Edwardsville Spectator

MEETING OF CONGRESS.

As the time for the meeting of the 16th Congress approaches, the members begin to drop in. That body will convene on Monday the 6th of December. A week from next Monday.

The poet Campbell, in his beautiful little piece, entitled "Lochiel's Warning," hath very justly said, that "coming events cast their shadows before:" And it is very certain, that the business which will mainly occupy the attention of Congress at the ensuing session, is already well shadowed out to the perception of the public mind. Among others, will assuredly be found the following topics:

1. Spanish American Affairs.
2. Royal Spanish Affairs.
3. The Currency of the United States—including the subject of spurious banking.
4. Domestic Manufactures—in connexion with duties on the importation of foreign goods—and varied views of taxation.
5. The limitation or extension of the slave principle.
6. Bankrupt System.
7. Public Lands.

There are other points, which, every year, are matters of course, yet of the first importance. Such are—

8. The Military Establishment.
9. The Naval Establishment.
10. The Militia.

When we consider the nature, the number, and the magnitude, of these objects, we are impressed with the belief that the 16th Congress will assemble with as great a weight of responsibility, with as great a necessity for calm deliberation and forbearing temper, as any Congress which has met since the year 1789. Much steady light is wanted on several of the topics we have specified, which cannot be obtained from the waving torches of irascible orators or factious writers. Let every intelligent citizen uprightly hold his lighted candle, so that the proper path for the nation may be discerned in peace and quietness.

Washington City Gazette.