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Western, aud Southern Markets.

CINCINNATI, Dec. 20.
Flour quiet. Hogs active and advanced to II a.
IL 30. Receipts 5000 head. Mess Pork in large de-
mand at 90 q 30. Green Meats advanced; Shoulders
10; Sides II Hams 20 a o. Whiskey duh and irreg
ular and offered at 2 % free, and % in bond.
NASHVILLE, Dec. %.
Cation firm with an increased demand. Prices
range from SO q 42Ic, an improvement of about 1c.
Shipments and Receipts light ,.t.s
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Marine Disaster.

New BEDFORD, Mass, Dec. 20.
The schooner Ann, of Boston, from Balti-
more for Boston, with corn, was totally wreck
ca on Pine Island Wednesday night, in a
thick fog. AL the crew were saved.
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ship,creok and Loss of life.

RALEIGH, N. O., Dec. 20.
We have news here from Morehead City of
the loss of the steamer Constitution from Sa-
vannah for New York. There were tifty-four
souls On board. All were lost but fourteen of
the crou =
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From, Washington. .,y,
WASHINGTON, Dec 20.
The following has been received: y, r..

RALEIGH, N. c., Dec. %. /
Hon. w. III. SEWARD: @
Sir-In pursuance of your dispatch of the
23d inst; communicating to me a copy of a
communication addressed, by order of the
President, to w. w. Holden, Provisional Gov
ernor, whereby he is relieved of the trust
heretofore reposed in him, have this day
entered upon my duties as civil Governor Of
the State, having been heretofore qualified be-
fore both branches of the General Assembly
ldesire, through you, to assure the President
of my earnest desire to cooperate with him in
all measures tending to the complete restora-
ton of harmonious relations between North
Corolina and the United StatesT ~
BAEs Your Obedient servant, = SAE1ST
JONATHAN WORTH.
Georgetown opened the polls yesterday to
test the sense of the citizens ON the subject of
negro suffrage. Of over 100 votes cast, only
one was in favor of thus extending the fran
chise. f0 eM F# @w wM wW
Attorney General Speed masking for an
appropriation for contingent expenses, says,
the carpets and furniture of his office have
been subjected to a greatly increased amount
of wear and tear from usage by the large num-
Der of applicants for pardons, who from day
to day frequent the Office, SO that much of the
carpeting is worn into threads and new car
peting is needed more than ever
Au order has been issued from the War De-
partment revoking one heretofore issued on
the same subject, providing that military Di-
vision and Department commanders will re-
duce civilians in their employ in the several
Corps and Staff departments within their res
pective commands to the lowest number. All
posts. stations, and places where troops are on
duty in sufficient number to furnish details to
take the places of civilian employees, without
injuriously affecting the efficiency of the
troops for the strictly military duty required OF
them. The civilian employees except clerks,
will be discharged, and extra duty men snb-
stituted for them, and when civilians are re-
tainee, preference will be given to persons who
have been honorably discharged from the mil
itary service, = those discharged by. wounds
being first preferred. ss.3sl s.t5 49, -,
Assistant Secretary Chandler left Washing
ton this evening to be absent several weeks.
The steamer De Soto, of the Gulf squadron
is expected to leave the navy yard tomorrow
for the Gulf
Gen. Schofield is abroad on leave of absence
BE is not known here to be in any way a
representative of the executive department of
the Government, hence his presence in Paris
is not entitled to the political significance at
tributed to it by writers at the capital.
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Valuable Real Estate at Auction.

