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NEW SEWING MACHINE,

Tailoring, shoes, Carriage Trimmcrs, and
Family Sewing.
TTNHIS machinc looks like Singers, and is called the
Il Etna. 1t docs not make any noise 1t will pay
to examine this machine before buying elsewhere.
sats W. s. DYER,
Sole Agent for Maine, 16G Middle ST., up stairs.
August q. cod1m* fsF '
nj ASONIC NOTICE Members Of the Masonic
IN ~ FRA ternty desiring relief are requested to
ca,I M upon either Of the following persons:
VIM. Curtis, Edwin S. Shaw, Timothy j Murray,
on the part Of Portland Lodge
tsrqus taq & ehing: VIM. Ross Jr., Henry L. Paine,
on the part Oh Ancient Landmark Lodge
hutus Stann,ey, Daniel W. True, A. NJ Burton, on
tno Poi " fAtidu''c Louge jul 14-tf
For Sale, .a
GTORE No. "A Fore street corner of Franklin Aleo
- lot of land OIL the corner of Lincoln and Smtb
streets, 80 X 30 feet. Enquire Of
sep7-3ws J.F WEEKS.
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Wanted.
Temperance Lecturer Wanted.

4 SALESMAN of experience in the retail Dry
IA Goods business may find permanent situation
by addressing Box 1O6, Portland p. o. sept12tf
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THE MAINE STATE PRESS, is published at the
same place every THURSDAY morning at $500 year,
invariably in advance. fN.tsI Iz4'
HATES OF ADVERTIsING.-One inch OF space, III
length oil column constitutes a square.
Sl.5o per square daily first week % cents per
week atter three Insertions or less, SlO0; conthu-
ing every other day after first week, so cents.
Halt square, three insertions or less, 70 cents one
week, $i00; 80 cents per week alter.
Under head Of ssAMUsEMENrs,' $500 per square
per week; three insertions or less, $780,
Advertisements inserted in the "MAINE STATE
PREss" (which has a large circulation in every par
of the State for S1O0 per square for first insertion
and so cents per square for each subsequent nser-
tion.
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SPORT To-DAY.-There will be considerable
excitement to-day. First comes off the base
ball game, which the Cushnoc Club of Angus
ia is to play with the Eon Club of this city. II
the weather is pleasant the game will COM
mence at 10 o'clock this morning on the
Arsenal grounds. The Cushnocs arrived here
yesterday and are in good feather.
The great rowing match between Ward and
Brown will come off at a O'Clock this afternoon
wind and weather permitting. Ward, who has
the right to fix the time will not let it come off
If the water is very rough, while Brown is
ready to try it in any weather. The wharyes
in the lower part of the harbor will afford a
good opportunity for the thousands to witness
this aquatic race. The odds are in favor of
Ward and but little money has been bet here
on the result - ,H sa''tAt 9irl
q r. B.. Since the above was put in type the
time of the race has been altered. 1t will come
off at eleven o'clock if the weather and water
suit Ward. The starting point is expected to
be somewhere near the bridge ln91 il
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COOt-MNEeTs Wanted !

GOOD coat makers can secure steady employment
VI and the highest prices by calling Immediately on
EASTlI4N BROTHERS,
332 Congress Street.
Sept 15-dtf
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AGENTS Wanted
-FoR- .fq.5,.-.
For Frank Moore's New Work,
" Women of the WN2s. ?,

Agents Will find this a book of real merit and IN
uinsic value-sUDJEcP NEw-intensely interesting
and exciting. No work ever attracted and engaged
The public mind like this, Every body wants it, and
thousands will purchase it as soon as an opportunity
is afforded them. ~
Intelligent, active MALES Females will find the
sale OF tbs work pleasant and lucrative employ-
mont. This book has no compettor-it comes new
and fresh To the people. The territory is clean and
ticular.
For full particulars send for circular.
a. Address G. A. CHAPLIN. Agent
dNwtiS7 215 Free ST. room No. 0.
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Wanted.

BOARD for a Gentleman and Wife in a private
ID family or a first class boarding house. Central
location preferred, Address D, H. B., Box 1889.
sept18dtf ~
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Notice.

