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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-18

Constitutional government was first estab-
lished in Prince Edward Island in 1878, and
the residents of the island are now talking
about celebration of the centennial anniver-
sary during the current year. According to the
statements given by Charlottetown paper,
constitutional government was in force in the
island three years before the Declaration of
Independence, and for still a greater number
of years prior to the adoption of any form Of
Federal constitution by the United States.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-18
1ailg Yennebst Aournal

AU G. u T A.
SATURDAY MORNING. Jan. ID, 1872.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-18
IL House OF REPRESENTATIVES,

IL House. OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
January g. 1878.
Read q Id passed. Sent mp for concur renee.
SUMNER j. CHADBOURSE, Clerk.
In SENATE, January S, 1873.
Read and passed in concurrence.
SAMUEL w. LANE, Secretary.
A true copy.
Attest SAMUEL w. LANE, Secretary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-18
ADANS0N'S BOTANIC COUGH DALSAM
WHY |.

WHY
Because it is Endorsed by leading physicians, is
pleasant to take, and CURES EVERY TINE,
Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Asthma,
Iniiu,nza, and all diseases OF alike nature.
The children like il and they tell
1t cures their Colds aud makes them well;
And mothers seek the store to try it,
With hundreds who desire to buy it,
Beware of worthless limitations. See that the
name of W. KINsMAN is blown in the glass of the
bottle Price 81 cents per bottle. For sale by all
druggists and medicine dealers. Sample bottle and
circulars free by all dealers.
5000 Reward for a better article
$1,000 Reward for a case it will not cure
+. W. KlNSMAN, Prop. Augusta Me.
Wholesale Agents, Warren l.. Alden & Co., Ban
gor John +. Henry Il Co., New York; &. e. Good.
win & Co., Boston; j. w. Perkins i Co., Portland.
For sale by J. f. Patten, Granite Block, Blood &
Rowe, No. III Exchange St. anu Harlow i Sweet,
Smith Block, Ii. Ii. Sutler, Bangor. All the
Druggists in Augusta, Hallowell and Gardiner, and
Lewis Selbing at the state House.
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Judging from the statistics touching marriage
and divorce which we find in the California
papers, matrimonial felicity in that State
seems to be improving. In 1850 the number
of divorces granted in San Francisco were
more than ten per cent. of the whole number
of families, being 10 in population of 1000
families. In the year just past the number Of
divorces in that city were 23l in a population
nearly four times as large as that of 1856.
OF the successful actions the past year, more
than three, fourths were brought by wives.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-12-11


and its tributaries, revision and codifica
ton of the tariff laws, and the opening o
more mints He endorses the recommends
tion of the postmaster general for the estab
lishment of postoffice savings repositories
and invites the attention of Congress to the
proposition for postal telegraph. He re
commends legislation in regard to the judi
cial proceedings in Utah. and also in regard
to the bankruptcy law, which he considers
as productive of more evil than good; if moi
totally repeated, it should be modified in
those porSons providing for involuntary
bankruptcc. Those portions should be re.
pealed. He calls attention to the immense
aggregate claims against the government
many of them growing out of the rebellion
and not few Of them fabricated and sup
ported by false testimony. He recommends
that persons having claims against the gov
ernment be required to present them at an
early period, and that the personal attend
ance of witnesses be required by the Court
of Claims In regard to the Indian ques-
ton he recommends territorial form Of
government for the Indian Territory; he also
recommends such action at will permit the
settlement of body of Russian colonists on
the public lands, and endorses the PROPOSE
tion for census in 1875. He endorses the
Washington board of public works, and
speaks Of the great Improvement Of the city
under the operations of the board; recon-
mends a liberal action on the part Of Con-
grcss in defraying portion of the expenses,
and suggests the establishment of a national
He recommends the passage of
an enabling act for the admission of Colora-
do as State, and suggests the opening OF
canal for the purpose Of irrigation from the
eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains to the
Missouri River. In conclusion, he renews
his recommendation for general amnesty,
and says there are a number Of persons yet
laboring under difficulties very small, but
enough to keep up constant irritation
There can be no possible danger to the gov
in restoring them to eligibility to
hold office, and he suggests the enactment of
a law better TO secure civil rights which
freedom shs.tld secure, but has not efcctu-
ally secured to the enfranchised slave. The
reading of the MESSAGE in the House occu-
pied an hour and half. II was ordered to
be printed and referred to the committee of
the whole.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-12-11
LEES LAST CAMPAIGN.
TGU CHING RECOLLECTION OF SOUTHERN
VALOR AND DEVOTION.

