Through the Hon. Tom Henderson, of Princeton, late member of Congress, comes the following story, which is another illustration of Lincoln's fertility of resources: It seems that during the Douglas debates, in 1858, Mr. Henderson was conveying Lincoln from Princeton to a neighboring town, where the latter wad advertised to speak. As they proceeded on their journey the future President observed that he had been through that section of the country some years before, when he was in command of a company of troops during the Black Hawk War. While his troops were tramping northward, he said, to the seat of war, they encountered a fence which lay directly across their line of march. As they approached it Captain Lincoln who was more versed in civil law than in military tactics, was rapidly considering how he should get himself and his boys over the fence in regulation style. At last, being unable to recall the proper military order to accomplish the movement, he shouted, "Boys, break ranks. You are dismissed, to meet on the other side of the fence, in five minutes - there to form in order of company" The boys did so, and the obstacle was passed, although with perhaps the same loss of military dignity as accompanied Lincoln's recital of the circumstance.