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MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.
Pnmping the Human Stomach.—The in-
stniment for pumping poisonous substances
from the stomach was used last week,,
understand, by the physicians of thw tpWp
with the most complete succes9.-3-|t was'
employed on a gentleman who had swallow
ed a prodigious/dose of muriate of mercury
or corrosive sublimate and laudanum, and
that too, four hours after the poison had been
swallowed, and aftqr hehad been in a siateof
convulsions and total insensibility for at
least two hours. lie was in a deep state of
insensibility when the tube was introduced
into the stomach. A pint and a half of lime
water (the antidote to the poison) was first
injected, aud it was pleasing to witness the
immediate good effects. It was suffered to re
main a few minutes; and even before it was
withdrawn from the stomach the convulsions
had ceased and the patient articulated several
words as distinctly a3 the apparatus in the
mouth would permit, and rationally. Thelime
water injected was as limped and as pure as
lime water always is ; but when it was pum-
pgd out, it had assumed the orange colour
testing the presence of the muriate of mer-
otn*y. This test, however, was unnecessa
ry, as a quantity of the poison that had not
been swallowed oroved the nature of it. We
are happy to state that the patient has recov
ered from the effects of this dose.
We the more readily publish this case be
cause we are rather inclined to believe that
this may have been the first instance in
which the instrument has been employed in
[this slate. And as we understand that the
deration is so easy both to the operator and
£c patient, we cannot but think it should
^videty extended, . Melancholy instances
Ijsonmcr arc but too frequent. The nc-
poison is often so speedy, and the
Iry of having swallowed them is fre-
" so late as totally to preclude all re
bellowing remedies, in consequence
feasibility of the patient. This op-
1 then the only resource left; and it
ttory to know that it is so very prac-
so efficacious.—Columbia Tel.
the cock to all a] jpcarance having th
cided advantage over his more wiley th
less nervous adversary, dealing his bli
quick succession employing alternate
bill and spurs with,true pugilistic ski
science. But the c
aware that victory must
was by fair combat, brought into requ
tion of the innate cunning for whic!
reptile has been celebrated from the beginning
of the world to the present time ; and seizing
his antagonist by the thigh, in the rear, he
completely secured himself from any further
danger from him.—Thus situated the cock
very naturally thought his only “ safety was
in flight,” he accordingly cleaved the air
majestically with his wing, the snake keep
ing fast his hold, and dangling like a tag
lock underneath, until the cock over
come with fatigue, alighted on a neighbour
ing apple tree. The snake immediately
coiled his tail round a branch of the tree—
the cock again attempted flight, but he could
scarcely clear the limb, from which he hung
with his head downwards, making every
effort to escape, but all in vain, until the
farmer came to his assistance—killed the
snake and set him at liberty.—Schoharie
{N. F.) Republican.
jB
kpressure or
re. as shown by the
•wfcins and air pumps,
lon'every square.inch, so tha
[ntirely squeeze tartthe air be-
fcwo hands they would cling to-
a force equal to the pressure of
weight, because the air would
both bands ; and if we could
squeeze or suck *out the air be-
wall, the h
Athens, Aug, 2&, 1827,
Forsyth and Talbot.—The fruitless eflorts which
have been made, and are making by the partisans of
Capt. Talbot to enlist again the angry passions of
the last contest—the concurring testimony of those
who have examined the tone of party feeling, and
the apathy attending bis announcement in the west,
augurs well in favour of a majority of tea instead of
jive thousand, as first estimated by the friends tf Mr.