At meeting of the Virginia Division Of
the survivors of the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia, Col. Vcnable made substantially the
following address, the report of which we
take from the Richmond Dispatch:
When, in the early days of May, 1864,
Grant crossed the river with 100000 men,
General Lee could command less than 81
900 of all arms, and yet he boldly marched
to attack him, having In hand when he first
struck Grants column only 10000 men.
lie gave vivid picture of the battle on
the plank road, fought on the evening Of
the 9TH of May, between Wilcox's and
Hcth's divisions Of A. p. Hills corps, when
under the immediate eye of General Lee,)
this heroic band of only 10000 beat back
40 900 with which Hancock made repeated
assaults upon them.
He also spoke of Ewcll's splendid success
on the old turn. pike, where with 10000
men, he had driven back Warren's corps,
and illustrated the unexpected boldness of
General Lees strategy by quoting the re-
mark Of Gen. Meade when the columns came
in collision: "They have left a division to
fool us while they concentrate and prepare a
position Oh the North Anna; and what |
want is to prevent these fellows from getting
back to )linc Run"
lie vividy pictured the battle of the next
morning, when Hills two divisions, which
had become aware that they were to be re-
iicycd by Loncstrcct. and were not in the
best fighting trim. were violently assaulted
before l.ongstrcct had come up, and por,
ton Of them had been forced back several
hundred yards, when Longstrcet's men dou
blc.quicked mile and half, and went into
the fight with the widest cheering and en-
ihu,iasm. lie gave the correct version OF
that spcndid historic incident of Gregg
Texas brigade pausing in their advance n
they saw their loved leader going into the
FIGHT, and vociicraing "Go back, Genera
ict 20 back General Lee :; and told no"
confidence was restored at once to I'M
brave men, the whole line swept forward, the
flank attack was made. and Hancock was
driven back in confusion that would pro
Lably have resulted in utter route, but io'
the unfortunate woundng of Longstreet Jus
at this juncture.
lie told the story of Grants flank move
ment to Spottsylyania Court House, anC
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-12-11

Not long ago died the Col. Russell, known
in the SOUTHWEST as "Owl Russell" who
was once Henry Clay's private secretary
He was q man of intense egotism, whose
chief object in life was to be admired and
notorious. Years and years ago, while in
the Missouri Legislature, he got the sou6ri.
quet which hung to him all the rest of his
life, and actually carried him out Of his po-
litical career. 1t was during violent po.
litical debate in which he had shown an
absurd pomposity. that one Of his political
comrades rose and quietly related little
story. He said that Russell one night,
while travelling through the woods, lost his
way, and being stranger in that part OF
the country, became rather nervous. While
in this sorry plight, he suddenly heard
voice not far away, calling out "Who, who
who are your" The answer was loud and
prompt: "I am Col. William H. Russell,
for many years a prominent member Of the
Kentucky Legislature, was School Commits
sioner for the southern district Of Kentucky,
am now the Representative Of Galloway
County in the Missouri Legislature, am
spoken of as the Whig candidate for next
Congress, and am lost. Who are you?" Of
course the question was repeated, and the
answer again returned with all its linked
dignity until the audience screamed with
laughter and greeted poor Russell whenever
he dared to rise with "Who, who are you?"
And 50 hc:go his name Of "Owl Russell"
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entirely out of the arena of military opera.
tions.
Lee had made his works at Petersburg
lmpregnable to assault, and had movable
column Of his army within two days march
of the Federal capital He had made a
campaign unexampled in the history of de-
fensive warfare.
Colonel Venable concluded his noble ad.
dress as follows:
"My comrades, I feel that I have given
but feeble picture of this grand period in
che history of this time of trial Of our be.
loved South-a history which is great gift
of God, and which we must hand down as
holy heritage to our children, not to teach
them to cherish spirit of bitterness or q
love for war, but to show them that their
fathers bore themselves worthily in the
strife, when to do battle became a sacred
duty. Heroic history is the living soul Of .
nations renown. When the traveller in
Switzerland beholds the monument to the
thirteen hundred brave mountsinsers
who met the overwhelming hosts Of their
proud invaders, and as he reads in their cpl.
taph: who fell unconquered, but wearisd
with victory, giving their souls to God and
their bodies to their enemy or when he
visits the places sacred to the myth Of vii.
liam Tell, transplanted by pious, patriotic
friends from the sages of another people, to
inspire the youth of that mountain land with
q hatred of tyrants and love of heroic
deeds-or when he contemplates that won
derful monument by Thurwaldsen, on the
shores of Lake Lucerne, in commemoration
of the fidelity in death of the Swiss Guard
of Louis XVI.-a colossal lion, cut out of
the living rock, pierced by fatal javelin,
and yet in death protecting the lily Of France
with his paw-he asks himself how many
men of the nations of the world have been
inspired with love of freedom by the monu-
ments and heroic stories of little Switzer-
land?
Comrades, we need not weave any fable
borrowed from scandinavian lore into the
woof of our history to inspire our youth with
admiration of glorious deeds in freedoms
battles DONE In the true history Of this ar
my of Northern Virginia, which laid down
its arms not conquered, but wearied with
victory, you have a record of deeds of valor,
of unselfsh conservation to duty, and faith
fulness in death which will teach our sons,
and our sons sons how to die for liberty
Let us sec to it that it shall be transmitted
to them"
Colonel Venable's very interesting ad-
dress was received with frequent bursts Of
applause from the audience; and yet during
the whole of it the decorum observed was
remarkable. His touching illusions to the
past services of the gallant Army of North
ern Virginia drew forth tear from nearly
every eye, and when he eloquently recited
the heroic deeds of the faithful sons Of the
South, his words were greeted with snthusi-
astic applause. Now and then humorous
incident of the campaign-the last sixty
days of the ..r-as recited by Col. Venable,
excited the risibilities of the audience, and
the next moment he carried his hearers
through some of the most solemn and impress
sive scenes of those last days of battle, and
their laughter was then almost turned into
sobbing.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-12-11
PHOTOGRAPHS.

