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All Obituary Notices exceeding six lines, and Communications recominetnding Candidates for public offices or trust-or puffing Exhibitions, will be charged as S Advertisements. 57Rev. FREoERtcK Rusn, is a travelling Agent for this paper, and is authorized to .raceive subscriptions and receipt for tne same. From Arthur's Home Gazetta. TOO GOOD CREDIT. BY T. S. ARTHUR. "Let me show you one of the cheap. i cat pieces of cloth i iave seen for six months," said a smiling storekeeper to a I young married inan, whose income from a clerkship was in the neighborhood of' seven hundred dollars. "Don't trouble yoursrlf, Mr. Ed. i wards," replied the customer. "The I silk and buttons are all I wini.' I "Oh, no trouble at all, Mr. Jacobs- i no trouble at all. It is a pleasure far < me to show my goods," said the store- i keeper, drawing from a shedfilie piece i of cloth he had mentioned, and throwing I it Dpon lite counter. "There,' he -d, as h un )ded the glossy bronad I nd 11 on it self. :n atuction yes'.* terday, at a gren'tar in. "It's cheap enough, certainly," re. marked Jacobs, half indifferentv. as het h1unt down to inspect the cloth; ''but I've 1n '.aonoy to spare just now.' ', Iin't want aiv mniiev,' replied Al wards. ,',At least not from such meni as you.' Jacobs looked up into the man's face i in some doubt as to his meaning. "Your credit is good," suid Edwards, smiling. "Credit! I've no credit. I never asked a man to trust me in my life,' re. turned the customer. "I'll trust you to half that is in my store,' was answered. "Thnnk you,' said Jacobs, feelina a little flattered by a compliment like this. 1 "Bait I've no wants in the dry goods line 1 to that extent. A skein of silk and a dozen of buttons for my wife, are all that I require at presem.' "You want a new coat," replied the persevering storekeeper, and lie laid his hand upon the sleeve of Jacob's coat andl examined it closely. -This one is getting rusty and threadbare. A manai like you should have some regard to his appearance. Let me see. T1wo yards of this beautiful cloth will coat but eight -dollars, and I won't send in your bill for six months. Eight dollars for a ,fine broadcloth coat! Think of that! 'Bargains of this kind don't grow on every tree.' While Edwards talked thus, he was displaying the goods lie wvishaed to sell in a wva let the rich glossy surface catch i st points of light, atnd his cjuick a e soon told him that his cuIs. tomner was becoming temnpted. "I'll cut you off a coat pattern,' said lhe, taiking up his yard stick, "I know you want it. Don't hesitate about tho anatter.'' Jacobs did not say "no," although thme word wvason his tongue. Whlile he yet hesitated, the coat piattertn was muea. cured off and severed from the piece. "'There it is,' came in a satiasfiedl, hal I 1 riuimphant tone from the storekeeper's lips. ''And the greatest bargainm yout .cver had. You will want trinoninigs~ of .course.' As he spoke, he turned to the shelves for padding, linings, silk, &c., and, whilo Jacobs, half bewildered, stood looking on, cut from one piece and an. oilher, until the coat t rimmnings were all nicely laid alit. T'his done, MIr. J'| wards face~d his customer again, rub baing~ his hands from an inte rnal feel ing .of dlel ighat. iad said - "You nmust have a hiandsomie vest to go wit Ih this, of course.' "' Mly vest is a Ilittle sha bhay,' remai rk. edl. Jacobsa, as lie glancdu dlonvnwar aIst a g.aramnit whieb' hadl seen pretty fair ser. vice'. ''"If thant's the best one you have, it wi'I tiever ala to gao with I'a nowv coat,' sa idl~ Edward<, ini a dccidled tone. ''Let we show you a bea utiful p'iece of' black And so the storekeeper went on tempting his customer, until he sold I him a vest and pantaloons in addition to the coat. A fler that, lie found no diffi. culty in selling him a silk dress for him ' wife. Haviig indulged himself with I an entire new suit, he could not, upon reflection, think of passing by his wife, t who had been wishing for a new silk dress for more than six months. "Can't you think of any thing else?' enquired Edwards. "I shall be happy I to suply whatever you want in my lino.' r "Nothing more, I believe,' answered I Jacobs, whose bill was already thirty five dollars; and he had yet to pay ror J making his coat, pantaloons and