Alabama State Intelligencer, 1831-11-05

i ne nrst time! "Ii is, indeed - but we won't dispute about a piece of mutton in the streets. Oh! what a ciuirniinp bonnet that was ofMrs Twitehett'e? I do wish mv dear, you'd <ret me such a one." "Certainly, if you insist upon it - but where are you coin*? This is not our house." "Not ours! surely the man is beside himself." - With that Mrs B. gave the hell a violent ring, and while she was waiting for the servant, she chanced to look round, and just then discovered that she Imd got the wrong man,and he perceived also that he had got the wrong wife. They of course, gave a look of mutual surprise, and began to look ahout for their le legitimate - gitimate legitimate partners, when presently up came the other odd couple. A hearty laugh now ensued; mutual apologies took place; a re-exchange was effected; and Mrs A departed with her husband to her home. But the different parties, it is said, were not a little chagrined nt the exposure of their particular foildes, which took place in the conversation nbuve related. Tortoise Shell. - At San Bias, on the coast of Da Darien, - rien, Darien, a small settlement of Indians is established, for the sole purpose of taking turtle. It is under the management ol three English, two American, and three Colombian traders, who make a vast profit from the shell. The quantity of tortois shell taken by them amounts, on an average, to 15,000 lbs. per year, the value of which is ahout £28,000. The produce of them varies very much, according to the nature ol the season, as in some years they take as much as £32,000 worth of shell, an enormous pro produce - duce produce of one out of the muny like establishments on this coast. It is a curious fact, that ilie handsomest shell, and consequently the most valuable, is stripped from the animal while living,(the beauty of the shell always becoming less as the animal Jies. The dread dreadful - ful dreadful torture which the creature endures by the opera operation. - tion. operation. finds no consideration in the minds of the tra traders. - ders. traders. American Silk. - The cultivation ofmulberry trees and silk worms, in various sections of the country, is rapidly extending Orchards even including 100 a acres, - cres, acres, were planted during the last year; and many are now reaping a handsome profit on silks. The New-England Farmer says - a gentleman in Mans Mansfield, - field, Mansfield, (Con.) had upwards of 10,000 skiens of sew sewing - ing sewing silk, which readily sells for about $8,50 per pound. Machinery is now being completed in that town for spinning and weaving the raw material, un unde: - de: unde: the direction of competent foreigners. The sales ot sewing silk alone in Mansfield this year are estimated at more than $85,000. With the extent of country embraced by the Uni United - ted United Suites, and the diversity of climate, it is rational to calculate the time is not distant when enterprising citizens need not be under any dependance to foreign nations, either for the necessaries or luxuries of life. All the fabrics which comfort or convenince requires are now manufactured in great abundance; and as many as may he made by the most fastidious taste, the developements of our resources will soou supply! - Paul son. Logical Illustration. - A layman in Providence, who occasionally exhorted at evening meetings, thus expressed his belief in the existence of Deity; "Brethren, I am just as certain that there is a Su Supreme - preme Supreme Being, as I am that there is flour in Alexan Alexandria; - dria; Alexandria; and that I know for certain, as I yesterday re received - ceived received from there a lot of three hundred barrels fresh superfine, which 1 will sell as low as any other person in town." - Ncto Bedford Gazette. Valuable Cows. - At the recent cattle show and Farmer's Fair, in Andovor, (Mass.) two cows were exhibited, one which, with feed from a common pas pasture, - ture, pasture, had given from the 2d of May to the 27th of September 58(3 gallons of superior milk, being an average prduce of four gallons per day. The other gave in the month of June 17 quarts a day, and there was made from her milk in one month, fifty pounds of good butter. One month's work by the City Thieves. - The New NewYork - York NewYork Daily Advertiser learns from authentic sources, that during the month of September the people of New-York, and strangers visiting it, have been rob robbed - bed robbed of $5,918 in money, 16 watches, 272 silver spoons, and almost an incalculable amount of jewel jewelry, - ry, jewelry, clothes, household furui'ure. &c .&e. The Siamese Twins are now in Exeter. A gen gentleman - tleman gentleman while visiting them, who was doubtless promtedhy the spiritofscientific injury.asked Chang, "what would be the consequence if lie thurst a pin in him ; if his brother would feel it. &c." - To which Chang hastily replied, "if you stick a pin into me. the consequence will he that my brother Eng will knock you down." The first Commencement oftlieWesleyan Uni University, - versity, University, was held at Middletwon, (Con.) on Wed Wednesday, - nesday, Wednesday, the 21 st ult. The exercises consisted of an Oration in Lattn, a Poem, and an English Oration, from the students in the seminary; an Inaugural Ad Address - dress Address from Dr Fisk, president of the Institution. - The Middletown papers state that the propects of the University are highly flattering. About fifty scholurs have already entered, and more are expect expected. - ed. expected. The Secretary of the Treasury has given notice to the holders of the four and a half per cent stock, of $5,000,000, created in pursuance of an act of Con Congress, - gress, Congress, passed on the 26th day of May, 1824, that it will be paid off on the 1st day of January next. Also, that the five per cent stock created by law on the 15th of May, 1820, amounting to $999,900, and 13 cents, will be paid on the 2d day of January next, to the proprietors thereof. Interest on all these stocks to cease on and after December 31st. - N. Y. Amtr. In an article on the English Pheasant, in the Turf Register, it is stated that Mr Thomas Oliver has suc succeeded - ceeded succeeded in his efforts to introduce that " most brilliant of British game birds" into this country, and that two broods have been seen on his Oakland estate, in Anne Arundel county. - Nat. Int.

