Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-01-23

the product of his teeming muse:
1.-THE paper-mills is Dustin up
The German Dutch and the irish Grekes
Is runnn' round 10 the mummy restaurants
An inauire for their propty, witch was sposed
To be showed up by them for palace-houscs,
And ecxlent fIrnitour The American
Tolkes is likewais in a SWEET, cause their bills
Amt emmy better than furriner's; aud all are
Ekaly hipothccatyd. 4 had half
Dollar on their bills and on a-coming
To the place, there wasn't emmy half dollars
Where the half dollars ort 10 be; and 50
gaze il 10 man Of big size, if he
Would let me out of the crowd to get hoam.
The restaurants don't pay the laorin
Men as works hull week for nine
Dollar bill, witch is a suspended bank when
They git it, ort to be blode!
There is more truth than poetry in Mr.. A. L.
l.. Parin's verse but to say that he is poet
born and not made would perhaps be assuming
too much His spelling is not of the best certain
"; but as a similar "poet" has asked What
part Of poetic genius is spelln"
The reply of Mr. Prentice, of the Louisville
Kentucky, Journal, some months since, TO per-
son who had challenged him while on business
visit at Little Rock, Arkansas, has been much
commented upon by the public press North and
South. In that reply, Mr.. Prentice said
"Presuming that your notes are written to me
with view to duel may as well say here, that
] have not the least thought of accepting chal-
lenge from YOU. There are many
persons to whom my life is valuable and howev-
err little or much value may attach to il on my
own account do. not see fit at present to put 1t
voluntarily against yours. i don't
want your blood upon my hands, and don't want
mine upon any6odyS. have not
the least desire to kill you, or to harm hair Of
your head, and / not conscious of having
done anything to make you wish to kill me-" etc,
etc.
When we first saw this correspondence in the
daily newspapers, we called to mind very laugh
able circumstance said to have occurred in Albany
during session of the Legislature at the Capitol,
several years ago-of course before the prohibition
Of duellng by statute in this State.
1t was an exciting political time, and owing to
some words spoken in debate" by heated mem
Der, during the cheated term, touching somewhat
upon the private character of brother member,
challenge was forthwith despatched to the offend
ing member by "a friend" as such messenger is
called in the language of the code of honor
The challenge was at once accepted
Pleased with this promptness, the second said:
When can we expect your friend?"
Don't want any friend said the challenged
party, Il waive all such advantages. He can
have dozen if he wishes"
. This is magnanimous, but it is not according
to the code Well, sir, if / am to confer with
you di,ectly-what weaponsy"
" Broad-swords."
The timer"
ebay after tomorrow, at Il o'clock at noon,
precisely"
"At what place."
AT O., on the st. Lawrence Your
principal shall stand on side of the river, and
| will stand on the other, and we will fight it out"
The : second" frowned: This is no testing matter
sir. You are not serious?"
"Why, gees / AM too! Hasn't the challenged
party right to the choice of weapons and place ?"
Wel-yes-sir; but not to unusual weapons
in unusal places"
Every well: pistols will not be objected to, of
course ?"
"Assuredly not; the gentleman's weapon"
Every good, then. We will meet tomorrow,
in the little village of B, and at twelve
o'clock precisely, will fight on the top of Sugar
loaf Hill, standing back to back, marching ten
PAGES, then turning and firing. Will that arrange
ment be satisfactory ~
1T will. We shall be there"
And the parties separated. Now "Sugar-loaf
Hin,n " at the place aforesaid" was exactly what
its name imports, sharp conical pillar of ground,
remarkable all the immediate country round for its
peculiar formation.
The time arrived, and "the parties" appeared
on the ground but the state of the case leaked
out" very quick.
"Sir!n said the second as he arrived with his
almost breathless principal at the apex OF the
Sugar-oaf, and surveyed the ground, "Sir this
is another subterfuge! What kind of place is
this for a duel with pistols, back to back, and
forward march of ten paces9 Why, sir, both par
ties would be out Of sight at eight PAGES, let alone
ten and in turning to fire you must fire into the
side hillln
the party of the second part" we on terms
Of perfect equality, then, which is not always the
case in modern due s."
outspake the challenging principal" then, in
words too plain to be misunderstood:
"SIR-R !" he said, to the second principal" at
the same time looking daggers at him; "SIR-R-R!
you are COWARD"
well! sposin am 2 You knew / was, or
you would not have challenged me-"
"They do say" that the two "psrties" that went
down the steep sides Of Sugar-loaf Hill, on that
memorable occasion, we're as difficult of reconcilia-
ton as when they assembled its sidas; and, more
over that they were as different in temper as pos
sible. One party laughing, and the other
breathing out threatening and slaughter; !" but
nothing came Of it after ALL This was the last of
that duel.
And, thoughtfully regarded it seems to US that
there is really something of lesson in it, indif-
ferently welp as we have set the actual occurrence
before our rcaders.-HarperS Magazine.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, the doctor who gives
people its-of laughing--sent letter to the post
Office of Ladies' Fair at Pittsfeld. On the first
page he wrote:
"Fair lady, whosoe'er thou art,
Turn this poor leaf with tendcrest care,
And hush, oh hush, thy breathing heart
The one thou leyest will be there"
On turning the "poor leaf" there was found a
one-dollsr bill, with some verses beginning:
= Fair lady, lift thine eyes, and tell,
If this is not truthful letter;
This is the one ~ thou lowest well,
And nought COZ can make thee love It better"
Captain Jones a great traveller, and, like
other travellers, fond of telling large stories, some
,uhinh hoi,ncr dnrhfad he nrnved hu making his