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The Portland daily press., 1867-02-18
EVENING SESSION. "a
Mr.. Mercer spoke in defence of the course Of

MT. Mercer spoke IN defence OF the course of
Congress in reconstruction.
Mr.. Dummont spoke against the usual de-
cisions of the Supreme Court, as the "Pope
butts against the comet" asserting that the
holding of Judicial Office did not necessarily
prevent the Judge from being an ignoramus
and an ass.
Mr.. Taylor, of Tennessee, spoke in defence
of the President, as consistent with the truth,
patriotism and the former policy of the Repub-
ican party. Adjourned.
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Wanted.
s $50. Wanted. fae-yT
k00nn FLOUR BARRELS, at Forrest
cOsOOOsCi City Sugar Refinery, West Com
WaII6el Daily ~

mercIa, near loot OF Emery street. I'm
Proposals will also be received for new Sugar Bar
rels, and sample may be seen at the Office OF the
Company, l5y3 Commercial, at corner of Union st.
feb12d&wtf r. C. HERSEY
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NEW ORLEANS, Feb 49,
Cotton quiet; sales 800 bales; low Middlingfirm
at 21c in species receipts OF the week 7f73 bales; the
exports were 6640 bales; sales $3.50 bales; stock in
port 81, $40 bales. Gold 1911
. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 16.
Sngars-far at Isle. Melasses-fair at III prime to
choice at IS @ &c., Flour-superine at II IS. Corn
"a 90 az IS co. Pork at q rs a % co. Bacon Shout
ders at 12c; sides 10 "a 13Ic, with market dull Lard
unchanged. Whiskey at % tol 40c. Gold 1869 Ster-
ling Exchange l45l az 1453. New York sight Ex-
change &c discount. Freigbts, by steamer to New
York 1c; to Liverpool Sled.
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Desirable Store Lots
FOR SALE.

FL w .atsH-l' N/-AO k-oAA1llAs
N cow WI T. X CIAL STREET.
THE subscribers offer for sale the lot of land on
l. the southerly side OF Commercial Street, head of
Dana's Wharf, measuring Y by $50 feet. For fur
Their particulars inquire JONAS III. PERLEY,
Oct IL Ii III or w. S, DANA. q.
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Flour Barrels Wanted.

WE will pay 80 cents each for first class Flour
w Barrels suitable fol- sugar. "a "a
+ LYNCH, BARKER g. CO., Ia
hoVl3dtf Eeif Efs 139 Commercial street.
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TEETH TEETH! TEETH
CHANGE BUT ONCE A YE1R.
HUDsON's PATENT
Ribbon Hand SfanppS

This stamp has Advantages over all Others.
1t will hold a small die TO cancel a stamp as the
law requires; and any other size and shape for enyel
opes, &C.
The months and figures are made Of brass which
makes them very durable, and they cannot be fat
tened or injured by blow from the hand as others
which are made of EleetrotyI es.
The annexed cut il a correct representation of it,
and the method OF chang ng the dates.
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TIM B Err LAND
For Sale IN Tjr0;,,io.

THE subscriber has for sale 45O acres of Land
L heavily wooded with White Oak. Red Oak,
Chestnut and Pine timber, situated ON the Kappa
hammock River. For further particulars address
3 s- la ADOLPHUS WEINBERG,s y
ja29d3w Box BAL Alexandria Va
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AUCTION SALES.
important Sale of Government
Vessel
ohfoT QUARTERMAsTFR's OFFICE.
BaItlmnra MI I.------ -. -

