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The Galvanized Iron Life Boats have superior advantages over 

 all others for the following reasons : 



1st. Their endurance under severe trial, it being almost im- 

 possible to meet with sufficient injury to disable them from sus- 

 taining their compliment of persons for any length of time, in 

 case of storm, wreck, or fire. 



2d. Their extreme lightness, united with strength. 



3d. Their inability to become nail sick, worm eaten, or leaky 

 from exposure to the sun, however long they may be out of 

 water, 



4th. These Life boats may be used at sea to preserve life when 

 nothing else can live, or for the daily use of the ship, being al- 

 ways in readiness for either service. 



I have myself used one of these boats at my farm for the last 

 three years, and put unqualified confidence in her ; she cannot 

 burn, break, rust, corrode, sink, shrink or rot. They are inval- 

 uable, and superior in every respect to every other kind of boat 

 now in use, and I confidently recommend them to all my agri- 

 cultural friends living in the vicinity of water. 

 I am, sir, very respectfully, 



Your obedient servant, 



B. L. PELL. 



- MANUFACTURES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



We were very much gratified by the exhibition, at our late 

 fair, of a buggy wagon, of superior workmanship, from the manu- 

 factory of Mr. J. C. Thornton, Columbia, South Carolina, every 

 part of the work of which was made there, and the wood, consist- 

 ing of black walnut, ash, white oak, and elm, was the product 

 of the forests of that state. Mr. T. employs sixteen hands, hav- 

 ing constantly as much as they can do. His work claims there 

 a preference over work from the north, and his total sales per 

 annum are from 60 to 70,000 dollars, which includes articles in 

 his line purchased elsewhere. At Columbia there are now ex- 

 tensive tanneries, steam mills for sashes and panel doors, plan- 



