Therefore, when the cloth was removed, the General rose and said: "I know that we are only a party of friends, but I can not help indulging my feelings, and gratifying yours, by proposing the health of our distinguished, able, and high-minded representative, whose Congressional career proves that there is no office in the gift of a free and happy people to which he may not legitimately aspire.

I have the honor and pleasure to propose, with three times three, the Honorable B.
Jawley Ele." The Honorable Budlong Dinks led off in gravely pounding the table with his fork; and when the rattle of knives, and forks, and spoons, and glasses had subsided, and when Major Scuppernong, of North Carolina--who had dined very freely, and was not strictly following the order of events, but cried out in a loud voice in the midst of the applause, "Encore, encore! good for Belch!"-- had been reduced to silence, then the honorable gentleman who had been toasted rose, and expressed his opinion of the state of the country, to the general effect that General Jackson--Sir, and fellow-citizens--I mean my friends, and you, Mr.
Speaker--I beg pardon, General Belch, that General Jackson, gentlemen and ladies, that is to say, the relatives here present--I mean--yes--is one of the very greatest--I venture to say, and thrust it in the teeth and down the throat of calumny--_the_ greatest human being that now lives, or ever did live, or ever can live.
Mr.Ele sat down amidst a fury of applause.

Major Scuppernong, of North Carolina, and Captain Lamb, of Pennsylvania, turned simultaneously to the young gentleman who sat between them, and who had been introduced to them by General Belch as Mr.Newt, son of our old Tammany friend Boniface Newt, and said to him, with hysterical fervor, "By G--, Sir! that is one of the greatest men in this country.

He does honor, Sir, to the American name!" The gentlemen, without waiting for a reply, each seized a decanter and filled their glasses.

Abel smiled and bowed on each side of him, filled his own glass and lighted a cigar.
Of course, after General Belch had spoken and Mr.Ele had responded, it was necessary that every body else should be brought to a speech.