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DFsTRUcrryr FIRE.-.a City Desiroyed.-The Sa.
vannah Republican Of Tuesday last has letters from
Tallahassee, Florida which tate on the evening of
the 25ih ult, fire broke out in that CITY, which, in
the course of five six hours, destroyed nearly the
whole Of it, The fire was first discovered in the
back buildings Of the Washington Hall, which was
burnt This building was situated near the capitol,
and the fire extended both sides Of Main street. to
the Courthouse. Every store in the city was dc.-
troyed. OF the three printing Offices one was saved
that of the Star; the Sentinel and the Flordian
Offices were burned 1t is supposed that there were
at least two hundred and fifty buildings with most Of
their contents destroyed. II was impossible TO save
many Of the goods in the stores the FIRE made such
rapid progress and those that saved were psf
ly in damaged stale. Several buildings we're blown
up, and two or three negroes lost their lives The
loss IS estimated at 100000 There had been no
ram for six weeks, in consequence of which the
buildings had become so dry that they burned like
finder.
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From the N. o. Republican.
THE GAME.

The Courier of last evening, has long editorial
article attempting to prove that Democrats do not
sanction the doctrines of Free Trade, and il is
only Tyler men who entertain such ideas What re-
lance is to be placed on the statements Of the Cou-
rier, may be by glimpse at the last resolu
ton passed by the Democratic General Committee Of
New York. The Courier's article may be taken as a
fair specimen Of Van Buren, principles, which are
made to suit all ATTITUDES and all men. Thinking so
meany of their fcIlow-citzens, as TO believe them
swayed by interested motives only, the Van Buren
politicians trying TO persuade the planters of the
Isl and I'd district that MIR. Van Buren, will maintain
high tariff should he be elected while n the Other
Southern States, the Van Buren, men are writing
column after column TO prove that he fully adopts
the doctrine of Free Trade.
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verb sirnifying the impossibili'y alike oil eSe@'
ming either. May we, as people, never become
a by-word, by having TO apply the pfo'e'o ~
ourselves.
IN conclusion, we have one single question 70
nan, which every school-boy in the country can
this is no reason why II should ho'
be asked.
Which class Of The States Of our Union are
the most prosperous-lhose " blessed" VIII" az
enormous PUBLIC DEBT or those that are MOI
horne down with this " blessing 2"
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The WEArHER.-The Philadelp bia papers men
ton that there was quite squall of snow at the
mouth of the Schuylkill, on Thursday morning at
o'clock and the Baltimore Sun of this morning says
that ice was formed in the vicinity of the city, on
standing pools, to the thickness Of half dollar and
the New York Journal Of Commence Of the first in
slant, remarks fires and overcoats are IN requisi
81 but to the senses, il seems much cooler. gen.
tlemsn from Albany informs that among the Hell
derberg mountains, back of that city the is still
several feet deep"
The ground in the neighborhood of Washington
was yesterday morning covered with frost and it is
feared that in consequence, vegetation will be seri-
ously injured. Fires to-day are very comfortable.
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HENRY A. WISE.

ANOTHER On BmLr.-A late number Of the New
ark IN. J.) Advertiser has the following memoran-
DUN
On Saturday we published a letter from the vene-
rable Dr. Homer, Of Newton Mass, TO the editor Of
the Boston Transcript in which he states that CO.
py Of the first quarto edition OF King James Bible
IS in his possession, printed A. ID. l6l4-I5. A gem
tleman Of Newark informs us that he has a copy in
quorfo, Of earlier doic the New Testament having
been printed in 1919, and the Old Testament in 1919
imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to
the Kings most Excellent Majestic"
This copy does not contain the chronological IA.
bles and Concordances mentioned by DR. Homer
but has instead more than 30 genealogical tables mar
gins references and the Apocrypha Appended 10 the
volume are also The CL. Psalms Of David in
Scottish meter after the forme that they arc used
to bee sung in the kirle Of Scotland !" printed in
Edinburg in 1915 The music for each Psalm is Civ
en- with It, and the following will serve as a specimen
Of ho,c the yorifcation is executed
PSALM xxxvt
/. The wicked decides of the III man
Unto mine heart doe witnesse PLANE
That feare Of God IN him is none
III Though hee himself would hatter fame
His wickednesse is judgde and knowne
III. His mouth IS bent to vile deceat,
With ignorance he is repeaL
And 10 doc good bec hath no will
Nv. In bedde bee doath for mischiefe wait,
Full bent to seek the way most IN, SC. &C.
