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& jfamUg to attevature, ttse Strtss, Science, Agriculture, JUrcftanlcs, Situation, jForrlgu am* domestic SutcUigeuce, Dumont, iec- VOLUME i. [POIETKY^ From Graham's Magazine. AN EriSTLE TO FANNY. ItY PARK BENJAMIN. Sweet Fanny, though 1 know yon not, Andi have never seen the splendor That flashes from your hazel eyes To make the souls of men surrender;. Though, when they ask me how you look, I’m forced to say, “ I never met her,” I hope you will not deem it wrong -If I address to you a letter. Ilere in mine own seeluded room, Forgetful of life’s sober duty, Lapitcd in the stillness of repose, I sit and muse and dream of beauty; I picture all that's lair and bright Which poets sometimes cnll Elysian, And, ‘mid the shapes that round me throng, Behold one soft, enchanting vision. A lady—lovely as the morn When Night her starry mansion closes, And gentle winds with fairy feet Toss the sweet dew from blushing roses— A lady—to whose lip and cheek Some twenty summer suns have given Colors as rich as those that melt Along the evening clouds of Heaven. Her stature tall, her tresses dark, Her brow like light in amhush lying, Her hand—the very hand I’d give The world to clasp if I were dying! Her eyes, the glowihg types of love, Upon the heart they print their meaning-- How mild they shine as o’er them fall Those lashes long their lustre screening I Sweet Fanny, can you not divine The form that floats before my dreaming, And whose the pictured smiles I see This moment on my canvass beaming? You cannot! then I've failed indeed, To paint a smile look 1 cherish— _ So, you may cast my lines aside, And bid them like my memory perish. My memory 1 what am I to thee, Oh purest, gentlest, fairest, dearest! Yes, dearest, though thy glance be cold When first my humble name thou hearest. Though I am nothing, thou to me Art Fancy's best belovedir'eal; And well I know the form she paints Is far less charming than the real. BM———————Ml I B-MMUiim— MWmELL&MY* From the Family Companion. GREAT ATTRACTION ! OR THE DOCTOR ‘ MOST OUDACIOUSLY TUCK IN.’ * A SKETCH FROM REAL LIFE. ‘Oh Jim, the groat attraction ’s come to town !’ gasped a little fellow, as he was hastening home to impart the glad tidings to his people. .‘Who?’ inquired Jim—turning sudden ly round—his eyes, mouth and every fea ture expressive of the liveliest curiosity. But his informant had ‘no time to tarry’for a more particular explanation, but left Jim to infer something extraoi dinary was to pay from some broken sentences which he utter ed about ‘ Show—down to Capt. Brown’s S Tavern—big pictures—Dr. Jones’, &c.— which Jim could not distinctly hear, at so great and rapidly increasing distance. But he did hear ‘Show —Capt. Brown’s Tavern’ -—and he had a clue to the matter. Away.dashed Jim—and when he arrived at the aforesaid tavern, he beheld a crowd of gazing men and boys gathered in the bar room, looking with all their eyes at a large poster, at the head of which stood those magic words— ‘ Great attraction ! — for two nights ONLY !!’ All was wonderment and curiosity, and Jim for once experienc ed the inadequacy of the human capacity for such extraordinary occasions—he could not make out the ‘printing’ himself— ami his mind was totally incapable of taking in and making use of half he heard. ‘What is it V he asked of the nearest. One said it was the ‘greatattraction from New York’ —another that it was the ‘Fourth of July on horseback'—some one else that it was ‘ all sorts of a thing,’ and his curiosity was rather augmented than allayed, when Dr. Jones, who chanced to be there, volunteer ed to read it all off to the crowd, if they’d only keep silence. Then there was a Babel of voices, calling silence for several minutes. 4 Silence ! till the doctor reads it,’ shouted one. * Silence, silence !’ bawled another. 4 Shut your mouth, Bill Parker, no body can’t hear nothin’ for you.’ * Silence, si lence,’ repeated a dozen at a time. When they had become somewhat quiet, the doctor mounted a chair, and after run ning the thing over for a minute or so, dur ing which the faces of his audience in dicated the strongest symptoms of insup portable suspense, he read out in a full round tone, and right off without spelling a word, the whole bill, from 4 great attraction’ to 4 performances to commence at half past seven precisely.’ After which, with a pa tronizing air peculiarly his own, lie condes cended to explain the matter to his eager listeners. He told them that it was a thing called a circus—that it was a very wonder ful thing—that circus-men were the most surprisin’est creatures he had ever met with any where—that he had seed a great many of them in Augusta, when lie was at Col lege, and knew all about them—that they could ride the swiftest horses without sad dle or bridle, on their beads, could dance on wires and ropes, could jump to all creation, could eat fire, swallow broad-swords, and perform all manner of antics. Many ques tions were pressed in regard to the show, to nil of which the doctor made the most satis factory answers, as one perfectly familiar with the matter, and the crowd dispersed to await the advent of this, to them, eighth wonder of the world. but wc left Thomas Stallings on his way home to announce the arrival of the show the Stallings family, who we should not - / *’ forget to inform the reader were people of consequence in Pineville. They were rich, numerous, and barring Thomas, were most ly young females. * Oh, mother! guess what’s come to town !’ exclaimed Thomas, as he dashed his hat into one chair and threv\ himself into another, almost fainting for want of breath. ‘J. don’t know, Tommy,’ replied the old lady, raising her eyes from her sewing, un til she caught a view of his flushed face and observed his deep respiration. ‘ Why, lavvs-a-massy ! what ails the child ? Is the Ingins ris again V she asked dropping her work and rising from her seat. ‘ No, mother, replied Tommy, as soon as lie could command sufficient breath, * but something else.’ ‘ By this time the whole household were attracted by Thomas’ strange manner. ‘ What is it then, Thomas V demanded two or three at the same time. ‘ A great attraction—a circus !’ * A what V ‘ A circus, doctor Jones says —a whole heap of circus-riders.’ ‘ Oh, la, is that all ? why child your uncle Moses was a circuit-rider, on the Green Meadow circuit for upwards of five years, until lie went to live in the Hogtown settle ment, where he died, poor’ ‘ Oh, no, mother, uncle Moses could not ride on his head and swallow broad-swords, could lie V 1 Why Thomas, you must be crazy ? who ever heard of sich a thing as preachers rid ing on their heads, and’ ‘Ha, ha,’ shouted Tommy, ‘these aint preachers, mother, they’re show folks, doc tor Jones says so.’ Little could be gathered from what Thomas had to communicate. The old la dy was sorely puzzled, but the young ladies had learned enough to excite their curiosity beyond the point of endurance ; so it was determined to despatch Thomas to request doctor Jones to call over and tell them all about it, as they were quite sure he was per fectly conversant with the whole matter. Accordingly the doctor was sent for, and for once in his life his treatment proved suc cessful. He soon relieved the fit of curi osity into which Thomas’ news had thrown them, by relating all the information which his travels, as well as his close intimacy with the bill-poster of the company, who hadjust arrived in town, enabled him to glean Doctor Peter Jones should be formally introduced to the reader as the most impor tant personage who figures in our sketch. He was a well grown young man, rather tall, with light grey eyes, abundantly lorge for the ordinary purposes of that organ, whitish eyebrows, and hair rather inclined to be sorrel. There were no particular in dications of uncommon talent in his coun tenance, and from a rather imperfect know ledge of his developments, we should say that in his case, Phrenology and Physiog nomy agreed. Nevertheless the doctor was a firm believer in the first of these sciences, in consequence of which lie wns in the habit of cutting away his locks about his forhead and temples, in order to acouit himself of ‘ a forehead villainously low.’ He was not yet in possession of a sheep skin license to practice the healing art, nor were the public much indebted to him for the exercise of his medical skill, though’ he had been known to pull a tooth or so, and on one occasion was .supposed to have sav ed the life of a negro who had been kicked by a wayward male, by a resort of his fav orite remedy, phlebotomy. He had .attended one course of lectures at Augustn, and had returned to his native village, rich in ail the polish and refinement which a winter’s residence in that Philadel phia of the south affords such ample oppor tunities for acquiring. Such had been his improvement in point of deportment, dress and conversation, that his former acquain tances would scarcely have recognized him in his new guise, had they met him any where else than at home. He no longer tolerated Iventucky-jeans and thick-soled shoes, but a graceful, shining blue cloth coat of the latest cut, pants to match, and a pair of stilt-heeled boots, such as make a man look as if lie were about to pitch forward on his hands and knees, with a black velvet cap, which set jauntily on the top of his head, the visor almost concealing his eyes, a walking-cane of the most delicate polish, and of nights or rainy days, a professional looking camblet wrapper, constituted his usual costume. All these little advantages conspired to give the doctor undisputed precedence in the estimation of the young ladies, a fact of which he was not a little vain, and adding to it the reputation lie had acquired for smartness, which is so general ly conceded to students, whether of medi cine or other professions, the doctor could not but feel himself, to use one of his own polished expressions— ‘ bully of the tan yard.’ As leading characters generally direct public opinion in all matters of propriety, fashion, See., the stand which thedoctoi had taken in relation to the circus, now for the first time introduced into the village, was calculated to make* it exceedingly popular, and of course, vastly to benefit the little troop of equestrians, who had resorted to the expedient of traveling, to avoid the hea vy expanses of wintering in the large cities of the north. The doctor obtained from the avant courier of the company a few small bills, which he industriously circula ted among the ladies of his acquaintance, who had almost unanimously resolved to attend, and the whole village ‘gave note of dreadful preparation’ for the coming fete. Before night a light wagon drove up to PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY C. R. IIANLEITEr, AT TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY t*ENTS PEll ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. MADISON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1812. the tavern, drawn by two spotted horses. . In an hour all Pineville Was rife with ru mors, each had tiiado sotiie discovery, and each had some marvel to relate, few slept lliat night, and by ten o’clock the news had spread far and wide into the surrounding country, that a great show was to come off in town that evening. During the day the balance of the company arrived, and long before night the canvass pavilion was reared. Then blasts of the Frencli-liorn, and scrap ings of fiddle-strings might be beard within, while the doctor, and some two or three smart negroes belonging to the hotel, the only ones who had free ingress, might be seen passing in and out; which circumstance greatly excited the envy of the little boys, who all seemed to have business on this particular occasion in the neighborhood’ of Capt. Brown’s back lot. The doctor had given them all the information which such interesting strangers usually require about saw-dust, tan-bark, and the like, and every thing was progressing finely, as the shades of evening drew on. He announced in a confidential manner to the manager, the ex tent to which his personal influence had been exerted, and concluded as he left the pavilion, by assuring him that he might ex pect a perfect ‘jam,’ a technical term on which he placed considerable emphasis. It was night. As if Christmas, New Year’s, and the Fourth of July had all come together, had all been concentrated, into one glorious holiday, the people,town and coun try, white and black, old and young, came trooping towards the enclosure, which was now brilliantly lighted up, and from which burst a loud peal of music, such as had never before been heard in Pineville. The effect was electric, none within ‘ hearing of that ‘sonorous metal blowing martial sounds,’ could resist its thrilling appeals. Those who had thrown the halfdollar in the scale against the show, and found the latter ‘ want ing,’ now felt their pockets kick the beam, and resolved to ‘ go it, any how.’ The negroes were frantic, the older ones might be seen in all directions giving way to the impulse in the most ‘ highly concen trated’double shuffles, while the little nig gerlings sprang into the air, clapped their hands, shouted, or lay down and rolled in an agony of delight. Troops were pressing to the yet unopened entrance, when sud denly a loud report was heard, and a bril liant skyrocket shot far up into the star-lit heavens, ‘ burst in air,’ and camesbowering | down in innumerable coruscant stars of vari egated fire. This marvelous phenomenon was halted with screams from the more 1 timid sex, rather coarser ejaculations of sur-, prise from the men, and shouts from the ne- j gross. But the sensation which it had pro- ) disced was suddenly interrupted by the op ening of the doors of the show. And then j there was such a rush, such a scrambling to be first, and such a changing of money ! Os course the doctor was on the spot, hut lie had been to Augusta, and knew a thing or two