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 R A K E R 
 
 JOSEPH RODMAN" DRAKE 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 The publication, or rather, the printing a limited edition for pri- 
 vate circulation, by special subscription, of the following poems, has 
 arisen from the desire frequently expressed by the friends of the 
 authors to possess the Ckoakers in an authentic form. More than 
 once since their first appearance in the columns of the daily news- 
 papers, efforts have been made for their collection in print, and one or 
 two unauthorized gatherings have thus been made, while numerous 
 copies more or less complete, prepared with considerable trouble, have 
 been circulated in manuscript. There appears to be now a good op- 
 portunity for a more permanent edition of the poems. The limes arc 
 sufficiently removed from the first publication to do away with any 
 feeling of asperity, however slight, which may have attended their 
 original appearance ; for the verses occasionally, it must be admitted, 
 had their sharp satirical points, though they were sheathed in good 
 humor and alleviated by polished musical expression. While any 
 feeling of hostility is thus obliterated, we are not too far removed 
 from the date of these productions to lose the benefit of consultation 
 with contemporaries in the explanation of allusions growing day by 
 day more obscure. A liberal supply of notes, indeed, is indispensa- 
 ble to the understanding and enjoyment of the Choa kf.bs. These 
 have been supplied with no little painstaking from the besl resources 
 at hand, and it is believed will present a fair claim to accuracy. 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 The collection will be found to contain several original Croakers 
 by Mr. Halleck, which, though written at the period of the others, 
 have not hitherto seen the light, while several additions of a similar 
 nature have been made from the manuscripts of Drake. The new 
 poems are indicated in the table of contents, to which we may also 
 refer for the dates of publication. 
 
 AVe cannot present these youthful publications of the authors to 
 the reader, without a farther expression of admiration, not merely of 
 their felicity in "literary execution which ranks them with the best 
 local satires, but of the general good humor without, harshness or ill 
 will by which they are characterized. True wit and humor know 
 how to gain their ends without lacerating the sensibilities of the 
 individual. \\c arc none of us out of the reach of these weapons, or 
 insensible to their severities; but we believe it maybe said of the 
 Choakkhs, that their stroke, though never pointless, has inflicted no 
 unseemly injury nor left any lasting wound. They are written in the 
 language of poets with the self-respect of the gentleman. There are 
 no lines to crop for their indelicacy, or apologies to be made for 
 transgressing the privileged limits of this species id' literature. 
 
 To New Yorkers, the Cuoakkks will always have a special interest 
 for their illustrations of the notable acts of notable men of the last 
 generation in the city and state, and it may not be too much to say 
 that what is in this way of real interest to New York, may nut be 
 altogether unworthy of attention in an historical point of view- 
 throughout the country. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 To Ennui, - 
 
 Eve. 
 
 Post, 
 
 10 
 
 March, '19, 
 
 1 
 
 On Presenting: the Freedom of the City, 
 
 
 
 11 
 
 
 3 
 
 The Secret Mine, - - - - 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 
 5 
 
 When Bony Fought his Hosts of Foes, 
 
 Nat. 
 
 Adv., 
 
 11 
 
 
 7 
 
 To Mr. Totter, - 
 
 Kv e. 
 
 Post, 
 
 18 
 
 
 10 
 
 To Mr. Simpson, ... - 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 12 
 
 The National Painting, 
 
 Nat. 
 
 Adv., 
 
 15 
 
 
 14 
 
 The Battery War, - 
 
 Eve. 
 
 Post, 
 
 15 
 
 
 15 
 
 To Croaker Junior, - 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 
 18 
 
 To De Witt Clinton, 
 
 
 
 it; 
 
 
 20 
 
 To the Surgeon-General of New York, 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 
 23 
 
 To John Minslmll, ... 
 
 
 
 18 
 
 
 25 
 
 The Man who Frets at Worldly Strife, 
 
 
 
 19 
 
 
 27 
 
 To E. Simpson, Esq., - 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 
 29 
 
 To John Lang, Esq., - - - 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 
 31 
 
 To Domestic Peace, ... 
 
 
 
 24 
 
 
 33 
 
 To E. Simpson, Esq., 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 
 35 
 
 A Lament for Great Ones Departed, 
 
 
 
 27 
 
 
 37 
 
 To Captain Seaman Weeks, 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 April, '19, 
 
 40 
 
 Abstract of the Surgeon-Gen. Report, 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 42 
 
 To an Elderly Coquette, 
 
 
 
 is 
 
 
 45 
 
 To Esquire, - 
 
 
 
 1G 
 
 
 47 
 
 Ode to Impudence, - - - 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 
 49 
 
 To Mrs. Barnes, - 
 
 Nat. 
 
 Adv., 
 
 19 
 
 
 51 
 
 To Simon, ----- 
 
 Eve. 
 
 Post, 
 
 20 
 
 
 54 
 
 A Loving Epistle to Mr. Win. Cobbett, 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 May, 19, 
 
 57 
 
 The American Flag, ... 
 
 
 
 29 
 
 
 59 
 
viii CONTENTS. 
 
 IWCK. 
 
 The Forums, ... - Eve. Post, 4 June. "17. 02 
 
 Ode to Fortune, - " 9 " 65 
 
 The Love of Notoriety, - "15 " (17 
 
 To Simeon l)e Witt, Esq., - "17 " 69 
 
 To E. Simpson, Esq., - - " 20 " 73 
 
 To*****--- - " 7 July, '19, 77 
 
 The Council of Appointment, - " 19 •• 7'.' 
 
 Curtain Conversations, - '■ 24 " 82 
 An Address for (lie Opening of the 
 
 New Theatre, - "21 Aug't. "21. 84 
 
 To Walter Bowne, Esq., - - N. Y. Mir., 26 Jan'y, "28. 87 
 
 The Kecortler, - Eve. Post, ... 9] 
 
 To Robert Hogbin, - - - " 16 Xov'r, '30, 104 
 
 The Dinner Party, ... Home Jour. 27 May, '50. 107 
 
 The Tea Party, ... - « 27 " 110 
 
 The Modern Hydra, ... unpublished, - - - 112 
 
 The Meeting of the Grocers, - " - - - 114 
 
 The King of the Doctors, - - " ... m; 
 
 Mr. Clinton's Speech, Jan. 1825, " ... H8 
 
 The Nightmare, ... << ... 122 
 
 To the Directors of the Acad, of Arts, " ... 124 
 Oh ! where are now the Lights that 
 
 Shed, •• - - - 127 
 
 To Quackery, .... " 12'.l 
 
 The Militia. - " ... |£g 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 
 
 TO EMUI. 
 
 A vaunt ! arch enemy of fun, 
 
 Grim nightmare of the mind; 
 Which way, great Momus ! shall I run, 
 
 A refuge safe to find ? 
 My puppy's dead — Miss Rumor's breath 
 
 Is stopt for lack of news, 
 And Fitz is almost hyp'd to death, 
 
 And Lang 1 has got the blues. 
 
 I've read friend Noah's 2 book quite thro' 
 
 Appendix, notes and all ; 
 I've swallowed Lady Morgan's 3 too, 
 
 And blundered through De Stael : 
 The Edinburgh Review — I've seeu't 
 
 The last that has been shipt ; 
 I've read — in short — all books in print, 
 
 And some in manuscript. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 I'm sick of General Jackson's toast, 
 
 Canals arc nought to me : 
 Nor do I care who rules the roast 
 
 Clinton — or John Targee: 
 No stock in any Bank I own, 
 
 I fear no Lottery shark 
 And if the Battery were gone, 
 
 E'd ramble in the Park. 
 
 Let gilded Guardsmen shake their toes, 
 
 Let Altorf 4 please the pit, 
 Let Mister Hawkins " "blow his nose" 
 
 And Spooner 6 publish it: 
 Insolvent laws let Marshall 7 break. 
 
 Let dying Baldwin s cavil ; 
 And let tenth ward electors shake 
 
 Committees to the devil. 
 
 In vain — for like a cruel cat 
 
 That sucks a child to death, 
 Or like a Madagascar bat, 
 
 "Who poisons with his breath, 
 The fiend — the fiend is on me still; 
 
 Come, doctor! — here's your pay — 
 What lotion, potion, plaster, pill, 
 
 Will drive the beast away? 
 
 O&OAK Kit. 
 
4 
 
ON PRESENTING ' 
 
 THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY 
 
 IN A GOLD BOX TO A GREAT GENERAL. 
 
 The board is met — the names are read ; 
 
 Elate of heart, the glad committee 
 Declare the mighty man has said 
 
 He'll take "the freedom of the city." 
 He thanks the council, and the mayor, 
 
 Presents 'em all, his humble service; 
 And thinks he's time enough to spare 
 
 To sit an hour or so with Jarvis. 
 
 Hurra! hurra ! prepare the room — 
 
 Skaats ! 10 are the ham and oysters come 
 
 Go — make some savoury whiskey punch, 
 The General takes it with his lunch ; 
 
 For a sick stomach, 'tis a cure fit 
 And vastly useful in a surfeit. 
 
THE CKOAKEKS. 
 
 But see! the mayor is in tlie chair, 
 
 The council is convened again ; 
 And ranged in many a circle fair, 
 
 The ladies and the gentlemen 
 Sit mincing, bowing, smiting, talking 
 
 Of congress — halls — the Indian force — 
 Some think the General will be walking, 
 
 And some suppose he'll ride of course : 
 And some are whistling — some are humming — 
 
 And some are peering in the Bark 
 To try if they can see him coming; 
 
 And some are half asleep — when hark ! 
 
 A triumph on the war-like drum. 
 
 A heart-unlifting bugle strain, 
 A fife's far flourish — and "they come !" 
 
 Bung from the gathered train. 
 Sit down — the fun will soon commence — 
 
 Quick ! quick your honour ! mount your place ; 
 Present your loaded compliments, 
 
 And fire a volley in his face. 
 
 They're at it now — great guns and small — 
 Squib, cracker, cannon, musquetry : 
 
 Dear General! though you swallow all ; 
 1 must confess it sickens me. 
 
 C'uo ak i:r. 
 
THE "SECRET 11 MINE. 
 
 SPRUNG AT A LATE SUPPER. 
 
 The songs wore good, for Mead 12 and Hawkins sung 'em, 
 
 The wine weut round, 'twas laughter all, and joke ; 
 When crack ! the General sprung a mine among 'em, 
 
 And beat a safe retreat amid the smoke : 
 As fall the sticks of rockets, when we fire 'em, 
 
 So fell the Bucktails at that toast accurst ; 
 Looking like Korah, Dathan and Abiram, 
 
 When the firm earth beneath their footsteps burst. 
 
 Quell'd is big Haff 13 who oft has fire and flood stood, 
 
 More pallid grows the snowy cheek of Rose, 
 Cold sweats bedew the leathern hide of Bloodgood," 
 
 Deep sinks the concave of huge Edwards' nose. 
 But see the Generals Golden 18 and Bogardus, 16 
 
 •Toy sits enthroned in each elated eye; 
 While Doyle 17 and Mumford 18 clap their fists as bard as 
 
 The iron mauls in Pierson's factory. 
 
(i THE CROAKERS. 
 
 The midnight conclave met, good Johnny Targee 
 
 Begins (as usual) to bestow advice; 
 "Declare the General a fool, I charge ye! 
 
 And swear the toast was not his own free choice ; 
 Tell 'em that Golden prompted — and maintain it. 
 
 That is the fact, I'm sure; but we can see 
 By sending Aleck down to ascertain it." 
 
 That hint was taken, and accordingly 
 
 A certain member had a conversation 
 
 And asked a certain surgeon all about it; 
 Some folks assert he got the information ; 
 
 'Tis also said, he came away without it: 
 Good people all ! I'm up to more than you know ; 
 
 Hut prudence frowns — my coward gooseouil] lingers, 
 For fear that Hint and trigger, Doctor 19 Bronaugh 
 
 Should slip a challenge in your poet's fingers ! 
 
 Croak er. 
 
" There was captain Cucumber, lieutenant Tripe, ensign Pattypan, and 
 myself." 
 
 Mayor of Garratt. 
 
 When Bony fought his hosts of foes, 
 Heroes and generals arose 
 
 Like mushrooms when he bade them: 
 Europe, while trembling at his nod, 
 Thought him a sort of demi-god — 
 
 So wondrous quick he made them. 
 
 But every dog must have his day ; 
 Poor Bony's power has passed away; 
 
 His track let others follow. 
 Yet in the talent of the great, 
 With dash of goose cmill to create, 
 
 Our Clinton 20 beats him hollow ! 
 
THE CKOAKEHS. 
 
 Alas! thou little god" of war. 
 
 The proud effulgence of thy stal- 
 ls dimmed I fear, for ever; 
 
 Though bright thy hut tons long have shined, 
 
 And still thy powdered hair behind, 
 Is clubbed so neat and clever. 
 
 Yet round thee are assembled now 
 New chieftains, all intent as thou 
 
 On hard militia duty: — 
 There's King 23 conspicuous for his hat, 
 And Ferris Pell' 21 for God knows what — 
 
 And liayard,-' for his beauty. 
 
 These are hut colonels — there are hosts 
 Of higher grades, like Bauquo's gliosis 
 
 Upon ray sight advancing. 
 In truth, they made e'en Jackson stare, 
 When in the Park, uptossed in air, 
 
 He saw their plumage dancing. 
 
 Yet I should wrong them not to name 
 Two major-generals, high in fame — 
 
 By Heaven ! a gallant pair! 
 (They haven't any soldiers yet) 
 His honour, general by brevet, 
 
 Bogardus — brevet mayor. 
 
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THE CROAKERS. 
 
 9 
 
 Should England dare to send again 
 Her scoundrel red coats o'er the main, 
 
 I fear some sad disaster : 
 Each soldier wears an epaulette ; 
 The Guards have turned a capering set, 
 
 And want a dancing master. 
 
 Sain Swartwout, 26 where are now your Greys ? 
 Oh ! hid again their banner hlaze 
 
 O'er hearts and ranks unbroken : — 
 Let drum and fife your slumbers break, 
 And bid the Devil freely take 
 
 Your meadows at Hoboken. 
 
 Croaker, Junior. 
 
 ■2 
 
TO MR. POTTER,* 
 
 THE VENTRILOQUIST. 
 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 You've heard that Mr. Robbin 28 
 
 Has brought in, without rhyme or reason, 
 A hill to send you jugglers hopping; 
 
 That hill will pass this very season : 
 Now as you lose your occupation, 
 
 And may perhaps he low in coffer. 
 I send for your consideration 
 
 The following very liberal offer. 
 
 Five hundred down, by way of bounty. 
 
 Expenses paid, (as shall be stated) 
 Xcxt April to Chenango county: 
 
 And there we'll have you nominated: 
 Your duty '11 be, to watch the tongues 
 
 "When Root's-' brigade begins to skirmish, 
 To stop their speeches in their lungs, 
 
 And bring out such as 1 shall furnish. 
 
THE CKOAKKRS. 
 
 Thy ventriloquial powers, my Potter! 
 
 Shall turn to music every word, 
 And make the Martling 30 deists utter 
 
 Harmonious anthems to our Lord. 
 Then, all their former tricks upsetting, 
 
 To honey thou shalt change their gall, 
 For Sharpe 31 shall vindicate brevetting, 
 
 And Root admire the great canal. 
 
 It will he pleasant too, to hear a 
 
 Decent speech among our swains; 
 We almost had begun to fear a 
 
 Famine for the dearth of brains: 
 No more their tongues shall play the devil. 
 
 Thy potent art the fault prevents ; 
 Now German 32 shall, for once be civil, 
 
 And Bacon 33 speak with common sense. 
 
 Poor German's head is but a leaker ; 
 
 Should yours be found compact and elose, 
 As you're to be the only speaker, 
 
 We'll make you speaker of the house — 
 If you're in haste to "touch the siller," 
 
 Dispatch me your acceptance merely, 
 And call on trusty Mr. Miller, 34 
 
 He'll pay the cash — 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Yours, sincerely, 
 
 Croaker. 
 
TO MR. SJMI'SoX. 
 
 MANAGER OF THE THEATRE. 
 
 I'm a friend to your theatre, oft have I told you. 
 
 And a still warmer friend, Mr. Simpson, to you, 
 And it gives me great pain, be assured, to behold you 
 
 Go fast to the devil, as lately you do. 
 We scarcely should know you were still in existence, 
 
 Were it not for the play hills one sees in Broadway; 
 The newspapers all seem to keep at a distance; 
 
 Have your puffers deserted for want of their pay? 
 
 Poor Woodworth ! M his Chronicle died broken hearted : 
 
 What a loss to the drama ! the world and the aire! 
 And Coleman 37 is silent since I'hilipps departed, 
 
 And Noah's too busy to think of the stage. 
 Now, the aim of this letter is merely to mention 
 
 That since all your critics are laid on the shell'. 
 Out of pure love to you, it is my kind intention 
 
 To bike box No. 3, and turn critic myself. 
 
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 Engraved bj A-UDurand from a painting- livJ.Neas-le. 
 Lopez k Wanyss' Edition 
 TuUistwd Tjy AJQ'ocile IMod? 18v>6. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Your ladies are safe — if you please you may say it, 
 
 Perhaps they have faults — but I'll let them alone; 
 Yet I owe two a del)t — 'tis my duty to pay it, 
 
 Of them I must speak in a kind, friendly tone. 
 Mrs. Barnes — -Shakspeare's heart would have beat had 
 he seen her ; 
 
 Her magic has drawn from me many a tear, 
 And ne'er shall my pen or its satire chagrin her, 
 
 While pathos and genius and feeling are dear. 
 
 And there's sweet Miss Leesugg, 38 by the bye, she's not 
 pretty, 
 
 She's a little too large, and has not too much grace, 
 Yet there is something about her so witching and witty, 
 
 Tis pleasure to gaze on her good humoured face. 
 But as for your men — I don't mean to be surly — 
 
 They soon may expect to have each one his due ; 
 For the present — there's 011ifl"s, a famous Lord Bivr- 
 leigh. 
 
 And Hopper''' and Maywood 40 are promising too. 
 
 Y^ours, 
 
 Croaker, Junior. 
 
THE NATION A I. PAINTING. 41 
 
 Awake! ye forms of verse divine — 
 
 Painting! descend on canvass wing, 
 And hover o'er my head Design ! 
 
 Your son. your glorious son [ sing! 
 At Trumbull's 12 name, 1 break my sloth, 
 
 To load him with poetic riches; 
 The Titian of a table cloth ! 
 
 The Guido of a pair of breeches ! 
 
 Come star-eyed maid — Equality! 
 
 In thine adorer's praise I revel : 
 Who brings, so fierce his love to thee — 
 
 All forms and faces to a level : 
 Old, young — great, small — the grave, the gay; 
 
 Each man might swear the next his brother, 
 And there they stand in dread array. 
 
 To fire their votes at one another. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 1 
 
 How brighl their buttons shine! how straight 
 
 Their coat-flaps fall in plaited grace; 
 How smooth the hair on every pate : 
 
 [low vacant each immortal face ! 
 And then thy tints — the shade — the flush — 
 
 (I wrong - them with a strain too humble) 
 Not mighty Sherred's 43 strength of brush 
 
 Can match thy glowing hues, my Trumbull. 
 
 Go on, great painter ! dare be dull ; 
 
 No longer after nature dangle ; 
 Call rectilinear beautiful ; 
 
 Find grace and freedom in an angle : 
 Pour on the red — the green — the yellow — 
 
 " Paint 'till a horse may mire upon it," 
 And while I've strength to write or bellow, 
 
 I'll sound your praises in a sonnet. 
 
 Croaker. 
 
THE BATTERY WAR. 44 
 
 '•Tii ice. twenty shoe-boys, twice two dozen guards. 
 Chairmen and porters — hackney coachmen — Dandies!" 
 
 Tom Thumb. 
 
 " Sere Dickens ! — Go fetch my great coat and umbrella, 
 
 Tell Johnny and Robert to put on their shoes; 
 And Dickens — take something to drink, in v good fellow. 
 
 You may go with Tom Ostler, along, if you choose: 
 You must put your new coat on — hut mind, and he quiet, 
 
 Till my clerk, Mr. Scribble, shall tip you the wink, 
 Then roar like the devil — hiss — kick up a riot ! 
 
 I imagine we'll settle the thing in a twink." 
 
 Arrived at the Hall 1 '' they were nothing too early: 
 Little Eartman 46 was placed, like king log, in the chair, 
 
 Supported, for contrast, 1 » v modest king Charley: 
 The general was speaking, who is to he mayor: 
 
 Undaunted, he stood in the midst of the hohherie, 
 Clerks — footmen — and Dandies — ye gods! what a 
 noise. 
 
 No thief in Fly-Market, just caught in a robbery. 
 Could raise such a clatter of blackguards and hoys. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 17 
 
 Mercein 47 and Bogardus each told a long story, 
 
 Very fine without doubt to such folks as could hear ; 
 Then the two kings resigned, and in high gigandglory, 
 
 The light-footed chief of the guards took the chair, 
 So he made them a speech, about little or nothing, 
 
 Except he advised 'em " to go home to bed ;" 
 And the simple fact is, that, in spite of their mouthing, 
 
 'Twas the only good, sensible, thing that was said. 
 
 Bye the way, though — we've heard that these sous of 
 sedition, 
 
 These "vile Bonapartes," (to quote Jemmy Lent,) 4S 
 Are about to bring forward a second edition, 
 
 And Squire McGTarraghan "fears the event." 
 Now, to let our wise council their honest game play 
 on yet, 
 
 Just call out, your honour, the Gingerbread Guards — 
 Bid them drive at the traitors with cutlass and bayonet, 
 And then pick their pockets as bare — as your bards'. 
 
 Croaker & Co. 
 
 3 
 
TO CROAK KK, .1TXI0E. 
 
 Your hand, my dear Junior! we're all in a flame 
 
 To see a few more of your flashes; 
 The Croakers for ever! I'm proud of the name — 
 l>ut brother, I fear, though our cause is the same, 
 
 "We shall quarrel like Brutus and Cassius. 
 
 But why should we do so ! 'tis false what they tell, 
 
 That poets can never he cronies; 
 Unbuckle your harness, in peace let us dwell; 
 Our goose quills will canter together as well 
 
 As a pair of Prime's 49 mouse color'd ponies. 
 
 Once blended in spirit, we'll make our appeal, 
 
 And hy law he incorporate too; 
 Apply for a charter in crackers to deal, 
 A fly-flapper rampant shall shine on our seal. 
 
 And the firm shall he " Croaker & Co." 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 19 
 
 Fun ! prosper the union — smile, fate, on its birth; 
 
 Miss Atropos shut up your scissors ; 
 Together we'll range thro' the regions of mirth, 
 A pair of bright Gemini dropt on the earth, 
 
 The Castor and Pollux of quizzers. 
 
 Croaker. 
 
Mb. Bditob — 1 wish you to precede i lie lines 1 semi yon enclosed, 
 by republishing Mr. Hamilton's late letter t<> the governor verbatim >t 
 literatim, in order thai the world may see, that on this occasion, at 
 least, the poet does not deal in fiction. 
 
 " To De Witt Clinton, governor of the State of New York :'* 30 
 
 "Sir — To your shame and confusion let it he recorded, that yon 
 dared not assume the responsibility of preserving to our national coun- 
 cils a patriotic and distinguished statesman, while you could advocate 
 the publication of an insidious and hase attack upon private character 
 through I he puhlic organ of your administration. You know the 
 motive of my visit to Mr. Hoot — you were not ignorant that the sena- 
 torial reelection of Unfits King, was to me a subject of deep personal 
 concern : and on this occasion you declared, that you had marked my 
 course, and that this support should recoil with vengeance upon the 
 republican party. To those intimate with your pusillanimity and 
 intrigues, you disappoint no expectation. The traducer of America's 
 brightest ornaments can only he consistent within the sphere of his 
 degeneracy. It is the pride of the name 1 hear, to he distinguished by 
 your envenomed malignity — one and all. we are opposed to your ad- 
 ministration and your character. I am induced to make this explana- 
 tion as a permanent'' 1 obligation to the puhlic; to my own feelings it is 
 perfectly humiliating. I have the honour to remain your obedient 
 servant. 
 
 Al.KX \M>KIt II \ M I I. TON. 
 
 Assembly Chamber, March Nth. 1810. 
 
J 
 
A VERY MODEST LETTER 
 
 FROM ONE GREAT MAN TO ANOTHER. 
 
 " To he a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune, hut to write and read 
 comes hi/ nature." — Dogberry. 
 
 How dare you, .sir, presume to say 
 And write and print the paltry thing, 
 
 That I did wrong the other day, 
 To give my vote for Rufus King-! 
 
 'Twas natural that I should take a 
 
 Particular interest in it, sir, 
 For I've been agent at Jamaica, 52 
 
 And he a foreign minister. 
 
 You say, you've " marked my course" of late, 
 And mean to make what I've been doing 
 
 A means of breaking up the state, 
 And bringing on our party's ruin. 
 
THE CIJOAEELS- 
 
 Wr;h *!i w1k»~yv kaovn toot soxsodivi triek^ 
 
 SiBoe first jmm came to ecr-e ifee 
 Tbe Laeilfer of j«Btic< ! 
 
 It saits ever mean a&i £ivweffi»f ?j> 
 Urns to arcaek ^rvat saea like rae 
 
 Yoa siii^ier ocX cLaefc v>f saerit. 
 Soars Ik mt eoantrv > I 
 
 »tei i» Tii-k i 
 Hi? aactle o'er Eii* daw: 
 Wmm Im my tuber > eWess sob, 
 Ar*l beir to ill zilec:> : 
 
 We re iwv«4 la =»y — tfce k»o« 
 
 Yo* fiked owfiflttly : 
 
 We ~ **e 4mi*t~ kave Ke*» JHr fc*^ a 
 
 My brecber Xa. *=>! Job* *»d L 
 
 Foe my o*-» sate, yoos well may 
 Tfat I tbes* fiaes to y*« ba*v- 
 It is to l*x die 
 
 issraXiJi""* 
 
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TO THE SURGEON GENERAL" 
 
 OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 
 
 "Why, Tom, he knows all things — ArC it be not the devil himself, ive 
 may thank God." — Village Wizard. 
 
 Oli ! Mitchill, lord of granite flints, 
 
 Doctus, in law — and wholesome dishes ; 
 Protector of the patent splints, 
 
 The foe of whales — the friend of fishes ; 
 " Tom-Codus " — " Septon " — "Phlogobombos !" 53 
 
 What title shall we find to fit ye ? 
 Inquisitor of sprats and compost ! 
 
 Or Surgeon General of Militia ! 
 
 We hail thee! — mammoth of the state ! 
 
 Steam frigate ! on the waves of physic — 
 Equal in practice or debate, 
 
 To cure the nation or the phthisic : 
 The amateur of Tartar dogs ! 
 
 Wheat-flies, and maggots that create 'em ! 
 Of mummies! and of mummy-chogs ! 86 
 
 Of brick-bats — lotteries — and pomatum ! 
 
24 
 
 THE CROAKERS. 
 
 It matters not how low or high it Lb, 
 
 Thou knowest each hill and vale of knowledge 
 Fellow of forty-nine societies! 
 
 And lecturer in David s College — 
 And when thou dicst — (for life is brief;) 
 
 Thy name, in all its gathered glory. 
 Shall shine, immortal! as the leaf 
 
 Of Delaplainc's Repository. 56 
 
 CltOAKEK & Co. 
 
Setter 2<fif /tu^. 
 
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TO JOHN MLNSIIULL, ESQ. 57 
 
 POET AX D PLAYWRIGHT ; 
 
 FORMERLY OF MAIDEN LANE, BUT NOW ABSENT IN EUROPE. 
 
 Oh ! bard of the west, hasten back from Great Britain ! 
 
 Our harp-strings are silent, they droop on the tree; 
 What poet among us, is worthy to sit in 
 
 The chair whose fair cushion was hallowed by thee ? 
 In vain the wild clouds o'er our mountain-tops hover, 
 
 Our rivers flow sadly, our groves are bereft ; 
 They have lost — and forever ! their poet, their lover ! 
 
 And "Woodworth and Paulding are all we have left. 
 
 Great Woodworth, the champion of Buckets and 
 Freedom, 
 
 Thou " editor, author and critic " to boot, 
 I must leave thy rich volumes to those that can read 'em, 
 
 For my part I never had patience to do 't. 
 And, as for poor Upham, (who in a fine huff says 
 
 He'll yield to no Briton the laurel of wit,) 
 Alas ! they have " stol'n his ideas," as Puff says, 
 
 I had read all his poems before they were writ. 
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 THE CKOAKKKS. 
 
 But hail ! to thee Paulding, 58 the pride of the Backwood ! 
 
 The poet of cabbages, log huts and gin, 
 God forbid thou should'st get in the clutches of 
 Blackwood, 
 
 Oh Lord ! how the wits of Old England would grin: 
 In pathos — Oh ! who could he flatter or funnier ? 
 
 Were ever descriptions more vulgar and tame ? 
 I wronged thee, hv Heaven ! when I said there were 
 none here 
 
 Could cope with great Minshull, thou peer of his 
 fame ! 
 
 Croaker. 
 
A merry heart ffoes all the way, 
 A sad one tires in a mile-a." 
 
 Winter's Talc. 
 
 The man who frets at worldly strife 
 
 Grows sallow, sour, and thin ; 
 Give us the lad whose happy life 
 
 Is one perpetual grin : 
 He, Midas like, turns all to gold, 
 
 He smiles when others sigh, 
 Enjoys alike the hot and cold, 
 
 And laughs thro' wet and dry. 
 
 There's fun in every thing we meet, 
 
 The greatest, worst and hest ; 
 Existence is a merry treat, 
 
 And every speech a jest : 
 Be't ours to watch the crowds that pass 
 
 Where mirth's gay banner waves : 
 To show fools thro' a quizzing glass, 
 
 And bastinade the knaves. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 The serious world will scold and ban, 
 
 In clamour loud and hard, 
 To hoar Meigs™ called a congressman, 
 
 And Paulding styled a hard: 
 But come what may — the man's in luck 
 
 Who turns it all to glee, 
 And laughing cries, with honest Puck, 
 
 " Good Lord ! what fools ye be." 
 
 Croak br. 
 
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TO E. SIMPSON, ESQ., 60 
 
 ON WITNESSING THE REPRESENTATION OF THE .NEW TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS. 
 
 I have been every night — whether empty or crowded, 
 
 And taken my seat in your hox ~No. 3, 
 In a sort of poetical Scotch mist I'm shrouded, 
 
 As the far-fam'd Invisible Girl used to be. 
 
 As a critic professed, 'tis my province to flout you, 
 And hiss as they did at poor Charley's Macheath, 
 
 But all is so right and so proper about you, 
 
 That I'm forced to be civil — in spite of my teeth. 
 
 In your dresses and scenery, classie and clever ! 
 
 Such invention ! such blending of old things and 
 new ! 
 
 Let Ivemble's proud laurels be withered forever! 
 Wear the wreath, my dear Simpson, 'tis fairly your 
 due. 
 
 How "apropos " now was that street scene in Brutus, 
 Where the sign " Coffee-house " in plain English was 
 writ ! 
 
 By the way, " Billy Niblo's" would much better suit us, 
 And box, pit and gallery roar at the wit. 
 
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 T1IK CROAKERS. 
 
 J low sparkled the eyes of the raptured heholders, 
 
 To see Kilner 61 — a Roman — in robes "a-la-Grcc !" 
 How graceful they flowed o'er his neatly-turned 
 shoulders ! 
 
 How completely they set oft* his Johnny Bull neck ! 
 
 But to hint at the thousand tine things that amuse me 
 Would take me a month — so adieu till my next. 
 
 And yoiir actors — they must for the present excuse me ; 
 One word though, "en-passant" for fear they'll he 
 vex'd: 
 
 Moreland, 02 Howard 03 and Garner 6 ' — the last importa- 
 tion ! 
 
 Three feathers, as bright as the Prince Regent's 
 plume ! 
 
 Though putKng is, certainly, not my vocation, 
 I always shall praise them — whenever I've room. 
 
 With manners — so formed to persuade and to win ye! 
 
 With faces — one need hut to look on to love ! 
 Like Jefferson's Natural Bridge in Virginia — 
 
 " Worth a voyage across the Atlantic," by Jove ! ! 
 
 Croaker, Junior. 
 
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TO JOHN LANG, ESQ. 65 
 
 " And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew, 
 That one small head could carry all he knew." 
 
 Goldsmith. 
 
 "We've twined the wreath of honor 
 Round Doctor Mitchill's hrow ; 
 Though bold and daring was the theme, 
 
 A loftier waits us now. 
 In thee — Immortal Lang ! 66 have all 
 
 The Sister Graces met — 
 Thou Statesman ! Sage ! and " Editor " 
 Of the New York Gazette ! 
 
 A secoud Faustus in thine art ! 
 
 The Newton of our clime ! 
 The Bonaparte of Bulletins ! 67 
 
 The Johnson of thy time ! — 
 At thy dread name, the " terriers " hark, 
 
 The " rats " fly to their holes ! 
 Thou Prince of " petty paragraphs !" 
 
