Egyptian Antiqulties. We feel a deeper interest than ever before, in this subject, because we are now better acquainted with the discoveries made by the learned men of Europe. We know something more of the grounds of the conclusions to which they have come; and perceive that many of them are satisfactory, nay, unquestionable. We have also met with several correspondences with facts alluded to in the Word of God, which illustrate and confirm its correctness, in minute as well as great particulars; and we are led to salutary reflections, and affecting emotions, fitted to admonish and to improve the life. With these enjoyments and advantages, which we feel that we have recently received, we acknowledge ourselves indebted to Mr. Gliddon, whose new course of lectures we are now attending. That gentleman has spent most of his life between his 10th and 32d years, in Egypt. His father, and himself afterwards, was Consul at Cairo. He has trodden and retrodden a great part of the country from the mouth of the Nile to the Cataracts, on hunting excursions, or visits of curiosity to the various places of curiosity, and formed personal acquain tance with most of the learned travellers in that country, to whom, as well as to our fellow citizens in Egypt, he rendered important services. We first met with Mr. G. about ten years ago, when he was making exertions to induce some of our scientific associations to import valuable Egyptian curiosities, offering his aid, in a liberal manner. tures, which were found so well adapted to the taste and intelligence of our countrymen, that they were received with great gratification and applause in different cities, during the past four years. A few months ago he visited Europe, to acquaint himself with the progress of study among the archeologists, many of whom, in different countries, are now devoted to the investigation of Egyptian subjects of different kinds; and he has returned, better prepared than ever, with information, and hundreds of specimens from temples, catacombs, &c. with engravings, plans, landscapes and architectural views, admirably adapted to illustrate every interesting point to which he may refer. As we have given repeated notices of Egyptian antiquities, and several extracts from the lectures and and the pamphlet of Gliddon, in our first and second volumes, we intend in future to select topics not there touched upon, referring our readers for many interesting particulars to Vol. I. ps. 81, 65, 83, 117, 129, 193, 392 and 423, and to Vol. II. pages 321, &c. The state of that people, as it is now presented to us, in the light obtained by the arduous and protracted studies of the learned men of Europe, is one of the most solemn, and sad, but salutary lessons to be found within the whole scope of human history. For ourselves we must acknowledge, that no other spectacle has ever been presented to our view, so fraught with impressions of the degrading nature of false religion, and affording by contrast, such affecting evi But dences of the value of the true. We had the pleasure to add our feeble assistance to his, but the pain to witness the total failure of his good and enlightened plan. There will always be reason to regret that it was not successful. When Mr. G. had left his official occupations in Egypt, he formed another project for the same end. He prepared a course of popular lec while we feel grateful to the learned for their discoveries, we are compelled to dissent from some of their deductions and theories. All local wits, all those whose jests are understood only within the range of their own circle or coterie, are decidedly objectionable in general society. JUVENILE DEPARTMENT. Sagacity of the Dog. The writer once owned a dog whose natural sagacity had been highly cultivated in his puppy days. Innumerable, almost, were the antics which he could perform, to the great delight of all the children in the neighborhood, with whom he was an especial favorite. As, however, these were rather the result of hard drilling than sagacity, they are not worth relating. The early training to which he had been subjected had, however, the effect of expandiug his powers, and giving a general enlargement to his intellect. He acted often as though having a perfect comprehension of language, and as showing the exercise of a reasoning faculty. For instance: One morning I had occasion to borrow an article at a store in the village, and, calling at several other places on my way home, I returned to my room. Some few hours afterward, wishing to return the borrowed article, I placed it in 'Hero's mouth, with direction to take it to the store of Mr. B. I gave the order as an experiment, not much expecting to be successful; but he received the article readily, trotted out of the room and down the street without hesitation, until he enter ed the proper store, laid his charge upon the counter and returned to his master. As was no more than natural, Hero seemed much interested in every butcher and butcher's cart which came into the neighborhood of his master's house. By watching attentively the butcher's proceedings, he arrived at the fact that meat could be obtained for money. In some of his wanderings about