Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.)
April 1, 1870

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V0L- l- AUGUSTA, ME., FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL I, 1870. NO. 78. JUniukc Journal. Published on Water, Foot of Court Street, AUGUSTA, MAINE. BY KPBAUl'E, OWEN NASH. gailj Jumtflirc $onrn;iL Is issued every morning, except Sundays. Contains the latest news by telegraph and mail, gives reports of the Markets, and hus carefully pre pared political and local articles, and a generous amount of farming, home and miscellaneous read ing with a full compilation of State news. Terms, $7 per annum in eulcanee, il payment is not made within the year. Single copies 4 cents, to be had at the bookstores and at this office. Advertisements oue inch in length, three in sertions or less, $1.00; 25 cts. for every subsequent insertion. Longer advertisements, or those Inserted for any considerable length of time, will be inserted at favorable terms to the advertiser. Special Notices 25 per cent, additional. Amusement Notices, $2 per square per week. 'cuScchlg Jienncbcc Journal, Published every Wednesday morning, the largest folio paper In the State, containing new*, political articles, agricultural ami scientific matter, tales, poetry, anecdotes, household recipes, markets, Ac., Ac. Terms $2 per annum in atlvanre Transient Advertisements, $1-50 per inch for first week; 25 cents per week tor each subsequent insertion. Special Notices, $2 00 per inch for first week; 50 cents per week Tor each subsequent week. Business Notices, in reading columns. 20 cents per line for first Insertion; 10 cents per line for each subsequent Insertion. m All transient advertisements to be paid for in advance. Daily Express Line! BRICK’S Kennebec Boston Express! Os ami alter Feb. 21.t. l^TO. Brick's Kennebec A Boston Ex press will run daily between Boston,Pnrtlnnd. Brim-wick. Kiehmomt. (lartliner. Hallo well, August*. and all intermediate stations. Goods Forwarded to all parts of the United States at Low Eates. Haring h»d llirec year.’ experience in the Ex press between the Kennebec and Boston. the pro prietor hope* by strict attention to business to merit a fair si.are of the public patronage. AGENTS: Hot-ton. R. R. Mnith, 57 Kilby Street; Portland, G. L. Lothrop A CS, WHOOPING COUGH unit all Throat troubles. 2 Doors south of Granite Block, Market Sq. MUSICAI. INSTRUMENTS, Tituoy Oooda, ebo., uoid by lanl-lyt W. WENHENHUHG. Wire WorKa -AT Saccarappa, Maine. Messrs. WARREN FENNELL, ATfOULD inform the public that ther mnnufac turc and keep constantly on haud every de scription of IRON WIRE, mado from the best material. Spoclill attention given to Spring nnd IMnchinery Wire! Also, Wire tinned, straightened and cut to order, td»* BOS W O B T ZEE HAVING IIEMOVED TO (2 Doors soutli of Bridge street,) which has been expressly fitted up for his business, wlier* will be found a VERY LARGE STOCK of SPRING WOOLLENS! Of the I^atest Fashions, WHICH WILL BE CUT AND MADE UP TO ORDER IN* THE Very Latest Stylo. ALSO, WILL BE POUND A LARGE STOCK OF Ready Made Clothings -AND Gents’ Furnishing Goods OP EVERY DESCRIPTION. R. T. BOSWORTH. Augusta, Mar. 7th, 1870. t7mar-tf CL.OTHIJJG. BUY YOUR CLOTHING AT THE ONE PRICE CLOTHING STORE! WHERE YOU WILL ALWAYS FIND The Largest Assortment And the BEST MADE GOODS. We also keep the Largest Assortment of GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS! TO BE FOUND IN THE CITY. CONSTANTLY RECEIVING NEW STYLES! We de>ire to call attention to our Large As»ortment of WHITE! SHIHTS. A GOOD FIT GCARANTIFD SHIRTS HADE TO ORDER IF DESIRED, WE MARK OUR GOODS AT THE Lowest Market Frioe, AND SELL ALIKE TO ALL. ItP" Please Call and Examine our Goods! S. Ay\ Huntington it Co., HR) Water Hti-eet, Aiigiwta, Maine. M A X S I O X HOUSE, STATE STREET, AUGUSTA, ME. THIS Hmue is provided with Bath Rooms, 1. where Hot and Cold Baths can be had at all aiues. It has also a Kirst-t'Uss Billiard Hall, for Jurats only. Connected with the House is a large ind c«»m3m A Wonderful Discovery! NATURE’S THE RESULT OF YEAES OP STUDY A ED EXPEEIMEET. It Contains No LAC SULPHITE—No SUSAN of LEAD-No LITHARGE—No NITRATE of SILVER, and is entirely free from the Poisonous and Health-destroying Drugs used in other Hair Preparations. It is aura to supersede and drive otif of the community all the POISOXOU8 PRE PAR ATIOX8 note in use. Transparent and clear as crystal, it will not soil the finest fabric. Xo oil, no sediment, no dirt per fectly SAFE, CLEAX, and EFFICIENT— desidcratums LOXG SOUGHT FOR, and FOUXD AT LAST It colors and prevents the Hair from be coming Gray, imparts a soft, glossy appear ance, removes Dandruff, is cool and refresh ing to the head, checks the Hair from falling off, and restores it to a great extent when pre maturely lost, prevents Headaches, cures all Humors, cutaneous eruptions, and unnat ural heat. OXLY 73 CEXTS PER POTTLE. It is secured In the Patent Office of tha United States by DR. G. SMITH, Patentee, Groton Junction, Mass. Prcjtared only by PROCTER BROTHERS, GLOUCESTER, MASS., To whom all orders should be ftddressed. Sold by all first-class Druggists and Fancy Goods Itcalcrs. The Genuine is put up in a panel bottle made expressly for it, with tha name of the article blotm in the glass. Ask your Druggist for Xature's Hair Restoratire, and take Xo Other. The Restorative i« for sale at Wholesale in Port land by W. F. PHILLIPS Co., and at retail by all the in Maine. iaui!:J-3mt&\v Cireat Improvement in Artificial Teeth. nil. SXELL I NSEItTS Teeth on Rl’UiiEK by a new process, l»y L which the plate is made as thin as a metallic base; at the same time the plate is flexible, and less liable to break. This mode insures likewise the certainty of a perfect tit. Having purchased the exclusive right to use this mode in Kennebec county, I vhall be happy to show its peculiar advantages to any oue who needs arti llcial teeth. 89 Winthrop Street. Augusta, Jan. 28th, 1870. t29jan-3wA3w6 REMOVED 2 Miss V. Turner, Milliner, lias removed to Rooms under Meonian Hall, And DIRECTLY OYER Mrs. Hodges’. t*21mar£lwld HENRY 0. A. A NICHOLS, MASONS AND SLATERS. A LL work in their line done promptly and in a good, workmanlike manner by the day or job. Particular attention paid to repairs of slate roofs, cementing cisterns, cellars. Ac. Orders left at A P. Oould’s .Stove store, first dooi above Railroad Bridge, promptly attended to. HENRY O MCIIOL*, ALBERT A. NICHOLS. Augusta, Jan. 1 18f»0. FREEMANS NATIONAL BANK! IT. S. BONDS, Coin, Coin Drafts Coupons Bought and Sold on favorable terms. J. L. ADAMS, Cashier. Augusta. Julv 11. 1M&. BALLARD CHASE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN TI.Y, BHITAAAIA, l’HLSSEB and JAPAWED WARES, 111 OX WARE, GLASS HARE. Table and Pocket Cutlery, Sadirons, finishes. 11 rooms, and a General Assort ment of Kitchen Furnishing Goods. GrllOCEnS’ CA3XTS, Stove and Furnace Pipe, tiFTTKltS, I'ONDl (TOKS. Ac., made to order, and at the lowest rates. gg-Job Work promptly attended to. l .\IO\ BLOCH, Water St., At Gl KTA. May 20. lMftl. Titcomb’s Aromatic Tonic Elixir! VXD all the other l’OJTl.AR MKDIC1XES lor sale low at TITCOMll A DORIKS liitf DRUG STORK. BIXBY'S BLMKIXG Si BLIEIXG, The heat In the market, tor sale at wholesale or re tail by TITt ONII A DOllll, Wholesale and Retail Druirxiftta, IdtfReal Knd Krnnrbrr Rrldee. To Tlioso w lio Desire Trees, Shrubs Flowering Plants! vRDKRS Pent to or left with me for any FitriT or ORNAMENTAL Tt.KK*. Sllllt US. VINES, OK Flowering Plants grown by Waisun in the Old Colony Nurseries! (which embrace everything that can be desired in a northern climate.) w ill l>e answered by a supply in mv possession during the months of April and May proximo. Thev will be delivered in Augusta at the prices of the Plymouth Nursery, without cost of transportation hither. Catalogues furnished gratis when requested. There are many rare things intha, excels. Nur«o- w[LUAM A DREW. Augm-ta, Mar. 8, 1870. fwinarAwim GEO. E. BB1CKETT, M. D., PHYSICIAN SURGEON, Al’GCITA, ME. Office over IIunt*« Cap Store, West End of the Kennebec Bridge. S9* Residence on Spring Street. myjO'Gti The War Record and Enrollment or Maine. Speech of Mr. FARWELL of Augusta, Delivered in the Home of Hepresentatives on Wednesday, March 23, 1370. Mb. Speaker :—The subjects embraced in the resolves under consideration, have for a long time attracted public attention, and have uniformly been branded ns “hateful, un patriotic and fraudulent." To the character of the “credits" which have been thus assailed and condemned, I shall mainly address my remarks this afternoon. If time will allow and the courtesy of this House be granted me, I shall also review, it may be with some severity, but with no nial ice, the Report of the “Commission on the Equalization of the War Debts," which was submitted to the Legislature in the early part of the session. For five years and mora the public mind of Maine has been kept in a state of feverish excitement by wild rumors of “peculation and fraud” in connection with the filling of quotas of towns by individuals, and the assignments of “credits” “naval commission men" during the great struggle fur the Union, by State and National authorities. Men high in official position and struggling with duties imposed by national misfortunes, have been subjected to honest but unfriendly and embarrassing critisUm by one elass of men while they have been ruthlessly assailed by the ignorant maliceof the partisan and the mischievous inventions of the enemy of good government; and private character has been smitten down by this storm from belov. These disgusting fabrications and insinuations have obtained root and growth, and been kept alive by the nourishing they have received from cheap newspaper correspondents—the very emessaries of disorder and scandal—the pre tended friends and the proved enemies of all 1 good men and the defenders and lietravers of all parties—a class of offensive idlers, who, for a penny a line, will furnish the dreamy in ventiuns of the groggery and the club house for the gratfication of the curious and the gossipper, for the furtherance of the schemes 1 of the conspirator and the black mailer, i These tolerated vagrants with their compan ions in mischief and invention, hirelings of a disordered ambition and vicious surroundings, have for years assailed persons, character, authority, until their nauseating pretensions and thieving assumptions have rendered gen eral newspaper correspondence obnoxious to the charge of being “manufactured to order." It is to refute the statements of these loose j tongued assailants who were the enemies of I the Union theft, and the promoters of disorder now. that I feel constrained to speak. It is to bankrupt and throw out of employment these kinds of destroyers who are candedand incrustcd with secretions of infamy, that 1 shall attempt to expose the counterfeit nature of the capital upon which these “whelps ot the Hlue Knight" have so long and so infa mously flourished. I do not come to this discussion, Mr. Speak er, with any elaborate preparation. I cannot hope to be so grand and ornate as the gentle man from Cherryfleld. Indeed I shall only talk to you in the high and simple language of truth and justice, remembering that in facts consist the strength and power of my statement. I shall not advise against this commission because a public demand seems to be made for it, though evidently stimulated thereto by a class of beings who contribute little to the good of society. More. Public servants and private character have been wickedly assailed by one class ot persons for base and unworthy purposes, and by another through the influence of the clamor of these political excresences. If the four investiga tions which have been had upon this and kin dred subjects, at an expense of more than twenty thousand dollars are not enougli to teach the intelligent people of Maine the character and purpose ot these clamorous agitators and calumniators, then surely I will not attempt tocircumvent this further inquiry, while I will nevertheless seek to give them some facts not always accessable to the hon est inquirer. 