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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-28
Found.

Found.
Sea 30 mfes 8. e. from Cape Elizabeth, one
n Lew seine boat.
The owner can have the same by proving prop
erty and paying charges. Enquire Of
sep21w L. DANA g SON, Central Wharf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-28
AUCTION SALES.


I'M TUESDtY, NJ uch 29th. at IL o'clock A. NJ >,
r. r. at the residence of Edv ard PaySn. Esq, Back
anu weighs 20 lbs; fpe bu, Iness horse: covered
Exnrss I'm rs q milk wagon ssa.c heavy
team Sly wagon one Sic gu Que tung one double
promnt,u one Single do. The sale will Ike pare
miIp,ssy at II O'clock A. NJ The cows are ali good
mchs.sitdah any OF them choice animas.
o. BAILEY X CO., Aucrfs.
~ w. uOuse ana Lot at Auction.
we snail s EsD pa narca 80 at O'Clock M
Chatham Street. Said Hon.y brck House No. 8
with good closets, was built in the mos, II room,
and workmanlike manner. since the Gre. hnoro ogn
accommodate two families, and has pnoJ kI,t to
snrng in yard. Lot 40 by As feet. The pro,e'tx
offers fine opportunity tor investment. The proo,
State. ~
mr22- dtd r. o. BAILEY, & CO., Auctioueer.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-28
CONGRESS HALL,

MIDLAND BONDS {!
Seven Per Cent. Gold,
FREE OF GOVERNMENT TAX.
First Mortgage Bonds
Railroad in New York State,
Neac- YOrE &c OSaUegO
Midland Rail Road !
Extends from New York City to the City OF osweeo,
on lake Ontario, distance Of 40 miles, Including
from Osweso. aud regular trains running daily.
Rapid progress II making In toe sance or the line
and the entire work will be compieteI at the earliest
rAek1Y OF THE honda.
There 1. no railroad bond of ret upop the New
York market which c arly com biuea the elsme
Of PEREEEr sECUR!l Y and HIGH RATE
or IN rEREST as his IN proof Of which assertion
/. THE LOCATION OF THE ROAD. street, hing
from the CIV Of New YOrk across the Northern
q us ne sri 81
TO the nearest port the great Lakes Is tuch that
It must command la-ge through an local traffic
from The moment 1t IS opened. The Route from New
York 10 buffalo will BIO shortened seventy miles
ami OSwrso forty Eve miles.
THE COST Of BUILDING THE ROAD
about $4,000 Per mile, and $50 OF III At amount IL
necessarily furbi hsd Nv stock subscription before
dollar is used from the 90 OF honis Since The sue
Of the latter is positively limi,ed to $4,000 PER
NILE OF Road BUILT AND IN RUNNING
ORDER.
OYER Sc cor;ofo have already been paid in on
g. The mortgage bonds on every railroad running
out OF New York City are good, anu interest il
prom I1 pai n on them
this great through rouie OF railway between tue
Lakes aud the Atlantic coast, 400 miles in length.
will thus be only $500 900 per apnum alter the who
line Is completed. On the most m, derace calcula-
tons the average EARNINGS OF A SINGLE
MONTH would lar exceed this sum.
THE BATE OF In TEREST.
These bonds pay seven per cent. in cold. free oil
ULisd States ncd me tax and this, with gold at 1870
Is equal 70 about IL PER GENE YEAR. No
rati.na' person could expert SAFE INvEIr.
on more liberal terms than these.
THE BONDS.
The bonds have Is years to run are issued in de-
nominations Ut $1,000; besr Seven Per Cent. Inter
est IN gold tree OF income Cou ION or Res s-
tered, with inierest, payable semi-anpualy In New
York, on the LIST Of January and LIST OF July.
PRICE, PAR AVID ACCRUED IN.
TERkSr.
Pamphlets, circulars, &C., may be had on appli-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-28