 " Bed Notes," and " Signal Poles !" 
 
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 THE CROAKERS. 
 
 There's genius in thy speaking face — 
 
 There's greatness in thine air — 
 Take " Franklin s bust " from 63 off thy roof, 
 
 And place thine own head there ! 
 '• Ei(jht corners within pistol shot " 
 
 Long with thy fame have rang! 
 And "Blue-Birds" sung — and " mad-cows' " lowed 
 
 The name of Johnny Lang ! 
 
 Croaker & Co. 
 
TO DOMESTIC PEACE. 
 
 " Malbrook s'cn va-t-en guerre." 
 
 Oli ! Peace ! ascend again thy throne, 
 
 Resume the spotless olive leaf! 
 Display thy snowy muslin gown, 
 And wave o'er this distracted town, 
 Thy cambric pocket handkerchief ! 
 
 Or, if thou dost not like the dress 
 
 ( We own we have our doubts upon it), 
 
 Come like some pretty Quakeress, 
 
 And let thine orbs of quietness 
 
 Shine, dove-like, from a satin bonnet ! 
 
 We need thee, row-abhorring maid ! 
 
 The dogs of party bark alarms, 
 And ere the Battery-tax is laid, 
 And ere the next election's made, 
 
 E'en Murray's Guards will rush to anas. 
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THE CROAKEBS. 
 
 Feds, Coodics, C9 Bucktails, 70 — all in flame — 
 
 "With peals of nonsense frighten thee ; 
 Sweet Peace ! thou wert not much to blame, 
 If thou shouldst loathe the very name 
 Of Clinton, or of John Targee. 
 
 For us, enthron'd in elbow chair, 
 
 Thy foes alone with ink we sprinkle ; 
 
 We love to smooth the cheek of care, 
 
 Until we leave no furrow there, 
 
 Save laughter's evanescent wrinkle. 
 
 "With thee and Mirth, we'll quit the throng — 
 
 Each hour shall see our pleasures vary ; 
 Jarvis 71 shall bring his Oats along, 
 And Lynch 7 - shall float In floods of song, 
 Pure as his highest-priced Madeira ! 
 
 Croakeb & Co. 
 
AS BlliLY LACKAliAY. 
 
 hirajid from a painUtifj; by JNeagi 
 
TO E. SIMPSON", ESQ., 
 
 MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK THEATRE. 
 
 Mr. Philipps 73 lias gone — and he carries away with him 
 
 Much of my cash — and my hearty good will : 
 To both he is welcome, and long may they stay with 
 him — 
 
 Poor as he's made me, Pll cherish him still. 
 
 For when the wild spell of his melody bound me, 
 I marked not the flight of the gay, happy hours : 
 
 His music created a fairy land round me, 
 
 Above it, was sunshine — below it, were flow T ers. 
 
 But 'tis folly to weep — we must cease to regret him — 
 
 Look about — you have many as brilliant a star: 
 There's Barnes, 74 (you may laugh if you will,) but just 
 let him 
 
 Play Belino 75 for once; — he'll beat Philipps by far! 
 
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 THE CROAKERS. 
 
 When he sings Love's Young Dream, every heart will 
 be beating, 
 
 The ladies shall wave their white kerchiefs in air; 
 And peals of applauses shall hail the repeating 
 Of his Ecclecns Buiccr, and his liubin Adair! 
 
 Fancy's Sketch! such fine shakes and such comic 
 expression 
 
 He'll give it ; — 'twill put all the fiddles in tone ! 
 And let Olliff (clean-shaved, with a new hero dress on), 
 Play Baron Toraldi "for that night alone." 
 
 If you wish to give all }'Our acquaintances delight, or 
 Fill your house to the brim — take this hint — it 
 will go ; 
 
 The humour will make e'en vour Candles bum brighter, 
 And crowd every seat — to the very fourth row. 
 
 Besides cntrc-nous, there's another good reason — 
 Perhaps 'twill the proud heart of Beekman" beguile ; 
 
 He mag promise to lower the rent the next season, 
 And, for once in his life, — take his hat off and smile. 
 
 Ckoakek, Junior. 
 
A LAMENT FOR GREAT ONES DEPARTED. 
 
 " Hung be the Heavens with black." 
 
 Sh&kspeare. 
 
 There is a gloom on every brow, 
 
 A sadness in each face we see : 
 The City Hall is lonely now, 
 
 The Franklin Bank 77 looks wearily ! 
 
 The Surgeon's Hall 78 in Barclay street, 
 
 Wears to the eye a ghastlier hue ! 
 And Staten Island's Summer-seat 
 
 lias lost its best attraction too ! 
 
 "Well may we mourn — a stage and four 
 (Our curse upon the rogue that drove it ! ) 
 
 From out our City lately bore 
 
 All that adorn — and grace, and love it, 
 
 Ah ! little knew each scoundrel horse 
 
 How much they vex'd, and griev'd, and marred us, 
 They cared not sixpence for the loss 
 
 We feel in Colden and Bogardus. 
 
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 THE CROAKERS. 
 
 And Doctor Mitchill, LL. L\, 
 
 And Tompkins, 79 Lord of Staten Isle ! 
 Hush'd be the strain of mirth and glee, 
 
 'Twere treason now to laugh or smile. 
 
 Long has proud Albany, elate, 
 
 Reared her two steeples 80 high in air, 
 
 And boasted that she ruled the state, 
 Because the Governor liccs there ! 
 
 But loftier now will be her tone, 
 
 To know — within her walls are met 
 
 The brightest gems that ever shone 
 Upon a city's coronet. 
 
 Tho' heavy is our load of pain, 
 
 To feel that fate has thus bereft us, 
 
 Some consolations yet remain. 
 For Dickey Biker still is left us ! 
 
 And Hope, with smile and gesture proud, 
 1 'oints to a day of triumph nigh, 
 
 When like a sunbeam from the cloud 
 That dims, awhile, an April sky, 
 
 Our champions shall again return. 
 
 Their pockets with new honours crowded 
 
 Then every heart will cease to mourn. 
 And hats no more in crape be shrouded. 
 
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THE CROAKERS. 
 
 The Park shall throng with merry feet, 
 And hoys and beauties hasten there, 
 
 To place the new Judge on his seat ! 
 And hail the great Bogardus, Mayor ! 
 
 Croaker & Co. 
 
TO CAPTAIN SEAM AX WEEKS, 
 
 CHAIRMAN OF THE TENTH WARD INDEPENDENT ELECTORS. 
 
 Captain Weeks — your right hand — though I never 
 have seen it, 
 I shake it, on paper, full ten times a day. 
 I love jour tenth ward, and I wish I lived in it ; 
 
 Do you know any house there to let against May? 
 I don't mind what the rent is, so long as I get off 
 From these party-mad beings — these tongues with- 
 out heads ! 
 
 I'm asham'd to be seen, sir, among such a set of 
 Clintonians, Tammanies, 81 Coodics, and Feds ! 
 
 Besides, I'm nervous, and can't bear the racket 
 
 These gentlemen make when they're begging for votes; 
 There's John Haff, M and Ben Bailey, 83 and Christian, 84 
 and Bracket, 85 
 Only think what fine music must come from their 
 throats ! 
 
 Colonel Warner 81 calls Clinton "a star in tlx- banner," 
 Ma pes 87 swears by Ins sword-knot he'll ruin us all ! 
 
 While Meigs flashes out in his tine elassic manner, 
 " The meteor gorgon of Clinton mast fall! " . 
 
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 41 
 
 In vain, I endeavor to give 'em a hint on 
 
 Sense, reason, or temper — they laugh at it all : 
 For sense is nonsense, when it makes against Clinton, 
 
 And reason is treason in Tammany Hall. 88 
 So I mean (though I fear I shall seem unto some a 
 
 Strange, ohstinatc, odd-headed kind of an elf) 
 To strike my old tent in the fourth, and become a 
 
 " Tenth ward independent elector" myself. 
 
 Croaker. 
 
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ABSTRACT 
 
 OF TIIK .SriUiF.ON-Cr.NKHAL S^ HKI'ORT. 
 
 The Surgeon-General by brevet, 
 
 With zeal for public service burning, 
 Thinks this a happy time to get 
 
 Another chance to show his learning ; 
 lie has in consequence collected 
 
 His wits — and stewed them in retorts; 
 By distillation thus perfected, 
 
 lie hopes to shine — and so reports: 
 
 That he has searched authorities 
 
 From Johnson down to Ashe and Shelley, 
 And finds that a Militia is — 
 
 What he is now about to tell ye ; 
 Militia means — such citizens 
 
 As e'en in peace are kept campaigning, 
 The gallant souls that shoulder guns ! 
 
 And twice a year go out a-trainiug. 
 
T1IE CROAKERS. 
 
 This point being fix'd, we must, I think, sir, 
 
 Proceed unto the second part, — 
 Entitled Grog — a kind of drink, sir, 
 
 Which by its action on the heart, 
 Makes men so brave, they dare attack 
 
 A bastion at its angle salient ; 
 This is a well-established fact — 
 
 The very proverb says — pot-valiant. 
 
 Grog — I'll define it in a minute — 
 
 Take gin, rum, whiskey or peach brandy, 
 Put but a little water in it, 
 
 And that is Grog — now understand me, 
 I mean to say, that should the spirit 
 
 Be left out by some careless dog — 
 It is — I wish the world may hear it ! 
 
 It is plain water, and not Grog. 
 
 Having precisely fix'd what Grog is, 
 
 (My reas'ning, sir, that question settles !) 
 "We next must ascertain what Prog is — 
 
 ~Now Prog, in vulgar phrase, is victuals : 
 This will embrace all kinds of food, 
 
 A\ nieh on the smoking board can charm y 
 And by digestion furnish blood ; 
 
 A thing essential in any army ! 
 
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 THE CROAKERS. 
 
 These things should all be swallowed warm, 
 
 For heat, digestion much facilitates ; 
 Cold is a tonic, and does harm : 
 
 A tonic always, sir, debilitates. 
 My pi' ii then is to raise, as fast 
 
 As possible, a corps of cooks, 
 And drill them daily from the last 
 
 Editions of my cookery books ! 
 
 Done into English, and likewise into verse, by 
 
 Croakbb & Co. 
 
TO AN ELDERLY C( X^LKTTE. 
 
 • • I'tircius junctas quatiunt fax slras. 
 
 Horace, Book I, Ode 
 
 Ah ! Chloe ! 00 no more at each party and ball, 
 
 You shine the gay queen of the hour; 
 The lip, that alluringly smiled upon all, 
 
 Finds none to acknowledge its power : 
 No longer the hearts of the dandies you break, 
 
 No poet adores you in numbers; 
 No billets-doux sweeten, nor serenades break, 
 
 The peaceful repose of your slumbers. 
 
 Dissipation has clouded those eloquent eyes, 
 
 That sparkled like gems of the ocean; 
 Thy bosom is fair — but its billowy rise 
 
 Awakens no kindred commotion : 
 And pale are those rubies of rapture, where Love 
 
 Sad showered his sweetest of blisses ; 
 And the wrinkles which time has implanted abov 
 
 Are cover'd in vain with false tresses. 
 
4G THE CROAKERS. 
 
 The autumn is on thee — foil scandal prepares 
 
 To hasten the wane of thy glory: 
 Too soon disappointment will hand thee down stairs, 
 
 And old maidenhood end the sad story : 
 For me — long eseaped from your trammels — I choose 
 
 To enlist in the new corps of jokers; 
 Abandoning Chloe, I kneel to the Muse, 
 
 And, instead of love-ditties, write Croakers. 
 
 C. 
 
J-UDCK M LA CKST iJX E 
 
TO ESQUIRE. 
 
 Come, shut up your Blackstone, and sparkle again 
 
 The leader and light of our classical revels ; 
 "While statutes and cases bewilder your brain, 
 
 .No wonder you're vex'd, and heset with hlue devils : 
 But a change in your diet will banish the blues ; 
 
 Then come, my old chum, to our banquet sublime ; 
 Our wine shall be caught from the lips of the Muse, 
 
 And each plate and tureen shall be detug'd in rhyme. 
 
 Scott, from old Albin, shall furnish the dishes 
 
 With wild fowl and ven'son that none can surpass : 
 And Mitehill, who sung the amours of the fishes, 
 
 Shall fetch his most excpiisite tom-cod and bass. 
 Leigh Hunt shall select, at his Hampstead Parnassus, 
 
 Fine greens, from the hot-bed, the table to cheer; 
 And Wordsworth shall carry whole bowls of molasses, 
 
 Diluted with water from sweet Windermere. 
 
48 THE CROAKERS. 
 
 To rouse the dull fancy, and give one an appetite, 
 
 Black wormwood bitters Lord Byron shall bear ; 
 And Montgomery bring(to consumptives a happy sight.) 
 
 Tepid soup-meagre, and lean eapillaire. 
 Coleman shall sparkle in old bottled cider, 
 
 Boast-beef and potatoes friend Crabbe shall supply, 
 Bogers shall hash us an olla podrida, 
 
 And the best of "fat cabbage" from Bauldiug we'll buy. 
 
 My Tennant — free, fanciful, laughing and lofty. 
 
 Shall pour out tokay and Scotch whiskey like rain ; 
 Southey shall sober our spirits with coffee, 
 
 And Horace in London flash up in Champagne. 
 Tom Campbell shall cheer us with rosy Madeira, 
 
 Beiin'd by long-keeping — rich, sparkling, and pure, 
 And Moore, pour <-has*c raff, to each one shall bear a 
 
 Lip-witching bumper of par/ait amour. 
 
 Then come to our banquet — Oh ! how can you pause 
 
 A moment between merry rhyme and dull reason ? 
 Preferring the wit-blighting Spirit < if Laws 
 
 To the spirit of verse, is poetical treason! 
 Judge l'hu'bus will certainly issue his writ, 
 
 No quirk or evasion your cause can make good, man ; 
 Only think what you'll sutler, when sentene'd to sit 
 
 And be kept broad awake till you've read the Back- 
 woodman. 
 
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 19 Calotypes, as follows, after pages: 8, 12(2), 28, 38, 40, 
 50, 68, 72, 132(2), (140(2)*142(2), 144, 158, 160, 178; 
 
 Lithograph with Photographic connection: P. 98; 
 
 Engraving from a daguerreotype: P. 172; 
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 Missing page before P. 138; 
 
 Missing plate after P. 146, 154. 
 
 ^Photograph made when the college was located at 
 Church Street & Park Place. "A print by H.H. Snelli- 
 ng from a negative by L.E. Walker, showing the old 
 Columbia College building in the winter of 1856-7, 
 just before the college moved uptown to its new quar- 
 ters on Fiftieth Street. . .this shows Park Place being 
 cut through the old campus. "(THE COLUMBIA HIS- 
 TORICAL PORTRAIT OF NEW YORK by Kouwenho- 
 ven P. 256) 
 
Painted ty Six i'.Iawience P RA. 
 
ODE TO IMPUDENCE. 
 
 "Integer vilic, scelerisque jourus." 
 
 Horace, Book I, Ode 22. 
 
 The man who wears a brazen face, 
 
 Quite a son aise, his glass may quaff; 
 And whether in, or out of place, 
 
 May twirl his stick, and laugh ! 
 Useless to him the broad doubloon, 
 
 Red note, or dollar of the mill ; 
 Tho' all his gold be in the moon, 
 
 His brass is current money still. 
 Thus — when my cash was at low water, 
 
 At Mblo's 91 I sat down to dine ; 
 And, after a tremendous slaughter 
 
 Among the wild-fowl and the wine, 
 The bill before mine eyes was plac'd — 
 
 When, slightly turning round my bead, 
 " Charge it," cried I — the man amaz'd ! 
 
 Star'd — made his congee — and obey'd. 
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THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Oli ! bear me to some forest thick, 
 
 "Where wampum'd Ohoctaws prowl alone ; 
 "Where ne'er was heard the name of tick, 
 
 And bankrupt laws are quite unknown : 
 Or to some shop, by bucks abhorr'd, 
 
 Where to the longing pauper's sorrow, 
 The curst inscription decks the board 
 
 Of " Pay to-day and trust to-morrow :' ' 
 Or plunge me in the dungeon tower ; 
 
 With bolts and turnkeys blast mine eyes; 
 While, call'd from death by Marshall's power, 
 
 The ghosts of murdered debts arise ! 
 The easy dupes, I'll wheedle still, 
 
 With looks of brass and words of honey ; 
 And having scor'd a decent bill, 
 
 Pay off my impudence for money. 
 
 Croaker & Co. 
 
JOHN MARSHALL T.LJ). 
 
TO MRS. BARNES. 92 
 
 Dear Ma'am — We seldom take the pen 
 
 To praise, for whim and jest our trade is ; 
 We're used to deal with gentlemen, 
 To spatter folly's skirts, and then 
 
 We're somewhat bashful with the ladies. 
 
 Nor is it meant to give advice ; 
 
 We dare not take so much upon us ; 
 But merely wish, in phrase concise, 
 To beg you, Ma'am, and Mr. Price, 9;i 
 
 For God's sake, to have mercy on us. 
 
 Oh ! wave again thy wand of power, 
 
 No more in melo-dramas whine, 
 Nor toil Aladdin's lamp to scour, 
 Nor dance fandangoes by the hour 
 To Morgiana's tambourine ! 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Think, lady, what we're doom'd to feel ; 
 
 By heaven ! 'twould rouse the wrath of stoics 
 To see the queen of sorrows deal 
 In thundering, lofty — low, by Shiell, 
 
 Or mad Mathurin's mock-heroics. 
 
 Away with passion's withering kiss; 
 
 A purer spell he thine to win us; 
 Unlock the fount of holiness, 
 While gentle pity weeps in bliss, 
 
 And hearts throb sweetly-sad within us. 
 
 Or call those smiles again to thee 
 
 That shone upon the lip that wore them, 
 
 Like sun-drops on a summer- sea 
 
 When w aters ripple pleasantly 
 
 To wanton winds that flutter o'er them. 
 
 When pity wears her willow wreath, 
 
 Let I)esdemona*s woes be seen ; 
 Sweet Beverly's confiding faith, 
 Or Juliet, loving on in death, 
 
 Or uncomplaining Imogen. 
 
 "When wit and mirth their temples bind, 
 With thistle-shafts, o'erhung with flowers: 
 
 Then quaint and merry Rosalind, 
 
 Beatrice, with her April mind, 
 And Dinah's simple heart be ours. 
 
TUE CROAKERS. 
 
 For long- thy modest orb has been 
 
 Eclipsed by heartless cold parade ; 
 So sinks the light of evening's queen 
 When the dull earth intrudes between 
 Her beauties from the sun to shade. 
 
 Let fashion's worthless plaudits rise 
 
 At the deep tone, and practised start; 9 ' 
 Be thine, true feeling's stifled sighs, 
 Tears wrung from stern and stubborn eyes, 
 And smiles, that sparkle from the heart. 
 
 Croaker & 
 
A LICK AT A FASHIONABLE FOLLY 
 
 WHICH REIGNS AMONG THE SONS A Nil HAIG11TERS OF THE IIICHER OBDKR, 
 IN THE RENOWNED CITY OF GOTHAM, AT THIS PRESENT WRITING. 
 
 TO SIMON," 
 
 THE COOK COMME IL FAUT. 
 
 Dear Simon ! Prince of pastry cooks ! 
 
 Oysters, and ham, and cold neat's tongue ! 
 Pupil of Mitchill's cookery books! 
 
 And bosom friend of old and young ! 
 Sure from higher, brighter sphere, 
 
 In showers of gravy thou wert hurl'd : 
 To aid our routs ami parties here, 
 
 And grace the fashionable world ! 
 
 Taught by thy art, we closely follow 
 
 And ape the English lords and misses — 
 For music, we've the Black Apollo, 
 
 And Mrs. Poppleton 96 — for kisses; 
 "\Vc borrow all the rest, you know ; 
 
 Our glass from Christie, 97 for the time, 
 Plate from our Mends, to make a show . 
 
 And cash, to pay small bills from Prime. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 "What tlio' Old Squaretoea will not bless thee, 
 
 lie fears your power and dreads your bill ; 
 Ma and the " pretty dears " caress thee, 
 
 And pat thy cheek, and love thee still. 
 Oh Simon ! how we envy thee ! 
 
 "When belles, that long have frown'd on all, 
 Greet thee with smiles, and bend the knee, 
 
 To beg you'll help them give a ball. 
 
 Though ungenteel it is to think, 
 
 For thought affects the nerves and brain ! 
 Yet oft we think of thee, and drink 
 
 Thy health in Lynch's best champaigne : 
 'Tis pity that thy signal merit 
 
 Should slumber in so low a station : 
 Act, Simon, like a lad of spirit, 
 
 And thou, in time, may'st rule the nation. 
 
 Break up your Saturdays " At home" 
 
 Cut Guinea and your sable clan, 
 Buy a new eye-glass, and become 
 
 A dandy and a gentleman : 
 You must speak French, and make a bow, 
 
 Ten lessons are enough for that, 
 And Leavenworth will teach you how 
 
 To wear your corsets and cravat ! 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Throw all your chambers into one, 
 
 Hire fiddlers, glasses, barons 98 too, 
 And then invite the whole haut-ton, 
 
 Ask Hosack, he can tell you who. 
 The great that are and wish to be. 
 
 Within your brilliant rooms will meet, 
 And belles, of high and low degree, 
 
 From Broadway up to Cherry street ! 
 
 This will insure you free admission 
 
 To all our routs for years to come, 
 And when you die, a long procession 
 
 Of dandies shall surround your tomb. 
 We'll raise an almond statue where 
 
 In dust your honoured head reposes, 
 Mothers shall lead their daughters there 
 
 And bid them twine your bust with roses. 
 
 Croakek & Co. 
 
A LOVING EPISTLE 
 
 TO MR. WILLIAM COBBETT, OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD, LONG 
 ISLAND. 09 
 
 " Belov'd of Heaven ! (lie smiling Muse shall shed 
 Her moonlight halo on thy beauteous head! " 
 
 Campbell's Pleasures of Hope. 
 
 Pride, boast and. glory of each hemisphere ! 
 
 Well known, andlov'dinboth — great Cobbett, hail ! 
 Hero of Botley there, and Hempstead here — 
 
 Of Newgate, and a Pennsylvania jail. 
 Long sball this grateful nation bless the hour, 
 
 When by the beadle and your debts pursue!, 
 The victim, like fam'd Barrington, 100 of power, 
 
 " You left your country for your country's good! " 
 
 Terror of Borough-mongers, Banks and Crowns ! 
 
 Tborburn the seedsman, and Lord Castlereagh ! 
 Potato-tops fall withering at your frowns — 
 
 Grand Ruta Baga Turnip of your day ! 
 Banish the memory of the Lockhart's cane, 
 
 And Philadelphia pole-cats from your mind ; 
 Let the world scoff — still you and Hunt remain — 
 
 Yourselves a host — the envy of mankind ! 
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 THE CROAKERS. 
 
 "Whether, as once in Peter Porcupine, 
 
 You curse the country, whose free air your breathe, 
 Or, as plain William Cubbed toil to twine 
 
 Around your brows sedition's poison'd wreath, 
 Or, in your letter to Sir Francis, 101 tear 
 
 All mortal ties asunder with your pen, 
 AVc trace you, gentle spirit, every where, 
 
 And greet you, first of scribblers and of men. 
 
 Well may our hearts with pride and pleasure swell, 
 
 To know that face to face we soon shall meet: 
 We'll gaze upon you as you stand and sell 
 
 Grammars and Garden Seeds in Fulton street! 102 
 And praise your book that tells about the weather, 
 
 "Our laws, religion, hoys and things" to boot, 
 Where your immortal talents teach together 
 
 Turnips and "young ideas how to shoot." 
 
 In recompense, that j'ou've designed to make 
 
 Choice of our soil above all other lands, 
 A purse we'll raise to pay your debts, and take 
 
 Your unsold Registers oft' your hands. 
 For this we ask that you, for once, will show 
 
 Some gratitude, and, if you can, be civil ; 
 Born all your books, sell all your pigs, and go — 
 
 No matter where r— to England, or the devil ! ! 
 
 Cboakeb & Co. 
 
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BY JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. 
 I. 
 
 When Freedom from her mountain height 
 
 Unfurled her standard to the air, 
 She tore the azure robe of night, 
 
 And set the stars of glory there. 
 She mingled with its gorgeous dyes 
 The milky baldric of the skies, 
 And striped its pure celestial white 
 With streaking of the morning light ; 
 Then from his mansion in the sun 
 She called her eagle-hearer down, 
 And gave into his mighty hand 
 The symbol of her chosen land. 
 
THE AMERICAN FLAG. 103 
 
 When Freedom, from her mountain height, 
 Unfurl'd her standard to the air, 
 
 She tore the azure robe of night, 
 And set the stars of glory there ! 
 
 She mingled with its gorgeous dyes 
 
 The milky baldric of the skies, 
 
 And striped its pure celestial white 
 
 With streakings of the morning light; 
 
 Then, from his mansion in the sun, 
 
 She call'd her eagle bearer dow n, 
 
 And gave into his mighty hand 
 
 The symbol of her chosen land ! 
 
 Majestic monarch of the cloud ! 
 
 Who rear'st aloft thy regal form, 
 To hear the tempest-tramping loud, 
 And see the lightningdances driven, 
 
 When stride the warriors of the storm, 
 And rolls the thunder-drum of heaven ! 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Child of the Sun ! to thee 'tis given 
 
 To guard the banner of the free, 
 To hover in the sulphur smoke, 
 To ward away the battle stroke, 
 And bid its Mendings shine afar, 
 Like rainbow s on the cloud of war, 
 The harbingers of victory ! 
 
 Flag of the brave ! thy folds shall fly, 
 The sign of hope and triumph high ! 
 When speaks the signal trumpet-tone, 
 And the long line comes gleaming on, 
 (Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet, 
 Has dim'd the glist'ning bayonet,) 
 Each soldier's eye shall brightly turn 
 To where thy meteor-glories burn, 
 And, as his springing steps advance, 
 Catch war and vengeance from the glanc 
 And when the cannon-mouthings loud, 
 Heave in wild wreaths the battle-shroud, 
 And gory sabres rise and fall. 
 Like shoots of flame on midnight's pall 
 There shall thy victor-glances glow, 
 
 And cowering foes shall sink beneath, 
 Each gallant arm that strikes below, 
 
 The lovely messenger of death. 
 
T II E A M E R T C A N F L AG. 
 
 To hear tlie tempest-trumpings loud, 
 
 And see the lightning-lances driven, 
 When stride the warriors of the storm, 
 And rolls the thunder-drum of heaven ! 
 Child of the sun ! to thee 'tis given 
 
 To guard the banner of the free ! 
 To hover in the sulphur smoke, 
 To ward away the battle stroke, 
 And bid its blendings shine afar, 
 Like rainbows on the cloud of war— 
 
 The harbingers of victory ! 
 
THE AMERICAN F L A G 
 
 Flag of the brave ! thy folds shall fly, 
 The sign of hope and triumph high ; 
 When speaks the trumpet's signal tone, 
 And the long line comes gleaming on, 
 Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet, 
 Has dimm'd the glistening bayonet, 
 Each soldier's eye shall brightly turn 
 To where thy sty-born glories burn ; 
 And as his springing steps advance, 
 Catch war and vengeance from the glance: 
 And when the cannon-mouthings loud 
 Heave in wild wreaths the battle-shroud, 
 And gory sabres rise and fall 
 Like shoots of flame on midnight's pall — 
 
 Then shall thy meteor-glances glow, 
 And cowering foes shall sink beneath 
 
 Each gallant arm that strikes below 
 
 That lovely messenger of death ! 
 
T 11 E A M E BICAN F LAG. 
 
 Flag of the seas ! on ocean's wave, 
 Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; 
 When death, careering on the gale, 
 Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, 
 And frighted waves rush wildly back 
 Before the broadside's reeling rack, 
 Each dying wanderer of the sea 
 Shall look at once to heaven and thee, 
 And smile to see thy splendors fly 
 In triumph o'er his closing eye ! 
 
 Flag of the free heart's hope and home, 
 By angel hands to valor given, 
 
 Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, 
 And all thy hues were born in heaven ! 
 
 Forever float that standard sheet 
 Where breathes the foe that falls before us, 
 
 With Freedom's soil beneath our feet. 
 
 And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
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 ring - of the seas ! on ocean's wave 
 Thy star shall glitter o'er the brave, 
 "When Death, careering on the gale, 
 Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, 
 And frighted waves rush wildly back 
 Before the broad-sides reeling rack. 
 Tbe dying wanderer of the sea 
 Shall look, at once, to heaven and thee, 
 And smile, to see thy splendours fly, 
 In triumph, o'er his closing eye. 
 
 Flag of the free heart's only home, 
 
 By angel hands to valour given ! 
 Thy stars have lit the welkin dome 
 
 And all thy hues were born in heaven ! 
 Forever float that standard sheet ! 104 
 
 Where breathes the foe but falls before us ? 
 With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, 
 
 And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! 
 
 Croaker & Co. 
 
THE FORUMS. 105 
 
 " You trill recollect, gentlemen, your proper pauses, repetitions, hum's, 
 lia's, and interjections — and you, the speaker, remember to be miyhty dull — 
 and you, the audience, to fall asleep!" 
 
 Foote. 
 
 'Tis over — the fatal hour has come, 
 The voice of eloquence is dumb, 
 
 Mute are the members of the Forum ! 
 We've shed what tears we had to spare, 
 There now remains the pious care 
 
 Of chaunting a sad requiem o'er 'em. 
 
 The Roman drank the Tybcr's wave, 
 Ilissus' stream its virtues gave 
 
 To bid the Grecian live forever ; 
 Our Forum orators a draught 
 Of greater potency have quaff' d, 
 
 Sparkling and pure from the North River! 
 
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THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Proudly our bosoms beat to claim 
 Communion with our country's fame, 
 At mention of each gallant name 
 
 From Bunker's Hill to Chippewa ! 
 All, who, on battle-field or wave, 
 Have met the death that waits the brave, 
 Or peal'd, above their foeman's grave, 
 
 The victor's wild hurrah ! 
 
 And he, who quell'd a tyrant king, 
 
 And "grasped the lightning's fiery wing," 
 
 Was nurtur'd in our country's bowers ; 
 But now, a brighter gem is set 
 Upon her star-wrought coronet, 
 
 The world's first orators are ours ! 
 
 The name of every Forum chief 106 
 Shall gleam upon our history's leaf, 
 
 Circled with glory's fadeless fires; 
 And poet's pen and painter's pallet 
 Shall tell of William Paxson Hallett 
 
 And Richard Varick Dey — Esquires ! ! 
 
 Resort of fashion, beauty, taste — 
 The Forum Hall was nightly grae'd 
 With all who blush'd their hours to waste 
 
 At balls — and such ungodly places ; 
 And Quaker girls were there allow'd 
 To show, among the motly crowd. 
 
 Their sweet blue eyes and pretty faces. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 And thither all our wise ones went, 
 On charity and learning bent, 
 
 With open ears — and purses willing — 
 Where they could dry the orphan's tear, 
 And see the world, and speeches hear, 
 
 All — 11 for a matter of tiro shilling!" 
 
 Let Envy drop her raven quill, 
 Let Slander's venom'd lip be still, 
 
 And hush'd Detraction's croaking song ! 
 That dar'd, devoid of taste and sense, 
 To call these sons of Eloquence, 
 
 A stammering, spouting, schoolboy throng 
 
 'Tis false — for they in grave debate 
 Weigh'd mighty themes of church and state, 
 
 With words of power, and looks of sages ; 
 While, far-diffused, their gracious smile 
 Sooth'd Bony in his prison isle, 
 
 And Turkish wives in Ilaram's cages ! 
 
 Heaven bless 'em — for their generous pity 
 Toil'd hard to light our darkened city, 
 
 With that firm zeal that never flinches ; 
 And long, to prove the love they bore us, 
 With " more lust words " they linger'd o'er us, 
 
 And like a tom-cat, died by inches ! ! 
 
 Croaker & Co. 
 
ODE TO FORTUNE. 
 
 Fair lady with the handag'd eye ! 
 
 I'll pardon all thy scurvy tricks, 
 So thou wilt cut me and deny 
 
 Alike thy kisses and thy kicks : 
 I'm quite contented as I am — 
 
 Have cash to keep my duns at bay, 
 Can choose between beef steaks and ham, 
 
 And drink Madeira every day. 
 
 My station is the middle rank, 
 
 My fortune — just a competence — 
 Ten thousand in the Franklin Bank, 
 
 And twenty in the six per cents : 
 No amorous chains my heart enthrall, 
 
 I neither borrow, lend, nor sell ; 
 Fearless I roam the City Hall, 
 
 And bite my thumb at Mr. Bell. 107 
 
TilK CROAKERS. 
 
 Tlie horse that twice a year I ride, 
 
 At Mother Dawson's 108 eats his till : 
 My hooks at Goodrich's 109 ahide, 
 
 My country seat is Wehawk hill; 
 My morning lounge is Easthurn's 110 shop, 
 
 At roppleton's I take my lunch; 
 Xihlo prepares my mutton chop, 
 
 And Jennings 111 makes my whiskey punch. 
 
 When merry, I the hours amuse 
 
 By squibbing Bucktails, Guards, and Balls 
 And when I'm troubled with the hlues, 
 
 Damn Clinton, and ahuse Canals: 
 Then Fortune ! since I ask no prize, 
 
 At least preserve me from thy frown; 
 The man who don't attempt to rise, 
 
 'Twere cruelty to tumble down. 
 
 Croaker & Co. 
 
THE LOVE OF NOTORIETY. 
 
 1 ' ' Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, 
 To peep at such a world." 
 
 Cowper. 
 
 There are laurels our temples throb warmly to claim, 
 
 Uuwet by the blood-dripping fingers of Avar ; 
 And as dear to the heart are the whispers of fame, 
 
 As the blasts of her bugle rang fiercely and far. 
 The death-dirge is sung o'er the warrior's tomb, 
 
 Ere the world to his valor its homage will give : 
 But the feathers that form Notoriety's plume, 
 
 Are plucked in the sunshine, and bright while we live. 
 There's a wonderful charm in that sort of renown, 
 Which consists in becoming u the tall; of the town ; " 
 'Tis a pleasure which none but "your truly great " feels, 
 To be followed about by a mob at one's heels; 
 And to hear, from the gazing and mouth-open throng, 
 The dear words, " that's he," as one trudges along; 
 While Beauty, all anxious, stands up on tip-toes, 
 Leans on her beau's shoulders, and lisps " there he goes." 
 
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 THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Fortius, the young Dandy, half whalebone, half starch, 
 Parades Broadway, with the true Steuben march; 
 A new species of being — created, they say, 
 By nine London tailors, who ventured one day 
 To cabbage a spark of Promethean tire, 
 "Which they placed in a German doll stiffeu'd with wire, 
 And formed of the seare-erow a Dandy divine. 
 But mum about tailors — I have n't paid mine. 
 
 And for this, little Brummagem mounts with a smile, 
 His own hackney buggy — and dashes in style 
 
 From some livery stable to Cato's 112 hotel. 
 And, though 'tis a desperate task to be striving 
 With these sons of John Bull in the science of driving. 
 
 We have still a few othcis that do it as well. 
 There are, too, "par example," 'tis joy to behold, 
 
 With their Ilaytian grooms trotting graceful behind 
 'em, 
 
 In their lively jackets of blue, green and gold, 
 Their bright-varnish'dhats, and the laces that bind 'em, 
 
 The one's an Adonis — who since the sad day 
 
 That he shot at himself, 113 has been counted no more ; 
 
 The other's a name it were treason to say, 
 
 A very great man — with two lamps 111 at his door. 
 
 Croakbb & Co. 
 
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When the Western District was surveyed, the power of naming the 
 townships was entrusted to the Surveyor-General. Finding the Indian 
 appellations too sonorous and poetical, and that his own ear was not 
 altogether adapted for the musical combination of syllables, this 
 gentleman hit upon a plan, which for laughable absurdity, has never 
 been paralleled, except by the •' Philosophy," " Philanthropy," and 
 "Big Little Dry" system of Lewis & Clarke. [I was no oilier, than 
 selecting from Lempriere and the British Plutarch, the great names 
 which those works commemorate. This plan he executed with the 
 most ridiculous fidelity, and reared for himself an everlasting monu- 
 ment of pedantry and folly. 
 
 AN ODE 
 
 TO SIMEON DE WITT, 115 ESQUIRE, 
 
 SURVEYOR-GENERAL. 
 
 If, on the deathless page of Fame, 
 
 The warrior's deeds are writ ; 
 If that bright record hear the name 
 Of each, whose hallowed brow might claim 
 
 The wreath of wisdom or of wit : 
 If ever they, whose cash and care 
 Have nnrst the infant arts, he there, 
 
 What place remains for thee ? 
 Who, neither warrior, bard, nor sage, 
 Hast pour'd on this benighted age, 
 
 The blended light of all the three. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 God-father of* tlie christen'd West ! 
 
 Thy wonder-working power 
 Has call'd from their eternal rest, 
 The poets and the chiefs wlio hlest 
 
 Old Europe in her happier hour: 
 Thou givest, to the buried great, 
 A eitizen's certificate, 
 
 And, aliens now no more, 
 The children of each classic town 
 Shall emulate their sire's renown 
 
 In science, wisdom, or in war. 
 
 The bard who treads on Homer's earth 
 
 Shall mount the epic throne, 
 And pour like breezes of the north, 
 Such spirit-stirring stanzas forth 
 
 As Paulding would not blush to own 
 And he, who casts around his eyes 
 Where llniujxh it' bright stone-fences rif 
 
 Shall swear with thrilling joint, 
 (As German 116 did,) "we yet are free, 
 And this accursed tax should be 
 
 Resisted at the bayonet's point." 
 
 What man, where Scipio's praises skip 
 
 From every rustling leaf. 
 But girds cold iron on his hip, 
 With "•shoulder firelock!" arms his lip, 
 
 And struts, a bold militia chief! 
 

 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 And who, that breathes where Caio lies, 
 But feels the Censor spirit rise 
 
 At folly's idle pranks; 
 With voice that tills the Congress Halls, 
 "Domestic manufactures" bawls, 117 
 
 And damns the Dandies and the Banks. 
 
 Behold ! where Junius town is set, 
 
 A Brutus is the Judge ; 
 'Tis true, he serves the Tarquin yet, 
 Still winds his limbs in folly's net, 
 
 And seems a very patient drudge. 
 But let the Despot fall, and bright 
 As morning from the shades of night, 
 
 Forth in his pride he'll stand, 
 The guard and glory of our soil ! 
 A head for thought, a hand for toil, 
 
 A tongue to warn, persuade, command. 
 
 Lo ! Galen sends her Doctors round, 
 
 Proficients in their trade; 
 Historians are in Livy found, 
 Ulysses, from her teeming ground, 
 
 Pours Politicians, ready made ; 
 Fresh Orators in Tally rise, 
 Nestor, our Counsellors supplies, 
 
 Wise, vigilant, and close ; 
 Gracchus, our tavern-statesmen rears, 
 And Milton finds us pampldeteers, 
 
 As well as poets by the groce. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Surveyor of the western plains ! 
 
 The sapient work is thine — 
 Full-fledged, it sprung from out thy brains; 
 One added touch, alone, remains 
 
 To consummate the grand design, 
 Select a town — and christen it 
 With thy unrivali'd name, T)c Witt ! 
 
 Soon shall the glorious bantling bless us 
 With a fair progeny of Fools, 
 To till our colleges and schools 
 
 With tutors, regents and professors. 
 
 Oroakek & 
 
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TO E. SIMPSON, ESQ., 
 
 MANAGER OF THE THEATRE. 
 
 Dear Neddy, since the day is near, 
 
 Destined to close your late campaign, 
 'Tis well to note the coming year, 
 And learn how best you may appear 
 
 Before the public eye again. 
 One thing at least, whate'er you do, 
 For God's sake give us something new. 
 For though your actors have not lost 
 
 One candle-snuff' of Thespian fire, 
 Yet beauties, that delight us most, 
 
 The wearied eye, in time, will tire. 
 'Tis thus the sated gaze of taste 
 
 Holland's 118 drop-curtain heedless passes, 
 And thus the school-boy loathes, at last, 
 
 His sugar-candy and molasses. 
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 THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Now if you will but take advice, 
 
 Bank notes shall fall like summer rain, 
 And. next year, you and Mr. Price 
 
 May cut your Claret for Champagne. 
 Just hand your present corps down stairs, 
 
 Disband them all — and then create 
 Another army from the players 
 
 That figure on the stage of state. 
 A better set there can not be 
 
 For dap-trap and stage-trickery. 
 And they'll be well content to quit 
 
 Their present post for higher pay ; 
 For if they but good salaries get, 
 
 It matters not what parts they play. 
 You'll have no quarrelling about 
 The characters you deal them out ; 
 Their public acts too well have shown 
 They care but little for their own. 
 
 How nicely now would Spencer 119 tit 
 
 For "Overreach" and "Bajazet;" 
 
 Van Buren, tricky, sly, and thin. 
 
 Would make a noble "Harlequin;" 
 
 Clinton would play "King Dick" the surly, 120 
 
 Thelearncd "Pangloss," and grave "Lord Burleigh;" 
 
 "Woodworth 121 (whose name the Muse shall hallow). 
 
 Is quite at home in " Justice Shallow ;" 
 
 And slippery, smooth-laced Tallmadge 122 stands 
 
 A "Joseph Surface" to your hands. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Lo ! where the acting council 123 sits, 
 
 A grand triumvirate of wits, 
 
 Cut out express by Nature's chisel, 
 
 For "Noodle, Doodle and Lord Grizzle ;" 
 
 The 3L mix rs who contriv'd to fill 
 
 The state purse from the steamboat 1 -' till. 
 
 Dressed out iu turbans and white sleeves, 
 
 Would figure in the "Forty Thieves." 
 
 We'll linger with delightful grin, 
 
 To see old Root in " Nipperkin ;" 
 
 And gaze, with reverential wonder, 
 
 On Skinner's 125 sapient face in "Ponder;" 
 
 While Peter R , m the jovial soul, 
 
 Will toss oft' " Jobson's " brimming bowl, 
 
 Fit for a Senator to swim in ; 
 And bravos, rung from half the town, 
 Shall tell the fame of Walter Bowne 127 
 
 In " Caeafogo," and old women. 
 
 Our City Aldermen, you know. 
 
 Are conjurors, ex officio ; 
 
 And with the Mayor in his silk breeches, 
 
 Would do for "Hecate and the witches." 
 
 Christian and Warner, 123 long the scourges 
 
 Of Bucks and other "vagroni men,'" 
 Would find in " Dogberry and Verges" 
 
 Their very selves restored again. 
 
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 THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Buckmastcr, 129 fat, and full of glee, 
 
 Might rival Cooke in "Jack Falstaff;" 
 "Pistol " and "Bobadil " would be 
 
 Revived once more in Captain Ilaff. 
 To classic Meigs, who soon — thank Heaven! 
 
 In congress will illume the age; 
 The highest wages should he given 
 
 To trim the lamps and light the stage. 
 Van Wyck 130 will play the " Giant Wife," 
 And "Death in Blue Beard" — to the life; 
 And surly German 131 do, at least, 
 For "Bear" in "Beauty and the Beast." 
 
 Maxwell 132 and Gardenicr, you'll fix, 
 
 With strong indentures, by all means; 
 They're used to shifting politics, 
 
 And soon would learn to shift the scenes. 
 Bacon might hustle on in "Meddler," 
 Gilbert 133 play new tricks in "Diddler;" 
 
 Good, honest Peter II. Wendover, 1 *' 
 In " Vortex " read his own speech over ; 
 While Pell would strike the critics dumb, 
 A perfect miniature " Tom Thumb ;" 
 And Mitchill, as in all the past, 
 
 Talk science, and cut corns in "Last." 135 
 
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For the New York Evening Post. 130 
 
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 Air— Shannon Side. 
 
 The world is bright before thee, 
 
 Its summer flowers are thine, 
 Its calm blue sky is o'er thee, 
 
 Thy bosom, Pleasure's shrine ; 
 And thine the sunbeam given 
 
 To Nature's morning hour, 
 Pure, warm, as when from heaven 
 
 It burst on Eden's bower. 
 
 There is a song of sorrow, 
 
 The death-dirge of the gay, 
 That tells, ere dawn of morrow, 
 
 These charms may melt away : 
 That sun's bright beam be shaded, 
 
 That sky be blue no more, 
 The summer flowers be faded, 
 
 And youth's warm promise o'er. 
 
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 THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Believe it not — though lonely 
 
 Thy evening home may he, 
 Though Beauty's bark can only 
 
 Float on a summer sea ; 
 Though time thy hloom is stealing, 
 
 There's still heyond his art, 
 The wild-flower wreath of feeling, 
 
 The sunbeam of the heart. 
 
 Croaker & Co. 
 
THE COUNCIL OF APPOINTMENT. 137 
 
 "Off with his head! — so much for Buckingham." 
 
 Sliaks]ie:iiT. 
 
 There's magic in the rohe of power, 
 
 Ennobling every thing beneath it; 
 Its spell is like the Upas' bower, 
 
 Whose air will puff' up all who breathe it. 
 Alike it charms the horse-hair tress 
 
 That turkey's three-tailed Bashaws wear, 
 And hallow Clinton's levee dress, 
 
 Cut by the classic shears of Baehr. 138 
 
 Before its witchery — of late, 
 
 Our proudest politicians trembled ; 
 "When the five Heads that rule the state 
 
 Around the Council board assembled. 
 There, arbiter of fates and fortunes, 
 
 Of brains it well supplied the loss, , 
 Gave Bates 139 and Rosencrantz 140 importance. 
 
 And made a gentleman of Boss ! 141 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 'Tis vain to win a great man's name, 
 
 A\ r ithout some proof of having' been one, 
 And Killings- a sure path to fame, 
 
 Vide Jack Ketch and Mr. Clinton ! 
 Our Council well this path have trod, 
 
 Honor's immortal wreath securing, 
 They've dipped their hatchets in the blood, 
 
 The patriot blood of Mat. Van Buren. 142 
 
 He bears, as every hero ought, 
 
 The mandate of the powers that rule 
 (He's higher game in view, 'tis thought. 
 
 All in good time; the man's no fool). 
 With him, some dozens prostrate fall, 
 
 ~No friend to mourn, nor foe to flout them, 
 They die unsung, unwept by all, 
 
 For no one cares a sons about them ! 
 
 Wortman and Scott may grace the bar again, 
 
 For them, a blest exchange we make; 
 "We've dignity in Ned McGarraghan, 
 
 We've every thing in Jerry Drake. 
 And lo ! the w reath of wither'd leaves 
 
 That lately twined Van Iiuren's brow, 
 Oakley's pure, spotless hand receives ; 
 
 lie's earned it — 'tis no matter how! 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Let office holders cease to weep, 
 
 And put once more their gala dress on, 
 The Council's closed, and they may sleep 
 
 In cpiiet, 'till the winter session. 
 Since all, or in, or out of place, 
 
 Wear Knavery's cloak or Folly's feather, 
 'Tis ours, their ups and downs to trace, 
 
 And laugh at ins and outs together. 
 
 Croakkr & 
 
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Fit i hay. G o'clock. 
 
 Mr. Coleman: The extravagant price of Leghorn hats in London, 
 •as mentioned in your paper this evening, suggests the annexed lines. 
 
 Yon will observe, that part of the first stanza is an almost literal 
 quotation from Milton. 
 
 Yours, 
 
 Croaker. 
 
 CURTAIN CONVERSATIONS. 143 
 
 " / will pny no debts of her contracting after this date." 
 
 Daily Newspapers. 
 
 "Beside the nuptial curtain bright," 
 
 The hard of Kden sings, 
 "Young Love his constant lamp will light, 
 
 And wave his purple wings." 
 But rain-drops, from the clouds of care, 
 
 May hid that lamp he dim, 
 And the hoy Love will pout and swear 
 
 'Tis then no place for him. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 So mus'd tlie lovely Mrs. Dash 
 
 (We blush to mention names), 
 When for her surly husband's cash 
 
 She urg'd, in vain, her claims. 
 " I want a little money, dear, 
 
 "As Vandervoort and Flandin, 144 
 " Their bill (which now has run a year) 
 
 " To-morrow mean to hand in." 
 
 " Zounds ! 145 cried the husband, half asleep, 
 
 " You'll drive me to despair." 
 The lady was too proud to weep, 
 
 And too polite to swear : 
 She bit her lip for very spite ; 
 
 He felt a storm was brewing, 
 And dream'd of nothing else all night 
 
 But brokers, banks and ruin ! 
 
 He thought her pretty once — but dreams 
 
 Have sure a wond'rous power; 
 For, to his eye, the lady seems 
 
 Quite altered since that hour. 
 And Love, who, on their bridal eve, 
 
 Had promised long to stay, 
 Forgot his promise, took French leave, 
 
 And bore his lamp away. 
 
 Croaker & 
 
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 FOR TUE OPENING OF THE NEW THEATRE, TO BE SPOKEN BY 
 MR. OLLIFF. w 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen : 
 
 Enlighten'd as you are, you all must know 
 Our play house was burnt down, some time ago, 
 Without insurance 14 * — 'Twas a famous blaze, 
 Fine fun for firemen, but dull sport for plays : 
 The proudest of our whole dramatic corps 
 Such warm reception never met before. 
 It was a woful night for us and ours, 
 "Worse than dry weather to the fields and flowers, 
 The evening found us gay as summer's lark, 
 
 Happy as sturgeons in the Tappan sea ; 
 The morning — like the dove from Noah's ark, 
 
 As homeless, houseless, innocent as she. 
 But — thanks to those who ever have been known 
 To love the public interest — when their own ; 
 Thanks to the men of talent and of trade, 
 Who joy in doing well — when they're well paid, 
 Again our fircworn mansion is rebuilt. 
 Inside and outside, neatly carv'd and gilt. 
 With best of paint and canvas, lath and plaster, 
 The Lord bless Heekman and John Jacob Astor." 
 
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 As an old coat, from Jennings' 150 patent screw, 
 Conies out clean-scon v'd and brighter than the new, 
 As an old head in Saunders' 151 patent wig, 
 Looks wiser than when young, and twice as big, 
 As Mat. Van Buren, in the Senate Hall, 
 Repairs the loss we met in Spencer's fall. 
 As the new constitution will (we're told) 
 Be worth at least a dozen of the old — 
 So is our new house better than its brother, 
 Its roof is painted yellower than the other, 
 It is insur'd at three per cent, 'gainst fire, 
 And cost three times as much, and is six inches higher. 
 
 Tis not alone the house — The prompter's clothes 
 Are all quite new — so are the fiddlers' bows ; 
 The supernumeraries are newly shav'd, 
 New drill'd, and all extremely well behav'd, 
 (They'll each one be allow'd (I stop to mention) 
 The right of suffrage by the new convention) ; 
 We've some new thunder, several new plays. 
 And a new splendid carpet of green baize. 
 So that there's nought remains to bid us reach 
 The topmost bough of favor — but a speech — 
 A speech — the prelude to each public meeting, 
 Whether for morals, charity or eating ; 
 A speech — the modern mode of winning hearts, 
 And power, and fame, in politics and arts. 
 
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 THE CROAKERS. 
 
 "What made the good Monroe our President ? 
 'Twas that through all this blessed land he went 
 With his immortal cock'd hat and short breeches, 
 Dining wherever ask'd — and making speeches. 
 What, when Missouri stood on her last leers. 
 Revived her hopes ? — the speech of Henry Meigs. 152 
 What proves our country learned, wise and happy ? 
 MitchilTs Address to the Phi Beta Kappa. 
 What has convinced the world that we have men 
 First with the sword, the chisel, brush and pen, 
 Shaming all English Authors, men or madams ? 
 The Fourth of July speech of Mr. Adams. 
 Yes — If our managers grow great and rich, 
 And players prosper — let them thank my speech, 153 
 And let the name of Ollitf proudly go 
 AVith Meigs and Adams, Mitchill and Monroe. 
 
TO WALTER BOWNE, ESQ., 151 
 
 SENATOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL 
 APPOINTMENT. 1 " AC. &C. 4C, AT ALBANY IN THE SPRING OF 1821. 
 
 " I can not but remember that such things were, 
 And were most precious to me." 
 
 Shakspeare. 
 
 We do not blame you, Walter Bowne, 
 
 For a variety of reasons, 
 You're now the talk of half the town, 
 A man of talent and renown, 
 
 And will he, for perhaps two seasons. 
 That face of yours has magic in it, 
 Its smile transports us in a minute, 
 
 To wealth and pleasure's sunny bowers : 
 And there is terror in its frown, 
 Which, like a mower's scythe, cuts down 
 
 Our city's loveliest flowers. 
 
 We, therefore, do not blame you, sir, 
 Whate'er our cause of grief may be, 
 
 And cause enough we have to stir 
 The very stones to mutiny. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 You've driven from the eash and cares 
 Of office, heedless of onr prayers, 
 Men who have been, for many a year, 
 To us, and to our purses dear, 
 
 And will he to our heirs for ever. 
 Onr tears, aided by snow and rain, 
 Have swelled tbe brook in Maiden lane 
 
 Into a mountain river; 
 And when von visit us again, 
 Leaning at Tammany on your cane. 
 Like warrior on bis battle-blade. 
 You'll mourn tbe havoc you have made. 
 
 The] 'e is a silence and a sadness 
 
 Within the marble mansion now : 
 Some have wild eves that look like madness, 
 
 Some talk of kicking up a row. 
 Judge Miller will not yet believe 
 That yon have ventured to bereave 
 
 The city and its hall of him ; 
 He has in his own fine way stated, 
 " The fact must be substantiated," 
 
 Before he'll move a single limb. 
 He thinks it cursed hard to yield 
 The laurel won in every field, 
 
 Through sixteen years of party war. 
 And to be seen at noon no more 
 Enjoying, at his office door, 
 
 The luxury of a tenth segar. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Judge Warner says that, now he's gone, 
 We've lost the true Dogberry breed ; 
 
 And Christian swears that you have done 
 A most ?M-Christian deed. 
 
 How could you have the heart to strike 
 
 From place the peerless Pierre Van Wyek? 
 
 And the two colonels, Haines 1515 and Pell, 
 
 Squire Fessenden and Sheriff Bell? 157 
 
 Morrell, a justice, and a wise one, 
 
 And Ned M'Laughlin, the exciseman ? 
 
 The two health officers, believers 
 
 In Clinton and contagious fevers? 
 
 The keeper of the city's treasures, 
 
 The sealer of her weights and measures ? 
 
 The harbor master, her best bower 
 
 Cable in party's stormy hour? 
 Ten auctioneers, three bank directors, 
 And Mott and Duffy, the inspectors 
 
 Of whiskey and of flour? 
 
 It was but yesterday they stood 
 All (ex officio) great and good — 
 But by the tomahawk struck down 
 Of party, and of Walter Bowne, 
 Where are they now ? — with shapes of air, 
 The caravans of things that were, 
 Journeying to their nameless home 
 Like Mecca's pilgrims from her tomb — 
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THE CROAKERS. 
 
 With the lost Pleiad — with the wars 
 
 Of Agamemnon's ancestors — 
 
 With their own years of joy and grief, 
 
 Spring's bud and autumn's faded leaf, 
 
 With birds that round their cradles flew, 
 
 With winds that in their boyhoods blew, 
 
 With last night's dream and last night's dew. 
 
 Yes, they are gone, alas, each one of them, 
 
 Departed, every mother's son of them. 
 
 Yet, often, at the close of day, 
 
 When thoughts are winged and wandering, they 
 
 Come with the memory of the past, 
 
 Like sunset clouds along the wind, 
 Reflecting, as they're flitting fast, 
 In their wild hues of shade and light, 
 All that was beautiful and bright, 
 
 In golden moments left behind. 
 
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THE RECORDER. 158 
 
 A I' E T I C A L EPISTL E . 
 
 BY THOMAS CASTALY. 
 
 " On they move 
 In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood 
 Of Jlutes and soft Recorders." 
 
 Milton. 
 
 "Live in Settles numbers one day more! " 
 
 Pope. 
 
 My dear Dick Biker, 189 you and I 
 
 Have floated down life's stream together, 
 And kept unharmed our friendship's tie, 
 Through every change of fortune's sky, 
 
 Her pleasant and her rainy weather. 
 Full sixty times since first we met, 
 Our birth-day suns have risen and set, 
 And time has worn the baldness now 
 Of Julius Csesar on your brow ; 
 
Till: CHOAKKKS. 
 
 Your brow — like his, a Hold of thought, 
 With broad (loop furrows, spirit-wrought. 
 Whose laurel harvests long have shone 
 As green and glorious as his own : 
 And proudly would the Cv.sah claim 
 Companionship with Rikku's name, 
 His poor in forehead and in tamo. 
 Both eloquent and learned and brave, 
 
 Horn to command and skilled to rule, 
 One made the citizen a slave. 
 
 The other makes him more — a tool. 
 The C.v.sAH an imperial crown. 
 
 His slaves' mad gift, refused to wear; 
 The Rikkk put his fool's eap on. 
 
 And found it fitted to a hair. 
 The C.KS.ut, though by birth and breeding. 
 Travel, the ladies, and light reading. 
 A gentleman in mien and mind. 
 
 And fond of Romans and their mothers. 
 Was heartless as the Arab's wind. 
 And slew some millions of mankind, 
 
 Including enemies and others. 
 The K ik Kit, like Bob Ai res, stood 
 Edge-ways upon a Held of blood. 
 
 The where and wherefore Swartwout know 
 Pulled trigger, as a brave man should. 
 
 And shot, (iod bless them — his own toes. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 The CiESAii passed the Rubicon 
 With helm and shield and breast plate on, 
 Dashing his war-horse through the waters; 
 The Hiker would have built a barge 
 Or steam boat, at the city's charge, 
 And passed it with his wife and daughters. 
 But let that pass. As I have said, 
 There's nought, save laurels, on your head, 
 And time has changed my clustering hair, 
 And showered the snow flakes thickly there, 
 And though our lives have ever been, 
 As different as their different scene ; 
 Mine more renowned for rhymes than riches, 
 Your's less for scholarship than speeches ; 
 Mine passed in low-roofed leafy bower, 
 Your's in high halls of pomp and power, 
 Yet are we, be the moral told, 
 Alike in one thing — growing old ; 
 Ripened like summer's cradled sheaf, 
 Faded like Autumn's falling leaf — 
 And nearing, sail and signal spread. 
 The quiet anchorage of the dead ; 
 For such is human life, wherever 
 The voyage of its bark may be, 
 On home's green-banked and gentle river. 
 Or the world's shoreless, sleepless sea. 
 
 Yes, you have floated down the tide 
 Of time, a Swan in grace and pride 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 And majesty and beauty, till 
 The law, the Ariel of your will, 
 
 Power's best beloved, the law of libel 
 (A bright link in the feudal chain) 
 Expounded, settled, and made plain, 
 
 By your own charge, the Jurors' Bible, 
 Has clipped the venomed tongue of Slander, 
 That dared to call you " Party's Gander, 
 " The leader of the geese who make 
 
 " Our city's parks and ponds their home, 
 "And keep her liberties awake 
 
 "By cackling, as their sires saved Rome. 
 " Gander of Party's pond, wherein 
 "Lizard, and toad, and terrapin, 
 " Your ale-house patriots, are seen, 
 
 "La Faction's feverish sunshine basking." 
 And now, to rend this veil of lies, 
 Word-woven by your enemies, 
 And keep your sainted memory free, 
 From tarnish with posterity, 
 
 I take the liberty of asking 
 Permission, sir, to write 3'our life, 
 With all its scenes of calm and strife, 
 
 And all its turnings and its windings, 
 A poem in a quarto volume, 
 Verse like the subject, blank and solemn, 
 
 "With elegant appropriate bindings, 
 Of rat and mole skin the one half, 
 The other a part fox, part calf. 
 
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THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Your portrait graven line for line, 
 From that immortal bust in plaster, 
 The master piece of Art's great Master, 
 
 Mr. Praxiteles Browere, 
 Whose trowel is a thing divine, 
 Shall smile and how, and promise there, 
 And twenty-nine fine forms and faces, 
 
 The Corporation and the Mayor, 
 Linked hand in hand, like Loves and Graces, 
 
 Shall hover o'er it grouped in air 
 With wild pictorial dance and song; 
 The song, of happy bees in bowers, 
 The dance of Guido's graceful hours, 
 All scattering Flushing's garden flowers 
 Round the dear head they've loved so long. 
 
 I know that you are modest, know 
 
 That when you hear your merit's praise, 
 Your cheek's epiick blushes come and go, 
 Lily and rose-leaf, sun and snow, 
 
 Like maidens' on their bridal days. 
 I know that you would fain decline 
 To aid me and the sacred Wme, 
 In giving to the asking Earth, 
 The story of your wit and worth ; 
 For if there be a fault to cloud 
 
 The brightness of your clear good sense, 
 It is, and be the fact allowed, 
 
 Your only failing — Diffidence ! 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 An amiable weakness — given 
 
 To justify the sad reflection, 
 That in this vale of tears not even 
 
 A Riker is Complete perfection. 
 A most romantic detestation 
 Of power and place, of pay and ration ; 
 A strange unwillingness to carry 
 
 The weight of honor on your shoulders, 
 For which you have been named, the very 
 
 Sensitive-plant of office holders. 
 A shrinking bashfulness, whose grace 
 Gives beauty to your manly face. 
 Thus shades the green and growing vine, 
 The rough bark of the mountain pine, 
 Thus round her Freedom's waking steel 
 
 Harmodius wreathed his country's myrtle 
 And thus the golden lemon's peel 
 
 Gives fragrance to a bowl of turtle. 
 
 True " many a flower," the poet sings, 
 
 " Is born to blush unseen," 
 But you, although you blush, are not 
 
 The flower the poets mean. 
 In vain you wooed a lowlier lot. 
 
 In vain you dipt your eagle-wings ; 
 Talents like yours are not forgot 
 
 And buried with Earth's common things. 
 No ! my dear Biker, [ would give 
 My laurels, living and to live. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
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 Or as much cash as you could raise ou 
 Their value, by hypothecation, 
 To be, for one enchanted hour, 
 In beauty, majesty, and power, 
 What you for forty years have been, 
 The Oberon of life's fairy scene ! 
 
 An anxious city sought and found you 
 
 In a blest day of joy and pride, 
 Sceptered your jewelled hand, and crowned you 
 
 Her chief, her guardian, and her guide. 
 Honors which weaker minds had wrought 
 
 In vain for years, and knelt and prayed for, 
 Are all your own, unpriced, unbought, 
 
 Or (which is the same thing) unpaid for. 
 Painfully great ! against your will 
 
 Her hundred offices to hold, 
 Each chair with dignity to fill, 
 
 And your own pockets, with her gold. 
 A sort of double duty, making 
 Your task a serious undertaking. 
 
 With what delight, the eyes of all 
 Gaze on you, seated in your Hall, 101 
 
 Like Saneho in his island, reigning, 
 Lord leader of its motley hosts 
 Of lawyers and their bills of costs, 
 
 And all things thereto appertaining, 
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THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Such as crimes, constables and juries, 
 
 Male pilferers and female furies, 
 
 The police and the J*ollissons, 
 
 Illegal right and legal wrong. 
 
 Bribes, perjuries, law-craft and cunning, 
 
 Judicial drollery and punning; 
 
 And all the el ceteras that grace 
 
 That genteel, gentlemanly place ! 
 
 Or in the Council Chamber standing, 
 
 With eloquence of eye and brow, 
 Your voice the music of commanding, 
 
 And fascination in your bow, 
 Arranging for the civic shows 
 
 Your "men in buckram," as per list, 
 Your John Does and your Richard Roes, 
 
 Those Dummys of your games of whist. 
 The Council Chamber — where authority 
 Consists in two words — a majority. 
 For whose contractors' jobs we pay 
 
 Our last dear sixpences for taxes, 
 As freely as in Sylla's day, 
 
 Home bled beneath his lictors' axes. 
 "Where — on each magisterial nose 
 
 In colors of the rainbow linger, 
 Like sunset hues on Alpine snows, 
 
 The printmarks of your thumb and finger. 
 Where he, the wisest of wild fow l. 
 Bird of .love's blue-eyed maid — the owl. 
 
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PEWTER MUG TAVERN & 'IAMMANY HAIL, FRANKFORT S T - 1860 
 
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THE CROAKERS. 
 
 That feathered alderman, is heard 
 lightly, by poet's ear alone, 
 To others' eyes and ears unknown, 
 
 Cheering your every look and word. 
 And making, room and gallery through. 
 
 The loud, applauding echoes peal, 
 Of his " ou peut on etre mieux 
 Qu'au sein de sa famille." 162 
 Oh ! for a Herald's skill to rank 
 
 Your titles in their due degrees ! 
 At Sing Sing — at the Tradesmen's Bank, 
 
 In courts, committees, caucuses : 
 At Albany, where those who know 
 
 The last year's secrets of the Great, 
 Call you the golden handle to 
 
 The earthen Pitcher of the State. 
 (Poor Pitcher ! 163 that Van Buren ceases 
 
 To want its service gives me pain, 
 'Twill break into as many pieces 
 
 As Kitty's of Coleraine.) 
 At Bellevue, 101 on her banquet night, 
 
 "Where Burgundy and business meet, 
 On others, at the heart's delight, 
 
 The Pewter Mug 165 in Frankfort street, 
 From Harlem bridge to "Whitehall dock, 
 
 From Bloomiugdale to Blackwell's isles, 
 Forming, including road and rock, 
 
 A city of some twelve square miles, 
 
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 THE CROAKERS. 
 
