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DOMESTIC PORTS.
YIN AS'
FERNANDINA-Sld 9th. baroue .Iames Il

FERNANDINA-Sld 9th, barque james Ward,
S1TANNAH~Cld 18th, sch Louisa Wilson. Holt
Jacksonville.
Ar AN; sch Carrie Alice Call, Kennebec.
SATILLA MILLS-Sld 9Th, schs Georgia, Mcclure,
New York; L b French, CULVER. do.
CHARLESTON-Ar 10th, brig G Nichols. Chase.
Matanzas; schs Geo Washington, Sherlock, Baracoa
John Daley, Long. Belfast
wILMINGTON-Ar 10th, sch Stephen G Hart,
FORTRESS MONROE = Passed in nth. baroue
Geo Hunt, NOVEL;, from Cardenas for Baltimore
Passed out 18th. sch Il Prescott, Merriman, from
Baltimore for Bermuda.
BALTIMORE-Ar 14th sch H Odiorne, Crowell,
Sid 10th, ship st Lucie, for San Francisco barque
Stpcker for mr.; brig Proteus for t Morf0 Wbtte
more, Barbados; Redondo. Moore, Lynn.
NEW YORK-Ar 10th, brig Z I; Brown Foster.
Sagua 20 days. Hiram Abif Ilobe,s 40 1 ~ LAYS
lyndon. billiard, Passport; j d Williams, Pierce.
Wilmington; l. A Knowles; Rn nov T Baltimore;
cid 18th. schs A Edwards, Miller, Fernandina;
Scio Smith, Jacksonville.
zas 90 DAYS; brgs Kodiak. Peters, Lisbon, 80 days.
Mary A Chase, Dolan, Matanzas q days; Mary E
Dana, Toothaker. Georgetown sc, Qost part of deck
load resin); schs Frank Howard, Anderson, Para "a
davs: Eyeline. Sawyer, Fajardo PR; Fanny Pike
Robbins, Key West; Eliza B Coffin, Mitchell Port
Caledonia; Jeddie Saunders, Windsor, Ms; S j
Gilmore, Dutch, Belfast; Anna Frye, Smith, Whit
ing; Lavolta, Whittemore, Pertland; j willard
Woodbury., do for Philadelphia; Star. Crowell. and
y ID lngTdHau, IdckaTu tOrLa0Q, Il Benedict,
Crockett. do; David Torrey, Soule, Clark's Island
Blaisdell, Garfield, Kennebec for Philadelphia;
Henry, Merritt, Calais.
Also 17tt, brig Mansanilla Benson, Portland
schs Alaska, Thorndike, do; G W Rawley Rawley
Fox Island for Philadelphia; Mary, Gilc6rist. Bel
FAST Geo II Prescott Mayo. yinalhaven Florida,
Thompson, Spruce Head; j knowles, Knowles,
Machias; Jas Warren, Drisko Calais; Watts,
Watts, Salem; VIM II Mitchell. Cole, Shulee, Ms I;
Kelpie, Bryant, Machas; Gen Howard, Erskins I'm
Gardiner; Pilots Bride, Brewster Fall River; A G
Pease, Dean, Portland.
PROVIDENCE-Ar 10th, schs Lizzie RAYMOND.
Lord, South Amboy; Lucy Allen, Baker, Rockland'
AT l7,h sch Fanny Fern, Eaton, Elizabethport.
Storm Petre Davis New York,
NEWPORT-Sld 10th, schs Siak Sherman Ma
chias; Harry Percy. Percy. Augusta Mary LYNN
brner, French, Fall River for Brunswick Ga; NADIA
gascar, Adams and Franconia. Adams. do for New
YORK MATS Hill. Grant, Salem for New York
PAWTUCKET-Ar 16th sehs Saratoga, Nickerson
Bath: Python, Hale. and L Howay Bryant, Calais.
worth. -
FALL RIvER-Ar 10th, scbs Chas Heath. Warren,
Bangor; Express Latty, Calais; Fannie & Edith,
Ryder, Belfast Hyue. Oliver, Kennebec.
boy.
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The Headless Skeleton.
Interesting Developments in the Lewis
ton Mystery-supposed Identification of
Evidence. u t-srw~r- ev- a -


