AMERICAN LOVE OF OCCUPATION.
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There is probably no people on earth with whom business constitutes pleasure, industry amusement, in an equal degree with the United States of America. Ac- tive occupation is not only the principal source of their national g. eatness, but they are absolutely wretched wi houtit; and in- stead of the dolce far miente,' know but the horrors of idleness.

 Business is the very soul of the Ameri- can he pursues it, not as means of pro- curing for himself and his family the neces- sary comforts of life, but as the fountain of all human felicity. From the earliest hour in the morning until late at night, the streets are tbronged by men of all trades and pro- fessions, each following his vocation like a perpet~um mobile as if he had never dream ed of a cessation from labor, or the possi- bility of becoming faligued. Neither is this hurry of business confined to the large cities-it communicatesi itself to every vil- lage and hamlet, and extends to and pene- trales the western forest. It is as if all America were but one gigantic workshop, over the entrance of which there is the bla- zing inscription, No admission here except Oa business"