The Portland Daily Press (Portland, Me.)
December 23, 1865

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PORTLAND DAILY Established June 23, Ison. Voi. 4, PORTLAND, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1865. _ ’_ ’_ Terms $8 per annum, in advance. PORTLAND DAILY PRESS: JOHN T* GlhWAXs Editor, PUBLISHED AT 82} EXCHANGE STREET, BY N. A. FOSTER CO. The Portland Daily Press is published ai $8.00 ple Decembor 10. dtt HENR Y JP. WORCESTER, GENERAL Commission A Forwarding Merchant „ar Merchandise oi all kinds bought and sold on Northern account. Office—No. 12 Campbell’s Wharf, Norfolk, Va. t3T* Consignments solicited. Refers, by permission, to Messrs Messrs. Lowell Senter; Gerrish Pearson; John Dennis Co.; Clark, Read A Co., Portland, Me. no.8d6m ~J. EDWARD GOVE CO., PRODUCE Commission Merchants, AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Lard, Beaus. DRIED APPLES, &c. No. 3 Lime Street, Portland, Me. Special attention paid to consignment* of all kinds of Produce. scp20dlyr BOSS FBBBX, PLASTERERS, PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL STUCCO AND MASTIC W01NEES, Oak Street, between, Congress and Free Sts., PORTLAND, ME. Coloring, Whitening and White-Washing prompt y attended to. Orders irom out ot town solicited. May 22—dtf L I. PICKETT, Dealer In Photographic tioods, mirrors and Engravings. Minufftoturer of Mirror A Picture Frames. No. 28 MARKET SQUARE, Jmnel2tf Portlasd, Mb. KING DEXTER, Succes iors to Chase, Littlefield Co., Importers of nud Dealers ill all kind* oi Hardware Window Glass, 175 Middle and 118 Federal Sts. October 2—d3ui Deerinf?, Milliken Go., Successors to G. L. Storer Co., JOBBERS OF 1 Dry Goods, Woolens, And Gents' Furnishing Goods Manufacturers of and Dealers In CLOTHING AND CLOAKS, Agents for EMPIRE SEWING MACHINES for i State of Maine. rrd rs and Agencies solicited. A t tention given to receiving and forwarding goods to and from the interior. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 2,1866. References—Brigham Baldwin, N. A. Har dee, Ervin -fc Hardee, E. C. Wade Co., Savannah; Fling Drew, Portland. dc4dtf The Only Perfect Piano forte! PARMELEE’S Patent Isolated Piano. Call and be convinced. A. M. McKEANEV, Agent, oc3co i&eow3m 284 Congress St., cor. of Centre S O V T H E M N PINE! BRADFORD RENICK, /COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 71 Broadway. New \J York, execute orders lor Southern Timber of any required dimension with despatch, and on the most lavorable terms. Shipments made directly to all do mestic and foreign ports. They arc also prepared to (ural-h Oak and Northern Pine Timber, hewn or sawn to order. oclSdSm DR. P. WADSWORTH, JR., Physician and Surgeon. Office, 3531-2 Congress Street. Residence, Cor. of Oxford and Cedar Sts. Nov 7—eoiltf Copying Pictures OF any kind done at A. M. McKENNEY’S, 2fH Congress St., by a new method, in a superio, manner; call and try it. oct3eod&eow3m Miscellaneous. STATEMENT Of the condition of the NATIONAL INSURANCE CO., OF BOSTON, MASS., On the First day of November, 1805. Incorporated June 18, 18G6. Amount ofCapltal,.$300,000 Amount of Capital actually paid in, 300,000 Number of Shares and par value, 10,000—$30 ASSETS. Amount of Cash on hand, 1,033 0$ Amount of Cash deposited in Hamilton Bank, 20,683 93 Amount of Cash in hands of Agents, 1,947 64 Amount of loans on Real Estate secured by .Mortgage, 68,000 00 -142 Shares Hamilton Bank, B«3ton, par $100, market value, 113, 242,046 00 170 Shares Shoe and Leather Dealers Bank, __Par 100, market value 130, 22,100 00 237 Shares State Bank, Boston, par 100, mar ket value 103£, 24,559 12 184 Shares Webster Bank, Boston, par 100, market value 101, 19,136 00 150 Shares Bay State Bank, Lawrence, par 75, market value 73, 10,950 00 80 Shares Atlas Bank, Boston, par 100, mar ket value 103, 8,210 00 70 Shares Market Bank of Boston, par 100, market value 103, 7,210 00 66 Shares Shawm ut Bank, Boston, par 100, market value 100, 6,600 00 187 Shares Boston and Maine Railroad, par 100, market value 116, 21,692 00 160 Shares Boston and Providence Railroad, par value 100, market value 125, 20,000 00 70 Shares Boston and Worcester Railroad, par 100, market value 128, 8,960 00 30 Shares Port. Saco and Ports. Railroad, par 100, market value 95, 2,850 00 $15,000 U. S. 6s 81. Registered Bonds, par 15,000, market value 15,900, 15,900 00 $10,0o0 U. S. 6s 81, Coupons, par 10,000, mar ket value 10,C62 50, 10,662 5 0 $15,000 U. S. 5-20 Bonds, par 15,000, market value 15,150, 15,150 00 $11,200 IT. S. 7 3 10 Bonds, par 11,200, mar ket value 10,867, 10,867 00 $10,000 City of Boston, par 10,000 market value 10,600, 10,600 00 $100 Bond, Town of Brunswick, par 100, market value 100, 100 00 Amount loaned on collateral securities, 27,300 00 Amount Premium Notes on hand for Marine risks 27 991 64 Amount Loan to Suffolk Bank, Boston, 4J53 20 Amount Premium Notes du*> and unpaid, 744 25 Amount Loaned on personal security, 67,30000 Total Assets. $067,201 64 LIABILITIES. Ain’t of Losses which have not been settled, 33,000 00 Amount Dividends declared due and unpaid, 2,466 00 Amount Premiums undetermined, 102.630 60 $138,096 60 A. H. BEAN, President, GEO. W. KUHN, Secretary. State of Massachusetts, I a_ County ol Suffol k. [Stamp.] Dec. 14, A. d. 1865. Then personally appeared Aar on H. Bean, Presi dent ancf George W. Kuhn, Secrotary, of the Nation al Insurance Company oi Boston, and severally made oath that the foregoing statement by them subscribed is true. Before me, CHAS. B. F. ADAMS, Justice of the Peace. JOHN DOW, Agent, 90 and 98 Exchange St., Dec. 18—d3w. Portland. The Eye, Ear, Catarrh -AND— THRO AT! J j i. j-J MRS. MANCHESTER, THE l.VDEl’E.N'DE.VT CLAIRVOYANTI -AND Electric Physician From 618 Broadway, Now York, has returned to Portland, and can be consulted at her office, No, 11 Clapp's block. A Clear Case of Clairvoyant Sight. Dear Madam:—Permit me to tender you my sin cere thanks lor the cure you have effected on my child. My daughter, ten years old, was taken sick last January in a very singular manner. We called in sir of the best Physicians in the city; they said the case was a very singular one—they never saw one like it—and came to the conclusion they eould not toM what the disease was. Some friends advised that we should call on a Clairvoyant; there being none in Providence that wo could rely on, we wrote to Mrs. MANCHESTER, in Portland, describing her symp toms. She immediately examined her case and told that she had a Snake in her stomach, told where she drfnk it, and that it has been growing, and from the best of her judgement she should think it ten or twelve inches long. 1 gave the child her prescription and in a few hours the child ejected the snake alive trom the stomach; it was measured and found to be eleven and a half inches long. We have it preserved, that ail may see for themselves that this statement is really so. I am confident that the child could not have lived, had it not been for Mrs. Manchester, and we feel as though she never could be repaid for her skill. MARY RAY, GEORGE W. RAY. Providence, R. I., Nov. 10,1866. dciatf Half Million Dollars Worth TO BE DISPOSED OF AT ONE DOLLAR EACH, Without Regard to Value. Not to be Paid for until you know what you are to receive• SPLENDID LIST OF ARTICLES! All to bo Sold for ONE DOLLAR Each! 300 Musical Boxes, $20 to $150 each 150 with Bells and Castinets, 200 to 500 44 500 Silver Teapots and Coffee Urns, 20 to 50 44 500 44 Chafing Dishes, 30 to 100 44 1000 44 IcePicheis, 20 to 50 44 2500 44 Syrup Cups, with Salvers,20 to 50 44 500# 44 Goblets Drinking Cups, 5 to 50 44 3000 *4 Castors, 15 to 20 44 2000 44 Fruit,Card &CakeBaskets20 to 5 44 5000 Doz.'n Silver Tea Spoons, 10 to 20 doz. 10000 44 44 TableSpoons&Forks20 to 40 44 260 Gents’ GoldHunt’g-CascWafcche*60 to 100 each 260 Ladies’ Gold Enameled Hunt ing-Case Watches, 35 to 70 44 500 Gents* Hunting Case Silver Watches, 35 to 70 44 200 Diamond Kings, 50 to 100 44 5000 Gold Vest and Neck Chains, 4 to 30 44 3000 Gold Oval Band Bracelets, 4 to 8 44 5000 Jet and Gold Bracelets, 6 to 10 44 2000 Chatelaine Chalns&GuardChains,5 to 20 44 7000 Solitaire and Gold Brooches’ 4 to 10 44 6000 Opal and Emerald Brooches, 4 to 8 44 5000 Mosaic, Jet, Lava and Florentine Eardrops, 4 to 8 44 7500 Coral,Opal Emerald Eardrops, 4 to 6 44 4000 California DiamondBreast-pinh2.50 to 10 44 3000 Gold Fob and Vest Watch-keys2.50 to 8 44 4000 Fob and Vest Ribbon-slides, 3 to 10 44 5000 Sets Solitaire Sleeve-buttons, Studs, Arc., 3 to 8 44 3000 Gold Thimbles, Pencils, &c., 4 to 6 44 10000 Minature Lockets, 2.50 te 10 44 4000 44 44 magic spring, 10 to 20 44 3000 Gold Toothpicks, Crosses, Arc, 2 to 8 44 5000 Plain Gold Bings, 4 to 10 44 10000 Stone Set and Signet Rings, 2.50 to 10 44 5000 Chased Gold Rings, 4 to 11 44 10000 California Diamond Rings, 2 to 1C *4 7500 Sets Ladies, Jewelry—Jet and Gold, 5 to 15 44 6000 Sets Ladies* Jewelry—Cameo, Pearl, Opal and other stones, 4 to 15 44 10000 Gold Pens, Silver Extension Holders and Pencds, 4 to 10 44 10000 Gold Pens, and Gold Mounted Holders, 6 to 10 44 5000 Gold Pens and Gold Extension Holders, 15 to 25 44 5000 Ladies’Gilt and Jet Buckles, 5 to 15 44 5000 44 44 44 Hair Bars and Balls. 5 to 10 44 Certificates of tne various articles ai e first put in to envelopes, sealed up and mixed; and when order ed are taken out without regard to cLoice, and sent by mail, thus giving all a fair chance. On receipt oi the certificate, you will see what you are to have, and then It is at your option to send the Dollar and take the article or not. Purchasers may thus obtain a Gold Watch. Diamond Ring, or any set of Jewelry on our list for One Dollar. Send 95 Cents for Certificate. In all transactions by mail, we shall charge for for warding the Certificates, paying the postage and do ing thebusiness, 25 cents each, which must be enclos ed when the Certificate is sent. Five Certificates will be sent for $1; 12 for $2; 30 for $5; 100 for $15. AGENTS—We want Agents In every Regiment, and in every Town and Countv In the Country, and those acting as such will be allowed 10 cents on every certificate ordered by them, provided their remit tance amounts to One Dollar. Agents will collect 25 cents lor every certificate, and remit 15 cents to us, either in Cash or Postage S amps. BBT AN BBOS. New Fork City. Nov 4—d3mo8 Miscellaneous. -!J l: Is open Day and Evening, for a 1U11 and thorough BUSINESS EDUCATION, located on MfiUUfc St., No. 161, opposite II. H. Hay Co., Apothecaries. The Principal has had 21 years* experience.' I do not pretend an extension of Gold Linked Se ries of Colleges into the other Continent; and that niv Diplomas and full Scholarships, are good all over this great world; but 1 do claim they will prove intrinsic to the Students (either LADIES or GENTLEMEN) in any part of the United States of America; aud also that our Counting Booms for inductive training (without any copying,) both in Accounts and Native Writing, Mercantile Lcuc, fyc, fc., offer a*full, thorough, complete, practical and expeditious facilities ior BUSINESS EDUCA TION, as any College in the U. S. This is the only Commercial College in the State where a full and complete Scholarship in Book-keep ing, Writing, Ac., is taught without copying, so that no one can pass through the course without ob taining a thorough counting-room education. Mr« Brown would present to the Citizens of Portland and vicinity, his warm gratitude lor their kindness and liberal patronage the past fi teen years; and with the promise of faithfulness, so licits other favors R. N. BROWN. Portland, September 18,1865. sepl9deod*wly -H Colored Photographs FtOM Locket to Lite Size, by the best otf Artists. All coloring done in my estabishment where I keep constantly employed a number of colorfets. all and examine specimens at my Photograph Exhibi tion Booms. A. M. McKENNEf, 284 Congress St., opposite Preble House, Portland. Oct 3—eod&eow3m Military and Naval Claim Agency. W. II. FESSENDEN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR, No. 65 Exchange Street, (Formerly Agent U. S. Sanitary Commission,) PROCURES Pensions, Bounty, Back Fay, and Prize Money, at th j shortest possible notice. In formation obtained of missing soldiers. Personal property of deceosed soldiers obtained and forward ed to heirs. The Sanitary Commissio n being about to close its local agencies, Mr. Fessenden will continue to prose cute claims in the different departments ot the Gov ernment. Refers to Hon. W. P. Fessenden, Washington,D.C. Dec 15—eodiw Albums, Engravings, Crayons, AND FANCY ARTICLES, for sale at A. M. McKEMVEr,es can be had In sets, in neat box, firming a moat Invaluable Library for Boys and Young Men, or in separate volumes. fob sale by HAILEY «fc NOYES. WM. H APPLETON, Publisher and Wholesale Bookseller, Nos. 92 and 94 Grand St., New York. declld2w Eureka Black Writing Ink. The subscriber has been appointed agent for the Eureka Black Writing Ink, manufactured by Au gustus D. Forbes &Co.. Boston. This Ink is prepared according to an original recipe procured in England. It is a beautiAil jet black, flows freely from the pen, and does not become muddy by exposure to the at mosphere. It is entirely free from acid, and does not corrode a steel pen. H. M. FOGG, _ 38 Middle Street, General Agent. dc20dlw Portland, Me. BRADBURY SWEAT, Attorneys and Counsellors at law, OHce 111 Middle Street. ?'°dNbBB8AWDEBaT’} PORTLAND, ME. Mb. Sweat will be In Washington after the 1st of January, and will attend to anv business entrusted to him, before the Supreme Court, Court ol Claims, or any of the Departments, dc20tf DAILY PKESS, PORTLAND.