Crockery to the Trade by Auction.
IN or about A ril 6h we shall offer nc public
~ auction, lar e invoice OF staple Croc cry, CON
sis'ing Of White Granite, G G. Rockin, ham and
logues tn nished hereafter,
mr24dtd r. o. BAILEY & co, Auet,oneers.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-28

HoosAc Falls, March 27-Tae works of the
Walter A. Wood Moving Machine Company
were partially destroyed by fire This morning.
Loss $500 900; insurance $245 OO0
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16
81 One nv One.D

The death of Cornelius Wendell, an
nOunced yesterday by telegraph, removes a
conspicuous lobby mark. from congressional
society. He was as genial a buccaneer-fgur-
atlvely speaking-as ever scuttled a COM
mittee or cut the throat of an appropriation
bill !; and for many year was cock of the
walk that lead from the Capitol to the treas
ury department Fair and fat and t1Orid :;
about six feet high and square built with a
sunny blue eye and a bearing at once quick
and mild, Cornelius beamed ON the two
houses and bagged them. What kind, off
hand, straightforward, devil-goeasy method
it was to be sure! His personal integrity was
undoubted; and he laid his hand on the
government with daring which suspected
nothing, least of all, himself. He regarded
the annual budget as thing to be neatly
trimmed and pared before it could be fit for
planting in the fiscal system. He used to
call the members Of the Senate his 'pet
lambs" and the representatives his young
men, and, If he took with a ready palm
from the public crib. he was liberal to the
poor and did deal of charity with his
money.
He had clear head and a warm if not
well-balanccd heart. 1t is doubtful whether
there is human being who is the worse off
on his account. There are thousands of
people who will regret his death, and the
stories which the event will cause to be told
must lean. as his faults did, to virtues
side.
What hy-gone world his hearty image
calls up before the mind What troops of
famous shadows OF that old handy
legged. high-backed time! The dreamy,
gold-dusty curtain of October rolls back
and. though they be cast in shadow. there
they are, those old heroes whom he bought
and sold very much like cattle.
1t seems but yesterday. The fight for the
public printing was at its fiercest. He
lifted five fingers on which he had pasted
the names of five senators. "They will vote
so and So he observed, giving his cigar IA
placid Whit. - How do you know" He
smiled like a child Il brought EN-" he
said gently. So he had, this dear. delightful
freebooter upon an inland but tempestuous
sea this king of the lobby cannibals, in
whose train statesmen trOtted like pages.
and whose glance was always worth hun
drpd yOtpS- LOujSrjUe COvyjpr
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16
lPUBLIC--NO. l93.l

AN ACT to provide for the reports of the
receipts and expenditures of the Secretary
OF the Senate and the Clerk of the House
OF Representatives of the United States.
and for other purposes
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America, in Congress assembled, That it
shall be the duty of the Secretary of the
Senate and the Clerk of the House Of Repre-
sentatives of the United States severally to
report to Congress on the first day of each
regular session, and at the expiration Of
their terms of service, a full and complete
statement of all their receipts and expendi-
lures as such officers, showing in detail the
items of expense, and classify ing them under
the proper appropriations, showing the az
gregate thereof, and exhibiting in clear and
concise manner the exact condition of all
public moneys by them received, paid out,
and in their possession as such officers.
Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the officers herein
before named, and Of the Sergeant alarms,
Postmasters of the Senate and House of
Representatives, and the Doorkeeper of the
House Of Representatives, to make out q
full and complete account of all the prop
erty belonging to the United States in their
possession, at such dates and at the expira-
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16

America in Congress assembled, That there
shml be appointed by the President OF the
United States, BY and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, a suitable person
learned in the law. to be called the examiner
of claims for the Department Of State, who
shall receive the annual salary Of three
thousand five hundred dollars.
SEC. 2. And be it further resolved. That
the Secretary of State be, and hereby is, au-
thorized to employ three additional clerks
ments of the department; two of them to be
clerks of the fourth class, and the other Of
the third class; and for the payment OF such
examiner and clerks, and for the compensa-
ton of extra and temporary clerks, whose
employment may be necessary; the sum OF
seven thousand five hundred dollars is
hereby appropriated,
APPROVED May a, 1870.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16
SPUBLIC-No. 1921

