Evansville Daily Journal, Volume 1, Number 202, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 20 December 1848 — Page 2

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DAILY JOURNAL. PRINTED ASD PUBLISHED BY WM. II. CHANDLER & CO. J3ITY OF EVANS VILLE: WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC. 20. The Gold Maxia. la the Northern cities, it appears the Gold mania is epidemical. A number of vessels have been fitted out, with all preparations for reaping the golden harrest which California, from the publUhed accounts, will present, and several have already left. CQrGeorge Gena'rd and Edward Sebastian Isnard hare been recognized by the President of the United States as Consular Agents of the French Republic, lhe former for the district of Portland, in Maine, and the Utter for the port of Boiton.

Glorious Precincts. North Carolina has some of the brightest and most beautiful spots in creation. Talk about her barren soil and piney woods. Just look at the primeval verdure that blooms about such places as the following: Tajlor.Cass. Eagle Rock, Wake county, 149 21 Crowell's, Halifax do 105 0 Albemarle, Stanly do 228 000 Liberty Hill. Iredell- do 140 5 Klkville, Wilkes do 82 0 Gilmer's, Guilford do J0 3 To these we may add old Trap, Camden, which usually polls 200 votes; and sometimes the Locofocos, when they are fortunate, getone out of the number. CCJA paragraph is going the rounds of the papers, headed "Dramatic Death," and credited to the Evansviile (Ind.) Journal, in which an account is given of an amateur Thespian having, while playing Bertram, in the tragedy of Manfred, blabbed himself to the heart. The story is true, but it did not occur in Nashville (Tenn.) but in England, and the occurrence is it little otder than fifteen years ago. Some friend has been kind enough to forward us the Mobile Advertiser of the 30th ult., with the above paragraph marked, and in the absence of our Sruior, whose account of the mournful and tragic death of the young and gifted McLaughlin is thus impugned. We take the liberty of saying to the sapient and classic editor of the Advertiser, that the article is properly credited to the Evansviile Journal, the circumstances narrated exactly as they took place, and the scene correctly - laid in Nashville, at the time mentioned; of all which there are at least a dozen persons in thi city, aud thousands in Nashville, who will bear witness. The Senior editor of this paper, personating the Friar on the night of that sad tragedy, was of course behind the scenes at the time, aud ought to know; and the identical stage copy of "Bert ram" (not "Manfred" as the classic Southern editor has if) used by the Thespians on the occasion, is still in the pos session of a gentleman of this place, who was also present, and witnessed, not only the fatal blow, but also the melancholy death of poor McLaughlin two days after. The tale of our Senior, we assure the Mobile man, in the language of Bertram, is "one plain tale that doth surpass all Laws," and occurred in lime, place, and circumstance, just as set down by him. Akother Cube tor the Cholera. A cor respondent of the London Times sends the fol lowing extract from a letter stating the treat ment of cholera, successfully practiced in the government of Kioffe, Russia: "I have upwards of three hundred oeODle at work, and he cholera all around us and amongst us; 60 of my people were taken ill. but the great matter is to take the disease at the beginning, so 1 called them together and expluined the symptoms, which are lows of appetite, a heaviness and a disagreeable sensaiion mi the pit of the stomach. 1 immediately administered to those who were seized, one glass and a half of spirits of wine in a glass of water, wjth four or fire teaspoonful of powdered charcoal, and three drops of oil of mint, and the patient took violent exercise until a strong prespiration was induced, and all my patients recovered; those who were weakly I administered the charcoal to in a fresh egg beat up with a little water, milk warm. "For myself, a a an antidote, I take every morning a fresh egg, beat up with a teaspoonful of charcoal; 1 make the charcoal from white beech, but any wood that is free from rosin wijl do.' Settle up. The Secritary of War, by a general order, has directed all officers attached to our army lately in Mexico, who have received money from its regular sources, to set tle up forthwith. This order is to apply to all property and sums received by them from mu nicipal, State and other public authorities or corporations in Mexico, as salaries or com pen sation for any servpe whatever, or as gr&tui ties or presents, or from aoy citizen or public authority, for the performance of any service in any way connected with their official du ties; aud all sums arising from sales of public property, and from premium, per centage, and exchange onM rafts or money. .Suit too. Damages. A suit for damages has beencommencrd against the Worcester Rail road Company,, by tbe relatives of a female who was injured by the accident at the Brooklyn Crossing, a year or more ago, in which six per sons were killed. The female in question has 'wce died.

