The Iron Statue

I he editor of the Green Mountain Freetnan gives the following description of (he curiosities of Saraíoga Spvings: "Ámong the visitors are slaveholders from the South, wlio come here lo squander away thé 'hard but unpaid earnings of their slavcs at home, which are extorted from them by the overseer's gory lasli. - I should think that the most of these put up at the United States' Hotel, the most extensive establishment in the place. It has accommodated five hundred at a time, and is said to have turned away two thousand during the present season for want oí room. The regular prico for board is SM 00 per week, and the extra expenses for real gentlemen at the gambling establishment, &c;i must amount to as miïeKmore at least. Almost cvery kind of gambling is carried on in, and around, these hoge buildings, without restraint or shamo. To say nothing about the card tables, at some of which individuals are said to have lost from 15,00 to 2.000 00 in a single night during the present week, there are an abuudance of bowling allcys, some of which are devoted to the special use of the ladies, shooting galleries, billiard tables, &c, and a very brisk business is going on in them all. The favorite place of resort with a class of whiskered yóung men is the shooting gallery. Here they are instructed to follow in tho illustrious footsteps of the "great embodiment of whig principies." An iron figure, the size and sh'ape óf a man, one side covered with soft black paint, having a white spot on the side resembling a heart, stands at shooting distance. The keeper of the establishment, whose business is to 'teach the young idea how to shoot,' g'ives thejuvenile 'gentleman' information how to stand, and how to hold his pistol, raise it up, &c. When the fatal instrument is loaded and handed tothe 'gentleman,' the question is asked, 'are you ready?' to which hc answers, 'Iam ready,' and the word 'fire' follows with the count Jone, tWO, three.' in nTiif.lc snorficjinr RofV,.Qthe word 'three' is pronounced, the pistol isdischarged, and the bullet hits the irorisided gentleman, by which it is flatted, and at spot of paint removed where the ball hits, which determines the place where the charge talies effect upon the grim antagonist. Thirty-two shots, which are usually made in half as many minutes, cost one dollar. I have been thus particular in describing this kind of training, forso far as I have seen, it is made a matícr of instruction more than of game, for the special benefit of those whigs who aro expecting offices undèr Henry Clay's administraron. Unless they become 'gentlemen,' it is utterly foolish for íhem to aspire to promotion under his reign, and if they expect to become accomplished in the arts and iavorite habits of Mr. Clay' and his sons, it is high time they were practising with the pistol and bowie knife."