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The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-06-14

Joint concern-Anxiety about the
butchers bill.
Song of the seeds-"Put me in
my little bed"
Something to weep over-A bushel
of onions.
How to find happincss-Look in
the dictionary.
Rise with the larks. but avoid larks
in the evening.
The woman's club-The broomstick.
The Pacific mails-Quiet husbands.
The daily consumption Of spirits in
the United States is estimated at $780,
900 gallons per day.
Endeavor, if possible, to keep clear
conscience and two or three clean shirts.
A man who has tried it says that all
the shortcuts to wealth are over
crowded.
Love your neigbor as yourself, but
don't have too many Of them in the
same house with you.
81 have not loved lightly" as the
man said when he married a widow
weighing three hundred pounds.
An Ohio woman was so amiable at
breakfast the other day that her hus,
band took the coffee to chemist for
analysis.
What is it that goes up the hill and
down the hill, and yet never moves !
The road,
What is that which he who has it
not does not wish for, but he who has
it would not part with it for any money?
A bald head.
Wisconsin has 100 cheese factories.
New York has forty.three cotton
mills, with 9105 looms, 424, 500 spin
dies, spinning IS, ,476, ,5O2 yards.
A manufacturing concern in Rich
mond, Ind, now worth over 800, 900,
started with cash capital of slf-%
"Ma," said a little =, =, 's'lf' - -,
W Nion van an 10 get married as much
Us 'no wSSmen?' "Pshaw! what are
you liking about?" "Why, ma, the
Nomen who come here are always
talking about getting married; the men
don't do so.'
Says a distinguished student of hu>
man nature; 81 don't believe in bad
luck being set for a man like a trap,
but | have known lots of folks who, if
there is any first-rate bad luck lying
around loose, would be sure to get
their foot into it anyhow"
Easily Suited-A bachelor says that
all he should ask for in wife would
be n good temper, sound health, good
understanding agreeable physiognomy,
pretty figure, good l9nnection, domestic
habits, resources of amusement, good
spirits, conversational talents, elegant
manners, and money.
The inquiry as to where all the pins
go TO, has been satisfactorily answered.
The theory now, is that they go into
the ground and become terra-pins.
School children who read the news
papers are found be better acquainted |
with geography, spelling, and the
meaning Of words, grammar, and more |
generally intelligent than those who do /
not. This is significant but un,
doubted fact.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railroad Company are laying their
track in the Indian Territory at the
rate of two miles a day. They will
reach the Arkansas river in July, and
by early fall will be near enough to the
Texas line to control trade.
Dom Piatt writes from Washington
that the common talk around there
now is, that the RAIDS will be compelled
to re-noninate Grant next year, be-
cause if they don't he will use all the
power and patronage of his office to
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name they may be, but in all that the
Worl expresses, never. They are
decidedly gay, fast, nobby, and all
that but home, so dear to other peo,
pie, will have little or no attraction
for Mr. DawdIer, whose sphere is
good society,""
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-06-14
BUILDERS HARDWARE.

