the instruction of, 132.

Population of Newark, 136.

Perpetuity of the Society of Friends, 148.

Principles, the church, 158.

Pennsylvania hospital, 164.

Potato peelings, 168; potato disease, 392; bread, 95.

Philanthropist, a genuine, 179.

Peace should be taught by Christian ministers, 184.

Potato, substitute for, 186; preservation of, 264.
Pyramids, view from the, 208.

Pleasures of royalty, 217.

Patent office, 220.

Perspiration, 223.

Picquot, Lamarre, 239.

Perfume of plants, 245.
Presence of mind, 247.

Pittsburg files and cast-steel, 290.
Pennsylvania prison system, 303.
Phenomenon, 303.

Pride versus truth, 311.

Persons apparently drowned, 318.
Primitive Quaker, 363.
Preserved meat, 368.

Paper, manufacture of, 368.

Panther, ferocious attack by a, 370.
Patience under suffering, 388.
Protestantism in Turkey, 391.
Pestilence of Bagdad.

Poetry.-Original.—On the death of a friend ; the ran-
somed, 4; speak it boldly, 12; lines-written on the
Schuylkill near Fairmount, 48; lines addressed to a
young friend; "buy the truth," &c., 60; grief-con-
solation, 92; the ice storm, 104; scene on the Ohio,
108; youth's giddy days, 120; the great missionary,
124; the two pilots, or the shipwreck, 141; the two
pilots, or the harbour gained, 152; have faith in one
another, 157; stanzas, 164; lines in memory of T.
K., P. P. and S. S., &c., 176; the servant and his
Lord, 180; spare thy people, 200; the still small
voice, 244; lines pencilled on a card, 276; a better
day, 304; obedience, 324.
Selected-Life's sunny spots, 16; passing under the
rod, 28; lines; the invalid to her friends, 36; aspira-
tion, 56; hymn before sunrise to Mont Blanc, 76;
the autumn leaf; inscription, 84; going to law, 95;
little sins, 96; forgiveness, 127; messengers of love,
128; thoughts of heaven, 148; true glory, 132; love
divine, 164; never despair, 180; the Jersey home-
stead, 188; lines addressed to a child, 208; the hid-
den stream, 212; the questioner, 224; beautiful ex-
tract, 224; the ship builders, 232; the prisoner's ad-
dress to his mother, 246; the heart's guests; never
tail at the world; humility, 268; a prayer for the
poor, 280; an evening hymn, 284; hymn, 295; what
constitutes a church; where shall I spend eternity,
300; earth, 308; the haunted house, 316; ancient
ruins, 324; the bequest, 336; speak no ill; the bee,
340; the farmer turned soldier, 348; the poor man
to the scornful rich man, 356; the way, the truth,
and the life; be happy, 364; death of an aged Chris.
tian, 372; living waters; for the church in a low
condition, 388; "It is well," 400; why art thou cast
down, 404; little things, 408.

Quality-not quantity, 231.
Queer boarder, 313.

Railway speculation, magnitude of, 75.

Rothschild, immense profit of the house of, 96
Rotterdam, the city of, 127.

Singular discovery, 61.
Sailor's heroism, 67.

Snag boats, 84.

St. Petersburgh, wealthy slaves, 84.

Snakes in New South Wales, 92.
Styrole, 95.

Storms, the law of, 97.

Strange phenomenon, 99.

Suffering, the price of Christ's kingdom, 111.

Sewing machine, 115.

Sumner, Charles, oration, 118. 122. 130. 138. 146.

Slavery, the subject of, 124. 302; slave trade, 139. 207.
Suckers of fruit trees, 127.

Save your salt barrels, 148.

Salt applied to flowers, 154.
Signs of the times, 174.

Suffolk coast, wearing of the, 180.
Strength of the human frame, 180.

Steam and horse power superseded, 182.

Snow bunting, 200.

Sayings from the Persian, 200.
Summer ice in Virginia, 203.

Submerged lands of Missouri, 204.
Sickness, how to avoid, 211.
Starting in the world, 212.

Spots on the sun, 224.

Spanish fort, discovery of the ruins of, 227.
School friendship remembered, 236.
Slavery, effects of, 244.
Shepherds of Judea, 159.
Shocks of earthquakes, 250.
Seling, the German Father Mathew, 250.
Slave ship Pons, 255. 259.
Singular and fatal accident, 278.
Storm in the Indian Ocean, 278.
Spirit of prophecy, 291.
Saxon sheep, imported, 307.
Strawberries, 311.
Salih Pacha, 311.

Slavery, the beauties of, 313; horrors of, 372.
Sea captain rebuked, 328.
Steadfastness of the Christian, 333.
Shipwreck, 334.
Self-control, 342.

Shepherds of Mont Perdu, 343.
Shirt tree of America, 343.
Scare crows, 343.
Spectacles, invention of, 368.
Salt mines of Cardona, 370.
Samphire, 371.

Spreading the truth, 380.
Slave case, an important one, 383.
Slave, a white one, 384.
Strawberry leaves for the dysentery, 391.
Striking experiment, 391.
Slavery in Russia, 392.

The ass, 322.
Turpentine, 330,
The Indians, 331.

Thy brother, 342.

Total darkness, 342.

The two stew-pans, 346.

This world and the next, 347.

True to their principles, 349.

The archdeacon and the artist, 355.

Tame leopard, 355.

Terrible steam-boat collision on the St. Lawrence, 375.
Telegraphic communication, France and England, 383.
The West Indies, 390.

Try it, 391.

The short cut, 391.

Tar for sheep, 392.

The nerve of the continent, 394.

Unity, 64.

Uninflammable timber, 95.

United States and Great Britain, 215.
Uprightness and truth in trade, 158.

Vibrations of the air on Mount Blanc, 59.
Vesuvius, 196.

Venus, the planet, 134.

Vegetables, new for our table, 151.

Valuable discovery, 199.

Visit to a ragged school, 239.

Valuable invention, 240; suggestion, 243.

Voltaire's plan to rebuild the temple of Jerusalem, 285.
Venturesome voyage, 311.

Virginia, emigration into, 391.
Ventilation, 403.

West-town school, 29.
Whitehead, J., 64.
Wilson, the ornithologist, 67.
Wonderful spring, 67.
Warwick-extract, 67.

Who wants to go to war, 97.

War, 135; the cost of, 99; horrors of, 182; expensive-
ness of, 277. 303; its responsibilities, 294; effects of,
296. 303; picture of, by Dr. Rush, 336; as it is, 396.
Wall of China, 99.

Water in the desert, 127.
Wars, trivial causes of, 134.
Washington city, 155.

Waste and want, 186.
Wild cattle of Texas, 187.

Wreck of the ship John Minturn, 214.

Wild ducks near Baltimore, 254.

Wash for roofs and walls, 255.

Woman's kindness, 258.

Wasting power of rivers, 283.

Wool in the United States, 300.