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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-08
A New Kxnk.

just before the adjournment OF the
House OF Representatives, in the
radical Congress, on Tuesday Last,
Mr.. Banks, from the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, introduced o bill,
which was ordered to be printed,
'for the admission of the States of
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cana
da East and Canada West, and for
the organization of the Territories OF
Selkirk, Saskatchewan and Colum
bia." The bill was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Foreign
Affairs. AS a matter of curiosity,
and of interest, if it ever should
amount to anything, we extract some
Of its provisions:
''The first section provides that,
whenever notice shall be deposited in
the Department Of State, that the
Governments of Great Britain and
Of the Provinces have accepted the
propositions made in tho second sec
ton, the President of the United
States shall publish, by proclama-
ton, that the States of Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick, Canada East and
Canada West, and tho Territories of
Selkirk, Saskatchewan and Columbia
are constituted and admitted as States
and Territories of the United States
Among the propositions is one, that
the United States will assume the
Provincial debt, at not exceeding fivo
per centum interest, rs follows: Cana
da West, $36, 800, 900; Canada East,
S29, 900, 600; Nova Scotia, So, 900, 900;
New Brunswick, $1,000, 600; New
foundland, $3,2OO,0Oo; Prince Ed
wards Island, $2,OOO,OOO. The
United States are also to pay S1O,-
600, 900 to the Hudson Bay Com
pany.''
Notwithstanding this extravagant
bid for her Majcsty's North American
possessions, VIC feel very sure her
loyal subjects would reject it with
scorn. They would not become po-
litically united with the Yankees for
oil the millions of greenbacks that
could be struck Off on the Govern
ment presses for twelve months.
They despise them and their tricks as
much rs some of the rest of us, and
will be keen enough to observe that
the introduction of the bill at this
late stage of the session is merely for
party political effect, and is more
likely to become matter of ridicule
than q subject of serious considera-
ton on the part of the American
people.
We do not know what the serious
object is in this new scheme of annex
alton. 1t may possibly be for an
accession of political power to the
North, or it may be either to con-
ciliate the Fenian vote by depriving
Great Britain of her territory, or to
head them in acquiring possession OF
it. If the latter, these sapient legis-
lators had better hurry up the cakes,
for the Fenians are again organizing,
or trying to do so, for another grand
invasion of the soil of England.
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The CASE OF SHOWERS. Rs.-General
Sickles has declined to deliver Fran
els Showers on the writ of Aabeus cor.
p'es issued by Judge Bryan, of the
United States District Court. After
stating some premises, the General
gives the following reasons for his
response to the application:
1st. That these parties were tried,
convicted and sentenced, by court,
according to the proclamations, or
ders and acts of the competent de-
partments Of the Government, hav-
ing proper cogniZance Of tho crime
with which they were charged
%. That these parties, of their own
motion, have taken and laid before
the President of the United States,
for his official action, the record and
all the proceedings in their case; and
that the whole matter, including the
disposition to be made of these par
ties, is now before the President of
the United States, whose opinion in
the case, and whose order touching
the disposition of these parties, is
binding on the undersigned.
Sd. That the undersigned has no
power by which he can in any man
ner interfere with the present aispo-
sition of these parties Without tho
further order of the President uf The
United States.
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Our New YORK MAILS As uninterr,.p,
cd connection has now been cona,ricrcd on
the great routes rid the Charlotte Railroad.
we hope the Northern mails 5os, Cos.aabia.
VIII be restored to that to.1ee. For the.
past week, our New York mails have,
reached us cid Charleston, which. for news-
paper use, is twonty-tonr hours delay, and
IS, besides, serious Inconvenience to Ill
having correspondence With tho North,
as. II their letters were received by the
Charlotte train in the morning, they could
be answered the same day.
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Local Iten@.
Mortgages and Conveyances OF Rea, F.
tate for sale atthis Office.

