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Thursday January 9, 1851.
IEPWc have received from Ilarrisburg, the first
number of iK?" Daily American." A' weekly paper
is also issued from the same office, entitled the
"Ilarrisburg Weekly American" Which is intended
to lake the plare of the. Inlelligcncer, and will be
furnished to subscribers at $1 a year, the price of
the daily is Si. These papers will be Whig in
politics, devoted to the spread of sound political
principles, and the dissemination of general intel
ligence, as well as full reports of legislative pro
ceedings. Published by George Bergner & Co.
IE? JFsrc! We have been informed that the
dwelling house of Mr. Smith Price, of Pi ice town
ship, together with its entite contents, was de
stroyed by fire on Thursday night, 2d inst. Mr.
Price's, loss is a severe one, having lost in aiddi
tion to his dwelling, 80 bushels of grain, corn and
buckwheat, which he had stored away in the up
per part of his house, and also about 1000 lbs. of
pork.
CP The celebrated American Aeronaut John
Wise, proposes to cross the Atlantic with a Bal
loon. He has petitioned Congress to aid him in
in this project. If he fails to secure help, he says
be will try to carry it through with his own re
sources. Several scientific gentlemen convinced of the
practicability of the scheme have given Mr. Wise
every encouragement, and urged him to repeat his
application to Congress.
Important Decision. Washington, Dec. 31.
The Supreme Court, to day, in the case of the Ti
nned States vs. Jesse lloyt, late Collector of New
York, involving claims amounting to over $200,
O00,.gave a decision in favor of the United Stales,
The next tilling is for Uncle Sam to look after the
ihino that Jesse took out of the Sub-Treasury.
Pennsylvania Surveyor- General's Report.
During the past year, 315 Patents have been is
sued from the office of .the Surveyor-General of
Pennsylvania; 290 new warrants issued, 367 new
surveys re-filed. The business in the Land De
partment is steadily increasing.
Election of Judges.
The 'Lancnsier Examiner and Herald' is advo
cating ihe -doctrine of the people themselves elect
ing their Judges, without the aid of delegate nom
ination, and thinks that the practice of two or
three -delegates from a township assume too much
in deciding what candidate the people of the dis
irict Shall vote for. The idea that the communi
ty of voters should choose their own officers di
rectly themselves, without being trammeled in any
way, seems to be gaining ground.
Reports from Washington represent that the Au
strian Government has threatened to withdraw its
diplomatic agent at the Capitol, in the event of our
receiving and protecting the Hungarian patriot
Kossuth and his compratiols. Mr. Webster has
notified the Austrian Charge that they would be
received with open arms, and that if he wants his
passports he can have them at any moment;
fXJThe Bucks Co. Intelligencer says, Benja
min Tommxson, of Mboreland, Philadelphia coun
ty, killed four Hogs on Christmas day, under fif
teen month old, that severally weighed when
dressed, 510, 520, 512, and 461 lbs. These being
mere common Shotes for the neighborhood, the
owner has kept the fifth one of the same litter to
fatten, and as his present dimensions exceed those
of his illustrious predecessors, he will probably
die as he has Jived, an unrivalled specimen of
what. Mooreland can produce in the lino of pouk
Ens. Emigration to America. Among the passen
gers who sailed in the packet ship Guy Manner
ing, for Liverpool, we notice the name of Rev. T.
N- Mullen, a Catholic clergyman, who recently
purchased some 25,000 acres of land in Iowa,
where he intends to -bring a large number of his
countrymen to settle, as soon as preparations can
be made in Ireland for their departure to Ameri
ca. Tribune,
A suit was tried in New York last week, in
which the plaintiff was a milkman, who endeavor
ed to recover 9200 from Mr. Howard of the Irving
Housej for milk supplied on a contract. It was
proved, however, that he contracted to furnish
milk from cows fed on grass in summer, and in
winter from cows fed on hay, grain and meal ; in
stead of which, it turned out that, the cows were
fed on swill from a distillery in the 10th avenue,
which physicians pronounced to,be unwholesome,
as productive of various diseases, particularly to
children. Under .these 'circumstances, the .jury
rendered a verdict for the defendant. --
Nbw Rail. On part of the U.tica and Sche
nectady iRailroadi the New York Courier says, a
newly invented rail, called the compound rail, has
beenMaid down, which is said to run much more
smoothly and to last much longer than the other.
