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RAILROADS,
CO., 80, ,>,n am PACIFIC r. X.

CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC X X.
NB-Au traina In or out Of Rock Island run by
Chicago time-cxcept the Peoria trains, Mhlch run
by Toledo time chicago time II about 10 minutes
aud Toledo about II Minutes faster than ROCK ISL
and time.
Exprcs. AMI Mail, leaves GOA. m. and 10 As p m
Accommodation, leaves at 4:l5 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Express and Mail leaves :A5 o. m and 40 y. NJ
AoooMMoDArIoN TRAIN.
Arrives at Bureau Junction, s;i5 pm
Leaves Bureau junction, 6:i5 a. m.
Day Express and Mail leaving Rock Island at
500 A. m, connects at Bureau Junction for Peoria,
az :a5 p. m. arriving at Peoria at :OQ ,.
Night Express leaving Rock Island at lO:45 p. m.
connects at Bureau Junction for Peoria at 30 m
arriving al Peoria at b.25 a. m.
This road connects at West Liberty with the u.
II. a NJ. X. X. for Burlington and keokuk, south,
and for Austin and St. Paul north.
Connects going east At {. u, q, Crossing, for
Al La sale, with Illinois Central r. r. for Mendoza.
At Ottawa, with Fox River Valley X. L. for Aurora.
At Joliet with e., A. & 81. l. r. Il.
W. 4 G.. II. X.
Al Chicago, with all diverging railways.
CHICAGO AND SOUTHWESTERN R.R.
Passengers for Kansas, Leayenworth and inter
mediate points this Road, take westward train,
of the Chicago, r. /. n Pacific r. X. arriving a
Lcaycnworth at 10 100 a. m. and at II 90 p. IN.
Connecting At Davenport, with ID. 4 st. 7. X. X
for Dc Witt and MaquOkcta
AT Columbus junction, with II. G.. r. & NJ. II. X
for Cedar Rapids, Cedar Falls, and 81. Paul, north
and Burlington and Keokuk, south
Al Fairfield, with u. 4 NJ. X. X. for Burlington.
At Ashland, with Des Moines Valley X. Il. for he
oknk, Otumwa, OskalOosa, Eddyyillc, Grinnel
aud Des MOines.
Al Beiknap, with North Missouri II. r.
Al Cameron, with IL q ST. 10. X. H.
Al Plattsourg, with St. L. n ST. 10. X. r.
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The Fourth Grand Gift Concert authorized h
special act Of the Legislature for the benefit AZ III
Pu9ne Library OF Kentucky, will take place In Pun.
lie Library Hall at Lexington. Ky
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25
The Bankrupt Law.

To the Editor Of the Press:
The bankrupt law is now before Congress-
The newspapers are discussing il, and opinions
widely varient are held erning it. All of
,ur papers, so far a. have seen, have express
ed themselves as opposed to Its repeal, | pro-
pose to offer word on the other side.
A bankrupt is a man who cannot pay his
debts" That is, any portion of his debts. A
debtor, who can pay fifty per cent of his indebt-
edness is not a bankrupt in the just sense of
that word. A bankrupt law is only of value as
it keeps close to this idea 1t will always hap
pen in business, that some men will fail, utter
" fail, and being thus as we say "under the
harrow will always be kept under unless some
remedy he devised in their behalf, And if they
are dtacdyS kept under, many valuable man
will be comparatively lost to the commercial
world. A bankrupt law, thus coming along,
say once in a score of years, enabling these men
by its aid, % lift from off themselves Il Q load
that otherwise they would forever, be unable to
lift, is benevolent and wholesome law
Beyond this no bankrupt law ever yet enact
ed has any real value.
A bankrupt law, designed to operate upon
assets. will, in its administration work evil
oftener rather than good. When man fails
and cannot pay in full but can in part his
creditors and himself working mutually to-
gether, as they will work if let alone, can far
better husband those resources, and apply
them TO the debtors liabilities than any bank
rupt law whatever.
The present bankrupt law starts out wisely
with this idea OF relief, and hence offers very
great nducement to those who hurry up and
avail themselves of its provisions within the
first year; and it keeps true to this idea of re-
lief through all its provisions of voluntary
bankruptcy" Here it should have stopped
Here every bankrupt law should stop din
voluntary bankruptcy enacted into law, is in
opposition to the genius of American insttu-
tions, is harsh and oppressive in its operations,
and in a vast majority of cases its enforcement
will be fraud on somebody.
The practical operation of the bankrupt law
of to-day, is substantially this: First it is held
IN terrorem over the heads of wavering debtors,
and il the debtor moves, he moves as men usu-
ally do under the impulse of fear, wrongly.
Secondly, if he does not move. and the
threats. are carried into execution. and he Is
put into bankruptcy, then this legal engine is
at once reversed in its operations, in turn prov
ing disastrous, not to say ruinous, to the credit
ors; IN fact, beneftting no one except those
who are sufficiently fortunate to be called to
aid in its execution.
No bankrupt law we have ever had, has been
permitted to remain long upon the statute
books. None ever should. No bankrupt law
should be designed to be permanent in its en-
actin ent.
Inc present bankrupt law, having had its
day and accomplished its legitimate work !.
should be at once, Internationally repealed.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25
Current Notes.