' We arc too apt to believe, and i the calamities of modern literature! thing can rival classic excellence, tli can he regarded as finished, excel- t form to some classic model. But ties of the Scriptures are essentially teristicallv, the beauties of thong! those of the classic writers arc chic found in the structure of their com] and in their style. In the workmansnip ui their materials, they have displayed the con consum - sum consum mate skill and delicate taste of accomplish accomplished - ed accomplished artists; but the materials themselves, were unworthy of the genius conferred on them by the Creator of all genius. The authors of Greece and Rome were indeed the morning star of modern literature, but the Bible only can be its never setting sun. To build our literature and found our schemes of literary education, primarily on the scriptures, seem then to be the dictates of sound judgment and pure taste. It conforms to that wise maxim, equally just in theory and safe in practice - that genius will always /traduce more admi admirable - rable admirable works, the richer and more various, the nobler and more beautiful the materials. *A remarkable illustration of the supreme excellence of the scriptures is found in the fact, that they are the only books whose beau beauties - ties beauties cannot be destroyed by the worst trans translation. - lation. translation. And such is the truth only because they are emphatically the beauties ok thought. How common is the boast, for it never lias and never will be the lamentation of the classic devotee, that no translater can rival the. beauties of the classics. And this, so far its the remark is just, arises from the fact, that these beauties consist, to a vast ex extent, - tent, extent, of tiic 'curiosa felieitas' of expression, of the beauties of style.' But these views by no means lead the ora orator - tor orator to banish the classics from our course of studies. On this point he expresses his feel feelings - ings feelings in a manner which, like other portions of his addresses, furnishes the best evidence that it was not the ignorance of an uneducated man, nor the prejudice of a narrow religionist, which lias led to the opinions lie expresses; but that they are the deliberate conclusions of an accomplished scholar and an enlightened Christian. 'We are not enemies to the cultivation of classical learning, at a suitable age, in an ap appropriate - propriate appropriate place, and by those, who will re receive - ceive receive profit, without injury. Like Petrarch's father, we would not in our wrath, hurl the classics of our sous into the fire. But we do protest, and if fifty years more of life were to be our lot, we should protest to the last mo moment - ment moment of that half century, against the scheme which constitutes the classics - the MON MONAUCHS, - AUCHS, MONAUCHS, not the SUBJECTS of the BIBLE, in the instruction of Christian youth. ' IVe are not the enemies of/iolile literature, the most refined, the most learned. VVe ad admire - mire admire its elegance; we revere its erudition. - We believe that we set a high estimate on the comprehensiveness of its views, and the va variety - riety variety of its knowledge, oil the embellishments of its taste, and the richness of its stores. - We look with a chastened pleasure on the beautiful in the countenance, on the graceful in tile form of woman. We look with a sen sentiment - timent sentiment of just exaltation upon man, in the ex expressiveness - pressiveness expressiveness of his features and majesty of his deportment. VVe look with admiration on the fair, the rich, the magnificent in archi architecture; - tecture; architecture; on the master-sketch, the coloring, the light and shade of the painter; on tile transforming power and decorative taste of the sculpture. We gaze with a child's re rejoicing, - joicing, rejoicing, on the hud and the blossom, on the flower and the leal; on the gaudy butterfly, the glimmering scales of the fish, and the dazzling plumage of the bird. We gaze with a poet's feeling, if not with a poet's eye, on the cheerful landscape of morning, and the pensive scenery of evening; on the beauty and serenity of the lake, the meadow and the woodland. We gaze with a religious awe upon the deep silence of the heavens, and the calm majesty of the ocean, on the gloom of the forest and the fury of the storm, on the savage rush of the cataract, and the solemn grandeur of the mountain. And what are these! What indeed are the loveliness of wo woman - man woman and the dignity of man, the marvellous in sculpture, the fair in painting, and the au august - gust august in the architecture, the sublime and the beautiful in nature, but the literature of the visible world? And if it be a duty and a plea pleasure - sure pleasure to cultivate this, we at least, esteem it a nobler duty,"and a higher pleasure, to culti cultivate - vate cultivate that elegant literature, which springs fresh and living fropi the heart, the soul, the mind of man. It is our admiration of this literature, it is our grief at the dishonor cast upon it, it is our anxiety for its progress and improvement, it is our inflexible faith in its glorious destinies, which constrains us to mourn over the destruction of its richest foun fountain, - tain, fountain, of its noblest standard - the scri/itures.

