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A PSALM POE NEW YEAR'S EVE. 
A friend stands at the door: 
In either tight closed hand 
Hoi dine rich gifts, three hundred and three score. 
Waiting to strew them daily o'er the land. 
Even as seed the sower. 
Each drops he. treads it in. and passes by: 
It cannot he made fruitful till it die. 
O good New Year, we clasp 
ibis warm, shut hand of thine. 
Loosing, forever, with half si eh. half gasp. 
That which from ours fails like dead fingers 'twine: 
Ay, whether fierce its grasp 
Hath been, or gentle, having been, we know 
That it was blessed: let the Old Tear go. 
O Tew Year, teach ns faith! 
The road of life is hard: 
When our feet bleed, and scourging winds ns scathe. 
Point then to Him whose visage was more marr'd 
Than any man s: who saith, 
*• Make straight paths for your feet,” and to the 
opprest, 
“ Come ye to Me. and I will give you rest.” 
Yet, hang some lamp-like hope 
Above this unknown way, 
Kind year, to give our spirits freer scope, 
And our hands strength to work while it is day: 
But if that way must slope 
Tomb ward. O bring before our fading eyes 
The Lamp of Life—the Hope that never dies. 
Comfort our souls with love— 
Love of all human kind; 
Love special, close-in which, like sheltered dove, 
Each weary heart its own safe nest may find; 
And love that turns above 
Adoringly—contented to resign 
All loves, if need he, for the Love Divine. 
Friend, come thou like a friend; 
And, whether bright thy face, 
Or dim with clouds we cannot comprehend. 
We'll hold out patient hands, each in bis place, 
And trust thee to the end— 
Knowing thou leadest onward to those spheres 
Where there are neither days nor months nor years. 
[Author of John Halifax, Gentleman. 
the fort had surrendered to the Confederate 
States ; that the garrison had been given liberty 
to withdraw to the ileet, carrying with them all 
their private property, and the officers their side 
arms; and that all the property of the United 
States was 1<:> be left uninjured to the conquerors. 
With long, loud, repeated shouts, and mutual 
congratulations, the crowd dispersed to await 
the next rising of the curtain on the bloody 
tragedy now begun. And yet, amid that seeming 
“Anna and Helen,'’ he added, ns the girls 
came in, “ cheer mother up and bid her look ou 
the bright side of the future, for I start to-nior- 
row with our regiment for the front.” 
“To the from ! Oh, James, do not say so!” 
they both exclaimed in a breath; “ how can yon 
be spared from home, and who shall we look to 
for help and comfort when you are gone?” 
“ Look to God I Come, come I this won’t do, 
girls; you have always been the advisers in 
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nnanimitv of sentiment, and apparent confidence epiriteual things, and pointed out to me the path 
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of ultimate and easy success, there were some 
foreboding and heavy hearts, and fearful look¬ 
ings forward to the coming tempest. Men who 
had all their lives revered uud honored the grand 
old flag, felt a secret and bitter pang to see it 
trailing in the-dust. God forgive the accursed 
hands that have done the deed, and save onr 
of hope and trust; it won't do to turn the tables 
now. I came in quite brave and determined; 
yon and mother try hard to render me. I fear, 
■what you would all eternally despise, an arrant 
coward.” 
So the family conversed, gradually overcoming 
their doubts and scruples in the light of the young 
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countrv from the consequences of an act like man’s enthusiasm and sense of duty, until at 
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this ! was the inward invocation of many a man 
whose outward seeming was that ot ready acqui¬ 
escence. They deemed it madness to struggle 
against a rushing torrent, even though they saw 
the plunge was into an unfathomable abyss. 
last, although not without fears and forbodings, 
they gave him an affectionate and hopeful fare- 
w, 11 . A pocket B blc, a photographic group of 
the mother and sifters, and looks of hair inter¬ 
twined, as were th ir heartbstrings, with a long 
Tiie piuu tr e was uiu> ;iu uuwi uvmvwiv - .? . 
