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FOR EIGN PORTS

Sid I'm Cebu Sept II, ship Elizabeth Cushing, Col
by, London. -. ... IL
At Rangoon Oct 10, ship Tanjore, Cobb, from Ma
dras. C"r#T
AT Calcutta Oct 20, ships John Clark Ross, and
Emily Farnum, Simes tor New York, ldg.
Ar at Messina 18th uit, brig Richmond Powers,
Genoa.
Sid I'm Bremerhaven 18th ult ship Clara Morse. tor
Savannah.
Ar at Marseiles LIST inst, barque Elwood Cooper.
At Port Stanley Sept II, barque Midas, Rogers,
from Montevdeo for Valparaiso.
Ar at Buenos Ayres Oct 23d, brig Annie W God
dard, Randall. st John, NIB.
Sid I'm Kingston, ia, 10th, sch Oneida, Davis, New
York via Salt River.
in port 18th ult brig Emily Fisher, from Barba-
AR at Curacao 9th ult, brig Jennie Morton. Gam
age, Baltimore.
AR at Havana 21st ult, barque Elba, Peterson, I'm
Kinsman, buchanan. st John. NIB, via Cardenas
brig Helen Hastings. Aubrey, do; 26th sch kebecca
M Atwood, Doane, Now York.
Chartered-Sch Nellie Bowers, tor New Orleans.
1900 boxes sugar. at SOC.
Ar at Matanzas 2sd ult. brig L wadswortb. Bal
ley Cardenas; 2ith Anita Owen, Pettengill. Havana
Sid nth, sebs vesra Rogers, New York; 22d, Mar
tina Maria, Dean, Pensacola; 18th, brig a Berry,
Colson, New York.
Ar at Cardenas 10th, brig Mary E Leighton, Gay,
Quebec; 2ith. K Carver. Sylvester, Beaufort.
Sid oath, barque jane Adeline, Hutchinson, North
OF Hatteras; 25th. brig Geo Berry, Fasset, do.
Ar at st John NIB LIST inst. brig Moonlight Brown
SPOKEN.
Oct 20. lat 26 N, Ion 1l2 w. ship Ellen Austin,
from New York for San Francisco.
Oct 80, no lat, &c. barque ID Carlton Tapley, FIN
San Francisco for Liverpool.
Nov 80, lat rs 40, Ion rs 04, barque Albert, bound
North.
Nov 80. off Hatteras, barque Savannah, SO days
from Cardiff for New York, (short Of provisions and
was supplied)
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IMPORTS.

"a so Noyes from st George NB-i9 1903 IT boards
N j Miller. 0'se' ND-ai,zoof IL boards,
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LARGE lou OF OVerCOatS selling at cost at
Dresser's, Is Middle street. dc4 1w*
Don't forget to call at Timmons & Halves
and get can of those nice fresh oysters for
your Sunday dinner. '-...
Buy the double action wether strip for doors
and windows. Put on by experienced men if
required. Sold at Kendall & Whitney's Mar
ket Square. Bishop Brothers, sole agents.
One wintry eve in stormy March-ClOthing
sat me down some corn to parch-at Rich's
And taking up the wiry popper-Clothing
put in corn worth just "copper" at Rich's.
Satin Hats, % cents.
Plush Hats, % cents.
Velvet Hats, Is cents.
at Cogia Hassans to-day.
IF you want good bargains in furniture,
crockery ware, carpets, &C., we advise you to
60 to Woodman & Whitney's new store, Sc Ex-
change street, for them. Dec. 4-d1w
ANY one in want of a fine Overcoat would
do well to look at the Moscow Beavers in blues
and browns, just received at w. A. Duran's,
FORTY cents invested in one quart of oysters
fresh from Virginia, will make you nice din
ner next Sunday. Freeman & Co., 1O1 Fede-
raj street, have some of the finest we have ever
seen. -
THE crowds of visitors who daily visit the
store of G. w. Rich & Co., 173 Fore street,
and buy clothing is sufficient proof of fair deal
ing, low prices, and superior quality of goods.