hfoF QUARTERMAsrER's OFFICE.
baltimore, Md, January 3d. 1861.
w Baitmore' H 4. public auction, at the port OF
ON Thursday I2 NJ FebrSons wharf East Batimorel
OF w t1ls ieS SdESA ~ oosMofoLlT3N
feet depth OF OF hold Is feet cylinder "a G i BEAM ~
II feet stro1e. ' oo inches, and
rare opportunityis afforded, in the sale n, ,,is
teamer, TO persons desiring to purchase y, tnis
frst-class vessel ieaiiy
She is of light draft, the engine and boiler oro l.,
sound and strong. S
1t is believed that Tor size and built, he COsNIo-
POLITAN SURPRISES any vessel hitherto offered nv
Government for sale at this port
Terms cash, in Government funds, ON day of sale.
Further particulars may be learned upon applica-
ton TO the undersigned or to the AuctiOneers
Messrs. ADREON, THOMAS a CO., No Is South
Charles street.
by order OF the Quartermaster General.
A. s. KIMBALL,
e,.u, =, Captain and A. q. NJ, u, 5. A,
'efuu feb2I Depot OuarTermagter.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. is.
.FlOur-extra, 500; superfine 525 Wheat-coo,i
shipping and milling at 60 90 65. Legal tenders
IA.
eEEt0 g SANFRANcIsoo Feb 49,
The Flour and Wheat market is unchanged Legal
tenders IA. -
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MEDIC1L ELECTRICITY
DR.. w. N. DEFINING,
Medical Electrician
n I..- \ III MIDDLE STREET., -U-
Nearly Opposite the United STATE. Uo,eI

Nearly Opposite tbe United state. Hotel
WHElE he would respectfully announce TO
w citizens OF Portland and Vicinity that he a
permanently located in this city, During the three
years we have been in this city, have cured some
OF the worst forms of disease in persons who have
tried other forms OF treatment in vain and curino
patients in SO short time that the question is often
asked, do they stay cured? To answer this auesio,
we will say that all that do not stay cured. we
doctor the second time without charge
Dr. -. mas oeen practical Electrician tor twenty.
Electricity rs perfectly adapted to chronic
the form OF nervous or sick headache; neuraio1a M
the head, neck, or eXtremitics; consnmplion Vl,er
In the acute stages or where the lungs are NOT fly
involved; acute OF chronic rheumatism scrofilla by
diseases white sweilings spinal diseases curvature
OF tine spine, contracted muscles, distorted limbs
palsy or paralysis St. Vitas' Dance. deafness SIAM
mering or hesitancy OF speech, dyspepsia ipdiqes-
ton, constipation aud liver complaint, ples-we cnre
every that can be presented; asthma bropcbi.
tbs, structures ri the chest, and al forms Of female
complaints.
By ElectciciUv
Tue Rheumatic, the equity, the lame and the law
leap with JOY, and move with the agility and elastic.
ity Of youth; the heated brain is cooled the rost-
bitten limbs restored, the uncoutb deiormties re-
moved; ilntness converted TO yigor, weakness TO
strength; the bind made see the deal to hear and
the paisied form TO move upright the blemishes OF
youth are obliterated the ACCIDENTS OF mature Lire
prevented; the caiamities OF Old obvated and an
active circulation maintained
ADDE'S laG
Who have cold hanos and feet; weak stOmachs, lam
and weak backs; nervous and sick headache; diz
ness and swimming in the head, with indigestion and
constipation of the bowels pain in the side and bacE
eueorrhoea, Tor whitesl falling of the womb with n-
ternal cancers; tunors, polypus, and all that long
train OF diseases will md in Electricity sure means
OF cure. For painful menstruation, TOO ,,luse
menstruaton, and all OF those long lie OF troubles
with young ladies', Electricity is certain specii,.
and WILL in short time restore the sufferer TO the
vigor OF health
TEETH! TEETH! TEETH!
Or. ID. still continues to Extract Teeth by Etrc-
TRICuy WITHOUT PAIN. Persons having 1lecayed
teeth or stpmps they wish to have removed for reset
ting he would give polite invitation to call.
superior ELECTRO MAGNETIC MACHINES for sale
for family use, with thorough Instructions.
Or. ID can accommodate 'ew patients with board
end treatment at his house.
Once hours from o'clock A. N. TO ~ M; from I
to p. NJ, and to in the evening
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yr,uF, following described merchandise having been
s.i1ed for violation of the Revenue Laws OF
~, t,,ited states and the U. S, Appraisers at this
es WING certified under oath that the expense OF
It's keeping viii largely reduce the net proceeds OF
the sale the same win be sold at public auction, in
esont of the Custom House, on Middle Street in this
oty, on the 23d inst, at II o'clock A. Nj. to wit
Hack Houses;
pair OF Harnesses; ,...-
pair of Blankets;
rnder the provisions of Sect 10 of the Act entitled
SAN act further to prevent smuggling and for other
purposes" approved July Is, 1866.
ISRAEL WASHBURN Jr.
febl6dtd Collector
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REAL ESTATE.
VNtatObIe Real Estate
,t- FOR SALEy