The rail is composed of two bars, united together
with bolts, in such a manner that there is no whole
joint at any part the two bars being so .as to
break joints. It is an American inventionand is
wholly manufactured of American iron.
fX? Daniel IV Miller has at length laken.his
seat in the House ns a 'Member from Iowa, vice
Wm. Thompson, jr. unduly returned' and there
fore unseated. We congratulate the Whigs of
Iowa that ,ihey have at length one Jlepresenta-J
tive in the National Councils, and trust they will
be encouraged to .strive earnestly for more.
They .could carry . their stale if they would only
iakcmoldh'll"t6ccther and really; try. Mr. Miller1
willi.vc afaiUiful-and,efliuienttMember.T-rW;jFi.j
TIiiriy-First Congress.
SECOND SESSION. A ,
monaay, Dec. in me senate, varions pen-
tions andtrcports were presented, t
Mi.Dbughlass presented a-petition from Mr
Wise, the aeronaut, asking an appropriation of
$20,000 to make experiments with his balloons.
After a debate, it was referred to the Committee
on Naval Affairs.
Mr. Benton introduced a bill to accelerate the
sales of public lands, and to pay the debt ; to ex
tinguish ihe government titles to lands within the
States, and to grant .donations of land to actual
settlers, and to cede refuse lands to the respective
States in which they Uea
A resolution authorising the Post Office Com
mittee to employ a clerk, was adopted.
A resolution of inquiry into the expediency of
lighting Pennsylvania Avenue with gas, was a
dopted. A message was received from the President, in
reply to the resolution of Mr. Cass, calling for the
correspondence of the State Department with the
Austrian Charge, relative to Hungarian affairs.
The correspondence, which is very volumnious,
was read, and then, on motion, referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations.
In the House, Mr. Caldwell, of Kentucky, un
der a suspension of the rules, introduced a joint
resolution allowing land warrants, under the
boundary act of 1850, to be transferable prior to
location.
Mr. Vinton opposed the resolution on the ground
that ihe lands would, by this means", fall into ihe
hands of speculators.
Mr. Caldwell replied, insisting that the benefi
ciares desired the enactment of this law, and ihe
speculators did not.
.After some further remarks, tho question was
taken, and the resolution passed. Yeas 103 nays
51.
Dec. 21. Tn the Senate, nothing of importance
was done except to order the printing of five thou
sand copies of the correspondence between Mr.
Webster and the Austrian Charge.
In the House, the Postage reform was discussed
in Committee of the whole.
Jan. 1, 1851. Neither house in session.
Thursday, Jan. 2. In the Senate, the bill to
provide for the settlement of private land claims
in California, was taken up and debated until the
adjournment.
The House was not in session.
Jan. 3. In the Senate, the bill to determine
private land claims in California, was taken up
and advocated by Mr. Benton until the adjourn
ment. In the House, several private bills were passed,
and some other unimportant business attended to.
Jan. 4. The Senate was not in session.
In the House, several bills were introduced, and
then the Postage reduction was taken up in Com
mittee of the Whole, and some good sense as well
as some great nonsense was displayed in the de
bate. A resolution was adopted before adjourn
ment, to close debate in two hours after the sub
ject is again taken up in Committee of the Whole.
re? The Bucks Co. Intelligencer, says that Jas
C. Cornell, Esq. President of the Bucks County
Agricultural Society, sold in Philadelphia, on the
day before Christmas, for fifteen dollars, a Tur
key of his own raising that weighed thirty pounds.
This is probably the heaviest Turkey, and the
highest priced one ever sold in Philadelphia.
Man Sawed tn Two. A German, named John
Sweetzer, at Yincennes, lately, whilst intoxicated,
went into a circular saw mill, and falling upon ihe
saw was discovered a few minutes after sawed
from he left side just belowT the shoulder oblique
ly across he belley. He died that night.
Lebanon Valley Railroad.
