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Providential.

--So many wonderful escapes and preservations seem to be vouchsafed to our people, that to describe them seems like romance. Can any three cargoes be more acceptable just now than coffee, ice and coal? As for the latter, so much was it needed that the Captain of the St. Nicholas was very fearful of getting to the end of his run for want of it, and already a good deal of wood work was torn away to keep up the fires, when lo! a ship full of coal arrives in time of need.--And can anything be more Providential than that all down the Potomac and up the Rappahannock not a trace of Yankee ships was to be seen? Where are all these overpowering blockades just now?

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