The undersigned having return
ed and opened a gallery will be
pleased to see his friends.
With more experience and I'M
PROVED APPARATUS he feels
more capable than ever before OF
pleasing the people.
Come ard have your pictures
made before grim winter with his
frost and SHOWS pounces upon us.
Gallery in Workman House.
"A. Ii. LEE.
Camden, S. c., Sept IL, 1878.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-12-11

A woman never tells-that which she
does not know.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-11-13


Loose heavy garments, such az mantles.
D0lmans, etc, seem gradually TO be going
out Of favor and tight-ftting velvet casaques,
or double-breasted closeiitfing vestons. are
gradually taking their place. Our fair
readers may have been prepared for this
change, By the style which prevailed dur
ing the late season, Of almost entirely dis
pensing with maRtle.or jacket in outdoor
costumes.
The pOl0naise OF tUlique and the corSagc
gilet have almost universally prevailed,
and It is evident that lie taste for this style
viii continue for some time. Il has pro
dueed many beautiful combinations during
the past season.
One cause of the renewed success Of cor.
sage, or casaque gilei, is the addition Of
revers and collar at neck, the turning back
Of the skirt a revers, and the adoption Of
the mousquetaire cuffs to sleeves. These
form q most pleasant arrangement, and
have q very novel and elegant effect.
In speaking Of costumes we must not omit
to name that they are now all composed OF
two colors, that is to say, two different
tones Of the same color or of contrasted
colors. It's necessary, however. that much
care and good taste should be used in the
choice Of the colors, especially in colors that
contrast
Dress skirts are rather long. It is Only
in costumes absulotely intended for walking
that skirts are made short, or rs called in
Paris, 5ds tesrs.
In sleeves there is not much change
mousquetaire cuffs and others of this elias.
are. most prevailing styles. -LoRdoa World
Of Fashion.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-11-13


