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VOLUME 11. | BY C. R. HANLEITER. p © IE f 1 ?l Y □ WIFE TO HER HUSBAND Linger not long ! Home is not Im.ne without thcc; Its toke..s only make me mourn ; Oh! lei its memory* like n chain about thee, Gently compel and hasten thy return. Linger not long! Linger not long ! Tlio’ crowds should woo thy stsying, Bethink dice : can the mirth of friends, though dear, Compensate f*>r the grief thy long delaying Costs the heart that sighs to have thee here ? Linger not long! Linger not long ! How shall I watch thy coining, As evening shadows stretch o'er moor and dell, When the wild bee hath ceased her busy humming, And silence hangs on all things like a spell ? Linger not long! jlow shall I watch for thee, when fears grow stronger. As night draws dark and darker on the hill ! I low shall I weep, when I can watch no longer ? Oh ! art thou absent—nrt thou absent still ? Linger not long I Yet I should grieve not, though the eye that seetlt me, Gazeth through tears that make its splendor dull; For, oh I 1 sometimes fear, when thou art with me, ‘ My cup of happiness is all too fuil! Linger not long I Ilastc—haste thee home into thy mountain dwelling ! Ilaste ns a bird unto its peaceful nest! Haste as a skiff, when tempests wild tire swelling, Flies toils haven of securest rest! Lingjr nor long! [E©a From the New Mirror. FORTUNE VERSUS TALENT; OU HOW IT TURN ED OUT. Mrs. Gore’s drawing-rooms were uncom monly attractive all at once. No less than five calls that morning within the space of an hour. The conversation, too, seemed very animated; an<l a listener might have been somewhat puzzled to have guessed the subject, front the disjointed sentences that now and then were heard near the door.— At length several exclamations came in rap id succession, and every lady of the com pany seemed determined to have a word. “ You don’t say si* 1” exclaimed one of a very prudent countenance. “How perfectly ridiculous 1 I never heard of a more foolish act !” continued an old maid of the company. “ What a pity! Such a fine gill as site is, too!” added a benevolent looking old lady. “ I declare, T thought scarcely atiy ouo good enough for her !” continued another. “ And having the choice of so many, too, to take up with the very worst sle could have made J” chimed in a fifth. “ I declare,! cannot beiieve sh e could he so foolish !” again spoke Mrs. Gore, who had been the first to tell the news, although she now seemed to doubt her own story. “ Well, well, it can’t be helped now —” •“ What. cßi.’t he helped, Mrs. L,” said a ‘lady, who had entered the room unannoun ced, and approached the talkers. “Oh! Mrs. E., how glad I am to see you,” immediately spoke the lady -of the mansion, advancing towards her visitor.— “ But, will you believe it, Julia Morton has actually thrown herself away upon a poor attorney, whose income or the nr.st amounts to barely a thousand a year.” “ Indeed ! Biit ! thought, by your dole ful tone, something do auful had happened. I hoard this morning that Julia was mat ti ed yesterday to Mr Dr.nforth. BuL why do you think so ill of the match ? i have al ways heard him estimated as a very fine fellow. His character and education are also superior to the generality of young men, whilst in position he is certainly her equal.” *’ Ob ! lie may l>e good enough in such things for all I know, but then he is so very poor. Thev sliQuld have waited at least un 'no *as able to support her properly ; and bhe. Vte all know, has had enough to en sure in her father’s house from struggling to keep up appearances, to have made her wiser than to tush upon premeditated pov *rt“ Perhaps her very experience lias had something to do with her decision. She h>ay know better that, any of us upon what income the cm i.va genteelly ; and, as she is verv ingenious, and possesses both taste and tact, 1 have no doubt hut what she will manage her means in a way that w. 1 make it appear to be a.nple. Julia, we all- know, is no fool; ami, we may be assured, has re flected properly upon whnt she has done. “ But then, she coultl have done so much better. There was H... the young mer chant, whoso income is something like— “ But all based upon borrowed capital, as I happen to know. Hardly a day passes but he has a note or something of the kind to cancel; and he is quite as much pressed for ready money as any one, to judge by his frequent calls upon my husband for assis