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To the T Parker Tuck Judge Of Probate for the Coun-
ty Of Hancock
BRENNAN wARDwELL, Eliza Leach, Mary Conner;
- all OF penohscnt il said County, respectfully repre-
rns that they heirs at law of rus Dunbar aie OF
tid Penob,cpt, and such sez in fee Of aId, idei
lth part ch Of the lat. homestead farm, and all lands IN
aid PrnohSce and Castlne owned tud occupied in hi.
ictm" BY the sal darius Dunbar, except tat part which
has been set Of to widow d said airu' i The dover, and
hat Hannah Frances Rirkiud Elisha Bickford, HELEN
Eiekfrl Edward Bickfori and Frederick b-kord, ninot
children OF the late Hannah Rck ra seized in fee q
undivided eleventh OF said tate Of one undivided
hftytfth part thereof each, aud that H"riao Wardwet
minor child Of Dorothy Wiriwt ~ ceased ia seized in es
# one undivided eleventh part OF said estate and that
Margaret Wtscott is seized in fee Of undivided eleven
part Of said estate. and that Jos pin Dutr Albert lu.
bar and Edward Dunbar minur, and .iaes Dunbar I'd
Elisha Dunbar, children Of sH1 .iruS Dunbar. are sz
IN Tee oi one uniivd eleventh part uf said estate each,
md the said Jeremiah War veil, Eliza Ieaci. and Mary
Conner DESTROYS Of holding If sev.rp rtions SAID
estate i'll neutrality-suspicious. they pray that guardian
I'D tfeitr may he appointed for said min re-, nd that
commissioners may be s-ieced to divide said estate
eaby to the provisions Of the statate in such
made and provided.
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Pc TlrlOS.

To the Hon the senate and llnuse o. Representa-.
tive. At IA srs.s in Lvgi.atarc asscfuh 81;
JE SO COIN u, respectfully represents taat he
is re.iieI, u Niutnus ISLAND, n LIE vi OF
Brook .Nitlv-thst he - even niIe- pr more from
the tow l-l"G-c ia ,5tao ,sIalo. aAi /. tIus ,un
sttatialty ui,'rancai>e!--tuAt nc niYte tla.
thtrc iuIics tom tEy trest &C u..n,use
brooks ilit, aud t8u. M c.Ii,.fcn urrlgeI IT
the ordinary mean al t,tdafiJp ~and tiat h. l.
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Sept. 1 9th, 1859.
II E w s II u liz E
VIEW FALL GOODS

WEST OF our
fromN
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III
such be found establishment
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Lyonesse Cloths, &c.
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At a Couy, of Probate held at Bluehll, within and
fer the County Ut Hancock on the first cdnes-
day Of November, A. b. 1859.
tlIARLEs Abbott. Executor Of the Will
- of Rebecca II. Jarvis, late o, Castinc. in
said county dcce ,sed, aving presented his frat
recount ni administration upon said deceascd's
tate for probate;
Ord.ud. - That the said Executor give notice
thereof 10 all persons interested by causing copy
OF thi. order to BE- published three weeks succe.-
sive'y in the Ellsworth American, printed at Ellis
worth, that they may appear Mt n Probate Court
IL be held at Buoksport, in said County, On the
third Wednesday oi January next, Mt ten OF the
clock in the forenoon, and shcw cause II any they
ha,e, why the same should not oe allowed.
PARK Elk II Oh, Judge.
\ true eopy-Attest.
Is A. 4. BARTLETT. Register.
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Remedy ior the variou, Diseases oil the
l.u .. and hroat. such a.
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by afw doses of ARRsSs CoUGm BALSAa wticl. il Il
e'ed to run Oh even few days may eventually prove
Elf Al
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hr nthjt.
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The Hr>r mmruitIlnu Tor dicin" is funnd
ia IL If IN. fl'~ing certificate, (f9m has
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r uf-ril ana You VIII he iNNceI Ii wall cost Hru
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i. time and doctors bulls.
From chnr- 5 Crosby, County Attorney for Penobcot
Co uty
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Ayers Cherry Pectoral

