The other party seeing then

The People were against them,
Agreed like honest, faithful men,
To mix in peace amongst 'em.
Yankee, &c.

The Boston folks are duced lads,

And always full of notions;

The boys, the girls, their mams and dads,
Were filled with joy's commotions.
Yankee, &c.

So straightway they procession made,
Lord, how nation fine, sir!
For every man of every trade

Went with his tools-to dine, sir.
Yankee, &c.

John Foster Williams in a ship
Join'd with the social band, sir,
And made the lasses dance and skip,
To see him sail on land, sir!
Yankee, &c.

range of writers seems large for that period; and Bishop Swedberg must have made an extensive examination of the literature of the subject as it existed in his day."

Mr. Hayden produces, in the magazine, translations from the Latin portions of the book; and in the course of his article, expresses an opinion that the whole book, "America Illuminata,' ought to be translated, as it contains much interesting matter, and possesses much historical value in connection with the early colonial history of the Swedes on the Delaware. He makes the following allusion to three chapters which ought to be in a biography of Emanuel Swedenborg:

"The complete biography of Swedenborg, no doubt, when it comes to be written, will contain three chapters not hitherto included. One on the Swedish people, another on the Reformed Church in Sweden, and a third on the Swedberg family; all having direct reference to the influences by which Swedenborg was surrounded in early life, and which served therefore to form and modify his character. In one of these, his father would necessarily hold a conspicuous place."

F.

WASHINGTON IN NEW YORK, 1799 (vol. v., p. 91).—I shall be curious to hear confirmation of this visit. In any case, your correspondent, "I J. G." is mistaken in supposing that General and Mrs. Washington were the guests of Sir John Temple, who died in November, of the previous year. The visit is not likely to have been paid to his widow, then in deep mourning; but, it is barely possible that, in her absence from town, the family mansion may have been temporarily rented for the occupation of the General. That so interesting a circumstance should not have been handed down among the traditions of the family, militates against its probability. A relative of the writer, the favorite grand-daughter of Lady Temple, and long a member of her household, expired only within the past year; but among her many reminiscences of the period in question, on which she was fond of dwelling, no allusion to such an occurrence is remembered.

"AMERICA ILLUMINATA: BY DR. JESPER SWEDBERG" (vol. iv. p. 340).—Rev. Wm. B. Hayden, assisted by Rev. Dr. Muller, who is acquainted with the Swedish language, has examined a copy of this book, which has been many years in Harvard College Library. He has given some account of it in the New Jerusalem Magazine, for Feb., 1861. He says, "That it is a small 24mo, of 176 pages, in black-letter, with illuminated title-page, printed at Skara, 1732, and dedicated to King Frederick and Queen Ulrica Eleonora. It is written for the most part in Swedish, with translations of the principal letters into Latin, together with a few paragraphs in English and German. It begins with a notice of the discovery of America, by Columbus and Vespucius; referring next to settlements and to efforts towards Christianization. Then follows an account of the Swedes on the Delaware. From the first settlement, in 1638, to 1687, when the Bishop's connection with the churches began, the history is quite general; but from this period to the publication of the book, the account appears to be full and particular. There are descriptions of the country, its climate and productions; of the Indian tribes, their manners and characteristics; and of the European colonists by whom the AmericanSwedes were surrounded. New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and Canada are mentioned, and the form of government then existing in the Province of Pennsylvania. The religious denominations in those contiguous colonies are not omitted; and there are frequent allusions to Quakers, Presbyterians, and Baptists, as well as to the Church of England. The margin of the work is filled in many places with authorities referred to for facts stated; and several quotations BOOKS PRINTED BY FRANKLIN (vol. iii., p. are made from different writers in America. The 121). "The History of the Quakers," published

W.

CHARLOTTE TEMPLE (vol. v., p. 91)." Charlotte Temple," about whom your correspondent been a member of this family, several of whom, “Penn” inquires, may fairly be presumed to have including Sir John himself, are buried in Trinity churchyard. The pedigree, it is true, contains no corresponding entry, but it cannot be relied W. upon as absolutely perfect.

Notes on Books.

in 1728, of which Franklin printed forty sheets, was: "The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People called Quakers.

