ak well of Price. No one can doubt that he is a man of unusual energy
and ability. McCulloch will increase Price's force to about thirty-five
thousand, which number we must expect to meet.

Hunter and McKinstry have not yet appeared, but Pope reported himself last
night, and some of his men came in to-day.

_Camp White, October 22d._ The bridge is built, and the army is now
crossing the Osage. In five days a firm road has been thrown across the
river, over which our troops may pass in a day. The General and staff
crossed by the ferry, and are now encamped two miles south of the
Pomme-de-Terre.

* * * * *

BIRDOFREDUM SAWIN, ESQ., TO MR. HOSEA BIGLOW.

_Letter from the REVEREND HOMER WILBUR, A.M., inclosing the
Epistle aforesaid._

Jaalam, 15th Nov., 1861.

It is not from any idle wish to obtrude my humble person with undue
prominence upon the publick view that I resume my pen upon the present
occasion. _Juniores ad labores._ But having been a main instrument in
rescuing the talent of my young parishioner from being buried in the
ground, by giving it such warrant with the world as would be derived from
a name already widely known by several printed discourses, (all of which I
maybe permitted without immodesty to state have been deemed worthy of
preservation in the Library of Harvard College by my esteemed friend Mr.
Sibley,) it seemed becoming that I should not only testify to the
genuineness of the following production, but call attention to it, the
more as Mr. Biglow had so long been silent as to be in danger of absolute
oblivion. I insinuate no claim to any share in the authourship (_vix ea
nostra voco_) of the works already published by Mr. Biglow, but merely
take to myself the credit of having fulfilled toward them the office of
taster, (_experto crede_,) who, having first tried, could afterward bear
witness,--an office always arduous, and sometimes even dangerous, as in
the ease of those devoted persons who venture their lives in the
deglutition of patent medicines (_dolus latet in generalibus_, there is
deceit in the most of them) and thereafter are wonderfully preserved long
enough to append their signatures to testimonials in the diurnal and
hebdomadal prints. I say not this as covertly glancing at the authours of
certain manuscripts which have been submitted to my literary judgment,
(though an epick in twenty-four books on the "Taking of Jericho" might,
s