Sold.—On the Atlantic train from Bradford, a very well-known joker from Oil City was walking through a car, when he suddenly stooped down and picked up something. " Who's lost half a dollar ?' he said. At once a dozen persons in the car were searching their pockets, and one ill-iavoured man responded that half a dollar was missing from his pocket, and held out his hand. " Was it dated 1860»" said the Oil City man. "Yes, I'm pretty sure it was." " And nicked on one side ?' " Yes; that's mine." " You are snre t" "Certainty, lam ; so hand it over." Ho handed it over ; and when the man looked at the button which had been put in his hand, his face lengthened so suddenly it almost drove bis head through his bat.— ' Oil City Derrick "

This is said to be the best pun ever made in America. Horace Greeley, during the Scott campaign, declared that he execrated and spit upon the Whig platform. A Western New York editor remarked that if Greeley spit upon the Whig platform he could not expect-to-rate as a Whig.
ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK WITH THE English and American Mails.
