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SHERIFFS, CLERKS, and other public officers, will have 25 per cent deducted in their favor. BIRTHDAY VERSES—TO MY MOTHER. BY N. P. WILLIS. My birthday I Oh beloved mother, My heart is with thee o’er the seas I I did not think to count another Before I wept upon thy knees— Before this scroll of absent years Was blotted with thy streaming tears. My own I do not care to check — 1 weep—albeit here alone— As if I hung upon thy neck, As if thy lips were on my own— As if this full sad heart of mine Were beating closely upon thine. Four weary years! how looks she now 1 What light is in those tender eyes? What trace of time has touch’d the brow ? Whose look is borrowed of the skies That listen to her nightly prayer ? How is she changed since he was there Who sleeps upon her heart alway Whose name upon her lips is worn, For whom the night seems made to pray ; For whom she wakes to pray at morn, Whose sight is dim—whose heart-strings stir— Who weeps these tears to think of her I I know not if my mother’s eyes Would find me changed in slighter things: I’ve wandered under many skies, And tasted many bitter springs, And many leaves, once fair and gay, From youth’s full flower have dropped away, But as these looser leaves depart, The lessen’d flower gets near the core, And when deserted quite, the heart Takes closer what was dear of yore, And leans on those who loved it first Jte- '* The. sunshine and the dew by which it* bud was nurst. Dear Mother! Dost thou love me yet? Am I remembered in my home? When those I love for joy are met Does some one wish that I would come ? •Thou dost ? I am beloved of thee— But as the school boy numbers o’er Night.after night the Pleiades, And finds the stars he found before. As turns the maiden oft her token, As counts the miser oft his gold, So, till life’s “ .silver cord is broken,”' Would I of thy dear love be '' My heart is full—mine eyes are^ret— Dear mother! dost thou love thy long-lost wanderer yet ? Oh when the hour to meet again Creeps on—and speeding o’er the sea, My heart takes up its lengthen’d chain, And link by link, draws nearer thee— When land is hailed, and from the shore Comes off the blessed breath of home, With fragrance from my mother’s door Os flowers forgotten when I come— When port is gain’d, and slowly now, The old familiar paths are past, And entering unconscious how, I gaze upon thy face at last, And run to thee, all faint and weak— And feel thy tears upon my cheek— Ob, if my heart break not with joy, The light of heaven will fairer seem, And I shall grow once more a boy, And, Mother!—’twill be like a dream That we were parted thus for years. And once we had dried our tears, How will the day seem long and bright, To meet thee always with the morn, And hear thy blessings every night— Thy " dearest," thy “ first born ’’ — And be no more, as now, in a strange land forlorn! A MILITIA TRAINING. ••Tention, the hull! as you were!” “I say, Capting,Mike’s priming his fire lock with brandy!” "Why, Deacon Michael Bigelow, an’t •you ashamed to do such a thing after sign in a temperance paper. I’ll report you to the Court Martial” "You, without bagonets on your corn stalks,stand back in the rear rank—Trail arms!” "Capting, why the dickens don’t you put the ranks further apart?—that there chap’s bagonet stuck right straight in Jim’n trowsers, and I rather guess he wont set down quite so slick as he used to.” “I says, Mister, don’t blow your backer smoke in my face.” “Why, darn it, how could I help it; this here feller shoulderin his fire-lock stuck his bagonet right straight through the rim of my beaver, and I rather guess «s how any on ye would jerk your head a leetle one side, smoke or no smoke.” ‘•Mister, hand me down my hat?” "Can’t do it; wait till the capting tells us to order arms; won’t bring down my fire-Uck without orders if your head was on top on’t” "That’s right, Joe, rale soger I tell ye —only arter this, shoulder your fire-lock perpendikiler. John, you’ve a firelock, what made you bring your umbrel?” "Why, Capting, the wind was due east and I heard the turkies a screechin, so I knew we’d have a shower.” "Tom, what are you bawlin about?” "Why, Capting, Jim Lummins has ■mashed my toe with the butt of his gun and I rather guess it’s a36 pounder, for it’s tarnashun heavy.” "Jim Lummins,jist have the perliteness to take your gun off of Tom’s toes, and look how you smash arter this.” "Capting, I say, here’s an engagement or rather an attack upon the right flank.” "Why. Leftenant, you don’t say so— what is’t?” “Why, Parks Lummins and George King fighting like blazes!” “ Well, make a ring arter parade & see fairplay; only tell them to stop