Saturday Morning, Deoamber 23, 1805. Th ilailji I'DM Of If,, Pr," M Unfit than tin com 0,*„ tht cU,. Terms $8,00 per^^. Ey Beading Matter on aU Four Pages. Mr. Sumner on Reconstruction. The special telegraphic correspondent of the Boston Advertiser, speaking of Mr. Sumner’s speech of Wednesday, says It will probably prove to be one of the most Important speech es of this Congress. The speech was upon Mr. Wilson’s hill to secure the Ireedmen in their rights, occupied nearly two hours in delivery, and was listened to by crowded and attentive galleries. His purpose was to show that the situation of affairs in the South does not warrant the President in the rose-colored view taken in the message sent to the Senate on Tuesday, and the brief argument was sustain ed by a great mass of testimony showing the views *>eld in various 8tates lately in rebellion on the subject of State rights, State suprema cy national unity, freedmen’s rights, Ac. He brought forward the reports of conventions, legislatures, planters’ meetings, Ac, quoted from the message of provisional governors, and the speeches of leading Southern men, in troduced scores of private letters from officers of the army and of the late rebel army, and read extracts from various newspapers, and particularly and at some length from what he denominated the admirable and care fully written letters of the Advertiser’s correspond ent, “Dixon.” Many members of the House came upon the floor of the Senate during the delivery of this speech, and Mr. Sumner was warmly congrat ulated at its close. Mr. Saulsbury of Delaware, speaking for Copperheads in the same strain indulged in by the Argus of this city, happening to’ be so ber enough to do so, unproved the occasion to inform the country that there was a split in the republican party, and that he should not offer his services as mediator. He has also loudly exhorted the President to stand firm against the radicals, and pledged him the mor al support of two millions of democrats in States never in rebellion. Letter from the Great West. Ckdab Rapids, Dec. 15,1805. IOWA. To the Editor of the Press: I noticed that my last letter to the Press was headed “Letter from the Far West."— Really, it was the first time since I crossed the Mississippi, that it had occurred to me that I had reached a point very “far west.”— Almost every day and hour we hear people say that they are going or have been “out west” which is a point somewhat farther from the Atlantic than this. CENTRAL IOWA. My last letter left us in the pretty little city of Cedar Rapids, just on the point of starting forDes Moines. The country along the line of the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad, which ex MJHUi WtfH UVQl tU9 pMtv a«r uaswt u uuimma altogether prairie, nor all hilly—it is rather a cross between the two, with hardly any of the requisites of either. It is undulating and in some places the country is as uneven as in the vicinity of Portland. Wood and timber are scarce and in some sections the day is not dis tant when the formers, even, must depend wholly upon the coal mines for fuel. At Boone, the present terminus of the C. R. M. R. K.R., there is quite a large quantity of coal of good quality, which is already being mined to some extent. Along the line of the railroad are several thriving towns which are the centers of trade for this particular locality. Blaistown, Nor way, Belle Plains, Juka and Marshalltown are doing quite an extensive business. BOONE. is one of the mushroom towns. Last April there was not a house within two miles of the place. In May the railroad company deter mined to make it the terminus of the R. R. far the present, at least, till it could be pushed across the Des Moines River. The first lots were sold by the Railroad for $5 each; to-day the same lots are bringing $1000 each and Boone has 1200 inhabitants. My companion and myself did not however go to Boone, but left the cars at Nevada for a STAGE BIDE TO DBS MOINES. It was one o’clock p. V. when we reached this little mud town—Nevada—and we search ed in vain for something to eat. In a little store, labelled “Saloon,” we found they did no thing but sell, under the name of “White Wine,” raw whiskey, warranted at forty rods. Hungry as bears and “mad as a March hare” we located ourselves in a little closet mount el on wheels, called by the natives a etage, which was originally designed for six passen gers with a chance for a seventh with the driv er on the box, but regardless of original “de signs,” the agent actually packed nine live men in a place too small for the number for which the maker Intended it. Those on the front seat had to “dove tail” their legs with those on the middle seat, who were facing each other, in order to give a proper chance for free circu lation of the blood and the prevention of in evitable cramp. Fortunately for themselves there were no ladies in the coach especially on the seats mentioned. The writer had a good chance behind, where each of ns took turns in sitting edgewise in order to make room for the other two. Thus for nine long hours we sat. Of course stories were told, songs sung, cigars smoked and every thing done to while away the time. Of the nine men seven were from New England and four (thank Heaven there are such) were from the State of Maine. We arrived at DES MOUSES about ten o’clock, in the midst of a violent rain which had no cessation from the time we arrived to the time we left, rendering the mud actually unnavigable. In the street* of the capital of Iowa the mud would average four teen inches deep, the carriages would sink to the hubs, and drivers cursing and swearing would back their horses til) it chilled the blood within one to see such a display of human weakness and such ajdisregard of strength of materials. Des Moines has been built with the expect ation and belief, entertained by every town this side of the Mississippi, that it is destined to be the “biggest city we it of Chicago.” Dee Moines is just 85 miles from any where. The nearest locality to the city, of any name or description is ju3t 35 miles, at least, a* “they say,” and I certainly shall not dispute them, for, from the cupola of the capital, which is on a high hill, I looked in every direction and not a human habitation, as far as the eye could reach, was discernible except in the city. A city, estimated variously at, from 8,000 to 13,000 inhabitants, with no country to support and no body, outside of themselves, to buy, expects to go on in prosperity for all time to come. They live, as a man there said to me, by “skinning each other,” and I appre hend that when they get each other thorough ly skinned, (about the time the currency be gins to contract,) there will be the longest list of failures and suspensions of payment in Des Moines, of any city of its size in the State. One Railroad, the C. R. A M. R. R. R. runs o5 miles north of Des Moines, the Burlington A Missouri R. R. runs 35 miles south of Des Moines, across the State. The Iowa Central Railroad, running north and south, leaves Dea Moines 35 miles the west and the only hope of the prospective biggest-city-west-of Chicago, is to build a road these 35 miles, which they will not do for they haven’t the money. Des Moines has 42 lawyers, 42 doctors, and other professional men In proportion. I didn’t stop to get any more statistics, but left as soon as possible at 2 o’clock a. m., on the second day after my arrival. I didn’t ebey the injnnc tion to shake the dust off my feet Ac. Ac., be cause the dust had long since been mixed with Wa*er and reduced to the consistency of por ridge. THE BETUBN. It was Wednesday morning, 2 o’clock, cold, dark, rainy and windy, when we took our tear less leave of this second paradise below,—par adise as it had before been represented. If any man wishes to get tired of the West and to long to be back within a decent New England town, let him go to De3 Moines under the cir cumstances that we did. and the result will be effectually accomplished. At seven o’clock, after a cold ride, with an empty stomach, we were informed that we couKl have breakfast But we leaped, straight ened the kinks out of our legs, made our way into a shanty, where we found a roaring wood fire an the hearth and an abundant supply of oleaginous eatables on the table. These we disposed of with much gusto, greatly amused at the waiting maid, who was wife of the landlord, of 800 lbs weight, and forty years.— She would point with her fore-finger to a par ticular guest, my modest self, for example, and in a voice which seemed to come from the deepest recesses of a big hogshead, would ex claim “Stranger, neow what you have, tea or coffee We, however, finished our meal, paid our 60 cents each, and were soon on our snail like journey through the mud. When within seven miles of the R. R. it was 11 o’clock and the cars were due at 11 o’clock. The driver at this point sung out, “What time is it inside there f* Tills was the climax long expected The driver supposed we would pay him a couple of dollars to drive faster, but we had mutually agreed not to pay a copper, so some one replied, “Eleven o’clock.” “I don’t think I can get there in time for the cars,” said the driver. “We are in no hurry” was the univer sal rejoinder and for once the driver got no black mail, as was his wont, in the mud of “Skunk Bottom.” In. time and In safety ~e reached Nevada. But this letter is already too long, so I’U subscribe myself Ives. An Amiable Spirit. The “barbarism” of Slavery is not yet whol ly beaten out of Southern society notwith standing all the fair things which are told us by the advocates of hasty reconstruction.— The old leaven of brutality and devilish law lessness still works, and occasionally we see its effects come to the surface. In the New Berne (N. C.) Timet, of Dec. 12, we find an ar ticle on Senator Sumner, in which thi» pleas ant spirit crops out That gentleman’s con sistent and persistent advocacy of the cause of the down-trodden and oppressed is an unpar Southern editor” and at the thought of Mr. Sumner his indignation finds vent in the fol lowing The mind involuntarily reverts to the time when Bbooxs’ cane was freely used, and the heart cannot stifle a sigh of regret that the distinguished New Enslander did not then “hand in his checks,” like an honest man, who was tired of life. The spirit ot ruffianism which animated “Brooks’ cane” is still alive in the South; and were the military arm removed we should see it rampant again. Copperheads on the Anxious Seat. The Argut—that consistent sustainer of the war of the past four or five years, and vig orous opponent of treason ?}—in its yester day morning’s issue closed a brief article as follows: The question now to be determined ie, w ill tfco rad ical b ed the suggestion of General Grant, or will they declare war against LIm, as well against the President? 11 they are rash enough to do this, look eat for tore heads In the radical ranks. “Poole rush in whore angels tear to tread.” The meaning of the closing line of the above it, that copperhead angels are constitutional ly timid, and do not rashly rush into places of danger whore their heads may get crushet'.— This is no doubt true; at any rate, if wc take the sacred account of the first copperhead an gel literally—the parent of the whole tribe— we shall find this idea borne out, for he is rep resented as making his first attack not upon a strong man, but upon a defenslett woman, as she was taking a solitary and quiet stroll among the trees and shrubbery of the garden. That “angel”—“fallen from his first estate”— didn't tread anywhere, but, like his progeny of to-day, simply crawled into holy placet, where his slimy presence could but have been regarded as a profanation. But our neighbor would better set forth the present attitude of his copperhead friends, should he say that where great ships are wrecked or great conflagrations rage, the wreckers, thieves, scapegraces and outlaws con gregate, to take advantage of the misfortunes of better people. In hope that the party which has rescued the country from the grasp of a Democratic rebellion, and conducted it safely and triumphantly through a four year’s war, is about falling apart, we find the whole army of political wreckers, thieves, and pick pockets, who live only for plunder, and who have no higher idea of duty to one’s country than that of gorging upon Its substance, now sharpening their teeth, and smacking their bloody chops yet smelling rank of the fresh blood of Ui.ion-loving men, ready to pounce like a pack of hungry wolves upon whatever advantage may be taken of the weakness, the folly, the defection, or the wickedness of men in power. But we trust the day is far distant when the American people will consent to confer power upon such unprincipled men as those who have constituted the political minority ot the country for the last five years. We think the country has had enough of such rule. The voice of the recent elections has proclaimed their everlasting banishment from power, and should President Johnson be so foolish as to throw himself into their embrace, his ruin and eternal degredation would be as sore as is the damnation of the men whose hearts are steep in treason. The Argue and other copperhead papers en tirely over-look the ground on which the Re publican party stands, tl^foiiue on which it will fight out the great mites now before the country. That party was organized to actual ize an idea; to establish a great principle in the practical life of the nation. It is ground ed on a rock, and not on mere changing sands. Unlike the present Democratic party, It re gards human rights as above all other rights; it believes justice to be more important and much safer than jugglery; that principle is above policy, and that equity should in all cases be made paramont to mere expediency. This is exactly opposite to Democratic policy, as dow exemplified, in all respects. That par ty is simply a party of expectancy, looking on and watching and waiting, Micawber-like, for “something to turn up,” and It makes very

