R ES ardua vetustis novitatum dare; novis auctoritatem; obsoletis, nitorem; obscuris, lucem; fastiditis, graticum; dubiis, fidem; omnibus vero naturam, et natural sua omnia. Itaque etiam non assecutis, voluisse abunde pulchrum utque magnificum est. (It is a difficult thing to give newness to old things, authority to new things, beauty to things out of use, fame to the obscure, favor to the hateful (or ugly), credit to the doubtful, nature to all and all to nature. To such, nevertheless as cannot

If the author's other book, Army Life on the Pacific , which we reprinted as our Extra No. 30, is a scarce item of Americana, this is even more so, for it was not even published; a few copies only having been printed for distribution among Lieutenant Kip's friends. Hence it is exceedingly rare; a copy being priced in a recently issued catalogue, at $25.00. Of the various persons mentioned in its pages, none survives. CAPTAIN B. L. E. BONNEVILLE, Seventh Infantry, was absent so long on the explor

It was about ten o'clock on a morning in the beginning of May, that our good steamer crossed the bar at the mouth of the Columbia river,—from its shifting shoals the most dangerous navigation on the whole Pacific coast. Our passage of six days from San Francisco had been remarkably stormy, and probably there were none on board more delighted than myself at the prospect of once more standing on terra firma. "Life on the ocean wave," has some very pretty poetical ideas connected with it, but I pre