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THE NEW ERA. W hut is it but a Map of busy Life?— Cowptr. NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH Till' KSDAY.OC'I OUFR 16, 1845. OUR FLAG! FREE TH AUK—LOW DUTIES—NO DEBT—SE PAPVTION FROM BANKS- ECONOMY—RE THEN'S” tMENT \ NO STRICT ADHERENCE Jt) rilE CONSTITUTION. DIED AT PENSACOLA. Charles Brodie, Esq., Naval Constructor, we regret to state, lately stationed at Pensacola by the G werrmient. is reported by a private letter, received in town to have died tm the 3d instant, j while in tin* discharge of his official duties at Pensacola. Mr. Brodie was a native of Norfolk, and highly respected as a citizen. EXECI ITIV E PATRONAGE. We shull'coinuietico, tomorrow, the publica tion of that excellent article from the Democratic Ht'vimo of September, entitled “ Political Patron age.*’ The corruptions which are wrounht, bv holding this Vast power throughout the country in the hands of ihe Executive, have become alarm ing. and is partially exposed, in the Mackenzie publication. Let the people have the election o( these o(Ii era, anJ then treasury pap will not be exclusively bestowed upon certain political huck sters. who manage to come right side up, like a cat, let them be thrown from what height they may. The people have been humbugged long enough. N1: WS1WPER 13 O R RO \Y E RS. Sumo of thr* subscribers of the Courier have de clined patronizing that paper any lunger, because of the annoyance they experience from the main : esl /li ft society ever was afflicted with, those j who borrow their neighbors newspaper constantly, i The editor very justly remarks “ that those whoj cannot afford to pay a cent for a paper cannot af ford to read one.” GREEN ENOUGH Our neighbor of the I lerald, in anticipation that Georgia has proved recreant to the Constitution*! and elected a whig Governor exclaims—“Geor-1 gia is truly a green spot in the South.” Green enough, we admit, and acknowledge the corn. ' SINGULAR MORTALITY. We are credibly informed that a dreadful mor tality prevails among the terrapins in the Dismal Swamp, thousands are lying dead in the Canal. This will he had news lor the gourmands. Can the learned assign a reason for this? Our in-1 formant thinks their disease is measles, as there; is an eruption visible on their legs. The catfish exhibit a similar appearance, many are seen float ing on the water, quite dead.—Norfolk Courier CHURCH QUARREL, In Maysville, Ky., the Methodists are about \ divided into two nearly equal parties, one of j which goes with the Church South, while the j other adheres to the old Church. The firmer having obtained possesion of the house of wor ship, the latter have filed an injunction, setting up their exclusive claim, and praying the Chan- j cellar to interpose in their behalf, and grant them \ the present use of the house for at least due half the time, till the matter was finally adjusted.— i Judge Reid granted an injunction to the extent of the use of one half the house, without, however, indicating his opinion as to the ultimate merits of the case. FEMALE LABOR. It lias always been to us a source of most un alloyed enjoyment to associate with the lovely ami lender helpmates, which God in his mercy bestowed on men before evil bad entered into Paradise. How often have we been indebted to them for thousands of delicate favors, that our rough natures will not permit us to look for from each other; and how often have the. tender and fragile Iiin >s of the female smoothed the pillow when we have been prostrated with sickness ; and with watchful care, in the depth of midnight, or the light of day, has our slightest wish been at tended to, and our troubled spirits soothed ; and , when health has blessed us, with what delight does that dear confiding creature rejoice in our strength, ami glory in our advancement and pros i perity. As a wife, mother, sister, or friend, she watches over us, and prays for every blessing to; fall to our lot, and gives tip her own enjoyment to' minister to ours. And what have we done to re ciprocate the kindness thus bestowed ? The question, as we put it, makes us blush for the in gratitude of man, and shudder for the crime—we can call it by no milder name—that we daily in dulge in towards them. While we are strug gling to augment our own privileges, and increase the sum of our wages, we are wholly regardless of the miserable pittance that is given to the fe male for the arduous and incessant labor. Observe that lovely girl who is plying her, needle with such rapidity ; do you see the bright hectic spot upon her cheek! The destroyer is there, and might he driven away, if she could be permitted to take active exercise in the open