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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS &c,

TO MERCHANTS ONLY. uttalio
SATl -FlF h thoos40a collars worth Of new And E.b
~ lonaos staple aud Fancy Dry 6oOds, Iiats. isoSts
shoes Ciohihg 1nd iardwsre dc &c 10 bs sill a. orr,
vsie sale nor cAsh uhd t6r months notes uayab + m ~,
These goods have been Dcugbt IN New York and Bastp
Auee the heavy Decline aaetjOr sf AA s1s
and ~ The package at Prices YyBg irvn 5 10 - 1S
cent less than their Pnees Juue and July Thess r5.
are e0oaIgned to US ~ BE- elssd Innieiaisly n ora
ESueiy competitor IN this market. Mefehants vim al
business 70 make money aad pay ch and rive 6r
mohihs nOles aud pay then wIll pieass give IL ,5fl
Inose iong wlpdsd sensmsn who wiIsg % from
% 70 20 per cent pront On ods tr the privilege "a ~
montbs and lhen Day at thsIr eaiest nvsnir1. On
house Is NO place for them b . --'l-~-' - -
Also ihIy Thousand dollars worth OF new, and AZ.
sivey. - 1 ---'s' '.l o~ei-'.
Our Auction Sales viii eoniibo4 a nam, .,.r, r..
day and Thursday. q i-JE b-A-t r1 fsll = = -
time. ), 20 p, m Nf's' Tf-r4 -
earnestly request City asd Cogutry NsrehsHis WHO
MAKE up nelr Stoeks 10 the Nashville Arkst try Us
one pop, aud We dOur do nal we promise aheu raS W
oy We take great pleasure showing our .eBtr stac
t. any and All Wa wlh give Us call
aal.sE .l tTkABUE a LUCAS, ~ ia
.-, COmmlsslon Merchants sra
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fhOFOSAiS FOs Sf' A. FOX PUBLIC
'-.- D tsGfiBING..-
- kALEp prop aSaS viii De Fecetvsd by JessS Thom,s
~ ksq, surveyor SamSeI B. ndersou sq Postmaster
ana JAeob ctaroek, ts, uoui tie sseny-hit6 dAy tf
feptembef hexl, 'o suitable 61la a. Tor th.
tec"n nedAiyn OF Tie IOsi0n huus Post Othee nitsd
slSes tootis, aod stean BOa lbspsciOrs az NeslyllIe
Tenn Corner Lots Sti Be PFeieFre and none are s.ig
Die that ale lSs taa0 hundred by one hundred
tret. rf JANE, GilTHkfk
seph-u secretary Treasury.
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OLD BUKBORN

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tNltFEBH barrels geruiue Oid r5urDuru whisky 0onr
years old u HhIch Toe attsut1u OF the eits r.. II
invited JOhNSOA, H0RNE A co D. ]
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WHOLs TICKETS R29; HALVES SO; QUARTERS S.
tt the PnHes above sailed drawn a ersrT drsEing
IhE aANNhS OF THa DRA WING Is as FOLLOWS:
an ihe numbers are rufin Sheslor gobe in the pre-
Sehes OF the aueOrlhes OF avana aud the publ DAYS
oetSre tHe gay tt drawing sudte Pzs in another globe
Doe oi wnlen are ioekri w thrse 7eTenf kefs Kent
Dy tne three Treasurer The OF the oval tsrv
The drawing akes Piass te large court inside the Cs
tom House, publicly I've boys not ever trIvs wears
OF age rom Ihe Orphan So lan. draw tee Numbers end
the Prizes One ct the Bsys enc Number and AZ
tie same time the otheT dfFs one Pike IRON tha
wheel Of PrZss, and whGever Przs comes ouk s placed
T. the credit Vt that Number sad lhey eontnus urt the
Nhols number Of Pres are urawn. - - %
he Prrzss payable wSheut discount on pres,nta
tion Of the ticket AZ the Rcysl TreA ury IN Havana "a
DUubOBnS ' .'--'
The subscribers will essf all prizes Il per cent dis
couni Charging lOr tne risk, sc. attending eoeeilon
20 Ihe llst VI drawn Sumhels aud -Rrzss.ssll be
mailed 20 purchasers OF Tickets on the arvsI OF the Nail
neennier ttOui Bayanas = Z > tiG AA0GAAA
"a PurchaserS Mil plsass r'e their natures plain
and gre their Post C1hes CnHuly and Stale.
t-4s Balls on all k0lvcut Banks take q n par
20 Orders ior flcksts ShaFes5 the abOrs Scheme
addressed 70 j. Ciscu Co, Charleston, ), "a, viii be
promptly attsrneG 10 i- j. CISCO 4 co -
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NEW ARhIVAI..

