and seventy-nine votes, and, consequently, he received the certificate of election. Thus were the Leaders, the Ring and the Boss vindicated by the people. Mr. Armor's friends were astonished at the result and indignantly denied the charges of fraud made against them. They claimed that their candidate had been elected by more than one thousand majority, and had been deliberately counted out. Steps were immediately taken to contest Mr. Mulhooly's seat. A Committee was appointed to canvass the District; a large fund was subscribed to defray the necessary expenses, and a number of eminent counsel were employed to prepare the proper petition and present the case at the opening of the next session of Congress. The Truth-teller from day to day published the details, which it claimed would establish the most wicked and stupendous scheme to over-ride the will of the people that had ever been perpetrated or attempted in the city. A number of election officers were arrested and held to bail, and one of them made an affidavit that he had been paid $150 by Blossom Brick, in the presence of Michael Mulhooly, to alter the returns so that they would show a gain of fifty votes for Mulhooly. It was announced that upon this affidavit a warrant would be issued for the arrest of both these gentlemen, but no such warrant was issued, on account of the sudden disappearance of the man who had made this affidavit. This singular conduct on his part gave color to the allegation of Blossom Brick that it was only a put-up job," and that the man had been paid by Armor's friends to make the affidavit and then "skip," so as to enable them to cover up their own frauds. As the session of Congress drew near, each party claimed to have secured overwhelming evidences of frauds committed by the other side. The contest, however, was never to be made, owing to the sudden death of Mr. Henry Armor, who, notwithstanding his peculiar political views, had won the regard and esteem of many of the best people in the community, by whom his loss was sincerely mourned. The night before Mr. Michael Mulhooly's departure to take his seat in the American Congress, the Michael Mulhooly Campaign Clubs tendered him a serenade, and made a street parade, marshalled by Hon. Hugh McCann, Piggy Degan and Pud. Muldoon, and carrying transparencies upon which were various striking and original mottoes. Two of these transparencies, borne side by side, were so peculiar and suggestive that this sketch of a distinguished representative of the system which will fill so important a page of the political history of the country cannot be more fittingly concluded than by reproducing their mottoes: MIKE BY THE GRACE OF A GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE. The Leaders, the Ring and the Boss, and Their thousands of dependents, had been truly SOLID FOR MULHOOLY. THE RETORT. OLD BIRCH, who taught the village school, And she as playful as a rabbit. And prim and formal as a Quaker. One day the tutor went abroad, And simple Katie sadly missed him; When he returned, behind her lord She shyly stole, and fondly kissed him. The husband's anger rose, and red And white his face alternate grew : "Less freedom, ma'am !" Kate sighed and said, "O, dear! I didn't know 't was you!" GEORGE P. MORRIS, 1802-1864. A NEW name for tight boots-corn cribs. LORD DUNDREARY. make certain.-I-I hate to make mistakes -I do-especially about a thimple matter like this. Oh, here we are- -B. Basilica. [This most interesting and amusing personage,-the No it-that can't be the word you knowembodiment of elegant, aristocratic inanity-was first George was king, and if—if Basilica means introduced to the public as a subordinate character in a royal palace-they-they might have the drama of the "American Cousin." In the hands been-welations-but that's all-no it isn't of Sothern, who considerably elaborated it, the charac-Basilica-it-it's-Basilisk-yes, I've got ter soon became celebrated, and is regarded as the it now-it's Bathilithk.-That's what His greatest professional success of that distinguished actor. Majesty was-a Bathilithk and fascinated Dundreary has secured a permanent place in literature, fair cweachaws with his eye. Let me seeas a perfect type of a character that still exists and is where was I?-Oh I reckomember-or not likely soon to become extinct.] weckolect-which is it? Never mind, I LORD DUNDREARY'S LETTER TO THE wanted to tell you of one successful advenwas saying that I was a ladies' man. EDITOR. DEAR MR. EDITOR: "Any fellah feelth nervouth when he knowth he 'th going to make an ath of himthelf." I chaw I had at least when I say successful, I mean it would have been, as far as I was concerned-but of course when two people are engaged-or wather-when one of 'em wants to be engaged, one fellah by himself can't engage that he'll engage affections that are otherwise engaged. By the way, what a lot of 'gages that was in one thentence, and yet-it seems quite fruitlessCome, that's pwetty smart, that is, for me. girl staying there too. I don't mean too girls you know-only-only one_girl-But stop a minute-Is that right? How could one girl be stopping there two-What doosid queer expwessions there are in the English language Stopping there That's vewy twue-I said so the other night you know-and I-I've often thed tho before. But the fact is-evewy fellah dothn't make an ath of himself, at least not quite such an ath as I've done in my time. I don't mind telling you, Mr. Edi- Well, as I was saying-I mean as I tor, but pon my word now-I-I've made meant to have said-when I was stopping an awful ath of mythelf on thome occathuns. down at Wockingham with the Widleys, -You don't believe it now-do you? I last autumn, there was a mons'ous jolly thought you wouldn't-but I have nowweally. Particularly with wegard to women. -To say the twuth that is my weakneth.I'spose I'm what they call a ladies' man. The pwetty cweachaws like me-I know they do though they pwetend not to do so. It-it's the way with some fellahs-There was hith late Majesty George the Fourth-I never thaw him mythelf you know, but I've heard he had a sort of way with him that-that no woman could wesist. They used to call him a cam-what is it? A camelia-no camel leopard, no-chamelion isn't it? that attracts people with its eyes-no, by the way that-that's the bwute that changes colorit couldn't have been that you know,-Georgius Wex-never changed color-he-he'd got beyond blushing, he had-he only blushed once-early-vewy early in life, and then it was by mistake-no, cam-chameleon's not the word-What the dooth is it? Oh stop-it begins with a B. By the way it's 'stonishing how many words begin with a B. Oh, an awful lot. No-no wonder Dr. Watts talked about the-the busy B. Why, he's more work than all the west of the Alphabet-However the word begins with a B, and it's Bas-Basilose-yes that's it-stop, I'd better look it out in the Dictionary to two-! It's vewy odd I-I'll swear there was |