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DAILY NATIONAL WHIG.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1649.
Front the New York Eveniug Post of June Id. I
MK. CALHOUN'S LAST LETTER,
There is said to be a palace in Spain of
vast dimensions and proportionate costliness,
which was built in the shape of a gridiron, to
commemorate the matyrdom of Saint Law
rence, who had the honor of being broiled
upon one of those utensils, by the Emperor
Valerian, some centuries previous. Not'
only the palace itself, but every room in it
was patterned after the same homely model:
every ornament, whether sculptured or paint
ed, whether wrought in gold, in silver, in
marble, or in iron, every article of furniture,
every fixture and every movable was in
shape, a gridiron.. The eye of the visiter
could not rest upon any part of the building
within or without, or upon any of its con
tents, without being reminded of the matyr
izing process which it was designed to com
memorate
Without any material emblems to aid his
imagination, or to control the current of his
thoughts, it is Mr. Calhoun's equally inevit
able necessity to behold, in every public
movement, past, current or projected, iij
the political world, the martyrdom of the
South, the gridiron upon which slavery has
been or is to be stretched. Where, in the
fall of a sparrow, the sober-minded Chris
tian sees but the finger of Providence, Mr.
Calhoun recognises the murderous weapon
of an abolitionist. His horizon is bounded
on every side by visions of the prostrate car
cass of slavery, spitted and broiling upon a
gridiron of Yankee manufacture. There is
no question of so great or of so little impor
tance that his unhealthy fancy will not con
tract or expand it, like Prince Ahmet's tent,
so as to body forth the s#me imagiuarv pro
portions.
The last gridiron which has appeared to
him?we have no intelligence yet of the ar
rival of Col. Benton's speech at Fort Hill
is the movement at the west for the con
struction of a road from the States to ourj
possessions on the Pacific. He is not sure
but the inhabitants of those territories are
going to prohibit slavery there, and if they
do, he thinks it is not worth while for the
South to spend money on a road which will
only make a new place accessible for slaves
to run away to. Such we take to be the
meaning of the letter which our readeri will
find below, addressed by Senator Calhoun
to the citizens of Memphis.
There is a territory beyond the grave,
where are to be reaped the rewards of a
well spent life, in which it is supposed that
neither "slavery nor involuntary servitude"
exist, and where distinctions of color are un
known. We presume the . theologians of
South Carolina, by this time, have so far
modified their theological system as to en
courage a hope among the 'slaveholders that
this exclusion will not be as absolute as is
generally supposed. If not, we certainly I
would not care to answer much longer for
the orthodoxy of Mr. Calhoun or of his al
lies, for we are bound to infer (rem his re
cent course, and from the letter below, that
no place seems to hiin worth inhabiting with
out slavery, and that no person with a proper
self-respect could occupy any placc where
slaves did not attend upon him.
One would have supposed that the utility
of a road to the Pacific Ocean, was as inde
pendent of the domestic institutions, as of
the religion it might find there, that our
whole country was interested in having such
a medium of conveyance, whether it was
destined to transport the product of free or
of slave labor chiefly, and whether a servile
code of laws was administered at one or both
ends of the route. We have never heard it
pretended that the multiplication of facilities
for travel was unfavorable to the prosperity
of the slave States, or of less decided advan
tage to them than to the free ; and though
we are aware that there is more capital in
vested in railroads in the little State of Mas
sachusetts, and in several other of the north
ern States, than in all the southern States
together, and that the public highways at
the South for four months of the year are
commonly impassable, we have never for
one moment dreamed of ascribing either of
those circumstances to any settled Southern
policy.
Absurd, however, as any such policy
would be, we do not perceive that there
would be anymore absurdity in it, than there
is in opposing the construction of a road to
California because it would terminate at one
end, among a people who decline to permit
the traffic in human beings to be carried on
among them.
In all human probability the people of
I alifornia will organize a provisional gov
ernment for themselves within the next six
months, and will not give any legal protec
tion to slave property. Mr. Calhoun insists
that this would be a step toward the "hu
miliation and subjection of the South," and
that the South ought not to spend any money
in increasing out facilities of access to those
territories, until it is determkied how they
ar?J??'n? 'ojstand on this question of slavery.
Certainly, this is imposing very extraor
dinary terms, not only upon the territories
but upon the other States of the Union. Is
it presuming in the Californians to say, that
there shall be no process issuing from their
courts,,to enforce the service and obedience
of one class of men to their fellows ? Is it
presumption in them to forbid the purchase
and sale of human beings within their bor
ders ? The pattern State of South Caroli
na herself, goesso far as to prohibit certain
classes of citizens from other States, Irom
putting their feet upon her territory, under
penalties of fine and imprisonment, and Mr.
< 'alhoun has approved of the law. The
State has laws regulating and limiting the
sale of noisons, it has laws regulating the
sale and transfer ol slave property, it has
police regulations which affect not only the
commercial interests of the country, but of
tentimes involve the libertyof free citizen*.
I hese powers are esteemed necessary, and
are necessary fur the preservation of peace,
and the protection of property and of life in
South Carolina. Why are tliev not equally
necessary to California ? If the legislative
authorities in the new territories think as we
think here, that the marketing of slave-labor
would have an unfavorable (flea ujmq th?
character of the free laborer, and would di-1
minish the industrial resources of the territory, |
they would only exercise the most common
and inevitable attribute of tbeir qualified sove
reignty by prohibiting it, as a simple meas
ure of political economy. If they think the
presence of slaves has a demoralizing effect
upon the laboring classes, that it degrades
industry in public estimation, they have a
right, and it is their duty as heads of the
police, and guardians of the public peace and
public morals, to emancipate the s'aves at
oncc, or to exclude them from the country.
To deny to the territories these powers, is
to deny them all legislative power whatever;
it is to deny them the power to whip a thief,
or to chain a murderer, and yet it is the ex
ercise of this power which Mr. Calhoun wish
es to embarrass by threats of hostility, to
any project for constructing a road to Cali
fornia. We can imagine no earthly way in
which the slave holding interest, can be pre
judiced by an indefinite multiplication of
roads between the United States and the
Pacific Ocean, but if they were to prove ever
so prejudicial, the hostility of the people in
the territories to slavery, would furnish no
pretext whatever lor opposing the construc
tion of such roads.
if Congress were to anticipate the local
governments in prohibiting slavery in the
territories, it would furnish Mr. Calhoun
with a more plausible ground for complaint
against those who- should vote in favor of
such a prohibition, but it would not give
him a single good reason for wreaking his
resentment upon this enterprise, because, as
we said before, the advantages o( the road
have nothing to do with slavery ; they would
inure to the whole Union whether the foad
r;.n to or through free or slave territory, and
the making or not making the road will have
nothing to do with aiding or resisting the ap
plication of the proviso to the territory it may
communicate with.
