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Postage under 100 miles, 7-1/2 cts.; over 100 miles, 12-1/2 cts. Please read and circulate. ANTI-SLAVERY OFFICE, New York, May 24, 1838. A copy of it was transmitted to the Hon. John C. Calhoun; to him, because he has seemed, from the first, more solicitous than the generality of Southern politicians, to possess himself of accurate information about the Anti-Slavery movement.
This made such an impression on me, and delighted me so, that I not only marked it down in my journal, but also wrote about it to my German friends. For convenience of computation, when exactness is not required, we may call the pound $5.00, and the shilling 25 cts.
Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, especially its Fossil Footmarks, made to the Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By Edward Hitchcock, Professor in Amherst College. Plates, etc. Boston. William White, Printer to the State. 4to. $5.00. Life of Robert Burns. Mostly by Thomas Carlyle. New York. Delisser & Proctor. 32mo. 50 cts.
By Augustus Julian Requier. Philadelphia. J.B. Lippincott & Co. 12mo. pp. 190. 75 cts. Jack Tier; or, The Florida Reef. By J. Fenimore Cooper. Illustrated from Drawings by F.O.C. Darley. New York. W.A. Townsend & Co. 12mo. pp. 500. $1.50. The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical; with Quotations and References for the Use of Students.
But we were of the opinion that it would prove to be a very unreasonable action to reject a constitution which a few years ago, according to a resolution of Synod, had been printed and bound in 1,500 copies, the money being taken from the synodical treasury, and sold at 75 cts. a copy."
The Chess-Player's Instructor, or Guide to Beginners. By Charles Henry Stanley. New York. Robert M. DeWitt. 32mo. pp. 72. 38 cts. Matrimonial Brokerage in the Metropolis. Being the Narrative of Strange Adventures in New York and Startling Facts in City Life. By a Reporter of the Press. New York. Thatcher & Hutchinson. 12mo. pp. 355. $1.00. Adam Bede.
I collected myself a great quantity of those berries, at Norfolk, Va. by means of negroes, to whom I paid one dollar per bushel of 40 lbs. being 2-1/2 cts. per pound. Two years ago, it sold for 6 cents in Philadelphia, and bore the same price at Pittsburgh. There is a great deal of cedar in Kentucky, and consequently of berries.
Gashwiler had reached the store at his accustomed hour of 8:30 to find Merton embellishing the bulletin board in front with legends setting forth especial bargains of the day to be had within. Chalk in hand, he had neatly written, "See our new importation of taffetas, $2.59 the yard." Below this he was in the act of putting down, "Try our choice Honey-dew spinach, 20 cts. the can."
The Phantom Bouquet; a Popular Treatise on the Art of skeletonizing Leaves and Seed-Vessels, and adapting them to embellish the Home of Taste. By Edward Parrish, Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, etc. Philadelphia. J.B. Lippincott & Co. 12mo. pp. 47. 75 cts.
Schooner "Oscar Jones," Captain Kelly, For William H. Copeland, Colored Seaman. To Sheriff of Charleston District. 1852, To Arrest, $2; Registry, $2, $4.00 To Recog. $1.31; Constable, $1, 2.31 To Commitment and Discharge, 1.00 To 15 Days' Jail Maintenance of Wm. H. Copeland, at 80 cts. per day, 4.50 Received payment, $11.81 J. D , Per Charles E. Kanapeaux, Clerk.
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