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BV C. F. CMIIKSOX. BROOKVILLE, FRANKL.IX COUXTY IXMAIVA, FRIDAY, F EDK UAKY 26, 1836. VOL. IV. io. 9.

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t-2 in advance $2,50 in six months; or $3,00 at the expiration of the year. Vdvkrtisemests. Twelve lines, or less, will be jcrted once or three times, for one dollar, and 25 nts will be charged for each additional insertion. xiws of Tin: week. LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. (close of the session.) The bill to provide that certain individuals may purchase land, (commonly called Mr. Conwell's land bill,) passed the Senate on Friday by the following vote: Ysls Messrs. Beard, Bell, Brady, Colerick, Conwell, Dumont. Elliott, Fowler, Griffith, Hillis, Mirstin,Shaw, Thompson, and Whitcomb. 14. yATs Messrs. Boon, Caldwell, Casey, Clark, Elliott, Daily, Hackett, .Morgan. Payne, Puett, Sieler, Stewart, and Tannehill 13. The bill was lost in the House of Representatives. On Saturday, in the Senate, the bill supplemental to an act passed at the present session of the General Assembly to provide for a general system f internal improvement, was, on motion of Mr. Thompson, postponed till the second Monday in December by the following vote: yKAS Messrs. Boon, Osey, Clark, Collett, Daily, Dumont, Fowler, Griffith, Marston, Morgan, Payne, Puett, Shaw, Stewart, Thompson, and Whitcomb 16. j;ATs Messrs. Beard, Bell, Brady, Caldwell, Conwell, Elliott, Hackett, Hillis, Sigler.and Tannehill 10. The bill providing for the election of a State Printer, which passed the House of Representatives was losi in the Senate for want of time. The act for the improvement of the Michigan Road and for other purposes passed the House of Representatives (having previously passed the Senate) by the following vote, which we have been requested to publish, viz: Yem Messrs. Bardwell, Bennett, Boone, Bryan, Buell, Cranan, Chamberlain, Chambers, Clark ef Wayne, Carkof Washington, Craig, of P., Curtia. Cushraan, Dunning, Edwards, Gardner, Graham, Howell, Hubhard, Johnston, Jones, Lee of 31. andC, Liston, Macey, Mason, McBean, Murray, Myers, Posey, Ray, Ristine, Stapp, Templeton, Thompson of A., Thompson of J. Vandeveer, avvtcf, Willett, and Smith, Speaker 37. Xits Messrs. Armstrong, Brown, Carr, Craig fM. Davis, Edmonston, Howard, Huckleberry, Huntington, Jackson, McCarty, Miller, Moore, Morris, Phelps, Smith, Steel, Strain, Walker of D. Walker of S. and Zenor 21. The bill continues in office William Polk Esq. the present commissioner till the 20th of February 1S.17 with a salary of $450, at which time his office is to be abolished; it requires him to have the road improved and repaired between the towns of Madion and Michigan City wherever improvements or repairs may be most needed, for which purpose he it to make use of all the available means that now are or may come into his hands Irom the sale of the Michigan Road lands; it directs him to pay over to the treasurer, at the end of his term, all the unexpended balance in his hands, and to deliver the bocks, papers A:c. to the Auditor of Public Accounts It whom the business is afterwards to be transacted. The following resolution was introduced in tb? House of Representatives on Friday last by Mr. Dunning, and unanimously adopted, viz: Resolved, That the thanks of tho House be tendered to the Hon. Caleb B. Smith for the highly satisfactory manner in which he has discharged the duties of Speaker during the present session of the General Assembly. After the business of the session was through Ac just before adjourning the House of Representa tives sine die, the Speaker, Mr. Celeb B. Smith, delivered the following sensible and appropriate a'edictory: Gentlemen of the House of Repretenlalivei: The time has arrived, when having discharged the public duties which called us together, our legislative labors must terminate and we must return to our constituents. Standing in the relation to you, in which I do, I could not in justice to you, or to my own feelings, permit the occasion of our sep aration to pass by, without expressing my grateful acknowledgements for the kind and generous manner, in which you have aided and sustained me in the discharge of the arduous duties of the chair. The unusually important and exciting subjects upon which we have been called to act, during the present session, while they have given to our deliberations, a degree of interest but seldom witnessed, hive rendered the duties of the chair extremely difficult and laborious. I am fully sensible, Gentlemen, that it is only owing to your kind forbearance and aid, that I have been enabled to discharge them, in a manner that has met your approbation.The growing importance and rapidly increasing resources of our state have presented to us, for legislative action, an unusual number of subjects both local and general; and although our session has been of but ordinary length, yet we