Schralenberg Gaz. & N. Y. ed. is Schralenburgh Irving's Irvines 66. "" Irving's Than cow driving or fighting: Gazette Than cowdriving New York ed. Than driving Cows or fighting (Lond. ed.)

Note to American edition.-"A cant appellation [Bodies] given amongst the soldiery to the corps that has the honor to guard his Majesty's person." London edition-" that had the honour," etc.

Other slight variations may be noticed from a comparison of Messrs. CLARKE & Co's edition with the reprint of the "Cow Chace" as it appeared in RIVINGTON's Royal Gazette, which is given in this number of the BIBLIOPOLIST.

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The notes in The Royal Gazette are five in number. In the edition of 1780 two are added: "Lord Stirling," to "frost-bit Alexander," and "Miss Livingston," to "pretty Susan."* The London edition (by John Fielding?) contains all these notes except the last, Pretty Susan;" and with "Lord Stirling" altered to "calling himself, because he was ordered NOT to do it, Earl of Stirling, though no Sterling Earl" -the other notes, with the exception of "Rebel Camp" for "Rebel Lines "`remaining unchanged.

Other explanatory notes" make altogether twenty-one in the London edition. Some of these are curious:

To drive the Kine, one summer's morn,
The Tanner* took his way,-

• General Wayne's LEGAL Occupation.

And those that eat Soupaunt. Hasty pudding, made of the meal of Indian Corn, or Maize.

Arriv'd at Freedom's Pole*,

A long tree stuck in the ground, which the American Rebels assemble at on all trying occasions, and to which they pay their most divine adorations, as to a present Deity.

Pretty Susan was Miss Susannah Livingston, daughter of Gov. Wm. Livingston, of New Jersey, who was suspected of writing political articles, in some of which André had come in for a share of satire." Note in Albany edition, 1866.

No shot could pass, if you will take

The Gen'ral's word for true*;

So Washington wrote to Congress; a body of men at first of some reputation, but now consisting only of bankrupts and knaves-always excepting the renowned JOHNNY WITHERSPOON, who is perfectly adapted to his situation. Concerning whom it may be useful to observe, that it has not yet been settled which of the three he is most fond of.-Heresy, Sedition, or Strong Toddy. Perhaps he may be best suited by the Bath Motto, TRIA JUNCTA IN UNO.

[We chanced to see the other day a copy of the works of this right reverend gentleman some time minister at... Paisley, in New Jersey," at Luyster, the bookseller's. Nine volumes, printed at Edinburgh, displays the Doctor's learning. The volumes in question contains not only the Doctor's Theological Works, but also his Speeches in Congress, etc.]

-The bridle of his Jadet.

+A New-England name for a horse, mare, or gelding.

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Marquis de la Fayette, a French coxcomb, in the Rebel Service.

One of the lines (where Parson Caldwell is meant by "Satan",)

"And make a bow, and take a look,
"Like Satan over Lincoln,

contains an allusion to a proverb more familiar to English ears than to American. A collection of English Proverbs, by J. R., Cambridge, 1670, thus explains it:

54 "To look on one, as the Devil looks over Lincoln.

54 Some referre this to Lincoln minister, over which when first finished, the Devil is supposed to have looked with a torve and tetrick countenance as envying mens costly devotion; but more probable it is that it took its rise from a small image of the Devil, standing on the top of Lincoln Colledge in Oxford."

"This poem has been often printed, and from the first, has enjoyed a certain degree of popularity. Mr. Sargent in his Life of Andre intimates that the theme may have been suggested by the fact that the author then boarded with John Thompson, the wood-cutting agent at New York. The piece is said to have been written at Head-Quar

ters, No. 1 Broadway. Dunlap reports that the printer received the last canto from the author on the day before he set out to meet Arnold."*

In The Royal Gazette prefixed to the first canto, are the place and date, ElizabethTown," August 1, 1780." It is the same

in the New York edition of 1780. This is probably a fiction, as André is not known to have been at Elizabeth-Town. The place was probably adopted to conceal the authorship. The first canto was printed on the 16th of August, the second on the 30th, and the last on the 23d of September, 1780.

"According to Frank Moore, the following lines were found under André's signature to a manuscript copy of the same:"

And when the epic strain was sung
The poet by the neck was hung,
And to his cost he finds too late
The dung-born Tribe decides his fate.
NOTE TO ALBANY EDITION.

It is possible that the author made MS. copies of his poem for distribution among his friends, and that the verse here given was added to the original by some fortunate recipient of copy. James Stuart, an English traveler in the United States, gives (probably misquoting from memory) instead of the line

Should ever catch the poet

Should catch-and hang the poet.

