r - Our progress to ' prosperityalow. No education or accomplishments to help us in building up your town. We lived hard, fought 'iand battled for the right, and each one tried to build up hU fortunes. Wo did not live in a last age as the people now enjoy, it required ycareto buildup a name and fortune, and in those slow days of progress, no clerks i became bankers in a few years. No insurance companies protected our I homes, no mysterious murders were I committed and no lotteries patronized and I think if Mr. M., will gtep down one or two rounifc from the pinnacle, on which his egotism and self-conceit has placed him, and will give a true account of his fore-fafhers, and then write up the present standing of Araericus, giving the good and bad interwoven, as it deserves after having fifty years for improvement, I think he will see that he has struck the wrong vein, and his talents must be in another quarter than writing up. the first settlers of a town, which has raised him from a poor boy to what he now occupies, und that his Infor-matiou should come from a more reliable source than that obtained from one whose name was cleared from the court docket last spring, for the first in thirty years, for a certain misdemeanor. With your permission, I will in a short time give you a correct and true statement of the first settlers of Americus. Thanking you foryonr indulgence, I am respectfully, Patrick Buauy.