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MEWS & PLMTBRS’ GAZETTE. D.. COTTINCi, Editor. No. 33.—NEW SERIES.] News and Planters’ Gazette. terms; Published weekly at Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per annum, it paid at the time of JSubt-rri biiig ; or Three Dollars if not paid till the expi ration ot three luontbs. No paper to be discontinued,unices al the option of the Editor, without the settlement of all arrearages. O* [jitters,aw business, musllie postpaid, to insure attention. /Vo communication shall he published, unless wc are made acquainted with the name of the author. TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisements, not exceeding ore square, firet insertion, Seven!y-Jire Cents; and for each sub sequent insertion, Fifty Cents. A reduction will be made of twenty-live per cent, to those who advertise by the year. Advertisements not limited when handed in, will be inserted till for bid, and charged accordingly. Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Ad ministrators and Guardians, arc required by law, to be advertised, in a public Gazette, sixty days previous to the day of sale. The sales of Personal Propert y must beadver tised in like manner, forty days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne groes, must be published for four months— notice that application will be made for Letters of Administration, must be published thirty days; and Letters of Dismission, six months. Mail Arrangements. POST OFFICE, i Washington, Ga., Sept. 1, 1843. $ EASTERN MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for Raytown, Double-Wells, Crawfordville, Camack, Warren ton, Thompson, Hearing, and Barzelia. ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 9, A. M. CLOSES. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 21, P M WESTERN MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for all Ofii ces m South-Western Georgia, Alabama, Mis sissippi, Louisiana, Florida, also Athens, Ga. and the North-Western part of the State. arrives —Wednesday and Friday, by 0 A. M. closes —Tuesday and Thursday, at 12 M. ABBEVILLE, S. C. MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for Danburg, Pistol Creek, and Petersburg. ARRIVES. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, by 1 P. M. CLOSES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 6 A. M. LEXINGTON MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for C'entre ville, State Rights, Scull-shoals, and Salem. arrives —Monday and Friday, at 9 A. M. closes —Tuesday and Saturday, at 9 A. M. APPLING MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for Wrights boro’, White Oak, Walker’s Quaker Springs. arrives —Tuesday and Saturday, by 9 A. M. closes —Monday and Friday, at 9 A. M. ELBERTON MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for Mallo rysville, Goosepond, Whites, Mill-Stone, Harri sonville, and Ruckersville. Arrives Thursday 8 P. M., and Closes same time. LINCOLNTON MAIL. By this route, Mails are made up for Rehoboth, Stoney Point, Goshen, Double Branches, and Darby’s. Arrives Friday, 12 M. | Closes same time. HJ* The Letter Box is the proper place to de posite all matter designed to be transported by Mail, and such as may be found there at the times above specified, will be despatched by first post. palmer & McMillan, TAILORS, HAVE removed to N0.4, Bolton's Range, on the West side of the Public Square, where they will be happy to see all their friends and customers. December 21,1843. 17 SaMlery & Harness •Waking* THE Subscriber still continues the above business at his old stand, where he will be hipry to receive the patronage of the public.— As the credit sysiefn is going rather out of lash ion A he intends making it a rule hereafter for all the running accounts of his customers to he settled quarterly by cash or note. He cannot always always buy pig-skins and harness-leath er on credit, and therfore must have money oc casionally. WILLIAM H. MOON. April 4,1884. 2t 32 JUTTING & BUTLER, ATTORNIES, HAVE taken an OFFICE on the North side of the Public Square, next door to the Branch Bank of the State of Georgia. October, 1843. 