Carpenters Tools OF every description. axes,
hatchets, handaxes, planes, (bench and
molding, and all kinds Of fancy planes, }
plane irons saws, (bench and panel, au
gers auger bits, hollow augefs. braces and
bits, English and American; clisels.
framing and firmer, screw drivers compass,
ses and diyiders, and all kinds of tools usu>
ally kept in a FIRST cLhsS
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One of Horace Greeley's ''block>
heads of the loyal stripe, who edits a
few copies Of a so-called newspaper
for the sake of the pay of those legal
advertisements which the late "loil"
Legislation stole from the press of
Alabama, is quite exercised because in
the reprint of the Constitu ton of the
United States, the Register omitted
the three last amendments. We in
form this "blockhead," and his party,
that inasmuch as they have destroyed
the body and soul of the old Constitu-
ton, they have no right to complain
if we have only curtaileJ the venerable
charter of the three black appendages
of their own attachment. We meant
to publish the live Constitution of the
fathers, and not the dead corpse that
Jacobinism has made of it. SO call
up your niggers and blow about it as
much as you like, and be-blessa
This same "blockhead' takecs tbo
occasion to swell the lyin.ocrv into
negro ears, that they (thsIne Inegrocs, are
indebted for their freedom to the
- - - ''o IN amendments, and
eness.uIo, .s. svn ~ -pnder obligations of
)etriasting gratitudN to the Radical
party. 1t was not the XNIth Amend
ment that abolished slavery IN Ala
bama. 1t was done by an ordinance /
of a State Convention, composed exclu.
sively of white Alabamians. 1t was,
therefore, the white people of Alabama
who abolished slavery, during the Pres
idency of Andrew johnson, and those
white people alone had the Constitu.
tional authority to do it. 1t requires
the brass of the devil, and of all his
iWps at once, to aver that the white
a lie ofthe South have either thought
n)esire to re-establish African, or
~ other kind of slavery in this coun,
~. We have got rid of that black
fphant, and we devoutly thank God
y it. And yet the Radical papers
Re perpetually harping upon the
hlsehcod-they knowing it to be
falsehood-that if the Democrats carry
the Presidential election, the negroes
are to be reduced to slavery again.
There is just about as much chance
for it, as there is to re-establish the
old New England system of drowning
and burning old women as witches.
Lincoln began the late war, not only |
without thought of freeing the negroes. |
but pledged on the records of the
nation against it. lie and his party
never contemplated it until they found
how hard the "rebels" fought, and
that it was necessary to call on the
blacks of the South to help them.
Then the emancipation proclamation
was first conceived and put into esecu-
aion. 1t was the hard fighting of the
Gonfederates, at last, that brought
about emancipation; so that every
shot fired by grey coat, was virtually
a shot for negro freedom.
Mobile Register.
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y NEW STORY OF D,NEE,. WER-
sTER.-A writer in the Boston. Tran,
script tells this story, noveu before
given to the public:
Mr.. Webster as it is well known
was very apt in his classical quotations
although 'ess varied and less persist
ent i'll his study of the ancient author,
than his friend Rufus Choate.
lmpecuniosity was regarded as an
Cotton infirmity' ofNfr. Webster ond
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-06-14

OF the following we keep in stool,
at all times
Iron. Nails, Castings, Plows, Hoes, Farm.
ing Tools, Builders Hardware of all kinds,
comprising the following articles Locks
(rim and mortise) Latches and Bolts, Butts,
u to inch. (all sizes usually kept sash
fasteners. sash locks, knobs. (porcelain and
min' raj coat and hat hooks. cabin door
hooks, buttons for doors (brass and iron, J
cupboard latches, and all kinds of
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-06-14
HEAVY AND SHELF
BLANKETS,
DOMESTIC,

III y - rtn wives. The who
uuutIinIu .rnr id l1.lt : will it, Husbar -
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New and Different Business.

New and Different Business.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-06-14
STAPLE GOODS

OF every description suited to the wants of
the Planting Community.
We Solicit a Liberal share of patronage.
lao.
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respondents allegations, and the refusal
Of the ch'cf gorernmeH pauper, to cor
rect the false impression it had made,
BY publishing that certificate, fully con,
'lnces us that the SANDER was published
n the first place knowingly, wilfully
md maliciously. And this kind of
'olltlcal warfare, systematically and
tnually carried on by the editor of
Republican, if our faith in the old
DC doctrine, were not firmly es.
bed, would have a very strong
% towards making ns convert
'arwinian theory, at least so far
"a of the editor of the Re,
oncerned. The idea of
NoGcer of a State not
NO. Cparty politics, but
n " work o2editng
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-14

