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Without Encumbrance.

j "BoARD WANTED.-A Gentlcmar
and Lady, without encumbra-ce desire
etc."
One sees queer things in little type ir
newspapers, sometimes conveying by i'm
| plication all sorts of d ,ctrines. disclos
ing peoples ideas of happiness. when
they least expect it, and afording clue
to the faith in many heart that is a
sealed book tn those that know it best
and yet all set forth so many times daily
in an advertisement.
Sometimes, as in this agate expression
Of "a want we have peoples definitions
of things which set Webster and John
son at defiance.
without encumbrance - What
young mother, when she feels for the
hrst time her first born's breath. would
ever imagine, in the new blossoming of
her new love, that anywhere beneath the
sun there should exist lexicon, wherein,
under the Els. it should read thus: "Ed
Es, Ell, Ell, En-,
zen.
"ENcuMBRANcE,n A young human
being-a child"
There! What do you think o. that,
We old fashioned grandmothers, whose
love is visited upon the children, even to
the third and fourth generation. "Ra-
che' weeping for her Encumbrances -
And the leopard shall lie down with ths
lamb, and a little Encumbrance shall lead
them
These little motives, in pink and fair
dimi,y, tina. stir the pulses like clarion
that nerve up the weary and light up the
hope, and fill up the signing with song,
are eneumbrances
So, then, the sweet little candidates
for heaven kingdom, that dance rouod
the threshold of the open heart and en-
ter unforbidden; that keep the world
from growing old in sorrow and in
sin, are ERcumbrances all
And when they are elected. for 50,
alas :, they sometimes are, as the green
sward broken in little billows everywhere.
and the Racheis that will not be comfort.
cd, so sadly attest, think yon, when the
mother rocks the empty cradle. and looks
upon the impressed pillow. and finds in
the till silken dress and pair of lit
tic shoes that were laid aside for sandals
Of light, that she finds the name of the
wearer under the En'ss That when the
poet sighed.
There is no flock, however watched aud tsndsd,
But one dead lamb is there
There is no freside, howsoee defended,
But has one vacant chair, -
or when he who sang the Airs of Pales-
tine declared
81 cannot make him dead
His fair sunshiny head
Is ever bounding round my study chair
that either of them dreamed the burden
OF the song was mortgage !-and not
rather one star lost out of the visible
heavens-that scat
CAS- sets the morning star that goes not down
Behind the darkened West, nor hides obscured,
Amid the tempests of the sky, but melts
Away into the light of heaven"
May the hearts, the thresholds and the
hearts of the world never be without
remembrance Let them all be mort
z ged to them who "like the planets are
nearest the sun. "-Chieago Jounai.
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A ,resn Yankee stenped from a 81

A green Yankee stepped from steamboat
a few DAYS since, on one OF our wharves,
and 50 eoniounded was he by the confusion and
turmoil of the scene. the jam of vehicles, the
crowds of carmen and hackmen shouting and
iostling, that he sought the shelter OF me
boat again in the utmost CONSERVATION.
..Why friend, =" said bystander TO him,
..you are in trcpidation.
wall, III be blasted" returned he. opa-
ming his eyes with astonisement, "ain't in
York after all In Trepidation, am |? III be
darned If ever heard of that place before, |
swow to gosh didn't"
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ASEcporE OF SENATOR ToonRs.-rhe fol-
lowing ancclotc is told Of Senator Toombs
while lie was an old line Whig Represcntase
in Congress Meeting Rev. George Pierce,
now Bishop, with whom he was on iam'li!r
terms, h. remarked "Friend George, 1t
strikes II that you aud | are engaged IN
pretty much the same calling.
..how is that" ? inquired the Bishop.
"Why," replied Toombs. you are night
ing the Devil, and am fighting the Demo
Gratis. and don't see much difference IN the
warfare.
