with a procession of gaily-dressed ladies, interspersed now artist would undertake to give the public a panoramie and then with a group of nice young men' who go peering representation of the Hudson Riaer. Since then the thing impudently under the pink bonnets and disturbing the light has been done, and in a masterly manner, too, by a band folds of pale green mantillas. Here and there a beggar solicits charity in vain, or a house-painter marches along of artists under the direction of Mr. J. W. Orr, the celebrated swinging a pot of white-lead in either hand and opening a wood engraver. It is the design to make the panorama a path for himself through the shrinking crowd. In front of the accredited temples of fashion stand long lines of luxurious representation of the Hudson from its sources to its entrance carriages, attended by lazy footmen whose gold-banded hats into the Atlantic, and when completed it will, beyond a and many-caped coats mark them out as the voluntary slaves of their kind, and whose servility to their masters avenges question, be the most magnificent panoramic picture ever itself in an air of indescribable humility and insolence only painted. The parts now exhibited give a view of the Bay to be seen upon the face of the man turned lacquey. Leav- and Harbor of New York, and every point of interest on the ing for a moment the dust and glitter and crush of the street, river from the Battery to West Point. That portion of this we enter the great emporium and inner temple of fashionable shopping, presided over by Seaman & Muir, those un- great moving picture which represents West Point, is, in questioned high priests of this luxurious religion. The coun- itself, a large and splendid panoramic exhibition, and gives ters are heaped in wild profusion with every imaginable dainty that loom and fingers and rich dyes and the exhaust- the spectator a better view of the most romatic and interested skill of human invention have succeeded in producing ing spot, than could be obtained by wandering over the drawn together by the magic power of taste and capital.Before the gorgeous piles sit the empresses and sultanas of grounds for many hours. In point of artistic execution and our republican metropolis, whose husbands and fathers and scenic effect, this panorama of the Hudson, the proprietors brothers and lovers-slaves of the dirty mines and dingy la- of which are Messrs. Orr and Townsend, has never been boratories of Wall street and down town'-are delving their lives out to wring from the accidents, the mistakes and approached by any exhibition of the kind that we have the necessities of society the yellow dust that invests their seen. ambitious household divinities with these magnificent adornments. The faded mother, with her false teeth and painted cheeks, her Juno-like bust carefully rounded by the mantuamaker from docile cotton bats, sits between her two daughters whom she deludes herself into the belief are merely her younger sisters-and tosses over with scornful air the exquisite and lustrous fabrics spread before her by the obsequions clerk, declaring that everything is quite too common and old-fashioned for her purposes. She has been toying for half an hour with a box of mouchoirs, so delicate and slight in texture that they seem to have been woven from spiders' webs and embroidered with the wings of butterflies; and when at last she is told that they are only seventy-five dollars apiece, she makes a motion of disdain, echoed faintly by her daughters, and condescends to say that they are quite too low."""

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VIEW OF THE OUTLET OF LAKE GEORGE.

outlet enters Lake Champlain. Abercrombie, as
is well known to the student of domestic history,
attacked the fort and did not retire from pursuing
his assaults thereupon until compelled by the loss
A loss, we should im-
of twenty hundred men.
agine, calculated to cause any prudent commander
with less than a Waterloo army at his beck and
call to admit that "discretion's the better part
of valor."

