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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-03-31

Phfsous Purgativs Pilis wuisn are now being
extensively toJ in this state, are purely veQeta-
BILE, aud arc mild and gentle 10 their operation.
Ore is u dVse. GVod qualities, certainly
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-03-31

tu.toTIn i uivre that a substitute tor Castor
Oil. II Ia the only sale article in existence which
10 certain to assuiuate the food, regulate tho
bosels, cure windcollc and produce natu al sleep
1t contains neither minerals, morphine or aleo-
hol aud is pleasant to take. Children need not
cry and mothers may rest s2yl
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-03-31

There is no pain which the
Centaur Liniments will not re-
licye, no swelling they viii not
subiue, and no laiueness they
will not cure. This il strong
Ian susge, hut /, il true They
: ave produced more cures 81
rheunati-m. neuralgia, lock =
Jaw, palsy, spraius. sweilinss.
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81, JohnSJury, March II.

To THE EDITOR OF THE VERMONT FARMER ::
am much pleased that the press
the west part OF the State have mostl,
abandoned the candidates Of the party
fugers had foisted as usual upon the
voters and are now Offering farmers as
substitutes That is right. gentlemen
As you are to have the next governor
(but not without our votes,) just trot out
your men and let Us look at them. Those
who have been in the Legislature, let Us
look at their record The journal Of the
Assembly will be mighty convenient for
the farmers to look at as the men are OF.
fered for their support. Has Dougla,
had any connection with tho rings OF Yer
mont? Has Lane been fool in the pasI
of the Vermont Central ring? We want
more light, gentlemen Oh your candidates.
An EAST SIDE VOTER.
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DIED

In iiapeocs, March ist, Cana A. W Wright.
adopted sou ol Mr. john E. y right, Sgd y,ei.
In Rochester March 18th, Mir. Nathaniel
coleman, aged % ers.
Ia Rutland, at the resi- lcnee Of Gilbert Barber.
on the evening Of March 3stn. of disease of the
stomach and liver, Fiano b Oldest dau xhter IF
;eu-ca Root. VI East iluDbsidtvn.
In llubbardtuu. March l,t, of typhoid pneu-
m"nia. after short sicNness If one week. N,rnan
J"n,s ag,d o3 years lie vas all earnest chris
tian ior min, years and he ana ia tho tiiuin. IS
# idith. MIR. Ju.!-- Wa - resident ui Aliu,..l.
bury ia 1915 reminding alb at une year, nnd III
DO Remembered b -om5 Vt CUR Lld,r /, sideLts
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FoEEIGN. The twenty. ifth anniversary
Of the accession Of Victor Emanuel 10 the
throne Of Sardinia was celebrated Mon.
day throughout taly.-Archbi-hop Man
ming and several other Archbishops are
to be made Cardinals at the approaching
papal consistory A demand for the dis
solution Of the French Assembly has been
signed by several deputies of the Left -
The landing Of the Highanders, who had
been serving against the Ashantees, WA
celebrated at Portsmouth, is said
that Gen. Burrie is to be made Geid
marshal.-Thc Carlists throwing ineen.
diary shells into Bilboa with terrible ei.
feet. Whole streets are reported il
flames. a recent engagement before the
city has resulted in the occupation By ths
besicgers Of Abba, suburb on the left
bank Of the Nervion--Thc steamship
Calcutta arrived at Alden, British sea
port in Arabia, Tuesday, with the re-
mains Of Dr. Livingstone on board.-A
desperate engagement was fought before
Bilbao, Marshal Scrrano attacking tn,
Carlists. The affair remained undecided
In the fight at Guasmoclara, in Cuba
the insurgents are said to have remained
master of the field. The financial crisis
in Cuba increases. Efforts continue t.
be made for establishing gold as the bash
for all transactions. Royal Marine
and Rife Brigade have arrived at Ports
mouth from the Gold Coast Of Africa
Marshal Serrano telegraphs that he ba
taken several villages from the Carlist
before Bilbao. The Carlsts claimed
successes in tho two days Fighting The
Governor. G eneral of Canada delivere,
his opening speech to the Dominion Par
lament He announced that negotiation
been removed for widening trade relation
with the United States A motion t
settle the form of government 10 France
was rejected by the French Assembly ..
Il large majority.-The British lIom
Secretary stated 10 the House Of Com
mons that his Government had 10 intcn
ton of interfering with the execution Q
the sentences Of the Fenian conyicts.
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There are 200 cases of small pox in
Montreal.
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From the Vermont Farmers Governor
OIumti.

