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"A heeral discount for cash In hand at the date
of the Avoce.
There are now on the shelves, ready for sale in
various sized fonts.
10000 10. Roman and ltalic type.
10000 lb. Fancy type.
1000 ID. Script and Running hand.
5000 Id. German.
5000 ID. Ornaments.
$4,000 n. Type-metal Rule.
$4,000 #. Brass Rule.
Presses, Chases, Wood Type, Ink, &c. furn-
ished at the lowest manufactured prices, either
for cash or credit.
A large number Of new fonts have been added to
the Foundry during the past year, among which
is u complete assortment of Germans both plain
and ornamental.
Specimen Books are freely given to all Printing
Offices.
Printers of Newspapers who choose to publish
this advertisement, including this note, three times
before the lst of August, 1851, and send me one
of the papers, will be paid for it in type when
they purchase from me, of my own manufactures,
selected from my specimens, five times the amount
Of their bill.
GEORGE BRUCE,
l3 Chambers-Street, New-Y York.
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GREAT ELECTORAL HEBSlAN
STATE LOAN
Of6 1oa ono Dnllnrs

Of6,725,000 Dollars.
T'HIS Loan is guaranteed by the Government,
and contracted by the eminent Banking
House of Messrs. M. A. Won RorHscHup AND
SoNs. in Frankfort-on the Maine. The following
capital Prizes must be gained, viz:
l. Of 49, 20 S 'oSS Dollars 60 Of 100 SSo Dollars
"a $4,000 A" 100 " 500 4"
GO 5000 $50 900
&c, &c The smallest Prize is SIS Dollars.
The next drawing takes place irrevocaby on the
lst OF June, 1851.
The price Of The Tickets is as fbilotos:
l ticket for Dollars 6 tickets for 25 Dollars
30 1" 100 65 300
Remittances can be made in Bank Notes, Bile
or Drafts on Europe, &c. Each shareholder will
receive, free of expense, the Prospectus, with full
particulars; and AFTER the drawing, the list Of the
successful numbers. which will also be published
in the leading Journals. The Prizes will be paid
in cash 1t Frankfort-on-the- Maine, Paris, Lon
don, Nsw York, or New Orleans.
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J'oR THE SPRINGS, COUNTRY, AND
Il Watering Places.-Don't forget 10 provide
yourselves with some Of Parker's latest arrival of
superior Toilette Articles before you go. Our Gus
toners will find us very cheap just now.
PARKER'S
Fancy and Perfumery Store, under N. Hotel.
July 3--4t
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the article Ths whols u III - sie skscifed
il the foregoing list will ~ 1eomSX elass; and
the person offering 70 fprmf tswY saslt clasS at
the lowest price (quaiity e4ge nee1 wid rsesys
or more sureties satsfhetory 10 ~ Secretary
Of the Senate, for the performances thereof, Under
forfeiture Of twice the contract price In eess of
failure which bond is 10 bs filed in ths ofIcs Sf the
said Secretary within ten days aftsr the proposals.
nave been accepted.
III any article contracted for should not BE- de-
!issred within the time stipulated, or should be
inferior IN any respect to the sample, tho bond
of the contractor will be put in suit.
Proposals should be endorsed " Proposals. for
Stationery for the Senate, and be directed 10 the
Secretary Of the Senate ~ Washington.
Proposals and specimens must bs delivered al
the Office free of charge.
ASBURY DICKENS,
Ap 2--'d Secretary Of Senate.
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PROSPECTUS OF THE CUBAN LIBERIA
+ TOR, a neat Book of 900 octave pages, illus

