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Special Commissioners Office,
Nartinsd,"g, July %, 1866.
NOTICE

The parties to the above suit are hereby
notified that | will attend at my Office at the
Court House. in Nj rtinsburg, on Saturday the
18th day Of August next, for the purpose of
carrying the above order into effect, at which
time and place they will produce before me
such evidence and ether matters as may be re-
CURED. and which will enable me to make such
report asthe Court may require in these causes
5. GARARD,
Special Commissioner.
+. Pendeton, for eemplainants.
July ~, lSf6it.
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NOTICE.-TO THOSE WHO GAVE
~ Notes at the sale of Samuel H. Stuckcy,
notice Is hereby given that their Notes are in
my hands for collection, and will become due
on the 18th day of SEPTEMBER next Prompt
payment is advised, to the effect that interest
and cost may be saved
August l6-3t* LEWIS GRANTHAM,
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IT Bl.IC $ Al +

By virtue Of an Order Of the Circuit Court
of Berkey county at the May Term, 1866, in
the ease Of 3 Doll. rs White, &c. the under
signed will offer fer sale. at public auction,
before the urt-Hottse in the Town of War
tin, burg on
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GTATE OF WEST VIRGINIA: In
- the Circuit Court of Berkeley county
Commissioners Office.
Al0afiaSbarq, .1ug1tst ], 1866.

zidftdS099, -ltf9Ha !, lebo.
Pursuant to an order of the Circuit Court of
Berkeley. rendered ut April Term, 1866, in the
case of the Bank Of Berkeley rs. Heirs Adj
minist!atprs. dc. Of Israel Robinson, decd
All persons interested are notified that shall
attend at my Office, on Saturday the 1st day of
September next, to state and settle the admins
traton account of John p Kearfott, Admins
traitor Of said estate, and to ascertain and re-
port the personal assets and effects administer
ed and unaaminsterca of said estate, and also
the debts and liabilities thereof. where the de-
cedent was surety or otherwise and also the
realty of which the docedent died. seized or
entitled to and the liens thereon. and the pri-
critics thereof. &c. and any other matters
deemed pertinent thereto, when and where all
parties interested are required to attend with
any claims, debts, or vouchers they may have,
to enable me to execute the Order of Court in
the above cause.
r.. a. SOMMERVILLE,
Commissioner in Chancery
aug 3 1866 [Pendlcton p q
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SATURDAY, AUGUST -, ls66,

the undivided ono fourth Of Il certain LOT in
the Town of Martinshnrg lying East of the
German Reformed Caureh, Also undi-
vided one-third III The BRICK HOUSE prop
orty i'll said Town, % Burke Street, now occu-
pied by the widow Of John Doll. d., sub
ject 10 tlIe Dover Il said widow.
At the SAM ;ime and plaec ONE SHARE
of the Stock Of the .Nartinshurg and Po-
tomae Turnpii>, Company.
TEsMs-far the Read Estate One third in
hand. and the talanee IN 6 and 42menths, with
interest from the day Of sale, the purchaser
giving bonds and good personal security for
the deferred payments, and the usual liens
upon the property to secure the same also.
Fer the stock =one-hslf in hand and the
halaneein Z months. secured by bond and
good personal security.
EDMUND PENDLET0N,
July =, 1saH Special Commissioner.
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Lyburn, bound from the Island of Levassa to
Hull, with guano, went to pieces after her
crew were rescued by the Russian ship Triton,
OF Souderbury, Capt Geo. Nelson.
Dispatches from our Consul at Liverpool,
dated Jan. 20, 1865, state the cattle scourge is
rather on the increase. He says, during the
week previous to date 9243 cases is reported to
the authorities. Thus far upwards of 10000
cattle have either died with the plague or been
killed after taking it. This, in reality, forms
but a small proportion of actual loss, for hun
dreds of cases have never been reported, and
thousands slaughtered prematurely and hur-
red to market before the plague attacks thAm
Vaccination is being tried as preventative. 1t
is probably too soon to report definitely upon
its success, but there seems to be no doubt the
experiments, as far as they have gone, have
been favorable. The High Sheriff of Cheshire
vaccinated ten cattle, and exposed them to the
plague. Thus far they have not taken it.
The United States Consul at La Rochelle
reports to the Department OF State, under
date of Jan. 18th, that terrific tempest was
raging of. the Coast of France. At the date
OF his despatch no wrecks of American YES
sells are reported. $50 Is
The following appointments were confirmed
by the Senate to-day: Daniel Richards, Tax
Commissioner for the District of Florida; VIM.
T. Kellogg, Collector of Customs at New Or
leans; Brevet Maj. Gen. Benjamin w. Brice,
Acting Paymaster General, to be Paymaster
General with rank of Colonel. A multitude of
Breyet appointments in the volunteer service,
numbering between 5000 and 1900 of ali
grades, from I'd Lieutenant to Colonel, were
also confirmed.
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Special Meeting.
Tufts College.

