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West Nottingham Academy.

TNIlE WINTER SESSION of this Irsti-
l. tuition will open on MONDAY, the 10th
Of November inst.
This Academy is beautifully located,
easily accessible, and enjoys freedom from
all temptation to idleness or dissipation.
Instruction will be given in the Classics
and Higher Mathematics, as well az the
ordinary English branches.
Young men can be prepared fur any Of tho
College Glasses, or for the Counting Room.
TERMS OF TUITION.-For day sclmlors
from Sc to $40 per session Of half year. For
Boarders, SIS.
Board can be obtained at very moderate
rates, adjoining the school buildings.
For further particulars, address
GEO. X. BECHTEL, A. B..
NOV o, loo. Principal.
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Select Poetry.
" Green Backs

RITTEN on THE BACK OF A TREASURY NOTE.
Green hc thy back upon thee,
Thou pledge of happier days,
When bloody handed treason
No more its flag shall raise,
But still from Maine to Texas
The Stars and Stripes shall wave.
Ger the homes and hearts of freemcn.
Nor mock one tettcrcd slave.
Pledge of the people credit,
10 carry on the war,
BY furnishing the sincws
In currency N p1r-
With cash enough left over.
When they've cancelled every note,
To buy half the thrones of Europe
With the crowns tost in to boot.
Pledged to our barred fathers
The sons Of pltriot srcs,
On freedom ancient affairs
Anew will light her fires;
That Fortune Life and honor
10 our country cause we give
Fortune and life may perish.
lct the Government shall live.
Pledged to our unborn children
That pure from blot or stain,
The flag hnuled down from Sumptcr,
Shall yet float free again;
And cleaned from foul dishonor,
And re baptsed in blood,
Wave o er the land forever,
10 freedom and 10 God
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Love and Politics.

Who could love Il Seccsh woman
Half devil, scarce ha.f human,-
A real rum ars.
Red. White. Red upon her bonnet,
Screeching some rel el'oas sonnet
Or yelling for Jef Davis.
IF with such were united.
Or to her my VOWS had plighted,
| would break the ieltcr;
Never yield a tame concession,
But from her 1t claim secession
To the very letter
am certain I should harm her,
Ior like Scotia's poet farmer,
wonld cure the evil,
If | had to beat and bang her.
Give her poison, drown, or hang her
Or whip her like the devil.
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ITO be Contiaued.)