Give them call tonight Et-
CONGRESS HALL-Children's Progressive
Lyceum meets at 10 IL o'clock A. M Social
meeting of the friends of Spiritualism at
o'clock in the evening in the ante room. All
are invited If
WE are pleased to learn that DIR. Lamb of
this city, who has had unbounded success in
the cure of the severest forms of scrofula and
erysipelas, has had equal success in the cure of
the typhoid fever.
WE take pleasure in recommending our
friends who have any dyeing or cleansing, to
employ Messrs. A. Foster & Son. They will
do their work faithfully and promptly. Give
them call at No S Portland street.
Come high,
Come low,
Come rich,
Come poor, ss=
Come look our stock of clothing Ger,
Twill do you good,
IT'S royal sight.
Come in your strength,
Come in your might,
And clothe yourselves this day and night.
George w. Rich & Co., 173 Fore street,
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To Printers.
OrOO2l Notice.

A FONT of NEW BREWER TYPE t2l2 lbs.l car
a be purchased at the PRESS OFFICE, PORT
LAND, Maine, at Grcnt Bargain!
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PERFECT MANHOOD.
Essays for Young Men, ON the evils OF SELF
ENERVATION,with certain help for the erring and
unfortunate. Sent in sealed letter envelopes free
of charge. Address,
HOWARD ASSOCIATION,
sep2bSN d&W3m Box p, PHILADELPHIA. Pa.
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OUCH would undoubtedly be the exclamation of
any faith in their own productions but we think it
wisdom, and advertising to some purpose when we
say to the public. 60 to X. s. WEBSTER'S, 159 Mid
die street, and there receive a trial sample Of the
celebrated "Dirgo Folding Bosom" and one OF
those neat and new little fasteners for same. No
reserved seats. Samples free.
E.P.FURLONG & co.
N. B. These goods are on sale at all Gents Fur
nishing stores, and at Wholesale at all jobbers in
paper goods, or at Sheppard q Co.'S, Portland
Agents for Maine. sn-dc3-3t
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LARGE lot of Overcoats selling at cost at
Dresser's, 70 Middle street. dc4 1w*
Don't forget to call at Timmons & Halves
and get can of those nice fresh oysters for
your Sunday dinner ,-t..
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Thursday ind Friday AfernoOns and
Evenings, after o'clock.
A great variety Of Useful and Fancy articles,
manufactured by the Ladies' of the High Street
Sewing Circle, will be offered for sale.
a. Tea and Coffee, Oysters, Ice Cream and
other Refreshments will be served at CALL each dsy.
VThe public generally invited, and no Ell
fort will be spared for their entertainments
Season Tickets 81 90; Single Tickets rs cents; to
be obtained from the committee and at the door,
dc2an1W
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ROOMS no LET,
MYTH or without board NJ

125 Cumberland Street,
novSsne0ds
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Wanted.

n YOUNG MAN to sell a few articles of ever, a. :.
"A use in every family. Sales and profits sn u"y
anteed. Address with real name and references a"'
noSosntf ID. H., Box 80, Portland 20.
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| For curing Laryngitis Acute and Chronic Catarrh
OF the Air Passages, Bronchial and Tubercuar Con-
| sumption. UHE f"
This preparation is OF the most certain agents
ever yet discovered for soothing mitigating and cur
| ing Infamed Surfaces, Cough, Hoarseness. Loss of
Voice, Asthma, Difficulty OF Breathing Shortne,s of
Breath, Pain IN the Lungs and Chest 1t readily en-.
tiers every minute part of the Lungs, the air tubes
and cells reduces large bronchial glands stimula-
ting liberated surfaces to healthy and healing ac
ton; dissolves tubercules which press upon the
blood-vessels and causes bleeding; and causes the
absorbens to take out tubercular deposits from
the lungs, .f
DIRECTIONS: Put two teaspoonfuls of this Rain
into one inch deep of pretty warm water in the In
haler, then inhale the steam or vapor from five
to twenty minutes at a time, every morning. noon
and night from the Inhaler.
