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Show Tuk "Domitx" and "Cat," The United St;itvs can breath? freely again; the night-marc which has dis-tuibellhe dis-tuibellhe rcat ot' li.c Secretary of Sta'e i reuiMwd; Catacazy is a decapitate decapi-tate 1 diplomat, and Conrc-s and the rca; of mankind are espe.ted to rejoice. , Our vune rated Secretary of State, who Hashes through the ocean of statc.-.tuan-, ship bearing the piscatorial name of I'i.-h, is joco-dy called by that inveterate inveter-ate w:il', editor of the Washington ('iifiitnl, "the old dolphin," by which no disrespect is shown, for the dol-! dol-! pliin is a noble specimen of the fumy i race. lint when he speaks of the Ku.s. 1 his native loyalty bur.its forth, and the ' oU'ending diplomat, whose greatest 1 crime, it is said counts in loving a beautiful wo nan and giving her the position of a wife without wcaryintr ; priest and sexton over a ceremony, is j disrespectfully styled "old Cat." This f new "Puss in Hoots," covered with Arctic fur, has bjeu honored with a place in that great State document known as the President's Menage, and will henceforth live in history. Ho 'has to "clear out." Resenting the j slights cast upon the woman he has j called by ttie irirne of wife slights j which show how sternly virtuous arc j Wu.-hinglon dames and Washington : maids, in which they are sustained by 'even more sternly virtaous husbands, : fathers, brothers and sous; wc say this j old Cat-said things and oilier thing3 j which those sternly virtuous Waslring-I Waslring-I tonians couldn't brook, and ho had to ; pack his traps and prepare to "walk his I chalks." We would lament his early and untimely end ifour souls were not 'filled with rejoicing at the "old dob j phiu's" triumph, and had not the nation been called upon for a U, (hum over the maintained "integrity" of the country, as a bucolic acquaintance has it. But Cat. though immortalized, is virtually gone; tho dolphin is happy, the country is saved, and the fangs of tho Russian wolf-dog arc torn away from tho throat of our beloved Republic. Repub-lic. Let all rejoice! |