air. But no, from early light until midnight has told that all nature is in repose, she must exert herself to support a helpless mother, who has struggled to rear her up to industry and virtue, until nature yielded to the burthen, and sunk, never to rise. The reward of her labor may be two dollars a week. See that woman in clean but ordinary apparel ; what a settled melancholy overspreads her fea tures! She was once the happy wife of an affec tionate husband; but death has done his work, and taken from Iter the supporter sad protector] of her youthful choice. She has to labor for her children, al-nc and desolate; and the pittance she receives is scarcely sufficient to buy bread. These are no idle pictures; there are hundreds of like cases in this town, and yet we heed them not; while we arc loud in our demands for jut lice to ourselves, we care not how the fair portion of creation are oppressed by the avaricious shop keepers, who are enriching themselves at He expense, the destruction, ol the lovely and the good. JUDGE STORY’S ADVICE TO YOUNG LAWYERS. The following Lines were written many years since by the eminent jurist who has lately depart ed this life, and they exerted a salutary influence or the Members of the Bar in Boston and New York. They might ho studied to advantage in other places. Whene'er you speak, remember every cause Stands not on eloquence, hut stand* on laws— Pregnant in matter, in expression brief. Let every sentence stand with bold relict ; On trifling points nor time, nor talents waste, A sad oflenee to learning and to la-tc ; Nor deal with pompon* phrase ; nor e’er suppose, Poetic (lights belong to reasoning pros©. Loose declamation may deceive the crowd And seem more striking as it grows more loud ; Hut sober sense rejects it with disdain, As nought but empty noise, and weak, as vain. The froth of words, the schoolboy’* vain parade Of books and cases—all his stock in trade, The pert conceits, the cunning tricks and play Of low Attorneys, strung in long array. The unseenly jest, the petulant reply, That chatters on, and cares not how or why, Studious, avoid—unworthy themes to scan. They sink the speaker, and disgrace the Alan, Like the false lights, by flying shadows cast, Scarce seen, when present, and forgot, when past. Begin with dignity; expound with grace Each ground of reasoning in its time and place, Let older reign throughout—each topic touch, Nor urge it* power too little, or too much. Give each strong thought its most attractive view. In diction clear and yet severely true. And, a.* the arguments in splendor grow, Let each reflect its light on all below, " hen to the close arrived, make no delays By petty flourishes, or verbal plays. But sum the whole in one deep, solemn strain, Like a strong current hastening to the main. -GRAPE AND CANNISTER.” Some sapient whig editor lias started I he fol lowing story, which has been caught up and cir culated with great gusto hy the whigs, as the tie plus ultra of argument, to he used in this countrv, we suppose, when the people cungpgrate in this country in masses to consult and rectify grievances. We always thought it was at Toulon that B.ma parte directed his cannon against the people. But it is the example, not the historical fact that the whigs want. How to I)f.af. with Mobs.—When the - little artillery officer,” Napoleon, was sent to quell an alarming riot in Paris, lie saluted the mob with a destructive fire of grapeshot at the first discharge, and, following it up with blank cartridge, the streets were cleared immediately. On being afterwards remonstrated with, he ob served truly that had he fired blank cartridge first, the mob would have had time to rally their cour age. when thousands instead of hundreds must have been slain. ALMOST TOO STRANGE AND IIORRI RLE TO RE TRUE. Yet thr> story is told with all the signs of truth about it. bj the Norwich Journal, published in Chenango County, New York. “ On *the farm belonging to John Johnson, on the east hill, and w ithin the hounds of the corpo ration. lives a tenant hy the name of Harvey Hammond, whose family consists of himself and wife, sister in-law, brother in-law, and his w ife, the latter of w hom was the victim of the most damnable transaction that ever came under Greene observation. She is about nineteen, good looking, and was married a few weeks since. Her health is poor, she having been subject for years to a species of epileptic fit. On Monday evening, the 29th ult., this young couple (Burdick hy name) had retired somewhat early, when the husband, feeling some pain from a wound in the leg, re ceived some time before from an axe, arose and went into the kitchen, where the rest of the fami | ly were, for