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HOTT & CO., Proprietors, ANDERSON. S. 0.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1869. VOLUME 5,-NO. 6. MY FELLOW TRAVELLEE. -0 "And that," said I, "is pretty nearly all I have to tell you." The above words formed the perora? tion ot a synopsis of several years' trav ? elling, communicated by me "to a fellow passenger from Helsingfors to Stockholm, as we leaned over the side of the good ship Viborg, and watched the countless groups of rocky islets, crested with green toilage, which arose on every side from the smooth transparent sea. My auditor was a long, lean, wiry American, with s Cold clear eye, and a look of indomitable . firmness in every lino of his pinched sal? low face, which gave him tho aspect (to quote from a pugnacious friend of mine) *'of a man you would like to be back to back with in a row." "Wal, stranger," remarked he at the close of my narrative, "yu hev bin about a bit, I reckon ; but yu hain't seen much, and what's more, yu hain't done much neither." My dignity was somewhat ruffled by this plain-spoken criticism ; for I privately regarded myself as a second Sindbad, on the strength of a moderate acquaintance with the majority of the countries which figure on the tourist's visiting list. More ovor, my listener had himself provoked my communicativeness by a series of search? ing questions upon every point of my per? sonal history, from the color of my grand? father's hair to the amount of pocket money allowed me at Rugby. Conse? quently, there was perhaps a shade of ac? rimony in my tone a9 I replied: "I've done what I could ; but of course every? body can't have as many adventures as you." "Wal, yu air about right thar," re? turned he, taking my words literally; "I've seen a iew things in my time. 1 reckon; but mark ye, it's cause I've looked about me, and fixed for doin somethin' wharever I went, 'stead o' trail in' about with my eye3 shot and my hands in tho pockets o' my panteys, like some folk. .Now, I'll tell yu how yu Britishers travel; }-u je&t foller the rail? way track right square from one big town to another, and see the opera houses, and the thcayters, and the promenades, and sitch like; and o' course j*u meet a heap o' riffraff, and mayhap got jure eye-teeth drawn a leetlo too slick; and a'ter devo tin' three weeks or a month to seein' a country with some millions o' people in it, yu come back and write a tarnation big book to say, "that air couutry ain't no great pile o' punkius a'ter all; the crittors thar air all lazy and shiftless,and good for no thin' but to cheat and tell lies and no wonder, seein' they're only cussed furriners, and hain't got the ines? timable blcssin' of a free British consti? tution.' Tha, now, stranger," he con? cluded with tho paternal superiority of a missionary instructing a Hottentot, "that's the way yu go to work; but, yu observe, 'tain't the right way, nohow yu kin fix it." "And how did you go to work, then ?" asked I, wishing to divert the current of this flood of extempore criticism. "Wal, I fixed to do somethin', and 1 done it; leastways, a man that's been a teamster in the Rocky Mountains, a gold digger in Ameriky, a sailor in tho Injino Ocean, a storekeeper at Shanghai, a news? paper editor at San Franciskey, and an agent for one notion or another in every country of Europe, mout say he'd done somethin', I guess, if he had a mind to." "And have you really done all that ?" asked I, somewhat startled at tho cata? logue. "Reckon I hev; I've boen kinder mov in'.round ever sin' I was as big as a mo? lasses-jar, and I ain't dono yet. Guess I'm like John Brown's soul in the old song?I 'go a-marchin' on' pretty consid' able, and it'll take a while to tire mo of it tew." "And do you always travel alone, then?" "Reckon I do; leastways, what yu'd call alono. I've got a bosom-friend here, though," added ho with a strange chuckle, putting his hand into his breast-pocket; "and he's done me more'n one good turn in bis time, so I tell }Te. Yes, sir, ho has that; and what's more, ho speaks or holds his tongue jest as I please, which 'tain't every man as 'ud do !" And with this enigmatical preface, ho produced a small but handsome revolver, fitted with a spring bayonet, and orna? mented about the stock with eleven studs of silver, arranged in the form of a square, which would bo completed by tho addi? tion of a twelfth. "Ain't that a friend, now stranger?" said tho Transatlantic exultingly; "and good friends we've been, him. and mo; I never mistrusted him but once, and that war down in Australey, when I war gold-digging up Turon way. Two fellers cum to my tent ono night, 'cause they'd beam as I'd a heap o' gold thar, and they thought o' bein' so