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The New York herald., 1870-11-23

force. "rhe derivation and character Of political
parties, the condition Of the people which had been
the consequence OF theln and the duties Of The
Church AZ main remedial agency in our present
state' were the chief ropcs developed in the three
werSs thus linked together ana they established the
influence OF the writer beyond dispute. In these
MTrE ms de m 70 neiecs me
ana measure the contour anu cslibre OF
his intellect The first are progressive and rcrorna-
tory IN one sense and conservative in another. The
second are powerful and enlightened, but not COM
prenensive enough for the age in which they live
and move. ErudltiOn, experience ana love or
humanity have worked together IN the author and
produced great results. He recognizes the woes of
men aud nations !. eatailea M npon them by mistaken
yet ne shrlnks from the broad truth Of codes and
systems like those which, Notwithstanding all their
what il really '.the New World" He admits that
the time Is "out OF joint" and that the general
apeIa ua nature II man s ' dark " ana dis dstressn p
he nOans out that nen ltsten 10 doubts and even
denlas q an active providence, and mat what IS
those who believe THAT an atheistica society, nj
though Il may be polished and amiable Involves the
seeds OF ANARCHY, the prospect is fun or goomo
TORYIsM THE SALVATION OF THE TINE.
Yet even while not merely admitting but urging
the Roman Church on the one hand and the free
spirit Of wha, might be termed american theology"
on 'hs s,o,n Other .nd Ia .. ESord after a his
he sinks mack at the last into British torylsul There
Is his high mountain, his strong castle, Inc cloud
piercing Pisgah, from which lie surveys the Canaan
si an English, and, consequently, as he would have
! IL, OF a Worldwide millennium.
WHAT DlsKAEfl MEANS.
Ip tine this preface we think, explains "tothNI -
and with It the literary and political signHcanev Of
| what has been written and performed bv Tie KlghL
Ilon. Benjamin Dlsrael The lools on !oois' who
''still ask what Hamlet meapsn may cease their
! querulou1 complaining The october manifesto
| from uughcnden Manor battling, in one paragraph,
against Cntiich llaiIollily and.thc divine riaht OF
| kings, and IN ihe other against that government
OF the peope ~ the people which s the secret, after
al, OF Mudfe Ndtano, ana the mystical "8ariannc''
or "Mary Ann AZ ine honorable gentleman prefers
10 spell u, indicates painiy enough the real bent
ANA object OF the authors mind. He Is he friend
o! established authorIty. but not In the od feuai
sense; he ls Tor pr0.reSs pui i3 ~ republican,; nc
The Portland daily press., 1870-02-04

The Hartford Courant tantalzes its readers
with this atrocty: "Have you heard of the man
who got shot? He bought EN-.
The khedive's four wives are in continual
squabbles occasioued by Jealousy, and the vice.
roy has frequently to separate them himself
when the hair begins to fly too seriously.
Prof. G. ii. Hitchcock, Of Dartmouth Col
leoe has been elected foreign member OF the
Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh
A Chicago paper, after remarking that al
tboucb il "bas heep said that frailty IS the
nroner Distinctive appellation to apply to the
xweaxer sex. perhaps fickleness would have
hoen a better word, >" tells the story of bloom-
mo widow in that city who plighted her troth
to five lovers and married only one
A wonderful spectacle was observed in Ger
many on the night of the 1st Of January. AT
Meseritz, from midnight to one o'clock, the
entire northern sky presented the appearance
OF sea of fire, from which fell constant and
dense shower of many colored sparks. Inc
immense sheet of surging flame hnally LOOK
the form of fiery arch, from which the Drl,i-
liant rain continued to descend TILL the wno'e
waxed gradually fainter and disappeared.
The university of Edinburg has mads -. :" 40
rapoemeuts to enable ladies who wish ., ~ froy,
| to study medicine, but in a separate enresentsd
men. Five lady students nave PaFemale
| themselves In London there I;asrcr - 81 ths
| Medical Society,"" under the pe,;eSaS, , s,aSJ.
ne, 1,eI s cSS.oshrrv which estaonsheu meoI
i Ear y, y, e. women five years ago. and o.
S5;as Ia Loys dnriug that period avaiied tnsn
laules nan 70 9,cilities; most of them have since
seisee vtad in business and are succeeding aanih-
ably
The Portland daily press., 1870-02-04