Quotation from the Albany (1866) edition of The Cow Chace. The copy of this which we are using (through the kindness of Mr. F. S. Hoffman,) contains the following MS. note: "This edition was suppressed because the publisher believed that he had been made a victim of misplaced confidence. It was afterwards purchased by a gentleman in New York for private distribution," A few copies had, however escaped from the press-one poor unfortunate fell into the clutches of our great Historical Eagle. In his terrible talons it became an easy prey. [See Hist. Mag., 1867.

The locality of this tragic event was, we believe, at length discovered by a few sympathizing friends, who have inscribed over a premature grave this touching and melancholy epitaph

REVIEWED BY DS-N.

An ingenious person might adapt the first two stanzas of Canto I. to the unfortunate case of the hapless editor.

How many copies of the Albany edition were suppressed (130 were printed) we know not, but this we do know, for it is so printed in the copy before us, "Author's (!) edition, 30 copies." We hope these will delight the soul of André (the author) better than they have the soul of his living defender in The Historical Magazine,

ELIOT'S INDIAN BIBLE. Extract from the Journal of Jaspar Dankers and Peter Sluyter; published by the Long Island Historical Society.

July 7, 1680. We heard preaching in three churches. . . . The best of the ministers whom we have yet heard, is a very old man, named John Eliot, who has charge of

the instruction of the Indians in the Christian religion. He has translated the Bible into their language. We had already made inquiries of the booksellers for a copy of it, but it was not to be obtained in Boston. They told us if one was to be had, it would be from Mr. Eliot. We determined to go on Monday to the village where he resided, and was the minister, called Roxbury.

July 8, Monday. We went accordingly.

On arriving at his house he was not there, and we, therefore, went to look around the village and the vicinity. . . . Returning to his house we spoke to him, and he received us politely. Although he could speak neither Dutch nor French, and we spoke but little English, we managed by means of Latin and English, to understand each other. He was seventy years old and had been forty-eight years in these parts. We asked him for an Indian Bible. He said in the late Indian war, all the Bibles and Testaments were carried away, and burnt or destroyed, so that he had not been able to save any for himself; but a new edition was in press, which he hoped would be much better than the first one, though that was not to be despised. We inquired whether any part of the old or new edition could be obtained by purchase, and whether there was any grammar of that language in English. Thereupon he went out and brought us the Old Testament, and also the New Testament, made up with some sheets of the new edition, so that we had the Old and New Testaments complete. He also brought us two or three specimens of the grammar. We asked him what we should pay him for them, but he desired nothing.*

A correspondent sends this note:

"It may be interesting to you to know that there is a copy of Eliot's Indian Bible, in excellent preservation, in the Town Library at South Natick, Mass. It is enclosed in a casket made from the large oak tree under which the apostle first gathered his dusky audience."

Can this copy be traced to the present?

ANECDOTE OF THOMSON.-When the first of The Seasons-"Winter" it was, I believe had been completed at press, Jamie thought, by a presentation copy, to triumph over his uncle's skepticism, and to propitiate his good opinion he had the book handsomely bound. The old man never looked inside, or asked what the book was about, but, turning it round and round with his fingers in gratified admiration, exclaimed-"Come, is that really our Jamie's doin' now?-weel, I never thought the cratur wad hae had the handicraft to do the like!" -BURTON'S Book-Hunter.

Amende Honorable.-In a recent paragraph, being a little funny upon "AZTEC or MEXICAN MANUSCRIPTS" sold in London, we mentioned Mr. QUARITCH'S name as a purchaser, in this wise: "He did not discover till after the sale the real character of the manuscript" [which turned out to be Irish]. Let not this be construed into an insinuation of ignorance on the part of Mr. Quaritch, who assures us that he was well informed of the character of the MS., having personally examined it and compared it with others in his possession-to which the attention of collectors is strongly urged.

Yankee Doodle.-To answer satisfactorily the queries of Mr. Waller in regard to the origin of Yankee Doodle, it would require more space than the BIBLIOPOLIST is probably willing to resign to the subject. I would, however, respectfully refer your correspondent to Duyckinck's Cyclopedia of American Literature, Vol. I.-463, where he will find a very interesting article devoted exclusively to the origin and history of Yankee Doodle -and also to a little work recently published by Munsell, called "A Monogram on our National Song," from the pen of the Rev Elias Nason. The first three volumes of the old series of the Historical Magazine contain several notes and queries on the subject, from which your correspondent may be able to derive some useful hints. References are made to Yankee Doodle in Trumbull's McFingal, and in Moore's Diary of the Revolution.

