month. The work will be com- lishers. "St. Elmo" is still sellplete in three volumes, and the ing nearly as well as when the publisher anticipates an unusually first volume appeared, and Carlelarge sale for it. The last volume will appear soon. All three will be printed on paper made expressly for them, and will prove one of the handsomest sets ever issued from an American press. A long and somewhat prosy nar

ton thinks the editions will ultimately run up to fifty. In speaking of successful Southern books, it would not be just to overlook Craven's "Prison Life of Jefferson Davis," which has really been the most successful book of that

rative poem entitled "The Vota- class ever published in New York. ry" was issued a couple of weeks Among the later publications are ago from Carleton's press, but "Mosby and his Men," and "The though announced with great Cruise of the Shenandoah," two flourish, it has not yet made its books for which a great popularity way into public favor. Mr. Doo- was anticipated. The expectalady's press has given us two am- tions of the publisher have not, bitious volumes of poetry by a however, been realized. "Mosby Mr. Osborne. They embrace four and his Men" is not generally poems which are presented to the considered reliable, and the author public as tragedies and comedies. of the "Cruise of the ShenanThat they contain considerable doah" indulges in some reflec

tions on Captain Waddell which have not helped the book. "The McDonalds," a story of Sherman's march, has just been pub

poetic merit is generally admitted, but there is too much poetry already in the market for these to obtain much popularity. A translation of "Frithiof's Saga," by lished by Mr. Mullaly, of the Rev. W. L. Blackley, M. A., and Metropolitan Record. This book edited by Bayard Taylor, is among is cheap and well-written, and the latest announcements. The promises to have a large sale.volume consists of twenty-four The first edition was all ordered ballads, from one of which the before it left the hands of the binders. Mr. Mullaly is one of the most enterprising of young newspaper men, and I am glad to say he is attaining a

following verse is taken as a speci

men of Swedish poetry:

Spring-time cometh; wild birds twitter, woods grow leafy, sunshine beams, Dancing, singing, down to ocean speed the liberated streams;

Out from its bud the glowing rose peeps forth like blush on Freya's cheek;

And joy of life, and mirth, and hope,

merited success.

our

The resuscitation of Putnam's Magazine has been proposed, but it is not likely to be carried out. We need a better magazine than any now published in the North. There have been several South- The Atlantic Monthly is simply a ern books published in New York receptacle for Boston ideas, and since the war, and nearly all have Harper's is hardly fit for decent sold well. Miss Evans' "St. people to read. There is a good field for a new magazine of the Elmo," and John Esten Cooke's right sort, but our publishers "Surry of Eagle's Nest," have seem to lack courage to embark in brought most money to the pub- enterprises of that kind.

EDITORIAL.

SOME of our friends have asked country-ought unquestionably to us for an expression of opinion go forward and do so. But where upon the political issues of the the selfish and renegade element day. There is a double mistake is too powerful for the honest, in this inquiry. First, ours is honorable, and consistent; then not a political periodical. Second, the Brigadier ought to be clung we are living in District No. 2. to with hooks of steel. While the and we fully appreciate the sig- Districts are under the immediate nificance of the correspondence control of the government, there between a rebel governor, so- is no danger of confiscation. The called, and the hero, who "never faith of the American soldiery is saw the face of his foe," (or pledged against it, and by a fair "only the backs of his enemy," implication, the government has which is it?) Our interpretation become a party to that pledge, by of that remarkable correspondence accepting the terms of surrender. is, that while freedom of press When the Districts lapse back and speech is very handsomely into States, the pledge is removed, guaranteed to all, who will favor and they are allowed to regulate the Sherman bill, there is a shadow their own affairs. Then is the of doubt as to whether so patient time when the real danger be

gins; when confiscation, oppression and murder are to be feared.. Poor Tennessee understands all about this thing.

