The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-30 00:00:00

BLASTING AND DIGGING.

Experiments with dynamite, with the view of testing
its value as a blasting agent, have been tried in Norway.
About 151 b. of the strongest quality, containing 75 per
cent. of nitro-glycerine, were inserted in a narrow boring
twenty-one feet deep. The effect was tremendous : 264
cubic yards of rock were blown away. It was considered
that the superiority of dynamite to gunpowder for blasting
purposes was clearly proved.
Afro., o; of earth removing, the Daily News correspon-
dent tells an amusing story of another agent, very effica-
cions and less dangerous, invented by a brewer of Essen.
This brewer desired to enlarge his cellars, and, wishing
to get the work done quickly, engaged a large
number of men, but the excavation progressed slowly
owing to their incorrigible laziness. Suddenly, however,
a new spirit came over them, and they began to work with
a will. Every man was at his place before the regular
hour, and when the time for breakfast arrived they would.
hardly spare a minute even to light a pipe. The brewer
looked on, and rubbed bis hands with a somewhat roguish
expression in the corner of his eye. When the necessary
depth had been attained, the men could hardly be induced to
leave, and were anxious to dig deeper still. And what
was the explanation of this curious psychologial phenome-
non ? The brewer, cunning man, bad buried an old
earthen pot near the surface, containing a slip of parch-
ment bearing an inscription in antiquated writing, of
which the following may serve as a translation :
Much money here lies buried deep ;
Who thgv and finds, the same may keep.

(From the Anglo- Anzerican Times.)

The reason of the irregularity in the arrival of
the mails from America is accounted for by the
delay in the steamers reaching New York, caused by
a series of heavy westerly gales, which detained all,
more especially the Etna, which vessel took 23 days
to cross. She lost an officer, washed overboard, and
had eight seamen injured,while the Union had a life-
boat smashed, the Tarifa lost her rudder, and en-

tared Boston steered by an ingenious contrivance of
spars, for which the underwriters• of Boston pre-
selited Captain Murphy with $l,OOO. The- Etna
left on Christmas Eve, and to the day of her arrival
at New York encountered a succession of frightful
storms. On the 28th a sea broke amid ships on
the starboard quarter, carrying Mr. Molyneux,
fifth officer, from the saloon deck with such force
against the iron bulwarks that he was almost
instantly killed and swept overboard. Alexander
Malcolm, second officer, had his collar bone broken,
and several others of the officers and crew were
more or less injured. Another sea broke into the
officers rooms, drenching all. On the 31st a hurri-
cane from the north-west raged around for five
hours, and this was but an episode calculated to
make them appreciate the difference between the
continued gale of wind and a cycloon.
It has been proposed in the House to assume the
protectorate over Hayti and San Domingo as a
means of stopping the constant revolutions. The
resolution was introduced by General Banks, and
referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs,
who have consented to have it reported. MExico
is even worse off than Hayti, and as that Republic
borders on the United States, Congress has a much
more clear right to reconstruct and pacify her than
any island in the West Indies. Resolutions have
been introduced, but not pressed, to recognize the
independence of Cuba, as well as of Crete. Mr.
Robinson, the " faithful Fenian," brought in one
on the 12th instant to secure the annexation of Cube
without purchase. He asserts that the Spaniards
having thrown off their own Government, cannot
impose that they have elected on the people of
Cuba against their wish, and he desires either the
independence of the island to be recognized or mea-
sures taken for annexation, provided " no payment
be made to the dethroned Queen, or to any other
person arrogating the right to dispose of or control
that island contrary to the wishes of the people
thereof."

