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The Portland daily press., 1864-05-23

Rf virtue of license from tho Judge of Probate
- of Cumberland County. 1 sh All seli At public
auction on Tuesday, June 81. 1894 at two oc.uck r.
d on The premises the following de- c. real e.
tate belonging to the estate Of Marx late OF
bridgton, IN said county Of Cumberland, deceased,
ana described In the In enfory OF said estate as fol-
lows - Parssof 10 snumbered eleven In Ill fourth
thirty acres. purchased of b.. X. Iarsiey.'F kaid
land u situated about half mile iron the village
has on II moving fields containing about ~ elys
acres, nearly wall in,-aSout nine acres pastur-
ing-snd the taiaL . covered with fine growth Of
wood aud timber.
Terms II sale. one balfcash, balance In one year
with interest and good personsl security
LEVI CRAM, Administrator.
Bridgton, May 10, 1854 dmay2lIrsw
The Portland daily press., 1864-05-23
AUCTION SALES
House and LotoeLand ., a-..,.-

w snail sen 81 auction on Thursday, Msy as.b.
" .. Sie OK r. n. ON The pi ernires fhe han.
on sherDrook street, owned by s. r. Leayeft n
va va thirteen nniss ed rooms. Gas, Hard and SON
brick eis,ern s oesl With eemented door and
and convenient Ia and about the house 49,
Also House. Lot adjoiningon tho corner ofgher-
Fenced little cltar-terms easy
,o, HENRY BAILEY & CO.. Aretioneers.
The Portland daily press., 1864-05-23
EnaacinI.
WASHINGTON, May 2

I'm, WASHINGTON, May ~.
Inc subscriptions TO the 1910 loan for the
week, as reported at the Treasury Department
amounted to s5,6O0,000; total 20 date s54,-
1900.
The Portland daily press., 1864-05-23
TO THE AFFLICTED
DIR. w. N. DEFINING,
Medical Electrician.
No. m CIapp's Block,

MOULD respectfully announce to the citizens Of
w Portland and vicinity, that he has permanent
ly located in this city. During the eleven months
that have been in torn We have cured some Of
the worst forms Of disease in persons who have tried
other forms of treatment In vain. and curing pa
TENTS In so short time that the question Is often
asked do they stay euredg To answe this question
we will say that all that do not stay ed, we will
doctor the second time for nething.
Dr. ID. has been practical Electrician Il twenty.
one years, aud 10 also regular graduated ysiciLn
Electricity Ia perfectly adapted 20 chronic diseases
In the form OF nervous or sek headache; neuralgia
In the head. neck extremties; consumption when
in the acute stages or where the lungs not fully
involved acute chronic rheumatism, scrofula, hip
diseases, white dwellings, spinal diseases curvature
OF the spine. contracted muscles, distorted limbs,
palsy paralysis St. vitas Dance. deafness STAN
merng or hesitsney Of speech. dyspepsia. indiges-
every that can be presented asthma, bronchi-
tbs, STRUCTURES Of the chest, and al forms Of female
oompisints.
The Portland daily press., 1864-05-23
ny E1eCtr1c1ty

Ky "leCCr1C4G
The Rheumatic the equity, the lame and the iasy
leap with Joy and with the agility and elastio-
ity Of youth; the heated brain is cooled the frost
bitten lmbs restored, the uncoufh deformities re-
moved; faintness converted to vigor weakness TO
strength tho blind made sce the deaf to hear ana
the pelsied form to upright; the blemishes OF
youth obitersted; the accidents Of mature Lite
prevented; the eslsmties Of old age obviAted, and
an active cireuiation maintained.
T. A DIES
Who have cold hands and feet weak stomaehs;
lame and weak backs; nervous and sick headache;
dizziness and swimming In the head, with indiges-
ton and constipation Of the bowels; pain In the side
and back; lenc0rrh@s, Tor whitesl; hliinx Of the
womb with internal cancers; tumors, polypus. and
all that long train os diseases viii ind I'm Electric
ity q means Of cure. For painful menstruation
too profnse menstruaton. snd sn Of those long lire
Of troubles with young ladies' Electricity is certain
specific. and will In short time, restore the sufferer
to the vigor of health.
ave hare Electro CAessical zpparofus fer
extracting Mineral Poison frvm the system such a.
Mercury, kntmony, Arsenic, &C. Hundreds who
are troubled with sfi joints, weak backs and vari-
Gus other difheulties the direct cause Of which, N
nine eases Of ten Is the effect poisonous drurs
oan be restored TO nstnrs strength and vixor By he
nae Of from ave to eight Baths.
Once hours fron o'clock a. =. 70 y.n.jl8
6; and to r. -.
Consultation Free. lylS fsekt
The Portland daily press., 1864-05-23