till we get done sogerin. I say, Leftenant what made you put fat Arthur in the front rank?” "Kaze as how, Capting he is so tarnal awitchel bellied he’ll keep the ranks in o pen order. I rather guess if he should •ver be promoted high as Major,he’ll look like a sack of salt on horseback. If we I should go to battle aud all be killed but him, he would’nt be the skilleton of the regiment.” “Cubed Skinflint, you go on the right of the company.” “What for, Capting?” “Kaze as how tallest men always do; you are as long as the Grand Canawl. and split up like a two foot rule, Now I tell you if you dont go right off we’ll make a lightnin rod of ye.” “Capting, 1 say it’s arter sun down, and I rather guess I needn’t stay any longer corndin to law.” “Well, I’m agreed, now get into a sraight line as quick as greased lightnin. Right Face! Dismissed!” Leiters From the South. Savannah, April 18th, 1835. I gave vou a sketch at Charleston of a remarkable young man by the name of Payne—which I hope was received. I spoke of the education he had obtained, and of the pursuits he had followed, as being creditable heretofore—whatever may be said now—to the leniency of the laws and of public sentiment regarding his race. I have met here with another specimen, of a little different class, and raised nnder these far-bruited Georgian laws, in the city of Savannah. I mean Benedict, the slave now, and for forty years past, in the employment of a gen tleman, a principal merchant here, by whose politeness I was enabled to gain information of the substance of his history and condition. He, too, is a “brown” man, though a slave, as he always has been. You are aware that he cannot be emancipated here except on condition of his removal from the State; and Sam is altogether too shrewd a man to cast him self adrift in this country, out of a situa tion such as he now occupies. Fifteen years, I think, he has been employed where he is ; and he is now in the receipt of a salary probably of between S4OO and $500; that is to say, his owner is; and Sam is allowed, and always has been, a very considerable portion of the same. Tfrus he has been enabled to marry, and -maintain his family at his own cost —all ■es whom, if I am rightly informed by per sons here to whom he has long been inti mately known, have received more or less of the elementary school education which is commonly provided by legislation for the children of all classes at the North.— Here, you will remember, the laws run the other way. How Sam has managed the matter, I don’t know; but I infer that the sanguinary severity we hear so much about is more defensive and provisionary than we have been taught to regard it; that it was, as I have before intimated of South Carolina, suggested contrary to the good feeling of the public here, by the threatening though well-meant movements of the injudicious friends in the North; and that public sentiment continues, as long as it can, to connive at the abeyance ot these laws. Sam is now some forty two years old, and has grand children in his family. The comfortable house he lives in, would by no means disgrace a substantial Connecticut yeoman ; and that is his own— the result of his earning. Half an acre of land is attached to it, laid out into a garden, and lined with a variety of fruit-trees; also sheds, and the proper ac commodations for' a large company of poultry, pigs, tec. not excepting a cow or two most of the time. Within, is the evidence not only of comfort, but of intel ligence in tho enjoyment of it-—What think you, for example of a library of the value of some three or four hundred dol lars—perhaps more, as books used to sell, before the Harpers were born, selected, collected, kept, and read, and by a slave. A friend of mine gave me the op portunity of a glance at them, as an in-] dulgence to the curiosity to be expected 1 on such an occasion from one who has had such opportunities of being horrified by the sufficiently sTenuous setters forth of one side of the subject. Here are— what do you suppose? Why, Henry’s i Commentaries, in six large elegant octa vos—though bearing, to bo sure, the sign i of having been well used—for,by the way, Sam has some how contrived to pick up an education, too; and he writes indeed, ' to my knowledge, as handsome a letter, in all respects, as many a man who has ; “gone through college.” There are Clark’s great work in six more; three or four standard concordances; the works i of Mosheim, Josephus, Stunn, Hervey, Wesley in ten volumes, Rollin in eight, Ramsay in three,and so on down to Tuck er’s Blackstone, Richardson, Shakspeare, i Goldsmith’s Natural History, Prideaux, Franklin, and a lot of Key & Biddle’s i Modern Poets, too numerous to mention. Nor has Benedict neglected, in his zeal > for improving his mind and his children’s, the weightier matters. Few business , men have a sharper eye for this cotton business, which, as I understand, he Las : pretty much the charge of—making the i the purchases,deliveries, marking, and all —and qualified, indeed, to superintend, after a short drilling, the whole keeping i of his employer’s books. He finds time, i also, through this gentleman’s kindness, r and his own activity, to employ no less than four drays, which must, of course, > bring him an income. Sam is the origi- I nator of the expedition for Bassa Cove, which is to leave here soon. But of that t in my next.