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ken to her coolly, and the thought bewildered her. She looked tip toward Leaven, and exclaimed, "Father, look irton me;” and then turning, said to herself, "I have but one mother to go to, and God be thanked, she is not only a temporal but a spiritual adviser. ’ With tins confidence she sought her---‘temporal a.i.l spiritual adviser!’ Tyler took refuge from the approach of intru ders in ‘lie sf.liiude of a neighboring grove. "Why.” mused ue, “dwaiil I repine, that Dorcas has transferred her atf *cti -ns to one so much i>et ter calculated to mace her happy? It is true lie cannot lore her inure, y«- 1 be can not help loving her as much as Ido ; for, l ive for such an angel is an irresistible impulse as involuntary as obe dience to fate. Sne loved me, because she was grateful to me; and shall l make her gratitude the nlea of insisting on an alliance that is di.*a greeble to her? What have I done lor her that the most iron-hearted would not have !*<•”n glad to do-- and is not tiie fact of my having bench wd her, the dearest consolation of my life/ 1» 1 who ought to be grateful for lie* opportunities a forded me of b<*ing of service to her, m.i -ii • 1 I make her pay so dearly for what has b-*en my own gratification, as to force her to ge e her iand to me when her heart is another's? Perish 'he thoug!il ' and if 1 cannot ha\e the joy of posses sing her, give me at least t e coustiousiu- of having nobly resigned h -r.” "Dorcas, with a heavy heart, entered her m it’s chamber, and throwing herself into her arms, pouted out to her the source of her grief. "My dear daughter.” said Mrs. Harris, "it is our duty to take meekly the chastening* oi our Heavenly Father.” • I know it, my dear mother, but my heart will. relic!. Tyler has been mv all in all. I have loved him too well for my spiritual good, and it is but just that I should lie punished with the frowns ot my idol. Vet oh! that some in bier instrument of punishment had been mercifully adopted.” "Be patient, my dear,” said Mrs. Harris eu couragitily : "it is hut the infirmity of men to be jealous. His suspicions will soon die awav' of themselves, and then you will again be happy.” "Ma’am ?” “Do uot take it to he rt: it is only a passing whim. He feels hurt, it is fnu\ because he thinks you manifest a partiality for Huberts; tint believ me. mv dear, the feelg will be but transient. In the meantime it perhaps might be as well to he < little less pointed in your manner towards Rob erts. You know we arc commanded to feel for each other’s infirmities.” The words of M’s. Harris drove away everv tear from the eye of Dorcas, who, rising in her own simple native dignity, sail; "I do know it. aunt; but I cannot help f*ylerbear a burden ‘hat implicates my owu honor. Walter Roberts lias entitled himself to my esteem, and I have hot treated him a-, he deserves to be treated. It' Tv ler isofferded that I reciprocate the attention and courtesy of your visiters, 1 must submit toll** tinder his displeasure—though it be mv sorest trial, next to the frowns of my Maker. 1 :ru*i. though called upon to endure those ct th* i> I shall uot be visited with those of the other and though my heart he wrong by the reproach es of its best beloved, it will still be enlivened with the peace of conscience.” “I leave you, dear Dorcas, to your own medi tations. Look to tliin who is the strength of the v.onk, and the helper of the helpless.” As Mrs Harrs closed the dour behind her, she clasped her hands together, and exclaimed in a low voiec, though from the bottom of her heart "Good !” "And has it eome to this ?” sighed Dorcas bit terly, as she east herself on the bed. "Slighted despised, suspected by the idol of my bosom T could bear his frowns—but his suspicions!” and here the poor girl wept as if her heart would break. Mrs. Harris had rightly conjectured. Dorcas wasa proud, high-souledgirl, and supposed others na free from guile as herself. Rut to be suspec ted ! this, if any thing, could force her to feu that she was not beloved ; and she said, sorrow fully, "oh ! had he felt for me as I do for him, he never could have believed me so unworthy his re gard and with this thought she rang ih" bell, and sent for her aunt to conic to her immedi - ately. She was in tears when Mrs. Harris entered the room, but drying them, she said, "mother, do you think if Tyler had loved me as he ought. h j would have acted so towards me ?’ "My child,” 6aid Mrs. Han is, ‘do not as!; me.” "Hut are you not my only adviser? ’ “l know I am, my dear, and this alone fore*-* me to confess that as much as my li-art has been set upon your union with him, vet I have been forced to entertain tears, when I h ive observed his very apparent partiality for "kuih Roberts I have loved him from his cradle, lmt though he were in truth my own son, I would ca t him oIV forever, should he prove himself capable of such perfidy.” “Say not so, dear aunt; he has known me un der peculiar circumstances, when his .sympathies were all alive, and th 'se may have prompted his affections for me. But way shnuid l hope that he is the same now ? Tire circumstances that gave birth to his feelings have been buried in the past, and it is but natural that his feelings should have been buried with them. What claims have I upon him ? It is h>> who lias claim* Upon me, and gratitude alone should prevent in me a desire to interfere with hisli ippiimss. I will Write to him and tell him so.” "You (tail better not be ton hasty,” sud Irs Harris, affectionately. "We nnv b* wro-ig, though I fear we are but ton n dit. jin ha me watch for you, and you may !c m I \\ cm »>• faithfulness Besides, should v »t thus write to him, you would make yourseif li.ah. • to miscon struction, especially if our fears are e > met. in the meantime, my dear, n t with the • one high minded propriety as ever. A> • ir ;mt too anx ious by altering yourdue treat.o »•;' Mr Rob erts, and be assured that if Y\ !crk, fe, ling t *,vnr 1 you arc of the proper xtmip, tlVv w ill compel dm to be the one to make the becoming ovm lures.” ‘‘Bless you, my mother, for tiiis am! for everv thing else. I will s i.vv m/ sens* of your judg ment by following your .-.evict", m il o! yenr affec tion by repaying it with my wariest gratitude.” That evening, Dorcas from a sens*’ of and ity, treat tl Pyler with as much cordiality, as his co'dnei* and her own wounded Feasibility would admit of. The next own , ; lien Wa’ter ral lt*d. <lie cheerfully cmn il ah her engagement, bnt her he ir' did f «#a< iiuiiiu ,er. whe.a f’vler said that believed h' would stav at home, if S trail would consent to remain with him anil look at some pictures. She of course gladly consen ted. The reader’s imagination <">n easily snpulv to itself hfVw matte*** went on for sewral days sub sequent »o this event. The breach became grad ually wider and wider. i yler qndeavored to sti fle his emotions by being particularly attentive to Sarah and Roberts had become more than ever enamor: and of Dorcas. About two weeks alter the ride, Sarah rode up hastily to Bellevue, and running into the parlor, *a.d to Dorcas, "do throw aside that sober look for just one minute, while 1 tell you the best news in tlie world. My uncle jj.st written to me, that a large party of pleasure is about leaving Lou lon mr Paris, and that 1 must come on and go with them under his protection. lam to start immediately, and have ridden over but for one minin' to sav good-bye. So here it is---good hye. Rih where is Tyler? ah! there be is;” and kissing the party farewell, she ran out of the house to meet him coming up the avenue. Dor*, i as felt sick at heart as she saw him turn his hor6e to accom; any her home. •T lime been thinking, Tyler,” said his aunt, one lay. t h-a they were conversing on the sub j *i’i. "tint you would have a better opportunity ot really to-ting the attachment of Dorcas, by go i/ iway from home fora short lime, and leav ing her entirely unrestrained. Ardently as 1 de nt your une i. 1 cannot conset to it at the ex pense ofonr lii.ipm-ss Suppose then you make a short trip to the continent—say to Paris, and in the me ait: ne ioberts can iielope his intentions, atn I D •'■C IS teel it full liberty to pursue her her own inclinations. J know you desire to act honorably.” on ate right, aunt: and he sooner I follow Anir advice the better. I can endure anv tiling but tins suspense, and will sort to-morrow.” “ Dorcas,” said Mrs. Harris, when they were holding their nightly consultation a little before bedtime, "J am grieved io tel I you, but have you not observed I’yler to be unusually gloomy since Sarah's departure ?” "I have.” •‘Yon will be surprised then when 1 tel! vou fiat to morrow he L aves for Paris, and, as 1 strongly suspect, by a previous arrangement be tween themselves." "Ia nby my tears prepared for the worst, as I am by vour counsel and by heavenly assistance i-rtified to hear it. There are but a few dregs re maining in mv rnpof bitt mess, and these _i am •irep ir**il to drink.” "Bid hi :! farewell affectionately; and I cannot civ • vou to hint a word to him about the past, present, or future.” •'dot er! lam a woman—and trust me, not wanting in a woman’s pride.” "I can trust you, my dear; but it is late—shall we not to bed ?” "Yes. hut I fear not to sleep-—good night,” and kissing her, she left the room. “Not to slue p ! no ! but it will not be long be ‘ore I shal! sleep and that soundly. Revenge they *<v is a sweet pillow for the soul to rest upon, and I’ll ’ ave it!” Not long after this, Sarah wrote to her brother that slie had been very agreeably surprised by Tyler's arrival in Paris; that he had been de votedly attentive to her, and that she had every reason to expect daily an offer of his hand. Rob erts. overjoyed, communicated the intelligence to Mrs. Harris, who mused upon it for sometime and inquired. “What then is to heroine nf Dorcas?” Walter replied, "if I might hope, my dear mad mi. that you and she would permit me to *nnp!v his place ' especially since my own sister ias cn- tivatcd her swain.” Mrs. Harris looked at him steadfastly a moment md replied. "Mr. Roberts, I have noticed Dor cas and Tyler, fr > n the beginning. I have al ways been fully satisfied that they were net in end'd for each other. 