Jefferson Davis delivered the last annual during our stay in New-York last summer, address before the Societies of the University of Mississippi. The effort was worthy of his reputation as a man of high intellect and scholarship, a good citizen and pure patriot. His concluding remarks are worthy of note:

"If I am competent to form an opinion in a case where I am certainly not free from prejudice, there is enough of talent, enough of energy in the youth of Mississippi to warrant the expectation that they will reach the highest degree of attainment, and in their day and generation, as circumstances may ⚫ permit, fill the brightest pages of their country's history. Such is the cherished hope of him who addresses you. Of him who, as a Mississippian, has spent a large portion of his life in the service of his country; whose heart from youth to age has ever beat responsive to the demands of Mississippi's interest and honor; who has rejoiced in the power and glory of the Union, and loved it for the objects it was established to secure; who has striven against the perversion of its grants, as the means of destroying either the Union, or the more sacred ends for which it was founded, and who now appeals to you by all that is ennobling in the memories of the past, and inspiring in the anticipations of the future, that you will address yourselves earnestly to that highest duty of a citizen, to know and to maintain the permanent welfare of his country; and that, at whatever sacrifice, you will discharge your trust to guard and to uphold the principles confided to your care as an inheritance for all posterity."

The Rev. J. H. Thornwell's Report on the Subject of Slavery, preached to the Synod of South Carolina, is a masterly paper, which, whilst it defends the rights of the South, marks out the duty of the Christian master in all the matters of moral and religious culture of the slave, &c. The South has an important part to perform, and will conscientiously do it, if left alone by the meddlesome and officious people who have hitherto so much interfered with the true happiness of the negro. The Lemmon case in New-York is the last of these acts of aggression, and it would have set the South on fire again but for the liberal and patriotic course of the merchants of New-York, who, in raising the amount necessary to indemnify the master for the loss of his slaves, and in furnishing the means requisite to carry up the case before the highest court of appeal, evidenced their determination to protect the laws and constitution of their country. We cannot doubt that the opinion of Judge Payne will be reversed as false in principle, subversive of the rights of the South in the Union, and calculated to lead to the most mischievous consequences. We cannot quit this subject without recurring to a case which happened

and of which the particulars were furnished us at the time. Mr. Simonds, of New-Orleans, executor under the will of Mr. Creswell, arrived in New-York with thirty-eight slaves for the purpose of emancipating them. His plan of sending them into the country was interfered with by the abolitionists, who persuaded the negroes that the purpose was again to sell them into slavery. The largest proportion of them therefore refused to go. Having interrogated Mr. Simonds in regard to their condition afterwards, we received in reply a note, from which a brief extract will be interesting:

"Most, if not all, of those that refused to leave the city of New-York have done very badly. Some are in the most abject and degraded condition. Several of them have begged me to take them back with me-saying I might keep them as slaves, or sell them― that they were happy before and wretched now.

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"There was, among these emancipated slaves, a very interesting quadroon girl, about 12 years old, in whom I had taken special interest. Agreeably to her wish, I had procured her a most desirable situation. highly respectable merchant of New-Orleans had agreed to take her to Vermont to his mother, who had no young children, to be by her brought up and educated as one of the family. Accordingly the gentleman started with her from New-Orleans in companionship with his own daughter, of about the same age. I was to meet him in NewYork, and furnish the girl with her emanci pation papers. But on the gentleman's arriving at Buffalo, and just before the steamer landed, the emancipated girl was kidnapped by abolitionists, transferred to a British steamer and conveyed to Canada.

"The gentleman having her in charge, employed an attorney-at-law, and spent several days in the endeavor to recover her. He went over to Canada, and ascertained where she was, but was not permitted to see her. He was even in imminent danger of being mobbed.

"In the New-York Tribune of July 19th, is published a letter, dated St. Catharine's, Canada, boasting of the abduction and rescue from a slaveholder.

On my arrival at New-York with the other slaves, a friend showed me the letter in the "Tribune," and informed me that he had addressed the writer, stating the facts, and urging him to send the girl to New-York, to be properly disposed of by me. In the answer, which he afterwards received and showed me, he met with a flat refusal and a volley of abuse of the 'inhuman and hellish slaveholders.'

"I presume the girl is still in Canada. Whatever may be her condition, it cannot be any better than that I had secured for her.

Editorial-Literary-Miscellaneous, Etc.