Forsyth. Were we left to jt
sue of the pr “ '" ' “
of editorial i
of the triurapl]
SO that ifj irretrievable da
facts, howevejy
with;
Mi
the
ties are also
vour of
the
rnance
toJ which bos been said
ijfc " i **\either in folly or
, northern coun-
T9, nearly fifteen pounds on ev-
inch ofttie hand. By a late most
iscovery of Sir Everard Home, it is
it this is the very process by which
/and other insec ts of a similar descrip-
1, are enabled to walk up perpendicular
irfaccs, however smooth, as ~tfrcf sides of
Avails and panes of glass in windows, and to
> walk as easily along the ceiling of a room
with their bodies downwards and their feet
over head. Their feet when examined by a
- microscope, are found to have flat skins or
flaps, like the feet of web-footed animals, as
duqks and geese; and they have, toward
the back part or heels, but inside the skin
hr flap, two very small toes so connected
with the flap as to draw it close down upon
the glass or wall'the fly walks on, and to
squeeze out the air completely, so that there
is a vacuum made between the foot and the
glass or wall. The consequence is, that
the air presses the foot on the wall with a
force greater than the weight of the fly which
is thus retained in its position. It has like
wise been found that some of the larger sea
animals are, by the same construction, ena
bled to climb the perpendicular and smooth
surfaced of the ice hills among which thev
live. Some kinds of lizards have the pow
er of climbing, and creeping with their bo
dies downwards, along the ceiling of a room
In the large feet of these animals, the con
trivance is easily observed of the two toes
or fighters, by which the skin of the foot is
'pinned down, and the air excluded in the
act of walking or climbing; but it is the ve
ry same, only upon a larger scale, with the
mechanism of a fly’s or a butterfly’s foot
and both operations, the climbing of the sea
horse on the ice, and the creeping of the fly
on the window or the ceiling, are performed
by the same power, the weight of the atmos
phere.
Intelligence o f a Wasp.—Dr. Darwin, in
his Zoonomia, relates an anecdote of appa
rent ratiocination in a wasp, which had
caught a fly nearly as large as itself.—
Kneeling down, the Doctor saw the wasp
dissever the head and tail from the trunk of
the fly, and attempt to soar with the latter
but finding when about two feet from the
ground, that the wings of the fly carried too
much sail, and caused its prize and itself to
be whirled about by the breeze that had
arisen, it dropped on the ground with his
prey, and deliberately sawed off with bis
mandibles, first one wing and then the other;
having thus removed these impediments to
its progress, the wasp flew away with his
booty, and experienced no further molesta
tion from the wind.
ajj.having combined in fa-
ig with the invincibility of
phalanx the first of October, on which
they" will prove their political courage by uniting
bis support, while expecting with fearful appre
hension a result which it is known will be. inevitable.
In addition to a simultaneous burst of enthusiasm, as
vinced in different quarters by certain electioneer-
ig efforts, Col. Tatnall is charged with having com
bined his influence with the party against which he
opposed in feeling, principle, and policy, in aid of the
election ofCapt.Talbot: we should blush, were this the
case, for his opostacy from those principles,in the sup-’
port of which, talent and fearless intrepidity hayebeen
displayed, & wish the mantle of oblivion thrown over
bis character, while it rested under a twofold impu
tation of dereliction from duty, and a base abandon
ment of friends: hut of Col. T. better things are ex
pected : the motive which has led to this association,
while it is understood,; will also be regarded.
among the politiea| .machinations enforced by n<
rity on those who thus endeavour to supgc
waning glory of an expiring cause. ^
Comparisons between the indivi
the public will soon bestow Its
dy been instituted, their qua)
their claims weighed, their political Integrity $k*u-
inized, while the result of the pubjip verdiet
A few days since a farmer in the town
of Jefferson, hearing loud talking and angry
words, bandied about among liiis dung hi!
fowls, bent his course towards the scene of
cackling and confusion. Arrived in the vi
cinity of the disturbance, he observed his
dung-hill cock,
in enjoyment of
a great pugilist, and
his physical strength
mbat with a striped
20 inches in length
si pro v: me.it, among others,
..dVi-ionarv, without prac-
cy to a full cicvelopcment of
aergics of a people,
tations at this time, which
lu e, or restricted by a
ihial or local advantages may impose!
^•/jfterprise,, there are many
c the growing interest of the public in
things cpnected with the general improvement of
the statdas essential to its rise and ultimate dis
tinction i the scale of weajtn and influence. As
the claimjof expedience and policy have heretofore,
however till established, borne but a proportionable
weight wih those arising from necessity, in control
ling the miasures of government arid people, we are
among thdhwnbcr whose hopes pf such enterprises
are founild on a conviction that the apathy and in
difference Sow prevailing, will yet bend to necessity,
while combined and sinmltaricous efforts are made
which willjeventuatc in the accomplishment of some
object important to the future destiny ef Georgia.
