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The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06
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The annual meeting of the Stockholders
OF the Androacoggin Railroad occurred al
Pennington Tuesday. The following gentle.
men were chosen Directors, viz: = Oliver
Moses, David Patten, A. D. Lockwood. Wash.
ington Gilbert, David G. Magoun, P. M
Stubs, John HI. Kimball At a subsenuent
meeting of the Directors, Oliver Moses was
chosen President. Arthur Brown was chosen
Superintendent ' ~ Hs.ts
The editor of the Maine Farmer has baen
travelling and notes some things he saw in the
Old town ofNew Gloucester. One feature, not
common in Name is a single great bayfield,,
uninterrupted by fences, of two or three thou
sand acres, which supplies a vast quantity of
hay for the Inhabitants.
The Bangor and Piscataauis Railroad
company have chosen the following Directors
Hannibal Hamlin, A. G. Wakefield, Samuel
ID. Thurston, Joab w. Palmer, Charles Hav-
ward, John B. Foster, George w. Ladd.
Isaiah Stetson, Bangor; A. M. Robinson, G. e.
kimball, Dover; Elias j. Hale. A. G. Lebroke,
Foxeroft. AT subsequent meeting of the
Directors, Hannibal Hamlin was chosen Pres
ident and Isaiah Stetson, Treasurer. A COM
mittee was chosen to cause an immediate sur-
vey and location of the route. And when
ss35000O are subscribed, and the city of Bangor
loans its credit for $500OOO,th Directors are to
make contracts for the immediate construction
of the road Vie.aI lh 1.s 5,4s,.. ..t..s. ,.,r B
The Annual Convention Of the Franklin
Musical Institute will be held at Farminoton
commencing. Sept. oath, continuing four days.
IDr<1f n IN.
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06
Eastern Promenn de.

To the Editor 0fthe Press. ,....., '''li sd
PRO bono Pubtco" is mistaken in attributine
interested motives to the opponents of the
scheme of cutting through the Eastern Prone
made, as it is not likely the interested motives
are with those who are doing it, as in the case
OF the contractors and the aldermen who own
hats near the terminus of Congress street, and
who are on the Street Committee which made
the contract? -'+'-tt -
The communications signed Portland were
prompted by no private interests whatever.
but were written simply with a view to pre-
serve the Promenade. Three fifths of the ne-
titioncrs for the injunction had no interest ex-
cept to prevent the useless expepditure of
money, involving the destruction of the Pro-
menade. am satisfied that four fifths of tbe
legal voters OF Portland are dissatisfied with
what has been done on Munjoy, and would
vote for filling up the excavations now made
The view from Promenade is not likely to he
oostructed for quarter of century by the
building OF houses; while the cutting through
the Promenade at depth of fourteen feet on
one side, and seventeen feet ON the other.
would require the Promenade to be graded
some 700 or 300 feet in south easterly diree-
ton, and 500 or 600 feet north westerly, being
about quarter of a mile in length, by $50 feet
In width-to bring it to the natural grade again
This would require the removal of all the trees
Tor that distance, and would leave the Prone
made like ditch, where Congress street inter-
soo's IL, with wall of solid earth on either
sue Is l4 ieet and II feet, high.a sAv
u Is nardiy necessary to repeat that we have
no heed ss OF OF more wharf recommendations at pre-
sent. sla-..'..-. - p,'7
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06
Varieties.

