- My son, Dr. Edward Strong, of Crown
Point, N. Y., has them.
Have you the sash worn by Surgeon Tudor at the time the General was
killed? - The sash was three yards long, Crimson silk. It was Gen. Wolfe's
sash given to my grandfather.
What is said of stains of blood upon it from the wound that caused Wolfe's
death? - It was rent with the shot, and stained with his blood.
MRS. SARAH TUDOR STRONG.
THE POST OFFICE.
"In a recent issue of the Journal des Trois Rivieres appeared a
somewhat interesting paper on the Canadian postal system. From this paper
we learn that on the cession of this country to Great Britain a regular
mail courier was established between the cities of Montreal and Quebec.
The celebrated Benjamin Franklin was the Deputy Postmaster General for the
English colonies from 1750 to 1774. In 1776 this functionary, while giving
evidence before a committee of the British Parliament, stated that, as a
rule, the mail courier kept the route by the water highways, seldom
penetrating into the interior. From his evidence, also, we learn that the
mail communication between Quebec and Montreal was not more frequent than
once a month. For not having established intermediate post-offices between
the two towns, Franklin alleged the great distance between the settlers on
the banks of the St. Lawrence, the isolation of the Canadian villages, and
the excessive difficulty of intercommunication in his day.
