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The Portland daily press., 1868-01-09
To MOTHERS,

Mothers we also commend the NERvINE for use
in the diseases which af1ct children while Teething
as certain to affvrn quick and grateful relief Tie
ingredient, are dangerous to life. impair the nInc-
tons of the stomach and bowels, and actually
impede the healthy growth of your offspring. To
cure Wind Cole. regulate the bowels soften the
gums, and relieve pain, the NERVINE will always
be found safe and efficient
The Portland daily press., 1868-01-09

IT is to be feared that the burning OF the
United States Military Asylum at Togus will
be the means of removing that institution
from the State. There have thus far been es-
tablished three of these asylums in the coun-
try, one at Columbus, Ohio, another at Mil
waukee, Wisconsin, and the third at Angus
ia. The latter has been in operation longer
than either. 1t cannot be said, on the whole,
that the enterprise has proved sue.
cess. There were, for long time at least,
constant outbreaks of characterization, and
the relations existing between the soldiers
and the authorities were the reverse Of pleas
ant. Since Major Cutler took command, how
ever, affairs seem to have moved along more
smoothly, and had he not been sick at Au-
gusta on the night of the fire, it is probable
that the disgraceful scenes which occurred
during that catastrophe might have been
avoided.
A Washington dispatch of yesterday says
that the Board of Managers OF the National
g Military Asylums will decide in few days
whether they will rebuild the asylum. 1t is
understood that Jay Cooke of Pennsylvania
and Mr. Gunckelle of Ohio are opposed to re.
building not liking the site and believing that
tie veteran pensioners can be accommodated
at the other asylums. Gen. Butler is in favor
of rebuilding the burned asylum, and is Sec
onded by Mr.(Blaine. Ex-Governor Smyth, of
New Hampshire, one of the managers of the
national asylums arrived in Augusta, Tues
day afternoon, and was received in very
cordial manner by the men quartered at Wa
verify Hall. His purpose is to take steps Tor
the removal of the inmates to other homes, or
to suitable building in that vicinity. The
HaIlowell House, in Hallowell, has been Of
tered by its proprietor on favorable terms TOR
one year, or until suitable buildings can be re-
built. 1t will be determined Immediately
whether the men will be sent to other homes
or to the Hallowell House. Governor Smyth
has telegraph d to the Newark, New Jersey,
and Philadelphia Homes, which have been as
sumed by the Government, as to how many
men can be accommodated at once.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
Yy1tou 4 HgcFnrIond

Yilt0n & McFOrIdnd.
Desire to call the attention to the FAC; that than
h 4 q
Or their Safes gave AMPLE PROTECTION in the
late fire. Parties desiriues
FIRST RATE SAFE,
alta MODERATE PRICE, win please call on
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Middle Street. Portland.
or NJ 40 Sudbury Sireei, Boston.
- Sec9nd-hand Safes takenin exchange for SALE
Parnes desiring Sanborn's Steam improvement at
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To Let.

DLEAS ANT rooms, with or without Board in a
new house on Cumberland Street, within three
minutes wax Of the City Hall. Apply to
w. u. JERKS,
Jan9dlw~ Opposite the Preble House.
The Portland daily press., 1868-01-09
Notice.

A LII Persons are hereby forbid, haIboEiug or
"A trusting my wife. Margaret j. Bragdon, who
has left my bed and sboardtwitbout my consent. I
shall pay no debts OF her contracting after tins date
or any that she moy have contracte under false
pretence, between Dec. 23d, 1851 and this date.
SAMUEL BRAGDON.
South Windham, Jany. =, 1868. Jas d3ts
The Portland daily press., 1868-01-09

Gum PRO QUo.-Mayor Hoffman OF New
York has been presented by the delegation of
Japanese now in this country with a sword
and trinkets. The Mayor presented them in
return with copy of his annual message. 1t
would be safe to wager against very heavy
odds, that their Japanese excellencies will not
speedily try that little thing again.. a,t ,se-. q
The Portland daily press., 1868-01-09

Estate OF Hezekiah Packard.
A LII persons indebted 10 said estate are hereby
"A called upon to M Ike immediate payment 10 the
undersign d, in order to save costs.
jan9d1w% No 100 Exc1apge 81
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QUARTERLY REPORT
Of the condition of the
National Traders Bank Of Portland,

