a J. P. in this District there are none here except f. Mare, and what does he know about Nat Matters? if I had an appointment with ever so much small a salary I should be content. Parris is out South again I fancy he has gone to Oeo, he was talking to me the other day how knocked up he was getting with the work he was doing. Perhaps he will get a retiring allowance - if so I should think my chance of getting something ought to be a good one - as for a Civil Commissioner at £600 per annum being appointed again in this place (supposing he were to resign) why it would be a perfect farce. You might tell McLean I reed. a commission as Capt. in the Militia in 1863 and was 3 years at outpost duty consecutively stationed