The hollowness of the reasons given by
Mr. Calhoun for suspending the Pacific Kail
road movement naturally puts those who are
acquainted with the peculiar structure of that
statesman's mind and the restlessness of his
ambition, upon inquiring for some explana
tion of a course which is apparently so dis
creditable both to his conscience and his
understanding.
We have not space at present to speculate
upon the matter, but it is very easy to per
ceive that the senator f'roir Missouri has, in
some way, appropriated whatever political
advantage has resulted, or is likely to result,
from the Western Improvement Juror, and
that all Mr. Calhoun's schemes and labors
in that direction are being converted to the
profit of his most formidable foe and rival.
There are those who will be uncharitable
enough to suppose that the chill which Mr.
Calhoun's enthusiasm in the cause of inter
nal improvements has received, and which
he is trying to communicate to his followers,
has some connexion with this unfortunate
turn which his prospects have taken since
Mr. Benton placcd himself at the h.'ad of the
Pacific Railroad movement.
|Leiter from Joint C. Calhoun (o the Meni?
phla Convention*
Four Hill, 26th May, 184'J.
Gentlemen : I have rccived your invitation, in
bchulf of the citizcns of Memphis, to be present ut
a meeting of citizens from every nartof the country,
to be held there on the 1th of July next, lor the pur
pose of aiding, by expressing public opinion, the
project of constructing a railroad from the valley of
tho Mississippi to the Pacific ocean.
1 would be happv to acccpk your invitation,
and to bo present on the occasion but I regret to stale
that I have.an engagement with which 1 cannot
dispense, and which will not permit mo.
The object of your meeting I regard us very im
portant. Of all the projects of the ago I consider it
as one of the greatest inagnitudo, viowed either in
its commercial or political aspect. It would do
more than any other to facilitate intercourse between
the two great oceans of the globe?the Atlantic and
the Pacific?and thereby unite commercially and
politically, the western coast of this continent and
the eastern coast of the old, with,the eastern coast of
this and the western coast of the old, far more Inti
mately than they have heretofore been. The valley
of ihe Mississippi would become the common centre
of the intercourse between the two oceans and the
extremes of both continents, with all the great ben
efits it would confor.
Thus far there can be no division of opinion ; but
it remains to be determined whether a railroad is
practicable; at what point, if it is, should it com
mence on the Mississippi, and terminate on the
Pacific ! and what intermediate tract should it take
between? what will be its cost? and what plan
should be adopted for its execution ? All these uucs
tions should be deliberately and carefully settled be
fore the work is undertaken. Nothing ought to be
hastily or precipitately done in a case of such mag
nitude. A careful reconnoisance and an actual sur
vey, where necessary, ought to be made by able and
faithful engineers, of all the routes, preparatory to
determining the question of practicability; and, if
found to be so, to determine what would be the
shortest, the most easily constructed, the cheapen,
and the most open and readily passed over at all
seasons, and what the actual cost of constructing
each would be. All this information wuuld be ne
cessary to determine the point at which it should
commence on the Mississippi and terminate on the I
Pacific.
But, in determining on these points, other consid
erations would have to be taken into the estimate.
In determining the former, it will have to be consid
ered, first, what point on the river will best suit its
valley, and in the n^xt, what will best suit the rest
of the Union, all things considered! The former
would involve the question, what point will, at all
seasons, be most easily, cheaply, and certainly ap
proached bv its waters, including its great tributa
ries'/ And the latter, the question, what Doint would,
in like manner, be approached by railroad from other
portions of the Union? These are questions which
will demand, at the nroper time, grave and careful
examination. The selection should be made in refer
ence to the general good of the whole Union, and not
in reference to any particular portion.
Tho selection ol the point of terminus on the Pa
cific will be less complicated. The goodness of the
port, its position in reference to the general trade of
that ocean, and the facility of reaching it by a rail
road, should be considered in determining it.
But candor compels me to state, there still re
mains another and graver question for us of the
.South to determine, before ire Jiwilly decide what
course we should take in reference to this great pro
ject, and that is, what position arc we to occupy in
reference to our territories on the Pacific acquired
from Mexico by the late treaty with her? Are we
to be excluded from them? Are we, after having
spent so much of our blood and treasure for their
acquisition, to b? deprived, contrary to the provis
ions of the constitution and in violation of every
principle of equity and justice, of our equal right in
them ? Are they to be made the means of our hu
miliation and subjection to the re-tof the Union,
instead of our prosperity? And, if so, shall we still
go on, and spend millions on millions, in addition to
what we have already, In aggrandizing the rest of
the Union, at our own expense, and for our subjec
tion ? 1 trust not. I trust we shall pause until it is
ascertained how we an; to stand as to those territo
ries and the rest of the Union, before we decide
finally on our course in reference to the subject of
the meeting. In the mean lime, steps may be taken
to obtain information preparatory to a decision, but
let us reserve that until ttc can set irhat interest tce
arc to hare in the uork.
JOHN C. CALHOUN.
Glass Work*. ? Besides the fotindaries and fac
tories being constructed in the vicinity of the
southern part of this city, we saw the foundation of
a building in course of erection by Messrs. Blow,
Charlces, and Uuinnettc to be used for the manufac
ture of window glsss. The works will cover about
two hundred feet square, and will be conducted by
able and skilful hands. Most of the material neces
sary for the manufacture of glass can be had in the
vicinity of this place at but little cost, and indeed the
most of the *au<l used by the manufactories itt Pitts
burg and Wheeling, is procured at .St. Genevieve In
this State. Then why should not such an enter
prise succocd ??St. Ia)nix Organ.
Accident to tiil Hon. Wm. Mosbly.?The
Griffin Whig of the 7th instant says: Wc exceed
ing regret to havo to chnmicle the occurrence of so
saa a mlsfortnne as has haonened to our tnuch es
teemed friend, Hon. Wm. Mosciy.
