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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-08
HENRY O. & A. A. NICHOLS,
MASONS AND SKATERS.

LII WORE IN sneir ine aone promptly anu IN
Par ticular attention paid to repairs of slate roofs,
cenenting csterns, cellars, &c.
Orders left at A p. Goulds Stove Store, first door
above Railroad Bridge, promptly attended to.
HENRY o. NICHOLS,
ALBERT A. NICHOLS.
Augusta Jan. 1860.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-08

Oiled silk and druggists rubber goods are
sold at Partridge's drug store.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-08
Local anu State Nems.

The flag on the State House was at half
mast yesterday, in honor Of Ex-Gov. Cony.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-08
T1 II
DRY EARTH SYSTEMI
For the Sewage of Towns, Factories.
Hospitals, Prisons, Hotels and
Private Houses.

A MPLE experience has shown the Dry Earth
"A System to be more efficient In preventing foul
smells, and far less costly in construction and re-
pairs than the Water Closet System; and ahat it is
in all respects entirely satisfactory whether for the
SICK Room or for constant use
The Earth Closet offers to all, in town and coun-
try, every benefit possessed by the Water Closet at
far less cost with the additional advantages, that 1t
is portable, and can be moved to the bedside in the
sickroom
1t promises more in immunity from offensive
odors, from infection in disease, and in the saving
of fertilizers than has ever been accomplished by
q single invention.
In the COMMODE, the apparatus and earth res
ervoir are sefcontained, and a movable pail takes
the place Of the vault
For use in Bed Rooms, Hospital Wards, InfIrm
aries &C, the Commode is invaluable. II is entire
" free from those faint, depressing odors, common
to portable cdfer closets and night stools and through
its admission of the greatest miseries of human
life the foul smells of the sick room, and OF the
most frequent means of communicating Infection
may be entirely prevented.
For circulars and full information, address
L. w. GRAFTON,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-08
FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Oct. I.
A Postal Convention has been concluded
between the United States and the provinces
Of Vancouvers Island and British Columbia,
establishing and regulating the exchange Of
correspondence with those Colonies on the
same basis as that adopted in the Postal Con-
vention with Canada. The Convention goes
into immediate operation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-08
Chicago Produce Market.

Chicago FTOduc6 MhfKets
CHICAGO, Oct. 7.
FLOUR-spring extras +505550.
WHEAT-No. 2, l07h.
CORN-No.2 2, OK.
OATS-36k for No.2.
BARLEY-90 for No. 3.
LARD-15H.
MESS PORK-9s.o0.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-08
MarrieD.

In Brunswick, 18th ult., W. j. Jacobs OF Portland
to Miss Emma L. Perkins OF b.. 29th ult., Asbury
f. Pottle to Miss Martha j. Whitney both of Bath.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-08
FROM NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, Oct. Z.
The trial Of the contested.wiH Of the late
James 3. Taylor, involving three million dol
lars, began to-day. The only witnesses ex-
amned were Edward Wetberell and James
Jackson, witnesses to the will, but the testi-
mony was not important.
Counterfeiters Arrested.
Two Spanish counterfeiters lately arrived
from Texas were arrested at the quarantine
yesterday with large quantity of counterfeit
money and material in their possession, and
to-day were committed in default Of $4,000
bail each.
Railroad Accident.
The Eastern bound Express on the Della
ware, Lockawana and Western Railroad was
thrown from the track at Dover, N. j., this
morning, and the Conductor, J. NJ. Smith,
fireman and one passenger severely injured.
A large number Of French Emigrants, many
of whom are Imperialists, arrived on the st.
Laurent to-day.
A verdict of S., 900 was given against JUS
tice Lynch to day, for instituting malicious
prosecutions.
No new cases of yellow fever have been re-
ported for the last two days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-08

HousekeeperS buy their pure spices and fla
yoring extracts at Partridge's drug store.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-08

On Monday evening, at the regular meeting
of the Y. NJ. c. A, business of Importance
will be transacted relating to the forthcoming
State Convention, to be holden in this city
Our dry goods merchants seem to have COM
bined to furnish our people with great va
riety both of costumes and of goods, and the
lady must indeed be difficult to please whose
taste is not readily suited.
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FROM NEW ORLEANS.