Editor FGrmer-I sec some OF the
voters on Thu, side OF lhc State are mak.
ing inquiry IL reference to the legislative
record OF Hon. Henry Lane Of Cornwall.
have DO particuar call to espouse Mr..
Laue's or any other mans cause as II
candidate for the governorship, although
| would like to see an honest man chosen
to that oil CO. But if scat By his side
in the legislature for two years gives me
any title to have an opinion, am able to
endorse MIR Lane as clean man. free
fro all ciqaes aud rings, an emphatic
FREUD Of honesty and economy, of tenn
pcrance, education and general improve.
ment. AS farmer he is ono OF the best
in the state, aud | know his sympa,hies
are with tho farmers in all matters Of ag
ricultural progress His course upon the
agricultural college question in the legis.
lsture was 10 full accordance with the
views held by the FARMER, and hi. speech
delivered iu the House, Nov. 10. 1854
was acknowledged the ablest speech OF
the debate.
do not know. nor do care. whethc,
Nr Lane is IA "Granger." but do know
that the farmers cannot God q moro able.
honest. or upright mau to represent them
III any public position.
G A. SYLVESTER.
81 JohaS5ury, March Ii.
Inc writer oi the above is and hes
been for number OF years, the president
OF tho Caledonia County Agricultural
Socieiy,and he is 80 we'll esteemed where.
ever he Is known that his word in favor
Of Mr.. Lane will have weight with the
farmers Of the state -ED. FARMER
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Memoria,-Day ia peae .,rss,arss, dc.

/! Especial telegram to the Dis, tatcht]
| PETERSBURG, June 9.--NotwiL hstanding
TIE great heat aud the dust that prevailed,
the Confederate BURIAL grounds. ut BlanGford
were visited this afternoon by three or four
thousand people. gAll kinds of vehicles were
in requlsiIion, and hundreds went on foot,
carrying baskets and garlands of flowers.
Every grave bore some decoration, of cross,
flowers, or flag, and the resting places of
many private citizens were also handsomely
adorned. The knights of Pytbias and
Grays, both in full uniform, paraded. An
eloquent address was delivered by Colonel
w. f. G. Gregory.
Postmaster Il. G.. Greene was knocked
down and castigated this morning by Mr.. E.
G. Eanes. His offence was charging the
Conservative judges of election with fraud.
MIR. Eanes was one of the judges in Fifth
Ward, and resented the injurious reflection.
Mr.. Van Auken, the lately-amointed in
spector OF tobacco in the United States rere-
nue. servien, was also beaten today by Mr.
Lunday, young man employed in Barclay
Il Maclin's to brand tobacco-boSes. Van
Auken said Lunday did not know what he
WAS about; whercupon Lunday f1oored him.
ROBIN AFFAIR,
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The New York Sun says: :" Ihere Is one
journal in the United States which we nohor
above many others for the spirit OF fairness
and self-re>pect which 1t consistently eAnl,
bits. We refer to the CourserJournal ana
to its urvarying practice OF crediting 10 tne
other newspapers every enc OF the many
interesting articles which it copies from their
columns, This u rule which we heartily
commend to all our contemporaries"
Brownlow's son is said to be the poorest
journalist in Tennessee, and many Thought
less persons are disposed to lay the Diame
mon his parents. A little patient 1nyestl-
oatiou. however, would probably reveal tne
fact that he was brought up on some fhiia'
ds1nhia Brooklyn Argus.
Mrs. Frey. the widow of the captain OF
the Cuban steamer Virglnius, has estaDllsnea
= wood. ward in New Orleans, through means ea.as
provided by friends in St. Louis ana e's''
where.
CbiefJustice Waite is to be hoaored Dy
having hotel named after him ip his natl'e
town OF Lyme, Conn.
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LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
France.