 O'er street and alley, square and block, 
 Towers, temples, telegraphs and tiles, 
 O'er wharves whose stone and timbers mock 
 The ocean's and its navies' shock, 
 O'er all the fleets that float before her, 
 O'er all their banners waving o'er her, 
 Her sky and waters, earth and air — 
 You are Lord, for who is her Lord Mayor ? 
 AVhere is he? Echo answers, where? 
 And voices, like the sound of seas 
 Breathe in sad chorus, on the breeze, 
 The Highland mourner's melody — 
 Oh Hone 1(56 a rie ! O Hone a rie ! 
 The hymn o'er happy days departed, 
 The hope that such again may be, 
 When power was large and liberal-hearted, 
 And wealth was hospitality. 
 
 One more request, and I am lost 
 
 If you its earnest prayer deny, 
 It is that you preserve the most 
 
 Inviolable secrecy 
 As to my plan. Our fourteen wards 
 Contain some thirty-seven bards, 
 Who, if my glorious theme were known, 
 Would make it, thought and word, their own, 
 My hopes and happiness destroy, 
 And trample with a rival's joy 
 
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TILE CROAKERS. 
 
 Upon the grave of my renown. 
 My younger brothers in the art, 
 Whose study is the human heart — 
 Minstrels, before whose spells have bowed 
 The learned, the lovely, and the proud — 
 
 Ere their life's morning hours are gone 
 Free minds be theirs, the Muse's boon, 
 And may their suns blaze bright at noon, 
 
 And set without a cloud. 
 
 Hillhouse, whose music like his themes 
 
 Lifts earth to Heaven — •whose poet-dreams 
 
 Are pure and holy as the hymn 
 
 Echoed from harps of seraphim, 
 
 By bards that drank at Zion's fountains 
 
 When glory, peace, and hope were hers, 
 And beautiful upon her mountains 
 
 The feet of angel messengers. 
 Bryant, whose songs are thoughts that bless 
 
 The heart, its teachers, and its jo}*, 
 As mothers blend with their caress 
 Lessons of truth and gentleness 
 
 And virtue for the listening boy. 
 Spring's lovelier flowers for many a day 
 Have blossomed on his wandering way — 
 Being of beauty and decay, 
 
 They slumber in their autumn tomb ; 
 But those who graced his own Green River, 
 
 And wreathed the lattice of his home, 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Charmed by his sons; from mortal doom, 
 Bloom on, and will bloom on forever. 
 
 And Halleck — who has made thy roof, 
 
 St Tammany ! oblivion-proof — 
 
 Thy beer illustrious, and thee 
 
 A belted knight of chivalry; 
 
 And changed thy dome of painted bricks, 
 
 And porter casks, and politics, 
 Into a green Arcadian vale, 
 
 With Stephen Allen 167 for its lark, 
 
 Ben Bailey's voice its watch dog's bark 
 And John Targee, 168 its nightingale. 
 
 These, and the other thirty-four, 
 Will live a thousand 3-ears or more — 
 If the world lasts so long. For me, 
 I rhyme not for posterity, 
 Though pleasant to my heirs might be 
 
 The incense of its praise, 
 When I, their ancestor, have gone 
 And paid the debt, the only one 
 
 A poet ever pays. 
 But many are my years, and few 
 Are left me ere night's holy dew. 
 And sorrow's holier tears, will keep 
 The grass green where in death I sleep. 
 And when that grass is green above me, 
 And those who bless me now and love me 
 
 Are sleeping by my side, 
 
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THE CROAKERS. 
 
 103 
 
 Will it avail me aught that men 
 Tell to the world with lip and pen 
 
 That once I lived and died ? 
 'No — if a garland for my brow 
 Is growing, let me have it now, 
 
 "While I'm alive to wear it; 
 And if, in whispering my name, 
 There's music in the voice of fame. 
 
 Like Garcia's, let me hear it ! 
 
 The Christmas holidays are nigh, 
 Therefore, 'till New- Year's Eve, good bye, 
 
 Then revenons a nos moutons, 
 Yourself and Aldermen — meanwhile, 
 Look o'er this letter with a smile ; 
 And keep the secret of its song 
 As faithfully, but not as long, 
 As you have guarded from the eyes 
 Of editorial Paul Prys, 
 
 And other meddling, murmuring claimants, 
 Those Eleusinian mysteries. 
 
 The City's cash receipts and payments. 
 
 Yours ever, 
 
 T. C. 
 
For the Evening Post. 189 
 
 EPISTLE TO ROBERT HOGBTN, ESQ. 
 
 ONE OF THK COMMITTER OF WORKING MEN, AC, AT THE WESTCHESTER 
 HOTEL, BOWERY. 
 
 Mr. Ho<; bin, I work as a weaver of rhyme, 
 
 And therefore presume, with a working man's grace, 
 
 To address you, as one I have liked for some time, 
 Though I know not (no douht its a fine one) your face. 
 
 There is much in a name, and I'll lay you a wager 
 (Two small jugs from Reynolds 170 ), that Nature de- 
 signed, 
 
 When she found you, that you should hecome the drum 
 major, 
 
 In that sweet piece of music the Grand March of Mind. 
 
 A HOGBIM ! a HoGBIN ! how cheering the shout 
 Of all that keep step to that beautiful air 
 
 Which leads, like the Treadmill, about and about, 
 And leaves us exactly, at last, where we were. 
 
FRANCIS BACON, VI SCOT X T ST AJLBAN. 
 
 OB UiW. 
 
 KHOM TIIK OKWINAI. <>K VAX SOMF.R.IK THK COI.I.KCTION or 
 Till-: KiUHT BUS"VTBIJ BAKJ. OF \K.Kll..\M 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
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 Yes, there's much in a name, and a Hogbin so fit is 
 
 For that great moral, purpose whose impulse divine, 
 Bids men leave their own workshops to work in com- 
 mittees, 
 
 And their own wedded wives to protect yours and mine. 
 
 That we working* men prophets are sadly mistaken, 
 If yours is not, Hogbin, a durable fame, 
 
 Immortal as England's philosopher Bacon, 
 
 Whom your ancestors housed, if we judge by his name. 
 
 When the moment arrives that we've won the good fight, 
 And broken the chains of laws, churches and mar- 
 riages, 
 
 When no infants are born under six feet in height, 
 And our chimney sweeps mount up a flue in their 
 carriages. 
 
 That glorious time, when our daughters and sons 
 Enjoy a Blue Monday each day of the w*eek, 
 
 And a clean shirt is classed with the mastodon's bones, 
 Or a mummy from Thebes, an undoubted anticpie. 
 
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106 
 
 THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Then, then, my dear IIogbin, your statue in straw, 
 By some modern Pygmalion delightfully wrought, 
 
 Shall be placed in the Park, and our youths' only law 
 Shall be to be Hogbins in feeling and thought ! 
 
 Yours, 
 
 A "Working M ax. 
 
THE DINNER PARTY. 
 
 Johnny R 171 gave a dinner last night, 
 
 The best I have tasted this season, 
 The wine and the wit sparkled bright, 
 
 'Twas a frolic of soul and of reason. 
 For the guests, there were Cooper 172 and Kean 
 
 Bishop Hobart, m and Alderman Brasher, 
 And Buchanan, 175 that foe to the rpieen, 
 
 And Sherred, the painter and glazier. 
 
 The beef had been warm, it is true, 
 
 But when we sat down, it was colder ; 
 The wine when we entered was new, 
 
 When we drank it, 'twas six hours older. 
 Mr. Kean, by the way he's no dunce, 
 
 His plate was so often repeating, 
 I thought he'd a genius at once, 
 
 Not only for acting, but eating. 
 
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 THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Mr, Cooper, a sensible man, 
 
 Talked much of his scheme of rebuilding 
 The theatre on a new plan, 
 
 With fantastical carving and gilding. 
 Says he, " I've a thought of my own ; 
 
 Of the people, so stupid the taste is, 
 I could till the new play house in June 
 
 If I only could furnish new faces." 
 
 In addition to those I have named, 
 
 Harry Crnger 17 " was there in his glory, 
 That ci-devant jeune homme so famed 
 
 In Paris — but that's an old story. 
 And General Lewis, 177 by Jove ! 
 
 With two vests, and a new fashioned eye-glass, 
 He looked like the young god of love 
 
 At distance, beheld through a spy -glass; 
 
 I have read my first stanza again 
 
 And find that for once I have erred, 
 For Robert and Mat were the men, 
 
 Instead of Buchanan and Sherred. 
 Two Frenchmen, the best I have met, 
 
 At home, in bad English and flummery, 
 Were there — just to make up the set, 
 
 Together with Master Montgomery. 178 
 
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THE CROAKERS. 
 
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 Jack Nicholson 179 wanted to come 
 
 With his pea-jacket on, but the ladies 
 Compelled him to leave it at home ; 
 
 So he wore, as becoming his trade is, 
 Two epanlets — one on each arm, 
 
 And a sword, once of laurels the winner, 
 Ever ready in case of alarm, 
 
 At carving a foe or a dinner. 
 
 Bishop Hobart said grace with an air, 
 
 'T would have done your heart good to have seen him , 
 And Lewis, so sweetly did swear, 
 
 You'd have thought that the devil was in him. 
 And Alderman Brasher 180 began 
 
 A song, but he could not go through it : 
 When Johnny R asks me again 
 
 To a fete, by the Lord, I'll go to it. 
 
THE TEA PARTY 
 
 The tea-urn is singing-, the tea cups are gay, 
 
 The fire sparkles bright in the room of D. K. 1M 
 For the first time these six mouths, a broom has been 
 there, 
 
 And tlie housemaid has brushed every table and chair; 
 Drugs, minerals, books, are all hidden from view, 
 
 And the five shabby pictures arc varnished anew; 
 There's a feast going on, there's the devil to pay 
 
 In the furnished apartments of Doctor J). K. 
 
 What magic has raised all this bustle and noise, 
 
 Disturbing the bachelor's still epiiet joys; 
 A pair of young witches have doomed them to death, 
 
 They are distant relations to those in Macbeth. 
 Not as ugly 'tis true, but as mischievious quite, 
 
 And like them in teasing and taking delight : 
 This morning they sent him a billet to say. 
 
 To night we take tea with you, Doctor I). K. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
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 There is Mrs. I. D. in her high glee and glory, 
 
 And E. McC. with her song and her story ; 
 There's a smile on each lip, and a leer on each brow, 
 
 And they both are determined to kick up a row ; 
 They're mistaken for once, as they'll presently see, 
 
 ForD. K.'s drinking whiskey with Langstaff and me ; 
 They'll find the cage there, but the bird is away, 
 
 Catch a weazel asleep, and catch Doctor D. K. 
 
 F. G. H. 1820. 
 
THE MODERN HYDRA. 
 
 There is a beast sublime and savage, 
 
 The Hydra by denomination; 
 Well doth he know his foes to ravage, 
 
 And barks and bites to admiration. 
 Fox — wolf — cat — dog — of each, at least, he 
 
 Has a full share, and never scants 'em ; 
 But what is strangest in this beast, he 
 
 Can make new beads whene'er he wants 'em. 
 
 For when our Tammany Alcides 
 
 Had tomahawk'd his head political, 
 Straight from the bleeding trunk, out slid his 
 
 Well fill'd noddle scientifical. 
 Another comes — another! sec — 
 
 They rise in infinite variety ; 
 One cries aloud " Free school trustee !" 
 
 The next exclaims, "Humane society ! " 
 
TIIE CROAKERS. 
 
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 Behold the fourth — be-whiskered — l>ig — 
 
 A warlike eock'd hat frowns upon it ; 
 The fifth uprears a doctor's wig I 
 
 The sixth displays the judgment bonnet. 
 Herculean iNbah ! your strength you waste, 
 Reserve your furious cuts and slashes, 
 Till Satan stands beside the beast 
 With red-hot steel to sear the gashes. 
 
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TTIK MEETING OF THE GROCERS. 
 
 The knights of the firkin are gathered around. 
 
 The rag-idol's rights to assert: 
 Each gatherer pricks up his ears at the sound. 
 Town rags are advancing a penny a pound, 
 
 While country rags sink in the dirt. 
 
 Aghast stand the brokers — the earn ing trade 
 
 Is lost if the butter-hoys win ; 
 The fanners are quaking — the west is dismayed. 
 Omnipotent Fundable trembles, afraid, 
 
 And Wall street is all in a din. 
 
 'T wasn't so when the banks, in a body, prepared 
 
 To cut their own corporate throats ; 
 And biting their thumbs at the farmers, declared 
 To the thunderstruck dealers in butter and lard. 
 They would handle no more of their notes. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 115 
 
 Oh! Fundable, Fundable! look to thine own, 
 
 Now, now, let thy management shine; 
 I fear the young Franklin will worry thee down, 
 And, if all the bad paper be kicked out of town, 
 Dear Fundable ! where will be thine? 
 
THE KLXG OF THE DOCTORS. 182 
 
 How stately your palace uplifts its proud head. 
 Where Broadway and Barclay street meet ; 
 Abhorring its old fashioned tunic of red, 
 It shines in the lustre of chroinate of lead. 
 And its doors open — into the street ! 
 
 No longer it rings to the merry sleigh bells, 183 
 
 The steed's gallant neighings are o'er; 
 Instead of the pitchfork, we meet with scalpels, 
 And the throne of his medical majesty dwells 
 "Where the horse-trough resided before. 
 
 Oh ! David ! how dreadful and dire was the note, 
 
 When Rebellion beleaguered the place ; 
 When the bull-dog of discord unbolted liis throat, 
 And the hot Digitalcs ■* unbuttoned his coat 
 And doubled his fist in your face. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 117 
 
 Then syncope seized thee — all wild with affright 
 
 The Lord Chamberlain cried "God defend ye!" 
 Mac 185 swung his shillela in hopes of a fight, 
 While the brave Surgeon-General exclaimed in delight, 
 " Pugnatum est arte medendi." 
 
 But your wars are all ended, you're now at your ease, 
 
 The Regents are bound for your debts; 
 You may fleece your poor students as much as you please, 
 Tax boldly, matriculate, double your fees, 
 You can pay off all scores in brevets. 
 
 So a health to your highness, and long may you reign, 
 
 Over subjects obedient and true; 
 If the snaffle wont hold them, apply the curb rein, 
 And if ever they prance, or go backward again, 
 
 May you horsewhip them all black and blue. 
 
MR. CLINTON'S SPEECH. 
 
 JANUARY, 1825. 
 
 To Tallmadge 186 of the upper house, 
 And Crolius 1 * 7 of the lower, 
 
 After, "mm nobis Domine," 
 Thus saith the Governor. 
 
 It seems by general admission, 
 
 That, as a nation, Ave are thriving ; 
 Settled in excellent condition, 
 
 Bargaining, building, and bee-hiving. 
 That each one fearlessly reclines 
 Beneath his " fig tree and his vines," 
 
 (The dream of philosophic man), 
 And all is quiet as on Sunday 
 From Orleans to the Bay of Fundy, 
 
 From Beersheba to Dan. 
 
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 I've climbed my country's loftiest tree, 
 
 And reached its highest bough — save one, 
 "Why not the highest ? — blame not me, 
 
 " What men dare " do, I've done. 
 And though thy city, Washington, 
 
 Still mocks my eagle wing and eye, 
 Yet is there joy upon a throne 
 
 Even here at Albany. 
 For though but second in command, 
 
 Far floats my banner in the breeze, 
 A Captain-General's on the land, 
 
 An Admiral's on the seas. 18s 
 And, if Ambition can ask more, 
 My very title — Governor, 
 
 A princely pride creates, 
 Because it gives me kindred claims 
 To greatness with those glorious names, 
 
 A Sancho, and a Yates. 
 
 As party spirit has departed 
 
 This life to breathe and blast no more, 
 The patriot and the honest hearted 
 
 Shall form my diplomatic corps. 
 The wise, the talented, the good, 
 
 Selected from my band of yore, 
 My own devoted band, who've stood 
 Beside me, stemming faction's flood. 
 
 Like rocks on Ocean's shore. 
 
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 THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Men, who, if now the field were lost, 
 
 Again would buckle sword and mail on, 
 Followed by them, themselves a host, 
 Haines, Ilurtell, Herring, Pell and Post, 189 
 Judge Miller, Mumford, and Van Wyck, 
 'Tis said I look extremely like 
 A Highland chieftain with his tail on. 
 
 A clear and comprehensive view 
 
 Of every thing in art or nature, 
 In this my opening speech is due 
 
 To an enlightened legislature. 
 I therefore have arranged with care, 
 
 In orderly classification, 
 The following subjects, which should share 
 
 Your most mature deliberation. 
 
 Physicians, senators, and makers 
 
 ( )f patent medicines and machines, 
 The train-bands and the Shaking Quakers, 
 
 Forts, colleges and quarantines, 
 Debts, cadets, coal mines and canals, 
 
 Salt — the comptroller's next report. 
 Reform within our prison walls, 
 
 The customs and the supreme court, 
 Delinquents, juvenile and gray, 
 
 Schools, steam boats, justices of peace, 
 Republics of the present day, 
 
 And those of Italy and Greece ; 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 121 
 
 Militia officers, and they 
 
 Who serve in the police — 
 Mad men and laws — a great variety, 
 The horticultural society, 
 The rate of interest and of tolls, 
 The number of tax-worthy souls, 
 
 Roads — and a mail three times a week 
 From where the gentle Erie rolls 
 
 To Conewango creek. 
 
 These are a few affairs of state 
 
 On which I ask your reasoning powers, 
 High themes for study and debate 
 
 For closet and for caucus hours. 
 
 This is my longest speech, but those 
 "Who feel, that, like a cable's strength, 
 Its power increases with its length, 
 Will weep to hear its close. 
 Weep not — my next shall be as long, 
 And that, like this, — embalmed in song, 
 Will be, when two brief years are told, 
 
 Mine owu no longer, but the Nation's, 
 With all my speeches, new and old, 
 And what is more — the place I hold, 
 Together with its pay and rations. 
 
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THE NIGHTMARE. 
 
 " Sure he was sent from heaven express to be the pillar of (he slate. 
 So terrible his name, '• C/intonian " nurses frighten children with it. 
 
 Tom Thuml 
 
 Dreaming last night — of Pierre Van Wyck, 
 
 I felt the nightmare creeping o'er me; 
 In vain I strove to speak or strike, 
 
 The horrid form was still before me : 
 Till, panting — struggling to be fx-ee, 
 
 I raised my weak, but desperate head. 
 And faintly muttered "John Targee!" 
 
 When — with a howl — the goblin tied. 
 
 I waked, and cried in glad surprise, 
 The man is found, ordained by fate 
 
 To break our bonds, and exorcise 
 The nightmare of the sleeping state. 
 
 He'll chase the demons, great and small. 
 They'll sink his withering gaze before; 
 
 Then rouse ! ye sachems at the Hall, 
 
 And nominate him (iowrnor. 
 
TIIE CROAKERS. 
 
 Up with the name on Freedom's cause, 
 
 Inscribe it, Bucktails, on your banner; 
 Fame's pewter trump shall sound applause, 
 
 And blasts from party's furnace fan her. 
 Pledge high his health in mugs of beer, 
 
 And roaring like the boisterous sea, 
 Thunder in Clinton's frighted ear, 
 
 The conquering name of John Targee ! 
 
TO THE 
 
 DIRECTORS OF THE ACADEMY OF ARTS. 
 
 WRITTEN ON VISITING T1IK FIRST EXHIBITION IN 1SI6. 
 
 Illustrious autocrats of taste ! 
 Inspectors of the wonders traced 
 
 By pencil, brush or chisel ; 
 Accept a nameless poet's lay 
 Who longs to twine a twig of bay 
 
 Around his penny whistle. 
 
 Ye learned and enlightened few 
 Who keep the portal of virtu, 
 
 I pray you now unlock it ; 
 And »rant a peep for all my pains, 
 Within your oil-bedaubed domains, 
 Where now the poor in brains 
 
 Succeed the poor in pocket. 
 
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 Historical Pawter to His Majesty. 
 
TEE CROAKERS. 
 
 Immortal be the rich repast, 
 
 At which the sage decree was past, 
 
 Of pauper health so tender ; 
 Which sent the beggars to Bellevue, 
 And left the classic fane to you 
 
 And Scudder's witch of Endor. 
 
 Obliging all, you fear no harm 
 From disappointment's angry arm, 
 
 No cudgels, sneers or libels ; 
 Alike you smile on worst and best, 
 From great Rubens and quaker "West, 
 
 To wooden cuts for Bibles. 
 
 Lo ! next the Gallic thunderbolt, 
 Some nameless, shapeless, ugly dolt, 
 
 His plastic phiz advances ; 
 And vestal footsteps lightly tread, 
 And Cupids sport around the head, 
 
 Of gentle Doctor Francis. 11 ' 
 
 While placed on high exalted pegs, 
 Apollo blushes for his legs, 
 
 And mourns his severed fingers ; 
 Some amorous wight, with passion drunk, 
 O'er Cythera's headless trunk, 
 
 Luxuriously lingers. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Here Dana? rolls her humid eyes, 
 To meet the ruler of the skies, 
 
 In tricks that please old Satan; 
 And there, our eyes delighted trace 
 The scarlet coat and lily face 
 
 Of gallant Captain Creighton. 191 
 
 Here West's creative pencil shines,™ 
 And paints in tear-compelling lines, 
 
 Polony's crazy daughter ; 
 A hang-dog king, and sheepish queen, 
 And she — that looks as if she'd been 
 
 Just fished up from the water. 
 
 Thy glories too are blazoned there 
 King Ben's first born immortal heir- 
 Apparent to the pallet ; 
 Orlando weighs his cons and pros, 
 Forgetting quite his heedless toes 
 Are in the Phoca's gullet. 
 
" I can not but remember such things were, 
 And were most pleasant to me." 
 
 Macbeth. 
 
 Oh ! where are now the lights that shed 
 
 A lustre on my darkened hours ? 
 The priests of pleasure's fane, who spread 
 Each night, heneath my weary head, 
 Endymion's moonlight couch of flowers. 
 
 ~No more in chains of music bound, 
 
 I listen to those airy reels, 
 When quavering Philipps cuts around 
 Fantastic pigeon-wings of sound, 
 Like Byrne, who, without touching ground, 
 
 Eleven times can cross his heels. 
 
 "No longer Cooper's tongue of tongues, 
 Pumps thunder from his stormy lungs ; 
 
 Turner has shut his classic pages, 
 Southward his face Magenis turns, 
 And for the halls of Congress spurns 
 
 The mansion of our civic sages. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
 By Bobbins fiigbted from our coasts, 
 My Potter, too, suspends his tricks, 
 While to amuse old Pluto's hosts, 
 Day Francis plays to grinning ghosts 
 His juggles on the shores of Styx. 
 
 And AVal lack m now no longer dips 
 
 In bathos, for the tragic prize ; 
 And Bartley's melalogue, that slips 
 Melodious from her honied lips, 
 No more in murmured music dies. 
 
 Yet tho' fell fortune has bereft 
 My heart of all — one mode is left 
 
 In slumber's vision to restore 'em: 
 Weekly, I'll buy with pious pence, 
 A dose of opiate eloquence, 
 
 And sleep in quiet at the Forum. 
 
TO QUACKERY. 
 
 Goddess ! for such, thou art, who rules 
 
 This honest and enlightened city ; 
 Thou patroness of knaves and fools, 
 
 To thee we dedicate our ditty. 
 Whether in Barclay street thou sittest, 
 
 Or, on papyrean pinions home, 
 Dropping mercurial dews thou flittest 
 
 Around thine own anointed Home. 19 
 
 Whether arrayed in gown and hand 
 
 Thy pious zeal distributes Bibles, 
 Or perched on Spooner's classic hand, 
 
 Writes many eulogistic libels ; 
 Where e'er we turn our raptured eyes 
 
 We see this puffing generation, 
 Cheered by thy smile, propitious, rise 
 
 To profit, power and reputation. 
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THE CROAKERS. 
 
 Then come ye quacks ! the anthem swell, 
 
 Come Allen with thy lottery hills, 
 Come four herb Angelis, 195 who fell 
 
 From Heaven in a shower of pills. 
 Come Geih ! 196 whose potent word creates 
 
 Prime analytical musicians, 
 And come ye hosts, that hold brevets 
 
 From David's college of physicians. 
 
 And thou, botanic Hosack, bring 
 
 Thy slander-breathing lips along; 
 Thy name, great charlatan, shall ring 
 
 The monarch of the motley throng. 
 Yet Mitehill may the votes estrange, 
 
 Or Doctor Clinton to confound ye, 
 Again produce some queer melange 
 
 Of scientific Salmagundi. 
 
 Clinton ! the name my fancy fires, 
 
 I see him with a sage's look, 
 Fixhausting nature and whole quires 
 
 Of foolscap — in his wondrous hook ! 
 Columbia's genius hovers o'er him. 
 
 Fair Science, smiling, lingers near, 
 Encyclopedias lit- before him, 
 
 And Mitchill whispers in his ear. 
 
THE CROAKERS. 
 
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 Enough ! the swelling wave lias borne 
 
 Upon its bosom, chief's and kings 
 From Mitchell — Clinton — Hosack — Horn e — 
 
 We can not stop to meaner things. 
 Yet once again, we'll raise the song 
 
 And passing forums, banks and brokers, 
 Join with the bubble-blowing throng, 
 
 Seize Quackery's pipe, and puff the Croakers. 
 
THE MILITIA. 
 
 "So some cock-sparrow in a farmer's yard, 
 1/ojis at l/ic head of a huge flock of turkeys." 
 
 Tom Thumb. 
 
 Mr. Clinton, whose worth we shall know when we've 
 lost him, 
 
 Is delightfully free of his gifts, if they cost him 
 But little or nothing, like smiles and brevets. 
 
 With what wonderful tact, he appreciates merit 
 
 In bestowing on all our grown lads of spirit, 
 His ensigns' commissions and gold epaulets. 
 
 'Tis amusing to see these young nurslings of fame, 
 
 With their flashes of crimson and collars of flame; 
 
 Their cock'd hats enchanting — their buttons divine; 
 
 And even the cloth of their coats — superfine! 
 
 Displaying, around us, their new tinsel riches. 
 As proud as a boy in his first pair of breeches. 
 
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 Ah ! who does not envy their steps of delight 
 
 Through the streets, at t he side of their warriors pranc- 
 ing; 
 
 While, seared attheir "chimney sweep hadges," sohright 
 Cartmen, pigs and old women seek safety in flight, 
 
 As, in exquisite order, their lines are advancing. 
 Long- live the militia! from sergeant to drummer 
 
 They've the true soldier-aspect, chivalric and wild, 
 In their clothes of more hues than the rainbow of summer, 
 
 Or the coat which the patriarch wore when a child : 
 Unawed by court-martials, by fines, or by fears, 
 They glow with the feelings of free volunteers; 
 How imlike British tars, with a rope's end held o'er 'em, 
 Their hands tied behind, and a pressgang before 'em ! 
 
 Long live the militia ! thou free school of glory ! 
 
 Mapes, Steddiford, Colden were nurtured by thee ; 
 Lives there a man who ne'er heard their proud story, 
 
 "What an unlettered, ignorant dog he must be ! 
 From the Battery flag-staff, their fame has ascended 
 
 To the sand hills of Greenwich and plains of Bellevue ; 
 Andthe belles of Park place forthe palm have contended 
 
 Of rewarding the feats they have promised to do. 
 Let the poets of Europe still scribble as hard as 
 
 They please, of their Caesars and Bonys to tell, 
 Be ours the bright names of Laight, Ward and Bogardus, 
 
 And that promising genius, the brave Colonel Pell. 
 
NOTES. 
 
 1. Doctor Laxgstaff, an Apothecary in this city, and by many 
 reputed the discoverer of pure magnesium at Hoboken. 
 
 2. Mordecai Mannassah Xoah was born in Philadelphia in 1785, 
 where he studied law, and mingled in politics and literature. In 
 1813, President Madison appointed him United States Consul to 
 Morocco. He returned to America in 1819, and published a volume of 
 his travels, and established himself at New York, where he edited the 
 Xalional Advocate. In 1820, he formed a project of collecting the Jews 
 upon Grand Island in the Niagara river, but this, like all previous at- 
 tempts to gather this people, proved abortive. In his memorial to the 
 Legislature for the purchase of the Island, he asked for a law giving 
 sanction to the measure, to remove any doubts his coreligionists might 
 have about removing from the old world with the certainty of finding 
 an asylum in the new. A monument was erected on the Island to 
 commemorate the attempt, and upon a marble tablet was inscribed the 
 following inscription : 
 
 -rnx-n 
 
 ARARAT. 
 
 A CITY OF REFTGE FOR THE JEWS, 
 
 Founded by Mordecu M. Noah, in the month of 'lizri, 55S6 (September, 1S25), and 
 in the oOth year of American Independence. 
 
 In 1821, he was appointed Sheriff of New York by the Council of 
 Appointment. lie was afterwards connected with the New York En- 
 quirer and the Evening Star, and established the Sunday Times, with 
 which paper he continued until his death on the 22d March. 1851. 
 No man in the city was better known than Major Xoah, and no man 
 possessed a greater fund of anecdote, or acquaintance with public 
 
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 characters, with whom his newspaper undertakings had brought him 
 in contact. — Ency. of Am. Literature. 
 
 3. Lady Morgan's clever book on France had been recently pub- 
 lished. 
 
 4. Altorf, a tragedy, by Frances Wright, performed at the Park 
 Theatre. It enjoyed but a brief existence, although it had the benefit 
 of an excellent cast of characters, including Wallack. l'ritchard. Mrs. 
 Barnes and others. It was first performed on the 19th February, 1819. 
 The play was published by Carey & Son of Philadelphia. 
 
 5. Micaii Hawkins wrote a play called The Sawmill, or a Yankee 
 Trick, which was performed at Barriere'e Chatham Theatre, in Chat- 
 ham street, below Pearl street. 
 
 C. Alden Spooxer was the publisher of the New York Columbian, 
 and subsequently of the Long Island Star. 
 
 7. The firm of Sturgcs & Crowninshield, received a discharge 
 under the insolvent law of this state in 1811. The contract which 
 formed the basis of this suit, was made before the passing of this law. 
 The Supreme Court of the United States (Chief Justice Marshall i 
 decided : That a bankrupt law is not necessarily such a law as dis- 
 charges the debt, and. therefore, until Congress shall exercise the 
 power contained in the Constitution, by passing a national bankrupt 
 law, the states may pass bankrupt laws provided they be not such laws 
 as impair the obligation of contracts. "They may discharge the 
 person of an insolvent trader from liability to imprisonment, but they 
 can not pass a law annulling the contract, or discharging the liability 
 of future acquisitions."' — X. Y. Columbian. March. lSl'.i. 
 
 8. Ciiaiu.es X. Baldwin published the Republican Chronicle in this 
 city, which was discontinued on the Oth March, 1819, and the subscrip- 
 tion list transferred to the Columbian. 
 
 9. This famous box is described as of plain gold, with a chased 
 rim. It bears the following inscription : ••Presented by the Mayor. 
 Aldermen and Commonalty of tin- City of New York, to Maj'r. (Jen. 
 Andrew .lackson. with the freedom of the city, as a testimony of re- 
 spect for his high military service." The presentation took place on 
 the 28d Feb. 1819, the address being made by the Mayor. Cadwallader 
 
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 139 
 
 D. Colden. GeneralJackson retained the box till his, death in June, 
 1845, when the following disposition of it was found in his last will 
 and testament, dated 7th June, 184:!. 
 
 •'The gold box presented to me by the Corporation of the City of 
 New York, the large silver vase presented to me by the ladies of 
 Charleston, South Carolina, my native state, with the large picture 
 representing the unfurling of the American banner, presented to me 
 by the citizens of South Carolina when it was refused to be accepted 
 by the United States Senate. I leave in trust to my son A. Jackson jr., 
 witli directions that should our happy country not be blessed with 
 peace, an event not always to be expected, he will, at the close of the 
 war, or end of the conflict, present each of said articles of inestimable 
 value, to that patriot residing in the city or state from which they were 
 presented, who shall be adjudged by his countrymen or the ladies, to 
 have been the most valiant in defence of his country and our country 's 
 rights." 
 
 The enlistment of New York Volunteers in the Mexican war, which 
 ended with the capitulation of Mexico, gave an opportunity for the 
 executor of the will, Andrew Jackson, the son of the testator, to dis- 
 charge the trust. In 18o7, he was in correspondence with the Common 
 Council of New York, and arrangements were made, which promised 
 the delivery of the box to Lt. Col. Garret Dyckman, of the regiment of 
 Volunteers. A committee of the Volunteers had arranged a military 
 parade for the occasion; Mr. Jackson was in the city with the box in 
 his possession, when, at the last moment, he sent, in a letter, his "re- 
 gret at the division of sentiment and the excited feelings " which had 
 come to his knowledge with reference to the disposal of the box, which 
 lie bore away with him to be kept for a clearer expression of public 
 opinion. In 1859, it was finally awarded to Gen. Ward B. Burnett, the 
 Colonel of the New York regiment .which participated in the brilliant 
 operations at Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras and Cherubusco. The 
 presentation was made at the City Hall, Nashville, Tenn. Dr. John M. 
 Lawrence for his father-in-law, Andrew Jackson, the executor, and 
 General Billow receiving the bequest in behalf of General Burnett, 
 who was unavoidably absent on a western government exploration. 
 Thus ends the present history of the Jackson snuff-box, inaugurated 
 by Drake in the Croakers. 
 
