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The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20

YANKEE NOTE SHAvERs.-The Portland
PRESS is Disguised to find that in one of the
most hourishiug villages of Maine, containing
but 1000 inhabita Its, there are twenty FIVE men
among whom are some OF the wealthiest in the
town, the greater part having considerable
sums of money, yet but few of whom have DO
visible means OF support, and are practically
oafers. They have deserted the class of pro-
ducers and live by shaving notes and by other
little speculatiCns more profitable probably
than respectable. The indignation of the PRESS
is not without reason. Twenty-Five note shaw
percentage; and this, the same authority says
is not single instance, every village in the
State of the same size as the one referred To-,
presenting some what similar example. This
is not good show for total abstinence Maize,
and is probably considered by the vanquished
rum sellers as the natural effect of the law Of
compensation that buman nature is bound to
have certain amount of sin, and if 1t be re-
pressed in Que way it will develop in another;
aud may furnish the cOnundrum for the politi.
cal conomists-whether twenty-five rum
shops wOulS be more detrimental to a com.
munity OF 1000 than the same number of note
sbavers. The fate of any one who has unfor-
tunately become entangled in the net of either
is not to be envied-his destruction is simply
question of time in the majority of cases.
Commercial Advertiser.
1t may be doubted if the Commercial in New
York, where they have such magnificent spec
linens not only of note shavers, but thieves as
Jim Fiske, Daniel Drew and Boss Tweed and
numberless gin mills Of high and low degree, is
best qualified to solve the conundrum that it
has proposed. There is no question about it
here; We accept the ote-shavers, or as we put
it, the men who have little money which
are Ignorant Of the processes that the introduce
ton of manufacturing enterprises have render
ed necessary to success
Maine is in transition state incident to a
new policy and the general introduction OF
new enterprises AND the abandonment of old
industries; consequently hundreds of men of
moderate means are waiting for the want OF
that knowledge and skill that it is expected
the younger men will have.
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20

GoRHAM.-The circle connected with the
Methodist Episcopal church held its meeting
on Friday evening last, at the residence of
Roscoe G. Harding, Esq and the attendance
was large as usual. There is spirit of union
and harmony prevailing in all the interests of
this society which promotes effectiveness of
action and liberality in all pecunary matters.
After prayer by Rev. Mr.. Collins and music
vocal and instrumental, by several ladies,
very interesting Newspaper was read by the
editresses-Misses Benson and Watson. The
articles were of a high order of composition
generally, and the prophecies of the future
STATUS OF the members were very witty and
amusing. Social converse followed. and all
enjoyed the reunion highly. Several friends
were present from Portland.
Rev. MI. Perkins, principal Of the Select
School in Gorham oficiates scceptaby at the
Congregational church. He exchanged nnl.
pits with Rev. Mr.. Small of the Free street
Baptist church in this city on Sunday.
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20

