[Just after writing the above I received the following remarks in a letter of a friend from South America, which may be worth reprinting.

" About the time the Vicksburg paper containing the above came to hand, we received a letter from N.P. ROGERS, Esq. of Concord, N.H. the editor of the 'Herald of Freedom,' from which the following is an extract: "Some thirty years ago, I think it was, Col. Thatcher, of Maine, a lawyer, was in Virginia, on business, and was there invited to dine at a public house, with a company of the gentry of the south.

In addition to forbidding the above he proclaimed to subject states that they should grant no honors to any one assigned to govern them either during his term of office or within sixty days after he had departed.

Or let any one read the deeper sorrows (grief running into rage) in the Poem,the last in the collection accompanying the above,which from internal testimony I believe to be Lord Brooke's,beginning with "Silence augmenteth grief,"and

MONTGOMERY, ROBERT, author of "The Omnipresence of Deity" and "Satan," born at Bath, son of a clown; passed undistinguished through Oxford, and was minister of Percy Street Chapel, London; all his many works are forgotten save the above, which lives in Macaulay's famous review (1807-1855).

Anybody who says the above did not come over the cable lies, wickedly, maliciously lies, with intent to deceive.

[Thomas Parnell, 1679-1718] has 2 lines (which probably suggested the above) to Contentment "Whither ah whither art

The opening sentence read as follows: "If you have had the courage to read the above" (referring to an unconventional heading)

"Prince Kudachef is instructed to communicate the above to the Cabinet at Vienna.