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JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the transfer o
certain appropriations heretofore made.

La.cs Of the United States, passed afshs First
Session Of The Forty First Congress.
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SUMMER STOCK.
SUMMER STOCK.
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OIL CLOTHS, Sc. Sc.
f. A. DAY,
CITY BUILDING, BIDDEFORD,
Has on hand the largest stock in the market, from
the finest qualities to tho very lowest grades.
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To the Honorable, the Justices OF the Supreme Ju-
dical Court, next to bc holden mt Alfred, within
and for the County Of York and State OF Maine,
ON the third Tuesday OF May, a. ID. 1869,
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Cambridge Cattle Market July 20.

c.,u. she's, Lambs Horses Swim
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~ Hand bill. printed At this once
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Accident on the Rutland Railroad

a MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM A GREAT
DISASTER.
The mail train on the Rutland and
Burlington Railroad for Boston, ON Sat
urday afternoon, net with serious ac-
cidcnt, and q miraculous escape of a
number of persons from sudden death.
AS the train approached Brockways
Mills, two miles and half below Bar
louisville stationjust after coming round
II sharp curve, the engineer saw that the
switch but n few rods ahead was wrong,
but too short a distance To bring the
train to n stop, although every effort
was made to do so. The switch was To-
Gated about 100 feet from deck bridge,
like the one on the Rutland and Wash
ington Railroad, over the Falls at Cen
ter Rutland, but much shorter, being
only about one hundred feet in length,
rocky ravine, through which n creek
passed, When the locomotive struck
theswitch twas thrown from the track,
and passed over the bridge, taking with
it the baggage ear, and leaving the bal
ance of the ears ON the bridge, no con-
nection being broken until the engine
went over the embankment. On reach
ing the end of the bridge, the engine
plunged down an embankment some
ten or twelve feet. The baggage car
was turned two-thirds over, one end
resting on the tender of the locomotive,
and the other on the abutment of the
bridge, which prevented it going down
the embankment
The engine was turned nearly over,
and left in such position that the driv-
ing wheels revolved some five or ten
minutes after it was landed upon the
steep bank. The smoke stack was fiat
tened, and the head light rolled to the
bottom of the embankment. Mr.. Ed
ward Foss, the engineer, on ascertain
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pay thirty thousand dollars per mile be-
sides, in order to build the road
whitehall has always opposed us, al
though we proposed to run directly to
them. And although the twenty miles of
the road lying drcctl, north ofWhitehall
is over "thc marsh where there are no
local interests to aid in building, still
Whitehall has not subscribed dollar.
nor have its inhabitants. Thus matter,
stand to-day. Now as to the future. As
a community, these counties would very
much like to remain part of New York,
but we have struggle .Or years to get Il
railroad communication, but not dollar
Of aid has come from the parties above re-
lerrcd to, or from Troy, Albany or New
York. Ii j. not too late yet for them to
aid us hut lhcy viii not, and rs last re-
sort, and feeling "a, though We had been
abandoned by our own State, we are hop
ING to get the thirty-fvc miles, between
Port Henry and the Ausablc river, built,
and can only do it by the aid Of New
England interests. We may not be able
to do it even so; but if we can have
communication with Boston direct by
mall and New York by the way of Rut-
land and the Bennington and Lebanon
and Harlem roads, this would leave
Troy and Albany entirely off the route.
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TT NJ ~ NJ
Emigration TO the West.

