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THE ANSWER. .

8ip-I received your eration with much de-
liberation, and a. little ~consternatioR at the
great infatuation> Of your weak Imagination,
to show such veneration on SO light a founda-
tion. suppose your animation was$he fruit
recreation, or had sprung from ostentation TO-
display your education by odd enumeration,
or rather multi iplicatson, of words of the same
termination, though of great variation in their
respective signifcaton. Now. without dlspu-
tatlon your laborious application TO so tedious
ar occupation, deserves coInmendation, and
thinking imitation sufficient gratifeation,
am without hesitation, .. -, -
SALL1R MoDBRATIoE;
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A DOMESTIC 1hsELL "-"Tilda, y cried old Mr.
sEoper, from the garden, early in the morning,
"TildaW "What, Father" said a voice, half
smothered in bed clothes, for the young lady
was ip@bed, "Here's John down here" re-
piled the old man; >been here this hour"
There was sensation in doors, and after
hastiIy.dressing. Matilda appeared "Where
is John3" she asked, looking a little pouty,
and somewhat surprised, because there Fas'
no John about there whom she was always
glad to see Hbere was mischief. in the old
mans eyes as he said: Don't yoa see John ?"
NO said she; "what John?"~ "Why, John
gull, to be sure" be replied, pointing to the
flower and laughing. Hekissed Eerand called
her a good girl for getting up SO early. =
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1866-06-22

MERE MENTION. Woodcraft who rep
.reseuts PopularviIle in the Legislature, says
he must get home His. wife writes him that.
they have "two calves, ten Ianos, elght Pigs
four kittens, and-sh~-John come home -
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The peopIc.ao I Of ! Nashville, Tenn, are taking
active measures to SECURE the construction Ola
railroad fron7 that city to KnoXvile,*
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AUGUSTA, June r. 1866.-A. DARK. zAF-

AUGUSTA, June r. 1866.-A. DARK AF-.
FAIR. .-zJ. E.. Bryant, editor ofthe Loy0t Ge0r-
gina5 Freedtnen's organ), was arrested .st this
afternoon by civil authority, for attempting to
defraud negroes out Of money borrowed Of them
when he (Bryant) was an of1cerofthe Govern
ment. Heswas subsequently, released, a coEored
man becoming his security.
There were 300 divorces in Ohio.lastc year.
Good rz5any for a Union State,
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-14

Notice.
old CIDER is wanted and will be received in
~ small quantities well as larger quantities, and
cash paid at No. % Commercial Street.
Anril Is 186G.--dtf
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THE STATE.

Seven very respectable fossils met in the
back Office of a Bangor Copperhead, and elect
ed two of their number delegates from the
Four tn Congressional District to the Philadel-
phia convention. The Times called the affair a
ass'meeting. In the Third District, four de-
cayed gentlemen met in the Town Hall at Wa
terville, where they also retired to the privacy
of an office. The people ARE waking up, for
Johnsonl
Hon. Abner Coburn proposes to give
small island in the Kennebec at Skowhegan to
that town for public purposes.
Hon. James G. Blaine will address the citi-
zens of Skowhegan next Thursday.
Mr. N. w. Farwell is developing" the peat
bogs in Androseoggin County.
IT is with much regret that we learn from
the Bath Times that the health of its editor. j.
NJ. Lincoln, Esq, has not at all improved. On
the contrary, he has continued to fail and his
case is now alarmingly critical.
The Times gives particulars of the death of
Mr.. Locke McQuary, I'd mate on the Eastern
City, which runs between Bath and Boston,
who was killed Thursday evening, about haii-
past o'clock, by having his head Jainmea De-
tween the steamer and heavy box which was
being loaded at Lincoln's wharf Boston. Mr.
McOuary lived in Bath. He leaves wife and
two children. ,u.. r-. -.-..
The Bangor Times is amusingly scornful over
some comments in the Press on the origin of
the New Orleans riot. In view of the enor-
nous accumulation of evidence going to show
that that diabolcal affair was the result of a
pre-arranged and determined plan of the reb-
els, we think it viii require more than the as
sertion of the Times to convince the people
that the statements to that effect are pure
fabrications" tHa.
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-14