Silver Street lee House, and Office
No. By Exchange street.
A LII Orders promptly attended to and customers
"A supp led with the best quality OF ICE.
Price Of IceJ for the Season. 1854.
10 lbsa day, IRON June LIST, to Oct LIST, $500
10 :" % a. " SEQ
70 " " z" loco
Forty cents per 100 lbs.
To those who take Ice for the season. IL will be de-
vered earlier than LIST June and later than LIST Oc-
tooer, at the same rate per month during the
son.
When not wanted for the full season, IL will be
delivered the rate of 80 pr month for 10 lbs
per day
Notice of change of residence IL given at the Of
nee in"ead OF the driver, will always prevent dis
appointment
Amy customer leaving town fer two weeks or more
n time by giving notice at the Office will be en-
titled to proper deduction.
Complaints against the driyers, for neglect care
lessnsss or any ether must be made the OIL
flee, and will be attend d TO promptly.
Portland, May 10, 1854. mayl3dTv
The Portland daily press., 1864-05-23
M. G. WEBB & CO.,
Wholesale Dealers in Flour,
NO. 81 COMMERCIAL STREET,
ap14 PORTLAND, ME. diff
Board Wanted,
Horse For Sale.

A VALUABLE Carriage Horse, seven years old
IA kind and sound can travel his twelve miles
per hour will be sold for fault as the owner has
no further use for him. Apply at 1877 Fore street.
maylodtf
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14
A Nation of Pigmies.

In the Bay Of Bengal, on the very
highway of commerce, is a group of
islands thickly covered with impene-
trable jungle, and swarming with
teaches in the the rain, and ticks in
the dry season. Except = species of
pig, until recently unknown to sci
ence, there arc 10 wild animals that
offer any molestation to man but to
make up for this deficiency, the human
inhabitants are the strangest that the
voyagcrs have ever encountered. 1t
may truly be said that they arc ma
ton of pigmies ; being on an average
only four feet five inches high, and
weighing from seventy to seventy.fve
pounds. Although 80 diminutive, they
are well proportional, and display an
agility and nimbleness truly wonder
full.
Their skin is dark, though not so
black as that of the negro, and their
faces decidedly ugly. They wear no
clothing, shave the hair off their heads
with pieces of bamboo or broken bot
tie, and further increase their insight
ly appearance by daubing themselves
all over with mixture of red ochre
and oil or covering themselves at
night with thick covering Of mud, to
serve as. a protection against musqui.
toes, with which they are tormented
the whole year. They are excellent
swimmers, and their principal food is
turtles, oysters and fish. -
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14
Our Congressman.

"Linkensale," the Washington cor
respondent of the Muscatine Journal,
has recently been giving the readers
of that paper a sketch of the six Iowa
Representative in Congress,'in which
he speaks thus Of the Member from
this District
Mr.. Allison, of the Third District, is
the youngest man of the Delegation.
He looks like man of brain, energy
and back bone. If he be not clever
fellow, in the best and highest sense
of that phrase, there is no sense in
looks. He has so much Of the milk
of human kindness in his nature that
if one had lost his reckoning in a
great city and should see Allison in a
crowd of dozen men, he would walk
straight up to him and tell him of his
pcrplexity--so good natured is the
very phiz of the member from the Du-
buque District. He is almost always
smoking, and evidently enjoys his Ha.
vana hugely. The only unmarried
man of the Delegation, he is, of course,
the best dressed man. He is good
speaker, fine lawyer, an entertaining
conversational, an interchangeable work
er, and an adroit politician. He will
do honor to his District, and the State.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14
Military Changes.