This is sad to have occurred several years
ago, and we presume were these old friends to
NEE, now. George might say, ''Bob, lam
still fighting the Devil, what are you doing
"well. George, now fully understand
the truth of the following vers. from fope ;
"Demccracy Is a monster Of % frshtfal mien,
As 20 b. hated, needs but % b~ ssen
Yet seen too Of, familiar sh its face,
We hrs, endure, then pity, then embrace
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rapidly; until it now claims, with the
suburbs, about forty thousand inhabi.
tants. How incredible it would an
pear to thousands in New England. tc
be told that there was city five hundred
miles ''do,cn East containing forty
thousand inhabitants
St, John is lighted with gas, and is
supplied with water. by an aaueauct
brought about eight miles from a pond
IN iron pipes to the city. As much o
the city is built on a solid rock, the pipes
Tor both the water and the gas are laid
IN chanel cut a. immense labor AMI ex.
pense in its bed
The bay of Fnndy is fimous the world
over for its high and rapid tides. We
have here, an oecular demonstration OF
this part; by the high wharfs bull. Of
great logs. These wharfs are said to be
sixty and eighty feet high; many Of them
jetting into the harbor to n grea, ex-
tent
The city appears to be Of great CONNER.
cial importance. It's people give ev.
dence of possessing spirit OF enter prise.
one would suppose, equal to their Yam.
kee Cousins Sometimes there are il il
said, one hundred and even two hundred
large ships lying in the stream a. a time,
loading and unloading. nearly all from
Great Britain. The business consists
principally IN tun timber and sawed ltm-
Der, shipbaiilins and fishing
/ We N Id an excursion.up tae river 81.
John, in company with sesetal Aneri-
cans. We Ia common with all stran GERS
who sisil tais er4atrY. we asres-ably
surprised w hal often asks.i OIL. Tvs
Can taese be Al, s9ol thing DIVA
East A. the heti of the htrbor. tn
liver PR sri,. commences F.rst we
have the falls; vaish pres ri sen
OF Wild s-anislF. soaJ psFpen liell4r
rocks eighty or hundred feet hish on
either hand . an immense volume of wa
ter rushing through tn narrow chasm. at
low water. presents to the eye. at once. q
srcnr most sublime and terrific
W. took passage in the Steamer For
est Queen. and arrived at Fredericton
the seat .; Government bf this Province,
a, five O'Clock in ,he afternoon Our
trip tie river, the scenery and Ctpi-
tai We Will describe At another time
The next day. being the Sabb4th, we at
tended church, when, behold. We found
three Ministers in the pulpit from the
State OF Maine The Rev. Mr.. Guilford
formerly of Lubec, who passed through
your village and lec,urcd las. winter. was
installed pastor Of the Baptist church in
Fredericton. Rev. Mr.. Nuttcr OF the
city Of ST John, formerly resident of
Hancock County, Nam, pr cached the In
s.allalion sermon Rev Mr.. Willard of
the Baptist church in Eastport, preached
in the aftern 1on, and NJ, Bill, OF 81.
John. in the evening. The services were
interesting and solemn; and we learn
tia, NJ Gailfori is very accep,able, AMI
his prospects Of usefulness quite hatier-
ing.
If these notices of Her Majssty's prov
inces are acceptable to your readers, |
will renew them at an early day. In
conclusion, recommend any Of our
American friends, who wish to make an
excursion for health or recreation, to
visit this country, and they will not be
disappointed.
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IcEIy LAKE SUPERtoR.-They have

IcEIN LAKE SUPERIoR.-They have
had very extraordinary June weather up
on the big lake and the ice, instead OF
growing thinner, appears to grow the
other way. The Lady Elgin, which
has just returned from the lake, reports
that she was embarrassed on the llth to
the l4th of June by immense fields OF
ice twelve to urteen inches thick, and
was hemmed in at Grand Island for two
days. unable to proceed. by tho vast
expanse which met her on every hand.
We may well rejoice that the comet has
taken its leave.-Totedo Blade.
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AppRAaAxcR.-A coat that has marks

APPEARANcE.-A coat that has marks
OF use upon it, isa recommendation to
people of sense; and ha. with too smooth
a nap and TOO high lusture, is derosa-
tory circumstances. The best coats in
Broadway are on the backs of penniless,
broken down merchants. clerks with
pltiful salaries. and men that don't pay
up. The heaviest gold chains dangle
from the fobs of gamblers and gentle
men of very limited means costly orna-
ments on ladies indicate to eyes that are
well open silly lover, or a husband
cramped for funds. And when pretty
woman goes by in suit Of plain neat
apparel, it is sign that she has fair
expectations. and husband that can
show a balance in his favor-N Y
Times.
