MOO&E’S RU21AL KEW-YOKKEK. 
DEC. 22. 
THE UNION. 
I 
BT MBB. L. H. SKJOORinr*. 
Ho! Eagle of our banded State*, 
Wilt drop thine olive fair, 
And bid the shafts of war and won 
Speed bur*ting through the airt 
And the aoaring eagle answered, 
Waving hi* peace-branch high, 
" Not Froedotn’s chieftain gave the frost— 
I'll guard it till I die!" 
Ye *tar*, that shin* in * park ling blue 
Upon your banner’d held, 
Shall yo be stricken from your place, 
And half in cloud* concealed? 
But •ilent were those glorious orbe, 
Witll dread anmreinent fraught; 
Each trembling in it* crystal sphere 
At the dark traitor-thought. 
Oh, human hearts! to concord train’d, 
By vires who atood of yore, 
As brother* when around their home* 
Th« Lion ramp’d in gore; 
Will ye the heritage they won 
With ruthless hand divide? 
Or rend the Oordian knot they drew 
Around ye —when they died? 
Then, from the Pater Patriae’* tomb, 
Beneath Mount Vernon’* shade— 
And from the hero's bed, who sleep* 
In Miuihvill*’* bounteous glade— 
And from green Quincy's honored breast, 
Where sire and aon repose— 
“ Break not Ih at band" a solium) Tolee 
In deep accordance rose. 
Hark, hark! o'er forests rob'd in snow, 
In sunny, flower-crowned vales, 
From where tbo Atlantic's thunder-tone 
The far Pacific hails; . 
From mart and doll, where millions dwell, 
By prairie, lake, and hill, 
Rolls on the full, sublime response— 
“ We never, never will!" 
[Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
YULE-TIDE: 
A STORY FOB THE HOLIDAYS. 
BY CAROLINE A. nOWARB, 
“ Good mornin'! Misa Maxwell. Yon’rc into 
tbo Christmas cookin', I hoo. It does one good to 
see yon, at your ago, bo plump and healthy, and 
a puttin’ into the work ho smart.” 
“Take a chair, Sophrony. How are ail at home? 
Aren’t your folks going to keep Christmas?” 
“Well, yes. After a fashion, thut ia. Weal- 
ways go to church on a Christmas raorniu’, and 
we don’t do no work to apeak of. Hut we don’t 
generally got a great dinner, and have company. 
The boj’B always calc’I ate to come home to Thanks- 
givln’, and so does Melihsy and her husband and 
children; hut it’s too far to come agalu so soon 
an Christmas.” 
“ I believe that’B the way pretty much all over 
Yankecland. Yet, somehow, I can’t fall into it, 
though I’ve lived here ever since 1 was married. 
Long as he lived he always wanted a good time 
Christmas, in memory of ‘old England ■’ and the 
days of our courtship, he used to say." 
“Is’pose the merry-makings they have in Eng- 
land, and had long ngo’s yon was yonng, go be¬ 
yond even our bent Thanksgivin’ parties.” 
“ Ah, yes. Beyond any ever I see, though may¬ 
be that’s owing to the associations. At home we 
had the mistletoe and the holly a-plenty, and wo 
young folks always had a-many games and spells 
for Yule-tide, or Christmas Eve. Dear heart! I’d 
like to see ono more old-fashioned Christmas 
’fore I die.” And, with the rounding off of that 
sentence, good mother Maxwell heaved a little 
sigh, and giving her rolling-pin an extra flourish, 
put the final touches to the top crust of a very 
sizable chicken-pie, und was in the act of passing 
the box of raisins to Bothrony, in compliance 
with her offer to pick while she talked, when the 
kitchen-door opened to admit her daughter. 
“AVhy, Fidely ! Bow’d do? But I neodn’t 
ask, your lookin’as rosy as a summer mornin’,— 
though the weather’s down to zero.” 
“ Thank yon, Prrqny, but ns I owe that compli¬ 
ment to the weather, I will not appropriate it. A 
hunt in the haru for eggs on such a morning, and 
a run to tbo house alter you’ve found them, I 
think would prove a substitute for paint on any 
cheeks.” 
“You see I'm rnakin' myself at home, as usual.” 
“ That’a right. We're always glad to see you. 
What’s going on up your way?” 
