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Roger-, Surgeon.
Boisseau, Private.
Armour, Sergeant,
O. B. Haynes, Private.
Ferguson, Corporal,
Ingram, Private.
Ashe, Private.
Sayle, Private.
Cobb, Private.
Everett, Private.
W. D. Haynes, Private.
Wheatley, Private.
Mayre, Private.
MEMBERS THAT DIED.
Harvey, Lieutenant.
Ferguson, Corporal.
Wheatley, Corporal.
Goodwin, Private.
W. D. Haynes, Private. Everett, Private. Spiegel, Private.
MCCLELLAN GUARDS.
OFFICERS.
J. S. Glass, Captain. T. D. Jackson. Lieutenant. Lorenzo Dow, Lientenant. B. Ick, Sergeant.
T. A. Grexby, Sergeant. B. Dickinson, Sergeant. H. Cohb, Sergeant. Dick Smith, Sergeant.
PRIVATES.
Henry Davis, Robert Johnson,
R. Hicks,
Richard Land. Green Otey.
Tip Harris, Cicero Nelson,
James Winn,
Charles Crutcher, Vance P. Percell,
Isaac Simmons,
Haywood Bradshaw,
Gilbert Gill,
Phil. Dickenson, Carey White, John Jefferson,
Robert Lyons, Sam. Hilliard, Henry Wilson, Jim Gaston,
Fred. Thomas, Henry White, Charles Hart.
MEMBERS WHO DIED.
Crutcher. Private, Harris. Private, Carey, Private.
Pecl:, Sergeant, Cobb. Sergeant, Lane. Private, 28
F. B. Davis, W. M. Armistead, C. W. Winland,
Albert Carey,
James Clark, Nelson Wright,
Jesse Simmons, Pompey Yearger,
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C HI. Raine, Third Lieutenant.
W. W. Talbert, Orderly Sergeant.
J. M. Bradley, Ensign.
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BLUFF CITY CORNET BAND.
Thomas Marley, Leader,
James Harris,
Lance Robinson, Eli Elliston, Robert Finley, James Norman,
Henry Andrews, Stephen Brown, James Mann, Thomas Maxley.
ZOUAVE GUARDS.
Memphis App.al .-- We took occasion recently to speak of the two companies of our citi- zen military, which have been on duty at Camp Joe Williams. We have also a few words to say about the Zouave Guards, the second colored military organization in the city, who have rendered the public faithful service in various capacities in the city, and at the prison camp on President's Island during the epidemic. Too much praise can not be accorded both officers and privates for the excellent and trusty manner in which they performed their duty, coming to the resene, as it were, at a time when threats were made to raid the citizens' relief commissary, by those to whom rations were not issued without regard to their condition of distress. We append the company muster-roll, to- gether with the names of those who died during the service :
OFFICERS.
R. T. Brown. Captain.
C. V. Reed, First Lieutenant.
C. II. Thomas, Second Sergeant.
H. Clay. Third Lieutenant.
J. L. MeNeal, First Corporal.
W. F. Morgan, Chaplain.
T. HI. Burton, Second Corporal.
E. Gorgon. Orderly Sergeant.
J. W. Gay, Third Corporal.
R. R. Smith, Ensign.
Dan. Fleming, Fourth Corporal.
PRIVATES.
J. Felton,
M. G. Jones,
Sam. Glenn,
F. Talbot,
J. Robertson,
Andrew Mann,
M. Donneally,
John Moore, John White,
-David Banks,
W'm. Stephenson,
A. McCoy,
Danely Brown,
R. Sneed,
W. Overton,
J. Ellington,
John Banks,
Ben. Smith,
Joseph Walton,
R. G. Gerney,
Joseph Hall,
H. Macklin,
Douglas Burke,
E. Hooker,
DIED.
Second Lieutenant, W. M. Hanson; Privates, A. W. Brown and Tom Lewis.