1 love her well enough, but I love him better; and really, Mr. Roberts, between ourselves, (ive understand each other?) I am not sorry that he has thought better of it— particularly, since he has been convinced of his folly by a girl of such tried worth as your sister. While then 1 shall be glad to second your incli nations. I will not attempt to force those of Dor cas. I will see her myself; convince her that ; she has nothing to hope from Ty!er, and in two, days from now you may call upon her yourself.” ( To he Concluded.) From the Ladies Took. THE FAITHLESS HUSBANDS AND WIVES. "Tiier* is no suffering more acute than that felt bv an affectionate and sensitive mind mourn ing over the viol ifion of nuptial vows. This suf fering is not confined to the unhappy woman in the dwelling of poverty, who, at the midnight i°nr trembles, as she hears the approaching foot steps of her drunken hn*band. You may go into •tinny an elegantly furiiislierl abode, and find the brokenhearted wife ant! mother surrounded by ev ery external comfort, and yet in solitude, silence and tears. There is nothing that will compensate (or the neglect of those we love. "I have seen" savs a quaint writer "the aeeom • dished ivifp before five- tv moons had waned since she changer) her n iuie s.ttiug alone and solitary as the sparrow on the house top. Perhaps her health was now so delicate the nourishing care of her partner was almost necessary to her existence; hut he nas gone away to some political, literary, or perhaps to some dissipated club. Perhaps he returns, at midnight, breathing the fumes of ivine and steaming with the smoke of cigars.” You o i” him a brute who breaks liis wife’s head ; so h° i!*o is a brute who breaks her heart; and now •in iv an unhappy wife sits friendless and alone, : during night when her faithless husband is seek ing In*’-ilea-ores in other society. How painful most L* her recollections on thus finding her son ! st uiticination and: mpninted, and the fireside, at ' Teh -n hormd to b« blessed with sympathy and | soeie’v, deserte 1 md desolate. That man de ' serves not the generous affections of a wife, who will not invite l.er love by the respect and honor j of personal attention. It is not a i-'tv randv trinkets and occasional freaks of fondues*, that ran give your wife a hap py h*mrf. and ’ erh one a happy one. There tuns he real, sub tatitial kindness the unequivo cal evidence of love for the society and jovs at ho ne. Tt is not uufr-qnentlv that a wife mourns overjhe alienable affection of her husband, when she has made no effort to strengthen and increase his attachment. f*he thinks, because he once love I her, lie ought always to love her, and she neglects other attentions which first enchained hi* icart.. Mmv a wife is thus the cause of her own neglect and sorrow. That woman deserves ro" i hnsba id’s generous love, who will not greet him with smiles as he returns from the labors of tiie day ; ivho w,’l tint chain him to his home hv the sweet enchantment of a cheerful move and a cheerful heart. There is not one man in a thou sand so unfeeling as to withstand such all ioflu _ toe. aaJ break utrtty frij.n such a home. THE CEOHOIA MBRROR. A NEW WAY OF CURING INTEMPER-1 ' A NCR. The tailor’s wife got a goin as bad as any on ’em ; but Snivel’s pootv much broke her on it.— Ye see he put a metic iu‘t. She was upon gin then. So she went to Merrick's shop, and told him his gin didu’t agree with her, and got some brandy. Snivel watched her motions, and she and no sooner got into the bou*e, than unbeknown to her, he put a metic into that. So she went to Merrick agin, and told him iiis brandy sawed her jest as bad as the giu did. So 9he got a little Ji raaky ; and 'twan’t in the house half an hour a tore Snivel had a metic in that too. She got, that way, to think sperret wasn’t jest the thing for her stomach, but she never suspected the least thing about the metic. About a month arte* a dozen wiinmin, may he more, kiin to spend the art'noon at Miss Snivel’s house. So ve see, as she had the good stuff'by her. and couldn't make no use on’t