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TOOTHACHE PREVENTED . Pries Is . per packet ; pest-free , Is . Id . B it ANDE'S e NAM E L , a . ™ *> r ^ ttlra G DECAYING TEETH , and RENDERING THEM SOUKD AND PAINLESS , has , from its unquestionable excellence , obtained great popularity at home and abroad . Its curative agency is based upon a TRUE THEORY of the cause of Tooth-ache , and hence its great success . By most other remedies it is sought to kVltJie nerve , and so stop the pain . But to destroy the nerre is itself a very painful operation , and often leads to very sad consequences , for the tooth then becomes a dead substance in the living jaw , and produces the same amount of inflammation and pain as would remit from any other S i . ??^ T e y "nhodied «> a living organ . BRANDE'S SS ^^ , ^ wl te'tny the nerve , but by RESTORING THE SHELL OF THE TOOTH ,-completely protects the nerve from cold , heat , or chemical or other agency , by which pain is caused . By following tbe directions , INSXANT BASE is obta ned , and a LASTING CURE Mows . t nil instructions accompany every packet . . . AOTHESTIC TESTIMONIAL . —SEVEKAl PEBS 0 NS CURED ;
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B , « t i ) urJSa - ' ^" « t » e « - states that the potato dis-i ease has again made its appearance . - iwifS * t ? ptOper ) X omstUoted can accommodate iffSSSS ^ f !« ^ ^ ;< . » lortone
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DO YOU WANT LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAUt , WHISKERS , &c . ? THE immense public patronage bestawed # upon Miss Ellen Graham ' s NIOUKRENE is sufficient evidence of its amazing properties in reproducing the human hair , whether lost by disease or natural decay , preventing the hair falling off , strengthening weak hair , and checking grejness . it is guaranteed to produce Whiskers , Moustachios , &c , in three weeks , without fail . It is elegantly scented , and sufficient for three months' use , will PTTp w ? n \ n ?« reCeipt ° f U n 0 St ! lge 8 tam P ' b ? Miss tLLEN GRAHAM , 6 . Ampton-strect , Gray ' s-inn-road , London . Unlike all other preparations for the hair , it is free from artificial colouring and filthy greasiness , well known to be so injurious to it .
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UUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED *¦*> WITHOUT A TROSS ! Dr . Alfred BiBEEnbegs to inform the readers of the Noothebx Star that a Volume of Upwards of One Thousand Testimonials will shortly be published , HEAP THE FOLLOWING : — 'In tbe five cases I wrote to you about , the remedy has perfectl y succeeded ; send me another for a case of Scro . tal Hernia , '—John Armstrong , Navy Surgeon . ' We have witnessed the cure of three cases of Rupture by Dr . Uabkek ' s treatment , which confirm the remarks we made some time since on the utility of this discovery to those suffering from Hernia , '—MEWCAt JoDBNiL . 'Ycur remedy has cured my Rupture after everything else had failed . I have used violent exer tion since , but ttiere . is no sign of its coming down . '—Miss Symmoiids , Bavswater . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦
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' ^ n W " ¦ ¦ * ANNOUNCEMENT . , m BARKER still continues to supdIy th « U afflicted with hiscekbrated Remedy fdr thSalar ^ ingcomplaint , the great success of which for manVvS part rendersanytother comment unnecessary iTis ^ a ! and painless inuse causing no incottvenience or confine * ment , and , is apphcable to every variety of siLk anri douHe rupture , however bad or longstandine taSlu" ^ female of any age . The . remedy , uith faUldffiton ? Ar use , &c , will be . sent post fr / e , to any p artof theS dom on receipt of 6 s . 0 d . ; in postage stamps or no ^ t-te ^^ D KKBR ) 48 , 1 ler | W UtreeC ^^ At home every day . ( 8 undays exceptefl ) f or conEulta {! r . n from 11 tuihalf-past 12 mornings , and 5 to 7 eveni ^ . office ! qr - rst 0 m - ^ pay * bie at «?* 5 EKt A cure iii every case is guaranteed , : ? : :
