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The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1870-08-05
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Fsxxcn PLN SrkAKrSo.-M. Edmund
About pays bis respect to bis Emperor In q nom
inal address to the French people. Tho follow
ing extract viii chow how be does Il
The great American Republic was from Ii
beginning the FREUD and ally Of France. You
constrained Il to forget that II owed Its exist
ence to you. In the war Of the Secession. when
you should have sympathiIed with the cause Of
the North, you shut your ear to true principles.
Your interests, q you understood them. led you
70 side with the South, but you had not the
courage or the sincerity to act upon your own
opinion. You only gave to the Slavery party .
hesitatipg and sterile support. The U"ion ''a.
rssiored IN spite Of you, and its first mosemsni
,cos 10 make you epaeuats yMerieo. In Germany
YOU tried surreptitiously to weaken Austria by
Prussia and Prussia by Austria. Your diPlo,,
matists, who are supposed TO be the pick and
choice Of human ability, warranted success
After long and ruinous war the Austrians.
your secret allies. who, you had calculated
would be the victors, were beaten. and the
Pru.sinns. your enemies. became masters oil
Germany. Prussia allied herself with Italy.
and your only compensation Is the alliance OF
Austria, who, thanks to you, Is reduced to the
last degree Of imp:tency. Such, my dear
French people, Is the result, Of your campaigns
and your negotiations. f'f.
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Minister Low forwards from Pekin full dis
patches respecting the action Of the Chinese
Government on the death Of Mr.. Burlingsme,
He says that the difficult duties intrusted to
Mr.. Burlingame have been performed to the en-
tire satisfaction Of the Emperor and his advis-
ors, and that his services were acknowledged In
manner evincing great respect. gratitude and
liberality. An honorary title Of first rank wa
conferred by the Emperor. which places the
name Of Burlingsme on par with those four
members Of the Privy Council. aud which Il
the highest possible title that can be given to
any one. either living or dead, outside Of the
royal family. A posthumOus title conferred
directly by the Emperor. Is considered BY the
Chinese the highest mark Of respect that can b
shown to the memory Of deceased public OH
GER, q the decree becomes part Of the Official
records Of the Empire, which will perpetuats
the name and fam, Of the deceased longer than
statues or monuments. Ten thousand taels
were also set apart from the funds Of the mis-
sion and bestowed upon MI. Burlingamc's fam
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Healthy Old Metropolitan Press.

Below we give what no other paper In
the United States has been able to give,
an exact copy of the first contract made
in this country with the Chinese east Of
tho Rocky Mountains. How are you,
Metropolitan press'
SAN Francisco, CAL, May 20, 1870.
This Contract, entered into by All Young and
All Yam of San Francisco, and Cbas. I. Sampson
of North Adams, Mass. witnesseth,-That said
All Young and All Yam, partners in business,
agree to furnish c. T. Sampson with scyenty-6ye
steady, active and intelligent Cinnamon, such
as are quick to learn trade, Il foreman,
cooks and ~ workmen.) on the following terms
and conditions:
They receive one dollar commission for pro-
curing each man.
Wages Of Foreman sixty dollsrs (s60) per
month, for overseeing rs men; II more men are
aided, to receive 80 cents on each man per
month. workmen and cooks to receive twenty
three dollars 1929 per month for first year,
twenty-six dollars (S26) per month for second
and third years. and for oil time they stay atter
three years. they receive twenty-eight dollars
(s2s) per month. -,
Payroll to be made up first Of each month.
and the amount paid over the 10th Of the month
for the month preceding, in U. s, gold coin or
its equivalent. House, wood and water FUR
nished free to men. Two cooks to be employed
for less than ninety COY men; for oil above
ninety, one cook to each thirty men.
Time, eleven (1l) hours per day, ffom the
Goth of March to the Goth Of September, and ten
and half (l0J) hours per day from the 10Th
of September to the 10Th Of March.
Lost time to be deducted except when EN-
ployer stops work for his own benefit, In which
case men are to receive full pay. Ifstoppagc Of
work occurs by accident for one or two days Of
time, the men are to receive thirty (3O) cents
per day for board during the stoppage.
Railroad passage over. to be furnished free,
and II men work satisfactorily for three years,
or more, they are to have free passage back,
Should the men be discharged by inability Of
employer to give them work, they are to have
free passage back, and wages paid to time Of
stopping work.
The employer is to receive twenty-five dollars
| (S25) from the first six 10Y months wages O.
each man, as security to him against mans
leaving before his time expires the amount t.
be taken out of his monthly wages, viz; 8.
the FIRST month, SO the second month, and 81
each for the next four months.
Pay Of men to commence when they besir
work.
All YouSG.
Witness: W. W. BATTLES.
An Yam.
Witness: CHARLIE SISG.
CT. SAMPSON,
by Gro. ". CHASE.
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CoRaEsPONDENcE.
For the Union and Journal.

Peabody, Mass, Is q very pleasant village to
visit, and having spent few hours here am
in possession Of adequate material. II may be,
for newspaper report. or prime interest with
me was the Peabody Institute This occupies a
6ne lot in the best part Of the town. TIE lot
Is spacious and handsomely enclosed. The
building Is of pressed brick two stories In height
built with an idea of utility rather than that Of
architectural display. The funds for this insti-
tuition were bestowed by George Peabody In
1862 consisting Of $4,000. Subsequently
however he added $4,000 more. This he did
out of kind remembrance 10 his native town and
where he resided until Is years Of age. The
lower story is occupied by public library.
In very conspicuous place Is kept large Iron
safe containing presents made to Mr.. Peabody
In England. The value Of these presents Is es-
timated at $50, 900. They consist Of the por-
trait of Queen Victoria, bestowed by herself, and
two rold boxes, one Of which was given BY the
city of London and contains 1.-THE Freedom Of
the city," This was in consequence Of his gin
for the poor Of that city Of El50, 900 sterling.
The portrait Of the Queen Is small, occupying .
space about the sire Of mans hand. The pic
ture l. the result Of very peculiar and expen.
sye process, requiring an extraordinary amount
OF neat IrOu IutuaC<o Oousaes'Ss Va
for this operation. The plate on which the pic
turc Is taken Is OF gold, the temperature Of
which was raised to white heat when receiving
the rays Of royalty reflected from Victoria's per-
son. Somehow this portrait makes her majesty
look younger than should suppose possible
without the hattery Of the brush, but perhaps
Chemistry affords some opportunities for obse-
auiousness as well as In pursuing the art Of
Raphael. She has on the costume she wore on
opening parliament in 1866. The second story
Of this building Is occupied BY the Lecture
Room and the Sutton Library. The room for
this library was fitted up by lady Of the name
Il bears by permission Of Mr.. Peabody, for
which purpose she bestowed $4,000. This
room Is moro magni6cently fitted up than any
other part Of the building. A very rich style Of
finish sdorns the cases for books Tho number
Of volumes ID NOT yet great but those occupying
the shelves are choice and In some instances ex-
tremely rare. One set OF French books on sur
gerry cost about 800 per volume. The interest
Of the endowment sccumulAtes and BY means
Of this In comparatively short time the shelves
will be filed. -.
Leaving TIE Institute walked toward Salem
and In an old churchyard was shown the grave
Of Elisa Wharton who WIN perhaps b readily
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PLAN OF THE PRUsIAS CAMPAIGN. The Ber-
lin correspondent Of the London Daily News
writes:
"The plan of the campaign Is openly spoken
Of, even by such as really ought to know some
thing of It. But this Is always the case here.
and can hardly be otherwise where the yolun-
airy cooperation Of the whole people Is expect
ell. II consists In simultaneous advance Of
the whole army. without the reserves, toward
the French frontier. The four main railroads
leading from the Elbe to the Rhine will then be
altogether stopped for private traffic during the
days destined to the conveyance Of troops. II Is
supposed that each Of these railways can con-
yey twenty thousand soldiers day. The 10
comotives and wagons returning next day TWEEN
~ thousand again may be conveyed on the same
railway the third day, when they will have col
lected at the stations in the East, or will have
been echeloned along the line. Thus the two
hundred and forty thousand men Of the North.
