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RECENT PUBLIoATIoNs.-C Carleton has Just
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"Moss Side," Nemesis" "Miriam," "Husks,"
Husbands and Homes" "Helen Gardner
"Sunnybank," and "Ruby's Husband" These
popular novels are now all issued at the re-
duced price of $15O. ..-.
The same House publishes sStrange Visit
o's," remarkable volume, containing thirty
six original contributions, by the spirits of
such famous authors as Irving, Thackeray,
Charlotte Bronte, Byron, Hawthorne, Willis,
Humboldt Mrs. Browning, and others now
dwelling in the spirit world. These wonderful
articles were dictated through a Clairvoyant
while in a trance state, and are intensely in
teresting and enthralling. Price $1.5O. ***
Both books are for sale by the well-known
firm of Bailey & Noyes, Exchange street.
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The OPEN POLAR SEA.-Prof j. B. Maury,
in very interesting article in Put,aam's Mag
aziae, expresses his belief in DR.. Kane's open
Polar Sea, and that it can be easily reached by
following the Gulf Stream, which will give
open water all the way. He asserts, on the au-
thority of the Transactions of the Royal Soci-
ETY. Of London, for 1876, that two Dutch whal-
ers in 1855 penetrated to the Pole ITSELF He
quotes from captain of an American whale
ship, who said he had gone several hundred
miles to the northward and eastward from
Behring's Strait, and three hundred miles be-
yond the limit of his chart, and with an open
sea still before him, as far as could be seen in
that direction" Kotzebue, in 1915, saws, as he
attempted to pass to the west round the coast
OF Asia: " The sea was open to the northeast
as far as the eye could see, and Commander
John Rogers, of the United States Pacific
Exploring Expedition in 1886, says OF the
same waters: "As far as went to the north
ward and eastward beyond the Straits, had
an open sea, with a current flowing to the
northward and eastward, and with tempera-
ture of the water much above that due to the
latitude" Prof. Maury holds that there is a
Pacific warm current sweeping through Beh-
rings Straits TO the Pole, TO correspond with
the Atlantic Gulf Stream, which sweeps round
Spitzbergen, and that by either of these routes
the Pole may be reached in So fety, and an open
channel found between the Atlantic and the
Pacific
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COnsumutiOu.

The three Remedies, "SCHENCK'S PULMONIC
SYRUP" for the cuIe of Cough s, Colds Bronchitis
and every form of Consumption. The peculiar ac.
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pectoration, purifes the blood, and thus cures con-
:sOHENCKs sEA-WEEtDs Tonic ts,s for the cure
Of Dyspepsia or Indigestion, and all diseases arising
organs, supplies the place of the gastric Juice when
that Is deficient, and then enables the patient to
digest the most nutritious food. 1t is sovereign
remedy for al cases OF indigestion.
"SCH ENCK'S MANDRAKE PILLS." one of the
most valuable medicines ever discovered, being a
vegetable substitute Tor cal0me and having all the
usetul properties ascribed to that mineral without
producing any of its injurious effects.
~ these three medicines DR.: ~. H. Schenck, of
Philadelphia, owes his unrival1ed success in the
treatment OF Pulmonic Consumption. The PulmO-
mic Syrup ripens the morbid matter, discharges il
and purities the blood. The Mandrake Pills act
give the organ healthy tone, and cure Liver Com,
piaint which Ii one Of the most prominent causes Of
CONSUMPTION. The Sea-Weed Tonic invigorates the
powers OF the stomach, and by Strengthening the
oages!lon ana bringing 1t to normal and healthy
condition improves the quality OF the blood, BY
which means the formation of ulcers or tuberces in
the lungs becomes impossible. The combined action
OF these medicines, as thus explained, will cure
every case OF consumption. ii the remedies are used
10 time, and the of them is persevered in suit
nc1ently to bring the case to favorable termination
~. Schenck's Almanac containing full treatise
on the various forms of disease, his mode of treat
icine, can BIO had gratis or sent BY mail by address
ing his Principal Office, No. Is North Sixth street
Philadelphia, Pa. ''
Price Of the Pulmonic Syrup and seaweed Tonic.
eacn \! o0 per bottle. or 81 30 a half dozen. Man
drake Pills, rs cents per box.
q. Q. GOODWIN q CO., SO Hanover st, Boston.
wholesale agents. For sale by all druggists.
