wards a member of Congress
from St. Louis; General James Shields, afterwards United States Senator
(who died recently); John Dement, who has since been Treasurer of the
State; Stephen A. Douglas, whose subsequent career is familiar to all;
Newton Cloud, President of the convention which framed the present State
Constitution of Illinois; John J. Hardin, who fell at Buena Vista; John
Moore, afterwards Lieutenant Governor of the State; William A. Richardson,
subsequently United States Senator, and William McMurtry, who has since
been Lieutenant Governor of the State.

This list does not embrace all who had then, or who have since been
distinguished, but it is large enough to show that Lincoln was, during the
term of this legislature, thrown into association, and often into
antagonism, with the brightest men of the new State.

A Joke on Lincoln's Big Feet.

He had walked his hundred miles to Vandalia; in 1836, as he did in 1834,
and when the session closed he walked home again. A gentleman in Menard
County remembers meeting him and a detachment of "The Long Nine" on their
way home. They were all mounted except Lincoln, who had thus far kept up
with them on foot.

If he had money he was hoarding it for more important purposes than that
of saving leg-weariness and leather. The weather was raw, and Lincoln's
clothing was none of the warmest.

Complaining of being cold to one of his companions, this irreverent member
of "The Long Nine" told his future President that it was no wonder he was
cold--"there was so much of him on the ground." None of the party
appreciated this homely joke at the expense of his feet (they were
doubtless able to bear it) more thoroughly than Lincoln himself.

We can imagine the cross-fires of wit and humor by which the way was
enlivened during this cold and tedious journey. The scene was certainly a
rude one, and seems more like a dream than a reality, when we remember
that it occurred not very many years ago, in a State which contains hardly
less than three millions of people and seven thousand and six hundred
miles of railway.

Lincoln's Marriage--Interesting Letters.

In 1842, in his thirty-third year, Mr. Lincoln married Miss Mary Todd, a
daughter of Hon. Robert S. Todd, of Lexington, Kentucky. The marriage took
place in Springfield, where the lady had for several years resided, on the
fourth of November of the year mentioned. It is proba