The Union. Hon. Robert J. Walker,641
Something we have to Think of, and to Do. C. S. Henry, LL.D.657
Cambridge and Its Colleges,662
A Physician's Story,667
La Vie Poetique,679
The Ash Tree. Charles G. Leland,682
An Englishman in South Carolina,689
The Causes of the Rebellion. Hon. F. P. Stanton,695
On Guard. John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln,706
Railway Photographs. Isabella McFarlane,708
The Obstacles to Peace. A Letter to an Englishman. Hon. Horace Greeley, 714
Thank God for All. Chas. G. Leland,718
A Merchant's Story. Edmund Kirke,719
The Freed Men of the South. Hon. F. P. Stanton,730
Was He Successful? Richard B. Kimball,734
Gold. Hon. Robert J. Walker,743
Literary Notices,747
Editor's Table,750

ANNOUNCEMENT.

The Proprietors of The Continental Monthly, warranted by its great success, have resolved to increase its influence and usefulness by the following changes:

The Magazine has become the property of an association of men of character and large means. Devoted to the National Cause, it will ardently and unconditionally support the Union. Its scope will be enlarged by articles relating to our public defences, Army and Navy, gunboats, railroads, canals, finance, and currency. The cause of gradual emancipation and colonization will be cordially sustained. The literary character of the Magazine will be improved, and nothing which talent, money, and industry combined can achieve, will be omitted.

The political department will be controlled by Hon. Robert J. Walker and Hon. Frederic P. Stanton, of Washington, D.C. Mr. Walker, after serving nine years as Senator, and four years as Secretary of the Treasury, was succeeded in the Senate by Jefferson Davis. Mr. Stanton served ten years in Congress, acting as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and of Naval Affairs. Mr. Walker was succeeded as Governor of Kansas by Mr. Stanton, and both were displaced by Mr. Buchanan, for refusing to force slavery upon that people by fraud and forgery. The literary department of the Magazine will be under the control of Charles Godfrey Leland of Boston, and Edmund Kirke of New York. Mr. Leland is the present accomplished Editor of the Magazine. Mr. Kirke is one of its constant contributors, but better known as the author of "Among the Pines," the great picture, true to life, of Slavery as it is.

The Continental, while retaining all the old corps of writers, who have given it so wide a circulation, will be reënforced by new contributors, greatly distinguished as statesmen, scholars, and savans.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, In the year 1862, by James R. Gilmore, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

John F. Trow, Printer.