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ANNIE GRAY.
She was a winsome gi. Never
as one more so. Her home was in
the"pening of a gorgo of the mountain
where the ravine spreads out into a val.
Oy,.-not very wide, watered by the
stream that, dashed wildly over the ruck
a little farther up. The broad low cot
::tago of the widow Gray (as I will call
her by your leave, although I need not
say I use a fictitious name) was con
caaled from view in the day time by a
denso mass: of trees and shrubbery, ex
cepi on one side where the lawn sloped
down to the bank at the creek. Here
were usually moored two or three light
skilfs' which might ea' ily be iirced up
the rapids quite into the mountain gorge
and which were often seen bearing An
nio and her brother down the current,
returning, from some expedition on the
ihs. Had you passed along the road
which crossed the mouth of the ravine
below the cottage, you would not have
swpected that a house was in the thick.
et above you, unless it had been in the
evening and you saw the gleam of the
light, or paused, as I often have paused;
to let your horse drink at the edge of
the broad creek; and then perhaps you
might have heard a song floating out of
the dark wood, and if you rode on till
Inlidnight it would linger in your ears,
and you would fancy you had heard a
spirit.
That man must have a hard heart
that did not love Annie. She was the
- impersonation of loveliness. I never
could describe a face or form. I do not
remember friends by their features, and
I have not the remotest idea of the
color of their eyes or hair in nine cases
out of ten. But I do remember her
with distinct memory. She was tall,
that is, rather above the medium height,
and slender but graceful and beautifu
ly shaped. Every motion was natural
and unaffected, and her footstep was as
lig ht as her heart-and that had not a
heaviness. Sweet Annie Gray! The
music of her laughter rings from ant
* the lonesome years like the melodious
carol of a bird in the arches of a ruined
temple! 11er eye was dark; quick as
sunshine in its changes; and full of uin
spoken poetry. You might read all
manner of beautiful fancies and holy
thoughts there. But I linger too long
on this description of her. 11er broth.
erwas a fine fellow, a year or two oldler
than she, and one of the mneriest boys
in all the country. Hie loved his sister
too, and as I have before remarked love
has a reflective force which makes the
*lover lovely.
Iam completely lout itn a whirlwind
of'mcmories new that I return to those
days and scenes. There were a thou
'sand incidents of my early life that are
brought vividly before me the moment I
* recall the old cottage in th~len and
its beloved inmates. Ihow startinghy
does the trite remark that 'we live in a
hclanging world' recur to our thoughts
overy day. In fact it cannot become
trite.
Theovery stars that we wor hmip as
changeless sometimes fall, and t te eyes
*that we worahip wvith more of devotion
than the stars, gow dim, and the hearts
thm~ye fancy asimmnutablo, change
bio but God. It is attribute of Deity
which includes all others, and to whic'h
mortals do homage because thiey carmot
comlprehend it.
-score of years has removed that
* cottage from the face, anid its inhabi
tants having separated here, have met
again up yonder! 0n yoewt
theips urmutring hymns and pray.
ro ad thir 'hn h tb
ert ho'fgleudsof na youi or~k Y r 'e
passed away;, ,.14 x. ainq l 'l
that c m pany ,: Wt- ,p.) o.
ous".s cnd enng ?1 y i o
was at its ulhai ' V lttnB , '.et
strolling: up the moitain del& Qan G
coming down !together, had, nearly ei
rea'ched their gbot as-'twllght thetd! l6
ai-ound thn ,' Qfh to; turn ironto p
forest, she badoed pus to.it tle iff
almost under the fall; an standing ?n it
a rock in the very middl0'of the water .w
she shook 'her tiny-fist at :the cataract,. tt
and held aniock conversation with it. u
Returning mysolf urn a day's shoot; g
ing on the. mountains, I aw her on ,her iv
pedestal before Iwas seen, and throw- ti
ing myself down'on the groond,' Watch ' e
ed her with. admirii eyes. Uihe
herself was not more beautiful. She hi
talked to the water as to an old familiar h
friend, and in truth if there if there be k
sprites and ouphes they must have loved
her. Her voice was clearer than that al
of the stream, and when she lauglied as le
she at length did, at some; odd reply w
she imagined the fall to make, the old b
arches of the forest and the ravine gave o1
back a musical echo, so that I started ti
to my feet and listened to it' as to the
voices of fairies indeed. vi
But a cry of half terror, and half w
laughter, started me, and springing st
down the bank. I saw her for a single r
instant as she disappeared in the water. lil
Her footing had proved insecure and G
she slipped from the rock into the em- si
brace of the stream she loved. S
It was the work of an instant, to d;
spring out to her and swim 'but a few w
strokes to the shore, and she was not a h
particle frightened by the occurrence- m
on the contrary the woods rang with r<
her uncontrollable laughter as soon as u;
she was on the shore. sc
I walked in that samo forest two si
years ago and heard again the music of bi
that ringing laughter through the long tr
halls of time; made scarcely noee melo- se
dious by its passage through the corri
dors of years! to
Placing her in the boat and taking hi
the oars from Ned, I soon delivered b<
them safely at the cottage and bade them ki
good night. The next day Annie had a .