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fM little difference what that somethihg Is pwM- dad it will promute the interest and aubecrve j the raischievlojjs purposes and restore in some degree to place and power, the wicked and un faithful men who for four years have at best occupied a position of neutrality while their country has been engaged in a lifc-and-death struggle with rebellion; a neutrality very much like England’s, which has not forbid them to send out corsairs to harrass and prey upon the friends of loyalty, of freedom and of the Union, and to benefit only traitors and the traitor cause. The Republican party, we repeat, was organ ized upon an idoa—the idea of the Declaration of Independence—and upon that idea it has stood, in defence of it it has fought a gigantic warfare, r.ud we greatly mistake its character it now it will prove false to that idea, or lend a willing support to any policy or any man that would defraud them of the just fruits of the struggle through which they have passed. If President Johnson stands faithful and true to the great principles on which he was nominated and elected; the principles which he enunciated while Military Governor of Tennessee, and in the absence of which enun ciation be never would have received the nom ination; if, we say, he proves faithful and true to that idea and those principles, he will find himself sustained by the Republican party; they will rally around him, sustain his acts, uphold his hands, defend his honor, strength en his arms,and abandon ldm never; but if, on the other hand, President Johnson, as the Argus intimates he may, turns away from the great principles of freedom and true Democra cy, seeks to roil back the car of progress, to block the way of justice, to defraud tne coun try of the just fruits of its great struggle with rebellion, then, powerful as he confessedly is, and high in position as he is, he will find him self abandoned, and nothing under heaven will rescue his name from dishonor. John Tyler )>etrayed the trust reposed in him and turned from the people who had elected him to those who had opposed him, and his name to-day, even in the absence of his subsequent treason, is regarded with disgust and loathing by all high-minded and honorable men. Mil lard Fillmore proved false to the trust reposed in him, and sought to reverse the whole en ginery of the Government, and his name has become almost infamous. Andrew Johnson is not the traitor that John Tyler was, nor yet the simpleton that Millard Fillmore was, and we have no foar that he will walk—that he has any disposition to walk—into a similar trap. And now we say to tne Argus tnat it may ■pare all its affectionate solicitude for the Press. The Pres* sustains President Johnson, and will continue to do so while he stands by the great cardinal principles of a genuine De mocracy. But the Press will not uphold cop per/,eadim, nor will it do so even in President Johnson; so to make us take decided ground against him it is only necessary to satisfy us beyond cavil that he has joined himself to the copperhead cause. Our motto is “Principles, not men.” Md’lle Euplirosyne Parepa. It always affords us much pleasure to wit ness the success and triumph of genius in any art or science. During the past few weeks wa have noticed with considerable interest what the New York and Boston journals have said of Parepa’s vocal powers, and her high musical culture. We think we can readily see the difference between indiscriminate puffs, priced and paid for, and genuine criticisms and honest judgments. And seldom have we read higher compli ments paid to geuiti3 and worth than the above journals have bestowed upon this cele brated artiste. She came to our shores unher alded, and by the power of her genius alonei she has acquired a reputation scarcely second tv uuj t wnnwv nuv utw gvuv wivit^ uv A Unlike Jenny Lind, she has had no Barnum to prepare her way and make it soft and easy. Ole Bull had a Mrs. Child to sing his praises jn advance in most bewitching style. She threw a charm around him which cold criti cism could hardly break, and he came before the public with a name and a fame which no other American enchantress, but Mrs. Child, could have given him. But Md’lle Euphro svne Parepa has had no such enchantress, no such adventitious circumstances have fa vored her; yet she has risen a star of the first magnitude In the constellation of musical ce lebrities, and shines without any borrowed light. It is a fact worthy of note that Parepa’s vo cal powers and accomplishments place her far above the reach of envy—a bad passion which too often brings trouble upon musicians.— Her genius has conquered all such prejudices, and her reception in this country has been al] the most ambitious heart could have wished. All musicians, both native and foreign, with hold not their meed of praise, but lavish up. on her encomiums without stint. We are quite sure that nothing short of genius of the highest order could have wrung such praise from such a quarter. But we intended when we commenc ed this article to give our readers some ex tracts from other journals. Our space will allow but a few. The New York Tribune Eays: Madame Parcpa has a voice ot rare beauty, and a compass, we believe, oi fall fhree octaves. This ranee Is not comp s.d of notes forced out above and cough ed out below. On the contrary, every note is pure, rich, rounded and well formed, and her generous na ture has boeu given the power tohold her voioe under control, so that we have the true, unwavering tone. Her intonation is pericclly true, and tho blending of the registers is absolute perleciion, giving tho voice a homogeneity and equality but rarely to be loundeven in bingo s of the highest class. Her execution is clear and rapid, and whether in plain scale, or in groups, or in chromatic runs is most beautifully ar ticulate. It presents none of that glinando, which is so lie,1c and impure, but every no;e is fairly attack ed and sufficiently individualized. Her staccato pas sages aro brilliant and sharply pointed, and arc con sequently Tory clfcctive. Her trillo is clear, open and deci le and always upon the r;gbt interval, and always rouuued off with scrupulous finish, Madame Parepa’s voice is ot a quality rarely met with; we have had few here equally good during the last twen ty-fjur years. The nearest to it in outspoken power was Mrs. Wood’s; the next in spontaneity was Te deseo’s. Well cl3 we remember Mrs. Wood’s singing, for it was the first really good singing we ever heard. We then thought it was impossible for the human voice to make such music, but it has the power, and our wonder has ceased. Tede3co we have often heard, and a wonder ful vocal organ she posessed, but she was not always true. She was unsteady, careless, and even girliah on the stage. In this respect she widely differed from Madame Castellan who was dignified, yet exceedingly graceful in all her motions. She too had a splendid voice and highly cultivated. But ouc more extract. The Boston Trav eller says: But oven the critics—generally kind, but never par tial, to now a fists—have b en quite enchanted, and the tenor ot all their judgments is that Millie. Par*, pa, by Lho right of absolute genius, Is the find sopra no artieteof the time. We might quote from other journals, bnt it is quite unnecessary as our lovers of the high est order of music will have an opportunity of heiringthis great artiste next Thursday eve ning In our City Hall. And not only her, but also Mr. Levy, the greatest living comet-play er. The strains that come from his favorite Instrument are truly marvellous, and our mu sicians are on the qul rise to hear them. And we must not forget to mention Carl ltosa, the accomplished violinist. Since he first made his appearance before an American public, a short time ago, he has acquired the fame of a great artist. Mr. Seguin will also lend the charm of his voice to the concert. Lang and Anschutz will also be present on the occasion. On the whole, we have abundant reason to expect the most brilliant musical en tertainment ever offered to oui oltizens. Such a combination of musical genius and talent cannot fall to draw one of the largest and most fashionable audiences ever assembled in onr Hall. EiT" Haverhill, Mass., has $703,700 invested in the manufacture of boots and shoes, and i«9t year 4,000 hands made $2,590,260 worth of stock into 3,248,560 pairs of boots and shoes, jvorth $4,602,787. tag—'; U* i i mm I |.I| BjEIilGXOUS E«'T2tiLlG£NOIl. The Hallotrell Gazette says that Jlcv. Mr. Tucker of Gardiner, has become rooter of the Episcopal Church in that city. —The Calvinist Baptist society of Waterville, Bev. H. M. Sawtelle pastor, are building a nice The Free Baptist church in Chicago was dedicated on Thanksgiving day, and the next day destroyed by fire. In consequence of the liealth of Rev. Dr, Adams, of the Congregational church, Bruns wick, the parish have voted to have only ODe sermon on the Sabbath. Rev. I. F. Waterhouse,of the Independent Christian society, Portsmouth, has received a call trom Providence. R. I., with a large salary. _Bev. J. 8. C. Abbott has determined to re sume the charge of the Howe Street church in New Haven, Ct., which he resigned a short time since. Rev. A. H. Plumb of Chelsea, Mass., has received a call from a Presbyterian church in Buffalo, N. Y., with a salary of $3000. The sermon preached Thanksgiving day in Plymouth Church, Pittsburg, Pa., by the pas tor, Rev. H. D. Moore, recently of this city, is to be published by request of a large number of geutlemenof his congregation. Last Sabbath was the day assigned by the Congregational Council which met in Boston in June last, for a general contribution by ev ery Orthodox Congregational church through out the country towards raising the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, for the purpose of aiding in erecting churches In destitute places in our own land. Rev. D. T. Stevens has removed from Au burn to Live more Falls, and hag assumed the pastorate of the Universalist church in that place. —We have before us the Pittsburg Commer cial,i of the 14th inst., containing an interesting acoount of the installation on the evening pre vious, of Rev. Henry D, Moore, recently of this city, as pastor of Plymouth church in that city. The sermon was by Rev. Samuel Waloott, D. D., of Ohio. We judge that Mr. Moore finds himself very pleasantly situated. The Free Baptists of Boston have been holding meetings to devise methods for payirig the debt of the North Bennet Street churoh, of that city. $1300have just been raised through the efforts of the meeting, and it is proDOSed to raise $7,700 more to bury the debt. Dr. Cheney of Bates College, addressed the meeting on Wednesday evening of last week. —The Old South Church, Boston, contribut ed on Sunday, 17th ult., to the Congregational Church buildiug fund, $1,500: Park Street Church, $1,125; two ohurches in Charlestown, $1,000 each; church at Newton Corner, $1,237; Plymouth church, Brooklyn (Beecher’s) $10, 000; Tabenacle, N. Y., $2,000. Many others came nearly np to a thousand dollars each. We copy the figures from the Reader. —rue f armington unronicie learns tnat nev. C. Campbell is to assume the pastoral charge of the 1st New Sharon Free Baptist Church; that Rev. Mr. Edgecomb is t obecome pastor of the Sout{i New Sharon Church, aud Rev. Daniel Allen of the Free Baptist Church at East Wilton. Rev. N. G. Clark, A. M., Professor of Rhet oric and English Literature in Union College, has resigned his place to assume the duties of Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions. The officers of the American Tract Society make a strong appeal for funds to meet the calls for the home field, for the West, for the army aud the navy, and for the freedmen. The sum of $50,000 is needed. Rev. M. D. Conway is giving a series of lectures at the Cleveland Hall, London, on phi losphical, religions aud social problems. Captain Wilson and a party of explorers have left England in the service of the Pales tine Exploration Society. They intend to land at Beyrout, and go by way of Damascus to the Sea of Galilee, and after visiting various places, to come at length to Jerusalem. —The lease of the Unitarian Church, in which the new Congregational Society at Washing ton has been worshiping o£lateu has now exuir eu, ana as ur. Boynton, the pastor, has been elected Chaplain of the House, his society will attend upon Ms preaching there during the session of Congress. Meanwhile, efforts will be made to build a church edifice. —A general meeting of the Christian Com mission has recently been held in Philadelphia, when it was resolved to terminate the labors of the Commission on the 1st of January, 1866, and all its offices will be closed from that day. The Amerioan Tract Society of Boston is organizing its branch operations in the city of New York, for the vigorous prosecution of its work. —Dr. Fuller, (Baptist,) in Baltimore has a church with a membership of 1022. —The Methodists of tMs country propose to raise $2,000,000 during the coming year, wbioh is their centennial year, for benevolent purpos es, and one gentleman of the denomination has come forward with a subscription of $250,000 for the endowment of a theological seminary. —The Methodist Pacific Conference, embrac ing the States on the Pacific coast, and the ter ritories, has 17 preachers, and a membership of 1870. —The Congregationalist says: “The U nitarian Society in Springfield, having recently called a, council to install a pastor, aid a very handsome but quite unusnal thing, viz.: they paid the traveling expenses of the members of the coun cil. We would not impose this upon all ohnrohes as a duty, but when a churoh is wealthy, it is certainly a very graceful and nat ural operation." Mr. George Lewis, a member of the last graduating class of the Boston Theological Seminary was ordained and installed as pastor of the Othodox church in Bedford, Mass., on Wednesday, the 13th inst. —Rev. Dr. Randall is to be oonsecrated Thursday, Dec. 26th, in Trinity Church, N. Y., as Episcopal Bishop of Colorado. The sermon will be preached by Bishop Eastburn of Mas sachusetts. —Ataspeoial meeting of the Am. Baptist Missionary Union, in New York, last week, com mittees were appointed to take into considera tion the necessity and prudence of establishing missions in France, Sweeden, Italy and Syria. Rev. H. C. Delong will be installed pastor of the Universalist Society in Danvers, Mass., on Thursday, Dec. 28. Rev. O. T. Moulton, Pastor of the Free Baptist Church, Saco, has accepted a call to go to New Hampton, N. H. Bishop Green of Mississippi has issued a pastoral letter advising reunion with the Epis copal church of the United States, and praising the excellent spirit of the late general conven tion in Philadelphia. Three years ago there were only three Christians congregations on the island of Mad agascar. Now there are seven large churohes at the capital, or near it: and some thirteen thousand church members. During the past week the Jewish festival Hanaca has been observed in the synagogues of the various cities. This festival is in commem oration of the recapture of tho Holy Temple in Palestine by Judas Maccabseus from the hands of Atiochus Ephones, who warred with the Jewish nation. The festival docs not be long to the “holy convocation,” and hence the Jews are permitted during these eight days to pursue the vocations of life as they are wont. Rev. Henry W. Ducachet, D. D., Episcopa lian, one of Philadelphia’s most eminent di vines, d'ed in that city of apoplexy, one day last week. At an early hour in the morning his wife discovered that he had been absent from his bed-room during the night, and upon visiting the study found the doors locked, the gas still burning, and the front shutters open; an entrance to the room being effected through the window, the lifeless form of the much re spected minister was found upon the floor. The aid of physicans was invoked, but it was evi dent, from the appearance of the remains, that he had passed to his final rest some hours be fore. His age was about 68 years. The Conyregationaliut of this week publishes the contributions in 230 of the Congregational ist churches toward the $200,0C0 church build ing ftind. They foot up something over $00, 636. There are about 3000 churches of that de nomination in tho country, and if the rest have done as well as those heard from the desired sum is doubtless made up. —The First Baptist church in New Bedford, Mass., by au overwhelming majority, have voted not to accept the resignation of Rev. J. Gird wood, for fifteen years their pastor, "gg- mf -•-Rev. Dr. TV. R. Williams IMU resigned the pastorate of Amity Street Baptist Church, N. Y., after a service of more than thirty years.