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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-24

GRANTS PRIVATE SEcRETARY.-Colonel
Robert M. Doug'as is the eldest son of the
late Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, native of
Rockingham county, North Carolina, and
has not yet attained his majority, having been
born Jan. %, 1S49 He graduated at George
town College, District of Columbia, in July,
1857, at the head Of his class. In July, 1868,
says the Raleigh Standard, he was appointed
by his Excellency, Governor Holden, private
Secretary, and also aid to the Governor, with
the rank of Colonel. He entered with great
zeal into the Grant and Co.fax campaign, can
vassing the county OF Rockingham with signal
ability for one of his age. He was Chairman
of the Rockingham delegation in the Conven-
ton which met in Greensboro last October
and renominated Hon. I. G. Last, of the Fifth
Congressional District, and was chosen Sec
retary of the Electoral College of North Caro-
lima. Colonel Douglas is thoroughly identified
with the great Republican party, is a young
gentleman of much promise, and the citizens
of Raleigh regret to lose him from their city.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-24

A MODERN LADY MACBETH.-We find in
the Easton PAL Argus-a reliable paper-a
report of an interview which the editor, in
company with the spiritual adviser of the
condemned Twitche.l, had with the latter in
his cell in Moyamensing Prison. 1t is re-
markable statement, and, bearing as lit does
upon its face the impress of truth, it would
not be if it had some effect upon the final
catastrophe. The remark of Mrs. Twitchell
to the clegyman-"By the way, when you see
George Iher condemned husbandl please ask
him where he would like to be buried after he
is hanged"-is without parallel for nonchal-
ance 10 the speeches of Shakespeare's most
sanguinary heroines.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-24
KEEPING THE NATIONAL BANKS STRAIGHT

KEEPING THE NATIONAL BANKS STRAIGHT
MIR. Hulburd, the Comptroller of the Cur
rency, has issued q circular to the national
banks calling attention to the act approved
March 8, 1862 regulating the reports OF these
hereafter to make the reports of their cond-
tion on such past day as he NAV designate, in-
stead of making quarterly reports and month
~ statements, as heretofore. Reports will be
required at least five times during the year.
The banks will have to be ready to reDort at
any time the exact condition of their affairs on
day which has passed; so TINT these instieu-
tions, if the law be faithfully carried out, W II
not De able to cook up IN advance any Qarblsd
or whitewashing statement. Mr.. Hulburd
declares that he will strictly enforce the law.
We hope he will; but these gigantic aud pow
ertul monopolies need to be watched aud kept
within the Limits nrescrihed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-24

Sun ENGRAvING.-At the last meeting or
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Mr.. Clemens Herschel made communication
illustrated by large collection of very fine en-
cravings, on the process of heliography, or sun
engraving. This process is the invention of
Mr.. Egloffstein, Prussian by birth, but for
many years a resident of the United States.
1t consists, in the main, of the following oper-
ations: First, to get a Photographic positive
on glass of the object, but in this Photographic
plato to have the lights and shades formed
not by smooth, even shading, as in ordinary
photographs, but by lines or by dots, as in en-
cravings generally. The next step is the
transferring of the Photographic plate to a
steel or copper plate, the precise details of
which he could not give; this step has obtain
ed remarkable degree of microscopic COM
pleteness. The plates do not require touching,
unless ON account of defects in the photograph
ic plate. The last step is the printing from the
plate on paper The helographlc steel plates
are warranted to last for $4,000 impressions,
against about 10000 with plates engraved By
hand, the steel being much harder than any
that can be used for hand engraving.
An engraving has been rendered from ma
ture, complete, in eight hours; the same work
by hand would have required three to four
months. The cost is so small, compared with
hand engraving, that the process competes
with TYPOGRAPHY and wood-cutting; it enables
steel plates to be used in many cases where
hand engraving would be practically impossi-
ble
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-24