New ORLEANS, Oct. 7.
Yellow Fever.
There were fifteen deaths here yesterday
from yellow fever.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-08

The dam of twenty feet will add correspond
ingly to these. A second dam is proposed
above the lower, from which main pipe may
be laid supplying points higher than Orchard
afreef.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-08

This Mode of Treatment, which is being
adopted by a large number of the Medical Profess
sion, has become quite popular in almost every
State of the Union. 1t has been examined by thou
sands Of Physicians of all schools of medicine and
there has not been one dissenting voice to the
correctness of the principle; all acknowledge that
it fills a vacuum in the Science of Medicine. The
sick and afflicted are demanding it everywhere.
We have demonstrated the fact that Paralysis,
Nervous Debility, Dyspepsia, Neuralgia,
Govt, Consumption in its ncipient
stages, all Cancerous
Affections, Dropsy, varicose Veins, Weak
Chests, Narrow Chests, Asthma,
Weak Lungs,
Weak Backs, Weak, Stiff and shrunken Limbs,
Curvature of the Spine, and other
Spinal Affections,
Sciatica, rheumatism of years standing Spasms,
Epilepsy, Palsy, St. vitus' Dance,
Derangement of the Mind,
Prolapsus Uteri, Distracted Menstruaton, with
all their concomitant diseases, Impotency,
and all kinds Of weakness of the
Generative Organs,
CAN BE CURED. 1t brings greater supply Of
blood and nutrition to all weak parts thus creating
new life and tone, and health and strength in those
parts. 1t breaks up Congestion and Inflammation
by equalizng the circulation throughout every part
of the system.
The Senior Proprietor Of the
Augusta Vacuum Cure,
Dr. .. II. No7C7o9S
Is well known in this vicinity as a Skillful
Physician.
During the last Forty Years he practised medicine
in Maine, chiefly in Bangor and vicinity.
Patients can be assured that with his expe-
rience they will have thorough treatment
He will have competent aid in his Associate
References of the highest character
will be furnished to those
desiring them.
The Medical Faculty and the Afflicted, who have
failed to be benefited by other modes of treatment
are requested to come and test the VACUUM
CURE.
ONCE Hours % to II NJ, and to p. II.
Town and County rights for sale
octl-'&w3m
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-08
For Sale.

4 VERY PLEASANT SITUATION on SWAN
n Street with front on the street of a hundred
and ity-hve feet by about eighty deep. The resi-.
dence with Its appurtenances and part OF the lot will
be sold, or the whole comprising the Carriage shop
to suit the purchaser. Apply to the subscriber on
the premises. septI5 t2w q. PHILLIPS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-08
HOUSE WANTED.

FNHE Advertiser desires to lease a convenient
i Tenement, near state Street. Whoever has such
a tenement to lease will find good tenant by ad,
dressing a, r.. Angus Post ONCE. octS ttf
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-08-19
L.EBOR .f.N'D LUCK,

Among the wise sayings of Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher are the following:
"The moro fact that you arc Obliged to la
Dor is not a misfortune. The thing that
you desire in alleviation would be the
greatest curse to you. Do not be ashamed
of that place where God has shut you up.
God has put your tasks upon you, and re-
member that your enjoyment is to consist
in the essential of your nature. 1t is to
consist in the active use of those forces
which God has endowed you with, wherev-
er his providence has put you. And if he
has withheld from you some OF those enjoy
ments which he has granted to others, be
assured, if you are faithful, that in some
way they will be made up to you. Do not
be ashamed Of hardness. Stand to it and
fight out your battle. See to it that what
ever you lose-whether it be money, or
place, or whatnot-you do not lose your
manhood, or courage, or honesty, or sim
plicity, or truthfulness. Stick to them.
They are half your life.
think, if you were to go from man to
man, in all the ordinary channels OF life,
you would find very few men, if you took
them at that hour when they made their Sc
cret complaints, who did not labor under
the impression that though they should be
resigned to their condition of misfortune
that they were obliged to exert themselves.
The young man beginning in life says to
himself: Il am obliged to rise early and sit
up late, and labor necessarily; but hope
for better time Ahl yes; that better
time is the FOOLS paradise of laziness He
is obliged to work now, but he looks for
ward to the time when he will not be under
the necessity of working. He points to the
favored sons, as he calls them, of rich men,
who were not born to.work, and who are
useless in society, and laments that, instead
of having their good fortune, he is doomed
to q life of severe toll. But tell you, what
you call good fortune has been thoir ruin,
and the necessity Of laboring has been your
salvation. It has been that which has made
you what you have been, and what you are
still. 1t has been token Of Gods mercy
to you; and instead of bemoaning your
condition, thank God for it,"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-08-19
D.s.yIEL Tg.EBsTBR'S GREAT .sR-
GU.uR.V'I.

