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Rev. DR.. B. F. rent.

We learn that the Rev. DR.. B. F. Tefft has
accepted the call of the Central Church of this
city, and has already entered upon his duties.
DIR. Teh needs no special introduction to the
citizens of Portland, as he has long been
known, not only here, but throughout the
country. We find, however, sketch of his
previous career in the New American Cyclic
p@dia, and we copy it for the information of
those who may not be acquainted with his
literary position:
Benjamin Franklin Tefft, d. D., LII. d.. an
American clergyman born in Oneida county.
n. Y, in 1918. He commenced a course OF
classics and mathematics at an early age, and
at 15 entered upon the study of law, but sub
sequently, after receiving a collegiate educa-
ten with view to the ministry, applied him
self for four years to legal, metaphysical and
historical studies. He then became pastor of
a Methodist Episcopal church at Bangor, Me.
and two years later President of classical
seminary at Providence, r. l., where he re-
NAMED one year; and after residing for a year,
IN Boston, he was called to the professorship of
, mreek and Hebrew in the Indiana Asbury
U Inaxxersley, where he remained three years.
ond 10. .s SINCE been general editor of the books
o. I I'm m,aeazines OF the Methodist book concern
nessee college. He has pnbiished aTbe Shoni-
He. nnVe or Sketches of the Threefold Life of
man lNeW York, 185O): HUNGARY and Kos
suth, or an American Exposition Of the Late Late
"Methodism Successful, and the Internal c @nu
ses of its success" A'ei nai o'u-
Since the above was written, DR.. Tefft has
published several other works, among which
the work in two volumes, 12mo., entitled
webster and his Masterpieces" including a
Life OF Webster and his leading oratorical ef-
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THE NAVAL STATION.-The extraordinary
action of the House of Representatives, auth
oriz:ng the Secretary of the Navy to accept
the title to League Island without waiting for
the report of the commission which that Off
Ger had previously been instructed by the
same House to send to Portland, merits the
severest apprehension. ALI that was asked for
Portland was an examination of the advantage
es she possesses. That request the House
passed upon and granted. And now without
waiting for the fulflment of its own promise,
the House attempts to settle the whole matter
peremptorily. That this was not the inten-
ton Of the majority we can readily believe
That Mr.. Pike of the Fourth District of this
State should have spoken and voted with the
majority is astonishing. The special cores
pendent of the Boston Journal says Mr.. Pixies
speech "really decided the question in favor of
League Island"
We print elsewhere the text of this bill, to-
gether with the New England vote, which
shows that an opportunity was chosen for this
business when Mr.. Pike was the only Maine
representative present. We apprehend the
managers of the matter will find some diff
Guilty in getting the snap judgment of the
House confirmed by the Senate.
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so true and so forcibly expressed that we can
not refrain from making the following extract:

so true ana 80 iorciDly expressed that we can
not refrain from making the following extract:
Ministers oct GOOD nv their EXCHANGES
They 90 into new places and sneak to new
congregations. There is q ouickening effect
in it as MANY can testify. Preachers in Iarge
towns. and especially those who are often
called to take part in great public meetinos Of
various kinds. NAV not need this as much and
might not feel the want of II. But for the
great mass of ministers in the conntrv II 10
Something that could be poorly disnense6
with.
The churches gain. too. Those IN he SIRE
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The Constitutional Amendment
ARTICLE =.


SECTION 1. 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 any
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 - a9 ~
SHo Q. 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
tive franchise shall be don;ed 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
tation in such State shall be reduced in the
proportion which the number of such male cit.
izens shall bear to the whole number of male
eitizens not less than q years OF age in such
State.
Sec 8. 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 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 a vote of two-thirds of each
house, remove such disability.
Sec. 4. All obligations of the United States
incurred iifsuppressing instruction or in de-
fence OF the Union, or for payment of bOunties
or pensions incident thereto, shall remain inyi-
Olate.
Sec. 8. Neither the United States nor any
State shall assume or pay any debt or obliga-
ton incurred in aid of instruction or rebellion
against the United States, or any claim for COM
pensatioD 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. 4f.ss :
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

A BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. Com
piled and arranged by the Rev. Charles Hole.
B. A., Trinity College, Cambridge; with Ad-
ditions and Corrections by William A. Wheel
er, M. A., Assistant Editor Of Webster's Die
tiOnaries, and author of "a Dictionary of the
Noted Names of Fiction etc. New Yo2k:
Published by Hurd & Houghton.
This will be found a useful little book for
reference, though we cannot help thinking that
its value has been greatly diminished by COM
pressing into such exceedingly brief space the
information which it undertakes to give con-
corning each individual enumerated. In most
cases the whole is comprised within the limits
Of single line, and contains little more than
the name in full and the dates of birth and
death. However, even this is something and it
is often accompanied by a note of reference to
some larger work from which fuller information
may be gathered. The following will serve for
aspecimen:
"Bentham, jeremy. Political writer. Life
by Bowring, 1888. Born, 174S; died. 1892"
The volume contains the names of about
twenty thousand persons alphabetically ar
ranged, and accompanied by such notes as
those above quoted. Its value as a convenient
reference is readily seen, and we have no doubt
it will meet an extensive sale. re
Davis Brothers have it.
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A Card.

