Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.)
April 27, 1870

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these systems of training to bo treated u|>oii thoroughly in a newspaper article. —New Hampshire Statesman. pailj $tmtcl)tt Journal. AUGUSTA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, April 27.1870 POL I Tit'A1. DE GENERA CY. The writer of an article in Putnam s Magazine for May, entitled "Our Political Degeneracy—its Cause and Remedy, may be very wise in his own conceit, but that does Trot argue that hi« article i9 wise. There are just such persons as he in every neighborhood, who cun see nothing good in their own day and feneration, and be lieve that nearly all wisdom and virtue died with then- grandfathers. The tone of his article may be gathered from the following opening sentence: "Everybody admits,” says he, “for indeed almost everybody deplores, the lamentable de cadence that has come upon polities, both as a principle and a practice. You will hear it said on all sides that neither our statesmen nor our parties arc what they used to Ije and you will seldom hear it gainsayed.” This is very cheap talk indeed, if it is common. The earlier periods of our gov ernment had its full share of corrupt, in triguing men, or it never would have had the Conway Cabal. In those times George Washington was not above the reach of slander, and the Continental Congress, while it had many good men, was not without its bad ones. The records of the country will toll how the army suffered, j and the Commander-in-Chief was tried j and embarrassed, w hile the cause of liber-j ty and independence hung in doubt, through the wrangles, iutiigues and ineffi ciency of the government. We know nothing so vile in our last war as the attempt of Lee to supplant Washington, nothing in our government so infamous as the schemes of Conway and his associates. If we come down to Jefferson's time, we find that he was not without his detractors, j He wusnot held to he the man that he is now. He was denounced as an atheist, a radical in polities, and an unsafe man to follow. One of the best minds of that j t'.nie was‘killed in a duel,—not a very good example, we should say, for our mem-: bers of Congress to follow. Another' undertook (the same who shot Hamilton) to establish an independent government on the Lower Mississippi. The plot of Burr has not its equal in rascality even in I these degenerate times. Passing along to the good old days of Andrew Jackson, honest and incorruptible as he was, can any one read Parton's history of his ad ministration without thanking his stars j that we have no Kitchen Cabinet at Washington now The truth is. there J have been good men and bad men, nble men and weak men, all along in our history, but our great men have always j been belittled, just as they are now, while j in active life, and never received their full measure of commendation and appro-! ciation until death removed them. Wc have had a Lincoln, Stanton, Fessenden, and Grant in onr day, and we have saved the Union from being destroyed by the great curse of Slavery, which our wise, old fathers fastened upon us. We have struck the shackles completely from the four millions of slaves which old-time wisdom bequeathed us, an act the like of which was never done before. The men who lead in this measure, and the party w%ich accomplished it the grandest stroke ever struck for humanity—are liv ing now, but in the face of such a noble monument to the virtue of the present time, our Jeremiah wails over the degen eracyof modern politics, and sighs for the return of the past. Poor soul! little atoms of dust obscure his sight, and he gropes in darkness in the full blaze of the sun. He condemns our statesmanship be cause irregularities sometimes occur in Congress, ami judges a party by the acts of a few unprincipled individuals. The writer to whom we lmve alluded, displays his poetical sagacity in the same article by disparaging the means which have developed our resources and pro moted our industrial interests, and at the same time shows his honesty by misrepro- senting the position of those who think1 differently from him. iie would prefer that Canada should control our markets, and make paupers of our farmers, and that England should supply us with man ufactures rather than do it ourselves, and he would lain make our farmers and laborers believe that such a policy is statesmanship and for their benefit. We have tried that pretty effectually in the State of Maine, with what result every body knows who is acquainted with the history of the State. We continued in the way of allowing industry and trade to take care of themselves, and population to go whither it would, until we iound that capital would not come to us, nor industry flourish, nor people make homes here, and necessity compelled us to change our course. If we grant favors to railroads In order to have them constructed, to schools,1 to builders of factories and promoters of public enterprises, we do it not for indi vidual benefit, hut for the public good, for the farmer and mechanic, the landholder and landlord, the poor man as much as the rich. We should have had no railroads in the State had individual wealth alone been depended upon to build them, and if we become a manufacturing State, which we hope to, we shall be so by giving liberal legislation and encouragement to tbMe who hare the means to engage in manufactures. This may be political degeneracy, but it is the teaching of stern neeawity, a flea a different kind of policy had been tried to the largest extent. It may as well be understood that the re moval of Consul-General Morse was made at the request, nearly or quite unanimous, of the Maine delegation in Congress. It was con ceded that his services had been exceedingly valuable to the country and creditable to him self* and the delegation expressed no desire to send a better man, or to interfere with the j succession In anv wav. They simply wanted Mr. Morse removed, so that the amount of his salarv might he credited to Maine and par rolled out among the delegation for the bene fit of their needy followers. In other words, the Maine delegation respectfully petitioned to hare Mr. Morse removed because he uas a Maine man, and for no other reason, in order to increase the amount of patronage subject to their disposal. Tills modest proposition was made at the beginning of Grant’s admin istration and defeated solely by Mr. Fessen den's indignant remonstrance. It has proved successful now. hut what a righteous retribu tion it would he, if Mr. Morse should come home now. appeal to his old constituents of the Third District, and be triumphantly rein stated in the seat in Congress from which he was ousted in 1362 by the same Mr. Blaine w lm is making up his mind what to do with his quota of Mr. Morse's consular salary. The foregoing is an editorial from the Portland Daily Advertiser of April 25th. The allegation that the removal of Mr. Morse iron the consulate at London was made at the request of the Maine delega tion may he and very likely is true. As to tiie indignant remonstrance of Mr. Fessen den which prevented a change in that of fice at the outset of President Grant’s ad ministration. the truth is that the late Sen ator urged the retention of Mr. Morse in office on grounds purely personal, and asked it as a personal favor to himself, not withstanding it was one of the richest con sulatcs in the gift of the Government, and lie had held It through the entire term of the Lincoln and Johnson administrations. The fact of his removal now shows that he was not retained on public grounds. The rest of the Maine delegation