Featus l |irst« forth,
t nubr moble Aureole, Uotl I
m ui m hl« iMc. oom« ml or woe f
ir2on «i«U oemlnel H luwd6ne well!
Id h re tinned, had I keen tlrong enoogh.
A* fan h*« tinned I [ ,
Presently jhp sings, aud at last Par-
acelsus comes back to consciousness,
and the utterance of more and more
sublime truths than can be found in
an equal space in any other modern
poem. Hesaya,
iSSteo^^de..
„ JWIMttWlkil been;
Iwa oulm then, wtiown to dtaqr<now;
4 tisskL
r are owtud r
Wind from the invisible shore blows
ap the failing embers of his life and
ho grows strong in spirit, clear-eyed,
rapt. He tells all that he has found
eat, why he felled, and what others
may still do. This ia his confession
Offeilore:
I them over,
I gone.
' His eye illuminated with death's
The anxiety of tastes InsreawM. ffllm-destroying influx, discovers the
JEe sees danger in his friend's anpgente j feilnres and tendencies of the raise,
selbconfidence and scorn of the an-1 He sees how rocks and flowers write
completed efforts of trntii-eeekers in awn's history and phrophesy his
the past.. He thinks HffH
} UU> war mmmm mkht
now discover* the ningu
bis youth and the mysteri
which te spirit h*«
kennds" * %'
glory. Ho beholds the race like a
athwart the ages,
stretched through oentury-eonea of
(hade and christian light.
6Vn tdkfe
on, yet save
a Promethean
would
M
reveals that
than for be-
tosaper-
'a
knowledge and hh> felth, and dies.
The (Miem, mmtateed and treading
-'m-*
tm in the heart with too grand and
aokmii a for us to be prefose
in its praise, and to play tee gidde-
bowd and the pointer at every wind-
ing and wave-like swell to its march.
With these liberal extract we leave
it to be farther mad or wholly for-
mr-
gotten, as suits the taste of onr read'
The publishers of the forthcoming
fortnightly magazine in Mew York
<v Town and Country," have offered
Oliver Wendell Holmes #5000 to wrjte
a aerial story tor it. Whether the
offer has been accepted has not been
madepublie. Dr. Holmes' only novel,
Elsie Venuer," which lirst appeared
as a aerial in the Atlantic, was worthy
of its author and widely lead.
In noticing an American reprint of
a new English novel, a critic remarks
What U Vcfry true, that^every yelvr
there are published in London a score
of excellent novels of a much higher
grade than the average run of Ameri-
can novels. Many English novelists,
of no particular feme, write better
books than could be produced by any,
living American novelist, with two or
three exceptions.
The writer of a paper on " The
Gypsies," in the February Atlantic,
asserts very positively that those peo-
ple fire uot of Asiatic origin, but
sprung from Bohemia during the reli-
gious wars of tho 15th century. He
says one John Ziska, a leading Hus-
site. may be considered their father,
and that they became vagnbonds for
their religious opinions, which after-
wards deteriorated sadly.
Thst late George Arnold, whose
beautiful poems, by the way, are au-
nounced by Ticknor & Fields, under
the title of "Drift: A Sea Shore Idyl,
and Other Poems," once burlesqued
the tropical styles of Miss Shephard
and Miss Prescott thus:
'* Do not imagine that Miss Schenck
left off puiuting posies Itecause site
was engaged. Not a bit of it. She
went on as if nothing had happened;
and leaves and blossams grow under
her skill; massed wealths of succu-
lent imageries, limned in tawny mists
of eflblgence, stellate aud splendid
with the erystallic forces of Earth;—
wind-waved and wave-swung darlings
of the wild wood, with all elfish glit-
tering* meshed in the fantastic sheen
Of their hydrofugenons exploviation
fauhting herbage and bearded foins,
sumptuously studded with criukly-
cranltly sprinkles and sparkles of
spattered splendor; pensive, willowy
trochanters and hellebores, bronze-
veined without, and within, fraught
with blotted damask and passionate
ile, grained over with a bread ripe
ety and splithy lush and lovely
Wr*;' 1 -
^ George Augustus gala's new book,
•• A Trip to Barbary," is condemned
by the English critics because it con-
tains " no information whatever" of
Barbary.—Mrs. Ritchie's new novel
is entitled"The Clyffards of Clyffe."