kind as to relieve mo o' the 'sponsibility o' guardin' it. I hoarn 'em creepin' in, and o' course the fust thing I did was to slap all six barrels in? to 'em, just to giv 'cm a hint not to call a'ter visitin' hours. I hearn a screech, and then a pattin o' feet runnin' off; but it war tew dark to see anythin', and all the rest o'that night my foclins ain't to be 'scribed, nohow!" "Ah, you wore afraid you had killed ono of them, I suppose ?'' said I, pleased at this solitary touch of humanity in my grisly acquaintance. "Killed! why, darn it, stranger, dy'e want to insult mo ! No, by Jingo ! I war 'fraid I'd missed ono on 'cm ! and to hev my own re-volver miss at close range, a'ter bein' true to me for so man}" years, war more'n I could bear!" (The pathos "with which he said this was indescriba b\e.) "I felt partic'ler cheap all that night, so I tell ye; yu mout hev bought I me "for a cent, any time 'fore raornin'. I But as soon as it war light, I cum out, i and thar I seen one feller lyin' dead be I side the tent-door, and a track o' blood lall whar t'other had run off, jost like a I stick o' molasses 'cross a buckwheat cake; j and, says I: 'Thank Heaven. I'vo hit i 'em both !' and the weight that war took off my mind in that air moment?stran? ger, thar ain't no 'scribm' it!" The real fervour of his tone as ho ut? tered the last sentence, with all the air of a good man whose conscience has just been relieved of some overwhelming bur? den, cannot be conveyed in words. "I daresay yu'd hardly guess, now, stranger, that 1 first saw this re volver in a vision; but I did, though, staro as much as yu like; and the way it happened war jest so: Father had bin dead 'bout*a month, when I cum in late one night from fixin' a rail-fence that one of our oxen had smashed; and a'ter I'd 60t by the kitcben-fire a spell, and done a tol'able stroke o' supper, I began to feel a leetle drowsy. I warn't not to say asleep, but jost so as if yu'd spoke to me sudden, I'd hev thought a minute 'foro I answered? when, all at once, I seen father stannin' right 'fore me, with his big straw-hat o' one side, and his high boots and striped shirt sleeves, and his hands in his pockets (that war the only ghost-like thing 'bout him, for while he war alive they war mostly in some one else's), and he says to me, he says : 'Cy, my boy' [my name's Cyrus Johoshaphat Flint, stranger, and I ain't ashamed on it]; 'Cy, my boy, I've cum back from the spirit-world to teil yu suthin' yu'll p'raps be none the wus o' knowin'. I didn't leave }-u much,' says he, ''cause yu air safe to go 'long single handed, whereas them two brothers and five sisters of yourn will kinder need proppin' up some, 'fore they kin stand by theirselvea. Now, }-u jest listen to me. To-morrow mornin', the very fust i thing, yu up and job open tho back o' that old cupboard in the corner, jest 'bove the top shelf, and thar yu'll find a ro-volver, j the best yu ever fingered; and may Ileav en bless it Co yaro use. And now, kneel J down, and receive my blessin'.' I war jest n-gwine to du it, when all to onco I slipped off my chair, and cum the all firedest lick with my nose agin the fen? der as ever I seen; and when I cum-to agin, thar warn't nobody thar. 'Wal, cuss it!' says I [though that air language ain't quite proper for a member o' tho church], 'I hope next time father comes from 'other world, he'll contrive to do it at a reas'nable hour, 'stead o' showin' up a'ter bedtime, and makin' his own flesh and blood break his nose in this hero fash'n.' But for all that, I didn't forget what he said ; and fust thing next mornin' I up and into the kitchen, and out with the back o' the cupboard, and thar lay the tho re-volver, sure as ever thing war in the world. And now, stranger, if yu don't believe that air story, here is the 'dentieal re-volvcr, and yu can t go again that, nohow !" Against such confirmatory evidence it would have been useless to argue; and I readily assented, only venturing to in quiro the mystery of tho singularly ar? ranged studs on tho stock of tho pistol. "Wal, stranger," returned my compan? ion, "yu would'nt guess tho trick o' them studs in a hurry, so I'll tell 3-11. Each 0' them air studs on that re-volvor stands for tiie life of a man that hina and me hev cleared off. Thore's elevon on 'em alto? gether, and 1 reckon that's a pretty tol'? able stroke 0' work for one man and one weepun.' Used as I am to extraordinary confi? dence, this cool, complacent statement fairly staggered mo lor life ^moment. '?Good Heavens I" I gasped, "do you mean to tell mo that you havo murdered eleven men ?" ''No, stranger," replied ho slowly and ! sententiously: "ru hev got into tho wrong ferry-boat in makin' that air statement. I mean to toll