The lady did not reply to this proposition, but made a precipitate retreat, leaving the clerk master of the field, and was never afterwards seen at that post-office. * * * * * In the summer of 1854, among the complaints of missing letters made at the New York post-office, was one referring to a letter written by a young lawyer of that city, directed as was claimed, to a party in Newark, N. J. Enclosed was the sum of twenty-five dollars in bank-notes. The writer of the letter was annoyed by the circumstance, to an unusual degree, and caused a severe notice of censure upon the Post-Office Department, to be inserted in one of the leading New York journals. A formal certificate was also drawn up, duly sworn to, and forwarded to Washington. It read as follows:-- State of New York, City and County of New York, ss. John B. C----, of said city, Counsellor at Law, being duly sworn, doth depose and say that on the 19th day of July instant, he enclosed the sum of $25 in a letter addressed to Capt. John M----, Newark, N. J., and deposited the same in the post-office in the city of New York. That the said enclosure and deposit of the letter was made in the presence of one of the principal clerks of the said post-office, whose attention deponent particularly called to the fact at the time. That deponent is informed, and believes that the said clerk's name is John Hallet. Sworn before me this 10th day of August, 1854. (Signed) HENRY H. M----, Comr. of Deeds. The complainant was visited by the Special Agent, and the bare suggestion that the failure might have been owing to some error in the address of the letter, was received with much indignation. _He_ didn't do business in that way, and the post-office and its clerks couldn't cover up their carelessness or dishonesty, by any such inventions. The reader ought to have been present in the post master's room, some few months subsequently, when this infallible (?) individual called, in response to a notice that his letter had been returned from the Dead Letter Office! _Secretary._--"Good morning, Mr. C----." _C._--"Good morning, sir. I have received a notice to call here for a letter." _Secretary._--"Yes, sir, that is the one referred to, (placing the unlucky missive before him). Is that address in your hand-writing?" _C._--"Why,--y-e-s, it's mine sure--I couldn't dispute that." _Secretary._--"It seems to be directed to Newburg, N. Y., instead of to Newark, N. J." _C._--"I have nothing to say. I could have sworn that the address was correct." _Secretary._--"You did so swear, I believe. Mistakes will happen, but I think the least you can do, will be to retract the article you published censuring us, for what you were yourself to blame."