raging fever and was delirious for ten
days. I saw her several times, but she
did not recognize me, albeit I was a near
relative and had known her from her
birth. " There was one voice that she re
cognuized, and one face that she looked
up to with longing love. It was the
tace of Phil. R--, who had won her n
pure young heart. But 1. will not in
trude on the memory of that love, which
is the property of but few now living.
Phil is dead too. On the tenth (lay of t
her sickness she slept heavily, and woke
in her right mind. But, alas fo'r the
lear ones around her, it was but too r
evidett she was near to heaven. H1er
eye was clear and full ofjoy, as if she ti
had been, as I doubt not she had, with b
angels.
Old Mr. Thompson, the clergyman ~
who had baptized uts tall, and hand buried h
out fathuers, and had loved us fhithf'ully st
fromt the days of our first lispting, stood
by her bed, and she smiled joy fully as b
site sawy him. al
'Ah, Mr. Thompson, I usecd to wondler de
whether I should die with aill around sc
me, and this is just exactly as 1 wished mr
it. It seemnsstrantge too that 1 amt dy
ing. 1 dott't exactly believe it yet. pi
Phil, am I dying?' ai
'God forbid, Annie.' a
'Aht! that tone, Phil.! You mean to s
say God only can save me, for all htope a:
of man is gone. Don't grieve, thtough, fh
don't gilieve. Why, it isn't hard to si
die. I love thte (lear earth wvell enontgh of
to stay here, and the flowers and birds, of
andl the brook, and the old scat down th
on the bank of the stream; bitt I don't
feel so very sorrowful to leave them as 1 en
used to think I would. And I love in
mother, and Ned, and Mr'. Thtompson, is)
and---and---and you, Phil!' and here her 13'
voice, wvhich hiad been low but chieerf'ul, lir
suddenly tremblcd and she was silent. si
At length shte continued in a renewed di
tone ofeheerfulness; 'Phtil-- go somnctimnes er
and sit on the old sent down theoro by rn
the stream and put your arm along the di
hack of it and look up---and if you don't mn
feel miy kiss it will be because angels' la
kisses can't be felt; for if Gdod lets me p
PIll come there, and Lake the seat which sv
I have so often sat in and lay my head oi
on your shoulder. Mr. Thompson, I'm c
going- to heaven at last in advance of rii
you. I started a long wvay behind, but fe
I shall be there first after all.
'Te good old inan to whom the last ti
part of her sentence wias addressed sob- itn
bed aloud; but nt length ove,.t,, hi T1
Simiilongg inteloc oifll ,over .
ee igarin>mas:hPJoornaiencep.,a a
fWe earndi m , toonistill; at i
iedt 6o o edbob and watched tlieface..
