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The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

The "GooD OLD TIMES. THE good old
times! Nowadays the dress of fashionable
woman costs one, two or three thousand dol
lars. Such extravaganza as this is sapping
social morals to their center, cry you? Softly!
softly! Look at Queen Elizabeth dying and
leaving behind her three thousand dresses
and a solemn proclamation against extrava-
gance in dress. Social immortality of the
present day? Look at that elder time, even
in the reign of Queen Anne, through the eyes
of Thackeray or the CHASTITY and revolving sat
ires of Dean Swift.
Political corruption of the present day?
Look century back and see British King
buying his Parliament by the scores. Look
at the sneer expressed half a century ago in
''France ought to have plenty of honor, for
she has bought half of England's." Look at
Sir Robert Walpole openly bribing his sup
porters. ~ ft
Open your morning paper and read the
denunciations bursting upon the head of the
chief Magistrate of the nation, as a political
trickster and schemer for power, and then
turn back seventy-five years ago and read the
criticism of Philadelphia paper, the aurora,
on the retirement of Washington as a bless
ing and cause for congratulation, styling
him despot and contemner of the rights
which the colonies had just bought with their
hearts blood. Read this and then read your
morning paper with more tranquility, and
think that all Washington's patriotism and
care for the peoples good may not all have
gone out of his successors, even though the
paper does say so! The past was good
| time, the present is better, and, believe me,
the future will be the best of ALL How much
better is it to believe with Darwin that we be-
gan as brutes and have come so far toward
angels, than to believe we began as gods and
have fallen so far. toward devils. / always
thought it better and wiser and sweeter to
look with the eyes of love at the least in our
childhoofs story book, and recognize therein
possible prince, than that the princes in the
company of Ulysses should change, under the
wand Of Circe, into goats and swine Better
an ape yesterday and an angel to-day, than a
god yesterday. and a boor to-day. al
Better fifty years Of Europe,
| Than cycle of Cathay!
Geo. w. Curtis
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

CURE THAT COUGH OR CoLDl Adamson's
Balsam will cure it every time. Price 80 cts
mch15-T I S & WHY.
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26
Old Established Milk Route For
Sale

COOD horse, wagon, harness, and all appurtenan-
Uces stock in good condition. selling 80 to 35
per day chance seldom met with, owner is obliged to
sell on account Of sickness.
ap22-3t TAYLOR g. CO., 20 State St., Boston.
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

An officer who was more distinguished for
his gallantry in the field than for the care he
lavished upon his person, complaining, on
certain occasion, to an Irish judge, of the
sufferings he endured from rheumatism, the
judge undertook to prescribe remedy. You
must desire your servant, he said, to place
every morning by your bedside tub three
parts filed with warm water. You will then
get into the tub, and having previously pro-
vided yourself with pound of yellow soap,
you must rub your whole body with it, i'm
mersing yourself occasionally in the water,
and at the end of quarter of an hour the
process concludes by wiping yourself dry
with towels, and scrubbing your person with
a fiesh-brush. Why, said the officer, after
rejecting for minute or two, this seems 10
be neither more nor less than washing ones
self. Well, 1 must confess, rejoined the judge,
it is open to that objection
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

The Pittsburg Commercial good-naturedly
remarks of Senator Schurz that he is great
rhetorician as well as great logician, and
his idea OF political purity and administrative
perfection is so lofty that, like the old gentle
man about whom Goethe writes in MS me-
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26
Base Ball Meeting

VyHE fifth Annual Meeting Of the Junior Associa-
Il tion Base Ball Players Of Maine, will be held at
Waterville, Wednesday, May 1st All clubs in the
Association requested to send Delegates to said
Convention Any club desirous of joining the Asso-
citation get the required information of the Secrc-
tary, J.F. DAY, Rec Sec.,
ap23*3t Stevens Plains Me
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26
Remains ''Antichrist'' is in press.

