Show capital be pleased to take seats gentlemen iam going to toll some true stories I 1 promise not to to boro bore you to this country ninny many years ago and succeeded in obtaining a clerkship iu in the pos tollIce department according to lla LIE account of himself he bail a been a soldier holdier under tho the groat na nothing pleased liim him bolter better than to meet with an opportunity to rocita liia iry itis it in hardly necessary to say my that some boma or of thom thoin were marvelous anti 1 always excited it smile of 0 incredulity at length a fellow lark said aale to linn him I 1 have often bourd board you tight light over your old battles latt len now noff lut lot tait giro civo you say my gad bad military ex experience ri lice I 1 was MUD a soldier lit in van tuo baick black hawk war in tho very uret first en u gage meat I 1 daw saw three tario stalwart indians indiana new cotting ing lit at tall fall aneed after my scalp I 1 was wais armed with ua its old fashioned double barrelled barrel led shot guu gun I 1 let hor loose upon the two that wore in the load leads and ami killed them its ill lead as julius the tha third came rushing u aou me with his hib bloody tomahawk tomu hawk awk arza above his loud lead and what do yoa happened then 1 I you yon killed him of course not exactly quietly replied tho the black hawk warrior burnor la he killed me A roar of laughter was wan raised among the alio bystanders bystander 1 an and d poor leon lain ono skid yarns were knocked clear out oat ot of liim him general jackson about tho the year 1832 gave jimmy mother mahor tho the appointment of public gardener la in washington 8 kidary ilary 1500 and trimmings tho trimmings perhaps amounted amoun tod to a much macli larger bum to io keep the abo publio public gro groT tudo tuda in proper order wora were the duties to bo be performed jimmie when I 1 made ins his no quaint anoe know knew everl everybody body from bleary lit nry clay down to ephraim F I 1 rost roat the colored hack driver hoaas lie was a warm abarm hearted liberal irishman ua ile never took a d rink drink save when la he was waa ill thirsty and then ho he invited all the bystanders to join him lie prided himself on his hie adherence adlie ronco to what he bo called demo oratio principles bamo bomo hungry whigs in ia 1811 wanted his bia place and anal I 1 dimmio dimmic for eor it i while was very uneasy one morning he ha met gen harrison in the public grounds gro unda mud aud taking oll ilia list hat he ha thus addressed him I 1 this is ginneral ilan Uan ison lson prisident ident 0 I 1 the united states receiving an of firma tibb answer ho lio continued finly my name is la ucher I 1 I 1 a am ion publio public gardener I 1 1 well ell mr maher 1 I like tho the of these theia grounds they look ia much better condition than they did aid ahen I 1 was waa A senator 11 cola call its it a me ma trade I 1 was waa latched fetched ur up to it but bat may it plaze plaza your honor its rumored about here that im to bo be dismissed 11 dismissed for tor borwhat what 11 because I 1 was a friend to mr air van baron barea IN niile mr maher nobody is id autho authorize 1 to say tint ria yon yoa will ill be dismissed on that account A thousand thanks to your excel clency you yea see BOO I 1 was acquainted with mr vau ana buren baren ua hat always treated mo me like it gentlemen and I 1 wua was for him but bat I 1 liaro live no doubt alter after we got a little bettor better acquainted I 1 shall be for you harrison ar naon smiled tind and assured him that he 0 o had na no idea of turning h him im out oat whereupon jimmie broke down to the place whore where ho he it hid a d some hands at work and give gave them a report ot of his into arview he closed it with this taia grand tion lion 11 by jove boys prisident ident harri son is is a tale ralo I 1 jackson ot of a fellows fell owl 11 about three weeks after thu the inauen ration ot of general harrison Harri aon a well dressed young man of 0 some soma thirty summers walked into one of tho the hotels of this city with a fiddle faddle on his arm and canid said 11 gentlemen all eyes were at him I 1 have once turned upon come here like thousands of others to see bee what I 1 could see BOO anti and got what I 1 ronld got get buti but I 1 have been bean disappointed in in every everything thin I 1 have got no office sot got out of mo money ey I 1 and got bob many miles to retrace I 1 am too honest to stood steal too proud to beg and I 1 to come in ia hero here today to day and anci make make A antao liello in an honest way suiting baiting the action to the word he began to play the fiddle this comical scene afforded considerable amuso mout to tho the persons persona there assembled they asked how much meney it would take to carry him homo home ile he said 10 in loss than ton ten minutes that amount was raised for him bitting down and counting countin gover his hill money ho he found that they lad had given him 13 by george said he bo heres a surplus of 3 como come in gentlemen all aa of f you una and take some same thing to drink i I 1 never saw nor heard beard of him bira afterward I 1 have regretted regret tod that I 1 did not learn his name camo and keep the tha hang of him tho the chances nuances are that lie he has since benoe filled fillad some homo high position washington letter latter |