were in favor of a change at that time, believing j that Mr. Morse ought to retire after so long a tenure of the office, and this opin- j ion was very generally concurred in at the 1 time. This consideration unquestionably influenced the delegation from our State (if they did so,) to request the change j now. The fling at the delegation is contempt- ible that at Mr. Maine is malignant and mendacious, betraying an ignorance of; political transactions of a recent date in j this State, ill becoming the conductor of a public journal in Maine. Mr. Morse was a member of the 36th and 36th Congress, his last term ending March 4, 1861, when he was succeeded by lion. Anson P. Morrill, and not by Mr. Blaine. Immediately on the accession of i President Lincoln and a very short time j after the expiration of his Congressional i term, Morse was appointed Consul-Gener- 1 al at London, which he has held till now. Mr. Maine was first elected to Congress in 1862, at which time Mr. Morse had been j in Europe for more than a year, enjoying j the very remunerative emoluments of his consulate. So much for the very pushing manner in which Blaine ousted Morse from his scat in Congress. Again, at no time since Mr. Blaine's first nomination could Mr. Morse have been a competitor with him for the honor of rep resenting the Third District, inasmuch as by the last apportionment of members of\ Congress in 1861, Bath, his life-long: home, became and now is a part of the Second District. The Advertiser need 1 not therefore hurry Mr. Morse’s return to enter the lists against Mr. Blaine in the coming canvass, for as long as has been his residence in England, he cannot have forgotten the custom which inexorably pre vails in this country that members of Con gress from districts shall also be residents of flic district they represent. GENERAL NEWS. “Cousin John” is the name of a town in Georgia. Two thirds of all the school-teachers in the United States are women. A trout that weighed 22 pounds was caught in Lake Winnipiseogee Fast Day. A masked ball has been defined as a merci ful institution for plain women. Franklin Peirce’s late residence in Now Hampshire is to be sold at auction April 27. Somebody says ladies wear veils on the principle that indistinctness lends enchant ment to the view. High-necked dresses are rapidly supplant ing the low-necked style in Paris. The next transit of Venus across the sun's disc will take place on December 8, 1874; the last was on June 3, 17GO. Most of the salad oils brought into market, it is stated, are made of cotton-seed oil re fined. Farmers complain of the scarcity of hands. A fine opportunity for a host of young men who complain that they find nothing to do. The Mississippi Legislature memorialize Governor Alcorn to remove Judge Skackelford for releasing Yerker on bail. Minnesota had a heavy fall of snow hut week. On the 17th inst., the snow was a foot deep in some localities. The Governor of New York has signed 300 bills passed this session. The number intro duced will probably reach 1400. The revenue of Crown lands goes to the pub lic purse in return lor the allowance called “the civil list,” given by Parliament to the sovereign. The King of Italy, during the past year, pardoned 225 criminals, the Emperor of Aus tria 110 and the King of Prussia 45. The strawberry crop this year in the west ern States promises to be small and backward. Strawberries have already appeared in the Savannah market. An extravagant man having moved into a costly mansion, remarked to a friend, “Now everything will go on like clockwork.” “Yes,’’ was the reply, “it will be tick, tick.” Hampton Falls, N. II., has a veritable "haunted house.” Unusual and unearthly sounds have been heard in it and a ghost seen. It is all owing to a man being buried in the cellar. The number of outdoor paupers relieved on the 1st of January, 1870, ir. London, was 121, 000, living greater by 10.000 than the number relieved on 1st January, 1809. A mad dog last Friday attacked a police man in Baltimore, and in the chase which ensued bit five persons and a dozen other dogs. There is great excitement in Balti more over the matter. The warden of the New Jersey State Prison requires all lady visitors to take down their back hair in his wife’s bedroom, in order to prevent them smuggling tobacco in the chig nons to the prisoners. wa a ms a tos se ii rs. The Senate Judiciary Committee has re ported a new bill to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment in place of several referred.to it. Secretary Boutwell has appointed Alden Hathaway Inspector of Customs at Boston, Mass., and J. IV. Adams Inspector at Port land, Maine. President Grant’s long cherished idea of an inter-oceanic canal across the Isthmus of Da rien can hardly be realized, as the reports of the United States exploring party, now there, are not favorable. Notice has been given by the Lighthouse Board that a revolving light, alternating w ith red and white flashes, at intervals of thirty seconds between the flashes, will be exhibited on the evening of May 15, 1870, and each succeeding evening thereafter, from sunset to sunrise, from the lighthouse tower at Prospect Harbor. Me. The illumination apparatus is of the fifth order of the system of Fresnel, and the light should be seen in ordinary states of the atmosphere from the deck of a vessel ten feet above the water at a distance of eleven nautical miles. A Washington special says that the last de bate in the House on the income tax indicates that the tax is to be continued in sonic shape. The Western members generally incline that way, saying that if Congress should repeal 1 the tax, Western Democrats would make it one of tiie issues of the fall campaign, that Congress had relieved the wealthy classes while continuing the burdens upon the poor. The representatives of both wings of the republican party of Virginia had a three days'1 meeting last week to harmonize the ir differ- j ences. Good counsels seem to have prevail ed and there is prospect of more efficient, work down there than hitherto. The meet- j ing adopted a declaration of principles em bracing universal amnesty, the enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments in their letter and spirit, the enactment of such laws as are necessary to secure freedom of speech and action, the encouragement of internal improvements by the State and na- j tion in good faith, the protection of the inter- ests of the people against the encroachments of monopolies, the support of the President and Congress, and a general and universal system of public education at the public ex pense under national law wherever such a system is not adopted and enforced by State governments. LETTER FROM BOSTON. Mr. Reek's Benefit—Theodore Thomasaud his Wonderful Orchestra— Miss Mehlig—Eas ter Sunday—The Easter Oratorios—The Funeral of Anson Burlingame. Boston. April, 22, 1870. For several weeks past, a perfect flood of melody lias been poured in upon “music mad Boston,”—and that of the best kind, too. There were the Thomas concerts—the Har vard Symphony concerts, besides innumera ble others which have delighted all who were fortunate enough to be present. As a sort of grand wind-up to this harmonic furore, came Mr. Peek’s benefit, a week ago last Wednes day evening, and as might be expected. Music! Hall was filled to its utmost capacity. The odore Thomas and his well trained orchestra took a prominent part in the evening’s enter tainment and such music as was invoked from that medley oi stringed and wind instruments words fail to express my intense enjoyment and appreciation of that rare harmony, from the loud swelling tone, down to