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The Portland daily press., 1870-08-06

THE following from the New York Tribune
deserves the careful attention of certain
class of people in Maine:
The Independent Prohibitory party in Mas
sachusetts, we are gravely told. does not ex-
pect ktO elect its candidates this year.
and hardly expects to be itself i'm exist
ence next year; for its main purpose if
we comprehend the matter, is to make dem
onstration strong enough to frighten the Re-
publicans into acquiescence in strong prohib-
itoIy legislation-a plan which il does not
seem to us is to be much commended, for
those who are scared into voting against their
own opinions will hardly remain SO for more
than single election. Moreover, suppose
the Independents should draw off Republican
voters enough to give the State to the Dem
ocrats y What kind of "Prohibitory" leeisla-
ton might be then reasonably expected?
The Portland daily press., 1870-08-06

KENTUCKY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS from
Louisville say that cut of fifty counties heard
from, the Republicans carry four-Garrard,
Clinton, Jessamine and Pulaski. From pres
ent Indications the full returns will show
Republican gain in the State of about 20 coo.
kenton county is reported to have gone Dem
o,ratic by large majority. Covington elected
Democratic ticket. 10 Newport the Demo.
Gratis elected their city and county ticket.
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Special Notice.

A LII Persons are forbid trusting CHARLES n. Hay
Il get, as shall pay no debts OF his contracting.
SAMUEL +. HAGGETr.
Portland, August g. 1870. augid3t
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Ship Old Dominion freeman, from Sydney. NSw
with coal, arrived san Francisco 2l.h uIt and re-
ports very rough weather on the passage July hld
experienced heavy gale ing which shipped con.
siderable water and swept away lite boats lost sails
and damaged spaIs as to render them useless.
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For philadelphia;

Schooner Susan, Capt. Sears, having
-, mari OF her cargo engaged Will sail as
{MH aLoyc For FREIGHT amply TO
MlN NICKERSoN s. LITCHFIELD,
&k@s No. I29 Commercial Street.
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rE>aE Annual Session of the II. w. Grand Iodpe of
Il Maine will be held at Odd Fellows Hall. at BID
detord, August 8, 1s70, at o'clock 4. M.
aus)d o. b. WHIrTEN,
Gran Gao
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Windhain.
Republican Caucus.

The Republicans oil Gorham requested to
meet at the Town House on Tuesday p. NJ. the 10th
of August, at IL o'clock, 10 nominate a candidate
for Representatives also TO select Delegates to
represent the town at the County Convention.
Per Order of Town Committee.
Gorham, August 8, 1870. aue4twid
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IMPORTS.
oet.4ayuag OF OCEAN STEAMERS

Barque Sarah L Hale. from Matanzas-'Oo hhcs 90
boxes sugar, 10 Geo Hunt.
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MARRIED

In this citv. Aug 8. Addie E., only daughter of
Major and Elizabeth M. Pickett, aged "a years.
Funeral services Sunday afternoon at l2l ocl'k,
at No. 10 Church street.
In Saco. July rs, Miss Sarah Augusta A. Hanna
OF Portland aged % years.
In Saco, July rs. Mr. Richard Leavitt, aged 40 VS.
In Norridgewock. July s. Mrs Susan, wife of the
late Deacon Rogers, aged 81 years.
In Hope, July q, Mr.. John Pays,n aged 81 years.
In Livermore Falls July IL. MIR Freeman w. Pen
dle;on. aged 81 years IL months.
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Friday. August 8.