have returned from New York and shall remain
in Portland until September. This will be my last
visit to the Forest City, for several years as return
to New York in September to remain until next May
then 60 to Europe tits needless for me to inform
you what can do for old chronic nfs that have
ever bafied all other modes Of treatment All seek
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nor of Mississippi; John T. Monroe the May
or of New Orleans; Raphael Semmes. late pir-
ate, now Judge of Probate at Mobile; the
commissioned and non-commissioned officers
and privates of the late Confederate army; all
believers in, or sympathizers with the doc
trine Of secession, North and South, A FORM
liable array, but one which has already been
signally defeated upon the battlefield, and
which could not even conquer the SCARED vet
Grams that have returned from the fight, to
saw nothing of the friends and relatives CT those
whom their yillainous treason has laid in UNI
timely graves.
Congress is dealing bravely with the great
issues of the day; its course, while it makes
"treason odious," is not only merciful, but be-
nefcent, towards the lately rSbellious states.
1t will, by right of conquest, force upon the
Southern people higher civilization and a
more solid prosperity. 1t will place Freedom
on the throne which Slavery has disgraced.-
1t will substitute school houses for auction
blocks and build churches on the ruins of slave
marts. 1t will erect great factories on the
banks OF Georgian rivers, and make the streams
that flow from the Cumberland musical with
the hum Of ill-wheels. Congress, in its deal.
ings with the South, does not propose to des-
troy rights, but to abolish ,orongs; it does moi
| propose to forge chains but to break letters
andto set great people free, in very deed and
truth.
| Let the people faithfully sustain their repre-.
sentatives in Congress, and all will be WE'LL
Slavery is dead Let the wrongs that grew eui
| of that institution and the false prejudices
which were its chief support, be buried in the
same grave, and the next generation will moi
be obliged to call upon the musket and the
cannonto settle those vexed questions which
may now be easily snd finally disposed or
The future as well as the presentnow demands
not mere adjustment or compromise, but an
| absolute and final settlement.
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OTITINE.

This excellent Remedy is an inallible cure for Deq:
ness, Discharge from the Ear, and Noises in the
Head.
This 'conder,aH Vegetable Extract has been the
means Of restoring thousands TO their hearing, who
after trying everything and everybody, had given up
oping ever to hear rain.
1t Operates like charm upon offensive discharg-
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Noises in the head disappear under its influence
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Price, $500 Bottle For sale by all Druggists; at
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To Correspondents.
Union State Convention.

The Union voters OF Maine are requested to send
delegates to Convention to be held at Bangor on
pose Of nominating candidate tor Governor, and
transacting any other business that may properly
come before the Convention.
The basis Of representation will be as follows: Each
sity town and plantation will be entitled to one DEL
egate and an additional delegate tor every
ave votes cast Tor Samuel Cony at the Gupernatoriu
election OF 1854. fraction of forty votes VIII De en-
titled to an additional dele yate.
JAMES g. BLAINE,
JAMES M. STONE,
n. "a. rooII4i.,
f, G, HARLOW.
LEE STRICKLAND,
H. b, PRESCOTT,
Josiah MERROW,
q MARBLE, iUnicn State
+. r.. SIMONTON, Committee.
ELIAS M1LLIKEN,
JAMES WRIGHT,
e. j. HALE,
HIRAM RUGGLES,
EUGENE HALE,
CHAIR rs u. PA TE,
EBEN WOODBURY.,
May Z, 1856.
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The Growing Strength of the Republican
Policy.

Every day is adding solid strength to the
Republican Party in Congress; and the cause
is very simple one. The majority in Con
gress has taken positive stand; its avowed
policy is a reformatory one it grasps the pres.
ent condition of our affairs and out of that
condition moulds future for the Republic. in
which our institutions and our government
shall be brought into harmony with those
great fundamental principles on which rest
the hopes for the full acknowledgment of hui
man rights and the certainty of progress.
The "article of pacificationn reported in the
Senate will pass both Houses by the requisite
two thirds vote. 1t is almost certain that Lane
OF Kansas and Morgan of New York will vote
for it; Cowan, Doolittle and Norton consti-
tute the triumvirate who will vote with the
Copperheads. What Minnesota viii do with
Norton we cannot tell. 1t is certain that
Wisconsin repudiates Doolittle, and equally
certain that Pennsylvania would be glad of
an opportunity to repudiate Cowan. If the
President sets up "my policy" in opposition to
that OF congress, the result of the elections
next fall cannot be doubtful. The most care
less examination OF that policy shows that If
is composed of parts SO incongruous that tbev
cannot hold together, but will fall 70 n;eces
under the slightest blow from the exam;nor,o
hammer.
The amendment to the Constitution now
proposed will form the basis of the Republican
Platform, and in relation to this fact Mr. ]. w.
Forney very pointedly says
The Representatives who, in running for re-
eiection, will have to meet the brunt of Copper
mead batteries for supporting the glorious Arti-
Gle OF facihcation, need have no fears. They
lave only 70 ask their adversaries five plain
auesuons, each being pertinent to the five lead
ing sections of that article
~, - ere you opposed to comforting civil rights
n nppbIic an the citizens of the American Re
2. Are you in favor of allowing a soutb Car.
onna rebel two votes and half when the TJn;on
soldier throws but one T? --0-
.ro 20; are you opposed to decree that prevents
SS tn. nom holding office in the United
4. Are you opposed to clause that renao..
it impossible to repudiate our own nat;onai
debt, and that makes it an inviolate Covenant
ana an lnviolabie duty to pay the bounties and
pensions of the Union soldiers Gnu
debt? VINO 'epei war
These questions no Union man would bas;.
tate to answer in the spirit that prompted the
preparation OF the new amendment of the Ma
tional Constitution.
Who are the advocates of the Congressional
pianp Every man who, through all the war.
m victory and defeat, stood firmly by the cause
OF the government and the loyal people. Who
ar TIE m IN who now support or pretend to
advocate my policy? The members of the
lineage convention which declared the war
failure; VOORHEES, and the Woods; vallan-
digham and Cox; Alexander Il. Stephens and
Robert E. Lee; Gen. Humphreys, the Cover
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A Patriarchal Family,