“Nothin’ new. I believe old Pondviile gets 
duller every day, So’thin’ must happen soon, I 
tell our folkB, for there ha’n’t been an excitement 
since poor crazy Polly Rodger's drowned her 
self last spring. No weddin’u, no funerals,—I be¬ 
lieve the doctors begin to think Pondviile is 
dreadful healthy, for Dr. Seton is goin’ to move 
away." 
“You don’t say so! It’s most too good to be 
true.” 
"Tut, tut f Fiby. You've no cause to say that 
I don’t know but what Dr. Seton’s as good a man 
as the generality.” 
“ Maybe so, mother. But certainly he is not as 
good a doctor as the generality. Bah! It makes 
me crawl to think of his coarse, bungling ways, 
and loud voice, and, above all, his nauseating 
doses. I never look at poor little Frank Harris 
without a feeling of indignation towards Doctor 
Seton. I firmly believe that if any doctor of 
real ability had set that child’s ankle, he would 
not now be lame for life.” 
“ I dare say that’s so. Now just beat these eggs 
while you’re warmed up. You can put your in¬ 
dignation into the beating. Sophrony, you’ve 
picked nigh enough raisins for the ‘big pudding.’ ” 
“Somehow pickin’ and stonin’ raisinB always 
puts me in mind of weddiu’ cake and weddin’s, 
I’ve helped at bo maDj, I don’t wonder. Miss 
BinrKiNH, and her gal, and I, stoned four boxes 
for Ameltar’h weddiu’. Fidely, I think it’s high 
time we commenced on yours. Aren’t you going 
to pop off with some spruce bachelor, or nice 
widower, soon?” 
“Certainly, I’nitONY. I’ve heard lately that 
there was something of the kind in the wind, for 
old Mr. Fkihiikb has been Hoen to call here twice 
in one week. Looks mysterious, don’t ii?” 
“Mr. Fuibukk, indeed! 1 forbid the banns be 
fore hand. H8’s old enough to be your father 
A perfeot belr-loom in Pondviile. Be lock me to 
the first ball I ever went to, and you must have 
been in sleeved-aprons then.” 
“ I gnesB yonr chance is as good as Fidy’s now 
and 1 dout think either of you are likely to make 
very speedy or very youthful matches.” This 
Mrs. Maxwell said with another of those little 
sighs, so at variance with her bright eyes and 
pleasant mouth. 
“Well, Pm sure I don’t see how it is, but men 
always seem to prefer the chaff to the wheat Not 
that I mean that to apply to me. I’ve wondered 
more’n a hundred times why Fidkly didn’t get 
married, — ’taint late yet They do say, Fidkly, 
that you’re nearer thirty than you are twenty, 
thongh I never see anybody look less like it.” 
Fidelia looked very intently at the steel-yards 
with which she was just then weighing sugar, and 
her mother spoke for her. 
“ Ych, Pidt will bo twenty-eight, come Easter. 
She was born on a Banday, and they say at homo 
that children born on that day, specially at Easter, 
are always peculiar. Though for being single it’s 
her own fault, and I shan’t complain if she always 
is, forainoeber father died, she’s been husband 
and all to me.” 
If dame Maxwell and her attentive listener 
had not been absorbed in their own conversation, 
they would have noticed Fidelia’s rather sudden 
exit into the pantry at this point. Neither did 
they notice she wan gone a long time, considering 
the coldness of that quarto* of the rambling old 
farmhonse. Had they opened the door, they 
would have Been her standing quite still beside 
the spicc hox, one hand pressed down hard upon 
the shelf, the other making hasty dashes with a 
handkerchief at eyes whoso calm blueness was 
obscured by an nnusual mist. Perhaps, poor un¬ 
suspecting souls, they would have merely guessed 
she had got some pepper Jnto them. At any rate 
they would never have imagined that, in the brief 
space that she had stood there, her mind had 
traversed the field of nine years, Htretching far 
behind her. They would not have guessed that, 
the hand which closed so convulsively, pressed, 
not the hard wood only, tint was clasped once 
more in another hand, larger and more vigorous, 
or that the eyes which seemed only to be search 
ing for various small boxes marked “Cioves,” 
“Cinnamon,” <lko., were, in reality, seeking again 
to fathom the depths of two others, darker and 
more sparkling. 
