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V£ff?~ j*.jy**r *.• '^fg4* I toSQinmi vl:.: .••-••••' 5i53 -.'.'-.vl!rtSW!B"|...jwj..|**|», t»j is .' JaUU* t. fWlWHlLM, CLOUO DnHOCHAT. 0WC10M TJllWlSTIRNBAHKOr THI leMlaaxxrl iuVAUftr MILES ABOVE THE FAUSOF PPOOITI HUM mMAUWAT LAJJDINO 'gJttMS: Uta* oapy, en* year, $ 1,60 fife. eepi**,,*»•. year, 6,36 10,00 $W*iJ .essUs. ,**•* y«ar, (and one eepy vli flab. Ur a 'te the getter up of the 20,00 Paymeat must Uvaalably bemade in advance AAxas QM APYI^TiapO Una eelama, one year, $60,00 leifeeramn, 66,00 Oat-fciir** ef a tolupa 20,00 On« sowars, (ten UM* or la**) week, 1,00 iaeUes* Card* net ever ids line., 6,00 •r«r fix naes and under ten, 7,00 Legal Advertising: Don* at legal rates. All letter* *f business to be directed te the BUIT01L Sal*? 9BSSBBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSBSBSBS JAMBS MqOLVY ATTOBKIi COURSKLLOR AT LAW Low.fr Town W4U SoUtctfoss, Invest money, buy #7 orlean Land Warrants, and eater, purchase disjcaSer steal 1stat* *£?. A. NOUKSE, (Lata ot It. Anthony, rTIMET MO COUNSELLOR IT LA W 0«i*ai lieCssso's (PSMSSIX)BLOCK, ii jM PAUL, Min. WM. PARSONS, COUiSELLQR IT LAW, OrMO* WasMisote* AVBMO*, eraer of Lake Street—Gorton'* Building 0 I DR. W. B. SIMONTON, UgSPECTFULLe tenders his Professional •orrices to th Cititens of 8t. Cloud and iiaVMnltj. stMideace, Lewer Town, second house south of Bovine, formerly occupied by Mr. A ilUnerne. nwjr Particular attention given to Operative J-irgSry. vol-luny METZROTH, MERCHANT TAIL OR, lALtR in Clothing, Cloths, Caaaimores I Vesting*, and Gentlemen's Furnishing M.evls,te the inspection of which he invites hie friend* and the public. iejlQ. l»67-ly E N W. W E A ARRIAOEMAKER. I A removed to my new shop near the Bridge, where I am prepared te do all kinds of work in the Garriageaakaag line. Wagons, earriagee and sleigh* made in a neat and sub stantial manner at low rat**, particular at tention paid to repairing. v3-nll ii I SB Km ii li Hi T. H. BARRBTT, Surveyor and Qivil Engineer, ST. CLOUD MINN. AMERICAN HOUSE, ST. CLPUD, MINN. fTM^l above house has been opened by the 1 nadcreigned, and the most perfect etnd am ple aeeommodations provided for the comfort of gneet*.' ltle pleaaantry sltnatad, commands •t *je6d view, and i*, well kept Travellers stopping there, can take th* ataga* for any de- Tits, Grew Wing stage leaves this house en Tweeday,SWednesday and Friday mornings. vln44:ly vtn44:l F.MONTI. tH0KIA3J0NiI8 ALACKSMITH. it kinds of work dens is at* best pastt Fsxiieular attentietLgieen litter rt*W work, and re building all kisda. Shoo ia aam W.Sf^Csri3JgeAop7to iMTHimUTIll IMWICOUCCTIlm ^bisi A 4 I S 1 N 1 A O I O I ,'w ',{} 4o(feUsjOaUa«aa«j •I'll "J "''•..'.':• *Hm|aBssnsh*f aSAesIeema 1 i-.: $ ty^nw* Total •T'-« 14 SUtieUoe. 8T. PAUL, Sept. 15,1861. So. Dm.—For some reason the oftcer who "took the ceDiua" of your county did not classify his enumerations under sepa rate township divisions, but massed them together without^any attention to geo graphies! distinctions. For this reason, am unable St present to give you the re sults of the census of Stearns County, un der township divisions. By the kindness of a citizen of St.,Cloud, who has classified the census sheets for me under the .proper geographical heads, I shall be able to give you more minute particulars by and by. The following is an abstract of the gen oral results of the enumeration of popula tion. No. of Dwelling Houses 1257 Mo «ffamilies 1060 No. of White Males 2461 No. ofWhit* Females 2066 No. of Colored Females ..2 Total population 4.608. SOCIAL STATISTICS. No. of person* married within the year.......6 No. of persons who have attended school within the year 428 No. of persons ewer 20 year* of age who cannot read and write 2 No. of blind person* 1 There are no Deaf and Dumb, Insane, Idiotic, Paupers or Cenv cts. The number both of families and dwellings 1* greater in Stearns County than in the State atTarge—the latter very considerably greater. The number of uninhabited tenement* iu your County is or was, (I speak of 1800 in the pros ent tense,) 207. The number of person* to one family in Stearns County...M^...M.....M..M4.29 No. persons to one family in State at large ..!. 4.64 No. persons to one dwelling in Stearns County .......................