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Dbeadfol Bad . Legs cdhed by , Hoiipwai ' s Ointment aso PttLs—Estract of a letter . from John Kastmai 1 Bm Merchant at Bueao * Ayres , dated January 8 rfl lloo ' ' T « Professor Uolloway-My dear Sir . your Pills and Oiutmett are in very great repute here , and many w « & « f uV cures have been performed'by their use ; one in particular I wU relate . A Portuguese farmer , who had b . en confined to ths house with sore legs for more than five sears whrh rendered him quite incapable ef following anv worW 5 » now so perfectly cured by the use of your Pills and Oirit ment that he can follow the plough and attend BersonaH , to the most laborious farming oeeupations / S . er 8 paa « 5 ¦ Tmsiocal papers describe , the weafine trade kt Paisley fobeia a rery gloomy etate . S - -
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SOCIALISE lN THE ROYAL FAMILY OP ENGLAND . P QiERT OWEN'S JOURNAL of aX the 15 th of June will contain a speech in favour of Mr Owen ' s plans made by His Royal Highness the Duke ofKeutin 1819 , as Chairman of a meeting at which a committee for carrying those plans into operation was formed , of which committee their Royal Hi ghnesses the Dukea of Kent and Sussex were members ; withother information on the same subject , Mr . Owen ' s discourse addressed to the delegates of the Human Raca who attend the World ' s Fair , which he will deliver at the Institdtios , Jons Stbeet , Fitzeoy Square , on SdndAI , the 8 th inBt , at seven p . m ., will be given in the numbar of the Journal for the 2 Ut . ...... Published by Wataon , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row .
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¦ ¦ ¦ . ' ; Now Ready , Part I ,, of ' Urn . H E HO M E . " X . ¦ »• ¦ ¦ "• ¦ EDITED BT : RICHARD QASTLER . ' ' . Price Sixpence . There can be no better medium for Advertising than 'The Home , 'it being extensively circulated among and read by numerous sections of the Clergy , Nobility , Gentry , and Working Men . London : —A . M . Tatham , 2 , York-street , Catherine street , Strand , 1851 .
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PUBLISHING EVERY SATURDAY , NOTES TO THE PEOPLE . A new Periodical , to reflect the advanced mind of the age , and prepars the people for the advent of popular powerjby ' ERNEST JONES , Of the Middle Temple , Barrister at Law . Containi ng forty columns of close print ( besides wrapper ) FOtt TWOPENCE . Ths Poems composed in prison . TnE Letter on Co-orHUTiON , its present errors and remedy . ; The Letters on tiie Phoqramme , explaining each clause , and answering the Times , etc . The LBTTEa ott the Middle Class Feahcuise , and how it would injure the People . Can still be had with the back numbers .
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; Jutt fublished , IN NOS . AT ONE PENNY EACH . THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE GOLDEN LAND . (] A L I F O R N I A V ITS PAST HISTORY ; ITS PRESENT POSITION ; ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS : WITH A MINUTE AND AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OP THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOLD REGION , _ • ¦ AND ' THE SUBSEQUENT IML'OUTAOT PROCEEDINGS . In the course of tho work will be given PLAIN DIRECTIONS TO EMIGRANTS TO ' CALIFORNIA , OR THE UNITED STATES , OR TO CANADA ; AUSTRALIA ; NEW ZEALAND , OH ANT OTHER BRITISH S-TTLEMEHT . SHEWING TIIE 5 I WHEN TO GO . WHEREJO GO , HOW TO GONo . 1 , and No . 3 , will be Illustrated with RICHLY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS . And numerous Engravings , all executed in the most finished style , will illustrate subsequent Numbers .
