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two negroes, recently made their escape from that institution, leaving behind them a writ ten request to "clean up the prison by the time they returned from their holiday excur sion."
The New Bedford Mercury says " nothing is wider from the truth than the charge that the Republican party is more anxious for power than it is to hasten the reconstruction of the Union." The Mercury wiU have its joke.—