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SOUTEEERrT
Railway SECURITY co.
Lessees Memphfs a charleston 4. h
CHANGE OF TIME.
4 DAILY PASSENGER TRAINS.
One Nights Travel and II Hours saved.
One Nights Travel aud II Hours Saved.
ProposaIs for Che Constrnction
OF THE
TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY.

DRoPOs8LS viii be received up 70 the list Of
II October, 1872. at the once OF the Texas
and Pacific Railway Company at Marshall
Texas, for the Grading, Bridging. T1eing and
Trackiayingo of i've hundred fa0e5 miles 81 tins
Texas and Pacific Railway, divided into the
following divisions:
The southern Division, extending frau,
Longyiew through Dallas to Fort Worfhsd5S
The jefferson Division, extending rom Mar
shall through jefferson 70 Texarkana, 65
miles. 9V gH
The east half of the Trans-C d.
vision, extending from Texarkana to the
crossing OF the Houston and Texas Central
RailrOad, near sherman, I55 miles.
The west hall Of the frans-Continental Di-
vision, extending nom the crossing of the
Houston and Texas Central Railroad to Fort
Worth, IS miles.
The Grading and Bridging will be let il one
mile sections; the Trackiaying by the mile
the Ties by the one Thousand and upward.
Each class Of work TO be bid for separately.
n time for completing the Grading, BrfdQ-
ing and Tieing extends from sixty days to
nine months.
4 Company reserves the right TO reject
any or all The bids, and In letting the work
viii De the Judge OF the responsibility OF mar
tractors having OUTFTTs ON the ground, ready
to commence work within ten days after the
date Of contract.
Prohles, Estimates and Specifications can be
seen at the Office OF the Company in Marshall
and Jefferson, Texas, and at the Pacific Ma
tiOnal Bank, Council BlufS, Iowa.
Cciitract0fs upon arriving on the ground
can obtain work up 90 date Of general letting,
on the 90 mIles west of LOngvisW.
Address until September 10Th, Council Bluffs,
Iowa; after thdt date Marshall, Texas. .l
anl3 - -. DoDGE Chief Eagineer.
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attire. The houses Everywhere are
freshly painted, and pretty cottages
spring up by every roadside like bios
SONS in May. The city swells, and its
intumescenee expands it in all diree-
tons. Our trade grows with each step
Of internal progress, and population
gains steady accretions. Two great
railway lines, moving slowly, one to-
ward the gulf, the other toward the
great lakes, will give US limitless re-
sources when manufactures are born OF
dense population, and there was never a
time in the city's history, despite our
neglect Of riches inviting as toward the
setting sun and the new northwest,
when a more brilliant future gi1ded with
roseate hues the coming glories of Mem
III. 80
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Greeley and Brown aud stand upon the
Cincinnati platform, then we confess
ourselves mistaken. But we are not.
The great body Of the people mean this.
They want peace, and will have it.
They want security, and win have it;
and they want Independence, and viii
have. Because they desire these essen
tails 70 their personal welfare and the
good Of our common country, they
nominated and support Horace Gree
ley the best living exponent Of peace
and good viii Tits an era Of goodfeeE
ing, aud therefore the people, and the
press in the name Of the people, demand
that by-gones shall be by-gones, per-
sonal and political apimosities shall be
forgotten or forgiven, and that only the
living present and the future shall enter
into the considerations moving us to
contend against the reelection Of Gem
eral Grant. In order to the perfect
unity Of all the elements opposed to
Grant this must be, otherwise we shall
have divisions, distrust, and perhaps
9aeaot
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The Mississippi Central Star says
Colonel Landon G. Haynes of the Mem
phis District is one of the finest orators
that ever e~nthraIled the attention of an
audience by the witchery Of his elo-
quent tongue. His constituents honor
ed themselves more than they did the
noble recipient of their favor in making
him their acknowledgements.
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WATERING
V~ALHERlE0S0 SPRINGS,
Morgan County, North Alabama.
Eosfne, waite and Black Sulphur. Che1.
ybea4e and Ereea1UHe Waters
In great abundiEnee.