The ice broke up in Lake Champlain on
Monday night, and the first steamer went
across Wednesday. The lake has been frozen
over since January 8, the longest time on rec
ord
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

Referring to the report that Kossuth was
living in extreme poverty, the Des Moines
Register says: "We are informed by MIR.
Ruttkay, of this city, nephew and constant
correspondent of the Hungarian patriot that
the statement is entirely without foundation.
While Kossuth is not rich, he has an income
sufficient for all his wants and lives in COM
Portable style. He is now seventy years of
agen
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

Agency for Sewing Machines.
w. 9. DYER, No. 273 Middle St. All
kinds Of Machines for sale and to let.
Repairing.
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

The English Attorney General has con-
sented to release the Tichborne claimant ON
bail, but the necessary forms have not yet
been complied with.
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

A Western hen having laid large egg con-
tanning smaller one within its shell, a re-
porter, whose brains have evidently run down
into his calves, chronicles the phenomenon as
''a veal within veal"
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

Mrs. Fair, the California man-slayer, is re-
ported to have made more than S15O,0OO by
judicious speculations while she was waiting
to be hanged, and has consequently risen so
much in public esteem tiAat her acquittal on
her new trial is confidently anticinated
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
Advertising Agents.

Advertising Agents.
ATWELL & CO., IVA III Middle st. Ad-
vertisements inserted i'm papers i'm Maine
ana shroughous the country at the pub
lishers' lowest rates.
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

This is the season of the year when the
Blood needs purifying. Doctor Gould's Dom
este Bitters are just the thing. Agents,
w. w. whipple s. Co., p Market Square.
feb28-3m3tw
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

Miss Cunningham, the regent of the Mount
Vernon ladies' association, publishes brief
denial of the charges lately brought against
her bv Mrs. Briggs. She denies that she re-
ceives any salary for her services, and says
that all mouey received is spent for the bene-
fit of the estate, and that it has only been by
close economy that the necessary expenses
have been met. To this Mrs. Briggs responds
by demanding detailed statement of receipts
and expenditures. If there is nothing to
conceal, why the need of such secrecy?
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

They have a church in Chicago for women
only. Whether it's because Chicago men
can't be persuaded to 60 to church, or be-
cause the ladies wish to avoid male-diction in
their liturgy, we are not informed.
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

The Republicans of the FIRST CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT OF MAINE, who support the principles
the Republican Party and its Administration, are in
yited to meet in
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

The inquest on the body of Mrs. Maines'
OF Boston, whose brother-in-law, WIN.
Names, was suspected of numbering her, re-
suited in finding that she died of suffocation
caused by excessive intoxication.
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

Gan Flesh is Grass-Haf Ton of 1t Gone
to the Grave" is the feeling way in which
the Cincinnati Enquirer heads notice of
the death of Mrs. Amelia Brooks, who weigh
ed over 900 pounds.
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

The movement to place Senator John Scott
of Pennsylvania, on the Grant ticket, as Vice
President is said to be gaining ground.
The Portland daily press., 1872-04-26

