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A FTER an extensive practice Of upwards oftwen
N ty wears continues to Patents in the Unit
ed States; also in Great Britain France. and other
foreign countries. Caveats. Specifications, Bonds
Assignments and all Papers Drawings for fatents
executed on liberal terms, and with despatch. Re-
searches made into American or Foreign works. to
determine the validity or utility OF Patents or lnven-
tions-and legal or other advice rendered in all mat
tiers touching the Copies Of he claims % any
Patent furnished by RENTING One Dollar. Assign
ments recorded nj Washington.
The Agency Is not only the largest in New Eng
land but through il inventors have advantages for
securing Patents of aseertanng the patentabity of
Inventions unsurpassed by, II not immeasuraby SUI
perior to- any which can be offered them elsewhere
The Testimonials below given prove that none IL
MORE SUCCESSFUL AT THE PATENT OFFICE
than the subscriber; and rs SUCCESS is THE BEST
PROOF OF ADVANTAGES AND ABILITY, he
would add that he has abundant reason TO believe.
and can prove, that at no other Office OF the kind
are the charges for professional services moderate
The immense practice of the subscriber during twen-
ty years past has enabled him to accumulate vast
collection of specifications aud official decisions rela-
i've TO patents.
These besides hi extensive library oflesal and
mechanical full accounts OF patents grant
in the United states and Europe render MIN able,
beyond question TO offer superior facilities Tor OBJ
All necessity OF journey to Washington to pro-
cure patent. and the usual great delay there, are
here saved inventors.
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INSUR lance.
CONDENSED STATEMENT
or IRE
City Fire Insurance Go, ,

OF HARTFORD, CONN,
To the Secretary the State Of Mcinc, Noe LIST 1858
CAPITAL STOCK, paid up, is. $3.50, 900 90
Surplus over Capital. 225 20
1852 shares Bank Stocks, market value S173.45S 90
10 Brooklyn City Water Bonds, 90 IL, 100 90
Hartford City Bonds, $40 90
Connecticut State Bonds, $500 90
Other City and State Bonds $500 90
Railroad Stocks and Bonds, 1900 90
United States Stocks and Bonds, =" 1900 90
Loans ON mortgages ofreal estate, " SO, SOS 20
pledge of bank and other stocks,
market value 2s,eos 90
Accrued interest on investments, 1858 90
Cash on hand and in banks, b,697 40
Cash in hands Of agents and in transit IL, los 90
Personal property in Office, 1895 81
Total assets, sSs5, 225 20
LIABILITIES
Losses adjusted and due, None.
/" and not due. sl,6ss 20
reported and waiting proof ll,4H Is
C. b. BOWERS, President.
WM. J.. BAKER, Secretary.
State Of Coma, Hartford County, Nov. LIST, 1868.
Z. DoDD, Notary Public.
W.. d. LITTLE, Agent,
Office 81 Exchange Street.
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York & Cumberland Railroad.
WINTER ARRANGEMENTS.

The 400 z. NJ. train out and the $50 A. N. train
into Portland will be Freight Trains with Passenger
Cars attached
Fares cents less when tickets purchased at
the Office than when paid in the
Oct. %, 1863 dtf DAN CARPENTER, Sup't.
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JOHN W. MUNGER C SON, Agents,
No. I66 Fore ST.. head of Long wifi,
uov9l pORTJANn NJ
RETURN OF THE
Howard Fire Insurance COmpany


OF BOSTON, MASS,
On the LIST day Of Norsaber, 1863
Amount OF Capital, stockholders unanim.
ously voted TO Immediately increase the
capital to S2gO,0cOl Sl06. 100 90
Amount al risk 3,2lS G6S 0S
oil premiums received thereon, 3D,o53 Al
Investments at market ralue.
Loans amply secured by mortgages Of real
estate, $3.50 &c
Loans amply secured by pledge of stocks, % 1888 90
lS2 shares Appleton Bank, Lowell, Mass, 10 $50 o.
10 Prescott :" l,120 %
Is Lowell " 1850 90
80 81 Pemberton Lawrence, " $3.50 90
20 Bay State +" l,6Oo 90
so Bank of Commerce, Boston" $3.50 90
90 :" ' No. America, d" " 5000 90
90 Howard Bank, +" {" 5000 90
30 Safety Fund " 500 90
20 Eliot " " 2020 90
80 Lowell& Lawrence Railroad $500 90
So Stony Brook 5,460 90
10 Merrimack Manurg Co. Lowell, 10000 90
q" Washington Mills, Lawrence, 1890 90
I: ). 500 Bonds, 26.000 90
U. s. Bonds per cent, due 1881, $50 90
Accrued interest on L. S. Bonds, $50 90
Balances Of agents accounts, l,s47 9s
sl65,Gss 80
Liabilities
Losses reported upon which the liability of
the company is not determined So, 500 90
j. W. DANIELS President.
EPHRAiM BROWN, Secretary.
JOHN w. MUNGER, Agent.
No. l66 Fore Street, head Of Long Wharf,
noy24 PORTLAND, ME.
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Eclectic Medical Infirmary

