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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-07-08
Sampson in strength.
A Brobdignag in length,
nd q littla FIN Tr,u;s a., xrlsz~I,

And it is nearer the truth than ANYTHING else
we have seen in their papers for long time.
II our Democratic contemporaries were as
orthodox politically as they are comedy in per-
son, courteous in manner and keen in intel
lect, they would doubly deserve place in
this new edition of ''Percie's Relioues.v
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DOM ESTIC Ports.


GALvESTON-Cld 2sth, ships Koomer, Elliott,
Liverpool; Andrew jackson, Kelley, Tor do; barque
Arlington. Costello. Amsterdam.
Ar 18th, ship Enoch Talbot, Talbot, Live pool.
NEW ORLEANS-Ar 30th, sch Village Bride, Me-
Carly. Ruatan.
Ar ist inst barque Annie Torrey Libby, Cardiff.
Cid LIST, ship Carter Oak, Turkey, Boston.
PENSACOLA-Ar 27th ult, sch Ella Fish. Roney,
Ar soth, brig Jas Crosby. Fargo Apalachicola.
Ar LIST, ship Emma, Rich, New Orleans
Sid 2stb, barque Casco Gardiner Providence; 3Oth
sch Mnett a Groeker New s h York; 1on;. CANA
WILMINGTON-Cld Sd inst brig Mary Dana
ALEXANDRIA-Ar Sd. brig Mary Pencil. Ea-
ton, Boston; schs Maggie Mulvey, I'm Allyn's Point
Louisa Bliss Strong. New York.
BALriMORE-Ar 9TH, brig Nuevites, Crosby,
New York. .
Cid sth, ship Oakland, Merrill, Antwerp; scbs L A
johnson. Mailman, Portsmouth; Iona, Kendall. tor
Newburyport; $ L Burns. Crosby West Dennis
PHILADELPHIA-Ar 9Th, schs Tantamount, Fos-
ter. Gardiner; George Deering. Forbes Por land.
Below 9th, barlue Ada Carter, from Ma anzas.
NEW YORK-Ar 4tb, sch H Holway. Thomp-
son, Tabasco: Sabao, Caldwell, Calais; Mary Clark
French, Roekland Gen Howard johnson, l, Gardiner
liams Cornish, Rockport; Laura Robinson, Robinson
Pigeon Cove .......M
Ar 9th, sch VIM Arthur, Hutchison. New York.
Cid 5h, schs Geo Some, Pray, Savannah; tam
ma, Huntley, Boston.
Ar 7th, ship j A Thompson. Thompson, Cardiff.
Cid 9Th, barque Helena, Potter tor Gibraltar: se5s
Helen Bowen, Alexander Demarara; Eveline,
Pierce, Barbados.
Passed through He'll Gate 5,h, scbs Adde stimp-
son, Barrett. Newburg for Passports Eliza fnaro,
Sherman Elizabethport for Portland; ManSneld'
Ac6orn, Weehawken tor Boston; Boaz, from EIiza-
6ehport Tor Salem; Olive Elizabeth souie' 60 ior
Portland.
PAWTUCKET-Ar 9Th, schs DIR Kane. Coombs,
and Loduskia. Means. Bangor. r....o o,.u,. ,.o,,
PROVIDENCE Ear 9Th. scbs Deeora, OZARK, frem
Ponce: SAM Hartley. Drinkw alter, Pensacola
VfSEYARD-H AVEN-Ar5 9Th, brig Emira, At
wood. Gardiner tor New London; scbs David Nichols
Wvmap. wilmington Tor Boston, Nellie Doe, Rich
ar3son DO for Bath; Agenora Jordan, Ellsworth Tor
New York Webster Bernard, Smith, st John. NIB,
,or do; Lizzie l. Mills, Armstrong. Bangor for do;
Hram Tucker, Curtis. Calais for do; Helen g King,
Marshall, do tor Washington.
Ar 9Th, schs j Tinker, Lopaus, Elizabethport for
Boston; Clarissa Allen, hodgdon, Calais for Middle
town; Ambassador Bangor for New York.
Sid, scbs Charter Oak, Nellie Doe David Nichols,
and G MacOmber
30 >TON Ar 6th schs M Moselev, HAYES, from
Darien. Idaho Davis, from New York; Webhannet,
Boardman, Machias. Van Buren,. Bonner. and Bril-
liant, Wass, Addison; d p, Weber. Cherryfeld;
Iowa. Rich Bangor; Revenue, Small, Bath.
Ar It'll, sch Eugene, Corson st Stephens, NIB; An
dies, Linnell, Bangor.
Cid 7tn, barque Chas Fobes. SWEET, Sydney, CB;
Jennie Cobb, Packard, Rockland, to load Tor New
Orleans; sch Mary Barris, Crowley, Calais.
SALEM-Ar 9th, schs Sparta, Hopkins, Frankfort
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What Does IL NIeans


