Ten Years Among the Mail Bags: Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-office DepartmentH. Cowperthwait & Company, 1855 - 432 páginas |
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... received the electoral votes of the States of Massachusetts , Vermont , New Jersey , Delaware , Ohio , Indiana , and Kentucky . He was again elected to Congress in 1838 and in 1840. Appointed Post Master General March 6 , 1841 , but ...
... received the electoral votes of the States of Massachusetts , Vermont , New Jersey , Delaware , Ohio , Indiana , and Kentucky . He was again elected to Congress in 1838 and in 1840. Appointed Post Master General March 6 , 1841 , but ...
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... received from the Post- office Department at Washington , of extensive depredations upon the mails along the route extending from Boston to a well known and flourishing inland town in one of the New England States , accompanied with the ...
... received from the Post- office Department at Washington , of extensive depredations upon the mails along the route extending from Boston to a well known and flourishing inland town in one of the New England States , accompanied with the ...
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... received accompanying instructions to look into the alarming state of things on the route aforesaid — his leading thought and ambition was to satisfy the distinguished Tennessean that a Special Agent could catch a mail robber by the ear ...
... received accompanying instructions to look into the alarming state of things on the route aforesaid — his leading thought and ambition was to satisfy the distinguished Tennessean that a Special Agent could catch a mail robber by the ear ...
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... received , under these circumstances , a greater degree of consideration than is usually accorded to the millionaire in the world at large . The owner of ( 6 a quar- ter " had troops of friends , and became purse - proud on the strength ...
... received , under these circumstances , a greater degree of consideration than is usually accorded to the millionaire in the world at large . The owner of ( 6 a quar- ter " had troops of friends , and became purse - proud on the strength ...
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... received , is disbelieved by an impatient creditor , who perhaps hints that the money has come and gone in some other direction than that which it should have taken . The honorable pride of some was wounded in this manner , and much ill ...
... received , is disbelieved by an impatient creditor , who perhaps hints that the money has come and gone in some other direction than that which it should have taken . The honorable pride of some was wounded in this manner , and much ill ...
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addressed afterwards appeared appointed arrest arrived ascertained baggage-master bank bank-notes bills Blake Boston Brooklyn called Carleton character charge circumstances clerk course crime Dead Letter Office decoy depredations direction dollars door driver duty evidence examination fact feel Fort Covington gentleman guilty hand Harrowfork honest honor horse Hubbardston innocent inquired investigation Joab John Harmon Jolliet knew landlord letter box look mail carrier Marshal ment miles mind molasses morning neighboring never night obtained occasion Ogdensburg once package paper party passed passengers person post master Post-Office Department present Quaker question railroad received remarked replied request returned rifled road robberies Robert Marshall route seemed sent soon Special Agent Squire supposed suspected suspicion taken thing thought tion took town truth turned village wafers wish York York post young
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Página 293 - I'll read, his for his love." XXXIII. Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace : Even so my sun one early morn did shine With...
Página 429 - ... shall have in his possession any such mail lock or key with the intent unlawfully or improperly to use, sell, or otherwise dispose of the same, or to cause the same to be unlawfully or improperly used, sold, or otherwise disposed of; or...
Página 351 - The defendant requested the Court to charge the jury as follows :— 1. That the...
Página 423 - ... of not less than one hundred dollars, nor exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not exceeding three months, or by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
Página 420 - If any person shall, knowingly and wilfully, obstruct or retard the passage of the mail, or of any driver or carrier, or of any horse or carriage carrying the same, he shall, upon conviction, for every such offence, pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars...
Página 428 - ... be for the use of the informer, and the other half for the use of the State Board of Health.
Página 430 - Department; and any person who shall violate this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars.
Página 425 - And if any other person shall open any mail or packet of newspapers, or shall embezzle or destroy the same, not being directed to such person, or not being authorized to receive or open the same, such offender shall, on the conviction thereof, pay a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for every such offence.
Página 429 - ... shall be deemed guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof shall be confined in the State penitentiary for...
Página 423 - General, or any person in whom his powers are vested, in a conveyance of any mail, letter, packet, or newspaper, or pamphlet, or shall draw or break any staple, or loosen any part of any lock, chain, or strap, attached to, or belonging to any such valise, portmanteau or bag, with an intent...