tance. No, no, 1 can’t say I think credit sufficient to live upon, even though it stands as high as his.” .... “ Well, then, there’s young Eaton, who possesses a handsome pioperty, ic yields him a handsome income independent habits to swallow it up, ’ with and partihil h<H to speak ol his contmunl smoking and 4ridk;n|. and attend.og thea- & jF&mflg 2£cU>simi>ev : to attcratuve, agriculture, Jtteclimitcs, Sfcucatiou, iForclgw amt ©omrsttt EutclUgeurf, Kt. “ is the reason misfor.tun.es are so common in married life ; and mtt'Jiy a girl, who made Skliat was at the time thought a good matrib, is left a widow, with only her luxurious habits and her husband’sdeibts for Iter portion. Again, how many a lad)', at tired in themost expensive clothing, is yal. t ing Broadway, or entertaining fashionable visitors, whilst her poor husband is toiling from morning till night in his office or cot tn ting-room, to suppott her in such splend* >r. I think the happiness of our ladies would be farther increased hud they less of splen dor and external ornament about them. and mote of their husband’s interest at heart. Julia may not be arrayed in silks and jewels, hut then she will live w ithin ait atmosphere of affection around her, and eti jov sntne of her husband s company ; and, though she may have no carriage when she wishes to go abroad, yet his arm will sup port her, and give her more pleasure and pride titan the richest equipage in the world. But how I have chatted here 1 l declare, it is hear ait hour since 1 entered, and I must bid you good-by.” So saying, Mrs. E., took leave of Mrs. Gore, which we will do also, and following Julia, sec “ how it turned out.” And how did it turn out ? Some six or eight years after the above conversation a difficult and very important case iu law was waiting a decision. ‘1 he highest talent of the si a t,e, according to the newspapers, was engaged in it, and so com plex and difficult did it seem that few ven tured on opinion ; although, at the first hearing, an appearance of clearness and right on the aide of the plaintiff seemed likely to decide the suit at once. But the keen glance of the lawyer engaged in the defence soon detected the well built-up fraud against his client, and with his com prehensive mind he grasped the whole, and atep by step, unravelled it so clearly to the tics five or six times a week. Why, n man with his habits would be poor though lie possessed a million.” “ 01 course, l do not mean to excuse his dissipated course ; hut, llten, a wife might soon win him to domestic tastes and more reasonable doings. Still, there is Edward H., who also paid her great attention, and will have a handsome fortune from his fa ther, besides his business, which seems to be very profitable, nnd—” “And who is in debt to his landlady, with whom 1 am acquainted, and who thinks no thing of running into debt for every trifle. No, no, Mrs. Gore, none you hove mention ed are worthy of being compared with young Danfort It, though, 1 grant you their position in society seems to give them some what an advantage over him as to fortune. But, then, he possesses within himself that which cannot fail to bring him wealth in the end, besides securing to him the admi ration and esteem of his fellow’ men. His talents are of no ordinary kind, and are joiUfd to a clear, comprehensive mind. In deed, I cannot but congratulate Julia upon having secured the affections of such an up right young matt, as every act of Mr. Dan- Fort h’s ltas shown him to be.” “ My dear Mrs. E., I do not quarrel with the character of Mr. Danforth, hut his im prudence in drawing into his poverty such a fuse girl as Julia, whom, we all know', de serves the best of husbands.” “And believe me, Mrs. Gore, she lias se cured that desideratum.” “ Well, well, Mrs. E., I hope it will turn out as Vo;: seerr* to think, hut my experi ence and ohseiration both warn me of the yeats of care and sorrow that are sure to follow in the train of those who have marri ed without some sure and sufficient mpans of support ; and I fear Julia has a hard fu ture before her.” “ If she U'as like the generality of young ladies, who seem only educated for show and ornament, I should fear so too. But such is not the case. Julia can fashion Iter own clothes, and, if needs he, some of her husband’s. She also lias a natural taste for all that pertains to domestic life, and can give an air of elegance and comfort to even the humblest