by virtue Of a license from the Hon. Judge of
- Probate for Cumberland County shall sell NV
public auction, on SATURDAY, March 10th next
the following parcels of Real Estate belonging
10 the estate of the late CHARLES L. BECK EIT
viz:
AT IL o'clock A. NJ, of said day, the premises,
lot OF land corner of Congress and Smith Streets,
extending about "A feet Congress and 13J feet
smith Street, with the unfinished buildings thereon
subject to mortgages OF about 5000.
Al hi past III o'clock A. NJ, of the same day, or
euiaeiy after the foregoing is disposed OF, the
premises ot OF land corner OF Congress and Frank
I'm Streets, containing about 5000 square feet. ex-
mortgages OF $500 and interest 80
Also, at o'clock p NJ, OF the same day, ON the
Streets, about 20 eet on Vaughan Street and IA on
terest. o5 t.sa -.- "
Said lots are located in the most desirable narts of
the city, and offer excellent inducements 10 buiiicrs
and capitalists TO purchase.
y. ID. BECKETT, Administrator.
HENRY BAILEY a. son, Auctioneers
POrtiand, FEBRUARY 10, 1901 eOd3wtItd
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Ph0tOgr0phs! Photographs!
....a,.. A =. DAVIS. ~

WOULD respectfully inform his former customers
w and the public generally, that he is ocat-
be happy to receive all those wishing for Photographs
Ambrotypes, etc. -''a'
n. u. All work warranted. r....tt9 .3ao'
o. MARKET SQUARE. q MARKET SQUARE
ian14-3m*
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Norfolk Oysters

yUST received at No. , Union Wharf. and
nortnf IN, t,;ty they can be had for 10 cents per
auart old Oysters, at j. H. HORRS Fish Market,
No 27S Congress Street. &
fehIs DIV ms u. y JAMES u FREEMAN. .
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ron 81 e.!

FOE ALE! a
ONE House and Lot on Washington Street for
" sa e VERY Low. House new aud Containing
Seven Rooms. Price 81 100. -
81 81 q = ALSO: .t
One new House and several Lots near the Rolling
Mills will be sold very cheap, the lots at prices
ing from $50 to 800.
M - ALSO. q.
Several Lots on Washington Street. Prices $500
to- 5000. Inquire of JOSEPH REED, -
Real EstaIe Agent, Oak ST., near Congress St.
febt4 dIws
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Valuable Hotel Property for Sale.

VARIABLE Hotel Property for Sale.
fnIIE Oxford House, pleasantly situated in the vii
Il LACE OF Fryebuig, oxford county, Maine. is of
fered for sale al a bargain, il applied Tor soon.
The House is large, in good repair, with furniture
and fixtures throughout, together with all necessary
Outbuildings. llsf' ftfsF3lf'
For full particulars inquire OF
soy e G* st HOKATIO BOOrHBY
I, -...s r--r- Proprietor.
Fryeburg, Sept. -, 1866 .. DIFF
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House for Sale.
Jan. a, 1867. diff

A good HOUSE two stories, Stable attached, hard
"A and soft water, good lot centrally lOcated-con-
IL Hanover or 1S4 Fore ST., -
j. A. HENDERSON.
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WANTED.
Wanted.

