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The Portland daily press., 1868-06-29
Mr.. EDITOR. fnlly concur with you and all

Mr.. EDITOR, fnlly concur with you and all
Others in rendering due honor to the Hon. J.
B. Brown for his DISTINGUISHED liberality in
giving to Portland splendid hotel, the one
thing more needed than all others at this
time, and trust that our people will not fail
to manifest in some suitable way
their high appreciation of the valuable
service he has rendered them, and Messrs.
Wheeler and Ramsay who have spared no
pains expense in furnishing the hotel in
the most elegant manner in keeping with the
house itself.
We also owe debt of gratitude tn 1t should
not be forgotten by our people when after
the house was built and furnished one thing
more was needed. One more energetic. pub
lie spirited man must be found to furnish
horses and carriages of III descriptions that
would compare with the house and this
man was found in the person of
Capt. Chas. Sager so long and favorably
known to our people as popular and accom-
modating livery man. and most nobly has he
fulfilled the part assigned to him, furnishing
horses, harnesses, coahces, hacks, and light
carriages that are not equalled by any livery
or hotel stock in New England, requiring an
outlay of some twenty thousand dollars. At
ter deciding to 90 this work Mr.. Sager and
his able assistanS, Mr.. Henry Taylor, at once
started for the country and purchased large
number of horses comprising several matched
pairs that cannot be excelled in this State.
Mr.. Sager then went to New Haven and
purchased of the celebrated carriage builders,
Kellum, Kimball & Co. a clarence, ealache,
landolette and a hack, four of the finest
large carriages ever seen in Maine. The clar-
ence is very beautiful and the only one used
for public purposes in this State. 1t is paint
ed in carmine and lake and lined with the
most elegant crimson satin. The others are all
beautifully finished in every particular, and
reflect great credit upon the builders.
Mr.. Sager has also purchased of the old and
celebrated firm, Abbott, Downing & Com
pany, two of the finest Concord coaches it was
ever our pleasure to See, and will in few
days add to his stock some of the finest light
carriages ever built in Portland. So his stock
for hacking and livery will be as complete as
the house, and the best livery stock in New
England. So we will say in conclusion all
honor to the enterprise and public spirited
men that have given Portland the best builts
the best furnished, and the best liveried hotel
in New England. X.
The Portland daily press., 1868-06-29

The nomination of Perry Fuller of Kansas
for the position of Commissioner of the Inter-
nal Revenue is a striking commentary on the
constantly reiterated statement that the Pres
dent is not responsible for the frauds that have
completely demoralized the revenue service.
Fuller combines in himself the beauties of the
whiskey ring, the lobby and the Indian agen.
cies With few incompetent and dishonest
assessors and collectors it is difficult to collect
the revenue; with dishonest man a the head
of the department it is impossible Fuller is
nominated on the recommendation of Ross of
Kansas. He is a brother-in-law of Winnie
Ream. The following statement is made by
r. j. Hinton, the Washington correspondent
of the Worcester Spy, in a letter published
Friday morning:
Your correspondent has been an especial OBJ.
ject of attention. He had heard from two or
three sources of Mr.. Fuler's inquiries as to
the cause which made him write Full er down.
and deprecatng the acts complained Of Fl
naliy one man approached your correspondent
with proposition, purporting to come direct
from Mr.. Fuller, to pay well it he would keel
still. Anxious to know what such a shrew,
dealer in the honor and honesty of men might
estimate those articles in your correspondent
possession at, he made a fent of finding out
The person pretending to be so employed de
clared he was not aui horIZed to make direc
ofr, but supposed thonss nd or two in green
backs, or chance, if his principal was con
hrmed, to make ten or fifteen thousand within
q short period, could be readily obtained.
thanking my informant, he was told that this
pen was not for sale to Perry Fuller at any
DrlCe.
The Portland daily press., 1868-06-29

