Letters were then read from the Cohoes Mastodon--ARTEMAS WARD'S wax figgers--the wooly hoss--a miselaneous lot of Egipshun Mummies, and THEODOR TILTIN--regrettin' their inability to attend the Fossil Convention. HORRIS GREELY was then anathemized, BEN BUTLER--Senator WILSON--and GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN Ulogized. Resolutions were offered that Congressman MORRISEY be pulverized, by some talented femail startin' a opposition club house, employin' none but Tigers of the gentle sects. After a few more summer complaint speeches agin that Horrible! Bloodthirsty! 2 legged Monkster, MAN!! the annual Hen convention of Antideluvian Fossils tide up their bonnet strings--took their husbans under their off arm--walked down to Congress Spring. The witches who dipp up the mineral fluid danced about the cauldron, while the President of the company spyin' the Femails approachin' remarked: "By the prickin' of my thumb Somethin' wicked this way comes." The above, Friend PUNCHINELLO, was as seen by, Ewers faithfully, HIRAM GREEN, _Lait Gustise of the Peece_. * * * * * Birds of Passage. The African ostrich is sometimes trained to carry passengers on his back, but the player of "our national game" is often seen "going out on a Foul." * * * * * [Illustration: A VERY NECESSARY PRECAUTION.] * * * * * BLOCKS AND BLOCKHEADS. Mr. Punchinello: As the acknowledged redresser of American wrongs and the enemy of public nuisances, we beg your attention to a vice which seems to be upon the increase, and which grows in strength with what it feeds upon. As the vice in question appears to be upon the increase, and to fascinate its victims by the allurements of the excitement, we consider it worthy of PUNCHINELLO'S lance, or, in other words, of being transfixed upon PUNCHINELLO'S quill. We refer to the loafing which invariably takes place upon the occasion of the relaying of the wooden pavement. I say wooden more particularly, inasmuch as new fangled varieties of pavement, such as Concrete, Nicholson, etc., although they have their day, cannot be said to compete for a moment in public regard with the good old fashioned kind first described. Of all the causes that arrest public attention, surely this laying of wooden pavement is the most enduring and effectual. People of every grade and degree make a dead halt as they approach this centre of interest, and at once settle down for a prolonged inspection of the works before them. It is true that everybody has seen the same thing one hundred and fifty times, but this description of indulgence appears to grow by what it feeds upon, and the fascinated victim watches the operation of the workers with a gratification which knows no abatement. The usual formula gone through upon these occasions is as follows: