Morning Star

History of The "Striped Pig." —Whipple & Damrell have published a small book, entitled, "The History of the Striped Pig." It is, of course, a satirical performance, giving the various mutations, and transmigrations of this singular beast this four-footed animal of the trough; or, in other words, it describes the doings of the rum-party since the passage of the late wholesome license law. It is evidently written by a man of talents, and will well repay a perusal. The last chapter records the slaughter of the "striped pig." We copy a few lines of it.
We find the following touching obituary in the papers of Nov. 13th, published the morning after the election.
Died yesterday, at the ballot-boxes, of delirium tremens; that wonderful beast, that "most delicate monster," the striped pig! He died hard. The spirit within struggled desperately, and he seemed resolved not to depart this life. But when the bells tolled at 4 o'clock, he was no more!* His friends are howling over his decease, some of them refusing to believe him dead; and others preparing to embalm his remains.
* At 4 o'clock. in this city, the bells toll. when the ballot-boxes are all closed.
Boston Zion's Herald