Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-05-27
why, this editor, must be great ras-


smelt it. Sometimes it was serious letter
from my lawyer or from one Of my debt.
ers, but ottener it was from this wicked
fellow! He went so far as to frank letters
from great distances, to add to my uncer
tainty and TO ruin me more cffsctually.
What was | 10 do? Must give notice to
forty or fifty or fifty persons that would
not receive unbranded letters? lmpossi
BILE! | must then tell the reason, and this
| dared not do, nor ought TO dare it. |
wrote to Ibis fellow to offer him his TWEEN
iy four francs; even franksd my letter y
He had left the country and no one knew
what had become of him''
This is an abominable storyv
Yes, abominabe, and worse when you
know i, oil. In the end | lost my wits.
took or refused letters at hazard, and the
devil always mpelled me to choose those
Of his own dictaton. have a drawer full
Of them.'
This man was enough TO ruin you in
postage
That was a slight matter. One day my
lawyer in Condeen- Brie wrote to me that |
had just lost 500 francs by my mistakes.
He had written to me a fortnight before
concerning the situation of one Of my
debtors. who, on the eve of his failure, Of
tered me note at discount, by which
might have secured my 500 francs. had
made no answer: the letter had lain in the
post office, and the failure was now pub
lshed.'
.Ahv
Bah! he harrassed me on all sides, my
dear sir. 1t is but month at most since
some one brought me from the Office La
fTit,e GaiIlard large willow basket, On
which had TO pay ii francs freight. |
vas now always suspicious But it was
just the eve Of the first Of January. This
basket might come from my brother or my
son. paid the eleven francs, opened the
basket. took out three or four beds Of hay
and straw, and what do you suppose that !
found? A collection of unfortunate papers,
with letter, Of which need no, tell you
the contents. week after, another 0ask-
ell came, yet not franked. This refu-
sed.'
i suppose so.'
You suppose so. My lawyer at Chat
eau Thierry soon after he did ma the hon
or to inform me that the Baron Of Ladon
cstte was furiously angry with me for hav-
ing refused basket Of oysters and game,
which he had sent me as a present after
an exchange of land between us. The
game and oysters returned TO him after a
weeks stay at the stage office, GOO knows
in what condition =
This was enough TO make a man era
zv!'
y was not far from being so! You know
had lawsuit ut Amiens, which suit has
since terminated unfortunately on account
Of the impossibIity of my attending TO bu-
5 ness. could not fix my mind upon il !!
Well, they told me at the post office that
that there was n package for me from
Amiens, tied and sealed, and having these
words written under tho direction: Bust
ness papers, from the royal cour, of Ami
ems. Important My suit was yet pend
ing, aad this might come from my lawyer.
paid nine francs, signed The register, and
returned home with my mind entirely &C.
cupicd with one subject. The package
contained the end of billiard stick, from
which the ivory was taken off. and on the
paper which was wrapped around it, like a
motto around a child's hisle, was the IN
(ernal phrase. "iou owe me twenty-four
francs, and you refuse TO pay them. You
are a rascal p
And did YOU consult no one p
Whom should CONSULT spoke Of it
to the Project and the General; but they
only laughed at it, and asked me, whenev-
=.
editor. The wife of the Project even
went so far as 10 say that she should be
delighted to know this young man.
This was the equicsm Of the admins
tration Boucaud. there must have heen
something which you might do; but what
the devil was ii!'
i did every thing. | wrote to my friends
a, scissors, at Meaux, a, Chateau Thierry
at Paris, in all The surrounding provinces,
indeed-semeiimes 10 interrupt nay cores
pondence, and establish a sort of continen-
tai blockade against the letters of this vile
crea,uro-sometimes TO find him out and
pay his twenty four francs, with interest.
if he required IL; but /; was impossible 10
Law nv hand on the rascal. And then. un-
expected letters on business always profited
by the opportunity when had refused TO
pay any postage, to come 10 me. 1t SEEM
ed as if every body was in league with
him. At last resolved to refuse TO more
letters, as il cost me dearer than TO receive
them, even went 10 the Post Office 10
take all my letters which mad been thrown
aside for five or six days. had my usu-
al luck. There were nineteen there from
various places, and not one which was not
from himl'
And always the same ihingl
Always
DO YOU receive them stillF
Yes; | have one in my pocket which
came Yesterday from Pontoise.'
DO you know any one thersF
Ne; but il is always The same. Besides
have taken nv resolution since my last
adventure, and will ruin myself in postage
If II IS necessary"
What adveniurep
i will tell you. You know my trifiing
brother, commissioner OF The police at VII
parsis.
'Yes--a good fellow, bu. rather light"
Light as TO his nurse particularly-