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Shortl y viill be Published in Nos . ' at One Penny each , Splendidly Illustrated , A IIIST 011 Y OF THE DIFFERENT EXPEDITIONS ENGAGED IS THS SEMCH FOR SIR J . FRANKLIN CONTAINING ALt , THE RECENT VOYAGES TOJTHE POLAR REGIONS . Including in particular tlm Expedition sent out under the command OP SIR JAMES ROSS TO DAVIS STBAITS AND Of Commander Moore and Captain Kellott , to Behring ' s Straits . ¦ With an authentic copy of the dispatches received from SIR GEORGE SIMPSON , OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY With other important nnd highly interesting information relative to the Expedition under SIR JOHN FRANKLIN . Compiled from various Official Documents , n Private Communications , Bv ROBERT IIUI . SH , Esq . S . Y . COLLINS , TlJJTi ' L' -ET STREET , AND ALL BOOKSELLERS , '
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NATIONAL CHARTEll ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . HPHE- EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ¦ L hereb y announce the following meetings : — On Sunday next , at three o ' clock in the afternoon , the Lamheth locality will meet at tho South London Hall , and Mr . Pattinson , the suh-secretary , will he in attendance to envoi members . " On Sunday evening next at the Crown and Anchor . Cheshire-street , Waterloo Town .. On the same evening , at the Bricklayers' Arm * , Ton * bridge-street ; New-road , a lecture will be delivered . On the same evening at the Woodman Tavern , Whitestreet , Waterloo Town ; at six o ' clock the members of the locality will meet ; and at eight o ' clock a lecture will be delivered .
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To the Editor of the Nobtheus Stak .-Deab Sib , -1 am repeatedl y receiving letters from ' various parts of the country to pay them a visit as a lecturer . I beg through . you ,. to informall my Mends that Lam so engaged on tha week flays taut it is impossible fur me to pay any visits except on Sundays , and then only to such adis . ¦ tance . that _ Iic . an com © homo the same night : but to-- wards the close of next month I shall take a fortnight ' s holiday from labour , when I shall be happy to employ a portion of that time in lecturing in any locality that neea my services . —Yours , Thos . Dickesson , 50 , Woodstreet , Doltfield , Manchester . —Manchester , June 3 rd . Mr . 'D . Bkoits ; Landevneau , Franoe .-Yes , he paid the . amount . ¦ " ¦ ••* .. J . S ,, Chippenham . —It is discontinued . ' ¦ '
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belief that ^ Government . was directly reapoasible to tbe . depositors . But , as it' nothing should be wanting to confirm it , "the managers of Savings Banks were required to make periodical financial returns to tbe Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt ; who were , by the Act of Parliament , imperatively and distinctly required to take measures which would protect the depositors in case of any defalcation . At the commencement of these banks the trustees were specifically responsible for the deposits ; but by an act passed in 1844 they were relieved from this liability . It is probable that not one in ten thousand of the
depositors knew of the alteration , or if they did , they could hardly have supposed that the Government , by the change , meant to weaken the guarantees they previously possessed for the security of their Bmall savings . In fact , there can be no dispute that the general im * pressibn under which monies were invested in these banks was , that they weve as secure aa if placed in the three per cents ., without being liable to the fluctuation in value caused by the speculative jobbers in stocks .
Under these circumstances , it was discovered that the Actuary of the Rochdale Savings Bank was a defaulter to the amount of nearly three-fourths of the whole sum placed in the bank . Out of deposits to the extent of 100 , 403 ? ., only 20 , 898 / . had been placed in the GoVwnment funds ; whereas , had the Commissioners done their duty , the proportion should at least have been reversed . This twenty-six thousand pounds , with about seventeen hundred more in the hands of tho local treasurer , constituted the
whole of the cash in hand at the time the discovery of the actuary ' s defalcations was made . In all , some twenty-nine thousand pounds to meet liabilities to the extent of one hundred thousand pounds I To give a clearer idea of the culpable negligence—if not worse—which characterised the Government supervision of this bank , it may be added , that tho mone y deposited by it in 1839 with the Government was 24 , 201 | . ; and yet , in 1842—ten years after—notwithstanding interest to the artlount
of 10 . 000 J ., had accrued , the cash standing to the credit of the bank in the Government books was only 26 , 898 J . ! Such a state of things could not have taken place without the cognisance of the Government officers , who were directly responsible , by Act of Parliament , and bound , by specific enactments , to give publicity to the disastrous condition of the bank , and thus have prevonted further deposits from being made and additional loss incurred thereby .
