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A Congressional Joke.

--Mr. Porcher Miles, of the Charleston district, excused himself and his colleagues from voting on the question of a select committee, intimating, in substance, that before it could report its conclusions South Carolina would be out of the Union, and he himself, instead of being Miles in Congress, would be Miles away.

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