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February 17, 1842. 25
~mmum*
A LI, persons indebted to the Estate of Thom
as ilia key, late of Wilkes county, deceased,
are requested to make immediate payment, and
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sent them in terms of the law for payment.
WM. Q.. ANDERSON, Adm’r.
January 27 22
NEW SHOES.
TO- WIT, the following: Ladies’ Kid, Call, I
and Prunelle Walking Shoes ; Women’s !
sew’d Kip Shoetees ; Boys’ Calf and Kip Shoes,
sew’d and peg’d ; Coarse Brogans, making my
assortment complete from the smallest size to
the largest extra size, low for Cash.
A. L. LEWIS.
December 16, 1841. 16
tVotice*
A LI, persons indebted to the late firm of Mc
-v V MILLAN & VINCENT, are requested to
make payment immediately to
JOHN 11. DYSON.
January 6, 1842. 19
JYotice •
THE Subscriber having sold out his Stock of
GROCERIES to Mr. Edoaf. Vincent,
respectfully recommend him to the patronage of
his friends and former customers.
GEORGE W. JARRETT.
February 8,1842. 3m
I TTAVING purchased the Stock of GROCE-
I I RIES or Mr. George VV. Jakrett, the
Subscriber will continue the business at the
Store formerly occupied by Mr. Jarrett, and will
sell upon the most reasonable terms. Persons
in want of Groceries are respectfully invited to
call. EDGAR VINCENT.
February 10.1842. 3m
TO THE^ PUBLIC.
Tailor’s Prices Itrdnced.
THE Subscribers respectfully inform the in
habitants of Washington and the Public
| generally, that they have removed to the East
side of the Public Square, where they are pre
pared to make GARMENTS in the most fash
ionable and best style, at the following reduced
prices, for cash :
Frock Coat, corded or bound, §9 50
Dress Coat, do. 9 50
Frock or Dress Coat, plain, 8 50
Gaiter Pantaloons, 3 50
Plain do. 3 00
Rolling Collar Vest, 2 50
Double-breasted Fes/, 3 00
McGRANAGIIAN & DONNELLY.
Washington, February 17,1812. 3m
Tailoring Prices Pro
portional.
PTHIE Subscribers having associated them
selves together for the purpose of carrying
on the above business in ali its various Branch
es, and believing from their experience in busi
! ness that they will be enabled to render general
satisfaction, would respectfully submit to their
! friends and the public the following prices for
Work, by which they expect to be governed
herealter:
Fine Corded Coals, Dress <j- Frock, $9 50
Plain do. do. do. 8 50
Plain Coatees, 8 00
Thin Coats of Bombazine and Corded, 7 50
Plain do. do. 7 00
White or Brown Linen Coats, 4 00
Gaitor Pantaloons, 3 00
Plain do. 2 50
Double-breasted Vests, 3 00
Plain do. or Rolling Collar, 250
Over Coats and Cloaks, each, 11 00
They will continue at the Shop formerly oc
cupied by J. T. Palmer, East side of the Court-
House Square.
(fir REPAIRING and CUTTING done
promptly, and on reasonable terms.
JOHN T. PALMER.
HECTOR McMILLAN.
February 21, 1842. 26
i THE DEVIL AMONG THE TAILORS,
AND
NO MONOPOLY!
TIM IE Subscriber begs leave to inform the
public and his former customers, that, in
consequence of the present Hard Times, he will
make up Work in a Superior Slyle of Fashion,
at a reduced price for Cash, Hog-meat, Lard,
Meal, Flour, or Irish Potatoes. Persons wish
ing to patronize a TAILOR that is willing to
comply with the Times can do so by applying to
the Subscriber.
WILLIAM F. SO HAN.
February 24, 1812. 26
months afterdate, application will be
made to the Honorable the Inferior Court
oi Oglethorpe county, while sitting as a Court o
Ordinary, for leave to sell three Tracts of Land
in Oglethorpe county, and one House and Lot m
the Town or Elberton, Elbert county, with thirty
Acres of Land attached thereto, belonging to
the estate of /. Reid, deceased.
REBECCA REID, Adut’x.
LINDSAY H. SMITH, Adm’r.