vest. "Buit you will want various articles r of dry goods. In a family there is % something called f1r every (lay. Tell d Mrs. Jacobs to Ren( down for whatever she may need. Never mind abotit the v money. Your credit is good with me for any amount.' t Wher Mr. Jacobs went horne and 1i told his wife of what he had done, she, unreflecting woman. was delighted. r "I wish you had taken a piece of mus. i lin,' said she. "We want sheets uid d pillow cases badly.' & "You can get a piece,' replied Jacobs. h We wont have to pay for it now. Ed. t. wards will send the bill at the end of %ix months, and it will be easy enough e o pay it then.' r "Oh yes, easy enough,' responded he wife, confidently. a So a piece of muslin was procnured on a he credit account. lit. tinng< did not le itop there. A credit account is too of. w 1n like a brench in a caiil; the stream if a small at first, 6li son increases to a c ruinouis current. Now that want had b, motind a suipply-sotirce, want bercane el nore clamorous than before. Sea rely i% I day passed :bat Mr. or Mrs. Jacob's A lid not order somethinig from the store, a lot drenming, simple souls! that an C alairmninalv heavy debt was accumula. el ing againti thim. it As to the income of Mr. Jacolq, it w ,as not ll rge. le was, as his been in. til imaoted,- a cle k 'n a wholesale store, in reeird A apiarv or nven Inid rel A I I and three ehtildren, ard he leud rutnd it necessary to be prudeti in all b) ti expnditures, in order to 'make ic ith ends tnet.' Somewhat iwlepen . t lent in his feelmicigs. lie 1d neve* t.:=ked p 'redit of any one with whimn le d..alt, b) 111d, ino one ofle-riig it, previouls to Ihe fr empjt ing induiceen lel d out hv~ Eel it wards, lie heed regulated his ouitgiws by c uis actual incone. By this mens lie it Iad rimanacegel to keep even with the b) vorld, t1c thugl riot to gain any uivan- it ages otn I te side of fortune. Let u1 p tee how it was with hiimt ut the end of ;ix months, iunler i e new system. ir let us see if his "good erelit' has biven ir )any real bieefit to him. It was so very pleasant to leave thinigs c! monfortiable or fe r a little display, with. he )ti fceeling that the indulgetce dlraitned hr. pt rse too hea vily. A ni weak vani. v y on tlhe part of Jacobm, was grat ifietd mi )y the flatiering opinion of iis hiriesty -A ntiained by Edward, thee stoirekeep. Ih ir. IIis eredit was "good,' and le was i piroud of the fict. Bitt tle iiv of reck miiig wits approaching, anid at last it bt Naite. 4. Notwithstandincg the credit at the dry f Loods store. there was no more mony ill I the vocntg clerk's purse t thle' e of six o moinths thnc at the be'geinin. ThJe i ensh that wvoiubl leave goe farn cloithing, wt whert necessity cal ledl for adttJit icons to lhe fonmily ward roble, had bceeni spe'nt for r. tinigs, thce pucha'ciise of wheichl wouetld i have be'tienimitted, lbut for the faict thaet a the dncllaris were mi thce ,ese insteadl of t in thle storekeepier's hins cl, atnde tem pted necedlescs exhpendeituire. Ui A.s ithe endce of thle six monthIs' c redit ti period aprioaichede, the iiid oif .acobls begain to rest un thle dry goals dleal.t er's bill, andce to be dlistucrbed byv a fecl. incg of anux ietyv. As toi thle imounit off this bill, hce was ini somce uncitertaiitv; but Ice thouighet lthat it couic te oet le I-s'.0 than i forty dollare s. Thcat was he lage. som i for imi to owte, paeirt ictularly a~ s lie e' head ncotheing eaeid. andce his currentt ex. peinses were fuilly up~ tol his Iincer. It waes ncow. for thce first tiee ini his life, s hat Jacobils felt thce neighitmetne pressucre lf tit, antd it .se'emtede, at t imeus, as if it wvould albnost suttbeaete himc. One eveninig tie ciamc'e ome, feeling imore sober thani usual. II'Iel thioughit rf liittle else alI dayv besiides his bill act thce store. Ont mleetiing his~ wife, Ihe saw that someithing w'as wroneg. "Wh tat ailIs you, .T anet?' sa id lee kmid. l v. "A re vouc sick ?' cc "No iews thle simpc tle rep jlyv. hButi ler eyes d rooeped eas she madtite ii, ande leer husban~ccd sawi thact leer lipes slightly quciv. F eredc. ''Somietheing is wrmong, Janite,' sacid thei husband. !. 'Teaeire steele to Ihe wife's chceeks fromt bent ealthi her hlef c'losed lijes- thte bosoem tlabo~ reel withI thle weighct of some pJres. C Sile. lefy thting iq wroncg. Youttr maimer e ala~crims ime. A re any~ of th1e cliiId ren ca siek?' "'Oh, nto, no. Nothing oif that,' was a iuLikly answored. "But-hut-Mr. 