yu that I'vo found it ne? cessary, at different pe-riods o' my life, to rub out eleven human critters who mout otherwise hev offered tho same ci-vility to mo; and 1 calc'lato yu don't call tnat murderin' ? Thar's one wantin' yet to complcto tho dr *on, as yu see; but," added ho cheerfully, "that won't be long a-cumin', I guess." "Tho old cannibal!" said I mentally; "ho talks of killing people as if ho were only collecting photographs. Pray Heav? en he may take it into his head to add me to his musoum !" "Thar's one 'vantage I've got with this weepun," pursued the Yankee; "1 kin al? ways tell at fust sight 0' a man whether I'm a gwino to kill him some day or not." "How's that?" asked I, not without a secret shudder, and a slight anxiety as to which way the scalo had turned with re? gard to myself. "Wal, jest this way: whenever I meet a man that I'm bound to rub out bimo b}', the hammer o' this re-volvor's sure to gin a sorter click?so?jest to show that he knows his dooty 'spectin' that air in dividooal; and ho never makes mistakes, he don't." That perfect air of conviction with I which he said this was the reverse of agreoablo; and I could not help reflect? ing : "A pretty thing if this precious pis? tol should havo happened to click when he saw me first, and ho should think it necessary to vindicate its infallibility!" My countenance probably expressed somo disquietude, for my companion suddenly broke my meditations by observing, in an oncouraging tone : "Yu hain't no call to bo skeared, stranger; he didn't click at sighb 0' you, and I'm kindorglad on't, for yu're good kumpny in yuro way, although you air tarnation green in the ways 0' the world." As this estimate of my abilities was evidently too deeply rooted to admit of refutation, I let it pass, merely inquiring whether tho fatal augury had ever proved false. "Never, stranger," he replied emphati? cally. "Yu can't 'spect prophecy to go wrong, and that air weepun's a prophet, jest much as Dan'l or 'Zek'l. I won't say that I wouldn't hev been g!.ad, ono time, to catch him slippin'?and reezun good tew; butyu mout as well 'spect Gin'ral Grant to be 'fraid, as this wcepun to tell a lie." "And that one time?what was it?" asked I. "Wal, seein' it's yu, stranger, I don't mind tellin', though I ain' so precious spry at talkin' on that air subject, Iswar. It's a good fow years now sin' I happened on a feller who hailed from a village on the Mississippi, called 'Burnt Clearin',' 'cause of a big fire they'd hcd thar once on a time; and we froze together power? ful, and war jest like brothers all to once. Wharever one went, t'other went; what? ever one did, t'other did ; and if this un bed a dollar, that un war good fur fifty cents on't, least thing. We vent down tho river to Noo Orleens, anil up to Philadcl phy by the cars, and eastward to Charles? ton on a tradin' spec; and I toll ye, we fotched up the dollars right smart. I saved him from boin' chawed up by a b'ar that looked plaguy angshus to make his closer 'quaintanco; and he saved mo from bein' drowned in flood-time, when my canoe got turned over agin a snag; and altogether, stranger, yu mout hev tuk us fur David and Jonathan cum alive agin. But all the while thar war one thot hangin' in my mind like a risin' cloud in summer, that spiles the look o' tho hull sky?and that war the recollection that my weepun, fust time ho ever seen this fellor, he'd gin a click." Tho cold clear tone of his voice at these last words, slightly tinged with sorrow, was such as a compassionate judge might use in pronouncing sentence of death; and to mo (guessing what was to come) it had a sound indescribably dreary and ominous: "I used to tryan? laugh myself out 'o that air fancy by sayin': "What over's possible, that ain't! Why, to think o' fightin' our quarrellin' 'ud bo like a man cuttin' hisself in half, and fightin' right agin left.' But let nie talk as I liked, the thot stuck in my head like a nail in a new log, and wouldn't go away. And at last, stranger,tho time cum when it war morc'n a thot. Ono year, early in the fall, wo were down in Kansas, tradin' about in spots, and makin' a pretty lol' ablc haul; till ono day we 'greed to tote up the profits, and make a fair division, 'cause next morniu' he war startin' off to Burnt Clearin' to sec his folks, and I war bound to make tracks for Boston on some busine.-s of my own. Wal, evenin' cum, and a'ter lickerin' a spell, to ile our brains fur tho ciphering we began totin' up. JJut somehow or another, we couldn't como to a right settlement o' our two shares, no? how we could fix it; and what with tho tho ticker we'o bed, and the worry o' ci? phering wo both commenced to git ray thcr savagcrous. At last, up ho jumps, and hollers out: 'I'd not hev bi n so thun? derin' keen upon this hyur trade if I'd (known that my pardner wer mithin' but a darned mean flint-shavin' thief o' a Yankeo!' At them words a shiver run all through me, like them 'lectric fixens that book-larned folks tell on, and my right hand flow out as if somebody moved it, and fotchod him a lick'tween the eyes that brou't him down liko a pine in a clearin'. (He war a fino feller, biggor'n > me in some way, and all the way out as hard; and, by Jingo! 'tvrar u reg'lar ploasure knockin' him down.) Up ho got, lookin' mighty wrathy; und says ho: 'It 'ill take a leetle burnt powder to put away the smell o' that air blow?cum out into tho forest.' Tho sun war sottin', and ev? ery thin' war dead still, as if waitin' to sco what we'd do. I follercd him out readily 'nuff, for I war cool as an icicle, now I know'd the job bed got to eum through; but when I seen the dyin' light streamitti' down tho shadowy arches of tho forest, and tho everlastiV trees stan nin' up tall and grand, and whispcrin' with all thoir leaves, as if God war ape-ak? in' through them in His own Tomplo of Natur'?by Hevin', stranger. I cum very nigh fcolin' as if I war p'raps doiu' wrong I "Wal, that feelin' didn't last long, I reckon. The lust click o' them locks (we'd 'greed to load only three barrels each, to savo time)?tho fust click o' them locks war like tho smell o' roast moat to a starvin' man ; and when 1 t oed my mark at fifteen paces, I felt as comfortablo as if I'd bin Bittin' Tore a big fire with a glass o' whisky in my hand. We both cracked off to once: I got a scratch on tho loft side, and a bit o' his sleeve wont flyin'jest below tho shoulder. 'Bettor luck next timo!' says I; and tho second load went off. He'd aimed higher this timo, and tho pill skifled my hair, and knocked off my hat; but jost in ths same moment I socn him turn half round, and go ker-chunk right on his face. I run in upon him, liko a fool, forgot tin' that he'd got ono shot left; and ho hoisted hisself on his elby, and jost let slap, jest tetchin' my thigh as I cum on (his hand war shaky, yu know, or he'd not hev made sich a bad shot), but thar war his last card, and then 1 know'd I bed him. "Olo toiler," says I, "I've kinder won tho hand this timo, thar ain't no dodgin' in' it. So, 'foro yu go under, hev yu. any messidges to leavo ?" "Wal," says he, 'thar's a ejal at Burnt Clearin' that I war pretty bad on last fall ?Kesia Harper, noxt door to tho mcctin' house?guess }'U must gin her this hyur I locket, if 'taint outer yure way.' "Sho's as good as got it already," says I, putting it in my pouch. "Thar's a feller in the next village, Na? than Hickman, that they uso to call 'Straight-eye'?I war to have fought him this fall; yu tell him why I can't cum, for no one didn't oughter think I war 'fraid." "If the coon says a word agin yu,' says I, 'I'll grease my hoots with his liven Is thar anything else V "Wal," savs he, 'I gtiess that's about all' "Good-bye, then, ole feller," says I; 'bless yu !' 'And with that I clapped my pistol to his head, and blew it as small as corn-shucks.' '?Good Heaven!" said I, revolted at this cold-blooded butchery, "could you not have spared the man's life, even then?" "Stranger," replied the old slaughterer, with indcscribablo dignity, "if yon want .to find a critter so cussed mean to hurt a man's feelins by sparin' him a'ter bed been whipped in fair open fight, I guess you'd better not come to Cyrus Jehosha phat Flint!?Now, then, I calc'late we'd bost be lookin' a'ter oar fixins,for them's the spires o' Stockholm shinin' yonder." And, so speaking, ho turned upon his heel, and vanished into tho cabin. CUU SO) A Fearful Tragedy?A Man Killed by a Dog. On yesterday wo came into possession of the particulars of a most singular and fearful tragedy, which recently occurred in one of tho mountain counties of this State. The gentleman with whom wo received our information has requested us to give neither the name of the county in which the horrible scene took place, nor the names of the actors in it; in the first place, because the families of the parties J arc among the best and most respectable in the county, and should not be subjec? ted to this additional mortification for an act which the}' can, in no manner, be held responsible; and, in the second place, be? cause publicity would now, in no way, subserve the ends of justice, as the guilty party has already expiated his crime by so fearful a punishment. We will only prefaco our account of the matter by sta? ting that our information was derived from a well-known and highly esteemed gentleman of this city, and may bo safe? ly relied upon as perfectly correct in eve? ry particular. In one of the mountain counties of