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So ended the demonstration of what is
called the ''left wing" of the Fenian army
The prisoners have since been brought be-
fore the civil authorities on a writ of habeds
corpus, and it is reported, will be discharged
on bail to answer hereafter to an Indictment
for breach of the neutrality laws.
The interest has since shifted from the Nj
agara to the st. Lawrence There is mus
terlng of Fenians at Ogdensburg. in New
York, opposite Prescott, and at st. Adams In
Vermont. The gathering at ogdensburg
threatens Prescott, which is occupied by
$500 British troops. There is more appre-
hension however, for Cornwall, also on the
left bank of the st. Lawrence and about 80
miles down the river. Opposite Cornwall,
the Fenians would be operating in Canadian
territory. At Ogdensburg the dispositions of
Gen. Meade will very seriously embarrass any
movement towards crossing. There were
$500 British troops at Cornwall Monday, and
British gunboats were patrolling the river.
The st. Adams demonstration threatens
Montreal. Gen. Sweeny, who is understood
to be the commander-in-chief of the Irish
forces, reached st. Adams Wednesday, on the
same train with Gen. Meade. There have
been some rumors Of an impending attack
upon the British works at Isle au Noix, an
island in the St. Johns river, the outlet OF
Lake Champlain, and upon La Prairie, about
nine miles this side of Montreal, and recon-
noisance was made Wednesday by Gen. Muir
ply, with command of four hundred men.
Nothing more had been done up to Wednes-
day night -
In short, the whole affair hitherto, consists
of skirmish at Ridgeway, after which halfthe
Fenians concerned were taken prisoners by a
United States vessel, and of the gathering Of
few thousand men, imperfectly armed and
poorly supplied at Ogdensburg, and of fur
Their gathering, under the same conditions, at
ST. Adams
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GEN. WHrTTLEsEY's CAsE.-The argus
understands the Press to accuse Democratic
papers Of meanness in publishing the report
Of Generals Steadman and Fullerton. BY no
means. For the unwarrantable publication of
that report, its authors are alone responsible.
The experience in politics" attributed to Gen.
Steadman by Virginia correspondent of the
World, undoubtedly suggested the move to
that gentleman; and he should notbe deprived
Of his proper credit. After the report was
made public, it became common property and its
republication was matter of course. 1t would
be an endless business for the editor of dali
~ paper to consider how all the news he finds in
print, came to be published. For the original
publication of matter appearing in his own
columns he is responsible: beyond that he
cannot 60. We do not complain of Democrat
papers for republishing Steadman and Full
tons report, but for assuming the truth OF
such backbiting, surreptitiously published
charges, and editorially preaching from such
a text. While we are about it, we may as
well say too, that Gen. Whit.lesey's case ought
not to be prejudiced because he was formerly
a clergyman We are sorry to see that the
argus thinks differently.
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The Constitutional Amendment
NOW PENDING BEFORE THE o. 8. SENATE.
ARTICLE -.

SECTION /. All persons born IN the United
States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
are citizens of the United States and of the
States wherein they reside. No State shall
make or enforce any law which shall abridge
the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States nor shall any State deprive my
person of life, liberty or property without due
process of law, nor deny to any person within
its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws. M
SEC. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned
among the several States which may be inclu-
ded within this Union, according to their re-
spective numbers. counting the whole number
of persons in each State, excluding Indians
not taxed; but whenever, in any State, the cleo
tive franchise shall be denied to any persons of
its male inhabitants, being citizens of the Uni
ted States not less than q years of age, or in
any way abridged, except for participation in
rebellion or other crime, the basis of represen-
tation in such State shall be reduced in the
proportion which the number of such male Cit
liens shall bear to the whole number of male
citizens not less than q years OF age in such
State. ~.
Secs. No person shall be senator or rep
resentative in Congress, or an elector of Presi-
dent and Vice President, or hold any office,
civil or military, under the United States or
under any State, who, having previously taken
an oath as a member of Congress or officer Of
the United States, or as member of any State
Legislature, or as an executive or judicial Off
Ger of any State, to support the Constitution of
the United States, shall have engaged in insur-
rection or rebellion against the same, or given
aid and comfort to the enemies thereof: but
Congress may, by vote of two-thirds of each
house, remove such disability.
Sec 4. All obligations of the United States
incurred in suppressing instruction or in de-
fence of the Union, or for payment of bounties
or pensions incident thereto, shall remain inyi-
olate.
SEC.5. Neither the United States nor any
State shall assume or pay any debt or obliga-
tion incurred in aid of Instruction or rebellion
against the United States, or any claim for COM
pensation for emancipation of any slave and
such debts and obligations and claims shall be
forever held illegal and void.
SEC 6. Congress shall have power to enforce,
by. appropriate legislation, the provisions Of
this article
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A Card.