W0dIS celebrated watering place, located in
II the Switzerland Of the SOUTH and which
has been visited by crowds OF inValids During
the last nifty years, bat has been closed FOR me-
last lew years, Is now REOPENED to al such Is
desire 70 mpf0ys their health. We have in
ouf possession IA testimonials bearina evil
dence to the cures that have been eaecfed in
rheumatism, Neuralgia. Asthma and many
other ailments, which can be seen in oufcir-
cuiars. that viii be freely Ureulateds and for
Warded 70 any one making their wishes
known. We VIII try to render q guests aS
comfortable as possible, and our table s1all Pc
supplied with tho best tho CoHntry Affords "a
mantic, and the location healthy.
We will take pleasure In answering All Aetr
mgHl - RA1E1i So:
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AdmIaistrator's Notice.

HAEING been Sppolnted administrator OF
I'll ire estefa 81 Sydney Hobson by tho Pro-
-bafe Court shelby caQntysa all persons In
terested In said estate arc hereby notified TO
die their claims, duly pfoD4t6d, In the time
prescribed hy law. OF the sane win be barred
and All persons indebted TO said estate are re-
quested 70 come forward and settle tins same,
iyD { u CHAS =. BULLOCK, Atty, Adm'r,
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Far P,esidea-HORACE GREELEY.
For Vfoe-P-e5deHt-B. GR8TZ BRO wv.
For Gouernor-JOHN c. BROWN.
For Congrsss-LANDON CHA INES
For Sena1or-H CLAY KING
I'M CREWS
" PEYTON J. SMITH.
For Reprssnta1Ue-HUGR D. GREER
4. 3. IA YVES
JAMES NJ HARRIS
a." s. 4. CANNON.
JOIN OVERTON.
JOSEPH BARBTERE
For Floater-J ". ELDRIDGE.
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MEMPHIs INSURANCE AGENCY.


~ saes an Of which went ufunPmnuy thought the QAesgo md ali tie oher rmf
Etna Insurance Company of Hartford C0nn-Assets. S50O0OO0.
Hartford Insurance Company of Hartford, COnn-AssetS S3OO0,OOO-
Phoenix Insurance Company Of Hartford, COnn-Assets, $lSOOyOOO.
Franklin Insurance. Company of Philadelphia, Pa.-Assets, Ss080,000.
- We are prepared tas@@n 10 ENSURE on favorable terms Cotton i'm sheds coton in
Sompress Cotton % Gins as also, Cotton Gins and Country Stores md Dwellings Can also
when parties 50 desire business respectfully solicited. All losses promptly adjusted ND
paid at hsO mee H.. }. LITTLkT0Ns Agent.
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RAILROADS.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Mississinni Central Railroad Extension

GEALED PROPOSALS will be received I'M
- til the 18th day Of August, lS72, at the En-
gineers ONCE of the N. q. X. r. Company, in
Jackson, Tennessee, for the clearing d grub
binE, grading and bridging on about one hum
dred and seven miles or road, extending north
from Jackson to Cairo. This work em-
braces large quantities Of earth excavation
pile and tneStls bridging, and is worthy the
attention of experienced railroad contractors.
Pronles, Approximate estimates, general plans,
specifications and forms OF contracts can be
seen at the Engineers Office after August lsE
ompany reserves the right to reject any
or all bids. Proposals must be indQrsed +" pro-
posais for work, y and addressed to
H. s. MCCOMB, President,
or S. b. REED,
jy0 Engineer in charge Jackson, Tenn.
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A
Isaacerdale Coy1nty, A-laIoazna.

1aI1derd7le C0J1nty, Alabama fF
u-o
4 HI Waters are absolutely unequaled in their healing power over drops serofuIa
Dyspepsia Diseases II Women. ad diseases Of the Skim and Kidney Ihe loeatCr
isin ahHl country near beauninl rock-bognd creek, the air nchg amd pure he scenery
aalgnuuL BmTgs Bar enFns Auaes PonenadeS Daneng. md all the mshtonabe
Route is Memphis and Chaneton Railroad to- Florence Stage Line nine niles to the
a-er ~.
For further hlrmanon crcmars etc. addres -
" $ ELLIS q co, Proprietor Or
myS =. A. MOODY, M d : Resident Physieian.
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

THURSDAY MORNING. AUG. Is, 1872.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-06-13
Radical ORGANS Disturbed.

