NOT CORRECT.—The item which we gave a few weeks since on the authority of the Rural New Yorker, headed, "The Fourth of March—why selected," in which it was claimed that that day was chosen for the inauguration of the President of the United States, because it could not fall on a Sunday for three hundred years from the first inauguration, and which the New Yorker cited as showing the "great regard which the framers of our government had for the Sabbath," it appears is not correct, the following being the facts in the case:
Every day of every month falls on each day of the week four times in each successive cycle of twenty-eight years. At the second inauguration of Monroe in 1821, and that of Gen. Taylor in 1849, the fourth of March came on Sunday, and the inauguration had to be deferred to Monday.
It appears therefore that the framers of our government had not so "great a regard" for the "Sabbath" after all.