1 had supposed, until recently, until the appearance of this destroying report of the "commission on the equalization of the war debt,’’ supplemented by the elaborate and explanatory report of the gentleman from Cherryfleld—beg pardon,—of the committee, now under consideration, that the State of Maine had made up something of a war record of which stie might well be proud. It had been affirmed that the patriotic record of Maine was applauded wherever liberty was appre ciated and oppression defied. In number, character and bravery, Maine stood the peer of any State that touched the ocean. Limit ed in numbers to the smallest grade of States, yet intelligent, patriotic, self-sacrificing as she was, she may well challenge comparison with the largest ami most loyal in the Union. But it is not my intention to go into this mat ter ot State eulogy. I am to examine the character of the ‘•credits” denounced by these reports, and if possible, vindicate them Iront the aspersions which have been so long thrown upon them. In thu attempting I shall be supported by official documents, evi dence that cannot be controverted, that these classes of men or credits, were genuine in character, properly possessed and regularly quoted and allowed. It is not questioned that Maine had more men in the naval service during the war than any other loyal State, which, at any point, touched the Atlantic ocean, in proportion to In r population. Yet, notwithstanding the vast proportionate pre ponderance of In r naval enlistments, the number allowed to the general credit of the State and to the districts thereof, are less by ten per cent, than those claimed by ami i allowed to any of the other Atlantic or mari time States. Of the more than seventy thousand 1 men who went from Maine into the general service, less than eight per cent, of that num ber was allowed us for enlistments in the naval and marine service. In fact the whole number of men in the naval service claimed here or allowed in Washington, except new enlistments, is thirty-two hundred and forty nine men. With a sea coast of more than two hundred and twenty-five miles, and with re ceiving ships at Bangor, Belfast, Portland or Kiltcry, it is not first class wit to pretend that we had not three times thirty-two hun dred men in the naval service at the com mencement of 1864. Boston with less than 200,000 inhabitants, under the same law that credited these lew thousand to Maine had allowed on her quota six thousand of these ••credits,” when she did not furnish probably, one halt of them. By this arrangement Bos ton must have saved to her treasury quite three •tillione of dollars. Are they investiga ting and staining their record and hissing at their good fortune not of record. New York city with her bloody record of treason, rapine and murder, wn allowed to respond to the requisition of the government for men, by being quoted with some twenty thousand of these dishonored and branded “credits!” No over zealous New York patriot has ever com plained of this piece of good fortune nor j threatened to compel the city to refund to the National treasury more than ten millions of dollars saved hy the operation. No prudent imbecility of that kind has astonished that people. Of this class of men or credits almost one hundred thousand were credited to different States by claim and otherwise, mostly to New York, Pennsylvania and New England. I The cities of New Y'ork and Boston did not obtain their thirty thousand naval credits j more or less, as Maine did through the me dium of their sub-districts and municipalities, I but by the employment of city agents, who were to clutch and grab all kinds of men and I credits, no matter where they enlisted, to j what State or district the belonged or from j what State or town they received their bounty. I If they were men who were then or had at any time been in.any branch of the Military ser vice oi the United States, and unassigned and entitled to credit under the laws of Congress, then they sought to be quoted to that State, city or town where the largest bounties could be commanded. If they were merely credits then they were subject to the assignment of these paid agents. Of this latter class it is understood these two cities largely filled their quotas. The city of New Y'ork, it seems proper to say, arranged with one Blunt, a gentleman of great energy, formerly from Skowhegan 1 think, in this State to fill its quota. He had been conspicuous in the affairs of that great city for a quarter of a century. With great promptness he met the requisition of the Government with these twenty thousand credits of men already i* the service of the country. For thus relieving his city, he received directly and indirectly about one hundred thousand dollars, and up to this time it is not known that any investiga tion has been had or ordered, or threatened. That wa9 the reception which Blunt met with when lie had saved hit city from the “hated and hateful draft." Boston entered into a written contract with one Burrill to fill her quota from the same class of credits. He was to have one hundred and twenty-five dollars for each man or credit put on the quota of the city. Under his contract he had assigned on the quota of that city more than six thousand of this class of credits, giving him as per agreement nearly a million of dollars. This vast sum astonished and shocked the authorities of Boston, and they sought to avoid its payment. Fortunately for the Treasury of- the city, the keen eyed so licitor discovered a defect in the contract, a fatal defect. Repudiation followed the dis covery; Boston saved four millions of dollars and Burrell cheated by the officials, is to-day pleading at the door of the City Council for twenty-five thousand dollars of the millions which lie saved to the city's Treasury. Shame ful to Boston if the credits were genuine—a swindle on the government if they were fradu lent. She should pay the millions to the Gov I eminent or the thousands to Burrell. This claim of Burrell is still pending before the City Government of Boston and within a few days that eminent man, Wm. B. Spooky, Esq declared before the city council “that he felt and all good citizens felt that injustice had been done to Mr. Burrell.” Mr. J. M. S. Williams gave an interesting account of his experience as a recruiting committee in Cambridge during the war, and how 1 glad he was, at a critical time, to pro cure from Mr. Burrell some hundreds of just such credits for that city.” “He had not a doubt that a draft was saved to the city of Boston by the means adopted by Mr. Burrell.” Janies A. Dupce, Esq., said, “in this case justice had not been done.” Hon. Henry \V. Paine, a gentleman well and favorable known in Maine, sustained Mr. Burrell, and favored a reference, "that jus tice might be done him.” It is understood that the credits of Burrell were composed of enlistments in both the Naval and Marine Service. No complaint has I been entered against these kinds of credits there. i Now the city of Boston has a population of less titan two hundred thousand. The State i of Maine, with seven hundred thousand and I more, with two hundred miles of sea coast, skirted witli a people necessarily tempted and inclined to the sea, could not have tailed to put three times as many men inte the Naval service as the city of Boston. Moved by the highest impulses of patriotism, stirred to its I depth, by enthusiasm for the National Flag, claiming preeminence in fidelity to the Union i and denying audience to all else till its pres ervation was assured, will you so far modify J remembrances of those "Historic days and immortal,” as to conclude that only thirty-two hundred and forty-nine sturdy men went into the Naval service from Maine? Never, and yet but titat small number stands to our cred it. Mr. .Speaker, It is safe to affirm that more than eight thousand men went into the Naval and Marine service from Maine and as citizens of Maine. Four hundred aud fifty one are known and named, who went into the U. S. Army prior to September fid, lStoi, and were never credited, tk vciiiecii hundred anti forty-seven enlisted in the Aegiments oi oth er Mates prior to that date, and were a total loss to Maine. This is not all. It is suscep I ttble of proof, that more than twelve thou sand men were thus lost to Maine, during the war, by original and re-enlistments for other 1 States. And yet because thirty-two hundred I ami forty-nine of this vast number had been i quoted to Maine, the very sky lias been dark ened by the denunciations of ambitious ns pirants. partizan politicians, ami their igno i rant followers, and the unscrupulous have sought to make charaeterpay tribute to their infamous demands. The man who will thus submit to be pursued without protest, or who will permit others to be thus assailed and dis honored, is a coward and a sneak! Worse still, is the man or men who will give counte nance to aetion so abominable and to pur poses so vile that he or they may enjoy the outgrowth of his accumulated ruins. To all i such miscreants let there be but one reply "1 tell ye all, 1 am your betters, traitors as ye are." Begging your pardon for this digression, I will return to the line of my remaiks. Now, Mr. Speaker, It seems proper to en quire how and by what authority these en listments come to be credited on the quota of I Maine. Were they gathered by vagrants and unscrupulous bounty robbers and brought here by knaves who seek money even at the expense of national life? Were they assign ed to us in gross by the government tor equit able distribution among the sob-districts and towns of the State? Nothing of this kind. No agent went forth to hunt them. Noas signment in gross was made of them. The statementof the “Commissioners on the Equal ization of the war debts” that “To the State of Maine the General Government assigned a certain number of these eica, generally un derstood to tie two thousand live hundred; but whether just this number or a consider ably larger number, we are not able to state, ic," is devoid of any foundation in fact, and

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can only be accounted for on the ground that they guessed at, instead of examining for fact The General Government never “assigned,” never contemplated assigning, and never had authority to “assign" a single one of “these men” to Maine. Got me tell the gentleman from Chcrryfleld, nml the “Commissioner” with who!* he is as sociated in business, of the modus cptrandi of ascertaining who went into the Naval ser vice from Maine, and how the credits and “assignments” were made. I think when I am done that he will conclude the statement of the “Commissioner”, his law partner, (for lie is the author of this report so unjust to many towns in Maine), and his own. as to these three thousand assignments, are but the pulpy suggestions of the wildest fancy. These credits came to Maine by and under the authority of a law of Congress approv ed July 4, 18f>4, and promulgated by “General Order” No. 87, July fi, two days after approv al. It may not be uninteresting to this House to have mo briefly state the reasons which seemed to control Congress in the enactment of this Statute. If it is not interesting, it can not fail to help them to better understand the matter February ‘-'4, 18(14, the President is sued a proclamation calling for “five hundred thousand men.” Those nun were largely wanted in the western armies, and especially to join Sherman in his magnificent campaigns, resulting in the unparalled march to the sea. Those jealousies which have been perceptibly growing up between the East anil the West for years, grew conspicuous and animating after this call. The Western States declared that there was a deficit existing on former calls in New England and the Central States, of more than one hundred thousand nun. and that until these balances were made good they would furnish no more. That was the sec tion where men were most needed—this was a crisis in the nation. In reply to this claim of the positive and overbearing West, New York, Pennsylvania and New England claim ed that if they could be permitted to go to the Naval Records, they could show that no de ficit existed: that in fact th^ enlistments in the naval and marine service from those sec tions were more than sufficient to balance ac counts. These classes of men had never been considered subjects of credit up to this time, as the navy was considered a pleasant way out of danger, lint ns these calls for men re pealed, the necessity of their being credited became apparent to every fair mind. Enlist ments in the naval service as rapidly reduced the mtmlier of men liable to service as they did in the army, without in any manner tend ing to reduce the number of men called for. The injustice became apparent, as I said be fore, on July 4, 18C4. Congress passed a law of which Section 8 reads as follows “Ami be it further enacted, That all persons in the naval service of the United States, who have entered said service during the present rebellion, who have not been credited to the quota of any town, district, ward, or State, by reason of their being in said service and not enrolled prior to February twenty-fourth, Igbfeeti hundred and sixty-four, shall he en rolled and credited to the quotas of the town, ward, district, or State, in which they respec tively reside, upon satisfactory proof of their residence made to the Secretary of War.”

The next thing to be done was to ascertain who were in the. naval service—from what state, city, town or plantation, and for how long a term of service- On the 7th ot July, 1884. was issued the following letter: ‘•War Department, lb M. CJ. Ilureau, Washington. D. C., July 7, 18G4 His Excbli.knct. Samiki. Conv, Governor of Maine, Augusta. Maine. Sir, Section 8 of tin- act approved July 4. 18G4, further to regulate and provide for the enrolling and calling out the national forces and for other purposes, is as follows

And be it further enacted, That all persons in the naval service of the United States, who have entered said service during the present rebellion, who have not been credited to tin quota of any town, district, ward, or State, by reason of their being in said service and not enrolled prior to February twenty-fourth, eighte™ hundred and sixty-four, shall be en rolled and credited to the quotas of the town, ward, district, or State, in which they respec tively reside, upon satisfactory proof of their residence made to the Secretary of War.

