The National Gazette has the following singular hit a, those eccentric congressional "reformers, Messrs Chiffon and Crockett the latter of whom it will be remembered is the member who so frequently boasted during the last session that he could whip his weight in wild cats, wade the Mississippi and do and per- form other Eeats equally astonishing with apparent ease. "We sorry that we cannot find room fos extracts from some recent speeches of Col. Crocket and Mir. Clifton in Congress- None but the most ri- gid muscles of the face could withstand them. These Congressional" orators remind of the of aa applicant, in England, for license to preach, who, be,ng asked whether he could read, answered." Me- ther reads aud 'spOGnds snd 'spiGins."

 Journal sf Heahh.-This valuable little periodical has reached s twelfth number; and maintains undi- unfinished the interest which at the commencement ii excited. The contents of the present number are as follows: Temperance and IdiOsy Fictitious Appetites, Feeding for Health, Manual for Invalids, Hints on Health, AIment, Carriage Riding, and the Nursery. Nearly all the articles are written iA a plain familiar style, calculated to amuse and instruct the general reader.