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Middletown transcript., 1876-08-12
BONE ME-AI.
WARRANTED PURE.
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS :

Ammonia, 4 to Al per cent,
Phosphate of Lime, 4S to so
NBr The above prices for Bones are given
for the date of this advertisement and we do
not bind ourselves to them for the season
through. Early engagements are strongly
advised for our friends and customers as pri-
ces will probably advance.
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AGRICULTURAL. ASSOCIATION.

PESrNs. AaRIcuLTURAL AND PoMoLoGIcAI AS
ISOLATION. VIM R. Cochran, President and
Chairman of Board of Managers; J. B. Nau-
dain, Secretary Annual Meeting fourth Sat
urday in January Next annual fair will be
held on October 4th, 5th and 9Th, 1876.
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The First "trick" horse on record
The one in which the Greeks entered
Troy.
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STAGE LINES

Stage for Odessa, with o. s. Mail, leaves
shortly after arrival of the l0.43 am and S.52
p m mail trains.
Stages for Warwick, Sassafras and Cecilton
leave shortly after arrival of the l0.43 m
train.
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Reaistrr's Orders.
REGIsTER's ORDER.

REGISTERS OFFICE,
New Castle County, June 9Th, 1876.
Upon the application Of SEREcK I. SHALL
CROSS, Administrator of HUGH FLEMING,
late Of st. Georges Hundred, in said County,
deceased, it is ordered and directed by the
Register that the Administrator aforesaid
give notice of : the granting of Letters
Of Administration upon the Estate Of the de-
ceased, with the date of granting thereof by
causing advertisements to be posted within
forty days from the date of such Letters, in
six of the most public places of the County of
New Castle, requiring all persons having de-
mands against the Estate to present the same
or abide an Act of Assembly in such case
made and provided; and also cause the same
to be inserted within the same period in the
MIDDLETowN TRANSCRIPT, newspaper pub
lished in Middletown, and to be continued
therein two months.
Given under the hand and Seal of Office
~, of the Register aforesaid, at New
Ills. Castle, in New Castle County afore-
l0) said, the day and year above writ
ten. S. C. BIGGS, Register.
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THr CAMPAIGN OpENEp.-If you had

The CAMPAIGN OPENED. D.-If you had
been around the big Great Western
freight depot on Atwater street at noon
yesterday, says the Detroit Free Press,
you would have seenthe campaign open.
Said man sitting on door step to q
man leaning against lamp-post
"What do you think hof the nominal
tion hof Aze 2"
II think be ought to eat you," was
the reply. His name isn't Aze any
more than your name is Mud"
"Then what is hit?
..The right name Of the Cincinnati
candidate is Hazcn Wheeler.
Hi guess not. "
Hi guess you're fool !.
Hi guess there's other fools haround
ERE, too"
That was the commencement OF q
rough and tumble fight which covered
half a block and destroyed the peace Of
mind Of score Of men. They might
have been fighting yet had not an old
man with gray hair announced that both
we're wrong. He said he had seen the
names Of the candidates on a flag up
town, and they were "Whaze and
Heeler. "
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STANDARD OF QUALITY STRICTLY
MAINTAINED.
While we-announce reduction in the price
Of our RAW BONE SUPER-PHOSPATE, we
would respectfully represent to dealers and
farmers that its standard of quality has been
strictly maintained. The proportions of sol
uble and precipitated Phosphoric Acid, and
Ammonia, have never been higher than they
are in the article we are now selling our Gus
TONER'S This statement we make as o bind
ing guarantee.
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PARLOR ORCHESTRA

will be added to the attractions 0the trip.
The ARIEL, on down trip, will leave the
different landings according to the tides) as
follows: Port Penn, from 1854 to l.l5 am.
back at $50 pm.
Collins Beach, Ills to ll.45 a. M. back
at pm.
Bombay Hook, from l1.so to IL, back at
2p.m.
Excursion TICKETS across the Bay, from
either landing, rs Cents. No Half-fares.
Children under 6, no charge.
REFRESHMENTS AND MEALS, BUT NO
LIQUORS ARE SOLD ON THE ARIEL.
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VNHE undersigned respectfully informs the
i citizens of Middletown and vicinity that
he is prepared with excellent Horses, Wagons
and Carts, to do all kinds of HAULING G at the
lowest rates Coal and Lumber hauled at
short notice and on the most resonable terms.
Orders for baggage or other parcels left at
the Post Office will receive prompt attention.
Good Building Sand always on hand.
tjan LII W. W. WILSON.
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NOTICE

All persons having claims against the Es-
tate of the deceased must present the same,
duly attested, TO the Administrator on or be-
fore June 5th, 1877, or abide the Act of As
sembly in such case made and provided.
s. F. SHALLCROSS, Administrator.
Address -Middletown, Del. junl7-2m
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This Bone is Ground Pure3 IL mot
steamed or baked, and the solid bone has
not been selected from 1t.
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.

