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but how can this be done? Shall VIC have no
near avenues of trade opened? Why allow
the property between Exchange and Union
streets to lie apparently valueless? The i'm
provement made the past five years on Union
street was credit to our city, and the taxa
Bile properly on Union street has increased
800 per cent. Will any one deny, that If The
city will open Plumb street to Congress street,
Plumb street will become one of the best Du-
siness streets of our city? 1t certainly has all
tie advantages of Exchange street, because 1t
will have the same length that Exchange now
has and new street from Middle to Congress
in five years viii more than pay the cost of all
the land da nages, and in doing this your mer-
chant may secure a first class store where ne
can invite the trade of our State and thus
avoid the land monopoly which must sacrifice
all the best business energy of the city.
Every man that owns dollars worth OF
property, and has any interest to make Port
land what she ought to be out OF the ruins
that now stare us daily in the face, will say
renlace YOUR business interests as soon as pos
sible. This is the life of your city, for through
your merchants capital is used which sup
ports and maintains all classes Capital is
abundant Your merchants In Portland are
liberal, and they only ask liberal policy from
your land holders and your city.
say give us this, and in few years the en-
ergy and capital combined will blot tie fire.
from our memory, except as an improvement.
A MERCHANT.
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Your correspondent, "Traxi," in his interest
ing notice of this princess, has fallen into sew
eral errors which it is due to history to correct
The Princess Mary, lately married to Prince
Won Teck, is not the daughter of the Duke of
Cumberland, hut of the Duke of Cambridge,
the 9th son of George III, and of Augusta,
youngest daughter of Frederick, Landgrave of
Hesse Cassel She was born Nov.n2 1S33--
Her father died in 1850, and her brother, the
present Duke of Cambridge, born in 1919, is
commander in chief of the British Army.
The County Of Cumberland was not named
for the late Duke Of that name, who was not
born until the county had been living eleven
years. But it was named for the uncle of
George Ill., the celebrated Vim. Augustus,
Duke Of Cumberland, born 1921, died 1895. He
commanded in the great battles of Culloden
and Fontenoy, and gained renown. His popu-
larity caused his name to be widely used inthe
British possessions, and our own county es-
tablished in 1850, followed the fashion, as York
had previously done in honor of James, Duke
of York, brother of Charles III. He never was
married, and his title became extinct; but was
revived by George I'LL, who gave it to his fifth
son Ernest Augustus in $780, aoa ~
The late Duke of Cumberland, who was al
so King Of Hanover, died in 1861, leaving four
children, the eldest George V. of Hanover, the
youngest Mary Ernestina, born Dec, 1sl9, is
but sixteen years old. V w.
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The Atlantic Telegraph.

It is not quite thirty years since Professor
Morse, in October, 1886, filed his caveat for the
american Electro Magnetic Telegraph.
The patent was obtained in 1910, and in
1914 the first electromagnetic line in the
United States was put up between Baltimore
and Washington. How the network of in
land telegraph lines has since spread over the
American and European continents, there is
no need to tell. Every morning we lay before
our readers dispatches from every little VII
lage where hailstorm or johnson meeting
disturbs the usual quiet Any event, great or
small, which escapes theomnipresent agent of
the Associated Press, is Immediately picked
up by the voracious special correspondent,
and licked of by the same tireless little ma
chine for instant publication.
The first deep sea cable was laid 1851, be-
tween Dover and Calais. In the same year
the project of an Atlantic telegraph was first
advanced in the London Athenaeum. In
1854, Mr.. +. N. Osborne and Mr.. Cyrus W.
Field succeeded in enlisting several capitalists
in the business, and in 1857 the first exped-
ton sailed from Valentia. In June and July,
1858, The second and third unsuccessful expe-
dltions were undertaken, and fourth last
summer. Yesterday morning we published
the first newspaper telegram ever received
across the Atlantic. After four failures the
business ofpreparing and laying an Atlantic
cable has become SO familiar, so far subject to
the control ofhtman patience and forethought,
that we may count upon the transoceanic tel
egraph hereafter as permanent institution.
This line may give way, but second will i'm
mediately be laid, and we have no reason
hereafter to look for any permanent interrupt
ton. BY happy coincidence the first news
which reached us, ten days, in advance Of the
mails, was Of the restoration ofpeace in Eu-
rope. 1T was fit message to be conveyed by
the slender line which itself will ever be re-.
membered among the most renowned of the
victories of peace. ts
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A Word of Warming From Merchant.