the exquisite ly modulated piano tone, which bated the breath, and sounded in its far away cadence, as I can imagine the Divine choir may sound in tne ocuer lanu. e nave nan notuing nice it in orchestral playing until Mr. Thomas came here, and no true lover of the art should miss an opportunity of enjoying so rich a treat. Mr. Thomas, himself, seems the embodiment of music, and as he easily and gracefully guides the baton, with his head just a little inclined to catch each strain, it takes but a short stretch of imagination to invest the tiny bit of wood with the magic of a fairy's wand, impelled by the genii of his marvellous power. Miss Mehlig is another sensation and out rivals even Miss Topp, who was so deserved ly popular during her tarry here. She came very quietly, without any flourish of adver tisements, or commendatory notices, but Bos ton—not slow to award the just meed to mu sical excellence, discovered at the first, that she was the best pianist that had been here for a long time. She has played at the sev eral Thomas concerts with eminent success. She is thought to resemble Beethoven, and certainly, she seems inspired by some o! the genius of those old composers, and I thought while listening to her remarkable playing—if the spirits of those illustrious composers could return toearth, what a congregation must have gathered to hear the eflorts of these men and women, who have made their works a life study Combined with a nice execution. Miss Mehlig makes the instrument wonderfully ex pressive—and expression is most effective, after all, for although any work may be ren dered with perfect accuracy and precision, yet if it lacks soul-feeling-expression—the audience feels that there is a vacuum some where, although they may be unable to an alyze it. Miss Phillips sang, and it is quite unneces sary to aver that her effort wj* well apprecia ted, and won an enthusiasHc encitre. Miss Lizzie M. Yates also snng in a pleasing man ner, and with the Torch-Light March, closed the entertainment. Last Sunday was Easter Sunday, and many of the churches were beautifully adorned with flowers, in commemoration of the same. The Easter Oratorios were given on Saturday and Sunday evenings, by the Handel and Haydn Society. Saturday evening Handel’s Orato rio of the “Creation” was given, which drew a fair house, considering the outside attrac tions. The soloist* were Miss Houston, Mr. Edward Prescott, and M. W. Whitney. On the following evening, the “Elijah" was given the soloists being Miss Houston, Mrs. ,T. K. Weston. Miss Antoinette Sterling, Mr Winch, and M. II 11 hitncy. Alias Sterling, who is hut recently returned from Europe, and be longs in New Vork, has a rich contralto voice and sang very acceptably, as did the other soloists. The chorus and orchestra were larg er and better than on the preceding evening, and on the whole the performance was more enjoyable. 1 lie remains ot the Hon. Anson Burlingame have lain in state ail day in Faneuil Hall, which has been crowded since 0 o'clock this morning. The embalming process was found imperfect, and the remains are not to he seen. 1 The funeral services will lake place to-mor row at the Arlington St. Church. General Banks lias been in town this week, and will of course be present at the funeral of his friend. 1’i.nsis. XA POLK OS' S PSOCLAMA TIOX. The following is flic proclamation of the Emperor Napoleon in relation the 1‘lehes eitinn. It i' an earnest appeal to the French j icoclc to give the Emperor what he intends to have whether they give it or not. “Frenchmen The Constitution of 18.V>, drawn up hy the investure of the powers which you gave me, and ratified hy eight millions of voles, w hich re-established the Empire, lias procured for France eighteen years of calm and prosperity, which have not been without glory, it has in sured order and left the way open to all improvements. Thus the more security 1 has been confirmed the larger is the part' it lias taken in the progress of liberty. But successive changes have altered the bases of the plebiscitum, which cannot be altered without an appeal to the nation. It becomes indispensable, then, that the j new constitutional pact shall be approved 1 by the people, as were formerly the con stitutions of the Republic and of the Em pire. At those two epochs, it was believed, even as I myself believe to-day, that any thing done without you was illegitimate. The constitution of Imperial, Democrat ic France may be reduced to a small num ber of fundamental principles, which can not be changed without your consent. Your decision will have the advantage of rendering definite the progress already made, and of placing beyond the influence of political fluctuations the principles of government. Time, lost too often in barren and embittered controversies may be more usefully employed hereafter in seeking for the means of increasing the moral and material well being of the great est number. I address myself to all of you. who, from the 10th of December, 184S, surmounted all obstacles to place me at your head; to yon, who, for twenty two years, have without cessation guarded me by your suffrages, sustained me by your co-operation, rewarded me by your affections; Give me new proof of confi dence. In bringing to the ballot-box an affirmative vote, you will exercise the menaces of revolution, you will place or der and liberty on a solid basis, and you will render easier in future the transmis sion of the crown to my son. You have almost unanimously lor eighteen years clothed me with the most extensive pow ers be also equally unanimous to-day in supporting the transformation of the Im perial regime. A great nation has no way of obtaining its development without rest ing on institutions which guaranty at the same time stability and progress. The call which I make on you is to ratify the liberal reforms realized during the last ten years; reply ‘yes.’ As for myself, faith ful to my origin, I shall continue, penetrat- ed by your thought and fortified by your will and confiding in Providence, to work i without cessation for the prosperity and the grandeur of France. NAPOLEON, j Domestic Xctos. The Whig says that on Sunday afternoon, one of the convicts in the Maine State Prison made a felonious attack upon the overseers of the wheelwright shop. On entering the shop he suddenly threw a stone at Overseer Piper, striking him upon the head turning, he threw two or three at Overseer Morton, who suc ceeded in dodging them. It is supposed that he hud the stones concealed in a basket which he carried for the purpose of getting shavings. Overseer Piper was quite severely wounded. We learn from the Bangor Whig that early Monday morning the large two story house owned and occupied by Dr. Thayer of Hamp den, was entirely destroyed by fire, together with a large barn and outbuildings. The house was situated between the upper and lower village, and the same was formerly oc cupied by W. W. Rice, Esq. Lossabout$3, 500. Partially insured. The report of the City Marshal of Lewis ton shows that for the year ending March, the police of that city made 203 complaints against violators of the laws, which resulted in conviction as follows search and seizure, 48; common seller and single sale of liqnor, 13; assault and battery, 31; drunk and dis turbing the peace, 28 larceny. 27, &c. The Times learns that Moses Owen of Bath, is about publishing a second edition of his “Fragments.” The volume will consist of minor subjects, chiefly naturalistic, and will be illustrated with fine wood cuts, making it a book suitable for the library, or as a conipan- ion for a summer’s ramble in the woods along the purling stream.

Zion.s Herald says that an efTort is being made by the friends of Rev. 1). B. Randall, to raise §1000 to pay otf a mortgage on a place he has purchased at Kent's Hill. He has been in the ministry tor over forty years, re ceiving as his first salary, seventeen dollars. Dr. Foster of the Maine Medical School, Portland, received quite severe and painful burns on his hands, last Saturday, while pre paring a phosphorus needle for experiment ing in diamugnetism. To-day will be the opening race at Sagada- hoc Park, Topsham. l)r. C. \V. Allen and Henry C. Coffin of Brunswick, have matched their fine driving horses for §100 a side. Yesterday was the fifty-first anniversary of the introduction of Odd Fellowship into this country. RICHMOND PORTABLE RANGE -AND- i Hanging Dome Furnace! _At WILLIAMSON A C KEEN WOOD’S. STOVES AND FURNACES At WILLIAMSON GREENWOOD’S. M A N S I N' HOUSE, STATE STREET, AUGUSTA, ME. rPniS House is provided vrlfn Bath Rdotns, L where Hot and Cold Bath* can la* had at all Mimes. It has also a First-Class Billiard Hall, for Guests only. Connected with the House is a Urge f and commodious Sample Room, on Water 8treet, f centrally located, where Sample Agents can show i their goods, free of charge. The Proprietor, thankful for the liberal patronage which the above House has enjoyed since its ©pen i ig, takes pleasure in informing his patron* that he 1 will run Free Carriage* to and fYom the C»r, and k B its until further notice Connected with th«* above House is a I.ivery Sta id-, whtre good teams can be had at reasonable rates. W. M. TIIAVER, Proprietor. O. P. Cochran*. Clerk. HARNESSES HARNESS GOODS Of* every Description. WE AUK STILL M AM FACT CUING ALL CLASSES OF HABSESSES, Vnrylng; ill Price from $17.00 to $100.00 I \Ir K do not keep any man’s celebrated Harness, but having had nineteen year’' experience in manu f f fa luring every variety of Harness t .ood and the greater portiou of that time for the people of Augusta and vicinity, we will let tin- quality and worth of uni goods* rest upon their own merit. w| As* we keep a larger number ot workmen ami consequently a larger stock and greater variety of manufactured work than anv firm in our line in this city, we invite all in want of fetich goods to cull 1 before purchasing, bearing in mind that we keep no Harnesses manufactured by other dims for whole sale trade but m mufucturc all our goods and warrant them to give satisfaction. COLLER GARDINER, (Opposite Cony Iloust.) 143 Water Street, Augusta. THUBirB:® Don’t pay two profits on your Trunks, but buy at the only place in Augusta where they arc manufactured AT COLLER GARDINER’S Augusta Trunlt Factory Sign of tlio 33IGr TIITJWK.” We manufacture all our Trunk6, and ns our retail trade in Auciista and neighboring towns is very large we make them specially for th t trade and warrant them They are no sd**p work, not-crackeff, and have good look- We letter with initi 1- and d» liver in the city without extra c harge. We also manufacture VALISES and t ARFETTtAG^ of otv -tyle. and keep ,-nn-tmtly on hand the largest and beet stock of Ladles' and Gent’s TRAVELLING HAGS, SHAWL STRAPS^ &C-, in the city, and sell them at SPECIE PRICES. Rcmeinl*§r the place, Sign of the “Big Trunk,” 143 Water Street. Opposite Cony Routt. f22apr-tf lOI.t.V.H X C.1RDI.VEH. BOS W O ETT H II.4VI\« KCCIOVCD TO (2 Doors south of Bridge street,) which lias been expressly fitted up for his business, where will be found a VERY LARGE STOCK of SPRING WOOLLENS! Or tlie Isatest Fashions, WHICH WILL BE CUT AND MADE UP TO ORDER IN THE Very Latest Stylo. ALSO, WILL BE FOUND A LARCE STOCK OF Ready Made Clothing, -AND Gents’ Furnishing Goods OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. It. T. BOSWORTII. Augusta. Mar. 7th, 1870. t7inar-tf WILLIAM H. WOODBURY, (.Successor to E. D. Norcross,,' DEALEll IN Hot Air Furnaces, Stoves Ranges, For Wood or Coni, Tin, Pressed, and Japanned wares and KHL'IIEN OOODS generally. TIN ROOFING^ JOBBING OF ALL KINDS Promptly utlpiidrd fo Qjtr Special attention given to litt Hot A.lr Furnaces 2 A few Doors south of the Railroad Bridget Water Sired. Augusta. tl2>nar«Stw-ly i ii j: Mutual Benefit LIFE COMPANY Of Ilartrord, Conn. r I MI IS company was incorporated at the last pcs JL sion of the Connecticut Legislature, with a guarantee capital of $200,000, and ofiers the only mutual system of Life Insurance. Single Membership Fee, 0.00 Membership for Man and Wife, 18.00 This in a full division insures your life for Five Thousand Dollaks. This is the cheapest and most reliable plan of Life Insurance that can be adopted. SIDNEY A ENSIGN, \VM. II GILBERT, President. Secretary. niLLMAN SMITH, Agent fop Kennebec A Somerset Counties, tOapr&linl*»* Al'GUSTA, No. 8 Union Block. Knickerbocker Mutual Life Insurance Company OF NEW YORK. ERASTUS LYMAN, PitESIDKNT FIMIIS is one of the oldest, most reliable, and best X dividend paying companies in the country. ASSETS OVER $7,200,000 Liberal orrangemente will be made with Agents, aid they are wunted in all parts of the State. .Apply at AUGUSTA, ME., 130 Wutcr Street, (up-atalra) to CHARLES WHITE, Manager for Maine and New Hampshire. March 22,1870. hHwar-tf Continental Life Insurance