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I ‘.r.v ai iiiicc >•>.iic .•ice. 1 !.:i I• ; .- ••!, an i hast. i. il” •■*':-! !.” a A’ . ‘ .Jjr pit ius ; d**, In- in answer J” my t■;= - i*g ills lilt III’ Vi 1 ’! 1 ’ •l-TTiii in ici hum *r fur jesting. ‘ ur i-- IllKl.’ Ttinwiici] r •X.I; cat a- ! v .an • :i*ir;n**':- n.•<■’*• 11 •!’ He lidded !!trt?, in, mrivl g h 4 a mo • . in. ■.:i• nin ill! t..i mile’ ~tr. lie tillin'! it mi macii ni a l.v min, t:i it ii” !i 11 1 to swim I”- li."-c a a it, I„.!ilii;.; one cin! wi:!i tin* c.l, w h;.*!i .'"die k, ia coimn.ili with iii,ist llni.l.iic, “ *;.• ! I'.iia ! iiis wui.-t. wlndi wa’ n-.-.i in'ha", ter “at,'.’ n et:’ till* ili'i'jvwclls of I!;,■ Ci.'iir V. ‘ Hall got >■!*"}’ across, at),l then | m’! ■■ INi lli.m nv*-,r i*\ ir.".ius , I the cord. ‘I lie lilai'l: t’l.'C, with the white teeth ami turban, weie bobbing above the muddy wa ter, when all a! once the groom threw n|> Ins arms, pave a loml shriek, ami sank 1” Imv the Rtuf.ici*. Mr. 11 1!, who !i i*l doubled the end rouml his hand, was dragged into—tin* waiter, where lie pot a momenta'v glimpse of tlm ser. rated tail of a mugger, lushing the water a sliort way ahead of him. In his efforts to save himself, he Inst his hold of (lie strinp, and with nnieli dif ficulty clambered up tlie-slippery bank of the mil lull. All was now still. Only Siuhoo’s turban was to he seen tloatiup loosely a colisidciable. way down the stream. Hal! rail towards it, with the sort of feelings which makes a drowning’ man catch at a straw ; and, by means of a stick, lie succeeded, in fishing it out, and brought it i with him, as the only remnant of Sidhoo lie could give an aceonut of. Dad liews soon spreads in an.lndian village, and poor SidiiooV fate was; soon made known to his vyife.t ai.id in a short time she came ervinp and sobbing to tiie buupa-, low, and laid her youngest child at our friends feet. The tears glistended in tlio poor fellow’s ■ eyes as lie tried to sooth and console her ; which ; he did by promising to provide for her and her children. Although Hall was generally overrunning; with fun, we smoked our cheroots that evening j in silence—except when wo proposed schemes , for the annihilation of the crockodiles. A great many plans were discussed —but none that otter ed much chance of success. The next day, after breakfast, I was showing ray visitor a galvanic blasting apparatus, lately received from England, for blowing up the snags (stumps <(,f trees) which obstruct the navigation of the river. I was ex- j plaining its mode of action to him, when he sud-’ dcnly interrupted me with— ‘The very thing ! Instead of snags why not blow up the muggers ? ( I confessed that there could be no reason why we sbonld not blast the muggers. The difficulty was only how to manage it; yet the more we talked of it, the more feasible did the scheme ap pear to be. The brtiles keep pretty constant, to , the some quarters, when the fish are plentiful: \ and we soon ascertained that poor Sidlioo’s mur derer was well in the neighborhood of the nul lah. lie had on several occasions carried oti goats, sheep, pigs, and children ; and had once; attempted to drag a buffalo, which he had caught J drinking, into the water ; hut, from all accounts,! came off second best in the lencontrc. There I ®lj t Amjetitao Union. not being enough of water in the milhth to drown the buffalo, the mugger soon fumVl that he lini] eaugiit a Tartar; ami after iiciitty well mauled by ilie luilfalo's liorns. lie was lam to scuttle oti’ and hide himself among the mud. I had observed, when blasting tint snags, that tlie concussion produced by. the dis<-lmr<rq had the e fleet ot killing a!! the li -1 1 within a range of some twenty or thirty yards. After every ex plosion they were found floating on the suiface with their bellies uppermost. It now occurred to me, that it we could get within a moderate distance of the mugger, it’ we did not blow him jto pieces, we would at nil events give him a j shock that would'rather astonish him. An ox ! plosion of gunpowder under water communicates la much severer shock to the objects in its imme idiate vicinity, than the same quantity of powder j exploded in the air—the greater density of water enabling it, as- it were, to strike a harder blow. Having made our arrangements: Mr. Hall, niv brother and mvsclf got ijto a small canoe, with the blasting apparatus on board, and dropped down the stream to where the nullah discharged its waters