A Word of Warming From a Merchant.
To TitF EDrroE or Tnr. Press: aa
Asoue Of the sufferers by the late FIRE, and
an old resident of the city, feel that there
are some serious questions at this time to be
asked and answered The merchants of the
city are very DESTROYS to return to their Old 10
cations If possible. Can they do it, maintain
their business, and pay the rents which will be
askedp Already some of our landlords are
obtaining for their land as much rent as thew
obtained for their stores before the fire, and to
erect buildings at the present time, with the
enhanced price of labor and materials, must
increase rents ct least a hundred per cent
Can we pay these rents and maintain our
business? q sf f3 Ests2 56f g9f,.
The trade Of our State that has come to
Portland has been brought here by the ener-
gies of our merchants, and already neighbor-
ing cities have their runners over our State
securing the trade which would naturally
come to us, but for our misfortune. The
misfortune to us is benefit to them and
they take the advantage of it. Landlords
and their tenants have an equal interest to
bring our city back to its former prosperity:
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HOME JOURNAL OFFICE,
Gardiner July %. 1856.

. HOME JOURNAL OFFICE, /
!. Gardiner July Is, 1866.
To THE EDfToR OF THE REss. .Ers . 4 F.
No.ic.ny q card in your paper over the sig
nature of sc. W. Atwell," winch think may
mislead many, I wish you to publish TIE fol-
lowing facts. The article from which MI. At
we'll que tbs is as follows: 10 asssi lar.a.55 sda
10 THE BUSINESS MEN OF MAINE. We. invite tho
especial attention OF the business men u Maine TO
tle card published in another column, ana addressed
firms of Portland. That city has labored hard to
build up trade with the towns and cities OF NAME
Her means In many directions have not been crppied
by the late disaster. Commercial street, with the ex-
celton OF lis manufacturing cstablishmentss Is M
TACT. The wlarves with all their varied contents are
Inarmed Her shpers can oer a. goS san S snS
the West, she offer in many RESPECTS the same ati,
vantages which she offered before. 10 az her old
doris usual and tender Che assurance that they will
DO Tiled as promptly and as hbcraiiy as ever. -.
Now, per contra, Mr.. Atwell, Advertising AGENT
sends us said card with the request that NO should
insert it fol- nothing, s'unlcr the circumstances We
believe we are as liberal as most re0re, under the
circumstances" but really we cannot see why these
lncn who arc not burned out, and whose business
will be greatly increased by tho isforunes OF their
ncigbors, should expect us TO advertise for them for
nothing We told Mr.. we .hat We e. ougat ,ne re-
itwas the fault of the merchants. not his. We arc
beginning to feel that Portland sympathy IS getting
run INTO Tic ground, IL IL nas eot W tiis' a
This is the whole article, and any no norable
man will admit that Mr.. Atwell's card by nc
means fairly represents it. Toprove my state
mel t. therein, so far as his laying the blame
on the Portland merchants" quote from his
letter in answer to mine declining to i-sert
gratuitously, and giving price, under date of
July 10. He says-sYour cheeky applies not
to me but to Portland merchants" Every one
NAV draw their own conclusions btween that
paragraph, and this from his card i
The card was put into my hands for publication,
wlththe assurance that the bills for the same would
lie lail on presentation Isent il 10 the newspapers
fr publication. taking the liberty on MY OWN RE-
spoNsfniLIrY 10 suggest that under the circum-
stances il be done free of expense. III d
/ have nothing further to add, except tn at
hope that hereafter if any Portland merchant
wishes to favor me with his patronage, he will
please cfmnunicate through SINE oher
source than Mr.. Atwell.
Yours TRULY 1855 s1is ai4,. s.
aa I'll. X. MORRILL,, Pub. Journal.
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But after all there is bright side to the pic
tute. Look around upon the mansions, stores,
churches and school houses yet standing
enough for a respectable city; talk with the
men, who though they have lost their all, yet
thank God that their lives are spared, and with
hopeful hearts and resolute bearing move right
ongasif nothing had happened, believing that
tue future will be brighter than the past; see
the contributions pouring in from all quarters,
from friends and strangers alike, thus showing
that the opportunity afforded for the exercise
of charity, which blesses both him that gives
and him that receives, is to be put down as one
of the conpensations of the calamity: observe
the vast amount Of capital and labor already
engaged in the restoration of the city, and look
forward in imagination year or two, when
Phoenix-like it viii have arisen from its ashes
fresher and more beautiful than ever, and one
must admit that the shades eff the picture are
relieved by pleasant lights. The relief COM
mittees are doing all In their power to and the
sufferer, many of whom are natives of New
buryport, for which good old city hear COM
pliments on every hand for the prompt and
efficient aid she has rendered the sufferers
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We acknowledge the reproof The newspa-
pcrs Of Portland have not yet done justice, as
they should, to the exertHns of the fire de-
paitment during the late confagration. In
excuse we may plead that no particulars of
the services fthe department have been fur
nished us, and that thousand other matters
have been constantly pressing upon our at
tention. y"
By enquiring we learn that Portland steam
er No. 2 was stationed most of the time on
Centre street and aided, by the Falmouth on
Cotton street, succeeded in preventing the fire
from spreading further up town. The Cum
berland rendered good service on Oxford
street. and the Machigonne on Pearl street.
The hand engine Atlantic was manned by a
company Of volunteers and did good work.
Many and well deserved thanks have been
offered by the people of Portland to the fire
companies which came from abroad to our as
sistance. 1t is time to recognize the fidelity
and usefulness of our own firemen. All that
fearful night and geo part of the next day
they stood at their work, and dragged them
selves YEARLY home at last for refreshments
which nobody at that time had thought to
provide. Their own houses persisted, in sew
eral cases, while they remained at their posts.
We shall gladly avail ourselves, whenever the
official report is made up, OF the opportunity
to publish fuller account of the services 10
which at present we can only advert in this
general way. HsE-,.s
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JOHN w. MUNGER & SON.

