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The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1865-03-31
Letters Remaining Unclaimed

IN tho Post Onlce at Biddeford, State OF Maine,
/ the 30th day OF March. 1855. o.
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White Mountain Castings;

standard Threads, Needles. Pins and Yankee No.
tions such as Clark's and Staf6rd's spool cottons
N. T.. pound cotton, Thompson's and Barbcr's linen
Threads, welton Pine, Redding rubner, horn. ivory
chldren's and hack Combs, Crowlcys, Wilson's and
Hills Needles, ana all kinds OF goods found In q
New Dominion oil paste Backing (new thing,
The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1865-03-31
GROCERYMEN BUY

MAN Stone Glass, Dover Glass, Phenix Polish m
DiSon's Challenge Polish at rates defying comp
tition
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HAS constantly on hand the largest and best SC
i lectsd stock Of PEDDLERS FURNISHING
GOODS TO be found In York County, such rs Tin
Japanned, Britannia, Planished, Glass, Wocoen
Iron, Stamped aud Plated Ware French and En-
amelled Saucepans and Kettles Broons, Frenci
Roll Pans IN tp-top articles
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Weight of People.

The average returns show that citizen
of the world, on the first day Of appearance
in public. weighs about six pounds and
half; boy baby little more, girl baby
alittle less. Some very modest babies hard
ly turn the scale with two pounds and half,
while other pretentions youngsters boast OF
ten and eleven pounds. When Shylock
asked for his pound of fesh," he asked for
an equivalent to little less than one-sixth
of baby. How the tiny ones grow during
childhood, we need not trace here but it
may be interesting to know that girls and
boys of twelve years of age are nearly
equal in weight after which limit males
are heavier than the females of the same
age. Young men of twenty average hun
dred and forty-three pounds each, while the
young women of twenty average hundred
and twenty pounds. Men reach their heavi-
est bulk at about thirty five, when their
average weight is about a hundred and fifty
two pounds; but the women slowly fatten
until fifty, when their average is a hundred
and twenty-nne pounds. Men and women
together, their weight at full growth aver
ages almost ten stones, or hundred and
forty pounds. Full grown men and women
average about twenty times as heavy as
they were on the first day Of their existence.
OF course averages are here only meant
The averages were formed from men rang
ing from hundred and eight to two hun
dred and twenty pounds, and women from
eighty-eight to two hundred and seven
pounds. The actual weight of human ma
ture, taking all ages and conditions mobiles,
clergy, tiukers, taiIors, wives, maidens, boys,
girls and babies, all included-the average
weight is almost exactly one hundred Eng
lish pounds avoirdupois for each human be-
ing; quantity easy to remember at any
rate
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Buying Gold Makes one a Rebel

There is instruction and example in the
following incident narrated to us by Penn
sylvania friend.
An honest Schuylkill County German
merchant, who had been prospered and had
accumulated more money than he could en-
ploy as capital in his business, came to a
patriotic banker in Philadelphia and said :
II have got, some moneys, and want
you to buy me some gold"
"Why, Schultz, what do you want gold
for? That isn't thing you sell in your
store"
II knows dat-but I want to make some
money on de rise of gold. Beoples say it
is going up, and tink may make q tou-
sand dollars"
"schultz, you dear old fellow, do MT you
know that if you buy gold you will be Re-
bel ?"
mo |" said Schultz, with tone of resent
ment in his wonder.
Suppose you buy $lO,OOOof gold. Sup
pose that some morning you read In the
papers in big letters: "rerrible disaster to
the Union cause Grants army routed and
destroyed !! The Rebels marching on
Washington ,"
II should say dat was tam pad news" ex-
citedly interrupted the German.
"Yes, but wouldn't you say right of, dis
however will put gold up--pad for the Union
cause, tam pad, but it is goot for my ten
thousand ? Don't you see, Schultz, that
in buying gold you instantly make the in,
teresis Of the Rebels your interests that
you bribe yourself to wish them to succeed
and to wish your-country and countrymer
10 fail? And if these unholy desires
Schultz, don't define rebel, there is ne
buying gold inevitably turns honest, patriot
ic, devoted men like you away from the
cause which they ought to support, ant
which they think they do support, bu
which they cannot support, because the!
have made it for their interest not to sup
port it? Don't you see it dear old fellow |?
''Be shure I do" said the honest man
with gravity of manner and humility; ''an'
Tax pardon of the war. Put de whole o
dat in Seven-Thirties. Ny money goe
nit my principles"
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Alexander stephens, Prophecy.

