[From the Boston Correspondence of the Baltimore


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BosToN, June 2, 1874.


The news of Sias Wright's refusal to play
second fiddle to Squire Polk" or in any way to
share the defeat to which the " Democratic' Con-
vention have so harmoniously devoted the latter,
was not little Notifying to the Locos here. 1t
was salt on fresh sore. Already dissatisfied
with the ticket which the Convention had been
driven to adopt, nothing rendered it at all toera-
BILE but Mr.. Wright's name. Whatever might
be Folks Deficiencies, Wright, at least, was a
man of some talents. But when he, smothering
his Indignation at the insult offered him by the
Convention, politely declined to be considered a
candidate, the disgust felt for the ticket by the
Locos in Boston was too great for concealment.
The Bay State Democrat hauled in the mammoth
flag which it had extended across the street. with
the names Of Polk and Wright upon it, and with
very i'll grace, substituted the Inscription Polk
and Dallas Poor Dall,s | am sorry for him.
He is portly, ood-looking man, and (though he
did act a little mean when he was here on his
way to Russia, in living on shpboard to save
spending any part of his outfit at hotel,) HARM
less, welI-intentioned creature enough.


| have been amused at soliloquy which am
told was made by one of those specimens of I" hu
manzed drift-wood' genus, loafer-who may
always be found hanging around the stews and
doggeres of Locofocoism


"PoM and Dallas, is it :" said he. "WelI,
Pm agreeabe,-Polk and Dallas be it. 1t sounds
like Pork and Dowlas. Pork is very good
thing, when it don't require crowner's quest to
certify as to what it died on, and dowlas wears
better, and don't make the paper mills look SO
hungry at feler as these here patent went
lators o. mine does If they calls Polk poke, |
don't mind. Poke-berry bters aint slow! The
Wigs had their hard cider, and we'll have our
Poke berry btters. I'll 90 the Polk for the sake
o the rum, any day. like Polk, cause he don't
represent the aristocracy of genus Folks here
is always acrying out agin the arstocracy of
wealth, but they never says nothin' agin the ars-
tocracy O. genus That's why Pm kept down.
but taint goin to be SO not no more. Human
progress can't stand it. Everything had ought
TO be represented here, cause it's free country
! voted Tor Jackson to represent military genus
Van Buren was elected cause he was a cunnin'
genus--Harrson got in for his honest genus
and they're tryin' to get in Clay for his patriotic
genus-but we'll go now for Polk, cause he's
the genus of mediocrity. Them's um Them's
the candidates for wiLetling sullars and all stitch
I'll go down, and git drink of old while-eye, for
that idee. Hurra for Polk and Dallas ~