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4 Singular Fact.--1he Administration is all pow prful. They have ihe dispensalion Of rewards and punshments; the disposal of offices and h1nors are uns,io,ed in their hands; yet with all these advan- tages, no Whig member of Congress has ever been seduced to join the ranks of the office hoIders whilst every session witnesses men who were elected as Jackson men, but who, disgdsted with the practice and corruption of the administration, actually leave the ranks of the majority, and honestly join the pow erless minority. This fact speaks voumes.-NoT Co".

 TeHinE Lies.--A person in prison was asked by a friend what it was for !? For telling lies," was the answer. "Telling es!' Iejoined the other, how I' that 2" "Why, telling people that would pay them' and then moi keeping my word." ..'.....

 Eremplifcation.-O of the leaders lSsul Alleyl of the Tammauy party, who encouraged the cry Of rich against poor" announces limited partnership, in which he has invested the sum of $l00,0OO. Poor fellow how his friends, the agrarians, would like to divide with him-NOah

 Mir. Slater, of Carlton, in yawning, d'socated his jaw, and thus grinpng, with his mouth stretched open passed through the streets to the no small derison o' the multitude, ll he had reached the surgeons Mir. Mason who soon walled Up the aperture by replacing the bone in it's natural position.

 Melaachoiy Dhaster.-Among the storms that have devastated the Southern country, within the last few weeks, none so calam,ous the following, described in the Alexandria Louisiana lnelIigencer ofthe 29th ut. has been yet recorded :-" The gale of ihe l6'h of September was attended with fatal consequences 10 many of the inhabitants the sea board. O fIiy- two persons residing in settlement on the Mer- mentau, soms six or eight miles irom the ocean, no less than twenty-five were drowned. The swells in ,hs river have seldom been known 10 exceed three or four feet above bigt-water bat on this occasion the nunda,on, caused by inrDad of the sea, was more than I5 feet carrying destruction to all before it, Some of the inhabitants sought safety in the tops o the largest trees Hoping escape the immediate desruc-

 zion by inc water; but these hopes were of short dnfa ,on, for the trees were uniformly pros'raled by the wind, and the unfortunate people buried in the very element they had auemptedto escape" ..

 We have gloomy accounts of ile health of the troops al Fort Gibson, A. T. About one hundred men belonging to the regiment of dragoens, have di ed The last letters announce the deccase Of LeuIs Eastman and Wesi.-St LOsis Register

 Gyeat Fiye-A most caamtons fire occurred on Monday nigh, at Snow Hill, Maryland, il consumed forty houses, among which, the Court House, eight stores two hotels, kc. We are happy to state the cords and papers in the Court House have been pre- served The fire is said to have originated in a cabi- net makers shop.