Nix. EDIToR:- -
The opening of the Pacific
Rail Road zone of the greatest triumphs
of the nineteenth century is but auoth
or link in the chain of civilization that
encircles California, Arizona, Colorado,
Montana, Idaho, Washington Terrific
ry, Oregon, Utah, and Nevada, in fact
more than onc-third of the great area
of the United States, which, twenty
years since, were unknown, except in
some instances to nomadic trappcrs,
traders, and Indians.
1t is patent TO every eye that this
great advance towards civilization, and
all its concomitant advantages TO the
commerce of the world, is traccablc to
the development of the vast mineral
resources of the Pacific slope. How fan
would the Pacific Rail Road have been
built but for the mines and the inllu-
encc of population attracted 10y them,
that made ii necessary? How much
grain would have been exported from
San Francisco to-day but for the mines
Where would have been the telegraph
across the Plains, or the China steam
ship line, but for the necessities created
by the development of the mineral
wealth in the Pacific States? And yet,
tba opo ,,roof ,Irn u-Io,ly ,tno,, a., mot -,
of all these grand results is the mista
ken idea which many of our young
men carry with them there, that thcil
fortunes may be had for the asking
Even here, in your own enlightened
State, you may occasionally hear o
some bugbear scheme, in which Ger
tain Mr.. Smith or Jones, as the cas-,
may be, proposes to "take OUT fiftcei
or twenty men, and will pay them from
eight to ten dollars per diem and the
expenses. "out,o etc., etc., and it i
these chimerical stories that have givei
rise to the mistaken ideas before men
toned, in the minds of the worllinj
men of the Atlantic States. The con
sequence is, that when they arrive Il
their "Utopia,' and find the wages
though good, so much smaller than the,
anticipated, they vote the whole thin
a humbug, and return rs poor as the.
went, or what is worse, discouraged an,
disheartcned, permit themselves to b
drawn into the vortex of debauchcry
shame, and dissipation, which is Tia
banc of the new-lledged cities i'm the fl
west, The gist of the whole matter j
this, each and every young man VIII
contemplates emigration there, shoul
be thoroughly posted with regard t
these things before he starts.
Asa slight aid towards the "cnd dcs
rable,' | append table of mechanics
wages, published 10y the Mechanic
State Council, of San Francisco, Cal
and a few words on the wages of otho
laborers in Nevada, for which am il
debted to the elaborate Report of (.
Ross Browne upon the "Mincral Re
sources of the United States"
| Yours,
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From the Albany Argus, July lnh.l
KHIlrOad 4 mmunicatlOn Between Al
bnuy, u att>burgh aud Montreal.

1t has been stated that the Whitehall
and Plattsburgh Railroad has passed UNI
der the control of New England capital
lists and New England interests. That
while the road will be constructed south
ward through Clinton and Essex counties,
as far as Ticonderoga, it will cross Lake
Champlain at that point by means of a
bridge, and thus connection with
roads leading through Vermont to Bos-
ton. This would give New England adj
ditlonal control Of the large trade she
already enjoys in connection with the
northern counties of this State, and shut
off direct railroad communication between
New York, Albany, Troy aud Montreal.
With reference to this subject, CORES
pondent,who is thoroughly posted in these
matters, writes as follows
I'VE have been struggling for years, in
Il poor country, to secure direct railroad
communication between Pittsburgh, Troy,
Albany and New York ,by the construction
of road on the west side of Lake Cham
plain, from Plattsburg to Whitehall.
/ ihlN MOulu give ulltNi communication
between New York and Montreal by the
shortest possible routes a road is already
in operation from Plattsburgh, connecting
with the last named place But for this
purpose we have never had one dollar of
help-south Of Ticonderoga. We have
spent about nine hundred thousand dollars,
and have built twenty miles of road
south from Plattsburgh, and seventeen
miles more between Port Henry and
Ticonderoga. This exhausted our resour-
ces entirely, and we are to day without
funds The twenty miles south from
Plattsburgh has been leased to the Mont
real and Plattsburgh Railroad Company
Tor ten years, but the lease is to terminate
whenever a southern connection is secured.
In order to get five thousand dollars a
mile from the State, we have TO raise and
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With Dyspeptcs everything /, wrong. Food
ioes not digest; sleep does not refresh wine doe,
not cheer; smiles do not gladien music does MOI
charm, nor can any other joy enter the breast
he miserable dyspsptc. You must get rid ct H.
OF it will become seated and confirmed, and lite
viii be burden and existence curse. .ANrl-
ron BrrTERs will do away with ell thi,. New
lie, strength and energy wil take possession OF
you. The damask will again bloom upon voul
,heek, and the luster in your eye will again be "a
bright as in yonr hoathie,t, happiest AMI most
Joyous days.
4 want has been lalt and expressed by Phvsi-
aus, Tor n safe and reliable nurcatiyc; such Do
want is now supplied in "Parson, rurgstivc
Pills"
Henry X. Bond. of Jefferson, Maine, was cured
# splitting Of blood soreness and weakness of the
,touach, by the use Of "Johnson's Anolync
l.iniment.'
NfvtR roo LAIR To- MINu'-Aitcr nearly
running your hair by the use of Lard preparations
under the name aud guiso OF coils, apply Bar
rett's Vegetable Hair Restorative which not only
rencws hut restores il to its sottne,s and lusre.
EIre Hauie E.rpTess.
Renne's Pau-Klling Ma-ic Oil Is tho thing {,
use tor fro.t bites, chibains hlrus Scalds hruise-
contusions, and other painful troubles YOU ever
triel. at works like a charm.
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I)I ED.

