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Ed FEE LID.
Sale Extraordfnary.
ON TTIURsDAY, THE aeth ms

ON THURSDAY, THE 26th INST,
PROPOSE to bring OF the largest sale Of LOTS ever made in
that part Of heeity The Lots viii offer that day, are
al the hieky settled portions and are 81 convenient e
business Of Nashville The Log I sail oIeI are in
Lots SO corner Of barrow ard Resell Street. and T. So
So o. 50 CO. O. and G3 the Ne-th side Of Russell street
on the South side Of Russl Street.
Lot No is corner Of Hickory and Faerland street. and 81
Lot No 100 corner Of Oak and Woodland street
Los No. 1873 AID 1874 Gaiatln Tunpke, Immediately ad
'.1''s IN noUsTOy's ADDITION. =
OF Lots y Nos 81 and 81 on Russell siri corner Of Oak Nos
adjoining The neat residence Of Mr. Moore Nos and Gal
'''' III IN BL0OD'S ADDITION.
Those beautiful Los on Woodland street. Nos q and &c, also
and Gaatin Turnpike, Mnnich street,
and adjoining Mr.. CanfelIs Shop, and opposite Davidson
Campie Stores among the stands IN Edgeed
Lots 20, II, ~ 40 s 81 and - en- Fatherapd street
IN fOSTEE's ADDITIoN.
Lots Nos ;, 4 ., g. 7,s . TO- H. - and 49, all Galan
IN IIobson and wheIess First Addition.
-Four Lots fronting each 50 feet Gallatin Turnpike 249
deep, Of them improved. This is bc addition which
This iaepdsdto be the most interesting sale brought of
in Edgefeld
riy secured Feing interest and lien retained. Idsre
the promptly 10 o'clock Commencing at Lot
No 50 in shegs addition FOR further Information cali
A. VS. LINDSLEY
Z. X 6LAscocK' Aucuoneer may
Freight transportation.
g -
BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAIL ROAD
COMPANY,
FgHE Southern Road Of the four great lines This road has
thus far been managed in such way to
the public patronage
This Company, under the general superintendent Of
IA. ID. mEARS, General Freight Agent,
Now offers Inducements % shippers u Baltimore, Philadelphia,
New York, Bostena Richmond, Petersburg, &c exceedingly
low rates and FAR below Neg Orleans prices their
term with the deductions upon Insurance Of and half per
cent by this route and the European shipping being from
lngs sterling less than the New Orleans shipping prices,
all contribute 10 rendeFit
EseIiabsc as we'll as Desirable.
Their facilities for transportation unequalled by any other
road in operation, their WeerE terminus is PARK
ERSBURGIl, hf1dFo8 aud ninety mites below the low
water and most dangerous navigation OF the
enables in ordinary the delivery goods only ceraIn
with dispatch, OF any other route, wa
declines their advantages Of delivery
gidens on other routes, 50 that this is the only
Cheap, Reliable and Speedy Route.
Freight by this exposed weather than by other
rshugh under well shielded oa and elevated from thence by
steam Immediately to the cars without being subject
OH
The Louisville steamers connect direct with Parkersburgh
boats without delay, does likewise the regular Cincinnati
oats The Pittsburg boats direct Parkerur BY
his arrangement the Company enabled T. receive freight
lay for this route al their agency In Nashville, Tenn.
For further particulars enquire Of
H H. HARRISON, Freight Agent,
No. ,, corner BEoad and Front Streets
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Foreign MARKER.

LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.-Sales of Cotton to-day
estimated at 5000 bales. Market quiet, prices ia
v'r buyers. Wheat advancing, other markets IN
changed.
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River News.
ST. Louis. May 20.-TEe river is stationary at
this point. The Missouri and upper Mississippi are
falling.
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CANDIDATES.



We are authorised to JoHS SHANE, Esq
ddats for reelection the Office OF Criminal Court Clerk at the
next March election.
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No. 27--NeW Style.