TO THE LADIES.
nR. HUGHES particularly invites all Ladies who
~ need medical adviser to call at his rooms, No.
Temple Street. which they will find arranged for
their especial accommodation.
DR.. HIS Eclectic Renovating Medicincsare unriyal
led in efficacy and superior virtue in regulating all
Female Irregularities. Their action IL specific and
certain of producing relief in short time.
LADIES will find ii invaluable in all cases of OBJ
structions after all other remedies have been tried in
vain Ii is purely vegetable. containing nothing in
the least injurious the health, and may be taken
with perfect safety at all times.
Sent to any part of the country with full directions
by addressing DR.. HUGHES,
No. Temple Street, corner of Middle, Portland.
E.B.-LADIES desiring may consult one ofthelr
ownsex. Alady of experience In constant attend
anoe. iulldawtfS
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STEAMBOATS,.
international Steamship Co.
EASTP0RT, CALAIS d ST. JOHN.
One Trip a Week !
r A II T. s

s1xne The Steamer NEW ENeLA sp, Cant,
k4RSzAzi. L. Field. viii leave Railroad Wharf
foot of State ST., every Monday at
6o'clock T. NJ, for PASSPORT and ST. John
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TEsTt NONl LS
"Iresard Mr.. Eddy as one ofthe most capable and
IA practitioners with whom have had on
cssiintercour.e' CHARLES MASON,
Commissioner of Patente-
IL have no hesitation in assuring inventors that
they cannot employ a person more competent and
trBstrorthg and more capable of putting their APP
plcations in form to secure for them an early aud
favorable consideration at the Patent Once"
EDMUND BURKE,
Late Commissioner of Patents.
"Mr r. H. Eddy has made for me I THIRTEEN ap-
pcations on all but of which patents have been
Granted and that Is Roir pending. Such unmisfak-
able proof of great talent and ability on n. psfs
leads me to recommend all inventors 70 Apply 70 nim
~ nyoeure their patents they be sure OF nav
inr the most faithful attention bestowed on their
eases and at very reasonable charges;
Dnringeight months, the subscriber In course OF
his large practice made tsgiss rejected appicS-
lions, SIXTEEN APPEALS, ~ An r vNE ~ was ts
Prtents- - ~ ADHS
isnssediy
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JOHN w. MUNGER,
No. 1853 Fore St.. head of Long Wharf.
Portland, Maine
tebq me limeod wstsa
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The Great American Company.
TWENTIETH ANNUAL STATEMENT
or THE
Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
OF NEW YORK,
Nov. lst 1868, TO the Secretary of State.


Accumulated Fund. observation-disclosures 50, ae5 $50 OF
INVESTED AS FOLLOWS, VIZ:
Cash on hand and In bank, S45S, 262 OF
United States stocks, 4,670,ss3 SO
Bonds and mortgages of real estate, 4,175,26s IS
Real estate ownei by company, cost 323, 1853 10
Balances due from agents, 142s0 os
Interest accrued not due, l11.lI6 90
'' due and unpaid. 1903 90
Deferred quarterly and semi-annual
premiums, $4,000 90
Premiums due and unpaid and in transit, % COZ 81
Total assets Nov. l. 1868, 50 1856, $50 OF
Premium Notes, None.
Liabilities, None
F.S. WINSTON, President.
J.ABBoTT, Secretary.
State ~ New York, City and County Of " York, IS
Sworn and subscribed 10 before me,
RICHARD A. McCURDY, Notary Public.
Portland Office 49, 81 Exchange Street.
w. ID. LITTLE, Agent.
ALI persons contemplating Life Insurance, should
look into the system and advantages of this great
Benevolent Institution, before insuring elsewhere.
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IN S u r A n c. E.
r. E II II .R NJ
Manufacturers Insurance Co.,
OF BOSTON,
on THE FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER 1ses.