WHILE THE PRINCE OF WALES WAS HERE
Mr.. buchanan yielded to the courtly notions
prevalent in diplomatic circles, and when the
two dined at the British Legation, the Prince
was placed at the head of the table and the
President at the foot, the host occupying a
subordinate position. This rule of precedence
has not been repeated. Presiden. Grant has
received the Prince courteously, but he has
not called upon him any more than he would
call upon any other distinguished foreigner. At
the State dinner, given at the White House,
the President handed in Mrs. Senator Will
liams, while the Prince followed with Mrs.
Grant, and sat at her side. At the British
Legation, and also at the house of Secretary
Fish, the young gentleman handed in
the lady of the house, and sat at her left. In
fact, the Prince has been treated as tray-
elling gentleman of distinction. He was care
full to see that the press correspondents had
tickets to the ball in Washington, even when
Senators failed to procure them for lady
friends.
The Portland daily press., 1870-02-04

A FAMILY FROZEN TO DEATH.-The Siou1
City Times of the goth ult. gives the particu-
lars of one of the many cases Of suffering by
the recent snow storm. The facts are about
as follows: "a man named Dowd, with his
family, lately took homestead on the Yer
million River, about four miles north of Ver-
million City, d. T. On last Sunday, while
the snow storm was at its height, the shanty
in which the settler and his family lived was
so open as to expose its occupants to the fury
OF the storm. There being no signs of an
abatement of the storm, Mr.. Dowd, aecompa-
MED by his wife and three children, the lat
ter aged respectively fourteen, eight and SIX
years, started for a neighbors house, about
forty rods distant. Mr.. Dowd, with the six
year-o.d child in his aims, started in ADVANCE,
his wife and the two other children following.
On the way the father, with one of the chill
dren in his arms, got separated from his wife
and the other two children. After Mr.. Dowd
reached the house of his neghbor, he looked
around, and not seeing his wife and children
Immediately gave the alarm. The occupants
of the house started out in search of the miss.
ing members. Every effort was used to dis
cover the whereabouts OF the lost ones, but
proved unavaiing. The next morning Mon
day. the frozen bodies of the mother and Two
children were found about seventy-nve rous
from the house. They had lost tneir way,
and the density of the flying snow nad Kept
the unfortunate mother and children from be-
| inc able to find the house.
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e''''ss $500 per onna,ne, in adrance.
Presumpscot R.w

have read with good deal Of so.,.s..,.
the articles which have appeared Of iata a'1n =.
the PRESS on this subject, hoping thn. ~
interest which had been awakened won,a .ne
suit in something more than talk and for ,ha
purpose of helping 10 keep the lballI moving /
propose to give my ideas, which have OBJ
tanned, partly from observation, but principal
ly from conversation with others; so that If
any one finds his ideas embraced in this arti-
Gle, he will not accuse the writer of plagiar
ism but consider that due credit is acknowl-
edged.
Presumpscot river, unlike most other rivers,
is unnavigable, therefore useless as a means
of transportation. That being the case 1t
can only be valuable for manufacturing pur-
poses, the facilities for which are to a limited
extent improved; but my idea at this time
is to call the attention of the public to the
feasibility of constructing dam across the
mouth of the river (where the new bridge isl
and TO show if possible some of the adyan-
tages OF such work, and IN order to do that
shall give description of plan which Is
not claimed to be perfect or free from objec-
ton. The dam should be one hundred feet
wide at least, and high enough to give fall
OF eight or ten feet at high water. The river
being very short and its banks very high,
such dam would icause little damage by
fowa9e; and we may as well answer anoth-
er objection here as elsewhere-the damage
to Portland harbor. 1t has not been shown
positively that any damage to the harbor
would result; but the opinion of eminent
scientific men has been given that there
would be danger of the gradual filling up OF
some channels. Allowing such TO be the
case, a small outlay in dredging would be
nothing compared to the advantages. Now
for the results. Such work would give
Portland one of the most magnificent water
powers in the country and render her equal
to any other city for manufacturing facilities,
which would invite foreign capital and tend
to increase population more than any other
enterprise in which her citizens could engage.
And had not the city already plentiful sup
ply of pure water she might have the waters
of the Sebago laid at her doors at very much
less rate than al present, for within two miles
of her city building there would be lake of
two or three thousand scres in extent from
ten to thirty feet deep, which could not by
any possibility be any otherwise than pure,
with power equal to the Schuylkill to fill the
reservoirs; the surface of which lake would
furnish ice OF the best quality sufficient to
supply the world, free from sawdust, edeings,
and other impurities of like nature which
are una 7odable in such rivers as the Penob-
scot and Kennebec, and of as easy access to
shipping, both of large and small class as the
Mharves OF Portland harbor. This Is no over
drawn picture, but true representation; the
TACT OF which any one who will take the
trouble to investigate, will acknowledge that
Portland has within her reach one of the
best opportunities for her own prosperity
that nature has anywhere provided.
FoRDYoE
The Portland daily press., 1870-02-04
FoRDYCE.