he prepared TO issue Policies IN the followlng
IA Companies l,.,,,is, f,ssE T
International Insurance Co., ofNew York,
Capital and Surplus, 81 ,41s,000.
Home Insurance Co., of New Haven,
), - Capital and Surplus, S1,2OO,00o
American Ins. Co., of Providence, Il. l.,
Capital and Surplus, $256,OOO.
Merchants Ems. Co., of Providence, IL. L.,
Capital and Surplus, S237, 200.
The LOSES at Agency, by the fire of 4th and 9th
inst, will amount to over $500, 900, every dollar
Of which has been paid or is In process of adjust
ment. We would respectfully request al persons
desiring insurance, to call at our office and we will
place their risks in responsible Offices. IL ! irl
Office, 166 Fore Street.
jul20-tf JOHN w. MUNGER G. SON.
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Fire and Marine Insur.
aucC COmDaUy.


III SPRINGFIELD, Mass, July 8, 1866.
To the Agents and Patrons of the Springfield Fire
and Marine Insurance Company:
GENTs:-We take this early opportunity to con-
graduate ourselves agents and patrons, that not
withstanding the great fire at Portland, July 4th.
this Company, the 'Old Springfield Fire and Marine
Is sound, vigorous aad strong.
Our losses at Portland are large we estimate
$4,000, after deducing salvages; but heavy as the
claims are, We are prepared to cash every claim as
soon as presented, asking no delay.
We submit to you a Sta ement of our Assets, and
we grateful that after deducting our liabilities
including Portland claims, can show the very re-
spectacle amount Of $12 f72 So over and above the
Capital Stock OF $4,000
- STATEMENT July 1st., 1865.
Capital Stock,..........,. -. $500, 900 90
Surplus, after deducting all claims 8os,472 IS
20 Sf. $503, 472 50
Less Portland claims, $4,000 90
: Aae 4h@ MHS $685. 72 IS
EDMUND FREEMAN, President.
j, N. DUNHAM, Secretary.
JOHN e. DOW & SON, Agents., gsis
jul 10 taras Lancaster Hail.
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INSURANCE.
International Insurance COMPANY
OF the City of New York

International Insurance Company
OF the City of New York.
Total Assets, July 10, 1885, '4iss17 a.
Total Liabilities. including the late Portland Fire,
$21s3
"a An persons desiring fire Insurance can obtain
good policies in this Co.
All persons sustaining loss or damage by the recent
fire, will confer favor by calling at our office adj
justing their loss and receive their MONEY
Portland Office 166 Fore Street.
July Is, 1866. iui14 d3w
NOTICE to the Public. There is ru NOR cur
In rent, which is false In the City, stating the Char
ter Oak Ins. Co. of Hartford, Conn.,. are unable TO
pay their losses and are going to wind up now beg
leave to state that the Charter Oak Office ia abund-
antly able and willing to pay all their losses AMOUNT
ing to over seventy i've thousand dollars and that
they are issuing Policies as usual at current rates.
JOHN E. DOW r SON,
july15du Agents.
Home Insurance Company,
OF New Haven, Conn.
Cash Capital 81 600 90
With Large Surplus.
All persons desiring Fire Insurance obtain good
policies in this Company. n
All persons sustaining loss or damage by the late
fire, will confer tavsr by calling at nur Office, and
adjusting their loss, and receive their money.
Portland Office 116 Fore street.
~ J. W. MUNGER g. SON.
jdl 14-3wed
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INSURANCE.
ALL PAID UP!


