_Interesting Scholar_. "OH! YES; WE'VE SMALL-POX, AND 'LAPSING FEVER,
AN MEASLES, AND WHOOPING-COUGH."

(_Tableau expressive of consternation_.)]

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Taking the Cue.


There is a strong disposition among those of our diplomats who may be able
to talk a little "pigeon English," to obtain the Chinese position left
vacant by Mr. BURLINGAME. Most of these gentlemen can point the Moral of
the matter--the sixty thousand dollars a year--but whether any of them
would adorn the Tail, is quite another affair.

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Questions for H.G.


Is not the _Tribune_ influenced by its negrophilism in denouncing
PIERRE BONAPARTE as an assassin? Had the victim been a BLANC instead of a
NOIR, would Mr. GREELEY have felt quite as much sympathy for him?

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APROPOS OF THE "ONEIDA."--The windiest excuses of the day are those of