PUT UP YOUR OLD RAGs-.No more
Lint wanted.-Thc Secretary of the U.
S. Sanitary Commission at Washington,
writes to the Superintendent of the Phil
adelphia Depository, on October 18th, as
follows -" Lint, bandages and old linen
have reached us in such enomorous guam
titles that we have been obliged to hire
a storeroom for no other purpose than to
store away the surplus 500 barrels. -
Please, therefore, discourage their fur
Their manufacture in your district, and
endeavor to turn the energies of the
people toward the making of UNDER
clothes and the knitting of socks
instead,'
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streets, canals and public squares, and
opened new avenues to unoccupicd land
have given you freedom of elections,
greater than you have ever enjoyed
before.
l have caused justice to be admins
tered so impartially tina your own advo-
ca es have unanimously compliment cd
the Judges of my appointment.
lcu have seen, therefore, the benefit
Of the laws and Justice of The Govern
mcnt against which you have rebellcd.
Why, thcn, will you not all re urn to
you allegiance to that Governmcnt-not
with lip service, but with the heart.
| conjure you, if you desire ever to
see renewed prosperity, giving business
to your s;rees and wharves-if you
hope 10 see your city become again the
mart of the Western world, fed by $
rivers for more than three thousand
miles, draining the commerce of q conn-
try greater than the mind OF man hath
ever conceived-rcturn to you allegiance
If you desire to leave to your children
the inheritance you received of your
tathers--a stable constitutional govern
mcnt-if you desire that in the future
they should be a portion of The greatest
empire the sun ever shone upon-return
to your allegiance.
There is bu. one thing that stands in
the way.
There IS but one thing that at THIS
tour sfnads betwecn you and The gouern-
menf, md that is slauery.
The institution, cursed of God, which
has taken $ last refuge here, in His
providence will be rooted out as the
ares from the wheat, although the
wheat be torn up with it.
have given much thought to this
subject.
came among you by teachings, by
habit of mind, by political position, by
social affini y, inclined to sustain your
domestic laws, if by possibility they
might be, with safety to the Union.
Months Of experience and Of obserDa-
ton haue torced the conviction that the
er'sfence Of slacery is incompatible ruth
the safety tHher Of yourselres or of thp
Union. AS the system has gradually
grown to its present huge dimensions, 1t
were bcsS if it could be gradually re-
moved but it is better. far better, that
II should be taken out at once than that
it should longer vtiate the social, politi-
cal and family relations of your country.
| am speaking with no philanthropic
views as regards the slave, but simply of
the effect Of slavery on the master. See
for yourselves.
look around you and say whether jhis
saddening, deadcning influence has not
all but destroyed the very frame work of
your society.
| am speaking the farewell words of
one who has shown his devotion to his
country, at the peril Of his life and for
tune, who in these words can have neither
hope nor interest, save the good of those
whom he addresses; and let me here
repeat, with all the solemnity of an ap.
peal to Heaven to bear me witness, ihat
such are the views forced upon me by
experience.
Come, then, to the unconditional sup
port of the Government. Take in o
your own hands your own institutions
remodel them according to the laws of
nations and of God, and thus attain that
great prosperity assured to you by geo.
graphical position, only portion of
which was heretofore yours.
BENZ. II. BUTLER"
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RESISTANCE OF PAPER TO SHOT. -
Experiments rccen ly made in England
prove that paper pasteboard better re-
slsts shot from cannon than hard teak
wood. Two targets were construc ed
with one-inch plate iron-the one backed
by fourteen inches of teak wood, the
other backed by the same thickness of
pasteboard. They were fired at with a
Wlltworth six-pounder, using elongated
shot 81 inches in length and "a in diam
etcr, and the penetration was found to
be twice as great in the timber backed
target than it was in the paper ONE
The targets were then fired at with a
l2-pounder, and with like results. The
resistance of pas,cboard to shot has
attracted so much attention on the other
side Of the atlantic that further expert
nIcnts are to be made with it,
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HOMESTEAD LAw.-On the LIST of
January, the new homestead law took
effect For fit cen dollars man can
secure 100 acres Of government land by
this act.
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EDUCATIONAL.
ELkTGN ACADEMY.

FEES PER QUARTER, III weeks. J
JUNIOR DEPARTMENT.
Elementary English, S. %
SECOND DEPARTMENT.
Higher English, $50
THIRD DEPARTMENT..
Latin, q 30
SENIOR DEPARTMENT..
Greek, Surveying, &C.. ST 80
Modern Languages, each .ou
Music, Instrumental, SOD
Vocal, uo
Drawing, 200
Water Color Painting, 3 90
Fuel, &C., for the Season. 30
HENRY W. THORPE. A. NJ,
Principal.
MISS c. W. THORPE,
Preccptrcss.
MRS. Z. L. DUNCAN.
Teacher of Music.
No student received for less than ii Quar-.
ter, and no deduction made for absence,
unless occasioncd by protracted sickness.
April II, 1862.
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GEAbout the hardest case ever heard OF
was murderer named Stone, executed many
years since in Exeter, N. II. Just before the
rope was placed around his neck, he re-
1uested the sheriff to give him mug of ale
The request being promptly attended to, he
took the mug and commence blowing tho
froth from the ale. " What arc you doing
thpt tor - nervonsly asked the sheriff.
{. 10 canse,' returncd the peri ct wretch, g
dvL'l think iroth is healthy
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k0il0ck's Dandelion Coffee.

This rrrparation, mac from the best Java Coffee IL
recommended by Physicans as superior NUTRITIOUS
BEVERAGE for General Debility Dyspe,yia an! all
bilious disorders Thousands nho have been c.,rn,l.j
to abandon the ase If coIco will this without rj ,r
"s effects One Can contains the strength OF tso Pound.
of ordinary coffee. Price 25 cents.
KOLLOCkS LEEIAN.
The rureFt and hest BAKING POWDER known for
making light, sweet aud nutritious Bread and Cahes-
prc. IL cents.
MANUFACTURED sT
Nj. FL. KOLLOCK, Chemist.
Corner of Broad and Chestnut Str,ets, PHIn,nrl,gr,
And Sold by all Druggists and Groce:s.
arl, ls6, -ly
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WANTED,
Locust ! Locust Locust y!

