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FLATTERY. 



When soraei doughty champion has been fairly levelled in contro-' 

 Versy, how often do friends gather around him giving him full assurance 

 that he has gained the victory. I was taking my morning walk in the 

 Eastern part of the city* A little " Dutch " boy coming up the cellar 

 stairs tumbled side-\^ys against the wall. Two streams of tears ran 

 down his cheeks. He "roared amain." Up rushes the anxious father. 

 " Ach, little boy, shust see here how he's smashed the bricks mit his 

 head. " The child looked and seemed to see an enormous dinge where 

 his head had come in conflict with the bricks. Delighted with the idea 

 that he had inflicted a greater injury than he had received, he gathered 

 up his dirty apron and wiping the tears from the channels which they 

 had worn in his unwashed face, piped merrily, like a bullfinch in an ec-* 

 Stacy. Self-confidence sprang from the bosom of his grief, and the com- 

 pliment, which gave preternatural hardness to his head, softened his 

 heart and nullified his pain. 



Naval Appointments. — At an examination of candidates for the 

 post of Assistant Surgeon in the Navy, held at Philadelphia in April last, 

 nearly two hundred presented themselves for examination, of whom, the 

 following were found qualified and assigned to rank as Assistant Sur- 

 geons in the following order, viz : 



1. W. T. Babb, of Pa., a graduate of the Medical Department of 

 Pennsylvania College. 



2. R. J. Farquharson, of La., a graduate of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



3. A. Robinson, jr., of Va., a graduate of the University of Mary- 

 land. 



4. E. R. Squibb, of Pa., a graduate of the Jefferson College. 



5. S. G. White, of Ga., a graduate of the Jefferson College. 



6. B. R. Mitchell, of Mo., a graduate of the University of Penn. 



7. J. S. Gilliam, of Va., a graduate of the University of Penn. 



To Correspondents. — Several interesting articles, intended for this 

 number, but crowded out for want of space, will appear in the next. — 

 The name of the author must always accompany the communication to 

 insure its admission into the Journal. 



