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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-07-27
Total....-,..................-......-.s4.C5.sso 50
u,uE total amsunt covered b. tho Gtna Poll

rVHE total amount covered by tho Etna Poll.
L cies on property destroyed or damaged Ia
$206, S54 on which salvage will DO about i've
per cent. Our total loss will not vary much
from $780, and was promptly adjusted and
paid. This sum Is Eve per cent. upon the Com
pany's assets. figure but slightly exceeding
our Government and State taxes paid last year,
or proportion equal TO $500 loss for COM
pany of 500. 00c assets.
The necessity for inrurance and the value OF
wealthy, strong corporations Is forcibly IL
Illustrated by this fire. Several weak insurance
companies are destroyed. Portland has a
population of 35,000-was handsomely built,
mostly fine brick or stone structures-protected
and screened with upward Of 1000 shade trees
bounded on three sides by water-indeed,
literally, almost rising from the ocean--and
with q steam fire department--yet II has $l0,-
100000 Of property consumed in few hours
upon q holiday when its people are least occu-
contemplate frecracker.
Remember the trifling origin of fires that
sweep away In few hours the earnings o.
years. Consider your best interest and give the
Etna Agent call If you need proper insur-
ance security. Pay fair rate Of premium for
a good and genuine article, and with these
lights and experiences before you, procure
your insurance with shrewd Judgment.
Applications for insurance promptly attended
to BY II. A. LITTLET0N & CO., Ag'u.
No. 20 Madison street.
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N o II L Q Z !.

HAVE, THIS DAY, SOLD NY STOCK
L ofGoods, AZ No. 162 Front street, notes and
accounts 10 WIN. A. FITCHEER- Persons
having any claims against me will please pre-
Z. MORROW.
Memphis. July II, 1855.
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NOTICE i.

DIFFERING TO THE ABOVE NOTICE
Ii Of NJ. 3. Morrow, request all persons
thus indebted 10 come forward and pay. either
10 me personally or 70 Mr.. s. L. JAMES, who
~ WM. A. FITcHNER.
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REMOVAL.

nFUBEN DALEY. JUSTICE OF TIKI
III peace. has removed 70 the Jeferson Block.
Oid FelloWs' B1ildinE. Entrance. Nc. 70
eeco1d street. IA
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-13
Republican Rally.

If New Hampshire were an individual in
stead of a public corporation, and had done so
creditable thing as the State did last Tues
day, public dinaers, fetes and receptions would
be rendered ON all Sides The public hayea
most inadequate conception of the herculean
eflrts put forth by the Democracy to carry
the State. They determined to carry it at all
hazards at any expense-at all sacrifice of
truth and disregard of justice. They felt sure
OF success. No other explanation can account
far the preparations that had been made by tie
C1nperheads throughout the whole country 10
celebrate the event. Doolttle was to speak IN
FLneuil Hall; Blair Was to preside at a meet
Ing in Washington; the President was TO De
renaded; the New York Democratic State
Cow sntou was called TO met on Wednesday
in aaticlo alton OF inspiring news from New
Ham 2shre; the Democrats assembled at
Augusta from all parts of the State with the
same pleasant anticip ltions; i'll short, Tuesday
night tbeO lnservativ-s were waiting with open
mouths, like huugry fad slinys long bereft of
worms, expsctant Of the choice morsel OF New
Hampshire news. But it never came. The
gates of hell could not prev Ill against the
patriotism OF the Granite State The Repub-
licln victory is one that, in IA uaequalled de-
gee, is calculated to in.pre Us to renewed
effort ami to a feeling of perfect confdence in
the u timate triumph of the right.
Maine contributed something to the resell.
FL innibai Hlmln. Gen. Caldwell and Willie m
r. Frye are spoten of by the New Hum pshire
papers as among the ablest speakers of the
cam 2aigu. This evening the gentleman first
IN antioned will meet The citizens of Portland
at City Hall, for the purpose of uniting with
them in rel Iicing over this most auspicicus
victory. The strong feeling of personal respect
al gratitude felt by the Republ cans no. only
of Maine, but # thu whole country, toward
Mr.. Hamlin, would of itself insure him q mo. t
enthusiastic welcomn.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-13