And how was the bombardment of Fort Stun- and tearful parting embrace, were in his ease, as 
ter accepted at the North ? Up to this moment in that of counties- others of his young countn - 
a ’slumbering apathv had marked their course men, the cherishes remembrancers and riemen- 
ever since the official canvass of the residential tos he bore away. Who in a lifetime will for- 
election had been declared. Men eonld not be get the cowardly* assaults and direful march 
brought to believe that secession was a foregone through Baltimore tbht immediately ensued ; 
conclusion at the South, or that the threats of when Massachusetts soldiers, engaged in a patri- 
meu in Congress and on- of Congress were any- otic duty, on tlie*nniversary of that very day on 
thing more than the idle * porings of disappoint¬ 
ed politicians. The ne - . administration, fore¬ 
seeing the storm but as yet far from compre¬ 
hending its terrible magnitude and fury, were 
parolixed in every effort for preparation by the 
indifference of the people. It fonnd the army. 
which their ancestors at Lexington consecrated 
with their blood the first battle-field of the Revo¬ 
lution, were assailed and murdered while march¬ 
ing pcacahly alonf the streets? Thunks to that 
brave regiment, and a few others like it from 
sister States, early in the field, the Capital was 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
ONE or THE HEROES. 
.A. TALE O IP THE TIMES. 
BY PROF. EDWARD "WEBSTER. 
•• Eves look your last! 
Arms, take your last embrace: and lips. Oh you. 
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss. 
A dateless bargain with engrossing death !" 
[Shakspeare. 
The country was stirred to its profoundest 
depths at the startling news anaounced by tele¬ 
graph, that Fori Sumter was bombarded. All 
the South, it was usserted, were organized for a 
simultaneous rising, and would join at onw in 
general onslaught against the Nation's lile. It 
was a gala day in Charleston, when a telegraph 
from Montgomery directed Gen. Beacregabd 
at once to open his batteries upon the doomed 
fortress. A gay and brilliant throng had gathered 
on the pier head, far up the- bay, watching with 
intensest interest the progress of the diabolical 
work. Handkerchiefs were waved by Mr hands 
and jeweled lingers, and successive shouts went 
up to heaven as the thunder of a hundred cannon 
sent forth their iron hail upon a handful of brave 
but helpless and devoted men. 
Suddenly a dense, lun volume of smoke rose 
up from within the fort, that covered the whole 
heavens, and for the time obscured the sun, as if 
to hide from him in mercy the shameless specta¬ 
cle. The wooden buildings inside the fort had 
been set on fire by incendiary shells, and the 
garrison were in danger of being burned aiive. 
“Let them roast! the white livered minions 
of an abolition despot. We’ll serve their Presi¬ 
dent and his nest of nigger thieves at Washington 
the same sauce in less than a month, so help us 
God !” shouted a popular leader and harangucr 
of the mob; and a thousand voices shouted 
amen. Gradually the flames subsided within the 
fort, and when the smoke partially cleared away, 
a white flag was seen displayed from the parapet. 
“ The fort surrenders!” again broke in the 
first speaker; “the Confederacy is at first trium¬ 
phant, and as at first, so will it be last and 
always! What can a set of peddling, pettifogging 
Yankees, brought up to lie and cheat, expect to 
gain in a fight with us. There ain't a dozen men 
in all the North, that can be kicked into standing 
up to an even-handed contest.” 
“ ' Spect. Massa, dem Yauks am done gone alto- 
gedder,” remarked a negro, standing by, for 
the slave even, was represented in that crowd 
upon the pier head, and had a stake in the result 
much better understood by him than his master 
dreamed. 
“Gone! yes, gone where all abolitionists and 
nigger thieves will be ere long! But what do 
you know or care about it, Sam ?” 
“ Oh! noting, Mass,” said Sam with a grin and 
a roll of his white eyes like cotton balls in want 
of picking, “ only dis chile tinks may be do 
odder Yanks won't like it, dat's all.” 
“ We don’t want ’em to like it! We are going 
to make the whole crew of ’em lick the dust at 
our feet, and turn Massachusetts into a slave 
State. How would you like to live North. Sam, 
and marry a white wife?” 
“ 'Speet twonldn’t do,” said Sam, with another 
roll of the eyes; “See and the pickaninnies 
would ’jeet, and dis chile likes de Souf best bis- 
eelf.” Here the conversation ended, the master 
being absorbed in watching the movement of a 
boat that put off from Cummings’ Point batteries 
in response to the flag of truce; and the slave, 
with an apparent indifferent '.aid shambling gait 
moved off in the direc tion of some of his colored 
comrades, between whom a sign of mutual re¬ 
cognition might have been seen to pass, if any 
outs had unobserved been watching theta closely. 