Mention has been made In these columns of
the finding of the headess skeleton eft wo-
man at Barker's Mills, nea- Lewiston. This
skeleton is supposed to be the remains of
Mary Elizabeth Lowell, who mysteriously dis
appeared from Lewiston in June 1870. Friday
James NJ Lowell, the husband of the missing
woman, was arrested, as has been stated, in
Lowell, Mass, on charge of her murder. We
CLEAN from very full account in the Lewiston
Journal some particulars of the affair.
In June 1870 Mrs. Lowell was doing house
work for Mrs Blood, boarding house keeper
on one of the Lewiston Corporations. Her
husband did not room with her though he
came to visit her frequently. They both had
the tempers of devils, and quarrels were fire.
quent Sunday. June 18th, 1872, Lowell called
for his wife to take her to ride. After that she
was never seen in Lewiston. Lowell called at
her boarding place next day and said he left her
at 10 o'clock the night before. He didn't know
what had become of her, but surmsed she had
run away with a circus employee, of whom,
he said, she seemed to be fond. Some three
weeks after he called for her clothes, but Mrs.
Blood refused to give them up. In few
months he married a Mary Turner and left
Lewiston. Not long since he wrote to his
wife's mother MRS. Burton of Holden, saying
Lizzie (his wife) wished to come and live with
him again, out that he shouldn't permit it.
Mrs, Blood and other women who knew the
missing woman, think the remnants of dress
found on the skeleton are portions of the gar
ments worn by Mrs. Lowell ON the night of the
Sunday ride. The day after the disappearance
some of the corporation girls picked up the fol-
lowing letter: 4sai,
TELL Jimmy he may have all my clothes, for
am going where shall never. see him again.
/ am sorry 1 have done as have. Give all my
things to Jimmy, for am going where he'll
never see me again. Tell j. Ia young lady
was nanedl to kiss Jimmy three times for me-
(Signed,) LIzzY,"
1t is now said that this letter is not in Mrs.
Lowells handwriting, and that she always
signed her name eLizzie." Her sister had
letter shortly after the first one, bearing the
same signature. and asking her to go and get
her things in Lewiston and send them to her.
This letter had neither date nor address.
Some months before the finding of the skel
eton Mrs. Burton (mother of the missing wo-
man),wrote as follows to a lady in Lewiston:
81 dreamed that saw Lizzie in the woods
near Barker's Mills, on her knees, bt gging for
life. Her hands were uplifted and shes was
saying, Don't kill me; don't kill me;' but it
seemed to me that that somebody killed her
and buried her there" D3aErf
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comforting regulations upon others and get
ting none himself Exchanges please copy
-Arcddi0n.
-. 1t may be true that old William Allen OF
Ohio is partially paralyzed, but, as Presl-
dent Lincoln remarked, with regard to com
plants of whiskey being used in the Western
army, we should like to have seen soma OF
the recent Republican candidates afflicted
with a little OF the same kind of paralysis.
IN. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
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II SAGADAHoC COUNTY.
John e. Hutehins of Wiscasset, has been ar
rested in Bath for making an indecent assault
unon a lady of that CITY
Troop. Of Ailments vanquished.

On account of the promptness with which it checks
the fevers generated by unhealthy exhalation, Hos
letters Bitters is considered indispensable fami
ly medicine on the borders of our Southern and
the plough and the for the first time disturb
ing the soudes of nature. Its reputation however,
is not confined to such localities. Wherever the
elements of disease rife is the surest safeguard
of healtn wherever sickness prevails, it is ecacous
a remedy. Among the serious diseases which it is
guaranteed to cont oil are Indigestion, biousness,
and all the minor ailments connected with derange-
ments of the stomach the liver and the bowels such
as heartburn, headache atuence, costiveness, nau-
tion of the heart trembling of the hands noises in the
ears, disordered vision, disturbed sleep, aud mental
inquietude. As these physical and mental disturb
ances tend to general failure of all the powers of
the system, they should be at correced-as they
always may be, by course of Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters. "
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Sid 18th, schs Nellie. French, Baltimore; Julia &
Martha, Lunt. New York.
SOMERSET-SlI 17th, sch Robert Byron. Clement.
for New York..
NEW BEDFoRD-Ar 10th, sch Helen, Stanley,
Calais
VINEYARD-HAvEN-A 18th, schs j & Fl Crow
ley, Crowley. Alexandria for Portland; Eben Fisher,
Reynolds, Windsor Ms for Alexandria.
Sid 18th. schs TeaZer. j II Crowley.
BOSTON-Ar 17Jh, barqne Nicholas Thayer eros
by, Newcastle, e; brig j Devereux, Rich, Balti-
1nore schs Abbott Devereux. Rich do; Angola, Joy,
Elizabethport Flying Arrow, Hammond. and jed
Frye, Collamore, Port johnson: Exeter, Pendleton,
Rondout; Calista. Hall. do Massachusetts, Lewis,
New York; Garland Libby, Machias.
Cid 17th barque Scotland, Rogers. Mobile; schs
S X James, Bissett, and Iris Buchard, Portland;
Lillian, Ryan, Belfast.
AR 18TH schs May Ann. Alley, I'M Flizabethport;
Copy, Treworgy. Ellsworth; Samaritan, Dodge, Ban
gor; Ann Kranz, Purvere, Bath for Baltimore,
leaky. having been ashore in the kennebec liver;
Col Higgins, Deering. Portland.
Cid 18th, sch Davis. Cottrell. Georgetown.
PROFESSIONALISM nth, sch Sarah Wooster, Le-
land, Calais.
Below 10Th, brig Isaac Carver, Williams, Bangor
for Wilmington; sch Willie Martini Blake, Portland
for New York.
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THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, OCT. 20. 1873.

