dirrrnt !!!00;imi. 11itILLYONIA.1. BILOCSIIMIII IX ?HI MITROPOLIS. heit!it _TrueNarrativesed Strange Adventures la ilieW York and Startling Pacts in City Life. By a Reporter of the New York Press. New York : Thatcher & Hutchinson. No. 52.11 Broadway (St. Nicholas Hotel.) 1859. tmong the multitude of publications that are constantly emanating from the press, there are few that posses& more absorbing interest and practical every-day informitiewthan this. It is a complete wrpowe of one of the most dangerous traps of the metropolis. Mr. HILLS, the city editor of the N. T. &ening pow, is the author, and has carefully collated the facts, withholding in most cases the real names of she parties that figure in the various chapters. Two or three weeks ago we took occasion to• publish a chapter from the forthcoming work,. and understand that it was resd with great in terest by many of our patrons. The work is well written and gotten up in a highly credit: - able manner. - Asousnitairr or Gassy Jvatxs.—The State of Michigan has taken a step in the right di rection. It ham abolished the useless and er- pensive system of Gruald Juries. There im wisdom in this as well as public economy. Of '-dihat really practical use is a Grand Jury?— If ter a man has beencommitted by a magis trate or held to ban for his appearance, why cot at once bring him before the courts for trial' Why eipentitime and money to have taut indicted before a grand jury, when the e Nitimice already elicited before it magistrate has been deemed •uffcient to hold him for trial• If the evidence ii Sufficient to comma him. it certainly is presumptive of the 'IA necessity of a trial. The tirand Jury system is not only '-expeit .ove and useless. but often productive or evil corrupt District Attorne, or two or litot estling, influential anti shrew.' juror., lo prevent the indictment of crunival, It) trio %Lug to call important witnesses or"vi.itltng chi , trawing out of materiiil evidence '- often done, as all are aware who are rotiver sant with the modes veranda of vont' tici o proceedings. We lielieve it to he sound and healthy pot. lie policy and economy to diverse with tod Junes The lousiness of the court. , null conducted with greater dispatch. and the of justice would be maintained fully a- Nt ell t. not better, than by the pre.ent ttyvM•ut Tit legislators 'who will introduce a reform in th respect in our own State,-will perform an at of tuber wisdom, and he entitled ti t a l ,. 0, 21 1, of the people for all coming time The 14 worthy the careful coniiderati n of rters citizen of the Commonwealth, and the req,./1- fur dispensing with the needle..t 1uu,1..•,' graml juries must he apparent to cut di cjning mind. sir Ina recent lecture to P 1613.6.4.1,1.1 livered try F. C. BeeWPTLIt. Es q.. dean other thing) of the evils of °till iag,,and gave some good advice to wing 110 H. whisk therwotdd do well to ley 10 heal I 11, ears: 'metier evil. due, perhaps,ko our p. rnli•tr inalltutiona, in the lo'-of political honors ti matters not how email the office, how Rile the potiftien, the great masses of nor young men are longing, striving after it. do far as this feeling his any true love of minus) , in it, it is commendable enough. But thnpro - portion of the moor paint, is very lioniceptti hie. What human arithmetic will eolupute Ilbr its the lostillnatheially of whet` is calleil a political campaign. Beyond all this waste of dollars, is there not. semeti}ing more important worse of time, of health, of talents reisapplit%l. Who dulldiglopHy this n, and tell us the stun totat.of this tab oftointly re-enttertal in our sternly resolve to turn a deaf ear to the tour of the charmer; charm he ne. er so wisely I,el those who gt. e y o u different coun'.el. poi nt o ut the young man who has been mivaneml by the pursuit orimlitics. One step on the to honest fume; and for one such—if proiliim —you wilt be able to array a score lost all their stake, and with it. perch :nee, it which in beyond price—their lair name The experience of one is the experience of all -- whoever shall write the history will tell of one who early in life levied hno self, his hard-earned means, his untiring Teal. his varied talents, to the advancement of his idol. The very core of existence spent upon this pursuit----time, life, genius, all Illsl man can give his fellow—all lavishetl, to find him self supplanted in the hour of triumph STATE ACIRICELTUEAL S