Soon the news came by special messenger that 
lniuuu’njiiuc ui me a*, aouuv* ^ 
through the machinations and management of protected, and tie nation in the -very outset 
traitors recently in official positions, scattered preserved from disgrace and ruin, 
through remote outposts, the navy on foreign With what UrriMc anxiety did the loved ones 
stations, the northern armories and arsenals at home, in that <*rly stage of the bloody tragedy, 
stripped of their contents, and the whole loyal ere sense ot individual calamity had become 
portion of the eonntrv, like Sampson shorn of blunted by a superfluity of woe arid death watch 
his locks, a strong man bound and helpless. the bulletins from the scene of strife. The well 
The bombardment of Fort Sumter, however, contested but ill starred battle of Bull Run, 
broke the spell. The slumbering giant sprung although it brought reproach upon onr arms, 
to his feet, shaking himself and tearing like grec-n and a charge of jcowardice upon some of our 
withs the fetters from his limbs. From hillside regiments, yet mjder God was rendered an in- 
and valley, from forest home and from city habi- strument of ultimate success 
ration, the emblem of onr nationality was given How did the w,dow s heart thrill with joy and 
to the breeze: and when the word went forth gratitude, when, after days of harrowing eu*- 
that the government was threatened in its very pense a letter from the-well known hand an- 
capitai. the determination to crush out at once nouneed that her ion was safe; and as she traced 
and forever the accursed spirit of secession his course from e. m P to camp and from field to 
spread over the loval States like a flame of fire/ tleld. untouched by d,sease aud unscathed by the 
Massachusetts, the Old Bay State, among the bullet as time rolled on she gathered fresh eour- 
first in every good word and work, was earliest a ? e and ° 0 ^ 
to respond to the government’s call for aid ; and hopi.. At t. 
when that pioneer regiment left her capital amid mai k v * on * o: 
the pravers and blessings of mothers, sisters and until the a> 
wives, another line was added to her scroll of mac amul a * 
glory. Mechanics laid aside thc-ir tools, shop- "Dear m 
men hastily dropped the emblems of their trade, length ; ‘ I r 
engineers left the locomotive smoking at the few days. an< 
round-house, _■ rimers abandon4 their tolf filled regiment of 
sticks and unfinished paragraphs, students broke the coun1 r J 
age aud looked forward with cheerfulness and 
hope. At the battle of Ball’s Bluff, where so 
many sons of Massachusetts perished, he fought 
until the day was lost, and then swam the Poto¬ 
mac amid a shower of leaden hail. 
“ Dear mother and sisters,” he writes at 
length; “lam coming home on furlough fora 
few days, and then enter as an officer in the first 
regiment of cofrjfed troops to be mastered into 
the country's To vite, the fifty-fourth Massa- 
off from half-conned lessons' to repair to the ar¬ 
mory and receive marching orders. 
On the evening previous to the march, a young 
mechanic engaged in a machine shop, notified 
the master that he desired to join the regiment; 
aud after obtaining permission to do so repaired 
to a humble cottage not far away, the residence 
of his mother, a widow lady, and her two daugh¬ 
ters. There was nothing about the premises 
particularly to distinguish it from others of its 
class, unless it were the scrupulous neatness and 
good taste of all its appointments. The well 
trimmed shrubbery, the neatly graveled walk, 
the climbing honeysuckle above the latieed porch, 
the close-shaven grass plat with its inclosed bed 
of blossoming plants, all indicated the residence 
ebusetts. We mare than ever in this case take 
our lives in onr bands, for the enemy have sworn 
unswerving vengeance against ns, and in ease of 
capture we expect no quarter. Look out for 
bloody work when negro troops and rebel sol¬ 
diers meet together in the conflict.” 
The visit was made at home on furlough, the 
regiment of negfoee organized and disciplined, 
and at length nn|er the leadership of the gallant 
and accomplished Col. Shaw, landed on Morris’ 
Island at the -i'ranee of Charleston harbor. 
