AFTER AN ELECTION.
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II is difficult for an editor to furnish his
readers with any thing entertaining, for
some weeks after an election. They have
been SO long accustomed to the excitement
of politics, thai any other subject seems dry
and unintercsting, and it is some time be-
fore their minds can cool down sufficiently
to relish any thing else. Nor is the editor
nrenared 10 enter all at once into the usual
trano,iil routine of his duties. He sits
down. snatches UP his pen, calls up some
pleasing theme, and dashes away; but be-
fore he writes dozen lines, his mind wan
ders off to the exciting subjects which have
so long engaged his attention, and when he
would say something particularly smart and
edifying on some fancifnl or literary SUBJ
iect, he finds his thoughts knocked into a
perfect chaos b. visions of election returns
and ballot-boxcs, and calculations as to the
chances of the candidates for the Presi-
dency.


We sat down the other night with de-
termination of doing our prettiest on some
chosen literary subject, when in numbered
the stage-away went. helter- skelter, all
our Bellies -lettres arrangements, and we
didn't know nor care three straws, Just about
then, whether Julius Caesar wrote his own
commentaries or not, or whether he was a
Grecian or a Roman.


The fact is, the result of the Presidential
election has been the all absorbing subject
of both thought and conversation, and flour
readers have found us rather dull of late, we
49,. .L-,- ,-;ll boar in mind the circum-
stances of the case, and overlook our tenn
porary delinquencies.