STATISTICS OF ISEBRrETY.-Dr. Mckinley of
st. Louis, says the medical reporter of that
city, has compiled, after very careful re-
search, some very interesting and startling
statistics of inebriatisni 10 the United States.
BY him tine following statements are made: I:
Taking the population of this country at 40,
0OO, 900; of 300 men, 122 never drink spirits at
all; 100 drink modera ely, but not to intoxica-
ton; 80 are ephemeral drinkers; % drink Pc
riodically, called "spreeing;" and three are
habitual inebriates. To every 178 who drink,
three are confirmed inebriates; 25 are -periodl-
cal drinkers; 90 are ephemeral drinkers.
There is one confirmed inebriate to every o9 IL
of men. OF seven hundred women, 900 never
taste alcoholics of any kind; 30 taste wine oc-
casionally; II taste ardent spirits; 80 drink ale
or beer constantly; IA drink ardent spirits pc
.riodically and are habtual inebriates. Pre-
dom;nance in confirmed inebriates of the
seTes: 8 men in every 268;9 women in every
iGf,. / confirmed inebriate to every 80 1-3 Of
women. Fewer women drink than men; but
a larger proportion of them become habtual
drinkers. Debauch drinkers rarely become
habitual, but periodical drinkers; the latter
rarely become habitual inebriates, as the vio-
lsnce of their drinking is too great, and leads
to disgusting safety, and hence to intervals of
HoUkk8V, A-lv ....sf &
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-24

LAY REPREsENTATIoN.-The Methodists OF
the United States of both sexes who have at
tanned the age of twenty -one will vote some
time in June on the admission of the laity to
the legislative assemblies of the church. The
result is hardly doubtful. The Methodists
will probably conform in their church govern
ment to the ideas which in modern times have
taken from tho clergy of other churches that
exclusive control Of ecclesiastical affairs that
seems hardly democratic. Mass meetings in
favor of lay delegation are to be held in differ
ent parts of the country.
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GRANT AND GEN. HAscocK.-The Hartford

GRANT AND GEN. HANcocK.-The Hartford
Courant has the following concerning the per-
sonal relations of Grant and Hancock:
The New York World blunders in its haste
to make point against General Grant. 1t
intimates that Hancock is assigned to the De-
partment Of Dakota in spirit of petty re-
venge, and evidently supposes that he is to
live in Dakota. 1t should have related the
fact that after the Tammany Convention Cen
eral Grant, against whom no unkind word or
deed against Hancock is charged, met the lat
ter in the streets of Washington, and in his
usual good humor gave him cordial word of
greeting, which Hancock passed unnoticed;
that is, he "cut'' the General. The insult, if
rendered while they were on duty, would have
subjected General Hancock to acourt-martial
Instead of viewing the new assignment of
Hancock as malicious, the sarcastic remark of
the World that it is magnanimous," is liter
ally true. The Department Of Dakota" en-
braces Minnesota, Dakota and Montana, with
headquarters at the pleasant post Of st. Paul
the Department. from which General Terry
has just been relieved General Hancock has
been treate1 with courtesy and considera-
tion that his unofficial conduct did not merit.
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DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND.
Wednesday Morning, March "a, 1869.
Searching for the Norsh Pole.