German army, now In garrisons east Of the
Rhine, will be on the banks Of that river the
ffth day after the commencement Of the move
ment The reserves will follow rs they come IN,
which, In Prusa, Is very quickly. The Land.
wehr, this time not destined to act on the ag-
gressiye will fiji up the garrsons. Thus the ad.
vance from the Rhine, which will be crossed al
Cologne, Cobletz and Mayence, by the perma-
nent railway bridges, win be made with thirty
thousand IA en- complete followed by one hundred
thousand. who will gradually fall In with their
cadies. The advance will be coucentric upon
Paris. unhesitating and unceasing. until the
French are met. Neither an attack from the
sea nor French diversion In Southern Germany
will be needed. The strategcal part Of the war
Is considered here much easier than II was In
the Austrian campaign, when the Austrians and
Saxous sought refuge In the natural fortress OF
Bohemia. which had to be evaded by mountain
passes before the great battle and the final march
upon Vienna could take place. It Is supposed,
In fact known that Austria will remain neutral
II Russia does. Russia probably will. II, how.
ever, Austria does not, neither will Russia.
And then there would be simply two wars, a
Pranco-German one and q Russo-Austrian one,
the latter undoubtedly Of slow progress, and
thus not interfering with the other. For the
Franco-Gcrman war would be far more rapid
ly brought to an end than . Russo-Austrian
ono
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The Heroes of Bull Run.

Friday was the 9th anniversary Of the
battle of Bull Run, and In recalling the
fact. and the great changes that have since
occurred in the condition of the country,
the Evening Post says 1t Is singular to
note that of all the conspicuous men on
both sides who figured on that Geld. but
two or three that survived It now take
any part in public affairs.
General Irwin Mcdowell, who commanded the
Union forces, remains still In the army Of the
United States. General Sherman, who led .
a brigade Of Tyler's division, Is Commsnder-in-
Chief at Washington, and General Burnside,
who at the earlier part Of the engagement was
in the van, has been Governor Of Rhode Is
land.
General Tyler, commander Of the FIRST divi-
sion, lives In Connecticut, in the prosecution Of
private business enterprises. Gen. David Hun
ter, who commanded the second division, lives
In retirement. In Washington. General 8. p.
Heint1elman, the third division commander, Is
ON half.pay, after fortY-four years service, Is
president Of New York insurance company,
and lives at Englewood, In New Jersey. Gen.
Theodore Runyon, commanding the Fourth d.
vision, Il out Of service, and lives In Newark.
Colonel D. S. Miles, who led the Fifth division,
Il will be remembered underwent the humilia-
ton Of surrendering Harper's Ferry, and was
killed upon the spot.
or General Sherman's comrades as brigade
commanders in Tyler's division. General Reyes
Is now Colonel In the regular army. General
Schenck Is In Congress, and Richardson was
H. .SsI Ill -s.- IL
commanders Of HeintIelman, General franklin
is now superintendent Of Colts rife works at
Hartford, General Howard became the head Of
the Frcedmen's Bureau, and Gen. Wilcox, the
Post says, was killel at Richmond In the scci-
dent at the Capitol, but this Is q mistake for 1t
was an ex-rebel General Wilcox who was killed
there.
General Paterson, Of Pennsylvania, from
whom the rebel General Joseph Z. johnson
slipped away to join Beauregsrd, Is . pros
porous cotton manufacturer In his native
State.
Generals Johnston and Beauregard Of the
rebel army, are now railroad presidents, and
jefferson Davis, who rode over the field after
the battle was won, is the president, not Of q
republic, but Of an insurance company at Mem.
phis General d. X. Jones, Of South Carolina,
who bore conspicuous part In the fight, died
Of consumption during the war In Richmond.
General Ewell, who afterwards lost leg, Is
now in private life, and Longstrcet Is Surveyor
of Customs at New Orleans. Wade Hampton
Is planting cotton. Bee and johnson of South
Carolina, and Barlow Of Georgia, 1.-THE last
named one Of the best soldiers and one Of the
truest gentlemen Of the South, eminent at the
bar and wise in council,) were all killed on the
field. Stonewall jackson and Jeb Stewart, the
strength Of the southern army in the two arms
Of the service, survived Bull Run to fall on
other fields. Early. known as Jubilee, Is o
dweller in the rural districts Of Virgins, which
he finds. after all, more congenial than the cold
exile of the Canadas.
