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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-10

come out ahead in the competition with
the iron one, the former has the field and
will keep it. An article in the Boston
Journal speaks Of the improvement in the
shipping interest as follows:
The increased demand for vessels with q
rise in freights which was noticed some
months ago and which caused a revival in
shipbulding in many Of the seaport towns OF
New England, whose shipyards had been so
long deserted, still continues to attract atten-
ton in commercial circles. Wooden ships
are again in request and many enterprising
builders are again commencing business to
meet the growing wants Of commerce. Dur
| ing the past winter many gangs of men have
been employed In the woods cutting timber
while cargoes of southern pine have been
brought north to supply the shipyards with
material for future operations. The dull state
OF the shipping interest for some years past
had so reduced the small stock held in the
various yards that a large quality Of timber
will be required to make up the deficiency
and enable builders to prosecute their BUSH
ness with all the advantage which album
dant supply of materials will give them
The market for ship property was more ac-
tive during the last few weeks than for sever
al years past, and the number of the largest
class of vessels that have changed hands since
the frs. of January in Boston and elsewhere
has been greater than for long period. The
prices obtained on recent sales are fully
twenty five per cent better than could have
been obtained year ago, which shows that
this kind ofproperty has appreciated to that
extent since the favorable turn to better
condition of things took place some months
since. The improvement in prices appears
also TO have been realized in England, where
extensive sales have been made, and we late
y noticed as rare even, the sale of an Amer
lean built slip in that country ut remunera-
tive rates.
The marked activity in shipping Is owing
to the scarcity of tonnage in all the leading
ports, and the present indications are highly
favorable to the future profitable employment
Of all the vessels that are likely TO be built in
the next twelve months. The rates of freights
are firm in almost all directions, and ship
owners who have long suffered from a seri-
| Gus depression OF their interest are abou: &c
realize more prosperous times. Within few
days charters have been made to bring coal
from Philadelphia to Boston at 50 IS to 81
| per ton, and to a certain class ofvessels these
| rates must prove highly renluneratiye.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-10
TIE LOUISIANA RIOT.

The riot in New Orleans appears to have
been the last end of the McEnery organ
ization to gain possession of the State
government. A writer in the Herald says
AFTER it became evident that Congress
would do nothing to settle the Louisiana
difficulty, the fusion leaders generally
came to the conclusion that the only
way to derive any advantage from the
situation was TO use force to establish
1.-THE McEnery administration as the de
"facto government of the State They
"argued, that as it was admitted on all
hands to be a de jure government. 1t only
lacked the clement of possession and
"actual authority 10 force its recognition
lat Washington. They thought that
Grant would not venture to use military
force to suppress q State government
thus established or to support Kellogg,
(which six out Of seven of the members
.'of the Senate Committee had declared
Ito be usurpation and fraud. They
likewise relied on the public opinion Of
1.-The country to sustain them and influence
1.-The administration. To accomplish then
purpose it was necessary to renstate
the judges who had been expelled by the
kellogg Legislature and take possession
''of the police stations of the city
1t was the attempt to take forcible pos
session of the police offices which occa-
stoned the collision. The slaughter would
have been much greater but for the action
Of General Emory and the United States
troops, who promptly interviewed to re-
store and keep peace. The failure Of
this last move Of McEnery is said to have
had a very discouraging effect upon him
and his party. who are censured for their
course, even by some Of their own leading
men, and have evidently lost the popular
strength which they previously had. Kel
logg feels that he is master Of the situa
ton, and that his government will stant
until another election.
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From careful investigation, the New
York Tribune is satisfied that in April or
most universal strike of the woTkmen in that
city. Both employers and employed are ex-
pecting and preparing for it. The manufac-
turers have RETAINED from entering into large
the workmen, by means of their trade organ
nations, are endesyoring to consolidate all
the laboTers into one solid and manageable
body
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GENERAL HE,jS.