James -. *• r:ne of the heroes.” commanded a 
company, prepared to encounter its peril® and 
share its glork-. Fort Sumter, that first scene 
of the bloody diwna, frowned npon them from 
its rock built r fdestal amid the waves, while 
of an educated family. The internal arrange- Fort Wagner stood defiant in their island path, 
ments corresponded with its externals. Com- That work muM^e stormed and ten regiments, 
fort and convenience, but with little that* was including the fifty-fourth co ored Mas-achusett-s 
_a. J U umra ,-WuiWl tft fill tJlft ~W fl T* K . Afi T IlP fit 
superfluous or purely ornamental, presented it¬ 
self. An elegaut piano, with its accompaniment 
of music books, a few fine engravings upon the 
walls, a .vase or two npon the mantelpiece, com¬ 
pleted the chief items in this direction, if indeed 
in an abode of refinement, however humble, even 
these are not in some seuse necessary. A middle- 
aged matron, one of the type of New England 
women, too well known to need description, 
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were detailed to do the work. As the shades of 
night began to gather over land and sea, the 
command moved forward, until the clash of steel 
is a hand to haul conflict, and the shouts of the 
combatants drowned even the roar of the artil¬ 
lery. The swarthy fifty-fourth met a foe whose 
faces, clouded vith hate and vengeance, were 
scarcely less salile than their own. With oaths 
and execrations they grapple each other by the 
join hands as brothers and friends once more! 
We have fought each other as honorable foemen 
to the death; let ns now depart in peace, recon¬ 
ciled to each other and to God!" The last ex¬ 
piring effort of each was made to clasp the other 
in a friendly embrace, and their spirits, we trust, 
went hand in hand before the Eternal Throne! 
A detailed party of rough soldiers from the 
rebel fort went out next morning to remove the 
wounded and to bury the dead. The officers of 
the colored regiment were selected out, and, as 
it was deemed a mark of special indignity, 
buried with the uegro privates in a common and 
promiscuous grave ; but, when they came to the 
two young soldiers, locked in a last embrace with 
their bauds fast clasped upon the sacred charter 
of their faith, the coarse, hard jest died out upon 
their lips, and with hands tender as a woman’s, 
they bore them, still united, on a stretcher to the 
rear, and buried them together with military 
honors. 
Kind reader, this sketch is not designed to 
soften down one dark shade in this rebellion 
doubly cursed, nor to render one blow the lighter 
or less quickly dealt for its suppression; but it 
js for us to keep in mind the tact, that those we 
strive to conquer are still children with our¬ 
selves of one common Wood and heritage, and 
to warn us all not to carry our embittered mood 
beyond the hour when onr final triumph shall 
have come. Let ns light and pray that the na¬ 
tional integrity may be restored, and then, the 
bloody issues being buried evermore, let ns live 
a united nation to the end of time! 
Brevity is tiif. Son. of Wit. —The command¬ 
ant of Libby Prison issued a stringent order 
that Union prisoners must limit their letters to 
six lines. The following is a specimen: 
My Dear Wife:— Yours received—no hopes 
of exchange—send corn starch—want socks— 
no money—rheumatism in left shoulder—pickles 
very good—send sausages—God bless you—kiss 
the baby—Hail Columbia! Yonr devoted hus¬ 
band. 
tfm'm’v for Die ffmmg, 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 24 letters. 
My 9, 7,10.12 we all should try to he. 
My 17. 23.1, G, 8 is the name of a Union General. 
My 4. 24 is a verb. 
My 9, 22. 7. 23,17. 4, 1 is one of the Southern States. 
My 1,12. 22,11,19,1 is a girls name. 
My IS, 22. 20. 16,122. 23. 5, great gratification to the 
soldiers. 
j lily 21, 4. 9, 22, 23 is a wild animal. 
My 7. 22, 3, 22,1, 6, 5 is a county in New York. 
My 10,15,13,14 is an obligation. 
My 22. 4.14,10 is one of the nine digits. 
My whole is a proverb. 
le Roy. \ Y Mattdb. 
J3F” Answer in two weeks. 
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For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
BIBLICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 45 letters. 
My 3. 21. 22, 7, 5, 44. is a Prophet. 
My 16.14^32. 4, 25, 8,10,15, C were enemies of Christ. 
My S, 12,127. 42 was one of the sons of Noah. 
My 9, 7,11,19. 6 is one of the Epistles. 
My 1, 2, 23, la eternal. 