into the Unban. We got out and pro ceeded to a village close bv, where lay obtained, lor a lew annas, (he carcass'of a young kid. A j flask with, about six pounds of gunpowder, and | having the conducting wires attached, was sow n ‘ into the kid's belly. Two strong ropes were nJ :so tied lo ibis bate; and to one of those the j conducting wire was fiitnly bound with small I cord, llic ropes were .about tliiitv yards long, ‘and bad eaidi attached to its extremities fine of the inflated goat skins us,-*! iv water cairiors,— II all, Wjih Ins goat skin in his hand, and a coil dl loose rope uichr i*is arm, took one side t*f the : nullah, w.iile lny hrotln'r, similarly provided, too:-: the other. My brother’s r- po ’ contained the woe; so I waiked beside him, with two ..cooiies. wTtli I lie balb'Ty lead Vvdi'afg,atid sltUTg I*> a pel” wliieh rested on (heir shoulders, aceotn patiieil me. A small float was jtlso. attach* dbv a si nag to* a kt*!, s(i as to indicate its position, i a*—c an ;ui'.i incuts bring mad ‘, we cotn iii n<•<•* 1 wait. :.g uj* tlie nnlhi, drawing the qpr *;:-s i.t the i.n! in the stream, and moving it ; fieri os ti'eni side to ,;*!*', so as Jo leave no pe.it of tie Iwsl m .la ,*-A t-arel ms the nulla was oifv about twelve yanli wi !e. we flt prettv <"• 11 !I• I^ ll l that, if tin* mugger was in it, v.e enuai scntcelv tail ol eoming i*i I'o’.itaet with iiini. W e had eu’y pKHM.'eded alioft a rpiartej’ of a mile, w! * i ‘file th*at sm.idei.lv *lij p*'*h Mv In ot h**r and 11 ‘’ threw (lie loose c,*il of ropes lliev carried in the water, along with the inllalol skins. These made it soon evident by i; ii motion that the . mugger had seized the I id. lie was dashing I across in •• zigzag dilection down the stream.'” I ran idlerhun as fast ns I could, and paving out !.* ■ coni from the reed wlieii 1 fan:*! it i.mpossl 1* • :•> I. “p up with him. <>m fe.'iehinga place wlicre the banks were st* ,p*-r than usual, he came to a stand s; iU I’ivsefitlv my brother came and In ought the battel v to niv feet: a goi.nl deal ot i I. <• :*• i'i h:i*l I>■ •>• 11 spided. but with Lie a. loi a b'*:t : of i’i* -li .1 v.e had bnmgut along w.th us we Mioa got the battery up to the reipusitc power. liveiA thil g being now in ordi r, ! eomnii'iuv.! pulling up the rope w ith the wire. 1 ; :• ‘■■l and as c.'iiitioudy as possible, for tear • f •’ • “i 1:: g the mugger ‘. bn'., in spite of ail niv • ‘ ii.j; .j vkin, in mining up the bank, •! L ‘ ‘"iin’ loose pieces of earth, and s* lit in v .filing into the water.. I'i)ilnn.'iti' , v, ii"” “••it, tin* mugger had mad'-* up hi’ mind to ■ : :;* : tii” kid v. i. re he was. I c.*uld n*t help chuck"! gw hen I at h-ngtli got hoi 1 of the cud of t!i” w.irt*.'. Wii iic? m v firother was fastening one “I them t*i tin* hullerv, I got tin* other teadv tor . c"ir.j*b*tii!g the circuit : the megger nil tiie while' 1 : _ at the ! ■* 11, m of the iHtlhih, with, . nii ‘l hkeJ.v, a couple of fathoms of w ater over ids !;* ■*.!, uncutisci..us of danger, and little dta anting that the two legged (■leattiic’ on the hank had g"t a tietve <*oniiiumiea!ion with h’s Moniaeh. liir.iogh which ti-i*v wen* going to send a flash “f hghwiiiig, that would shatter his sealv hulktu i j'ieees. r.ve'i'Vthiiig beit g Ttow rea.lv, 1 made the fatal C"lifae.t, < lur Mil ee” was complete. We felt a ■shuck, as if somelliing had fallen down the hank a mound i.fmii.ldv w ater rose, w iih afi 1 nill*•• 1, trembhiigsound.and then hurst into a column of dark smoke. .V splashing and bidding succeed ed, and then a great crini'oii patch Ibcttcd on the water, like a vat legated carpet pattern.- — Strange looking fragments of scaly skin were j picked up by the natives from the water's edge, and brought to iis.ath'dst a very general rejoin-1 iiig. The exploded mugger floated down the ti! ream, find t lie current soon carried it out of sight. \\ e wete not ail sort v, for it looked such a horrible int-ss that wo felt no desire to examine i *• . .. i < >ne sense of trinniphant satisfaction was, how- j ever, sadly damped about a week afterwards,! when.wo rcueived t!ie.inortifvingannouncemetit that Sidiioo's mugger was still alive, and on iiis old beat, apparently unmjtiied. It was evident’ ..that we had blasted the wrong mugger 1 Wed consoled ourselves with the reflection that if he ! were not Sidiioo’s murderer, it was very likely he j was not wholly innocent of other atrocities, and therefore deserved his fate. Os course it