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IRA S. GRAVES.
..,,efs.cturor—manteset.ory of the tanker of
Frte. Ps., The highest pries erlll he paid
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S. C. BROWNEL. • '
„„+ T south eide,of the Public Ejlqueri,
4 Peach Streets, Nrie,-Ps.
L IKENSSSES 1 7 0 - R - 1 1004b44'
E H. ABELL
tSITIST . Rooms over the Erie Dank, Soeth
. . EA., Pa.
.;:ro 4en In the best style of *boort. aid warrsa-
T EDWARD. -
,; ICurYZELLO II at Law. Wahen P. Pro
- t,Fir.eso and eollectiosa will maim. prows
- DI, D . WALKER . CO., -
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~..,. INV LULL CUlliaiiii , • Xerrhuats, fourth
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i,. e.41 ,, f the Public BY
l•rk n C.. 1:. Sajt. P • Siuoceo, Plea, LUIS
ittne, Iron, Naas, Stay Cutlass, Is., with
_-: - I , t4i tactlate.. for abipp!fig e 1.., by etseuaboua.
Seho.oers. or by V
•,......•r., L. 11.011111:01.
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CA- MON GRAHAM,
CCICA9I44III AT LAW, fie, on Fv.n St.,
.rd:r !the - Park. Erie.
T w. mOORE,
Provisions, Wipes, ',h itt ", c iuldie .
so o dor below Booth t Stewart's 41/ita,-gt.
vt:SaNT, HIMROD &
-rr:s or Totes How Were, Engines,
'mil Cu'. etc.. State et, Eno Pa.
171103 LAS
THE nen or G. Loomis 4k co.)
Watelie., Jewelry, Silver Spoons, Masi-
Looking Olnases, Lamps and Fancy
: Ace and retail. _
11. JARECKI.
, MY. ;Net side of State Street, Erie, Pa.
L N. TIBBALS & CO.
r.l nt nu or wnutzn k tiarrt.s.)
ILO Shipping Nisrchaats and deal
c, Fluor, Fish, Balt, Water Lime, Plaster, kr.,
• l)rL. Fns. Pa. Package. Invaded for oar care
• oisrimi
rB. GUNNISON, -
Stationary ' Monthly Magazines , Cheap
• •,2, Sheet Music, Newspapers, told Pens. Poek.
r. First door west anise Reed Hee" Pfria
ROOTH & STEWART,
•,....L .sad Retail Dealers in Paney and staple Dry
• •.2 i Millinery, No. 6. Poor People's Row. opposite
• IF tel.
LIDDELL KEPLER & CO.
..trues of Iron Peace, Railing. Steam Beim,
1-4. Piro Proof Shatters, and kinda of
Feel Canter, ee.., dope to order.
CLARK Sr, METCALF,
and !retail dealers in Dry Ovods, Carpets. and
,•enas,.No. I Reed HPnee.
- 'JOHN B. COOK,
.aple It Faney Dry Goods, and the Greatest TS
' t • Ors in the city, Cheap side, Erie, Pa._
;.vtERRETT &
and retail Dealer* in wet and dry Giro
, '7 • Produce, Foreign and Domestic Fruit.
w,;(,.O: F r and Stone Ware, Flour, Fish. Salt, Glass.
? s ier, Shut. Caps Safety Fuse. Lc., ke.. French
. •It 4 Reed- R euse, E r i e ,
earl Canal Boatel, Yowls, Hotels, and
+applied with any of the above articles
-,navi. end very cheap.
WM. S. LANE,
C r tot C?csstuas at Law.—twee over Jaekistin'e
s. N-rtii-Esst curvier of the Public SWIM.
- UCKLF:&Kin i LE.I4
,t a Ltts ihadt. Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Le.
;' , -rtfiiock, State street, Erie,, Pa.
R.
C. I3RANDES,
at his residence on Eighth
•a‘msem Tomb and Ho ll and, Erie. Pa.
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.• - •'_ , LFORD& CO., • -
r, :7 fir, Bank Notes, Drafts, Certificates
et, ,, s. `';tit Exchange on the principal cities
:an! rale. OZeo in Beaty's- Block. Public
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T. HERONSTUART,
I PHI slCTLX—Residencl on Fourth greet. one
vid Apothecary Ball. _
KUFUS RERD.
Eneldh, German and American llLa:dime and
'Slab, Arielln t Vices, Tine and Steel 1: , ;( 1 , . 3
:Ln•r, gm, Pre. , ,
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CAbWELL - & BENNETT,
. Jobbers, and Retail Dealers in Dry' Oarodes Gres
'rockery, Glassware. Carpeting, Hardware, Iron s
:a11.., Spikes, •e, Empire Stores State Street.
below Brown's Hotel. Erie, Pa.
Vices, Bellows. Azle Arms, Springs, and a
- •—rttnent or Saddle and Carriage Trimmings
S. 3IERVIN SMITH,
Lasi and Justice of the Pure, and Agent for
na!Mutual Life Insurance Company—Odlee
t ri IVright's store, Erie. Pa.
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GEORGE CUTLER,
• .•Law. qirard,- Erie County, Pa. Collections
. • tu. r . attonded to with promtness and dig.
KELLO4O,
:f lnd! Olanunision, Jlerohant, on the Public
kat.-stronL
• ',• ~, . 0....,,,1 White Fiah, constantly for /alit.
,f v ‘G. & W.E.4ILLg -', _ .
ir .. ..iirAiWsolesals Dealers in Orteeries. Wines.
* .7:‘*— ALA° Foreign Fruit,Nats. Pinkies and
• • ,tic',. Lobsters, Preser v es, and Flermatrieally
-...rei 4? every description always i o n hand, No.
...... W• k, State-et„ opposite kw ti*. New Ho-
Y:14.3. its York. W. L Mir &tram
'-• -zr' r a their season, Oysters in shell. froin J.
1 --,- itt7 rreet., New York, which ;will ha sold
1,..
'-tt's :,..,:,ce :irises. A. C. JAMISON, Ago, Erie, Pa.
'MATEM_
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_ER,
R & BROTH
', Retail dealers in Drugs. Medicine, Pai te„
, ' :' , ...'±C'il./.IIIA. ke.. No. A, Reed HMIs!. Erie.