lHALLADAY-In West Cornwall VI, June 2lAt,
stephen y. lIllladay aged 90 years
iUuL.-In Bridport, July II, Miss Agnes Hin,
aked "a years. She was lately n teacher i'm the
Ffeedmen's schools in Tennessee,
SMrru-In East Middlebury, of Heart dis
edso July. nth day, L. j. Smith, aged72 years.
Those who knew the deceased most, loved
him best ana he was for most the forty years,
true faithful Soldier of lions Holy War.
There can he no doubt, but what he is now at
rest, in the Paradise of God.
RIcu.-In Middlcbury, of consumption after
a long and painful illness, Charles III. Rich
AGED - years.
church in this place, and though his habits
were transformations and retiring, he always
had the confidence of The church. His end was
peace.
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WHAT MAKES 4 MARRIAGE.-A
great chancery case is now pending in
the circuit court at Decatur, ILL.,, which
involves one ofthe largest estates in the
state, and employs some of the most
distinguished lawyers in the West. The
bill is filed by James Funk, who asks a
division between himself and his eight
brothers, and one sister, of his fathers
property, 5000 acres of improved land
near Bloomington, embracing the IA
nous Funk grove, 5000 acres of the fin
est forest in the state. The point at is
sue is the Legitimacy of the petitioner,
all else being yielded 10y his opposing
relations. The evidence given is fam
lily history. Isaac Funk, i'm 1886, lived
in Ohio, and became 50 intimate with
a young woman, that James Funk was
a consequence of their communion;
and after his birth continued the con-
nection until daughter was born,
when there was "A GOODNESS for some
time. But when, shortly after, the
young mother was hired as housekeep-
er, by Isaac's father, Isaac shared her
chamber as her husband, and when she
and his brothers ran away from their
debts, her third child being then but
six days old, she so eXerted herself for
his comfort that she died few days
thereafter, Funk returned to Ohio
few years afterward, paid his debts,
and brought his son James back home
with him; and having married in the
meantime, proceeded to raise him with
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Republican state Nominations.