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Portland is unavoidably short. Those who are not
able to pay for treatment will be treated free every
Friday afternoon. My treatment original with my
sell and unlike any other now in use, which win
demonstrate to any ntellgentperson. Personal ref
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The Raid upon the Canadas.

The Fenian movement has SO many aspects,
that one hardly knows where to begin to write
about it. As the manifestation OF profound
and passionate patriotism, it commands re-
spect. As an invasion by squads of ununi-
formed men, without artillery or supplies, it is
preposterous. AS plain Infringement of the
neutrality laws, it must be condemned and
suppressed. As desperate undertaking, sure
to end in disaster, it is profoundly melan-
choly spectacle. As lesson to our Provin-
cial neighbors, upon the general theory of neu-
trality, retribution just and speedy, it is to
the American mind eminently satisfactory.
The bloodthirsty disposition of the Canadian
press and orators furnishes really diverting
commentary upon their magnanimity after
the st. Adams affair. 1t is an especially po-
etc circumstance, that the Confederates, to
whom the Canadas were refuge and par
adise during the rebellion, are now actively
engaged in this ungrateful business.
What chiefly needs to be done now, how
ever, is to ascertain what has Teen going on
along the border during the past week. Facts
and dates: what has actually been done. and
where, and when
It was on Thursday, May 81. that Col.
O'Neil, with less than 1000 men. crossed from
Buffalo to Fort Erie. The place takes its
name from an old earthwork, which is neither
armed nor manned. 1t is situated at the out
let of Lake Erie. There was no fighting.
and the behavior of the invaders is said to
have been unexceptionable. Next day the
United States steamer Michigan appeared ON
the scene, but did not at first interfere with
small parties crossing to the other side.
On Saturday, I'd June, Col. O'Neil, hav-
ing been reinforced to some extent, moved
westward, in the direction of the WelIand
canal Meanwhile all Canada was ringing
with the noise ofpreparation, and at Ridge
way, about seven miles west of Fort Erie the
Fenian advance met volunteer force from
Toronto. The affair was soon settled. &c
might have been expected, and the raw Ca.
nadians were sent to the right about in ad-
mirable confusion, and with some loss. Mean.
while some $500 or 5000 British troops. req
ulars and volunteers, were moving from Chin
pewa, upon Fort Erie, and Col O'Neil was
obfg to fall back to protect his commun ica-
lions. At Fort Erie the Fenians found a COM
pany of volunteer artillery posted, and at
once drove them out Oft the town. At o'clock
the next morning, Fort Erie was eyacua ted.
The Fenian 0utposts were not notified of the
movement, and some of them fell into the
hands OF tie enemy next morning. OF the
two tugs which undertook to bring the Feni-
ans back to the American shore, one was ar
rested by the Michigan, and 400 prisoners. in
Guiding Col. O'Neil, were taken in charge by
the United States.
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PERsoNAL.-In speaking of the recent
change in the Advertiser Office, we said of
Mr.. Newman, who has become the managing
editor of that paper
Mr.. Newman has had varied experience
as an editor, having been at one time connect
ed with radical anti-slavery paper published
in Hallowell, and subsequently publisher of
the Hallowell Courier, Democratic weekly
which emigrated to Bath sometime during
the rebellion, and proving Improbable there
was finally sold to Mr.. Smith and merged IN
the Advertiser. More recently he has been
employed in some capacity upon the New York
tribune. -
To this account, which appears to be per-
fectly correct, the Advertiser desires us to add
that Mr.. Newman started the Hallowell Ca
zette and printed, on contract, an anti-slavery
paper in connection with the Gazette, making
good business out of it; that he had previ-
ousy published a religious paper, such as he
designs to make the Adue, tiser now; that he
was an Office holder under Frank Pierce and
James Buchanan; that since the demise Of
the Courier, he has been employed upon the
New York atlas (Dem.) and New York 1ri-
o@ne (Rep.), and never wrote political arti-
Gle .or the Tribune but once, and that was re-
Jected. We comply with pleasure.
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To Correspondents.
State Convention.