“The Secretary of War hereby appoints Your Excellency anil Major J. W. T. Gardi ner, A. A. Pro. Mar. Gen. for the State of Maine, a commission to ascertain what credits tin State of Maine and the different sub-di risions of the State are entitled t'o under the law given above. In determining this question, the Secretary thinks it will be fair to assume tiiat the State in which Naval Enlistments have been made, is entitled to credit for the enlistments, unless it shall appear by more direct evidence that the credits belong elsewhere. The points of law to be observed iu applying the act quoted, will readily he perceived by the commission. Mayor J. W. T. Gardiner, Act'g Pro. Mar. Gen. of Maine will carry into immediate ef fect all the credits allowed by the commission. i unless they shall specially require reference to the Secretary of War. I am Sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Jaiuks Ii. Fkt, Provost Marshal General. inti/, the Commissioners, \rer:"toasceitmn what credits the State of Maine and the dif ferent subdivisions of the State were entitled toNo assignment was made, but we must asceitain our rights. Clothed with this au thority the commission went at onee to its labors, and from a somewhat careful examin ation of their plans, 1 feel bound to declare lliatthe system or plan which Governor Cony and Major Gardiner adopted for attaining the names, residences, &e., of the men from Maine in the naval service, was the most pru dent, the most careful and the most certain that could possibly be devised. After considerate counsel and reflection, the commission determined to have suitable t,lacks prepared to be forwarded to the muni cipal officers of all the cities, towns and plan tations iu the State. This was done. Ac companying the blanks were explanatory notices directing the municipal officers—from ;>er“0!iai knowledge or or, umfuestiuncu proof —to return to the commission the names, residences, and length of service of ail per sons who had gone from their respective mu nicipalities into the naval service of the United States. Tins examination by towns and cities was to be careful and thorough, from personal knowledge or uhsolutc proof. Their returns formed the bases of all future action by the commission, with the exception of the four hundred and forty-seven “general credits,” mentioned in Major Gardiner’s letter which 1 will re;,11 before l close,—and it was upon the cerlitii ite ami claim of tie■ town of Chcrryfictd, Hie city of Portland, the city of Bangor, the towns of Tremont and Vassal boro’, of Harpswtll and Carmel, that this commission proceeded to apply the laws and assign the “hateful and fraudulent credits” to these claimant towns! Kxccpt new enlist-1 menu made subsequent to February 2, there was not in the Adjutant General’s office, or in any other branch of the State Govern ment, the name of a single man iu the naval service, until it came up, like the wild and nncalculating storm bird, from its dusty ob seeurity iu the town records or from informa tion obtained of the family. Let me repeat, that 1 may be understood, tiiat no naval credits wefe -‘assigned to Maine” by the war or navy departments or by the 1'resident. at any time or for any purpose during the continuance of the rebellionThe "commission was to ascertain what credits the State of Maine and the dif ferent sub-divisions of the .State are entitled to under the law given above," and upon tiieir statement and claim alone did the war depart ment order "the Provost Marshal General to allow the credits," as per letter dated August BO, ISM, whifli I will read before I close. In order to get these credits allowed, the sub dulricU of Maine hod to present the name of each credit claimed, with the date of enlist mcnt. $.c., to this “commission,” with satis factory proof of their claim—and upon their report, containing the names of the^ credit claimed, the war department acted. No "as signments” to Maine; only claimed credits "allowed.” You will thus perceive that the greatest care was exercised by tbe Govern ment and the commission. It was well, for we remember, gentlemen, that there was anxiety and alarm existing in Maine in July and August, 1864. From these details, this House will get a tolerably distinct knowledge of the manner of ascertaining the number of men enlisting for Maine in this branch of the service and also learn how the claims of towns were made up. The allow ing of these credits to Maine left three thousand of her hardy sons at home, and saved more than two I millions of dollars to her State and town i Treasuries that must otherwise have been paid out to supply the deficit. In ail this we were faithful to our Government and its laws and true to the great interests of our State. 1 am thus particular in detailing those facts that we may all the better and more intelli gently, enter our protests against these con tinuous and unfounded; these wicked and mischievous assaults, upon the complete and magnificent war record of Maine. I put upon the air no unmeaning challenge when I affirm the facts here stated, and hold myself account able for them everywhere. They came to the quota of Maine w ithout ex pense to the Treasury to the amount of a single cent, the declaration r.f the gentleman from Cherrvficld and the “Commission on Equaliza tion of the War Debts” to the contrary notwith standing. The silly reports that these men came back and drew three hundred dollars State bounty each, could have only originated in tbe manufactory of tbe mischief-maker, or in tlie imagination of the political slanderer, i hey have been dignified by a cowardly and insinu- j nting endorsement in an important State paper and god-fathered by immature nursing in this House. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman from Cherry field is correctly reported in his speech of yes terday, he said that “the War Department as signed to Maine about three thousand of these credits; that commission assigned eighteen hundred of them to tow ns and that the balance was disposed of in some mysterious way. and that these men subsequently received three hundred dollars bounty from the State for each man.” If I am not correct the gentle man will advise me. To the first part of this statement I will reply by official transcripts from the records. To the latter 1 have already done so. I will venture in this connection however to repent and rc-affirm, and the hooks of the Treasury and of the Acting Paymaster sup port tne in it. that not one of these men ever received one cent of State bounty directly or indirectly. Its repetition only makes its offensive character more conspicuous and in famous. Now to the assignment of these thirty odd hundred men. Let me show the gentleman from Cherryficld, his law partner and the members of this House what the War Department says about their disposition. On the 30th of August. 1SG4, the Provost Marshal General wrote as follows Washington. I). C. Major J. W. T. Gardiner, A. A. Pro. Mar. Gen. Augusta, Maine. Mai oft :—I tun directed by the Pro. Mar. Gen. to acknowledge the receipt of the com munication of the 20th inst., from the com mission appointed hy the Secretary of War to give credit for enlistments in the Navy under section 8 of enrollment act approved July 4. 1864, announcing that credit was due the State of Maine for three thousand and eighty three men (3083) enlisted in the Navy and not heretofore credited. The l'rorost Marshal (.lateral allows the credit. Please give it ac cordingly and notify His Excellency, Gov ernor Pony, of this action. Very rcsp’ly, your ob’t.,.servant, T. A. Dodge, Major V. R. C. In charge of Enrollment Bureau. War Dept. Washington, Feb. 7 1870. Official Copy. Thos. M. Vincint, Asst. Adj. Gen. Enclosed in this letter or copy was a ‘-state ment of men in the Naval service of the I’nited States, credited to the State of Maine as per returns received to Aug. 24th, 1804.” Districts. First Dist.. seven hundred anil fifty-eight, 758 Second two hundred and sixty eight, 268 Third four hundred and eighty nine, 489 Fourth two hundred and thirty two, 232 Fifth eight hundred and seventy nine, 879 2,626 General credits four hundred fifty-seven, 457 3.083 J. W. T. Gahiunek. Maj. and A. A. P. M. G. Sami el Coxy.” ‘•War Dep't, A. G. U. Washington, D. C. Feb. 7, 1870. Official Copy. Taos. M. Vixcf.nt, Asst. Adj. Gen.” Subsequently a “statement of additional Na val credits, returned since August 24, 1864. allowed by commission, to and including Sept. 5, 1864. exclusive of any recent enlistments, embraced in return of the A. A. Provost Mar shal General.” “Distbicts—Additional credits transferred to districts from those heretofore returned as ‘General Credit.' Total. First District, 66 0 63 Second 36 4 40 Third 41 36 77 Fourth 22 22 Fifth ill 1 12 216 Total 1st Report, 3083 3209 Number transferred from General Credits to districts to be deducted, ."0 Total allowed Slate of Maine, 3219 J. W. T. Gahoineh. Maj. and A. A. P. M. G. Same el Cony, Gov. of Maine. Official Copy. Thos. M. Vincent, Asst. Adjt. Gen. War Department, A. G. Washington. Feb. 7, 1870.” Mr. Speaker:—1 submit these official and authenticated documents from the war De partment as conclusively demonstrating the falsity of nil the covert insinuations and open assumptions of the “Commission on the Equalization of the War debts,” the gentle man from Clierrytild ind all others. Official integrity and prudence, since Governments were organized, were never more perfectly vindicated. Demonstration has pronounced these infamous reports as the outgrowth of political inebrietv, and a wanton contempt for the rights of individuals and the dignity of Government. If the House will allow me I will offer one other piece of official testimony which may tend to establish the legitimate character of the “General Credits” which have attracted su much attention arid invited such curious and intelligent suggestions. In Sept. 1864, “An honorable gentleman from Maine” as the “Commission on the Equalization of the War Debt” were pleased to call him, and with which compliment 1 fully concur, wrote the War Dept, as follows Gffice A. A. Pro. Mar. Gen. Augusta. Me., Sept. 2d, 1864. “General: 1 have the honor to acknowl edge the receipt of your telegram of the first inst., relative Pi the ‘Naval Credits' of this State, and to say in reply that the names of those thus credited are borne upon the Enroll- ment Litis of the several IHstricts of this State and are certified to by the Provost Mar shals as irt the service since the commence ment of the ‘Rebellion,’ with the exception of those claimed as ‘General Credits’, whose names are borne on the lists of the several receiving ships as enlisted from the State of Maine. 1 am General, very respectfully, your obedient servant. (Signed) J. W. T. Gakkineb, Maj. and A. A. P. M. General.” Urig. Gen. James R. Fkye, Pro. Mar. General. I Official Coft. Thomas M. Vincent, Asst. Adjt. Gen. War Department A. G. O. Washington, Feb’y. 7, 1870. Tims you will observe that this “honorable gentleman from Maine,” informs the War Department that twenty-eight hundred and forty-two of these “Naval Credits” are “borne upon the Enrollment I.ists of tiie sev eral Districts” (towns and cities of this State) and their claims “certified to by the Provost Marshals" and allowed to these Claimant Dis trietsby the Commission. That of “those claim ed as ‘General Credits' whose names are home on the lists of the several receiving ships, as enlisted from the State of Maine.” fitty ol them were assigned to the various districts. leaving still in the hands of the commission t four hundred and seven men. Now let me say to this House that it is not. difficult to form a tolerably reliable conclusion as to the probable disposition of these tew 1 men. If I am not grestly mistaken, more or less 1 of the poor and deserving and oppressed towns in the remote portions of the State, were relieved l>y them. It will not lie for gotten that large and rich towns aud cities ot tered bounties so large, that thousands of men went from their own poor, small bounty tow ns to those offering inducements so ex travagant. In fact, the available men in many towns of this kind, were entirely ab sorbed by these heavy paying towns. Hoes any man say that it would not he proper and equitable to put to such deserving and op pressed towns, enough of these “General Credits,” belonging exclusively to the fxtate. to make good those whom poverty had com pelled them to lose? If he does, let him stand up now, that we may see so unnatural a curi i osity. No man does or can object; justice i and equity conspire to vindicate such action. It was proper and right. Before I proceed to another part of my statement I will snv a word as to w here and in what parts of the’ State these credits were assigned—these “paper credits” who have so long cursed timid men with the “night mare,’ and stained with uncertainty and suspicion the War Itccord of our State. To the first Congressional District, com prising within its limits the large city and -ea- port of Portland and the thriving c ity of Hid- j deford, (one of which had three hundred and eleven and the other, ninety of these men,and Kittery eighty-four) there was allowed 758 j of these credits. Coming up to the Second District which finds the outside at Bath, we find that 208 of these men we're allowed. Next comes this Third District. Augusta the center; this asserted Central depot of wrong and outrage. With all the enlisting depots ai d mustering offices; with general head-quarters for ali representatives ol the Army and Navy; w ith our facilities nnd dis position to grab nnd hold—to find and ap propriate— we gathered the comfortable num ber of 489 of these branded representatives l of a myth. Then the Fourth (Penobscot) District comes i in order. I confess to some surprise at the report of this District. Brokerage w as un derstood to be rampant in this section. Anx iety was conspicuous, as my frie nd from Ban gor will testify, and yet hut 232 of these cred its are to be found in that great Congressional District. Only about seven per cent, went to her credit. Xow let us look at the Fifth and last 1 1«- j trict. in which resides the distinguished gen tleman from Cherryfield and also the author of the lteport of the "Commission on the j Equalization of the War Debt.” When I read from the report of this "Commissioner” those j words which would bring a shriek from the barbaric Fcgee, that "when the army of the 1 Potomac lay panting and exhausted, hut vigilant and watchful in front of Petersburg.” 