OF the way in which Mr.. Webster pre-
pared himself for great legal argument,
we have an account from the pen of his
friend Mr.. Ticknor, which Mr.. Curtis has
done well to insert in his volume:
In the spring of 1924 Mr.. Webster was
much concerned in the discussion then GO
ing on in the House of Representatives at
Washington upon tho tariff. One morning
he rosc very early-earlier even than was
his custom-to prepare himself to speak
upon it. From long before daylight till the
hour when the House met, ho was busy
with his brief. When he was far advanced
in speaking, a note was brought to him
from the Supreme Court, informing him
that the great case of Gibbon V. Ogden
would be called on for argument the next
morning. He was astounded at the intelli-
gence, for he had supposed that after the
tariff question should have been disposed
of, he would still have ten days to prepare
himself for this formidable conflict, in
which tho constitutionnlity of the laws of
Now York, granting a steamboat monopo-
ly of its tide waters, would be decided.
He brought his speech on the tariff to a
conclusion as speedily as he could, and
hurried home to make such preparation for
tho great law argument as the shortness OF
the time would permit. He had then taken
no food since his mornings break fast but
instead of dining no took moderate dose
of medicine and went to bed and to sleep.
At 10 p. NJ. no awoke, called for bowl Of
tea, and without other refreshment went
Immediately to work. To use his own
phrase, the "tapes had not been off the pa
pers for moro than a year" lie worked
all night, and, az he has told mo more thar
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-08-19
HONE .s.uTSE.uE.VTS.

What we need at this moment is more
home amusements, home training and cul-
ture; and until fathers and mothers can be
convinced of the necessity for these requi-
sites, and urged into the adoption of them,
the carnival of dissipation and crime will
not abate, the young will go astray as they
are now doing, and people will hold up
their hands in horror at the degenoracy OF
the age. The youth of the United States go
to perdtion more frequently from neglect
at home than from any other cause. The
mechanic thinks he has not time to look
after the habits of his children. He feeds
them, clothes them, and sends them to
school and to the Sunday school. Perhaps
he occasionally drops a word of reproof or
advice, in whjeh he is joined by his wife,
and they calIfHht homo training.
But what sASdld be done? We venture
to assert that if half the parents in the Unit
ed States would give their attention, for the
next ten years, to home amusements for their
children-amusements which should in
volve healthful, rational enjoyment, the
coming generation would be stronger men
and women than those of any preceding
generation. As people, we know compar-
atively little of the philosophy Of amuse-
ments. Parents discuss politics and fash
ion, scandal and crime, during their leisure
moments at home, while the children sit
by, longing for something to amuse them
something to make time pass more pleas
antly and rapidly. Tho latter are sent away
to devise their own sports, while fathers and
mothers devote themselves to social engage
ments or personal case. After a time, the
boys find their amusements away from
home, perhaps in places Of questionable re-
pute; and the girls suddenly assume the
airs of young ladies, and devote themselves
to late hours, receptions, senseless small
talk, and to beaux noted more for their fas-
cinating manners than their good morals.
So matters go on quietly, until society is
startled by the announcement Of unexpect-
ed crime or awful disgrace. Such dramas
are being acted every week of the year.
Would not parents be repaid by devoting
more time to the amusements of home and
less to business, self-enjoyment and social
| pleasure?
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-08-19
NO. 33.

