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This arose from my making no allowance for difference of longitude between Piaut , where their government was established , and Opee , where it was crushed . The difference of time between those places is six minutes and fifty-three seconds , as the reader may see on a globe . Estremadura was , of course , presented to the President , and sold his scrip . -LSB- 7 -RSB- Newspaper men of 1868 will be amused to think that half past one was late in 1836 . At that time the `` Great Western Mail '' was due in Boston at 6 P. M. , and there was no later news except `` local , '' or an occasional horse express . -LSB- 8 -RSB- The reader will observe the Arcadian habits of 1836 , when the German was yet unknown . -LSB- This essay was published in Sartain 's Magazine , in 1852 , as `` A Thumb-nail Sketch , '' having received one of ten premiums which Mr. Sartain offered to encourage young writers .