By William Sewell. 3d edition.", Folio. 6 pre-Report of the Committee of the Overseers of

liminary leaves, 694 pp. Index, 16 pp.

PAWNEE SLAVES (vol. iii., p. 183).—In Knox's "Historical Journal," p. 438, the author, meeting the word Pani in Vaudreuil's Capitulation, article 47, which stipulated that "negroes and panis of both sexes, shall remain in their quality of slaves, in the possession of the French and Canadians, to whom they belong," gives this note: "I believe this implies convicts or malefactors condemned to slavery," not knowing that the Panis (Pawnees) were a western tribe, and that the term in actual use, meant simply Indian slaves. S.

CURIOUS EPITAPH (vol. v., p. 88). In the (London) Gentleman's Magazine of 1773, at p. 133, is the copy of a long inscription on a tablet in St. Andrew's Church, Canterbury, to the memory of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Swift, who died June 12, 1592; in which inscription occur the lines alluded to. It would seem from the statement on the tablet, that it had been erected by a son of Dr. S., who succeeded him in the rectorship, and therefore it was probably of a much earlier period than the tombstone in Newport, R. I., or of Dr. Porson.

Harvard College appointed to visit the Library, for the Year 1860. Submitted Jan. 31, 1861. Boston: Rand & Avery. 8vo, 40 pp.

A HIGHLY satisfactory exhibition of the affairs of this ancient library, which, under recent impulses, bids fair to be, if it is not already, for America, what the Bodleian is for the universities of England. The number of volumes, we are here told, now in Gore Hall, is over 91,500, and the number of unbound pamphlets, not less than 50,000, and a new library building is more than hinted at. Numerous donations, in answer to an appeal for gifts of books, quite embarrass the librarian's report with their bare enumeration. One of these, the bequest of Clarke Gayton Pickman, a gentleman of Boston, and a graduate of 1811, who died last year, is of special importance, consisting of more than three thousand volumes of good English literature, in the best condition. But of more value than any chance additions, even of this liberal nature, is the sum given by William Gray, of Boston, of five thousand dollars a year, for five years; for this can be expended for that which the library stands most in need. The attachment of the alumni of Harvard to their alma mater, shown in these gifts, is well worth noting. It indicates an influence which it would be beneficial for all institutions of the kind to cultivate; SOALPING (vol. v., 25).-Rawlinson's "Herod- and the surest way to gain it, we may remark in otus," b. iv., ch. 64. (iii. p. 58), thus describes passing, will be for the colleges to attach the Scythian scalping: "In order to strip the skull of undergraduates by wise and generous treatment, its covering, he makes a cut round the head above that they may remain friends when they become the ears, and laying hold of the scalp, shakes the men. We congratulate Mr. Sibley in the details skull out; then, with the rib of an ox, he scrapes of his report, though we fear this influx of prosthe scalp clean of flesh, and softening it by rub-perity under his administration, as in other cases bing between the hands, uses it thenceforth as a of accumulation of property, brings with it innapkin. The Scyth is proud of these scalps, and creased care and weariness. hangs them from his bridle-rein; the greater the number of such napkins that a man can show, the more highly is he esteemed among them; many make themselves cloaks, like the capotes of our peasants, by sewing a quantity of these scalps together." In a note, he refers to the use in Athenæus and Euripides of the word aposcythizo, in the sense of I scalp.

R-A.

Some, following the Vulgate version of Deut. xxxii. 42-3, have supposed it not unknown to the Jews, who certainly at times mutilated fallen foes (1 Kings xviii. 25).

In these northern parts, the custom seems to have passed from the Iroquois to the Algonquins. Gookin ("Mass. Hist. Col.," vol. i., p. 162) speaks of a Mohawk scalping Massachusetts Indians, as a C. P.

new custom.

History of the United Netherlands; from the Death of William the Silent, to the Synod of Dort, with a full view of the English-Dutch struggle against Spain, and of the origin and destruction of the Spanish Armada. By John Lothrop Motley, LL. D., D. C. L., Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, &c. Volumes I. and II. New York: Harper & Brothers. 8vo, 532, 563 pp.