A squad of this company, under command of Lieutenant HT. Clay, was placed on guard duty at the prison camp on President's Island, and are highly complimented by the authorities for their faithful services. On Tuesday this squad returned to the city with the prisoners. On arriving at the wharf they were met by that portion of the company on duty in the city, under command of Captain R. G. Brown, who escorted them to the jail. Atter delivering the prisoners safely over to the jailer. the company returned to their armory, where it was disbanded. Captain Brown delivered an appropriate ad- dress on the occasion. He congratulated the company on their safe arrival to their homes, and hoped that every man had performed his Anty conscientiously. He advised that every man go about hi- business earnestly, honestly, and industriously, and endeavor to merit the good opinions of the public. That all should live in peace and harmony, and with malice toward none. The captain's remarks were received with three hearty cheers, when the company was properly mustered out of the service of the Citizens' Re- lief Committee, each member retiring peacefully to his home.
THE POST-OFFICE.
Memphis Appeal .- The employee of the Memphis post-office have done their whole duty during the epidemie just passed. The fever robbed them of both the post-master and his assistant, besides taking off' some of the most valuable of their number, yet the
C. T. Drayton,
W. Coleman,
Thos. Smith,
A. Jackson,
Henry Martin,
F. Pierce,
James Crawford,
John Walton,, First Sergeant.
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business of the office has never been neglected; on the contrary, it has been conducted regularly, and in a manner which is a surprise to every one. When the lamented Thompson died, the management of the office fell upon the shoulders of Colonel Know !- ton, who, soon after, had to succumb, and died after a short illness. Mr. W. J. Chase then took charge of the office, and continues to discharge the duties of post-master with a skill most creditable to his business tact and ability. No complaints have been made, and, notwithstanding the greatly reduced force, on account of sickness and death, every thing has moved like clock-work. Several of the carriers have recovered from their at- tacks of the fever, and have resumed their routes, and soon every thing about the post- office will be in working order as usual. Below we give the names of those who have died, convalesced, and now on duty :
DEAD.
R. A. Thompson, post-master.
C. S. Knowlton, ass't post-master.
J. O'Brien, clerk. M. J. Cunningham, clerk.
I. P. Oliver, letter carrier. W. A. Hill, Jr., letter carrier. George Cooper, col'd, letter carrier. Frank Reynolds, letter carrier.
CONVALESCENTS.
The following named had the fever, recovered, and are now on duty :
H. C. Bigelow, sup't of carriers.
Burt White, letter carrier.
Lafe Jennings, sup't of mails.
Thad Plummer. eol'd, letter carrier.
Charles Stewart, clerk.
M. O'Reilly, letter carrier.
W. J. Jones. clerk.
Levi McCoy, col'd. letter carrier.
Douglas Mhir, clerk.
C. W. Miller. col'd, letter carrier.
Phil. J. Shide, clerk.
W. B. Hood, letter carrier.
D. W. Washington, col'd, letter carrier. Sam Franseiola, porter.
ON DUTY.
The following are the names of those who have not had the fever, and have been on duty throughout the epidemic:
W. J. Chase, post-ma-ter."
Frank Stewart, assistant.
Lee Trout, clerk,
W. R. Chandler, letter carrier.
Gus Ennis, clerk,
J. P. Rogers, letter carrier.
W. E. Douglas, clerk.
D. L. Stewart, clerk. John Raquet, letter carrier.
F. T. Cage, col'd, letter carrier.
THE TELEGRAPHERS.
