The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-16

| When ANNA MARIA TIBBs declares that she thinks
she would rather like JOIN SMITH, ifhe did not pa
| rade quite Extensively his peculiar African no.
tons and when JOHN SMITH, in return, acknowl-
edges that ANNA MARIA TIBBs is a nice little wo-
man, and would make a nice little WIFE if she
were little less proscriptve in her opinions, and
when, after this interchange of compliments ANNA
MARIA commences to coquet with JOHN, and JOHN
to fiirt with ANNA MARIA, we may safely conclude
that all this toying and trihing will either end in
their protesting attachment for each other, or
in a downright quarrel. If, however, in the midst
ofthis billing and cooling, JOIN SMITH should quietly
determine to pay visit, on certain day, to a
country friend, and ANNA MARIA, upon subseuuent
reflection, deliberately decides to follow him. and
to go to the same house, the natural inference is
that she cares more for JOHN SMITH, and has less
aversion to his ''pecuar African notions" than
she is willing openly to admit. But the old pro-
verb tells that ''there is many slip 'twixt the
cup and the lip" and even when the affair is so far
advanced that the friends of both parties nod APP
provingly, and congratulate each other on the
probability that JOHN and ANNA MARIA will ''make
a match of it, it very frequently happens that
some selfish old uncle, cross old aunt, or CEN
serious old maid steps in between the lovers and
by adroit manGuvering, manages to bring about
a disagreement on the question of marriage settle
ments. Just such neat little comedy as this has
recently been played in New York. the Americans
and Republicans-the ANNA MARIA TIBBs and the
JOHN SMITH of our Illustrative sketch-consttuting
the drdn,dtis persona. When we first knew ANNA
MARIA, she gloried in her Americanism and her
anti-Catholicism, and was, moreover, especially
severe upon the African notions of Republican
JOHN, whom she was accustomed in those days to
call black JOHN, and Nominating JOHN, and all
manner of other harsh and unady-ke Names
Nor was JOHN less disposed to denounce as narrow
and bigoed the opinions entertained by ANNA Ma
RIA. Times have changed since then. Both have
met with reverses which have made them sadder
if not wiser couple, and while subsequent r.
Election has half convinced JOHN that t is not good
for to be alone" similar train of thought has
led ANNA MARIA to reflect that she no longer pos
sesses her former youthful strength and robustness;
that disappointment has fed upon her damask cheek;
that the deceptive folds of crinoline cannot long
conceal from the world the sharp angles of the lean
and withered anatomy within, and that ifshe would
not die of naniton, she must abjure her own prnci-
pies, and embrace JOINS peculiar notions for the
sake of his prospective mess of pottage. And thus
it was, to drop metaphor, that the Americans and
Republicans of New York gradually ceased to dis
parage each other, and commenced a game of fiirt-
alton which increased in interest as their mutual
compliments increased in warmth. In the midst
of this amorous dalliance, the Republicans, with a
view to arrange some domestic matters, agreed to
meet their rural friends at Syracuse. The Ameri-
cans also, had some domestic affairs to discuss
and 'just to show that they were not afraid of the
Republicans" and that their loyalty to their prn
ciples was above suspicion, they determined TO
meet at Syracuse on the same day as their ''sweet
enemy" When they got there, however, the
elective affnties' became too strong for con-
straint gracious blets damOur passed and repassed
between the two parties, the American ANNA
MARIAs affected a modest coyness, the Republican
JOHN SMITHS a suave gentleness; both very will
ingly admitted that their principles hung loosely
about them, and would admit of considerable
curtailment, and both heartily acknowledged that
when it came to be question of principles without
pottage or pottage without princples-that the
pottage was preferable-and So in the language of
HORACE GREELEY, ''holding their principles in
dDeydnceJ lneg Wele Plepiiih5 W JUN H'huo,
when some covetous individual, who did not be-
eve in the motto that ''in union there is strength,
intimated that the Republicans were quite strong
enough of themselves to maintain their principles
and to take possession of the whole of the pottage
The bait took; the proposed union was rejected
JOHN SMITH is still bachelor, and ANNA MARIA a
spnster, but the character of the latter as the
weaker vessel of the two, is sadly damaged.