28 NELSON CARTER, DEALER IN Choice Drugs and Medicines, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Surgical and Dental Instruments, Perfumery,,Brushes, Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs, - Window Glass, tpc. Bpc. relTmortar \ AUGUSTA = Ga - October 12, 1843. ly 7 Mew Goods. i The Subscriber is now receiving his sup ply of Spring and Summer fwomls, Os the latest Style and New Pat terns. AMONG THEM ARE: Worsted Bareges and Balzurines. for La dies Spring Dresses, j Printed Lawns and French Muslins, Lace Muslins and Organdy do. Cotton Balzarincs and Organdy Ginghams, Superior Earlston Ginghams, Do. Chusan do. ! French and American Calicoes, a great va riety, Super, plain, black and blue black Silks, Do. Plaid and Stripe do. Gros He Swiss Foulaid do. Fancy Shawls and Ties, Do. Scarfs, Bonnet Ribbons and Neck do. Leghorn and Straw Bonnets, Lawn and Silk do. Bonnet Hoods, Linens and Long Lawns, Super, wool dyed black Broadcloths, Do. blue and invisible-green do. Do. black Cassimeres, Fancy do. a great variety. Super, black Drap d’ete and Barpone, a new article, for Gentlemen’s Summer Coals, Brown Liitcns and Linen Drills, Gambroon, ftg’d. Barpone, and colton Pon gees, Brown and blue Domestics, Georgia Nankeens, Hosiery and Gloves, Linen Cambric and Silk Handkerchiefs, Saddles, Bridles and Martingales, ‘ Shoes, Black and white fur Hals, Leghorn and Palm-leaf do. Hardware and Cutlery, Crockery, Sugar, Tea and Coffee, Powder and Shot, Nails, &c. &,c. Also. — A great variety of articles too numerous to mention, which he offers on ’ terms to suit the timess. (Hr CALL AND SEE. ti. P. €OMRT Washington, March 28,1844. 31 LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING ill the I’ost-Office, at Wash ington, Ga., on the Ist day of April, 1844: B. Bulloch, Cordy Bell, John Battle, Oliver S. Ball, Eliza 4 Bolton, Isaac Rev. Ball, William Brummell, Randal Burdet, Joshua Burns, William Bailey, Ephraim 2 Briou, Harriet C. Credell, Jane mrs. Gumming, Daniel Galloway, Jerry Galloway, Miles Galloway, Drury Crews, John S Cooper, John D Campbell, John P Garter, Jane Chamberlain, Robert Craig, T E Combs, Phillip Sen. Cutting, C Dr. D. Davis, Jonathan P 11. Lumpkin Dawson, VVm. C. or J. E. Edmonson, William L F. Flournoy, Samuel Farmer, Rebecca mrs Flynt, Janies II G. Gresham, Charles W Gullet, Absolom Garrard, Allen . 11. Hughes, Caroline miss Haseeltine, George tiuling, Mr. Iloldsclaw, Timothy Huff, Harriet mrs. Henderson, Magers Herden, William Hollemen, A I. & J. Ivy, Josiah Jeffers, Bolling Johnson, J Jones, Robert Jones, Mary G. miss 2 K. Kirkland, Richard L. Law, James H Dr. M. Montgomery, Hezekiab P. Peepies, Henry Pope, Young R. Rhodes, Samuel S. Sanderlin, James Simpson, Catharine miss Statham, A II Strozier, John Spickerd, Harrison Simms, Redding Strozier, Peter Simms, Camilla E Stokes, Wm H Rev Smith, Comfort T. Tully, Elizabeth Tinsley, James Dr. W. Walton, E Mrs Walton, Robert Wootten, Henry 2 Wilkinson, John Weems, John Wooding, John E Winfrey, R R Waters, D Wynne, SC 80 ET Persons asking for Letters from the above list will please say advertised. JOSEPH W. ROBINSON P. M. April 4,1844. 3t 32 EVERY VARIETY OF wm wmwmwm* EXECUTED AT THIS © IF F 0 © (g . PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA.,) APRIL 11, 1844. JtttocrUftKfett*. •‘Lazy Sam.” The following story will not be worth the less for being true. A Kentucky horse drover being in South Carolina with a drove happened to take it to the neighborhood of Gen. H , whose character for jockey ing and moncevoring in trade is much more celebrated than his feats in arms. The Kentuckian having a perfect acquaintance with his character, went to sell him some horses —ol to swap—or to run a race, as the destinies might order and decree. He was one of our careless, unconcerned, knock down and drag out looking sort of a fellow, who would assume as much sirnp li city ofcountenance and address, as circum stances might require. He had the ap pearance ofabout twenty two or three years of age, and as usual, was dressed in the blue mixed jeans to hide dirt, and wore a drab colored hat for the same reason. ‘General,’ said he, ‘l’m just from old Kentucky with some powerful nice horses and may he you want some. Dad told me if I came in your parts to call on you, and may he you would buy a pair of matches or help me out in tradin: for he said you had a power of money, and understood tra din to a scribe. Here’s a letter from him, handing one. ‘And besides I’ve as nice a pair of matches as you could shake a stick at. as tight a nag for a quarter,daddy says, as any in these parts ; he says 1 must run no races, caze 1 might lose, and we want all the money we can scrape to pay for our land: But I reckon he’d suit you to a frac tion, caze your’e a sportin character, and inought win a powerful chance of money on him.’ While he was thus introducing himself and telling his business, the General open ed the letter and read as follows : Dear General: —l take this opportunity to write to you by Job, who is taking the first drove he ever driv, and 1 want you to roll logs a leetle for him—if so he suit you. Job’s spry enough at home, but has not cut his eye teeth, and you’ll lend him a hand, and I’ll do as much for any of your boys, if you’ve got any’, whensoever they come here t ratlin, or any thing else. So no more at present, hut remain your affectionate friend till death. PETER TOMPKINS. The hero of our horse races, cotton bags, and sugar hogsheads, thought lie perceived a neat speculation, and acted accordingly. Mr. Job Tompkins was received with much courtesy ; his man & boy entertained with the best in the larder; while his five and twenty horses did not suffer. It is true the General had not the slightest recollection of his friend and correspondent, Peter Tompkins. He might have once known him, or not. It was the same thing. Here was Job, anew Kentucky stripling, with twenty-five horses, as easy squeezed as a ripe lemon. It was not in his nature to for bear. In the meantime Mr. Job Tompkins made himself quite free and easy ; swag gered about the costly furnished apartment as ifit had been a log cabin. He viewed the silvef plate on the sideboard with much apparent astonishment, and a pair of silver snuffers especially excited his curiosity. ‘Lord General ! ar them thar caudle snuffers made out of the pure stuff? I ne ver seed any afore hut ir’n, and mammy used her sheers. And all them things on that ar big chist (the sideboard) is the ra’al Spanish castings ! I heerd talk of this a fore, but never seed it. Now if I was to tell this in our settlement, may be they wouldn’t hop straddle of me, and ride over me rough shod for a liar. But they say you are a powerful sight the richest man in the Southern States, aint you ?’ To all which the General returned suita ble answers; and Mr. Job and he were hand in glove, for the time being. Each man resolutely bent to make a successful lodgement in his neighbor’s pocket with the view of taking out. A Herculean task to be sure ; —when Job heard in the next room the sound of music. Several Kentucky reels were played, anon, the sweet breath ings of a melodious voice sung, ‘Sweet— sweet home.’ ‘May I be darned,’ said Job, ‘ifthat don’t beat Bob Walker, and he’s a pitch above common. But that aint none of your mu sic boxes ; 1 know ;it can’t be. Is it ?’ ‘My daughter is playing on the piano,’ said the General, ‘we will walk in the room and hear, her.’ Here were blandishments to strike Job dumb, and entrance all his senses. The man who has no music in his soul, And is not moved by concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. Job thought a man might love music and spoils also. He felt a liking for both.— Therefore he applauded the music in his own way most rapturously. Said Job, ‘may I never pull another trig ger, if she’s not a priming above any thing I heard talk about. Why she’s chartered! She’s a ra’al one, I assure you. Why, it’s enough to make a feller swim that can’t; and if it wasn’t for all these kiverlids over the track, (the carpet) and I had a partner to my mind, I’d go my drove to nothing or less I can shake the ticks off of any boy you can produce. The General now thought the Kentuck ian ripe enough. To aid in which he had been plied with choice liquors as he de nominated the brandy and Madeira. The horses were brought out and exam ined, and praised and cheapened, and faults found with all. They could agree upon | nothing. ‘Well, where is your quarter horse ?’ asked the General. “Oil 1m! that’s what you were after,” answered Job, “for you hardly looked at them thar matches and these fine geldings. So you are after a quarter nag, Jim fetch I up lazy Sam, will you? Now General I'll tell your honor bright, he’s never lick’t in a quarter spur’ but once by Joe Miller’s sorrel mare which runs like a streak of lightning she’s a ra’al screamer. Daddy swapt for him last fall, after she tanned him out. If l knowd her I’d give you her marks so as you mightn’t be tuck in. For 1 heard Joe was bringing her to the south to v. in his expenses. But here’s the horse any how and I assure you lie’s not slow.” Now be it remembered that honest Job was not ignorant that General II , was at that time the owner of the identical mare, and for reasons best known to himself, he wished to make a race between her and la zy Sam. The General examined Lazy Sam with the eye of a Jockey. “Pish,” said he, very contemptuously, “why this thing can’t run ; why, it’s flab sided as a sheep and as heavy shouldered as a hog and eathammed besides ; I would not give a good mule for three of it. Why did you not bring a lot of mules to market? I would have bought some at a fair price, your horses do not suit me. Pray what do j vou ask for this thing which yon call a I running nag. It may do to plough a sea- j son or two. Does it work ?” Unlike the Job of ancient days, Job Tompkins suffered his anger to rise and master him. At least he made the General think so. To