_Dear Sir_,—Having read a great deal about you, I have taken a great interest in you. Although a stranger, I take my pen to address you a few lines, hoping you will excuse the liberty I take. It is pure admiration of your persevering character that causes me to write; for I have never seen your face to my knowledge. In your poverty, I deeply sympathised with you, and in your prosperity, I rejoice with you. And now I suppose you would like to know who it is that takes such an interest in you. I am a country lady. My name is Miss James, not the whole of it though, the rest I will give when I hear from you. I reside in Rahway, New Jersey. I hope at some future day to become better acquainted with you. If you take interest enough in the writer to answer this—please answer this at once, and direct to CARRIE JAMES, Rahway, New Jersey. O Carrie, Carrie, Why will you tarry? Come, O come with me, And my darling be, And we will soon be three, And roam o’er land and sea, And free lovers be To eternity! O how I cry To see thy eye, And hear thy sigh! O! I! O! my! I almost die To see thy thigh! Good by, Carrie, Thee I’d marry! So come quick to town, And I’ll buy a gown, And to _Potts_ we’ll trot, Who’ll soon tie our knot, And to the Astor we’ll go, And put honey on our dough, And say avaunt to woe, And scream and jump Jim Crow, Till the Rooster doth blow His cock-a-doodle do, And hens cut-ka-dar-cut. And cats mew from their gut. And we will gaze, and hug, and kiss each other, Like Adam, our father, and Eve, our mother: And we will toil like thunder, In winter and in summer, To have a brat far better Than poor old Cain, our brother. So do not tarry, Sweet little Carrie, But come to me, And I’ll love thee, Forever and ever, And scold thee never: And now on my lone bed, I will lay my poor head, And dream sweetly of thee, Until thy face I see! The following meritorious gentlemen are wholesale agents for the Alligator. Ross & Tousey, 121 Nassau street. Hamilton & Johnson, 22 Ann street. Samuel Yates, 22 Beekman street. Mike Madden, 21 Ann street. Cauldwell & Long, 23 Ann street. Boyle & Gibson, 32 Ann street and Hendrickson & Blake, 25 Ann street. Advertisements—One Dollar a line IN ADVANCE. B. LOCKWOOD’S, BROADWAY LETTER OFFICE AND Stationery Store, 422, Broadway, New York. Letters delivered in the city and to the U. S. Mails, just before their times for closing, in all directions. Stationery—a general assortment wholesale and retail. Lockwood & Warren’s Ink, a very superior article—jet black—does not corrode. All orders punctually attended to. B. LOCKWOOD. P. C. GODFREY, STATIONER, BOOKSELLER, AND General News dealer, 831 Broadway, New York, near 18th street.