| do not like to take them presents: 1t is
better to forogo the pleasure of the giving
than to divide the welcome between your
self and the gift. Let that follow after you
are gone.
To love children is TO love childhood, in
stinctively, at whatever distance, the first
impulse being one of attraction, though IL
may be checked by later discoveries. I'm
less your heart commands at least as long
range as your eye, It is not worth much.
The dearest saint in my calendar never en-
tered a railway car that she did not look
round for baby, which, when discovered,
must always be won at onco into her arms.
If it was dirty, sho would have been glad
TO bathe it; If i'll, to heal it; it would not
have seemed to her anything worthy the
name Of love, to seek only those who were
wholesome and clean.
When think of the self-devotion which
the human heart can contain-of those
sanity souls that are in love with sorrow,
and that yearn to shelter all weakness and
all grief-it inspires an unspeakablo conf
dence that there must also be an instinct of
parentage beyond this human race, heart
of hearts, cor cordium. AS we all crave
something to protect, so we long to feel our
selves protected. We are all infants before
the Infinite; and as turned from that cot
tage window to the resplendent sky, it was
easy to fancy that mute embrace, that shad-
owy symbol of affection, expanding from
the narrow lattice till il touched the stars,
gathering every created soul into the arms
of Immortal Love.-T. ". Higginson.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-08-19
FULTO.v,S FIRST STB.s.uBO.1T.
A ROMANTIC sTonY OF How HE Won HIS BnIDE-THF
OLD BOAT STILL FLOATING.

A correspondent of the Geneva IN. "
Courier relates the following story of the
"Kate Morgan" the little steamer which
for more than a generation has piled on
Cayuga lake, her owners obeying the be-
hest of the first proprietor, to run her till
she busts:''
Before the Chancellor Livingstone steam
ed the current of the Hudson, yet after the
little Clermont had stirred the quieter wa
ters of Collect pond, the whistle of the Kate
Morgan awoke the echoes in Taughanic
Glen, and her paddle-wheel dashed the spray
upon Cayuga bridge. There is a bit of ro-
nance attached to her name and building.
Old Gen. Morgan, of revolutionary fame,
had noble estate on the eastern bank of
the lake, not far from where the present
Wells College now stands. Between his
only daughter, lovely girl Of eighteen, and
yaling -GnASn, had long existed tender
attachment, which, however, the poverty
and obscurity of Robert led the General to
severely frown upon. Fulton went to New
York. Helabored long years in perfecting
his invention; his day of triumph came and
then he wrote to the storm father relating
his success and asking for his daughters S
hand.
may" wrote back the incredulous old
soldier, "I'll believe what l see with my
own eyes. Come you back, scapograce, to
the lake; build and sail a steamboat past
my own door, and then, and not till then,
shall you have my daughter Kate"
Need say that Fulton came joyfully
back, that a steamer was built as rapidly as
circumstances would permit, that she was
launched, and in due time did sail trium-
phantly past the Generals door! But let
me add that, according to an express stipu-
lation made by the sly Robert in case he
succeeded-when the Kate Morgan sheered
in towards the Generals dock, a small boat
was seon pushing out, containing the orig
inal Kate, her grim father, and a gentleman
in clerical vestmonts. They were soon on
board, aud there, amid the waving of flags
the ringing of bells, and tho blowing oi
whistles, the proud inventor and his proud.
or bride were made one. A glorious SWEEP
up and down the lake completed the frs
bridal trip by steam ever known in thi,
country.
Before we leave this historic boat, let us
go below a moment. Here are the old
fashioned engines, inscribed "rroman
Cartwright 4 Co." They were tho first en-
gine builders In the United States, and fur.
nished both Fulton's and Fitch's boats
Cartwrightwas the father of the we'll known
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-08-19

once, he thought he never on any occasion
had so completely the use of all his facul-
tics. He hardly felt that he had bodily or
gans, 80 entirely had his fasting and the
medicine done their work. AT "A. NJ, af-
ter eleven hours of continuous mental eff
fort, his brief was completed.
He sent for the barber and was shaved !;
he took very slight breakfast of tea and
crackers; he looked over his papers to see
that they were all in order, and tied them
up,-he read the morning journal, to amuso
and change his thoughts, and then he went
into court, and made that grand argument
which, as Judge Wayne said above twenty
years afterward, released evory creek and
river, every lake and harbor in our coun-
try from the interference of monopolies."
Whatever he may have thought of his pow
ers on the preceding night, the court and
the bar acknowledged their whole force that
day. And yet, at the end of five hours,
when he ceased speaking, he could hardly
be said to have taken what would amount
to half tho refreshment Of common meal, 4,
for above 32 hours, and, out of the 80 hours
Immediately preceding, he had for 81 been
in state of very high excitement and ac-
tivity.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-08-19
CHELDR R.V.