-FOUR or five rooms for gentleman and bis wife
Il in a good location, for which fair rent will he
paid Apply to W. IL. JERKS, Real Estate Agent
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Found.
sale of Forfeited Goods.

...... E ROUND.
IN this city, a Gold BREAST PIN, which the own
er can have by calling this office, proving prop
ertp mud navinp for this adverlisoment leDlOu3t
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First GLASS Houses for Sale.

10 First Glass Houses for Sale.
WE offer tor sale the eight first class brick houses
w recent built by u.s. situated Pine Street,
between Clark and Carleton Streets lt
These houses are thoroughly built, with slate roofs,
brick drains, and marble lnantelpeces throughout
They viii be sold at low price, and very avora-
BILE terms. Apply at our office, No. 27s Danortb ST.
j. b. BROWN q SONS, .
or VIM. I'll. JERRlS, Real Estate Agent, opposite the
Prebie House. -
October 16, 1885, dit
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xxx OONGREss--sEOOND SESSION
WASHINGTON, Feb. IT,
SENATE.

REPORT continued from Saturdays edition.l E
Several amendments of no great importance
were agreed to when Mr.. Sumner moved to
amend by providing that constitutional amend
ments shall be valid when ratified by three
fourths of the Legislatures of the States rep
resented in Congress. 81
A long debate ensued, which was participa-
bricks, Williams, Doolittle and others, which
was interspersed by motions to adjourn and
offers looking to compromise.
AT quarter to three A. M, a vote was had
and Mr. Summers amendment was rejected
Yeas-Messrs. Howard, Lane, POmerOy, Sum-
ner, Sprague, Wade and Yates. Nays-25
At 8 A. NJ. Mr.. Henderson offered the Lou
isiana bill, in a modified form as a substitute
for the pending bill, and it was read.
The Senate adjourned at $50 without arriv-
ing at an understanding as to when vote on
the reconstruction bill should be taken
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4 Wanted :!

Agents Wanted {!
8jS Vf9E b9i1ogs 1870 bma 8gT9' IT 4
JUST OUT, Farraguf md our Naval He
= rOes, by the brilliant and popular Historian j.
II Headly. This is the only work on the Navy I'M the
Z War, and everybody is buying it, h ,3rr,'l
GEORGE HI. BLAKE. ~ j
u..f.ffitt. GENERALAGENr, e4i'
Hfep4-3m Box S27, Portland, Me.
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Farm for Sale.

THE valuable lot OF land of Middle and
Il Plumb Streets, for a term OF years. Enquire
of .-5 C. c. MITCHELL IL SON, II
Aug. %. IS66-lf 11S Fore Street.
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nHnA CLEAR PINE. PICKETS. ..al
SCOO II. 4. MACHIN,
febl4-dlw Head Gait Wharf.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-08-10

DANGEROUS PAPER.-There is great difference in the combustibility of com mon paper Enamelled card paper, on account of its compact body and the presence of mineral matter, white lead or barytes, is quite disinclined to burn in fact, some kinds are practically fire proof. While writing and printing paper can seldom he lighted by spark, and when ignitcd by flame, it requires dexterity to keep it burning. On the other hand, there is common reddish yellow paper. which, ln svme instances, is as dangerous as ganpowder. ittakes fire by the smallest spark, and burns like finder; when once lighted, if Jeff alone, 1t Is sure to be consumed com plctely. All the yellow and buff paper which I have tested, out of which en- velopes are made, psrtakes more or less of the same character. l have no doubt that such paper has been the oc- casion of some of the fires in this city which have been otherwise unex- plained, such as the fires in paper ware houses and offices of professional men. X spark of fire, or the stump of light ed cigar falling in waste basket con- taining yellow envelopes, with other kind of paper, would have a good chance of setting the whole on fire.- Professor Seeley.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-08-10
What Can't a Military Governor Do?
A military governor, under the r,