TUST received fresh supply OF fftyfOur Btskets a.
sD CHARLES HEIDSICK'5 CHAMPAIGN In au,rts
and pints. Warranted be genuine and superIof a.
tcle B. Il. SIMPSON l14s'.2 q
SeDt3 AZ Public Sor,. /.
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DEsIkABLEI tT1s I1ROPEFxF1 F7SE,S

pRlCK RESIDE e. No 100 Cedar street Lot frcnts
- " ieet Ced Itfeel ad extends back 2e1 feet "
so feet street. kIeO Of Z xauOn. - -.s-.7
Bnek House, cor GER Of Hyues and Knowles Streets
West Nashville Lot ironIs iset ON knouss sssSsts
and extends back on the line Of hyns street, 52 feet
q 20 feet alley. ..-r- -f.. rr'T
Frame hesideree, No 40 South Summer street Lot
fronts 81 -es on summer street. extends back l7O st
OF more 10 a 10 ieet alley. --.-f --., 3. .--,,
BrcE ResIdenee, No. IS. Norta Summer street
Two beautiful COtsage kesieucssin Ewipgs Additicn-
ecn lo hontng % teel on swing Avenue and
back lSO feet 10 fse alley Pree and terms Id Cav
ment extIemly h6erzl d. a.l-5- % ss ElaIlas1S
Brick Residence with eight Rooms POrches IA .vith
Grape Arbor, Carriage House. stables aud Cisern cor
ner Of Washington anu Pearl Streets eat6 Nas va ot
fronts los eet on Pearl street and exteds back Ices
the line VI Washington ssreet, 10 a ~ feet alley.
Double Frame hOass0n GraRdy street, W sst NASHVILLE
Lot fronts 80 feet on Grundy street --- -
Persons wishing to procure nome OF Capitalists de-
nring an oPPorIunliysg profiIaLde 10 ssssinents arr.
invited N call at the Office Of the underszned and l,aru
iu particulars TeAnng 70 theabbve hist OF properly
A. b. ShANkLANDs
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< EGsAKS.-i6.oo0 extra Principe segars received ari
= for sals BY Iocl7l VESSEL &TH0MPS0E.
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TInHUXSTON a BERSskD have relDotsd 20 No Is
\ Pnoic square. nsxi dsor 10 CalhOunS where thsy
Viii be hzPpy tos sh0~ hcG- Castotaefs r,ts Scf Il
Dry Goods consisting Of Blaek truWh, ard BlaS Brsd
Cloths Black and Fancy CsSsIGlnres; Yzstine,s t3ves
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say KOCkErS
USF received an assortment uf Sky Rockets sni Re-
- msn Candies and nor sale by 81 lfa4
octl7 .. WESSEL 4 THOHPSON
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IUST received an excellent assortment of Greer ana
- Black Teas, among which wlll be io.nd The Engss
Breakfast Tes article superior 10 quality aud 6SFor u
any other imported. For sale loS BY
octl7 - VESSEL 4 THOMOSON 'aa
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E4J PTlzsS, 0nOuntln{ To- =. Pa Oo1
4 i "a Il q APf'kCXINATI0NS l.[ ri
the two preceding and tie two sucesednk numbers IN
those winning ths following Prizes VIII be entitled n VIZ
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Chinese immigration.

