he observed, "In New Brunswick, New England, Vermont, New Hampshire,
Connecticut, and New York, the growth of wheat has almost ceased; and
it is now gradually receding farther and farther westward. Now, when
I tell you this, you will see that it will not be very long before
America is unable supply us with wheat in any large quantity. If we
could bring Indian corn into general use, we might get plenty of it;
but I do not think that the United States need be any bug bear to
you." Prof. J. was in New York last March.

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CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN, with Miss Hayes, the translator of George Sand's
best works, was at the last dates on a visit to the popular poetess
of the milliner and chambermaid classes, Eliza Cook, who was very ill.
Miss Cushman is really quite as good a poet as Miss Cook, though by no
means so fluent a versifier. She will return to the United States in a
few weeks to fulfill some professional engagements.

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Rev. Mr. MOUNTFORD, an English Unitarian clergyman, who recently came
to this country, and who is known in literature and religion as the
author of the two very clever works, "Martyria" and "Euthanasia," has
become minister of a congregation at Gloucester, in Massachusetts.

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BENJAMIN PERLEY POORE, author of "The Life and Times of Louis
Philippe," &c., invited the corps of Massachusetts Volunteers,
commanded by him in the Mexican campaign, to celebrate the anniversary