Speaking of the Eastern Railroad accident
and the secrecy imposed by the inquest, the
Boston Advertiser says: We think that all
the facts should be known In regard to this
disaster, in justice to the company which had
so carefully provided rules to avert accidents,
and to the public; and we therefore deem
the exclusion Of reporters by the coroner's in
quest serious mistake.
The intimatlons from Washington that the
committee on appropriations mean to see to it
that the hangers-on to unnecessary clerk
ships in the departments are dismissed in this
crisis is cheering. If the good work could be
extended through all the custom houses, pr st.
offices and navy yards in the country there
would be still more reason for rejoicing But
we suppose there is little reason to hope fol
such boon until the principles of govern.
ment reform are more strenuouslv insisted
upon. When 1t ceases to be considered thai
these places are maintained partly to supply
a convenient rendezvous and semblance o.
occupation for the personal dependents Of
Congress, perhaps the expense OF keeping
them up NAV be more in conformity with the
actual amount of work done for the govern.
ment. To this end it is important that the
people keep their attention fixed on the sub
ject, and assert their demand at every oppor-
Junity.-BOst0n Advertiser.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25
News and Other Items.

A country clergyman in Illinois succeeds in
living on ninety cents a week.
California pays 81, OO0,0 900 year to Scotland
for wheat bags
| Alexander the Small is what a venomous
Western paper calls Mr.. Stephens.
| In Oshkosh man has had to 90 to prison for
two years for merely killing his wife.
| A Des Moines paper undertakes to show how
| woman can dress for $50 year.
Memphis hopes to become 'the great radiat-
| ing point for European immigrants.
Strengthening cattle on Sunday has been de-
| clared by an Iowa court to be a work of neces-
sity
According to the State Auditor, Kentucky
has lost over half a million dollars BY default
lug sherfts.
Joseph Arch has repudated America and
| now thinks the English colonies the best
places for the agricultural laborer.
Prince Arthur wanted to 60 see the Asian
tee war, but his royal parent wasn't willing,
and SO he had to sacrifice his ambition on the
altar of fiial affection.
British railway company has decided to
give its signal men S. each for every three
months that they work without having any
charge of negligence proved against them.
The passing over the regular toast to 'sThe
President of the United States" at the New
England dinner in New York, until one of the
branches Of Congress had been toasted was not
good etiquette, certainly whether there was
any political motive in it or not.-B0StOn Jour
nal.
Two men hanged in Franklin, Kentucky, in
1867, and who stoutly protested their innocence
to the last, are now thought to have been I'M
justly executed, Kansas criminal having late
ly confessed himself guilty of the murder for
which they suffered.
It is said that youth of LAesburg, Va, has
made an affidavit that Anna Dickinson once of
tered to marry him. We cannot consent to
young gentleman is fully disposed of, and as
things look now that will take about thou
sand years.-Rochesetr Democrat.
Judge Hagar, who has been chosen United
States Senator from California for the short
term, is Democrat He went from New Jer-
sey, IN the Legislature of which State he served
term. He has been several terms State Sem
ator from San Francisco in which city he was,
at one time. judge of the District Court.
1t is announced that the price of coal for 1874
will open ten cents a ton lower than last spring.
This deduction is not considerable, and will not
affect the retail trade. The companies are ne.
gotiating with iaborers and miners as to the
rate of wages for next year. and are proposing
general reduction of ten per cent
SCHUYLER Colfax delivers temperance lectures
occasionally nowadays, and whenever oppor-
tn 'ity offers he labors for temperance in more
practical way. Recently he found man dead
! drunk in front of his residence, and, hiring
conveyance, took him to bis home, couple of
miles distant, after large amount of trouble
oy way of inquiry as to the place of the mans
residence.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25
United States Mail.
M A IN E.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT,

