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General Intelligence

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
September
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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The city of Hamburgh hasTcontracteda loan of 32,000,000 crosvns in England, at 3 per cent, for the purposc of rebuilding the portion destroyed by fire. An exchange paper say of tho Grand Jury who presented the Temperante Hall of the colored people of Pliiladelphia, ns a nuiaance, and which wa torn down by authonty to prevent the mob from tearingit down: "One of the Grand Jury is an 'inkeeper.' two are 'grocers.' one a 'tobacconist,' and 'the toreman is or has been a staveholder.' So it appears ihat slavery, rum, and tobacco, were the worthies, which demolished the colored men's Temperance üali. The Arviy.- Under the new law for the reorganization of the Anny. just passed by Congress. tho Army has been reduced in the aggregate from 12,505 to 9,012. Tho redoction is, of officers 22, privatcs in infantry 3,155. in nrtillery 205, in dragoons 110- total 3.493. The law specifies to what officers doublé rations shnll be allowed, and thus cuta off quito a number who have been heretofore in the reception of such rations. A to'al eclipse of the sun took place on the 8th of July. It was secn to the best advantage in Pavia in Italy; its appearance at that place is described as unusually splendid. At tho moment that the total dorkness commencod, tho woon- - pcared encircled by a brilliant crown of Jight and suddenly from its darkened surfacc, thero buret forth from thrce distinct points, purple or blue flanies visible to every eyo. It is8aid (hat a great meetiiiír of Kings and potentntes will take place on the Rhine in autumn, and that the emperor of Russia wüj be preeent.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News