Col. DAVID CROCHET, OF TENNESSEE.
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Col. DAVID CROCHET, OF TENNESSEE.

 In the canvass of the congressional elec- ton of 18-, MT. was the Colonel's opponent-a gentleman of the most pleas ing and conciliating manners-w ho seldom addressed person or company without wearing upon his countenance peculiar good humored smile. Tho Colonel to counteract the influence of this willing att tribute ,thus alluded to it,in stump speech {:

 Yes, gentlemen, he may get some votes by grinning, for Ire can Out-grin me, and you know ant slow-and to prove to you that am not, will tell you an anecdote.- you all know I love hunting. Well l dis covered long time ago that coon could n't stand my grin. l could bring one ium- bling down from the highest tree. l nev- CT wasted powder and lead when wanted one of the creatures. Well, as 1 was walk ing out one night, a few hundred yards from my house, looking careIessly about me, saw a coon planted on one of tho highest limbs of an old tree. Fhe night was very noony and clear, and old Rattler was with mo; but Rattler won't bark at a coon--he's queer dog in that way. So thought I'd bring the lark down in the usu- al way Jy grin. | set myself. and after grinning at the coon a reasonable time, found that he didn't come down. I won dered what was the reason. I took another steady grin at him. Still he was there.-

 1t made me a-liatle mad; so I felt round' and got an old Ilmb, about i've feet long and, planting d upon the ground