The Union voters OF Maine are requested to send
delegates to Convention to be held at Bangor on
Thxssdav. sne 21s at II o'clock, A. NJ for the pur-
pose Of nominating candidate tor Governor, and
Eansacting any other business that may properly
come before the Convention.
The basis Of will be follows: Each
sQate, and an additional delegate for every seventy
five votes cast Tor Samuel Cony at the Gubernatoriai
election OF 1854 fraction OF forty votes will be en-
titled to an additional delegate.
JAMES G. BLAINE,
JAMES NJ. STONE,
N. A. FOSTER,
Z. G. HARLOW,
LEE STRICKLAND,
III. B. PRESCOTT,
JOSIAH MERRON,
S. MARBLE, Union Stdte
n r. SIMONTON, Committee.
ELIAS MILLIKEN,
JAMES WRIGHT,
e. j. HALE,
4uRAM RUGGLES,
EUGENE HALE,
CaAli Els Is. fAINE,
EBEN WOODBURY.,
May 1866.
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A Fighting Regiment.

Maj. General Hancock writes that the 9Th Maine
regiment was always equal to brigade in fight.
The above paragraph we find circulating
through the New England papers. There is
much truth in it, for whoever served in the
Potomac army that is not familiar with the
illustrious achievements of Col. Burnham's
command 1t was emphatically the fighting
regiment of Gen. Sedgwick's "Bloody Sixth"
corps. Under the gallant leadership of that
lamented chieftain, it performed prodigies
of valor at Fredericksburg, Rappahannock
Station and other points in Virginia. When
on that memorable Sunday morning. (Nov. 3,
1862 General Sedgwick's corps stormed the
boosted heights OF Fredericksburg and planted
the stars and stripes triumphantly over that
"Gibralter of America, the flying division,
under the temporary command Of Colonel,
. afterwards General Durham, led in the race
for glory and death, and the 9th Maine was
the first regiment to reach the summit of
Mary's Heights. "What men are those P"
shouted rebel cannonier belonging to the
Washington light artillery, as the 9th Maine
advanced to the very mouths Of the frowning
guns. Eve are yankees" was the response
"G-d-you, do you think we will fight
now % fa9g
General Burnham was shot to the death in
sight of Richmond, and but very few of the
Och Maine are now left to relate their achieve
nents. 1t is fitting that they be not passed
by unnoticed.-N. Y. Cor. Hartford Press.
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Union Congressional Convention.
First District.

The Union voters OF the First Congressional Dis
trict, of Maine,-comprising York and Cumberland
Counties-are hereby invite and requested to send
Deleeates to Convention to be held at the Town
HALL, IN SAco, at IL o'clock, A. M, on TUESDAY,
ynns 26th 1885, tor the purpose of nominating can
ing any other business that may properly come be-
fore the Convention.
The basis of representation will be as follows Each
City and Town viii be entitled to Delegate, and
one Delegate additional for every seventy-ve votes
cast for Samuel Cony at the Gubernatoral Election
additional Delegate.
The Committee will be in session at the Hall above
indicated at 10 oclock, A NJ to receive Credentials
The apportonmento of Delegates to the Several Cities
and Towns In the District is as follows:
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

81 -4 f..
THE MORMON PROPHET AND HIS HABEM; or
An Authentic History of Brigham Young,
His Numerous Wives and Children. BY
Mrs. G. V. Waite. One vol. 16mo DID. $50.
Cambridge and New York: Hurd & Hough-
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The author of this little volume is the wife of
one of the United States judges who spent
some years in Utah in his official capacity; and
during her residence there with him she enjoy
ed facilities for studying the social customs
and domestic habits Of the Mormons which the
majority of "Gentiles' are unable to attain
OfSthese unusual opportunities she has made
excellent use, as her book abundantly shows
Not only is it interesting as showing in vivid
manner the effect of adebasing superstition up
on the lives and characters of this strange peo-
pie, butt suggests matter for deep and Thought
full reflection on the possible results to the
country at large of having allowed so foul a
relic of barbarism as Mormon polygamy to take
root and grow on the soil Of the United States
Among the very grave and perhaps dangerous
questions which await solution in the not re-
mote future, we may certainly reckon this of
the incompatibility of Mormonism with the
Christian and republicaninstitution of the Uni
ted States. The author of this book thinks the
elements of second rebellion are in active
progress in Utah, and pertinently remarks that,
as in the case of the slavery rebellion, the
great danger lies in failing to place proper es-
innate upon the power of these elements for
mischief Religious fanaticism is more active,
and, when hostile, more dangerous than politi-
cal ambition; and the arrogant intolerance and
bitter hostility of the Mormons, whose power
for mischief is so much increased by the pecul.
lar territorial position which they occupy, are,
in the opinion of this writer, more worthy of
serious consideration than the Screenings Of
mere political traitors could be. 5 i PAD
The chief interest of Mrs. Waite's book, how
ever, lies in the details it furnishes us of the So
cial and domestic life of this strange and semi
barbarous people, and in the gimpses it affords
of the effect Of the peculiar institution" of
Mormonism upon its votaries, and especially
upon the women who are brought under its
baneful influence. A heightened extract from
the volume, which appeared some days since in
our miscellaneous columns, will have afforded
our readers an opportunity of judging of the
truth and yiyidness of the pictures it contains.
Altogether, we regard the appearance of this
book most timely, as it contains matter full Of
interest and instruction to all who regard the
social and political well-being of the country
Davis Brothers have it for sale.
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Gen. Howard.
To the Editor of the Press:

To the Editor Of the Press: 25<
In referring to General Howard in "6outh-
UGrd No. q" you make me say, "Should he
be displaced. tor his fidelity to God and the
colored people, his native State is ready at
any moment to give him such ',celcome' as
he has earned by his eminent services" &c.
Now, Mr.. Editor, I wrote the word home in
stead of auelcome, and T intended literally
home-a house in city or country-worthy of
the man and his patriotic sacrifices tor his
country.
While other generals of similar rank. and
no more prominent service in the good cause,
have received such testimonials from their
admiring friends, we are not willing to believe
that the friends of General Howard are less
ready to express their appreciation of his
worth and services, in similar manner
whenever the proper movement shall be made.
E. p. w.
We offer to our esteemed correspondent all
due apologies for the blunder on the part of
our. compositors and proofreaders which re-
suited in such a Misrepresentation of his
meaning. But we infer from the tenor of his
note that E. P. W. is not aware of the views
and feelings of General Howard in regard to
testimonials of this kind. When, just about
year ago, it was proposed by certain gentle
men of this city to raise a considerable sum
Of money to be invested in Government
bonds, and presented to the General as tok-
en- OF the esteem for his private character and
the high appreciation of bis public services
which are universal throughout the State, he
requested that the project might be dropped,
offering as his reasons for such a wish, first,
that the money could be better applied in aid
of some of the innumerable cases ofsuffering
and necessity which have grown out of the
war; and, second, with the modesty ever the
characteristic OF the brave,) that while SO ma
ny others were, in his view, equally deserving
of such compliment to their services, he was
unwilling to accept kindness which might
seem-to suggest inyidious comparisons.
While we feel sure that Maine has not
single son whom all her citizens would more
delight to honor in any way acceptable to him.
self than they would the noble, devoted and
gallant Howard, we think E. P. W. will agree
with us in thinking that the reasons above
given are prompted by sentiment of deica-
cy and generosity which entities them to es-
pecial consideration.
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Admiral Denman and the Valparaiso Bonn
H bardment.


The London Spectator, discussing the Val
paraiso affair and the recent debate in Parlia-
ment, makes the following puneent obserya.
tons: 1
"a great many wild assertions were made IN
the debate, but the despatch of the Amer;can
commodore has been published, and he affirms
distinctly that had Admiral Denman consent
ed to aid him, they would have decided to Law
their ships between the Spanish admiral and
the town. If they had been laid, Te do not
think single shot would have been fred
Spain might have declared war. Spain might
have appealed to Europe against maritime ty-
ranny after fashion which would have been
automatically most unpleasant. But there is
no admiral of any state, or combination of
states, who, without orders specifically address,
ed to that special contingency, would fire in
TO combined English and American SQUAD
ron, for this very simple reason.
There is on earth no state, and no possible
combination of states, whose marine would be
IN existence three months after the Anplo-Sax-
on confederation had resolved that il should
cease to exist. The alliance of England and
America is the one alliance which the mari
time world is incompetent to resist. and we
do not believe, let Mr.. Layard make any asser-
lions he pleases, that the Spanish Admiral,
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AT public meeting held Tuesday evening
at the Cooper Institute Mr. Roberts denounced
in the strongest terms the report which has
been spread abroad, that Col. O'Neil was ever
in the Confederate army, as gross libel on his
character, and asserted that he served in an
Ohio regiment during the war.
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Caucus.

The Union voters OF Yarmouth are requested to
meet at the Temperance Hall in said town, on Thurs
day. the 14th inst, at u o'clock P. NJ to choose Del
esates to attend the Union State Convention to be
held at Bangor on the 21st inst and the Congress-
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Yarmouth, June 6, 1866 d1t&wtd