l. State the name of the Company. Man
ufacturers Insurance Company
2. Where located? Boston
3. When incorporated, 1927
I. Amount Of Capital. $4,000
5. 3" L" actually paid inn 100000
8. Number of shares. and par value of
eachY 4000-Sl00
!. Amount of fire risks outstanding? s,OS9, 1873
8. a. marine risks % Is 669 OILS
9. Total amount of outstanding risks? % 75s ass
10. Amount of United States stock or trea.
sHry notes owned by the Company
State amount of each kind and par val
ne and market value of each $780, 600
United States Bonds Z $40 loan par
value $50 000-market val. per sh SfO6 10000
IL. Amount of State stocks, State amount
Of each kind, and par value and mar.
ket value of each
IL. Amount of bank stockss State amount
of each kind. and par value and
ket value of each
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The above Steamers connect at ST. John with Eu-
ropean and North American Railroad for all stations
to Shediac, and from thence with Steamer " est
moreland for Bedeque and ChGrlotctown J.. n. L.,
and Pictou, Ms, and with the Steamer Emperor for
windsor and Halifax, Nova Scotia, and with steam
eIs for Fredericton Also at PASSPORT with stage Tor
Machias, and with Steamer Queen for Calais and ST.
Andrews, and at the latter place with n. Il. & c.
Railroad for Houlton aud Woodstock stations.
Through tickets will be sold OH board BY the clerk
or at the agents office.
Returning, viii leave st. John every Thursday, at
O'Clock A: NJ, for Eastport, Portland and Boston.
No camphene, turpentine, oil of vtriol, other
explosive burning fluid, or materials which ignite by
friction, taken by this line.
Positively freight not received after P. N. Mon
days and Thursdays. For further information APP
ply to c. C. EATON, Agent
nov26 Railroad Wharf, Portland, Me.
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ATL ANT
Mutual Insurance Company,
81 waiIst., (cor. of William New York,
January 37th 1863
Insurance against Marine and In
land Navigation Risks.

Insurance against Marine and In.
land Navigation Risks.
Assets. over Seven Million Dollars.
VIZ
United States and State of New York
Secured 81
Real Estate and Bonds and Mortgages 233 56O 90
Dividends on Stocks. Interest ON Bonds
and Mortgages aud other Loans, sundry
Notes. reinsurance aud other claims
due the Company, estimated at 122 8Ss &c
Premium Notesand Bills Receivable, 2,4saOs2 50
Cash in Bank, 237,4o2 -
$780, s4s4
eY-Thc whole Profits OF the Company revert Z
the ASSURED, and are divided ANNUALLY, upon the
Premiums terminated during the year. and for which
CertifcatesareIssucd. BEARING INTEREST. until re-
deemed.
Dividend Jan. eth, 1863, 40 per ct.
The Profits of the Company. ascertained
from the LIST of July, 1872, to the LIST of
January 1862. for which Certificates
were issued. amount to si2.7ss. 80
January, 1865. l,74oooo
To,alproat. for 2oI years, sI4,4ss.Tso
The Certificates previous to 1861, have
been redeemed BY cash. lo,37s.sso
TRUST
John d. Jones, a. +. Pilot, Jos. Gaiard, Jr..
Charles Dennis. Leroy N; Wiley. Z. Henri Bury.
Thos Tileston, s. T. Nicoll, c. A. Hand
Henry Colt, josh Henry Watts sherman,
VIC. Pickersgill, Geo g .Hobson, y. Z. Morgan,
Lewis Curtis, David Lane Il. j. Rowland,
Chss. H. Russell. james Bryce. Benz. Babcock,
Lowell Holbrook, VIM. Sturgis Jr, FletcherWesfray,
+. A Hargous, II. N. Bogert, X. b. Mitturn .Jr.,
Never Cans. A. A. Low, CIV Burnham,
Royal Phelps, VIM. Z. Dodge, Fred. Chauncey,
Caleb Barstow. Dennis Perkins, James Low.
JOHN ID. JONES. President.
CHARLES DENNIS. Vice President
With MOORE, I'd Vice Pres't.
sy-Application sforwarded and OPEN PoLIcIE
procured by
JOHN w. MUNGER,
No. 168 Fore St.. head of Long Wharf,
Portland, Maine
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JOHN w. MUNGER, Agent.

No. l66 Fore Street, head of Long Wharf,
noy24 PORTLAND, Me-.
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STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
Springfield Fire and Marine Ins. Co.,

OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS,
On the first day of November. 1863 in conformity
with the Laws of the State OF Maine.
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i. j. BACON, Secretary.
Portland Office, I66 Fore st.
JOHN W. MUNGER & SON, Agents.
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SUFFOLK SIS, November 30, 1868.
Personally appeared Samuel Gould President. and
James j. Goodrich, Secretary of the above Compa-
n.y. and severaly made oath that the above state
ment, by them subscribed, is in their belief true
Before me, TREo STANwooD,
Justice of the Peace.
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OF HARTFORD, CONN,
To the Secretary Qfthe State Of MGine, Noe LIST 1868
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-01-28
ya,ue Of Sheen TO the Farmer.


