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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCE. AL.
By Telegraph to DAILY JOURNAL:
New York Money Market.

NEW YORK, Feb. L. Evening.
Money easy and more active at to 6 per cent.
Foreign Exchange firm and unchanged.
Gold closed heavy at 1l9E.
Governments closed at the following quotations
United States Skies (coupons) 1881 ll1zall
" 5-20s 1862, lcouponsl. ll5dll5I
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The Reporters in each House will give ar, mpar
tial abstract Of the remarks of members. trcnfle
men desiring the remarks of members published il
full, will be accommodated with space, the only ex
pcnse to them being that of putting the same il
type.
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Thayer is getting out some splendid ice and
storing it tor sale next summer. We notice
that several of our saloon keepers are putting
ice into their cellars for their own use.
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A STERLING ARTICLE.-Natures Hair Restor.
attire. So clear, fragrant efficient in restoring
gray hair and keeping the head healthy. IS cents a
bottle. Ask your druggist for it. See advertise.
ment sn
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A CARD TO THE LADIES.

HARTFORD, CT, Feb. ]. 1870
Having for nearly two years been assistant to
DIR. Farrar of Hartford in the treatment dis
eases peculiar to women" have had opportunities
of Judging and testify to the Doctors delicate
manner of conducting his examinations ana opera.
tons. The poor, well those of rank and for
tune, were always treated with evident SINCERITY
and honesty of purpose. A more kind, careful and
judicous medical adviser, never knew.
Mrs. f. CHANDLER WHEELER.
81 By permission the Doctor refers to many OF
the leading physicians in the country and to scores
of the most prominent citizens of Hartford, New
York New Haven and vicinity.
n. b. Mrs. DR. FARRAR, the MEDICAL Lee
rCRER to Women, is always in attendance during
Office hours for Ladies.
81 ONCE hours from to II NJ, 2 to 5 P. IL. and
from to p. NJ.
~ He makes no charge for consultation.
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Daily Kennebec Journal.

by the Western Union Line-OfIices Granite Bank
Building and the State Housed
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Chicago Produce Market

CHICAGO, Feb. IL
FLOCR-low and medium grades moderately
active; spring extras 5000 5l2 X.
WHEAT-dull and lower; No. 81;
CORN-dull and lower; No. 69s691a.
OATS-heavy; No 3S4
RYE-dull and lower; No. 6T967H.
LARD-active and frmer at lax
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A GARD!
DR.. FarTaT
Is STATE STREET
First Iousa South nj the AuRuxto home.

Augusta. Me.
Late Resident Ply stefan and Surgeon of Hartford
Ct and for seven years a general practitioner in
the cities of New York and Brooklyn, has opened
for practice in Augusta at his Office rooms, Ii state
Street, LIST house south of the Augusta House,
where he may be consulted for month prior to his
visit to Bangor and his return to Hartford, Conn.
DIR. FARRAR has for many years gwen exclu.
sive attention to CHRONIC or long-standing dis
eases. No physician has had greater success In the
treatment of diseases peculiar to women and chill
dren.
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New York Stock Market.

New YORK, Feb II.
| At S P. NJ. the market closed at the following
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DieD.

In Gardiner, 18th inst, Margaret wife of Albert
Lovejoy, aged 81 years.
In Auburn, 10th inst, Samuel Atwood, aged 81
years.
The Republican journal., 1870-03-10
HOW SHALL WE INCREASE OUR GRASS
CROP?