have transacted n amount of business far exceeding that of any preceding session. The present session of the General Assembly will be long remembered, not only by those who bare been members, but by the ereat body of the people throughout the State; and the important measures which have been matured by its deliberations, will exercise an abiding influnce upon our prosperity, in ail coming time. The ystem of internal improvements, for which we hve provided, if successfully prosecuted, while it place us on an enviable standing with regard w our sisters of the confederacy; and afford us facilities and advantages enjoyed by but few other " e.a; ,wi11 manifest to tho world, that though youthful in political existence, our legislation has Men characterized bv a degree of liberality and "terpnze which would be highly creditable to a much older and wealthier community. the interest which we feel! in this system, must e greatly enhanced by the reflection, that in aPtingthe measures, we have only responded to we expressed wishes of the people. That this is stroC1Se',S ant conclusively evinced by the : ni1 decided expressions of public sentiment n its favor before we assembled together, a well M the llniva-ct i . .' ;0- u enuiusiastic expressions ot reth,. ' approbation with which the news of evp 8S1Se f the blU h:l9 bcen greeted in almost frina ofthestte. This affords us the gratii'n,,S""s"c'' that our labors have received the PProbation ..f r t . i , bo . - uc iir wnom we nave acieu, ana It r"1? rCSt we ,,f4Ve endeavored to promote, n our i i mC mUch Pleasure in looking back upreflect tl ' vvl,ich re now brought to a close, to rPtedh Ur dellberations have not been intertions h i"y f those anSry and personal altercate ball fV but t,0 "pl to find an entrance to ictinn. leg'slation, where weighty and conTh lnt?rest8 re involved. solutlon wllch you have adopted, express

ing your approbation of the manner in which I have discharged the duties imposed upon me, as your presiding officer, furnishes an additional evidence of your kindness, which I shall treasure in my recollection, with feelings of gratitude, during the remainder of my life.

Be pleased Gentlemen to accept my assurances of respect and esteem for each member of this body a.id my warmest wishes for your safe return to your homes, and for your future success and prosperity. I now declare this House adjourned, tine die. A Chapter on Food. There is an endless variety of tastes. Men's appetites differ in every part of the globe; some are carniverous, some are graniverous, some are both and some are neither. A few wish for the genera! adoption of vegetable diet. and argue that cabbages and sallads produce virtue and goodness; others are more loudly eloquent in the praise of animal food, and find patriotism in a round ot beef, and valor in a rump s'eak. 15ut tood has different effects in different climates. The respectable gentoos live upon rice, and are effeminate fools: the lower Irish starve upon potatoes, and are murderous vagabonds. Nothing is more true than the old proverb, 'What is one man's meat is another's poison.' The Turks chew opium, the Dutch tobacco. The Hampshire boor loves nothing like fat bacon, and the Jews abominates swine's flesh of every denomination. The Esqui maux epicures mix saw-dust with their train oil. The Laplanders find nothing so delicious as a dish of fir bark and reindeer tallow. Some Japanese de light in a ragout made of scraped whalebone. Rot ten eggs, in Cochin China, are eaten as delicacies. A South American tribe, when deprived oi nsn oy the inundations of the Oronoko, feed on balls of a peculiar nice unctious clay. Tie quarrymen of Kiffhcuser spread a similarly rich earth upon their cakes, and eat it with the gout of a school boy who puts sugar on his bread and butter. Sir John Franklin and his companions, in one of their arctic expeditions, made a charming repast of fried bone6 and old 6hoes. The Chinese consider a certain bird's nest the greatest delicacv they can enjoy ,and they fatten dogs for the tabled The people of Mad agascar prefer locusts to any other lood. .Elephants, lions, bears, ants, moths, spiders, snails, rats, serpents and snakes, are all in turn devoured. Every thing may be eaten; there is no need of waste. A modern philosopher has discovered that deal boards may be ground into quartern loaves; and doubtless somebody equally wise will find out a method by means of whicn pigs of lead may make excellent hams. There is also a vast difference in the mode of cookery pursued by different countries. I be Abyssinian cuts his steak out ot tho living animal, 6ews up the wound,and drives the convenient larder forward while he makes his meal. The Tartar uses his meat as a saddle, and argues that food so dressed, must eat tender, and becomes exceeding Favory. It is the custom of the old people of some of the Battas tribes to ascend a tree, and call together their friends and relations to