SQurSelg Ashe spoke of heav ,c
ho neye lighted, and-: as he begged t
o4 to sparoe hor.tousyeb alittlioong-. I
,?'at he .gzoiseok where Phil was i
oeling:with:his. face :buried in the
low stioh layiat- the-sideaof the bed. -
Lheni saiw her hand:steal along unti <
reached:hiabead and-her.tipy fingers, i
eo mamong bhthick-locks of .hair, and t
o neb nioinetit her hand wa in :his,
d io' rose.-and :sitting by-her' side,
sed into hers face with unutterable i
ords- of hbpe escape from the lips of e
ie olergyman,-I saw hore.tnove.nsifto: a
6y, Kiss me, Phil;? and;.he stooped. e
>wn to her, and with her,arm around. i
s. necyk andsthat last loving:kiss upon i
w.her lips sho wont forth by the -un- d
aown path that all must tread. , I
.But she went not forth feebly nor. u
one.: Strong in hbr simple faith, and r
aning confidently on her Saviour she C
ho was fairest of our children here,
ts long ago become, I cannot doubt, c
o -of. the fairest of God's children (
erc.. t
Peace bo with her. On her grave d
olots bloom, and I have seen children c
he had wandered -over the hills .in r
arch of flowers all day- long in vain, a
,fuse to pluck those which bloomed lio- 5
y over all that was earthly of Annie c
ray. Peace .be with her! In that
inny land whereof I dream in summer. t
abbath morning dreams, I trust one r
ty to meet her.---Thero the voice that t
as -low and plaintive as the night-wind t
re, has renewed its tones in thrilling
lody. There the.last sound of sor- c
wful discord is bushed, for as she left T
those sounds .died away, faintly, I
arce heard, them gone forever! and :
io did not hear them when she came c
ek, as she did at times to keep the (
yst with Phil. . She heard then no t
unds but the beatings of his heart! i:
One summer morning, ten years af- (I
reward, she called him suddenly, and t
s spirit sprang forth at the call. The c
mnds of earth were broken! None t
iew whereof he died.---. Y. Jour. b
'am. s
IINTS TO MEN ABOUT COS- t
'UME, &c.
THE AUTHOR OF "TiHE PRETTY WO
- ~MAN." ~ L
As for costume, the remarks that I J
ade upon (hat of the ladies, with re- s
ird to its progressive improvement,
1no means applies to that of their
crner partners ; the dress of the lit- a
r has never been so hideous and un- }
coming as it is at present. since the
ys of the Venerable Bede, who is o
presented in a species of long nlight
)Wn, buttoned tightly around his a
roat and descending in a straight line t
low his feet. t
Agameinoni antid Achilles looked e -
well in pictures, with their nodding 0
umes, their shields, their hehnets,
ecir sauidals, their pomp and eiremui
anoeCs of' mairtial dress, hut they andi a
eir comnpeers must in reality have
en anything but agree able in 'app~ear
ice, dlerivinig, as they coul have
meI, very little benefit from raxzors,
ap, pocket handkereiefs, gloves,
acassor oil. eomibs, or brushes.
WVorse still must have been the early t
irt of the drhrk ages, when Costume'
id manner's wer:e equally uinretincd , ii
in the days of Tiroy; but without the
!enididl gloss of armour, without the~ r
mecing plumies, without the graceful a
iw of' "'the leopard's painted prido" '
chi as digniified the airy movemecnts S
the beautiful Paris, all tile poetryI
'effect gone, only thc coarseness and t
e rudeness remininlg.
B3etween these two periods, however, t
mue ages of Grecian and Roman lux- I
y, of' Babylonishi pomp, andl of Jew- 1,
wealth; when meni "went dlelicate- jb
;"' when Ty'~rian purple robed their q
nbs; when the cohor'ts of Rome where s
eathled inl goldl, and golden dust po0w- a
red the long love-locks of her silken I
aperors: when the halrness of war, hel-b
ot, buckler, cuirass, sword, arnd san
I1, we wrought of the ine-st work- e
anpsip go'urious als that whieci was v
shud upon the robius of a voluiptuous v
ace---upon the flowing toga, the li
roping mantle, upon the gemn-studdl- I
ellcains of Roman senator'e, upon the (d
stly housings of' their steeds, upon the s
ih appliances of-- their sumptuous
asts. . . t
Counting froin that rude Saxon time, ii
e dress of men01 gradually advanced h
elegance until tile days of Chales v
,whlen it may be said to have arrived t
,t.its hpight of spledor; havig mean
rhile, passe a througU many aclmnges
ndamodificationa, of which, that exis
ng. ltring.the zeignoElizabeth. was,
erhaps, thei.moat magnificent;It;t as.
eeidedly the rost costly; the taste of
be,queen for dress influenced that of
er courtiers; they vied with each other
a the richness of the; matorils. they
ore-.the-:velvets,, the: silks, the satins
-in the profusion of their jewels, in the
xtravagance of their ,personal adorn
ng, and in- the reckless'abandonment of
heir. general ox enditure.