J. W. Randolph, of Richmond, sends us a copy of a Plantation and Farm Book, which he has published, the object of which is to promote the more systematic management of our estates. It contains blank pages, ruled and lettered for inventories of negroes, stock, utensils, products, etc., with rules and regulations in regard to a hundred matters of plantation management and detail. In truth, we consider it an invaluable work for planters. It can be had from J. B. Steel, of New-Orleans. We shall refer to it again.

Through T. L. White, Bookseller, New Orleans, we have received several of the valuable series of scientific and practical works, which Henry C. Baird, of Philadelphia, is now issuing from the press. These volumes are handsomely executed, and they are calculated to advance very greatly the progress of the arts in our country, by diffusing the most valuable practical information at an insignificant cost.

The volumes before us embrace:

1. The Arts of Tanning and Leather Dressing, from the French, with emendations and additions by Campbell Morfit, chemist, with 200 engravings, 550 pages. The volume is prefaced with a portrait of Zadoc Pratt, the great American tanner, and gives all the details of his extensive operations.

2. Electrotype Manipulation, or the theory and practice of working in metals, by C. V. Walker, with wood-cuts.

3. Complete Practical Brewer, by Dr. M. L. Byrn.

4. Pyrotechnist's Companion, or a familiar system of recreative fire-works, by G. W. Mortimer.

5. Rural Chemistry, in relation to agriculture and the arts of life, by Edmund Solly, F. R. S. A very valuable volume for plantters, who should all study it.

6. A Treatise on Screw Propellers, and their steam-engines, with rules to calculate or construct the same; and also, a Treatise on Bodies in motion in fluid, by J. W. Mystrom. We have been favored with a paper from J. W. Scott, of Toledo, one of the best statistical writers in the country, upon the commerce of that city, which shall appear in our next, when we expect also to resume the publication of the interesting papers upon "Taxation, Ancient and Modern," which have been interrupted, as the author. Judge Shortridge, informs us, by unavoidable causes.

CLOSING NOTE.

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labors for many years have contributed, ought we not to be among the very first remembered? What we ask is small, and has been earned ten times over. Remittances are frequently neglected from an oversight. Many think that another time will do as well, and thus they embarrass us without serving themselves. Our bills have all gone out-we ask the money or orders upon merchants, assuming ourselves all risks, and acknowledging payments on the cover. If there are errors in accounts, we are prepared to correct-if numbers have not been received, we are prepared to supply them. In fact, we want to do everything that is right, and want every one to do the same to us. Our expenses have been greatly increased in the improvements now made upon the Review.

Again, we solicit orders for the new work we have published, entitled INDUSTRIAL REsOURCES OF THE SOUTH AND WEST, of which, prospectus appears in another place, and of which the general index appeared in December number. It is embraced in three large and beautifully bound volumes, and supplies a mass of information which can be had from no other source. It is intended to bind the volumes of the Review, hereafter, every six months, uniformly with these, and no subscrîber should be without the complete set. We have incurred an enormous expense upon the work, and appeal to the friends of the South for reimbursement. Subscribers who wish their volumes of the Review bound, can always have it done at the office, at cost. trust it will not be considered immodest, from the numerous complimentary letters which the publication of the "Industrial Resources has induced, to extract from one addressed to us by the Hon. George Bancroft, the brilliant historian of the United States, a man whose good opinions upon such matters are very gratifying to us to have won. He says:

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"Be assured, I value exceedingly the work you were so good as to send me, both as evidence of your kindness, as also, for the wonderfully rich and carefully prepared information with which it abounds. If the statistics and past and future of the South and Southwest have been less displayed than those of the North, it can be said so no longer. Your work exceeds in merit any similar one with which I am acquainted, in any other part of the Union.

"It will be a work to which I shall constantly look for instruction and for a solid foundation for my habitual and ever unshaken confidence in the durability of the Union and the glorious future that awaits the near development of its resources."

I. Suffolk Bank System. II. Bank Statistics. 1. New-York, 2. Illinois. III. The Gold Fields of Australia. IV. Recent Pamphlet on the Gold Question. 1. A letter to Thos. Baring on the effects of the Gold Discoveries. 2. A few words on the effect of the increase of Gold upon Currency. 3. Observations on the effect of the Californian and Australian Gold. V. Lectures on Gold, delivered at the Museum of Practical Geology. VI. A sketch of the business and management of the Bank of England. VII. Banking and Commercal Tables.