"A newly invented riding habit is thus de-
scribed by Western paper: ssTt is a Zouaye
rig, which allows the lady to sit astride ber
steed. A close fitting basque, tastefully orna-
mented with embroidery, with zouave trowsers
made full hike those of the Turks. and Gathered
at the bottom into bands which are concealed
in the tops of high tight laced gaiter boots. On
the head, straw turban, with plain velvet
band, and tuft of flowers. Lilac is a favorite
color, with black trimmings Such habit
would greatly facilitate the management of a
horse,as well as materially decrease the chances
OF accident from entangled drapery. a
-Augustin Iturbide, the adop ed heir of
Maximilian, is now at Rosedale, The residence
fhis grandmother, Mrs. Green, on the heights
OF Georgetown, d. c., and is a robust how four
years old, looking as if he might put in claim
for h's inheritance some day, if Uncle Sam
does not absorb it in the meantime. ~ snt
We see it stated that Mrs Jane q Austen
who wrote the very picturesque and inte,fi. !
gent account of the Springfield gold chain fac.
tory in the Atlaltic Monthly, will commence
IN next weeks Boston Commercial Bullet;n
an nelaborate article in similar vein, descriptive
of the carpet manufacture 1t will on ,m,ob
into detail, and CON 5ey great variety of inter.
esting information about wool, and the process
by whichit is led up into the perfected heaut;.
full carpet. orzs
--The old castle. where Luther WROTE his,
translation of the Bible, the "W artbure" had
It's eight hundreth birthday, Aug. 49, There
was 10 nave been celebration The Able Iistz
lau u written an oratorium, "St Elizabeth" for
the occasion -aaHeii anf s3aaT ~ - II
IL Is funnily related of Marshall Saxe That |
"neh ne lost fight he used to shut nm his |
telescope, 'and dispatching his aid-te-cani,, e.,
: arls' say to him:s"Dites que nous ayona e,e |
Joan'ent etr7Aes, ct Jadtes' chanter Te Do,,.s y |
(Say that we have been soundIv tbrashod
and have TIE Deum sung.) .e ID" : ? ii.IlrsSS,ii
"A Swiss farmer was recently convic+aa oe
watering his milk and sentenced to e;ohtoo,,
months Imprisonment and forfeiture of -
civil rights. A little Swiss Justice in .h;s
country would be decidedly good thing.
Hours at Home is publishing a saries of
papers purporting to be extracts from the Diarv
and Letters of Sarah Pierpont, afterwards ~
wife of Jonathan Edwards. They are so well
done that number of journals in New
York, and some also in this State, have been
misled into quoting them as genuine. The
editors of those journals are victimized; ; the 1
papers are purely fictitious
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06
what Weed. taasi.


4 Every farmer knows, or ought 10 know, that
2 crop OF weeds exhausts the soil butte rs much
as any other crop. The hoe is too much ne
elected and the tiller of the soil suffers the r-
sequences in short crops and in an in;urv TO
'his-land. ow many fields of corn and nota.
toes are mixed up with rank weeds which some.
times almost hide the potato vines from view
ana chece the growth OF the corn. Manv
farmers think they have done wonders if thew
hoe their potatoes twice, and to hoe corn three
times is considered by many as work Of su.
pererogation. But it is not so. Manv fields
OF corn suffer greatly for the want of the third
hoelng' and especially ist the case in some soils
where weeds are we'll seeded down and grow
luxuriantly.i II .5,.
FARMERS are not fully aware-at least many
OF tnem are not-how much they lose every
season by letting the weeds grow. These nests
ora thrifty cultivation are always yery prolif;c
In bearing seeds. Weevils and other insects
seidom trouble them, and the seeds come to
maturity and are scattered broadcast over the
helds. Farmers will take notice that the seeds
OF weeds are generally plump and not pinched
as wheat and other grains often are, in conse
1~T~S ~
pestiferous growth. Somehow. soil is seldom
too poor to produce a good crop of weeds, and
farmers should see to it that they are kept
down. Weeds if suffered to grow at all will
generally get the most virtue from the soil,
and leave other crops in a weak condition. We
believe 1T is a fact that weeds will always gain
the advantage over other crops when both have
an equal chance. re.'.'t Atf
Now is the time to destroy all weeds the
seeds of which are about to ripen and become
scattered over the fields. Many have gone to
seed already, and will show their renewed life
next spring, much to the injury and annoyance
OF the farmer, teaching him how essential was
the more frequent use of the hoe 1t is unfor-
tunate for any farmer who cultivates the soil
| as he ought, to live beside another who suffers
his weeds to go to seed The autumn winds
| will send the seed far away, to the ANNOYANCE
OF neighbors who are e.more careful and thrifty
All the thrifty and economical cultivator can
do is to set good example to his neighbor and
gentiyfadvise him to a better course. Itsis al.
most incalcuable, the amount of injury to
crops occ 'sioned by suffering weeds to grow
without molestation. They soon get the
upper hand if not taken in season
and then the slothiul farmer becomes dis
couraged and let's them grow until they
overshadow his crops and render worse thar
useless the work of the spring 1t is strang,
that so many of them are suffered to grow ant
ripen in so many fields every year. But SO i
is and always has BEEN How much labor an.
industry are lost by the neglect of the hoe
i We rive this warning tn farmers now tho
they may not only destroy all weeds that hay
not yet come 10 maturity, but also draw up
Il resolution to fight them early next spring.
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06