—{ j The venerable Dr. Wycoff, of tho Middle Dutch ehnreli, Albany, where he bed officiated for thirty years, has been succeeded by Rev. Joa chim Elmendorf. s—ssa——■ ITEMS OF STATS JIEWB. tiT* On first page, Mr. Suumer on Recon struction, Letter from Iowa, An Amicable Spir it and Copperheads on the Anxious Seat; on the last page Poetry and Sunday Reading. S3?” Dion”—the inevitable and veracious Dion’ appears in (the Advertiser with a letter devoted largely to Gen. Grant; says “Grant has fallen from the high pedestal upon which he was placed by his countrymen,” that “he lacks all the elements of real greatness,” and that “the blood of 80.000 needlessly slain vic tims of the overland march, has dimmed and obscured the record of the life of the former tanner.” Poor G/aut! E5?“ The Argus seems troubled because the Press does not copy more voluminously from the Evening Post, and intimates that it will “hereafter be found eucking at the breast of the radical Tribune." The Tribune holds this lan guage to its impracticable friends, aud hence the Argus' fling at it:—“Let us know what you propose to gain for black suffrage, and how you mean to secure it, by breaking with the “President. Admit that we shall not get on so “fast as we might wish in his company, show “us how we are to get on faster by making him our enemy.” The Argus is evidently nettled because the Press will not follow its lead in de nouncing Andrew Johnson for disgracing his office, and the nation whose representative he is. fiy We have Seen able to add to our list of exchanges the Boston Recorder—the leading Orthodox Congregational paper of New Eng land. The Recorder was started about fifty years since, by Deacon Willis, previously of this city, father of N. P. Willis, the poet, and “Fanny Fern.” Deacon W. had been previ ously proprietor of the Eastern Argus, but be coming a religious man his conscience rebelled, he declined to do certain party work, and a breeze arising iu consequence he sold out.— Query: has the character of that paper since improved it; id i_ ;i 53P" The First National Bank of Biddeiord has declared a dividend of 71-2 per cent. (10 per cent, per anuum), payable on the 3d of January. fcif" Johnson Rideout, Esq., whose death at Bath on Thursday evening, at the age of 70 I years, has been announced by telegraph, was probably the largest ship-builder east of Bos ton, if not iu New England. More than seven years since we published in a Bath paper a list of vessels built by him, with date of launch ing and size, prepared by himself, and at that time the number was upwards of sixty, all of them square rigged vessels or steamers. 5®” The Biddeford Union says about sixty young men oi rtaco, navmg mtnerto patronized dram-shops toolavg-ly, have formed themselves into au impromptu society by the name of “Dashaways,” and pledged themselves to drink no intoxicating liquors for one year. They are actively engaged in inducing others to join them. Mr. Nathaniel Atkinson, recently pro prietor of the Eating Saloon in Fox Block on Middle Street, in. this city, has become proprie tor of the York Hotel at Saco. ESP” The Union says Judge Tapley has few superiors, is learned in the law, audkeen of perception, and will grace his new position. E5P“ The Hallowell Gazette says the steamer ‘‘Star in the East "now being built at Boston, for the Kennebec and Boston route by the pro prietors of the Eastern Queen, was launched the past week. |y One of the Sluice Gang was shot on the ice at Milltowu last Monday evening. A number of young men were skating, when three or four of the Sluice Gang attacked a young man named Smith, and beat him and drove him off He went borne, got his revolver, and went hack with the determination of remain I—S long as ho ntog.se.il. and of HAtinSIag himself if again attacked. On being again as saulted, he drew his revolver and put a bail through one fellow by the name of Condon, and fired at another chap, and the rest left in a hur ry. We understand COudon has since died.— The sentiment of the whole community is, “wish he had killed the whole gang.”—[Calais Advertiser. A Rangely correspondent of the Farm ington Chronicle writes that Mrs. Jacob Haley, of Rangely Plantation, was found dead upon the floor at her residence, on Sunday morning, Dec. 17th. Mr. Haley was at work lumbering in the swamp, and did not come home Satur day night, and the children on rising in the morning found their mother lifeless upon the floor, in front of the fire, where she had appar ently fallen suddenly after they had retired tor the night ESP” The Rockland Gazette learns that a boy of about eighteen years of age, named Oscar Perry, living at the Head of the Bay, was se verely injured by the accidental discharge of a gun, on Friday last. He was in the act of with drawing the rammer, when the hammer caught in some manner, and discharged the pieoe, the charge passing through his hand and wrist. It produced a very bad wound, which bled pro fiisely. ty The Hallowell Gazette says two barns, containing 70 tons of hay, two hay presses, one pair of oxen and two horses, besides other prop erty, belonging to Mr. Edward Bowman, of Chelsea, were completely destroyed by lire, at an early hour on the morning of the 22d inst. ORIGINAL AND SELECTED ESP* Reports from Ottawa, Canada, state that the subject of a reciprocity treaty is en gaging the earnest attention of the govern ment, and that after the Christmas holidays a deputation will proceed to Washington to con tinue negotiations. ESP” Snow fell at Nashville, Tenn., on Sat urday. HP" A proper secresy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secresy of weak and cunning ones. tw~ Idleness and intemperance are disci ples of one master, and their mission is ruin. E3P* The sunshine of life is made up of very few beams that are bright all the time. James T. Barker, a leading oil merchant of New York, committed suicide, Tuesday the 19tb, by shooting himself through the head. E5P* The Ohicago Times says that in 1852 there were but seventy-two cattle shipped from that city against two hundred and sixty two thousand four hundred and forty-six ship ped last season. E*iP" An exchange says that Western apples sold at auction in Springfield, Mass., Saturday, at $3150 to $4 per barrel, a falling off of nearly one-half within a month. ESP" A Mrs. Day, seventy years old, of Der ry, N. H., lately cut four cords of wood for her stove and spun twelve skeins of woolen yarn during three weeks. rr* It is so cold in Minnesota that the rail road trains have stopped running, the ther mometer indicating twenty-four degrees below zero. !33P“ It is stated that Mr. Oscanyan, the well known writer an lecturer on Turkey, has been offered the position of Secretaire Intime" to the Turkish embassy in Paris. E2P* A shopkeeper purchased of an Irish woman a quantity of butter, the lumps of which intended for pounds, he weighed in the balance, and found wanting. “Sure, it’s your own fault if they are light,” said Biddy, in reply to the complaint of the buyer; “it’s your own fault, sir; for wasn’t it with a pound of your own soap I bought here myself that I weighed them El?” A pumpkin pie, measuring four and a half feet in circumference, was one of the fea tures of a ladies’ fair in Charlton, Mass. 85?“ Shakspeare’s “Henry the Fourth” was recently performed in an English asylum, by deaf and dumb pupils, in the presence of a deaf and dumb audience. Ey” “The secret worth knowing” wnicli a man recently received on seuding a letter with ten cents enclosed to one of the numerous swindling advertisements seen in almost every newspaper was, “None ut fools answer my advertisement." 68?” A Washington dispatch says there is additional reason to believe that the French troops in Mexico are gradually concentrating at Vera Cruz, preparatory to embarkation for France, ——-J K^* Mr. John S. Rarey, the famous horse tamer, is suffering from a severe attack of pa ralysis. He resides at Groveport, Ohio. John H. Gee, late in charge of the Sa lisbury prison pens, is to be tried next week-at Raleigh, N. C., before a Military Commission. Kg'" Sliding chairs are in vogue in New York fbT the amusement of those who cannot skate, or prefer to be pushed over the ice by those who can. Kg" A loafer, who had been noisy, was up before a Justice’s court. -His honor told him to pay over five dollars for his fine. “C-c-c-can’t do it," muttered he; “a-a-ain’t got the p-p-pew ter.” “Are you a married man inquired the Ju9tioe. “N-n-n-uot exactly so f-f-far gone yet, sir.” “Well, I will have to send you to the work-house.” “T-t-t-tain’t uuthiu’ to g-g-go there,” said Alick—“b-b-but when yon t-t-talk ed of marriage, old fellow, you f-f-frigr+sned me t“ KT- The contempt case in the Supreme Court for the District of Columbia, in which Mr. Bradley, a member of the bar, was charged with using insulting language to the court, was disposed of Thursday. Mr. Bradley was ad judged guilty of contempt and fined one hun dred dollars. It will be recollected that Mr. Bradley, in open court, called Judge Olin “a liar and a scoundrel.” Speaker Colfax has left Washington for the North, to meet his engagements to deliver his lecture Across the Continent.” Nearly every evening of the holiday recess has already been spoken for by associations in the leading cities. He will speak in New York, at Cooper Institute, on Thursday, the 28th, and at Brook lyn on Saturday, the 30th inst., and In this city, before the Mercantile Library Association, Jan. Bth. 13?” A dispatch from Washington to the Boston Advertiser says the amended suffrage aot for that district, as reported in the Senate, providing that all male citizens of proper age who can read the Constitution of the United States in the English language and write their own names shall vote, will undoubtedly become a law. nr> As Mr. D. S. Warren, an octogenarian mail-carrier, was making his way from Iowa City to Washington, Iowa, on a recent night made dark by a snow storm, the horse became fast in a inud hole, and both man and beast froze to death. Bff" The San Francisco journals announce tha. the experiment of employing Chinese op eratives in factories in California has been suc cessful. They proved apt at learning the na ture of the work assigned them, and are hired for very small wages. gy" There is a child in Detroit with two perfectly formed noses, one Roman and the other Grecian. He will not fail to make his mark in the world because he nose too little. gy W. D. Winslow Co.’s Dramatic troupe, recently at Deeriug Hall in this city, are playing in Portsmouth. gy Ex-Congressman Van Valkenberg of New York has been appointed Minister to Japan. SPECIAL NOTICES. _ A Card. The Bible Society of Maine takes pleasure in ac knowedging the receipt of a legacy of five hundred dollars ($500) from the late MISS MARY ANN BROWNE of this City. OLIVER GERRISH, Treasurer. Portland, December 22, 1865. dc23dlt HOLIDAY^ GIFTS! Albums, Albums! DRESSER sells a 50 Picture Album, for $2.00 2.25 u a n n 2.50 u (i u a 2.75 u a a 3.05 it u it u 4.00 u t. u it 4.50 Dresser sells a 100 Picture Album, for 4.50 a u u 5. 12; Third quality, light young cattle, cows, tions. M. Seavey, No. 92 Exchange Street, offers the neat pocket or family cases of Homoeo pathic medicines. Fitzgerald Hodsdon, Nos. 148 and 150 Middle Street, offer hoods, shawls, gloves, hos iery, hoop skirts, u -Middle Street and L. Follette, No. 331 Congees* Street, exhibit hoop skirts, under flannels, &c., in large vari eties. Burroughs Hudson, Free Street Block, in the furniture line show a splendid assortment of articles. Shaw Brothers, No. 133 and 133 Middle St, present a handsome lot of flir goods, just the articles for the present season. Hall’s rubber emporium will turn out any anything in the rubber line, both useful and ornamental. R. J. D. Larrabcc Co., No. 00 Exchange Street, have one of the finest assortments of engravings that can be found in this city. A life policy is a most appropriate Christ mas or New Year’s gift, and Messrs. W. D. Little, John E. Dow Son, J. IV. Munger mo, volume ol some 375 pages, and Is Illustrated. Stopping the Leak, by “Aunt Hattie," is an other seasonable book. It Is published by Graves Young, and la one ol the pretty and popular Brook ude Series, Its design Is to Illustrate the danger) of reckless expenditure, and to teach the le.-son of econ omy In trldea. AU these books are for sale by H, Packard,