THE undersigned is prepared to purchase
l. Locust Pins, all lengths, for CASH, in
large or small quantities and with rc,rlbIc
parties to arrange for continuous supply
Address, stating prices, and the am juat
that can be furnished.
W. a. LETERING.
CalloNhil Street Wharf.
Dec 80, lSGo-Sw' Philadelphia.
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WRITTEN on THE BACK OF A TREASURY NOTE
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i1ublir affairs.
Gen. Buffers Farewell Address.

Gen. Butler, just before his dcpar, urc,
issued the following eloquent address to
The people of New Orleans
The Portland daily press., 1863-01-07
New Publications.

LINES LEFT OUT: or, Some of the Histories
left out in "Line upon Line" New York ::
Harper & Brothers. Is mo- PIP. 339. For
sale in Boston, by A. Williams & Co., in this
city. by II. Robinson, 81 Exchange street.
The author of "Line upon Line" designed
that volume for an introduction to Sacred His
tory, suited to the capacity of children five or
six years old. These "lines left out" are to be
supplied year or two later, in reviewing the
former book, and still others are in prepara-
ton. There is nothing in this volume like the
Rev. Mr. Frothingham's naughty "Stories from
the Lips of the Teacher" which we noticed
some days ago. This is not work of the i'm
agination founded on the Bible, but veritable
Bible stories transferred to the simple, clear
language, beftting the nursery, without ad-
dition or diminuton.
The Portland daily press., 1863-01-07
intervention.

Yesterday mornings Advertiser reads us
one of those moral essays touching our ''stu-
pidity" and "censurable obliquity," which we
have learned to expect as regularly as the ma
tutinal coffee, and contrive to worry down
with the beverage aforementioned. 1t is the
old story. The editors OF the Press are per-
verse, and won't admit the force of such reas-
oning as appears in the Advertiser from day
to day, or they are stupid aud can't appreciate
il.
We accept frankly the latter alternative
We can neither understand what the Advertis-
er means by suffering the unmanly efforts of
partizan venom" nor by the classification" of
Mr.. Davis's barbarous proclamation, nor by
confounding Intervention with arbitration,
which is its last "efiort of venom" as nearly
as we understand that queer phrase. We are
in favor of neither Intervention nor arbitra-
tion; but If it were necessary TO make a
choice, we should unhestatingy prefer the
latter. There is a very marked difference be-
tween them, let the Advertiser understand
The initiative of arbitration belongs to us the
Initiative Of Intervention would be taken by
foreign powers. We are not prepared for
either. 1t is because we love peace that we
would fain see it set on foundations of ada
mant, when this war ends no transparent
sham, fit only to amuse children and idiots
but reality worth the gigantic efforts of the
nation to attain it. We must conquer peace.
1t cannot be bought, nor procured by any deg
radiation of alject beggary.
The Portland daily press., 1863-01-07

Letter from Boston.

Emancipation Jubilee, and Emancipation
Concert-Sal,tte of an hundred gtns-Bos-
ton Daily Crodker-Chimes IN the CITY, etc.
BosToN, Jan. 4, 1868.
How odd it seems to write 3 instead of in
the date of letter. The coming of the new
year was celebrated in several ways, besides
the usual call-making and bell-ringing; for
among other things we had two great emanci-
patton meetings. One of these was held in
fremont Temple, under the immediate ausp
ces of the Garrisonians and negroes. Phillips
was advertised to speak, both in the afternoon
and evening; but as the President was not so
good as TO send on a special copy of his proc
lamation, Mr.. Phillips would not address the
audience. He was evidently fearful lest the
entanglements at Washington might have him
dered President Lincoln from taking this step
forward A good many pretty voluble ne
groes and white men addressed the assembly,
Mr. Fred Douglas being one of the most in
teresting among the speakers. The Temple
was unpleasantly dark during the whole of
the convention" as it was called. The con-
cert at Music Hall was on different plan,
and met with deserved success. DIR. Holmes,
one of the men who called the meeting to-
gether, gave two more stanzas to his army
hymn, and this, together with other anthems
and jubilant songs, lent much interest to the
impressive occasion. In both meetings Gov.
Saxton's address to the North Carolinians was
read amid the most deafening cheers.
On Saturday salute Of one hundred guns
uaS fraI on ba Common bv command of
Gov. Andrew, in honor of the proclamation.
As usual the Courier, or Croaker, or what
ever the dismal sheet which emanates from the
basement of the old State House, is called,
now thinks the government is on its last legs.
The lugubrious strain Of the Croaker is as
amusingly solemn as that of the New York
"World." Never can high price of paper, or
type, or anything else, cause that doleful sheet
to cease its fault-flnding.
There are three sets of chimes which 1 can
hear from my window. One of these tunes
comes from DIR. Gannett's church on Airing
ton street, another from the befry on Salem
street. The latter was finely played on Christ
mas eve, and on New Years night, when it
rang the new year in. The third of these
chimes consists of three bells. Thus it is that
the "Church of the Advent" on Green street
calls its worshippers to service, and one must
confess that the tweedle-de-dum of the bell
triplet is anything but devotional. Imagine
tune executed on three keys of "a piano; think
of an air breathed from three holes in an ac-
cordeon; conceive the effect. .Ra-,ni-do.- ra-
mi-do, -a-mi-e-e-e-do-o-o-o," that's the
music And that is our third chime, which l
referred to. But the sound of the bells is not
quite so monotonous to one standing in the
entry or aisles Of the church; for there you do
not hear them so plainly. So much for the
Green street trinity of naturalization.
A cold shudder ran through our city yester-
day, as the sad news of the laundering of the
Monitor came over the wires Disaster after
disaster. When shall the clouds fee away and
the dawn come? MoxIE.
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Important Judicial Decision,