No one exceeded in these points the
;allant Sir Wahter.laleigh; the dal
ionds on whose court shoes were valu
d at ?6000-the button of; whose hat.
oaa a pearl without price--but the hid
oua ruff then in vogue-the peculiar
lode of catting the hair-and the padd
igswhich it was the fashion to intro
uce in various parts of the dress, must
ave.rendered even so superb a costume
nbecoming to any save very handsome
den, who could wear and carry off any
bing.
But how graceful-hoW faultless in
ffect, the dress of the martyred
harles!-black---adorned only with
he richest lace,-and with a few splen
id jewels; how beautiful the disposition
f the falling hair! a more kingly, a
tore calmly noble-style cannot be im
gined; superior in such respects to the
;ayer, richer, niore elaborate toilette
f his more fortunate son.
As for the men of the present day,
hey have little advantage in dress,
otbing can be much more frightful
han modes--from the round hat down
the boot, from the collar to the cuff.
Dress coats are hideous things, frock
oats are worse; worse are paletots
icolls-Taglionis--Syrian guazes
ilots-D'Orsays, an abominable thing
a waistcoat; dreadful is a black neck
loth, more dreadful still a white one.
,ustom has prescribed an almost puri
inical formality of male dress, and it
iconsidered the height of bad taste to
epart thence; no one can break through
ie rules of established form; the only
hance left for men of. lively imagina
on is to take refuge in striking colors;
ut this course generally renders them
ubject to ridicule and remarks, they
ecome conspicuous, but rarely so for
ibir advantage.
The eye has become so accustomed to
als formality, that it is impossible to
void allowing it to influence one's
adgement; it is impossible to avoid a
spicion of the wearers of anything ul
ra; how alarmed you would be, gentle
cader, at, the appearance of one of your
equaintances in a bright blue coat, a
ca-green scarf, and a scarlet waistcoat.
'et the individual in question might be
nly indulging a taste for brilliant color
ig, le need not be either a mad-man or
knave; time was when taste was the
)lc guide in the choice of the male at
re: when Rochester wore crimson vel
et, and Sedley white satin piuked with
range.
What a bad style very long hair
ives to an inldividu1al; even moustaches
rc looked uplonl with suspicion (unless
'orn by cavalry mcen;) we cannot help
uteying they are false, or that the
caurer is a decided leg, or a Boulongite,
riven home by the last French revolu
-on,
I have wandered from the title of
ais paer which professeS to treat of
lhands'me men,'" but positively I had
othing to say about them, unless the
ublie would like to know what style of
en I really think handsome; I do not
hmnire those gentlemen-the beauties
cavalry regiments-who arc tall and
im, and have fine couaplexions, and
irge dark eyes, and vast black mous
iehids and aquiline noses.
Ever-y. reimnent has one at least of
muse heoroes; he is alsvays spoken of as
tL. 'iandseige fellow, TPom so and so;"
e does great execution among the
elles of the town where the depot is
uartered, but too often, in fact, I may
wy invariably, ho is nothing but tall
mud slim, and has only that fine comn
lexuon, that vast moustache, those
lack eyes.,
No mind, no soul, these dwell in oth
rn stuff, eitheri in little frail frames, worn
ith thc activity of' the untiring essence
ithmin, or, more rarely but more suita
ly, in the frames of' men, handsome as
'pollo, strong as Ihercules, calm; lofty
ignified, as the omnipotent Jove him
These latter are the men, I admire,
ough one or twvo only of such have I
ect; but. they werec fair, with the true
ue eyes, with curlinug brown hair,
'ith the truo Grecian profile, or the.
ue E~nglish o in its purost form,
deep st eyo, t t tifl
~curved lip, so, tenderyet so prt_
exression t ie rintenaceho e sen
sualonlin is "m odier in thei face
of Antinous -hol&ujtii land whses soul
beams from that oftihe lm irtal&gd
day.
,Hungarian P nnIc~atloa.
We supposes there are not many per.
sons in thetldited States whol ave no,
been brothered for the aivtof knowing
how to pronounce the naies of Hunga
rian men and places, hicdiebav so
much abounded in the paper si ce the
commencement of the Magyar War of
Independence. At any rate,:we have
from time to time beard auch names to
pronounced, by intelligntand even d
ucated persons (education and Intelli
geneb do not always go together;) that
their owners would never suspect. .who t
or what was' meant. by them. One
great reason of such confusion is plain.
