Vincennes Gazette, Volume 10, Number 12, Vincennes, Knox County, 29 August 1840 — Page 1

"TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR." VOLUME X. VINCExNES, INDIANA, SATURDAY MORNING AUGUST 29, 1810. NO. VI.

Log Cabin, North Bend. July 2oth, 1810. 5 7b e Editor. i of the Express: Respected Friends: The weather is considerable hot now, but not half as hot a some folks will find it afore November next; for if I am not mistaken as things are going, we shall have pretty warm work'before that day comes. I han't had my coat on now going on three weeks, Letters and folks pouiingin, and the Gintral says, 'Major, you must spring to, and lend me a helping hand in the Cabin, or tho farm will go neglected, and that I can't allow no how.' Tho Giueral is a master hand for looking out about the farming work, and I do raly believe if any man can show him how an acre of ground can l.p made to produce more corn or hay than

it -aid afore, will stand a bigger chance of getting an office than any man who shows he can control more votes than any other When the folks all go off and the (.ineral and I sit down together and talk over matters, and he writes down the proceedings of the day. I find he culls out especially all he has heard about what this and that'ono said about farming. 'But,' says I, -Gineral why don't you say something about what they said regaiding the political votes of their districts?' 'Well,' says he, Major, some things are etarnal and snmfl thiiiM are changeable. Now if I can only get the farming work going right it matters verv little how otner matters ,t0. tor m the end mat win uring an uuiS . -n !.. 1 1 .k : r-t The Gineral says thti me aoiest anu best politician in the country is the man m ho can make one acre of ground produce more than it ever did before, and he says if he can only put his eye and finger on that man, he will ask him as a particular favor to fill the highest office he can name, provided he is willing and able to take office for the Gineral goes on that principle. Ha S3ys that office is to be given only to such as are best able to serve the country best. He says that agriculture stands first; next comes the manufacturing and mechanic arts, and then comes the merchant and lawyer all necessary to one another. But the politician who lias no other trade, he thinks is a poor crittur. and be hones the present administra tion will do all they can foi him, for he don't like to see any body suffer, but he can do nothing but tell him to go to work Ht some useful calling. The first question the Gineral puts to a man who calls on him, is to know what his trade or calling is, and if by chance he lets on that he has none, the Gineral takes him right out in his potatoe patch and gives him a lesson in diguing. I tell'd the Gineral one day, says 1, Gineral this will never do in creation.' Sjys I, 'why, Mr. Van Huron will beat you all hollow on this track, for the first thing he finds out is, to know how many votes a man can command, and according to his nnwer he sets loo and greases him, for he knows that it is by votes and not bv potatoes that a president is to be eiectl ' Rot the Gineral don't believe inis, h xv 'he would rather be a plain farmer and surrounded by a set of men who can dig potatoes, than to be president and surrounded only by a set ot voteuig I don't know how it is, but according to political calculations one would say the Gineral is to be beaten, but according to what one sees all about creation I think tho Kinpral's corn and potatoe crops will beat Mr. Van Burcu's vote crops three to There is one thing that 1 think will throw Mr. Van Bnren fiat on his back. He thinks that his party will go for him through thick and thin, because he says he is at the head of the 'great detnociatic family.' Now that family is very large U on 'em aint office holders. Some on 'em are farmers; some mechanics, some ,-iinfartnrs: some merchants; and as his policy is only intended to profit the office, holding portion oi mat fa , ,,in,i nil the other members, they . i! l- .i,.. Tr llpntrtn. Mr. Blair. It'll Illlll maw .. ' Mr Kimlpll and a very few more family. But are nui ... . and this is the rub pvorv time he tries to 'reward fiiends and punish enemies,' he finds he makes matters worse and he will find that instead of being a good sound democrat, he ,a nnlv a selfish politician, seeKing to re tain office at the expense of a large mass of people who may say that a democrat ,-nrrrnment was intended lor tne goou o r., a,pSt number not for the exclu hnfit nf a few office holders, who put noses together and plan schemes to keep themselves in office. 1 don't know what folks think along iiie seaouaru, uu uu. - i i i u rvn! nam liic li v i-j gov. mant miiatheadmmistereu oy uuu ClUlllvu - - est men ,n,t vvptv man n omce musi ue such as any honest citizen wouiu mm. , j - , i r Ka hie nxpi-tltnr. and euardian ot nis PKtatfi and children", when he comes to die and no other will suit: that they must be men who look to the good of the whole people, and not to a party; men wiio taning office, will know its duties and obliga f i nn Q an A if found usin? the influence o said office to retain the station, should at once be treated just as a good farmer would treat an oveteer who attempted to in struct the dogs on the farm to bark at the

