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Bolh Of these papers have laid themselves more
fairly open to libel suit from us, than any Of
those which the Journal has so ridicAously sued.
The Express repeats the L0ndon Times paragraph
in the same sheet in which it charges US with our
{" Forgery" We will forgive them our "ten
thousand dollars damages" and give them up all
our share OF the :sBritish Cold besides, if they
will either produce the said paragraph, or one OF
the millions OF tracts which they know TO have
been printed here, and of which the Rochester
(Whig) Democrat has recorded the arrival OF a
"box" at that place.


P..S While Cowelf is before US, we may rs
we'll copy the following amusing anecdote which
we find on the same page:


1" A lieutenant in the navy. on his way to Pen
sacola to join his ship, of our dominates.
and belonged TO the flooring commiHee-so all
were called who had to sleep on it. Two ardent
drvolers at sevenup finding no better place late at
night, while he was FIST asleep coled away in his
cloak, squatted either side of him, and made his
shoulder their table. The continual tip. tap as
the cards were played by each upon his back, ra-
ther aided his sramanIike repoae; but an energrt-
c slap by one ofthe combatanls at being High,
6y thunder t' awakened him. and looking mp, one
ofthc PLAYERS, slightly urging down his head, said,
in confidential whisper.


"' Hold on a minute, stranger the games just
out-Pve only two to go-have twelve for game
in my own hand, and haze got the JACK?
"He, of course, accommodated them; and when
the game was out. he found they had been keeping
the run of it ,ciM chalk tailed on his stand-up
coiLarr'


We wonder whether one Of these nocturnal de-
votees of '' serenup' may not possibly have been
the great Inventor of Poker himsefl As Jeremy
Didder says in the play, We only ask for lnlor-
nation"