FOR GOVERNOR,
PETER T. WASHBURN, Woodstock.
FOR LtEUrENANr uoVESNuR,
GEORGE W. HENDEE. Morristown.
FoR STATE trREhsURER,
JOHN A. PAGE, Montpelier.
Republican County Nominations.
ron SENATOR'S,
WIN p. NASH, New Haven
ROLLlN J. JONES. Cornwall.
FOR ASSISTANT JUDGES.
NORMAN }. ALLEN. Ferrisburgh,
J. X. fERRE, Bridport.
PROBATE JUpGEs-- NEw HAVEN DISTRICT,
HARVEY MUNSTLL, Bristol.
ADDISON DISTRICT.
SAMUEL T.. COOKE, WeybridEe.
ron STATES ArToRNEN,
GEORGE W. GRANpEY, Vergcnnes.
FOR SHERIFF,
ISAAC NJ. TRIP, Middlebury,
FOR nIGH BAILIfF,
EDWARD GoRElAM, Addison.
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VIZ. STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION, at
Brandon. Tuesday, Wcdncsday,and Thurs
day, Aug. Il, Is and 10, 1859.
WEDNESDAY Organization.
Address by the President, j $. Spaul-
ding. Discussion The need Of endowed
Academies in Vermont, and how to OBJ
tain them opened by Rev. l.. A. Austin,
Of Manchester, and Henry II. Shaw, OF
Springfield
AFrERNooN.-Discussion Normal
Schools ; opened by j. S. d. Taylor. OF
st. Adams. and :. II. Pearl, of johnson
Discussion; Arithmetic; opened by L.
+. Ward, Of Westminster and Judah
Dana, Of Rutland.
EvENING.-Lectuc by Rev. j. +
Goodrich, of Burlington.
THURSDAY MoRNING-Discussion En-
glish Grammar opened by Prof Weber
Of Middlchury. and Louis Pollens, O
Burlington. Discussion ; Geography
opened by j. s Cilley, Of Brandon, au(
b. f. Bingham, of Brattleboro.
Observation-Disclosures busines,
Lecture by o. II. kiIc, of Ncrgenncs
Observation-Disclosures byJ $. Adams, for
mer Secretary of the Board Of Education
Clergyman, Suprintendcnts, Teachers
and all interested in Education, are inyit
ed 10 attend, and to participate in tn,
discussions.
Board will be provided for members o
the Association and for all teacher, in at
tendance at rates not exceeding s pei
day in families, 81, 30 per day at the lIo
tells.
The railroad will grant free return
tickets.
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Chicago claims to have fifteen hundred
buildings IN the course of erection this
season, of a substantial and elegant char
acter, including a number of hotels and
churches. Their estimated cost is $40,
100000 A magnificent Stock Exchange
to cost 100000, is under consideration.
At Port Jeryis, Tuesday, a colored
man named George Hasbrock, while
hunting for a woodchuck, unintentionally
shot a girl about nine years ofage, daugh-
ter of Henry Hoffman. The shot was
fatal, killing her almost instantly. Has
brouck surrendered himself to the author
tiles,
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inn that the train could not he stopped,
stepped down upon the step to watch
the trucks, and, az hc saw them turn,
the locomotive went over the embanl<-
mcnt, throwing him from his position
down nearly thirty feet, striking some
undcrbrush breaking the force Of the
blow that Inc received before lac reached
the solid ground. lie Immediately
scrambled up the hill, rs best he could
until he reached 1.-The track, when his
strength failed, and assistance reached
him and cared for him until the train
sent out from Rutland arrived.
Mr. Kinney, the fireman, was stand
ing on the same side of the engine with
Mr. Fos~, intending toiump, but Foss
was i'm his way, so that he could not put
his intention into execution, and was
thrown at the same time with the cngi
ncer, landing few feet below him.
Mr. Fo-s' injuries are serious, but are
not considered dangerous. HE'S badly
injured and bruised, and two ribs were
broken upon his left side, making every
breath painful, and adding very mate
rally to his suflcrinEs. DR.. Charles l..
Allen accompanied the train that went
to the assistance and cared for Mr. Floss
injuries. lie was brought to Rutland
by the return train in chair surround
ed by pillows and bed quilts, to make
him rs comfortable rs possible and con-
vcycd to his residence, whore his injur.
les were more fully examined and carct
for by DR.. Allen.
The fireman, Mr.. Kenny, was severely
injured about the head and badly bruis
| ed. His wounds were dressed and he i,
able to be about. The brakeman Mr.
Samuel Whitney, jumped from tn,
train, spraining his wrist.
The forward trucks of the smollin,
car broke through the bridge, an,
| tipped in such Il manner that it stoo,
upon poisc, almost over the edge o
the bridge, but was prevented from
| going Off by the coupling of the baggag,
holding 50 a. to save it from tippin,
further. There were thirty-fivc pas
engers in the smoking ear. Had TN
coupling broken, the impetus mus
have carried it over and down distanc
Of some scvcnty-cight feet to the be,
of the creek which would have reeultc,
in a fearful loss of life either from tn
fall or by drowning, as the water il
the creek where they would have strucl
was ten feet in depth.
The passenger coach was simply OF
the iron and left standing in an uprigh
position upon the bridge. No pas
sengers or the men on the train, othe
than those mentioned were injured ,bu
they were all fcarfully frightened -
Ur0H.
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knowledgng him rs his son. The
question, of course, is, whether the long
continued intimacy of father and moth
er. and the undisputed recognition of
the sons claims, do, or dc not constitute
Il valid marriage, without legal ceremo.
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The Total Eclipse of the sun has a
good deal to do with the August number
Of the Riverside, not however to make
it i'm the least bit less bright than usual
lhe frontispece is finely tinted view
Of the sky as it is to look on the day OF
the Eclipse, with the position of the
planets that are to be visible carefully
marked, The article accompanying
the picture is a clear and concise account
of the Sun, further illustrated by 'engrav-
ings, and young observers are shown
what to expect and look for during the
eclipse. Then the wonderful little artists
whom Anne Silvernail tells about come
out strong with pictures to the story
"Luck's Visitor" The editor begins
under the title "rhe Story of n Book ~
description of the various processes OF
book making, from composition to bind
ing. "First School-,lays of Little
Quaker ends happily. Mr.. Benjamin,
who told last month how sail-boat
was rugged, now tells how it is man
aged, There is Il farcical tale of Three
Failed Monkey, an account of 'Two OF
my Squirrels" some pretty poetry, a
variety of other stories and an unusual
ly large nstallment of games, riddles,
and the like. Published by Hurd and
Houghton, New York. $50 year
The ATLANTIC MONrHLY-for Au-
gust il an eX cellent number for the
season. 1t "Opens with one of j. w.
De Forests curious stories entitled The
Taillcfer Bell-Ringings." "Tne Great
Earthquakes of the Old World" and
James Freeman Clarke's account Of
'Zoroaster and the Zend-Avesta' supply
the solid information of the number.
Mrs. Celia ThaXter begins readable
description of "The Isles of Shoals"
"rhe second paper ON "The Hamlets of
the Stage" is good. Charles Dickens
has a brief but very interesting letter
descriptive of the acting of Mr.. Fecher
who is soon to make his appearance in
this country. Mr., Parton's exhibit of
'"The Strikers of the Washington Lob
by" is, of course, spirited, graphic and
highly entertaining, Mr.. Howell's
sketch of Jubilee Days" is finely done
like all his literary work,
OUR YOUNG FOLKs-for August Is as
bright and attractive as ever. A full
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Any information will he gladly given
by applying to II. j, Loasse, y. NJ.
Grey, Chas, c. Terrill, Corresponding
Committee of Mechanics State Coun-
ell, San Francisco, Cal.
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FROM CUBA.--AdviceS received at
Washington, from the leaders in the
Cuban Army TO the 18th, state that on
the 18th and nth the troops of Gen.
Quesada, stationed between Puerto Prin-
cipe and Nucvitas, were attacked by
Gen. Letonaand in both instances were
repulsed, ON the first day with loss o.
20 killed and wounded, and on the see
ond with over 100. The Cubans retain
their position of siege before Puerto
Principe. The troops undcr Gcn. Fig
uero, Of Gen. Jordan, command, occu.
pylng position SONG TO miles from It.
Jago de Cuba, were attacked Oh the II
10y Spanish force of over POO and said
to be commanded by Gen. Nnlme,ada
in person. After three hours fighting
the Spaniard~ were compelled To give M
The attack. The next day having been
REINFORCED, the Spanish general renew
al the attack with Great vigor. Three
assaults were made ON the Cuban posi-
ton, and in each the Spaniards were
rcpulsed. In the last attack their loss wa.
30 great that they were compelled to
precipitately retreat Gen. Jordan par
ticipatcd in the second days fight
The loss of the Cubans is set do WI nj
% killed and wounded. Among the
killed were two officers. The Spanish
1ss is reported to nave been over 300
rhey made good thcirretreat to St.Jago.
The Cubans are in good spirits, and af
(ected but little 10y the cholera and
vomito, so prevalent among the Span
ish troops.
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EQUAL TO CON W Y g,
IL And less expensive the BREAD LOAF
INN, Ripton.
Present charges $3.50 per day; SIC per week;
500 per month, with half and three-quarters price
for children aud servants Dinners 81.
JOSEPH BATTELL
July Gath, lS69. Is
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ours,
WM. De \'ERI
NEVADA.