Nobody has reached the North Pole except
Frankensteins monster. The great charm of
Mrs Shelley's wierd tale is in the graphic de-
scription Of the vast solitudes of the Arctic
regions and the awe-inspiring silence of the
untraveled wastes of ice and water about the
pole. The monster, being of remarkably
retiring" nature, is finally sent to the ex-
treme verge of the globe to burn himself to
ashes. The geographical pole. though not
identical exactly with the magnetic pole, has
always had strange attraction for bold scien
tIfic spirits, drawing them many a time and
oft to destruction on the icy coasts of the hy-
perborean regions and strewing the Northern
Ice with the Zones of the bravest and most
cnivairous men that have ,er sacrificed them
selves in the effort to enlarge the bounds Of
human knowledge. The toilsome search for
Northwestern passage to the East Indies has
been followed by repeated adventures in the
interest of pure science, irrespective of any
incidental utilitarian purpose that might be
promoted thereby. M
Yet no one has hitherto approached nearer
than within 450 miles of the objective point-the
North Pole. Eight degrees of latitude, where
-
trod must be explored before that dim, mystic
rious point is reached. There is naturally
great rivalry among the nations, each desiring
to have its flag first planted at the Northern
limit of the globe. The English Germans,
French and Swedes are all either fitting out
expeditions for this purpose or have them al
ready prepared for the work. DIR. Hayes of
New York is extremely anxious to make
another voyage in behalf of America His
plan, as he has explained it in recent address
es, is to follow Greenland and .GrinnellLand to
their Northern limit After reaching Smiths
Sound, in latitude 78 deg. II min., where he
brought his vessel to anchor in the ice in the
winter of 1860-61, he would establish colopy.
as base of supplies, Thence he would push
on for the North Pole. What he requires for
the expedition is small steamer and one sail
ing vessel. Private parties have already offer
ed to place steamer at his disposal and he
has no doubt that some one might be found
who would furnish the sailing vessel. The
expense outside the means of transportation,
would be about fifty thousand dollars. He
proposes that the expedition should start in
May of the present year and be absent two
summers and two winters, returning in the
spring of 1871.
DIR. Hayes is one of the extremely limited
number of human beings whose feet have trod
the shores of the most Northern land in the
Western hemisphere and who has been per-
mitted to gaze on that vast expanse of water,
unvexed, by ice, the existence of which about
the pole is now established beyond question.
- l.. =
that sea, and then the problem of the oentu-
ries is solved. If he can do this and return to
tell his wonderful story to the world the re-
suit win be honorable alike to him and to his
country. aat t
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The SoUTHERNERs have begun to pour into
New York for their spring goods with their
pockets fun of money. The last years crop of
in their old character of individuals with un-
limited cash -.
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-24

But one descendent of Kant, the great
German philosopher, is now living. and he Is
a pauper in Culm, Prussia
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-24
THE DAILY PRESS
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

We invite the attention of both City and
Country readers to the following list of Port
land BUSINESS HOUSES, which are among
the most reliable establishments in the City.
--
Agricultural Implements & Seeds.
SAWYER s. wooDFoRD No. 11s Exchange st.
AuctiOneers.
c. W. HOLMES, No. 300 Congress Street.
R. K.HUNT, No. s1e Congress Street,
Agents for Patentees and MAN.
ufacturers.
HAYDEN, MCCLELLAN g co. .2sst Congress St.
PERKINS & eERRrsH, No. $50 Congress street
Agency for Sewing Machines.
W. s. DYER. 1853 Middle st., over H. H. Hays.
Bakers.
| w. VI WIZ ANo' a cdft 0UTeeC.
JOHN B. MAsTERToN, % Anderson Street
Boots, Shoes, and Rubbers.
J. W. BOUCHER & CO., No. s5s Congress Street.
kQALEB s. SMALL. No. 4 Casco Street.
M. e. wILBAND, Cor Congress and Mountfort SITS
Boots and ShOes-Gents Custom Work
WALTER BERRY, No. 81 Federal Street. \
Booksellers and stationers.
HoYT 8 FoGG, ss7 Con- Street (sab. School GoodsJ
BOOk-BinderS. ..
SMALL s. SHAGKFoRD, No. 81 Exchange Street.
Bonnet and Hat BIeachery.
H. E. UNDERWOOD, No. s1Os Congress Street
Brush Manufacturers.
D. WHITE 8 SON, No. 0 Market Square.
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Cabinet Furniture Manufacturers.
THEo. JOHNSON 8 CO., No. 1sl Union Street.
Cabinet Maker.
M. N. BURNS, % Preble Street. (sHow CAsEsl
Carpenters and Builders.
j. M. D0LLEY, No. IT Union Street.
WHITNEY g MEANS, Pearl Stopposite the Park.
Corn, Flour and Groceries.
FREEMAN & KICKER, 80 Portland st, cor Green
Clothing and Furnishing Goods.
o. HAWKES. CO., 2s2 Cong. st. boys clothing.)
A. M. SMITH, Cor. Middle and Temple Streets.
ClOthieFs and TailOrs. ~
e. LEVEEN & CO., No. % Market Square.
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NOTICE.

TOMAS H. PERLEY having resigned the agency
u for the sale OF Duck and other goods manu- ac-
tured by the Westbrook Manufacturing Company,
be adjusted by the Treasurer, at No 10 Central
Wharf RUFUS E. WOOD, Treas.
Portland, January 9Th, 1869.
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Dissolution of Cop0rtnersIsdp

TINE copartnership heretofore existing between
IL the undersigned, under the firm name of
TARBOX do BRACKETT.
Is dissolved by mutual consent.
mr19d1w* TARBOX & BRACKETT.
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Dissolution of Copartnership.

