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From California. The following letter from San Francisco is taken from the N. O. Delta, and is well worth reading: Sax Francisco. Dec. 1, 1849. Dear Delta: My last letter to you was writ ten on first landing, and before I could get time to examine and report on the present condition, or future prospects of this little village of thirty thousand inhabitants. A stranger entering this harbor for the first time, cannot but be perfect jy astonished, 01 , as a sailor would say, “taken all aback,” at seeing the. vast number of ves sels, of all maratirne nations on the globe, lying in this port : and will be still more surprised at the size and handsome appearance of the ho tels and warehouses in the city—especially those facing on the public square, or “Main Plaza,” as the Mexicans insist on calling it- 1 inclose you a wood-cut of the city, sketched and engraved bj a workman employed in the Pacific News office. The view is, in my opin ion, the poorest that could possibly have been selected. It does not show a third part of the city, and gives a very meagre idea of the num ber of vessels in port. 1 know, of my own knowledge, (having counted them this morning, from the summit of Mount Washington,) that there are, at the present time, more than three hundred vessels, of from twenty-five to fifteen hundred tons, (exclusive of naval vessels,) now lying in the Port of San Francisco. Besides the Panama line of steamers, there is the Sen ator, Lawrence, McKim and Mint, all running from this to Sacramento City and Stockton, and they are all coining money. I send you a sheet from the Alta California office,containing all the arrivals at this port for months. The British bark Collooney, from Oregon via Vancouver’s Island, with a load of lumberfrom the former place, has been seized by the Col lector,for a violation of the revenue laws of the United States, in being engaged in the coasting trade between American ports. I have just heard of the death, a few weeks since, at Stockton, of a former contributor to the Delta, that fine scholar and nohle-hearted man. Captain Tobin. Alas’ his lamp of life is extinguished, and though the grave holds his mortal remains, his memory will survive in many hearts. Let that whieh was good in him who has passed away, remain with us, and his faults, of which nothing human is devoid, he hurled in the past. With many others he came to California with bright prospects and ardent hopes, which death has blasted, and he now lies, “Where hundreds fallen, their labors nndonp, Bv the vapors that curl round Nevada’s red sun.” With regard to society here, it is “good of the kind, being ail, or nearly all, of the mascu line gender, and a more quiet, orderly city can not be found in the world, than San Francisco at this time. It is a matter of great surprise, too, to persons when they first arrive here, that there is so little drunkenness, where spirits are retailed at every coiner of the street. There are two Courts here—the Alcalde’s, Judge J. W. Geary presiding, and the Court of First In stance, where his Honor, W. B. Almond, deals out justice by the yard ; or rather sends the jury into the back-yard to do justice. I hap pened in the other day, just as he was conclu- a brief charge to the jury in some civil action, which he wound up as follows, verbatim: “Gentlemen of the jury, you have heard the evidence, heard the pleadings of counsel; I have just told you the law, or rather, the absence of any law on the subject, and now you will please retire to the back-yard, and do the ‘clean thing’ between these parties.” “Mr. Clerk, what is the next case on the docket ?” The court-room is about twenty.five feet square, and is occu pied for a debtor's jail, calaboose, watch-house, and Court of First Instance. The Alcalde’s court-room is only about half the size of this, and is used also as a record office. All the crim inal cases coine before this tribunal, and if there is not so much law, there is more justice, here than in the States ; and, moreover, less tardi ness in its administration. I was greatly amused, the other day, while attending Court at Stockton, by a remark of Judge Belt, while a criminal case was being tried. The counsel for the defendant was urg ing upon the Court the consideration of some question of law, when his Honor interrupted him by remarking: “What the Devil is the use, sir, for you to tell me what is the law, when it conflicts with rny ideas of justice ” The accommodations at the Customhouse, here, are much better than at the Post Office. It takes about three days after the steamer ar rives, to get a letter from the office. For a week after the arrival of the mail, you can see a line formed at daylight Irora both delivery windows of the office, stretching down the hill for a quarter of a mile, waiting their turns. 