conduct it through the Alleghanies into Norfolk in Virgiuin ' " Il is true that where Nature seems most to aid men, they arc frequently content with w hat she has done for Ihem; and that industry and wealth are more usually characteristic of (hose countriea where the soil and climate necessarily stimulate the energy and ingenuity of the inhabitants. But it is a fact unparalleled in the history nf mankind, that a vast and most fertile country, nf whose resources a small fractional part only has been dcvooted abounding in mineral wealth possessing some of the best navigable rivers and a large extent nf coast by which it may enjoy the benefit of con rcial intercourse with Ibe rest of the world peopled in pnit by aCambridge omnibus, pointed out the house where be said Hint Gen. Washington wasfuurfcrrfi An F.ditor's duties, (say somebody,) even in acaso comparatively unimportant, are enormous and unthnuk ful; thorn he praises, " love him less than their dm uer," and thse he find fault with "hate him worse llisu the devil." Death of John M. Gallagher It is our puinful duty to announce the death uf John M. Gallagher, Esq., Editor of the Springfield IU-public, and late Speaker of the House of Representatives. He expired at his residence in Springfield, on yesterday, at II o'clock, in the enjoyment ol a reasonable, religious, and holy hop of a blissful immortality at peace with God and in charity with his fel.ow-men. Mr. Gallagher was a virtuous and upright man; an