Challenge of the riding-whips: A New-Year's ballad

Written expressly for the New-Year's number of The Hub, by author of "The legend of St. Olaf's Kirk." At head of text prose paragraph about ballad's setting, the Morris Mansion, Port Morris, N.Y. in 1817 just after the death of Gouverneur Morris. Poem in 39 four-line stanzas. At end of text on page [4]: Office of "The Hub," 323 Pearl-street, New-York, New-Year's Day, 1884. Author's name not on item; Houghton was author of The legend of St. Olaf's Kirk.