Your correspondent, 80" has thrown HIM
sell into the defence of the Maine Central
RAILROAD, not in behalf of that corporation.
ouC lor himself alone, that it might be defend
ed from unreasonable attacks made in the
supposed tbut not rea) interest of Portland
In these selfish and degenerate days, such
an exhibition of tie love of justice purely for
Its own sake, in the cause of an oppressed
railroad against an oppressive people, is as re-
feshing as It's rare.
Phllanthropists and reformers, gushing with
affection for distressed orders. or classes or
organizations of men, have not unfreouentlv
been harsh and severe toward. individuals
ana so 1t should be no cause of surprise if in
lhis case find myself accused, not oulv of
mis- statements" but of having made Them
'recKlessly." In his former article this writer
complained that had made certain aIleoa-
tons or charges without book suggesting that
II had read the latest advertisement of the
Maine Central Railroad Co. should not have
made them. Now, it is simply because / had
read that advertisement and took If for
granted that L could rely upon it, that made
the statements referred to, I went IN fret
for my information, and if I have st,tsd ON,
thlng "reckessly" it is only that thing which
gave upon the exclusive authority of tba
DOCK" which the corporation had nut into
my hands for my information. [ gave the
facts as they gave them to us with positiva
and exact accuracy. 1t should be no cause
oil ppDtnrn in thplr obolf E, bo@ r
published notice and accepted it as true. This
notice, dates Nov. 18th, 1871 published in the
Foftlapd papers, contains no information in
Inspect 10 the departure of trains for Portland
'nat is not found in the foIiowino extroot
linz h aaa after November 18Th ,ccrrent tho
nnan 70. oanville aud Cumberland Iii Nv
open lot use, and passenger - ei iauu VIII De
win oe iuu 10 all points of this I'm net trains
pot Oh Io'tlahd q kenuebec r. R Gun cn InS De-
-, that .rains from this linelwll arrv
trains for Bangor and all informed; ~ assenger
via Lewiston and via Brunswick will IeaLohs,
one ~ P: NJ. Night Express with Pn pie at
Cars, at IL 50 A. M, via Augusta. every niah
except Mondays sft
Afternoon passenger trains for Au,nsta
Bath, and Lewiston via Dauyille. and ali inter'
mediate stations, at 5.15 P. II. Mixed train for
Augusta, Bath and intermediate stations at
A. NJ.
Your correspondent seems to think that
railroads may properly live and labor for the |
interest of their owners only. On the other
hand maintain that the Legislature has no |
i,snC TO charter road with this view, or to |
'niS end' merely. 1t is only because railroads |
"ie supposed to he of public utility as well as
VI private emolument, that the Legislature is
au'"o' lAeu 10 create them. Private propelty
can never De taken, us it is for railroads e..
cept Tor the public good. If railroad rrn
ing TWO trains day earns less money than
one which runs but single train. vet. if h.
two it, upon the whole Yields roo
'onabIe profit, and makes fair div;dona
'ush' 10 run two, if thereby the public con.
7enience is promoted, Oh
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20
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The Illinois Legislature, now in session, has
the Represe natives to Congress from that
State to favor the passage of an act giving all
honorably discharged soldiers and seamen, or
their heirs. 100 acres OF land, without subject
ing them to the necessity of pre- empting and
settling upon the same.
The Zion's Herald's says that every minister
should preach often on Satan. perhaps So"
replies the Christian Register, 'but editors of
religious journals should beware how they
allow him to become one of the leading con-
tributors to their columns"
A letter passed through the Belgrade (Me.)
Post Office the other day bearing the follow
ing drections:-'To the Post Master to Bcs-
ton, Mass. Misther, phase sind this letter to
my frind Bridget Roberts who. duz Gineral
House work at No. II Camden street, and
don't charge her nothing for have paid three
cints."
A pew in fashionable church in most
American cities costs as much as the rent of a
comfortable house for a year.
Reports from several counties in MARYLAND
are to the effect that the small pox is raging 10
an alarming extent, especially among the ne
groes.
The southern claims commission has already
received ten thousand claims for property dis.
troyed during the war and it is reasonable te
expect that the number will be doubled and
perhaps trebled. Only 15 or 20 per cent. have
been favora0ly recommended.
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20

WENDELL PHILLIPS is generally held TO be
an amateur rather than professional labor
ing man. But be claims that he belongs CT
right TO the laborers' guild. 1t is good sign
of pl ogress when men came to boast of such
connections instead of Haunting their geneal-
oges in peoples faces. Mr.. Phillips, in reply
ing to an attack by Mr.. Hazewell, the histori-
cal, statistical, encyclopedia man of the Bos
ton Trarelier, whom he Iacetiously calls Dry
asdust' as Carlyle might, says:
/ think Dry asdust, when he wrote that par
enthetical sheer quoted above, felt painfully
the ignorance which he coniesses OF clam dig
girg and such like. Now it was always q
tavorite of mine that clam digging. | have
in my day dug more clans than Dryasdusl
ever made mistakes in criticism, vast as that
claim seems,-anI with all sorts OF hoes too
patent ones aud those improysed Tor the
occasion ;even a big ciam-shelL.
Indeed there is hardly any ordinary trade,
or kind of manual labor, used in New Eng
land, at which L have not done many a day IS
work Probably have done more manual
labor in any one mouth OF either of my forty
five wears than Dry asdust has in any twelve
NOR tbs of even his early and comparatively
harmless years, before he smotheled hi.sseli
in that attic. For my iather's RUE for his
chi.dren was, ASK no man to do for you
anything you are not able and willing to do
yourself"
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20

