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The Montana post., 1866-02-17

ATTEMPT AT AssAssNATIoN.-In the Washington
Chronicle" of the 18th ult is long account OF
the attempt made on the 10th of January, to assas
sinate the Hon. Ben. F. Wade of Ohio, at Washing
ton. 1t appears that huge ruian, dressed in gray
clothes called at his house and requested to see him.
Being shown up stairs, he asked the Senator to sign
some recommendatory papers, which he refused to do,
alleging that he was unacquainted with the man.
Seeing most malicious expression in the fellows
eyes, the Senator went into another room, and re-
turned, armed with a loaded pistol. The assassin
again repeated his question, and received for his an
swer a most decided negative, whereupon he then
drew bowieknife, with blade about twelve inches
long but the Senator drew his own weapon too
quickly for him. and, with it looking in his face he
withdrew. Wade followed him to the door saying
which the scoundrel disappeared with all haste.
The Montana post., 1866-02-17

DECISION OF JAMES STEPHENS IN FAVOR OF O'MA-
HoNY. - The Missouri Republican" of the 18th
ult:, contains the following intelligence: "John
O'Mahony has received a letter from James Steph-
ems, &C. f. l. B., the Great Centre of all the Fenians
everywhere, inclosing a commission, by which he
confers on OMahony .s absolute and unauestionable
authority and financial agent of the
Irish Republic 4" in the United States Canada, etc.
Mr.. Stephens says the only misunderstanding that
ever existed between him and O'Mahony related to
what he deemed o'Mahony's " drag chain policy"
Recently, however, Stephens adds, O'Mahony has
entered upon the only path for the salvation of the
Irish land and race; therefore, Stephens asks O'Ma-
hony's forgiveness for MANY things he has written
about him. Stephens now relies 0'Mahony to
bring affairs to speedy ISSUE" The Great Centre
complains of the baseness, cowardice and treachery
of some of the men who went from this country to
Ireland to assist the Fenians there. He thanks God
they have sneaked away. O'Mahony is advised to
| take strong measures. "Cut and hack the rotten
branches around you without pity This can be done
| safely at your side, because the stag is harmless
there" Stephens says that his escape from Bride
well has given such marvellous strength to the Fen
| ian work, and to him such influence, that he can
hold the forces together for some time longer. If
the ranks be somewhat thinned by detection, OF
the bad counses of traitors the brotherhood will be
| so much the stronger. The commission inclosed to
0'Mahony is as follows:
| "IRIsH REPUBLIC Dec. %, 1865.
ITO the members of the Fenian Brotherhood an6
the friends of Ireland generally in the United States
of America, Canada, ETC..
"CoUNTRYMEN AND FRIENDs- Aware that certain
members of the Fenian Brotherhood and notoriously
the Senate of that association have been madly
traitorously moved to mad and traitorous end
raising the cry of to Canada instead of the cry
Ireland, and, aware that John O'Mahony, known a
Head Centre and President of the Fenan Brother
hood, has wisely and firmly, as in duty bound, op
, posed this mad and traitorous diversion from tn
right path It the only path that could possibly say
our country and our race-I in consequence, hereb
appoint the said John O'Mahony representative an
financial agent to the Irish Republic in the Unite
States of America, Canada, etc, with ample and ur
in all other ways in which, to the best of his jude
] ment, he serve Ireland - that land to which
has devoted his life and honor. hereby authoriz
and call on him to do so.
GAMES STEPHENS, c. E. I. r.
The Fenians of this country will, undoubtedl,
give their adhesion to O'Mahony."
The Montana post., 1866-02-17

GONG AHEAD.-The Omaha Republican," of
the 10th of January, says: Yesterday we heard Mr.
Durant promise to have the u P. r. R. completed
to the ioup Fork by the goth of June next COO
miles). The road will cross the Loup Fork about
three miles above Columbus and we understand that
the work of driving the piles for the railroad bridge
will commence next Monday. This is the way this
energetic man is pushing forward this great national
highway. -
The Montana post., 1866-02-17

amount whatever is set down for damage done the
boats that have escaped being sunk. We have heard
a number of computations made on this subject by
steamboatmen and steamboat builders, and the low
est was 600, while some went high as $780,
600 and Sl70,000. Estimating that there are from
twenty-five to thirty boats that will have to go on
the docks, think the amount will reach the high
est figures above mentioned, and il all probability
will go even still higher.
The Montana post., 1866-02-17

