The telegraph you some months azo were kind enough to inform us was to be finished within a month is still where it was, We have lived here a few years and therefore smiled x wan smile ut the enthusiasm of your brief paragraph. Things are not done in such bewildering haste down here. Verily ars longa, exceeding! tonga in this disturb-me-not place, and the telegraphic art is likely to be longer still befure it stirs the sweet spirit of our dreams,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.