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TO THE DAILY PltESS. Saturday Morning, Decamber 23, 1365.

Presentation of Battle Plaus to the State of Massachusetts—Speech of ttov. Andrew. Boston, Dec. 22. The formal reception of the battle flags of Massachusetts regiments to-day, was the occa sion of a very imposing and interesting milita ry display. There were about three thousand veteran officers and men in the marching col umn, representing sixty regiments and batter ies, and displaying some two hundred and fifty battle-torn flags. All along the route of pro cession these veterans ami their banners were greeted in a most enthusiastic manner. On reaching the State House the color beaters ad vanced in front, forming on tbe steps of the Capitol, while the regiments filed into the grounds on either side. The whole space was tilled up, and with the crowd outside the grounds and in the streets, the spectators on the balcony and at the windows of the State House and the neighborings dwelling, formed one of the most striking scenes ever exhibited in this city. The salute of artillery, the wav ing of all the bauners and cheers having sub bided, prayer was offered by llev. Dr. Lothrop. Mgj. (Jen. Couch, on behalf of the Massachu setts Volunteers, then presented the colors to the keeping cf the Commonwealth in a brief and appropriate address, to which Gov. An drew responded as follows: “General:—This pageant, so full of pathos and of glory, forms the concluding scene in the long series of visible actions and events hi which Massachusetts has borne a part, for the overthrow of rebellion and the vindication of the Union. These banners return to the gov ernment of the Commonwealth^ through wel come hands. Borne one by one out of this capital during more than four years of civil war, as the svmbols of the nation, and the Commonwealth under which the battalions of Massachusetts departed to the field, they come back again, borne hither by surviving repre sentatives of the same heroic regiments and companies to which they were intrusted. At tbe hands, General, of yourself, the ranking officer of the volunteers of the Commonwealth, one of the earliest who accepted a regimental command under appointment of the govern ment of Massachusetts, and of this grand col umn of scarred and heroic veterans who guard them home, they are returned with honors becoming relics so venerable, soldiers so brave, and citizens so beloved. Proud memories of many a field; sweet memories alike of valor and friendship; sad memories of fraternal strife; tender memories of our fallen brothers and sons, whose dying eyes looked last upon tlreir flowing folds; grand memories of heroic virtues sublimed by grief; exalted memories of tbe great and final victory of our couutry, our union, and the righteous cause; thankful mem ories cf a deliverance wnought out for human nature itself, unexampled by any former achievementof arms; immortal memories with immortal honors blended twice around these splintered stave.?, weave themselves along the warp and woof of these familiar flags, war worn. begrimined and baptised with blood.— Let the ‘‘brave heart, the trusty heart, and deep, unfathomable heart” in wurds of more than mortal eloquence, uttered though unex pressed, speak the emotions of gratetul vener ation for which these lips of mine are alike too feeble and unworthy. General, I accept these relics in behalf of the people and the government. They will be preserved and cherished amid all the vicisi tudes of tile future, as mementoes of brave men and noble actions.” Upon the conclusion of the address of Gov Andrew, the exercises closed. From Washington. Washington, Dec. 22. A paymaster of U. S. Army went into a bank in this city to-day, with $15,000 ivhich he laid on the counter, and turned about for the purpose of writiuS a check. His clerk en tered at the same time and likewise placed on the counter a package of $10,000 dollars, and then engaged in conversation with a friend, Whilst the Paymaster and clerk W'ere thus engaged some person in the crowd stole the $15,000 package, with which he made a his escape unnoticed. In consequence of some remarks in Gen. Grant’s report, Gen. Howard, Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau, to day issued an or der, calling the attention of the Assistant Commissioners to that report, and saying “'the most thorough inspection will at once be made and the evils complained of corrected.” No order from the President wakes the Bureau independent of the military establishment, and any agent or officer who presumes to act con trary to such instructions will be forthwith re moved or reported to the department com mander for tiiai. It is reported that Gen. Van Vaikenburg of New York ha3 been appointed minister to Japan. In the United States Court to-day, pending the case of A. II. Gariand, of Arkansas, ask ing to be allowed to practice as Counsellor. Hon. Keverdy Johnson delivered an argument against the constitutionality of the oath. Fears of a Fegro Outbreak in Forth Carolina. Wilmington. N. C., Dec. 22. People here are sensitive about the negroes, as the holidays approach. It is observed that the number of negroes in town has diminished perceptibly during the last two days, and it is a matter of remark. It is said they have gone to a rendezvous in the country, but it is all mere speculation. The authorities entertain no apprehensions for the safety of the com munity, but admit the possibility of trouble in sparsely settled portions of the country in the interior. It is reported that suspicious charac ters have been seen lurking aboiit tor a week, wrho, it is imagined, are inciting a negro out break. Much allowance should be made for the timidity of the people. Their apprehen sions may be well founded, but the best in formed anticipate nothing serious. Should anything occur, the military foiee is sufficient for the emergency. The organization of the State guard, under the ordinance of the Con stitutional Convention, is rapidly being ac complished. Fifteen or eighteen full compa nies have been organized. Gen. KugeFs order forbids the Issue of arms to them by the gov ernment. They can be quick ly armed, how ever, if necessary. Apprehensions of a Negro Outbreak in Fir ginia. New York, Dec. 22. The Herald’s Richmond correspondence says the people of that city are in a high state ol excitement, in apprehension ol an outbr eak among the negroes during the approaching holidays. It is reported that preparations lor a gigantic insurrection have been made by the extensive gathering and secretion of arms. Fears are felt that the negroes will attack and rob the railroad trains. The superintendent of the Richmond and Danville Railroad has issued a notice that no freight will be carried over it between the 21st inst. and the 9th of January. The correspondent believes the apprehen sions groundless. Removal of the Remains of Presitlent Lin coln—Heavy Snow on the Plains—Catllc dy ing through Cold and Starvation. St. Louis, Dec. 22. The remains of President Lincoln were re moved yesterday tfoin the receptacle vault, at the Oak Ridge Cemetery, SpriugGeld, to a new vault erected near the site of the propos ed monument. The remains of Mr. Lincoln’s two children were placed in the same vault.— Robert Lincoln and the Directors of the Na tional Monument Association were present at the removal. A large quantity of snow has fallen on the plains. Over twenty trains are snow-bound at different points and a large number of ani mals are dying from starvation and the cold weather. Execution of a Murderer. Rochester, N. y uec 22 Wilson, the murderer of Devoe, at Portage was hung at Genesee, t>day. WUson denied that he killed Defoe, but admitted that he knew who w'as the guiity party. He con fessed that lie did not bear his true name and refused to toll or disclose his history. IP- qy however, confess that he killed Hon. Run liurtou, at Syracuse, in May last, and also a Mrs. Lewis, at Lancaster, Ohio, about a year ago. He hinted at many other crimes but disclosed no particulars. The Reported Withdrawal of the French from Mexico. New York, Dec. 22. The Heraid’3 special Washington dispatch says ofiicial information from the French gov ernment has been received, that the Emperor Nap icon intends to withdraw the French troop.; horn Mexico; yet it is vaguely given out by the French Minister, in diplomatic cir cles, that while such is his intention, Maxi miliian expects to supply their place with Aus trian troops, numbers of whom are said to be on their way. From FortresK Monroe. Fortress Movitov Dee 21. The steamer George Leary* ran over au un known oyster vessel in the bay, last night, and It is presumed sunk her, with ali on hoard Three companies of U. S. Regulars nniv* here last night, and will form flmtfFvrtr...... of the gar" -waU'Oe. From Savannah. Savannah, Dec. 22. The trial of General H. W. Mercer, charged with murder in shooting seven Union prison ers in this city, last December, is temporarily suspended, awaiting orders from Washington. Steamer Indian River, of New York, went ashore at the mouth of Indian River, Florida, Dec. 3d. Vessel and cargo a total loss. All hands saved. From CaHfomia. San Francisco, Dec. 21. The Pacific Railroad land-grant bill passed the Senate to-day. Sacramento, Dec. 21. A Legislative excursion to Colfax, on the Pacific Railroad, took place to-day. The road was found to be in good condition. Marine Disaster. Holmes’ Hole, Via. Wood’s Hole, December 22.) A large vessel supposed to be a steamer, is sunk between the Sow and Pigs’ light-boat and No Man’s Laud. Schooner Mary, of Bal timore, from Boston for Richmond, was taken into Edgartown by the steamer Monohanzett. Washington Correspondence. m _ New York, Dec. 22. The Commercial’s special Washington dis patch says the southern members of Congress held a caucus last night and decided to return to their homes leaving one .from each State to represent them before the Joint Committee. Various Items. New York, Dec. 22. J. Ward, who murdered policeman Walker, last August, was to-day sentenced to the State prison for file. New York Markets. New York. Dec. 22. Cotton-very firm; gales 3100 bales of Middling Unlands at 51 52c. Flour-5c better; sales, 14,200 bbls. of State at 7 15 8 GO. Hound lloop Oldo at 8 60 10 00. Western 7 U ig) 8 60. Southern, sales 1,200 bbls. at 8 80 @15 25. Canada, sales 500 bbls. at 8 20 (a} 11 15. Wheat—sales. 57,000 bushels of Chicago Spring at 1 63 1 84. Milwaukee Club at 1 65 (g 1 84. White Michigan, new, 2 50. Corn—firm; sales 57,000 bushels Mixed Western at 961® 97c. Oats—firm at 46 55c. Beef—firm. New extra at 24c; old extra at 14 lie. Pork—quiet and steady; sales 5,650 bbls. of Mess at 28 12* 26 37*. Lard—firmer; sales 830 bbls. at 15* 19*c Whiskey—lower; sales, 50 bbls. at 2 28. Sugars-quiet; sales, 400 hhds. Muscovado pV ii i 'QJ 14c. Coffee—quiet; sales, 1,000 bags of RIq at 13c in gold. Molasses—quiet. Naval Stores— dull. Petiole urn easier; sales, 750 bbls. of cr udo at 40 fffi 41c. Refined bonded, 2,200 bbls., at 65 Z 66 1 Freights to Liverpool—easier. Chicago Markets. Flour—quiet. OZucaoo, Deo. 22. fo^N1oCa2Tfirm at 1293 1 30 f0' No. 1, and 90 94c Oats—duU4 at 4'^C for No‘ and 41c fcr No. 2. Provisions.—firm. Pork—sales of moss at 26 00 for .January delivery. Green Hams in lair request at 13* k‘~. Lard—Urm at IGj i?Ut,h; the heated is cooled; the Tost 3”’, »mbs restored, the uncouth deformities re moved, faintness converted to vigor, weakness stre’.jgth j the blind made to see, the deaf to her -5S the palsied form to move uptight; the bleir'.f /With are obliterated; the aocidexts of n>4;'8I|f pu.-xented; the calamities of old age obvia‘»7i -lle active circulation maintained. ted ar dan ladies "Who have cold bants and feet: weak sfiw and weak backs; nervous and sick haw uaclis, lame ness and swimming In the head, wiUhf lache; constipatiou of the bowels: pain In, If .(digestion a*'U leucorrhcea, (or whites); falling off e side and back: ternal cancers; tumors, polypus *ie womb with in train of diseases will find in Ele and all that lon« of cure. For painful mens’ -trlcity a sure meant menstruation, and all of the -ruation, too profhse ladies, Kketri- long line of trouble and will, In a short time. ;ty *s a certain specific vigor of health. restore the sufferer to the Dr. D. still conti, £XHTH TEETH I tricity without ;u.e8to Extract Teeth byEi-ec teeth or stumps tfe Persons having dei-awl ting he would giv 1° f,ave removed for reset Superior Elt rlt&nP?ilte “Station to call, for family use, aoxetic Machines for sal* "*^wlth board toc« —-—_novltf e Best Chance in the City I B Stelk ,stend and FWto “y, business, I offer my Grocery, C“» Jgy Oo"»ito,eSU. AT COST. Dec 22—atf T. S. W. _ Copartnership Notice. pHE partnership lieretof ire existing between Wi’ 1. 