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 Three or four weeks gone, since we saw you atoar table, and now we heartily well come your well known couatenanee. Ne have been quite lonely since we saw you, and the sight of you is like good. clear and delicious sunshine to enc who has been for q long time struggling with a dim storfn..-9 For week past, we have been fcndered grievously uncomfortable by an obstinately cold storm, and We were wading about the town to the manifest injury of ourselves and our neither habiliments; and then came sleet and one universal surface of ice, putting our Editorial self in great peril and trembling. But never mind-we are now by a good fire, and we defy all the clements commingled.

 You will find mass of Washington city papers there. Our direct dates are only 10 the 20lh Dec.-but that is asmuch as we can manage. Congress is deep in business.- The question of the removal of the depos- ties is the all expressing theme, and the par ties are fairiy arrayed against each other.- In the Senate, the Opposition, consisting of the nulh6ers and the old opponents of the Administration, is much the stronger, both numerically and in mental power. There are no Administration men in the Senate, of the calibre of Webster, Clay, Calhoun, and Southland. In the House, the prepon- way-flterc will be the battle field, for in tal- ent the parties are nearly equally matched.

 Nothing has yet been done with i9lay's new land bill. That, We think, will pass the Senate. Some disposition must be made of the lands.

 The subject, however, of most irnpor- tance to us, IS the movement of our Dele gate towards the admission into the Union of this Territory. Of the advantages of this measure we have not now, neither have we ever had, any doubt. We have always thought and said, that on it depended our prosperity and our advancement. It is an alarming fact, that we are at this moment, three thousand dollars more in debt, than we were two years ago; and it is equally true, that the same causes which have in this brief interim increased our debt, will continue 10 exist, and to increase it, so long as we re- main a Territory: but once we become q free State, the natural increase of popula- ton which must follow, will by increasing our revenue, soon relieve Us from debt.- Beside this, we are now but hatf fieemen. l You sheer, and ask us to point you to the fetter and the chain. You ask, ho,r 1t is that We are but half freomehl First then, we have literally and virtually no voice, no influence, in the National Government our interests are disposed of there, without ] a single vote of our own il the matter; and i we are in truth and in fact not so much eiti- zens of the United States, as the Canadians are citizens of Great Britian. The Uni ted States has been a generous guardian, hut we arc now of age, and freedom is bet fer than any yassaage. In the second place. we have the choice of only small part of our own proper officers. Our Jud- aes and our Governor, who between them have the power off # life and death over rs. are appointed by the President, II stiisse

 voice that we have in the appointment IS the silessts influence of a Delegate. We have

 no right to lock for the same devotion to

 the people and to his duty in an appointed

 officer, as in one directly responsible to the

 people themselves, altho' we may, some

 times, obtain 1t.

 I Tn this measure of the Delegate. VIC I most heartily concur, and shall never raise

 a dissenting voice against 1t. The Dele ! gate seems to apprehend that we shall re- I prove him for the step he has taken; but wt

 are neither bigoted enough to chide hn ;, when he docs act well. nor senseless enougi

 to contradict our. own opinions. alfeadl