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COLONEL ". G. FALKNER, President
Of the Ripley Railroad company, passed
through the city on yesterday, ca route
for New York, where he goes 10 superin-
tend the shipment Of the iron and roll
ing stock for his road. This will he the
first narrow-gauge railroad completed in
the Southern States. The state of Mis-
sissipppi owes "a debt Of gratitude 10
Colonel Falkuer, because he has accom-
plished what has never before been done
in the State. On the first day flast
September he was elected president Of a
railroad company, that had neither
money nor credit; and, Notwithstanding
al this, he haas a railroad now rapidly
approaching completion, and by the
first Of August he will have his lrOad in
running order, from Middleton,
Tennessee, to Ripley, Mississippi, a dis
lance Of twenty-five miles. This
road will bring 10 Memphis
twenty-five or thirty thousand bales Of
cotton, which otherwise would go 10
Mobile. The Mississippi Legislature has
made liberal propositions 10 Colonel
Falkner, in order 10 induce him TO con-
tinue the line Of his road through the
entire length Of the State, terminating
at Ship Island on the Gulf coast. This
road would traverse the same territory
that was contemplated by the Gulf and
Ship Island charter. This is an enter
prise which ought to be encouraged, as
it would open up the trade Of fifteen or
twenty counties in the center Of Missis-
sippi, and build up "a city at Ship
Island.
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order OF Major General Wilson, but the
press having been forwarded 10 Macon,
was saved from destruction by deposit
in a safe place, and vas not discovered
until after the armistiee and the promul-
CATION of orders from General Sherman
to stop the destruction Of either public
or private property. 1t has had many a
narrow escape, but is hale and hearty,
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.calities. Being then whatitis now some
times called by our Northern contempt
raries a /, +" rebelp sheet, it left Memphis
on the morning Of June 8, 1852, while
the gun-boat fight was going on hotly in
front Of the city, and was in a short
while reissued at Grenada, Mississippi.
On thetwenty-ninth of November, 1862,
that pleasant little town having got
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about a week, cast its lines in the pleas
ant places of Atlanta, thinking to be
out of both Grants and Sherman's way.
But here, again, on the twentieth Of
July, 1884, the last-named gentleman
whom we take to be of a very restless
temperament-gave nmistakable in
dications that he wanted Atlanta like
wise, and so
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man and the APPEAL parted for good.
We believe he went off smashing things
down into Georgia, and have since
learned that he and his men knocked
printing-Offices into pi at a terrible rate
over in South Carolina. The APPEAL
resumed its regular publication at Mont
gomery on the twentieth Of September,
1854, and continued to entertain and in
struct the denizens of "Dixie's LandD
until about the twelfth of April, 1865,
when another fierce gentleman of the
Federal military persuasion took it into
his head to ride furiousIy down through
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chine rarely stood still. Soldiers who
served in the armies of the Gulf States
were familiar with the face and Curl
Ously compounded name of the peri
patetic APPEAL. Newsboys used to
cry, in sing-song, drawing tones, in all
the towns and villages, and along rail-
ways, everywhere in the South, the end
less name Of
1.-THE MENIPHIS-GRENADA-JACKSON
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. APPEAL"
People have often inquired how it
happened to be published in so many To-
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and still capable of doing yeoman's ser
vice.
BEILIGERENT FORTUNES or THE APP
PEAL.
Many people used to think that the
APPEAL press, during the war, was a
sort of locomotive. 1t was, in any
event, endowed with wonderful capacity
for IOcomOtion, and the rafting old ma
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that snug little city. They thought they
were aboutto ''bag'' the APPEAL, beyond
any peradventure, as their scouts had
furnished them with a copy of that
mornings issue fresh and damp from
the press-but they didn't. AS they
came in n way, the APPEAL went
out the other way, with full forty
rounds of shot and shell making a poth-
Grover its head, before it could get out
of reach of those impatient military
commanders. The APPEAL then, after
issuing small extras, at Meridian, for
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ACCORDING 10 the New York Times.
General Grants denomination at the
Philadelphia Convention IS already as
suned. Instructed delegates have been
chosen in the States Of Connecticut,
Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Ken
meky. Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri,
Ohio. Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, south Carolina, and Wisconsin.
To these may be added Louisiana and
several Others. This news, strangely
enough. viii prove generally satisfactory,
in view Of the Cincinnati movement.
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into rather too close proximity to Gene
raj Grants headquarters, who was seek
ing to make the acquaintance of Gene