The Bangor Wing and Portland Press
are greatly disturbed in consequence of
our having mentioned the names of few
prominent Greeley republicans. They
both fall foul of the paragraph, as though
it menaced the existence of the party.
The Press says
Mr.. Talbot went off to Europe before the GIN
cinnati Convention, leaving characteristic note
for the Advertiser, in which he grimy Satrized
the busy bodies, who said he was delegate to
that gathering,
Well, we neither said that Mr.. T. was
gong to the Convention, nor that he
wasn't going to Europe. A writer may
"grimly satirize busy bodies" and still
sympathize with Greeley-may he not?
Again
Mr.. Pike is vouched for by the Belfast Age, as
gentleman who is attending to his private
business, and taking no part iii the Greeley
movement.
Mr.. Pike can likewise be vouched for as
gentleman who elected delegate at large
to Philadelphia, attended to his private
business and took no part in the Grant
movement. We are assured by those who
have reason for their declarations, that he
will support the sage Of Chappaqua.
The Wing makes itself ridiculous by
asserting that Judge Dickerson is a demo-
crat-when he has voted none but the
radical ticket for a dozen years.
We take no back track on our assertion
that the prominent men whom we named
are in sympathy with the liberal republi-
| can movement Besides those, there are
men of influence in every community in
| the State. who are going over from Grant
| to Greeley. In this city, for instance, we
can name Col Hiram Chase Capt Chas
Baker, a prominent business man, who
commanded battery in the war; Geo
| Woods, one of the city assessors; G.. 7
Carter, the well known shipbuilder; ALDER
Small, a prominent business man; an,
many others.
A letter Just received from Ellsworth
authorizes the statement that the follow
ing leading republicans of that city have
declared for Greeley and Brown, viz
Hon. Jesse Dutton, Hon. J H. Chamber
lam, Hon. Seth Tisdale, Hon Robert Cole
Messrs. Erastus Hartshorn, Albert Jelli
son, John True.
The radical papers may rise to explana
tons in regard to these matters as Otter
and as vehemently as they please, but tn
ugly facts will remain The truth is tina
the party in Maine is honey-combed wit
detections, Of which they have no knowl
edge, and the craft will sink under ther
before they are aware Of its condition.
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Norombega Hall, in Bangor,

Norombega Hall, in Bangor,
on Tuesday, the 18th day of June, 1872, at II
O'Clock, A. NJ, to nominate Il candidate for
Governor, Two candidates for Electors at Large
for President and Wee Presidents, to choose
fear delegates at Large to the Baltimore Nation
al Democratic Convention. and to elect Il State
Committee for the political year commencing
January |, 1873 and to transact any other bust
ness that may be deemed eXpedieni.
Every City, Town and organized Plantation
viii be entitled to one Delegate, and an addition
al Delegate for every - votes cast for the
Democratic candidate for Governor at the State
election of 1871, and fraction of }S votes will
be entitled 10 an additional Delegate.
No delegate will be entitled to Il seat in the
Convention whose residence is not established
in the City. Town, or Plantation, which he
| claims to represent.
| The State Committee will he in session at The
| Bangor House. Bangor on the evening pre-
| VlouS to the day OF the Convention and at The
| Reception Room at Norombeea Hall, from tC
| II o'clock on the dN of the Convention, to re
ceive the credentials of delegates. and to heal
and determine all cases that may come before
| them, subject to the ratification of the Conven
| ton
| j. H. Butler, Chairman. PenobScot.
| ALoNzD GARCELON, Androscoggin.
| JAMES {. MADIGAN, Aroostook.
| tHAS. Z. MORRILL,, Cumberland.
GEO. w. CLARK, Franklin.
MONR IF YOUNG, Hancock.
y. +. PARROTT. kennebec.
! +. Il. O'BRIEN. Knox.
LlIENRN FAREINGTON, Lincoln
1NAMuEL X. CARTER. Oxford.
ANDREW WIGGIN, Piscaaqui>.
NM. A. Potter. Sagadah e.
vWM. d. HAYDEN. Somerset.
CASSIUS c. ROBERTS, Waldo.
| s ID. lFANITT, Washington.
I11ENRY X. BRADBURY, y ork.
May II, 49,.
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Attention is called to an advertise

