Date of costume about 1848.

He was smoking a cigar, and trying to think of a word, and in pawing his hair he had rumpled his locks a good deal.

He was scowling fearfully, and I judged that he was concocting a particularly knotty editorial.

He told me to take the exchanges and skim through them and write up the "Spirit of the Tennessee Press," condensing into the article all of their contents that seemed of interest.
I wrote as follows: SPIRIT OF THE TENNESSEE PRESS The editors of the Semi-Weekly Earthquake evidently labor under a misapprehension with regard to the Ballyhack railroad.

It is not the object of the company to leave Buzzardville off to one side.
On the contrary, they consider it one of the most important points along the line, and consequently can have no desire to slight it.
The gentlemen of the Earthquake will, of course, take pleasure in making the correction.
John W.Blossom, Esq., the able editor of the Higginsville Thunderbolt and Battle Cry of Freedom, arrived in the city yesterday.