"The Siamese twins have had a battle royal at Athens,
Alabama; not with themselves, for stern necessity makes them pull well together, but with a room full of visitors. They have been bound over in 250 dollars. A medical gentle- man wished to examine the bond of union ; and being refused any greater privi- lege than the others in the room, he called them impostors, and sundry other hard names. The pair forthwith knocked the offender down ; and were in- stantly assailed with a kettle of hot water, chairs, dirks, &c. They narrowly escaped with their lives."—American Paper.
The bond in which these youths are bound by nature to keep the peace towards each other, seems to be equally efficacious in exciting them to break it towards the community. Some time ago, they assaulted an American citizen, but with less provocation than on the present occasion, when they had fearful odds against them. We do not wonder at their being so pugnacious : it must require the stoicism of a .phi:a ioi ha to endure the insults oared them by the curious vulgar.
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