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I know that I got through my tea and such like ordinary affairs by skipping them . I made all my arrangements , bade Gage and Streeter be ready with the sleigh at my lodgings -LRB- fortunately only two doors from Mrs. Pollexfen 's -RRB- at half-past nine o'clock , and was the highest spirited of men when , on returning to those lodgings myself at eight o'clock , I found the following missives from the Argus office , which had been accumulating through the afternoon . No. 1 . `` 4 o'clock , P.M. `` DEAR SIR : -- The southern mail , just in , brings Buenos Ayres papers six days later , by the Medora , at Baltimore . `` In haste , J.C. '' -LRB- Mr. C. was the gentleman who opened the newspapers , and arranged the deaths and marriages ; he always kindly sent for me when I was out of the way . -RRB- No. 2 . `` 5 o'clock , P.M. `` DEAR SIR : -- The U.S. ship Preble is in at Portsmouth ; latest from Valparaiso .