The eight wealthiest men in New Orleans
are retired butchers.
a ST. Louis darby attempted to smoke a
cartridge with his tobacco, and was as,onished
at the effect.
There is new woe in store for the unhappy
Goldfish. A machine has been invented for
catching him by steam, and steamers are to
be used to pursue him instead of the old fash
Toned fishing smack
The peach trees have been in bloom for a
week or more in New Orleans, and the fig
trees have put on their leaves.
Nevada pioneers cast bread upon the waters
by exporting hoop poles. which return to
them on whiskey barrels.
A Connecticut editor, having been elected
fence viewer, calls on all who have fences to
bring them to his Office under penalty of law.
An icicle three feet long fell from the caves
of four-story house in Troy the other day,
and knocked mans teeth out.
An Iowa paper proclaims itself an "honest
newspaper" and in another paragraph saws:
when man processes honesy, now. alays
keep your eyes peeled for thief
The Democrats Of the Fifth Ohio District
are holding meetings calling on their Con.
gressional Representative, Lamison, to re.
sign, because he voted for the increase of
salary.
Ten thousand cattle have been fed in Mi.
ami county, Kan, this winter, and yet there
is more corn remaining in the county than ever
before at this season of the year.
The Mayor Of New York has stipulated
with the Irish societies that If st. Patricks
day ia cold or disagrecable, he will review
their procession from the windows of his Of
flee instead Of the steps of the City Hail.
Major Leland has purchased the Grand
Central Hotel at Saratoga from Col. Wolcott
oi the Commonwealth Hotel of Boston, and
VIII run 1t during the comiug season, chang.
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Clippers of horses will have to look out.
Judge Balcolm of the Supreme Court of New
York, in a recent charge to the grand jury,
declared horse clipping to be an indctable
oflense. He said that persons who were in
doubt as to its cruelty could determine it by
dressing themselves in linen clothes and straw
hats and going out TO ride on cold winter
DAYS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-10

Speaker Blaine receives general appause
for the prompt and skilful manner in which,
declining to acceP. the advance for his expr-
ing term, he made the increase Of the Speak
er's salary apply only to tAc future Boston
| Glo5e.
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To the Voters of Augusta.

VII Z,
Augusta, March 8, 1873.
e OF are hereby notified 10 ascend c at your re.
J. spective Ward Rooms on
Monday, March 10, 1873,
at 10 O'Clock A. NJ then and there to give in your
votes for the following officers, viz:
For Mayor, one Alderman and three Couacmen,
Wa den, Ward Cl.rx, and Consta
The Board of Aldermen will be in session at their
Room on Thursday and Friday next preceding the
day OF election, from nine to twelve O'clock A VI .
and on Saturday from ten to twelve o'clock A. n
and from one TO tour O'Clock P NJ, for the purpose
of correcting he list of and for the -everal
W ,ros and receiving evidence Of the qualification
of voters whose names are not on said lists
The polls will be closed at four O'Clock r NJ
L. II. TITCOMB City CLERK.
CITY papers please copy.)
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.T0r Sa!e or tn Net.
HOUSE LOTS FOR SALE.

TEN HOUSE LOTS lying In the hear, of the city
4 OIL Augusta; two on Green street, four front.
ing on Chapel street and four on Tappnn Place,
aeiEis easy For further info, nation INQUIRE of A.
q: Farwell AT house on State street, or of Sam,ie
rltcomb at his Office, west side Water street
Augusta, May 8, 1872 mavS.tf
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RESPONSIBILITY FOR TIE SALARY
BILL.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR TIE SALARY
BILL.
As orr readers know, we have condemned
without reserve the bill for the increase of
salaries, and have not sought to shield any
man or any party sustaining it. We may,
therefore, inquire into the responsibility for
its passage without subjecting ourselves to
the suspicion Of being actua,ed by partisan
motives. The republicans cannot escape
their share OF the odium, but neither can the
democratic. The Times despatch says of the
vote in the House:
On the Anal vote, the roll call was watched
with intense interest At the close the vote
was SO close that very few nays would have
killed it. Learning this, members began to
change their votes ell over the House, and
especially on the democratic side, achere the
honor or dfshonor of haring turned the scale
may fairly be said to reside. The final vote
stood l03 to IS, and when it was announced
sundry boisterous democrats expressed their
satisfaction by cheers and yells.
The despatch to the World, which has ey-
cry interest in shielding the democrats, says
The result was received with applause, es-
peeiatly on the Democratic side, Mr.. Cola
day, OF Tennessee, conspicuously leading of.
OF the result in the Senate, the Times de-
spatch says
The vote show ed that if the democrats had
not generally voted for increased salaries il
would not have been carried. So the respon-
sioihty may be fairly thrown upon them All
the New England Senators present voted
against the increase, as did Senator Conkling
Senator Eenton was not in the Chamber
We have no purpose of seeking to relieve
the republicans who committed the mistake
Of voting for this wrong. But it is evident
from these statements that the democrats
we're at least equally concerned in tie increase
and must divide the censure.
We append an analysis of the vote on this
proposition to increase salaries:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-10

