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compared with a scene of this kind—about an hour before sunset —in the depth of a great North American solitude, a vast am phitheatre of wilderness, rock and moun tain; after the trees are changed by the frost. People may talk of their (iue Italian skies; of the deep midnight blue of the Sonth American skies. We have seen them all; slept under them all; slept tin ders sky like one great moon ; worship ped them all; seen them through all the changes of storm ar.d sunshine, darkness and light; and we say. that in reality, they are dim, heavy—unclouded, uninteresting compared with your North American skies, a little before or after sunset. “ And so, too, of the garniture of a North American wilderness, after two or three clear, frosty nights. There is nothing to compate with it under heaven. The moun tains, vallies, woods ; all burst into flowers; all at once. Other countries are in a better atate of cultivation. Their trees are less numerous ; their wild shrubbery less like a vegetable inundation over the laud—cover ing every foot of the earth ; or the changes of their color from season to season, aie slow and gradual. “ It is not so, in America ; North Amer ica. There, the transformation is universal; instantaneous. A single night will do it.— In the evening of a fine day, perhaps, all the great woods will he green ; with hardly a red or a brown, or yellow leaf. A sharp froat will set in, at night. Before the sun rises again, the boundless verdure of the whole province ; a whole empire, in truth, will he changed. In the morning, there will be hardly a green leaf to be found. Be fore the w'eek is over, go where you may, through the superb wilderness, you will meet with nothing but gay, brilliant scarlet, purple, orange ; with evety possible variety of brown, light blue, vivid crimson or hluod color.” Musical Blow-up. —Tlie Rev. Mr.B. . when residing at Canterbury, was reckoned a good violinccllo player; but he was not more distinguished for his expression on the instrument, than for the appearance of his features whilst playing it. In fact, when lost in the midst of the adagios of Corelli or Avison, the muscles of his face sympa thised with the fiddle stick, and kept up a reciprocal movement. His sight being dim, obliged him very often to snuff the candle, and when he came to a bar's rest, in lieu of snuffers he generally employed his pingers in that office ; and least he should offend the good housewife in this dirty trick of his, he used to thrust the spoils into the sound holes of tijp ‘ A waggish friend, who ha3 observed B ’s’ wlrrn, resolved to enjoy himself “at the parson’s expense,” as he termed it; and for that purpose he popped aquantityofgunpowderinto B “s instrument. The rest were informed of the trick, and of course kept at a respectful distance, The tea equipages being remov ed, music became the order of the evening, and after B had tuned his instrument, and drawn bis stand near enough to snuff his candle with ease, feeling himself in the meridian of his glory, he dashed away tit Yanhall’s 47th. B came to a bar’s rest, the candles were snuffed, and lie tin ust the ignited wick into the usual place; lit fragor, and bang went the fiddle to pieces. —Dramatic and Musical Review. Peacock’s Pickle for Meat. —Admiral Peacock’s pickle for meat is preferable to most others when applied to family beef, pork or mutton. It is thus made—water, 4 gallons; sugar, or (molasses), pounds; saltpetre, 2ounces; salt, (the bay or largest sort,) 6 pounds. Boil all together and skim, See. Then let it cool. The meat being placed in a vessel intended to hold it. pour the cold pickle on the meat til it is covered. In that state keep it for family use. The beef, after lying in the pickle for ten weeks, has been found as good as if it had been salted threedayß,an<ltenderasachickcn. Ifthemeat is to be preserved for a considerable time, the pickle must be boiled and skimmed once in two months, throwing in during the boil ing two ounces of sugar and a half pound of salt. Thus the same pickle will hold good for many months. This pickle is in comparable for curing bams, t mgues and hung beef. When tongues and hung beef are taken out of the pickle, cleanse and diy the pieces, then pul them in paper hags, and hang them in a dry warm place. Some who have tried the method choose their meat salter, and instead of 6, use 8 or 9 pounds of salt. In very hot weather it is necessary before the meat is put to the pickle, to rub it well over witli salt and let it lie one, two, or three hours, till the bloody juices run off. If the meat, in this case, is the least tainted before it is pul to the pickle, it will be entirely spoilt in a day’s time, in hot weather. Peacock’s pickle is found so valuable that no family ought to he without it.