1 turned with tearful eye and hopeful heart to this District and home of the “Commissioner” to assure myself that no branded recruit dis honored her record, and that, repudiating ami denouncing all such sham recruits, she had sent "forward men, strong, able, brave men. to make one grand, final effort.” What was my astonishment when that terrible, tell-tale Kecord revealed no "strong, able, brave men." sent forward to aid and relieve the “panting and exhausted but vigilant and watchful” in making “one grand and final effort.” but in stead of these “brave men" eight hundred and ninety-one of these “wrong and iniquitous” credits sprung up from their “pigeon hole” ambuscade, and the “Fifth District” had borne triumphantly away thirty per cent, of the en tire naval enlistments in Maine. Vigilance, j in pursuit of “paper men” proclaimed her vic tory. and the army of the Potomac was left “panting and exhausted, hut vigilant and watchful in front of Petersburg." I am thus particular about this District, that this House and the people of Maine may know that the towns of this far off portion of the State, skirt ing the Provinces, the Ocean and the wilder ness, had vastly more than any other portion of the State, of these “wrong and iniquitous credits.” If they are fraudulent, who perpe trated the fraud? From whence come this thirty percent, of all naval enlistments Con sult these energetic gentlemen who have so long ornamented the cities of Belfast and Ellsworth and other points in the more East ern Maine; gentlemen some of whom are to day in the enjoyment of popular favors and honors at home, and others the trusted agents of the Finance Department of the Govern ment abroad The fabulous sums of money which these men weekly drew from the State Treasury for substitutes, would make the eye of the toll gatherer stand out like the beauties of the “Grecian Bend.” They would plunge their twenty and fifty thousand dollars into j the open mouth ot their grab bag with the indifference of the ten c ent Kouletter. Popular criticism pronounced them “smart” and a generous endorsement sent them bound ing into office. Has popular clamor haunted them in their successes or disputed their promotion? Their locutions and political relations shielded them from sueli dangers, and friendship and oldi gation confided to them the honors and the delicacies of public trusts. They are smart and were honorable, but they did not hesitate to play conspicuous parts in these terrible hours, when universal alarm proclaimed the approach of the “draft man” and of the desolation of homes. From that day to this n “Commis sioner on the War Debt" or Eastern Ilefonn er or philanthropist, has raised his voice in judgment against them. Mr. Speaker, with this part of my subject I am done. I have shown this House the manner of obtaining, proving, forwarding and allowing the naval credits, all of them. Thirty two hundred and forty-nine men constitute the whole number allowed to Maine us enlisted prior to February a, 1804. Twenty-eight hundred and forty-two of these were allowed by tlie commission, to the towns upon their own proved and approved claims. The four hundred and fifty-seven “general credits" find their defence in the report of Major Gar diner. 1 make no doubt this House is fully satisfied that these were honestly and properly quoted under the administration of this com mission of Governor Cony and Major Gardi ner. While I am on that part of my subject which refers to the Administration of Gov- ernor Cony, 1 desire to call the attention of this House to a most unworthy imputation and unmanly fling contained in the report of the “Commission on the Equalization of the War Debt.” On page eleven of that careful, veracious and dignified report, speaking of the “Marine credits” which 1 notice hereafter more fully, the “commissioner" says “just there in that crisis of the late war andof nation al life and death with the Government, an in dividual made his appearance at the State Capital, claiming to have come from Wash- ingtoh, and bringing in his pockets a long list of names all of which he asserte d to he the names of men who had enlisted in the service of the United States at some time since the commencement of the war and who had not been credited to the quota of any State or municipality." “Those names were ottered’’ to agents and recruiting officers. “Before l they could be cancelled by the use of these imma the approval of the proper United States officials must be secured. The office of A. A. I’rovost Marshal General of Maine was the n filled by »n honorable gentleman from Maine and an officer in the regular army. To him tins remarkable roll was shown and his approval of it solicited. That ap proval was denhd and probably with some expression of honest indignation. Not long afterwards this officer was ordered to another field of duty and his place supplied by an officer from a Western State. Then again appeared at the Sthte Capital the man with the once rejected list of names. And hence forward it seems there was no official veto upon the tilling of quotas of cities and towns with these names.” The purposes of this statement cannot be mistaken by any intelli gent gentleman. It is a base and wanton ef fort to discredit and dishonor the then Executive of Maine by meanly insinuating that lie was instrumental in procuring trio removal or dis placement of Major Gardiner, that th se nl irdgcd credits might be endorsed, and allowed to Maine. 1 think the judgment of this House, before 1 get through with my evidence, will concur w ith me iu concluding that this state ment of this “commission” is without any honest foundation and had purely mis chcivous ami unworthy objects in view in its promulgation. For fourteen months this commission was in session in the State House in the discharge of these duties. They had not been author ized to put upon record anything not sustain ed by facts. They were supposed to lie men who would impartially consider the rights of tile State and the claims of towns. Governor Cony was living as lie now does within ten minutes ride of their place of business; v ery frequently at the State House and coming in contact with them often. Stepping across the rotunda of the eapitol they could have had of eial information of the removal of Major Gardiner and the reasons tlierelor, by a sim ple inquiry of the accomplished Adjutant Gen eral Murray. Notwithstanding the proximity of this office and the well known fact that official testimony was there, notwithstand ing tlie frequency of meeting Governor Cony, they never sought one iota of testimony from anywhere, the Adjutant General’s office or the Governor, to contradict or confirm their in- j decent conclusions. v For purposes incomprehensible and incom patible with any honorable suggestions, they determined to go to the people with a report voiscus with venom and gangrecned with unwarranted imputations, and in defiance of the evidence so easy at hand. The gross ness of the statement will he evidenced by the official communications which I will now read “War Department, Pro. Mar. Gert'ls Office. Washington. D. 21 Nov. 1804. ••His Excellency Samuel Cony, Governor. Augusta, Maine: Sir:—It lias been deemed necessary to re- j lieve Major J. W. T. Gardiner from duty as Act. Asst. Prov. M arslial General of Maine. The condition of Major Gardiner's health has. it is apprehended, prevented him trom giving the amount of labor to bis official du ties which will hereafter be required. "Major K. M. I.ittier, the officer detailed to relieve Maj. Gardiner, has been selected a tain. ’or shall in any way aid or assist in tilling tin* quota of any state other than the State of i Maine, or any town in this state, for each of fence upon conviction or indictment, shall be punished by fine of five hundred dollars and by imprisonment not exceeding one year. Is it surprising. Mr. Speaker, that a class of credits thus dignified and honored by this high action, should be sought for by towns, i municipalities generally, and sometimes by private agency “Five hundred dollars" fin a and a year’s imprisonment i* putting an ex i travngant price upon* paper credits’’—“wrong and iniquitous" enrollments! No stigma was put upon these* “credits"—they were not pro j lioimced “fraudulent”—but their obtainment by the state was commended and urged. This Committee was appointed, to expose, to hold up to public scorn and contempt; to de nounce not only the “credits” hut all men who had to do with them. Their Report was i only a complaint that private parties “have i been permitted to operate for their own profit and benefit.” Let the state go into it and all is right. So determined was this “Inquisition” that the State should have the sole honor of put ting in these “wrong and inquisition” credits, that they not only attached high fines and imprisonment to private enterprise, but they provided that the State agent should he sub jected to all the “rules and regulations” that make up the military trammels of the L’nited States army. The country was dissatisfied with that re pot t. They denounced it as a “whitewashing report”—nobody had been exposed or dis honored. They demanded a victim. The people were excited, for money came hard. Some body must bear the blame. Let him be held up to be elioped at and pointed at. So the tumult was kept up until the next meeting of the Legislature. Then another investigation was ordered, and a committee was appointed composed of gentlemen, who for ability, learning, und in tegrity, have been equalled by no similar number of men in any Legislature of Maine since 1 became acquainted with the State. In the Senate Hon. Geo. W. Woodman of Portland, Hon. Mr. Mansur, Mason of York, and Mr. Ramsdcll of Piscataquis, composed the committee. At the head of this committee in the House stood General Geo. F. Sheplcy, the undis puted leader of his profession in Maine, equal to the ablest in New England and now one of the Judges of the district courts of the Cnited States. With him was Ex-Governor Williams a gentleman of vast attainments and with the purity of the sunlight. Hon. Ed mund Wilson of Thomaston, good lawyer and warm democrat, who always carries his con eealed stilleto that he may plunge it where it well tell best for bis party. Woodman of Rueksport, since Speaker of this House, and so on to the end of the list. I will here sub mit the report to this committee as it will tell the story of their labors better than I can. It includes order of appointment, copy of ad vertisement and report of committee. I give it entire—hear me. The Joint Special Committee to which was re ferred the following order, Whereas, siiudry rumors have been circulated*to the effect that frauds have been committed in the matter of enlistments, and credits to towns, during the years 1803 and 1804, by persons amenable to the Mate; and whereas the people are desirous of a lull investigation into the matter of frauds com mitted upon the property of the Slate by any of its citizens, or upon the Nation; 1 (Government during the progress of tin* late rebellion by any citizen of our state: therefore, Ordered, That u Joint Select Committee of seven on the part of the House, with such as the Senate mav join, be appointed t1 ite, inconsistent with hi> oRb'ial duty. The Committee h ive not considered it within the scope of their duties under the order, to investigate j the fraudulent act* of substitute brokers, or agents to till the quotas of towns, where there wad no alle gation of my know lodge oi complicity on the put of any onbe’rof tin* M.ate. The testimony of the w itnesses examined by the f Committee in- b**eu reduced to writing, and is herewith tubmitUd. Gt«> W. Woodman. J. M. M i>os, .1 If. Kvmsdki.i.. G F SIIK1M.KY, MAS. C. sun KR. Edmund Wii son, .losKfil 11 Will! VMS, Tmko. C. Woodman, W\| S. Unix;!:, M II 1 Ml.>1.1 V This committee is understood to have ad vertised its meetings in a 11 the papers of the State or nearly so. notifying every hotly to come in and tell their atory. They said to “all persons having knowledge of any tacts connected with the subject of the enquiry" to “communicate the same to the chairmen or to appear before the committee.” They examinedeverybody about the Capital, the Governor, the Adjutant General, and everybody else who were supposed to know anything that could possibly aid them in their enquiry. Among the early spiritualists who made these discoveries wa> the Hang or Jejfersonio n. a paper kept alive for the purpose of doing the county printing of Penobscot county, and the viaduct through which was then sluiced the dirty slanders of the hour. I am now glad to bear testimony to its manly improve ment. The committee as a matter of course, in vited Bartlett to come up and expose the foul perpetrators of these swindles upon the State. The two first invitations found him en gaged in official duties, for, queer as it may seem, he was Register of Probate. The third one caught him on the wing, j Court was not in session. Did he come then? No. bir. lie sent a statement saying to the committee, 1 remember it well, that he knew nothing only from hearsay, and rumor, that from these he had published his remarks, and that, if compelled to appear, his “testimony would he more ornamental than useful.” So this pioneer was abandoned. Another one of the inaugurators and pro I motera of these expositions and iuquisitions J was the Hon. J. W. Porter, now on the Kx- I ceutive Council, then in the House of Hep- i rc.