We have been anxiously waiting to see
give TO that plank in the Augusta platform
that fayors the payment of the national debt
in "lawiul money" GreeDbacks are "lawiul
money" but the larger part of the na'lohai
debt was incurred on the express unoerstahu-
ing that it should be paid in gold which is
now worth twelve or thirteen per cent. mole
than the paper currency. The original new
departure platform, constructed under the SUI
pervision of Vallapdigham, favored the pay
mcnt of government bonds in greenbacks.
The Maine platform being a confused and
muddled copy of that declaration of faith, we
are justified in assuming that the Maine De-
mocracy, too, are in favor of reputation. If
not, let us have prompt and emphatic dis
camer. 1t is useless to try to take refuge
behind the ambiguity of the platform The
people have several times voted on this very
question OF population, and have decided
against it as uniformly as they have against
the other relics of barbarism that the Democ-
racy from timessto time thrust in their faces.
Ii our Democratic contemporaries should
undertake to answer our question frankly
land they certainly will mott they would be-
come involved in great confusion. The ma
jority of the party here, as elsewhe re, believe
in Pendletonisnf The idea of the injustice
of'paying the bondholders in specie has been
so thoroughly drilled into them by declama.
tory demagogues, that the greater part OF
them accept the Ignoring of solemn promises
and contracts as the more pleasant alterna.
tive. But there is a shard money" wing OF
the party that is undoubtedly orthodox on the
financial question. These would construe the
platform as declaring for payment of the debt
in gold.
We sect hat the new departure plat
form results in this case, as in others
in dividing the Democratic and not the
Republican party, as was intended. If
not, we shall be sincerely glad to hear all the
Democratic papers affirming their devotion to
the principles of NATIONAL good faith and hon.
esty. But vague generalities will rot do for
this purpose. GiNeaus something definite
Your turn first, Mr.. Arous.
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Gr0pHite .AELe GreOst

Graphite ACJe Grease.
Saves your Wagon, Horse, Temper, Tin q
and Money.
Never Gums, Hardens, or Runs OFF!
EOutlasts airy other lubricant three to five times
G. l.. BAILEY, Agent for Maine.
4S Exchange Street.
Dealer Gin Guns, Fishing aud Sporting Goods,
May "a sn-rT&S
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Anecdotes of Daniel Webster.

Daniel Webster commenced the practice OF
law in New Hampshire about the same uue
with his older brother, Eze Kiel, VINO usuaiiY
EMPLOYED Daniel to argue his causes on one
occasion he arpued q cause himself with an
ability which surprised the bar. brother
. mar,ber congratulated him upon his success,
and said, webster, if you can argue like that,
wbv don't YOU don't. You do it rather than EN-.
nloy your brother?' He replied, "If l am
sure Of my ground, if know all that will come
up can take care of my case without help
from anybody, but if anythi ng comes up unex-
pectedly, Dan can do a thousand times better
than l." OF this we have an example in the
"diraru VIII case" before the United States
Court In Washington nearly thirty years
SINCE To the closing speech of Mr. Webster
against the validity Of the will it was the
pleasure of the writer to listen. He was re-
peatedly interrupted by the adroit counsel on
tue other side, and the Interruptions were Of
ten such as would have embarrassed another
| man; but by the wonderful alchemy of Web
| ster's mind, they were in every instance turn
| ed to his own account, seeming to suggest Just
| what bis cause required him to say, ana what
made lis argument-conclusive betore-all the
more forceful. For what has been pronounced
the most eloquent passage in that whole
| speech we are indebted to one of those inter
ruptions. In commenting upon that part Of
the will which prohibits the incubation Of
christian truth in the college for which 1t pro
vides, Mr.. Webster had used the word doc
trine' The counsel on the other side inter
posed, denying that the will contained any
such provision; the word doctrine was moi
foupd in the instrument; it was "tenets,'' re
lieious tenets were not to be taught. The
point having been fully stated. MIR. Webster
proceeded: Il thank the learned counsel fol-
the correction. Nothing is to be taught which
is held to be true jim religion. We will sup
pose the case Of a youth-educated precisely
in accordance with the expressed wishes o
this donor The very next day perhaps ate
leaving school he comes into court of law t.
give testimony as witness He is asked
| DO you believe in a future state of reward
and punishments?' Bnd he answers, 'Tha
involves sectarian controversies which hav
been carefully kept from me- DO you be
lieve in the existence of God" He answer
that tn ere are clashng doctrir es involved il
these things which he has been taught to hav
nothing to do with. Why, sir, it is vain t.
talk about the destructive tendency of such
system; to argue upon it is to insult thu
understanding of every man; it is low. ribald
vulgar, deism and infidelity. 1t opposes al
| that is in heaven and on earth that is WORT
being Oh earth. 1t destroys the cOnnectin
| link between the creature and the Creator
1t opposes that great system of universal be
nevolence and;goodness that binds man to hi
| Maker"
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Maine Steamship COMPANY.