The President of the Reading Railroad is said
to have subscribed for four thousand shares of the
stock in this new enterprize. It will form an im
portant link in the great chain of Railroads
throughout the country, and its completion will be
looked to with general interest from all quarters:
The Lebanon Courier remarks, 'Its advantages
become more apparent the more its merits are can
vassed; and we believe it will be the best paying
portion of a road in the Union. It is the natural
route for connecting-the East and the West, and
must be the thoroughfare for a great portion of the
gigantic trade which will come and go over the
Central Road. With the termination of the Cen
tral Road at its beginning, and intersecting the
Reading Road at the favorable point of Reading,
its forms a connecting link which must be advan
tageous and profitable.
ft? When it is Noon in New Orleans or St.
Louis, it is 1 o'clock, P. M. at Philadelphia, as
there is a difference of an hour for every 19 de
grees of longitude. Hence a telegraphic despatch
from Philadelphia at noon reaches New Orleans
at-1 1 o'clock, A. M. being an hour ahead of time.
So it is, in sailing round the globe, if we go one
way we loose, and by the other we gain a day.
The Remains of Girard. The preparatory
steps have been taken for the removal of the re
mains of the late Stephen Girard to the College
grounds, where a monument to the memory of the
great benefactor is soon to be erected by order of
our city Councils. The remain's have been pri
vately exhumed from the burial ground attached
to the church of the Holy Trinity, corner of Sixth
and Spruce streets, and are now in custody of Mr.
Simon Gartland, the undertaker, No. 21 .south
Thirteenth street, They will remain there until
prepared for interment. Inquirer.
Disasters on the Lakes.
The Buffalo Commericial Advertiser of Satur
day publishes a detailed statement showing the
loss of life : and property on the Lakes during tlie,
past year. The. vessels which met with disasters
were , thirty-one steamers, . nine propellers, , two
barques, thirtyour brjgs, eighty-eight schooners,
and six scows-r-in all one hundred and seventy.
The loss of property was 558,926. The steam
boats, twenty-one sailing vessels and probably
one propeller, "were entirely lost, the remainder
were only partially damaged. The loss of life
was three hundred and ninety-five,!1of whfchtfthFptf
"hundred and seventy-fivewere on board steamers
and: twejntyaorifcailicig resselstf
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the. name cannot be sustained. , Should theWhjg
press of Pennsylvania wish the name of their dis
tinguished Governor to be associated with the Vice
Presidency they must not wait .for the North,
West or South to say so, but boldly unfurl the
flag, and declare their determination to stand by. it
until another name may be ordered jn its place by J
a National Convention. The idea that with the
Scott and Johnston flag, our candidates would be
too sectional is equally absurd. His residence is
where his deeds were done. The din of his first
exploit was drowned by the roar of Niagara while
his last was at the other end of the continent be
neath the shinning domes of the Capitol of Mexi
co. And there, Mr. " Whig V on every fopt of
ground belween may be called the residence of
General Scott. His family may reside in New
Jersey but bis home is the Nation. We have
hoisted ihe Banner of Scott and Johnston believ
ing that they can and will be elected, and we are
determined to stand by it and fight under it."
in3 It is said that Barnum is about to bring
from beyond the seas a Dutchman who never
smokes, and an Irishman who does not eat pota
toes ! What next 1
Tlie Cuban Invaders.
The leading participants in tho Cuban Ex
pedition were arraigned bofore the Uhiied'
States Circuit Court at New Orleans on Mon
day the 16th uli. The following appeared lo
answer to their names :
Gen. Narciso Lopez, Col. Theodore O'Hara,
Col. John Picket, Maj. Thomas J. Hawkins,
Col. W, II . Bell, Capt. A. J. Lewis, Col. Rob
erl Wheate. Gen. John Henderson, L J. Sigur,:
Eq., and Gen. D Augubtin. Those w ho did
not appear were A. Ganayles, Gov. Quitman,
John O'sullivan, Major Banch, Peter Smith,
and N. D- Iladen.
Gen. Lopez plead in abatement to the in
dictment, on the ground that the Grand Jury
had been illegally drawn anil impannelled, as
did also Messrs. Sigur and Augustine. The
others put in the plea of not guilty.
Gen. Henderson requested an immediate
trial, but Judge McCalah postponed the consid
eration of that point, as we! as of the pleas in
abatement, until the next day, when, they could
be argued, and he would determine whether he
should await tho attendance of the Circuit
Judge.
extraordinary Trial.