The former Anguishing condition of Savannah, may
be traced to the absence of a due regard for the in
terests of the state: her produce has enriched other
marts; her capital hasbeen iiiyesteil in other places;
capitalists have been wrecked; confidence destroy
ed. We would now look for a restoration of her
prosperity in the energy, perseverance, and enter
prise of her citizens, who have long slumbered over
her decline, and regard the spirit for improvement
which has been {.wakened among them, the begin'
ning of a new era in the history of her commercial
arrangements.—An article from the “ Georgian,”
copied into this dayspaper,. detailing a plan of com
munication between Fort Gaines and that city,
strikes us with mucli force as to its utility and prac
ticability. By its execution a considerable portion
of the trade of the GMf of Mexico might be engrossed
and concentrated in Savannah, without encounter
ing the danger attending the navigation around the
coast of Florida, the loss by which is annually very
great. We confess ourselves among the advocates
of such suggestions, however fruitless they may in
the end prove; if not practically useful, they at least
develope the views of others, and the practicability
of the result, without which the attention of the pub
lic can never be brought to operate effectually upon
any point.—A Depot at Nichols’s Fort, or the juno
tion of the Flint and Chattahoochie rivers, (to which
place vessels of an ordinary size ascend,) for trade
thence to Savannah .by the contemplated improvc-
i and speedy communica-
between New Orleans
it a part of the trade
, and an increase of
ent direction to that
se .seek an outlet through the
However fatile such a scheme may at first
appear, its practicability must be admitted by those
at all conversant with the success which has attend'
similar enterprises in other sections. The topogra
phy of the country through which it would pass, as
well as die material, with which it abounds, are, we
believe, well adapted to the purpose: while the pro
fits arising from such an-investment of capital, would
enlist the eager attention of capitalists abroad, (if
such could notjjjej found at borne,) to whom money
is a burden when it fails, as at this time, to yield the
legal interest"©wing to its great abundance.
the latter gentleman will receive in the eas
tern District a large majority .over his oppp-
nent, the assertion of the ** -respectable cor
respondent” to the contrary notwithstanding.
If the friends of My. Talbot are as much de
ceived in his prospects westwardjy/ka they
are in the east, he will he beaten thtough-
out the State by an overw helming vote. So
much for “ Talbot in the East.”—Sao. Rep.
A “ Sign” in New Yorl;.—The N. Y.
Enquirer of the 4th, informs us that “ The
Republican General Committee, has by a
vote of IS to 8, ordered that their official
notices should no longer he published in the
National Advocate.” We have noticed the
devious course of that print for some time. It
ould not commit itself; it has now and
then, urged truths and real objections to
Adams, Clay and Jackson : but kept aloof;
always full of ambiguities. At length, Mr.
Otis came to New York, and set to work, as
We have seen it hinted ; and the Advocate
and other papers in the interior (where they
vent) threw off all disguise, and suddenly
became the very pinks of chivalry in sup
port of the administration. The Chairman
and Secretary refusing to publish their noti
ces in the Advocate, it was made a question
inthe Tammany meeting, at the instance of
the discarded Editor. The question of his
seceding from the Republican party, and
going over to the administration and oppos
ing Jackson, was warmly discussed. The
victory was complete. The influential
members of the committee all voting with
the 18, among them the late mayor of the
city.
The concert with which the Republicans i n g round the point otVFlorida.
act in New York, and the influence of nom- 1
inations there must have been often remark
ed by every one. This decision will there
fore be felt by the adminif Nation, and is the
most inauspicious “ Sign” for them we have
seen from that quarter. The Courier says
the event has astounded the Adams men,
and that, without overrating, Jackson’s
strength in the state, may be counted at not.
less than 24 votes.
It will be seen by the following extract of a letter
from the American Consul, at Rotterdam, to Gov.
Troup, that the services of Germans of honesty, so
briety and industry,^ can be had on good termsfor
any purposes of agriculture, manufactures, or internal
improvement. Men of capital might make them
useful and profitable in either of those departments
ef industry in
their man
fell- free
cidedly in favour of the individual who
mination to the people, who long since dctcr-
riined that he should role over them. Of Capt. Tal
bot, of whom much might be said, we are proud to
peak: we revere his character; but though unsul-
i.-d with suspicion, and unstained by accusation,
still his claims come in questionable shape—unsup
ported by those distinguished services and that
splendor of'talent which has marked the political
career of Mr. F.: he appears before the public the
andidate of necessity, as unexpected as be was un-
alled.—What may be the result of the unexampled
measures which his friends “ in Milledgeville, Clin
ton, Macon, Forsyth, Zebulon, Thomaston, at the
Falls of the Chattahoochie, in M’Donough, at the
Social Circle, in Monticello, and Washington,” are
about to use, must be left for time to determine.