The Poor OF ENGLAND. john Bright, in re-
cent speech at Birmingham, thus spoke of the
poorer classes in Great Britain " There among
them one million - considerably more than mill
lion, believe in the United Kingdom of those
who are classed in the unfortunate list Of paupers.
There are at least million that just above the
paupers in peril lest they themselves should
become paupers. Their condition and prospects are
no more favorable than that Then look at the ig-
norance of the lower strata of this portion of the
nation look at their poverty, their suerings, their
utter hopelessness of good. Why, in the American
Southern States during the reign of slavery, every
negro had an idea that there was day of jubilee
for him. Verify they used to say the Lord will
come and deliver us But in this class, the lowest
strata of the population of your country, venture
to say there is neither belief in anything better for
them nor scarcely is there any aspiration after it.
The Montana post., 1866-02-17

THE GILLIAN NAVAL VICTORY. - In the Reese
River Reveile," of the 9th ut., appears the fol-
lowing account of the recent Chilian naval victory
Battles are not always important in proportion
70 the amount of gunpowder burned or blood shed,
s witness the late naval battle between the Chlian
steamer Esmeralda, and the Spanish gunboat Cova-
donga. This was very slight affair, with but very
few persons killed, and yet it affected the proud
spanish Admiral, Parea, the declarer of war, that
he has committed suicide, and the promise is fair
that Chill will gain, by this victory triumph
ant peace. and advance herself into prominent place
among the nations. At the commencement of the
Var the navy of Chill consisted of two vessels the
screw steamers Maipee and Esmeralda. The Esmer-
aida the largest vessel is corvette of sixteen
guns medium thirty-two Founders The Covadonga
is screw gunboat, of about seven hundred tons
and armed with four heavy guns two sixty-eights
and two thirty-twos. She, being fast steamer was
used as a dispatch boat in the blockading feet She
had been to Coquimbo, and was expected to
return to Valparaiso on the 26th of November,
bringing the Admiral's mail, dispatches and m money /;
but on the morning of that day, heavy capponadine
was heard the northward of that city, and all was
intense excitement. At eleven O'Clock at night
however, express arrived at Valparaiso from the
port of Popudo distant forty miles, dated on board
the Esmeralda the same day, stating that her COM
mander, Don Juan Williams, had, that morning,
intercepted the Covadonga, en- route from Couuimbo
to Valparaiso, and, after engagement of half an
hour, had captured her, she having had two killed
and fourteen wounded, while the Chiian vessel had
casualty 10 record. with the vessel he captured
as prisoners of war, seven officers, and hundred
petty officers and seamen, with the armament, SUP.
plies, signal-book, mails, dispatches, money, etc
The prisoners were sent to Santiago, a crew was
shipped and the two vessels went on a cruise Small
rs the battle was, it had moral effect very benef
cia to the CONG The news of it was received
throughout Chill with the widest demonstrations Of
Joy. At Santiago the people went hall mad. Th,
flag of the Republic was hoisted on every house
bands of music paraded the streets, and solemn T.
nuonn VnS ch0utn1 ot tho do
Williams was promoted to Post Captain, and ever,
officer of the Esmeralda was advanced one grade I
subscription also started to purchase magnifi
cent sword to present to the brave Captain Williams
which is very un-Spanish name. Should the othe
States of South America exhibit the courage an
determination of Chill, Spain would soon cease t.
domineer and bully them as she has since they hay
thrown off her hateful yoke"
The Montana post., 1866-02-17

The DEAD OF 1S65.-It would be difficult to recall
year whose neurological list embraced so many IL
ustrious names as that of 1865. The sword gather
ed in mighty array of victims, the assassns bullet
brought down the most distinguished and beloved,
and fatal disease has cut wide swath in the ranks OF
craftsmanship, literature, science, theology and
royalty Of statesmen and diplomatists, the United
States lost its President Lincoln, Edward Everett,
Jackson's Secretary of the Treasury, William J.
Duane, Governors Brough, Corwin, Cannon, Medill,
Smith, Dewitt, Doty and Barstow; Senators Hicks,
Collamer and Preston King, and last, though not
least, Henry Winter Davis. England has lost her
Premier, Palmerston; Turkey and Canada have also
lost their Premiers Belgium its king, and Russia the
herapparent to its throne. The annals of literature
have received their last inscriptions from the pens Of
Mrs. Sigourney, DIR. Wayland, Miss Gould and Mrs.
Gakell Catholicism laments the death of the great
Cardinal Wiseman. Music has lost William Vincent
Wallace and William III. Fry, and art, McLenan.
Herring and Neagle. The various departments of
scientific lore have been deprived of ardent votaries
in Encle, DIR. Worcester, Oiiendorf and DIR. Valen-
tine Mott. Others of lesser fame embraced In
the melancholy list, including the wives of Lord
Brougham, Mr.. Seward and Kossuth, the widows oi
De Tocqueville. Lord Raglan, Aaron Burr, and Tom
Moore and the mother of the lamented Thackeray.-
TROY Times.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-09-20
LATEST NEWS
BY TELEGRAPH, TO THE .otr
PORTLAND DAILY PRESS.
G.l l6 .all1LA,. BHG ElHicJF
Thursday Morning, September 20, 1853.
FROM WASHINGTON.
-FIN4ANCIAL 4AFFAIRS.
INTERNAL REyENUE REcEIprs.
The Collec;0ys1,ia Of Mossacyusests.
RECOGNITION OF coNsULs.