owner. This would be turning the wrong

eend foremost and this is about the Gin eral's notion, and that of your friend aud fellow citizen, J. DOWNING, Major, &.C. &c. fcc. N. B. The Gineral is curious to know how the 'Sub-Treasury' gets on in your parts. Do the folks lug about the com according to law, or do 'certified checks' on 'the rascally banks' take the place on't? If you don't care to answer this you need not all that the Gineral cares to kuow is if the law is carried out all alike not goose here and gandar there, that's all. From the Columbus Journal. Letter from Gov. Lincoln. We call the attention of the reader to the letter of Gov. Lincoln, member of Congress from Massachusetts to the edit ors of the National Intelligencer, expos ing the miserable lraud of the Globe, in publishing as correct, a false report of his speech on the appropriations for the President's house. The Tory papers have no valid defence against the facts contained in Mr. Ogle's speech they are incontrovertible. As a natural resort, and one of common practice, forgery is resorted to. But this will fail them. Was Gov. Lincoln willing (as he is not) to take all the responsibility of the waste and extravagance committed in furnishing the President' house, it would prove no justification. The thing is wrong, anti-re publican, aristocratic and the people will condemn it. The letter follows: Worcester, (Mass.,) July 25, 1310. Messrs. Gales $ Seaton: I have seen, with the utmost surprise, in the Intelligencer of the 23d inst., which reached me this morning, several certificates from 'Whig members of Congress,' on the subject of 'a publication in the Globe of the 10th of July, IS 10, under the caption of Messrs. Lincoln and Ogle,' and it has now become proper for me, personally, to notice both the certificates and the matters to which they refer. I shall certainly have no controversy with either of the gentlemen who seen fit to give these certificates. To those of Messrs. Stanley, Allen and Naylor, I have nothing to object. Indeed, to that of the latter, ir. whom I am happy to re cognize a personal as well as political 3 -! riend. I would mysell most willingly have subscribed, and the substantive facts stated by all, so far as respects the procurement of furniture for the President's louse, I no more question than them selves. I have never said, or authorized to be reported, a single word which those certificates gainsay, and 1 teel entirely conscious of having offered no cause, on my part, for any interposition between Mr. Ogle and myseit. With the one certificate, however, of Mr. John C. Clark and others, there ate expressions to which I feel bound to offer a word of reply. 1 rind it in me iouowing paragraph: 'lhe undersigned uo not undertake to say whether Mr. Lin coln used the language imputed to him by the Globe or not, but as he has per mitted its publication to remain ten uy& without public contradiction, we presume he now adopts the language ascribed to him. if he did not originally utter it If these gentlemen heard the remarks which I did. in fact, make ontne occasion rflffirred to in the Globe, they must have known that I did riot 'originally utter the language' ascribed to me in that paper in the extract they hate taken, nor any thing like it. Or, if they heard my reply to Mr. Offle a fortnight afterwards, when unon mv return to my seat from a tempo rarv absence, he alluded to the same mfsrepresentations ot ray remark, uiey muai ' , . have heard my unequivocal aeniai oi me ;,iDi;t,r r ihp (J nhe s reoort. and a iuu and frank expression of what I did say on that nrnasioil. From another part of the same certifii!ip. in connection with the extract Irom the Globe, it might be inferred that I had snoken of the purchase of furniture as being under the direction of the committee of Public Buildings, oi wtucn l was I nil rm an . Nothin? could be further ftom my meaning, or the statement made the remark, as civen in the extract from the Globe, greatly erro neous. as it most surely is, would hardly warrant the inference drawn from it by thp signers of the certificate. H hat di.l sav was. in substance, that since I had been at the head of the committee, for a period of nearly three years, no appro- . . , l 1 I 1 u.. prialion, to my unowieuge, imu uccu made at the request of the President, that the committee had always acted on thp rpnuisition and estimates ol the com missioner of Public Buildings, and that nn nnfl occasion, when the President had been referred to, as to the need of a pro posed appropriation, he had declined ex rcain anv opinion or wish on th( subject. Of the purchases which had been made I explicitly disclaimed all bnorlpdre. I had neither seen the Dins at the time, nor did I speak of. or in any refer to them. My remarks were exclusively applied to the appropri ations, and to the appropriations amy. It is well known tnai mer - raittee on expenditures, distinct and l inde pendent of the committee on tne i Rnildinrrs. and bv the former, and not the latter, all such disbursements as are e now

spoken of, are properly subjects of inquiry and animadversion. And I here distinctly and explicitly declare that, to the cliaractefof the purchases of furniture by