Notice.
T1HE undersigned hereby give notice that portion
i OF the cObwork at the southern end of Vaughan's
Bridge will be removed OH Monday tho 10th instant,
for the purpose of filling in and making solid the
southerly end of said bridge, and all persons IN
travelling the will do SO at their own risk
- j. M. ROBINSON,
GEO. L. HENLEY,
.-l.' III. S. JACKSON,
- Selectmen Of Cape Elizabeth.
Care Elizabeth April IS 8.ts ap14-tf
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Situations Wanted! !

pY several active and trusty young men, as hostlers
- in private families, porter store or hotel to
grocery dry goods clerk, farming. Permanent sit
uatioDs al almost any Kind of labor Good references
given. Apply at Employment Office, 35i1 Congress
Street, Portland, Nc. WHITNItY &. 90.
Sent 12-d11r& - ~
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: Allen Mission schaaI.

acknowledge the reception of the following
sums of money, the same to be appropriated
for the benefit of said school: '7.' sll lHsv-a
Bromaeld Street M. E. Sunday S' .. /
Schoob bost0n, lQL q lL1iw b5hp, $33 90
M. E. Sunday School, Winehen.s,a8 .as.s- ,
d0n, MASS, :sB4. ,hAHf1O 90
M: E. Sunday School, Salisbury, -.
NJ: e. Sunday School, Kenne- .-,.-..l4
nj n S,nia,y Sobool p.r,, q. -11esfs5 70 w
lewiston Me-, by H. B. ABB '''''''
From rom friend in New Hamp- Y
shire, by J. P. Maggee,s 'l -4ii 2 90
Total, "a IA
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Wanted.
DERSoNS wishing copying done can have the
l. same faithfully and promptly executed by ad-
dressing JAMES Y. MERRILL,
sep17d1ws Portland p o.
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Wanted,

A NY Jobbng House, wanting travelling Sales
"A man, can hear of one that can bring the best Of
City references and trade by addressing
sepl4d1ws w. b., Portland p. O..
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Tinmen Wanted.

TWO or three Tin Plate and Sheet Iron Workmcn.
Il wanted at once. Call at the Stove Ware House,
under Lancaster Hail.
sep8-d1m C. C. TOLMAN Agent
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Area OF the Burnt District.

In the Pxsss of Saturday morning last Mr.
Barnes, in the mama of the Committee who
sent abroad that eloqent and timely appeal
denies with great emphasis that the appeal
gave any sanction to the story referred to by
me, that the burnt area contained more than
three hundred and to0enty acres, but, ON the con-
trary, he says the "Printed appeal states it ex-
plicitly as space of more than one hundred
and. fifty acres. N pIa4.-
Now. as the reputation of my young friends
Starbird and Twitchell, might be affected by a
denial, which concerns me only, for the charge
was made by me, I hasten to say:
First, That in the Transcript of July 14th
now before me-published ten days after the
fire, which of course, gave ample time for veri-
hcatlon-l find the estimate exactly as have
given it-"ttree hundred and tloenty acres" in
the appeal" referred to, purporting to be sign
ed by Messrss Barnes Mcclellan and Spring,
sanctioned by the Mayor himself in his official
capacity, and earnestly recommended for re-
publication throughout the country -H
Second, That SO far from saying the burnt
district contained an area of three hundred and
tDeisty acres on the authority of said appeal
or OF occasional conversation in the Streets"
said exp ressly that, according to my computa-
ton it was only about zone hundred and thirty
acres" Letme not be Misunderstood II charge
nobody with Misrepresentation; 1 only refer
red to the estimate in the "appeal," without
adopting or "sanctioning" such estimate.
EFE FtFE v n JOHN MEAL
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MOulders Wanted.
VNlIREE or four Moulders wanted at once 81,
l. WE. STEVENS q Co.
sep17dlw South End of Xaughan's Bridge.
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Emnloyment Office.

rNHE snbscrib rs respectfully notify all those want
Il ing either Male Female help for any situation
that they have rcopened their General Agency En-
poymeut Office at No. 351 Congress street. UP stairs
and that they are prepared to furnish them with
except for girls to do housewotk provided they viii
leave teir applications at The office stating require
ments.
WHITNEY q co,
Portland, SEPT. lst, 1866.
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SPECIAL CARD TO THE READER.
The Crosby Opera Honse Art Association ;s M o;f,
enterprise, and must not be cOnfounded with Dollar
Gift Concerts which have been advertised to take
consent Of the Proprietors.. -
Serjtcmber is, 1866 dow Nt ItfE
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For Sale Chean.