*cntatives. lie introduced the first propo- j sition in 1805 to investigate. He purdicd it with his usual vigor at that time, with what result you know. In 1-vG(j, at the next inves tigation. Senator Porter, for he had then gone up again, appeared before the Com mittee. IIis testimony was something of a curiosity—so much so that I arranged with the reporter to furnish some portions of it to I me. Here is one statement which tells a “story of its own.” In reply to a question from Mr. Wilson Mr. l*ortcr said "tilt* matter of paper credits came up in a great many ways before the last Legislature (1865). It came up in regard to legalizing tile action of tow n-, in paying boun i ties and in various ways. Feeling that there was something wrong about this matter and that the government was not getting men, j inyselt and a friend of mine undertook to make the action of towns in buying paper I credits thereafter null and void: but so many I towns were engaged in the business that that I was opposed everywhere arid by most every j body in file House and Senate.” It is under stood that l’orter's advice has since been lim ited That is the statement of the gentleman %ho originally moved on the these works, un successfully you may well believe from the continuance of the bombardment. Upon the testimony then and there taken the committee made the report which I have read in which they say "the committee are unable to discover any evidence that any fraud has been committed liy the State, V/ any of its officers, or t/y any citizen of the State, upon the national Government, in the matter of e nlistments or credits to the Stute, duriny the progress of the late rebellion." “That after the fullest investigation they have been enabled to make into the matter of en listments and credits to towns, they are fully satisfied and accordingly report that the evi dence before them dots mol tend to implicate any officer of the State in nny transaction, in connection with enlistments or credits to tho Stale, or any district or sub-district in the State inconsistent with his official duty.” Such is this report of a committee never equalled ill any previous Legislature of Maine for ability. For thoroughness it seemed im possible to surpass it. Upon the testimony then submitted ail the State officials and all private individuals are distinctly exculpated front every thing that tended even to implicate them in misconduct. In the early part of the session the gentle man from Cherryfleld called upon the Secre tary of Slate to place the testimony of lttUil in custody of this House—the honorable Secre tary replied that only the Acts and Resolves having the force of law were tiled m that of fice. Correct too, to my knowledge. This testimony could not he found. Then came up from "Mo. 0,” theblarny room of the capi tol. the sepulchral cry, “stolen, stolen," and I joined in this first cry of returning reason, and shouted “stolen” too. Could these curi osities hold their annual carnival of slander and imputation, unless testimony, so cxlion orating official and individal, was removed from within reach of those w hom they would pursue? I tell you nay. And having "stol en” this testimony themselves and the object becoming palpable, they raised the cheap, hut “played out” and cowardly cry of "stop thief.” 1 urn nuthorzcel to offer large re wards for that testimony aqd the burglar to go free, and his name to remain a blank! j 1 feel authorized to say in belialt of the gentlemen against whom these persecutions have been directed, that they oiler ho ex planations. The legislation under which they acted had been accepted by all loyal States w ith a generous recognition ot its pro priety and justice. It came to Maine as the considerate judgment of a great nation strug gling in the very throes and agonies of death. It w"us accepted as a right by a people who scorn to appropriate what was not their own. Equal anil exact justice they offer; they will not be content w ith less. Those terrible days are passed now. Hut that they were is told along the whole turn pike of the Republic. lio we lament that there were not more of them and those more painful I do not so conclude. Let me inquire of gentlemen, as they revert to those days of perpetual night, w hen there was scarcely one ray of light to lead the patri ot on,—when the smitten father went tottering to hi, field with no hardy son to hear up his palsied arm,—when the still eye of the moth er told the story of her sacrifices and her sor rows as she nazrd, without a motion, upon the vacant chair at her fireside,—when wo see the smitten sister, going alone and daily, through storm and sunshine alike, to lay tier lov ing tribute down and mark the spot where a patriot lies,—when one half the homes in Main c wore craped in mourning, .and desola tion bore witness to our morning .ansi evening prayer. Go with me bark to those moments of despair, and then tell me, if you will, that our sacrifices should have been greater and our work better done. All l gentlemen, the exultant hour of triumph has no thought for the “little hare-foot” at the street crossing. Those of us who performed the safer duties, know little of the tempest that smites the broken-hearted! 1 have done. I conclude that our Roll of Honor is long enough—that our pension list is large enough. Liberty has triumphed and justice has vindicated her rights to enthron ment. To-day they stand thus exalted through agony and death. The young men of Maim* "ere assigned their part and were crowned with marvelous honors in these great achieve ments. Maine contributed the full measure of her energy and her patriotism in the struggle for the 1'nion. Let her war record, which will one day so dignify history, under the smiles of Providence, stand secure against the un friendly and the thoughtless. Let us pro claim our soldiers as illustrious among men; the “darlings of Providence ami the com panions of angels,” ami swear on bended knee that the names of nu n who contributed so much in lifting a race to manhood and a broken Republic to Empire and grandeur, shall be transmitti d through all the generations with constantly augmenting gratitude and love. pailjj $cnncber Journal. AUGUSTA, FRIDAY MORNING, April 1, 1870. STATE OF MAINE. BY THE GOVERNOR. A PnOCL A >r ATION. Avouching the Lord Jehovah, the God of our fathers, as the rightful Sovereign to w hom men anti natious owe supreme obedieuce and worship. I do hereby, with advice of the Executive Council, appoint Thursday, the 14th day of April next, AS A DAT OY Public Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer. And I earnestly exhort U»e people to join on that day with penitence and confession in remembering our low estate and utter need, that it may so please God to grant His blessing on our sufferings and toils. Especially at this eeason, reminded of Him who bore our grief* and carried our sorrows, may w e find that Saving Help which condescend* unto the lowliest heart, and guide* in righteousness the nations that acknowledge Him. Given at the Council Chamber in Augusta, this twenty-sixth day o! March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and of the Independence «»t the United States of America the ninety-ton: th. JOSHl'A L. CUAMBEKLA1N. By the Governor. Fkanklin M. L>kew. Secretary of State. FIFTEENTH AMEN DM EE T. The message of President Grant and proclamation of Secretary Fish announc ing the ratification of the Fifteenth Amend ment by a sufficient number of States to make it a part of the constitution, com pletes an important work in relation to the i colored people which emancipation re i quired of us to perform. It was made j evident at an early day after the rebellion that the action of the Southern States in

I giving the right of suffrage to the freed nten would be reversed at the first oppor tunity, and that unless the right were fixed in the national constitution it would lie worthless. Accordingly the amendment was submitted to the States by Congress, and now becomes a part of the constitu tion. The message of President Grant to Con gress upon the subject will strike the pub- lie as one of peculiar appropriateness and well calculated to place in its true light this important measure. It is, says lie, a “measure of grander importance than any other one act of the kind from the foundation of our free government to tin; present lime.” The raising of the negro from the condition of a slave to that of a tree citizen of the Tinted States, equal to his former master, lord of himself, and having a voice in the decision of public measures and agents at the ballot box as potent as the best, is indeed a mighty step. Henceforth the negro has his des tiny in hi-own hands. The recommcnda- 1 tiou which the President makes to the newly enfranchised race, "to make them selves worthy of their new privilege,” tells them in those few words the duty which lias devolved upon thenj. All now depends upon themselves. Ihe oppor tunity is placed in their hands to improve their condition. With freedom find the right of suffrage they may be more miser able Ilian in slavery; but with industry, sobriety, morality and an earnest endeavor to make the most of the advantage now secured to them, they may rise in social position and wealth and have a fair share of representatives in the public offices and places of honor and trust. Scarcely less ill)portant than his advice to the colored people is the President’s counsel to the white race, to “withold no legal privilege of advancement from the new citizens.” The disposition to grudge the colored peo ple privileges is not dead yet. The prej udice against their color, as well as their former condition of servitude and lack of cultivation, operate ngainst them, and tend to deprive them in some cases of rights and privileges which properly bc iongto them. Still if the colored people will start with tiie determination to do the best they can they will conquer in time. If they suppose they are to live without

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work, honest effort to take care of them selves, they will find their freedom a burden and wish for slavery again. Lib erty unties Jtho hands of the slave, but what they luive afterwards they must get by labor. The earnestness with which the Presi dent speaks of the necessity of education cannot be too highly commended, and ought to have an influence to stir up de linquent towns, districts and States, of the while race, as well as to arouse the newly freed blacks, to a deeper interest in general education. The fact that the government rests upon the intelligence of the people never was more forcibly or fitly mentioned than in this mes-age, At the moment the President congratulates the freedmen upon securing the great privilege of the ballot, ho advises them to educate themselves that they may become worthy of it, and then calls upon Congress to do all it can to promote and encourage popular education throughout the country, ami upon the people to spread its blessings so that the government may reap the ben efit. Let the tailored people rejoice in their secured rights and make the most of them. The senior editor of the Maine Standard, who was out of tliu counsel of Lawrence Doyle, who was tried for the murder of Laura Vellie Libby of Strong, sentenced to death in 1864, and recently died in the State Prison, says in the last number of that paper: The proof against him was entirely cir cumstantial and all of it from which infer ences Of guilt could properly be drawn had no better basis than the excited imagina tion of the witnesses. So intense was public indignation against the crime and so great was the anxiety of all to have the guilty party convicted and punished that for the want of better proof against some one else the most trivial circumstances were magnified into weighty evidences of guilt against Doyle and thus he fell a vic tim to the circumstances by which lie was surrounded. We can conceive of no greater wrong that can be perpetrated upon a fellow be- ingtluin to convict him of an infamous crime when innocent. To be murdered would be kindness in comparison to such j a wrong. That Lawrence Doyle suffered i that monstrous wrong at the hand- ot the community in which Tie unfortunately hap pened u> live we have no question. Duilty of no crime, he lias been incarcerated in a felon's prison and suffered the unutterable anguish of a living death for seven and a half years, anti now that death has kindly released him, his name rests under a mountain weight of obloquy auil a leg acy of anguish is left to bis relatives and 1 friends. Poor Doyle! We bad hoped lie might live to see the truth of his innocence brought to light and his name relieved from unmerited obloquy and reproach, but it was not so to be. He protested bis innocence to the last, When he had be- come very sick, so much .so as to be un concious at times, Warden Uice talked with him and informed him that he thought that be could not live, and urged him to confess and tell the truth about the murder and he replied that he could tell nothing more than he had already told. An Alignstii correspondent of tin- Boston Post says land will be set apart for the new Scandinavian colony somewhere between Presque Isle and Ashland, and probably twenty to thirty mile* wen of Fort Fair field. Lots of 100 acres each are to be surveyed as soon as practicable, under di rection of Uie Land Agent, Hon. Parker P. Bnrleigh, which ure to be given to the proposed settlers upon certain easy con ditions. Wm. W. Thomas, Jr., ol Port laud, is to proceed to Sweden as early as possible and gut a small number of iiuru grants to conic during the summer and take possession of the land set apart. The citizens of Hallowed by their action in relation to the building of a new steam mill in their vicinity manifested the light kind of spirit. When such enterprises will not go without help it is better fot the town to render the necessary aid than to allow the grass to grotv in their streets. THE NEW IXTEJIES T LA To the Editor of the Kennebec .Journal: I have examined An Act concerning the rate of interest approved March 11. 1*70, anil published in your paper of the 211d of March. I suppose it was intended to remove all re strictions in regard to interest. But it seem* to me that it makes no change in the previous lftws respecting usnry. At common law, 1 suppose, men could make such contracts as they might agree to make, in regard tocompcnsalion to be paid for the use of money. By chapter 45 of the Revised Statutes, on “Usury," the legal interest was established at the rate of six dollars on a hundred for one year. It was also provided bv the same act. that in certain cases where a larger interest w as taken or reserved, such excess should be de ducted, and the plaintiff recover no costs, but pay costs to the defendant. It was also provided, that any person pay ing such excessive interest might recover the t same. Are these provisions at all affected by the act of March 11. 1S70? This act, as printed in your paper, in sec tion 1, provides that. “In the absence of any agreement in writing the legal rate of interest shall be six percent, per annum.” But it does not authorize parties to make an agreement in writing, or otherwise, for a higher rate of interest. If there was no other Statute in force on the subject, it would be unnecessary to give such express authority; for. as before re marked, in tuck case, the authority would ex ist under the common law. Is the act already cited, concerning usury, chapter 45, repealed? See. 2, of the act of March 11 provides thus “All acts and parts of acts inconsistent here with are repealed." But there is nothing in the act concerning “Usury" “inconsistent herewith." If the act of March 11 had expressly au thorized a higher rate than six per cent; or if it had repealed all prior laws respecting usury, or all nets and parts of acts which wore prohibitory of a larger rate, the proposed change would have been effected. But It seems to me very clear that without judicial legislation, the former acts remain in full force. J. S. A. Hocal anli *tatr Xeios. __ The Governor has designated Thursday, the 14th inst., as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer. Look out to-day for cotton hiscuils, and don’t mistake a brick, carefully folded in a paper, for a pound of tea. Farmingdale Town Officers: Clerk, Geo. Warren; Selectmen, Sam’l E. Marshall, Wm. Winter, J. Ilodgdon; Treasurer and Collect i or, John Baker.

