SCRIPTURE CONFIRMED.
A eUKIOUS Dise« TEBV .
O- “ Ju 'y .number of the Bibliotheca
ami an nttiole by Professor Hacketton
, j r st eleven chapters of Genesis at
reßtea by their contents.” In the course
it, he mentions the local tradition re
sP®.c" n S the Babylonian Tower (Babel),
wuoh Mr. Oppert, one of the most learned
Ot the European savans, has recently
Drought to light. It is met with in one of
the cuneiform inscriptions, asdecyphered by
mm, found on a cylinder which llawlinson
discovered. among the ruins of Babylon.
The writing purports to be from Nebuchad
nezzar, and, among other things, says:—
“The temple of the seven lights of the
earth, (the planets,) the original edifice, of
Borsippa, was built by an ancient king;
since then are reckoned forty-two genera
tions ; but the summit he did not finish.
The men had abandoned it (the structure)
after the flood, because they found their
words confused. The earthquake and
thunder had shattered the brioks, and torn
down the casings of burnt tiles, and the
materials of the walls were thrown together
and formed hills. T,he great God, Merr
dach, had put it into my heart to build it
again; I have not changed the place, and
have not disturbed the foundations. In
the month of Salvation, on the auspicious
(my, I have pierced the unburnt brick of
the walls and the burnt brick of the casings
with arches; I have inscribed the glory of
my name on the frieze of the arches."
Professor Haokett remarks, “If this in
terpretation of Oppert be confirmed, then
we have two points here, in particular,
which are very important. Among the
niins of Borsippa, the castle of the ancient
Babylon, which lay on the southwest of
this city, between the outer and inner circle
of .the walls, is still found a hill of ruins,
which the popular tradition calls Birs Nim
rud (Nimrud’s Tower), and also Tower of
Languages, and concerning which it affirms
that it is the ancient Tower of Babel. Mod
ern scholars have naturally rejected this as
a myth, and have seen there only remains
of the temple of Belus, built by Nebuchad
nezzar, and described by Herodotus. This
inscription now, if reliable, would show
that both views are correct, inasmuch as
Nebuchadnezzar built his temple purposely
on the site of the ancient tower. The ar
chitectural document—for so we may term
that inscription—gives the local tradition
respecting that famous structure of ancient
times, as still well-known on the ground
itself. The tradition of the country relates
the substance of the matter in accordance
with Genesis; it is a vast edifice, which,
in consequence of a great catastophe re- ,
mains unfinished; and from it dates the
confusion- of tongues. But not less remark
able is the chronological indication. King
Nebuohadnezzar reigned B. C. 164—561,
and the building of the Tower, according
to Biblical chronology is to be placed in
the twenty-third century before Christ.
The intervening period is sixteen hundred
years, which agrees very well with the
forty-two generations of the cylinder, if we
allow thirty-five or forty years to each. This
result is not unimportant, in view of mod
ern objections, which charge the chronol
ogy of Genesis with errors of centuries.”—
NT Y. Evangelist.
JOYOUS LIFE OF THE BIRDS.
There is no part of Creation, indeed,
where freedom and happiness would appear
to be enjoyed so perfectly as in the world
of air—no life so enviable, considered on
the whole, as the life of a bird. The
mere power to fly must be in itself a sensa
tion of exquisite pleasure, conferring as it
does the power of rapid and unimpeded
and almost unlimited motion on those.crea
tures who possess it—a sensation in which
all animals (almost), including man, appear
to delight. The life of a bird must be as
a fairy tale, which one has often dreamed
of but never realized, and awoke with a
pang of disappointment to find himself still
bound to the solid earth. The entire free
dom from restraint which is experienced in
the flight of a pigeon or a swallow, to
gether with the instantaneous exercise of
mental and bodily freedom, or the power
to go at a minute’s notice whither you
wish, even to the ends of the earth, must
be something almost Divine in its enjoy
ment. That birds have volition and minds
sufficient to direct them in their various
flights, who oan doubt that has observed
their habits, notwithstanding the saying of
a celebrated naturalist, “ How can an ani
mal have intelligence, whose eye is half as
big as its head?” But though the intelli
gence of birds may be of a lower order
than some other animals, it is not so low
as some have imagined, while it is sufficient
for' their purpose. There must exist in
their minds, at all events, the desire to
transport themselves to any particular spot
of earth they wish with lightning speed.