But we are told that there is no danger of getting so bad a man as Brownlow in any of the Districts. We are not so sure of that. His

a hearing will be accorded to the other side. Now our secret proclivities are towards the Brigadier. We decidedly prefer him out of the Union to such a man as Tennessee has got in the Union. The experiment in Tennessee has not developed latent reconstructionism in our bosom, as rapidly, tory tells us of men, who were as did the battle of Gettysburg fully as wicked. Marat, Robedevelop latent Unionism in the spierre and Judas Iscariot were breasts of some old secessionists just as depraved as he, not so vulwe wot of. In other words, we gar and blasphemous, it is true, would rather trust a soldier of but of no better heart. The the government, who has fought world is no purer now than then,

and we fear that in each of the five Districts, there are just as atrocious wretches, as the vulgar tyrant of Tennessee.

for flag and country, according to his convictions of duty, than one of our own renegades, whose only guiding principle has been his own supposed self-interest. The Districts, which can elect consistent Union men of honesty and country, friends, the wife of his intelligence-sincere lovers of bosom, the children of his own

The selfish man is always to be distrusted. He will sacrifice

flesh and blood, anybody and steel-plate engravings of Mr. everything for self-advancement Davis, Generals Lee, Johnston, and self-aggrandizement. Hence, Beauregard and others.

if we abandon the Brigadier for The Publishers have done their the renegade, who, from selfish part more creditably than anymotives, has stultified his whole thing of the kind has hitherto previous career, we have made a been done at the South. They miserable exchange. deserve great success for their energy.

Finally, in answer to the inquiry as to our position, we would say that, while this is an age of A gentleman writes to us from wonderful revolutions in senti- Alabama that our Magazine ments and opinions, we were born would have a larger circulation in at the South and of the white race his State, if it was printed at the and have decided to share the South; since people are disposed fortunes of our color and section. now to encourage home industry. The man who would buy a readyGeneral T. L. Clingman calls made coat at the North, will obour attention to what he claims ject to buying a book or pamphlet, to be an error in General Beaure- printed there. What is the difgard's Report of the Battle of ference in principle? Does not Drury's Bluff, published for the the home tailor deserve as much first time in our May number. - encouragement as the home printGeneral C. states that the retire- er? However, we would inform ment of the two regiments of his our friend that we do our own brigade was in consequence of printing in the good and loyal the withdrawal of Corse's brigade. town of Charlotte, and get our Just the reverse statement is made paper and covers from our next by General Beauregard. We door neighbor, Lincolnton. We know nothing of the facts in the never thought of printing in the case, but we are sure that General North, but the failure of the conB. will be glad to see any unin- tracting party here, to fulfill the tentional error corrected. The contract, compelled us to get the matter therefore is submitted to first four numbers printed by Gray & Green, of New York,

his consideration.

The enterprising publisher of until we could get our own estabthe Renaissance Louisianaise is lishment in operation. issuing a French translation of We are living here in a working Pollard's Lost Cause. The rend- country. Messrs. Wiswall & ering is excellent, the typography Tiddy, who furnish us with paper, beautiful, and the illustrations get large orders from the Publishsuperb. One of the illustrations ing Houses of New York and is a splendid photogram of Lee Philadelphia. This paper is also and his Generals. We have seen bought in those cities by Southnothing equal to it; the likenesses ern publishers, and makes thus are life-like, and the execution two trips over the same road. splendid. The book has also fine Our town has shipped more

quarter of a century?

The South, then, so far from feeling the rancor and bitterness of defeat, should feel that she stands