The SERVICES" OF THE DEMOCRATIC PAR
TY TO THE CoUNTRY-Harper's Weekly, in an
article directed against the pretensions of
Democratic orators, who now claim for their
party the direction of the Government, has the
following biting enumeration of the services"
which the Democrats have performed to the
nation:
What, then, are the services of the Demo-
cratic party for which it should be again in
trusted with the direction of the Government?
The history of thirty years answers. Its SER
vice consists in having strengthened, by every
appeal to passion, ignorance and cowardice, the
only aristocratic class in the United States,
and an aristocracy founded upon the degrada-
tion of labor. Its service consists in q system
attic debauchery of the national conscience; in
a fierce denial of the fundamental principle of
the Republic-the equality of rights; in an at
tempt, under the forms of law, and by means
of blood and terror, to fasten slavery upon Kan
sas; and when the people, at last aroused to
the fearful TRUTH constitutionally cast that par
ty from power, its crowning service consists in
rushing TO arms, and seeking, by the most des-
perate and prolonged struggle, TO overthrow
the Government. The Democratic party,
whose conspiracy against the equality of rights
has been foiled both in the field and at the
polls, now turns to the American people, who
have been its spectators and victims, and in
forms them that it is the only safe and patriot
ic and conservative and concilatory and Un-
lon-loving party in the land.
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-14

WASHINGTON, Aug Is.
Gen. Grant has rescinded the order relative
to sending newspapers printing disloyal senti-
ments, to his head quarters. tn}
Col. Leayenworth, the Indian Agent in the
country of the Kiowas and Camanches, has
ennes from the north, and those from the
south, together with the Arapahoes and the
Aquallala and Brule bands of Sioux, are meet
ing in the Smoky Hill country, to hold their
great medicine lodge. The Cheyennes say tho
whites shall not make roads through the Smoky
Hill country, as it is their territory ground 1t
is thought that much depends upon the result
of the councils held at the medicine lodge, as
to the attitude of these tribes towards the Gov
ernment. If hostile influences should prevail,
trouble may be anticipated from these Indians.
The Klowas and Camanches are quiet and
peaceable and are in a prosperous condition.
The Second Comptroller of the Treasury has
decided that arrears for pay and bounty cannot
be paid to disloyal heirs, nor can such heirs be
passed over and payment made to the next
person in the order of inheritance.
Gen. Candy has assumed command of the
Department of Washington, vice Brevet Maj.
General Augur. s 7r.t,s ) rs
Queen Emma, of the Sandwich Islands, has
arrived here.
The Secretary of the Treasury has returned
from his trip to Kennebunl, Me-
The Acting Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. has written the following letter relating to
tax on segars:}1 og
Washington, dug. 13, 1S66.-Sir-In answer
to your letter of the 1st, have to say that by
bonding your segars you can have them ap-
praised at the wholesale market value, and on
Withdrawing them for consumption you can
seil' them as you please, at wholesale or retail
as you may find customers but if no tax is
paid upon segars until they are sold, the actual
price received, whether at wholesale or retail
must be returned and the tax assessed upon
such prices. The tax upon segars sold at $50
per thousand is $40, but if the same quality of
segars are retailed at $50 per thousand the tax
will be $14
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-14

t'O" StChAuCE Ou SUcO BItcfs
A neat and beautiful craft has been built at
Hollis ahe present season by Messrs. Bradbury
and Rideout, and is now plying regularly be-
tween the terminus of the Portland & Roches-
ter railroad and the village of West Buxton.
She is over hundred feet long, stern wheel,
of light draft staunch and safe, capable of car
rying 400 passengers, and capitally fitted for
river navigation. A track runs down from the
railroad to the wharf.
The Saco, everywhere beautiful from its birth
in the mountains to its final wild leap into the
ocean tide, is peculiarly charming in its pas
sage through Buxton and Hollis, giving here
an alienation of picturesque falls and almost
lake-like expanses. The route of the new boat
is for about five miles along one of the latter
By the courtesy of the proprietors she was
placed at the disposal of the public on Friday
and Saturday of last week. We happened to
be among one of the parties availing them
selves of the opportunity.
The stream, smooth as mirror before us,
undulating in CLASSY swells in our wake, now
with dense woods overshadowing it, and then
with natural lawns sloping down to its margin,
here embosoming a fair island there curving
round cultivated interval presented success
i've pictures Of rare beauty, amid which with
pleasant converse and song we made our way
After brief stay at the brisk little village of
Moderation, Ia misnomer, by the way, since it
is one of the most busy and thriving places up
river, butt probably so called from the moderate
and leisurely character of its falls, we return
ed delighted with our "trip, and prepared to
commend it to others.
An excursion from Portland to the Saco riv-
er was considered one of the institutions" in
the time of the York & Cumberland. A new
attraction is now added to the route of the
Portland & Rochester, and all societies and
parties desiring to pass a pleasant day, will do
well to trust themselves to the conductership of
Col. Cousens of the railroad, and Capt. Ride
out of the steamer. A VoYAGER.
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y rcturncd a verdict Of guilty.
DELEGATES far PortIand.