Brutal Father. Th Albany Evening

Journal, states that on Tuesday afternoon, of last week, Caroline Goodwin the wife of Wesley Goodwin, a canal boat captain, made a complaint at the Police Office, that her hus band had severely beaten ber and her infant child, not quite two years old. Goodwin was subsequently arrested and examined upon the charge. The wife gave in detail a history of the whole transaction, the substance of which is as follows: That she is an orphan; that she has been married 3 years, and has two children-one 2 years old on the 19th December inst., and the other 4 months old; that ber husband is a ca nal-boat captain, owner of the boat, and possessed of other means, that he provides well for his family, and is a perfect temperate man but has a most demoniac temper; that they live on the boat winter and summer, that from the day of their marriage he has been in the constant and almost daily habit of using personal violence to her; that she can do nothing to please him. and uoon everv occasion of his dissatisfaction he inflicts such violence as his malignity shall suggest; that he always evinced a dislike, towards the eldest child, for what reason the wife never could satisfactorily learn; that he is in the daily habit, when it shall not obey hU every command, to beat, strike and kick it; that be commenced on Sunday morning maltreating it, and continued i., until Monday night kicked it off the chair put it into the cold midships, and compelled it to remain there until it was sliiTaudshivering with cold struck it on the head with the bootjack sawed its neck with a boot jack, and, by putunz nis tnumus unuer uie ears, netu u suspen ded in the air. The child was produced in Court, and its appearance sent a thrill of horror among the au ditory. It was apprehended that the crowd would inflict speedy chastisement upon the brutal father, and it required care and coolness to restrain them. The wiTe said she had before made complaint of the conduct of her husband, but in hope ot his reformation, and from fear of her own safety, she had been restrained from urging his prosecution. Upon the examination of theca.e the priso ner boldly claimed the right to chastitte his hild. lhe magistrate committed him fully ou both charges, and be was remanded to jail. Miraculous Escape. We have already noticed the case of a man in Vermont who had an iron bar driven through his head, aud yet was not killed. The following from the Boston Post, corroborates the story and furnishes some additional particulars pf this remarkable case: By the explosion of a charge in the rock, an iron bar two feet nine inches in length, and 11 inches in diameter, not in circumference, as some of the papers had it, was forced quite through his head, mid passing upward la considerable way, fill on a upot where it wa picked up the next day. Striking him on the face, just below the cheek bone, it forced itSelf through the skull near the top of the head, passing diiectly through what rrauiologista call the organ of veneration. When picked up it was found to be actually greased with the matter of the brain. Mr. Gage, upon'meeling with the accident, got into a carl aud rode home, first telling a man who was at work with him to be there the next day as he should be there! Arrived at the house, he walked up one flight of stairs to his chamber. Word was instantly sent to his mother, who lived thirty miles off in New Hampshire, us nobody imagined he could live after what had befallen him. The physicians, ou dressing the wound found the fractures of the skull to be fearful. The wound bled freely, which tended to prevent inflamation, and portions of the substance of the brain, intermixed with blood, kept falling into the throat, causing vomiting. Mr. Gaeis an unmarried man, some twenty-six or thirty years of age. What is very remarkable is that he has been able to converse ever since this accident, and has in great part retaiued his reason. He desired to have his mother sent for. As she came, having bren told what had happened, she had not the least expectation of finding him alive. The case is probably the most remarkable one on record. A few davs before the election. Senator Bright, of Indiana, bet 62000 with a whig. that he could name a State which would eive a larger majority for Cass over Taylor than any State named by the whig would give for TayI r t l. i in- i .l luiuiri -a-i. djixiii iiameu Illinois ana lue whig named view lork. New York gives Tay I . S r s - i in ior a majority oi yj.uuu, and Illinois Rives Cass a maioritv ol perhaps 2000. Oh bright Mr. might: Lou. Jour. Mrs. Armitase. lhe English eiantess. isdead. She