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The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15

| 1t would hardly be expected that public
functionary, whose duty it was to arrest and
hmprlson accused persons, to attach property
to leave disagreable notices at peoples doors
to come into court and pay costs, and. perhaps
damages, and even in certain emergencies to
put moose about fellow creatures neck and
help him summarily out of the world, could
become popular favorte Yet it is so, The
sherifalty is quite compatible with high pub
| lie favor, and we know lots of good fellows
zealously executing their harsh Office with
such suavity, politeness, and good nature.
generally mingled with dash of humor, that
half the county would 1un their legs of to
serve them, rather than scratch their shoes in
running away from them.
MIR. B. W. Farrar, who has just resigned
his place as sheriff of Washington county, is
| an illustration of the perfmanence of popular
attachment towards one class of Office holders.
He was appointed to that office first by Coy.
Crosby, March 18th, 1854, and has held it bv
successive elections ever since, period of
more than fifteen years. He resigns the en-
P'Ji ~ We pei'eNe W the universal fegfei
OF his fellow citizens. among whom we doubt
if he has single enemy. He has been during
his long career, prompt, faithful and accom-
plished officer; securing the confidence of the
court and bar, and the esteem OF the people.
Responsibilities, under which many of his
predecessors succumbed, involving their sure
ties In large amounts, he has discharged with
such fidelity and integrity, that we doubt il a
creditor ever lost dollar by his default or
negligence, or surely was at any more in
convenience than in signing his bond.
His contemplated removal from the State
will be serious loss, socially and politically,
to the eastern part of Maine, where he has
been so long fayorably known.
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Secretary of War.

The President has appointed William Worth
Be'knap, Of Iowa, Secretary of War, in place
Of Gen. Sherman.
Newspaper correspondents and "knowine
ones about Washington, had assigned sever.
al prominent gentlemen 10 the position, bu,
the President, as usual, and in accordance
with his well known military tactics, fanked
the entire lot and appointed gentleman
whose name had not been mentioned In con-
nection with the office
AT the breaking out of the rebellion, Mr..
Belknap was a lawyer, and entered the service
as Major of the Fifteenth Iowa Regiment, in
winch rank he commanded his regiment at
Shiloh. While Gen. Grants army Law at
Young's Point, he was Provost Marshal of The
Seventeenth Army Corps. AS Colonel, he
commanded an Iowa brigade during the At
lanta campaign, and was promoted to Brigader
General for bravery in the battle of the 22d of
July, where General Mcpherson was killed
After the march TO the sea he was breyeted
Major General at Savannah, and assigned
to the c. mmand of the Seventeenth Army
Corps. He continued with his division on the
march through the Carolinas, and was with it
IN the battle of Bentonville. In 1866 he was
made collector of internal revenue in Iowa,
which position he has held to the present time
Western army officers and those who were
with him in the fie d regard the selection as a
very good one. General Sherman speaks in
high terms OF him.
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15

Miss D. made vne very quec. So,.,aairt
against mans tyrannlcal Sway over women
and that was because women were NOT allou.
ell to ride horseback like men. She had tried
both WAYS, however, and minated that she
should do as she pleased. shall not attemnt
TO give YOU report of the lecture, but only
a general idea. Without any preiudiees
against her as an advocate Of the rights of
women, and with sincere desire to see ALI
wrongs Of her sex redressed, must say that
her discourse was weak, childish and splte-
ful.
The general tone of it was worse even than
that. 1t was better suited for political eau
Gus or bar-room. Perhaps she only cares TO
be considered sensational lecturer. ana
thereby put money in her purse" Doubtless
her " what man dare, dare" style will serve
her purpose, but in our opinion she viii fail
to convince the matrons and daughters OF
New England, that they are the unhappy vie
tins of a degrading despotism.
BOSTON THEATRE.
From the lecture room / sauntered down
Winter st. TO Washington, and up Washing
ton to the Boston Theatre; and, it being but
little past nine, l stepped in, just in season to
witness the best part of the Emerald Ring. In
the distance was the ocean rolling and tum-
bling. The tide was rising rapidly and threat
ening every moment to enguf the frail form
of a young girl, bound to ragged cliff by her
enemies. She is, however, discovered and
rescued by one of her own sex just as the
waves were about to sweep over her forever
At the same moment, almost, her would-be
destroyer is shot, so that the whole scene was
| decidedly interesting and the tableau was
vociferously encored. Wishing to have a
variety l then went over to Selwyn's to
find their splendid company in the 4th Act of
new play called Nightingale" The divine
Mrs. Barry and the killing Kitty Blanchard
were wandering about on the platform in a
snow storm. The scene was the Square in
London. Soon the charming Kitty left the
stage and Mrs. Barry tainted. Mr.. Robinson
the best actor at present in Boston, came in
as an oriental prince, made some vague re-
marks, looked coolly upon the PROSTATE form
and walked into brilliantly lighted saloon &c
The company all did their best to make some.
thing of the play but in vain. 1t is failure.
Nightingale" will not last long. Having
seen enough of the gayeties of Boston by gas
light, without waiting to see the inimitable
Robinson in John Whoops, I vacated my
chair and emerged upon the street. Eleven
o'clock, and yet as passed along, all was life
and activity in the brilliantly illuminated sa-
looms on either hand.
Mrs. Press reporter was awaiting my return,
coucher, having forgotten the miserable
and degrading bondage" to which the women
ofthe land are subject. BAYARD.
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15