But when , in accordance with the general belief as to the legal responsibility of the Government , a claim was made for the deficit , the Chancellor of the Exchequer repu ' . diated that responsibility . B y a series of quibbles , more worthy of an Old Bailey Barrister than the Finance Minister of a great country , h e es t a b lished th e fac t , that in law the depositors had no claim against the Treasury , but the moral and equitable responsibility could not be so easily got rid of .
Other Savings Bunks had failed about the same time ; and the circumstances under which one of them—the Cuffe-street Bank in Dublin —had failed , wore so flagrautly disgraceful to the government officials that Sir Charles "Wood , while denying his legal liability as the representative of tho Government , actually proposed to Parliament a grant which would make good about one half the losses of
the depositors , and urged the wealthy classes of Dublin to subscribe , for the purpose of making up tho other . Besides tins , a bill was brought in—which , like many other Whig bills , has never been passed —for the purpose of giving &bonajide direct legal security to depositors—all of them acts acknowled ging the Government to be a party immediately implicated in these transactions .
Tho affairs of the Rochdale Bank have now been brought into a position which will enable them to be submitted to Parliament . In addition to the twenty-nine thousand pounds in hand at tho time the defalcations were discovered , the sale of the Actuary ' s property has reulised 10 , 0007 ., the trustees and others have subscribed 17 , 480 k , making in all 62 , 116 / ., towards the original sum of 100 , 403 ^ , and leaving still a loss to tho depositors of 38 , 287 J . The depositors think they have a right to call upon the Government and the
Legislature to make up this loss to them , an opinion in- which we entirely concur . To refuse the claim will reflect discredit on both . We hear much of the preservation of the national faith , and the maintenance of the national credit ; it ever there wasa case in which both are distinctly involved it is that of the Savings Banks . The Government authorised their establishment , provided , the machinery , undertook the superintendence , monopolized the use of the investments in these banks , and fixed the rate of interest to be paid upon them .
Yet the parties who have thus induced the poor and prudent depositors in Savings Banks to entrust their scanty and hard-earned savings to their care , have no hesitation in availing themselves of technical loop-holes , in order to creep out of the responsibilities so openly incurred , and generally believed to exist . Nobodycalls thoir characters in question—no one assails them with vituperation and abuse— " They are all honourable "aye , even " right honourable nien . "
Very different indeed is the view which the candid , honest , truth-loving critics of Mr . O'Connor take of the National Land Company and the Bank established in connexion with that Company . Though it was proved by the unimpeachable testimony of Government accountants , that not only every farthing of the money subscribed ¦ by the shareholders of the Company had been invested in the manner proposed by the rulesbut that Mr
, O'Connor ' s own monies had been liberally lent to forward the object in view ; ho has been too frequently represented by a hostile and venal press , as having traded on popular credulity , andreaped personal pecuniary advantage from the establishment of the Company . Tho 'direct contrary has been the case . To him , it ; has been ' one long series of toil , anxiety , trouble , and loss ; The object of the Government has been to shuffle out of the
liabilities , whichwere universally believed to attnch to it in the matter of the Savings Banks . Tho object of Mr . O'Connor has been throughput to obtain , both for the Land Company and the Bank , the sanction and the security of the law , in order that distinct and direct responsibility might he created . In this attempt much delay and expense was incurred , and at last , thwarted at every step by . tho obstructions thrown in the way , the plan itself-failed and the enemies of