HowTHE PRESIDENT FEELs.-The Spring
fed Republican, almost the only Republican
paper in New England that opposes Grants
denomination, allows its Washington cores
pondent to discourse as follows:
1t is natural enough that the President
should feel JuS little elated with the recenI
successes OF his party; not that there is any,
lhlng personal IN them, yet after all he is to
proht by them immensely. If there were
formidable rivals for the nomination, he
plght lear the increased strength of his par
ty; hut when only such men as Mr.. Greeley.
Senator Logan, Senator Trumbull or Senator
Sumner are mentioned as possible competi
tors, he is not aflad that the party will feel
strong enough to fling him over. But Gen.
Grant is not in defiant mood He seafe3,,s -
late to come within the rs eaefous advisers, and
ii ToS, ne Maf upon that class of Repubi
cans wlo. last uinter, declined to support his
So Domingo scheme. His policy now
rs to win the support of all honorable
Republicans. Such at least is the assertion
OF some of bis intimate friends here
They say be will recommend decided reforms
in the civil service, and that he will let San
Domingo dri!t for the present There are
rumors, too, OF Cancellation in New York,
Murphy may voluntarily give up his p ace or he
may consent to allow Fenton and Greely to
name some OF the prominent officers in the
custom house SO that there shall be ample
security for an efficient man cement. In
Short, the president is in good humor, and he
Is not inclined 10 interpret the elections in
way to render him odious to those republicans
who are opposed to him. If | am rightly in
formed 10 this regard, his policy is to be en-
inently a sagacious one that is, conciliatory
and generous, at least till after the election.
Senator Conkling has a hand, suspect, in
shaping the course of the president this win.
ter, and with all his faults, MI. Conking is 4
man OF great abilities. He is infinitely supe-
ror te Mr.. Fenton, not only in ability but in
moral character.
Among republicans here there is hardly
peep OF dlsseut to the denomination of Gen.
Grant; but in Washington we feel the power
OF an administration keeny, and we cannot
judge Of the feeling of the people on such
subject. But unless there is a remarkable
change in opinion Gen. Grant will be renom-
mated by the national convention. The
democrats SAY SO, and in such matters they
can sometimes judge better of the force of
public opinion than we can ourselves.
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20

ON Saturday, an Onyx Key Stone, gold mounted
" with inscrintlon and owners initials. The find
or will be suitably rewarded by calling on
j. e. SIMPSON, Jr,
nov20-st* Adams House.
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20
Tho West Pen.auLee Sufferers.
A LETTER OF THANKS,

N AhA In Or IhANhS.
Mrs. D. d. Barker, in letter to Mr.. W. NJ.
Marks, thus expresses the thanks of the West
Pensaukee sufferers for the articles sent from
this city:
There was splendid lot of them, ard have
done th, best could with them. sent word
all over town for all who were burnt out to
come and receive their portion, and opened
my. house to the suffering people, and have
had enough to do. Some days did not have
chance to get any dinner, for before one lot
would go another would come. But feel
more than compensated, knowing as do, that
through your kindness and that Of those other
dear friends in Portland 1 have been able to
make many suffering ones comfortable, and if
you could see the tears start, and hear their
heartfelt thanks you would feel as do, that
you had your reward, if it could be possible for
you to be rewarded, You have lightened
many burdened enc, and cheered aud COM
forted many, and know that God will reward
you and all those dear friends who have so
literally contributed
with hardly clothing enough fer q summers
day. The mother was killed on the cars last
summer, and now the poor m IN is stripped of
nearly every thing else. His housekeeper
came also, and her case was really pitiiul. She
had pair of twins few mouths CID and lit
tie girl about three years old. They were
aroused in the night by the dog to find the
| whole house in flames. She grasped her three
little ones in her arms aud had TO pass down the
stairway when it was all in flames, with Just
their night clothes on. II it hadn't been for
that dog every one in that house must have
burued to death. Throughsth generosity Of
those dear friends was enabled to furnish
complete and beautiful outfit for that suffering
mother and those children; more grateful
person never saw.
There are many cases which would like to
specify, but time will not allow me to do So
will only say that have tried to DO the very
best could with them, aud TO give satisfaction
to all. And now, in regard to clothing, Wis
consin is, think, well supplied, and / have
promised those vegetables when they arrive,
but would not say that it is advisable to send
any more, as they must freeze and become
! Worthless. There has been large lot seut
many aFticlts b tasaEl Of this State. There
some have promised when receive any mon:
| ey; also some medicine for poor old man who
is nearly blind, and if you have any in your
hands for such purI oses. if you see fit to send
| 1t can use it where it will. do much good
1 would like to have all those generous do.
nors know the good they have done, and how
grateful those sufferers were, and now that the
blessing of God may rest upon each and every
one, remain, MRS D. D. BARKER
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20