herself, on account of her tiklar weak stomach, and as most on ’em was ailin somehow, and took aleetle now aud then, as a tnedsen, she treated'em all, and was as liberal with it, as if 'twas o’ no more vally than rain water. Some on ’em took gin, and some on ’em took brandy, aud some ou ’em took Jimaky. But didn’t make a mifct o’ differ which ’twas thay took. It sot’em achatterin like all possessed for about half an hour. Then, one atr<T another, they began to feel a lectio squally; and, at last, they got a goin every one on’em. Sich a time Snivel says he never lieer’d tell on. He was a woikin in his-hop at the beginuin on't. So, when he heer,d the first noise, he peeped through the key hole and he said he thought be should ’a died a laughing. So he ran bark into the shop, for fear they should suspect something, and he IV 11 to ivork cuttin out ’o rigimenta! smalls for Ginerui Tweeser; but he laughed so, that lie spoilt the breecehes, and cut ’em by mistake, arter Parson Dearin's measure, so that the jineral conld’nt a got into ’em at no rate arter they was made up; -ndbeinof a bright yaller, they wouldn’t a bin the thing for a minis ter no how. So, yc see, ’twas a totle loss. But the ceudthe o’ joke wasn't like to come out so pleasant. Several on ’em had a narrer sqeak on if, and old Miss Hawks een arnost wrenched her self to death; But the best o’ the hull I’m agoin to tell ye. Not a soul on ’em ever suspected (be least trick; and Merrick got sich a bad name for sellin liquor that wasn’t ginivine. that he lost a most all his custom in our town arter tint. Sniv el got confoundedly scart, f >r, arter,i while he thought ’twas sich a good story he couldn't keep it to himself no how, so he told it round to one and anotlier and at last it got to Squire Pronk’s ears, and the squire fold Snivel, that if old Miss Hawks, who was ailin a long spell. *hotild happen to pop off afore the year was out, ’twould be man slartcr as sure as fate. Hcwsen ever, ti e ©ld wo man's a livin yet ; but she she han’t taken a drop sence that day. A number on ’em hasn’t. So good’s come out on’t alter all. I reckon there’s a good many folks, that don’t like the, name, o’ takin sperret. now the Temperance Societv has got sich headway, aiid vet they like a drop well enough too; so I reckon they gets ailin, and send for the doctor a piiroose." SOLILOQUY OF A WOULD-BE LOAF! R Well, I should like to know what’s to he done now! Mew-Years is over-all the goodies is gone, and I ain’t got a sixpence. Nobody can't 1 call on their friends and get noth'n’ no how The tuvkies has all disappeared—the hams i* all vanished—the punch is all evaporated—and you can't get noth’n’ hut kicks for all your ci vilifies. It ain’t no easy matter to live in this world. It costs oceans of time ami money, besides lots of wexation ; and them what’s got the time always lacks the money ; and "wicer worser,!’ as the lawyer said to the man wliat picked his pocket. I wish ’twas always New-Year’s. It’s the fault of the alinanics." They does’ntknow noth’n what’s for the public good ; it’s only a few in diwidual snow storm and harrycanes what they trouble thcir-selvcs about. I wish I was an alma nik—l’d soon regulate the calender, and have New Year’s come once a month. But it ain’t no use, a* the fish said what tried to climb up the ap ple tree. I wish I could keep a house of “Entertainment for man and beast,” then 1 should'nt have to go to bed hungry and thrusty ; and if 1 had’ut got no sixpence, I coul 1 live on stock. It’s a capital thing this stock. The next time I get a sixpence I’ll put it in the banks, then nobody can’t say I ain't got no stock to draw upon. People what’s got a sixpence don’t know noth’n’ if they does’nt put it in the bank. But sixpence does’nt grow up like wegateblcs ; and then the ground is all friz up and you can't make nothing grow no how. Sixpence won’t grow if you plant ’em ; they ain't like taters ; you plant taters and they comes up and graivs and multiplies ; hut you plant six pences, and they comes to noth’n’, unless you plant ’em in the bank. These banks is capital things for gentlemen like me, whats troubled with the •* outs Let me see if 1 can count ’em all. Out at the pocket’s one; out of credit, that’s two; out at the elbows, that’s three ; out at the knees, that’s four ; out at the heels, five ; out at the toes, that’s six ; aud then l’in out of house and home, makes seven outs. Them’s what the doctors calls the seven last plagues, and noth’n’ can’t cure ’em no how. Rrandreth's pills don’t cure the outs—them only aggravates thedistern per. I wish I was’nht gentleman; it’s only them what’s afflicted with the outs. —What’s the mean in, of gentleman ? Why, it’s a man what’s gen tle. Noth’n’ could’nt be no plainer, no how.