The National Republican And Ohio Political Register

A correspondent of the London European Magazine, who furnishes an account of the principal American painters, concludes with this story:

"I will give you a pleasant anecdote of Sully. A husband wishing to surprise a beloved wife on her birth day, came to Sully and got him to paint his portrait 'on the sly.' It was begun forthwith, and Sully was to have it carried home and put up while the wife was out. But before it was half done the wife paid him a visit by stealth. 'Pray, Mr. Sully,' said she, 'could you not contrive, think you, to make a portrait of me by such a day.- (Sully started,) for that is my birth day, and I should like of all things to surprise my husband.' 'Why.a-a,' said Sully, seeing that she had no idea of the trick; 'I do believe that I could: and if you will manage to draw your husband away the night before, I will have the picture hung up for you, and all ready to receive you in the morning.' 'Delightful!' said she. To work he went therefore, and so closely was he run, that once or twice he had to let the husband out of one door on tip-toe. Well the portraits were finished: they were very like. The night before the birth day arrived, and Sully finding both parties away, each being decoyed away by the other, hung them up, (the pictures, not the parties,) in their superb frames, just where they required to be hung. The rest of the story we may as well skip, for who shall describe the surprise of both, when the wife got up early, and the husband got up early, both keeping their countenances to a miracle, and each feigning an excuse to lead the other into the room, where the portraits hung side by side!"