From the Ne,o- York Mirror.
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THE HISTORY OF VERY CLEVER FELLOW

 like your clever fellows amazingly your open-browcd, open-hearted. open- handed, shrewd, enterprising characters; but as to your very clever fellows-I mean Yankee clcver-there is an ominous em- phasis in the expression. The appelIation was never bestowed upon me but once, and then imagined I could feel myself losing my foothold on responsibility, and sliding, like the man in Leggett's story, down-down-down. But that's mot to the point.

 Did you know Jack Easy? I am sure you did, for you lived at the same time, in the same town with him. Every body there knew him, every body loved him, and every body said he was a very clever fellow.

 And a beautiful boy he was, as healthy and cheerful a bright-eyed, rosy checked lad as ever played at ball, or blind-man's s buG. He was the joy of his parents, tho pride of his playmalss, and the fast friend of every human being who had ever ex- exchanged glances with him.

 Jack exhibited his peculiar qualities very early in life: whena child he would give away all his marbles, let tho little urchins split his top; and he always treated his own gingerbread as the English clergymcn Urea. parishioners-he took tenth part.

 He was too fond of play to be a good scholar; yet he was so ready to acknowl- edge his errors, received scolding in such good part, was SO kind and conciiating to hls teacher, listened with so much patience to his long talks, and paid so much respect to his learning, that the pedagogue could never find it in his heart 10 reform him so our hero, while at the academy, learned little more than to describe circle on the ice, and add apples to the school fund.- by subtracting them from his neighbours orr chard.

 After having got through, or rather got over his education, he was transplanted into retail store as clerk, where he in- creased hiss semployer's popularity by di- minisI,ing his wealth; the rich customers would never pay him any profit; and he had not the conscience to ask any from the poor; he always gave good measure and good weight, and was an entire srrang- CT to the thousand little ways in which men cheat their neighbors, and thereby gain a reputation for great shrewdness and at last his master told him that the credit side of his 'protit and loss ac- count was becoming so small, that it would