| Our attentive correspondent, 81. M. X
sends us from Lincoln in this State, some in
Jeresting particulars in relation to singularly
prolific and long-lived family, some members
OF which are living in that vicinity. Mr.. Sam
uel Pool, then of Bridgewater, Mass, married
in 1859 Ruth Fullerton, with whom he lived
happily for secenty-oae gears, and by whom he
had ten children. Nine of these lived to adult
age, married and had families. Mr.. Pool died
in 1880, and at that time the descendants of
the couple were two hundred and seventy one,
OF whom all but twenty were living At the
period of his widows death, which took place
six years later, when the venerable lady had
reached the age Of 81, her escendants were
ten children, seventy-tsoo grandchildren, t,co
hundred and torty.fne great grandchildren,
and seventeen great-great- grand children !;
amounting il, ali to THREE HUNDRED AND
FoRTY-FoUR descendants; of whom one ham
bred and thirty-eiqht were the descendants of
her two eldest children who were twin daugh-
tiers. @
Passing to the next generation we find that
Althea Pool married James Jersey, and the
following are their descendants:
Simeon Hersey, Sumner, Me-, aged II:
James Hersey, Sumner, aged II; Samuel Her.
sey, Sumner, aged 80; Anna Keen, Sumner,
aged Is; Althea Bradbury, Bangor, Me-, aged
~; Susan Thayer, Ionia, Mich, aged 70;
Ruth Hammond, Lincoln, Me-, aged Il: o.
i've Cobb, Auburn, Me-, aged SO; Maria Cobb,
Arlington, Mass, aged 81; Ira Hersey, Horton
vile, Mis-, So; Sophronia Head. Sumner, Me-.
aged 81. All these are living but the first two,
and their average age is nearly II years. They
have only II children, but have 6S grand-chil-
dren, 1876 great-grand-children, and 12 great
reat-grand-children. A reunion of this re-
markable family occurred at Bangor not long
SINCE We think it would be difficult to find
similar instance of longevity in large family.
Our correspondent adds that since writing
the above he has seen in the rooms of a pho
tographist in Lincoln the picture ola family
group representing JfUe generations, all living
The mother, or great-great-great-g randmoth-
er, is "a years Of age, and last year spun, on an
average, six skeins of yarn per day. The
MISREPRESENTATION is eight years of
age.
From the above facts we are certainly led to
infer that Lincoln and vicinity IS yery
healthy place of abode.
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c R o F U L A

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PER ORDER.
StandiSh.

The Republicans of Standish are requested to meet
at the Town House in said town on Saturday the 18th
day of June, 1856. at O'clock p. NJ to select dele
gates to attend the State Convention to be holden at
Bangor on the 21st instant; also to choose delegates
to attend the First District Convention at Saco on
the 26th inst.
Per order of Town Committee
Standish, June 9Th, 1866. david
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forts, is the most noted; and he has now been
writing, for some time past, philosophical
work on the Unity of the Human Races, in
answer to the Development Theory of OAR
win, Spencer, and their school of speculation,
having spent several years in Europe gather
ing materials for the purpose. A part of his
time abroad was spent as American Consul at
the capital of Sweden, with the special duty
assigned him of watching that country against
the Confederates, who were endeavoring to
procure cannon, through British agents, from
the Swedish foundries; but the Doctor spent
all his spare time in literary and religious la
bors, cooperating efficiently and cordially
with the missionaries of the Baptist Mission
in that kingdom.
WEI may add that DR.. Tefft has received the
highest literary honors conferred in this and
other countries; and he is also an honorary
member of the American Geographical and
Statistical Society OF New York, of the Royal
Society of Arts of London, and of many sim
liar literary and scientific bodies of the United
States and Europe.
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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
egates to attend the Union State Convention TO be
held at Bangor on the 21st inst, and the Congress-
ional District Convention at Saco on the 2eth inst
Per Order Of Town Committee.
Yarmouth, June 6, 1866. d1t&wtd
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