Friday. August 5.
ARRIVED.
Steamer New York, Winchester, Boston for East
port and ST John. NIB.
Barque Sarah Il Haze, fof Portland, White Matan-
Zas- sugar t. Geo S hunt.
Ship Nor Wester. Tot Bostonl Mosher Callao via
st bartholomew, where she put in leaky and was
condemned and abandoned TO the underwriters, by
whom she was sent to tins port for orders. She has
about 900 tons guluo on b ard, the balance having
been shipped on board ship Messenger, Leavtt. for
Hamburg
Sch + q Willard, Parsons. Philadelphia.
Sch Chiffon, Wnslow, Port johnson a, with Goa, TO
Portland Packing Co. Reports. about I O'Clock
morning of the 4th inst 20 mil s Il OF Cane Ann.
was run into by an unknown lumber loaded sehr,
bound West, and Lad mansal torn and other eh
damage. Tie other vessei carried away her jibboom
and jibs
Yarmouth.
CLEARED.
l;rig Geo Amos, johnson, Baltimore via Norfolk
Chas Merrill. 0.
Brig Mary Williams, Pickett, GIace Bay. OBJ
l. Gatcomb ~ "
Sch Bramhall Hamilton. Boston-Chos Sawyer.
SAlLED-Briss Geo Amos, and NJ NJ Williams.
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Notice.

PORTLAND, August, 1870.
INHIS l. to notify and caution all persons against
barboIing or sheltering trusting my son
James :. Eastman on my account without a written
order from me, as shall take The steps of The law
against all violation OF this notice.
auz5.3t CHARLES f. EASTMAN.
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FROM MERCHANTS EXCHANGE
MEMORANDA.

Ar at Duntirk 1st inst barque Lizzie ii jackson,
Warwick, Caao tMch ISL
Successfully 20 lat ~, lon CO, brig Herald, from
Portland Tor Matanzas.
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oHr OF RILA Nd.

Nj a III N H ~ IL w s..
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IHE School Committee of Boston advocate
an appropriation TO supply free textbooks for
the public schools of that city.
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Patents have been granted to Charles II.
Reed of Pittsfield, for combined swift and reel
and for bit stock; TO Ethan r. Cheney, of Bos-
ton and John j. Emery OF Owls Head, for
chain stopper, and TO John II. Socomb and
Geo. f. Turner of Fayette, for tanning.
The Portland daily press., 1870-11-11

SOUTH CARoLINA.-The late election IN
South Carolina for State officers and members
of Congress, is reported by the State canvass
ers as follows: r. r. Scott for Governor, d..
Ransier (mulatto, for Lieutenant Governor,
both Republicans, are elected by about A,OOo
majority. In the first Congressional District
Rainey, mulatto), in the Second Delarge (mul-
atto)' in the third Elliott (negro, and in the
hourth' Wallace (white), all Republicans are
elected. AS to the complexion of the State
Legislature, in the Senate are 25 Republicans
and heformers, IL of the whole being colored.
In the House of Representatives, 1O2 are Re-
publicans and ~ are Reformers, about eighty
being colored. ..rr =.
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Rational reader. If the aspect of the weather was
uncertain, you would not be foolish enough to yen-
ture out without an Overcoat or an umbrella. Have
the forecast theu TO protect yourself at this danger
Gus season with something more important than
either OF these articles. Strengthen your stomach
and nervous system; regulate your liver and your
bowels, tone all your organs and cheer your animal
spirits with that agreeable cordial tonic altera-
tive, HOstetter's Stomach Bitters. So shall you
surely escape the diseases which iasen upon the
feeble and debitated. "Sutfer and be strong" saws
the proverb; but "Be strong that you may not sui
feI, IS the wiser maxim-and of all strengthening
prepaIatonsthis Is the safest, the surest the most
genial. As a remedy. well an antidote, for
dyspepsia fever and ague, aud liver disease, there
no combination OF vegetable specifics at present
known which even approaches it in efficacy.
Anticipate the enemy. The elements of innumer-
able diseases are ahoat in the raw, damp, mephitic
winter AR. Will you defend yourself against them
or not good reader? That is the question, bot
tie or two OF the great lDEFENsIvE MEDICINE OF
THE AGE, Hostetters Bitters, will so strengthen and
brace up your bodily powers as to- enable them to
"laugh siege to scorn !" The morbid matter which
was exhaled in perspration through your pores in
summer finds no such Tree egress now. A powerful
connteractjng agent is therefore needed. and Won
have it in Hosteter's Bitters They neutralize the
nsdteries mOTbi from which disease originates and
regulate all the sscretive organs. Nothing can be
more harmless or mole misunderstanding so DO
tent to prevent cure biousness, dyspepsia fever
and ague, constipation and general debility, as this
wonderful corrective.
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The result in New York is particularly
] gratifying. 1t was there that the unscrunr;.
lous men who are now prominent in the led.
eral government made. demonstration of
force. They sought to jntfmidate the voters
of the Empire State. > Their miserable failure
is attested in Democratic majority OF fifty
d!-Argas. sfq
No-the attempt was not to intimidate the
voters, but those who are not voters. 1t is
indeed the miserable failure of the federal
government to prevent Democratic frauds
that makes the returns particularly gratifying
TO the Democracy.
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jim FIsK's desire to flesh his maiden sword
was ruthlessly disappointed by the people of
New York, who persisted in holding an order
ly election, and Jim's coveted honors have de-
] scended npon the shoulders of Col. Scovill, of
the New Jersey militia, who put to flight
some Philadelphia roughs who violated the
chartered rights of New Jersey by an attack.
ION the ballot boxes because the colored men
ID sisted upon their right to vote. 1t is fortu-
nate that scovill is comparatively mild
hammered man, for had Prince Erie been the
conserVator OF the peace there would have
been an awful exhibition of-bluster.
The Portland daily press., 1870-11-11