Barbacues may relieve their physical wants: but the
regeneration of a political efficiency to answer ttie
coming emergency can only be effected by a different
appeal. Should these combined efforts succeed, the
result will form a. new era in electioneering history,
at least in Georgia, arid: will, we venture to assert,
be nomenclatured as the first Instance of roast pigs
forming a “safe precedent” or a step-stone to the
Executive chair. The complete triumph which
is said to await Capt. T. in the west, must, if the
signs of the times can be relied on, disappoint the
expectations of his friends, unless a general support
of the cause of Mr. F. can constitute a triumph. The
event is awaited with the confidence which certainty
of success usually begets; and the warm and unde
viating adherents of Mr. Forsyth will, on that day,
publicly denounce the falsity of statements that un-
blushingly assert in the face of truth that the tri
umph of Talbot in tlj® west will be complete. Eve
ry breeze brings tidings of a contrary nature, and if
reports arc entitled to credit, some of the strong
holds of Federalism have been broken up, and many
veterans of the cause, since the last straggle, have
thrown off their allegiance and enlisted under the
banner of Forsyth and Republicanism. Even while
we write, intelligence reaches us that confidential
letters have been received by a leading member of
the Federal party in an adjoining county, urging the
necessity and importance of secret meetings in fa
vour of Capt Talbot.—What a triumph! 1!—Barba-
cues and secret vistructions speak a doubtful language!
tnt sections of our country, arid
nd character qualifying them
“ ey and their posterity would
of our community, as they
■* erStatesoftheUnion.—
an States Consulate,
, 2Irf April, 1827.
Id regain? your Excel-'
g therewith copies of
ble gentleman'
sobriety
the subject to your
xtf Wirtemburg, and expres-
cs§,raging amongst ils sub,
> maintain tranquillity, and ?
the government, passports '
them for their emigration to
‘ led they make kuown their
respective district s. And
sections of each mile drawn, and, generally
speaking, there will not be a planter near
the road that will not engage to do the la-
hour with his own people, and possibly take
the stock of the company in payment. It
will ohly be necessary to let the people see
what they haveffo effect, and this the work
ing sections will do; and, if the surface of
the territory be as even as I take it to be,
the execution of every mile of this valuable
work would be withinlthe reach of every in
telligent farmer in tfcq state.
Ten able bodied negro labourers to each
mile would be 2500. The negro popula
tion of Georgia is 160,000, and nearly
40,000 between the ages of 18 and 45 : so
that surely there would bo no difficulty in
hiring the 2500 labourers, if, on opening the
subscriptions, (the plan of the Baltimore
subscription to be observed, not to permit
more than a certain number of shares to be
subscribed for by one individual in the
first instance,) there should not be enough
of contractors in the character of stock
holders.
Twenty-five hundred negroes oould be
hired for §100 per annum, or $250,000.
If ten negroos could, in six months, do one
mile, or 16,000 feet,* it would be 2666 feet
in one month, or for each negro 266 i. e.
90 yards, or not 11 feet a day; so that
whatever might be the surface, it is evident
the labour of 2500 negroes would effect this
object in one year; but I cannot avoid
thinking I might say six months.
RENNIE.
P. S.—There wer§ $ 700,000 lost by the
Insurance Offices, in ^25, on vessels pass-
This is a
great point tohe cori|ldered. Another is
the making ^eorgiaftlie great channel of
conveyance froiih N. Orleans to the Atlantic.
[* Wc copy as we find it in the paper from which
is taken, though wc do not precisely understand
the calculations; very likely there is a misprint iia
these two places.—5280 feet are a mile.]
From the Savannah Gcoreian.
RAIL ROAD TO FORT GAINES.
Sir,—Concerned as you arc in the pros
perity of Savannah,.you will, 1 trust, excuse
the liberty I take in addressing you on a
subject peculiarly interesting to its welfare
It has been ascertained that there is an uni
form steamboat navigation to Fort Gaines,
and at times to "Fort Mitchell. The Steu
benville steamer arrived at Fort Gaines in
four days from Mobile. The river was in
a low stage (28th June, 1S27.)
