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92 LITERARY. I WILLIA.tI W. MANN, Editor. Xlte Southern Field and Fireside IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. TEEMS—I2.OO a year, invariably in advance. All j Postmasters are authorized agents. __ , SATURDAY AUGUST 13,1859^ NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. We do not send receipts by mail fcr subscriptions re mitted. The receipt of The Southern Field and Fireside, after the money is remitted, »i ev donee to each subscriber that his money has been re ceived and his name duly entered on the mail book. TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS. Elsie Earnest— We hope that our fair friend will send us her real name, or will assure us that we have it in the note which accompanied the three articles from her pen, with which we have been favored. Those ar ticles have not yet been read; and will not lie, in the doubt which remains whether the writer will comply with the rules of our office. We have received during the week the following con tributions : Fire on the Plains!—by J. M.T. Thoughts on Death. —by J. G. Rain —by J. M. T. My Bonny Bay and I —by E. Y. Jr. Thirty Lines, Home-spun —by C. 11. S. To “Psucbe"—by T. To W. N.—We thank him for his good opinion, and kind wishes touching the Field and Fireside. but must respectfully decline his proposition to permit the F. it t to become the medium of a correspondence “mostly in rhyme or poetical," to be conducted by him “with some young lady of the South ; should there be found one that would choose to spend her leisure time in that way. We think that young gentlemen and young ladies had better correspond with each other, privately* and by mail And we assure our young friend that we would be very happy to announce, by and by, Me result of his corres (Kindcnce with the young lady he is in search of, by the insertion of his name and hers in that brilliant list, which on the first Saturday of every month, heads the fifth column of our fifth page. jyWc offer to-day's number of the Field and Fire side as jiossessing unusual attractions. First, there is ‘ Master Mitten." which has already won, through our columns, so high a place in public favor as will ensure prompt sale for a large edition, when, after the work is printed in the Field and Fireside , it shall appear in book form. Secondly, we commence to-day the publication of the prize norellette, “Aliene, or the Recovered Treasure,” by Maud Moreton. This is the same graceful jn-n whose debut in our first number, in the norellette entitled “Grace Atherton," made so favorable an impression. We are sure that this talented and promising writer will in this, her second production for the press, confirm the good impression already made, and pique still more the curiosity already so prurient that would pierce the incognito which it pleases the author yet to wear. After “Aliene," wc offer to-day an interesting and remarkably well told story in verse from the pen of Mrs. L. Virginia French, another poem from Mrs. Keyes, written with her characteristic smoothness and melody of versifica tion. And, last but not least, the Sunday Afternoon's Adventure of Boh Afarr, recounted on our third page, will give the author of Muster Mitten a formidable rival for public favor at least during ono week. Hundreds and thousands in Georgia, who will lie able to identify persons through the fictitious names which figure in the story, will read with especial pleasure this exceedingly well-told, veracious narrative. FRANKLIN COLLEGE. Commencement exercises took place at this in stitution last week. They were opened by a ser mon on the Sabbath, by President Church, in the College Chapel. On Monday, the Board of Trustees met, and elected as members of their body, the Hon. A. H. Stephens, and the Hon. Rout. Toomus. In the afternoon, the Sophomore prize declamation took place. On Tuesday morning followed the Junior exhibition, at the close of which, Mr. Ste phens delivered the prizes with an appropriate address, to the successful competitors in the con test of the day previous. The names of these young gentlemen were Mr. K. G. Clarke, of At lanta, Ga., recipient of the first medal, and Mr. P. G. Thompson, of Macon county, Ala., recip ient of the second. On Tuesday afternoon, Col. A. A. Franklin Hill delivered the customary Annual Address before the Alumni of the Insti tution. On Wednesday the usual exercises took place. There were eleven addresses, or declaimed com positions, from members of the graduating class; and commencement exercises were closed by an address before the Literary Societies of the College, spoken by our talented young towns man, Mr. Joseph B. Cummins. Os this address, we cannot speak of our own knowledge, not having been present at Athens upon this com mencement occasion, but all reports concur in representing it to be an admirably conceived