New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-16


beautiful Of part coored WAX i'm pressed with pretty
device and consigned to the sae-keeping OF the Post
Office Box There is one beside 1t onanented with the
prin; of thumb and five fingers. Perhaps both cine
from the same mansion; but in an apartment
two stories higher than the other TIE latter was writ
ten by Bridget and the fret by Bridge,'s mistress.
They all tossed about by tho clerks without the
slightest hesitation No time for specializing OF 70
mancing among those active gentlemen. even though
they were impairment nquisltye enough to pry into
other peoples business Could the secrets OF Post
Office for single day be revealed what an insight
would be obtained into the human heart There are the
wild rhapsodes Of the lovestrcken youth Of seventeen
who signs some boording school miss Of equally ten
der years. in golden ringets shot dress and mmaeu'
late pnaicre. well as tho less sensaess ougushinRs
OF one Of maturer years. whose lip the down has JEST
appeared, and who looks on everything through the
magic and golden lenses Of young Romance to whom
life appears one long dream OF delight, and Love the
only divinity that sways the destnies Of the world
And then again there those eoey de epstles
in response TO passionate and oath recorded vowf in
closing tresses of golden suburn brown. black. and
though perhaps not in Post Office. certainly in
some Paris ones Of pink and yermilliOn co0rei hair.
Letters from the prison bound and from the tree; from
the outlaw tho verge of eternity who watches within
lis lone and silent cell the pointers OF tine travelling on
10 the hour that shall bear his death knell sound from
the feon who expiates in letters HIS ofenses against
his fellow man; from the 10 criminal with guilt
scared heart well as from the youthful offender who
waves between the hell OF Evil and the heaven OF Good
Letters from the wsnderer beneath foreign Skies sigh.
ing again for the beezcs and sunshine that play about
his Western home; from the oceanossed mariner who
fDndy turns his TO the orbs that glitter above his
native land from him WHO trcads the rackess DESERT
dwells almost beyond tue reach OF all bumani1ng
Influences from the lonely watcher for an absent one.
waiting for tie footsteps destined II may be- never
more 10 return from the soTrow stricken as well as
from the glad of heart Letters OF prayer aid entreay.
Of defiance and dsdain Of gratitude and love- o hatred
and revenge and the thousand other passions which
human hearts will feel and to which human tongues
will give expression.
CURIoslTlES OF LITERATURE
Among the mony amusing addresses IN rhvme and
otherwise that passed through the Post Office from time
TO time are the following:
ITO be Forwarded 10
Mnrgret Flynn
ant from Ynu MarcTet
Ia youf brother Jack
ard Sister ilonoIe
S.sier Ellen and Michael
In care Of MIR Nm Ii Baidwia L. ). X America
Another:
ITO John Bluy iflvirg.
but II not To his wi or some Of TIE children II nv
| ng ard If not 10 some respectable n,lsbbor.'
| speed on litle missive To- NJ ,rlle Head
| And fnd ola Joe Sweet either hvlng ~ dead
| Ii he. Iylug Of coarse he'll read this letter
| But II he's dead Why AL I'll. better.
Mess
| "Swift ~ the dawn yonr oourse pursue
| Let lSusht your speed resiIan
| Until sou meet Miss Mary Drew
| In Nevileld state OF Maine
| Here 10 lucid address which speaks for Itself
| "Ihmothe ia ligan
| State o Masekciviits
| or elswher."
| The geographical knowledge 81 tho gentleman who
pcnned the following was somewhat e,tonsivei
ITO AIR bsrthol owen
Kelly. OsiGtc
Connecticut"
III. following reminds rs of,ho innocent country erl
u h. said .he had M uncle living between the Battery
and Central Park:
HcE.Yort, -
New York City
= America"
Who can tell ofthc wLereabou,. Of Nss fosIer'
Mis-. Louise Foster 3G;h stree, ,oHs
eherts Penny Post please deliver.
The following is encouraging Ia the Pos,mani
ITO Nike Donovan
or 10 bis cousin Eliza Mac Farrcly.
Postman viii find Lir by h'dng Betsy Brennan who
was to Mike before ey LEI, Ireland and may
be hurried"
NJ, Ford must be a well known Individual In Maine.
else lie never received the follovIngi
Mr. Henry Ford
who lives in the same place IN the
State Of Maine"
An amusing postscript TO Postmaster;
"P s. Please give this letter to the man what's got
a IN my plrn "a wants 10 get away"
SCENE At TIE IUsr-orFIcE.
About week since IA M,lcsan female Of hage proper.
tons aud rate looks approached 81 the departments
at the PostUice and. not Immediately seeing clerk.
she began to thump the boards aud create quito com
motion when the clerk appeared and demonstrated on
The improperly OF her conduct. She loO.od at hin
fercely placed her arms akimbo turned up a nose
which nature had sufficiently urnod up before JeTked
her head crowned with abundance Of red hair to-
ward the left side aud looking II she sought TO ami.
hila,e him with glance OF mingled rage and mailer,
exclaimed:
where's moi lettherr
CLERK: What letter. madam
"Nivir mind now. Civ me moi muny."
what money!
"What munyi why the three clns gev yol to sind
let,her " Boihtont
why do you want your money theut'
Far the letther nivir whit"
How do you know tLati'
"Becase uhin the Postmasther answered IL she said
she nvir resaived herr
"How did he answer II The never got it,"
Now be sisy and hould yur whsht an Civ inc the
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