apartment. Witness of whnt use she has been in iter mother’s family, and how well her skilful fingers have hidden the poverty which otherwise would have been so glaring.” “ But is it not hard that her whole life should he one of such slavery as we know’ she has had to undergo a! home?” “ 1 believe Julia does not look upon it in that light. I have often heard her say it was a positive pleasure to her to do any thing. however humble, for those site loved; and, as she knew her mother could never lie happy in leaving- Iter present handsome mansion and resia’in.g in one more suited to her father’s circumstances, she has exerted herself, for I er mother's sake, to keep up appearances in the fuW.'fy, mid at least hide from the world in genet hI what we, their in timate friends, knew t<K> well. I’cOuldirtt you of many !t sacrifice ih at site bus made tj her mother’s pride; and, though her whole life should he a work-day, yet she has strength of mind ami nobility of soul sufficient to hear her with honor through it; amt, wlien girded mound by .affection, which site has long sadly wanted, at In ‘me, she will he happy, you may be assurer. 1 .” “ From all you have said, Mi's. E., tainly do see the subject in a dLffe.'.ent lialit, and Itope, sincerely* it may have a prosper ous ending. But liow very differently the world argues!” MADISON, MORGAN COUNTY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1843. court and jury, that a unanimous verdict was returned in his favor ; and the humble attorney offurmer years, Mr. Danforth, had the honor of having successfully defended the cause of justice and humanity against an array which at first seemed invincible, track ed as it was by two of the oldest and ablest veterans at the bar. Mrs. Got e would have hardly recognized the humble clerk, whom she had so unmer cifully assailed for having carried ofTher fa vorite Julia, in the elegant and dignified matt who now stood with honor among the most eminent and distinguished of his com peers. But so, indeed, it was. Three years of trial and disappointments were followed by a fourth of unusual prosperity; and the wife, who had so freely abated his humble desti ny, now could count Iter income by thou sands. “ But were not the first years of your marriage vety gloomy?” asked a young ftiend of Julia, who had been present at the conversation which had occurred in Mrs. Gore's drawing-room the day after Julia’s imprudent match, as it was tnen almost ex clut-ively thought. “ Judge for yourself, my dear Ellen.— When I married, my husband’s income was vety limited. 1 should he ashamed to tell you this did T not wish to convince you up on what small means people who love each other, and are willing to exert themselves, can live. I saw from the first that Mr. Danforth, ir. his profession, had many diffi culiies to overcome. My happiness never depended upon the gratification of the sen ses, such as is received from fine clothes, furniture and amusements, therefore I hard ly missed the se things, surrounded as I was by an Affection that seemed to grow stron ger and brighter every day, whilst the sim plicity and frugality of our Style of living ever kept us above want, even during our darkest trials. And very simple was our style of living. Two neat rooms was the whole extent of our territoiies ; and in that small compass we kept house, even gen teelly, for three years. Often were our friends pleasantly entertained in our com fortable parlor, without having any suspi-’ clou of the narrowness of our limits, and only wondering how we got along so well upon so little. But I must he more minute in our manner of keeping house, and give you a description which may be turned to account should your husband ever fail, and you meet the reverse of fortune. Our fur niture was all good of its kind. W e had a sofa-bedstead in the parlor, coveted with scarlet and damask, that answered the dou ble purpose of a comfortable seat by day and a bed by night. Here also was onr ‘.took-case, well filled by my husband before our marriage with truly valuable books; in the lower part of it was a snug place for our best tea-set, and the jar of preserves kept for n few dear friends who now anti llten spent an afternoon with me. Caipet. chairs, a cloak, anti a centre-table, covered with tnagaz n sand annuals, completed the most of nor simple pa rlor furniture. From time to time, however, we added to its or naments, as our means allowed, now