The _Christian Advocate and Journal_ has a circulation of from 25 to
29,000 copies. The _Missionary Advocate_ circulates 20,000 copies, and
the _Sunday School Advocate_ no less than 65,000 copies, with a yearly
sale of Sunday School Books amounting to upwards of £1000, or 5000
dollars.
"WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE."
GENERAL Morris, who is associated with Mr. N. P. Willis as Editor,
and publisher of the "Home Journal," in New York, was, as all the
world knows--or at least, as the United States ought to know, for it
is something to be proud of to be possessed of a real living poet
in these days--was the author of the words of a charming ballad,
entitled, "Woodman, spare that Tree," which was sung effectively by an
illustrious scion of the house of Russell. The parentage of this lyric
having been claimed by a respectable Boston paper, (_The Sunday News_),
on behalf of a deceased literary gentleman named Woodward, who is said,
in an unguarded moment, to have pawned his reputation upon the Woodman,
to the gallant General, for a glass of grog; the General indignantly
repudiates the whole statement; repeating that, "a slander well hoed
grows like the devil;" and labours to establish the fact, that the
American General Morris is not to be by posterity identified with the
English Captain of the same name--as a song writer.