Memphis Appeal .- Of twenty-five employés of the telegraph office, eleven have died, nine have convalescel-only five escaping the disease. Of these five, two of the operators are new comers-Mr. Putman being alone entitled to the honors of having met the enemy and defeated him. W> recall many nights when he was the solitary occupant of the operating-room, the click of the instruments, as they told the story of the busy world abroa.l. being the only accompaniment- he had to feelings that must have been sad indeed. as he recalled the dead and speculated upon the chances for recovery of his sick com- rade :. Those were sal and solitary hours which reynired in the sentinel who kept his lonely vigil a more than brave heart, and a courage munch cooler than that which impels the soldier to the caunon's mouth. The story of the telegraphers of Memphis is an hon- orable one. Like a band of brothers they stood by each other "in sickness and in health, till death didl then part." As one was carried to his rest another took his place. The puisations of the good hearts who, in distant northern and western cities, were send- ing us sympathy and succor, were carried to us along the wires without a moment's in- terruption. Kind messages, inquiries for loved ones, drafts of money, all came to us over the wires to which one or other of the brave band stood whose names we record to-day with pride and pleasure. Undismayed by the intelligence which every hour was flashed to and from us of the growing strength of the epidemic, and the increase of its victims. the telegraphers continued to interpret sad and joyinl messages ; to be the medium of death and His; the harbingers of hope or the messengers of despair. They stood to their posts like men, and did their duty like heroes indeed, in whom was united the broadest humanity and the tenderest sentiments of love for their follow-men. The telegraph was
Mr. Chase had the fever after the epidemic was declared over, but recovered,
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to us a priceless boon during the reign of the plague. What the mails failed to do it did with the steadiness and rapidity of the days when health and peace were supreme. To us of the press, it has always been invaluable. h has been more so than ever the last ninety days. As the operators, the manager, and the clerks went down one by one, until there were but two clerks and one operator to do the more than usually large business. which pressed with more than usual eagerness, we shuddered to think what would be the result if that brave last man went down. For many days he was the interpreter of the hopes and fears of thousands, and the means of joy and happiness that was a compen-a- tion for all the sorrow that many of this messages bore. We rejoice that he was spared. The following list, complete, gives the names of all who died, convalesced, and escaped, together with the member- of the several telegraphers' families who escaped :
DEAD.
M. J. Kever, Henry Mynatt, H. M. Goewey,
E. W. Gibson, C. R. Langford, J. I. Connelly,
Thomas Hood, J. W. McDonald, Howard Allen, J. R. IIenricle, A. Hawkins.
CONVALESCENTS.
G. M. Baker, manager,
B. Deklyn, operator,
Howell Sigler, chief operator, W. E. Molford, operator,
Lewis Klotz, night chief operator, J. M. Mullins, clerk,
C. A. Gaston, cashier,
H. E. Conley, repairer.
C. MeReynolds, operator,
ESCAPED.
George A. Putnam, operator, C. R. Newell, clerk,
John B. R. Spalding, operator,
Jesse B. Waggener, clerk.
N. S. Graves, operator,
AMONG THE FAMILIES.
DEAD.
Operator J. J. Fowler's wife. Batteryman Clements' wife. CONVALESCENT.
Chief operator HI. Sigler's wife. Operator E. W. Gibson's wife.
THE PRESS.
Memphis Appeal .- The awful facts of the yellow fever, now that the epidemic is over, come out one by one. In the statement of its havoc in the ranks of our police and firemen and the employes of our three principal railroads, which we have given from day to day, we have astonished even the closest scrutinizers of the course of the scourge. But soul harrowing as these figures were considered by the many correspondents who have writ- ten us concerning them, they are surpassed by those which we give below, as furnished by the Appeal, Aculunche, and Ledger offices. These lists embrace all, from the press- room to the editorial-room of each paper, together with accurate details of the ravages of the disease in the families of each one:
APPEAL OFFICE. DEAD. COUNTING-ROOM. George W. Woods, temporary book-keeper. COMPOSING-ROOM. Maj. W. G. Stephenson, J. B. Barker, B. F. Fuller, James F. Cummins,
B. N. Cutting, L. M. Lorentz. Charles M. Smith, George Beamish.
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PRESS-ROOM.
Al. Plummer, Frank Plummer, Nick (porter), A. S. Hollenshead, Byron Brooks,
John Kelly, Sr., John Kelly, Jr., James Kelly, M. Virgeson, Andy Harrington.
CONVALESCENTS.
Henry White, John S. Fifer,
Frank Backus.
Fred. Brennan, Eug. W. Moore,
W. S. Brooks.
COMPOSING-ROOM.
HI. E. Crandall,
John B. Hoskins,
W. W. Stephenson, T. D. Uzell, Il. J. MeGrann (foreman),
W. G. Taylor, H. M. Crowell,
Ed. Schiller, Frank Beamish.
PRESS-ROOM.