AN ACT to provide for the compensation
of grand and petit jurors in the circuit
and district courts of the United States,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States OF
America i'll Congress assembled, That here
after the grand and petit jurors in the sew
eral circuit and district courts of the United
States shall each receive for his services the
SUN of three dollars per day for each DAYS
actual attendance at court. and for the
time necessarily occupied in going to and
returning from the same; and the sum of
five cents per mile for the distance necessa-
rily travelled from their residence Ill going
to and returning from said court by the
shortest practicable route.
Sec. =. And be it further enacted That
no person shall be summoned rs 6. juror in
any circuit or district court more than once
in two years, and ii shall be sufficient cause
OF challenge to any juror called to be sworn
in any cause that he has been summoned
and attended said court as Il juror at any
term of said court held within two wears
prior TO the time of such challenge
SEC. 3. And he it further enacted, That
the act of Congress approved March three.
eighteen hundred and torty-nine, entitled
s. An act concerning the selection of jurors
in certain courts of the United States" and
the act of Congress approved March nine
teen. eighteen hundred and forty-two, en-
titled AN act supplementary to an act
entitled An act to amend the act approved
May thirteen, eighteen hundred, entitled
An act to amend an act entitled an act to
amend an act emitted an act to establish the
judicial courts of the United States" be,
and the same are hereby repealed
Approved July ID, 1870.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16
The Pension Department..
This is dispatch to the st. Louis De,

This is dispatch to the st. Louis Demo-
csut:
WASHINGTON, October l2.-The annual
accounts of the pension office for the fiscal
year ending June 20. have been completed.
The expenditures of the previous year were
$2S, 442, 900; for last year, although $4,000
pensioners were added to the rolls. in ar
rears in each case of from $500 to $500, the
expenditures were S642, 900 less, or $27, $780,
0Oj The estimates for the year were
S31 100000. The causes which have led to
this are minors attaining sixteen years of
age; biennial and special surgical examina-
tions, and the reductions resulting from the
energetic investigation of frauds which have
developed the fact, among many others of
Importance, that large number of pensions
have been drawn where the real pensioners
have been dead for number of years. A
good result of the active measures taken
against all claim agents who have been i'll
regular practice is shown by the fact that
where eight clerks were required few
months since in the special service division,
two would now be able to do the whole
work. 1t is believed at the pension Office
that contrary to general expectation, the
amount needed to meet the demand on the
pension rolls, will in future decrease, and
that the maximum of expenditure was
reached year ago.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16
The Sleeping Beauty.
\ -l-------,--. Ihe Sleeping DeHuty'
The St. Louis Democrat Of Thursd