The following extract is from Alexander
Fl. Stephens speech in the Georgia Con-
vention, protesting against the passage OF
the act of secession. 1t reads like proph-
ecy:
''rhis step, (secesson) once taken can
never be recalled and all tho baneful con-
sequences that must follow, will rest on the
Convention for all coming time. When we
and our posterity shall see our lovely south
desoated by the demon of war which this
act of yours will inevitably invite and call
forth; when our green fields of waving
harvests shall be trodden down by the MUIR
derous soldiery and fiery car of war sweep
ing over our land; our temples of justice
laid in ashes; all the horrors and desola-
tions of war upon US, who but this Conven-
ton will be held responsible for it, and VINO
but he that shall give his vote for TINS un-
wise and ill-timed measure, shall be hei1 10
strict account for this suicidal act py thelr
present generation, and probably cursed
and execrated by posterity in all coming
time for the wide and desolating ruin that
will inevitably follow this act you now pro-
pose to pcrpetrate :"
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ADuLrERATED LiQUoRs.-Half century
agoliquors were generally pure, and persons
drank habitually for twenty years without
any serious damaging effect being apparent.
Now they are the victims of delirium tire.
mems after few years tippling. The testi-
,nony ofpolicemen is that persons lockedup
for drunkenness do not get sober so readily
as they did years ago +; and death in tits OF
drunkenness is becoming more and more
common. During the last season young
man who arrived in New Bedford in the
ship Contest died in brothel, from the
effects of being made drunk by substitute
brokers. Nothing was done about it, but
if he had been killed with knife or revol-
yer the murderers would probably have
been arrested The impure liquors OF these
davs blunt the moral sentiments quicker
than the stimulants in use fifty years ago.
A Young man arrives in the city OF New
York from the country, falls into disslpa,,
ton, and in three months is condemned
murderer. Those who manufacture these
spurious liquors are guilty of double crime !;
they not only cheat but poison.
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Plant Grape Vines.

Although all nature is now OF rest anu
there is more or less leisure now to write,
and reflect, than at other seasons of the
wear, the time will soon come when active
operations must commence in the orchard
and garden, and l would particularly re-
commend the grape vine as possessing one
important advantage over all other fruits
(ths small fruits excepted.) Iallude to the
earliness Of its coming into bearing. A
healthy two year old vine will commence
bearing the second year after being plant
ed, if it has been properly done.
Time was when the Isabella and Cataw-
ba were the leading varieties in cultivation,
but now we have host of new kinds. A
few ofthem possess advantages over the
two old standards, but very many OF them
are not better, and many not as good. 1
would not recommend the planting OF many
varieties by one culturist, but | will name
few that will, I think, give satisfaction,
namely: Hartford Proli6ck, Concord,
Delaware, Diana, and Maxatawney. The
FIRST is very early and good grape, rlpen-
ing two or three weeks before the Isabella.
The Delaware is remarkably sweet and ten
der though not large. The Concord is an
excellent thin skinned grape ripening sew
eral days before the Isabella. The Diana
is Seeding of the Catawba ripeniug 1T
tie earlier, and the Maxatawney is one OF
our hardest white grapes, and good one.
| These are oil very-hardy and can be relied
on. If a larger collection is desirable, the
| Isabella, Catawba, Elsinborough, and Gin.
ton might be added, the latter very good
| wine grape. There are other new ones that
come highly recommended, such as the
Adiroudac, Aliens Hybrid, Iona, Rogers
Hybrid, &C.. but they need further trial.
Good grapes can be raised without
trenching, draining, or burying bones, deac
animal, &C., which some would have yor
believe were indispensable although, Il
the soil be very wet, with water near thu
surface, draining may be necessary. Young
vines may be readily started from cuttings
in the following manner Take shoots o
the last years growth from the vines yo'
wish to propagate from-the thicker an't
stouter they are the better. Cut them int
slips from eight to ten or twelve inches II
length, and plant them deep III the ground
leaving but one bud. (the uppermost one,
above ground, and that even with the sur
face. with about one inch Of wood extend
ing above it. Press firmly below, andieav'
the soil loose near the surface keep tnen
we'll hoed and many of them will become
rooted plants, and may be transported, tn
following spring, to wherever they may b
desired for fruitings N0r'stOw" Herald.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-02-25
THE TWO VILLAGES.

