Explanation

and with some degree of prejudice and blame to the Washington editor, that the remarks made by him in his "gossip," of the last March number, as to the manner in which some men get business, were uncalled for, as far as they alluded to two persons, who have within the last two years associated themselves together, and in justice to all parties, we make the following explanation: Dr. J. Smith Dodge, late of the Bowery, but now of Bond street, New York, in 1842, employed as an assistant in mechanical dentistry, a person who was then known as Luther Parmelee, late machinist, and in some few