Kinch Virgeson, Louis Deckenbecker, Darius Brooks,
Sam. Ellison, Henry Moore, HI. P. Woodlock (foreman)
FAMILIES. W. S. Brooks' mother. wife, and son dead.
Major Stephenson's two daughters dead and one convalescent.
B. N. Cutting's wife convalescent.
George W. Woods' wife convalescent.
H. M. Crowell's daughter dead and wife and son convalescent.
W. W. Stephenson's wife and two children convalescent.
Ed. Schiller's son dead and daughter convalescent.
H. J. MeGrann's daughter dead, wife, son, and niece convalescent.
H. P. Woodlock's daughter convalescent.
Frank and Al. Plummer's father, mother, and two sisters dead, and brother and sister convalescent.
Darins Brooks' sister dead and mother convalescent.
Byron Brooks' son dead and wife convalescent.
Kineh Virgeson's wife convalescent.
Andy Harrington's wife dead.
ESCAPED.
J. M. Keating, editor, Henry Moode, compositor.
RECAPITULATION.
Total employés dead . 19
Total employés convalescent .. 21
Total members of families dead .. 15
Total members of families convalescent. 18
Total
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AVALANCHE OFFICE. DEAD. R. A. Thompson, business manager. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. George Landrum.
Herbert Landrum,
COMPOSING-ROOM.
James M. Banksmith. John Crabb.
Ed. J. Snige, James M. Kerr, James Cruikshank,
COUNTING-ROOM.
EDITORIAL-ROOM.
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FRISS-ROOM.
Augustus Anderson,
Charles Caso.
PORTER. Mike Corrigan. CARRIERS. Janics Hunter.
John Myers,
CONVALESCENTS.
J. P. Wheles, George Bird,
COMPOSING-ROOM. O. P. Bard, Ed. Case,
Joe Crabb, Denny Sullivan,
Louis Roselle,
COUNTING-ROOM.
J. C. Price, M. W. Lutf,
L. W. Bruder.
Of the families, Mr. Crabb has seven members convalescent; also Mr. Wheles' wife and child.
RECAPITULATION.
Employés dead. Employés convalescent
10
Family members convalescent
9
Total.
32
LEDGER OFFICE .* DEAD.
Thomas P. Holland,
COMPOSING-ROOM. John S. Terry, William H. Blalock.
PRESS-ROOM.
Henry Stillman,
Byron Brooks,
Joe Mahaffy, Geo. P. Bradford.
John Myers,
EDITORIAL-ROOM.
R. R. Catron, also agent Associated Press.
CONVALESCENTS.
E. Whitmore, publisher; J. Harvey Mathes, editor; Ed. R. Holland and Frank Van Horn, job-room ; S. L. Reneau, Russell Reneau. T. P. Kavanaugh, Thad. D. Davis, J. B. Hoskins, C. Cage. and John Burns of the composing-room; Larry Grehan, W. Z. Harris, and Geo. Schroyer, press-room; Allen Avery (colored), engineer; and Louis Redenbecker, counting-room.
ESCAPED.
John R. Grehan, counting-room ; R. E. Howell, James E. Stephens, C. M. Ferguson, and James Crumpion, composing-room ; Dallas Townsley, B. A. Whitsitt, and George Hatch, press-room ; Sim. Barinds and Thomas H. Chinn, reporters; and Robert Piles (colored), porter.
FAMILIES.
DEAD.
Dallas Townsley's son ; George Schrover's brother and sister; George P. Bradford's mother, sister and one brother.
RECOVERED.
Mrs. J. Harvey Mathes : W. II. Blalock's wife and child ; John R. Grehan's wife; Larry Grehan's wife and child; T. P. Holland's wife, daughter, and son; Dallas Townsley's two sons and daughter ; S. L. Reneau's three danghters: Thad. D. Davis's three children and their aunt: F. S. Van Horn's three children ; George Hatch, wife and child; Robert Piles's wife (colored); Joe Mahatiy's three children ; Byron Brooks's wife and child ; Charles MeLefresh and brother; Kinch Vergusson ; and Joe Locke.
* A few of the names in the lists of the Ledger will also be found among those of the Appeal and Anilanche. the proprater of the Ledger claiming them as those of his employes, as he carried them on his pay role for services rendered.