At the Union Republican caucuses, held last
evening, the following deleg gates were elected
to the County and Senatorial Convention to be
held in this city tomorrow:
Ward Is. L. Carleton, VIM. G.. Kimball,
Sewall Mitchell, George w. Davis, John Cous-
ins.
Ward 2-D. w. Fessenden, jeremiah Howe,
G. w. Brown, S. III. Colesworthy, Charles NJ.
Rice.
Ward S-Wm. G. Twombly, Charles Holden,
William Thompson, Cyrus NOVEL;, L. B. Dem
nett. 7l
Ward 4-William e. Morris James Doughty,
A: M: McKenney, Josiah @. Shirley, M. A.
Blanchard.
Ward civilian Fl. Ayers, Gilbert L. Bal
ley, James F. Miller, R. w. Lincoln, William
III. Smith.
Ward 6-Henry 2. Deane, J. w. Waterhouse,
William II. Stephenson, S. r. Small, VIM. FL.
Fessenden. 34A At518 Af31
Ward -7Eben Wentworth, iona. H. Fletch-
er, VIM. H. Plumner, Ambrose Giddings, f.
E. Pray. sfS Aaessssk1EA Ff5aE
The delegates mentioned above are request
ed to meet at Mechanics Hall this afternoon,
at 21-2 o'clock, precisely, to elect three dele
gates at large.
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-14

The CoNvENTIoN.-"Dixon" telegraphs fiom
Philadelphia to the Boston Advertiser as fol-
lows
The extreme rebel and copperhead element
does not appear on the surface to be very
strong. Mr.. Vallandighams parlors at the Gil
rard House have been well filled all the after
noon. He himself is in good spirits and bel
Igerent mood. He says that he is a regular
delegate, offers to show his credentials to any,
body wanting to see them, and swears that he
will have a seat or break up the show. The
anti-war faction is rallying around him, and,
as already said, the question of his admission
of his admission is q leading subject of con-
versation in all circles. The Randall and
Browning men declare in emphatic and some
what profane terms that he shall not be admit
ted, and several of the ex-soldier delegates say
they will protest and withdraw if he is Mr.
Blair and majority of the Southern gentle
men seem somewhat non-committal on the
matter. General Steedman, as the special
friend of the President, has drawn up a res
olution, which it is proposed to introduce as
soon as the temporary presiding officer has
taken his seat, the object of which is to ex-
clude from participation all Southern men
who were original secessionsts and all North
ern men who opposed the war. The adop-
tlon of this would of course shut out Val
landigham, and if Steedman can make il ap-
pear that it has the endorsement of the Pres
ident, something of the kind is likely enough
to be carried. Fernando Wood and Brother
Ben are on hand, but VaIlandigham is the
pivot on which discussion turns.
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Grand Reunion.

~ THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS;
-, eeu IN your issue of Saturday last an
alucie headed Grand Plan for Literary and
1Aristic Reunion" over the SIGNATURE of @Fv-
m "ooue winch L wish to say n word or
,ne writer, whom Ipresume to he n mem-
Det Vi one OIL the institutions, part of vbose
property was destroyed by the late fire nro-
poses 'hat the four corporate organizotions IN
TINS city, known as the Athennum. Sociot,, g
Natural History, Mercantile Library Assoo;o
ton and Maine Charitable Mechanic Assoo;o
ton, should "unite their funds and ,.o.'srl
snip, and thus form one grand organization
Having the benefit of ALL"
Without entering into the merits of the main
question, wish briefly to examine the arron,e-
naents proposed in this "grand plan"
Had this proposition been made before the fire.
when each association had house of its own.
and each was in successful operation, it might
nave shown a greater degree of disinterested
spirit and fairness; even now, it would be
worthy their consideration did the plan as laid
OUT, contemplate an equal interest in the bene-
nus resulting therefrom, for all the institutions
named What, then, do we find? After par
ceiling out the entire management of the COM
bined organization to the three societies first
named, the Mechanic Association is to he ask
ed to donate" its large library to the concern.
as a nucleus" for larger one, the benefits of
which they are to be permitted to enioy-@as
Citizens" In return for this charitable deed,
they are very kindly to be allowed the privi-
lege of retaining all their other points of Or
ganization," and, it is to be hoped-managing
their own cffairs as heretofore. (?)
Now is not this very generous and mag
unanimous proposition? Everett" evidently
thinks so, as he Immediately asks, "what
more could be desired?" Sure enough, what
more? The Mechanic Association, the oldest
of those named, and as respectable as any,
holding more property, and having greater
fund than all the others combined, as well as
larger membership, is to be entirely ignored
in this "Grand Reunion" except that it may
add to the general interest by donating its
library for public use, but to have no hand
whatever in its management. U.+l
q How very kind. The members of the Me-
ehanic Association are willing and anxious to
do what they can to promote the interest of
all classes in our city, but they are not, ap-
prchend, over desirous of occupying the posi-
ton assigned them in "Everett's" programme.
1t may be that "this is admirable and feasi-
bic" and all that; but it seems to me that the
Mechanic Association will find its own inter
est in continuing all its "points of organiza-
ton" as at present, without disposing of its
library upon the terms proposed. f.
MECHANIC.
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WANTED.
To Disabled Soldiers and others seeking
EmDlOyment.
Wanted.
Notice.