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The REMNANTS OF THE SOUTHERN Con-
FEDERAcY SOLD AT AUcTIoN.-Mr. Nicolav.
an auctioneer of New York sold at auction
on Wednesday, under a decree of the U. S.
Court of Virginia several millions of dollars
OF bonds and notes issued by the Confederate
Government, and by different State and coun-
ty authorities during the rebellion. There
was slim attendance of bidders-not more
than halt dozen all told. The first lot offer
ed was Confederate Government bonds of va
rious denominations and dates, amounting to
s2,2s9,7O9.
NOW, gentlemen, give me your attention."
said Mr.. Nicolay. II am going to sell YOU
millions of dollars worth of securities cbeap.
Every man here now has chance to get rich
with small amount of money. No. on the
list is $2,269,7O9 in bonds issued by the Con-
federate Government $50 called.) How much
am | offered for the lot? They are beau
tifuly embellished with the portraits of jeff.
Davis, Stonewal jackson and other great
lights OF the Confederacy. How much shall 1
have for the lot9 mo response.) Come, gen.
tlemen, make us an offer; don't be bashtnl:
give US bid; two millions of dollars, YOU
know-a splendid chance to get rich-what
DO you say? Make us an offer. mo response.)
Why, gentlemen, am surprised. Where's
John Bull? where's Laird where's Roebuck?
IS there nobody to bid anything for two mil
Ilon dollars OF Confederate bonds? Where's
Barnum? where's Wood? Will no one give
us a bids mo response.)- Why, gentlemen,
Will sell them for waste paper by the
pound it you don't want them for ANYTHING
else; they're good thing to have in the
mouse, assure you gentlemen-good to light
cigars with and for other purposes. Come.
gentlemen don't be modest; give us bid of
some sort or other. s r. ~
A voce-Fifty cents.
MI. Nlc1lay-Thank you SIR Fifty cents
am offered; only fifty cents. gentlemen. for
TWO million dollars worth of securities. Shall
near any more? Who says dollar?
Mr.. Nicolay-Thanks again, gentlemen:
81 am offered. Why, gentlemen, the blank
paper is worth more than that, to say nothing
OF The bonds. Now, do give us a bid. gem
Yemen; who says So? Recollect, gentlemen,
there are $2.0O0OOO of securities.
A voice-$5. ...
a. Mr. Nlcoiay-S5 l am offered; who s,ys
some gentleman here bid SO, when the bid |
Jung run up rapidly 81 at time until it
reached $16. Here there was long pause.
put at length the bonds took a new start and
run up, III at bid, until they reached sci.
wnen there was another pause Finally some
one bid $50, and after Mr. Nicolay had ex-
nausted his eloquence and persuasive powers
10 VAIN to get another bid, the lot was knock
ed down at that figure to L. E. Parker.
The remaining lots were sold in similar
manner s777,05S, bringing an aggregate sum
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AN ALLEGED CASE OF CRUELTY AT SEA-
Five men, named H. Ellis, John Hart, E.
Swanson, John Maroon and A. Russian, ship
ped at Hong Kong last May on the Sonora of
Boston, Capt. Hutchinson. The ship went to
an island TO load camphor, where the men were
compelled to work day and night, being fed on
small quantities of bad meat. They escaped
there, but were captured, examined by the
American Consul, and then manacled and
chained in the hold for the rest of the voyage
Ihree OF them were SO dangerously sick on
reaching Manila that they were put in the hos
pital there. The other two, Swanson and Mar
con, were brought here 10 New York, and they
caused the arrest of Capt Hutchinson on
charges of cruelty based on the above state
ment Capt. Hutchinson, in published de-
fence, says the men threatened the lives of the
officers, and that no undue cruelty was exer-
cised toward them. .l5
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FATHER HYAcINTHE's LEcTURE-An i'm.
mense audience assembled at the Academy of
Music, New York, Thursday night, to listen to
the first lecture in America of Father Hya-
cinthe. The ticket spectators made good
thing out of public curiosity, extorting ten dol
lars and more for single tickets A dispatch
says the great French orator was not up to
American expectation. He is polished and
graceful speaker, and his voice exhibits emo
tlonal power, but he is less effective than
Beecher, Phillips, Chaplin, and many other or
ators known to New York and Boston audi
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In these days of wickedness and crime,
when too little account is made of public i'm
moralityor social vice, and when dark and
malignant deeds too often go undetectel and
unavenged, it is with peculiar satisfaction
that we observe one instance where retribu-
tive Justice has instantly overtaken a pair of
notorious wrong-doers. The culprits are
Henry Ward 6eecher and Rev. Mr.. Frothing-
ham, the clergymen who united in matrimo-
ny the late A. d. Richardson and Mrs. Nc.