DAMON LODGE, No. IL Meets every Friday
evening at o'clock Lodge room in the
Town Hall.
I. o. o. f.
Coop SAMARITAN LODGE, No 9. Meets every
Thursday evening at u o'clk. Lodge Room
in Cochran Hall, No. 2, Cochran Square.
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DIAMOND STATE BRASS BAND.
Meets for practice every Monday evening at
8 o'clock.
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TO THE PEOPLE OF
TO THE PEOPLE OF
Port Penn, Bombay Hook, Collins
Beach and Delaware Bay Shore.
For the last six weeks the steamer
ARIEL, -
CAPT. J.L. Robson.

Has been running regularly ACROSS THE
BAY from Bombay Hook, making very de-
lightful and cheap EXCURSION. This is to
announce that from and after the present date
tho Muc;c nf q fua
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NOTARY PUBLIC.
- Do-ua1dc
TRJJsTEEs OF THE ACADEMY.

Hon John P. Cochran, Pres. Henry Davis,
Treas. Samuel Pennington, Secretary; James
Kanely, B. Gibbs, R. T. Cochran, n. Williams.
PR1NcIpAL OF AcADEMY.-T. s. Stevens.
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go
Delaware Division. Time Table
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
NORTHwARD

ON and after Tuesday, AUG. 1st, 1875, Sundays
u excepted Trains will leave as follows:
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FOR PHILADELPHIA.

FOR PHILADELPHIA.
The ARIEL leaves Bombay Hook for Phil
adelphia daily, Sundays included) at 2.3o p.
M Collins daily, Sundays included) at 3
pm Port Penn at 3.45 pm. daily, Except
Sundays) touching at Chester, and reaching
the city from $50 to 7.30 pm. FARE from
either landing) to Philadelphia, so cts. Chill
dren to II, Half-fare.
PEACHES and other FRUIT will be car
ried on the ARIEL as in former years.
E. B. TAGGART, AGENT,
lO4 North Delaware Avenue.
W G. ELIAsoN, Clerk. July 2o,''76
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PHILADELPHIA
GROUND BONES

In BAGS, ON BOARD Cars AT Works,
at the following Cash prices:
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dime GABLES.

PHILADELPHIA, WILMLNGTONAND
BALTIMORE RAILROAD.
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BAUGH'S
GROUND RAW BONES.

In Bags on board Of Cars at works at the fol-
lowing Cash Prices:
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OPPOSED TO ALL CORRUPT RINGs
In MUNICIPAL, STATE AND NATIONAL AFFAIRS
Ghe dimes.

from all points of interest, full and accurate
Local Reports, and Fearless Editorial Discus
sions Of all current topics IT is irst-class
newspaper in every respect
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ADVERTISEMENTS

Are tastefulIy and attractively displaye'
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And cordially invite all persons who may have need
of any of these things any style or kind of printing,
to favor US with call and learn our prices We give
especial attention to the printing of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-03-16
MID.

The Democratic party must understand by
this time, if it has common penetration, that
il IS not going 10 carry the Presidential cleo
ton by throwing mud. All the disclosures and
threats Of disclosure in Washington have not
advanced il one step. so far from making any
gains in The country il has actually lost, for
tho overthrow of the Grant faction, which tie
Democracy could easily beat at the polls, has
brought to the front the best elements OF the
Republican party, against which lis chances are
very small.
II il not difficult to understand why the ex-
p0s,lre- campaign has failed to produce the
expected result IL has been fought too reck-
lessly. The Washington Offices of the Demo
cratic newspapers have been converted INTO
scandal bureaus, where every Wild and I'M
probable story OF corruption has been picked
I'D, and expanded, and embellishcd, and
then sent forth for the good OF the
Marty. There has been little or no
discrimination in the uso OF material.
False charges and true, fact and suspicion,
rumors and atlidayits, have been treated with
equal consideration. Because the Secretary OF
War has been detected in taking bribe, it is
confidently alleged that the whole Department
10 nest OF cOrrupJlonJ ana boiho VI oio P'ity
organs have even called upon the entire Cabi-
net to resign. Every morning we have been
warned to look for fresh explosion before
night; the Secretary of the Navy was to be
caught levying blackInail; the President was
to DO found in the real-estate pool; all the
best known ladies in the White House circle
were TO be detected selling offices and push
ING fraudulent claims. Few of these evil pre-
dictions have been fulfilled, and the failure
has injured the party which made them in two
ways; first, it has brought on the usual reac-
ton which follows o hasty and unreasonable
excitement of popular feeling; and secondly,
il has given birth to suspicion In some cases
that the Democrats are not pressing the inves-
tigatien properly because they have come upon
the traces of Democratic Congressman In the
promised scandal.
It seems to as that the Scandal Bureau has
also overlooked the very important faot that
tho American people take no pleasure In BE-
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as OTJB RS SEE Us.

