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4 queer claim.-Tho Americrn Star. PUBLISH
cd at JaIapn, Mexico gives the following account
Of an instance of assurance that would have
thrown Sam Sick into reyerio.


"Oae Of Wcm.-Thcrc is scarcely an hour in
tho dn! that some of the natives are not with our
qnartcrmaslors, urging payment for property de-
Slroycd or used by our troops. Whenever the
claim presents anything like Justice op-ts f1co II
IS invariably Iiquidated. A day ort two since a
Mexican proprietor entered the office md handed
IN bill for the use of fifty mules. After being
micrrogoed through an interpreter, it was finally
nsccrtaIncd that tho animals had hcon used i'll
drawing l2.pounder belonging to the MericanS
uP tho Ccrro Gordo, which SAID piece had opened
upon our troops and sent perfect shower of
grape and canister amongst thom. The quar-
lcrmaser Informed the claimant that he was not
authorised to settle up for the Mexican Govern.
ment. but that when he was he would pay such
bills with pleusuro.'