Phenix Gazette

It is understood that the Honorable Isaac Hill was at the Eagle Hotel on Wednesday last, agreeably to previous arrangement, on which occasion he read in the faces of the company the speech he had prepared, in which he condescended to stoop from his usual elevation to mention the names of Clay and Webster in terms of displeasure! The honorable, we understand, was honored with the company of near one hundred persons, more than half of whom were office holders under the state or national governments. In truth, it was an office-holder's jollification, emphatically, for such as were not favored with a lien on the contents of the people's treasury, "found it convenient to pursue their usual avocations at home!" Strike from the company the office-holders and expectants, and we have left but a beggarly account of empty places. But the office-holders, of themselves, (who probably felt under peculiar obligations to the honored) constitute a formidable list of names.

Extract from Isaac's letter accepting the dinner:

"Such of my friends as can come without a sacrifice, I will be happy to meet any day of next week that you gentlemen shall prefer: and perhaps it may not be improper to say, that I shall deem myself scarcely less honored by such of them as shall find it necessary or expedient to pursue those avocations at home, which the busy season of the year seems to require of them."

N. H. (Concord) Statesman.