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Mr. Lewis charged Mr. Sartain witn iaving received a bribo. ín a jiffy, or, I more appropriately, .perhaps, in the winkling of a bedpost, Mr. Sartain was n tho war path, paint, feathers and all, i and before the words of Mr. Lewis had jrown fairly cold he cliuched that hon)rablo member by the throat, and lo ! in I a trice, he proceeded to fondle hini in hat peculiarly refreshing stylo of art cnown iu Ha iullest sense only to puglistic legislators and other members of ;ho prize-ring. What might have Men tho fate oí' Mr. Lewis is rather painful to contémplate. Anything less hhan beincr convorted into a gory, gled corps could not posaibly have been thought of, in connection with Lewis' prospecte, by tho terror-strioken legislators and lobbyist, who stood appalled at the sight. Luckily, however, a half dozen of theso frightened ones quickly found their lost faculties, and gantly auiblod toward the combatants, and Bnatohed Mr. Lowis trom bis íinpenaing aoom just rs he was in the act of receiving a sockdologer from the dexter raawloy of his assailant, who launched his fin through spaco with a fearful swoop and conoentrated vigor, that, had Mr. Lewis been there, ho would have been gathered to his fathers, beyond tho shadow of a doubt. ïhis striking ocourrence had the effect to so soatter the ideas of tho lively legislators that, despairing of gathering theui beforo the morrow, they straightway adjourned.