was im possible to rest while Sidiioo's mugger remained j ttlrre; so vve-were-not lotrg in-preparing for a >e- - -cond expedition. This time we took the prec’au- j tion of not charging the battery until we were; certain that the bait was swallowed. The acid, ; difuited to the necessary strength, was therefore j carried in one of those brown earth ware jars rail-; ed gray beards, which bad come to/us full ot Glenlivet whiskey. Wo commenced dragging j the kid up the stream tis before; but, having j walked more than a mile without getting a bite, 1 we Werogrr-tting rather dislieartcncrh-and *-nt 1 down to rest, struck a light, arid smoked a chef-, oot. Ilall lay down,, having manufactured an | impromptu easy chair out of his coil of rope, with the inflated goat skin placed over it. My bleth er was not long in imitating iiis example, and J lay down under the shade of some reeds, near the water’s edge. The heat was oppressive—and we were discussing the probability ot getting a bite . that day, and lamenting that we had not brought some pale ale along with us —when, all atotiee, j I got a sharp blow on the leg, while my brother came spinning down the batik like a teetotum — a companion picture to Hull, who was revolving , down the opposite bank. The ropes and skins were rushing as we recovered from the laughter into which we were thro.vn by this droll scene, .CatIFFIK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY WHINING, CKTOHKR 15, 1855. ! we set oil’ in pursuit, guided by the track which ; ; the inflated skins made in the waiter. Leaving mv brother with the coolies in charge of the battery, I ran onto where the bank was j Ujore shelving. I had not waited many minutes before the skins came floating round the 'corner, to where I was stand mg. 1 seized the one to; which the wire was attach and, leiring mv brntb -1 er to charge the liatterv, and bring it down. Tiiis i lie did nuieli sooner than 1 could have expected for ns the batter was emptv. one coolie w :vs able ! to carry it upon his head, w hile my brother took i the jar of acid in his hand. As no time was to bo hist, I made the eomu etion with the battery w ith one of the wires. In an instant the circuit was complete, and the mugger's doom was seal , ei '; . - . ‘I lu-rc was a momentary I sup pose, to some slight loss of insnltation in tin- j wires—then came the premonitory shock, then the rumble, the smoke, and the sparks, and a| great bloated mass of flesh and blood rose to tile | suffice of tlie water. Hall called out to us to drag it ashore, and see if we could get any trace of poor Sidiioo. We tried bv means of a bain-! •boo pi'.le to pul! it to the laiuk, but the glimpse ; we got it its ii.ne.ired us was so linu’terably dis- j ’ gin-ting that we push’- 1 it. oil’again, and allow- : ed it to float awav with the current. Despatches from Major Downing to the.Gov i- , enmfent. Aho'iVd t'a y *i er Tee, Dull u*, saltin’ round. ('id*: anil I’p ti*’ Half, S pUmhe r, 1 SI.T. Dr.in (itM it.M. Jackson : (Tlierc. wliat an a\y fal inistiikp !'ve made ! 1 meant dear (Ji.Nimw. I’lKisei:: but niv poor old brains lias been ru'-nin’ i a good deal to-day on that (dd true friend of mine, j ■< liner il Jackson, and ! spose that made the word . .-lip off iny pen before I ti.ongli of it ) Tbc truth is (iiner.il Pierce. I don't feel satisfied with my tr atmOnt. to be left lierc alone all sum m r to bear the whole brunt of this fi'.liliuster war. j ‘Ailin’ about in the. e hot climates, where we light j ! <nir i ij vs by the sun with* at matches, and expo- j sin’ tmr lives ail the time: and two of our men; le:s died with the yaller fever, and not a. soul rent ; •at So Kill k life up aii! help nrc take Ciflvi— nd a ; single war-v-'” 1. nor a ste.itner. nor,a. private lib i !;l.u-'('r. l’JTTve'.i so rnut'h as Pill Johnson on a l ine h g with a fowli n'-iiiece. , i \V!e;t did Y"M expect i:h‘ to do? Was I to j pitch into the MoVo Cu-11-t alone? ‘1 he whole: 1 nglisli fleet, the greatest 11 “ct in the world, was afraid to pitch into Cronstadt up there in the Hal- [ tic. The Two Pollies is brave and sure lire, but I j don’t think is hardly reasonable to match her | a10’..” ..gin the Nloro, thnigh I've sonietiiiios al m< -t swore 1 would do it. hit or miss, getting so 1 out-ol patience waitin'all summer for reinforce- i men’s. And sometimes id have a real time’ flunkin’ of Giucral Jackson, and saying to myself if Old Hickory was only at the helm—J don't’ mean 1 the helm of the