NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. VOLUME II. DECEMBER, 1850, TO MAY, 1851. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, 329 & 331 PEARL STREET, FRANKLIN SQUARE. 1851. AP2 2 ADVERTISEMENT. May, 1851) IN bringing the SECOND VOLUME of the NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE to a close, the Publishers would avail themselves of the occasion, to express their profound appreciation of the favor with which it has been received, and their earnest wish to render it still more deserving of the enlightened patronage of the American community. They commenced the publication with the firm conviction that it could be made the medium of valuable information and mental enjoyment to the great mass of readers, and that it would accordingly be sustained by their generous and cordial support. Nor have they been deceived in their anticipations. The Magazine has found a wider circulation with every monthly issue. 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A False Apple-ation; A Tête-à-Tête; Expected out soon; Going down to a Watering-place; Attraction; 19th Cent'ry; Putting the Cart before the Horse; A Narrow Escape; Division of Labor; Animal Economy; A Holiday at the Public Offices, 429. Lectures on Letters; Punch on Special Pleading; The Salamander; Spencer's Pastor's Sketches; LITERARY NOTICES-continued. Hand; The New Englander; Bibliotheca Sacra; POLITICAL AND GENERAL NEWS.-State of feeling on the Compromise measures, 122. Let- ters of Washington Hunt to the Secession and Anti-Rent Conventions, 122. Meeting at Castle Garden; Letter of Mr. Webster: Nominations, 122. Constitution of Congress, 123. State Con- vention in Georgia, 123. Meeting at Macon, 123. State of Feeling in Georgia, 123. In South Car- olina, 124. In Alabama; Gov. Collier declines to call a State Convention; Letter of Mr. Hilliard, 124. In Mississippi, 124. In Lousiana, 124. 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Adjournment of Congress, and notice of measures acted upon, 700. Measures for the re- lief of Kossuth, 700. The Postage bill, 700. Rescue of a fugitive slave in Boston, 701. Home- stead exemption in Illinois, 701. Exemption in Delaware, 701. Free negroes in Iowa, 701. Germans in Texas, 701. Manufactures at the South, 701. Quiet after Excitement, 847. New York Common school law, 847. Canal enlarge ment bill, 847. Legislative visit to New York, |