TUE SttIO CuCIps
HORSE, WAGON, PUNG, and HARNESS; En-
Ill quire of SCAMMAN & COLBY,
sep18d1w* Union Wharf
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-14

Report on the Crop PrOspeet.-The
Commissioner of Agriculture, Saturday,
issued a report on the condition of the
crops, giving some additional infOFma-
ton besides thatin the report published
two weeks since. From careful analy-
sis of the statistical returns, with due
regard to the usual average product and
present losses of each state, the pros
pect of the LIST of June was for seven
tenths of crop, with favorable weather,
and the absence of casualties before
harvesting. The indications point to
three fourths of an average total yield
of wheat. Indiana seems to have suf-
fered most from winter killing,-by APP
pearances 81 per cent,-Ohio four
tenths, but Indiana has four-tenths
more spring wheat than usual. This
should give each, of spring and winter
wheat together, a total of FIVE tenths.
Illinois promises three-fourths of crop,
though the appearance of winter wheat
was seven. tenths. In Wisconsin the APP
pearance of winter wheat is six and one
third tenths; a prospect OF at least
three fOurths of a crop. Iowa, In view
of the breadth of spring wheat, would
give a full crop. Kansas will have
fifteen-tenths OF an ordinary CROP.
Missouri and Minnesota will have
more. The district west of the Dissis-
sippi, taken together, promises decided
~ none than an average. New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania each in
dictate eight-tenths of crop. la New
England, the injury to winter wheat
was less than one-tenth; New Hampshire
81 per cent. in Maine one-tenth; in
Massachusetts three tenths.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-14
kgasslz ana bis Discoveries.

Ia the July number of the Atlantic
Monthly, Professor Agassiz throws
down the gauntlet of defiance TO the OPP
ponents of his glacial theory. In the
first of a series of papers on the ''Phy-
steal History of the Valley of the ANA
zon," he gave us the first account yet
received direct from himself of the re-
markable discoveries which have at
tended his explorations in Brazil, and
announces his position In these positive
terms: q r.
81 am prepared to find that the state
ment of new phase of the glacial peri
cd will awaken among my scientific
colleagues an opposition even more vi
client than that by which the first an
nouncement of my views on this sub
ject was met. am, however, willing
to blde my time; feeling sure that, as
the theory of the ancient extension of
glaciers in Europe has gradually come
to be accepted by biologists, so will the
existence of like phenomena, both in
North and South America, during the
ssme epoch, be recognized sooner or
later, as part of great series of phys
ical events extending over the whole
globe. Indeed when the ice period is
fully understood, il will be seen that the
absurdity lies in supposing that climat-
ic conditions so intense could be limited
to small portion of the worlds surface.
/ If the geological winter existed at all, it
must have been cosmic; and il is quite
as rational to look for its traces In the
western as eastern hemisphere, to the
south of the equator as to north of it. y
Agassiz adds that he went to
South America with the expectation of
finding in the tropical regions new evil
dences of a bygone glacial period; and
to show that his expectation was not
unfounded he begins detailed nara
tive of his observations. During the
whole of his journey he has found cor
roboratiye proofs, and these discoveries
will give a greater value to the results
of his expedition even than the extraor-
binary additions he has made to our
knowledge of the general and species OF
the animal world.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-14

in bestowing the elective franchise. Further
consideration was postponed-The Commit
tee on Conference on the tFreedmeD!s
Bhreau. Bill made report sustaining the.
Senate. proposition in relation TO the Sea
Island lands which wae agreed to- The bill
releaving the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Iof their obligations to touch at lionolulu oa-
their way TO China WAS taken up and DISCUSS
ed at some ngth.-Without action, the Sen
ate went into executive session, and then adj
journed. -
In the House, a resolution declaring the
Fenians entitled to rights as beligerents was
rejected without discussion.-A bill was re-
ported reorganiZing the clerical force In the
interior Departmental joint resolution was
adopted for joint Committee on Retrench-
ment. to sit during the recess, to- examine
into the expenses of the civil service, and re-
port, by ball or otherwise, what reductions
and changes are propeT.-Tbe committee on
the case of, Rousseau, and Grinnell reported
/ two resolutions, one for the expulsion OF Mr..
| Rousseau, and for the censure OF Mr.. Grim
NELL Raymond, for the minority OF the COM
mittee, reported in lieu of the first resolution
/ one that Rousseau be publicly reprlmanded
by the Speaker, at the bar of the House.
1 The reports were ordered To be printed The
| tariff bill was taken up. -tts I'D %.
TUFsDAY-In the Senate Wilson in
troduced, from the military committee, the
regular army bill and also the House joint res
olution granting b0unties to colOred soldiers
The amendment to the Indian appropriation
bill to attach the Indian Bureau to the Wal
Department WAS disagreed to-. DoOlittie OF
fered am endments 10 the same bill, making
several additional appropriations, among thea
one of $500 900 for the relief of destitute In
dams. Agreed to. The House ansendmenti
TO tho bill to prevent smuggling we're concur
red in. The House joint resolution rendering
the thanks OF Congress to the working men o
Lyons, France, for a flag designed for the lat
anniversary of Mr.. Iincoln's death, was takeI
up and passed. The Denate adjourned t.
Thursday. III .H
In tho House, the bill to continue in opear
ton the Bureau OF tina Freedmen and Refn
gees was passed, and now goes to the Presi
dent.-The House after come further business
went into Committee Of The Whole on the tar
if bill.-After the committee rose, a resolu
ton was passed to print $4,000 extra copies O
tho agricultural report for l864.-Tho Hous
adjourned till Thursday. gta.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-14
Destructive Fire at Portland, fIe.-HaIf
of the City Destroyed.