 10. Bartholomew Skaats, or Barty Shunts, as he was familiarly 
 called, was for many years Crier of the Courts, which were held in the 
 old City Hall in Wall street. Both he and his wife are identified with 
 the past history of the city. They were excellent personifications of 
 
140 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 respectable Dutch character, in dress, in habits, in hospitality, in 
 prudence and industry. The good cheer and excellent hospitality of 
 this worthy couple, led to the establishment of the Tea Room, for 
 many years so celebrated. When the present City Hall was finished, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Skaats removed to it as keepers. Soon afterwards a 
 suggestion was made to them to establish in their rooms, a regular 
 table for the Common Council and its guests, and to attend to it, at 
 the expense of the Corporation. Mr. Skaats being well-to-do in the 
 world, indignantly declined the proposition, and resigned his situation 
 as keeper, anil Abraham Martling. the keeper of Tammany Hall, suc- 
 ceeded him. — Corporation Manual. 
 
 11. A grand dinner was given to General Jackson at Tammany 
 Hall, on the 23d Feb. 1819, in honor of his visit to this city. The 
 hall was crowded, and the toast "To General Jackson, so long as the 
 Mississippi rolls its waters to the ocean, so long may his great name 
 and glorious deeds be remembered," was replied to by the General, 
 who proposed " De Witt Clinton, Governor of the great and patriotic 
 State of New York," to the utter confusion of the Buektails, who 
 looked upon Clinton as their bitterest foe. General Jackson, perfectly 
 independent of all parties, had conceived:, great admiration for Mr. 
 Clinton, although he was, at that time, personally unacquainted with 
 him, and hence the toast. The greatest confusion ensued, amid which 
 the General left the room. 
 
 12. Mead and Hawkins were destitute of voice, and those who 
 knew their want of ability, could appreciate the satire in this line. 
 
 13. John P. Haff, Sachem of the Tammany Society, and after- 
 wards Surveyor of the Port of New York. 
 
 14. Abraham Bi.ooncoon, a leading man at Tammany Hall. 
 
 16. Cahwai.i.adkr D. Coi.df.n succeeded Do Witt Clinton as Mayor 
 of New York in 1818, and was afterwards elected to Congress, and to 
 the State Senate. He bestowed much attention in devising the means of 
 promoting, in various ways, the improvement of the community to 
 which he belonged. The public schools of New York and the Society 
 for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents especially ranked him 
 among their most efficient patrons, lie was one of the earliest and 
 most zealous promoters of the system of internal improvements in the 
 state. In the history of the Krie canal, his name is often mentioned in 
 
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NOTES. 
 
 141 
 
 connection with measures conducive to tlie accomplishment of that 
 work; the Mmtoir of which, by him, was printed by the Common 
 Council of this city. He died at Jersey City on the 7th of February, 
 1834. 
 
 16. Gen. Robert Bogardus was for nearly fifty years a member of 
 the New York bar. He was a member of the State Senate from 1827 
 to 182'.» inclusive, and for many years an active member of the New 
 York militia, having with Cadwallader 1). ('olden received the appoint- 
 ment of brevet Brigadier-General from Gov. Clinton. He died in this 
 city on the 12th September, 1842. 
 
 17. Dennis H. Doyle, an Irishman, who from humble beginnings 
 accumulated a fortune, and retired to Ulster county, where he died. 
 
 18. Gurdon S. Mumfokd, a merchant of this city, and during six 
 years a member of Congress. 
 
 19. Doctor Bronat/gh, a Military Surgeon, "was attached to Gen. 
 Jackson's staff during the whole Seminole campaign," and was a 
 strong personal friend of Jackson. 
 
 20. In the Assembly Journal of this year, under date Sept. f^t li . 
 there appears a resolution offered by Gen. Boot, which passed, calling 
 on Gov. Clinton for a list of his brevet appointments. The Governor 
 sent it in, amounting to nineteen brevet Major Generals, thirteen 
 Brigadiers and sixty-six other military officers. — Assembly Journal, 
 1819. 
 
 21. The late Major Gen. Morton, who was in command of the 
 militia in this district at the time, and in which he continued until his 
 death. He also held the office of Clerk to the Common Council for 
 twenty-six years, and died while still an incumbent of that office in 
 December 1836, at an age exceeding eighty years. 
 
 23. Doctor Charles King, now President of Columbia College in 
 this city. 
 
 24. Ferris Pell wrote a defense of Clinton's administration, en- 
 titled A Review of the Administration and Civil Police of the Stale of 
 New York from 1807 to 1819. 
 
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 NOTES. 
 
 25. William Bayard was one of the firm of Le Roy, Bayard & 
 McEvers, prominent merchants of New York, and nearly related, by 
 marriage, to General Stephen Van Rensselaer of Albany. 
 
 26. Sami'kl Swartwott was for many years connected with public 
 life in this country. In his youth, he became personally attached to 
 the late Col. Burr, and the friendship continued until his death. 
 General Jackson appointed Mr. Swartwout Collector of the Port of 
 New York, which office he held until he was detected in serious defal- 
 cations, upon which lie left for Europe, where he remained for two 
 years, and then returned to this city. He resided here until his death 
 in November 1850. In 1 H 1 4. Messrs. Samuel and Robert Swartwout 
 purchased 4000 acres of land at Hoboken, Xew Jersey. It was at that 
 time sunken, spongy and uncongenial to vegetation, being subject to 
 the constant overflowing of the tide waters. They immediately com- 
 menced to reclaim the land by erecting permanent dikes and opening 
 ditches. By the year 1819, they had made seven and a half miles of 
 embankment, and one hundred and twenty miles of ditches. Two 
 thousand acres were enclosed by dikes and thirteen hundred acres 
 completely drained and under successful cultivation. About one 
 hundred cows were in this year fed upon these reclaimed marshes, 
 and their milk sent to the New York market. Grain of various kinds 
 and vegetables in abundance were also raised. The funds of the 
 proprietors appear to have now run out, for in 1819 they applied to 
 the Corporation of New York for aid to complete their work. The 
 application was not successful and the project was abandoned. — Evt. 
 Post, Jiihi 24, 1819. 
 
 27. Mr. POTTEB gave exhibitions in ventriloquism in Washington 
 Hall in Broadway, where Stewart's store now stands. 
 
 28. Levi BOBBINS was. in 1810. a member of Assembly from Lewis 
 county. He took a leading part in the first temperance movement in 
 that section of the state, and as a town officer instituted several suits 
 against persons for violating the excise law then existing. These 
 proceedings excited much discussion among his fellow townsmen, and 
 his course was warmly defended or opposed, according to the instincts 
 of each. He is still living — the perfect model of a Baptist deacon, 
 his face still set against sin in every form, and we will venture to say. 
 as ready now to promote as he was then to present any document 
 kindred to the ••memorial of a convention id' delegates from the seve- 
 ral moral societies within this state, praying for the enaction of certain 
 
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VJCE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 
 
NOTES. 
 
 143 
 
 legal provisions for the suppression of vice and immorality," which 
 was offered by him about this time. The journals do not show that a 
 bill was actually introduced, and the occasion which prompted this 
 poem proved a false alarm. 
 
 29. Erastus Root made his first appearance in public life in the 
 State Assembly in the year 1798. He continued for many years in the 
 Legislature, and though somewhat uncouth and rough in his manners, 
 and occasionally rude in his expressions, his wit was keen, and his 
 sarcasm severe and biting. He seized with great effect upon the pro- 
 minent points, and especially those points most likely to make an im- 
 pression upon the public ear, and pressed them with a power almost 
 irresistible. His illustrations were exceedingly clear and well chosen, 
 and his attacks upon his opponents were severe almost to ferocity. 
 His attacks upon De Witt Clinton and his canal policy were especially 
 marked. He was perfectly at home on all matters relating to the 
 historj- of the operations of both great political parties. He had much 
 parliamentary tact, and although lie was reckless in his expressions, 
 he was a man of correct literary taste, and though irregular in his 
 habits, of highly cultivated intellect. — Hammond' s Political History. 
 
 30. Abraham Martuxg kept a tavern on the corner of Nassau and 
 Spruce streets, and afterwards became Proprietor of Tammany Hall. 
 On the resignation of Mr. Skaats, he was appointed Keeper of the 
 City Hall. 
 
 31. Peter Siiarte, a member of the Assembly from the city of New 
 York in 181-">, and from 1817 to 1821 inclusive. He was Speaker of 
 the Assembly in the latter year. 
 
 32. Obadiah German of Chenango county, made his first appear- 
 ance in public life in 1798 in the Assembly of this State. Although 
 uneducated, he was a bold and resolute man. of great intellectual strength 
 and vigor. He acquired great influence in the Legislature of the State, 
 and in 18(19 was elected Senator of the United States, as the successor 
 of Doctor Mitch ill. In 1818, he was again elected to the Assembly of 
 the State, and was made Speaker of the House. — Hammond. 
 
 33. Ezekiel Bacon, late Comptroller of the United States Treasury, 
 a Clintonian member from Oneida and Oswego counties, was a man of 
 considerable talent, but the strength and vigor of his mind had been 
 greatly impaired by a nervous disease. He now resides in Utica at an 
 advanced age. — Hammond. 
 
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 NOTES. 
 
 34. Mr. Svi.vani s Mii.i.eii was appointed Surrogate of New York 
 in 1801. At t lie time of li is appointment, he was a resident of Ulster 
 county, and the New York people complained of the Council, for 
 importing a Surrogate from the country. He was the ardent friend of 
 De Witt Clinton, and always continued his unwavering supporter. 
 The good nature and prepossessing deportment of Mr. Miller soon 
 gained him the good will of the New Yorkers. Possessed of tine con- 
 versational powers, and ready wit, which was dealt out in such a 
 manner as never to wound the feelings of others, and of a disposition 
 the most social, he soon became the favorite of all who knew him. 
 Be held the office of Surrogate, which in the great city of New York 
 is a highly important one, from August, 1K01, till February, 1821, with 
 an interval of one year. He is still living in this city at a very 
 advanced age. — Hammond. 
 
 35. The corner stone of the Park Theatre was laid in 1705, but, owing 
 to a quarrel between the managers, Hallam and Hodgkinson. was not 
 completed until 17!>8. Mr. Dunlap shortly after undertook the man- 
 agement, which he continued until 1808, when it passed into the hands 
 of Messrs. Cooper and Price. When Mr. Cooper retired, Mr. Simpson 
 became associated with Mr. Price. During their management, it was 
 burned (in 1821), but was immediat«ly rebuilt, and opened for dramatic 
 representation on the 1st September of the same year. Mr. Price died 
 in 18411, and Mr. Simpson assumed the sole direction of the establish- 
 ment, which he continued until 1848, when owing to his misfortunes, 
 it passed into the hands of Mr. Thomas S. Hamblin, anil in December 
 of that year it was again destroyed by fire, and not rebuilt. It is 
 generally Supposed that the loss of the lease of the theatre was the 
 proximate cause of Mr. Simpson's death, which took place shortly 
 after Mr. Hamblin obtained the lease. Twice, whilst he was in the 
 management of the theatre, he might have retired with a large fortune: 
 but his love of the profession, and the entreaties of friendship, induced 
 him to sutt'er the golden opportunities to pass by. As a manager, he 
 was dignified, able and untiring. He possessed a refined taste, and 
 was familiar with every thing connected with the drama and dramatic 
 literature. — AT. V. Alius. 
 
 30. Samiki. Woodwoutii, the son of a Massachusetts farmer, was 
 born in 178"). He was apprenticed to a printer in Boston, and after 
 the expiration of his indentures, lie removed to New Haven, and com- 
 menced a paper called the Utiles Lettrcs Reporitory, of which he WM 
 ••editor, publisher, printer, and sometimes carrier."' It was discon- 
 
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 145 
 
 tinned after a month or two. Mr. Woodworth afterwards came to this 
 city, but was equally unsuccessful with the periodicals he commenced 
 here. The New York Mirror was undertaken by him in connection 
 with Gen. Morris, but at the end of a year Mr. AVoodworth left. He 
 worked at his trade, and occasionally contributed verses and patri- 
 otic songs to the periodicals of the day, and wrote a play called the 
 Forest Rose which was performed at the old Chatham Theatre, and 
 still keeps possession of the stage. In his latter years he suffered 
 from paralysis, and died on the 9th December, 1842. — Eney. of Am. 
 Lit. 
 
 37. Mr. William Coleman* came to this city from Massachusetts, 
 and established the Evening Post in 1801. "He was a sensitive man. 
 of great tenacity of opinion, which he cherished by intercourse with 
 many of the leading patriots and politicians who were among us some 
 fifty years ago." He continued the sole editor of the paper until 
 181 9, when his health was seriously affected by a paralytic attack, 
 and it became necessary for him to have a coadjutor in his labors. 
 His connection with the paper continued until his death, which took 
 place in the summer of 1819. 
 
 38. Miss Catharine Leescgg made her first appearance in New 
 York Sept. 1st, 1818, in the characters of Jessy Oatland and Marian 
 Ramsay. She possessed a buxom figure, a clear, melodious voice, 
 great sprightliness and vivacity, and won her way at once to public 
 favor. Her forte was comedy: her merry country lasses have not since 
 been equaled, and although she sometimes played tragic parts, she was 
 not so happy in them. In 1819, while in the height of her popularity, 
 she married Mr. James Hackett, and left the stage. She resumed the 
 profession in 1 Sii<>. and was for several years afterwards one of the 
 favorites of the town. Her last appearance was for her husband's 
 benefit at the National Theatre, in Leonard street, on the 19th May, 
 18:;.s. she died at her residence, Jamaica, L. I., December 4th, 184"), 
 aged 47 years. — Playgoers' Journal. 
 
 39. Mr. HOPPER, a native of this city, was attached to the Park 
 Theatre dining the year 1819, and played minor parts, lie remained 
 but a short time upon the boards. 
 
 40. Robert Campbell Maywood made his first appearance in New 
 York in January, 1819, as Richard III. lie played the usual round of 
 characters in tragedy and melo-drama, and gave general satisfaction. 
 
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146 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 His Sir Pertinax McSycophani is said never to have beeu equaled on 
 the American stage, except by Cooke. Mr. Maywood remained in 
 New York about ten years, and afterwards managed the theatres in 
 Philadelphia and Baltimore. His last appearance in this city was in 
 18-1-") at the Olympic Theatre in Broadway. He died within the last 
 three years in very reduced circumstances. 
 
 41. The Declaration of Independence. 
 
 12. Col. John Tbumbull of New Haven, Conn., died in New York 
 on the 1 Oth November, 18-18, aged 87 years. He was born at Lebanon, 
 Ct., June 9th, 17o(>. His father, Jonathan Trumbull, was Governor of 
 Connecticut, during the whole war of the revolution. At an early age, 
 John Trumbull entered the revolutionary army, and after serving with 
 his regiment in the field, became a member of Gen. Washington's 
 military family. During the revolution, he went to Europe, to perfect 
 himself in his favorite art of painting, having it always at heart to 
 perpetuate on canvas some of the great scenes and great men of the 
 revolution. Four of his historical paintings, the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence, the Surrender at Saratoga, the Surrender of Cornwallis, 
 and the Resignation of Gen. Washington at Annapolis, arc preserved 
 in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington, and although they arc 
 not marked by the highest qualities of genius, they do honor to his 
 reputation as an artist. While in England he became, by the choice 
 of William Pinckney and Christopher Gore, the fifth commissioner 
 under the Jay treaty, for the settlement of American claims upon 
 England ; and holding, as he did, the determining vote on all contested 
 cases, he was so fortunate as to acquire the entire respect and 
 confidence of both parties, by the strict impartiality and justice of his 
 decisions. As a soldier, an artist, a diplomatist, and a gentleman, he 
 was honored and beloved through several generations. — Am. Almanac. 
 
 43. Mr. Jacob Shkbked, a Painter and Glazier, accumulated a 
 large property by his business, which he conducted in Broad street in 
 this city. An obituary notice of him in the Evening Post of 80th 
 March, 1821, says: "He closed a life of usefulness and benevolence, 
 in a manner worthy of the brightness of its course. The greater pari 
 of his large fortune was bequeathed to the Protestant Kpiscop.il 
 Theological School in the State of New York." 
 
Pointed Tjv 
 
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 147 
 
 44. A general meeting of t lie citizens was called at Washington 
 Hall, to protest against taxing the property of the citizens generally, 
 instead of those more nearly interested in the improvement of enlarg- 
 ing the Battery. This meeting was held on the lid March, 18V.I, and 
 a second meeting was held on the 12th of the same month, to hear the 
 report of a committee upon the subject. The Evening Post of the 15th 
 March, says : . 
 
 "General Bogardus, chairman of a committee of seven, appointed 
 at a previous meeting, read a long and tedious memorial to I he Le- 
 gislature against the contemplated improvements, and Mr. Thomas K. 
 Mercein, who was one of the minority, then read a well drawn up 
 protest against it. Several persons tried to address the meeting, but 
 SO numerous was the collection, and so great the clamor, that nothing 
 could be heard but "question, question." The chairman then put it 
 on the acceptance of the report of the committee, and all accounts 
 agree that, there was a majority of two to one, or three to two against 
 it. The chairman however, being himself in favor of the report, de- 
 clined to declare it, on which there was a call for a division of the 
 house, but the crowd was so great, this was difficult to be accomplished, 
 and after an ineffectual attempt by Gen. Bogardus to obtain an adjourn- 
 ment, the chairman abdicated the chair, and he and the general left 
 the room. Col. .Murray was then called to the chair, but he made a 
 short speech, and advised the people to go home, as the object of the 
 meeting was defeated. Thus has ended this attempt of certain men to 
 array the people against the constituted authorities of the city; and it 
 is strongly believed, they were secretly influenced by political motives, 
 and intended to make what they thought would be a veiy popular 
 measure, subservient to party views at the ensuing election. If so, it 
 may literally be said "they counted without their host." 
 
 4">. Washington Hall stood on the south-east corner of Broadway 
 and Reade street. It was built by the Washington Benevolent Society 
 in 1809, and was the head-quarters of the Federalists in this city, until 
 their dissolution as a party. The building was afterwards sold to Mr. 
 John G. Costar, ami it was kept as a hotel until the year 1844, when 
 on the 4th of .Inly of that year, it was burned down, and Mr. A. T. 
 Stewart became the purchaser. It now forms a portion of the store 
 occupied by that gentleman. 
 
 46. Lewis Haktman, Ks<(.. presided at the meeting, and Mr. ('has. 
 King was Secretary. 
 
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 NOTES. 
 
 47. Col. Thomas R. Mercein was a member of the Legislature from 
 this city in 1811 and 1812. and was distinguished for his activity and 
 usefulness as a citizen. He died 24th October, 184o. — Am. Almanac. 
 
 48. James Lent was Register of the city and county of New York. 
 
 49. Mr. N. Prime, of the firm of Prime, Ward & King. Bankers in 
 Wall street. 
 
 50. While no person became a more marked object of satire in these 
 poems than Governor Clinton, it is proper to remark that no one en- 
 joyed the Croakers more than he did. 
 
 51. This, we understand, is a typographical error; it should be 
 paramount obligation. — Ed. Eve. Post. 
 
 52. We believe this is a mistake of the poet's. Mr. H. was com- 
 mercial agent at Havana. — Ed. Eve. Post. 
 
 53. We understand that this declaration as to J. A. II., was gra- 
 tuitously made. The political opinions of these two gentlemen have 
 differed very widely for the last four or five j-ears. — JEd. Eve. Post. 
 
 54. This poem, as printed in the Evening Post, was prefixed with 
 the following lines written by Mr. Coleman : 
 
 "Sage of Plandome '. to give thy due, 
 Fredonian, Frede and l-'redon " too — 
 
 55. The name given by our learned philosopher to the steam ship 
 upon her being launched during the late war. — Ed. Eve. Post. 
 
 56. Mummy-chogs, the popular name of the t'nndulus, a common 
 fish in the bays near New York. 
 
 5fi. Referring to the work entitled Live* and Portraits of Distin- 
 guished Americans, by Joseph Dclaplaine, Philadelphia. 181(1-18, '1 
 vols. 4to. 
 
 *57. John Mixsiirix, an Knglishman by birth, was a butt of the 
 critics of his day. He wrote and published, "printed for the author," 
 Rural Felicity, an opera: a comedy, entitled. The Sprightly Widow in 
 
NOTES. 
 
 149 
 
 the Frolics of Youth ; or a speed;/ way of uniting the. Sexes by Honorable 
 Marriage, New York, 1803; He Stoops to Conquer, or the Virgin Wife 
 Triumphant ; a comedy in three acts. New York 1804 ; The Merry Dames, 
 or the Humourisfs Triumph over the Poet in Petticoats, and the Gallant 
 Exploits of the Knight of the Comb, New York, 1805. Minshull's plays 
 were performed at the Park Theatre. The wits humoured his jokes by 
 loud applause, and called on him for a speech from the stage box. 
 His portrait, engraved by Scoles, ruffled and queued, a sprightly, 
 perked-up physiognomy, is prefixed to the edition of his plays ; his coat 
 of arms with a crescent, and the motto In hoc plenius redibo, figures be- 
 neath, with the motto : 
 
 Next view and peruse my plan, 
 
 Refrain from laughing who can. 
 
 58. James K. Paulding. 
 
 So have I seen in garden rich and gay, 
 
 A stately cabbage waxing fat each day; 
 
 Unlike the lively foliage of the trees, 
 
 Its stubborn leaves ne'er wave in summer breeze, 
 
 Nor flower, like those that prank the walks around, 
 
 Upon its clumsy stem is ever found; 
 
 It heeds not noontide heats, or evening's balm, 
 
 And stands unmov'd in one eternal calm. 
 
 At last, when all the garden's pride is lust. 
 
 It ripens in drear autumn's killing frost, 
 
 And in a sav'ry sourkrout finds its end. 
 
 From which detested dish, me Heaven defend ! 
 
 Backwoodsman, Book II. 
 
 59. Henry Meigs, of New York city, represented the Second Con- 
 gressional District in the sixteenth Congress, 1819-1821. 
 
 GO. The tragedy of Brutus has been censured for want of origin- 
 ality, which the writer acknowledges, by admitting that he borrowed 
 the ideas and occasionally the words of others, but a great proof of 
 its merit is that it is the only one of eight plays upon the same subject 
 that keeps possession of the stage. — Playgoers' Journal. 
 
 01. Thomas Kilxer made his first appearance at the Park Theatre 
 in December, 1818, as Sir Abel Handy, and soon proved himself a 
 valuable acquisition to the company. He played principally in old 
 men, and whether serious or comic, seldom failed to represent them to 
 
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 NOTES. 
 
 the satisfaction of tlic audience. He afterwards went to Boston, where 
 lie was manager of the theatre, and last played in New York, at the 
 Bowery Theatre, in ls:!7. He finally removed to Ohio, where he was 
 living in 185"). — Playgoers' Journal. 
 
 02. Harry Geobge Morki.axu was from the York Theatre, and 
 was a useful and available actor. He was a pleasing singer, a correct 
 reader, and as an actor in the lighter characters of the drama always 
 gave satisfaction. He died in New York, l:ilh June, 1832. 
 
 63. On the 2d Sept., 1818. Mr. James Howard, from the Brighton 
 Theatre, made his first appearance as Henry Hertram. lie hail a sweet 
 tenor voice, a good face and figure, and as a vocalist for several years 
 enjoyed the highest favor. He last played at the Park Theatre, in 
 1828, and in 1837 appeared for the last time in New York, at Nildo's 
 Garden, on crutches, having had one or both legs fractured during his 
 retirement. He died in Philadelphia in 1848. 
 
 04. Mr. Garxer appeared on the 3d Sept. 1818, and was a valuable 
 acquisition for the lighter operatic parts. He afterwards played at 
 the Lafayette Theatre in I. aureus street in 1828. and died in Baltimore 
 1843. — Playgoers' Journal. 
 
 05. The following letter addressed to the Editor, was written by Mr. 
 Coleman, and prefixed to the poem to John Lang: 
 
 "Monday evening — o'clock. 
 
 '•Mr. Editor. 
 
 "As soon as it was dark I repaired to the usual place, and there 
 found your note inclosing the lines alluded to in this evening's paper, 
 on the subject of Mr. Lang, who in Saturday morning's Gazette, pre- 
 tends that he had received a 'poetic effusion,' as he calls it, from us. 
 and which lie said was too personal for his paper. Personalities are 
 become quite alarming to Mr. Lang ever since the suit of Jacob Barker 
 for what he said of the red notes. However, the purpose of this is to 
 convince Mr. Lang that 1 have been among the most attentive of his 
 readers and admirers for years: with delight have I enjoyed his well- 
 turned paragraphs, and his witty expressions, some of which could 
 not escape my memory. Like Falstaff 'he is not only witty himself, 
 but the cause of wit in others." So here we go." In the NtlC York 
 ti'a-rttr of 20th March, 18P.I, appears the following: "The poetic 
 effusion of Croaker it Co. is too personal for this Gazette."' 
 
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 66. Mr. John Lang was born in the city of New Fork, in 177". 
 For forty years he conducted the New York (lazette, which was recog- 
 nized as the leading commercial paper. Its distinction was unques- 
 tionably its attention to the shipping interests of this city, for in 
 political or miscellaneous matter, it was sadly deficient. Lang's 
 prominent object of consideration was arriralx, and t lie mightiest 
 changes of revolutions, in actions or opinions, found but a passing 
 notice in his paper. But from the support of the mercantile community, 
 the paper flourished, and Mr. Lang became rich. lie was devoted to 
 his pursuits, and no one could excel him in kindness of demeanor, 
 lie was a gentleman of the old school, of great moral excellence, and 
 deeply devoted to the interests of the city, lie died in the year 1836. 
 
 67. Lang's Bulletins, with an allusion to his popular name of 
 Solomon, figure in the education of Fanny's father, in Halleck's poem 
 Fanny. Then in Pearl street 
 
 " first he met 
 The Editor of the New York Gazette, 
 
 •The sapienf Mr. Lang. The world of him 
 Knows much, yet not one-half so much as he 
 
 Knows of the world. Up to its very brim 
 The goblet of his mind is sparkling free 
 
 With lore and learning. Had proud Sheba's queen, 
 
 In all her bloom and beauty, but have seen 
 
 ••This modern Solomon, the Israelite, 
 
 Earth's monarch as he was, had never won her. 
 
 lie would have hanged himself for very spite, 
 
 And she, blessed woman, might have had the honor 
 
 Of some neat paragraphs — worth all the lays 
 
 That Judah's minstrel warbled in her praise. 
 
 "Her star arose too soon; but that which swayed 
 
 Tlf ascendant at our merchant's natal hour 
 Was bright with better destiny — its aid 
 
 Led him to pluck, within the classic bower 
 Of bulletins, the blossoms of true knowledge; 
 And Lang supplied the loss of school and college." 
 
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 NOTES. 
 
 118. The office of the Xew Turk Gazette was in Hanover square, 
 between Hanover and Pearl streets. The bust of Franklin which 
 formerly surmounted the roof of the building, is now in possession of 
 the New York Historical Society. 
 
 69. In the year 1814. a writer appeared in a New York paper 
 assuming the name of Abimelech Coody, a mechanic of that place. 
 He was a Federalist, and addressed himself principally to the party to 
 which he belonged. He endeavored to show the impropriety of oppos- 
 ing the war, and urged them to come forward manfully in defence of 
 their country. The writer was soon ascertained to be Mr. Gulian C. 
 Yerplanck. Abimelech Coody was replied to by a writer, over the 
 signature of A Traveller with great point and severity, who was said 
 to be De Witt Clinton, who said that "he [Coody alias Yerplanck,] 
 has become the head of a sect called the Coodies, of hybrid nature, 
 composed of the combined spawn of Federalism and Jacobinism, with- 
 out any definite character: neither fish nor flesh, nor bird nor beast, 
 but a nondescript made up of 
 
 'All monstrous, all prodigous things.'" 
 The result of the next election in April, 1815, proved that they made 
 no impression on the Federal party in New York, for from being Demo- 
 cratic in 1814, the city changed to Federalism in 181"). — Hammond. 
 
 7I>. There was an order of the Tammany Society, who wore in their 
 hats as an insignia, on certain occasions, a portion of the tail of a deer. 
 They were a leading order, and from this circumstance, the friends of 
 Mr. Clinton gave those who adopted the views of the members of the 
 Tammany Society in relation to him, the name of Hucktails ; which 
 name was eventually applied to their friends and supporters in the 
 country. Hence, the party opposed to the administration of Mr. Clin- 
 ton was, for a long time, called the Bucklail Party. — Hammond. 
 
 71. Joan Wksley Jauvis was for many years the most eminent 
 portrait painter in New York. He was born in England, and came to 
 this country when quite a child. He studied engraving under Edwin, 
 and commenced painting in 18<l(>, and soon reached the head of the 
 profession. Two of his full-lengths. Gen. Brown and Com. Bain- 
 hridge, arc now in the City Hall. He was an inimitable story-teller, 
 but his irregular habits of living caused a gradual decay of his powers 
 as a painter. He died in this city on the 12th January, 1841. — Arts 
 of DeiiffH, 
 
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 72. Dominick Lynch, jr., a .Merchant of this city, to whose exertions 
 the American public were indebted for the introduction of Italian 
 opera in this country. The troupe led by Garcia arrived in November 
 182">. and appeared at the Park theatre shortly afterwards. 
 
 73. Mr. T. Phiiipps made two visits to this country. The first in 
 181"), when he made his debut as Count TSelino, in the Devil's Bridge, 
 and at once attained the highest summit of popular favor. He had a 
 fine personal appearance, his voice was unrivaled for sweetness, and 
 he sung with more feeling and expression than any other vocalist who 
 had been heard here, Incledon only excepted. Mr. Coleman, of the 
 Evening Post, praised him extravagantly, and said of his singing that 
 '•you could hear the poet as well as the musician." His second visit 
 was in 1822 anil 1 8^3. when he made his last appearance in June of the 
 latter year. — Playgoers' Journal. 
 
 74. On the '22d April, 1815, Mr. John Barnes made his first appear- 
 ance in America as Sir Peter Teazle and Lingo. He soon became an 
 immense favorite, and probably caused more laughter than any come- 
 dian we have ever had. The comical phiz of Old Barnes was always 
 the signal for a burst of merriment, and thc3' who censured his nume- 
 rous extravagances were obliged to laugh at his whimsical grimaces. 
 He left the Park Theatre in 18312, and undertook the management of 
 the Richmond Hill Theatre, in Varick street, which proved an unfor- 
 tunate speculation. He occasionally afterwards appeared at the Park, 
 where lie played for the last time in 1840. AVhile on a professional 
 visit to Nova Scotia, in 1841, he was taken ill, and died on the 28th 
 August, aged GO years. His remains were brought to New Vork, and 
 interred in St. Mark's burying ground. — Playgoers' Journal. 
 
 75. The poet is supposed to intend a hit at Mr. Duff, one of the 
 Boston managers, who. with about as much pretensions to it as the actor 
 here named, actually went all the way to Philadelphia, a few weeks 
 since, to personate Count Belino ; but having, by the assistance of 
 numerous orders, murdered it for two nights, poor Wood flinched from 
 any farther experiment. They manage these things better in Boston. 
 Here they have an ingenious contrivance by which they suit the play 
 to the man, whenever the man is not suited to the play : thus on a late 
 occasion, in order to enable a modest young Irishman, by the name 
 of Kecne, to sustain the character of Belino, they cut the Devil's 
 Bridge down to a farce. — Ed. Eve. Post. 
 
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 NOTES. 
 
 76. Mr. BbeEHAN, one of the owners of the Park Theatre. 
 
 77. The Franklin Hank occupied the building in Franklin square, 
 on the corner of Cherry street, which was built by Walter Franklin, 
 and occupied by Gen. Washington during the first year of his pre- 
 sidency. Alter the failure of the bank, the building was altered and 
 Messrs. Firth & Hall occupied it as a music store until it was re- 
 moved in 18."»0 to make room for the New Bowery extension. 
 
 78. The Surgeon's Hall was in Barclay street, at Nos. it and 11, 
 near Broadway, and was pulled down itx 18">.">. 
 
 I'.K Governor ToMPEIHS'a residence was on Staten Island between 
 the Quarantine and New Brighton, directly fronting this city. 
 
 80. The North Dutch Church, the only one in Albany which could 
 then boast of two steeples. 
 
 81. The Tammany Society or Columbian Order, was formed by 
 William Mooncy, an upholsterer, residing in New York during the 
 administration of President Washington. It takes its name from the 
 celebrated Indian chief, Tammany, whose attachment to liberty was 
 greater than his love of life. It has a Grand Sachem, and thirteen 
 Sachems, in imitation of the President and Governors of the States, and 
 a Grand Council, of which the Sachems are members. Tammany was, 
 at first, so popular, that most persons of merit became members: and 
 so numerous were they that its anniversary (12th of May) was regard- 
 ed as a holiday. At that time, there were no party politics mixed up 
 in its proceedings. But when President Washington rebuked "self- 
 created societies,"' from an apprehension that their ultimate tendency 
 would be hostile to the public tranquility, the members of Tammany, 
 supposing their institution to be included in the reproof, nearly all left 
 it. The founder (Grand Sachem Mooncy) and a few others continued 
 steadfast, and from this time it became a political institution, and took 
 ground with Jefferson. It continued to increase in members, and made 
 a great rally about 1812 in support of President Madison's administra- 
 tion, and to secure his reflection in that year. The society has been 
 continued to the present time, solely as a political organization. — 
 llnmmond. 
 