— Fanner's Gazette. Henry Clay’s Wife. — A lady of Noi th em Pennsylvania now residing in Virginia, has written to a ftiend in Montrose, Penn., from which the Editor of the Susquehanna Register has published several exrtacts.— Among them we find the following which will inteiest the ladies at least, and shows Mrs. Clay to be the true Amciican matron, as her husband is the true Ameiican citi zen and patriot. “1 happened to get in company with Clay men and ladies too. I met with Mrs. H —of Lexington, Kentucky, who had visited at Mr. Clay’s during the last sum mer; and she gave a pleasant account of the domestic habits of the family. Mrs. Clay gets up at 4 o’clock in the morning— superintends her dairy, does much of the labor with tier own hands, sometimes chums the cream ami always salts and prepares it for the market, &c. She said it was a well arranged house, and she dcsciibcd the place as beautiful in the extreme. I enquired whether Mrs. Clay was genteel and lady like in her manners. She said yes, exceed ingly so—that it was rare to meet one so intelligent and accomplished. Mrs. H. would almost have made a Clay matt of you, if you bad heard her talk.” A man will lay hold of nny pretence to lay his fault upon another. The World. —“ Sir, bring me a good, | plain dinner,"’ said a melancholy-looking in- ; dividual to a waiter atone of our principal hotels. “ Yes, sir.” The dinner was brought and devoured, and the eater called the landlord aside, and thus addressed him— “ You are the landlord ?” “ Yes.” “ You do a good business here 1” “ Yes,” (in astonishment.) “ You make—probably ten dollars a day, clear ?” ■Yes.” “ Then I am safe. I cannot pay for what I have consumed; I have been out of employment seven months; but have en gaged to go to work to-morrow. I had been without food four and-twenty hours when I entered your place. I will pay you in a week.” “ 1 cannot pay my hills with such prom ises,” blustered the landlord, “ and 1 do not keep a poor-house. You should address the proper authorities. Leave me some thing for security.” “ 1 have nothing.” “1 will take your coat.” “If I go into the streets without that, I will get my death, such weather as it is.” “1 on should have thought of that before! you came here.” “You are serious? Well, I solemnly aver that one week from now I will pay you.” “ I will take the coat.” The coat was left and a week afterwards redeemed. Seven yeais after that, a wealthy man entered the political arena and was present ed at caucus as an applicant for a Congres sional nomination. The principal of the caucus held his peacp —he heard tlie name and the history of the applicant, who was one of the most respectable citizeus. He was chairman. The vote was a tie and lie cast a negaiive—thereby def ating the wealthy applicant, whom he met an hour afterwards, and to whom he said— “ You don’t remember me?” “ No.” “I once ate a dinner in your hotel, and although I told you I was famishing and pledged my word and honor to pay you in a week, you took my coat and saw me go out into the inclement air, at the risk of my life, without it.” *• Well, sir, what then ?” “ Not much. To night you were a can didate for nomination, and but for me you would have been elected to Congress.” Three years after, the hotel-keeper be came bankrupt and sought a home at Belle vieu. I ll” poor ditinerless wretch that was, is now a high functionary in Albany. We know him well. The ways of Providence are indeed wonderful, and the world’s mu tations almost beyond conception or belief. New York Paper. Fashion. —Fashion rules the world ; and a most tyrannical mistress she is. compelling people to submit to the most inconvenient things imaginable, for fashion’s sake. She pinches our feet witli tight shoes, or chokes us with a neck handkerchief, or squeezes tire breath out of the body by tight lacing; she makes people sit up by night when they ought to be in bed, and keeps