an as tral lamp, and then a rug, &<\, until our room looked both elegantly and tastefully furnished, and none would have guessed it served us for a sleeping-room. The other apartment held a small cooking-stove, and its numerous fixtures quite superseded all other co iking-utensils, and could be used both summer and winter. This was very handy to me, and our food was always well cooked in it. And tea table, chairs, and a largo bureau, besides a wash stand in one corner of the room, completed its furniture. Here we took our meals, and 1 did my kitch en work—though, to tell the truth, there was not, after all, so much to do. Two grovvn-up persons, living as we did, are not half the trouble to do fir ns the manage ment of servants are in a larger household. Alt ample closet in this room held tbe ne cessary house-keeping appat at ns, nnd saved all trouble of running up and down stairs. A poor woman, who lived in a street back of us, and whose yard joined onr own, washed our clothes, nnd I myself ironed them. A little h.y of bets was very use i'itl to me in runuitig errands, nnd the inite 1 i >ave them in return for their services was r.sally of great help to them. 1 found a p-ositive pleasuie in keepingoursmallhouse hold in order, and it was a real happiness to m e to prepare my husband such dishes us lie liked, and have them served precisely at ti’ie hour he wished. Thus you see, Ellen, I vv as not afraid to toil—and, to tell the tru tri, it was really a benefit to me ; the ex eictse conducing much to keep me in good spirit a. Keeping our wardrobe in older and reading and writing made the time pass plcnsantly until my husband’s return, which wajs seldom later than four in the afternoon. Often we walked out together, or attended the opera, and not unfrequently entertained a friend or two during the evening. Thus two years passed away with us, and then my little Mary was born. My husband, in spite of his small income, was enabled to stirrouud me with every comfort necessary to my situation. Os course, my cares in creased after the birth of my child, for I would not keep a servant after the first two months of my recovery, as my husband’s business grew’ even duller than usual; and, though we never wanted for anything ne cessary, yet we were sometimes in fear of it. This year was the darkest one, yet still our courage never left ns, and our affection only grew the stronger for each other ; and, had it not been for the unkindiiess of some of my relatives, I should have thought nothing of our humble living. But, alas! my mother never ceased to reproach me for what she called my folly. And, instead of counsel and sympathy from those so near to me, I met only cutting re murks towards myself; and my kind and itohlcminded hus band, who was struggling through many difficulties, was assailed with hitter taunts from my own relations ! Ah ! these things were harder to hear than the poverty that assailed us; for that quickly passed away, whilst the sting of tittkiiidnees, I fear, lias not even yet healed. It is true, they now strive, by every attention, to make us forget, but I cannot help saying their attention would have been more grateful to us, and lightened us of many cates, had it come at the time of need. My mother WBB, how ever, much disappointed that I did not ac cept a Mr. R„ who was, at the time I mar ried, a prosperous merchant. Alas! but two years after myself he married, and t< ok his bride to a splendid mansion, where, for one year, they revelled in splendor, and then he died, leaving his wife totally unpro vided for, with nothing hut luxurious habits and his numerous debts. She returned to her father’s honee, broken in health and spirits; and I heard, not long ago, she was in a consumption. In the meantime, my dear husband was fust nearing the reward of his persevsrance. Fortunately he gain ed a very important suit, that had been put in his hands, through the illness of a friend, almost at the very last moment of its trial, and the quickness with which he compre hended it, and the clear manner in which he presented it to the court, together with the extraordinary knowledge of law which he also showed, brought him at once into notice, which was, in reality, all that was needed to advance his fortunes. And tlius all our pecuniary cares were soon ended ; aud I assure you that, as liberal as the posi tion of my husband makes it necessary for us now to live, we do not consume more