A Queer Lot.— On one of the days of the recent contest for the Speaker-ship at Albany, New York, the stranger's gallery wns filled by a moH, armed, and so excited that it was impossible to proceed to business. An American paper says that this phalanx consisted chiefly of " the dead rabbits, the plu£-uglies, the shoulder- [ hitters, the ballot-box smashers, the Five i Pointers and the 9hort-boys.'' A Problem. — The Cincinnati Enquirer propounds a problem. If 1,500,000 dollars, 400,000 lives, and two years of war fail to take Richmond ; how Jong will it lake, how much money will it cost, and bow many lives must he expended before we subjugate the' seceding States? The freshness of fish may be judged of by the brightness of (he eyes. The eye is lie \vh dow of ihe soul (sole). * i ■'
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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 62, 12 June 1863, Page 2
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