That aHour CHASE,
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It was Gen. Dockery, we believe, who repre-.
sented in Congress, under the law of ls42, that


District which the Representative from Herifora,
with briliuncy of wit never to be forgotten,
likened in his Speech in the Commons 10 an hour
glass; and being like an hour, glass, the gentle
man from Hertford proceeded from compa, isons
to conclusions, and declared that il seemed to him
that "the sands of Democracy were running out"


We well remember the electrical effect which
this piece of wit had upon the House, and the re-
mark made at the time in eur own private eur,
for our own private satisfaction and delight to wit
that the Wings, with all their faults, still had
Sheridan among them; but 1t did not strike US at
the time that the new law in regard to the same
District had taoo purposes to it, and that, as
under the first law the "sands of Democracy"
ran out at end, SO under the last law Col. Bar
ringers sands " we're to "run" IN at one end
Of this remarkable hour glass, and chase Gen.
Dockery's "sands " in H firm - streak out at the
other end. Would it not have been BITTER to have
laid rnLe" by way of partition about the centre
of the hour glass, and then TO have asked Col.
Barringer not to move for '' suspension" of that
" rule ~ This might have saved many Gre
grets but we leave the answer to the Puffinaster.