A new and elegant machine. Extra finish large
size, highly ornamented. Arranged in rosewood,
mahogany, or black walnut eSses, which can be
completely closed and locked. Is beautiful piece
of furniture.
This Machine seWs with perfect ease the very I'm
est as well the courser fabrics, will stisch rist-
band more neatly than the most delicate fingers,
and with the sew two thieknesses of three
ply carpets with suitable and appropriate threads
Sews with ease SILK COTTON, LINEN, or FLAX
THREADS, one and all the same.
The Grover & Baker Machines are sold in Tennes-
see at the same prices as at New York No sddi-
tional charge is made further than to cover ezpen
ses of transportation, &C., to the points Of SALE
within said State
R. H. BROCKWAY,
Ohics-No.4, Public Square, Nashville, Tenn.
PRINCIPAL SALES ROOMS.
NASH VILE.
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GEEERAL WnEAT-Tbe Memphis Bullefi1 Of the
18th says: "This gentleman, well known a an eff
Ger from this city in the Mexican War; aad also from
the prominent position occupied by him in the Wal
ker movement in Nicaragua, came passenger from
New Orleans yesterday, by the Ingomar. en- route
for Washington, bearer of dispatches to our Gov
eminent from Minister McLane, nov at the city of
Mexico The General at present holds office as
Brigadier-General in the liberal army of Mckee.
He left Vera Cruz about ten days stnce and desiring
to reach Washington at early day as possible,
took last evenings train for that city. Gen. Wheat
is confident Of the success Of the liberal party in
Mexico. The Jusrez Government is already recog-
nized by tWenty-one States of that Republic while
that of Miramon is distracted by internal dissen-
sions, and the recent Outrages psrpetrated in the
City of Mexico by the church party is reacLing upon
them in the few States which yet profess allegiance
to that party. The General reports that Miramon
has declared his determination TO execute every
American that may fall in his power, and that al
ready has he given evidences Of his sincerity by the
most brutal assassinstions of American citizens"
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New YORK, May 20 Cotton, sales unimportant;
holders demand an advance Of a 2; Flour declined
25a30c-5.75a6,75 for State. 722a7 40 for Ohio;
Southern similarly declined Mess Pork lG %; Lard
Halls: Sugar dnll Orleans 1855
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". M. RARGRAVE,

HOUSE, SEGy, AND ORRAlfKY7ALPALYSER
P20A0 STREET,
sept H-a NAsHvnLE, TEES
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SSs-S RUGE is free from one great objection to ether
medicines; tcontains neither mercury, Of its cor
rOsive oxs and yet is much expeitios and certain in
its expuo action, thauaHy the remedies called,
that are impregnated with mineral poson.
Be particular and remember the OWNERS Canadian
Yermuge This the oLy article that he relied Re
memie- this
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I.ONpON FORTE
DIR. M'kEE3N,
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Hoist, host our flag 70 heavens breeze,
let every fold float nigh,
Unfold its banner everywhere,
Beneath The western SKY
IN war, let every stripe 60 forth,
Borne ~ TIE psjTiot's hand,
Proclaim its beauty and its worth,
Ger and hill aud strand.
In peacc guard wen the sacred boon,
Bcquesthci by PATRIOTS blood,
For Oh! twas won in freedoms cause,
Amid the battles food.
Hoist, hoist, our flag to heavens breeze,
Let every fold h0at high,
Unfurl its banner everywhere,
Beneath the western SKY.
Hoist, hoist, our flag in Art great reign,
lie. every star float higher,
Up with the nations emblem,
Above the tallest spire.
Let reunessetns every where
Let every State around,
Know where a type Of nature s made,
Where every type is iOund-s
Above our own ATt Gallery,
Our country standard wave,
And underneath its folds preside,
The heauuful-tle brave
The child--tne par.nt-patriot-sire,
The warrior without strife,
Rests here, in sweetest portraiturel
With every charm but life
Then raise our bannerto the sky
Let every star bear news,
That types al the art GALLERY,
Are made py e. 2, HUGHES,
'sRls-dssE& Corner vi college and Union SITS,
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81, Louis Marker
Ne1v York RInrket.