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The action of the Maine Republican

| The action oil the Maine Kepu0llcan
Convention was admirable. The nomi .
nation of Mr.. Morrill, for Governor. by a
vote of nearly forty to one, on the first
(or only balloting, speaks volumes for
the harmony and good sense that prevail
among the friends of freedom in that
State. which used to be one cf the most
reliable of Democratic communities, and
which is now equally reliable for free la
Dor, because it was truly democratic in
it's ideas. Mr.. Morrill, was an old Dem
ocrat. and was generally counted among
the bunker members Of his party but
when the Cincinnati Convention, imme-
diately after the Brooks outrage. made
the nationa, Democratic party over to
the Shareholders in the most formal
manner, Mr. Morrill, would not consent
to be sold. He left the self-styled Dem
ocratic party the very moment he heard
what had been done. This was on the eve
ming of the day that Mr. Buchanan was
nominated, when there was hardly
man in the United States who did not be-
lieve that the Democratic nomination was
tantamount to an election. He was the
first man who left the Democracy, when
it was seen that it had given itself up to
the services Of the slavery party, and
had become the first Of its chain gangs.
He did not wait to see what others would
do. but set an example for others to fol-
low. Others did follow it, by thousands,
and to his bold and conscientious action
must be attributed, in no small degree,
our splendid Maine victories of Septem-
Der and November. What he did shows
that he is man Of courage and energy,
and we all know that his talents are
high, and that his character is pure
He is just the man to be at the head of
free State il these times, when the
national government and the Supreme
Cour. are seeking to make slavery every
where triumphant, as we'll in old Terri
tories, in Maine,as in Kansas. We want
no time-servers and political traders in
State Offices now, but men who shall be
Of the Jacksonian stamp, not afraid to
take the responsibility of the mighty
word that mag become necessary for the
maintenance of the rights Of the States.
and the vindcation of the true spirit of
the Constitution and the laws
Maine example, last year, had pro-
dlgious eff ct on Massachusetts,. The
immense vote we gave for Fremont and
Dayton was considerably owing to the
immense vote which Maine gave for
Gooernor Hamlin two months oa-lior
We looked for similar resul, in Maine
this year. with far more confidence than
we felt in Mr. Hamlin's election by a
heavy majority. The Republicans of
Maine have sound sense as we'll as hero
ic courage, and the union of such quali-
ties in party assures for 1t an imperial
position. -Baston Trar, Ter.
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KISSING ny Po>r Tho following
answer was made by Byron to a young
lady who had sent him a kiss in let
ter:
Thanks to my little absent friend
A kiss you In the letter send.
But ah the thrilling charm is lost
In kisses that arrive by post;
That fruit can only tasteful be.
When gathered, melting, from the tree.
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JOB PRINTING
ITEMS

The thieves in Philadelphia have attain
to an effrontery in the profession which the
brethren elsewhere can hardly pretend to, as
yet. 1t is practice with them now to tear
OFT street door plates-espec tally the silver
ones. As many as forty plates were missing
one morning last week s ONE Of the plates
being tilycr, thieves made quite haul.
1t is estim .tad that not less than sixty
thousand pancs of glass were broken by tho
recent hail storm at Washington. Glass,
putty and GLACIERS are in active demand
A pedlar's cart in the stable of the
Tontine Hotel, Brunswick, was robbed Of
5000 worth of laces, velsets and dry coods,
a few days since.
"A traveller in Africa declares that he
met with one king who had eleven portly
wives, all Of whom were weighed monthly,
the one that weighed most being Invariably
installed mistress of the household until the
time of the next weighing.
The Montreal Advertiser says the fine
steamer Canadian is hopeless wreck sunk
beside the half tide rock, her stern upon the
bottom, with 43 feet Of water on it at low
water, and her bows dry on the rock. The
stern Is gone, and 30 feet of the hooding
plates torn Oft, the cabin deck burst up, and
her iron beams bent, broken and displaced
The Advertiser attributes the disaster to the
Ignorance Of the pilot, and is very severe
upon the stupidity of the Gulf pilo,s as II
class.
-Ebcn SWEET, captain Of the coastine
schooner Bangs, from Rockland, Me-, left
his vessel, in Boston, recently, for parts un-
known, and it is alleged took with him the
avails Of the cargo Of lime sold, amounting
to about $3.50
Chief Justice Carter, of Evansville, In
diana, and two constabes of that city, are
now in Jail there, having been sentenced to
thirty days confinement for petty offence.
They are all Democrats.