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,n,J,;ous a year, appropriated sPecync0uy 20
lis Liquidation. could moi accomplish INC 49,
task. tiH eighty years weTe passed! anu ''
so far from there being surplus al p',s'n'
that amount, there is almost conespo"
felt That the funding policy, oo'n " 'e ,ne
characterization of Sir Robert Walpole' anu '"e
,o,, administration of Mr.. PHI, was dangerous
a.. av,reme in its consequential influence
an -. ,a.d;lv admitted. We believe that no
more satisfactory precedent can De iou"u
,h,. ,enudation of our own days thah 'he ''uue
,io, nv the English Government oe'wesn ~
and 1927, of the interest aecruing on 'ne '"nO
ar, from six per cent. 10 three and nan PEI
con, We scarcely know more st'ih'pe III
.,anca of national ill-fai,b, Than the appfopf'a-
lion of Mr. Pitt and Lord Henry fe'y' Vi wy
sinking fund pledged TO public creditors ~ '"'
purposes Of Temporary revenue. Such p'''
dents require the intervention oil a s"o"s
ruing hand to prevent their repeil'ioh anu we
80, 60, he honor of the Anglo-Saxcn race
both IN The country from whence lis origin Is
dated, and in the country IN when ''s 'a', :"
ero,es have taken root, that the p'ihc'pie ="
,vh,ch they are based will be crushed sishany
and forever" Il
We have thought it proper thus TO quole 81
the remarks made by the Magazine IN feia.'o,
~ the national debt of Great Britain, and shai
..sors have no occasion at this time TO adt
| KfgsiI88te e Example and warning 10 cur owl
country not to ''follow in her footsteps" TO
Ii. H.. Il ,lf,
mately TO revolution. We trust this country il
far from taking any of their "steps;" but as lh'
States are deeply in debt, it is important they
should keep constantly in view the road TO ruin
which every step in this direction must inevila
bly, lead them.
We believe the resources OF the States arr
entirely sufficient to discharge, in the course o
few years, all their honest debts, provided The
country is not involved in any foreign war
which would postpone the payment for many
years but Of such an event there is no proba
bi)ity, and we therefore hope the indebted State.
will set about providing ways and means to dis
charge their obligations.
The admonitory remarks which Mr.. McCul
loch* has applied to Holland in relation to he
overwhelming debts equally applicable TO Grea
Britain and all countries that are deeply in
debt, and we cannot better close our own re-
marks than by quoting them:
" Since 1890, the expenses of the State Holland
have almost uniformly exceeded their income, anc
there has BEEN in consequence, constant increase
of national debt. The Dutch too sagacious o
people not to see in what this state of things must
end and hence the growing dissatisfaction with the
budgets. nation may advantageousy contract
debt during war; but nation unable during peace
to proyideher expenditure, must either reeneh or pre-
pare for bankruptcy or perhaps revolution
'McCulloch's Geographical and Statistical Die.
tionary, vol. /, p. l,0ll.
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NOVEL SrrsaER.-A steamer Of very peculiar
construction has been in for the last three months
on the river hhope, France. Besides the ordinary
means OF locomotion by side wheels il has another
large wheel OF cast IRON upwards Of fifteen fee, in
diameter. Thus wheel, which is raised and depress-
ed according TO the stage Of water in the Rhone is
armed with strong teeth, which give il a firm hold,
whereby degree Of resistance is obtained that inn
parts immense power to the machinery. This plan
Is The invention Of Nj. Nerpilleux. Hi boat is call
cd The Graph, (grapplcr) II is employed in carry
ing ore and iron from Layoule TO Giyors.- Journal
of CONNER,
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EFFECTS OF PERPETUAL DAV.-Nothing made SO
deep an impression senses as the change
from alternate day and night, to which we had
oeen Infatuated from our infancy 10 the continued
daylight TO which we were subjected as soon az we
crossed the arctic circle. Where the ground il
but little rodden, trihes are interesting, and
do not therefore, hesitate TO describe the feelings
with which we re- arded this change The noyelty
II must be admitted, very agreeable and the
advantage of constant daylight in an upexplorrd ana
natura ~ boiserous sea, was too great 60 allow us
even To wish for a return Of the alienation.