Price "a 90 per BOTTLE and the Inhaler Al On extro
Prepared and for sale only at the Doctors office
NO. 90 COURT STREET.
BOSTON.
NIB. DIR. BROADBENT has prescribed and used
the above Inhalent twenty years In his practice
and thousands in New England have been cured by
Its use 1t is purely vegetable and pleasant and safe
to use at your homes.
Consumptives Should Use It.
YFirst.Clnss References cnn be seen
nj the Doctors Once. dec2sNt1O
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Buy the double action wether strip for doors
and windows. Put on by experienced men if
required. Sold at Kendall & Whitney's Mar
ket Square. Bishop Brothers, sole agents.
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One wintry eve in stormy March-Clothing
1 sat me down some corn to parch-at Richs
And taking up the wiry popper-Clothing
1 put in corn worth just copper-at Rich's.
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Prepared and Sold onlyby
JEREMIAH BUXTON. JR..
Also Proprietor ofthe Great German Cough Remedy
YARMOUTH, ME.
Price $500. aug10SSwtfs
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Congressional.

WASHINGTON, December 11.-House.-A
motion to table Dir. IngersolFs resolution
for issuing S44,00 0, coo additional currency
was defeated, but the resolution was re-
fcrred to the Committee on Banks and Cur
rencv instead of the Committee on Ways
and Means, which is regarded as equivalent
to its ultimate defeat, as the Banking and
Currency Committee is understood to be
hostile to its provisions.
The Committee of Ways and Means was
instructed to inquire into the eXpediency
of relieving the provision trade from taxa
ton.
Five members of the Banking and Cur
rency Committee, to which Mr.. IngersolPs
currency bill was referred, voted i'll the
House to lay it on the table.
a bill was introduced dispensing with
spies in the revenue service. ,,
The census bill was then considered till
adjournment.
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E'iandisIa Negro Outrage IN Mitchell
County-Spcedy K~ctribrttien Of the
y-SBsnsn
December 1, 1865

BROWNSVILLE, December 4, 1869.
Editor of SaUdanGh Republican:
1t grieves me to pen the history of an
other one Of those damnable Outrages that
have become so common Of late III our I'M
reconstructed State. .
The outrage in question was perpetrated
upon the person Of 4 respectable lady, MIS-.
Johnston, in Mitchell county, on last Tues
dav, by an immense black rascal by the
IAN of William Lee. 1t appears that Mrs.
Johnston had retired for the night, with no
one in the house but a very small child,
and the first intimation that any Il was
near was the door being broken open and
the tiend standing before her. She asked the
negro where her husband was-he being IN
his employ, and had been for some time. IL
WAS then that he informed her OF his helllsh
intentions. She immediately seized an axe
and attempted to defend herself; where
uDon the negro took the axe from her, and
and at the same time struck her with a stick
which he had in his hand, knocking her
scnseIess. Upon restoration to conscious
ness she discovered that she had been drag
ged about forty yards from the house. Ihc
nero, not being satisfied with what he had
done, then stamped with his Internal feet
ou her throat and in her face. She became
unconscious for the time, and whilst in this
condition he finished his hclliSh and damna-
bic work.
The above statement was made 10 me in
person bv the injured lady. She is the
worst mutilsted human creature about the
head that | even saw to live, and this hor-
rible spectacle would pain the most har-
dened wretch in the world. Her attending
physician thinks, with much care and atten-
ton, she will recover, but it will De a long
time. This morning u party OF men, dis
guised as old men, represented that they,
were the sheriffs of Mitchell county, and
demanded this tiend, but they were in
formed by the good lady Of the jailor (the
jailor being ABSENT that she could not
deliver the negro to them. After some par
leying, they succeeded in getting possession
of him. He was then taken a short dis
lance from the town and shot, about day
light, two balls penetrating his body and
killing him. This afternoon the coroner
summoned a jury, the particulars of which
I know nothing of. /.