A GOOD secondhand HAND PRESS; size of plat
N ten about 23x35. Address,
aur3tf MA. FOSTER. Portland. Me.
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WHAT THE LOYALTY OF MISSOURI has to an
ticipate, in a certain contingency, from Presi-
dent johnson, is thus foreshadowed by the Ma
tion: Eeli -trsr fl- fr
We can never be too well informed of the
motives and intentions of an Executive whose
dread of Capitalization leads him to deny the
loyal men of Tennessee the support which he
volunteers the ex-ContederateS of louisiana
Not enough publicity has been given to threat
of interference in another State upon which
peace has broufht return of peril with the
first elections. The new constitution of Mis-
souri, directs the General Assembly to frame a
complete and uniform registration law, by
which qualified voters may be distinguished,
and provides also an oath conditional of voting,
by which rebels are sfranchised. Mr.. Noel,
who belongs to the party which is agrieved by
both these restrictions, recently made visit to
the White House, and has reported his CONVEX
sation with the President, which was substat-
tally as follows: aI N
@. Suppose Governor Fletcher, under pre-
tence of carrying out the registry law, sur
rounds the polls with his militia and overawes
the voters? l,r
A. Then apply to the Secretary of War.
@. But our people will not apply to the Sec
retary of War. E.H.
A. Then apply to me. 1t is the duty of the
President to protect citizens in their rights
If the conflict thus foreshadowed is to be pre-
cipitated, it is evident we have not yet seen the
worst usurpation of which Mr.. johnson is cap
able For if it is part of the rights of citi-
zens to vote without regard to the conditions
lawfully imposed by State authority, there is
tions in every State where these conditions ex-
ist; and New York, equally with Louisiana,
may be set down as lost to the cause and repub-
ican government.
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-14

CINCINNATI, Aug. IS.
There were fifty-four, deaths by cholera on
Saturday, and sixty-eight yesterday. There
have been six hundred and ten deaths since
August LIST from cholera. Htai Fl te
At meeting of the board of health yester-
day. they decided that cholera was prevailing
here as an epidemic. The number of sanitary
police and district physicisns have been in
creased, and measures have been adopted for
cleansing all tenement houses, streets, alleys,
sc. Also directed ahat suitable medicines be
prepared and furnished the poor gratuitously.
NEW York, Aug. 13.
Only four cases Of cholera in this city are re-
ported to-day, and no deaths.
In Brooklyn there were seven cases and four
deaths.
The Savannah Herald of Friday reports II
deaths from cholera on the Lawton place, Hill
ton Head Island, including two white men.
The disease has entirely abated at Tybee.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug 13.
The papers report about twenty cases of chol-
era, of which four were fatal, in this city since
Friday lastiup to this morning. ,ts,7s AAn
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-14

PROBABLY DRowNED-Mr. Alvah K Hem
ter, of the firm of Henter s. Dewey of Boston,
who had been stopping at the house of Mr..
Caleb G. Loring at Black Rock, Scarboro',
went out last Friday evening in small boat
for exercise in rowing, and has been missing
since that time. On Sundaya cunning float,
stove in, was found floating near Mr.. Loring's
house. Subsequently the hat, overcoat and
vest of Mr.. H. were found ON the shore near
by. Yesterday persons were engaged in
searching and dragging for the body.
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-14
Additional Contributions.

