their appearance. Many of his constituents had served under General Jackson throughout the last war. Their homes, their wives, and children, had been defended by him from the attacks of the Indians. These circumstances were called up by his opponents, and reiterated daily to his constituents. It was a powerful lever, and one that turned the fate of the election. But the contest was warm and doubtful, and it required all the exertions of the opposing party to gain it, under those circumstances a strong proof of the personal popularity of Colonel Crockett.

Under the last census his district has been materially changed. Several counties have been thrown out, and among them some that were most violent in their opposition to him. He is still a candidate for the ensuing election, with flattering hopes of success.

NOTE BY THE PUBLISHERS.

Since the earlier portions of this work were placed in the hands of the printers, the election has taken place, and the result has been the success of the gallant colonel over his opponent, Mr. Fitzgerald. This triumph was thus characteristically announced by him in a letter to a friend, written immediately after the canvass. Dear Sir:

Went through-tight squeezing-beat Fitz. 170
Yours, D. C.

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THE FAMILY LIBRARY.

IN presenting to the American public a list of the Works composing the Family Library, the publishers avail themselves of the opportunity afforded them to offer their thanks for the very liberal encouragement they have enjoyed, and still continue to receive, and for the numerous expressions of approbation that have been bestowed upon their undertaking.

The general estimation in which the work is held is proved by the great number of copies that have been sold, and by the constantly increasing demand, which in the case of many of the volumes has been so great as to call for several successive editions.

No pains and no expense have been spared in procuring and selecting works of the highest character, both of foreign and native writers, and the list of contributors includes, among other distinguished names, those of

With the assistance and co-operation of persons of such eminent talents and high reputation, a series of works has been commenced and is still in progress, embracing almost every department of science and literature, and combining with great excellence of execution the advantages of exceedingly low price, convenience of form, and beauty of illustration. While the trifling cost has placed the several works within the reach of all classes of readers, the interesting nature of the subjects, and the pleasing manner in which they are treated, render them well suited for the perusal of young persons, and valuable auxiliaries to parents and teachers in the important offices of guiding and cultivating the youthful mind; and the care that has been taken to exclude every thing that could in the slightest degree have a prejudicial influence in a moral or religious point of view, entitles the series to the entire confidence of the most scrupulous. With these recommendations, the publication will be found deserving of a place in every well-selected Library, and as each work is

complete in itself, and may be purchased separately from the others, it will furnish a valuable variety of literary presents, of school books. and of volumes for family reading, adapted to the means and tastes of all classes of readers.

The publication of the Family Library is still in progress, and will be continued by the addition of every appropriate work that is produced either in England or America, so long as the publishers continue to receive the same encouragement which has hitherto attended their enterprise. At present the series embraces the following:

Nos. 1, 2, 3. Milman's History of 29.
the Jews. With Plates.
4, 5. Lockhart's Life of Napoleon
Bonaparte. With Plates.

30.

31.

The Court and Camp of Bor
naparte. With Plates.
Lives of Early Navigators.
With Portraits.

A Description of Pitcairn's
Island, &c. Engravings.
32. Tumer's Sacred History of
the World.

33, 34. Mrs. Jameson's Memoirs of Celebrated Female Sovereigns.

35,

36. Landers' Africa. With Engravings and Maps.

37. Abercrombie on the Intellectual Powers, &c.

6. Southey's Life of Nelson. 7. Williams's Life of Alexander the Great. Witli Plates. 8. Natural History of Insects. 9. Galt's Life of Lord Byron. 10. Bush's Life of Mohammed. 11. Scott's Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. Plate. 12, 13. Gleig's History of the Bible. With Maps. 14. Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas, &e. By Professor Leslie, Fofessor Jameson, and Hugh Murray, Esq. 15. Croly's Life of George the Fourth. With a Portrait. 16. Discovery and Adventure in Africa. By Prof. Jameson, James Wilson, Esq., and 45, 46. Thatcher's Indian BiogHugh Murray, Esq. With raphy. With Plates:

a Map and Engravings.

38, 39, 40. St. John's Lives of Celebrated Travellers.

41, 42. Lord Dover's Life of Fre

deric II. King of Prussia. With a Portrait..

43, 44. Sketches from Venetian History. With Plates.

47, 48, 49. History of India.

17, 18, 19. Cunningham's Lives 50. Brewster's Letters on Natural

of Eminent Painters and Sculptors. With Portraits. 20. James's History of Chivalry and the Crusades. Plate. 21, 22. Bell's Life of Mary Queen of Scots. Portrait.

23. Russell's Ancient and Modern Egypt With Plates.

24. Fletcher's History of Poland. With a Plate.

Magic. Engravings.

51, 52. Taylor's History of Ireland. With Engravings. Discoveries on the Northern Coasts of America.

53.

55,

57.

54. Humboldt's Travels. Plates. 56. Euler's Letters on Natural Philosophy. Engravings. Mudie's Guide to the Observation of Nature. Engravings. Abercrombie, on the Philoso

phy of the Moral Feelings.

26. Brewster's Life of Sir Isaac Newton. With Plates.

59.

James's History of Charle

27. Russell's History of Palestine, or the Holy Land. Plates. 28. Memes' JIcmoirs of the Empress Josephine. Plates.

61, 62. Russell's Life of Oliver Cromwell. With a Portrait,

60.

magne. With a Portrait. Russell's History of Nubia and Abyssinia.

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"The Family Library.-We think this series of books entitled to the extensive patronage they have received from the public. The subjects selected are, generally, both useful and interesting in themselves, and are treated in a popular and agreeable manner: the style is clear, easy, and flowing, adapted to the taste of general readers, for whom the books are designed. The writers are mostly men of high rank in the literary world, and appear to possess the happy talent of blending instruction with amusement..... We hesitate not to commend it to the public as a valuable series of works, and worthy a place in every gentleman's library."-Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge.

"We take the opportunity again to recommend this valuable series of volumes to the public patronage. We know of no mode in which so much entertaining matter may be procured, at so cheap a rate, as in the Family Library."--N. Y. Daily Advertiser.

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"It is needless at this late period to commend to public attention and encouragement the collection of delightful works now in a course of publication under the appropriate title of the Family Library."-N. Y. Evening Journal.

"We have repeatedly expressed our unwavering confidence in the merits of this valuable series of popular and instructive books. The Family Library has now reached its sixteenth number, with the increasing favour of the enlightened American public; and we have heard of but one dissenting voice among the periodical and newspaper publishers who have frequently noticed and applauded the plan and the execution of the Family Library. A censure so entirely destitute of reason cannot injure a class of publications pure in sentiment and judicious and tasteful in composition."-The Cabinet of Religion, &c.

"The names of the writers employed are a sufficient surety that the merit of the Family Library will suffer no decline."-N. Y. Evening Post. "The Family Library is a collection which should be sought after by every one desirous of procuring the most valuable new works in the cheapest and most convenient form."-N. Y. Daily Sentinel.

"Those who condense and arrange such works for publication, and they also who promulgate them, richly deserve the thanks and patronage of all enlightened communitics in the country. The Family Library promises to be a most useful and cheap repository of the most important events of profane, ancient, and modern history..... A series of volumes, well conducted, and published with such stirring contents, cannot fail to surpass all dry encyclopedias, or diffuse and elaborate histories or biographios, miserably translated, and extended to the very stretch of verbos ty."-Philadelphia Gazette.