This is question that needs putting often. do
not know what is the average per acre in the State,
but | do knew that there are hundreds of acres
that do not cut over l to IA tons per acre. And
refer now not to land that is worn out and needs
rcnovang, but to good, rich soil, that, at the same
time having been long seeded neglected, will not
produce satisfactory crop.
Shall we plough There are risks in ploughing
some of our moist meadows that need underdrain-
ing but don't get it. They may not ''take seed
WELL besides it is expensive seeding the best OF our
land. | had Il meadow containing three acres,
probably the best piece of ground on the farm that
had become ''hde bound and did not produce
more than half crop. The neighbors said l
would have to plough 1t up. | am naturally obst-
nate, and concluded not to plough it. In the fall
of 1853 | covered part OF the field with light coat
of manure and waited. The next season could
not see the least effect from the manure. The
grass-l do not know what to call twas short
thick, fine and tough. 1t was like moving sleeps
fleece. And / suppose the "clip" from small
flock of American Mernos would outweigh the hay
we got.
was covered with manure say ten loads per acre.
Then [ carefully went over that previously manur-
ed and spread load here and there, as to ma Ike
it all near alike as possible. In the spring, be-
fore the grass started, | sowed seven hundred
pounds of gypsum on the piece. Here made a
mistake for know now that four hundred pounds
would have done lust as well. towards the last
OF June we moved this field me change IN one
season was wonderful 1t was no trouble to cut
the grass now, fine and thick STILL but entirely clo-
yer: mostly red, with little white. do not be-
eve there was quarter of a ton OF all other kinds
of grass put together. We had no ''tedder" but by
poking" diligently, got it fit for the cock that day.
The cocks almost touched, and took little pride
in letting them stand over one day for people to
look at. The day after that we got in the hay.
There was more than double the crop of former
ycars-fulIy ten tons of cured hay: some estimat-
ed it higher. Besides, when October came had Il
second growth that would cut more than the whole
product of '63 or "a. But did not cut it, for
slider it an unpardonabe sin to NOW meadow
twice in one season. The cows and oxen moved
it beautifully. This in 1865, and for three
years following there was no apparent decrease.
Last season QS69) the decrease was apparent, but
the product still above two tons per acre. with
no outlay since 1854. In the meantime have ex-
perimented on other fields, and have uniformly OBJ
tanned the best results with manure applied in the
fall and winter and gypsum sowed in the spring.
That is to say. with both; it might do equally well
to SOW the latter in the fall, but have not tried
it.
Now, with labor at 81 IS to 50 per day. prefer
the above results to poughing and seeding, though
some may not. They may prefer to plough every
five wears and NOW ten times between. But every
one to his notion. Rural New Yorker
The Republican journal., 1870-03-10
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AS A MODEL
FARMER