We learn that one day last week, while riding out,
he was thrown from his buggy and had his scull
fractured, Miid several of bis ribs broken, and the
last ws heard from him, he was lying in an ins?Dii>
blc state, without little hope* of liif recovery.
THB fKBICH AT BOHK.
[The following letter from an English
physician, resident at Home, may be relied
oil as an authentic statement ol the facts
narrated, many of which are new and all of
which are intensely interesting. We are
1 sure that our readers have nowhere seen a
more vivid presentation oi the events at
tending the French attack on the Roman
Republic.?N. Y. Tribune.]
Correspondence or the Tribune.
Rome, May 3, 1849.
"They huve wiped ofl' the dust that, Inglorious,
So long on their banner* has lain;
And have shown, o'er barbarians victorious,
That Romans are Romans again."
These are the facts, as accurately stated
as possible. From despatches, addressed by
A. Lowe, U. S. Vice Consul at Civita Vcc
chia, to Mr. Brown, we leain :
" 24th April, Gen. Oudinot and staff,
1,320 men, are sullered to land and ' peacea
bly to occupy the city.' [There were some
4,000 men and 120 guns in it. ] 25th.?The
rest land and issue a humbugging proclama
tion.
" 26th.?This morning the troops, say
about 9,000 to 10,000 men, left this town
for Koine. There remain only a sufficient
number to garrison the place, which is put in
a state ol siege, and every day the French
authorities are becoming more rigorous ; the
forts are held by them ; Roman troops par
tially disarmed, the theatres closed by order,
Ulc. Sic.; the presses seized and printing
?Hices shut!"
The 29th, Garibaldi sees ume French
advancing?fires, kills them, brings in a Cor
sican Captain prisoner. The Civita Vecchia
road being cut up by an immense barricade,
with some field-pieces, they made a detour,
and 7,000 strong, with several guns, (some
pretty heavy, some 12 lbs. or more,) ap
proached the walls at 9 A. M. From a pa
per found on the body of a superior French
ollicer, it has since been ascertained that the
plan of attack was as follows : "A double
attack is to be made on the gates Angelica
and t'avallegieri, so as to distract the ene
my. The first will muster its troops on
Monte Mario, and then occupy Porta An
gelica. The second attack to be directed
against Porta Caval. Having mastered the
gates and scattered the hostile troops, our
forces will meet on the square of St. Peter's."
Recommendations followed, to be sparing of
French blood, &c. Several attacks were
made ; the two most violent and valiantly
resisted were at the walls of the Vatican
Gardens and the Gate oi San Pancrazio.
The former, the wall attack, was an insane
attempt against people who had any means
of defence and means to use them. The
walls of the garden are not much more than
breast high from the garden, but 30 feet or
so above the road, up which the French pro
ceeded, protected by a thick hedge. They
brought up a gun to breach the wall, upon
which they meanwhile opened a brisk lire of
musketry." Rounds of grape from a Romau
gun did no execution,pointed by an unskilled
hand. At length my friend Major Calan
dielli came up, altered the direction of the
lire, and drove thum off with great slaughter.
They then occupied a peasant's house be
hind, which was quickly battered about their
ears by Calandielli. They again and again
attempted to breach and scale the walls.
The gunners were shot away as fast as they
appeared, as a continued fire was kept up by
several hundred citizens, 50 or 60 firing,
who then stooped down to load in perfect
safety, and the others kept up the game.
The valor?fool-hardiness if you will?of the
French was astonishing, and their loss im
mense in proportion. Only five Romans
were killed, and a few wounded. The
French at least got enough.
The gates are shut and the roads filled by
thousands of armed combatants coming to
the succor of mother Rome. The star-span
gled banner is our trust against French and
Neapolitan croats, beside 40,000 fighting
men within our walls.
Now for San Pancrazio: A barricade of
2 guns was erected across the road. This a
boay of French rushed un to, resolutely and
fiercely, but unsuccessfully attempted to car
ry. Garibaldi, with part of his legion, 1,000
or so, 700 of the University youths and some
500 of the refugee battalion, were stationed
near. Garibaldi watchcd his moment?at
last roared out, "Tirailleurs, right and left
deploy!"?caught 120 French prisoners in
as many seconds; the rest withdrew into
Doria Gardens; he threw himself in likewise
and there met the main body of the French.
These he directed the University Legion to
dislodge. The gallant youths did so, and
drove the French from pout to post at the
point of the bayonet. Unfortunately, many
of these valuable young,men, the hope and
flower of their country, were victims?some
fifty killed and many wounded. At length
the French, after a hand-to-hand fight of
many hours were driven out and so scattered
that 50 of tlieni were picked up in sight of
the walls, who had quite lost their road and
were crying misericurdia at 1 in the morn
ing. About 700 prisoners were takpn in all.
If Rome had possessed a regiment of good
cavalry, the 700 prisoners might have been
three times as many.
30th. About 10 yesterday morning they
showed again, and poor Ciccarini sat 6 hours
on horseback to receive wounded, who never
came. Some French officers came in, their
eyes blindfolded, to treat, yesterday. They
had previously applied for, and obtained,
some surgeons to look after their wounded,
who were sent to them. But they want an
exchange of prisoners !?that is, they offer to
exchange the Malara battalion, kidnapped
by them at Civita Vecchia, against the men
taken in fair fight. However, this govern
ment consented, provided the French give
up 4,000 muskets, paid for by Rome, and
by them sei/.ed at Civita Vecchia. No an
swer yet. Our fear now is, as the Gauls are
retiring fast, from the Neapolitans, 1^,000
of whom, with 60 guns, seem certainly to
be at Vcllctri, not 30 miles oil. It is, how
ever, hoped, and by some anticipated, *that
they will be entirely routed, if they coW
too near.
The animation of the people is immense.
A reverse, however slight, might, notwith
standing, dishearten them. But the number
of the defenders from the country?peasants
and citizens?increases every hour.
Sove wise and just enactments of this gov
erninent'^-almost all of whose measures bear
the imprest of wisdom?attach the people to
them more and more. To every peasant,
not n proprietor, is assigned as much land of
the Ecclesiastical Estates as two oxen can
plow. And where, as here, there arc lots
?f spare room in the convents, the poet *;e
to have clean and wholesome abodes in tha?e
vast tenements, long more than nine-tenths
empty. , , ?
