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The Plurality of Worlds, with Introduction
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A Lamp 10 the Path; or, the Bible in the Heart
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Western Scenes and Adventures, illustrated.
Life of Napoleon, by Hazltt, do
Practical Surveyors Guide, by Andrew Duncan.
Frank Leslie's Ladies Gazette OF Fashion for
May. May
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RUDIMENTARY AND PRACTICAL

n Treatise on Perspective for beginners, sim
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GREAT THROUGH LINE TO THE WEST.
IT, BALTIMORE AND OHIOrI
]. II. DONE,
Master Transportation.
Feb TIFF

EHsssss4ssss3 Railroad from Baltimore to E4Af
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THE PEOPLES PATENT OFFICE.

Inventors and others desiring to obtain letters
patent for inventions, are requested TO communi-
cate directly with the editor of the PEOPLES jour
NAL, by whom all the necessary documents are
prepared, with the utmost fidelity and dispatch.
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tended 10. Persons wishing for information rea-
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al distance, he would state that all the needful
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present. All consultations and business strictly
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ton is always necessary. In size it should not
exceed one cubic foot.
ALFRED E. BEACH,
Editor of the Peoples Journal, Patent Agent, DC,
No. SO Nassau street, New York.
Nov 22-x
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SlisrfIlaneUns.
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A n Illustrated Record of Agriculture, Me
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GOLD AND THE GOSPEL PRIZE
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MistelIamfDms.
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I,xCEIsIoR: HELPS mo- pRoGREss

IL in Religion, Science, and Literature.
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IL just received.
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NY Schools and Schoolmssiers; or the Story OF
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ID UssIA AS IT Is, BY COUNT DE Gu

IL ~
III rowski.
MEMOIRS, Speeches, and Writings, Of Rober,
Ranioul jr., edited by Luther Hamilton.
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THE PLANTERS NORTHERN BRIDE, a
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THE CHURCH. in a series OF Discourses, by
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HISTORY OF OLIVER CROMWELL and
the English Commonwealth, from the execution
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HISTORY OF THE FRENCH PROTEST
ANT Refugees, from the Revocation OF the Edici
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VOICES OF THE NIGHT, by Rev. John Cum.
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MI EDiC ~ DEPARTMENTOF MAMP-

MI EDiC u DEPARTMENTOFH AMP-
w den Sydney College, Richmond, Va.--The
sixteenth annual course OF lectures will com
mence on Monday, the 10th day Of October, 1883,
md continue until the LIST Of the ensuing March
The commencement for comforting degrees will
De held about the middle OF March.
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and servants attendance, is usually SO or S34 per
week. DAVID III. TUCKER, M d..
Sep 2a-tf Dean Of the Faculty.
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A PHOTOGRAPHY or a JOURNEY
n man Printer.-The Workngman's Way IN
the World, being the Autobiography ofn Journey
man Printer.
Classic and Historic Patriots, by James Bruce.
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MAY 1.
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III Colchesney, r. A.
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I,HE CoMINC sTRUGGLE.-The Conn

THE COMING sTRUGGLE.-The Conn
ing Struggle among the Nations Of the Earth.
or the Political Events Of the next Fifteen Years
described in accordance with Prophecies in Eze-
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THE SCIENTIFIC AMEniCAN, deyo-
il ted TO Industry, Science, and Mechanics.
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Sen 21-dtM
A ERICA AND THE AMERICAN FL

A ERICA AND THE AMERICANF FLAG,
IA by Commander Andrew H. Foote, u. s.
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Il VIEW volumes XIV. and XIV, adapted pr
Inarily 10 the southern and western States Of the
Union, including statistics Of foreign aud domestic
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4 PoCALYPrIC sKErcHEs.-Lecture.

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