The most amazing part Of the scandal bust
ness at Washington to the ACTORS therein must
he TO wake up and find out the very poor
opinion which the world not only has OF them
now, but has always had. Everybody who
ever knew Belknap il ready now TO rush 10
the front TO declare that he always thought
him shabby, tricky fellow aud stately ladies
who a fortnight ago believed themselves raised
mon regal dais far above the common herd,
suddenly discover that this herd has all tho
time talked of them "a " fast Kentucky girls
pretty Pusscs or Bettys,' OF "spoilcd village
"bellcsn The men or women abruptly
lifted into notice in American soci-
ETY. are pretty certain TO conduct them
selves with the squirming sef-confciousness
which u bug III microscope might show if it
could know how gigantic its little head and
legs appeared to the bystanders. Think of
the misery Of being thrust out into the chilly
air from under the glass and finding oneself
nothing but a bug after all Some such ex-
perience any of us may enjoy if We run for an
Office; and the higher the Office the clearer
will be the exposure of all our WEAKNESSES and
secret sins; such an experience our brethren
are going through just Tow who are furnishing
the daily dish of gossip to the nation.
The discipline may not be pleasant, but it il
wholesome. The man who has once learned
what very small part he plays in the world,
and how few people watch him as he plays it,
is likely to be more genuine earnest fellow
thereafter. The conviction Of our own insig-
nifcancs Is profitable seasoning to every
meal-a fact to take with us to Office, street.
or church, or to mediate upon on our pillow.
But who wants such @ sour visaged companion
The pretty girl CLOVIS with delight ot the ad-
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ynNex 10 A0psrilseMenle.

EMusFMYSr>- Gh udge--ith, 5th. and 6ib columns
BANKIsG HOv~Fs AND BANKERs-7N PcJt-OtE cciulnn'
poARp LNp Rooms Gu PIQs-3l column.
BUstsESs CHASCEs-Gh Idge--3d column.
~ -INtss NOTICES IA 1icCe--lst cOinnn.
CoPARTyF UsIuP NOIICES-6h Tdge-tth column
DTNTisIIY-1h PdOS-6th column.
IIyIDEND NOTICES ia Pdge-6th column.
Day doors GtR TpQe-4tI column.
fISASCIAL-7fb ItDf-5th column.
FINE AITs--GM PGGe-Gth column.
FupSIIUKL- CM PGGo-4th column.
HvLP wASTED--fh PtCe-6tb column.
UoRsEs CABBAGE. &c 9th PIgc--31 column.
UoUsrs AND FAKus NANTED-3d Pags-5th column.
Icy NY.N-Gb {ags--31 column.
ISsTRiCripS- Oh PJ9'-2d column
LECTURES AVID NEETINGs-OM RAE -olh column.
LEGAL NDTICEs-- Ct5 Idqs--Jo column -
MARBLE AND SLATE MANTEIS--3d Pdfe-oth column
MARRIAGES AND Df ATIis--5H Pd0e-Cth column. -
MISCELLANEOI $50 IGJt-6th column Sin Fage-oIh
column.
MTsICII [SsrRrNrNTs-6B Pdqe--Gth column
NEW PUBIIC aTIONs-Gb PGc6-1St and % columns.
RIAL E.TAIE For SNE-CITY-3d IG2c-ith ana ON
columns; BEoOKLyN- 81 Pc0e-5th column; COUNTRY
30 Pdge-jth column.
SALE. BY AUCuON-7ih PaTe-5th cOiuinu 49,,
INVITATIONS WAITED NES-Gh IdGe-4Ln anu ON
columns; l'EMALEs- en- P00e-5th ana 6th columns
SPECIAL NOIICES-5h Pdgc-6th column -,
RryAMBoATS NSb kAuRO ADs-3d FGce-Jth ana 6lh col
-
sTrAaFRs OCFaN-7h PGge--6tl column.
IylCuFKs-Gh Tdrf-}d column. 80
To IUr-CrTY PROPERTY-3d Pd1e--Jth column
BROOKLYN sd iGge-Jtl column CoUNIRf-Jd fa1e
18th column.
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THE NEU.HAvPSHIRE LESSON.