February 24, 1842. m4m 26
| TVT OTICIS. —-All persons iiavi..g claims i
li gainst the Estate of Z. Reid, iate of Ogle
thorpe county, deceased, will present them prop
erly attested according to law, and all those in
debted to said Estate are requested to make im
mediate payment to the Administrator.
REBECCA REID, Adm’x.
LINDSAY 11. SMITH, Adm’r.
February 24, 1842. 6t 26
WATCH A- CLOCK
REPAIRING.
fIMIE Subscriber returns his thanks for the
custom heretofore received, wishes to in
form his customers and the community general
ly, that he has just received a good supply oi’
Materials for Repairing
Watches, Clocks-
A large supply of all kinds of Chrystals
and Spectacle Glasses.
Also, a few pair SILVER SPECTACLES
and PENCILS,
For sale by R. il. VICKERS.
October 14, 1841. ts 7
To the Planters of Georgia.
a fenny saved is two fence earned.
ffinE Subscriber is now offering to the Far-
JL mers of Georgia, “MIMS’ WROUGHT
IRON PLOUGH STOCK,” invented by the
Messrs. Seaborn J. & Marshall Mims, of Oc
lebbalian county, Mississippi, and patented by
them. This PLOUGH in every respect is the
most, desirable PLOUGH STOCK ever offered
to a planting community. It combines durabili
ty with convenience—it will last a great many
years without repair or expense, and will admit
ot every variety of Plough Hoes, (three tooth
harrow excepted,) with perfect convenience and
lac ility—it is not heavier than the ordinary wood
en stock, yet far stronger, and being so very sim
ple in its construction, that any blacksmith in
the country can make them.
Sample Ploughs may be seen and tried at Mr.
Dense’s Shop in Miliedgeville ; at Mr. Martin’s
Shop in Sparta, and at Mr. F. B. Billingslea’s in
Washington, Wilkes county. Let the Farmer
examine the Plough, and he will purchase the
right to use them.
The Subscriber proposes to sell county rights
on the most accommodating terms.
ET All communications on this subject, post
; paid, addressed to me at Miliedgeville, or Wash
ington, Wilkes county, will meet with immedi
ate attention. B. L. BARNES,
Agent for S. J. &, M. Mims.
January 27, 1841. 22
“ to! IraamNtsNh “
EXECUTED AT THIS
®FFO © E a
PT'BLISIIHD KVKIIY THI'IISDAY MORNING.
WASHIAGTOA, (WILKES (OH IV, U\., MARCH J 5, 1842.
WAR.
The following advice was given by Dr.
Benjamin Rush, an eminent American phy
sician and philanthropist, who died about
thirty years ago :
“ In order to impress more deeply the
minds of the citizens of the United States
with the blessings of peace, by contrasting
them with the evils of war, let the follow
ing inscription be painted on the sign which
is placed over the door of the war-office at
Washington, namely:
An office for butchering the human species.
A widow-and-orphan-making office.
A broken-bone-making office.
A wooden-leg-making office.
An office for creating public and private
vices.
An office lor creating public debt.
An office for creating famine.
An office for creating pestilential diseases.
An office for creating poverty, and for the
destruction of liberty and national
happiness.
In the lobby, let there be painted repre
sentations of the common instruments of
death ; also, human skulls, broken bones,
j hospitals crowded with sick and wounded
soldiers, villages on fire, ships sinking in
the ocean, rivers dyed with blood, and ex
tensive plains without a tree or fence, or a
ny other object but the ruins of deserted
farm-houses.
Above this group of wofti! figures, let the
following words be inserted in red charac
ters, to represent human blood :
National Glory.”
SHERIDAN AND THE BOOTS.
A short time after bis leaving Harrow,
be went down to Bristol to spend a few
days Before he quitted that place, he
wished to obtain, on credit, anew pair of
boots. Ho called on two different sons of
Crispin ; ordered each to make him u pair
I of hoots, and to bring them home at diifor
! ent hours of the day be had fixed for bis de
j parture, telling them they should be punc
i tually paid on the delivery of their goods,
j On the appointed morning, the first that
came found the young gentleman in expec
! tation. He tried on the boots, found that
| one of them pressed upon bis heel, directed
! the man to take it home, stretch it, and re
i turn with it the next morning; the man,
I who could not comprehend of what service
a single boot could be to the possessor, o
beyed. His brother Crispin soon followed;
the same fault was found ; the same direc
tions repeated ; and Sheridan having ob
tained a boot from each, mounted his hack
for the metropolis, leaving his dupes to la
ment their foily in being duped by a raw
stripling.