The factious opposition of impeachment
made by Democrats in Congress is not imita-
ted by the Republicans of the New YORK AS
sembly. In the latter body, where the Demo-
Gratis have majority, the Repuohcans, win
single exception, voted in FAVOR OF the I'M
parchment of Canal Commissioner Dorm, VINO
is member of their own party. And why
should thew not? Impeachment is but an in
yestjgation. An innocent man does not fear
If. The Democrats talk as if there were
something of unparalleled atrocity in bring
ing man to trial in this way. Its penalties
are milder than those of the ordinary legal
code. 1t secures to the accused Jury of far
higher qualifications as judges than the ordi-
nary criminal obtains. He has all the advan-
tages of the usual course of procedure, with
many others in addition. His case in no more
preJudiced by the presentation of articles OF
impeachment by the proper body than it
would be by the finding of a bill by grand
jury. In either case he is held innocent un-
til he is proved guilty. The remedy is one for
| which the fullest and most explicit authority
| is given in the constitution. Why was pro-
| vision made in the constitution for impeach-
ment, lift were intended that it should never
be used? Were "our fathers antiquated hum
bugs, after all? Have we ever-estimated their
wisdom? If Andrew johnson does not
have fair trial, or if he is uniustly convic ed,
there will be good ground for complaint but
no reasonable, intelligent man can complain
that his conduct is to be subjected to that in
| vestigation for which the constitution express
1 " provides.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-13
n Inc tleeiion for Mayor.

Az the time draws near for the new electi IN
the prospect brigbtens. AL questions about
the nominition of NJ. Mel sllan have been set
at rest by the ratification which his nomina-
ton received at the & EST election, No r pub
lican candidate tor mayor has ever received
such vote as was given to our candidate this
spring. Since that vote WIS made public we
hear of no active movement in opposition 10
his election, except of the regular opposition
which rallies unler the Democratic hlg. How
fur the personal opposition which manifested
Itself before will prevail over what we most re-
gard as higher m )tives, in the next election,
We are OF course unable to say. Its not prob.
able that all the Republicans who voted
against Mr.. Mcclellan before will vote for him
now. Many of them we trust will, and we
hope none will vote against him. We led the
Democratic candidate before by 1850 votes
He may poll larger vote this .ime; but we
certainly shall. Many of our voters were
not registe ed. We hear of six voters from
one house who went through The storm to
the ward room and found too late that their
names were not on the list. Hundreds of our
voters who were enrolled did not appear. If
we have fair day Monday, or only an ordina-
~ storm, we shall have their assistance We
have maj rify of thou,and votes in this
city, and it ought to count ON Monday unani-
mously on the right side.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-13
The Election i'm the First Ward.

Yesterdays Argus publishes the following
note from Mr.. Curtis:
would say in reply to statements in the
Press, respecting the election in Ward l, that
it was agreed between myself and the warden
that no votes should be taken out of the bal
lot box and counted until after the polls should
be closed. They were taken out while my
back was turnedand before had knowledge
or opportunity to object. The list was care
fully checked. [ have no doubt every voters
name was checked who voted. L counted the
names checked on the list carefully, and there
ed on the table. have not particle OF doubt
that those sixteen votes were never in the box,
but that they got upon the table in some other
way than through the ballot box.
By this statement the Warden is directly
accused of violating his word, and the Clerk
is indirectly charged with smuggling sixteen
votes into the heap upon the table. These
gentlemen will probably speak for themselves.
For the present we would simply call atten-
ton to the nature of the evidence on which
Mr. Curtis allows himself to rely in accusing
a neighbor of a criminal act. Mr.. Curtis says
he 'has no doubt" every name was checked
How does he know? Almost eight hundred
votes were thrown in six hours. Is Mr. Curtis
so perfectly accurate as to be sure of his re-
cord? And if he is sure of his own, is he sure
that no accidental error was made in checking
the rest of the list? OF course he cannot be.
But grant this claim to superhuman accuracy,
and what follows? One of two things either
that several vntnrs throw moro votos than one
apiece, or that those sixteen votes were never
in the box. Which is most likely? Which
would be easiest, for dozen voters to drop
two or three ballots apiece into the box under
the eye of the Warden, or for the Clerk to
smuggle in sixteen under the eyes of twenty
by-standers The question needs no answer
Yet Mr.. Curtis allows himself to adopt the
more unlikely alternative notwithstanding the
admitted fact that several Democratic voters
were detected in attempting the very thing
which some of them probably succeeded in
doing 1t is significant fact furthermore
that while the Republican vote simply came
up to the full Republican strength shown in
the election of other candidates, Mr.. Curtis's
vote on this last day exceeded by eight the
extraordinary vote polled ON the first day for
Mr.. buddy. A Southern jury would not con-
vict negro of stealing sweet potato on such
evidence as Mr.. Curtis considers sufficient to
justify him in accusing his neighbor of crime
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-13