ARKANsAs.-In spite of Presidential obsta-
cles and rebel Vaccinations Arkansas is once
more represented in Congress after more than
seven years enforced and voluntary absence
therefrom. Terrible have been the trials
through which she has passed since April
1861, when she bounced Indignantly out of the
Union after the firing of Fort Sumter. The
final reconstruction plan of Congress has first
reached final consummation in the case of this
State, and its future under free constitu-
ton will be watched with intense anxiety by
all patriots. There will still be many obsta-
Giles in the path of the new government. Enc
led on by the arch enemy of all at Washington.
1t may have appeared strange to some that
Congress does not promptly admit the Sena-
tors and Representatives from North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama
and Louisiana, since the House spent but
twenty and the Senate but ten minutes in
passing over the veto the bill admitting those
Safes. But Arkansas is at present on differ
ent footing from the other States. Her Legis-
lature has ratified the 14th constitutional
amendment, an act which Congress has made
a condition precedent to the admission of Con-
gressmen from any State. With view to
the performance of this final condition the
Legislature of Georgia will convene on the
4th, and that of South Carolina on the 9th of
July. while Governor Warmo nth of Louisiana
has directed the assembling of the legislative
body of that State on the 29th inst. The re-
naming States will no doubt act pr omptly in
the nremises
The Portland daily press., 1868-06-29


At the me citing last evening in the City Hall
an interesting report of the work which has
been done by the Portland Freedmens Aid
Association was read by Mr.. S. r. Leavitt. 1t
is estimated that eighteen hundred emancipat-
ed children and adults have been taught to
read and write by the teachers who have been
supported in the South by funds raised in this
city. These noble men and women who be-
long to different chulches, have not only taught
in day schools, but also in night schools and
Sunday schools, and have given many valua-
BILE lessons in life to the freed-people in their
homes. The report concluded with an appeal
for aid to carry on the work another year, at
the end of which it is expected that the most
of the schools will be self-supporting.
Rev. Crammond Kennedy followed with an
address, in which he called attention to the
principles and me .hods of the Commission, to
which the Portland Society is auxiliary espec-
tally to its unsectarian and cooperative char
acter. He showed how hardy self-keeping.
manhood is developed in the freedmen by &C
customing them, even in their poverty, to as
sist in supporting their schools and teachers;
and mentioned the remarkable and encourag-
ing iHSo ehet III DOAaWdiO anu Mai lduu tue
colored people, although their wages are small
and their families large, buy their own books
and provide board for their teachers. This CO.
operation is secured to greater or less extent
throughout the South.
Mr.. Kennedy presented many touching facts,
which had come under his own observation
illustrative of the eagerness and aptness of the
freedmen to learn. He also showed how the
schools had rcvolutionized Southern opinion
of negro capacity, and therefore fostered hap
pier relations between him and his white
neighbors. Then, by promoting intelligence,
these teachers and schools promote industry,
virtue, and the general prosperity. Thus they
are an inestimable blessing to the whole South
and the country at large.
Mr.. Kennedy stated that hall a million of
colored children were yet without the school,
the spelling book, and the testament. The
Republic must take care of these young citi-
zens, who will soon be of age, and voting He
earnestly hoped that Portland would not re-
lax her noble efforts to push forward this ma
tional and christian enterprise
We understand that the Society will make
an earnest appeal Tor collections to the various
churches, and take other means to raise the
necessary funds
The Portland daily press., 1868-06-29

SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE.-Th The Savannah
Republ can notices the changes going on in
agriculture at the South. The experieL ce OF
Northern men is being carried with them into
the South. They perceive that the fruits and
vegetables peculiar to May and june in this
latitude can be matured In Alabama M ssissp-
oi and Southe,n Tennes see in March and
April, and that they can be transported by
railroad with sufficient expedition to give
,tra Rberries, toma oes, potatoes. peas, beans,
,abbages and onions to the leading mar kets OF
OHIO, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa, a
month to six weeks in advance. The Direct.
,rs OF the NJ ohile and Ohio Railway, seeing
his feature developing, having placed "truit
train" on their road, Ito give the pole the prod
net of the SUM-" and we may look for deve.-
Dpment of this feature, now only in its incip-
ent stage, which will become one of great
magnitude. Men from the Northern States
who have settled in the South, have already
shown that even strawberries are more profit.
tble than corn or cotton, and that cabbage, po-
tatoes and cucumbers can be made to pay the
prime cost of rich alluvial lands in one season.
From Virginia and North Carolina, New Eng
and receives fruit and vegetables six weeks
in advance of her own productions, affcrdng a
large and profitable trade to those States, and
luxuries to us.
The Portland daily press., 1868-06-29