— N. Y. Mer. Adv. Odd Translation.— AParisian author, has translated Shakespeare’s lines, “Out ? out, brief candle,’” into French, thus:— Get out you short candle." The Wife.—That woman deserves t not a husband’s generous love who will t not greet him with smiles as be returns from the labors of the day; who will not I try to chain him to his home by the - sweet enchantment of a cheerful heart. I Thereis notone in a thousand that is so un : feelingas to withstand such an influence, i and breakaway from such a home. A busy Editor. — Th© editor of th© Camden (S. C.) Journal has better right probably to use the personal pronoun plural than almost any other member of the newspaper brotherhood; for his vo cations are more multifarious than those of that versatile gentleman, the celebrated Caleb Quotem himself. In the first place, he is High Sheriff of the district, and of course has not only to serve “ sum pros” upon his subscribers, but to hang them as occasion may require; though that portion of his duties he will never be called upon to exercise, we trust; for they are among the best even of South-Caro lina’s citizens. In the next place he is a merchant, and buys cotton and bacon.— Thirdly, he is an auctioneer, and knocks down indiscriminately in all directions;] in which capacity he has the advantage of a certain predecessor of his, who used sometimes to get knocked down himself, but who generally left off about square with the world in the matter of dry blows. Fourthly, but not lastly, he is " commissioner of locations,” which, we take it, is a pretty important office, since it implies the privilege of going where a man pleases. Then, again, he is agent of an Insurance Company, and superin tendant of Sunday Schools. Now, if a man holdingall these offices, and divers others, “ too tedious to mention,” to gether with the editorship of a newspa per, has not the right to say •• We” in hia multiform capacity aforesaid, we should like to know who the deuce has. The editor apologised a short time since for lack of original matter, as it was “ return ; day,’ and instead of fructifying his read- ; ers with his pen, ho was taking some of them incontinently into custody by autho rity of the State of South-Carolina. Dum Spiro Spero is a very positive old gentle man ofthat region, who stands very much upon his punctillios, and when the she riff happens to be the bearer ofone of his cards, there is no such thing as not being “at home.” The editor,therefore, makes a perfectly legitimate excuse, It is grat ifying, too, to find editorial services so properly appreciated as they appear to be, now-a-days, in good old Kershaw. Your editors in.that country, were wont whilom, to be content with the dignity of fourth coppral, and never aspired to any thing more elevated than “Orderly Ser geant” of a most disordely squad'of un military and unmanageable wags, some times called par excellence, and byway of extraordinary distinction, the “barefooted beat It is gratifying also to see the Journal man promoted in the civil department as well as the military; for the nullifiers eith er did injustice to the she rift'editor’s fore runner, or the columns of that paper were not always upon so civil a list as they might have been. At present, however the conductor of the Journal is equally good in all his capacities. That he is an excellent sheriff, a good merchant, a gent, auctioneer, &c, &c, we haven’t the least reason to doubt, because he is in all respects an excellent fellow, and that he is a good editor, is manifested by his paper; for it is conducted with a spirit, tact and good sense very rarely found at the desk of an inland establishment like that; and we have only to express the hope that he may find more loses and few er thorns in his editorial path, than fall to the lot of all those who spend the best years of their lives in the endeavor to benefit the public as editors of a newspa per.—N. Y. Courier 4* Enquirer. The American President's Drawing Room.