ueii-h ---Cted, but appointed by the King, it will be more contemptible than the heredita hereditary - ry hereditary peerage. Lafayette insisted upon having the ]>cers named by the electoral colleges. - However, he will not gain this point, and you may rest satisfied that the law respecting 111it peerage will be such a one as will please ric one. Its three heads are the following: - 1. The hereditary of the Chamber of Peers is abolished. 2. The King has the right to name Peers. 3. The number of Peers is un unlimited. - limited. unlimited. I am sorry to say that my fears about Poland begin to be realized. I perceive, both from the German papers and letters which, have arrived last night, that the Russians have gained not only considerable advantages over the Poles, but that at the very moment whilst 100,000 Russians were moving forward under the Generals Paskewitsch, Kreutz, Gerstenzweig, and Rudiger, towards War-, saw, inclosing it on every side, a new revolu revolution - tion revolution has broken out, which displaced General Skrzynecky, and brought the whole machine of government into the utmost disorder, at the very time when all the energies of the Poles should have been directed against the approaching Russians. A number of PolisK territories, dissatisfied with the sentence pro pronounced - nounced pronounced upon the conspirators, Hurtig, Jan Jankowsky, - kowsky, Jankowsky, Lilcwel, 8cc. broke into the prisons,' murdered the prisoners, actually overturned the government, and then left the city to seek refuge in Austrian Poland, afraid that they would not be included in the amnesty of the Russian Emperor. Their detestable atroci atrocities - ties atrocities have caused general terror, and the cour courage - age courage of the inhabitants of Warsaw has fallen! very much. The city is not provisioned: the Russian, main army, leaving Loviz, has moved forward to Blonie, three German miles from Warsaw, while crowds of Poles desert daily the stan standard - dard standard of their country. You will see the la lamentable - mentable lamentable state of Poland from the papers, all of which have copied, I perceive, the disas disastrous - trous disastrous news. The same papers give nminoutf hints respecting movements in Bohemia, Gal Gallicia - licia Gallicia and Hungary. The Austrian army has been reinforced during the last six months by the landwrhr, as it is called, a sort of militia, which serves in many cases as regular troops. These militiamen have been formed in Bohe Bohemia, - mia, Bohemia, about the town of Pilscn, into an army of 24,000 men; hut such was the spirit of the Bohemians, that the Austrian government found it necessary to send them home. The same is the case in Gallicia, where a similar, corps has been formed, 24 miles from Lem Lemberg. - berg. Lemberg. There the troops broke out almost in into - to into open mutiny, and only the most efficient measures for disbanding them prevented the. whole army of the landwehr from crossing over the frontiers and assisting the Poles. - 111 these quarters, you may prepare yourself, sooneror later, to hear of serious movements, for long this state of things cannot last. The governments of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Prance, are almost exhausted. From the manner in which the Russian loan was receiv received - ed received on Exchange, you may perceive the pitia pitiable - ble pitiable state in which the Russian treasury is at present. The Court of Austria has found it necessary to dispose of its remaining stock of shares in the Bank of Vienna. Austrian stocks have fallen to 830; metaliques to 75. This, enormous decline has caused a general panic;' and such is, 1 perceive, the state of public opinion in Bohemia, Gallicia and Hungary, that but little is wanting to produce a general rising in those provinces. 1 remain yours respectfully, P. O.