THK Rssa1s.e urges A. T. Stewart a. esn-
didate Cor Mayor q New hoFk
fri...id that Hon. william Windom viii
h. eiooted T. s. senator from Minnesota
Ia Audrew Johusou Is elected to the L. 5,
senate d. viii h. the first "a President Who
has ever had a seat 10 that body
Gov. sESTEE, Ia his inaugural address, Ia.
,ors the ratification Of the l5,h amendment.
and ths Free School System q Tennessee
ErrAw, Alabama, is to become Democrat
&c recruiting station. A gin factory Is about 10
be started there.
ONLY 5000 voters names were registered in
New York city ON the 18th inst, against 81,
400 on the iirsi day for registration last year.
THE Post says the gallant Democracy Of
New York mean to wear nothing bnt laurels
on their heads ia November" To which the
Lowell Courier responds: YER likely, they
will have lost all their hats ia election bets"
LEvERErr saltonstall has been nominated
by the Democrats as a candidate for Represen-
tatiye to Congress in the seventh Massacbu-
sets district. At the last election the vote
stood as follows: George S. Boutwell, 1924
Leverett Saltonstal 6996.
huge mass meeting of the Workingmen's
Union, was held at Cooper's Institute and out.
side in Aston place, Tuesday evening, when il
was determined to select workipgmen for
office and run them on platform favorng the
eight-hour law and cooperation.
THE Democratic members of the Legislature
Of Washington Territory illustrated the pen
chant of their party for secession the other
day by dcserting their posts of duty, and thus
leaving the body without quorum. The OBJ
| ject of this unseemlv flight was evidently to
| prevent the election Of certain Territorial of.
firers by the Republican majority of the Legs-
lature Beaten by the people at the polls, they
| endeavor, by process which has grown into
a custom of late among Democratic w-mak.
ers and breakers, to defeat the will of the PEG.
pie by downright and shameful refusal to per-
| form their sworn official duties.
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More OF the effect. of the Tornado

We continue to hear from private sources
particulars additional to the published ac-
counts of the destruction in the eastern part
OF the State occasioned by the tornado of the
4th inst, or by what our learned correspon-
dent happily styles the cdtdclysm. No name
is too hard to bestow upon such hard and
desperate old storm, and if anybody should
please to call it a cataract we should say he
had reason in the universal ayreck and ruin II
wrought, and particularly in the racking OF
roofs and trees. But to speak of the catastro-
| phe. The damage to vessels, wharves and
buildings of which something like an inyen-
| tory has already been given in the Eastern
papers, serious as it is, can be soon repaired
but the destruction of the valuable forests. is
calamity only equal to the great fire which
destroyed the neighborhood of Mirimachi in
1925. .st.-
From the more remote outlying timber
townships upon the waters Of the Machias
Naraguagas, and Union river advices have not
yet been received. Only an exploration of
the timber lands on those waters acre bv acre
will determine how much they have been de-
vastated.
OF smaller lots of timber land lying near
the sea-board the destruction has been very
great. M.ssrs. T. W. Allan & Sons of Den
nysville, who last year added to their posses
sions of wild land the lots formerly held by
John Kilby's estate at very great price, have
lost largely in the sweeping down of the
green growth. Messrs. Lincoln, who had a
choice section of pine timber of easy access,
ana that had been estimated at value of fif-
W dollars per acre, have had the whole swept
down like grass before the mowers scytbe.-
Not one tree in hundred is left Standing
This affords evidence that there has mt
been such gale of wind during the last four
hundred years. There are in it stumns of
pines cut for masts nearly 100 years ago bv
the first settlers, that grew there quietly as
shown by rings three hundred years before.
If cataclysms have law of periodicity, here
Is one element Of calculating the probable
eneth OF the exemption we may hope for, at
Ieas. tour hundred years
.ne same place, the elms in front of the
11,i' ''h mouse, so long admired. were fer
l4oiy torn' and willow trees more than three
1eet 10 diameter were overturned In E.st
Machias, on the hill side wboro .,a '
spent his boyhood, were red-oal .nao. ''
ing singly on the open land, trees tha. 7.o"
called old when the first settlers came in I7ee
that have now been torn to mere stumns -,
oyerthrown.
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15