— ln the middle ofthe saloon stood General Jackson, surrounded by Van. Buren, the Vice President, Washington Irving, and some of the secretaries of State. The President is an elderly man, of middle size, with art expressive counte nance, and a sharp eye, indicative of the firmness of character which he has evitP ced upon so many occasions, and partic ularly during the period of his Military career, the laurels of which, it may be said, he chiefly gathered at New-Orleans. His hair is perfectly white combed up wards from his forehead, which gives his face a long and narrow appearance. His manners are extremely condescending and polite, without derogating from the rank which he holds as the first man in A merica. Republican custom obliges him to shake hands with his visitors. Gener al Jackson performs this part of the cer emony without losing any of his dignity and without appearing cold or distant. I observed his actions for along while to see if he made any particular distinctions between those that presented themselves; but, to his honor, as President of a Re public, be it said he continued the same the whole evening—polite and affable to every one, and friendly to those whom he knew personally, particularly the fair sex.— The United States and Canada. A Dumb Conscience. — Not long since an Irishman named Peter, was arrested in this city, for having stolen a sum of money from a trunk. Peter stoutly per sisted in his innocence. On© of his inquis itors, however, pressing his hand upon his breast, appealed to him, “Peter, is’nt there something in here that tells you, you have taken that money!” “Faith, sir,” replied Peter, “there’s nothing in here but some porridge they gave me this morning before I left the jail, and that your honor knows can’t spake.” Upon the examination, the proof came stronger and stronger against poor Peter, when he at length burst out “Faith, and I don’t know but I may as well confess it, for I see you are determined to prove it upon me at any rate.”— Providence Jour. There are three things of which the man who aims at the character of a pros perous farmer will never be niggardly, manure, tillage, and seed; and there are three things of which he will never be too liberal, promises, time and credit. Gennesee Farmer. THE ELECTION. "The Richmond Enquirer predict* that parties will stand in the next Virginia House of Delegates as follows—Adminis tration 76—Opposition 58. Nous Ver ronsl [National Gazette. Mr. Walsh may now compare our cal culation with the result. The returns are all in, but from eleven counties, sending thirteen Delegates. The minimum we can obtain in the House of Delegates, is seventy-six, giving us a majority of eighteen—(making a nett gain of 34 votes.) (There are four debateable coun ties to be heard from—viz. Brooke, Cabell Grayson and Randolph. If we gain either of these, it will give us a majority of 20—if all, 26. In the Senate, we have carried two new Senators, giving us a majority of 8, if Dromgoole’s place be .supplied by a Re publican. And in Congress, we have gained 8, and may gain 9—while we have lost but one. The Whig politicians may now talk of Whig or of White Victories. We leave it to all impartial men to judge by these dates of the fruits of the Cam paign. We are unable to-day, to make out a complete Exposition of the Election. Sev eral of the counties are yet ‘o be heard from—but four only are believed to be debateable. We shall probably receive the entire return by Friday—find then, we will give a coup d'ail of the battle ground. In the mean time, we cordially bid to our Republican brethren through out the Uniort— All hail!—Richmond Enquirer, of Qlh. Another Walk-in-lhc- Water.— Some years ago the famous Jemima Wilkinson undertook to perform the miracle of walk ing on £the Geneva Lake, or some other lake away west. Having got her disci ples together to witness the miracle, she asked them if they verily believed she could perforin it? “Undoubtedly,” said they. “Oh, very well,” she replied, “If you only believe I can do it it is just the sameasifldid it.” And so Miss Jem ima got off without wetting her feet. But a certain Mr. Campbell, who re cently engaged to walk across the Savan nah River, seems not to have come off so dry-shod. He performed the exptoit, in deed, after a certain fashion, but it was very different from walking genteelly on the surface, as one would walk on a Tur key carpet. He was merely towed across holding a rope all the time, which was fastened to a boat. Jemima’s mode of doing business was, to our notion much more judicious.