1 have seen a poor devil, who perhaps had not heard from home and friends for six mouths or a year, get “into line” in the morning, perhaps, and, after standing there all day, without his dinner, find himself at night, within a rod or two of the window, when the office is closed for the night. It is not at ail uncommon to see a man give someone who is pretty close up, five, ten, and even twenty-five dollars for his chance ; and then perhaps not get a letter. It is a matter ofspeculation with some loafers, to take a pock et full of bread and cheese and go into the tile early in the morning, without the most distant idea of getting a letter, and then sell out their chance along in the afternoon, and repeat the same game, day after day, during the “rush.” The office is closed on Sundays, as will also be all the gambling houses altf'r this week, by special ordinance of the City Council. There are at present three churches in the city, the Episcopal, Methodist and Baptist, which are all well attended. It seems like niv own New England home, to hear the sound of the “church-going hell” every Sabbath, ami see the people gathering to the house of prater, where all sinful thoughts are banished and all worldly passions hushed in holy rest. To see, in a rough country like this, where there is such a pushing and scrambling in the golden race— where, it would seem to you at home, time could not be found to attend to the affairs of the sou!— to see devout hearts raised in prayer and praise to God—to see eyes looking up to the bright heavens full ot penitence and humble faith, is indeed a Heavenly picture ! There goes the rich speculator in city lots : see him enter the door of the sanctuary, consecrated to the wor ship of the Great Creator and Father of us all. Now he kneels, and from the sacred altar of his heart holy aspirations are rising to the Throne of the Eternal! Listen! the voice of solemn prayer is heard, and God is praised by the mu sic of many voices, attuned to divine harmonies. Ihe word of inspiration is read, and the rich man listens with that earnest attention and de votion that would seem to lav up every word as a Heavenly treasure in the heart. Is his heart filled with humble penite.nce, and heavenly love, and holy rapture 1 Does the sweet spirit of Christian charity brood over it 1 His eye glances out at the window. Do you see that smile of more than mortal pleasure that now lights tip his countenance ? Can you read that face and fathom that rich man’s thoughts? Are not all sinful thoughts, all unholy desires, all mad and revengeful passions, and grasping avarice, and sinful pride, and worldly vanity, are they not hushed? And is his heart not purified, warmed and melted? What caused that pleasant smile, think you, reader ? I will tell you, for I know the man. He. is thinking of the auction sale of the city lots , that takes place, in front of the Al calde's office, in Portsmouth Square, to-morrow forenoon ! He is a rich man. When he came here, one year ago, he had but ten dollars in the world. Now he is worth two hundred thousand, and considered a good Christian, because he helped to build the church. Where one man is thus successful, hundreds —yea, thousands, lose all the means they brought with them to California, and lost health besides. And, by the way, this reminds me that 1 saw the “telegraph man,” from Baton Hogue, the other day. lie tells me that when he got on shore here, about five weeks ago, he had but twenty.five cents in the world ; and what was worse than all—it was nearly sundown, and the cheapest lodging in the city was tiro dollars a night, and must be paid in advance! What do you think he did ? I will tell you. He be stowed a thought on home and the comforts he had left there, and on the warm friends from whom he had so lately separated, and this was his supper—and the briny drops that stole scald ing down his cheeks were his drink ; and he lay down upon the cold ground in Portsmouth Square, and . No; he did not sleep ! but he wept in agony his folly in coining to Califor nia ! He was up at break of day ; and a man whom he never before saw, hearing him in quire for work, that he might earn his breakfast, asked him if he was willing to work, and upon being answered in the affirmative, the gentle man immediately bought a handcart, that was for sale, close by, and told the “telegraph man” to take it and commence making his fortune, and when he had got the price of the cart that he had no use for, to help the first poor fellow he saw, who was willing to work ! ’Phis was on Sunday morning; and in one hour he had earn ed five dollars, which paid his expenses till Mon day, when he commenced a regular business, as l the handcart man, ’ earning from fifteen to thirty dollars per day. This, with a slight variation, would, perhaps, be the beginning of thousands who have come to this land of promise. I would say one word to emigrants who land here without means— Don’t be discouraged because you do not not stumble upon a fortune the first day or week of your arriv al, but go to work ! There is a digni ty about labor here, that there is not in any oth er county under