Co.’y, OF KUW lOliK. OFFICES. Continental Building, Nob. *22, 24 and 26, Nassau Street, New York. OFFICERS. Justus Lawrence, President; J. P. Ropers, Sec’y. New England Branch—“Boston Post” Building. Devonshire street, corner Water, Boston, Mass. Barnard Bros., Managers. The mo ft ntccetsful Company ever organized. No. of Policies issued in 1869, 8,776 Amount insured in 186W, $21,246,000 Annual Premiums in I860, 2 377.000 Assets ol the Company, Dec. 31st. 1869, 3.300,102 so Profits of the Company annually divided. Ail Policies nonforfeiting. Thirty days of grace al lowed in payment of prcminms and the Policy held good during the time. No permits required for travel. Purely Nlutvinl Dividends to Capital Stock being limited to seven percent, (legal interest). Policies granted upon all of the most approved plans. AGENTS WANTED, with whom liberal arrangements will be made. G. A. KOBEBTSOIH, tlmar tf General Agent, Augusta, Me. i GENTS WHO SELL OUR NEW WORK.

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A n American nnd Swiss Watches, in wold nnd silver case, including the celebrated National nr Elgin Watch. Waltham. Trcthont. Bor quin. Bonnett. Pardenux, Jacot, Ac., in both La flies’ and gentlemen’s sizes. i-'ino Gold J cwolry, Solid Gold Leon it on Vest and Neck Chains, STERLING COIN SILVER GOODS, FINE PLATED WAKE. SPECTACLES AND EYE BLASSES, of the most approved kinds. (LOCKS OF ALL KINDS9 including the celebrated ITHACA CALENDAR all of which will be sold at the Lowest Prices, nnd Warranted. Particular attention given to repairing all kinds nt Fine Watcher. Chronometer Balaneeis applied and adjusted to temperature and position. fljan7u-tf TO PRINTERS GOOD COMPOSITORS WANTED IMMEDI ATELY. to whom permanent employment and good wages w ill be given. Apply to ALFRED MIDGE d SOX, April'21-lwt 3ft School Street, Bouton. Paper Hangings! A FINE ASSORTMENT OF Stampid and Machine Gold. Satin, While Blanks, Buff and Brou n PAPER HANGINGS, BORDERS, Pnper A I.lnpn Curtains, Of the very latent style* nnd in great variety, Just received*, which we offt-r at Low Prices for Cash Beale Farnham, 203 Water Street. Augusta. Mar. 10, lh7u. iim«r-ow roll boston Spring Arrangement! T1IK STEAMER EASTERN QUEEN, ’llrILL commence her regular trip* from the \y Kennebec. Monday, April 11. 1«70, and jvill, until further notice, run* aft lollows Leaving Gardiner every Monday and Thursday at 3 o’clock, Richmond at 4, and Buih at 0 I*. M. TITE STEAMER CLARION, IVill leave Augu.-tn at 12 M Ilallowcll at 1 45 P. M connecting with the above boat at Gardiner. For further particulars inquire of Longfellow Sanborn. Augusta; II Fuller A Son. H.nllowell; T B Grant, Gardiner; J T. Kobinaou, Rn hutond, J. E. Broun. Bath. Gardiner, April 11, 1&70. ♦lOapr Remnants! Remnants. JUST RECEIVED BY Barton Russell, A NOTH Eli LOT OF THOSE REMNANTS, OF BROWN COTTONS! In the following widths 3-4, 4-4, 9-8, 9-4, 10-4. The above Good* are the production of the well-known Androscoggin Mills*, And will be aold From 3 to 12\ Cts. per yd. UNDER PRICE. Barton Russell. August., Mar. 11, 1S70. tltimnr-lf Roofing. ALL ORDERS FOR TIIF. Patent Composition Roofing, will be promptly attended to. Roof* covered with the best of stock, in the most durable manner and warranted. Paints Oils. PRICES REDUCED, From Five to Ten Per Cent. Also, just received, a full stock of the celebrated “HUSSEY PLOW!” Now selling at wholesale prices. AMOS WILDER. 123 WATER STREET, Augusta. Maine. f21apr2\v __ WEED FAMILY FAVORITE SEWING MACHINE. WARRANTED THE BEST IN THE WORLD, j Straight Needle Shuttle, Stitch alike on both side* uses hall as much thread as a single thread ma chine More of them sold than all other machine* in Hub market; never fail to give perfect satisfac tion every one warrrnted for five years. Call on Jones, who will cheerfully show the working of the Machine; nbo will show more awards of State, County and Mechanics* Fairs, and more Certificate* from Individuals and Corporations than would fill the w eekly Journal. tlOmar-tf JONES has them for *ale. Allen, Small Co., 1 KiClimSTS, And Mimui'ac^lurcrs ot Strum Engine, Circular Saw Mill,, Clap* board Planer,, Shafting, Pulleys, Mill Work, and all kind, of JOBBING Usually doue in a first-class Machine Shop. Also Improved Excelsior Machines, which cut* two Bolts at a time as readily »s one 1 BOARD PLAIER8 constantly on hand. No. 1 Journal Block. Water Street, Cm AUGUSTA, ME. 5j»n70 Female Compositor Wanted! Apply at the Journal Officii. fsapr-tf