A GooD POINT TO A MoRAL.-As anec-
dotes of Mr.. Peabody are in order, we print
the following anecdote 10 illustrate bis delicate
tact and impress the cultivation of fine man
ners: Mr. Peabody asked Mr.. Plaisted NV. T.
conductor on Eastern Railroadl If he could
leave him the Boston papers occasionally dur
ing his visits 10 his sister in Georgetown,
which Mr.. Plaisted was very happy to do. de-
elinins Mr.. Peabody's offer to pay for them,
saying he was happy to do anything to oblige
one who had done so much for humanity,
and here the matter ended, as the conductor
supposed, till he was surprised by the gift of
an elaborately chased, gold-lined, silver vase,
bearing the inscription, 'W. T. Plalsted, from
George Peabody"
The Portland daily press., 1870-02-04

The Ice CRoP.-The mild weather of the
present winter has caused apprehersions of a
scarcity in supply of ice the coming summer
aud we observe that ice dealers in New York
have increased the charge 81 on the hundred
pounds to hossekeekers. So far as we can
learn the ice in most of the rivers in this State
is only about one-half its usual thickness, and
though it will probably increase somewhat du-
ring the present month its quality will not be
improved, if the theory is correct that we have
heard advanced that ice made late in the season
does not keep 80 well as that made in December
and January on account of the influence of the
increased warmth of the sun upon it. During
the last few years the expectation of ice from
the Kennebec river has assumed large proper
tions, and the article has won a preference
over that brought from other regions. AT pres
ent many have fer the first time gone into this
business. The Bath Times estimates the crop
of the river this year at 10000 tons, which Is
PROBABLY larger than will be realized. We no
tice that ice secured last year on the Hudson
being sent East from New York by steamer.
The Portland daily press., 1870-02-04

FEMALE BRoKERs.-It has recently been
ascertained that the members of an extensive
private stock operators and brokers' firm In
this city, known as Woodruff, Claffin & Co.,
protegees of Com. Vanderbilt, are females.
The house has been in business over two years,
the managers are ladies and sisters. A repor-
ter, who yesterday had an interview with one
of them, learned that although their opera
tions were conducted solely through agents In
the street, they made aboat 100000 during
the September panic. Mrs. Woodruff sat in
her carriage, day by day, from morning till
evening, in Broad street, watching the street
and operating heavily, and that in the end she
came out winner, and assisted more than
one of her friends of the street to retain their
own after their prospects in life were nearly
swept away.-N. Y. Post.
The Portland daily press., 1870-02-04

How HE GOT THE VICTORIA CRoss.-Cap-
tain Commerell, of the Monarch, during the
Crimean war served with the British feet of
Venikale, where the Russians had an impor-
tant depot of ammunition, arms and commits
sary stores One dark, windy night he rowed
ashore with no companion but his coxswain,
crept up to the storehouses and set fire to them
on the windward side. The whole depot was
consumed, but before the two Englishmen
could get away the coxswain was badly
wounded Captain Commerell took him ON
his back, reached the boat, and pulled off In
safety to his ship. That is how he got his
"victoria Cross" and he was one Of the first
upon whom that reward of bravery was ever
conferred. -
The Portland daily press., 1870-02-04

"THE LAST ATHENIAN," the great Swedish
Historical Romance, translated by our towns
maniW. W. Thomas Jr., has, We are glad to
see, already reached second edition. Messrs.
Peterson s. Brothers have made the second
edition more attractive than the first so far as
the mechanical execution of the work is con-
cerned. The reception the first edition
met with entirely iustifies the publishers. Inc
comments of the press are almost uniformly
favorable and often enthusiastic. The en-
tbusiasm. too, seems to be in direct ratio to the
culture and literary taste ofthe readers fos
sale bv Bailey s. Noyes.
The Portland daily press., 1870-02-04