They cannot but experience in doing so an
exulting sense of power and freedom as
they rise aloft to the clouds, to float there,
either calmly and silently, or, like the lark,
to pour forth their sense of it in a gush of
song," while every beat of the flapping wing
that cleaves the viewless, and, to others,
yielding element around assures them of
their entire control over it. They cannot
but feel, too, as they look around, there is
an expanse of boundless freedom, a refresh
ing bath in which to plunge, and gambol,
and sport, now performing varied feats of
skill, as swimmers do in the water, —now
poising themselves above the clouds, mo
tionless and still, and with outspread but
slightly quivering pinion,—new diving sud
denly through hundreds of fathoms of the
liquid substance around them, appearing to
drop like a Btone till they are within a few
feet of the earth, when the outspread wing
again arrests their fall, —again to shoot up
wards towards the heavens with a joyfhl
burst of song. Who could believe that a
lark does not enter into the spirit of all
these feats, though in a much lower degree,
as well as the silent, intellectual watcher,
man, far below, who beholds them, or that
though the hawk may not derive as much,
he.does derive an immense amount of ex
quisite enjoyment from the power he pos
sesses ?
Book at that swallow, now darting like
an arrow from a bow, or cleaving the air
like a flash of lightning, with its rapid
wing ; or the hawk, or the albatross, sailing
proudly down the wind with every feather
and pinion spread like a ship in full sail at
sea; look it the vulture; or the monarch
of all—the golden eagle —soaring far above
the clouds in those solitary regions, fre
quented alone by himself, where he floats
on with the most perfect and king-like
tranquility, the golden sun on which he
gazes illumining his wings.
Meanwhile the smaller birds below have
their own peculiar pleasures in this, to
them, delightful element Though their
journeys are but comparatively limited,
yet the same delightful feeling of the power
of volition and motion pervade this species,
whose more rapidly beating wings carry
them, not less speedily and safely, but to
yonder leafy grove, or spreading branch
where they have built their nest, or lofty
tree-top where the thrush sits at morning
and evening, and calls in thrilling tones to
his mate, when both dart off together
wildly, as though animated by one spirit—
a spirit as buoyant as the air that supports
them. Surely, if ever there was a repre
sentation of the happy existence of a spirit
ual being, it is exemplified in the life of a
bird. Those tenants of the ethereal world,
in which they live and move continually —
whether we look* at their brilliant eye,
their graceful form, their glorious plumage,
their fleet wing, their speedy flight heaven
wards,, or the pure region they inhabit —
remind us of those bright spirits of whom
we read in Holy Writ, and whom we have
every reason to believe men will one day
resemble, when, with lighter bodies, we too
may dart from one sphere to another, with
a swiftness to which the flight of the swift
est bird is but as the crawling of the .snail.
—Sunday Magazine.
DRINKING IN SWITZERLAND AND
' ITALY.
We have heard Americans earnestly de
claring that “ nobody gets drunk in Italy,
or in any country where wine takes the
place of stronger liquors.” Now we have
sifted this matter thoroughly, both in Swit
zerland and in Italy, and are bound to deny
the assertion. The Italian laborer rarely
begins his potations until his day’s work is
done; consequently travelers see and know
very little of the extent of them. They
carouse from about sundown to ten, eleven,
or twelve o’clock at night. Their money
spent, or midnight come, they reel to their
wretched homes; and the cries of their
children, and the groans of their wives,
soon tell of the fury and brutality which
mark the drunkard the world o-jer, whether
he wear homespun or broadoloth. During
a few years residence in Italy, our house
hold was served at different times by some
eleven men and women servants. Four of
this number were occasionally more or less
useless to us, from the effect of too much
wine, and four of the remaining seven had
their homes made miserable from the same
cause.
We soon proved the truth of this state
ment to our full satisfaction, for if our
wine-closet were by any accident left open,
our servants were soon quarrelsome, and
would only be fitted to resume work by a
night’s sleep. But be glad, O Italy, that
this degrading and vulgar vice finds no
favor save among the poorest and most igno
rant of your people!