Is was eleven years since those other ojch had 
cast their first keen glance around the interior of 
the red school-house, where their owner was in¬ 
stalled to teach the “ Winter-term,”—eleven years 
since they rested, after that scrutiny, npon the 
face of Fidelia Maxwell, the eldest of the girls, 
and the finest-looking,—at least that was the 
verdict of the eyes. The owner of the eyes was 
yonng then, only two years older than Fidelia, 
and poor, too, report said. He must he, to he 
teaching country schools in the winter to help 
pay for medical studies the rest of the year. 
Looking back over nine years, Fidelia’s mind 
rested on the very day thoso other eyes had look¬ 
ed tkoirlaBt on Pondviile, and thus the dimness 
in her own. But between the nine and eleven, 
they took in at a glance how an accidental ac¬ 
quaintance had become quite a friendship,—how 
she had learned so fast that first Winter, and 
faster still, though on a different subject, when 
the samo teacher came the next year,—how the 
girls, half jealous, hud joked her on her good 
scholarship, while she had smiled silently, and he 
had looked on coolly indifferent to gossip or 
quiz,—how lie had attended her home from ull 
the parties round, and once, just a week before 
school closed, had taken her to ride, and, it being 
dark when they returned, had Iifed her in his 
arms so carefully and placed her on the door-step, 
—audhow, after all, he had gone away with the 
most commonplace “good-bye,” and she had 
never seen him since, thongh she had heard casu 
ally of his honorable graduation and fair promise, 
and also of his intended marriage to us many 
different persons as there were informers. And 
well, ah, too well, she remembered that he had 
dined with them that last Christmas before he 
went away, and how different,—how wanting in 
something ,— every Christmas had been to her 
since. While I’ve been telling you all this, how¬ 
ever, she bus returned to the kitchen, spices in 
hand, and found Miss So chroma Baker with her 
things od, just starting for home. 
“If you aren’t going to have company at home, 
step over to-morrow evening. We’d like to have 
you.” 
“Thank you, Mra. Maxwell. Yon’ll have a 
houseful, I guess, without me, though I’d like to 
come. Who do yon expect?” 
“Only our own folks. Bam and his wife and 
two children, with husband’s brother, the only 
ono in America, with wife, two Bons and two 
daughters. 1 suppose they’ll got here about five 
o’clock this afternoon.” 
“That’s ten, — I guess shout as many as you and 
Fidely can wait on.” 
“ Mrs. Harris ia coming to help. I told her to 
bring Frank, and shut np the house, bo he could 
have Christmas with Sam’s little ones. But do 
come over,—it won’t make a grain of difference, 
we make yon one of the family.” 
“ Well, don’ know but I may. I’ll see when the 
timo comes. Good mornin’, and merry Christ¬ 
mas, too.” 
“Now, Fidy, dear, yon needn’t do another thing. 
It’s most noon, and you look tired. I’ll get the 
dinner, and yon can just look around a little 
and see if things is all in trim.” 
“I’ve done everything upstairs. I didn’t make 
afire in the spare room; I thought that in my 
room would take the chill off, and you know the 
girls always liked my room best, so I made a hot 
fire in the grate, and it will be qnite comfortable 
by the time they come. It’s a long, cold ride, in 
sleighs, from the city ont here.” 
“ Have you lit the fire in the best room, and set 
out the china from the sitting-room closet?” 
“No, but the sticks aje all laid, and I’ll go now 
and do it” 
That old-fashioned, homely parlor, was the 
place of all the house which Fidelia loved best, 
after the cozy quiet of her own room. The carpet 
was the only one in the house which had any 
pretensions to being modern,—bat by no means 
expensive at that The piano was nnlike the 
carpet, both in not being modern and in having 
been in its day a costly luxury. It was the only 
relic of girlish days except, their silver, which 
Mis. Maxwell had brought to America. Sundry 
little articles about the room indicated the pres¬ 
ence of a lighter hand and finer taste than that 
good lady could ever have claimed as her own, 
and which, to those who knew her daughter, bore 
“her maik ” as plainly as if thereon inscribed. 
