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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 269, 24 November 1874, Page 7

The Negro and mule (writes a correspondent in Clinton, Louisiana) are inseparable companions in the Southern cotton fields, and, like the Hiawathan string and bow, useless each without the other. The lazy indifference and careless cruelty of the one, and the wonderful powers of endurance of severe labour, bad treatment, and neglect of the other, complete the computability of the two races necessary for the production of four millions of hales. A characteristic anecdote may be relished by those wlis have had experience of the two. The spectator had taken refuge from the sun’s perpendicular rays under the shade of a spreading beech, and lay recumbent, enjoying the fitful breezes and the sombre fnthiness of the country newspapers. Aloi.g the dusty road which passed by •tlr.s retreat came jogging a negro, mounted on a mule, both apparently fast asleep, is the somnolent pair approached the (pot, some wicked sprite of the place gave the paper a flirt, which was no sooner seen and heard than the mule, as mules only know how, instantaneously “ swapped enrß,” and leaving the negro sprawling in tie dirt, took his departure under full sail The negro, half raising himself, and wping the dust from his eyes and mouth, witched the retreating mule for some time in silence, but at length, unconscious of an auditor, gave expression to this phibsophic soliloquy : “ Cat’s what makes me’spise a mule.” The Gcndbun Herald draws attention to the fact that b' the balance sheet of the Yass Municipa Council it appears that during the halfyear ended August 2, that body received a rates the magnificent sum of £l2 Os. 9|d and that during the same period they pad away for legal advice £ll 15s. 6d., king within ss. 3£d, of the whole amount contributed by the ratepayws. !