PROSPECTUS OF THE CUBAN LIBERIA
/ TOR, neat Book Of 300 octave pages, illus
trated with engravings. Price 81, payable nva
riably when subscribing, to enable the author to
have it done in the finest style Of the Arts.
Editors who copy this, and postmasters wh'
will frank remittances, are authorized to act
agents for the work. and retain 25 per cent com.
mission. Confident of the most liberal support in
this enterprise, shall endeavor to merit it, and
close hasty penned Prospectus upon the noun
tain waves of the Ocean, as well az the draughts
for steel plates representing the author before the
"lnqusaters,' and American Ladies and Gentle
men IN Havana, throwing bags Of gold as Of
fering for his Liberation, upon the desk Of the
American Consul. EDWARD STIFF,
Author Of The Texan Emie rant," and late edi
tor Of the " Cherokee Sentinel" /" at Cednr Bluff
Alabama. March 3
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LTY BROTHER. CONRAD oAHME. wbe

MY BROTHER, CONRAD OAHME, who
NI came from the South to Washington in
company with my uncle, Stouberd, many years
ago, and went with him from Washington to Bal
timore, is requested to call on the undersigned.
also request my children, Christian and Fred
erick Oahme, who landed in the port Of Baltimore
years ago; the latter since then being enlisted in
the u. 8. Army, TO let me hear from them.
My uncle, Gottlieb Eilbard, who used to live in
Washington few years ago, is also requested to
let me know his whereabouts.
FREDERICK OAHME,
7th street between II &l,
Washington, D. C.
The Baltimore Sun will insert the above three
times
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VIM. HOW LAND,
Importer and Dealer In Dry Goods, in

CHARLEsTok, y. G.
NOULD call the attention Of planters pisitins
w Charleston for their supplies, to his stock
of Dry Goods, which is kept constantly full, and
embraces a complete assortment for families and
plantation wear; and, in Dress Goods, from the
low-priced, to the richest, latest, and most fash
ionable.
All Goods Of Southern manufacture, he will par
ticularly keep.
No 224. bend of King ST.. ChnrIsstnr
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psasi.p ana neun*y IApd Agency.

Pensien and Heun&y 1APd Agency
FTNHE subscribsr has opsnsd Ia tbs city of Wash
ington an AGENCY fhr the prosecution Of
all descriptions Of claims against the General
Government.
His perfect knowledge Of I'll the Pension Laws.
service now sxtant. viii enable him to establish
many claims which have long remained suspend
ed for want Of proof and proper attention.
He, therefore. offers to the public his services,
particularly in the following cases. VIZ:
Suspended and rejected claims under all the Pen
sion Laws
| Applications for increase Of pension, under any
Of the Pension Laws, where the pensioners are
dissatisfied with their present alowanc
For all those widows who received or are enti-
tied to receive the ten years pension due the 4h
Of March, lS48; under the acts Of July 7th, 1885,
March Sd, l5a3, and June 18th, lS44, being those
who were married before the LIST Of January, 1894,
he will undertake to establish, under the act of
Eel ruary ID, l846, their claims to pensions for
life commencing on the 4th Of March, l64S, when
their pensions under the foregoing acts termi-
uated.
For all those widows Of revolutionary officers
or soldiers, who were married after l793 but be-
fore January ed, 1900, he will undertake 10 esab-
lish their claims TO pensions for life, commencing
on the 4th Of March, l848, under the act of July
%, l84S.
To all those widows ofrevolutionary pensioners
whose claims have been rejected or suspended for
want Of proof of service; or those who are in the
receipt Of u pension under any Of the pension
laws, less than that received by their husbands
under the acts Of May 18th, 1928, or June 7lh, +,
1892, he will ensure the Same amount per an
nun that their husbands received, from the time
the pension is made to commence by the law un-
der which they claimed or have been pensioned
BOUNTY LAND,
For the surviving, or the widows, or minor child
rem Of deceased officers and priyates, who served
in the war of 1912 with Great Britain, the Mexi-
can war, or in any of the Indian wars since 1880.
Terms moderate, where the claim is established,
ofheyrcise no charge.
The subscriber is also appointed Agent for the
District Of Columbia for the British Commercial
Life Insurance Company, established in 1920, and
empowered by act of Parliament, for the insurance
of lives and the endowment of children, in Lon
don, New York and Washington city. Capital
50, ,000, 900.
Communications addressed to the subscriber,
Washington, ID. c., will receive prompt attention
M THOMPSON,
attorney and Counsellor at Lalo, and Commits
missioner Of Deeds for North and South Carolina.
p s. Refer, if necessary, to the heads of de-
partments, and to members Of Congress generally.
March 25-tf
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NEw ORLEANS, July 90.