them in bed in the morning when they ought to be up and a doing She makes it vulgar to wait upon one’s self, and genteel to live idle and useless. She makes people visit when they would rather stay at home, eat when they ate not hungry, and drink when they are not thirsty. She invades our pleasure, and interrupts out business; She compels the people to dress gaily, whether upon their own property or that of others; whether agreeable to the wold of God. or the dictates of pride. She ruins the health and pn>duces sick ness, destroys life, and occasions premature death. She makes foolish parents, invalids of children, and servants of all. She is a tormentor of conscience, despoil er of mortality, and an enemy of religion, and no one can be her companion and en joy either. She is a despot of the highest crude, fiill of intrigue and cminiiisr, and yet husbands, fathers, wives, and mothers, sons, daughters, and servants, black and white, voluntarily have become her obedient servants and slaves, and vie with one another to see who shall he most obsequious. Fence Corners. —Some writer hints the propriety of digging up fence corners, &c., and planting them with winter squashes, beans mid bush peas. We doubt whether there could he any more judicious advice given. Much land by this means, which is now neglected, might he made to yield abundantly, and would doubly pay for the little trouble necessary to place it in a state of cultivation. Picture to yourself the contrast exhibited by the comers that sur round a field in this improved condition, and those that are filled with briers and weeds, and consider if the former is not more in accordance with both fancy and judgment. If a farmer has an abundance of land with out his fence corners, and Its other isolated out of the way pieces of eaith, vve can’t see to what better use ho could appropriate these, than by planting them with ornamen tal trees, for the purpose of sheltering Ids cattle, keeping down the weeds and shield ing the jaded traveller from the scorching lays of the sun. Appearances. —lt is a remarkable fact that every animal when dressed in human ap parel, resembles man rind very strikinclv in features. Put a frock, bonnet, and spectacles, on a pig and it looks like an old woman of fifty. A hull dressed in an overcoat resembles a lawyer. Tie a few ribbons round a cat, put a fan in its paw, and a boat ding school Miss is represented. A cockerel in uni form is a general to the life. The features of a tiger call to rnind those of a sailor. A hedgehog looks like a miser. Dress a monkey in a frock-coat, cut of his tail, trim his whiskers, and you have a Broadway dandy. Jackasses resemble u gteat many people. 3DWWmLB Ji it mu . Mexico. —The attention of our reading world has been drawn very much, for the last three or four years, to Mexico. Since the appearance of Stephens’s first work, every few months bring to light some new discovery or adds to our stock of informa tion. From “ Brantz Mayor’s Mexico as it Was and Is,” (published by Winchester,) we derive some statistical information we do not remember to have seen in other works. We seem, also to get a better in sight from it into the structure of soeiety as represented by the’ Middling Classes. The Republic now contains about 7,000,000 in habitants. Os these, only 1,000,000 are whites—4,ooo,ooo are Indians—the rest Negroes, Mestizos. &c. Out of these 7,- 000,000, only 687,7-18 of all classes can read and write. When we consider that out of this small number of those who can read anil write,.only a portion of them ate men, the rest being Women and children, we cease to wonder at the unsettled condition of the Republic. Liberty, in such a country, must have a queer definition, and the prac tical operation of Republican principles be any tiling but right. In the City of Mexico alone, 8,861 were imprisoned during the year 1842 foretime. So long as such a state of society exists, we can expect nothing but changes and it regu larities. The administration of the Gov ernment must be weak, and the vast re sources of the count!y untouched or misap plied. So we find it—with mines yielding twenty millions annually, to say nothing of its other greater resources, its debt internal and external, including loans, See. was at the close of last year upwards of 684,000,000. And yet till 1841 —the entire revenue tothe Government, with the exception of 11 J per cent, was applied simply to the liquidation of the internal debt, amounting to $18,550,- 000. Did the Government merely manage the mines of the country as they ought to be managed, her revenue would amount to vastly more than it now is from all her re sou rcetoget her. VY’e would not have it inferred, because we speak of the valuable statistics in Mr. Mayer’s work, that it has nothing else. It abounds in thrilling inci dent, and most exciting tales of danger and death, related in an uncommonly graphic manner. 