 82, JoBM P. IIakf, afterward Surveyor of the Port of New York. 
 
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 83. Benjamin B ulky, a Merchant of this city, of the firm of Bailey 
 & Bogart, an active politician, and for several years, Chairman of the 
 Democratic General Committee ai Tammany Sail. 
 
 84. Chari.es Christian, a Justice of the Peace. 
 
 85. Joseph W. Bracket, a Lawyer of this city. 
 
 86. Col. Everardus Warner, a Justice of the Police. 
 
 87. Gen. Jonas Mapes, a very worthy citizen, who held a commis- 
 sion as Major General of the Militia in this district, and also filled 
 several offices of trust and honor in this fit}'. 
 
 88. The Tammany Society had for several years but very indiffer- 
 ent quarters at Martling's Long Room, on the corner of Nassau and 
 Spruce streets, where the Tract House now stands. In the year 1809, 
 they determined to provide better accommodations, and passed a 
 
 Law " for the " Building of a Wigwam," of which the following is 
 the preamble : " Whereas, several members of Tammany Society, or 
 Columbian Order, have voluntary offered to subscribe moneys for the 
 purchase of ground and the erection of a Wigwam for the use of this 
 institution, and the general accommodation of Republicans," &c, &c. 
 A committee of thirteen, corresponding with the number of the ori- 
 ginal states, was appointed to carry the law into effect. The sole 
 survivor of this committee is Jacob Barker, now of New Orleans. The 
 committee purchased a site on the corner of Chatham and Frankfort 
 Streets, ami on the 13th May. 1811, the 22d anniversary of the Society, 
 the corner stone was laid with great ceremony by the Grand Sachem, 
 Clarkson Crolius, and an oration was delivered by Alpheus Sherman. 
 The building was finished in the following year, and has continued to 
 the present time to be the rallying point of the Democracy. 
 
 80. Doctor Samuel L. Mitchill was appointed Surgeon General of 
 the State of New York by Governor Clinton, being tin' firsl person 
 who held that office. His report tills eight folio pages of the Senate 
 journal. 
 
 90. Mr. Coleman altered the first line of this poem to — 
 "Ah ! Julia! no more at each party and ball," 
 as he considered the name of Chloe too antiquated. 
 
NOTES. 
 
 91. On the south-cast corner of William and Pine streets (origi- 
 nally called Smith and King streets) stood the family mansion of the 
 I'hilijises. It was during the latter part of the last century kept as a 
 lodging house by a Mrs. Mercer; then it passed into the hands of a 
 Mr. King, and finally into the possession of his son-in-law, William 
 Nihlo, under whose charge it became famous as the Hank Coffee House. 
 Mr. Nihlo entered the service of Mr. King in an humble capacity, but 
 by his attention to the interest of his employer, he was gradually ad- 
 vanced in position : in 18P.t he married the daughter of Mr. King, and 
 became proprietor of the establishment. He continued there until he 
 took charge of the present Niblo's Garden, with which he is still con- 
 nectcd. 
 
 '.12. Few actresses have been so deserving, fewer still have been so 
 fortunate, as Mrs. Barnes, who made her first appearance at the Park 
 Theatre, on the 17th April, 181"). During a theatrical career of twenty- 
 five years, nothing occurred to detract in the slightest degree from the 
 kindly feelings entertained for her. on her first appearance. In person, 
 Mrs. Parties was finely formed, and her features, though small, were 
 eminently beautiful, and at her perfect command in portraying every 
 shade of passion. She excelled principally in the youthful heroines 
 of tragedy, though she was almost equally successful in comedy, melo- 
 drama and pantomime. Mrs. Barnes was respected and admired in 
 private life, and after her husband's death, took a formal farewell 
 of the stage November 2d, 1841. She has appeared a few limes since 
 for the benefit of her daughter. Miss Charlotte Barnes; the last occa- 
 sion having been in Philadelphia, as Lady Randolph, on the 26th July, 
 18.">1, which character she sustained with almost undiminished excel- 
 len cc. — I'lin/i/ocrs Journal. 
 
 93. The name of Stkimikx I'kice, so well known in theatrical 
 annals, occurs in connection with the management of the Park Theatre 
 for the first time in the year 180S. he having then purchased an interest 
 of Mr. Cooper. His interest continued for thirty-two years, a portion 
 of the time being with Mr. Simpson. Mr. Price was a man of g ro al 
 perseverance and energy of character, strict and severe, though 
 honorable in his dealings, and displayed great taste and judgment in 
 all his dramatic engagements. A long residence abroad, during which 
 he was for a time manager of Drury l.ane Theatre in London, gave him 
 great facilities for the engagement of distinguished talent, and through 
 him many of the most eminent British artists were introduced to the 
 
NOTES. 
 
 157 
 
 American public. During the Inst years of Mr. Price's management, 
 owing to the powerful rivalry of Mr. Wallack at the National Theatre 
 in Leonard street, the Park Theatre declined greatly in popularity, 
 and Mr. Price being absent could not understand the necessity of new 
 outlays, which were necessary to keep pace with its formidable com- 
 petitor. He returned to New Fork to superintend its management in 
 person, but was soon after seized u il h a, sickness, which terminated 
 his life on the 20th January, 1840. — Playgoers Journal. 
 
 04. However adroitly the object of these two lines may appear lo lie 1 
 concealed, their application can not be mistaken. AVe freely subscribe 
 to the merits of Mrs. Barnes without feeling in any manner disposed 
 to admit that these merits deteriorate from Mrs. Hartley's. They are 
 distinct in character and effort, and have no relative connection. — Kil. 
 Nat. Advocate. 
 
 04. Simon Thomas, the Caterer-General, indispensible on all such 
 occasions. 
 
 00. Mrs. Poi'I'leton, a Confectioner at 206 Broadway. 
 
 07. Christie kept the principal china and glass store in this city, 
 in Maiden lane. 
 
 98. Alluding to a certain individual, whom it was all the fashion 
 to have at all great parties. — Ed. Eve. Post. 
 
 00. Wm, Cobbett, the well known political and infidel writer, 
 having fled to England after the destruction of his press at Philadel- 
 phia by a mob about 1795, returned in 1818, settled at New York and 
 opened a seed shop, where he sold ruta baga at a dollar per pound, and 
 black pigs for ten dollars each. For a long space of time, you could 
 hear nothing in Wall or Exchange streets but Cobbett and his black 
 pigs — Cobbett and his ruta baga. * * * Before twelve months 
 he closed the concern, and again sailed tor England. Naked he came 
 into America, and naked he returned from thence: his whole goods 
 and chattels (a few minor articles excepted), consisting only of ruta 
 baga and smoked hams from the hind quarters of his black pigs; he 
 shipped one ease, however, which by some estimation was beyond all 
 price, viz: a rough Albany deal board, formed into a square box, anil 
 in this box was deposited the profound skull and dry bones of the 
 venerated Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, Sic. Out of these 
 
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 bones Cobbett meant to have made political capital, but they were 
 seized by the custom house at London for duty, and sank (if report 
 speaks true) in the deep green sea. — Grant Thorlmrn. 
 
 A correspondent in Philadelphia has furnished us several interesting 
 facts relative to Cobbett, during and subsequent to his residence in 
 that city. His establishment there was on North Second street between 
 Market and Arch streets. A difficulty with Governor McKean occa- 
 sioned a suit, against the result of which he bitterly complained, and 
 while living on Long Island, endeavored to obtain some legislative 
 action at Harrisburgh in his behalf. 
 
 In a letter dated Hyde Park (Long Island). September 1st. 1S17. 
 after a good deal on farming matters, buckwheat, carrots, cabbages, &e., 
 &c, " all the finest that can be imagined — some of my turnips already 
 weigh about five pounds," and after referring to the treatment received 
 from the government in England, he goes on to say: " In November, 1 
 shall go on to Philadelphia, and then I shall tackle the gentry there on 
 account of the proceedings of McKean, his,/Wyr.« ami his juries. I am 
 
 sorry that he and Dallas ate dead: for by . 1 will \u\\o justice ; 1 
 
 will have the judgment reversed by act of the assembly, or the whole 
 world shall hear of their injustice and tyranny — they will be cursedly 
 puzzled with me." In a letter dated Harrisbugh, February 10th, 181S. 
 he says: "A report has been made and printed ; it is as favorable as it 
 possibly can be: it will come on in the Senate on Saturday." 
 
 He was at this time in company with Matthew Carey, between whom 
 and himself there had been much bitterness in 17!tS, when Carey wrote 
 the Plumb Pudding far Peter Porcupine. Our correspondent adds: 
 '• While Cobbett was at Long Island in 1817, 1818. 18H>. he was experi- 
 menting in almost all branches of farming and cattle raising. He was 
 also writing and publishing a grammar and other books, and supplying 
 matter for his Register, which was continued in London. He raised 
 various seed-, which were sent to agents in various parts of the I'nited 
 States, put up in packages seated. He induced Mr. Morgan, an admir- 
 ing friend, to be the agent for Philadelphia. He advertised extensively. 
 I remember a communication in one of the Philadelphia newspapers, 
 the writer of which refers to a letter of Cobbett's to Sir Francis ISur- 
 dett. in relation to the money which BurdeM had lent to him. and asks, 
 who after reading that letter would have so much confidence in Cob- 
 bett's honor or honesty as to pay him five dollars for a seated package 
 of seeds or any thing else. It is probable that the allusion in the poem 
 is to this letter. My father-in-law. Mr. William Voting, was an exten- 
 sive bookseller while Cobbett was in Philadelphia. It appears 
 
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 Cobbett was in his debt, and had to be urged for payment : I find anion"; 
 Mr. Voting's, papers a note from Cobbctt, of which this is a copy: 
 
 'Good master Voting 
 
 1 can not setul the whole amount, 
 
 With christian patience watch and wait, 
 Take fifty dollars on account. 
 
 And give the bearer a receipt. 
 
 Wm. Cobbett. 
 
 'P. S. — Though I know it is very difficult to rhyme a Presbyterian 
 out of his money, yet when in the measure of Watts's Psalms and Hymns, 
 it ought to have some weight. I will discharge the rest of your bill 
 as soon as possible, which I hope will be before Saturday night. 
 
 ' Tuesdaj-, February 5th, 1798.' 
 
 "I observe in the extract which you kindly sent to me references to 
 Thorburn, Loekhart's cane, &C, the occasion for which I am unac- 
 quainted with ; probably the seed business brought him in collision 
 with the eccentric Thorburn, who, it is likely, returned him quid pro 
 quo." 
 
 100. George Barrington was the well known, or rather widely 
 known, light-fingered gentleman to whom is ascribed the witty couplet : 
 
 " True patriots we! For be it understood, 
 
 We left our country for our country's good." — Allibonc. 
 
 101. In a letter from William Cobbett to Sir Francis Burdett, 20th 
 June, 1817, enclosing one to Mr. Tripper, North Hempstead, Long 
 Island, same date, he says: '•! beg you to have the goodness to read, 
 and to consider the contents of it (as far as they relate to the liquida- 
 tion of my debts generally), as addressed to yourself. 
 
 " If there be any man who can pretend for one moment, that mine is 
 an ordinary case, and, that not having enough to pay every body, I 
 ought to be regarded as an insolvent debtor, in the usual acceptance of 
 the words ; if there be any man, who wholly absorbed in his attachment 
 to his own immediate interests, is ready to cast blame on a debtor, 
 who has had his means of paying cut off by an operation as decisive 
 as that of an earthquake, which should sink into eternal nothing, his 
 lands, his houses and his goods — if there be any man who, if he 
 had been a creditor of Job, would have insisted that that celebrated 
 object nf a malignant devil's wrath, which had swept away his herds, 
 his Hocks, his sons and daughters, was an insolvent debtor and a 
 
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 bankrupt, and ought to have been considered such, and as such pro- 
 vided against: if there be any such a man as this to whom I owe any 
 thing, to such a man, I first say that I despise him from the bottom of 
 my soul : and then I say, that if lie dare meet me before this world in 
 open and written charge. I pledge myself to cover him with as much 
 shame and infamy as the world can be brought to shower upon so 
 contemptible a being. 
 
 " When the society is too weak or unwilling to defend the 
 
 property, whether mental or of a more ordinary and vulgar species, 
 and where there is not the will or the power in the society to yield 
 him protection, he becomes clearly absolved of all his engagements of 
 every sort to that society, because in every bargain of every kind, it 
 is understood that both parties are to continue to enjoy the protection 
 of the laws of property." 
 
 Sir Francis Burdett replied on the 13th Jan. 1818. 
 
 " It is not my intention to enter into any controversy respecting 
 
 the honesty or dishonesty of paying or not paying debfs according to 
 the convenience of the party owing. It seems that if it should ever 
 suit your convenience and take nothing from the comforts or enjoy- 
 ments of your family (all this being previously secured), then you 
 think yourself bound to pay your debts: if, on the contrary, that can 
 not be effected without sacrifice on your part, in that case your credi- 
 tors have no claim. These principles, which are laughable in theory, 
 are detestable in practice. How true is our common law maxim, that 
 no man is an upright judge in his own cause: how truly and prettily 
 said by the French, La nature se pipe-, no less truly, though more 
 grossly in English. Xature's her o ten bau d." — Ere. Post, 1*7 April. 181(1. 
 
 102. Cobiiett*s seed store was at 63 Fulton street. 
 
 103. The poem. The Ameriean Flag, was published in the Ennin;/ 
 Post, with the following caption by Mr. Coleman : "Sir Philip Sidney 
 said, as Addison tells us. that he never could read the old ballad of 
 Chevy Chase, without feeling his heart beat within him. as at the sound 
 of a trumpet. The following lines, which are to be ranked among the 
 highest inspirations of the Muse, will suggest similar associations in 
 the breast of the gallant American officer." 
 
 104. The last four lines of the Ameriean Flag are by Halleek, in 
 place of the following by Drake, which originally closed the poem : 
 
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NOTES. 
 
 161 
 
 And fixed as yonder orb divine, 
 
 That saw thy bannered blaze unfurled, 
 
 .Shall thy proud stars resplendent shine, 
 The guard and glory of the world. 
 
 105. The meetings of the Forums were held at the City Hotel, in 
 Broadway, on Friday evenings. The price of admission was two 
 shillings. 
 
 10G. The prominent members of the Forums were J. P. C. Sampson, 
 Orville L. Holley, Thomas G. Fessenden, Hiram Ketchum, &c. The 
 Secretary of the old Forum was Rev. Richard Varick Dey, at one time 
 Chaplain to Congress ; and of the New York Forum was Wm. Paxson 
 Hallett, Esq., afterwards Clerk of the United States Court for this 
 district. The valedictory address was delivered by Col. Charles G. 
 Haines. 
 
 107. James L. Bell was Sheriff of the County of New York from 
 August 27, 1817, till February 13, 1821. 
 
 108. Dawson's Livery Stable, No. 9 Dey street. 
 
 109. A. T. Goodrich's Bookstore, corner of Broadway and Cedar 
 street. 
 
 110. Eastbttrn's Literary Rooms on the corner of WaH and Nassau 
 streets, where the Custom House now stands. 
 
 111. Chester Jennings came to this city from Connecticut, in 
 search of employment, and engaged as a servant at the City Hotel, 
 then kept by Solomon Gibson. He was soon promoted to the charge of 
 the office of the hotel, and when Mr. Gibson left, in 181G, he became pro- 
 prietor. Under his management it acquired a high reputation, and 
 Mr. Jennings retired with a competency. His fortune, which was in- 
 vested in the United States Bank and other stocks, having been swept 
 away by the revulsion of 18o7. he was induced by Mr. Astor to resume 
 the management of the hotel, in connection with his former assistant 
 Mr. WiUard. Jennings and Willard soon regained their former re- 
 nown as hotel keepers, and in about five years, Mr. Jennings repaired 
 his losses, and both he and Mr. Willard again retired to private life, 
 Mr. "Jennings returning to Connecticut. During a temporary visit to 
 this city, he was taken ill, and died at the Astor House on the 2-jth 
 
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 January, 18o4, leaving his estate to bis sister, Mrs. Otis Munn, of 
 Leyden, X. Y. He was much esteemed for Ji is excellent qualities 
 as a man, and his usefulness as a citizen. The City Hotel, during 
 its existence, was noted, not only for its excellence as a place of 
 entertainment for travellers, but for the accommodations it afforded 
 the citizens for various uses. Dinners to distinguished men. meetings 
 of citizens, concerts, anniversary balls and masonic lodges were held 
 there for many years, while under t lie auspices of Mr. Jennings, and 
 it will long live in the memories of a large number of the citizens of 
 Xew York. 
 
 11.!. The death of Cato Ai.kxandkh was announced in the news- 
 papers of 8th Feb., 1858. For half a century he kept a house of enter- 
 tainment "on the road," about four miles from the City Hall. Cato's 
 was the fashionable out of town resort for the young men of the day. 
 His suppers were proverbial for excellence, and in sleighing times, it 
 was almost impossible to obtain accommodation for the crowds that 
 frequented the house. His property increased with time. But the 
 fast young men, who had assisted in making Cato rich, occasionally 
 borrowed money of him, at first in small sums and then in larger 
 amounts. In too many instances these were never returned: Cato 
 gradually became crippled in means; his old friends deserted him, 
 while new ones could not be obtained, or were diverted to more attract- 
 ive places of resort which sprung up in the suburbs of the city. His 
 house was finally sold, and Cato made a last effort to open an oyster 
 saloon in Broadway near Prince street. But he had grown old and 
 infirm, and after a year's trial was obliged to yield: lie was no longer 
 seen in that neighborhood, and nothing more was heard of him until 
 his death was announced as above. He died in the 77th year of his 
 age. 
 
 U.S. The Baron Vox Hoffman, who discharged two pistols in 
 succession at his own body, and missed both times: evidently owing 
 to a want of practice. — Ed. Eve. Posf. 
 
 This Baron Yon Hoffman appears to have been all the fashion at 
 this time. He proved to be an arrant imposter, and left this city, but 
 turned up afterwards in Dublin, as the following from t lie Evtning Post 
 of 12th .June 182:1. shows, viz: "Baron Yon Hoffman of Sironv. who 
 used to serenade our ladies with the Tyrolese air, so merrily,, under 
 their windows in Broadway, a year or two ago. and one day took 
 French leave of them all, now shows away as one of the "nobility 
 and persona of distinction in Dublin-'' 
 
/$ 3 
 
JOHX LOCKE. Eg. 
 
NOTES. 
 
 163 
 
 114. Two lamps arc always placed before the door of the house oc- 
 cupied by the Mayor. 
 
 115. Allusion is made in this poem, to the names applied to the 
 twenty-eight townships in the Military Tract of Central and Western 
 New York. The soubriquet of " Godfather of the christened west," 
 was now first applied to General De Witt, and he has since been spoken 
 of as entitled to that honor, which, such as it is, is believed to belong 
 to Robert Harper, then Deputy Secretary of State. It appears that 
 the Surveyor General had no share in naming the townships, for in 
 a communication from him to one of the New York papers, he says: 
 •' The editor has done the Surveyor General too much honor by retain- 
 ing for him the naming of the townships in the Military Tract, for a 
 display of his knowledge. The names were given by formal resolution 
 of the Commissioners of the Land Office. The Board, consisting of the 
 Governor, the Secretary of State, the Treasurer, t he Auditor and the 
 Attorney General, held its meetings in the city of New York. The 
 Surveyor-General had his office established by law in the city of Albany, 
 and knew nothing of these obnoxious names till theg were officially com- 
 municated to him, nor had he even then, any agency in suggesting them." 
 General De Witt died in 1834. — Hist. Magazine, Vol. iii, No. 3. 
 
 As illustrative of the text, we here subjoin a list of the townships 
 whose names were attributed to the Surveyor-General, but as we have 
 seen without justice. They were, Lysauder, Hannibal, Cato, Brutus, 
 CamiUus, Cicero, Manlius, Aurelius, Marcellus, Ponipey, Romulus, 
 Scipio, Sempronius, Tully, Fabius, Ovid, Milton, Locke, Homer, Solon, 
 Hector, Ulysses, Dryden, Virgil, Cincinnatus, Junius, Galen and Ster- 
 ling. The Legislature of New York in 183o, applied the final touch, 
 suggested in the last stanza, by naming a new town in Onondaga county, 
 De Witt. 
 
 116. An expression of Mr. Speaker German, in allusion to the 
 assessment of property on the borders of the canal. — Eve. Post. 
 
 117. Cato, the Censor, passed severe sumptuary laws, restraining 
 the extravagant dress of the Roman dandies, and limiting the amount 
 of property which one man might possess, to the sore annoyance of 
 the bankers (or usurers) of Rome. He was also an encourager of 
 home manufactures. — Eve. Post. 
 
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 NOTES. 
 
 118. Johx Jqsepb Holland, arrived in this country in 1796, hav- 
 ing been engaged in England by Wignell, as a scene painter for the 
 Philadelphia Theatre. He was afterwards employed to remodel the 
 Park Theatre by Mr. Cooper, who had become the lessee. He was a 
 man of taste in the arts, and his landscapes in water colors had great 
 truth and force. — -Dunlap's Arts of Design. 
 
 110. AMBROSE Spenceb, a native of Salisbury, Connecticut, un- 
 admitted to the Bar in 1788. He served in both branches of the State 
 Legislature, and in 1802 was appointed Attorney General of the State. 
 In 1810, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, which 
 office he held until 1823, when he resumed the practice of his profession, 
 but left it after a few years, and retired to private life. He died 13th 
 March, 1848, in the eighty-third year of his age. Mr. Spencer was 
 vehement in speech, and energetic in manner, but kind and approachable 
 to all. — Street's Council of Revision. 
 
 120. llichard the Third.— Eve. Post. 
 
 121. John Woodwouth had then recently been appointed one of 
 the Puisne Justices of the Supreme Court. 
 
 122. James Tallmadge. " Veracity of history compels me to state 
 thai in no part of New York, were political bargains more common 
 than among some of the politicians of Dutchess county, and that Mr. 
 Livingston (Peter It.), and Mr. Tallmadge (James) were prominent 
 party leaders in that county." — Hammond. 
 
 123. Messrs. STEPHEN Bates, George Rosf.soraxtz and William 
 Koss. The fourth member of the Council of Appointment in thai 
 year (1819) was Stephen Paum m, but he appears nol to have been 
 acting at this time. 
 
 124. A tax of one dollar was imposed by a law of 1817. upon every 
 passenger who traveled over one hundred miles by steam boat upon 
 the Hudson, and of half this sum for every passage over thirty' and 
 under one hundred miles. This revenue, with that derived from stale 
 lotteries and other sources, was applicable to the construction of canals, 
 and in seventeen \ ears amounted to §73,500.00. The tax was suspended 
 in 1820, and finally ended in 1823. 
 
NOTES. 
 
 125. Roger Skin.nkk. a Senator from Sandy Hill, Washington Co., 
 in the eastern district, was a man pleasing in his address; his talents 
 were rather of the persuasive than the solid kind, and. as a companion, 
 he was quite agreeable, lie was fond of political management, and 
 rather reckless as to the means he employed to accomplish his ends. 
 He was said to be bitter in his feelings as a partizan. He was, un- 
 doubtedly, very much so against Gov Clinton. — Hammond. 
 
 126. Peter K. Livingston, from Dutchess county, was a man of 
 fine fancy and great declamatory powers. Few men could address a 
 popular assembly with more effect than he. His usefulness as a 
 legislator was impaired by a lack of industry and laborious attention 
 to the details of business. He filled many prominent stations under 
 the state and national governments, and had been a Member of Con- 
 gress, of the State Senate, and of the Assembly. He died at Rhinebeck 
 on the 19th January, 1847, aged 81 years. — Hammond <$• Am. Almanac. 
 
 127. Waltf.ii Bowse was this year (1819) elected a member of the 
 State Senate from the city of New York. 
 
 128. Messrs. Christian and Warner were Justices of the Peace in 
 i Ins city. 
 
 129. George Buckmaster, a perfect Falstaff in proportion, was 
 Alderman of the seventh ward. 
 
 130. Pierre C. Van Wyck, an eminent Lawyer and long Recorder of 
 this city. He was a fierce Clintonian, always writing squibs, and 
 contributed with Clinton to theiVew York Columbian, the papers signed 
 A Martling Man. The Columbian was edited by Charles Holt. 
 
 131. Obadiah German of Chenango county, Speaker of Assembly. 
 
 132. Hugh Maxwell, formerly District Attorney of New York, and 
 Collector of the Port — at present residing in Rockland county. 
 
 Barent Gardenier, was born in the village of Kinderhook, N. V., 
 and was the oldest son of Richard Gardenier, a distinguished lawyer 
 of that place. After being admitted to the bar, Barent moved to 
 Ulster county, where he soon rose to eminence. He was elected to 
 represent that county in the 10th Congress. In this new sphere of 
 action, he at once took a distinguished rank and was one of the Fede- 
 
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 ral leaders of the bouse. In the year 1808, in consequence of severe 
 language used by liim in debate, he was assailed with a torrent of 
 personal abuse which provoked a challenge from him and a duel, in 
 which he was shot through the body by George W. Campbell, a mem- 
 ber from Tennessee, and barely escaped with his life. At the expira- 
 tion of his congressional term he moved to the city of New York, 
 where he practiced law for a few years. He afterwards edited the 
 ExiMiiinir, a periodical published in this city, by his cousin, the late 
 Abraham Vosburgh, Esq. Mr. (iardenier possessed genius of the 
 highest order. He was remarkable for his fascinating address, his 
 soul-stirring eloquence, his brilliant wit and his caustic sarcasm. In 
 the two latter qualities he was but little if any wise inferior to the 
 celebrated John Randolph, by whom he was pronounced the greatest 
 man tiiat ever stood upon the floor of Congress. Mr. (iardenier was 
 a ready and powerful debater, and a bob!, frank and fearless man. 
 He died in the city of New York about thirty years ago. 
 
 133. Gakbet Gti.uKRT, Register of the city and county of New York. 
 
 134. Prter H. Wendover, was a native of this city and was elected 
 lo the State Assembly in 1804, and to the United Stales Congress in 
 1815, in which body he served three terms. During the whole time of 
 Mr. Wendover in Congress, he made but one speech, which was upon 
 the altering of the American flag. The flag consisted originally of 
 thirteen stripes and thirteen stars, to which, on the addition of a state 
 to the Union, another stripe, and another star were added. Mr. Wen- 
 dover urged the appointment of a committee "to inquire into the ex- 
 pediency of altering the flag of the United States." The committee 
 was appointed and reported on the 2d January, 1817, but the u acl to 
 establish the Flag of the United States,'" did not pass until the following 
 year, li was as follows: "lie it enacted, &c. That from and after 
 the fourth day of July next, the flag of the United States be thirteen 
 horizontal stripes, alternate red and white: that the Union be twenty 
 Stars, white in a blue lield. 
 
 •• Sec'. And be it further enacted, that on the admission id' every 
 new State into the Union, one star shall be added to the Union of the 
 flag : and that each addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July 
 then next succeeding such admission. Approved April 4. 181S.' 
 
 Mr. Wendover was afterwards Sheriff' id' this city. 
 
 I :'..">. Doctor Last's examination. — AVr. Post. 
 
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NOTES. 
 
 136. In the stanzas that follow, the literary reader of taste will 
 recognize the plaintive tenderness of the author of I, alia Rookh. — 
 Ed. Eve. rost. 
 
 137. The Council of Appointment was created in the following man- 
 ner : "The State for the purpose of electing Senators, was divided 
 into four great districts, the southern, middle, eastern and western. 
 Out of each district, once in every year, the Assefnbly were required 
 openly to nominate and appoint one Senator, which Senators when thus 
 elected, were, together with the Governor, to form a Council of Ap- 
 pointment. Originally theGovcrnor had the sole power of originating 
 nominations, hut in 1801, the constitution was amended so as to give 
 concurrent power of nomination to each member of the Council. The 
 Governor was constituted President of this Board "with the advice 
 and consent of the Council, to appoint all officers" whose appointments 
 were not otherwise provided for in the constitution. All civil and 
 military officers, from the heads of departments, Chancellors and 
 Judges of the Supreme Court, down to, and including all Justices of 
 the Peace and Auctioneers, with the exception of the State Treasurer 
 and a few petty city and town officers, were thus, in etfect, appointed 
 by the Governor. — Hammond. 
 
 The Council of Appointment had become notoriously a political 
 machine, and upon the revision of the constitution in 1821 it was 
 abolished without a dissenting vote, either in the committee or the con- 
 vention. At the time the Council was discontinued, 8,28Tmilitary and 
 lj.0t)3 civil officers held their commissions under this authority, and 
 most of them were liable to removal at will. At an early day, the 
 Council, while it disclaimed the exercise of a judicial authority, felt 
 bound to entertain charges against persons holding office under them, 
 in the presence of the accused, with the view of proving the truth or 
 error of theaccusations; but at a later day their proceedings were sum- 
 mary. — Hough's New York Civil Lis/. 
 
 L38. A fashionable tailor in Wall street. 
 
 139. Mr. Bates was a shrewd, sensible Yankee. As a county 
 politician, he possessed efficiency, but he was narrow and selfish in his 
 views and principles of action. He was much governed politically, 
 by the impulses of feeling, and of personal likings and dislikings. — 
 Hammond. 
 
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 140. Mr. Bosf.xcrantz was a respectable and worthy Senator, of 
 German descent, from Herkimer county, who, with true Dutch obstinacy, 
 declared lie would " never vote for a liucktail." — Hammond. 
 
 141. Mr. William Boss, a democratic member from Orange county, 
 though honest and kind-hearted, was a vain man. He was warmly 
 attached to the republican party, but his vanity and want of real 
 talent, rendered him rather a cause of amusement than a terror to his 
 opponents. — Hammond. 
 
 142. Tn the proceedings of the Council of Appointment of 10th July 
 18111, appear the following, viz: "Thomas .). Oakley was appointed 
 Attorney General of the State of New York, in place of Mr. M. Van 
 Huron, removed." "Edward McGaraghan was appointed Justice of 
 the second ward in place of Teunis Wortman, removed."' "Jeremiah 
 Drake was appointed Judge of the Marine Court in place of John 15. 
 Scott, removed.'' 
 
 143. This piece now appears in Hallcck's Poetical Works, with the 
 title, Domestic Happiness. For the newspaper motto the following is 
 substituted : 
 
 " The only bliss 
 Of Paradise that has survived the fall." — Cotrper. 
 
 144. Vaxdf.rvoort & Flaximx kept a fashionable dry goods store 
 in Broadway near Bark Blace. 
 
 145. Altered to More by the author in Poetical Works. 
 
 140. The freedom of the Theatre to a resident, or a gold medal of 
 the value of fifty dollars to a non-resident, was offered by the manage- 
 ment for the best poetical address to be spoken on the opening night. 
 About sixty communications were received, but the committee awarded 
 t lie prize to Mr. Charles Sprague of Boston. The address was spoken 
 by Mr. Simpson on the 1st September, 1821. On Monday the Sd, the 
 second prise address by Samuel Woodworth was spoken by Mrs. 
 Barnes, and received much applause. — riai/goerx Journal. 
 
 1 17. Mr. Oi.liff was for many years Prompter of the Bark Thea- 
 tre, and had risen from the ranks as a call-boy. He was a remarkably 
 small person, having apparently grown but little since a boy: and his 
 
NOTES. 
 
 169 
 
 diminutive person was (be cause of infinite merriment. He liail as 
 great ambition to be an actor, as to wield tbe prompter's whistle; and 
 always preferred tlie part of assassins or robbers, in woods, rocks or 
 ravines, which, contrasted with his small proportions and fierce looks, 
 kept the audience in good humor whenever he assumed a part, which 
 was frequently, as he went on to deliver a message, or fill any oc- 
 casional vacancy. We believe he is dead, not having heard his whistle 
 in any theatre. — The Prompter. 
 
 148. The Park Theatre was destroyed by fire July 4, 1821, on the 
 night when Major Noah's play of the Siege of Tripoli was performed 
 for the author's benefit. The house was densely filled, and as there 
 was great firing of guns, cannons and small arms in the piece, a 
 company of Marines was present from the navy yard, and it was 
 supposed that the fire originated from the wadding of guns ; but this 
 was not the case. It seems that the carpenter's gallery, for convenience, 
 was situated as near to the roof as it could well be, and one of the 
 assistants wanting a tool during the performance, took a light and 
 ascending to the gallery, procured the instrument and left the candle 
 burning on the bench, which after the play had concluded and the 
 audience retired, communicated to the shavings, and in a few minutes 
 the whole house was in flames, and in an hour nothing but the bare 
 walls were left. All the musicians lost their instruments, the actors 
 their wardrobe, and the author the large receipts of the night. — 
 Prompter. 
 