THE TEHUAnrEPEc TRouBLEs--Th Tehuan-
tepec Company's Steamer United States, which
left for Minatian on the 9th instant, returned
yesterday, not having been able to reach Tehaun-
tepec.
Two schooners cleared to-day for the Isthmus
under protest.
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TELEGRAPHIC.
New YORK, July 25.

w" HVHh,~IuIJ 1o.
EXECUTION OF DOUGLASS AND BEssoN-Ed-
ward +. Douglass and Thomas Benson were
hung at the Tombs, this morning, at III o'clock
Both of them made few remarks, not positive
ly confessing their own guilt, but exculpating
Clements The bodies were cut down in hall
an hour. Benson declared himself gutness Of
murder,
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G. & 4. L. KERRISON a. co.
Direct Importers Of
+ 0 II f G. N d Y-G GODS

In Charleston, South Carolina,
NOULD respectfully inform their friends, and
w those who purchase Dry Goods in their
city, that they are prepared, and are offering a
very large and well assorted stock Of Foreign and
Domestic, Staple, and Fancy Dry Goods, selected
for and particularly adapted to the Southern trade.
Importing direct, they feel assured of being able
to sell goods az low in Charleston as they can be
bought in any other market in the United States
They would call particular attention to Linen
Goods, Of every description; the make will be
fvdnd of best finish, and perfectly free from any
smirtuue Of cotton. Also TO their stock of Dres
Goods, which will be found second to none in the
market.
Terms Cash, or city acceptances
c.. d e. l.. KERRISON, X co.
No. 209 King, northwest corner King and Marks
Feb. 10. streets
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certain young clergyman, modest almost to
bsshfuness, was once asked by country apothe-
cary ofa contrary character, I'M public and crow
ded assembly. and in a tone of voice TO catch the
sttention lof the whole company" how it hap
pened that the patriarchs lived to such an extreme
old age'" To which impertinent question he i'm
mediately replied, "perhaps they took physic.
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DACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
Z lQNI Y thro,,ah linz Ea= C,I;e o.

DACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY
/ ONLY through line for California and Ore
gon. 1.-THE public are informed that under the
new arrangement Of this Company, steamers in
spected and approved by the Navy Department,
and carrying the United States mails, will con-
tinue to leave Panama and San Francisco the LIST
and 9Th days Of each month, unless detained by
unavoidable accident, and will touch Acapulco
San Diego, and Monterey.
The following steam packets belonging to the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, are now in the
Pacific, one Of which will be always in port at
each end of the route /:
OREGoN 1899 tons. REruBL,c / 200 tons.
PANAMA. 1857 tons. CAROLINA 900 tons.
CALIFORNIA l,050 tons. Columbus. . 600 TONS
TENNESSEE 300 tons. lsTHMUs TONS
NoRTHERNER 200 tons. UNICORN. >. 600 TONS
COLUMBIA 800 tons. FREmoNr. 600 TONS
ANTELOPE. - tons.
The new steamship COLUMBIA will ply be-
tween San Francisco and ports in Oregon, await
ing at the former port the arrival of the mails and
passengers from Panama, and returning without
delay with the mails and passengers for the steam
er from San Francisco.
regular line of propeers will be kept up for
the transportation Of freight and transient passen-
gers between Panama and San Francisco.
The well known steamship SARAH SANDS,
Of l 500 tons burthen, now under charter to the
company, and peculiarly oommodous in her cabin
arrangements, will be kept running as an extra
family boat.
One of the above steamers will keep up the con-
nection between Acapulco and the other Mexican
ports
The connection in the Atlantic will be main
tanned by the United States mail steamships
GEORGIA 5000 tons. CRESCENT CRY 500 TONS
ONO 1900 tons. CHEROKEE 1900 TONS
EMPIRECITY2, 900 tons. PHILADELPHIA / 100 tons.
Leaving New York for Chagres on the llth
and Goth of each month
The new steamships Ell DORADO and FAIL
CON will form direct line between New Or
leans and Chagres, leaving at such periods as will
insure as little detention possible on the 18TH
mus, and forming with the Pacific steamships
through line to and from New Orleans, and ports
in Mexico, California and Oregon. Passages from
New Orleans can be secured from Armstrong,
Lawrason d Co., agents, at that place.
The fare for through tickets from New York to
San Francisco has been reduced from
$400, in state rooms, to 1890.
$3.50, in lower cabin, to $500
5000, in steerage, to Sl65.
The rates from New York to Chagres will ue
at the lowest adopted by any safe sea steamer be-
tween those ports.
For choice of berths, apply at the Office of the
Company, 81 and SIS South street, and at their
agency, III West street.
pril 26--tf.
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N. THOMPSON,

ATTORNEY .8ND COUNSELLOR AT Law
4 COMMISSIONER OF Deeds ofNorth and South
" Carolina Agent for Revolutionary Pens on
Claims, Bounty Lands, and every other descrp
ton OF Claims against the various Departments of
the General Government and before Congress
Also, Agent for the British Commercial Life In
surance Company; Capital s3O00,OO0.
HTO Office one door West Of Jackson Hall, Penn
syipamia .frenue, WAsHrNGroN, ID. G..
p. s. Refer, If necessary, TO the Heads Of De-
partments and to Members OF Congress generally
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PROSPECTUS
THE SOIL OF THE SOUTH.

T'HE Undersigned committee of publication. an
L the part OF the Muscogee and Russell Agricul-
tural Society, respectfully invite public attention
TO the following prospectus Of a MONTHLY
JOURNAL, to be published in this city under The
auspices OF the above named association.
The work will be devoted to the interests If 40
ricuhre and Horticulture, Domestic and Rural
Economy. Under these several heads will be in
Guided all that concerns the culture of crops. the
improvement of the soil, tho management Of ,hr
farm, the garden, the orchard, the flower ward
and the house-keepsr's department. In their con
nexon win me interests of the SOIL the other i'm
dustriai pursuits Of the land will receive their a-
propIiaie attention.
The "sOTL OF THE SOUTH" will be under
the editorial supervision of CHARLES A. .PEApopr
esq. and Col. JAMES M. .CBAmBERs Mr.. Peabody
has been for two years past connected with the
Agricultural Press, and is equally distinguished a.
practical and scientific farmer and gardener
Col Chambers is one Of the most intelligent and
successful planters in the South Tbey will be-
assisted by an able corps OF contributors. amone
the practical farmers and planters of the land.
Each number will contain sixteen pages of
quarto size, printed with new type on superior
white paper, and furnished to subscribers at the
rate of ~
ONE DOLLAR PER .a.MNUM,
which must be paid in advance.
IsPostrnasters are authorized to act az agents,
and they may retain in their hands twenty FIVE
per cent ofall subscriptions collected by them or,
1t they perfer it, copy Of the work will be sent
to any one twelve months gratuitously, who will
remit four names cih four dollars.
All communications must be addressed, post
paid, to WV. III. CHAMBERS, publisher Of 9Th.
Soil Of the South" Columbus, Ga.
VAN LEONARD, Committee
j. T.. HURT, Mobilization
(Gn March 1851
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PRINTING TYPES

