drum in the doing of 'em," was the remark | while our pet spaniel stands silent and reflectof old Mr. Ringgan; and I would add, "or ive among the broken timbers and fragments n the seeing of 'em either." By the aid of a of beams- wrecks that it has left behind in little imagination; or, to use the words of its triumphal progress-like Marius amid Dick Swiveller's Marchioness, "if you the ruins of Carthage. May the shade of the make believe a great deal," a very memora-illustrious Roman forgive the ignoble comble event may be made out of so insignificant parison! Ignoble? No! I recall the wish; an affair as the moving of an old barn; as I for Frisk is a respectable dog, and would be proved to my own satisfaction a short time ashamed to own some of the deeds of the ilsince, and think I can prove to yours. lustrious old Roman. No common dog, either, is he; he fully understands all that is going on; and his grave, anxious face, shows how solicitous he is that all should be done right. At length the music ceases - the traveler pauses- the appointed station is reached, and the work is finished. The countenance of Frisk immediately relaxes, and you can see that he feels relieved of an immense weight of responsibility, as curling his tail lightly over his back he turns to the site formerly occupied by the building, and indulges his natural instincts by a diligent search for rats, which is rewarded by a nest of young, and several old ones; and this closes the day. This, however, is a larger pebble than usual: some of the smaller ones I may regale you with at a future time—some of the food my fancy feeds on, in the light and shades of nature and a country life. For the present, Farewell.

Yours,

In the first place, there was a tree to be felled, and a bank to be levelled; and to do this and other preparatory work, my father had employed a German, an Irishman and a Yankee, characteristic specimens of their respective races. The German attacked the tree, and, in what appeared to me an incredibly short space of time, it melted into a little heap of brush and sticks. I did not suppose a tree could be reduced to such a small compass, and laid it up in my mind as an instance and a proof of the plodding nature of the Germans, and their love of order. The Irishman, of course, walked into the bank like a beaver or Nicholas Biddle (I mention his name with trembling, for in meddling with any thing political I am always terribly afraid of making some awkward blunder), handling the spade with a sturdy good will, that caused it (the bank, not the spade) to sink and disappear as quickly as some others I have heard of. But the Yankee-to what shall I liken him? Appearing and disappearing, hither and thither - here, there, every where at once- he went through every thing that opposed him, "like a hot knife through butter," and you WOMEN, generally, have less courtesy than know how that is. Soon a little machine, men. You often see men in steamboats, with long arms, like the "Grandpa-long-stage-coaches, in churches, and in other publegs," which children catch to ask which lic meetings, rise and give their seats to woway the cows are, makes its appearance, and men, and the women seat themselves quietly is planted in the ground some ten or a dozen rods distant; ropes are stretched from it to the building, and an attachment is at once formed between them, strong as that which drew Leander across the Hellespont. It is a very small magnet to attract so large an object; but as a few men and bo vs attach themselves "An old creed is often like an old house, to its arms, and the "boss" shouts "alto- decaying while it still appears imposing in gether!" the effect is apparent, for with a the distance. Or it is like a hollow tree; heavy groan the huge mass begins to move. the shell makes a show while the substance Slowly it moves, stately as Juno's swan is gone. A strong push makes it totter and solemn as Minerva's owl. Grandly it marches tumble, and at last it falls to crumble in the along on its rollers, to the music of its own dust."

ROSE RIVERS. THE PRAIRIE STATE, Oct., 1852.

without a word of acknowledgment. And so with a thousand other attentions, which are rendered and received without a smile or a "thank ye" in return. They might say, You are very kind, sir," if nothing more.

creaking and groaning, over the railway which has been prepared for its especial use;

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THE COURSE OF MAN, as brought to light in the Gospel; showing his Origin, his Character, his Transmutations, his Progress through this Vale of Tears, and opening up to view his Everlasting Destiny.