Frank Kinsman yesterday made a tempting display of genuine gold and silver coin in bis window, preparatory to the resumption of I specie payment to-day. A Major General's salute was fired at the C. S. Arsenal in ibis city, yesterday forenoon at eleven o’clock, in honor of the memory of the late Maj. Gen. Thomas, and the flag i placed at half mast. Our city Firemen will give a grand hall in i Mconinn Hall this evening, at which nil the firemen in the State are invited. Our boys of the hose and spanner never do things by I halves, and the character of the committee of arrangements is a guaranty that this will be a grand at fair. We learn that the remains of the late En I sign Wm. Woart of the S. Navy, who was accidentally drowned in the Bay of San Fran cisco, Cal., on the 18th of .June last, were I brought to this city on Saturday last, and the final funeral services performed at the resi lience of his mother on Myrtle street on the I following Tuesday, Rev. Mr Upjohn of St. Mark’s church officiating. I Mr. Alvan Fogg, the contractor for the work on the new post office, is busily engaged in getting out the necessary lumber and finish, and preparing everything to put in position when the time arrives for making the change. All the outside work of the office will he car ried forward and completed without disturb ing the present arrangements or discommod ing the public. The finish is to he of oak, and will be substantial and neat. The patent boxes w ill probably be manufactured in l’ort land. The train leaving Portland yesterday morn ing at 8.45 having Eastern and Boston and Maine trains, met with quite an accident, which happened in this manner: In giving a running switch the switch would not shift, and the Boston and Maine cars followed the 1*. S. P. engine* down their track. The break men of the Boston and Maine train findingthat they were on the wrong track, applied the brakes, hut the breakmen on the Eastern, thinking that they were right, let their cars come, and the two trains collided with such force as to stave in the ends of some of the ears. The only person injured was George Curtis the news-boy, who was passing between the ears at the time. He received serious in juries, being as it is thought) injured inter nally. It was a narrow escape for him. A package containing money to the amount of 8237, sent from a town in the eastern sec tion of tlie State amt directed to the Treasurer of State, ivas stolen from the Eastern Ex press office in this city, on Monday last. Sus picion at once rested upon a lad named Allen MeGraw, aged about sixteen years, living in j this city. He had been engaged at sundry times in the office, on small errands, and was there on Monday at the time the money was missed. On Monday evening he treated sev eral of his friends to a ride on the ‘•dumuiv” to Gardiner, being quite flush with his money, j City Marshal Farrington arrested the young j mail yesterday morning, and instituted a thorough examination with quite satisfactory results. He stontly and resolutely denied' stealing the money. A fifty cent scrip was found in liis pocket; this lie said was all the money he had about him. The vest w as taken otf and revealed another vest ben ath it. Money was found in both pockets of this vest, amounting to more than tell dollars. This lie said had been given him by his mother. One ol tlie little fellow’s hoots was then pulled oil j and a pocket hook found concealed in it, con taining over 8200. Further misrepresenta tion being useless, a clean breast was made of it, and MeGraw owned up to tlie charge. He said that on passing out at the hack door of the office on Monday forenoon, after a pail of water, lie intentionally lift tlie door unlocked, which remained in that condition at n ion, at which time MeGraw. availing himself of the absence of the clerk, entered and took the money, lie was yesterday before the munic ipal court, plead guilty, and was hound over in the sum of $800. MeGraw has a fathei and mother wlm arc industrious and respecta ble. This is said to be his first crime, but it is tlie legitimate fruitage of an education ill tlie street. The following is the record of deaths in this city from January 1st to April 1st, 1870, three months; Mrs. Betsey Foye, died Jan. 2, aged 88 years. Miss Marcia L. Barrows, died Jan. 12, aged 22 years. Patrick Welch, died Jan. 24, aged 51 years. Mrs. Betsey Wood, died Jan. 27, aged 91 years. Miss Mary E. Wolcott, died Feb. 4, aged 49 years. Hartley, son of II. Eugene and Sarah Louise Smith, died Feb. 6, aged 1 year G months 24 days. John McDonnell, son of Win. McDonnell, died Feb. 11, aged 4 months. Charles Henry Whitten, died Feb. 21, aged 1 year 3 months. Miss Mary Hawes, died Feb. 27, aged 1G years. Edwin Craig, died Mareli 7, in tlie 63th year of his age. Nathaniel Branch, died March 11, aged 76 years 11 months. Mrs. Susan K. Cook, died March 11, aged 07 years. Miss Martha C. Barrows, died March 12, aged 2S years 9 months. Mamie Kuss, died March 27, aged 14 mos. Infant child of Mrs. Stinson, died March 27. Total number of deaths during the quarter. 15. There were 05 deaths in the city from April 1st, 13G9, to Mareli 31st, 1870, one year, divided as follows males 29, females 36. Of the persons deceased seven were under one i year, ten between 1 and 10, five between 10 I and 20, fourteen between 20 and 30, five be 1 j tween 30 and 40, two between 40 and 50, ten i between 50 and 00, throe between V111 be Sold by Auction on that day. Apply to 1*. S. PEUCIVAL, or to 11. Sill CU.M AN, on the premises. Augusta, Mar. SI, 1870. T-llraar-lOds PLUMBING v|MIF Subscriber begs leave to inform the citizens X “1 Augusta and vicinity that he is prepared to do all kinds of Plumbing work at the shortest no tiee. Tho-e about to have water introduced into their buildings will do well to call on him before going elsewhere. II. U. STRATTON, Comer Bridge and Water Streets. Satis/action guaranteed. tttlmar-tf Tenement Wanted! A& i SMALL FAMILY desires a neat and ae'JaL convenient tenement, adapted to their wants. Inquire at the Jot'RNAf. Offick. Any in dividual occupying a tenement that contains‘sur plus room, will please call. fjhuar-tf Shooting Tackle. n. lov n, SUCCESSOR TO L. SI. I.ERAS’D, GUN S Xvf I X H And Dealer in Shooting Tackle of Every Variety. Rifles and Shot Guns made to order and war ranted. Old 6hot Guua rimmed out smooth and made to ►hoot thick and strong. Also, Ammunition of the nicest quality. Repairing done Xeatly and Promptly. ninHUng Powder. The best quality and largest stock ever kept in tins market. For sale at Factory price*. Country Dealers supplied in any quantity or quality at dis count. ljan-ly TNEPORT of the rendition rrf the Free st mans National Bank of Anginta, at cloac of lm«ines», tflxt March, 1870. fthsoriioE* TeWins and Discounts. $94,50# 13 p^-rdvafLi. 184 t>4 V. s. Bonds to secure Hrottlttion, 100,000 00 U. S. Bonds and securities on hand. 10,150 00 Other Stock*, Bonds and Mortgage*, 3,375 00 Due from Redeeming and Reserve Agents, 18,370 10 Banking House, 11,000 00 Current Expenses, 57 71 Premiums, 58 22 ('heck* and other Cash Items, 1,00*; 74 Bills of other National Banks, 1,335 00 Fractional Currency (including Nickels), 312 09 .Specie, (Coin and Coupons), 035 30 Legal Tender Notes, 14,375 00 $255,431 99 T.TARIimr*: Capital Stock paid in, 100.000 00 Surplus Fund. 11.000 00 Profit and Loss. 9,030 00 National Bank Circulation outstanding, 89.270 00 Dividends Unpaid, 495 00 Individual Deposits. 45,133 10 Due to National Banks, 503 89 $255 431 99 j STATE OE .WAIVE. Kennebec County, »x: I. .1. L A lain Cashier of the Freeman* National Bank Augu-ta.do solemnly swear that the above statement i.~ true, to the best'of mv knowledge and belief. J L. A DA MS, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this thirty lir.-t day of Mareh. 1*7f Augusta, do solemnly affirm that the above statement is true, to the best of my knowl edge and belief. WM. T. JOHNSON, Cashier. Subscribed and affirmed to before me, this 31st i day of March, 1**70. JOSEPH NOBLE. Justice of the Peace. Correct. Attest: BENJ II Ct'SHMAN. JAMES W NORTH, /Directors. tlftpr It I). ALDEN. {State of Maine. Resolves in relation to the publication of the Revised Statutes. Resolved, That as soon a* may be after the close of the present session of the legislature, the govern or aud council are hereby authorized and directed to contra* t with the responsible person or persons, making the lowest bid. lor the publication of the re vised statutes of this state, together with the consti tution thereof, the constitution of the Fnited States, the repealing act. and such other additions as are necessary, in a style not inferior in printing, paper and binding, to that of the last edition of the revised statutes, and the person or persons w ith whom such contract is made, shall be required to supply the state with two thou.-and copies. The governor and council are hereby authorizt l to make said con tract. upon such terms and conditions as they deem necessary lor the interests ot the state. Resolved. That the secretary of state is hereby di rected to secure the copyright of said revised stat utes for the u>e of the .-tale, and that no edition of the same shall be published by any other person than the party or parties wftli whom the said con tract is made, until alter the expiration of lire year* from the lirst day of February in the year of oui Lord on** thousand eight hundred and seventy one. Rcsoltxil, That the -aid fifteen hundred copies of the revised statutes, belonging to the state, shall when printed, be deposited by the person or persons pule li-hing the same in the office of the secretary of -t:.te. and the secretary is hereby directed t*>di.— I tribute the an me in flu* same manner a- provided by resolve approved March thirty-lir-t. in the year oi‘our Lord one thousand eight hundred and filly seven, and as now provided by law. Approved March 21,1870. STATE OF MAINE, Si KETAUVs OFFICT, \r*.r-rA. Mar. 2*>. 1870. I >ROP" A1.'* for the publication of the Revised J Maiutes a- -tated in the foregoing resolves, will be received and opened by the Governor ami oun eil at their next session. on Tnesdnv, April 5th. FRANKLIN M. DREW, niar28-*t api*5 Secretary of State. Notice of Appeals. r. 8. Interval Revemt, y Assessor’s Office. 3d Di-trict of 3!.-iire. Augusta, March 22. 1870. j I N conformity to Section 9. f the Act of Con* L gre-s. approved July 13th. 18m;, notice is hereby given that appeals, relative to any erroneous or ex ceM»ive valuations. assessments." or enumerations, returned in the annual li.-t lbr 1870, by the assessor or as-i-tant assessors of the third assessment dis trict of Maine, v. ill be received and determined by the assessor, at his office in Augusta. From the 1st to the 20th ot April, 1870, The law provides that “all appeals to the asses sor as aforesaid. *hall he in writing, am! shall specify the particular cause, matter, or thing re specting which a decision is requested, and .-hall moreover -tate the ground of principle of error complained of.*’ 8ELDEN CONNOR t22mar*13td Assessor 3d District of Maine. Paper Hangings! A FINE ASSORTMENT OF Stanipi (I ami Machine Gold, Satin, White blanks, buff ami brown PAPER HAXGIXGS, BORDERS, 1'uprr A Linen Curtain;,, Of the very latest ttvlea aud in (treat variety, just received, which we offer at Low Prices for Cosh Beale Farnham, ao.-l Wilt or Street. Aogustft, Mar. 10, lb70. llmar-Jw Bonds for Sale. #10,000 BONDS OF UNDOUBTED SECURITY, paying over 10 per cent, interest, For Sale or Exchange, For V. S. or State of Maine Bonds, AT THK1K Highest Market Quotations. B. E POTTER A BRO, Freemans Bank Building. Augusta, Mar. 17. 1S7U. _ fl7mar-lu The Home Shuttle StMving Nttichine This UNEQUALLED MACHINE makes the Lock Stitch, alike on both Sides, Has a Teiulon. and is adapted to every variety of SEWING. rniou. Aa7: MISS' HELEN HlNkLKY, NO. ft WESTON STREET. tiSmar-tw V n t. Girl Wanted V SITUATION in a private family to do house work. Tbs best wage* paid. Inquire at the Jot rnal Office. Augusta, Mar 13. 1870._flffinar-tf A Free Gift to All nlLt’H RHETMATlf PI1J.S. To Rheumatic, Neuralgia and Gout subject-, a sample box of these Pills will be given by F. W. Kins man, Water St.,‘ Augusta, and for sale by all Apothecaries at 25 » do. pfd. U Canton Co. 65 Cumberland Co Western Uuion Tel. Co. Quicksilver Miuiug Co. 9 1'aeitie Mail, 37S I Boston Water Power, 17L Boston, Hartford A, Erie, S3* A damn Lx. Co. 61 Wells. Fargo A Co. 19K American Merchants tin. :>8 U.S. Ex.Oo. 46.v4 N. Y. Central and Hudson River, i*2l, do. scrip, 110 Harlem, 113 Beading, [fly* Lake Shipre and Michigan Southern, 88 Mich. Central, 119>, Illinois Central, 140 Cleveland Pittshurg, 00 Chicago Nocih Wastem, Tf S' do. preferred. 83>« Chicago Bock Island, 120\ St. Paul, do. preferred, Toledo, Wubash Weal or 11. i Toledo, Wabash A Western preferred <4 Pittsburg A Fort Wayne, JjJ Tern* Haute, do.preld. Alton. “A* Ohio and Miss. I i*] rio, j Eric preferred. 30853 fToir York Produce Market. New Yokk, March 31. OTTON—.alee 2,000 bales; mill, uplands 22. Ki.ont—state 450: round houp Ohio430; western 4.'xi; southern 400g:i73. WHEAT—sales 78.000 hn; No. 2 Chicago spring, 108; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, 111 SU3; winter red and amber western 12:18 Ign. COHN—new mixed western, 1038105; old do. lor. OATS—state (11 s()3’a; western .WgSS*. I 'OitK—ute.s 20.50; prime 1H50.820.50. LAKH—steam 11814’, kettle do. 15315),. BUTTER— steady; Ohio 14424: state 33040. Chicngo|Produce Market,. Chicago, March 31. FLOUR—spring extras 3554775. WHEAT—miner; No,4, 764,. CORN—703k 877 for No 2 OATS-No 3S»<. JlEsh 1'CUw •—*i-00 HARLEY—dull at 50453 for No.2; 13440for No.3. I LAKD-14H8H'. FOREIGN NEWS BY CABUI. Pams, March 31. The first number of a new Religions Jour nal. of which Pierre Hyacinth* is the chief editor, appeared to-day. The police are actively pursuing investiga tions Into the alleged conspiracy against tb« Emperor. Nearly all the parties lately «t rested in connection with the affair are work men. Rome, March 21, The Schema de Fide was promulgated to day, and it is understood that the council would immediately begin the discussion of the Schema of Infalibillty. in which case the French Ambassador will not return to Borne and the Pope will issue a bull of excommunion against the dissident Americans. LovDon, March 21. The bill for tho preservation of peace in Ireland, passed thi*House of Lords this eve ning, having been previously debated in a Committee, and criticised by the Marquis of Clarereorde and the Duke of Abeveorn. In tho House of Commons Mr. Gladstone made an explanation in regard to the salaries vf suffragans which he said was not paid ont of the public monies. He also announced that a reduction is to tie made in the rates of inland postage. Mr. Afway the under foreign Secretary, promised to introduce a hill amendatory of the neutrality laws of England. In a discussion on tire order of business, Mr. Disraeli objected to the morning sessions proposed by Mr. Gladstone, and to the devo tion of so much time to Irish topics. The boat race between the “Renforth Tyne crew," and tho *‘St. John Paris crew.” negoti ated by Walter Brown, lias been definitely fixed to come off at the close of July on the St. Lawrence river, near Montreal. Both agree to row w ith a coxswain. Supreme Judicial Court, March Term. Charles Danrorth, J. Presiding. Wednesday, March 30. David B. Fuller vs. George S. Flood and al. (omitted in yesterdays report). Assumsit for pressed hay sold, not marked as statute requires. Assumsit ordered. Law on Report. Hinds. Webb. Thcusdav, March 31. James E. Chase vs. Rebccisr Tibbetts. As sumsit on promisory note for #20.00, for goods sold to husband in his life time, to son and to self. Defence, True, I signed it, but I thought it was a receipt.” Verdict for deft. Spaulding. Clay. Is a bell Dunn vs. Win. II. Dunn, libel for divorce. Titeomb for libelee, Vose for li belant. Heard by tire Judge. Divorce de creed and custody of the minor children given to the mother until otherwise ordered. Charles Frost of Winthrop, who was in dicted with Edwin Gothwait, for a felonious assault upon Robert L. Tyler with intent to kill, and plead guilty of a simple assault, was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail. The second jury was discharged from further attendance. Continental Life Insurance Co.’y, OF HEW YORK. OFFICES. Continental Building, Nos. 22, 24 and 20, Nassau .Street, New York. officers. Ju6tnn Lawrence, President; J. P. Rogers, Sec*y. New England Branch—“Boston Poet” Building. Devonshire Street, corner Water, Boston, Blass. Uah.naku Bros., Managers. The most successful Company ever organised. No. of Policies issued in 1809, 8,77$ Amount insured in 18fl», $21,246,000 Annual Premiums in 18G9, 2.377.000 Assets of the Company, Dec. 31st, 1809, 3,500,102.80 Profits of the Company annually divided. All Policies nonforfeiting. Thirty (lavs of grace al lowed in payment of preininnis and the Policy held good during the time. No permits required for travel. Purely Mutual Z Dividends to Capital Stock being limited to seven per cent, (legal Interest). Policies granted upon all of the most approved plans. AGENT8 WANTED. with whom liberal arrangements will be made. Cl. A* ROBERTSON, timar tf General Agent, Auguata, Me. FOWLER, HABLER SUM, nEAUUta i* FOREIGN DOMESTIC DRY "GOODS, AND MANIFACTUUKR8 OF Ladies’ Misses’ Cloaks, OPERA cJAeS. eo 147 Water Street* m AUGUSTA, ME, L. B. FOVLIR. FT«»» fllMan-tr H. E. SMITH. CONY HOUSE, IIMTCB STMKKT, AUGUSTA, MAINE. rpmj new Hotel affords accommodation* that wo X other one does in the city to the travelling com., in unity, being located In the Q£NTK£ OF BUSINESS. tifd ray mar tie Depot. The travelling public may be assured that ee pains win be spared to meet all their wants, amd with the a.-slvtaeee of Mu. Ti'BhBK, late of the Augusta House, we hope to merit a ahareof the public patronage. Connected with tbia Uouao la a First Class Uvsry Stablsl S. A. A H. CSXT, JVepn'efer*. tUjan&wi-tf

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Jttitiufttt lonntaL What wfll the Harvest BeP They are sowing their seed in the duyligbt fair, They are sowing their seed in the noonday's glare, They are sowing their seed in tbe soft twilight. They nrs sowing their seed in tbe solemn night; When shell their berreet be! They nre sowing their seed of pleesent thought. In tbe spring’s green light they’re blithely wrought; They here brought their fancies from wood nnd dell, Where the mooses creep and the flower-buds swell Karr shell the harvest be. They are sowing the seed of word end deed Which the cold know not, nor the cureless heed, Of the gentle word and the kindest deed That have blessed the heart in its sorest need Swrrt shall tbe harvest be.