weighed thirty-one stone, or four hundred and ihirtj four pouqds, was four feet round the waist, six feet round the bust, seven feet one inch 'round the hips, and twenty-two iuches round trie arm above the elbow. Railroads are sadly calculated to run senti ment. J he Hudson Kiver Railroad traverses "Sleepy Hollow, passing close by Washing ton lrving's cottage, and through the grounds of James K. Paulding. Farther on,-it s mewhat destroys the poetical associations (if any) connected with Mr. Forrest's turretted and em brasured fortress. Quiet flies fat ahead of the rattling of the cars. ' A Lose Jouksev. The St. Louis Reville of the 1st says: Captain Dunlap and 49 men and horses, recently attached to the Illinois volunteers serving South, reached this city on Saturday last on the steamer Boreas No. 3. The wen were detailed to escort a government train from Camargo, a distance of 1500 miles, to 8 point on Red River from whence they pro ceeded to the mouth, and from thence to the city, as abeve staled. They are the last o f tbe Illinois volunteers serring South to reach thei homes. A portion of them took passage ou the Alton packets on Saturday evening,' but majority again mounted their horses and rode boldly forth, this time to join their friend j in lhe Sucker State.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

From the Stat.' Journal. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. BILLS 1STKODUCED. VV Tuesday, Doc. 12, 1S49. By' Mr. BlaLemore, to authorise county surevors to administer oN to reviewers of roadd. ' By Mr. Withers, to provide for the election of township assessors and collectors in Pike county. By Air. Wolfe, lo amend the -10th chapter of Revised Statutes. By Mr. Bryant, defining the du'ies of Ad ministrators dt bonis non. By Mr. Orr, to limit the pay of the Treasurer and Auditor of Delaware county to 6400 00 each. By Mr. Wilson, to authorise the Justice in Harrison co. to perform the duties of coroner in certain cases. All of which were passed to a second reading. - 1 he House then proceeded to the orders of the day, being bills on their secoud reading, all of which were referred except the fol lowing: Joint Resolution of the House, instructing our Senators and requesting our Representa tives in Congress to have repealed so much of the postothce laws as requirts the pre-pay ment of papers, except when sent from the office of publication; which was read a third time and passed. Upon the second reading of the Joint Reso lution to vindicate the reputation of the Iuc'iana Brigade, Mr. Orr offered an amendment declaring that no censure tdiould fall upon Gen. Taylor lor his report of the battle of Buena Vista, which was not adopted ayes 40, nays 55. Mr. Drake moved to amend the resolution by requiring the report and judgement of the court of inquiry, called for by Col. Bowlt-s to be entered oj record m tbe War Depart ment. Mr. Meredith moved to amend said amend ment by requiring said committee to enquire into the reasons why Gen. Lane did- not call for the reports of Col. Bowles and Col. Lane, as was his duty by the usages and laws of the war department; which, ou motion of Mr. Ketso, was laid on the table ates 53. nays 41. (It wa9 contended by those who advocated ihisamendment, that the difficulties between Oen. Lane had more to do with the imputa tions cast upon the Indiana brigade than any reports made of their conduct; and that to limit the enquiry to the mere facts brought out in the investigation of lhe courtof inquiry, would not fully vindicate these troop: t hat all :hey desired was a complete and full investigation into every matter bearing on the reputation of the second and third regiments, and that they would then willingly submit to the result ol .such an investigation, no matter upon whom the censure should Jail. When called upon for his vote, Mr. Duval. who voted in the negative, gave the following reasons for his vote: I do not apprehend, Mr. Speaker, that there is a gentleman upon the floor who would not vote to establish and maintain the reputa tion ol the Indiana volunteers. 