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Micmui), in hi) description of an Egyptian funeral pro cession, which he met on his way to the cemrary oflto ette, says: "The procession we'snw pass, Mapped bebre certain houses, and sometimes receded a few jfcpa, I win told that the dead stopped thus before the ('.tors o- their friends, to bid tliem a last farewell, nd brfore those of their enemies, to effect a reconciliation bef ire they parted for ever." Correspondence it Orient, par JM. M.. Mch.iup rt Poujoitlat. THE LAST JOURNEY, Slowly, with measured tread, Onward wc bear the dead Tu his long home. Short grows the homeward road, On with your mortal load, Oh, Grave! we come. Vet, yet ah! hasten not Past each remembered spot Where lie hat i been; Where late he walked in glee, Therefrom henceforth to be Never more teen. Yet, yet ah! slowly move Bear not the form we love Fast from our sight Let the air breathe on him, And the sun beam on him, Last looks of light. Rest ye set down the bier, One he loved dwelleth bei Letthedcad lie A moment that door beside, Wont to fly open wide Ere he draw nigh. Hearken! be speaketh ret "Oh, friend! wilt thou forget (Friend, more than brother!) How hand In hand we've gone, - i. . 1 1 l ; .. nnu jiU lo each oilier .' "Oh, friend! I go from tnee, Where the worm feaiteth free. Darkly to dwell. .. Glv'st thou nonarting kiss? icitfi.' IS it uuLue iu ibii. Oh, friend, farewell'" Vplift your load again, Take up the mouruina; strain! Pour the deep wail! Lo! the expected one To bis p ace nasteth On Grave! hid him hail. Yet, yet ah! slowly move; Bear not the form we love Fact from our sight Let the air breathe on him, And the sun beam on him Last looks of light. Here dwells his mortal foci Lay the departed low, Even at his gate. Will the dead ipeak again? UltVing proad bouts and vain. Last words of hate' Lo! the cold lips unclose List! List! what sounds are thoar, Plaintiveandl? -Oh thou, mine enemy! Come forth ! look on me Ere Mice I go. "Cur not thy foeman now, M.rk! on his pallid brow Whose seal it set! Fard'ning I past thy way Then wage not war with clay Pardon forget." Now hit labor's done! Now, now the goal is won! Oh, Grave! we come. Seal op this precious dust Land of the good and just, Take the sou! home! ii can wiin nii tu MR. VAN BUREN. We are reminded of the votes of Mr. Van Buren to extend the tjght of sufferagc to ne groes, while a member of the New York Convention, and, also, of his vote on the Missouri question. In the Convention of New York an effort wa made to admit the negroes to a free suf frage. This Mr. Van Buren resisted, and ad vocated a property qualification of two hundred and fifty dollars, which was adopt ed. Ihis was the utmost that could be done There was a large majority in the Convention resolved on admitting the negroes to vote Mr. V. B. effected all that could be done by obtaining the adoption of a property qua jjgjo, which in fact excludes nearly all ,l Jl -w from a vote in New York, for -ullT " loudly censured by the wijicn no is no. tinnicte .l. n.fi.1.,,' ouostion formed XJ.3 vote oil tm. iu.na.iu.. tty J ..i o 'T. ""..! . ...7 : to 1 or oenate, aim wis j. iven m uut,i the undivided wishes of his district. this sJEalt above ;Hon. He gave an :.r i ua . i.;tn:,nro'a! to e!o . ... , . rju.. r i. in liy Ulll IUI m ... District of Oolumbia. He has always ex pressed the utmost abhorrence of thesohemfs of the abolitionists in every shape. H i known to be. and recocnized by thnm oi .their enemy. Mr. Clny is hailed as their friend, as the advocate of gradual emancipa- 1 tion, of the reception ol their petitions, anti js the presidera oi tne colonisation society. .nimssipnan. The elegant new steam ship Natchez Capt. Story, of nearly 1000 tons b irthen has sailed from Baltimore for New York The Natcbes is the largest sieam vessel M be United Slates. HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS., SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1838. HISTORY OF Tlin FIRST BoWIE KsiFB. wairrix ar iTacu. The following conceit appears in the New York Transcript. Whether or not the sketch is faithful to the original, we leave to our readers to judge: I owe my existence to Rsin Bowie. My fir.