And some are sowing the seeds of pain, Of late remorse end a maddened brain. And the stars shall fall nnd the sun shall wane, Ere they root the seeds from the soil again Dark will tbs harvest be. And seme nre standing with idle hand, Yet they scatter teed ou their native land And some ere sowing the seeds of care, Which their nil bath berne and still mast bear Sad will the harvest be. They are sowing tbe seed of noble deed, With a sleepless watch and earnest heed With a ceaseless band o’er the earth they sow And the fields are whitening wbers’er they go Rich will the harvest be. 8ewa in darkness, or sown in light, Sown in weakness, or sown in might, Sown in meekness, or sown in wrath, In tbe broad work field, or the shadowy path,— Sun will the harvest be. Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." CUSHNOC HOUSE. Corner Winthrop and State Sts., A ufrusta, Ale. T. B. BALLARD, Proprietor. Quests taicen to and from the Cars and Boats Free. H0R8E8 AND CARRIA6E8 TO LET. tUan70 tim _ Glass Ware at Low Prices! j SETS OF GLASS WARE, (4 piece*) of new and rich patterns, tor Merenty-five Cents per set. Call and examine them at BALLARD A CHASE’S, 0 Union JUort. Water St., tlBmar-tf AUGUSTA._ Maine State Fair—1870. PROPOSALS from any city or town desirous ot securing the holding of the Show and Fair of the Maine State Agricultural Society, the ensuing fall, should be forwarded to the under signed at an early day. Per order of the Trustees, SAMUEL L. BO A HUMAN, Hec’y Me. State Ag*l Society. Augusta, March 1,1870. 3wl0 SOMETHING nIeW Peculiarly Adapted to the Climate ol New England. RICH’S Vegetable Cough Balsam 8UIIKI Pronounced by leading Physicians to be the Heal General Remedy FOR Coughs, Colds, Croup, Bronchitis, And affections of the Throat anrt Zjuuffs, Jet offered to the public. Trv it, »nd be convinced, or sale by all Druggists. Price 50 cts. per bottle. T. A. CHICK, General Agent. Augusta, Me:, Mar. 15,1870. tl7mar-tf Notion of Foreclosure. WHEREAS Ira F. Seeking of Clinton, county of Kennebec, and State of Blaine, on the twenty second day of June, 1808, conveyed to John 11. Goodale of said Clinton, by deed of mortgage re corded in the Kennebec Registry, Book 2i3, Page 342. a certain lot of laud, with the buildings there on, situated in said Clinton, on the road leading from Hunter’s Mills to school house near ltuftis C. Dixon’s; It being an eight rod strip lying north of the north line of land of George II. Hobbs, and east of said road, containing about five acres, reference being had to said mortgage deed for a more par ticular description; and whereas the said John H. Goodale, on the tenth day of April, A. D. I8tib, as signed the said mortgage to me. Now the condi tions of said mortgage having been broken, 1 claim to foreclose the same. CHARLES JAOtHTH. Clinton, Mar. 15,1870. tl6mar&2wl3 SPEBMATOR1KEA or Nemtnal Weak ness*—How to treat and cure it without medi cine. Pamphlet sent by mail free of charge. Ad dress DR. 71. C. NEWELL CO., Lock Box 122 Hartford C°nn. 3m6 FAIRBANKS SCALES, THE STANDARD. HIGHEST y. a PRIZE! At Paris Exposition. ALJBO, PATENT ALAEM MONET DEA WEES V

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Augusta Directors Churches. ORTHODOX CONGREGATIONAL—Granite Ch. State at., between Bridge and Oak,J- pastor; residence southeast eo™* ’’it iw Elm street. Morning service I0..» A. M. Alter noon service 2AO I’. M. Evening 7 P M. FIRST BAPTIST,—Corner Winthrop and Perham sts. ,1. Ricker, pastor; residence Chestnut street. Morning aervine 10-10 A. M. Afternoon 2A0 P. M. Evening 7 I*. M. FUFF B V PTiBT.—Btnte street, north of Bridge. c'v Ponnev, pastor; residence Summer street. Morning service 10.:W A. M. Afternoon 2.30 P. M*. Evening 7 P. M. METHODIST EPISCOPAL.—Green street, east or state C. A. King, paator; residence nt the per sonage, next floor to the church. Morning ser vice lu.30 A. M. Afternoon 2.30 P. M. Evening 7PM PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL,—State st., between Oak and Winthrop. Rev. Mr. Upjohn, rector. Morning service lu.30 A. M. Evening service i I M. UNI VERBALIST,—Cor. Winthrop and Summer *ts. C. R. Moor, pastor; residence Winthrop street, below Orchard. Morning service 10.30 A. M. Sabbath School service at 12 A. M. Evening ser vice at 7P.M. a a UNITARIAN,—Corner Oak ami State *U. Rev. i Mr. Cram, pastor: morning service 10.30 A. M. Sabbath School service 215 P. M. Preaching service in evening at 7 o’clock CATHOLIC.—State at., north of Bridge. Rev. Mr. O’Brien, priest; residence near the church. The Congregational, First Baptist, rive will Baptist and Methodist Churches hold social con ference meetings in their vestries every W ednesday 1 evening, at half-past seven o’clock. V. .11. C. A. Rooms In Darby Blin k, Water Street. Regular prayer meeting;* every Monday evening. Religious exercises every .Sunday afternoon at 4 o clock. 1 Rooms open to'all. Masonic BETHLEHEM LODGE, No. .15, F. and A. M. Stated meetings first Monday of each month. Special meetings every Monday evening. F. A. Crowell. Master. J. W. Clapp, Secretary. ANUUST.Y LODGE, No. 141, A. M. Stated meetings first Tuesday of each month. Special meetings every- Tuesday evening. IV. IT. Wood bury, Master.' E. F. Blackman, Secretary. TRINITY COMMANDERY, No. 7. Knights Tem plar Stated meetings second Friday or each month. David Cargill, Eminent Commander. J. W. Clapp. Recorder. JERUSALEM ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER—Meets at Hallowed. Stated convocations Thursday on or before the ftill moon of each month. B. F. Warner. High Priest. alpha council—Meets at HaltowcH. Quar terly Convocations, January. April, July. Oc tober: Wednesday succeeding Bill moon. I>. Cargill, Thrice Illustrious Master. Temperance. 9ABATTIS LODGE. No. 7w of Goon TfJII'UM. Meets every Tuesday evening at Darby Hall. FRANKLIN'DIVISION SONS OF TEMPERANCE Meets at Darby Hall every Monday evening at 7 o’clock. Post Office. Al'GrSTA POST OFFICE. Corner of Oak and Water streets. OFFICE Hoi ks:—From 7.S0 A. M to 8 P.M. Sunday 9 to 10 A. M. James A. Bickueil, Postmaster. George II. Far rington, Chief Clerk. Arrii'al and ttfpartnrf of Mails .*—Western, leaves 11.00 A. M.: closes lo.30 A. M arrive? 330F M. Eastern and Northern, leaves 3.45 P, M.; closes 3.30 P. M.; aiTives 10 45 A. M. Belfast and Wav. leaves I 00 1*. M.: closes 3.30 P. M arrives 10 34) A M. Rockland and Wav, leaves 8.30 A M closes 8.15 A. M.: arrives 5 oo P. M. Wiulhrop. leaves 8.0u A. M.; closes 7.45 A. M.: arrives 8.00 I’. M. Farmington and Way. leaves 7.30 A. M.; closes 7.45 A. M’; arrives3.00 P. M. Freeport and Litchfield, leaves 00 A. M closes 8.00 P. M.; arrives lOAO A. M. Leaves Monday. Wednesday and Friday. Arrives Tuesday. Thurs day- and Saturday. 'Every morning a train leaves Augusta at 530 A. M.; arrives at Augusta, daily, at 8.00 P. M. ?$allotorll Directors. HALLO WELL POST OFFICE. WESTER!* MAIL arrives daily, Sundays excepted, at 3 27 and 7.52 I*. M. Cl in whose interest it is established. It is of the sire of the Daily l,ew iston Journal —The Sunrise. /*re#vwe J*»e. Daily Ke>nebec Journ al. The advertisement of this new dailv appears in our columns to-day. It gives the legislative proceeding- of each day wry fuUv. contains telegraphic dispatches, the financial and commercial transactions in New Y ork and Bos ton, and is in every respect a tir>t-cla.** daily pa per. Terms $7 per year, or #2 tor the legislative session .4«ubh-her* of the Kinxebec Journal com roenced their daily paper with the New Year. It is a good looking'sheet, much superior t«* the form er session issue*. No thrice weekly will be pub lished.— Brackett in Belfast Ape Newspapers. With the New Y e ar we are greet ed by the Daily Kennerec Journal, published by s’prague. Owen A Sash. It is of poodsize.it* niattcr is well arranged, and its editorial conduct will show the same ability which has governed the weekly Journal Free /rest, Rockland. The Daily Kennbec Journal has reached us. and is fully up to the standard of sur expectations. Its typographical appearance is neat, and its gener al arrangement all that could be desired We hoi>e it will be liberally patronized, and it will be if the people of the State do -their duty.—Farmington Chronicle. The first number of the Daily Kennebec Jour nal promptly made its appearance on Saturday. Jan. 1st. It is a handsome sheet, got up in a style that does credit to its enterprising publishers.— Jiiddeford Democrat. Wit'h the new year, came the Daily Kennebec Journal. It is a very neat paper, and we should think it would be a favorite with the people of the Kennebec.— Gardiner Home Journal, Daily Kennebec Journal. We have receive* 1 the first number of the daily Issued by the publish era of the Kennebec Journal. This is not to be foi the legislature only, but is to be a permanent daily publication. There is no reason why the large cit ies and towns which cluster about the capital enonld not afford support t«> at leastoue daily, even though the railroad trains do bring Boston papers in a few hours from the press. The Journal i* a handsome sheet, well filled with news and miscel lany, aud we trust will be a success .—Belfast Jour nal. The new Daily. We have received the flret number of the Daily Kennebec Journal. It is one of the best looking daily papers which comes to our office. There is no reason w hy such a spright ly journal should uot dart at once on the road to success. The price of subscription is $7 per year. —Calais Advertiser. The Daily Kennebec Journal made its bow to the public last Saturday, and is understood to be a permanent institution' It deserves a liberal sup port in the Kennebec valley, not only through the session of the Legislature, of w hose doing- it will give full report daily, but permanently.— Watcrrille Mail. Nkwkcaporial. The Daily Kennebec Journal made its appearance on .Saturday morning last. It is printed in first-rate style, au«l manifests a great deni of enterprise in its management. We are glad to notice that it has a good list of subscribers in this city, who receive their papers from a carrier at eight o’clock. This is a great convenience, aud one that should be appreciated by our people.—Gardiner Reporter. Auounta Daily Journal. This paper made its appearance last Saturday, very neatly printed ami full of matter. Our only apprehension is that Au gusta brethren are giving too much reading for the patronage of a place no larger than Augusta. Success to the enterprise.—Brunswick Telegraph. We have received the first two or three numbers of the Daily Kennerec Journal, published by Messrs. Sprague, Owen Nash. Augusta, which is hereafter to be a permanent daily paper, instead of being published only during the season of the Legislature, as heretofore. It is a handsome sev en-column paper, well made up, giving much agri cultural and miscellaneous reading, ns w ell as lo cal and general news. We have no doubt it will be ably conducted aud wish it substantial success.