and ably written production, and to have been de livered in a manner that would have riveted attention to a much less worthy address. We are glad to learn that, at the instance of the societies, this address is already in the prin ter’s hands for publication. We are confident it will well repay perusal. We must not omit to mention here the names of the fifteen members of the graduating class, and the subjects of the eleven addresses which formed part of the Commencement exercises. These were as follows: G. A. Nunnally, (second honor) Monroe, Ga.; Salutatory. J. Q. Adams, (third honor) Washington, Ga.: Reverence to Youth. Johu Y. Wood, (Excused) Walker, Oo.; Death of the Girondists. John Gerdine, Athens; Heroes. Joseph M. Roberts, Warrenton, Ga.: The Des tiny of America is beyond the reach of Human Investigation. Wm. G. Hill, (Excused) Summerfield, Ala.; Prometheus Bound. E. C. Kennebrew, Bairdstown, Ga.: “A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing.” T. Mosely, Sparta, Ga.; Every Mau a Paris. G. A. Nunnally, Monroe. Ga.; Motives for Marrying. D. C. Ilodo, (third honor—Excused) Pickens county, Ala.; Boccaeio. M. P. Barrow, (third honor) Oglethorpe coun ty ; The Italian War. Lamar Cobb, Athens; African Slave Trade. Ivy F. Thompson, (Excused) Van Wert, Ga.: Cortez. A. 0. Bacon, LaGrange. Ga.; “Et tu , Brute l” John D. Pope, (first honor) Walker Co.: Va ledictory to Trustees and Faculty. We learn that the Board of Trustees have TWR sotnrK&JUSt KX3BL.B JUS RXBJBBISK. adjourned, to a future meeting, the election of a j President, in lieu of Dr. Church, whose resigna tion is, by its terms, to take effect at the close j of the current collegiate year. Franklin College is to become, bonu fide, a University it seems. We copy the following j notice upon this subject from the Athens Banner: j ‘■We have received reliable information in re gard to the action of the Board of Trustees of * Franklin College at their late meeting, to the effect that they have, by a three-fourths vote, j adopted the University plan. Under this new i arrangement there will be four professors in the 1 College and three in the preparatory department, in which last will be the Freshman and Sopho- j more classes, while the whole will be under the * superintendence of one President. The Gym nasium will be introduced as one of the new features of this educational system. Law and Medical schools will be established with suitable buildings and apparatus and capable teachers. The proceedings of the Board will be submitted in November to the Senates Academicus at MiOedgeville, for ratification. But we learn that ; they will carry their point by a sure majority.” — FROM OUR 1 ARIS CORRESPONDENT. Paris, 24th July, 1859. I think—l fear that I promised in my last letter that this should treat, if not in a livelier manner, at least of gayer themes than battles and political gravities. If I made such pro mise, I must break it. In thus falling below the programme, I have, if that be excuse, late il lustrious example. Ten days ago the Imperial declaration that Italy should be free of Aus trians from the Alps to the Adriatic remained unqualified; mid now the Austrians are assured possession not only of Venetia, but of that important strip of Lombardy east of the Mincio which contains Pescliiera and Mantua. Day before yesterday, Napoleon took occa sion of reply to the congratulatory addresses of the Legislative Body and Council of State, to explain and palliate so great a change from the original programme of the Italian ex pedition. Apart from the usual talk about glory, and the usual fiattery to the arm}’, the essence of his speech ou Tuesday at St. Cloud may be given, briefly, thus: “Besides that the enemy had some important advantages of posi tion, which, to be sure, our courage would have overcome, I could not have gone to the Adige without going to the Rhine, and could not have remained the armed champion of Italian nation ality without accepting the leadership of, or being myself overthrown, by the revolution. — Therefore it was advisable to make peace, with large concessions, at Villa Franca, rather than run the risk of going further and faring worse." His Majesty's discourse is commendably honest as a confession. It throws very little new light on the causes that lead to the peace, which were already fully understood in that sense. But while the very great mass of the French nation are glad that the war, with its expense of money and threatening future, is brought to a close, and maliciously exult over the vexation of Prus sia and England at the independent manner in which the Emperor closed it, they by no means renounce their favorite pleasure of criticism. Indeed, the peace has brought anything but content with it. The ‘ltalian question” is, if possible more vexed and complicated than ever; and that class of Frenchmen who still busy themselves with