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there appears to be no dispute I'm regard TO
their having done SO in all respects save in
the case OF members Of the Legislature,
who, it is commended by come, should
have been required to take the
iron-clad oath before passing the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments, and he
was sure that would have been done had
not the highest authority accessible during
the recess of Congress decided that the acts
of Congress did not require it. The Con-
stitution is as radical as that Of any State Of
the Union it contains a complete and I'M
reserved remuneration of the issues upon
which the rebellion was precipitated and
fought by the southern States, and ample
and exhaustive provisions for the protection
OF every right of every citizen without dis
t~inction Of race, color, or previous condi-
ton, and makes the most liberal provisions
for the education Of all classes in free schools,
and guarantees to the colored man every
right held by the white man. Even those
who require the test-oath admit that they
only desire the carrying out of the provi-
siops of the Constitution. He says that, in
his opinion, the solemn pledge given to the
committee by the legislative committee is
the surest guarantee that could have been
given, and he feels sure the Legislature will
keep these pledges.
Mr.. Plat then proceeds in detail to dis
cuss the reasons why the State should be
admitted at once !; and as a lifelong Repub-
lican, and O radical member of that party;
concludes as follows:
"And I must differ with gentlemen who
think our new Constitution would be safer
in their W hands than in those of the pre-
sent members acting under the pledge Of
good faith given you by their presiding
officers and the Governor of the State. l
speak for a very large number of Radical
Republicans when l implore you to give us
the latter in preference to the former, II
to admit Virginia at the earliest possible
moment when you are satisfied that all the
requirements of the reconstruction acts
have been complied with and with such
guarantees as you may deem it necessary to
exact for the faithful compliance with every
provision Of the new Constitution"
Governor Walker is still here, ana was in
the Reconstruction Committee room for
some time.
Congressman Ward, of the committee,
expresses the opinion that the committee
| will report for the admission Of the State Oh
| Tuesday next. Congressman Farnsworth
had drawn up a joint resolution similar to
the one prepared by Senator Morton admit
ting the State, but did not present it, as
some of the members desired it to be held
over until Tuesday. 1t is conceded that
there will be a unanimous report, but l am
inclined to think there will be one or two
dissenting votes. When the papers We're
presented to Congress to-day they were or
dered to be printed without a dissenting
| vote. WALLACE.
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Domestic Markets-lBY TELEoKArnl.

NEW YORK. December 1l-Noon.-Stocks strong.
Money, ] pc: cent. Sterltng-los3 for Ions, loss lot
short. Gold, 1e3t. United Stascs bones, Ilst.
Tennessee e's-Ex-coupons, so; new. :s3. VII
lima 6's--Old, at new, 29t.
Flour sGI0c. lower. Whest dull and lower.
Corn Gulet without decided change. Pork duh;
new mess, SSe. 50. Lard quiet at loc. Cotton
quiet and trim ut 25ic. J'urpentines dropping at d
@iasc. Rosin quiet at s2Ss2.@ Tor strained.
Erenin5.-Co.ton quiet and unchanged sales
/. 900 bales 1T 25Sc. Elour, ana Wheat heavy. at the
noon decline. Corn unchanged. Whiskey, *i:o20
81. %. Pork unchanged. Beef quiet. Lard
heavy Kettle. l9tG?oc. Naval store, quiet. Gfo-
ceries dull. Ffeightsa shade tirmer.
W~AsH1SGroN, December IL -Dispatches from
the western cities report Corn STEADY, W niskey
dull, Provisions aud Lard quiet ana nrm.
