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Twelve Feet, in Franrlin Copnty.—We yes terday met General Milroy, from whom we learn that a company had been boring for oil on Marrowbone creek, about twenty-five miles from this city, and that they had "struck ile " in large quantities at a distance of three hundred and seventy-two feet. The well is a flowing one, and the parties are almost insane with their success. We did not ascertain the