~ on the premises, we shall sell the valuable
THREE STORY BRICK HOUSE, No. IA Brown st.
This House is finished throughout and is in thcr-
and centrally located, and desirable residence.
At 81 ocloc kwe shall II the two-story brick house
No. % Fore str ct. This house Is also well finished
convenient nd in good repair. 1t Is near the Port
land Co.'s Works, the Grand Trunk Depot, and the
Boston boats, and must increase In value.
dcT Is HENRY BAILEY 4 CO., Auct'rs.
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BB The American legation at Jeddo, Japan,
has transmitted to the Department of Agricul-
ture lot of vegetable and flower seeds, en-
bracing over two hundred varieties. IN
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DUGoIN, ILL.,, Dec. 20. f
Smith & Co.'s Bank, of this place, was bro
ken open last night and robbed of about thir-
ty thousand dollars.
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Christmas and New Year.

you want good articles for Presents call and look
l at the italian, Turkish and other Chairs, Fancy
Tables, Camp Stools, and q host OF Brackets, &C.,
&C., at BURROUGHS & HUDSON,
dc21dtf 4 Free st. Block.
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TAINTED.

A SITUATION in a store by young man that
"A can come well recommended; pay not SO much
Of an object as permanent situation. f.
Apply to or address A. G. D., No. II Cross st,
Dec 28-d1w* l'2 q sfl fel''' ~
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Arrival Of The Pirate ssemnes at Washingto,..

ATriUaI Of The Pirate Se'nhaes at Washin0tOn.
rrs = WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.
Semmes, the pirate, has arrived here from
New Orleans, via New York, under the Gus
tody of Lieut.. French of the Marine Corps,
and is a prisoner at the Navy Yard. The de-
tail of the Court to try him is not yet pre-
pared,
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special Notice.

THE attention of delinquent Stockholders is call
l. ed to the following article of the Bylaws, viz
q I'm case owner or owners OF any share or
ta charges (shoud any have accrued) for the space
'of thirty days next after the assessment shall be
'aid it shall be the duty ofthe Treasurer, when in
structed by the Directors to sell to be scld
s1ch delinquent proprfetors share or shares at Pub
1c Auction" IL dco7dtd
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New YORK, Dec. 20.
The Express says private advices by the
Australasian are better for Government secu-
rites than the public accounts, and United
States five-twenties are quoted at IS a 90 IA.
Cotton responded this afternoon to the Eu-
ropean news, advancing from to cents per
pound. eA. % ~ ~ 2attA
George w. Seaman, Justice at New Lofts,
near Brooklyn, was to-day sentenced to the
penitentiary for malfeasance in office.
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.sisss AUCTION SALE ; s 81. g.
Valuable Dwelling House Property
% ON DANFoRTH STREET.

PURSUANT to license from the Cours Of PROBATE
Il for Cumberland County, the subscriber, as trus-
tee, under the will Of Samuel Elder deceased, will
offer for sale, at Public Auction, on WEDNESDAY,
the 31st day OF January 1885, at II O'Clock in the fore
noon, on the premises. the valuable house lot with
double dwelling house thereon, situated the south
side of Danforth Street, in Portland, near Maple
Street owned and occupied by Samuel Elder In his
lie time. "a l-h i-.l ~ - p
This lot is about fty-ve feet wide on the street,
and about egttyseyen feet wide the line, and
averages about hundred twenty feet in depth,
containing in al very near s,7E0 square feet.
Besides the dwelling house there Is Joiners shop
the premises, about 10 by 30 feet two stories high
The vacant landis iavorably arranged for the site
of additional buildings. ~ -
"A plan of the lot may be seen at the Office Of p,
Barnes, s91 Middle Street. and the houses may be ex
amined on any week day, between Two and three
o'clock P. NJ. 49, .f.{ - t.e.t-le-f r.. y.
The Blu ldiDgs are in good condition. Possession
may be ha as soon as the sale Is perfected. Title
made satisfactory. 60 gt ll -tt 7 -
Terms made known at the sale. liI
E1 SARAH S. ELDER, Trustee,
/ December %, 1866. dec3O 2aw3w
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Auction Notice.