At the late term of the S. j. Court in Bath,
missioners, requiring them to reverse their de-
cision in relation to the election for Register
of Deeds for Sagadahoc, and give certificate
of election TO Albert 7. Thompson instead OF
Henry M. Bovey, TO whom they had given
such certificate. 1t seems that certain num-
which, added to those given for Albert T..
Thompson, would make plurality, but the
County Commissioners decided that they had
no right to count the votes as for the same per-
son, and gave the certificate of election to Mr.
Bovey, in accordance with this decision. The
petition of Mr.. Thompson was designed to
have this action reversed, as he was prepared
to prove by many individuals in different
towns, that, in voting for A. I. they intended
to vote for Albert I. Thompson. Judge Dick
erson decided that mandamus could not lie
against the County Commissioners; that they
could be required to receive evidence that the
returns certified to them did not correspond
with the records of the election, but if such re-
turns did agree with the records there was an
end ofthe matter, and nothing remained for
the Commissioners but to give certificate of
election accordingly. They could not count
votes for different names, for the same person,
and they had no right to presume that initials
meant the same as full name.
This decision is important, in showing the
people and officers of towns that, for county
officers, it is important to have the names
uniform, as By voting for a man by his initials
the vote cannot be counted with those which
contain his full name.
The Portland daily press., 1863-01-07

merchandise that has undergone more violent and
rapid huctuaton. created more excitement In this
market the past year, than Tobacco As an article
of speculation, Tobacco has afforded a convenient
and fayorite investment for surplus capital and the
stocks held throughout the country, have been in
the aggregate quite arge until the high rate of for
eign exchange induced large shipments to foreign
markets. as source upon which to draw bills of ex-
ehange On the first of January 1862 the prices of
pest 5s and los ranged at 80 &c., and common 23a
zoe but with the forbidding prospects of future
supples and the rapid diminution of prices leading
esers Withheld their stocks Fl ON market for specu
laloh carry IN February, when gradual and steady
ADVANCE commenced. And on the first of October
all grades haa more than doubled in price with an
active ana excled market which preyaed with
prices constantly increasing until the best brands
reached as high as 10aI5c on the Ist of Novambor
when the market became more settled and nr;ce.
have since ruled steady. there being but little aciyi
ty at this season.
FREIGHTS.-The following engagements bava
been made since last: Bark Phena 400 tops1 ont
TO Matanzas and back. for 81. .400 bark Mary q Eox
for Cardenas, at 25c for box shocks; brig Russian
for Havana. at 30c for boxes; brig Marshal Dutch
out to Trinidad and back, at "a for molasses brig
Seafoam to Havana. at &c for box shocks; brig AZ.
mon Rowell to Cardenas at CSC on boxes; sch Mar
acalbo out to port north side and back, ut So rs
moasses; sch c. Mathews. out TO Sagua and back at
S3I5; sch George Deering to Cardenas or Matan-
zas at round sum of $500, and bark Helen Maria to
Cardenas, at 25c for box shocks.
The Portland daily press., 1863-01-07
Doings of the missouri Legislaturo.