above alluded to- but the reluctance we felt to
leave the deck when the sun was shining brigbt
upon our sails, and to retire 20 our cabins 10 sleen
oiten deprived us OF many hours OF necessary rest
ana when We returned 10 the deck 10 keen our ngbt
watch, az Il may be called J and iii found The
sun guiding the sky II seemed as IL the day woud
never finish. What, therefore at first promised 10
be SO gratifying, soon threatened TO become extreme
" uksome and would, indeed, have been a serious
inconvenience, had we not followed the example of
the feathery tribe, which we daily observed wipgnv
their way TO roost with olockwork regularity and
retired TO our cabin al the proper hour where sbut
ting out the rays Of the sum- obtained that repose
winch The exercise OF our duties required At frs,
sight VIII, no doubt, appear 10 many persons tbst
constant daylight must be valuable acquisition in
every country but little reflection will 1 tbink he
suiiclent to show that the reverse really the case
and to satisfy rejecting mind that we cannot over
rate The blessings We derive from the wholesome al
ernatlofs oil labor and rest which is in a manner
forced upon US by the succession Of day and night
II Is impossible, by removing TO a higb latitude 90
witness the difficulty there Is in the regulation az
time, the proneness that s felt BY the ndefa,ig.ble
and Jealous to rivet themselves 10 their occunaons
ana by The 'ndoert and procra tnating to postpone
tn m duues without being truly thankful for that
all-wise and merciful provision with which mature
has endowed the more habitable por,ions ~ 49,
globe Beeohgs NdToire Of Buch MS Erp,difion 10
tcards me North PoL ~
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DEArH IN HAyASa.-Iianging is not practlsed on
the island mode Of executing criminals but they
are made TO down with their backs TO a frame,
through which passes a screw, attached 20 an iron
collar, which embraces the neck Of the culprL BY
turning the screw the collar is drawn tight across
the forward part Of the neck to produce stran-
gulsiion, while at the same time the point Of the
screw passes between the joints Of the neck, dividing
The spinal marrow, producing dislocaton, and
ing the unhappy sufferer to protrude his tongue its
whole length. This is called garrotng.
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CHrAr Lrvme.-A gentleman recently from the in
terror OF Connecticut mentions 10 us this morning
that the prices OF produce there Gnprecedenedy
low. The best fresh butter for instance will bring
only SIX cents veal, cent calves, ready, for
market may be bought for seventy five cents y eggs,
eight cents a dozen sheep with fleece on, from
vcnty-6re cents TO dollar. The best Of may
be had from $40 10 SIS and everything else in proper
tion-.Nsra,E 7drerfiser
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J. NJ. HEREFORD,
q. MAYO, Committee
NJ G.. PENN,
Jous Is. DAWSON, New Orleans, La.
NV OnLEANs, May l7th, 1919.

NEW ORLEANS, MAY lilh, 1888.
DEAN S,ns: The kind manner in which you have
communicate TO me the facts OF my nomination by
the Democratic Convention, assembled at Baton
Rouge on the 18th instant, as the candidate OF our
party to represent the Third Congressional District ~
the 26th Congress, is truly gratifying to me, for
which roimrn you my most grateful acknowledg-
ment. To your own generous nature, and not ny
merits am indebted for much Contained in Jour
friendly communication.
1t would prove mockery Of my feelings, for me
TO attempt TO express 10 you, and 10 my noble aud
high souied friends in Convention, and the yer IN
teliigent, brave and patriotic constituency which
they represented, my feelings on this occasion.
am satisfied, however, they will be understood |
deal with those who know that there are emotions
of the soul which language cannot convey. The
honor of representing our District in Congress- would
be rich reward for long, long life of high and lofty
usefulness. To be invited to represent you under 4
peculiar circumstances by which destiny and a
chequered life have surrounded me at this moment
gives me an assurance that purity u intention will
always be appreciated in the darkest hour Of adver
sity You say that have faithfully served you at
great personal sacrifice What privaton and suffer
ing is there in this life that would not cheerlully
undergo TO merit such praise You have always
been ready to throw the mantle of charity and for
giyeness my errors, and have kindly and iondly
cherished the last impulses OF my nature. | have no
political position to defne-you have all known me
from my childhood to the present hour. | am a De-
mocrat Of lS40-I am for measures and not for men
grovelng action. To conclude my future life
shall demonstrate that was raised on the hills of
Tunica
Most sincerely, your friend and mos, obedient
want, JOHN b. DAWSON.