politics, are busier with it than ever. Some “fellows of the baser sort,” who too boldly uttered their discontent, were ar rested in the Faubourg St. Ant.itle last Thursday evening; a reckless provincial editor, who closed his lamentation over sacrificed Venice, with the ejaculation: “Happy Manin, to have died so soon!” was warned —the rest of the world took warning. Their discontent is none the less that it cannot relievo itself by free expression. Italy, as your foreign files will show you, was most painfully surprised by the bulletin from Villa Franca. It is certain that if the French troops could ho instantly withdrawn from the peninsular, it would bo met by an armed pro test. The provisional government and the more intelligent classes of Tuscany are out raged at the idea of having tiieir runaway Aus trian Grand Duke reimposed upon them. They have sent one of their best men on a mission to Paris to protest against so lame and impotent a conclusion openly encouraged and apparently assured by the proclamations of the Emperor and Prince Napoleon, and supported by their ally Victor Emmanuel. They say with the Bo lognese, we have ‘‘become soldiers,” as you ex horted us, and we now demand to “become free citizens” as you promised us. The Milanese, who are more sympathetic with the Venetians than with the Sardinians, can ill contain the vio lence of their disappointment; signs of trouble have already shown themselves there. The feeling in Sardinia may be judged by the facts attending the ministerial changes at Turin.— Cavour, the true leader of the Italian national movement, was more loudly cheered than the Emperor and King. His resignation, while necessary to his own self respect, after the Im perial convention at Villa Franca, which was in direct contradiction to his unchanged pro gramme, has increased his popularity in all Northern Italy. The attempt to form a Cabinet by Senator Arese failed, because Arese was known to be a friend and confidant of Na poleon. The King was obliged to have recourse to Ratazzi, an advanced liberal and an advocate of Cavour's general policy. It is only an ad vanced liberal Ministry that, by inspiring confi dence, can control the menacing fermentation.— ■ Garibaldi has acted nobly, as was to have been expected from the man. The news of peace on such terms could have come to none more un welcome than to that patriotic leader and his pat riotic troops, in whose ranks were large numbers of Venetian, Tuscan and Roman volunteers.— On the arrival of the news, he, in a few sensible words, exhorted them to observe the soldier’s duty of discipline, and to renew their oath of fidelity to Victor Emmanuel. There arc few in stances in history of this union of the par tizan bold to seeming rashness, and the pru dent politician. Another notable address is that of Massimo d'Azeglio, the Piedmontese commissioner, to the people of Romagna, issued at Bologna, where his arrival was greeted with every demonstration of joy, on the 11th. Among other passages is this: “Ido not come to anti cipate the settlement of questions of policy and sovereignty, which are to-day inopportune.— I come to institute the practice in these provinces of the wise advice, that cannot be too much nor too often commended and repeated, of the Em peror Napoleon, ‘Be soldiers to day that you may be to-morrow —free citizens of a great State.” And on the very morrow, report of the “change in the programme,” having reached him, Massimo d'Azeglio had nothing to do but to re sign his commission, and go back to Turin, leav ing the disappointed Bolognese to meditate on the trust to lie put in Princes. How the poor Venetians, who, mindful of his dying wish as obedient to his orders in life, were i hoping at last to grant sepulchre to their revered Manin, in free Venetian soil—how they met the j bitter disappointment of their hopes, is easy to ; guess. Os course it cannot well give itself voice ■ under the reasstimed sovereignty of Austria. Austria herself, having got out of the scrape in better case than she could have hoped a fort night ago, is perhaps better satisfied with the peace than an)* other of the nations. Francis Joseph, at least and the Viennese journalists, discharge their accumulated bile on Prussia, whom they seem to hate with a cordi ality peculiar to family dissensions. Prussian journalists are not slow to return the compli ment, but with this disadvantages as compared with their Austrian brethren, that their wrath is divided between Austria and France. This quarrel in the distracted bosom ol the great Ger manic family, is very “nuts and gingerbread ’ to Napoleon and the malicious French, who are still more flattered by the vexation of the Eng lish. The tone of the English journals, however, for the past few days, has been so violently anti- Gallicnn. that most of them have been stopped at the post office. Had they been freely distrib uted