of whose voters were thereby placed on
the list of unavailables.

FOOTNOTES:

[3] It is a mistake to suppose that the presidential election is
_always_ attended with great excitement. Monroe literally walked over
the course for his second term. Martin Van Buren's election passed off
very quietly; and General Taylor's, being taken almost as a matter of
course, was accompanied by no extraordinary demonstrations.

[4] Now more than 600,000.

[5] This _sobriquet_, at first applied to a small fraction of the
New-York democrats, which fraction afterwards absorbed the whole party,
had its origin in the following incident: A quarrel occurring at Tammany
Hall (the head-quarters of the democracy), the majority moved an
adjournment, and, to make sure of it, put out the lights. The recusants,
in anticipation of some such step, had provided themselves with _lucifer
matches_, and, by their aid, re-lit the lamps, and continued the
meeting. Lucifers were then called loco-focos--why, no one knows; the
name was probably invented by some imaginative popular manufacturer of
the article; and the appellation of _Loco-Foco party_ was proposed in
derision, for this small band of seceders; who, however, in time,
brought over the original majority to their views. Hence the Whigs
continued to apply the contemptuous designation to the whole democratic
or radical party.

[6] Cornelius Matthews, to whom this quotation from memory may possibly
do injustice, but the work in which it occurs is now out of print.

From Bentley's Miscellany.

THE JEWISH HEROINE: A STORY OF TANGIER.[7]

In the latter part of the year 1834, there resided in Tangier a Jew,
Haim Hachuel, who employed himself, as well as his wife, Simla, in
commercial pursuits. They had two children; the eldest, Ysajar, followed
the trade of his father; the second was a daughter, Sol, who had just
completed her seventeenth year, and whose rare and surpassing beauty was
the admiration of all who saw her. Though Fortune lavished not her
smiles on Haim Hachuel, he lacked not the means of living in comfort
with his small family, by his own and Simla's unassisted efforts, the
latter taking charge not only of the education of her daughter, but of
the whole management of the domestic affairs, and even the common work
of the house. The careful mother, however, provided that her daughter's
employments should be limited as much as possible to household cares, so
that the entire arrange