In t State OF Maine, the morning of the first
Monday OF January 1865.
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ASSOCIATE OFFICES.
E. RUSSELL s. CO., Boston, and Portland r.. G..
DUN q Co., New York City, Albany, BuffIlo,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Pittsburg,
Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago Milwaukee, Charlest n
New Orleans, Louisville, Memphis, st. Louis, and
London, England. DUN. VIVIAN s. Co, Tor
onto, Z. W, Montreal, @. E., and Halifax, N s. 4
The Portland daily press., 1868-01-09

JOHN BRIGHT ON IRELAND.-Mr. Bright
made one of his bold, straightforward
speeches at Rochdale on the 23d of December,
in which be showed the wrongs from which
the Irish people are suffering, and cited the
past to show that only y threats, ouly by Gre
ating an actual and lively fear of revolution,
had either the Irish or the English people
ever obtained reforms from the British Parlia-
ment He said:
The more consider this question, the more
am impressed with its indescribable serious
ness. think of it many things, aud which
am sure are not without foundation, which
cannot, and which dare not, publicly discuss
before this audience. think it has within it
perils such IS for long time this country has
not known, and that it requires great resolu-
ton and wisdom, such as we don't often find
In our governments, to meet it as it requires
to be met. If Ireland is to be made Content,
II her wounds are to be healed, if there is to
be henceforth what there never vet has been
"a united kingdom of Great Britain and Ire
aud-if the sceptre of the Queen represent
Ing the majesty of the law, shall ever be of
equal authority east and west of the Channel,
it must be done, and it can only he DONE by
measures of great craftsmanship and of just
ice. The morals of The turf laid on the floor
OF Parliament or in the secrecy of the Cabi-
net, Will fail here. The disease which we are
discussing is one of different character. But
there reremedies, unless it be that the rem
edies are too late. Has the country fallen so
low that 1T can produce no Statesman equal to
these things? l say tie man who, leading il
the councils of the Queens government, shall
grasp the great question and end it-who shall
comprehend the remedies and shall admins
ter them and make them law-he would do
that which in future time the pen of history
will delight to trace. -et
1t is plain that the Irish question will not
be put down, and that Fenianism is useful.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

SKATES AT COST.
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living man holds the Reconstruction acts in
greater adherence. and no man would sacrifice
mole before giving them his vote, sanction, or
approval. His judgment may not be infallible,
but his patriotism and devotion TO the South
are hey yond suspicion.
We have given With what clearness and per-
spicacity we could, the true position of Mr.. Ste
phens In the matter Of the fourteenth amend
ment and its passage by the so-called Legislature
of Georgia. TIE whole question may be briefly
summed up:--It Is true that Mr.. Stephens
advised the Democratic members of the "Legis-
latUre" to abstaiA from voting, thereby throwing
the onus and responsibility of the adoption Of
the measure upon the radicals. 1t is immea-
surably false that he had any sympathy with
the measuTe, or urged its adoption on its merits,
since no man deems 1t a greater abominati0n
than he does, and no man will more gladly
welcome that glorious day which shall consigu
it and kindred vilanies to the tomb of the
Capulets, or, in more modern phrase, to the
grave clothes of that old agitator and father of
misdeeds, who awaits the last trump in the
colored cemetery at Lancaster, in the State Of
Pennsylvania
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10 the seat OF hostilities and who had organized
q military force 10 protect the settlers. He IN
formed me that, TO his knowledge, fourteen
bodies of the victims have been buried, and o
mum Der OF others wounded.
One woman, who was shot through the breast,
informed him that she had been outraged over
twenty times by Indians In succession. Another
stated that she had been outraged by (as near
as she could recollect), twenty-nine. Que chlld
was badly speared in the neck, and another in
the back. ! felt the greatest interest in the
statements, as two men we're killed at q dwell
ing house three miles this side of place where
nephew of mine, with his family, were. having
located himself there last Spring. A young
woman about eighteen Years old, was carried off
and has not been heard from. AS far as could
ascertain my nephew was not disturbed. But as
the family had father and grown sons aud
daughter who bad learned the use of rifle, and
as they were supplied with about dozen Minnie
rifles and thousand rounds of an muuition,
and as they had q dugout near to Republican
river to retire to, the Indians would probably
have met with q warm reception. II Is not sur.
prsing that great alarm and the most bitter
feeling towards the Indians prevails among the
settlers. A man from that region informed me
in the cars to-day that about two hundred had
left their homes. IL Is con n6dently asserted that
the Indians used the very arms that our Govern
ment furnished to them under the late so.called
treaty.
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THE EUROPEAN MARKETS.
This Mornings Quotations.