OUR principal engraving for this month is, we | gin of the outlet to Fort Ticonderoga, where the think, (and we are not given to boasting,) a perfect gem. The pencil and the burin rarely achieve a more admirable result than this same view of Lake George. How admirably is the choice made by the artist! Could any man, however deeply his soul might be imbued with taste and love for the poetry of nature, make a better selection from among all the lovely spots the beautiful earth affords? Let him take the romantic purlieus of Switzerland-let him sail over the Loire, (as su- Having spoken of what was connected with the perb a stream as any in the world excepting our lake, let us make a note of what is. At its head own Hudson,)-let him journey over both Hemis-is the town of Caldwell, where is situated "The pheres, and he will not find a spot better calcu- Lake House," the most superior hotel situated at lated to make a picture. It is romance itself the most fashionable and most delicious watering the very essence of natural beauty-the concen-place in the United States. We have not quite tration of the creed and liturgy of nature's God. exhausted the superlative in its praise, although we Any one with a soul above the merely-mechanical might do so and then not afford the reader a just attributes of social life could become either a poet idea of its excellencies. The "Lake House" is or a painter by residing upon such a spot as this. kept by Honorable J. F. Sherrill, a member of our If not, there is no inspiration in landscape. Con- State Legislature. It was of late enlarged and found the moon," Byron used to say, "I write well improved to meet the increasing visitations of the about it, but it always gives me the rheumatism public, and is now a summer resort that has no to go out and view it." But all geniuses are not equal in this country. It commands a splendid matter of fact, and if Lake George, by sunlight or view of the point where Abercrombie embarked lunar rays, could not make a poet, then have hu- 16,000 men, (July 4, 1758,)—of French Mounman nature, truth and poetry no affinity with each tain, and of the relics of Fort William Henry and other. Fort George.

But what is a picture, to those who never saw the original, without a description? Verily, nothing. Brief as our description of this must be, it shall embrace every necessary phase of informa

tion.

It will be recollected that the first-mentioned of these forts is endowed with a melancholy interest as having formed the scene of the neverforgotten surrender and shocking butchery of the English by the French and Indians under the infamous General Montcalm in 1747-an event vividly and ably commemorated in James Fennimore Cooper's novel entitled "The Last of the Mohicans."

Lake George lies a little south and west of Lake Champlain, its outlet (as pictured) being about four miles from the head of its larger companion. It was discovered in July, 1669, (nearly two cenThese are not the only thrilling associations, turies ago, by Samuel D. Champlain, about eleven years before the sturdy and conscience-strength-either of the past or the present time, belonging ened Puritans placed their toil-worn feet from the to this place. To learn and enjoy them the reader Mayflower upon the rock at Plymouth. The must visit Lake George, and if he does not prodiscoverer named it Lake St. Sacrament or Holy nounce it one of the sublimest spots upon the Lake, because of the purity of its waters and the globe's surface, and commend us for our taste in apparently mysterious character of its origin. It selecting it for the subject of our illustration, we has no inlets, its sources being entirely its own will frankly confess that either he or ourself issprings. It is famous for having been the scene egregiously mistaken. of the first battle ever fought upon this continent with the aid of gunpowder. This was fought, (exactly where our plate was drawn,) by Mr. Champlain, the discoverer, against the Indians, on the 29th of July, in the year 1669. In this battle he killed, with his own blunderbuss, three Iroquois chiefs. The contest was disputed by whites, under the command of Champlain, and by the Algonquin tribe of red men, led and directed by the Iroquois.

Of Lake George we can properly say, supposing that to be nature in its most attractive form

"To him who in the love of nature holds

Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language: for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness ere he is aware."-BRYANT.
Remember

Lake George is, or ought to be, noted for being "The groves were God's first temples." the spot in the immediate vicinity of which Abercrombie fought his memorable battle against the You will find them-as you wish to find themFrench in 1758-pursuing the fight from the mar- 'in the vicinity of Lake George.

CHARLOTTE CORDAY.