Two Pollies. Init the helm! of (J* ‘vernment—l guess things wouldn't goon at I ’ .. . . ; : tills rate. Them wouldn't be no hackin’ and liilin . then ; it would be plain sailin’ straight ahead. , and every body would know where they was golff i to fetch up. It ..11 Uiokoi'y put his f,oLd wu on t (ifty-four forty, it woefl 1h ■ there, and you lift 1 idiilfTor it on forty-nine. If tlie Spani-li folks bad j ’ a took the JJhtek Warrior steamer under his Ad ministration, and lie had demanded three hundred j thousand dollars to p.,y the damages and wipeout ; the insult, the money would have to he planked right down on the nail, or the lmir would have to fly somewhere. And if lie had fairly made up! his mind, as our Congress did at ‘ Istend and Ax hi-.’Thapplel'that Cuba was us necessary to our ( ,ov eri/meiit as ary one of tho States, and that we eouldn't got along without it,, and therefore, “by j every law, human and divine, we had the right to take it. if we possessed the power,” the whole business would a been done in three weeks, and Cuba marked down on the map of the United, , States. Put a hackin’ and fillin’ and wrigglin’ policy never will fetch anything about; and I don’t railv believe wo areas mar having Cuba now as we was six months ago. j If Air I Indianan had only been at home, I know he Wouldn't have left the whole business on my hands alone so long without sending me help ; hut you have kept his hands tied alt this time in : London, so lie couhl’nt do nothin'. And as for Sanders and Sickles, 1 hear they have gone off to • Russia to so-OAiJiout. setting up anew Democratic Republic there, or else annexin’ Russia to tlie i United States. They say there is no reason in ! the world why Russia should not belong to us. there is such a good clianea. to run a telegraph across Reel ing's Straits. So there wasn't nobody left to hack me up id tins Cuba business but you ’ anil the Cabinet t And how have you and they | j done it? Yes, Mr. President how have you done it ? 1 must speak plain, for I have had iny feel ings a good many times badly worked up. I hope j there hasn't been any treachery in your Cabinet, j and no pullin’ the rope over the roof of the house ; at both ends, llut things has looked very dark, ; and foggy to me sometimes. You haint sent nH j ! no despatches, and I've had to keep the run of ; things by the newspapers that I pi: keil up here ‘ and there, by vessels goin’ back and forth. And j when 1 sec Commodore McCauley was coming. j out with a force sufficient to blow every Spanish j j cruiser to thunder, and knock the More into a j cocked hat, we had a jolly time aboard tho Two, i Pollies, I tell ye. We threw up our hats and boo- J rail'd aboutlih Lour light out nirait. i Wal, arter a week or two. when we got most tired of waitin’ the fleet come along. I bore up under the Commodore’s lea and hailed him. and asked him where the Two Pollies should hitch on. As soon as he see it was me he was very po lite: hut ho said tlie Two Pollies better k> ep dark and fay low it little while, till ‘he went into ■ ! Havana and reaonnoitered round, anil then be j should know exactly wliat to do. So we waited j patiently a week or two longer: and then I hailed . j a Pe- .bacot sloop. Capt. Gilman, an old acquain tance, who had been into Havana with a load of! i lumber, and was homeward bound with a little I cargo of molasses and sugar - “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” Says I, “ Gilman did you see any thing of Com-! | rnodore McCauley ?’’ *“ I “See him? Yos, I wee him every day.” . j “ Will, wlmt’s ho about all this time ? Has he . took,the Moro, and the city, and the war-vessels, without giving me a chance ?” “ No, I don’t think lie has to,,k anything,” said Gilman, -• hut the (’apt. Gineral has taken him.” j My dander was right up. 1 tell ye. Says I. i | “ You don't mean to say he lias took our Commo-1 ; dore and shut him up in the Moro ? If ho has, I'll go right in with the Two Pollies and blow the old tlmnderjug into tho ocean.” “Oh, no.” said Gilman, wish a little puckery 1-iflT creeping round his eyes and mouth ; “ he silli ly took the Commodore into his great tine carriage and 1 sec them most every day riding about to- | | getlier, check by jowl, and having a jolly time of ; i l -” “Thunder!” says I “Then somebody’s been pulling at the wrong end of the rope, and 1 won t lay low any longer.'’ I So wo up stakes and sot sail agin on our own hook keeping an eye well to the windward. I I felt cross and told tho hands to crack on all sail ! 