Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1860-06-23
(From The New York Tilnes1
ANOTHER JAPANESE LETTER
BROUGHT TO LIGHT ny FORTUNATE MIS-
TAKE.

Il ANOTHER JAPANESE LETTER
BROUGHT TO LIGHT ny A FORTUNATE MIS-
france Koragahe tcrites again TO the En-
peror's Aimoy bearer and discouyseA
on politics Mortgage is puzzled 10 an.
dersta,.d the institutions Of this countyp
--on the ,chole he thinks that dtey do
things better IN Jeido.
For the possession Of this letter we are
indebted TO mistake which occurred at
the Washington Post-otiice. In making
up the foreign mails, this letter, by an in
adverNnce Of the distributor, was sent to
Virginia instead of to Japan. As there
WAS something very mysterious about the
exterior OF the document, il Was forwarded
by the Richmond Postmaster to Gov. Wise.
Gov, Wise could not read the letter, but
with that astuteueSs for which he is so
IJust!y celebrated, he instantly OWNED that
anything beyond his comprehension must
be we'll worth knowing aud OF importance
to the State. A special session of the
Legislature was immediately ordered, and
this document was laid before the body
The Speaker Of the Assembly, who had
lately been carrying on u correspondence
with the Tribune as to the best and speed
lest way Of dissoving the Union, after a
careful examination of tho handwriting,
declared 1t that OF Horace Greeley. Gov.
| Wise at ouce surmised that there was an
Ethiopian in the wood pile, and that this
! letter had something to do with another
! INVASION of that State which he has sworn
| to protect, and will die to defend. But as
no one was able to decipher the eabalistic
characters, the document was forwarded
TO The foreman of!he Times establishment !;
! 1t being well known throughout the coun-
Try thai this gentleman, from a long expe.
-ieGce in the Tribune office, can read
| Greeleys manuscript quite tlueutlv. Our
| foreman. however. atter careful exumi-
nation of the writing. decided that it was
too bad even for Greeley. or that. if ema-
mating trom h.n, it weGla only have been
written during the excitement of the Chi
| cago Convention. From casual word
! here and there, he rather inferred that the
latter was the case, ana that the mysterious
document contained a detail of the way
in which he defeated Seward But Perry.
who happened just then to come into the
Iro1oosin,r-rnons Ia sali n hox o( b;s T..
nan hlacking instar,lr set tho u.,,,.r q,
rest bv DECLARING that i wos s;r,,Jr Ie,
Ter from Prince Mooragake 10 his ceasin,
the arm-bearer, and TO ease the anxiety of
Gov. Wise and the Virginia Legislature.
ne translated the contents. which transla.
lion we publish for the eGi6cation OF our
rea,lars
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