 140. Messrs. Bf.kkmax and Astor were joint owners of the theatre 
 for many years; Price and Simpson having paid them more money for 
 rent during their lease than the Theatre had originally cost them, thrice 
 over, they having purchased the building for 50,000 dollars, and 
 leased it for 18,000 dollars per annum. — Prompter. 
 
 150. Jexxisgs for a long time was a celebrated Coat Scourer, well 
 known to the public. 
 
 151. Saunders for many years was a celebrated Perruquier in this 
 city, and a man of taste in pictures. He was quite successful in 
 business, having invented a valuable razor strop. Newspaper adver- 
 tising, in poetry and prose, helped him very much in his business. — 
 Prompter. 
 
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 NOTES. 
 
 lo2. Henry Mimos was then a Member of Congress from this city. 
 He was born in New Haven in 178l\ graduated at Yale College in 1798, 
 aiul was elected to Congress from New York city in 1815). He has for 
 many years been Recording Secretary of the American Institute in 
 New York. It is said of him as something remarkable, that he never 
 wore an overcoat, never had a sore throat, or headache, and though 
 nearly eighty years of age does not use glasses. He is a very amiable 
 and worthy gentleman, of great simplicity of character. — Lanman's 
 Die. of Congress. 
 
 158. We do not know whether the above address was among the 
 Dumber presented to the literary committee for the premium, at the 
 opening of the Theatre, and rejected ; but one thing we will venture 
 to say, there was none offered half so well calculated to produce 
 dramatic effect. And we should hope the managers will present the 
 author with the freedom of the Theatre, by way of encouraging him 
 to make a second effort. — Ed. Eve. J'ost. 
 
 1")4. The poem To Walter Bowie was published in the Xew York 
 Mirror with the following preface: 
 
 ••It gives us great pleasure to be able to lay before our readers an 
 ORIGINAL Choakkh, from the pen of Mr. Halleck. They will find it 
 rich in the same genial humor which is the distinguishing character- 
 istic of the others, and there is throughout a sweeping power of lan- 
 guage, and, in the latter part, a sweetness of imagery, that will 
 recommend it to general admiration. It was written for a paper since 
 discontinued, the editor of which has placed us under great obligation, 
 by presenting us with the manuscript." 
 
 1-V>. The members of the Council of Appointment for the year 
 1821. were Walter liowne from the southern district, John T. Moore 
 from the middle, Roger Skinner from the eastern, and David K. Evans 
 from the western. They were all decidedly hostile, politically, to 
 Governor Clinton, and Mr. Skinner was said to be personally unfriend- 
 ly to him. From the activity of Judge Skinner, in all party opera- 
 tion--, lie was supposed to be the most active member of the Council, 
 anil it acquired the name of Skinner's Council. He had been educated 
 in a school of politics, which taught him to believe that every legal 
 measure ought to be taken to diminish the power of an opponent, and 
 that to tlic •• victors belong the spoils." This doctrine was carried 
 out with great rigor, much more so than we had ever before been ac- 
 customed to. — Hammond. 
 
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NOTES. 
 
 171 
 
 Walter Bowne was descended from an old Quaker family which 
 had been settled at Flushing for many years. He engaged successfully 
 in business in this city, and on his retirement became a prominent 
 politician of the Democratic party. He represented this city in the 
 State Senate for three successive terms, and in 1821 was one of the 
 Council of Appointment. lie was afterwards Mayor of the City, 
 which office he held for four years. He was noted in public and 
 private for scrupulous and exact dealings, descending to the smallest 
 details: and by his successful operations, acquired a large estate. 
 He died in this city in August 184(5, in the seventy-sixth year of his 
 age. — Corporation Manual. 
 
 156. Charles G. Haines, a native of New Hampshire, came to 
 New York in the year 1815. He was a man of tine appearance and 
 good address. He wrote much on political subjects, and with great 
 facility and fluency. Mr. Haines was appointed Private Secretary to 
 Governor Clinton, and in 1825 was made Adjutant General of the State, 
 which office he held until his death on the 3d Jul}', 182(5. — Hammond. 
 
 157. The following is from the proceedings of the Council of Ap- 
 pointment of 12th Feb., 1821 : 
 
 Josiah Hedden, Janves Hopson and Henry Abel, were appointed 
 Police Justices in place of James Warner, Charles Christian and 
 Charles K. Gardner; Hugh Maxwell, District Attorney in place of 
 Pierre C. Van Wyck ; Elisha Morrell, District Justice in place of 
 Thomas Fessenden : M. M. Noah, Sheriff in place of James L. Bell ; 
 Everardus Warner, Commissioner of Excise in place of Edward Mc 
 Laughlin ; Doctor Jacobus Dyckman, Health Commissioner in place of 
 Peter I. Townscnd ; Doct. Nicholas Quackenboss, Resident Physician 
 in place of Doctor David Hosack ; Abraham Dally, Inspector of dis- 
 tilled spirits in place of Adam Mott ; John Brown, Inspector of flour 
 in place of ■ Duffy. 
 
 158. Mr. Bryant prefaced the poem To the Recorder, with the 
 following: •■There is a wonderful freshness and youthfulness of 
 imagination in the following epistle, for a septuagenarian if not an 
 octogenarian poet, as the writer must be, if we are to judge from the 
 chronology of his initial lines. He has lost nothing of the grace and 
 playfulness which might have belonged to his best years. The sport- 
 ive irony of the piece will amuse our readers and offend nobody. 
 Indeed, we are not sure but a part of this is directed against ourselves, 
 but as Mr. Castaly has chosen to cover it up in dashes, it might imply 
 
172 
 
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 too great a jealousy of our dignity to make the application, anil to 
 mutilate the poem by omitting any part, is contrary to the strict charge 
 of the writer, who insists upon our publishing the whole or none."' 
 
 150. The Honorable Richard Rikkk, late Recorder of this city, 
 died on the 20th September 1842, aged 09 years. He held this im- 
 portant office for nearly thirty years, and was esteemed one of the 
 ablest jurisconsults in criminal law, that presided in the courts. He 
 was a gentleman of the old school, always patient, forbearing and 
 attentive, when on the bench, and though an active politician, he made 
 no enemies in private life. — Am. Almanac. 
 
 100. The duel between Mr. Hiker and Mr. Swartwout originated in 
 political quarrel — Mr. R., being an ardent adherent of De Witt Clin- 
 ton, and Mr. Swartwout a strong personal and political friend of Col. 
 Burr. The duel took place at Wehawken, and Mr. Riker was slightly 
 wounded. 
 
 101. As Recorder of the city, he occupied a scat in t lie Common 
 Council, with the Mayor, who was presiding officer, and always took 
 an active part in the proceedings. He also, with two Aldermen, 
 occupied the bench of the Court of Sessions. 
 
 162. A favorite French air. In English •• where can one be more 
 happy than in the bosom of one's family." 
 
 10;5. Natiiasiki. PlTCHBB was elected Lieutenant Governor on the 
 same ticket witli Dc Witt Clinton in 1820. He was a warm partisan, 
 and bad been an ardent opponent of Gov. Clinton, but the intercourse 
 which lie had with the Governor as State Road Commissioner had 
 greatly mollified his feelings towards him. Though zealous as a parli- 
 zan, Mr. Pitcher was strictly an honest man. By the sudden death of 
 Mr. Clinton, he became Governor of the State. In 1828, Mr. Van 
 liiiren was nominated for Governor, and as it was well known that he 
 was to be Secretary of State to General Jaokson, and would conse- 
 quently hold the office btit a short time. Mr. Pitcher was greatly 
 mortified at not having received the nomination of Lieutenant Governor, 
 and it made so deep an impression on his feelings, that he never for- 
 gave the party who was guilty of it. From that moment, and until 
 i lie day of his death, he opposed them. He died at his resilience in 
 Sandy Hill. Washington county, in 1N!G. He was four years in the 
 Vssouibh and three terms in Congress.- Hammond. 
 
SOTES. 
 
 17:5 
 
 164. The Commissioners of the Alms House met at stated intervals 
 at Bellevuti for the purpose of transacting the business of the depart- 
 ment, which, report said, invariably ended with a banquet. 
 
 165. The Pewter Mug, in Frankfort street, adjoining Tammany 
 Hall, was then, and for many years afterwards, a famous resort for 
 the Democrats. 
 
 166. Philip Hose was a native of New York, and had resided 
 there, except during a temporary absence in Europe, all his life. He 
 was an Alderman for a long time, and in 1825-26 the Mayor of the 
 city. But his most useful services to the community were rendered as 
 a member of various benevolent and literary institutions. He was 
 one of the earliest and firmest friends of the Mercantile Library 
 Association, and his bust, in marble, done at the request of the Society, 
 adorns the large room of the library. Having been retired from 
 business for a long time, and with an ample fortune, it was in his 
 power to devote his leisure time to the furtherance of objects of gene- 
 ral interest and concern. When General Taylor came into the office of 
 President, he was appointed Naval Officer of New York, and was in the 
 discharge of the duties of that office at the time of his death, which 
 took place May 4th, 1851. — An. Almanac. 
 
 167. Stephen Allen's first appearance in political life was in 1817, 
 when he was elected Assistant Alderman of the tenth ward. The 
 public spirit which he manifested induced his friends to bring him 
 forward for the office of Mayor, to which he was appointed by the 
 Common Council for the years 1821 and 1822. He was afterwards 
 elected State Senator, and held the office for several years, and at one 
 time filled the position of Sub-Treasurer of the United States in this 
 city. He was concerned in several banking ami insurance companies 
 and in various charitable enterprises: his character for probity and 
 intelligence being a sufficient guaranty for his faithful performance 
 of the most responsible trusts. In his eightieth year, in the summer of 
 1852. he died, one of the victims of the steam boat Henry Clay, which 
 was burned on the Hudson river near Yonkers. — Corporation Manual. 
 
 168. John Targee was born in Gold street in this city. His 
 father, a Whig of the revolution, left New York during the war, with 
 his family. Mr. Targee was a prominent member of the Tammany 
 Society, and exercised great influence in its proceedings. He held 
 
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 several important offices in the city, and was a Commissioner of the 
 Alms House for many years. 
 
 109. Several inquiries having been made of us respecting the 
 name of the author of an Epistle to Mr. Hogbin, published a day or 
 two since in our paper, we took measures to acquaint him with the fact, 
 in order that, if there was no objection on his part, we might satisfy 
 i he curiosity of those who had applied to us. This morning we received 
 from him the following note in reply: "The author of the Epistle to 
 Mr. ffogbin, has unfortunately no name. His father and mother, in 
 that sea.-on of life in which children are generally named, took ad- 
 vantage of his youth and inexperience and declined giving him any. 
 lie is therefore compelled to imitate the Minstrel of Yarrow in Ley- 
 den's Scenes of Infancy, and like him, 
 
 Saves others' names, but leaves his own unsung." 
 
 Eoe. Post, Nov. 18, 1830. 
 
 170. Rkyxolos kept a Beer House on the corner of Thames i>n ( l 
 Lumber streets, below the old City Hotel : it was a place of great resort 
 for the Englishmen in the city. 
 
 171. John R. Livingston, at one time a Member of the Assembly 
 from this city. 
 
 17'J. Thomas Aptiiokpe CoOPBB was born in 1770. His father, an 
 Irish gentleman, died in the service of the Last India Company, 
 leaving his son to the guardianship of William Godwin, the author 
 of I'nlili Williams, etc., under whose supervision he received a superior 
 classical education. His attention was early turned to the stage, and 
 at the age of seventeen, he made his first appearance in Kdinburg, as 
 Malcolm in Macbeth, nut failed completely. Not disheartened, how- 
 ever, he renewed his studies, anil at nineteen had appeared at Covent 
 (iarden Theatre, as Hamlet and Macbeth, with triumphant success. 
 His first appearance in America, was at Philadelphia, Dec, 9th, 1796, 
 and in August. 17U7, played at a Theatre in Greenwich street in this 
 city for the first time. In 18(10, he became manager of the Park 
 Theatre, and afterwards associated with him Stephen Price, with whom 
 he continued several years, until he resigned management for the more 
 profitable career of travel. For more than thirty years Mr. Cooper 
 was the paramount favorite of the public, even Cooke's visit leaving 
 his professional reputation entirely unaffected: but the subsequent 
 
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 appearance of Kean and Macready threw him into comparative neg- 
 lect, and into a line of characters in which he was ultimately super- 
 seded by younger and fresher actors. He accumulated a large fortune 
 by his profession, but his extravagant living finally reduced him to 
 comparative poverty. He made his last appearance in New York at 
 the Bowery Theatre as Duke Aranza, Sept 26th, 1830, but afterwards 
 played at the south. His daughter married a son of President Tyler, 
 who gave him an appointment in the Custom House in this city, which 
 he held for several years. He died at his residence at Bristol, Pa., 
 April 21st, 1849, aged 73 years. — Playgoers' Journal. 
 
 173. Mr. Kean's first visit to America was in 1820, and he was 
 very ably supported at the Park Theatre ; his engagement being also 
 very profitable to himself. While at Boston, he incurred the dis- 
 pleasure of the audience by refusing to appear, in consequence of a thin 
 house, and was obliged to leave for New York, and shortly afterwards, 
 he returned to England. He made a second visit in 1825; his first 
 appearance being on the 14th November, and the recollection of his 
 slight to the Boston public caused one of the worst riots ever known 
 in the Theatre. He immediately published an apologetic letter, which 
 after a time soothed the public mind, and no farther opposition was 
 made to his pei'formance. In Boston, however, he was not allowed to 
 appear, the recollection of his affront to the audience being too strong 
 to be forgiven. He appeared with some slight opposition, in several 
 other principal cities, and made his last appearance in America, at the 
 Park Theatre as Richard III, December 5th, 1826. Ht returned to 
 England, but his attraction had greatly diminished, and his dissipated 
 habits served still farther to decrease it. His last appearance was at 
 Covent Garden Theatre in 1833, when he played Othello, to the lago of 
 his son Charles, but on repeating the sentence "Othello's occupation's 
 gone," lie sunk exhausted, and died on the loth May, 1833, in his 46th 
 year. — Playgoers' Journal. 
 
 174. llev. John Henry Hobart was born in Philadelphia, Sept. 
 14th, 1775; educated at Princeton, where he graduated in 1793; and 
 in 1798 was ordained deacon by Bishop White, and soon after received 
 the appointment, of assistant minister of Trinity Church. In 1811, he 
 was elected Bishop of this diocese, and on the 29th May of that year, 
 was consecrated in Trinity Church, by Bishops White. Provoust and 
 Jarvis. His episcopate lasted twenty-nine years. At the age of fifty- 
 four, while on his progress through the diocese, he suddenly sickened 
 at Auburn, and died there on the 12th Sept., 1830. 
 
176 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 17"). Mr. Jamks Bivii \n ax, for many years British Consul at iliis 
 port. He died at Montreal, lltli Oct. 1851. 
 
 17G. Hkxry Crugeu, was born in New York city in 1730, educated 
 at Kings College, and in 1757, placed in a Counting House in the city 
 of Bristol. He there became a successful and enterprising merchant, 
 and in 1774 was elected to the British Parliament, as the colleague of 
 the celebrated Ldmund Burke. At the parlimentary election in 1780, 
 he was again brought forward as a candidate for Bristol, but defeated, 
 and in 1781 he held the office of Mayor of that city. On the peace in 
 1783, he visited his native country, and while absent from England he 
 was again elected to parliament in 1784. He finally became a perma- 
 nent resident, of New York in 1790, first residing on the corner of 
 William and Stone streets, in view of Hanover square. Upon the first 
 senatorial election after his return, he was chosen to the State Senate, 
 and held four years, although a question of alienage was raised in 
 consequence of \\\- previous European residence Slid offices. He died 
 at his residence No. 382 Greenwich street, N. Y., April 24th, 1827, in 
 his eighty-eighth year. — Van Scfiaack's Biographical Address. 
 
 177. General Morgan Lewis graduated at Princeton College in 
 1773, and commenced the study of the law in the office of John .lay. 
 In 1774 he joined a volunteer company, and served during the war of 
 the revolution. He was appointed Attorney General of the State in 
 1791, and afterwards one of the judges of the Supreme Court, and in 
 1801 became Chief Justice of the State. In 1804. he was elected 
 Governor, but was defeated by Daniel D. Tompkins in 1807. He 
 received the appointment of Major General in 1813, and in 1814 was 
 appointed to the command of the forces destined to the defense of New 
 fork. In 1835 he was elected President of the New York Historical 
 Society, and in 1838 President of the Cincinnati State Society, which 
 office he held until his death, on the 7th April, 1844, in the OOth 
 year of his age. "He was a gallant soldier, an accomplished states- 
 man, a kind parent, a benevolent man and a good citizen." 
 
 179. Jonathan B. Nicholson, was a Lieutenant, and afterwards 
 Captain in the Navy, and served under Decatur in his action with the 
 Kndyiuion off Long Island, and also in t lie Mediterranean. He lived 
 and died a bachelor, and was always a gallant and devoted admirer of 
 the ladies. 
 
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 177 
 
 180. Alderman Phicip Bkasiiek, a Member of the Legislature from 
 this city eight years, and of great repute as an epicure. 
 
 181. Doctor James E. De Kay was educated as a Physician, but de- 
 voted himself from his early years to natural history, and in the State 
 survey of New York, the department of zoology was assigned to him. 
 He died at Oyster Bay, L. I., Nth August, 1851. — Am. Almanac 
 
 182. Doctor David Hosack. 
 
 183. The College was originally a stable. One who was mice a 
 student in the College says he remembers seeing scratched on the walls 
 in pencil, 
 
 Once a stable for horses, 
 Now a College for asses. 
 
 184. Doctor Wm. Hameksley, Professor of Clinical Medicine, whose 
 almost universal remedy for the cure of pulmonary consumption and 
 heart diseases, was digitalis. A quarrel ensued between Doctor Hosack 
 and Doctor Hamersley, relative to the practice of the Hospital, which 
 terminated in the withdrawal of Doctors Hosack, MacNeven, Francis, 
 Mott, &c, and the establishment of the Rutgers Medical College in 
 Duane street. 
 
 185. Doctor William James MacNeven died in this city in July, 
 1H42, in his 79th year. He was a distinguished Irish patriot, and the 
 companion of Thomas Addis Emmet. — Am. Almanac. 
 
 180. Mr. James Tallmadge was Lieutenant Governor and presid- 
 ing officer in the Senate in 1825 and 1820. 
 
 187. Clakkson Ckolifs was born in the sixth ward in this city on 
 the same spot on which his grandfather, who was the first stoneware 
 manufacturer in this city, had settled. In 1802, he was elected by the 
 Republican party Assistant Alderman of the sixth ward, and reelected 
 until 1805, when he was chosen by the same party as a representative 
 in the State Legislature, in which body his course was such as to in- 
 spire confidence in his constituents, who continued him as a member 
 until 1825, when, by the unanimous vote of the House, he was elected 
 Speaker. He had for a number of years presided as Grand Sachem of 
 the Tammany Society, and in 1811 laid the corner stone of Tammany 
 Hall. In 1S12, he received a commission as Colonel from President 
 
 23 
 
L78 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 Madison, and continued in duty at his post at the Narrows until the 
 news of peace in 181o was received. After 1827 Mr. Crolius was not. 
 in active public life. He continued to dwell with the tenacious charac- 
 teristic of a true Knickcrbacker, in the house of his youth, until his 
 death in 184:5, in his seventy-first year. 
 
 188. The title of the Governor of this State was Commander in 
 Chief of the Army and Navy of the State of New York. 
 
 189. Mr. Post was Cashier of the Franklin 15ank, and was known 
 
 as Whispering Post. 
 
 190. Leslie's picture of Doctor Francis, painted in London in 
 February, 181C. 
 
 191. Captain Cbeh;hton of the British Navy, a brother of the 
 Rev. Docl. Creighton, who now lives at Tarrytown. 
 
 192. In the year 1794, the Corporation of this city petitioned the 
 State Legislature for permission "to set on foot a lottery," in order to 
 raise money to build an Alms House. The Legislature granted their 
 request, and from the proceeds of the lottery, the building in the rear 
 of the City Hall, fronting on Chambers street, was erected, in 1790. In 
 this building the paupers lived until 181(1, when they were removed to 
 BelleVue, and the building was granted to the following institutions, 
 viz: The Academy of the Fine Arts, the New York Historical Society, 
 the Literary and Philosophical Society, the Lyceum of Natural History, 
 the Deaf and Dumb School, the Hoard of Health, and Scudder's Mu- 
 seum. All these took possession in 181(1, and the building was called 
 the New York Institution. About 1840, these societies had all left 
 the building, and it was occupied by the Marine Court and the Court of 
 Sessions, which in turn gave way to the Law Library and various offices, 
 under the name of the New City Hall. It was burned down in 
 January, 1866. 
 
 The American Academy of Arts was established in 1802, and was 
 incorporated in 1808, with Robert R. Livingston as President and 
 Col. John Trumbull, Yice President. Mr. Livingston, while living in 
 Paris, as Ambassador, purchased a number of easts for the use of the 
 Academy and sent them to this city. They were exhibited in Green- 
 wich street, with such paintings and works of art as could be collected 
 for the purpose. The Academy languished, however, until 181(1. 
 when De Witt Clinton, then President, assisted by Dr. Hosack, Cad- 
 
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 wallader 1). Colden, and some other gentlemen, made a strong effort to 
 revive it, and opened an exhibition in October of that year in 1 ho 
 building in the Park fronting on ChambeTB street, which had been 
 recently occupied as an Alms House, but a portion of which had been 
 set apart by the corporation for their use. — Duhlap't Arts of Design. 
 
 103. In September, 1818, Mr. James W. Wallace made his first 
 appearance before a New York audience as Macbeth, and met with 
 triumphant success. He was born in London in 1794, ami appeared 
 at Drury Lane Theatre in 1812 as Laertes. His reputation soon in- 
 creased, and in parts of a melo-dramatic cast, he was soon without a 
 rival. He was a careful student, and cultivated his powers unceasing- 
 ly ; the results of which are plainly perceptible in every character he 
 attempts. He made several visits to this country, and in 181!" became 
 Manager of the National Theatre in Leonard street, which was burned 
 in 1839, when he returned to Europe. He was again in this country 
 in 1843, and played at the Park Theatre. In 1852, he undertook the 
 management of the present Wallack's Theatre, where by gathering 
 around him an excellent company, and by the superior taste and judg- 
 ment which he showed in the production of the pieces represented, 
 he gave general satisfaction to the public. Mrs. Bartley was a great 
 favorite with the New York public. She made her first appearance in 
 the character of Isabella on the 18th November, 1818. She had pre- 
 viously performed the leading parts in tragedy at Drury Lane The- 
 atre, and after remaining a few years in this country returned to Lon- 
 don, and played at Cerent Garden Theatre. The melalo'gue referred 
 to in the poem was written for her by Thomas Moore, and recited by 
 her for the first time on the occasion of her benefit at the Park Theatre 
 on the 10th April, 1819, witli appropriate musical accompaniments by 
 the orchestra. — Playgoer's Journal. 
 
 194. Doctor Horne, of notorious memory. The motto at the head 
 of his advertisement was, " Saltis Populi Supremo, Lex." 
 
 195. Doctor De Angelis's Four-herb Pills, were advertised as a 
 specific for all human infirmities. 
 
 190. Adam Geib, Keeper of a Music Store at No. 23 Maiden lane, 
 taught an "analytical'' system of music. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Abel, Henry, 171. 
 Abiram, 5. 
 
 Abstract of Surgeon-General's Re- 
 port, 42. 
 
 Academy of Arts, to the Directors 
 of, 124. 
 
 Academy of the Fine Arts, 178. 
 Adams, John Quincy, 86. - 
 Addison, 160. 
 
 Address for opening of New Thea- 
 tre, 84. 
 Admiral, 119. 
 Adjutant General, 171. 
 Adonis, 68. 
 Agamemnon, '.Ml. 
 Aladdin's Lamp, 51. 
 Albany, 38, 99, 119, 154, 157, 163. 
 Allan, 47. 
 Alcides, 112. 
 Alderman, City, 75. 
 Aleck, 6. 
 
 Alexander, Cato, 162. 
 -v_Allen, Stephen. 102, 130, 173. 
 Alms House, 173, 174, 178, 179. 
 Altorf, 2, 138. 
 Ambition, 119. 
 
 American Academy of Arts, 178. 
 American Flag, 59, 160, 166. 
 American Institute, 170. 
 Angelis, 130. 
 Annapolis, 146. 
 Aranza, Duke, 175. 
 Arab, 92. 
 
 Arcadian Vale, 102. 
 
 Arch street, Philadelphia, 158. 
 
 Ariel, 94. 
 
 Arts, Academy of, 124. 
 
 Ashe, 42. 
 
 Astor, John Jacob, 84, 161, 169. 
 Astor House, 161. i 
 Atlantic, 30. 
 Atropos, 19. 
 
 Attorney General, 16:;, 164, 168. 
 
 Auburn, 175. 
 
 Auditor, State, 163. 
 
 A m elius, 163. 
 
 Baekwood, 26. 
 
 Backwoodman, 48. 
 
 Bacon, 76, 105. 
 
 Bacon, Ezekiel, 11, 143. 
 
 Baehr, 79. 
 
 Bailey, Benjamin, 10, 102, 155. 
 Bailey & Bogert, 155. 
 Bainbridge, Commodore, 152. 
 Bajazet, 74. 
 
 Baldwin. Charles N.. 2, 138. 
 Balls, 66. 
 
 Baltimore, 1 16. L50. 
 Bank Coffee House, 156. 
 Bankrupt Law, 50, 138. 
 Banks, 2, 57, 71. 
 Banquo's Ghost, 8. 
 Barclay Sheet. 37, 116. 129, 154. 
 Barker, Jacob, 150. 
 Barnes, John, 35, 153. 
 Barnes, Mrs., 13, 138, 156, 157, 
 168. 
 
 Barnes, Mrs., Address to. 51. 
 Bai lies. Miss Chariot te. 1 -"■•'>. 
 Harnum. Stephen. 164. 
 Baron Toraldi, 36. 
 Barriere, 138. 
 
 Barrington, George, 57, 159. 
 Bart ley, Mrs., 128, 157, 179. 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 Bashaws. 7'.'. 
 
 Bates. Stephen. 7!'. 104. HIT. 
 
 Battery, 2. 188. 
 Battery Enlargement, 117. 
 Batter; Tux. ;::{. 
 Battery War, [6. 
 Bayard, William, 8, 142. 
 Bear, 76. 
 Beatrice, 52. 
 Beauty's hark. 78. 
 
 Beaut v anil I lie Beast . 76. 
 
 Beekman, 86, si. 154. 169. 
 Bell, .lames I... 05, 89, 161, 171. 
 Belino, 85, 168. 
 
 Belles Let I res Repository, 141. 
 Bellevue. 09. 12'), 1:!:'.. 1*7;!, 178. 
 Beeraheba, 118. 
 Bertram. Henry, 150. 
 Beverly. 52. 
 
 Billies' Wood < 'lit s for, 125. 
 
 Bis Little Drv. till. 
 
 Black Apollo, 54. 
 
 Blaokstone, 47. 
 
 Blaekwell's Isle. 09. 
 
 Blaekwooil. 2li. 
 
 Blootljrootl, Abraham, 5, 140. 
 
 Bloomingdale, 99. 
 
 Blue Monday, 106. 
 
 Board of Health, 78. 
 
 Bob Acres. 92. 
 
 Bobadil, 70. 
 
 Bogardus, (ien. Robert, 6, 8, 17, 
 87, 89, 188, 141, 147. 
 t Bonaparte, 17. 81. 
 Bony. 7. 64, 188. 
 Bones of Thomas Paine, 157. 
 Borough Mongers, 57. 
 Boston, I 1 1. 150, 168, 168, 175. 
 Botley, 57. 
 
 Bowery Theatre, 160, 175. 
 Bowne, Walter, 75. 89, 166, 170. 
 171. 
 
 Bowne. Waller. Address to, 87. 
 Box presented to Andrew Jaokson, 
 
 188, 180. 
 Bracket. Joseph W.. 4<l. 155. 
 Brasher, Alderman Philip, 107, 
 
 108, 177. 
 Brevet Appointments. 48, 141. 
 Brighton Theatre, 1 50. 
 Bristol, Eng., 170. 
 Bristol, Pa., 175. 
 British PlutOKCh, 69. 
 Broad Street. I ft.. • 
 
 Broadway. 12, 66, 08. 110, 142 
 
 140,*147. 154. 101, 102. 168. 
 Bronaugh. Dr. 0, 141. 
 Browere, Praxiteles, 05. 
 Brown. (Sen. Jacob, 152. 
 Brown, John, 171. 
 Brummagem. OS. 
 Brums. IS. 20, 71. 140. 10:!. 
 Bryant. William C, 101. 171. 
 Buchanan, .lames. 107*, 10S, 170. 
 
 Buckets. Champion of, 26. 
 Buokmaster, George, 76, 165. 
 Bucks. 75. 
 
 Bucklails. 5, 84, 00. 12:!. 140, 1 52 
 168. 
 
 Bull, Johnny, 30. 
 
 Bulls. 68. 
 
 Bunker s Hill. 03. 
 
 Burdett. Sir Francis. 1 .V.I. 100. 
 
 Burgundy, 99. 
 
 Burke. Kdmund, 170. 
 
 Burleigh, Lord. 18. 
 
 Burnett. Ceil. Ward B., 189. 
 
 Burr. Aaron. 142, 172. * 
 
 Byrne, 127. 
 
 Byron. Lord. 48. 
 
 Cabbage. Paulding's, 48. 149. 
 
 Cacaf'ogo. 75. 
 
 Civsar, Julius. 01. 02. 03. 
 
 ( 'u-sars, 133,-f 
 
 CamilluB, in:!. 
 
 Campbell. Tom. 48. 
 
 Campbell, Qeorge w.. 166. 
 Canals. 2. till. 
 
 Capitol, Washington, 140. * 
 Captain General, 1 19. 
 Carey, Matthew. 158. 
 Cassius, IS. 
 
 Caslaly, Thomas, 01. 171. 
 
 Castlereagh, Lord. 57. 
 
 Castor and Bollux. I 
 
 Cato, os. 71. 168. 
 
 Cato the Censor. 71. 188. 
 
 Cedar Street, 101. 
 
 Censor. 7 1 . 
 
 Cerro (iordo, 130. 
 
 Chambers Street. 178. 170. 
 
 Chancellor, 1 • • T - 
 
 Charleston. South Carolina, 130. 
 
 Chatham Street. 155. 
 
 Chatham Theatre. I 16. 
 
 Chenango County, 10, 148. 
 
 Cherry Street, 56, 151. 
 
 Cherubuseo. 180. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 LK3 
 
 Chevy Chase, 100. 
 
 Chief Justice Supreme Court, 104, 
 
 176. 
 Chippewa, 63. 
 Chloe, 45, 46, 155. 
 Choctaws, 50. 
 
 Christian. Charles, 40, 75, 80, 155, 
 
 165, 171. 
 Christie, 54, 157. 
 Chronicle. 12. 
 Cicero, 163. 
 Cincinnati, State, 170. 
 Cincinnatus, 163. 
 City Aldermen, 75. 
 City Hall, Nashville, Tenn., 139. 
 City Hall, New York, 37, 65, 139, 
 
 143, 152, 161, 162, 174, 178. 
 City Hotel, 161, 174. 
 ( 'lark, Lewis and, 69. 
 i * Clinton, De Witt. 2. 7. 20. 34, 40. 
 
 41, 66, 74, 79", 80, 89, 123, 
 
 130, 131, 132, 140. 141, 144. 
 
 148, 152, 155, 105, 170, 171, 
 
 172, 178. 
 Clinton's Speech, 118. 
 Clintonians, 40, 122, 143, 165. 
 Cobbett, Wm., 57, 58, 157, 158, 
 
 159, 100. 
 Cobbett, Wm., Loving Epistle to, 
 
 57. 
 
 Coffee House, 29. 
 
 Colden, Gen. Cadwallader D., 5, 
 6, 37, 133, 138, 140, 141, 178. 
 
 Coleman, William, 12, 48, 145, 
 148, 150, 153, 155, 100. 
 
 Coleraine, 99. 
 
 Columbia College, 141. 
 
 Columbian, 138. 
 
 Columbian Order, 154, 155. 
 
 ( 'ommander-in-Chief, 178. 
 
 Commissioner of Alms House, 173, 
 174. 
 
 Commissioners of Land Office, 103. 
 Common Council, 172, 173. 
 Common Sense, 157. 
 Congress Halls, 71. 
 Connecticut, 161. 
 Connewango Creek, 121. 
 Constitution, New, 85. 
 Contreras. 130. 
 
 I nvent Garden Theatre, 174, 175. 
 179. 
 
 Coodies, 34, 40, 152. 
 Coody, Abimelech, 152. 
 
