lly, closed with a cup
of delicious tea, green and black, and anchovy-toast, at KNICKERBOCKER
Hall. Every thing, I was glad to see, was KNICKERBOCKER.' Very flattering;
yet we dare say our friend was not aware that this Magazine was the
_pioneer_ in the use of this popular name in Gotham, and that its example
has suggested, one after another, the namesakes to which he has alluded.
Such, howbeit, is the undeniable fact. . . . We remarked the example of
_catachresis_ to which 'L.' alludes, and laughed at it, we venture to say,
as heartily as himself. It was not quite so glaring however as the
confused images of a celebrated Irish advocate: 'I smell a rat; I see it
brewing in the storm; and I will crush it in the bud!' . . . We find
several things to admire in our Detroit friend's '_Tale of Border
Warfare_;' but he can't 'talk Indian'--that is very clear. The 'abrogynes'
are not in the habit of making interminable speeches: they leave that to
white members of Congress, who pump up a feeling in a day's speech 'for
Buncombe.' Do you remember what HALLECK says of RED-JACKET?

'The spell of eloquence is thine, that reaches
The heart, and makes the wisest head its sport;
And there's one rare, strange virtue in thy speeches,
The secret of their mastery--_they are short_.'

Not one man in a thousand can talk or write the true 'Indian.' Our friend
SA-GO-SEN-O-TA, formerly known as Col. WILLIAM L. STONE, is one of the
best Indian writers in this country. His late letter 'To the Sachems,
Chiefs, and Warriors of the Seneca Indians,' acknowledging the honor they
had done him in electing him a chief, is a perfect thing in its kind. May
it be long before the 'MASTER OF BREATH' shall call him to 'the fair
hunting-grounds, through clouds bright as fleeces of gold, upon a ladder
as beautiful as the rainbow!' . . . Our entertaining '_Dartmoor Prisoner_'
has a pleasant story of a fellow-captive who on one occasion performed
that 'cautionary' experiment which is sometimes denominated 'putting your
foot in it.' The term is of legitimate origin, it should seem. According
to the _Asiatic Researches_, a very curious mode of trying the title to
land is practised in Hindostan. Two holes are dug in the disputed spot, in
each of which the lawyers on either side put one of their legs, and remain
there until one of them is tired, or complains of being stung by the
insects, in which case his client is defeated. In this country it is the
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