secretary. After this every night the Minister
and I played at whist with Mr. Marcy and his secretary, and every
night we lost. The stakes were very trifling, but Mr. Marcy felt
flattered by beating the Britishers at what he called their own
game. His good humor returned, and every morning when the details
of the treaty were being discussed we had our revenge, and scored
a few points for Canada." A true account of the money designedly
lost at Washington by diplomats, heads of departments, and Congressmen
would give a deep insight into the secret history of legislation.
What Representative could vote against the claim of a man whose
money he had been winning, in small sums, it is true, all winter?

General John A. Thomas, of New York, who was Assistant Secretary
of State during a part of President Pierce's Administration, was
a fine, soldierly looking man, very gentlemanly in his deportment.
He was a native of Tennessee, and was for several years an officer
in the United States Army, commanding at one time the corps of
cadets. He married a Miss Ronalds, who belonged to an old New York
family, and he took her with him when he went abroad as Solicitor
to the Board of Commissioners appointed by the President to adjust
the claims of American citizens upon the British Government. Mr.
Buchanan was the American Minister at the Court of St. James, and
Mr. Sickles Secretary of Legation. Mrs. Thomas having expressed
a wish to be presented at court, Mr. Buchanan assented, and, when
the day for presentation arrived, requested Mrs. Thomas to place
herself under the charge of Mrs. Sickles, who would accompany her
to the palace of St. James. This arrangement Mrs. Thomas decidedly
declined, and by so doing gave so much offense to Mr. Buchanan that
she was never presented at court at all. Nor did the matter end
here. When Mr. Buchanan came to the Presidency he found General
Thomas filling the office of Assistant Secretary of State. From
this office he immediately ejected him, for the old grudge he bore
Mrs. Thomas for refusing to go to court with Mrs. Sickles, as
General Thomas declared to his friends. Mr. Buchanan was always
very fond of Mr. Sickles and his wife, and it was said that he
narrowly escaped being in the Sickles' house when Barton Key was
shot down after coming from it.

The Amoskeag Veterans, of Manchester, New Hampshire, a volunteer
corps which wore the Continental uniform and marched to the music
of drums