NEVADA.
Pay for ordinary miners per shift OF
eight hours, gold, - 90
Carpenters and millwright7, per
day, Oo
Stone and brick masone, Is 90
Engineers, second class, 90
Do. first class, $ 90
Mi hands, two shifts in twenty
four hours, 30
Rock breakers and ordinary men, 3 90
Where the men are boarded, the fore
men get $50 and the workmen so per
month. In the California mines. the
rate of wages for unskilled labor is -. 90
per day, and board and lodging s. to -
per week.
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MARRIED.

GAsKILI.-W EBsTEE-In Shoroham. July Is.
by r. Brookins Esq. Mr.. Wallace q. Gaskill, OF
CintonVille, \. \. 10 Miss Martha \. Webster
81 Manchester, \. H.
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The August number of The Lday' :
Friend is adorned with beautiful ,tec.
engraving Of those two youthful lovers,
Paul and Nirginia'--a dOuble-pagCd
ana handsomely colorcd Fashion Plate,
containing the latest Paris stylcs-a
picture of Maidenhood, in Illustration
IF Longlelow's sweet pocm--and the
usual number of miscellaneous engrav-
ings, illustrating seaside costumes,
,hildren's fashions, hats, head-dresses,
Inner and walking toilets, &C., &c
rhc music of this month is Ballad
The Rose of Erin The literary con.
tents are can Ill Wind that blows
somebody Good" by Madge Carol
The Hearts Complaint" by Una
Locke Earring Chords" by \. NJ.
Dana, and Glitter or Sweet by Flor
ence Perry. These fascinating novelets,
Roland Yorkee or, Done in n Pas
sion," by Mrs. Henry Wood, and " Be
tween Two,n by Miss Elizabeth Pres
colt, are continued.