A military governor, under the re- construction act, can
 Suppress newspapers.
 Silence lectures.
 Remove Mayors of cities, Governors of States, Boards of Commissioners, &c.
 Can exclude white alderman and ap- point black in their place.
 Can take possession of savings banks.
 Can enact stay laws and postpone the payment of debts.
 Can prohibit the distillation of corn and the sale of liquor.
 Can run down city stocks and rcpu- diate city currency.
 Can spend s5OoOOO for registering black voters and ask for S500, 900 more.
 Can abolish local taxrs and regulate the circulation of papers.
 Can settle the rates of wages and the price of commodities.
 Can disobey the President and insult the Cabinet.
 They can do all this, and far more. What they can't do, no one has ven- tured to say.
 Yet an extra session of Congress is called to give more power to these military chieftains; to make them so absolute that for even the President to question the limits of their authority will be ground of impeachment.
 This is what the deg-day Congress Is to do. Is it not madness ?-[ Albany Argus.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-08-10
How To Break Colts,

No horse is naturally vicious, nor was there ever horse that was not made so by mismanagement. The more noble and high-spirited the horse is, the more cautious he is of danger. Now, if we attempt to subdue him without first getting his confidence, and eradicating that fear, the process will be slow indeed. He is constantly ex- cited, and leaps and plungcs, and per- haps throws himself, in his madness. The common way of breaking colts fully illustrates this.
 Suppose we take altogether differ ent course, and cntice him into the yard, and then alone quietly commence his education; and when he finds him. selfalone with his enemy, he will watch very narrowly all our movements !; slowly and cautiously we approach him; soon we see by his restless eye that he is afraid; we stop awhile, then again proceed, being careful to go slow, that his eye will show no fear; when within his reach we carefully put out our hand towards him, he reaches out his head and smells, we then commence to pat and smooth him on the nose and neck, which he is as fond of as a cat |; step away from him, and to our won der he follows us; we gently caress him again, and we soon find he will follow us anywhere.
 Then we put on halter, and we find that he is already halter-brokeh you may handle him as familiarity as you choose, and he will not kick nor bite {; and, if you take the same careful, gen. tie course in his education, you will ncSer know him to resist any demand which he understands. Having once established our friendship in his mind, we should never frighten him by at tempting to make him do anything he does not understand. Never attempt to harness or mount colt suddenly the first time, for it will surely frighten him, and you will lose his confidence. Horses are made vicious by bad usage !; and the man who can abuse noble and confiding horse, and spoil his disposi- tion, should be the only one to suffer from the teeth and hoofs of the same animal.-[ Prairie Farmer.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-08-10

~The manner in which General Sickles regulates street cars in Charles ton, South Carolina, may Do gathered from the following:
 Among the passengers were num- Der of ladies, but bent upon enjoying himself, the autocrat of South Carolina lighted his cigar and commenced smok- ing 1t. Tho conductor, being probably a Northern man, and therefore not accustomed to see his rules infringed upon, notified him that smoking was not allowed in the cars. Upon this the following conversation took place:
 "What did you observer said the satrap.
 Il merely desired to inform you,a said the man, in the blandest manner possible, "that passengers are not al- lowed to smoke in tho cars. 1t is con trary to the rules"
 "Ah! indeed" replied the satrap taking out his watch with the utmost nonchalance. s.Indeedl Then you shall consider the rules suspended fo, the next half hour
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-08-10
Typographical Errors.