PORTLAND, Me-, July A fire here
this evening destroyed Brown IL Sons
sugar house, on Commercial street, and
swept northerly through that street
into the wooden buildings between
Centre and Gross streets, consuming
everything as it went. j. b. Brown q
Sons lost from $500, 900 to $1,000 In:
sured for $300,000 Staples & Sons
machine shop and N. p. Richardson &
Co. s stove foundry are completely de-
stroyed.
PORTLAND, Me-, July 5.-The fire has
completely swept through the city, des-
troying everything in its track so COM
pletely, that the lines of the streets can
hardly be traced. for space of one and
half miles long by quarter of mile
wide. Many buildings, perhaps fif-
ty, were blown up to check the flames,
but the inhabitants could scarcely do
more than flee with their families, to
the upper part of the city, saving such
goods as they could carry. .-s sE
The Custom House being fire proof,
escaped, though greatly damaged. The
Court Records, in the upper story, are
probably destroyed. The splendid city
and county building on Congress street
which was nearly fire proof, was consid-
cred safe and it was piled full of furni-
ture by the neighboring residents, then
it was swept away with all its contents.
Half the city is destroyed, and that
half includes nearly all the business
portions, excepting the heavy business
houses in Commercial street. All the
banks and newspaper offices are burned,
but three printing offices are left. All
the jewelry establishments, wholesale
dry goods stores, several churches, the
telegraph offices, nearly all the station
cry stores and the majority of the BUSH
ness places are destroyed. The fire is
still raging below Commercial street,
working back to the westward, the wind
having changed. Capt. Henry Inman
has telegraphed for I, 500 tents to ac-
the homeless families.
The fire commenced below the foot of
High street. 1t next burned up Halls
Touring mill, then Browns sugar house
with all its surroundings, then Staples
& Sons and Richardson's foundries.-
There was nothing else burned on
Commercial street of any consequence. |
1t next swept what is called Graham's |
Corners, composed OF smaller WOODEN /
buildings, clean. 1t then burned up as |
far as the old Vonnier House, on Pleas
ant street. one-third the way up Center
street, half the way up Cotton street,
and completely up Gross, Union, Tenn /
pie and Exchange streets.
1t swept down on the northerly side
of Pine street to India street on the
east, while on the west it moved along
across the street and down
to Cumberland, taking the Elm House, 1
but sparing the First Parish Church
then from Chestnut street to North
street. 1t made clean sweep on the
side of Cumberland street,
and the same was the case with Congress
street, and everything else to Pine
street, as far east as India street.
1t is almost impossible to tell where
The people lived, the ruin and destruc-
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Important Treasury Order.-The fol


lowing important order, issued by Secre-
tary McCulloch sweeps from the market
the last of the outstanding certificates
of indebtedness. which amount to about
$50, 900, 000:-"Notice is hereby given
to holders of certificates of indebted
ness, issued under act of Congress APP
proved March LIST and 18th, 1862, that
the Secretary of the Treasury, in
accordance with said acts, and the tenor
of said certificates, is prepared to redeem
before maturity all certificates of in
debtedness falling due after August
81, 1866, with accrued interest thereon,
if presenting for redemption on July
18th, 1866, and that thereafter snch
certificates will cease to bear interest,
and be paid on presentation at the De
partment with interest only to 10Th
July next.
FL. MoCULLOoH, Sec'y Treasury.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-14