-t feats were among the bears. And thetiy ing growls of many a one after a fierce con test, attest my science and courage. But I pass over (for the present) this preface to a far more glorious career, and come to the time when, as Lrd Byron says, '! awoke one morning and found myself faniou.:," The following is the history o( the part I took in the first affair of honor between two.yi tk,ncn. Col. .Imnes Bowie, the brother to Itasifl Howie, had a trilling dispute with u neighbor, which tbey resolved lo settle in an tonontbk wdyl They exchanged two siiots wjii'.ont erlect. James hearing of the colubat, vwitli genuine fraternal affection, has tened villi me, (wo had always boon inscp- arable co -rmnions) to the assistance of his brother. We arrived just as the second shot had been exchanged. In single combat the exchange of shots twice without injury, al ways prove tne parlies genaenwa. Accor ding to the laws o! honor, thefore the affair might now have been settled. But Basin Bowie.gi-aieful.for my services in destruction of the bears, wfshed now to give me more hon orable work. And I, feeling a strong affec tion for the whole Bowie family, thirsted for the blood of the Col's, aotagomsl. Torouali tho persuasion and kind otfi'ies of Resin, the contest was renewed. He presented me to the Col., whose antagonist had the assistance only of an ordinary butcher knife my groo ved two edged point soon proved my supe riority. I entered the body of my friend's antagonist to the hilt, and was bathed in the sweet warm life blood of his heart. When the Col. withdrew me I knew that this was my Christian baptism, and that Bowie Knife would be immortal, i leoked in unspeak able triumph at the agonized play of the muscles of the dying man's face, at the con vulsive auiveringoflhe lips, at the life blood fast bubbling through the passage I had made in this my first thrus for immortality. 1 watched till the last death sob and glazed eye announced the work finished. But even yet my triumph was not complete! L saw the wife 1 had made a widow, and the chil dren 1 had made fatherless and left to an un feeling word without a protector, bewailing wiih franlic lamentations their bereavement. Then my triumph was complete. Suddenly I received the gilt of second sight, and look ed onward; but what I saw, and what ex ploits 1 afterwards performed, I may here after tell. still the abst rbing theme in the Philadelphia Journals. But oilier mountain creeks (in England they would be rivers,) have since had iheir flood, also. The Bushltlin, oooord ing to the E.st (Pa.) Whig rose to a torrent Sunday night, sweeping away three dams, and fences, bridges, &c. in every direction, emtying distillery yards of their pig pens and in one instance taking up a stable bodily with three cows in it, and landing the whole concern safely on an island about 400 yards distant. The Hollidsysburg Register gives a fearful !"d almost sublime description of the great inundation which overwhelmed Gnysport on the Juniata on the 19th: The clouds which had been floating about the ridces of the allechanv for some days, dispersed in the early part of that evening, but seem to have collected again, and about midnight visited our country with a storm, which for violence and destructive effects is without a paralled in the recllection of our inhabitants. It rained as though the floodgates ot the skies had been drawn, and the water of the great deep were poured out upon our devo ted country. The sceue was ternnc. ine horizon was biasing with deep red flames of sheeted lightning, and the crashing peals of thunder reverberated in awful grandeur a- mong the mountains. Within the short space of half an hour the torrent had swol- en to such an immense volume trtat '.'ays- port and its inhabitants must have been involved in one common vortex of destruc tion, but for the breeches which were, fortu nately, made at several points in the em bankment of the railroad, which gave the water space to spread. One store was crushed to atom's against the viaduct. The water suddenly rose 14 feet, reaching above the doors up to the 2nd stories and here manv fled and were saved. The neighhorr, at Hollidaysburg, the other side the river, looked on the trightlul torrent but could n"t strech the hand of relief. All seemed terror and alarm. Cries and shouts and exclamations, and ringing of bells might now and then be heard on the winds, mingled wit)- the roaring of the furious flood, and the crashing ol the deep toned thunder. Three persons perished. The inhabitants in despair silently looked 0" the ravages of the raging flood, as it ruh d am? 0,'ceu' 'n 'ts w ft'T sweeping I s 'ha'fri 'to08' horses and men, in ln-ed-i i' j,',,.rimlnate confusion, until a- ! -;,id shifted to the Vrth, and