M, I,,1ar,oss Cour;or has tl,a follov,ino srrnunt
'.ot ,ist ~ tha Emnero %anninnn model
farn, 9, at V;nr"nncs. The farm is >, comtortahc
aal;ra az ane Without anv artemt T smmnrioritv
~ aiT,t IF hniIding or nirtntsnnrnpss an the a.
tision hnt,yenn tbc fields i = snnE.1ry ditch or
a,igh naiing The tirst tbing we visitfl was the
ih;ai il,ro a., bou.n enntnining 5on cows
r. - rarreIv nossihir to Give an arclIratc idea of
the fine anncarancp of tbe COWS. or of thr variety
aornanntnJ in that ona nInra rbn En1nnror nnyer
No. n1 thina nv bolvni ani he has agants all c,er
S % .'t,ti1 80 tI ] 'ra' Of n+,;jl; aI ,ii' ~
hu.opo' Miio i. ''it f l;h u ~ h; ca
petioIS - te iesui. VI liiri - ~ IN
Stoeh ,' a. d ~ " w. - iea'. +t I,' & a.
dlt al aiioi @ oi ,s t.t nav . e,l ~ o
prizes at tile pIlhclp' AZ SHOWS ~ SCOT
@ lI' iSII W. I, % i'f h ~ nn .il,s
sihu ouPoio pioh poNu 1AilS"' Wv Inv ~ oiin
"eIe ltliis = ~ .iiilni:. I'm eli
ehoLlio's lla'1S any lluSt u','L ?lIi COWS
WIN tiicit uqe -iiht no,G' n'Ho9 uom >
scarcely 10 pe ui5!I!isulsltu III sl.le ,'iiu hthe'
rom ine sturdy nt'le hortn:couiitl! rreich ail,-
mas, DuIch cows; Mllh lhtlt . ttilSanly rouhuGd-
oh5hS, anu Sou INNING qt'nteS even uiH SiZtlit-
vs1u @ a'iIf iiu ~ a eN M luel!
were 4ulte III h9iIe. III Il pulluihS eIhSe oy We're
the Dils oi inc oitliil ,e9' cohi"l tu'ls nouSetl
IN loose BOXES. Aiter lingering III ms piare OF
oyres' we Welll 10 sec 1ie seep theE were aIi Wen
housed GHtlis III Wooieh ~, nuuiSN' put Wt1h spa-
tlous paudoths III 'front.' ihelt "tIe 'outiuo"iS,
Lelce'terS' CheNlots, ana various oiher hlhus' OF
Whlch lhe Dlack-lTeu iilshlnu m breeu: ana IL slali
species iron the lyrehees the prel'leSt as lar as
shape Wenll were lhe most conspicuous. Ihere
"to aiso solie seI. ?oou spccleLis Vi 'he on! he
orfeu 70 De 19und IN IN france, thc pre- sdle from
@ @aloul9 anu o?o" tIe i as oe oIas. lcAi IN
9pevIe9 tiic pigs. ines WeIc az lhslde nuil'ing
~ sla i9ose BOXES, lhe Vehlia1ion more than M
ssrI'ei, me stench was oleaul ~ nolhlhS put Il
tat utstlatioh 10 see an ellioleu us TO 20 pa
,b iu,n pen 70 pen' iiGle, as III other liinSs
I,p ~ Emperor o. had lala f EUROPE unoer tribute.
ihnploNe9 ip beIKsnireS, ana great 1orkshlre pigs
inllo'eu SunolkS, Ms WIN the shortest possible
o,.9u,s sne iafge Mestphaan breed and the small
er klha rom Austria, with numberess other sorts,
ntae f 1919 ~ very a teIes.'g Isl colefuoh pat 1he place
VI o monot ma1 n1'eu ny an nsnsh pig ealied AR
nope Mii''a a'au gaihea many ~ prlze IN ITS own
.ouii A.'ei letoNeIhs niue Ill tfie iresh ar
W e f; ~ oeIl, Jul stc 10 d dISc Sicu Where some
anu I oulipei soille liacneTv was kept
III tl9t5oH py lhe Geaseless round OF huge bilnd-
% aGluet "lss OK me ooecl OF ms was simply to
Sop Sn , .e nSe M "ur.zel &C.. LOT me cows as not
alus IN tnere f e was pallls nre, used solely
t su 1SaeS S,, iGnu ioI ps we eouu nor hep thlnk-
higged g Gp@ speeuy aeetGn farmer would have com
thIs uy.sa of t;"o "o'a d anu uone away win
of tbe ow tvyo an % orn u, ~ man a Was . ~ chalse
The Republican journal., 1870-03-10
COUNTRY BOYS IN THE CITY.

The Country Gentleman remarks that it is the
common ambition of the country boys to quit the
farm and make for themselves a home in the city.
And it is true that majority of the first business
firms in our large cities are recruited from the
ranks of the country boys 1t is also true that the
majority of those who come to the city to seek their
fortunes are swallowed up in the great maelsrom
of dissipation, and 90 to the bottom in dozen years
on so.
Now who are the successful ones and what made
them so? They are not the young men who came
to the city that they might throw off the restraints
OF home and ''See life, and ''have chance to en-
JOY themselves" They are the young men who
came to the city with sound principles with deter
mnaton to work hard to make themselves posi-
ton, with Willingness to do any honest work,
and a steady resolution to shun like VIPER bad
company. No other boys need come to the city,
with the hope of advancing themselves in the
world. Boys that shirk never get the 'tine Situa-
tons there. Boys that smoke and drink are not
in demand among keen sighted merchants. Sab
batll-breaking and theatre-going boys are not ad-
| vanccd to high positions even BY worldly employ
crS.
! The boy who wishes to rise, who hopes some
day to build his palace, must learn great deal out
side of his daily routine. lie should paste up over
his room table somewhere where he can often
see it, ''Knowedge is Power" The carpenter who
draw his plans, make out his estimates, under
stand the legal form necessary in putting up his
buildings, can tell what materials best to use
where they can be best purchased, what is the most
| economical means of transport, and a hundred
other things that arise in building, will be the
to grow rich and influential in his business, while
the man who can only handle his and hammer
must be content to drudge on in grinding poverty
ent way in which leisure minutes and hours are
passed. Your evenings, young men, will generally
decide whether your future is to be of cheerful
prosperity or one of narrowing priyation.
The Republican journal., 1870-03-10

