American Watchman And Delaware Advertiser

Congress.--It is a subject of disappointment and dissatisfaction, that Congress have adjourned, and left the most important subjects of national policy unsettled, and almost unattended to. The people will not much longer endure such gross neglect of their interests, and the waste of their time and money upon party, personal, and frivolous objects, to the detriment of the national well-being. The session just closed is a monument of factious violence, which we would gladly forget, but which in its effects upon the country will be long remembered.

The vital importance of several topics to be considered, led the community to expect that an exclusive devotion to them would be given, and that party virulence would yield to their paramount consequence--but what has been the result ? Every embryo politician has considered it his duty, and the good fortune of the people, that they should be informed of his valuable opinions upon the state of the republic, that he should deal out columns of words seasoned with occasional truisms relative to the importance of honesty, purity of elections, and responsibility of public officers. Day after day has been consumed in puny and abortive attempts at wit and eloquence, the lightnings and thunders of which were to sink into an early grave the "corrupt administration."

The Hall of the House of Representatives has been made an arena for combat: of passion and malice, and we find the challenge to a duel dated within its walls. We desire not to be querulous, but will not refrain from expressing an honest indignation at such faithless conduct on the part of the people's representatives

The discussion of a resolution offered by Mr. Saunders, inquiring why the Secretary of State has exercised the discretion confided to him by law designating the public printers, frivolous as it was has been suffered to consume portion of each day for nearly or quite a third of the session—while the bill regulating our commercial relations with the colonies of Great Britain—the subject of dispute between Georgia and the United States and other momentous business, have been deferred to the last

country to the evils of foreign quarrels, and to the risk of civil war.

N.K. Times

Cato the Censor said to a very debauched old fellow, " Friend, old age has deformities enough of its own--do not add to it the deformity of Vice.'