JEFF ERsON 1If1, Jan. D.
The following resolution was offered in the
House to-day, and vas referred to the Com
inittee on Federal Relations:
Resotoed by the House, the Senate concur
ring, That the proclamation issued by Pres
ident Lincoln on the 22d of September, and
the supplementary proclamation on the 1st OF
January, will inaugurate the most important
epoch in America history, aud meeting our
full endorsement, we earnestly and respect
fully urge its rapid enforcement, and will use
our best endeavors to sustain it.
In the Senate, a joint resolution to memo
ralize Congress to carry out the original as
sessment order against the secessionists was
introduced.
The Portland daily press., 1863-01-07

as the Price-Current says, meaning the same
thing; but the fish bought in this market IN
1862 would be fairly estimated at something
over half million of dollars. One firm sold
over 5000 packages to go to Montreal, Detroit,
Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and other points
at the West. Over 800 sail of fishermen are
fitted out here. The trade in fresh and salt
fish, like almost every other branch of business
during this year which opened with such
gloomy forebodngs, has exhibited marked
increase.
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The Siege of Vicksburg-The Attack by the
Union Forces.

AAlhO, Jan. y.
The following dispatch from Johnson's
Landing, seventeen miles up the Yazoo River,
Dec. 9th, has been received:
The expedition reached this point yester-
day, and the troops debarked last night, under
cover OF the gunboats, in safety, and marched
inland, TO get in the rear Of the enemy, this
morning. A force has been occupied to-day
in building bridges to get to the position.-
Gen. Sherman has issued orders TO move on
the Bluffs commanding Vicksburg tomorrow.
4 4. M.-There is every prospect OF success.
The gunboats shelled the batteries at Hame's
Bluff to-day for an hour and quarter, with
Indifferent success.
The enemy have seven batteries of heavy
rifed guns on each of those bluffs. The bulk
of the rebel army is reported to comprise four
teen thousand men.
The supporting floating batteries will drop
out of the Yazoo river probably tomorrow
with the gunboats, and shell Vicksburg in
front.
Admiral Farragut and General Banks are
hourly expected below. The enemy have
news OF their approach.
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PECIAL NOTICES.

DEAFNESS CURED.-Mrs. NJ G. Brown will be at
the Preble House for one week
remarkable case of deafness cured in twenty four
hours by Mrs. NJ. g. Brown Professor on the Eve
and Ear and proprietor of Poor Richards Eye Water
81, Bartlett j. Dccoster, No Halls Court, Port
land give this certificate. to certify that have been
deaf from child and for twelve years past have
been quite deaf. have spent hundreds of dollars.
without receiving any benefit whatever. Last Sat-
urday went to the Preble House and made arrange
ments for Mrs. b. to treat me for deafness. In "a
hours after her first application could hear every
voice in the house. stand in the cellar and
hear the clock tick in the paror. Grateful to God
for his great deliverance, l heartily commend her
mode of treatment to all who suffer as have done
Every kind of diseased and weak eyes, also Catarrh
healed, and cure warranted. Charges moderate
MRS. NJ. G. BROWN,
Nov. 1S-f 4l0 Arch ST., Philadelphia
The Portland daily press., 1863-01-07
BY TELEGRAPH
The Battle at Murfreesboro' = Capture of
Clarksville.

The Battle at Murfreesboro' = Capture of
Clarksville.
NEW YORK, Jan. @.
The Tribune has the following special dis
patch:
Battlefield, Stone Rirer, Jan. 5.-0n Sat
urday it rained and all was quiet until night,
when the Sd Ohio and SSth Indiana regiments
charged and carried rebel breastwork, cap
turing fifty prisoners and killing many rebels,
with slight loss. During the night the rebels
evacuated, and are supposed to be retreating
to Fayetteville. Our loss in killed and wound
ed is about 5000. The enemy claim that they
captured about 1000 prisoners. Their loss is
fully as great as ours. Our loss OF valuable
field officers is distressing.
Con Wiilich is prisoner The rivers are
all rising rapidly.
The Murlreesboro' Rebel of the I'd, admits
a rebel loss of 5000 in Wednesdays battle
They have lost at least 1900 since.
Prisoners state that the rebel Gems. Hardee
and Hanson were killed.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 6.
The Press of this city has Nashville dis
patch which says that all the bridges in East
Tennessee have been burned; that Gen. Bruce
has re-captured Clarksville, Tenn, and taken
a number OF prisoners, and 800 barrels Of -four
which he sends here; and that the river is
rapidly rising.