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Sayasnau, Friday, Feb. 20, 162 J.
Dr., Coeds. 55 a 62* cet.
“ 10 ‘ ~ #
ttiler. Id cts. per lb.
Sodium, inftiior quality, 10 a 1>
to „W, D-.iet V /'"> 21 ° 22 cts
|#*p s o’ ‘p 1C
lnnJ,j,Cvgncc, Ottrd, Dupinjl* Cos s. brand, 1
an/aborl far fiat
marks.
bra, r? *. 4U c ‘ s - rl ‘, ail 50 * to *
(W, 7 a ii ends per lb. dull,
frdtera, 30 35 per tint. adn.
I if,, Ibroaa Green, prune, la; 01/rcr jauZt
(;fs 12 u 13-
[todies, .Xortktrn MouLl Tallow , 10 a 11 c*.s.
“ Georgia, 16
“ Spznni 26 a27 , ,
fuur, Philadelphia, Baltimore , Runmond ana
A'tzuadria. $9 a 0 1-4—C <tua* 10.
Ijin, Iblia/id, 90 a 115
“ Sorihtm. \7i * 34
Han, V :i,u Xarthtm, Ist 4o a 00.
fyM Tea, .$lO6 a 110 per lb.
pun, Swedes SIOO u 10a per ton.
Liid , 7 a & ds.
Lumber,yellow pine Ranging limber, $3 1-3 a
Sleairi sawed Lumber, $lO a 17
Hicer Lumber, Boards, Pianks <y Scantling
sl9
Quartered 11 inch flooring Boards, s*4
White Vine Boards, clear, 17 a Id
Merchantable, $0 n 10
If 0. Hogsheads Stares, ,915 a H
R.O ]oa 12
Uhks’es, rafted, fl * 2 1-2
“ boated, ‘‘ 3
tore/, .Vo. 1, $G 1-4
“ O in
“ 3! 94 1-2
busses, lt r . India, 32 a 34
a Sew-Orleans
Cmburghs, 0 a 10.
hrli,prime, !$i 1 00.
Miss, 14 00.
hrtir, $3
Le,>/.iu 33-8.
kn.Jrmaua, DO a
I* cst India —none.
•V. Lug land, *33 a ‘34 cts.
M P- yellow, 5a 8 cents per lb.
’• cargo sales 46 cts.
Havana, white and Brown,
Muscat ado , 0 a 9 1-2— St. Croix, %alO l
Sew-Orleans, $8 ‘i~4 a 0
fojinid Loaf, 16 1-2 a 18 J-2 —Lump 15 a 16 !
Mucco, Kentucky, Georgia, 4-e. 2j a 4 cts.
“ Manufactured do 8a 30
8 a 9
in bbls. 28
ds. 27
c EXCHANGE.
* ’ M or/;, 5-8 a 1-2 cf. 1 per ct. dis
‘p d s 5-8 a f ,Vi*c Emission at pnr.
p Lhccss do 1 prim JV. Carolina S.B. JVotes,
tjdvielphia “ 5 per ct.dis.
j ‘ h:ure a State Bank of Georgia,
V ; pr c. dix. payable at the Branch
***** US Bill*, i aL cs other than Augusta
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. FREIGHTS.
brtrpool, 11-16 0 3-43 I A*. Forlfl 1-4 per bale.
and,m and, 1 3-8 a 1 1-2 I Providence, 1 12.
REMARKS.
Cotton —There has been no variation in the
of this article since our last, and t lie sales of
f week have been light. There was some stir
** r vbti in the market on Monday last, and 25 to
hags of Uplands went off at 8 1-2 to 9 1-2.
10s ’ vl y at 8 1-2 toB 3-4; a few small lots of strictly
™ were sold at 9 1-2—since which time the
has been quiet, and few sales have been
The article comes in very freely, and
e 8 -°ck on hand is fair. Sea Islands may be
•U*d at 18 to 23.
ftu p. —The transactions in Rice have been ve-
A few sales have been effected at ,
; ? 4, mostly at 3 1-4.
ors.—Xo cawo alloat; retailing from the
*7“ Moll cent*
p'^ocekiks.—The business of the past week in
jJ bag been very tfifling. Ihe stock ot
f/; llieru liquors is heavy, and purchasers rnani
./ 1 backwardness in meeting the demands of
•f Mdcrs. Sucrars an dull; a very inferior lot
. Ut 7 1-2. We quote New Orleans 8 3-4 a9;
• lu 'Cjvad o 9 a 9 1-2. Coffee—there is none in
*vet; pii-iio would command 15 cents. A lot
//■'don Brown Stout was sold at $3.
r * ‘ Eights —To Liverpool, brisk at 3-4d , to
r ?' ,c e,l 1.0 cents; to New York, $1 1-4 per bale;
1 Evidence, sll-2 per bale.
_ BACON.
