How Dix Beat The Constitution

Tho Buífalo Courier, in illustration of ie ingouuity with whicli Dix has always mnagcd to strike on bis t'uet, tells the ollowing : In 18(57 General Dix was appointed Lnifltex to Franco by President John.11 111 roturn fur services in his bciialf. Ve Senate aul tho President benig ut oggerheitds, that body had steadily il'useu to coufirui Exucutiveuppointments; ut General Dix overcauio that iliüicuity y assuring tho Senate that at heai't ho eally hatod JoIiiikoii as badly as ho iadioal-, bad that ha could be relied upu by thora. He was confirmed and went o l'ris. Fmiu the tirst day ho was oton.-ively obsuquious to the Eniperor. He was constant in his adulation ot' Louis ap luou and his tamily, and mado hisii elf so ugro eable that the Empiüor prueiuud him with a service of süvtr vaiui a at $7,000. Uufortanately tho Contitutiun óf thu Unit.-d Statjs declares tii;t " no persou hoidinsj; ny üiH.o of rolit or trust undur thu United fc tutes siiall, without tho consent ot' Conyrr ss, accept of any presont, einoiument, oiHco or tule ot any kind whatover, froiu auy ki"g, priiicc' or foroign state." The General was nul a man to lose such a present through any pnoB foolish conatitutlonal provisión, and aceordinely he inanaa;ed to have the presentatiuii postponed till aftor he was recalled, when, being no longer iu the services of the Umted iStates, üo acooptod the plate. And now when he dinos and irinea his hienda in New York, he exhibits tiiis gift with snobbish pride, and seuinsto thiuk that bis lirewdneaa iu ovorreacliing cho Conatitution and liis dishon esty in violating irs Wholesdme spirit are pruiaawcafliry instuad ot disrepuUtbie.