The BouNTY CLAIMS II fHE Sseoft Az
DrToR's OFF1cE.-The annual report Of the
second auditor of the United States shows A
net disbursement Of $2s,364,0OO. Over 1Ge..
600 claims were audited during the year. In
the pay and bounty division, Al ,4o2 claims
were received, 30,961 rejected, and 22,s55 al.
lowed. The amount disbursed to soldiers and
soldiers heirs was nearly $6,OOOOOO. Over
2253 pay and bounty claims are awaitino Tho
further action of Congress, being claim.
ed underline decision of the sun,eme
court in the case of the United States. annel-
lants, against Hosmer. The auditor fully ex-
plains why no payments of claims under the
above-named decision of the supreme co.rt
have been made. The gist of the matter
seems to be that under the call of the Pres;.
dent Of May 3, 1851, for forty regiments of
troops, 500 bounty being promised to each
soldier when honorably discharged, eiehty-two
regiments responded and were accepted. The
authority of the executive to promise the
above bounty having been doubted by the ac-
counting officers, the supreme court decided
in Hosmer's case that the joint resolution
of August 6, 1861, legalized the promise, and
that the government onght to pay the bounty
to the forty regiments called for. Now the
question is, which of the eighty-two consti-
tute the forty? This question was submitted
to the adjutant general, who referred it to the
secretary of war, who in turn addressed Con-
gress, setting forth the dilemma, and suggest
ing legislation to set the matter right. and
Congress not having responded, the claims on
file remain suspended
The Portland daily press., 1870-11-11
THI1 PRESS.
Friday Morning, November IL. 1870.
A Regular Feature sfsouihern Elections.