Farland. The Democratic press of the coun-
Try appropriately assumes the part of Nemesis
to these two celebrated divines; appropriate
ly, We say, because the moral sensibilities of
Democratic journalism have been most fear
fully lacerated by the trans action in which
the two men were engaged. The most re-
markable feature of the case is the fact
that the nearer the journals in question
come to being sporting journals, and
the more they are addicted to lay
iny before their re aders tales of crime, and
dwelling with genuine fondness upon the de-
tails of illicit love in all its phases, the more
tn Fir souls are filled with indignation and
horror, and the more piercing shrieks of an
guish they raise on account of the reverend
ge1tlemen's mortal sin.
"Lewi fellows of the hsser sort" may per-
hips sheer at the wonderful sanctity of Dem
ocratic journalists and at the unwonted vigor
of their ethical polemics. They may say that
the same papers have not only omitted to re-
buke. but have earnestly supported that sys-
TEN of concubinage that few years ago ex-
listed in connection with slavery; that Mr..
rockingham and Mr.. Beecher, especially the
last named, were distinguished as foes of
slyery and its denominations, and that the
hostile attacks upon them at this time are
inspired by animosities kindled in the old anti
slavery warfare; that political corruption and
the destruction of the purity of the ballot-box
in the North, and the murder of loyal men in
the South are due in large measure to these
new censors that have risen in Judgment
against the delinquent clergymen; this and
much more the thoughtless may think and
say. But to the wise and judicious it will ap-
pear that nothing but an ardent desire for the
promotion of social morality and the well be-
ing ofhumanity moves the constituents of Nor
rissey, the Rebel organs of "Lee's left wing"
and Democratic journals, like the Argus, that
for many years have followed Democracy and
loved it through all its iniquities, 10 scourge
these two sinful men. Something like vim
dictiveness must be Eardoned to the exquisite
sensitiveness of moral apprehension evinc-
ed bV the critics we have namnd Ac for tbo
rest of us we can exercise little charity.
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SPECIAL NOTICES
Gard to the Ladies'
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IHE SALARIES OF THE SUPREME COURT
'osIicEs'-A Washington dispatch says there
Will be sharp contest over the proposition to
increase the salaries of the Judges of the Su.
preme Court so that the Chief Justice will "a.
eeive $1,000, and the Associate Justices s1o.-
ooo each. AS the labors of these officers have
oeen materially reduced by the appointment of
nine circuit judges, and their necessary expen-
PCS oorrespondingly diminished, Congress will
uoup' refuse to make the increase asked for
WIN Tue prospective agreement in the yalue
" so.u "uo paper they will receive practical
increase over tue pay of the last five or Nv
years; and if true economy is to be the h.s;s -
action in Congress the bill will nndonh.",'..
be refused a passage,
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Ocean Insurance Company.
Annual Meeting q.

'I'HE Stockholders of the Ocean Insurance Com
pany are hereby notified to meet at the office OF
saiu company, on Monday the third day OF January,
A. 1870, at three o'clock p. NJ for the following
purposes
To choose seven Directors for the ensuing year.
2. To make such alterations and additions TO The
By Laws OF the company as they shall deem neces-
sary.
3; To act upon any other business which may le-
gally come before them.
GEO. A. WRIGHT, Secretary.
Portland, Dec. 10, 1869. dc10td
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HOLIDAY ITEMSI

lave you seen Cogia Hassan's Holiday Goodsq
OPENED fresh and offered
I ow enough for the hardest times.
IMMENSE stock of Toys in endless variety at hard
L times prices.
DOLLS of all kinds, China and Wax.
A LII styles CT Albums.
YANKEE. French and German Toys!
GREAT bargains in Jeweryl
IA! oh! oh! oh! oh! oh! Oh! oh! oh,
m! how Cheap! Cheap! Cheap!
noMINoEs, Back Cannon Boards, &c.