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OUR OWN STATE.

The first case In this State Of death result
ing from the use Of jute switches, which has
come to our knowledge, happened TO . young
lady in West waterville last week. The ur'
fortunate girl had shown signs Of disease fo'
some time and complained Of her head. Sh'
gradually grew worse and became 30 sick thai
she Guild not leave her bel. DR.. Holmes VA
called, and suspecting the trouble. examined
her scalp with microscope. lie found II liter
ally alive with vermin. All remedies failed and
the girl died. AT the autopsy. the skull wal
found perforated by these insects and the brain
much eaten away. The young lady was en-
ployed In the shirt factory In that town.
In Newcastle, last Friday afternoon. during
heavy thunder storm. two barns. belonging
to Charles K. Metc,lf. were struck BY lightning
and destroyed. The barn contained ~ tons o.
hay and pair Of oxen, which were burned
Loss $4,000.
The Scandinavian oolonists are much pleased
with the territory Get apart for them In Aroo'-
took county. and they will name the town New
Sweden. -skowbegan schutssnfsts September
18th and llth.-The Directors Of the p. 8. 4
p. Railroad have decided 70 terminate their
lease 10 the Boston roads.
The Oriental powder mill No. 8, near Gorham'
exploded Monday morning at 0 o'clock, the ez-
plosion being caused BY the closging Of the ms
cbiuery. The building was badly shattered
and two workmen-James Jordan Of Raymond
and Clinton B. Hooper ofwlndham-ws" badly
burned. 30 that. though stu alive they VII
probably die.
The ws.srvills Mall says that 90 Thursday
Of last week, one ". II. Tupper. Of Canaan -
,umius the name Of Henry Smith. hired hosss
and buggy Of o. C. Holloway. Of watsrvilie, 70
no 10 Har.land. During the night he was joined
BY brother. - b supposed. and the two brOts
into . store In Canaan, loaded The team With
plumber and started northwsrd. Ths thisvs'
have moi yet been arsstsd.
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ers that should weaken the ticket. Con-
sequcntly they resolved that as Ear rs
they (anti-Lynch) werc concerned there
should be no inquiry whatever rs to the
position of candidates upon District mat
tiers; that they would introduce no reso-
luton regulating Lynch. but that IL he
should cause to be introduced any resolu-
ton endorsing him. 1t should be the sig
nal for decisive work; that the withdraw
nj of our District delegates from
the District convention should be
endorsed in the person of tho President,
Secretary. and Chairman Of the commit
tee on resolutions; and that the county
committee who first sounded the alarm
against the encroachments Of Cumber-
land. should be endorsed by n reelection.
The programme was adopted unani-
mously by the convention as far as they
could pass upon 1t, and II was eminently
conservative and wise. To the ticket
there nominated we shall give our hearty
and unwavering support rs will all those
who believe that York is not too full of
what Mr.. Lynch through his paper styles,
gushing simplicity" We do not know
or care what may be the feelings of our
candidates upon question concerning
the District. for they were nominated
without regard to their views upon such a
subject. We only know or care to know
that they are republicans fairly nominal
eel and honestly candidates. and we conf
IDENTIFY trust in their triumphant election
by the solid yeomanry of York who
know how to fight and who know also
when they are kicked.
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We clip the following from one of our

We clip the following from one Of our
Boston exchanges. The vote taken ut the
close of Capt. Codman's remarks indicates
the feeling among the leading ship-owner:
of Boston and vicinity, as regards Mr.