The civil war brought upon the State great
burdens and in 1857 the L sgisIature appropri-
ated 81 ,560,5G7 sc for the current expenses of
the war. The amount actually expended was
81 62S,024 80, drawing the excess from the
1922 1876 40 cash on hand at the close of 1906.
The appropriations for 1853 are $50, 100 19
gal st 81 $50 567 C6 in CT, OF $704 377 At less in
1868 than in 1867. Still the appropriations
for 1868 were literal; $4,000 were donated TO
the Agricultural College. SIG 542 GO applied to
the Reform School, $25, Geo to the State Pris-
on, and 500 723 Sc to the relief of the insane.
On ths whole the finances of Maine are in a
most satisfactory condition and Name bonds
stand in the markets of the country.
In 1865 the appropriations amounted to
$2,350 40 g. in 1865 to $3,022,O02 95 and in
1864 to $4 .7O7, 915 IS.
The people of the State fully appreciate the
importance of wise economy as shown by
the Legislature of 1868. Liberal grants were
made for public uses while all needless ex-
penditures were Topped off,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-13

There have been various modes of looking
into the future. The rustling of oak leaves
the song and fight of birds, the rawlings of dis
tracted women, the ringing of brazen kettle,
dreams and visions, the spots on cards, the
chance arrangement of tea grounds the lines
in the palm of the hand, have all been inter-
preted as throwing some ray into the darkness
which closes before our mortal vision. There
VAS the famous glass of Cornelius Agrlppa;
the science of astrology; and the wonderful
gift OF second sight in the Scottish highlands.
The political prophet adopts none of these
methods. He has nothing to do with the ex-
neutrality-suspicious. evolves his theories "from the
inner depths of his own consciousness. Ii
they do not correspond with the facts, so mucn
the worse for the facts. The prophet goes on
prophc sying as placidly as ever. Inc argus
for instance nredicts that the Republicans not
only will NOT oct Connecticut without a strug-
gle Shut they won't get it at ALL" A few
weeks ago we were reading similar predictions
respecting the New Hampshire election. On
the 18th of January the Argus said:
The recent elections in Portsmouth, Dover
aud Manchester indicate change in popular
sentiment which renders the defeat of Radi-
caism almost certain.
Three DAYS later, in answer 10 the modest
claim of Republican majority between 1906
and $500 put forward by the well-iuformed
New Hampshire correspondent of the Press,
the Argus offered wager of not over $500
that the Democrats would carry the State
In the Argus OF Jan. 9th we find the fol
Owing paragraph:
The campaign In New Hampshire promises
to be vigorous and the indications are OF the
most unmistakable kind for complete Dem
ocratic victory.
Nextday we were informed by the same au
thority, that
The r ideals in New Hampshire are in a bad
way. They are talking of Withdrawing their
candidate for governor and substituting an
other.
And SO on to the end of the chapter. Even
yesterday the Argus was indiscreet enough t.
print private advices "from reliable sources
to the effect that the Republican maiorit,
would be "cut down to less than eighteen hun
dred" With commendabls impartiality the
So ne article proceeds to state that corrected
returns from 18i towns give Hartman q ma
jor,ty of Que" three thousand"
In the same number of the same paper We
are told that the Republicans won't get Con
nectcut. Wait, and see
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-13

