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A sharp Knave.

--A clerk named James A E dey, temporarily employed in one of the large auction houses in Charleston, after pocketing $19,000 of his employer's funds, made off in the steamship Britannia for Nassau, leaving his adieux in the shape of a polite note to the gentleman he had so coolly swindled.

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