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COp0rtasersItip Notice.
Copar ..nershIp Notice.

TtBE undersigned have this day formed copart-
l. nership under the finn name OF
BUTLER d NEWHALL.
TOR the purpose of doing General Commission and
Flour Business in the City of Portland.
Office, 594 COlnmercinl street, up stairs,
PORTLAND. -.
RALPH BUTLER,
II. G. NEWHAGL
Portland October / 1863 o,t1. .d9u
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lost AND EQUINE.
Found J

LONC.
a Pass Book containing package OF Script and
n accounts OF Farrar & Adams. The finder will
re rewarded By leaving it at Is Portland st oci5d3ts
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nN Middle Street, PORTEMONNAIE, which
~ the owner can have by psoying property and
paying for this advertisement
j. II. HERRICK,
0ctl4d3t% 12l Comme etc cial Street
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COPARTNERsHIP NOTICES.
Dissolution of COp09tasersIsip

7yHE copartnershp heretofore existing between the
1 undersigned, under the firm name of w ms
Low & PAGE, is this day dissolved by mutual con-
sent. y
The liabilities of this copartne ship which has ex-
listed since the 18th day of May 1865 will be adjust
ed by Mr. Russell, and the payment Of al sums due,
whether by note or account, is to be made to him,
VINO is alone authorized 10 cole the same.
SUMNER WINSLOW,
CHARLES e. PAGE,
10 N RUSSELL.
Portland Oct Ia 1888 oct17eod1w
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Dissolution Of fCOp0rtnership

Dissolution of COp09'tsaershia,
THE copartnershp heretofore existing under the
dissolved by mutual consent. The business will be
settled by Leach g. Parker.
Portland, Sept 80, 1868.
SPECIAL PARTNERSHIP.
CONvERS o LEACH. HORACE B. PARKER
~ and. EDWa RID ROBINSON, all of Portland,
Cumberland county. have his 30th dav of Septem-
Der, A. ID. 1865 to met limited partnership, in
c0rdance with the provisions OF the Statutes of
l0ws:-The name of the firm is Leach q Parker.
The special partner is Edward Robinson of said
Po tland, and the gene al partners are Convers o.
land.
The business to be transacted is the Dry Goods
business at said Portland, and the amount of capi
tai contributed by said Robinson is twelve thousand
ISL, ,000 dollars. Said inership commences this
cease the twentyninth day of Sep ember, A d. 1873
(Signed CONvERS o. LIE ,CH.
HORACE B. PARKER.
tStampl EDWARD ROBINSON.
STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, IS:
October 1, A. d. 1868
Personally appeared Convers o. Leach, Horace B.
truth Of the alb certificate and acknowledged the
same as their tree act Before me,
(signed) WILLIAM L. PUTNAM,
lStampl Justice OF the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE.
Registry OF Deeds, received Oct l, 1858, at h. so
m. P. NJ, and recorded in Book 1862, page 800.
Attest,
tSigned) EBEN LEACH, Register
ocSeod6w
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Notice..

w AN1ED-men to work on Ledge at Alfred.
pa., Enquire at the Office OF Portland g. Rochester
Railroad mpany.
Foftiand Oct 15, 1868. div
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MISCELLANEOUS.
No. ..
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Humphreys Homeopathic Specifics,

HAVE PROVED, from the most ample experi-
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cient, and Reliable. They are the only Medicines
perfectly ad pied to popular use-so simple that
mistakes cannot be made in using them; so harmless
as 70 D. iree from danger, efficient to be al
ways reliable They have raise,i the highest COM
ion.
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Wanted.