1 he description of a bull fight is full of life and reality. I he vices and faults arid misery of the Mexican population, are related in an im partial manner, while their virtues are seen and appreciated. Much of the misery is attributed to the clergy, who have for cen turies contrived to attract the wealth of the multitude to themselves, whiletlie poor have been kept in ignorance and debasement. — As our traveler wanders over the rich plains, and among the rivers of that magnificent country, his descriptions of scenery’, and cli mate, fill one with regret that it should be the home of faction, and the prey of unprin cipled men. He says, “ I give Mexico as she was and Mexico as she is, and leave it to herself to say what she will be in future.— Education of the masses must take place, or the republican principles she professes will only aggravate her troubles and precipitate again and again those crises which exhaust her resources and weaken her government.” —New York Tribune. Lynn —Professor Ingraham, in his last new work, “ The young genius,” thus char acterizes this town as the vast cordwaineiy of the Union.” The very pleasant and thriving town of Lynn is the paradise of shoemakers! Its young men early transferred from the cradle to the last, cut teeth and leather at the same time; and its pretty maidens learn to bind shoes with the inductions of their a , b, abs. Lovets exchange hearts over a kid-slipper, anil swear fidelity upon a lap stone. If they would get married they ask old Dr. Waxend, the parson, if lie will stitch them together, and they will pay him in hides and shoemending. Whipping their children they call tanning , and the rod they use is a cowhide. The little boys swear “by hides and leather;” and play at games which they call “high and low quarter” and “heel and toe.” A child new born is a lap- stone, and the ages of children arc known by the num ber of the shoe they wear. Boys are called rights and girls lefts —an old maiden an “odd slipper,” ami a bachelor an “odd hoot.” The stieet doors in their dwellings are “insteps.” and a man in an over coal is “ foxed.” ‘1 lie fields about the town are “ patches” and a fellow half seas-over is “ half soled.” They never see an oak tree but they directly calculate the number of pes it will make, and when they behold bees at work they reflect that the only end of wax is a waxend. They look on all cat tle and sheep as only leather growing, and believe hogs were only made to produce bristles. Its lap-stones would pave Broad way, anil its lasts, if piled together, would make a monument higher than that on Bun ker Hill.” Who does not abhor parodies ? They verify the remark of Napoeou that “there if hut a stej) between the sublime and the ridiculous.” The most beautiful sentiments are thus made to excite laughter; and the more beautiful the more ludicrous—fust as the sweetest cider makes the sourest vine gar, Bryant has this noble line sumewhere, so often quoted— “ Truih crushed ‘o the earth will rise again.” Some scnpe-gtace adds— “So will a toad. \V have seen a toler ably well killed toad hop away in less than fifteen minutes.” The fellow means to say, we suppose, parodizing Bryant's fine stanzas, arid allud ing to the physiological fact that these rep tiles have been known to live for centuries imbedded in the heaits of rocks: Toads crushed to the earth will rise again, The eternal years of time are theirs; But adders wounded, writhe in pain, And die before their murderers. Methodist Episcopal Church. —The in crease of this body within a few yeais has been without parallel. In their last official documents they published their numbers in each conference in the IJuion and Texas, of which the summary is : Whites. Colored. Indians. Total. Total this yr. 936,736 128,410 3,379 1,168,526 Total last yr 803,296 107,296 