The Second Term of the current college wear win
begin on Thursday morning, Feb. 22d.
Three Courses OF instruction have been established.
Those who enter for the degree of Bachelor of Phil
osophy, complete their course in two years: for the
degree of Civil Engineer, in three years; for the de-
gree of Bachelor of Arts Irregular collegiate counsel
tour years.
In the regular course, the study of the French and
German Languages may be pursued one year. and OF
the Latin and Greek Languages and the Mathematics
two years, as elective studies, beyond the time for
which they are severally required
Candidates for admission to the two shorter
which are profered those who for any reason cam
not take the regular course-must pass satisfactory
examinations in English Grammar, Modern Geogra-
ply, Mitchell's Ancient Atlas, Goodrich's History
the United States, Arithmetic, Geometry and lila !.
bra.
The College is delightfully."- situated on an em;n ,.
in the town of Medford, four miles from Boston
manding view of twelve or fifteen cities nd vii
lagos.
For further particulars send for catalogna
Post Office Address, College Hill, Mass,
Address Of President, Boston, Mass.
A. A. MINER, President.
Boston, Jan. 16, 1866
jan24-W&S2w.
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Washinaton oorresponaenee.

.-...f NEW YORK. Feb. 5.
The Posts Washington despatch says, the
Ways and Means Committee held special
meeting this afternoon for the further consid-
Grafton of the Reciprocity Treaty. There is
no prospect that they will recommend a new
treaty or the extension of the present one, but
it is probable that the reciprocal legislation
will be approved upon the following basis: The
tax on distilled spirits in Canada and this
country to be similar. so as to prevent snug
Cling, navigation to be open, the locks of the
Welland Canal being enlarged, and the tolls
the same to all parties; importation from Can
ada to be taxed here, so that they shall possess
free ports in Canada to be abolished.
1t is probable that the Freedmen's Bureau
bill in the House will be amended, by consent
OF Mr.. Eliot, who has it in charge, so that its
operations shall be limited to the States now
under martial law.
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From Washin0tofa.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
the following Circular: -

The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
the following Circular:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.,
February 2, 1886.
On September IA, 1865, an order was issued
by this Department under the power conferred
by Section 46 of the Internal Revenue Act of
June 80, 1864, directing articles manufactured
in States lately in instruction, prior to the
establishment of Collection Districts therein,
but retained in possession of the manufacturer
until after such establishment, and thus made
liable to the current rates of taxation, should
be held free from the present assessment until
transported beyond the limits of the above
mentioned States, and should then be subjec-
ted only to the tax due at the time of their
manufacture. The reasons for this exemption
were stated briefly at the time of its allowance.
u was induced by the fact that manufacturers
haa, IN ignorance of the law, retained large
quantities OF their products in their own hands.
anu oy the supposed additional fact the pro-
value. --
Abundant opportunity having been given
Tor the disposal Of these manufactures. there is
no good reason for continuing a privilege in
consistent with the general provisions of the
law, adverse to the interests Of Northern man
ufacturers, and susceptible, as experience has
shown, Of very great abuse.
1t is, therefore, hereby ordered that on and
after March list, 1866, all Southern manu fac
lures in possession OF the manufacturers shall
be held subject to the present rates of duty, no
exception being made in any case on account
OF the date or the manufacture.
(Signed) I'll. MoCULLocH,
Secretary of the Treasury.
The United States Consul at Liverpool re-
ports to the Department of State, under date
Of Jan. IL, the loss of three American vessels,
he Harry of the West, the Meriden. and I'll
,ress, and the rescue of their crews.
The Harry of the West was from New Or
leans to Liverpool, with cotton, and destroyed
by fire. The crew was saved by an American
vessel, the Annie Kimball.
The Meriden, from New York to London,
shattered to pieces, and the crew saved by the
steamer City of Boston, of Liverpool. The
cargo is total loss.
The Tigress, Of Boston, commanded by Isaac
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MoRTALITY OF PoRTLAND.-The whole
number of deaths in Portland during the
month of January was fifty-one; of these
there died of rr--t -rrf..f
Typhoid Fever, A; Consumption, 9; Old
Age, A; Lung Fever 1 /; Diphtheria, 8; Drop
sy 2; Infantile Il; Casualty, 1; Disease of
Heart, 3; Disease of the Liver, 2; Indamma-
ton OF the Bowels, L; Dropsy on the Brain,
L. Cancer, 2; Dysentery, 1; Unknown, Ii
Stillborn, 2; Scrofula, 1 Congestion of Brain,
l; Congestion of Lungs, 5; Pneumonia, 1 !;
Apoplexy, /; Pleurisy, l Exposure, L; Para
lysis, 1 /; Scalded, 1. Total, 81.
Ages-under five years, -; between and
10, 2; between 10 and 20, o.; between 20 and
30, 6; between SO and 49, S; between 40 and
30, 8; between so and 60,4; between go and
70, 5; between 10 and so, s; between 80 and
80, 2; stillborn, 2. Total, 81.
Sexes-Males "a; females, "a; unknown, 8.
Total, 81.
LOUIS DUNCE,
Superintendent of Burials.
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Neic York Markets,