EVERY re sular attache of the PRESS is furnished
With card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
-Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat AMI hote
managers will confer favor upon US by demanding
credentials of person claiming to represent our
Journal, as we have information that several ..bum
mers" are seeking courtesies in the name of the
Press, and we have no disposition to be, even pas
lively, party to such fraud
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IT is said that Judge Danforth would have
dismissed the petition for an injunction to
prevent the Maine Central directors from
on the Kennebec, if he had been able to have
satisfied himself that such structure at that
place would not interfere with the passage of
logs in the river. For that cause he reserved
his decision. m-lA
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"Edo not read anonymous letters and commune
cations The name and address of the writer are Id
all cssesindspensab unnecessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
w cannot undertake to return reserve com
municaUious that are NOT useu.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-20

THE Maine Central railroad carried in
1872, 81 ,035, 900 tons one mile at the charge
of $947 800. The cost by highway would
have been $4,200.000. The use of the rail-
road, accordingly, saved the public $685.
600 in one year, or sum two and half
times greater than the tax levied by the
State of Maine in the same year.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-20

Ii there are any people in Maine consider
ing the project of constructing railway with
wooden rails, they had better abandon it.
Quebec has just learned at serious expense
that the thing is impracticable, and that
money spent in such experiments is no better
than thrown aWay
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-20

THR SWEDISH CoLoNY.-The Pressure Isle
Sunrise devotes over column to the Boston
Journals letter declaring that the Swedish COL
ony is a failure. The article is written in the
usual vigorous style of the editor and shows
that Toby Candor's Informant did not take
time to investigate the condition of the colony,
and drew upon his imagination for part of
his so called facts The Sunrise concludes as
follows:
There is really no more reason to expect that
these people will leave than there is that the
people of Presque Isle or Lyndon will leave
The idea is so ridiculous that it seems ridicu-
lous to answer it. Here is settlement but
three years from the bush, Of 600 people; only
fifteen towns in Aroostook county having a
larger population, and not over eight having q
materially larger one. The State erected for
the first Is families which came very cheap log
houses, not worth over $50 each. These colo.
nists have finished off the log houses built by
the State. and made them worth four times as
much as when they received them. In ad-
dition these people have built ninety other
houses, some of them large. conmodious and
well finished, a hundred barns and other build
ings. Rev. Mr.. Wren, their pastor has a
house in good slate of forwardness, which
when done, will cost and be worth $1,000. They
have cleared more than $500 acres of land,
and are still clearing. They are constantly
erecting new buildings and improving the for
mer ones. Does all this indicate restless, mn
easy and disconnected people, contemplating
removal to somewhere else? Of course it does
not Does not Mr. Wren know the feelings of
his Pensioners? And if he had any suspicion
that they would leave, would he be expanding
MS money in building home for life. OF
course he would not.
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The Comparative Value Of Silver Coin
and United States Currency.

