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This exceedingly attractive Monthly contains
Poem, entitled the Two Angels, from the
pen, we believe, Of Longfellow,) worth in itself
tho price Of half dozen volumes Of the Maya
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BIAcKwooDs EDINBUReH MAGAZINE. March 1854
| Now York: Leonard Scott & Co. For sale by
Taylor Maury, Pa. avenue, Washington, d. e.
The Russian Question, Of course, is discussed
in this Magazine as in oil the British periodi-
Gals but we are not aware that anything new
is brought to light 1t contains, besides, sew
eral political articles spicy enough, but not Of
the liberal sort Tts literature is as usual.
GRAHAm's AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE April
1854 Philadelphia.
Among the contributors to this number we
notice ]. T. Headlcy, Jas. Russell Lowell, John
G. SAKE, and other popular writer's.
THE NEpRAsKA QUESTION. Now York Rcdfeld,
Nassau street
We have received from the publisher,
large pamphlet, with this title, comprising the
speeches in the United States Senate, on the
Nebraska Bill, of Messrs. Douglas, Chase
| Smith, Everett, Wade, Badger, Seward, and
Sumner together with history Of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, Daniel Webster's memorial
in regard to it. history Of the Annexation of
Texas of the organization Of Oregon Territory,
and of the Compromise of 1850.
The reader secs ut once that it is a valuable
compilation.
The LAMpLIeuTER. Boston: John P. Jewett Co
This volume has been warmly commended
by the Press, and has had great run among
the People Il is story, full Of incident, with
fine shades of character, many passages Of
highly dramatic interest pcrvaded by health
fal spirit, and gratifying the interested reader
with most pleasing denouement.
MoNTH IN ENGLAND BY Henry I. Tuckerman
Red6eld, New York. For sale by Taylor Maury
Washington, D. G.
OF course, Mr. Tuckerman could not expect
to give us much new information concerning
Old England, but he has a very agreeable way
of looking at the Present in the light of the
Past, and giving his impressions in style not
cumbrons or elaborate.
CorroS is KING.-Charles Dickens, in a late
number Of his Household Words, after enumer
ating the striking facts of Cotton, says:
"Let any social or physical CONFUSION visit
the United States and England would feel tho
shock from Lands End to John 0'Groata.
The lives Of nearly two millions OF our coun-
trymen are dependent upon tho cotton crops
of America their destiny may be said, without
any sort of hyperbole, to hang upon thread.
aShould any dire calamity befall the land
Of cotton, n thousand of our merchant shirs
would rot idly in dock ten thousand mills
must stop their busy looms and two million
mouths would starye for lack Of food to iced
themo
How many non-slavcholders elsewhere arc
thus interested in the products Of slaves IL
it not worthy the attention Of genuine philan-
thropists to inquire whether cotton cannot be
prcfitably cultivated by free labor? The ques-
ton is Of easy solution. At all eventa, tho
laborer,n no matter what his color, lis worthy
| of his hire
Mr.. Keitt, of South Carolina, in recent
speech in the House Of Representatives, took
the proper distinction between popular liberty
and popular tyranny and said "Of all tyran-
mics, popular tyranny is the most base and
devastating, because its appetites are the most
gross and inappeasable, its life the most con
vulsiye, and its acts the most cursed with crime
and wrong. Popular tyranny is popular law
lessness and public pillage" People do not al
ways mark tho ercnce.n-AieI. Gaz
IL is pleasant to know that Mr.. Keitt and
1 a - h.
The only popular tyranny we have known, is
that of literal slavery All other species Of
tyranny are unpopular. Popular tyranny,
therefore, is indeed the most base and dcvas-
tatngv ms our Southern friends should know
by this time It's appetites are gross and in.
appeasable,, and its acts are "cursed with
crime and wrong Mr.. Keitt and the Gazette
have been under singular dclusion, to imagine
they werc looking upon portrait while mir
ror stood before them
CONNECTICUT EIEcTIoN---The result of the
election is officially announced M follows: for
Governor, Dutton, (Whig) 1896; Ingham,
(Domocrat) 2s53s; Chapman (Tcmpcranco,)
1862; Hooker, (FrceSoiler) $500. Majority
against lngham, 4,09s.
~ In New Philadelphia, recently, at
small party it was remarked that certain
young man ought to have q wife, His reply
was, q would have IL could find anybody to
have me-" A young lady present with whom
he had never spent an hour, said I" will"
The preacher was sent for, and the next paper
contained the following announcement: Mar
ricd, on Sunday evening, 10Th inst, by Rev
Mr.. Bartholomew, Mr. Morgan Buthler and
Miss Mary Bartholomew, all Of this town.
Mrs Nathaniel Long was killed, on the 22i
ult, at Frog Creek, Florida, by aratticrnhke.
Tho most revolutionary article is bread TOT,
| on the least rumor Of an outbreak, ~ ~ IN
variably the first thing to rise.