If were to choose among all gifts and
qualities that which, on the whole, makes
life pleasantest. l should select the love Of
children. No circumstance can render this
world wholly solitude to one who has this
possession. 1t is a freemasonry. Wherev-
or one goes, there are the little brethren and
sisters of the mystic tie. No diversity Of
race or tongue makes much difference. A
smile speaks tho universal language. "If
l value myself on anything" said the lone
ly Hawthorne, ait is on having smile that
children love-" They are such prompt lit
tic beings, too they require so little pre-
ludo: hearts are won in two minutes, at
that frank period, and so long as you are
true to them they will be true to you, They
use no argument, no bribery. They have
n hearty appetite for gifts, no doubt, but it
is not for these that they love the giver.
Take the wealth of the world and lavish it
with counterfeited affection; l will win all
the children's hearts away from you by
empty-handed love, The gorgeous toys
will dazzle them for an houri then their in
stincts will revert to their natural friends.
In visiting house whore thore are children
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-08-19

VOICE AND SoUND.-It is curious fact
that musical sounds fly further, and are
heard at greater distance, than those which
are more lound and noisy. If we go on the
outside of town during fair, at the dis
tance of mile, we hear the musical instru-
ments; but the din of the multitude, which
is so overpowering in the place, can scarce
ly be heard, the noise dying on the spot.
To those who are conversant with the pow
er of musical instruments, the following
observation will be understood: The vio-
Inns made at Cremonn, about the year 1000,
are superior in tone to any Of a later date,
age seeming to dispossess them of their
noisy qualities, and leaving nothing but the
pure tone. II n modern violin is played by
the side of one Of those instruments it will
appear much the loudest of the two; but on
receding 100 PAGES, when compared with the
Amati, it will scarcely be heard. The voice
Of man is endowed with purity of tone in
a higher degree than any of the vocal ami
mails; by which, in a state of nature, it en-
ables him to communicate with his fellow
at distance very remote. Providence has
bestowed upon children power of voice,
in proportion to their size, ten times greater
than that of the adult. In a state of nature
this serves them as a defense and protection,
for it is well known that children have, by
their cries, alarmed and kept oil the attacks
of the most furious animals.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-08-19

"WHEN DID You SHAvE.'-In one of
the towns of Arkansas, a man had been
drinking until late hour at night. When
he started for home, honest folks were in
bed, and the houses were all shut and dark.
The liquor he had taken was too much for
him, and he did not know where TO go. He
at last staggered into an empty wagon-shed,
and fell upon the ground. For long time
he lay in the Inconsistencies of a drunken
sleep, and would undoubtedly have frozen
(for the snow on the ground showed the
night to be very cold had not others less
inseusible than himself been around him.
This shed was a favorite rendezvous of the
hogs, that rushed out when the newcomer
arrived, but soon returned to their bed. In
the utmost Kindness and with the truest
hospitality, they gave their biped compan-
ion the middle of the bed, some lying on
either side Of him, and others answering
the place of a quilt. Their warmth pre-
vented him from being Injured by the eX
posuro. Toward morning he awoke. Find
ing himself comfortable, and in blissful ig-
norance OF his whereabouts, he supposed
himself enjoying the accommodations of n
tavern, in company with other gentlemen.
He reached out his hand, and catching
hold of the stiff bristles Of hog, exclaimed:
"Why, mister, when did you shave last2"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-08-19

THE NEW INTERNAL TAX LAw.-The
revised internal tax law does not go into
operation till tho first of October next. The
following taxes are repealed:-On carriages,
watches, billiard tables, and plate of gold
and silver; the special tax on boats, barges
and flats; on legacies and SUGGESTIONS; on
passports; on gross receipts; on sales lex
cepting those now paid by stamps and those
on tobacco, cigars and distilled spirits and
wines y tho stamp tax on all promissory
notes, for less sum than 500; and on re-
ceipts for any sum of money or for the pay
ment of any debt; and on the transfer or
assignment of mortgage, where it is on
the instrument it secures has been once du-
ly stamped.