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Quick time.

--The Alta Californian, of August 24th, has this paragraph, which demonstrates conclusively that the world moves:

The telegraph worked bravely last night. Our last dispatches are dated Washington and New York at 12 o'clock midnight. They reached us at 10 P. M., two hours in fact before they were transmitted.

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