11am P. Mansfield and the undersigned, um’ the firm name of Mansfield Clark, la dissolved. ‘er JOSEPH B. CLAR’ Portland, 22d Dec. 1SC3 dlw For Sale. THE TwoJstory Brick Houso and Lot, No. 3 Fore Street. Enquire on the prem'ses. The house has eleven finished rooms, WtaWw* GE«RGU LORD. Holiday Presents. RICH HOLIDAY GOODS -AT A. W. [Paine’s, NO. 13 MARKET SQUARE. OUR Stock consists of a selection ol nice and valu able articles, which any Gentlemen may be proua to present to his Lady friends, such as Fancy Boxes fi'oni $1.00 to $10. JEWELRY AND TOILET CASES, From 93,00 to 98,00. Opera Glasses $6.00 to $15. WRITING-DESKS, PORTFOLIOS, DRESSING CASES, LADIES COMPANIONS, GLOVES, SLEEVE SETS, POTMONNAIES, PERFUMERY, Anil a full stock of USEFUL and DESIRABLE GOODS. J3F* Don’t be deluded with the idea that nothing desirable can be found at No. 13 Market Square, But call and sac for yourself. A. F-A-Xisr E Dec 18—dlw* HOLIDAY PRESENTS! A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF T o y Books, AND JUVENILE BOOKS!! New and fresh, somo very beautiful; and the largest variety of GAMES! TO BE FOUND IN THE CITY! Boys and Girls Desks, Selling from $1.50 to $2.50 very nice aaid cheap, with a great variety of Pocket Bibles, And those wanting a suitable [present tor some of their house-hold will And a large collection of Catholic Prayer Books. I am selling Juvenile Books thi's year at a great discount from last year prices. IF* Give me a call before porch asing. A. ROBINSON, No. 61 E xchange Street. Dec 19—dlw CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR J J. E. FIOKETT, 28 Mark et Square, £J"AS received a new article for Christmas and LNew Year Presents: ^The JPhotograpaicon. CALL AND SEE IT. Also, the ^HOTO-CALIGRAPH, Which is a Photi "t!Tai'h and Autograph Album com “ir Aflncassortm of Colored Chrome and Oil Prints. dc!0dtdc31 Holiday Hoods. SILKS, SHAWLS, CLOAKS, Poplins, Thibffits, HANDKPS, Ca'Sl “aerSS GLOVES, HOSIERY, Very nice all-wool BLANKET S 1 Any of which would bo valuable, uscf hi and econom ical for presents. B. F. HAMILTON Be C«. Cot. Congress a ud Pret le St. Dec 19—d2w CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES! JUST KECEIVEIk BY J. M. J3 YER Sc, Co. JVo. 6 Free St. Block, A variety 0f Useful and Fa-aCy Articles! Suc’j as HANDKERCHIEFS, SCARFS. NECK-TIES, PLAIN; and EJTBR01DERED LINEN SETS, TRAVELING BAGS, &c., &c. J. M. DYER CO. c 19—d2w HOLIDAY PRESENTS! CONSISTING In part of Toys, all kinds of Orna mental Work, Christmas Cakes, Bon-Bons,Horns of Plenty, assortments of Candies and French Confectionery that cannot be excelled. All the choicest kinds of Confections. Ornaments for Christmas Trees, Holi day or Ladies* Apples. Cake of all kinds constantly on hand or made to order, frosted and ornamented. Call and see for yourselves. I’artleB and Levees supplied at short notice by CHARLES V'. LUCY, dec 1# d2w No. 91 Exchange St. CHRISTMAS -AND NEW YEAR’S GIFTS! TTJST RECEIVED at the Auction Store of W. C. (I BARNES, 109 Federal Street, a large as® wrtment of goods suitable for Holiday Gifts Wl deh will be s-ld at the LOWEST PR1““- ovn.n! Spool S.Deasert and Medium p0,v-t8*?,4 Butte. -Knives, Salt aud Mu.*- ffc. Sh.e ls> a good assortment of Shg -*ri1 bpf* ns, etc. Also GOLD, AUD GOLD-PLATED JEWELEY, of Periui 'very^ a ne^1 ®r-iver Watches a good stock cheaper tl Wn ever. B p*oto| raP\ A'1,a,,l"> Pistols, Ta ne Mcasur an* Pallets, I ocket Knives, Boards, Gai nes. Far cs Back Gaxnm and Chequer ing Bags, R vtloule ‘cf B?1®8, pla>'ml c“fa’T™vc| mentsTand a goo 8ma11 Parian am China Orna 7 A assortment of and Fancy Articles. opened and will be sold very low, White f Blankets, Fine Wool Sliawls, Ladies i rn0^?. -d Cassocks, Worsted Breakfast Capes, I Tijr^/ ‘d Hose, Head Nets, V7ool Table Covers, -ils, Comlorters, Scarfs, 3 g ood stock of Under and Drawers, Traveling ,Sh *xts, &c. Please call and exainine'thi s stock, and learn the prices before purchasing elscwl lore. R, collect, at the number 109 Fed oral St., Auct'on Rooi a of W. C. DBAENES. Por tland, Dec 15,1865. d2w Christmas Piresents. ri IHEh'E is no article mare useful to A pevsott with i a far lily, or more appropriate for a Christmas pro vent, than one of those neat pocket or family cases of Homoeopathic Medicines, To be obtained at No. 82 Exchange Street. Al. SEAVEf, Dec! —88w_ Notice. fTVHE m »»bers of the Cumberlanc" Co. Agrlcul 1 tural a Hortieultnral Society an 1 the members of the Port and Horticultural Society arc hereby no tified to mi at the Assestors’ Roi >m, new City Buildiug p. rlJand, in joint conventio n, on TUES DAY next 9ec. 26tli, nt ten o'clock A. 51. for the purpose of’ r\ voting a mcmlier of the .State Board of Agrlcultm a Ms district Per On ter. Dee 2d Secret^ M each of sai 1 Societies. Dome Over and Help T1HE the Mission Sabbath lap' ^dS ’ring's at 5 Arsss- h^o^r&^-M^® 1 Union Sts., 01 1 Christmas day. Tickets may bo obtained at the above StjO® 28 >r Havana. new BrigHELEN O.PHINNEY, Villiam E. Bovd. having superior loilatioiiB, will take a fewpassen Havana. Apply to J.S. WINSLOW, No. 4 Central Wharf, Or to the Captain 01 1 board. dec21 dlw Mirrv Plates A LARGE ASSOBY 'MENT constantly on hand, for sale by A. M McKEWEY, Oct 5—eodteowJm 284 Congress St, Entertainments. DEERINQ HAILXj- CHRISTMAS WEEK, Commencing Holiday, December 25th, five NIGIIT8 ONLY I THE NEW CONTINENTAL THEATRE CO., FROM BOSTON, Previous to opening tlie above establishment will ippear as above, when will ba presented sterling J English Comedies and roaring Farces. rite Splendid Orchestra, Elegant Wardrobe, Superb Properties:. ED-The greatest combination of Talent ever pre sented to the citizens of Portland. Monday Evening, Dec. 26th, 1866, Buckstone’s great Comedy of Married Life! -AND ROUGH DIAMOND! Prices of Admissions—Gallery 35 eta; Lower Floor 60 cts. Box Office open Thursday morning. Doe. 21, from 10 till 2, and every suceeding day. ry-No extra charge for Reserved Seata. LON MORRIS, Manager. J. L. SAPHORE, Stage Manager. LOUIS A. ZWISLER, Treasurer. MORRIS BROS., PELL TROWBRIDGE, Dec 21—dtd Proprietors. TlNEDENBORGIAN FAIR! CITY HALL. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, December 21st, 22d and 23d. SATURDAY EVENING, Dec. «3d, Will be exhibited CHRISTMAS TABLEAUX. From Sacred History, accompanied by appropriate Christmas Hymns. THE Pantomine of Clnderllla* Will be repeated SATURDAY AFTERNOON, com mencing at 3 o'clock. Admission 15 cents. Fancy Arcticles and Refreshments will be offered i ior sale, together with A Beautiful Assortment of Evergreens* Crosses, Wreaths, and a varied collection of Christ mas Devices and Emblems suitable ior Parlor Deco rations. A A Genuine “Germair Chrietma* wi th the accompanying Tree and Garden, will be cele brated in one of the adjoining rooms, and for a small adm ittance fee Kribb Kringle will dispense pres ents to all visitors. A Gallery of Statuary and Painting will also be connected with the Fair. 53^' There will he no Raffling, no Guess Cake, or other traps for the unwary, except the two side rooms before mentioned. Doors open at 7 o'clock. Single Sickets 30 cents; four for a dollar. The Fair will be open Friday and Saturday through the day: doors open at 10 A. M. Admission 10 cents. FRIDAY EVEN INC,— Pantomime qf “Cinderilla," by the Children. decl8dtf CITY HALL. Ine Bateman Concerts! TWO NIGHTS ONLY! rjsf( 'irsday, Dec. 28, and Friday, Dec. 29th, ""MAN respectfully an MR* H. L. BATk *his city, with his nounces that he will give in A Ml) world renowned Company, TWO tiu.. Vocal and Instrumental Concern Which will surpass any Musical Entertainment ever I witnessed in Portland. M’LLE PAREPA the meat wonderful singer in the worjd. MR. I. LEVY,the greatest CornetPlayer in the world. HERR CARL ROSA, the eminent Solo Violinist. MR. WM. CASTLE, the celeorated American Tenor. MR. E. SEQUIN, the tamous Buffo. MR. B. J. LANQ, tho distinguished Boston Pianist. HERR CARL ANSCHUTZ, the world renowned Opera Conductor. GTIrFull particulars in future advertisements. Doc 22—dtf OCEAN ASSOCIATION, Ex. ISTo. 4, Will commence their FOURTH ANNUAL COURSE of DANCES, at mechanics’ Hall, -WITH A Ball on Thanksgiving Night To be followed by two Assemblies on THURSDAY NIGHTS, A Ball on Christmas Night, A Grand Firemen’s Military, and Divio Ball on New Years Night, To close with an Assembly on Thursday Night, Jan uan- 11th, I860. MANAGERS: prA. -tv Hodgkins, VicePres. S. S.Hannaford, Sec’v pV• Stoueham, Treat}. F. J. Bailey, C. H. Phillip.,' B.D.P&eEiCh’ ^f*8 f?,r ThcaC„h”’^ or Christmas Night $l!oo eachAsseu J26 New yearsN. Gallery. A... To be obtained oi the Manage **’4kiLLE ^AND MUSIC BY CHANDLER’S QUAr D. H. Chandler, Prompte. Dancing to commence at 8 o’clock. 'toianl iy Clotliing Cheoked Free. OOWsm SOCIAL ASSEMBLIES Given under the direction of EX. AMERICA HOSE 1. As this is their fivst Course of Dances, no pains will be spared to make them pleasant and agreeable to all who a tend. These Dances will be given Every Tuesday Evening, -AT MECHANICS’ HAUL., Commencing Dec. Otfe, 1800, Continuing each Tuesday Evening six weeks. Under the direction of the mllowing COMMITTEE OF ARRAJJQEMENTS: J Pres. Chos. E. Chase, Tr ,-3K. Claudius Lane. Vice Pres. Oeo. W. Pridhain.I'.dwfn Rice, Sec. John \V. Lane, A.Drinkwater.Jr. Tickets to the Course- 84.00 Single Tickets. 75 Gallery T*-* 26 J»° *,e hadot the’committee of Ar."&n6emonta the door. ty Clothing Checked Free. luic Bj Chandler's Till (tudrille Jut Dancing to commence at 8 o’clock. Nov. 28—Cwtt&b a FANCY DANCING! MR. J. \V. RAYMOND. Will commence a new term at his Dancing Academy, for instruction in FANCY DANCING, AT MECHANICS> HALL, On Saturday Evening, Dec. 23d, Polkas, Polka Quadrilles, Waltzes, Waltz Quadrilles, Varsouvienne, Redowas, Prince imperial Quadrille, &c.. will be taught. Term consists of 12 lessons. i Tickets for the Terra, $6.00 a couple. Single Tickets for Gentlemen, $5.00 Ladies, 2.00 Ladies Class at 7—Gentlemens* at 8 o'clock. j Dee 20—dlw Jg PORTLAND 2. Q There will be series of SIX ASSEMBLIES given at LANCASTER HALL, Commencing Tuesday Evening, December 19th, 1865. During the Course of which there will be a GRAND 0ALI00 00MI0 DRESS BALL, Christmas Evening, 25th inst. On which oc?*8*011 a11 P«rson* getting up Dresses are requested to 1b\C? a comic character. The managers of these AssCT! i1** h»Ye (kttrmvned to give the dancing public of this city an opportunity to enioy a season of dancing which cannot be excelled,. Tickets for the Courie, including tho Ball, $4.00 Single Ticket, 7^0 And Single Tickets lor the Ball, 1.00 To be had of Croiman Co., and Partington, r der Lancaster Hall. Q’ Ladies not admitted unless accompanied bT tlemen. J Uen_ MANAGERS. J. C. Colley, Wm. Woe)r T. W. Burnham. C. H. Ns>'jh8’ Wm. W. Knight, S. F. B^arce. Manic by Raymond’* Fall BY GOODS ARE TUMBLING! FANCY GOODS ARE TUMBLING! SKIRT GOODS ARE TUMBLING! CLOAKS ARE TUMBLING I HOOP SKRITS ABE TUMBLING! EVERY THING MVST TUMBLE! Any assertion, to the contrary are groundless! If you have any doubts read the following Price j jlst and they will be dispelled. We Commence the Slaughter HONIERY. LOO dor. aU wool Hose, ladies, 20 gauge, 46c pr. LOO dor. Childrens’ Balmoral, 4 sixes, 10c pr. W HOOP SKIRTS Here is Where we Put the Knife in. 30 Hoops, 3 In. Tape, 6 tapes, heavy wire, tor 1.46 former price 9.00 30 Hoops,? in., Corset and Skirt combined, for 1.60 former price 8.86 30 Hoops 1 j, Corset and Skirt combined, lor 1.85 former price 1.76 Knit Goods, Knit Goods! Gentlemen, Keep Year Teaaperl They Must be Sold Prior to Stock Taking 1 SHAWLS, SHAWLS. 20 dor Shawls, large sire, slightly damaged, for 1.7B, worth 4.00 20 dor Sontags, with Fringe, choice goods, 1.00 each. 20 dor 90c each 20 dor hand made, German wool, choice goods, 1A0 each. HOODS, HOODS, HOODS. 50 den. Heeds, Woven, sUghtly damaged, 50c each, werth 1.00 50 den. Heeda, Nubias, choice goods, 95e each, werth 1.60 KID GLOVES, KID GLOVES. A few mors left Emb. Backs, T5c pr. .lust deceived! A Splendid Asset 8k~1' Hoods and Sostst v ®-Don’t allow anytU-t* jealoui I***"*" say to prevent you from ealbng. opy e and call 11 for nothing mo'» than to sec the great EKSON’S, Skirt and. €orset Store I 26 HA IkE? SQUARE. BARGAINS, Bi 1RGAXN8, Ba30AINS ■"—ur-_ Skirts t ind Corsets l A GOOD HEAVY 6 FBING HOOP SKIItT FOB 03a DOLLAB! Hi«h iiaV« Got a Dig in the Bibs! 30 Spri .s. iii* T“P® skIrt ,'4*' ppr r price i.W" peculator* Monopolitero are feeling T .ery queer. SO dozen A C°*°Zt O, ^JOo,riarapair. French Pe 1.5° pir. A SfeEAT b-^GAINl French C« wnhhwOon Cor9ete a' Re dnced Prices i 0*4 DBESS ILE’ /AEONS'. 28 cte‘ No Lad. r liWttU 1 e without tb**®* w the ltUDE surrUBD. -sa asrcsr:^-* \T*S .NDEB80, Skirt and Cornet NJ. 80 MARKET SQUAB* GEO. ANDERIO), D"»- 4^r Miscellaneous. EACH, BARTLETT* PAR KER, Are now receiving, direct from New York, a Urge assortment ol CLOAKS l 'loakings and Trimmings Comprising All the NEW STYLES, ■nd making one ol the beat Stocks In the city to E select from. i'e would also’Invite particular attention to oar Stock of WOOLEN GOODS! J FOR B J E MEN AND BOYS WEAR t PLAIN AND FANCY i 3HIRTING FLANNELS. s Bleached and Brown COTTONS. i Prints and De Lains. f All of which we shall sell At the Lowest Possible Cash Prices. We have now In atore 75 pieces BLACK ALPACCA! Bought very cheap, In which we otter extra Induce ments to purchasers. Among them are some Very Gm* duality for 60 Is 02c. Very Fine Mice dnnllly for T6e. And One ut 61 (hut has been Selling n( 61.25 nnd Arena (but in 62.60. We have a very choice Stock ot DRESS GOODS, And the ihct et their hAvIng been recently purchased enables us to offer them At Extremely Low Prices! We intend keeping our Stock Full in all Its Departments! And hope, by honest dealing and strict attention to business to receive a liberal patronage. No. 5 Deering Block. Dec 4—dti____ NEW GOODS I -FOB THIS HOLIDAYS. ELDEN& WHITMAN, 5 Free Street Block, 5, HaYeJust received and are now opening a large as sortment of Goods suitable for Holiday Gifts, Embracing many new and Choke Style* In Trimmed. Embroidered, And Fancy Handkfs., ImdkT. Gent.', and Children*1; Hemstitched and Colored Bordered, together with plain Linen Cambric do. hi aU grade.. Am Elegant Aaaortmsnt of Embroideries, Including Lree, Cambric and Valeucaaaaa Set*, Col lars and Sleeves, Plain tt*d Embroidered Linen Sets, Collars and Culls. Also, a full assortment of Gloves and Hosiery, Slack Lace Veils In all qualities, together with a carefcDy ef fected Stock of and Perfumery! Sot._ the Toilet, which we offer at ).e t’L, C* N# V"taU,n _ toref'd th0“ We are THIS DAY opening an tlegant and desirable Plaid Poplins, In Winter Colors. Alsoa IU11 line Poplins and Thibots! In Wine Colors, together with a complete «tock of i SILKS, SHAWLS, CLOAKS, Fancy Dress Goods, ALPACCAS, And Mourning Goods I We would call attention to our stock ol BL-A-IVKE t». OF THE BEST QUALITIES, At the Lowest Prices s and a full ^sortmen t of WOOLEFS, flannels, —AND— HOUSE-KEEPING GOODS! In all their varieties. t we confidently Invite the of the to the above stock, which we offer strictly at One Price. ELDEN 4 WHITMAN, t 5 Free St. Block. II December 19,18«8. _ poitnnd ■sssrJiSstfS? ALL I •+*for “^“lew8^ jt, r. r. co, jreasorcrP.® l Dec 4, 1985. Auction Sales. Horses, Carriages, Sleighs, Ac., AT AUCTION! Sleigh., Robe., Everr Saiurd., n a.clacb A> M t Foreet City Stable, comer Federal and Lime Si. lere Carriages can be sturad and Uotees bo u-Jod ir sired, previoua to or alter the sale. 00 These sales will be under cover, and held without gard to weather. Dec 14-dtf*NEY Co’> Auctioneers. EDW’D M. PATTEN, Auctioneer. Weighs aud Robes at Auction. )N TUESDAY, Dec 20th, at 12 M., at store No. IS Exchange St., 12 Single and Double S eig good order. 