MY 24, 17, 21, 33, 39 is that by which we are saved. 
My 28. 34, 32. 26. 45. 22 is the Chrietian'shope. 
My 30, 30.18, 20. 22, 27. 6, S is an attribute of God. 
My 13, 15. 8, 28, 32, 42, 45. 22. 35 is a part of the bible. 
My 43,*41,'44, 31, 41. C. 88. 31. 8 ie that of which an ark 
was made. 
My 17,19, 37,40 is the wife of one of the sons of Naomi. 
My whole is a text of scripture too little observed. 
Haskinaville, N. Y. R. a. e. 
Answer in^two weeks. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS. 
I® 
women* loo m*n kuuwu iu , 
either in their entire homer or in other State., throat, pvtag al recemng mmnal -onnd. nnd 
* .11!.. .. n ♦lift YiOMTtntc nitn thii llltph 
both North and West, gave her eon a kindly 
greeting. 
“Where are the girls?” he enquired, after a 
moment’s hesitation; “ I have come to bring to 
you and them what I fear will be unwelcome 
news; I start to-morrow for Washington with 
the regiment of volunteers. We may have 
rough work of it before we get back; God 
knows whether we shall ever come back at till: 
but let the result be what it will, our country 
shall not perish without at least one blow struck 
in her defence.” 
The widow’s cheeks grew pale at the announce¬ 
ment, and she gasped for breath as a sudden 
pang shot through her heart. He was the last 
male scion of his name and race, and humble as 
their circumstances were, the hopes and love of 
the w hole household were centered in him. His 
father and tw r o elder brothers were sleeping in 
rolling together from the parapets into the ditch 
below. But the assault was all in vain; Fort 
Wagner was tog well defended to be captured by 
storm, and the Irave column rolled back broken 
and destroy.-u. The colored fifty-fourth, both 
officers and met:, was nearly annihilated. In the 
thickest of the f.ht, and borne backward from 
the parapet, C» 4, James- went down, but 
bearing with hi| i a fair-haired, blue-eyed youth 
of about his 0*n age, both stricken by mutual 
and mortal wonl.ds. As the tide of battle ebbed 
away, so ware their lives fast running to their 
latest sands. 
“Oh, moth. -' dear mother!" sighed out the 
Southern yorll “this last great sorrow .will 
break yonr beat:!" 
“ Who talk# o mother here?” gasped out the 
Captain, half lifrng up his fainting form ; •* yon! 
Oh, you. who It this accursed and bloody strife 
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lather and two eiuer uruuieio ^ I , * . * , . 
the clmrL-hvurd, and lb. toar, of the family had j have d, ,n in » a pdowed mother a 
LllK. tuuifh.iaiui . _ . ,„lir r.nrtlllv linnp unit 
hardly as yet dried, and the sod grown green 
over the ashes of the son last called away. 
“And what will become of us if you should 
never come back, dear James. Should anything 
happen to you it would surely break our hearts! 
Oh, give over this dreadful work to other bands, 
and to other men, who, if they should fall in the 
contest, would not leave their families utterly 
bereft!” t* 
“ No, mother, no. Next to God onr country’s 
claims are paramount; and he who seeks to avoid 
them at a time like this is unworthy of the name 
of tii an . Do not endeavor to dissuade me in this 
last and hardest trial. I would go with my 
and two sisters’ only earthly hope and stay!” 
“ Why did von come here, then !” retorted the 
other, “to eiUte to war a servile race, and bid 
our slaves do Mprder upon our very thresholds ? 
You are the ulty party, you who would rob U6 
of our right-, and make our bond servants rulers 
in onr stead ' ” 
“ No, no! iFe figbt tbe battle only for our 
country and its flag, which you qrc striving to 
destroy. We fikve no personal hate to wreak on 
you, but believing slavery to be the source of all 
our nation's woes, wt have sworn while crushing 
the rebellion to eradicate its cause. But oh! 
since our own day of strife and blood is over, let 
Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
AN ANAGRAM. 
Eterh's an grader ai het nnhdret’s orra, 
Odul lapegin infra no hgiii: 
Ni eht ivdiv ghnlUgnfs shfal. 
Hewn tmorss pweo grothnU htc y?k; 
Teerh’e gruauedr ni het lewlsgni vawae, 
Het name tan t> fo hie ate, 
Taht surhc tch dripo fo mna, 
Newb niwsd'wlob liwd dna feer. 
