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THE HOME MONTHLY-The December

to us with even more than its usual at

GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK for January, leads the brilliant coterie of our Monthly Magazines. It is only necessary to say that this number is one of the most beau-number of this excellent Magazine, comes tiful of oven Godey's productions. A "mammoth" colored fashion plate, and two magnificent steel engravings, with original music, children's fashions, and almost innumerable illustrations of fancy work, embroidery, &c., &c., grace the present number. The title page, "Noble

Attributes of Women," is beautifully con

coived, exquisitely executed, and alone is

worth the cost of the number. A single

fact speaks volumes in favor of Godeyduring a single week he received twenty

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CITY ITEMS.

CITIZENS' LECTURES.-SECURE YOUR TICKETS.-The Course of Lectures for the winter has now commenced. To those who were present at Mr. Sumner's brilliant opening last Tuesday evening, noth ing need be said in regard to the interest of the occasion. To those who were absent we can only say you missed an excellent treat. To every citizen, we would add, secure your tickets for the course.— Even if times are hard, better economize in some other way than to rob the mind. A dollar expended for this purpose is an expenditure for a necessity which proves a luxury in its attainment. We trust the untiring and successful efforts of the committee to secure the services of men of such ability and talent as lecturers,

will not be unappreciated by the public.— All should procure tickets, and that promptly.

THE FOUNTAIN LOT SKATING POND has been put in complete order for the citizens' benefit, and the broad sheet of sparkling crystal invitingly courts the glittering steel." Mr. H. E. West has been appointed master of ceremonies during the winter, and will dispose of season tickets for families, consisting of a gentleman, with ladies, and masters, under six

MARRIED.

PACKER-DOUGLASS.-In this city, on the 4th
inst., by the Rev. G. B. Wilcox, Louis D. Packer
of New York, and Jennie L., daughter of Artemas
G. Douglass, Esq, of this city.
ELLIOT-THOMPSON.-At East Windsor, on the
29th ult., by Rev. F. E. Munson, Rev. John E. El-
liot of this city, and Miss Mary A. Thompson of
the former place.

tractions. Indeed, we are not aware of any monthly publication that presents stronger claims as an exponent of chaste, elevated, highly instructive, and purely religious literature. As such we cannot too highly commend it to every family.teen years of age, all members of one Its list of writers embrace the noblest, family, at $3.00 each. Gentlemen's tickmost distinguished and gifted within the ets, singly, $2.00. The pond, under the circle of American literature. In addi- supervision of Mr. West, will doubtless tion to the well known and highly popular be kept in the very best condition. G. Arey, and Mrs. C. H. Gildersleve, Editors, Rev. W. M. Thayer, Mrs. H. E. we notice among its galaxy of contributors the names of Mrs. L. H. Sigourney, Miss Virginia F. Townsend, and Mrs. Ann E. Porter, together with those of Rev. F. D. Huntington, D. D., Rev. I. Rev. THE ILLUSTRATED Annual REGISTER OF H. Tucker, Kev. E. N. Kirk, D. D., RURAL AFFAIRS and CULTIVATOR ALMA-A. L. Stone, Rev. D. C. Eddy, D. D., NAC for 1861, containing Practical Sugges- Rev. R. S. Storrs, D. D., also, Prof. E. A. tions for the Farmer and Horticulturist, and Lawrence, D. D., Prof. Joseph Haven, D. embellished with over One Hundred and D., and a host of others, of whom more Forty Illustrations. By John J. Thomas, than one hundred have been been engaged author of the "American Fruit Culturist," for the coming volume. It is unnecessary &c., &c., and Associate Editor of "The Country Gentleman” and “The Cultivator." to say more, except that the beautiful Published by Luther Tucker & Son, Albany, magazine contains monthly a fine steel M. Y., and sent post-paid for Twenty Five engraving, and the work is published at Cents. Boston, Mass., by Cyrus Stone, and at Buffalo, N. Y., by Arey & Gildersleve, at $2.00 a year; or with Hall's Journal of Health, (an excellent Dollar publication,) at only $2.25 for both. Subscriptions received by Starr & Co., No 4 Main

We give in full the title of this most excellent little work, which we cannot too highly commend to our readers. It comprises Number Seven of the Illustrated Annual Register, and contains, among other things, timely and appropriate hints Street.