1 meant to be out of sight and hearing when the Commodore's coot come out ngiin. for 1 dulu t | know hut lie might take il into his head to enforce the. neutrality laws, and I had no idea of b. ing ketehed in that trap. I felt sure there was a screw loose somewhere in the Cabinet, and 1 thought if ['could only be in Washington hull an hour I could find out where t was. Rut as things was, there was no other way for me -but to take | the responsibility, and if 1 couhl'nt take Cuba, i just hold on to the slack till something turned up. i Wal. it wasn't a great while before something j did turn up that carried our hopes right up to the • lip-t >p rmtg-of-tliedudder. After mouldin’ about i a few weeks to keep out of sight of Commodore McCauley, for I hud serious suspicions of him, 1 ! comeback again along the northern side of Cuba |to see if I could pick up any more news. As good i luck would have it a Kennebec brig soon come j along homeward bound. 1 hailed her, and as j soon as the Captain came on deck. 1 see at once 1 it was Cap!. Drummond, a first rate prying feller ! and i knew in a piomont if ho hud been in Cuba ’ a week he would know everything that was going jon upon the island. So 1 asked him to hack his j main top-sail, and I'd como aboard. We went j into flic cabin and lie brought on a bottle of old , famaky. Wc arc both Muine-law folks at home, j but out here we take a drop to keep off the yaller j fever. j “ Now, ( apt. Drummond,” says I. “ how does i things stand in Cuba ? I hear Commodore Me ’ Cauley has turned traitor to the cause. Is liberty ! i going to be crushed out there or not ? Or is there I ‘ any chance yet for them poor fellers that have j ’j been trying so long and so hard their free, ; ’ d".m “ Aijy chance my dear Major,” says he. “ Why j J the, chance never was better ; never half so good j : before. Tho whole tiling is cut and dried and al- j , most ready to blaze out with a brightness that, ; will enable us to spear fish at midnight along the | , whole coast from. thc-k.cfmcbce to the Mississippi.” | “Good! G.ve us jour hand, old hoy,” says I. i “Now prove that and I'll he your humble servant 1 | forever.” i•• Well, it's true asprcachin,” says lie. “Our; j Government has got a first-rate agent on the is-! land, overhauling the whole business, to see that j even- thing is in the right train, so there shan't |he no mistake ami no chance to miss tire ngm,— ; He keeps dark, and goes round among the leading 1 patriots, and consults about the whole campaign. | Alter he showed his dockymertts proving that he ! i was an agent of our government, they didn't keep ! anything hack, but told him the whole business, ■ how the patriots were all ready to set up a free | government, and would very soon have everything j necessary for that purpose. They told him they , had sent over more than half a million of dollars j to their friends, the exiled patriots in the United j States, to purchase such things as they might i ; need in setting up their free government, and a number of large steamers and other vessels were | already chartered and paid for to bring them ! over : and more than all that, if they should want i any help, there was a great Gineral stood ready, with a brave little army all enlisted, to come right over and put his shoulder to the wheel. That's the way the thing stands now. The patriots are , all right, and our government's secret agent lias been round and seen that they arc all right. And now tlie Government at Washington is going to j look ‘totlier way, over the left shoulder, while the business is doing, so they shan't see any body vio lating the neutrality laws.” | “That's capital,’ says I, “Captain Drummond ; ! that's capital, if that agent is all right. Who is.. 1 j Ee !” j “ Oh, he's a fine fellow: he's got tho Govern-r 1 ment dockymcnts in his pocket. His natne, Q lj think, is Davis. I don't know what Davis, hut 1 i believe he is from Mississippi.” Art hat I lmpt right up and slapt my hands to- j getlier so hard that Capt. Drnmmond jumped half | way across the cabin, for he thought 1 was going j i to pitch into him ; and says he, “ What in nature,: M.'