NEW YORK. Feb. B.
Cotton-dul and dropping; sales 200 bales Mid
ding Uplantls Mt 49, =, r - - 7
Flour-sales $500 bbls.; State and Western less
active, but firm for sound; unsound is dull and
heavy. Southern more active and unchanged; sales
bbls. 777 /
Wheat--quiet and firm for sound; sales IA 900
bushels; Milwaukee Club, new, "a a. 1 70 in store.
Corn-declining; sales 26, 900 bushels Mixed West
ern at 50 q S5c in store and delivered.
Oats-steady. trtr
BeeGsteady.
Pork-more active and firmer; sales $500 bbls. |;
new mess at 90 12t q 20 ST., closing at 20 ST.
Lard-steady; sales $50 bbls. at IL a 17a.
Whiskey-nominal.
Sugars quiet and steady.
Coffee-quiet. FL
Moasses-quiet.
Naval Stores-quiet.
Petroleun-erude at 80 a 321.
Freights to Liverpool Quietand firm.
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Financial.

bT fa NEW YORK. Feb. 2. 4
The Commercials money article says the stock mar
ket opens extremely dull. The entire transactions
Of the regular board this morning amounted to only
about IL, 900 shares. The financial bill hangs as q
dead weight upon the market. rr
The prospect of attempt to fund the currency is
viewed with general apprehension. Wall Street is
just now commencing to anticipate the effects of Sec
rotary McBullochs measures. Although that course
may break the force of the ultimate inevitable crisis
yet it must produce henceforth weak and steadily
declining MARKET and general stagnation of bust
ness.
Tie Bank Statement exhibits continued departure
of the ease that lately prevailed.
Loans are still increasing simultaneously with the
decrease of deposits and legal tenders The increase
in loans is probably largely due to deposits made in
the Sub-Treasury previous to the reduction in the
rate of interest Governments dull but decided
ly firm. Money is dull; rates unchanged.
Gold is firm at about Saturdays rates. 1t opened
at 1891, and advanced to 49, then fell to 1885, At
13O P. M, it was 1884,
Foreign exchange quiet. Rates for Wednesdays
steamer open low. Prime bankers sixty days ster-
ling 1885, commercial sterling is still in excess of the
demand. and prizes are as weak as last week.
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LOOic DONCE3
Superintendent of Durials.

CoNcERT.-The concert by Mr.. and Mr..
Newton Fitz, to be given at City Hall, this ev-
ening, gives promise of being splendid af-
fair The programme is rich one, compris-
ing gems from the best composers. Messrs'
Morgan and Shaw will lend their valuable as
sistance towards making the concert agreeable
and pleasing, and with the combined musical
talent of this quartette, something far above
the common run of concerts may be expected.
We are pleased to learn that tickets are hav-
ing rapid sale.
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Store to Let.

