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:. DAN MARnLus LAsr.-When ourirIcnd
was in town, a short tine since, he related
Ia US. saws the Now York "SpirIl, the FOL.
lowing story, which excited our riabics
not little:


John Smith is known 10 bc a very fast
talkcr, aud sometimes will cNnggcnlo a
little. Ia describing the blowing up Of a
steamboat on the Mississippi, he stated
that be was travelling by one, aud landed
at Helena, N,kansas,) 10 drop some letters
in the Post Olicc; hearing loud clplo.
sion, aud turning, he saw the air Oiled with
arms. legs, heads, &c. "Ihc Captain,
said he, las fine fellow as ever lived, a
short thick set man, weighed about two
hundred, was blown one hundred aud nine
feet in the airl Coming down he struck
the sand with such force, that he went en-.
lircly out ol sight--was completely buried
. Tho pilot, very tall man, seven feet two,
was blown about ten leel higher than the
Captain, with The wheel in his hand, and
struck within few feet Of the Captain, up
TO his armpils! Still holding on to the
wheel, he cricd,--I have done my duty,
and can do no morer The second clerk.
after taking n flight Of one huLdrcd and
fifty feet, Il knew him well as ! saw him
sailing in the air, Tor had drank with him
not ten minutes before came down through
the roof Of a shoemaker's shop, aud landed
on the floor close by the shoemaker who
was atwork. lie jumped up to go to the
assistance OF tho other sufferers, when The
imam of wax demanded five dollars for the
damages done to his house. "Too high,
replied the cIerk never paid more than
two dollars and half in my life, and Prs
done N, same Hing oftea'