soon alter ,he : '.ioh for three hors haddescend- ura,n',u-Nn in sheets, abau'd. and not edlromtheNo.,. . ,ether. Thecal long after ceased alto. fi ocock m tamed its greaost hight aix.. the morning and very soon began w ,-ind fell as ranidlv as it had risen. The loss of property and houses is not so tnivn m miirht hnv heen imagined from fho fury of the flood. The railroad how jver, is greatly damaged; but the travel from liavsoort to Pittsbure is uninterrupted, as the flood was confined to the eastern side of tho mountain. A SAILOR IN WOMAN'S CLOTHES But I wan't safe yet; so I claps on a suit of Suke's duds over my own gear, and be ing but a little chap, with some slutching, and letting out a reef or two here and there, I sot mvsail all snualv bent, and claoued a cap with a thousand little frills round my face, and a straw harricane-house of a bonnet as big as a Guineaman's Caboose, over all, with a large black wail hanging in the brails down afore, and my shoes scandaled up my leg;, so that 1 made a good looking wench. Well I bid all hands good bye. hnke piped her evert bit; but, Lord love, we'd made our calculations o matrimony, and got. the righl bearings and distance, and she was to join me at Portsmouth, and we were to -make a long splice of it off hand; but theu, poor thing! she thought, mayhap, I might be grabbed and punished. Up comes the coach, but the fellow wouldn't heave to dirtfctly, and, Yohoyl' says I, giving him a hail. 'i -fiing u Portsmouth, ma'am?' says he, throwing all back, and coming ashore from nis crali. To lie sure I am,' says I. 'What made you carry on in that fashion, and be d d "to you! Is that all the regard you have for the sex?' says 1. 'Would you like to go inside, ma'am?' says he, opening the gangway port. 'Not a bit of it,' says I: stowaway your damaged slops below, but give me a berth 'pon deck.' . : 'Werrygood, ma'am,' says he, shutting the gangway port again; 'will you allow me to assist you up?' Not by no manner o' means,' says f, 'Why, what the devil do you lake me foit to think the captain of a frigate's maintop can't find his way aloft?' 'You mean the captain of the maintop's wife,' says Susan paying me back the pinch I gave her. 'Ay, ay, my precious,' says I; 'so I do, to be sure. God bless you! good bye." Here I go like seven bells half struck! car ry on my boy, and I'm blessed if it shan't be a shinder in your way! And so we takes our berths, and away wo made sail, happy go lucky, heaving to now and then just to take in a sea-stock; and the governor had two eyes in his head, and so he finds out the lat itude of the thing, but he says nothing; and we got safe through the barrier, and into Portsmouth, and I lands in the street before they reaches tho inn, for, thinks I to my self, I'd hotter get beartlied here for to-night, and go abroad to-morrow morning. THE BRIGHT LITTLE NEEDLE. BI WOODWOBTII, The gay belles of Cuhion may boast of eiwlling In waits or cotillion at whist or quadriHet And trek admiration by vauntingly telling . efitjauaJ.,.-- 'vJ-'' -rtiTu'uj.Vw' -V'Jl- . , llut give me the lair one, in country or city, Whose home and its duties are dear to her heart, Wlio cheerfully warbles some sweet rustic ditty, While plying the needle with exquisite art. The bright little needle the swift little needle, Tw i' . M - Alffetfl h- u Billy and art. If Love hive a potent, a magical token, A talisman ever resistless and true A charm that is never evaded or broken, A witchery certain the heart to subdue Tis this and his armory never has furnished So keen and unerring, or polished a dart, , Let beauty direct it so pointed and burnish 'd, And oh! it it certain of touching the heart. Be wise, then, ye maidens, nor seek admiration, By dreising for conquest, and Birting with all-, You never, whate'er be your fortune or station, Appear half to lovely at route or at ball, As piiy couvencd ata work covered table, Each cheerfully active and playingiler part. Beguiling the task with a song or a fable, And plying the ueedle with exquisite art. Honor among rogues is an old maxim; but the banks seem to have forgotten even this small portion of faith. They hold it is right for one knavo to defraud another, and have commenced cozening each other according. It will be recollected that the banks in this State have been active during the past season in buying cotton, and shipping it to Mr. twiddle's nous in Liverpool, lor winch, the latter, it wjft supposed, would furnish an abundance of exchange. It