1 shall vote against laying the amendment upon the table and in doing so, I disclaim any intention of df trading Iromlhe character of our brave vol unteers, but I cannot vote for any resolution that contains any spirit of impeachment of Oen. Taylor, a mm who has established a military fame and renown for the American people iliat cannot perish. From lhe tim-, he entered the army unlu the closing of the Mexican war, his life has beeu devoted to public service, and we may trace him from his de fence of fort Harrison in 1812 until the prerent time, and his. military life presents a succession of noble deeds that has never been surpassed by any General. Ou motion, the House adjourned. Death Scents or Remarkable Persons. Mary, Scotland's frail beauty, met the "gloomy !,:.... ...iik .i ..r - i...: l. mug w mi a ur&itx ui irsuiuuuu uui iu uu expected from her misfortunes, so numerous were they, deserted by evtrv frieud except her little dos. SirT. Moore remirked to the executioner, by whose hands hs was to perish, that the scaf fold was extremely weak: 1 pray you, Iriends, see me up safe," said he, 'and for coining down, i . -i. : r. r. i f - . ivi iiic sum air, uijoii. Chaucer breathed his last while composing a ballad. His last production is called "A ballad made by Geoffrey Chaucer, on his death bed, laying in great pain." I could wish this tragic scene was over,' said Quin, the actor; "but 1 hope to go through it wilh becoming dignity Petrarch was found dead in his library, leaning over a book. Rousseau when dying, ordered his attendants to remove him before the window, that he might look upon hisgaiden, and gladden his eyes with the iht of nature. How ardent an admirer he was of nature, is poetically told in "Zimmermiu's Solitude." Pope tells us he found Sir Godfrey Kneller, (when he visited him a few days prior lo his end,) silling up ami forming plans for hi monument. His vanity was conspicuous even iu death! Warren has remarked that Chesterfield food breeding left him only with death! 'Give )rysdale a chair," said he to his vallet, when that person was announced. Bayle, when dying, pointed to the place where his proof-sheet was deposited. Clarendon's pen dropped from hishand when he was seized with the palsy, which putanend to his existence. Bededicd while in the act of dictating. Roscommon, when expiring, quoted from his own translation of Dies Ira?. Haller, feeling his pulse, said, "the artery ceases to beat," and immediately died. When the priest, whom Alfiri had been prevailed on to" see,' came,' he requested him to call to morrow, : "Death ' I trust, will tarry four-and-twenty hours. Nelson's last words were, "tell Collingswood to bring the fleet lo anchor." IUUrwuh Herald. ; CCTIraprisonmeut for debt, where the sum is not above ten pounds, has been abolished in Ireland.

The Fountain os Boston Common. We have already, says the Boston Alla spoken in terms of deserved praise of Mr. Field's beautiful poem before the Mercantile Library Association. For the following ei tract we

are indebted lo our net hbor of tbe Bee: "Yen Fountain Nyuiph, new sparkling through tlietrt.es. In humMe Natick movJ the mountain breeze; There 'uii i lite torrent. nired iu thunder loud. From th: dark bosom of thi stormy cloud, Or eentiier f'd, when Summer's fchowery train In urois of r. uj iirrd thr w Icome rain Her lot was cast' .oii.t ij uJe along, Lulled by the riprlc of her own sweet eong. The Indian mauls, her play nnte passed away; Hut still she waited for a brighter day. Till, all rniiured, she rote at Duty's call. And step J, a .&ud, to het charmed hall, Sprang, crowned with grace, the Monarch Elm beside. And stood in radiant lu'at hU young immortal Bridel" THE DISCARDED LOVERS. We clip the following from a "down eastM paper O, ye faithless maidens, take warning, lest you drive some desolate twain to a like dreadful end! When Seth got home from mackerelling He sought hU Sarah Ann; And found that she iho heartless thing! Had got another man. And then most awful tight he got. And then he went away. And bound hiinnell to go and cat Live Oak in Florida. He pined upon the Live Oak lands, lie murmured in the glades; His axe grew heat y in his hands, All in the wild wood tliade Mosquitoes bit him everywhere: No comfort did he ijet; And oh, how terribly he'd swear. Whenever he got bit. At laat despairing of relenne. And wishing himself dead He we it into the woods a piece, llnd chopped off hi own head ! Eloquent Extb act. Generation, aflereeneration, bays an eloquent writer, have felt as we leel, and their lellows were active in life as we are now. They have passed away as va pors, while nature wore the same aspect of Deauty as wnen her Creator commauded her to be. The heavens shall be as bright over our graves as they are uow around her paths. The world will have thp same attraction for our offspring yet unborned, as she had once for our selves, and that she has now lor our children. Vet a little while and all thi will have happened. The throbbing heart will be Milled. and we shalj be it rest. Our funer.il will wind its way, and the prayers will be said, and our Irieuds return, and we shdl be eft bemnd to darkness and the worm. And it