es of transatlantic humbug are to be thrown off; and the
establishment of wholesome feelings, and reliance upon our own
intellectual resources, firmly effected. I love to see the general press
engaged now and then in cheering onward the laborers in the more
unfrequented and toilsome avenues of our literary vineyard. It sends a
GOD-speed to the bosoms of those whose travails are more for their country
than themselves; and who are content, in anonymous pride, to believe, that
it heralds that bright day of mental refinement which will ere long, among
the freest and noblest confederacy of nations on earth, irradiate the
utmost borders of that holy circumference,

'Our Native Land!'

A THRUST WITH A TWO-EDGED WEAPON.--We rather incline to the opinion that
the 'complainant below' is infringing the law which forbids the use of
concealed weapons; that are not the less to be guarded against, certainly,
when as in the present case they cut both ways. But our readers shall
judge: DEAR EDITOR: The country, strange as it may appear, has peculiar
and permanent inhabitants; neither dressing in skins, nor wearing their
own feathers, but habited after the glimpses of fashion which reach them
through their trees. As we have never yet met with a man who was so
fortunate as to have no relations, we take it for granted that all
city-zens, yourself among the rest, have country-cousins. Think of the
countless multitudes that turn their longing eyes in the direction of a
metropolis like this, yearning for a visit, and sending off by frequent
_Opportunities_, never by mail, those remarkable epistolary compounds of
hopes and wants which no other race of beings can compose in perfection:
'Hope JOHN is well, and BETSEY will come and see us next summer; and
want'--LAWSON and STEWART! what do they _not_ want? Every thing; from
twenty yards of silk down to a penny's-worth of tape. The letters run
somewhat in this guise, though less poetically:

'Cousin John, please to send down to-morrow,
At eight, by the Scarborough mail,
'Claudine, or the Victim of Sorrow,'
Don Juan, two mops and a pail;
Six ounces of Bohea from TWINING'S,
A peg-top, a Parmesan cheese,
Some rose-colored sarcenet, for linings,
A stew-pan, and STEVENSON'S Glees;
A song ending 'Hey-noni-noni,'
A chair with a cover of chintz,
A mummy dug up by BELZONI,
A skein of white worsted from FLINT'S.'

Half the things that are sent fo