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 intelligent, conscientious Editor; an enlightened and patriotic citizen; and an humble and devoted Christian.When such a man falls, the whole com munity sympathises with his afllioled relatives in tho fact that the State, and the Church, a well as the family circle, have sustained a common loss not readily repaired. Clerkship. Hon. Jamrs H.uu. an, of Kentucky, whose name had been pretty extensively mentioned in connection with the ollice of Clerk of tho Congressional Houso of Rep rose n tali ves, has declined being a candidate for that post. In a letter to his friend the Editor of the Cincinnati Atlas, he says, " if he desired thu office and were assured he could have it, his professional obligations would not allow him to accept it." Mr Vun Ilnrcu Tim recent evidences uf opposition lo tlio extreme southern policy of the