The following data. furnished by DR.. Linder-
man, director of the United States minis, ex-
plain the comparative value of silver coins and
United States currency, both measured by the
United States standard:
Fine silver is worth in gold at present about
125 cents per ounce, making the price of stand
ard silver 900 thousandths fine) 112A cents per
ounce. The weight of two half dollars, as fixed
by law, is SS5 $40 grains, and since $50 grains
Zone ounce troy are worth 1124 cents gold, two
half dollars 1886 $40 grains) are worth 80 10
cents. With gold at 1881, the currency value
of two half dollars is 9S cents. The above cal
culation refers to silver coin half and quarter
dollars and dimes already issued.
For the out-turn from the Mint in fractional
silver coin We will suppose 100 ounces of stan
dard silver to be sold to the Mint at 100 cents
(the existing Mint purchasing rate) payable
in such coin-100 ounces standard silver bull
lion at 1125 cents gold per standard ounce
$112 so; add 81 per cent premium on gold
ESQ 56), which gives as the currency cost,
$I22 O6.
This bullion, if sold to the Mint, would at
the present purchasing rate (12o cents per
ounce standard) return to the seller 81 20, or
So 06 less than cost. 1t will therefore be seen
that, with the old premium at 81 per cent
the price of standard silver must fall to about
109I cents, gold per ounce before it can be
converted at sufficient profit. into coins to
be paid out at their nominal value, and circu-
late coneurTently with United States currency.
Silver built n will go to the Mint for such
coinage whenever it is the best market for it,
1t should be added that these coins are is
sued by the government at the rate of 124 4-10
cents per ounce standard, the difference be-
tween that rate and the purchasing price-120
cents per ounce-being the seigniorage to the
&C 1ernment, the latter manufacturing the coin
on its own account, and consequently defraying
the expense of coinage.
The standard for the trade dollar is 400 grains
or "a 2-10 grains more than two half-dollars,
and is therefore, at the present market rate for
silver, worth about 983 cents in gold, or LOG $40
cents currency.
In all countries where gold is the standard or
measure of value silver coins are overvalued
and of limited legal tender. In Great Britain
the difference between the nominal and intriD-
sic value is about ten per cent, and the recent
coinage laws of Germany. Norway, and Swe-
den and Denmark provide for similar seig-
niorage.
The Latin States-France, Belgium, Swtzer-
land and 1taly-itlso issue subsidiary silver
coinage, the seigniorage being at the present
value OF siver nearly equal to that Of Great
Britain.
Subsidiary silver coins are intended for in
ternal circulation, and not for export They
are not money of commerce, and do not leave
the country OF their issue until expelled by an
inferior currency, as, for instance excessive
issues of irredeemable paper money Washing.
ton Chronicle.
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49, RESERVED SEATS
Army & Navy Union Lectures and Concerts
AT CyTY HALL,

The Committee respectfully announce to the public
that the sale of eserved Seats will take place at
Army and Navy H all III UkSDAY EVENING oct.
Twenty-thrd esd, commencing at o'clock precise-
~. Tickets one dollar for the course and sale of
seats to any one in dividual not to exceed twelve
Inc Hall with an arrangement of settees for form
public. JNO O. RICE W
oc1Ssn5t Cboirnn,n
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BUSINESS CHANGEs.-The following are re-
cent business changes in this State:
Farmington,-G. c. Stewart 8, Co., fancy
goods, dis. ' o'
Lewston.-Bailey & Davis, mems furn'c
goods, sold out to Willard Carver.
Portland:-Edw. & Geo. Nixon, soap mfrs,
dis now Geo. w. s. Nixon
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-20

THE papers which during the past few
weeks have been inclined to believe the DEM
ocratic party dead, have changed their views
since last Tuesday. They believe it may yet
be nursed into a formidable invalid. In view
of this fact the independent young Democrats
who still denounce the ld,eaders, despit4 the
lesson of Tuesday, had better be little more
discreet. They are now suspected prvates
whom their Bourbon chiefs would not think
of placing on picket, but reserve them for hea-
w assaults alone under their own eyes.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-20

THE Dominion thanksgiving takes place on
Thursday of the present week. As the day is
the same on which the Dominion Parliament
meets, it is likely to prove anything but glad
day to the ministry. 1t is however, a matter
of congratulation that one by one our Domin-
ion friends are adapting Yankee institutions
and observances, so that when the Provinces
become States of the Union, the good people
will be fully acclmated.
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FOREIGN PORTS.