The New York Times says that number of
Southern gentlemen-Southern either by
birth or long residence, or both-who are at
present residing in the North have formed a
club in that city in favor of Impartial suf-
rage" in the Southern States. They do not
propose to NEEDLE with any other political
question; their sole object will be to influence
the settlement of the suffrage. They propose
to furnish Southern speakers, who will furnish
propositions:
First-That impartial suffrage and equality
before the law. without regard to the previous
condition of rebellion or servitude, is the fun
damental condition precedent to any success
full policy of Southern reconstruction.
Second-That the question of franchise is
test of the integrity of emancipation, in this,
that if the colored is unfit for citizenship,
then emancipation was mistake.
Third-That if emancipation is defended on
the ground Of necessity, forced on the nation
by the war, then suffrage to the emancipated
race is a coincident necessity flowing logically
and inevitably therefrom.
Fourth-That this policy should emanate
from and be guaranteed by national authority.
The Portland daily press., 1868-06-29

Improvement of Streets-Building- Steamer
to VinalhdUez.
ROcKTAND .Tuna d 1893

Improvement of Streets-Building- Steamer
to ViaalhdUen.
RocKLAND, June a. 1868.
To the Editor Of the Press:
Rockand mud differs from the mud of Com
mercial street, in being more adhesive and
possibly, deeper. 1t is how an open question
whether, and how our streets shall be i'm
proved. Some advise laying granite flags
along the streets Travelled by the ponderous
quarry wagons and paving the other streets.
Others advise building railroad to the quar-
ries and then paving the streets. Something
of this sort will be done in few years.
The improvements this year indicate it; for
they are, some of them certainly, the legitimate
reuits OF the new spirit and life which arrive
just in advance of the railway car. With our
changes for the better, accomplished and
prospective, we shall put on more cheerful
look.
During spring and summer thus far, there
has been considerable repairing of private
buildings, stores, etc. The Beethoven Block
which was partially burned in January, has
been repaired and fitted up in becoming style
with clothing store, oyster saloon and mar
ket, and is now known as Young's Block
Mr.. Edward Merrill, son of the late DR.. Merrill
of Rockland, has opened new and elegant
apothecary shop on the corner of Main and
Limerick streets.
Fox Islands communicate with the rest of
the word through Rockland. Hitherto we
have had packet running between here and
Vinalhaven; but to-day steamer will be
put upon the route, and we shall have easier
and quicker communication. The steamer is
called the Pioneer. She will make one trip
each way daily. The Masons of this city go to
Vinalhaven to-day to assist in the dedication
and conservation of new masonic hall and
in the installation of the officers of Moses
Webster Lodge, and they will go and return
by the PIONEER.
There are two boats on the Boston and
Bangor line, making three trips each way
per week. We orly need better overland
communication, and that we are sure to have.
DENNET
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New Hampshire Items.

The business men of Dover IN. H. have
formed a Board of Trade, thereby showing the
true spirit OF enterprise. In no way can large
towns and cities better concentrate their en-
ergies for the development of their resources
The first proceeding of the Dover Board of
Trade was an important one to that locality as
well as to Portland, namely, the passage of
resolution directing the President and Secre-
tary of the Board to petition the New Hamp-
shire Legislature, now in session, to charter
the Alton Bay and Weirs (Lake Shore) rail-
road, and those officers were authorized to pre-
sent the same to the Legislature.
At the June session of the Supreme Judicial
Court Claw term and full beuch) at Exeter re-
Gently petition v as presented in behalf of the
Unitarian Christians" of the First church in
Dover asking an injunction, restraining Rev.
f. e. Abbot-Free Religionist and recent pas
tor of the church-from preaching in that
church, contrary to the church charter. Thir-
ty days were allowed the defence to take a6di-
tional testimony and ten days for the petition
ers to present rebutting evidence. Elk Judge
Fowler of Concord, Albert r. Hatch, Esq of
Portsmouth and Hon Joseph G. Hall, of Do
yer for petitioners, and Samuel M. Wheeler,
Esq. of Dover for defence. The case has ga
history" and the worst of it has been kept out
of the papers, 1t is matter of great import
ance, not only to the Unitarian body at large
but to Christians of every sect. A decision
will be reached by the last of August.
The Suncook Valley Road in New Hamp-
shire contemplates line from Manchester to
Pittsfed some 16 or 18 miles, and possibly it
may be extended to the line of the Dover and
Winnepiseogee road. 1t opens up fertile ag-
ricultural section of the State with valuable
water 1power. This locality has heretofore
depended entirely on stage coaches and
private teams for communication with the
rest of the world.
Interesting and encouraging meetings have
been held at Manchester, Pittsfeld, EPSON,
Chichester, Allenstown and other places along
the route. If the towns will donate 100000,
the rest of the sum required will be easily sui
scribed. Pittsfeld will give $4,000 and more
Unnecessary. Already some $4,000 are guar
anteed
This road if built to the Dover and Winnepis-
eogee road will open up another part of New
Hampshire Including the city of. Manchester)
to Portland.
A writer IN the Statesman urges the con-
struc.ion of railroad through Newbury, Sum-
.pee and Newport, TO claremont, to connect
with the Sullivan railroad cross the Connec-
cut and follow the Black river up three
niles to the manufacturing village at Spring
ield, VT, thence, six miles, to Gassett's Sta
ion, on the Rutland railroad, which puts us
connection with the New York Central at
schenectady. A moments examination suf-
hoes to show the directness and shortness of
he route. He calls on Concord for $4,000 to
help start the scheme.
The Portland daily press., 1868-06-29
A Poor Way to Attack a Good candIda1e.