Lynch's bill
Captain John Goldman, Of Dorchester, ad-
dressed an assembly Of upwards OF one hum
dred gentlemen in the Merchants Exchange a,
l p. NJ. yesterday, setting forth his efforts al
Washington to procure the right for our mer-
chants Of purchasing ships where they could oe
bought the cheapest. He begun his speech by
disclaiming any personal pecuniary interest In
the matter, or that he spoke either as Demo-
crat or Republican. The bill To allow the pur-
chase by Americans Of foreign ships did not pass
Congress, not because Congress was opposed 70
to IL, or because the President was opposed to It,
for both were in favor Of II, but because SCI
Of selfish rascals in the interest OF large monop-
oles Of steamship companies and fools generally
were opposed to il, and they got Senator Bay,
ard 10 fllibuster 40 that II was postponed and
Congress adjourned without doing anything
lie came down upon Mr.. Lynch OF Maine. In a
heavy way, and said that the bill which he Of
fered would have cost the government twenty OF
thirty millions Of dollars, aud would not have
benefited the country at all. 1t was impossi'
BILE to compete with Scotland in building ships;
chiefly because labor Is so much cheaper abroad
and il was stupidity to think Of doing 1t. nc
had been in Washington all winter and seen tho
workings Of things there. and he felt conhden'
that at the next Congress the subject would o,
taken up and Americans allowed the r,sh
which even the Feiee Islander now has, to buy
ship where he can get one cheapest. iher'
were but two things which the Government pro
hibited free citizen from buying-ships anC
obscene books. In conclusion, vote Of thanks
was called for by Mr.. wheelwright, who strong
ly Endorsed Captain Codman's views and %
tanned about thirty votes, there being but tw'
votes in the negative, one OF them being tn
captains.
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A, tn. late dinner given to the Printer. a. the

At the late dinner given to the Printers at the
Sycamore House in response to . toast, Con-
gresham Ella Of New Hampshire in one OF the
best speeches OF the day, in fact he always
speaks well. ALLUDED to the fact that for long
time Ben. Franklin was the only man who had
held high Office who was printer, Now, be
said, the President Of the Senate, the Speaker
Of the House. Dawes who held the purse
strings Of the government, Senator Anthony,
Senator Hamlin. &C., &C., were from that pro
fession. Soon after "Perley" Of the Boston
Journal was called up, and in the course Of hi,
remarks he alluded to what Ella had said. and
thought the printers had not made grea. adj
vance according to Ela's reckoning "for. said
he, "about all that some Congrcssmeu do in
Washington Is to plan for reelection, and To
accomplish Il they food their District with pa
tent seeds and old public documents that g.
into the junk dealers hands Is soon a. receiv-
ed"
All. "Periey," you're sly dog TO give such
. thrust at man Of such vide spread influences
in Congress! (or further particulars zee the
''eerti6cats Of good moral chsrscter.)"
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Not man in this District or out Of II,
did his hopes Of heaven depend thereon.
can tell what he has done In Congress for
the last two years that any fifthrate man
could not do, save to plan and plot for .
reelection, descending to the exquisite
meanness of writing to his subordinates
that they need not expect to retain their
Offices Gust think Of it-ofliOes that be-
long to the people, to you, reader, and
your neighbor) unless they supported him.
and we dare him to deny 1t, for the proof
Is in our possession and we can and will
give names to all who may call. To force
himself upon an unwilling people, peo-
pie who do not want him to represent
them NOR his feet longer upon their necks,
he gets control of and packs the conven.
ton. repudiates all time-honored usage
and agreements and reduces to vassalage
nearly one-half Of the people of his Dis
trict, shuts his ears TO the entreaties OF
his friends and the solemn warnings OF
others that his course will sacrifice tho
Republican party, and by means of the
Government patronage and his bought-up
press, he sounds the alarum and PUSHES
on to force himself again upon n patient
people.
Ten thousand shames upon such burn
ing. blistering disgrace put upon the Re-
publican party by this oflice-seeker with
not half the modesty of Whittemorc, of
cadet selling fame! The interests of the
Republican party, the peoples desire for
purity in elections, and the theory and
practice of having honorable men for Of
flee, demand that such man shall DO
buried fathoms deep by the popular in
dignation. If we would 60 before the
people with clean hands and ask them to
endorse us we must show them not only
that our principles are true, but that as q
party we respect their rights and fran
chises, that when corrupt and unprinci-
pied politicians obtain control of place
and power in the Republican party we
will work with them and for them to dis
place such persons and send them better
men. They care everything for prin-
ciples and nothing for men; but
they do demand that men of political
integrity shall be selected rs cam
didatcs to represent principles Of political
integrity. Let every Republican heed
the warning, and remember that the life
of party is like the life Of an individual
it cannot live and foster corruption in
its own body nor fatten upon disease.