Mr. Crockett, in a late speech in Con- gress, against the project of a national road from Buffalo to AeW-Orleans, ob- served

 "It reminded him of man in Ohio, who was proceeding to his home with a. bag on his back, and who being met by a noighbog, was asked what he was car rying in the sack upon his shoulders2 Put in your hand and see, said the man, and the inquirer, doing so, was tbit by a Iraccoon; and, on complaining and ask ing again what 1t was, was answered, that it was hte."

 This is nearly equal to Mir. Chilton's story of the fly and the mustard-pot.

 .Arcades an,bo.