ENOS TIFFANY.-In this city on the 28th ult.
Mr. Joshua J. Enos and Miss Ellen Tiffany.
MARSH-FRANCIS.-In this city on the 28th ult.,
by Rev. G. B. Wilcox, Mr. Hollis S. Marsh and
Miss Augusta S. Francis, both of this city.
HAMMOND-WHIPPLE.-In Ledyard, Nov. 29th,
at the residence of the bride's father, Noah Whip-
dle, Esq. by Rev E. Denison, Josiah Hammond,
Esq., of Hampton, and Miss Margaret Whipple,
GAY-MORGAN.-At Mystic River, Aug. 30th, by
one of thirty-one children of the same family.

Rev. E. Denison, at his residence, Mr. Henry A.
Gay and Miss Nancy E. Morgan, both of Groton.

DIED.

PENDLETON.-In this city, 1:t inst., Mre Bridget
Pendleton, relict of the late Capt. Christopher
Pendleton, aged 83,
CADY. In this city, 10th inst., at the City Hotel,
Luciada, wife of Mr. George Cady
BLISS.-In Middletown, on the 4th inst., Mr. John

Bliss, formerly of this city, aged 68.
LEWIS.-In Greenmanville, Lydia, wife of Wel
come Lewis, aged 49.

"Cheeks as soft as July peaches,
Lips whose dewy scarlet teaches
Poppies paleness; round large eyes,
Ever great with new surprise;
Minutes filled with shadeless gladness,
Minutes just as brimmed with sadness;
Happy signs and wailing cries,
Crows, and laughs and tearful eyes,
Lights and shadows swifter borne
Than on wind swept autumn corn:
Ever some new tiny motion,
Making every limb all motion;
Catching up of legs and arms,
Throwing back and small alarms,
Clutching fingers-straightening jerks,
Twining feet whose each toe works,
Kickings-up, and straining risings,
Mothers ever new surprisings,
Hands all wants, and looks all wonder
At all things the heavens under;
Tiny scorns of similed reprovings,
That have more of love than lourings,
Mischiefs done with such a winning

Archness that we prize such sinning." And so on. Farthers and mothers, had they the power, would all sing in similar

strains.

The sleep of a babe, how beautiful it is! Barry Conwall says:

"All gently glide the stars,
Above no tempest lowers,
Below are fragrant flowers,

In silence growing."
Poets ought to be fond of babies and
little children. Even old Sam Rogers,
who had a sneer for every one else, had a
smile for them. Leslie, the painter, wri-
tes: "Mr. Rogers was very fond of chil-
dren. On his visit to us, when ours were
little ones, his first ceremony was to rub
noses with them. Now,' he would
"we are friends for life. If you will come

REGISTER OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, AT EAST NEW LONDON, FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1860. REPORTED BY H. E. CHITTY.

N-E.
North. cloudy cloudy
North. North. cloudy cloudy

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North.
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OUR AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICUL-ented corps of assistants and contributors, TURAL EXCHANGES.-We cannot better and in addition to a large and varied asserve our Horticultural readers than to sortment of deeply interesting agriculturbriefly notice some of our valuable cotem- al and horticultural information, contains poraries, whose columns are devoted to one a vast amount of Scientific, Educational, of the most useful and laudable of all pro- Literary and News matter, rendering it a fessions,—that of the culture of the soil. complete Agricultural, Literary and FamIf he who "makes two spires of grass grow ily Newspaper, that should not fail to find where only one grew before" is justly called a place in every household in the country. "a public benefactor," truly our most ex- Published at Rochester, N. Y., at $2.00 cellent and efficiently conducted agricul- per annum. tural and horticultural journals may claim high honor for the noble stand they have

THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN.-This is

the agricultural interests of the West, and at the same time among the most useful and instructive family papers amongst our exchanges. Such a paper cannot but be well sustained by a long list of enterprising and intelligent subscribers. This year closes its ninth volume, and we trust it is just in its comparative infancy, deserving as it does, and having, we doubt not, a most extended patronage. Published at Cleveland, Ohio, by Thomas Brown, Esq. Price, $2.00 a year,

THE RURALIST-Another Rural, Agricultural, Horticultural and Family Week

taken in the cause they have espoused; and a widely circulated and highly popular ly, well filled in its several departments the very marked improvement in all that paper, and needs not a word of com- with choice original and selected matter.

mendation from us. It is, as it purports

"The Orchard and Garden" find a prom

pertains to every department of agriculture during the past quarter of a century, to be, emphatically a "Journal for the inent place in its columns, and its “Agriattests their almost incalculable usefulness Farm, the Garden and the Fireside." Our cultural Miscellany" is always useful and Family" and "Home and importance. We regard the number mind involuntarily reverts to those by- interesting. The " and excellence of this class of our publica-gone days, when the veteran senior Edit-Circle, and the "Scientific Department,” tions as among the improvements of the or first started the "Albany Cultivator," together with the Literary and Educationage, and as indispensible to the communi- then the pioneer of agricultural publica- al Departments, are all well sustained, ty as invaluable in the information they tions in that portion of the Empire State, while the good housewife will never fail to From the very first, his has been a course find the "Culinary and Domestic" colimpart to their readers. We commence of eminent usefulness, and in his later laumn filled with useful hints, recipes, &c. with the Weeklies. bors & brilliant success. The Country J. R. Dodge, Editor and Publisher, Gentleman, commenced eight years ago, Springfield, Ohio. Price, $2.00 a year.

THE HOMESTEAD.-Among these we naturally first turn to our nearest neighbor,

the Homestead. This paper possesses sterling merit and sustains a high reputation in our own as well as the neighboring states. Ably Edited by Mason G. Weld Esq., of Hartford, with the cooperation of Rev. William Clift, Theodore S. Gould, and Henry W. Dyer, Esqrs, all well known as reliable and practical men, the Homestead has attained an independent and honorable position in the farming community. Few,

THE SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE. We hail with much pleasure this

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ricultural publications. In Agriculture,
Horticulture, Floriculture and all the va
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art, the Country Gentleman fully sustains older cotemporaries, in the high and laud-
its well earned reputation. It is published able calling in which it is engaged. Al-
by Luther Tucker & Son, Albany, N. Y., though devoted more especially to the in-
in large quarto forın convenient for bind-terests of the South, it is too able in its
ing, forming two volumes of 416 pages original articles, too instructive in its
each year, well printed on fair paper, with varied departments, and too high in liter-

very few who have become acquainted/frequent illustrations, at $2.00 per annum. ary excellence, to want for subscribers

with this valuable paper find that they can afford to be without it. Published in neat magazine form, at Hartford, at $2.00 a year.

THE RURAL NRW-YORKER.—This is another of our most valuable weekly Rural publications. It is of the largest class, beautifully printed and richly illustrated, and conducted by D. D. T. Moore, Esq., popular and highly esteemed wherever his

It

THE OHIO FARMER.-To those who have not seen this excellent weekly, we might say much in regard to its fine ap pearance, beautiful, clean type, editorial excellence and able contributions. stands high in literary rank as well as occupying an enviable position as the most excellent of all the agricultural journals of the State. We have long regarded this paper as one of the noble pillars of

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GENTLENESS.

BY MRS. HEMANI.

Jf thou hast crushed a flower,
The root may not be blighted;
If thou hast quenched & lamp,
Once more it may be lighted;
But on thy harp or on thy lute,
The string which thou hast broken,
Shall never in sweet sound again
Give to thy touch a token.

The heart is like a cup,

If thou waste the love it bear thee, And like a jewel gone,

Which the deep will not restore thee;
And like that string of harp or lute

Whence the sweet sound is scattered-
Gently, oh, gently touch the chords,
So soon forever shattered!

of the Hessian officers took up their quar-
ters with this Mrs. Manton, without the
formality of an invitation. It was out of
her power to refuse them, even if she
wished; but it was not her disposition to
deny shelter to even her enemies, and con.
sequently she made no objection to their
presence.

