Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-09-15 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

WESTERN MEN IN AMERICA.—These Western men were rough; "so were their Vars." They were returned from far migrations, whither women and children hail not accompanied them. Their Western life was significantly repotted by one of their number, who, being at a theatre where a baby wen crying, and the orchestra trying to drown its little voice, rose in the pit, and exclaimed, " Stop them d—d fiddlse, and let the baby cry; I hain't heard such music this ten year !" They had left churches and catechims behind them alio. The Hon. Senator 1). made a bet of ten dollars with the Hon Judge L. that he could not repeat the Lord's Prayer. L. as, cepted the bet, and began thus Now I lay me down te sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.  "Hanged if I thought you knew it," said the senator, at, he handed the triumphant judge the ten doLlars. None of the bystanders seemed able to correct the matter. I remember very well, also, that the Governer of Texas said, in his message for 1848, "In the beautiful words of Scripture, ' Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer,' &c." These results were more democratic than beautifuL It was, I fear, rather a disadvantage to a man in those far regions to have been educated, or, as the popular phrase ran, to have "rubbed his back agaiust a college." Andy Johnson, now President, never get as much out of his sign board in Greenville—" A. Johnson, Tailor "—when it meant what it said, as afterwards when, having become a public man, he kept it up to point the masses to as a proof of his origin and af his pride in it. When he was Governor of Tennessee he sent to the neighbouring Governor of Kentucky a coat of his own making, which gained him so much applause that the Kentuckian governor, who had been a blacksmith, returned a present of a shovel and tongs made by hill:limit —Fecticr's Maliazinc for September. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE A PRCEiSIAN OFFICIAL —ln the speech of Count 13ismark, which was recently published, occurs an allusion to Bavarian Fathers firing upon Prussian officers from railway earriagem, which is based upon the following statement of facts from the Elberfelder Zettung, , stud Aschaffenburg, September 2: It seems incredito., but we have now full confirmation of the report, that an attempt at murder was committed on the 26th August, by a Bavarian soldier, at Stockstatit, upon a Prussian officer. An extra train conveyed the Bavarian troops, who were in asLate 1 of the greatest excitement, from the fortress of Mayence, over Darmstadt, to Aschaffenburg, at about the same time as the Prussian troops marched into the fortress. Shortly before the trains arrived at Asehatridahurg, is Prussian officer, belonging to the Prussian garrison of occupation of that town, got out at the station of Stockstadt, because, front what he had seen and heard of the Bavarian soldiers in the train, he did not deem it prudent ti alight along with thew on the arrival at Aschaffeuburg. He had, however, scarcely left the carriage when a shot was tired at him from a compartment tilled with Bavarian soldiers which felled the officer to the ground. The train proceeded as if nothing bad happonsd, and upon its arrival M