st.
O Great and True! You do not know,
You cannot tell, you cannot feel
How far through time your name must go,
Honored by all men, high or low,
Wherever Freedom's votaries kneel.

This wide world talks in many a tongue--
This world boasts many a noble state--
In _all_, your praises will be sung,
In all the great will call you great.
Freedom! Where'er that word is known,
On silent shore, by sounding sea,
'Mid millions or in deserts lone,
Your noble name shall ever be.

The word is out--the deed is done;
Let no one carp or dread delay:
When such a steed is fairly on,
Fate never fails to find a way.
Hurrah! hurrah! The track is clear,
We know your policy and plan;
We'll stand by you through every year:
Now, Father ABRAHAM, _you're_ our man!

THE PRESS IN THE UNITED STATES.

The unexampled extent of newspaper issues in the United States has often
excited the astonishment of intelligent observers; but it is doubtful
whether the whole of the enormous truth could have been fully
appreciated without the actual figures which reveal it. According to the
"preliminary report" of the 8th census, 1860, recently published by the
Hon. J.C.G. Kennedy, the superintendent, it appears that the annual
circulation of newspapers and periodicals is no less than 927,951,548,
or at the rate of 34.36 for every white man, woman, and child of our
population. The annual value of all the printing done in the United
States, for that year, is stated at a fraction less than thirty nine and
three quarters millions of dollars.

These numbers are sufficiently astounding; but the rate of increase
since 1850, is, if possible, even more so. In that year, says Mr.
Kennedy, the whole circulation amounted to 426,409,978 copies; and the
rate of increase for the decade is 117.61 per cent., while the increase
of the white population during the same period was only 38.12 per cent.
If the circulation should continue to grow in the same proportion for
the next ten years, the number of newspapers and periodicals issued in
1870 will be a little over two billions.

In addition to these domestic publications, no inconsiderable number of
foreign journals is introduced into the United States. "The British
Almanac and Companion" for 1862 states the number in 1860 to have been
as follows: from Great Britain, 1,557,689; from France, 270,655; from
Bremen, 41,171; from Prussia, 83,349. These fi