Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1866-12-21

| The ice has made about the wharNes, clear
across the river while below it remains open:
lrt as there are no freiai,ts to he had the river
might as well he closed with Ice rs not.
Mr.. j. W. Combs has removed to the
corner store. Peters block, and lifted up his
rooms with excellent taste anil 1T much expense.
He has lust put in new stock Of candies, fruit.
nuts, and every thing usually kept in u confcc-
tioncry store. aud will bc regularly supplied
with the incest Of oysters which he viii serve TO
customers. Mr. Combs has the best fitted up
and the best filled store of the Kind, ever kept
in Ellsworth.
We learn from the Lewiston Journal that
RUFUS Lirrafcc aud VIM Y. Harmon have been
arrested on charge of hutehering the horses and
c;.ttl- in Durham. Their examination COM
menced on Friday.
1t is rtimorcd. and apparently on good
authority. that Hon. Ben Wood. State senator.
in trial Of skill with Congressman elect Hon.
John Morrisscy, ut the semitic game of faro. on
"Wednesday night las,. realized the handsome
winnings ofSIt0, 900. Tie contest took place
at Tia" headquarters of Congressman Morrisscy,
on Twcnty-foulth St.-lN. I. Herald.
BISHOP OF MlINE.-RcN. Dr. Nicely. Bishop
elect of Maine. preached with accrptaiion 10
large congregations at 81. lukc's Church on sun
uaN. ttl> expected coll>ttlat.siH tbi>U-
opric will take place in January. in Trinity
Church. New York. and that fe win In offered
the rcetorship OF st. Lakes Church.-PrcSs
4 VALUABLE INSrKI 'MENT.-Wc had the OPP.
pcrtunity. yesterday. ofeNatninng II rcinarka-
hN 4 Hat cornct, which is To be presented To
MIR. \. u. Harlow of Bangor, who. we under
stand. is very popular and accomplished nut
stefan. The instrument is ofpurc silver. with
gold stops and mountings. and liz cost WAS 500.
1t bears the following inscription.
Presented to
AID. lIAE!a"'
STOCKTON House CtrB.
And their friends of the Pcnot>cot River.
Bangor, Dec. Sth, 1856.
This cornct Was manufactured by MeS>r>.
Gilmore ~ Co. ofthi. city Boston. Advertiser
There was Il current story in This locality
short time since, that the Schooner Emene
Capt. W. X. Young was seized in Portland 70 r
violating the revenue laws. The story is With
out the ca,; foundation, being wholly untrue
or made up without any regard to truth.
fr;-Thc following are the new postoffcc APP
puinimrniS in This state :-Danviilc. Miss III. W.
lngcr.ol. vice q. ID. StciHhtield. resigned:
Wmslow, }. W. Barrett, vice ID. b. Payne. de-
ceased.
Il couple were married 10y mistake at pe'
troit recently. Two couples Went 10 the church
one 10 get married and the other to act rs grooms
man and bridesmaid, bat the clergyman >uppo,-
ing all were TO he married requested the gentle
men to join hands with their respective ladies
which WAS done. and he married the crowd.
The pair that attcn died. ~ assistants. or lockers
on. accepted the situation, and returned home
pleased.
QUICK WoIK.-Mr. Era~tus Erdman. ofilc
firm of j Il. Il f. kcdman, started from EMS
worth OH Monday thr nth for 5,>toir. arrived
there. purchased stock of goods had theur put
on board "A vessel. aud the goods and himself
got back in season 10 have a portion the good
put in the store the same weck.-And by the
way the Mcs>rs Rcdman have in store very
fine lot Of corn aui flour. enough i'll quantity
one would think to- supply all this region, and
yet. We suppose it is but small! part of what
will be required for the winter. However. this
firm have done their part towards meeting the
large demand for these necessary articles.
-Thc Bangor Times in criticism on lee :
ture by Miss johnson delivered III the Pioneer
Chapel of that city SAYS
! In point of ability We have hcar, many poor
er sermons. but here cur commentator e''i~t'-.
| The doctrines size mulgatcd were ofthc most
| radical character and although she enforced her
points with seeming candor aud apparent logic.
many Of her statcNcnis were calculated Ia shock
| the Christian believer and the correct morl>f.
Occasionally She made sharp point and hit up
on fact which struck home 10 tin. straight laced
| self righteous Phari>cc> of our day. But the
| DISCOURSE ~ whole may In characterized ~
p9f JsonTf Of infiiclity, atheism. uEdrria-il,
| rationali.m. with a >prinkliug of the Christian
| plo>ophy- lust enough to give il tone and en-
able its sophstrics 10 take y deeper hold upon
| the crr.ulou> listeners. Still. the true and the
false. the sacred and the ba>phcnaI>. tive scrip
tural are So blended and wrought out->o at
fractively proclaimed from the lips of AN el"-
| qticnt wuman-that we do not much wonder
| that >pfitua>m j. making hcadway in a rival
| ship with the mi,>ty crecds of the past and the
un-ati>iying character Of many of IN" present.
The Communicable. Pike of this district
| is chairman of the Committee To investigate the
facts in regard tn the murder of three Maine sol
dcr> in South Carolina in Oct. 1855. The names
of the murdered men are eupcral NJ. e. Corbet'
and priVatrs Emery I'm it'll, and Mason Brown,
| all Of the lst. Maine Ncte ran Volunteers They
were ordered 10 guard some bales of cotton
seized by the agents of the + rca-ury Depart
mcnt, on the savannah river. and were nui'-
d,red by the claimant of the cotton and band
of hi, friends The muricrcr- Were condemned
to death by military tribunal, bu, have been
partloued by the President by their Ming 500
600 and removed oui the jurisdiction Of Gener-
al Sickle.
1t is said that q. II. browning, the present
secretary of the Interior i the person who in.
>tigatcd the President 10 pardon these base MUIR
derers of Maine men. He have no doubt but
theCommttee appointed by Congres, toinvc,ti-
gate this matter will give the public, or Con.
| grcss, all the facts in the Sc, not sparng any
that are guilty of the release of the murlcrers
however high they may be- in official position,
The men who We're murdered were Maine
men, and it i, lifting that Maine member should
IL, placed ut the head OF the Committee oi in, e,-
tigation.
| CRUELTY TO ASIMAIS.-Therc i, a law on
the statute book Of tli, state against excessive
cruelty 10 animals, and Il wisc and human law
it j.. but it doe, MT reach all the kind, of cru
city inflicted ON dumb animals by thoughtless
or hard hearted people. While the horse oc-
cupics u siar more noble position in the e>tima.
ton ofno,t people than in the past and j. con-
sequently better treated every way, yet there
are scores of people in every community who
still are guilty Of excessive cruelty to The horse,
not by severely beating him hut in variou, 9th.
or ways. W" saw Il horse the other ,iay stand
ing in Il snow bank. hitclicd, that had been driv.
en- until tc was wet with pcrspcraiion, the
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