The cbaracters of the Roman. alphabet,
as'ifed by the Hungarians, stand for,
certain sounds which either are not 3
found in our laiguage, or are different
ly represented. Beside, as in English .
the same letter may represent half-a
dozen different sounds--as the letter a,
for example, has one sound in fat, an
other in fate, another in fall, another l
in wrath, and so on-who can toll which
of these sounds it stands for in an un
known foreign word? The great diffi- .
culty, as we sce, lies in the absurdities,
and contradictions of our alphabet,
which can only be remedied by substitu
ting for it a phonetic alphabet, in which
every sound of spoken language shall
have its proper letter, and each letter 2
shall stand for one sound alone. The
want of such an alphabet must make
the explanations we give below, at best -
only. partially useful; but we must .do
as we can with the means at hand. So,
let those who wish to learn Hungarian t
pronunciation take their places for a
lesson:
Kossuth is pronounced if written
Kosh-oot (oo as in moon) ; Gorgey is
not like Georgie the diminitive of
George, but as if written Gayur-gay,
at least that is the best way we can think
of for conveying an idea of' the vowel
sound in the first syllable;-the vowel it
self we have not in English." The name
is sometimes spelt Georgey which is to
ally wrong; if you want to spell it af
ter the German fashion it muEt be
Gocrgey as Gothe is sometimes written
Goethe.
. The name of Count Wass, the envoy
in this country is pronounced Vosh;
that of Nadgy Sandor, the famous Mag
yar cavalry officer, in Nodi Shandor,
the a in the second name (which by the
way is the christain name,-the lun
garians always put the surname first-- t
and means Alexander,) being pronoun- t
ced as a in far; Magyar is Mod-yar;
Acs is like arch with the r left out; De
breezen (this is the true spelling of the t
word though the Germans from whom r
we generally copy, write the last sylla.
ble with i) is Dobret-sane; Miskolcz is
Mishi-koich; Bisztrick (the Germans
write it B3istriez) is Bistrits; Szekler is
is Sake-Icr; Szegedin is Segedin; Csor.
na is Chorna; Saros is Sharosh, (a as
in far.) list is properly Pesht, but
the German pronunciation, rest, uni
versally prevails in other countries.
Bacska is B3atch-ka (a as in far.)
Keeskemet is Kotch-ke-mate. Csegled
is Cheg-led. Pere is Pertsel, the e
in the first syllable being as in the first
syllable of derr-g. Bekes is Bay-,kaysh.
Aszod is Ah-sode. Temesvar is tern
esh-var (the a as in far.) Gyongyos is
-a stumper, and we defy any man to<
describe the way it is pronounced, so
that another can pronounco it -aright
from the description. Those who can't
find any one to teach them the sounds
orally, must content themselves with a
provisional pronunciationi till they can.
Szony is not so much unlike Siane-yi as
a barn door, but then it is by no meansi
theo same thing. Godollo is something
like Gay del-ieh, but not exactly.
Therec are a good many German,
,names in 1Iungary, both of men and<
places, which are pronounced according
to German rules, 'as for instance, Theiss
(pronounced Tice;) the Magyar-name
of that river is Tisza, (Tea-ea) There'
are a!so a good many Sclavonio names
whieh also have their own" rules, as 'for
instance Jellacie, which is pronounced
Yel-latch-itch, with the emphasis on the
second syllable. . Kossuthi is 'also 'a
Sclavonic name, but has been Magyar!
ized.' Kniejanin is IKuninich-yan-im. -
That is enough of, examples: lot' us
now havo a small portion ofpinciples.
The voel ai#ikeou a in awes a liko
0 "
ehi .:oin t r
Sshea s ld ,sn _
Un rnoon;*Ikiii 4k t -A
h've::h1 ' etno~ r r -
with o ' te pdh n nm r
Aash betLeen m ethern r"pfes nt -'
eo ;inch or hevo o a
bo consonants.. Those we do not me'Jf.
ion a e sen tha he samo q h u ..
ish.
G~ is always haid, except when i1 ~ >
owed~by yfial;.c isneer usdc.'
:eptwth or *;beis lilke our ith +
rurch ,z aiko t in ints:.pp. like the } '
witrnan z;jhas tliedaobceioft tieD yen r '} y? i'
of ah; sz ofa in son; szis like th'
Erench g in eenie,tiogh ther b' "
er, and also like ourim a ; t ad d
4 are, as ,are ca nd 'cz respectively :
ike ch in church and te in oit; g is iev
~rused at all.