A correspondent of the New York Sun, wri
ting fioin Bel Air, in Maryland, relates the fol
lowing exttaordinajy circumstances :
Someiimo ago the body of a man named
Hammond was found near here, bearing evi
dence that he had been cruelly muidered. Sus
picion was fixed upon two persons named
Stump and Griffith, as the villains who com
mitted the bloody deed, and they were accor
dingly arrested, and duly indicted, Stump for
being the principle and Griffith as being an ac
complice. Stump's trial came on a few days since, and
he was accquitted, the jury thinking the tes
timony against him not sufficient for hanging.
Griffith, the accomplice, was next on trial,
and the Court have been occupied with it for
the past few days. To-day they brought in a
verdict of not gu'lty, upon ihe following sin
gular testimony :
Stump having been acquited of the murder,
his evidence was of course admissible, and he
tvas called to the stand in behalf of Griffith.
Being sworn, he was asked :
Ques. Do you know anything. of the mur
der of Hammond ? .
Ana Yes.
Ques. Who did it ?
Ana I DID IT MYSELF!
Ques. Had Griffith any agency in the act?
Ans. None ; and ho did not know it until
four hours afterwards !
The Jury immediately returned a verdict of
Not Guilty, against the prisoner, and he was
dischared.
Sagacity of a Horse.
, Tho foil wing incident is related by a Long
Point Advocate :
" A few days since, as we were leaving our
residence on our usual morning visit to the Ad
vocate office, a sorrel horse belonging to us
galloped up and caught our arm and mado an
attempt to pull us in the direction he wished
us to go. He then left and set off at a quick
gait towards a pasture on our farm about a quar
ter of a mile distant from our residence. In a
few minutes he approached us again, makin an
unusual noise, end seemed by his actiou to de
sire us to follow him. This we did, and when
we reached the pasture we observed the mate
of the horse entangled iu a bridge, which had
broken through with him. After wc had ex
tricated his companion from his dangerous po
sition, the horse which had given us notice of
his companion's danger, came up and rubbed
his head against us, showing evide'ni 8ins of
great satisfaction. . ,
Desperate, R e n c o.u nt e r ,r-T H e. Planters'
Advocate, published at Macon, Noxubee county,
Miss., says lhat on Sunday, the 8th ult. Mr.
Jonathan Henkleand Mr. Adams, of that county,
were reclining upon the side' of a hillbasking
in the genjal rays of the surt, when suddenly a
large eagle made a swoop, and 'fastened its tal
ons in the breast pf Mr, Henkle. A fight im
mediately ensued between ihe iwo young men
and the eagle, and after a considerable scuffle1,
they succeeded in capturing it alive and carrjed
it home. No damage was done except that
Mr. Hreceived a slight wound In the br.east.
It is said to be a very large eagle.
Seeing upon his wife's1 shduldfer :a large Bhawl
pin, Mr. D. said, " In ihe military' eh, got to
ung to a third baby in her lap. t Nq,e recruit
ing tforgeant ,in thorthird infaipry." r .':
;j Scott and Johnston.
The1Schuylkill Haven map,-.after copying the,
article.from the Bellvillo (Ill.RegtibHcnn recom-:
mendiiig Scott and Johnston as tho VYhig candi
jdatestfor President and Vice Presidents :speaksras
follows : :' We agree with the Republican in all
but the " Brown," and we throw out our flag ho
ping the Republican will place the same at its
head. We weWthe'first to ' TaiWthlTScoit flag,
the Scott and Johnston flag, and we will be the'
last to abandon it But the reasons of the Whig
(Blair county Whig, we presume,) for hoisting
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GoveriiBiicut of the Uuitcd Slates.
President MILLARD FILLMORE, New York.
SecCy of Stale Daniel Webster, Massachusetts.
Sect"y of Treasury Thoma3 Corwin, Ohio.
SecCy of Interior Alex. H. II. Stuart, Virginia.
SccVy of Navy Wm. A. Graham, North Carolina.
Secfy of War Chas. M. Conrad, Louisiana.
Post Master General Nathan K. Hall, New York.
Attorney General John J. Crittenden, Kentucky.
J udiciary of the United States.
Chief Justice Roger B Taney, Maryland.
Associate Justices John M'Lean, Ohio ; James
M. Wayne, Georgia; John Catron, Tennessee ;
John McKinley, Alabama ; Samuel Nelson, New
York; Levi Woodburry, New Hampshire ; Rob
ert C. Grier, Pennsylvania.