may be for some short time that we shall be spoken of, but lh things of life will creen in and we shall soon be forgotten. Days will continue to move on, and laughter and song will be in the place in which we have died: and the eve that moaned for us will b dried and glisten again with joy; and even onr children will cease to think of us, aud will not remember to lisp our names. Elegant Extract. "He who would undermine those foundations upon which the fabric of our future hope is reared, seeks to beat Jown that column which supports the feeble ness of humanity. Let him but think a mo ment, and his heart will arrest the cruelty of his purpose. Would he pluck it little treasure from the bosom ol poverty? Would he wrest lhe crutches from the hand of ag, and remove from the eye of . miction the only solace of its wo? The way we tread is rugged at best; we tread it, howerer, lighted by the prospect of the better country to - which we think it wiil lead. Tell us not it will end in the gulf of eternal dissolution, or break off ill some wild, which fancy may nil up as he pleases, but reason is unable to delineate. Quench not that beam, which amidst the night of this evil world, has cheered "the despondency of ill-requited worth, and illuminated lhe darkness of suffering virtue." Mackenzie. Greatness. Moral greatness consists not in the office a man fills, or in the elevation he h$s reached by the xeal of his friend. The humblesiindividual in our neighborhood, manv i : . l . i. . . is unknown by the crowd; but in correct principles, moral habits, unbending integrity, he shows grandeur of character, which no man in in rrntnj ue me e real est man in town. lie power can boast. His talents and exertions are forming and fixing the inhabitants of mul litudeswho are not sensible of the influence he has upon them. He works silently, judiciously, and constantly. This is inoial greatness Where you find a man leading you along imperceptibl v, as silken cords and si" lent resistless appeal, you ma be sure he joses in a pre-eminent degree the elements' of real greatness. Such an individual is worth to God and humanity a thousand titne.s a much as the man who is elevated iu the glare of selfishness and popular applause who hat been fitted up by lhe hands of others but who never raised himself an inch by lit, courage, his steadfastness, his inor.il power or virtue. Get Married If you are fortunate, get married; for a good wile increases your prosperity, and reuders you "twice blessed" in the enjoyment of yonr riche?. If you are unfortunate, get married. The cares of the world are lessened by having a wife who takes pleasure in bearing them with you. fXjTAn aged spinster was wont to console herself for Dust disappointments in the matri monial line by lhe following reflections. . If she had been married and had a baby, and the poor thing crawled into the oven and burnt itself to death, what a horrible' thing that would have beeu. Fatal Rescue, An Irishman having fallen into a well in Chelsea, Mass., was rescued by his friends, by a rope fastened about his neck! He died the next day from the effects of the rescue. CQ-There are four fine vessels loading in rialtimore for California.

UOW TO STEAL WATERMELONS. The Sunday Dispatch, of Philadelphia, tel'.s a capital sfory of this head, lhe gist of which will be louud below. It appears that

one Jacob Stinger, a quiet, elderly sort of wjikingmaii, got possession with a desire to taste a watermelon from the patch of a neighbor named Hennett. His eye was on the patch for along time, his mouth waiered,and be halted between conscience and desire. At last, however, the watermelons became ripe. Jacob knew it, though he had never seen them; and now the temptation was irresistable. Our hero, though with many companctiens, determined to bate one only one; and that very ntght,he avowed it should be done. Evening came, and after feeling in his pocket if bis jack knife was safe, he started on his expedition. Tbe road seemed to him unusally long and dreary several times he seemed a little frightened. The truth is qe had uever undertaken such an expedition before, and not without reason has the great doet written, that "conscience doth uiaka cowards of us all." We are now at uold Bennett's" fence, and Jacob is over it, and cautiously advancing to where he knew the "patch" must be not unnoticed, however. '01d Bennett" knew the value of his melon crop, and that if he would keep it he must watch it; and watch it he did, as the dragoon ol old watched the fruit of Ilesperides. No sooner had Jacob crossed the fence thanithe owner of the melons advanced from his hiding