Over the river, on the hill
Lieth q village white and still
All around in the forest trees
Shiver and whisper in the breeze;
Over it sailing shadows go
OF soaring hawk and screaming crow,
And mountain grasses low and sweet,
Grow in the middle OF every street.
Over the river, under the hill,
Another village lieth still;
There see in the cloudy night
Twinkling stars of household light
Fires that CLEAN from the smithy's door.
Mists that curl on the rivers shore;
And in the road no grasses grow,
For the wheels that hasten to and fro.
In that village on the hill,
Never is sound of smithy mill
The houses are thatched with grass and flowers
Never q clock to tell the hours;
The marble doors are always shut,
You cannot enter in the hall or hut;
All the village lie asleep;
Never grain to SOW or reap
Never in dreams to moan or sigh,
Silent, and idle, and low they lie.
In that village under the hill,
When the night is starry and still,
Many weary soul in prayer,
Looks to the other village there,
And weeping and signing, longs to go
Up to that home from this below;
Longs to sleep by the forest wild,
Whittier have vanished wife and child,
And heareth. praying, his answer fall,
"Paticnce that village shall hold ye ail!'
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How to Manage Men.

When you want to manage men, do as
bee-keepers do when they want to manage
bees. Here are two men that have bees in
hive. One says:
II own these bees, and am going to divide
them, and move them"
He prepares a place for them, and then
goes to the hive, thrusts his hand rudely
into the midst of them, and very soon he
has bees all over him, and he moves him.
self very rapidly That is just as | have
seen men attempt to manage them.
Another man gets bowl of sugar and
water and washes his hands all over, and
goes with the utmost quietness and sereni-
ty and opens the hive, and puts his hand in
gently, and the bees find everything sweet,
and he can scoop them up as though they
we're SO much -four, and put them in as ma
ny hives as he pleases (f he only takes
care to put queen bee in each, and they.
will not sting him or fly away And peo-
pie say
"Wonderful that man has real magnet
ic power with bees"
So he has when he has sugar and water
on his hands.
Now, when you want to manage men
wash your hands with sugar and water
II, w. Beecher.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-02-25

PROFITS OF RAISING SoRGHUM.-The ex~
tent of this crop the past season would
hardly be credited, if full statement could
be made of it in every part of the country.
The cane seems to grow wherever Indian
corn can be cultivated, and requires no
more attention. The accounts that reach
us from every and opposite quarters bear
the same testimony as to the success, more
or less satisfying, that has attended its cul-
tivation.
A writer in the Western Rural, named
Almon Maltby, of Brighton, Michigan,
states that he has raised as much as two
hundred and forty-four gallons of molasses
per acre, and that neighbor has obtained
as much as two hundred and eighty gallons.
On some land he obtained, however only
60 gallons. He sold all his at 81 20 per
gallon. This molasses, he says is preferred
to the best southern.
From such results as these, as we'll as
from the general results of the culture which
must be more encouraging as the nature OF
the crop is better understood, each one can
Judge for himself whether or not this new
branch of agriculture will "pay."-Hagers-
toeon I0rchLight.
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Goopsl GOODS GOODS!

r AM receiving weekly fresh nANS~M
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, Ad8 ar
QUEENSWARE, &C., which We Essss.sRf
consists in part Of -
Persian Cloth Ladies' Black Dress silks
Valencias and De Baixe; assortment of Pur-
Piles and MORNINGS (EnglishP Prints); Manehes-
ter and Domestic Ginghams; Ladies' Shawls in
great varieties, and Mantillas Eubias; French
Worked Collars; Undersleeves; Insertions and
Edgings; Furniture Calice Ladies', Gentle
men and Childrens' Hosiery in great variety ;
Black Alpaeas from IS to IS cts; Bleached
and Unbieaehed Muslins Shirting Linens
from rs to s74 cts.; Table Diapers and Cloths
Sheetings, beached and unbleached; Napkins
from rs cts. to $3 per doz. Linen, Habakuk,
Diaper, and Linen Crash, bleached and un-
bleached.
Gentlemens' Black Doeskin Cassimeres,
and a beautiful quality of French Cloths, Gas
sinetts, Tweeds, Kentucky Jeans, with every
variety of gentlemens wear.
Sugar, Molasses, Green and Drowned Cofees
of the best quality always ON hand; Green and
Black Teas Best Sugar Cured Hams, Middling
and Shoulder Bacon, Baltimore eured-with a
general assortment of Groceries, Provisions,
Hardware, Qaeensware, Tinware, Medicines
Boots, Shoes, Hats and Caps, &C., &C., in great
variety.
Also, Super, Extra, Best Extra, and Family
FLOUR. lfk
MRS. M. A. SHEALEY,
Nav 2.-tf Towsontown, Nd.
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Official Record for 1865.
Public Oflcers Of the United States.