come and eat them; and a Brazilian woman being at the point of death, a missionary inquired if there was any kind of food she could fancy; but the old lady objected to every thing, till at Inst she confessed that she could pick the little bones of the little hand of a little Tannva boy. At a pinch, the civilized European has been known to stop the ravaged of famine with a chop cut from his companion. !ome prefer theirmeat raw, and others will only touch it when done to rags. The Burmese are fond of pu trid fi6h, the Germans delight in putrid vegetables: the English find the greatest enjoyment in putrid game. Taste changes as often as any thing else. In the time of Henry the Fifth it was the fashion to eat the porpoise; the subjects of the sanguinaryMary devoured cygnets, storks, and cranes; those of Elizabeth preferred boars heads, and barons of beef; and in the reign of Queen Anne some delighted in cats fattened upon oysters, and barbacued hogs. Michigan Delegate. The reader of course understands that the Senators and Representatives despatched to Washington by this 'State' of Michigan remain outsidethe bar. Col. George W.Jones, elected by the Territory West of Lake Michigan, entitled ' Wiscousin,' has taken his seat as Delegate from Michigan. Illinois. Ot the eighteen public journals in this State we hear that twelve The Galenian, Chicago Democrat, Springfield Republican, Peoria Champion. Quincy Register, Vandalia Advocate, Danville News, iShawneetown Democrat, Bclville Gazette, Alton Spectator, Carrollton Times and Jacksonville News support the claims of Van Buren and Johnson. Of the residue, the Galena Gazette and Mount Carmel Sentinel are for White, the Chicago American and Springfield American for the most 'availabie' candidate; the Rushville Journal and Rock Spring Pioneer, neutral. A pretty fair preponderence, truly : and the friends of Mr. Van Buren have good reason to consider the vote of the State hardly doubtful. And yet we have conversed with an intelligent citizen of Illinois within the past week who was strong in the faith that Gen. Harrison will be triumphant in that State. JNVw Yorker. French and American Navies. As we often hear some men of more courage than information give it as their opinion that the American Navy, in case of a war, could blow the French Navy out of the Atlantic in less than six weeks, we deem it proper to give the number of vessels of war, belonging to each nation: France. America. Ships of the Line 30 7 Frigates 51 10 Sloops, brigs, &c. 213 24 Steam Vessels 10 0 Suicide. A Mr. John Work, weaver, put an end to his existence, in Zancsville,on Wednesday evening last, by shooting himself, in the yard adjoining his house The rash act was committed in a it of melancholy, imagining that he should come to want. He is represented as a steady, industrious man, comfortably situated; and has left & wife and six children. Savas-e Jlirdcr at JS'eto Orleans. t isouropinion that there is not to be found on earth so unmitigated and irredeemable a set of villians as the pro-f.-csinnal hlarlr lpors nf the Southern and Western states. Blackguards in deportment, they are at the same time fiends at heart, and while they dress in the garb of gentlemen mr decent men now wear low crowned hats with fearful longitude of brim they are vagabonds by instinct and felons by education. Their career should be cut short by the penitentiary or the gallows, as the case may rennire wherever thev show themselves. The New the 11th inst. rave the details of a murder perpetrated by a ging of these Bcoundrela

in that city, which sufficiently bear us out in these remarks. A clan of blacklegs, headed by two miscreants named JThitake r. brothers living at St. Francisville went to the Planter's Hotel, kept by Mr. ' Armstrong, and after carousing through the evening, picked a groundless quarrel with Mr. A. and Ins two bar keepers, broke glasses and decan-

ters, and attempted to climb over the counter, being resisted, the Whitakers drew a Bowie knife, and commenced a deadly warfare upon the unarmed inmates of the house. The two Messrs. Armstrongs and their bar keepers tied from such an unequal contest, but the butchers held fast to a young man named Murphy, whom they literally slaughtered; stabbing him several 'times in the head with their knife (two feet long.) and finally plunged it into his heart. The murderers then fled to the City Hotel, and were there found in one bed, w ith the bloody instrument of their villainy reeking with blood, under their pillow. They were dragged to prison, and there we hope may be speedily dragged to the gallows unless indeed, the jury which tries them should recommend the culprits to mercy. We are too fast, however the code Livingston, which is the law of Louisiana, does not permit tuch offenders to be punished capitally! Another murder was committed in New Orleans a day or two after. A young gentleman named Harvey, was remonstrating with a drayman for