^....6.67 No. pereone to no dwelling in the State at large..-.. 4.16 S F^T 1 646. Mid. Free States. New York Pennsylvania New Jersey Wisconsin Michigan Ohio Total exclusive of Minnesota, State of Minnesota Total including Minnesota Total KW :*»«?. A? pOSf ON. i*)" '.Ai' O :5'-'.itv. .-:".! I -JM Wt .tfofiuiUa^a woiaiaedii* li»ieed —-mm** Not Teeel thT a «aaa P€I«clT«'»uniDer 8 W more than the «••"**. This part is sugges- Jive of asocial want which, though not at all ,J local in its character, eould be brought to the f,b.!t U!L*r"il' tha usefu portioS of sooiety who alon§ can supply the great public necessity of our State. The school attendance of your County is nearly thirty-three per cent, less than the av erage. The returns of married persons and of those who.cannot read and write are undoubtedly incorrect and that is the only comment which can be made upon them at present. ABSTRACT OT TMB NATIVITIES Or TUB POPV &AT10B Or STEARNS COUNTT NUMBER or reasons BORN IN TUB UNITED STATBS. New England. Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island Border Slave States. 816 43 81 70 81 6 Delaware Maryland Diet. Columbia Missouri Virginia Kentucky 30 1 S8 31 9 Tolal 111. South Slave 8tates. Tennessee North Carolina 280 128 2 196 82 242 6 3 1 6 Alabama Louisiana Total 410. total 15. North Western r'ree States. Indiana Illinois Iowa 04 101 48 633 774 1,467. SO. FKBSOK8 BOBS IB rOBBIOB COCSTB1BS. Brit. Amer. Prov's Canada 74 England 49 Nova Scotia 13 Wales 2 Mew Brunswick 86 Scotland 9 Other Frovin tee 1 Inland 70 British Isles. Englan Wale Scotlan Irelan 7 4 1 3 8 6 1 123. 21 1 866 41 Total Norway 4 Sweden Holland Prussia Auatiin Total 136. 667 68 42 Rest of Oer. Franc* Switzerland Poland I 1,697. in***Uanseu* Foreiga. Boss on the ocean sseATCTvianss. United States. New England Middle Free State* N. W. F. States including Minnesota Total Free States 2 418. Border Slaws' State* Southern Slave States 16 (n la 1. 410 1467 Total Slav* States 1,26* Total United States Brit. W. America Beet* Europe i"6ft: 128 Great Brit, ft Ir. 138 MieecUaaeous 1 1697 JJ«jffi Total Fersiga Bora, Summery. ef Tenon* barn is Minnesota Ne. HOef 1,966. F*r«owsborn out of the in the Cwited Statee ¥ors Is Foreign Oonnurica bsffi 1966 PaaaUtion 1' 4*60*V essSl-thseasy few isHsigrsnt olese. '**T*7JZX~ Speak into the children of Israel that they go forward."—EXODUS, ST (MUD, STEAMS CO. ITONESOTA TMRS^ three general categories of our "eanj msfwtam -the following proportions to rheAe.simulatio of State asm County re- thte three mary the wheaa.population •pectively: Stearns Co. 4M*ti. •Minn, born rates per cent 17.17 10.04 Other American 89.16 46.68 Foreign ". 43.40 84.85 Of your Americans born—exclusive of na tive MinncAotian*—it is 'remarkable feature that the North Western sad New England ele ments are in the ascendant, while the Middle Free States which, in most of the counties are the most, numerous class, are comparatively feebly represented. Of the New England element Maine over shadows all the rest—coutributiug 66 per ceut. of all the "sons of the Pilgrims" in your County. This is owing doubtless to Droit.— Carthage was not more a colony,of Tyre than is Stearns of St. Anthony and the offspring inherits its full share of the paternal charac teristics—if it is proper to call Maineites char acteristics—as I think it is. Of the North Western element Ohio and Wisconsin contrib ute the largest proportions. Ti following table will serve for comparison of the ratios in which the different sections of the United States have contributed to your population and to that of the whole State. Stearns Co. New England ratio per cent 12.11 Middle Free States 0.09 N. W. except Minn. 15.15 Slave-Statee 2.72 State. 11.13 17.62 15.72 2.00 Particular States. Maine 7.01 New York 6.21 Ohio 5 36 Wisconsin. 