Mr. Van Buren, between the 4th of March and the Cth of December, 1837, to which the certificate refers, I Uttered not a word of remark, for I knew nothing, and before the delivery of Mr. Ogle's speech, I had heard nothing of the articles or the bills, which are the subjects of his comment. When the appropriation was granted under which these purchases were made, I was not Chairman of the committee. This was in the second session of the 21th Congress, and my appointment was in the Congress after. I repeat that, since that period whatever has been asked for, either for the public grouuds or the public buildings, in improvements, repairs, or furniture, has come through the Commissioner, with no request made to the committee, directly or indirectly, to my knowledge, from thu President. This observation is, at least, due to the independent action of my associates. The appropriation under which 'it appears from the said vouchers, that more than eighteen thousand dollars were expended in furniture for the President's house between the 1th day of March, 1837. and the thh day fof December. 1837,' was doubtless made in general terms, with no direction to the specific articles, or the cost at which they were to be procured, and besides, having no agency myself in directing the expenditures, I was, in fact, during the whole intervening period between those dates, at my residence in Massachusetts. It was for appropriations made since that time, and not for the manner of their application, that I said the committee were responsible. Whatever there has been of piodigality or extravagance in the expenditures, has never been, and will not be justified by me. '1 he item in the bill which gave rise to tne uiscussion, embraced only the daily pay of the laborers, some ordinary supplies for the cultivation of the "rounds, and five hundred dollars for repairs, judged necessary upon the house and in commenting upon tnese nd the remarks of Mr. Ogle, which they seemed to have called forth, I incidently or.v aUuded to the propriety of suitable furniture to the house provided by the eonle. through forty years legislation ol Congress,1 for the residence of the Repre sentative 'Chief Magistrate of the nation. With sentiments of faithful regard, Your obedient servant, LEVI LINCOLN. Trom the Cincinnati Gazette. COOLNESS ON THE FIELD' OF BATTLE. Connected with the movements of the northwestern armies, in 18 13 and previouslv. :ire many incidents which, though too unimportant for the pages of general his-; tory, are nevertheless nignij lnieream.". and well worthy of preservation. Some of these have been related by Gen. Tip ton, and other brave offices: several are recorded in the narratives ot Uawson anu Hall; a few may be found in the newspa pers of the times in which they occurred; butthe greater number of them dwell mere ly in the recollections of the suivivmg soldiers, who witnessed tueui. oume u. them display an intrepidity unsurpassed in the history of warfare; others exhibit a coolness, in the moment of imminent danger, indicative of the most determined resolution and the most extraordinary nerve. Of this latter character, are the two incidents mentioned below. We find them rfilatRft in a letter from Col. John fcpeed Smith, a prominent friend of the admin istration, in Kentucky.j to a geuucma.i thi ritv. Col. Smith, it will be recollect ed, was one of the aids of Gen. Harrison in the battle of the J hames. F'hp writer state?, that a moment beiore the battle commenced. Gen. Harrison rode up to a majestic Seneca Chiet, and too his powder horn to reprime his pistols. Upon witnessing this, ieuicuam asked him if he expected to come m per sonal contact with the enemy; to winch the General replied, that it was proper to be prepared for any event that he commanded an army of better materials than Proctor's and that he was determined not to survive a defeat; adding with a smile to Lieutenant Smith, 'You had better fresh prime, too, as I shall expect my aids to die around me!' , Whilst at the crochet, after the left wing had recovered from its momentary confusion, and was joining 'he front, General Harrison ordered Lieutenant Smith to bring down Chilles' command to support it. While he was giving this order, the necks of their two horses were interlocked; ni nmp twir of a tree above them, which had gathered and retained a cluster i ' il.. hod of leaves, and around wmcn me m m look at his commander, were cut down by the enemy' ball. Near the spot, at . m enhlier was shot tne same mumcm, ih it,;rVv and seeinff the com .v,,,lCr.;,,.r.hif as he swung arbund and lell. he cried out, 'Did you see that Gen eral? they have shot me agam This man' had been wounded the day before at the bridge. Gen. Hairison directed him to be taken back to have his : hut finding that his thigh u.v.- 7 " .. . 1