—" Jealousy," by George Sand, has
been re-published in Philadelphia.—
*The Brigand; or tiie Demon of the
NortlH" and the "^fhe Workmen of
the Sea," are f the thrilling titles of
books by,,Victor Hugo, which have
just received? tin American dress.-—
Dumas 'is writing a new historical ro-
mance called " Le Conrte de ^lovet."
'The young EnglihU poet, Miss Chris-
tiana Kossetti, will soon publish a
volume of verse entitled "Th^Prince's
Progress." It will lie illustrated by
her brother, the artist, M. M. Kossetti.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, who has just
published her second volume of poems,*
and has the most strength and vigor
of bur female poets, is translating
'•The Memoirs and Correspondence of
Madame Recamier."
Gustave Dorf is going to illustrate
Tennyson's "Idyls of the King."—
The English "Gentleman's Magazine"
has Just completed its one hundred
and thirty-fifth year.—"Jinglesand
Jokes for Little Folks" is the title of
a volume for " wee ones," by Mrs.
Thomas Hood.—A cheap, illustrated,
serial edition of Josephus is being is-
sued in London.—In London there
are betweon seven and eight hundred
periodicals in regular issue, about one
half of which are monthlies, and a
ninth part quarterlies. It is estima-
ted that fa England there are more
than 1500 male writers, and one-tenth
as many female writers, whose main
—Dr.ft. Shelton
Mackensio, the literary critic of tiw
Philadelphia press, is preparing a vol-
ume of "Personal Reminiscencies" of
the great men he has met.
Ticknor & Fields announce a rich
frnfo.fr of new books, soon to issue
from their press. Among them are
"Lacy Arlyn," by J. T. Trowbridge5
"Honor May, a Novel's" a second
ties of "The Bigeiow Papers," by
James Russel Lowell* " Asphodel, a
jfcttetom"The Masquerade," by
8m; " The Qgegn-Motherand Rosa-
mond," by Algernon Charles Swin
reaTmn^be- ( borne 1" The Life of James Gates
Perci valand " Poems" by Florence
Percy, which last volume, our word
y, rfn, hi^lfor it. will ilelightfal
things.
The attempt to establish literary
periodicals and magaaineS In the
South doe^Bat appear, so far, to meet
with much success. If we except the
old Southern Uteraqr Messenger, one
looks in vain amoog all the mage-
tinea of the South for one that has
been either self-supporting, or let ns
add, even, thoogh it harts us to aay
it, that has been wprthyof support.
Nor are we in this respect very far
behind the North. No literary maga-
zine there appears to have yet been
established that has sustained itself
on its merits, and been abl to em ploy
and [>ay for Utlent in its pages, if we
except aioue the Atlaptic, which is
eveu yet in a measure an experimeflt,
and sunk *50,000 before it began to
pay.
The old Knickerbocker, for so many
years the pet of such men as Irving,
Bancroft, Bryant and a multitude ot
others was successful only ill virtue of
its being thak <VW*?toU> for i
it through a love for it, and not be-
cause they were paid for their work.
Aud as little us it may be thought,
the main support for that magazine
came from the Soutn, and when that
was cut off it died. But even in its
palmiest days it languished 'rom time
to time, and its success at best was
iusigoiticant.
We ought to uieniton the Har-
pers' Monthly as a successful literary
publication. It however owes its suc-
cess not to literature, but to the long
purse of its publishers, who by spend-
ing vast moneys upon it, m;v<lc it u
popular publication. And indeed we
believe they have the true, secret of
success, Starving genius may de-
mand recognition in vain, and if left
to itself will die of neglect, but mon-
ey not only forces respect for itself,
but commands the best product of
the best brains. It is because Har-
per's Month^ and the Atlantic are
able to pay for what they use that
they only have the best to use.