— N. Y. Sunt USE OF PLAISTER, Extract of a letter from a subscriber in Ovid, to the publisher: "Our farmers here are becoming more and more convinced ofthe benefits result ing from the use of Plaister I presume that in this town there will be double the quantity used that there was last year. The course generally pursued here is to sow about a bnshel per acre on fields that were seeded down the preceding year They are then pastured or mowed the two ensuing years. In the spring following, they are planted with corn or summer fallowed, and sown with wheat. The wheat after corn is generally equal to that sown on summer fallows. The ef fect of plaister, when applied to wheat that is backward in the spring,is also very visible not barely in the increase of the straw but in the length of the heads and plumpness of the berry.” GYPSUM AND ASHES. A writer in the Farmers Register s.tys that he has been in the habit of sowing ashes with plaister, mixed in equal parts using the same quantity as he formerly had done of plaister alone,& that he has de riv’?d equal benefit from this mixture as from plaister alone, and he considers it a saving of fifty percent. He prefers to have the ashes damp, as it enables him to sow with more regularity and in mod erately windy weather. Another writer in the Reg. recommends the application of twenty bushels of plais ter to the acre on "thin land.” He has used it on com to that extent, with very decided advantage to that and the succeed ing crops. A writer in theAmericanFarmer says that he doubles his corn by putting into each hill after the corn is dropped, a clam shell full of two parts of leached ashes and one of plaister. RECIPE FOR MAKING VINEGAR. You have copied from the American Farmer into your paper, vol. 4th, page 264,‘short directions for making viengar,’ which are as follows: “To ten gallons of rain-water, add one gallon molasses,one of brandy—mix them well together, and occasionally shaking it in few a months it will be fit for use.’ Twelve gallons of the above mixture will cost as follow, riz:«— 1 gallon molasses, . . $0 50 I gallon brandy,(adulterated whis’y) 1 50 $2 00 I would proposes much cheaper way for families to be supplied with this indis pensable article, viz: Take one barrel of cider, —pure juice ofthe apple,—divide it into two parts — add one gallon clean rain water to each part, place the casks and treat them as above directed, and you will have thirty gallons of vinegar, of superior flavor and and much more enduring body than that made of whiskey and molasses, and at the same time of a much less price.Thead vantage of dividing the quantity is that it will be sooner fit for use. February, 1835. OBVIOUS. Life of Man.— Man passes his life in reasoning ofthe past, in complaining of the present, and trembling for the fu tur© AUGUST A, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1 836. We are requested to remind the public of the meeting of the Library Society This Evening. It is the annual meeting, and business of much importance to the future usefulness of the Li brary claims the attention of the Society. Let us not neglect it. LATEST FROM LIVERPOOL. The Othello has arrived at Savannah with London dates to the 26th March and Liverpool to the 27th inclusive, having sailed on the 28th. French dates of the 24th and 25th received in London on the 26th, say nothing of the Ameri can Indemnity Bill. The following is the state of the Cottou Mar ket : LIVERPOOL, MARCH 25.—Sales to-day 5000 bales, of which 500 American on specula tion ; the same quantity for export. No change in prices. Evening.— We continue to have a good de mand for cotton from the trade, and rather high er prices obtained. The sales of the last two days will amount to 10,000 bales. MARCH 26. —The sales of Cotton the last four days are about 27,000 bales at full prices. The market, however, this day is rather quiet. We see no political news of the slightest in terest. VIRGINIA ELECTIONS. The returns, as far as received, says the Pe tersburg Intelligencer of the 4th, leave no doubt that the Administration party will have a con siderable majority in the next Legislature. The Richmond Whig says—“ We have met the enemy, and we are theirs.” We understand (says the Army and Navy Chronicle that considerable progress has been latterly made in preparing the frigate Columbia for launching; this vessel has been several years on the stocks at the Navy Yard at Washington, but no work has been done upon her for a Jong time until recently. The Northampton Massachusetts Gazette says “ Snow fell all day Saturday last ; and was of sufficient depth and solidity at night for sleigh ing. The record should stand thus. April 25, 1835, Trees covered with snow blossoms.