A Swiss physician of very high standing,
residing in the Canton de Vaud, told us tffat
throughout that region, with the culture of
the vine had come the curse of drunkenness
and that a most lamentable increase of sin
and sickness had been the result. Two
most excellent and widely known pastors of
the Vaudois Church gave a similar testi
mony, and stated, moreover, that very few
of the working men could now be induced to
attend the churches on Sundays, or to give
any heed to religious teaching. Our own
experience soon taught us that it was diffi
cult to get a laboring man to do a day’s work
properly, for by the time the day was half
spent he would have made himself unfit to
be trusted !—Episcopal Recorder.
THE BIBLE.
In every generation, and wherever the
light of Revelation has shone, men of all
ranks, conditions, and states of mind, have
found in this volume a correspondent for
every movement towards the better felt in
their own hearts. The needy soul has
found supply, the feeble a help, the sorrow
ful a comfort; yea, be the recipiency the
least that can consist with'moral life, there
is an answering grace ready to enter. The
Bible has been found a spiritual world—
spiritual, and yet at the same time outward
and common to all. You in one place, lin
another—all men, somewhere, or at some
time, meet with an assurance that the
hopes and fears, the thoughts and yearn
ings, that proceed from, or tend to, a right
spirit in us, are not dreams or fleeting
singularities, no voices heard in sleep, or
spectres which the eye suffers, but not per
ceives. As if on some dark night a pil
grim suddenly beholding a bright star
moving before him, should stop in fear and
perplexity. But lo ! traveller after travel
ler passes by him, and-, each, being ques
tioned whither he is going, makes answer,
“I am following your guiding star)” The
pilgrim quickens his own steps, and passes
onward in confidence. More confident still
will he be if by the wayside he should
find, here and there, ancient monuments,
each with its votive lamp, and on each side
the name of some former pilgrim, and a
record that then he had first seen or begun
to follow the benignant star.
No otherwise is it with the varied con
tents of the saored volume. The hungry
have found food, the thirsty a living spring,
the feeble a staff, and the victorious way
farer songs of weloome and strains of music;
and as long as each man asks on account of
his wants, and asks what he wants, no man
will discover ought amiss or deficient in the
vast and many-chambered storehouse.
For more than a thousand years the
Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in
hand with civilization, science and law—in
short, with the moral and intellectual cul
tivation of the species——always supporting,
and often leading the way. Its very pres
ence, as a believed book, has rendered the
nations emphatically a chosen race, and
this, too, in exact proportion as it is more
or less generally known and studied. Of
those nations which in the highest degree
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1865
enjoy its influences, it is not too much to
affirm that the differences, public and pri
vate, physical, moral, and intellectual, are
only less than what might be expected
from a diversity of species. Good and holy
mcD, and the best and wisest of mankind,
the kingly spirits of history enthroned in
the hearts of mighty nations, have become
witnesses to its influences, have declared it
to be the most perfect instrument, the only
adequate organ of humanity.— Coleridge.
From the Boston Advertiser we take part
of a letter written to a Continental journal
by M. Louis Blanc, the historian.
After specifying several j ournals and their
complaints, &e., he says :
What foundation is there for all these
commentaries of a notable part of the Eng
lish press ?
And first, on what foundation do they
affirm or suppose that it is the intention of
the Government of the United States to
strike those excluded from the amnesty? Is
it not more natural to suppose that the Go
vernment only wishes to retain over them
a power of control which will make it im
possible for them to recommence their
machinations and from using to reanimate
the ashes of civil war the influence given
them by their rank, their reputation, and
their wealth ?
What! the Government has just come
out of a terrific struggle, which has let
loose upon America every kind of scourge,
has cost the lives of millions of men, and
has been on the point of drowning in blood
the most flourishing nation in the world,
and one asks of this Government that,
against the most well-known promoters, the
most active instigators, the most dangerous
agents of the most furious revolt that ever
existed, they should take no guaranty.
And one hastens to declare it barbarous be
fore a single head will fall, because it be
lieves that to generosity it ought, for the
interests of humanity and for the mainte
nance of peace, to associate prudence!