A Philadelphia correspondent of the His. Mag. contributed the following lines to that periodical in March, 1857, stating that they were taken from a manuscript in his possession, but by whom, or when written, he was unable to say, and requesting information as to their author. I have never noticed an answer to the inquiry up to the present time. Can any of the readers of the BIBLIOPOLIST answer the question now, with the light that the intervening thirteen years may have shed over the literature of the Revolution?

DON!

THE ORIGIN OF YANKEE DOODLE.

Once on a time old Johnny Bull
Flew in a raging fury,

And swore that Jonathan should have
No trials, sir, by jury:
That no elections should be held,
Across the briny waters,
"And now," said he, I'll tax the tea
Of all his sons and daughters."
Then down he sat in burly state,
And blustered like a grandee,
And in derision made a tune

Called "Yankee Doodle Dandy"Yankee Doodle "-these are factsYankee Doodle Dandy;

My son of wax, your tea I'll tax-
Yankee Doodle Dandy."

John sent the tea from o'er the sea
With heavy duties rated;
But whether Hyson or Bohea,
I never heard it stated.
Then Jonathan to pout began-

He laid a strong embargo-
"Ill drink no tea, by Jove!" So he
Threw overboard the cargo.
Then Johnny sent a regiment

Big words and looks to bandy,
Whose martial band, when near the land,
Played "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
"Yankee Doodle-keep it up!

Yankee Doodle Dandy;
I'll poison with a tax your cup,
Yankee Doodle Dandy."

A long war then they had, in which
John was at last defeated-
And Yankee Doodle was the march
To which his troops retreated.
Cute Jonathan, to see them fly,
Could not restrain his laughter;

"That tune," said he, "suits to a T,
Ill sing it ever after."
Old Johnny's face, to his disgrace,

Was flushed with beer and brandy,
E'en while he swore to sing no more
This "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
"Yankee Doodle- ho! ha! he!
Yankee Doodle Dandy-
We kept the tune but not the tea,
Yankee Doodle Dandy!"

I've told you now the origin

Of this most lively ditty,
Which Johnny Bull dislikes as "dull
And stupid!"-what a pity!
With "Hail Columbia !" it is sung

And chorus full and hearty

On land and main we breathe the strain
John made for his tea party.
No matter how we rhyme the words,

The music speaks them handy,
And where's the fair can't sing the air,
Of "Yankee Doodle Dandy ?"
Yankee Doodle-firm and true-

Yankee Doodle Dandy, Yankee Doodle, Doodle-doo! Yankee Doodle Dandy.

MY DEAB SIR :-Will you do me the justice to believe that neither want of affection nor inclination, but a thousand other intervening circumstances, have prevented me from writing sooner. Indeed, my dear sir, we have hitherto had but a very disagreeable campaign; what with private feud and public misfortunes, I am almost distracted and worn down. Just as I had effected a temporary reconciliation among the officers of this line to measures which had wounded their feelings, and beginning to feel a little happy, the perfidy of Gen. Arnold has opened a new field for anxiety of mind, and distrust of some others, both in the cabinet and in the field.

I can't say that I was much shocked on the occasion. I had long known the man; as early as 1776 he produced a conviction to me that honor and true virtue were strangers to his soul-and, however contradictory it may appear, he did not possess either fortitude or personal courage. He was naturally a coward, and never went into danger but when stimulated by liquor, even to intoxication; consequently not capable of conducting any command committed to his charge. But, however that may be, had he succeeded in the dark affair, Charleston and the other recent military checks we have experienced in South Carolina would be trifles to the loss of West

Point and its dependencies; for, by possessing that pass, the enemy would effectually separate the Northern and Southern States, and prevent any possible communication short of half moon, situate twelve miles north of Albany. By this means they might direct their whole force to any point without being in danger of a junction of the forces of these States to molest them in their operation.

The storm was to have taken place last Tuesday night, or the next morning. The garrison at West Point was so detached, and the works so wretchedly manned and provided, that the whole must have been carried in 20 minutes. His Excellency fortunately-very fortunately--arrived at that place about half an hour before the treachery was discovered; but Arnold made his escape in a boat, and proceeded down the river as a flag, and got on board the Vulture sloop-of-war. The General expecting that, as the enemy were embarked, and everything in perfect readiness for the enterprise, Sir Henry Clinton would (notwithstanding the discovery) attempt to carry the work by assault, well knowing the debilitated state of the garrison and the proper points of attack, and that our army was not within supporting distance, he therefore dispatched an express at 7 o'clock that evening, which reached us by twelve at night, directing Gen. Greene to order the Pennsylvania line to proceed with all possible dispatch under my command, and endeavor, if possible, to get possession of the defiles leading from Stony to West Point. We immediately marched, leaving our camp standing, and by sunrise passed that pass, being upwards of sixteen miles in four hours, performed in the night, without a single man left behind.

