she is 'given over to darkness and the worm' by her friends, who had disguised from her the fatal truth? Such is the scene depicted in these pathetic lines:

'I CAME down from Albany the other evening,' writes a correspondent, in that floating palace, the KNICKERBOCKER steamer; I slept in your KNICKERBOCKER state-room; arrived in town, I took after dinner a KNICKERBOCKER omnibus, and rode up to the Westminister Abbey Bowling Saloon,' named of KNICKERBOCKER; I called on you with my article for the KNICKERBOCKER Magazine; and on my way down, enjoyed a delightful ablution at the KNICKERBOCKER Bath; stepped into the KNICKERBOCKER Theatre, and laughed consumedly' over an amusing play; and finally, closed with a cup of delicious tea, green and black, and anchovy-toast, at KNICKERBOCKER Hall. Every thing, I was glad to see, was KNICKERBOCKER.' Very flattering; yet we dare say our friend was not aware that this Magazine was the pioneer in the use of this popular name in Gotham, and that its example has suggested, one after another, the namesakes to which he has alluded. Such, howbeit, is the undeniable fact. WE remarked the example of catachresis to which 'L.'

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alludes, and laughed at it, we venture to say, as heartily as himself. It was not quite so glaring however as the confused images of a celebrated Irish advocate: 'I smell a rat; I see it brewing in the storm; and I will crush it in the bud!' WE find several things to

admire in our Detroit friend's Tale of Border Warfare;' but he can't talk Indian' - that is very clear. The abrogynes' are not in the habit of making interminable speeches :' they leave that to white members of Congress, who pump up a feeling in a day's speech ' for Buncombe.' Do you remember what HALLECK says of RED-JACKET?

'THE spell of eloquence is thine, that reaches
The heart, and makes the wisest head its sport;
And there's one rare, strange virtue in thy speeches,
The secret of their mastery - they are short.'

Not one man in a thousand can talk or write the true Indian.' Our friend SA-GO-SEN-OTA, formerly known as Col. WILLIAM L. STONE, is one of the best Indian writers in this country. His late letter To the Sachems, Chiefs, and Warriors of the Seneca Indians, acknowledging the honor they had done him in electing him a chief, is a perfect thing in its kind. May it be long before the MASTER OF BREATH' shall call him to the fair hunting-grounds, through clouds bright as fleeces of gold, upon a ladder as beautiful as the rainbow!' OUR entertaining Dartmoor Prisoner' has a pleasant story of a fellow-captive who on one occasion performed that 'cautionary' experiment which is sometimes denominated putting your foot in it.' The term is of legitimate origin, it should seem. According to the Asiatic Researches, a very curious mode of trying the title to land is practised in Hindostan. Two holes are dug in the disputed spot, in each of which the lawyers on either side put one of their legs, and remain there until one of them is tired, or 78

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complains of being stung by the insects, in which case his client is defeated. In this country it is the client and not the lawyer who puts his foot into it!' We have commenced in the present, and shall conclude in our next number, a 'Legend of the Conquest of Spain,' by WASHINGTON IRVING. We derive it from the same source whence we received the Legend of Don RODERICK,' lately published in these pages. We commend its graphic limnings and stirring incidents to the admiration of our readers.

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A FRIEND and correspondent in a sister city dashes in with a rich brush, in one of his familiar letters to us, a sketch of a boss-painter, who was renovating the writer's house with sundry pots of paint; a conceited, half-informed prig, who having grown rich, talks of 'going to Europe in the steam-boat,' and has a huge fancy for seeing Italy. 'Yes,' said the house and-sign RAPHAEL, 'I must see Rome and Athens; them Romans allers made a great impression on me; the land of APELLES and XERXES; ah! that must be worth travelling for.' 'Would you not rather run over England?' I asked; but the ass poohed at England, and on the strength of his daubing our house-blinds, claimed an interest in the Fine Arts abroad: No, Sir, give me Italy-the Loover and the Vattykin; them 's the places for my money! Gods! how I should like to rummage over them old-masters! They beat us all hollow - that 's a fact. I'll give in to them. There never was such painters before, nor never will be. I want to study 'em.' 'Yes,' I rejoined; 't would interest you, doubtless; and after having studied the great painters in Italy, you might return by way of Switzerland, and scrape acquaintance with the glaciers.' The booby did not take, but only stared and said: 'Oh, they 're famous for glass-work there, be they? This lover of the Fine Arts had a counterpart in the man who having made as much money as he wanted by tradin' in Boston,' went a-travelling abroad;' and while in Florence, called on POWERS the sculptor, with a design to 'patronize' him a little. After looking at his Greek Slave,' his 'Eve,' and other gems of art, he remarked that he thought they'd look a good 'eal better if they had some clothes on. I'm pretty well off,' he continued, and ha' n't a chick nor child in the world; and I thought I'd price a statty or two. What's the damage, now, for that one you 're peckin' at?' 'It should be worth from four to five thousand dollars, I think,' answered POWERS. What! five thousand dollars for that 'are! I cal'lated to buy me a piece of stattyary before I went home, but that's out of the question! Hasn't stattyary riz lately? How's paintin's here now?' JUST complaints are made by our city contemporaries of the exorbitant rates of postage upon weekly periodicals. Mr. WILLIS complains, in the New-Mirror' weekly journal, that country postmasters charge so much postage on that periodical by mail, that in many cases it would make the work cost to its country subscribers something like ten dollars a year! All postage in this country is at too high a rate; and so long as it remains so, the law will continue to be evaded. 'Cheating UNCLE SAM' is not considered a very heinous offence. There is nothing one robs with so little compunction as one's country. It is at the very worst robbing only eighteen millions of people. THE lines sent us in rejoinder to the stanzas of C. W. D.,' in a late issue, would not be original in our pages; nor could we hope to have many new readers for them, after they have appeared in, and of course been copied from, that exceedingly pleasant and well-edited daily journal, the Boston Evening Transcript. HAUFFMAN, the Ger

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man poet, was recently expelled the Prussian dominions, and all his works proscribed thenceforth. Served him right;' for in one of his works appears the word following, to wit:' Steuerverweigerungsverfassungsmassigberechtig!-meaning a man who is exempt by the constitution from the payment of taxes. Myscheeves thick' must needs follow such terrific words. We have heard,' says a London critic, in allusion to this jaw-breaker, of a gentleman, a member of the Marionettenschauspielhausen gesellschaft, who was said to be an excellent performer on the Constantinopolitanischetudelsackpfeife!"" WE Owe

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