Poor Way to Attack a Good Candidate.
Democratic contemporary comedies all
that Mr.. Lynchs warmest friends could desire
as to his persc nal integrity and ability. 1t vic
lently attacks him, however, on the following
grounds: Because he voted to place ten
States under military rule; because he voted
to dsfranchise white men and to give negroes
the ballot.
Our recollection of recent events differs a
little from our contemporaries. We seem to
remember that Mr. Lynch has within two
weeks voted for bills admitting seven States
TO the Union and withdrawing them from mill
tary control and has helped pass them over
Democratic Presidents veto, while every
Democrat in each branch of Congress has vot-
ed against the bills and therefore in favor of
the continuance of military rule. Is this not
exactly correct? To the second objection our
recollection also furnishes an answer With
in two weeks Mr.. Lynch has voted for bill
enfranchising twelve hundred white men,
while the Democrats in both branches of Con-
gress voted against relieving them from polti-
cal disabilities. Is there any way of contro-
verting this statement?
These are all the specific allegations that
our contemporary with all its labored industry
can scrape together against Mr.. Lynch except
a very foolish one that the best endeavors of
himself and his associates have not succeeded
In carving through measure for the relief of
shipbulding. 1t is well known that Mr..
Lynch has omitted no opportunity to urge this
subject upon the attention of Congress and
has sustained the bills introduced for this pur-
pose with cogent and unanswerable argu-
ments. There are Democrats from New Eng
land in both the House and Senate,-bave
theJ done the same? What Congressman at
tackled the measure with so much asperity IS
Eldridge of Wisconsin, leading Democrat?
1t was an unhappy thought in the Argus to
denounce Mr.. Lynch for not doing what his
vigorous efforts would have accomplished long
since, had he been seconded by the Democrats
of any section of the country.
As for the incidental charge that our Rep
resentative followed Mr.. Stevens in demand
ing the removal Of the President, We have only
to say that the House OF Represe natives had
good and sufficient cause for bringing the
President to the bar of the Senate and secur-
ed a verdict which was a moral conviction
We believe and the Republican party believes
to-day, that the House had no right to allow
the case to go by default. 1t was the province
OF the House to prosecute as it was the prov
ince of the Senate to decide the case, and it is
as irrational to complain OF the faithful and
upright discharge of one of these duties as of
the other. Mr.. Stevens did not lead the move
ment in the House; it was spontaneous and
unanimous,
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State News.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