18 sleigh Robes,part of them damaged Also, 25 pra. HORSE BLANKETS. HT’Sale positive. Dec 23 -dtd M. PATTEN, Auctioneer, IS Exchange Street. Furs, Furs, Furs! AT AUCTION! )N WEDNESDAY, 2Tth Dec’r, at ten A. M., at Office, ISO pieces Fur Goods, consisting at tuffs, Collars, Capes, Victorines, Caps, Ties, Cuffs, Ac. -ALSO, LANKETS, SHIRTS, DRAWERS, CLOAKS, RESS GOODS, with a variety of other goods. Dec 23—dtd __ Real Estate at Auction. "\N WEDNESDAY, Dec 27,at ^o'clock M, on J the premises, we shall sell he One and a Aa Or. ISAAC DYER, No. 9J Union Wharf, Portland. Dac99—dtd Annual Meetings. Canal National Bank. rTIHE ANNUAL MEETING of the Stockholders of A “The Canal National Bank of Portland,” for the election of seven Directors, and for the transaction of any other business that may legally come before them, wiU be held at their Ban ing House on Tuesday, the 9th day of January next, at 3 o'clock P. M. deelldtd B. C. SOMEBBY, Cashier. Merchants’ National Bank OF PORTLAND. rTIHE ANN UAL MEETING of the Shareholders In A this Bank will be holden at the Bank, on Tues day, January 9,1886, at 10 o’clock A. M.. for t» pur pose of electing Direc.ore for the ensuing year; de ciding whether they will Increase the oepi al stock of the Bank; change the par value of the snares to $108 each, and for the transaction ot any other business that may legally come before them. Per order: deolldtd CHARLES PAYSON, Cashier. Casco National Bank, the Annual Meeting of the Stockholders ol “Tbn l oiaco National Bank of Portland,” tor the elea ;ioa ol seven Directors, and for the tranaacoon of any »ther business that may legally come before them, Irill be hold at thel Banking Honee on TUESDAV, the 9th day of January next, at 3 o clock P. M. me am uay 3 E p* QERRISH, Cashier. Dee 1,1806.__dtti>‘r'*“r*' iext, at SP. M.. for the choice of tlr. before or any other burnt near tLat may legally W. H. STEPHENSON. Caahler. Dec 7,1805. dcDdtd Ocean Insurance Company! Annual Meeting. r[E Stockholder! of the Ocean Inaurance Com pany are hereby notified to meet at the office of ■aid Company on MONDAY.the tint day of January A.D.l»(«r*t S o’clock P. M., for the purpose of ehooat g seven Director, for the onsuing year, and for the transaction of any other bnamesa that may then be legally acted npon.^ WWQHT| Secretary. Dec*, 1866.—dtd__ The National Traders Bank. Tie Stockholders of this Bsnk are hereby notified that their Annual Meeting will be hold at their Ranking Room, on TUESDAY, the 9th day ofjanu irTnext, at 3 o’clock P. M, to cbooee fire Directors for the ensuing year, and to act on any other busi ness that may legally come before them. 3 EDWARD COULD, Cashier. Portland, Pec 6, 1866.-dtd_ Cumberland National Bank. THE .Stockholders of the Cumberland National Bank of Portland are hereby notified that there WC1 be a meeting ol the Stockholders, at their Bank ing Room, on Thursday, the 18tb day of January, 1866 at 3 o’clock P. M.. for the choice of PirectoiH and*the transaction or any othei business that may come before thee*. _ _ SAMI'El, SMALL, Cashier. Dec. 16,18*6.—dclSdlm _ Cape Elizabeth Wharf and Marine Railway Co. Natlee *f Annonl Meeting. THE Stockholders of 3“ £53 hereby notified that *"r"?Vdv«Vw! NohU7 Commercis!*MONDAY, January t seven o’clock In the evening 1st, 186«, ‘thJ^jP^ix^in* three Director", and Clcrl ft>rjt^?J>UT.!J2rfor the enBUlng year, and to act on an; “td Yjeaj®** aat may lerallv oome before the meet otherbnsim“ r LEMUEL COBB, Clerk. ‘“I'artland, Dec. ISth, 1868.dee!9 eodtd* Christmas and New Tear. 4 Free St. Buck. "a fine ASSORTMENT of A l>re*» Cloth*. AT A. REEV ES’, TniU Nov 4—dtf 96 Exchange St

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-1 —i— 1 i i.-MH.-i i rt Poetry. _i Bondages. BY HEKEY V ADO HAS. Bright shadows of true rest! soiuo shoots ot bllsse, Heaven once a week, TUo next worlu-s gtadnemo preiuurest In this, A uUtV to mwI* Eterni !.y In tone; t'Ue a tepa by which Wo ciont> above ell ages; lamps tbat igiit Mau torougit 'niwiiaiic days; and the rich Auu full i exemption of the whole week’s flight. The pulleys unto headlone man; time's bower; 'lire ma* ow way: Tianaplarucu ^uiiaasc; tiou’s walking hour© Xsidcjul ui tp* kiay i The o. ©ai a* uouct; Vjcxi'w pari© with dust i_xo a.c.i .‘we.; in oil ua luosu num ol uiyrrh and ta^wous; Au0«u .0 xowuaiag; the retuin of trust; A g.-sOli Ul *awiy UaX SX+J»’ SllOW Oa si Tho chui-ciiea' love feasts; time’s prerogative, *vXkU l.UciVol Eeduc.od h-lh l-o uu-ie; the conibs and hWo aula ix^lUu ui i cBv* Tire milky way cuaAuea out with suns; a clue 'id-t gji .os wvta„u lioais iuium iul* story a ua* c Ji a.uveu on ©arm; ui psOage ana eve Oi t*. uaa £v*mL aaa euo ouaiours ui gmiy. bunuay Reading.^ Tho Sunshine and the Snedow. I saw a litt.e child, so gentie and so bright, he xvaj uie a -tar upon uie eartu, and where soever tie went 11^111 loiloweu him. And the li/,,. re-uJd upon an tiling, tuat ne touched— and it itn a xvondrou, ngnt. 1 saw nun be siue a pebbiy b.ook, and tne waters gieauieu in a u,w uo-uty; ue nipped in life littie dimp ied uauu, and me drop- t jat ue spia-ued irom hi, ro.y uu,,r, guttered wish sac/i a sparine, tuat ue lau^ued wirn a glad laugh. u I tlie besu.i.ui xv-ter-; ne wai veiv merry witu luOJ. And tue ught fell upon tlie stone, un tie. me xvater, onu tuey suoue dke diamonds aud rubie-; ana tue dnie cuitd garnered many of me ii, ana te.t very non; ana ue seated niu. sei. upon me green earm, aud pmyed a long tune witu Ins beuutuui peblnts. Presently a bu.tardy came a.ong, abu tue ught irom the Cabined upon the but ter ay. ruid O, uiea bjAdt/I foe caiul tuougife lie had never seen anything half so beautiful; be watcueu itwu-i a wjuaroai love; ne waUid not move; but bis targe, loving eye, le-ted on it, mb oi bope anu uo_ire, mr ne saw it by irom flower to uower, sipping me boney-dew. Aud a large buttercup uto-meu very near to him, and tuc bpit ou-ue nbiupou it; aud be hoped that tue brigut Dutte.uy wou.d c,me and urmk out Oi tuat ycuow cup, auu men ue would better see tuo-e ocauiun wings. And tlie buiterby le t tue dg.it mat wa, around the litue boy, and ,o it reared not, but came and rested on tbi p easant flower so long that the boy’s desire "a. satLfled. And now Ue heard a bird sing, and such a song I it neemed as if the light n-om the little hoy tell upon the biruie’s song, for it was the merriest and sweetest that a child ever beard. Aud now t-e child's mother came, and he sprang to her wttn such a lovfng joy—e.asped lib, arm, around her—ramed bis little sleepy face on her bo-om—and tue light of the angei thuUgiit, passed over bis lace in dream-smiies. Anu me ngnt of tue child rested on the good motner, and she, too, was beautilui, because sue luul a good cbi.d. Bat i ,aw another one, and I looked in vain for me light. Xuere was uone; but whereso ever he went a darn shadow loiioweJ him._ Ail tried to please him—to make bin, happy —bat the suadow fell upon the costly toy* they gave him, and tuey became broken, use le,ofragment,; and on'the cake, and candies. »uu cuau0cu mem 10 nurtiui poisons, which, waen ho had eaten them, made the shadow lauc.i more b.aea. And then he, too, was taaen oa. into the beautiful country, but the pebmy brook, witn its pretty waters,'became a mere muddy stream, with earthy ttones under that Oar* shadow. Tne happy butterfly was caaoed Irom every flower upon which it lightr ed, tih at »a.t its weary wings gave out, and it wus -natcned by a rude hand and liftgmn a loathsome mass. O, It was hideous'In that biacr snaiow. The birds flew trembling away; tney couiu not Bing, or if they did, the shadow wou d not lot t..e hoy hear the sweet sounds, ls.e i t.ie dowers did not look at all beautiful, so h. waipped oJF tneir delicate heads with fc sv..t a. A.id no 7 the mother came for the tired boy, too, but he struggled and cried, and the shad o\v Ibu upon tiio mother, and made bar go *14 beautiful thatl could look no longer; ioi*I%a’tV her seize the switch that had so cruelly used the sweet flowers, and I did not wish to see what she was going to do with it, and I wished to escape irom the shadow. Little children—the sunshine was Love^aftd the shadow was Hatred.—Little Truchieller.— Death as a Democrat. Death Is in reality the only democrat Who is no respecter of persons. His democra cy is suhilmo. You cannot buy him for gold, nor bribe him by office. He enters the paiacu and the hovel with the same im perial dignity. The maiden with the raven tresse:-, and the old man with the shver hairs he greets with equal benignity. The vigor ous and the strung, the sickly and the emaci atsl rcesive equal favors. Your consump tive and weak-iunged patient, as well any our giant wLh the power of Jupiter and the Voice 0/ thunder, receives equal treatment. The poor and poverty-stricken, the rich and afflu ent he treats alike. Poets, statesmen, warri ors, kings, tyrants, beggars are all alike to Death. Like the sun that lights up the heav en this pale ghost of tbe gravo showers his gi.ts on tue rich end poor, the famous and the obscure, with equal coiirtesy. The hum blest pea.ant girl is to him as noble a victim aTtha most bsaiitifW queen. He calls forsac rificej within the sacred sanctuaries of the cjures, and with equal pompo mre knocks at t ie door of the brothel. Color and creed, race andredg.onara nothing to mm. aJeaui knows no seiLhne.>s. What a grand subject would the Democracy of Death make for an eloquent divine. One cannot write on such a theme. Tue words, phrases, sentences and thoughts should come gushing from the soul, warm with vigorous life—come like the lightning’s fla>b, and the roar of thunder be in harmony with a test so subdme. Tha Unohangeable Land.' f Things do not change in the East. As Abra ham pitched his tent in Bethel, -so does an Arab sheikh now set up his camp; as David built his palace ou Mount Zion, so would a Turkish pasha now arrange his house; in ev ery street may be seen the hairy children of Esau, squatting on the ground, devouring a mess of lentils like that tor which the rough hunter sold his birthright; along every rogd plod the sons of Kechab, whose fathers, one thou:aad years ago, bound themselves and theirs to drink no wine, plant no tree, enter witUin eo door, and their children have kept the oath; at every khan young men sit around the pan of parched com, dippnig their monel into the dish; Job’s plow is still used, and the seed is still trodden into the ground by asses and kin3; olives are shaken from the boughs as directed by isaiah; and the grafting of trees is unchanged since the days of Saul. The Sy rian hou.e i3 still, as formerly, only a stone tent, as a temple was but a marble-tent. What is seen now in Bethany may be taken as the exact likeness of the house ot Lazarus, where Mary listened and Martha toiied, or as the hou.e of Simon, the leper, where the precious box oi ointment was broken, and whence Ju da, set out to betray his Master. [Dicken’s All the Year Bound. HUMPHREYS’ HOMCEOPATHIC SPECIFICS, H\VK PltuVEo, from the most ample experi ence, an cal ire success; S mplo— Pioiupt—Effi cient, amt ttutuiotc. They are Lite oaly Medicines perfectly adap ed to popular use—so simple that mistakes cauaot he made in using thorn; so harmless as to ho fl ee horn danger, ami so efficient as to he al ways reliable. They have raised the highest com mendation from ail, and wilt always render salistac lion. Cts No. 1 Cures Fever,, Congestion, inflainatlnns 25 2 H'ornu, Worm-Fever Worm-Colic 26 3 C’eyiay-Colic or Tcelilng of mbnta 25 4 Diarrau of children or adults 25 S It,renter,. Griping billious ('Ollc, 25 6 Ckatera-Morbus, Nausea, Vomiting 25 7 Cou th,, Colds, bronchitis, 25 “8 Neural na Toothache, YaCeache, 25 o Headache*, biok-ilemfache, Vertigo. 26 10 aicJc,,es*- sickness IWm riding, 60 Sidney Disease, (j ravel, 50 do Nervous Debility Seminal Emissions, .4 involuntary Discharges, 100 29 Sere Mouth, Canker. 60 30 ff Urm/tra Incontinence, wetting bed, 60 4 a1/?1- Period*i even with Spasms. 50 “32 Sufferasy, at Change of Life, 100 “33 t-pilepsy, Spasms, St. Vitus’ Dane*, TOO “34 Diphtheria ulcerated Sore Throat, 60 VF.TF.RINARY specifics. Mahognm Ome 10 Vials. 110 00 Single Vials with directions, yj J- Pitese Remedies, hjr the Case or single Box •a St, between the Grand Trnuk Depot and ibe Elm Hotel, a Pocket Book containing no money, btit Sundry papers 01' no value to auy one but the owner, Whoever will return the same to the Press office, shall receive the above reward. December 22. d3t* LOSt 1 King; a heart in center. The tiinler will be suitably rewarded by leaving It at said Photograph Rooms. Dec 22—d3t _ Business Wanted. ALIGHT, respectable business warned—one lliat would give out ol door exercise preferred. Those answering will please state kind of business, profits, amount oi capital necessary, and all other needful in formation. Address WILLIAM GARDNER, deel9 d2w _Box 368 P. O. Wanted. A SITUATION a a Teamster and do work in a Hotel, by an experienced man. Enquire at this OFFICE. declkdlw* Agents Wanted, EITHER Ladies or Gentlemen. Remember that WM. GRACE CO., offer better inducements to returned Soldiers, and others, than any other house in the Eastern States, to sell fine Steel Engrav ings and Books by subscription. Address at once, with stamp, WM. GRACE CO., i«l Middit St., Portland, Me. P. O. Box 1732. Oct 14—d&w3m Lost! A CHECK drawn by Mathews Thomas, on Canal National Bank, dated Oet. 26th or 27th, for Ono Thousand Dollars. Payment has been stopped. All persons are cautioned against receiving the same. The tinder shall be suitably rewarded by returning it to V. w. THOMAS, At Canal National Bank. Nov 23—dtf Wanted t AN Agent In every town in the State of Main e to sell a new, convenient and useful patented arti cle. Ladies or Gentlemen wishing lot a rare chance to make money should call on, oi address*, J. IIANKERSON CO., 130 Middle Street, Nov 23—dtf Portland, Maine. Tenement Wanted. WANTE D a tenement suitable tor ©no or two small families, with good water privileges. Please address Tenement, Box 1503. _a Wanted. Vessels to loail deals at St. John, N. B., far English and Irish Ports, at high est rates of freight. Also, 2 To load lumber at same place for Galves ton, Philadelphia .and Richmond. LITTLEJOHN CHASE, No. 1 Central Whorl. Aug. 29—dtl ll j ifj if m _lj= Merchandise. ■r li f«.i m w* DB. STRICKLAND’S PILE REMEDY lias cured thousands of the wortt cases of Blind and Bleeding Piles. It gives immediate relief, and effects a per manent cure. Try it directly. It is warranted to cure. For sale by all Druggists. 