raj Pemberton at Abbeville, the APPEAL
retired to Jackson, the capital of Miss
issippi.. Here it continued until the
fourteenth of May, 1868, when Generals
Grant and Sherman took it into their
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THE APPEAL RETIRED TO MONTGoN-
cry,
Alabama, continuing, however, to issue
extra slips from a proOf-press, until the
evacuation. As General Somebody's
corps marched into town on one side,
the proOfpress, and the few cases Of type
retained to operate it, went out on a
dray on the Other-and 50 General Sher-
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SINCE THE APPEAL OF this morning is
the first number printed on the new
double cylinder press, and the old single
cylinder rests from its labors, it is proper
10 give a resume of its history and
wanderings, and Of the APPEALS con-
current fortunes. Very certainly the
old press viii not be cast aside and suf-
fered to rust and go down to oblivion.
There are no records of the terrible days
of the ''rebeTiOn" more full or truthful
than those which W origin to this old
press, and when, in after years, men
would gather memorials of the con-
fict between the States, there is no
weapon of war, or sword, or book that
will have greater historical value than
this toil-worn piece Of mechanism.
THE OLD PRESS
whose story we tell still occupies its
place i'm the APPEAL BUILDING, and
enjoys a vigorous old age, and is as capa-
bic of its accustomed tasks to-day, as
when in its youth, seventeen years ago,
it first revoIved in this city. When it
returned to Memphis and resumed
its accustomed tolls in 1865, it
was said of it, prophetically-'this IS
the identical press which left Memphis
in 1862, and Is destined, we would fain
hope, TO issue in future years many
thousand copies of the APPEAL to be
scattered broadcast over all these South
ern and Western States" I'VE have;
continued the editor of 1865, "the same
press from which was issued THE AP-
PEAL at Grenada, and which retired
from that town as the Federal cavalry
were approaching the north bank of the
TaIlahatchie, after Grant had driven
Pcmberton from Abbeyville. 1t is the
same press, with the same pressman-
ANDY Harman-may his days be long,
and his shadow never grow less
that was sheHcd out ofJacksOn,
when Grant made his famous
movement from, Bruinsburg, by
which PembertOn was isolated
and shut up in Vicksburg, to be
bagged thereafter on the Fourth
of July. AT first the shells had
the best of it, a number of them
intervening the line of march
over Pearl river; but Andy Har-
man and the faithful old press
- It'll, Ill met haon apintaH
that mornings APPEAL, won
the race in the end" j..
'oLD JOE" JOHNSON
was bothering the Federal adj =
vance, our press made its clean
escape down the Southern rail-
road to Meridian, and so on to At
lanta, at its leisure. 1t is the same
press which vibrated to the
thunder-shock of the siege Of
Atlanta, retiringtherefrom but a =
little while before Sherman's vic "a
torious legions entered that i'll -
fated city. It is the same
press whence, at Montgomery,
the APPEAL continued to cheer
and encourage those whose
quarrel it had espoused, to quit
themselves like men, until the advance
of that dashing fellow, Major General
Wilson, with his nine thousand Spencer
rifles, in the hands of picked men tcho
kne,0 hoW to ride and to fight, admon-
ished us of the policy of e~vacuating the
"CRADLE OF THE REBELLION
And so this same veteran campaigner
of the press corps took to itself wheels
and steam, and sought refuge east of the
ChattahOOchie.
The bulk of the office was stopped at
and was there, destroyed by
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The sixth Grand State Fair Of Louis
lana commences April oath, continuing
six days
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The following comparative view of
the population of three great nations at
the beginning Of the present century
and al the latest date at which an
enumeration was taken, is interesting as
showing the effect Of our republican sys-
TEN Of government as compared with
monarchy in any form;
France .............- -...--& 49pg5 i9s5
Great Britain and lreland-l5S67,t H 5i,sl5,los
United ates.-..-..-.---- 5rD3A1 @orf75hj
The Nashville Union and american,
commenting on these figures, says: "At
the ratio Of increase which has hitherto
prevailed ia this country, aud which was
only lowered by the loss Of life in the
civil war Of ls6l-6j, it is not too high TO
expect that la 1850 we shall have an
American population of fifty million,
and almost If not fully one hundred
million inhabitants in the first year OF
the next century. 1t is clear that we
shall outstrip France and Great Britain
much more rapidly than we have here
tofore done"
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d preudice-as every paper
must-it is abandoned only by
the few, while the many, still
adhering to the old newspaper,
even as did the readers of the
National Intelligence, constantly
exert themselves in its behalf.
and thus the old Journal has
steadily prospered. Oflate, good
fortune has been especially bene-
ficent, and the coming Prcsiden-
tial election aud pending strug-
giles in the State have given
additional impetus to the volume
of our circulation, and we have
been forced to enlarge greatly
every facility for the APPEALS
publication.
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THE