the sun. Why, almost the first man I met, on my arrival, was the Rev. Dr. Farley ; under whose preaching I have sat for years ; with a box under his arm, pedding pat ent medicines about the streets ! He has now got along so well in the world, as to open a eat ing house, and tells me that he is doing well. J also saw a few days ago, Col. Sanford, Aid to the Governor, and Solicitor General of the State of Georgia, engaged, at a dollar an hour, beat mg a bass drum, to call people together at an auction ! This is a great country ; and, mark my words, there will be a greater emigration here next year than ever bofore. There has been discoveries made in the mi ning districts, of the gold bearing quartz, that have not only startled every body here, but will set the whole world iit commotion. I should not be at all supprised to see one-tenth part of the male population of the United States here, in the space of two years. As there is no certainly of newspapers ever reaching you from here, with the present mail arrangements, I cut an article from the Pacific News of yesterday and inclose it here. I know that Messrs. King and Wright gave the informa tion containing in it. The mail is closing, so— Vale, BOSTON. THE SOUTHERN SENTINEL THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, I*so. Apology for our Carrier.— Those of our city patrons who have not been regularly served with the Sentinel, will please notify us, and the difficulty will be remedied. We have anew carrier who has not yet learned the route per fectly. Muscogee Superior Court- -The adjourn, ed term of which commenced its session in this city on Wednesday the 9th inst., has been ad journed, in consequence of the indisposition of Judge Alexander, to the regular term in May next. This adjournment has been most reluc tantly determined upon by the presiding Judge, after the representation of his attending physi cian, that an effort to continue the session of the court during this inclement season, might in volve serious personal consequences to himself. A Rich Musical Treat.—Mr. and Madame Leapi, w ith the other members of their celebra ted Operatic Troupe, will be in our city on Tuesday evening next. Those who have once heard these vocalists need not be invited to at tend ; to those w’ho have never had that pleas ure, we give fair warning that such opportuni ties do not occur often in a life-time. Senator Clemexs of Alabama.—What say our W hig triends to the Resolutions which have been introduced ii to the Senate by this Hon. gentleman, calling for information as to Execu tive interference in the organization of the Cali fornia and New Mexico territorial governments ? Wc may have done Mr. Clemens injustice a t the time of his election, in giving credence to. the reports quite rife in this section, that he had sold himself to the Whigs for the purpose of se curing a seat in the Senate ; we hope we did. But if it is true that the Whigs made an oper ation of that sort, we are slightly of the impres. sion that they have been left with the bag to hold. His recent movements on the floor of the Senate, indicate any thing else but an amicable understanding with the President. §IDmTTSO iB SO §§EDTT DEI lIL „ The Jurisdiction of Congress over the Territories. There is perhaps not a reader of the Sentinel who does not understand the nature of what is called the Wiimot Proviso. If, however, there be one, it is a sufficient explanation to say, that it is a law to exclude the institution of slavery from the Territories belonging to the United States. As to the propriety of such a law there is but one opinion at the South ; we are all uni ted in the belief that such a measure would be unjust to the South, and violative of that equal ity which ought to he maintained between the several members of this confederacy. Upon the right or power of Congress to enact such a law however, there is unfortunately a diversity of opinion even here, and at the North it is sanctioned by the almost unanimous sentiment of the people. This, then, is the only question involved in the grave issue now so fearfully ag itating the country. The question is one of constitutional law, and as such involves points upon which the honest minds of men may dif fer. We are not, therefore, disposed to de. nounce as traitors, every Southern man whose conclusions on this subject ma\ differ with out own. We believe they are in error, who hold to the doctrine that Congress may rightfully pass such a law, and we believe they maybe cenvinced of their error. If, however, after all the elucidation which argument may throw on this question, it is still maintained that the pow. er belongs to the general g< vein merit, \v can but regret the difference, and hope that wiser counsels may prevail. We recognize but one source of Congrcs- j sional authority, and that source is the consti. tution. Whatever power that instrument dele- \ gates, Congress may properly exercise, hut it ’ is not true that Congress may do whatever that instrument does