A Historical Gun

We gave a few daya ago some account of a brasa piece which we saw on board tiie steamer Chaneellor, from Vicksburg, oq its way up the river. The piece is a laudsome brass thirty six pounder, and ma the French Bourbon crown and Bourjon cjpher hand-omely engraved upon t. The ouly peculiarity in it,a appearance is the existence of two bandles at ,he centre of gravity, intended, we sup)ose, to facilítate moving or transport. - Iliis pieee was cast in Frauce in 1768. [t was brought to thia country to assist n the ltevolutionary war by Lafayette, and landed iu Charleatou on the 25th of April, 1777. Tlie gun was used in somo of the battlcs of the llevolution, and went next to New Orleans, and was in service there in the war of 1812, when Jackson defended tliat city. When the Texas revolution occuned, a company of Americans who went from New Orleani n the spring of 1836, to assist in the struggle, took it with tliem, and thero it vas mounted on the walls of the Alamo, a place made memorable by the celebraed massacre, on whieh occasion thts gun ell ïnto the hands of the Mexicans, who used it iu their numberless brawls and ■evolulions. In their hands it traveled o the City of Mi-xico, where it agaiu 'ell itito American hands, being captured y Gen. Seott when he took that city. - When the rcbcllion occurred a New Orenns artilfery company brought the gun o Vicksburg, and it was used in the siege there. At the fall of that place it feil, of course, into the hands of Gen. Graut, and it now goos North as a trophy. - Memphis Journal, Sept. 3. L3jr= Tf yon receive your friends, give thom as gnod as y)u haveyourpelf, a tul don't m:ike them féel uncom fortnblo by any unneoesmiry upoiogiea for yonr fa re. Ifyou have onlyfiied pork and potatooe, perve it noatlv and ent it thanklully. We have sometimos stit down to a tuble, and had our appetite nlmost destroyed by the hard tb inga s;iid about the fond by the one who had aparad no efíort to make it first rate.