TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. P. 206, changed “buck was not be captured” to “buck was not to be captured”. 2. P. 263, changed “flea is not be trifled with” to “flea is not to be trifled with”. 3. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling. 4. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 5. Portraits of Hon. Wm. M. Gwin and Jacob R. Snyder are not present. 6. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 7. Denoted superscripts by a caret before a single superscript character.