A Regular Feature sfsouihern Elections.
The dispatches from various points in the
South touching the late elections speak in
several cases O. disturbance at the polls. The
riots at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Will
mington, Delaware, were of considerable
magnitude this year. As usual in such cases
the conflict was between white Democrats
and black Republicans, and of course it was
the latter that suffered most. From two to a
dozen "niggers" killed are. but an average
election days work for the "whte males" OF
large Southern town. 1t was only the pres
ence of United States troops that prevented
massacre of blacks at several places in the
South on Tuesday,, In South" Carolina even
after the election was over the Democrats in
dulged their pegro-sh6otins proclivities in
very reckless fashion. Governor Scott of
that State is even now asking for more troops
to protect the lives Of Union men. When
full details Of the election in Alabama, which
has unexpected resulted in Democratic vic.
tory, are received, we have no doubt it will te
found that the full Republican vote was not
polled on account of the violence of the Rebel
politicians. In most Of the other States where
negroes voted for the first time they were met
either with intimidation or actual violence, as
In NewJersey
How long murder is TO be an election day
amusement in the South it is impossible to
tell But as the federal government is be-
coming more and more reluctant to interfere
with the elections in States that have been
restored to the sUnion, it is probable that the
evil will increase rather than diminish. In a
few years we shall expect to receive with the
ordinary returns from the South lists of kill
ed, wounded and missing. Either this, or the
freedmen, unable 10 preserve their lives or
property from Democratic assaults, will be
compelled gradually to cease opposing the
party Of their lifelong enemies and to form a
political union with them. We anticipate
that the result will be such as we have last
indicated, and that the reconstructed States
will one by one pass into the hands of the
former ruling class, as Virginia, Tennessee
and perhaps Alabama have already done
The ex-Rebels having in nearly every State
been restored to their political privileges, cen
orally through the extraordinary magnanimi.
ty Of their former slaves, they will recprocate
the kindness, as they did in Georgia, by the
grossest injustice toward the colored people
The latter, having before them the alterna-
tive of death or renewed submission in politi-
cal matters to their old masters, will be only
human if they preserve their lives at the ex-
pense of their political independence.
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The Portsmouth Chronicle tells of a towns
man who got up lately at midnight last week
en- dishabille, to drive out from his enclosure
troublesome COW. On his way back he made
short cut across the cemetery, and in the
road close by the fence he encountered young
couple, seated on a rock, in mutual embrace
'discorsing their sweet nothings." The Low.
ing pair, frightened at the appearance of the
man and the garment hastily "got up and
got" the female making the best time on the
home stretch. They have lost relish for even
ing walks, the story runs.
We see it stated that Paris has a new organ
ization for the encouragement of art. We pre-.
sumo the kind of art referred to is artillery.
The Portland daily press., 1870-11-11

WE are sure that no one will regret the de-
Feat OF Long John Wentworth in the 1st Hi
lnois district. He set himself up as an inde-
pendent candidate for Congress to correct an
error in the popular manner Of selecting can
.didates, and was buried by the same obstinate
people under pile of Farwell votes. The
canvass was animated and spicy. The Tri-
bune supported Wentworth, and gave the
Post, which endorsed Farewell, an opportuni-
ty to enrieh its columns with choice extracts
from the Iribune's old diatribes on Went
worth. John, of course, was soundly rated,
but he says such things1don't ruffle him now.
As he is about seven feet in stature, we sup
pose he means to say that he is above them
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FOR EIGN PORTS

At Calcutta Sept 2S, ships Ivanhoe, Herman and
Timour, Foster, for New York. Titan. Berry, unc
Tennyson, Atwood, do; barque ChaImette, Waite,
fer New York. ldg.
At Bombay Oct !, ships Sycamore, Pickering, for
Calcutta; JAS Wright, Morse, unc; barque Dirigo,
Staples for Liverpool, ldg.
Sid fm Queenstown 2lst ult, sch Edith, Randall,
for New York. having repaired.
Ar at Buenos Ayres Sept II, barque Ella. Lewis,
Portland; 10th, lerd Clarendon, Lavender, N York
22d Don Justo, Dyer, Santa Maria.
Sid Sept %, barque F Pearson, Oliver, New York
New York, ldg; A w Goddard. Randall, Tor Boston.
At MontevdeO Sept Co. barque Spring. Small,
Ar at Montevedio Sept 20, barque Charlotte A Lit
tlefeld, Nichols, I'm Quebec; soth, Aberdeen, Treat
Ellsworth
Az at St Jago 2sth ult, brig D Chapman Knight
Ar at Havana 29h ult. baraue Helen Angler. Sta
Piles, Liverpool; brig Giles Loring, Pinshaw, from
Portland.
Returned 3ist, brig Rcnshaw, Sylvester, for sagua,
on account OF the weather.
Sid 80 h. barque Eliza White. Mahoney, for North
OF Hatteras; 1st inst, brig Navarino, Blood Tor New
YorE.
In port ID. baraue Andes, Davis. for New York.
Ar at Matanzas 2sth ult, sen W II Steele, Buck,
Cardenas.
Ar at Quebec inst, steamer Peruvian, Smith,
Cid at st John, NIB, 5th inst sch Calvin Clark, for
New York.
Per steamer Java. at New York;
Ar at Liverpool 9th ult, c v Minot, Healey, New
Orleans.
Cid 9th, Yo Semitic, Mack, Tor New York; North.
ampton, McLoon, Savannah.
Ar in st Tudwall Roads 9th, John W Hunt Hunt
New Orleans for Liverpool. -. '''''
Ar at Queenstown 9th, Pacific, Blanchard, Calao
tapd sailed ior London.) % q
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The argus persists in keeping the Gilman
scandal before the public under the insane
idea that it "hurts the Press" though the af-
fair is four years old and was long since for
gotten by all persons with properly regulated
minds. If the records Of the courts of this
county should be searched we are told that
revelations would be made that would place
the editor of the argus in as unpleasant a
position as that in which he delights to put
his old opponent, who is not here to defend
himself. A man who lives in house so no.
toriousy fragile as that of the editor of the
Daily Scissors should throw as few stones as
possible, especially when he is without any
excuse and has received no provocation.--
That he does so is proof to us that he takes
his spiritus vini Gallici (no classical diction-
ary" about this, sir,) without enough protox-
Ide of hydrogen to dilute it.
The Portland daily press., 1870-11-11