'dwaIrds has sent in his bill.' "That was to he expected, of course,' aid Jacobs, with forced calmness. The credit was for only six months. lut, how much is the bill?' Rin voice was unsteady as tie asked he question.' "A hundred and twenty dollars.' mnd poor Mrs. Jacobs burt into tears. ''Impossibla!' exclaimed the startled ushand. "Impossible! There isusome ristake. A hundred and twenty dol. 3rs? Never!' "There is the bill.' And Mrs. acobs drew it from her hosom. Jncobs glanced eagerly at the rooting p of the long column of figures, where 'ere numerals to the value of one hun. red and twenty. "It can't he,' he said in a trroubled oice. "Edwards has made a mistake.' "So I thought, when I first looked at to bill,' replil M rs. Jacobs, recovering erself, yet speaking in a sad voice. Put, I an sorry to wsy, that it is all ight. I have been over and over it gain, andl cannot find an error. Oh, Pool! huw foolish I have been. It was > easy to get things whei no money ad to lbe paid down. Bit, I never 0oght of a bill like ithis. Never.' Jacobs lat for some momets with his e upon the fl.nr. lie was thinking pidly. "So much for a good credit," he snid, I letgth, taking a lontg brenth. "What fool I haive ieii! That cunning lf.I. w, Epilwa rds, has goie to tle windi. nrd of me crtipletely. lie knew liat lie got tie otn Iis books, he would se ire itree dollars to one of my mounev. ind wiat lie wiould get under the ish.down system. One hunlred and lnt ollars in six itotlis! Ah, i-! re we happier. now, for the extra dry Mids we i,ove procured? Not a whit ur bo-lies have beet a little better othed, andai our love of dispilay gratified soile extenit.. 311ut, has all 11hat rought a compeneention for the pain of is alv of reckoting?' Poor M rs. J0chs was silent. Sadly usi s$1que-ing oA he-gan. il %W lvine..hlid S&iiiiteiY Tea time came, hit neither the huls. ind nor wie could do much more than ste food. That hill fior a huintired ant vs'ntv dolla rs had t iki, away their oip. .liles. The night that fillowed roaught to teithir of theiin it very re. tsling shimher; iad in file mornine' vy awoke sobier-minded, and little inl itil f ifr contversat ior. Ilt oner lougIlt wis int thw minid of Jacobs-tle I of Edlwairds; and one feeling in the id of his wifi-sel f-1epronch for her irt inl the work of em)bai rrassmnent. "What will you do?' soid Mrs. Jacobs. i voice that was nst--ail v, lookinu ito ter lihubainl's faice with glittering 1es, its she haid her hand upon his arm, oising li toi It) pause as hit was ib1ot1 aving thw house. "' isure I don't ktow,' replied the oaung11 man, gloamtilv. "I slodl haive to -e Jdwaris. I Nispose, tind ask hiamt to it. Iut, I'll) sure I'd rather take it )rse-vwhipping. Good crdit!-lie'll tg a tim -remit son1 now.' -or a ioment or iw"o lIioiger ihe11 los. ild and wife stood ookinig at eaach 1at r. Thn, as each sighdI henvily, ii iriner tirnei :wav and l-ft tha hwoe. Ih road toa busitIess was past the sfr,. E Mr . Edad,-bt hei ntow naoieda w'5 sriot oin wib hea itoIvdc and wet a hlela block ouit of his way~t toi do sio. '"Iiw lamt I tao pay tis bai!' miuramutr. I thte unhl~apy Jneaco, paulsing itt hi-, -ork for the twentieth time0, as he sat iahi< desk, andi giving his mtinad up to atould thouitghts. Just ait this inomltent the senlior paritner 3 the estiablgdismt (nmeli up andi stood "Wel, m friendi,' .said lhe, kindlyv, howre yout getting alonag?' Jacobsia tried to sunale nad look cheer LII as he repiliedl "P'retty we.llI. sir.' 13lut hiis voi 'a adI ini it a toucht oh de'sp4ondency. "'1 et amet set,' retmar k ed the emtplay. r, afiter a pause; "youaar regulair yeair is p to day, is it taot?' " Yes. Si r,' repl41i'd J acons. h is Iwo rI iningt~. imora heav'ily in hiis baosomu, ior, wi que tioisggested a1 <his'hartge fromt rT some11 tonea. "I ws looking at youar necounait yes 'rdtiy,' resumedI the empIloyer, ''and tad thait it is dIrawna up close. hil ave (iVou otin 1aead?' "Not a dot hair. I amt sorry to sav,' ne. trn)d Jlacobhs. "Iiin'ig is expen'tsive. iid I hanve SIX mouthIs to feedn.' ''hnt be intg the ense,' sa hl tile 0m.. hayer, "'iS yout have brOen faithihl to us. 11d your services are nvalabile, we m tst adda somlati -thig to youtr sanry.