— Gentle means soft, miid,,/peaceable. I never makes no noise, that’s soft; 1 never kicks up rows, that's mild ; I never quarrels with nobody, that’s peaceable; and I must he a man , or I should wear petticoat ! —Ergo, if I ain't a gentleman, it’s their fault w hat made the definitions. 1 wish I was a loafer—them’s the ones what’s the best off'. What’s the moanin’ of loafer ? Why it is very plain—it’s a man what e its a loaf. There’s a baker, that’s the man what hakes the loaf; there’s a maker , that’s the man win? makes the loaf; and then there’s loafer , that’s the man what cites the loaf. It’s ivory inconwenient to make a loaf without no*h’n’ to make it of and the bakes it is wery liable to burn hisse’f. But the loafer what eates it, provided he’s got a six pence to wash it down with, ain’t got no inconwe nience, no how. I wish I ivas only adequate for the office. I wish I was a loafer. PHRENOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS. Amativeness—A young miss’s attachment to her looking glass. Adhesiveness —Getting measure for a pair of boots, and setting on a piece of cobbler’s wax. Destnirticeness—- A child breaking a watch to j pieces to see what makes it go. A inventiveness —Suck ing lasses through a straw or scraping a sugar hogshead. Aequisilipncss —The early propensity of boys to rob orchards and watermelon patches. Searetireness— Playiog "Hunt the slipper with the gals. Approbatrreness—A lady ’s last look at her mir ror, as she leaves Pome lor a hall. Firmness— A brat squaling half the night and not staying “put to sleep.” Hope— Schoolboys looking ahead for vacation. Veneration —Sleeping in church, and snoring during a sermon. Ideality--- An old batchclor talking of single blessedness. Weight— Which is the heaviest. Van Buren’s talents, oi Kendall’s honesty ? Who’l kick the beam first, if put in the balance? Order— School boys when the school is dis missad. Calculation—-A youngster’s grievances when he first encounters subtraction. Revolutionary Anecdote. —A venerable A mericlin Judge relates the following revolution:! ry Anecdote; "The morning follow ing the bat tle at Yorktown. 1 had the curiosity to attend the dressing of the wounded ; and among others whose limbs were so much injured as to require amputation, was a musician, who had received a musket ball in the knee. As was uFual in such cases, preparations were making to lasii him down to the table, to prevent the possibility ofhismovng. Says the sufferer, ‘Now Doctor w'<at would you be at ]’ ‘My lad, Bin going to take off your leg ; and tis necessary you should be lashed down.’ ‘I shall consent to no such thing. You may pluck my heart from my bo som, but you’d not confine me. Is there a fiddle in the tent? If so, bring it to me,’the violin was furnished, and after tuning it, he said, *Now Doc tor, begin ; and he continued to play until the op eration, which took about forty minutes, was completed, without missing a note or moving a muscle.” CALM THOUGHT'. There is nothing which makes so great a differ ence between one man and another, as the practice of calm and serious thinking. To those who have been unaccustomed to it. there is required at first an effort; but it is entirely m their o«n power to repeat this effort if they will, and whe i they will It becomes every day easier bv perseverance and habit—and the habit so aequhed exerts a material influence upon th»-ir condition as responsible and immortal beings. In that great process, therefore in which consists the healthy condition ofany nun ns n moral beitu , there is a most important step of which lie must be conscious as an exercise of his own mind. You feel that vou have here a power’ however little you may at end to the exercise of it. \ou rati direct your thoughts to any subject you please; you can confine them to objects which are before you at the tune or occurrences which have passed during the day- r you can send them back to events who h tool; place many v ears ago. You eau direct tie in to persons whom yon are in the habit of of meeting from dav to day, or to those who are separate from vou l>y thous ands ol miles. You can place before vou persons '•'’ho lived, and events which occurred iong before you came info axistence and you can anticipate uid realize events which are not likely to occur u nil you have ceased to exist. Studx these wondrous processes of your mind ; observe w hat power you have over them, and what consequences of eternal importance must arise from execising them aright. It you can thus think of any subject you please, why cannot yon think of God—of his power, Ins wisdom" his holiness, his justice—of his law which he has written in your heart and in his revealed word ! Why cannot you think of,and realize tne period whe,! you shall lie down in the grave ; and that tremendous moment when