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, 7 } felt really grateful to him, and showed him so } ill the manner of his reply.

 : "l will not ask you," said this gentleman : with smile, as he rose and moved toward him, "how you like my country, for can quite anticipate your real feelings on that point. But, as am an American, and con- sequently bound to begin with question, l'll ask you how you like the colonel?''

 "Ycu are so very frank, D returned Martin, < that have no hesitation in saying 1 don't like him at all. Though must add that am beholden to him for his civilitv in bring ing me here-and arranging for my stay, on pretty reasonable terms, by the way" he ad- ded: remembering that the colonel had whis- pered to him to that effect, before going out

 '' N ot much bcholden,o said the stranger drly. ''The colonel occasionally boards pac>et-ships, have heard, to gean the latest information for his journal and he occasion- ally brings strangers to board here, l believe, with view to the little per centage which at taches to those good offices; and which the hostess deducts from his weekly bill. don't offend you, hope?o he added, seeing l that Martin reddened.

 "My dear sir,' returned Martin, as they shook hands, < how Is that possibe, 10 tell you the truth, l-am-'

 "Y es i1' said the gentleman, sitting down beside him.

 ,'s am rather at a loss, since l must speak plainly" said Martin, getting the better of his hesitation, ssto know how this colonel escapes being beaten."

 'SWell he has been beaten once or twice. remarked the gentleman quietly. He is one of class of men, in whom our own Frank lin so long ago as ten years before the close of the last century, foresaw our danger and disgrace. Perhaps you don't know that Franklin, in very severe terms, published his opinion, that those who were slandered by such fellows as this colonel, having no sufli- cient remedy in the administration of this country's laws, or in the decent and right minded feeling of its people, were justified mretorting on such public nuisances by means of a stout cudgel ?''

 ss was not aware of that,o said Martin, s.but am very glad to know il, and think it worthy of his memory; especially" here he hesitated again.

 ''Go on," said the other, smiling as if he knew what stuck in Martins throat.

 'Especially,' pursued Martin, Gas can already understand that it may have required great courage even in his time to write freely on any question which was not party one ill this very free country''

 ''Some courage, no doubt,o returned his new friend sDo you think it would require any to do so, now ?o

 ssIndeed think it would and not little," said Martin

 ssY ou are right. So very right, that l be- lieve no satirist could breathe this air If an- other Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow. he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature and can give me the name of any man, Ameri- can born and bred, who has anatomized our follies as a people, and not as this or that party and has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most nveterate hatred and and intolerant pursuit; 1t will be strange name in my ears, believe me. In some cases l could name to you, where native writer has ventured on the most harmless and good humored illustrations of our vices or defects 1t has been found necessary to announce, that in second addition the passage has been expunged, or altered, or explained away, or patched into praise"

 ''And how has this been brought about p asked Martin, in dismay.

 ssThink of what you have seen and heard to-day, beginning with the colonel,o said his friend, sand ask yourself. How hey came about is another question. Heaven forbid that they should be samples of the inteli- gence and virtue of America, but they come uppermost, and in great numbers too and too often represent 1t. Will you walk :"

 There was a cordial candor in his manner, and an engaging confidence that it would not be abused; a manly bearing on his own part, and simple reliance on the manly faith of a stranger, which Martin had never seen be- fore. He linked his arm readily in that of the American Gentleman, and they walked out together.

 It was perhaps the men like this, his new companion, that traveller of honored name, who trod those shores now nearly forty years ago, and woke upon that soil, as many ] have done since, to blots and stains upon it's i high pretensions, which in the brightness of l his distant dreams were lost to view, ap- pealed in these words1-

 Oh but for such, Columbias days were done; l Rank without rpeness, quickened without sun, Crude at the surface, rotten at the core,

 Her fruits would fall before her Spring were OCT

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 Cotton Crop of l843-The Charleston Courier has the following remarks, relative to the cotton crop of the present year: 'sWith regard to the prospects of the cotton crop of the current year, it is too early to advance an opinion with any degree of certainty as to its probable yield. One thing, however is certain-the plant has been seriously affect ed; first, by an unusually backward spring and secondly, by the heavy rains during the months of July and August, which have pre- vailed, to greater or less extent, throughout the cotton region; and the crop is conse- quenty some weeks behind that of previous years, which has already caused much spe- culation relative to the growth of lS43- some placing 1t as low as ,500,000, whilt others estimate itfrom l,600,000 2,000,000 It must be borne i'll mind, however, that these estimates are based upon the vicissitudes tho 