A CENTS WORTH OF INK. General Boyn-
ton, the Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, tells the following Incl
dent, showing how sharp clerk brought to
light one of the tricks of that honest frater-
nifty known as government contractors: A
clerk in the Interior has done and said good
thing. Contractors who bid for stationery in
the departments have u trick of bidding very
low upon all articles which do not come into
general use, and very high upon the staples.
This has the effect of making the average of
the bills low, and at the same time afordng
q large profit. One of these contractors had
marked blue ink, quarts, down onhis schedule
at one-eghth of Il cent per dozen. A day Or
two since he was surprised at receiving an
order for eight dozen. He hurried up to the
department in person. The Chief of division
knew no great necessity for such flood of
blue ink, and the clerk ordering it was sum-
moned to explain the sudden demand. He
replied that nothing unusual had occurred to
increase the call for blue ink, but that he had
not thought it worth while to order less than
a cents worth.
The Republican journal., 1870-03-10

LIFE IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY. An En-
glish traveller, who has recently published Il
volume on his wanderings in this country
tells of the dangers to which settlers in the
Far West are exposed from the Indians, and
mentions a lone farm house on the borders of
Arizona and Sonoma, where he once rest
ed while en- route for Hermosillo. The
rancho was built on rock, and still further
fortified by being surrounded with wall of
stone. The sole inhabitants were five young
women and little boy, the father and the
eldest brother being out in the mountains
cutting wood for the miners. The family
came from the Southern States, "and," said
one of the girls, Gas we uns could not live
with you Yanks, father thought it best to
clear out in time' At first the emigrants
got on very we'll, their ilocks and herds null
tiplied, and their land produced abundantly.
But the Apaches found them out, and drove
off the stock again and again they killed
two of their brothers, and frightened their
mother to death when the last little boy was
born. One of the girls, when fifteen years
old, had fallen into an ambuscade Of Apaches
in the mountains, The miners gave chase,
whereupon the savages, being hard pressed,
stripped her naked, knocked her senseless
with blow on her head, speared her in sew
eral places, and left her for dead. She roll
ed down steep Dank ana lay tof 1orty-e1ght
hours unconscious. She then recovered her
senses, and without food or water crawled
in six days thirty miles to the mine where
her father was-a pretty tough story, or else
a wonderfully tough girl. The five girls who
were alone in the rancho had plenty of fire
arms, and knew well how to use them be-
hind their stone barricades; but it is very
easy to see that their life must be one of
great anxiety, especially when their father
and brother are away in the mountains.
The Republican journal., 1870-03-10
MY MOTHERS GRAVE.
BY GEORGE ID. PRENTICE.