THE SUBSCRIBERS to the argus will not
we hope, be unmindful of the obligation un.
der which we have placed them by stimulat.
ing the senile faculties of the editor of that
paper. Hitherto he has been incapable Of
anything better than the reproduction, Of Ger
tain coarse colloquialisms, which any child
with depraved taste might pick up in the
street, while his overworked scissors have
done all the rest. Now he is making praise
worthy, but we fear too long deferred, effort
to write something. His "leader'' yesterday
was, for maiden essay, tOlerably good
though, if we were ill-natured, we might say
of'it as Disraeli says in The Young Duke o1
the maiden speech Of a young Lord,-"he
made it in so low tone and to so little effect
that it was to be doubted whether he had
really lost his virginity.'
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nOMKsTlU PORTS.

DOM &SIBC HSOHTSs
| JACKSONVILLE-Ar4 9Th. sch Nellie r Burgess
| McKeen, Charleston.
| Cld4tb. sch Eva Adell. Eaton Baltimore.
CHAkLESTON-Ar sth. barque Rome, Otis, Phil
BkLTIMoRE-Ar 7,h sch Emma Hart, Hart
Gardiner.
Al sth, barque Augustine Cobb. Carver. Greenock
Ga sth, bar1ue Haven. Palmer, for Portland
sch Loretta Fish. Wiley, Boston.
Sid sth, ship Majestic.
FHILADELPHIA Ar s,h, barque Arlington
Costello, Liverpool; sch Maggie Muivey, Rowley
Cid 7th, ship Expounder. Crocher, Antwerp.
SS SW Sh 6aTHue sb hs Man,
Cephalonia 58 days. schs Nellie Anderson. Calais for
Newark; Alamo, Gates EastMachias; Western Star,
Handv Roekror or
rey. Rockland; VIM Duren, Sawyer. Providence:
C Gates. Freeman do Tor Philadelphia; Restless,
Baxter, Pliladelphia tor Portland.
dence.
Cid 9th, baruue Ada Gray, Race, Falmouth, E.
Ehrohashs,t 1or Portard ON schs c6 FanDe Ractn
Bucklin, Rockland for New York; Sea Flower, iIom
Millbridge for do.
tor Portland; I Benedict, Crockett, and Chiilon.
WinslOw, New York for do.
BOSION-Ar 9th, schs Sarah Watson, Watson,
Cid sth schs Il II Colson, Gray and Sarah Moore,
Herrick, Bangor:. Abby Dunn, Fountain, Portland |;
Ar Ioth, schs Nellie H. Malett, Bay OF Islands;
Am Chief, Snow, and Adrian, Everett, I'm Rondout
Montana, Sawyer, Machias.
Cid 18th, sch Duke OF Newcastle, Hunt, Portland.
Sid, ship VIM Campbell.
GLOUCESTER-Ars 9Th, brig Fanny Butter, Nick
erson, Hoboken for Portland; sch Fred Waiter, La
new, Tanger tor do.
NEWBURYPORT-Ars 9Th, scbs Iowa. Rich, Ban
gor; Laura May, Farr, kockland; Tahn.iroo, Blake,
PaoSRIsMoUTH-Ar sth, brig RIO Grande. McLel-
LAM Baltimore; sch CHARLES Carroll, Mullen, Rock
land.
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A nD.e.r-S.O-n