We present above perfect re-
presentations of the two presses
that stand side by side in the
basement of the APPEAL BUILD
ING on Union street. IfOne be
subjected to accident, the othe-
can discharge its appointed tasks
Moreover, it can never occur tina
the APPEAL will not be printed
in time for the earliest morn
trains. The old single
lder Hoe press seems to have
ng from the loins Of the double
lder. On the contrary, the
lie cylinders the younger of the two
bout fifteen years. The plate gives
accurate representation of the new
'le-eylinder, which is a perfect speei-
of mechanical skill. Since il
yer in motion till late at night, and
of our readers can see it, we have
tied this method of showingnOtOn only
.hysiOgnomy Of the old, but of the
press.
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EARTHQUAKE

OF the other families who lived at or
near the point, / nightmare the Fletch-
ers. Old Peter came down the river in
1911, and encountered the earthquakes
near New Madrid during their heaviest
shocks. His account of it was, i think,
the fullest and most reliable ! ever
heard, if / except that Of his daughter,
the late Mrs. Catherine Whittier, who
was about sixteen years old at the time,
and who could paint the thing up in
livelier c%olors, and throw more
feeling into it than her father.
She was very fond of relating
incidents and anecdotes of early
times, most OF which would he well
worthy of publication. Peter settled in
the Island near the foot of Presidents
bend. His two brothers, Joshua and
Tom, preceded him several years, but 1
think Joshua settled on this side of the
he married a half-breed, Of whom
his son Thomas, well known to many
Of the old citizens, was born on this
bluff in 1906. OF Old Tom know but
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Alabama. lie gobbled up Selma, using
it very roughly, burning foundries, gun
factories, and things generally Of
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Alabama. lie gobbled up Selma, using
it very roughly, burning foundries, gun
factories, and things generally Of
THE "c. s." BRAND.
of ownership. When it was definitely
ascertained that
THIS MODERN ASSYRIAN,
with his cohorts Of even-shoOting Spen-
Ger rifemen had fixed his v~oraeious eve
on Montgomery-that is 10 say, about
the twelfth Of April, 1s65-the APPEAL
made room for him by going to Column
bus, Georgia. From this time forward,
the story IS briefly told. Montgomery
was occupied without resistance, and
Columbus captured by Major-G General
Wilson, after a stout but Intellectual de-
tense. The materials Of the office, with
the exception Of the press and a few
cases that had been forwarded to Macon.
were piled in the street and DESTROYED
by order Of Major-GeneraI Wilson, who
exaeted of Colonel Dill, one Of the pro-
prietors, who was captured at Columbus.
a bond Of one hundred thousand dollars
not to publish the APPEAL during the
war, or in default be held a prisoner.
Luckily the war" care ont 0 0 there
after, and the APPEAL, being now per-
feetly iron-clad with paroles, amnesties
and pardOns, was 0 on its feet again.
in robust and vigorous life.
THE APPEALS LATER LUCK.
The j~ourneyings Of the APPEAL were
of infinite service. 1t made friends
everywhere, and even now people Of all
the Southern States, who became adj
dieted to the perusal of its pages while
1t was a wanderer, have V
failed to order it sent to their
homes. The very associations con-
nected with the APPEAL have halIowed
it, and if it now and then offend
a prejudiee-as every paper
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-12
Clippings.