The best evidence, says Mr.. Darwin, of a
taste for the beautiful SIS afforded hy the
three genera Of Australian bower-birds.
Their bowers where the sexes congregate
and play strange antics" lat all stranger
than our waltzes and quadrilles) are diff
ferently constructed; but what most con
Germs us is, that they are decorated in a diff
ferent manner by the different species. The
satin bower-birds collects gayly colored ar
ticles, such as the blue taii-feathers of paro-
quets, bleached bones and shells, which Il
sticks between the twigs, or arranges at the
entrance. Mr.. Gould found in one bower a
neatly-worked stone tomahawk and a
slip Of blue cotton, evidently produced from
a native encampment. These objects are
continually eailanged and carried about by
the birds while at play. The bower of the
spotted bower-bird is beautifully lined with
tail grasses, so disposed that the heads
nearly meet, and the decorations are very
profusc. Round stones are used to keep
the grass stems in their proper places and
to divergent paths leading to the bower
The stones and shells are often brought
from great distance. The regent-birds, as
described by Mr.. Ramsay, ornaments its
short bower VITA bleached land-shells be-
longing to FIVE or six species, and with Der
ries of various colors, blue, red and black,
which give it, when fresh, very pretty APP
pearance. Besides those there were several
newly picked leaves and young shoots of a
pinkish.color, the whole showing decided
taste for the beautiful. Well NAV Mr..
Gould Say, These highly decorated halls
of assembly, must be regarded as the most
wonderful instances of birds architecture yet
discovered :. and the, taste, we see, Of the
several species certainly differs. n-l1opULI1
Science Monthly.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-11-13
Kfckanoo Indians.


We are gratiied this morning to greet the
return to his family and home of Col. Thomas
G.. Williams, one of the special Indian Com
missioners for the removal of the Kickapoos
and the remnant Of other tribes, viz: Mes
caleros and Lipans, who, several wears ago,
crossed the Rio GTande into Mexico, and
have been constantly raiding upon and de-
vastating the American settlements in the
counties nearest to The Rio Grande. The
Commission has succeeded in persuading
some four or five hundred of the Kickapoos
and Pottowatamies to return 70 the guardian
ship Of the United States Government, who
arc now on their way to the reservation held
for them in Kansas, and are expected to az
rive at Fort Sill, en- route, in about ten dayj.
There rcmfin in Mexico, that refused to ac-
company their tribe, Chino's band, some
two hundred in number. who Col. Williams
learns have retired into the interior of
Mexico, passing SaltiIIo, according TO his
advices on the twelfth Of last September,
there to abide until they can learn from
those that have returned to the reservation
whether they are satisfied, If SO, it is ex-
pected that this band will also return The
Mescaleros and Lipans it is said, have re-
tired into chihuahua, but they arc ever
ready for araid, and it will not do for our
people on the Mexican frontier, for mo-
ment, to put any confidence that their de-
paTture will give any security to them, foT
at any moment they may be down upon
them, to the destruction of their life and
property. A1itonio Herald.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-11-13


SENATOR ScHURz.--Senator Schurz and
family have arrived from Europe and taken
up their residence in Washington for the
winter. A telegram says; The Senator
looks exceedingly we'll. In conversation
this evening he stated that United States
bonds in Europe are regarded with great IA
vor, which seems to increase, as do other
forms of American securities in public esti-
nation. Our bonds arc usually taken for
investment. American travellers find it
difficult to obtain money on letters of credit.
The best outlook, so fer, is seen in the fact
that imports decrease, while exports IN
crease rather than otherwise. General
Schurz looks quite favorably on the low
rate intervertible bond proposition. The only
action Congress can apply at an early day
to prevent the continuance of the CONNER
cial crisis must necessarily be in the direc-
tion of expansion, and If this can be based
on plan which win give fexibility and
provide for contraction as well, it would be
advantageous. The financial question will
at once come up, and probably occupy most
of the session. Most political issues will
fall in the background, and it is quite prob
able that there may not be a strict party
vote taken, as was the case last winter. The
Senator thinks the session is likely to be
very long, lasting until August or Sep.
tenber.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-11-13

A STRANGE SroRr PROM CARR MAY
Long Lost S0a Rcfarn3-A special dis
pach to the Philadelphia B9il,fia fr0m Capc
aIay City. October 2S says; About twenty
years ago Captain Baymore lying with his
vessel in the port Of New Orleans, had with
him his little son, thrce years Of age, who,
while playing around the docks, was sud-
denly missed Every effort was used % Ind
him. even 10 searching in the river, but all
was unavailing. and DC was given up as
drowned a 0ay or two ago stranger,
with heavy black bcsrsi, and language Of
stroIg Gernian accent. niadc his appearance
aud claimed b he the lost son. Frsm his
story Il seems that hc Was stolen by Dutch
captain, WIN carcd Tor him and educated him
M his own.
The boy always supposed that nc was his
iathcr until otherwise informed by the
Dutch skipper on his death-b<3. who gave
Inn, 'iIs resi- fathers name and told him be
ttscti 60 live somewhere ia Cape May county.
n = aIs sealsh herr was rewarded 81
tndInS his latnel slill alive and ! resident
q his former home; hut strange 10 SAY. Dis
fathtg rciesed 20 OWE him. bis belief bcing
suiisM taai bis toy was drowned. Tho snn
had With hIm lhc new sn1ner containing t.a
advertisement Ton his bod which ire D1tci.-
Nan bad preserved. Ii S sid tfsI the
Young msn IS 81 good circars fencts. and rs
started "a his return % his rlscnt home
which ISM Mexico
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-11-13

