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The Portland daily press., 1869-03-04
PERSONAL.

There is a pretty strong party in Auburn
who favor the annexation of that city to Lew
iston. I believe they are to vote upon the
question on the third Monday of March.
BARLOW.
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of the city; also from he intersection Oh Sl-
Joseph and Front streets 70 Girod street tnS
engines only to be run 70 the corner OF o.. yosop.
and Baronne Streets from which point only nor'e %
or mules shall be used. From the intersecu9n ~
81. Joseph and Front streets far as the rgnt on
wsv given by this ordinance EXTENDS on FROM,
TcSoupitoulas and Water streets, said company
shall have the right of using locomotives; trains
not to move faster than five miles per hour' n1
The folIowipg from the upper board was refer.
red TO the committee on improvements anu
WHEREAS, The accident which occurred on the
night of the 9th instant, shows conoiuslveiy NOV
different structures, such as balconies vefeu
dss. walls. etc.. are erected in manner Iraugnt
with danger and peril to the lives OF the inAsol-
WarRrAs. II is incumbent on the City Council
to adopt such measures as will tend 10 pfe9ens
the recurrence Of such accidents
BE Ii therefore Resotoed, That joint COMMIT
tee of five members, two from the Board OF Ale
deImen, and three from the Board OF Assissant
Aldermen, be appointed, 10 report at the next
meeting an ordinance recommending the appoint
msnt Of an Inspector of balconies. veran las and
walls the enumeration OF his duties, the salary
TO be paid to him, the penalty TO De lnnlcteo
upon all those found in CONFIRMATION, and re-
ported by him. and such other matters appertaln-
ing 10 the subject as they may think neces-
saIy. 80
islature relative to the Ship Island Canal report
ed that conference with committee from thar
body had been held, and the views OF the couacn
presented for consideration.
Mr.. Montgomery introduced resolution calling
for inquiry into the complaints OF increased water
rates. Adopted.
A resolution providing $500 for shrubs. plants
and flowers IN jackson Square was adopted.
A majority report from the water works com.
mittee was presented and laid ove-.
The board then adjourned.
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Common Council.


Board OF Aldermen.
This board met last evening in special session.
Mr.. Marley in the chair and quorum present.
The minutes OF the last regular meeting were
read and approved. Hn N
FROM TIE LOWER BOARD.
Approving of the adjudication of contract for
sbelling Dorgenois street from Carondelet Walk
to Esplanade street, and authorizing the mayor to
enter into contract to complete the same. Con-
Cured in.
From Mr.. P. Mcnamara, stating that he does
not claim compensation az witness In the case
of Fox VS.. the City of New Orleans, but for ex-
penses incurred by him In procuring witnesses to
prove the forgery attempted to be made valid as
the signature Of the late Mr.. McDonogh. Mr..
case, recommends that Mr.. Mcnamara be COM
pensated for expenses incurred by him, etc. A
resolution was offered and adopted authorizing
the pay ment TO Mr.. Macnamsrs Of $3.50. and sent
to the lower board for concurrence.
From Mr.. Louis Gagnet. the lessee of the Ca
rondelet Canal, In relation to the drainage into
the canal, and ssking that q committee be APP
pointed for the purpose OF effecting compro.
mise. Referred to the committee on streets and
landings. ra-a.-.-r.r
From administrator of ]. Gauche, offering for
sale TO the city, in view Of the contemplated re-
moval of the Claiborne Market, one or two squares
of ground in the vicinity. Referred.
RESOLUTIONS.
Mr.. Marley offered a resolution requesting the
committee on retrenchment TO report. Adopted.
Authorizing the surveyor TO issue to Jno. CLARK
o certificate for work done In repairing the rail-
ing around Lafayette square. Adopted.
Authorizing the return to +. Wlntz OF the de-
posit made by him in the adjudication Of certain
railroad contract. Referred to finance commit
tee.
Appointing a committee for the appointment of
joint committee for the purpose Of investigating
the balconies, etc., etc., of the city. Adopted.
Mr.. O'Brien, chairman of the finance commit
tee, reported unfavorably on the extension OF
time asked for by Mr.. Rust, 10 completing his con-
tact for making the ta;l-race on Orleans street,
and on other matters. Report accepted.
FROM THE LOWER BOARD.
Authorizing the controller to warrant on the
treasurer for $1,000 in favor Of the president OF
the Board OF School Directors. being for school.
house rent. Concurred in.
Some other resolutions Of no public interest
were read and concurred in.
The committee on water works reported In re-
lation to receiving reports monthly from the su-
perintendent. Report received.
Asking the appointment of joint committee 10
meet the Board Of Health for the purpose OF
establishing regulations, etc. Concurred in and
the committee appointed.
recess of half an hour then took place but
after the expiration Of that time the board ad-
journed.
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demme.ah ~ when We reached Dumonteil's show
window. the light of which revealed to the fair
ones that stranger was near, and the comical
conversation ceased.
Belle Boyd arrived in this city yesterday. and
is registered at the st. James Hotel ss from Viz.
ginia. Miss Boyd was recently In Houston, Texas,
whence we believe she comes.
It will be remembered that General Warrington
died In December. 1893; and that he was wealthy
slave owner. For the last fifty years, every old
niger that had reached his three score and ten
was esteemed to be, or rather to have been, the
body servant, confident and vale. of the father Of
his country. Thank heaven, the last Of these
Wallets is defunct He died yesterday in the Third
District, corner of Monroe and Congress streets.
he was one hundred and eighteen years Of age, q
native of Africa; and the cause of his
death was general debility and old ege.
This venerable darby kept possession Of
his faculties to q remarkable degree. Up
to q month before his death he could
thread cambria needle, and call upon his fertile
imagination to describe General Washington, and
that illustrious mans pecuiarities. he could re-
late with unctuous distnctness what "de gnral
remarked when Cornwsllis and Marion dined with
him on dead log in sweet potato patch, with
out bit Of fat pork or butter whilst the hogs and
ke.ows were roofing and grazing all round the
prandial gathering. This, he declared, was
grander and nobler than any of Buffers or Bank
symposis, whilst proconsuls in this city. The
last of 'em is gone, thank God, to his last home
and thus we are relieved from General Washing
tons servants.
The very latest agony in the way Of the achieve
ment Of her rights, social and political by woman,
10 her leap into the position of barber. The
sorosis, the organ of the Chicago bds bleus, mar.
rates with igreat elee and Unsurpassed delight
the fact that In Lawring, Michigan, there is
feminine professor of the tonsorial art, who Is
expert, pretty, modest, laxative and sixteen.
Here is an opening for you, ladies. How many
advance to take advantage of it?
The magnificent stores which were being erected
on the batture, between st. Peter and Madison
streets, are now so far completed that their own
ers, Messrs. A. Lsnata Il Co. and A. Socola, have
already occupied them.
A precipitste marriage between young and
handsome musician and handsome creole young
lady Of this city, is the absorbing topic of the
Second District.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-12