100000 OF the Third Mortgage Bonds
Company viii be sold at auction at the office of j.
V. WOODMAN, in Portland, on the Eleventh day OF
January, 1855, at ten o'clock A. M. -
Dec ~, Leo. f au.s dc27td
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IPer steamship Australasian at New YORK.

obc0AAAouAP
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Dec. 16.-Cot-
tonSaes for the week 600 bales including IL 600
bales to spectators and %, 600 to exporters The
market opened dull, at decline of ID but recovered
closing with an advance of I'd on the week. Middng
Orleans 81 I'd. Sales on Friday 800 bales the mar
ket closing quiet. Stock in port 24S,O00 bales Of
which 1877 900 American.
The quotations of Cotton in Liverpool Friday even
ing were Orleans fair Esd do middng 215; Uplands
fair 22Id; do middling I'D.
LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFFS MARKET Dec
1.-THE market was generally dull during the week.
Flour Cd lower. Wheat ID lower. Corn 6d(01s
lower, the market closing more steady Friday
LIVERPOOL PROVISIONS MARKET Dec H.
Beefquiet and firm. Pork-(no American stockl
Bacon Is a Is lower. Lard inactive. Cheese 1sa2s
lower. Butter inactive. Tallow dull.
LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET, Dec. 49,
Ashes quiet. Sugar dull. Coffee steady. Rice in
limited demand. Linseed firm. Linseed Cakes
easier. Sperm Oil e12O. Rosin dull. Spirits I'ur-
pertne quiet Petroleum quiet at IS I'd "a IS cd for
refined. ~
Latest by telegraph to Queenstown.
LIVERPOOL, December 16, P. M.-Cotton sales
to-day Saturday 10000 bales, Including 5000 to
spectators and exporters. The market closed firm
but quotations changed. r,.1
Breadstuffs dull, ~ iI p yttF .t'f fi4
Provisions quiet and steady.
LONDON MONEY MARKET, Dec. J6.-Consols
closed at ST. a S7S for money
AMERICAN SECURITIES-Thel latest sales were
u s. 5-2Os 64t a. GAG. Illinois Central Shares Sl1 (
81. Erie Shares 5S4 a 6S2.
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For Sale at Auction.

THE convenient and commodious Hotel on Main
Il Street, sacs, hotter known as the "Saco House "
will be sold at public auction, at ten O'Clock A. NJ
on the ---- day Of January next, unless
previously disposed Of at private sale. saa.osl0l
The house has been kept for the last few years by
Rufus M. Lord. Possession given 18th July 1866.
For particulars enquire of
efaff9 afl e DIR. L. L. KIMBALL, Saco,
Or. ISAAC DYER, No. 81 Union Wharf, Portland.
Dec 20-dtd -4- -,
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MEDICAL ELECTRICITY
DIR. w. N. DEFINING, e
Medical Electrician.
IN ia MIDDLE STREET,
Nearly Opposite the United States HeteI,