SINGULAR AND SAD EFFECT OF BOILER
EXPLOSION ON A YOUNG GIRL.-Connected
with the recent boiler explosion in Worcester.
the Spy relates the following: LID ...
Though there are no deaths TO record in con.
nection with the disaster, yet there is young
girl-Lizzie White, who lived in the dwelling
house adjoining g-who was thrown into convul-
sions by the shock and remained all day in the
greatest pain and speechless 1t is feared that
her injuries will prove fatal, or, if she should
recover, her mental faculties will be destroyed
for life. She sat in the kitchen, with her back
to the wall, about ten feet from where the end
dow, which was knocked out, the stove thrown
down, and the room filed with dust and wa
ter. She sprang up, ran into the entry, and
crouched down on the floor, where she re-
mained until taken up and put upon bed.
She was visited during the day by thirteen diff
ferent physicians, but no relief could be found
for her sufferipgs.
The Portland daily press., 1870-02-04

Wilhelm Won Humbolt best defines Ian
guage as "the breaking forth of the power of
Speech, according to the mental cast of a peo-
pIe;' and there really does seem to be some-
thing. in the phonetic differences of tongues
significant of the character of the nations
which use them. The stateiness of the Ro-
man, the volatile quckness of the Greek, the
confused philosophy of the German, the coarse
directness of the Celt, and the gabbling readi-
ness Of the Gaul, find echoes in the sounds OF
their respective tongues.
The Portland daily press., 1870-02-04

LORING Sc THURSTON. AUeu
No % Exchange Street, Portlando
INSURANCE.
STATEMENT
- OF THE
North American Ins. Co.,
BOS TON.
CAPITAL 900.

ASSETS
Cash value Of Real Estate, ........... $12341.17
Cash loaned. secured by mortgage on
heal EState,. Observation-Disclosures. 81 500 OF
Cash Market value Of U. S. Stock and
Securities. ,..;.....:..:.......:....... 11G,SsI25
City, Town Stocks, Bonds and Loans, 26,462.5O
Cash Market value of State and Nat
ional Bank Stocks owned by tie
Company. ..:....;.:.:"....:........ s21,n5
Cash Market value of Rail Road Stocks
and Bonds owned by Company,..... 375O6
Cash Market value OF all other Corpor-
ate Stocks, Bonds and Securities
owned by the Company. 3O95
Cash loaned by the Co.. secured by
mortgage on pledge of Stocks, Bonds
and other Securities ................ ~ ID 500
@ Cash on nand IN once OF the Company. 2,013.A
Cash deposited in Merrimack National
Bank: .."..."..... 1l,496.9a
transmission. ....:...........". 2,522.s7
Cash due Co, Office premiums in course
- OF coHectlon,. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 2, 1858
Cash amount OF Interest due and not
pad accrued but not yet DUE. ..,... 2,46s.1O
Cash value of all other assets not inclu-
ded in above. e,........................ 3,5s21s
COS, 1865
1B-No unpaid losses and no unsettled claims
against the Company.
Policies issued against usual hazards OF Fire.
Perpetual Policies issued On Brick and Framed
Dwellings.
IRVING MORSE, Secretary.
ALBERT BowKEn, President.
OFFICE, 1G6 Fore street, Portland,
JOHN w. MUNGER & SON, Agents.
ian31eCd3w
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Empire Mutual
Life. ms. Co., Of New York,
N. Il. Branch, 32 WashingtoaeI ST.,
BOSTON.
HEADLEY & CLARY, MANAGERS.

