wise it imagines to be doomed. On the first | prosperous. On the second supposition we supposition we may trust to the healing in- can but denounce the wickedness of such a fluence of time to bring it to that wiser and policy, and express our earnest hope, as well cooler frame of mind, when it will distinguish friends from foes, and when it will acknowledge that England has no other desire than to see both of them happy and

as our firm conviction, that it will utterly fail of its mark, and perhaps bring about a second and still more deplorable and damaging disruption on the heels of the first.

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admissible into the academy has been enlarged by the addition of but twenty-three. The complement in 1812 was two hundred and fifty. The visitors, therefore, recommend that the corps be raised to four hundred cadets, that each United States Senator, and each United States Representative, be allowed, respectively, to nom

by the President at his discretion.

the late Board is, that the cadets be hereafter Another and quite important suggestion of taught the use of the telegraph, so as to become practical operators. The course of study now reduce it to four years, which was the term origcovers a period of five years. It is proposed to

POLLY THE PORTER.—The Messager du Nord states that on the Edinburgh and Glasgow line the Directors, in consequence of the neglect of the porters to call out the names of the stations, have placed parrots at those points, and that the well-tutored birds shriek out the necessary information, to the perfect satisfaction of travel-inate one, and that the remainder be appointed lers. A contemporary affects to discredit the statement, but Mr. Punch believes that it is perfectly correct, except that the employment of the parrots was not rendered necessary by the neglect of the porters, but by their inability to make their provincial utterances comprehended by educated travellers. The same inconvenience is felt in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Lincoln-inally adopted. The graduation of two classes shire, and other semi-civilized regions, and Mr. Punch is happy to hear that the Directors on most of the lines have resolved to meet the difficulty in the same way as the Scotch authorities have done. A large and choice assortment of gray parrots is now being trained at the Geographical Society's house, and as soon as the birds are sufficiently apt, they will be placed upon the various stations. They will not interA COMPLIMENT TO THE NORTH.-The Safere with the present porters, who will yelp, clip, vannah Republican says, “In times of great pubscream, grunt, and make the other noises comic excitement a great many stories are invented prehensible by the inhabitants of the localities, while to the inquiry of the Christian traveller, the accomplished parrot will politely and distinctly state, in English, the name of the station at which the train may be stopping. A brute of Mr. Punch's acquaintance (a hateful brute) adds that this finding employment for parrots is a logical consequence of the new system of creating occupation for-but, no, Punch will be hanged if he writes a word against women.

Punch.

AFFAIRS AT WEST POINT.-The Board, which has just closed its session, recommended an increase in the number of cadets. The maximum number that ean now be admitted, is two hundred and seventy-three, while the barracks to the buildings are capable of accommodating four hundred. Although, in the last forty-nine years, the population of the country has been multiplied fourfold, the legal number of cadets

this year, the fourth and fifth, will create a large number of vacancies, and will considerably increase the size of the class which will enter upon there remains but thirteen cadets from the South, In the whole corps and but one of these is from the Cotton States.

its studies this summer.

Of course

in both sections with the view of adding to the.
public irritation. Of this class is the statement,
generally believed, that it is unsafe for a citizen
of the Confederate States to put his feet on the
soil of the enemy. This is not true.
it is advisable and best in times like these for
Southern men to remain at home, but in cases
where their families are at the North, and they
desire to bring them home, or in any other ur-
gent necessity, we have no doubt of their ability
to go and return with perfect safety. The only
condition is, attend to your own business, and
leave the affairs of others alone. We know a
number of gentlemen of this state, some of
them of this city, who have recently gone North
and returned without the slightest molestation.
We yesterday saw a letter from a resident of
Savannah now in New York, in which he ex-
presses his astonishment at the respect with
which he is everywhere treated, after all the
bloodthirsty stories he had read in the news-
papers."

POETRY.-Parting Hymn, 322. Two Moods, 322. National Hymn, 322. The Drum's

Wild Roll: Phi Beta Kappa, 368.

