But things is changed since Johnny died, And our profession's fallen So werry low, it really ain't A gentlemanly callin'. There's some as once wos gentlemen When cracksmen's art was balmy, Now shame us all by fig'ring as Contractors for the army! What wonder, when our former pal, A vulgar, sneakin' knave is, They hang our pictures in a row With Floyd, and Cobb, and Davis? But just as if this wa'n't enough To make us hide our faces, A man we once look'd up to, all, Must add to our disgraces; A base, degenerate, shameless cove Has sullied our profession, By stoopin' to a lay that is Depraved beyond expression. He's activally come and went-- The werry thought's unmannin'-- He's activally gone and robbed Ex-President Buchanan! Alas! my boy, there is naught so fallen in humanity, but it may become still more depraved. I have known members of State Legislatures to be finally elected Congressmen. After the above _chanson_ had been read, the Spanish member gave us his story of DON BOBADIL BANCO; OR, WHO OWNS THE BABY? "I always respect a man who drinks good Port, especially if he frequently invites me to take dinner with him, and hence I have selected as my hero, a gallant Spaniard, whose fondness for the delicious juice was never doubted. "Don Bobadil Banco was a gentleman of good family, who graduated with honor at Salamanca, and retired from thence to Madrid, in company with a fellow student named Don Philip Funesca. The erudite pair hired lodgings in an aristocratic part of the city, and after much delay, installed one Dame Margy as their housekeeper, cook, and chambermaid, being resolved to husband their scanty resources until, by coming of age, they could inherit the estates and fortunes of their fathers. "It is to be presumed that the friends entered society and made consummate fools of themselves, as very young men generally do when they first mingle with ladies; but as that period of their career can possess very little novelty for most people, I shall only favor it with this passing notice, and at once introduce the gallant pair as they appeared on the ---- night, in the month of ----, in the year of our Lord ----, at -- o'clock. "In a very small room, before a very small window, was standing a very small table, at the side of which were two very shabby chairs, on which were seated two very young men; and as it was growing very dark, two very small candles, in two very small candlesticks, were placed on the very small table, in company with two very small decanters, filled with very cheap Port, and two very old goblets, of very dirty pewter.