Georgia there lives two families, each be? fore the war noted lor its wealth and re? finement. Since the war tho families (whom we shall call respectively II. and L.) though they had, like nearly ev? ery ono else, lost every thing by the con? flict, still retained tho high position in so? ciety which they had for some long time filled. One of them, thcL.'s, lost several of its members, as well as its fortune, by tho war, and at the couimencimcnt of our story consisted of Air. L., a gentleman fif? ty-five years of age, his wile, nearly tho samo age, and an unmarried daughter of about twenty-fivo. In about a quarter of a niilo from their house lived one of the ft.'s, a young man, who had recently j married a very beautiful young lady of the county, and having left the paternal mansion was fanning by himself on a small tract of ground. Tho two families lived somo distance from the county town, in a sparsely inhabited section of countiy, and being each tho nearest neighbor of tho other, were, of course, on terms of great intimacy. Between tho young wife and tho daughter of Mr. L. a fast friendship was soon formed, being nearly tho samo ago and of similar tastes and disposition, and relying upon oach other for company in the daily absence of tho two gentlemen, who were engaged in superintending the businoss of their farms. A few days since Mr. R-informed his wife that ho had received a letter, which would compel immediato atten? dance in Atlanta, where ho would havo to remain for soveral days, and as it would bo inconvenient for him to take her with him to that cit}*, advised that sho should ask her young neighbor to stay with her during his absence. Tho next morning ho set out in his buggy for Atlanta, and his wife during tho morning went over to L-s house for tho purpose of inviting her young friend to stay with her.? When she arrived there sho told tho young lady of the absence of her husband; representing how lonely she would lind her house at night from the fact that she employed no house servant, and her cook, together with the few laborers employed on tho farm, slept at the "negro quarter," nearly half a mile from the dwelling houso, and ended by asking Miss L to spend tho nights with her until her hus? band returned. The young lady, after consultation with her mother, readily as? sented to tho proposition, and promised to come over during the afternoon. Hav? ing accomplished her purpose and feeling very much relieved in mind, Mrs. Ii returned homo and spent the day perform? ing tho usual household duties. When tho morning had passed away and tho after? noon came and then the sun set without bringing her friend, sho felt no alarm, but thought that the latter had decided not to come until aftor tea, when her father, across the field, which separated the two houses, would escort her. Accordingly the evening meal was oaten, household affairs arranged and tho cook dismissed for tho night to her distant cabin at tho "quarter." About nino o'clock Mrs. R. began to feel a littlo uneasy, as Miss L. had not yet come, when a servant camo up to tho house and brought a note from her ex? pected friond, stating that she would be unable to spend tho night with hor, as sho had promised, for her father, from somo cause or other, had positively refused to givo his consent to the arrangement. Af? ter delivering tho noto the sorvant took his departure and the bravo woman pre? pared to spe*nd tho night by herself. Feel? ing that she had a protector in a large and very fierce }Tard-dog belonging to her hus? band, she took him into hor bedroom, and after securing the house, lay down and resigned herself to sleep. About twelve o'clock she was awaked from her slumbers by anoiflein the house i and tho angry growling of the dog and ! discovered that the hall door had been forced and that some one was standing at her room door seeking an entrance.? Speaking as loudly as her fright would let her Mrs. R.-asked, "Who is there 1" A man's voice which she did not recognize, replied b}- telling her to "open the door." Again she asked the same question and again received the same reply, the stran? ger adding that if she refused he would "break the d?n door down." During this dialogue the dog, still growling, crouched upon the floor as if ready to spring. Thinking to intimidate this man, who sought her ruin, Mrs. R.