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le. copies ■r vo- TL i il- ji,. fflfckkubixr^ lllllll'll' » iffmoiiimv. JOSEPH W. HAMPTON, -“The powers grunted under the Constitution, being derived froni the People of the United States, may be resumed by tiiem, whenever perverted to their injury or oppression.”—IMadison.~ -Editor and Piibiislier. volume I, CHARLOTTE, N. C., AUGUST 24, 1841. \ NUMBER 25. T E R >1 S : Th. M '':tc ibiirp' Jcfersonian ’’ is published weekly, at 7Vo Dollars and Pifty (^nis, il' paid in ailvanco; or 'i'hrce. DoV.arc^f if not paid boforo the expiration of thuee montjis fr')in the titii'.* of subscribing. 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'iT I'-nJay, -r Saturday, -5' S'unday, -Monrlav. ! i rtst; ■ ' ’•*’ ^ : ; 'iT r> ! i ^ , "> i ; U 5 ’ Vi 5 Sun i •SHT. ; G I •’,1 f. I Fnll .Moon, oZ I) PHASES- I>. H. M. 2 4 4GM. .j, , 1 .nst Clinrter, 10 1 3 Al. ' ^.Av J Ki 4 17 K. .5U U G Jn 0 oi\ I K) I First l^ur'.r' / 'I \ Full Moon, 31 54 E. 19 E. From the Buy State Democrat. THE FARMER. It has got to be quite fashionable to court and flatter the farmer, to speak well of his occupation, an^l praise him for industry, frugality and integri ty. How many of those who speak in this wise of that respcctablo portion of our fellow citizcns, would be likely to take their places, and put their hand to the plough and look not back to the busi ness or professions which they now follow, with out any regrets at the change in their occupation ? Very few, we think. The farmers life, though noble, is not an easy one. lie litterally lives by the sweat of his brow; he earns what he has; he lives on the fruits of his own industry, and not on other men’s earning. And this is the reason why a certain class rather praise the tiller of the soil, than imitate him. They prai.sc him while they would filch from him iiis ho nest gains, by unjust legislation, and unequal laws. W e know something about farming, our happi est and best days were spent in clearing up land for the harrow, and holding the plough. The labor j was hard, but the rest was sweet; the recompense j was small, but sure It was an honest way of gct- ! tinira living. We like farming, and we look fbr- I ward with hopr', that we may sometime, have a I httif and well tilled.” and a few cows for the dai- ! rv. ami some pigs in the pen, and some hens in the coop, and all the liule efcctcras usually nttached to a- farm house-—with a plenty r>f ha.d work to do mon winter wheat, and will stand longer after it is ripe. As it ripens, the field exhibits a most beauti ful yellow golden appearance; looking at it, as ently moved by the wind, it looks like a sea of molten gold. It is not as liable to rust, blight or smut. I obtained it from Joha Holland, of I Su rens, in the year 1833, when the wheat of the up per country was entirely bfighted and destroyed. seed,) would make a tremendous increase of the ag gregate quantity and quality of the whole crop, and repay ten-fold the labor of selecting goKl seed. No Planter or Gardener need be told, that the aland he is to have, depends greatly on the sound, healthy condition of the seed he plants. And when we consider the manner in which the great majori ty of Cotton planters save their seed, is it ai all sur prising, that there should be such an outcry, almost things this month, but we trust others will feel the importance of the subject and aid ue in awakening honest industrious men to their duty. He made from 20 acres, 2 J0 bushels of nicely j every spring, that it is hard to get a good stand ? cleaned, merchantable wheat. I have sov/ed it everv ‘ year since. This year, and 1830, it was slightly touched by the rust, but not do as to injure it; in 1839, I found a little smut in it but not enough to compel us to wash it. The seed oi^ht not only to be selected fioin a good variety, but it should b'* well prepared for be ing sown. In the first place, it should be thorough ly dried by the sun before it is put up for seed ; this prevents weavek, and gives s-^ind and teakiiy grains | pi-.mmgi with’ tin7wcU Jtablisilcd principir^^ if this can in a great measure be remedied by a carfeul selection and preservation of seed, it would cost far less to take a little extra trouble m savin O good seed, than to replant for a good stand, But not only the stand, but the