all that are in their grave* shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live, and shall arise to judgment? Such truths as these, duly thought of, could not fail, under di vine influence, to exercise a powerful effect upon all our habits ot thinking and acting in this life. I nman'll and here is .1 heartless ;iml shameful practice frequently resorted to among those who issume to theinsi !v s the name m men, for the indulgence of spleen oc asioned by rietty domestic quarrels. We allude to that efthe husband nJeerti singhis wife, and forbiding all persons to repose any eonfidetiee in her whom he has sworn to love anil protect while life shall warm his bosom. We should think it quite sufficient pain and degrad tion that a woman should be compeld to leave her husband without the distressing circumstances being announced in the public prints, with all the malignant features of revenge and hatred accom panying the communication. We think it the duty of every conductor of a public print to refuse the insertion ofsuch advertisements. Nine times out of tea it is the woman’s unha py lot to he compelled to the pursuit of rliis dreadful course by the maltreatment of him who has vowed to sup port and cherish her, and never should an editor be instrumental in holding her up to the animad version and slander of the tatling and evil disposed. N. O. Picayune. •Them’s our sentiments.’ A Challenge. —A little fob conceiving himself insulted by a gentleman who had ventured to give him some wholesome advice, strutted up him with an air of importance and said, ‘Sir, you are no gentleman, here is my card, consider yourself challenged. Should 1 be from home when you honor me with a call, I shall leave word with a friend to settle the pteliminaries to your satisfac tion.’ To which the other replied—*Sir, you are a fool—here is my card, consider your nose pul led, and should I not be at home when you call on me, you will find that I have left orders with my servant to kick you into the street.' —ilnra Repository. V letter dated at Little Rock, Arkansas, gives the following account of the way in which tellows despatched each other in that State. “Every bod y here goes armed; and they have little compunc tion o( conscience about shooting each other.— At Montgomery's Point, about 100 miles below this l saw a great rascal shot. His name was Garrison. lie was a celebrated robbpr and mur derer, and boasted of having killed a hundred men. He was standing on the warfwhen the steamboat arrived, and said somethig to a gentleman who came in her. The gentleman out with his pistol, him through the neck, and broke it. and that was the end of Air. Garrison.” Louisville Journal. “A on express yourself with much force and feeling,” as the pauper said to the magistrate, when the latter kick'd him behind for asking a charity. !£ O&rJBI SAX.* From the Sutio*ol Ihltiliyincer PROSCRIPTION. Again the guillotine is at work : And now, as always when the odious spirit ot political intoler ance demoralizes an<l desolates society, the Leads of the worthiest and the u ost honorable m public stations are the first that fall under the axe. When we heard, a few days ago, of the remo val fiom office of Dr. William Jones, the Post master of this city, we were struck with surprise, because we never had heard of any objection to his official conduct, and because we had no infor mation ofliis being obnoxious to the members of the present Administration. Not being apprized however, of the cause of the removal, ive sup posed it possible that the President or the Post master General might have had some personal reason, of which we could know nothing, and of the sufficiency of which we therefore could not judge, for making the change. We heard it ru mor -d, indeed, that the ground of his removal was a suspicion of his being friendly to Mr. Senate Rives and not as decided a supporter ot Loeofo eo principles as he was in duty bound to be,— But ue could not behove that the President would sanction his removal on such grounds, how ever certain persons ot his Privy Council might desire it. The mail of yesterday, however, brings us in formation which leaves no longer room to doubt that a ruthless and vindictive war is to be waged not only against every thing like independence m public officers, but against all such as are sus pected of not using their offices to the best advan tage for party purposes. The following extracts will put the reader in possession of the facts to which we refer. Froot the Albany Evening Journal. Gen. Solomon Van Rensselaer, our excel lent and respected postmaster, has received a let ter from Amos Kendall, announcing tlmt he has been ‘instructed by the President of the United States to say that in his judgment the Public in terests Will be Promoted by a