T>HE copartnership heretofore existing between
Il the undersigned, under the firm name of Whit
temore Starbird & Co.. is hereby dissolvef by mu-
tual consent. The business of the firm will be set
tied by either partner.
G.r STEPHEN WHITTEMORE,
j. w. STARBIRD.
Portland, Feb. II. 1869. mch1d4w
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-08-27

EXAMINATION NOTICE.
school Examiners Notice

THE School Examiners OF Delaware
Il county Will meet, during the year 1852,
for the examination OF teachers, aB the fol-
lowing places and times, namely:
At the COURTHOUSE, IN Delaware, on
February Z7th March 18th and 9th. ApFn
I'd and 18th, May Sth and 22d, September
25th, October 9Th aud 23d, November 9Th
and goth, December l1th.
At the school house, In ASHLEY, April
IOths at the -schOOl-house In LEWIS CEN
TER, April 24th, and October S0th; at the
schOol-house in OsTRANDER, October ID at
Col Framb bes' schoOl-hOuse.z in SUNBuRY,
the Saturday after the ses5ion OF the County
Teachers Institute.
Candidates must present satisfactory tes-
timOnial- OF good moral character; and the
law requires, as n condition Of examination,
that each applicant for q certificate shall
pay a fee Of a ny cents.
No eertincRte is granted unless the appli-
cant is "quHltfied to teach ALL the branches
named iB the law; namely: OTthOgFaphy,
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography,
Furlirh Grammar: and possesses an ad-
eQtiate knowledge OF the theory and prac-
tlcts Of teach iuB."
FxaEninsstiuaIa Will commence at 10
O'Clock, a. NJ land close at 2 o'clock P. N.
aud no applicant viii be admitted after II
O'Clock. The exercises will be conducted az
far ~ possible IN writing. Each candidate
is requested 20 bring paper aud peneil, and
a statn ped envelOpe addressed 10 himself, In
which the certin'Rte awarded viii be mailed
to him, or nOlice OF failure.
January %, lS6S.-G Clerk.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-08-27
SPEECH BIZ A CHINAMAN.

A short time since the peoplesof Chi
cagO gave a banquet to the two dis
tinguished China Merchants-Sing
Man and Choy-C Chew-then on a visit
20 that city. The affair came of at the
sherman House. It was attended by
many of the leading citizens. of the
city. Speeches were made by several
citizens and by Choy-Chew. The
speech Of the latter was gem. He
said
Eleven years ago I came from my
home in China to seek my fortune in
your great Republie. I landed on the
golden shores Of California, utterly ig-
norant of your language, unknown to
any of your people, a stranger to youl
customs and laws, and in the minds OF
some an intruder-one of that race
whose presence was deemed a positive
injury to. the pq6iie, PFosPerity but,
Justice I found that above the preju-
dice which had been formed against us,
there flowed a deep, broad stream OF
popular equality-that the hand OF
friendship was extended to the people
of every nation, and that even China
men might live and be happy, success
fuI aud respected in free America. Zap
plause.1 / gathered knowledge in
your public schools. I learned to speak
4s you do; to read and write as you
10; to think as you do; and, gentle
men, rejoice that it is so, thatI have
been able to cross the vast continent
without an interpreter Capplause i that
here in the heart of the United States,
can speak to you in your own famil-
lar speech, and tell you how much,
how very much. / appreciate your hos
DitRlity [applause1; how grateful feel
FOR the privileges and advantages /
have enjoyed in your glorious country,
and how earnestly hope that your
l., -.
ty and national generosity may be
seen and understood as I see and un-
1erstand it, by our Government. Zap
plause.1 Mr.. Burlingame has done
much to promote good feeling in
China toward the American nation.
He made himself acquainted with the
authorities at Pekin, and he won their
confidence to a remarkable degree, He
is an excellent man, and believe if
his advice is received and acted upon,
China viii soon be a cordial friend of
all the Commercial Powers of the earth.
Already we are doing something in the
way of progress and modern improve
ment. Steamboat lines have been es-
tablished on our rivers, and now we
want railroads and the telegraph. This
wonderful sovereignty of the Western
Hemisphere, where the people rule,
and where there is ever proclaiming
peace and good will to ALL has taken
Che lead, and China now must brush
sway the dust Of her antiquity, and
look across the Pacific, behold and
profit by the new lessons Of the New
World. IApplause.1 We trust our
visit, gentlemen, may be productive of
good results to all of us; that the tive
great countries of the East and West,
China and America, may be bound for
ever together in friendship, and that a
Chinaman in America or an American
in China, may find like protection i'm
the search for happiness and wealth.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-08-27
Turnpike Notice.