not prohibit. No power is in herent in the general government, because be ing itself a creature of the individual State sov ereignties of which it is composed, it possesses no rights, except those with which it has been invested. It is in this particular that the feder al Congress differs from all other governments, for whereas ordinarily the law making power of a State, is invested with that ultimate sover eignty, which knows no other limit to its au thority than its own discretion, our Legislature is circumscribed in its action, by the clearly as certained barriers of the constitution. In as certainiug. therefore, the power which belongs to the general government, we are to look alone to the constitution, and by that test sole ly is to be tried the right of Congress to pass any particular law. And here we might confi- ; dentiy rest the defence of the South in this 1 question, and challenge those who dispute the ! correctness of the position, to point to that clause of the constitution which authorizes the enactment of the Wiimot Proviso. No such expressly delegated authority is claimed, but the right is implied from that provision of the con stitution which gives to Congress the power to “dispose of and make all needful rules and reg ulations respecting the territory or other prop erty belonging to the United States.” We do not recollect ever to have heard the constitu tionality ol the Wiimot Proviso, attempted to be deduced from any other clause of that instru ment. Let us, therefore, briefly analyze the meaning of this passage. We defy any dispassionate mind to examine critically the words of the foregoing clause, without coming to the conclusion that it has ref erence solely to the public property of the Union, and was intended alone as a grant of the power necessary to its management in that sense. We cannot understand how its meaning can be tor tured into a delegation of any political authority whatever. But again we remark, that in as much as the Territory is put exactly upon the same tooting with all other property belonging to the United States, the inference is perfectly legitimate, nay it is irresistible, that Congress is by its provisions, permitted to make no law in respect to the one, which it could not with equal right pass, as to the other. If Congress can therefore pass a law constituting the territory, free soil, and by virtue thereof convert all slaves into freemen the moment they entered within it. limits, it may with equal authority, enact a law by which the bonds of slavery arc loosed from every negro the moment he treads upon the flooi of the public Arsenals and Navy Yards within the limits ol the slave States. For are not these, as much as the territory, the public property of the Union, and if in the exercise of the unlimited sovereignty, which is claimed for it, Congress may prohibit slavery in the one, it may with equal right exclude it from the other. The same argument might be applied, and, with equal force, to the public domain now lying undisposed ot in some of the Southern States; Alabama, for instance. It will not do to reply to this ar gument that the political jurisdiction over this public property is vested in the States in which it lies ; for if it be true that the clause before recited, secures to Congress the right to legis late politically over this property, then the au thority by which the States claim that jurisdic tion, is adverse to the constitutional rights of Congress, and of course, null and void. And now, w’ho supposes that the general government may constitutionally apply the principles of the . Wiimot Proviso to all the Arsenals and Dock Yards, and Barracks and public lauds, lying within the Southern States? And yet where is ! the difference between these and the Territories, so far as any pow-or which Congress derives from this clause, is concerned. But again. Admit for the sake of argument that the power conferred by this provision, is po litical in its objects. The argument which de duces the constitutionality of the Wiimot Proviso from the grant of power thereiu contained, is , predicated of the idea that the general govern. ; rnent is thereby invested with absolute and un limited political supremacy over the territories, j But we deny that Congress can possess any such j supremacy. The general government is only supreme within the limits prescribed by the con stitution. The question then finally resolves it self into this, even admitting to Congress the po- 1 litical jurisdiction of the territories under this clause, is the. question of slavery one that legit- j imately comes under its authority either in the j territories or elsewhere? We think not. Can ! Congress pass an ex post facto law for Califor- j nia? Can it pass a bill of attainder? Can it : confer a title of nobility there ? Can it estab- j lish a religion there ? By no means ; but why ? j If the general government possesses this abso- ; lute supremacy over the territories, why may it j not rightfully exercise