re now sold at BRUCE'S NETWORK
u TYPE-FOUNDRY, at the following very
low prices, for approved six months notes
Ill
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- STEELE southern Halter
23l King 81. Charleston, s. c.
ZMGA ENTLEMEN wishing to purch-
1T heaufif,1 naw yfvIe Snrin0

ase beautIfuI new styIe Spring
Flat for 1851, made in Southern StAte, invited
to call above.
French Imported Hats.
few cases Of fine light French Hats, imported
for my fashionable retail trade.
Strow Department.
This department comprehends all the newest
styles Of Panamas and Leghorns for gentlemen,
youths, and infants, Of new styles, manufactured
under my own direction.
STEELES HAT HALL,
March 6-<tsw Chsrienon, s. C
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To MAKE WATER Com FOR SuMMrR.--Put
the water into porous earthern-ware vessel, and
cover it with thick cotton cloth, or piece of
blanket which must be kept constantly wet. Ex-
pcse the vessel to the sun, and in short time the
rnpid evaporation will carry OF the heat from the
wstsr inside, reducing it nearly to the freezing
poins. In Arabia and India this 10 the plan prac-
.iisei by the natives, who know nothing about the
luxuries of ice to cool their waters.
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"What is the chief end of man, I" said Sunday
School teacher.
"Head and foot, was the prompt reply.
II Is an old thought that pleasure and pain are
twin buds. One may add, he that rudely plucks
away one, will be sure to hinder the development
of the other
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s. GRISWOLD e. CO.,
(Suecesors TO Daniel Pratt & COL
d ESPECTFULLY Informs the public th.,
lO they are now manufacturing n


