The Importance Of Writing A Legible Hand

- It is one tliing to vvrite a preüy Land, and quite another and a betur ih'iig to wri:e a band that can be read. It is related of a clergyman, who iluurished many yeárs ago in Massochnsetls, tiiat he wrote so iliegibly that Kis leUers vvere oftcn sent back lo him to be deciphered. He once liad occasion to pelition tlic Legislature for Eometning, and ihc cleik rcad a porlion of bis petuion in substance asfotlows:- "and I novv aedress your body as Indiun devils ' - ilyes," said he, afler looking more closely at the manuscript, "it is India n d.vils." Conslernation followtd, the reading was dispensed wilh, snd the sergeant at arme ordered to arrest the clergyman fbr his iusult to the "powers Ihat be." It lurned out that the dej k should have read individuals, instead of Lidian devils, and the clergyman was advised to write a plainer han:l in i'ulure.The following lable, prepared in New York, for the information of Congress aud the Public, shows the araount of tnxes we are paying to enable the sugar planter to inake hts elave labor proOtable. On brown claved eugar, in bxs., C2J per cent. do do 100 do do do 125 do do do 11 1 do On white clayed sugar, dó 89 do do do 111 do do do 1 14 do On muscovado sugar in hhds. S2J do do do 100 do do do 1C9 do do do 200 do On molasee, clayed, 1&9 do do do 11S do do do ijL do On musea vudo molaeses, 142 do do do 103 do On refined sugar - English, 112 do do do L03 do do Dutch, 102 do do do 127 do -Cin. Herald. 'I take Uie lead,' as ihe thief said when he was running away, and the constable after hira. A mini t3r advertises in the Emancipa tor for a situation. He says liis antislavery views prevent his obUiining employment in the section of country where he resides, and would thercforc be glad to jecelvo application to preach for a longer or sbortcr period. If he had the apostolic spirit, he would not wait for 'a cali,' but would go forth and preach - whethcr the people would hear or forbear. Fanoy St. Vc ui aávrüv.pg for n situation!