4.31 3.83 1J.70 4.39 3.91 More than (hree-vunrters, or to be particu lar, 78 37 por cent of your foreign born citi zens are Germane. Indeed the German ele ment constitutes more tban a third of your whole population, and forty-one per cent of your whole immigrant claim. Germany gives you almost as many citizens as the New Eng land, the Middle and Western Free States combined. Stearns then is emphatically a German County, a sort of High Dutch edition of Knickerbocker's yieuw A'tderlvutz. The inevitable cosmopolitan Irishman pleys an in significant part—numerically, of course— Heaven forbid that I should mean otherwise than numerieelly-on a theatre so preoccupied 0 he it .nesay of his race. Whisky D#e attention ot theEaatern public through, no divirfoJ. your.Uble contribute a & 5 & be ahown by dm fc 1 he in thm following comparisons: Stearns Co. State. Brit Amer Prov's per cent. 2.72 4.77 O. Brit, and Ireland 2 09 10.49 Rest of Europe 37.65 19.09 Of Particular Countries. Germany ratio per cent- 34 01 10.15 Ireland 1.6G 7.52 Emigration follows not only analogies of cli mate, but affinities of Mood and speech.— Stearns County is recommended by our table as the special paradise of Germans, Iluckeyes, Badgers and Maineites. J. W. WUKKLOCK. As Mr. VVheelock surmises the report of marriages is iueorrect. We have taken the" trouble to run over our files for *60, snd find the marriage notices of eight persons married in this county, during that year, by Protestant clergymen. We have no reason to suppose that those are all of that class, and as considerably more half our population sre Catholic* and their clergymen have never sent in any notice of the marriage ceremonies, in which they officiate, it would be unreasonable to sup• pose our columns had chronicled one-third the marriages. It is due Mr. Grande'meyer, who took the census, to say he is universally esteemed a very careful, reliable business man.— We find in our issue of May 17th, i860, a notice of his appointment to take the census. He worked with energy, and we think, completed his work during the summer. Only one of the marriages we have on record, was prior to his appoint ment two of the others after he bad passed Over their localities aud one after he had completed his work. It occurs to us thst the mistake lies in attempting to chronicle the events of the year before they had transpired. Should Oct tlte report of '60 have been of the events of '69? The list of marriages in that snd 'SB must have been larger than in *60, for prior to '60 the supply of msr riageable women had ran out in St. Cloud, and we advertised for supply of "the MM* material to be ntsnnfseturod into! brides." We afterwards repented snd re txactcd, on the ground of avoiding com plicity in fraud. Any woman who resigns bar right to life, liberty snd the pursuit of happiness, and becomes a semi-chattle -ra bond servant for life in oonsiderstion of just such remuneration ss her master nlesaes, must do so without complicity on osjrfsrl Wo would rather steal poor servant glrl'i trunk, than aid in robbing hoc for life, of her right to wsges. So, 5Jr. Wheelock, is not onrself who will: try to supply the deicMoey in women, With tiiw to entrspping them into the nsi nMtrinisniil It is only sbout one: msn-fn one huadtel who js fit to htjo sr wife tinder our present marriage lews.— CHAP, Tb« other ninety sod blue should batch itstiftetrltW As to the number of people who cannot read, we *oe no reason to suppose the ret turns inoirreot. Almost everybody reads eitkor English or German. The matter of school attendance has been much improv* cd since the census was taken. Our far mer's houses sre much scattered, and an unusually large proportion of the children areloo young to attend school st any dis tance from home while the toil and pov erty of recovering from the grasshopper devastation of '££, and the necessity for employing every oue old enough to work operated against the establishment of sehools. It must be remembered that this County is very reomsly settled, that the dwelling house must be built before the school house, and our distance from a sup ply market, the mesns of subsistence must be raised out of the ground, the threshing machine bought, the mill built, and the road to get to it, before the bread can go into the school boy's dinner basket Then so orthodox Baptist sod a German Catholic who do not understand a word of each others language, cannot get up schools together very readily. The President's Ordor. The President's very important letter to Gen. Fremont, will challenge the atten tion of our Tenders from its intrinsic im portance, and also from the high liivor with which the General's recent Proclamation was received by all