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Editor's &ady.-Our sheet to day is filled entirely with original matter, and in looking it over and making it ready 10 be launched, irreyocably, upon the world, our mind is crossed with several thoughts. What mistakes are hidden fromu which the multitudinous eyes of the public will detect! What latent personality is lurking under demure description-Nhat political heresy dis tinguished beneath bon n.ot-Whefe has an impertinent scmieolon thrust it. self into the rightful place of a com ma-wheTe IS there letter up side down-or a ? for q 2 to mar the sense of our offering and lower our charae- ter, and disturb our dream tomorrow night when We shall discover ii but too late? Come, reader, as this is depart. ment sacred 10 familiarity, we will lay aside our editorial dignity, and you shall put off urcritical acumcn, and NC will enjoy a moments friendly examination of our own affairs. Reflect now upon the evils that have sometimes resulted to you from word carelessly spoken. Have you ever abused lawyers or doc tors; and in the midst of your animad- versions been startled by one at your elbow; or condemned the conduct of some public man and been informed in whisper that the person next you was his nephew or his son; or ridiculed book till the extraordinary coinci- dence of mods ard winks. among your hearers betrayed that the whole had been overheard by the author? But these are incidents soon forgotten and trifling when compared with the regu- lar necessity of having all your daily thoughts and ,opinions-writtcn in eve ry mood-dcnicd the advantage of a reyision-arrcstcd and exhibited to the world for deliberate inspection. And the immutability of a printed piece- When NC and the objects of our hasiy remarks, and the tastes of the times, and the very generations around shall be changed our miscellaneous com ments will be staring us in the face, and we shall be hunted by the ghosts of old paragraphs, unless (which 10 most of our fraternity would be still worse) Lethe, that potent stream, against an universal deluge from which the litera- ry world has no promise, shall silently spread its stagnant waters orer US and all our errors. That last is rather a forlorn comfort, and no consolation for reading in our own writing that we sot out for such place or that we read to a maiden while she soseed or any other of the inadyertencies to guard from which requires the eyes of an Argus.

 ~. I. Mirror.