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Mortgages and Conveyances OF Rea, f.
tate for sale at-this office.
1aE BURNING OF CoLums1A.-An inter.
-es'h < account OF the s'Sack and Destruc.
ton Of the City of Columbia, s. his.
just been issued, ill pamphlet form from,
'hc f1tkntt power press. Orders fil;.., to
any extent Single copies SO cents.
BOOK AND JOE PRINT1Ne. The pher,,ir
once Is now fully supplied with car,ls.
colorcd and white paper, colore,l ink. wool
Type, etc, and is iii condition TO execute nj,
manner OF book and job printing in the
shortest possible time.
We wish to draw the attention OF onr
readers to new articlce OF soap, adver-
tised III our columns. 1t is vouehed for 1.
us AS good article, and we, III consc
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DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN. regret
70 announce the death, yesterday morn
ing, after an illness OF four weeks, Of G.
s. Bower, Esq, all old citizen and NOR
chant OF Columbia. Mr.. g. was n native
o1 Massachusetts,, We believe, but had re-
sided in this city for many years. He leav.s
large circle OF relatives and friends TO
mourn his loss. The funeral will take place
this morning, at O'Clock.
We are indebted to J. j. McCarter. ESQ.
FOR copy Of book entitled ssIn Trust: or
DIR. Bertrand's Household" by Amanda
NJ. Douglas. Boston: Lee & Shepard
We have heretofore published a criticism
OF tins truly interesting work, and will
only say that it will repay perusal, as it ia
story tho incidents OF which will be
brought forcibly before the mind OF tho
head of many a household.
THE RACES. was the last dav
OF the races, and although match or two
which was expected did not como of, vet
the number OF quarter races made up for
the deficiencies
We learn that project is OH foot to per-
manently organize Jockey Club in this
city, and put the race course in thorouph
order.
CLOSE CoNNECTIoS.-Th trains going
North and South rin the Charlotte and
South Carolina Railroad and the Sontb
Carolina Railroad make close connection
this morning. Heretofore, since the adon.
ton OF the new schedule, there was no con-
ncct!on between the two roads in the
morning going South, thereby causing a
days delay in this city to passengers going
South by this route.
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ORIGINAL STORY OF THE WAR.-We will
present to our readers, in the next issues
OF our papers-the then,1 and the
GIednet-the commencement of a story,
written expressly for this paper. 1t is from
the pen Of a South Carolinian, and ia eati.
tied ELLEN EARLY-A TALE OF rHE LATE
WAR" The story is we'll written, and the
plot and incidents conceived in good taste
IL VIII furnish entertainment during the
heated term. 1t will extend through ten
or twelve numbers of the I'hanir and
ab"at three numbers ofthe Cleaner and il
will possess interest for all.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES THIs DAY.-Trinity
Church Rev. +. J. Shand, 1Ol a. m. ana
5p. IN.
Presbyterian Church -Rev. W. r. Bocgs.
fastor, 10! 4. III. and 5 p. IN.
BAPTIST Chnrch-Rev J. T.. REYNOLDS 1ois
a. IN. and 81 p. M. Rev. VIM. T. Gamers s
p. m.
St Peters Church Rev j. J. O'Conneu
10 4. IN. and p. nl
lutheran Church Rev. A. Il. Ruae lo1
Il. IN.
Marion Street Church Rev. N. Tai
ley, lol a. IN. Rev. l.. Il. Gage, S p. m.
and 81 p. M.
Christ Church Lecture Room-Rev. J. M.
Prinsie, Rector, 10! a. m. and y. IN.
MAIL ARRANGEMENTS. The Post Office is
open dnring the week from a. m. tolp.
III. ana from % =. IN. to 2 p. m. On Sun
day, from 8 to . a. M
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We wish to draw the attention oy o,,
readers to new article. OF soap, adver-
tised III our columns. 1t is vouched for I.
us AS good article, and we, in consc