— Sleighing fine.” The private fortune of Louis Philippe, King of the French, is said to amount to twenty-five millions of dollars. “ Here, please to give me two fives for this Ten.” “ No, I won’t. But I’ll give you silver for it.” Who could have foreseen such a result, when we first knew Augusta? A fellow had to pretend he was going to travel through the Indian Nation to get a dollar of silver from any of our Banks. And if you demanded specie for their notes, they would turn you out cappers to count for yoar daily amusement We lately heard a witness say, he counted coppers for five days, and found it very hard work to get SSO in the day. Now silver is so plenty, the mer chant will hold on to a ten dollar bill (which used to be called rag money) and turn you out the real Spanish rimers. We do not know but this may become rather a grievance, when the hot weather comes—3o or 40 dollars in silver in a man’s pocket will not then be as comfortable as bank bills. Mortals are strange folks, at any rate. Thej’ are never satisfied. Formerly they would have silver, if possible. Now the rejected rag money is all the go— silver is too heavy and rough. It is apt to wear a hole in your pocket, and! so you may lose it. “ There’s the rub” Singular result of a game of Billiards .—One player lacked one of being game, and his ball and the light red were within the string—the deep red out, nearly opposite and about one foot distant from fhie- right side pocket. The light red lay near the centre nail and the white near the right termination of rhe string. The player who Jacked two played from the left of t&e spot, and intending to win with eciat,struck with great force; but he entirely missed the ball at which he aimed. "Game!” exclaimed his antago nist; but the flying ball seemed togain increas ed velocity, as it run its angles of incidence and reflection, till it finally struck the white ball in such a manner as to roll off and carrom on the deep red, thus unexpectedly winning the game. Fanny Kemble. — The following paragraph from the London Age is rather severe on Mrs. Fanny Kemble Buller. We take this opportunity of commen ting upon a Diary from the pen of the quondam Miss Fanny Kemble, now Mrs. Butler, in which, after commenting in sun dry terms of revolting vulgarity on the manners of a people from whom she has received a vast sum of money, and a mongst whom she has at length become denizened, she fulminates in the same ele gant strain against the “Press” by whose assistance alone she made the reputation she enjoyed, and which enabled her final ly to possess a competence in life. When we remember the state to which the man agement of Mrs. Butler’s father reduced Covent-Garden Theatre —that its goods and chattels were seized fortaxes, and its re-opening rendered hopeless but for the mendicant application of her family to the profession and the public, circulated and brought about entirely by the Press; and when we remember how the slight histri onic talent Mrs. Butler possesses, was, solely by the Press, magnified into im- i portanceand attraction out of a purely , charitable feeling, we confess we cannot find words sufficiently strong to mark our feelings of execration at the ungrateful and impudent manner in which Mrs. But- ] ler has stated in her precious Diary, what i opinion she entertains of the said Press. | “Next to a bug,” Mrs. Butler professes to abhor a Newspaper writer; that is, she professes now to abhor them:but when she was about to make her debut before the public, and her family were literally beg ging for a subsistence, then these “bugs” were the most delightful things in exis tence, and were swarming in every room the house she lived in held. We per ceive that a sister of Mrs Butler is about to be launched forth into public life as a singer, and it will be well to see exactly what support she is to have from these “bugs” at her starting, audit will be also as well for these “bugs” to calculate in their minds the exact return they are like- ly to meet, and act accordingly. We hear, moreover, that Mrs. Butler has pre sented her husband with an heir-apparent and if that be the case, and Grandpapa, is likely to appear in the “youthful line of business,” (as he has so many years been accustomed to do) we sincerely hope his friends the “bugs,” will stick to him in the characteristic affection of the race. “ Embryo Whales, when discovered in in their earliest foetal state, are about 17 inches long, and of a whitish color. Th© cubs when born are black, and vary from 10 to 14, or according to Cuvier, even 20 feet long. Generally, only one cub is produced, occasionally two, but never more. When the female suckles she throws herself on one side on the sur face ofthe water, and the cub attachesit self to her breast. They continue suck lings for a year during which time they are named shortheads by the sailors, and yield about fifty barrels of blubber. At two years they will be called Stunts, and thrive but little when weaned, scarcely affording more than 20 barrels. • After this period they are called Scull-fish and their age is wholly unknown.