has been as certained, however, that Mr. Biddle has gone into market and purchased a very large amount of Mississippi bunk paper, at a discount of from 25 to 50 per cent. What does Mr. Biddle intend to do with this mon ey! The answer is, that ho has purchased it for the purpose of paying off his debt lo the cotton banks, with their own paper, at par. What then will become oi this ex change! Thus it appears that the State banks, af ter all, have only been' operating for the benefit of Biddle. They beat the bush and he catches the bird,. Ho is the lion, and they the jackass, and the people the prey. But who suffers the loss of this heavy dis count an the bank paper, which flows into the coffers of Mr. Biddle? The answer is obvious. First, all those who sell colton to the banks, secondly, all who, in consequence are compelled to take this depreciated paper in tho course of business. Thus the product of the rounntrv, the labor of the people, is taxed for the benr-fit of a few corporations, i he principal of which is a foreign institution. That such is to be the result of this cotton operation, ttie recent conduct of the Girard bank, in paying off tho Vicksburg bank in its own paper, is a conclusive proof, when ad ded to the fact of the purchase of our mon ev hv Mr. Biddle. What else can ho do with" it? How long will the people suffer themselves to be taxed and humbugged bv this bank par ty Three months will not elapse before all tfid banks, except those of Mississippi will be pav'.'Do 8Pcie, but when this event i take place, ' beyond the calculation v -A: not in the secrets of our banks. The? have no Confidence manifested by their Wising .. - -ing each other's paper. Distress attl calam ity have not vet .-ommenced in this state. 1 ' Miuwpptan. THE LATEST YANKEE TRICK, Three French Officers and six men captur ed by three American Tars. Tho town was all agog the whole of yes terilay afternoon, in consequence of ihe ar rival ot the schooner Lone, Cant. Clark, of this port, from Matamoras. having on bojrd in apparent captivity, three French naal officers and six men." Every body we diet had such a droll chuckle and grin on liis countenance, that it was somo time before we could understand what it all meant. However, went aboard, saw the mate, and received from him the particulars of the af- lair, at. lotiows: 1 Tuc Lone left this city some time (since with a valuable cargo for Matamoras. She succeeded in getting into port despite pf tho blockadej but in attempting to returi was tiaptuted by the boats of a French brig or war the four sailors ami u passenger were placed oa boated the (J. S. sloop of war v'lMdalia; and Uapt. Clark, the mate and . ;i vnrd were allowed to remain on board. a ptuc crew took cnargo ot fier, consisuti ot a lieuttnanviuarter master, captain of the loretop and six tmilors, nine in all and thus rigged out,-the prize was despatched to ihe French admiral at Vera Cruz. This capt tire &e. took place on the 25(h or SJSth of June ihe mute (oes not remember which, as he had not the log convenient when we saw him. After getting every thing in leadiuess they proceeded ou their way to Vera Cruz. The French were sirngers, not acquainted with the currents, the coast, tue Northers, &c. and the Yankee prisoners blarneyed them, that they struck much farther to the eastward than was necessary and actually made a mistake of three degrees in their reckoning. The Yankees, however, knew where they were and what they were about, and kept dark. At length on the morning of the oai7i of July, about 4 o'clock, the three American tars commenced their celebration by a bold stroke for independence, when they were only 30 miles from Saoriacious where the French squadron lay. Capt. Clark, the mate and steward were all on deck. They first tiwk the precaution to lock the door of the cabin, thus fastaning in the lieut. com mand) r, and putting the batch over the forecsitle the captain then went up to the man ft the wheel, ind placing his finger in such way as to resemble a listo!, swore he would blow his brains out if he did not insiatly put the helm down. The fellow obeyed, and was tied. Three others, who were on deck, were also "lit ou," tied down and secured. The other four who were in the forecastle, were ordered up, and as they came up one by one, they also were tied. The iricolored flag was taken down, the stars .Ti'drod Ipfa VVCie !Uu iiui-'. Xi L ajuin Olailt, alter thus so completely re-tauing his vessel without bloodshed, with a