Decay OF The New ZeaiaBdeTs.-The
English are fond of abusing the people
of the United States for not preserving
the Indian tribes from becoming extinct
before the advance of our civilization.
But the same thing is taking place in
New Zealand. The natives are fast dis
appearing. DIR. Featherstone says that
twenty years ago their numbers were
estimated at one hundred thousand; now
they do not number forty thousand
souls. and in twenty years they will be
reduced to a mere handful. It is not
th9t their longevity is abridged, but
that from some underlined cause, when
ever placed side by side with Europeans,
''the hearths of the natives, like the
wigwams of the American Indians, re-
treat or disappear before the torrent of
immigration.
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TELEGRAPHIc SUMMARY.
RESUME OF TIE NEWS OF THE wEEE.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


The WOODEN factory of John Hill, at
Petersburg, Menard county, Ill. was destroy
ed by fire on the morning of the 18th ult.-
The total loss viii reach nearly $4,000.
A family named COran, a man and
wife. and Que child were poisoned at Indian
apolis on the let inst, by eating some noxlo1s
herbs for greens. - W.
The wooden factory belonging to Sci
bel x Co., at BentOnsport, Iowa, was destroy
ed by fire June "a. The ire Is suPposeet %
have originated from spontaneous combustion
in waste WOOL Loss $4,000; insured Tor
$4,000.
An Augusta, Ga, dispatch, of the
30th ult., says; DIR. ii. Eaton was murdered
py the freedmen IN Camden county. The civil
authorities went TO arrest the murderers bat
were successfully resisted by negro mob
There was horrible murder commit
ted at station No. 10, Georgia. On Wednes-
day night two freedmen butchered Mrs
Rollins her two children, and negro girl
killing the former, and leaving the latter with
out hope of recovery. One of the muTderers
was arrested at Boston.
The South Carolina papers give the
particulars of the late destructive fire at New
bury, S. C., which ranks as fourth in size o
the inland towns, and which is place OF muef
importance as the center of the cotton grow
ing country Of that state. The FIRE spread
was no more to burn. The loss is estimated
at $500 600, on which there was but little III
surance.
A fiendish outrage was perpetrateo
on the ID inst. upon a discharged Federal sol
der, living near Galveston. Three ruffians
wearing masks, entered his house, took bin
out OF bed, aud, with knives, hacked of In
fingers and toes; then built q log fire In thu
fireplace, and threw him on 1t, and hel'
him there until insensible. His hOusekeepe
found him burnt to crisp. No clue to tn
murderers has been obtained.
AnOtOrious guerrilla, with eight o,
ten followers, entered the hOuso of a wealth,
planter, about ten miles from Galveston, Tex
as, the 9th ult., numbering him and insulting
his fOmily. He stole eight thousand dol
lars IN greenbaeks, large amount IN silVe
plate, left openly, defying capture. A squa'
of United States soldiers has been sent iron
this city in pursuit of tho Williams. Murder
and rObberies a-e OfYeTy frequent occurrence
of late. sf. H..
The stables of J. @. Jackson, in Allan
tic Avenue, Brooklyn, were destroyed by fir
Monday night. Edward Clock, member q
engine company No. 3, was run over ant
killed. There was a large number OF yaluabl
horses In the stables, all OF which persisted
Among them the HamiltOnian stallion. Mys
terry, valued at 5000, Red Jacket, $1,000
Sunshine 81, 600, and Peculiar 81 600. Tn
other horses were valued in the aggregate, a
s, ZOO. The horses and carriages destroys
are valued at $40, 900; loss on buildings $4,000
A cOlOred man named Richardson, Is unde
arrest on suspicion of setting the tire.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-14
Manufactures IN Connecticut. "A


the manufacturing centres of Connect
cut, New Haven stands first in the
amount of capital, having So, 936, 655
invested in manufactures, employing
4, 139 males and 3, 316 females, and pro-
ducing goods valued at IS, 283, 1876
annually. Waterbury has invested
81, 736, 900. employs 1862 males and
$40 females, and produces annually
goods worth S3,852,S75. Bridgeport
has $1,466, 400 invested, 2,150 males
Lilo females employed, and produces
So, 573, 900 worth of goods. Hartford
has invested $2,5S3, 200, 2,275 males
and j, 76O females employed, and its
products are valued at IS, 2S3. 49,
Norwich has invested So. 493, $50, en-
ploys 1,674 males and ], 399 females and
produces So, 30, $40 worth of goods an
nually. New London has invested
81, 379. 200, employs 1,670 males and
POI females, and produces 81, 163, 588
worth OF goods.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-14

ton was so complete. Davis, Baxter &
Co.. on Pine street, wholesale dealers in
fancy articles, set down their loss at
$25, 900, which is fully insured --