i'g aA iaf el-as WASHINGTON, Sept 49,
The receipts of the United States for the
quarter ending June 30th, exclusive of loans,
were S129,040,762 81, including from customs
over $46,O0O,0OO, and from internal revenue
nearly $64 100000. Total receipts, including
loans, 1921 ,433,O92 81. Expenditures $322, AZ,
701 Al. fi ~ - =
Mr.. I. A. Harlow was instantly killed at
Haxhalls flour mills this afternoon, by, being
drawn in between two cog wheels,
The receipts from the Internal Revenue since
the LIST of July, are $sS,OS6OOO and from Gus
toms $4s,OO0OOO, or an aggregate Of over $780,
100000. 99If& ss9T-g u39 g. fssss. .OF
A delegation from Massachusetts is here urg-
ing the appointment of Gen. Couch as Collect
OF of the port of Boston.
The President has recognized j. w. Currier
as Consul General for the Dominican Republic
in New York. This Is the first instance of the
appointment of such an officer to the United
States government.
The President has also recognized the fol-
lowing Consuls: Wisner Dresel, Consul of
Hanover, at Baltimore; Carlos Charon, consul
of Spain at Galveston, Texas; Herman The
opilus Plate, consul for Saxony, at Philadel-
phia; Charles E. Wanderlich, consul for Bre-
men and consul also for the Netherlands at
Charleston, !. C.; Francisco Parrago, consul
for the United States of Columbia. at New
York; Jean Marie Berrier, consular agent of
France, at Newport, r. 1. 'I''l7 - - p
The Secretary of the Treasury has received
communcaton from an anonymous cores.
ponient at GoldsbOrough, N. c.. enclosing $500
IN confederatet treasury notes., in which the
writer states that he was by mistake oyerpaid
during the last year of the rebellion, in some
deatIng with the rebel quartermaster and being
Union man he did not return the money to
the rebel Government, feeling that he was jus
tifiable under the circumstances in retaining
1T, and supposing that the rebel debt might be
possibly assumed by the United States Govern
ment, he enclosed the same to the Treasury,
There was very large attendance at the Ex-
ecutive mansion to-day, the visitors seeking
an opportunity to converse with the President
Interviews were obtained by several mem
bers Of Congress and by others up to a late
hour. There was no general audience to-day.
the pressure upon the President of Important
business preventing. 81 I'll s u = -
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The mass of the people of Europe, outside of
some of the German States, know little or moth
ing of the progress which has been made in this
country in the last few years in the way of the
invention of labor-saving machinery and in the
developement of the agricultural and mineral
wealth of this country, while we, on this side,
are nearly as ignorant of the state of things
there, and have no sort of conception of the ex-
tensive market which must spring up there for
American machines, tools and other industrial
products, when these are once known, as they
may he, if properly represented at the Paris
Exhibition. On the great grain-grOwing region
ofthe Campagna, near Rome, where the ex-
tensive plains afford the finest field in the
used, and the horse .that treadeth out the corn
is the only thrashing machine known OF be-
lieved in. The grain is cultivated and harvest
ed just AS it was 5000 years ago! and what is
true OF this branch of industry is true of nearly
every other. For example, so common a tool
with us as a circular saw is rarely to be found
in Italy. Even in Leghorn, comparativelv
modern commercial city, can be seen i'm the
ship yards, two men, one at each end of an old
fasiOned saw, working their way THROUGH a
huge piece of ship-timber, accomplishing as
much in one day as would be done with cir
cular saw in ten minutes. In some places can
be found 200 families sending to the same well
for water to drink: or to use for cooking; the
only machine they have for raising the water
from the well being rope tied around an earth
en- jar, which each person carries to the we'll
AYankee boy would not be sent to one Of those
wells more than half dozen times before he
would "rig up" some sort of a machine for rails
ing the water if he had no other tool than q
jack-knife. Our American housewives are pro-
verbally out of sorts if the family washing is
not got through with in single day. In Italy
it usually occupies four daysl A couple of sap
lings serve to make tae common plow OF the
country; it is quite as often used without any
iron as withit In either style it dsturbs the soil
lbDut much q ordinary -c0mb
would if used for the same purpose.
We have spoken of the Italians by way of
showing to whata market the Paris Exposition
may introduce American Iabor-saving inyen-
tions: Here is a nation of between twenty
ana aI tnifty millions of people, in strong sympa
thy with republican America, with whom an
act active trade, Of high advantage on both sides,
can pe opened IN time, if our merchants only
respond to the economic needs of Italy with q
fair degree OF enterprise. Will it be believed
that the importations from the United States
to Naples, the third city in point of population
in Europe, and the commercial metropolis Of
nine Or ten millions Of people, amounted few
years back only to the paltry sum of $4,000 a
year.-N Y. Tribune.
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y. S. M0lsh0L,s Notice.

