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The smooth brown braids still wreathe her head;
Her simple garments are full of grace,
As if, with color and taste, she fain
Would ward off eyes from her paling face.

'Tis a morning hour, but the work is done;
The house so peacefully bright within,
And the wild-wood leaves on the mantel-shelf
Tell how busy her feet have been.

She sits by the window and watches a cloud
Fading away in the hazy sky;
And 'Like that cloud,' she says in heart,
'When summer is over, I too shall die.'

The door-yard gate swings to with a clang,
She must not sadden her father so;
She springs to her feet with a merrier air,
And pinches her face to make it glow.

But ah! no need; for a ruddier red
Than pinches can bring floods brow and cheek;
She stands transfixed by a mighty joy;
For millions of worlds she can not speak.

Frank Wilson gathers her close to his heart,
With brightening glance, he reads that glow,
And draws from the wells of her joy-lit eyes
The secret he long has yearned to know.

'Frank Wilson! living and strong and well;
Were you not killed by the rebels? say!'
'Thank God! I was not. 'Twas another man--
There were two Frank Wilsons in Company K.'

The one church-bell in the distant town
Chimes softly forth for twelve o'clock;
Another clang of the door-yard gate,
A sudden hush in the tender talk.

She flies to meet him--the transformed child!--
Her heart keeps time to her ringing tread;
'O father! he's come!' and she needs no more
To pinch her cheeks to make them red.

MARIE MIGNIONETTE.

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A friend who doth such things has kindly jotted down for us the
following 'authentics':

Sometimes I have thought that the reply our Irish girl gave the
other day, was of the nature of her usual blunders, and again that
it meant a good deal. On her return from a funeral, where a man,
who had previously lost his wife, had buried his only child, an
infant a few weeks old, I asked her how the father appeared?

'Oh! he was a dale sorry; but I guess _he's glad to get rid of
it_!'

_It was only a_ WAY _he had._--Whiggles, on being told that a boy
down-town, only sixteen years old, weighed six hundred and fifty
pounds, was further enlightened by the information that he weighed
that amount of coal on a platform Fairbanks.

The Southern press has proposed that, even in case of defeat, the
wealthy class shall retire to their plantations, 'live comfortably' on
what they can raise, let cotton go for two years, and thereby starve
Europe and the North into a conviction that Cotton is King.

But how will the poor whites of the South like this? What is to become
of _them_? Or what, indeed, is to become of us, if no cotton be
forthcoming? The truth is, and every day makes it more apparent, _the
raising of cotton must pass into other hands_. The _army_ has its
rights--the right to land-grants--and the _only_ effectual means of
putting an end to our dependence on the South will be found in settling
soldiers in the cotton country. Texas would be, perhaps, best suited for
the purpose, and other regions may be selected as opportunity may
suggest. With this course fully determined on, it would hardly be
necessary to further agitate Emancipation, it would come of itself, and
slave-labor would yield to the energy of the free Northern farmer.

Very little has been said as yet on this subject of properly rewarding
our troops. But it is destined to rise into becoming the great question
of the day; and if the Democratic pro-slavery party sets itself in
opposition to it, it will be ground to powder. Events are tending to
this issue with irresistible and tremendous power, and the days of
planterdom are numbered.

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FOOTNOTES

[Footnote A: This anecdote has frequently gone the rounds in an
abbreviated form. It may interest the reader to see it in authentic
detail.]

[Footnote B: Richmond _Examiner._]

[Footnote C: To which we add, 'An Account of the Proceedings preliminary
to the Organization of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a
List of the Members thus far associated, and an Appendix, containing
Petitions and Resolutions in aid of the objects of the Committee of
Associated Institutions of Science and Art. Boston, 1861.' Also the
Objects and Courses of Instruction in the Lawrence Scientific School. In
the 'Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Harvard University, for
the Academical Year 1860-1861.' The Editor will hold himself greatly
indebted to any one who will kindly forward him catalogues or
prospectuses relative to any scientific schools or institutes whatever,
either in this country or Europe.]

[Footnote D: EDUCATIONAL CONDITION--CENSUS 1850.

Maine, 1 in 3-1/3
New-Hampshire, " 3-1/2
Vermont, " 3-1/3
Michigan, " 3-1/3
Ohio, " 3-3/4
New-York, native-born, " 3-3/4
Aggregate, " 4-1/2
Massachusetts, native-born, " 3-1/2
Aggregate, " 4-1/2
Pennsylvania, native-born, " 4
Aggregate, " 4-1/2
Rhode-Island, " 4-1/2
Connecticut, " 4-1/2
Indiana, " 4-1/2
Illinois, " 4-1/2
Iowa, 1 in 5-1/2
Florida, " 10
Louisiana, " 8
Texas, " 8
Virginia, " 8
Alabama, " 7
Arkansas, " 7
Georgia, " 7
Maryland, " 7
South-Carolina, " 7
Mississippi, " 6-1/2
Kentucky, " 6
Missouri, " 6
New-Jersey, " 5-1/2
North-Carolina " 5-1/2
Wisconsin, " 5-1/2
Tennessee, " 5
Delaware, " 5

EUROPEAN STATES.

Denmark, 1 in 4-1/2
Sweden, " 5-1/2
Saxony, " 6
Prussia, " 6-1/4
Norway, " 7
Great Britain, " 8-1/2
Actually receiving instruction, " 7
Ireland, 1 in 14
Belgium, " 8-1/2
France, " 10-1/2
Austria " 13-3/4
Holland, " 14-3/4
Greece, " 18
Russia, " 50
Portugal, " 81
Spain, Not known.

FREE COLORED POPULATION--UNITED STATES.

Maine, 1 in 5
Rhode-Island, " 6-1/2
Massachusetts, " 6-1/4
New-Hampshire, " 7
Vermont, 1 in 8
Connecticut, " 6
Pennsylvania, " 8
New-York, " 9

It may be seen, by the foregoing table, that a thorough system of
education for the masses requires that one third of the aggregate
population should be kept at school for a goodly portion of the year.
This is essential, under Democratic Government, in order to bring each
generation up to the appreciative point.]

[Footnote E: The free colored population of Charleston in 1860, did not
vary materially from four thousand. The associated value of their
property would give to each $390. Each family or six persons would
possess, according to this estimate, $2840. This would be a full average
of wealth to the free population of the United States--the amount
varying in the different States from $2200 to $2500 to each family of
six persons.]

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CONTENTS.--No. VIII.

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Among the Pines. (Concluded,) 127

Southern Rights, 143

Maccaroni and Canvas, 144

Glances from the Senate-Gallery, 154

The Last Ditch, 159

Rewarding the Army, 161

John McDonogh, the Millionaire, 165

Helter-Skelter Papers, 175

Sketches of the Orient, 179

Witches, Elves, and Goblins, 184

A True Romance, 190

Huguenots of New-York City, 193

The Bane of our Country, 198

The Molly O'Molly Papers, 200

Wounded, 206

Astor and the Capitalists of New-York, 207

Thunder all Round, 217

Was he Successful? 218

A Merchant's Story, 232

Corn is King, 237

Literary Notices, 238

Editor's Table, 241

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A MERCHANT'S STORY,

By the author of 'Among the Pines,' which is begun in this number, will
be continued in each issue of THE CONTINENTAL until it is completed. It
will depict Southern White Society, and be a truthful history of some
eminent Northern Merchants, who are largely in 'the cotton trade and
sugar line.'

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States for the Southern District of New-York.

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