-cried to him that if he forced the door she would shoot him. Laughing scornfully, the ruffian throw his weight against the light door, burst it open and entered the room ?when, quick as thought, thosavagedog sprang forward and fastened on his neck. The man astonished at this sudden attack, attempted to kill the dog with a knife which he had in his hand, but unsuccess? fully and the powerful animal dagged him to the ground, still retaining his hold up? on his throat. Stunned at first by this unlooked-for deliverance, the woman,in a few seconds, regained her presence of mind somowhat, ran screaming from the house, never stopping until she arrived at tho place of tho L.'s, where her cries soon aroused the family. Her tale was rapidly told, and the servants were preparing to go to the scene of danger, when suddenly Mr. L. was missed, and Iiis wile, almost on the instant, as if struck by a sudden presentiment, screamed "Merciful God ! it must be my husband !" With a cry of hor? ror the party set forth, and ran as fast to the house of Mrs. R. as the latter had run away from it a few minutes before. Ar? rived there they found the man still on the floor, and tho dog still grasping his throat. Beating him away from his prey they found ihe suspicious of Mri. L. but too correct; it was her husdand?but the teeth of the dog had done their work, and he was dead. It appears that he had returned to his home at five o'clock the previous evening, and hearing of the departure of R., and the intention his daughter to spend the night with the young wife, he positively refused to allow her to do so, assigning some frivolous cause for tho refusal. That night he left home, saying that he was go? ing to set up all night with a sick neigh? bor, who lived some miles distant. It is supposed that he concealed himself in the woods until midnight, and then, influenced by unholy lust, forced an entrance into the house of R., to violato the person of the wife of the latter. When the case becamo known the most intonse excitement pro vailed in tho county, and had not Provi? dence punished tho criminal ho would probably have been hung to tho nearest tree by the enraged populace.?Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel. Old Virginia.?Our Richmond ex? changes note a decided improvement in real estate prospects sinco tho signal do feat of Wells and the overthrow of tho carpet-bag suprcmacj'; but sufficient time has not yet elapsed for effects to show themselves, though evidences are not wanting that there will soon bo an in? creased demand for Virginia land. Com? menting on these signs of improvement in Virginia, tho Now York Journal of Commerce takes rather an encouraging view of affairs, politically and otherwise. It says: "Some people have doubts about tho recognition of Virginia as a Stato under i tho Walker government; but these will probably not bo realized. After some little opposition from extreme Radicals, Virginia will bo let in, and her Senators and Representatives will take their seats. In anticipation of these events, move? ments to emigrate to tho old State are now on loot in several parts of the North. A number of gentlemen in New Jersey are spoken of as having organized and appointed a committee to go to Virginia and inspect lands offered them by Gener? al lmboden, tho immigration agent of the Stato. They intend to buy farms of from 500 to 1,000 acres apiece, if prices and other conditions are favorable. From the reconstruction of Virginia on a conserva? tive basis will date tho era of a renowed prosperity greater perhaps than she has over enjoyed before." Senator Si-uague on Colfax.?In his Fourth of July speech before the Free Masons of Scituato, Senator Sprngue said : "But I cannot close without pointing to tho recent exhibition in the presence of tho whole people of tho Vice President of tho United States travelling and speaking in tho interest of tho powers I condemn, lie reminds me of the ass who stolo tho habiliments of tho new king of the for? est; for when ho asserts that tho country is prosperous and contented, he but shows tho ears which prove his true character. He came among us moro especially as tho representative of tho mighty West, a peo? ple not yet hide bound to tho dictates of the moneyod aristocracy, or to customs and institulions founded upon it. But ho joins counsol and co-operation with those powers which in thcmselvos and in their representative capacity, are so in hostility to tho independence und growth of tho West. Let him and those who have in? duced him to degrade his high office to their lovel bo prepared to meet on the floor of the Senate, for tho information of tho people from whom ho comes, his true character, and that of tho alliance he has made." Josh Billings Papers. NATURAL BIOGRAPHY?THE HUM BUGG. The most vuin and impudent bug known to naturalists (or enny other pri? vate individual) is the hum bugg. They have no very perticuiar parents nor birth place; are born a good deal az tud stools are, wherever they kan find a good soft spot. -- It haz been sed by commontatera that Satan himself iz the futher of hum buggs ?if this iz a fakt, he haz got more chil? dren than be kan watch, and sum very fast young ones anlangst them. The hum buggs don't generally live a grate while at once, but have the fakulty ov dieing in one place and being suddenly born in another. 