TIME Brick Store corner Commercial and Franklin
i Streets, at present occupied by Messrs. Jeffer-
son Coolidge & Co. Possession given Oct: LIST.
.arfG sarlaew A. q s. E. SPRING.
Sept 27-df ts1s waI cf .eg
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THE STEAMER DIRIGo.-This new and
splendid steamer just put on the line of the
New England Screw Steamship Company, re.
turned from her first trip to New York early
yesterday morning. She made the run back
in 80 hours, and the working of her machine
ry, and her excellent behavior at sea, were
such as to secure the entire satisfaction of all
on board. .-
We congratulate the company and the pub
lie on the acquisition OF so commodious, swift
and safe a steamer on this route
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Great Naval Race.

NEW YORK, Feb. 5. I
The sea race between the Algonquin and
Winooski begins tomorrow if the weather
permits. The great quantity of ice in the bay
seems now the only formidable obstacle, and
1t IS thought that the receding tide will leave
the bay clear of this. The course lies between
Throgg's Neck and Faulkner's Island. distant
one hundred miles, five trips around the island
and return making loco miles, which will COM
plele the contest
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Chicago Markets

OWtCUyO 1HUFN6tSs ID
CHICAGO, Feb. 5.
Flour-dull.
wheat--dull sales at / 20 for No. 1.
Corn-dull.
Oats-quiet.
High Wines-quiet.
Provisions-Mess Pork moderately active.
Hams-fully cured, III.
Bulk Meats-irm and quiet; sales clear sides
loose 154.
Green Meats-in fair request; hams 15a q 10;
rough sides 124. ~
Sweet Picked Hams-at 153.
Beef Hans-at So % So.
Lard-dull at 16t a IT.
English Meats-quiet; short rib al. IfA
Live Hogs-nominally higher but no sales.
Dressed Hogs advanced 10 g 26c, closing at 10 Is
a II 25 for good lots.
Receipts - $500 bbls. Of -four, $4,000 bushels Of
wheat, $4,000 bushels of corn, o. 900 bushels oats
$500 live hogs, 3,4OO dressed hogs.
Shipments !, 400 bbls. -four, 5000 bushels
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Look OUT FOR Coop THEY'VE under
stand the Young Ladies' N. N. Society are
making arrangements for fine time at the
City Hail. on Monday evening next. The
novel features will be tableaux from Dickens,
Barnmns Museum, and other attractions, the
whole to conclude with Promenade Concert.
Advertisement hereafter, to which reference
may be had for more definite particulars.
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For Sale.
A LOT in Evergreen Cemetery, on the main Ave-
N nue.. Said lot Is composed Of two lots in one,
and is very handsomely laid out. For particulars,
address Box 500 p. o.
Nov4dH IN
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3. f. C.-The fifth entertainment of the %.
F. CPS will be given this evening at Cummings
Hall, No. Free Street Block The plays will
be the farce of "Bambozling," and the panto-
mime of "The Frisl<y Cobbler." No doubt the
hall will be crowded, as these performances
are among the most pleasant got up in this
citv
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BEEF. BEEF.-The attention of market
men, grocers and Others, is called to the adver-
tisement of Beef in another column. A good
opportunity is offered, for one day only, to
purchase good beef at a comparatively low
fpllre
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sa1 A For Sale.
V,HE UNITED STATES PATENT RIGHT for
Il MARSHALL'S IMPROVED ANCHOR.
For further particulars enquire of, or address
$3.50 GEO. L.. KIMBALL,A
I'M .gft Firm of Stevens. Freeman q Co.
Nov. 11-df Il, - .,.,-.f
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From Washingto5,.

Sass WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.
& We are requested to say that the statement
in a New York paper of Saturday, of propo-
sails made by the Provincial delegates to the
Committee of Ways and Means, with refer
ence to the reciprocity treaty, is in many par
ticulars incorrect and incomplete; and further
that no authorized statement can be given at
this stage of the proceedings.
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PROMENADE CoNcERT.-The tickets for
the Grand Promenade Concert to be given at
City Hall, Thursday evening, in aid of the
erection of the Catholic School House, are 60
ing off fast, and the affair promises to be one
of the most brilliant of the kind that we have
had in this city.
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lCIRCULAR.1
GREAT FAIR
~ AT THE
Q Z 4 Fl a L IL
IN BEHALF OF THE
Portland Freedmen's Aid Association
COMMENCING
MONDAY, Feb. Goth, 1866,
To Continue One Week.

