The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-02-02
Bangor Democrat devotes three

scribed with exhaustive minuteness. We
hardly supposed that the enterprise OF oul
brother would carry him into that depart
mcnt-but he really seems at home in it.
The State Temperance Convention
met at Augusta on Tuesday Gov. Perham
was chosen President, but no report that we
have yet seen chronicles his taking Of the
chair 1t will be remembered that Gov
Chamberlain fought shy OF the same pos ition
We are indebted to Joseph Whe eler
Esq, who is in the Internal Revenue service
at Raleigh N. c., for copies of the Daily
Sentinel containing the impeachment trial Of
Gov. Holden. The trial began on the oath
and is expected to occupy month.
| There wasn't evidence enough to con
Wet Butler, the radical Tennessee Congress
man. of forgery, and he got the benefit OF :
doubt in the case. Bowen, of South Caro-
lima, goes through the mill next, on a charge
| of being too much married.
| The Court reporter of the Lewiston
journal makes use of q very torcible figure
in saying that Chief Justice Appleton event
through the civil docket like a dose of anti
bilious pills" Very likely to be efllcacion:
treatment in constipated suits.
William Landry. of Rockland loaded
his gun with a candle, and tried to shoot
that strange prolectile through board. The
doctor thinks that he will have very neal
stump at his wrist. when it has healed.
"A Cincinnati editor said that another
member of the profession had been whipped
by woman. The whipped man thinks the
statement damaged him $4,000 worth, and
sues for the shekels.
Boston is engaged in perusns, "twix'
4 smile and tear" the vote by which the
new reform city government conferred on
its members gold badges at Sl6 each.
The Boston Post gives an elaborate
description of rat pit in the staid New Eng
land metropolis, where is pursued the man
ly sport Of rat killing by trained dogs.
Gov. Hoffman has sent to the New
York Legislature R special message concern
ing the corrupt use Of money in elec lions.
He recommends additional and more severe
punishments for the offence OF bribery.
bangor has Just completed a new and
much larger Jail. The Bangor Young Mems
Bible Society is also in Furnishing condi-
ton, we notice
The kennebec Law Club, an Augusta
institution, is a sort of legal bhldgeon that
produces many knock-down arguments,
which are reported in the kennebec journal.
dur thanks are due to Fdw ard Cush-
ing, Esq, representative from Camden, for a
supply of public documents from the State
House.
And now Portland complains Of a
scarcity OF water, notwithstanding it has
tapped Lake Sebago.
Gen Hall has been reappointed Col
hector at Waldoboro.
The cup of humiliation for France is full.
Her armies captured or DISPERSED the emper-
or q prisoner, and her capital surrendered.
What terrible succ ession of reverses the six
months of war have brought to her. The
mind of the student of history goes back oven
the record of her greatness, when her yictori-
Gus arms established her prestige in the far
Indias and in the new world of America
when her fleets and armies, thwarted her
great rival by giving independence to the
British colonies in America-to the time when
her eagles directed by the genius of Napo-
leon, led her nvincible aims to every capital
in continental Europe. And now she lies,
Inundated and bound, 1t the feet of the
Prussan-the result Of !; war madly begun
and insanely prosecuted
What is to follow can be no more conject-
urcd than it could at the beginning But the
best than can be hoped is 4 loss of territory
4 crippling of resources, and slow and diff
ficult recovery from the fearful disasters of
war. A generation cannot restore the raw
ages of the contest, nor make France and her
capitol what they were but six short months
ago.
ne IOfLltllu ponce lOulil u llISL tlttSS 81
duction case at one Of the hotels. arrested
the parties, and furnished sensational articles
for the papers. The case tapered down
pretty fine, how ever, when the girl said she
hadn't been seduced any to hurt, had nc
complaint to make and wished folks woult
mind their business. Next
A correspondent of the kennebec Journa
enlghtens that sheet about the ingredients OF
n democratic brew'-that is, whiskev
lemon, hot water, &c--a drink that is fashion
able at Augusta. A republican brew may be
found in the report Of the state liquor agent
"a hundred thousand dollars worth Of rum,
and seven thousand dollars salary for mixing
it, Who wouldn't be loyal"
Mr. Wilson publishes a rejoinder to the
comment of the Portland jailer, reatfirming
what we stated of his treatment, and has
placed the latter at SO much disadvantage
that he keeps silent. We would print Mr.
w s card had it not been mislaid.
RELIEF TO SHIPPING. A New York letter
Of the Doth says
Private dispatches received yesterday from ship
owners Of this city, now in Washington, give AS
surances that bill viii soon be submitted to Con
greSs, embOdying the views of all practical snip
builders, as well as ShipoWners. which Will he gen