than half of rite income his extensive practice brings him in. I cannot say that we are any happier now than during the first humble but blessed year of our imTon ; at.d I am firmly convinced that the lowliest fortune may he divested of all hoiror when affection sheds its light upon it, and, each want is brought cheerfully within its limits. M. A. E. Frtm the Boston Mercantile Journal. BATTLE BETWEEN THE EXITED STATES AND MACEDONIAN. Reading in your paper of the 14th inst. a very graphic account of the battle be tween the United States and Macedonian, I was reminded that 1 had in my possession a very fine counterpart to it, written on the day after the battle, by a gentleman who was a volunteer on board the United States. It would be difficult to imagine a greater contrast titan tlie scene presented on board tbe two ships, so highly creditable to onr own navy, and to the character of the brave Decatur. A. At sea, Oct. 26, ISI2, lot. 1,/on. 29. My dear friends —1 will endeavor to giv# you something like an account of what I have witnessed since wc patted. The gentry who have heretofore done the sea fighting of the world, have represented it as a business so frightful, hgve so filled our eats with the thundering description of the cannonade, and so wrung our sympathies with the agonies of the wounded and dying, that had ! not just come out of one as noisy, at least, as any of theirs, I should think it a tety improper sort of a picture to present to a lady’s eyes; hut it being a very tame (‘•meet it, saving uow and then a ridiculous occurrence, 1 not only do not despair of giv ing you a very minute account which shall not effect your nerves, hut I hope even to excite your curiosity as high as mine was when 1 came to sea for the put pose of see ing a fight. You must know that yester day morning 1 was waked out of a sound sleep with the very agreeable intelligence that n frigate was in sight, statu ing for us, nnd close aboard. “How large is she ?” “ Very large, sir,” “ Perhaps it is an Amer can or Spanish ?” “ No, sir, she has got an English flag flyinc.” “ Give me my clothes.” The Putser by this time hud got the intelli gence. His station you know is in the cockpit, out of shot. With his clothes in Iris bund, he was darting with the rapidity of lightning for his hiding place, when, see ing me, he stopped suddenly, and taking me to his cabin—“ Come, my good fellow, there’s no knowing what might Itappen— just subscribe this receipt for your share of the small stores.” Avery pretty omen, thought I. Dress ed and armed (for you must understand I am one of the goodly fellowship of board ers) I ventured on deck. Here, every thing was in a bustle—the hurry of preparation for battle; I met the commodore’s eye.— “ Well, sir, you are ready, I see.” “ Yes, sir,” said I, in a very husky voice. “We slinll have a fight.” “ Think so, air ?’’ “Oh, yes, there she is, and a beauty too.” I got on a gun carriage, looked over the bulwark, and there she was sure enough, right abreast of us, showing all her teeth.— Ah ! thought I to myself, how much better ’twould be how it she would only strike without firing. “ Stall we hoist the en sign ?” asked a quartermaster. “ Yess.” ” More than one ?” “No; we can whip het as easily under one flog B 9 four. Si lence !” And all was as hush as death.— Our captain now mode a speech : “My good fellows, we’ll have no cheering. If you knock out one of her masts, don't stop to bawl about it but thump away the harder at the other twu.” Well, thought!, if yu don’t make a better fight than you have a speech, we may as well give up et once.— “ Fire one broadside from the gnn-deck 1” And off it went, very much like fifteen oth er guns, making some noise and a great smoke ; and then very faintly we Iteard ten funs in return, but not a shot came near us. gtew calm, and now if they would only finish it at this distance ! The enemy, however, went about again. Our sails were hauled up, and there we lay, waiting sot him to come down. He came within about half a mile, and Jet slip all his broadside, nnd off went ours. And so we went on, our men firing three times to his once—the shot flying thick and close, whiz, whiz, whit, whit—they flew fast aud thick. I went to the capstan the minute that one of her yards had settled, and the moment I turned my hack, crash came a shot, through and through, knocked down three men, cut off” a whelp of the. capstan and threw it in to a thousand splinteis all about me. There the men lay—not a groan, not a wry look, no crying out. At length, Lieut. Funk, who was one of them, beckoned to me. 1 took him in my arms and carried him to the gun-deck to the grating over the cockpit.