MAINE rhetorical SoCIETY.-At q special
meeting of this society, holden at Augusta on
the 10th day Of February last, the following
members were appointed committee to make
arrangements for field-day-E. E. Bourne,
w. d. Sewall, J. A. Poor, s. P. Benson, s. II.
Blake, R. x. .Sewall, B. G. Bailey, j. w.
North, j. w. Bradbury, J. williamson, and
G. j. Gilman.
In pursuance of this vote, the contemplated
meeting will be held at Penaquid, on Thurs.
day the oath day of August instant, where the
society has been invited to attend the inaugu-
raj services of the Pemaqud Monumental As
ISOLATION. The exercises will consist of speech
es and probably poem. After which a pro.
cession will be formed and march to . large
tent for refreshments, speeches will then. be
expected from various distinguished gentle
men of this and other states. On the follow
log day the committee and other members of
the society will 60 to the island Of Monhegan
for the purpose of examining the rock-writ-
ings alleged to be there; and any other vesti-
ges Ut evidences of its early occupation, to
which their attention may be called.
A large barge accommodating 1900 persons,
Will Oc Hcduy uoar tuo DCPot vi euc AuOA duu
Lincoln Railroad, in Damariscotta, at an early
hour, probably o'clock In the morning, Of the
oath, for the transportation Of the public to
Pemaquid. Fare, 30 cents, for the excursion
the boat returning at O'Clock in the after
noon. Means will be provided for those who
wish to proceed to Monhegan on the second
day. Arrangements will be made with the
Railroads and nf,tice thereof hA given in dine
season. Persons wishing more particular in
formation will address, R. X. Sewall, Esq,
Wiscasset.
E. E. BOURNE, Chairman.
Kennebunk, August u, 1871. H.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-14
TEL EGRAPHlU ITEMS.

Eight buildings in Ravenna, Ohio, were,
burned Friday. Loss $35,000
Commander Robert Boyd, of Maine. has
been ordered to duty rs Lighthouse Inspector
at New Orleans.
Tennie G. Claflin addressed a meeting of
Germans in New York Friday night in sup
port OF her aspirations to seat in Congress-.
The New York Herald says the Russian min
lister at Washington, M. Catacazy, is to be re-
called at once. -
The Jefersonville, Madison & Indiana polls
Railroad wss transferred Saturday to the con-
troll OF the Pennsylvania Central.
Another body was found in the water FRI
day, supposedlt0 the editor of the Irish Repub.
lie, victim of the Westfield disaster.
Theodore Myers, German field hand, shot
George M: Bonairna dead and fatally wound
ed Mrs. Newton, Bonairna's sister, Friday
night, thirteen miles from Denver, Col. Myers
has not yet been arrested. e.
Hon. Charles Sumner arrived in Boston
Saturday evening.
The New York yacht fleet visited Boston
harbor Saturday. Hon. Moses H. Grinnell,
Judge Bedford and other distinguished gentle
men were in the fleet.
In Arlington. Friday evening, Mrs. John F.
Eaton and son were thrown from carriage,
causing the death of the former. The latter
will recover. .,sy n .. ~
1t has been ascertaned that Marshal Pack
ard, chairman of the Republican State Com
mittee, telegraphed Gen. Reynolds in Texas,
saying there was danger from the Thugs and
bruisers and asking for an order on Gen. Sully
in New Orleans to furnish soldiers to protect
the Government property. Gen. Reynolds
gave the order as desired, not knowing any
thing of the Convention. t-
A. g. Smith, of Brooklyn, N. Y, lost large
amount of money in betting at the Buffalo
races and committed suicide Friday night by
jumping off the bridge leading to Second Sis
ter Island, near Niagara Falls.
VIM. N. Presbury, of California, has been
appointed journal clerk of the United States
Senate.
D. w. Santer, the St. Louis express messen-
ger robbed some weeks since, confesses that he
was an accOmplice Of the crime.
The Republican Executive Committee OF
Massachusetts have voted not to change the
time OF the Convention, Sept. 9th. They also
voted to invite Gen. Banks to preside, and
that delegates be admitted to the Convention
BY tickets.
Gen. Cook expects to subdue the Indians in
Arizona 10 a short time if not interfered with
by the Peace Commissioners.
Two men were killed and one badly bruised
by the caving 10 of an embankment at Wash
lngton here they were at work. IS
DR.. j. G: Wellington has accepted the Pres
| idency OF Columbia College
The widow of the late Hon. Isaac Toucey, of
Hartford, o., died yesterday very suddenly.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-14

