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HARD SENsE.-There are not many members of the House of Representatives that have larger share of strono. sledge- hammer sense than that ''wild man of the woods" David Crockett. If he had been "eaught when young," he might have be- come an able statesman. Ne like his re- marks on the l4th inst. upon a clause of the army appropriation bill, giving to cer- tam surgeon $is00 for performing series oi experiments on tie stomach of a wound ed soldier tn illustration of the process of digestion.

 Mir. CROCKETT rose and said Gentle men objected to paying for experiments 1: but m these days, when we were trying ex- perments on the currency, why not try ex- perments on the seiencesl Though. to, his part, he thought 1t was hardly necessary to make appropriations al all, for this, or any thing else. He had been almost ready to % against as all appropriation bills. til he knew where the money was. If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about ii? It was mociSery-it was childish, to sit there and appropriate al all. If one man could take the money, and put it where the law had not placed 1t, how did the house know where it was! How could they tell but ii might be in his royal maiesly's pocket, or n the pocket of that imp of famine, his 4th Auditor. The money was not where the law put #, and who knew where it was ?-- He would vote for one experiment, but he should for certain vote against the other.''