11l AfU) LBS.. Georgia Bacon, assorted
IvJ \ ) Just Received and for Sals by
, GAUDRY & LEGRIEL.
f lb2o c
0 noticed the other day a paragraph from the
Boston Bulletin, stating a fact as worthy obser
vation, that one of the Engines of that city, had
been made to force water through a hose to the
distance of 140 feet. It has since been mentioned
to us, by a manager of one of our fire companies,
t hat one of their Engines is capable of forcing, and
lias often forced, water through a hose, to the
distance of 1550 feet! The Engine was construct
ed by Ephraim Force, of New York.
\\ e have hastily glanced at the correspondence
between Mr. Adamg and several gentlemen of
Boston, in relation to the charge preferred by Mr.
A m 1328, against certain leading Federalists,
who, it was said, contemplated the dissolution of
t,ie Union, and the establishment of a separate
Confederation. We think that Mr: A’s reasons
sufficiently justify him, under the peculiar circum
stances of the case, in withholding the evidence
required. Ihe gentlemen requesting it, must
have been aware, that a compliance would subject
nim to an almost endless, and perhaps, ruinous
series of implacable prosecutions. We must there
fore look Gpbn the course which they have been
p.rased to pursue, as altogether disingenuous, and
merely got up for political effect
The following extracts from Mr. A’s reply, are
all our time or limits enable us to make:
Flic statement authorised by me, spoke, not of
the federal party, hut of certain leaders of that
party, lr> my own letters to the members of con
gress, vho did me the honor at that agonizinor cri
sis to our National Union, of soliciting my confi
dential opinions upon the measures under deliber
ation, I expressly acquitted the great body of the
federal party, not only of participating in the se
cret designs of those leaders, but even of bein<r
privy to or believing in their existence. I now
cheerfully repeat that declaration”.
, “ Your avowed object is controversy. You call
for a precise state of facts and evidence; not affect
ing. so far as you know, any one of you, but to
enable you fairly to meet and to answer it.
‘•And you demand,
‘•1. \VIio are the persons designated as leaders
of the parly prevailing in Massachusets in the
year 1805, whose object I assert was, and had been,
for several years, a‘dissolution of the Union, and
tlio establishment of a separate confederacy? and
‘‘2. i he whole evidence, on which the charge
is founded. °
‘•You observe that it is admitted, in the statement
of the charge, that it is not proveable in a court
of law, and 3'qur inference is, that I am of course
not in possession ot any legal evidence, by which
to maintain it. Yet you call upon me to neime the
persons affected by the charge; a charge in your
estimate deeply stigmatizing upon those persons;
and you permit yourselves to remind me, that my
sense ot justice and self-respect oblige me to dis
close all that Ido possess. My sense of justice to
you, gentlemen, induces me to remark, that l
leave.your self-respect to the moral influence of
your own minds, without presuming to measure
it by the dictates of mine.
“Suppose, then, that in compliance with your
cad, I should name one, two, or three persons, as
intended to be included in the charge. Suppose
neither 01 those persons to be one of you. You,
however,’ have given them notice, that I have no
evidence against them, by which the charge is
proveable in a court of law—and you know that I,
as well as yourself, am amenable to the laws of
the land. Does your self-respect convince you
that the persons so named, if guilty, would furnish
the evidence against themselves, which they have
been notified that I do not possess? Are you sure
that the correspondence, which would prove their
ffuilt, may not in the lapse 01 twenty-five years
have been committed to the flames?—ln these days
of tailing and of treacherous memories, may they
not have forgotten that any such correspondence
ever existed? And have you any guarantee to os
ier, that. I should not be callfed by a summons more
imperative than yours, to produce in the temple
of justice the proof which you say I have not, or
be branded for a foul and inalignaul slanderer of
spotless and persecuted virtue? Is it not besides
imaginable that persons may exist. w r ho, though
twenty five years since driven in the desperation
of disappointment, to the meditation and prepara
tion of measures tending to the dissolution of the
Union, perceived afterwards the error of their
ways, and would now gladly w r ash out from their
own memories their participation in projects, up
on which the stamp of indelible reprobation has
past? Is it not possible that some of the conspira
tors have been called to account before a higher
than an earthly tribunal for all the good and evil
oftheir lives; and whose reputations might now
sulicr needlessly by the disclosure of their names?