Kneeling before the ample fire-place, Fidelia 
applied u match to the large arid orderly pile of 
fuel, which soon roared and crackled up the great 
chimney, and blazed till the brasses on the andi¬ 
rons, shovel and tongs, shone like fino gold, and 
the tiles whioh represented the histories of the 
prodigal son, and the sacrifice of Isaac, in blue 
and white porcelain, were lit with a new meaning 
and animation. These tile were the especial <Je- 
light of all the children who came to sec her, and 
they were not few, for she was the pet of all the 
juveniels in Pondviile. Her little nephew and 
nieoo preferred them to any of the picture-books 
to be had at “Grandma’s,” and little Mary’s par¬ 
ticular favorite was that one representing the 
meeting of the father and sod, probably because 
of the grimaces being more hideous than all the 
rest. 
The fire fairly under way, Fidelia, with gentle 
touch, duftted and arranged the various articles 
of furniture,—added new seed to the dally allow¬ 
ance of her mocking-bird, a present from Sam 
after one of his Southern trips, watered her plants 
npon the little staud,—an English ivy, a few gera¬ 
niums, and a monthly rose,—and began to sort 
over a pile of well-worn sheet music. Uncle Rob¬ 
ert’s daughters could play, and would bring new 
music, so she thought she would put away the old, 
or, at least, the most worn of it. “ Bonapart’s Re- 
quiem,” “The Battle of Prague,” “Roy’s Wife,” 
“Java March,” “Rory O’More,” and others as 
old, were selected and laid aside, when her hand 
rested upon a sheet whiter than the. rest, because 
carefully kept between two leaves of tissue paper. 
On ono corner was wr itten, though partly obliter¬ 
ated, “ From Fidelia’s friend G. V.” It was that 
sweet Bong of Tom Moore’s, commencing, 
“ Ask not If still I love, 
Too plain tliese eye*have told thee; 
Too woll their tear* mast prove 
now near and dear I hold thee." 
She took it up, and though she knew them by 
heart already, perused the lincBonce more. Again 
the dimness came over her eyes, and Bhe could not 
distinguiah the notes. How plainly, in memory, 
Could she hour the mauly vo5 o which last had 
sung that piece,—which l a taught her to slngit, 
and many others. Thut one simple song had 
caused her indDy a heart-acH for it had led her 
heart and her judgment astray mote than aught 
else. Why should he have given her a song at 
all,—why, of all things, should he have selected 
that one, if he did not intitid there shonld be 
meaning in the fact? She ha 1 never sung it since 
he went away, and had never allowed another to 
do so. Now, bIio did not lay it with the pile of 
discarded pieces, she scarce knew why, but placed 
it at the bottom of the pile remaining. 
A few hours after, Bhe was the milling center of 
a smiling group in her own roon, with a hubbub 
of voices in her cars. 
“Why, cousin Fi, how sweet you look! You 
don’t grow older every year, like other folks, I 
verily believe.” 
11 0, aunt Fi! you can’t guess what father has 
brought for you. Guess now!” 
"Pshaw! Molly, aunt Fi never’ll guess in the 
world. It’s a real mistletoe bough. Think of 
that, aunt Fi. A gentleman in Flotida sent it to 
fattier, with some other things La a box.” 
“And we’ve brought it for you to hang up just 
as father says they do in England. Ain’t it 
splendid?” 
So aunt Fi had to go down to the parlor and help 
decide upon a place to hang it. She proposed to 
have it over the piano, when both children ex¬ 
claimed: 
“Bat. nobody could go under it!” 
“Well, dears, but we’ve only a family party, and 
no wedding would come of it if we did pass under 
the bough.” 
“But let's hang it right, anyhow.” 
Therefore it was duly suspended over the sun¬ 
niest south window. [Conclusion next week.] 
A THOUGHT FOE YOUTH. 
The heart of youth is a wide prairie. Over it 
hang the clouds of heaven to water it; the sun 
throws its broad sheets of light upon it, to wake it 
to life; out of its bosom, spring, the long season 
through, flowers of a hundred names and hues, 
twining together their lovely forms, wafting to 
each other a grateful odor, and nodding each to 
each in the summer breeze. Such would wan be 
would he hold that purity of heart which God 
gives him. Therefore, 0 youth, guard your heart- 
purity. Never lose it; if it be gone, yon have 
lost from the casket the most precious gift of God. 
