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In quantities to suit purchasers and other articles
in endless variety. i. s. FOWLER,
Corner Of Water and Adams Streets,
Port Townsend. W. r. l:if
The Portland daily press., 1871-07-01
Political Notes

One of the genuine old Bourbon Democrats
"a fossil from Paris Hill, and a veritable cox
ford Bear'-was unearthed at the Maine
Democratic State Convention. 81 believe !.
said this antiquated specimen "of the paeozoic
age" "and there are thousands just like me in
the State of Maine, that we had no more
right to take the niggers away from the
Southerners than you have to take an OK out
OF my barn, and that, ii they'd killed every
cussed Abolitionist that entered their country
Ior mat purpose, they'd have performed as
much service to the community as should if
shot a burglar who had crawled into nv
house. Sir, they ought to be hung naval,
OF them they are no better than tbiavos and
robbersp N
Congressman Henry l.. Dawes refuses to be
a candidate for the Republican nomination
for Governor OF Massachusetts this Fall.
Here is another sentence from the Mont
gomery (Ala) State Journal, which perhaps
Democratic newspapers will quote as eagerly
as that other one in which The editor said
that he had Tor twenty-five years dwelt in en-
tire security: eve believe, and have good
reason for SO doing, that there are certain
counties in Alabama where no Republican can
give in safety"
1t is observable that between the "new de.
The Portland daily press., 1871-07-01
Items.


One agent of the Massachusetts State Tenn
perance Alliance, who has recently cauvassed
eight towns, had persuaded 4O57 school child
rem to sign the pledge.
Father Farrell, of the ST. Joseph's (R c.,
church, in New York, is patriotic priest.
This may be inferred from the fact that he has
placed full length portrait of Gen. George
Washington, among the pictures OF the Saints
in the chapel of his church.
The Medical Society of the District of Col
umbia has been investigating the properties OF
cundurango, and doctors seem to differ in this
case, as in many others. Several experiments
have been made, and the committee which
have been making the investigation will re-
port that the new cancer cure does not possess
the properties claimed for it by DR.. Bliss and
others.
1t is officially announced that Halifax will
now that the treaty has been ratified, cease to
be the rendezvous for the British fleet IN Can
adam waters, and the fleet will be reduced to a
cOmmOdore's ship.
noted desperate named Lowney, was shot
at Erie Colorado, Saturday, it is supposed by
member of the vigilance committee, is said
to give general satisfaction!
In New York, policeman Gillespie, who was
indicted for assaulting and robbing two citi
zens and shooting policeman, was sentenced
to ten years in the State Prison.
The total internal revenue receipts for the
fiscal year which ended Friday, were $144,-
967 ,763, which falls ten millions below Mr.. De-
ianos estimate. Tue receipts for the year end
ing June Both. 1870, were $1S5, 235 1857.
The Portland daily press., 1871-07-01