1 put these cases to you, gentlemen, a* possible,
L- shew you that neither my sense of justice nor
my self respect dnes require of me to produce the
evidence for which you call, or to disclose the
names of persons, for whom you have and can have
no right to speak.”
He then goes on to illustrate the ground he has
occupied;—and, afterwards, by reference to exist
ing documents, proves that Mr. Jefferson errone
ously imputed to him a statement which had been
made, implicating certain citizens of Massachu
setts in treasonable negotiations witli the British
government during the war It seems, however,
that this imputation arose from an infirmity of
memory, which led Mr. J. unintentionally, tocon
fouud dates. The prevalence of the rumor in the
South, at the time alluded to, was, no doubt, the
cause of the mistake.
After this, he again refers to of dis
memberment, and says:
“With regard to the project of a separate N >r
thern confederacy, formed in the winter of 1803
and 4, in consequence .ftho Louisiana cession, it
is not to me that you must apply for copies of the
correspondence in which it was contained To
that, and to every other project of disunion, I have
been constantly opposed. My principles do not
admit the right even of tho people, still less of the
legislature of any one state in the Union, to se
cede at pleasure from the Union. No provision is
made for the exercise of this right, either by the
iederal or any of the state constitutions. The act
of exercising it, presupposes a departure from the
principle of compact and a resort to that of force.”
The following sentiments are deeply impressive.
No honest disciple of the Jeffersonian school can
doubt their orthodoxy. We recommend them to
the calm consideration of the members of the
Athens Caucus , and to those political Hotspurs of
a sister Slate, who recommended her to close her
ports on the general government:
“I therefore hold it as a principle without , ex
ception, that whenever the constituted authorities
of a state authorise resistance to any act of con
gress, or pronounce it unconstitutional, they do
thereby declare themselves and their state quod
hoc out of the pale of the Union. That th~re is
no supposablc case, in which the people of a state
mioht place themselves in this attitude by tho
primitive right of insurrection against oppression,
1 will not affirm; but they have delegated no such
power to their legislatures or their judges; and if
SA VANN A 11, THURSDAY MORNING , FEBRUARY 26, 1829
there be such a right, it is the right of an individu
al to commit suicide—the right of aa inhabitant of
a populous city to set fire to his own dwelling
house *
In conclusion, Mr. Adams remarks:
“It is not improbable, that at some future day, a
sense of solemn duty to my country may require
of me to disclose the evidence which I do possess,
and for whiehyou call. But of that day the se
lection must be at my own judgment, and it may
be delayed till I myself shall have gone to answer
for the testimony I may bear, before the tribunal
of your God and mine. Should a disclosure of
names even then be made by me, it \* ill, if possi
ble, be made with such reserve, as tenderness to
the feelings of the living, and to the families and
friends of the dead may admonish.
“R*t no array of numbers or of power shall
draw me to a disclosure which I deem premature,
or deter me from making it, when my sense of du
ty shall sound the call.”
In the retirement of Mr. Adams, we may speak
of him freely, without incurring the imputation
of flattery or prejudice. His administration was
a boisterous one, and he had to contend with an
opposition, powerful in talents, in number, and
resources. That the contest in which he has bcec
overthrown, was conducted in every instance, with
an eye singly to the public good, no one in those
enlightened days of Machiavelian policy, is scep
tical enough to believe. In speaking of it, the fu
tuie historian will say—it was a struggle between
the ins and outs for the loaves and fishes; and
such was the public excitation it produced, that
our only surprise is, so little remains to condemn
in the general conduct of affairs, by the then ex
isting government.
That the successor of Mr Adams will adhere to ;
the great contested points of constitutional right !
which he advocated, is highly probable—and it is
more than probable that he will, before the expir- j
ation of his term, come in with his predecessor,
for an equal share of contumely and abuse. Alas,
poor human nature.
