The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-12-19
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.uaN@ congresses. ne 60WGvef, vas elected to the twenty-third congress, and served from December, 1853 to March, 1855
 '' He went to Texas to aid in the strug. gle there for independence. and vas killed while 6eh'ipg at San Antonio de B:xar, March 1856 Published several books written for hun by others"
 His son, John w Crockett, was also member of congress from Tennessee, serving from 1857 to IS4I.
 l vas obleesed to pare my thumb nail and put on a white shirt when l went there It cum very hard to me. but kno~d 1t war all for the good of my coun- try, and so did it When l war in Washington, I war invited all around, and seed great many fl ioe folks, but they dld It know much, and tn AT wal ladies har th at didn't know hoR to dress pos sum, nor to gut bear if it war already kilt to ,helr b and
 In the almanack fer I84I Crockett gives an account of a street h sht he says he had in Washington on Penusy lvania aven ue with "a sq latter named Joe len kins," who seven years betoTe had mor- tally offended Crockett by $qaatiing ID his neig hborhood and playing a trick on him and others in the settlement, by giv- | it out that he was going to have . ere-t hunt with tame allyga,ors," which he said he had in a pond near hls cabin, and which would be all ready whenever the neg hbors would call. The neis hbors called in vain, equipped for the hunt, and tse squalter disappeared before they could catch him. S Crockett s~ore to lick the man in 'tother world if he never iouDd them in this one. Meeting him seven years later in Washington he h ad the 6ght he wanted, so he said. an he gives a graphic description of it and the excitement it caused in the capital city.
 In the number for 1858 Colonel Crock cit thus pays his respects to "Old k tin- tuck:"
 No, stranger. there's po place on the universal 'arth like old K,intuckl She whips all tout west in pretuness, and you might bile down creation and not get such another state cut ot it."
 Here is 8 specimen that is taken from the almauac for 1858:
 6 The wretch who could refuse to de- fend the liberties of his couutry-shod with lightning, may be condemned, by the voice of free people, to wander over a desert of guopowder."
 Oae of the illustra ions in the almanac for I84o is entitled, Ben Harding's Courtsnip," and depicts q fat-fa ed oeArdless gentleman, wrapped in black cloak, stooping by the side of pretty creature in a faring hat and a loose, short dress, showing her large feet and khA kpank nS hAv oAI al oA arms, about whom his arms are en- twined. The story of his picture is given further on, and purports to be love tale related by Hardin to Crockett in a confi- dential moment when they were taking nights rest together in the woods after hunung. It was a story of an adventure of his wife on a sea voyage when he paused at an island he called Yuca.
 These extracts will give my readers, who have never seen these almanac or others of the same perlod. but faint idea of their drolIery.
 The illustrations purport to be from rough sb etches on bark made by Crock. stt himself.
 Colonel Crockett's opinion of Ken lucky, as expressed above in the memor- able words, You might bile do~n crea . ton and not get such another state out of it," is especially applicable nov that the election of Kentucky speaker of the national house of representatives is drA ~- ing near, for no other state has ap- preached Kentucky in the excellence of Its speakers of that house, and the pum Der of terms to which they have been elected.
 Kentucky, as has been heretofore men- tioned, has had her representatives elected in all to ten terms of the speak. ership of that house. That is to say, Clay was elected to SIX terms in the follo~. ing years: ISII, 1873 1875 1877 1879 and 1923 each at the DC, .nipg or a co"- gress. john White to one term I84i 43 Lnn Boyd to two terms. beginn,ng ln 1881 and 1853 and John G. Carlisle has hAu one anu will soon begin another John White is tue only one of these who nas had but single term, and neitt CT of Kentucky pe4kers has had his cleo ton deferred beyond the first day of the session of congress.