d ESPECTFULLY Informs the public th.,
IO they are now manufacturing u
COTTON oMs
at Prnttsville, Autaugn county, Alabama.
Their arrangements for manufacturing are ex,.n
slve and complete which will snabss them to firm
lsh Gins to planters on the most favorable terms
As to the superiority Of their Gins, they have on
y to refer to the reputation which the manufac-
tnre and sale OF over 10000 has acquired for them
throughout the entire cotton growing region
From Is years experience, with every facility and
good workmen, they are confident that they will
pc ao'e TO give satisfaction to all who may patron
HFTheir Gins are warranted to perform we'll
engagements for Gins can be made with their
travelling agents, who will call on planters gene
rally, or by letter directed to Prattvils, Autsuga
county, Alabama.
A supply Of Gins always on hand with Comp
bell 4 % Mobile, and II. He~doA, & Csrfer Co..
8. GRIswOLD a Co
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Tak RsvoLuTSoN AT CunA Hoax. We learn
by 4 telegraphic despatch from Charleston, dated
yesterday, that the schr. Sea Gull, having
Havana dates of the l7th, arrived at Savannah
on Tuesday that the health of the Island was
good, but two cases OF cholera having occurred,
and that The news of The insurrecton at Principe
is all hoax. 1t created some excitement at
Havana, which however speedily subsided.--
Am. Tlegrsph
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EAR- -RNes .--sTfe cuslom az wsasinx sar-rings
is said 70 have ongiaafsd ia this ~iss Originally,
smoag thss Hebrsws. Arabs. and other nations,
the ears Of the slaves were bored 70 sienity ~
obligation Of the servant TO hsrksn 70 the oonmands
Of his master Rings were Afterwards invented
70 denote the perpetuity Of his bonds, ~ he slave
who had his ears bored way servant forever
Thus earrings was the badge Of slavery"
The reason Of their adoption by women Of rank
aud fashion in the first place, and their gradual
appropriation by every class. il too evident to
need explanation. The desire to captivate and
make slaves Of the stronger sex Is symboIised
clearly in the adoption Of the earring. The idea
Of ones being led by the nose is clearly an sx-
csedingly barbarous one, none but savages
wear rings in the cartilage Of that prominent fea
ture. Civilization and analogy should correct the
saying aud supply its place with lied by the
The propristy Of the change will be evident to
any lady who has had, US who has not, soft non
sense whispered in her ears, and also to any
gentleman who has ever INDUCED in the mauufac-
ture of that kind Of colIoquial confectionery.
A DELICATE INsNuArloN-T Holly Springs
(Miss.) Gazette, in speaking fths efforts Of Gen.
]. N. Davis in the Union cause, says that the
general is worthily numbered among Missssippi's .
nobest sons, and if it were not out Of place, the
editor would say that he is worthy of one Of her
noblest daughters. From this we should infer
that the gallant general cherishes tender feeling
for some fair damsel Of Mississippi, and that he
10 in favor Of two unions instead of one.
L. - Il. -
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HERNANDo DE Soro.-Captain Thomas Of the
army, has presented to Major Donelson, of the
Washington Union, portrait Of fernando de
Soto, the first white man whose foot pressed the
western bank of the Father of Waters, and the
first, too, who entered the boundaries of what is
now the State Of Missouri Passing the river at
Chickasaw Bluffs, he turned northward, and
reached the vicinity of New Madrid, from whence
he despatched party still farther north, who re-
turned in few days with the false report that
they had came upon boundless deserts. In con-
sequence ofthis, DE Soto directed his course west
ward through region richly diversified with hills
and valleys, and pelucid streams, to the sources
of White river. Descending the valley Of this
stream, which alternates with long ponds and
brilliant cascades, he arrived at Autiamque, In
dian village, and remained there during the winter.
Early in the spring, he moved southwark to the
Wachita, followed it to Its outlet, and, ere au-
tafnn arrived, to the outlet of Red river, where
malignant fever cut short his brilliant career.
His companions enclosed his body in a section OF
hollow oak, and sank in the middle of that great
stream, which he was the first TO discover and
which will preserve his name and fame for the
admiration Of the latest posterty. De Soto
imbued with the spirit of chivalrous adventure
Trained under Cortez, the iustrous conqueror
OF Mexico, he was equal in genius and enterprise,
and would have been, had opportunity offered,
his equal in glorious achievements. The great
object Of his ambition, the discovery of a
western passage to the Indies. II was the same
which animated Columbus, and which excited
the emulation of princes and the enterprise Of com
merce Of this portrait--a copy Of which should
be procured and placed in our State library at
Columbus-Msj. Donelson says.
"It remained in the family of one ofthe relatives
Of Ce Soto, named Espnosa, that removed about
hte time Of the cession of the FlOrIdas TO the
United States. to the province Of TamauIipas,
then one Of the royalties Of Spain. II was pur-
chased at Victoria by Henry s. Robb, esq, late
Of England, from whose hands It passed into
those Of Don Felix Ynojoz, Of Mstamoras, from
whom it was procured by Capt. Thomas. The
painting is on wood, executed by amaster hand,
and exhibits i,s subject in the costume of the
chivAlrous age to which he belonged The color
ine u not faded, and the likeness might be taken
fbr one Of our gallant officers Of about thirty years
Of age just returned from the Mexican war, who
kad thrown over his shoulders red toga, leaving
disc osed the braided breast of his field uniform.
surm0uied with collar of elegant fringe work,
instead Of the stock worn in modern times"
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BOUNTY LAND,


For the surviving, or the widows, or minor child
rem of deceased officers and priyates, who served
in the war Of 1912 with Great Britain, the Mexi-
can war, or in any of the Indian wars since 1870.
Terms moderate, where the claim is established,
ofherrcise no charge.
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PRO SP K CT us
OF THE
NATIONAL MONUMENT,
WEEKI.Y JOURNAL,

WEEKLY JOURNAL,
To be published in Washington, under the sanction
Of the Washington National Monument Society.
JAMES G. PICKETT, Editor and Publisher
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PROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY.

Clerk House of Representatives U. s.
April l5-lawtJulyl