President-Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois.
Jice Prcsideat-Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine; !;
after March 4th, Andrew Johnson, of Tenn.
Secretary Of Statc-William H. Seward, Of
New York.
Secretary Of the Treasury William Pitt Fes-
senden, Of Maine.
Secretary Of War-Edwin M. Stanton, Of
Pennsylvania.
Secretary Of the Navy-Gdeon wellea, ofCon-
necticut.
Secretary Of Tie Interfor-John P. Usher, of
Indiana.
PostMaste, Generak-Wm. Dennison, Of Ohio.
Attorney General-J ames J. Speed, of Ken
lucky.
JUDGE Advocate GeaeraAJos. Holt, of Ken
lucky.
Provost Marshal General--James D. Fry.
Commissioner Of Iatersdl Reveauc-Joseph J.
Lewis, of Pennsyyania.
Commissioned of Agricniture-Issac Newton,
of Pennsylvania. & J'AaA
Chiet-Justice Of the Supreme CO1rt-sslmon
P. Chase, of Ohio.
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public officors of Maryland.

Gouernor-Augustus W. Bradford, Baltimore
county. klt.
Lieut.. Gouernsr--C Christopher c. Cox, Talbot
county. .4 L4.Jyf
Secretary Of State william B, Hill, Baltimore
city. .s.a 80.
Arundel county. is
Adjutant Generat-John $. Berry, Baltimore
county. - 49,.
ConsptroRer-Rober J. Jump, Caroline co.
1reasurer-Robert Fowler, Baltimore county.
Commissioner Of Land 06cs-William l.. ".
Seabrook, Frederick county.
Judges courtef Apgsals- J. GoldsborousS'
lst district; James l.. Bartol, I'd district; >.
Morris Cochran, srd district; Daniel Weisel,
4th district; Richard /. Bowie, 5th district.
Superintendent of Public bstrEctio"-L. L. Van
Bokkelen, Baltimore county.
United States Senators-Reyerdy johnson,
Baltimore city Thomas Holiday Hicks, Dor
chester county.
Representaiives in Congress-. A. j. Creswell,
lst district; Edwin H. Webster, I'd district: !;
Henry Winter Davis, Srd district; Francis
Thomas, 4th district; Benjaman G. Harris, 9th
district. ts4ss lUe
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Railroad Directory.
= . EsSs 81 R|E)l
Northern Central Railway.
TRAINy NORTHWARL

. sfi TRAINS NORTH WARD.
Mail leaves Calvert Station at........e.2O A. M.
Pittsburg and Erie Express........aS.00 z. M.
Pittsburg and Elmira Exprcss......l0.0o P. NJ.
Harrisburg Accommodation leaves at 2.5o z. NJ.
Parkton Accommodation No. 1920 A. M.
Parkton Accommodation No. 3 500 Z. M.
TRAINS so UTHWARD. 0t
Mail train arrives at Calvert Station $50 P. NJ
Pittsburg, Elmira and Erie Express.7 ~ a. NJ
Harrisburg Accommodation arrives 1920 A. NJ
Parkton Accommodation, No. 2......- $50 A. M
Parkton Accommodation, No. 4........725 T. NJ:
Pittsburg Express through without change OF
cars. ..ss air
Express Train leaves at 1000 daily.
Ex press Train at 800 daily, except Saturdays,
for Harrisburg. Pittsburg and Erie.
Express at 1000 P. NJ, Sundays, for Harris
burg Pittsburg and the West only, arrives dai-
ly except Mondays. .
Express at 500 P. NJ, leaves daily except
Saturdays.
Mail daily, except Sundays. Harrisburg Ac-
commodation leaves daily except sundays.-.
Mail and Express will not stop between Balti-
more and Parkton.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-02-25

egJosh Billings expresses our views on
the subject of autographs precisely lie
thus replies to an anxious correspondent
who asked for his autograph:
"Wenever furnish ortograffs in less guam
titles than bi the packig. 1t is blzness
that CRATE men have got into, but it don't
strike us az being profitable nor amusing:
We furnished a near and very dear friend
our ortograff few years ago, for 80 days.
and it cot into the hands of one OF the
banks, and it cost us $275 tew get it back.
We went out of the bizness then, and have
not hankered for it SINCE"
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Public onicers of Baltimore County.