THE Steamers Dirigo and Franconia, will touch at
months July and August to land irieebt and mas.
sengers on their passage to and from New York and
Portland. HENRY F0X
jy4 1w
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-07-08

1T is quite common for gentlemen of cheek
to pass themselves upon railroads as Connect
ed with the press as correspondents and to
make mention of the fact of their assumed
connection on every. occasion where fifty cents
can be saved; but for originality in this de-
partment of industry the following little game
upou Lowell pastor takes the palm:
Last Saturday we'll dressed, devout and
pheasant appearing man, about 45 years of age,
introduced himself to the Rev. N. G. Mallory,
pastor of the First Baptist Church, Lowell, in
Sunday School as Mr.. Smith, missionary
from tue First Baptist Church Of Chicago, H. i,
OF which DIR. Everett is pastor. He took part
in the Sabbath School exercises, and spoke at
the prayer meeting on Sunday evening, as well
as at another on Tuesday evening last. Dur
ing all this time he received the hospitality of
either Rev. MIR. Mallory or some member Of
his congregation. Wednesday morning the
missionary" appeared at H. w. Brckett's
telegraph Office with forged order purportiDg
to be issued by Rev. Mr.. Mallory, for ticket
to Detroit, Mich. He got ticket worth $18
and left, when Mr.. Brickett noticed that the
order was signed I'D. Fl. Mallory" instead of
IN: G. Mallory" and Mr.. Mallory being then
notified first knew of the swine lie.
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FOREIGN PORTS.

Forester, Jordan, and Vandalia Walls Ellsworth:
| Hume, Farr. Rockland
GARDINER--Ar 2sth ult, brig proteus Hall. Port
| land, lana sailed 18th inst for Savannahl
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Nj EMOR

Brig John w Hunt, (of Rockland) Hunt. from Ar
drossan tor Philadelphia, put into Londonderry 4tt
will discharge for repairs.
Sch Allen Lewis, Lewis, from Baltimore for Bos.
ton which put into Norfolk 26th ult, leaky was run
on the fats and the leak discovered in the rudder
casing. She repaired and proceeded 3Oth.
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DEPARTURE OF OCEAN STEAMERS
MARI N r N .EWS.
PORT OF PORTLAND.

Friday, July q.
ARRIVED.
Steamer Linda, Suls. Yarmouth, Ms, with pas
sengers and mdse to John Porleous.
Steamer New York, Winchester, st John. N q, via
PASSPORT for Boston.
Sch Laura & Marion, Clifford. Boston for North
Haven.
Sch Flight, Crowell, Saco to load for New York.
Sch Virginia. Strout, Millbridge Tor Boston.
Sch Oregon, Dunton, Boothbav.
CLEARED.
Brig Ernestine, Knight, Gardiner-Chas Fl Chase
& Co.
Sch Escort, tBr) Curry. wolfville, NS-John Por-
teuus.
Sch Harriet Fuller. Willard, Fall River-Chares
Sawyer.
Sch Caressa, Saoler, Boston.
The new barque Sarah recently purchased by Rus
sell Lewis, and Winslow & Co. is loading for
BuenOs Ayres, and will he ready sail in lew days
Capt Tibhets will take charge OF her the passage
out, tut Capt Moody is expected to take command OF
her on her arrival, and Capt Tbbetts will go back
INTO the Archer.
Barque Brunswick is being thoroughly overhaued
and repaired at Cape Elizabeth. Her fore and main
masts have been taken out and new spars put in.
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Try One.

Why don't you buy enc OF those Economy Fur
naces OF FRED FORSAITH. and save fuel, have no
heat in the room. If they don't suit carry them back
and get our money. That is the way he sells them
at the Market House, Market Square. je5sn11m
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-03-24
MARGUERITE.
Massachusetts Bay, 176O.

