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Show The following somewhat characteristic characteris-tic communication u a triSe curious; City, Nov. 30, 1871. JfamTS. Edltorr. Fire aod fury I Blood, thunder and botheration! What does this mean that ha3 been handed me? Me, a quiet, peaceable mcmbar of society. Lb? t irst coiie threa ornamental letters near the top ol a leaf of note paper, this fashion: L G U And inside them a death's head aod cross -bonei. with a band underneath, the index finger pointing to tha "raw head and bloody bones", of the affair. Then foiiows this: "COMRADE: In pursuaoco to a motion passed at R'-trular Meeting, held Nov. 25th, 1872, you are hereby ordered to appear ap-pear in Camp on Monday. December 2nd, 1S72 at 7:30 p.m., SHARP, under un-der penalty of a fine for disobedience of orders Business of special importance to transact, alo. Division of Camp, : Election of Officers, etc , in conformity with orders from Grand Camp. By order, 0. C." HALL over Boukofsky's Btore. The foregoing was io type; but underneath it was written "Bo careful of thia notice." I send you the darned thing, and I'm half inclined to no into thae Camp to pat a head on "C. C." or any other man that intimates inti-mates I' m a Ku Klux. Yours, As Honest Gentilk. Wc have received the notice referred tj ono of thoae things designed to indicate a bugaboo arrangement with which Borne silly people think they might frightea children. It is precisely pre-cisely aa our correspondent givei it. |