The Ogeechie Canal of 16J miles leagth has already
cost $ 77,449 21
That yet to be executed will amount to 64,392 65
Extraordinaries,
S 141,841 86
18,158 14
$ 10,000 per mile,
A Railway along the route, calculating
in despite of the superior abundance
and cheapness of pitch pine in Geor
gia, that it doubles the Mauch Chunk
Road in amount, would be $ 3,000
per mile, or,
$ 160,000 00
48,000 00
Leaving the difference of $ 112,000 00
Being $ 138,000* less than would make
Rail Road of 250 miles to Fort Gaines
from Savannah.
What, Sir, is the distance between Sa
vannah and Fort Gaines? On a straight
line it is 250 miles. I am not aware of the
character of the country through which it
would have to pass; but, I apprehend, it is
such a surface as not to offer any serious
impediment. But this I shall assume as
correct.
The passage of the Steubenville steamer
proves that the Gulpli of Mexico is open to
Savannah, and there is no one good reason
„ . lency’8 notice and further ,*vhy the already increasing prosperity of
support, inasmuch as those who wish to go to Geor- Savannah should not be still further aug-
gia, will ultimately become settlers and an acquisi- . ,, . ... - , - ,
♦innfnniirstaf p.—Manv of them. un(ortnnnt*»iv h»v<» iBenteo by the establisnment of it depot at
Fort.-Gaines, and the laying down a rail
In again drawing the attention of our readers to a
subject to which we have before adverted, we are
aware of the force of prejudice which is arrayed
against, and of the indifference with which any mea
sure of this nature is regarded, the piacticability of
not been demonstrated by positive experi-
iv: . 1 ‘ :
tion to our state.—Many of them, unfortunately, have
not the means of paying their passage over to the U.
States. To any who would advance these, they
would engage their services and time, say for two
years. The expences of the Germans bound from
this for any port in the United States, are estimated
at about $40 per person, including their sea-stores.
This amount waB paid for all those, shipped last year
for Baltimore.
I have the honour to remain your Excellency’s
most respectful and obedient servant,
E.WAMBERSEE.
Talbot ih the East.—We
from a very respectable so
an opinion, upon what it
good authority, that Mr. Tatti
and consistent supporter of
will lend his influence in aid or
election. Our correspondent
large majorities in the lower c
almost a unanimous one in Chai
triot <£ Statesman.
It is by such articles as the above,
many of the yeomanry of this
astray. The name of Tatnall
lugged in to support a sinking cause. '
Now, the fact is, Col. Tatnall has not
been within 1000 miles of Georgia for the
last six months, and we hazard the
tion, that he is perfectly ignorant, that
thew Talbot, Esq. is a candidate fo:
Gubernatorial Chair of this state.®
then, could the * respectable correspond
communicate such information? It
been done without authority, and the views
and feelings of , an honorable, high minded
man grossly misrepresented. Col. T. is
too consistent, too pure to suffer private
feeling to sway him from the path of correct
principles. He is no changeling, no politi
cal cockatrice, but a straight forward dis
interested patriot. We believe that if Co
lonel Tatnell is at the polls in October next,
he will put in his vote for John Forsyth.
The story of Mr. Talbot’s getting “ an al
most unanimous vote in Chatham” is all
stuff—Forsyth will distance him a lorw^way.
We speak advisedly when wc say thNt that
road
rail
nativi
wouli
thence to Savannah. A wooden
uld be cheaply furnished by the
wth of the forest, the. pine. I
but a temporary one, I grant.
but it affords the funds and the means for
mg another by its tolls, and its cheap
eyance of any material necessary to
_ ermanent road. For I should recom
end, on the laying out the road, that room
be left for the site of that which was to be
constructed on durable principles.
Hence, this road of 250 miles would be
constructed for $750,000; and would, in
the very first year, convey 200,000 bales of
cotton to Savannah. These 200,000 hales
would certainly pay $ 1 per bale, or § 200,-
000; thus yielding an interest of 33 per
cent on the expenditure of a capital
$ 750,000, or a little more than fou’- times
that expended in sixteen miles of canal—
the one 16, the other 250 miles : the one
benefiting the trade of a few districts in
Georgia, the other bringing to Savannah the
Atm
)
trade of the Gulph of Mexico.
