Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-05-15

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ply to JoHv L1vIae s1eE, famed for MS
late improved method Of blowing upl
sundry hitherto scurnlindlylduais ln'o|
the ethereal regions. In the present
case his Law Magazie, published at
l57 Broadway, New Brk, will have q
rich portrait and biography. We com
mend such as favored ban LIVINGSTON
with a So bill few yets ago, in order
to oct their names enplled as distin-
guished members Of theBar in their re-
spective neighborhoeds
From the BarnDeA "a c. Sentinel. ]
l57 BroadwayEew York,
March 0,f853.
C. F. Ton1s, Esq.-Dear Sir: Your
name has been propo ed as suitable
one to occupy a place b PORTRAITS and
Memoirs of eminent American" now
living, of which sevehl volumes have
been already published. This great
work has been Yeceivd with much ia
vor everywhere, andicontains many Of
the first names in tie country. For
further information of1its general scope
and plan, beg to ref4 you to circu-
lar herewith sent. pur portraits are
engraved on steel, by he first artists, so
that the likenesses are,true and life-like
representations of thdf originals, pos
sessing greater value 10 the subjects and
their friends than thenost costly paint
ing.
You are respectfully solicited to occu-
py place in the pagss OF this work. -
Should your consentIaFord us the oppor-
tunity Of thus givingtc the world true
and permanent recoId of your life and
features, please send me your likeness,
Ga good daguerreotype Of the same size
as our portraits is best, SO that it may
be handed over to our engravers.
Please cause to bt sent to me, also, a
memoir of yours elf IF such facts. as will
enable me to prepare it, and will not
for get to say, that the facts for the
sketch should be fully and accurately
given.
l hope you will send both the daguer-
reotype and memorial your earliest con-
venience, as we hate volume in pro-
gress, and wish to avoid delay. Hoping
to hear from you, I am yours truly,
JOHN LIVINGSTON.
Dear Sir: The ABOVE communication
reached me last week, and in replication
| beg leave to state that if have ever
done anything worthy Of the immortal
ty your magazine is likely to confer up
on me, am not conscious Of it, howev-
er, as true merit is always modest, j,
may be to that virtue that | owe my ig-
norance, at all events, (and | am anx-
ious the world at large should know it,
| have not sought fame, but fame has
sought me, as Alexander Smith, the pc.
ct would say.
"Fame! Fame! next grandest word
to Godp' In taking retrospect of my
earlier days, can discover nothing wor-
thy of record, unless it be the stealing
of few watermeloHs at school, fol
which was beaten with many stripes
or the riding of few quarter races, for
which l received an occasional ginger
cake, or adventures ofasimilar import.
Al II / ran away fram my veneratis
cid -G=a rdian, the Rev. Hansford Dale
Duncan (long life to him and vainouset
to the great far west, where fiourishes
for short time, and a short :, lime er,ly
and upon returnirr~
upon . game yulgarly called "poker,
{ of which, of course yoI know nothing,
upon one of the hoats of the Aabam
river. This was about the time the Be,
tranh'tan barsted and killed so many an
had | Got been standing near the sterl
OF the vessel, you would never have hat
the opportunity of handing my name, ia
simile, character, and adventures, dow,
to an eager posterity in the columns Q
your justly celebrated magazine.
1 returned to my own native Ian,
fundless and perhaps somewhat seedy il
appearance and run for 1st Lieutenan
in distinguished militia company, blu
was unfortunately beaten by the loss 0
one vote by my worthy competitor.
In the year of our Lord, l849, my il
lustrious friend, Thomas D. Condy, CAV,
me the office of Assistant Deputy U
nited States Marshal for the District o.
Barnwell, and while taking the Census
l killed one horse, another ran away ant
broke my buggy, upon which occasion,
rode my horse bare back IA miles in Al
minutes of which fact Col. B. H. Brown
lis living witness.
After had concluded this herculear
undertaking, a man calling himself &C
Frank POWELL" wrote me from Wash
ington that if | would forward certain
amount Of money to him, he would pro.
secute my claims for an increase of pa,
sufficient to cover these immense disas.
tiers, but grieve to say that from tn,
time sent the money, have not heard
a word from the aforesaid and never te
be forgotten c. Frank Powell, he proba
oily having gone to parts UNKNOWN
However, | still entertain hopes of see.
ing his distinguished name and fac sim.
lie In your widely circulated magazine.
Last year ran for Tax Collector If
this important Township, and was beat.