after-growth, vi gor. maturity, and productiveness of ayiy plant, de pends materially on the sound and mature condition From the Agriculturist. REMEDY FOR SNAKE BITE. Oakland Farm, (near Little Rock, Ark.) May 29, 184T. Messrs. Editors : If you will bear with my pro lixity, I will give a short statement of lacte, illustra* tive of the advantages of early reading. When quite a lad, 1 had a desire to read ; having no booka, borrowing w’as resorted to, to supply the demand— always selected works that w’ere of real value—bor rowed from a neighbor an old work on Chemistry, (’Lemory) a work naw out of use. One day at noon while others were resting, as my custom was, I read in my favorite book; the chapter read was the che- of the seed planted. Sound philosophy, and long | ^],a„otcr and compound of the poison of Rep- expericiicc prove this, beyond all doubt. Let plant-1 especially of the Viper. The writer showed ers compare tho.r methods of saving Colton seed, i resulted from the affinity of for vegetation. In the ne.\t place, sift the seeil care- i vegetation, and we think he will be convinced, that fully with a good sand seivc : this will taUe out all! the want of a stand in the spring, and a large por- the small immature grains. In the third place, for 1 tion of his puny, unproductive stalks, in the summer 24 hours before you sow it, soak your seed in a j ^*^d lall, are owing more to the condition ol tlie seed preparation of water saturated with about 1 lb. of REPA|8IN6. Srtjoiuaisi gvottcr TILL continues to repair ("ocka Walchcs m tilt* very best manner, if request■■'d by the own- *‘r to ti'> so. Hr i.s well s\.pplied with al! kinds of inntorinls. Ilis Shop is ia tin: .Tewelb'ry Stove of S. to keep things nf.at and tidy This is our earthly 1’. A’exar.der. "situated Soi:lh nom the C’3urthv)u.se. j now, while we are wri the liL'iirht of our ambition. But mind, it tv.'coii til? '• Man.-ion Ilou.^e” and the •• Chtirlotte Ilou?!.'* 1* v.'ill he hi.-i earnest de.sir‘ to do work ; , so a.-' to luorit enoo’.jri'.^t'ment. ■ jnust all be paid for-—it is hard for a farmer to lu fILjr* His price slmll b-.^ ti.s n;-)'.ii'rat(.‘a.'jif).>sible i' r'ASh. ! Jr.lv Ibl-l... Iw *■ ■ ',X - Vi. • ^ TI/K -r.nvTr .-’HI ler W' Uiii in!»rni Ids wlin \vi>]i to work ouf an old debt. If he once gets in debt to 'Squire Cut-throat, or Col, .Vlcohol, or Dandy Broadcloth, it is all over with hnn. These chaps shouhl all be kept in his debt—but not much, as tiic most of tliem are not worthy of being trusted I i rwc ilit'ir ''prnir 'N lH)L C;\xded af , to any great Irngth ibis M;ic.uin‘. tb;i; lliev v.ouid no well ti> brinii: It ou r.s suiv.i po.-;sib\c, ns he intends clo- sinix the hu.-;ineis porha]!^: in ►5epieniber, and there n il!, afti-'r that time, be no inore* carding done at his ?vl:iciiine this s!*ason. .f. STIREWAL'I'. Alill llil!. :abarr!;? r‘o.. A :r. 1811. :'2 lias iU: C. J. FOX : I’vQ'-ive'l a larirt-* and rrf-.uora MEDICIi\E^, rucj.e, tJsjnts, P(‘iTuMK‘rv. 'i’iioinps(»iiian anil S])irits for Dyo-SiulTs. ^I('fli(‘iii( jiU'diraj usi*. A]id a jir rants v;iri(“lv of ntiiPf articlvs. fill ol* which h frenuine. Vvill .'har’ itfe. .April tjT. ]sjt>. .SOilCP. T: Iir, ni iiealfii • f vV’in. Aio::a;ul» v.aable tn a!tf'’v,l to '’losing the i*iisiiiess of the late •inn nf Alexander Cl jjrotlicr^. tiie sub.>criher will r^'innin in (,'harlot‘'^ t’roin this- dat'’ f'or that purpose. All p^r.'^on.s h^.viii:^ f;pen aecount.s witii the liim, | must eouie ibrw.ard and claK(; them either bv ca^^h or Wo have said that the farmer’s Itfe is not an easy one. It is for this reason that we like it. Too much ease brings many evils, creates wants, an 1 ends in moral ruin. Oli man. if thou wouldst be hcaltliy, work ! if thou wouldst be happy, work ! if thou wouldst be good and great, work ! work for thyselt. thy fellow men, and thy God! work—- work, ^vork. Nature is never idle. The beauty of the far- assortment of' mer’s occupation lies in the fact that his work and ’ Nature's work sfo hand in hand. Hence he is al- j ways rev.'arded, more or less, for his labor. Some por tion of his crops may be sometimes cut off by an j untimely frost, or a blight, or the winds of heaven, ■ still his labor will not be altogether in vain ; for * .seed time and harvest cannot entirely fail. In the : vocabulary of Nature tiiere is no such word as i j Speculators fail, banks fail, and a majority of all ' those who trv to get a living without industry or I oeonomv. fail, and many honest mechanics and tra- ' ders who engage in business tuider the false system , jiow in vogue, fail; but Nature keeps steady at work rend'"rin£r him ' and never fails. The farmer has Nature on his i .