To the Editor of the Press:
write this upon the banks of the Aroos-
took, and from one of the most beautiful places
the State can boast Of The village whence
write, lies upon the South bank of tie river,
mostly upon street, and is more than nile
from the one end of it to the other. There are
here, nearly sixty families, and as the scrip
tural command to "increase and multiply"
seems to have been very generally obeyed, this
natural immigration, with the incomming of
people otherwise, has given us a population
of some more than three hundred souls. pre-
sumng that every body has soul This, is
the vll,ge, l mean. Tie population OF the
town is not much less than two thousand. =
The village is smart, aciiv., husiuess-like,
enterprisiag, driving, goa head SORT OF place
--one-half 5nit up during the last hai-G,zen
years or there bouts. There are here 30 dwell
ing hou es, Z or stores, the most Of To. m do
ing yeiy extensive business; about the same
number of mechanic shops, saw mills, grist
mills, and other mills and machinery; two
millinery establishments one matchmaker and
jeweler, one Photographic, one dentist, one
physician, ministers, as many as are needed
very good men and who acould do good deal
of good, but there are two lawyers in the place,
and the report is more are coming. / don't
know whether want to live to see that day.
or not.
Fort Fairfield boasts an Episcopal Church
edifice, very neat, unique and tasteful affair,
got up and built under the auspices of the Rev.
MIR. Washburn, who has laboied very success.
fully the last two or three years, in this Sec
ton. The building was consecrated by Bish-
op Neatly, in June of the last year. The
church sustains ministerial services oue-half
of the time, and has a growing and interesting
weekly Sunday School. The other denomina-
tions worshipping here, and who occupy alter
nately a portion of one of the best school
houses in the County, are the Methodists Rev,
Mr.. Whitney, who by the way, has just been
returned for his third year; the Free Baptists,
Rev. Mr.. Purington; the Calvinist Baptists
Rev. Mr.. NugeDt, and the Congregationalsts,
Rev. Mr.. Austin; all very good, and very gen.
orally, popular preachers. So you see we
ought to be good, ourselves. And we are toler-
ably so, but there is human nature to contend
with, which some tell us, is utterly depraved,
and with the Devil also, aud there are taco laeo-
| gers here.
The locality is blest with an office very SIM
| liar, Imagine, to that OF Matthew, when he
was called to be a disciple, and who is spoken
of as Sitting at the receipt of CUSTOM" but
doubt very much whether the incumbent here
"a particular and personal friend of yours, 1
believe would be quite as willing to give up
his office and go into other business, as was his
| prototype of old. This accords with my obser-
walton of oficehoders generally. However,
our Deputy Collector is a very good officer
gives general satisfaction, serves his country
honorably, reports honestly, pays Government
dues faithfully. f.
The Portland daily press., 1871-07-01

parture" Stevens extermnating war on slime
serving issues" John Quincy Adams polished
logic, Jefferson DAYS revamped secession
speeches, and Toombs's burning ether" to
say nothing of Senator Gerrett Davis's ora
tions, the old time Democratic luminaries are
greatly perplexed to choose their political
thunder for the coming campaign.
The republican Stete committee of Ker-
lucky have nominated the Rev. William
Pratt. Baptist minister, to fill the vacancy
on the ticket for superintendent of public in
struction.
The Portland daily press., 1871-07-01

HE MAINE DEMOCRACY.-The New York
Post, which is good Democratic authority,
and is frequently quoted with approval by
our local Conservative sheets, says:
The Maine Democrats have "been and gone
ard done It," as one OF Marryatt's once ia
nous characters would have said. They no.
tify the public of Maine and the remainder
OF the United States that they will faithfully
support the Constitution OF the United
States as it now exists, but that they ''de-
nounce the means by which the same became
the law of the land" Moreover that they
reject the idea of reputation of the ma
tional debt" and believe that the government
ought to pay in ''lawful money"
Greenbacks are "lawfu money! and the
Maine Democrats bubble. According to
law"-according to the present law, means
payment in coin; but they do hot say s'coin"
they leave 1T to be inferred that if their party
should come into power they would substi-
tute whatever they may choose for the pres
ent law.
AS to the Constitution as it is" their adj
herence to it will scarcely be satisfactory to
the people What is needed, what the people
would like to read in Democratic platform,
is that the Democratic leaders sincerely re-
pent OF their many years misconduct, ack-
nowledge themselves to have been in the
wrong IN supporting slavery and in opposing
the equal rights of the freedmen, and con-
denim all interference with those rights in the
future.
When the Democratic leaders publicly and
officially make such declaration as this, they
VIII 90 the nation service; and though the
people may not choose even then TO entrust
to hese repentant sinners the administration
OF the federal government, there will at least
be reason for these Democrats TO hope that if
they continue to conduct themselves we'll
they may be at some future time reinstated
in the good opinion and confidence of the
nation.
For the present the Democrats are little
behind the Republicans, all the time. They
stand to-day upon what was Republican
platform several years ago; the world moves
too fast for them; they remind an observer of
he fogy who, according to western orator,
went about tleading on the coat tails of Pro-
gress, and crying, whoa! whoav"
The Portland daily press., 1871-07-01

