The University Battallion

The students ot the University have organized a Battallion, and are now naving daily drills. Five Companies are orgauized with the fullowing offieers : COMPAXY A. W. D. Wiltsie, Captain. V. S. Perry, lst Lieutenant. It. C Powers, 2d S. G. Morse, 3d COMPANY B. H. B. Landon, Captain. James Kingsley, lt Lieutenant. C. E. McAllisler, 2d COMPANÏ' O. Albert Nye, Captain. G. P. Sanford, 1 3t Lieutenant. Delos Phillips, 2d COMPANYD. William Gillett, Captain. J. L. Ford, lst Lieutenant. Casper Yost, 2d " COMPANY E. O. L Browne, Captain. E. G. Hall, lat Lieutenant. J. G. Lödge, 2d W. E. Nelson. 3d " It is understood that a full Company is ready for active service in the field, and will lay down the booka and take up the musket as soon aa marching orders are received. - Tlm Company will probably be composed of members of the other Companies, and if called out will give a good account of itself. A Jiumber of the ladies of our City are engaged in the work of preparing an elegant Flag for it to rally under and bear aloft in the contest. jL3L" Eev. Mr. Lysteh, of Brooklyn, will offioiate in the Episcopal Church of tliis City - on Sunday, at the usual hours for worship. A Word to Parents. - We lsnow that these are exciting times, and that boys ire always aroong the first to feel the excitement. But parerts should see that their boys are not turned into the streeta Thejre not wanted as soldiers, and it can do ;hem no good, but injury only to hang around irmories, hotels, and atreet corners from morning until night. i-.very boy ought to be regularly in school, and yet judging from the number we see in the square at eviry hour in the day the attendance upon the íchools must be meager, indeed, Will parents look to this immediately, and correet the ;vil before it becomes confirmed and intolerable. Come, Boys, to School. jgy Misfortune. - This is a world Df misfortune and one of thesaddest to a good tiouse-keeper is to be afflioted with heavy, sour b: ead, biscuit , Sic. If you are ever troub" lei in this way get D. B. De Land ii Co 's Chemical Saleratus, when you will besurprised by its charming nsult in removmg the cause of ycu r mU fortune. gg" The Common Council of this City has called a tax-payers meeting to be beid at the Court Hoise, on Bat ur day evening, to consider the propriety of voting a tax to aid inequippinga Military Company or Companies to respond to the cali of the President, It ie a cali on our patriot eitizena. Turn out. SF5 The Concert of the Continental Vocalista, on Momlay evening, was largoly attended ; and their. singing gave the beat of aatisfaclion , especially the singing of those latriotic songs which all love. and whicli ust now are more than uaually welcome. O" The Scholars at the Union School flung i beaulitul banner to the breeze, on Wednesday afterncen, the several Ward Schcols par .icipating Capt. Bakey's Comyany passing 1 1 the time gave the Flag three cheers, after which the Schools formed behind the Company and were cacorted to the fcquare. O" Our City and our citizans are for the Union, and no mistake. Elegant flags are fioating over public buildings, stores, and residences, and the city might well be taken for a miltary encampment. f3F The May number of the Atlantic Monthly is on our table. It has the following papers : Agnes of Sorrento. Rest and Motion. , Lights of the English Lake Dist: iet. Pink and Blue. Pomegranate Flowers. The Prairie State. Coneerning Future Years. Brother Jooathan's Lament for Sister Caroline Original Memoria. s of Mrs. Piozzi. The Niger and its Explorers. "Agües of Sorrento" is the name of the new Rom'inee of Haüeiet Beechee Stowe, and promises to excite much interest. The heroïne is a girl of Catholic birth and education, and " the influences of that creel upon the lives and charactcri of its votaiies " is sought to be developed. $3 ayear. Address Ticknoe & Fields, Boston. p7 From the American Pubhshers, L. Soott & Co , 'S. Y., we have received the May number of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, with the following papers : Spontaneous Combustión. Italy: by Mark Jlonnier. American isrns. Life in Central África. The World of Weimar. Norman Sinclair: An Autobiographv - Part XV. ' General Patrick Gordon, the Russian Scot. ThePunjabin 1857. $3 a yenr ; $1U with the four Rctieics.