GENERAL JACKSON AND THE CLERGYMAN
A preacher in the western country, says a writer in the Illinois Gazette, applied to General Jackson for an office of some character. At the time he applied, the General did not know the applicant was a preacher, and he very politely observed to him that he would think of his claims and weigh them. The preacher saw the General a few days after, and renewed his application. The General in the meantime got information that he was a preacher of the gospel. The General asked him if he was not a preacher of the gospel; he answered he was. "Well," said the General, "if you discharge the duties of that office, which is better than any I can confer, you will have no time to discharge the duties of any that I can give; you will, therefore, excuse me for advising you to return home, and attend to that, without being burdened with any other, that you may be enabled to account hereafter for your stewardship in this world."