DIVORCE.
A Tr nion correspondent of the Newark
Daily Advertiser, under date of the Bth uh.
says :
A Divorce Bill of some interest was
passed this afternoon. A foreigner of very
gentlemanly appearance and of great pre
tensions, by false representations, ingratia
ted himself into the atli-ciions of a young
orphan girl of 17, beautiful, accomplished,
and an heiress. Her stepfather required
references from him, and sent to France for
certificates of his character. A package
ofletters came, all of which spoke highly
of him; but from this package it was af
terwards discovered letters from an emi
nent American, then in France, had been
abstracted, and would, if they had been re
ceived, have placed him in such a light as
to have prevented the unhappy consequen
ces to her and her family. They were
married, and in 4 or 5 months it was dis
covered that he had committed a forgery to
a large amount, lie fled to New Orleans,
and thence to France in the forecastle of a
ship; thus aiming a deadly blow at the
happiness of his affectionate wife and her
unborn child. And it was afterwards dis
covered from letters in his apartments that
he had came from France engaged in a
conspiracy to perpetrate forgeries to a large
amount. Two years have passed, and no
thing has been heard from him. And this
divorce was sought and granted (by a vote
of 35 to 9,) to prevent any claim by him
hereafter to the property of his wife or the
person of his child.
PAN OF GRAVY.
“Ba-a-a! Ba-a-a !” shrieks a half na
ked infant of about eighteen months old.
“ What’s the matter with mamma’s
theet yittle ducky ?” says its affectionate
mother, while she presses it to her bosom,
and the young sarpint in return digs its tal
ones into her face.
“Da den, Missis, I knows what little
massaJim wants,” exclaims the cherub s
negro nurse.
“ You black hussey ! why don t you tell
me then ?” and the infuriated molher gives
Dinah a douse in the chops with her shoe.
“ Why he wants to put his foot in dat dar
pan of gravy, wats coolen on de harf!”
whimpers the unfortunate blackey.
“ YVell, and why don’t you bring it here,
you aggravating nigger you,” replies the
mother of the bawling young one.
Dinah brings the gravy, and l : ttle Jim
puts his feet in the pan, dashing the milk
warm grease about his sweet putnpy little
shanks, to the infinite amusement of his
mother who tenderly exclaimed —
“ Did mother’s yettle Dimmy want to put
his teeny-weeny footsev’s in the gravy. It
shall play in the pan as much as it choosy
1 woosey’s, and then it shall have its pooty
i red frock on, and go and see its pappv vap-
I py.”
THE TOSS UP.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “JEST AND EARNEST.”
From Bizarre Fables.
“Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper
j bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of
i Ins humor ?— Shakespean■
In the tap room of the Black Bull, seated
j at a table on which foamed a newly drawn
j pot of porter, were Tom Doyle and Frank
! Evans:
They were youths approaching manhood;
of nearly the same age and the same world
ly station, hut in aspect most different. —
Friends were they of a three weeks’ friend
ship ; and they sat down at that tap room
table talking over their affairs in a confi
dential friendly manner.
Tom Doyle was known by that uneerc
: mouious appellation to a large hut doubtful
ly respectable circleof acquaintance. lie
had passed his whole life in London, and
the greater part in the streets of London.
He had received such an education as the
streets of London supply, hut very little oth
er. The shifts of poverty had given him
cunning ; slight but perpetual skirmishes
with the law ofthe land had given him a
taste for law breaking ; cold, heat, hunger,
thirst, contempt, ill usage, and disease, had
given him fortitude to bear whatever should
happen. lie had a young-old look, anil
seemed an unnatural combination of the
hoy and the man ; the careless follies of im
maturity conjoined with the calculating vi
ces of maturity.
Frank Evans had been brought up away
from towns. Fresh air, green fields, sprea
ding trees, clear streams, were things fa
| miliar to him. He had not been accustom
ed to walk continually in crowds, and tread
his passage through lines of eager, unprin
cipled faces. Money making was less ob
trusively carried on, and the great strug
gle of one human being with another for
existence was not so palpable. Me was
healthful, rather simple, not very industri
ous, and of indecided character. Totally
ignorant of what is called the “world,” he
was about equally liable to lie turned to
j good or evil. Hitherto he had been chiefly
j subjected to beneficial influences, but a
! three weeks’ intimacy with Tom Doyle
| had not been without its effect.