force of three men against nine, resumed ' the command and shaped his course fur this port with his prisoners strung together like so many dried apples, where he arrived yester day at two o'clock. These three gallant fellows appear to have met with but little resistance. They were determined to have possession of 'the ves sel. This we paesume, the Frenchmen perceived at the commencement of hostili ties, and conclodej that it would be as well to submit with the best grace possible. The prize was WOrth about $25,000 of which $15,000 was in specie and the re' mainder in hides. This was too paltry a matter to fight for, and we think it was well enough that the blokaders disdained lo shed blood for such a trifle. The Lieut. Commandant, we understand retained possession of the papers of the Lone but whether he has yet given them up to the Custom House officers, we have not learned. At all events, we cannot think that any na tional difficulty will grow out of the affair. Our French friends should forget it all, or only laugh at it as a cute trick of a nature which the Yankees are always up to. It is i ideed a most lauuiiable ioke, to think of three men capturing ninel i, O. Pic. tOThe war cry of the Feds for a long time has been "down with the otiice hoiaerst" anu the lato administration was cursed from Maine to Florida, because it filled offices with those it believed most worthy of confi dence, but it could not do things in the quick style ot the reds now a-uays. ine Rhode Island Legislature in two days re- moved three, hundred from office, and frit). Kent of Maine has played the same game to Ihr.tme of ten,or eleven hundred- Law ! tho Feds dont like or desire office At least one half of all the business pre pared for the action of Congress was left un finished at their adjournment on Monday. So much for the nine days' s'peeclies of such members as Mr. Bond, the disorganizing et- Ibrts of John Quinny Adams, the speaking against tune of Wise, rrentws, and others oi the Whig nurty. Seveu uioutas have been spun out by a reckless opposition in a con stant war against every measure ol the au minstration. It was onlv enough that any proposition, no matter how simple, was brought foward on the Government side, and it was sure to bring some Whig speaker to his feet. It is thus that the time of Con gress has been wasted and one half of the public businsss left unfinished. And such must continue to be the case at all future sessions so long as the country is cursed with an opposition in venal alliance with the banks and money power. Bait Rep. Mr. Grundy's Bill to prevent Mr. Bid- die from issuing and trading upon the Note, ot the defunct Bank ol the United otatess whir.h nassed the Senate some time since has also passed the House. Tean. Weekly Rtcord. 1 Correspondent Of the Baltimore Commercial Transcript Wasiiinotox, July 7. CLOSE OF THE SESSION SCENES IN THE HOUSE. In my letter last nighl, among other, scenes attending the .'last night of the ses sion, I hinted slightly at one of a decided pugnacious character, as having come off just asthe house has closed itsjabbath morning exercises, and promised to give more particu lars of it to night. This 1 am net able to do as satisfactorily as I would wish, for many and various are the accounts concerning tho rise, progress, and final denoument of said martial finale. The oombattants however-were Messrs. Maury and Campbell of Tennessee, which cuiue m.il; uujs lurnisueu lour out ol the sev eral champions who have figured on the floor t .1 t ... 4 i i e ot Congress as aspirants lor fisticuff f;:me. 1 he general report is that Mr. Maury, one ot the absentees on the ca ol l ie IIoiki. cm a i . . . . ouuuay morning, on giving, in his excuse. stated that ho was sleepy wheri he left the House and had gone to bed, &c. with other statements showing a mind 'careful of its body's well being. litis remark called forth some invidious comments from his colleague Mr. Campbell, winch led to a blow Iiom fllr. Maury, and theu followed a regular scuffle, which con sidering the liouran,J the circumstances, was not cenductedon purely scientific princi ples, but was made up of kicking, gouging and all the other primitive modes, suposed to characterise me western school ol 'the no ble art of self defence.' It is stated that Mr. Campbell has averv I I... l l l .tic j 'i ,- , uunny ueau anu ims reuunuuney ot locks proved as prejudicial to him aid' ! the long tie-isesoi iiujaiom oi yore; lor ins ipponent took advantage of the assailable point; and not only bereft his head of several handsful of its hairy covering, but it enable him to punish Mr. C's person most uumerdifully. 