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pose to devote this epistle to examples of this pernicious propensity and point out its evils. IN the first place, permit me to call your attention to the host of unqualified falsehoods daily sent forth to the world by the press. Christendom? has not produced, my friends, a more hardened set of liars than a majority of those who wield the per? editorial. Unblushing effrontery is their marked characteristic; and their brains concoct falsehoods with as little remorse as the shark swallows its victim. Look through the Heralds of the morning, and you cannot read a column without detecting this ruling passion of the conductor-Yes, my brother, there is nothing that escapes the soul devouring unclear of these simple men. They will praise the unclear, who destroy the peace of whole families-they abuse the man who consistently discharges the duties of his office-they vilify those politically opposed to them, and they land to the skies all who are of the same creed, be they ever so corrupt or vile. There is nothing so bad that they will not say of those who have in any way crossed their paths, or refused the Black mail levy; and nothing they will not do, or puff?, for a consideration. Their silence, praise, or abuse may be purchased at a price. Innocence suffers, and the guilty go free. They lie one against another, and, like the Vulken?