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- JAMES LYTLE, .
"rut Yerriilnt Tailor, on the public s q uare, • ow
••._ Y•i: • f'State save: Erie.
JOIIN 11. Bt7RTO.; & CO. --
' ~ i , ~..” iturs•a dealers in Limp, Medicines, •
- I•'• &---. N. , :P, Reed House, Erie.
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• DERLIN & 'SLOAN, - --
- Li+4,lC. &ho. and Miseelliuitunts ke,
• ' tt• •':s.t...scsry, and Printers Cards. No. 2,
•.., U, ~.,:, Erie Pa. - --- - ---- --
- .l ' l TORS BEEBE & STEWART,
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.ii.rii.....ini. and Stirptricia. °ewe and Redden
trt,ta 7v. ~ A. 31: 1 to S. and 6 to 7, P. IL
: 1 (413 ITEARN & CO. 'f
1 : (7 Ilifl.o.lloTh Merchants, deni
-•-. sri szent for a daily line of Cpper Like
', - •••••".P :11:s Do.* Erie. Pa.
- 1 %:...4 t .1-N L./LYRES - A - I`bIPAIS.I,,fl ` bIPAIS.1,,f
• :.tret to No. 5 Reed Bleck, State Stnet,
ft, ewes at 114 Vela*, A. M.
34 o'clock. P. M.;
i;EOR GE J. Mt — Wriss4 4 , -
.am/lion Merehant. Pohhe Effie
Q. Salt, Fish , Floor anti Fluor.
ROZENSWEIG _ 8 Co.
.. I .“t. Iter.la. DsAlaitil in Foreign and Douse
'' ..1., rea,lc -nut* clothing. Boots /mil Shoos, Ike
.
-• •r. Bvek, Stdta street. Erie ,
.I.ciiSll:,:cCri&-:-VINTINY: -7
LAW—OS*6 up otairs Ili' Tammany hall
.-,b cf the Ptothoootarro Mlle*, Eric.
MURRAY WHALLON,
co-5m.1.0% ♦r Law—Oise Met WU
tutranor one door wort or Slats arroor.
Erie.
I,I BBALS, it HATES..
" 1. 1 =7 ii.ods. Dry Groceries, procekry, flu
`! : 1. Brown's "Cele Hotel-
SMITH JACKSON,
L Dry tima, (botanist, harciwars, Quasar Wars.
•FAdr. a , •. 121. Cheapoide, Erie, Pa.
THORNTON
o T AIVIrIPIIDLECI. •
taelns Ruud/ sad Mort e. Leuess Lev
pally• car...ry drawn. Ofice. Wright!!! Bleck
.cret . Erie,
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• * • Rammer Daurlan.--offiee la
1 0 I"4 comer of &atoned P
, tr.et. up may.. Pri.ws reasonable, sad
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DR. L . ELLIOTT,
- itosidect Dentist; Mee oil d'alitilli °a
t..:.' oe sth ride of tile Pahliii &pm% I a".
all F.u ou t
dam Erie Itnnit %Sem
.; •:d l'i.at”. from one to im e Nob to-
ntire so. Cor
1 trith ',um , joiti, and »stoma us health awl to iolsow
reek!, amand 'with Instrattents mid Dry
se
""" aor Naiad dchiapopp. All rodi *unmet
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SATURDAY MORNING, JAN. 14, 1854
11111. In order to "catch up" with the seetteu
lated matter upon oar table, which shoidd hays
found a place in oar columns last week, instead
of devoting oar outside to miscellany. this week,
we have devoted it to general news, and articles
relative to our railroad difficulties.
The &Cautery of the Navy is a puttee' man,
end he proposes many Reforms in the navy which
ought to have hems sands bps Apo
has bees a KN.'S of eoseplest
was the practice of allowing naval Aeon+ to re
main at. home for months and years, performin
no service, but drawing high pay, and at the seine
time engaging in any business they liked. This
evil, and the proposed remedy, arc,tgueset forth
in the report:
"To illustrate titt -4g141614 of the present
system, permit me to minsavift—few facts, not
with a view .of invidious oompermmik,.lkitt solely to
elucidate the subject. There are tigers who
have been in the navy more than forty *re
whose total sea service is less than ten years, who
receive the same pay with those of their grade
whose sea service fi fteen ,is_ eighty's and more
than treaty years. These fficers, who are thb,s
receiving pay, prevent the promotion of those be
low them who have seen more than twice their
service at Ns, and have helped to give their coun
try a name. There ',are inefficient officers who
have not done duty, on sea or shore for 'metre,
fifteen, and twenty years. There are lieutenants
who have seen double. the service of some of a
higher grade, and receive but half their pay.—
There are many passed midshipmen,of more than
ten years' sea service, whose pay on leave is six
hundred dollars, and there are their superiors in
rank of less than ten years' sea service, whose
pay is twenty-five hundred drillers." •
To remedy the evil here complained of the
Secretary proposes the followipg:
4
"That a retired list, on reduced pay, for the
faithful who have become infirm; the discharge
of the inefficient who have no claim on the boun
ty of their government for services rendered;-pro
motion rep:disked by carcity, merit, and not by
-mere seniority of comnusinon; pay tu some extent
controlled by yes service--are refelms not only
demanded by 'lite condition of the service, by con-
siderations of_justice, but absolutely necessary to
the preservation cf efficiency and usefulness."
All. the refoims proposed in the report are
priactitikl, and will no doubt prove beneficial, if
they are made, f
The Girard Evros hu "backed down"
from its Any feet ten railroad "hem" ' The Cap
tains, it appears i went round and told the Editor
how to "pint," but the people arld'ik tart the
liquor, hones a tremendous mamma in the sec-.
and number. Well, let'er rip. -
COULI'NT COMIC IT, WITR.—The
ler demonstration in Philadelphiat tented out to
be a miserable &Ile. At the delegate elect ons
on Monday lastthe disorgunizers, alias the Hale,
made no show whatever. The City and County
have gone overwhelmin g ly for BIGLER. SO the
last hope of the disappointed has been taken
away. They boasted of their might in Philadel
phia, and swore more terribly than that profane
army in Flanders, that no friends of BIGIAR
should sit in Convention the-e. They reckoned
without their host. When election day came
the people. appeared and scourged them batik to
their original obscurity.
atirWe do not wish to get mixed up in the
railroad muss, but we will just say to the Editors
of the
i f asette and Observer, that the statements,
they pit Belied in relation to the Harborereek mob
arc false, and are rightly considered good evidence
of the weak position of the Erie people.— West.
field Transcript.