Judge-Richard Grason.
State's Attorney-John T. Ensor.
Cles.k-John H. Longnecker. $3.50 @
Sherif-James Thompson.
Reqister-John Philpot.
Treasured christian Gore.
Judges Of the Orphaas Court-Stsphen W.
Falls, James A. Standford, Joseph Merryman.
County C6nsMiSsionsrs-Joshua F. Cockey,
James Button, Daniel J. McCauley.
State Senatoy-Edward p Philpot.
House of Delegates-W. H. Hoffman, George
Slothower, D. X. Lusby, David King, q: Poteet,
n. H. Parker.
Collectors of Internal Revenae-Jos. j. Stew
art, I'd district; George w. Sands, 5th district.
Assessors Of Interval Repenue-John W. Web
ster, I'd district; VIM. yelling, 5th district.
Board Of Enrolment, I'd District-Robt Cath
cart Provost Marshal; iona. J. Chapman, Com
missioner; J. Robert Ward, Surgeon.
Board of Enrolment, 5th District-John G.
Holland, Provost Marshal; Benjamin Whit
wright, Commissioner; DIR. Dorsey, Surgeon.
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NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN SOLDIERS
Some curious facts have been disclosed by
statistics furnished by the Sanitary Com
mission, which body has caused measure
ments to be made on an extensive scale in
our armies and among rebel prisoners. 1t
appears that Southern soldiers average one
inch more in statue than Northern, but
one less in girth and in cranical measure
ment. Five per cent. of the rebel prison.
ers were of foreign birth, and twenty per
cent. of Union soldiers were foreigners.
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Selett goetry.
From the Portsmouth Times.
THE BORE Of THE OIL BRIGADE.

Half an inch, half an inch.
,i3 Half an inch downward,
Down to the gates of hell
Bored the six hundred.
Downward the Oil Brigade!
Bore for the oil," they said
Into the jaws Of He'll
ai Bored the six hundred.
.I9f .laaH tail /
"Downward the Oil Brigader
Was there man dismayed!
Not though each lessee knew
His cash was numbered. 1
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to bore or die
Into the gates Of He'll
Bored the six hundred.
Petroleum to right of them,
Rock oil to left of them,
Coal oil beneath them,
Quietly slumbered.
6tormed at with jeers and yells,
Deeply they bored the wells;
Down through the rocks of earth,
Down to the mouth of He'll
Bored the six hundred.
Waved they their leases there,
With triumphant air
Each greasy millionaire
Counted his profits while
All his friends wondered.
Plunged in the dirty soil,
Straight through the rocks they toll,
Whife the poor skeptic,
Struck by tho smell of oil,
Thought he had blundered--
Sad he returned, but not
in Yet the six hundred.
Oil was to right of them,
Oil was to left Of them.
Oil far beneath them
And yet they had blundered
Stormed they with curses well,
While stocks and courage fell,
Badly they wished to sell
They woke from their golden dream,
Came from their oil less wells;
All that was left of them
Left of six hundred.
How can their glory fadeP
How will their stocks be paid?
All the world wondered.
Look at the holes they made;
And honor the Oil Brigade
Broken six hundred
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ssrIt is estimated that the oil product

eszTt is estimated that the oil product
of Venango County, Pa, is at least ten
thousand barrels daily. This, at the aver
age price of ten dollars at the wells, which
is a low average, will give one hundred
thousand dollars day, or over thirty mill
ion dollars a year. The number of wells
on Oil Creek, in July, 1862, was seven
hundred; at the present time the NUMBER
of wells down and going down in the coun-
try. is estimated between three and four
fhoucand
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RySpeaking of "last words" one of the
finest expressions we ever knew as uttered
by dying man, was that Of stage driver
in California, few years ago. Several
friends, drivers like himself, we're standing
by his bedside Boys" said he feebly.
ii am on the down grade, and cant reach
the brake! and died,
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baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

Mail Train for the Ohio river will leave Bal
timore daily Except Sunday at 800 Am,
Express Train will leave Baltimore daily at
$40 p. NJ. 4sa .iius.
Both trains connect at the Ohio river for all
points West, Southwest and Northwest.
Frederick Train leaves Baltimore daily at T.
90 p NJ; and Frederick at 100 A. M, Sundays
excepted.
The Ellicotts Mills Train leaves Baltimore
at g. 20 and 1000 A. NJ, and 200 P. NJ; and Ell
licott's Mills at 700 and l1.30 and $3.50 T. NJ.
FOR WASHINGTON si
Leave Baltimore at 43O, 100, $50, $40 a. m.
and $50, and 500 P. M. On Sundays at
4.3O $50 A. M, and $50 and 600 P. NJ. Leave
Washington at 6.15, S.15 and Ills A. NJ, and
800, 4.3O, and 6.45 P. M. On Sundays at
s.l5, Ills and 800 A. NJ, and 800 P. NJ. The
04O a. m. and $50 p, m. trains only from Baltl-
more, and the S15 a. m. and 500 p. IN. from
Washington stop at way points. The 100, $50
a. IN. and the $50 and 500 p. IN. from Balti.
more, and the 6.15 and s:l5 a. m. and 300 and
4sO D. m. trains from Washington connect with
trains on the Annapolis road.