To Messrs. F. NJ. HEREFORD,
9. MAro, Committee.
nj. G PENN,
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AsoTurR PRArIcn WRrcErp.-Captain Uyo;ns
Of the brig Joseph Atkins arrived at Boston on Tues
day morning, from Jacmel, states that his vessel was
boarded on the 18th, off the island Of Haneagoe. by
a schooner pretending TO be wrecket, the Captain
Of which offered him five hundred dollars or half sal
wage If he would run his vessel ashore.
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Hoax.-The Worcester, Mass, Cataract says
The story that has been going the rounds Of the pa
Pers IN relation TO tie marriage of the siamcse twins
is all hoax
We apprehend the Worcester paper says more than
II knows. We have seen letter from the gentleman
under whose care the Siameso tv in. have been l,-
ing, fully confirming the repor, Of their marriage
The story therefore IS not hoax but actually true.
~. " Tribune
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Letter from correspondent in New York.
New YoRK, June /. 1919

DEAR SIR: We commence Today quoting
u. S. Six per Cents. Of 1862, dividend of-as
the books for transfer are closed until the 1st
July. Sales have been made at ll3 to 49,,
with interest from lst July next; this stock
will hereafter be quoted as drawing interest
from that period, The sales the past week have
been at 49, to lie, with interest from LIST
January. Yours, &c.
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OFFICIAL.
NAVAL. ORDERS-JUsE lst.

Lieut.. J. X, BOWS, 10 be Inspector u
visions. ,.aaoen-
Midshipman C. BESHAM to the i"oep'A
dence. ,o ,yo
Midshipman F. M. HuMrnhrY, leave TWO
months. ,o;v-
Masters mate I. M. CRooKEh' 10 'ie 'e'e"
ing ship at Boston
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Strangers from ne Vest For the las, two or three
days pair OF large swans have been sporting them
selves IN the basin Of the Park fountain-seemne 10
ENJOY themselves nightly in the silyery shower
brought thence by gentleman Of this city.-E yort
Com Advertiser.
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IL During the absence of the Secretary Of
War, who left here yesterday, the President
has appointed SAMUEL HUMEs PORTER, Esq. TO
be Acting Secretary of the Depalt ment of War.
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The editor Of the Richmond Compiler has been
shown a strawberry from the garden Of gentleman
in that neghborhood measuring five and one-eigblb
inches in circumference
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$24S,257,32l


Total, $2is, 1857, 1921
We conclude that the debts have rather in
however that may be we shall not be much out
of the way TO rate the whole amount at this
present time at $3.50, 100000, which, at 6 per
cent. interest will prove irrational blessing"
to the stockholders of $4,000, 900 annually
and curse TO the same amount, to those who
are taxed with the annual payment of this sum.
We do not suppo the whole amount of this
stock is owned by for,i gners but we will sup
pose they hold only two-lhrds of il, (Which is
very liberal suppostion,) and they will make
an annual drain upon the industry Of the coun
try 10 the amount of 100000 which, in the
brief space of ten years, will amount 10 the
enormous sum Of Sl0O,0O0,OOO
We ought not to shut our eyes upon these
facts and their inevitable result Ii is indeed
much better for the country, that IS 900 600 out,
Of the annual drain Of the SIS 000, 900 should
go, as we have supposed, into the pockets of
our own citizens; but what great difference
does 1t make with the great mass Of the People
who must be taxed, direc ly or indirectly, 10 pay
this enormous amount
The natural and inevitable tendency Of pub
lie DEBT, under any government, is to drain The
very life-blood of the People. and to deprive
them Of the birlhright OF their liberty, " making
The rich richer, and The poor poorer"
Under a Republic, public debt creates and
pampers moneyed aristocracy; under Mon
archy, 1t supports class Of prodiga pensioners
and an order of depressing and often pronigatc
nobility neither of which classes can ever have
the least sympathy for The great mass of the
people, for they are waging a never ending war
upon their ina'ienable rights life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness" If we desire to keep
our country free from such living human plaques,
we must eschew the cause that will inevitably
engender them-a PUBLIC DEBT.