A DISPATCH says that the delegation of the
New Brunswick government to the Nova SEQ
tia ana Prince Edwards Island governments to
endeavor TO procure concerted action against
tne nshery clauses of the Washington treaty,
returned Friday. They were yery reticent as
to their doinss but say the fishermen and fish
eraqers OF me island and Nova Scotia are fav-
to the game the Nova Scotia government e
playing. with Ottawa that government is not
to be relied on to oppose the treaty. The be0
lief is that the delegation has failed in it's mis-
sion. The Nova Scotans are not fools.
The Portland daily press., 1871-07-01

NEW SwEDEN.-Mr. William w. Thomas,
IT., the State Commissioner of emigration re-
turned from Sweden on Thursday, and gives a
very gratifying report of the colony there At
present there are one hundred and sixty hit
acres of land under cultivation, and the crops
are looking finely. The buildings have been
much improved, and are more comfortable for
winter. The colony now numbers over four
hundred, and 200 more are expected to arrive
very soon from Sweden. By winter the COLONY
will be increased to one thousand persons, Mr..
Thomas expects, all of whom will have good
amount of pecnniary means. Some of the
present residents are engaged in building a
turnpike to Caribou, the nearest settlement,
Others are engaged on the railroad and in
Kngman's great tannery, and all are prosper
GUS and happy. Mr. Thomas has had an in
terview with Gov. Perham and Land Agent
Burleigh, and has given them full but infor-
mai report of his visit to the colony.
The Portland daily press., 1871-07-01
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gu Z0'n' sou Telegraph, for Portland.
FOREIGN PORTS
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Ross LeghoIn Tor New York " @ ~
Passed the Rock ith barque Neyersipk, Weeks,
Ar az Lverpoo kytu INST, ship Jos Fish, Carney,
New , Orleans; solue, Brooks, DO.
Sid I'm Calbarien 10th, sch IF Young, Richard
son philadelphia
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&c" loih uaNss mOntand, mudgett. iOI next
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Eureka, Carman, for North OF Hatteras; brig An
titles. Tlesrup. do do.
Ar at st John. NB, Path inst sch Abbie ingalls,,
ingalls,, Portland: 2Sth, Bliss, Wyman, Port
lind; 27th. brig Nichols, Chase. Portland; 18th,
| ship National Eagle, Jordan, Boston.
additional per steamer Cbina]
| Passed Dover 18th, Weikin. Snow from Rotterdam
TOR New York.
Ar at Cardiff 18th, John Wooster Bourne, Bristol.
| land ent out tor Mnscaf
Ar at Manila 18th, Young Eagle, st John, NIB.
| SID TN Queenstown iith Sarah e Frazer knight,
| Bristol, Il.
| Ar al Seville lth inst, Roswell Coop. New York.
On The Texel 18th, Othello, Greenleaf, from Caao
| 10, Hamburg.
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April lat 20 81 s, lon Sc IS W, ship Gen shepley
| from Callao tor Falmouth "
April 80, lat II N. lon 80 "a W, ship Black Hawk
| rom New York Tor San Francisco.
May 81 no lat &c, ship Ella Thayer, from New
| Orleans foI Havre. =
June "a. lat 43 80, Ion 50 90 ship saml Watts, from
| New Orleans foI Liverpool
| June 70. lat AZ. Ion So, ship Am Congress, from
| New Yorx tor London.
june 20, Oh Gay Head, ship Genevieve Strickland,
from New York Tor Antwerp
No date. lat 81, lon 10, sch Virginia. from Porto
Rico tor New York.
The Portland daily press., 1871-07-01