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
WASH NGToN, Dec. LIST, 1873.
DR0POSALS will be received at the Contract OF.
i flee Of this Department until o'clock p. m. OF
March 2, 1874 TO be decided by the 2Oth) for carry
to June 80 s1 on the following routes in the State
of Maine ami by the schedule Of departures and ar
rivals herein specified, viz:
222 From rom. Union l, to Appleton, miles and back
Leave Uaion tuesday. Thursday, and Satur-
day at II m;
Leave Appleton Tuesday, Thursday, and Sat-
Arrive at Union BY 4.sopm;
Proposals for six-times-a-week service invited.
and back, once a week.
Le.ye Danforth Saturday at am;
Leave Forest City Saturday at 12m:
Arrive at Danforth by m.
224 From Columbia to North Columbia, 4 miles and
blck. three times a week.
Leave Columbia Tuesday, Thursday. and Satur-
Arrive at North Columbia by2pm;
Leave North Columbia Tuesdap, Thursday, and
Arrive at Columbia by $50 pm.
225 From Presque Isle to Salmon Brook, II miles
and back, twice week.
Leave Pressure Isle Wednesday and Saturday at
Arrive at Salmon Brook by 12m.
Leave Salmon Brook Wednesday and Saturday
Arrive at Presque Isle bySpm.
226 From North Milford to Greenfield, ten miles
and bark, twice a week.
Leave North Milford Monday and Friday at
Tam;
Arrive at Greenfield by 10 q m;
Leave Greenfield Mon lay and Friday at II m;
Arrive at North Milford by D m.
2H From Waldob, trough. by East Jefferson to JEFF
ferson, II miles and back, three times week
Leave Marlborough Monday, Wednesday and
Friday at p m;
Arrive at JEFF 7rson by $50 IN;
Leave Jefferson Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
Arrive at Marlborough by 1890 m.
Propos ais for six-times-a-wsek service invited.
228 From East Blue Hill to Surry, six miles and
back once a week.
Leave East Blue Hill Saturday at am;
Arrive at Surry by Gam;
Leave Surry Saturday at ~ m;
Arrive at East Blue Hill by p. m.
Thecontracts are to be executed and returned to
the Department by or before the LIST dan of June.
1874 otherwise the accepted ac be Considered
as having foited, and the Postmaster Central naav
proceed to contract for the service Nth other parties
according to tdU.
For forms of proposal. guarantee and certificate.
and also for instructions to the cond itons to be
embraced In the contract, &C., advertiser mt of
Aug 81 1872. and Dec. LIST, 1873, inviting proposals.
for mail service in Maine and New Hampslire to he
found at the principal post offices.
Bids should be sent in sealed envelopes supe-scrib-
ed Mail proposals. State of Maiue'' and Addressed
to the Second Assistant Postmaster General
ii. A. j. CRESSWELL,
uoZ5 1aW6W Postmaster General.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