May 6th.?On the 30th the French came
under our walls. At one barricade they
strewed the ground with their dead snd h?d
to ?end lor surgeons to dreia their wounded,
, nc .pw panted them. The prisoner*
have| all asked to join this Republic against
Naple*, and umf tliey ?nd their government
were deceived.
J o-day the Neapolitans have come. Gar
ibaldi has gone to meet them with 2,500 Ro
mans, and utterly routed their vanguard, who
have fled, throwing away anna and baggage.
1 hey are going from here in hackney coach
es iu full pursuit.
May 9.?By a decree oi this Republic,
their deceived and unhappy brothers, sol
diers of the French Republic, captured on
the ever-memorable 30tb of April, were un
conditionally set free. They left to join
their country at Civita Vecchia. But pre
viously they perambulated a great part of
the city, each of them arm in arm with two
Humans. This was honor for the poor fol
lows, but was at first planned so, chiefly to
secure them from ill-treatment. For a day
or two after the battle the greatest care was
required to preserve them from the fury of
the women of Trastevere, who very logically
argued that ?they had killed our lovers,
lathers, brothers, husbands, who never
harmed or offended their people ; why should
not we kill them ?? But yesterday, after a
lapse ol a week, all this feeling had subsided,
even in that class. During their detention
every kind of indulgence had been heaped
upon them. The soldiers, who had been
daily, uay hourly, visited by all classr*, uni
formly expressed their abhorrence of the
' fratricidal" war, and affirmed that they
came to fight the Austrians, and never knew,
till they saw and heard them, tliey were op
posed to Romans and Republicans.
The officers sat mute and dejected, or
burst into invective against the "infame
yuel-a-peiu" their government had led them
into. One of them, a lieutenant, and the
only man left alive of Ins company, wept
bitterly at the disgrace he had been subject
ed to, adding (which was echoed by the
others) that had he known he was to fight
against the people and the Republic,he would
have broken hirf sword and refused to serve.
So yesterday they paraded the city. A
hundred thousand handkerchiefs waved from
the windows and balconies, a hundred thou
sand voices rent the air with ennvas for
both Republics, the band playing the glori
ous Marseillaise alternately with Roman
marches, the people rushing on the French,
hugging and kissing (men and wom?n) their
"cart J'ratelli republican," so that there
was much probability of their being literally
killed with kindness; the French soldiers
staring with bewilderment awhile, then doing
their best to shout for the two Republics?
a strange scene.
At St. Peter's where the people induced
the rench to walk round and ndmire. their
glorious edifice, one of the officers burst into
a flood of tears and wiped them off,/aute de
mieux, with his coat flap. A female gently
stepped up and applied a handkerchief to his
weeping countenance, then handed it to him,
saying : "1 ake this as a remembranee of a
Roman woman."
Wonderful is the calm and cheerfulness of
the Romans of both sexes, amid their dan
gers, difficulties and sufferings; wonderful
the order and dignity, and respect of pro
perty and person. Even the priests, with
the exception of some two or three, who fired
on the people and were caught, Papal ban
ner in hand, urging on the French soldiers,
have been unharmed. Somo were useful to
the wounded, however, and some fought well
at the barricades. But the suit-burnt, bright
eyed women at the Fountain, and the deli
cate citizen's daughter in her aaloiie, all
reason alike: " Pio IX, a year ago, would
not fight the Croats, because he was a man
of peace ; and now lie sends barbarians and
bandits to slaughter us, his children!"
I regret to sav that the French did not
deserve the kind treatment they received,
(some of them, at least,) as tliey barbarously I
slew many unoffending women, and even
children at the breast, in the gardens and
vineyards outside the walls! The monsters !
Not only is this official news, but I know it
from personal observation and from others
who sought for wounded after the action.
They had also inhumanly killed and mutila
ted six or more wounded of the " Corpo
Univcrsitario." " God gave us courage,"
observed a citizen to me the other day, I
never knew I had any before!" Twenty
cannon balls, shot into the cupola of St.
Peter's, are sent to France, and one that
made a hole in Raphael's tapestry ! Cou
riers dash every five minutes by my window.
Lord Napier, it is said, has made some
orrangement with France, and no other
power can harm Rome seriously.?Such bar
ricades?in fact, they are fortresses. The
Villa Strozzi is filled with cannon, artillery
officers and men, being a convenient point.
Nothing is damaged at present.
Yours, J. p.
FROM CALIFORNIA.
We hare been favored with the annexed
letters from an intelligent gentleman now re
sident in California, which give some very
interesting particulars of the present condi
tion of things there. The letters are dated
at Benecia, a newly established settlement
on the Bay of San Francisco, at the head of
ship navigation :
Hrneom, Aprii. 23, 1849.
/read of Ship SaTigutum, San Francitco Uay.
Hear Sir In my last i promised to give
yl>u some account of the state of afftirs in
California at my earliest leisure. At present
however, 1 have only time to say a few'
words. The steamer California came up
here on the 21st, on a pleasure excursion,
with Com. Jones and Gen. Smith as pas
sengers, together with quite a number of
gentlemen from San Francisco and other
places, desirous of seeing the future rival of
that city. From them I learned that the
steamer would leave for Panama on the
27th. The California arrived in San Fran
cisco on the 28th of February, but has been
detained for want of coal and a crew until
the present time. The Oregon arrived on
the first of this month, and left for Panama
some days since. The steamers have not
yet been to Oregon, it being found impracti
cable under existing circumstances. Thous
ands, it is said, are impatiently waiting at
Panama for a passage to the El Dorado
Several sailing vessels have been fitted out
and sent down to bring up some of the sur
p us. The report* 1 have SCen in the late
United States papers, pretending to give
accounts of the gold region, and matters con
nected with it, have astonished me beyond
measure. They are generally greatly ex
a^gcrated, and it would appear have set all
the people crazy.
Such indeed was the case here when the
mines were first discovered, and the same
effect vas produced at the Sandwich Islands
Oregon, and ill along the coast of South ?
Americe, when the newi wgi first received ' i
I f rom what I have seen I should judge that
the most exaggerated reports published
in the States were tliMe sent liome soon af
ter the mines were discovered, when everv
body here, officials and all, were half mad.