CHIRTS and Drawers OF every qualify aud priee,
ARTicLEs of Bijouteris.
TABlE LINEN. OF all kinds.
CUTLERY Table and Pocket and Brushes
OF every description.
GLOVES and mittens for men, women and children
INITIAL Stationery.
ARMY Blankets
HOSIERY, Cheap, Cheaper, Cheapest.
4 NEW lot ct Kid Gloves.
CLIPPER PATTERNS, Besutifal Styles.
CHAWLS. Zephyr, Worsted and Hand.Knit.
A LII KINDS of made up worstsd goods.
NUBIAS all sizes, and
GENERAL thousand articles that cannot he men.
S.1io ned here, all going at 80 Exchange street
VI course every lady knows that
Millinery can be got at COgia
Hassan's at figures below anything
dreamed of anywhere else.
~ The magical number il
| SO.
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LIE supreme Court of Massachusetts has
Just decided case which is of interest to Ac-
cdent Insurance Companies. This was an ac-
.'on OF Ferry, Executrix, agaisnt,' the Provi-
uent Lille Insurance and Investment Compa-
n.y. Inc plaintiffs testator was disabled from
us usual employment, and compensation was
c'aineo lot thirteen weeks at the rate of $40
per week. The testator's right arm was crush
ed between two railway cars on the 18th of
December, 1866, at o'clock in the forenoon
and he died in hospital at the same bour IN
the morning of the 18th of March, 1867, Paw
ment was refused on the ground that Perry.
injuries were "fatal" The court now gives
judgment for the plaintiff on the ground that
the terms of the insurance are to be constru-
ed together and by injuries not fatal all inju-
ries are intended that do not prove fatal within
ninety days.
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Bachelors Hair nvo

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A report has been received from the central
part of Kentucky that the hog cholera is pre-
vailing there. On Thursday the meat inspec-
tor OF Louisville condemned a drove of two
hundred hogs, which had just arrived from
raris on account of their having the cholera.
Inc disease has not appeared around Louis
vile except in imported stock.
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1T is said that Mr.. Beecher with character.
istc drollery, excited the curiosity of his con-
gresation by reading from the epistle to the
ROMANS the following verses, the Sunday after
the death of Richardson:
"For the woman which hath busb.na &,
pound by the law to her husband so Iono aS
ne llveth; but if the husband be dead. She is
ioosed from the law of her husband. So then,
II while her husband liveth she be married to-
another man, she shall be called an adulter-
essr but if her husband be dead, she is free
from that law; so that she is no adulteress /:
though she she be married to another man. .
he then proceeded to disappoint the expec.
.atlons ne had raised, by preaching an excel
lent sermon, in which there was not the most
Instant allusion to the great topic of the hour.
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Quebec.
Sid 3oth, brig M G Mariner, Havener, Portland.
Cid at st John, NIB, Sd inst barque Eastern State,
Halpin, Dublin; 9th, brigs Chas Miller. Glkey, tor
Cardenas; Saml Lindsey, Wilson, Havana.
per steamer Cuba, at New York;
Ar at Liverpool 26th ult, Pocahontas johnson.
San Francisco.
Sid 25th. Annie Torrey, Iibbey. Charleston.
OF Portland 25tb, Priscilla, McAllevy. from Lon
con tor Cardiff.
Sid FIN Cardiff 26th. Esther, Prince. Mobile.
on Dunmore East 2ith Jane Southland, Bishop
from Liverpool tor New Orleans.
Ar at Oporto 18th ult, Dauntless, Coombs, from
New York.
Sid I'm Cuxhayen 2ith, Oneida, McGilyery, Tor
Rangoon.
AR at Bremerhaven 2ith ult, Tarquin, McDiarmid,
Mazatlan via New York.
SD 23d. China. Jordan. Rangoon.
Sid TN Flushing 23d ult, Vicksburg, Thompson, for
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Sid I'm Brouwershaven 25th ult VIM Brown, Hop
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Sid TIM Helvoet 24th ult, Gchrist. Watts, for
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SPOKEN
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Boston for Batavia.
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SPLENDID SINGERs.-Nice Christmas Pres
ents. A fine lot of German Canary Birds at
Sawyer & Woodford's, 11e Exchange street;
also large assortment of Cages II :