an overcharge, when the latter drew a knife, and cut into the abdomen of his victim from the side to the centre. Mr. Harvey's life is despaired of. vV. I". Courier. WOM AN A COM PA RISON. BV WILLIAM B. OAKS. The tulip hath strange beauty bright And glorious hues are mingled there; The gayest, richest shades unite To form a whole of beauty rare.But when itsfreshnes fades, 'tis thrown With carelessness to earth; We love it for its looks alone Its fragrance hath no worth. The rose hath beauty Angel's hand Have stain'd it with the dyes of Heaven And while its grace our love commands, A more enduring charm hath given, The rose, too, hastens to decay For all on earth that's lovely, will. But when its bloom hath past away, We prize it for its perfume still. 'Tie thus with Woman! On her brow The seal of beauty may be set And all that press around, may bow To her supremacy and yet, Should not her mind possess the power To charm, in Age's sunset hour, The Tulip, not the Rose, will be The emblem of her destiny. A lecturer in London maintains the practicability of wrial travelling, and thinks that men and women may fly through the air with as much facility as a henhawk, if they can manage to make themselves specineally lighter than they are, by enveloping their bodies by a sort of balloon jacket filled with hydrogen gas. The lecturer adds that it would be well to make the head the lighter part, which could be done easily enough by wearing a gas cap. We agree perfectly with this gentleman in the rationale, and give it as our opinion that several worthies within our knowledge can avail themselves of the discovery without the least necessity of resorting to the cap that is, if it is only required to have the head the lightest part of their human appointments. JV". Y. Courier. Tolerably Tall. We learn by Poulson's Daily Advertiser, that the Washington Monument to be erected at the seat of Government, is to be six hun dred and forty feet high so high, indeed, that it can be seen from the ocean. If it does not make Mr. Poulson's head swim to give response from so enormous an attitude it would gratify us to be informed as to his authority for that precise height and whether there is not a mistake of three or four hundred feet in the elevation aforesaid. JV". Y. Courier. Population ef the State of JVcto York. The Secretary of State reported to the House yesterday, an abstract from the returns of the census of the last year, with a view to the action of the legislature in the apportionment of senators and represen tatives. The report shows the following aggre gates: Entire population of the State, Males, Females, Male aliens, Paupers, Persons of color not taxed. 2,174.51 l,102,fwV? 1,071,859 52,319 6,821 42,826 Population (deducting three last,) 2,042,541 Massachusetts. The Antimasonic State Con vention of Massachusetts, lately assembled in Bos ton, nominated Mr. J'an Buren as their candidate for the Presidency! The Boston papers state that about 400 Delegates were present, and that there was but one dissentient voice. This movement of the Antimasonic party has bcen for some time expected their whole stock in trade having been sold out by John Q. Adams and Edward Everett to the Magician. We have little doubt that Rhode Island will in a similar manner ratify the bargain made by Dutee J. Pearce. The Antimasons of Vermont will, it is to be expected, at least, remain firm. Duelling in Louisiana. A bill is now before the Legislature, of Louisiana, and passed to a second reading, which should it become a law, will render duelling an expensive business, to saj" the least of it. It is nearly as po'.ent in some its provisions as the law recommended by the Boston Atlas, a year or two since, against suicide. The follow ing are among the most important. The bill guarantees to the creditors of the deceased, killed in duel, a full payment from the property ofthe surviving party and right to sue for the same. In case of injury sutsained in body whereby the party is unable to labor for his, or his family's support, or so make all his legal demands ogainst himself incurred be fore oi after such injury, the party injuring shall be compelled to support the party injured and his family,' to make good at the ha zard ofthe law's displeasure any demand for the same Shall forfeit to the nearest survi ving relative the sum of thousand doll ars, and should they fail to claim for one year, the claim shall be legal in the hand of the next eldest relative. That the evidence of

the dyinc party is good and legal with regard to all claims against himself, and the testimony of his second valid and placed beyond impeachment, for whatever evidence he may