now Mr . O'Connor seek to saddle him with the responsibility of having produced results which he strove to thl utmost ., of his . power to prevent . Whatever may have been the reasons which induced the committee on . the Bill for Winding foe House of Commons against , including the Bank in the preamble anddauses of that Bill there . can , - w . eare sure , he but * one W nion . uto- the ori C gin of the Bank and thl
PpSeS ^ S ^ S $ ^ p&g&s knew beforehand in what way then- money wasto . be applied , and that the real security tor their investments would be the estates purchased by the Company . When in the pourse . of time it was found that the connexion ot the Bank with the Company was urged as an objection to the legalisation of the latter un der : the Joint Stock Companies Act , ' Mr . U-GjONNQR ,.. ; with .. that zeal and disregard for personal interest * , which distinguished the
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whole of his conduct towards ^ Tn" ^ stepped forward and offered to relieve U P ? ny ' his difficulty by undertaking to VL ** the Bank in his own name . But 2 7 0 Jl one imagine that he would ever wSj *** a banker . save for the purpose of aX me Company ? ^ believe he > S't 8 th « T ¦ " * * £ * ^ « the nuou H °° cepted the position , the risks , and th ' ,. ao * sibilities it involved , simply and « Si apoa ' half , and for the benefit o ? S ? OoSS ° abe ' as the claims of all parties under i S j ^ up Act , must be decided upon e 5 > as well as legal grounds , we trustTS expenses he ha 8 been put to in carrvL the establishment ,- thus originated and tl ° . tended , will meet with afairand in 8 J . " consideration , and be settled with rop artial to the broad facts , zrt ttemZnt ^ It ought above all neveJ o be 2 ° ' that from the very commenccm ^ 8 ^^ Land Movement tl / e most ^^ f * > ' !! T ! ' and ^ ^ rec to . to l egalis ^ r !?
uBeuiugs or we uompanv . Tim « v \ *""' which ® * was : established ^ were disfc 8 for forth . There was no decin f yset whatever . The monies su 2 £ * £ ** with those advanced by Mr O'lW g her openly and duly applied to flu , „ J Wer ° poses of the Company . That ge 2 ? T voted himself unsparmgly , ni glSdT t its service ; and , when at length the < 2 obstructions that beset the proSTTT Company-terminated in a stoppage , with ll equal amount of zeal and earnestness he nl derlook the onerous duty of making the lo 5 s ^ ight as possible to every individual share ! holder . Instead of meeting with the return which such disinterested conduct ought to have ensured , .-he has not only been calumniated and reviled by his opponents , but deserted bv
tliose who were as much responsible for the affair as himself , and made—most unjustl y . ^ the scapegoat for the errors of others . I { a , j he not been thus abandoned by those who ought to have made common cause with him we believe that the affairs of the Land Company might , at the very last , have been placed in such a position as to have realised to a large extent , the objects for which it was formed ; and , certainly in a short time to have paid to every shareholder the money he had actually contributed to its funds .
But no man can perform impossibilities Opposed by a powerful Government , caluml niated by an unscrupulous press , and deserted by those who had embarked in the same enterprise , the Land Plan has failed . In the enumeration of these causes tho last was perhaps the most deeply injurious . Had the shareholders been firmly united , and honestly determined to carry their object , all
tmght have ended satisfactoril y . As it is , they ought not to blame Mr . O'Connor for tho consequences of their own want of steadfastness and integrity . "Whatever may be the ultimate loss , they must share it as partuers in tho same venture , with the additional responsibilit y of having caused that loss by their shameful violation of tho en gagements they were under as individual shareholders . Of the seventy thousand cod
tributors to the [ Land Company , had one half but imitated the zeal , energy , pei-Eeverence and generosity of Mr . O'Connor , wo should not this day have had to deplore the state in which its affairs now aro ; aud , as for Mr . O'Connor , success would have silenced detraction . As it is , ho cuu proudly point to a career unstained by personal dishonesty , and to the last he will not shriek from any personal responsibility that can be justly attached to him .