ST. LOUIS, May 2O.-Fleur 625; Corn, yellow.
s., white 80; Oats 70a72; Whisky 2sa2sI Hemp
1,l0a1.15, Wheat declining
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SPRING STOCK.
TRIMMINGS STORE.
OSCAR 30 HME a. CO,
Have Just opened attheir stand
~ Fl ( q q

IAkE1 MINES STOKE
OSCAR 30 8WE d CO.
Have Just opened at their stand
NO. UNI o str et,
complete stock u Fall and Winter
DRESS An y MANTEELA TRIMMINGS.
G7OMPRIsTNG full assortment Of plain and figured Velvet
Bibbons Gallons, Fnngs, Bugle Ginps, Giape Trimmings
Belts Buttons Brals Buge Buttons, SC, Slc al Of which
entreyn and the best that could begot in the Eastern Markets
TcphiT HEcrinO ard Shetland Wool,
Embroidered Bras and Silks Crochet Embroidery and spool
hroidery and Croce Work complete and larger variety
quantity than We also continue TO manufacture
PRINCESS TassCis, Buttons, COrsdss &c,s
To Orer as usual, and will tEy to suit al and eveybOdy
sepI2-tf
A Gard 20 the Ladfcs--Dr. DupOncOss Pc
riOdicai pills fer EcEaaless-sAEe ufailible for
moving SlCppaggs or Irregularities Of the Aenses.
The Pills nothing but have been used ty the Doctor in
his practice for many years, both France and America With
paraele every case; and he urged by many thou
sand ladies' Who used them the Pills public. for the
alienation Of those suffering from irregularities whatever,
preventive to ladies' whose health will not permit increase Of
ny.
toned against using pills Willie in that condition, the prOprie
EesOsby after the above adonOn, although
their mhness would prevent any Injury to health otherwise these
pills recommended Directions each box Price
EwIN, PENDLETON & CO.,
Wholesale Druggists, Nashville, Tenn.
To whom al orders must be addressed. They Will supply The
Propetor prices and furnish show cards and circulars
Sold at Retail in Nashville by
DEMOYILLE < BELL, No ID Cherry street.
G. W.uENDEEsHOTTc cor Cellar st., and Public Square
BEACH & GOBLET, Market S., opposite Union street.
J. STRETCH, corner Of Broad and Market streets.
Ladies by enclosing to either Of the above agents. have
the above Pills sent cOnfdentaly) by mail to part Of the
city country.
n B-The ingredients composing these Pills are made known
every selling them. They viii tell you that they al
they represented be- Ask for DIR. D pOucO's Coll
den Pills. See the Signature on each box you vii then &c
medicine you may depend upon, perfectly harmless
MANSFIELD < CO.. Agents for Memphis.
WILSON L STARBIRD. Agents for Louisville.
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ALE1 WIiliAd sJS AEgI-l cHEaTHsa
WILLIAMSON & CIIEATHA1E,
IMPORTERS OF
BFaHdies, Wines, and Liquors,
DEALERS
HAVANA CIGARS, TOBACCO &c., &c.g
no. . COLLEGE S7EE.T
NASHVILLE, TEHEESSEE.
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FLOUEE! FLOIR!I