' 1 he cxisti nee of such poetry, as is tn be found in the Pentatcukh, jive hundred and fifty years before the age of Homer, anil of such history, as is contained in the same col collection, - lection, collection, one thousand years before Herodotus, is of itself one of the highest proofs of the divinity of the Scriptures. In all other coun countries - tries countries the style eif poetry lias preceded, by ma many - ny many a century, the style nf prose; but here we behold both of them, written at the same time, and in the same work, with a shill and beau beauty - ty beauty never rivulled, except in other parts of the holy volume. That such a body a] lite literature - rature literature should have appeared successively, during one thousand and fifty years, from Moses to Malachi, among such a people as the Jews, unaided by the leading influences that have produced the Literature of other nations, is the more unaccountable, when we consider its vast suncriority over every other, and the perfection of its language in its ear earliest - liest earliest form as a written tongue, without disco discoverable, - verable, discoverable, or even imaginable, antecedent pro progress - gress progress preparuti rv to its fulness of glory in the works of Moses. Shall we not indeed, adopt the language of the Psalmist, so happi happily - ly happily applied by Lord Chesterfield, to one of the mi st menu rable events of English History. "It is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes." It is not less remarkable that 'in all that pe period - riod period of one thousand and fifty years, notwith notwithstanding - standing notwithstanding the changes in the form of govern government, - ment, government, and the revolutions in the state of so society, - ciety, society, whether the nation was at the summit of power and glory, or sunk in the abyss of misery and captivity; whether the true reli religion - gion religion swayed the Prince and the people, or both of them bowed before the shrine of Idol Idolatry, - atry, Idolatry, the same dignity and gravity, the same simplicity and purity, mark the style; the same originality and grandeur of thought, the same comprehensive and lofty genius, the same beauty and chastity of sentiment, dis distinguish - tinguish distinguish the intellectual power of the sacred Authors. All other literature has been de degraded - graded degraded and deformed, by bombast and con conceit, - ceit, conceit, by pevile sentiment and unnatural exag exaggeration, - geration, exaggeration, by vanity and ambition, by passion and prejudice. But no such reproach can be cast upon the Literature of the Scriptures. - In them, all is elevated, pure, lovely, consis consistent. - tent. consistent. « This is the more remarkable, when we reflect that Hebrew is the primitive, oriental Literature. And, yet, while it possesses, in an unrivalled degree, all the distinguishing excellences of Eastern Literature, it is en entirely - tirely entirely free from the peculiar defects of orien orientalism. - talism. orientalism. Indeed, we may justly say that there isno valuable quality of thought or style in any Literature, ancient or modern, but the same is surpassed in the Scriptures of the Children of Israel. A more extended comparison of the classi classical - cal classical with the scriptures, as a storehouse of lite literature, - rature, literature, presents this subject in a new light,

From the Boston Courier, September 22. HORTICULTURAL FESTIVAL. The Massachusetts Horticuliurnl Society celebrated it* An Anniyeraary - niyeraary Anniyeraary yesterday. An Address was delivered io the mem members - bers members and an assemblage of ladie* and gentlemen, at the Atlie Atlienseum - nseum Atlienseum Lecture Room, by Dr M. A. Ward. At one o'clock the dining and exhibition hall wa* thrown open to a crowd of visiters, and exhibited a magnificent collection of fruits and flower*. At 4 o clock, the Society, about 200 in number, "Hi down to a sumptuous dinner, prepared by Mr Eaton, at Concert Hall. Hon. H. A. S. Dearborn, Preside tit of the Society, pre sided at the table, w hen- wit, song and sentiment contribute d to the pleasure of the intelle ct, a* the market ami the garth us did to the gratification of the physical appetite. Atiiot.g the songs, was the following, original, by T. G1 Fciscnden, Esq. THE FEAST OF FRUITS AND FLOWERS. Come, Cultivator®, leave uwhile Your Gardens. Fields and Bovvers, And join with us to celebrate Our Feast of Fruits and Flowers; With blameless luxury enjoy. Rich products of the soil, Rewards which crown the Art of Arts, When skill enlightens toil. What though within our temperate zone, No burning sun sublimes The Fruits the destinies bestow On the pestilential climes; All health and happiness require, Ail man should ask of heaven. To satiate innocent desire, Is in profusion given. The worst privations we endure Prove blessings in th' event, And should our gratitude excite Instead of discontent; For ills which task our highest powers To conquer or evade, But bid the human race aspire To reach its highest grade. No imps of sloth lie basking here, Like serpents in the sun, Even mountain streums to turn machines Must labor as they run; Within New-England's granite bounds No unless beings luik. The rough and raging elements We yoke and set to work. When sentimental zephyrs blow For love and rhyming fit, Our windmills made them work like dogs Compell'd to turn the spit; Niagara's thundering cataract Our power shall hamper till It toils like Dutchman in a ditch Or Sampson in Ins null. Since fire and water harness'd here, Compose a Yankee team, Perhaps our General Government Might go as well by steam; But as the ease were better brought Before some higher court, Tis left for Congress, when they meet, To argue and report. The Lime nor Olive will not grow Spontaneous here - what then? We've hearts of oak and nerves of steel In noble crops of men? Our plant call'd Female Excellence No hot-bed culture needs To yield sublunar Seraphim Of pure celestial breeds. When winter dissipates the heat, Beneath an iron sky, Hot-houses with hot wuter fraught Caloric will supply; Thus gard'ners by and by will make Fine climates of their own, And raise by Jefenufactured heat The plants of every zone: - With Lime and Sulphur doctor off Vile insects by the host, Till art at length of Nature's plagues Completely dears the coast; Thus every blessing may bo ours Whieh Providence has given To every land and clime beneath The canopy of Heaven.

