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So, you have really revisited our table again. We had lost hope of seeing you

 once more, and discussing matters with you

 for a leisure hour. What do you imagine

 we were thinking upon when you came in1

 No, it was none of those. "Editoral

 courtesy" was the subject of our thoughts

 We came the other day upon fourteen-

 iIIUn papeF, prtutea hvasssr i.aavwr w1rere---

 but without doubt an oracle in it's own yi-

 cinity. and star in its own orbit. .T he

 flrst thing which met our eye was an indig-

 nant rebuke for thewhQle body editorial ofthe land, on account of their violence, abuse,

 and personality. The Press was lilsened to

 the Augean stable, and very pathetic ap-

 peal was made to public opinion, to rouse

 itself and put down such abuses. It fairly

 brought tears into our eyes, "albeit unused

 10 the melting mood" We thought we had

 found the Phoenix of all editors-when, To!

 casting our eyes downward little, we dis

 cerned tine following words, in large capi- tals, garnished at the end with several ex- climation marks-s' ViHainous calumny!n

 We found it to be specimen of the "edito- rial courtesy of our Phpnix, addressed to the editor of rival paper, who was found to possess impudenee enough to sit himself down under the very nose of the fourteen- inch editor, and the still greater impotence to be pretty well supported. This was just y resented by our courtly editor, in the article of columns length. by the gentle epithets of 'polron,' "yilain,o , and sundry similar terms of ssedtoria cour- tesy." There is no doubt that the freedom of the press IS at times carried too far in our country. Violent personal abuse is re- sorted to, and the habit is growing upon the once sober and dignifed journals in the east. But, after ali, the freedom of the press Is like the air of heaven and the pure water. 1t may, like them, be sometimes perverted to wrong and improper uses, but IS the only element in which Republic 'an live and breathe. If the people en- outrage and approve of violence and per onal abuse, there will never be wanting the lands to minister it to them-but whether Iiey tio so or not, the freedom off the press must not be abridged. It is the only safe 'uard agalnst tyranny, and that at which Il despots tremble, and which they ever at empt to circumscribe..

 Are you looking there for news from Washington city! It is very unproftable earch on our table at this time. Great and important events are taking place, which nay revoluhonize the country, but still there ittle to mark down as new. The state I thlnss now, may be likened to the pre- atat'ons of volcano for its eruption.- 'teadily and in darkness the elements of ae convulsion gather strength--a and only n occasional unquiet throe or postantous