Formerly Editor of the Charleston (S. C.) City Gazette, and lately

of the Cincinnati Daily Evening Post.

薯

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut.

TO

The Editors of the Periodical Press

GENTLEMEN:

THROUGHOUT THE

UNITED STATES.

It is to your innumerable kind notices of such parts of the following Work, and of their author, as have been published in the Cincinnati Daily Evening Post, within the last two years, that this work owes its existence in its present extended form; and in gratitude for your good feelings thus extended towards me, I DEDICATE this work to you. With the single remark that you will

"Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuate,

Nor set down aught in malice;"

I subscribe myself your obliged friend,

E. S. THOMAS.