change of Post masters at Albany,'and that such change will bemaoeat the clove of the present quarter. ! “IfGen. Van Rensselaer could have .given evidence that he had used the. Postofliee as a political engine ; that he devoted his own time and money to the cause of Locofacoism, he would not have been removed. Bu' lie could onlv sav that he had discharged his duty faithfully and impartially to the Government and the People; that he had devoted h,s early life, through two wars, to liis country ; and that his body was scar red with wounds received in defence of a Gov ernment which was about to prove ungrateful. "Solomon Van Rensselaer was a devoted and gallant soldier. He has, with equal honor and fidelity, discharged his duiies as postmaster. Never iv-’s the Public better accommodated. Never was a public officer more universally res pected. \nd yet the oli Veteran is insulted, and the whole city outraged, by the false, canting pretence, that the 'public interest will Lcprompted, by his r -moral!" From the Halhmo'C Chronicle "It is comm inly reported in our streets, that at a meet ngofthe Van Buren Central Commit tee, held on Tuesday evenin', it ivas agreed, to recommend to the President the reinrvid of Mr. Skinner, our present Postmaster. Joshua Van sant, one of the nineteen electors, is spoken of as his successor. Mr. Skinner is to be »einnved for no official mi conduct, but as we understand purely upon the ground that he has held (he of fice long enough, and that others want its emolu ments.” It is stated, through other channels, that, at thm meeting of this Central Committee, tlmy went regularly to work at hallntting for 'j • ucce.ssor to Mr. Skinner, and that the person then nomina ted, and who will actually be appointed, received a bare majority of the suffrages of these self-con stituted Electors .] The removal ofGen. Van Rensselaer, to make room for * partisan who wanted h s piace, is just ly regarded by the Albany papers as a gross out rage. We are not among those who consider military service as of itself/constituting a quali fication for office ; but, certainly, ive could never bring ourselves to take the bread from the mouth of a veteran like Gen. V. R. who had ventured his youth in ivhat ivas almost a forlon hope under Gen. Wayne alter St. Clair’s defeat, and in the meridian of his life had gallantly bared his breast and shed his blood in the conflict in which his country was then engaged. His gray hairs aud his services ought to have been respected. Os the public services of Mr. Skinner in a dif ferent sphere, i f would be superfluous for us to speak to those ofour readers, in either town or country, have ever taken the least practical in terest in the culture of the soil, the improvement of husbandry, the melioration of agricultural habits, or the advancement ofall the arts of soci al life. To these purposes, refraining altogether frt in party politics, he made his position in the post office subsidiary to such an extent, that it may be truly said that no nan living, ofliis age, has rendered as much service to rural industry, and to the planting and fanning interests of his country, (especially in Maryland and the South ern States.) as John S. Skinner. His avtive pat riotism in the times that tried men’s souls, yet more than the propriety and assiduity with which lie has discharged his public duties, ought to have shielded him from thisjudgment even of soulless and inexorable party agents. He too has fallen a victim, prohablv, to his honest indisposition to prostitute his office 10 the purposes of the party junto of the city in which he lives. From thr National Intel!genrer. We have not, for some time, met with as amu sing a sample of editorial strategy as the sub joined, from a late number of the Richmond En quirer. “The party,” it is plain, have no further use for the illustrious individual who fills the second office in the Government. They doubt les w sh to start some other favorite lor that dc -1 sirabb- dignity, who may. peiadven'ure, give them j more strength in the coming contest; and the I gallant Colonel is accordingly to be gently laid on (he shelf. Who so fit to perform this delicate office as the thrice-skilful editor of the Enquirer . With what tenderness does he not put out the feeler! with what an insinuating grace does he not hint to the good-natured Kentuckian the magnanimous sacrifice which he is given to un derstand he is about to make ! Truly, consider ing all things, it was not strange that public ru mor should, some time ago, have assigned to the veteran tactician of the Enquirer the prospective honor of a foreign mission. His conscious pow ers might well have turned his thoughts that wav , and truly the Adm lustration might have done a } worse thing than appoint him. But, hear him '