The intimacy was brought about thus :
Doyle was one morning standing on Lon
| don bridge with his hands inserted in his
J pockets, and whistling as he contemplated
i the departure of the Margate steamer from
| the wharf below. While so engaged an
other spectator placed himself by his side
I and gazed on the proceeding with an ear
nest curiosity that contrasted remarkably
with his unenjoying languid glance. The
spectator was Frank Evans A conversa
tion ensued by which Doyle learned from
the communicative stranger that he had
come to London only a tew days before, that
he had run away from his native village In
consequence of a quarrel with his parents,
j and that he was now staying with an uncle
at Bermonsey, who was exerting himself to
make up matters.
From this day Doyle and Evans often
met. Tin London youth undertook with
great kindness to instruct his country friend
in some of the ways of the metropolis, and
the latter undertook to furnish the money
as far as his own resources and his uncle s
bounty would allow. But now an epoch
had arrived in their intercourse. Doyle
wished Evans to join the coterie of Ned
Roller, an enterprising individual who did
much business of an illegal but productive
character. This he the more strongly
urged as he had himself resolved, after some
scruples, to enter on the business himself.
To this proposition Evans objected, in the
first place, that he did not like it abstracted
ly ; and in the second place, that his uncle
had offered to procure him the situation of
light porter at a merchant’s counting house
which might lead to a seat in the counting
house itself, and that to opulence and con
sideration. They agreed to discuss the
j matter quietly over a pot of porter in the
taproom ofthe Black Bull.
“WhyFrank,”said Doyle, “I’m ashamed
of you—roast me to a cinder if I ain’t. —
Wiiat’s the odds if there is a little danger
or so with Ned—it’s a blessed sight better
than being a muff of a porter in an infernal
old cheating counting house.”
“Come, Tom, no had language,” said E
vans, “you may be right, but I don’t feel so
sure of it. If l refuse to take this situation,
my uncle will turn me out of doors—that 1
know.”
“And what of that?” said Doyle, “other
people has doors I s’pose. I’d pretty soon
turn myself out of his doors if it was me.
“Well, Tom,” said Evans, “I’ll tell you
what I’ll do to settle it one way ortheother.
We might talk here ali night and 1 should
not make up my mind. I’ll toss you for it
—heads, Igo to the merchant; tails, Igo to
Ned ! Lend me a halfpenny.”
“I lend you !” exclaimed Doyle, “a like
ly thing I can lend you! I lost my last
halfpenny at skittles, two hours ago!”
“And I paid my last halfpenny for this
pot of porter;” said Evans, “and my uncle
has sworn to give me no more unless I’m
obedient. Dasli it, I shall be obliged to go
to Ned for want of a toss-up to give the
counting house a chance!”
Here he fumbled in successive pockets
with the view of placing his destitution be
yond doubt. He found each empty until,
in the last of all—the left waistcoat pocket
—in the extreme left corner, his finger en
countered something havintr the feel of a
coin, lie drew it forth, and displayed an
old battered, verdigriscovered farthing. It
had remained there unnoticed —hut now it
was to decide on a lifetime.
“Ah, ah!” exclaimed Evans, joyfully,
“here is what shall tell us. Now, see fair
plav ! Remember, head is for the Mer
chant, and tail is for Ned—and here goes!
The coin spun in the air and dccendcd on
the table—t’was head.
“The merchant forever!” exclaimed 11-
vans.
“Toss again, and hold your noise ! ’ said
Doyle, sullenly.
The coin spun in the air and decended
on the table—it was tail.
“Ned for ever!” exclaimed Doyle.
“Now for the last toss!” said Evans.
Ilis heart heat fast—the room seemed to
swim round with him—and his knees trem
bled. His previous reckless calmness had
disappeared, and he was wound up to an in
tense pitch of anxiety. He did not allow
hirnscifto wish either way, or if so, it a
mounted to but half a wish. Ho tossed up
the farthing forthe last time.
The coin spun in the air and decended on
the table—it was head.
“Damnation!” muttered Doyle, through
his teeth.