Do not the slaveholders form an aristoc
racy which is formidable by the energy of
its prejudices, the ardor of its passions, and
the extent of its wealth ? Is it not from
them that has come the impulse which has
precipitated the South into the bloody
abyss ? And is it not to them that the
people they have led away, 'and the people
they have forced to combat, owe their mis
fortunes ? And one is astonished that the
government of the United States remains
on its guard!
The victory of the North is complete, it
is true; but a war like that which has just
rent the New World does not exhaust its
fury without leaving behind it rancor, agi
tation, and a love of plotting. The South
ern sympathizers on this side of the Atlan
tic ought not to be ignorant of this ; they
who, when the war broke out, declared with
so much assurance that if the North should
ever vanquish, its greatest embarrassment
and its most serious perils would begin pre
cisely on the morrow of its victory. . . .
For there is no middle ground; if Jeffer
son Davis is innocent, then it is the Govern
ment of the United States which is guilty;
if secession has not been rebellion, then the
North in stifling it, as such, has committed
a crime. When these people reproach the
Government of the United States with
keeping Jefferson Davis in prison and try
ing him, it is as if they repoached the victor
for not declaring his own triumph iniqui
tous j it is as if they should ask him to fall
on his knees before the vanquished !
Carried to this point, what the Southern
sympathizers of England call generosity
would no longer be generosity; it would be
a betrayal of justice and a degradation of
the cause for which so many devoted citi
zens and brave soldiers have combatted and
died 1
To accuse Jefferson Davis of high trea
son, to try him for this outrage, and to con
demn him, is (whatever indulgence may be
shown him afterwards) to be faithful to the
first and most evident interests of the Ame
rican Republic. It is in fact to announce,
that the Government of the United States
has always had its seat at Washington and
not elsewhere; it is to solemnly affirm this
doctrine, that whatthe people of the United
States constituted on the day when their
representatives Bigned the federal compact,
was the Union; it is to declare before the
entire world that the legitimacy of an in
surrection depends upon its moral worth,
upon.its principle, and not upon the degree
of force it displays; it is to deny that a
contract may be violated whenever the
violators are powerful and.numerous; it is
to deny that to give a rebellion a right to
claim the immunities of war it has only to
bring about immense calamities and shed
torrents of blood!
THE GERMANS ON RECONSTRUCTION.
Considering tlie number and political
weight of the Germans in this country, too
little is known of their sentiments and
doings by native-born citizens. Almost as
numerous as our Irish population, they are
far less subject to the control of dema
gogues, and have a greater natural adapta
tion to our democratic society. Their in
terest in the late struggle has been deep,
and their concern for the proper use of the
victory which has been gained is propor
tionately earnest. The “Unionbund” of
this city has just prepared an address to the
German-Americans of every locality, the
sum of which we shall endeavor to repro
duce. The President’s plan of reconstruc
tion is criticized, first because it is under
taken hastily, by the Executive alone, with
out consulting Congress—contrary to the
spirit of our institutions. The sphere of
the Executive has been liberally enlarged
in war time, of necessity; now we ought to
be jealous of its exceeding its usual limits.
The failure to call Congress together has
tended to occasion a breach between the
Administration and the leaders of the loyal
party, which may be seriously widened
when the former body shall reject the States
which the President, perhaps, will insist
have been legally re-established. The
dogma of State sovereignty, which has just
been battled down, reappears in the con
cession to the rebel States of the right of
reconstruction, by which they are enabled
to affect the welfare of the Union according
to their own pernicious ideas; and in re
cognizing the actual validity of their for
mer constitutions, with the single excep-
PUNISHING TREASON.
tion of bondage. Against this it is asserted
that these instruments were abrogated along
with the State Governments themselves by
the act and consequences of rebellion, and
that only territories are left to be managed
by the victorious nation. What is wanted
is guardianship for the security of the loyal
whites in life, property, and political power,
and for the similar protection of the blacks
—an armed hand that shall mould deliber
ately the new society of the South—a firm
system, rather than an experiment or a trial.