The New York World has long editorial in
winch 1t endeavors, to prove that President
Llncoln was very ordinary sort of man and
that PRESIDENT johnson is pursuing the course
marked out by his predecessor. sa.7f Eetf sv.
Somebody in Indiana has printed poster
giving 16 reasons why Gen. Grant should not
be president, the nub of all which is the 18th
reason: because Illinois gave us the immor-
tai Lincoln, and Indiana offers our most avail
able candidate" .,,5,-.54 ~
Ihe canvass in Massachusetts seems to be
carried on by secret organizations on both
sides. The Sons of Temperance, Good Tenn.
piars and Templars OF Honor will prove more
tnan match for the P. LIS, according to,
the Springfield Republican.
Ihe next winters session of the Iowa Legis-
iature Will submit the question of negro suf-
rage 10 the' votes of the people, and elect a
Senator to succeed Hon. j. w. Grimes who is
not candidate. The prominent candidates To
succeed MN are Hon. James f. Wilson, pres
ent Representative from the FIRST District.
Hon. George z. Wright, one of the judges of
the Supreme Court; Governor William M
Stone, and General William Vandeyer.r
Representatives, of foreign, governments at
Washington regard the President as power
less, and as rushing madly on to his own de-
struction. fet ,sf..,-,, t,..-,7 ~, -.,.. ,t-.
Dispatches from Providence, r. i. state that
Grant only telegraphed to Howard that it
would not be necessary for him to hurry back
70 Washington, and did not say that he would
certainly be retained as Commissioner of the
Freedmen's Bureau a. t.f..
Rene wed pressure has been BROUGHT tn hear
upon the President to induce him to make
changes in his cabinet. Persons having inter-
views with him Wednesday were told that one
man, supposed to be Seward, would be remoy-
ed at no distant day. sa45a ao.sa sao7, -
One branch of the Congressional Committee
on Eiectlons will meet at Bridgeport, Conn,
on tne lotn inst, to investigate the alleged
frands IN the election of W.H. Barnum,
member OF Congress from the fourth district.
The Rebel majority for Holm and the loval
majority for Brownlow are nearly eonal-over
10000 each. The comparison SUGGESTED 10 s;o-
niicant. Tennessee, a State that seeded en-
franchised her negroes and disfranclised ber
Rebels; kentucky, nomnally loyal, gives the
ballot to her Rebel soldiers and denies if to
her loyal blacks. We think Tennessee, with
her great loyal majority, might safely give the
ballot to many of her repentant Rebels; we
know that Kentucky should open the polls to
all her down-trodden freedmen.
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06

~ g- ID "a
MR., JEFFERSON BRICK, we are happy to
learn, still lives and edits a paper in Leaven-
worth, Kansas. The following grimly sarcas-
tic notice of Mr.. Dickenss proposed visit to
this country, is specimen of Mr.. Brick s sub
dued style:di ---a 9iirsa3 .Lrs-4ou e.. -,
tits now pretty certain that we are to have
another Eruption of Dickens in this country.
his agent Mr.. Dolby, is already here with tile
view OF ascertaining just what prospect of sue
cess Mr.. D. is likely to meet with among those
whom he has ridiculed in return for their ab-
susa sanrti, nero worship and hqmbug idolatry. We
rs very dsagreeable fellow, and, like St Paul.
though his pen is mighty his bodily presence
IS weak, and we should be much better pleased
were he to stay at home and write another
book as funny and absurd as "Martin Chuzzle.
WIZ still, If he has quite run out of material
let hlm come and replenish his brain, as he
mas mas re8lenlshed his pocket, in America We
can aIord to laugh now at all the terrible
things he will say about us. .sgj h l.IT.L' 80
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06
ss'"iaa,ieas iss . =. .g.srs..ssis.ises 10 iii