"We do not wish to get mixed up" in a mum
witk a neighboring Editor., hitt we beg leave to
'assure the Editor of the Transcript that be has
been grossly misimformed, or he is himself an
unmitigated liar; and let us add, be could not
be misimformed for our paper contained the af
fidavit' of gentlemen whose reputation for truth
and veracity are as mach above that of any ;sli
med pimp, between inn rise and sun down, as an
hopes" man -is above the Erie and North East
Board of Directors. It haslongheen known that
the Transcript sneezes when Ex-Lieut. Gover
nor Patterson takes snuff, but we did'nt know
before that it had got so low as to Bain order to
shield the Railroad Companies' Bootblacks.
Stir Hot!: Ephrata Banks, Auditor General
of the Commonwealth, will acoept our thanks for
an early copy of 14 very fall and able report for
year ending November . 80,1853. It con
tains a complete statistical view of the revenues
and expenditures of the State for that year.
Or Gni M. Liiimart k Co.- hare purchased
the Harrisbltrg Caine. ' This it n new field of
enterprise for that somewhat celebrated indiri.
dual, the senior of the flritt,—his ferns heretofore
having been in building railroads, and procirini
doubtful Legislation at •fisrrisbnrg. We hope
be will make a sound • Demoentric paper; but if
he has procured the Liam to facilitate his de
sips upon the Legislature, we think it rather
doubtful whether our hopes will be realised. How
erer - we 0061101110 until we see. Idetlo
licka: and pray! ,
Itiourrizro Mostar sr kan..—A very impor
tant ease has meetly eof=the United
States Nate* Court at • Va., Chief
Justice Taney, presiding, in which the question
arms whether money, remitted by mail from a
debtor to • creditor, seek moony being lost be-
fore it reached its destination, was a release of
the debtor from obligation of the debt. The
Chief Justice decided that the plaintiff having
requested hikdebtor to remit the money, without
specifying or directing how it was to be met,
and the defendant having complied with the re
quest by remitting through themail, as wee the
mina of °Afro to do, the debtor would not be
heLl obliged to make good the loss. The dais
fowls in walks with other ease bemiring the
sane principle, the Chief Justice holding that
the forma decisions were not eorrect.
'BIZ, PA.
"laval fora."
, •
eel*
Our Kew York Corresponded* 1').
home, "receiving calls," according to our good
Day.
Inity,
per
h of
swine-
lady
has
ly in
lOW*
id which her parents and herself resided; he int : .
mediatsly, commenced paying his addresses to
her; in December, 1850, they were engaged to
be married; soon afterwards he effected her se
duction, and by taking advantage of bar youth
and inexperience, and under repeated promises
of marriage; that she is now enciatte in conga
quence. She further states that he itu4ippoint
ed times when he would marry her, and 'has as
often postponed that ceremony. Her patience
being at length exhausted, she now demands ex
emplary damages. Whether Mr. Hall is inno
cent or guilty, the scandal of his 'arrest on suck
a complaint, will doubtless anise his dismissal
from the situation of Superintendent of the road.
A Charleston, (S. C 7) editor, who was an
noyed, when in this city, by the exclusiveness of
our fashionable churches, gives the .following
amusing narration of his own experience:
."When we , 4ent to New York, some months
since, attracted by the fame of the preacher, we
attended the cavalry Church. After remaining .
ten or fifteen minutes in the vestihe sex
ton led the way to a pew in the ai de, occu
pied by two persons, but sufficiently onamodi
ons to accommodate seven. The gentleman who
sat at the door of the pew made way for '
. us most
reluctantly, and carefully removed the Prayer
Books from within our reach, lest perchance we
might violate one of the Commandments therein
written. He was a handsome young man, wear
ing pantaloons so preposterously tight that it was
a matter of simple-impossibility to kneel in
them. His well gloved hands held up a,copy of
the Book of Common Prayer ; bound in crimson
velvet, and gold, from_ which he repeated the
creed with the most delightful .orthodoxy.--:
Without the. means of following 'the morning
service, we felt like a poor boy at a (relic. The
luxurious pews, every whore filled with well
dressed people, were little suggestive of the tri
als and sufferings of the Christians of an earlier
day, who net upon the open downs, beneath the
kalleme oaki of the wintry forests, to lift up their
voices of ppuea lr an and supplication to God. We
soak! nos isritimgthat she minds id talky
of the eougregatiint were upon the next day's
operation in Wall street, rather than upon the
service, and that the liturgy would have been
better re,ore,,ied to if, among its deprecat ory clauses, there -liad„iiern this little petition:—
"From all losses by land or water, from broken_
bank:, and bad invisituients,, from faLe waits
and a fall in flour—Good Lord, deliver us!'"
One 3 car ,ince, Edward Anthony, Esq., offer
ed through th.• column? ,f the Phow g aphic
Journal; 830 U; which he subsequently decided to
invest iu a missive silver pitcher, to be awarded
as a prize for the beat four daguerreotypes that
should be present `4 for competition previous to
November Ist, 153. The artists of all court-
tries were admitte4 to the contest, bu 4 ! were re
stricted to•the use of'tb,e regular, fult-atmed ca
meta, as Mr. Anthony offered the prize to test the
skill of artists; and not the excellence of the
camera. In his proposal, he nominated Profes- •
sor - Renwick, of Columbia College, Professor,
Morse the inventor of the telegraph, and Profes
sor Draper, of the New York Uniiersity, as
judges. Each artist was required to enclose his
name ina sealed packet, so that the committee
should not be indueed by personal considerations.