Yesterday the Mayor received the following
additional contributions:
Citizens of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ad- siSs
ditional, $40 90
Stranger Johnsburgh, NY, > 500
! Citizens of Philadelphia additional, 5000 90
Citizens of Central Falls Village,
Pawtucket, 65 90
Citizens of Wakefield, II. H., "A 90
Total amount rect ived by the Mayor up to
this time, $500, ,126 &c. 80. tefta. fs.
8 The Executive Committee acknowledge the
receipt of $182 from Citizens of Paris Hill, by
hands Of B. Merrill.
Spencer Rogers, Chief of the Fire Depart
ment, acknowledges the donation $1S4 20 to
the city, from Messrs. James Boyd & Son, Bos-
ton, who repaired twenty-five hundred feet
of hose for the department. and generously
eturned a receipted bill for thesame. 4F8
He also acknowledges the receipt of $25
worth of material for the department, from the
York Manufacturing Co.. Saco
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-14

SERVED HIN RIGHT- During the fire al
Westbrook, Sunday night, a scamp, who sup
posed the attention of everybody would be
drawn to the burning building, attempted tc
break and enter house in the vicinity. He
had almost made ingress into it through a eel
lar window, when he was discovered, and soon
had crowd around him. He was dragged
out kicked and cuffed by the crowd who sur
rounded him, and, at last, was allowed to de.
part with warning not to show his face in
that vicinity again. h
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-14

STNAToR FEssENDEN. - Our distinguished
Senator has declined the invitation to addtess
the citizens of Boston in Faneuil Hall, on ac-
count of his health. In letter to the Repub-
lican City Committee, he says; II p
"Debilitated by long and most arduous ses-
sion of Congress, and by repeated attacks of
illness. I find myself under the necessity of
suspending, as far as possible. all mental effort
and avoiding excitement of any kiaG. The re-
cess is too short for attention to anything but
my own physicalimprovement."
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-14

A CONVERT REcoNvERTED. The conver-
sion to Catholicism of Mr.. Charles Hemans
son of the poetess, was announced nearly
year ago. The Paris correspondent ofthe Lon
don Guardian states that Mr.. Hemans has re-
Gently returned to the English church, near
view Of Catholicism not having revealed the
merits and attractions which he expected to
find there.
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-14
FROM MEXICO.
Santa Annals Services Rejected.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. II.
The Mexican Consul has received letters from
President Juarez, dated chihuahua, July 7th
stating that troops were being sent from that
place to Ell Paso.
1t was thought that the French would evac-
uate the city of Durango Immediately.
The French Government win reject Santa
Anna's proffered services II
The Portland daily press., 1866-08-14

Accommodating the alarm of fire, Sun
day night, an old lady eighty-four years of age,
Mrs. Cook, residing on Hancock street, went
to the door of her house, and, supposing it to
be only partly open, put out her hand to pull
7 it wide The door was fully open at the time
and Mrs. Cook pitched down the front steps,
disclocating her thigh. She was attended to
by Dr. French, and, yesterday, was in COM
Portable condition, i.sit.a ..4 s.s la-. .sa
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Delegates to the County Convention.

Delegates 10 the County Convention.
BRIDGToN.---Thomas II. Meade, Luther Bill
lings, Edward Gibbs, Henry Cleaves, W. r.
Staples. ,Jii0' nils 'Teal a : 5iI1
: BRUNswIoK.-Samuel r. jackson, John D.
Lincoln, Augustus T. Cox, Isaiah Jordan.
Daniel Elliot Franklin NJ Drew.
CAsco--David Duran, Daniel II. Walker
FREEpoRT.-Gershom Bliss, s. A. Holbrook,
George w. Randall, Jacob Rogers, Daniel Cur
tbs, II. G. Pettingill ossod 5a NJ ,t-
FALMoUTH.-Samuel Bell, Dr. /. N. Tewks-
bury, Samuel Bucknam, -- Merrill.
New GLoUcEsTER.-C. P. Haskell, G. w.
Plummer, A. G. Chandler.
i GRAY.-Geo. T. Merrill, John NJ Libby,
II Leslie. ~ .,,.l
HARRIsoN.-A. X. Morse, S. L. Weston,
Samuel H. Dawes.
NoRTH YARMOUTH. = Moses True, W. G..
Mitchell. 4ff
NApLEs.---Lyman Hall, Isaac Sands, John
Church.
RAYMoND.---Gibeon Plummer Jr., Lyman
B. Chapman tiaa11
YARMOUTH John Noyes, Matthias Allen,
Sumner Seabury, Thos. F. Brown.
WEsTBRooK-- Francis burlington, Aaron
Quinby, Geo. w. Hammond, E. P. Cutter,
Geo. Libby, Clement Phinney, Andrew
Haines. lcla afF
WNDHAM.---John Webb, John G. Cobb, Al
ley Hawkes., III. H. Boody, s. M. Baker, Sam
uel Garland.