1t will be seen that larger percentage Of
the democrats voted for the increase than o,
the epublicans.-Aljany Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-10
STATE OF MAINE.

LAND OFFICE,
AUGUSTA, Feb. Il, 1873
IN compliance with an order OF Council approved
l FEB ~, 1873, ard under the direction of the
Board TOR the Management and Sale of the Public
Lands OF the State OF Maine, have set apart under
the provisions of chapter Of the revised statutes
OF this state the following townships and parts OF
townships of the public lands belonging to ,his
state to be sold at the Land Office in Bangor, by
sealed proposals, on the hrst day OF September,
1875 viz:
Township No. 8, Ranges
" Mob, Ranged
" No. 8, RangeG
And seven hundred thirty four acres of Township
No. 2 Ranger,
All lying in the County of Franklin and west of
Bingham's kennebec Purchase
PARKER p. BURLEIG Land Agent
mars. .&wtlsepl
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REPORT OF the condition OF the GRAN.
~ ITE NATIONAL BANK OF Augusta,
MnLhe; at the close of business ON the
Ssth DAY OF February, 1873.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-10

- EPORT OF the condition of the Free
IL mans 1SntfOnDi Bank at Augusta.
la Sac state OF Maine. at the close Of busi-
ncss. February 2Sth, 1873.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-10

One Of the large and splendid steamships oithi
line Will leare Pier No AZ, North River, foot of Cana
Street at II O'Clock noon, on the 10TH 20h and 30ti
ofeyery mopta except when those days fall Sun.
day, and then on the preceding Saturday for AS
PlNWALL, connecting, via Panama Railway, with
one OF the CHnpany's Steamships from Panama or
san FRANCISCO. touching at MANZANILLO.
All departures connect at Panama with steamer
for South Pacific and Central American ports.
For JAPAN AND CHINA steamer leaves san
FRANCISCO FIRST of every month, except when it
falls on sunday, then on the day preceding.
One Hundred Pounds Baggage allowed each
adult. H5- Baggage masters accompany baggage
through, and attenu to ladies and children without
male projectors. Baggage received on the dock the
day before sailing, from steamboats,, railroads and
passengers who prefer to send down early.
An experienced surgeon on board. Medicines
and attendance free.
For freight, passage tickets, or further inforua
tion apply at the Company'3 ticket Office the
wharf, FOOT OF CANAL STREET NORTH
RIVER, NEW YORK.
va F. l.. BABY, Agent.
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RESOURCES:
Loans and Discounts sls-j6 a
Oyerdrafts y 10 a.
u =; ooh0s TO secure Circulation 100000 90
Deposits $1,000 co
Other Stocks, Bonds Sc lO01 Oh
y Due from kedeemng and Reserve Agent ll3,41n 80
BANKING House 1900 10
Furniture and Fixtures 500 90
Checks and other Cash Items 6T6 50
isiiis or other National Banks AIS 70
fractional Currency [includnE N!ckclsl 2I2 ca
Legal Tender Notes 1855 "
sj2S .12l IL
LIABt.lTire;
Capital Stock paid In 10000 90
surplus Fund 58,&}J -
Profit and Loss 51Sl a6
National Bank Circulation outstanding Sg,sa5 70
state s." 2liy 20
dividends unpaid 5S6 %
Individual Deposits ls,el5 OF
United States Deposits 1924 7S
Deposits of L. 8. DsburSiug Officers "a ESQ *
Due to National Banks ~ 100 81
S52SJ2l "a
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STATE or MAINE. County oF kernedec, SIS.
/, VIM. L. Johnson, Cashier of the Granite Ma
tonal Bank Of Augusta, do soemnly affirm that the
above statement is true, to the best Of my knowl.
edge and belief.
WI. T. JOHNSON, Cashier.
Subscribed and affirmed TO before me, this sih
day of March, 1873.
TuEo. wEEKs, Sotary Public.
Correct Attest:
ID. ALDEN, directors
III JOHN ii. HARTFORD,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-17
The AbbeviIIe Convention.