The st. Louis Democrat Of Thursday.
Miss Godsey, concerning whom so much
has been written, and whose case is exciting
the deepest interest of the medical profess
sion in St. Louis, is still the object Of great
wonder to those fortunate enough to see
her, rs well as those not 40 blessed. Her
friends have removed her from Mrs. Davis
on Walnut street. and she is now located on
the corner of Eighth and Olive. Various
surnlises have been made by physicians as
to the cause of her extraordinary condition,
but as yet, none of the committee appointed
to investigate and examine into the matter
has given his opinion. That will be re-
served until Saturday night next.
Miss Godsey. or ''the Sleeping Beauty"
as she is called, does not present that APP
pcarance of thinness one would naturally
expect i'll person who had been asleep lind
prone upon her back for twenty-One years.
On the contrary, her face is full, and, save
being undeveloped, bodily and mentally
she looks like Il woman grown. Her face is
very sallOw caused no dOubt2by coffee. OF
which she is very fond, while her hands,
which are small and delicate, are white. A
peculiarly about these last named is the
fact, youched for by her neice, ii lady Of
some nineteen or twenty years, who is her
constant attendant. that the nails have
her hands is painfully noticeable, while the
recurrence Of the hiccupy periods, usual be-
fore awakening. are as regular as clock
work Miss GOdsey wakes regularly thir-
teen times in twenty-four hours, and takes
very little nourishment.
very remarkable feature of her waking
spells. which last usually not more than five
minutes each, is the contrast in her breath
ing. While awake, the respiration is loud
asleep, she seems to be without breath at
all, and on a glass. held to her mouth, there
appears not the slightest vapor. Another
popularity is the slight pause made after
every sixth hiceup. She complained yester
day afternoon, upon awaking at sunset, of
suffering severe pain in her shoulders, at
tended by headache. This is very strange,
when it is considered that while asleep she
can receive the whole length of needle in
her body and not feel it.
The result of the investigation by the
committee OF physicians will be looked for
with lively enterest, and it is to be hoped
they will take steps to make the cxamina-
ton thorough and searching
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16

The great trouble among American youth.
says an eminent author, is the lack of ap-
plication and thoroughness in what they
undertake. Anything that can not be
learned with superficial study is given the
go-by for something less tedious and irk-
some Study and hard labor are looked at
from wrong standpoint, and as a conse-
quence the clerkship ranks are full of I'M
employed and halfstarved young fellows,
and the professions are overlooking with
mediocrity, while good mechanics find
plenty of work at living prices. The evil
spoken of is seriously felt. Those who
work at q trade do it in so loose and care
less a manner that they are not competent
to do the work they promise to do. Among
the loudest disclaimers for the rights Of
labor are men and women who can claim no
rights that belong to labor well performed.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16

"A Surgeon" writes: The greatest
event of the war, in the matter of saving
life, was, perhaps, the tying of the carotid
artery in the case of wounded soldier
bleeding to death on the hideous day of
Sedan, by surgeon amidst hurricane of
bullets; that was an American volunteer
surgeon. The soldier has recovered
snatched from the jaws of death The
4R hss aesper sse
in surgery, requiring the steady, minute
precision of matchmaker mending Ge
neva watch steady fingers, exauisitely
accurate eye, chloroform to still the patient,
minute dissecting away of nerves and fibres
to get at the artery. Yet our American and
Irish friends did not finch, though the hos
pital itself was smashed by cannon balls !"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16
o FFICI A l..
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed Mt the Second Session of the
FOrty.first Congress.
fPUBLIC-NO. 1881

[PUBLIC-No. 1888.
AN ACT to amend an act entitled ''An act
granting lands to the State of Oregon to
aid in the construction of military
wagon road from Albany, Oregon, to the
eastern boundary of said State"
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives OF the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That an
act entitled IAN act granting lands to the
State of Oregon to aid in the construction
of a military road from Albany, Oregon, to
the eastern boundary of said State" be
amended SD as to strike out the words ''by
way of Canyon City in the first section of
said act and insert instead thereof the
words ''by way of Camp Harvey"
Approved July l5 1870.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16
(PUBLIC-NO. 1872 I

AN ACT to confirm title to certain lands
in Illinois.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled That the
title of the United States to all lots, out
lots, tracts, pieces, parcels, and strips of
land in st. Clair county, State of Illinois,
lying and situate outside of the United
States surveys as noted in the tield-notes of
the United States surveyors, and on the
Mississippi river near surveys seven hun
dred and sixty six hundred and twenty
four and five hundred and seventy mine.
and near and adjacent to fractional sections
one, two, eleven, and twelve. town [shipl
one north, range ten west, third principal
meridian, be, and the same is hereby, con
tirmed and granted to said St. Clair county,
in said State: Provided, That nothing
herein shall apply to the ancient French
commons in said county.
Approved, July Is, 1870.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16
ton of their terms of service, as provided IN
section one of this act. ~s 'ss ~.
Approved, July Is, 1870.
TPUBL1C-NO. l94.J