~ oil now recei1vte se venti hundrted do(3. I rs?' "Yes5, air.' "We willI call it eighlt hun rdrted and A sudden Ilight (lashed into tile fiace C the unhapp~3ty clerk; see'ingt whiebi, the mptloyer, already blessed itn blessintg noathter, added---.: "'A tnd it shall lie for the Iast as wellI a for tlho cming .,-.. I ...:l f ..... 'lut a check for a hundred and fifty dol. :ars, is the balance due you up to this day.' The feelings of Jacobs were too much igitated for him to trust himself with oral thanks, as he received the check, which the employer immediately filled up; but his countenance fully expressed his gratefutl emotions. A little while afierward, the young inani entered tihe store of Edwards, who met him with a smiling face. "I've come to settle your bill,' said Jacobs. You iieed'nt have troubled yourself about that,' replied the storekeeper. "the1ough money is always aceptalble.' "The money was paid and the bill recetipted. when Edwards, rubbing his hands, an action pieculiar to him when inl a happy frame of, mind, said "Anid niow, what shall I-show you?' "Nothing,' was the young man's grave reply. "Nothing! Don't say that,' replied E.lwa rds. "I'Vvejtst got in a beautiful lot of' spring goods.' "I've no more money to.spare," an. swernl Jacobis. "IThat's of' no consequence. Your credit is good for any aio nt,' "A world too good, I find,' saidt Jacobs. beginning to butl -up his coat with the air (if a nan whn has lost hiq t pocket.hmook, aid feels disf4 ed to look well that his pturse doesn'Lollow in the sameine untprofitable directio.r' "hlow so? W1hat do ypu ,mean?' atsked the storekeepe'r. t "I y good credit bats take a hundred i and twetnty dollars gut aOjny pocket,' r relplied Jalcobs. "I1 don't uiderstand y said Ed. ward-a, looking serious. ,yEd. "It's a very plain ca6*!:1nsvere4 Jacobs.-"I'his credit a 1.8t your store has induced myd wife to purchaise twice as lm AI would otherwise, haven. Ct. That d h taken sixty dollr po.f'n ck- I et; tin(] sixty dollars. Ave. been f 51p't, under ternt -t was t in tihe plre n 0 ir myni s Ltt Mtan The storeketper was alient. "Good morning, Mr. Edwards,' Sa 1 .acobs. "When I have casth to spare, I shall lbe happy to lind it with you; but Ito mort look uccountas for me.' Wise will they be who- profit by the *xpetrience of Mr. Jueobs. These credit accounts are a curs" to people a with noiderate incomen, and should ntever under itn, pretence he opened. WVANT OF CoenAG:.-Sydnev Smith it his %% ork on moral philooplI, speaks in this wise of what men lose for the wiatnt of a little brnsq, as it is termed: 'A 'retit deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little couirage. [-very 'iny sends to their graves a numn. t her otobscure men who have only re. ma tied in obiscurity becaus 415e their tim. Ility lifts prevemed themso from making a first etfat; and who. ii they could only ha.1ve beell imilcd to be'gin, would i'n all probability haive gone grent lengths4 int the entreer of lamfil. The fact is that in older to do any thing in this world worth doing, we nmust not stand shiver. ing: onl the batik, HIM thinking oif the coll .1i14 the- danigir, hut ijimip i) anid scraITI. hh- th1rough1Ii aS will a we! Caln. It will nt d to be Iprpetally calcuatinI aks. id ioa iun nice etiinuees; it dlid .dll very~ well b..ftire the h-'ood, when a mn:mu coubl conusult his firiends up~ons an intendhed pubibeisiti fhr aj hiuidred and tlty, years, 4and1 then hI totr see its suc e'ts for six or .si'ee cenituries lifter. wvarbd- but at presentt t tnols waits, and udoublts, andi besitateus, andi coonlts huis birothier, andl his tuncle, andt his first coo.. sins, andii hit ptin tcular friendei, till one tine <biy be, finds that lie is .ixtv ti--e.'~ ye',ars- of ageu--thait he. has lost so'mnucht ttime. in onsuhiinig first V ousIiat ando phtrtietlhtr tri.-ntis, tat hie hasi noi marc' tim''h-en to fihlow their advrice. '1Thce is such little tine for over-sqiuamish, m s4 at rs'.nt, th--' oiprtunity so easily shy1s naay, the. ver'y pieri'id of life at whlichta man chooses to venstutre. if ever is so ciiitinedl, thiut it is no hbol rule to priuach up the n iecessity, ini such itnstan. e's, of it little violenuce donie to the~ felt. jigs, andti of eibrts mucde ini <hliantce of strict and sobeur calcutationi.' IFinling? Ertrardinary1. - Si r. G. in ar. 