MAsOYs AND CRIMINALs.-A correspondent of
the Springfield Republican writes " In your
issue Of February is an extract from q speech
by Warden Haynes, Of Charlestown State prison,
that in all his intercourse with criminals he had
never met one who was Mason Now for the
reason. When Mason has committed . crime
against the laws Of his country, and Is about to
be arrested, his brother Mssops are bound by
Masonic oath to warn him of approaching danger,
and will aid bis escape il possible. If the criminal
be arrested his brother Masons will do their best
to prevent conviction by spiriting away the wit
nesses at time Of trial, or by managing to get
Mason on the jury, who will not agree TO con-
viction. Or, If conviction be obtained, and the
Judge be Mason. the sentence win be light, and
finally fritted away to bonds" To which state
ment the Republican makes the following neat
comment: 'Several other explanations might be
given Of the extraordinary fact, IL IL be one,
which Warden Haynes il credited with reporting
One Ii like the reason why Admiral Nelson, K G.
B., did not the signal Of his superior officer to
cease fghting-because he put his telescope to his
blind eye. Mr.. Haynes may forget the grip
when be Is in the presence Of q Mason sentenced
to State prison. At any rate we doubt the fact
as Prof. Bowen used to say. II IL like the problem
put by Charles ii to his Royal Academy about the
1--we nsh and the vessel OF water. The reasons
offered by our correspondent remind 10 Of the ex-
PLANTATION we once heard. In Know Nothing times,
Of the frequent appearance of Irishmen at farm
houses asking for drink Of water, IL being al.
legged thst they were sent about the country By the
pope of Rome to drink al the wells dry"
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Mr.. N. o. ]. Tisdae. general superintendent of
the New Orleans Gas Light Company, announces
in special notice column that il has been resolved
BY the board Of directors "that the United States
internal revenue tax on gas be assumed and paid
by the company without reimbursement from the
consumer on all gas consumed by meter, from and
after February LIST. lses.n
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THE THErH's sAIvAT1os.-The interior bark q
the sosp tree Of Chill Is admitted by botaniss q
possess cleansing and preservative qualities an'
shared By any other known substance. Its nsnY I
name, gut loy, ia from Qsiilidn, 10 make ole,ue
This mattel bless antiseptic is main constituent ~
the famouks preparation for the teeth known J.
Sozodont, which has long since taken the lesa
every otitkr article Of its class throughout
Western Hemisphere.
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THURSDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY IL, 1859.
Auction Sales Ts-Day.

J. DEAN, JR., at No. 1873 Grsyier street, at ii
O'clock and HILL THOMAS at 1877 Poydras street,
at loa O'Clock, viii sell general assortment Of
household furniture.
JSo. c. BLoHM, at Ga Customhouse street. VIII
sell at 10 o'clock an excellent assortment of mil
inery goods and dry goods.
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Buy the only sewing machine iit for family use.
the Grover Baker. Warranted for i've years.
Quilter. braider and hemmer given with each ma
chine ct le2 Canal street.
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Keep & Hogan, 80 Tchoupi.oulss street and y
New Levee, keep on hand large and extensiy|
stock Of hardware and cutlery, Jas. Il. Hall \
Co.'s MaSesville, KY, plows. sugar and cottor
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Squares. noih months. month. months. !, month.

Monthly Advertisements inserted every other day. be
charged twothirds the above rates.
First and Fourth page monthly Advertisements, each
square, $40 per meath
Transient Advertisements, having the OF the paper
frst insertion. 81 square, each subsequent insertion
- cents per square.
'. .I !. s'S as1 D.s: transient each
Advertisements inserted ct Intervals 10 be charged
each insertion
Regular advertisers who advertise largely shalt be allowed
sneh discount from above named transient be
agreed upOn provided that In shall such discount
sxoeed Is per cent.
An business nOses OF Advertisements TO be charged 20
cents net per line, each insertion.
All transient advertisements must be paid for In advance
AL advertisements not marked for any specified nuaber Of
Insertions viii be published six times charged accord
ingly.
AL bills with regular advertisers shall be rendered monthly
square is the space occupied BY ten solid agate
THE WEEKLY CRESCENT
Is published every Saturday morning. Subscription, IS
per annnm in advance; half yearly and quarterly
rates; single copies, 10 cents
Rates Of Advertising;
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Tony Denier's benefit tonight at the ACADEMY,
with the railroad scene.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-12

"Humpty Dumpty" and Tony Denier's benefit
at the Academy tonight.
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A precipitste marriage between young and
handsome musician and handsome creole young
lady Of this city, is the absorbing topic of the
ST cond Qistrict.
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demme.ah. ~ when We reached Dumonteil's show
window. the light of which revealed to the fair
ones that stranger was near, and the comical
conversation ceased.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-12

bill providing for an amendment to the Con-
stitution of the State making the district judges
after 1871, to be appointed by the governor,
instead of elected by the people, was yesterday
introduced into the lower house. The mover Of
the proposition was the cooIed delegate from the
third ward, surnamed Isabelle, Christian cogno.
men Robert, sometimes famiiarized into Bob.
However unsound Bob may be on the great poti-
cal goose question, he is certainly all right on the
judiciary subject. We hope Bob will put his bill
through.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-21