The St. Johnsbury, Vt, Torrent COM
pany OF firemen are visiting their brother
fremen in Montreal. Tuesday afternoon
they had a contest with the Hero company.
and got worsted by the Britishers
AT Portland there is to be scrub race
by canoes managed by Indians to come of
Immediately after the regetta on the 4th Of
of July Some of the Penobscot tribe of In
dians are now encampcd at Cape Elizabeth,
and they are all ready for the race
On Wednesday of last week, a little boy
about six years OF age, son of a Mrs. Brown,
recently of East Machias, while at play on
the deck ola vessel, lying at her wharf, in
this place, fell into the hold, striking on his
head and was badly injured -Maehias
Inion
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An attempt was made. Thursday last,
to launch the bark built at Cherry 6eld.
by Amos Dyer. Unfortunately. before
she had run half her length, the ways
broke down and she stuck fast in the
mud. Up to Friday night all attempts
to move her proved unavailing. The
bark was not damaged. it was thought,
though large expense will attend getting
afoat-Machias Union.
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We like men who are positive, one
way or the other; and sincerely believe
that those who are ready to say, Good
Lord, or Good Devil of the same object,
because they can 6nl "a truth on two
SIDES. are among the most fatal cnrrupt-
ers of all singleness of life. For this
reason we endorse a sentiment which the
Christian Ambassador, a Universalist
paper published in New York, attributes
to DIR. E. II. Chaplin. In a discourse
recently from his pulpit, he said "he
honored first of all the man who came
out boldly for the right-and next to
him the man who came out open and
bravely for the wrong; while he despis-
ed as the meanest of men he who would
not commit himselfto either, but was
forever trying to dodge between the
two. ."-Morninp Star.
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Breeding the Fish.

We notice that an entcrprising gentle
man, Upham Treat. formerly of Frank
fort, has been busily engaged during tn
spring in putting Alewives. Shad. Bass
and Salmon into some Of the lakes Dowr
East to spawn and multiply. The Cal
ais Advertiser says he has secured thu
right Of way from the lakes to the ses
and has cleared out the steams so thai
the fish can pass without Interruption
MIR. Treat does not expect any return,
from his enterprise for three years. when
If they multiply as he confidently expects
his Investment Of $4,000 will prove ,
fortunate one.
The breeding of fss i. no new thing
even by process purely artificial, and
IS said to have been known among the
Chinese and the early Romans. In
Europe, very great care is taken for the
preservation of fish, and severe enact
mcnts are in force against taking them
at certain periods. We have also laws
designed for their protection. The
multiplication of food is matter o great
economical Importance and the protect
ion of fish and their increase ought to re.
eeive vigilant care
The science of Pisciculture has prob
ably made greater advance in France
than in any other country. Three hum
BILE fishermen, by intelligent observation
of the habits of the finny tribe. and ex-
periments conducted with practical skill.
arrived at results which the savans had
asplred to without success. The Gov
ernment of France took up the matter
and very wisely put the three fishermen,
unlearned as they were in other matters,
at the ead Of a commission for stocking
the waters of France with fish.
The process resorted to, consists in
the artltieal expression of the spawn and
init Of the fish, the mixture of which in
the water ls necessary to the vivifcation
OF the eSgs. which are in such countless
IN aprs that large margin is left for
destruction. This spawn. or the young
OF the tlsh may be transported from one
part ot the country to the other, and un-
louhtedly across the ocean.
Ths vaIHa of tha fish crop in France
IS now set down a, 81 100000. and when
rs waters are replenished. as they may
be III four years, It is estimated that it
wi reach $3.50, 100000. The effect of
this pro ol1ctjoa of wholesome nutriment
tor tire population may ~ readily i'm.
asioei in both a political and economi-
cal point Of view. 4 VII anil eheanlv
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Mr.. B. II. Albee. of East Machias,
has COW of the common, or native
breed, whose milk for one week, ending
June Oath, afforded thirteen pounds Of
excellent butter. During the time the
only feed she had, was what she obtain
ed herself from common pasture.
Union.
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"A Methodist camp meeting will be held
at kennebunk, commencing on monday, Au-
gust 24th. The land on which this meeting
is to be held has been secured for purpose for
ten years, and arrangements have been made
with the railroad company. for the same pc
riod to carry passengers to and from tn
ground at half fare,
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"A marine railway is now in process
OF construction at Machiasport. 1t is
being built by contract BY Mr.
Smith Of Rockland. and will be co .nplct-
I'd in 6 or 6 weoks.