A situation as Pookkeeper, general Clerk or
-, oaessman, as by young man thoroughly cOmre-
.enI WIN rhe best OF reIeren es. Address for one
~c,1s,,a9,. a. W. L. Box 1858, Portland Post Office,
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For Electors;
AT LARaE-GEORGE T.. BEAL.
SAMUEL P. STRICKLAND,
list DIsTRICT-ESkEFF H BANKS.
I'd DfsTRICT-AMOS NOURSE.
81 DIsTRIcT-DENNIS l.. MILIIKEN.
4th DIsIRICT-HENRY O. PERRY.
9th DIsTRIcT-EBENEZER KNuwLT0N.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-08-11
Howard House,

Nos 5 d. North Howard Street,
1.-TWO Doors from BaltimOic C Street,)
BALTIMORE.
TNHIS Hotel has recently been enlarged, thorough
i Iy renovaicde nd elegantly rcfurnishcdt through
out; and ia now capable of accommodating over
800 guests. Under the mana cement of the present
propric;ors, it has attained popularity excclled
BY no Hotel ia he country. Everything which can
conduce tic comfort of guests is furnished with
n uusparing hIud; and the Howard House oilers
accommodations 80 the travelling public equal to
any other first class Hotel in the United States
BATHS, BILLIARD ROOM, BAR. Erc..
all unerceptionabIc, The Pr9PrIetors sollclt
the patronage of the public
G3- Stages will he at the Depots on arrival OF
trains, as the steamers their arrival TO con
Sey guests md their baggage 10 the House.
TERMS---S2.5o PER DAY.
BULL g. SEWELL,
March "a, tS63-ty. PrOpretors.
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The Chimney Corner,

The old chimney corner, 1t is ondearcd
to the heart from the earliest recollectionS.
What dreams have been dreamed there
What stories told. What bright hours
passed, 1t was place to think in, place
to weep in, to laugh in, and much the cosiest
place in the house to rest in. 1t was there
where dear old grandmamma used to sit at
her knitting, warming her poor old rheumatic
back against the warm wall where grandpa
used 10 fall asleep over his newspaper where
mamma used to place her spinning wheel and
papa used to sit there too and read in the
great arm chair.
1t was there where you used to read fairy
tales in your childhood, folded all SO snug,
and warm, and easy, in its great warm lap,
while the wind of Il winters night was whist
ling without Your iavorite plum cake was
never SO sweet as when eaten there, and the
stories you read by the sitting-room freside
were never half SO fascinating as those read
in the chimney corner.
If you were sad, you went there to cry
If you were merry, you with your brothers
and sisters, nestled there to have right mer-
ry time. Even pCss aud the house dog loved
the old chimney corner.
Look back to the old house, where every
room, every nook is so full of pleasant recoI-
lectiops-the family sittingroom where 50
many happy meetings, your own chamber,
with its lutte window, where the sun came
peeping in at morn mothers room, still
cred with her presence. But after all, the
brightest memories cluster about that chin
ney corner.
You long to be folded in its faithful old
bosom again as you were in childhood, and
have good cry over all those past happy
times.
1t is deaolate now. The bright faces that
clustered there of yoyc will never come back
again. Black and dingy are the loved walls,
aud the smoke from the kitchen fire never
makes them warm any more. But still mem
ory sets up some of the hoest and most beau
tifuI statues OF her carving in the old chin
ney corner.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-08-11
GroWls from the Beast.

Beast Butler was in town a day or two ago,
on his way from Washington to Lowell.
A personal acquaintance accosting him on
the steps eff the Hoffman House, asked him
what he thought of political prospects.
Buher-"Well, things are looking we'll
enough, but they would look much better if
we hadn't so many ID lunatics connected
with Republican newspapers in this city"
Filcnti-"Who are the lunatics, General?"
ButIer-"Who? Why, there's old Greely,
who is eternally making ass Of himself, es
pecially on the financial question. His Iri-
bunc is all wrong on the bond business. We
shall lose Ohio, sure, end I've great doubt
whether we can make much of fight even in
Pennsylvania"
Fricnd-''By the way, General, I see the
Herald of this morning has Topped over again
to our side. Bennett is going in strong for
Grant. Isn't that good sign?'
Butler-..No: its id bad sign. The
The Copper heads, have no doubt, have hired
old Bennett to oppose Seymour and Blair, as
one of the modes of electing them"
Friiend-''I say, General, how about New
York? Do you think we can carry New
York-the State, l mean, not the city ?"
Butlcr-No, l don't think we can carry
New York don't think we can reverse the
tO;OOV COppelheNA NI"JOll'J dShlhoI III d JSdl
ago. But no matter. If we can only get
Grant into the White House, by hook or
by crook, we can easily put New York under
martial law, SO that Seymour and his friends
will not be able to do any serious mischief.
Friend-In that case, General, where will
your place be?
Bule,.-Here, sir; right here! The Hoff-
man House will be my headquarters. Ishall
be Military Governor here. My opportunity
will then have come for settling accounts
with those supporters of Gov. Seymour who
pelted me with rotten eggs In front OF the
City Hall two summers since.
Just at this moment the laundress of the
hotel was seen to be carefully packing up her
table linen, at the same time that the land~
lord was packing up his spoons and plate, as
if some notorious thief was near, occasoning
such a panic among the bystanders (who were
notified just then to "beware Of pick pockets
that the rest of the conversation was lost
Metropolitan Record.
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RATES oF ADVERTISING.
A Wonderful Clock.