The competition for this prize, I am informed
was very spirited. After carefully comparing
the daguerreotypes sent, the oomznittei awarded
the pitcher to the package marked "six," which,
on being opened, was found to contain the name
of J. Gurney, of 849_ Broadway. Climidering
that the prize was open to all, the dicision of
(t he judges may be considered tantamount to de
-daring Mr. Gurney the leading photographist of
the world. Mr. Gurney is not a mere mechani
cal daguerreotypist; he has spent many years in
studying the philosophy of light, and in the da
guerreotypes which won for him the prize of Mr.
Anthony, the care and study which could only
be brought of by an 'enthusiastic lover of the
Photographic art, are everywhere visible.
The Astor Library, in • this city, is to be
r r iao4 41. s c P!alirlio, few tie Are* asse es Ilea
dry next, and will be open thbreafter , from 9 A.
M., to 4P. M., every day but Sunday. The
library numbers already nearly ninety thousand
volumes, including the leading standard works
of European and. American literature, a liberal
assortment of historical, biographical, books for
reference, and an entertaining list of the more
valuable portions of coven literature./ All per
son are to be freely admitted, without tickets,
or introduction, on condition of good behavior.
John Jacob Astor imatortaliied himself by be
queathing four 'indeed thousand dollars for the
foundation of this noble institution. Onefourth
:part of this bequest has been impends/Ain once.
!ing the fire proof ediiimin whisk the library is
Siel"ikwi-
A new and important colonisation piled has
been formed in this city, by a coinpany of capi
talists, and whose plan is to, colonise the Mos.
quit° Territory, in Central America. It is said
that his Majesty, the- King of the Mosquitoes,
granted twenty-ire minims of acres to these
speculators, among whom are mentioned Senator
James Cooper of Pennsylvania, Edwird Sand
full, J. Prescott Han, James W. White, Charles
Morgan, N. H. Wolfe, and several others less
known to fame. The company proposes to issue
two hondrrd sad Illy thousand shares, at ten
dollars per share, which would give the capital
of two millions and a half. The by-laws of the
association, sad the Conditions of the grant have
not yet been divulged. The Ilinsquito Territory
lies on the Onnriltesa ilea, and extends from Cape
Sondem to the mew* of the rim San Joan.=
81 50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1854.
If an American colony is once firmly oitablishod
Mexico would be placed between two fires
or absorption of her territories would be I
Tally facilitated.
• quietly disposed Citizens are alarewil by
'tabor of secret wideties t -for :rations purpo- 1
tat are daily sprinting up arotuid us. The
or Nothings," I , ShortAgyal " Shanghaia,"'l
'Black Tigers," ire Able clasaic names of 1
the most desperate 4d depraved of these
association,.; and a great the bloody
affrays, nocturnal and di the city 1
is disgraced, spring 04 of It these
rowdies. The "Killed' "of Phil
adelphia are entirely ecli i kedness by
our ruffians. The police east scarcely do-any
thing in opposition to sutth pairerfaly organised
hauls, for the rascals vote together as well as
fight together, and whiutisiitlLtisse4s spitted
and taken Wore a `JustialliT4' prat -ttpte
be diseha,rged. The Justices arc elective, and
never forget that the vote of one man counts wi
much at the ballot box as the vote of another.
. Tours Truly, - ' '
■rau lbw Ptailadislpliss Rig Wm.
Tice Brie Trimble. Again.
The telegraph announces the fact of serious
disturbances again at Erie--disturbances more
serious, indeed, than any which have occurred.
If lives bays been lost, if lynch-law has been
threatened, the guilt and the crimes, though
shared by all, falls heaviesten the original wrong
-doers. It is important, therefore,' to keep con
stantly in mind who they were, and not suffer
an interested "hue and cry" to hid' the true is.
sue, te- screen the Gret aggressors.
That Philadelphia has not only no hand in the
disturbances at Erie, but not even any direct in
terest in the result, we have- already stated.—
Scarcely a country newspaper reaches us, hoire
ver, froth Ohio, Indiana, Ellinois or Michigan,
which does not contain articles on the subject,
in which Philadelphia is spoken of in terms of
disparagement, alotigsidc of Erie, as if this city
was "part and lot" in the transaction. These
articles are both in prose and verse, miserable
verse, it is true, arid, if truth must be told, not
much better prone: Sometimes it comes in the
shape of doggerel rhyme against ,Eric. Some:
times it wears the guise ofa prose philippic against
Philadelphia. But it is always abusive in elia
meter, false in fact ; and exaggerated in vine:—
These articles, moreoter, generally bear intrin
sic evidence of being the production:, of agents
of the interested railroad companies, or of editors
whose sympathies and -prejudices betray their
pens into giving authority and publicity to the
misrepresentations of these agents. The' whole
difficulty ix described, accordingly, es arising out
of the rage of the people of Erie, because the
change of gauge will prevent their hotel keepers
from making the pr:,:e of .4 TA .and br.-akfast
ont of a few tr,,vvi,n;.i:::,l%.
The truth is; however, the very rev:res• Ne
ver, indeed, had any peo_ pie mere justice origin
ally than the perfplu of Erie. , Tb 4; issne . I , otWeell
tliOliii dill& this Raiteq.el , - o,l 4 ,.puei:s,„,tea,y i.;put , •
a" it Viri - p., its i• .. o•-e. ~..,c7 7 . 'i' i. Illitr mt. wl,,f;
are involvt4 in T4 l. cinini r , w.i. 1 .1 t•I lay e trtiek
along the liike ~ 1 1.4Ae. .11 ord•-r . 0 1,•,., ate th e
rpeeNiity of iienkiftg 43 eir eonienuraivations be
tween Buffalo .411,i 4,;,l•velauci, by water, in the
~
winter s,,oi. Ili, t 4 lay alit , .r.o:k the influ
ence of tit citizen-. of i.;/., was in .liven-able.
That, influence could not be :•apected tir be had,
however, unless Erie het"tdf was to share iu the
advantages; and taking this t;ir. granted, 'the
Railvaad CReapauies in question Trefactal•their
appeal to Ent by ufteriug here -uitable quid pro
quo, The bargain having been finally struck,
the citizens of Erie lent their, influence to the
construction of the road;' and, as a consequence.
the track was laid down. The mutual consider
ations to this contract were made notorious, the
Union over, at the period of its ratification. -On
the one side, the towu of Erie wished to become
a summerterminus on the Lake for the Railroads.
