Washtenaw County

A corresponden of the Countryman, a N. Y. I Libjrty paper, ia travelling tbrough tbis State, and publisliing his ideas for the benefit of the f New Yofkere. He praises the country and people, quite as much as they eserve, perhaps more. Some of his sketches are quite amusing, He thus describes an incident in the care: "As I seatcd myself in the cars, a son burnt young man realed himself at my rignt. Jn his hnnd he held a Jarge stravv lint, desi-ned tor sntnmer nse, and in it two cloih bound volumes, and some rols of paper. 'See your book, eir,' said í. J took if, ard on the back in large cnpitals, read the "Life and fneeches of Henry CJay.' Whnt, 6r! do yon vote for a duelist and siaveholder, vvhen that noble man, Jambs G. Birney, lives so near you?' 'Í am,' Bays he. 'as much an abolitionist as any body - think slavery a great evil; but, I don't carry it into politics.' 'You pray against it? 'YesJ 'Are you ashamed to pray and vote llilcc?' He looked confusión and coon skins, and 'ast his evee tipon his big brim haf, umi was ulent. Soon, a shrewd looking stranger ou-pd liim up, by asking him foi some better neasnres;' but could get none; but the flint vas Ptruck, and ighl flnshed upon Clay, Van ?uren and elavery, in every part of tik! :ars.'Ypsilanti gets noticed thua: "The place shows eome noble eigns of 'wild cat' times. A large brick edifict, depigned for a tavern, will probaMy be convert[ ed into a College. Another on the opposite side, near the depot, 100 fret in front, 80 brond, or nearly, surrnnnded by a piazzn . It wnsgreat in its concsp'ton, grent in its ruins, doors and windows nll gaping - the winds of heaven blow tnrotigh it, the wild cnts mew there, Í piess, and somebody would complete the pict'ire by poking their bare. heads out of its countless windows. Boih these were desijjned for taverns, but the 'pressure' fiqueczed the spirit out of all the men that built ?m; the money o-u the pockets of the workmen, 'nnd the old nick out of the drunknrds they wonld have made. So the 'prestiré' has done some good. Tl;e place contains eight doctors, not on abohtionist among them: four clergymen. one ortwo as gnod nbolitioni8s as nny body' uvelve lawyers, whiga and deroocrats, of course. Of the peopíe of Ánn Arbor he snys: "It has eome three thousand inhabitants. It has eight clergymen. three nre votin? oboliuonists; two of ihom are Universa lisls.- They preach, to their honor, universal liberty, ns well as salvation; the others belong to tlie class of 'anybr.dies,' the most miserable of all cnngmff mortal beings. Slavery is 6in- but'-'but'- your heart is rotten, 01 eome bump is lackmg, that's all. Seven phyeiïians give us threo hberty votes, nnd twonfy:hree lawyers in and ahout town, give us, emperonce meD, one; liberty men, none; um 'tickers, a dozen or so, 1 was told. Gloiious nn!'ttT The correspondent of the Albany A.rgus writes from Washington.that Gov. Shannon, instead of going to Mexico as minister, has gone home. Mr. Gilbert Thompson has gone to Mexico, in an official capacity, the bearer, it is said, of a peremptory demand on that Government, for ihe speedy settlement of claims of our citizens for several millions of dollars, not provided forby the late Convention. The alternative of this proposition is the surrender of all claims on Texas. The truthseemsto be, that Mr. Tyler is determined on an immediate war witb Mexico, if she persists in her demand of allegiance on Texas.