Reports have been received in Delaware
that lady connected with one of the oldest
families there is under arrest in Florence, Ita-
ly, charged with ill-using little girl, which
she had taken from the State as travelling
companion during her visit to Europe.
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A tall, slim friend Of the New York Rbss
Il in trouble He wants to know what
character TO assume at ! masquerade. a
Gotham journal advises him u chalk his
head and 70 = billiard che
He might braid his legs and 70 o : whip
lash. LouisSilgs CosrjsT Journal s5 4.
We beg leave to suggest that he might
swallow himself. round and round, : few
dozen times, and 80 - roll Of tape Oss.
casi1m.
We beg to suggest that be cross biz legs
and 80 = Virginia worm fences AiaG-
oOtbs Nonseissti0n. -
The Paris True Ksnsxel3an advises him
to wrap himself In the American flag and
20 . tarbeF's pole. sta
A little straw around his feet would ena.
bic him 70 appear asta broom. lntsrios
Journal
Let him bristle his hair up and 20 q 1
white wash brush. -&. L01is Times
Straddle rope and 50 = = clothes pin.
AuOwsd0Ors. tn @4 t4t1 -@5
Wipe bis feet and 50 . : pair Of tongs.-
New NORTH. WEST. u
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A PECULIAR FUNERAL.-In little Ver>
mont town, the Methodist and Universalist
denominations combined to build chapel,
which d occupied IN the morning by the
former, and by the latter IN the evening
A few weeks since the Universalist pastor
asked the Methodist minister % announce
thst the evenings discourse would be on
THE Death Of the Devil" The sturdy fol>
lower Of John Wesley. irritated BY this
he utmost value for scsripr sinners into
sanctity. revenged himself By saying from
his pulpit: This evening. my friends,
there will be funeral Ia this house. One
pcculiarity about the service will be the
fact that the son breaches the fathers fune-
ral eerlnOnw sH #fH fN
The church u now closed until the pend
ing lawsuit gives alright 70 one o. the other
sect; and the Universalist clergyman be.
lieves that II there j any man too wicked
70 BE- saved. It'll h his Methodist = brOthef."
H. 8##T@ 4 &4 n +
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u win b remembered that In 106la Con-
tyentiOn of dissasisied Republicans Wa
held = Cleveland. which nominated John
g. Fremont for President and John Coch-
nns Tor Vice President These candidates
wsrs afterwards withdrawn. n. Gresley
appears 70 have been thsrs, = now, In
clinsd 70 ''boltr the regular nominations.
After III. Lincoln had bsen rsnominated,
~. Greeley and two others addressed III
following note % the Governors Of the
loyai 6tatss:
New YoRK, September 3, 1854.
Hen YoU1 E1C8LL8NCY The
undsssignsd have besn svqeeslsd ~ . body
of Influential Unionisas 10 communists
With ths loyal G0vssnols, fos he purpose
u elicitiag replies - The following queries
!. n pour Judgment y The ro.elocsion u
NJ. Moc0)n y 6Otabilllye
81 4. ~ yOof Judgement, en- yoar Own geoee
~ eag53od of II. Lncoln
4 i youf j0dgmeat - ~ interests q
~ Unloa party, and - of The connlfy. ~
qolro ~ oo6o0tut1o6 u smoother cnn6I6 ate
& placs d n Llncolnf
u 1naktng - qaefjee We rive - opln-
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Toe Calk Steel,
Anvila vises. Bellows,
Raeps, Hammers,
BOrax, Etc, Etc,
Spring Point Shovels.
Gold Pans,
10 aud II II. Sluicc Forks,
Custom Made Picks
Brass N0xxlcs,
Hydraulic Pipe. Etc.
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puhllc ibtesss9, whom will not disguise
uu0ot = dctitlous name, because the one he
wAass By hight exSictly suits him. He invests
tho pm6seolon Of photography with I'll the
rOnlanco OF edvsnture. What other men
Will do tor eclf.dsAcnSc. or excitement, OF =
positive reward, lho does for = negative. =
No mouniain 3 tDO high for him. il there's
estssvieWr firm me tOn No perilOus preci
p1co 6a1nls him. 81 20 b lust tho place for
bio Gamers II there ID picturesque region
wseee nobody hati been, lhithcy he hastens,
with company, Il company 0ffen; alone, II
need b. he md biz pack mule, carrying the
pFqcapusc chem lcalj md glsssc4 eoncttmes,
setteg : long md 'arduOus expedition, that
mule will roll down steep mountain face
and s1naeh erytping: Then Thrasher BE-
gins 9(1ip, n0tAl6g daunted. i 3 sight
70 - him, whcfI struck by the beauty Of
unpacks, erecting hiS tripod, and hanging
Dist el6sh hln, Tory. Ii > trice ~ plate
D prepared. the view ID taken, Thrasher
bui3e0 his head, loetrich-like, n the dark
claa1beE expo1ljig recklesely, - NJ kneels
q hia Wosk, - l0lapidAied fear Of bio cor.
dueoyA Then speedily comes from the black
tent mu6lsd A.out of tslumpA, and The
artist cmerx0 backward - III lkro6a, hold-
ing % dripping nega2ive Tor keueral "a.
mlFatlOn. Or, pefhaps, u docsn'g.suit him !:
"a .|vs1ssIr III ~ view: end - ho1r
after camp u made. when III have suheided
into tha tntf aele of doje6 fer nie11e. suppcs
tIclng over and guAEd not begun. along
c0lnes Thraehef, with that cusscd mule, Z
fHh0i VIII per1lsts +, tryiDg - carry ~ m.
Wiel6ly pock betsseea pfscisely thetreae that
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nat LOUISVILLE CONVENTION.