The trembling dew drops fall
Upon the shutting flowers, like souls at res
The stars shine gloriously, and all,
Save me. is blest
Mother, love thy grave;
The violet, with its blossoms blue and mild,
Waves DER thy head-when shall it wave
Above thy child?
'Tis bright flower, yet must
Its bright leaves to the coming tempest boW
Dear mother! tits thine embIem-ust
Is on thy brow.
And I could love to die,
To leave untasted life's dark, bitter streams
By thee, as erst in childhood. lie.
And share thy dreams.
And must linger here,
To stain the plumage of my snless years,
And mourn the hopes to childhood dear
With bitter tears.
Aye, must linger here,
A lonely branch upon {; blasted tree,
Whose last fral leaf, untimelv Sere.
Went down with thee.
Oft from life's withered bower,
In still communion with the past turn
And muse OH thee, the only flower
In Memory's urn.
And when the evening pale
Bows like mOurner on the dim blue wave.
| stray to hear the night winds wall
Around thy grave.
Where is thy spirit flownS
I gaze abOve-thy look is im.ged there:
l listen, and thy gentle tone
Is on the air.
Oh! come, while here / press
Ny brow upon thy grave-in those mild
And thrilling tones of tenderness
Bless, bless thy child.
The Republican journal., 1870-03-10
Prime, writing to the New Yorl

W. c. Prime, writing to the New York Journal
of Commerce from Egypt says:
Cairo has changed vastly, and changed for the
They say that it has been 'Europeanized" and call
it progress, but | am convinced that no sensible
man who was here twelve or fourteen years ago
can now return and fail to agree with me that the
city Is terribly debased. That this is due to the El-
ropcan element is beyond doubt. The Ezbekieh
was a great garden surrounded by broad street
on which We're large, clean quiet houses. At
dark all was calm and still. The moonlight used to
fall in that square with pure and perfect radiance,
and the picturesque effect of the old attces and the
over hanging houses made it Il constant pleasure to
look at and walk around it. There was something
grand in the sudden silence which iell on the old
city of the Caiphs when the sun had gone down
beyond the Pyramids However stormy had been
the passions in mems minds during the day, what
ever the tempests in the sunlight, all was peace
der the stars, and no sounds of humanity broke the
serene quiet of the night. Even as the sur went
down the voice Of the Muezzn calling to prayer
could be heard over every part of the city, clear
and musical always. and men always paused to
ever telling YOU Of What Cairo Cairo was. I Aias M for the the
old city of Salah-ed-deen The Ezbekeh exists no
longer.
The best part of the square is cut up into build
ing lots, but no one builds on them, and they lie
open, a dusty abomination. All along the sides OF
the square are the lowest and vilest of European
drinking shops and dance houses. The nights are
hideous with drunken shouts, and the streets, now
lighted with gas, are vastly more dangerous by
night than in their ancient darkness. The day is
as noisy the night with European rowdyism.
Wherever you go you find Frenchmen or Italians
generally in row of some kind. Christians. as
you know, if foreigners, are protected from Turk
ish law here. and only subject to the consus of
their own Nations. Hence they are practically
lawess, and hence the fact that Cairo contains
such large numbers of the worst classes of Euro
peans.
The influx of these men has driven the old Gus
toms of the Mohamedan people out of sight. The
assemblies for prayer, which used to be common
IN the Ezbekeh, are no longer seen. The whole
aspect Of the Mouski and the Ezbekieh is fast get
ting to resemble the poorer streets and squares of
Genoa or Marseilles. fit were not that the trav-
cief, turning his eye westward, sees the immuta-
bic grandeur of the Pyramids on the desert,s edoe
he would not know the Cairo of to-day nj all
The Republican journal., 1870-03-10
VOLUME 40.

agree in the opinion that none of our clearheaded
practical north-country farmers would approve all
together of the management. There appeared, for
instance, to be great deal of waste. Owing to
the racks in the COW byre being so low, the ami
mails trod good deal under foot; the hay being
cut over ripe, the trough in the COW byre was
strcwed with the seed which in our country and in
Holland is used with such advantage mixed with
other things We saw it swept away before the
animals were entered, and asked if they made use
of it, The manager smiled again, and seemed
quite amused by such an economical idea. As we
returned to Paris we talked with our friend over
what had most struck u.s. He had been both in
England and Scotland and admired the farms and
management exceedingly
The Republican journal., 1870-03-10
The Brunswick Telapranb hoars :, ,.,,,,