NOTICE Is hereby given, that on
IN the eth day Of July, 1863, q petition,
signed by twelve citizens residing on the
road below named, was fled with the Com
inIssluners Of delaware county, asking tits
the Delaware, Berkshire and sun nnury Turn
pike company may use and occupy the fol-
lowing road, to-Wit: Commencing at the
east une OF The Corporation of Delaware on
the road leading from Delaware TO Berk-
shire, thence running with said road eascTo
the road leading past the Baptist Church IN
the town of Sunbury, and running through
Berkshire Corners. Said petition VIII De.
for hearing at the next session of said COM
miEsiOneTB.
July 80, 1869. JOHN F. SCOTT,
aug6-5W President OF said Company.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-08-27

To Og1lers Of property bounding and Gbutttn0
on WflttdnI street from Liberty street l0esf to
tke Corporation Line.
THE Council OF the Incorporated
Il Village of Delaware at a regular meet
ing, held August 2, 1863, by a resolution then
adOp ed, resolved to grade to the revised
grade. thai portion OF William street ex-
tenuing from Liberty street to the old Cor
pOrasiOn Line; also, to grade, pave aud
gutter the sIde3waIks on the south side 81
said street from the east line of James A.
Barnes property westward TO the west line
Of p. S DOnelsOn's lots; also, to grade to the
established grade, % feet In width IN the
center Of said STREET, and gravel the same
rom the old Corporation Line to the new
CORPORATION Line. q. o. LITTLE, t
aug6-4W Recorder.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-08-27

A colored man, TO whom meat Eaq a
rare blessing, one day found fnhit trrn
hne rabbit. He took him ont alive
held him under his arm, pattsd him
nq7 anq Degan TO speculate on his qualities.
"Ohl how berry fati ne fattegf 9ier
did seel Let us see how me cook mimi
Ne roast him. No; he so berry fat. he
lose all de fat. Ne fry himl Ahf Ia
50 berry fat, he fry himself GoIIv.
how fat he be. Den me stew hint
me thought OF the savory stew made
the negro forget himself. and i1 rprea-I-
ing out the feast to the imagination.
his arm relaxed, when Off hUpped tho
rabbit, and sQuatting at a go5dly dis
tRnce, eyed his late owner with ureot
eompOsure. The negro knew there
was an end OF the matter, so summon
ing all his philosophy, he thug a.
dressed the rabbit "You long erred.
white-whiskered, red-eyed rat. Won not
so berry fat, arter all -
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-08-27
Mill Property Eden.

GRIST AND TeMTLL, WITH
~ two run Of stone and fOUr-fOOt sburrE,
run by lloth steam and Water-poWer, or
either. There are five Water-Wheels, which
be run separate or tJBNetlser; two new
Andrew q t'alabaugh patent wheels, one 81
inches in diameter, and one l6 inches in di-
ameters and one wooden wheel, for corn
run. *f
The engine is 10 by 20 inches, and manu-.
factured by Messrs. Bradley Burnham &
Lamb Delaware, Ohio. The boiler is A
inches in diameter and q feet in length.
There are four acres of ground. well i'm
proved. with tire property, with two dwell
ing houses upon It, one with five and the
other with seven rooms Stable, Barn, and
al other kinds of out-buildings.
A practical miller can ind no better in
veStment, as a fortune from it would only
De a question of time. The Mill has an ex-
ceilen6 run of custom. Will be sold low
and on very easy terms. Apply to
jeI1 Il. f. HURLBUTT. q