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VLS, we now distinctly intimated to the messeng-ers^ that if 

 the minister did not make his appearance in the course of 

 the following- forenoon, we should not wait for him ; and 

 with this understanding- they left the wag'gons_, accompanied 

 by the g'uides^ faithfully promising* to return with the g-reat 

 man in the morning". 