The Brunswick Telegraph hears a rumor
that the losers by the robbery of the Bowdoin-
ham Bank, year or two since had COM
pounded the affair, taking 60 per cent. of tn e
loss, agreeing not to prosecute. AS the story
was told us, the whole amount taken was
offered, provided the robbers in Thomaston
prison could be released. This was pro-
nounced impossible. The inference is that
the parties having the bonds were afraid to
negotiate them Indeed, it is said. that from
the bonds returned not a coupon had been
detached
The Republican journal., 1870-03-10

Deacons are good men. We have known
deacons who got along as well with their
wives, in the journey of life, as brokers or
bankers-almost as comfortably as insurance
men or publishers. Now Deacon c., of
Il, was a good man, but he had his
peculiarites. The last sickness of his wife
was somewhat prolonged and at times her
attacks were SO violent that the attendants
thought each would be her last. The deacon.
upon the recurrence of these attacks, was al
ways called from his work; but after few
of them, he always assured her and those
about her she was in no danger of dying
One day the deacon was busiv at work when
he was notified that his wife was worse, and
was diving. "Oh no, she amt; she'll come
out ali right-no trouble" he said But the
attendants insisted upon it that he should 90
in, and that his wife was worse, and was dy-
ing. So the deacon laid down the tools with
which he was at work, and went to the room
occupied by his wife and to her bedside
After looking at her for few minutes, he
turned to those present and exclaimed
"Well, there; this looks more like it :" And
so it proved-the deacon was never called
again. [Harper's Magazine.
There is q negro in Holly Springs, Mis-
sissippi, whose only name is Charles Lewis
William Augustus Cox, and he refuses to be
set free. He has been sold twice since the
war, and still ignores Lincoln's emancipation
The Republican journal., 1870-03-10

The trembling dew drops fall
Upon the shutting flowers, like souls at rest;
The stars shine gloriously, and all,
Save me- is blest
The Republican journal., 1870-03-10

VIM. Boynton and VIM Britney are the On
ly Maine men reported among the crew OF
the Oneida
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-05-24
ANOTHER LETTER FROM 0OyE
WHO h NOWS.',
The EOwen.FIOreuce |

EDITOR STAR:-When I charged lately that
Fred. Aiken had bargained with Bowen for the
sale to him OF the support of the Sandau Gasefts
Amen made uIIIIngsgate reply, but failed to
deny the charge. alleged that the first propo-
sition in Il at bargain that the Gasette shoud
bring out the picture and life of Bowen: the
second was that Florence and Aiken should
Ting out Democratic candidate 10 divert suf-
hcient votes from Emery to elect Bowen
My information was good. The Sunday ca
Eette In its next issue had the promised eul0gy of
Bowen, and the picture was not Forthcoming
only In consequence of an accident, Now Flor
ence and Aiken have carried out the second
part OF the eir bargain by undertaking to furnish
the promised Democratic candidate in the
person Of Mr. j. ID. Hoover. L stated that
u eIr dibculty in carrying out this part of
their contract was that no Democrat
would consent to play into their hand,
Tor the use of Mr.. Bowen The
trick was too transparent. But Florence
and Aiken, not to lose their money under the,
contract with Bowen, have resorted to the shall
low trick OF putting into nomination a gentle
man not now in the city, (aud who is far away
in Georgia for his healthy and taking the
chances that this gentleman will not get in
formation OF the unauthorized use of his name
In season to repudiate the dodge. But / hear
that the relatives and friends of Mr. Hoover
have at once branded the scheme as an infamous
fraud, and there is no doubt that Mr.. H. will
soon be heard from to the same effect
Ii Is probable now that the contractors tn
supply Democratic candidate will lose both
their reputation and their money; for il cannot
be supposed that sharpers like the Bowen rim
will be deceived by manufactured candidates of
thls sort. ONE Who KNOWS