Here we yet remain, waiting for Sir Henry's motions; but, knowing our position, he will not be hardy enough to persevere in an enterprise (although a very favorite one) that would be the price of much blood. I shall not commit myself to the fortifications, but will decide the fate of the day at the point of the bayonet in the gorges of the defiles, through which the enemy must pass before they reach the works.

My kindest wishes to Sister Sally and her little people; present my best respects to mother Penrose, and believe me yours, most affectionately,

ANTY: WAYNE.

Relics of the Battle of Lake Erie.-A number of interesting relics, the personal property of the late Major Henry B. Brevoort, have been deposited for safe keeping and as honorable memorials among the records of the Michigan State Historical Society. Among these are included the hat and sword of the gallant Major, worn by him in the battle of Lake Erie, under Commodore Perry. Among the relics, says the Detroit Free Press, is also a cardcase, fashioned from a piece of live oak which was used in the repairing of the staunch old battle ship, the Ironsides, which had gained so proud a name and so high a fame for the flag of the Union and its brave defenders.

A copy of a letter, accompanying a silver.

"SIR: In compliance with a resolution by the Congress of the United States, the President directs me to present you with a silver medal, in testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of your gallant conduct and services in the decisive and glorious victory gained on Lake Erie, on the 10th day of September, in the year 1813, over a British squadron of superior force.

"I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, "SMITH THOMPSON,"

The words "raised” and “tote.”— Under the head of Notes and Queries a correspondent of your attractive monthly wishes to be informed as to the source whence the Southern provincialism "raise " is derived. In the notes to Dr. Wynne's recent publication, "The Bolling Family," contributed by Hugh Blair Grigsby, Esq., President of the Historical Society of Virginia, it is shown that the use of the word above mentioned in the sense of to rearto bring up is correct in the mouths of our people, and that it is an old English word in very good credit in England in the 16th century.

The word "tote," supposed to be a mongrel of African origin, and which is in such general use among Virginians, is also shown by Mr. Grigsby to have been derived from the practice of lifting a suit from one English court to another of higher rank. In Pegge's Anecdotes of the English Language many instances are given of obsolete words which are to-day current among the cockneys of London as well as the poor whites of Virginia. C. M. WALLACE.

Richmond, Jan, 1870.

Browning's "Good News from Ghent to Aix."-Can any one inform me what the "Good News" were; that the Hero of Robert Browning's Ballad brought from "Ghent to Aix ?" I can discover no event of an approximate date which fulfils the conditions of the poem ? T. B. L.

Baltimore, Jan. 26, 1870.

"Whereas James Steel did commence an action against Bevell Waters (both of Hartford) in this court, upon hearing and tryall where of the court gave judgment against the said Waters (as in justice they think they ought) upon the declaring the said judgment, the said Waters did review to the court in March next, that being granted and entered, the said Waters, as he departed from the table he said, "God bless you over the left shoulder." The court order a record to be made thereof forthwith. A true copie : Test. "CALEB STANLEY, Clerk." At the next court, Waters was tried for contempt, for saying the words recited, "so cursing the court," and on verdict fined £5. He asked a review of the court following, which was granted, and pending trial, the court asked counsel of the Rev. Messrs. Woolbridge and Buckingham, the ministers of the Hartford churches, as to the "common acceptation of the offensive phrase. Their reply constitutes a part of the Record, and is as follows:

"We are of opinion that those words, said on the other side to be spoken by Bevell Waters, include (1) prophaneness, by using the name of God, that is holy, with such ill words whereto it was joyned: (2) that they carry great contempt in them, arising to the degree of an imprecation or curse, the words of a curse the most contemptible that can ordinarily be used. "T. WOODBRIDGE, "T. BUCKINGHAM.

March 7, 1705-6."

The former judgment was affirmed on review.

Number of Smiths from New Jersey who entered the Service during the Civil War. According to the "Register of the New Jersey Volunteers." there were 390 men named Smith who entered the service of the United States from that State alone. Of this number 47 were John Smiths. One of this number was an adjutant, 1 captain, 9 first-lieutenants, 2 second-lieutenants, 24 corporals, 20 sergeants, 8 drummers, 3 musicians, 1 fifer, 4 cannoniers, 2 wagoners, 1 ambulance driver, and the remainder (315) privates. At the date of compiling the register not a Smith had deserted, while eight had died or been killed, and four promoted.

America and the Bible.-What are the passages in the Psalms and Prophets in which Columbus is said to have found proof of the existence of a new world? Lady Herbert refers to the subject in her recent book on Spain. C. J. ROBINSON.