8 tion of his ancestral surname. We have not been able to ascertain what was the family name of the Impenitent Thief, though a distant relative of Mr. Levy, Mr. Judah P. [Query—was it not originally Judas I. ?] Benjamin, might, if inquired of, furnish reliable information on the subject, such as is known among lawyers as “ reputation in the family.”* * The writer seems to have acted upon a suggestion of Daniel O’Connell, and to have iw/erre^the descent of Messrs. Levy-Yulee and Benjamin from their principles—concluding from them that those individuals must be descendants of the Im mnitent Thief. Now, the foregoing are but instances of individual pretension and personal snobbishness on the part of the beautiful set of Normans—the overseers or their descendants turned planers who have proclaimed themselves to be the “ master race” on this continent—who have rebelled against a Republic, coerced the laboring classes among them, and have attempted to set up a strong government of their own. As a matter of course, their government has shown itself to be as vulgarly pretentious and as snobbish as themselves. Ignorant of those principles of good taste which suggest that the nomenclature which may not be improper when applied to blooded stock, is most unsuitable to the war vessels of a nation, the officials of Secessia christened its first little war steamers the “Lady Polk” and the “Lady Davis.” As “lord” is the correlative of “lady,” such appellations can only be permissible in case Bishop Polk were my Lord Bishop General Leonidas Polk, and the Great Repudiator my Lord Jeff. Davis. It is said that straws show how the wind blows: hence, such a nomenclature may be held significant— or, indeed, ominous. The vulgar pretentiousness and pretentious vulgarity of the traitors who are ruling the masses of the South, has long made them the laughing-stock of all really well-bred people both here and abroad. It must occasionally flash across the minds of the secession leaders themselves that they have been and are making a most absurd and diverting expose of their arrogance and weakness. Cicero said that he wondered whether a soothsayer coiild look a southsayer in the face without smiling. We should like to witness a rencontre between two of these m’en of
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