The robins sang in the orchard, the buds into
blossoms grew;
Little OF human sorrow the buds and the robins
knew!
Sick, in an alien household, the poor French neu-
tral lay.
Into her lonesome garret fell the light of the April
day.
der's warp and wool, ;,
On the loose-laid floor of hemlock, on oaken ribs
of roof
The bedqult's faded patchwork, the teacups on
The wheel with haxen tangle, as it dropped from
What to her was the song of the robin, or warm
As she lay in the trance of the dying needless of
sound or sight?
Done was the work of her hands, she had eaten
her bitter bread;
The world of the alien people lay behind her dim
and dead.
But her soul went back to its child-time; she saw
the sun o'erflow
With gold the basin of Mnas, and set over Gas
pereau.
The low bare flats at ebb-tide the rush of the sea
at flood,
Through inlet and creek and river, from dixie to
upland wood;
The guls in the red of morning, the fsh-hawk's
rise ana iaii,
The drift of the fog In mOonshine, over the dark
coast wall
She the face of her mother, she heard the song
And faroh. family, slowly, the bell for vespers
rang!
By her bed the hard-fac mistress sat smoothing
the wrnkled sheet,
Peering into the face SO helpless, and feeling the
iee-cold feet.
With vague remorse atoning for her greed and
long abuse,
By care no longer needed, and pity too late for
use.
Up the stairs of the garret, softly the son of the
mistress stepped.
Leaned over the head board, covering his face with
-flhis hands, and wept
Outspake the mother who watched him, sharply,
with brow a-trown,
"What love you the papist, the beggar, the charge
OF the tOwn?h
''Be she papist or beggar who lies here, l know
and God knows
love her, and fain would 90 with her wherever
she goes!
mother! that sweet face came pleading, for love
athirst;
You saw but the tOwn-charge; knew her Gods
angel at first"
Shaking .er gray head, the mistress hushed down
And, awed by the silence and shadow of death
drawing nigh,
She murmured Il psalm of the Bible but closer the
young girl pressed.
With the last of her life in her fingers the to
her breast.
my son, come away cried the mother, her
voice cruel grown:
She is joined to her idols like Ephram; let her
alonen
But he knelt with his hand on her forehead, his
lips to her ear,
And he called back the soul that was passing:
marguerite, do you hear:''
She paused on the threshold of heaven; love- pity.
surprise,
Wistiul tender, lii up for an instant the cloud of
her eyes.
With his heart on his lips he kissed her, but never
her check grew red.
And the words the living long for he spake in the
ear of the dead
And the robins sang in the orchard where buds
to blossoms crew;
OF the folded hands and the still face, never the
robins knew!
JohD &. winter, IN The 4fktatir.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-03-24
NCE, IOWA, FRIDAY, MARCH "a, 1871

been struck down in the Senate. Far
be it from us to intimate that the
second assassination bears the same
marks of criminality which charac-
terizcd the first. We acknowledge
a refinement of cruelty in this latter
assault, by which it escapes the
charge ofvulgar brutality and damn
ed its prototype. Nevertheless, in
the earlier case, the author and the
instrument were one and the same;
there was but single assassin;
there were no conspirators; where
as in this fresher murder the dag
gers, when counted, were found to
quadruple the number Of those
which hacked each other inside the
body Of Caesar. But as if history
refused to repeat itself, it is this
time Caesar leading his conspirators
against Brutus. 1t is the President
of the United States inv ding the
Senate chamber to point his finger
at a Senator, and to say ''That man
is in the way Of my plans-remove
him; he is my enemy-strike him"
With the obedience of henchmen,
the nnholy blow was struck. 1t has
wounded a million American breasts
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-03-24
A New Fashion.

A sharp correspondent, who
watches New York society as s
recreation, tells MS that another
noted innovation is the Introduction
Of cigarettes for ladies at few o1
the fashionable dinners.
Twenty years ago only few mar
ried women ventured to defy con,
ventionality; but now the various
s'isms' and the broad sweep allowed
to reason, form more lax etiquette;
therefore, wonder ceases and sur
prise is mute. Neuralgia is the
fashionable Epidemic, for the cure
Of which smoking has been reeam-
mend!es,1,, therefore, during The rainy
days just past, graceful rings and
floating clouds made the "demi
Jour" wax fainter in many luxurious
boudoirs.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-03-24
A COLD IN THE HEAD.
Tho View of John Paul" Thereon