2,817 913,908 A Noble Deed. —During the last earth quake at Point a Petre, a gentleman was rescued from death by the heroic efforts of a slave. He W’as immediately offered a handsome re watd for his humanity. “No, no,” said the generous fellow—“ nothing for money to-day—all for the love of God!” Histoiy scarcely records a nobler sentiment. The Colonial Council voted him 2,000 francs, 1,500 to purchase his freedom, iOO for an outfit in his new career. Advertisements. —The following advertise ment, drawn up by an alderman of the town of Cambridge (England) some years ago, is a curious specimen of expression : “ Whereas a multiplicity of damages are frequently occurred by damages of outra geous accidents by fire, we whose names are underwritten, have thought proper that the necessity of an engine ought by us for the better preventing of which by the acci dents of Almighty God may unto us happen to make a rate to gather benevolence propa gating such good instiuments.” The same alderman was fond of writing, and accom panied every present with a note. The following accompanied a gift of a hare to a gentleman of Calus College: Sir: I have sent you a small present, who humbly hope you may prove worthy acceptance, which is a hare who is your humble servant.” IP©LDT 0 © A L □ From the Richmond Whig. THE TARIFF. Presidents and. Precedents. —While the Enquirer is engaged in the talk of present ing the tariff as an unheard-of enormity, it may not be amiss to refresh the memory of our readers by a few short extiacts from the messages of finmer Presidents to whom that paper successively professed the most unlimited devotion. Frist ot all comes the Father of his Country. In his message of Bth July, 1790. he uses the following language: “ The safety and interest of the People require that they shall promote such manu factories as tend to render them independ ent for essentials,” See. The Enquirer nay | lead non-age to that; so we give him next an extract from the message of Mr. Jefferson, dated De cember, ISO 2 : “To cultivate peace and maintain com merce and navigation in all their lawful en terprises; to favor our fisheries as nurseries of navigation ; and to protect the manufacto ries adapted to our circumstances.” Again: “ When a nation imposes high duties on our productions nr prohibits them altogeth er, it may he proper for us to do the same by theirs; first burdening oi excluding their productions, which they bring here in com petition with their own of the same kind.” Mr. Madison was (literally) the father of our Constitution. In his message of May, 1809, he recommends to Congress : •* To make such further alterations in the laws as will more especially protect and fos ter the several blanches of manufacture.” Six years after, viz. 1815, he goes still further into the subject. Hear him : “ There is no subject which can enter with greater force into the delibeiations of Congress than a consideiation of the means to preserve and promote manufactures, which have sprung into existence and at tained an unparalleled maturity through out the United States during the period of the European war. This source of nation al independence and wealth I anxiously re commend, therefore, to the prompt and con stat.t guardianship of Congress.” Mr. Monroe, another Virginia President, in his Inaugural Address, held the following language : “ Our manufactures will likewise require the systematic and fostering cate of Gov ernment. Possessing, os we do, all the raw materials, the fruit of our own skill and inilustiy, we ought not to depend, in the degree we have done, on the supplies from other countries,” &c. In allusion to the same subject, he after wards says: “ It is important that the capital which nourishes our manufactures should be do mestic, and its influence, in thatcase, instead of exhausting, as it may do in foreign lands, would he felt advantageously on agriculture and every other branch of industry; equal ly important is it to provide a home market for our taw materials, as by extending the competition it will enhance the price and protect the cultivator against the casualties incident to foreign maikets.” We pass over what Mr. Adams said on the subject, as being of no weight with the editor of the Enquirer. But we make up for the omission by inserting at full length the following letter, from a man the hare mention of