Government of Pennsylvania.
Governor WM. F.JOHNSTON.
Secretary of State and Superintendent of Com
mon Schools Alex. L. Russell
Auditor General Ephraim Banks.
Surveyor General J. Porter Brawley..
Attorney General Cornelias Darragh.
State Treasurer John M. Bickel.
Canal Commissioners Israel Painter, James
Gamble, Wm. T. Morrison.
Judiciary.
Chief Justice John Bannister Gibson.
Associate JusticesMolton C Rogers, Thomas
Burnside, Richard Coulter, Thomas S. Bell.
Rresident Judge for Monroe, Carbon, Pike and
Wayne Nathaniel B. Eldred.
Associate Judges of Monroe M. W. Cool
baugh and Stogdell Stokes.
Member of Congress for Monroe, Carbon, Pike
and Wayne M. M. Dimmtck.
Member of Assembly John D. Morris, Strouds-
burg.
County Officers.
Sheriff Peter Kemmerer.
Coroner Wm. II. White, Stroudsburg.: .
Dictrict Attorney Samuel S. Dreher.
Prothonotary, &c. Michael II. Dreher.
Register and Recorder Samuel Rees, jr.
Crier of the Court Charles U Warnick.
Commissioners Abraham Fenner, Joseph Frablo,
Michael Supers.
Clerk to Commissioners James H. Walton, Esq
Treasurer Charles Fetherman, Hamilton.
Appraiser of Mercantile Taxes G. F. Bamberger.
County Surveyor Robert W. Swink.
Auditors of Public Accounts---John T. Bell, Chas.
S. Palmer and Henry D. Shafer.
Overseen of the Poor for Stroud tsp.-Mark Miller
and Geo. Ransberry.
Time of Holding Court in Monroe.
February-Term, commences on Afonday, 24th.
May 26lh.
September " . " " 22d.
December "... " 22d.
'Growth of the Human Nails.
1 stained the roots of my ringer nails on the
first of last August, to find out the exact time
a, healthy nail took form, in other words, lo find
out how often a man changed his finger nails.
On the 14th of this month all tho old nails.
had disappeared : thus it look exactly four
months and fifteen days lo form nails. Allow
ing this period to be the average timeMbr ihe
complete renewal of the human nail, a man
who lives to 70 years has had each nail re
newed 186 times in other words, he wears
out I860 finger nails in 70 years,. In tho four
and a half months I could distinguish no differ
ence in the periods of formation the growth
was gradual and .systmalic, from week to week,
without any variation. 1 stained the nails with
corrosive cublimate ; the color was tawny, and
was riot the least affected with all its numer
ous washings and exposure to the air. My oc
cupation is sedentary ; tho nails may grow fas
ter on, some, and slower on other individuals,
according lo thpir constitutions, orMhe. garlic
ular occupations in which they maybe engaged...
. Scientific American,
TlieAialhracite coal Trade.
-a As no ordinary degree of interest is felt at
home land in the eastern markets, in regard
to yield of coal in tho various anihraticite field
of.ihis State, during the season which has just
terminated, we lay before our readers ihis
morning a statemoi.t f Jno anthracite coal
trade of the year 1850, a few days in advance
of. the customary time of publication. We arjj,
necessarily compelled, in tho absence of offi
cial reports, to estimate the yield of ihe Lack
awana and one or iwo of the smaller regions'
but in the main our figures will bo found suffi?
ciemly accurate for all practical purposes--.
The following table wijl show the yieldf;of
1850, as compared with that of the proceeding
year :
1850. 1849
Schuylkill,
Lehigh,
Lackawaua
1 ,639.537 tons, 1,580,171, tons.
722,682.
400,000
801,266
454,240
78,299
25,000
19,500
250,000
3,208,463
81,380
Pinegrove,
70,657
Lykens Valley 25,000 ,
Shamokin 19,206
Wyoming 250,000
3,127,083
Deficiency this year
During the panic among dealers and con
sumers which followed the disastrous freshets
ol September last, we are aware that a much
larger deficiency in this year's supply was
very generally anticipated and predicted : but
it should be borne in mind thai in 1849, owing
to the stagnation of the coal trade, the colliers
of Schuylkill county suspeuded operations for
about ivo months, and consequently that the
yield of that year is much behind the general
average allowing for a legitimate increase in
the channels of consumption.