Amid all of this excitement I have seen
nothing to induce me to leave my business
to vis. t the mines. But, situated as lam.
where I come in contact with the miners ev
ery day, and having acquaintances among
them of intelligence and respectability, work
ing or in business in all ibe various diggings,
1 am probably as well posted up in facts as
though 1 had made a casual visit in person.
re can be no doubt that the mines are
very extensive and very rich and that large
quantities have been taken out in a short
"pace of time by single individuxls who were
so fortunate in the course of a season as to
strike upon some lucky vein.
Cases of a single individual taking out a
thousand dollars in a day have been reported
upon pretty good authority, buf all such re
ports are to be t:ikcn with many grains of
allowance. 1 he fact is, it is very rare that
a person takes out ?ne hundred dollars in a
day, and such cases are much like the prizes
m a lottery w.th this difference, that there
are fewer blanks, as one is sure of making
something. h
Large pieces are also occasionally found,
as is the case, J believe, in all gold mines.
Generally, however, the gold is found in
small particles about the size of a flax-seed,
or a little larger, and thin, like the scale of a
hsh. I presume you have seen specimens
before this, but you must remember that the
finest and largest specimens are selected to
send home. From what I can learn from
the most reliable sources, an industrious
miner can calculate with a good decree of
certainty on taking out from one to two
ounces a day for all working days through
the season. But there is always a good deal
of time lost in going to and returning from
the mines, and "prospecting" for rich dig
gings It is geuerally about three weeks
from the time they start from San Francisco
before they are ready to commence opera
tions. Let a person start from the Puebla
or ban h rancisco, and be gone to the mines
three or four months, and he will not be
able to dig more than half the number of
days spent in his absence. Besides, the ex
penses of travelling and of living are enormous.
1 he passage from San Francisco to Sutter's
Port on the Sacramento, or Stockton, on the
San Joaquin (the usual landing places) is
now thirty dollars, and the passenger finds
his own provisions, and sleeps in his own
blanket in an open launch at that. A few
launches only have decks. When arrived
at either of those places, he must buy a horse
for two or three hundred dollars, or walk
some thirty to fifty miles over a country, a
part of which is probably the most barren,
rugged, rocky and mountainous ever be
heW.-He can get his luggage carried a
part of the way by teams, at the rate of
thirty cents per pound freight. That is the
usual price, but they have been charging
one dollar a pound most of the time this
hpring.?Horses, oxen, mules and waeons
are very scarce and command great prices.
It would pay well for all the emigrants who
cross the mountains to bring as many ani
n.als and wagons as possible. Good Ameri
can cows are also in great demand; the
California cows are not good milkers. But
ter is one dollar a pound and milk from
twenty-five to fifty cents per quart. An in
dustrious Yankee farmer can make more
money with a dairy or vegetable garden than
he could at the mines, and with far less
abor. And this fact will hold good in most)
kinds of mechanical labor, taking the whole
(year through, while the expenses and priva
[ tions of living and the risk of health and life
are far less. Last year there was a great
deal of sickness contracted at the mines,
mostly bilious ever, and fever and aKue
and many deaths occurred. Some died at
the mines, others on their way down in
launches, and others still after they arrived
in San 1< rancisco and other places. Manv
died from want of attention even from their
?wn friends and were carried off j? a Carl
and buried without attendance exceptenough
to put them under ground. A Christian
burial was a rare thing when I arrived in
California. Now there are several clergy
men stationed in different parts of the coun
try, and it is to be hoped that a better state
ol things wil prevail. There is not a hos
pital to my know ,ege, in all California,
and there is perhaps nothing so much needed
We are about to make an effort to raise one
at Benecia, and I think we shall succeed
rhey have tried it in San Francisco but
failed to do anything.?Selfishness is the
predominant principle here. All the nobler
emotions of the heart seem to be stifled in
the scramble far wealth.
Yours, truly, c. E. VV.
P. S ? If I can find time I will speak of
Benecia in my next.
Bks.c.a, Haad of Ship Navigation
?san J-Yancuxv Bay, AprU 29th, 1849.
Dkar Sir :?Before leaving the United
States fo, California I had seen a descrip
tion of Benecia (then called Francisca )
which so favorably impressed me with its
superior advantages for commerce that I de
termined in my own mind, if I found it to
answer the account I had seen of it, to lo
cate myself there if practicable. When I
arrived I found the gold fever had made
some progress and people were so exited by
it that they thought of little less than mak
ing money as fast as they could, doing busi
ness as il it were from hand to mouth ; con
sequently San Francisco being the most
populous place and the usual place of an
chorage (but as Captain Wilkes says "by
no means the best,") and eontaining mori
buildings suitable for stores, it was natural
that the most busmesss should be done at
this point. Besides, it was the harvest time
for traders, and every one on arriving com
menced business where he could moke mo
njy the most rapidly for the time being.?
Most people too, supposed that it was to
be the great New York of H,e Pacific. Real
estate rose rapidly and lo a great heiehf.
caused m a great measure by the spirit 0|
speculation. 1
To give you some idea of it, a friend of
mine purchased a very ordinary though com
fortable house with a lot fifty varras\JuTe
avarra ,s 32 1-2 inches) for five thousand
dollars, and in about three months sold it for
,':0U8(;!n(1 j ""'V1'* Present holder was
afterward offered eighteen thousar.d for the
same property.-Speculation caused proper
ty to rise beyond its real value, and people
are now beginning to open their eyes to this
fact. A house and lot which I sold about
two months ago, has since been offered for
twcnty-fh-c per cent, less than I got for it
and still remains without a purchaser. An
other house and lot which was held at twen
ty thousand dollars twg month* ?g0| and jf
t Lri? k n"?sum was ?tfered
dollars ()?J\ for tw?'v? thousand
ollars (),ie great cause for t|ie dec|jne f
T r n? ' to be fuu"d tlie (act
that extensive arrangement* have been made
tofui'd up Benecia, and the tide of public
settmi" t?U l t""'0"!5' th? l)ew comeu is
setting strongly towar.F this place. Com
ly all'the?nu S f?*"6?1 ^,nitl''and ??V
y ail the U. S. officers and other men of
intelligence whom I Jiave conversed with
wh0-are not property holders in San Fran'
Cisco are strongly impressed with the supe
rior advantages of Benecia. Com. Jones has
been up here several times, once with the
renI"h'P Southampton, and made soundings
a" abou the harbor and channel, and he
?ays the harbor is not surpassed by any in
tl'? world II I mistake not, he iJrecom!