place, and was about lo hail the intruder, when to bis surprise ha discovered who it was. Now Jacob was about the last man that Bennett would have expected lo come at night to rob his melon patch, and even now. as he cautiously moved on before him. be almost doubled. Nevertheless, he carefully followed him. Tbe depredator aimed at once for the patch. There was no moon, but a lew stars shed light enough to enable him to find his way into tbe midst. Hastily selecting a promising one, he struck once more for the fence, stiU followed by OId Bennett. Crossing it, he threw himself and prey down into tht midst of the bushes. muttering as he did so "Well old teller, you have done it this time I" I he jack-knife was produced, and a slice hewed ouljbut do sooner was the first mouth ful taken than he sputtered it out, exclaim" ing M(tsa cussed green punkin!1 A moment nfier he weut on "You are a nice old fool, you are, Jacob, I guess! an honest clever old fellow, so the neighbors all say. You are a t-tupiJ hog, Jacob, you are. You area rascally old fool, you are, Jacob. You would steal vtaicrmelons, would you! and - yon have stole a cussed green punkin! Well' old fellow you would steal it; now, cuss you, - you shall eat it1 Suiting the action to. the word, he began te devour his prize with nmny expressions of dfsgusfjand with a determination to keep the -old find" to it. At list the task was accomplished, and he rcse to depart, muttering as he did so, tn the infinite amusement f old Bennett, who said nothing. You infernal old ass, it serves you right!. You ate not fit for a rascal! Any man who Ins no more cumptiou than to "teal a punkin instead of a watermelon, bad better keep honest. He'll never make anything out of his rascality." ShcrillV Sale. BY virtue of an Alias venditioni exponas iseued from the oll'n-e ol ilie C lerk of lite Vanderburgh Circuit Court in favor of Margaret McAfee and a"int William Trafton, I vil on Monday the liih dny ..f Janunry ltflt, t the door of the Court Houeo in the city of Lvansviile, between lhe hours of 10 o'clock a n, and o'cloc k r x, of said day expose to cate at public auction and outcry tbe rents, iaes. and protua ior any term not to exceed seven year, ot the fuluwing t!e.-ci iled real estate to wit: the South wet quarter of I lie South west quarter and the south ens-t quarter of the south east quarter of taction Nvinbrr twenty-eight in Township Number seven, soutn of range Number eleven wefct contain ing eighty acres; and should no ptrMn otler or bid lor wvl rents, iscues, and profits, a -um sufficient to snti!y t-aiJ execution, interest and coots, 1 will at lite came time and place proceed to sell at public auction, and outcry the tee simple of said described real estate for the satisfaction ol said cxeutiaD, interests and cos:a "hereon. deca-pi-ai joiin eciiols, s. v. c. . FINE SHELL OYSTERS Ju. mj received direct from New Orleans, by S sternier Uncle Sain a larere and sntendid lotot .Mobile Boy Oysters, which will be served up in every style. Call soon as they are going fast. J AS. CARTER, lVoprietor. - Magnolia Kestaurant, dec 19 Water St., between Division Jt, Vine. NOTICE. I have taXen out letters of Adniinijtrtition on the cMateof Hamilton G. fchroads,' late of Vanderbtir? County deeeaaed. - All persona indebted lo said estate are requested to make payment to the undersigned, and thoe having claims againft said estate will present them to him duly authenticated for payment. The estate is supposed Id berolvtnt. WILSON SHOOK, Adm'r. nov J-t3-w-d LI QUO ILS. t J UST received a laige lot of Liquors, manaus, Wines, &e. l hose that are lond ot a pure article ior sickness will please call at ' nor 1 ALL1S & HOWES. r. P. FA CAW, 7JFashionnbleBoot and Shoe Mnker. ' , li WOULD intorni his Iriends and tbe pub?icTr1 lihat he now has, and intends to constantly r keep, a fine lot of Philadelphia Calf-skin, or fine work. Work of every description done with theutint neatness and despatch. On Main street ' opposite the liank ap 2 dir. yfeSrV Regular Wednesday TackeU ;iS3 JTIIE elegant, iast-runnine steamer ATLANTIS. S. S.Paxox, Master, will leave EvansJ vi'le for tbe above and intermediate landings every . Wednendav, at 8 o'clock A. M. . For freight or pasge apply on board or to II Alt ' RLNG'ION, CKASLfe O'ltJLEY. jy 22 , CASH rOR TALLOW. THE highest Cash price will te paid for Tallow at the Soap and Candle Manufactory of Mc INERNY At Co-at Division street. ocl30-3m: SARDINES Just received from Boston pe;" Sieuner Oladiator, 100 cans pickled Lobsters JtU !o!ies Sardine, for rale by octSJ. ALUS & HOWES.

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