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nd smiling at this new homage, promised
rue amateur returned at
nd received with joyful gratitude the

for the following

ted tim

tly afterwards the Found of instru-
ments struck Haydn's ear ; he listened, and thought he
recognised his new minuet. He went to his window, from
which he saw a superb ox, with gilded horns, adorned
with festoons and garlands, and surrounded by an
ambulating orchestra, stop under his balcony. The
butcher went up to Haydn's apartment, expressed again
to him his sentiments of admiration and ended his speech
"Dear sir, I thought that a butcher could not
ititude for so beautiful a minuet better than

aydn, affected at his frank generosity, accepted it.
that moment the minuet was known throughout
a by the name of the " Minuet of the Ox."—
's Mu3ical Miscellany.

A LITTLE ONF
hundred and thi

SMALL BECOME A T.

OUSAND.—Two
of the

years ago, within a few cia:

time when the rel

ious convulsions of Germs.

y were

inaugurated by the great battl

gue, a handful of

Pilgrim Fati

,rs landed at Cape Cod from

and storm

the Atlantic deep. On a piece of rising ground they built
two r

small tenements with a common storehouse
n. Strone they were in faith, in hope, and

ened were their means that whi
)aten of pilgrims arrived to share their fortun(
tainment provided f

at so st

the en

new corners consisted
;le lobster and three fish, and these not caught
;based of the Indians, for in the w
s neither hook nor net. The pilgrim
mitted the settlement to their progeny,
-o precarious that their bones were

of a sin
but pun

colony

a tenure

vithout mark or sign, to preserve them from the
ion of the savages who might. one day recover the

ground. Such was the origin of New L..,
topic, it must needs be owned, for justifiable declamation
These
From

—a glorious

,re now represented by 3,000,000 souls.
of that settlement, where neither hook

xisted, there now issue annually 600 ships,
y 16,000 seamen, to capture the mightiest

the deep. The capital of the colony contains
early 156,000 inhabitants within its walls, supports 16

50 weekly ne

d maintains 250

public

, each of which upon an average convey.
:;r day. Such is the picture of modern Bas-
ated on the last anniversary of Pilgrims'-day,
st been celebrated at New York.
—All the colonies which the world

ton as
W

!h has j

?en have commenced with agriculture and pas-
'he soil had been their first fountain of riches :
d had to be long tilled, or herds innumerable

alth began to accumulate. In
well as labour. A dollar goes

Hence

bush than a guinea in I
in the scale of nations has been cornpara-
pecially as the widely-scattered population

favourablo to rat

But in California the reverse of all this

istence as a civilised colony, money has been t
ful there than in the oldest states in t

)f labour seem to belong rather to
ban to the sober chronicles of truth. Hence tt

genii t

t desideratum of a young colony is super
1, and undertakings of every kind, pla

inn
Th
nec
trio

abundantly

of every

ude, can be freely entered upon for the public
rn has been commercial from its birth
gold have brought vessels from all nun-

ties and it

intelligence and rest

ores f and the

am mercial men have supplanted the ordinary
ay of agricultural settlers, and have marvel-
alerated the progress of society which all circura-
e combining rapidly to mature. Two years have

scarcel

elapsed since tidings of the new El Dorado
reached the old world, but half a century seems to have
rolled away in the interval. Then the land was a solitude:
le bay of San Francisco lay untracked by a keel
Id of its waters breaking on its lonely shores W 35
nearly all it had heard of the world of man. Now an ac
tual metropolis is reflected on its waters. Street afte
street of j"-" filled with an active and enter

the no
the so

built houses,

prising people, and exhibiting every mark of commercial
prosperity, stretch to the summit of the surrounding hills,
follow the windings of the shore from headland to head-
land, and sending hack a long arm through a gap in the
hills, built% its.warehouses at the Golden Gate, fronting
the blue horiziKi of the Pacific. Lofty hotels, gay with
'verandahs and b.:Aconites, are seen in all quarters,. replete
with luxuries of civilisation ; while the fashionable restau-
rants present daily their long bill of fare, rich with the
choicest technicalities of the Parisian cuisine. Scarcely a
day passes but some cluster of sails take their way through
the Golden Gate. bound to all qu niers of the world.
Like the magic seed of the Indian juggler, which grew,
blossomed, and bore fruit before the eyes of the specta-
tors, San Francisco seems to have accomplished in a day
the growth of half a century.—Unirereity Magazine.