Gen. Rosecrans assumes command
Of the Department of Missouri, in
place of Schofield, removed. The rad
ical papers are jubilant over the
change. WI" @.
Gen. Curtis has been appointed to
the command of Kansas, in place of
Ewing, removed. Kansas has been
formed into separate Department.
Maj. Gen. Stoneman has been as
signed to duty as Chief of Cavalry at
the West, and will at once enter upon
the discharge of the duties of his new
position. Major Girard, cavalry Of
ficer of the Southwest, replaces Stone.
man.
Lieut.. Colonel Egan has been made
Chief Quartermaster of the Cavalry
Bureau, vice Sawtelle.
General Burnside assumes command
of the Department of the Ohio, reliev
ing General Foster, who is reported
in bad health. w. r.- ....... ........
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14
No More Slavery.

People say that the war is drawing
to a close /; that cessation of HOSTILE
ties is to be asked for, &c. We hope
it may be so /; but we hope, too, that
those who will have the interest OF
the North i'm their keeping, will insist
on the total abolition of slavery. If
this be not done, what will we have
gained by the war? Allow slavery
to raise its head again, and our efforts
will have been in vain destroy it,
root and branch, without mercy, with
out hesitation destroy it with every
demonstration of horror for its mem
Dry, and we will have gained much by
the war. The unity of the nation will
be preserved, peace will be on as sure
a basis as aught in this world can be,
and other nations will not mock us
when they point at our battleficlds
and say-the men of the North died
in vain. We must have some COM
pensation for the blood and treasure
which we have been forced to spend
this we will find in the abolition of
slavery.-CathOlic Telegraph.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14
Charles City, Iowa, Jan. IA, 1864
The Recent Cold,

Our exchanges, what few we re-
ceive, como to us filled with accounts
of the intense cold which has prevail
ed since the ushering of the New
Year. 1t must be that the musk-rats
and squirrels do know something after
all, Notwithstanding the vast amount
of fun which has been "poked at "
those wise weather-prophets. All
agree that nothing like such weather
has been known for many years. Elk,
treme suffering has been the result
Many have persisted in different pla-
ces, having been bcnumbed with the
cold, and after Intellectual attempts to
reach a place of safety have lain down
to die. We might fill our entire
sheet with interesting incidents con-
nected with this subject.
The cold extended throughout the
entire North West ; east of Buffalo
it was not so severe. We have COM
piled the following table showing the
number Of degrees below zero as in.
Dictated by the thermometer at the
places named, on New Years or the
day following
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14
General Butler.

Our government won't permit Gen.
Butler to be outlawed by Benjamin.
The exchange of prisoners committed
to him will be left in his hands. Sec
rotary Stanton has enlarged Buffers
powers by putting all the rebel pris-
oners in the United States under his
care. There will be $4,000 at Point
Lookout within a short time. The
policy is resolutely insisted on that all
exchanges shall take place through
Butler. and none except through him.
JEFF Davis was in favor of recognizing
him as Ould had already done but
Benjamin wrote the proclamation out
having Butler. Lincoln's last procla-
nation outlawed the whole Richmond
government, and through this equality
in disability there is no doubt but cx-
changes will again be re-established.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14
Congressional.

Congress re-assembled on the 9th
inst. pursuant to adjournment. 1t
will be remembered that bill was
passed, before the adjournment, with
drawing all extra bounties after the
time fixed for the draft, the 9Th inst,
but there is prospect that the law
will be changed again. The Presi-
dent and Secretary of War earnestly
recommend that the law be SO modi-
as to allow bounties to be paid as
they have been, at least until the first
of February. The Secretary Of War
says:
cit took some time after the 18th
Of October to get the people reused
to the subject of volunteering. They
are now most earnestly engaged in it.,
and have reports for October, No
vember and part of December, show
ing that AZ, $50 men have been enlist
ed, and the daily average of enlist
ments is increasing"
In compliance with the recommend
atoms of the President and Secretary,
a bill was introduced, on the 9Th, re-
storing the bounties as they were, un-
til the 18th of February.
On the 7th, Mr.. Howe offered reso-
luton that the President be requested
to call out million volunteers for
ninety days, to carry freedom to eve
ry captive in the rebel prisons, and
that Gen. Grant be assigned to the
command of said troops. Referred to
the Military Committee and ordered
to be printed. ..l ...r ..
The House also passed an impor-
tant resolution, outlawing all rebels
and declaring against entertaining
any proposition from the rebels for
negotiations or treaty. This means
unconditional surrender" or no
peace. The resolution passed by a
very decisive majority-sS to "a.
Considerable discussion took place
on the Communication clause Of the Con-
scription Law. No conclusion was
reached, but it is pretty safe to say,
the three hundred dollar clause will
be retained in q modified form. ....
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14
Cedar Valley Railroad.
A dispatch from st. Paul, dated
Jan. LIST, says:

A dispatch from St. Paul, dated
Jan. LIST, says:
C. d. Nash, Director of the Cedar
Valley Railroad, writes the State Au.
ditor that the company have purchased
iron rail cars, and locomotives enough
to put in operation seventy miles of
the road.
A letter from Mr.. G. j. Bridges, of
the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada,
to j. w. Taylor, of this city, dated
Dec. Oath, states that he has just re-
turned from a two months sojourn in
England, and that there is no doubt
whatever that line of telegraph will
be completed from st. Paul to Fort
Garry, and thence across the Hudson's
Bay territory to the Pacific, and that
negotiations which are in progress
will result in the actual construction
of a railroad, before very long, from
St. Paul northwards to Fort Garry,
and that steps will be taken to con-
tinue the line across to the Pacific.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14
The Colored Regiments.

The colored regiments from Massa-
chusetts, in the Department OF the
South, have refused to receive the par
tial pay proffered by the United States
paymasters Of ten dollars per month,
subject to a deduction of three dollars
per month for clothing. Major Stur-
gis, recently appointed by Gov. An
drew, OF Mass, to visit them and in
duce them to accept from the State OF
Massachusetts, three dollars per month,
to equalze their pay with that OF white
troops, refuse to give up their point,
by accepting the money. They claim
that they were enlisted as soldiers,
aud that the pay of soldiers was thlr-
teen dollars a month that they are
not laborers in the military employ
ment of the United States )" and that
to accept ten dollars per month would
be to acknowledge for themselves
that status, and to place their officers
in the anomalous positions of being
commissioned, and paid as command
ing regimental organizations OF Ia
borers, which do not and can not exist
under the law. They further state
that they are the soldiers of the Uni
ted States, and not of Massachusetts.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14

The Dubuque Times says that among
the subjects to be brought before the
Legislature, at its present session,
will be the repeal of the Maine Liq-
uor Law, and that petition is being
circulated in that city having that for
its object. The petitioners claim that
the present prohibitory law is imprac-
ticable that under license law no
more liquor would be drank than there
now is, while the State would gain an
important item of revenue, etc. All
the reasons, pro and CON, will be can
vassed before the Legislature.
We doubt not a desperate effort
will be made, by the friends of the
liquor traffic, TO accomplish this OBJ
ject.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14

Why THEY ARE GREENBAcKs."-Most
people have little idea why the notes
of our national currency, generally
known as "greenbacks," are printed
in green colors. The reason, as given
by an exchange, is this
Ever since the adoption of paper
currency it has been the constant
study of banknote engravers to get
up some plan of printing bills that
could not be counterfeited. In this
they only partially succeeded, till as
late as 1857, a man named Stracy j.
Edison invented kind of green ink,
which he patented June 30lh of that
year. 1t is called anti-photographic
ink, because it cannot be photograph
ed on account of it's color, and cannot
be dslodged by alkalies by the coun-
terfeiters, to get a complete fac SINH
lie of the bills. And as it is secret
only known by the American Bank
Note Company and their inventor, il
is impossible to counterfeit the green
back money. 1t was used by many
banks before the war, but was never
a leading feature in the bill but ever
if the composition of the ink was
known, it would be of no use, as tho
work could not be copied from the
genuine bills as with any kind Of ink
The date of the patent can be seen in
all the bills, in small print
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14

Be A MAN OF YoUR WoRD.-When
you promise to do thing. do it. BE
man of principle in your word. Do
not say that you intend to-day to visit
your sick friend or neighbor, and then
suffer the pressure of business to
crowd it out of your mind. He has
been watching for your coming dur.
ing the week that is past. Could you
have seen the bright smile that illu.
minated his countenance when he said,
=" hear his voice, his footsteps" you
would have said that the keeping of
that promise was worth more to you
than much choice gold" But when
the vision had disappeared, and you
came not, there was pity and sorrow,
even for you, written upon those fea-
lures. For gain had become formid-
able barrier against that priceless
gem in every mans character, which
either shines in its own conspicuous
light of love of the truth, or is set in
the midnight darkness Of distrust and
falsehocd. Then. if you wish to do
good, and WELD an influence for truth,
be a man of your word.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14