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Mas. PARrrNGToN AND HARVARD
CoLLEGE.-They are determined to
drive the spirits from Harvard said
the Professor to Mrs. Partngton, with
much glee, and he rubbed his hands de.
lightedly. Il want to know said the
dame. staying her knitting needles in her
wonder; do tell US! Well | never
dreamed there was any spirituality in
that cemetery of learning beyond what
there used to be in the refres hment and
sycamore classes that Paul used to tell
Of and should think they would be glad
to find some there anyhow The Pro-
fessor turned the conversation to the
impossibility of taking lunar ooscrva-
ton by tallow candle in potato arch,
and Ike and Lion participated in strug
gle for the professor cane, which was
broken in the melee.
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REVISED SrArUrEs.-Persons wish
ing for copies of the Revised Statutes
will bear in mind that the publishers are
obliged bv lao to keep them for sale at
three d"llnrs per copy, in Bangor. Port
land. and Augusta. They may be had
here as soon as they are issued, at that
price. Wig.
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Mr.. Cowles, In his excellent history
OF plants, notices tue virtue of hemp
thus laconically BY this cordage. ships
are gui led. bells are rung, and rosues
are kept in ave.
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The Great Steamer.

The following statistics concerninp
the Great Eastern steamship. though
not all new. will be read with interest in
view ofthe fact that she is to be launched
during the present summer or fall. The
building of such a monstrous ship is a
bold and magnificent experiment in naval
science
IHE GREAT EASTERN, ONE or THE
WONDERS OF THE WoRLp.-She will
carry l2,00o tons of Goals. 5000 tons of
merchandise. and 1000 passengers. The
object of building so large vessel is
the economy that will be effected by
being able to stow sufficient Goals to
carry her round tho world. She will
save about f9000 per voyage to Aus.
treiia in this item. by carrying sufficient
to take her there and back, instead o,
having to coal at Australia. Owing to
her length, she will not pitch. and will
roll less than any ship that ever swan.
She will be the strongest ship in exis.
tence, being built upon the principle OF
a hollow iron BEAM
There are ten bulkheads or water
tight compartments; and there are
longitudinal bulkheads, also water tight.
She is double ship, complete and per-
! feet. the internal hull being supported
by boiler plate stays three feet deep and
about the same distance apart, and rivet-
ed with angle iron joints to the external
hull, thus forming cellular piece of
work, similar to the top or roof of the
Menai bridge, and as strong as solid
iron. This extends from the bottom Of
the ship, 80 feet up each side, until
the first deck is reached The two low.
er decks serve as bridges or STAYS: and
the main deck is similar to the bull -
cellular in ons,ruetion-bein. in two
parts braeed together. making fabric
Of immense strength We're two Of her
water tight compartments filed with wa
ter she would hardly be incnnvenienced
fEis n8hie vessel Is sos feet bro ID
and IS feet deep from her deck to the
floor If her hull. Her tonnage -, 500
tons. She will be propelled by two
paddles and screw. The paddle wheels
afe % feet in diameter. and the screw is
: / feet in diameter The four engines
tt prepel the paddle wheels are eqnal to
$50 horse power. and the four engines
to propel the screw are equal to LOO
horse power. She will have five tunnels
connected to ten boilers, AMI six masts,
which will carry acres of canvass.
-Four of her masts will be of on the
two next thu stern and compass Of the
hip will be Of wood. Her crew will
consist Of 500 seamen. How many
boats she will have we cannot say; bat
she will have ahaft her paddle box, on
each side a screw steamer 100 feet long.
The whole ship will be lighted with gas.
Her speed will be Is knots-eqgal to
Il > miles per hour, and she viii 90
10 Port Philip in 81 days Some Of the
foregoing facts are tabulated in the fol-
owing table
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DEATH FROM SCALDING.-A little
girl, about four years Of age. daughter of
Benz. Hutchins, of Calais, fell backwards
into pail OF hot water. about q week
ago, and was SO badly scalded that she
survived but . few days.
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A CHEAP CoNDUcToR.-A lightning
conductor, costing only Sl5, has twice
been the means of saving Portsmouth
IN. II vessel from destruction when
struck-once when she mad 400 passen-
gers on board. and again when with a
cargo worth about S5OO,OOO. Another
ship from the same port, having no con.
ductor, being struck. was totally burnt,
with a valuable cargo of cotton.