Tho subscriber has the satisfaction to announce that
the several insurance companies represented by hii
havC
Have Paid Up i'm full all their Losses
by the Late Conf1agratiOn,
to tho ENTIRE SATISFACTION of all tho parties
Without Delay, Difficulty, or Dispute,
in any tNotwithstanding tho loss Of my books
ONLY SIMPLE INTEREST for Cd DAYS and in many
cases making PROOFS OF LOSSES WITHOUT
The companies represented by me thus far present.
cd arc as follows, Wis.,
PHENIX.
OF HARTFORD.
North American,
OF HARTFORD.
MERCHANTS,
OF HARTFORD.
CITY FIRE.
OF HARTFORD.
NEW ENGLAND.
OF HARTFORD.
Atlantic Fire and Marine,
F u.a.1 q i.is OF PROVIDENCE.
lsIses lisz IL IS b
Western Mass,
fIseinsurod in the Metropolitan
OF PITTSFfELD.
Harmony Fire and
/ ,.s.fsr Marine, 6g
s5W a "a III OF NEW YORK.
Atlantic Mutual,
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NOTICE-Ihe Stockholders OF the DirIgo Insur-
IN an,e Company are hereby notified that the d.
rectors OF said Company have this day determined
that the full amount of all the notes given for stock
there n shall be paid on or before August 90 1866
and have for that purpose made al assessment OF
one hundred dollars per share. Payment of said
notes must therefore be made as aaove al the office
of the Company, No. I'm on Wharf, or the Direc-
tors will, in default thereof proceed 10 sell the col
lateral securities given for said notes. according to
tn provisions OF the Bylaws Of sad Company.
jul 10 10 In I'm '-s y w JEREMIAH DOW, Sec.
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TIE BRIaHr sDE-we clip the following
extract from q Portland letter to the Newbury-
port Herald, signed D.: ina t. ..i--.s,.a,,is ~.
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CUMBERLAND COUNTY
AND
second Senatorial District Convention.
SHERIFF,
CLERK OF THE COURTS,
COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
COUNTY TREASURER,
-FOUR SENATORS.
OF BRUNSWICK,

Also, to elect County Committee for Tie ensuing
year.
Each city and town will be entitled TO send one del
egafe and an additional delegate for every seventy
five votes cast for Samuel Cony at the Gubenatoral
election of 1864. fraction of forty votes win DO en-
titled 20 an additional dclegate as follows:- -.
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NOTICE

MAINE MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO--The
Az new fstock) Class in this Company met with
some losses at the late fire in Portland but they will
be promptly paid from their surplus profits No as
sessIDeut upon the members is necessary Risks of
insurance will be taken upon reasonable terms and
the papers will he forwarded to the insured as FAST s
the great pressure Of business at the office win per-
nit. JOHN A. WATERMAN Sec :.
. Please call on E. WEBSTER 4 SON, Agents, No.
South street. no
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Continental Insurance Company