We clip the following from very interest
ing foreign correspondence to the Boston
Journal, headed From Germany to Italy,
Our next stopping place was Strasburg,
on the French side of the Rhine. The ca
thedral here is of red sandstone and is very
large. The spire is very elaborate aud runs
up TO the enormous height of 4T4 feet. said
to be the highest in the world. The interior
of the cathedral is plain, aad contains the
wonderful clock that has madC StrasbUrg cell
ebrated the world over. 1t is in one corner
of the cathedral and is certainly curiosity.
A crowd collects in front of it every day at
twelve o'clock to see it go through it's per-
formances. The clock indicates eclipscs of
the sun and moon, days OF th,, week and
month, rise and setting of tho sun and moon
each day, and various other astronomical cal
culations. 1t keeps n figure oE the sun and
moon in motion, and each day of the week
is represented by chariot with horses, which
comes out of one side OF the gallery. and, du.
ring the day, passes round to the other side
and disappears Two little angels sit in front
of the clock one strikes bell every quarter
of an hour, and the other Mt noon rcversgs
the hourglass which he holds in his hands
In the gallery above, skeleton, with scythc
in one hand and bell in the other. stands,
in the centre. From little door at the side
four figures, boyhood, youth, manhood and
old age issue; one each quarter of the hour
march across the gallery, strike the bell and
walk very naturally TO the door at the other
side and disappear. At twelve at noon the
skeleton strikes the hour upon his bell, and
old age comes ont and strikes the four quar-
ters and retires. Below the angel reversca
his hourglaSs, and above, in the upper gal
lery of all, the twelve apostles march out in
succession and bow to the Savior as they pass
Him, who raises His hand to each in the act
of blessing them. They pass on and disap-
pear on the other side. On a pillar at the
side cock flaps his wings and crows loudly
and very naturally three times. The clock
was four years building and is decidedly
unique. The figures are about u foot in height.
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a Man Haunted to Death.

A strange and surprising incident occurred
last week in the country some miles north pt
Cornth A Mr.. Mangum killed young
man during the war. and few days ueg
Mr. Mangum was on deer drive, aud while
at one OF the stands he saw an Object aP-
preaching him which 50 alarmed him that ne
raised his gun and fired ct it. The otje.
which resembled man covered with sheel,
continued to advance upon Mr.. Man4Gm when
he drew his pistol and emptied ail the bar
rels at the ghost.
None of the shots seeming to take effect,
he climbed tree to make his escape. by
the time he was short distance mp the tree
the white object was standing under him
with its eyes fixed upon him, aud he declared
that it was the spirit of the young man whom
he had killed. Mangum was 50 startled at
the steady gaze of the eye that he had been
the cause of laying cold in death that he taiu-,
ed and fell from the tree. His friends car
ried him home, the ghost following apd stand
ing before him constantly, the sight Of which
brought up the recollection of his guilt with
such force to bis mind that be died in great
agony, after two or three days suffering.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-08-11
Beautiful Illustration,

