AN OFFICE HOLDER REBUkED.
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Ne clip the following extract from a letter in the Globe. We suppose there is one man at least that has found cut who James K. Polk is

 A high eustom-house officer under the late administration, in Baltimore, thinking that a frc-hmldreddolidr horSe would be an accep- table present to President Polk, and be no obstacle to his continuing in office, sent him one the other day, and had him tthe horse) placed Tn the Presidents stable, without his knowledge. As soon as the President learn ed the fact, and not looking for precedents among Roman consuls, he directed forthwith a rope (which the donor deserved more than the horse to be placed around the horses neck, and te animal to be led back to the stable from whence he camel The next day-sad to tell and io the terror of all who do not know that race of oAce-brokers and mddle-men are no longer in power-our hero found himself to be a mere private citizen, and again eligible to seat in any new Tyler convention which ofiee-holders and office hunters may please to get up, and free to act again as vice-president of any such august body. JOHN GlLplN.