In the meantime , let us sum up tho contrast between the Eochdale Savings Bank and the National Land and Labour Bank . The actuary of tho former , out of 100 , 000 / ., appropriated nearly three-fourths of it to his own private business , and lost it . The nominal owner of the latter , instead of taking a farthing of the sums deposited with him , took between five and six thousand pounds from his est
own ablishment , and applied it for the purposes of the Company . The Government , after inducing the public to invest monies under the belief that it was legally responsible , turn round and deny the liability . Mr . O'Connob , who was denied , legalisation , proclaima his determination to meet every just demand upon him to the utmost . We leave the two cases to speakfor themselves .
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GOVERNMENT AND CHARTIST A Statement of the facts relating to the defalcations in the Rochdale Savings Bank has been : sent to the members of the Lecis ' - lature , preparatory to the . question being brought before Government and Parliament Perhaps there never were two cases which more strikingly illustrated the truth of the , old adage , that " one ; man may steal a horse with impunity , while another will get hanged for looking over the hedge , " than the Roohdale Savings Bank and the National Land Company . Let us briefl y contrast the facts . ¦' . Savings Banks were established under the sanction of special Acts of Parliamen t , and the Government exercised a direct control over the monies paidinto them , by prohibiting the deposits from being invested in other than Government funds . " I These two . focts ^ were enough to produce an ^ parently well-founded ^ *" ££
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ORTHODOX RIOTS . Physical Force and Chartism are very generally associated in the minds of those who draw their political information from tho journals of the privileged classes . The mention of the one has beeii so invariably followed by the other , that at last the connexion between the two has been assumed to be as in « separable as between flowers and springripe corn-fields and autumn . Wonderful ifi the power of reiteration . By its means tho veriest falsehood can be made to take the place of truth ! *
Ihysical Force , however is not always reprehensible , iu tho opinion of tho journals which exercise the greatest influence upoa opinion among the upper and middle classes . ItB wickedness and foll y , or both , are only denounced when it i 3 turned against the ruling classes , by tho people whom they combine to plunder and oppress , When , they come to share the spoil , and happen to quarrel about it , there is not the slightest objection to Physical Force . In any dispute between the people and thoir rulers they demand that the former shall be cool , dispassionate , aud argumentative . They avc t
expected o personify all the virtuos needful to elevate saints to places in the calendar , no matter how great may have been tho provocations to anger , nor how grievous and b ^ ter the wrongs , sufferings , aud contumely heaped upon them . The natural expressions of indignation are called " sedition , " aud a stray ebullition of angry feeling entitled 11 insurrection or . " rebellion . " Words do alter things so much in the estimation of the world ! Very different indeed is the conduct and bearing expected from the rich , powerful , educated , and enfranchised , classes when they quarrel . They may be as abusive as they please—it is onl y a sign of high spirit , and they are encouraged to- itch into each
p other by applauding bystanders on both sidesj ; aud as for a downright riot iu such cases , so far from there being any objection to it , the rioters : aro patted on the baclf , and praised for their patriotism by the faction m whose cause they , break the law , at tto same time they break heads and windows . . Had a body of Chartists been guilty of the outrages on persons and property , perpetrated by a Free Trade mob last week at Tamvorti , one can fancy the simultaneous outburst o *
execration elicited from the Tims , Daily m > and Morning Chronicle . Tho aid of the local and general authorities would have be « n invoked to maintain order , and assert the dig ' nity . of the law ; and the rioters themselves stigmatised and denounced in the choiceflt Billingsgate . But the " law and order" ot our contemporaries is derived not from broad aud permanent principles of political and social
justice , but rests on the law and profits of the selfish parties , to which they act a » mouthpieces . Hence * instead of denunciation or reprehension being launched at the Tamworth rioters , they . were positively lauded for having performed a most meritorious Bervice in smashing the windows of the Town Hall and th © principal Hotol , tearing up the pavement s of the streets , and inflicting Bevere . wounds with the missileB : thence obtained : and . lastly , for
tnrowmg the giga and other conveyances ot the farmers into the river . These , it appear * , are gurtalegitimate an 4 ; praiseworthy proceed
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4 THE NORTHERN STAR . June t S .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 7, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1629/page/4/
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