under other circumstances have civen. Which bill was; read the first time and ordered to be printed. The unprecedented impulse which the great orl; of Internal Improvement has lately received throughout the Union, the magnitude of the objects proposed, and the determination with which they are either contemplated or prosecuted, have created an immense lemand lor capital. Accordingly we hna that many of the States arc resorting to the creation of Banks, or obtaining of loans to sup ply the desideratum. LorisAN.N has just created and additional Hank with twelve millions of dollars capital. Ai.n.M one with five millions. Massachusetts is deliberating on a project of one ofTten millions. The I'exxsviv vma House of Representatives have passed a bill, which it is said will also pass the Senate, to re-incorporate the proprietors of the capital of the present Bank of the United States with a capital of twentyeight million (or more.) by which the State is to receive for purposes a bonus of five and a h.ilf millions. Aational Intelligencer. UNITED STATES SENATE. This body is now full the last vacancy having been supplied by the election of Mr. Walker, in the place of Mr. Poindcxter. The state of parties is as follows: Van Iju it ex. Sheeply, Ruggles. of Maine. Hill, Hubbard, of New Hampshire. Niles, of Connecticut. Wright, Tallmadge, of New York. Buchanan, of Pennsylvania. Wall, of New Jersey. Brow n, of North Carolina. King, Cuthbert, of Georgia. King, of Alabama. Walker, of Mississippi. Nicholas, of Louisiana. Grundy, of Tennessee:. Tipton, of Indiana. Ewing, Robinson, of Illinois. Morris, of Ohio. Benton, Linn, of Missouri. 22. Axti Van Buren. Webster, Davis, of Massachusetts. Prentiss, Sw ift, of Vermont. Bobbins, Knight, of Rhode Island. TomIinson,of Connecticut. Southard, of New Jersey. Clayton, Naudin, of Deleware. Kent, Goldsborough, of Man land. Leigh; Tyler; of Virgina. Mangum, of North Carolina. Calhoun, Preston, of South Carolina. . Moore of Alabama. Black, of Mississippi. Porter, of Louisana. White, of Tennesse. Clay, Crittenden, of Kentucky. Ewing, of Ohio 2i. DOUBTFUL . McKean, of Pennsylvania. Hendricks, of Indiana. It will thus be seen that the political complexion of the Senate, depends upon Mr. Mc Kean of Pennsylvania and Mr. Hendricks of Indiana. If they choose to follow the popu lar current and vote with the Adherents of Van Buren, the man whom one of them has denounced as unworthy of (he slightest confidence, the Vice President will have the casting vote, and the expunging resolutions and all others of the most obnoxious measures ofthe administration will be carried by the decision of a man whose private interest in the question must outweigh all consideration of patriotic duty Baltimore Chronicle. From the Kcesc title Herald. JOE CALL, THE MODERN HERCULES. There are incidents in the life of every individual, how ever insignificant his station may be in society, which, if fairly written out, would be looked upon by the sneering wiseacres of this sceptical age as little better than sheer fiction. But the truej; philosopher, wilh a deeper vision, sees truth stamped upon tnem, ana oniy wonders at the mysterious Providence who has thus seen fit to weave the beautiful flowers of romance in the dark woof of ordinary life. The life of (he late Joseph Call, of Lewis. i ranium to. i. l.was rue with such incidents; and although it is foreign to our purpose in tne present article to play the part of biographer to his memory, yet we have thought an idle hour w ould not be unproffitably spent in rescuing from oblivion a few desultory instances in w hich was displayed the great and almost incredible strength with w hich he was gifted. Of his early childhood we know but little, except that he was the leader and champion of all the boys in his neighborhood. One incident,however,has been related to us, which although it does not show our heroine a vcrv favorable light as a scholar, displays that peculiar trait of humor for w hich he' was so remarkable. It seems that on a certain occasion, Joe had been guilty of a breach of the rules of school, and accordingly the worthy pedagogue called him up to administer the requisite correction. Joe, indignant at the idea of being publicly whiped, no sooner made his appearance on the floor, than, seizing upon the astonished knight of the birch, as Tincle Toby did upon the fly, he incontinently

flung him neck and heels out of the window, amidst the uproarious shouts of his companions. As he grew older, his natural joviality of disposition led him to frequent whimsical displays of his physical superiority. Atone time lie would lift a barrel of cider to his lips, and, after having satisfied his own thirst from the bung-hole, would gravely offer to pass it round the company! At another, stealing silently behind a teamster's wagon, he would seize hold of the wheel, and, suddenly bringing them toa halt, would quietly remark, "A breathing spell to your nags, neighbor." At one period of his life, when a teamster himself, lie used frequently to find his immense strength of great service: for whenover his team happened to get set in a mud-hole, he would crawl under his waggon, and. placing his broad shoulders against the bottom.