On the other side, the Railroader desired the privi
lege of crossing the county of Erie, at all times,"l
in ,order to connect the SLtes of, Ohio and New
York 'by land., It waa'a trade between geograph
ical position on the - one part, and a spirit of Inn-
mercial rivalry on the other; and it was so , un
derstood
everywhere. '
But how hive the parties kept their promises?
Erie has faithfully observed hers. That even the
railroad directors dare nut deny. The very exis
tence of the track is proof suifiettutt on this point.
But the railroad companies, after having secured
their communications along the lake shore, began
to intrigue immediately to. deprive Erie of the
consideration for which she had procured and
isal
lowed the laying of the trac . it would con
sume more of our time than c have to imam, if
we were to discri be their knelt' schemes in detail;
and beside* it is not necessary., as they are al•
ready familiar to our citiveqs. Th , : repeal of
the gauge law finally gave tan railroad compa
nies legal anthorty to perfect their swindle.
Armed with that law, they 'began to
.alter, the
track, with the design, as was well . ..known; of
cheating Erie out of her consideration. This it,
the story in plain words. Yet the perpetrators
of thitrittempted fraud arc "defended over a large
portion - of three Western States, and eulogized as
martyrs ie. the cause of "law and order" by the
entire press of New York city. Veray this is an
age of bunibug, and mien worse, witencaneb things
can pain "unwhipt of justice , ~..
We have nothing to say in definacte,,, however,
of the method adopted by Erie Wright berlwronga.
Yet it is a nice question, how far, under such cir
cumstances, a corporation may abate ''.what has
become a legal nuisance; for at the alte red track
will be renounced such b courts; ,eventual
ly, no sane man doubts. t every marl, conver
sant with human nature, known that fraud neat ,
ly always provokes.force. TbeAief guilt, there
fore, in such cases lies with the Int aggressors—
the perpetrators of the fraud. ,
A MAX WITH FOUR WlVES.—Warran F.
Smith, of Blanchester, N. H., has been arrested
at Nashua; New . Hampshire, on . a charge of
bigamy. It, is stated that be his' four living
wires, one in Manchester, N. H.,-one in 13raciford,
Miss., one in northern New Hampshire, and one
"elstrwhere."- He tried to make terms with his
kit "'riff', in Manchester, and requested her to
meet him for that purpose. She agreed to meet
him at Nashua, and then notified the police, who
proceeded to the place of meeting and . took him
into custody.
Mr A proposition i. before Congress for the
purchase, at national expetute, of the sepulcher of
the "Father of his Country." The Governor of
Virginia has also recommended its purchase by
that State. Judge Bayley, of Virginia, in Con
gyro, declares mit ozie oh6taele in the way of
national purchase ia, hat ruginia will not cede
her jurisdiction over the premises. We observe
that the Richmond Enquirrradvocnam its imme
diate purehase by the State and its dedication es
a-shrine, "to which the cora:jet of liberty may
resort, to render homage to the memory of its
most illustrious champion." It is known that
the property ban been bought by s private com
pany, unbind to goeurtusest puerbses. ,
EEI
si//1 1 --$..1e66
TM Erie War.
By otir telegraphic news, it will be peen hat
the Ens war is stined to be not altogdtler
bloodless. The cloud of abuse which has been I
raised against the 'Weeping borough," has ap- i
parently blinded al4eyes to the merits of the dis
pute, and ray erroneous ideas must prevail.—
But we cannot place oonfidence for a moment in
those accounts which place the Erians entirely
at fault, and impute the quarrel to a sordid de
sire to sell cakes and beer to the passengers 1
while changing cars. Nor do we believe for an i
instant, the stories of abuse heaped upon paiwen- I f
gets detained there. We have more confidence
in the people of Erie. Neither is the i
, preeent
quarrel an evidence of their "eleepiness ' ' or dis
regard ef their true interests. It is, rather the #
natural and we think just resentment, of inju
ries of which they are involuntary 'sufferers. As
a general thing on railroad matters the Press is
about as reliable as the Devil's preaehiug; and
lao . snese so. . But History masa be faleLfiei and
•• • ileforsausa , •no tabby* is a brief
general outline of the Railroad difficulty at Eric:
The various lines of roads East and West of
Erie were approaching the State of Pennsylvania 1
on various gauges. 'Wherever these roads ulti
mately met, there must be a transhipment. Erie
being the only important port of Pennsylvania,
the Legislature to secure the advantage of tran
shipment at that point passed a Law that all
roads west of Erie should be built of the Ohin, 1
and roads east of the New York gauge. - This I
policy, would materially increase the advantages
of
r
Eri is a ahipping point. It requires no great i
sigaci 3 , to see that Erie could have thus been i
made he shipping point for a much larger extent
of co try, than though freight could pass there
witho t interruption. it would have been, in
fact, terminus for the roads either way.. Under
this sideration the roads across Pennsylvania
were uilt, right of way obtained &c. But Mich- i
igen • not the only. State in which Corporation 1
gild i all powerful, and the Railroad interests
avin eombined, the "gauge Law,"'of Pennsyl
was repealed bythe last Legislature, leav
e railroad co*panies at lull liberty to
le their gauges where they please; for. we do
am that the Ohio and New York gauges
be made to cotrespiind. Be thin as it may
11 see that the ci'izens of Erie and Erie
y are sorely disappointed. Instead of be
g a point rivaling any of the Lake shore eit
ley are thrown back into their fora :ter in
leanee. This is not the entertainment to
/ they were invited. They are said to be
inreasonehle. bee:Just; they are not •litisfinsl
the offere of the Railroad interests to locate
• machine shops at Erie, and assist t i e build
road ,to the coal-fields-of Mercer County. =
~ nfizr.- are just etuntgb to prove the justness
. Brian's' con plaints,and nothing Tore.—
.. Tr railroads had bean hereafter built from
.terior or P. unilvania to the Lake, beard,
I naturally seek Erie ILA a A rminus, had the
ee of gaiee• remained. titete; and "raaehine
are poor equivai-uts for :ho lost prospects
coming,sd i:up irtan: eouste-reial c' ty. It
ident therefore, thee • :-, abuu inn- ground for
rrel. and no litt.e .; .1-ii,ilay ie the e l jai:: I
0 people of Erie; •...t: 1.1,.. 1.,, to- i., .ig MINI i
1
and they must sw .nwb , for the present.