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Uocal anU S'tate "Krtos. May-Day come* on Sunday. Are there any "Finnegans" among us? The current watchword: “Hoe! for the garden!” There is activity in building on Sewall street and vicinity. A good many cellars still give evidence of a freshet and are standing arguments for city drainage. Experience is a good teacher, but his charges are high and he won’t usually take his pay in boarding round. The highway between Augusta and Hal lowed is invariably swampy and dangerous iu spring-time. It should he macadamized. The animal who stole yesterday’s Daily had the privilege of rending a highly interesting personal article—that in regard to the big calf slaughtered by Adams. Mr. John Matthews has laid out a number of very eligible and de sirable sites for dwell ings in Hallowed, which will no doubt be speedily utilized, as tiouse lots in that city arc scarce. The catalogue of the library of the ^Ictho dist Episcopal Sunday School of Hallowed has just been printed, making a neat little folio containing the titles of over three hun dred books. Availing themselves of the act of incorpor ation granted by the lust Legislature, the Baptists of Belgrade are making repairs on their house of worship. The pews are being rebuilt, the gallery remodelled, and the entire house reconstructed. Charles E. Bailey of this city is malting large purchases of hay of the farmers in Bel grade and adjoining towns, for the Boston market. He takc6 the hay at the barn and pays a large or a small price, according to the quality and consequent value of the hay. Thus tur farmers find a ready market for this staple product at their very doors. Let the members of all religious societies put out the latch-string next wreck, and give the Methodist brethren from abroad a hearty welcome and good and comfortable entertain ment. No one society can minister to the wants of all who will be in attendance upon the meetings of the conference, and we be speak a Christian and sympathetic response to the call for extending hospitalities. The old block house standing on the eastern bank of the Kennebec river, in Winslow, and known as Fort Halifax, is one of the most an cient relics of a past age in our State. A gentleman in Winslow presented our travel ling agent w ith a small piece of wood cut out of the fort, bearing the following inscription “A piece of Fort Halifax, built bv Governor Shirley in 1754." The old block house which now stands in a tottering and decaying condi tion, was once no doubt considered a safe refuge from the attacks of hostile Indians; and, w ith a view to withstand a long seige, the spot chosen was one of the best on the river, and must have been selected by some one well acquainted with the surrounding country and the manner of Indian warfare. The fort is built square from the ground, the material used is the best of pine timber, hewed and dovetailed together ut the ends. There are many port holes, just large enough for a man to put out his gun, “draw a bead," and fire. An examination ol the “relic” will reveal places where bullets of the largest sire have been cut out from the inside, having gone nearly through, a distance of about ten inches. The entire structure is rotten and must soon fall. Truly, man and his works pass away and are forgotten. State Fair. It is yet early in the season to begin to talk about a State Fair, but our readers must know that the Trustees desire to decide upon the location as eary in the season as possible, that their premium list may be put before the people of the State, and their plans laid for performing the great amount of work neces sary for the complete success of the exhibi tion. Previous to the rebellion, of the six exhibitions held by the State Agricultural So ciety, two, those of 1858 and 1850, were held in this city, and botli were regarded ns very successful. The receipts of the former were nearly seven thousand dollars, and although the latter was held during a week of lutd weather, and did not show so heavy receipts, yet the entries of neat stock, horses, sheep, swine and poultry, to say nothing of the other departments of the exhibition, numbered about one thousand. Of the six exhibitions, besides those held in this city, one was held in Gardiner, one in Bangor, and one in Port land. During the rebellion, the Society not receiving its State aid of one thousand dollars annually, wisely concluded not to hold any shows. With the return of peace, however, a general desire was expressed to have the State Fairs resumed, and accordingly one was held in Portland in 1808. Again in 18(10, in connection with the New England Agricultur al Society, it held a fair in the same city—a more magnificent and successful exhibition of the kind than w as ever held in New England. These fairs should be held annually. There never has been a time when our State has been making such advances in every branch of the industrial arts as now and these fairs, is public educators and moans of obtaining knowledge, should be encouraged uud sup I ported. I The Trustees of the State Society have ■■started upon the campaign of the year 1870, ■md have decided to hold a fair September ■fOth-24th, provided any locality offers sulH l.icnt inducements. These inducements, wc lindcrstand to betree use of ground, track and linll, with tiie necessary fixtures for holding he show, police force, &c. We have near Ibis city a good show ground, which we learn Ihe enterprising proprietors will furnish to ■he society free of expense wc have one of largest halls in the State for the in-door exhi liition; we have superior hotel accommoda lions; our city is accessible from all parts of ■he State—and we have no doubt that here, i In the midst of the best farming and stock Irowing section of Maine, a magnificent fair Ian be held. Now shall not this be done? Ivill not our hotel keepers and business men lenerally do something