Note A — SONG OF THE WESTERN STEAMBOAT-MEN.

This spirited Song is from 'The Adventures of a Poet, a Tale told in Rhyme,' by F. W. Thomas, Esq., author of 'Clinton Bradshaw,' etc. We have been permitted to peruse the poem in manuscript; and are so impressed with the life and variety of incident which pervade it, and the ease and grace of its execution, that we cannot omit the expression of a hope that it may soon be given in a printed form to the public. The self-complacent tone of the stalwart boatmen of the West, will remind the reader of Dibdin's sailor who 'pitied the poor devils ashore' in a hurricane whose music was so welcome to him on the deep.

Ed. Knickerbocker.