We have advanced the price Of our superaue Flour
Rock City fam in sack, retail S4O0 wholesale pr sack
- bills. $50, SEM LbI
Old Hickory superfne in sack, $50, 325 sack
4" " bbls, $50, " 100 Dbl
may l2-Iw, J.R. BAUMAN co.
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OF Fine Hacks and 0mnbuses-Fars TEN CENTS ordinary
baggage fat the regular arriving and departing Of Trans
Leave your sres the slate At the Stable Passages arriving
The Trains or leaving any part Of the y would 90 vel 70
call Tor the UNION LINE, A,s. COAfs
ap22-iy krsP3sRot'
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J. WRIGHT { CO.. Sole Prcprietors
For sale in Nashville By W BERsY DENovHIE and by
C BROwE. may 6d,tw&wlm
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SSSS~~s to preserve tic body perfect health
not to wait for the Development Of diseases e wise in tme
check and guard against the FIRST approach Keep the stomach
and blood healthy and pure and the plaques Of poisoned at
mosphee fan harmless The only remedy that will thoroughly
purify The blood and The time strengthen and nvgcrate
The system, IS McFASs SIEiNGHTNiNG CORDIAL Blood
PrEuH Try and you viii be convinced. See advertisement.
mavI-S&wIm
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BENSON 81 SVEEEFBRY,
NEW CITY HAT AND CAP STORE
No. 20 Union street,
NEXT Door To e.. u. DONGEGIhrS
TN nieryued have just opened at the above 90
y named place large and complete assortment Of 81
90 Hats, Caps, Straw Goods, SC, comprising the y
LATEST SPRING STYLES,
Which offering prices 10 suit the times II
wish u be made TO look Dung ami spruce, call
BENSON - EyEsERiE8:S
CITY HAT AND CAP STORE,
And purchase 90 those handsome sly Hats, which
We introduced Saturday.
The youthful and the gay invited and select some
thing that is beautiful for the head,
BENSON a. EsREEISIEYsS
CITY HAT STORE.
, Weare manufacturing hats to Observation-Disclosures bv
", A. WHERBI, wlo has long been known tine community.
ap3 BENSON & WHERRY.
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Iserninr Hack and Omnibus Stable

Church ST., inst below the Post office
R-ES - Ny arrangements such = - .
49, f3L 10 enable 70 furnish fine 49, tx
cS5@~exJ Hacks & Omni busse Sf5->eSj
The Kanzas news., 1859-08-06
Take Time to Think.

ThoughtIess labor is most improbable. A
carpenter cannot lay out frame of house
thoughtlessly, and have each part fit its cor
responding part The woman who makes
your shirt has to calculate-has to think
while cutting it out. 1t is not lost time we
spend in careful thought, in planning our
labor, reasoning of effects to result from
certain causes. If wheat is to be sown, let
us think of the preparation necessary-of
the mode of doing it, of the profit of it.
John Brown knows that be wants an eighty
acre lot plowed. When things come
round, )" he goes at it. He does net stop
to think If wet, no matter-if dry and
cloudy, all the same-if the work might
pro6tably be deferred and other work per
formed, that needs it, it makes no difference
10 John Brown. If it costs him double
the amount it would to perform it at a sea-
sona5Le time, no matter, Johns thought
lessness keeps him ignorant of his losses;
ignorance is bliss. and it's folly to be wise
folly to think, perhaps % Take time to
think. There is no need of whirling through
life like popinjay. 1t is not the way to
make the most of it, If you desire cash,
you can only get it by thinking, calculating,
and laboring for it. If happiness is desiF-
ed, it is only obtained, substantially, by
earnest, serious thought.--Emery's Journal
and Prairie Farmer ..ss @
The Kanzas news., 1859-08-06
JOB PRINTING.

The once Of THK kansas Nfws "a fafaisAed
With complete assortment of the newest styles
OF fyps' Bcrderss Flourishes. Cuts, Cards, Fancy
Papers, Goiored Inks. Bronze, &C., enabling the
proprietor to print ORcuLAzs. CAzps, CEHrTscATEs
OF SrocR. DEEDs, PosrERs, and al other kinds of
jos 7PR1sEINes N manner unsurpassed IN ne
country: Particular attention paid 70 printing
all kinds Of Blanks. Orders for work promptly
attended 70 when aecompanied with Casa "E1-
cELsIoR" is our NOTE -s.s rs-a~-s
Blank Warranty and Mortgage Deeds. Bonds,
Executions. Sg1Rcns, 1SubpenAs. Attachments,
Recognixances. ETC.. constantly en hand.
The Kanzas news., 1859-08-06

