The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-12-19
"DAVY CROCKETT"
Some Interesting Extracts From His
 old Almanacks.
Miss Grundy, in c. srier. Journai.l

Miss Grundy, in C. srier Journal.l
 Oae of the Covrisr- /0Xynal { Kentueky readers has asked me by letter: "ts there Davy Crockett almanac extant7" to which will ma ke ans yer for the bene6, ef all its readers that in that grand aggre- gation of books, panphlets and newspa- pers, the congressional library at the Capitol there are eight dlaerent numbers of that comic alm ,nac, VT: for I337 IS38 iS3o I84o I84I I842, I843 A.u IS46 iaclusive. All ot these were pub- hsned after Crocke.t's death, but purport to contain writings hs Jeff. The number fer 1857 bea's on its title page No 3 which .adicates that the first number , that fer 1855 but those for 1885 and 1856 I are not h tae set ia the library heFe, a. u probably arc not in existence. The mum Der for 1857. which. with the others men toned aoove as being in the coagsss- sional library, is before me as wrlte iu that library sr, of course, these old book ; are rare ana valuable that they are never suffered to leave the library rooms), and has on the top of its title page: "Go Aheadi Davy Ctockett's Almauack of Wild Sports in tho West; Life in the BAck~oods and Sketches of Texas" and the picture which adorns the page is tha ofavery queer looking huotsman holding his nds across his body at the waist with both hands. Beneath this is:
 70 kantuckyl The Hunters of Ken lucky II! Nashville. Tennessee Pub. hshed by the heirs of Colonel Crockett /"
 All the numbers excep, those for I837 and IS4o are bound 10 with collec iJu of otnsr com'c almauocs for the slms years that is, from 1858 to I8I3 iuclu- sive of both dates. lhe uumor.< ot ihe Crockett almanac for 1857 and 1858 are separate, and have this autumn oeen re- bound for taeir better preservation, and 90 are practical anachronisms in bright red morocco bindings, looking as fresh and new as possible. Some of tho later numbers ot tho almanac purport to have been edited by Beo Hardin, the K K.n- lucky orA,or and Congressman; but It would seem that his name was only used to add interest to tho little books, and it B not thought likely that he ever really had anything to do with their prep ration. The numbe for I847 has on its title page "Go Ahead ;" {" ben Hardin's Crockett Almanac" and has a comic picture of Ben Hardin on a Raft" ca the same page, with on alligator holding the wooden peg that 6nishes ont HaIdin's left leg, from tho knee oint down, in its mouth.
 Crockett gives this brief and character ist'c history of himself in the almanac tor 1858:
 Il was born in a caue-brake, cradled in a sap trough and clo;hed with coon skins; without being choked by the weeds Of education, which do not grow sponta- neously, for all that time vas troubled with youngness. my corn-stealers were naturally used for other purposes than holding a pen and rayiy when try to write my elbows keep coming around like swingle tree, and it is easier for me to trace varmint, or swollow a nigge1 than to write. Some persons tickle up their fancies to the scribbiing point, ana then their pen goes like fiddler's elbow. M books the dtvll one have read, ex- cept Tom Toe" and the Axes of the Apostles" And al hough my de.rs run through me like an hour-glass that never wants turning, if only kaowd ho~ to scrawl the alphabet, I'd soon TOW ssme
 
 Honor and fame from no condition rise, Axe w-h your part, and down the tree soon
 lies.
 @For it's the grit of fellow that make | the man and I'm half chicken. ha ~k and steel,rap." And here is how Colonel Crockett gave his address in the almanac
 Well, said he, "hov will fad where you livep Why, sir. run down the Mississippi til you come to the Obion river, run a small streak up that, jump ashore anywhere and inquire for ma"
 On the first page of the number for is37 is this:
 Go ahead, reader"
 "At the last canvass for a member of congress in our district, told my constit- uents if they did not re. elect me they might go to hell and I'd go to Texas. 1 vas beaten, for they made choice of a man with tim Der toe.'"
 This last, a loot-note says, alludes to Hr. Hanssman, the successful candidate, who has a wooden leg
 Crockett, about to cut out to that coun- try to help give the Mexicars lickiog."
 That is Crockett's own version of his retirement from public life in Washing ton, and here is the matter r-offact way his biography is given in Ben Pericy Poore's '' Political Register"
 David Crockett was born in Greene county, Tenn, Aug ust I7. I786. was reared in the cabin of his talher, A Revo- lutionary soldier; became noted as a bear-huniex and marksman commanded . batailioa of mounted Eiaemen under General Jackson in the Creek campaiga {IsI3 I4l; "a5 member of the state from Tennessee in the twentieth congress, e Whig. receiving 3o45 minority over Adam Alexanaex, DemoGzat, and vas re- esected to the twenty first congress, seTv- ing 6om Decembex }. ISz7, to March }.