aRks mad or drunk, 2
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ike mad Or drunk.r B8 and would soon have destroyed the whole crop, had he not been seen by ahe garden or, who asked him what the devil he was about, and without waiting for an answer, broke his head tn business-like manner with hoe-handle.

 Finding the field of his labors suddenly closed in that quarter, he bound up his bro- ken sconce, and embarked once more for this city. But seeing on the deck of the steam-boat few baskets of cucumbers, which were on their way to market, he commenced an attack, and before he was noticed had thrown two or three baskets O. yerboard. As he was lifting the last over the railing, he lost his balance aud pitched headIong into the water after the cucum- bers: The cry was immediately raised oi -" A man overboard!'' "a man over- board !'' and the small boat was instantly lowered for his rescue. But as he did not choose to show himself. it was very natu. rally concluded that he was drowned and paragraph, stating the accident and the I supposed fact of his drowning, appeared in the morning papers.

 l The redOubtable captain, however, i. not man to be killed by any of the ordi. nary modes of extinguishing life; -and though we have not yet heard where he e, merged, he is unquestionably at this very instant crusading as boldly as ever some where between Maine and Georgia. l @ s6a IN. Y. Constellation.