.n the wheel goes el.. r round, which heaven
t we may live to ~, . 't....- and rail...met looriepo
l.tc•wee ten time* mot- , -di4 , 12., .+4' .hov are
\
tin' .s more mischievoi*. th.iu the 111 111/19A
es Bank, we shill all. fiar. - _. a sw..q. • m ho
er in trampling the accursed Nipers 0 or
nee. The Camden and Amboy 1 iwposi
and Nppressious iu - New Jert.cy, tho :tuti..•
enlargement chicaneries in New Turk, the,
epintey Trials in Michigan, and the Erie war
11 the beginning of the end which will clear:
tow, that the existence of these 'noel) die s .
'neompatible with- the true interests of the
le people. The gat advantage oft ae work.;
selves will cover the sins'of their
,mana c e.e.s
owners a long time, but not always and we
rejoiced at- every violent display of 'their tr u e
eter.—Ypsilanti, APIs. Sentiltd. ; '
vane
ing t
not I
are
all w
no=
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.its trn
get
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1
The RAC War.
t ..riles" ns not I — t - liZto read the statements I
tn, e by, the New Ybrk and Ohio papers relative I
to he Erie railroad' war. They -resort to the I
in ..:t low, vulgar, and diabolical slang . , and epi-
th; to imaginable in order to crush En in her
eff , its to enfOce her legalenaciments. Jiusals
t• t heretofore sustained enviable repn tons for ,
t thfulness, candor and a high moral apse, have
th wn aside theirrobo of respectabilit , nd now
d lin bastuslande,rs and =mitigated I . They
da ly report scenes and outrages ahat. Ter oe.
au , and deal in the most bitter vitn rations
against, the authorities and citizens of 'rie for
enfoyeing the law. , i
Through the influence of those penii press
es large majority of the people have n made
tolbelieve thid, Erie is mobbing the rai road coin- .
patties cast and west, iihen the facts i the case
are directly the reverse— , it is the railroad com
panies thit are'mobbing Erie. Ft ' throughll tfr corporate powers, passed an act iStiVe to
the railroad gauge Within the city li • ; but.tho •
railzrratteompanies heeded not the e tments of
EZie, and couimeneed to lay down a k contra
ry to the laws of the city, then the , yet called
upon the authorities and oitizens-tel e force the
two, which they have thus far ,tffelitually done.
Erie is only protecting her right.; and I defending
the interests of the whole State of Pennsylvania
inpursning the course she has . lalten. Nobly
has she sustained the`honor of to er county and
State, by teaching the paid onthr nAO assassins
of Ohio and New York that th; ry 4nnot ride
rough-shod over - the people or inlerenti4 of the
Keystone' of the Arch,
_— Warren i fat. •
, _
ROl7Oll-BEGINSNO alr LIFE, .uustan pa
per of the - 21st says, about ten mt niths since, the
captain of an East India ship, in company with
his wife and an infant a few days. old, left the
pert of Calcutta for Boston.—After being at sea
tiro liais . his wife died, when he put back for a
nurse, and again put to sea. When three days
out the nurse was taken with this scurvy, and
consecinently was unable to give the slightest at
tention to the child. In this emercency the milk
oF . a goat was resorted to. After a. few weeks the
goat died, and from that time till the arrival of
the ship at this port, a few days since, the only
food the infant had partaken of was hard sea
bread soaked in water, the father acting as nurse
and discharging the duties - devoilving upon him
as captain of the ship, thiring,a bong and stormy
CM -
On arrival, tho nurse was taken to the
, and bas since died. The captain went
at once to his home with his chi Id, And the re
mains of its mother, which was interred in Pil
grim soil on Sunday ast. The t hild, now about
ten months old, appears to be in good health,
notwithstanding the hardships s nd sufferings
has passed through. j
STEAM VERSUS BORSES.-11 England they
loot; now patented s portable 4 ngiue for doing
the work of oxen and horses on farm—thrash
ing, ploughing, reaping, &c. I t is said to be
extensively into use, and this al 'peva like veri
fying the prophesy of a friend al ours who says
in the better days *owning there will be few an
imals of any kind in the world, b tame they are
great consumers of food, and the t era's products
will be all required to feed her b man- children
when war and violence shall yeas e to devestate,
and the population beomne more dense. •
?".
UEM3
(Pam de Philadelphia laquliet.)
The Erie Troubles and the Gauge Law—the
Ow Stated.
-We have akeady given an authentic acoous
of the origin of the railroad troubles at Erie.—
The citizens of that place are unwillintto be
made mere tools and instrukenta in the hands of
certain railroad' companies and speculators of
-New YorlE and Ohio, and to the injury, not only
of Erie, but of the entire trade of Pennaytrarda;
and hence they are denounced and abused by the
parties imm ed iately interested. The Warren
flail, of a late date, thos.recapitniates the facts,
of the ease:—
"As yet the question has not been settled,
whether Erie will knnekle to the interests of the
State of New York, thereby forever depriving
herself of the, benefits accruing from the' terrain-
ation of roads which should, by good rights, ter
minate at, that city, or stand up . for her own
in
terests and secure what she desires. That, she
has the best harbor on the lake no one pretends
to deny; and is it not a self evident fact thet it
is for that reason her sister cities, Buffalo and
Cleveland, entertain such feelings towards her
as have b e en shown not only during the present
difficulty, but at all other times when opportuni
ties have presented themselves. If that is not
the case why was not the Buffalo and 'State Line
road built on the same gauge of the New York
Central road? Also,why was the New York
and Erie Company bo u ght off from building their
continuation to Erie, thereby forming one con
tinons six foot gauge from New York to Erie?