Secretary Boutwell, appeared in the Supreme
court yesterday as counsel in patent case.
Assistant Secretary Richardson is anxious TO
relinquish his Office Immediately and return to
Massachusetts,
The machinists in the printing bureau at
Washington have instituted a suit for the 20
per cent said to be withheld from their wages.
DR.. Livingstone has been heard from. lie
has discovered what he believes to be the true
source of the Nile.
The cable announces the death in London of
Charles Gumm, a prominent merchant and
ship broker, well known in the United States
through business connection of many years
standing. AH"
The catalogue of Bowdoin College shows a
total of one hundred and thirty-two students,
besides ninety-six in the Medical School and
nine in the Science class. Thirteen students
are from Portland.
The Pilot says that the Right Reverend Bish-
op Williams, of Boston, who will depart for
Rome the latter part OF this month, was the
recipient, on the I'd inst, of nearly seven thou
sand dollars by the clergy of the diocese to de-
fray his expenses to the Eternal City.
The warehouse buildingin Baltimore occu-
pied by Gutman & Co., clothers, and Richard
Mann & Co., boot and shoe dealer, was partial
ly destroyed by fire yesterday. Warehouse No
3f7, occupied by Amedon & Co. was also par
tally burned.
The case of the privateer Hornet commenced
at Wilmington on Monday. Her commander
claimed that the vessel was purchased at sea
after her clearance from a British port, and
that our government had no right to modest
her. The hearing was continued until Satur-
day.
Cincinnati reporter went to interview ex-
President johnson on the Senatorial question,
and this is what he got for his trouble: GAS a
general thing, all man ought to marry while
young. You see, when we grow old our habits
and tastes become fixed, and they are hard to
change to suit another believe, like Frank
. lin, that matrimony ought to be encouraged
But at the present day, young man who has
not inherited a fortune, and one who must
rely on his own efforts for every cent he gets
will find difficulties in the way
Mr. John Hayward, the author of the Ga.
zetteer, died at the Home for Aged Men We'd
nesday at the advanced age of 89 years and
months. Mr.. Hayward was the author and
compiler of many valuable books, among which
were view of the United States" published
in 1888; Religious Creeds of the United State:
and of the British Provinces" published il
Boston in 1887; "New England Gazetteer,
published in 1889; Gazetteer of the United
States published in Portland in 1s43, and q
Gazetteer of Massachusetts, New Hampshire
and Vermont" published in Boston in 1s49.
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15

How TO GET RIcH.-The "Interyie wers''
have been squeezing several of the rich men
OF Gotham with view to finding out the Sc
cret of getting rich. 1t would seem that each
one has way fhis own, and that it is no
great secret after all. Commodore Wander
bilt says-all you have to do is to attend to
your business and go ahead, being sure never
to tell what you are going to do till you have
done it. Poor Packer, the representative of
the toiling masses of Pennsylvania, thinks
economy and safe investment re about the
best means of attaining financial prosperity.
George Law thinks that in order to make
money it is necessary to have a little money
on hand to begin with, that thus one may
"see the crisis and take it at its flood" and in
addition one must have determination to
work, and actually work. A. T. Stewart with
out telling the entire secret of securing for
tune, says, that honesty and truth are great
aids. Now either of these secrets is infinitely
better than the thousand and one methods
sought by ambitious persons having desire
to live and prosper without work, and if those
young persons who have conceived the idea
that they can become millionaires ia some
mysterious way, will be convinced in time of
their error, and seek to carve out fortune by
good honest effort and endeavor, combining
the attention to business and reticence as to
their intentions commended by Vanderbilt,
the economy and judgment of Packer, the de-
termination and disposition to work spoken of
by George Law, and the truthfulness and rug
ged honesty inculcatsd by A. T. Stewart.
they can hardly fail of securing happiness and
a reasonable degree OF financial success. Try it.
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15