Ar at Liverpool 18th inst, ship st Joseph, Colley
st John. NIB.
Cid at Malaga 25th, briggs Ellen Maria, Hoxie, and
Atlas, Powers. New York. t
AR 27tb. sch Mabel F Staples Cole Gibraltar.
Ar at Montevdeo Aug %, brig W Goddard, john
son, st John, M; 10Th, bar1ne Saml B Hale, Mat
thews. Portland, dune 90; Everett Gray, Lorng,
Fernandna; 21st, brig Elizabeth Winslow, White,
Sid Aug 81, barque Jennie S Barker, Waite for
Calcutta; 22d, Clara, for Havana.
Sid I'm Rio Grande Aug "a, Nellie Antrim, Loud,
Ar at Rio Janeiro 9TH ult barque Estella, Loring,
Marseilles.
Prussia, Patten, dsg; Jos Clark Croker, and Sabi
no, Paine, uTc; Zouave Rowell. disg; Emerald Isle,
Blanchard from Guanape tor Hamburg, repg; Ihos
Ar at st Thomas 25th ut, barque Aberdeen, Dun
bar. for Hnmacoa and Philadelphia; Anua NJ knight
Davis, New York. for do and New York; Jeremiah,
Sid I'm Barbados 9th ult, barque Rachel, Buck
nam, st Lucie. ,r
AT Curacao 9th ut, sch Kolon. MeKown, for New
York. ldg.
Ar at Cienfuegos 4th ult, barque Florence Peters,
Branscomb, Philadelphia.
Ar at Cardenas Stb inst, barque Ellen Stevens,
Brown, Matanzas.
Sid fin Mayaguez 10Th ult, barque Andes, Davis,
st John, PR, TO load Tor Baltimore.
Ar at Point Peire 18th ult, sch Azelda & Laura,
Mclndoe, New York: (and sailed 10Th for Baracoa)
In port oath, sch Hattie, McClintock, from Jack
sonville, ar 18th, for New York.
Ar at Port Spain sth nit, schs VIM Conner, Toole,
Bangor, {and sailed Goth tor Bonaiie9
Brnnswiek; Ga; Both, Jennings, Mahoney, from
At Fajardo, PR, 25th, sch Mary Louise Hutehn-
son. ling.
Ar at Nassau MP, 18th ut, sch Louisa Smith, Web
Der. New York.
at st John. NIB, nth, schs Lorne, Flowers FIN
Portland; ID Sawyer, Rogers. JonespOrt.
Cid 18th, sch Mary, Sawyer, Philadelphia
--latest by European steamers.l
Sid FIN Liverpool I'd inst Enoch Talbot, Talbot for
Rio Janeiro via Cardiff
Ar at Ardrossan I'd inst, II Sibley, Colson, from
GreenOck.
Sid FIN Queenstown Sd. I Wilton, Blanchard,
Bremen.
Sid fun Samarang sth ut, Southern Cross Hughes
Batavia.
Ar at Trieste 9th ult, Henry Flitner Diekey, from
New York.
AR at Lisbon 9th ult Rocky Glen, Higgins, New
York.
SID FIN Havre 1st inst, Gen Berry, Levensalier for
New Orleans; Arizona, Conant. Cardiff for NYork.
In Dunkirk Roads 2d inst, Nellie May, Blair, from
New York.
Sid I'm the Texel 30th, Pacific, Johnson New York.
Sid FIN Brouwershaven I'd inst, MOgul, freeman,
for Dordt.
Sid FIN Bremerhaven Goth ult, Eloida Kennedy,
HATCH South America.
SPOKEN.
Aug q. lat II n, Ion 81 w, ship Mt Washington,
from Liverpool for Gallee.
Aug 5, lat 80 s. lon 80 w, ship Winged Hunter,
from Liverpool for Bombay.
No date, Is miles of Cape Henry, barque Jane
Adeline from Sagua for New York.
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NO. 80 EXCHANGE STREET.
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THE WAY TO BE HAPPY.

THE WAY TO BE HAPPY.
Peace to his bones, the first who spread
The soft luxurunt bed,
For mans indulgence given;
Still, as 1 stretch each weary limb,
cast grateful thought on him,
fg And wish him rest in Heaven.
Yet he's ninny, who supposes
That every beds bed Ct roses,
For idle's the conjecture.
The bachelors from bliss debsd
And he finds Hymen's rather hard,
Who hears a curtain lecture,
Would you avoid the noisome din
Of scolding wife and surely win
Her love for you forever,
Go buy WALNUT CHAMBER SET
At NiERRIMAN's Store-Dow don't forget
And you'n regret it never.
au2 sntf
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To the Public.

The Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to AMI
mails respectfully gives notice that AfoNzo r.
LIBBY, Constable whose office is at No 40 Middle
street. Cup stars) has been appointed Agent of the
Society.
The public are therefore requested to give prompt
may to their knowledge, and he viii see TO It
that the offenders are brought to speedy and strict
justice. Per erder.
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