FARMING.
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In the law Reporter for one month there are reported l42 bankru pts, who have taken the benefit of chauncery law: ot whom ,hiI> ,v>tbree are merchants and trader, quite numter are gentleman but only three are farmers. Yet the number of farmees in the State is much greater than that ot mer' chants. Is t not strange, then, that there is so general desire, on the part oi young men to go into mercantile life, with all haz> ards, its distracting cares, and disappoint> ments, while there is so prevalent distaste for the healthful quiet and comparatively safe business of farming?

 The reasons of this common error are to be found, doubtless, in the false gloSSeS and colorings, which are thrown arouhd the two employmenls. The merchant carries about him the appearance ot competence Il rot of wealth, even when he if obliged to res sort 10 all manner of expeoients to keep himself from bankrup,cy-whiie the 1afm> CT. when employed in the business of hiS l vocation, may easily be mistaken, for ! poor man. Then there are few merchants who from small beginnings, have become

 wealthy, and now count their property by millions. The aspiring youth looks at these and is dazzed by the Gat.eIing inducements which their example holds out 10 him-lor> ! (, SIrl, in Ol DTllN liant success, there are hundreds who make r,peated and disastrous failures, and at last end their days in poverty, or perhaps in dis grace.

 Of all the employments in which men may honorably engage, there is no one so free from temptation, from anxiety, and from sudden pecuniary disaster, as that of the farmer-no one so favorable to the health ful development of all the powere of the body, and all the faculties of the soul. The farmer communes directly with nature He is always employed among the works ot God. The soils, the plants, the trees, the seeds, are presented to him as they came from the Creators hand. He sees every where the hand work of God. In every seed that germinales, in every flower that opens its bosom to the sunshine, or sips the morning dew he secs fresh proof of the untiring agency of the ever present, ever | acting God who worketh all in an-who teaches by the humble lily of the vale, or by the huge mountain oak whose sturdy trunk has defned he fury of hundred win ,ers, by the gentle breeze of spring, or the wild tornado, by the twinklRg star, or the furious thunder-bolt.

 Young man, leave your vain aspirings after wealth, and be a farmer. Court a vir;aous frame, an active mind, and con- tented spirit more than money. Seek hap piness in faithfully tilling the soil, and you will find it far superior to that which flows from the possession of money.

 | Christian Watehmdn.