and translated here, we might have had another manifestation of the French Colonels. — Those officers of the army who have won glory and advanced grades in the brief sixty days campaign, ask for more; while those who have had no chance for crosses, and richer epaulettes, are more disappointed than the enctians them selves at its sudden ending. A\ ith the army, a war in any direction would be popular. But if the English arc vexed, they have none but themselves to blame. Four months ago the matter was still in their hands—throwing their weight frankly into the scale, they could have forced Austria to such partial concessions as would have prevented war. What most irritates them, is the quiet disregard, nearly amounting to contempt, in which their “dignity,” mediation, diplomatizing, their very existence in the Euro pean family of nations, have been ignored by their natural ally. Austria, and their “occa sional" Crimean ally. France, in deciding upon peace. My concierge Martin, was informed of ! the armistice, and then of the peace, as soon as | ray Lord John Russell, and was not a bit more j surprised at the information. The very day j when the population of Paris learned that the armistice was arranged—and as soon as they ; learned it, their almost universal and confident 1 conclusion was that peace must follow—that very day Lord Cowley wrote to Lord John Rus sell that there was no longer reason to doubt the extension of the war. True. Lord Cowley wrote in the morning of Thursday, and the extra Mon iteur contradicting his dispatch was not publish ed till after the closing of the evening English mail. His Lordship’s mistake in April was as complete as his mistake in July. Francis Joseph I then took him as much by surprise as Napoleon anil Francis Joseph now. For at the date when the British Ambassador at Paris was writing to Lord Malmesbury that the continuance of peace was finally assured. Austria had rejected the English propositions, and sent the fatal ultima tum to Turin. But English common sense is stronger than English vanity ; her wounded pride, which is a pleasing spectacle to the French, will heal, while she will be fully able to care for her real dignity in the future European Congress, where Napo leon will not lie like to dispute her right to it. Many still question whether a Euroi>ean Con gress will meet. Ido not. For the settling of the terms of the treaty of peace, there will be at Zurich only a conference ot the plenipotentia ries of the three belligerent powers. For the settlement of the tangled Italian Question, a question in which all Europe is interested, there must be a Congress, composed of English, Prus sian and Russian as well. What that settlement will be —what the new federal constitution —what the final constitution of Tuscany and Modena and Parma—what is to be decided on the mixed Austro-Italian condi tions of Venetia—what garrisons, Austrian or Italian-federal, shall hold the fortresses of the famous quadlilateral qui vivra verra. Let the best informed of "well informed correspondents, ’ the ablest of “able editors,” (no offence to the honorable guild) concierge Martin, (who is ex tremely bete) Lord John Russell,andyour boy Sam bo, all write down their conjectural solutions of the “situation,” then shake them all in a hat, and, isl were obliged to pin my faith on any human proph ecy of the event. I would draw and accept at hazard Sambo’s, as readily as Lord John’s. The man who knows more about the matter than any other, evidently shows a sensible disposition to wait. Louis Napoleon is exercising his special faculty of keeping still and looking on. No ru ler in Europe, since Cromwell, has so well un understood the true wisdom of “waiting on Providence.'’ His relinquishment of half his programme and confession of the relinquishment with regret, is to me a great mark of his wisdom. This “allotment of their share to events,” watch ing their current and taking advantage of turning by their checked or faster flow, not striving al ways to direct or restrain their course, is the point wherein he shows himselt superior to his headstrong uncle, who came to confound him self with destiny, and so rushed to ruin. To change the subject to what is, with the million denizens of Paris, the true oppressing “question,” or rather exclamation Os the day— Mon Dieu! quelle chaleur ! You Georgians may fancy that it is sending coal to Newcastle, to talk to you of Parisian heart. Your national vanity misleads you, let me gasp to you. Our Parisian dog days this season will beat the correspond ent Augustan period in their heat. If our ther mometers do not get quite as high as yours, I claim that it is less owing to a more temperate at mosphere here,than to the universal fast American way of rising over there. We are at 94 in the shade, at any rate ; ice-water is scarce and dear, grass cloth and linen jackets not in our habits ; sherry cobblers and mint juleps unknown in this pretended “capital of civilization.” Our nightly recourse is to the Bois de Boulogne , and the Champs Elysees, where, if we do not find the fresh air we seek, we have the sympathetic con solation of looking upon thousands of pedes trian, equestrian, and vehicular fellow-sufferers in the panting, fruitless search after happiness. These two public promenades, especially a part of the Champs Elysees, now turned into abeauti tiful English garden, have been greatly embellish ed within a six month. Your horticultural read ers may be pleased to learn how—for the mate rial and processes of the embellishment are somewhat new, if not peculiar to the case. It seems there lived for many years in an out of the way corner of Belgium near the Holland frontier, a wealthy amateur horticulturist, who centered all his affections on his gardens, and recently died at an advanced age, possessed of a most extensive and flourishing collection of the rarest trees and shrubs. His only heir, living in the grand world at Brussels, had nothing more at heart than to turn this remote estate into im mediate cash. The city of Paris, which for the past few years lias been making large appropria tions for ornamental trees and shrubbery, as well I as architectural decoration, was informed in time, j and offered 20.000 francs for the lot, that could not have been collected afresh, let alone the time re- I qui red to bring it to its actual state of growth, for ten fold that sum. The city undertook all the expenses of deracination, (excuse the long word —but some of those green trees had very long roots,) and transport. The shrubs and trees, witli large accompaniment of Belgian soil, were taken up, embarked on the canal in boats chartered for the purpose, and so, creeping round the coast, and towed up the Seine, were not dis turbed again till they were landed on the Quai d' Orsay opposite. And to-day the Champs Ely sees, the Empress’ Avenue, and the Bois de Bou logne are enriched with deodora cedars from Hin doostan, aracaurias from South America, magnif icent rhododendra, rare magnolias and azelias from the remote regions of the earth, and the islands beyqpd the sea. To wont the beautiful strangers to their new home, they are treated as tenderly as young balms. Some are swaddled up to their armpits —I mean their branches —with soft moss and sacking, which is watered daily to keep their epidermis moist, and their blessed pores open . while others are surrounded in whole or part by circular tents of loose woven cloth to protect them from the sun; evoporation from the abund ant watering applied within the tent preserves them in a constant humid atmosphere. As you would first sec these tented trees in passing, you are tempted to fancy them some sort of enchant ed ship, liable with the first breeze to sail off across the green sward, or start away on some longer voyage, in search of their birth-places beyond seas. - -—— -—— CHESS. The Chess Monthly for August contains some notes on Chess Authors, a long analysis of the King's Gambit accepted, eight games, with cap ital comments by Mr. Morphy, some excellent original problems, and a variety of chess news, etc. The N. Y. Saturday Press states that Mr. Moruiiy has commenced his eontribu ions to the Ledger; and that Mr. Morphy wisely saves him self a great deal of unprofitable and useless labor by declining all correspondence. His con tributions will be chiefly limited to the publica tion of those splendid masterpieces of chess art, the series of games between Labon donnais and | McDonnell. Their annotation, by a thoroughly ! competent pen and brain, has been longed tor by every student of the game for the past score of years. We shall now see Mr. Morphy under a new character, that of the first chess critic of the age. The following article on vellum-printing, finds appropriate place in a chess-column, from the fact of the accidental connection of the first essay at vellum-printing in this country, with Allen's Life of the illustrious chess-player Piiilidok. Professor Geo. Allen, whose Life of Philidor has the honor of being the first American book printed on vellum, has occupied for many years past, the chair of Greek in the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. His library of chess works now equal the best collections of the old world, and lie, himself, occupies the highest place in the list of American chess-writers.— His style has much of the quiet philosophy of Southey, and does not lack that indescribable grace which charms us in the works of De Quincey. Among those who witressed the occurrence narrated below, were Mr. Horace Binney, Sr., Dr. La Roche, Mr. George W. Hunter, Mr. F. H. Butler, Professor Coppee, Mr. John Pening ton, Mr. Lorin Blodget, and Dr. Lajus. Vellum-Printing in Philadelphia.