GEN. u. D. LEooETT, father Of tie Cor
nell student who was killed by falling from
a precipice last week, writes to the Wash
ington Star that his son received the con-
sent Of his parents TO join the secret society
and continues: Mortimer was there Of his
own free will. and with his own chosen
friends. In the ceremonies Of that awful
night, those students had In view Mortimers
pleasure and profit, and no more expecta-
ton Of danger or accident than he had. I
cannot, therefore, find it in my heart TO es-
pecially blame those young men nor Cornell
universitvD
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-11-13

5000 INWARD.


TO oil to whom these presents shall come:
Whereas Il hiss been made known to me that on or
about the seventeenth day Of October A. d. 1874 IN
Leon county In said state, some person persons nn-
he was being conveyed r. the county jail Of rocstono
county, and that he said murdcrerf still large
and fugitvea from justice.
Now, therefore, 4 Edmund j. Davis. 0ossrnor Of
Texas, By virtue Of the authority vested In ne bg the
CONSTITUTION ana laws OF tae State. do hereby CIcf
reward OF six hundred dollars Cor the arrest and daiv-
cry OF the persen persons engaged IN tho hanging
ana murder Of the said John Hose % the sheriff 81
Leon county inside the jail door, said reward to be
paid upon conviction,
In testimony whereof ] have hofounio
fSnAI.l signed my namo and have caused inc great
seal of The Stale 70 be Affixed al the city on
Austin, this seventh day Of November.
A, d. 1873.
EDMUND J. DAVIS.
BY the Governor. Governor
JAS. T. NEwooaB, Secretary Of State
nnsll ia aln
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-11-13

A YOUNG man who processes to have trav.
eled, scys that the only difference in the
WHISTLES of the two principal cities Of Cal
ifornia is that after taking q drink Of Sacra-
mento's chain-lightning you Immediately
make a short cut to the railroad and 90 "a
sleep on the track; whereas, after imbibino
little of San Francisco's bottled insanity,
burning desire to steal a horse aud buggy
takes possession Of you.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-11-13

OsE Of. the wittiest as we'll as one OF
the most brilliant men Pennsylvania, has
produced was the late George w. Bart0n,
Of Philadelphia, who once occupied seat
on the bench, Trying case before a Judge
who was chiefly remarkable for obtuseness,
he took occasion to say that he had often
seen great ass IN judicial robes. 'sYou
speak from experience, I suppose, I" was the
angry retort. mot at all, replied Judge
Barton, Il am speaking directly from ob.
servation. -Hayper's Magazine.
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DRoCLAMATIoN
BY the Governor Of the state Of Texas.
$500 REWARD.


TO all to whom these presents shall come:
Whereas. Il has been made known 10 me that CA or
about the twenty day % August, a. u. i653
IN fannln county, Ia said state. ono IANES ifAN-
BRIGHT did Murder one non BRYANT and st the
said James Hnmhrght Is stiil a large and gltlye
nom justice
Now. therefore. I, Edmund T. Davis, Goytf.or OF
Texas, By virtue Of the authority vested ID no h the
Constitution and laws 81 this SflEe do fcby oiIlr
reward OF I'VE hundred dollars Tor the arrest and tif
cry OF the said James Wainwright to the sheriff ~ an.
min county inside the jail door, said reward a. be paid
upon his conviction.
In testimony whereof, ] have hercunto signed
lSzAL.l my name and have cause the great seal of
the State 20 be ailxcd, 81 the eity of Ans.
this seventh day 81 November, A. D. 1878.
EDMUND j. DAVIS.
BY the Governor Governor
JAS p. NEwcoNn, Secretary OF state.