towards inducing th« l.'rustees to hold the fair of 1870 in this city Will not the city government extend to the i Society an invitation to have its fair held here, as Portland has done In previous years? We are satisfied a little effort in the right I direction will secure the fair for Augusta. Who will start in this direction—and 'tart at once? City UlKbaay*. Evidence accumulates daily that tl e high way season of 1870 is to witness the s one im provident expenditures of money in tin repair of our city streets, as the many years which have passed. About Ten Thousand Dollars are annually spent on the old streets, nd yet Augusta can boast of having, alway in the Spring months, the most abominable w ys and streets. I bis large expenditure of n mev is substantially upon the same pieces of i ad an i nually. To-day this Capital City of the Stale is at tempting to make those great thoroughfares, Western Avenue, Green and Winthrop streets, passable, by filling the mud holes and impas sable places with boughs— rubbish and gravel, j This process has been repeated the- many years, and when the summer comes nd the streets are dry, the roads are stnootlu 1 up by a eoat of sand or gravel. In this way the money is mostly used up each year >n the same pieces of road. Now ns a heavy and willing tax payer of Augusta, we protest against this useless and improvident waste. In behalf of the good citizens wc demand that better judgment and wiser counsel prevail. Let the Highway Committee and the Street j Commissioner jointly examine the ro .Is and determine what street or road should l put in order first, then underdrain and put th t road in such condition as to demand no n ire ex penditures fur the year. In this w y your money is all sated, not wasted, in p 4 -Information Wanted. Wayne, April, 25, 1 -s~0. The citizens of this town were much ex cited yesterday, hv the announcement ,'iat the dead body of a man had been discovered in the pond, known as the Wing I'ond, n -rth of our village. It was taken from the water, and an examination immediately had. No marks of violence were found, and tin united opinion was that hi-, death had been o j atedly seen the deceased, who was known to them by the name of Hemic—his whole name not known, neither his place of residene He was apparently about seventy years f age he was of eccentric habits, possessing pecu liar cast of mind, was quite an cxle ter, a man of prayer, both in the house and on the wav, and was considered by some a Second Adventist. Articles were found upon the body, some of which gave undoubted proof of recognition. Immediately after the examina tion, the body was interred in one of t; town cemeteries. It is hoped that this will elicit further facts and information which v ill re lieve the public mind and be valuable and sat isfactory to relatives and friends. S. P A meeting of the corporators of Forest Grove Cemetery iscalhd for this afternoon at the office of Samuel Titcomb. The meeting will be a very important one, and as hereto fore it has been hard work to get out i quo rum. it is to he hoped that as now the time has come when radical changes are demanded in the summer's work on this beautiful .ceme tery, the corporators will feel interested to spend a few moments time for the sake of the public good. The meeting will be held at half past two o'clock. Afternoon Dancing School. Mr. U F Berry would respectfully auiounce to the citizens of Augusta and vicinity that he will open a school for instruction in Plain an i Fancy Dancing for masters and misses only, at M ropoli tan Hall, Augu«ta, on Saturday alternoun. April 80, 1S70. Terms: Master#, $3.00 Misses, $2 oO Term to consist of twelve lessons. Tickets for sale at Patterson’s Book Store. Ileltnbold’s genuine preparations are selling like “hot cakes" at Frank Kinsman's. For choice flower seeds we would advise our friends to examine Kinsman’s stock before making their purchases, lie has just r ceived a new supply. apr22-eodlw Maine Methodist Conference. The Maine Annual Conference of the M liable L house and lot I now o Surpassed. j Their instruments contain all other improvements essential to First Class Instruments* For full particulars call or address AH\Ot ItODGKIAS A CO., GARDINER, ME. 5 Oct. Portable Melodeons, (new) $60.00 5 Oct. Single Reed Organs, 75.00 5 Oct. Double u 4 stops, 125.00 _t21apr-3mos__ Rooms Furnished! OK UNFrUSIshF.D, with Board, can bo ob tained at the corner of Winthrop and Winter Streets. Augusta. April 23. 1870. **2t HARDWARE! At WILLIAMSON A G KEEN WOOD’S New Stove. NEW GOODS! REMOVAL! THE SUBSCRIBER, finding her old store too j JL small to convene her LiAHOEl -AND Constantly Increasing Trade! Has removed to the Spacious Store Recently occupied by R. T BOSWORTH, No. 158 Water St., Where she is ready to receive All Her Former Customers! And a6 many new one* as Desire Bargains IN First Class Millinery. Having Just returned from NEW YORK BOSTON, wh4, 112*4112* 1805, 112*0113* .4 1805, Jan. A July, 111*0111* .4 1807. 111*8111* 44 44 44 18»>8, 111*0111* 44 10-40*,(coupons), lOTftluT* New York Stock Market. New York, April 20. Mariposa. 