NCaEIy ORROsAsC shC OmhtC0 0tntCa ~ tc1g
WHEkE he would respectfully announce to the
wv citizens of Portland and vicinity, that he has
permanently located in this city. During the two
years we have been in this city we have cured some
OF the worst forms of disease IN persons who have
tried other forms OF treatment in vain, and curing
patients in short time that the question is often
asked do thew stay cured? To answer this question
we viii saw that all that do not stay cured, we viii
doctor the second time without charge.
DR.. d. has been practical Electrician for twenty
ELECTRICITY perfectly adapted to chronic diseases in
ths form Of nervous or sick headache; neuralgia IN
in the acute stages where the lungs not fully
involved acute chronic rheumatism, scrofula hin
d ss masess R.
palsy or paralysis, st. vtas Dance Deafness STAN,
mering or hesitancy Of speech dyspepsia, indiges-
every that can be presented; asthma, bronchi-
It's structures OF the chest and all forms Of female
complaints.
BY Electricity
The Rheumatic, the gouty, the lame and the law
leap with JOY and move with the agility and elastic.
ity of youth; the heated graid is cooled; the fost-
bitten limbs restored, the uncouth deformtjes re-
moved; faintness converted to vigor, weakness to
strength the blind made to see the deal to hear and
youth obliterated the ACCIDENTS of mature Lie
prexented the calamites OF old age obvated and an
active circulation maintained
lmf ADDE'S
Who have cold hanCs and feet; weak stomachs, lame
and weak backsj nervous and sick headache; dizSi-
and swimming in the head, with indigestion and
constipation of the bowels pain In the side and back;
leueorrhra Tor whites) falling of the womb with in
ternal cancers; juniors, polypus, and all that long
train of diseases will find In Electricity sure mea ns
Of cure For painful menstruation, too profuse
with young ladies, Electricity Is certain specific
and will in short time, restore the sufferer to tn:
vigor of health. '4 fl-r " ny
TEETH! TEETH! TEETH
DR.. ID. sth continues to Extract Teeth by FIp
rRICIrY WITHOUT PAIN. Persons having derav
teeth or stumps they wish to have removed for ~
ting he would give polite invitation to call.
superior ELECTRO MAGNETIC MACHINES 10, :.
or family USE with thorough instructions.
and treatment at his house. -" N 'os'
ONCE hours from o'clock A. VI. to 70 N. !; from
to6 z. M and ] to In the evening.
\ Consultation Tree, novt,t
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Portland Dry Dock Company.
A MEETING of the Stockholders Of the Company
IA will he held at the Board Of Trade Rooms Janu-
airy Sd, 1856, at 8 Pm
A full attendance is requested as business Of i'm
portance will come before the meeting.
f Per Order. I9 - gsfre "a
C. M. DAVIS, Treasurer.
Portland, Dec 9th, 1S65.-dtd m 49,
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HOLIDAY PRESENTSl

HOLIDAY PRESENTS! as
CONSISTING in part of Toys. all kinds of Orna-
Omental Work, Christmas Cakes, Bon-Bons Horns
of Plenty, ASSIGNMENTS of - = = - +
Candies and French Confectionery -
that cannot be excelled All the choicest kinds of
Connections. Ornaments for Christmas Trees Holt
day or Ladies' Apples.
Cake of all kinds constantly on hand or made to
order, frosted and Ornamented " - 7-~N.'
Call and see for yourselves. u.
w Parties and Levees supplied at short notice by
CHARLES w. LUCY,
Gee ~ INV No. 81 Exchange st,
, 1865-02-17

ceeded in catching one of the hounds and
have him now. l intend taking him home
with me-" Your correspondent can hardly
understand how the radical wing of the )Ad-
ministration party, who prate and fume
about the inhumanity of holding the poor
negro in bondage, can harmonic their theo-
ry with their present practice. If it is hn-
name to liberate them we presume it must
be the essence Of humanity to slaughter
them at wholesale before they have learned
how utterly helpless they are; besides, it
saves the expense of keeping IN. SO many
humbug colonization societies So we glide
along. INDEX.
, 1865-02-17
The Bridal Veil.
BIZ ALICE oARRY.


We're married, they say and you think you have
Well, take this white veil from my head and look on
me;
Here's matter t0vex you, and matter to greve you,
Here's doubt to disrust you and faith to believe you
Pm all as you see, common earth, common dewj
Be wary and mould me to roses, not rue
All shake out the fmy thing fold after fold,
And see if you have me to keep and to hold
Look close on my heart and the worst gifts sin
ming,
It is not yours to-day for the yesterdays winning
The past is not mne-I am too proud to borrow
You must grow to new heightsiflloye you tomorrow
We're married I'm plighted to hold up your praises
As the turf at your feet does its handful of daisies
That way lies my honor my pathway Of pride.
But, mark you, if greener grass grows either side
| shall know it, and keeping in body with you,
Shall walk III Iny spirit with feet on the den
We're married Oh, pray that our love do not fail
have wings fattened down and hid under my veil,
They subtle and light-you ca never undo them,
And swift in their ight-you can never pursue them,
And spite of all casping, and spite of all bands,
| can slip like shadow, dream, from your hands.
Nay call me not cruel, and fear not to take me,
l am yours for my lifetime, to be what you would
make me
To wear my white veil for a sign of cover,
And you shall be proven, my lord or my lover,
A cover for peace that is cad, a token
OF bliss that can never be wri itten or spoken.
, 1865-02-17