YTlHE proposition of this Society to hold Public
i Fair, to commence on the 26th of February next,
to raise funds to be expended IN supporting teachers
necessary in supplying the present restitution among
them Of food and clothing, has been received in this
city with general appreciation. b.Er
Energetic, patriotic, and influential men and wo-
have promised their assistance and cooperation
to make the contemplated Fair worthy Of the noble
charity with which it is connected and suitable ex-
hibiton OF the liberal and philanthropic spirit Of
Portland and the State of Maine No pains viii be
spared to make this Festival of Charity fit success
or to those which in sister cities aided the Gov
eminent during the war in preserving the health and
efficiency of our victorious armies.
While the chief reliance for returns will be upon
the sale of articles useful and beautiful it is expect
ed that the rooms in which they exhibited will be
made attractive to our citizens and visitors from the
each other in common sympathy with o cause that
moved the best instincts of the popular heart
evenings OF the Fair shall be devoted in part to en-
tertainments of character consonant the public
taste, the particulars of which will be from time to
All persons whose eyes shall meet this Circular are
most earnestly solicited to contribute to the interest
and success OF the occasion. They do this best
by giving it their countenance and presence and i'm
mediate1y by themselves or In connection with 9TH
ers commence the preparation Of articles for exhibit
ton and SALE Any saleable articles will be accepted
and those OF prime use OF course will be preferred
Merchandise, wares, and manufactured goods of ev-
pies potatoes and vegetables of ali kinds viii be &C
eeptable and meet ready sale. To families in the
city, a. well as in the adjoining towns, the commit
tee appeal with confidence for meats and poultry,
cooked or uncooked, milk and cream, eggs, cake,
pastry, bread, butter, cheese and FRUIT prepared
otherwise 4f a- asslc-- 1.u ~
who have the Fair in preparation, if at very early
day, they receive written reply indicating the
kinds OF articles for sale and for the reeshment ia
bies they may be allowed to expect from different
persons and places. Further information may be OBJ
tanned ON application to either OF the undersigned
Executive Committee on Fair.
EHAl articles intended for the Fair should be ad-
dressed 'sFREEDMEN'S FAIR, City Building, Port
land, care OF the Mayor"
aw Executive Committee on Fair.
MISS HARRIET HOWE, ALFRED WooDMAN,
MRS r. o. LIBBY, F. E. PRAY, ~
MRS. H. N. JOSE, JACOB MCCLELLAN,
Mrs, CHAs. HOLDEN, JONAS Fl. PERLEY,
MRS. L. d. SIEPLEY, N. A. FOSTER.
Portland, January goth. 1866. ~ d&wtf
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Mr.. Editor OF the Press:
see in your paper person advertises that
the best families use his Extract. Well, Pope
tells us the good doth merit Gods peculiar
care, but God alone can tell us who they are !;
whilst saints and sinners and the rest of man
kind are using Todd's Hungarian Balsam.
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Secession Predominant In Tesas.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 5.
A special dispatch to the Commercial dated
Austin, Texas, LIST inst, says: "The President
of the Texas Secession Convention has been
elected to preside over the Convention lust as
sembled here to reconstruct the State govern
ment. A large majority of the delegates to
the convention were original secessionists."
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Tari0ns Items.

NEW YORK, Feb s. /
The Kerosene Works Of Albert N. Christie,
Jersey City, exploded last night. One man
was severely burnt. Loss from $4,000 to
$4,000.
OswEGo, N. Y, Feb. s.
Snow fell yesterday to the depth of two
feet The trains on the roads from here are
all detained.
The U. S. storeship Supply has arrived from
Rio Janeiro.
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THAT ANTIQUARIAN SUPPER which comes
off at Gorham tomorrow evening, will attract
many of our Portland people, if the weather
is pleasant. The good people of Gorham will
carry out this affair in good style, and to the
satisfaction of every one who may visit them.
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Collision.

-. - - New YORK, Feb. 5.
A 4th Avenue horse car was demolished in
Centre street to-day, by collision with New
Haven railroad car. The latter was forced
against the horse car by following car, of
which the break gearing broke. Two horses
WERE killed but no person was injured.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.
The Supreme Court to-day, in the case of
the Chenango Bridge VS. Binghampton Bridge,
the former claiming an injunction against the
latter for having built within the limits of two
miles from the former, that having been guar
anteed by the charter of the former, on the
ground that the charter granted to the latter
was unconstitutional, decided that the judy
ment of the State Courts in favor of the Bing-
hampton Bridge was wrong, and remanded
the case back to the Supreme Court of the
State of New YORK, with directions to render
judgment in favor of the Chenango Bridge,
thus giving the latter the exclusive right to
collect tolls for two miles above and below
their bridge.