The following quotation may be taken as a sample: OUR CUSTOM-HOUSEWHAT A HAUL.The New Hampshire Patriot, in an article on proscription, thus refers to the merciless decapitation of the Democrats of our Custom-house, by Mr. Collector Maxwell: "Take the New York Custom-house as a sample.

Since the splendid decapitation which Coronado had performed, Texas respected him as he had never heretofore hoped to respect a "greaser.

The chronicler gave the name of the Saxon who thus suffered untimely decapitation as Hosmer.