'ii'. teacher of dlaninig, furom !?diinburgha harmeii gone' out to the Cocklmit, at smniall streatm that rtunsa in the Galat at Stowt, hie I.y 4'biance caime upona a hairo' iof wcibi dckcs, near!ly fitl ti-luged whiich iiinuediautely took tothe wate'r, atnd wiere narly out of ti',ht undter bannk anid ba;gre. lI tooik nio furthier notice of thiem,) but wrent tin with his sport. and badt takeni s)ome1 lin trott beiing ishinig with the wormi. Ile had gonie someit fifty, yaurdts tuirthser 444 thme water, wshen hie go wha i e consideredl a glorious niiblet--gav e the gratid stroke--but wihiat wa'Is hisi surprise when the tineC was ta k en under wit h more thaon usual~ force,, andl the'n dtown 4the st rea m as far its the ine wotiuh admoit. with a tatrgo blhick cobored beast, wh ich, w hen check ed flow tip ott offthe water, and wae nO olher than one of the wild ducks thathad taken the worni and the hook fast in its bill.-[Border Adrertiscr. The London rost Office. Perhaps the most remarkable place Df its kind in the world, is the Lon. don Post Office. Our own post of. lice and that of New York are curi. sities to the uniniatiated; but they will not stand a comparison, for one rnoment, with the London office. The business done there is almost in :rediblo. Some idea of the amount 'nay be gathered, however, from the act that it employes a force of 2903 ersons, and that at least 350,000 etters pass daily through the Inland lepartment alone. One of its most curious features is he making up and despatching the Indian mails, which are sent off semi nonthly, on the 7th and 24th. The etters are tied in packages, i - hen placed in iron chests, the lids o rhich, when once shut, fasten with a pring, and cannot be opened without chisel. These chests are one foot ight inches long, one foot wide, and en and a half inwhes deep; yet not ess than one hundred and twenty, on he average, are despatched every ionith. After being closed, they are oldered and the seal of the post office lixed. They are then committed to lie charge of an agent, who accompa ies them across France to Marseilles, ever losing sight of them till they .ro placed on board the steamer for Uexandria, whence they find their ray across the Isthmusof Suez, and town the Red Sea, to their final des ination. Another object of interest is the cad letter office. The number of itters for whomn no owner could be )and, and which were therefore re urned as dead, was, in 1849, not ks than 1,476,456. 'Of these 10, X.9A. A, efound to ontain propert ti i' tearly two millions and a half of dol ars. Frequently, indeed, letters ontaining money are posted without mly direction. Almost fifty thousand lollars annually come ito the Lon lon Post Olice in this way, and ometimes it is with difficulty that the wners are discovered. Some time go a letter, on being opened at the )ead Letter Ollice, was found to con ain five hundred dollars. A vast iumber of letters are returned, under he postal treaty, from the United ;tates to London, as dead, no claim. nta for them appearing in this coun ry: on two several occasions, 24,000 vere thus sent back. The dead etters are opened and read, and if no 1ue can be found to the owner, are orn up and sold for waste paper. kt the General Post Office at Wash ngton, it is the practice, we believe, o burn such letters; and in this re qpect we think the London office ex iibits less delicacy than ours. The iecrets of dead letters should he kept niviolate, and not exposed, as they ire by a saile as waste paper. Packages, not exceedling in weight tixteeni ounces, are permitted to be tent by the British mail; and many rurious packages in consequence pass .rough the London Post Office. 'amne.of various kinds, plum pud ling, bits of' wedding cake, lobsters unid, strangest of all, live mice and met canary birds have thus been for Avarded, and safely delivered. In me case, a lot of leeches were sent n bladders, several of which burst, md the water having wetted the otters, many of the poor creatures ~vero found crawling over the corres pondence of the nation. In another uistance, a jar of strawbarries wus iespatchedi through the mail. but lhe. nig S~smashed in the bag, completely etoe apce ful of valual Lelaide, A mercantile agent, going his round through the country solici cing orders, found he had forgot his pistol; he wrote to his wife for it, and he sent it by return of mail, labelled, and loaded to the mouth with powder, ',all and slugs. A roast duck, a box f spiders, and a live snake were also amonng the things forwarded in this way. Most curious of all, however, was a bank note for fifty pounds, without an envelope, the two ends being merely wafered together, and the address written on the back. Phila. B]ulletin. PERL's PATRONAOE OF LITERARY mIN. -His father had risen from the raniks by the vigor of his mind and the sweat of his brow. The son had earned to symnathize with thene cessities of literary men. - He we their earnest advocate out of powei and a warm supporter when in power We well remember a suggestion Q might have been a motion) made h the Commons in 1832, by Mr. Hume that some ribbon of honor should b given by the State to men distir guished in literature and science The suggestion was opposed by Si Robert Peel. Mere symbols of dis tinction, lie observed, was not wha was necessary for the wants of literar; men. "Honor to a man in my situa tion," said Goldsmith, "is like ruffle to a man who is in want of a shirt.' The more substantial approbation o the public should assume, he though the shape of public pensions for ser vices rendered. Wven this was said the statesman by whom it was utter ed was not in power; but when tw< years afterwards, lie was in power, ic nobly illustrated the sentiments an nrounced on that occasion. Sir Walter Scott was dead-bu many of the great men who had star ted and run the race with him wer< yet alive. Southey received a pen sion of ?300 a year, and was offeret a baronetcy; Wordsworth received m pension of the same amount; ?150 m year was given to James Montgom ery: and (luring Sir Robert's secon administration ?200 a year was be stowed on Mr. Tytler, ?200 a yeal on Mr. Tenyson, ?200 a year or Mr. M'Culloch, and 1001 a year or the widow of Thos Hood. Francea Brown, the blind poetess whose touch ing story is familliar to the readers o the Athenaeum, received also a pen sion at his hand-. - His patronage was extended to the children of per sons eminent in literature. For the sons of Mrs. lemans he found places under the Crown, which they itil enjoy; and the first appointment ofhis adminstration was given to a son ol AJ14Ar@K (Froin the Colunibua ITme, Iiiile.] The Strength of the south. COTrON VS. ABOLITION PIITLOSOPTIfY Mr. Horace Greely, the abolitior philosopher, is a very cunning per son, and if his power over the laws of nature, climate, soil and production, were only equal to his benevolent purposes toward the South, we God defying 'man stealers' would be, tra ly, in a very bad way. In his paper of the 23d, appears an article, the character and object of which can be learned from the following sample: Cotton ---Flax---Ienmp. "Advices from the South seem generally to indicate another short ,rop of Cotton, and a consequent maintenance of the present extroor dinary price of that staple, if not an actual advance. We express nc opinion of our own on the subject but simply state what appears to be the geteral impression. If this year's yield of Cotton in the States shouldl not exceed Two and a Hll Million bales, we presume Fair Or leans cannot be expected to averag< less than 15e per pound in Nev York and 7 3 4d in Liverpool foi twelve months to come. "Trhis prospect prompts an inqui ry which seems to us deserving o thoughtful consideration; Why sh~ouh( the present dependence of mankin< on the cotton plant to supply hal the clothing of the human famill cdntinne? Is it reasonable? Isi beneficial? It is certainly a novelts in the world's history, based on thi accident of WYhitney's invention o the Gin, with corresponding improve ments in the machiner y for Spinnini and Weaving. Flax is the morn hardy plant, will grow and yield lua uriantly on a far greater area of thi earth's surface; its fiber is far stror ger andl more durable and it can b p~rodulcedl up to the point where mt chinery becomes essential with a fa smaller expendliture of human labor From some little (though not recent: experience in its culture, we estinu ted that six cents per pound for th. fiber if the crop could be sold in th well-cured stalk undressed, woul4 liberally pay for the labor and aol requiredl for its produrction one yea with another; and Flax is a muel surer crop than Cotton, whi!o th vast extent of territory