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Rh alluding to the toast of General Jackson at the Tammany Dinner; on the next day appeared the “Epistle to Mr. Potter, the Ventriloquist,” on the next day, “The Battery War,” all written by Dr. Drake; and on. the same day (the 15th of March), Halleck’s Address to Mr. Simpson, then manager of the old Park Theatre, signed Croaker, jr., and on the day after that, Drake’s invitation to his unknown rival, proposing to make a poetical firm, as appears by the well-known verses:

Is this local? The only allusion in it to New York, is Prime’s mouse-colored ponies. But the head of the firm of Prime, Ward & King, famous bankers in