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Harper's Magazine for October.

THE sent number of HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE pers by the following writers:

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In the November Number will be commenced a series of papers descriptive of travel and adventure in Poland, Denmark, Iceland, and other parts of Northern Europe, by J. Ross BROWNE, to be profusely illustrated from Original Sketches by the Author.

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Enickerbocker Hagazine

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LITERATURE, ART, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY.

ANNOUNCEMENT.

WITH the October number of this time-honored and popular Magazine, is commenced a new series, issued in a new and enlarged form, under entirely new editorial and proprietary management.

It will be the aim of its future conductor not only to sustain its former prestige, but to extend its circle of readers, and make it a welcome guest in every American household. With this view, no labor or expense will be spared in securing the highest order of talent, not alone on this side of the Atlantic, but in both hemispheres.

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It is thus hoped that even under the depressing influences of a protracted war, the veteran Magazine of the United States will reap, in its new and improved character, a plentiful harvest of subscriptions, and maintain, with added lustre, that position as a first-class monthly which it has held for nore than thirty years.

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THE EDITOR,

37 Park Row, New-York.

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MONTHLY MAGAZINE

Of Literature, Art, Politics, and Society.

KINAHAN CORNWALLIS

Editor and Proprietor.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE OF THE MAGAZINE. 37 PARK ROW.

GENERAL AGENTS:

NEW-YORK: HENRY DEXTER AND SINCLAIR TOUSEY.
BOSTON: A. WILLIAMS & CO. AND J. J. DYER & CO.

PHILADELPHIA: T. B. CALLENDER.

LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON & CO., Ludgate Hill.

Old No. Vol. LX., No. 5.

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ART. I.

ADRIFT ON THE WORLD:

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. CHAPTER SECOND.-My

Mysterious Origin. CHAPTER THIRD.-The Skeleton in the Closet,

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PREJUDICED ENGLISHMEN,

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A NEW SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY. NAPLES,

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VI. BOARDING, LODGING, AND HOUSE-KEEPING, .

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TRENTON FALLS,

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X. THE PRESIDENT'S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION,

CARL ALMENDINGER'S OFFICE; OR, THE MYSTERIES OF CHICAGO,
CHILDREN FOR ADOPTION, .

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XI. THE PODDLEGREE PEDESTRIAN MATCH,

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XII. SLAVERY, COLONIZATION, AND THE CONSTITUTION,

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XIII. THE MILITARY POSITION OF THE COUNTRY,

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XIV. THE RESOURCES OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH COMPARED,

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NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ON HIS WAY
THROUGH THE WORLD. BY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY,
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH THE SECOND, CALLED FREDERICK THE GREAT. BY THOMAS
CARLYLE. Volume III.,

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INSIDE OUT. A Curious Book. By a Singular Man,

FIRST BOOK IN CHEMISTRY. BY WORTHINGTON HOOKER, M.D.,

THE MYSTERY; a Story of Domestic Life. By Mrs. HENRY WOOD,
THE NORTH-AMERICAN REVIEW. October, 1862,

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OLIVE BLAKE'S GOOD WORK. A Novel. By JOHN CORDY JEAFFERSON, Author of 'A Book about Doctors,'

EDITOR'S TABLE,

NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS: FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, .

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MILITARY INSUBORDINATION LOUIS NAPOLEON AND FOREIGN INTERVENTION -THE
POST-OFFICE AND SOILED POSTAGE STAMPS-THE INEFFICIENCY OF OUR PRESENT
POSTAL SYSTEM GARIBALDI-THE PROCLAMATION SUSPENDING THE WRIT OF
Habeas Corpus - THE SURRENDER OF HARPER'S FERRY THE CURRENCY
CARNIVAL.

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NOTICE. CHARLES READE, Esq., D.C.L., author of the Cloister and the Hearth,' and other eminent authors will be among the regular contributors to the Magazine.

The publication of the story by Mrs. EDWIN JAMES is deferred.

We are informed that many of the copies sent to editors, through the post-office, have not been received, and we shall feel obliged by our exchanges notifying us of any irregularity in the receipt of the Magazine in future.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by KINAHAN CORNWALLIS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.

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СНАРТER SECOND.

MY MYSTERIOUS ORIGIN.

'THE impudence of these beggars,' said Mrs. Bangs, 'passes all belief, and she went to the door again in a rage, and seeing the same woman there, said: 'What do you want?'

'I want to see my foster-child,' was the reply; and I've come ten miles to see him.'

'Whom do you mean,' asked Mrs. Bangs, jealous of intrusion. 'I know nothing about your foster-child.'

'Well, he's here—taat I know,' said the stranger somewhat indignantly, and at the same moment she caught sight of my inquiring eyes in the passage, and exclaimed in triumph, 'There he is there he is!' and rushing past Mrs. Bangs, threw her arms around and kissed me.

Mrs. Bangs never forgave me for that. 'My dear, poor boy,' said the woman, 'I've not seen him for so long I hardly knew him. What's the matter with your face, Washington ? Where did you get that black eye, and that mark on your cheek?'

Mrs. Bangs was exasperated by these inquiries; and to prevent my telling the truth, and to hide her own cruelty, she

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said: 'He fell down. and hurt himself. He's always getting into mischief,' and as she spoke she cast a threatening look at me, as much as to say: 'If you contradict me, I'll flog you to death.'

Meanwhile she remained, holding the knob of the unclosed door, evidently with the intention of inducing the stranger to take her departure, and casting towards her looks of indignation and impatience. 'Come, come; I'm getting ready for dinner, and I've no time to stand here,' she said after a few moments' delay, at the same time motioning the visitor out with her finger.

But the other took no heed of her, in her joy of seeing me. I was afraid to show all the gratification I felt at meeting one who had been to me the only mother I ever knew; for by the wicked eye of the woman who governed me, I saw that I should be made to suffer in the future for any offence of the kind I might commit now. My delight was, however, unfeigned; and if I did not show it in act or word, it was none the less visible in my looks..

'Ah!' said the visitor, regarding me with a fond, compassionate glance, and addressing Mrs. Bangs, who, finding her efforts at summary ejection unsuccess

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