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Mr. EDIToR-l take the liberty of in- troducing myself to your notice as a news paper scribhler, and as such am held in much esteem by your brethren of the type in different sections of our country As nothing succeeds better than sticking to the truth, particularly in making our first debut among strangers, l sball offer you nc matter for your useful columns but what is strictly founded on facts, and as such you will please to receive my first specimen, entitled

 s THE MEMBER OF CONGRESS.

 Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do exten- siye good by modes unintelligible to yuI- gar minds. Hence, like those cratic orbs in the Armament, 1t is their fate to be misrepresented by knaves and miscom- prehended by fools; to be abused for all the good they actually do, and to be ac- cused of ills with which they have nothing to do, neither in design nor execution. It was at that season of the year when l the inhabitants of a country village retire to the most pleasant situations of their habitations, to inhale the saIubrious air waited by the evening breeze, that sat

 reclining in my chair under the cool shade of the village tavern porlico. Feeling iatiRueu lfuih the udy laooF as the DOml-

 nie of the village, felt greater desire to

 nod than to listen to the chit chat of coun- ] try politicians As lay thus in the half

 way embraces of morpheus, was sudden l ly awoke from my slumber by the cry .he l is come ''-ss the Honorable is ar rived" Having often heard this gentle mans name and talents spoken of by gen. l tienen at the tavern. felt strong de- sire 10 see him. l therefore mingl ed iaii tie gazing crowd, but what was my astonishment when my host pointed out to ne plain looking little man, with his

 ands behind his back, walking up the ] street, to be the Honorable --a','