— There were three others with their legs off. “ Let them go down first,” said Funk, “ I am in no pain.” They all went down. 1 put him through. “Go to the commodore,” said he, “ 1 can get down without you.” I turned to go up, and three men were pick ing up one of their messmates without a head.—” Out of the port with him,” said the officer, and they threw him out as if he’d been a dog. All this at any other time would have been distressing—hut when I got on deck, a smile from the Couimodoie, and “ Well, Mr. 8., you came to see a fight, how do you like it 1” “ Very well—but it scents to me ’twill never be over.” “ No,” said he, *• l shall have to go home for powder and shot if he keeps of!’ much longer.” Direct ly he set his foresails, and edged down pret ty close to ns. The commodore turned to j me, “ We’ll now settle in twenty minutes!” I —and after seventeen spent much in the same manner as l have described, down ! ctStuc all his masts and yards, his firing ccas- | ed, and we ranged ahead. Soon went about and stood close down to him, when he ac knowledged ho had struck. And this was all. And this is a fight ? I looked at the watch, arid we had been hammering a* way one hour and twenty-two minutes. — What ship is that I “ The Macedonian.” Give Commodore Decatur’s compliments to CaptaiuCarden—hopes he is well. You must know that last March C'apt. Carden was in Norfiilk with his ship. While there he and the Commodore had a watm dis pute about the respective discipline, equip ment. armament, &c., of their and out ships. At last, they quarreled, and the Commo dore told him that if there should he a war they might be able to settlethose questions; till then they hod bettor not lie discussed.— Carden replied, “ My frigate is thought a match for any single decked ship afloat.— She may go down, sir, but site can never strike to a frigate.” He catne on board looking more like a butcher than anything else, for lie was liter ally besmeared from head to foot with blood He w'as received at the gangway in the most gracious manner by his old acquain tance, shown into the cabin, nnd although in the most distressing state of mortification, saying, “I shall certanily lie hung-my coun try never will forgive this—they wont le ---lieve it till 1 tell them of it,” Sec. &c., was pacified, and at length in some degree sat isfied. He was told that the Guerriere struck iu 30 minutes, with half the loss of men he had suffered, and so on, for you must know he came from a scene horrible enough to make him mad. His deeks were lumltered with Iris dead end wounded.— Out of a crew of 300 men, he had 36 killed and 68 wounded—we otdy seven killed and five wounded. His vessel was a complete wreck, ours in one hour’s time could have whipped just such another frigate in half the time, could we have got close alongside one. We are now employed in putting her in order to come to America, with what chance, you will easily judge of our getting her in. when informed that we are just 2500 miles from home and a winter’s coast to come on to. With Decatur’s luck, 1 think we may reach America by tire first of De cember, when I hope to have the pleasure, See., &c. With the kindest regards, I am, My dear friends, your much obliged And very humble servant, B. F. B. | The foregoing was written by the late Ben). F. Bourne, Esq., then, as the letter shows a volunteer on hoard the United States, nnd afterwards a I’ursci in the Na vyJ < No plaster can be made strong enough to draw genuine tears from a hypocrite’s eves—money from a miser—generosity from selfishness —truth from a slanderer— honesty from a thief—ar a prize in the lot tery. j NUMBER 28. WM. T. THOMPSON, EDITOR. TAKING THE CENSUS—A SCENE IN ALABAMA. BY H. HOOPER,ESQ. Wo rode op one day to the residence of n widow rather past the prime oflife—(juat that period at which nature supplies more utimtiJmrttrtJre ‘nl wtrtrtl lubricates I tie bing es of the female tongue)—and hitching to the fence, walked into the house. “ “ Good morning, madam,” said we in our usual bland, somewhat insinuating manner. “ Mamin,” said the widow gruffly. Drawing our blanks from their cases, wo proceeded—l am the man, madam, that takes the census, and “ ! * “The mischief you aro!” said the old termagetit. “ Yes, I’ve heaiu of you; Pair son W. told me you was coming, and 1 told’ him jist what I tell you, that if you Said “cloth,” “soap,” i ir “chickens to me. I’d set the dogs on ye. Here, Bull! here. Pomp!’ Two wolfish curs lesponded to the rad fop Bull and Pomp, by coming to the door, ‘ smelling at our feet with a slight growl, and then laid down on the steps. “ Now,” ron tinued the old she savage, “them’s the se verest dogs in this country. Last week Bill Sfonecker’s two year old sleet jumped’ my yard fence, and Bull mwl Pomp tuk him by the throat, and they killed him afore my boys could break ’em loose, to save the world.” “ Yes. ma’am,” said we, meekly ; ** Bull and Pomp seem to be very fine dogs,” “ You may well say that ; w hat I tell# them to do they do—and if I was to sick them on your old horse yonder, they’d eat him up afore you could say Jack Roberson. And its jist w hat I will do, if you try to pry into my consarns. They are none of your business, nor Von Boren’s not her, I reckon. Oh, oid Van Bureri! I wi.-h I had yea here, you old rascal ! I’d show you whet— i’d—l’d make Bull and Pomp show you how to be Pendin’ out men to take down what liitle stuff’people’s got, jist to tax ir, when its taxed enough n ready !’ All this time we were perspiring through fear of the fierce guardians of the old wid ow’s portals. At length, when the widow paused, we remarked that as she was cietci mined not to answer questions about die’ produce of the farm, we would juat set down the ago, sex, anJ complexion of each member of her family. “Nosicb a thing—you’ll do no sieh a iking,’* said she, “I’ve got five in my family, and that’s all you’ll git from me. Old Van Bu ren must have a heap to do, the drotietl old villynu to send you to take down how. old my children is. I’ve got five in family, and they bre all between five and a bundled years old, they are all a plaguy sight whiter than you, ami whether they are boys or girls, is none of your consarns.” We told her we should report her to the Marshal, arid she would lie fined, but it only augmented her wrath. “ Yes ! send your marshal, or yanr Mr. Van Bureu here, if you’re had off’ to—let ’em come—let Mr. Van Buren come, (look ing as savage as a Bengal tigeress,) Oh. I wish he would come,” and her nostrils dil ated, and her eyes gleamed, •* I’d cut hi# head off!” “ That might kill him,” we ventured t ivnM.i t, by u ny of a joke.. _ .•/ “ Kill him ! kill him—oh if I had here by the year* l reckon I would kill him. A pretty chap to lie eating his vittits out’tt golden s|h ions that poor people’s taxed fur, and raisin’ an army to gttliim made king of Anieriky—tire audacious, nasty, stinking, old scamp !” She paused a moment and then resumed, “And now jist put down what I tell you on that paper, and don't be ‘ telling no lies to send to Washington city, Jist put down Judy Tompkins, agreeable woman, and four children.” , We objected to making any such entiy, but the old woman vowed that it should s>., done, to prevent any misrepresentation of her case. We however were pretty reso lute, until she appealed to the couebant whelps, Bull and Pomp. At the J|*®t glimpse of their teeth our courage gavd%sfe; ;; and we made the entry in a bold handacran# a blank schedule. ” Judy Tompkins, age oil e woman, and four children.” We now begged the old.lady to dismiss her enuine friends, that wo might'go ou| and depart, and forthwith mounting our old black we determined to give the old soul U parting fire. Turning half round in older to face her, we shouted— }’ “Old ’ornan !” “ Who told you to call me old ’oman, you longleggod, halched-faced whelp, you 1 I’ll make the dogs tuke you off that horse quicker'!* lightning, if you give me eny mute of your di alled impudence. What do yolfc wantl’’ “ Do you want to get married 1” “ Not to you, if I do !” Placing our riglit thumli on the nasal ex tremity of < ur countenance, we said, “ Yi'ii needn’t be uneasy, old ‘till, o*i that score though you might suit sore leggud Dick S up our wav, and should like to know what to tell him lie might count on if he came down next Sunday !” “ Here, Bull 1” shouted lire widow, “eipjfc him. Pomp !” but we cantered off, unwntin ded, fortunately, by the fanga of Bull and- Pomp who kept up the chase as long as thfey could hear the cheering voice of their mill tress —“S-i-c k, Pomp —sick, sick, s4l§)|pt him, Bull—suboy ! suhoy ! suboy l’\