^Ide. and is the producer of most of the real wealth i in the work!. Who would not be a farmer ? h)W l'i»r ra.s'j. From die Temperance Advocate. AL'". Cn.'-sou’-s i4ori^. I-iH. 'luc. i' ai>a:j alkxaxder. 2J...r jiote bi.tweoii this and the cnt^nincr ^^uporior Court, ' ^ . if they wisii to save eost. The subsrriber may al | Newberry Agricnitwal Society— all times he found at hi.s olhee. two door.s south of j In discharge of the duty assigned to me, with I otiier members, at tiie last meeting of the Agricul- i turai Society, I will, as well as I am able, put you “ '■ ^ ni posses.sion of ail the information which I pos- COACH MAKING. se.ssj on the subject of wheat. I have now, for 21 years, annually sowed a crop of wheat; and I have FHI-i SnhsrriVjers having entered in- uniformly made some, although in two years, that to coparlnership,will rurrv on the above . h\isincss in all its various brandies, at i \va5 \ery httle, and very mdinerent. Yet, the old Ftand formerly owned by Mr. j on the whole, I have generally made enough for o^A the .hiil. I ygQ family, and I am persuaded that there All work \V AKllAiNTElJ ;—and Re- r r i • nairinor done at the shorte.st notice, tor moderate ! fiifuiers, who cannot ao as well, a.nd many JO ' * ■•iiarcre.s. CHARLEv^ OVERMAN, JOSHUA TROTTER. 'harlotte. June 15, 1811. 12m AdniinLslrator's Notice. Having qutiUfied a? Administrator on the Es tate of James Gattis. deceased, late of Meck- Jenburg county, the subscriber hereby j[^ivcs notice to all ]^rsons indebted to said estate that immediate payments must be made; and to those haying claims against the same to present them within the time prescribed by law, legally authenticated, or this no tice will be plead as a bar to their rccoverv. JOHN BLOUNT, Xdm.T. August 3, 184]. 22...3W With Scissors sharp and Razor keen, ril dress your hair and share you clean.” Buonaparte, the Barber, RESPECTFULLY informs liis customers, that he has removed his eRtablishment to the cast end of Col Alexander’s Long Row, a few doors east of the Courthouse, where he will be pleased to see them at all times. He professes to be ma.ster of the “ Tomsorial Art,” and will spare no ef fort to afford entire satis^etion. Cliarges moderate, to sviit the times. TChixrlotte, March 9. 1811. I who can do abundantly better, i The attention should be first directed to the se lection of seed. It is an old saying that a change from sand is no change at all,” by which is meant, when you change your seed wheat, do not take from a sandy soil. A strong clay soil gives the best varieties of wheat. For our clunate, wheat from the North or West does, not answer \vell; it is generally too late, and is more liable to the rust. If we could obtain wheat from parallels of latitude in the old world, corresponding with cur’s. I think it would succeed admirably. So too, wheat, from the South and South W'est of our own continent, will do well, and hence I have no doubt, that the variety of Texiai) Wheat, introduced among us by our estimable citizen, and enterprising and skilfu farmer. Judge Wilson, will succeed admirably Of our ow'n varieties, none liare answered so wel with me, as that which is knov\Ti by the name of the Holland Wheat. It is a small yellow grain, and weighs uniformly 60 lbs. -and upwards to the^jbush.^ el ti ripens about a week earlier than our com- bluestone to every 5 bushel of wheat. IJefore you take out your seed wheat, which w'ill be found at the bottom of the cask or tub, in which y -u soak It. skim ofT the floating grains and trash. When I have pursued this course, which was r comin-'n ! ed to me by my friend. John S. Caiwii*\ I have escapcd the smut. At least a bushel of seed should be sown to the acre. When the ground i:i good, from one and a quart(^r to one and a half bu shels may be sown. Wheat thus sown will make a greater yield, and is isot so liable to rust. I’his idea, I remember, was suggested many years ago. by Mr. North, to the Farmer’s Society of I^endle- ton, and \vas enforced by such reasons, as induced me to yield my assent to it fully. I wish, that by somo means, the Agricuhural commimity could again have the opportunity of reatiing Uiat. va! ;a ble practical essaj'. More attention I kndw ought to be bc.