1 heard a western member say to day that he had lost hair sufficient to stuff anew his Congressional chair. The combattants were separated by Mr. Williams of Tenn. and severe as the fight wa3, it was soon over; leaving half of the house (at that time, happily, not in a state to observe any thing within the dark pre cincts of the lobby under the ladies gallery, wuereit occurreai wnoity ignorant ol it. 1 am glad therefore, that it was not so public as Messrs. Bell and Turney,' set-to, but only a bit of Congressional by-play, which like thnt on the stage, can go on without inter rupting the process of the performance. i nave not heard how it has terminated or how it will terminate, but 1 have no doubt it has been slept off. I have only to add that not having seen but the parting of ine comDratt nts, tne above account may be stances, but I give it as the general report and belief. It is with a feeling of shame that in my last Congressional despatch, I conclude with the fact that the house on tho last night of us session should nave 'broke up in a row,' but such is the melancholy fact. It cannot be denied that the dicipline and decorum of that bedy is rapidly settling down into a sad and dangerous laxity, as witness the many conflicts ol the session and the scorn with which its own authority was treated on Sunday morning at the ran road. the people should rise in their might and arrest this tendency to disorganization and disgrace; remind their legislators of their duty to illustrate by example the majesty of law and authority, as by their -very position as law givers the v are bound to do. With the best wishes tor the prosperity ot the Transcript and its readers, l most respect fully make my conge. lours, JU. A cank-bhakk- A Mr. Henry Cane fell from his horse last Tuesday, in Hardin Coun ty, and broke both legs. Prentice. rjCT'Speaking of the crops, the prospect is not flattering in this region. Not more than two thirds, if that, of an average crop will be made, eithor of cotton or corn. This is gloomy indeed; we advise evciy body to be cheerful 1 and economical by way of a substitute, l'rovidence is always good enough only be better yourselves. Lex ington Standard. 'Poor Pay, Poob Pheacii.' General Charles Scott, while a prisoner during the Revolutionary war met r.n Indian at a spring, when the following dialogue ensued: General. How do you do? Indian. O, how do? General. Whtre have you come from? Indian. From the lower Catawha town. General. Where are you going? Indian. To the upper Catawha town. General. What are you going there for? Indian. I am going to preach. General. Aye so you preach, do you? Indian. Oh yes, me preach sometimes. General. Well, do they pay you for preach ing. Indian. Yes. little twenty shilling each town pay me twenty shiling. General. Why, that is d rf poor pBy. Indian. Ay, and d d poor preach, to o. Qfou mustn't smoke here, sir,' said the captain of a North Rivor Steamboat to a man who was smoking nmong ihe ladies on the quarter deck. 'I mustn't ha! why not?' replied he, open ing his capacious mouth, and allowing the r nioke lazily to escape. 'Didn't you see the sign? -all gentlemen are requested not to smoke abaft the engine.' 'Bless your soul that don't mean me I'm no gentleman not a bit of it. Y'ou cau't make a gentle man of me any how you can fix it.' So say ing, he sucked away and 'took the msponsi-bifitv.' NO. I. A Fit :HT ON THE BA SK& OF THE MISSISSIPPI, One ay as I was sitting on the s'.arn of my broad horn, the old Irec and Easy, on the Mississippi, taking a horn of midship man's grog, with a tin pot in each hand, first a draught of whiskey, and then one of river Water, who should float down past me but Jo Snag; he was in a snooze as fastas a church, with his mouth wide open; he had been ramsquaddled with whiskey for a fortnight, and as it evaporated from his body it looked like steam from a vent pipe. Knowing the feller would be hard to wake, with all his steam on, as he floated past nie. I hit him a crack over the knob with my big steering oar. lie waked in a thundering rage. Says he, hallo stranger, who asked you to kill off my live stock' Said I shut your mouth, or your teeth will get sunburnt." Upon tbishe crooked up his nis neck, and neighed liked a stallion. I clapped my arms and crowed like cock. Says he, if you are a game chick