The Argus is just now the organ of that
portion OF the Democracy that accept Vallan-
dlgham's new departure of which Henry CLAW
Dean is the head convert in Iowa, 1t is need
less to add that this is the faction that is am
oltious and hungry for office in 1872, and put
special Interpretation upon the self stutifica-
ton clause with the vain. hope of making
converts. So anxious is this organ to do the
part assigned it, that it acknowledges its past
transgressions and blazons the fact of its con-
version TO loyalty to the Constitution in can
itals thus:
THAT WE RECOGNIZE OUR BIND
Ing OBLIGATION TO THE CONSTITU-
ZION OF THE UNITED STATES AS IT
NV EXISTS, denouncing the means by
Which the same became the supreme law ~
tbe land; that we will faithfully support the
CONSTITUTION as it now exists aud that We de-
nand for it a strict construction SO as to nro
tect equally the rights OF States and indiyidu-
ais.
This is the Argus construction; but seven
OF the fifteen committee and a large part of
the party leaders who are, by no means "play-
ed OUT in the party, having several organs that
are as potent 10 their sections of the State as
is the Argus in its, put the emphasis entirely
upon another clause which they will display
in capitals as follows:
THAT we recognize our binding obligation
TO the constitution of the United States as il
now exists, DENOUNCING THE MEANS
supreme law of the lano, &C."
As one Of the shrewd ones facetiouslv re-
marked, you pays your money and takes
your CHOICE; or another who was trying to
smooth the agitated mind of one of the 'sold
cattle that die hard" said 1t means nothing
you knOav.
The Portland daily press., 1871-07-01

DOMESTIC PORTS
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GALVESTON 2sd. ship Excelsior, PendletOn.
CID s2d, sch Petrel Cook Tuxpsn.
SD 22d. barnue Clara Eaton. tor Havre.
CHARLESTON-ar 2sth, sebs S A Reed Reed
New York; H G Bird, Drinkwa ter Rappah annock
River
Cid 26tb, sch Chas comery. Pinkham. Baltimore.
NORFOLK-Ar 26th, sch Alien Lewis, Lewis Bal
timore for Boston. leaky.
FORTRESS MONROE Ar 2sth, sch Lamons
King, Rio yaneiro for Baltimore
ALEXANDRlA-Sld 9th, sch Samuel Fish. Teel.
BAITIMoRE-Ar 9th, schs Harry Perkins sey-
Ar 18th, brig Valencia Small, from New York; sch
Nevada, Davis, Portland
Cd 9Th, sch Mary d Haskell, Haskell, Boston.
9. rIh I'LL A-AI 2slh, schs Para, erown.
Fossett, Harding Bangor; Alfred Keen, from Vinal-
haven; r L Tay, Brown, and Tahtamount. Davis,
Gardiner; Zeyia, Crowell, Portland; Fred Smith,
Also ar 18th, ;eps Young. Richardson, Caiba.
rien; John Griffin, Coombs Portsmouth,; Helen
Waite (,ott Calais; George u Emily, Harris. Fer
nandina; Viola, Hall, Boston; II Curtis. Curtis I'm
Bangor ~ p, ,,,,
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NJ BrookiDgs, Douglass. Bath: Harmonic, Burgess
Boston: OIbello, Matthews Portsmouth; St Elmo,
Ar goth. brig Josephine. skinner. Sagua; sch Ad-
die Ryerson Houghton. st John, NIB.
Cid 27th. barque Devonshire, Havener, Liverpool;
brig Sportsman Morton. Boston.
Cid 18th, brig D Hart BURGESS, Boston; sch r
Leach. Pendeton, Saeo; Mabel Hall, Bartlett Ports
mouth; Jos Fish, Gardiner. Quincy Point.
NEW YORK-Ar 18th, baraue Clara. Mcconnell,
Monteyideo; Mary Dyer. Hopkins. caibarien S
Kingsbry. Perry Matanza.; bries George Bur nham.
Staples, Matanzas IL davs: Mariposa, Iaples Carde-
mas p days schs Frank Jameson. Jameson, Bruins
wick, Ga. DAYS; j Griffin, Griffin. Philadelphia for
Salem. Flying Arrow, Curtis, Macha Lamartine,
Small Franklin: Calvin, Clark, Westport; Sarah
Louisa. SWEET. Gardiner; Convoy, French, Spruce
Head; Essex. Handy, Rockport..
Cid 29th baruues Aberaeen, Treat. MOBILIZE; Com
merce Walls, Newcastle Me; schs Catawamteak
Lord, st Kits; j Libby. Libby Fernandina; OH,
ver Jameson, Jameson, Richmond; Northern Light.
Plummer, Boston.
The Portland daily press., 1871-07-01
The Springfield Republican gives Gen. But

