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AnecdOte. .-On d certain highway, the establishment of which the great Orator of the West had prominent Instrumental ity in efecting, there is a very neat monu- ment, embellished with sundry devices, and surmopnted by colossal figure oflhe God- dcss of Liberty. On one side there san inscription to ihis effect 1; thai the moRu- ment was reared by Moses and Lydia Shepherd to commemorate the prosperity of the country, and particularly as tesii- moUy of gratitude for the invaluable public services of Henry Clay. This seems se be sufficiently explicit. Who would imag- inc that the intention of the tasteful me- nTento could be misunderstood2 Yet wifh- in a mile, from the spot, we received from one of Mir. SIS neighbors, the following splendid statement: Shepherd has a asOr- nQmsnt.' : A what r A nsornamcns.' And what kind ofathiHg is a mornament1' E Oh, it's built oui'n stone and's got on the top, the likeness of a young Indy that died once.' sAh, indeed and who was the young lady r Why, her name was Blaih. She was desperate industrious in her lite- time, and so they put hernp there with a scrubbin' brush in her hand; and her night cap hanging on the end of it-mean- ;n' that she was in the habit of goin' hard to work. scrubbin' or sonlethin' else, as soon as she got up of a mornin.' "A fle girl! truly.' said we, and who had the monument built for her 2 sOh, Clay and some more of 'em-they got the money one of the United States Bank to build it wiib, and then, gave tito Shepherd, and that's what made him a Clay man. Alllhese ina- cries are made by Clay and the rest ofthe nobility; but don't care nothin' about lem. ! wouldn't give this road that old Hickory had made for us, for all their mornaments. .'-U. g. Gaz.