NEW YORK. Aug. 125 p. M.-Ashes quiet and
unchanged at 1925 @775 tor pots and 90 q 9 80
Tor pearls. Cotton in moderate request at unchanged
quotations; sales s56 bales; Middling uplands 19c.
change; sales 800 bbs 4 80 a 4 90 for superfine
Western and State, 10 "a 40 IOr common to good
extra Western and State, As q sc for good to
choice do, 8 80 a IS for common to choice White
Wheat Western extra, 80 q 20 for common to
good extra Ohio, 40 a 90 for common to choice
extra st. Louis; market closing dull Southern Flour
common to fair extra, 30 a 90 forgoOd to Choice
do. Rye Flour quiet; sales 300 bbls at 90 q 90.
sales $50 bbls. at 90 q 939c. Grain receipts-Wheat
1875, 532 bush. Winter Wheat q &c better; Spring
firm and quiet; sales III 900 bush. at IS for No.
AZ TOR Winter Red Western; As q 46 tor Amber
Michigan; 42i for Amber Michigan; 42y for Am
per e 20 no 1Or cno'Se Mmper aaa
but firm; sales 1900 BUSH. Western SOC. Barley dull.
Barley Malt dull aud nominal. Corn-receipts 169,-
bush at Sc for inferior and common Western Mixed;
66t CT for good to choice do, closing at the latter
price; soe for White do ess Tor highly mixed mealy
and lower; sales 80 900 bush. at 43 q e2c Western
and Ohio, the latter extreme. Hay rather more ac-
t Dr lots Is g r new do
very firm at z5c TOR prime lots 1870; 10 a IL do 1869
Coal is without decided changeat so a 30 for An
thracie P cargo. Leather is more active and firm;
hemlock sole, Buenos Ayres and Rio Grande light
middle and heavy weights 26 q 29c: California do %
q 2sc; Orinoco do 2,l q &c. Wool quiet and very
firm; extra Ohio quoted at SIC; unwashed at 42c +;
pulled 60 q Csc; Texas aye; Spring clip California
part slightly bury, a7t q 45sc. Coffee firm; sales
1900 bags; Rio quoted at lSl @l6yc: Sugar easier
lair to good refining quoted at 81 saes 300 hhds
at "a 9sc for Cuba. Molasses dull and unchanged.
Rice steady. Petroleum lower at 1874 for crude and
"a a 24sc for refined. Provisions-Pork opened
easier and closed rmer; sales 475 bbs. new mess at
10 81. q 10 5o prime 10 so g II 90; new prime mess
II IS az Il 90; also 1900 bbls mess for October at
10 37I. Beet dull; sales Is bbls.; plain mess 90 a
10 OO Is 90 @ Is 90 for extra mess; beet hams dull
at 10 a 29c; tierce beef nominal at 20 q IS for prime
mess and India do; Cut meat meats quiet; sales go
dies quiet. Lard firm; sales $50 terces; steam
81 a 9sc kettle rendered 81 q 9sc. Butter quiet at
10 9 zoe Tor Western; Is q soc for State. Cheese
unchanged at 6 q 104c Naval Stores-Spirits Tnr-
pentine heavy at Al q 49c; Rosn dull at 2 20 for
strained. TallOw steady at a 9}c.
Freights to Liverpool are lower W sail; gIaid Il q
SD.
CHICAGO, Aug. 12.-Fiour unchanged: Wheat in
good demand; No. 2 Spring 0sl. Corn higher; No.
3 Mixed at 46le. Oats stronger; No. Eat 80. Rye
higher; No. 2, sic. Barley easier at Coo. High Wines
in demand at $50. Provisions frmer; Pork at 70 IS
~ 62B. Lard 81 q SIC. Dry sated meats and shoul-
ders at Al q &c. Bac0n-short rib middles 81 "a &c.
Live Hogs dull at A. 5, Cattle steady.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-14
ILLINOIS.
hDe ech Of senator Sehtis D.

