rty; for an alderman had been elected the day before;
and Party Feeling naturally running rather high on such an exciting
occasion, the friends of the disappointed candidate had found it
necessary to assert the great principles of Purity of Election and
Freedom of opinion by breaking a few legs and arms, and furthermore
pursuing one obnoxious gentleman through the streets with the design of
hitting his nose. These good-humoured little outbursts of the popular
fancy were not in themselves sufficiently remarkable to create any great
stir, after the lapse of a whole night; but they found fresh life and
notoriety in the breath of the newsboys, who not only proclaimed them
with shrill yells in all the highways and byways of the town, upon the
wharves and among the shipping, but on the deck and down in the cabins
of the steamboat; which, before she touched the shore, was boarded and
overrun by a legion of those young citizens.
'Here's this morning's New York Sewer!' cried one. 'Here's this
morning's New York Stabber! Here's the New York Family Spy! Here's the
New York Private Listener! Here's the New York Peeper! Here's the New
York Plunderer! Here's the New York Keyhole Reporter! Here's the
New York Rowdy Journal! Here's all the New York papers! Here's full
particulars of the patriotic locofoco movement yesterday, in which
the whigs was so chawed up; and the last Alabama gouging case; and the
interesting Arkansas dooel with Bowie knives; and all the Political,
Commercial, and Fashionable News. Here they are! Here they are! Here's
the papers, here's the papers!'
'Here's the Sewer!' cried another. 'Here's the New York Sewer! Here's
some of the twelfth thousand of to-day's Sewer, with the best accounts
of the markets, and all the shipping news, and four whole columns of
country correspondence, and a full account of the Ball at Mrs White's
last night, where all the beauty and fashion of New York was assembled;
with the Sewer's own particulars of the private lives of all the ladies
that was there! Here's the Sewer! Here's some of the twelfth thousand of
the New York Sewer! Here's the Sewer's exposure of the Wall Street
Gang, and the Sewer's exposure of the Washington Gang, and the Sewer's
exclusive account of a flagrant act of dishonesty committed by the
Secretary of State when he was eight years old; now communicated, at a
great expense, by his own nurse. Here's the Sewer! Here's the New York
Sewer, in its twelfth thousand, w
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