1 They are uv awl genders, including the masculine, feminine and nutral, and kan live and grow phatt where an honest bugg would starve to death begging. The hum bugg will eat enny thing that they kan bite. and.rather than lose a good meal will swaller a thing whole. Every one sez they dispize the hum bugg, and yet everybody is anxious tew make their acquaintance. They have the ontra to all cirkles of so? ciety without knocking from the highest to the lowest, and tho often kicked out, are welcumed again and flattered more than ever. The hum bugg haz more friends than he knows what to do with, but he mana? ges tew give general satisfackshun by cheating the whole of thera. The Bible sez "the grasshopper iz a burden," and I believe it?but I think the hum bugg is the heavyest bug ov the two. But the world kant well.spare the hum bugg; take them all out ovthe world, and it would bother even an honest man tew git a living, tor there doesn't Beem,jist now, to be honesty enuff on hand to do our immense dry goods buzziness with. Honesty iz undoubtedly the best policy for a long run, but for a short race, hum bugg has made some excellent time. 1 have been bit bad by this buggroiself several times, but not twice in the same spot?i follow the Skriptures when i am wharc the hum bugg is plenty, if one bttes me on the cheek i turn him the other cheek also, but i don't let him bit^the other cheek also. Tharo ain't enny body, i suppose, who acktually pines tew to bo bit by this cele? brated bugg, they only luv to see how near they can cum tew it without mis? sing. Human natur iz chuck full ov curiosity, and curiosity iz jist what.hum bugg makes menny a warm meal oph of. Sum ov thezo buggs are not so sharp bitten and pizen nz others, but this iz not so mutch owing tew their dis'posishun az it is tew their natur ; they all ov them bite the full length ov their teeth. If thero iz ennybody who hain't never been bit of a hum bugg yet, he must be someboddy who has always staid at home with his uncle, and lived on bread and milk, and was born numb all the way through, and couldn't feel any kind of a bite. If I should hear a man brag that one ov these bugs couldn't bite him I should set him down at once for a man who wasn't a good judge uv the truth. The bite uv a hum bugg \/. wuss than a hor? net's, and always different from a dog's, for the dog growls, and then bites, but the bum bugg bites, and let's you do the growl? ing. THE BUGG BEAR. Natral History has its myths and its ghosts, az well az enny boddy else, and foremost among these iz?the bugg be: r. The bugg boar iz born from ah imagi? nary egg, and iz hatched by an imaginary process. They are like a shadow in the atternoon, always a good deal bigger than the thing that casts it. They are composed ov two entirely dif? ferent animals, the bugg and \hebcai\ but generally turn out 10 be pretty much all bugg. They aro like the assetts ov a bankrupt broker, the more you examine them, the smaller thoy grow. I have known them tew cum out ov^a hole liko a mice, and grow in tew minutes az big az an elephant, and then run back agin into the same hole they cum out ov. Tbey are liko a young wild pigeon in their habits, tho biggest when they are first born. They are common to all countrys and all peoples, the philosophers hav seen thera az often az tho children hav, and ben az badly skared by them. Tbey are az innocent az a rag doll, but aro az full ov doviltry az a jack lantern. Bngg bears arc az plenty in this world az p;ns on tho sidewalks, but nobody ever seen them but those folks who are ailus hunting for them. THE BUMBLE BEE. The Bumble Bee is ono uv nature's se krets. They probably hev a destiny tew fill, and are probably necessary, if a fol? low only knew how. They livo apart from the rest of mankind in little circles, numbering about seventy-five or cighty souls. Thoy aro born about haying time, and are difteront from any bug I know uv; thoy aro the biggest when just born. They resemble some men in this respect. Their principal bizness is making poor honey, but they don't make eny tew sell* Boys often rob thom out uv a whole sum? mer's work, but there is one thing about the bumble bee that boys always watch dreadful close, and that is their helm. I had rather not have all the bumble bee honey there iz between here and the city uv Jerusalem, than to have a bumble bee hit me with his helm when he comes round suddin. They are different from other war vessels; the helm always minds ?he bumble bee.