d the great weapon idly in our hands, and fear to
use it! By and by it will be too late. By and by emancipation-time will
have gone by, and when it is too late, we shall possibly see it adopted,
and hear its possible failure attributed to those who urged the prompt,
efficient application of it betimes.

The article in this number of the Continental entitled The Huguenot
Families in America, is the first of a series which will embrace a great
amount of interesting details relative to the ancestry of the early
French Protestant settlers in this country. Those who are familiar with
the English version of WEISS'S History of the Huguenots, and who may
recall the merits of that concluding portion which is devoted to the
fortunes of the exiles in this country, will be pleased to learn that
its writer and our contributor are the same person--a gentleman whose
descent from the stock which he commemorates, and whose life-long
studies relative to his ancestral faith and its followers, have
peculiarly fitted him for the task. Descendants of _any_ of the Huguenot
families, in any part of this country, would confer a special favor by
transmitting to the author, through the care of the editor, any details,
family anecdotes, short biographic sketches, or other material suitable
for his history. It is especially desirable that some account should be
given of all those descendants of Huguenots who have in any way whatever
distinguished themselves in this country.

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According to the report of the N.Y. Central Railroad it appears that the
average reduction of wages of the employes of that company, since the
beginning of the war, has been from $1.12 1/2 _per diem_ to 75 cents.
Taking increased taxation and the rise in prices into consideration, we
may assume that the working men of the North have lost fifty per cent.
of their usual gains.

So far as this is an honorable sacrifice for the war, it is good. But
how long is it to last? It will last until the _whole_ country shall
have lost a sneaking sympathy for the enemy and their institutions, and
until every man and woman shall cease to openly approve of those
principles which, as the secessionists truly maintain, constitute us
'two peoples.' With what consistency can any one avow fidelity to the
Union and yet profess views according in the main with the platform of
Messrs. DAVIS and STEPHENS?

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Diveste