quencc, recommend trial.
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BOOK AND JOE PRINTrNa The Ph.r,,jr
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coiorcd and white paper, colored ink. wool
type, etc, and is i'll condition TO execute all
manner Of book and job printing. in thu,
shortest possible time
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The Evansville journal says Gen.
Grant whipped Lee" When? We
recollect that he once smuthered him
to death with a quarter of a million
OF Irish and Dutch; but we never
heard OF Gen. Lee being whipped by
anybody.
A Victoria despatch says, q bill
uniting the colonies Of Vancouver's
Island and British Columbia, has
been introduced into the Imperial
Parliament, which allowed the
United Parliament twenty-three mem
bers.
The Cincinnati Commercial SAYS:
"Hon. Thomas J. Turner, Chairman
of thu Republican State Central Com
mrttee Of Illinois, has departed from
the faith, and gonc over to fhe John
son party
Gov. Browulow has left Nashville
for brief visit to Knoxville. 1t is
asserted that he never travels without
guard. 1t ought to be Il black
guard.
It Is reported that riot occurred,
on the 2d, among the soldiers at Fort
Schuyler, New York, and that four or
five were shot. It is thought it origi-
mated in fear of cholera
Scene in New York tenement
honse-Corpse of cholera patient
and twenty-five persons sleeping
soundly within yard of it.
George Roberts, who established
the first penny paper in Boston, is
erecting a splendid hotel in New
York.
The Washington RepuMic.a says it
Is reported that Napoleon will cali to
his aid James Gordon Bennett in
altering the map of Europe
\ cotemporary says Prussia whip
ped Austria, while the latter was
stripping for the fight. Such things
happen not unfrequently.
Louis Napoleon is building a
IS, 100000 opera house in Paris,
which will rival, in extent aud grand
eur, the Coliseum at Rome. :.
White women in New York are
earning eleven cents day making
shirts
The Atlantic cable commenced
whero the congressional cabal left off
in the mud.
y woman died in a dentists Office
in Biddeford, Maine, while under the
influence of chloroform
Boston Las seven daily papers, only
halt as many as ten years ago.
The big crops at the West indicate
a fall in prices.
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There are cheering indications that
it is the purpose of the President,
before long, to bow-string number
OF the military satraps of the radical
party, and put conservative soldiers
from West Point in their places. The
Augean stable Of the Freedmen's
Bureau tsands sadly in need of cleans
ing. In many places where these
agents of the Jacobins have been
stationed at the South, they have
Lost no opportunity Of exasperat-
Ing and goading our people almost to
desperation. Far from attempting
to promote kindly relations between
the whites and the blacks, they have
become partizans of the negroes, in
shameful disregard of their duties as
the members of an honorable pro-
fession. Many of these men have
utterly disgraced themselves by seek
ing to lnfiame the preiudices of the
North against the South. -
II the report of the Reconstruction
Committee was submitted to @ board
OF military gentlemen who had
graduated at West Point, we think
they would, upon reading the defama-
tory testimony against the South of
many military officer, "declare that
he had been guilty of conduct un-
becoming an officer and a gentle
man" What would the "old army
officers" think of an order to an
artist, in this city, to photograph the
back OF a negro girl-which photo
graph appeared the very next week in
that unclean journal, "IHarper's
Ipeekly?"- Times.
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News Items.