previously. Nat receiving the old clock,
worth about twenty dollars, for a ten shil-
ling article. Nat now thought it about
time to travel, and accordingly departed
He slowed the old clock, together with the
Squire's spoons, carefully away in the bot
tom of his wagon, out of sight, and started,
but had not gone far when he met the
SquiTe's wife, of whom he had managed to
get full description, beth with regard to
her temper and appearance, returning home
ward. .-Fe=l so ,sa.l5 .14ze-s So - ara
"Aint Jour name Mrs. B.2'' he inquired
as they met. - .-..-.-srs, 8.
Yes % said the old lady, snappishly, .'but
what's that your business go
"Oh, nothing" replied Nat, ''only didn't
know but what you'd like to buy few mo-
tions-a pair of scissors, for instance. l
stepped into your house, yonder, and the
Squire told me he had broke yours since
you bin gone-but he said he wouldn't buy
any new ones for you, and you shouldn't
buy for yourself" -' =
s'Did he say that ?" said the old lady, de-
6ance flashing from her eyes. ;s
''He did SO, replied Nat. ''and said you
shouldn't buy scissors or nothing else with
out his consent.
f'It's all very well for him to talk that
way behind my back, but he wouldn't do
it if was there @s W
..I'll show him whether Til buy anything
or not" she continued determinedly, as she
Immediately proceeded to purchase numer7
Gus articles to the amount of about three
dollars, all the money she had with her, af-
ter which she proceeded homeward boiling
over with wrath, and Nat proceeded on his
way whistling. Words would fail to give a
correct description of the scene of crimina-
tion and which followed when
the Squire's wife reached home, and we
shall not attempt it, but shall pass on to an
incident which occurred some time after.
The old folks had been reconciled to each
other, and went by invitation to neighbor-
ing town. While there they found their
way into a show-shop, and almost the first
thing that attracted their attention, was
their old clock It looked as natural as ev-
er, and was altered in nothing save its his
tory-:hey learned for the first time, from
a label upon it,, that it bad once been the
property of Gen. Washington, aud that it
had been bought at auction by gentleman,
together with the documents proving its
identity, and sold to the proprietor of the
show for ta0o hundred dollars Nat Tuck
er was the last pedler that ever ''sold'' the
Squire.
The Kanzas news., 1859-08-06
Tom Corwin.

This gentlemen, somewhat prominent IN
the world of politics. bitter opponent of
the Democratic party, made aspeech recent
ly at Xenia, Ohio. In relation to the fugi-
tive slave Law he said.
He didn't ike the fugitive slave law
wouldn't have voted for it; bat it vas a
law, had been sustained by all the courts.
and must be obeyed until repeaIed-if odi-
Gus, repeal IT, Until this was done, its
penalties must be enforced by the proper
authorities. He would respect conscien-
tious violation Of it, but the courts could
not. The sheriff eonld not stop 70 ask the
man who he was about 70 hang, whether ne
was constitutionally opposed 70 hanging,
He ridiculed Squatter Soversignty: showed
against II. and hoped that the Republican
party, with which be had great pleasure N
acting, would not iss this hsresy creep into
It's church -
The Kanzas news., 1859-08-06
The Battle of solferino.
from the London Times of Jun