whose name is wont to enrap ture the old gentleman : Washington City , April 26, 1824. Heaven smiled upon and gnve us liberty and itii’e|)eiidence. That same Providence has blessed us with the means of national independence and national defence. If we omit or refuse to use the gifts which he has extended to us, we deserve not the continu ance of his blessing. He has filled our mountains and plains with minerals—with lead, iron and copper,and given us a climate and soil for the growing of hemp and wool. These being the great materials of our na tional defence, they ought to have extended to them adequate and fair protection, that cur manufacturers and laborers may be placed in a fair competition with those in Europe, anil that we have within our coun try a supply of those leading and important articles so essential in war. I will ask what is the real situation of the agriculturist? Where has the American furme. a market for his surplus produce ? Except for cotton he has neither a foreign nor a home market. Does not this clearly prove, then, when there is no market either at home or abroad, that there is too much labor employed in agriculture. Common sense at once points out the remedy. Take from agriculture in the United States six hundred thousand men, women and chil dren, cud you will at once give a market for more bread-stuffs than all Eurojre now fur nishes us. In short, sir, we have been too long subject to the policy of British mer chants. It is time wc should become a little more Americanized, ami instead of feeding paupers and laborers of England feed our own ; or else, in a short time by continuingour present policy, we shall be tendered pau pers ourselves. It is therefore my opinion that a careful and judicious tariff is much wanted to pay our national debt, and to af ford us the means of that defence within ourselves on vvhieh the safety of our coun try depends ; and, last though not least, to give a proper distribution to our labor, which must prove beneficial to the happiness, in dependence, and wealth of the community. I am, sir, very respectfully. Your most obedient servant, ANDREW JACKSON. Our readers here have authority which the Enquirer cannot object to, for the pres ent tariff, and more especially for the pro tective features. Organization. —Burke utters these truths in reference to organization, which it may be well for those persons to reflect upon who either object or are indifferent to this means of making their own principles op erative among masses of men : “ Whilst men ate linked together, they j easily and speedily communicate the alarm J of any evil design. They are enabled to | fathom it with common counsel and to op- j pose it with united strength. Whereas, j when they lie dispersed, without concert, 1 order, or discipline, communication is uti- I ceitain, counsel difficult, and resistance is j impracticable. When men ate not ac- ! qnainted with each other’s principles and expel ienced in each other’s talents, not at all practised in their mutual habitudes and dispositions by joint effort of business, no personal confidence, no fiiendship, no com mon interest,substituting among them, it is evidently impossible they can act a public part with uniformity, perseverance, or effi ciency. In a connexion, the most inconsid erable man, by adding to the weight of the whole, has his value and his use ; out of all the greatest talents are wholly unservice able to the public. No man, who is not in flamed by vain glory into enthusiasm, can flatter himself that his single, unsupported, desultory, unsystematic endeavors, aie of power to defeat the subtle designs and unit ed cabals of ambitious citizens. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”—Na tional Intelligencer. © u o m a in a l a For the “Southern IVliscpllany.” LETTER FROM MAJOR JONES. NO. XXV 111 . Pinerille, January sth, 1544. Mr. Thompson: Dear Sir —Well, Crismus and New Years is gone, and a heap of fun has gone with ’em. Down here in Pineville we had real times, you may he sure. Every body tuck Ciismus, specially the niggers, and sich other carryins on—sich dancin and singin, and shootin poppers and skyrackets —you never d:d see. But the best joke was the way cousin Pete got tuck in ’bout gettin in sister Ktziha’s Crismus bag. Pete had a kind of sneakin notion of her for some time, but ‘.he dratted fool don’t know no