New YORK, August 12.-The deaths
for the week were about SOO-only
three cases Of cholera.
Yesterday, Nathaniel G. Bishop,
insurance broker, was sued for q di-
vorce by his wife, and he and ais
paramonr, Clara b. Wallace, were
arrested and committed, for want of
bail. Bishop is sixty-tw years old,
and has 100000 yearly income.
Vera Cruz advices report O number
Of arrests OF alleged conspirators,
who, it is said, intended killing or
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E. na8 ltaa1 OF PIckens District. viii
dls:.s7Il1k5 sell. to the highest bidder.
at pn6hG ont-cry, at Pickens Court House.
the REAL ESTATE of JAMES i,AY de,
ceased, consisting Of about 1900 acres.
more or less. >''" "o'o''
This valuable Tract Of Land ia situatea
IN Cheoiee, (about 200 acres Of which ie
good Bottom Land, in high state of cuI-
t1yatlon,) on the North fork Of IittIe
1aTer and adjoining lands Of Z. III. Perry
y. y. morton and others.
, The place is we'll improved, with DWELL
INH ana all necessary out-buildincs there
on. 1t ls also finely timbcred and las a
g"Da outlet for stock of all kinds.
;, Ihere is MILL and good min sita or,
The premises. va
Ihe precious metal-Gold-abounds in
1neqheo' ,a ana tber. is said to be good dig
This tract lies thirteen miles North OF
>! Walhaila. -''' :" "
There Is good CROP OF CORN on the
premises, the rent Of which (one-third,
! vail be sold with the land.
So plat Of the place will be exhibited
ON day of sale.
Terms OF SALE.-On credit Of ono and
two years, with interest The purchaser
to give bond and good security. with a
mortgage OF the premises, to secure tho
payment of the n"rchase money.
aug II 'o2 VI. A. LAY, Executor.
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The Wilmington Joss,zaalannounces
the arrival Of the first bale of new
cotton IN that place. It was from
the plantation of Mr.. N. 8. Barnes.
Edgecombe County.
The small pox and the yellow fever
have commenced their ravages at
Havana and other ports in the West
Indies.
A Johnson man at Saratoya Is ~,
radical supporter of '.my policy
that ne won't drink from the Con
gress Spring.
Ayoung girl of fourteen years has
been tickled to death in Indianapois
by her mother.
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RATES OF POSTAGE. rates of
postage on letters to be forwarded in
the plailS, to any part of the United
States, ls-three cents per half ounce.
prepaid.
The postage on letters dropped in
the post Office for deGveryin tie city,
is two cents per half ounce, pre-
paid. .
Transient newspapers, pamphlets,
proof-sheets, book-manuscripts, sam
ple-cards, photograph-cards, cards.
maps, blanks, blank paper, engrav-
1ngs, envelopes, seeds, roots, scions,
and printed matter, Except circulars
and books, are rated at two cents for
every four ounces, or fraction there
Of, prepaid.
Double the abovcs rates charged
for books
Unsealed circulars, one and not
exceeding three in number in one
envelope, are charged two cents; and
III that proportion for greater num-
Der, to one address, paid.
Canada and the British provinces,
ten cents per half ounce, prepay
mont optional.
Newfoundland, ten cents per half
ounce, must be prepaid
Great Britain and Ireland, twenty
four cents per half ounce, prepay
ment optional.
France, fifteen cents per quarter
ounce, prepayment optional.
The postage on all letters deposit
ed for delivery in this city, or to be
forwarded 10y mail 20 any part of the
United States, Tor to any foreign
country to which payment is re-
quired, must be prepaid by postage
stamps. Letters deposited without
being properly prepaid, are sent i'm
mediately to the dead letter office,
Washington.
Money orders upon any money
order office may be procured.
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THE KENTUCKY ELECTION. Tho
Louisville Courier, of Wednesday,
says:
We publish in this mornings
Courier, returns official and reported
from forty-four Counties in the State,
which foot up majority for Duvall
of 27,3SS votes. The Democracy
make clean sweep, as not a single
County yet reports majority for
Hobson. The nearest to it is Lewis
County, in which the result is stated
as doubtful. There are sixty-six
Counties yet to hear from, many of
which are small, but in localities
claimed by the radicals. The figures
now indicate that the Democratic ma
jority in the State will exceed O,OOO,
and may even reach or go beyond
$4,000.
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No STAMPS ON RECEIPTS OF MONEY
FOR CHARITABLE ISsrrrUTi .Ns.-The
following note explains itself:
OFFICE INTERNAL REVENUE,
WASHINGTON, August 3, 1866.
S1R: | reply to your letter Of tho
30th uftimo, that receipt rendered
tor money received for charitable
objects does not require q stamp if
there is no payment Very respect
fully, THOMAS HARLAND,
Deputy Commissioner.
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CONGRESSIONAL Every
body can recognize the robbery of
the public committed by members of
Congress who have voted themselves
an addition of 81, coo a year on each
ones salary; but there arc compare
lively few who can detect the enor-
nous swindle hidden under the mile
age allowance. To give our readers
some idea OF this fraud, we will cite
one instance Of operation: Under
the law, Congressman coming from
Chicago to Washington draws $4OO
for the trip, while any private citizen
can make the same journey for
twenty-five dollars. These are your
honest patriots, who have cry of
retrenchment - Examiner.
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PLANTING IN NORTH CAROLINA. A
gentleman just arrived in this city
from the EXTENSIVE cotton plantations
on Tar River, North Carolina, speaks
OF the crops aspromising exceedingly
well. The planters are Northern
men, who have hired the land from
the old proprietors, and pay the
negroes a certain amount in cash,
besides rations. Some of them, if
there is no disappointment, will
realize ut least 800, 900 on the season IS
crop. The negroes work tolerably
we'll, but they steal all they can get
and spend ali they can earn.
Journal Of Commerce.
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General John 4. Logan, who was
nominated for Congress from the
State of Illinois at large by the Re-
publican State Convention recently at
Springfield, delivered a very lengthy
speech on the occasion. He called
the PRESIDENT all sorts of names, and
lald down new plan Of restoration
policy. He opposed the repeal of
tAa lron-clad test oath, and favored
the Acknowledgement of all rebel
oihcials, and representation basis
on the actual voting population.
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Market Reports.

