The editor of the U. $. Gazette gives the following humorous account of one of those

 evils to which printers are exposed.

 Pl-We were sent for yesterday morning to visit the press room ot our office, where form ot the paper had fallen into pi. We gazed with mourniul visage at the "wreck of matter,o and sighed to think how evanescent were the causes for felicitation--how tleeting the brightest gleam of satisfaction. But a few moments before, and the form lay before us, ga map ofbusy life. ."--1here was Greece and the story of her muta- tions; and in delightful juxta-posltlon, was Turkey to the left Spain and por- tugal were remembered; our own eoun- try had its locations, and its events were recorded with glowing pen. The scenery was enriched with fleets of ships sailing in sscolnmns,n and here and there a house dotted the landscape: the bard was heard from Parnassus, and Hymen lighted lis torch with sitl. glee. gllee But hew changed! What a revolution---a con- vulsion. The packets and steamboats lay bottom upwards on the sAlIegany Portage, sreai estate in Chesnut street had fallen indeed, and an extract from Dr. Channing's Sermon was found in the midst of one of cur correspondents 'moral essays 'Reportsofpub sales and trecent appointments,' were hud- died together, sGreece' was mingled with the concerns ofthe sallied powers,' the Smarriages'were all inconfusion; and remuneration of the leading politicians of the times, had fallen among articles sfor sale.'

 While VIC stood in the midst of the confusion of the broken form, like Ma rius among the ruins of Carthage, we were called from our contemplation by the philosophy of our devil, who, with his composing stick in his hand, had set himself down to the work ofreforrn, quo ting from Pope the admirable adapted line.

 "All forms that perish, ,other formssup- ply"

 