men snd all parties from Kansas to -Maine. To enable them to sees how seriously the vitality of the wordslnfjplfluiont is impaired by the Pre*-, idenYMprder, we copy the section of the law of'Bt Congress' iu which theconfieca- thorized Sec. 4. And be it further matted, That whenever bensfter, during the present insur rection against the Government of the United States, any person claimed to be held to labor or service under the law of any State, shall bo required or permitted by the person to whom such labor Or service is claimed to be due, or by the lawful agent of such person to take up arms against the United States, or shall bc,io quired or permitted by the person to whom such labor or service is claimed to be due, or his lawful agent, to work or to be employed in or upon any fort, navy yard, dock, armory, ship, entrenchment, or in any military or na val service whatsoever, against the Govern ment and lawful authority of the United States, then and in every Such ease theperson to whom such labor or service is claimed to be due, shall forfeit his claim to sach labor, any law of the State or of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding. And whenever thereafter the person claiming such labor or service shall seek to enforce his claim, it shall be a full and sufficient answer to such claim that the person whos* service or labor is claimed, had been employed in hostile service against the Gov ernment of the .United States, contrary to the provisions of this act. J4Ftt will be seen that while Gen. Fremont, nifter declaring Martial Law, announces in terms the freedom of the slaves of all mas ters who take part against the authority of the United States, the President, overlook ing the fuct that Martial Law overrides, as sf military necessity, the laws of tha State in which it is declared, narrows the Gen eral down to the liberation of slaves that have borne arms against the Government, or have been employed upon some naval or military work against the authority of the United States We quote Fremont's language in the Proclamation, that it may be contrasted with the law which the Pres ident reaffirms Approved AoSust 6th, 1861. "The property, real and personal, of all per 1 sons In the State of Missouri who shall take up arms against the United States, or who shall be directly proven to have taken part with their enemies, in the field, is declared to be confiscated to the public use, end their slaves, if any they have, era hereby declared free men. The difference is essential. The law frees the slaves who have been engaged in disloyal pursuits the proclamation frees the slaves of masters who sre in rebellion agains the Government. By the law, the slaves of Gen. Price and ex-Goyernor Jack son, if kept at home raising corn for the rebels, must continue to wear their shack les. a xrr Vnai 15 ness when the Question of slaveay—the tap root of this wicked rebellion—is touch ed, and *ueh notorious disregard of the rights (assnming that the Constitution shields rebels) of white men Secretary Seward telegraphs to Tom, Dick cr Uarry, arrest this man or that snd send him to Fort .Lafayette and it is done. There is no law for it. The Constitution forbids it but not a day passes in which some prison ers is not shut up without trial, without even a warrant. The people approve, be cauce they iccognize the necessity for each of these acts but they want the same rig or' crrried into all operations of the Gov ernment—into matters which touch the liberty of the slaves as well as the most precious privileges of the white man.— Gen. Jix orders the arrest of half the members of the Maryland Legislature, and the whole country cries Amen 1 The prop erty of rebels is every day confiscated with out legal inquiry, and always upon cxparte statements and there is no complaint among loyal men, no compunctions on the part of the Administration, lib appealing on the part of the President to acts of CW grees already out ofdate. Not a bit of it! But lay finger upon negro property, ofici to interfere with that "sacred relation" between master and loyal slave, and here oomes the Constitution snd the law to withhold all sacrilegious hands. We see neither good sense nor good polhy in this delicacy toward the man sellers snd women whippets who have commenced this unholy war and we shall only bo too glad if the President's action is not the cause of pro found snd wide spread dissatisfaction among the men upon whom, for the suc cessful termination, of this war, and the support of this note imperilled Govern ment, we must depend.