these natural prerogatives of sovereignty ? The answer is ready in the mouth of every one, because by the Constitution , these, arc questions which Congress cannot touch. With equal readiness and with as much confi dence, we place the question of slavery in the same category. True, we can not point to equal ly explicit prohibitions of the Constitution, but the history of this Union ; the struggles and concessions in the adoption of the Constitution ; the genius of our institutions; the spirit of its laws, all indicate with as much certainty, as a re, iterated declaration of the letter could, that this question was to be held sacred, and aloof from the agitation of sectional controversy in the Halls of Congress. It is upon this basis that we would place the rights of the South in this issue. We deny to Congress the power to legislate on the ques tion at all, not less in the States than in the Territories. Congress may exercise the su preme, the exclusive jurisdiction over the Dis trict of Columbia and over the Territories, but the institution of slavery is a question which does not come within that jurisdiction. The Morrissoniaii System of Grammar. We invite the attention of our readers to the ad vertisement of Mr. Isaiah Morris, in another col- j until. We have had the pleasure of a conversation j with Mr. Morris, in which he briefly acquainted | us with the general features of the new system of Grammar, of which he is the author. This sys- i tein consists principally in the simplification and ; reduction to principles of reason and common sense, the old unmeaning divisions and classifi- j cations of Grammar. The senseless technical- j ities of Murray, and the classifications which had been borrowed mainly from the Latin lan guage w ithout the reason which sanctioned them in that tongue, have been discarded, and in their stead, Mr. Morris has introduced an almost en tirely different subdivision of its parts, as well i as a different nomenclature. His plan is origin- 1 al, and its great excellencies are its simplicity, its reasonableness, and its adaptation to the minds of the young. Once learned, his system is learned forever, because its comprehension is the work of reason and not of memory. We have no doubt of its superiority over the old plan, and we confidently predict that it will im mediately supplant the old method of teaching this important branch of an English education. We had been accustomed to regard Grammar as j one of the sciences which had reached its ulti- j rnatum, and about as soon expected to see its overthrow by anew system, as we did its old colleague, Arithmetic; but that Mr. Morris has ! demonstrated its absurdity and will supplant it, j w r e have not a doubt, and we think anyone who j will examine his system will agree with us. He : has made arrangements with all the principal | schools about the city and vicinity, and if it is j agreeable to the patrons, he will take a class in j each one of them. Mar vland Senator.— The Baltimore Sun j announces the election of Ex-Governor Thom as G. Pratt to fill the vacancy in the U. S. Senate, occasioned by the resignation of the Hon. Reverdy Johnson, and also for the full term commencing on the 4th of March, 1851. i Tub Legislature. —Both branches of the I Legislature convened yesterday, in their respec tive chambers. Several new- bills were intro duced. The members manifest a disposition to enter at once upon the business before them, ( ind to dispose of it as early as practicable. . • Federal Union. Our Book Tabic. Graham’s Magazine. —Graham is decided- ! ly ahead of all his competitors. The January number is the most perfect specimen of literary and artistic beauty that we have ever seen, Ifany of our Baders u-ant a three dollar magazine, send the name, accompanied w ith $3, to Samuel D. Peterson dc Cos., 93 Chestnut Street, Phila delphia, and if they are not satisfied, we will take the bargain off* their hands. The Southern Literary Messenger.— We have received the January number of this ; popular Monthly. This is the oldest literary j periodical in the Sotith, and certainly deserves, as we hope it receives, a large subscription list among Southern readers. Unlike most of its contemporaries, the Messenger lives by its in trinsic merit, and not by the wholesale system of, puffing, so indiscriminately resorted to in this day. It has among its contributors some of the ablest intellects and most popular w riters of the country. Its columns are well supplied with contributions of sterling worth, and diversified with original tales and political articles of genu ine merit. Congress. Mr. Campbell, the late Whig clerk, has at length been elected clerk of the House, receiv. ing 112 votes. Nothing of interest in the way of legislation has as yet transpired. Various resolutions have been introduced, and animated discussions have sprung up on them. Those touching the slavery question, and our rela tions with Austria have been of most interest. | We shall, at an early day, present