before I went home, but
_that's_ out of the question! _Hasn't stattyary riz lately?_ How's
paintin's here now?' . . . Just complaints are made by our city
contemporaries of the exorbitant rates of postage upon weekly periodicals.
Mr. WILLIS complains, in the '_New-Mirror_' weekly journal, that country
postmasters charge so much postage on that periodical by mail, that in
many cases it would make the work cost to its country subscribers something
like ten dollars a year! All postage in this country is at too high a
rate; and so long as it remains so, the law will continue to be evaded.
'Cheating UNCLE SAM' is not considered a very heinous offence. There is
nothing one robs with so little compunction as one's country. It is at the
very worst robbing only eighteen millions of people. . . . The lines sent
us in rejoinder to the stanzas of 'C. W. D.,' in a late issue, would not
be _original_ in our pages; nor could we hope to have many _new_ readers
for them, after they have appeared in, and of course been copied from,
that exceedingly pleasant and well-edited daily journal, the _Boston
Evening Transcript_. . . . HAUFFMAN, the German poet, was recently expelled
from the Prussian dominions, and all his works proscribed thenceforth. 'Served
him right;' for in one of his works appears the 'word following, to wit:'
'_Sleuerverweigerungsverfassungsmassigberechtig_!'--meaning a man who is
exempt by the constitution from the payment of taxes. 'Myscheeves thick'
must needs follow such terrific words. 'We have heard,' says a London
critic, in allusion to this jaw-breaker, 'of a gentleman, a member of the
_Marionettenschauspielhausengesellschaft_, who was said to be an excellent
performer on the '_Constantinopolitanischetudelsackpfeife_!'' . . . We owe
a word of apology to our friends the publishers, for the omission of
notices which we had prepared of their publications, and which are crowded
out by our title-page and index, that were forgotten until the last
moment. We shall 'bring up arrears' in our next.

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