the house, he found a cent in an exposed situation, and appropriated it to his own use. The next time that a butcher's cart came into the neighborhood, Hero made his appearance with his prize, and attracting the butch. er's notice, dropped the "copper" at his feet, and waited till he had received its value in meat. After this, Hero was supplied very freely with money by the boys and others, all of which he expended in the same way. Once or twice he received a written order for his dinner, and thus made another advance in the knowledge of currency. Finding paper as serviceable as copper, he began to think of a currency of his own; and hunting up pieces of white paper in the streets, would carry them to his friend the butcher. A few protests of his paper, however, drove him back to the specie currency, in favor of which he seemed ever after firmly established. Hero, with all his sagacity and all his good qualities, was not without his failings. He was an arrant coward, and lost by this failing many a good thing which his wit had earned him. There is an old proverb that "those who know nothing, fear nothing." Hero knew a great deal, and feared everything. Near to my father's house there lived a retired sea-captain, in all the comfort which well earned wealth could afford. He was a good old man, and had ever a kind word and pleasant smile for me, however often I might meet him. As I think of him now, I cannot very well separate his image in my mind from his little yellow dog, Tiger, who was always at his heels, excepting on the Sabbath. I am sorry to say that my old friend was no meeting-goer, but then Tiger was. With the females of the family he was always at church on Sunday. When Tiger was well advanced in years and firmly fixed in his habits, his master's family changed their place of worship. To this arrangement the dog would never conform. Let others go where they might, old associations were too strong with him to be easily dissolved. From puppy days he had attended an Episcopal church, and in his old age he would not desert it. Though a staunch churchman, he was never inclined to Puseyism, for I remember that his life was passed in perpetual warfare with everything of the kind. If Tiger was blameworthy for anything, it was for his dogmatism in this matter. But to return, when the family left the services of the church, he continued to attend them. Often has he been seen, of a pleasant Sabbath morning, making himself as comfortable as possi ble in the warm sun. The first bell would ring for church, but Tiger was unmoved. The second bell would ring, and still Tiger cared not-it began to toll, and then with head and tail erect and with a sober trot he would start off for church. Evening Journal. On the Reading Railroad, on the 15th, a locomotive drawing a train of empty cars, exploded, killing five men. One body was blowu six hundred yards. God Bless the Honest Laborer. God bless the honest laborer, The hardy son of toil, The worker in the clattering mills, The delver of the soil: The one whose brawny hands have torn From earth her hoarded wealth, Whose sole return for ceaseless toil Bless him who wields the ponderous sledge, That, safe as warrior's panoply, That gushes from beneath each stroke, Bless him who turns the matted sod, Bless him who lays the massive keel, Bless him whose ribbed palace rests Bless them, and may the workman's hand That bade each star in glory shine, That gave to seas their birth, Reserve on high a resting place Within the realms of light, For every honest son of toil, When pass'd death's darksome night.-Sel. ENIGMA.-No. 32. I am composed of 22 letters. My 12, 17, 20, 9, is what a great many little boys and girls have. My 7, 21, 3, has ruined many. My 5, 11, 12, 10, is what a great many have incurred. My 7, 19. 20, is a troublesome animal. My 18, 22, 2, 10, 4, 15, is an East River Boat. My 1, 6, 7, 2, is what the inside of an apple is called. My 3, 19, 12, is a useful article at school. My 5, 4, 6, 7, is necessary to the comfort of a room. My 20, 22, 8, 11, 9, is what we could not manage very well without. My 13, 14, 15, is a domestic animal. My 18, 21, 19, 10, 8, 22, is a fast sailing vessel. My whole was a great American Naval officer. J. G. C. Solution of Enigma No. 31, Vol. III. p. 64. -Constantinople. To Agents. It is believed that no other work offers greater encouragements to Agents than the American Magazine under the new arrangement. Monthly parts in handsome covers, 18 3-4 cents single. All back numbers are kept on hand. Vol. II., in muslin or half-binding, $2,50. An Agent is wanted in every district in the United States. THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE. AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. With numerous Engravings. Edited by Theodore Dwight. Is published weekly, at the office of the New York Express, No. 112 Broadway, at 4 cents a number, or, to subscribers paying in advance, $2 a year. 7 sets for $10. Postmasters are authorized to remit money, and are requested to act as agents. Enclose a Two Dollar Bill, without payment of pos tage, and the work will be sent for the year. The information contained in this work is worth more than silver."