JUDGE PETERS.

ON his entrance into Philadelphia, General Lafayette was accompanied in

the barouche by the venerable Judge Peters. The dust was somewhat

troublesome, and from his advanced age, &c., the General felt and

expressed some solicitude lest his companion should experience

inconvenience from it. To which he replied: General you do not recollect

that I am a JUDGE--I do not regard the DUST, I am accustomed to it. The

lawyers throw dust in my eyes almost every day in the court-house."

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