— Rockland Gazette. The first number of the Daily Kennerec Jour nal made its appearrnee on Saturday. It is very neatly got up,— Oxford Democrat. The first number of the Daily Kennerec Jour nal promptly made its appearance on Saturday, thelstinst. It is a handsome sheet, got up in'u style that does credit to its enterprising publishers. —Oxford Register. A New Daily Newspaper. We receive the Daily Kennerec Journal, a goodly sized, well filled aud smart appearing paper, published by Messrs. Sprague, Owen A Nash, at Augusta, the proprie tors of the Old (Weekly) Kennebec Journal: terms, #7 a year in advance.' We hope it w ill be patron ized bv our Republican fYiends, and we think it will be, being the fir.-t and only daily issued at the Capi tal.— Mach fas Union. Fare Medicines and Ctaicals! Brushes, Combs, Soaps and Perfumery; CHOICE TOILET AID F4NC1 ARTICLES! Physicians’ Apothecaries’ Goods, Fin Spera, Lard, Eeroieie ill SeiUfoot Oil*. Charles K. Partridge, DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY, Water Street, corner Market Square, (UNDER GRANITE HAT.L,) Has on hand a Large Selected Stock kept fresh by constant additions, AMD SELLS AT The Lowest market Rates! FOR GENUINE AND RELIABLE G000S Pari ridge'* Bn* Store, Witer Street, coner lirtet Square tlJ»D70ly DELL NinONDN* Fashionable Hair Dressing Rooms, Opposite Parrott A Bradbury’s, Witter Street, Augusta, Me. j ftbavbig, ShumiKAoing, Hair-Dressing, Cutting, Col *c,» in lDe molt approved style of the art. I ?.ar“cu**r, attymtioH paid to rutting and curling La j die* and Children’* luur. All kinds oi liair Work j made to order in lh* iiOo»t style. ljunTU-ly JOURNAL JOB PRINTING Establishment! OUR FRIENDS are reminded that having the Largest

Steam Jot Fmtingr Mtlistmeal,! Ou the Rw r, and employing COMPETENT AND EXPERIENCED WORKMEN! We are at all times prepared to execute In the best manner and at low prices, all kind* of PLAIN AND FANCY Book cfc Job Printing -area a* Books, Pamphlets, Newspapers, Mammoth Posters, 1 Handbills, Show Cards, Circulars, Business and} Wedding Cards. Letter LLeadings. Bill Heads, Ball Tickets, Programme*, Auction Bills, Invoices, Bills of Lading, Beeeipts, Law Blanks, PLACARDS, SCHEDULES, INVITATIONS,| RAILROAD and Steamboat Printing, 1 4c., 4c., 4c. 1 To all those w desire ork in oar line, we weald say that it is oar intention to SUIT OUR CUSTOMERS Both in regard to Price* and Execution of Work. rder* by mail or express will receive the same PROMPT ATTENTION aa though delivered personally. SPRAGUE, OWEN NASH, JOURNAL OFFICE AUGUSTA, Augusta, Oct. 16, 1869 LAST SENSATION! Great Closing Sale -OF Ladles' Furs and Robes, -at Wheeler’s,-- Gardiner. I NOW offer my entire stock of LADIES’ FI/US and ROHES at less than cost to manufacture. Parties who wish to buy within the next two years, and w ho wish to save money should not fail to improve this GREAT (LOSING HAI.E for I am goiug to SELL regardless of cost. Remember the Place: Opposite the Post Office, GARDINER, ME. M. L. WHEELER, jnn7pr*gue. diun A Nash, and deserves the liberal support of the party whose principles it advocates. To its gviii.il publisher* we wish the richest success.—Rennet**' Reporter. The Kennebec Journal was enlarged this week to nine columns, and is now the largest folio sheet in Maine It is said that the proprietors will issue a permanent Daily heucefortL, beginning w ith the legislative session —Advertiser. Tue Kennebec Journal of Augusta, will be enlarged, this week, and made the largest paper in the state —Sf/nugirlsl Republican. Thi KenNEt«:i Journal has spread itself to the size of the Boston Advertiser, and is otherwise im proved. so that .t is new the largest and perhaps the handsomest paper in the state Waterville Mail. The Kennebec Journal uf last week appeared in an enlarged form, printed on uew type and upon a new pre*».—Bangerr Jeffersonian. The KENNKBEr Journal, always neatly printed and ablv conducted. conies to us enlarged ami it 1 t-ssible Lit-ater looking than ever Ik*lore. It is now the Largest weekly printed in >1 aine.—Mdckia* l >t* n The Kennebec Journal comes to up this week in a new .ires- and considerably enlarged, indicat ing a prosperous condition financially, and which 15 well deserved —Aroostook Pioneer. The Kennebec Journal comes to us much en larged. and dressed in a spick and span new suit Augusta is bound to glow, and the Journal pro prietor- evidently uu-au to be up to the times.— Portland Transcript. The Kennebec Journal has been greatly en larged. and is now we believe, the largest paper iu the Mate. The publishers have recently added one of C ampl-elTe best newspaper presses to their al ready verv complete establishment, and are pre pared to answer all calls that mav be made upon their typ enlarged thin week. We are glad to see such proof of its pros perity.—boston Transcript. The Kennebec Journal come* to us this week in an enlarged form and new dress. It makes a splendid appearance, and it worthy of an extensive circulation.—liuide/oni Journal. The Kennebec Journal has been enlarged, and is now the largest paper in the state. The publish er- have had a mammoth Campbell press built specially for it, and with a new dreso of type it i» a verv handsome sheet. The publishers should re ceive a liberal support to compensate for the heavy outlay w Ini h they make Rockland Free Frees. The Kennebec Journal conies to us in a new dress, and much enlarged, which are evidences of prosperity. The proprietors of the Mate paper are energetic busiuess men, and deserve much credit fur this last improvement in their valuable fournal. and we wish them large success, financially, and otherwise.— Far tub* (/ton Chrensablc to all desirous of being trell informal on the great subject* of the day. 1. The Edinburgh Review. This is the oldest of the series. In its main fea ture* it still follows in the path marked out bv Brougham. Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, and Lord Hol land, its original founder* and first contributor*. 2. The London Quarterly Review, which commences its 128th volume with the January number, was set on foot as a rival to the Eihn lti Hell. It resolutely maintains it* oppositiuu iu politic*, and show* equal vigor in its literary de partment. 3. The Westminster Review has just closed its i»2d volume. In point of literary ability this Review i* fast rising to a level w ith it’s comj«.titor*. It i* the advocate ol political and re ligk us liberalism. 4. The North British Review, now in its 5l*t volume, occupies a very high posi tion in i*eriodical literature. Passing beyond the narrow formalism of schools anil parties, it appeals to a wider range of *yiupalhio» and a higher integ rity of conviction. 5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magasine was commenced .r2 years ago. Equaling the Quar terlies iu it* literary and scientific department*, it has won a w ide reputation for the narrative* and sketchc* which eulivcn it* page*. T Mi Ml.It H FOB 1870. For any one of the Review*, $4.00 per annum. For any two of the Reviews, 7.00 For any three of the Review*, 10.00 For all lour of the Reviews, 12.00 For Blackwood’s Magazine. 4 (X) For Blackwood and one Review, 7.00 For Blackwood aud any two of the Reviews, 10 DO For Blackwood aud three of the Reviews, 13.00 For Blackwood aud the four Re views, 15.00 Single Number* of a Review, $1. Single Number* of Blackwood, 35 cents. T'he Review are published quarterly Blaeksrmmd's JMaaaziue 4» monthly. VI ttssses commence in January, CLUB8. A discount of twenty per cent, w ill be allowed to Clubs of four or more persons, when the periodicals are sent to one address. POSTAGE. The Po-tage on current subscriptions, to an part of the United states. Is f*ro cents a number, to l>e prepaid at the office of delivery. For back num bers the postage is double. PREMIUMS TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS. New Subscribers to any two of the above period icals for 1870 w ill be entitled to receive one of the Four Reviews for 1808. New Subscribers to all the live ninv receive Blackwood or two of the Reviews for 1860* BACK NUMBERS. Subscriber* may, by applying early, obtain oack Pets of the Review* from January, 1W5, to Decem ber, 18»>U, and of Blackwood’* Magazine from Janu ary, lnwi. to December, 1W»P, at half tne current subscription price. 44- Neither premium* to Subscribers, nor dis count to Clubs, nor reduced prices for back num bers, can be allowed, unless the money is remitted direct to the PuUUhers. No premiums can be given to Clubs. The January number* will be printed from new type, and arrangements have been made, which, it is hoped, w ill secure regular and early publication. The Leonard Scott Publishing To., 110 Ki-lton St., New Yokk. Tlic Leonard Scott Publishing Company also pub liKh TIIE FA 11MKits’ (.1 THE to Scientific and Practical Agriculture By Henry Stephen,, K.R.8., Edinburgh, and the late J. P. Norton. ProfesMir of Scientific Agriculture in Yale College. New llaven. 2 vols. lloyal octavo, lnno page, and nu merous Engravings.' Price $7. By mail, postpaid, *S.0U. lwM Edward Rowse, 124 WATEIl STREET DEALER IN Watches, Jewelry, [AND SILVER WARE Agent tor the Waltham W atch Comp'}, And LAZARUS A MCRkUS’ I»erfecte© found on® of th© largest and bc»t ■elected stocks on the Kennebec river, and Price* that defy compe tition. PATENT MEDICINES Of alla kinds and in large quantities, sold to suit purchasers, at Johnson Brothers. CATARRH REMEDIES. BRUSHES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION AT JOHNSON BROTHERS. Feather Dusters, Fine Sponges, Carriage and Bathing do., Chamois Skins, OILS, PURE SPERM, CASTOR. OLIVE. NEATS-FOOT. ESSENTIAL OILS OF ALL KINDS, AT Johnson Brothers. FINE SOAPS, FRENCH .A.INI ID ENGLISH and Genuine Imported Castile, GLYCERINE I AND HONEY SOAPS, 5 Cake* for 25 cent*, 25 Cake* for one dollar. Shaving Apparatus, Comprising RAZOBP from the be*t manufacturer* in th© World STROPS of all kind* the COMBINATION MUG-a nevel and convenient irticle. BRUSHES of every description, and SOAPS of the bent quality. Johnson Brothers. HAIR PREPARATIONS OF ALL KINDS, for 75 CENTS, Johnson Brothers. SACHET POWDERS. A Large Stock of LUBIItf’S, C.A.TJIDIEt.A.Y’S, AND ALL OTI1EH IMPORTED PERFUMES. Also a LARGE LOT of TOILET POWDERS, DENTIFRICES, AND TOILET ARTICLES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, AT Johnson Brothers. Pl'RE CALIFORNIA AND IMPORTED WINES, For Medicinal Purposes, at JOHNSON BROTHERS. I OLIVES, PICKLES, &c„ CIGAKS TOBACCOS OF ALL KINDS. CANARY, RAPE HEHP SEED .T j Johnson Brothers, Peoprietora of DR. RENNET'S Ce!el»rate<l Janndire Bitters. Pcraona from the country, Phyeiciens and all other*, will do well to oall and examine oar etook before purchasing eleewhere. Remember the plaoo! OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE, I JOHNSON BROTHERS.