The duty of the United States is to impose
a complete, not partial, republican form of
government for all the inhabitants, and not
for a class alone. The Northern States are
striving, such of them as perceive their
deficiency, to conform their practice more
nearly to the basis ,of equal rights. The
Southern States should be made to obey the
universal tendency. The mischievous re
sults of the President’s policy are pointed
out in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Mis
sissippi. While the unrepentant rebels are
everywhere boasting of a speedy return to
power, pardons' which precede judgment
are plentifully distributed, and the peril is
imminent of losing both the conviction of
traitors and the confiscation of their estates.
The Unionbund warns the President and
the people to see that the republic sustains
no detriment. —The Nation.
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Church, W est Chester.
WM.J?. WYERS, A. M., Principal West Chester
Academy and Military Institute.
Col. THEO. HYATT, President Pennsylvania Mil
itary Academy, West Chester.
Rev. THOS. BRAINERD. D.D., Philadelphia.
“ THOS. J. SHEPHERD, L.D.,
" J. G. BUTLER, D.D.,
" J. A. HENRY,
Hon. JOS. ALLISON,
Hon, N. B. BROWNE,
Rev. S. MILLER. Mt. Holly, N. J.
Hon. J. C. TEN EYCK,
Dr. BENJ. H. STRATTON, “
Dr. ZECHARIAH READ, 41
JOS. SMALLWOOD, Esq,, New York.
E. C. ESTES, Esq., New York. 1001-3 m
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YOUNG LADIES,
KORTWEST CORNER OF CHESTNUT and
EIGHTEENTH STREETS.
REV. CHARLES A. SMITH, DD„
This Seminary has b«»en in successful operation for
several years at No. 1530 Arch street. A new locality
has been selected, not only because it is more eentral
in its relations to the most densely populated portions
of the city, but also because the school-rooms are un
usually large and airy, and admirably adapted to the
purpose to whioh they are designed.
To the present and former patrons of the school it is
needless to speak of its advantages. To others, who
desire to send their daughters to a first-class institu
tion, it will be enough to say, that the design of this
school is to educate, in the only true sense. To secure
this end, thoroughness is aimed at in all the branches
pursued, so that the scholar may understand the
p rinciple involved in every investigation.
The classes are arranged in'three departments:—
Primary, Aoademic, and Collegiate. There are sepa
rate and ample accommodations for primary pupils, as
well as for those belonging to the higher departments.
All the departments are subject to the same discipline
and general supervision.
Circulars containing Course of Study, and other in
formation. may be obtained at the Presbyterian
Houbq. 1334 Chestnut street; also, at 1226- Chestnut
street, or address Box 2611, Post Ofiioe, Philadelphia.
The next session will commence on MONDAY, Sep
tember 18th, 1865. .
The rooms will be ready for examination about the
first of September.
CHESTNUT STREET FEMALE SEMINARY,
PHILADELPHIA.
Miss BONNEY and Miss DILL AYE will re-open
their BOARDING and DAY SCHOOL, at 1615 Chest
nut Street, on WEDNESDAY, September -13* ■ •,
Particulars from Circulars. * ; ’ 1000-tOl
ftatmnws, &c,
FREEHOLD INSTITUTE FOR BOYS,
FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY.
Fall Term will commence September 13, and con
tinue Fourteen Weeks. Boys fitted for business or
college. Terms? $3OO per year of forty-two weeks.
One theird at the commencement of each term. Spe
cial regard will be paid to the culture and, manners.
References in Philadelphia, Cyrus Baldwin? Rev. E.
E. Adams, D.D.. Schermerhord & Bancroft.
COTTAGE SEMINARY FOB YOUNG
Next Session will commence on TUESDAY? Sept.
sth, 1865. For Circular containing full particulars,
aftPjyto Rev. R. CRUIKSHANKS. A. M..
yy9-2m Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pa.
TREEMOUNT SEMINARY,
Norristown, pa.,
FOR YOUNG MEW AND BOYS.
The Winter Session of sis months, will commence
ON TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 19th.
Students are flitted for any calling in life, or to
enter any Class in College.
For Circulars, address
JOHN W. I,OCH. Principal.
RUGBY
CLASSICAL AND ENGLISH ACADEMY,
NO. 1236 CHESTNUT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
This Institution will begin its first Session on
SEPTEHBER IS, 1865.
