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Immense Business.

1111110060 OO61Q0S6s
GEN. HEDRIcK:
l hand you herewith
= statement rs taken from my books
the number cars hogs forwarded from
this station to Keokuk from Nov.
18th to Dec. l4th inclusive. 439 cars
making an average of 60 hogs to the
car gives 26, $40 head, and at 225 Tbs
per head gives 5,02S,500 lbs.
i, truly yours,
W. 8. ARMSTRONG, Agt.
P.S. We shipped 1000 head to-
day. w. B. A.
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The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-03-02


tarday, and business was dulIau ror,a
To cairo there is hfteen feet OF 49,
per rivers falling in advance ar anofhrr
swell 10 De produced by the nrsf &c.,
thaW. On Thursday the Missouri weg NH
OF steady floating ice ct Kansas Cftv
still swelling. On the 24tn tina river cfcse1
at White Cloud and teams crossed - -
Ice. The Illinois River boats here and 49,
where were at rest yesterday.
a large amount. OF freight ana a uun,-
Der of emiErants had been engaged f0r fhe
Peoria City at Cincinnati. includes m fHe
emtgrants were five families from one
town on the Upper Ohio, with machinery
Tor a saw mill, who proposed TO o~olOnize
on theO Usage River.
Captain Tom Leathers has gone from
this city to natl, where 1t fs under
STOOD he wants to have built a steamer for
the New Orleans and Nicksburg trade.
NEW ORLEANS. The Times Of Wsdner-
day last says:
Since our last report quito a change I'm
the weather has taken place.
Shortly after nightfall on Monday a
itself into existence, and throughout the
night and the greater part of Yesterday 10
Continued in force, which ctused the levee
habitues to o heavy hRbtliments, that
reminded them very fOrcibly that old
Father Winter had not by any means de-
serted as.
Business or the landing, for Tuesday,
was toieTably fair, there being a fair NUM-
Der OF depart u res. Among them we nos
t.ced some fair trips.
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TPUBLIC No. III


AN ACP to authorize the importation
of ID .chiRery for repair only, free of
duty.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
Unites States of America IN Congress
assembled, That machinery for repair
may be imported into the United
States without payment Of duty, un-
der bond to be given in double the
appraised value thereof, to be with
drawn and exported after said ma
chinery shall have been repaired;
and the Secretary of the Treasury Is
hereby authorized and directed to
prescribe such rules and regulations
as may be necessary to protect the
evenue against fraud, and secure the
identity and character of all such i'm
portatious when again Withdrawn and
exported, restricting and limiting the
export and withdrawal to the same
port of entry where imported, and
also limiting all bonds to a period of
not more than six months from the
date of the Importation.
Approved February 10, 1863.
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LOUISVILLE. : The . COlrter-JournaE 0

OaSA4a1J o8y1A ".t "
Capt. Dick Fuller, formerly Of the Belle
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does, ell whoop things up. a.sdfI
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says:
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The marks last evelling indicated eight
feet four inches and falling. The weather
during the day was pleasant. Business on
b landing was active and lio-
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Among the nrst boats due here are the
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The weather yesterday was clear aud
windy, the wind blowing a gale from the
southeast until noon. The river, during
the twenty-four hours ending at 8 Pm.
had fallen eight inches. The mercury at 9
I'M. ranged at zoe above zero.
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CENTRAL and WESTERN
PACIFIC RAILROADS.
Via OAKLAND FERRY.
c..n~o ar rIme. Noxemhor Sth, 1S6a.

Change of Time, November Sth, 1869.
IMPRESS TRAIN-EASTWA
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EXPRESS TRAIN--WESTWARD Dali
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T.. "; arrive at San Jose C:5O p. NJ; San Frsn-
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Sewing Machines.

WORTHLESS Machines, or those you
can't work when you ses shen;
hut go 10 NORRIS, In WHITE
CLOUD, and get one OF the Bent
any child, almost. car work.
J. J. MORRIS, Agent.
White Cloud, Nov. ~, 1868.