Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1865-12-01
The Advocate says that Rev. g..
w. Watts (Baptist) has removed from Bar
Mills to South Thomaston.

Society has issued an address to the Bap-
fist churches of the Ian !. calling for $50
600 to be expended in the organization OF
Sabbath Schools for the poor whites Of the
South, as alsc among the blacks.
Next year, 1866. is the centenary Of
the existence of Methodism in the United
States, or the Tooth year since the organi-
cation was first formed, which was after
wards ripcncd into what is now known as
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The First Baptist Church in Au-
gusta have invited Rev. Jos. Kicker of
Milford, Mass, to become their pastor, and
he has accepted the call and will enter
upon his duties on the irst Sabbath in
December.
We are under obligations to agent
Of Penobscot River Express for a copy Of
The Boston Irdrelier, in advance of the
mail.
1t is said that woman in England
who has been dumb for GO years. has sud-
denly recovered her speech. Won't she
have to be industrious to make up for lost
time.
i-S'lIon. +. \. Pike pays the heaviest
income tax in Calais-S3, 232. Sixteen
individuals return an income of 1000
and upwards, six of the number being
$4,000 and upwards.
SrIcIpE.--A man by the name Of Jack
Eastman. was found suspended by the
neck. dead, on Thursday last. at the Head
of the Falls. He belonged in Orland-
He was a person of incorporate habits.
and it is supposed committed suicide in n
fit of dc!fium tremcns.
a Monroe (La.) paper speaks en-
couragingly of the prospects of cotton
planting in that section. The planters
are all disposed to give the freedmen a
fair chance.
Mr.. buchanan has published a history
of his administration. No douh, jeff
would do the same Of hts, if he was at
liberty.
a list of the vessels captured by
the pirate vessels foo; up as follows:
Alabama 60; Shenandoah b Florida
30; Samtcr %: Tacony Is; Clarence 3 +;
Tallahassee %: Sallie 9; Georgia 10:
jeff Davis 8; Winslow ); Chiekamauga
1; Cluster 4; Retrihuton 3; Il. Nichoias
b Calhoun 3: Nashville =; Boston = !:
Eeho2 savannah. Lapwing, York, Con
rad and the Tuscarora, each. The num-
her of vessels destroyed hv these pirates j..
large. being 26s vessels Of all kinds.
The Machias I'nion says:
The people n, Cherry field Millbrrige.
Mt. Desert, fremont aud other towns.
ought a, once circulate papers for sigma
lures to stock in the steamboat No time
should bc irst. All the tnwns in the Wei
hit, of the proposed landings must take
hold aud help the enterprise along
-.Thc Right May" is the name Of
new paper started III Boston. and cir
eulat1d gratuitonsly all over the country.
The publisher says that $1,000 copies are
circulated free of cost to the receivers
Here is good chance to subscribe. We
see it stated thsi Professor Alpheus Cros-
hv is tie editor. 1t is devoted to the dis
cus.lon of the reconstruction question.
The "Rirerside Echo" is the name
of a neat quarto paper just started in
Buckspoft. 1t adopts rs its motto the
ever to he remembered words If the late
President Lincoln with malice toward
none, with charity for ALL" The Rirrsi3e
Echo is devoted to Temperance. Lj;cra-
ture and General Intelligence" V. l..
Wardwel, Editor. Rev. c. II. Ellis. Assist-
ant Editor. The Echo makes iiuc APP
| pearance. We wish il success
| New Muse. We have received from
the Publisher. Horace Waters. No. i'll
Broadway, New York, the following pieces
of new music "Our Soldiers Last March"
introducing the celebrated Peace Juli-
/ lee - The First Kiss at the Gate" q
ballad. and the "Gcm Of the Mountains :"
The first aud last composed by Mrs. l.. \.
Parkhurst.
a Boston correspondent ask. The
Tribune if it is true that llclmbold i. pay
ing it ten thousand dollars per year for
his adveriisiug, This is the answer:
1t is matter that concerns "l3oston
druggist" and all business men, and We
may as well state that IIelmbold is paving
he Tribune over ten thousand dollars
this year. He paid us one thousand five
| hundred dollars for one insertion of one
page il The Weekly Tribune. besides his
column in The Daily Tribune. Bonner
once paid us three thousand dollars for
one insertion Of an advertisement Of The
Ledger. He knew that by judicious ad-
yertising he could insure fortune. The
old prejudice among druggists aud phyl
sicians against advertising is diving ont and
they as we'll as others, see that the cheap
est mode whereby they can make them
selves and their medicines known to the
public, is by wise and liberal system of
advertising. Helmbold discovered this
fact and took advantage of it.
"A Tallahassee correspondent of
the Times, under date of the 9TH inst.
states that the Convention adjourned sine
die on thst dag. Gov. Marvin. in his adj
dress on the closing of the Convention,
q. 4 Al i Al.