If we desire to establish Magazines
ill the South we, must spend money
upon them without stint. We must
not expect them to pay expenses in
one year or two. We must, apply as
much capital to them as we would to
ft bank. The question is, have we
money in the control of men who
take an interest in such a work 1
Our people are sufficiently a read-
ing people, but they do uot care to
read that wliieh is produced without
labor. We doubt if in any country
in the world there are its many capa-
ble critics to the population as in the
South. A Magazine for their reading,
that has real merit, will be support-
ed, but one that depends on either
their sectional pride or their sectional
charity for its success, leans upon a
broken reed. This pride, or charity,
may Carry it througe a year or two,
but it will let it fell in the end.
We wish an attempt might be made
with the right kind of spirit, to build
up a periodical literature. We should
be glad to read such a Magazine as is
within the command of the right sort
of enterprise. There is abundance of
talent at command. But it must be
fed and clothed and supplied with com-
forts. .And until patronage will do
this the publisher must look to see
thousand^ ot dollars used up with uo
chance of return. The field is not
promising.
The truth is, literary men are wor-
thy of being paid for their work. This
notion of the clod-hopper portion of
society that a man is only entitled to
compensation for the muScle he uses,
is beyond (t doubt, false. In fact,
like all extremes, the actual facts of
olod-hopperi8in meet exactly the false-
hoods regarding everything else, and
none i^ro so much deceived as those
who fake truth upon first principles.
Thijs far business newspapers,
those that circulate by virtue of their
publishing the news, and that gain
their means of employing talent from
their advertising patronage, are the
only literary enterprises that have
been able to pay for talent.
We fear, until some enterprising
capitalist who takes pleasure in lite-
rature, undertakes a purely literary
journal, a magazine, that all such en-
terprises will fail, and we must de-
pend on the liberality of publishers
of successful newspapers for whatev-
er we undertake in this line. We are
j!* to see quite a disposition among
such to give attention to literature,
ttil.tniat our own efforts in this be-
half will meet with approbation.
■niKli *
Wa lay the Governor's Message be-
foteoar readers to-day. It not so
lengthy but that every reader will
penufe it for himself, and heTce we
ojifiMJie usual synopsis. We are in-
cUaed to accept his reasons for not
calling tiie Convention earlier as sat-
iafeotory. Though exceedingly desi-
wea of. an early Convention, when
we thought a united Southern delega-
tion might hare had weight in the
aote-roooygf Congress, when it was
toolateto accomplish that, we thought
it hast to take time and act with de-
Hbasitien.—As-matters havo turned
out, we do not know that anything
has been last by the delay. We are
^tdtoaa weH off as the other States
fche -aeted more precipitately and
now la accordance with the Presi-
dents wish#*
The Cterernor recommends certain
organic ckahgaa in the Constitution.
W^felly agree with him in his state-
ment that it is expected of the Con-
vention to embrace within its action
"a clear and explicit denial of the,
right of Texas to secede from the
Federal Union." As he well says,
that question
CJAI.VKMT0N lTBCASa.
The Civilian informs us that tho
has been" transferred • 1^®l,uty ^eriif "f that county has
from die tribunal of reason to the I milde hiBS,lfl80 «"=r«b
field of battle, and has been settled ^^;
there by a styies of events, the mem-
ory of which is likely to endure as
long as the American name itself."—
The right of secession is yielded by
the people of the State, and the Con-
vention uftist embody it in their uo
tion as representing the people.
He says that it is eminently proper
that the convention should manifest
iu some unmistakable niauuer the
cheerful acquiesceuce of the people
in the abolitiou of slavery. This does
not embrace approbation of that abo-
litiou, though if we do not much mis-
take the tone of the public mind, the
time is coining, if not already arriv-
ed, when if left to a vote the people
ofthis State would overwhelmingly
oppose there-establishment of slavery.