-N. Y. Observer. "It should be in every family :n the country.”— Iv. Y. Baptist Recorder. There is an indescribable plea ure, in occasionally wandering among scenes like this, to a person possessing a taste for the beauties of nature and a love of solitude, especially if they are connected with associations of early life and departed friends. Many of our readers we have no doubt, will be ready to agree with us on this subject, and may be reminded of some forest scene which they may have admired, by the sight of the sketch we here present to them. It is of little importance whether we can fix upon the spot which it resembles: for we have thousands of small streams like this, flowing among objects as rude, and overshadowed by trees as various and wild. Many a road which we follow in our excursions, or our travels, leads us to spots as secluded from the haunts of men, and as destitute of the signs of inhabitants: to those places, peculiar to our country, where there is to be seen scarcely the slightest trace of a human hand; and to them we are strongly drawn, by a taste which we may be unable fully to define or even to account for. It may be doubted, however, whether even an American can learn to regard his favorite retreats with the highest relish, until he has suffered from the want of them in a foreign land. In Europe it is difficult to find, within the compass of the ordinary tours of travellers, forest scenes which bear sufficiently the features of pure nature. In one place the streams have been made to flow through artificial channels; in another, the trees may be ancient and untrimmed but they are perhaps planted in rows. In some of the wildest parts of the Appennines we have found, to our disappointment, immense chestnut trees, which made a truly American appearance from a distance, half surrounded by walls of stone, carefully laid to support the earth about the roots, while the neighboring inhabitants regularly visited them to gather their nuts for bread. We have realised this difference with regret, in many parts of several different countries of Europe; and a young South American, a nephew of the excellent President Joaquim Mosquera, a few years ago expressed his attachment to the forest scenery of his native land in terms of peculiar force and eloquence. "I have spent a year in Europe," said he, "but I was unable to stay longer. I had many kind friends, and they used all their exertions to make me complete my allotted time abroad. But I assure you, I would rather spend one day among the majestic solitudes of our Columbian mountains, than a year in the cities and palaces of the Old World. Every thing seems infected by folly and vice: all is artificial, childish or impure. But the noble mountains, rising to the clouds, and the wild rocks and dashing waterfalls, with the venerable forest-trees that have stood for ages, fill my mind with feelings that, I love and long to experience again. They are free from every association of the weakness and the wickedness of men. I am now on my way home; and it is with sincere satisfaction that I reflect, I am never to see Europe again!" Some years since while on a journey, we accidentally fell into conversation with an unknown fellow-traveller, on the different forms of trees, and the various appearances they have at different sea sons of the year, which happened to be a favourite subject of our attention. To our surprise he soon showed himself far more familiar with it, and able to give much interesting information. He proved to be a young artist, who had already begun to excite admiration with his first landscapes, and who has long since ranked among the first of our painters. Some months afterwards he wrote an essay on "American Scenery," for the American Lyceum, from it we take the following. "As mountains are the most conspicuous objects in landscape, they will take the precedence in what I may say on the elements of American scenery. "It is true that in the eastern part of this continent there are no mountains that vie in altitude with the snow-crowned Alps-that the Alleghanies and the Catskills are in no point higher than five thousand feet; but this is no inconsiderable height; Snowdon in Wales, and Ben-Nevis in Scotland, are not more lofty; and in New Hampshire, which has been called the Switzerland of the United States, the White Mountains almost pierce the region of perpetual snow. The Alleghanies are in general heavy in form, but the Catskills, although not broken into abrupt angles like the most picturesque mountains of Italy, have varied, undulating, and exceedingly beautiful outlines-they heave from the valley of the Hudson like the subsiding billows of the ocean after a storm. "American mountains are generally clothed to the summit by dense forests, while those of Europe are mostly bare, or merely tinted by grass or heath. It may be that the mountains of Europe are on this account more picturesque in form, and there is a grandeur in their nakedness; but in the gorgeous garb of the American mountains there is more than an equivalent; and when the woods. "have put their glory on," as an American poet has beautifully said, the purple heath and yellow furze of Europe's moun |