— Our em inent printers, Messrs. C. Sherman & Son, have made an epoch in the history of typography by executing, for the first time in America, the del icate and difficult operation of printing on Vellum. This material (the skin of a calf under six weeks old) constantly employed for the first manu scripts. before the invention of printing, was still in request, for peculiar copies of printed works, one hundred years later; and during the last century it has been the pride of the great modern artists—of Bodoni. especially, of Crape let, and of Didot—to vindicate their equality with the Alduses and the Estiennes by produc ing specimens of vellum-printing to mate with theirs. Our enterprising Philadelphia printers were actuated, it seems, by a spirit of emulation equally honorable. Having been made aware, by the author of -4 Life of Philidor (now in course of publication by Messrs. E. 11. Butler & C 0..) that no book had ever as yet been printed in America on Vellum, they promptly undertook to achieve the adventure—whatever might be its difficulty—by producing two Vellum copies of the Biography in question, one for the author, and one for themselves, neither of course being intended for sale. The process of printing on vellum—under any circumstances, a delicate one—becomes pecu liarly uncertain in its results in a country where the material is not manufactured, and where the printer has no predecessors to look to for in struction. In England, for example—according to their own great bibliographer, Dibdin—the attempts even of a Bulmer were substantially failures, and chiefly (says the same author) from the difficulty of procuring a perfect material from abroad—none being made at home. Our American printers were more fortunate than “the English Bedoni.” They were so happy as to find a house here —that of Messrs. John Pen nington & Son—which could be relied upon to secure vellum of the best quality, if to be had in Europe at all, through their Paris correspon dents, Messrs. Hector Bossange & Son. M. Bossane, senior, having frequently visited this country, and being personally attached to the senior Mr. Pennington, entered into the affair with a truly American feeling, and would not allow a single skin to be forwarded until it had been carefully inspected and approved by an experienced vellum-printer. With the warmest good wishes for the success of the enterprise, he sent almost minute directions for every part of the process, as practised by the expert artists of Paris. Messrs. Sherman tc Son, having been thu& provided with a material in which they could have confidence, invited a few gentlemen of known bibliographical tastes, to their pressroom last Saturday morning, at eleven o’clock, to wit] ness the printing of the first sheet of the two vellum copies. In the presence of these wit nesses, Mr. Cougar Sherman, resuming for a moment, in green old age, the employment of his youth, adjusted the snow-white sheet of vel lum to its place—with a hand that had lost noth ing of its ancient cunning, applied the well-cal culated force through the bar, and then exhibit ed a perfect and brilliant impression, that would have done honor to Bedoni himself, amidst the enthusiastic congratulations of his friends. The moment was, indeed, an impressive one. From more than one of the circle there fell the invol untary exclamation, that the venerable Printer by that act of a moment, had won for his name a place in history: and all felt, that in no one could such immortality be less fairly an object of envy, than in one who had attained the height of prosperity and consideration by honorable in dustry and personal integrity.— Pennsylvania In quirer. FUN, FACT, AND PHILOSOPHY. A Traveller says that if he were asked to describe the first sensations of a camel-ride, he would say: “Take a music-stool, and having wound it up as high as it will go, put it in a cart without springs, get on top, and next drive the cart traversely across a ploughed field, and you will then form some notion of the terror and un certainty you would experience the first time you mounted a camel.” It appears, upon an examination, that the average issue of copyrights for books for some years past, so far as may be ascertained, has been about three thousand per annum. New York leads in the number of copyrights, and is followed by Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. “ Speaking of shaving,” said a pretty girl to an obdurate old bachelor, “I should think that a pair of handsome eyes would be the best mir ror to shave by.” “Yes, many a poor fellow has been shaved by them,” he replied. There are no less than 4,600 lodges of Free Masons in the United States, nearly all of which are said to be in an unusually flourishing condi tion. The following is a bit of sensible advice to young men: Live temperate, go to church, at tend to your affairs, love all the girls, marry one of them, live like a man, and prepare to die a Christian. The first attempt to print on vellum in this country, was successfully made at the establish ment of Messrs. Sherman, of Philadelphia, on Saturday last. Two copies of the life of Phili dor are to be printed on vellum, and they pro mise to be fully equal to the best vellum-print ing done in Paris. A fop, just returned from a continental tour, was asked how he liked the ruins of Pompeii? “Not very well,” was the reply “they are so dreadfully out of repair.” Increase of Novels. —ln 1820 there were only twenty-six volumes on the shelves of the British Museum, but there are now about 7,400, and all these have been written since "Waverly” was begun. “This too shall Pass Away.”