en, I'll pick ihe pin fsrther offof you. For some time past I bad beef; so wolfy a boui the head and sfibifldersj iilat I was obliged to beep kivercd up in a salt crib, to keep from spiling; I had not had a light for as much as ten days.. Says I, give us none of your chin music, but set your kickers on land, and I'd give you a severe licking. The fellow now jumped ashore, and he was so tall that he couldn't tell when his feet were cold. He jumped a rod. Says he, take care how 1 light on you, and he gave me a real stupdologer that made liver and lights turn to jelly. But he found me a real scrouger. Broke three of his ribs, and he knocked out five of my teeth and one eye. He was the severest colt that I ever uido to break. I finally got a bite hold of his posteriors that he couldn't shake off Wc were now parted by some boatmen, and we were both so ex orsted, that it was more than a month before either of us could have a fight. It seemed to me a little eternity. And although 1 didn't come out second best, I took care not to wake up a ringtailcd roarer with an oar again. Editorial Labor. Thn Ontih'neha Co. zette, published at one of the Pacific Islands, is printed in a barn which answers every pur pose for publication office, bulletin "nffir-n editorial office, printing office and chamber, parlor, kitchen, dog-house and stable, for the editor, his family and the cattle. He does all his composition, writing, selecting, book- aeeping, marsoung, ana aeviiung inmseil. He says, with perseverance and economy, he thinks he can get along tnit a tarn sight squem". How wc sympathize with such noor devils! a printer has no more use for wife, than n wagbii nas ur uve wneew isoi irTeyait- lormerl to love and emov h e not In hau their free spirits kept under subjection to the most, iryannicai anu anmary oi an govern ments the petticoat'. That'll not do. "The Philadelphia Banks have one and all, agreed to resume specie payments on the first of August." We are glad to hear it, and the rather inclined to believe there is no sham this time, as the annunciation has not been heralded forth with a Biddle "flourshing of Trumpets," as noisy as impal pable. "The State Bank of Indiana, and the Banks of Kentucky have also agreed to resume on the 16th inst." Tenn. Weekly Record. Tho wheat crop this season thrnnrmiit Virginia and other adjacent States is better .1 . 1. . I I , r man any tout nas oeen raisea lor many vears. If you want to know whether it is safe to trust a man with goods on credit, see if he is a paying subciber to some good newspaper A report reached this City yesterday in a letter from Philadelphia, that a dreadful riot had taken place in the City of brotherly love that the blacks and abolitionist had assembers and attacked the citizens, that the military bad been ordered out to quell the mob and that 73 fell at the first fire: Seven teen German volunteers also were either killed or wounded. We have seen no con firmation of the rumor; but from the great excitement prevailing in Philadelphia, and the murder of two citizens, we apprehend the rumor to be true. A lluiiider-bolt discharged its lightning into the top of a tree within 10 or lS yards of the house of. Jos. G. Boon in Tipton coun ty, on Thursday last, and most shockingly shattered a Itddcr, very innocently reposm'" ogainst the trunk of the tree. It woke up pretty tolerable quick as Pickwick would say, after the moulten fluid lit upon It. We were standing within ten yard's of ttre Trei and never saw a ladder move much faster. We think that streak wojild have hurried the renowned squirrel tliat once beat a streak of I! C. . . . .. iigninuig irom me top lo ine bottom ot a , . . U.. - ' i ' .... .. I. I .1 . . -,. , . ning followed the winding grain of the tree; he at least would have had his tail feathers singed. There had been a slight shower, but the clap of thunder that unrolled the lightning, was the only one audible. This is the firbt instanco within our memory of the electric fluid decending from the clouds upon a ladder. Memphis lmuire. The Pontotoc Intelligencer, since its en largement, has become one of the most effi cient, and best conducted democratic jour nals in the State. Mr. Bradford, the editor, is worthy of all praise for the real and abil ity with which the Intelligencer is conducted. lie is, in truth, a gentleman and a scholar, and we trust will receive the support which he so well merits for his long and able ad voi-acy of democratic principles. Missitsppian. K J