50 cts. per bottle. GEO. C. GOODWIN A CO., 88 Hanover Street, Boston, Sole Agents tor New England. novl0d6m DR. P. D. BUNNELL, Healing Physician, IS happy to inform the sick ol Portland that he has taken rooms at Kingsbury’s Hotel, 203 Congress Street, Where he will exercise his Yinrl valed powers of heal ing (not tonly acute but chronic disease) for those who will give him a call. Dr BUNNELL is no professional humbug from New York, or some other remote place, where noth ing is kndwn of him, (although he has been a pupil of the celebrated magnetic Physician, Dr. Schulhof, of Now York) but a man from your own State, and who is well known. Dr. B. tares Rheumatism in all its forms. Do not suffer iron?, this disease when relief is so easy and sure. Lameness, Deaftiess, Neuralgy, Catarrh with all its attendant evils, Female Weaknesses and Com p amts, Ling Dis ase, all Liven? and Kidney Affec tions, Weic Eyes. Loss of Voiee, Asthma, Scrofula, Inflammation of the Brain,Lungs and Stomach, Ery sipelas, Heart Disease, &c. O^The Dr. gives no medicine. Don’t lose this opportunity of getting rid of your troubles, aches and pains; by tailing to call on Dr, Bunnell. Consultation froe to all. Dec 7—d3m To the Senate end House qf Representatives qf the Legislature if Maine. THE Proprietors ef the Union Wharf in Portland. hereby reqidst that their Charter be so amended aa to authorize diem to enclose their wliarf with a Stone Wall, witi suitable platmrms outside. A?K.ASHUKTLfeFF l Wharf B. O.’CON ANT, ’.Committee. Dec 4,1605. 175 Mid stems which have e aimed public favor within the last twenty-live years so that I fee! at liberty on this ground to speak my convic tions. Then the sympathy which I feci for you, as a former Baptist pastor-obliged to relinquish the ministry merely on account of ill health, but still cherishing all he ardor of your early years for this blessed work, and laboring to your utmost, in other way* to proclaim the g orious Gospel—inc ined me, as a mat ter of duty, to comply with your request. In 1863 I became acquainted with Deacon B©lines Board man, of Maine, bro her of the late George Da na Boardman,formerly missionary in Buiiuah, and fiorn him for the lirat time earned the wonderful medicinal qua itics of white pine bark e had a few year efore been brought to the borders of the grave by what the bes of physicians pronouuced pulmonary consumption, and was tivop up to die, but. was nevertheless entirely cured by a preparation made by his ow hands from this bark. Since that time', unti I became acquainted with your ar icie, I have been surprised tlm no plii osophical mind wus found to undertake a cough preparation from white pine As soon as 3rouT article was brought to my notice, it •hereforesecured my attention *nd I have not failed to acquaint myself w*tha sufficient number of facts to produce a sottled judgment as toi s va ue Some of my own family have tried it with signal benefit.— I believe it one of the bestcough medicines ever pre pa ed. Besides its value as a dough Medicine, I have good reason t believe it to be all it elaims, as a reme dy for kidney diseases and diabetes Yours truly, L C. STEVENS. [Several other clergymen and physicians have al so written oDr P., nigh y approving of his White Fine Compound 1 FROM ELERY E. CAHOON. Brewster, Mass arch 19,18G3 Dr. Poland:—! fee it my duty to inform you of the very g eat benetii which I have received from the use of you*- White. Pint Compound. In August, 1861, I to kave v severe co d. which continued to afflict me, increasing in severity, attended with a very se vere cough, in he he greatest remedy for kidney diffieu ties known. But so it is. We canuot doubt it, so many testimo niais come e us from wel known men Besides, tho character of Dr. Po and is su b that we know he will not countenance what Is wrong. For years a Rap tist clergyman, studying medicine to find remedies for hi aliments, with a delicate consumptive look, standing with one foot upon the g ave, he made the discovery which has saved him elf and ca' ed out from hundreds of others the strongest testimonials poss'b e. We have know Dr.Po'and l'or years, and I never knew a more conscientious, honest, upright man, and wc are g ad to state that we be ieve what ever ho says about his White Piue Compound. TheWhUe Pine Compound* GEOBGE W SWETT, M. D., Proprietor, Will be manufactured in ftitureat the New England Botanic Depot* 106 Hanover Street, Boston, Under the supervision of BEV. J. W. POLAND, M- D. DR. S WETT will attend to the business department, to whom all orders should be addressed Sold by Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Medicine everywhere. J. W. PERKINS, W F, PHILLIPS, and H. H HAY Genera' Agents for tho otateof siaino. Nov27—eod&eow3ra. PEOrTLIEBIG’S rOOD rOR CHILDEEN AND INVALIDS. THIS highly nutricious and pleasant food, so pop ular In Germany and England, was devised the past yoar by the celebrated chemist, Baron Liebig of Berlin. Infants who are deprived of the mother’s milk, can bo mad© healthy and strong by the con stant use of this food. And invalids, those who are consumptive, dyspeptic or feeble from any cause, will find it most excellent and strength-imparting. Messrs. JAS. R. NIC,HOLS CO., Manufacturing Chemists 159 Congress Street, have made arrange ments to prepare this food perfectly pure and fresh, in large quantities. For sale by all the Apothecaries, W. F. PHIL LIPS A* Co., Wholesale Agents,‘ Nov 24—dtf MECHANICS’ HALL. WELL arranged for Concerts, Lectures, Exhibi tions, Levees. Ac,, may be obtained on applica tion to lUCHABD COLE, Superintendent, junelMtl NDr ail the duties he mu t tulRll; yet the country is Hooded with poor nostrums and cure-alls, purporting to be the best in the w orld are not only useless, but always ipjurleus. ’i lie un fortunate should be PABT.rulak in .electin'' ins physician, as it is a lamentable yet intonliovert able tact, that many syphilitic patients are made miserable with ruined constitution* by multrcnhnta-t from inexperienced physicians in general iiactke lor It is a point generally conceded by the Yen nyphii ograpbers, tliat tlie study and management ol there complaint* should engross tlie whole lime oi those who would be competent ;ind successful in tLeir trtat inent and cure. The inexperienced general practit ioner, having neither opportunity nor time to make liimscli acquainted with their pathology, commonly pursues one syctexu of treatment, in most caw* mail ing an indiitcriminate use* of tliat antiquated and dan gerous weapon, the Mercury. HAVE CONFIDENCE. All who have committed an excess ol any kind whether it be the solitary vice of youth, or the htfcig ing rebuke of misplaced confidence in maturer }uu> SEEK FOR AN ANTIDOTE IN SEASON The Pains and Aches, and Lassitude and Nervous Prostration that may follow Impure Coition, arc tlie Barometer to the whole system. Do not wait for the consummation that is sure to fol low: do not wait lor Unsightly Ulcers, lor Disabled Limbs, for Loss of Beauty and Complexion. HOW MANY THOUSANDS CAN TESTIFY TO THIS BY UNHAPPY EXPERIENCE! Young men troubled with emissions in sleep,—a complaint generally the result of a bad habit in y ou th,—treated sc lent! Wally, and a perfect cure war ranted or no charge made. Hardly a day posses but we aro consulted by one or more young man witii the above disease, some oi whom are as weak and emaciated as though t!*cy bad the consumption, and by their friends supposed to have it. AU such cases yield to tlie proper and only correct course of treatment, and in a snort time arc made to rejoice In perfect health. MIDDLE-AGED MEN. There are many men at the age of thirty who aro troubled with too frequent evacuations from the blad der, often accompanied by a slight smarting or burn ing sensation, and weakening the system in a niannei the i*atient cannot account for. On examining the urinary deposits a ropy sediment will often be iound, and sometimes small particles of seinen or albumen will appear, or the color will be of a thin milkit.li hue,, again changing to a dark and turbid appeal once. Ijierc ore many men who die oi this difficulty, ignor ant of the cause, which is the SECOND STAGE OF SEMINAL WEAKNESS. 1 can warraut a perfect cure m such rases, and a lull and healthy restoration ol the urinary organs. Persons, who cannot personally consult the Dr., can do so *>y writing, in a plain manner, a description of their diseases, and tlie appropriate remedies will be forwarded Immediately. All correspondence strictly confidential, and will be returned, it desired. Address: Dr. J. B. HUGHES, No. 5 Temple Street (corner of Middle Street], Portland. Me fcy Send a Stamp for Circular. Electic Medical Infirmary, TO THE LADIES. DR. HUGHES particularly miles all Ladies, whc need a medical advisor, to call at his rooms. No. 5 Temple Street, which they will find arranged for tbeli especial accommodation. Dr. H.’s Electic Renovating Medicines are unrival led in efficacy and superior virtue in regulating all Female Irregularities. Their action is specific ami certain of producing relief in a short time. LADIES will find it invaluable in all cases of oh structious after all other remedies have been tried in vain. It is purely vegetable, containing nothing in the least injurious to the health, and may be taken with perfect safety at all times. Sent to anv part of fcho country, with full directions by addressing DE. HUGHES, No. 5 Temple Street (corner of Middle), Portland. N. B.— Ladies desiring may consult one of theft own sex. A lady of experience in constant attend once. janl.l*65d&wly

HELMBOLD’S Fluid Extract Buchu! fTtORWeakncsearising from Indiscretion. The ex X1 h&usted powers of Nature, which are accompan ied by so many alarming symptoms, amour which will be found Indisposition to Exertion, Loss ol 1km ory, Wakefulness. Horror of Disease, or Forebodings of Evil: in Isct Universal Lassitude Prostration, and inability to enter into the enjoyments of society. The Constitution once uiTocted with Organic Weak nets, requires the aid ol loediciuo to strengthen uud Invigorate the System, which llemboltl's Extract Bu chu invariably does. If uqtrcatinent la submitted to, Consumption or Insanity ensues. Hembold’s Fluid ExtractBuchu g in affections peculiar to “Females’’ is unequalled by any other preparation, as in Chlorosis or Retention, Painfulness or Suppression of Customary Evacua ions Ulcerated or 3ch>rrousState ofth Uterus: ami all comnluiots incident to the sex, whether arising from habits of dissipation, imprudence in, or the de e iue or change of life. HEMBOLD’S FLUID EXT. BUCHU AND IMPROVED ROSE WASH, Will radically exterminate IV^ra the system Diseases arising from habits of dissipation, at litt e expense, little or no change in diet.no lnwiwl Me or eip uro; complete y superseding those unpleasant and dange ous remedies, Copaiva and Mercury in all these diseases. Use Helmbold's FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU, In all diseases of these organs, whether existing in Male or Female, from whatever cause originating, and no matter how longstanding It is peasant in taste and w\ur,immrrtinte\n action and mi re strength ening tti&n any of the preparations of hark or run. Thus sufler.n fl-oin Biokcn Down or Delicute t on stitutions, procure the remedy at Olcc. The reader must be aware that however slight uoay bo the attack of the above diseases it Is certain to af fect his bodily heal h, mental powers and happiness. All the above diseases require the aid of a diuretic. HELMBOLDS EXTRACT BUCHU Is the Great Diuretic. Helmbold’s Highly Concentrated COMPOUND FLUID EXTRACT SARSAPARILLA. For purifying the blood removing all chronic const! tutional diseases arising from an impure state of the blood,and the only roliable and effectual known rem edy for the cure of Scrofula, Scald Head .Salt Rheum, I ains and Swelling of the Roues. Ulceration of the Throat and Legs, blotches. Pimples on the Face. Tet ter Erysipelas, and all Scaly Eruptions of the skin, and beautifying the complexion. Not a few of the worst disorders that affect mankind arise from the corruption thut accumulates in the olood Of all the dUcoveries that have been ma le to purge it out, none can equal in effect HELMHOLD'S COMPOUND EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA It cleanses and renovates the blood, instils the vigor health into the system, and puiges on' the hu*ion» wh ch make disease It stimulates the healthy feua tion« of the body,and expclls the disorders that grow and rankle in the blood. Suoiarcmdy that could ho relied on, has long been sought for, and now, tor the first time, the pub lc have oue on which they can depend Our space here does not admit of certificates to show its effects, but the trial of a single bottle will show *he sick that it has virtues surpassing anything they have ever taken. Two able spoonbills of the Extract ef Sarsaparilla ad«!ed toaniutol water Is equal to the Lisbon Diet Drink, ana ore bottle is ftol y equal to a gallou ol the Syrup of Sarsaparilla, or the deeoction as usually made. Tkete Extracts have been admitted to u*r in Ik* l nitedStates Army, and are a Do In very general U4k» in all the State llospi alsund Public Sanitary lns»/*u tions throughout the land, as well as in pt Kate prac tices, and are considered as iuvaluab remedies. j See Medical Properties of Ruehu, FROM DISPENSATORY of the UNITED STATES See Praf. Dkwkk’s valuable works or the Practice, of Physic See remarks made by the late celebrated Dr. Pkystc of Philadelphia. See remarks made by Dr Ephraim M’Dowell, a celebrated Physician and Member of the Rojal ol lege of Surgeons,Ireland, and pubished in the Tr»«* a tions of the Kin? and Queen s Journal. Sec Medio thirurgical Review, pub ished by Pon. jamin Travers, Fellow of Royal College i fSuru.enns. See moct of the ate Standard Works of 31ediciue. EXTRACT BITfli, “SARSAPARILLA. Sold by all Druggists. Principal Depot— HELMBOLD’S DRUG AND CHEMICAL WAREHOUSE BOA Broadway. Sept»,lf*W-«od 1 yT —————W—— OCwmar m. Copartnership Notire. THE rejiartnershlp hereto ore axlHthi-- trn.ler the. nameer*. t:K WON A St >N. will be ceiilluued after this date under the style of PERKINS, JACKSON A- CO., Wholesale and retail dealers in LUMBER, COAL •“‘J ^^wyor’s Wharl, fbot of High Street. Dec 21,1*03—vltf It you are in want of any kind ot PRINTING call at the Daily Pres* Office,