ECONOMICAL CHANGES ON THE Boston AND
MAINE RAILRoAD.-Unti, very recent day the
Boston and Maine Railroad, for the purposes
of running its trains, has been divided into
three sections-the first section terminating at
Lawrence, the second at Exeter aud the third
at Portland. Trains destined east of Lawrence
have changed locomotives at that point, while
those going beyond Exeter have also taken .
fresh engine Under this division ten locomo-
tives were REQUIRED daily to run the train, be-
tween Boston and Portland Now Superin-
tendent Furb-r has divided the line into two
sections, making Exeter the terminus, the CEN
trail poiut for leaving and taking locomotives
The engines which formerly stopped at Law
renee now run through to Exeter, thus disppns-
ing with two. and reducing the number in daily
service to eight machines Mr.. Furber has re-
oehs'y introduced upon two LOGON )tives valu-
s5 ana economical Improvement. STYLED a
Iee9-wa.er heater, by which great slving is
made III lhe amount of coal consumed. The
apparatus consists of a coil of pine piac,d IN
side the snoke-stack and Connected witb the
pump which supplies the boiler. The coid no u"e
ter from the tender passes through ths &c
and il heated by the exhaust steam and p' ~.
spent b eat from the flues The apparatus has has
been 10 operation on the locomotive Saxon for
some time, and makes saving of 1900 pounds
of coal daily.-Boston Journal
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

For President Of the Senate, tbera are two
Candidates. Hon. j. E. Butler of York, aud
Hon. h. IL. Burgess OF Cumberland, while Ger
tain parties who have interests, believing that
it is impossible to defeat Mr.. Butler with Mr.
Burgess, since it IS conceded that the State will
not organize its entire Legislature with officers
from the same precise locality are endeavoring
to bring forward third candidate in the per-
son Of Hon. e. f. Webb Of Eennebec, to draw
enough off from Mr. Butler to defeat him. We
are authorized by Mr.. Webb to state that he
supports, and shall vote for Mr. Butler, and
will not allow his name to be used in any way
against him. -Biddsjord Journal.
Mr.. Burgess desires us to state that with
relation to the above, it is by no means nee
essary to concede that the presiding officers
of both branches will not be chosen from tn 9
same ''precise locality" this remains to be
proved. The two candidates for the presi-
dency of the Senate, do not reside at suffi-
Gent distance apart to make the question of 10
callty alone off great importance. Both reside
III the extreme western portion of the State,
both are in the same Congressional District,
their residences are only fifteen miles apart
and their local interests must be quite similar
As for the movement said to be made'sby Ger.
tain parties having interests 'in favor of Mr..
Webb OF Kennebec, Mr.. Burgess states that its
extent is entirely unknown to him, the only in,
formation he has of it having come from the
editor of the Journal.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

A BosToN philanthropist, Seth Adams by
name, among various benefactiops to his
suffering fellow-creatures, provided in his
will for the endowment of "The Adams Ner-
vine Asylum" for the care of the debilitated,
nervous, and hypochoudriac. 1t is strange
that this unfortunate class has never before
been provided tor, and even pow the envious
relatives Of the philanthropist are trying to
contest the will by proving that the testator
was insane. They contend that no member
other family would do such a benefcent
thing for his fellow-creatures if he was in his
right mind.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

portion of the Western Hemisphere. This Almanac
has been issued regularly at the commencement of
every year for about oneffth Of Get fury. 1t COM
bnes with the soppdest practical advice for the pres
ervation and restoration of health ge amount of
III erestng and amusing light reading and the cal
endar, astronomical calculations, chronolos ical
items etc., are prepared with great care and will be
found entirely accurate. The issue of Hostetter's
Almanac for 1874 will probably be the largest edition
of medical work ever published in any country.
The prOprietors Messrs. Hostetter & Smith, Pitts
burg, Pa on receipt of two cent stamp, will for
ward copy by mail to any person who cannot pro-
cure one in his neighborhood.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

IHE fuller details which have been received
respecting the sinking of the Vile du Havre,
'eau 10 the painful conclusion that this ocean
pa'ace was deficient in boats and life saving
apparatus 1t all the ships boats had been
serviceablc, she had, by the statement Of the
once's ou' lhcans TO save $50 of the 313 of
those on board. As to life preservers, COM
paratively few were to be found and
these were IN an out of the NAV
place. The simple fact, that of the 81 saved
80 were officers and crew of the ship, indi
Gates the lack Of discipline among the crew.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25
THURSDAY MORNING. DEC. %. 1878