The Republican caucus at Jefferson City on the
13th instant nominated General Schurz, United
States Senator on the first ballot. Senator Morrill
of Maine disputes the election of Hamlin, as the
choice of the caucus. His friends assert that the
question is not settled, and that the Legislature
will have to decide the matter. Hannibal Hamlin
was Vice-President during Lincoln's first term. Of
the 149 votes cast be received 75, and that 75 was
exactly one-half of the members present in the
caucus, but there was ono blank ballot inten-
tionally so cast by a member, as he afterwards
stated. William M. Stewart of Nevada was re-
elected. New Hampshire will complete her elec-
tions next March, but she has already renominated
her three Republican Congressional Representa-
tives, adopting as a platform impartial suffrage, the
inviolability and sacredness of the National Debt,
urging a return to specie payment, and the refunding
of outstanding obligations in Bonds bearing a lower
interest. The Senate has decided not to admit the
Georgia men to seats in the Chamber. At any rate
the Judiciary Committee settled the case on the
15th instant as far as Mr. Joshua Hill is con-
cerned. After considering the election of the
Senators by a Legislature from which the coloured
members were expelled on the ground that they
were ineligible under the State Constitution, the
majority ruled against that gentleman, a decision
which it is thought, will be sustained by the Cham-
ber. Tennessee's claim to another representative was
rejected by the House Committee on elections.
The Reconstruction Committee of the Represen-
tatives have closely examined General Gillen about
the vote in Mississippi on the Constitution. He
asserts it to have been given fairly and without in-
timidation against the Constitution by a majority of
6,000. The General's opinion is that Mississippi
would ratify our embodying the principle of negro
suffrage, but free from the disfranchisement of the
whites by an overwhelming majority. It was its
proscriptive character which brought against it the
opposition of all white men who carried with them
large numbers of the negroes.
There are few subjects in which we take a greater
interest than in the success of Mr. Jenckes' Bill,
and as we feel sure that it will triumph, we rejoice to
see that war against it has commenced. Whatever
may be the shortcomings of the American press, it
has always been well in advance of the people in
advocating sound and judicious reforms, and it has
so worked on the public mind in that of the Civil
Service that such men as General Logan have be-
come alarmed. Ile attacked it furiously in the
House on the 9th, but he showed that he neither
understood the bill nor the reform it proposed to
effect. "It was," he said, "the opening wedge of
an aristocracy in this country," by which " the
Vice-President would be made the supreme ruler
and dictator, and first judge upon the application
of employe's, thus making the public patronage sub-
servient to one man, who would know no superior."
aThend,
insteadriscr at
of thewe Vice-President
is
system of patronage which this Bill would destroy,
c: in truth, the present
President being made
under it the supreme ruler and dictator, he would
have no patronage nor appointing power whatever.
aristocratic
Mr. Jenckes has been invited to explain publicly his
Civil Service Bill at New York, and he was to have
done this on the 16th instant, nor could he have bad
a better place wherein to find ample illustrations of
its necessity. Mr. Henry Willard announces tha t
the meeting will be in the Chapel of the University
building, University-place, and there will be present
S. L. M. Barlow, S. B. Chittenden, Wm. B. Astor,
jars., J. Cisco, George Opdyke, August Belmont,
and A. A. Low.

Mrs. Sue Murphy's case of Decatur, Alabama,
has for the present been dropped by the Legisla-
ture, after a great deal of talk in the Senate. This
payment as a loyalist for damage sus-
property during the war. It has pro-
ltaadieyedclatoimheedr
duced an immense amount of discussion, not from
its amount, but from the precedent it might esta-
blish. After two weeks' argument the bill has been
recommitted, without a division, to the Committee on
Claims, and will perhaps not again be resuscitated.
A Commission, however, is proposed to sift all
these Southern claims, and to select from among
them cases of real hardship.

The repeal of the Tenure-of •Office Act begins to
look doubtful from the action of the Senate. It is
thought that the House Bill cannot pass the Chamber
in its present shaPe,and that the Tenure-of-Office Act
will be retained, but in a modified form. The Ju-
diciary Committee, however, has killed Senator
Wdde's proposal to render the President and Vice-
President of the United States ineligible for re-
election. Senator Trumbull, the Chairman, fa-
voured it, but he was overruled by his colleagues.

We are told that Senator Chandler, on his no-
mination for Michigan, vigorously denounced Great
Britain in a speech of acknowledgment to the
caucus, declaring that at an early day he would
foreclose his mortgage on Canada. Some one hints
that it was to Great Britain's hostility ho owes the
opposition to his re-election, and the circulation of
the stories about his drunkenness. But Butler
declares that opposition to be only part of a cru-
sade against all the promoters of President John-
son's impeachment. Senator Chandler has received
certificates of sobriety from that gentleman as
well as from Mr. Henry Wilson, and Mr. Stanton
testifies to the confidence reposed in him by Mr.
Lincoln.