BY Anont,o Cubte.
LONDON, Sept. IA. M Consols, 93b for money
and account. American securities opened
hrmer; 2Os, 75t; Illinois Central, Gig; Erie
500; Atlantic and Great Western, 80.
FRANKFORT, Sept. L. nited States 5-2Os,
754@75a.
PARIS. Sept. 1.-The Bourse is dull; Rentes
closed last evening at 75'92.
LIVERPOOL, Sept IA. M.-Cotton hrm. The
sales to-day will reach $4,000 bales. The ship.
ments of Cotton from Bombay to the 2sth ult
since the last report we've 200 bales.
All other articles unchanged.
LONDON. Sept IA. M.-Tallow, 45s. Sugar
10 arrive, Eos. Linseed oil, f3ll5.
This Afternoons Quotations.
LONDON, Sept 1-P. M-Atlantic and Great
Western, 3sa; Illinois Central, 9l3.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 1-P. M.-Cotton 1rmer, but
not quotably higher.
LONDON, Sept l-P. M.-Produce quiet and
steady. Sugar 6rm at 35s. Cd. on the spot.
ANTWERP, Sept. 1-P. h.-Petroleum is frmer.
LONDON, Sept. 1-P. M 5-2Os are easier. The
money market is firm. Stocks quiet.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 1-3 P. M. Cotton firm,
Yarns and Fabrics at Manchester are Arm and
quiet. Corn advanced to 36s. Cd. California
Wheat advanced to 1885,; red Western, lis. Sd.
Flour is dull.
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Philadelphia Trade RepOrt.

TUESDAY. Sept. 1.-The Flour Market CON.
tinues greatly depressed. and we reduce our
quotations Is cents per barrel for Northwestern
extra family. The sales foot up 500 bs -rels for
the supply OF the home consumers at $7@7. 80 for
super6ne, $500 for extras. S95OQll for North
western extra family, $40 5O@l275 for common
and cEoce Pennsylvania and Ohio do do. and
$l3Sl for fancy brands, according to quality.
Rye Flour commands SO so per barrel Nothing
doing in Corn Meal.
There Is not much activity in the Wheat
Market, and prices favor buyers. Sales of new
red at $4,000 25 amber at s2'3692 40, and white
at s2 6OG2 SO. Rye is steady, with sales of 400
bushels old Pennsylvania at SI.6S. Corn Ia
firmly held but quiet. Sales OF yellow at 81 27@
130, and Western mixed at Sl.24@l25. Oats are
without essential change. Sales Of new Penn
sylvania and dWestern at 70@73c. Nothing doing
in Barley or Malt.
Bark is in steady demand. with sales of No. 1
Quercitron at SIS per ton.
Seeds-Cloverseed is selling at eS'7509: Tino.
thy ranges from S2'75 to SO 25: Flaxseed is
wanted by the crushers at 50 70d92'SO
Provisions are quiet but firm; Pork is worth
$29 5O@3O for mess, S23'50@24 for rump and s25
for prime; plain and fancy canvased Hams
command 2O@2lHc, and picked Hams 10
@l91Sc.
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A. II. STEPHENS.
His Views on the Fourteenth Amend
ment.