Beside these, there are the sounds -
,. lay, nay and lay which punile the
resnt teacher badly as to thei The -
attached, gives to the' ceesil letteris '/
, peculiarlg soft additional+.sound lik
hat eard im the French , i,
he Spanish n, or the Italian gn n
S9ignore ; the addition of 'y to g als~o
nodifiesit by mingling with it something y
if the sound of our d, so that it has
nuch the force.of j in Jline;' indeed.,
3lackwood writes Majjar as thc easiest
ray of getting Afagayar, corre'etly over
nglish lips; ly is much, though y no
neans exactly, like z in the French ,
rord reveille or the Sanish word lano
ry like gn xin ufinore ; tay like no sound,
at we can think of iitsn other Ian- -
iae, though i our wr vrtne, the
u of~ the final syllable has some resem
dance to it. the
The difference, .however' between
hese soundsin tho Magyar and In '.
ither langhages, is that in the Magyar
hey coistantly occur at th end of
words, whereas irmother .nguages th~y
tro; always in the mancd,'epih rnor * ' ,
hem easy to p-onounco Ti gect
iagyar pronunciation of theu ' can on
y be learned from a living teacher, and . ",
hen it takes a pretty. keen ear adid fle~c
ble tongue to get it correctly.
-There, that will do for or in .esion;
nd now we advise all parties who pique
heraselve on pronouncing every wor
n the worldvith perfect precision, to
>reasrelyis essay and. protit by it as
uch as they can.--N. or. 'ibu a
PoUlATiO iinore y.-Dr. Kraited,
e Professor of a odern Languages in the
Jniv'ersity of Virginia, is delivering a series .~*
f aecthures in oston on the war in rungary, -
f which thut excellent paper, the Bostoo~
Lpraveller, is publishing well prepreped o
iracts. rom a report, in that Journal.:f a
eent lecture, we learn that the biwrae
smber 4,800,000; there at i4,200,000 bela."
-onian; of Cratians 2,0,00; Gernana '
bhout 1,500,000; Bulgarians. a kind of Sel.
ronians, 12,000; Jews 24l4,t000, French 0,er
reeks 6,000; and Armeniant o 3,000 to 4,
-making a grand total of 1,00,000 Of and~
his number a,000,000 are Catholis 2dfe
)00 belonging to the Greek: Church, who
ibey the Patriarch of Constantinople. The
hgyars ore the roptesentatives of the nation
What is technically called penistic, _;
heir religioia, ahd it na be called the As ag.
ar relig'on. . - -
Tn sLAAND or CUBA.-'This. Isand is
124 miles in extreme lengt th a' width
raryin- from 22 to'117ni ilagun cveris an
3ro7,000 square ileas being about th
fiec of the Stato of haine. It contains'
>f which about 710,000 nre whites, 10 ' P
Travelerisa h preseihnt tae pfre4pared )~
are free colored, and.900,000 slnvbs. Its m"''-."
aorts in 1847 were 832.389,119,~of whit~
97,004,975 were from the United States. Its'N
xports d rutang the same jrio were 27 a
e98,770, .of which, le ,tt wtre ta the
inited States. In 184 thie aumbher of uet.d x
rals at its ports was 3740, and. ther number of "
learances 3340. Its: principal harbors .are --~ ~
he finest in the world.. The amount of Amet.n
can tonnage employed in the trado with Cuba''
s 470,772) tons.. It has 195, miles of railroad
ompleted and in suiccessfuI operationi and
51'miles in course of construction, It Isnael -
vatered by numerous rivers, and 1ta atufoo."
gxept an the central portioz Uaj,"l ';''
hivorsi>ied with mountaos. Q9lfti
>f its surface are cultiva. ~ '~
corthloss, leam cultial"
-esources un Yel) & Jhe'l ate: 1*" i
~enial tha ialdsl~tw ad pa~y of muanr
>f its ' a "It iso bdun4 in ner.
JlaTo~ in t magp'rses, ad ta moun
alh~oti itisof dplWith are wvork~
atgcopsdrble dvantage
NAN~&s RWmaa.Ninety theuiand land " '
vrarranuts hvo been issued to soldiers hho '
orved in the Mexima wa~r, givng awtagirto
lana as a bounty 1t800,040 scres. Estmna
ing thf vlue of this lanai at $Z 2% iam ane
re havea an aggregate of #728,00 I