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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 17 7 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 16 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1865., [Electronic resource] 12 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 12 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 8 0 Browse Search
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 4 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 2 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Publishing houses in the South. (search)
an, in Borcero, is the owner of rather a nice diamond, which he will not sell at any price; firstly, because it is believed to be lucky to his family, in which it has been for a long period; and, secondly, on account of its medical virtues. When it has been immersed for a little time in water, it imparts to it the most extraordinary me leinal properties. This water is distributed among the people, and cures many diseases. For these reasons, the Rajah refused to sell it to the Governor of Batavia, who offers him fifty thousand pounds, two large war brigs, with their guns and ammunition, and a large quantity of powder and shot. The great diamond in the sceptre of the Emperor of Russia has had an eventful history. The first we know of it, it formen one of the eyes of an idol in Malabar. A French grenadier in the East Indian service having deserted, in his wanderings in the country chanced to hear an account of this idol and its wonderful eye. He formed a plan to gain possession