not surpassed by any of Northern fabrication. Price $3 50. Two Millions, by Wm. Allen Butler; author of Nothing to Wear; New York: D. Appleton & Co. A little volume issued in very handsome style. The poem was read before the Societies of Yale College, and is only surpassed in graphic power, and inimitable satire by the author's earlier gem. THE article on the Atlantic Telegraph, which appears in the present issue of the Review, though greatly at fault in its prediction, relative to the laying of the telegraphic cable, and its capacities for the transmission of intelligence, is nevertheless a very useful and valuable paper. The author is an experienced, practical telegrapher, and has some very large views in regard to electrical matters. We have not won dered at his doubts however-for if success has been attained which now seems probable, it has been by conquering impossibilities." Indeed many of the greatest feats of every age have been accomplished in spite of opposing demonstration and it may almost be considered as scientifically correct, as was held by one of the early fathers in regard to faith-"this is impossible, it is therefore true." ability. Having completed the publication of Mr. Pettigrew's adverse exposition, we shall, in our next and other issues, be enabled to give attention to these articles. Regarding the subject under the existing state of things as perhaps not a very practicable one, we are unwilling to occupy with it too much of our space. SEE in our advertising columns the card of the New Orleans School of Medicine, whose regular course of lectures 1858. Though only in the third year on the 15th November, school is so well established that about of its existence, the reputation of this commences two hundred students will receive the benefit of its instructions the coming session. Among the Professors is Dr. Fenner, who is largely known as the author of several volumes of Southern Medical Reports, and as editor for cal Journal, and now of the New Orleans many years of the New Orleans Medito whose energies and zeal the estab Medical News and Hospital Gazette, referred. The other Professors are all lishment of the school may be mainly men of ability, and large or growing practice. In diseases of the eye, Dr. Baird has established a reputation enjoyed by few in America. Dr. Flint, That the great Atlantic is belted or the Buffalo Medical Journal, and is the recently elected, was long the editor of bridged and that thought is sent through author of several very valuable medical it with the velocity of light may be works upon "Continued Fever," "The considered the great event of the age, Respiratory Organs," "Heart Sounds All honor to the originators and execu- in Health and Disease," etc., etc. He tors of the herculean work. Mr. Calhas, also, for a number of years, occupied houn in the spirit of prophecy said chairs in the Buffalo and Louisville twelve years ago. Medical Colleges. 豪 * "Magic wires are stretching themselves in all directions over the earth, and when their mystic meshes shall at length have been perfected our globe itself will be endowed with a sensitiveness which will render it impossible to touch it on any one point and the touch not be felt from one end of the world to the other. And this work is at yet but commenced; it is but the breaking of the dawn of the world's great jubilee. It promises a day of refinement, more intellectual brightness, more moral elevation, and consequently of more human felicity than the world has ever seen from its creation." more THERE are on our table two or three manuscript articles advocating the reopening of the slave-trade, and discuss. ing the general subject with much THE following numbers of the Review are wanted by the publishers who will give their value for them, if forwarded to New Orleans office. Agents will please procure them: 1846, January, February, March, April, July, September, and October; 1847, January, March, May, and June; 1849, August; 1851, February and June; 1858, June and October; 1854, September; 1855, October; 1856, January and August; 1857, May and October; 1858, January, March, May, and June. A FEW sets of our Industrial Resources of the Southwest still remain on hand, 8 vols. Price $5, postage free. SEVERAL provoking typographic errors crept into the article on Russell's Magazine and Mexico, for which the proof reader, and not the editor, must be responsible. SEE the card of the McComb's Cotton Tie and Press, which are articles of great interest to our agricultural world at the South. IT is the intention of the Editor of the Review to resume, in December next, his resi- Prospectus of De Bow's Review. O. S., VOL. XXV.-NEW SERIES, VOL. 1. ADAPTED PRIMARILY TO THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN STAJES OF THE UNION. Encluding Statistics of Foreign and Domestic Endustry ano Enterprise. PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN NEW ORLEANS AND WASHINGTON CITY. Terms, $5 per annum, in advance. Postage Two Cents a Number, if Prepaid Quarterly, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS AND POSTMASTERS, TO SUBSCRIBERS.--11 our subscribers will follow a few plain rules, accounts between us wil be fat in ter kept than formerly. 1. 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