THIS new work of Mr. Motley has already been received with extraordinary favor, not only by the public,-ever ready to appreciate dramatic action and vivid portrayal of character,-but by the judicious few, who control the nicer and more

enduring decisions of literary fame. In fact, the should be represented. A half-way measure, inauthor is admitted in the present portion of this tended to quiet the people, but really giving nothhistory, to have brought forward new materials ing, was granted in 1665; but it was not till 1683, of great interest, which alone would entitle his that Gov. Dongan actually arrived with instrucproduction to great respect; and at the same time tions to call an Assembly. The first assembly to have argued a most important historical ques-held two sessions, and was dissolved by the death tion with eminent ability. His new material, of Charles II., in 1685. The second Assembly indeed, drawn from an extensive research into immediately called, met in November, of the same the archives of Spain, which lay bare the minutest year, and was dissolved by order of James II., acts and motives of the reign of Philip II., and the January 20, 1687. The old régime of "Governpolitical conduct of that extraordinary monarch, our and Councell' again obtained, until the reins as well as a thorough handling of the document- of government were wrested from the hands of ary stores of Holland, and a most successful use Nicholson by Leisler, who convoked an Assembly, of the manuscripts of the State-paper office in which met in April, 1690, and remained in sesLondon, this affluence of resources, gives to the sion till October. The following spring Sloughpresent work a distinctive character, even among ter arrived with instructions to call an Assembly. the many laborious and original historical writings This met in the same year, 1691, and after reby which such investigators as Helps, Froude, solving that all prior laws were null, declared and others, have, of late, made themselves an en- itself the first Assembly; and it is so regarded in viable reputation. Mr. Motley's diligence and the published colonial laws. This attempt to success in bringing to light the secret diplomacy wipe out all prior legislation, equally unwise and of Philip and his general, Alexander of Parma, is impolitic, created much confusion; and Dr. O’Calworthy of the highest praise. It is one of those laghan, in this little treatise, gives the history of lessons in the history of princes which is written the Legislative Assemblies, temp. Jac. II., and the once for all; for nothing can be more thorough revolutionary assembly of 1690. Among other in an exhibition of this kind, or more instructive. interesting matter, is a sketch of the life of Col. To the minutest incidents of war, and the work- Dongan, the governor of New York, by whom ing of the new political relations on individual the first Assembly was called. character in Holland, growing out of the great contest for liberty, much attention is given, and with effect. The stirring incidents of the siege of Antwerp, are told with dramatic interest, while the story of the Armada may be said to be now, for the first time, adequately presented to the English reader. Indeed, it has never been fully un

derstood before.

This, we may remark, is especially a book to be read a second time to be fully enjoyed; at first, to master the novel facts and incidents, and then, to study at leisure the developments of character and action, as they naturally influence one

another.

It gives us pleasure to learn from Mr. Motley's preface, that this work is likely to be continued through the period of the Thirty Years' War to its close at the Peace of Westphalia.

Origin of Legislative Assemblies in New York.
By E. B. O'Callaghan. Albany: Weed, Par-

sons & Co., 1861. 48 pp.

Bulletin of the American Ethnological Society.
Vol. I., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec., 1860, and Janu-
ary, 1861.
New York: C. B. Richardson &

Co., 1861. 8vo, 72 pp.
THIS Society has begun the record of its transac-
The present
tions in a very creditable form.
number contains the proceedings of the meetings
stated, of which we have given less detached re-
ports in our columns, and also a report on the
the Rev. M. M. Albis, read at the meeting in
Indians of Andaqui, New Granada; a paper by
Feb., 1859, a curious and satisfactory report. The
number is illustrated with an engraving of an in-
scribed stone hatchet, found in Pemberton, New
Jersey.

Cuba for Invalids. By R. W. Gibbes, M. D., Columbia, S. C. New York: Townsend & Co., 1860. 12mo, 214 pp.

