Show to our cur readers we have endeavored to present you yon this week with as much variety as our limited resources would admit of several communication communications have been beet received that will appear in the news hereafter and inight llave have been published in this number if we had not thought best to defer them in inconsequence consequence of thi small amount of matter at command that we consoler con siler worth publishing a and nd having little li tte experience in matters of this kind our cautiousness has prompted us to be as economical with what we have a as possible otherwise we might run entirely ashore which we won would id u not ot like to do d during a r rig the file short time we have to serve you As for news there is none in circulation winter has set in with more than common severity most kinds of business have b been een suspended in the city and country but few are stirring about and nothing worthy of note noto is transpiring we have made diligent inquiry far and near and can hear of nothing but peace and quietness quiet quirt ness all are min minding dingy their own business as usual and if we were disposed to watch for iniquity we should despair of finding 11 much till the weather is war warmer mer than it is now yesterday was merry christmas which passed with unusual quietness although ma many na went forth in the dance and enjoyed themselves in that almost unive universally rally raily admired ile ite creation recreation there was but little parade and show made and us as far as our observation extended we have never seen a christmas day pass off more harmoniously and with all our ultra notions about holidays we saw nothing that particularly we objected to the press of business on our hands would have precluded our participating in the festivities of or tile the day da y if we had been disposed so we spent the thet time as usual with the exception that I 1 we locked the door of of the office and wrote a few letters to friends in the after part of the day unmolested molested mci mcl ested I 1 ES |