Evans spoke not a word. He was very
pale, and his eyes were fixed on the ground.
“But hang it, man,” said Doyle, “you
don’t mean to call the tiling settled because
the cursed old farthing came heads instead
of tails—come, we’ll talk itover.”
“No, Doyle,” said Evans, “I am fixed.
1 swear solemnly that if the result had been
contrary, I would have acted on it as rigid
ly. Our fates would then have been one
and the same ; as it is, we must see each
other no more. A dirty brass farthing has
decided my course of life !”
And at the door of the Black Bull that
evening Tom Doyle and Frank Evansshook
hands, parted and went in different direc
tions. They never met again.
Tom Doyle took to petty larceny. 1 Ie pro
ceeded from that to burglary; and one night
having imbibed too much, lie quarrelled
with a comrade, and struck him.so heavily
on the head that his comrade never moved
afterwards. Tom Doyle was hanged in
the Old Bailey at 8 o’clock on a mysty
morning, to the great amusement ot a select
company of both sexes.
Frank Evans became a light porter, af
terwards a clerk, and afterwards a partner.
His industry was exemplary—his honor
was unimpeachable, and paper bearing the
signature of Stirling and Evans was ta!:• -n
with as much confidence as that issued by
the Bank of England.
Great is the reward of virtue and striking
is the punishment of vice. Tom Doyle lies
dead and unprayed for—and Mr. Francis
Evans is alive and rides in his coach. \et
if, on that memorial evening at the Black
Bull, Francis Evans has been a little more
persuadable, or had not found the farthing
or the farthing turned up tail, he might have
been hanged like Tom Doyle, and might
now lie dead and unprayed for, instead of
being alive and riding in his coach.
MORAL.
Life is a brass farthing ; and. in the toss
up between Fate and each human being,
high pirth and low birth, riches, and pover
ty, wisdom and folly, ‘.learning and igno
rance, virtue and vice, arc hut other names
for head and tail.
From the Star of Florida.
“A MOTHER'S LOVE.”
Some eighteen months ago, two young
men of this county, one of them quite a
youth, being present in a remote village in
the Eastern District of tiie Territory, were
unfortunately engaged in a rencontre,
which resulted in the death of an individ
ual. This unfortunate occurrence, produ
ced as was natural a strong excitement a
gainst the offending strangers ; they were
arrested, and imprisoned ; but finally bail
ed by their friends, who became surety for
their appearance at Court, to stand a trial
for the homicide
The iddest of these young men, fell a
victim to a southern climate, during the
past summer. And the other apprehend
ing, that during the continuance of a popu
lar excitement against him, that there
would he little chance for an impartial ex
amination of his case, neglected to appear
at court to meet his trial, at the succeeding
term of court. During the past week how
ever, he was arrested, and again thrown in
to prison in this county, preparatory to be
ing sent to the place of his trial. Ilis mo
ther and sister, according to the custom in
such cases, were permitted to visit him.
On Sunday evening last, just about twi
light, the jailor, as he thought, unbarred
the prison doors, to permit the afflicted and
widowed mother, and his no less sorrowful
sister, to depart, from a mournful interview
with an unfortunate son and brother.
Some four or five hours afterwards, cir
cumstances were brought to the recollec
tion ofthe officer, which induced him to sus
pect, that all was not as it should he. He
determined to visit his charge for the pur
pose of satisfying his doubts.
On entering the cell which ought to have
been occupied by the young man charged
with homicide, lo and behold his prisoner
had fled ! His mother occupied his place.
She had parted with her bonnet, veil, cloak,
and other outward garments ; and with a
handkerchief to his eyes, as in the utter a
bandoument of grief, the criminal had wal
ked past the jailor and the guard and enter
ed a carriage at the door, where stood two
blooded bars, and an active driver, ready
HI . .1. It Al*l 11 i.. Pr in ter.
to hurrv him from a loathsome confine
nient, to freedom and safety. He lias not
since been heard of. His mother remained
behind, to brave the fury ofthe disappoint
ed officers of the law, and the prosecutors.
From the Maine Farmer and Advocate.
EMINENT MECHANICS.
