The Evansville Daily Journal

The Deposition of Sam. Houston.

The fact that, as Gen. Houston refused to take the oath of allegiance prescribed by the Convention of Texas, he was deposed. and entered a protest, is already known to the public. The scene of his final retirement from the Governor's office is thus told by an unfriendly hand in the New Orleans Delta :

By and by, the deposed Governor came hobbling to his office-old Sam's San Jacinto wound having broken out afresh, as it always does on occasions of political trial. Perceiving Governor Clark occupying the chair, old Sam addressed him:

"Governor Clark," giving great emphasis

"Yes, General," replied the Governor, with a great stress upon the military title of his predecessor, " I am illustrating the old maxim, the early bird gathers the worm."

" Well, Governor Clark, I hope you will find it an easier seat than' I have found it."

" I'll endeavor to make it so, General, by conforming to the clearly expressed will of the people of Texas.'

The General, having brought a large lunch basket with him, proceeded to put up numerous little articles of private property, and to stow them away very carefully. Catching his foot in a hole in the carpet and stumbling, the General suggested to Governor Clark that the Government ought to afford a new carpet for the Governor's office, whereupon the Governor remarked that the Executive of Texas would get along very well without a carpet.

Approaching the washstand, the General called the attention of Gov. Clark to two pieces of soap-one, the Castile soap, was his own private property, and the other, a perfumed article, was the property of the State, and added, "Governor, your hands will require the very frequent use of this cleansing article;" whereupon, Gov. Clark, pointing to the washbowl, which was full of very black and dirty water, remarked:

" General, I suppose this is the bowl in which you washed your hands before leaving the office.'

Having gathered up all his duds, old Sam made a little farewell speech, very