"A clergyman once posted the following
notice on the gate of the church: Found
Two hats on my strawberry bed. The own
ers can have them by proving property"
"A Sunday school teacher ''out West"
upon inquiring of one of his juvenile pupils
what he had learned during the week, was
electrified by the answer that he had 'learn-
ed not to trump his partners ace."
The Boston Post (Democratic) abbre-
viates the name of one of its exchanges into
Low. Cour.," and another into "Wash.
Pat.''
"A farmer is the noblest work of God.
He rises at O'Clock in the morning, and
burns out half pound of wood and kords ov
HANDLES, and then goes out to worry the
geese and stir up the hogs-Josh Billings.
"A young naturalist is anxious to know
whether the young of the seal is called a cyg-
net. We can't say; we always use adhesive
envelopes.
-Titusville bridegrooms 'step upon the
hymenial platform, adjust the fatal moose, and
swing off into that silent bourne from whence
they can never return save by the Indianap-
oils or connecting lines"
This is the way Troy reporter congratu-
lated friend on his marriage:
'One more unfortunate,
Weary of life
Rashly importunate,
Taken wife,
The following singular epitaph appears
in the cemetery at Malaga:
"Here lies Jean Berrez who was
Good father, good SON and good husband.
Do not confound him with his younger brother,
Bearing the same name, who Is felen
In the galleyS at Ceuta."
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-12
Narraguayus Steamboat CO.

TNHE annual meeting of the Stockholders of the
Il above named Company, for the choice of Di-
rectors and for the transaction of such other busi
ness, as may legally before them, will be held
at the Office of Ross & Sturdivant, Portland Tues
day, the 23d day of january, 1872, at o'clock, IN.
GEO. A. HOPKINS, Treas. and Clerk.
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-12
Notice.

yuyHE Annual Meeting of the Cumberland County
i Agricultural Society, for the election of officers
and the transaction of other legal business will be
held at the office of Frank Noyes, Esq., Portland Saw
ings Bank Building, Portland, Tuesday january 16,
1872, at 10 o'clock, a. m. SAML DINGHY Sec.
Standish, Jan, 3, 1872, al dSSwtd WI
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-12
Laconia COMPANY.

EXTRACT from Act of Legislature, passed JAN
IL uary, 1871: ''No dividend shall be payable on
old shares until certificates for the same have been
surrendered and certificates have been issued
instead thereof"
In accordance with the above the Treasurer is pre-
pared to issue certificates in exchange for old, at
his office, No. 27 Sears Building. Boston.
Jams div JOHN A. BLANCHARD, Treasurer.
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-12
FREE OF GOVERNMENT TAX.

FREE OF GOVERNMENT TAX.
THE CENTRAL RAILROAD OF Iowa, trunk lin
running for 2O3 miles through the finest agricultural
region In the world, with heavy lumber and coal
'ranc already developed has been in operation since
February last, and is now fully equipped with depots
water tanks, coal sheds and machine shops The NOT
earnings in October the ninth month after the road
was opened for business were $685. after deduct
ing all expenses for operation and repairs The re-
suit September, before the Chicago fire which tenn
porarily deranged the movement of freights, was
even petter. The company owes floating debt
and the funded indebtedness incurred for
amounts to only $4,000 mile. The earnings are
sufficient to pay the interest upon this light debt and
leave ..-y ~ b.. r..
A Surplus of $4,000 a Month,
The entire debt is limited by charter to 500 600 a
mile, and the Equipment Bonds now offered cannot
accordingly exceed 900 to the mile secured by the
franchises, road track rolling stock and property of
every description belonging to a company already
doing
"' Prosperous Business.
The proceeds of the present issue of Equipment
Bonds will be used in adding to the rolling stock
which proves inadequate to the amount of business
Offering though the company has now % locomotives
500 freight cars, 10 passenger coaches baggage ex
press and mail cars, and way or caboose cars
The Construction bonds were marketed at 95. The
Equipment Bonds being secured by second mort
gage, are offered
Mt S5 i'm. Currency and Accrued Interest.
The facts recited above show that the security is
substantial and ample. At S5 the investment paws
practically
Eight and n Quarter per Cent. i'm Gold
free OF taxation. The limited amount of thes,
bonds now offered (S25O,OO cannot remain long upon
the market, and take this occasion to recommend
them to investors.
Further information supplied on application to
SWAN & BARRETT,
Bankers & Brokers, 100 Middle St
PORTLAND Nov. 20, 1871 os-nov3O-eod2m w2w1
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-12
New House

EOR SALE-On Lewis street. near Pine. Frescoed
Il and piped Tor Sebago. Apply en- the premises
or at 70 Emery st. JAMES A. TENNEY, ,
aug25 'al sI
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-12
EDUCATIONAL.
GOrhanl Seminary.