.jor Downing, is the matter ?” j “Matter enough,” says I. “I verily believe! I that agent is mv old friend Jelf Davis, for he's , from that part of the country, are! he's jest the ! boy for it. lie was out in Moxieo with us. and * wax clear grit; —i* Jeff Ihi vis is In Cuba, the thing: is done, and no mist,ike about it .” Upon that we to-k another drop of Jamaky. and Capt. Drummond histed sail, and 1 went aboard the Two Pollies and told the boys they t might crack on and hoorah ns loud as they'd a mind to, for the business was all right and the egg was most ready to he hatched. Finally, i felt s , happy I told all hands they might have a holy day. and cut on and do jest what they liked.— \ And thcyjiad a jolly time I tell yo. I gave them an extra good dinner, and after dinner they sung j songs most of tlie afternoon, and some of them scoured the deelt, by cut'iug down *1 ■ lble shuffle They sung “ Captain Robb.” cousin Sargent fuel's ! favorite sung, five times in the tune of Yankee , Doodle ; and every one aboard that could sing | Yankee Doodle—soldiers, sailors, marines, and boss-marines —all joined in and roared it out well. Cousin Joel declared afterwards that before they | got through he saw more than fifty dolphins shy * ing round the vessels and listening. If youhavn't seen that song Mr. President, it is rail)’ worth your j rcadin'. So I think 111 send it to yon, and here ! ‘tis : CAPTAIN ROiin Air— Yankee Doodle. Says Captain Robb to fanner Cobh, •• Your farm is very fine, sir : Please give me tip your title-deeds, 1 claim it all ns mine, sir.’’ “Pray, how cun it he thine say*Cobb, I'm sure 1 never sold it ; ‘Tw.is left me by my lather, sir, I only mfght to hold it “ “Nay. Cobb, the march of destiny - ‘Tis strange you don t perceive il ls sure to make it mine some day ; I solemnly believe it “ “ Rut have you not already got More land than you can till, sir ’ More rocks than you can ever blast. More weeds than you can kill, sir 1 ’ “ Ay, Cobh, hut something whispers me A sort of inspiration That. Pw a cit'd to every farm Not under cultivation. I'm of the - Anglo Saxon race,’ A people known to fame, sir; Rut you. what right have you to land 1 \\ ho ever heard your name, sir 1 “1 deem you. Cobh, a lazy lout. Poor, trud'lon-dowu. and blind,air, And if I take your useless land You ought to think it kind, sir’ And with my scientific skill, I set it down us true. sir. That 1 can gather from the farm ——Pull twicuo-s much as you, sir. “ To be explicit : “1 is an ago Os fredoin and progression; No longer, dog in-manger, like, Can you retain possession. The farm long sii.i e yb'irforfeited. Because you failed to till it; To me it clearly now Ih,longs, Simply because— l n ill it. “ My logic if you disapprove Or fail of comprehending, Or to not fool convinced that I Your wel'are am attending. I've plenty more of arguments To wliii li I can resort, sir ; Six-shooters, villas, bowl*.’ knives Will indicate the sort, sir. “ So prithee. Cold*, lake my advice, Make over your domains sir; Or. sure il-* I am Captain Robb, Will I blow out your brains, sir ? ’ Poor Cobb can only grind Ids teeth And grumble protestations, T hat miaht should be the rule of rigli/ Among enlightened Italians. Rut now. Mr, President, I must come to the Lit j (er end of my despatches, and hitter enough it is. | This business needs some explanation between j you and mo : and the sooner 1 git. it tho hotter, j That glorious day aboard the Two Pollies we was all HivimitiiiY in happiness mast-head high. Rut | a few weeks afterwards, when wo got the next ■ batch of news from home, we was like bein’ all i down in the dark hold of the vessel wallowing in ; bilge-water. Thunder and Mack snakes? if ever | 1 did swear, it was then. That Davis had turned i out to be a very dilierent chap from my old friend 1 Jeff, and somehow or other every thing had gone ! wrong-end foremost". The Cuban patriot cause was all smashed up , their half million of dollars ! was all scattered to Hie winds; Gineral Quitman ! had backed out, and government was seizing 1 steamers mid vessels all along the coast and ma ! king them sillier the delay and expense of lawsuits ! to prove that they had no notion of going to Cuba. ! And,more than all this, some of the best patriots | in Cuba, men who had opened their whole hearts j to Davis, men worthy enough to he President of ! the United States or to command the Two Pollies. | had been arrested in Cuba and executed like dogs. ; Now Mr. President, where has the blood of them j patriots left the heaviest marks ? Is it in Havana, New York, or Washington ? Rut how could all ‘this tcrr.ble change come about? Was there ! any awful accident the cause of it. like switching ; a train of car-* on the wrjjng track