Sheep are profitable To the farmer, not
only from thu protiueL If wool and NUT
ton, hut from the tendency which their
keeping has to improve and enrich his
land for all agricultural purposes. They
do this:
/. By the consumption Of food refused
by other. animals, in summer; turning
waste vegetation to use, and giving rough
and buShy pastures a.sno"lher appear
ancr, and.in time eradii:ating wild pIants
So that g'nnl grasses and white clover
may take their place. In this respect,
sheep are of superior value to pastures
un soils too steep or stony for the plow.
In winter, the cnars-r parts of the hay,
refused by horses and COWS, are readily
ea!en by sheep, while other stocks will
generally eat most of that left by these
animals.
For these reasons, among others, no
grazing tarn should be without at least a
small flock of sheep-fHr it has been
found that as large !. number of cattle
and horses cam he kept with rs without
them, and without any injury to the farm
for other purposes. a small flock we
said-perhapS half Il dozen to each horse
and COW would he the proper proportion.
A variety of circumstances would inAn.
cnce this point; such as the character of
the ln.>turuge and the proportion of the
same fitted and desirable for tillage.
2. Sheep enrich land by the lnanuiac-
ture OF considerable quantities of excel
lent manure. A f. nler of long exprri-
cnce in sheep huSbandry, thou. ht there
WAS no manure 50 fertIising as that of
sheep, and (of which there is no doubt,)
that none dropped by the animal upon
the land suffered so little by waste from
cxpms,lre. a German agricultural wri-
ter has calculated that the droppings Of
one thousand sheep during single night,
would manure an acre sufficiently for any
crop. BY using portable fence, and
moving the same from time to time, n
farmer misht manure distant field with
sheep, at less expense than that of cart
ing and spreading barn manure.
The value of sheep to the farmer is
much embarrassed by due attention to
their wants. Large locks kept together
are seldom profitable. while small assort-
ed tlocks always pay we'll, if fed ss they
should be. To get good Aeeces o;' wool
and large healthy lambs from poor neg
lectcd sheep, is impossible. 1t is also
true. that the expense of keeping is often
least with the Aocks thst are always kept
in good condition. The eye and thought
of the owner are far more necessary than
large AMI irregular supplies of fodder.
Division of the flock and shelter, with
straw and a little grain, will bring them
through TO spring pastures in far better
order than if kept together, with double
rations of hay. one.haIf of which is vast
ed by The stronger animals, while The
weak of the flock pick up but scanty
living, and oftentimes fail to get that
through the whole winter.
We commend this subject 10 the con,
sideraton of our correspondence is
one which needs greater attention on the
part Of the farming pubIic.-Ficld Il
Fircside
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Hog Raising.

We know of no business more profita-
table, on SO small Il capital. Our people
are happily situated and ought to avail
themselves of lhe rich harvest that will
continue to await the man Of energy III
this business.
The pork business Of the great North
Yves, has taken millions of dollars from
the South and now that that source of
supply has been cut OF, VT think that all!
that portion of the Couicdcracy denoln-
mated the Bread States ought at once
to exert their energies to produce thoso
things on Which the cotton planters are
to live.
Among snch necessary articles, none
will he found more profitable than hog
raising. Not as it has been generally
practiced. But We will endeavor to state
the system so as to be understood.
|. Get from two to six good breeders.
Have them of good stock; long and
large, with Il tendency to rouldness If
you would select good breeder from
pigs, select the one that has the most tcat..
3. When yoa have young pigs, d. not
lei them starve "n the supply furnished
by their continual y weakening mother.
Feed them on dough. rnriSh. kitchen <lop,
corn and clover whc'l 81 all practicable
Change from one diet to another, subsi-
tutiny buttermilk ailJ boiled vegetables,
IS often as circumstances require. This
will be deemed expensive and some will
prefer the an,!.pike, razor-Jack looking
hogs to large, plump, round, intelligent.
looking porkers. We would prefer that
the pigs have al. open lot and access to
water, rather than thus carly pen them.
5. When you would lattcl your hogs
for market, select such rs are most thrift.
ty and place them in u close pen. Give
them just what they will eat and no more,
having about half the pen sheltered and
thcll by cleaning the pen every day (and
the manure thus saved will be worth
large porkcr or two, and supplying them
with water and suit and small quantity
of turpentine in some form, or sulphur,
You may count on good hogs.
But donot raise too many. 1t is easier
and cheaper to make ten hogs weigh 5000
lbs. at Is months old, than it is to make
20 weigh the same at 3 years old.
We would be pleased to have some
contributions on this subject, from some
of our practical farlnrrs.-Western North
Carolinian.
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Depth for Burying Manure.