about circuses. He had purchased his tickets during the day, and now sto.d with ail air of exclusive complacency, a lit tle back from the throng, smiling at the ea gerness of the uninitiated crowd, occasion ally assuring the anxious bevy of pretty girls under his care, that they need not be alarmed, as he had taken the precaution to j secure their seats, which, he said, was the universal costum in Augusta. At length, the way being somewhat cleared, the doctor made his ‘ grand entree,’ at the head of a hout half a dozen young ladies, all dressed and bedizened off in the latest and most ex quisite fashion, with flowing head dresses, and many other little killing appliances of the toilette, which showed to great advan tage, and rendered them as irresistible to the beaux, as a phalanx of grenadiers. The doctor felt the importance of his position, they were the observed of all observers, and he the observpd of them, at least he made himself so, for he flew about among them with the graceful agility of a profes sor of the‘poetry of motion,’ ordering off a little gang of urchins who had taken pos session of his front bench, and informing them that he had ‘ secured them seats from the manager himself,’ loud enough to he heard above all the confusion. Some lime elapsed, during which the crowd, which was really immense, settled down into their seats, and feasted their eyes with the wonders of the amphitheater, and drank in the rich tones of a very respecta ble band for a traveling circus. The doc tor, meantime, entertained the ladies, and those in his immediate vicinity with point ing out to them the various fixtures of the ring, explaining their purposes and in some measure anticipating their enjoyment, by relating what was to take place. The audience liad not yet grown impa tient, when a tall, pale-faced mulatto, his hair brushed up like a fuddcr-stack, with an unreasonably long frock-coat, and a pair of boots with red-morocco tops, which lie wore over his pantaloons, rushed suddenly from behind a canvass curtain in the rear, threw open the low enclosure of the ring, and as suddenly disappeared. What did all that mean ? Astonishment was depicted in eve ry countenance, hut this soon gave place to amazement, for the next moment, a loud blast from the band, and in they came, the horses leaping like mad into the ring, while their riders, dressed in their gaudy costumes, all glittering with silver and gold, with their white waving plumes and flowing sashes, looked like so many knights of the olden time. In their rear, and on a horse so small that he would perhaps have been over look ed, was the clown, who, as soon as lie en tered the ring, shouted out —‘ Come along here, all my equestrian performances!’ Ranged in a line across the ring, each young gcntldtnan doffed his beaver and made a j graceful obeisance to the audience, then suddenly vvlieelingoff, they dashed round the l ing at the top of their speed, which set the ladies to holding thojr breath, and the child ren to giasjiing their parents’knees or arms, whichever were handiest, and some whim pered a little ; hut on being told that they should go right straight home if they didn’t be good, they drew closer and were quiet. ‘ Oh, my gracious!’grasped Miss Oliva Stallings, as one of the horses made a slight stumble. * Don’t he scared, Miss ’Livy ; it’s only the grand entree.’ * But won’t they fall off, doctor V ‘Not a hit—they’re so used to it they don’t never fall off.’ ‘ Oh, what a pretty little hoy !’ said Miss Johnson, ‘ lie’s just like Coopid, for all the world.’ .‘ Oh, pa, look at that spotted man, bis horse can go just as fast as-any, cant he pa ? What’s he got them long red things sticking up in his head for, pa —say pa V But pa was too deeply engaged to hear or answer these interesting queries. ‘No you don’t !’ shouted tin* spotted man, as lie rained his horse across the ring from the rear and placed himself in front of the flying troop —‘ this child an’t to be beat, no how you can fix it!’ A loud burst of laughter followed this ruse of the clown, which was prolonged l>y tlie negroes from the corner where they sat stowed away like a pile of bricks. Just as the audience were getting dizzy at the in cessant and impetuous whirl of men and horses before them, the troop suddenly came to a halt, and at the word, all the ele gantly caparisoned horses extended ‘hem selves upqn the ground, as if to rest from the fatigue which they had so lately under gone. All but the clown’s were docile—he found considerable difficulty in managing his horse. When he bore down its neck, it would switch his tail, and when he stood on its tail, it would raise its head ; which refactory and very unhorse-likc con duct he reprehended in strong terms, but all to no purpose. Finally, a quariel en sued between them, and while the horse chased him round the ring, he called to his master to ‘take him o(F—that he held bit ing and kicking as ungentlemanly, and would fight no one that practiced such foul play. This difficulty settled, the troop again 1 mounted, made another respectful obei sance, and retired, amidst the shouts and cheers of the delighted audience. ■ The time which elapsed between this l fete and the next, was passed in conversa tion. The doctor reminded the ladies that I that was nothing to what he had seen. The ladies thought it was a dreadful pretty sight, ;if they didn’t scare one so. The doctor begged them not to he scared, and assured them that there was no danger. Miss John son, desired to know of Miss Myers, which of the circus-men she liked the best. ‘ Oil, that tall one, with the black curly hair. I do think he is the handsomest young man I ever saw.’ ‘Oh, now, I think that one with the white silk jacket and blue sash, is a great deal handsomer—and lie looked over here so hard,’ said Miss Oliva. ‘ Why, you all can’t tell liow they look, at night, dressed op so,’ remarked the doc tor. That’s Howard, you mean—and he’s pock-marked as the mischief.’ ‘ Ha, ha, laughed Miss Myers, leaning hack, and placing her handkerchief to her mouth—‘the doctor is jealous.’ ‘ No I aint,’ replied the doctor. ‘Aint you ’shamed, Lucy,’ said Miss Oli va, coloring, at the same time that she sent a look of reproach towards Miss Myers. * If you could only see them by day-light, j iri their common clothes,’ said the doctor;! but he was interrupted by that long-faced I mulatto, whom we have before described,, who now made his appearance with a white horse, and directly after him came the ring master, with a long whip, followed hv the clown, who announced his coming byshout ing—‘Come along here, Mr. Callahan, and we’ll have a little hit of your fun.’ Now there was a buzz throughout the audience —the music struck up, and away went Mr. Callahan, standing erect on his horse, throw ing himselfinto all manner of graceful atti tudes—now looking back, as if. lie had left something behind—now pointing ahead, as if he saw something in front—now on one leg, then on the other, and finally hr night his fun to a close by making several lofty leaps, his horse at full speed, over whips, hoops, garters canvass, &c., See. —the down all the while keeping up a running conver sation with his master, the horse, and the rest of the company, saying many witty tilings which kept the whole audience con vulsed with laughter. Next came the spring-board, which the doctor at once recognized, and the whole troop were engaged for some twenty min utes, in ‘ feats of ground and lofty tumbling,’ each one of which elicited torrents of ap plause ; and the doctor had introduced the more fashionable mode of expressing ap probation, tiie clapping of hands had by this time grown pretty general. The clown failed in every attempt. ‘ Why, pa,’ said one little fellow, who had watched the spring-board performances for some time with a serious countenance, * that spotted man is a fool, aint he V ‘ Yes, my son, he is a very good fool.’ ‘ What do the people clap their hands so for, pa ?’ * They are all clapping the performers, because they do so well.’ Just then, it came the clown’s turn to throw a somerset over a chair, instead of which, he jumped awkwardly against the back of it, and pitched, chair and all, oh the ground ; then springing up and applying a little tan-bark to hisno.se, his usual remedy in such cases, lie walked off with an air of triumph, as much as to say— ‘ beat that who can !’ A tremendous round of applause followed. ‘ They clapped the spotted man because he done it so had, didn’t they, pa —say, pal’ ‘Oh, yes, yes,’ said the father, who saw it was useless to attempt an explanation. During the performance of these novel antics, there was a very general stretching of necks on the lower seats, and the cry ‘ hats off in front !’ was heard from all quarters. On a front seat, in the very thickest of the crowd, sat a fellow well known as fighting Bill Sweeny, with one of those pondeious structures of wool and rabbit’s fur on his head, denominated a bell-crowncd hat, but rather resembling an inverted church bell than the modern article designed for the covering of the ‘ dome of thought.’ Bill gloried in his celebrity as bully of the coun ty, and such was the obstinacy of fiis nature, and so.