AMERICAN NAVIGATION ITEMs.-It will
be remembered that on the 22d of March
last resolution was adopted in the House Of
Representatives, on motion OF Hon. JOHN
LYNcP directing that "a Select Committee
ofnine be appointed TO inquire into, and re-
port at the next session of Congress. the cause
OF the great reduction Of American tonnage
engaged in the foreign carrying trade, and
great depression Of the navigation interests of
the country, ard also TO report what measures
are necessary to Increase our ocean tonnage.
revive our navigation interests and regain for
our country the relative position it once held
among nations as a great maratme power.n
The Committee appointed under this reso-
luton consists of Hon. JOHN LYNCH, OF
Maine, Chairman; and Messrs. Burlington, of
Massachusetts,; c. c. Washburn, of Wiscon-
sin; G. W. Hotchkiss, of New York; N. B.
Judd, Of Illinois; D. J. Morrill,, of Pennsyl-
vania; III. S. Holman, of Indiana; H. C. Ca
kin, of New York, and Erastus Wells. of
Missouri.
1t will be seen by our dispatches that the
committee met promptly and are prosecuting
their enquiries with commemorate activity.
Among the gentlemen in attendance from
Maine are Hon. n. G. Hichborp, Hon. N. A.
Farwell, Hon. j. P. Morse and Hon. John r.
Hayden. Delegations from the Ship-owaers'
Association of Wilmington, Delaware, Balti-
more and Philadelphia, together with large
number OF gentlemen from the CITY of New
York and various parts of the State are also
in attendance
Ihe magnitude and Importance of the SUBJ
Ject seems to be fully appreciated by the bust
ness men of the country, and the
indications are that they will avai, +bon,
selves of the opportunity of presenting their
Views at length.
1t will be seen that great diversity of onin-
ion has already manifested itself, especially
between the representatives of the ship build
ing associations of Maine and New York.
The New York Times says that since the
appointment of the committee, Mr. Lynch has
oeen engaged in collecting statistics relative
70 Tue shipping of America and the principal
foreign powers, and will bring LARGE amonnt
oil practical knowledge to bear unon Tho sr,1,
ject p'i '"o suo-
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15

A STRAw:-At a recent agriculture, ~.
at Bedford, Canada, the orator eff the occ,,iar
took the opportunity to drop into' politics
as our friend Mr.. Wegg might say. He was
decidedly in favor of cutting the connection
OF the Dominion with England. He remark
ed that the difficulties with the I'm ted States
are always of an Imperial character The
Trent affair, the Alabama claims, and the
irish Fenian quarrel with England were all as
torelgn to Canada as the China seas, and in
terested Canadians only in their possible con-
sequences. fit be said that they are equally
foreign to Liverpool or Dublin, it may be re-
ph'a that these are integral parts of the
ofitlsh Isles, have voice in the British Par
lament, and an influence in the foreign poll
cy OF the Empire. For Canada. however. is
only reserved the privilege of being the thea
ire OF war when war exists. Even now Can
aaa Is largely influenced by the legislation At
washington. She keeps her special agents
'ne'e' ana pays lobby when she might as
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15
Now il the Time