use his own words, lie cor vorted. He screamed out. “Hello! Mister, I wonder you’re so i migiitv wise, considering you know so lit- j tie. Why you make me feel all over in j spots, to listen at you. I reckon you’ve; got a quarter nag yourself ain’t you ?” j “I have a plough nag here,” said the General, very cooly “that I am sure can run away from that thing of yours.” “Thing!” hollowed Job, “why you make me feel sort of wolly, and I've a great mind to go my whole lot again anything you can raise in the whole South.” “I would not spoil a good mind then,” quoth the General. “But I suppose you are afraid to run as your father has forbid den it. ‘1 don’t care a solitary flint what daddy says when my Irish is up,’ exclaimed Job, indignantly, ‘bring out your nag and let’s see it.’ The General gave the order, and as Job expected, the sorrel mare(once Joe Millers) was brought forward. While Job examined, his adversary en deavored all lie could to fret him by dis praising his horse ; and Job appeared work ed up to a fever heat. To cut short the story ; the drove was staked against twenty-five hundred dollars in a check upon thoC Bank. And the company adjourned to the General’s track to see the race. On the way Job stopped short and facing the General ask ed, very earnestly, ‘Now you’re sure this aint Joe Miller’s nag? my mind sort o misgives, caze from what I’ve heard they sort o’favor like.’ ‘D n your Joe Miller and his nag al so ;’ replied the General, ‘the mare is mine I tell you.’ This appeared satisfactory. I have given you the General’s descrip, tion of Job’s running horse—done to fret him. It was by no means a correct one. Lazy Sam was a well made pony of the Printer stock but was of a mild, sleepy, sluggish disposition, until his mettle was roused. He generally went with bis eyes half shut and his head drooping at an an gle of forty-five degrees. When the Gen eral viewed him he was in this condition. The horses were in the General’s stable and the check for the two thousand dollars was in the hands of a gentleman present. — The General had no doubt about keeping all Job’s fine horses and sending him home on his ten toes. Job thought differently.— Lazy Sam was led along by Job’s boy as sleepy as usual. The preliminaries were adjusted and rider* mounted. As Job threw > Jim an Lazy Sam, he sprang all fours off the ground ; and his dull sleepy look was changed into a wild almost devilishexpres sion. Ho looked as Job did when he ‘corvor ted.’ The General lost his usual mahogany color and lookod pale, but said nothing. Lazy Sam won the race by about thirty feet. Job was suddenly cool as a cucumber. And as he put the twenty.five hundred dol lar check in his greasy pocket book which he did very deliberately, he looked round cunningly ‘I think that’s leetle past common,’ said Job, ‘Why, Ginral. Sams’ laid you as cold as a wedge.’ He turned round suddenly to his rider, ‘Jim you’re a snorter, here’s five dollars, why it all goes in a man’s life time, but the Gin’ral looks as though he’d been squeezed through the little end of noth ing. . Rotten Stone. —lt seems that an exten sive bed ofßotten Stone has recently been discovered in NewJersey, not very far from New York, said to be the only one ever found in this country, and the stone is said to be superior to the imported A THREE DAYS HUNT IN ALABAMA. BY JOHNSON J. HOOFER, ESq. We determined some time since, that at i lie first convenient opportunity, which should occur during this tall, we would bo- j lake ourselves to the woods with a gun, 1 and endeavor to get out of our blood a little ■ of the fever which two years without exer cise or the bracing excitement of a hunt, bad generated. The time at length arrived which wc had appointed for our three days of freedom. Our friends Johnson, Smith, j and Jones,drove slumber from our eves on Wednesday morning last, at earliest dawn, | with the loudest and shrillest whoop that ever came from mortal throats. Each j inan had his poney, his saddle hag of pro- j visions, his frying pan and tin cup. It was a morning that only the man who : loves the woods and free sports, could ap preciate. The sun was just beginning to j touch the brown sides of the hills when our j trail dashed precipitately down the rugged 1 side of the Little Mountain, bringing us at once into the dense cane and bamboo thick ets of Oakchun Swamp, which looked so much like the wilderness dwelling of real game, that we could not resist the impulse to give an honest, hearty, hound-inspiring halloa ! We made every tiling ring again, and having done so, felt considerably re lieved. Our five dogs meantime had been creeping through the cane, and very short ly after our whoop was given, scared up a turkey which perched in the very top of a lofty pine almost out of range ; but we were never a creeper, so we cracked away incontinently —and missed. The turkey, however, was not permitted to leave, for as he was endeavoring to get liis steam up, to ! clear the tree top, Jones brought him to the 1 ground. We now sought a convenient spot for | camping. In a bend of the creek about a j mile below the turkey tree, we found it.