Through the politeness of
eson, of ship Minerva, the Editors of the
New York Morning Herald have been fa
vored with a Bristol’ paper, of 27th Dec.
from which they make the following ex
tract :
Extract of a letter from Falmouth , dated
December 20,
“His Majesty’s ship Ledpole, on the
Post Office station, which sailed from this
port about 36 weeks since for the Brazils,
has not yet returned, although several ves
sels which sailed subsequently have arrived
indue course. It is said that the Redpob
had about two tons of specie on board, an.
it is feared that she lias been lost at sea. ? *
Commendable. Ae learn bv the Hamp
shire Sentinel, that the rnilitia officers of
that country have resolved to dismiss tiie
use of spirituous liquors on occasions oi
public meetings.
The Buffalo Republican says that a brace
ot large and beautiful swans recently made
their appearance in Niagara river above the
falls. One of them eventually got into the
rapids, and being unable to extricate itself,
was carried over the falls, and so badly
wounded, that those who caught it, saw fit
to destroy it. It measured 9 feet 6 inches
from tip to tip of the wings, and 5 feet 8
inches from the point of the bill to the end
of the tail.
Deranger, the celebrated poet of France
has been sentenced to nine months impris
onment and a fine of 10,000 francs for rid
iculing the French Governmet and State
Religion in several songs not yet published.
An immense crowd assembled to witness the
trial. Boudoin who was to have published
the songs, was sentenced to six months im
prisonment, and 500 fraucs fine.
Witch Story. —Tho last Portsmouth
Adveitiser contains a most horrific story
about a child’s being bewitched iri £llio(,
Me. Hundreds of people have flocked
over to see Iho mysterious incantations:
and it is said the old maids are actually
affrauf to sleep alone . But the proprietors
of the bridge are in a fair way to make a
good dividend by it.
Washington City, Feb. i2.
In Senate y * < may, Mr.Chambers, from
ihe Select Committee to which was refer
red the memorials of sundry citizens pray
ing indemnification for spoliations of their
pioperiy by the French, prior to the year
1800, reported > bill for the relief of those
citizens. At 12 o’clock the Senate proc
eeded by the Vice President and the Se
cretary proceeded to the House of Repre
sentative's for the purpose of examining and
counting the votes fr President and Vice
President of the United States. After
their return, Mr. Tazewell was appointed a
Committee on the part of the Senate to
notify Andrew Jackson of his election as
President of the U States
In the House of Representatives, yester
day, the amendment to the Constitution
offered by Mr A. Smyth, was again taken
up. Mr. Smyth having been interrupted
111 his observations on Tuesday, rose, ami
stating it to be his desire to have the ques
ti n taken without further debate, waived
his right to make any further remarks in
reply, and called for the previous question,
u? the call was not seconded, there hem
<ui a division—ayes 60, noes 90. Aim •
lion was then made to. postpone the cm,
sideration of the resolution until today,
- - 4
w hen Mr. J. C. Wright spoke against p- s
- until his observations were u
terrupted by the termiuaiion of the tom
A message was then sem to the Senate t<.
Inform that body that the House was ready
to proceed to die counting of the votes for
President and Vice President, and inviting
the attendance of that body. In a few
moments the Senate, headed the Vice
President of the United States, entered the
Hall, and the Vice President look his seat
on the right of the Speaker, while the
members occupied the Clerk’s table The
tellers, Messrs. Tazewell, Van Rensselaer
and P. P. Barbojr, then ptoceedcd to read
the certificates of th* 1 elector- and at the
close the Vice President announced that
Andrew Jackson, ofTennessee, was elected
President of the United States for the next
four years, and that John C. Calhoun, of
South Carolina, was elected Vice Pcsi
dent for the same term, from the 4:li of
Ma rch next. The Senate then retired and
the House adjourned.
General Jackson arrived in this city
yesterday morning, about 10 o’clock, es
corted by the Central Jackson Committee,
and proceeded to Gadsby’s where a suite
of rooms had been prepared for hut*.
SUPREME COURT.
Wednesday February 11 1829.
