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One more suggestion, and I shall conclude my notices in this 

 communication, already I fear too long an intrusion on your 

 patience. 



Paper. — The refuse of the British cotton and flax mills, which 

 has generally been rejected, as useless from its absorption of 

 grease &c.,is now by a treatment of alkaline solution, thoroughly 

 cleansed, and produces a very excellent and cheap writing papQr. 



I trust, sir, I have not in my enthusiasm been too intrusive in 

 the facts and speculations I have had the honor of laying before 

 you. It will readily be admitted that every well intentioned 

 person should be desirous of being considered a useful citizen, 

 and the readiest method we can adopt to prove the sincerity of 

 our profession, is to exert all the energies we possess to render 

 our fellow beings wiser, and consequently better fitted to enjoy 

 the happiness we are thus enabled to confer on them. We can 

 take the very best authority for our support of this opinion, when 

 we remember that tlie angels themselves, though the highest 

 created intelligences are continually employed in the service of 

 their Great Creator for the beneficent supply and protection of 

 his creatures. 



A poet of North Carolina, in a late issue, makes this inquiry 

 in one of his pieces — 



'•'When was gonius e'er gvegaiious ? "' 



Now, sir, though I greatly admire poetry, I must at the same 

 time express my conviction that there is too frequently a g-reat 

 gulf between poetry and gospel, and as regards the confluence of 

 genius in that Institution, one of whose leading offlcers I have 

 now the honor of addressing, I feel confident that we have the 

 power, wholly and absolutely, to reverse this gentleman's asser- 

 tion ; every man must be something in life, now let us determine 

 to be working genii, fact collecting, fact recording genii ; a very 

 hive of busy genii, and in a very little period of time we shall 

 be enabled to show to the world that however sound our poet 

 may be ia syntax, he has failed most woefully in fact ! 