and making a 1 terrible smash-up ? I puzzled upon that pint a good deal, and finally come to the conclusion that possibly it was all an accident, and nobody to blame. And the most likely way I could think of ! that sD'lr a terrible accident could happen was, that Mr. Davis received his secret commission to I Cuba from one ml of your Cabinet, and somehow or other, accidently made his report to ‘l'dher end of it. Rot 1 may he wrong, and shall wait anxious ly for your explanation. Let me hear from you soon, for I don't think 1 . shall hold on here much longer, as things now is, unless I get new orders. I sec things is thicken ring up all round you. and with the troubles in Mexico nnd Denmark, and Kansas, and the melt ing down and mixing up about fifteen political j parties all over tlie country and running them into | thirty new man ih you must have your hands full, \ und will need all your friends to stick by you : ; and I assure you I urn not the man to desert an ! Administration so long as I hold an office under ! it. Sod remain your old friend, and Minister at Large, and Capt. of the Two Pollies, .Major Jack Downing. j. American Com Merck with Germany.—The ! Washington La mu state-; on the authority of a i letter from ILnnburgc, Germany, that (he'direet imports to that port from the United States show a great falling off from last season, and that most American vessels arriving there brought cargoes from Cuba destiued for liussia bv wav of Prussia, flic exports have also been much less than hist year, but few American vessels leaving for home gifsfi ports to load there. Several ships took long charters for South American ports at low rales, — Iri the article of salt|H-tre destined for ltussia, American vessels have the preference when corn ing from home ports, hut this cannot generally ;be the case, as Hamburg ships aie ‘exempted * from the Stadt toll dues. Editor ul PropristA* Mike Kinck and the Ball. . The story of Mike Finoknnd the bull would make .a cynic laugh. Mike took a notion to go in swimming, and lie had Just got hi* clothes off when lie saw Deacon Smith’s ball makiug tl him. The hull was a vicious animal, nod bad come near killing two or three persons; eoaee ! quently Mike felt rather “jubus.” lie didn’t woof to call for help, for he was naked, and tbe near ;cxt place from whence assistance could arrive I was the meeting-house, which was at tbe time ; filled with worshippers, among whom was tbe I “gal Mike was paying his devottrs lo.” 8o be ! dodged the bull as the animal came at him and managed to catch him by the tail. He we dragged around till nearly dead, and when be thought he could hold no longer he mode up his tnind he had better “holler.” And now we | will let him tell his own story t I So, looking at the mutter in all its bearings*, 1 jcitin to the conclusion that PJ better let eome ;one know where I was. So I £tn a yell louder than a locomotive whistle, and it warn’t longbf ! fore 1 t-eed the deacon’s two dogs a cornin’down ! like as if they were seciti’ which could get thar •fust. I know’,l who they were arter; they'd * jinc the bn!! agin roe f was sartin, for they were | oil'vil wcii, .moils and hail a spile agin me. So, ! saxs I, i*l*l hrimllc, as ridin’ is ns cheap aa walk ! in’ mi this route, if you’ve no ol jccliona Til take j a deck passage on that ar’ back o’ yourn. So I j wasn’t very lung getlin astride of him. Then, if you'd bin thar, you'd have sworn thar wasn’t ; nothin’ human in that nr’ mix, the site flew so’ j oi fully as tlie critter and I rolled round the field; one dog on ore sidp nnd one on the other, tryin’ to clinch my feet, f prayed and chased and ettsk id an* 1 prayed until I couldn't tell which 1 did * at in-t, ami neither wnrn’t of no use, they ware so in lot ly mi xed tip. Will. I reckon I. rid about half an hour thin way, whi n old hrindle thought it were time td’ : *i'p in htki- in a supply f wind and cool off fl 1 iittie. So u huii we got round to n tree that stood thar be naturally halted. So, sez I, old V°j. ’ you b lose one passenger sartin. So I jist clunr up a I*:.uii li, kalkt'la'in’ to roost thar till f slartr ; *'*l a foie I'd l*e tid lotind that nr way any longer. 