This is a neat little volume of 300 pages, written in a conversational style. It treats of a great variety of topics, such as the following: The design of God in Eve's creation her body, from what formed - when created at what time of the year-Eve never in an infantile state- her first knowledge This course of man is described in a twonot acquired, but imparted by her Creator fold way; first, it is described in the language her marriage the conjugal relation po- of the Bible; and under different and welllygamy divorce evidences of the Divine arranged divisions, all the passages are reexistence afforded from Eve's corporeal ferred to which have any bearing on man's frame cure for Atheism organism of character in this world, his progress to eterthe human body-what life is the soul nity, and his destiny after this state of probanot material-Eve created in the Divine tion is closed. Secondly, it is represented to image-immortality-intellectual powers- the eye by a map or diagram, a larger and a origin of language where our first mother was placed locality of Eden - Eve's first Sabbath Buffon's first man-employment of Eve-the tree of life-the tree of knowledge of good and evil-uses of both temptation the fall - the consequences why the temptation was permitted threatened death penalty considered the mother of all mankind—unity of the human race how long our first mother livedlongevity of the antediluvians, &c. The topics discussed are all of an interesting nature; but they are such that many of the reThis number is a good one. Several of marks are necessarily of a speculative char- the articles are very rich. Among them we acter, and in several of the opinions ex-name that on "The French Pulpit," and the pressed, we should be disposed to differ from the writer. Nevertheless, the book will be found entertaining and useful to all classes of persons, but more especially the young, for whom it was written. It is for sale by

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A PEEP AT NUMBER FIVE; or, a Chapter in the life of a City Pastor. By H. Trusta, author of the "Sunny Side," &c.

This is a popular little work, as any one may suppose who has read the "Sunny Side, " from the same pen. The first chapter opens with an account of "a party," at which a theological student encounters a proud city belle at the same time that he meets with his own modest and beloved Lucy. Soon we have an account of a call to a city congregation, a marriage, a settlement, and all the little incidents and excitement usually connected with such important events. The design of the volume is, to give us an insight into the domestic economy of a pastor's life, or rather, we may say, of a pastor's wife, From the sprightliness of the style, and the minutia of details gone into, we judge that none but a pastor's wife could have been the author of the book. We commend it to the perusal of all our lady readers; and it will be found highly entertaining, especially to that class of them who have it in prospect to become pastors' wives, or who have any modest

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THE BIBLICAL REPERTORY AND PRINCETON
REVIEW, for October, has been received.

one on "The Apostles' Creed." The other arti-
cles are "The Gymnasium of Prussia," a good
article; a critique on "The Laws of the
Latin Grammar," "Robert and James Hal-
dane," "Survey of the Great Salt Lake of
Utah," Short Notices, &c.

MORAL HEROISM. A Discourse before the
Literary Societies of Mercer University,
Ga. By J. N. Waddle, D. D.

We have read this oration with pleasure and with profit, and should be inclined to transfer it entire to the pages of the "Casket," were it not for the expectation, or, at least, the hope, of receiving soon a sermon from the same pen. The views of the orator, on the subject which he discusses, are discriminating and just; and the discourse, as a whole, is well calculated to direct the spirit of emulation in our young men and students in a right channel.

THE LADY'S PEARL is the title of a new monthly periodical, the first number of which has been received. It is published at Nashville, and makes a very pretty appearance. Each number contains 24 pages, and the price is one dollar per annum in advance, or two dollars at the end of the year. cheerfully enter the "Pearl" on our list of exchanges, and wish the publishers success.

We

WE are pained to learn that the residence | Seaver_has received a letter from Joshua

of Rev. J. M. Peck, of Rock Spring, Ill., was destroyed by fire. His valuable manuscripts and library were also destroyed, which will be a loss to the western country.

REV. WM. JAY, after having been pastor of the Independent Congregation, Argyle Chapel, Bath, England, for sixty-three years, retires from the ministry as an effective preacher.

TWENTY-FIVE new students have been received in the Western Theological Seminary, at Allegheny City, Penn., since the opening of the fall term a large accession. ONE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FOR THE WEST.-The 66 Presbyterian of the West" says: "From every quarter we have evidence that the Presbyterian Church in the Great West is likely to unite in sustaining one Theological Seminary, under the care of the General Assembly."