In a recent lecture delivered in Scranton, Mir. William l.. Stone gave the following amusing incidents of what arc known as typographical er- TOTS:
 In the early stages of the art of printing, errors were far more numer- ous than iii books of modern execution. It was then very common for volume of ordinary size to contain page upon page of eiTata at the close. One of the most remarkable instances of this kind was the curious treatise of Ed ward Leigh on Religion and Learn ing,' published in 1856. At the close of the work were three folio pages of corrections in very minute type. It is singular fact that the edition of the Latin Vulgate by Pope Sixtus ", al- though carefully superintended, sheet by sheet, His Holiness, has ever re- mained without rival in typographi- cal inaccuracy. Still more curious was the fact that the Pope, in the plenitude of his pontificial infallibility, prefixed to the first volume bNll of excommu- nication against any and every printer who, in reprinting the work, should ever make an alteration in the text. Among instances of typographical er- TOTS, the lecturer gave the following |: A lad in a printing office, who knew more about type-setting than he did of the Greek mythology, in looking over a poem they were printing, caiie upon the name of HEcATE, one of the lady divinities of the lower world, occurring in line like this: "She shall reign the HEcATE ofthe deepest He'll" The boy, thinking he had discovered an error, ran to the master printer, and inquired eagerly whether there was an E in cat "Why, no, you brockhead," was the re- ply. Away went the boy to the press- room and extracted the objectionable letter. But fancy the horror of both poet and publisher when the poem ap- peared with the line-"She shall reign the He Cat of the deepest He'll" This, however, was not so bad as the manner in which the printers treated Miss Lan- dor. In speaking of it she says, "And when I had written it full blown TO- ses' the nasty things made it full blown noses." Benjamin Franklin once put ting to press form of the Common Prayer, the letter "c' in the following possage dropped out unperccived by him: 'We shall all be changed in the twinkling of an eye" When the book appeared, to the horror of the devout worshippers, the passage read: eve shall all be hanged in the twinkling of an eye" Franklin has been suspected of having done this intentionally, but it appears to me without good reason. But, after all, when it is considered of how many separate and minute pieces of metal book form or the page of a newspaper is composed, the wonder is that the errors of the Press are not far more numerous than they are. A sim gle page of ono of our largest papers cannot contain less than 315. 900 separate pieces of metal, each of which must be nicely adjusted in its own proper place, or error and confusion will ensue.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-08-10
the war after resistance has ceased {; who fight an unarmed people, and not their own impoverished victims.

the war after resistance has ceased {; who fight an unarmed people, and not their own impoverished victims.
 Nors ---The reader will observe tha, do not claim the doctrines and purposes of the Confederate States as constituting any of the terms of the peace. These were all dsJsated in the fight, and were abandohea by the sur render. The official declarations and purpo- scs of the United States, as avowed before the surrender, were the terms to which the Con- federate States agreed to submit by the sur render, and with which the United States are bound to be satisfied; and, thus, they form the law cf peace. Yet a Georgian, one boast ing of the honors conferred on him by the people, in late speech at Milledgeville, tells us VIC are out cf fhe Union according to cur own positi6ni "When NC surrendered, after gallant fight, we were, upon our own decla- rstion, conquered foreign State-subject to the will of the conquerori" as though that very surrender did not defeat our declaration, and made good the declaration of the con queror that our secession was roid, and that we were not and should not be out of the Union as foreign State. One of our own teachers, who tells us his children are to live among us, making. in the same breath, our wiu and the will of the enemy alike our law, II, by such c0ntrddictory positions, he can harm us m both cases! Such peridy is sur passed only by the islander that Mr. Davis ''made strong efforts to get perpetual sus- pension of habeas corpus" end by the bitter ness which quotes the conclusion of the peti- ton for habeas corpns--thc more formal conclusions of all such papers--as evidence of humiliation or inconsistency on tne part of Mir. Davis! And yet he exclaims, as if his motive was suspected and needed confrma- tion: "What interest, then, can I have in misleading youi"
 A great writer gives us an account of n very similar speech which was made long ago by one who hHd been s'often lronored !" and after quoting the speech. adds this comments: "So spake the false dissembler unperceived; For neither Man nor Angel can descern
 Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
 Invisible, except to God alone"
 But that speaker himself afterward. in a soliloquy, gave the explanation of all his at- tempts at deception. He said:
 "But what will not ambition and revenge
 Descend to? Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd; obnoxious, first or last, To bascst things"