triumph of the legitimate Government, sure sooner or later to take place, will find him and a large majority of his newly-adopted fellow-citizens (who hold with Dædalus, the primal sitter-on-the-fence, that medium tenere tutissimum) original Union men. The criticisms towards the close of his letter on certain of our failings are worthy to be seriously perpended; for he is not, as I think, without a spice of vulgar shrewdness. Fas est et ab hoste doceri: there is no reckoning without your host. As to the good-nature in us which he seems to gird at, while I would not consecrate a chapel, as they have not scrupled to do in France, to Nôtre Dame de la Haine (Our Lady of Hate), yet I cannot forget that the corruption of good-nature is the generation of laxity of principle. Good-nature is our national characteristick; and though it be, perhaps, nothing more than a culpable weakness or cowardice, when it leads us to put up tamely with manifold impositions and breaches of implied contracts, (as too frequently in our publick conveyances,) it becomes a positive crime, when it leads us to look unresentfully on peculation, and to regard treason to the best Government that

ever existed as something with which a gentleman may shake hands without soiling his fingers. I do not think the gallows-tree the most profitable member of our Sylva; but, since it continues to be planted, I would fain see a Northern limb ingrafted on it, that it may bear some other fruit than loyal Tennesseeans.

A relick has recently been discovered on the east bank of Bushy Brook in North Jaalam, which I conceive to be an inscription in Runick characters relating to the early expedition of the Northmen to this continent. I shall make fuller investigations, and communicate the result in due season.

Respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

HOMER WILBur, A. M.

P. S.-I inclose a year's subscription from Deacon

Tinkham.

I HED it on my min' las' time, when I to write ye started, To tech the leadin' featurs o' my gittin' me converted; But, ez my letters hez to go clearn roun' by way o' Cuby, 'T wun't seem no staler now than then, by th' time it gits where you be.

You know up North, though secs an' things air plenty ez you please,

Ther' warn't nut one on 'em thet come jes' square with my idees:

They all on 'em wuz too much mixed with Covenants o' Works,

An' would hev answered jest ez wal for Afrikins an'

Turks,

Fer where's a Christian's privilige an' his rewards en

suin',

Ef 'tain't perfessin' right an eend 'thout nary need o'

doin'?

I dessay they suit workin'-folks thet ain't noways per

tic❜lar,

But nut your Southun gen'leman thet keeps his parpen

dic❜lar;

I don't blame nary man thet casts his lot along o' his

folks,

But ef you cal'late to save me, 't must be with folks thet

is folks;

Cov'nants o' works go 'ginst my grain, but down here I've found out

The true fus'-fem'ly A 1 plan, — here's how it come

about.

When I fus' sot up with Miss S., sez she to me, sez

she,

"Without you git religion, Sir, the thing can't never be ; Nut but wut I respeck," sez she, "your intellectle part, But you wun't noways du for me athout a change o' heart:

Nothun religion works wal North, but it's ez soft ez

spruce,

Compared to ourn, for keepin' sound," sez, she, "upon

the goose;

A day's experunce 'd prove to ye, ez easy 'z pull a

trigger,

It takes the Southun pint o' view to raise ten bales a

nigger;

You'll fin' thet human natur, South, ain't wholesome more 'n skin-deep,

An' once 't a darkie 's took with it, he wun't be wuth

his keep."

"How shell I git it, Ma'am?" sez I. "Attend the nex' camp-meetin","

Sez she, "an' it'll come to ye ez cheap ez onbleached sheetin'."

Wal, so I went along an' hearn most an impressive

sarmon

About besprinklin' Afriky with fourth-proof dew o'

Harmon:

He did n' put no weaknin' in, but gin it tu us hot,

'Z ef he an' Satan 'd ben two bulls in one five-acre lot : I don't purtend to foller him, but give ye jes' the heads; For pulpit ellerkence, you know, 'most ollers kin' o' spreads.

Ham's seed wuz gin to us in chairge, an' should n't we be li'ble

In Kingdom Come, ef we kep' back their priv'lege in the Bible?