^towcd on the ground on wliicli wlicat is sown, than we gen erally do. Fallow land is best for wheat. If it is well broken up, and the wheat well put in with a shovel plough, and the ground made level and smooth with a harrow or roller, I think we should hear liule coiriplaint of tho Hessian fly. Few will, however, for the prcocnt, lake so jiiuch pains. Our Society is intended to encourage ii.iprovement, and I hope some one will try this suggestion. Wheat ought to be sown on clay soil, and never later than the 1st or 21 week in CVtober; still ear lier would, I think, be better. Twenty bushels of cotton seed to every acre will crive to the crop a fine healthy and vigorous state. I incline to think that a top dressing about the 1st of .March, of ;il)out 5 bushels to the acre of slacked ashes would greatly improve the crop. 1 have never tried it on wheat, but I know that it is a great beuelit to culti vated grasses. The crop of wheat ought to be cut belbre it is dead ripe; it should stand for 2 or 3 days in the field in small shocks. If the weather is dry, it may then be housed safely. As soon as the crop [ is laid by, (about the middle of July.) the wheat should be thrashed out, cleaned, and well sunned. One dav’s sun is scarcely ever sufficient. 'I’wo suc cessive days IS generally enough. I take it up au( put it away while hot from the sun; in the course of a few' days afterwards 1 commence to grijiil this way my flour at the end of a year is just as good as it was on the day on which it was ground. Good flour can only be expected from good wheal in good condition. When that is the case, a good mill, with good cloths and a skilful miller, can make as good flour /lere, as can be made any where. Many persons ruin their flour by desiring to have more than can be n ade. My father, whose long experience and skill in the manufacture of flour is well known, states that the following ouglit to be the results of a well ground bushel of wheat, weigh ing GO lbs. One-tenth, 6 lbs. must be deducted for toll, one-sixth. 10 lbs. for bran—9 Ihs. for middlings and shorts, which will make an aggregate of ‘25 lbs., leaving 35 lbs. of flour. From which it ap pears, that a little less than G bushels, (say five and a half,) will make a barrel of flour weighing 192 lbs. neat. John Belton O’Neall Springfield, July 8, 1841. More of this next week, if our idea.s hold out— very doubttui, howevnir, as ideas make short visits to an Editor’s head, and come seldom. 1 the poison for the blood, and that internally it was innocent. On the way to the field I gave a lecture on the subjcct, at which the other boys and laboring hands laughed. My conclusion was, that to extract poison with the mouth would be the most effectual I remedy in case of a enake bite ; at this they also laughed. Soon after reaching the field (pulling corn fodder) a hired man cried but, here Doctor, L I am bit, which prov'ed to be the case, by a Rattle AX EXHORTATION TO FARMERS' 'j J ‘'“f h^no tTmc I reducing my theory to practice too soon, but no time DAUGHTERS. | could be lost. I urged a younger brother of mine ta Our lears ar;*, not that ^here are not many excel- j perform the operation, which he instantly undertook, lent dairy women in the land, but that the benefits j assistance he soon had all the bloofl ex- of their knowledge and practice will be lost in the new generation that is springing up. tliousands of farmers’ daughters leave the liomes ol | tried the same remedy twice, once dn the foot of a their mothers and seek other employments, as if with | ^yoman bit by a Copperhead, and^once on my own a disrelish of that which may be practically more | bit by a Rattle Snake; in each case the most and more scarce. The occupation is stripped by the | eflcctnal cure v. as the result. ’ If the fluid is not in demand tor young women as operatives in factories, jected into a large vein, there is no danger from the i traded that could he, and to the astonishment of all, Hundreds and j ^ot so much as swell. Since that I have as milliners or sewers, shoc-binders or straw-brai- dcrs, or in some other mechanical occupation. How sjhort do such a.