OUR friend, Dr. Gibbes, was compelled by illhealth to visit Cuba last winter, and intended, we NEW YORK, as settled by the Dutch, was not, believe, to repeat his visit the present season; like the neighboring English colonies, possessed of but has yielded to the call of his State to serve a legislative assembly. The people had no voice her actively-not, we trust, at the expense of in the laws by which they were governed. Dis- health. This volume, the result of his experience, content naturally prevailed, and when the Eng- is not a physician's prescription to the sick, in lish rule began, the incoming English were no spite of its title. Written without pretension, it less clamorous for an assembly in which they is a most practical volume for any one, sick or

well, purposing to visit Cuba. The country, its life, manners, amusements, conveyances by land and water, hotels, &c., are all well described, and useful directions given; but the sanitary advice, coming as it does from a skilful and thoroughly educated physician, from actual experience and observation, renders it invaluable as a guide.

Collections of the Ulster County Historical Society. Vol. I., part 2. Kingston (N. Y.): 1860. 8vo, 77-177 pp.

new process, giving each in relievo in its color, gold, silver, or copper.

We regret that some pieces are not more fully described, but yet cannot fail to acknowledge the beauty and usefulness of these manuals, which. are a valuable addition to the library of the American numismatist.

Miscellany.

H. B. DAWSON, Esq., is now preparing, for immediate publication, "New York during the Revolution; being a collection of original papers, now first published from the manuscripts in the possession of the Mercantile Library Association," an interesting volume, announced some time since.

THIS number is a decided improvement on the first; and besides the proceedings of the meetings in June and October, contains notes on the Esopus Indians, and also on the treaty with that tribe, a list of Sheriffs, Colonial Statutes relating to the county; Clinton Papers, relating to Ulster County; a very interesting and exhaustive paper on Vaughan's Expedition up the Hudson, in 1777, by G. W. Pratt, who has availed himself of English archives, hitherto almost unexplored. Speci- THE fourth and last volume of Help's "Spanmens of letters of denization and church-member-ish Conquest in America," has just appeared. ship, complete the number.

A FLAT HEAD, or Selish grammar, by Mengarini, will shortly be published as the second volume of the "Library of American Linguistics."

THE Maine Historical Society are about to prepare for the issue of a new volume of their Colvol-lections; and the Montreal Society_announce a continuation of their Mémoires. The Virginia Historical Society has also a second volume in press.

The Firelands Pioneer, published under the
supervision of the Firelands Historical Society.
A Quarterly Magazine. Vol. II. Nos. 1, 2, 3,
Sandusky H. D. Cooke & Co., 1859-60.
THESE numbers almost complete the second
ume of contributions to the history of Ohio, issued
by the Fireland Historical Society; and contains
a great deal of matter for the local history of the
district to which they refer. The Society is ac-
tive, and will obtain hereafter, as it now deserves,
great credit.

A Description of the Medals of Washington, of
National and Miscellaneous Medals, and of
other objects of Interest in the Museum of the
Mint: to which are added Biographical Notices
of the Directors of the Mint, from 1792 to the
year 1851. By James Ross Snowden, the Di-
rector of the Mint. Philadelphia: J. B. Lip-
pincott & Co., 1860. 4to, 203 pp.

A Description of Ancient and Modern Coins in the Cabinet Collection at the Mint of the United States. Prepared and arranged under the direction of James Ross Snowden, Director of the Mint. Philadelphia: J. Lippincott & Co., 1860. 2 vols. 8vo, 412, 412 pp.

THESE beautiful volumes contain a full description of the numismatic collection at the Mint, which embraces some coins and medals of excessive rarity. The works are beautifully got up; the medals engraved; the coins represented by a

THE Historical Society of Ohio lost, in February, its venerable President, Col. JOHN JOHNSON, who was found dead in his bed at Washington, D. C. He was born in Pennsylvania, in 1775, and accompanied Wayne's army to the West, in 1793. He was long Indian Agent, and made the Wyandot treaty of 1841–2.

THE site of an Indian village and cemetery is undergoing examination in the city of Montreal. It lay near Sherbrooke-street, on a dry, sandy knoll, and was apparently the abode of the Algonquin tribe, known as the Iroquet; or, as the Irothe original inhabitants of Montreal Island, and quois and Hurons called them, Onotchataronon, who must not now be confounded with the Iroquois, who were of a different race and language.

An account was read before the Natural History Society of Montreal, and is published in the Journal of Education with illustrations. The articles found comprise, besides human skeletons, pottery, clay, pipes, bone implements, but no arrow-heads, or other stone weapons.