i iOLiitG<sL NV
LONDON, June 9.-The Times corresponds
ent at Paris telegraphs that it is expected
thnt Dufoure In few days will ask the Com.
mittee on Constitutional Laws TO come to a
vote on the frstarticle of the bill introduced
In May, 1873, providing that the Govern
ment, shall consist of Senate, Chamber of
Representatives, and President of the Re.
public. If the committee rejects the article
the Left Centre will move in Assembly to
refer similar proposition to new commits
sion. Should this fall, the Left Centre, as a
last resort, win move dissolution of Assem-
bly,. In event Of any adverse votes, the
deputies belonging to MI sections OF the Left
may possibly resign en- m0sse.
PARIS, June 9.-Archbishop Landrat, Of
Rheims, is dead.
LONDON, June "a correspondent of the
Times, in letter to that journal from Wit
toria, Spain, says Marshal Concha is moving
against the Carlsts in Navarro with every
available means. General Dorregay, com
mander of the Carlists, is already in good
position. An important action is expected
to take place soon.
LONDON, June 9.-The Times, in an edi-
tOria commenting upon the communication
recently sent to the various Powers by the
Spanish Government, says |: & 1t is hint that |
the time approaches when the Spanish Gov
eminent must be received In the Hall of Ma |
tons on terms of equality. IL it be found
that the Carlist generals are incapable Of
keeping the enemy at bay in Biseay and Ma
yarre, the Instruction is likely to collapse.
The limits of the CarIists' strength on
Carlist grounds are pretty we'll defined, aud
when the National army resumes operations
it is not likely TO encounter resistance.
These more cheerful prospects justify the
Spanish Government in making an appeal to
the public opinion of the world, and should
Serrano maintain himself and establish de
facto government, we know Of no reason
why t should not be recognized as MacMa-
hOu'SN
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TeIe3raphic Sum mary.

At the Republican Convention held at
Pittsburgh Yesterday General j. S. Negley
was renominated for Congress from the
twenty-second district and Colonel Thomas
G.. D. Bayne from the tWenty-third.
An oil car exploded at Greenwood, N. l.,
on the Erie railroad, yesterday afternoon,
and Conductor S. S. Cary, of Port JARVIS,
was fatally injured.
The New York Express says there is no
truth whatever in the current report that II
is to be made q morning journal ID tne ih-
terest of the Republican party.
The engine of construction train on the
Georgia Airline exploded at Water-tan&
Justice of the Peace Corners and Police
Sergeant Chapman were shot III 81. DEF
nord,s narish. Louisiana. Sunday, by Francls
Antipta with buckshot from double'oarrel
shoteup. The wounds are dangerous.
William B. Ogden was elected trustee OF
tho Northern Pacific railroad, in New YORK,
yesterday. nice j. Edgar Thompson. H.,
Tha Rhode Island Legislature meets To-Day
:, ;n;nt session to ballot for United States
.anotor burnside is ahead in voting ID sep
srats houses. but lacks largely of majority.
'' De,egates TO the Convention OF COTTON
| rxohonoes. which meets in Augusta, 1a.'
to-day, have arrived from New lGTk' N aud
FOLK Nashville, Memphis, Louisville o; anu
New Orleans. Delegations from o.her cue. 20
will arrive this morning. Committees "s ao
annointed at meeting last evening 10 pie'
nare business for the Convention. o,
Newspaper publishers are cautioned sg Sm =
a forged circular in the name OF hoWen q
Co.. Of New York, ordering microscope anu
miscellaneous lists of advertisements.
The directors of the New York Cheal
TRANSPORTATION Association have resolve.
TINT a permanent department OF bureau
with sufficient power, should without ae'a :
be provided by Congress for the purpose :, =
obtaining, preserving, and circulating 80 ~ :.
formation rels. Ting to the sub)ecl OF un or
portation. Copies of the resolution er Nc
ordered to, be transmitted to memsefS
i Congress. - Ad;r,ar
General Irwin Mcdowell and Ao9n. ~,
Jones arriyed at Atlanta Ga, YESTERDAY oh aI
rece' we'd the troops for Mcpherson 0a III -
/ A coach OF an excursion tram . N on Of =
,svracuse and Chenandago railroad ran Oh =
track on Monday. Thirty persons iplufeu'5
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The Famine in the South.