Of course there il a lesson in it, but to whom
and what it is are questions which the able
bodied politicians and Journalists may discuss
for the next twelve months without fear of eX-
haustiug it's variety, Ii is perfectly clear, we
think, that the Democratic party may learn
from this result that however the Republicans
may mSbchave i'll or ont of Congress. their OPP
popents cannot afford to sit down with folded
hands and console themselves with thinking
that the people in their large disgust are going
to run directly across TO the Democracy
for their rulers. These NeW-liampshire
voters have not been very greatly c1er-
cised over the recent exposures of official
corruption at Washington. We suspect
that they have discounted a great deal
of it already. They know that they have sent
TO Washington from their own State number
OF pcrsons WHO, if they were not great as
statesmen, at least were thrifty and prudent;
and although only few OF them have been
found out, they are certain that the habit of
official life is to fake good care of number one.
In State where one-tcnth of the
voting people hold their open palms
behind them for a bride, there is not likely
10 be such revolt against the immCralities
and coiruptons recently brought to light as
would Overtun a party. Whoever supposed
the Bcllnap and The Babcoch business and all
the process sion of inQuiti,s that wait on Grant
ism would work upon the New Hampshire CON
science TO the Overturuing of the party IN
power very seriously mistoOll the temper OF the
people, the strength of craftsmanship and, more
than al, the peryaaing distiust of Democracy.
Those gentlemen in Washington who are
irving to familiar1ze themselves with the pos
sibilities OF power aud 20 seem To he able to
carry on the Government have much 10 learn
from the New Hampshire result. No matter
whether or not the election was bought
and paid for in cash down over the
ballot-box. The fact remains that there
il not enough of public virtue left 10 be
so shocked hy disclosures Of ia" Belhnap-
Babcock sort as to upset ono party f1om power
till the Opposition has shown some better title
TO confidence than the misd0ings of the other
side. Doubtless there is great lesson III 1t
and it must be this: The Democratic party
cannot come back 20 power upon the bare argu-
ment of the unwoT'Liucss OF the Opposition
The country mas trusted ii TO some degree in
the election Of the present Congress. And there
the country and the people rest. They wait
Tor THIS party 10 40 soHittuibR 'o 'bHt'' ~ w
further and larger trusts Thus far 1t
has done nothing. II has wasted a
session and frittered away large OPP
portunities; and perhaps by and by, when it
will be too late, it viii awake to the discoY-
cry chat no party least of all this one, that
has done 40 much to be rcpented of, can REM
state itself in public confidence by the mega
tive virtue of not having committed the
crimes and foies which 1t bad no opportunity
for
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miration she reads on every face in the GIT
tering ballroom. What if she could read, TOO,
that faces were but petite fctions and that all
tle others. instead of thinking Of her charms,
were calculating the effect Of their own
Crpsrs goes into Wall-st fancying That every
man pays him secret homage; whereas 'ne
shabiiest oGlce-boy he meets thinks NM
self Individually the better man OF lic
two. and wonders that Providence did
not send the dollars where they were
better deserved The great god or war;
after whom the populace clamor, is seen py
his betters to be an ignorant animal WIN
brute courage; the great scholar IN MS own
village is known to be n sloycn and a miser;
the queen of society, could her maid and wash
erwoman speak. is a niGgardly termagnnt. NO
man is hero to his valet de chambre; put
alas in this cloSe-rubbing American llic, al
the world ia every mans valet, ana KNOWS
that his coat is cheap and bis trousers are
Matched. and how little and lean Is the man
thew cover Hannah felt uncomfortable enough
when one MOrdecai jew, sat Ill the gate
and showed that he entertained poor opinion
of him; but when he was hanging on the gal
lows fifty 'cubis high no doubt every Persian
in sight shook his head and said, 81 could
"bave told you SOL"
Hannah being dead was spared The salutary
lesson. The salutary lesson is too sharp for
ordinary human nature. Let us treat our
children to the discipline of little whole
some neglect, and occasionally measure our
selves with whatever giants are to be found
in the land in these days that we may temper
our characters with becoming modesty. But
self-conccit is warmer, more comfortable gar
ment for every day use than virtue, money,
or merit, and it is cheap enough for every
mans wearing. No doubt we shall all wrap
ourselves in it little longer, and leave the
chill of knowing the worlds opinion to guilty
people who are found out, OF to our friends
who want Office, as part of the price they must
my Tor II.
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4 coon NOVIN4TTON,

