is confined to a 'section' of our states. Mutual recrimination and banter tend to rub off these points of vulgarity, which show themselves most in such as move in narrow circles. No one State or District can justifiably throw stones, for we all live in glass houses. We have known a New Englander laugh at the Southern use of the word _clever_; ignorant utterly that the latter is the only English acceptation. And in like manner we knew a vagrant word-catcher to have in his list of Virginianisms _Good bye t' ye_, a phrase purely Shakspearian. The Philadelphian calls a certain savoury bird a _Quail_; according to Wilson, he is right, and the Marylander wrong in calling it a _Partridge_. But the Southron makes reprisals in the case of another sort of game, for he rightly calls that a _Hare_ which the North-man eats under the title of _Rabbit_. To speak of pronunciation would be endless. That of the South accords with England's best orators and dictionaries in all such words as _tutor_ vice _tootor_--_path_, _wrath_, _carpet_, _garden_, &c. Yet many sedulous students of Walker never find this out. Dr. Noah Webster would fain have us believe that orthoepy demands such sounds as _natur_, _featur_, _creatur_. We rejoice that even in Connecticut this barbarism is growing into discredit. The learned Doctor would also improve English so as to write _Savior_ for _Saviour_, _Bridegoom_ for _Bridegroom_, _Duelist_ for _Duellist_, and the like. We humbly crave leave to wait until any one English work can be produced in which these elegancies shall appear. It is an _English_, not an _American_ language which we are called upon to nurture and perfect. Let no scholar deem it beneath his dignity to aid in the work. Then we shall no longer see such a term as _firstly_ in a work on metaphysics, nor hear such a double adverb as _illy_ on the floor of Congress--no longer hear of an event's _transpiring_, before it has become public, nor of an argument being _predicated_ on such and such facts. BOREALIS. TO THE WOODNYMPHS.