NEW ORLEANS, June Ex-Governor Kel-
logg sent the following message to the Secre-
tary of War yesterday: "The relief COM
mittee reports that the suffering from the
overflow remains unabated in Atchafaaya,
Lafourche, and Ouchita valleys, although
there is some abatement on the banks of the
Mississippi. The committee is issuing fully
forty thousand rations daily. In some dis
tricts they are compelled to restrict the relief
to women and children, even where work is
not attainabe for the able-bodied. If the
General Government would order the is
suance of twenty thousand daily rations
more than the first appropriation it would
avert much suffering"
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Institute of Homeopathy.

NIAGARA FALLS, June S.-The session of
the American Institute Of Homeopathy COM
menced here this morning. The President,
DR.. Fonlin. delivered an address, in which
he gave statistics of the practice OF hom@o'
pathy throughout the world, collected from
materials furnished him by physicians IN all
parts Of the world, and which exhibit the
progress of homeopathy. France has four
thousand homeopathic practitioners and ntl-
merous hospitals and dispensaries, Germany
has five hundred practitioners, Great Britain
four hundred, and Italy two hundred, While
in the United States, where its adva ncement
has been more rapid since its introduction
in 1928, there are nearly six thousand prac-
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Catholic Benevolent Union, dc.
Especial telegram to the Dispatch.I