Continental Insurance Company
OF New York.
Cash Capital, $780, 900
Cash Surplus. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 100000
Casn asseIs,. A,oov,ooV
Three-fourths of the net profits are divided to the
customers in Scrip bearing interest, redeemable IN
the order Of its issue.
This company has paid in fun all its losses by the
fire of July and g. amounting to $41 800, sustain
honorable dealing.
Insurance on Dwelling and Farm Property, espec-
all y solicited.
jul17d4w 1856 Fore St., up stairs,
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The Enterprise Insurace Co.,
400 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.
Cash Capital, paid up in full, f'''- 100000 90
Cash Assets, January 1, 1885, iiat 379,765 4S
The Investments Of this Company are in First Mort
h cages on Real Estat in the City of PHILADELPHIA,
fully selected.
Perpetual Fire Insurance Explained for the benefit
oteal Estate Owners Trustees OF Churches schools,
and other public buildings. 1855 81 r
Perpetual Fire Insurance on Brick and Stone
pauy in Philadelphia for over hundred years and
snow in general in that city and having prov
ed the che pest and best mode of Insurance. Is pre-
ferred by al who examine into its merits
Perpetual Policies do not require to be renewed,
and the assured are consequently not exposed to the
Term Policies. The premium paid Is deposit, which
is reclamable by the assured less deduction of five
per centrum on cancellation Of policy.
f. Ratehf0rd Starr, President.
.,d Thos. H. Montgomery, Vice-President. 10
i Alex. W. Wister, Secretary. - 30 f,,a, q ~
JOHN E. DOW & SON, Agents.
July 14-dH Lancaster Hall.
M UTUAI. BENEFIT LIRE INSURANCE co.
Company, and the public generally, are Informed
that its office established at No. 80 CONNER
'i'l street. in 1h0ma'' w RlSfh SPARROW, sdi
& jul 10 aa0s "a sai5 5.ii State Agent.
ETNA INSURANCE CO.-An parties hav-
II ing claims against the g AZ ma, arising from
10Y adj and payment az our oce
Those effectng insurance are reminded that we
tinue to issue Policies tor this favorite Company
- - s' F iSS ctoFFIN SWAN, Agests, &
iul2o-dtf '9as @ q 1856 Fore street.
TNsURANCE-Lo~sc by the late Are III
Il paid up-An persons desiring safe Insurance,
sen ed BY s olos Il M Assas Square,
: Risks taken as low as in any good Company.
3
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Notice.

All persons holding Policies against the Insur-
ance Companies represent, will confer q favor by
adjusting their loss and calling at office. All
our Companies are able and willing to pay their
losses. so Pc ~ fa9 :
/ should he happy to take the risks Of those Com
panies who have been burnt up.
OFFICE l66 Fore street.
jyot. - l.53io J.W. MUNGER SON. =
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PEPUBLIC Insurance Company, of New
HI York City.
q Cash Capital. ................. $500, 900
s :" SURPLUS. ................. 275,000
Total Cash Assets, ............... $4,000
The less by this Company in the Portland fire is
about $685. 900, or about ONE TENTH OF IT'S SURPLUS.
All claimants for loss by the recent fire. who have
not already received Their money, are invited to
hand in their proofs without delay. Those wishing
insurance in Company, First Glass, in every re-
spect, at fair rates. invited to call at my office,
No. so Commercial street, Thomas Block.
jye3 ssy WARREN SPARROW, Agent.
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w. d. LITTLE. Agent,
The Enterprise Insurace Co.,

20 Commercial Street, over John Dennis s Co.'s
jy30tltf
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COp0rtasership Notice.

TNIIE undersigned will continue the Lumber bust
l. ness, on Commercial Street, at the head Of
smiths Wharf, as heretofore under tho name Of G.
W. Cobb e. Co. e, w, CODB
Portland July 10, 1896. ~ '.' jyc0
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OF EXETER, N. II.

I am permitted to refer to the following persons
whu suffered by the late fire, and insured at my
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The Portland Fire Department.

A day or two since fireman stepped quiet
ly into the Press Office, and asked to have
brief communication put into the paper. At
his dIctafion the following lines were written
down for that purpose: -lssl ,l.ti 4s.o.il.l
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B. TWOmbley, General insurance Rrolxer
LIE would inform his many friends and The n,,blit
generally that he is prepar t continue the insmr
ance Busin s. as Broker, and can place Fire III,
and Marine Insurance to any extent In the best Com
MES in the United States. All business entrusted
TO myc re shall be faithful ly attended to. .. -
once at G. M. kices Paper Store, No. 1888 Fore St
where orders can be left. julI6tf ~
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COMPREHENSIVE.
Dissol,.tio,.o of C opartg.ership

TUE firm of G.. W. CoBB & co. Is hereby dis
Il solved by mutual consent. Either of the sub
scribers is authorized TO settle the business OF the ao
firm. q. w. COBB.
BRIGHAM, CLEMENTS Il WARREN.
Portland July rs, 1sec.
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The Counting Room of the Press will
uniil other arrangements can be made. y
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MANUFACTURERS Insurance Company, Of Bos
HA ton. The Agency of this Company has been
removed to No. 10 FREE STREET. All
persons having claims for losses at the late fire. on
Policies issued by this Company. will please pre-
sent them for adjustment and payment. Policies
will be issued as formerly, all nsurable proper
: ty at fair rates OF premium. This Company is we'll
known as one Of the most reliable in the country.
iy9 i ass,as NATHL +. DEERlNG Agent