If any mistakes are visible in the
present writing, attribute them to
my having a bad cold. No man
alive can spell correctly or use good
grammcr, with bad cold-especi-
ally if it be cold in the head. The
French waitress, Bridget O'kcefe,
spoke to me about it this morning
at breaktast,-cous ares an rhume,
she said. No one remarked that
my rhume was better than my com
pany, but l felt in my heart that
both were bad enough to stand on
their own demerits. One cannot be
cheerful with a cold in the head; the
human soul is not disposed to burst
forth in song under such conditions.
And the worst of it is one gets no
sympathy from ones friends. You
go round with red, swollen nose,
and swollen red eyes. 'IIallo, John,
What's the matter?" halls the first
fellow, well met. "a bad cold,''
you reply. go, is that all?" with q
sigh of relief. The fact is, you fee
that you are as much to be pitted as
though you had the smallpox. And
he treats your atfiiction as lightly
as though it were that you'd onl,
lost you mother-in-law. Then tn.
remedies that are suggested for mt
to try! "Steam your head" sale
my aunt. So | was persuaded tt
hold my head over Il bowl Of blazing
hot water, till it was done through
like an early potato. am now re
garded as her steamed nephew; and
it is thought she may leave me
something in her will. As she
never tries he own remedies, how
ever, an early succession to the pro
perty does not seem probable
Bathing, in all its forms, has beer
recommended to me; Tor more thar
week past have been n night
companion of the bath, but it seems
to do little good. ''Stutla cold" has
passed into Il sort OF proverbs; bu,
my head, at present, Is stopped W
enough - too much to be made
available for any practical purpose
I've taken sage advice and sage tea
in enormous quantities, but with no
pcrceptible benefit. Hot Scotch
whisky, with little hot water, and
a slight mingling of lemonpeel in it,
was urged upon me by a friend, who
kindly consented to drop in and
help me take it. | assisted him
home at a late hour of the night, and
his wife demanded at the door, in
an angry tone, what | had been
doing to her husband. That didn't
do my cold much good. Since then
gin and molasses has been suggested
as sovereign remedy for all the
chills which flesh is heir to; but |
turn an emphatically cold shoulder
on all which savors of spirits. My
mother writes from the interior u
Maine to say that | had better come
W there and be "nnrsed." l think
m 90. There must be about a
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-03-24
A SINGULAR CASE.
A Living Snake in a Woman's Stom-
ach.
From the Wooster {o) Republican.

From the Wooster to) Republican.
An unfortunate woman is now in
the infrmary with living snake, or
eel, in her stomach, of the truth Of
which there is the most abundant
proof to convince the most skeptical.
We visited the infirmary last Satur-
dayifor the purpose of obtaining the
facts, that we may give our readers
a correct relation Of this trul y re-
markable case.
The poor woman is 23 years Of
age. She is citizen of this county,
and formerly resided in Wooster,
and was brought here from the
Richmond county infirmary five
weeks ago. For six years She has
been subject to convulsions of the
severest character, which thus far,
the best medical skill has been una
bic to suppress.
At Canton and Haysvillc, O., the
doctors could do nothing to relieve
her; and at Philadelphia she was
under the care of two Of the most
eminent physicians, without bene-
fetal results. DIR. Fircston, one of
this city, now has her under treat
ment.
Inpcrson Mrs. Lands is ofmcdium
hight, slight and delicate, her wan
features exhibiting sad evidence of
the reptiles malign influence upon
her nervous system. She has
spasms every day, sometimes as
many as 90.
During each convulsion she be-
comes entirely unconscious, her body
writhes and struggles in agony; her
face grows black from sutfocation;
her eyes, distended almost to burst
ing, turn in their sockets; her
tongue stiffens and protrudes from
the open mouth; she froths from the
mouth and the demon of a snake
twists, with Shiny folds, up her
throat into her mouth, wrapping
itself around the roof of her tongue,
and darting its head out and in her
mouth with the rapidity of lightning
like the tongue of snake out of
snakes mouth = then squirns
down her throat, when the. spasm
subsidies.
This sight has been witnessed by
many persons, and is pronounced a
fearful and shuddcring thing to be-
hold. 1t has protruded its body as
much as three inches, is black in
color, and as thick as a lady's index
finger; and those who have seen it
say there is no doubt that it is
either snake or an eel. 1t does
not appear every time she has a
spasm, but generally in those she
has from to 10 in the evening.
The woman eats voraciously with.
out receiving apparent benefit, TO,
within five minutes after partaking
of Il liberal meal, she suffers the
pangs of hunger and is ravenous
for food. To eat sour pickles, cab
bages, or anything of an acid
nature evidently throws the animal
into paroxysms, rs, when such are
taken, it makes the greatest dis
turbance and shows itself in the
throat and mouth. 1t was first OBJ
served in IA eonvulsion she had after
eating some pickle. The unhappy
woman has no idea when or where
she might have swallowed it, and
cannot be made to believe that so
foul and hateful a thing inhabits her
body.