The Herald says that trains on the Portland
and Oxford Central Railroad ceased running
on Saturday, June 10th. as was announced
in the circular issued by the company the
I'D of April, the towns of Buekfield, Sum.
mer and Hartford having failed to vote to
loan their credit for the extension of the
road to Canton. A daily sage line has beel
established, so that stages now run by regular
field. There is considerable business going on
at this beautiful village OF Mechanic Falls.
The citizens of Auburn and Lewiston
are now rejoicing at the arrival of an omni-
bus which is to run hourly between the two
places.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The Gardiner Reporter says on Wednesday
night last, Warren Dorr, young man about
nineteen years of age, son of Mr.. Daniel Dorr,
had his leg broken in singular manner while
he was at work in tie saw mill of Joshua
Gray, in that city He was tending the saw,
and the head-block OF the carriage struck a
board, throwing it with great force ag ainst his
leg, breaking both bones of the limb below
the knee. His leg was set and he is now quite
comfortable.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The bids for building the Custom House at
Wiscasset, Me-, were opened at the Treasury
Department Thursday afternoon. The lowest
bid of $3.50 was made b, VIM. Hogan Of
Bath, Me-, The building to be OF granite 1t Is
presumed that Mr.. Hogan's bid will be accent
ed and that the building will be commenced
as soon as the title to the site is perfected.
The Representative of the District, Mr..
Blaine, has been urging that the building
should be constructed this year.
PENnBsCoT COUNTY.
The Bangor Wing states that Mrs. Cook.
wife of j. w. Cook of that city left home on
Saturday, 23l instant, and went to visit
daughter at Kelley Hill," Orono She arrived
there and remained over night. On Sunday
afternoon about three oc ock she started 10 go
to neighbours across the fields-about half a
mile, and that was the last seen of her. A
search was commenced and on Friday last
skirt belonging to Mrs. C. was found near
bog which lies between the county road and the
railroad. The search has been thorough IN all
other directions, and it is thought she must be
in the bog.
The Dexter Gazette says a little son of Mr..
PettengiIl OF Ripley, on Friday last, on his
way home from school with other boy., went
into Maine stream to oahe, and almost imme-
d ately sank to the bottom and was drowned
1t is supposed that he was overheated, and
that the water cooled his blood suddenly, rem
dering him incapable of exertion.
The Bangor Wing says during the twenty
four hours ending at six o'clock Friday even
ing, sixty sail of vessels arrived at that port.
Previous to this the harbor has worn rather
deserted look owing to the prevailing heavy
logs in the bay, and the unfavorable winds.
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MARRIED..

In North Co way, June 21. by Rev. R. Kimball,
VIM. Fl. Jewett. OF Bridgton, and Miss Annie W.
Kilborn. of cortland.
In Cape Elizabeth, June 81 by Rev. B. F. Prtch-
ard, Cyrus =. Knight, OF presque Isle, and Miss
Martha w Mariner OF c. E.
In Brunswick, june |, George r. Avery and Miss
Mary j. christopher. both Of lewiston.
In Lisbon, June 20, Aaron Nutting and Miss E. G.
Whitney.
In rhomaston. June II, John G. Dumont and
Jennie White both of RocSland.
In South Hope, June 20, Charles L. Sherer and
Louisa N. Cleveland both OF Rockland.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
1902. 1917.
1868.

In 1902 the grandfather of DR.. Tobias introduced
the VENETIAN EMINENT in England. 1t was
a success al hough he price was Guinea Bottle
His late Majesty William ". used It FIR Chronic
Rheumatism, and was entirely cured after suffering
for two years, his attending physicians being unable
effect cure, and he wrote letter Of tn inks which
is now in possession OF my uncle ia Liverpool. L
have offered 81 sterhng that letter. bat it was
refused. In 1917 put it OUT in the United States
and now, in 1868, the sale is immense. Thousands
of tamil les without it, 1t is safe and 1nno-
cent to apply externally or take internally. For q
years have warranted it to cure the following COM
plants: Cholera, Diarrhea, Dysentery, Group. Col
lie, Cramps, Vomiting and Sea Sickness. taken in
ternally, and Chronic Rheumatism, Burns, Cuts,
Bruises. Old Sores, roothache, Frosted Feet, Swell
ings, Insect Stings, and pans in chest. Back, or
Limbs externally. 1t never fails, if used as direct
ed; for Cholera or Dysentery 1t is certain, if used
when first attacked. No once trying it, will ever
be witbouti. Sold by Druggists. Price FIFTY Cents
and Oae Dollar. Depot, 10 Park Place, N. Y.
June ~, 1865, eod&eow1msN
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NEWS ITEMs.-The Rhode Island Legisla-
ture is agitating the subject of commission
to settle the boundary line between that State
and Massachusetts, which has been in dispute
for more than century. The Rhode Island
people claim that the true line would give
them the villages of Blackstone and Water
ford.
1t is said that Heenan has authorized his
hacker to make a match for him with McCoole
for $4,000. the fight to come off in Canada
within three months.
The New York World is the latest convert
to the woman suffrage doctrine.
Prince Alfred, whose life was attempted by
an assassin, has arrived safely home.
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Portland and Vicinity
SPECIAL NOTICE COLUMN.

SPECIAL NOTICE COLUMN.
Vsnetian Liniment.
Chrisradoro's Dye.
ENTERTAINMENT COLUMN.
Fourth Of July Strawberry Festival.
AUCTION COLUMN.
Real Estate IF. O. Bailey.
Farm, Wood Land, &c..F. o. Bailey.