The first purify of imagination, of thought, aud of 
feeling, if soiled, can be cleansed by no fuller’s 
soap; if lost, it cannot be found, though sought 
for carefully with tears. If a liarp be broken, art 
may remedy it; if a light bo quenched, the flame 
may re-kindle it; but if a flower be crushed, what 
art can repair it? If an odor be wafted away, 
who can collect or bring it back? 
For Moore’* Rural New-Yorker. 
GRAMMATICAL ENIGMA. 
I AM composed of 34 letter*. 
My 10, 8, 27. 2, 21, 29 i* a verb. 
My 31,11, 20, 3. 16. 22 is at) adjective. 
My 30, 29, 23,13, *, 22 is » noun. 
My 19, 9, 30, li. 6, 22 is an adverb. 
My 31. 25, 2 32 i* an adjective. 
My 4, 21,1,16 i* a proposition. 
My 28, 6,12, 9, 16, C, S3 is a participle. 
My 15,14, 17,32,25 is a verb. 
My 7, 16, 24,1, 23 i* a noun. 
My whole 1* an extract from Pope. 
Rochester, N. Y , 1880. 
13 T Answer in two week*. 
Area Starr. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
CHARADE. 
Mr first Is seen on sea and strand, 
Some larger and tome smaller; 
My second grow* upon the land, 
Some shorter and some taller. 
My first ha* scene* of mirth and joy, 
Of anguish and despair; 
My second often I* the toy 
Of many a rustic fair. 
My first is not complete and full 
Without the presence of my whole; 
My second, then, my whole is made, 
Aod comes with call my first to aid. 
November, 1860. 
rsr Answer In two weeks. 
D.8. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM. 
Skbi.no a terrific looking thunder cloud in the west, on 
the morning of August 18,1860, nnd wishing to know It* 
distance from my station, and * 1*0 its perpendicular 
height from the earth, 1 had an observer located one 
mile from my stat.toD, due west, on the same horizontal 
plane, who measured It* angle of elevation, and found It 
to he 45°, nnd at the sumo instant, from my station, its 
angle of elevation to be 30°, 62’, 12". Required its dis¬ 
tance from the latter station, aud also its perpendicular 
height from the earth? Satcrn. 
Gouverneur, St. Law, Co., N. Y., 1860. 
or Answer in two week*. 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, Ac., IN No. 569. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:—Progress and Im¬ 
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ol which must be for new wubsonbers. 
B. WUiSTKH'S COUNTING HOME ANI» FAMILY 
DICTIONARY (Musnn nnd Hrotlo-ia' Edition, bound in 
leather, c**!i price, post.paul. and a free copy tho 
Rural, to •• very person remitting »iSfor Twulvo conies, at 
least elylit be.tng for new subacjibi-r*. 
7. WKIMTERg C. II. A FAMILY DICTIONARY, 
Post-rmid. and a into copy el Awraf, m every Person remit¬ 
ting tutor Ten new subscriber*; or 
8 . KYKRY1JODY"S lawyer (bound tn ]»w style, 
E nre $!.:«.) vast-i,aid, [on. »r,v *1 25 or 11 work, omobonea 
ereln. post-paid, and * free copy o! Rural r>. every person 
remitting for Ten aubacribcr*, whether old or hew. 
U. WEBbTKRft C. It. .1 F. DICTIONARY. p 0 *t paid, 
and n free conv i t Rural, to every person remitting $i() 
for Sit nr M? subscriber*. 
ltb THE IIUUBK AND Ills DISEABIft (Illuatrnted, 
boua i l» lea’tier, price SI 2 *,) post raid, and a freo copy 
Ol Rural, Jo every oue remitting iu for Six mib6Ciibers, 
whether old or new. 
II. LOKMNU'Ii PICTORIAL UNITED 8TATF8(l?mo, 
with ao JlJnilralions. price St.)post-paid, t., ever) person 
roiniUmirRi for Urn subscribers, three being new-or 3d 
for Three subscribers, two being new. 
18. COLE'S FRUIT IIOOK (price fid cents) post-paid — 
QK if preferred, THE hKlLLEUL IIOI PFWIFF, (same 
price.) post paid^u every person retniliing $1 lor two 
subscriber*, one being new. 