Frankfort, Will Co., IU. R Ar S- 
Answer In two weeks. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker- 
ANAGRAMS OF BATTLES. 
last ana naraesi iruu. x «uum gu mu. . ..- - 
mother's and sisters’ blessings and cheerful good I us leave the rancor of this quarrel to other hearts 
wishes—not weighed down and oppressed with than oure; and here upon this Bible, which my 
their distress.” mother gavexne with her parting blessing, let us 
Tnlataa, 
Swrelnedis, 
Shinap’c Fmar, 
Sottslypavina, 
Wne Kmrute Orda, 
New Brunswick, N. J. 
f'jp/” Answers iu two weeks. 
Tinsechrew, 
Delnow Ador, 
Rishes'f Lilh, 
Bmoeil Rakbor, 
Ulbl Nru. 
Wst. L. Danforth. 
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please tleeignats i chat theg u’b/i, In the letters containing 
their lists,so far as convenient,so that we rnaysend with¬ 
out delay. In answer to inquiries we would say there is 
yet plenty of time to compete Tor and win the premiums 
offered in our last for Qr*t lists, &e., (except those offered 
for first flfty lists of ten subscribers.) As our premiums 
were this year published a month later than usual, the 
chances are good for all who go to work at once—Abie. 
The Practical Shepherd. — This great American 
work on Sheep Husbandry, will until further notice, be 
sold only by the Publisher and Club Agents of the Rubai, 
New-Yorker,— (except for a short time by a very few 
county Agents who are now canvassing—not over ten or 
twelve In all.) Onr plan is to appoint no more canvassing 
agents for the hook.’but to furnish it to our Club Agents 
at such a rate that they can make a handsome profit on 
sale*. Tills will give our friends a benefit and place the 
work in the hands of the people of hundreds of localities 
where it has not been offered for sale—for not one-tenth 
of the counuc* In the wool growing sections of the States 
or Canada have yet been canvassed. The book is in de‘ 
mand, and Rvkaj. renders wanting It should apply to 
Club Agent* or send to the Publisher,—<w it Is hoi sold at 
the bookstores. 
Die Practical Shepherd Is a large l2tno. volume of 454 
pages, handsomely Illustrated, priuted aud bound. Price 
$2, (post-paid, if wot by mail) which i« cheap at present 
cost and price* of hooka# TO any Mural club Agent (i. 
e., any person remitting for 5,7,10 or more subscribers to 
the H. S. y. far 18*,) we will tarnish the work at a 
handsome discount from retail price. 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
THE LABGE-T-eiUt I’LATINC 
Agricultural, Literary aud Family Newspaper 
IS PUBLISHED fcVKltY SATOBDAN BY 
D. D. T, MOORE. ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
OtTc’, Uni»n Bnildmgj, 0pfO>ik it’ fonrt House, Buffalo St 
ricnxs, J-V -im.i.vr/;.- 
Three Dollar* a Year—To Club* and Agonu as fol¬ 
lows:— Five Copies one year, lor $ it; Seven, and one free 
to Club Agent, tor $10; Ten, and one five, for #23: and 
any create ruutnbcr at the same rate—only $-250 per copy. 
Club papers directed to Individual* and sent to ns many 
different Post-Offices as desired. As we prepay Ameri¬ 
can postage on copies sent abroad, $2.70 U the lowest 
Club rate tor Canada, and $S.50 to Europe,-hut during 
the present rule of exchange, Canada Ageuts or Sub¬ 
scribers remitting for the Rpiial Id bill* ot their own 
specie-paying hanks will not be Charged postage. The 
beet way to rvinlt is by Draft on New \ ork, (It s* eost erf 
exchange,)—and all draft* made payuble to ibe order of 
the Publisher, mat ss mailed at his bisk. 
tlf The above T erms and Rates must lie strictly ad¬ 
hered to ao long as published—and we trust there will be 
no necessity for advancing them during the year. Those 
who remit leas than epocifiod price for a club or single 
copy, will be credited only a* ft r rates. Persons sending 
less Ilian full price for llils volume will find when their 
subscriptions expire by. referring to figures on address 
label —the figures Indicating the No. of the paper to 
which they have paid being given. 