HEADLEY & CLARY, MANAGERS.
T'HE success of the Empire Mutual Life Insur-
ance Co. has been uDeQualed.
why DOas Its manags ment is able. economical
and reliable.
All its Policiesare NonforfcitabIe md iucon-
tesiibie for any cause but iraud.
All restrictions on Trauei ami Residence removed,
and no permits required, experience and statistics
proving them to be unnecessary, while they are
vexatlou5 and expensive the insured; aud no
extra charge for women, or any class OF ordinary
risks.
No accumulation of interest increasing annual
Dividends on the Progressive Plan, and also upon
the Guarantee Interest Plan. These declared
annually.
The EMPIRE stands alone in the simple justice Of
incOntesibte policies in case Of suicide, death for
crime, or by accidental cause of any kind
1t has also adopted Massachusetts law in full,
The per ect method OF giving loan, if desired, is
also peculiar to this company.
Lille Policies become seli-sustaining in sixteen
years, while endowments return from six to seven
per cent as all investment.
or another table, pronounced by the highest au-
thorty in This State sound and sale, and whose COM
mendaton OF the company is unqualified an east.
ern paper says:
"THE EMPIRE MUTUAL of New York, with a
Orauch In Boston, company lOf sufficiently recent
origin to embrace all the improvements of the past
twenty-hve years experience, have devised method
by h1ch the assured is made certain OF as good in
terest as he would receive from a savings bank
while hels insured at the same time, making his in
surance virtually gift.
There is a seeming advantage in an old compapy:
but assets and liabilities go together and the greaS
strain on Life Co is when lisks Of 10 to 25 years
standing 10 be met.
Who can tell The blessings which attend such
timely provl ion for the future OF dependent ones!
Ask o. X. STAPLES, Register OF Probate and
special Agent for this Company, at the Probate
Office.
nBAgenss of Character and Ability
VI anted.
For information inquire OF
J.U. Parsons
Room 12, Cahoon ock, Block, Gen. Agent for Maine
VIM: H. HARRINGTON, and BYRON STEVENS,
Special Agenls at the General Office, Portland.
Jan 29-dtf 'U.H 80
The Portland daily press., 1870-02-04

Gens Eh0nhas und the Battle OF NASHVILLE.
II will be recollected that General Haleck
made an after dinner speech in San Francisco
last summer, in which he gave a detailed his
tory of the contemplated removal of Major
Gen. Thomas, pending the celebrated battle
of Nashville, and claimed the credit OF having
saved Gen. Thomas by pocketing the order
relieving him. This placed General Grant in
an unfavorabie position, as it did also Gen. Lo-
gan, who, it had been reported, had reached
Louisville with an order to relieve Thomas,
In this paper we print complete history
Of the affair, including the official orders,
which now tor the first time are given to the
public. A perusal of these orders, in con-
nection with Gen. Halleck's San Francisco
version OF the proceedings will show that on
ly one person is damaged by the publication
of the facts, and that Individual is Gen. Hal.
leck. The truth vindicates Grant, Thomas
and Logan.
The letter and spirit of General Grants or.
ders show very clearly that he entertained a
very high opinion of General Thomas, and
that nothing short of what he regarded as
absolute necessity could have induced him to
relieve that veteran and splendid soldier; but
he feared that Hood would cross the Cumber-
land river and march toward the Ohio, and
that thus the opportunity for destroying one
of the three remaining armies might be lost.
The crisis was an important one, and Grant
was anxious that a decisive blow should be
struck, and struck by Thomas, if he could be
prevailed upon to do it; but at any rate that
Hood should be promptly attacked. This
feeling was shared at Washington, as will be
seen by a dispatch from Secretary Stanton.
An order relieving Thomas was actually
made out in accordance with instructions
from General Grant. This is the order
which Halleck says he carried in his pocket,
but the official dispatches show that Grant
himself countermanded it in two hours after
he had ordered it, and this was done several
days before the battle of Nashuille. The rea-
son for suspendng the order relieving Thorn
as is fully stated in the official dispatches.
Finally, General Logan was sent to Nash
vile under verbal order. 1t was the inten-
as had not moved when he reached there.
Soon thereafter General Grant started tor
Nashville TO take general command, but on
arriving at Washington he heard of the sue
cess of General Thomas, and of course he did
not 60 TO Nashville. Logan got not further
South than Louisville, and from that place
sent dispatch to General Grant asking to be
ordered to join his command under General
Sherman, which was done.
This publication disposes of the idea that
General Grant was influenced by feeling oil
jealousy or personal hostility toward General
Thomas, while it causes the character of Gen
eral Thomas, who is dear to the American
people, TO shine with increased brilliancy.-
Cincinnati Commercial.
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MISS JONES,
The Blind CZuircOUO1at.

"OULD announce to her friends and patrons
w that she has returned to the city for a short
period OF time, having changed from her former
residence to No Al Paris ST. where she can be con-
Quilted upon Diseases, present and future business
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