REV. H. C. HITCHCOCK, who for nine years
has had pastoral charge of the Congregation
al Churches Of North and South Amherst mas
accepted a call to Kenosha Wis, and leaves
us for his new field of labor the 14th. ne
leaves his parish here with the kindest wishes
of every member of the Church indeed it is
very unusal, in the present day. to see peocc
pie and pastor so firmly united in bonds OF
friendship and Christian love, and We cincefe-
wish him the cooperation of his Church, IN
his new and larger field of labor, and thas
success in gaining the love of the people ana
Of his Heavenly Father that
has attended his 1abors here.-Loarsne COM
ty (Ohio) T7esGs.
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Horticultural Exhibition.

horticultural hXn1DILlOns 81 e
In our absence last week no editorial men
tior was made of the Kenosha horticultural
Exhibition which took place at Kimball Hail.
on the 7th and 9Th inst. The exhibition IN
some respects was most successful ana satls-
factory. The show offruits-apples, grapes,
and pears Nas creditable; of vegetables, such
as potatoes, cabbag es, squashes, beets, turnlps
&C., there was an exceedingly large and fine
show; yet il the department of house plants
and flowers, the display was greater as it
certainly was more beautiful than any 9TH
err. 1t is due to state that this magnificent col
lection of rare exotics and costly plants were
mainly from the popular. III axe View Fruit
and Flower Garden'' of H. f. aPHrLPs, Esq.
Mrs. j. f. CHASE also had a fne assortment
of plants and flowers from hergreen-house Oh
Kenosha street, besides many beautiful speci-'
mems entered by others, which altogether
presented the grandest display of plants
flowers, boquets and floral devices ever yet
beheld in Kenosha. ~ alai II -s.4
LINUS WooDwoRTH, Esq, of Bristol, had
on exhibition large variety of fruit anN
vegetables, and we believe, bore off quite O
number of premiums. We are indebted to.
Mr.. WooDwo ORTIZ for several clusters OF most
delicious Delaware grapes, to which vas at
tached the blue ribbon.
The exhibition we presume may be pro-
nounced a success, yet the attendance was
nothing to what it should have been. The
cause for this, assigned to us by one of the.
members of the society was, that the exhib-
ition had not been sufficiently advertised
through the local press, and that not half the
people knew the exhibition was to take place..
Perhaps he wassright and the sharp practice
of economy of the officers of the society, in
matter of printers ink, may not have been
the wisest.
Our citizens should all feel en- interest IN
this society and be willing to contribute some
thing to its aid and prosperity, thereby en-
couraging and promoting the culture of the
useful and beautiful in homeand its surround"
inQs. There. can be no doubt but the success
and permanent establishment ofthis society in
our midst, will be attended with the most
pleasant and benefcent results. Let every
citizen who has not already secured mem
bership do SO at ohce-the cost of doing 80 is
| but trifing.
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The Last Prisoner of War.

