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1 The following is reIated as dialogue be- tween drunkard and his wife; it is in per- feet accordance with the unreasonableneSS of drunkards in general.

 "I say Molly, what have you got for din- ner !" "I told you this morning, we had nothing in the house." 70, well, let me take the baby, and you pick up something" "So you told me this morning, but there's roth ing to pick up." 90 pick up some bread and potatoes, Molly, pick up something.',- But Mir. Lindsey, there's nothing in the house." " "Nothing at all 2" ' No meal, nor bread, nor butter, nor potatoes, nor mouth ful of any thing that can be eaten" Well, well, Molly, say pick aP q l'ttEe of sonaething or other, and let us have dinner, for am in a hurry" ....4 .. BeGutiful Ertruct.--A thousand years hence (for I must indulge few thoughts) perhaps in less, America may be what Eu- rope is now. The innocence of her charac- ter that won the hearts of all nations m her favor, may sound like a romance, and her inimitable virtue as if it had never been.- The ruins of that liberty for which thousands bled, may just furnish materials for village tale or extort sigh from rustic sensibility, while the fashionables of that day enveloped in dissipation, shall deride the principles and deny the fact.

 When we contemplate the fall of empires, and the extinction of the nations of the an- cient world, we see but little more to excite our regret than mouldering ruins of pompous palaces, magnificent monuments, lofty pyra- mids and walls, and towers of the most cost ly workmanship; but when the empire ot America shall fall, the subject for contempla- tive sorrow will be infinitely greater than crumbling marble or brass can inspire. It will not then be said here rose Babel of lm- mense height, or there palace of sumptuous extravagance; but here O! painful thought! the no6lest work of human wisdom-the grandest scene of human glory-the fair cause of freedom, rose and fell

 Horrid Rencontre.-By the steamer Robt Morris, Capt. Massic, from Louisville, we learn that a fatal rencontre took place at wood yard above Matches, on Sunday eve- ming last. A difficulty arose between Cap tain Grossly, of the steamboat Galenian, and one of his deck passengers. Capt. C; drew Bowie knife, and made pass at the throat of the passenger, which failed to do any harm, and the Captain then ordered him to leave his boat. The man went on board to get his baggage, and the Captain immediately sought the cabin for a pistol. As the passenger was about leaving the boat, the Captain presented a pistol to his breast, which snapped. In, stanly the enraged and wronged individua! seized Captain Grossly by the throat, and brought him to the ground, when he drew dirk, and stabbed him eight or nine times m the breast, each blow driving the weapon in- to his body up to the hilt. The Captain ex- pired in a few minutes. The passenger was arrested, carried to Matches, tried and acqult- ted. What melancholy commentary upon the use of deadly weapons !--Mobile Paper.