The officers were all young, swearing,
dissipated men, who immediately took
possession of the best room, on the second
floor, which fronted on the street. Here,
on the afternoon of the day before the
battle, they commence-l drinking. Not
drinking as they usually did, in modera-
tion, but with the determination of getting
dead drunk and celebrating Christmas eve
in a manner that would be long remem-
bered. By nightfall, they were only slight-
ly exhilarated-just enough to sing songs,

INCIDENT OF THE BATTLE OF and talk boisterously, and swear terribly

TRENTON.

BY EDWARD 8. ELLIS.

From the Dollar Monthly.

It was the night before the battle-the darkest night of the Revolution. The town of Trenton was lit up as for a carnival, and gay forms could be seen flitting by the windows, and their boisterous voices often reached the shivering sentinels outside.

Every one abandoned himself to revelry, and harbored no thought of danger. Now and then an officer reflected a moment, that perhaps a disciplined army might afford them considerable trouble, but what was to be feared from the poor, ragged, half starved Continental soldiers? They were far away; and even should they dare to make a demonstration, the disciplined Hessians would rally at the call to arms, and annihilate them in an instant. No, danger was not worth the thought. In a small, unpretending house, close to where the "State Bank" building now stands, lived an elderly lady and her only daughter. They were both patriots, and the mother's darling son was then serving in the Continental army. Upon entering the town, three or four

ONE DOLLAR A YEAR

No. 44.

aid the feeble patriots in their holy struggles, and open the eyes of those who were in their house to the injustice of their oppressive course. While still engaged in supplication, Ruth was startled by a footstep, and looking up, discerned, in the gloom of the chainber, the outlines of the figure of a man standing before her.

"What do you wish here," she said. "We want a song, my little charmer." "Leave the room, sir! no gentleman would thus invade the sanctity of domestic privacy."

"Come, my girl, there is no use of bandying words."

He seized her arm as he spoke, and dragged her by main force from the room. Ruth would not scream, for she feared no real injury at their hands, and did not wish to alarm her mother, who was asleep in the chamber beneath her own.

What means this insult ?" she demand

Several times those who were passing along
the street paused and looked up at the rev-ed, as she stood before the three intoxicated
ellers, and then with a knowing smile officers.
passed on.

Late in the evening, just as the one had
finished a song, another asked:

"I wonder where the girl is?"
"Whom do you mean?"

"Why, Ruth, the old woman's daughter
of course. Let us have her in here to sing

a song."

"A song, my birdie."
"I will not sing."

"Suppose we compel you !"

"You may kill me, but I will not utter one single note upon compulsion."

"The spirit of rebellion courses even through the veins of their women," said

one. "Do not fear, Ruth; we are not “Good-agreed; but suppose she has going to harm you; you know we are gentlemen.'

retired?"
"Hang the difference! we will have her
for all that."

"Who will bring her ?"

"I will, of course," volunteered the one who had made the proposition.

"Go, then, and bring the rebel maiden hither! cried the others in chorus..

The man arose to leave the apartment, but suddenly paused and looked at his companions, as he heard the low tones of what appeared to be a conversation.

"Ha! she is praying,” he said.

One of their number stepped to the door and opened it. Then they listened, and the low, earnest pleadings of Ruth were heard. She prayed that her brother might be preserved in the danger which now encompassed him, that God would

"Have you proved it, by coming into my chamber, and dragging me here by force?'"'

“Well, say no more about that. Let us change the subject. Pray tell us something about that brother of yours. Who

is he? a commander ?"

Ruth perceived the sneer, and made no

reply.

"Who is he? an officer ?"

"You may learn before this war is over."

་་

"Eh! do you threaten, my beauty? Stay!" he added, as she started away.

She sprung forward, but he caught her before she reached the door, and rudely' commanded:

"Sing, I tell you !”*