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 ness shall always mark our department to- wards those who read oas essays. And so, iSind and gentle reader, 9o taid you. for the present, an unwilling good bye--but our parting shall not be long.

 .Mr. Calhoun.-The correspondent off the New Bedford Mercury. who lately fur nished portraits of Senators Leigh and Benton, gives this sketch of the Hon. John l C. Calhoun:

 He is tall guant man, with stiff,, grey hair brushed backward. His face bears as many folds and corrugations as that of Lord kroueham. What would Phrenologists say to low. narrow and retreatng forehead for So remarkable manl Mir. Wirt some where says of Chief Justice Marshall, while in Congress, that with no grace of manners, no tricks of oratory, but violating every rule prescribed for the finished ora tor, he was yet one of the most eloquent men of the age. This is emphatically true ef Mr Calhoun. He devotes the whole powers of his mind to the argument alone. with earnesiness and intensity, and is turned aside from bis purpose by no quibble, no vanity to appear witty, by no desire 10 scat ter his safcasms. lie does not even move slow enough to select the happiest language, but uses any that occurs to con vey his meaning.

 You cannot listen to him without full conviction of lis sincerity. While speak ing, his eye, that nnerring index to the soul, sometimes seems to start from the socket and it's flashes seem almost supernatural.

 lis adyersanes call him metapiysicai. Ii they mean that be is ingenious, quib- bling, sephstical, lie IS pot metaphysical; but if they mean that he is always logical, direct, discriminating beyond other men; is- ieslstbie in his deductions from the premi- scs he lays down, he is metaphysical. The more such metaphysieians ssEsebettes. He has been more exclusively and more thor oughly educated as a statesman than any other man in the country. He came into ppbiic life in youth, and none but questions of national moment have ever engaged his attention. hic!aphysician he may be, yet he Is one of the most practical men of the age. He did for the war department, while secretary, what Hamilton did for the Treas l nry--he created 1t out of chaos. lis views in the present crisis, i'll relation to the Bank and the currency, as unfolded i'll ii:s speech, are acknowledged to be moro practical and statesman-like than any that have been offered.

 The brightest characteristics of Mr. Cal- hour, arc h:s cnalitiss nf heart His haart is as warm as his head is cool. He has q soul. Too many politicians have none. Years of public life have not soured nor corroded his temper. lie never makes enemies of his adversaries;--his feelings are all noble, generous, and elevated.

 qgas hardest tsmd of. - The ship Nepon- set was yesterday hauled upon the rail- l way and her cut-water exhibits the effects of the tremendous power of the stroke of whale. Capt. Hunt informs us that on his passage out to Canton on the 18th of last July, when sixty days from Boston, sud- den shock was felt by all on board, and that those who did not see the whale, supposed the vessel had struck rock. It was ill broad day, and the mate, who was steering at the time, saw the whale, and might have avoided it Us well as not, but thinking to have little sport and not being apprehen- I sive that there could he the least danger in giving him gentle touch, kept straight on; 1 he soon found out his mistake, however. ard came off second best, for the whale on being disturbed, gave sudden turn, bringing his tall directly across the bows of the ship, carving away d part ot the cut water, piece of solid timber eight feet i long and nearly a foot thick, breaking off a number of copper bolts as short, and with as much ease, as if they had been pipe stems, and doing some other inconsiderable damage. It was right large whale, and in all probability if he had got fair hcl, as the boys say, for this was nothing but gentle touch, he would have sent the vessel 10 the bottom. Capt. Hunt was obliged to repair as well as he could in Canton, and now the ship is on the railway the effects of the encounter are plainly to be ssen.

 Salem Gasette.

 JEwINc.-It is not generally known that the Chatham street Jews III New York cause nearly the whole of the silver coins which pass through their hands to undergo the process of "Jewing"-yet such is inc fact. The process is simply this. The sixpenny piece tor whatever piece it may bel is placed on an instrument similar io that used by type founders for cutting leads and rules, and made fast. 4 knife then passes the edge of the silver in such man. ner as to cut of very thin shaving, which is carefully preserved in buek-shiis pouch. 1 The piece of coin is then fastened 10 i another machine, and punch resembling that used by a cobler,.is inado tc csu.t out q circular piece of the metal but little larger 1 than the head of pin, which IS also pre- served. The money is then put back into