The Springfield Republican gives Gen. But
Ter this first rate notice:
1t is in possible that Gen. Butler should not
make new departure of some sort the coming
political season. There is law of the mem.
oers III his case that forbids him to remain
seaghant or continue consistent, above the pc
ROD OF an ordinary human CESSATION. He
may confidently be expected TO f'break cover"
from his present position before MANY moons
whether it will be his long considered raid up-
on massachusetts for her gOvernOrship, with
the marshalliDg of the labor reform and pro-
hlbitory factions, and the coustrainino OF the
administration influence to his support; or
whether, remaining in Congress, ard seizing
upon the scattered and local elements of Oppo.
sition to the Treaty OF Washington as an ex.
cuse, he will sever his thin alliance with Gen.
Grant, and und srtake to lead the Republican
opposition to his denomination, or even the
Democratic opposition to his reelection, it
would not be safe positively to pre-
act. lie is as likely to do one thing as
the other. and almost certain to do one or the
other. But in whatever new role he NAV
appear, there is no real danger or harm hap.
pening from it to anybody but himself save
through the cowardise of those who dOub and
would resist him His audacity is imposing;
at times 1T has been overwhelming; but expe-
rience has shown that it is powerless before
bold resistance. Confronted sharply his SWELL
ing front flats as suddenly and as harmlessly as
ErIcked soap bubble. He has no real moral
hoid upon either the people of Massachusetts,
or the nation. With the help of the Office
holders, end bis local following, he certainly
could succeed in dividing the Republican party
OF Massachusetts,, by attempting to be Govern
or. But he could never possibly get their NOM
ination save through lack of unity, and of Or
and of pluck on the part of his op-
ponents that would be as weak as wicked
Aud even with a nomination, be could not
command an election except through large
proportion OF the Democratic vote, which he
very likely could pervert to his support.
The Portland daily press., 1871-07-01

The SUGAR CROP IN LoUIsIANA.-The an
nual statement of the sugar crop OF Louisiana,
Just completed, is far more trustworthy as an
index OF prosperity and of the ssuccess of
schemes of industry, than any amount of news
paper assertion. The work referred to is COM
piled with great labor, and its data may ALWAYS
be relied upon. According to this authority,
the sugar crop of 1901 is set down at la. 8Sl
n0gshead, weighing 1853 378, 592 pounds, against
~, O00 hogsheads, in 1869-7O-an increase of
5I,19l hogsheads, or over 66 per cent The
largest increase in the crop was mad q notwith-
standing that there was great difficulty in oh.
tanning labor just at the planting season. and
the weather. both in the Spring and Autumn
was unproptious Had the season proved
favorable, the crop, as now cOnjectured would
have reached nearly 100000 to $4,000 hogs
heads. The yield of mo,asses was immensely
large, seventy-one gallons per hOgshead The
entire yield OF molasses was IL, 281 419 gallons.
against 5,725. 256 in 1869 20. an increase OF
nearly l00 per cent. The yield of molasses
the previous year was 65 gallons to the hogs
head. while before the war the average was
70 gallons In like manner a randi increase
in the number of sugar houses in operation ia
observable, the total being 1,1O5, mostly work
ed by steam, against !, 292 establishments run
ming in the year 1901 This number having
risen from Sl7 in the previous year, this
branch OF industry is shown to be advanced
with rapid strides toward its former position.
One thing is certain, Louisiana is recovering
from the devastations OF war, and her indus
Try, despite all embarrassments, is prospecting.