Wishes to lease genteel, convenient HOUSE, with
in Eve minutes walk Of the Post Office, suitable for
one or two small families. One with small barn or
stable attached preferred. References given. Rent
not to exceed $500 per year for each tenement.
Address ARLINGTON, P. o. Box AZ. oc17tf
The Portland daily press., 1870-11-11

{ A DISPATCH from Jacksonville, Fla, says
the Republican majority in that State is re-
duced through the intimidation and violence
of the Ku Klux. Outrages are reported in
several localities of the State. An !attempt
wus made to kill the sheriff of Madison
county. At Lake City a band of 200 men,
mounted and armed, drove the white and
colored Republicans out of town, including
the Republican candidates for governor and
the legislature. Five colored men were shot.
The United States troops promised had not
arriyed,s
The Portland daily press., 1870-11-11
--latest News by Mail,


Rolleston, the pioneer of the Cape of Good
Hope diamond diggings, has arrived in Eng
land. He justifes the accounts of that coun-
try lately published.
Robert Morrow was examined before the o.
S. Commissioner in Providence Thursday on
two complaints for bribery at the recent repre-
sentative election, and adjudged probably gull
ty and held in $4,000 for trial on each complaint
Charles H. Burroughs was also held for trial
on similar complaint.
Jackson Swayne & Dun's wooden mill in
Richmond, Ind, was entirely destroyed by fire
Wednesday night. Loss 100000; no insur-
ance. lr-t-i
The National Democratic Committee claim
the 4th and 10Th Illinois districts
Six inches of snow fell at Mount Washing
ton Thursday.
William H. Sayre, a member of the New
Jersey Legislature, committed suicide yester.
day.
George B. Dixon, postmaster at South Pass,
Wyoming, is defaulter and runaway
The General Freight Agents Association
has been in session at Chicago. Forty-thfee
roads we.e represented
Prof. D. Howe Allen, of Lane Theological
Seminary, died Of paralysis Wednesday.
Three persons were killed and several wound
ed by an accident to the southern bound train
on the Jackson, Mississippi railroad Wednes-
day.
During the election in Southampton county,
Va, John Gray.was shot and killed by J.. Nc
Carthy, who has fled.
The transfer house aud 800 empty cars at
Buffalo, belonging to the New York Central
railroad, were burned Thursday. Loss esti-
mated at 100000.
The Chicago Board of Trade on Wednesday
passed resolution urging upon the President
the necessity of opening negotiations with
Great Britain to secure the commerce of this
country freedom of transit to the ocean via the
St. Lawrence river, and that the Canadian au-
thorities enlarge and improve that route to the
capacity of the largest vessels.
The Portland daily press., 1870-11-11
Notice..

PORTLAND, Oct 3ist, 1870.
Messls. Jordan and Blake are now ready to serve
their customers end all who may favor them with
their patronage at No. 2 Long Wharf. Shall keep
full assortment of Provisions Flour aud Groceries.
Quick sales and small profits is our motto.
noy1-3w 49,, l. JORDAN 8 BLAKE.
The Portland daily press., 1870-11-11

PRINCE ERIE IN NEW RoLE.-Jim Fisk
jr. has organized new base ball club-the
Erie of Jersey City-with which he is going
to "knock spots" out of the Mutuals next
season. The Colonel, seeing that there is
much exciting sport in the national game, has
taken into his head to "go in strong" in oppo-
sition to Boss Cammeyer," Capt. Wilday and
Mike Henry, as manager of professional
base ball nine, and next sprihg the energetic
admiral will be found cleaning the base ball
market of its best material. Among coming
events will be the sopening of grand base
ball park near the Erie depot, with all the inn
proved Appliances for accommodating thou
sands of spectators, as at Fordham race
COURSE
The Portland daily press., 1870-11-11

On the 25th inst, the citizens of Dover and
Portsmouth are to vote on the proposition to
aid the Portsmouth and Dover ralroaa 70 an
Of the valuation Of the cities. g-.5 ,guee5