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On military as well as on political grounds, it became more than ever necessary to arrest the progress of Hannibal by a pitched battle. With definite orders to this effect from the senate, accordingly, the two new commanders-in-chief, Paullus and Varro, arrived in Apulia in the beginning of the summer of 538.

His successor in the Fortieth Congress is Caleb N. Taylor 83, 225, 438, 522, 538. FRANCIS THOMAS was born in Frederick County, Maryland, February 3, 1799. He was educated at St. John's College, Annapolis. He studied law, and was admitted to practice at Frederick in 1820. He was elected to the Maryland Legislature in 1822, 1827, and 1829, when he was chosen Speaker.

There has been issued under the provisions of this act $4,735,296.30 of 5 per cent stock, and there has been or will be redeemed during the year $3,197,030.71 of Louisiana 6 per cent deferred stock and Mississippi stock. There has therefore been an actual increase of the public debt contracted during the year of $1,538,266.69.

They were hard-headed men of business, and the demonstration that schools were better than jails any day appealed to them as eminently sane and practical. The statistics deal with 10,538 prisoners received there in twenty-seven years. And well it might. The gang is a distemper of the slum that writes upon the generation it plagues the receipt for its own corrective.

The ladies, and it is to be presumed the other women also, for there is no mention of women during the siege, retired to the Dutch and Danish settlements at Chinsurah and Serampore a few days before, and the native population disappeared as soon as the British army approached. The Returns therefore show only 538 Europeans and 66 Topasses.

No noisy and vulgar clamour, no self-laudation, no triumph over a fallen enemy, but deep thankfulness, calm satisfaction, and reference of the cause of victory to the illustrious virtue of their Emperor."* *The War in the Far East, by the Military Correspondent of "The Times." The Japanese losses in the two-days' fighting were three torpedo-boats, and they had 116 killed and 538 wounded.

He fought at the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, and Chicamauga. For gallant service in the last named battle he was promoted to the rank of Major General. In 1862 he was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-Eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Thirty-Ninth and Fortieth Congresses. 144, 438, 450, 524, 540, 538, 553, 557.

From customs fees, fines, penalties, etc. 298,696.78 901,303.22 From fees consular, letters patent, and lands 863,209.80 2,436,790.20 From proceeds of sales of Government property 112,562.23 167,437.77 From profits on coinage, etc. 950,229.46 3,149,770.54 From deposits for surveying public lands 172,461.31 327,538.69

All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem. EZRA i. 1-11. Cyrus captured Babylon 538 B.C., and the 'first year' here is the first after that event. The predicted seventy years' captivity had nearly run out, having in part done their work on the exiles.

You would perhaps be only preparing a disappointment for yourselves, and, as a consequence of your disappointment, mortification for me. I, p. 538. Nicolay & Hay. These, then, are the suggestions offered for conciliating an audience: Be modest; be fair; be sincere; and appeal to some strong emotion. To make this appeal successfully, study your audience.