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Show MR. BOUTELLE'S MARE'S NEST. . In the course of a blooy-shirt speech " . j in the House of Representatives a short , t time back, Mr. Boutelle of Maine stated 'lf that a patriotic inscription had been ob- ! j literated from the diy dock;at -the Norfolk ' navy yard, and he charged the act upon I t some unreconstructed rebel in the Gov- j ernment's employ, under Admiral Trux- ton. - It now transpires that the only ioscrip- ! tion that was ever authorized to be placed upon the dry dock, or ever was on the dry dock, is still there. It is as follows : : ; "Commenced Deo. 1, 127. John Qoinc Adams, President of the United States. Samuel L. Southard, Secretary of the Navy. ; Authorized by Nineteenth Congress. Opened Jane 17, 1833. Andrew Jackson, President " of the United States. Levi Woodbury, Secre- ' !. H ' ,: ' tary of the Navy;. Loammi Baldwin, Engineer." En-gineer." - . This discovery knocks Mr. Boutelle's mare's nest galley-west, and shows to what straits some of the ultra-Republicans are driven in their anxiety to manufacture manu-facture politcal capital by appealing to sectional prejudice. There was no excuse for the blunder Mr. Boutelle made, and he well deserves the unmerciful scoring he is now receiving by the Democratic press of the East and South for making such a donkey of himself. |