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Abrasive OF adventures the Hawaiian, Georgian aud
Society Islands with original illustrations BY Edward !
Perkins, emo cloth price 81
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
Ma Mo'u "a the qusin title Of handsome volume Of yoy
and adventure the south seas Mr. Perkins the snho
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fs5s dS RsBt ,bp xYo,t church Joa,
Now thst the Ssrcvich Islands occupying 50 pr0m
rentlv the American mind with dream their expected
ueNau book which combines personal narrative illustrating
f,ti.tir. territorial and governmental information on
Mr. F6wa,d r Perkins ike Richard Dana served before the
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tine especially wh,n the pubc mind Is directed 70 The eNpsn
ion Of our destiny OF than uncommon later
est commend 10 with an assurance that wI De soahd
interesting and instructive 70 al classes Of readers
Washington Uuion.
Tie author given free and easy Of his wan
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A COMMON OFFENcE.-Thc Paris
correspondent Of a northern paper has
the following:
A most extraordinary case has been
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The Marshall was run into on the
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that followed, over one
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lyon know" added be Il was the
choice Of 'the people," To which his
lordship replied: $50 was BaraDas,"
The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-01-06

DROPOSALS will be received at the
[ Office of this Company urtiI Tuesday
the 10th day Of January next. 1854 for
ditching and grading the Third and Fourth
Sections Of the Road comprising four miles
in each Section,) in accordance with the
specifications of the Engineer TO be seen at
the Office Of the Company. Proposals are
invited for either one or both Sections. By
order Of the Board.
dec.el. ALFRED SHEpPERs, see'y.
The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-01-06

Ey-The ohi1lse Company went
safely through With their performance
last night, and 4 i audience seemed
delighted with the entertainments
Bang Wang-Chin is the most re-
'narkable man for courage we have
ever met with. He suffered the knives
to be thrown at him, without as much
as blinking with fear. This is what
We cali true heroisni -true, genuine
courage; if some Of our great military
men will suffer the same feat to be
played on them, we will never more
make effort to bring chicken-cock
feathers and epuletts into disrepute.-
There should be some test of this sort
in Military discipline; without it the
world can never have any positive EVIL
dence Of a mans valor, until he has
measured his shadow on the field:
which we are sorry to observe is rare
occurance in modern warfare.