PerIps our readers remember, possibly
they d, not, how when the nominations were
made d Baltimore, Mr.. Samuel j. Bayard of
New-Jtsey, and two or three other gentlemen
not eas to please, denounced the decision of
the delegates as "foul conspiracy" The
DemOcptic party had been sold. The con-
spiratos had thrown down the old flag; il
was tn, duty of true men =" to take it up and
"bid dfance TO the outrage sought to be
"perpdrated.n Mr. S. j. BGyard with his fol-
lowingtherefore determined to hold National
Convection in Louisville, KY, on the Sd day Of
September next. Well, the day is nearer than
it wa when the Bayardians were stirred
to thissudden flood of mutiny; and if this
tremendous Convention is to be held at all, it
is higl time for somebody to be arranging
the prliminaries. Although Mr.. s. j. Bayard
is clos, by us, in neighboring State, we do
not ge one word from him. Although we
look aixiously into all the newspapers of the
Democratic kind, we do not see line in
them bout the great Louisville Convention.
There ire no primary meetings, no State Con-
ventioIs, no Committees; In fact, at this SUI
preme moment, Mr.. Samuel j. Bayard and his
friends and his Louisville Convention and his
spicy address seem to have faded from the
memory of mankind altogether. We suspect
that tie Convention at Louisville, Ky, will
be an exceedingly select and exclusive body
indeed And we can guess why
The rank and file of the Democracy, follow
ing the example of the rank and file OF the
old Republican party, have seen the folly OF
an unquestiOning fidelity b. party leaders, ana
have concluded to act for themselves. The time
has been when Mr.. s. j. Bayard and his little
handful of malcontents might have had quite
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-07-26

Secretary of the Treasury has several
times attempted to make change; Mr.
A. Il. Stewart has twice spoken on the subject
to the President. Yet the minority report of
the recent Custom-house Investigation says:
1T is difficult to do justice to the astonishing
"fact that notwithstanding this body of proof
"before the Joint Committee of last year, the
"same abuses were found still in existence by
"the Senate Committee of this year, not at all
"shaken, but more fourishing than ever" And
the report calls attention to the significant fact
that after Mr.. Grinnell had boon removed Gas
Leet threatened that he should beg, and Leet
had obtained from Mr.. Murphy all that he
required, Murphy continued during his Off
"oial term, which ended in November or
December, 1871, to uphold the firm in the
"gross abuses and scandalous extortions dis
"closed by tho testimony; and was himself
"uphdd at Washington in upholding them in
"defialce of public opinion, the petitions of
the Mercantile community, and against the
Judgment and wishes of his official superior,
''the Secretary of the Treasury"
If thu investigation has ruined" anybody,
it seems to us it is not the mover of it.
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decent Convention simply by viii sting for
1t. No matter how faint the CALL somebody
would have responded TO it. The bolt might
not have amounted to much, yet bolt there
would have been. But this happens TO be
most unfortunate hour for political leaders of
the ancient kind. The old machinery of party
has completely broken down, and the people
have taken their affairs out of the hands of
the old leaders. This is what such men as
Henry Wilson, and S. j. Bayard, and George
Boutwell,, and the great COnklng, cannot UNI
derstand. They think that they have nothing
to do but pull the wires, as they have been
accustomed to do; to whistle the old calls; to
mako speeches of the old conventional type;
to manage before election, and pocket the
reward Of their well-doing after it.
These are the kind Of politics which
Gen. Wilson and the rest of the vener-
able leaders understand, as they should do,
since they have given their whole lives to the
study and practice of them. So you see they
are going on after the old fashion, printing
documents, manipulating the country press,
making stump speeches, and raising money to
pay the expenses of the campaign. The fresh,
spontaneous action of the people so dazes and
generally bOthcrs them that they do not know
whether to laugh, cry, or swear. This is
free country, and they may take their choice;
while we would suggest to the Bayard Con-
vention, if it ever should meet, the prOprlety
and policy of nominating President Grant!
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led bands of repeaters. Some of the highest
of the CITY officials were implicated. Yet these
frauds were committed at q special election
held in n few wards in which every polling
nlace was watched, a fact which suggests how
sweeping must DO the frauds at general
election when there is the whole city to pro-
tect.
Public opinion convicted the Municipal Ring
of Philadelphia. 1t was established that the
Republcan ofliceholders had organized this
svstem of wholesale cheating, and it was
notorious that without their aid the frauds
could not have been perpetrated They con-
troll the election machinery Of the whole dty,
and to a great extent they control it now
This condition of the second city of America
is not very pleasing to contemplate; 1t Is
doubly alarming and cannot be regarded only
as a local evil. 1t is one of the national dam
gers. The Municipal Ring of Philadelphia is
unit for Grant. It's bold and bad leaders
clamor for his reelection. The National, State,
and City Rings are inextricably interocked,
like those Chinese puzzles that seem to have
neither beginning nor end, and cannot DO DIS
entanged Grant and the Educated Hog"
the "Flying Dutchman," and other notorious
Philadelphia politicians, have the same In
tcrest in politics, and all the vast
power of this Ring for corruption and fraud
Will be unscrupulously employed to carry the
city for Grant this Fall. 1t is certain now
that the other counties of the State will give
a majority for Greeley and Brown In Novem-
Der it is equally certain that to overcome
this majority, whatever it may be, 1raudu-
| lent Renublican vote is to be rolled up in
Philadelphia. This is the national danger,
which our friends there should leave nothing
| undone to destroy. Carelessness in Philadelphia
may give to Grant twenty-niDe fraudulent
electoral votes in November.
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THE SKILL or VILIFIERS.

