who sat well in front, occasionally let fly a volley
of suppressed oaths at his wild team of six mules.

Finally, Mr. Lincoln, leaning forward, touched the man on the shoulder
and said,

"Excuse me, my friend, are you an Episcopalian?"

The man, greatly startled, looked around and replied:

"No, Mr. President; I am a Methodist."

"Well," said Lincoln, "I thought you must be an Episcopalian, because
you swear just like Governor Seward, who is a church warder."

A CHEERFUL PROSPECT.

The first night after the departure of President-elect Lincoln from
Springfield, on his way to Washington, was spent in Indianapolis.
Governor Yates, O. H. Browning, Jesse K. Dubois, O. M. Hatch, Josiah
Allen, of Indiana, and others, after taking leave of Mr. Lincoln to
return to their respective homes, took Ward Lamon into a room, locked
the door, and proceeded in the most solemn and impressive manner to
instruct him as to his duties as the special guardian of Mr. Lincoln's
person during the rest of his journey to Washington. Lamon tells the
story as follows:

"The lesson was concluded by Uncle Jesse, as Mr. Dubois was commonly,
called, who said:

"'Now, Lamon, we have regarded you as the Tom Hyer of Illinois, with
Morrissey attachment. We intrust the sacred life of Mr. Lincoln to your
keeping; and if you don't protect it, never return to Illinois, for we
will murder you on sight."'

THOUGHT GOD WOULD HAVE TOLD HIM.

Professor Jonathan Baldwin Turner was one of the few men to whom
Mr. Lincoln confided his intention to issue the Proclamation of
Emancipation.

Mr. Lincoln told his Illinois friend of the visit of a delegation to
him who claimed to have a message from God that the War would not be
successful without the freeing of the negroes, to whom Mr. Lincoln
replied: "Is it not a little strange that He should tell this to you,
who have so little to do with it, and should not have told me, who has a
great deal to do with it?"

At the same time he informed Professor Turner he had his Proclamation in
his pocket.

LINCOLN AND A BIBLE HERO.

A writer who heard Mr. Lincoln's famous speech delivered in New York
after his nomination for President has left this record of the event:

"When Lincoln rose to speak, I was greatly disappointed. He was tall,
tall, oh, so tall, and so angular and awkward that I had for an instant
a feeling of pity for so ungainly a man. He began in a low tone of
voice, as if he were