—Chicago Tri bune. Coming Eleotion. Surely the Slaveholders' Rebellion of 1861 is not moreformidablathan the pow er of England in l812. 'Ihe. first cam paign of our Second War of Independence, was a scries of disasters, while its clo ing scenes witnessed the destruction of Wash ington and the invasion (repelled however at New Orleans) of Louisiana. Direct taxation for tho National Treasury, was onerous: th finance! of the Government w«re embarrassed the people, in short, were burtheued with conscriptions and contributions in a degree far exceeding what isposible for this generation. The Declaration of War, it was distinelv fore seen, involveJ. all these consequences, snd the American people early were prepared to meet them. was ue W Our position is well known. There ia no Constitution, there is no law, for the rebels. They disown snd defy both, sod can claim the protection of neither. For theto MILITARY !t0XS6HITV is the Only rule which need or ought te be eensulted and until this grouod sssumcd snd lbs, bettle ia fought ou it, we arc ooqdemnsd to defeat snd disgrsco. This:vXflU, W S & Usfs»is thai which the people tang ago adopted snd they, with ns, will?belie?!* that the Admrnisiration has committed lowest snd meanest of the ,lftis^Vri[reh^ thorn W W feaaers tKeTiomsibili the moment his master commits ihe overt1 . set, becomes free man. The distinction is obvious. birt«iti*^|||s^ w^ fetotf^ Jk§i^ifmSF^m rsViesA.. Jde* wilf ask^snd propsdy too, Why is tferc this extraordinary tender- James Madisou was President—th leason proposc to drop the or ganization and name of the dominant par ty—on the contrary the patriotic mssses accepted the Republican party as fhe best and most efficient agency to sustain the Government and the War. The idea of a war party—one profuse of pledges for its mote energetic prosecution—was rejected by the people, notwithstanding a citizen so eminent as Dewit Clinton consented to a candidate for President under its aus pices while all are familiar with the in famy, which befel the hostility of New England to the War. The Federalists mostly rose superior to party prejudice— to the petty distaste for the name of Re publican. The administration unfurled the flag of the nation, and the Republican Party threw down all barriers to the coop eration of faithful and patriotic citizens. At the close of the War, no other party name was known, except Republican and in "the era of good feeling" which follow ed, men, who had beeu prominent feder alists during the days of Jefferson, were equally prominent as Republicans. In deed, it has often been asserted, that the founders of the Jackson Party, sinoe known as the Democratio, were mostly of this class of politicians.—St. Paul Pre** The New York Tablet, a leading Cath olic paper of New -fork, says: "The minority, the real Disunion party in the South who supported Mr. Breckin ridge, are of the culprits in the case. A' minority in the Democratic party, they wanted to rule it, and, failing to do so, they split it at Charleston. A miuority in the Union, they wanted to rule it, and foiling, they set to work to disrupt It.' hS^f^as*^ &h$Steftdah.*£i#' -W unalterably opposed,\nd1iVve~btc6 Oppo sed, to its exten^on, ynto territory now $?* iTMie^usl^p^ejmop^jog^jp^con sqi3B*e?asd intwt speak, as^rdin^, to our tne VHtd^,&wm&wR%fL, be any cauoo for complaint, the Sooth hi* avst .'^arwrt-s-jstw*****!