Of course the people acquiesce
cheerfully in all the results of the
war, ind the Convention ought to put
it on their record.
The argument of (rov. Hiboiilton us
to the debt of the State admits of
more discussion, since publin repudia-
tion is an opening of the door to pri-
vate repudiation. We do not mate-
rially object to suspending the debt
created in support,of tho war. but the
balance of the debt, that for civil ad-
ministration, and for frontier protec-
tion, we think ought to lie paid. v
With his recommendations relative
to giving freedmen the civil rights of
white people, we entirely agree, and
have sustained that view evej since
the establishment of abolition in the
country. Loss than those civil rights
we are satisfied will never lie accep-
ted by the United States Govern-
ment. Loss than them we ought not
to do for our own safety. If the ne-
groes are free they must, have the
right to hold property, to sue and be
sued, to testify in the courts and to be
held responsible for crimes.
As to political privileges that is an-
other thing, and it is a serious ques-
tion whether any action whatever of
the Convention, looking, however re-
motely to confer upon the blacks
the right to vote, to hold office,
and to serve on juries, would be ac-
cepted by the people. We do not
think it would, and hence, see no use
of its being done. If, as Gov. Hamil-
ton suggests, God in his providence
shall enable the negroes to progress
enough, at some future day to become,
as a class, intelligent voters, it will
be time enough to discuss the policy
of conferring upon them that privi-
lege. The Governor has put the ne-
gro suffrage proposition in the mildest
possible form. Iu that form at some
future day it may be adopted, but at
present it is too much to expect or
ask of our people that they shall en-
tertain it. Were they compelled to do
so, in order to regain their own po-
litical rights, they would not repre-
sent their honest feelings.
We are informed that Mr. 'F: M
Bagby has been chosen President of
the First National Bank of Houston.
No cashier has, as yet, been appointed.
Until an appointment is made Mr.
Win. Fulton, Secretary of the Board
of Directors, will act. as Cashier.
We received our Austin letter yes-
terday, enclosing the Governor's mes-
sage, by private hand, in advance of
tho mail. It was fortunate for us that
it was so sent, as wo might not have
got it for a day or two. It was due
by mail on Thursday. •
With all bon-vivants, who relish
dishes upon the French order, in the
most approved style, the " Old Capi-
tol" is still quite the rage. For com-
fort of rooms, and well supplied larder,
this establishment, if not the best, is
certainly second to none in the State.
Prof. Stono, on account of the se-
vere cold weather, has postponed the
Concert intended for last night until
to-night. We are glad our citizens
will have another opportunity of hear-
ing him.
The Cheapeat
Book aud Stationery House in the South,
BbELOCK A CO.,
IS® Cmmnl Street 130
KNMiUllt AfOSTATIHIM,
""-'tteteffc-iBry- —*•
LetUr not. and car Mpn
envelopes, MM, I k
noTrli, Enncy atoUmtr a
mntbNli.
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jfenaai took*
nNlMCMNUMntrWfrk*.
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popular—that the Grand Jury, the
Judge,aud the District Attorney unite
in recommeudiug that the citir.ous add
enough to his salary to keep him iu
the oflice, aud prevent his going into
other business. This is a high com-
pliment to Mr. Geo. P. Douglas.
The veteran senior of the Civilian
has g ne to the Convention, and tho
pro tein. intimates that he don't know
what may happen while he is gone.
The District Court of Galveston
worked very hard, and succeeded in
getting through with the criminal
docket, and clearing the jail before
adjournment. Twenty-three persons
were sent to the Penitentiary. In
view of the growth of Galveston and
Houston, and of the increase of orime,
preventing the Courts from attending
properly to civil business, the Civilian
recommends the institution of a Crim-
inal Court for Galvesjon and Houston,
and calls the attention of the Conven-
tion to the matter. We agree with
the philosophy, but think thero should
be a Criminal Court for each city.