JOHN PHOENIX OUTDoNE-A para.
graph has been going the rounds of
the press in which an account is given
of horse having new hoof grown
on by the use of a certain farrier's
ointment. Now this reminds us of an
incident that happened in Lyons,
Wisconsin. A Mormon priest named
Nichols protested power of doing
miraculous things and compromising
wonderful medicines. He made a
nerve and bone all healing salvc, and
though he would experiment a little
with it. He first cut off his dogs tail
and applied some of the salve to the
stump. A new tail grew out immedi-
ately. He then applied some to the
piece of tail which he cut off, and a
new dog grew ont. He didn't know
which was which. This may seem a
tough story, but we have Nichols
word for it and we don't think he
would lie.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14

DR.. Holmes, in recent article in
the atlantic, in speaking of Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, says that he is strong,
healthy man in mind and body. His
nerves have never been corrugated
with alcohol his thinking-marrow is
not brown with tobacco fumes, like a
meerschaum, as are the brains of so
many unfortunate Americans he is
the same lusty, warm-blooded, strong
fibred, bright-souled, brave-hcarted,
clear-eyed creature that he was when
the college boys at Amherst acknow-
lodged him as the chiefest among their
| football kickers.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14

friends for friends, of mothers for chill
dren, of children for their mothers,
combined to make an impression that
will render the first day of the new
year 1864 ever memorable to those
who were present.
The day went out into dusk when
the door Of the second car was thrown
open and a muffled figure, white with
frost and snow, entered and thrilled
all present with the announcement ,
" am here with a team and provis.
ions from the city. There are two
more teams coming somewhere on the
prairie, but it is getting dark and they
cannot find the train in the face OF
the storm. l want men to build q
fire in the rear of the cars as a beacon
and signal for those teams"
Without delay half score o.
men volunteered with exclamation oil
surprise. Admiration and gratitude
echoed from the heart of every person
who had thoughtfully realized the dan
ger we were in. The fire was light.
ed, and about eight o'clock another
team or two came by its guidance to
the comfort and relief of the passen-
gers. The sandwiches, cold chicken,
turkey, duck, &C., &c, were quickly
distributed among the hungry ones,
who ate and wondered, and silently
thanked the men who had thus braved
the storm to give them aid and cheer.
We learned that Conductor Curtis
and Mr.. Barnes had reached the city
and given tidings of our condition
that the former gentleman was badly
frozen, and the latter had returned tc
guide Messrs. Hough and Mancbes
ter, of the Southern road, and others to
the train. Several teams had started
but two or three had reached the
train and how any human being
could live to ride in such storm such
a distance, and face it, was matter
of establishment to all. The attempt
of the teams to return to the city that
night failed, we learned Saturday
morning, and two or three ladies, who
started out with them were bad
" frozen before reaching shelter.
Friday night was passed in compara-
tive comfort. But few slept, ! think.
The fires were sufficient to warm the
cars, and closely crowded in the seats,
on the floor and on piles of fuel, we
watched over the women and little ones
and waited for day to dawn.
Toward morning the bowling of the
wind ceased the snow ceased filter
ing in through the crevices, and the
bright moon told us that the storm had
spent its anger. There was JOY
among the passengers-a general
waking up followed. Saturday morn
ing came, with a further distribution
Of food, and vigilant lookout fol
some signs of help. About eigh'
o'clock an engine was seen approach
ing us with a snow plow. Before ter
o'clock it had reached us and hauled
us back to the junction, where we
found two or three other trains wait.
ing to go in.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14

A n individual Is told of "a doinr

An individual is told of as doing a
business in one of the markets, who
is down on customers who don't speak
properly. What's eggs, this morn
ing Z" says a customer. {" mean,
how do they go?" $50 where 2"
Sho-!" says the customer, getting
up his fury. what for eggs?" Mon
ely, money. sir or good Endorsed cred
it says the dealer. "Don't you I'M
derstand the English language, sir %
says the customer. Not as you mix
it and mingle it, l don't replied the
egg merchant What-is-the-pric
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES? 7"
"Ah, now you talk" says the deal.
err. Sixteen cents per dozen is the
price, sir I" They traded. But it ap-
pears that another customer, who, on
asking what's eggs this morning p"
was answered, eggs, of COURSE" re-
sponded, well, l am glad of that,
for the last ! got of you were half
chickens 4.,5r