Southern marksman. [volume] (Clinton, Miss.) 1838-1839, 1839-01-01
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or THE
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New Volume.)

| THE sixth seml-annual volume ofMe
New Yorker, quarto edition. will CON.
mence on Saturday the 22d Of Septsmb..
next. The publishers propose to issue it On
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may suggest or the wishes of its patrons
may designate,
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that any radical change in the character
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