our readers with a series of letters from the Federal City, j fiom the pen of one of the ablest correspon dents at the Capital. The Nicaragua Difficulty. The President in his recent message to Con gress was pleased to announce that “our rela tions with Great Britain were of the most friend, ly character.” We confess that we are at a loss in attempting to reconcile this declaration with certain developements, which have recently transpired on the Pacific coast of central Ameri ca. It is generally known that an American company has contracted with the Nicaragua gov ernment for the right to construct a ship canal across that country from the Atlantic to the Pa cific ocean. That right has subsequently been secured by a treaty belween the United States and Nicaragua. This canal will enter a Bay on the Pacific coast, called the bay of Fonseca, which is entirely commanded by Tigre Island. By a treaty which Mr. Squier, our charge to Nic aragua, has recently effected with that power, this island has been ceded to the United States, thus securing to this government a most impor tant advantage in the use of this inter-oceanic communication. In the meantime the cupidity of Great Britain has been excited by our good fortune, and the inventive faculty of John Bull’s grasping avarice has been taxed for a pretext for interfering in the arrangement. The demand was not made in vain, and that government now comes forward with her accustomed arrogance and in the name of the Musquito King, lays claim to a part of the country at the Atlantic ter minus of the Canal which was known to be in dispensable to the completion of the work. Biq the outrage does not stop here. This pretext was known to be insufficient, and another obsta cle must be thrown in the way. Accordingly, under the instructions of that country, the British authorities have forcibly taken possession of Ti gre Island, notwithstanding they had been noti tied of the cession by which it had passed into the hands of this government. Thus matters stood at the time the message was transmitted to Con gress, and these are the relations which are de scribed as of the “most friendly character.” It is true, the letter writers at Washington city speak of an early adjustment of the whole affair. In. deed, the correspondent of the N. Y. Herald goes so far as to say that it is so near a settlement that it may be regarded as no longer trouble, some, and this information is intended to be cor roborated by revelation of despatches which have recently been received by the Secretary of State. We hope this statement may prove to be but yet we can not see with what propriety our relations with Great Britain can be said to be of so amicable a nature so long as this delicate question is the subject of negotiation. We admire the pacific policy of Gen. Taylor’s administration as previously indicated by all that he has said on the subject of our foreign re lations, and we shall never hesitate in supporting him in carrying out that policy, so long as in do ing so, he does not compromit the honor and the interests of the country. But we can not, in obe dience to that policy, lose sight of the respect which belongs to our country. Nor do we be lieve that a spirit of indifference to the honor o ( American prowess is by any means the sures t guaranty of peace. The American Eagle has never yet quailed in the vindication of the re spect which belongs to it, and never until we re cede from the lofty position which lias been as signed us in the scale of national honor, will any foreign power long persist in encroachment up on our rights. P. S.—Since writing the above, our attention has been called to the following extract from the correspondence of the N. Y. Express. We are pleased to see that Mr. Bulwer disclaims for his government the acts of Mr. Chatficld, the Eng lish agent, in the seizure of Tigre Island. Washington, Jan. 6. Tiie Nicaragua Question. —The British Minister has already opened negotiations with the United States Secretary of Stale upon the subject of his mission. The Nicaragua ques tion will no doubt be amicably settled—the right of way for a ship canal will be guarantied both by the United States and Great Britain, and Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer will disavow Mr. Chat field’s acts on the coast of Honduras, respecting Tigre Island, &c. There is every reason to be lieve, that there is the best understanding be tween the two Governments, and a determina tion on the part of both to keep the peace. Georgia Conference. —Just as we are go ing to press we received the appointments of the Preachers for 1850. We have only time te announce those for this station and circuit. Rev. Sam’l Anthony, P. E. s os Columbus Dis trict ; Rev. Lovick Pierce, and Jos. S Key, Columbus station. Mission to blacks to bp sup plied ; Rev. Dan’l Kelsey, Muscogee Circuit. Cotton Market. Columbus, Jan. 17.— Our Cotton Market is very an imated, and every tiling offered meets with ready sale.