uNirKDSrATEs OF AMERIcA,l - ssinsriE .d-list
70 DISTRICT OF MAINE, IS. tr,f4.s
DUISUANT to Montion from the Hon. Edward
Fox, Judge 0f the United States District Court
within and FOR the District or Maine I hereby give
public notice tE,t the following Lbcls have been ilc
in said Count, viz: - 'f ~
A LABEL against The ScLoa- e,' -drie,, her sacle,
apparel and Fssh'.are, and EiQd Hogsheads al AZ
coaol; OAe PIPE q Gia Sr:ees BdFTeIs OF Cod Lie
e on; Ta,rfy four eases IeRnessy Eraads; Eieees
Gases " John de REHper Gia: Tws Casls ~ Hesfes-
81 EnIndy; Osae EOr Nu.snegs. Sir EG0s Of Spices
Itro has@e,s: E,ost aaaGred yog:y eight Borei Tier
r.ags; Seeeaig Qaiais Cry Cod fish; Treaty three
thousand Ldfas, sc,e by Che Collector OF the Dis
triet ~ Portland and Falmouth. on the twenty
day ~ August last past. al Portland In said District
Mihch Soizare WIS ior breach Of tlc laws Of the
unhed States as is mnrc particularly set forth In said
i1bei; that hearing and trial will bc held tercon
st Portland, in said District. on The FIRST TUES
DAY 81 OCTOBER ucNt, when and where any per-
sons interested therein, nly appear aud show cause
IL any eau bc shown, whcreiorc tho same should NOT
he decree forfeit, and disposed of according TO law.
Dated at Portland, this seventeenth day Of Sep
tembcr A. ID. 1sCc. ... II, A QUINEY
DEPUTY U. s. Marshal, District Of Manc.
Sept II. did - 49,
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DEATH OF DIR. Could've are panied to
learn that DR.. A. A Gould, the distinguished
physician and naturalist, died on Saturday
morning. He had been for some time sunering
from i'll health, but continued to perform his
duties up to the afternoon preceding = ms death. @
DIR. Gould was born in New Ipswich, New
Hampshire. April %, 1905. He was graduated
at Havard College IN 1s25 and received @ the de-
7S90 He was noted for his scientific research
es and requirements and was the author of a
nnmber of works illustrating his fayorite
studies. In 1883, he published '.Lamrack's
.Genera of shells, with a list of Species, trans
"lated from the French" and also "A System
"of Natural History; in 1841, q Report on the
"Invertebrata of Massachusetts,; in 1s4s, in
connection with the Agassiz, sPrinciples of
Zoology; in 1876, "The Terretial Air
Breathing Mollusks of the United States;
and in 1852, "Mollusca and Shells" being vol
ume ~ of the United States Exploring Expe-
dition. At the time of his death he was en-.
gagged in preparing report ON the insects OF
Of Massachusetts at the request of the State
Legislature.-[ Boston advertiser.
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.s PORTLAND THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 90 1866
THE STATE.

The Loyrl Sunrise is informed that some
miscreant, between the time of closing the
polls on the 10th inst. and the next morning,
attempted to burn the Town Hall in Fort Fair
field. 1t was found in the morning that shaw
ings had been placed on the stairs leading to
the hall set on fire. and left to do the work.
The fire, however, went out without doing
great damage.
The Bangor Whig says the recent appro-
priation by Congress for removing the obstruc-
tlons to river navigation, near that city, made
bp the sinking ofedgings, sawdust &c., from
the mills above, is to be expended soon. A
government engineer has made the prelimins-
ry survey, and it is expected the work will
soon commence.
"A correspondent of the Whig informs that
paper that Mr.. James Gray Of Hudson, left his
residence on Sunday morning last for a short
excursion in the woods near by, taking with
him his gun. Failing to return as the family
expected, search was made, and he was found
ifeless about half mile from the house, with
the gun by his side. Probably an accidental
discharge of the fre-arm cause of his death.
The Catholic Sisters of Mercy" in Bangor
are holding this week very magnificent Fair
which attracts crowds of visitors,
The safe of the Granite National Bank in
Augusta, was moved to the banking room in
the New Building, corner of Oak and Water
streets, on Friday of last week, and the bank
resumed business at its new office on Monday
just one year from the day on which it was
burnt out. "A. al. ......-.l
Tho Farmer says that large deposit of
terra de Sienna was discovered some two years
since at Browns Corner in Vassalboro, and is
now being Utilized to a considerable extent 1t
occurs at various depths, is of different colors
and is found to an almost unlimited extent
1t is now being used by Page 6, Co., of Hallo-
well, in the manufacture of oil cloths for form
ing body for ornamental stamping or paint
ing. Abont one hundred tons have already
been used by this firm, by first grinding it in
plaster mill. 1t is found to answer good pur-
pose and is much cheaper than whiting The
paint has also been used to a limited extent
for painting buildings and stand the weather
remarkably well. ~ ffls1I
Major Buell., an ordnance officer of the
regular service, has been detailed to the COM
mand OF the U. 5. Arsenal in this city and has
entered upon the duties of the post We un-
derstand that the new commandant was con-
nected with the army during the late war,
serving upon the staff of General Sherman
throughout his famous campaign in Georgia
and the Carolinas, and is capable and eff
cient office. We are glad to learn that Major
mandant of the Arsenal for the past five years,
Is to remain at the Arsenal in the discharge of
the regular duties of bis position as Military
Storekeeper. Farmer.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. Ia
A large meeting OF the soldiers of the late
rebel army was held tonight, Gen. John G.
Fletcher, President. A despatch was read from
others, thanking them for their expressions of
sympathy. Speeches were made by the rebel
Generals Forrest, Chalmeys, House, and other
eminent loyal men, expressing their intention
to abide by the results Of the late rebellion and
to sustain the President in his efforts to restore
the Union as it was = : :,
Resolutions were adopted sympathising with
the object of the soldiers and sailors of the ar
my and navy at Cleveland; expressing willing
ness to trust their fate to those who had met
them on the field, and denouncing as a fable
Gen. Chalmers, in referring to this, spoke of
Gen. Forrest saving the life of the would be
assassin Of Col. Galloway
The Whole affair passed off pleasantly. The
loyal airs played by the band were applauded
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Iprrnoraum. -Erne Fores, : citv ,Wen-Tb

lPETRoLHunr. - The Forest City Vel The
Boutwell, News Letter Of the current week
contains detailed history of this celebrated
well, owned mostly in this city, and under the
superintendance of Mr.. Chas 8. Gross; and
recapitulates the yield of the well for the past
seven months, as follows: In February, 225 bar
rels; in March, April and May, 63s barrels; and
in June, July and August, 1873 barrels-mal-
ing total of 2241 barrels up to September 1.
The well was commenced November q, 1866,
and commenced pumping Feb. 8, 1866, or about
seventy days from the commencement of the
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e. The New York World gives list of distin-
guished men adhering to the Presidents poll
cy, including our Minister at the Court of St.
james, who of course is Copperhead because
his son had been addressing Copperhead
crowds in Boston! The Boston Advertiser
thinks a party must stand greatly in need of
respectability to resort to such means to attain
to q semblance of it.
"A Western paper has the following notice
of very remarkable animal: fi
sLost or strade from the scriber sheep all
over white-one leg was black and half his
body-all persons shall receive five dollars to
bring him. He was she goat.
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From, California.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 49,
Mr.. Cooley, the Mexican Consul at this port
has received a letter from Juarez, dated Aug.
18th, stating that Gen. Amanda, at Ell Pasei,
had evacuated the city of Durango.
A dispatch from Oregon, dated yesterday.
says Ex-Governor A c. Gibbs has been nomi-
mated for United States Senator, the vote stand
ing q for Gibbs and 15 for j. III. Mitchell. with
scattering The Senate held an election and
gave Gibbs majority of 4, but the House ad-
journed without action and subsequently an
pointed the 25th of September as the day of
the election. Great excitement prevailed
throughout the session IN
1t is asserted that Thomas B. Manning, the
whaler pirate escaped on the ship Sea Serpent.