Tri-weekly journal. (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1847-188?, 1847-12-30

QUO oil. OOIH per quarter % oOS' OOIH
meal Is 45s Cd. American grain and pro-
duce is represented as being much depressed.
Ireland is in truly awful condition.
Italy is becoming tranquil.
Parliament is engaged on commercial and
financial affairs.
The Cholera is in Prussia.
The Royal Bank of Liverpool has resumed.
TAKING FRENCH LEAvE.'--We have all
heard of taking French leave and the most of
us are under the impression that II is a most
unceremonious mode of departing, vulgularly
called cutting out yamousing, mizziling, 'ab-
squatulating, &C., &C.; but the following card
from Mr.. B. B. French, late Clerk of the House
of Representatives, will give an entirely new
meaning to the phrase. 1t will invest the mode
ofdeparture, called French with dignity, .
deiberation anda ceremony, which ii has never
had before Listen to MIR. French:
A CARD.-The undersigned takes this me-
thod of expressing to the democratic party Of
the House of Representatives Of the United
States his warmest thanks for the unanimous
support which they gave him yesterday. when
a candidate for reelection to the clerkship
Toeach one of them, and to the Hon. J. @. A
damsand Mr. Levin, he feels that he owesa debt
of gratitude which he can never hope TO pay;
but as there isno actof bankruptcy for the relief
of an Insolvent heart, he assures them their
drafts will also be honored at sight.
For every individual member of the WING
party proper of the House; he entertains the
kindest feelingsand the highest personal regard
b. b. FRENCH.
EAST CAPITOL STREET, Dec. s, 1917.
This is no doubt extremely fine and very SEN
. timental, but as much as we admire, we, like
a great many folks, admire what we do not ex-
actly comprehend. We can understand Mr..
'B. b. Frenchs' 'warmest thanks to those
who voted for him for one of the 'warmest
Offices in the Government. This is all plain
enough. But what he means by the absence
Of Bankrupt Law for the relief of an insolv-
ent heart" and the assurance that the
drafts of Messrs. Adams & Levil will always
be honored at sight we confess passes our ken.
We are puzzled in two ways about this half
financial farewell. Has Mr.. B. b. French's'
'heart been rendered entirely 'insolvent by the
loss of his clerkship? Has he been made bank
rupt to all feelings of our nature. and only re-
fuses utterly to repudiate them, because there
is no law warranting the operation? If this IS
the Interpretation, we have only to say that II
Mr.. 'B, B. Trenches heart is in this awfully
destitute condition, it is more than his pocket
should be, for he has had very good opportu-
nifty to put money in his pockets. and the
of large French family. There is another
way in whichwe are puzzled about this vale
dictory. If NIB. b. French's heart is sin
solvent"-and as he saysSo we must believe
him-how can he honor Messrs. Adams &
Levin's drafts upon it? 1t appears to us that if
these gentlemen ever draw on Mr. French's
'heart,' the draft must be protested for nonpay-
ment. Mr.. Frenchs' 'heart,' to use Wall street
phrase, is entirely busted up and the sooner
he takes the insolvent's oath the better it will
be for him and for those who might be stupid
enough to credit him for having any assets of
the heart left.
The above is from the Petersburgh Intelli-
gencer, and is one of the neatest and best COM
men!aries upon "taking French leave" that has
been written for an age. MIR. French himself
must regard it as par crcclIence!l