By all sane persons the question is as easily an
swered as asked. That the' New York and Erie
Company lost by that operation no one can doubt;
and had not the Erie and Northeast road been
built the six feat gauge, there would have been
a road or the Ohio gauge from Cleveland to But-•
fah), crossing the territory of Pennsylvania and
passing the harbor of Erie without hardly allow
ing a depot at that point. The Buffakinians and
the Central road interests found the Erie and
Northeast road a great detriment to their ad
vancement, }rid therefore by paying our Legis
lature last winter a good round sum, effected
the repeal of the law, and the ris) and
Northeast Compa ny governed by New
York ?vital, they have everything in their pow
er, and now attempt to force the Erie people to
let them run a track of the Ohio gauge through
the streets of their city. That a mare selfish
' disposition was ever shown by Buffalo in this
railroad, matter w i e have reason to doubt; and we
believe the oommonwistlth of PennSylvenis will
never allow her, or other New York interests to
I trample upon her rights and monopolise her ter
ritory, wherein it -. would be detrimental to her in
, teresfs."
Wit& reference to the charges of.mob law, ri
oting, &c., it need only be replied that the par
ties. Oiarged as'ruffians and rioters are the rep
larly constituted authorities of the city; and that
instead of having acted on their own impulses,
1 and without color of law, they merely proceeded
, to carry put the ordinances of the city councils.
A:correspondent of the National Intellignicer,
who is admitted by that journal to be a highly
1 r , sp.S.table gentleman, and a resident of Erie,
rafter alluding, to .the ealuminowi. charges that
have been Ho freely preferred against that place,
proceeds to make this statement:-*
Let me say - there have been doriont. Ob
structions in the streets, placed there withoutan
thority of law, have been quietly removed by the
city officers-and those chosen by them to assist
Not an art has been done in the city of Erie with
out the *unmet. of the councils directing it and
the Mayor supervising its eiectition. Is it right
under these eireemetanm, to denominate such
acts riots or such actors rioters?. Eve; if mista
ken, the authority of the city should be sufficient
to shield peaceful citizens from the brand of riot
ers. The people of Erie are as .far. from being . ri
oters as the operatives at this moment pursuing
their laefti calling in your exeelteut establish
ment.
,
Th.. fact stated is very erroneous indeed. In
one of the cases, the Circuit Court not only refits
ei to enjoin the city authorities frum lemming
the railroad obstructions from tbe'streets, but de
eartsl that the road was made without authority
oflaw ' and in fraud of the law that existed.
In t he other case . the.court granted a prelinai
' nary injunction until flitter order," or till an
swered by the city, which is to be put in within
thirty days. Even this was granted with great
! hesitancy. • Your notice contains the inquiry,
1 Will‘the rioters submit now? The city authori- ,
ties will doubtless submit to whatever may be re-,
quired; there are no rioters. , •
• Your paragraph also representS, in substance,
that the principal instigators of the mob profess
to say that the law is on their side. Now, these
instigators arcj the entire bar of .Erie, with the
exception of two, or at most three tuembers, in
the interest of the railroad companies. For bon
• or and intelligence that bar gill compare favors
bly with. equal numbers in• any bar in the Union.
It is leirlly fair for strangers to them and limit
characters to assume that their opinions, solenin
lygivenand acted upon by thou ' is mere pretence.
I will undertake to say—and both of you have
some knowledge of me—that the law is with the
city of Eiie, and will be so pronounced as certain
ly as judicial investigation shall. ensue."
In brief, the authotitiesi and the citizens o
Erie believe that the railroad companies, againa
whose conduct they protest, have acted in, an un
fair and illegal manner—have 'erected bridges
&c , without legal authority—and hence, prikeed
lag, by advice of counsel, as well as in conformi
ty with city ordinances, said authorities merel
determined to remove the obsZructions—such
bridges, &c. - -that had been placed in the scree
in the improper manner described. , ,
DARIZN 8.11.1 P CANAL EiPLORATION.-
London letter in , the Philadelphia Asteric ,
says:
The Isthelm of Minot ship canal expeditio
for the purpose of effecting the junction betwee
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and respectin
which so much interest has been created, ' I
sail on Saturday next from Southampton in I F I
West India mail-steamer Orinoco. It will coi
sist, on the part of the Atlantic and Pacific Junc
tion Company, of Dr. Cullen, the discoverer of
the route and the coneeptionaire, as pioneer; Mr.
Oiaborne, civil engineer-in -chief; Messrs. Fords
and Bennett, and four assistant engineers On
behalf of the British government it will be ac
companied by Lieutenant Singen, R. E., and
staff. The object is the making a detailed sur
vey of the route from California Bay and Port
&cosces-to the Gulf of San Miguel, and inau
gurating the important work of the junction of
'the two oceans. -AtJamaica the expedition will
be joined by Lieut. Strange, United States tut
vy, and the surveying party under his command,
on board the United States sloop the Cayaue,
Captain Hollins. The Cayane will be joined by
a British man-of-war from the Jamaica station,
and by the French admiral's ship, with French
engineers on board, from Martinique, and the
squadron will then proceed to Caledonia Bay, on
the Atlantic coast of Darien, where it will be
reinforced by her Majesty's surveying sloop
Scorpion, which has already sailed from England
for that purpose. The surveying parties Will
then cross the isthmus to the river Savanna,
where they will meet boat parties dispatched
from a British man-of-war which is to be station
ed at its mouth in the Gulf of San Miguel, on
the Pacific, and then commence detached surveys
of the route. As the diatom between the tide
1 {B. F. SLOAN,
NUMB
MI
infinenee the tiro means is 00l
the ' 1 retina of the expedition pay
id Way next.
MI!3EFE
W ___
e have at length a soli. an.
for building the Pacific Rail .. .
introduced a bill yesterday . . 'd
struction, which we publish .sew
ing %alums are as follow .4: f
I. Itithrows open the build' of the road to
any co pl
oy chartered by he Ito. It stip
latee f scaled proposals frona all such, and pa
paws t. g ive the construction to that compsey
which il l build it for the Ita.it in the way
of aid m the government, tha aid to be of
fered in t per cent. stock, redeem ble after twen
ty yearr, at the pleasure of die G ernment--the
companiy to own and manage the under Otlr.
