Representatives. However notably Honorable Gentlemen may play the game
either of Gab or Grab, it isn't so clear that their constituents are
much benefited by these accomplishments. If all they want is an
open-mouthed Member, why don't the Massachusetts men import a
first-class crocodile, and send him to the National Menagerie in
Washington?

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SPREAD OF AMERICAN PRINCIPLES.

It is with a heart full of patriotic pride and gratitude that Mr.
PUNCHINELLO observes the adoption, in his dear native Italy, of the
manners and customs of the Land of his Adoption. At an election recently
held in Rome, about something or some other thing, one enterprising
Roman has been discovered who voted "yes" twenty-five times in as many
electoral urns--thereby, it is to be presumed, earning a good deal of
money. We have a more lively hope for charming Italy when we find even a
single citizen exhibiting a skill which would do honor to the most
accomplished professional voter in New York. There is something
encouraging in finding the Sons of ST. PETER becoming, every one of
them, Re-Peters.

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To Commentators.

The "Sun of York," mentioned in Richard III., has no reference to the
"Sun of New York" neither was the quotation, "Who is here so base, that
would be a bondman?" especially meant for application to "THE" ALLEN.