— i A half acre adjacent to the creek, with no j other growth upon it than a few straggling I reeds, and half'a dozen huge walnut and i sweet gum trees, was the spot. The boy kindled a tire and cooked breakfast, which being swallowed, the poneys were hobbled and turned into the cane. The next thing that claimed attention, was the arrange ment of the day’s campaign. This was settled by giving Johnson and Jones both sides of the creek upwards, Smith the j swamp on the left, and ourself that on the I right bank, downwards. Four of the dogs 1 followed Smith, and “Pont” ofcourse, was with me ; the other two said they were “dog enough” themselves. We all burst off, every man to his latige. ‘ And now conies the tough part of our story, j We have often been told ‘'that thar war \ bar, on Oakchun, but we had never given credence to the story. Judge our astonish ment then, at beholding before we had gone half a mile through the cane (to ac complish which consumed more than an hour.) a stout black animal, a good deal like a black hog, dart out of the cane be fore us, and make for a huge hollow pop lar! It was a bear—a cub of about six month old—a real, live, wild bear. There be was ascending the tree, and we with the “trimbles” so bad, that we couldn’t keep the gun on his broad back at forty steps ! Wasn’t it provoking? Arrived at the en trance of his den, the cub put one fore paw into the hole, and letting go the oilier, turned a little round so as to have a good look at us. We have seen “ humans ” whose faces lacked the intelligence of that bear’s, us placing his loose paw on the side of his snout, he plainly said by the gesture, “you can’t exactly come it.” We should have instantly have convinced him of the falsity of his proposition, had not the head of an other individual precisely similar, except in size, to our waggish cub, showed itself in the hole. “Hello !” thought we, “a fam ily concern, eh?” And with that we push ed another bullet down the barrel of our gun, for we recollected some very terrible stories of the ferocity ofthe bears when de fending their young. Prudence was al ways in large proportion to the other con stituents of our valor. After cogitating awhile on the novelty of our position, “a long ways from home and nobody close by” but a family of bears, we bethought our selves of our horn, and forthwith “sounded the notes “want help,” most lustily. Smith •and his dog were soon on the spot, and the rest followed pretty soon. Johnson went to the camp and returnrd with a boy and axe. The tree was a tremendous one, but it was resolved to fell it, which however was easy work as it was a mere shell.— When it started to fall, such a rumbling, scratching and tumbling as were made within, none but a “bar-hunter” has ever heard. It could only be likened to the sounds produced by a half dozen school boys gamboling in the bowels of an old steamboat boiler. Down came the tree! out popped the old lady, next a cub; the dogs cover them. The old bear gives a gentle sling with one of her paws, and sim ultaneously therewith, old Troup’s “clock work"’ comes to view through a gaping wound ! Another sling—the “tan pup” finds himself yelping and bleeding, ten feet off in the cane. Cries of “don’t shoot,” “mind the dogs,” “bring the axe,” “come away Point,” “come away,” are mingled with the crash of dry limps and the crack ing ofthe cane. It was not long before the bear disposed of both men and dogs ; and though three shots were fired at her, she managed to get out of the scrape followed by the cub. Suddenly all was silent, and disappoint ment was on every face. Hist ! what noise HI. J. KAPPEL, Printer, is that ? There’s something in the old tree yet! Another cub! watch out, boys, at the ends of the log ! Here ho is, just mid wuy of the log, and wedged in so that he can’t move except to turn round! Sure enough this was the fact. Sam was in stantly put to work tocut him out, and in a dozen licks, the black coat of the impris oned cul) wvs visible. The opening was then a little enlarged, and young bruin contrived to turn round, so as to bring bis head to the hole. Sam’s axe is poised— “steady Sam ! hit him right between the eyes!” The axe descends—the bear’s head is cleft—he quivers and dies ! In the morning we found our way to the camp, after