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the people its quality is kept up to the best
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Grea.numbers of Clergymen, PHYSICIANS. States.
men, and eminent personages, have lent their
to certify the unparalleled usefulness Of taess
remedies, but our space here will not permit the
insertion Of them The Agents below named fur.
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given; with also full descriptions of the above
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Do not be put off by unprincipled dealers with
other preparations they make more profit on:
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want the best aid there fox them, and they should
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COUNTY OF HANCOCK.
TREASURER Office, Nov 1859.
statemer Of costs allowed in Criminal Prosecu-
ions at the October Term ofthe Supreme Judicial
,oult, and Court 0. County Commissioners, viz:
State v. lie onder Gray.
Total Amout, $ll 3j
Originated before b. W. Hincklcy,
Allowed by County Commi ssoners.
State v. Thomas Low.
Total Amount, Is 50
Originated before Geo. l.. IIosmer,
Allowed by County Com'rs.
State v. Polly Weed.
Total Amount, 10 sc
Originated before BENZ. F. Ferguson,
Allowed by County Com'rs.
State V. Roscoe Long,
Total Amount. s o3
Originated before Benz. F. Ferguson
Allowed by County Com'rs.
State v. Clark y Reed.
Total Amount, G IS
Originated before Hale P. Bray,
Allowed by County Com'rs
State V. William Brooks.
Total Amount 6 CO
Originated before Vim. Somerby,
Allowed by County Com'rs
State v. Calvin P. Turtelottc.
Total Amount : so
Originated before Vim. Somerhy,
Allowed by County Com'rs.
State v. A. H. Fox.
Total Amount, 43
Originated before Samuel Hc-rick,
Allowed by County Com'rs.
State v. Nahum Fitzgerald.
Total Amount, s 10
Orig mated before o. NJ. Sargent,
Allowed by County Com'rs.
State v. William Stone
Total Amount, 90
Originated before L. NJ Sargent
Allowed by County Conrs
State v. Michael Hurley.
Cost on Mittimus, s.
Allowed by County Cun'rs
State v. Rebecca Lunt
Total Amount, 8 30
Originated before VIM Somerby,
Allowed by County Com'rs.
State v, Henry Shorpy 4 ais.
Total Amount lG l6
Originated before Samuel Wasson,
Allowed by County Com'rs.
'ost of Inqusition on the body OF Leonard
'erkin., Before Horace P. Fifeld, Coroner
Total Amount, l2S 20
Allowed bo County Com'rs.
State v. Daniel Donovcr
Total Amount, Al 60
By Indictment.
Allowed by :. j Court.
State Y. Monroe Young.
Total Amount, 10 90
Originated before Hatch Macomber,
Allowed by S. J. Court
State v. Stephen Bowden.
Trtal Amount. Is Is
Originated before Charles Hamlin.
Allowed by 5. J. Court.
State v. Inhabitants of Trenton.
Total Amount. IS
By Indictment.
Allowed by :. j. Court
State v. Charles Cara ais
Total Amount, IS co
BY Indictment,
Allowed by :. J. Court.
State v Benjanin Hall, Jr.
Total Amount, Sc CO
BY Indictment,
Allowed by J. Court
State V. James II. Pinkham.
Total Amount. Sc 81
BY Indictment
Allowed by S. J. Court.
State v, j. F. Ingrabam.
Total Amount, IL CT
Originated before James G. Leach,
Allowed by 5. J. Court
State v. Simeon TowLe.
Total Amount. 10 96
Originated before lillian Pilsbury,
Allowed by S. J. Court.
General Bill of Costs, 2s5 90
Total STA, 90
NIX. SAWYER.
~ 3w County Treasurer
Commissioners Notice.
We the subscribers having been appointed by the
on. Parker Tuck, Judge of Probate for the Coun.
Of Hancock, 10 receive and examine the
aims of creditors to the estate of Benz D. Gay,
te of Dixon, State Of Ill.,, deceased, represented
solvent, do hereby give notice that six months
e allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove
&c at the Counting Room of Charles X Tiiden,
Tuesday, March 18th, 1861, and on Tuesday
pril 18th, 1860.
CHARLES X. TILDEN,
~ CHARLES ROGERS, cem'r''
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SheIins sale.

VIANCoCK. Nov. ~. lSjJ rtksaaa cSrcn,i,n
IL " nitim u Chlsiy. i4as, It 'lr~tr Il, al vii
be SOLD public auction. at I. [. W~simau', Office in
Bucsspgr. said County on sItui AZ. the 3lsi dw ni
p-ccmber nrNt. at 10 u'cick VI. tht risbt equity
which sa,i Parker had 1t the tims 4 til fiteueut u
the VIII II rcd ,-nias the f1ii disc ii premises IA
said Bu-S pot. hen 4 Il II >t elt7s.)
bOunlei westerly ~ Bird ~ s'uth-riy ~ liH
- Johnson, ~stery by i,ud IL farubasn, aud north
erly by IAul VI Mrs Harriet Joia-oa.
u L&MtEL T DoRR Deputy Sheriff.
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Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-09-30