Below will be found the opinion of the Attorney
General on the subject of the Act to discourage
Chinese Immigration The opinion runs to the effect
that the Act is void inasmuch as it conflicts with
the Constitution of the United States:
OFFICE OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
July 2, 1856.
Aler G. Abell, Esq. Comm,ss oner Of Emjgrants:
SIR: Upon my return home Yesterday, found
your letter of the 9th Of june requesting my opin-
ion as to the constutionaty of the act of the L.
gislature of this State, entitled "An Act to discour-
age the Immigration to this State of Persons who
can not become citizeus thereof"
The Act imposes heavy tax upon persons immi-
grating to this State Wio can net become c. seas
tterecf The want Of capacity to become a citizen.
does not affect the question under consderation-t is
u question of powe'-not of policy; II the power to
tax the immigrant foreigner exists at all portion
of State sovereignty it is certainly not affected by
the status of the person taxed to his capacity or
incapacity to become citizen of the State The
existence of police pcrcr in the State Government
is not to be questioned but its limits and extent are
well fined and its consideration has no applicability
in this connection. Indeed, this question and the
principles of law applicable to its solution were. after
repeated argument, determined by the Supreme Court
OF tie United States in the celebrated cases known
as the Passenger Cases" which were decided to-
gether and are to be found in 7th Towards Reports
And however the weight of the decision of that
Court in those cases may have been lessened by the
fact that its distinguished Chief Justice and three Of
his learned associates dsSented, that decision has
since met the appreciation of the bench and bar gen
orally and at carly day in the judicial history o
this State, its principles received the unqualified ap
proval of the Supreme Court of California.
The result of these authorities is, that the law in
question, which imposes tax upon passengers Of a
ship from foreign port, is a regulation Of foreign
commerce within the meaning of the third subdivision
of the eighth section of the first article of the Con
stuion of the United States, and is, therefore, Uoid
| do not deem il necessary to enter into all extend
cd discussion Of this question, but will merely ado
that my views, irrespective of these authorities
lead Inc to the same conclusion.
Very respectfully, your ob't servt,
| WILLIAM II. WALLACE
ATTORNEY General State of California.
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Attorney General State of California.