(Person* entitled to any of the above bonk*, and prefer¬ 
ring oilier works of cruuri value, mentioned herein, can be 
accommodated on stating their wishes. For fnstaiu-e, any 
one entitled to “Kit r'.body'* hnwvcr." cun lmve “The 
llniMi and His Diseurrr' or “Loridog'* Eirtoriol," and vies 
Viren Anyone entitVd to Macaulay'* History can have 
instead, post-paid, cl{b<M two ot the dollar or ten shilling 
books: ttndnny on* enliUed to “Louring'* Iilus'iiited iim- 
tory,’’can have Instead, »nd post paid,/ire copies of the 
counting House and 1> tally Dictionary, Ac. The Pictorial 
Dictionary, Louring'* Hnistiirtvil History, arid Mr.r*uWg 
History tire too heavy to send hr mail—but si! the other 
work* will be tool post-paid to any part of the U. 8. within 
3,000 rollos.j 
tTT l ’ersous who take the Rural this quarter, our trial, 
and subscribe for next year, may be counted as new sub¬ 
scribers in competing for l’remiums. 
EXTRA PREMIUM3 
Ifor Prompt and Efl3< i<-nt Action. 
In order to secure a portion of the list for 1HG1 as early 
as convenient, we will give the following Ultra Premiums, 
in addition to what is offered in the Specific List .: 
L—To each oft lie One Hundred Persons sending the 
first lists of Thirty or tiioie Yearly Sub*crlhere to the 
Rural, (at least nflefP cd wnicli must be new subscribers,) 
remitting pay sccording to our Cliih 1 onus, we will ,-irea 
perfect ami nan.d«wnely bound volume o! tlie Rural for 
latHi or ts.'ifi, |cash price, $3,) a* proferied; on, Si in such 
Books «s wc oner, post-paid. 
II —To each of the One Hundred Persons sending the 
first lists i ! Twenty or more rubsc-ribei* lat burnt ten being 
new,) as above, *« will give Oind pay postage it set t by 
mail.) tt'rLister s Counting House and Family Dictionary. 
III. To t’OcAoribe One Hundred Persona sending the 
first lists of 7iern or inure subscrihi-is, (.it local five being 
IT postage, U soul by mail,) a copy 
Miss Acton aud Alia. Hulo.J price, 
•u shilling book (or two lifiy cent 
new.) we will give (pitying 
oi Modern Cookeiy (By M 
$i,rr> ok cov doiitu oi ten 
bind.s,J mentioned above 
Bee, *1 2S; Mysteries of Bee Keeping Explained, jj.] 
t~V~ Uewcmber that throe sro Extra Premiums— in 
addition to all other* offered sud given as a reward for 
eariy and efficient action ! Ante in the Best 'lime to Act! 
TERMS OF THE RURAL-In Advance. 
Two Dollars a Yxar. Three Copies, one year, $5; 
Six Copies, and one free to Club Agent, ?!d,- Ten, and one 
free, $15; Fifteen, and one free, $21.* Twenty, and one 
free, Kb; ana any greater number at the unne rate, only 
i 1.2.5 per eopu! Club ,,apery sent to different post-off res, 
it desired As vt pay American postage on copies moiled 
to foreign countries, 81.37 i* the to licit Club rate for Can¬ 
ada, und $2.!i5 fo Europe. 
CV~ Bills on alt satrent Ranks m O. S. and Canada 
taken at par, but Agents will please remit Aeio York, Can¬ 
ada or At if England money idim convenient. All sub- 
tcHption money remitted by Ihufl on either Arm York. 
Boston, Albany or Kof he.Ac.r, (h -e e.v lianp'.j tuny hr sent 
at the risk of the Publisher, if made payable to his order. 
Pleuso write all mldxestes plainly and cszeluily, In order 
that they mny be accurately entered upon our books and 
correctly pkimkii by OW Mailing Machine. All subscrip¬ 
tions should be well Inclosed, am] carefully addressed 
and mailed to 1>. II. T. JtOOU H, 
November, 1860. Rochester, N. Y» 
*3^ Tiik Books KBApyJ-The book* we offer as Specific 
Premiums are now ready for delivery or mulling, and will 
be promptly forwarded to all who teeome entitled to them 
—or as soon *s we known their wishes. Those w ho are 
offered a selection will oblige us by stating tbeir prefer¬ 
ences, and giving Post-Office or Express addrejB. 