— Quotations yesterday from 10J to 11J. Telegraphed for the Savannah Georgian. 14 Days Later from Europe. ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA AT HALIFAX. Baltimore, Monday Morning, Jan. 14th. The stea mer Canada arrived at Halifax yesterday morning, and brings accounts to the ’29th December. Liverpool Cotton Market. Cotton advanced a farthing since the departure of the Cambria. Quotations, Fair Uplands 6| ; Mobile 6J ; Orleans SJ. The week’s sales are not given but the market closed with an upward tendency. Political. A formidable issurrection has broken out in Ser via. Oiip hundred thousand men are in arms. The troops are deserting from Austria. The English Parliament assembles on the 3d February. There is nothing else of moment. Telegraphed for the Baltimore American. Important News from California—-The Election. New York, Jan. 10,7 P. M. The State election is over and fifteen thousand votes were cast. Feter H. Burnett has been elected Governor, and John McDougald, Lieutenant Gover nor, George W. Wright and Edward Gilbert have been elected Representatives to the United States.— They are all Democrate. There is nothing yet de ceive as regards United States Senators. George Washington La Fayette, the son of Gen. L., and in early life an adopted son and member of the family of Gen. Washington, died at La Grange, in France, on the Ist of Decern, ber. Mike Hooter’s Bar Story. A Yazoo Sketch —No. 11. Showing how the Bear outwitted Ike Ilumberlin. It’s nonuse talkin’, said Mike, ‘bout your Polar Bar and Grisly Bar and all that sort er vannont what you read about. They ain’t no whar, for the big black customer that c ire urn locates down in our neck o’ woods beats’ ’em all hollow. Pve heard of some monsos explites kicked up by the brown Bars, sicli as totein off a yoke o’ oxen an eaten humans raw-, and all that kind o’ thing ; and Capon 1 airy telLs us a yarn ’bout a bi* white bar what ’muses hlsself clw min up the North Bole and slides dov n to keep his hide warm ; but all that aint a circumstance to what I’ve saw. , , . , Yon see, continued Mike, there s no countm on them varmonts as I’s been usened to, for they comes as i.etr bein’ human critters as anything l ever see what doesn’t talk. Why, it you was to hear any body else tell ’bout the bar-fights Ive had. v**it wouldn't b’ieeve ’em, and it 1 wasn t a preacher an couldn’t never lie notu*. Pd keep my fly-trap shot ’tell the day ot judgment. I’ve heard folks say as how that Bars cant think like other human critters, and that, they does ail the sly tricks what they does from instink. . Golly ! wiiat a lie ! You tell me one of ’em don t know when you’ve got a gun and an when you aint ? Just wait a minit, an my privit ’pinion is when you’ve hearn me through you'll talk tother side of your mouth. You see, one day, long time ago, fore breeches come in fashion,! made a ’pointment with Ike llani berlin the steam doctor, to go out next Sunday to seek whom we couldn’t kill a Bar, tor you know ba con was skace and so was money, a fid them fellers down in Mechanicsburg vvould'nt sell on “tick,” so we had had to ’pend on the varmints lor a liv in. SSpeakin’ of Mechanicsburg, tiie peop'e down in ■ that ar mud-hole ain't to he heat no where this side lo’ Clirismas. I’ve hearn o’ mean folks in my time, an’ I’ve preached ’bout ’em a tew ; but, ever senso that feller Bounel sold me a pint of red eye whiskey —an’ half ov it hacker juice—fur a coon-skin, ’an then guv me a brass pickayune lur change, Pve stoped talkin’. Why, that chap was closer than the hark cm a hickory tree ; an’ es I hadn’t hearn Parson Dilly say so, I’d ov swor it wesn’t er lac, he was cotch one day Mealin’ acorns from a blind hog. Did you ever hear how that boss fly died ? Well, never mind. It was too bad to talk ’bout, but heap too good for him. But that ain't what 1 was spoutin’ ‘bout. As I was savin’ afore, we had to ’pend on the varmint as. lur a livin’. Well. Ike Ilainberiin, you see, was al ways sorter juboiis o’ me, kuse I kilt more bar nor he did ; ail’, as l was sayin’, I made a ’pintment with Ike to go out huntin’, Then, Ike, he thought he'd he kinder smart, and beat “Old Preach,* fas them Cole boys usen to call me ;) so, as soon as day crack lie hollered up his puppies, an’ put! I spied what he was ’bout, fur I hearn him laffin’ to one o’ his nig gers ’bout it the night afore—so, I told my gal Sal to till my privit tickler full o’ the old “.raw,” and then fixed up an’ tramped on arter him, but didn’t take none o’ niy dogs. Ike hadn’t got fur into the cane, ’lore the dogs they ’gin to whine an’ turn up the bat on ther backs ; an’, bime by, they all tucked tail, an’ sorter sidled back to whar lie was stallin’. “Sick him !” says Ike. but the cussed critters wouldn’t hunt a lick. 1 soon diskivered what was the matter, for I kalkilated them curs o’ liisn wasn’t worth shucks in a bar tight—so, 1 know'd lhar was bar ’bout, if 1 didn't see no sine. Well, Ike he coaxed the dogs, an’ the more he coaxed the more they wouldn’t go, an’ when he found coaxin’ wouldn’t do, then lie scolded an’ called ’em some o’ the hardest names ever you hearn, (sich as “son-of-er-bitch” an’sich like,) but the tarnation cjit ters wouldn't budge a peg. When lie tound they wc uluii’t hunt no how lie could fix it, he begin a cus sin’. lie ilidn’t know I was thar. If he had er sus pici rned it. he’d no more .