CHICAGO, Aug. 12-By invitation of the
Germaus OF this city, Senator Schurz gave his
views on political topics to an immense audi
ence in Farwell Hall this evening in German.
He promised to unfold his views without re-
serve and after abiding to the great changes
brought about by the late civil war he said the
interests Of the country demanded all political
parties should accept the 18th, 14th, and 18th
amendments to the constitution. The thoughts
of the southern people must be directed to
these interests which we have in common.
Delay in granting general amnesty was
most seriOns blunder of the republican party,
political disabilities are antagODistic to repub-
lcanism. Missouri, to day, by the removal of
Acknowledgement enjoys perfect repose order,
and general good feeling Disfranchisement
Is used by one party to keep the other down.
What is the object? The result is what the
most INSCRIPTIONS politicians unde' osuci Cir
cumstances being most useful soon became in
huential
The speaker said II he could not maintain
the ascendancy of his party by honest means
ne would be willing to let it go through pu-
rlIylng process. The miseries and fierce con-
vuislons in Missouri before the removal of the
po.i!ical disabilities and the peace and tran
guilty in that State since removal
:. ~ was oppt sed to the Ku X uy bill because
was an unwarranted gran. of power aud be-
oause u would seem to keep alive the bitter
aess. de disclamed that those who had voted
~ =, uu SO Tor Political reasons, but voted for
~ 10 protect the people from outrage. How.
ever much the leaders might desire II. he did
not believe that the Democratic marty wonjd
dare TO annul the constitutional amendments
Speaking of San Domingo, he said the ae.
qulsltion OF that would result in the annexa-
ton OF the American tropics down to the Is h.
mus, giving population that we do not want.
he had no personal feelings against the Presi-
dent, but would have pursued the same course
had the President been his dearest friend
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-14

A WASHINGTON despatch says that the gen.
eral misrepresentation concerning the con-
dition Of the accounts OF ex-CollectOrs of In
ternal Revenue, and the charge that immense
defalcations exist, has decided Secretary Bout
well to prepare and publish revised statement
Of these accounts to date. This is nearly ready
and compared with the immense sums collec-
ted, the defalcations will appear very small.
under this head of defalcations are classed all
deficiencies for which, in the opinion of the
Department, no valid reason has yet been
rendered of the unadjusted accounts. The
greater portion are made up OF uncollected
tax lists, which passed into the hands of sue.
cessors, and when these accounts are closed it
is expected that most Of the deficiencies will
d;sappear. The terms of most of the officers
named as defau tiers closed with tho fiscal year
ending June, 1869. The publication of this
statement will spoil an excellent campaign
storv of the Democracy, but as its speakers
and journals are Tot particular about facts, it
will do Just as well.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-14
Maine Cen trail Railroad,

BANGOR, Aug. ia substantial temporary
bridge was completed on Saturday morning in
place of the one destroyed on Wednesday night
on the Maine Central road in this city, and the
regular passage of trains to and from the de-
pot is resumed. first class bridge will be
built when proper material can be obtained
All the bridges on the road are being subject
ed to most rigid examination, and will i'm
mediately be put in thorough repair where
they are not already So
All the wounded by the recent accident are
getting along WELL
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-14
Caucus.

