Seriously, it is not merely to stoop to such small game as the grammar of a secession newspaper that we notice these amusing mistakes.  There are many persons-we are sorry to say many clergymen among others—­here, even in the free States, who, in attempting to write elegantly, use words very ridiculously.  They say ‘dialect’ and ‘idiom’ when they mean ‘language;’ they use ‘donate’ for ‘give;’ ‘transpired’ for ‘happened;’ ‘paper’ for ‘newspaper,’ and describe various events as taking place in ’our midst’—­all because they think that these vulgarisms are really more correct than the words or terms in common use.

We wish, however, that Anglo-Saxon—­joking apart—­were more generally studied.  When we remember that the very great majority of good words in English are of Saxon origin, and with them all that is characteristic either in our grammar or modes of expression, it becomes evident that the most certain and shortest method of arriving at a thorough and correct comprehension of English is by the study of its most important element—­one which, as a writer has well said, bears the same relation to our mother-tongue as oxygen does to water.  It is not fair to speak as some do of the Latin and Saxon wings of the English bird—­the bird itself is Saxon—­head and tail included.  English has been but little benefited by its Latin and Greek additions—­the old tongue had excellent synonyms or creative capacity like German—­to fully equal every new need of thought.

The reader who has time for study, would do well to obtain the Anglo-Saxon Grammar of Louis Klipstein, published by G.P.  Putnam, New-York, which is by far the most practical and easiest work of the kind with which we are acquainted.  A few days’ study in it will be time well invested by any one desirous of really understanding English.  When we reflect that many boys study Latin for years ’because it enables them to understand the structure and derivation of their own language,’ while the extremely easy Anglo-Saxon is almost entirely neglected, we smile at the ignorance of the first principles of education which prevails.  But we advise the reader who may have a few shillings and a few hours to spare to invest them in a ‘KLIPSTEIN,’ and know—­what very few writers do—­something of the roots of English.  Our word for it, he will not regret following the advice.

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We are indebted to a Dawfuskie Island correspondent for the following details relative to

THE FALL OF PULASKI.

‘Come and dine with me next Sunday in Pulaski?’ said the commandant of a detachment of the Volunteer Engineer corps located on Tybee Island, one bright morning in the early part of April.  As the invitation was given in all sincerity, and the officer who thus spoke was assisting in the erection of the batteries commanding that fort, the question which had so long occupied my mind, as to when the bombardment would begin, was now,