Attention is called to an advertise.
ment of the celebrated G. Z. kimbalI
carriages, which, like the political princi
plies of the man himself, are symmetrical.
sound and durable
Is there Il more seductive dish on earth than
II plate of fresh Strawberries, cool, crimson
fragrant, luscious and melling> Wash SUNDAY
Herald
Probably not, and it is getting towards
seducing time down this way
Hon. Eugene Hale arrived home at
Ellsworth on Saturday last
Two Greeley and Brown flags We're
hOisted at PASSPORT on Saturday; one by
prominent member of the Grand Army,
one by merchant of PASSPORT. No other
flags hoisted yet.
The Prog. Age retracts its statement
that Mr.. Hale voted for an increase of the
duty on copper, and says that such was
not the fact.
-"Rum Saturday" is the title given by
the Bangor Commercial to day last week
ON which much drunkenness was visible
in that city.
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POLITICAL. The pemocrtti.. State Conyen-
lion of Iowa. on Tuesday last, chose ,ielegatr-
10 the Baltimore Convention, instructed them
to vote for Greeley, and endorsed the Gin, u.-
matt platform.
A despatch CT the nth from indianapolis
says that Ex-senator Hendricks will he noni
mated ms candidate for Governor, and NIil as
rept at the urgent solicitation Of the liberal re-
pubIirans. Greeley Democrats Wilt be- rieetra
to the Baltimore Convention. GEO. W. Julian
liberal, will be canlidte for rougre- -mun nt
large.
The Florida conservative have selected dele
gates to-Rtthmore, a majority Of whom are tuI
Greeley.
The South Carolina Democratic State Con
vention, in session ON Tuesday, wa- strongly
for Greeley, and it was reported that it would
choose Greeley delegates.
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The Great Storm.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 8. Further reports
concerning the great storm Thursday night
in central Illinois, show an immense
amount of damage done in Peoria, Full
ton, Knox and other counties of that sec
,Ion of the State. The destruction OF
bridges on country roads was almost I'M
ivers;,l. In Peoria, fences and trees were
blown down and cellars were filled with
water Every railroad leading out of
Chicago, suffered. No trains left yester-
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In a recent debate in the Dominion Par
lament on the fisheries it was stated that
the fishermen of Nova Scotia were so
ill equipped, so inferior in skill, in capital
and enterprise, that the Americans gain
ing admission to their fishing grounds
would usurp them.
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Two or three murders a day do not
greatly trouble the Memphis conscience,
but when sixteen human skeletons are
found at one time in an old cellar, as was
the case the other day, the city becomes
excited and the authorities inquisitive
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An archaeological correspondent ad-
duces as evidence Of the antiquity of the
game of euchre the passage in the New
Testament which relates how the priest
and the Levite passed. and the good
Samaritan t.aSSiSted
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The Drawback on Shipping Material.

The following is section ten of the new
tariff BILL which provides for the tree i'm
portation of foreign material entering in
to the construction of American ships
That from and after the passage of this act all
lumber, timber, hemp, manila and iron and steel
rods, bars, spikes nails and bolts, and copper and
composition metal which may be necessary for the
construction and equipment of vessels built in the
United States for the purpose of being employed in
the foreign trade. including the trade between the
Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States and
finished after the passage of this act, may be import
ed in bond, under such regu latons the Secretary
of the Treasury may prescribe and upon proof that
suc materials have been used TOR the purpose aore
said, no duties shall be paid thereon. Provided that
vessels receiving the benefit of this section shall not
be allowed to engage in the coastwise trade OF the
United States more than two months in any one
of the duties which rebate is herein allowed;
and provided further, that all articles of foreign pro-
ductiou needed for the repair of American vessels
engaged exclusively in foreign trade may be with
drawn from bonded warehouses free of duty, under
such regulations the Secretary of the Treasury
may prescribe.
This, it is hoped, will have favorable
effect on the industry, but experience will
be the only reliable test. 1t is pretty evil
dent, however, that nothing short of the
importation and expectation of former
years can restore American shipping to its
old prosperity.
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on TUESDAY the 18th y of June 1872 at O'Clock
Z. NJ to elect delegates and two alternate dele
gates to the Nationh Democratic Convention, to be
heId in Baltimore ON the 9th day OF July 49,.
Each City, Town, and organized Plantation will
be entitled to one delegate, aud additional dele
gate TOR every votes cast for the Democratic candi,
date tor Governor ut the State Election of ISL and
AN adii ional delegate for fraction OF y votes.
Each delegate must be Il resident OF the City, Town
or Plant ltion which he claims to represent.
e. &. RoBERTs Waldo
G.. W. BERRY, Knox.
a. A. BARTLETT Hancock.
3w3s A. II. WounrnCK. WASHINGTON.
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The Portland Press comedies .that
Mr.. Greeley, the poor Cincinnati orphan,
will be taken in and adopted at Baltimore
by the great Democratic party" Per-
haps 50. And while the democracy is in
this adopting business it will carry on the
largest orphan asylum ever heard of.
Send along the fatherless.
Poor Emelc Lemberger, a beautiful
girl only 10 years Of age, disappointed in
love and tired of this sad world, took
poison at Pittsburg, and died.
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Crime would seem to he on the increase in
some parts IN Indiana. At Terre Haute some
unnatural parents have famed their child for
life by naming him Ephram Elijah Joshua
No arrests.
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Fifth. District Democratic convention.
NOROM8EGA HALL, BANGOR.