None of our readers shonld omit to read the
speech of Hon. john Lynch, Representative
In Congress from this district which we pub
hsh on the outside of this payer. lis special
value lies in the skill with which the areu-
metts of Brooks, Woodward and other OBJ
structionisis against the constitutionalty of
impeachment, are met and turned against
i. themselves. The point that if Congress is an
Illegal body then. O fJrkiori, the President Ia
not constitutional Chief Magistrate, is made
as clear as daylight.
Mr.. Lynch favored impeachment many
months before the great number of his associ-
ates thought it advisable, and naturally he has
examined the subject with great care and IS
abe to present it in the clearest manner. The
entire legality of tn, pro,s .dinss against the
President Mr.. Lynch establishes beyond con-
tr0vergV
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-13
The Whi-key Tax AsaSu.

The Committee on Ways and Means Justly
interpreted the dem lnds of the country when
they concluded to report bill removing the
tax from manufacturers, before maturing the
whole tax bill. The country is impatient in
this matter and can hardly endure to have it
postponed even for reconstruction and i'm
parchment. Now there is fair prospect that
with the opening spring, there will be an in
dnstrial revival that will gladden. the whole
country. According to the statement of Mr.
Schenck, the Committee have concluded that
the treasury, cut off from this source of in
cone, can be compensated for the loss, by the
collection of the tax whiskey at two dollars per
gallon. They have decided against the reduc.
ton of the tax. IF it can be collected it will
afford more income to the Treasury than all
the articles from which the tax has been re-
moved. There is great di florence of opinion
as to the practicability of collecting it, even
among the soundest fnancers in the country
Commissioner Wells recommended the .r0a..s
Ion OF the tax TO fiftv cents per gallon.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-13

General Steedman is out with letter deny
Ing the report that he has grown cold towards
President johnson, and that his speech in
Nav Orleans only ,pectcd the office, and not
its inc umbent. He d, sires it to lie distinctly
unders TODD that he is the personal and politi-
cal friend of Andrew johnson and the po.it:-
cal opponent of Gen. Grant
Waldoboro is all right-tor the Democrats.
THO Argus is ''gratiied" to learn it. The an
prehension of reverses in Waldoboro, indicat-
ed by this expression of satisfaction, shows
how little courage the Democrats have left
Wlldoboro is as sure for the Copperheads as
the sixth ward of New York
Johl P. Bruce, of Virginia City, Montana,
In Washington for the purpose of obtaining
an enabling act for the admission o. that Ter.
r'tory INTO the Union as q State. He repre-
sen1s that he has received much encourage
ment from members of Congress. and states
tnat Montana has 650OO inhabitants.
Aae Concorl Monitor publishes a list of
t"enty-nlne pubic speakers from abroad who
t'oh pa'' III Tue new Hampshire campaign.
Az least as many more We're EMPLOYED bv the
Democrats.
On Wednesday the Democrats of pto,o
Island nominated the following State to-.
For governor, Lyman PIERCE; lieut.. roverno.
Gideon 81. Durfee; encouragement. Georna
N Bliss; general treasurer, james Atkinson
delegates to the National Convention, Charl, 3
s. Bradley, Thomas Steere. Alfred Anthony
Elwari w. Brunsen, Lyman Peirce, VIM. II,
Alien, lward T. Newton, Amasa Sprague.
IN the town OF Benton, a correspondent in
forms us the Democratic majority of IS last
Sep'ember was reduced on Monday to Pa
Republican gaiL of %.
~ is ru n'rsi taes the ssnlte Finance
onnm a'e 40 not look with favor upon the
bill which has passed the House With orIv
two dissenting votes. exemptiug mann '.o.,,ras
from internal taxation. They believe 49,. 49,
bill is 100 sweeping IN It's oxemptions. AMI uv
in.srposs obstacles to Its passage by the S..
ate.
To-day lie the time appointed for the Presi.
Den to appear in the Senate to answer the
artciss of Impeachment He will probably
eSesss By attorney.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-13