Smith h "l a("ral SUti0n' and Gen,:ral
J llJ? elected a site near here for a mi
Uary post About two months ago I came
up to see the place, i? the barque Tasso,
wli ch was th, hrst large merchant vessel
timl "m" u'Vr Meneela? Previous to that
time Mr. ii. Philips of East Windsor, Ct.,
bad purchased of the proprietors one-third of
ie w .ole place, and bouud himself to put
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth
buildings and other improvements upon it
in two years. This created some opposition
and no little stir in San Francisco. Various
bug-bears were started in regard to the diffi
culty of navigation, &c., &c.; but we came
up without the slightest difficulty, and to our
surprise came right alongside of the Lank
put out two spars to the shore, and rigged,'
"? a very short time, a staging or temporary
haif over which the cargo was discharged
a da,In grM "Ciiity- Si,,Ce ,he? alSut
a dozen vessels have been up and discharged
in the same way. ?
At San Francisco the usual landing place
! quarter of a mile from the shipping, be
bareaM '"'erve"" a "iud ,la' "Inch is
bare ,t ow water, consequently goods can
only be landed at high tide and at a great
ZTlT' I !ey a'e now scows
and launches ,'rom one hundred to one hun
?M and fifty dollars a day; while here Zr
? cargoes without any expense whatever
V.essels from the United States should clear
CO soeth'"tUr l0r tlle !hy San Ffa?cis
n0>:0 i ?n arrmng he,e and finding so
many inducements to discharge at Benecia
they may feel at liberty to do so. ' There is
ess risk by far in coming up here than in en
tering iMcw York harbor. In fact there is
fortv f " ?' J!his place is silunted about
forty miles from the entrance of the bay on
the s raits of Carqumas, and within about
to an,/ S"i ? m0U"'S "f the Sacramen
to and San Joaquin rivers. The Suisune
bay intervenes which is quite a large sheet
of water spread over sand bars and mud flats,
without landing places, and with a narrow
ciooked channel. Vessels of two hundred
tons can sometimes go as far as the mouth of
the Sacramento, but there is no good land
ng and the country is very unhealthy, ow
ng to the extensive tula marshes sufround
ng it. Practically," says Com. Jones, "Be
vessels''' Th l?f navl^a'ion <"*r merchant
vessels. The climate of the place is better
than that of San Francisco, being entirely ex
empt from the cold, driving disagreeable foirs
which prevail there in the summer season,
while the severity of the cold northwest winds
is much mitigated in passing over the inter
vening country. It has also a much more ex
tensive back country, commanding the rich
vail,es of Sonoma, Wappa, and Suisine, and
he entire country watered by the Sacra,nen
t;. nl 4k Joaqu"1' and '"eir tributaries.
It is also the nearest point to the gold mines
that a large ship can approach. I? addition
to the extensive arrangements aade for
building this season, a substantial wharf is
to be made and a horse ferry boat put in op
eration very soon. A grant of land ,vX
I rear,of the town has been made to the Gene
ral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
I 'or the establishment of a University A
primary school is now in successful operation
and a church has been organized. Fo
budding mater,als, Benecia has plenty of
n"tt0nVrre a"d exce"ent clay for
bricks. t has also a bed of marble adja
cent. 1 he site of the town is very beauti
ful, rising very gradually from the water
Willi a gentle undulating surface. With the'
advantages I have enumerated, it would be
very strange if it should not become a ar?
and important place. S
Vours, truly, ? g yy
I .EXCHANGE on Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, unit
14 Boston, at Might, in sums to suit purchasers, constantly
or Mir by [may 14?tf) R W LATHAM A CO
TO CALIFORNIA GOLD DItKiEHS, EX
PLORING PARTIES, AND OTHEK S.?
The subscriber has on hand and for sale, from the Union
India Rubber Company, who have the exclusive right to
n**e Goodyear'a Patent Metallic Rubber, the following ar
ticles :
Tents and Tent Carpet*, KnapRacks, Camn Blankets,
Haversacks, Canteens, Leggins, Clothing Bags,
Water Dottles, Tarpaulin*. Caps, and Capes,
Sou'westers, Texas Wallets, Gun Cases,
Coats, Cloaks, and Capes, Mexican Pouches,
Overalls and Pantaloons, Gold Pouches,
Air Btfls and Pillows, Life Preservers,
Drinking Cups, Buckets, and liashis, Traveling Bags,
Portable Boats, Proivsion Baits, Saddle Bags.
Gold Washers, Baby Jumpers, Breast Pumps,
And a variety of other articles, at the sign of the Star, be
tween 4 1-2 and 6th streets, Pennsylvania AVenue, Wash
ington.
ap 7?eoiflf S EDDY.
MA RS HAL'S NA LK. Ill vi.hu- ol a writ of fieri
facias, issued from the Clerk's Office of tin- Circuit
Court of the District of Columbia lor the county ol Wash
ington, and to me directed, I kIuiII exjiose to public
saie, for cafch, on Thursday, the Ath of .Inly next, at 12
o'clock M.. before the Court house door of said county, the
following property : All the right, title and interest 11 Mary
Callnnn and Ellen Collins, In and to lot No. 12, in square I
No. ri77, In the city of Washington, with the Improvements
thereon, being four two story frame houses fronting on IIHh
street, seized and levied upon as the property of the said
Mary Callnan and Elicit Collins, and sold to satisfy Judi
cial* No. 86, to March Term, 1849, in favor of Jaine* O'Con*
ner.usc of Daniel Ratdifl'e.
UOBF.RTWALI.ACE,
hum' II ill Marshal "I ihc District ol Columbia.
\Tj MT I N' H MAC4IC FREEZER, FOR TIIR
'V PREPARATION OF ICE CREAM. WATER ICES,
Ac.?patented September 19th, 1848. The distinguished
merits of this apparatus are
1. The astonishing rapidity of the process (surpassing j
belief)?Aence the mum.
M. The cream during the process of freezing becomes
charged atmospheric air, by which it nearly double* in
bulk, and obtains that peculiar umiHfi/itits*, lightnt-H*, and
iMtcaru nfjtaror, for which the Ice Cream of our best
ronfectloners Is so highly prized.
:\. It does not require a tenth part ol the labor that the
compion freezer does.