The Democrats of the several Cities Towns and
Plantations OF the Fifth Congressional District Of
Maine, are requested to meet in Convention to be
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Bony Nash, the Cincinnati gambler, whose
death was recently recorded was congratulated
better health than usual, when he replied. 81
bet you 800 don't 1--we week." He won.
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Democratic State Convention.

The Democrats of the several cities, towns
and plantations of the State of Maine are re-
queSed to meet i'll Convention, by their dele
gates,
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A MISSING PLANK

A delegate suggested that one resolu-
ton had been oyerlooked 1t was searched
for and found, and read and adopted as
follows
1t is the duty of the General Government to adopt
such measures may tend to encourage and restore
American CONNER &c and ship building.
Mr.. Burnside now moved the adoption
OF the platform as whole. Carried,
with halt a dozen dissenting votes
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Our friends in this Congressional Dis
trict should be careful to make no mistake
in choosing delegates TO the conventions.
The District Convention at Bangor, on
the 18TH will be~for the choice of dele
gates to the National Convention only.
The same delegates may be authorized to
act in both state and district convention.
But no delegates can at this time properly
be chosen to the Convention for the nomi-
nation of candidates tor Congress and
elector, because the call for that Conven-
ton has not yet been made, nor the basis
of representation fixed.
In a campaign picture in Frank Leslie's,
Horace Greeley is represented ''up II tree"
where he receives IA political delegation. This
il a bad beginning for Presidential candidate
Bangor Wing.
1t is not without precedent Moses once
interviewed the angel of the Lord in a
bush. The angel wasn't running for Of
flee, but he had an important mission for
the welfare of the people, and so has
Horace.
The republican convention for the
nomination OF candidate for representa-
tive to Congress from the fifth district has
been called to meet at Ellsworth ON the
9th of June There won't be much ex-
element over it. as Hale will have the
matter all his own way.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1872.
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In this region where so large a part of the
population is engaged in active industrial pur-
suits, the nomination of the Natick Shoemaker,
Henry Wilson, is hailed with unqualified salts
faction. Lewiston journal.
Just SO. If Wilson swallows the cob
blers and Grant the sherry cobblers, they
will create stirring campaign.
The rain descends upon the just and the unjust
pretty frequently of late, but umbrella keeps it
off from one OF the first named. Belfast Journal.
That's fortunate; of course he will return It,
Portland Transcript.
1t isn't he but '.just" the incest girl in
town, and we don't want it returned
Now don't be envious
Col. Higginson, who was before our
Lyceum last winter, is featuring in Lon
don. We are glad of it. Those English
men deserve it for the Alabama business.
The New York Sun speaks of the
Philadelphia gathering of office-holders as
'The American Caesars Brass Collar Con-
vention."
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Upon the reassembling Of the Conven-
ton, the report of the Committee on Gre
dentials was made. No disagreement APP
PEAKED. except in the eases Of Dakotah
and Utah. The former was settled by the
admission of both sets The Utah case
was disposed Of by the exclusion of the
Mormons and the admission of the Gen
tiles