THE PHILADELPHIA Fusion CoNvENT1oN.-The
d" Republican General Convention" called by the
committee selected at Pittsburg, on 22d February
met at Philadelphia on the 18th June. The New
York Herald says:
The results of the Philadelphia Fusion Conven-
ton of the anti-admnstration elements Of the North
are before our readers. John Charles Fremont is
nominated as their candidate for the Presidency, and
William L. Dayton, of New Jersey, for the Vice
Presidency, with remarkable degree of enthusiastic
satisfaction. x There is something in
this ominous of resolute and desperate fight with
the Pierce and Buchanan democracy, and no mistake.
The platform of this Convention is most remark
able piece of mechanism, and usa-uS with the Gin
cinnati platform we have the elements thus laid down
of regularly organized sectional contest fibus-
ters, nggerS, Kansas and squatter sovereignty. The
Philadelphia coalition platform may be thus sum-
med up, with the names of the different architects, as
far as our information extends;
Firot-'The tripod Of the Declaration OF Inl pen
denca the Constitution, and the Unon.-N York
Herald.
Second-The denial of any power in Congress- or
any where else to give legal assistance 30 slavery in
any Tclritory.-Judge Mclean.
Third-'lhe ASSERT N of the power in Congress to
prohibit in the Territories those twin relics OF bar
barsm, polygamy and slavery. Judge Mclean.
Fourth-A tremendous constitutional onslaught
upon our Pierce administration a0d the border ru-
fans" with full schedule of their savage atrocities
in Kansas.-Governor Rccder.
Fith-A declaration in favor Of the immediate
admission Of Kansas as Il free State.-W. II. Sew
ard.
Sixth-The indignant reputation of "thc high
waymans plea of the Ostend manifcsto-Francis
p. Bar.
Sevanth-In favor of Pacific Railroad and an
emgrant wagon road.-Iive Oak George Law.
Eighth-ln favor Of river and harbor appropria-
tions-George Law.
Ninth-Knocks the Knownothings in the head
Senator Wilson and Thaddcus Stevens.
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FILLMoRE's ACCEPTANCE.-Mr. Fillmore's reply
to the letter of the committee appointed to commun-
cate to him the intelligence of his nomination, will
be found on our first page. 1t is plain frank and
patriotic article expressing his views on the general
principles of American politics and full endorse
mant of the platform OF the American party. He
accepts the nomination unhesitatingly and without
reserve-not knowing the probabilities of success
but basing his course on the known national charac
ter of the party at whose hands he receives the honor
The candidates for President and Vice President are
now fairly entered for the campaign The Grand
Council, at its recent session., made all desirable
changes ia the workings and ritual-aboshed all Sc
cresy; abolished oaths and passwords; abolished,
where it existed the religious test retaining only
the elements of party purely American, strictly
national pledged to support the Constitution and
the Union and the Natural and Guaranteed Rights
of the respective States and Territories.
1t now remains for the party throughout the several
States TO cntc. the campaign upon the platform
adopted at Philadelphia in February last In Cali
forna, we should begin to act. The Overwhelming
defeat we visited upon the opposition in September
last must not be allowed to deceive the party into
fancied security. There's work to do. A State
to be represented at its capital. Senators and Rep
Nsentatives to be elected, to represent us in the
National Congress. A national mana man Of
character-and inteect-and nerve-to be elected
to the Presidency. There's Pacific Railroad to be
built-a representation, State and National, to bc
elected, which will work for it, and President tc
be elected who will not veto bill for IFS coustruc
tion, in part, by the National Government.
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Georgetown Correspondence.
GEORGETOWN, July IS, 1856.

NEORGETOWN, July 10, 1OoO.
EDITORS ARGUS: 1t may not be amiss to state
that our worthy, entcrprising citizens are rapidly
erecting substantial buildings for business One en-
tire block is being built up, and in few days many
neat and well arranged buildings will be completed
About forty houses are now under way and several
are preparing for erecting ircproof houses, which
will be completed during the summer MIR. Chnn,
who was occupying the Georgetown Hotel, is fitting
up the Temperance Hall, and by Monday next he
will be prepared to serve his guests with the good
things of life. Actual sufferers should be encour-
agd, even though Others may try to supplant them.
The Express companies were at business as usual,
the same day Of the tirc-but alas Uncle Sans
postotlice seems to go abegging 1t is to be hoped
the postmaster will attend to his business, or resign
Some few persons deserve special notice; and in such
IA way as to make them feel the lash irst-it is said
that trader (who is indebted to the people for his
good luck in saving his house and merchandise J
raised the price of -four and other articles and re-
fused indulgence to some, for few days only An
other person charged, for keeping 500 two weeks,
$50-the same being in his safe during the fire.
Again-anothcr man, who had his shantec torn
down, (Which was done for the purpose Of stopping
the re calls the persons who did it, no better
than thieves Such acts and remarks are only a
stride downwards to disgrace,
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BUCHANAN is not in favor of the next war His
letter of acceptance is all peace and concaton. A
Washington letter says, too that his nomination is all
that prevents declaration of war by England, and
that his intimate friendship with Clarendon and
Panerston will secure an amicabe settlement of all
difficulties with that country. How different, from
the tone of the great Michigander! Cass is always
in favor of war, when it will serve to redress the
wrongs of his country and when the honor of his
country's flag demands it. But the chivalry of the
Democracy has departed, and they Offer any price for
peace. Sic transit, &c.
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Curious FAcr-Gen. Jessup, in his report to the
Secretary of War; speaking Of the difficulty of trans
portation to Fort Yuma remarks that in examining
the details of Lit. Wiamson's reconnaissance of the
railroad route from San Diego to Fort Yuma, it has
been observed that while the surface of the Colorado
river at the Fort is thirty three feet above the surface
of the gulf several points the Desert are as much
as seventy feet below that surface. These attitudes
it is understood were determined by the barometer.
Now should the application of the spirit level prove
the barometer to be correct it might well be worthy
of serious consideration whether it would not be
sound policy to submerge the desert from the Colo
RADIO, and thus convert barren waste into naviga-
BILE lake-Sdnta Cruz Sentinel.
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Buchanan in 1856.
Buchanan in 1915.