the purpose of dressing the sore, j lie had been there a lew minutes, when they I heard a scream front the bedroom, and ongoing in they too ini iMrs. JSurdick on the floor, laboring under extreme fright. She said that soon after her husband left the room, she felt a hand pass lightly ovpr her face, but supposing that it was Mr. Burdick feeling his way to the bed, she was not alarmed until the hand seized her throat and disabled her from making any out-cry. Immedi atelv another arm was placed under and raised op her head, while a third hand grasped her legs and polled her from the bed. She seized the leather bed with one hand, and with the oiher, by a des perate effort, succeeded in releasing her throat, and screamed. When found she and the bed were on the floor, and an article of woman’s ap parel (a cape we believe) lay near by. This cape was afterwards identified as her mother's. a Mrs. Baxtpr, who lives in ilie next house, also a tenant of" Uncle John." A door was open lead ing out of ihe room, but no other trace of the per I petrators was found. “ On the following day (Tuesday, the 30ih.) Mrs. Burdick, being in a very weak slate, w'enl to the same room afier dinner for the purpose of rest, having first taken the precaution to secure • the blinds by a string, and to fasten the door that was entered the previous night. The window was raised and li ft up. Between two and three o’clock Mrs. Hammond, hearing a slight noise in the direction of Mrs. B.’s room, went in and dis covered it empty, and the blinds taken from the hinges, the string broken,ami the door still bolted. As the male members of the family were at work in the fields, some little time elapsed before they were informed of these facts, when Mr. Hammond ! immediately mounted his horse and gave the a ■ larm in the village. The story that a woman was carried off in mid-day, arid within the corporation, in plain sight of the whole village, gained but little credence, and hut four or five could he in 1 duced logo up and search. After looking for nearly two hours,she was found about thrpe quar ters ot a mile from the house, in a swamp, on Col. Kathbone’fl farm. She was in a natural ditch, about eighteen inches deep, made by the overflowing of a spring. She was lying on her i back, her feet under a large log of wood, another log laid across her breast, and a third lengthways on her body. Her hands were tied, a large gag of the thickness of a man’s arm, and made of rags sewed together, was forced into her month, her neek handkerchief tied tightly over her month, and her apron bound over her eyes. In thissiloa tion she had lain for two hours or more, her body irnmerspd in the filthy muck and water, her head being just above the surface. Konr men carried the insensible body to the house, where, after great exertions life was restored. Reason has not yet entirely returned, but during a few lucid in tervals her statement is as follows:_ 11 VVhile asleep, she was seized, gagged and blinded, then forced through the window by two men. am) partly dragged,and partly walking, was taken through fields and over lencca into the woods. Here they laid her down, and took the bandage from her eyes and the gag from her mouth. They asked “ if she knew them.” She replied that “ she did not.” They wore caps, and were disguised hy painting their faces. They then attempted to pour something from a vial down her throat. From her description, it was probably laudanum. She did not swallow any, but suc ceeded in breaking the vial. She begged of them (on seeing them take out their knives, with the remark that “ they might as well finish her then as any time ”) not to kill her, as she wished to communicate something to her husband before she died. They then produced pencil and paper,and pretended to write as she dictated. When this was done, slio was again blinded and gagged, and conveyed to the ditch and placed with her face downward*, and as heretofore described. One of the men, alter placing the log across her, jumped upon it. They deposited the letter for her hus band under some leaves by her side, and said that they would come at night when site was dead, and cover tier up. One of them '‘aid “ lie had done about enough for five dollars. ’ They then left her, and hy dint of struggling, she turned over ami got her bead above the water. She soon became insensible, ami in this state she was found. Her mother and brother were immediately ar rested nil suspicion of some knowledge of the affair, though they were undoubtedly absent from the spot on the day. They are the mother and bro ther ol the Baxter who was sentenced last Court to State prison, and afterwards had his leg ampu tated at Norwich. Mrs. Burdick