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bleeding, clutched his gun, swore he meant of ruin, and our republic to the thtshto have satisfaction, and continued to fight, old of a monarchy. I think 1 understand A few moments afterwards, a young man your motives. dashed up to the ct mmander, holding a You talk the same language which the scalp in his hand and sung out, 'Look Robesperries, Dantons and Ccesars have here General, I've got il! My father was always talked. While you profess dean old Kentucky Indian Fighter; and mocracy and love for the dear people you when I left home, he made me promise to are artfully sapping the very foundation bring the scalp of a red skin killed by my- of that democracy. self. And here it is this is for the old Again you are most insultingly hypoman: now I want one for myself.' And critical. You talk in your Address about away he sprang in search of another end- members of the Whig party 'franking" jjjy. j documents, when you know that the Van These two anecdotes. Col. Smith says, Burenites have "franked" three to their

greatly swnmed Commodore Perry, when he related them to him at the close ol the battle; and the gallant sailor truly said that an army of such men could not be con - quered. And he frequently afterwards on meeting with the officers of the army, would repeat the brave soldier's exclama-1 tion, with great zeal, 'Do you hear that General? they have shot me again! BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT. The following graphic description of an animal called loci) foco, is extracted from a journal (to be) printed at Disappointment Bay, in the Antarctic continent, in the year 2310. We translate from the language in use at that day: 1 IUUI CIMUO UUUIIIIIU tufci v-.-v.x-. ered in a very ruinous state, and printed apparently in hieroglyphics, our savana have succeeded in determiningthe fict, not! only of the existence of a country called the 'United Stales,' but they have found divers traits in the history of a venomous animal. The name of this nahloquiticonicy (creeping thing) was 'loco foco,' in the dialect of that barbarous nation. It was found originally fastened to a tree, called, 'Bad Government," whence it derived all sustenance. The animal lived, or could live on any of its branches, but the bud, which was called pap, and the blossom, which was called office, va its favorite food. These animals herded together, and hunted in company they were carniverous, graniverous, and in lact all kind of ous, except ingenuous, it is sunnosed they had in some degree the power of language, as some of the documents make mention of leonitiquonabitihi (stump speeches.) A skeleton, indicating them to be of the monkey gems, was jou'.d with a tin label round his shin bone it was marked in their supposed Ianquaere, 'SPOILS.' The meaning of this word is not known, but Dondomica, the Hiffh Genius of the Grb of Ancient Sci ence, gives it as his opinion, that it was a spell which the head monkey used to Keep his followers in subjection. Altogether u must have been a very singular animal. From other fragments of documentary evidence upon this subject, we are inclined to suppose that the 'United States,' were for many years rendered worthless by the srreat increase of this reptile. It seems in be established, however, thai a hero called 'Log cabin' arose out of the wilderness, and with a famous liquor called dihlihttilalima (hard cider) succeeded about the year IS 10, in destroying the most of them. We await the return of the 'Exploring Expedition' with impatience." Do the loco focos of 184") discover a likeness? German American . - "NO TRUE GEN TLEMAN." It is astonishing the number of indiiduals who fall under the ban of Mr. Kendall, and come into the catarory of 'no true centlemen. 1 he following letter from a Postmaster in Michigan is in reply to the begging epistle of the LxPostmaster for "that dollar or that "hall dollai" which' is essential to enable him "to save the country." Bait. Pat. RAISIN, Lenawee County, Michigan. Sir: I hereby acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the SJ8th t:lt. enclosing your Address and Prospectus, and after due consideration, I return them, 'franked" as they came, although 1 have my doubts about its being according to law so to do. Yet, if contrary to law I can plead your own precedent, as an extenuation of my exercise of the "franking" privilege, and for my charity in saving fifty cents of the "hard currency'1 in which your soul so nvich delights, for yourself and needy family. I will give you a few plain reasons why I return them to the source from which they eminated without complying with your request. Your language is not republican. It is not such as one de mocrat should use to another, where de mocratic eoualitv is professed to be reap ciproeally acknowledged. You speak of "sense of duty. ' What do you mean oy that sir? Do' vou mean that because 1 have had a petty office, once dependant on your favor that I am bound to lorego an independence of chaiacter, and serve you from a ".sense of dutvV Talk that lan guage, sir, to the "serfs" of Russia De mocrats scorn it. They owe no "allegi ance" to would-be dictators or upstart demagogues. I return vour aitful appeal to the peo pie of the United States, because I con-oi,i-:i fulcp. statements and ?iuci it a uogub ' ' f a 1 p isRiiftiSYou pretend to be patriotic and zealous 1nrt hftlor your country, i our j. -I, p. vnnr nrofessions. You have acted a prominent nart in the councils of those