Some months ago, it may be remembered, a mys-
terious old plan of telegraphy was revived with a
great flourish of trumpets. Without wire or any
medium of communication men were declared to
have instantly forwarded their thoughts across Lake
Ontario. The inventor or resuscitator of a marvel
incredible to mankind has turned up at Washington
iu no less a place than the Senate, and with no less
a sponsor than Mr. Sumner, requiring no less a
sum to demonstrate the value of his invention than
$50,000. But although the Senator from M Issachu-
setts presented the memorial of Dr. Mahlon Loomis
of Washington to the Chamber, he did not endorse
it. To say as he did " it was either moonshine or
impoitant" was not to say much, for that it certainly
is, which—being the question. Many Senators,
as is natural on such occasions, laughed outright at
Loomis and his invention, but Mr. Wilson brought
them up with around turn, and for doing this he was
well placed, as the speech of Prof. Morse had scarcely
ceased to ring in the ears of some legislators. It
was premature, said Senator Wilson, as yet to sneer,
considering that many of the greatest men had to

regret and recall with confusion the jeer with which
they had received the first•intimation of the mag-
netic telegraph. Perhaps Dr. Loomis will not think
us impertinent if we ask why he begs for so large
a sum to prove the value of an invention which,
according to his own showing, requires no mate-
rial, nature alone and unaided being the medium of
communication?

The schemes, the agents of which infest Wash-
ington, can only be described by Dominie Samson's
favourite exclamation, " Prodigious !" Pacific
Railways are the rule, not the exception, and arc
multiplied as reclamation schemes once were at
Bombay. Mr. J. C. Abbott, from North Carolina,
proposed in the Senate a railroad and telegraph
from Albuquerque, on the Rio Grande, to San
Diego, California, capital $30,000,000, with the
usual Government subsidies of $32,000 per mile,
and alternate sections of the land. A petition was
presented in the Chamberby Senator Frelinghuysen,
signed by Messrs. Franklin Haven, George B.
Upton, John T. Coolidge, S. S. Dana, Henry J.
Gardner, George Baty Blake, Glidden, A. Williams,
Joseph Nickleson and Co., John J. Blair, and W.
S. Williams, offering to build the Northern Pacific
Railroad and the Eastern Division of the Union
Pacific for $15,000 per mile for the entire line.
This is in opposition' to a proposal entertained by
Congress to give the same subsidy as that allowed
the Union Pacific of $16,000, $32,000, and
$48,000 per mile, according to the nature of the
ground. The petitioners offer to give bonds equal
to the amount of the subsidy to guarantee the com-
pletion of both roads in ten years. Caleb Cushing
is at Bogota on business relating to the Darien Ship
Canal. Three routes for this Isthmus of 3o miles
are proposed, of which two require tunnels, one nearly
600 yards long, or a third of a mile, the other seven
miles, hewn through the stone of ship size, and the
thirda cuttingthrough rock of two miles,which is the
most feasible. A new York paper asks if a marine
railway which would transport vessels bodily across
the Isthmus would not be cheaper, and better ac-
commodate the commerce of the world. .

From Germany we learn that a Consul-General
of that country is to be established in Mexico, at
the desire of the commercial community, and of
many Mexicans ; and it is expected that this step
will lead to a treaty of commerce between that
country and the North German Confederation. By
an arrangement with the North German post and
the Lloyd in Bremen, Post-office orders payable in
the United States, and vice versa, will be issued
from the Ist February forward. Sums not exceed-
ing 50 thalers can then be sent by post to all parts
of the United States.