Our friends in Pickens announce their deter
mination to be represented at the Railroad
Convention, which meets in Abbeville on the
18th of August. So far as Anderson is con-
cerned, the delegates from Pickens will GER
tainly receive cordial welcome, and we doubt
not that the other counties will be ready to
give our neigbbors patient hearing in the
matter of the Sassafras Gap route, which they
contend is the shortest and most direct line to
the granaries of the West.
We think thai Augusta ought to be included
in the localities represented, and there could
be no impropriety in the people of that city
sending delegation to Abbeville. A full and
free interchange of opinion will assuredly prove
beneficial, and az Augusta is deeply interested
in whatever measures may be adopted towards
furthering the through line, we would like to
see some of her staunch and reliable citizens
taking counsel with their South Carolina neigh
bors in this movement. Will the Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel bring this suggestion to
the notice of its readers, and urge represen-
tation from that city in the proposed consulta-
tion at Abbevillef
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-17
Father RYAN tho Southern noo+ ond

- Father Ryan, the Southern poet, and
editor of the Catholic Messenger at New Or
leans, enters an earnest protest against the
action of General Beauregard in the formation
of the new compromise party in that State.
= The Federal authorities will shortly aban-
don the Citadel buildings in Charleston, as the
State has demanded possession of the property.
The Citadel has been occupied by the Federal
garrison since 1866, and it is thought the sur
render of tie property will be consummated
by the last of August The next Legislature
will determine the future disposition of this
valuable property.
Capt. L. NJ. Coxetter, the we'll known
commander of the steamer Dictator on the
Florida line, died in Charleston on Thursday
last, in the 55th year of his age. He was a
native of Nova Scotia, but had been an hon
ored citizen of Charleston since early manhood.
He was the first Confederate officer to run the
blockade successfully, and to fly the "bonnie
blue flag" in foreign waters.
= The New York Journal of Commerce
thinks it good sign to see both parties at the
Republicans as we'll as Democrats
coming out against corruption, without refer
ence to party lines or party conditions. When
parties thus begin to make sanitary inspec-
ton of their own households, the tendency is
worthy of the warmest encouragement, and
even small beginnings can be accorded praise.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-17
80 Dr II. G. Cooley died at his residence

sr DR.. II. C. Cooley died at his residence
near Browns Ferry, on the Savannah River,
ON Tuesday evening last of congestive fever,
after a short illness. He was native of
Greenville District, graduated in medicine at
the schools in Philadelphia and Paris, and
settled in practice at this place in the Spring
of 1857. Hefetired from the practice of med
icine at the close of the war, and has been
engaged in planting since that time. DR..
Cooley served in the capacity of Surgeon to
the Fourth Regiment S. G. Vols. during the
first year of the war.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-17
= Georgetown and Aiken, South Carolin