daylight. During that dismal night, a circumstance occurred which may appear incredible, but w hich we solemnly aver to be as true as any other part of this story. About nightfall, immense flocks ot ducks descended into the little stagnant pools around us, and excited greatly the admiration and astonishment of Pont, who lias a mortal antipathy for ducks, growing out of the ill treatment lie frequently re ceives at home fiom several individuals of thatspecies, who help tliemscivesout of his dish, when at his meals. Here was a chance for revenge, which the sagacious animal not let slip. About midnight he awakened us, and giving us to understand that lie had something on ham), he silently crept into the nearest lagoon, and with stealthy tread came upon a tine (lock as they “rode at anchor,” near the shore, like a fleet of little boats. He gently touches the tail of one, with his fore paw—the duck takes its head from under its wing—in an instant, Pont seized the head in his mouth and crushed it before the note of alarm can be sounded. Thus he despatched one by one, the whole flock ! In the morning lie piled up before us, twenty-seven fine fat ducks! We instantly voted him a silver collar. Upon our return to the camp, wc found that our companions had killed fifteen ducks, which with those taken by Point, made the respectable number of forty-two. They had also killed a couple of young turkeys and a small doc. Sam arrived about ten o'clock with the pack-horse, and the weather threatening rain, and it was agreed that we should break up camp and return home. But as we had not yet killed a single thing, the rest of the party consented to tramp with us up the creek to the Upper Ponds, where the “old trail” crossed tlie swamp ; leaving the boy to make the best of bis way home, with two por.eys and the game. Wc saw no game, however, until just tibout leaving the swamp, when Jones fired suddenly into the cane, killing a young wild hog. Quick as thought, the “Patriarch” of the drove, a ferocious old black boar, rushed up to his fallen companioa, with gleaming tusks and foaming mouth. A shot from Johnson damaged the old fellow’s snout slightly, and so aroused his anger that he plunged at his enemies in the fiercest style, iiis bris tles awfully erect, and iiis eyes almost emitting sparks. Jones was nearest him, and upon him the furious animal rushed, bearing him to the ground, to the great ter ror ofall. It was a moment of the intensest agony as the immense beast stood upon the body of our poor friend! What can he done? tlio’t every one ; the poor fellow will certainly be destroyed. Just at this peri lous moment, Smith with, a presence of mind truly admirable, seized the hog by the tail, when he twisted so skilfully and vigorously that the old boar, instead of rip ping up Jones, set tip the harshest and most discordant squealing that ever shock ed auditory nerve. Here was a “triumph of mind over brute force !” The hog strug gling with strength of a giant, and Smith standing in the rear, quietly and smilingly twisting his tail as neatly and effectually as it could have been done by a patent spin ning machine ! Hog flesh could not stand it; the boar “gave in;” hut his cries brought up within ten steps of us, several of the drove, who formed a semi-circle a hout us. We made Smith keep his tail hold, until we shot four of them, and then “knifed” the old one. This was the finale of the Hunt on the Oakchunhatcliee ; a hunt in all respects, we will venture to say, as successful as any of the season, in the State of Alabama. Curiosity. —A few days since in this city, says the Bangor Whig, in a litter of pigs there appeared aving the head form ed like that of an elephant, with large wide hanging ears, and a well formed peniula trunk about four inches long and finished off at the end with a delicate little pig’s snout. The lower jaw was like that of an elephant, and the space between the trunk and the lower jaw was in an ill formed and unfinished state and inside of what should have been the mouth appeared the only eye that was visible. The creature stood a poor chance to obtain a living for want of throat. WHEN IS A MAN DRUNK? We are glad to see that this oft mooted and difficult question lias been judicially investigated and settled at last. It has been thought that a man was drunk when unable to lie still after having fallen down, and a debating club, not long since gave its decision that an individual was distinct ly intoxicated when seen holding on to a pump and trying to light his segar at the spout; but it has recently been settled by the Court of Errors of New York— judici -• ally decided —that a man is not drunk'as long as he is eh'e to stat'd’ [VOLUME XXIX.