The Rockland Gazette is of the opinion
that the Labor Reform movement" started
in this city, is futile. 1t thinks that "intelli-
gence will give the greatest value TO labor and
secure the surest protection to the working
mans interest"
The Belfast Age, commenting on the New
York election, finds great comfort in the re-
suit. 1t says that the thine has not ye! come
when the people can be corrupted; and no
party chains can be forged strong enough to
prevent their acting in unity when the vel
fare OF the nation is imperilled."
Isn't the Maine Standard rather wasting
its space by indulging in such wholesale de-
nunciation of Gen. Grant? The people O
fourteen of the largest States in Union have
recently declared by means of the ballot, thai
they utterly discredit the foolish report tina
he is venal, imbecile thief The Standard
with such resources as it has, will have hare
work to reverse that decision.
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20

The VIcE-PRlsIDENCY. - The Providence
Journal varies the line of political discussion
just now by considering who shall be Vice
President, rather than who shall be President
1t says very truly that there would have been
no question about the Republican nomination
had not Mr.. Colfax peremptorIly declined to
have his name used again. But this act, it de-
ciares, was breach OF party discipline, and it
proposes to punish him for meddling with
matters belonging to the national convention,
by accommodating him and making him serve
any way. That is a kind of punishment that
a great majority of the Republican party will
be very glad to have hand in.
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20
THE Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland have
declared political war on the National schools,

THE Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland have
declared political war on the National schools,
on the ground that
Because mixed education is intrinsically
and grievously dangerous to faith and morals,
and tends to perpetuate dissensions, lnsuoor-
dinatons, and dIsaffection in this country,
those holding different religious principles
from theirs, seek to violate the civil rights of
Catholic people by forcing upon them syste m
of education repugnant to their religious con.
victions and destructive alike to their temporal
and eternal welfare"
This is exploded by the Sunderland (Eng
land) Times, which points out that 30 far from
the systems being forced on the Catholics,
it was the result of an agreement, forty years
ago, between Archbishop Murray, Of Dublin,
and Lord Stanley, afterwards Earl Derby, and
approved at the time by the Pope. The schools
aim to be Christian, but not sec:arian, and the
authorized books of lessons read daily in them,
contain copious selections from the Holy
Scriptures, approved, when first compiled, by
the hehds of the rival churches The schools,
as the Times remarks, have not changed, but
Catholicism has, being now expounded in Ire
land by bigoted and stupid ul'ramontanes.
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20

A repeater complains that one of the Com.
metciai reporters calls him thief and declares
II tho offender don't take it back he will
knock the stuGng out of him." The curl
osity of the editor is SO great to know what the
iellow means by the term that he proposes to
let the game proceed
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20

In port l6th, brig Ellen Bernard, Coomos, Boston
for New Orleansi sehs Sandish, Wider Penn
broke fol New York; Palias French, New YORK for
Ro land
EDGARTowN- 18th. sch Ned sump,er Shaw
Nee York for Boston. gTtEa Rf9EB&A
In port scbs Ida Hudson, Planet, Laconia. fsIs
0VV~iINEVAkD-H AYrN-Ar 10th. brig Chilianv al
lab Fuller Buenos Agres Tor Boston: W Ii Bick-
more, Howara. New Orleans 80 days tor Boston; Sa-
rah Gilmore Clifford, Pensacola 70 days tor do.
. Ar 17lh, baIGue Rachel. Norton. Philadelphia for
Raih brigs Geo Bulhhan. Staples, Turks Islands
10 DAYS tor Portland; Mansanilla, spear, Enza6eth-
port for Boston; sehs Empress Kennedy, New York
lof DO Herald Hall, anu Tads Wnd, ln9aham,
20 Tor Lynn; Veto Watts. do tor Danvers; owen
hi 1I Clehcenntr, Philadelphia tor Calais.
via ISn ar i7th, sch Zlna, Bradbury haeh'@s
GA IN barque Harrisburg. Ryder, New Orleans.
sell D,rs' I9Sr9ne Founding Billow, Finn, Malaga;
Cu fi 0tig Jessie Rhynas Hail. for Demarara;
Portiand "srr Lansi, bangor; Stella Lee, Brewer,
FOREIGN PORTS.
SID TN Surinam 18th ult, brig A Ross, wyman,
AT Demarara 2Tst ult, brig omer, Rietb. for PORT
| land. Me.
Ar at Falmouth. ia 10th ult, sch J M Morales,
Ar at Ceniuegos 9Th inst, sch Lizzie Webster Par
| SINS. New York.
Sid slh, sch d King Eldridge. Pensacola.
Sid I'm Havana 9th, barque John Griffin, West
In port 70 h, barques Alexandria. Mitchell for
Boston; Augustine kobbe Dow Weldon. Col
son and Norwegian, Murray. une; br0s Long Reach
blair Or New York. ldg; Merriwa, Waterhouse tor
do, ldg sugar 7jc per box; Nellie Clifford, Little
field. and Clara j Adams, McFadden, unc
Sid TN Matanzas Sth barque SaraA Hale, White,
Fernandina.
SPOKEN.
N,v5. lat 80 o., Ion 70 %, ship VIM A Campbell,
| IRON Boston Tor Mobile.
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20