We ought to use every Il cordially concur III
honest exertion to turn the sentiments expressed
out of power those weak by the Convention on the
and wicked men who have subject of civil and rel-
abandoned the political gious liberty. No party
path marked out for this founded on religious or
country by Washington, political intolerance to-
and whose wild visionary wards one class of Amer
theories have been at ican citizens, long con-
ehgth teSteo py experience tnue to er.a tbs c0un
and found wanting-above ,,u we ore al, emo
orr sboreS fora;on ;nen before God and the cOnst-
ence and cherish exclusive tuton and the dark spirit
ly American feeling For of despotsm and bigotry
elgn influence has been in which would create odlous
every age the curse of Re distinctions omonc our
puo.'eS 49, .ev us .ne fellow citizens, will be
anco and forever ban;ob speedily rebuked by free
this fiend from our socic- and enlightened pubic
ty." opinon."
The matter quoted in the left-hana column above,
is from an Grafton delivered 4th July, 1915 by JAS.
Buchanan, the present democratic candidate for
President.
The matter opposite, is quoted from letter dated
is Wheatland, near Lancaster, June l6, 1885, ac-
ceplmg the nomination as above, and signed JAMES
Buchanan" A great change must have come over
MIR. Buchanans mind in the course of forty-one
years. He discovered that the churc-burning party
with which he was connected in 1915, was a short
lived institutions; and, concluding that No party
founded on religious Or political intolerance towards
one class of American citizens, whether born in our
own or foreign land, can long continue to exist in
this country he has become the representative the
standard-bcarer and embodiment of Democracy
The Empire County argus., 1856-07-19

In THE SHADE.-IIonest John wasn't around at
the time of the Cincinnati Convention. or if he was,
he failed to have his movements chroniced which is
an omission John Biger never WAS known to be
guilty Of We have examined our Atlantic exchanges
pretty closely, and the only mention made Of him is
that in company with brother William" he din d
with "Old Burh about week prior to the meet
ing of the Convention.
One thing is certain, if Buchanan by any chance,
should be elected, the distribution of Offices in Cal
forna will be in the hands of Bigler and Broderck
then wouldn't there be merry fun in the chivary
camp.-Sac. american.
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VINO READS THE DEATHS ?-'The births are
looked for because they were once a rarity in this
State. The marriages are ruminated over by envi-
GUS bachelors and importing husbands Then come
the Deaths Who reads them? Who scans the
paper when it is brought fresh and damp from the
press, in quest Of the account of those who have
fallen victims to the great enemy and taken Their
" silent chambers in the halls of death ?" Who
roads them? Does the miner, at evening when he
sits by his cabin door looking the letter list and
the list of passengers Or the merchant who studio
the Price Current, or the farmer, the professional
man, or the mechanic, who read the Eastern news
and count the chances of elections and civil and
foreign wars No--none of these care to read the
deaths They arc passed over and by and by they
60, whole catalogue Of them, to the Atlantic side
where they are all looked for with a care that com
pensatcs for the long neglect. Mothers, fathers
brothers, sisters friends-tey read the daathal And
as the paper goes round among the group cheeks
pale and tear drops start to many eye for the loss
of one who few years before left home and friends
to look for gold. \ gloom is on the household, for
one OF the household gods has fallen!
The Empire County argus., 1856-07-19

