Mr. BUTLER denounced the course of Mr. VOORHEES.  For his part, he saw no impropriety in selling cadetships or any thing else.  What do gentlemen suppose that cadetships exist for, if it is not for the emolument of congressmen?  He considered his patronage as a part of his perquisites.  This had been the guiding principle of his life, alike in his military and his political career.  He considered the action of Mr. VOORHEES to be an act of deliberate treachery to this House.  If he accepted a pitiful drink in return for his official influence, he was guilty of a gross offense in cheapening the price of patronage.  A cadetship was worth $500 if it was worth a cent.  If, on the other hand, he gave his cadetship away, his conduct was even more culpable; for other congressmen might be weak enough to follow his baleful example, and the market would be broken down.  He advocated the formation of a Congressional Labor Union to determine the value of these appointments, and to expel all members who took less than the standard rate.  This was what was done in other branches of business, and if his colleagues wished to be like him, the little busy B.F.B., and improve each shining hour, this is what they would do.

And then the House adjourned.

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READY-MADE EPITAPHS.

On a Departed Clown.

Though lost to sight, to mummery dear.

On a Faithful Book-keeper.

Posted up.

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Wring the Belles.

American belles ought to make good housewives, because they put up with little or no waist.

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To whom it may Concern.

Persons who take music by the wholesale are informed that they can procure it of the street organ-grinders, who dispose of it by the Barrel.

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Voice in the Air.

“What is honor?  Air.”—­Sir JOHN FALSTAFF.

“What is dishonor?  EYRE.”—­Every body.

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The “Cumming” Man.

The “sensation” editor of the Sun.

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[Illustration:  “BLAG YER BOOTS, MISTER!”]

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A Huge Sell.

The appointing to cadetships at West-Point.

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The Most Religious Editor in New-York.

C.A.  DANA—­because every week-day is observed as a "Sun" day by him.

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A Good General Idea.

A neat practical joke was that perpetrated by one of our contributors, who, having been requested to bring us “something pat,” walked into our office a day or two after with a couple of Fenian generals in tow.

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A Happy Thought.