cotton in the last two years, than more hope of publicans and sineither Columbia or Charleston.- ners than of self-righteous phariOne of the largest, and probably sees. We have never heard of a the very best, woolen factory in single Southern church being desthe South, is located here. It is ecrated by sermons against the well-known that, during the war, sins of other people. What else the North Carolina troops were has been the theme of the Beechbetter clad than any in the Con- ers and the Cheevers for the last federacy. They wore the Rock Island cloth of our townsmen, Young & Wriston. Since the war, improved machinery and appliances have been introduced on high moral vantage-ground into this factory, until its fabrics and that she can afford to be genare of the best and most sub- erous and magnanimous, forget stantial character. Our town, past differences and extend the soon to be the centre of three friendly greeting to good men of great railways, with five branches, every creed and every section.has in addition a large trade by Greeley has nobly said that no ordinary roads, and sometimes great, enduring party can be bastwo hundred wagons are seen in ed upon the wrath and hatred enour streets. We are being re- gendered by war. He might have constructed on the true basis, the added that no nation and no indiwhite man taking the lead in vidual can afford to cherish rework. With such surroundings vengeful feeling of any kind. It about us, we assure our Alabama dwarfs the intellect as well as friend that we feel the necessity sears the conscience and hardens of doing our own work too, and the heart. It belittles the nation it is all done just here and no

where else.

by depriving it of grand, generous and expansive ideas. It makes the man narrow-minded, bigoted

A Virginia lady writes to us to and intolerant. When we have know "at what time our 'late en- reached that point demanded emies' became late." What a alike by christianity and sound question to propound to a loyal philosophy, then all enemies beEditor in District No. 2! But we come "late;" and so our fair can answer it. We would rather friend's question is answered.

And there has

be the destroyed than the destroy- time in the history of the world ers. We would rather belong to when there was greater need of the desolated section than to the a combination of the good, the desolating section. We would honorable, and the true of all ages, rather belong to the country, sexes and conditions against the whose sins have been preached fell spirit of agrarianism, and inagainst for thirty years than be- fidelity that threatens to subvert the very foundations of society, long to the people, who furnished and overthrow all that is venerpulpits and preachers. Christ able, respectable, and of good rehimself has told us that there is port.

BOOK NOTICES.

THE MCDONALDS', OR ASHES OF time houses are burning and SOUTHERN HOMES. A TALE OF South Carolina has commenced to SHERMAN'S MARCH. BY WM. pay an instalment, long overdue, HENRY PECK, OF GEORGIA. on her debt to justice and humaniMetropolitan Record Office, ty. With the help of God, we New York, 1867: will have principal and interest beThe author has occupied a fore we leave her borders." Page Chair, at different times, in several 139, "wide spreading columns of of the best Colleges of the South. smoke continue to rise wherever His literary taste and skill as a our army goes. Building material writer were well known in Dixie is likely to be in great demand in before the war. His contribu- this State for some time to come." tions, since, to the Old Guard and What a jocular fellow the Major the Metropolitan Record, have is! Page 140, "where out footgiven him a national reputation. steps pass, fire, ashes and desolaWe regard the present volume as tion follow in the path." But one of his happiest efforts. While immediately after all this exultait only claims to be a novel-it is tion over the burning in South really a more valuable contribu- Carolina, he denies that Columbia tion to history than the pleasing was destroyed by order! Yet, little story of Major Nichols.* after finishing his "story," the The Professor preserves the uni- gallant Major comes back with ties in his romance, the Major is intense gusto to the destruction utterly regardless of consistency. in South Carolina by the man Thus on the very page (119) which whom little children had such an speaks of Sherman's belief that intuitive faith in! Page 278, "on extermination must take place every side, the head, centre and with a certain class at the South, rear of our column might be he tells us "little children cling traced by columns of smoke by to the General's knees and nestle day, and the glares of fires by in his arms with intuitive faith night." But they did not burn and affection." Trusting little Columbia, of course not! Not a things! they could not but confide single painted house was spared in the man, who had burned the from the torch in all Beaufort paternal mansion, the barns and district and few in Barnwell, on smoke-houses, and left them noth- the line of march. But Hampton ing to eat, but the offal of the burned Columbia. It is scarcely camps! On page 131, we have from possible that the men, who had the Major these lines," the well- been so merciful in other parts of known sight of columns of black South Carolina, would become smoke meets our gaze again; this ruthless when they reached the Capital! It is too absurd. And then the Major tells us how they