TAKING THECENSuS
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- Mrs. 14NchicOod.=YeS, SIT. am at nome

 1nQ.-Haven't you husband , Mrs. I.-YeS, sir, but he aint the head of { the family, I'd have you to know. ~~ Inq-Iiow many persons have you 'n I your famly!OE r..N ". l

 Mrs. T.-Why, bless me, sir, what's that 1 to you! You are mighty inquisitive think

 Inq-I am the man that takes the census.

 Mrs. T.-If you was man'ln your Sen- scs, you wouldn't ax such impertinent ques- tionS. '.'.y .,,....-s,,

 Ing.--Don't be affronted, old lady, but an swer my questions as I ask them. Mrs. T." Answer fool according to his folly'-you know what the Scripture says. Old lady, indeed a.a ,5,.y; s.l .. <. ..:'e y.a

 lnq.--I beg your pardon, madam but

 don't care about hearing Scripture just at

 this moment am bound 10 go according

 to law, and not according to Gospel. D.. Mrs. T.+-I should think you went neither

 according to law nor Gospel. What busi-t ness is it ito you to inquire into folks affairs, | Mr. Thngumbob? .. '.." es i.a. -f.

 Ing-The law makes it my business, good

 woman, and if you don't want to expose yourself to its penalties, you must answer

 my questions. a" .-@ a. H,..%l

 Mrs. T-Oh, it's the law, is it 2 That al-

 ters the case. But should like to know

 what business the law has with peoples

 

 Inqg-Congress made the law, and it it

 don't please you, you must talk to them.

 1 Mrs. T-Talk 10 n fiddIe-stick! Why

 Congress is a fool, and you're another.

 { F" ' shake oifs Ydh Bawenism "-Tn the Clevc- land Heralda of May 26th, (says the Troy I Whig) we find several letters from individu- als in different sections of Ohio who have re- nounced Martin Van Buren and all his works and come over to the side of Reform. '' One of the most pithy and good humored we sub- join: l. g'. ,,.,,, VI .,l. ., io, @a t.sirr MEssRs. ED1ToRs--I voted for Van Buren formerly, but | feel that am free man, and cannot go him or his measures any longer, The measures of the present admi- nistration are enough 10 cause any freeman to say that he will not assist it any longer.- ELet them call the Old Hero Granny or what not, I shall go for Old Tip, Tyler, and Tom ] Corwin. If Tip is Granny, there are 26 states in labor, and he is the very chap who ought to be about them, and I hope he will give them 2 safe deliverance. s'l l.,a ..,.,5. VI expect to meet with some of the Vano- crats of Monroe, who have voted with me heretofore, who will say that I have turned my coat-but say what they will, such fed eral stuff can't be crammed down me- in- tend to support General Harrison for Presi- dent : "boys do you heGr that !p''-for am poor man, and the present administration, CAN | GO IT?--NO SIR--for it's measures are calculated to enslave thepoor man and hope the laboring class may take warning in. time. and come out ngainst Van and his Suh- Treasury, and army of office holders.

 JOHN. CULLEN. i| Monroe Tp!, May l5, ls4O. Y ,,E s.,c I- '> g Napoleon-A London editor, after chroni- nli fhSaA aitN0f f1FNni inf 10 Eponrh ernment to bring tho bohes of Napoleon from St. Helena, and bury them in the soil of France, makes the following comments: en

 It seems singular that SO vast political combinations as those of which he was at the head, have left so little trace of their exist ence, His only direct descendant is, dead the thrones of the different members of his family-Spain, Naples, Westphalia, Holland --have all passed away, after the lapse of less than a quarter of n century. Europe 1 has settled down under nearly the same dy- nasties, and within nearly the same territo. rial demnrcations as those he ovcrth rew,and lanc::aad he had obliterated. On the soil to which i,is bones are now revercntly borne. all of his name ana blood are forbidden by law to set foot :; and ifthey ars interrec ':""h ! royal splendor hard by the tombs of the 1 kings whose thrones he usnrped, tt is because | ali Europe feels that with himself his dynas- 1 ty perished-that he neither had, nor can have, q successor" ,, .,s -5 v,4a,7.., a,,t ig lTair 3.1 'GJ Nuuut bl---- c,Nr9 o9a' ej..i tn.

 NEw CuMBrR1AND, Pa, June l.--AN Txc1- pENT-A laughable incident occurred in this ] county some time since, the circumstances of which we give just as we got them from one who professed to be acquainted with the ! |transaction. An old gentleman farmer, who ! had two or three very pretty daughters, was so very cautious of his .charge that he would not permit them to keep the company of young men; however, they adopted the tol lowing expedient to enjoy the company of their lovers, without the knowledge of the father. Afler the old man had retired to rest, the girls would hang sheet out of the window, which was quite u distance iron, the ground, and the beau would seize hold of the sheet, and, withthc assistance of his lady love, who tugged Justify at the sheet above. would thus gain an entrance but it so hap pened that one evening the girls hung out the sheet rather too early--for, the old gen. ltleman, by some iil wind, was blown round the corner. and spying the sheet. could not l copjectpre the meaning of its being thefe--- so he took hold, and endeavored to pull 1t down; the girls above suPposing il to be one of their beaux, begnrll to hoisty and did not discover their mistake until the head of tho old man was level with the window sill when one of them exclaimed !" Oh l! it's dad !' and letting go their hold of the sheet. souse came the old man on the hard ground and

 stones below, ,dislocating one of his shoulders, which convinced him that his efforts to make old maids out of his daughters was'a matter not so easily accomplished. and, withdraw