This long-established paper has now nearly completed its thirty-second
volume, and notwithstanding the severe calamities in which the country
is involved, and which tax most heavily in men and money those States in
which its circulation is largest, it is nearing the close of another
eventful year with its _circulation unimpaired_--a matter of special
gratification, as showing that its course, in these trying times, has
been generally approved, and that it has been more widely useful than
ever the past year, by its firm and cordial support of the Government
when assailed by a wicked rebellion.