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Legion; for no man knows better how to get up a subscription paper, and head it himself with the good round sum of a hundred or two, and for fear of shocking the feelings of a friend at the great disparity in the lengths of their respective purses, will, without consultation, take the responsibility of (unclear) that fiends name for five dollars, thereby saving him the exhibition of a blush at following so large by so small a (unclear) - good soul. Don't be insidious, dear reader, and attribute the act to a love for ostentatious display, but properly appreciate the delicacy of the motive. How would you like to be obliged - knowing your willingness by your poverty to follow a friend on a similar paper in the same manner? See then what an admirable motive found a place in that little heart of Mr. John Rogers Clayton - it was a preventive for wounded pride, even as Dr. Brandreths. pills are preventives for disordered stomachs. Therefore scoff not, but admire. Can you, Mr. Editor, imagine a mind more sensitive to the faults, feelings and inabilities of friends; and can you avoid according your need of admiration to me whose heart is so well attuned to the lofty sentiments of benevolence, love, amiability, and - and- and etiquette? I think not. Your heart must constantly burst open with the sudden gust of rapturous emotion at so much goodness - with as a squash that