Tho nomination OF Mr.. David A. Wells for
Representative, in place of Tho late Mr.. Stark
weather, il ono Of those evidences of recur-
ring sense on the part Of the Democratic party
which, were it not in district hopelessy
Republican, would be an encouraging sign of
recognition of the popular longing for a
better and higher class Of legislators. The
fact need not be concealed that the nomina-
ton of Mr. Wells has been brought about, not
by any conception Of the public need on the
part Of the men who have nominated him, but
from notion that, there being nothing to lose,
the party could well afford to simulate q de-
sire for reform at very cheap price. Mr..
Wells, it is understood, not only did not de-
sire this nomination, but expressly refused it.
The district is Republican beyond the shadow
of doubt he cannot expect an election.
There is no district in the State in which his
chances could be more desperate than in the
Hid. 1t is truth to say that in no other dis
trict could man of Mr.. Weiss character re-
ceve the Democratic nomination. He ought
to he elected
The Republicans, however. will elect over
ni.a the Hon. John p. Waite Of Norwich, who
whatever may be said OF his ability as q
lawyer, cannot compare with Mr.. Wells as .
phil0sopbc student of politics or O statesman
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smirching their own Government. The dis
grace of the Belknap case, and so on, is Bit
ter modification G. the whole country. How
ever sternly the people may resent the mis-
conduct of the officials who have thus exposed
republican institutions TO the scorn of the old
world, they have no feeling of gratitude toward
the politicians who are forever holding it up
to view, setting it in the worst light, exaS-
gerating its ugly features, and trying to turn
it to their own advantage. What they demand
in their trouble is not party which tries to
earn cheap reputation for virtue by
railing at everybody who has been ac-
cused of vice, but party which Will
bring back the Government to purer
principles of politics. They do not delude
themselves with the belief that Republican
is prime .fdcis bribe-taker, and Democrat
an honest man. They are not so shOrt-siehted
as to imagine that it is only the accidental
connection of Bcknap Rabcock, Schepck and
Shepherd with this Administration that has
brought them to their present pass. These
men are only the natural OutgrOwth of spirit,
not easily defined but perfectly well under
stood. which has ruled the Government over
since it passed into Gen. Grants hands, and
filled every branch of it with sordid meanness
and vulgarity. They look for a party which
will lift the public service up again, and show
public officers The duties a. well as the per-
quisites Of their position. The Democracy has
had a short lease of power in the House OF
Representatives, and it has done nothing to
prove that its aims are any higher than those
of the faction it is ambitious to replace. Why
then should tho people trust it7 Mud-throw-
ing is lot reform.
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SUMNER on GRANT And GREELEY.

AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER WRITTEN IN 1S72--rgs
LEY's INFLUENCE ON THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
PREDICTED.
Charles Sumner wrote an interesting letter MT
hitherto printed, in 1872, critcisn9 severely the
Grant Administration and picturng the good ipan.
euce Mr.. Greeley would exercise on the Democratic
party if he were chosen President. The letter wa,
written in reply to friend in Missouri, who had
expressed dstrust of the action OF tho Democratic
leaders if they should obtain control Of the border
States The following is a copy Of the letters
wAsuISGroS, July 81, 1872
DEAR Mr.. =: am obliged by your bitter and note
with pain what you say Of Dcnlcc!a.a The attempt now
making Is one OF the greatest IN political history M
to bring an adverse political party the platform has
always opposed. 1t il revolution ny which Democrats
become Republicans and the Issue, oi toe warsr settled
la such change there MIST BE- difficulties AMI trials
Original prejudice cannot be conqVcr? az But We
must not be discouraged. The Dsmocfdts SiGad on ne
same platform as zee do and they accept their candi
date lifetime AbDtiOnist
10 my mind 1t is most important that the bead
should be right IL the eXtcn ties do moi at once
feel the Influence But do rot doubt that Presdcn.
50 inspired can duse his mlcncc 20 the trtiest ex.
trcmfies Better such fOuEian Of humanity at the
White House as Horace Greeley tHan the military Oess.
pool now there. The local leader, 10 whom you refer
will be fed from the new source.
Evidently You wiling 10 accept or nt am not
YOu sneak of "many nirtGkcs.' little hut en0P.
mans iucapacify perniciOus czaiIe. and an nmrnss
Treatment OF 100000 blacks IN H3Yi has kept that poor
people for three years in disnay and anxiety. Ths
know. II il duty 10 do everything possible Tor his
moyal from the power no abllses.
Approaching much your kind suggestions, and anxious
for light. believe me, dear Mr.. - suecf, ~ yours,
CHARLES SUMNER.