would raise the waggon, load and ill, pradually up, until his horses were a- .1 . i t - . ible to drag it lorui witnout aiiiiiunv. A celebrated wrestler from Albany, having heard of Joe's reputation, once made him a visit for the express purpose, as he declared, of "giving him a touch of the fancy' Joe, w ith his usual modesty, disclaimad all knowledge of the exercise; but, upon the stranger's pressing him, finally concented to ktake hold Accordingly they grappled the stranger throwing himself into the most scientific position ; while Joe. pretending ut ter ignorance of all rule, assumed the most careless and exposed attitudes. They had scarcely got hold, when thestranger, placing his foot on Joe's toe, attempted with a sudden vcrk to throw him what is termed the Hoclock But Joe, anticipating his movement. quietly permitted him to assume the necessa ry position, and then as he stood lor a moment balancing on Joe's toe, gravely raised him into the air, and dancing him about as a mother would her child. On one occasion, Joe happening to spend a night at St. Johns, as he sat in the bar-room ofthe hotel where he stopped, the conversation turned upon w restling. Joe, being an entire stranger to the company collected, sat listening to the conversation, participating but little in it. At length one individual, after relating several wonderful feats which he has, accomplished, finally wound up by roundly asserting that he had thrown Joe Call! Joe, as might readily be supposed, was not a little surprised at this assertion from an entire stran ger; and in that stunt of fun which always prompted him, exclaimed, ''Why you'd swal low a common man! I should like (o take hold of you mvself, if you would promise not to hurt me." The braggadocio instantly ac cepted the proposition, and thev took hold, Joe, with scarcely an eflort, raised him from the floor, and. holding him out at arm s length, said to him, "There wrestle. P The astonish ed wrestler could only cry,"v ho who the devil arc you?"' "The man you threw Joe Call, at your service, sir' But the most remarkablejfeat which Joe ever performed was on the occasion of an in cidental wrestling match which occurred be tween himself and another indiv idual during the late war, at Pittsburgh. It seems that in the British camp was n celebrated English bully, whose immenseslrength and great skill both as a pugilist and wrestler made him the terror as well as champion ofthe army. Joe, happening one day to be in the English camp, on some errand or other, it was soon noised about; and some of the officers by chance getting wind of it, and also hearing of his great strength, determined to bring about a match between this lankee Here ules and thetr own bully. Accordingly, having brought them together, it was proposed to Joe that they should have a 'set-to But Joe, who was an thing but quarrelsome, and whose natural nobility of character placed him altogether above any thing of the kind, peremptorily declined the match asserting, nt the same time, that he presumed the Englishman would throw him with the greatest case, as he professed no skill whatever. To this the bully sneeringly replied, that he could not only throw him, but any other d d Yankee they would bring on. This fling nt the Yan kees nettled Joe atonce; for although, consci ous of his ow n strength, he cared little w hat taunts might be applied to his own person, yet whei: his nation came to be the object of such remarks, his blood boiled at once, and he determined, right or wrong, to show the sneering bully that ankee prowess was not to be so lightly esteemed. lielding to his patriotic feelings, he immediately announced his w illingness, and they 'took hold The first trial w as at w hat is termed 'arms" length,' and Joe soon found that his antagonist was no 'carpet knight to be handled in the gingerly with which it had been Lis wont to treat his opponent of the ring. At the first onset, Jcc was brought to his knee. Immediately springing up-, ne confessed himself fairly 'filed,' and then requested that they should take a trial t 'back-hold To this, the bully assented. We have often heard Joe say that previous to this time he never could discover any difference in the strength of men; but "rr. ne nc must exert all his power. Seizing hold of his antagonist, he bow ed himself with all his strength, and seized the vain boaster to his breast. The Englishman gave one shriek his arms looser, their hold his whole frame quivered and when Joe released him from his grasp, the bully fell, with eye9 protruding, and blood gushing frem his nostrUf, dend at his feet.