We publish on the inside of the TELE
GRAPH of this week an article under the
above caption, taken from the Standard
Red River County, Texas.
It was very evidently written as a sen
sational article, and, about as evidently
is fiction, intended by the writer to be
received by the Southern people as 6
truthful relation of the treatment of 6
prisoner of war-the prisoner being &
soldier of the Rebel army, taken prison
er by the army of the Government anC
imprisoned in the State of Wisconsin
And it is undoubtedly passing through
the press Of the South and received by the
Southern people as truthful relation OF
real occurrences. Our object in publish
ing it, is to let our readers know the
kind of stories kept in circulation at the
Sonth, and to say that here in Wisconsin
we have never heard Of any part of the
Standards Sensational article of the
" Last Prisoner of War; Mr. Fl. Fl. Lee
1t is. SO good sensational story and an
swers its purpose SO well that, if it was
not for the injury it is doing the people
of the Sonth, it would be pity to spoil
it. But as it serves to keep up feeling
Of hostility at the South, we would raise
the question if it would not be we'll for
the iailor of the Jail at Milwaukee and
the keeper of the branch States Prison at
Madison, if there is any such Prison, to
state through the press whether there
was ever prisoner Of war by the name of
II. n. Lee in either Jail or prison-and
if there was not, to contradict the whole
story, and if there was, to state in brief the
treatment he received an contradict the
false parts of. the Summarize sensational
story. We have no doubts of the untrutlI-
fulness of the story, or at least ofall the
important parts of it which constitute the
character Of the story. And
if the press had the statements of the of
icers in charge of the Jail and prison to
give to the public, it might reach part
of the Southern people through portion
or the Southern press, and thus serve to
do away the hostile feelings which now
exist 50 extensively through the South.
tf --%- -%--
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OFFICE OF THE LEDGER.
New YORK, Oct. II.

Me- Dear General AS I stated to you
Immediately after your election, that there
was no office that I desired either for my
self or any friend, I have had no occasion
to write 10Y in regard to such matters.
There is matter now, however, that con
Germs you personally, and in which I feel
that discern your interests so plainly,
that take the liberty to write you with
reference to it. do this with less hesita-
tion, because you did me the honor, after
your election, to confide to me pretty free
ly your views. In the present disturbed
state Of the public mind, concerning the
recent gold combination, is it not the
qusckest and surest way to set at rest the
great excitement and uneasiness which
prevails, for you to makea brief denial,
over your own signature, of all fore
knowledge OF that combination, in order
to relieve yourself entirely from all res
possibility for the acts Of others? Of
course those who know you personally
do not require such disclaimer but
the great public, whose minds are liable
to be warped by the determined and per
sistent efforts to injure you, will be, it
seems to me, at once satisfied and quoted
by such statement. Sincerely yours,
ROBERT BONNER.
IT. D DroYcUNyU GD 4Nrni #. -tHt
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-21

When Cinnamon come to vote in Cali
fornia, the stump speakers will have to
address themselves to yellow citizens"
instead OF "fellow citizens"
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Grant and the Gold Corner.

The following important correspond
ence in regard to the late gold panic was
advertised to be published in New York
on SATURDAY. morning: r... .,,. 4. eli
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-21

The FEE QUEsTIoN.-The suit of Har-
rington o. W. E. Smith, State Treasurer,
to test the legality of the fees charged by
the School Land Commissioners, In the
Police Court at Madison, has been decid-
ed by jury in favor of the Treasurer by
finding for the defendant. 9~-
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To PRESIDENT GRANT.
WAsHINGToN. D. O.. Oct. 1;

Robert Bonner, Esq
DEAR SIR Your favor of the lit inst.
is resolved. have never thought of
contradicting the statements or insinua-
tions made against me by irresponsible
parties, as those alluded to in your letter;
but as you have written to me on the
subject in kind spirit, will say that l
had no more to do with the late gold ex-
element in New York than yourself, or
any other innocent party, except that I
ordered the sale of gold to break the ring
engaged, as thought, in most disrepu-
table transaction. If the spectators had
been successful you never would have
heard of any one connected with the ad-
ministration as being connected with the
transaction. Yours, truly,
U. S. GRANT
P, 81 have written this in great
haste, and without exercising judgment
as to the propriety of writing it, but l
submit it to your Judgment. q. s. q
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Rennova1.
A. R URG.

Has rem oYed his Barber Shop to To. Main St.,
second door North of j. + Bailey's Grocery, which
building he has thoroughly renovated and fitted up
In the best possible manner. and where be viii be
happyto meet his old customers, all who require
his services in the art tonsorial. no b.
Kenoshs June 81, 1869. 1y114-4n