It was erroneously stated in the report
of the proceedings • f this Court on yester
day, that Mr. Chief Justice Marshall deliv
ered the opinion of the Court in No. 36,
Thomas F. Townsley, vs. Thomas K.
Sumrall, whereas that opinion was deliver
ed by Mr Justice Story.
Pursuant to adjournment, the Court met
this morning at the Capitol. Present as
on yestetday.
Pioclamation being made, the Court was
opened.
No. 54. John F. Satterlee, plaintiff in
error, vs. E. Matthewson. The argument
of this cause was continued by Messrs.
Sutherland and Peters, for the defendant in
error, and by Mr. Sergeant, for the plain
tiffin error.
Adjourned till tomorrow, 11 A. M.
New York F**h. 10.
Colombia —The packet brig Tampico,
which arrived yesterday, sailed from
thagena on the l6th ult. Letters from Bo
gota to the 20th December stale that Bol
var was soon to depart to prosecute the
*'ar against Peru; Tturbide, (son of the late
Emperor of Mexico,) who recently left this
• ountry, would accompany him. A large
<>dy of troops was to proceed on the expe
diiion, it was said 8000 were ordered from
the department of Venezuela*—The re
bellion in Popayan, was suppressed.
General Santander remained in prison at
dip castle near Carthagena The family
t Posadas, and that of Donna Vicente
Narvaes, have been banished from Colom
bia; much distrust existed, and no one dared*
to express an opinion on the state of af
fairs.
The frigate Colombia sailed from Car
thagena on the 25th of Dec. lor Santa M ir
llia and Porto Cavello to complete her
crew, and would proceed thence for Guay
aquil.
The Falmouth sloop of war remained at
Vera Cruz or the 17th ult, for orders from
M Poinsett, who was waiting for the ra
tification of the Treaty The Grampus 1
was still at Tampico.
Important Decision in the Court of 1
Chancery. —ln the matter of proving a
paper, purporting to be the last will of the
late John G. Leake Esq. ‘His Honor the
Chancellor has decided on an appeal from
decision of the Surrogate of the city and
county of New York, that the decree made
thereon bv said Surrogate be reversed—
that said paper is null and void, and not a
Will, and that letters of Administration on
the estate of the deceased, be granted to the
Public Administrator, &c.
We understand, that the opinion of the
Chancellor is elaborate and very able, and
that he has given this important case a most
industrious and solemn consideration.
N. York Mer. Adver.
Extract of a letter from a friend of Mr.
Sanderson’s, of the Philadelphia Coffee
House, dated Santiago de Cuba, January
3, 1829.
“We regret a most flagrant outrage
committed on one of our citizens this day,
and the only consolation we have is the
probability of removal from command of
the offender, which will no doubt be done
by bis Excellency the Governor and Gen
eral Lorigo, both worthy officers and sensi
ble of the respect due h) the flag of the
U. States, and the justice required when j
degraded by an officer under their control.
The schooner Widow's Son, Capt. orris, j
of Elizabeth city, N. Carolina, from Turk’s j
Island, bound to New Orleans, with a
cargo of sail, failing short of water, hove
to off the Moro: the captain landed in his
boat, and made application to the com
mandant of the Moro for permission to
proceed to the city with two casks for water,
which he understood w'ts granted, not un
derstanding the Spanish language. He
proceeded up, and was arrested as soon as
he landed on the wharf—was taken back
by the orders of the commandant of the
Moro, and in his presence, and by his au
thority, received twenty five lashes, in a
most barbarous and inhuman manner, be
ing placed on a platform, made use of for
criminals, and his bocy lacerated in the
nost shameful manner—add to which,
iptain Morris is in a bad state of health;
.1 when taken to the place of punishment,
so ignorant was he of any misconduct, that
impression was they won- robh-.s, . )t |
nmedialeiy pro hi v **d sail the u>- , < ;, e
.}• * with bun for his liberty. Wo expect
nothing less sh n the ariosi of fli roin
mancfctiit and tiis dismission.
January 4.
P* S—Tin* commandant is a- .
and the popular feelings will in some de
gree be subsided by Ins dismission, which,
there is no doubt, will be (he result. 1 *
Unpleasant Intelligence. —The follow ing
distressing intelligence is contained in a,
Bristol (England) papei of December 27,
brought by tlie ship Minerva from that port,
arrived at New York.