- (PUBL1C-NO. 1914.
AN ACT donating for school purposes a
certain lot of land with the building
thereon erected. known as the Old indian
Dormitory: in the village Of Mack'nac'
Michigan.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled ihaI
the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is
hereby, authorized and required to grant
and convey to the trustees of the public
schools for the village of Mackinac, Michl-
gan, all the right, title, and interest OF the
United States in and to certain inclosed
lot Of land with the building thereon erected,
known as the Old Indian Dormitory, situate
in the said village of Mackinac, to be used
for school purposes only. And whenever the
same shall be converted to other uses, 1T
shall revert to the United States.
Approved, July Is, 1870
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16
(PUBLIC-No. 1851
AN ACT for the creation of an additional
land district in the State of California.

AN ACT for the creation of an additional
land district in the State of California.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled, That so
much of the districts of lands now subject to
sale at Humboldt and Marysville, in the
State of California, as are contained within
the following boundaries, shall constitute
new land district, to be called the Shasta
district. bounded as follows: On the north
and east by the boundary lines of the State;
on the south by the fifth standard parallel
north; and on the west by the line between
ranges ter and eleven west of the Mount
Diablo base and meridian the location of
the Office for which shall be designated by
the President of the United States and may
be changed by him from time to time, us
the public interest may seem to require.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted That
there shall be appointed by the President.
by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate. a register and receiver for said land
district. who shall respectively be required
to reside at the site Of the Office, be subjec.
to the same laws, and entitled to the same
compensation, as is, or may hereafter be,
prescribed by law in relation to other land
officers in said State.
Approved, July Is, 1870.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16
A man living in Belmont, Maine, named

A man living in Belmont, Maine, named
Cunningham, has tasted since election day
fourteen days-and declares that he will
eat no more. He is single man, and had
been for some time past supported by his
relatives till the past summer when some
aid was procured from the town unknown
to him. On going to deposit his vote, it
was challenged and excluded This pro-
duced such an effect ON him that he has re-
solved to seek death in the way above NEIL
Standardization Herald
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16
PUBLIC REsoLUTIOS-No.6 3l

a RESOLUTION authorizing the Secretary
OF War to place at the disposal of the
Commissioners of Quarantine, or other
proper authorities of the State of New
York, the steamer Illinois," for quaran-
tine purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled That the Secretary
OF War is hereby authorized, in his dis
erection, to place gratuitously, for an in
definite period, at the disposal of the com
missioners of quarantine or the proper au-
thorities of the State of New York, to he
used for quarantine purposes, the steamer
" Illinois" which said steamer was turned
over to the quarantine commissioners under
authority of joint resolution of March tcentu.
one twenty -four], eighteen hundred (andl
slxty-slx, and has ever since been in their
possession.
Approved, Nav %. 1870
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16

There is refreshing simplicity in the &C
count which Santa Fe editor gives of his
fight with General Heath: "Having nothing
to defend myself WITH" says the shot-at,
1--WE made the best possible time-and QUIZ
friends say it was g00d-t0 our Office"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16
IPUBLIC REsOLUTION-NO. o.

JOINT RESOLUTION to corr ect an error
in the enrolment of a joi int resolution
therein named.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled, That the
second section OF the joint resolution '.au-
thorizing the sale ofcertain lands at Spring
field, Massachusetts. and for other pur-
poses" approved May fourth. eighteen nun
drei and seventy, be so amended that 1t
will read, "That Byers Street, heretofore
opened" ETC., instead of ''Ryers Street, as
il was enormously enrolled.
Approved, June 6, 1870.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16

An exchange says: Andy johnson has
kicked the lid off Of his political coffin, and
10 sitting bold upright therein, enlightening
the skeletons, bats and owls of his vault
about my policy" and secession.