CoHsUApTIvE PEoPLE.--A hundred times have
my cOnsumptive patients expressed surprise that
the wet weather. in which have insisted that
they should 60 out, as usual, has not injured
them-that they breathed more freely than on
pleasant days OF course tell them that if the
body is well protected, the more moist the air
the more grateful to the lungs. Thee is no pos
sible weather which can excuse the consump-
tive for keeping in doors. Give him sufficient
clothing, protect his feet carefully, and he may
60 out freely in rain, sleet, snow and wind. Ig-
nOrance of this fact has killed thousands. Con-
sumptives and all inYalds, and indeed persons
in health, are cautioned to avoid the night air
Do those who offer this advice forget that there
is no other air at night but might air ?' Ger
tainly we cannot breathe the day air during the
night. Do they mean that we should shut onr-
selves up in air-tight rooms, and breathe over
and over again. through half the twenty-four
hours the atmosphere we have already poisoned? +?
We have only the choice between night air pure
and night air poisoned with the exhalation from
our skins and lungs, perhaps from lungs already
diseased.-[Dr Hall.
, 1865-02-17

CAST LINE FOR YoURsELF.-A young man
stood listlessly watching some anglers on a
bridge. He was poor and detected. At length,
approaching basket well filled with wholesome
looking fish, he sighed ,-'if, now, had these
would be happy. l could sell them at fair price
and buy me food and lodgingp III
Il will give you just as many and just as good
fish, said the owner, who CHANGED to overhear
his words, if you viii do me a trifing favor
And what is that?' asked the other eagerly.
'Only to tend this line till l come back. /
wish to go on a short errand
The proposal was gladly accepted The old
fisherman was gone so long that the young man
began to be impatient Meanwhile, however,
the hungry fish snapped greedily al the baited
hook, and the young man lost his depression in
the excitement Of pulling them in, and when
the owner Of the line returned he had caught
large number. Counting out from them as many
as were in the basket, and presenting them TO
the young man, the old fisherman said, II full
fill my promise from the fish that you caught, to
teach you when you see others earning what you
need, to waste no time in fruitless wishing but
to cast line for yourselG'-Home Journal
, 1865-02-17
A Rich scene.

In the Canadian house of Assembly some time
since they had quite spirited debate on the
bill to prohibit the use of hoops and crinoline,
introduced. by Mr.. Aikens. We publish few
of the most brilliant passages. T
Mr.. Drummond was an ardent admirer ofhoops
from childhood He was born with a love of
hoops. When he was a child of tender growth
he used to trundle hoops, all unconscious of the
fate that was in store for him. Later in life he
swallowed ring which resulted in a whooping
cough, and even now the sight of an empty hogs
head brought tears into his eyes.
Mr.. Brown complained that it was impossible
to choose wife, since her defects were hidden
by hoops and enyeloped in crinoline, and the
naked
Speaker-Order.
Mr. Brown-Mr. Speaker
Speaker-The honorable gentleman is out of
order
Mr.. Brown-But, Mr. Speaker, the naked
Speaker-Hold your tongue sir.
Mr.. Brown-The naked
Speaker-Upon my SOUL Brown, silence orlIl
have you arrested.
Mr.. Brown-Permit to explain Mr. Speaker
When I said the naked
Speaker (yelling)-Clcar the galleries Of la
dies, Mr.. Sergeant.
Mr. Brown-In the name of the seventeen gra-
ces and fifteen muses., Mr.. Speaker let me apol-
ogize l only meant to say that hoops and crinO-
line have reached TO such rotundency that IT
was impossible to arrive at the naked
Speaker (frantically death and blue deyilsl
Stop, or I'll brain you with the mace. Consider
the mpropriety Of
Brown (wildly)-Truthl truth! truth Naked
truth was what was going to say.
Mr.. Dunbar Ross understood his honorable
friend could not pass along the streets without
being assaulted by highwamen. Now, surely,
the honorable member from Lake Ontario could
not be aware that the character of every member
fthe House was affected by such dam
Mr.. Talbot objected to such unpariamentary
language,
Mr.. Ross protested against interruption. He
was going to say by such dam--
Mr.. J. Cameron-The honorable gentleman
should not swear in that dreadful manner
MIR, Ross-Wasn't doing anything ofthe kind
but would be tempted to do so if not allowed
to finish his sentence-by such dam order,
order,)-a dam (coufusion) )-he would repeat
it-by such dam tremendous uproar)
Mr.. Wright stood up and moved, midst the
widest confusion, that Mr.. Ross be expelled
from the House for such awful language.
Mr.. Ross (black in the face) exclaimed that
damaging statements was all he meant to say
when he was interrupted by fool
Mr. Talbot-WhO is a fool2
Mr. Ross-Foolish ass
Mr.. Cameron-Who's an ASST
Mr.. Ross (wildly) assertion Of pro-
family.
, 1865-02-17

