Show THAT HOLIDAY only to accede to it on reading your valuable paper last night I 1 was lad to see there was one at least besides myself who had enter lerp riso enough to engage the press for the ventilation of hie views on the question of a holiday on saturday and I 1 felt sanguine that the goal would be readied when reread your note that you had bcd ii informed that mr wat son C M L had generously taken the matter ui in the interest of the hard working clerks of the institution which he manages and kindred stores imagine my surprise therefore if you can on arriving at business this morning to learn thatto th chatto atto of our merchants objected to the movement notwithstanding the re mainini body of merchants had subscribed to it it is not my mention the names of these gentleman as our citizens arc or soon will be fully cognizant of them I 1 am only going to say that their action or rather inaction is this laudable enterprise will not meet with the approval of their is yet I 1 have reason to believe that these gentlemen will on giving the matter careful consideration be perfectly willing to accede to the request made of them on this ground if no other that their re nia ining open on saturday next will causette cau sethe other stores to do preventing all the clerks in the town from haying what cannot but be admitted a boon they undoubtedly deserve which would gain fur the merchants themselves the 1 good will of not only their b ut all sympathetic citizens it is understood that the two objectors employ only two hands in the aggregate yours etc BONUS |