- Georgetown and Aiken, South Carolina,
have been made money order Offices
The laying of another cable across the
Atlantic Ocean was completed on the 9th inst.
= The August term Of the United States
Court begins at Greenville on Monday, 4th
proX. :.
"A piece of President Grants handiwTk
as a tanner is being exhibited at the Vienna
Colonel @E. Hill, brother to GeneralA
P. Hill, died Suddenly at Culpepper Court
House, Virginia, few days ago.
Two boys in Boston were scuft1lng tol q
pistol, when one of them was shot through the
breast and the other through the hand.
- The late Jesse r. Grant bequeathed his
entire estate, about S75 600, to his three daugh-
tiers. He left nothing to tie President.
= Miss Mosby, sister of the noted Confed-
crate guerilla, has just been appointed clerk
in the P. O. department att Washington.
All the Virginia crbps look well. The
oat harvest is represented to be the best since
1869, though the area in cultivation is not so
large.
. A special to the New York World says
that Senator Conkling will be rendered the
position of Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court.
"A mass meeting will be held at Jreen-
wood on the 18th of August next to advance
the interests of the Greenwood and Augusta
Railroad.
= Mrs. Charles H. West the mother of the
young man who was murdered in Charleston
on the 4th inst, died of broken heart on
the following Wednesday.
- The coroners ilrk at New Orleans in the
case of the late Judge Cooley, the victim of
the recent duel, returns o verdict of murder
against the surviving participants in the fatal
affair.
- The Montana Legislature, by mistake
in wording the election law, have enfranchised
foreign women who declare their intention to
become citizens, ana exclude native women
from the same privilege.
- The Petersburg Appeal got off the best
thing that was said on the Fourth OF July,
when it announced that the publication of that
paper was suspended in respect to the memory
of American Independence.
= The Edgefeld IAduertiser records the death
of Lod Hill, Esq, which occurred at his resi-
dence on the saldda, on the 5th inst. He was
an honored and useful citizen of Edgefeld, and
was widely know1 throughout the State.
= Hon. Jefersdn Davis has been chosen by
the First Missippi Rifles to serve as their rep
resentative at the convention of the survivors
of the Mexican war of 1S47, which IS to be
held in Washin gton January Is, 1874. MIR.
Davis commando this regiment in the Mexi-
can war,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-17
The Blue Ridge Railroad.

The Charleston News and Courier is urging
the people Of that city to look after their in
terests in the completion of this important
highway, (which for quarter of century
has been tho pet project Of the people of the
State" 1t is sometimes the case that commu-
mites, as well as individuals, slumber too long
over their true interests, and perhaps Charles
ton will be made to realize the melancholy
truth in this Instance. Wehave no antipathies
towards our commercial metropolis, but we
have long ago felt that it was almost useless to
expect progressive measures from that city.
Her railroad connections in this direction have
not been guided by far-sightedness, nor has
their management been such as to. command
sympathy or strengthen natural ties of COM
mercial intercourse. Hence, it is not surp. as
ing that distant communities fail to be i'm
pressed with .heir liberality or energy. We
copy paragraph from the Neos and Courier !:
The intelligent citizens of Anderson, the
eastern terminus of the Blue Ridge Railroad,
see clearly that even the completion of the
road to Clayton will not necessarily be of ben
eft to their town. Their county paper, the
IntctHgeneer, says distinctly that "active meas
ures are already inaugurated to make the line
diyerge at Seneca City, (west of Anderson J
passing through the Fork, and crossing the
Savannah River at Andersonville, thence to
Augusta on the Georgia side," and such a line
would of course be of no advantage to Ander-
son. Still lesb would it be of service to
Charleston. Augusta would reap the benefit
of the millions which South Carolina has
spent in the endeavor to open way to the
West. In the tace of this self-evident fact,
high officials are found in Charleston (not
elsewhere) who say that ''it will be o good
thing for the Blue Ridge Railroad to be sold,
because then it will be completed, and if com.
pleted the fortune of Charleston is made"
We say that its completion aoiN make Charles.
ton great city but only if it be SO completed
as to BE- controlled in the interests Of South
Carolina and Charleston. That is the point
we desire to impress upon the people; espe-
cially now that tie road is thrown into bank
ruptcv.