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point we should insist on. would be its ten daney to encourage early marriages s-tlie source of more virtue, industry, and public prosperity, than Legislators have vel ima- gined.n

 Malthus, when he wrote his Treatise on Population, was ninny compared with his multiplying and replenishing patnot- -- Nevertheless, when the good people force us to serve them as legislator, which in mercy we hope they will not do for many years ofusefulness and responsibility yet to come-our maiden speech shall have for its object the passage of law imposing inc punishment of stocks and whipping post upon every moonstruck maniac who shall, without tke means, or the industry to support family in decency, deliberately perpetrate matrimony-a thereby in all probability subject clever eenhdng girl to poverty and want-an be the means of bringing parcel oi, beiugs into eAisfeftee who shall languish out ihelr days ID igno- rance and perhaps in crime and misery There are enough children in the world al- ready, unless better means were provided for their moral and intellectual raising. Ii were better that d tax of five, or even fifty dollars should be imposedupon every .'Iittle cherub" Tn the land, 10 raise fund for uni- versa educatoh, than that one cent should be paid as d premium for them by the score. Let the gentleman turn his talents to htting the present generation 10 perform their duties in life-and he need have no fears but that the next will be ready to take its place. The world has never been de- populated yet from failure in this respect, and judging from the constitution of things, we presume never will be.