EVERY re 1ular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with card certificate countersigned by Stanley 4.
Pulien, Editor. All railway, steamboat ami hote
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials ofever person claiming to represent oul
Journal, we have information that seyera. .bum.
mers'' are seeking courtesies in the name of the
Press and we have no disposition to be, even pas
lively, a party to such fraud
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25
To the Public.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails respectfully gives notice that ALoNzo H.
street, Cup stairs) been appointed Agent of the
Society.
The public are therefore requested to give prompt
information to him of any cruelty to animals that
may come to their knowledge and he will see to it
that the offenders are brought to speedy and strict
justice. Per order.
ap29 sniff
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

WE do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address the writer are in
all cssesndspensab e, necessarily for publication
but AZ guaranty good faith.
W. cannot undertake to return or reserve com
munications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

STATE OF MAINE
CUMBERLAND IS.
Office OF County Commissioners Of
Cumbe land County.
Portland. Dec. nth, 1873.
To Joshua Converse. ESQ.,, of Rollingsford, in the
State Of New Hampshire.
VOU are hereby notified that upon your petition
= for estimation Of damages sustained by you in
depsburs railroad, over your land in the town Of
Baldwin in said county, which petition was filed
ninth day Of February, A. d. 1872; said Commits
soners have placed their report upon file in this Of
ice, and that said Commissioners have estimated
IL pecuniary damages sustained by you, by reason
OF said location. at the sum Of two hundred and if
teen dollars (S216.0C),
said Report ia dated May 30th, 1873.
Per order Of the County Commissioners of the
County of Cumberland.
w3t-52 D. W. FESSENDEN, Clerk.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25

IMITATION LOSING GRoUND-The Washing
ton special of the Boston Globe says that care
full experts and observers of financial leg
islative teno ences assert that the present fur
~ over expansion, resumption, free banking,
ETC., will resolve itself iuto an acceptance by
Congress of the reissue definitely of the S44-
100000 of legal tender reserves; $2O,000,O0o
have been issued already, and the wants of the
Treasury will use the other $24,0O0,OO0 by the
first of May. All parties seem agreed to ac-
cept this expansion as inevitable. The legal
tender volume will then be $500, ZOO, 900. Eas
tern influences, it is asserted, are prepared, in
addition to this reissue, to yield an additional
$4,000, 600 to the national banking currency
1t will be remembered that the act of July -.
1870, provided for an addition to the South and
West of $54 ,000, 900 circulation. This has been
issued In addition, the law provided that
So, 000. 600 cir ulatiOn was to be taken from
States having it in excess and redistrbuted on
the basis of the last census, as to population
and wealth. Owing to the absence of redemp-
ton facilities, this has been found impractical
ble Controller Knox proposes repeal OF the
provision.
be added to the currency to Offset this repeal
altogether. This will expand the currency to
the amount of $69, 000, 600. As to other finan-
cial matters the intcrconvertible bond propo-
sition is undoubtedly possessed OF considerable
strength, but certainly not enough to pass any
measure. The banking system, with the or
binary bond as security, is stronger than the
Kelley Butler plans. A law will probably be
passed prohibiting the payment of interest on
deposits. Vigorous efforts viii be made to Sc
cure some practical plan of redeeming the
National Bank circulation by The establish
ment Of an agency in New York. Repre-
sentative uprriam's plan seems to meet with
most approval; it requires the banks to keep
i've per cent Of crcn .ation of the Sdb-Treas-
ury, and the withdrawal of mutilated notes
from cure ncy received As an evidence of
conservative tendency. attention is drawn to
the fact that, on its Finance Committee, the
Senate placed Mr.. Fenton, q decided contrac-
ZIONIST in place of Mr.. Ames, a decided ill.,
f1ationisf
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25
THE annual meeting Of the Maine Editors

and Publishers Association will be held at
Augusta on Thursday January 22d,
at seven O'Clock in the ev.niug and con-
tnue through the next day. The principal
topics considered will be the ranking privi-
ieee as it relates to Journalism and the pre-
payment of postage on newspapers ETC.. at
the ONCE OF delivery. On Friday evening the
association VII be entertained by Gov. Ding
ley then to be) at the Augusta House.
The Portland daily press., 1873-12-25
A Manual Of He,lsh

The edition for 1874 of the sterling medical annual
known as Ho-tetter's Almanac Ia now readv and
may be obtained free of COST of druggists and gem
era country dealers in all parts of the United States
ana British America, and indeed In every civilized