urier_ vouches to come
from an officer in the navy, known to him:--

From what we see and know of the operations of the rebels in
this part of the South (the Southern coast, where he has been
stationed), and from what we see perfidious Englishmen doing for
the rebels, we are fast becoming strong abolitionists. We feel
that _now_ Slavery must receive its death-blow, and be destroyed
forever from the country. You would be surprised to see the
change going on in the minds of officers in our service, who
have been great haters of abolitionists; and the Southerners in
our navy are the most bitter toward those who have made slavery
the great cause of war. They freely express the opinion that the
whole system must be abolished, and even our old captain, who is
a native of Tennessee, and who has hitherto insisted that the
abolitionists of the North brought on this war, said last night,
'If England continues to countenance the _institution_, I hope
our government will put arms in the hands of the slaves, and
that slavery will now be the destruction of the whole South, or
of the rebels in the South.' He further said, 'The slave-holder
has, by the tacit consent and aid of England, brought on the
most unjustifiable, iniquitous and barbarous war ever known in
the history of the world.'

Too far and too fast--it is not Abolition, or the good of the black, but
Emancipation, or the benefit of the _white_ man, which is really
progressing so rapidly with the American people. But whatever causes of
agitation are at work, whether on limited or general principles of
philanthropy and political economy, one thing is at least certain--the
day of the triumph of free labor is dawning, while the cause of progress

'Careers with thunder speed along!'

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It is almost a wonder that the late offer of the king of Siam to stock
this land with elephants was not jumped at, when one remembers the
American national fondness for the animal, and how copiously our popular
orators and poets allude to a sight of the monster. Among the latest
elephantine tales which we have encountered is the following, from our
New Haven correspondent:--

Dr. H., of this pleasant city of Elms, has been noted for many
years for always driving the gentlest and most sober, but at the
same time the most fearfully 'homely' of horses. His stee