on which i may be grown almost precludes th possibility of a deficient supply. The aingle State of Wisconsin mnigh grow Flax to an amount equal to tb entire Cotton crop of the Union." Now what a thousand pities it is that God made a production, lik cotton, so useful and necessary t the comfort of civilined man, and . s absolutely indispensable to the trade , of the World, and to the industry o New England and Old Engl id t particular. And how much-:grpate i a subject is it, for commiseratbntat this pretty little plant, will nwt 1der a except in certain latitudes, and has never been made to grow in any quantities. except by the appropria r tion of slave labor. Now, if Mr. Greely had had the ordering and t cutting out of the six days wotk,-de scribed in the first chapter in Gene. sis, no doubt he could have arranzed all these matters upon different better principles. His deep philoso. r phy must long since have detected,, that the Almighty committed a ter rible original blunder when it made a i distinction in the color of men; and had he been the cotemporary of Ad. am and a counsellor in the grand cre-4 ation which sprang from Chaos at the-'! divine command, he would certainly . have provided that the cotton plant should 'spring spontaneous' from 'New England's rock-bound shore or at least that its strong and 'silk) and ductile fibre should have had no i advantage over the tough, obstinate, woody and intractible hemp and flax. But unhappily for Mr. Greeley and. the Cazenovians, and most happily I for the South, the Almighty author of all goodness to man, has given the South this little plant as an arm Qf protection against the fury'of fanat- * A4 icism, and the benevolence of Mr. Greely's philanthropy. In tWose cotton bales he has vouchsafed us, r the muniments of impregnable strength, and enabled us, if we ate wise and true, to arrest and tpr - back the tide of revolution which 4 maddened bigotry is preparing to roll orer both the white and black'-, ces of the South to their miutu .< struction. Cottdn iseo rod-7the tal' r. and switched from his mad ies, into a state of sound r decent propriety. 'Flax s4 Bi wont do the business, friend Horace! The cotton gin was invented-that is a fixed fact, which, while it invites your lamentations, cannot be unfixed. Go on, then. Rely on flax and hemp to feed and clothe the millions of Europe who draw -life from our, cot ton-to run the spindles and looms of New England, fed by our slave. worked cotton fields. Push on your Northern brethren to increascd anfd renewed aggressione-drive us, step by step, to resistance and desperate disunion-pile on the wrongs until even the meanest submissionist the South contains will he forced to agon ize the groan 'hold! enough!'- force us out of the Union-compel us to resort to our own resources of inde-o' pendence and power, and cut off from the South-turn out New Eng land to get rich on her own unaided resources of granite and ice; and then halt a moment to look at the work of your hands. You will not be able to pronounce it 'good.' You will have dliscovered that Providence was wiser than Horace Greeley, and that tal ents are the most dangerous weapons that can he confided to the hands of a crack-brained fanatic. The curses you have so often ohjurgated on the. people of the South, will, as the Arah proverb has it, have come home~ to roost; and if your own pel don't hang you for a witch, and exe crate your memory as the architect of their ruin, you will be the luckiest fpol-philosopher that ever went to sea 'n atub. 'What is the difference, - my1,'said a pert sblen h 3 other ay, to a certain dignified ma -ker of' jokes, 'What is the difference r between an ass and an archbishop? .A pause ensued. 'Do you give it-up?' -'I give it up,' quoth the dignitary. :# 'Well, then,' 9uoth the flippant, a 'it is that the ass a cross is upon his I back, while the archbishop's lies up I on his breast.' e 'Good indeed; but let me ask in return,' continued his grace, 'what is the difference between an ass and, t an officer-say, in the army?' ' A longer pause ensued. The sub. altern gave it up. 'I protest,' quoth t he, 'I cannot make it out. The 11f a Verence? No, I cannot see itJ Neither can I,' said the gavwe ,Arch Prelate, and turingapon, his heel, left the malapert querist tti > meditate upon a distinctinih a~ ' differenen.