PORTSMOUTH, VA, June 0, 1s74.-Dcle-
gates from Richmond and Fredericksburg
to the Catholic Benevolent Union of the
State of Virginia, which commences its
annual session tomorrow in Norfolk. have
arrived, and those from Alexandria and the
Valley will probably reach here on the Bal
timore boat early tomorrow.
A complimentary excursion and pic mic at
Vue de Pau in honor of the Union is az
ranged for tomorrow, the beginning of the
festivities of the week.
Mr.. c. p. Ramsdell, the United States
Marshal for this district, to-day sold at pub
lie auction the large American brig Omer.
She was purchased by Messrs. Lord, Clarege
81 Co., of Baltimore, for $500.
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THE "BLrE LAwS."-Mr. ClauSens allu-
sion 10 the Connecticut "Blue Ld,rS" in his
speech before the National Brewers A>soci.
alton shows that the belief in that mythical
code still has mi>cherouS vitality. For
the sake Of the truth OF history, and for the
Information Of those who, like the president
of this Association. still believe that Con-
nec,icut in the early days had these laws on
her statute books. it may be we'll to give
again. in a word. the origin and history Of
these Blue Laws as they are called.
One hundred years ago this very year the
Rev. Samuel Andrew Peters was Episcopal
minister OF Hebron, Connecticut. The revolu-
tionary spirit was rising all around hm IN
those Connecticut townships, but be himself
was a bold. aggressive, aud somewhat un-
>crupulous tory. busy with bis tongue and
with bis pen in trying TO pour contempt
upon Il carse very dear to the hearts Of the
people. The consequence was that he bad to
lee for his life. He made his way secretly
10 Boston, and took ship for England. There
he amused himself and tried to plague his
enemies by writing aud publishing " A
Genera! History of Connecticut, by GEN
tlelnan of the Province" book which one
writer has described as the "moSt unscru-
pulous and malicious Of lying narratives
and another SAYS Of it, "1tS narrations are
independent OF time, place, and probabili-
ty.
Ii any one will turn to page 60 (and fol-
lowing OF this history, London edition, he
will find ibis whole code of blue laws. They
are furnished with quotation-mmrk>, as il the
author was copying them from some printed
or written page, bat the descriptive heading
which he gives to them is as follows The
laws made bv this independent dominion,
and denomnated Blue Lars by the neigh.
boring colonies, 1cere necer suffered 10 de
printed but the following sketch OF some OF
them will give loerablc idea OF the spirit
which peryades the whole"
The words italicized are enough to show
TO any intelligent reader that these laws
were purely the connections OF his own
brain. and that he really meant them TO De
so understood, though willing that they
should do their lying work. Ii any trace
can be found Of their existence before Inc
timethis history was published, IN the iatter
mart of the last century, the finder Will con-
Ter a Great favor by communicating the result
Of his researches to the public. w
The colonies of Connecticut were little
later in their origin than those OF MasSachu-
sets. and the student of history Will De
troubled to find any special signs OF blgotry
or austerity in their early legislation. lndeea,
the experience of a few years hal taugn'
them to avoid certain dangers upon when
the Massachusetts colonies had tallen.-boS-
ton ddcertiSer.
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The Case Of Governor Moses, Of South
Carolina.

CHARLESTON, S. c., June 9.-Judge Ora
ham has filed his decision as to whether Gov
ernor Moses is subject to indictment and
trial by the ordinary criminal process pre-
vious to impeachment by the Legislature.
He holds that the action of Governor Moses,
as charged in the indictment, was in truth
official action. IT it was misconduct or a
crime. it was still official misconduct, or a
crime committed by him as Governor. 1t is
therefore ordered that the indictment for
larceny as to Franklin j. Moses, Jr., be
ouashed. and the case is to be struck from
the docket.
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Exnloslon anil LOSS of Life.

WLKEsBARRE, Pa, June 9.-Last night
An explosion occurred at shaft Manticoke,
burning three miners and setting fire to the
breaker, which was soon destroyed. While
lighting the fumes some burning timbers fell
upon William Vivian, killing him instantly.
Alexander Ale, Charles Keller, Hawley
Walsh, Tom Lowell, Tom McMann, Henry
Hcimensnyder, and Lorenz Krebs, OF the
gang, who were also engaged in lighting tire,
were overcome by gas and had to be carried
from the mine. The first two were insensl-
BILE when brought to fresh air, and have
since died. The others are doing well.
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Thn H.nuf3 Case.
telegram to the Dispatch.]

ST.. LOUIS, June 9.-The great lana case
between the settlers on the Usage ceded ANUS
in Kansas and Missouri and the Kansas anu y
Texas, and Leaycnworth, Lawrence anu
Gulf railroads, was argued yesterday IN tne
United States Circuit Court at LeayenWoTtn.
The title TO 100000 acres of land, valued at
$50 900, 900, and the homes of twenty thou.
sand settlers, are involved. A decision Is
expected before the court adjourns.
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lie 9.d&w

CHOICE READING.-MEM OF
VA QUIET LIFE, by Augustus J. q. Hare
pEkSONAL KECOLLECTIONS, from early life
70 old age OF Mary somerville; - 81: .,r
MEMOIR AND LETTERS OF SAhA COLc~
X EInE p. edited by her daughter, 81. so.
THE sUPERHUMAN ORIGIN Of HE BIBLE
Inferred from itself; by Henry Rogers author
of the ECLIPSE of Faith" ~.
ALTON SERMONS. by Hare, $3.50.
P0MpkIINIts History. buildings, and Antiquities
with many hundred illustrations ana MAPS edi
ted by Thomas II. Dyer, third edition, 80.
All the best NEW WORKS recei we'd as soon u
published. WooDhoCsE 4
IL. n
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Mexican Items.