The Republicans of Portland are requested to meet
at their respective ward rooms Monday evening
Aug 14th eight o'clock to select six delegates from
each ward t. attend the county convention to be
held at City Hall Portland Aug. 18th,
The delegates cleo ed requested to meet in the
Reception Room, City Building, Tuesday afternoon
Aug 18th at 1--WE O'Clock to select four delegates at
largo. Per Order OF gst.. ...-
Rep. City COMMITTEES.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-14
M AsSAOHUS ETTs.
A Hfnu~>uaoL 6-SnSL-

LOWELL. Aug. 12.-About seven o'clock this
evening man was found in a field near the
residence of Charles III. Wilder, with his
completely severing it. A bloody Jack knife,
closed. was found in his pocket He says he is
John Chase frem Compton, N. H., and came
to this city yesterday. He is about So years of
age with no family. No cause is assigned, but
he says he has felt bad in his head for several
days. DR.. Ballard who dressed his wound
thinks his recovery doubtful.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-14
Brief Jottiugs.

Hon. John A. Poor AID wife and Miss Spen-
Ger of Portland, are at Saratoga.
VIM. L. Putnam has been appointed Com
missioner on the Building Loan Fund, in
place of Eben Steele, deceased.
The weather on Saturday was extremely hot,
the thermometer in the interior of q store on
Exchange street marking $50 at three o'clock
Yesterday, however, the temperature was more
favorable to comfort. '''- ~
Schooner Dreadnaught arrived here from, a
weeks cruise Saturday with eighty barrels of
mackerel, nearly all No. 1. 20
Hon. A. P. Morrill, has been elected chair
man Of the Directors Of the Maine Central
railroad during the absence of Judge Rice.
The Alcyon boat club had q good time at
Bridgton, but bad time getting home. Com
ing ACROSS Sebage Lake in their shell boat, the
wind blew 30 hard that they were shipwrecked
on q point of rocks and all ducked. Their
boat was badly stove and left where it went
ashore. q
Post BosW orth, G. A. r., has We understand,
made arrangements for the early exhibition in
this city of Bachelors great picture Of the
Battle of Gettysburg. This is one of the
greatest works OF art of the present genera
ton and has attracted thousands of visitors in
other cities. Many of cur Maine soldiers par
ticipated in this engagement, and the repro.
duction of its scenes on canvas will create a
remarkable degree of interest.
Kaler has retaken the .Kirkwood House, ..
Mr.. George A. Jones has secured the servi-
ces of Mrs. Louise Woodwork Foss for dra-
matte readings at the Ocean House, Old Or
chard Beach, on Wednesday evening. The
lady Is spoken of BY the press and others as
possessing rare dramatic ability.
"a The First Parish clock is out of order
The Wolf Tone Club will go to Lake Sebago
on Wednesday on an excursion.
Alaborer on the Portland and Ogdensburg
road, whose name we could not ascertain, at
tempted to sjnmp off a train At Center Conway
on Saturday, but accidentally fell under the
cars and was instantly killed.
Little girls have given up button collecting.
business and are now selling "California
Beans" This indicates promising develop
ment. -a -in. .il-.H %. I
Keep the performance of the Japanese
Troupe at City Hall tomorrow night in mind.
The Portland daily press., 1871-08-14

The RECENT R. r. DISASTER AT VAssAL-
BoRo' An examination OF the train more i'm
mediately connected with the railroad acci.
dent at Vassalboro' on Monday, was held in
Augusta by Mr. Levi T.. Lincoln, Assistant
Superintendent of the Maine Central, At the
solicitation OF Mr.. Lincoln, Hon. 8. T. Corser
of Portland. one of the Railroad Commission
ers was present and assisted in the investiga-
ton. After hearing the testimony and consul
aation with Mr.. Corser, Mr.. Lincoln immedi.
'tely discharged from the employ of the COM
pany, j. g. Fairbrother Of Skowhegan, the
conductor of the special train, and. John J.,
Nichols of Portland, engineer; and suspended
from duty Mark Waterman, conductor of the
regular train.