T vans>j Yvtuua, University. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. THE Lectures in this Institution will com commence, - mence, commence, as usual, on the 1st Monday in November, and continue, without intermission until the l*f Saturday in March. The courses and terms, are as follows, viz: Anatomy, $15 ) Bv Benj. W. Dudley M. D. who Surgery, $15 S will lecture 9 times each week. .r MmiltriiK' «»J Clinical |>inotice, $15, By Charles Caldwell, M. D. daily. Theory and Practice of Medicine, $15. By John Eaten Cooke, M. D. daily. Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Chil Children, - dren, Children, $15. By Wm. H. Richardson, M. D. daily. Matiera Medica and Medical Botany, $15. By Charles W. Short, M. D. daily. Chemistry and Pharmacy, $15. By Lunsford P. Yandeli, M. D. and H. Hulbert Eaton, A. M. daily. Large acccessions are making to the Me Medical - dical Medical Library and Chemical apparatus, which will be in readiness by the commencement of the Session. Bv order of the Faculty, C. W. SHORT, M. D. 'Dean. Lexington, Ky. Aug. 1, 1831. 10w26 TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY. LAW DEPARTMENT. THE session of the Laio De/iartmeat of Transylvania, commences on the first Monday in November, and continues four months. During the entire session, there will be daily recitations and catechetical lecturing on law and equity. The test hooks are Black Blackstone's - stone's Blackstone's and Kent's Commentaries; Chitty's Pleading; Starkie's Law of Evidence ; Mud Muddock's - dock's Muddock's Chancery, and Cooper's Equity Plead Pleading. - ing. Pleading. The students will he arranged into classes according to their advancements in legal sci science,and - ence,and science,and each class separately lectured. The members of one class may attend upon the exercises of any other, and take part in them without additonal charge. Once each week a moot court will be held. Tickets §25 in advance. DANIEL MAYES, Lexington, Aug. 15 4iv28 Professor of Law. CABINET MANUFACTORY, BROAD-STREET, NEARLY OPPOSITE THE BELL TAVERN. THE subscriber takes this method of ten tendering - dering tendering his thanks to his friends and the public for the liberal patronage heretofore received; and informs them- that he still car carries - ries carries on the above business in all its various branches. He will generally have on hand, for sale, an elegant assortment of CABINE T WARE, consisting of SIDEBOARDS, DINING TABLES, SECRETARIES, BREAKFAST, do. BOOKCASES, DRAWING ROOM do BUREAUS, WARDROBES, LADIES' WORK TABLES, &o. of the latest and most fashionable patterns, Warranted equal in durability and workman workmanship - ship workmanship to any manufactured in this country; all of which will be sold at reduced prices for cash. lt7"The highest price will be given fo< Cherry, Walnut and Maple Plank and Scant ling. 'GEORGE KHEPS. Liberal wages and constant employ, ment given to two or three Journeymen Ca Cabinet - binet Cabinet Makers. ret 22 12w30

nt* next inquires what should he the stan standard - dard standard of literature, and observes: - 1H we w< uld estimate rightly the worth of Literature, at any given period of time, we have only to apply these tests; How far has it honored God? How fur has it improved mankind? If it has dishonored God, if it lias debased and corrupted the human mind, let it perish - however various and profound its learning,however beautiful its taste,and mag magnificent - nificent magnificent its genius. Such a Literature can cannot - not cannot live, either in its own forms, or in those which spring from it. They contain no prin principle - ciple principle of perpetuity. But the Literature which is ever mindful of its duty to God, and of its obligation to Man, has within itself the seeds of life, and lives from age to age, transmitted in its original forms, or in an endless succes succession - sion succession of modifications and improvements.* He regards Polite Literature 'as a mode, in which the Creator loves to be honored and praised, by the cultivation of our pow powers, - ers, powers, in all the variety and grandeur, novelty and loveliness, of which the soul is suscep susceptible;* - tible;* susceptible;* and thus endeavors to account for its estrangement from religion. 