Men are divided as to the proper depth
of burying manure. Some hold that it
sinks in the soil, is washed downward by
the teaching rains, and should therefore
be applied near or at the surface. 9th.
crs assert that its volatile and most vau.
able parts rise by fermentation, and that
consequently it should he buried deep.
Nav it usually happens when doctors
disagree tLat both are partly right and
wrong: but in the present instance, they
are both little in the right, and great
deal in the wrong.
Manure usually stays very nearly where
1t is put: If buried near the surface, it
remains near the surface; if buried deep.
Mt,> it rsrnuins if plowad under III large
humps, il hss but littlc power to rise, sink,
or il, any other way to inertnix itself.
and hence the reason that thorough pull
,erils,ion or harrnwng before manure is
turned under, gives u result in large
crops.
ihe power which clay has to absorb
the fer,ilizng portions of manure, is very
great. Soils which possess a medium
amount of clsy or loan, with medium
degrse of lenacity, will absord all that is
valuable in ordinary yard manure, equal
TO nearly their own bulk. Forty loads
Of manure to the acre, form heavy coat
ing; yet this is only one load to four
SQUARE rods, constituting depth, when
spread, of only one.third of an inch. Con
seouently, when coating of forty loads
to the acre ia plowed under. the volatile
parts have only to pass one-third of an
inch or SO, before they are all absorbed
by the soil. Hence the error Of suppos-
in. they can possibly, in ordinary soils.
rise or sink to any practicable depth. And
hence also, the great importance of NIX.
iny manures very intimately through all
psr,s of the soil, if plants are to get their
full benefit, and not to be over-fed ut one
mar, Of their roots and starved at another.
Tuero arc many proofs of the correct
ness of the position here taken. We have
mile large piles Of compost, consisting of
on. ,hird rich stable manure, and two.
tb.,,:s of loan and turf, yet all the odor
wa. completely retained, and not the
sl;,,.est portion passing Oft could be per-
csir d by the smell. We have hurled
loru, lead snimals with d coating of only
a;, inches of losn not the faintest indi
oa,;op Of the decomposition below ever
rucbpJ the surface. On the other hand,
.ha v,,;l which forms the bottom ofmanure
~,,,,s is not found even within few
..h.s ,f the surface to be at all enriched
~ the piles Of fertility which rest upon it.
The true rule for burying manure, Is to
,,o,e it lust ut such depth in the soil as
! ihe roots of the crop usually extend,
.shIoh s will vary with different plants.
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Some of the grasses, FIR instance. form
turf very near the surface. and hence All
q .tulnn tnp.dressing ~illsoak i'll enough Il"
benefit them essentially. Glover roots
run deeper, and this crop is consequently
bat little benefited by t"p.drcssings " hen
of much size, except so far a< they one.
rate in keeping tho surface maist. The
roots Of fruit trees are still deeper, ard
derive but little advantage except from
nlui,lrts well sImdtd or worked in. They
lnwcrrr possess III important advantage
over ann,als anl perennial rmler plants; !;
hy continuing III growth Tor successive
yrars, those roots which happen 10 run
into The region of fertility. soon lhrow
nut numerous fbres, and secure an
aunnun, If nnurishment, OF which annual
plants, in consequence ut' their more linn
itrd pnwrr$ of extension, are not able to
avail themselves.
There are, however. not many crops
which dn not need The full depth afforded
iy ordi,!ary blowing; and hence the best
practice ii.r nearly alI kinds of culture, is
10 spread the manure well, harrow it
most Thoroughly, in order to break it as
incly as possible anlat the same time to
mix it intimately with the surlAce then
,nrn it under by ordinary plowlng, aud
the lower half of the inverted earth will
i,rni>h's thoroughly enriched he'd for the
roots 10 penetrate. II IL greater depth OF
fertility is needed than ordinary plowing
affords, the r,mt of narrowed manure may
be thrown under ten or twelve inches hy
means of Il double munl1boarl or Mich.
g..n plow ANA thcn another coat of ma.
nure srread narrowed and pI"wed under
by light ar gang pillow. The young
pants of the crop are thrown rapidly for
ward by the upper stratum Of manure, and
a; Il later stage Of growth. are equally
stimulated by the lower stratum.