Look at the public de!ts Of nne-and-thirty of
the Governments of Europe, great and small, and
10 the condition Of their people, debts ranging
from S266 per head down TO 81 and fraction
and the condition Of the People well known to
be pretty correctly indicated by the amount of
their public debt Liberty-loving Switzerland.
amidst all the surrounding Kingdoms and Prin-
cpaliies of tax-grinding Europe, is free from
debt and free from oppression, free from corup-
lion, and free from revolution. late number
ot HUNTS excellent I" Merchants Magazine"
has an able and elaborate article on the public J
iebts Of Europe, from which the statesmen off
his country might profit by perusa Public
iebts are very different from private debts: the
me may be pos poned, compounded, cancelled.
or payed by the debt Of nature, leav-
ng no obligation upon heirs TO liquidale them
nj the other goes on grinding and grinding, and
formulating and accommodating, from genera
on 10 generation, till free people become mere
ayes, or bloody revolution relieves them from
,eir oppression and their oppr,ssors. 5
ltcould have been only among a lax-oppress il
J people that Death and Rates became pro- il
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SroRTs ~ fLompa.-The Mayor Of Port Leon
FLORIDA, while recently out hunting in dense ham
mock near that city, suddenly seized by The Ice
by large alligator, who commenced making meal
on thal Poruon OF his honor's person. The Mayor
discharged both barrels Of his gun into the he'd ~
his assasnt, killing him Instantly
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SO" is informed that we will not inserthis
attack on the Aurora. What the Aurora Jays
in relation TO the injustice and impoIicy ofany
Department of the Government reducing and
regulating the terms of inserting ddoerise.
mems, is, in our opinion, correct We thint
the press will speak for itself on this subject
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THE REIGN OF TERROR.

The Globe of yesterday gives the ioiowi"S
of what is TO conie:
..Some few of the woudbe leaders may k.ea 0,i' =
the Traces and give US some htt'e uouo,e 1i.J q
VII, soon be ssy,,, ouer rough shod, and hampta
"a. Ans, TO rise no more into political preieinep'
Tbsy will miss us as much We shall miss u'on
and we are as ready to see them KICK as they a'e
ling to kick We think we can saieiy proiinro w.
inc NAV kick out Of The traces, that lhey wiz "o'
Kick back again. The party mus' ps P"v woun
and then. to make a peaee-eGerng and We woui'
much rather see sef-immolation than witness p'a''
being dragged 10 The STAKE"
The above is doubtless a true revtlauo Vi
the sanguinary party work to be perpe'ra'e'oy
the DrsrRuoTivEs The Dictatorship is 'upe
firmly established at Washington, and wo 10 nc
moor rnscal!ed freeman, even 10 lhe ie'hoVs
corner of the country, who shall "kich om D
the traces" and give the "imperal uooe
..trouble." He will mo,LaPlyff,Rs tie he ~,
10 rise no more into political preforae,.41l8
"1hep party must be purified, noU and I'M,
10 make peace cfering." So said ne
healbens, when they poured out the bloo(oi
their fellow-ctizens on the affairs of their iols.
So said, and so acted, the bloody Jacobins OF
the French Revolution. "Blood must av,"
said they, Ito purity the party"
And yet the Globe manifess grain of lty.
1t would rather see all the Democrats whovill
not kneel 10 the Dictalors, and work submissi ely
sin the traces" quietly immediate lhemseles,
than to be under the necessity of DRAGGING
THE VICTIMS TO THE STAKE!
| The language used is meiaphorcal of coure
but nevertheless there can be no mistake as Il
its serious import. II any Republican shall e.
fuse to obey the mandates Of the Dic'ators he
will most assuredly be "drdgged TO The stah, "
unless the DesIuctives are routed, overthrow,
humbled, before the assembling of the NV
Congress.
Again we appeal to the Democratic party to
put the seal of condemnation on the suicidal 20
licy of the seli-constilued Dictators. A RmN
CT TERROR cannot elect President in the lind
of Washington and Jefferson.
Instead Of making 'piotims" in the Demo
cratic family, il would be infinitely beueIto
make Democratic concerts, by exposing the hi
quities Of Federal Whiggery.
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There is plant rather shrub in Texas called
wild tea, very closely resembling young dyson in
smell and flavor.
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IA RS. GASSAWAY'S BOARDING HOUSE
vi Removed TO the dwelling No, Z, east Of Gads-
by's, between y. TsYLoRs Bookstore and Mrs Htr's
Mllliner's Store. Mrs G.. is prepared for yearly Or
TRANSIENT boarders reasonable terms.
June 3-Ineo