A yield of over three million tons per annum
is indeed a staniingly large amount compared
with the product of ihe various fields in the ear
ly history of the anthracite coal trade ; but
large as jhis amount is, we are convinced that
it will be doubled, if not trebled, within the
next ten years, notwithstanding the embar
rassment flowing from the unequal and op
pressive tariff of 1846. We believe that one
of the greatest, if not the greatest source of
consumption, will be found in the river and
ocean steam marine ; for it has already been
satisfactorily demonstrated lhat anthracite coal
is superior to any known fuel for the purpose
of generating steam. The steamship Pacific,
in her well known trip across ihe Atlantic
the quickest on record used anthracite coal a
lone. Anthracite coal is now used in all of
Collin's steameri in all of our coast steamers
and in nearly all of the ferry boats and Stea
mers of the Eastern rivers.
The probable amount of anthracite coal
which will be required in future years for the
ocean steam marine now in its infancy is
beyond conjecture. A side wheel steamer of
the size of the Pacific, will consume from eight
to ten thousand tons per annum ; bui the great
source of consumption will be in the freight
vessels the propellors which appear des
tined, ai no late day, to lake the place of our
world renowned sailing ships. To show that
this is not mere conjecture, we may here stato
ihai a large number of the sailing packets which
ha;e recently been launched, at New York,
have been constructed with a view 10 their fu
ture conversion into piopellors. Under all
these circumstances, we are inclined to believe
that the increased demand next year will cause
a supply of nearly four millions of tons to be
thrown into ihe market, two millions of which
must necessarily come from the Schuylkill re
gion. In this belief we are strengthened by
the statements of several of the most prominent
dealers in this city. North American
Paiue's Slight.
The Springfield Republican furbishes the fol
lowing explanation ol one ot the mysteries
mis invention :
It has been claimed, heretofore, by Mr. Paine,
that water was a simple substance. The man
ner by which he arrived at this conclusion, was
a very natural one. By communicating with
the water with one pole of his aparalus, he ob
tained ail hydrogen, by the other oxygen.
The natural conclusion would be that if decom
position really took place belween ihe two u
niied gases of which water is composed, ihe
iwo librated gases would both manifest them
selves. They did not thus manifest themselves,
and the conclusion was that tho water was all
resolvable into oxygen or hydrogen, depending
upon whether positive or negative electricity
were used in ihe process.
A day or two before our visit to Mr. Paine,
ho had been visited by Prof. Doremus of New
York, who offered him a salutation of the mys
tery, which Mr. Paine immediately admitted
the reasonableness of, and which we doubl not
will do away with some of the prejudices con
ceived by scientific men toward Mr. Paine
the claim thai water was a simple substance,
being in antagonism with well established facts.
Prof. Doremus supposes thai decomposition
really takes place, and that the oxygen, com
bined with the hydrogen, is all liberated, but
that it immediately unites with the hydrogen
in the undecomposcd water, forming the per
oxide of hydrogen. This is the only rational
solution of the difficulty, and is, doubtless, the
true one. It will thus be aoen lhat after- car
rying on decomposition for any length of time,
what is lefi m the waier jar is not pure water,
and ihe necessity of frequently replacing ihe
fluid, in practical uso, becomes obvious. Mirl
Paine says he is not disposed 10 adhere to a
theory, after he gets a better one, and wo
should judge that he had given up the one 'id
which he was so naturally led.
The Republican has the following paragraph
as to ihe invemion in general :
AH the scientific committees." in Christen-:
dom could never cheat us out of the belief in
what we saw, viz : lhat by a peculiar construc
tion of his helices, Mr Paine has obtained
ihe power of decomposing water, heretofore
only attained by large galvanic batlerios ; lhat
the gas developed in the composition is hydrcf
gen, in passing through turpentine, receivei'an:
illuminaiing propony, and receives ii thbreT
alone.
DCTfn 1818 thirty thousand persons were
arraigned in, England for criminal offencesi
tfoarly nine-lenihs of whom were illiterate, a
tenth only, could; read and write-; and buu81
ouu of the 30,000 had received an education of
the highestkm4.
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