ssissiaasiens isa ssaeasssstati,ss ID sta
49, Legislature.
The following Republican nominations have
,een made:
CUMBERLAND COUNTY. "a
GGape Elizabeth-GeOrge T. Henley.
=Ereeport-JehnA A. Briggs. .,,,-,.',---u-....--
Gorham-A. X. p Flies.
Cray, &c.-Geo. I. Merrill
North Iarmouth-Moses True. g
Raymond &c:-Lyman c. Chapman.
Standish-Sylvester s. Strout.
Falmouth, &c Isaac Lobdell.
&, Windham, &c.--William Goold.
Sebago, &c.-Reuben Sanborn. n .
Casco, &c.-David Duran.
,ay ANpRoscoGGIN COUNTY. fEE
Auburn-T A. D. Fessenden.
Minot, &c.-Danel Fields.
Ilyermore1 q. Shurtieff. -Ii.'lloia 8s i1
Lewiston-George A. Clark and Nelson
Leeds, &c-w. r. Leadbetterr.s ~ Sd =
.a FRANKLIN County. 2 eF $500
Avon-A. I. Talbot. ,pg .l'1'-7|,,,. .. .,
Farmington-Stillman Tarbox. tff ,.a ae.t
Freeman-Lionel True. ~ . - lt.. s.li. ~
Industry-John Frost ii3jts 4f sse,
PENOBsCoT COUNTY. Il ~. T,
burlington, &c.-JOseph W. Porter. w y
. charleston. &e.-Solomon Dunnipg. 7a.1i
Lee &c--Roswell Leavitt.
Lincoln, &c.-W. r. Hersey ~
Winn, &c.-Roswell Leayitt. 'il i'H
- ~ OXFORD COUNTY. hno. ha
HebronA. G. Herrick. I.goi -. .la f4as
Buckfeld-Hiram Hines. & &3I
Browmfield &c-S Samuel Tyler. Il, 'Hl
i- ..f HANCOCK COUNTY. t5srj
Dedham, &c.-James Wells. sa5
.uL - SAGADAHoC COUNTY.
Bath-Jacop j. Morse & Guy c.. Goss.
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06

MATTERS AT WAsHINGToN. ~ The Boston
Advertisers Washington special of the 4tb
INST, says: 'l2rog 10 alFn7Rsg4s sdfurive8 y.
The Presidents proclamation is considered
here as q direct insult upon the position as
spmed s, by GENERAL Grant, as it is well known
that General Sick1es pursued the course he
did under directions from General Grant The,
latter had an interview with Mr., johnson TO-
day concerning the matter, and also as regard
ing his late order to district commanders
There is the best reason for supposino If II,
nave been as decided in tone, ON either sideyas
the pu6lic might expect after what has already
occurred. Notwithstanding the legal difficui-
ties thought yesterday to be in the way of Gen.
Graut,s removal, it seems almost certain that
days. = -"
IN this interview, While on the subject of re-
construction, it is understood that General
Grant said to the President, that but for his
stubborn opposition the constitutional amend-
ment would have been adopted, and the ten
excluded States would now have been in the
Union. of7afazH ads E, - =, - - - - '--e
II, as stated, the President has called for the
correspondence between the army headouar-
tiers and the district commandefs. there is
little probability of his publishing it, as it is
known to contain several letters from General
Grant quite as pointed as any yet published.
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06
Eggs by Weight.