IRREPREssIBLE CONFLICT. The de-
claration laid down by Mr.. Seward, says
the New York EUening Post, in his
Rochester speech, that there is such an
g irrepressible conflict between the in
stitutions of slavery and free labor that
one or the other must ultimately prevail
throughout the Union, has been denoun-
ced by Douglas and others as bloody
and reasonable heresy. Mr.. Everett,
however, in his last GRAFTON on Webster,
intimates that MIR. Seward is brandish-
ing borrowed thunder, and that the doc
trine in question had much less hereti-
cal origin. Mr.. Everett says
He (AIr. Webster) not only confid-
emily antici pated what the lapse Of seven
years since his decease has witnessed
and is Witnessing, that the newly &C
quired and newly organized territories O
the Union would grow up into free States
but, an common aoith all or nearly all til,
statesmen of the last generation, he Be.
tisped that free labor soould ultimatei.
preUaH throughout the country. HI
thought he saw that, in the operation o.
the same causes, which have produced
this result in the Middle and Easter
States, it was visibly taking place in the
States north of the cotton-growing re
gion; and he inclined to the opinion tina
there, also, under the influence of physi
cal and economical causes, free laboI
would eventually be found most produc
tive, and would therefore be ultimately
established.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-09-30
DISTRIBUTION or PUBLIC MONEY.

But, as far as the statistics of schools
in this State are known, they 60 to show
most conclusively one or two facts that
prove the lack of reliability of the APP
parently reasonable conclusion above re-
ferred to. From these statistics it aP-
pears that the comparative minor popu-
lation, by which is here meant the num-
Der of children between four and eigh-
teen as compared with adults, is much
larger in village districts than in others.
Now, this being true, it is evident that
distribution of public money in proper
ton to the number of resident children
must of necessity enure to the advant-
age of the village districts, and to the
disadvantage of the remote districts.
And, whether the more sparsely set
tied districts have better appreciation
of the benefits of education, or whether
the very difficulties of attendance upon
schools cause them to be more highly
priced, another fact is shown by statis-
tics that must have an important bearing
in this connection. Statistics show, be-
yond doubt, that the percentage of aver
age attendance upon schools is much less
in the village districts than in the remote
ones. Therefore any distribution Of the
public money in proportion to the aver
age daily attendance upon the schools
must rebound to the pecuniary gain Of
the sparsely settled districts, and the loss
of those in the villages
These conclusions seem so unaccount
able to minds that have not given the sub
iect much investigation, that to many
they will be almost incredible but it j.
believed that the facts to be obtained
from the School Registers, during The
present year, will place this question be
yond all doubt. 1 have not been able tt
obtain accurately and fully the statistic
of other towns, but having them from
the town of Burlington, ] here subjoil
them, arranged in tabular form, that
may be seen, how fully in this one in
stance, at least, the conclusions abov
drawn are sustained. To the facts a
obtained, l have added a column show
ing what what would have been th
shares of public money to each distric
had it been distributed, in proportion t
the average attendance, as is provide
in the new law, and also a column show
ing the gain or loss to each district.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-09-30
Washington News.


WAsHMGToN, Sept. 25.-Col.. Rank
in, Register of the Land Office at Olym-
2ia, Washington Territory, has arrived
here from the Island of San Juan. He
reports that if the intentions of Govern
or Douglas had been carried out, there
would have been collision between the
British and American forces, as the Sa-
tellite and Plumper had orders from him
to fire, but Admiral Bayne OPPORTUNITY
arrived and superseded him in the COM
mand Of the English ships of war, FIVE
in number. The original misunderstand-
ing was with the Hudson Bay Company,
the interests Of which were represented
by Douglas. The Island of San Juan
had been in the occupancy of the Amer
cans for at least Is months, nobody
seeming to question their rights, and has
been for long period considered and
treated in all respects as belonging to
Washington Territory. 1t was not until
Gen. Harvey applied to and was inform
ed by Boundary Commissioners Campbell,
that our title to the Island was clear and
certain, that he dispatched troops thither,
at the earnest request of the residents,
who claimed protection from British ag-
gression, and especially from the preda-
tory incur,ions of the Northern Indians,
who had even taken and held possession
of lighthouse for three days, and
against whom private expedition had re-
peatedly been sent to chastise them.
| COL Rankin says the people of Wash
ington and the Pacific States are unani-
nous for our retention of the island, and
such is their enthusiasm that if the Uni
ted States should be directed to vacate
it, private parties in formidable numbers
would Immediately occupy that import
ant position, and surrender it without 9
severe struggle. But it is not supposed
in this city that our troops win be with
drawn, as this would be considered as ar
admission that our title is clearly dispu
table. 1t may not be generally known
f that our government has recently con
firmed bluff of land containing many
acres, for military reservation, if any
f thing farther north than San Juan.
Our government having sent Minis
ter of full grade to Vienna, that of Aus
. tria has raised M. Hulsemann to al
equal rank. The latter viii soon return
: to Washington.
{ The whole amount of the public lan'
E surveys, as returned to the General LAM
e Office, for the year ending with the pres
ent month, is nearly $4,000 miles, o
7 about fifteen million acres.