— Many of our readers will probably remember the reply of the philosopher to the monarch, who desired some sentence, easily remembered, that would always alleviate the weight of calamity, and check the exultation of prosperity. “This too shall pass away,” was the chosen motto. Customer to restaurant man : “Boy!” Restau rant man: “Don’t call me a boy, sir—l’m no boy, sir.” Customer: “Then do as you’d be done by, and don’t caltthis old mutton lamb any more.” The article on Pope in the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is by De Quincy; the article on Prescott by William Stirling, M. P.; that on Poetry by Prof. Aytoun; and that on the Quakers by William Howitt. Only bachelors should belong to clubs. Her cules gave up his club when he married Deja neira, and all good husbands should follow his example. “Charlie, my dear,” said a loving mother to her hopeful son, just budding into breeches “Charlie, my dear, come here and get some candy.” “I guess I won’t mind it now, mother,” replied Charlie, “I've got some tobacco.” The site of the house in which Dr. Johnson lived and died, in Bolt court, Fleet street, has been bought by the Stationers’ Company of London. • These are some members of a community, ” said the sagacious and witty Thomas Bradbury, •'that are like a crumb in the throat; if they go the nglit way, they afford but little nourishment; but if they happen to go the wrong way, they give a great deal of trouble.” “Oh, she was a jewel of a wife,” said Pat, mourning over the loss of his better half; “she always struck me with the soft end of the mop.” The hot-houses of.the Czars in latitude sixty north, contain the finest collections of tropical plants in all Europe. Palm trees are nearly sixty feet in height, and there are banks of splendid orchards. The hot-houses are said to be about a mile and a half in their length.— St. Petersbury. Dr. Franklin observes: “Theeyes of others are the eyes that min us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fino houses nor fine furniture.” “When I was in Paris,” says Lord Sandwich, "I had a dancing-master; the man was very civil, and, on taking leave of him, I offered him any service in London. ‘Then,’ said the man,, bowing, ‘I should tako it as a particular favor if you would never tell any one of whom you learned to dance.’ ” Among the recent contributions of blocks for the Washington Monument is a block of white marble, in which is inserted a curiously carved head with this inscription beneath : “This head was carved between two and three thousand years ago, by the ancient Egyptians, for their temple, erected in honor of Augustus, on the banks of the Nile. Brought from there by J. F. Lennan, and presented to the Washington Monu ment, 1858.” Worldly prosperity is a much greater drain upon our energies than the most severe adversi ty ; there is no spring, no elasticity ; it is like walking through life on a Turkey carpet. A Western orator having delivered himself of the following: “The glorious American Eagle, which stands with one foot on the Atlantic and the other on the Pacific coast,” was unable to proceed any further. A bystander exclaimed — “ My friend, if you don’t relieve your eagle pret ty soon, he will split open.” Magyars js the name of a people who in the 9th century invaded and overrun Hungary, pre viouolj settled by the Huns. The Magyars are still the dominant race in Hungary. An envious man repines as much at the man ner in which his neighbors live as if he main tained them. An Irish paper, describing ft late duel, says that one of the combatants was shot through the “fleshy part of the thigh bone.” Oregon has adopted a State seal The escut cheon is supported by thirty-three stars and di vided by an ordinary, with the inscription “The Union.” In relief, mountains, an elk with branching antlers, a wagon, the Pacific Ocean, on which a British man-of-war is departing and an American steamer arriving. The second quartering with a sheaf, plough, and pickaxe. Crest—the American eagle—Legend—the State of Oregon. There is nothing like a fixed steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and ensures your success. Taking a walk with a lady is now called a balloon excursion.