dozen OF eggs is little more definite guam
NY IMAM dozen of potatoes, but still a very
,naennlte quantity. A dozen of eggs from
little, scrawny, iil-kept chickens. sell for tha
same price as dozen from larpe well-kent
fowls, while the difference between them ia as
great as the disparity between tbe bans tbat
produce them. Purchasers in the ma rlrat IL"
their chances for big and little, and each 'pats
a fair average. But it is not so with SrOo Sro
ducers, and here is where the injustice occprs
The man who raises choice fowls, and keens
them in good condition, sells large rich eees
for the same price per dozen that is paid for
others one third smaller. This operates as a
discouragemeDt to raising good hens, and as
premium on poor ones. ~ ,t
A writer in the Canada Farmer insists that
eggs should be sold by the pound as well as
meat ana butter, and gives the difference in
tne ,1e average weight of dozen of eggs from
dinerent breeds of fowls, as follows: ! = stlot
Grau n,r;n, i 10. 81 or.
Gray Dorking and Brahma. /. .I'.. / In ie ~
Gray Barking and China. a...,.......1 III 15I ~ w.
These are the differences in the averaoe
weight from different breeds. Should we com.
pare the poorest specimens of the noorast
breeds with the best specimens of the best. We
would find difference Of fully one-half, and
yet all are sold at the same price. We buy and
sen Sc nothing at so loose an adjustment of guam
Sty 70 price as eggs, except when we buy wood
oy 5ne load. Even apples and peaches, when
s soln oy number, have the price adjusted to the
size. But big or little, an egg Is an egg.
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06

ExCURsIoN.-Some two Or three hundred
people from Lewiston, accompanied by the Ar
droscogsin Engine Company in uniform and
Johnsons Brass Band, visited our city yester-
day, taking the cars via Brunswick. A large
party OF them made an excursion to the islands.
but the weather in the afternoon was not verv
pleasant for such trip. Others visited yari-
GUS places OF interest in the city. We noticed
large number in the new City Hall admiring
its beautiful appearance. The excursionists
left for home at 5 o'clock P NJ.
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06

DEERING HALL.-Bidwel,& & Locke's fine
dramalic company were again received with
fattering house last evening" and well they
deserve it; for tie manner in which they bring
out their pieces warrant a full house every
night. The company appeared last night with
the drama of the Galley Slave or the Un-
known, in which Miss Dolie Bidwell and the
rest Of the company appeared and played we'll
The free was the Pleasant Neighbors, in
which Mr.. Charles Wilkinson, the fayorite
comedian, appeared and pleased the audience.
To- morrow evening thoy have great bill in
preparation. The carpenters are busy on
Rosedale, and the managers will shortly pro-
duce it in fine style. This evening the French
sply will be played, with Miss Dollie Bidwell
rs the Spy - 50 Ess - Z
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06

THE Convention Of the Governors OF tile
Loyal States, which has been talked Of, would
do good. The times are almost as critical as
when during the war the governors met at
Altoona. Chamberlain, Hartman, Bullock,
Burnside, Dillingham;, Fenton, Geary, Cox,
oglesby, Ward, Brownlow, Fletcher, Fair
child, Blaisdel, Marshall, Boreman, Grape and
Stone, could not meet and discuss national
affairs without benefit to the country; and if
Messrs, English and Swami should attend
they might learn many valuable lessons
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06

The Argus misrepresents our statement
that the Democrats in Congress voted for the
appropriation bill raising their salaries to
$4,000 year. We did not say that 'the Dem
Gratis passed the law with the Whole two
thirds Radical majority voting against it" but
that all the Democratic Senators and all but
six Of the Democratic Representatives present
and voting, voted for the bill, while majority
OF the Republican votes in both branches was
thrown against it. In short, a majority of the
Republicans in Congress opposed it, and a
majority Of the Democrats favored it; a Dem
oeraS IN the Senate moved 1t, and d De,noorat
in the House engineered it through that BODY;
from beginning to end it was a Democratic
cratic measure, and the less Democratic Jour
nails have to say about it the better it will be
for their party. ~ &c ia0esum 4ii al bss.se.
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06