^^ arc thus employed come of the qualifications of the virtuous maid who obtains the best part of her education under the roof of her own father, from the instruction of the mother that knows how to do everv tinner coming within her province | who is entirelv ot NETV METHOD OF TANNING LEATHER. bite of any reptile, if this remedy be soon apphed. Re.'=pectfully, W. W’. STEVENSON. Note.—We know from facts under our own obser vation that this remedy is sovereign. T. F. as the wife of a thriving farmer- home in all that pertains to the dairy, the economi cal use and due preparation of articles of ibod and clothing, and who suffers none of her househo Id to eat the bread of idlenc-ss !'’ If not to the rising fair generation, to whom shall we look for the hands that are to sui>ply so import ant a jiortion of subsistence as the products of the dairy ? The farmer ma\ keep his forty, fifty, or a hundred rows: if there be no help-meet to oversee and lead in the preparation of the milk after it goes Leather is a compound of gelatin and vegetable astringent matter formed by steeping the skins of animals in the infusion of certain barks. Before this compound can take place, it is necessary that the skins should be properly prepared, and after wards, by a slow process, the union of Gelatin and I Tannin is made to take place. A new method by I which speedily to cflect this compound or union, t has been introduced by a Mr. Howd. an account of to the diary room—if there be no female to prepare j which is givcn^in the Wayne Standard. It amounts the ve-seis. none to direct in the straining and set- j to this. An air-tight, cylindrical vat is constructed ting ol the nullc. the extrication and disposition of j with an orifice for putting in the skins, with pipes the cream, the churning into butter, the separation i,y which to admit and discharge the liquor, and o! the butterinilK, the clean and perfect salting down air-pump for ‘he purpose of exhausting the —it all this is expected of men, and not of women, ■ r ■ i * it • 44 • , airfrom wnhmtnevat. Having suspended some skins how miserablv shall we hereafter drop a wav in tiie ; , • , t i j 1 , f I I J / i • , prepared m tae crdinarv way, and produced, as protluee of a most porntabio and most uselul arti«;le * , , * . ; , . , ,• ^ I nearly as nossiLie. a vacum with the air-pump, some m tiie production ot the larm at thj precise time | ^ . r when there is the most sure encouragement tor thi j liomlo'. Lquor ib, after an houi, admitted and larmer to enter upon ami perservere in tlie business ' to remain ten minutes. It is then discharge ' ed. and the vat exhausted of air and kept so for an • hour ; then the liquor is again admitted for ten mi nutes and discharged. After repeating this proccss , six times, a piece of calf skin of ordinary thickness ; was taken out, dried and curried, and by good judg- of the dairy !— I liitor. From the .Vgriciilnirisc. THE SIN OF LAZINESS. It is very astonishing that we punish men for I I drunkenness, swearing, lying aii.l the ordinary ' os proriouncccl to be a first and imeqnaUed quality of , Itrunciics ol* thieving, and let every one go (ree, | leather, lo thicker and heavier skins tlie liquor is I though guilty of tlie crime of laziness, the cause of ' admitted iroin twelve to eighteen times. Some pie- most of the rasrality and misery of the world. To j ces when curried were declared by experienced see a beggar with a eertificute of shipwreck, and ’ Shoemakers and Tanners to be handsomer, stronger many names attached to it, is prinui facie evidence, j flexible leather than if tanned m the old nine thnes out of ten, of swindling intent and unpar-1 required is from twelve to thirty- donable laziness ; to see children begging in ottr | J^ours streets,, i.s proof enough that eitlier their parents are j" theory of tiio process ie this—The exhaus- inuolent un! roguish, or they will be so themselves. ; removes from the skin There are imudreds ot families in this count rv. v;ho i . . . 