Macadamized_,' and is set to the air of 'The Monks of Old:' 'MANY have told of the roads of old, What a swamp of muck they were: But a Macadam-way, on a rainy day, Would make a street sweeper swear. For it goes beyond the Slough of Despond, In its hopeless state of slush: And it grows, ha! ha! to your clothes, ha! ha! In spite of the hardest brush. 'And when it is fine, if the sun should shine, You're no better off than before: For it turns to dust and at every gust It settles in every pore: And it tries, as it dries, in a cloud to rise, And peppers your coat and your hat: And it flies, ha! ha! in your eyes, ha! ha! And makes you as blind as a bat!' '_The Croton Fever_,' by 'STRAWS, JR.' has good points. Some of its humor is 'rather _fine_,' certainly, but only because it is _strained_. The satire, however, is in one instance just. A friend in a sister city, recently returned home from a visit to New-York, writes us that he is henceforth a Baptist, greatly preferring _immersion_ to _sprinkling_, of which latter practice of ours, he entertains a vivid recollection. 'In short,' he writes, 'I never saw such a set of incorrigible _squirts_ as you have in Gotham. Morning and evening, every householder, who can afford it, stands before his door, playing with his machine; now deluging the walk, now the pavement, and anon flooding his doors, windows, and blinds with hissing streams of Croton. When you write DICKENS next, just tell him that the application of the _douche_ to the pigs, from hundreds of Croton-pipers, has well-nigh driven those quadrupedal republicans from the thoroughfares. That's _one_ comfort!' Ah! yes; and clean streets, and murmuring fountains, and cool side-walks, are 'comforts' also, 'which they of the adverse faction want.' The grapes are not _sweet_, and 'that's the humor on't!' * * * THE Idleberg 'chronicle' will be concluded in our next. The loss of a sheet of the copy (which has now been re-supplied by the author) is the cause of the delay. The fourth number of 'Meadow Farm' will also appear in our August number. The following papers are filed for insertion, or awaiting adequate consideration: 'Greek Epitaphs and Inscriptions;' 'The Doomed Ship;' 'Thales of Paris;' 'Chronicles by an Antiquary;' 'My Leg, a Sketch;' 'A Defence of the Pythagorean System;' 'The Novel-Reader;' 'Disguised Derivative Words in English;' 'MARY MAY, the Newfoundland Indian;' 'An Old Man's Reminiscence;' 'Polygon Papers,' Number Ten; 'The Birth-Day,' by 'W. C.;' 'New Version of an Old Fable;' 'The Count of Paris;' 'The Painted Rock;' 'The Hour of Rest;' 'Sing,' by Lady ALICIA JANE SPARROW, Ireland; 'Orators and Bells;' 'The Maiden's Burial,' etc. 'The Consumptive' is both labored and common-place. 'Neanias' of Kentucky is not deemed admissible. * * * SEVERAL publications, among them a Lecture by EUGENIUS A. NISBET, delivered before the Georgia