The Continental Monthly Vol 1 No 4 April 1862 Devoted To Litera

It is admitted that no man can write the history of his own times with such fullness and impartiality as shall entitle his record to the unquestioning credence and acceptance of...

Frank Blair was a disciple of Benton; yet, as is often the case, the pupil soon learned to go far ahead of his teacher. In 1852, there was a union of the Free Democrats and Nati...

How long the Spaniards remained here is now uncertain, but they long claimed all this coast as far north as Cape Fear. The French planted a colony in South Carolina, and gave th...

Charleston was 'located' at the wrong place, simply with the object of being as distant as possible from the Spanish settlements, and has always suffered from an insufficient de...

By far the most notable 'soundser' our neighborhood ever bred was my hero, BILL. Physically, at least, he was a true wonder. He stood full six feet two, weighed eleven score pou...

Most of our crew regarded their hostess with greatly mingled feelings; but old Bill entertained but one sentiment for her,--that of unqualified admiration. As we only 'wrought'...

The guns of Fort Sumter had flashed along our coast an appeal whose force no words can ever compute. The days had been busy with the assembling of armies, the nights restless wi...

And, after all, the demon of war is not so black as we have painted him. We do not shudder to-day as we read of the siege of Troy or the downfall of Carthage, or the Romance of...

'Can you tell me what _that_ figger represents?' asked Chapin. As he received no reply, he continued: '_That_ is Enterprise; the two little ruts at his feet represent a railroad...

We were now introduced into Fat Man's Misery, where the small and attenuated have greatly the advantage. We emerged from this narrow and difficult passage into the Museum, half...

Death, we are told, found his way into Arcadia; and disappointment was not long in coming to disturb the modern Arcadians, who had as much to do with cotton as their predecessor...

Thus we see that the attempt to establish peace on the basis of the true interests of nations has not only failed, but that it has failed signally and deplorably. The solid Dori...

'Why should _you_ interfere between them and him? Has he not insulted you often enough to make you let him alone? Can you so easily forgive his taunting you with'--He did not fi...

COUNTIES. FREE. SLAVE. COTTON, 400 lb. bales. Johnson, 3,485 206 0 Carter, 5,911 353 0 Washington, 12,671 930 0 Sullivan, 10,603 1,004 153 Hancock, 5,447 202 2 Hawkins, 11,567 1...

Mr. Craig had thrown open to his use a lovely cottage and grounds, commonly known as 'the Paddock,' which DeQuincey and his family occupied for several years as privileged guest...

The Edinburgh literati know but little of rest or recreation; from the editor's chair up to the pulpit, they are under a lash as relentless as that of the taskmaster of Egypt. F...

Realizing this fact, Mr. KIMBALL, a lawyer of twenty years' standing in Wall St., and consequently perfectly familiar with all its characteristics, has devoted literary talents,...

The day has come for a new order of things. The South must learn--and show by its acts that it has been convinced--that the North is its equal in those virtues which it claims t...

It was not a pleasant predicament for a nervous or a faint-hearted man to be placed in. But then Mr. Chase is neither nervous nor faint-hearted, and when Congress came together...

'The devil you did!' spoke the Squire, testily; 'you are seven minutes behind time this morning; you would be behindhand to-morrow and next day, and so on as long as you live. C...

Look round in this pottery, look down to the ground, Where bottle and mug, jug and pottle abound; From the plebeian throng see the graded array; There is shelf above shelf of br...

There are periods in the world's history marked by extraordinary and violent crises, sudden as the breaking forth of a volcano, or the bursting of a storm on the ocean. These cr...