General Sheridan reports that 400 lodges of Co-
manche Indians had offered to surrender, but he
had refused to treat with them except at Fort Cobb,
where he would have them within range. A tele-
gram from Fort Hays, Kansas, Jan. 10, says :
"Major General W. A. Nichols, Assistant Adju-
tant-General, Major Sheridan, commanding at Fort
Dodge, reports that Lieutenant Martin of the 3d
Infantry has just arrived from the camp, and states
that Colonel Evans has captured a Comanche vil-
lage of GO lodges. Three men of the 3d Cavalry
were wounded. No Indians were killed. Colonel
Evans had returned to his depot camp on the Ca-
nadian River." A communication from the Secre-
tary of War to the Senate rep)rts that 25,601 regu-
lar troops and 1,213 volunteers are employed in the
Indian hostilities. The Indian Commissioner wants
an appropriation of pp() to pay for medals of
Grant to be presented to the head men of the tribes
where they deserve some mark of confidence. The
Cherokee, Creek, and Choctaw Indian delegates to
Washington have united in a ,representation against
the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War De-
partment, and also in a request that the recent affair
between General Custer and Black Kettle's band
shall be investigated.
The Tribune of the 14th doubly " leads," and
gives a' prominent place to the following para-
graph :—" General Grant authorizes the Tribune
to say that the articles written by an occasional
correspondent of the World, purporting to relate
conversations, or furnish opinions of his in regard
to public men and public matters, are utterly with-
out foundation. No human being has ever listened
to or shared such conversations with him as those
reported. General Grant would not deem it be-
coming in him to contradict the articles in question
if they simply affected himself, but as they are evi-
dently published with a view to embroil his rela-
tions with prominent gentlemen, most of them his
political or personal friends, or at least to outrage
their just sensibilities, he thinks it best to deviate
in this instance from his usual course, and pro-
nounce the articles alluded to incorrect, indelicate,
and impertinent in an-extraordinary degree." The
remarks referred to make Grant say that " E. B.
Washburne is honest and economical,' and he will
give him any place he wants, but don't know that
he desires any. lie thinks Morgan a mere bag of
dollars, and Fessenden the ablest statesman in the
Senate. Logan is the coming man of. Illinois,: and
his abilities are not properly appreciated. Morton
is too much of a politician to be a safe financier.
James Gordon Bennett is everready to make money
out of the misfortunes of his adopted country. He
has not offered M'Clellan a place in his Cabinet,
though he has a great opinion of his abilities. He
was gratified at Butler's re-election, and considers
him a man of great force and character. He con-
siders negro suffrage inevitable, and says he op-
posed it till it was forced upon him by the logic of
events."

The Petrie of last Monday published the follow-
ing as the text of the speech delivered by Mr.
Anson Burlingame on the occasion of his reception
by the Emperor of the French :—" The wish of
China to enter into the family of nations naturally
manifested itself so soon as that country was able
to appreciate the civilization of the Western nations.
Thanks to the equitable policy which the represen-
tatives of the contracting Powers inaugurated and
preserved when they came into contact at Pekin
with the eminent men of the Celestial Empire, this
policy consists in substituting the action of an
honest and just diplomacy for the caprices of eager
interests and the brutal energy of strength. Among
the Ministers 'who resided at Pekin, none contri-
buted more to promote that policy than M. de
Berthemy, the enlightened representative of• your
Majesty.":. The Emperor, in reply, dwelt, upon the
same sentiments of justice and policy which ani-
mated Mr.. Burlingame, and espe,cially insisted
upon the fact that France wished more than ever
to practise in China those ideas of justice which
everywhere guide the international policy of his
Government."
In the " agony" column of the Times this extra-
ordinary advertisement made its appearance last
Tuesday :_—
"Missing, an Elderly Gentleman.—Left his lodgings, in
Greville-street, Hatton-garden, a gentleman, aged about
75, named William Henry Bowran, or Beaurain. Descrip-
tion.—Respectable-looking old gentleman, middle stature,
little whiskers, grey hair, walks upright, but very slow
and feeble ; used walking stick. He was last heard of on
the 25th November last, when he applied for relief at the
relieving office of the district, in Gray's-inn-lane. Five
pounds reward shall be paid to any person who shall fur-
nish sufficient evidence to 'establish proof of his death.
Particulars to be addressed to Bircham, Dalrymple, Drake,
and Co, solicitors, 46, Parliament-street."
It would appear that this respectable, feeble old
gentleman was so tenderly cared for by those who
had an interest in him that he bad to apply for
charity at the relieving office of the district in
Gray's-inn-lane. But the strangest part, however,
remains, for although they conld not afford anything
to sustain the old man's life, they can afford to em-
ploy solicitors to advertise in the " agony" column
a reward of five pounds—we had almost said—to
any one who would bring in his head. Despots,
generally, when desirous of summarily finishing off
their enemies, advertise a reward for their capture,
dead or alive; but not so those interested in this
gentleman, for they will only pay for his death, not
a word being said of payment for any other intelli-
gence whatever. The advertisement is so worded
that if any one found him in extremity, the gain
would be to let him perish, and the loss to act the
part of the good Samaritan, healing his wounds and
restoring him to his friends.
It is now settled that the Forty-First Congress
will hold a session in March. Of course the Speaker
will be elected from the Republican party, and the
applicants are numerous and working hard to for-