The Augusta (Ga.) ConStitutionalist of August
27 has the iollowing:-
1t has been stated, from time to time, in radi-
Cal journals, North and South that Hon. Alex
ander Ii. Stephens favored the fourteenth
amendment, and urged its passage by the So
called Legislature OF Georgia. As this assertion
has still possession of the public mind, by radical
direction, we deem it opportune to correct such
wrong impressions as may be drawn from broad
and partisan assertions. This correction can be
all the better made by presenting an exact
account of Mr.. Stephens position with regard to
this veXed question.
It's true that Mr.. Stephens, as matter of
policy, favored the adoption OF the amendment
by the radicals. il is not true that he wished
the Democrats to assist in its passage by active
participation. 1t is utterly untrue that he either
advised or favored its adoption on its merits.
On the contrary, he considered the act itself
null and void, and stated more than once,
openly, that he hoped no Democrat would
vote for 1t; and II he were IN the Legislature,
and his vote would defeat it, or by not voting
permit it to pass. he would not vote at al.'
AS the case then stood, 1t seemed TO him best
for the State and the whole country that it should
pass, the radicals having the exclusive respon.
sibilIty OF its passage
Here are some Of the reasons leading to this
cOnclusioD:-
/. The vote of Georgia at that time could not
affect the real merits OF the question one way or
another, as three-tourths of the States had
already adopted it,
2. BY its adoption we could get rid of the
military government and military arrests. At
that particular juncture this riddance was a
matter OF some importance.
8. By its adoption, we might, If the election
was left TO the people, cast the nine electoral
votes of Georgia Tor Seymour and Blair, and
thus essentially aid in bringing into power u
party which would hold the whole matler-as
Mr.. Stephens did-utt rly null ana void.
A. In case the Democrats were victorious In
the fall elections, no possible iujury could come
OF ii. Per c0nrd, if Grant and Cofax were
elected, we would be no worse off with 1t than
without 1t. Nay, we might be in q better con.
dltion, since, through the present constitution,
all the whites were enfTanchished, which might
not be the case If another constitution were
framed under more radical auspices.
.. So that, in every possible view OF the sub
ject, as the matter then stood, Mr.. Stephens
deemed 1t best for the State and the whole
country that the radicals should be permitted
to adopt 1t.
To this extent, and no further, Mr.. Stephens
"fayored" IL. But it is wholly false that he
favored or urged its adoption on its merits, as
the radical journals would have the public
believe.
Men may differ as to the cogencv of the rea-
sons assigned, but few, whose good opinion is
valuable, viii question the honesty OF our illus
trious statesmans motives. We know that no
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ARKANSAS.
A speck of War in Conway Count,

Meag1e dispatches to the Eastern papers re.
port recommencement of the troubles bet ween
the whites and blacks in Conway county,
Arkansas. A special to the Memphis Avalanche
Of the 29th says:-
We have alarming intelligence to communi-
cate. Conway county, on the river, forty miles
ABOVE here, contains large negro population,
and they are divided in sentiment. One night
last week some Radical negroes surrounded the
house OF Democratic negro, shot his dog, and
tried TO get him out OF his house.
arrested for trial. In making up jury of
negroes, the radical negroes drew their
weapons on Democratic negro, who had been
summoned, and drove him from the ground.
Anderson Gordon, Esq, persuaded them to
put up their weapons. The negroes went off
and accumulated arms and q number of men.
Mr.. Thomas Burchdeld, one arm.d white
man, and George Bentley, went to see and
were fired upon by nineteen negroes on the
road, uL e2 2pectedly, wounding Burchdeld NOR
tally, and killing Bentleys horse.
Henkle and Gibbons, radical members of the
Legislature, then had Adams and Gordon
ordered out of the country, and summoned the
negroes In large numbers.
Two or three hundred whites and friendly
negroes assembled IN Lewisblrg, on the river,
Tor mutual protection. Mean white radicals,
from Conway, have come along the road to
Little Rock, stopping citizens and thro wing the
country into confusion and terror with threats
OF iDdiscrimlnate murder OF the whites.
Lasb h'EuI 40 q consequence vi bncsC cNeubS1
Kinds, radical member of Congress, and
Stewart, Governor Clayton's Adjutant,
haraneued thee hundred negroes, who were
summoned to meet them at Terry's Ferry, nine
miles below here. They mustered in one
hundred, Instructed them to bring their arms
and blankets to the ferry and boat would
take them off at daylight. Their yells we're
fr1ghtful.
This morning the Hester brought them up
and camped them on Big Rock, above to wn.
Another company has been raised here and the
streets, though perfectly quiet, are filled with
ragged negroes, armed with muskets and car
fridge boxes.
Governor Clayton, the usurping Governor i.
riding about the streets with much activity, and
1t is said he will go with the expedition up the
river this evening. II the negroes attempt to
interfere with the liberties OF the citizens o.
Conway, blood will flo v freely. Clayton is bitter
and determined. So are the people, The De-
mocIacy have never aggressed. They mean to
register and vote, aud see that Democratic me-
gIoes do the same. The negroes OF Arkansas
are rapidly turning, and this disturbance il
gotten up TO frghten them. We know not what
an hour will bring forth. I nothing extenuate
nor set down aught in malice.
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FROM ST. LOUIS.
The Cotton Crop Overestimated-Sec
Political organizations.