1 • i • *1 1 •' I tne atmosuhenc pressure which is the caiei princi- Iiave scarcely the means ol subsistence from one dav I , . ^ , ., * J • . ■ . r I , i ’ pie of capillary attraction, and causes a rapid evapo- to another, and ninetv-nine cases out ol a hundred, ; i t . ^ . . ’ . . , laziness is the cause. doubt more than nuic-t'^m.no | State prisons were led to drinking, fighting and i reduction of temperature which effects a contraction thieving, from an unwillingness to earn a living by of fibre in the skins, thereby further expelling their the sweat of the face. Gambling is the science of j uncharged water, and thus afl’ords to the liquor robbery on a large and popular bcale, and yet no j admitted, a more easy and ready penetration ■-nine cases out ol a hundred. ; 1 * J > II-it eouhl be ascertained, no | "'hieh tlie uncharged matter and galia -tenths of the convicts in onr i acid in the skins is tliro'.vii oil, and also produces a man would desire the property of another without a quid pro quo, who was not too lazy to work ibr liis living. There arc large herds of Vvdiat are called poor people throughout the towns and countries, who seem to have no occupation,, and yet tliey do and must live; but liow do they get food and raiment, is into tiu^ni .V Y .Tourrial of Coriimerce. NEW METHOD OF SHOEING HORSES, A Ihenchman by the name of Jony, now a resi dent in Poland, has invented a new method of shoe- SAVING COTTON SEED. Much has been written, and well written, on the importance of selectingj each year, the best Corn in the fields for planting. Cut so far as we know, there have been no experiments in selecting careful ly, the best Cotton pods, from large and healthy, and early matured Blocks- This subject seems to us, to deserve far more attention than it has ever receiv ed. The experiments in selecting seed Corn, prove clearly, that a planter may make iiis Corn conform to almost any reasonable standard. It is well known, that he can make his Corn, mature much earlier by select^pg tlie earliest matured ears i’or seed, a few successive years.. Why shoukl not the same laws that produce this manifest improvdment in Corn, from a careful selection of seed, effect a similar im provement in Cotton—in its -earlier maturity, size of bolls, &c. It would certainly be attended, with some trouble, but a very slight improvement in each stalk ot Cot ton, (if this can be effected, by a-careful selection of the question ? They support upon the honest earn- hjg hor.«es, for which the Emperor has awarded ings of others. It is probably one-fifth of the men ’ him fiity liiousand rubles besides an exclusivepa- we see every day in the streets, arc known to have ' tent, Jony covers the entire hoof with iron, and the no honest calhng to support. Robbery must be oar- of iiis shoe, or as^ it is called, sandle, is per- ried on or they could not live. Many are too inuo . This method of hi^ is being adopted lent to v/ork, and to beg they are asliamed ., and ol ^ parts of Russia It requires neither nail nor eoursc they must steal. We could multiply these extremely cheap, and has the important enormities ad injimtmn, but perhap^> the remedy j for them would be of more moment at present- , f>aractertst« of great hglKne^ Horses whose What is it? Let us reform in our system of educa- have been ^stroyed by bad shoemg, are, by tion that is, make labor for man and woman lion orable, and establish a divine rule, “ if any one wilt not work, neither shall he eat,” and every one will directly be found in an honest employment. How shall w^e inforce the law ? He that will not pursue some reputable calling, let hinvbe imprisoned in our penitentiary, wliich is the most suitable place for all stragglers, loungers, gamblers,, drunkards, idlers, &c. &.C. &.C. Or if this punishment i#too hard, have a farm in the country to i)lac« all persons without, employment, till tliey are taught to earn a subsist ence lioncstlv. We have only suggested a few the use of these ‘ htppo sandal?,’ restored in a short time to their former stale of efficiency, and may be used as soon as provided with them ?. Some horses have been brought to Mr. Jony’s smithy, which could scarcely limp along, and with their hoofs in so lamentable a state, that the common mode of shoe ing could not have been applied to them; but after performing a slight operation upon them, and put ting the new sandals on their feet, they were sent back to their owners in a comparatively sound state, and fit for work.
Mecklenburg Jeffersonian (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Aug. 24, 1841, edition 1
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