SHORT ARTICLES.-Slang, 349. S. Austin Allibone, LL.D., 384. peculiar to Infants and Mothers, 384.

The Blackbird, 369.

Treason in Texas, 354. The Envelope Mania, 367.
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The blood of Massachusetts, shed at Lex-mitted to revisit the scenes they loved, and ington on the 19th of April, 1775, was not shed more gloriously than that of the sons of the same old commonwealth, who, marching by our national highway to the defence of our common capital, were slain at Balti-lin, Robert and Lewis Morris, Wilson and more on the 19th of April, 1861.

action of the Congress now assembled will decide whether the national independence es tablished against the united strength of the British empire in '76 is to fall ignominiously before the attacks of a rebel minority of our own countrymen in '61.

country are again in peril, and to-day the is-orable-perhaps as memorable in history as sue is with us. We come together now, not that which we have met to celebrate. The as in past years, to rejoice over a national domain boundless in extent, peopled by countrymen differing it may be in their views and institutions, but united in loyalty and affection, at peace in their own borders, and with the great arm of the Union protecting its citizens alike on sea or land, at home or in foreign climes. But we meet in sadness to overlook a divided nation, and to listen to the tramp of martial forces larger than ever before trod the soil of America: the one army bearing proudly aloft the stars and stripes, and keeping step to the music of the Union; the other grasping the banner of rebellion and the black flag of piracy, proclaiming death to the Constitution and the Union, and ruin to the commerce of the republic.

ever!"

It is to decide the question whether in the next century our descendants shall refer to the 4th of July as the forgotten birthday of an extinct republic, or whether, when we shall sleep with our fathers and our children shall slumber by our side, their grandsons shall meet as we do this day to bless our memories as we bless those of our Revolutionary sires: to spread to the breeze from the Atlantic to the Pacific, on every hill-side and in every valley, the flag of our Union, the stars Several states, about one-fourth of our and stripes that we so proudly love, and join whole number, profess to have resumed their their voices in swelling the cry of Adamssovereignty and seceded, as they term it, from" Independence now, and independence forthe Federal Union; and certain persons professing to act in their name, have extempor- While the great issue, the success or failure ized what they call the Southern Confederacy, of the American experiment, the continuance elected a President, Jefferson Davis, and a of our Union or its disintegration, rests imVice-President, Alexander H. Stephens, or-mediately with the President and with Conganized an army, issued letters of marque,gress, it rests in an almost equal degree upon and declared war on the people and the each one of us. The American people are at Government of the United States: and they once citizens and sovereigns the fountain have publicly announced, through Walker, and source of the supreme authority of the the Secretary of Davis, their intention of land, and to us, the people, will our servants speedily seizing our capital at Washington, in Congress naturally and properly look for with its national archives and muniments of guidance in this extremity. Already have you seen how fairly an honest executive represents the sentiment of the majority of his countrymen, availing himself of their counsels, gathering strength from their energy and determination, and so directing the Government that its action keeps time to the beating of the national pulse. Already in response to the nation's call has the national Government arisen in gigantic strength from the depths of imbecility to which it had fallen, to a position of grandeur, dignity, and power, which has silenced the half-uttered sarcasms of European declaimers about the internal weakness of popular institutions.

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To meet the rebel force arrayed against the capital, President Lincoln has called upon the loyal states, and at the word, fresh from the plough, the loom, and the work-shop, fresh from college seats and the professor's chair, from the bar, the pulpit, and the countinghouse, fresh from every department of American industry, the army of the Union is in the field, and the world awaits the impending crisis. Europe looks on with undisguised and wondering interest, and while France and Germany seem instinctively to appreciate our situation, the British Cabinet and the British press have strangely blundered, and have muttered something we do not understand, about "rights of belligerents," "a wicked war," and the "bursting of the bubble of democracy."

Such, in brief, is our position at home and abroad, and this day is destined to be mem

Most of you-perhaps all of you-have made up your minds deliberately, intelligently, and dispassionately in regard to your duty, and it is a general and proper sentiment among us that this is a time for energetic action, not for discussion. But still as I am here, honored by your appointment