The Cotton Crop OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Political organizations.
Special Despatch TO The Evening Telegraph.
ST. LOUIS, Sept l.-Reliable information
received here states that in the counties of
Lownd, Moxubee, and Monroe, three OF the
richest cotton growing counties in the State Of
Mississippi, the cotton crop will be one-third
less than was predicted month ago. owing to
the ravages Of the bolt worm, which have been
very serious recently.
Both political parties here are secretly orga-
nizing, in anticipation of a serious trouble.
Arms are being distributed in several counties
and the Democrats are trying to ascertain their
whereabouts.
The house of 81. W. Mckee, at the Pacific
Stock Yards, was struck by lightning last
evening, and woman named Mary Cotterill
was killed.
The Chief Of Police issued an order last
evening detailing large bodies Of police for the
purpose of preserving order at all political
meetings.
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MARYLAND.
Horrible Tragedy I'm Queen Anne's
Comfy.

AAOAAAOAV AEoBCuy ln tuSSh fehhO >
County.
On Friday morning last, says the Centreville
Citizen, a cold-booded murder was perpetrated
In Queen Anne's county, Nd, the particulars OF
man named Reamy Gilmore, an Industrious,
honest, and inoffensive farmer, aged about forty
years, residing on farm belonging to the heirs
OF the late Judge Chambers, on the road from
Church Hill TO Chestertown, about four miles
from the former and two from the latter place,
was found dead at an carly hour on Friday
morning, and his wife lying in an insensible
condition, but still alive, by a, negro man and
woman who had been engaged by Mr.. Gilmore
to save todcer" for him. They Immediately
gave the elarm to Que of Mr.. Gimore's neigh
bors, who made the fact OF the murder known
to the officers OF the law, and Justice Tarbutton,
OF Grumpton, summoned jury Of inquest, and
among the witnesses was a negro woman,
Martha Barwick-Mr. Gilmore's cook-who at
first denied all knowledge of the matter, but
finally confessed that q certain negro man in
the nelghbOrhood who was In the habit Of
visiting her named Michael Bell, and herself,
bad formed plot to murder and rob Mr.
Gilmore, which plot was intended to be put in
execution on Friday night but from some cause
on Thursday night the time was changed, and
the deed perpetrated on Friday morning, be-
tween daybreak and sunrise.
Bell she states, remained in the kitchen all
night and in the early morning went up stairs
ard effected an entrance into Mrs. Gllmore's
room without awakening her, when he dealt her
two blows with the blade of an axe, as she lay
sleeping, and then sent the woman-the partner
in his crime-to tell Mr.. Gilmore (who, it ap-
pears, for some cause, slept in another house
some distance from the dwelling) that his wife
was very sick and wanted him. MI. Gilmore
Immediately repaired to his wife's room, aud as
he entered the door Bell dealt him a heavy blow
with the eye of the axe, knocking him senseless
to the floor, after which he struck HIM two more
blows upon the head and then left him. The
woman Martha says Bell then commenced
rflng the bureau drawers, but drove her from
the room, and she does not know what amount
of money If any, Bell obtained. After COM
pleting his search for booty he left the premises
and that was the last she saw of him.
Inform alton was after wards obtained that Bell
made his way to the river, just below Chester
town, aud procuring small boat, boarded the
steamer Chester as she passed, and it is sup
posed went to Baltimore.
The object appear, 10 have been both robbery
and malice, and 1t is said there had been some
difficulty between Mr.. Gilmore and Bell short
time previously. MIR. Gilmore raised q great
deal of garden produce, which he had been sell
ing in Baltimore, and it is believed that he had
a considerable sum Of money about the house:
and it was with the double object of gratifying
his malice and Obtaining the money that Bell
penetrated the horrible deed. The murdered
man was childlees.
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FROM IPITTSB URG.
The Sengerfest The Great Pigeon Shoot
ing Match.

Special Despatch to The Euctsts0 Telegraph.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Sept. 1.-The preparations for
the S@ngerfest, which commences tonight
have all been completed, and the affair promises
to be grand success.
The pigeon shooting-match between J. V.
Kerr, of Pittsburg, and Captain Travis, the
celebrated pistol marksman, cane off on satur-
day, and Captain Travis was the victor. By the
articles Of agreement, Mr.. Kerr gave Captain
Travis three birds out of twenty-five. with a
rise of 21 yards and 80 yards boundary. The
three birds were allowed the Captain from the
fact that he had never before used shotgun.
Once ounce and half of shot was the load
fixed upon. The match was for FIVE hundred
dollars side. Each man brought down % out
of the rs birds, and the three allowed Travis
put him that much ahead.