WILMINGTON, y. c., December lI.-Spirits Tur-
pentins quiet at 40c.; crude lower at Sl.66Gs3.S 80,
Tar irm at S2.0s. Cotton, 22tG9!c.
CHARLESTON. s. c.. December u.-Cotton firm;
middlings, 2!c. sales, 400 bales receipts, L5lO
bales; exports-coastwisc, l. o7 bales.
AUGUSTA, Ga, December r.-Cotton very nc:
tive but closed quiet and easier; middltngs, 23tW
23ic.; sales, $50 bales receipts, s9s bales.
SAVANNAH. GA, December 11.-Cotton active;
middlipgs, 2isc. receipts, 3,17S bales exports,
$3.50 bales; sales, LOCO baics.
MOBILE. December 1l.-Cotton quiet; mid
dlings, 23s623.c.-chiefy ut the inside figures;
sales. l:lOO. bales; receipts, 5000 bales exports,
S, los bales.
NEW ORLEANS, December 11.-Cotton firm ut
Atc. sales, $500 bales receipts, 1886 bales. Ex-
q rts-To liverpool, 8, 700 bales to Bremen, l,T5
bales : coastwi-e, 213 bales. Sugar quiet; prime,
l2tGlsic.. Gold, Ia. New York sight, t discount.
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TROUBLED EDGEFIELD-Two MEN KILLED
AT RoBINsoN's CIRCUs-A THIRD Hung BY
THE NEGRO Mu1TIA.-We have received in
telligence of a bloody aifray at Edgetield
Courthouse, South Carolina. On last We'd
ncsday John RobinSoms circus company az
rived in the village for the purpose OF
giving two exhibitions, and an immense
crowd of white men and negroes had come
in from the surrounding country to witness
the performances. On "Wednesday night
the canvass was crowded, as were also the
tents in which were the jugglcrs, sword
s%wallowers, and the "great natural curiosi-
which usually accompany these cara
vans, and are denominated "side-shows."
1t was in one of the side-shows that the
row. originated. Pistols were drawn by
both sides and freely used. Before the diff
Guilty could be stopped the Scalawag clerk
of the superior court was shot and instantly
killed, and another White man, unknown,
was so fearfully beaten in the head with the
butt of a revolver by some one of his adverse
ries that his wounds proved mortal, and he
died during the night.
On that night the negro militia, who have
been on duty at Edgetield Courthouse for
some time past, arrested a white citizen OF
the county on q charge Of being arebel bush
Whacker, and in revenge, they said, for the
murder of negroes by the whites, gave him
a speedy trial, and executed him by hang
ing him to a tree in the village.
Whether these alarming reports are true,
or whether the whole thing is nothing but
a c~ock-and-bull story originated by some
imaginative genius, we have, rs yet, no way
of ascertaining. The story appears almost
too INDUSTRIOUS for belief, and we should
hesitate to publish it were it not for the eX-
tremelv unsettled condition OF affairs ID
Edgeteld county, and the belief which has
been entertained for some time past that
bloodShed would sooner or later be the re-
suit. The affair has probably been eXagge-
rated. but we cannot help thinking that
there is u good deal of truth in 1t when we
consider the course which has been pursued
in that county by the Radicals for some
time past. Negro militiamen have been
quartered in the village now for several
months, and we believe that they were seut'
there by the miserable carpet-bagger Gov
ernor and political incendiary scott for no
other purpose than to bring on a COLLISION
with the white people. The white men
there, in order to battle his expectations
and wishes, have taken much i'll silence
from these armed negroes, and the latter,
embroidered by what they deemed the cow
ardice of the whites, have perhaps dared TO
do what our informant stated. lfthey have,
woe be unto them, for we do not believe
that the Edgetield people will submit tosuel
an. outrage, and ifthey do rise in their might
thew will sweep Scott's militia from the face
of the earth.-Augusta (Ga.) CONSTITUENCIES
rat.
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The Admission of Virginia-Letter
from Governor Wells.