How is it to be effected ? I reply, by the
negro labour of Georgia herself, aided by
' state and if the citizens did not take
he stock, by the Insurance Companies
Manufacturing associations in the north,
s to the first, no premium will pay them
b immense risk to vessels going round the
point of Florida. As to the second, the ser
vice they would derive from hastening the
fine N. Orleans cotton to market in the fa!,
would at once enlist their feelings, and lead
them to produce their capital for the under
taking.
But, in order to keep as much as possible
of the capital to be expended in the state, I
should hope the Legislature qf Georgia
would subscribe one or two fifths in cash
The other four or three fifths might be con
tribuled partly in labour, and partly in cash
Let the company formed for the purpose
have the surveys made, the w orking
IMPORTANT TO COTTON PLANTERS.
Extract of a letter from an intelligent gen
tleman now travelling in New England.—
“ In Connecticut, and in Providence, and
its neighbourhood, I made enquiries respect
ing the manufacture of cotton-bagging out
of cotton. I had many conversations with
owners, agents and superintendants of small
and large works. My inquiries were, what
would be the actual cost of bagging 42 in
ches wide, weighing 1 1-2 lb. per yard, and
at what price they would make it, the stock
or material being found ? I showed them the
coarsest sample 1 had manufactured out of
cotton by Mr. Allen, of Nashville, Tennes
see.
The following is the result: One of my
informants estimated the actual cost for la
bor at 2 1-2 cents ; all other expenses 2 1-2
cents ; at 20 cents he would turn out any
quantity. He supposed that one woman
could weave 160 yards per clay on a power
loom. Another said it could be made ; for
15 orlS cents, and that one woman can
weave 80 or 100 yards. Another cost‘6
cents, sold at 17 cents. Another could de
liver the cloth at 5 cts. and could r&kd 50
yards on each power loom. Another says
8 cents and 50 yards per day. Another 3
or 400 per week for 4 or 5 cts. Another for
4 or 5 cents. It was a new article to them,
and it was with difficulty that I could get
some of them to express an opinion as to
its cost and what they would make it for,
as many of them are in the fine goods line,
and did not wish to change their machinery
for small considerations. Indeed some of
them were at a loss what changes would be
requisite. However, from what I saw and
heard, I think one of their machines could
be used with little or no alteration for the
warp. For the filling there might be no
difficulty. Sheeting 27 inches wide sells
for 13 to 14 cents. One pound will make
3 yards. Waste, 10 to 14 per cent. Shee- *
ting costs 1 1-2 to 2 cents per yard for wea
ving.”—Nashville Banner.
American Ingenuity.—Mr. Perkins has
been engaged by the French Government
to build steam artillery. A piece of ordin
ance is to throw 60 balls, of 4 pounds each,
in a minute, w ith the correctness of a rifle
musket. A musket is to be attached to the
steam generator, for discharging a stream of
lead from the bastion of a fort; it is to throw
from one hundred to a thousand bullets in
a minute, as occasion may require. A sc
ries of satisfactory experiments has taken
place at Greenwich, attended by French en
gineers, appointed for the purpose by the
Duke d’Angouleme, with one of his aids,
and Prince Polignac, Lord Wellington re
marked, that a country defended by this
kind of artillery, would never be invaded.
Lord Exmouth, after witnessing a few show
ers of lead, said he believed the time would
come, when a steam gun boat, with two guns
in her bow, would conquer any line of bat
tle-ship ; and Sir G. Cockbum said, the
mischief of it was, it would be to nations
what the pistol was to duellists-rit would
bring strong and weak on a level.—-London
Paper. '
Gen. Lafayette was, on the 23d June,
elected a Deputy of the Department of Seine
and Marne. He was opposed by Tronchon.
The votes s wer4 for Lafayette, 280—M.
Trouchon, 1%—majority, 141. This tri
umph of public opinion had , caused much
rejoicing ampngst the liberals. The-Minis
try had given out, that in the event of Gen.
Lafayette’s being returned, the Censorship
of the Press would be re-established, and
the very day after, the Ordonnance of the
King appeared, re-establishing that odious
system.
The election' of Gen. Lafayette to the
Chamber of Deputies is no ordinary event.