There is scarcely a body corporate, society, club, or any other collection of human beings, under whatever denomination they may pass, that does not own its band; and it is no uncommon thing to have your ear assailed with a dozen different ones, playing away at the same moment, in as many different quarters as hearing can extend to. The members strut about in gaudy attire, like so many turkey-cocks, and they do their duty with so much determination, that we have heard it stated the hornplayer has broken a blood vessel, and the serpent has been blown from crooked into straight. It is useless to try and persuade an American that any professed player on a wind instrument, come from what country he may, can be at all compared to his; and if it be the case (which may after all be bounce), why Jullien will have saved a large sum of money in passage-money alone; and if it be not so, he will have done a better thing he will have consulted the amour propre of the people. It can make no matter to Jullien whether those members of any band he may engage should blow their heads off, as long as by the substitution of American for foreign talent, he can manage to fill his coffers. We most sincerely hope he will; and if we enter

tain a doubt upon the subject, it arises from our apprehension, that even the magic of his baton will not keep them in their places; for nothing has hitherto been invented, that can make an American stand still for five minutes together.

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ITS EFFECT UPON HEALTH LIMIT OF AMERICAN LIFE

SPITTING, AND WHERE TO SPIT -HITTING THE MARK AT ANY DISTANCE-A SURE WAY TO HAVE DYSPEPSIA, AND A SURE WAY NOT TO GET RID OF IT ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, MARRIED AND SINGLE". WOMEN'S RIGHTS, AND

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WHAT TO PAY FOR THEM DELICACIES OF THE SEASON

COWHIDING AND LOLA MONTEZ-A CALIFORNIAN MARRIAGE

-ART AT A DISCOUNT, AND GOLD AT A PREMIUM-"OFFICIAL" STATISTICS NOT TO BE DOUBTED-SURPLUS AT A NONPLUS- AMERICA'S ARISTOCRATICAL NOTIONS-IMPORTANCE

OF A TITLE-NAMES MISNAMED-DIFFICULTY OF A LETTER REACHING ITS DESTINATION-HOW AN ENGLISHMAN'S IDEA OF INDEPENDENCE DIFFERS FROM AN AMERICAN'S-HOW TO

ADDRESS A MAN AT HIS OWN HOUSE IN INDIANA - MORE

AMERICAN WINES, OR RATHER WINES IN AMERICA DEFINITION OF A FLIMSY CHARACTER - NOT A SHOP IN ALL

THE UNITED STATES - PAPER CURRENCY AND ITS VIRTUES

-YOUNG AMERICA AT FULL LENGTH-THE HABITS OF
AMERICA " A PERFECT CHARACTER"-CONTRAST

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN CUSTOM-HOUSE.

ALL

OF THE

LET it not be supposed, for one moment, because the United States of America happen to be some 1600 miles of extreme length from north to south, and some 2800 miles of breadth from east to west, with only about twenty-three millions and odd inhabitants, according to the last census ("One halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable quantity of sack"); because you meet with very few cities and towns, comparatively speaking, and when you do meet with them, with very few dwellers therein; because mountains rise up before the eye, as far as its vision can reach, and seas, miscalled rivers, roll about in every direction; because under the brow of the one are plains and prairies boundless in expanse, and the rocks washed by the other are gigantic in dimension, that, therefore, "from Dan to Beersheba all is barrenness." No such thing! for, while God has been bountiful to this mighty

land, man has not been unmindful of his Maker's

bounty.

Throughout the thirty-one States, the district of Columbia and the four or five "Territories" comprised in this stretch of land, there are ranges of hills with their volcanoes, and chains of lakes with their tributaries-diggings with their countless nuggets of gold, mines with their treasures of copper, lead, iron and mercury, limitless fields of coal and limestone-vast forests where the elm, the birch, the pine, the willow, the maple, &c., have been reared for centuries, and died away with old age—uplands where the oak, beech, sycamore, acacia, walnut, cedar and sassafras spread around their umbrageous mantles -productive plantations of cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco; salt and mineral springs, and crops in every latitude, of almost every grain and other commodity cultivated by the industry of persevering mortals.

At the extreme north, while snow has overwhelmed the land with a depth and a severity almost unendurable, and when floriculture, horticulture, agriculture, and every other culture are in a state of suspension, at the south, flowers are in full bloom, fruit trees in profuse bearing, husbandry in active operation in all its manifold occupations,