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Show A New Claim. Among the arrivals on Thursday night were John S. Martin, Mar-tin, Esq., commission merchant, of Chambers Street, New York, and Wm. P; Ward, Esq., of thecclebrated firm that produces such unlimited quantities of Drake's plantation Bitters, with the symbolic characters of " S. T. 1800, X.," which are known over the world. Yesterday morning thee gentlemen went out to the Warm. Spring Baths, and on the way saw the characters by the road-side, with a small sized hole probably intended to be cut up and retailed re-tailed as post holes close by. Noticing Notic-ing a quiet-looking person near they, with all the genuine simplicity and unaffected un-affected innocence of New Yorkers, pointed to the cabalistic marks, and inquired in-quired what they meant. "Well," said the man slowly, looking at the characters and at the hole adjoining, "iEuess its where somebody has located lo-cated a new claim." Here was the ruling passion mining to the last; but won't the owner of that claim make a big strike when he gets down to Plantation Bitters ? |