-trong his principle of combativeness, that he would not have removed that hat if it had totally elipsed one half the amphi theater. When asked to ‘just please to take it off Mr. Sweeny,’ in the gentlest, and most persuasive tone possible, his reply was a nudge of the elbow and‘Oil go to h—l, will yen.’ Tho performances went on. Rill sat with his hands thrust in his pockets, intently watching every movement, occa- I siotially laughing and swearing to himself how • smart they is /’ Presently, just as the clown was doing eels in the mud, with such rapid velocity that he looked ‘ for all the world’ like some great spotted snake, writh ing and twisting in wildest contortions, Bill felt and heard a thundering, crashing pres sure from above, and the next moment idl was darkness to him, while the shouts and yells of the audience fell in smothered tones upon his His first impression was that the pavilion had fallen in ; but as he sprang from his seat and found his arms firmly pinioned behind, and the shouting increased, he was at once convinced that the boys had been ‘projectin’’ with him. Mad with rage, he leaped like a cat into the ring—his arms still t id, and his lint resting on his shoulders, ns if his neck and part of his head had actually Icon driven into his; body—shouting as well as he could for the obstruction of his hend-stnll— ‘ Unloose me ! unloose me, I sv! and I’ll whoop the whole bilin’ of ye !’ An effort was made to get him out of the ring by those vl.or.i the confusion had thrown into it—the cin-us men taking no part in the Fray. Not 1 eiiig able to get his hands to his head, he was still in darkness, and as his friend, a drunken bully of a fel low of the same kidney approached him, with ‘ Here Billy, don’t he so fractious I’s your friend you know I is’—he gave him such a kick on the shins as set them together by the ears in the twinkling of an eye. Bill had broken the cord, nnd now they had it—good Georgia fashion—best man on top. Notwithstanding Bill was rnhzzled, they were about equally matched ; for though lie could not bite, as was bis wont, his an tagonist couldn’t gouge him. There was some confusion among the audience^—some of the ladies were for retiring, but the ttia l ager requested all to keep their seats, while the doctor called on the gentlemen present to pait the two bullies, who were 1 making the tan tmd saw dust fly at a tre mendous rate. Some dozen volunteered their services, the doctor urging them on— but the Sweeny blood was ‘ris’—and blind not only with rage, but by reason of his hat still being over his eyes, he fought at ran dom and with desperation : and for a few minutes there was ground and lofty tum bling with a vengeance. But poor Bill was forced to strike to his superior numbers, and was borne out of the ring, where he was finally pacified, after his hat had been re moved ; which however was much harder to come off than it had been to go on. It required a long pull, and a strong pull— indeed some fears were entertained of his neck giving way ; and the doctoi’ who had taken an active part in the matter, after the lighting was over, facetiously remarked that it was very fortunate that Mr. Sweeny’s nose, which had become tangled in the lin ing, was not large, and was inclined to the stlub, or he should have been under the necessity of sending for bis instruments. Quiet having been once more restored, the performances were resumed. Several surprising acts of horsemanship liad been gone threw with, the audience had nearly forgotten the late interruption, in their en joyment of the evening’s entertainments, and the clown was taking a little ride to himself, to the tune of ‘ a little frog would a wooing co,’ when in tumbled another man with a hell-crowned hat, almost under the horse’s feet ! The music ceased—tho horse came to a halt, apd the clown desired the man to leave the ring. But the fellow scrambled up and walked as well as he could (for lie was evidently very drunk) still fur tlier into the forbidden circle, and said, be tween a hiccup and a drunken leer, that he had come to ride. Who-o-CHi!’ exclaimed the clown—‘you ride a circus horse—did you crer hear such insurance ?’ ‘ 1 say, spotty’-: ‘ Mr. Merryman, if you please.* ‘ Well, Mr. Merrvman if you please, won’t you give me a ride.’ ‘ Who-o-o-o I you must go out of here, I tellyou.’ The doctor could not sit still. ‘ Now, that’s too bad,’ said he. * Who is that drunk- j en fellow, now, come to kick up another fuss? If he was in Augusta, they’d have him in the guard-house in a twinkling.’ J ‘ I paid my half dollar to come in here, and I’m gwine to have a ride or ficrbt o” ■?.’ ‘l’ll call master—master-r-r-r!’ ‘ Fotch him out, if you got any grudgo agin him, and I’ll whip him too,’ said the man with the bell crowned hat, as he J u hold of the clown’s leg and began pulling him oft’ the horstt. ‘Murder! robbery! thieves! burglary!’ shouted the clown. The audience began to get alarmed again —the doctor rose in his seat and caked to the chJwd to ‘ turn him out !’ The ring master came running in, evidently much ex asperated. ‘ What’s jour name, sir,’he demanded. ‘Eh ?—my name’s Joe Peters, from Crackers’ Neck, do you want anything out o’ mo V throwing himself in a fighting at titude. ‘ If this man has got any friends here they will do well to take him out before he gets into difficulty,’ said the ring-master. ‘ Yes, before I get hold ‘of him,’ added the clown. 4 What’s that you say, spotty V sr : d Joe turning to the last speaker. Here the doctor excused hitnself to the ladies, strode across the ring, and laying his hand on Joe’s shoulder, ordered him to leave the enclosure, immediately. Joe turned, and placed himself in a de fensive position. 4 Come, some of you gentlemen, and help turn this blackgtiard out of the show,’ said the doctor, beckoning to a group of your” men. * 4 That’s light, doctor, take him off before he gets hurt, for maybe his ma don't k, ovv he’s out.’ % Two young men came to the doctor’s as sistance, but no sooner had the otie in ad vance come close to Joe, than he turned round and ran back, exclaiming— ‘ That chap belongs to the show, 1 can smell it on his breath !’ The other followed his example, leaving the doctor alone to manage the intrude, who now staggered up to him, and demand ed if he wanted to fight. The doctor grasped him by the shouider, and had suc ! ceeded in forcing'him some distance towards ; the door, amidst the gibes and taunts of tlie audience, when Joe became more resolute in bis resistance, declaring he would have a ride. A scuffle ensued, during which a good part of the audience were tkoutiu - and cheering—some for the doctor and some fbr Joe, but there was no bounds to the tumult when Joe, thrusting his head be tween the doctor’s legs raised him ofF the ground, and dancing once or twice round the ling, despite that gentleman’s most de termined efforts to dismount, which he man ifested by throwing his legs andarn ( bout in the wildest confusion, tossed him poll melt on the heads of the negroes, who squalled in concert with the general shout. The doctor was dreadfully mortified t. this unlooked-for reverse, and was about re turning furiously to the charge, when tho clown approached him with a s.gpificar.t wink— • 4 Never mind, doctor, we’ll get shut of him, we’ll give him & ride, now.’ Then turning to Joe, who was approaching the horse’s heels, ‘So you want a ride or a fight, do you, eh V 4 Y r es, I want to ride that ere horse, spot ty, and I’m the boy tliat gwine to do it, too.’, 4 Well, sir, you’ve got to whip me first,’ putting on a savage look audgiviug his teeth a grind. ‘ I’m your boy,’said Joe, ‘l’m not Bill Sweeny.’ 4 The h—l you isn't ! Just give me a fair shake and I can whoop blazes out of you, though,’ grawled Bill, who was again in bis seat. The clown put himself into a fighting position. Joe was to the mark, arid after a few passes was knocked heels over head on the tan. ‘ Oh !’ exclaimed the ladies. * Serves him right !’ said the doctor, * lie’ll get his fill before he quits that ring.’ ‘Hurra, Joe ! show your game !’ shout ed seVeral. ‘ Give it to him, spotty !’ ‘ Oh, I want to go home,’ cried a timid little fellow, from between his father’s ktices. ThC next minute spotty was down, who as soon as lie’struck the ground shouted, Enough, take him off!’ Then springing up and applying a handful of tan-bask to his nose, lie extended the other hand to Joe, remarking— -1 You’ve whipt a gentleman, Joe, what’s your name? Ah, Peters, Mr. Joseph Peters, from Cracker’s Neck. You shall have a ride, Mr. Peters. Will you have a fresh horse, Mr. Peters V Then turning to the doctor he continued, 1 We’ll give him a ride —there’s more ways to kill a dog besides cboaking him with butter, you know.’ Joe was soon mounted, with his back to wards the horse’s head. The clown called out for the hardest trotting tune the musi cians could play. Pop went the whip, and away flew the horse, Joe floundering on his back like a drunken man in a quagmire. ‘ Now, doctor,’ called tho clown, ‘ if you want to see a cracker’s neck cracked’ ‘ Good enough for the fool,’ exclaimed the doctor, with a conceited chuckle. Oh ! mercy !’ shouted the ladies, ns Joe pitched forward, and seemed only to hold to the neck of the flying charger with arm. Put what was their astonishment wl n they beheld him first rise to his knees on the saddle, then to his feet, where be std 9 reeling anj<Ottering as if he was about NUMBER 2.