Thomas Hewitt,
COUNTING-ROOM.
Marion Virgeson.
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RECAPITULATION.
Employés dead. 11
Convalescent employés. 16
Family members died .. 7
33
Family members convalescent.
Total. 67
From the above it will be seen that of those employed on the Erening Ledger cleven escaped, of the Manche four escaped, and of the Append only two. Of the Ledger employés eighteen died, of the Avalanche thirteen, and of the Appeal nineteen. Of the Ledger employés sixteen convalesved to recovery, of the Avalanche ten, and of the Appeal twenty-one. These figures are eloquent of the ravages of the pestilence among the newspaper people; but when our readers sindy the statistics for themselves, they will see that when the wives and children who were dependent upon these employee and employers are taken into arcount, the story is intensified almost beyond belief. Take the Appeal office, for instance, where, out of seventy-five persons-men, women, and children-thirty-four were buried, thirty-nine convalesced, and only two escaped. Sad and sorrowful inets, they tell a story of endurance unparalleled in modern times, and of which we trust the world will forever be spared a repetition.
TRIBUTES TO SOUTHERN JOURNALISTS.
London Standard- It is this people, the flower and pride of the great Eng- lish race, on whom a more terrible, more merciless enemy has now fallen. There can be now no division of sympathy, as there is no passion to excite and keep up the courage needed for the occasion. Yet the men and women of the South are true to the old tra- dition. Her youth volunteer to serve and die in the streets of plague-stricken citizens as rapidly as they went forth, boys, and gray-haired men, to meet the threatened sur- prise of Petersburg-as they volunteered to charge again and again the cannon-crowned hills of viettysburg, and to enrich with their blood, and honor with the name of a new victory, every field around Richmond. Their sisters, mother-, wives, and daughters are doing and suffering now, as they suffered from famine, disease, incessant anxiety and alarm throughout the four years of the civil war. There may be among the various nations of the Aryan family one or two who would claim that they could have furnished troops like those which followed Lee and Johnston, Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, but we doubt whether there be one race beside our own that could send forth its children by hundreds to face, in towns desolated by yellow fever, the horrors of a nurse's life, and the imminent terms of a martyr's death.
New York Times-The South has borne herself bravely and nobly during the yellow fever scourge; no people could have behaved better. One class in particular has shown unflinching courage and the most generous humanity. Its members may not have done. probably they did not, any thing more than many others in the infected districts, but they have been conspicuous from their calling. These, the journalists of the South, meaning all who are occupied with getting, transmitting, or arranging news, have re- flected credit on themselves and the profession by the resolute and fearless manner in which they have discharged to the fullest their highest duty. Hardly an instance can be given in which one of them has quitted his post. In New Orleans, Vicksburg, Mem- phis, and smaller towns, they have refused to go away, as they might, and as so many others, have done. They determined to face the danger-a very formidable one, since very few of them had had the fever, and a large number were new to the South -- and to challenge death in order to render the service which they knew would be sadly needed. Scores of them have been down with the pestilence; many of them have died, but none have faltered or retreated. On some newspapers, only one or two journalists have been left, but the survivor or survivors have kept religiously at their work. Nor have they by any means restricted themselves to their business; they have distributed -upplies- many belong to the Howards-attended to the sick and dying, and worked incessantly to relieve suffering, to help humanity in every way possible. They have seen death steadily approaching; they have looked him calnily in the face; they have felt they must be vietims. But they have not blanched nor abated effort while they could lift voice or hand; and, as their fatal turn came, they have shown remarkable fortitude, fighting disease to the last, and, when forced to submit, yielding as dauntless men overcome, not as men conquered. The southern journalists deserve well of the nation. They have been fearfully tried, and their trial has brought out all their virtues. They have proved themselves to be men not less than journalists, and very manly men. They have defects neither few nor rinall; but, surely, lack of courage and want of humanity are not among them.
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THE NATIONAL RELIEF BOAT JOIIN M. CHAMBERS.