We shall occasionally give sketches of
the lives of eminent mechanics—especially
Americans. The results of Fulton s la
bors and experiments have been of more
consequence to his country than the con
quests of any of the renowned heroes of oth
er days ever were to their particular coun
tries. Their triumphs were those of force;
his tiie triumph of mind over matter. They
built up or enlarged their countries by ap
propriating to themselves the labors ot
others ; he added to the greatness of his, by
calling anew power front the hidden re
cesses of nature, and applying it to the
peaceful aits of life, by creating instead of
destroying, and bv developing new resour
ces instead of plunging his follow man
deeper into the depths of ignorance and
misery.
ROBERT FULTON.
Fulton was a native of Little Britain
Township in Lancaster county, Pennsylva
nia. and born 1765, his parents were in
humble circumstances and were enabled
only to give him a common education. He
early exhibited a fondness for painting, and
at the age of 18 he established himself in
Philadelphia. At the age of 22, he went
to England to advance his talents, and w r as
received into the family of West,with whom
lie spent several years and entertained
warm friendship. During his stay, he be
came acquainted with the Duke of Bridge
water, and Lord Stanhope, the former fa
mous for canals, tiie latter for the love of
mechanism. He soon turned his attention
to the use of steam for propelling boats.—
In 1796, he obtained a patent for a double
inclined plane. He also professed himself
a civil engineer, and published a treatise
on Canal Navigation. He soon went to
France and obtained patents for his im
provements. He spent the succeeding 7
years in Paris, in the family of Joel Bar
low, during which time he made himself
acquainted with the French, German and
Italian languages ; and acquired a knowl
edge of Mathematics, Physics and Chemis
try. He turned his attention to submarine
e xplosions in the harbor of Brest, demon
strating the success of his discovery. The
British Ministry invited him to London,
where lie blew up a vessel which led them
to suppress rather than to encourage his
improvements, they therefore gave him no
employment.
In 1803, he made several experiments in
steam to apply Ins principle to boats—
Chancellor Livingston was then minister to
France. Fulton, with his aid, constructed
a boat on the River Seine; this was in 1803.
which fully evinced the practicability of
boats. He determined to enrich his coun
try with the discovery, and immediately
embarked for the United States—and in
1806, commenced the construction of the
Boat, the results of which are given below.
In 1811, Fulton was employed by the Le
gislature to explore the routes for the Ca
nal. and was engaged with zeal in prosecu
ting that object, on the breaking out of the
war. In JSI2, he was again experiment
ing on submarine explosions. In 1814, lie
contrived an armed ship for the defence ot
New-York, and invented a submarine ves
sel for plunging under water, ihese plans
were approved by the Government, hut be
fore he accomplished them he died sudden
ly on tiie 26th of February, 1815. His
person was tall, slender, and well formed.
VVe have thought proper to give this full
account of the first Steam Boat that was
constructed in this country, and ofthe great
inventor. The advantages that have fol
lowed this discovery are too great to be cal
ciliated.
Fulton’s account of the first Steam-boat :
Fulton, in a conversation with Judge Sto
ry, gave th<> following account of his ex
periment : “ W hen, said he, “ 1 was buil
ding my first boat, the Clermont, at New-
Yorii, the object was viewed by the public
either with indifference or with contempt
as a visionary scheme. My friends were
civil but they were shy. They listened
with patience to my explanations, but with
a settled cast of incredulity on their coun
tenances. I felt the force ofthe lamenta
tion of the poet,
Truth would you teach, to save a sinking land.
All shun, none aid you, and few understand.
“ As 1 had occasion to pass daily to and
from mv building yard while my boat was
in progress, I had often loitered, unknown,
near the idle group of strangers, gathered
in little circles, and heard various inquiries
relative to the object of this new vehicle,
the language w r as uniformly that of scorn,
sneer or ridicule. The loud laugh rose at
mv expense, the dry jest, the wise calcula
tion of losses and expenditures, the dull but
endless repetition of Fulton’s Folly. Nev
er did a single encouraging remark, a
bright hope, or a warm wish, ctoss my path.
Silence itself was hut politeness veiling its
reproaches. At length the day arrived
when the experiment was to be brought in
to operation. To me it was a most trying
and interesting occasion. I invited my
friends to go on board and witness the first
successful trip. Many did me the honor to
attend as a matter of personal respect, but
it was apparent they did it with reluctance,
fearing to be partners in mv misfortune and
of mv triumph. I was well aware chat
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