“By the brig T m Cod, just arrived at
this port from Afnca, we have die follow
ing intelligence from Cape Messur and,
On the 18th of November 1 st, an exp <■. r
tion was preparing by the American si ti< rs
at that place, to destroy a French ship . nd
factory at Dishy, a p!ac about 30 ; U*
distant, when during the night, the *• c.a
zine in which they were making car'* „tjs,
blew no, and horrible to relate, Mi Lot
Carcy t (the Governor) and nine of his
people were destroyed. *
Another Bristol paper of that date, gives
the same account in the following terms:
e learn fro n a vessel arrived >t ibis
port Yesterday, fom Liberia, ('die Ameri
can colony on the coast of Afric J hit a
French vessel being cruizing off th i place
in quest (if slaves, the authorities wero
making preparations to attack her, and in
preparing cartridges, &<-. for that purpose,
fiie accidently communicated to tin- ammu
nition, which exploded. The Governor,
with several of tlie principal men of tho
place were killed, and most of the town
destroyed.*
We sincerely hope that this m. y turn
out to be a false report: first, herausi wo
wish well to the colons; and s< c ,1 iv,
because it would be ih < ,ur
colonists, who seem to have imlnln ra
ther prematurely, a taste f. , chivalry,
should have been so little arqu; :v* ui h
the dangerous properties of gun pew .•
which without proper care will rte'-tr<y
those who use u as weli as those it is used
against.— Aorfolk Herald.
From the New York Daily Advertiser.
LATEST FRO M ECHO EE.
By the Virginia, C-p:. Colins, from
Vera Cruz, we have received from out cor
respondent, papers frtmi that port to the
16th ian.
General Victoria, in his speech on open
ing the ordft ry sessions of inn General
Congress, Dec. remarks that the ratifica
tions of the treaty of boundaries with .In I .
S. could not be exchanged at W. sim ,
because the term fixed had expired before
they reached that capital. The deca use if
Mr. Obregon it is said cannot.produce 3 nv
any interruption in the business of the lega
tion. Treaties are about 10 be ratified
with Denmark, Hanover, and the L ;wer
Countries.
O • the 17 f h JaiK Commissioners from
Tacotalpam, met others from Alvarado,and
agreed to suspend hostilities, to disperse
their troops, that agriculture may not bo
interrupted; to forget their animosities, ami
to promise fie.e cominer e and passage (o
strangers.
The Chamber ol Representatives appear
to have founded their declaration in favor
of Guerrero as President only, and entirely
on the constitutional ground, that he
was legally elected by the States. They
have set aside the returns ferwarded by
Vera Cruz
Mr. Thomas Campbell on being instal
led Rector of the University of Glasgow,
proposed to the ungowried students and
graduates a gold medal a prizi* fur the
best English Essay mi on the evil of intoler
ance toward those who differ with us
religion ’ In bis remarks on tins subjec?
he used the following beautiful illustration:
“I use tliis circuitous phrase from disliking
to couple the epithet religious with that
spirit of intolerence, which teversing the
sublime spirit of religion, bows down tho
mind from its celestial aspiration to the
anxieties of this world, like the Indian
tree, which after bearing its head loftily in
the sky, turns down again its branches from
the sunshine of Heaven to be blended with
and buried in the dirt of the earth/ 1
Much as Walter Scott is rend every
where, in no country of the globe is iho
enthusiasm fur him carried to so high a
pitch as in Denmark. A single number of
the Copenhagen Journal contains the an
nouncement of three different translations
of one of his works, and a professor of
theologj’ has even gone so far as to recom
mend to his pupils the study of the v\ aver
ley Novels, ns the surest way of attaining
that knowledge of mankind, so indispensa
ble in ministers of the Gospel.
London p per.
Cement in Imitation of Marble —A me
son in Boston, Joseph Brown, advertises a
‘marble cement imitation * for the outside
of buildings It resists the moisture of the
atmosphere and the rff cts of smoke, and,
indeed, the severity my climate, fur a
long time, and can be washed like the natu
ral marble. Marble of any color can bo
very closely imitated, and at a cost not
exceeding that of fine panned brick. Iu
the interior of houses it precludes the ne* ea
sily of oil painting, an operation disagreea
ble and unhealthy. The proprietor re
commends it to combine • mjiy,
aud economy,— Balt . Auer*
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