one, a large proportion ot which are bul

ly Duncans blackguardism, which you are pleased to say "have a spice of coarxe'nes suited to the Western people, I Quite a compliment, indeed, and one for which they will doubtle?s thank you and your master as they should at the ballot box next November. The charge of "contempt for the people," which you are pleased to proffer against liarnsonians is, fiom the above false issue, particularly applicable to yourself. You fay a "sham hero'" was presented to the people in the person of Harrison. And pray, sir, where was you when the battles of Tippecanoe, Fort Meigs, and the Thames were fought? Where was you when Harrison, the 'Sham hero . Ill I 1 m you are pleased to call him, chased a flying foe into the heart of Ganat-a, and there conquered him. Was you Pachmg school in rventuchy or basking like a poisonous basalisk in the sunshine of Mr. Clay's favor, or op posing Mr. Madison and the War, like your master Van Buren? Answer these questions to your own conscience. Surrounded with court splendors m the gorgeously furnished palace of Mr. Van Buren, you may imagine that the people will sustain you and him in your arisio cratic pride and pomp, because you pro fess democracy. Deceive not yourself. sir. To show vou in what estimation the hardy back woodsman and "log cab in boys regard you, Michigan will give "Old Tip" two thousand majority next fall, in spite ot your "Extra Globe Note it down now in a book, and mark the result. As my sheet is full, I now close with this remark: il my otnee is considered the piice of obedience to mon orchia! ilietation. it is at the service of those who gave it. With correct opinions as to your char acler, I am sir, DARIUS C. JACKSON, P. M. Raisin From the Xew Albany, (la.) Gazette General Harrison and Foreigners. Foreigners, you Lave heard much from Loco-Focos' about Gen. 7arrison's alledred hostility to your lights and inter ests. Some tell you that he is opposed to letting v ou be naturalized until after a residence of 0 years in the United States. Others tell you, that he intends, if elected, to have "you all transported back to vnnr native countries. Read the follow ing coirespondence and then set the seal of your scorn upon the miscreants and demagogues, who, to observe their own purposes, are Irving to make dupes of you: Lou. Jour. SHELBYVILLE, (la.) June 21, 1810. Gen. IVrn. 11. Harrison: Dear Sir: A report prevails in this neighborhood that "you are averse to emigrants from foreign countries being naturalized slfort of twenty years." and in your feelings you have no sympathy in unison with those who have ought an asvluin i:i this land of liberty. We are not your political enemies not do wo wish to "exhort any thing from you for political capital; neither does either ol us expect a Land Office appointment from t .... . i ii . i. Maniii Van Buren (like unto lilies nou-u-wiss,-) but our object is to asceitain what foundation your political enemies have for circulating 'such report, that the naked truth may be placed before the honest and unsuspecting emigrant from foreign coun II h arp. verv respecttuhy vour obedient servants, D. THATCHER, IL S. KENDALL S. H. DAY, Corresponding Committee for Shelby co. NORTH BEND, July 1. 1-10. Gentlemen 1 have to acknowledge the receipt of your letlet of the 27th ultimo, informing "me that a report prevails in your neighborhood "that I am averse to emigrants from loreign coumu uu... .....e!.i:,i ci.,ir! nf twenty years, and uaiui allien ow-. - - j .i10i in mv feelings I have no sympathy inai j - r : ..Mill I nwfl w ho have sought an asylum in this land of liberty. 1 have heard of this calumny before, and have never ceased to pronounce it such, and to declare that it has not a shadow of foundation. r., .i, rnntrarv I have done every or In far-1 Itate tllOSe WllO thing in . . , i. hPPn near me to acquire the ugh of citizenship and when in Congress to give them (before their naturalization) b :i : inlinrr nn urn! rilirthe same privileges "r . - r. ; !, ., e ; n IT lllP nil blic lands as the native cm zen? It appears to me to be impossible to keep pace, by contradiction, with the numerous falsehoods wnum nc u,j raised against me, some of the latter indeed supported by the basest perjury. 1 am respectfully, your humble servant, 1 W. II. HARRISON. To Messrs. Tachnlr, Kendall & Day, Committee.