— Mag, Nat, History. The Ship Orozimbo, at Baltimore from Liverpool, brought an importation of fourteen heifers and two bulls, ofthe full blooded short horn breed. They ar© said to be as fine a parcel of cattle as has ever been imported into this country, and are intended to be placed on the farms of R. D, Shepherd, Esq- at Sepfcerdstown A Philadelphia merchant espying a country merchant on the pavement, in front of his store, anxiously stepped up to him, to solicit hrs custom. ‘Flow d’ye do, sir, I think I have seen you somewhere,’ observed the city mer chant. ‘Quite likely, for I have been there of ten,’ was the reply. The Philadelphian, nothing daunted, propounded also the following query, which met with a repelling answer. •What might your name be, sir?’ •It might be Beelzebub, but it aiat,’ ra plied the witty countryman. Col. Crockett talks like a book. In his trip to the North and Down East, he says, speaking of a theatrical exhibition ; ‘ I did not think from all I saw, that the people enjoyed themselves better than we do at a country frolic, where we dance till day light, and p®y off the score by giving one in our turn. It would do you good to see our boys and girls dancing. None of your stradling, mincing, sally ing ; but a regular sifter-eat-the-buckle, chicken-flutter set to-. It is good whole some exercise ; and when one of dur boy» puts his arm round his partner, it’s a good hug and no harm in it.’ An unsophisticated rustic’s notion of ‘ the master piece of concerted music : I Their fiddling was pretty good, consid ering every fellow played his own piece J ! and I would have known more about it, if they had prayed a tune, but it was all Uve«-wee-tadli»n-twadlum-tum-tum-taddltr leedle-iaddle-leedle-lee. ‘ The twenty-se cond of February,’ ortho ‘Cuckoo’s Nest,” would have been a treat.’ The Colonel looks out for the preser vation of his good name. When he war in Boston, he says : There was some gentlemen that invite# me to go to Cambridge, where the big college or university is; where they keep ready made titles or nicknames to give people. I would not go, for I did not know but they might strikean LL. Dion me before they let me go ; and > had no idea of changing ‘Member ofthe House of Representatives of the United States,’ for what stands for ‘ lazy lounging dunce, which I am sure my own constituents® would have translated rr.y new title to be® knowing that I had never taken any de]® gree, and did not own to any except small degree of good sense not to pass what I was not—l would not go ft.—-® There had been one doctor made from® Tennessee alreadj-, and I had no wish t<® put on the cap and bells. I recollected® the story of a would be great man who® put on his sign, after his name, in large® capitals, D. Q,. M. G., which stood for® Deputy Quarter Master General; but® which one of his neighbors, to the great® diversion of all the rest, and to his morti-® fication, translated into ‘damn’d quick® made gentleman.’ No indeed, not me,® anything you please but Granny Crock-® ett; I leave that for others; I’ll throw® that in to make chuck full the 'measure® of their country’s glory.’ An interesting phi enological developc-U ment.— The phrenologists are in clover® in Philadelpia. Two “professors” are® givinglectures and manipulating sconces® at an amazing rate, and the Philadelphia® ans are all found to possess an extra or-® gan, being half a bump appropriated spe-® dally to punning. The Gazette and Intel!-® gencer has acapital illustration of the set-® ence & sagacity of these craniological gen® tiemen. ‘A friend of ours,’says the editors® ' “presented his cranium to the professors® and asked them to read bis character.® , They alighted with eagerness upon a® vast protuberance, and told him that® acquisitiveness was highly developed.No,® said the gentleman, you mistake, that i«® the bump of pump-handle-iveness. In my ■ boyhood I broke tny head against a pump® handle, and the result is the protuber-® ance you have discovered.— N. Y. CotuU C OM M ERCFAIT ■ CHARLESTON, May 9. I COTTON.—The operations ofthe week ia® Uplands were almost exclusive! y confined to the®; two days succeeding our last report, (Saturday® and Monday) since then the market has been I heavy and dull, and the transactions very light. ® Purchasers are endeavoring, and in some instan-® ces have obtained a reduction in price, for all ® qualities except a choice select article. The®