Jonathan and his friend were first on the spot. In about ten minutes, the Dutchman and his friend arrived. "Well, have you made up your mind yet?" asked the Yankee. "De one who goes out ish not to begin de same business?" "No, certainly not; it wouldn't be fair." "No, I 'spose not." "Suppose we draw up a paper, and sign it to that effect, before we go any farther." "Vell." The paper was drawn, signed, and witnessed by the friends of both parties. "You are prepared to give or take?" said Jonathan, with same eagerness in his manner. "Yes." "Well, which will you do?" "I vill give," coolly replied the Dutchman. "Give!" echoed the Yankee, taken entirely by surprise at so unexpected a reply. "Give! You mean, take." "I no means dake, I means give. Here ish de monish;" and he drew forth a large roll of bank-bills. "You say give or dake--I say give." With the best face it was possible to put upon the matter, Jonathan, who could not back out, took the three thousand dollars, and, for that sum, signed away, on the spot, all right, title, and claim to benefit in the business, from that day henceforth and for ever. With his three thousand dollars in his pocket, the Yankee started off farther South, vowing that, if he lived to be as old as Methuselah, he'd never have any thing to do with a Dutchman again. A TIPSY PARSON. IN a village not a hundred miles from Philadelphia, resided the Rev. Mr. Manlius, who had the pastoral charge of a very respectable congregation, and was highly esteemed by them; but there was one thing in which he did not give general satisfaction, and in consequence of which many excellent members of his church felt seriously scandalized. He would neither join a temperance society, nor omit his glass of wine when he felt inclined to take it. It is only fair to say, however, that such spirituous indulgences were not of frequent occurrence. It was more the principle of the thing, as he said, that he stood upon, than any thing else, that prevented his signing a temperance pledge. Sundry were the attacks, both open and secret, to which the Reverend Mr. Manlius was subjected, and many were the discussions into which he was drawn by the advocates of total abstinence. His mode of argument was very summary.