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Some years ago, noted warrior of the POtawattOmie tribe, presented himself to the agent at Chicago, as one of the chief men of his village, observing, with the GUS iOmaIy simplicity of thc Indians, that hc was a very good man, and a good friend to the Americans, and concluded wih re- quest for a dram of whiskcy. The a@c"t replied, that it was not hiS practice ;o eve whikSay to good men that good men never asked for wIriskcy, and never drank it, That it was bal Indians oniy who demand ed whiskey. "Then," r'l'iiod the Indian quickly, in broken English, ..m" d--in rascal"

 CM'iOuS.-Thcre WIS an old law of the Plymouth Colony, iniic!ing d penalty of t'oeaty poaadS, on any person who should refuse the office of Governor, unless he were chosen two years sacccssivcly, and whoever should refuse the.oflicc ot Conn- selior or Magistrate, was required to pay ten pounds. We have uo need of such q law.

 D Be not too brief in conversation, lest you be not understood, nor difusc, lest you be troublesome.