-wore than he’d er dar'd to kiss my Sail on er washin’ day ; lor you see both on us blunged to the same church, an’ Ike was class leader. 1 thought I should er flummoxed! The dogs they sidled back, an’ Jke he cussed; an’ I lay down an’ rolled an’ laughed sorter easy to myself, ’til I was so full I thought I should er burst my Idler ! 1 never see enny thing so funny in all my life!— There was I lavin’dow n behind erlng, fit to split, an’ there was tiie dogs with ther tails the wrong eend down, an’ there was Ike a rarin’ an’ er pitchin’—er rippin an’ er tarrin’—an* er cussin’ wus n->r a steam boat cap’ll ! I tell you it fairly made my har’ Man* on eend ! I never see er customer .so riled afore in all my born clays ! yes 1 did 100, once—only once.— It was that teller Arch Coody what usen to oversee lor old Ben Roach. Didn’t you know that ar’ boss ily ! lie’s a few 1 well he is. Jevvhilliken, how he could whip or'nigger! andswar!! whew! Didn’t you ever hear him swar ! I tell you, all the srnkirs an’ French parrots in Orleans ain’t a patchin’to him I hearn him let hisself out one day, an’ I pledge my word he cussed’ ’miff to send twenty preachers like old Jo Slater an’ Parson Ilolcom an’ them kind er Jewdases rigid kerpltimpus into hell—an’ what vyas. wns, it was all ’bout nothin’, fur he warn’t man a wrinkle. But all that aint neither here nor lhar.— But, as I was er savin’ afore, the dogs they smelt bar sine, an’ wouldn't budge a peg, air arter ike had ahnost cussed Hie bark oITn a dogwood saplin’ hr, he ie'nt his old Hint lock rifle up agin it, and then lie peeled otl’his old blanket an* laid her down, too. I diskiver tnischiel was er cumin-, fur I never seen crit ter show w rat by like lie did. Torecly 1 see him walk down to the creek bottom, ‘bout fifty yards Irom whar his gun was, and then he ‘gin pickiu* up rocks an“ slingin* ‘lira at the dogs like bringer ! Cracky ! didn't he linkit into ‘uuY? It minded me o‘ David wlialin, Goliah, it did ! Ij you'd er seen him. an* hearn them’ holler, you’d er thought he‘d er knock'd the nigh sites off-n every bitch's son of'em ! But that aint the fun yet. While Ike was er lammin’ the dogs, I hearn the alltiredest crackin’ in the cane, an* 1 lookedupg •nd thar was one of the elernalest whollopin baset cumin', crack, crack, through the cane an’ kersl e.-ls over the creek,air stopped right plumb slap up anin whar Ike's gun was. Torectly he tuk hold er or, ole shooter, an’ I thought I see him tinkerin’ ‘bout the lock an* kinder whislin’ an’ (dewin’ into it. I was ‘stonished, I tell you, but I wanted to see Ike outdone so bad that I lay low an’ kepdark, an’ in a> bout a ininit Ike got done lickin’ the dogs an’ went to git his gun. Jecineny, criminy!—if you'd only bin whar I was! Ido think Ike was the madest man that ever stuck an axe into a tree, tor his har stuck rite strait up. and his eyes glared like two dogwood blossoms ! But the bar didn't, si em to care shucks for him, for lie jis sot tlm old rifle rite back agin the saplin', and walked off on his hind legs jist like any human. Then, yoo see, I gin to get sorter jealous, air sez I to inyself, Mister Bar. sez I, the place whar vow's er stallin’ aint prezacly healthy, air if you don't wabble off from thar purty soon, Misses Bar will he a widder, by gum ! With that. Ike grabbed up ole Misses Rifle, and tuk most pertick'er aim at him and by hokey, she snapped ! Now sez 1. Mister Bar, go it. or he-ll make bacon of you ! But the varmint didn't wink, hut stood still as a post, with the thumh of his right paw on the pend of his smeller, and wig lin his pother fingers thus—and Mike went through with the gyration. All this time Ike, he stood thar like a fool, er snappin and er snappin, an the har ho lookin kinder rpiare like, out er the corner o’ his eye an sorter larfin at him. Torectly I spe Ike take down the ole shooter, and kinder kersamine the lock, an when he done that, he laid her on his shoulder and shuk his fist at the bar, and walk to'ard home, an the bar he shuk his fist, and went into the cane break aud then I cum off. Here all the Yazoo boys expressed great anxiety to know the reason why Ike’s gun didn’t fire ! Lot’s licker fust, said Mike, an if yoa don’t all caterpillar, you can shoot me. Why, you see, concluded he, the long and short of it is this, that the bars in our neck o’ woods has somethin uv the human in uin, an this feller know’d as dfiuch about er gun as I do ’boat preachin, so wheh Ike was lickin the dogs he jest blowed all the ponder outen the pan, and to make all safe, he tuk the fljnt out too, and that’s the why he/ warjßt skeerd whein Ike was snappin at him- j j Delta. I