4. It does its work better, producing a better article in
eveiy respect than by any other mode.
li. There is a considerable saving in Ice, as the tub need*
no respLnishlng during the operatibn.
The annexed testimonial from the proprietor of the
Eulaw House will put to rest all doubt :
"Having witueKsed the process af freezing Ice Cream In
Austin's Magic Freezer, two quart* of Cream having been
frozen In the Incredible short time of nix minute?, I
cheerfully recommend It to the public."
II. F. Jack son,
Eulaw House, Baltimore, May ir?, 1848.
F. Y. NAYI.OIl,
may HO?Taw 1m. Pennsylvania avenue.
CHARCOAL 1'ASTE, for whitening and preserving the
J Teeth, cleansing the Mouth, and nurlfylng the Breath.
Charcoal is a powerful disinfecting .agent; and, when
nade from proper materials, Is considered, by the most
inlnent physicians and medical writers, to he the safest
Icnirilkelu use. *
The only obstacle to Its more general use has been It*
tatty nature, which, lu tin- form oCTbretl, is entirely
voided. This preparation contains no other substance*
xcsnt such as are necessary to prepare it in this lorm,
vtilcli of themselves are perfectly safe, and Induce a heal
hy condition of the moutn.
The coal from which this paste is propAred is made of
oplar wood, burnt In an Iron cylinder, made for the pur
one, and calcined to the utmost fineness. By thlsproce**
I i* freed from all Impurities and coarse particle*. The
urlfylng property of the paste will not only admit of it*
se to any extent without Injury, but by continued use will
;eep the teeth white, the mouth clean, and the breath
weet, as it neutralizes and destroys the fcetor which arises
rom carious teeth.
It is neatly nut up in enamelled pots of a form from which
! can be used with the greatest convenience.
For sals by CHARLES RTOTT A CO.
Druggists and Apnthertviit, corner of Tth street,
lunt 7-ftwlm ?nd ft. impui, W??h!n|ton CHy,
Triasvr* Dipartmsmt, May, 1849.
SEPARATE PropoisU for fttriishUi ths
Stutlouery aud for executing the priutintf'of tTiiw tlt
purtiiMMit during the fiscal year ending Juue 30,1800, will he
received until J o'clock p. in. outhe 25th day of June next.
Those unaccompanied by satisfactory testimonials ul ability
to I'ullil a contract will not be considered.
All the article* of stationery inubt be of the very beat
quality?samples of theprlucipal artlcleb of which, such a*
paper, quilln, metallic pens, lead peuciis, knives, ink, Ac.,
must accompany the bids, put up in classes an per ached
ule; and the department reserves the right to retain hucIi
pimples, and pay for the warne at the prices ataled iu the
offer, or to return them, at its option. No bid will be cou
riered where the articles accompanying it ore not of the
kiinl and quality required fgtfthe department.
Bach proposal must be sigued by the individual or firm
making it, and mum specify a price, and but one price, for
each and every article contained iu the schedule. Should
any article* be required not enumerated, they Rre to be liar -
uiuhed at the lowest market prices, according to quality.
Blank forms lor proposals will be furnished at the depart.
ineut to persons applying lor Ihem ; and as without uuilor*
mity therein the department would find it difficult to make
a decision, none will he taken into consideration unless sub*
staiitiully agreeing therewith.
The printing must be executed wjth new sud perfect type,
and on the best paper used for the different descriptions
required. The paper lor the printing will be furnished by
tiie contractor: the department, or the office orderiug it, to
designate the kind of paper and type, whether script or oth
erwise, and the number to go on a sheet, when the matter -
or article will admit of more than one.
Kach class will be considered separately, and, all other
things being equal,it will be assigned to the lowest bidder.
Where mora than one Qlaw is assigned to a bidder, lliey
may all lie embraced iu one contract; and each bidder who
may have one or more classes assigned to him, shall take
all such classes, wr forfeit his right to any portion wf the
contract
All the articles to be furnished and work to be executed
must be of the best quality, and delivered without delay
when ordered, and to the satisfaction of the head of the of
fice lor which they are required.
The department reserves lo Itself the right of ordering a
greater or less quantity of each and every article coutracted
for. as the public service may require.
lionds, with approved security, to be given by the perron
r persons contracting; and in case of a failure to supply
ie articles or to perform the work, the contractor ami liis
sureties shall he liable for the forfeiture specified iu such
bond, as liquidated damages.
The subjoined lislu specify, as nearly as now can be done,
the amount, quality, and description of each of the kinds of
articles aud work that will be wanted.
HJr- It beiug impracticable to give a precise description
of the nature and quality of the various kinds of printing,
bidders are referred to Hie samples iu the different offices
for specimens of the general descriptions required.
STATIONERY.
Writing paper, made of. linen, laid or wore, white or
blue?Clash No. 1.
60 reams folio post, satin or plain finish, faint lined,
und trimmed, to weigh not less than 17 lbs.
per ream.
foolscap, hand-made, faint lined and trim
med, to weigh not less than 12 lbs. per ream,
foolscap, machine, faint lined and trimmed,
lo weigh uot lens than 12 lbs. per ream.
foolscap, plaiu. hand-made, faiut lined and
trimmed, to weigh not lesslhan 12 pouudsper
fto do foolscap, plain, machine, faint lined and trim
med, lo weigh (jot less than 12 pounds per
ream
loolscap, blue laid, hand made, faiut lined,
garden pattern,commonly known as despatch
or consular paper, lo weigh uot less than 16
pounds per ream
' ost, ham
s per ream
quarto post, machine, plain, faint lined three
sides, per rtfatii
, quarto post, hand-made, plain, faiut liued,
four sides, per ream
quarto post, machine, faint liued four sides,
per ream
quarto post, French, faint filled .three sides,
per ream
note paper, gilt, per ream
do plain do
Clash No. 2.
royal paper, for books
medium paper, for books
copying do do
envelope paper, yellow or huff, royal
per ream
do do flat cap, white or blue do
large brown envelope do
blotting paper, royal do
Class No. 3.
459 dozen- can Is Perry's best metallic pens, per dozen
canls
250 do cards of all other manufacture in use, per
dozen cards
4*? gross metal lie pens, per gross
I lfiOOO quills, No. 81), per thousand
I 400U do No. 70, do
A dozen ever pointed gold pencils aud pens, per doz.
