From the Camden (s. C. Journal.
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While we are laughing at the Yankees for some of their gueerHies, most of which by the way are either old Angllcisms, or vulgarities which are common to the uneducated classes as well in England as in this country, we hadn't ought to overlook some of our own. While we are sneering because MT Jonathan Raw guesses, let us try to correct, now and then, d vulgarism of cur. own. Who ever heard Yankee say, done wrong, or done right, or done the act } No man ever heard him say 50. He says in good Englsh-I sid so and Sc. Do we ever hear him use the ad- verb |" once" in any thing like the heather once't, which is 50 common among ourselves Has he ever been caught in the phrases-'' feel like should die'-"It looks like it would rain, fnrthe legitimate English "as thought" The Yankees never abuse the vernacular ad- verbs in this unchristian form nor have we ever caught them calling bag hoke :; or say ing they mought have done a thing, they migh. Indeed, they generally say in accor- dance with the grammatical canon of their

 language, ss I shall be glad to hearfrom you, !"

 instead of the pagan expression, "l zuiH be glad," S<c. We merely make these notes for the benefit of an editor or two, who seem not to have sufficiently attended to the subject. Besides this, we lock upon it as an act of phi lanthropy to certain wiseacres, who take it upon themselves to be very wise and learned

 in language which they do not seem to un- derStand-Uiz Their o7vn.