In the Book of Deuteronomy, we have
very animated and beautiful alluson to the
eagle, and her method of exciting her eaglets
to attempt their flight, in that sublime and
highly mystic composition, called Moses song;
in which Jehovah's care of his people, and
method of instructing them how to aim at
and attain heavenly objects, are compared to
her proceedings on that occasion sAs an
eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her
young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh
them, beareth them on her wings, SO the Lord
alone did lead them" Duet xxxii. II y
The Hebrew lawgiver is speaking of their
leaving their eyry. Sir H. Davy had an OPP
portunity of witnessing the proceedings of an
eagle after they had lett it. II once saw
very interesting sight, above one of the crags
of Ben Nevis, as | was going, on the goth of
August, in pursuit Of black game Two
parent eagles were teaching their offspring,
two young birds, the maneuvres of flight
They began by rising from the top of noun
tain, in the eye of the SUD it was about mid
day, and bright for this climate. They at first
made small circles, and the young birds imi-
tated them; they paused on their wings
waiting till they had made their first fight,
and then took a second and larger gyration,
always rising toward the sun, and enlarging
their circle of fight, so as to make gradual
ly extending spiral. The young ones still
slowly followed; and they continued this sub
lime kind of exercise till they became mere
points in the air, and we're both. parents and
children, lost to our aching sight"
What an instructive lesson to Christian
parents does this history read, How powerful
ly does it excite them to teach their children
betimes to look toward heaven and the Son
4 IL Iair tb0uc,bfc
thither, more and more on the wings OF faith
and love; themselves all the while going
before them, and encouraging them By their
own example
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-08-11
MISCELLAN NEOUS.
The Home of Robinson Crusoe.

A correspondent OF the ". Y. Herald has
been visiting the island of Juan Fernandez,
made famous as the abiding place of Alex
ander Selkirk, the original of Robinson Cru
soc. He says =
At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th
we entered Cumberland bay, which curves in
from the headlands about mile, and affords
good anchorage except during northers, when
ships are compelled to put to sea. A boat
came off to us rOwed by half dozen dark
skinned half Indians, one of whom spoke a
little English, and piloted US to a good an
choraee within a cables length of the rocks.
There is low piece of ground here of about
fifty acres, with row Of five or six tottering
huts in which live the sole inhabitants OF the
island, numbering nineteen persons, most of
whom are children. Four filthy looking wo-
men, swarming with vermin and pickaninics
six men and innumerable dogs greeted lis on
our arrival, and commenced u lively traffic in
fish, Holsters, sealskins, sandal wood and Juan
Fernandez curiosities. A few houses, .and
tlOcks OF wild pigeons constantly lowered over
tie valley with recklessness very tantalizing
to our eager spOrtsmen, who had commenced
at the first glimpse Of the island to get shoot
ing gear and fishing tackle in order.
The evening was spent in fishing and pre-
pairing for shooting, and early next morning
your correspondent set out with Lieutenant
Cassel and Surgeon Huchling. and good
boats crew to pull round the island for game
and fish. After exploring beautiful valley
and vainly endeavoring to get within range
of some wild goats feeding on the ellis, we
entered English bay, where Alexander Sci
kirk lived. Here l splung ashore through
a heavy surf into the Interior alone, while the
Lieutenant and Surgeon hoisted sail and went
round the island to the codGshing grounds
First l went to Crusoes Cave, grotto in the
rock twenty-five yards from the beach. The
cave is about twelve feet high, fifteen feet
deep and twenty feet wide at the entrance,
the interior resembling in shape the inside
of an old-fashioned brick oven. High walls
stood around the mouth OF the cave, but in
side was dry and smooth. Spiders were weav-
ing over the inscriptions cut by previous WIS.,
itors. and mouse boldly eyed me from cor
noF, apparently little alarmed at my intrusion
into his palatial abode
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-08-11
Gen. Howard, Commissioner of tn,

= Gen. Howard, COMMISSIONER of the
Freedmen's Bureau, has just issued a circu-
lar promrl eating the act of Congress to con-
tinue the bureau for one year, which became
a law few days ago; together With the de-
cision of the Second Comptroller OF the
Treasury, etating that none of the provisions
of the act went into effect before July l6,
1868. The Commissioner announces that
the retention of officers authorized by the act
is equivalent to reappoin tment. Assistant
commissioners of the bureau are directed to
forward the names of such officers as may be
required for reassignment under the act.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-08-11