?] do ever-poiuted silver pencils, with gold pens, pet
dozen
do gpld pens, Brown's, or equal, per dt sen
do silver cases for the same do
do ever-pointed pencils, silver do
do over-pointed sliver desk pencils, with rose
wood handles, per dozen
15 gross of leads for ever-pointed pencils, assorted bizea,
per gross
75 dozen Can tee's best black-lead pencils, graduated
100 do Monroe's, or other manufactured do
do read lead pencils, per dozen
Clash No 4.
do folders, Ivory, 9 Incn, per dozen
do red linen tape, assorted do
do silk taste, assorted colorsand widths, In hsnks
pei dozen
do pc unco boxes, of Ivory, per dozen
do do cocoa do
do sand boxes do jda.
do
40 do
do do
do wafer stands, or boxes, cocoa, per dozen
do erasers, Rodger* 6c Son's ivory haudles, pet
dozen, genuine
do penknives, Roger# & Son's, 4 blades, buck
horn haudles, per dozen, genuine
do penknives, Abbott's, American, four-blade,
buck-horn handles, per dozen, genuine
3 do desk knives, Rodgers A Son's, 1 blade, ivory
bundles, per dozen, genuine
0 do water stamps, Ivory handles, per dozen
5 do do lignumvitat handles, pur dozes
t) do officc shears, 11 Inches, |>er dozen
t> do office scissors, per dozen
Clahb No 5.
12 do inkstands', cut glass, recently invented foun
tain, movable tops, per dozeu
2 do inkstands, cast Iron
4 do French pump China inkstands
15 gallons ink, black, Maynard A Noyes's, per gallon
GOD bottles Ink, do do do Iu Dottles,
per quart
0 quarts ink. red, per quart
W) bottles of ink, black, Cooper A Phillips's, or equal,
per quart bottle
50 do Ink. blue, Stephens's, per quart botfle
300 do Ink, red, Arnold's, ot equal, in J.pint bottles,
per botlle
75 do common ink, small size, French, or equal
500 do ink, copying, Terry's, in J-piut bottles, per
bottle
Class No. 6.
10000 wafers, large red, for department seal, per thousand
100 pounds wafers, cummou size, red, per pound
100 do sealing-wax, best extra superfine scarlet, p?x
pound
20 do sealing-wax, superfine, per pound
15 Ho KU-1
... do Tlo black,"
2ft do India rubber, prepared
on,'! (,? .. <l.? ""prepared
200 quarts black sand, per quart
pounce, per ounce
ll do/.en India ink, beat, per doaen
2 do camel's hair pencils, per dozen, assorted
100 pounds twiue, linen, per pound
1(10 do twine, cotton, do
50000 pocket envelopes, of white or yellow paper, of tho
following sizes, viz : 8# by 3* inches, per hundred
8 dozen rulers, mahogany, round or llat, per dozen
0 do elastic pen holders, Alden's per dozen
PRINTING.
The printing of all kinds, which may be required to be
executed for the use of the Treasury Department, or any ol
the offices thereof, whether the saihe be circulars Instruc
tions, warrants, forms, returns, blanks, solid matter or not,
leaded, rule work, or rule uild figure work, faint ruling or
| lining, and red ruling or lining, or by whatever name, title,
| or description the game shall be known to or usually desig
iluted by the office requiring it, and includlug, also, folding
(stitching, past inn, on the following descriptions ot
paper, to wit:
No. of sheets.
] On quarto post-1 page on a sheet, per 100 sheets 75,000
2 do do :io,50o
:t do do 5.00(1
4 do (to >:t.ooo
On foolscap I do do 8.500
2 do do 60,000
.1 do do 2,200
4 do do 1,800
On folio post I do do 8,600
2 do. do 7.200
:j do do 2,000
4 do do 2,000
On every other deicription of paper, not designa
ted above, but to be so by the office ordering it, whe
therciiriiliirs, instructions,warrauts,forms,returns,
Ac., as specified In the first paragraph, liir
1 page on u sheet, per 100 sheets, 2,700
2 do do 2(1,000
.'I do do 2.100
4 do do 1,250
Stale the price |?er page for every additional page
on any of the above over lour pages, estimatiiit: at
10,(100 page*.
Illiiiik lorms, or any other description*of printing
required broadside oii any ofthe above paper,
broadside to b? counted us one page.
Treasurer's weekly statement of treasury dralls
ami specie, on imperial writing paper, per IfK)
sheets,
It Is expressly to he understood that no MU*/ chll
any description will b? allowed. The price** l?j<| fori
iuir must cover and include all contingencies and .e
The department reserves the right to tia.veany
ilon of printing, which may properly be called
pam phlet work, executed by special contract.
The bidders fur printing win accompany ihelr blcfl
samples ol quality of the different kinds of paper they
pi se to furnish.
Separate proposals will also be received for printing GOO
copies of the " Annual Receipts and expenditures oT tin
United Slates" for the fiscal yc%r ending .'filth June, l?4?4
forming about 450 page*in one volume, iucliidinir pan**
printing, fiddlug, and stitching. The first purl of the t/o*
to be printed in the same manner as those for the fisOl
year ending30th June.MfH7, to page 261, in every partlcul* 4
and the second part aalltose lor the fiscal year ending .*Kh
June, 1844| In every particular, may 28?law4v
Notice to holders of claims sgslmt Me*????,
provided for by the 5th Article of the
ratified Convention of 5IOth llovH 18*3.
rJK HOARD OF COMMISSIONERS to adjudicate ilaims
against Aiexico, iippointed under act of L'ongre* of .'kl
March, 1819, have adopted the following order, to v?t:
" It appearing Co the Board that memorials In *f#eral mf
the cases provided for In the 5th article of the uirailfied
convention of November W, 1843. between the goWmneM.
>f the United States and of Mexico, to wit: Claims which
were considered hy the Commissioners, under fie treaty
jf llth April, WI9, and referred to the nmpirn, <nd which
were not decided by him-have not been filed rfreeably lo
he orders heretofore established, and It being ^presented
hat farther time is necessary : therefore, It la '
" OR UK RED, that the time for filing?uch memorials be
?xiended tothe rissT Monday ok NovkmbkI next; and
d) memorial* and argument* relating to said claims are re
julred lobe filed on or before aaidday.*'
Office ol 4id CommOslon. Wn*hln*ton,fth June, IH49.
junt 8-lf WM. GARY j4nBH, Sec'ry.
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