7 do. pfd. 1* Canton Co. 72 Cumberland Co. 28* Western l uion Tel. Co. 32* Quicksilvei Mining Co. 8* Pacific Mail, 4o* Boston Water Tower, 18 Boston, Hartford A Erie, 4* Adams Ex. Co. 02 Wells. Fargo A Co. 21 American Merchants Uu. 38* j U S Ex. Co. 44* N. Y. Central ami Hudson River, Uft* do. scrip, 81* Harlem, 144* Reading. 101 Mich. Central, 125 Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, }*3* Illinois Central. 138 Cleveland A Pittsburg, 105* Chicago A North Western, 77 do. preferred, 87* Chicago A Rock Island. IP.** Mil A St. Paul, 02 do. preferred, 70* Toledo, Wabash A Western. 53 Toledo. Wabash A Western preferred 75* Pittsburg A Fort Wayne, 02* Terre Haute, 31 do. pfd. 03 Altou, 114 do. prefd. Ohio and Miss. 34* Erie, 23* do. pfd. New York Produce Market. New York, April 26. CTTON—sales 2100 bales mid. uplands 23*. FLOUR—state 4*105545; round hoop Ohio doogOuO; western 400*020, southern 5805975. WHEA T—sales 103.000 bu No. I spring 118* No. 2 do. Ill£114; winter red ami amber western, 1245130* J CORN—new mixed western, 1118113; old do. 112* 5115 in store. OATS—state «>0 5»>9; western 50*302. PORK—mess 28 25; prime 21 On®22 25 LARI)—steam 15*310* kettle do. 10*817. BUTTER—steady; Ohio 14*20; state 20*35. Chicago Produce Markets Chicago, April 26. FLOUR—spring extrae 330*475. WHEAT-No 1. 82* No. 2, 87**87*. CORN— No. 2, 87*nJ. OATS-40* for No. 2. MESS PORK-2800 828 50. BARLEY—dull at 50a00 for No. 2 30*40 for No.3. LARD-16 *10*. Augusta, April 21st, 1870. A FILL ASSORTMENT OK UNHES^W SPRING GOODS! NOW OPENING -AT FOWLER, HAMLIN SMITH’S,' m -AT Very Low Prices. fl8Jan4f J. IS. UDD Millwrights and Machinists, AND MAN t FAC Tt'RKR* OF Ladd’s Excelsior Turbine Wheel. CIRCULAR ANI) UPRIGHT BOARD saws Manufactured at the lowest cash price*. Planing and Sawing, In all it* branches done iu a workmanlike manner. OKV4MK3T.il. BRACKETS, Of every description, furnished on short notice. Shop on Water St., Gardiner. Me. J E. LADD. tupr3G-3m \Y. s. BKANN. CONY HOUSE, W.ITKMt HTHKKT. AUGUSTA, MAIM,. rpms new Hotel afford** accommodations tliat uo X other one does in the city to the travelling com munity, being located in the CENTRE OE BUSINESS, and very near the Depot. The travelling public may be assured that no pains will be spared to meet nil their wants, and with the assistance of Mu. TritNKR, late of the Augusta House, we hope to merit a share of the public patronage. Connected with this House is a First Class Livery Stable I (j. A. ull<lliiu;s. With 'ft .ere. of I.and, finely located on Jinny or Street, Anyusta. hf This is a nice residence to be sold on Very Easy Terms. Apply to Mlts. B. F. Riggs, on the premises, ttlfeb-tf DELL BI7IOXDH’ Fashionable Hair Dressing Rooms, Opposite Parrott A Bradbury'*, Water Street, Augusta, Me. Shaving, Shampooing, Hair-Dressing, Cutting, Col oring, Ac., in the most approved *tylo of the art. Particular attention naid to cutting and curling La dies’and Children'* hair. All kind* uf Hair Work made to order in the latent ftyle. Ijan70-ly Dissolution. rpHK Co-partnership heretofore existing between X E A. Nason, C. II. Hamlen, A. W. Philbrook, A T. B. Perkin*, under the style of NASON, HAM LEN A CO., i* this dav dissolved by mutual con sent. The husiues* will be settled by HAULER A PHILBROOK, At the OLn Stash. E. A. NASON, t II HAMLEN, A. W. I'HI LBROOK, April 13, 1S7U. T. B. PERKINS. The undersigned will continue the Dry Goods Bu.lne.., of the firm of Nasuu, Hamlen ft Co., AT THEIR OLD STAND, Comer Bridge anil Water Street.. Those indebted to the lute firm are rrquested to call and settle. HAMLEN ft BHILBROOK. C. H. IlAMI KN, A. W. I’HILHKOOK. April 13,1H70. _tUapr-Jm Pure Drugs Chemicals FOE HALE At tho Lowest Rates TOILET AJRTZCIjIIS, FRENCH, ENGLISH, DOMESTIC SOAPS, CAMPHOR ICE, Dentifrices, English Cold Cream, Coudray’a Cosmetique and Pomade, Bay Bum, German and Domestic Cologne, Hair Oils, Dressings, Bcstorers and Dyes, Perfumery, Sachet Bags, Toilet Powders, Moth and Freckle Lotions, Camelia Balm, Laird's Bloom of Youth. Hagan's Magnolia Balm, Barnes’ Mag nolia Water. Shaving Cream and Soapa. Shaving Brushes, Bazor Strops, Nail Piles and Cleaners. Tweezers, Hand Mirrors, Dressing Cases, PUFF BOXES, IVORY, TORTOISE SHELL, 4 HORN Dressing and Pocket Combs, FINE COMBS. Nail, Tooth, Hair, Hat, and Clothea I3HUSIIES Thermometer*, Work Boxes, PORTE MONNAIES. Pocket and Bill Books! Feather Duster*, PAINT WHITEWASH BRUSHES, SPONGES CHAMOIS SKINS! Cignr Cases, Cigars and Tobacco, Humphrey's Homeopathic Specifics, Uellcome's and hitch's Remedies, ami all the popular Patent Medicines, Pure, Drugs, Chemicals A Fumily Medicines, Fresh. r*rcfci«oci IIcrLn, NEATS’ FOOT, Lard, Sperm, Olice, and Kerosene OILS. dJC.. cfcc. t eg-Call and examine, and you will fad PRICES EXTREMELY LOW. Physician’s Prescriptions carefully compounded IVom pure Mt'di' iuw at all hours v( the day and night. A. C. DANA, BbH'GIIT aid Apothkcabt, Successor to J. 1*. Deekixo, Xo. 7 Union Block, Water Street, Augusta, Me. »y« OIL (LOTH CARPETING F AT "T vg, Williamson Greenwood’s. ’“iano for Sale! t WELL TONED PJAX'O. In good t\ rendition. can be bid for •III HIMIKKI) DOLLARS. It 1, a baigaia at the price Inquire si the Jol'BKAl da, Apr. IS. 1870. tl»*pr

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