ward their interests. Blaine of Maine and Dawes
of Massachusetts are thought to be the strongest
candidates. Following them Are Banks of Massa-
chusetts, Kelly of Pennsylvania, Garfield of Ohio,
and Cullom of Illinois. Mr. M‘Pherson will, it is
thought, be unanimously elected for the Clerkship ;
Mr. Otis S. Buxton, long assistant doorkeeper, and
lately promoted on the resignation of Lippincott,
will be re-elected for the higher office, though there
are many candidates.
Judge Pitman has been elected President of the
Senate, and Mr. Jewell Speaker of the Massachu-
setts Legislature. Out of the 280 members of both
Houses 108 have sat before ; hence two-fifths are
men with previous Legislative experience. We are
informed that the menbers are composed as follows :
—39 are manufacturers, 38 traders, 31 lawyers, 29
farmers, 28 merchants, 16 " in the shoe business,"
12 mechanics, 12 gentlemen, 10 clergymen, 8 clerks,
6 physicians, 5 carpenters, 5 millers, 4 printers, 4
shipmasters, 2 editors, &c., among the 280 mem-
bers. It will be seen that merchants, manufac-
turers, and men of business generally are in a large
majority over farmers, mechanics, and professional
men.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.

On Tuesday the galleries were crowded to hear
General Butler's speech on the currency, and the
attention of all remained fixed on that gentleman,
notwithstanding the length at which he spoke,
occupying an hour and a half. Immediately he
finished there was a rush and a bustle, and it is not
easy to judge of its effect on the Representatives,
but all here acknowledge its ability. Some say that
four of the Justices are in favour of declaring the
Legal-TenderAct constitutional ; the names given are
Grier, Davis, Miller, and Swayne, with the Chief Jus-
tice Chase doubtful, but inclined to favour it. Against
it are Justices Nelson, Field, and Clifford, and, it
is thought, under any circumstances, the decision
will be postponed. In Mississippi the Conserva-
tives are ready to accept negro suffrage, and incor-
porate it if allowed to frame a new Constitution,
for which they ask Congress on the understand-
ing that there shall be no disfranchisement of
whites; while according political equality and suf-
frage to the negroes. The Reconstruction Com-
mittee desire to obtain the evidence of Generals
Reynolds, Shepard, and Gillem, on the condition of
Texas and Mississippi. The two latter Generals
have already arrived here, and the former is due.
The Committee wish to report on the action neces-
sary to restore these States to a peaceful and pros-
perous condition. On Monday the repeal of the
Tenure-of-Office Bill was proposed in the House of
Representatives by Mr. Washburne, and carried,
the previous question being moved. General Butler
advocated it, as identical with that he had intro-
duced, and referred to the Judiciary Committee,
from whom there could not be a report this session.
He hoped there would be a direct vote upon the re-
peal of the law, as all had made up their minds.
The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee said that
the majority had decided to report in favour
of the repeal of the bill. Mr. Washbnrne's bill
comes into effect on the 4th of next March, aisd
being passed by 121 yeas to 47 nays it goes to the
Senate for concurrence. The Court of Appeals of
Kentucky has decided that the widow of a Con-
gressman, and not the executor, is entitled to re-
ceive his back pay. The case came up in the estate
of Henry Girder, who died Sept. 8, 1866, when a
member of the Thirty-ninth Congress, with the
sum of $3,127 of compensation owing. On appeal
the Court reversed the decree of the inferior tribu-
nal, who held that an anti-nuptial contract by
which she relinquished her right to her husband's
estate was valid and included this clai.n, but the
Superior Court held that the suns was not her hus-
band's at the time of his death, but became hers
then, the law intending it as a pure gift and an act
of benevolence.