more about couitin nor a hown pup does about ’stronomy. He was over to our lious Crismus eve, gwine on with his nonsense, and bothetin sister Kiz til she got rite tiled of him—telliri hpr how he wanted to git marryed so bad he didn’t know what would come of him, and how he wished somebody would hang up a hag for him, like Mary did for me. “Oh, yes’” ses she,‘‘you want to fool somebody now don’t you —hut you’r mighty mistaken.” “ No, Miss Keziah,” ses he, “ if 1 ain’t in good yearnest, I never was in my life.” “ But, now, Docter, would you give yourself away to any young lady for a Cris mus gift like brother Joseph did ?” . “That I would,” aes he, “ and glad of the chance.” “ Ah,” ses she, “Pm fraid you want to play some trick—you young dorters is so monstrous hard to please.” And ihen she looked round at me and kind o’ w inked her pretty black eyes and smiled. Pete looked in the glass, and sort o’ slick ed down his whiskers, and then ses he, “All the galls ses that, but the fact is, Miss Keziah, we’s ’ sceptible to female charms jest like common men, I can asshore you, And the fact is, Pm teimined to marry the first gal that will have me for a Ciismus present.” “ Now , you all hear that,” ses Keziah. “ Yes,” we all said. “ Now mind,” ses she to cousin Pete, “ you ain’t foolin.” I never seed Pete look so quaie—he looked sort o’ skeered and sort o’ pleased, and he trembled all over and his voice was [ so husky he couldn’t hardly speak. “ No, t IS iu down fight yearnest—you see if 1 aint” •• Wett,’* <ef 4he, we’ll see.” Pete 1 mohsftous fidgety, and bimhHv i'e *lowe‘d if Vas time to go, and after bidirl'ui all good night, swifte,/* pJow remember, Miss Keziah,” and away he went with rfwM WHfcjHf a* handful! of chicken fealtuM* ‘ -i He badrif Kem mote’n no time afoie Sister Ke2Uh;Hovitrfle'out a laughir.. “Now,” sea sins, “if L-diAtHfix Dr. Pom posity good, then'l Bihtf 1 Kt'tiah Stallions, that’s all. He’s alWays lieen cavortin about and makin so much of himself, as who hut he! and now Pll take him down a peg.” “ Why, aint you gwine to hang up no bag ?” ses sistei Calline. ” That L aint,” ses she. “ Oh, now, sis, that’s too bad to disap pint him so.” “ But the docter shant be disappinted, for Pll make aunt Prissy hang up one for i him to take an airin in til mornin if he’s a mind to, and then we’ll see if lie’ll he as good as his word.” And shore enough, she called aunt Pris sy and made her go up in the loft and emp ty the feather bag, and fix a rope in it, and go and hang It on the porch for cousin Pete. tThen she told Piiss all how she must do in ihe mornin, and we all went to bed. 1 couldn’t sleep for thinkin what abomi nable fool they was gwine to make out o’ poor Pete. Mary sed it was a great shame to serve any body so, but she didn’t blieve Keziah ever would quit being wild and mis chievous. It wasn’t no great time fore I heard the gate squeak, and the next minit there was a monstrous racket among the dogs, and I know’d Pete was come. I could here the gals titterin and laughin in ther room, and the next thing hang went something agin the fence, and then one of the dogs set up a ki eye! like something had hurt him, and all was still for a few’ minits. Then I heard Pete steppir. about very cautious on the porch, and movin the table and chairs, and then the jice shuck with his weight, as he dropped into the bag. All was still a in for a little while, cept the galls sriickerin in ther room, and then I heard Pete sneeze, and the dogs barkec’, and I thought the galls would laugh so loud he’d hear ’em, but he kep a sneezin in spite of all he could do. ” Now ” ses Muiy.g” aint that too had, to fool anybody that way—jest think how you would feel in that old bag what’s been full of stinkin old chicken feathers for so lnn<r,” “ ‘I hat’s a fact” ses 1, hut I couldn’t help laughin all the time. Pete cleared his throte a time or two, and every now arid then he fetched a kind of a smothered up sneeze, and then the dogs would hark. You better keep your mouth shut, old feller, thinks 1, if you don’t wanf* to git your wind pipe lined with chicken feathers. Every now and then the jice would shake as Pete kep turniri and twistin round, try in to git fixed comfortable, but I knew ther was no comfort in that bag, even if it had nofethers in it ; and then when I thought what a terrible disappintment was wait in for him in