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High Water.
This phrase we have chosen for a heading to this article, which Is devoted to a considera tion of high prices, inasmuch as we know nothing Mir illustrative of the one than the other. The rising, whirling and eddying wa ters cause a great disturbance of the ordinary pursuits of life, and drive people to desperate exertions to save themselves and their effects from being swallowed np. In like manner a