To repair the inroaos made upon the physical
strength by the heated term which has closed with
September The vitality that has been ooz,ng
through the pores in the form OF perspiration, for
the last three months, requires to be replaced, as
n preparatve to the cold season which makes
such disastrous havoc with relaxed and untoped
systems. The reserve of vigor with which tho
s.outest man commences the Summer campaign
is drained out Of him at its close, and unless Inv
some means he acquires a new stock of vital on.
energy wherewith to encounter the shock Of co,dar
season, he may droop and wither like the tal inc
leaves whose life juices are exhausted ne ;s
thus with the strong, how much more perilous 10
the condition OF the weak and apg. Their req
son must suggest to them, more torc,b,v Than tbesa
prnleu WORDS the necessity for inauguration, and
Tue worid having decided, after an experience Of
a,rnost quarter OF century, that HOSTETTER'S
oIoMACH BlTTERS embrace such restorative
properties as are not possessed by any other tonic
anu Alternative preparation in existence. The i'm
po''a.oe Oh resort.ng 10 the great RFNoyAToR
AND REGULATOR OF THE HUMAN MACHINE. at
ms critical season is obvious as the light OF day.
' aI VINO desire to escape an attack of cbills and
ie'er' oil Gus remitent fever, dysentery, diarrhea
dyspepsia, rheumatism, bypochondria, or any other
OF the diseases of which the Fall season is the pro-
Inc parent have promptly to this celebra-
ted preventive and restorative. oct11eod&w1wsN
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15

CHEAP lNsURANCE.-More than ten years
ago we examined with interest the Fire Ex-
tinguisher. which promised to work wonders.
Wednesday last we examined the new attach
ment by which the pressure is not generated
till required for use, an improvement which
seems to leave nothing to be desired. More
than 500 buildings have been saved and mil
lions of money by these simple yet powerful
extinguishers. Insurance companies have re-
duced their rates on houses protected by them.
Each machine indeed is portable insurance
company Office 95, Water street, Boston.
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15
EILiS' IRON Ritfpre

Will enrich the blood and prevent il from becom
ing watery and weak, giving heal hy CON plexion
restore the appetite inyigorate the system and ar,
vary paiaiao'e. these bitters are recommended I,
all persons requiring a safe and valuable tonic tC
mpart tone and strength to the system not given by
though they m possess tonic. vegetable properies
cannot give the strength to the blood which the
Iron BITTERs will give. Wv
Portland by Crosman & Co., 3O5 Congress street "
je 2l-d6m sN
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15

ELECTRICITY has proved itself to be the
most invaluable of agents in many respects
but the latest use to which it has been put is
the signalling of trains from one station to
another in France. by means of connecting
wires the train automatically announces it,
self to neighboring stations. As the cars pass
over these wires the train records itself before
and behind, so that its progress and appear
ance are alike indicated.
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15

THE Halifax Chronicle says: The storm
of Monday night was not success in the
city-did not come up to the expectations Of
the public. The wind blew strongly and the
tide was somewhat higher than usual, but so
far as we have learned, io damage whatever
was done in the city or to the harbor. From
Sackville, N. B., it is reported that the dykes
are broken and the marshes flooded. High
tides in the Bay of Fundy.
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15
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wen have senatols and representatives, 9Th
own.
Neither Canadian Independence, nor Cana
a'An annexation are any longer the forbidden
themes they once were across the ST. Law
renee and the ST. croix. The questions arr
openly and widely discussed, and public SEN
t'meni with regard 10 them Is rapidly under
going modification.
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15

which has been going forward in the West has
been started here in this neighborhood by
President Blanchard Of Wheaton College,
whose zeal fully equals his knowledge to say
the least The Woburn Convention was small
in numbers, but vehementl and fiery in tenn
per. Granted that its aim is good one, the
method proposed and the spirit manifested
will hardly wiz many advocates. CAsco.
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15

GLEN BoUsE-It now requires thirteen
miles circuitous travel instead of eight direct
to reach the Glen House from Gorham vii.
lage. The carriage road to the summit of
Mt. Washington is badly washed, but the in
jury below the Glen is immense. Mr.. Hitch
cock informs us that nothing i'll his experien e
Of eighteen years equals it, and that old set.
tiers have nothing to parallel it since the VIII
lev disaster of 1926
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15

SIGHT hoefs, dorips which blss away eyus js, spit
foresaI, mairall and no.
sen onward, Capt Bunker. which arrived at Digh-
ton lOth rom Pictou reports 9th inst lat AZ S. Ion
60 49, while lying to under close recied mainsa ex
peIienced hurricane lasting three hours blew away
mainsail. washed on water casks and sustained OH
On
The Portland daily press., 1869-10-15

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ticular about getting the Universal with i'm
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recommend, and our endorsement of this is
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