has always borne a good character, though that of the rest of the family is notorious. \V<; should mention further that the letter to the husband was found as Mrs. B. said, under the leaves, on Saturday last. There were a few pencil scratches on it,but no writing. This story has been gradually drawn from her ami more will he told, probably, as she gains strength. GRAND SCHEME OF ANNEXATION. The editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, notic ing a rumor that an Association of great wealth lias been formed, the object of which is to carry on annexation to the utmost, which includes all South America, and all the West Indies, and whose organ is said to be the polyglot! paper just started in Washington by our friends Messrs. Harris &. Heart, called the Aurora, thuscommenis upon the whole grand minor : “Such is the story ; ami whrther hoax or no hoax, it is a right good one. If it be a hoax, it is a magnificent one; it a reality, it is morn magnifi cent still. The greater part of it is just what we want and have long recommended, to wit, the annexation of Mexico. But to that part of the declaration about the West Indies and South America, we file a demurrer. Our doctrine is The Continent. tinr whole Continent. and noth ing hut the Continent ; and this includes Mexi co uowu 10 me isthmus ami out to ilie racinc, and all the British colonies. Oregon is ours al- I ready ; and tlie little corner of Russian America, not worth having, should be let alone, merely to show our confidence in ourselves and our neigh bor. But we have no objection to a regeneration of South America ; to its union under one con federacy of republican States ; to the utmost free dom of commercial intercourse between it and our own eonfedetacy ; to a close alliance, offensive and defensive, against all European aggression. The interests of the two continents are identical, and they ought to co-operate cordially for the promo tion of such interests. They are interested in sustaining/Vee government, republicanism, theo retical and practical; freedom of religion, freedom of commerce, freedom of the ocean, freedom of all kinds against all kinds of monopolies. They are interested in driving from all American soil. Northern or Southern, that curse of the old world, suhdivision, and its necessary consequence, mili tary despotism ; that division into contiguous na tions producing “ pressure without’’ and “ resting on spears” within, which has ever deluged the old world in tears and blood •• They are interested in promoting union tinder the federal system, the only antidote to those an cient and modern curses of the old world, military despotism and war. But this can be best accom plished by the union of each America under a separate confederacy. Before the two can reach complete union, our ctSifederacy must cover the Northern Continent, and the South American must cover South American. The destiny of the West Indies is union and independence. Europe cannot own them forever, and must relinquish them when the two confederacies are strong enough to guaranty their independence. But in the mean time, let us participate in no interference between any European nation and its insular colonies. Sufficient for us is the continent, the whole continent, and nothing hut the continent. Whether this association contemplate the separa tion of the Spanish West Indies from the mother country, or not, tee are not informed. But our first care concerning them should he the preven tion of their seizure by the British.” A S TRANGE AFFAIR IN PARIS. The following strange story is the subject of very general discussion. * Madame C., wife of a mercer, who has lately been successful in railway operations, has been for a length of lime enamour ed of play, and during the past winter she lost al most constantly. Her husband at last refused pay a sous of her play debts, so that the gambler was often in difficulties. She returned home a few nights since, after having lost a large sum at lansqninet, and remained up pondering by what means she could contrive to discharge hef obliga tion. Whilst thus occupied she heard a noise in an adjoining closet She rose at once, and open ing the door, found the eldest servant of the fami ly endavoring to pick the lock of an nmoire a ulnre, in which she kept her jewels. The man was thunder struck at the appearance of his mis tress, and prayed her most earnestly not to inform j against him. An idea suddenly occurred to ’ Madame C-. * Listen to me said she. It is you who have already robbed me on several occa sions; the act I have caught you in proves it.