New YORK, August 13. Gold 49ssx.
Exchange nominal, at914@91s. Got.
ton dull. at 34el36. ~
7P. M.-Gold 1884, Cotton quiet
sales OF zoe bales; middliug 34a
36. Flour more steady, at 50. 5OMl5
for Sonthern. Wheat 3CG5c. better.
but quiet. Corn 10. better, but closed
With the advance lost. Beef steady:
Pork dnlE-sales of 2, 500 barrels mess,
at S3l G2 Sugar frm; Muscoyado
10At9l11l..
MoBInE, August is. Sales TO-DAY
l5o bales cotton; low middling 27(a
2S-only the lower grades offering.
NEW ORLEANS, August 13.- Cotton
easier, With sales of 400 bales; low
middling 32(Gs3 Gold AZ.
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From :Mashsnxsen.

WASHINGTON, August 1a.-The
Herahl's special, fsom thisccity, as
serts that Gen.IHoward, Freedmen's
Bureau Comuaisaioner, viii resign or
be removed, in Consequences Of the
Developments made by the Steedman-
Fnllerton Investigations, and General
Th1sorf win Be his successor. The
statement needs cofroboration
1t is said the property Of Elk Gov.
Wise, Of Virginia, has been ordered
to be restored to him.
Advices here, through the Mexican
legation, state that J!uarez was or
gani1ing force at chihuahua, to
capture the city of Durango; Cuva-
hoe, with l,508 troops OF that city,
removed the Mexican. General Laina-
drid, suspecting his fidelity. Esco-
bedo, with $4,000 men, has gone to
Monterey, and expects to occupy it.
Gen. VIM. S. Rosecrans, Brigndier-
General in the reg gular army, having
rendered his resignation, Maj. Gen.
Dan. T.. Sickles, United States Vo-
lnnteers, it is understood, under q
late order, will be nominated to the
vacancy
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SHIP NEWS.
PORT OF CHARLESTON. AUGUST II

ARRIVED SATURDAY.
steamship Lulu, Chils!s, Baltimore.
ARRIVED YESTERDAY.
Bark Sacramento, Hussey, New York
Schr. Nl:S.n Price, Shutca, New York.
AT QUARANTINE.
Steamship Flambcau, from New York.
WENT To SEA SATURDAY.
Steamship SaragOssa, Crowcll, New York.
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In Berlin military hospital some
amputations are performed with cir
cular saws.
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LOST

LUST,
ON Saturdar last. a pair oY
lsteel-framedS SPECTACLES. in -
leather case, marked IN. Bcrnhardt "
The finder will be suitably rewarded bv
leaving them at this Office. Aug IA 1s
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NOTICE

I S hereby given that the civ of Co,umh;.
Il VIII, at the next session cf the Iepisla-
ture, make application for authority TO
issue bonds OF the city in substitution for
ponds and interest, past due and soon to
iaA % que. Aug IL tuSmo
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A FINANCIAL QUEsTroN. NIessrs.
Brown & Bro, and thirty three other
firms, mostly branches of European
houses, unite in published letter to
Secretary McGulloch, calling upon
him to sell all the coin in the Treasury
not needed, to meet the interest on
the public debt, OIL the ground that it
would facilitate trade The Evening
Poa opposes the suggestion, as calcu-
lated to benefit foreign markets rather
than our own.
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Columbia Wholesale Prices Current
CORRECTED WEEKLY
BY Il. /. SOLOMON
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Land is victorious over water
Field over the SEQ.
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Auctioo Sales.
Executors Sale
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE

A<MNCl BY permission Of ". T.
f1'fGas1 q SieRe1s fbsa' bissries osdinsEs s'S
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osptaring the, ,Frsaeh officers in that
The French steamer Adonis, has
heensssrt from Rio Janeiro, to block
ade Matamoras.
No yellow fever in Vera Cruz.
CfNeaNNAf1, August l2.-There
were fifty-four deaths on Saturday,
and sixty-eight yesterday, OF cholera.
The Board of Health declare the dis
ease epidemic.
~NEw ORLEANs, August 13. There
were fifty deaths from cholera Tor the
forty-eisht hours ending this morn
ing. :, ; y, : --.,,a = -.
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1t is stated that A. L. Stevorts y in
come last year was $4,O71, 296. When
one has fact of this kind thrust ut
him. it puts him in the temper of the
candidate for admission to the bar in
tins State, who afterwards became a
noted character. While undergoing
his examination, the Judge asked him
"how property was divided?" His
reply was, id unequally, and he
passed. .-NlshriNe Jmlou.
WAR IN ADYss1NIA. Africa, it
seems, intends to follow the example
of the other four grand divisions of
the globe, and get up war. In Abys-
slnia, a battle is imminent between
the King, Theodore II, and a chief
tain named Gubassie, who aspires to
the throne. Both sides are making
great preparations for the battle. and
the armies number at least $50, 900
men.
HEATHENJSN At w AourNI,,o~ ,HI,c