At four O'Clock in the bright summer
morning of Friday last, nearly $50, 900 men
stood on Gods green earth, to begin the
work of slaughter. For. seventeen hours
the multitude swayed to and fro in mortal
strife; now here, now there, the surge of
battle rolled until night closed in around
the retreating ebb. AS if hell itself had
broken loose, the peals of thunder from the
clouds which blackened the sky towards
evening. drowned the roar of artillery, and
the glaring lightning flashed in company
with the fires of the cannon Picture it to
yourself. The gigantic Alps on one side,
the hills of Volta on the other, the river
Chiese running on to the great plain of Man
tua, and in that narrow place $50, 600 men
Gus implements of warfare. Our boasted
civilization comes to this-rivers dyeing
with human blood; stacks of corpses piled
upon the plain; shouts of triumph and
groans of despair; men mutilated for life;
and misery, mourning and desolation.-
Imagination tolls in vain to realize the sto-
ry of more than $4,000 men engaged in
mortal conflict over an area the front of
which extended 12 miles. The common in
cident of battle, the plunging cannon shot,
the devouring grape, the advance of long
drawn columns, the resistance of dense
masses, the furious charges of cavalry. the
sudden deploy into lines lengthening in long
vista, and meeting in stern and furious col
lision, bayonet to bayonet; are all in such a
mighty battle as this multiplied to indis-
tinctness. We seek in vain to single out
the details of slaughter, and the mind how
ers hopelessly over mist of carnage. Af-
ter sixteen hours of thundering sounds and
dense smoke, and shrill death-shrieks, and
the rush of squadrons shaking the earth,
and the measured tramp of many thousands
marching to death, and of the shouts of
multitudes in strong excitement, the turmoil
subsidies, and we are told that upon one
side alone 5000 killed and wounded are
stretched upon the plain. No eye can take
it all in, for it extends beyond human Wis
ion; no ear can hear it all, for the boom of
the cannon which tears chasm through
the human mass at the wing. is inaudlble
at the centre; single groan is lost IN such
chaos of butchery as this; we arrive at
the point where figures cease to have pow
er to increase our conceptions of multitude,
and where the highest force of Enumeration
can go no further than TO overwhelm US
with feeling of the wickedness OF ambi-
ton and the horrors of war. 1
The Kanzas news., 1859-08-06
The French Field Telegraph.

From the Paris correspondent of the london Globe.
A war correspondent, dating from Bres-i
cia on the Gath of June, reports fact which
has not hitherto transpired. concerning the
scientific appliances of electricity to war
purposes It would appear that the remark
able precision and unity of the French ev-
olutions were accomplished by quite nov
el sort of flying aides-de-camp. From each
corps, once In position, horseman rode
off TO the next division, unrolling on his
rapid course light wire. which no time
was lost-in adapting to a field apparatus;
and the process was repeated all along the
French line OF twelve miles. Hence the
movement of the whole army was known
and regulated like clock-work ''from dawn
to dewy-eve," on that decisive day. This
arrangement had been planned in Paris, and
a supply of gutta percha-covered metal
thread forwarded with secrecy and dispatch.
1t has done its work, and the patent may
now be disclosed. Portable galFanism
beats portable gas. 1t was already known
to both armies that special teiegraphie
corps operated in the rear of the Allies, and
laid wires as fast IS an advance vas made.
Ii. Lair is the Chief Engineer, and the first
Frenchman who entered Novara, while the
Austrians we're scarce yet out of it. was ID.
Ganthier, of that staff, who set up his box
and teleezsphed Ihe details of the retreating
corps at the moment they were outside the
gates -
The Kanzas news., 1859-08-06
Handsome Women to Travel with.


Handsome Women TO Travel With.
If it is in contemplation to spend several
days at a time in hotels in cities, or in small
towns, or to be a good deal in steamboats,,
to do so with the largest amount of comfort
and complacence, in consequence of having
the best things and the best places, the first
and best and promptest attention from land
lords, clerks, and servants, travel with
handsome woman. There is nothing like it.
No fairy wand will transmogrify things so.
Beauty "rules the roost' everywhere. 1t
commands everybody, from hostler to host.
You may yourself be nobody; you may
have pug nose, red head; you may be
perfect ''duck'' of a man-so short and fat
that you can't make even respectable wad-
die; your face may be poek-marked; your
back may be bumped; your shank perfect
spindle, and your leg bow-only mag
nifcent woman along, and for her sake you
will be treated all your journey through as
menials treat master, as courtiers treat
their king. We have tried it, reader, in
our earlier years and later. and know its de-
light; not bothering ourselves with any
over-nice determinations, comfort is COM
fort, whatever may be the motive from
which it springs. 4 diamond is q dia-
mond, although washed from the mud by
a blackamore. a