Board OF Instruction.
G. M. BODICE, A. M, Principal,
and Teacher Of Classics.
MISS ADELA BARNES,
Preceptress and Teacher of Vocal and Piano Music.
MADAME MARIE COURLAENDER,
Teacher of Modern Languages.
MISS JENNIE E. BODICE
Assistant Preceptress, and Teacher of Rhetoric.
Instruction will be given by competent Teachers il
Mathematics, Drawing and Painting, and an
Assistant in Music will be secured as
ID ..l. soon as possible
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-12
For Sale.

For Sale.
nNE Tenement House, situated ON Horton
~ Place, near Dow st. One or both tenements
will be Sold ice 500 and $500 each. The above
property is well situated, supplied with Sebago wa
ter, and is bargain. Enquire at 81 Dow st.
Oc1S tf
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-12

Excellent Business Opportunity.
WHOLESALE and Retail Confectionery Store for
w Sale; on leading thoroughfare; thoroughly
established splendidy fitted up; regular of good
paying butiness; lease, low rent.
TAYLOR s. CO.,
Ja5-1w 20 State st.. Boston, Mass
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-12

SOMEWHAT PARTICULAR.-As the 4:3O
train from New York reached Stamford, Sat
urday, an antique-looking dame thrust her
head out of the window opposite the refresh
ment-room door, and briefly shouted "Son-
nyr' A bright looking boy came up to the
window. "Eittle boy" said she, ''have you
a mother?' "Yes NAM" ''Do you love
her?' eyes NAM" "Do you go to school ?''
eyes MAN, care you faithful to your
studies? ?'' 'Yes, mann" 'Do you say your
prayers every nignt?" eyes, mann" "Can
/ trust you to do an errand for me?' "Yes,
NAM" 81 think can, toe" said the lady,
looking steadily down on the manly face.
''Here is five cents to get me an apple. Re
member, God sees you."-Hartford Post.
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-12
no LET

Store No 142 & IA Commercial st
GORNER of Widgery's Wharf, particular
~ adapted to the Flt and Grain business, larg
capacity. having from age sc feet, and depth Is
feet, accessible ny water rail, flied up With every
modern convenience. .t
Apply to - II. N. JOSE, 1874 Fore st.
Nov is tt
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-12

DLEASANT front room on second floor. Also
i one room on third floor with board. 40 Frank
lin st, Oc2Stf
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-12

When fellow writes verses he is not
necessarily fool, though more fools than
sensible men write verses. A man may even
use the word ''adown" without being fool,
though the chances are against him. But
when we find that abomnable word in con-
junction with an initial first name and the
second spelled in full, there is no exception to
the rule. We are led to these reflections by
the achievement of j. DeHaven White in the
Philadelphia Post, who, in poem of sixteen
lines duration, informs Miss Emily Truxtein
Beale eight times that ''The moon is sinking
adown the west.'' Let her sink.-Irdiandp-
oils Erening Journal.
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-12
LET.
Room To Let.
Store to Let {!

WITH board suitable for gentleman and wife. or
Two gentlemen. Also few table boarders ac-
commodated, at so Free Street. in4otf
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-12
"THE SINGER"
4a IMPROVED tI-t e
SEWING MACHINE.

views of the fact that various opinions do exist
i as to which is the best" Sewing Machine, do not
allow yourself TO be governed by any ones opinion,
but call and examine ssTHE SINGER,, and
witness its operation and have not the shadow of
doubt that you will not pronounce it for ALL pur-
poses the very best Family Sewing Machine
extant.
Now is the time to of these farfamed and
justly celebrated Singer Sewing Machine as a
Christmas Gift to your Wife, Sister or Lady
Friend.
With ''sINGER" in the house. always ready to
comply with any reasonable demand there is no good
reason why you may not have 'Merry Christmas
and 'Happy New Year., each day of which shall
add new voice to the already mighty chorus of voic-
es that sounding the praises Of ssThe Singer
OF which you will find full assortment at
33I CONGRESS STREET.
If you have already Sewing Machine, call and see
"Palmer's COmbinatiOn,, adapted to all kinds
of Machines. 1t will cord, rule lay in piping cord,
turn wide hem, and make the french fold, with the
utmost ease and exactness. H."t
A full assortment of Needless Thread and the va
rious Sewing Machine Helps and attachments, con-
stantly on hand
Machines sold ON Monthly InstaIments.
= nH- Machine Stitching and Stamping for Braidng
and Embroidery done to order. All Machines sold
and work done warranted to give entire satisfaction
WHEELOCK & SARGENT,
no3O Sole Agents for Portland and Vicinity