 Cooke, 70. 146, 174. - 
 
 Cooper, Thomas Apthorpe, 107, 
 
 108, 127, 144. 150, 164, 174. 
 Coquette, Address to an Elderly, 
 
 45. 
 
 Cormvallis, Surrender of, 146. 
 
 Oostar, John G. 147. 
 
 Council Chamber, 99. 
 
 Council of Appointment, 75, 171. 
 
 Council of Appointment, Address 
 
 to. 70, 137, 144, 164, 167, 168, 
 
 170. 
 
 Count Belino, 35, 153. 
 Court of Sessions, 172, 178. 
 Crabbe, 48. 
 
 Creighton, Capt., 126, 178. 
 Creighton, Kev. D., 178. 
 Croaker & Co., 18. 
 Croaker, Junior, Address to, 18. 
 Crolius, Clarkson, 118, 155, 177, 
 178. 
 
 Cruger, Henry, 108, 176. 
 Curtain Conversations, 82. 
 Custom House, 161,175. 
 Cythera, 125. 
 Dallas, 158. 
 Dally, Abraham, 171. 
 Dan, 118. 
 Danae, 126. 
 
 Dandies, 16, 55, 68, 71. 
 
 Dash, Mrs., 83. 
 
 Dathan, 5. 
 j David's College. 24, 1 30. 
 | Dawson, 66, 161. 
 
 De Angelis, Dr., 170. 
 
 Deaf and Dumb School. 178. 
 
 Death in Blue Beard, 70. 
 
 Decatur, 176. • 
 
 Declaration of Independence, 146. 
 
 D. K. Tea Party, 110, 111. 
 
 De Kay, Dr. James E., 177. 
 
 Delaplaine, Joseph, 148. 
 
 Delaplaine's Repository, 24, 148. 
 | Democratic, 152, 171. 
 
 Democratic Gen. Committee, 155. 
 
 Desdemona, 52. 
 
 Design, 14. 
 
 De Stael, Madame, 1. 
 
 Detraction. 114. 
 
 Devil's Bridge, 1 53. 
 
 De Witt. Simeon, 72, 163. 
 I De Witt, Simeon, Surveyor-Gene- 
 ral, Address to, 69. 
 | De Witt Townslfip, 72, 163. 
 
L84 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Dev. Kit-hard Vnrick, 63, 161. 
 
 Dcy Street, 161. 
 
 Dickens, 16. 
 
 Diddler, 76. 
 
 Digitalis, 116, 177. 
 
 Dinah, 52. 
 
 Dinner Party, 107. 
 
 District Atty., New York, 165, 171. 
 
 Doctors, King of the, 116. 
 
 Doe, John, 98. 
 
 Dogberry, 75, 80. 
 
 Domestic Happiness, 168. 
 
 Domestic Peace, Address to, 33. 
 
 Doodle, 75. 
 
 Doyle, Dennis H., 5, 141. 
 Drake, J. R., 189, 160. 
 Drake, Jeremiah, 80, 168. 
 Drury Lane Theatre, 156, 170. 
 Dry den, 163. 
 Duane Street, 177. 
 Dublin, 162. 
 Duels, 166. 
 Duff, Mr., 153. 
 Duffy, 80, 171. 
 Duke Aranza, 175. 
 Dunlap, 144. 
 
 Dutchess County, 104. 165. 
 Dyckman, Dr. Jacobus, 171. 
 Dyckinan, Lt. Col. Garret, 139. 
 Kastburn, 66. 
 
 Bastburn's Literary Rooms, 161. 
 
 Bast India Company, 174. 
 
 Bden, 82. 
 
 Eden's Hower, 77. 
 
 Edinburgh, 174. 
 
 Edinburgh Review, 1. 
 
 Bdwin, William, 1">2. 
 
 Bdwards, •">. 
 
 Klijah. 22. 
 
 Elisha, 22. 
 
 Kleusinian Mysteries, 103. 
 Eloquence, (14. 
 
 Bmmet, Thomas Addis, 177.V 
 Km. lor. Witch of, 125. 
 Bndymion, 127, 176. 
 England, 0. 25. 5S, 146, 152, 157, 
 
 158, 164, 175, 176. 
 Ennui, Address to, 1 . 
 Envy, 64. 
 Equalitv, 1 I. 
 Erie, 121. 
 Brie Canal. 140. 
 
 Europe, 7, 70, 188, 142, 1 If.. 173. 
 170. 
 
 Eveleen's Dower, 36. 
 
 Evening Post, 145, 146, 147, 148, 
 
 100, 162. 
 Evening Star, 137. 
 Examiner, 166. 
 Exchange Street, 157. 
 Fabius, 103. 
 Faction, 94. 
 
 Falstaff, 76, 150, 154, 105. 
 Fame, 09. 
 
 Fancy's Sketch, 36. 
 
 Fanny, Poem entitled, 151. 
 
 Fashionable Folly, 54. 
 
 Faust us, 81. 
 
 Feds. 34, 40. 
 
 Federalism, 152. 
 
 Fessenden, Squire, 89. 
 
 Fessenden, Thomas (J., 161, 171. 
 
 Fine Arts, Academy of, 178. 
 
 Firth & Hall, 154. 
 
 Fitz, 1. 
 
 Flag. American. 59, 160, 166. 
 
 Flandin, 83, 168. 
 
 Flushing, 95, 171. 
 
 Fly Market, 16. 
 
 Forest Rose, 145. 
 
 Fortune, 06. 
 
 Fortune, Ode to. 05. 
 
 Forums. The. 02, 64, 128, 161. 
 
 Forum Hall, 63. 
 
 Forty Thieves, 75. 
 
 Four-herb Pills, 179. 
 
 France, 138. 
 
 Francis, Dav, 128. 
 
 Francis, Dr.", 125, 177, 178. 
 
 Francis. Sir, 58. 
 
 Frankfort Street. 99. 155. 173. 
 
 Franklin Hank, 37. 66, 154, 178. 
 
 Franklin's Bust, 82, 152. 
 
 Franklin Square, 154. 
 
 Franklin. Walter, 154. 
 
 Frcdon, 148. 
 
 Frede, 148. 
 
 Freedom. 59. 01. 96, 123. 
 Freedom, Champion of. 25. 
 Freedom of the City, 3. 
 Fredonian. 148. 123. 
 Free School Trustee, 112. 
 French, 55. 
 French Leave. 83. 162. 
 Fundable. 114. 115. 
 Fundy. Hay of. 118. 
 Fulton Street. 58, 160. 
 
 Galen, 71. 168. 
 
IXDEX. 
 
 185 
 
 Gallic Thunderbolt. 125. 
 
 Gander, Party's, 94. 
 
 Garcia, 103, 153. 
 
 Garden Seeds, 58. 
 
 Gardner, Charles K., 17, 171. 
 
 Gardenier, Barent, 70, 105, 100. 
 
 Gardenier. Richard, 105. 
 
 Garner, William, 30, 150. 
 
 Geib, Adam, 130, 179. 
 
 Gemini, 19. 
 
 German Doll. 08. 
 
 German, Obadiah, 11. 70, 70, 143, 
 
 103, 165. 
 Giant Wife, 76. 
 Gibson, Solomon, 101. 
 Gilbert, Garret, 100. 
 Gingerbread Guards, 17. 
 Godfather of the Christened West, 
 
 70, 103. 
 Godwin, William, 174. 
 Gold Box, 3, 139. 
 Gold Street, 173. 
 Goodrich, A. T., 00, 101. 
 Goodrich, 00. 
 Gore, Christopher, 140. 
 Governor, 38, 119, 122, 140, 140, 
 
 154, 103, 107, 178. 
 Governor, titles of, 178. 
 Gracchus, 71. 
 Graces, 31. 
 
 Grammars, Cobbett's, 58. 
 
 Grand Council, 154. 
 
 Grand March of Mind, 104. 
 
 Grand Sachem, 154, 177. 
 
 Great Britain, 25, 177. 
 
 Grecian, 02. 
 
 Greece, 120. 
 
 Green River, 101. 
 
 Greenwich, 133. 
 
 Greenwich Street, 174, 170. 
 
 Grocers, meeting of the, 114. 
 
 Grog, 43. 
 
 Guards, 06. 
 
 Guardsmen, 2. 
 
 Guido, 14. 
 
 Guido's Hours, 95. 
 
 Guinea, 55. 
 
 Hackett, James, 145. 
 
 Half, Capt., 76. 
 
 Haff, John, 40. 
 
 Haff, John P. , 5, 140. 154. 
 
 Haines, Col. Charles G., 89, 120, 
 
 101, 171. 
 Hallam, 144. 
 
 24 
 
 Halleck, 102, 151, 100, 108, 170. 
 Ballett, William Paxson, 03, 101, 
 170. 
 
 Hamblin, Thomas S., 144.-* 
 Haniersley, Dr. Wm., 177. 
 Hamilton, Alexander, 20. 
 Hampden, 70. v 
 Hampstead Parnassus, 47. 
 Handy. Sir Abel, 149. 
 Hannibal, 163. 
 Hanover Square, 152, 170. 
 Hanover Street, 1 52. 
 Haram's Cages, 04. 
 Harlem, 99.' 
 Harlequin, 74. 
 Harmodius, 90. 
 Harper, Robert, 163. 
 Harrisburgh, 158. 
 Hartman, Lewis, 10, 147. 
 Havana, 148. 
 Hawkins, 140. 
 
 Hawkins, Micah, 2, 5, 138, 140. 
 
 Hamlet, 17 1. 
 
 Haytian Grooms, 08. 
 
 Hecate, 75. 
 
 Hector, 163. 
 
 Hedden, Josiah, 171. 
 
 Hempstead, 57. 
 
 Henry Clay (steamer), 173. 
 
 Herkimer County, 168. 
 
 Hermes, 120. 
 
 Herring, 120. 
 
 He Stoops to Conquer, 119. 
 Hillhouse, 101. 
 
 Historical Society, N. Y., 178. 
 Hobart, Rt. Rev. John Henry, - 
 
 107, 109, 175. 
 Hoboken, 9, 137, 142. 
 Eodgkinson, 144. 
 Hogbin, Robert, 104, 105, 100, 
 
 174. 
 
 Hogbin, Robert, Epistle i<>. 104. 
 Holland. John Joseph, 7:;. L64. 
 Holley, Orville L., 161. 
 Holt, Charles, 165. 
 Homer, 70, 163. 
 Hone, Doctor, 179. 
 Hone, Philip, 100, 173. 
 Hope, 38. 
 
 Hopper, Mr., 13. 1 15. 
 Hopson, James, 1*1- 
 Horace, 48. 
 Home, 129, 131. 
 Home, Doctor, 17'». 
 
18G 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Hosack, Dr. David, 56, 180, 131, 
 
 171, 177, 178. 
 Howard, James, 80, 150. 
 Hudson River, 164, 17::. 
 Hudson Steam boats, 164. 
 Humane Society, 112. 
 Hunt, 57. 
 Hunt. Leigh, 47. 
 Hurtell, 120. 
 Hyde Park, L. I., 158. 
 Hydra Modern. 1 12. 
 la go, 175. 
 llissus. 62. 
 Imogen. 52. 
 Impudence, ode to, 40. 
 Ineledon, 158. 
 Invisible Girl, 29. 
 Isabella, 17!». 
 Israelite. 151. 
 Italian Opera, 153. 
 Italy, 120. 
 
 Jackson, Gen. Andrew. 2. 8, 138, 
 
 139, 140, 141, 142, 172. 
 Jacobinism, 152. 
 Jamaica, 21 . 1 45. 
 .larvis. Bishop, 1 "•">. 
 Jarvis. JohD Wesley, 3, 34, 152. 
 .lav. John, 170. 
 .lav Treaty, 140. 
 Jefferson." 30, 154. 
 Jennings. Chester, 00, 101, 102. 
 Jennings | scourer), 85, 100. 
 Jersey City, 141. 
 Jessy Oatland, 145. 
 Jews upon Grand Island, 137. 
 Jobson, 75. 
 John Bull, OS. 
 Johnny Bull, 80. 
 Johnson. 31, 42. 
 Johnny, 10. 
 Joseph Surface. 74. 
 Julia, 155. 
 Juliet. ">2. 
 Junius. 71, 103. 
 .1 ust ice Shallow, 7 1. 
 Kean. 107, 175. 
 Keene, 168. 
 
 Kemble, 29. 
 
 K. i . h. Jack. SO. 
 
 Ketchum. Hiram. 101. 
 
 Killings, 80. 
 
 Kilncr, 30. 
 
 Kilncr, Thomas, 1 19. 
 
 Kinderhook, 105. 
 
 King. Charles, 8, 10, 141, 147. 
 
 King Dick, 74. 
 
 King, Mr., 156. 
 
 King of the Doctors, 110. 
 
 King. Rufus, 20, 21. 
 
 King Street, 150. 
 
 King's College, 170. 
 
 Knickerbacker, 178. 
 
 Korah, 5. 
 
 Lady Randolph, 150. 
 Laertes, 179. 
 
 Lafayette Theatre, 150. ♦ 
 Laig'ht, 133. -Y- 
 Lalla Rookh, 107. 
 Lament for Great Ones Departed, 
 37. 
 
 Lang, John, 150, 151. 
 Lang. John, Address to, 31. 
 Lang. Johnny, 32. 
 Langstaff. 11*1. 
 Langstaff, Dr., 1, 137. 
 Last, Dr., 76, 166. 
 Laurens Street, 150. 
 Law Library, 178. 
 Lawrence, Dr. John M., 139. 
 Leavenworth, 55. 
 Lebanon. Ct., 140. 
 Leesugg, Miss Catharine, 13, 145. 
 Leghorn Hats, 80. 
 Leniprierc, 09. 
 Lent. James, 17. 148. 
 Leonard Street, 145, 157, 179. 
 Leslie. 178. 
 Lewis County. 142. 
 Lewis & Clarke. 09. - 
 Lewis, General Morgan, 108. 100, 
 176. 
 
 Leyden. X. Y.. 102. 
 
 Leyden's Scenes of Infancy. 17 1. 
 
 Lingo. 15:>. 
 
 Lit. and PhiL Society, 178. 
 Lives of Distinguished Americans, 
 148. 
 
 Livingston. John R., 174. 
 Livingston. Peter R., 7">. 164. 165. 
 Livingston, Robert R., 178. 
 Livy. 71. 
 Locke, 103. 
 
 Lockhart's Cane, 57, 159. 
 
 London, 48. 80, 150. 158, 178. 179. 
 
 London Tailors, os. 
 
 Long Island. 57, 158. 150. 170. 
 
 Long Island Star, 138. 
 
 Lord Burleigh. 13. 74. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 L87 
 
 Lord Chamberlain, 117. 
 Lord Grizzle, 75. 
 Lottery Shark, 2. 
 Lottery Alms House, 178. 
 Love of Notoriety, (17. 
 Love's Young Dream, 36. 
 Loving Epistle to Cobbett, 57. 
 Lumber Street, 174. 
 Lucifer, 22. 
 
 Lyceum of Natural History, 17s. 
 Lynch, Dominick, 34, 53, 153. 
 Lysander, 163. 
 McEvers, 142.— 
 Mat, 108. 
 
 Macbeth, 29, 110, 174, 170. 
 McGaraghan. Ivlward. 811, 108. 
 McGarraghan, Squire, 17. 
 Macbeth, Charley's, 20. 
 McKean, Gov., 158.^ 
 McLaughlin, Edward, 80, 171. 
 MacNeven, Dr. Win. James, 177. 
 Macready, 1 75. 
 
 McSycophant, Sir Pertinax, 146. 
 Madagascar Bat, 2. 
 - Madison, President, 137, 154, 178. 
 Magenis, 127. 
 Maiden Lane, 88, 157, 179. 
 Malbrook, 33. 
 Malcolm, 174. 
 Manlius, 163. 
 
 Mapes, Gen. Jonas, 40, 133, 155. 
 Marcellus, 163. 
 Marine Court, 178. 
 Market street, Phila., 158. 
 Marshall, Chief Justice, 2. 50, 138. 
 Martling, Abraham, 11, 140, 143. 
 Martling' s Long Room, 155. 
 Martling Man, 165. 
 Massachusetts, 1 14, 1 15. 
 Mathurin, 52. 
 
 Maxwell, Hugh, 76, 165. 171. 
 May wood, Robert Campbell, 13, 
 
 145, 146. 
 Mayor, 75, 95, 140, 171. 
 Mead, 5, 140. 
 Meadows, Hoboken, 142. 
 Mecca, 89. 
 Meddler, 76. 
 Mediterranean, 176. 
 Meigs, 28, 40, 76. 
 +- Meigs. Henry, 17, 28, 40, 70, 86, 
 
 149, 170. 
 
 Mercantile Library Association, 
 193. 
 
 Merccin. Thomas R., 17, 147, 148. 
 
 Mercer, Mrs., 156. 
 
 Merry Dames, 149. 
 
 Mexican War, 189. 
 
 Midas, 27. 
 
 Military Tract, 163. 
 
 Militia The, 121. 132. 
 
 Militia defined, 42. 
 
 Miller, Judge, 88, 120. 
 
 Miller. Sylvanus, 11, 144. 
 
 Milton, 71, 80, 163. 
 
 Minstrel of Yarrow, 174. 
 
 Minshull, John, 25, 26, 148, 149. 
 
 Mirth. 34. 
 
 Mississippi, 140. 
 
 Missouri, 86. 
 
 Mitchill, Samuel L.. 23. 31. 3,8, 47. 
 
 54, 76, 86,130, 131, 14:'., 155. 
 Modern Hydra, 112. 
 Malbrook, 33. 
 Minims, 1. 
 Monroe, 86. 
 Montreal, 176. 
 Montgomery, 48. " 
 Montgomery, Master, 108. 
 Monument upon Grand Csland, 
 
 137. 
 
 Mooney, William, 154. 
 Moore, John T., 170. 
 Moore Thomas, 48. 179. 
 Morgan, Lady, 1, 138, 158. 
 Morgiana, 51. 
 
 Moreland, Harry George, 30, 15(1. 
 Morocco, (read Tunis), 137. 
 Morrell, Elisha. 89, 171. 
 Morris, General, 145. f- 
 Morton, Maj. Gen, 141. 
 Mott, Adam, 89. 171. 
 Mott, Doctor, 177. 
 Mumford, Gurdon S., 5, 120, 141. 
 Mummy Chogs, 148. 
 Munn, Mrs, Otis, 162. 
 Murray, Col., 147. 
 Murray's Guards. 33. 
 Nashville, 139. 
 
 Nassau Street, 143, 155, 161. 
 National Advocate, 137. 
 National Painting. 1 1. 
 National Theatre, 145, 157, 179. 
 Natural Bridge, Va., 30. x 
 Naval Officer, 173. 
 Nestor, 71. 
 New Bowei-y, 154. 
 New Brighton, 154. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 New City Hall, 178. 
 Newgate, 57. 
 New Hampshire, 171. 
 New Haven, 144, 170. 
 New Jersey, 142. 
 New Orleans, 155. 
 Newton, 81. 
 
 New York, 188,139, 141, 142. 1 4M, 
 144, 145, 14H, 148, 149, 150, 
 161, 152, 153, 154, 157, 101, 
 Ki2, 168, 104, 165, loo. 17o. 
 171, 173, 175, 170, 177, 178, 
 179. 
 
 New York Columbian. 138, 105. 
 Now Fork Enquirer, 137. 
 New York Uazette, 31, 150, 151, 
 152. 
 
 New York Hist. Society, 152, 170, 
 178. 
 
 New York Institution. 178. 
 New York .Mirror, 145, 170. 
 New York Volunteers, 139. 
 Niagara River, 137. 
 Niblo, William, 29, 00, 150. 
 Niblo's Garden, 150, 156. 
 Nicholson, .John 15.. 109, 170. 
 Nightmare, The, 122. 
 Nippcrkin, 75. 
 Noah. 118. 
 
 Noah. Major Mordecai ML, 1, 12, 
 
 187, 169; 171. 
 Noah's Ark, 84. 
 Noodle, 75. 
 
 North Dutch Church, Albany. 154. 
 
 North Hempstead. L. L, 57, 159. 
 
 North Second street. 1'hila.. 15ss. 
 
 North River, 62. 
 
 Notoriety, Love of. 07. 
 
 Nova Scotia. 1 58. 
 
 Oakley. Thomas J., 80, 108. 
 
 Olieron. 97. 
 
 Ohio. 150. 
 
 Old England, 26, 
 
 ( Mvmpie Theatre, 140. 
 
 Olitt'. 13, 30, 84, 80. 168. 
 
 Oneida County. 143. 
 
 Onondaga County, 103. 
 
 Orange County, 108. 
 
 Orleans. UN. 
 
 Ostler, Tom. 10. 
 
 t tawego County, 143. 
 
 Othello, 17">. 
 
 Overreach. 7 I. 
 
 Ovid, 168. 
 
 Oyster May, 177. 
 Paine, Thomas. 157."*- 
 Painting. National. 14. 
 I'angloss, 74. 
 Paris, 108. 178. 
 
 Park, 2, 4, 8, 39. 48, 100, 133, 179. 
 Park l'lace. 108. - 
 
 Park Theatre. 138. 144, 145, 14'.". * 
 150. 15:;. 154. 150. 157, 104, 
 108, 109, 174, 175, 179. 
 
 Parliament, 170. 
 
 Parnassus, Hempstead, 17. 
 
 Paulding. .lames K.,25. 20, 2N, 48, 
 70, 149. 
 
 Peace, 33, 34. 
 
 Paul Pry, 103. 
 
 Pearl Street, 138, 151, 152. 
 
 Pell, Colonel. 133. 
 
 Pell, Ferris, 8. 70. 89, 120, 141. 
 
 Pennsylvania Jail, 57. 
 
 Peter Porcupine, 58. 
 
 Pewter Mug. 99. 173. 
 
 Philadelphia, 137, 138, 140. 148, 
 150, 153, 150, 157, 158, 174, 
 175. 
 
 Philadelphia Theatre, 104. 
 Phoebus, Judge, 48. 
 Phi Beta Kappa, 80. 
 Phillips. T.. 12. 35. 127. 153. 
 Plullipse's Mansion, 150. 
 Phlogobombos, 23. 
 Phoca's (Juliet. 120. 
 Piorson's Factory, 5. 
 Pillow, (Jen.. 189. 
 Piuckncy William. 140. 
 Pine Street, 150. 
 Pistol. 70. 
 
 Pitcher, Nathaniel. 99. 172. 
 Plandome, 148. 
 Pleaid, Lost, 90. 
 
 Plum Pudding for Peter Porcu- 
 pine. 158. 
 Pluto, 128. 
 , Poetical Address Premium for, 108. 
 Polony, 120. 
 Pollissons, 98. 
 Pompey, 103. 
 Ponder, 75. 
 
 Poppleton. Mrs., 54, 00, 157. 
 
 Post. 120. 
 
 Post. Mr.. 178. 
 
 Potter. Mr.. 10. 11. 126, 1 12. 
 
 Presbyterian, 169. 
 
 Presenting Freedom of the City. 3. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 1 89 
 
 Provost, Bp., 175. 
 J~ Price, Stephen, 51, 74, 144, 156, 
 
 157, 174. 
 Prime, 54, 1(19. 
 Prime, N., 18, 148. 
 Prime, War J and King, 148. 
 Prince Regent, 30. 
 Prince Street, 102. 
 Princeton, 175, 170. 
 Pritchard, 138. 
 Prog, defined, 43. 
 Promethean Fire, 68. 
 Protestant Episcopal Theological 
 
 School, 140. 
 Puisne Justices Sup. Court, 104. 
 Pygmalion, 106. 
 
 Quaekenboss, Dr. Nicholas, 171. 
 Quackery, Address to, 120. 
 Quarantine, 154. 
 Ramsay, Marian, 145. 
 
 It , Johnny, 107. 108. 
 
 Randolph, John, 166. 
 Randolph, Lady, 150. 
 Reade Street, 147. 
 Rebellion, 116.- 
 Recorder, 171. 172. 
 
 Recorder , Poetical Epistle to, 
 
 91. 
 
 Red Notes, 81. 
 Regents, 117. 
 
 Register, Cobbett's, 58, 158. 
 
 Republican Chronicle, 138. 
 
 Resignation of General Washing- 
 ton, 146. 
 
 Reynolds, 104, 174. 
 
 Rhinebeck, 165. 
 
 Richard III, 145. D;4, 175. 
 
 Richmond Hill Theatre. 153. 
 4 Riker, Richard, 38, 91, 92, 93, 90, 
 172. 
 
 Robbins, Levi, 10. 128, 1 12. 
 Robert, 16, 108. 
 Robin Adair, 36. 
 Rockland County, 165. 
 Roe, Richard, 98. 
 Rogers, 48. 
 Roman, 30, 62, 163. 
 Romans, 92. 
 Rome, 94, 98, 163. 
 Romulus, 163. 
 
 Hoot, Erastus, 10, 11, 20, 75, 143. 
 Rosalind, 52. 
 Rose, 5. 
 
 Rosencrantz, George, 79, 104. 168. 
 
 Ross, William, 79, 104, 168. 
 
 Rubens, 125. 
 
 Rubicon, 93. 
 
 Rumor, .Miss, 1. 
 
 Rural Felicity, 148. 
 
 Ruta Baga Turnips, 57, 157. 
 
 Rutgers' Med. College, 177. 
 
 St. Mark's Burying Ground, 153. 
 
 St. Tammany, 102. 
 
 Salisbury, Ct„ 164. 
 
 Salmagundi, 130. 
 
 Sampson, J. P. ('., 161. 
 
 Sancho, 97. 119. 
 
 Sandy Hill, Wash. Co., 105, 172. 
 Saratoga, 146. 
 Saunders, 85, 109. 
 Saw Mill, the, or a Yankee Trick, 
 138. 
 
 Scenes of Infancy, 174. 
 Scipio, 70, 103. 
 Scoles, 149. 
 Scotch Mist, 29. 
 Scott, 47, 80. 
 Scott, John B., 168. 
 Scribble, Mr., 16. 
 Scudder, 125. 
 Scudder's Museum, 178. 
 Secret Mine, 5. 
 Secretary of State, 163. 
 Seed Store, Cobbett's, 160. 
 Seminole Compaign, 1 11. 
 Sempronius, 163. 
 Septon, 23. 
 Shakespeare, 13. * 
 Shaking Quakers, 120. 
 Sharpe, Peter, 11 143. 
 Shelley, 42. 
 
 Sherman, Alpheus, 155. 
 Sherred, Jacob, 15, li»7, ins. 1 L6. 
 Shiell, 52. 
 
 Sidney, Sir Philip, 160. 
 Siege of Tripoli, 109. 
 Signal Poles, 31 . 
 Simon, 55. 
 Simon, the Cook. 64. 
 Simpson, E., 12. 29, 111. 150, ]r,s, 
 169. 
 
 Simpson E., Address to, 35, 73, 
 Sing Sing, 99. 
 Sirony, 102. 
 
 Skaat's. Bartholomew, 3, 139, 140, 
 143. 
 
 Ski unci', Roger, 75, 165, 170. 
 Slander. 64, 94. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Society lief. Jut. Delinquents, 140. 
 
 Solomon. 151. 
 
 Solon, 163. 
 
 South Carolina, 139. 
 
 Southey, 48. 
 
 Smith Street, 156. 
 
 Speaker of Assembly, 11. 
 
 Speech, Mr. Clinton's. 17. 
 
 Spencer, Ambrose. 74. 85, 164. 
 
 Spirit of Laws, 48. 
 
 Spooner, Alden, 2, 120, 138. 
 
 Spraguc, Charles, 108. 
 
 Spruce Street. 143, loo. 
 
 Sprightly Widow &c, 148. 
 
 Squaretoes, Old, 55. 
 
 Stage of State, 74. 
 
 Staten Island. :58. 154. 
 
 Si air n Island's Summer Seal. :)7. 
 
 Steddiford, 133. 
 
 Steamboat Tax, 75, 144. 
 
 Sterling, 163. 
 
 Steuben March, 68. 
 
 Sturges & Crowninsltield, 138. 
 
 Stewart. A. T.. 142, 147. 
 
 Styx, 128. 
 
 Sunday Times, 13". 
 
 Sub Treasurer of U. S„ 173. 
 
 Surgeon General, Address to, 23< 
 
 Surgeon General, 23, 117. 155. 
 
 Surgeon General's Report, 42. 
 
 Surgeon's Hall, 37, 154. 
 
 Surrender of Cornwallis, 140. 
 
 Surrender at Saratoga, 146. 
 
 Surrogate Of New York. 144. 
 
 Surveyor-General, 69, 168. 
 
 Swartwout. Robert, 142. 
 
 Swart wont. Samuel, 9, 02, 142. 172. 
 
 Sylla. 98. 
 
 Tallmadiro, .lames, 74. 118. 104. 
 177. 
 
 Tammanies, 40. 
 
 Tammany Hall. 41. 88. 112. 122. 
 
 1 H), 148, 155, 173, 177. 
 Tammany Society, 140, 152, 154, 
 
 155, 178, 177. 
 Tappan Sea, 84. 
 
 Targee. John, 2. 0, 34, 102, 122, 
 
 123. 173. 
 Tarquin, 71. 
 Tarry town, 178. 
 
 Tartar Dogs. 23. 
 Taylor. General, 173. 
 Tea Party, 110. 
 Tea ELoom, 1 10. 
 
 Teazle. Sir Peter, 153. 
 Tennant, 48. 
 Tennessee, 100. 
 Thames Street, 174. 
 Thebes. 105. 
 Thomas, Simon, 157. 
 Thorburn. (irant. 57, 158, 159. 
 Thespian Fire, 73. 
 Titian. 14. . 
 
 Toast, Gen. Jackson's, 2. 
 Tom Codus. 23. 
 Tom Thumb. 70. 
 
 Tompkins. Daniel D., 38, 154, 170. + 
 
 Toraldi, Baron, 36. 
 
 Townsend. Peter L, 171. 
 
 Tract House, loo. 
 
 Tradesmen's Bank. 99. 
 
 Treasurer, Slate, 163. 
 
 Trinity Church, 175. •+■ 
 
 Tripper. Mr., 159. 
 
 Trumbull, Col. John, 14, 15, 146, + 
 178. 
 
 Trumbull. Gov. Jonathan. 146. 
 
 Tullv. 71. 103. 
 
 Turkish Wives, 64. 
 
 Tybcr's Wave, 62. 
 
 Tyler, President, 175. 
 
 Tvrolcse Airs, 162. 
 
 lister County. 141, 144. 165. 
 
 Ulysses, 71. 168. 
 
 United States Bank. 161. 
 
 United States Congress. 143. 166. 
 
 United States Consul, 137. 
 
 I'nited States Supreme Court, 13S. 
 
 Uphani, 25. 
 
 Utica, 143. 
 
 Van Buren, Martin. 74,80. So. 99, 
 
 168, 172. 
 Vandervoort & Flandin, 83, 108. 
 Van Rensselaer, Gen. Stephen, 142. 
 Van Wvck. Pierre, 76. 89, 120, 
 
 122. 105. 171. 
 Varick Street, 153. 
 Verges, 75. 
 Vera Cruz. 189. 
 Verplanck. (Julian C. 152. 
 Virgil. 168. 
 Virginia. 30. 
 
 Von Hoffman, Baron, 162. 
 Vortex. 76. 
 
 Vosburgh, Abraham. 166. 
 Wall Street, 114. 1 18. 157. 101. 167. 
 Wallack, James W., 128, 138, 157, r- 
 179. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 19] 
 
 Wallack's Theatre, 179. 
 Ward, 133. 
 Warner, 75, 89, 1 65. 
 Warner, Col. Everardus, 40, 155, 
 171. 
 
 Warner, James, 171. 
 T Washington, 119, 146, 154. 
 
 Washington Benevolent Society, 
 147. 
 
 Washington County. 165, li2. 
 Washington Hall, 142, 147. 
 -t-Watts's Psalms and Hymns, 159. 
 Weeks, Capt. Seaman, Address to, 
 40. 
 
 Wehawk Hill. 66. 
 Wehawken, 172. 
 Wendover, Peter II.. 76, 166. 
 i West, Benj., 125, 12C. 
 Whispering Post, 178. 
 White, Bishop, 175. -j 
 Whitehall, 99. 
 Wignell, 104. 
 
 Wigwam, Tammany, 155. 
 
 wiihud, Mr., mi.' 
 
 William Street, 166. 
 Williams Caleb. 171. 
 Windermere, 47. 
 Witch of Endor, 125. 
 Witches, 75. 
 Wood, 153. 
 Woodworth, 25, 74. 
 AVoodworth, John, lli4. 
 Woodworth. Samuel, 12, 144, 145. 
 168. 
 
 Wordsworth, 17. 
 
 Working Men, Epistle to Chairman 
 
 of Committee of, 104. 
 Wortman, Teunis, 80, 168. 
 Wright. Prances, 138. 
 Yale College, 70. 
 Yates, 1 lit. 
 Yonkcrs, 173. 
 York Theatre, L50. 
 Young, William, 158, 159. 
 
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