Alexandria Daily Advertiser

COMMUNICATION.

MR. PRINTER,

I HAVE observed in the Expositor the yelping of a poor cur who has been whining after an office until he has become so hungry that the smell of a good dinner in the neighborhood has made him give mouth as freely as if there had been a vacancy: I was not of the party alluded to, nor should I have known of the dinner had it not been for that writer's crying because he got none; but since he mentions the occurrence, I recollect about that time seeing several of the species with their heads up, their noses set to the country, and their smellers going with rabbit-like quickness, as if they had the scent. But what I mean to complain of is, that they should publish to the world their poverty in this particular town; it is true three or four of them might be put into office; but there are more than fifty that have been trotting round the president's square as hungry as wolves, and whenever a vacancy happens, one gives mouth, and the whole are in full cry in a moment, and the foremost generally get the tail: Now for the sake of our town and their own credit, I pray you, Mr. Printer, beg of them not to open so freely at the smell of a good dinner--nor disturb the repose of the citizens by coming out in full cry in the night time at the supposed scent of a good supper when there was none served up -nor slander our executive by invoking her aid.

B.