Prospects inGeorgia. The Millegeville Recorder furnishes the ibllownV satisfactory information as to the pros'pects in Georgia: Bait. Pat. "Our accounts from every section of the State are of the most cheerino- character; and all doubts in regard to the result of the Presidential election in Georgia ure dissipated. Gen. Harrison and John Tyler must receive the Electoral vote or the State, or there is no faith to be put in evidence. Even in Muncogee county, the chief point of disaffection towards the Harrison nomination, we arc sure that our cause will gain instead of suiFering loss. Among other auspicious signs, we observe in the last Columbus Enquirer an able and elaborate address of the sheriff of that county, Col. Bonner, to his friends of the Union party, with which he has always act

ed, setting forth his reasons for his abandonment of Mr. Martin Van Buren, and his support of General Harrison. It is an address bv the vav. which will sati-fy every candid and un prejudiced reader that Col. Bonner is right; and we trust its effect may be as it oaght, to bring many more to do ri"-(it too. W e congratulate our friends through out the Sl'ile on cur most cheering pros pects." . ,.- At the bursting of a boiler, a stout Yan kee plunged into the river and saved the life of the captain. As soon as they reach ed the shore, the captain was very prolif ic of thanks to the preserver of his life. Save your thanks, my hearty,' said the othei, for I only saved you from the wa ter in the hope that I should have the pleasure of seeing you hung for the wilful murder of your passengers. A Good O.te. A very good widow lady, who was looked up to bv the congregation to which she belonged as an example of pifcty, contrived to bring her conscience to terms f r one litile indulgence. She loved poitcr, and one clay as she was receiving a half i!ozen bottles from the man who usually brought her the comforting beverage, sho perceived (O horror!) t.voof the gravest elders of the church approach her door. She ran the man out of the back way, and put the bo.tles under the bed. The weather was hot, and v "ule convesing with her sae friends, pop went one oi the corl.s. 'Dear tne'.' exclaimed llie good lady, there goes that bed cord, it snapped yesterday just the same way, I must have a new rope provided,' In a few moments, pop went another, followed by the peculiar hiss of escaping liquor. The rope woulden't do but the good lady was not a'. loss. 'Dear me,' says she, -that black cat of mine must be at soi.ie mischief there. S'eat' Another hotue p pped off, and the porter came stealing out from under the bed curtains. Odcar me,' said he,' 'I had forgot, it's the yean!! Here prudence! come take away these bot:!es of yeasty Jan i::ge. L'!; at the great mass of marriages whh-h take place over the whole world: what poor contemptible allairs they are! A f-. w soft look?, a walk, a dance, a squrtze of the hand, a popping of the que?iion, a purchasing of a certain number of yards of whits satin, a ring, a clergyman, a stage or two in a hired carriage, a night in a country inn, and tha whole matter is ovi r. For live orv six weeks, the two sheepish looking person are seen dangling on each others arm, looking at waterfalls, or making morning calls, and ouzz'ing wine and cakes, then every thing foils into the most mon otonous routine: the wile sits on one side of the hearth, the husband at the other, and little quarrels, l;ltle pleasures, littlo cares, and little children, gradually gamer around them. This is what ninetynine out a hundred find to be the delight. of love and matrimony. Q & ft.n i Leanino to the Church. A man, who had applied for admission into the church, was observed by the pastor, a day or two after, in a state of glorious intoxication, leaning on a fence in front of the meeting house. "I am surprised to see you in this condition," eaid the miiiisVrFi thought you were calculating to join the church The unworthy applicant looked up with a maudlin stare, and replied: "True, I did think about it and I'm rather l-l-lianing that nay now." Elying Galignani's Messenger relates that a Bavarian mechanic, named Intcrholzer, has invented an apparatus for flying, has proposed to the minister of the Interior, to make a public exhibition of his system in the Champs Elysees, on the King's feet of the let of May. He pietends that he can, with hia apparatus, raise himself to any height he pleases, take any direction in the air, and lower himself, with more or less rapidity, at will. Whether Mr. Interholzer will succeed in his attempt, remains to be proven. Wo have r.. doubt, however that the thing is possibleand that before another half century has passed away, men and women, aid.-ml boys, will nake nothing of zfflgh'Jtk fifteen or twenty miles before breakfast, for exercise or amusemeat. Boston Jovr.