The TRUE SOURCE OF WARNTH.-Is it the heavy
clothes that make the body warm, or the body
which heats the clothing2 Do the garments
keep out the cold or keep in the heat? Why
are the occupants of ice-houses of Greenland
and the lowy-thatched cottages of Erin, more
merry in the winter than the sickly and shiver-
ing citizens here? We answer 1t is the blood
that makes the body and its surroundings warm;
and it is the spirit Of mantle soul, if he has
any-that makes him merry and content; and
not the costly clothing which the spoils of spec
ulative thieying wrap around him, nor the fres-
Goes with which chance OF fortune cells his roof
, 1865-02-17

Mn. LNooLN's ARITHMETIC following
extract from Mr. Lincoln's Message should be
carefully read by all tax payers for if the Presi-
dent means what he says, they certainly are
somewhat interested in the matter:
"The public debt on the lst of July last as ap-
pears by the books of the treasury amounted to
one billion seven hundred and forty thousand
millions six hundred and ninety thousand four
hundred and eighty-nine dollars and forty
nine cents"
The point to which particular notice is di-
rected is the "seyen hundred and forty thousand
millions" which is attached to the 'one billion
as a sort of tail, we presume. Let us make the
statement in figures and see how it looks, to-
wit;
Seven hundred and forty thousand millions
$40, 600 900, 900 or seven hundred and forty
billions, which small sum is one hundred times
more than the value of the whole real estate OF
the Northern States. We think perhaps Mr..
Lincoln was somewhat muddled when he penned
that statement and had probably mixed up with
the present debt, the probable cost of the war
carried on to subjugation under the present pol
icy. Whatever may be the cause those figures
look large.-Somerset Messenger,
, 1865-02-17
DIR. E. STEVENSON.

TTOMEOPA PATHIsT-sUCCE TO DIR. Glib
IL SON-Graduate HON. College, Cleveland o.
Licentate Of Canada. 1-ra.r nr
Having permanently located in the city, DR.. S.
hopes tomerit continuance of the patronage accor-
ded to DR. Gibson, by whom he is recommended.
Office and residence at the City Hotel.
Walla Walla, Dec. 80, 1864. 5m5
, 1865-02-17

Fertile French foot is meagre, narrow and
bonyi the Spanish small and elegantly formed
thanks to its Moorish blood, corresponding with
the Castilian pride-"high in the instepp The
Arab is proverbial for its high arch; ga stream
can run under the hollow of it," The foot of
the Scotch is large and thick that of the Irish
fat and square; the English short and feshy.
The American foot is apt to be dsproportionate-
ly small. A foot, for both beauty and speed,
should be arched, fairly rounded, and its length
proportioned to the height of the person. The
ankle, especially of woman, should be round and
firm, and not too small