Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-04-30
lEMPHIS.N TENNESSEE. THURSDAY EN


And every whore that Mary went.
fIlN The lamb was sure TO 20. idi 10
cd "Jack and Gill went up the hill we
To draw pail Of wateri .lffl ifrc1
r Jack fell down and broke his crown, Id
And Gill came tumbling after.
" For simplicity, elegance of diction,
and freedom from immoral tendencies, l
regard those two poems in the light OF
gems. They are suited to all grades OF
Intelligence, to every sphere of life-to
the field, to the nursery, to the guild.
Especially should no board Of aldermen
be without them. ~ t..l,. Ii 49,.
"..Venerable fossilsI write again. Moth
ing improves one so mach as friendly
correspondence. Write again-and #
there is anything in this memorial Of
yours that refers to anything in particu-
lar, do not be backward about explaining
it. We shall always be happy to hear
you chirp. Very truly etc,
"'For James W. Nye, U. S. Senator
"That is an atrocious, ruinous epis-
tie Distraction T.
"Well, sir, / am really sorry if there
is anything wrong about it-but-but-
it appears to me to.dodge the water-lot
question" No'
dodge the mischief 0hl-but
never mind. As long as destruction
must come now, let it be complete. Let
it be com plete--let this last of your per-
formances, which i am about to read,
make a fnality of it. am ruined
man. had my misgivings when gave
YOU the letter from Humboldt, asking
that the post route from Indian Gulch
and Shakespeare Gap, and intermediate
points, be changed partly to the old
Mormon trail. But told you it was a
delicate question, and warned you to
deal with it deftly-to answer it dubious.
ly, and leave them q little in the dark.
And your fatal imbecility impeled you
to make this disastrous reply. / should
think you would stop your ears, if you
are not dead to oil shame. ....-l
WASHINGTON, Nov. 80. 1857.
"'Messrs. Perkins. Wagner, ct al.
"'GENTLEMEN Ii is delicate ques-
ton about this Indian trail, but, handled
with proper deftness and dubiousness, |
doubt not we shall succeed in some meas
ure or otherwise, because the place where
the route leaves the Lasseu Meadows,
over beyond where those two Shawnee
chiefs, Dilapidated. Vengeance and Bitter
of-the. Clouds, were scalped last winter,
this being the favorite direction to some,
but others preferring something else in
consequence of things, the Mormon
trail leaving Mosby's at three in the
morning, and passing through Jaw
bone Flat to Blucher, and then down
by Jug-handle, the road passing to the
right of it, and naturally leaving it on
the right, too, and Dawson's on the lett
of the trail where it passes to the left OF
said Dawson's, and onward thence to
Tomahawk, thus making the route
cheaper, easier of access to all who can
get at it, and comprising all the desirable
objects so considered by others, and,
therefore, comforting the most good upon
the greatest number, and, consequently,
| am encouraged to hope we shall. How;
ever, shall be ready and happy to afford
you still further information upon the
subject from time to time, as you may
desire it and the Postoffice Department
be enabled to furnish it to me.
q" Very truly, ETC., l-rl (
Ael sf I" MARX TWAIN. /
"'For Jas. W. Nye, U. s. Senator.
"There-now, what do you think OF
that2"
swell, / don't know, sir. t-well, it
appears to me to be dubious enough.
Do-leave the housed am ruined
man. Those Humboldt savages never
will forgive me for tangling their brains
up with this inhuman letter. have lost
the respect of the Methodist Church, the
board of aldermen" ....
swell, I haven't anything to say about
that, because ] may have missed it lit
tie in the cases, but l was too many for
the Baldwin's Ranch people, General II
Leave the housel Leave it forever
and forever, tooF'
regarded that as a sort of covert in.
timation that my services could be dis
pensed with, and so l resigned. | never
will be a private secretary to senator
again. You can't please that kind of
people. They don't know ANYTHING. They
can't appreciate partys efforts: a
MARX TWAIN.