A SLOW HORSE.

On one occasion when Mr. Lincoln was going to attend a political
convention one of his rivals, a liveryman, provided him with a slow
horse, hoping that he would not reach his destination in time. Mr.
Lincoln got there, however, and when he returned with the horse he said:
"You keep this horse for funerals, don't you?" "Oh, no," replied the
liveryman. "Well, I'm glad of that, for if you did you'd never get a
corpse to the grave in time for the resurrection."

DODGING "BROWSING PRESIDENTS."

General McClellan, after being put in command of the Army, resented any
"interference" by the President. Lincoln, in his anxiety to know
the details of the work in the army, went frequently to McClellan's
headquarters. That the President had a serious purpose in these visits
McClellan did not see.

"I enclose a card just received from 'A. Lincoln,'" he wrote to his wife
one day; "it shows too much deference to be seen outside."

In another letter to Mrs. McClellan he spoke of being "interrupted" by
the President and Secretary Seward, "who had nothing in particular to
say," and again of concealing himself "to dodge all enemies in shape of
'browsing' Presidents," etc.

"I am becoming daily more disgusted with this Administration--perfectly
sick of it," he wrote early in October; and a few days later, "I was
obliged to attend a meeting of the Cabinet at 8 P. M., and was bored and
annoyed. There are some of the greatest geese in the Cabinet I have ever
seen--enough to tax the patience of Job."

A GREENBACK LEGEND.

At a Cabinet meeting once, the advisability of putting a legend on
greenbacks similar to the In God We Trust legend on the silver coins was
discussed, and the President was asked what his view was. He replied:
"If you are going to put a legend on the greenback, I would suggest that
of Peter and Paul: 'Silver and gold we have not, but what we have we'll
give you.'"

GOD'S BEST GIFT TO MAN.

One of Mr. Lincoln's notable religious utterances was his reply to a
deputation of colored people at Baltimore who presented him a Bible. He
said:

"In regard to the great book, I have only to say it is the best gift
which God has ever given man. All the good from the Savior of the world
is communicated to us through this book. But for this book we could not
know right from wrong. All those things desirable to man are contained
in it."

SCALPING IN THE BLACK HAWK WAR.

When Lincoln w