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The Foreign Condition Of Nassuau

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
March
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Nmhí '0 orrespomUiiit of the huex, tlie rebel TgiiQ in Londnn, under date of the liStli of Febrimry, rives tho following gloomy accouat of ufluirs ot the Bahamap : "The fall of Fort Fiher, elosing as jt doos the port ot Wilmington to our commerce, heralds thu dowpfuU of tho blockade-running bushiess To gay we ware taken bv surprise with this uews, 3 to but fainlly depict the couslernaticin with which it was received. Tho immense stocks of yoods at this point uil hiid owners, and thin nuvimary sbuttmg oiïvi thu niain arterv of our commiree vva?, to i=ay the least, anything b'it a pleationt e?ent to reflect npon. But tho Aliólo Síixon is ever fertile of] ea urces, a lid af ter a few ditye of de('res'ion, üttenlion becsime direeted to. w;irds uew cliantiel, and we are therefore now busy in i'very seuse f the word. Goods are beiug rapidly nhipd in every direction, sothutin a short time tha markets of Havanti, öt. Thoni. is, -Matnniorai. Vera Cruz, Haiifax, and even New York, will n.j"iee iu thu post-es-ion of merchaudize originally destined for the "funny S"uth." Trulj. "time.- are briak," bnt it is with the brskoess ot the undertaker- cheeilesfl and utipromising. Whatwill be done with the large nmubers of. steamt-rs in port, is ut present a question eaaier nsked than answerod ; their owners seem to be waitwr, like the immorttil Micawber, for ",mething to turn up." Those of light drausht will doiibtless be transferred to Havana, anl run from there to some of tho Gulf port uow or to be in future opeued. But for mimy of them Othfllo's oocupation 19 assuredly gono."

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