Wu conditions. These are:, Ist. That the "im
minent may take possession of it at any tam
by paying the company its expert 'tare upon the
sued, With ten pm. cent. interest on theast
meat; ;and 2d. That Congress m y con
>f
f.ir as to keep th.. net in adown to 10
i i 3,
per cent; 3d. That the rates for e tratisptwta
tinia of the mails and of troops, mil, ry *taro
another things for the Govenamc t, shall be
established by the Secretary of War. i
11, The company undertaking the elonstrueties
of the .. .. ...,, are to lodge sve millions of dollars
in , the hands of the Goverhment, in the form of
StateerGoe,ernment Stocks, by wa of security
forPt* fulfillment of its contract. 1
111. lio ~T ants of Lind are to be to the
Ccimpariy beyond .1 strip safficien fir a 1144-,
walir tr itc .
: e road is to be built nor of the pee
allel deg.—to be commenced sr . in eighties*
month. from the date of the tract for its
was 'on, and may be compl tely equips&
sed put in operation within five .
IV. The company is to be boon to expend a
t i e
m Ilion of dollars on the road at start; be
f receiving any portion of its bonus. It is
n to be entitled to /etch a p 'am of the.
eatire sum the Government p to fa=
suits oweer.penditure ars,ao th iicintem .
colt cif the entire road. be InNth words, Gov
ernmnt will pay no faster than the Company.
The expenditures of each' will along par'
bytTlip various stations are t,
e Secretary of War, and t
city /plots to be laid off and tbro
e i
publ c competition . All • lands I
mil of the road are to, be ad
per re, all lying beyond that 11
-12 ~ ilea are to be fixed ak_Bl 8'
the .. 'a features of the plan.
r. Seward's bill resolutely
net plundering and bargiin
th' vast and important • work,
. and .every company dispose
.•est in the construction of t
on a footing of perfect equality.
t avoid* the misehie& and
... tilt from making the comp
t . road the holders of the onl
al ng its rote. It extguish
f.. fires of a offensive c haracte
every power ne to t
• • ac hievement of th enter
t t Mr. Sliird'a bill Ikea i
[ -nopoly Of the company, but
tory along which the road peal
rs at fixed and moderate prici
• endable and important featur
ni. -offers a solution of two c
e first place a plain orethr,d
• . without danur of commie
. eta to untold expenditure, al
i secures the road witliout t
land monopoly to sit ll
• the Continent.
As respects the route, this 1
e hearing of the occumulatini
, f ,
he Various exploring p rties,
. -ientific surveys yet t be II
recipitous gorges of th Gila,
f a Southero line, it cap never
route the insupetsbte objt
es the western termPous at
. , t terminus must be 14t San
r north. But we dolnlt en
iion jof route as something foci
iewsrd'a bill. This question
for settlement.
NOVEL CASE.—The Lynel
an account of an extraordinar
we gat* the following: Jai
man of Lymihburg, Cued tb.
Chenauit to a note, giving till
permission to grant a, mama
mid Going to marry Mr. C '
trick succeeded so well that t
ted, and the penile were' ..
lag Tuesday nigrt, But, a '
human hopes! Mr. Chant
upon the felicity of the you
and beautiful flowers of By
the blasting breath of 'the
husband was dragged before
the serious charge of forger
lady testified that he had op
d never signed the note 1 ,
ayor committed the late h
j il, there •o await a furl •
hursday. C. Bryant, who
..e forged paper as a witne
ignorant of what be s
evertheless required to giv
oe to answer the eh.trge o
re-appeared before t
ay last. Mr. Chent►ult•-t '
tit ground from that taken
ted that he had told his dau
marry Going, but that who
leave his house forever.
mission to write the permit
e license. Mr. Going
from custody.
A FAnt
York, Mr. Bourcicault, a
don, spoke dispairingly_ of
many occupations. The
and hit him fairly, sayi
sidered fit for a Sovereign,
al Englishmen think Yip
worth While to be industri,
the long list of human e
discriminating for which
for which she is not. U.
willing to choke Victoria
vision; let.them say nothi
shop-keeping and blo.id. -
Sex.
U? A petrified man •
tion of tho curious in
of a man found buried .
on the island of leha..
turned to a solid mars of
minute outlines of a
manity.' It has been e
and scientific men, and
most marvelous subjectA •
sir Mr. Dal/14012 has
greTi to provide for the
amqunt of the public, lan
=Nag heads of familial,
is at,&d a Homestead
familial as may settle u
remain for five years, a
shall not be liable for d
r t.-.:g; 17 , '0n.:.r:,,,1'r? :**4
rroit.
MI
ESE
sensible Ow'
Mr. V .
ng for Al ow
en. In
be fixed upon
e village- la
open to the
ing within six
, •cad to $2 50
mit and within
4., These are
'shots the doer
of all sorts is
d pots every
to embark ia
e Peale Rood
1-vils that would
ay °outrage's%
Ivaluable land
s aIL monopoly
, and yet it cos
-6.611 and cos
i. • . Tice feet
=tiro land
.•
dieter-
for actual aim
s, is a most eon
of it. The bill
iffieult pelting in
of building the
ing the Gowns
, d in the most
reby eredtheg
e an incubus aa-
depend apes
information from
(I the results
. Across the
lovored by fries&
go. To the Tem
,
two lies that it
San Die' go, 'boa
Francisco, or far
r upon the goes.
. eikly fixed by Mr.
is skit fully ready
burg Express has
it• ease, from which
nes Going, a young
name of Mr. Johw
clerk of the court
;e license for the
daughter. The
LU license was gra&
vied on , the foiimr
s, for the 'frailty at
tit broke Imlay ha
ig couple; the fise
an withered before
ntstable,' and the
they Mayor to answer
The father of dm
osed the maniacs,
question, and the
ppy bri_,,aelP434°r is
?.r exa mi nat ion 0111
signed his moue' is
is, declared .thit be
ore to; but he was
bail for his appear
misdemeanor. The
he Mayor is Thies
* an entirely Mit ,
viously, tad sta.
hfer that she might
, she did so she ghat
t. als o gave her pur
-1 the clerk to isms
therefore ' velussi
11, at lecture is New
tilt, frost Lot
mainesicapooity for
'bona took hha ap
If a yoassa is =
we iresamp-all
by
•ria is, it is
ly tanning
' ploymento, enri s
e is competent, eel
leas Eisgliaimica are
m her thTone in Es
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