IDLE DAUGHTERs,-It il a most painful
spectacle in families, where the mother Is
the drudge, to see the daughters elegantly
dressed, reclining at their ease, with their
drawing, their music, their fancy work and
their reading, beguiliDg themselves OF the
lapse of hours, DAYS and weeks, and never
dreaming of their responsibilities, but as
necessary consequence of neglect Of duty.
growing weary Of their useless lives, laying
hold of every newly invented stimulaut to
amuse their dropping energies. and blaming
their fate when they dare not blame their
God for having placed them where they are
These individuals will often tell you with an
air of affected compassion-for who can
believe it real ?-tbat poor dear mamma is
working herself to death. Yet no sooner do
you propose that they should assist her, than
they declare that she is quite in her element
in short that she would never be happy if she
had only half as much to do.
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TICAL.
For the Spirit of JefersOn.l
LINES.

o! daught of an ancient line,
Born of an honored race,
OF all their charms thou'st robbed the nine,
The three, of ev'ry grace.
The East may boast its Hourics. soft,
The West, its Dians fair
But no Dian, nor Houri, can
With Yernon's maid compare.
In fancy now, l see her move
With light, majestic tread, -
Like mornings queen, by joyous Love
And tn rosy hours led.
Her raven tresses i'll conceal
A bust of Parian white,
Like pail of clouds, which partly shroud5
The galaxy by night,
Her smooth, Transparent forehead, seems
To shame the Alpine SHOWS,
While. on her cheek of velvet, teens
The crimson hue of rose.
AS round her mouth. with pearls enricheds
Unnumbered graces play,
A wanton smile, waits 10 beguile,
like last sunbeam of day.
The lustre, of her earnest eyes,
Strikes the rapt gazers sight,
As light of stars. from Southern skies,
Which gleam more soft than bright.
Reflected in her face, beholdI
Each imp0lse of her breast
All, rruly she, all purity,
Is Virtues self contest.
The crystal haven, deep, yet clear,
Serene and unconfined,
A fitting emblem must appear,
OF her unfathomed mind.
o! daughter of gentle blood
My spirit is with thee,
No matter where the storms may bear
My bark upon lies sea.
De. HERTBURS.
Holden. Mo-, July %, 1865.
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HORTICULTURAL WAREROOMS,
No. ,, North Eutaw Street,
BALTIMORE.
GARDEN SEED, FLOWER SEED,
FLOWERING AND
Plants.

V,HE advertiser would respectfully advertise the
L public that he has received his stock of SEEDS.
IMPLEMENTS. BULBS and PLANTS and would
name, in part the following Seeds, &c:
Aspara gus. Beans, Beet, Cabbage, Caulhower.
Carrot. Celery, Corn, Cucumber, Egg Plant Let
tuce, Melon. Onion, Satisfy, Parsnip, Peas, IOrna-
20, Herbs, &c, &c.
Plows, Cuitivators. Pruning Shears, Castings
&c, Garden Tools, Pansey Seed, Ph"x. Asters,
Carnations, &c, Roses, Vcrbenns. Hciotropcs, &c
rauiuns FuscEas, Stocks, and Fruit and Orna
mental Trees and all kinds of Vegetable Plants in
~ This ia the only store in town where the Far
rncr, Gardener and Amateur Florist can get all
thev NAV want FRANK L. MORIING,
Florist, Sccdman and Nurseryman.
ILL 1868.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-08-11
Little things

Little things sometimes produce great
results A drop of water little frosted will
explode the mammoth rock in twain. match
will fire whole city, and little busybody
gossip ofa woman with a little tongue and no
brains will set whole neighborhoOd by the
ears.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-08-11

CoRN IN Lexington CKy)
.Stniesa,an, July Is. I'VE never in our lives
saw such season Tor the corn. Planted in
the mud about seven weeks ago, with pro-
pitious weather since, it has grown with
rapidity that has astonished all that has OBJ
servedit. Corn that was planted seven weeks
ago, now shooting, tasseling and silking, is
great work. Notwithstanding the intense
heat, it presents rich, healthy color, and
continues to grow very fast Some farmers
are expecting sixty bushels to the acre.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-08-11

- Happiness and sorrow are the measures
of our mortal life. We willingly record the
moments of gladness, and sorrows hours
make their own impression.