Mobile had a Criminal Court when it
had no larger population than. Hous-
ton or Galveston, and the population
of these cities will soon be quadru
pled.
The citizens are determined to have
steam fire-engine as well aslroustou.
We are glad to see it.
The Bulletin says :
Mr. A. M. Sperry, " Fluid. Receiving
Agent of the National Kieedmeu's
Savaiigs Bank," is in the city. He
returns from Brownsville with thirty-
five thousand dollars, beiugthe savings
of two colored regiment*,, the 7th and
115th, out of their lata payments.
The bank has deposits ti> the extent
of a quarter of a million of dollars, re-
ceived from colored soldiers and la-
borers. This is all invested iu Gov-
ernment securities, and will no doubt
be finally invested in lauds.
l etter from Galveston.
iitl c« rrt*pot>d«?uce Daily ToUwraph-
Galvkston, Feb. 14, 1806.
This is one of the coldest days !
have ever known iu Texas, a constant
norther has been blowing a perfect
gale for the last three or four days,
aud so without either fireplace or
stove in my room, aud the water hard
frozen, you may imagine with what
facility lam writing.
There has been no steamer from *
New Orleans since the Magnolia, con-
sequently no papers. The steamers
Hughes and Morgan arrived from
down west late this evening, bring-
ing no news. The former had on
board about eight hundred troops re-
turning home, and left immediately
for New Orleans. The Morgan leaves,
to-morrow at 10 o'clock. | The I. C.
Harris is due iu the morning and will
bring several days later news. 11*
however, she wire outside the bar at
this time she could not get in.
There is nothing of a local nature
transpiriug, even robbery has ceased
its midnight work for a while, one
case only pccurring that we havo
heard of tor some days, that of a gen-
tleman having his trunk lock picked
and a large amount of very valuable
clothing taken, together with six hun-
dred dollars in gold. Business is at a
stand still. Cotton, we may say flat,
but little offering and none changing
hands. In fact, every thing seems to
be completely frozen up, aud nothing
will bo done in mercantile and com-
mercial circles until the weather
moderates. This morning the flats
were dry to the main channel, and a
food deal of the shipping fast aground.
'he Silver Cloud left for Houston this
evening, but I should not wonder if j
she made a week's trip of it.
I would call attention to the card
of Messrs. Green &: Greene, sent yoa
this evening. These gentlemen are
doing a fine business, and merchants
and planters would do well to call on
them. Our friend Judge Bradford
will be sure to please them.
BUSINESS NOTICES.
The mechanical Excellence of "Thh
Round Table" cannot fail to win high
appreciation "from persons of taste and cul-
ture, The rarity ot it contents ounht to
give satisfaction to the large multitude of
renders who care for such rarity. And its
opinion on topics of literacy and political
interest, are quite as pronounced in a jour-
nal which, we assure, aims at the expres-
sion of independent, rather than party
opinion
See the card of M. Schmidt, who
manufactures tin ware of every description,
and deals generally in sheet iron, stoves
and hollow ware.
Call on him at the corner of Travis and
Prairie sts.
An article of real pure brandy, <|
the best quality, can be obtained at Nat(
mer & Brady'e, as well as pure Bourb,
whisky. Samples have been sent us, an]
we are not guessing.
■$5®, We call attention to the ndvertia
ment of Lidstone & Barns, in to-days pap
The slock of tobacco advertised by them^
very large, and buyers will d, well to lp
at it.
™ NtwTerk
New Orleans
Matarirf tha Uixwt 1
hayaa
Caahiac * Cm.
T. B. McMAHAN ft GILBERT.
oexbr1l
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AND
COTTON FACTORS,
OnlTCRinn Trinn.
Heavy Invoice Staple Groceries.
100 St. Louis Floor—fun'd brands.
IM boxen StMr Oandlen,
_ . .. M MLoki Coffee,
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W. B. WALKER,
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Cushing, E. H. Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 150, Ed. 1 Monday, February 19, 1866, newspaper, February 19, 1866; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth236299/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.