Among other equally malicious misrepresenta-
lions, we find the following in the current number
Of The Nation:
Harper's Weekly a fortnight three weeks ago, de-
clared that Mr. Greeley in November, 1860 printed IN
TUE TRIBUNE some very savage words the South
words which, dare say, multtudes of us subscribed
the succeeding days OF bitterness but which never
theless were barbarous and unresraned, and the re-
publication Of which, both account OF their barbarity
and their headong unresrant, is calculated TO nlure
saw and it saw too. that The Weekly had made mistake
to the date OF the ORIGINAL pnDcdtlon What does me
reader suppose that The TRIBUNE didf Behave with
candOr and sensef IL took courage when IT saw the
wrong date said that !, could endure good deal but
"Ihs pretended extract and then, without blushing, IL
roundy that THE TRIBUNE OF such and such date
contained no such language was quoted. No more il
did the object OF the writer was 10 make the public
any such language Yet word for word the passage can
be pointed out In the columns OF lllE TRIBUNE Tor May
/, 1901, instead OF November 70, 1900
This matter has already perhaps had more atten-
ton than it deserves; but to illustrate the reckless
and INSCRIPTIONS violence with which The Nation
has lately chosen TO assail the personal character of
its political opponents purpose telling the whole
story.
When the extract in question appeared in Haypa's
Weekly everybody in this office know it could not
have been written by MIR. Greeley. but as no one
can remember all that has appeared in a daily
newspaper thirty-two years old, and printing every
day rs much as the contents of large duodecimo
volume long search was made for it in our files.
1t did not appear on November 20, 1860 the date
given by HarpeTs. Allowing for all conceivable
typographical mistakes, the whole month of NOyem-
Der, 1860, was examined; and next the same
month for tho years 1861, 1862. 1863
and 1864 Then, having failed to find the
slightest trace of it, and firmly believing
to be forgery, we declared that no such words
were printed in The TRIBUNE of Nov. 20, 1860, and
no such words were written by Mr.. Greeley.
"The object of the writer" says The Nation, was
20 mako the public believe that The TRIBUNE of no
other date contained any such language" The OBJ
joct of the writer was TO make the public believe
what ho said, which was the exact ascortalned