WASHINGTON, December lin the Re-
construction Committee, this morning, q
letter was read from Ex-Governor Wells, of
Virginia, urging the immediate admission
of the State, and opposing the cXaction of
the test-oath from the members Of the Lc-
gislature.
The best opinion is that a bill will be re-
ported from the committee Tuesday for the
restoration of the State, and that the sena-
tors and representatives, except Booker
and Mckenzie, whose seats are contested,
will be admitted to their seats. The bill
will require Il pledge from the officials that
there snail be no future Acknowledgement on
account Of race or color.
The committee ordered the statements OF
Governors Wells and Walker to'be printed.
4 subcommittee was appointed to prepare
il statement of the alleged election frauds,
but not to print it. The voice of the com
mittee is against seriously entertaining a
question regarding the fairness of the cleo
finn
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OFFICERS OF II GRAND LODGE OF NORTH
CARoLISA.-The annual session of the Grand
Lodge met at Raleigh on Monday evening
ll>t-Grand Master Robert &. Vance pre-
siding.
There are now in the State 2l0 working
Lodges with Il membership Of 1900. The
Order IS represented as in Il i1ouriShing con
Gition.
At the election on Tuesday evening the
following officers were elected ::
Robert 5. Vance, Of Buncombe, Grand
Master; ,
John Nichols, Of Raleigh, Senior Grand
Warden ;
Samuel II. Rountree, OF Lenoir, Junior
Grand Warden;
William L. Anderson, of Raleigh, Grand
TrcasuI
Donald ". Balm, Of Raleigh, Grand se-
CTCtaIV.
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Another Petition OF Dr. Paul, Soho.
eDpe-Wyris Of ErrGZ 40 be issued ant;
:. Further Escaring Ordered.

r1S Oh EITEGE 10 De lSSu&N 2HsG1
Further Hearing Ordered.
PHILADELPHIA, December 10.-Dr. Paul
S%ch0eppc, now under sentence OF death for
the murder of Miss StcineCke, has presented
Il petition to the Chief Justice of the Su-
prcme Court Of Pennsylvania, in which he
says "YOur petitioner most earnestly
asserts that he is innocent CT the crime OF
which lie stands convicted: that within
thirty days after sentence he applied TO be
allowed Il writ Of error to the Supreme
Court. so that he might have reviewed by
that honorable court manifold errors which
he alleges exist in the record Of the court
below, and that said application Was refused,
but i'll making. said application be had no
hearing by his counsel, either written, print
ed, OIL oral. In assigning errors he had not
means to print the record, and by the rue
OF the court enforced in Cumberland county
his counsel could not take the record out
for any purpose. JIc was therefore obliged
to resort 10 the printed pamphlet which
had been printed for general circulation,
and which did not contain the evidence as
fully as it should have done; through this
he could not explain errors he specially
complains Of, and which he is satisfied were
not, and could not be, understood by he
Supreme Court without IN oral or printed
explanation. AS your petitioners lie is
involved, he prays that he shall not Que
without at least q hearing. lie therefore
petitions for a reviewo his application and
for Il hearing in regard to the errors assign
ed. OF this Intended application your Pc
titioner has given written notice to the
Honorable Acknowledgement Of the State,
with a copy Of this petition" .
+. Carroll Brewster, Acknowledgement of
the State, in reply, says: "The Common
wealth rs. SchOeDDc. | have not had an
opportunity of examining the assignments
Of the errors this day served OH me. At a
former stage of this case Tread the printed
pamphlets referred to, and was unable to
satisfy myself that any error had been COM
mitted by the court. L am still OF that
opinion. Looking, however, to the impor-
lance of this case to the defendant, l think
the cause of justice requires that he should
have an opportunity of being heard and !
therefore consent TO the issuing Of Il writ of
error, returnable on the first Monday OF
january, 1870"
In pursuance Of this a writ of error will
be issued.