Hollomay's Pills operate benefcally not only upon
the diseased organs but upon the constitution of the
invalid TO quicken the torpid stomach, enable the
disordcred liver to secretc due portion of healthy
bile and remove distractions from the intestines
important objects; but IIoloway's Pills do more
than this They recruit the stamina of the patient
and infuse tone and vigor into the whole vital ma
chinery. The animal spirits, sympathzing with the
physical powers, become light and buoyant, and that
greatest of earthly blessings "a sound mind in a
sound body" is the result. Thousands of persons
who have been cured of chronic dyspepsia and its at
tendant depression by this powerful Alternative and
tonic, know this to be literally true.
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Pol1rIcM.- The Amertcan Organ, published at
Washington, says:
Senator Brodhcad administration Democrat OF
Pennsylvania, openly declared, few days ago, in
this city, that Mr.. Buchanan could not carry Penn
sylvania. Mr.. Brodhead is one Of the shrewdest
politicians in the country, and knows Pennsylvania
as well as any man living"
The Pittsburg (Pa) Gaeette democratic) does
not believe the loud buster Of the Buchanan men
and their boast that they can carry Pennsylvania
1t says:
The opposition will enter the contest with an
equal chance of success; and if prudence and wisdom
rule their counsclS, their triumph is sure. Mr.,
Buchanan has in him no element Of popularity; and
if his friends, now .ubant at their escape from de-
feat at Cincinnati, think they are going to have an
easy victory, they reckoning without their host
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CoRN.-Farmer Robertson, of Piety Hill, present
ed us, the other day, pair of ears-of corn. They
measure respectively, 10 and II inches in length,
and are well filled with plump grain. They were
both extracted 1.-THE Col is some on the extract of
corn from one stalk, which still bears seven ears,
from s to IA inches in length.
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TALL OATs.-We were shown a sample of oats,
the other day, the talest on record # I. The
crop was grown by VIM. NJ Keefer on his ranch
two miles from Georgetown, on the Spanish Flat
road There are number of handsome ranches in
Mr. Keefers neighborhood, all of which have pro-
duced heavy crops this season.
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Fillmore and Donelson !

An American Ratification Meeting will be held
in front of the "Sierra Nevada Hotel on Satur-
day evening, July 26th--one week from tonight!
Turn out, and give Fillmore and Doneson rouser
The Empire County argus., 1856-07-19

AN ERRoR.-We have heard the remark made
that merchants are liable to sustain losses by dam
fges to goods, occasioned by transportation the
Railroad. This is mistake. Transportation com
panies are responsible for all damages occurring tc
Ireights while in their charge. Goods taken from
the Freight House of the Railroad Co. at Folsom
are invariably receipted by the teamsters as dev-
cred in good order" II any damage is apparent at
the time of shipment on wagons, the way-b is made
to denote such injury, and the owner of the goods
will confer favor upon the Company by apprising
the Superintendent of the amount Of such damage,
which will in all cases be cheerfully remitted For
injuries done goods in the carrying from Folsom up,
the Railroad Co. is of course not responsible.
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BENTON has been nominated for Governor of the
State by the Benton Democrats of Missouri, and has
accepted the nomination. He endorses Buchanan
for President and says he will work to secure his
oection-in public capacity if invested with one,
otherwise, as "a private citizen.
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ExPEDITIoUs.-Geo Seare, Agent of Wells Far
go Co., on Monday evening last dispatched a
special messenger to Folsom, and early on Tuesday
morning an express arrived, bringing the Atlantic
and European papers of the Golden Age, for file
of which we are indebted to Geo. Vincent.