This boat, fitted out at St. Louis, under the direction of the National Relief Com- mittec, of Washington, of which Ex-Governor Alexander Shepherd was chairman, on her return from her mission to all the points below Memphis needing supplies, medicines, ice, etc., stopped at Memphis for twenty-four hours on the 22d of October. The Apprul of the 231 mentions her arrival in the following article :
The national relief boat John M. Chambers, in command of Lieutenant Chas. M. Hall, Surgeon 11. M. Keys in charge of medical department, arrived at this port last evening at seven o'clock, after a tedious journey from Vicksburg, having left that port last Friday evening at four o'clock. Though danger was anticipated by Surgeon Keys, on account of the infection cansed on the boat by the sickness of Lieutenant H. H. Renner, who gave up his life in the noble cause of administering to the suffering people at points along the river where the malaria was most virulent, the health of all on board has been good, not a single case of illness having occurred throughout the return journey. Just before leaving Vicksburg, Lieutenant Hall received a note from the authorities of the hospital announcing the death of the night watchman of the boat, who was taken down a day after Lientenant Benner was attacked, and immediately removed to the hospital. where he died last Friday morning of the fever. The two St. Louis pilots, who started out with the boat from that city, were advised that it would be imprudent for them to proceed up the river, as there were strong probabilities of another case of steamer Purter, with all her attendant horrors. This necessitated taking two other pilots who had gone through the fever. and Captain Robt. Bowman and Frank Marritia were secured, and though almost too weak from prostration to do full service, agreed to take the wheel and pilot the boat through to this port. The former not knowing the river above this point, the boat is delaved here, but will back out as soon as his place can besupplied. The Howard Association of Vicksburg kindly tendered two of their best nutses to the use of the boat, as a precautionary measure in case of sickness, and though the offer was ac- cepted by Surgeon Keys they were fortunately not needed, and will return to Vicksburg on the first train to-morrow. The relief boat made but one stoppage at any port on the up-trip. that at Terrene, at the mouth of White River, where the steamer replenished her coal supply. This town, too, has its story of woe, and though the scourge has not been wide-spread at that point, it has left but two out of a household of ten, the surviv- ors being Mr. J. H. Zadeck, the post-master, and a habe of but two summers. On arriv- ing at Terrene, Lieutenant Hall heard of the distress of Zadeck, and sent a note of sym- pathy, coupled with the announcement that it would be impossible to render assistance, as the relief boat was destitute of supplies. Mr. Zadeck sent back word that he was a prisoner in his own house, that the citizens of the town had his house guarded against his egress, and would permit no one to see him. In fact, he was in quarantine in his own home. He was not suffering for the necessaries of life and health, but was anxions to get away from the house of death, where wife, children, and relatives had slept their last sleep. In his letter he says that most of the dead were buried by himself, the people refusing to renler assistance for fear of infection. Lieutenant Hall, of course, conld render no assistance. as his orders were peremptory to reach St. Louis as soon as possible, and he had no juris liction in the case, though the ery for help sounded as pitiful as that of a drowning man. As soon as a Memphis and St. Louis pilot is secured, and Lieuten- ant Hall and Surgeon Keys have transacted official business by telegraph with District- Attorney Bliss, of St. Louis, and Governor Shepherd, of Washington, the boat will move up on her way home, followed by the blessings of many to whoto it has ministered.
Memphis has furnished its hero in connection with the God's-errand of the national relief boat. Mr. George H. Mitchell, connected with the post-otlice of this city, volun- tered to take out the mail for points on the Mississippi which had heard no word from us since the fever first struck the town. Though he had never made a trip down the river, he adapted himself to circumstances, and left every landing its missive of letters and papers except half a dozen or so, where shot-guns and quarantine laws prevented him from doing so. He took out ten tons of mail matter, the largest that has ever left this city on any route, and spent sleepless nights in the performance of his duty. That duty finished, he tendered his services as a nurse to Lientenant Benner, and watched faithfully by bis bedside to the last, giving the same aid which had signalized his success in that capacity in so many instances in this city. The distribution of that mail to the benighted denizens along the banks of the Mississippi, who had been virtually out of the world since the incipieney of the plague, was the crowning glory of the mission of the reliet boat.
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