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HARPER'S WEEKLY.

[AUGUST 11, 1861.

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PENNSYLVANIA BEEF CONTRACTOR. "Want Beefsteak? Good Gracious, what is the World coming to ? Why, my Good Fellow, if you get Beefsteak, how on earth are Contractors to live ? Tell me that."

Mr. John Bull in His Famous Old Part of Pecksniff. "A mighty contest looms in the distance, and all that we can clearly see is that our own policy, of Neutrality is both Wise and Just."—London Times. "We are strong enough to be Neutral in the best sense of the word ; at once TRUE TO OURSELVES, just to our neighbors, and eager, by moral support, to secure every improvement consistent with THE LEGITIMATE CLAIMS OF ALL PARTIES."—London Chronicle.

THE SECESHERS' TARGET.

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Horrid Nightmare of John Bull on Hearing of Prince
Napoleon's Visit to Washington.

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