Chauncy H. Snow has been appointed Govern-
ment Director of the Union Pacific Railroad vice
Rollins, elected to the State Senate of Missouri.
Gen. Grant gave a dinner party, at which Attorney-
General Evarts, Gen. Rawlings, Moses H. Grinnell,
and several Congressmen were present, and as usual,
under such circumstances, Evarts is rumoured to
retain his present post. He has come out with a
letter, which was read in the Criminal Court7n
Wednesday on the subject of the indictments
against Jeff. Davis and J. H. Surratt, charged with
engaging in the rebellion. Mr. Evarts in this letter
calls the attention of the District Attorneys to the
full nature of the President's Proclamation of par-
don, in order that as opportunity offers they may
enter a nolle prosequi for the Government upon such
indictments, and directs doubtful cases to be re-
ported to himself. District Attorney Carrington, in
obedience to the Attorney- General's notification, en-
tered a'nolle prosequi in the case of Jefferson Davis
and of John C. Breckenridge, but as that of Sur-
ratt 'differed, he would' report to the Attorney-
General. If Surratt is to escape, of which now
there appears to be no doubt, it is certainly hard
that Dr: Mudd is to wallow all the rest of his life
in the mire of the Dry Tortuga..s. The President
received a deputation from Maryland on Wednes-
day, with a petition asking for his pardon, which
he said he would forward for the consideration of
the Attorney-General. A claim has been allowed,
after long dispute, of $34,000 against the Govern-
ment in favour of Mr. Cochran, a banker, whose
country residence, Harewood, was taken as an hos-
pital during the war. Quartermaster-General
Meigs reported against the claim, but a board
of army officers, with General Hardy as Pre-
sident, over-ruled his opinion. This banker
has another claim against the Government for
$lOO,OOO. A singular tragedy occurred in the
galleries of the Senate Chamber while Mr. Howard
was speaking on the Sue Murphy Bill last Wednes-
day. Richard B. Dorsey, an old man, who for
years has taken his seat t 3 listen to the debates,
suddenly dropped, and being carried to the repor-
ters' table by the doorkeepers was found to be dead.
The great assembly of negroes I before mentioned
came off on Wednesday at the Union League Hall,
the delegates from the States numbering 300. The
editor of the Anti-Slavery Standard, Aaron M.
Powell, and others, were made honorary members,
and Fred. Douglas, of New York, permanent Pre-
sident. I told you that the Home had resolved that
the Capitol should be the scene of the Inauguration
Ball, when the Rotunda and other portions were to
be gaily decorated and lighted. But on the question
coming up in the Senate it was defeated by 30 against
22, on the plea that it would be inappropriate and
undignified to dance in the Capitol. Davis and
Whyte, the two Democratic members of the com-
mittee, bad reported in favour of the resolution,
and Senator Patterson, the President's son-in-law,
joined the yeas.
General Longstreet has had an interview with
Grant. Judge Lawrence, of Ohio, has returned
and taken his seat in the House, as has Senator
Morrill, of Maine, who is going to fight the ques-
tion of his defeat by Hannibal Hamlin4Talking of
the latter gentleman, he was in 1860 on the ticket
with Lincoln, and when the chief was re-elected
Hamlin was turned out to make way for Andrew
Johnson. He felt like a goose when defeated with
the shears, but, verily, he has had his revenge.
Indeed, Andrew Johnson's failure may have done
much to help him back into notice. Efforts are
being made for the re-admission of the excluded
States. The Virginia Committee has been in con-
ference with the Judiciary Committees of the
Senate and the House, and a bill is to be proposed
for the admission of Virginia on the adoption of
a constitution, with all the features of the most ob-
jectionable clauses omitted. An amnesty will
follow the ratification of the constitution, and not
only do the majority of both Houses sanction the
scheme, but Grant and' Schofield do also. The
advocates of women suffrage have assembled at
Washington, and are hard at workgleeyttinsgtotnlpe
memorials and holding meetings. L
lectured to a large audience—Senator Wilson pre-
siding.

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Factory, 58 and 60, Ludgate-hill. The book, which is profusely
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without visiting the above establishments or consulting this truly
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United Kingdom, India, or the Colonies, are enabled to select for
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on 'receipt of two postage stamps, and we cannot too stiongly
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