— Von will be sent to ihe galleys if I inform against you. There is one way of escaping. I want 10.000 Ir. V<»u have a quantity of pick locks hi your hand. If you open your master’s safe and take out that sum for me. and no more, I shall say nothing about what I have seen to night.’’ The conditions were hard, but the man consented.— Scarcely, however, had he introduced one of the instruments into the lock of the safe, when a loud detonation was heard, and the man fell to the ground dreadfully wounded by a ball from a pis tol, which Mr. C-had got fixpd to prevent robbery. Mr. C-- arrived in a minute, and was first to lift up the man, who had still the picklocks in his hand. The Commissary of Pol ice being sent for, received from the thief a full ■ statement of what had taken place, removed him t-j the Hospital St. Louis, where he lies in the utmost danger. Madame C-, who denies most strongly the truth of the man’s declaration, has‘withdrawn to her family.' PICTURE OF NEW YORK. “This population is an active, healthy, inde pendent population.”—Herald Oct. 4. It is “active" certainly, fur nine-tenth3 occupy nearly alt their waking hours in one incessant scramble for the means to live and pay rent, and the other tenth are actively engaged in plans to “ in- ' crease the value of real estate” and thus raise rent and cheapen labor, so that they may get a little richer. It is “healthy”—only a warm week car ries ofT occasionally about two hundred extra ot the sick who are crowded into cellars and garrets and other unventilated holes and corners, and now and then a pestilence takes off a few thousands. It is “independent’*—for it has abundant means to support 50.000 paupers, 10,000 prostitutes, 5000 tax eaters, a proportionate number of (ram blers. pickpockets and other thieves and swindlers, and enough to spare to build up palaces for the rich and now poor houses and prisons for the poor. Another proof of its independence is, that if it hasn’t money, its credit is no good, that i there are always gentlemen who will lend money at legal interest and the people are able tn pay the interest. Hurrah for independence } Every poor landless man in New York has an equal right to beg for work, beg for bread, steal, starve, or go to the poor house! Long live Bennett the Bold ! — Voting America. From the Philadelphia Ledger. DESTITUTION”IN ENGLAND. The British Work-house system is a disgrace | lo humanity. It seems to have been adopted for the purpose of driving the poor into tho grave, and by the most horrible means—starvation. A more disgusting, shocking and horrible case can not be found in the world’s history than that of the Andover Union Work house, where the poor inmates have been robbed of their allowance of food, and forced to hide filthy bones—human as well as animal—till they could find an opportuni ty to pick the marrow from them, and gnaw the gristle! 'The following is the testimony of one of the inmates, a man upwards of 50, who now prefers to gain a scanty subsistence by selling lucifer matches to the horrible fare of the work house. “ I worked at bone crushing four weeks. The bones were ot all kinds. There were horse bones and cattle bones. There might have been human hones among them without my knowing it. I did not examine them particularly. 1 have seen the men gnaw the bits of meat, or hard gristle, and eat the marrow out of the bune9. I have done so myself. 'They were very dirty, being tumbled about with the rest. I have seen some of the men eat tainted gristle and inarrow. When I got a bad bone, I gave it to some who was not so particular. This lasted all the time I was there. Generally speaking, all the bones were stale. I have seen a cart come with bones; they were not trean. l saw the men quarrel several times for t^ie hones. They would hide them away from each other. I have hidden them un til I got an opportunity to pick thpm. ft required a good stomach to pick them. The stuff was was uot fit for men to eat. Hunger made them do it. V\ e have not food enough to support us in a proper way. YVe were worked very hard. YVe did not let the master see us picking the bones, for fear he should hlow us up. f have picked up raw potatoes, turnips and carrots, and eaten them. YVe ate the potatoes to moisten our mouths, and help to fill up our stomach Hunger and thirst made us eat them.” THE WAR CRY IS ABROAD. See how'a (lousier talks when the war-cry is abroad : Men of blood and friends of YVashinglon and that old boss General Jackson! I want your at tention. Lightoin’ has hurst upon us, and Jube ler has poured the ile of his wrath down the greasy shanks of the Mexicans. Thunder has broke loose and slipped its cable, and the mighty valley of the Massassip reverberates the thousand tongued hissing of Santa Ana and the smaller ignorant fating that revolves