ACADEMIA young man named Fries, one
OF the smartest workman at the Forest CITY
Sugar Refinery, was badly injured on We'd
nesday9 He was rolling barrel oflsugar on
to the elevator in the upper story of the refine-
ry, when the chain of the elevator parted,
breaking the springs which confined it, and
Fries fallMith it, through five stories, to the
cellar floor So violent was the fall, that after
striking the cellar floor he bounded up like
ball. He was taken to his lodgings and surei-
cal aid was called. Some bones were found to
be broken, and he had sustained such severe
internal injuries that his recovery is doubtful.
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06

WHY doesn't the Argus keep up its tw addle
about the taxation of government bonds? Mr..
Vallandigham is pursuing that subject with
great vigor at the West, and what, better CO.
adjutor can the Argus have2 He is conceded
to be the possessor of more brains than all the
other Democratsin Ohio, only the force of his
character is weakened by his having been TAX
en- possession of by several legions of devils.
Vallandigham says the government bonds
must be taxed-"Congress can pass a law to
tax them'-"That is the issue, and it cannot be
avoideds'u Will the Argus hesitate when so
eminent an expounder assures it that it is on
the right tracl1?o .t5s-W q a I'd .sf3iiqa 5
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06
The Destruction of the Eastern vsr.,
Dade. - -!..e iirffs


Where is the Street Commissioner or tbe
Committee on Public Grounds, OF whosoever's
duty it may be to save the waste by the wash
OF the recent rains, and prevent the lower road
OF the Promenade, adjoining the old hospital
lot, from being washed into the waite RS below?
Is not this matter worth attending to, or is it
olny when an Improvement at the eastern ends
OF the city is in process of being made, and the
eartn removed from the Promenade legitimate
ly or iudicously applied to the making of East
Commercial street, that all the hue and cry
about the destruction of the beautiful Prom
enade is to be raised? But thanks to 50 mucb
of the unfinished improvement as has served
to turn the water of Congress street from its
accustomed channel; otherwise we should
have had almost deep q cut through the
Promenade iu- another place as has already
been made on Congress street without the BEN
eft of having the material applied to building
another Commercial front to the city.
N.ff.A Fft4F fTrtfr QUERY.
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06
Nominations. for Represeu,.,d,ye..

AT the Republican Convention held last
evening at Market Hall, for the purpose of
nominating four candidates for Representatives
to the Legislature from the city of Portland,
Benz. Kingsbury, Jr., was chosen Chairman
and W. @. How, Secretary. The following
gentlemen were unanimously nominated, the
first two by acclamation:
CHARLES j. MORRIS.
i GRANVILLE M. CHASE, ..,...
Newell A. FOSTER. q y.e4 gtts
THOMAS B. REED, JR. egt -.
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06


SENATOR TRUMBULL, in an article in the
new congregational organ at Chicago, the Ad-
vance, contends that impartial suffrage
throughout the Union, can be established in
but two ways: either by the,separate action
Of each State, or constitutional amendment.
In referring to the oft-quoted clause of the.
Constitution about "a republican form of gov
ernmsnt,' he says it is to bcIinterpreted by
those'who wrote it, adding: .iooa5s leusoz 81,
Ihe republican form Of government requir-
ed to be guaranteed to each State is, a govern
ment of such a character as existed in the
States when the Constitution was framed; and
for Congress, under the plea of regulating
sunraSe, TO declare such governments anti
republican, would be the snbversion instead of
the guarantee Of republican forms of govern-
ment and would necessarily abrogate all ex-
isting State governments, since every one does
self 'li2iigS9 ~ lff Z 7-7lls7 . = 80
The Portland daily press., 1867-09-06
MARRIED.

In Augusta, Aug 81, Stephen G. Heath and Laura
b. Rrett. m H., - =
In Montve, Aug. 90, David A. Garland of Ban
gor. and Mrs. Matilda b. Hanscom, OF Freedom
In Skowhegan, Aug. q, Hiram S. Steward and
CYNTHIA S. White.
In Skowhegan, Aug. "a, Simon Grover and Eta L.
Walk er. &s u hncb7si Ns-k Nea 5s s8F3 - /
In Rockland, Aug. 26, William F. Butler and Miss
Lillius Drake, both of South Thomaston
= In Lewiston, Sept. 2. Cyrus w. Moore and Mar
aaret Randall. .f r,