CRY OF MEXICO, June 2.-Local customs
duties imposed on goods going from one city
to another within the territory OF heXico
are to be abolished.
All the parties implicated in burning the
alleged sorceress in JabocO are in prison.
Four were arrested by the police, and the
others surrendered themselves. None of
them can read except one, who is the village
schoolmaster, who says the outrage would
not have been perpetrated had not the pre-
feet sent orders TO hurry the execution.
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Arrival Of the Steamer Farraday.

PORTSMOUTH, June 9.-The cable'steamer
Farraday is in port. She is iorty-slx nun
dred tons burden-the largest vessel ever III
these waters. Festivities rule the day on
hoard and ashore. The cable is buoyed with
in ten miles of shore. The deep. sea cable Is
very strong but light, weighing three tons 10
the mile. The shore-endngs are two and
half inches in diameter, weighing eighteen
TONS To the mile.
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BY telegraph.
H,Fuy WORK MARK ETS.

EEw YORK. June 9.-Cotton-Net receipts, 2o4
bales gross. 3l3 bales. Futures closed steLny
sales 2e2o0 baleS Jp9e S sspie9be y
y 5-!V October, s92e. Cotton dull; saiss
s@1,i fair So ex,ra Slf SSs3 s so
n ieads - cbnice &C. 956xll. Wheat-Rathe more
s ooId and in moderate demand; sl.56@sl 90 Tor
Common to choice winter red western. Corn sfarSe
and shade rmer sOGSSs ig 9os5e for White
ssasSe Closing lSf with ssaIcey
coee quiet steady Ees snsnasgsss l Roen
hrm c oun, stpsSys Pork heavy; new. III SO
s snd 90 Lard lever closing hrm "hiskcy quiet
and steady 1T IL.
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Havana.

HAVANA, June 9.-The exchange offices are
closed to-day. The proprietors Of some Of
them have given up business and returned
their licenses. The closing of these offices is
the cause of much inconvenience to the pub
lie. as there is now no place at which to buy
specie in small sums to pay postage and tee'
graph tolls.
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BALTIMORE MARKETS.

,,ony June e-Flour dull, heavy, anu ull-
,,,nLad Wheat irmer Pcnnsyvania red - az
and I1an4s red ohess
western ptiue, Tthsrn unchanged; yellow south
s Gor6 rm al Mt s1s3c mixed western rmer new
I'D s9s as oats as Sn aac inS
Rye quiet at ia SIsadSOprices unchanged. Western
s1Has dull and cSse Tme5
higher and quiet at l7Hg2oH' ss w n ~
limited jobbing demand; small saic' - -
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PHILADELPHIA, RICH 1>EFF

DHILADELPHIA,R RICH 1.~fFS
/ MOND, AND NORFOLK STEAh s s.1.!!ss q. !.
SHIP LINE.-FOR PHILADELPHIA TWlc ~ r., >
WEEK.-Uptil further notice the steamers OF thi.
line will leave Philadelphia every "WEDNESDAY
and SATURDAY, and Richmond every MONDAY
and FRIDAY at IL O'Clock NJ ~
Freight taken for all parts Of Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, and Delaware for Providence and Boston:
Also. for Antwerp and Liverpool cta Red Star and
American steamship lines and bills OF lacing siQnec
through. Insurance effected for all parties VINO de-
sire IL 1T low rates. 4
Passage TO Philadelphia, INCLUDING meals ane
stateroom, ~. W. iokl En, ,a,SSnSs
WILLIAM 2. CLYDE & Co, Agents,
fo1o No 10 South Wharves. Phladelphla.