Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

BITING SARcAsM.--At the close of o.
very able speech in Cong ress upon the
New Jersey contested election, Mr.. Cooper
OF Pennsylvania, made most palpable hit.
at the clustering pretensions TO argument
Vi 'he Loco focos on that question. His
remarks in relation to a speech of DR.. Dun
can were accompanied by peculiarly happy
Illustration.
And now, Mr.. Speaker, before resurnc,
my seat, permit me to say a word in relation,
not IN reply, 10 the speech of the gentleman
from ONO, (Mr Duncan.) When that
gentleman commenced his speech, some
iour or hive days since, he told the House,
in tone of triumph, that he would prove,
by the most indispatable testimony beyond
all peradveniure, that Messrs. Dcherson,
Broom, and their associates were duly
elected, and entitled to seats. From the
trumpet-tourish with whit ch he sat out. and
the manifold promises which he made. to-
prove to the satisfaction of every candid.
minded man that his friends were elected
and entitled to seats, was led TO expect
startling disciosures-alInost prepared to
see the claims of Mr.. Arcrigg and his coll
leagues entirely demolshedj but il was not
long until discovered that the thunder of
shls noddIng Jupiter was brutum .fukmen.---
out tils Is not the first instance in which
great promises have been followed by yerv
small results. The prototype of the gen,
lleman and his performances is to be found
IN the Landlord and his Supper, in Don
QuIXotte. Every body has read Don Quix-
otte, and every body will recollect how, in
Tie course Of the peregrinatons of the re-
nowned knight of Da Mqncha and his little
less renowned squire, Sancho Panza, they
arrived one night hungry, at an inn. When
su2per-time came, Sancho asked the land.
lord what he could give them for supper,
The host answered that he might cali for
Whatever he pleased; for the inn was pro-
Vided us Tar as birds OF the air, beasts Of
Tue earth ana fishes of the sea could no: |
can accommodate you as well as Won could
be accommodated in Sarogossa itself,
Ihere Is ITO need otqute so much, said San
enc; roast us but a couple of chickens, and
we shall have enough, for my master is of
NICE stomach, and am no glutton. The
host replied, he had no chickens, for the
Kites had devoured them. Then order
pullet to be roasted, seignor, host, .quotl1
oancho, but see that it be tender. A pullet?
ful.ets have none, answered the host:
sent about filty yesterday to the city to be-
sola; out, excepting pullets, ask for what
ever you viii. If it be so, quoth Sancho,
you can give US some veal or kid. There il
none IN the house at present, answered the
most, Tor II is al made an end of: but next
week there will be enough, and to snare,
We are not much the better for that nm
sWered Sancho: but will lay wager that
all these deficiencies will be made up with
superabundance Of bacon and eggs. NV
father! exclaimed the host, but nv guest
mas an admirable guess with him. | told him
had no hens, and he would have me have
eggs talk OF other delcacies, but no more
Of chickens and eggs. Body of me! let US
come TO something, master host, quoth San
enc; tell me, IN short, what you have, and
done with your Furnishings. We'll, then,
said the inr keeper, what really have is n
pair OF cold cow heelt. So 1t turned out
with the promise ofthe member from Ohio.
ne was " have furnished Us with indsputa,
Die proof--rreiragab demonstration that
Mr. DIckersen and his associates were emit,
LED seats; but, after all, we were treated
with the same cold mess, composed of the
,ertli1cate OF the Secretary of State and the
ouhdie OF ca PIrte atfidayits which he had
served up and set befo,e us some four or fiyc
weeks ago. Meagera as was the entertain
aent OF Sancho and lis master, supping OIL
he cow heels, twas better than the mess
II thrice picked bones, the certificates and
rPar3e atiidavits, read by the gentleman
IS proof of the election OF MIR. Dickerson
nd his associates.