BY JOSEPH F. TUTTLE. 1

No age of the world has produced more mark- young and beautiful girl, at the age of nineteen, ed characters than that usually termed the French | ripening into glorious womanhood, seated by the Revolution. All things tended strongly to exag-fountain in her aunt's yard, beneath the shade of geration. Vice became more and more hideous, some grand old tree, and there pondering on the bravery more reckless, eloquence more impassion- present misery of France and her coming delivered, selfishness more exorbitant, corruption more ance. venal, and cruelty more blood-thirsty than else- would kindle with the emotions which throbbed At such times, her large dreamy eyes where or at any other time. All things were in in her heart, and her friends looked on her as one a whirl, and the tumultuous waters constantly inspired. brought up the basest as well as the brightest prodigies. Among these hideous exaggerations sports and employments usual to those of her own Such an one could not mingle in the trivial of which we have spoken, such may be mention- age. ,ed as Robespierre, Carvier, Couthon, and above as to excite the displeasure of others. She was She stood aloof, and yet not in such way as well as beneath them all, Marat. In him the not one of them. She was above them, and while inward ugliness of spirit was matched by the out- they shrunk back awed by her dignity, that awe ward ugliness of body. He was a fanatic always, did not suffer alloy from jealousy. To such a but disappointment maddened his fanaticism into disposition, and such aspirations, the impassioned fiendishness. Thwarted in his ambition, loathed words of Rousseau were electric. All the enthufor his bad disposition and his unsightly appear- siastic words of the plebian philosopher she drank ance, spurned for his meanness, and hated for his in with avidity, and from them she hastened to malignity, he owed mankind, especially the fa- others, the philosophers, who, at that time, were vored portions, a grudge, which could only be paid springing up like mushrooms over France. She in blood. Burrowing in the filthiest dens of Paris, drank at these fountains of impure inspiration, this creature spent his time in publishing the basest until her enthusiasm became a mania. She no things ever conceived of, and, by paying court to longer lived in a real world, but surrounded herthe rabble by maligning the higher classes, he self with unreal circumstances. Let us in charity gradually acquired a mastery of them, which at take this view of an unfortunate and otherwise one time threatened to overtop Robespierre him-highly criminal woman, who was preparing to act self. His cry was for blood, and he never seemed a part in that tragedy which would cause a wail to indulge even a ghastly smile, except when he of anguished madness to go up from millions, and saw the blood of the aristocrats flowing like water. at the same time would suffer mankind everyHe was the demon of blood, who had but to where to breathe more freely, now that it was speak, and gangs of desperados hurried to execute accomplished. his cruel words. To such an extent had he carried his atrocity that all France trembled at his name, and all the world coupled his name with infamy.

even when endowed with the most splendid qualiTo this we must add one more fact. Woman, ties, is still a woman, whose heart has adaptations Holy Writ has the words of an infinitely wise ame Roland, with all her genius, had a heart to love some congenial spirit. The gifted Madbeing recorded thus: "He that taketh the sword which yearned after affection. Charlotte Corday shall perish with the sword." Vengeance does was not an exception. Previous to the revolution not always wait for another world, and not unfre- she had formed a passionate attachment to a young quently it comes in the strangest ways, so that military officer, said, in every respect, to have simply a fly sometimes rids the world of a mon- been worthy of her. Had they been united, the ster. In the north of France the angel of death anxieties, the comforts, and the sober realities, of was nursing a feeble weapon with which to des- the married life might have chastened her polititroy Marat. In a family of great intelligence was cal enthusiasm into proper bounds, and thus her to be seen, when the French Revolution began, a stately girl, who had fed the heroism of her heart murder and a place in history. But that was not name at the same time have missed the stain of by the frequent perusal of the tragedies of Cor- to be. Her lover was in Paris when the revoluneille, her grandfather. She came of a resolute tion in 1789 began to heave society like an earthstock, and she loved liberty. Her eye compre-quake. By some means he fell under the notice hended the miseries of France, and her heart bled and the displeasure of Marat, who denounced for them. She had suffered much herself from him to the populace as an enemy to their liberty. the poverty of her father, and knew that much of He did this repeatedly before he sufficiently madhis misery sprung from the enormous exactions dened them for his base purpose. At length their of the government. The dreamy speculations fury broke bounds, and Charlotte's lover perished of the neighboring convent had added the element the victim of Marat. She knew it, and in her of religion to her enthusiasm, which was blown soul she hated the fiend that did it. It was a into a bright blaze by the current philosophy of cruel and uncalled for wrong, and when inflicted the day, teaching men to look for a political mil-on such a stern and feeling woman as she, it could lenium which should banish all suffering from the not be atoned for easily. The agony of grief world. It must have been "a sight to see" that swept like a storm over her, prostrating her, but