'Such being the true character and desti destiny - ny destiny of Polite Literature, how surprising is the fact, that it should almost universally have dishonored God, and have degraded or cor corrupted - rupted corrupted man. How can this phenomenon be accounted for? The causes must be sought in the melancholy truth, that the great body of literary men have never written, either under a sense of duty to God, or in the spirit of use usefulness - fulness usefulness to man. Necessity or the love of fame, emulation or envy, love or hatred, has been the ruling motive with countless numbers. - And why have these inducements possessed such transcendent authority over the minds and hearts of this host of Authors? The chief reasoi\ must be traced to the absolute exclu exclusion - sion exclusion of the Bible, as the only standard of duty, the only fountain of usefulness, f rom all our scheme of education - when the Gauls were ravaging with fire and sword the city ofRome, Albainus bore away in his chariot the Vestal Virgins, and left his family to perish. But the Christian scholar, with no such dreadful alternative before him, is content to leat e the Vestal Virgin of sacred Literature to perish, w hile he welcomes to his home, as his choicest friends and instructers of his children, the Priest of Mars, and Bacchus and Venus, the poetry and mythology of Pagan Antiquity. - Language can hardly express too strongly and vividly, cur astonishment, indignation, ^and sorrow, that such should be the fact.* The literary character of the scriptures is next vindicated, in the following animated strains:

From the Boston Commentator. Theatre. - Mr Huckett's Salomon Swap and Indus Industrious - trious Industrious Doolittle have drawn excellent houses at the Tremnnt Theatre, and we ure happy to learn that lie has been induced to give us one more representation of Paulding's new comedy, next week. Mrsflack Mrsflackett, - ett, Mrsflackett, who has been very warmly received, is engaged for a few nights to strengthen such operas us the ma manager - nager manager may produce. The Lion of the IVest, was played on Friday eve evening, - ning, evening, and drew a crowded honse, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather. The principal cha character - racter character in this production, Nimrod WUdfire, is, to use his elegant language, a screamer. Some idea of his peculiarities may be formed from the following slight sketch which he gives of an affair between himself and a raftsman. " I was ridin' along the Mississippi in my wagon, when I come acrost a feller floatin' down stream, set settin' - tin' settin' in the stern of his bout fast asleep! Well, I hadn't had a fight for ten duys - felt as tho' I should have to hirer myself up in a salt ba rrel to heep - so Wolfy about the head and shoulders. So, says I, " hulloa, stranger! if you dont take keer, your boat will run away with you." So he looked up at me slantindicler, and I looked down on him slantindicler - he took out a clior o' tobuccer, and says he, **1 dont valee you tantamount to that!" and then the varmint flapped his wings and crowed like a cock. I risup, shook my mane, crooked my neck,and neighed like a horse. He run his boat plump, head-foremost a ashore. - shore. ashore. I stopped my wagon and sot my triggers. - "Mister," says he, "I can whip my weight in wild wildcats - cats wildcats and ride straight through a crab apple orchard on a flash of lightning. Clear ineat-ax disposition - the best man, if 1 a'nt, I wish I may be tetotaciously influncated !" The two beligerents join issue, and the Col. goes on to say - " He was a pretty severe colt, but no part of a priming to such n feller as me. I put it to him mighty droll - in ten minutes he yelled enough! and swore I was a rip-staver! Says I, 11 A'nt I the yaller floicer of the forest! and I'm all brimstone but the bend, and that's aquafortis! Says he, Stangcr you're a beauty. and if I only know'd yoar name, I'd rote for you next election. Says I. my name is Nimrod Wildfire - ! halfhorse, half alligator, and a touch ofthe nirthquake - that's got the prettiest sister, fastest horse, and ug-! liest dog in the District, and can out-run, out-jump, ! throw down, drag out and whip any man in all Kain- l tuck,"