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JOHN QUINCY ADAMs.-Our attention is now attracted to a ray of light "located" on the left of the House, in the neighborhood of the Speakers chair. It proceeds from that wonderful man, who in his person combines the agtator, poet, philosopher, statesman, critic, and orator-John Quincy Adams. There he sits, hour after hour, day afta" ley, with untirinG patience, never voting for an adjournment, vigIlant as the most jealous member of the House, his ear ever on the alert, always prepared to go at once into the profoundest question of state, or the minutest points of order We look at him, and mark his cold and fearful eye, his stern and abstracted gaze, and conjure up phantoms of other scenes. We look upon amore than king who has filled every departnent of honor in his native land, still at his post; he who was the President of millions, now the representative of forty

 odd thousand, quarreliing about trifles, or advocating high principles:-to-day growl- ing ard sneering at the House with an abolition petition in his trembling hand, and anon lOrding it over the passions, and lash

 ing the members, into the widest state of enthusiasm by his indignant and emphatic eloqueuce. Alone, unspoken 10, unconsul- ted with others, he sits apart, wrapped in his reveres, or probably he is writing-his almost perpetual employment. He looks

 enfeebh, but yet he is never tired; worn

 out, but ever ready for the combat mel

 ancholY. but let witty thing fall from any

 member, and that old mans face is wreathed in smiles. He appears passive, but wo to the unfortunate member that hazards an

 arrow at. him--the eagle is not swifter in

 it's flight than Mir. Adams; with his agitated | finger quivering in sarcastic gesticulation.

 he seizes upon his foe, and amid the amaze

 ment of the House, rarely fails to take

 signal vengeance. His stores of knowl-

 edge onevery subject, gathered up through

 the course of his extraordinary life, is said

 never to have permitted a single face to

 escape it, give him great advantage over

 all corners in encounters of this kind He lis a wonderful eccentric genius. He be-

 longs to no party, nor does any party be- long to him He is of too cold nature to be long party leader. Hei is originally of

 very peculiar ideas. and perfectly fearless [ and independent in expressing and maln- , tainng them. His manner of speaking is f pecula' he rises abruptly, his face red. t dens, and in a moment, throwing himself into the attitude of a veteran gladiator, he ] prepares for the attack, then he becomes full of sesticulation, his body sways to and f fro, sel-command seems lost; his head is , bent fow ard until it touches the desk; his ) voice frequently breaks, but he pursues ! his subject through all its bearings, no- Q thing dhunts him--the House may wiring g with cries of order! unmoved, contemptu- Q ous he stands amid the tempest, and like t an oak that knows it's gnarled and knotted 9 strengtl, stretches his arm forth, and detes e the blast.-Dem RcrlelC.