IN the library of the British Museum there are four hundred and seventy thousand volumes. The rate of increase is seven thousand a-year; so that in half a century it will contain as many volumes as the Alexandrian.

THOMAS J. MATTHEWS, late Professor of Mathematics in Miami University, Oxford, died at the residence of his son in Cincinnati recently.

PAGE, BACON & Co. are building in San Francisco a banking house, intended to be the finest structure in California. Chinese mechanics are at work upon it. BISHOP OTEY.

The Rt. Rev. Bishop Otey has concluded upon taking up his residence in this city, and has already removed his family here, who arrived in the city last Saturday. The Bishop will not be here himself until the latter part of the present week, probably in time to officiate at Calvary Church on next Sabbath. The congregation of that church have purchased a residence on Jefferson street for him, and it is probable that he will take charge of that church, after he becomes permanently located. A beautiful lot has been purchased on the corner of Linden and Main streets, whereon to build a new church edifice for the Rev. Dr. Page, and a considerable sum of money has already been subscribed for its erection. — [Memphis Whiz.

Ir is a curious fact, that whilst our New Schoo! brethren re-adopted the plan of Union at their last Assembly, the recent general Convention of Congregationalists, from all parts of the country, openly repudiated the whole concern.

CONGRESS meets Dec. 6th., and will continue in session till March 4th., when Gen. Pierce will be inaugurated as President of the United States.

MUNIFICENT DONATION. The Boston "Courier" says of the munificent donation of Mr. Bates to the City Library: "Mayor

Bates, Esq., of the firm of Baring, Brothers & Co., London, in which the writer renders, as a donation to the Public Library of this city, $50,000 worth of books.

REFERRING to the post mortem examination of the body of Daniel Webster, the "Boston Atlas" says: The cerebral organs were of the very largest known capacity, exceeding by thirty per centum the average weight of the human brain; and with only two excep tions (Cuvier and Dupuytren) the largest of which there is any record.

AT an adjourned meeting of the Presbytery of St. Louis, on the 14th of Nov., Mr. Robt. P. Farris was ordained to the full work of the Gospel ministry, sine titulo. He has been the stated supply of the Second Presbyterian Church in this city, since the death of its pastor, and is to be located in the southern part of the city, to gather a new congregation. On the 15th of Nov., Rev. E. T. Baird presented a letter ef dismission from the Hoiston Presbytery, and was received as a member of the Presbytery of St. Louis.

THE REV. DR. RICE has intimated his intention to accept the call of the Second Presbyterian Church of St. Louis, and is expected to remove from Cincinnati to this city in April or May.

MESSRS. J. BROWN HARBISON and Isaac W. Canfield, formerly of Kentucky, were ordained as evangelists by the Presbytery of Upper Missouri, at its sessions in Lexington, Mr. Canfield is to on the 14th of October. be installed as pastor of the Crooked River church, on the fourth Sabbath of this month.

REV. A. A. MATHES, of Lynnville, Tenn., has accepted an invitation to supply the church of Belview, near Caledonia, Mo.

REV. ALEXANDER SMITH, of Fayetteville, Tenn., has taken charge of Hopewell church, formerly supplied by Mr. Mathes.

REV. S. W. CHEENY has declined the invitation of the Church at Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

DANIEL WEBSTER was born in the town of Salisbury, New Hampshire, on the 18th of January, 1782, and was, therefore, seventy years, nine months, and five days old on the day of his death.

REV. ISAAC J. HENDERSON has received a call to become pastor of the Prytanea street church, New Orleans.

PRESIDENT EVERETT computes that the use of alcoholic beverages has cost the United States, directly, in ten years, $1,200,000,000; has burned or otherwise destroyed, $5,000,000 more of property; has destroyed 300,000 lives; sent 150,000 to our prisons, and 100,000 children to the poor-houses; caused 1,500 murders, 2,000 suicides, and has bequeathed to the country 1,000,000 of orphan children.