*—s»i at lQ to moetainetri- ous 6f her sons." 1 he Tablet proceed* then to show Out the founders of the Republic Weio Welded Anti Slavery men, snd sdds "It then the agitation of the rThfasj question were a palliation of Jbmioo, there was more cause for secession"during the lives of the Signers, by the sets of ths Fathers of the Republic, sad under tfep administration of George Washington, than under that of Abraham Lincoln." First Train of Cars in Minn. Yesterday morning. *fter breakfast, Messrs. Winters. Hmhinnu, Drake and Gebhart, the gentlemen who have become celebrated as thi men whose means, energy and enterprise have laid the fii't railroad track iu the .' tato, called inix our eajio tuiu to inform us that at eleven 6'clock precisely steam would be up, and the first train ever in motioti in Minnesota wonld leave uoa time." Being thus admonish- ed as to the necessity of punctuality, we were at the depot at the hoijr". And sure enough, there was the locomotive, Wm. Crooks, snorting and whiatliug, and going through all the evolutions of the iron horse when he is engaged in "making up a train /The steamer War Eagle passed dwn just at that moment, snd saluted r.ho locomotive with bcr whistle, which con phment was acknowledged by the land en gine in the same manner, and by the crowd about the depot with prolongndj cheers. Several of our distinguished citizen* were presant, including Senator Wilkin son aud Gov. Ramsey. Al that eould get aboard were seated upon the tender, and then she started off in fitio style. A trip was first made without the ears up to the end of the track, which-is laid ss far as the first crossing of Trout Brook. We then backed to the depot, where Mr. Geb hart proposed that Gov. itamley should have the! hrmur ot cdupHn'* the'first train of CM\S to the tendon This proposition was received with ioud demonstrations of approbation, and the Governor proceeded to execute the plcasaut ta k. Mr. Gebhart then proposed three cheers for Alex. Ram-. sey, the pioneer Governor of the old Tsiw ritory, and the present worthy Executive of the new Stato of Minnesota. These were given with a will. The train made another trip to the end of the track and returned amidst the most enthusiastic excitement, when W. P. Wheeler proposed three cheers for the Railroad contractor*. These having been! iv witl a11 th of elect of the Republican party of that day PrcBent» the crowd retired, feeling that a It waj aoi then proposea to droo the or-' 8 f? rf *hoi«' °f 8 O .. .. _..r _it of the present bloody strife exclusively rests. The Archbishop himself states that they hod no more cause to break op the Union now than they had fifteen years ago, and jet he seems to attach some blame to those who opposed the extension of Sla very. Now we, with, at present, we be lieve, nearly the^entfre- North, consider Slavery to be wrong of itself, and, though wiltisg to leave Slavery to the Slave Sfajos, oity W State had transpired. And it is a great event. One can hard ly realize that after all our struggles and disappointments, we have at last our ears greeted with the whistle of the locomotive. We have had a ride ons Railroad in Min nesota How greatly sre we indebted to those quiet business men and capitalists of Dayton, Ohio, who have thus made tho 19th of September, 1861, a historical day, in this far off Minnesota Palsied be the hand thst places any obstacles in the way of their further progress —5^. Paul Preu. TfiLECRAPHIC. jEFFEnso.v CITY, Sept. 18—11 p. M. Two couricar just arrived from Lexing ton. The following intelligence is believ ed to bo in the main part reliable Geo. Price commenced an attack on ths en trenchments at Lexington, Commanded by Col. Mulligan, on Monday. The fight' had been renewed on Tuesday morning by Gen. Price, but feebly- When the cour iers left Geo. Lane was at Johnston, Bate* county, on'Monday morning, wit&s force from 2,000 to 3,000^ marching to the re lief ol Lexington. The rebel loss on Mon day is reportel at 4,000, and that of our troops at 800, Which is probably exagger ated. ..' *s#n .- JEFFERSON OIT*, Sept. 18* a a Monday afternoon Gen- Prioe sent word to Col. Mulligan at Lexington, demanding his surrender. Col MuTligau's reply was to go" to h^ll. An attack was inifnedU ately made by first oj»snim» With arti'leryi making an advasoe under iu oovejr on thoi town. a Gen. JPrice was repulsed ai^i hes-, vy lossl Geii. liamv^itk sn estimated f^cW^of* 5,000 Kansas troops, reported to be-wrtb-1 in 40 liilos «f Lexingto*. and nraramdly advanoing to if ioiorce Col, ulligau fa, Other Federal troops are rapidly oonvcr- gihgfromSt. A.c^hsnd mrf™**^ reiwforeeCol.^Ialligah. The 22nd, tith* and 26*h Indiana,rw^meata have gone vis Wfiite CIouo. These reinforcements uunv.. her about 6,000 effective HihwnW^ssii'wn1 9m Wk,zfrm: eo«|ries^t«*t ^-^l^awillMe^a^hoai-B^nn^ ton nntil reinforcement* srrifs-