Not To Be Done

- A pleasant correspondentof a Boston pnper, ivrïting1 from New Orleans, gives the following1 incident: ' You can buy nothing in New Orléans, fwhich is the caso I believe in most solit hem and western cities.) for less than a 'picayune,'. one sixteenth pf a dollar. Coppers are hard- ly known, and 'nine per.ne,' - Boston curren - cv, - pass indiscriminately for %)!&' of Qiieeipht of a dollar. I vvasamused at a linie incident which I saw on board one of the western bpa.i. A man from the north tried to pass ten coppers. upon a 'Sucker,' (a native of Illinoia.y' for a dime. i-v 'What be they,' inquired the Sucker, turning over the coppera in unfeigned gnornnce. 'I calcúlate thej(èr cents,' replied the nortberner - 'can't yóu read?' 'I recken nof,' said the olher; 'and what's more old hoss I aJlow I don't waut to. Whotr is CPntG, misterf 'i vow to judges,' said the northerner, cyon. are worse than ihe heathen! Cents ia money nnin! Ten of them are vvorth one dime.- Don'l yon sep it sayp, 'E Plunbus .Uuuin'- . that's the Latín for 'HailColumbia!' and hera is insciibed one ceüt.' 'Look a here, stranger,' responded the Sucker, putting the tliuni'u üf his right hand into his ear, and inclining hm finger fprward, to indicato that he considered the other a jackass: 'you muy run that saw on a 'Hoosier,' or a VVof verme,' but I'm dod rotted if you Yankee ma wil h the contusive stufF,' And he marched oíí' to the eocial hall to indulge io a drink cf cor?} whiskey, ia compliment to bid own sagacity.