The mode of nstruction and government will be
after the best
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SYSTEMS.
The number of pupils will be select and limited, 90
that each may received the personal attention of the
Principal. It will be the constant aim to secure tho
rough training and sound scholarship, and to induce
permanent habits of attention, application, self-re
liance, method, exactness, and thoroughness.
Striot discipline will be enforced,'out the system
will appeal largely to moral sanctions, and will re
cognize the student’s self-respect and sense of honor
Young men thoroughly fitted for
BUSINESS OR PROFESSIONAL LIFE.
Those also will have the special co-operation of the
Principal, who are preparing for College, and whe
wish to take a high rank in their class, and to gradu
ate with distinction.
The course in Mathematics and Natural Scienoe
will be complete.
Thorough instruction will be rendered in Greek
and Latin, including Greek and Latin Prose Com
position, Prosody and Versifioation.
Applications for admission will be received at
1226 CHESTNUT STREET,
Until the stated number of pupils is secured.
Circulars to be had on application.
EDW. €LiR£NC£ SMITH, A. ML, Principal*
TESTIMONIALS.
From Major-General Garfield, M. G.
„ . , , • Hiram, Ohio, March 20,1865.
Having learned that E. Clarence Smith is about to
establish an English and Classical School for boys, in
the city of Philadelphia, I desire to say that Mr.
Smith was a classmate of mine in college, and was
one of the first in his class, in all the studies of the
course. He is a gentleman of remarkably clear in
tellect and most thorough cultivation. I know of no
man to whom I would sooner entrust the education
of young men. J. A. GARFIELD.
From Rev . Mark Hopkins , R.D., President of Wfl
liarris College.
Williams College? March 14,1865.
Edward Clarence Smithpursued the full course ot
studies at this College. He'was thorough and accu
rate, and was among the very first soholars of his
class. MARK HOPKINS.
From Rev. Henry B. Smith, D.D.. Professor in Unfa*
Theological Seminary, New York.
_ New York, March 24,1865.
I cordially recommend the Rev. Edward Clarence
Smith as a superior scholar and admirable teaoher.
He took a high rank in this Seminary, and was very
successful as a teacher in this city. In his personal
and christain character he is worthy of the highest
confidence. HENRY B. SMITH,
Williams College, March 23,1866.
E. Clarence Smith was a member of the senior class
in this College, of the year 1856. I recollect him as a
superior scholar, and more than usually correct and
elegant writer. I presume him, therefore, adequate
to render thorough and finished instruction in any
department he may undertake.
JOHN BASCOM. Professor of Rhetoric.
Williams College, March 14,1865.
Rev. E. Clarence Smith was graduated at this Col
lege in -1856, and maintained* during his connection,
with the institution the very first rank as a scholar,
in all departments. ARTHUR L. PERRY,
Professor of History, etc.
references:
Rev. E. E. Adams D.D., Rev. Frank L. Robbins.
Rev. W. T. EVA, Rev. Thomas Brainerd, DJ). Rev.
James Y. Mitchell, Rev. Daniel March, D.D., Hon.
William D. Kelley, Hon. Joseph Allison, Alexander
Whilldin, Esq., Thomas Potter, Esq., H. P.M. Birkin
bine. Esq.
faufew & ftate.
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KRAMER kRA HM, Pittsburg.
WORK, McCOUCH & CO.,
No. 30 BOOTH THIRD Street, Philadelphia,
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Bills of Exchange on New York, Boston, Pittsburg
Baltimore, Cincinnati, etc., constantly for sale.
Collections promptly made on all accessible points in
the United States and Canadas.
Deposits received, payable on demand, and interest
allowed as per agreement.
Stocks and Loans bought and sold on commission
-at the Board of Brokers.
Business Paper negotiated.
Refer to Philadelphia and Commercial Banks, Phila
delphia ; Winßlow, Lanier & Co,New York; Oitt-
Dens’ and Exchange Bank, Pittsburg.
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No. 18 S. THIIU> ST, PBXLABEX.PHXA,
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DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF
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5-308, 10-408, 7-30 s, Os of ’Bl.
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and Government Securities bought and sold on Com
mission, at the
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