around the benight ed and wooden legged pop-gun of Monteznmas. Citizens and sires of the bloody ground on which our fathers catawainpously poured out theirclaret, free as ile, to enrich the soil over which we now hover, and watch with hyena eyes; let the cata mount of the inner varmint loose, and prepare the Rhessy cat of vengeance, for the long looked for day has arriv ! The crnkodile of the Missasip has gone into his hole, and the sun that lit King David and host across the Atlantic Ocean looks down upon the scene and drops a tear to its memory. But hosses, I am with you! And while the stars of Uncle Sam and stripes of his country triumphantly wave in the breeze—whar—whar is the eraven, low-lived, chicken bred, toad-hop pin’, red-mouthed mother’s son of ye who will not raise the beacon light of triumph—smouse the citadel of thp aggressor, and press onward to liber ty and glory! YVlioop! lln-rah! YVhar’s the enemy f Honor to Titr. Weare Girls.—One of our bil'.er Anti-Temperance men in VVeare, New Hampshire, was chosen last Spring a acliool com mittee in his district. But so hostile was he to the teetotallers, he declared lie would employ no young lady to teach who had signed the Fledge. But we finds the girls too spunky for him. The last we heard of him, he had searched the whole lown and could find none to his liking. The school was still unprovided with a teacher. Un der such circumstances, we rejoice to record the fact. Stick to your faith, girls, like real hero ines.— Torrent, Perfection of Misery.—The New York True Sun says:—“ A day or two since we saw an able bodied man sitting upon the dilapidated and filthy steps of a low grog shop on the Five Points, tearing the raw meal from a beef joint, which he had probably stolen from the dogs, with a voracity known only to starvation. His tattered garments, his bloodshot eyes and trembling frame proclaimed him the slave of King Alcohol— doomed to an early and disgraceful death.” Rough and Tumble Fight.—A contest of this brutal kind came off on Friday at Red Hook New York, between two individuals named Briggs and Cochran. The stakes were originaliy for $‘^0 a side, hut at the time of the contest had I been run up as high as 8‘^00, by their friends — Cochran got Briggs down, and was proceeding to gouge out the eye of that individual after the most approved fashion, whilst he had his own wrist fast in the teeth of Briggs. Fn this pecu liarly pleasant predicame.it the cry of police wsg raised, which ended the contest for a time, both I heroes claiming the victory. qgggggsi .I .. I THE INDIAN’S REVENGE. Every ** Buokeye,” “ Corncraeker,” or “ Hoo •eir,” has seen or heard of Simon Kenton, the celebrated Indian fighter and hunter. Born and raised amid scenes of strife and danger, he was taught, at an early age. to rely upon his own en ergies for support and protection, and many are the tales we have heard of his indomitable brave ry, presence of mind and sagacity—qualities that distinguished the pioneers of civilization in the boundless West, and enables them to triumph in the darkest hour, and compass difficulties that n less hardy race would have deemed unsurmounta ble. At one period of Kenton's eventful career, he was sitting on a rude bench in front of his cabin, smoking a corncob pipe, and entertaining a num ber of •• responsibilities” with narratives of by eone days, and stirring events in which hs was a prominent actor. I he sun had * gone down in a blaze of glory,* as the novelists say, tinging the forest with a mel low light and robing in gorgeous hues the giant oaks that stand like pi I liars against the cerulean firmament, An Edenlike stillness reigned around the humble dwelling oftbe war-worn veteran—the hum of insects c< ased, and twilight was stealing on apace, soothing the turbulent passtpns of our nature, and lending an indescribable charm to the woodland scene. At this moment a noise was heard by Kenton, and in an instant the form of an Indian was seen emerging from a thicket in front of the hut. The red man did not advance with the caution of his tribe, but crushing the reeds that obstructed his paasrge, marched with a bold step to the cabin and stood before Kenton “ in all his native majesty.” 4 Good evening,* said the Indian, who spoke good F2nglish, • how is Mr. Kenton, the Eagle Eye, as we call him V 4 Well, very well, you red-skinned vagabond ! What brought you to Simon Kenton’s cabin at such an hour as this ?’ 4 Reveage !’ • Ah » you can’t forget that brush eh ?’ • Never, old man. You killed my father, and the Great Spirit says I must have blood for blood „ ‘Well, Ingen, you know where Simon Ken ton’s hot stands, and when you call upon him in daylight, Eke a white man, you’ll find him on hand. ‘Enough ! We will meet at the rising of the sun to-morrow, in the ‘Fallen Timber.’ You know the place. I could have revenged my fa ther, who has gone to a happy hunting ground, hy killing you at your own door, but that would not have been according to my notions of honor among red men.’ •res. Ingen, we will meet at sunrise, exactly, and recollect, as soon as we pass the morning compliment*, the work begins. You want to kill me, for revenge, as you say, as I happened to kill your father. Very well, lng.-n. Simon Kenton knows what’s right, and when we meet, luck will decide it. I will take my old rifle, and can h* found at the crossing—you know where. All you have got to do in the morning, is to take a bee line for the spot, and when you see old Simon blaze away !’ The two parted in apparent friendship, and the old man retired to rest. At dawn, he arose, and made preparations for the conflict, which he knew must be deadly. Balls were made—flints pick ed-powder examined, etc., and without com municating to his family his intention, he saun tered forth, and was soon at the appointed place. He fiiund the Indian had anticipated his arriva’ and was leaning upon his rifle, at a short distance from the place lie had designated, in a thoughtful mood. Signs were exchanged, and then com menced a ‘bush fight’ never surpassed. The In dian fired and missed, and then look shelter be hind a large hickory. Kenton was cool and col lected and trying again the flint of ‘Black Bet,’ lold his antagonist to stand forth. The Indian had reloaded, and both chose a position, and fired, without effect. Quick as though the pieces were reloaded, and the “ artful dodging’’ that followed can be better imagined than described. From tree to tree the assailants glided, and every means ingenuity could invent was resoried to by them to gain an advantage This lasted for some mo ments, when the Indian, finding he could notout wit his white antagonist, in the woods, came for ward. and proposed that both should go to a clearing at hand, with uncharged rifles, and, at a signal agreed upon, load and fire. Kenton readi ly accepted the offer, and repaired to the clearing.. I he remainder is soon told. As soon as the sig nal was given, both began loading with the ut most haste, being distant from each oiher but a few yards. The Indian’s movements were hur ried but certain—Kenton was more methodical,_ but no less effective, and the ramrods were drawn out at the same time. Kenton, however, made a fatal mistake. Instead of throwing his rod on the ground, as his antagonist did, he attempted to put ii in ns place, and while doing so, received a ball that sent his spirit to a better world. Years have rolled away since the occurrence we have mentioned, hul there are many yet in the land ot the living who remember the sad fate of the old warrior, Near the translucent Licking may be found the grave of as noble a spirit as ever tilled a tenement of clay. A WORD FOR THE LADIES. Walking is getting quite out of fashion, and young women now-adays wriggle along a* if they were moved ahead by one of Errieson’s patent propellers. Their walk is as crooked as that of a ship with all her sails and no rudder._ They are as graceful in their motions as a militia colonel’s horse, or a broken down •• ranker ’» f notice they are awfully def .rmed, too. as a gcnenli rule, having great humps on their backs, like dromedaries. All which is doubtless very plea sant to the traders in cotton hatting and hay.— This 'new edition’ nf the shape may he a great improvement on the original, but if so the original! must be ‘shocking bad for if there is an ugly looking object about it is one of these wadded and' padded young women. If one of them should be furnished by nature with these fashionable humps (or heaps) she would be exhibited as a curiosity' at four pence a peep, like a donble headed pig— Some months since somebody sent me through the P. O., a semi -circular bag of cotton, and* I was told it was a very prominent article of female apparel, used to perfect the human shape' ft ia a curiosity, aud in a few years hence I mean to send it as such to some museum. It looks like any thing except an article of dress. There is nothing to compare it to, in the heavens above, or the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth They call it—so I am told—a bishop—and if so I certainly go in for ‘A church without a bishop/ ss heartily as for ‘A state without a king/ l hope, after reading these strictures, that the young women will give up wriggling through the streets, like a parcel of snakes; content them •elves with human forms; end try the experiment at laet, of acting like reasonable being*.