1.-THE following "howr' appears to have been
intended for the Argus but by some mistake
was sent to the PreSs.]
HOLLIS, March 10, 1868.
MISTER EDIToR:-I spose the American
Egull can indulge in an other "stretch" now,
for here's the beautiful town of Hollis all bill
in over with radicalism and situated on the
banks of the Saco river, yesterday cum out
with an overwhelming Democratick majority
of thirty-three. Various explanations have
been made by the Black Republicans, for this
great increase in the work of liberty, and the
most alarmin one is that the Democratick
Board of Selectmen likewise the Schulz
Committee-have introduced new method of
mathematics whereby there are more votes
polled than there are voters in town, countin
the yonuG nps who have to have their marms
go to the polls with them to keep them from
harm.
The meetin passed off very quietly, for
which we all give credit to our worthy moder-
ator who in maxim speech, said: Now boys
want you to keep quiet else won't be your
presidin officer agin." And they were quietl
In comins home all the ROSTERS on the road
seemed to know that we had gained great
VCtOIJ, duu IuCy HCtcE CiOWtu lOuucT. LII
some places there would seem to be three or
four settin on the fence together, when thare
want but one owned within hart mile of the
phase.
We sot our minds on hangip out the stripes
and stars this mornin, but after lookin round
we found we couldn't git one without borre,in
it from some of the Blackies an: we coundn't
stop to that
would rite more but this CRATE victory has
he'd such an effect upon me that am troubled
with a risin in my throat, and can only add
that the country is safe, and that we shall
soon be able ograsp our Southern brothers by
the hand and congratulate them Gas they
were net able to git out of the Union in the
last glorious altempt) that they can unite
with us, and together we shall soon bee able
to make laws that will allow them this CRATE
privilege which they ought TO have he'd long
ago. And furthermore my sympathy for them
Is so strong that want this town to help paw
the debt that was forced upon our Southern
brothers by en- Northern radicles, and also
supply their armories with amunishuns of war
that they may show proper resentment, if the
darned radicles have the boldnis after this
election in Hollis to try to elect another Presi-
dent of the United States.
You may hear agin from me if the good
work progresses, but if these silent Republi-
cans all come out and vote for Grant as they
say they are goin TO, thereby givin them ma
iority in this town, my next letter will be
from WATERFORD, where they are always sure
OF Democratick majority whether anybody
votes or not x. ULTANT.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-13
Fred. Douglass ON the Negro Question

.N~' avn Sss~ss wa sAG ANCSTO xu6hhI0M
From report CT Frederick Douglass lee
ture on Self Help, We take the following ser
sible remarks respecting the policy 70 be pur-
sued toward his own race:
Honest, patient, enduring work was the
miracle worker. A man must not wait for
somethng to turn up. No one must wait tor
a kind TREND with a sprlng board to aid him.
The men who could get up would be helped
up. That tendency OF the world might seem
hard, but it was just Personal Independence
WAC a virtue only 10 be obtained by throwing
each man on his own resources. He woui1
have that doctrine applied to his own people.
Give Them talr play and let them alone. There
was much Christian duty in the words: Let
people aone." Give the negro fair play and
let him a one, and if he lived. well; if he died,
equally well. 1t the fruit cou d not hang, let
IL drop. 1t was no charity to be Hiring him on
his legs if the NEXT minute his head was to be
on the curbstone. l. they saw him going to
church, TO work, to the ballot-box, let him
atone. The pressure Of necessity on a man
often stirs him into the knowledge of the Dos
session of powers. Something was apt to be
done when there was a tremendous necessity
Ior some hing to be done. Among the great
truths which came by experience, that which
revealed the relation of nature to effort was
the most instructive. In Africa the negro
fund under the palm Tree shelter ana food
all he wanted Ine result was, the glory of
Africa was her palms, not her men.