tiie mornin, I couldn’t help pit yin him from the bottom of my hart. It was a long time before we could goto sleep, but 1 diapt off after a while, and didn’t wake til mornin. I was mighty anx i< us to see how the thing was gwine to turn out, and got reddy long before aunt Prissy come to see what was in her hag—the galls was up by day light too, to see the fun. No body went out till all the niggers front the kitchen had got round the bag. *• Whoop e e-e ! ’ ses little nigger Ned, “Mammy! see what’s dat hangin on de porch.” “ Kilt! ses old ant Hetty, dat mus he ole Santaclaus heself, fell in dar when he was puttin lasses candy for Pi is, and cant get out.” Pete never said nothin, vvaitin for the galls to come. “Oh! Miss Calline and MissKeziah.come see what 1 got in my bag,” ses Pris. “ 1 spec its something w'hat uncle Friday fotch from Gust a, he sed he was gwine to give me a Crismus.” By this time the galls was on the porch, and the niggers unswuug the hag, and out tumbled Pete,all kivered with feathers from head to foot, so you couldn’t see his eyes, mouih, whiskers nor nothin else. “ Whew! ” ses he, as soon as he got his bed out, and the fethers flew all o\er the floor, which skeered the little niggers so they split to the kitchen squalliu like the very old devil was after ’em. ” Good Lord, ntassa Pete!” ses ant Pris sy, “ dat you in my bag l 1 thought ’em was something good.” “Your bag!” ses Pete, drat your infer nal picter, who told you to hang up a bag, for white folks to go and git into 1 Never mind. Miss Keziah, 1 was only in fun anv way,” ses he, while they was all laughin fit to die, and lie was tryin to brush off’ the feathers. “ Never mind, I was only jokin with you, but I had a better opinion of you than to think you would serve a body so, and ding my feathers if I aint glad I’ve found you out. Never mind, Miss,” ses he, and lie gin her a look like he could- hit her hed off, and then he blowed his nose a time or two and put out. ” But aint you gwine to lie as good as your word, docter I” ses she. “ You, jest go to grass,” ses he, and that’s the last we’ve seed of cousin Pete sense Crismus mornin. v Mary gave the galls a rite good settin down for servin him so. But for my part I think it aint no great matter, for he is such a bominablefool.tliat afevV pretty hard lessons wont do him no ha^nm^L Well, the ’lection is over, and the way old Withlamacoochy has laid out the Hero of Leather’s Ford is mazin to the Lnkyfokys. 1 should think by this time they ought to be satisfied that a pretty considerable majority of the people of Georgia is Bank-Federal- Clay-British-Whigs, and posed to their own interests and agin free goverment, and all that. But if they want any more “lights” before ’em to convince ’em that they aint the biggest half of Georgia, after the two last ’lections, all they’ve got to do is to w'ait til next fall, when old Harry ’ll row ’em up Salt Rivet jest so fur that they cant paddle back in se\ eral ger.eiations to come. The fact is, lokyfoky principles is very much like lokyfo ky matches; them kind of matches ’ll do wry well to make a light as long as you keep ’em close, but you mustn’t expose ’em to the weather—so will lokyfoky principles do very well to enlighten the dear people jest before ’lections, but they’ve been expos ed too much to the searching atmospheie of Whig argyment and reason in Georgia, and ‘.he consequence is, you may rub ’em and rub ’em agin the hard horse sense of our people til you’r tired and you can’t raise a single spark of confidence in ’em. I cant help but laugh sometimes when I see w'hat monstrous cfliuts the lokyfokys in Congress is makin to swing themselves onto the coat tail of old General Jackson’s popi larity. Its a grate pity his military fame couldn't be bottled up like the essence of roses —then they could keep it and sprinkle its odors over the mortifyin corruptions of ther party, jest whenever it was necessary. They seem very anxious to perserve it in some shape, and nothin seems to please ’em so well as to be spendin the people’s money in whitevvashin the old Hero's character. They spent about a million of dollars, and disgraced the records of | bo Senate, to git the Expungin Resolution passed—that was to operate on Mr. Van Boren’s first ’lection—and now all to once they are kickin up a terrible rumpus about the fine that Judge Hall put on him for