Published as a warning and for the benefit o
yoang men and others, who suffer from Nervous
Debility, &C., supplying TIE MEANS OF sELF-CURE
Written by one who cured himself, and sent free
on receiving post. paid directed envelope.
Address NATHANIEL MAYFAIR, Brooklyn
New York sNw6m-junI5
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20

THE latest claim set up by the friends OF
the Ku-Klux is that it is simply social or
ganizaton. The idea is doubtless little
novel to US; but riding about the country at
midnight dressed in long gown, armed with
revolver, or running the risk Oh being tried
and shot for disclosing the secrets of meet
ing held in the heart OF dense forest or hunt
ing miserable radicals at night, shooting some
and thrashing others may exactly fill their
idea of the highest social enjoyment: vet
there are those that don't agree with these
hearty and cheerful midnight marauders to
such an extent that they become ecstatic un-
der hundred lashes on the bare back O, ex.
pect every night to enjoy the exhilararion of a
bullet through the head. Timid people would
much prefer the sociability of the Arkansas
traveller, who demonstrated it by wipins his
feet on his hosts best coat and splitting to.
bacco juice over the dinner table.
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20
ON NARRFAGT

Essays for Young Men, on great SOCIAL EVILS
and ABUSES, which interfere with MARRIAGE
with sure means OF relief for the Erring and Unfor-
innate. Diseased and Debitated. Address HOW
ARD ASSOCIATION, No. O. S. Ninth St, Phadel-
phia, Pa. jy 2e-sN me
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20

A CORRESPONDENT of the Rockland Gazette
WHO saw Gen. Butler at Wiscasset, thinks he
Certainly has not large amount of personal
pulchrtude.'
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20
GO9'1ba29s Seminary.

~" Board OF HnStrucI10H.
G. M. BODG q, A. w, Prineipai,
aud Teacher OF Classic $.
MISS ADELA BARNES,
Preceptress and Teacher OF Vocal and Piano Music.
MADAME MARIE COU RLAENDER,
Teacher OF Modern Languages.
MISS JENNIE &. BODICE,
Assistant Preceptress, and Teacher Of Rhetoric.
Instruction will be given BY competent Teachers la
Mathematics, Drawing and Painting. anu an
assistant in Muse will be secure d az
soon as possible.
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20
Storage. AdU0nces.

Storage to let in first class bonded war eieuses on
Browns Wharf, and Merchants Wharf, and in Port
land Sugar Cos buildings York Daniorth and Com
mercial Streets.
Advances made on property stored as above.
Apply to j. B. BROWN q SONS,
iyi5sn OF EXCHANGE Street
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20
FOE EsaEE!

eN An Iron Propeller Ferry-Bost
E=ss1S Dimensions, length, 22O feet, beam 40
SZE~slIzt u. feet breadth over guards 81 It, depth
RszssSzEss2 IA feet; draught OF water laden ii ieet
Suitable TOR Lake or River navigation, and The car
ryiug OF Railroad Cars and Teams
The Ironwork Is marked and lying in store at
Portland.
Apply to PERCY L. ISAAC,
At the Falmouth Hotel
Or to GEO ii. STARR.
British Consulate, Portland, Maine.
November 4th 1871 il d2v
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20
Bachelors HairDve.

This superb Hair Dive is the best in the world--per-
feetiy harmless, reliable and ms aufaneous no dis
spoinlment; no ridiculous tnts or dsageeable odor
Inc genuine VIM. A. Bachelors Hair Dye produce
brown, leaves the hair clean, soft, beautiful; does
not contain particle Oflead or any injurious COM
pound. Sold by all Druggists.
Factory, 16 BOND STREET, NY.
jyf1 SN DEW ~
The Portland daily press., 1871-11-20
On Marriage.

Happy Relief for Young Men from the ef-
fects OF errors and abuses in early ie Manhood re-
S ored lmprdiments to marriage removed. New
method CT treatment. New and remarkable reme-
dies Boo and Circulars sent free, in sealed en-
velopes. Address HOW ARD ASSOCIATION, No 2
South Ninth street, Philadelphia, Pa. novisnd3m