1 war a making true s for the top of the tree ; when 1 heard smilin’ H (cakin’ nil orful buTfin’ ! ovi ilh :*d. 1 kindei looked up, and iftba* wtufuff ■ —a* 11, tbar's no use a sweariii’—but it war tho i biggest li'if let's nest ever hilt. You'll “gin in” * now, I reckon, Mike, ’cause there's no help for * you. Det ail idea struck me then tjint I stood j a heap better chance a ridin* the hull than dlim 1 I was. Sez f, old feller, if yee*ll hold on, Plf j tide I<> the next station any how, let that be wbnr 1 it w ill. So I jist dropped aboard him agin, nnd looked aloft to s*a> wliat I ha*l gained bv changing quar ters ; nrd gentlemen, I'm a liar if thar wam’tii half bushel of tho varmints ready to pitch into me when tho wor 1 “go” was gin.—- Well, I reck-.n they got it, for “allhanda’’atari cd fur our company. S.me on ‘em hit tbe dope about a quail hit me, and the rest charged on hrindle. , ( I I This time the dogs led off fust, dead bent j the old deacon*'*, and tis soon as old brindle and! 1 could get underway we followed; and as I was ; only a deck passenger, nnd had nothin’to de with :j steerin’ the craft, 1 sware, if I had, we abouldn’4 j have run that channel anyhow. Hut. as I said ] before, the (logs took tile lead, brindle and I >px4 land the hornets dre’kly inter—the dogs yelling 1 hrimllc bcllerm’, and the hornets buzzin’ an<f I stiugiii'. Well, wc had got about two hundred ykrdv j from the house, ami the deawn heard us and 1 come out. I seed him hold up his hand and turn white. I reckoned he was praying then, ( f**r lie didn't expect to Is l called for so noon; MM !il wain t long, ueitlier, afore the whole congre , gation—men. women and children—cum duty ‘and then all hands went to tcltin’. None oi ’em h id the fust notion that hfindle and I bn long.-d to this world. 1 jist tinned my head and pas-ad the hull congregation. 1 see’d tile mil ■i would he tip soon, for hrindle couldn't turn on ; inch from a fence that stood dead ahead. Waff wc readied that fence, and I went ashore ovef the ole critter’s head, landing on t'other Vide, and lav there stunned. ■* ‘ Jt. warn’t long nforc some of’em as waa not .scared cum riiniiin’ to see what I wSQ for aM hands kalkelated that the bull and 1 belonged to ’ getlier. Hut when brindle Walked oft by bin* ‘self tlvyjoeed how it war, and oue of ’em : Mike Ftnck litis got the wust of a scrummage 11 mcc in hi* life I” Gentlemen, from that day*) i dropped the courtin’ biziness, and never spoke Us .j a gal since'; arid when my hunt is up on tbit j years there won't be any more Fincks, and Hi j all owing to Deacon Smith's Brindle BolL The New York Assay Office. There is no established in New York mors sfoiA * thy of a stranger's attention than tbe Assayor'sof* * five in Wall street. Let asdirect afe* linss to tbs * subject, nnd show our readers bow dust gets ■ nected i h half eagles. Th*> gold is taken into the weigh room, where it * is weighed and placed to the credit of the depbst , tor: then to the melting and granulating Moa, where two p irts of silver are mixed with one iff i gold—in order to jsirify the sold more perfectly— ! melted and dropped into coldwater, forafiUgdraft | similar in form arid color to those prodaosd by 1 1 dropping melted led in water. This owpnsitinn . is then taken to the separating room. WhsrS it one dergocs two operations-—separating tbs gokf from the silver, which isdonc by an acid from tbe Silver. By this time the individuality of tbe metals, ns metals, becomes lost, being held in eolation by ■nurintic acid, which solution, when caught in n i glass, has the appearance of very clear Water.— This is put in large tubs and filtered into a solution of common salt nnd water, which causes the gold or silver to settle to the bottom. Tbe gold is now as pure as pure can be. and it only remains to Cons 1 iit into bars. Rut one thing more ik necessary ; , the metal, as it comes from the salt arid Water, Wttofi placed over the fire would fly and snap, Causing ! considerable loss. T his is obviated by subjecting ’ tbe gold to the pressure of a bydranlio press of 20Q tons power, thus condensing it into a cheese or ‘ cake about fourteen inches in diameter and four or five inches thick Tbe rigid discipline of tbe press ! destroys its ambition, so that when broken by n cool chisel it melts as quiet as could be wished.— T After -inciting it is run into hors of diffarsnt fiw* the largest. sor 6 inches llong, about 3 inches wide, nnd 1 *>r IJ inches thick, is valued at ffi.HOO; the others range from SSOU to $3,000. These bars are taken into the Assayor’s office. Weighed sealed, when they are ready for tbe mint. Hum various processes are to perfectly arrsnjmd tan jnot a particle of metal islnet —Albany ffteifcrhaji 1 er- - .'w ** NUMBER 45