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The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04
C. W. CTS "COrrectOry."

To the Editor Of the Press:
My impression in regard to the Attorney
General was derived from my recollection OF
the manner in which he persisted, in all three
of his reports on legislation giving husband
and wife the right to testify against each other,
and also on more circumspection in taking
criminal recognizances. Perhaps made my
statement too strong, siuce the rule of evidence
to which he objected, stands in the wav OF con-
victing other criminals besides murderers, and
is NOT therefore. one of the special favors shown
to them alone. But surely G. w. o. mere
negative evidence in regard 10 the Attorney
Generals opinions is not sufficient to remove
the impression created by the spirit his reports
that he IS far from desiring to facilitate the es-
cape of murderers from justice, however much he
may be opposed to capital punishment. As for
the matter of Thorne, if his pardon was favor
ed by the opponents of capital punishment as
class, 1t was because his case was unmistak-
ably one ct those where punishment has done all
the work that it can do or is expected to do, by
those who look upon penitentiary discipline as
rational system designed to effect definite OBJ
ject-it had reformed the criminal A brutally
ignorant boy, under the influence of a wicked
WOtudL, Hdu CoIUiulttcu StCdo OliihCs Lis III
prsonment had given him intellectual and NOR
al instruction, and taught him to labor He
had become sober, industrious and fairly in
telligent man, who, after spending the lifetime
of a generation in prison, gave all those proofs
of thorough and sincere amendment which can
possibly be obtained without those interme-
date prisons which pententiary science regards
as so important in practically testing the reali-
ty of professed reform. The conduct of the
petitioners for Thorne's pardon was entirely
rational, and ought not to iden tify them with
those who clamor for wholesale indscriminate
pardons, on grounds of compassionate feeling
or having respect to the social standing of the
criminal and his friends
By the way, if Judge Goddard will take the
trouble to look into John Stuart MilPs recently
published autobiography, he will lind that the
word 'ssentimentalist" was curiously enough
first applied by Mill and other disciples of Ben
than, the father of modern utiltarian philoso-
ply and the pioneer in scientific theories Of
government law an" society, and especially of
prison reform, to their opponents! Bentham,
more than any other man, originated those no.
lions that have since been put in operation by
the opponents of capital punishment and other
prison reformers. With so clear proof against
them of having stolen their best thunder, sub
NIT it to Judge Goddard as q legal question,
whether the friends of capital punishment are
not justly liable to indictment for grand lar
ceny. Frankness, however, compels me to say
that Mill himself did not continue a consistent
Bsnthamite through his entire life, for while he
was in Parliament he made speech against a
molten to abolish capital punishment.
TROMPE LA-MORT.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04

ENHANCEMENT OF THE INSANE HOSPITAL
The Special Committee acting under resolve
passed last winter relating to new Insance
Hospital have submitted majority and minor
ity reports, the former signed by VIM. p
Whitehouse and Josiah G. Coburn, and the lat
ter by N. G.. Hichborn. The majority report
recommends the adoption of the pavilion plan,
and asks for an appropriation Of 100000 for
the construction of a building which it terms
ga department for females of the Maine In
sane Hospital" The location recommended is
within seventy-fve rods of the present hospi-
.ai' The minority report recommends what is
H known as the cottage family plan, and calls for
@Ao'ooo 70 be appropriated for the building of
group Oh nve cottage houses on the present
siounus. IN the majority report lit is repre-
sented That Massachusetts, with population
OF about 100000, has hospital accommoda.
tons for 1900 insane, or at the rate of oho,,t
one and third TO a thousand. Maine with
population of 627, 900, has hospital accommoda-
tons for only $50 insane, or at the rate If a
little more than one for every thousand. The
present Maine hospital was only designed to ac-
commodate $50 patients. During the past wear
there have been crowded within its walls 416
patients, and the Commissioners predict that
the number demanding treatment before the
expiration of another half century will reach
six hundred.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04
News and Other Items.

Equal rights are permeating Michigan socie-
ty, and white Democrat has been arrested for
forging note ON a colored man.
The Iowa Senate is heavy body. The fifty
members kick the beam at 1927 pounds, an
average of 170a pounds per Senator.
The inequalities of the electoral system in
Great Britain are still so glazing that it appear
ed during the recent session of Parliament that
there are eight constituencies in the country
with an aggregate If 1910 voters which have
the same representation as eight others with
$4,000 voters.
In reply to the protest of the Louisiana bond
holders against the funding scheme, Governor
Kellogg makes the statement that g., 000, 900
worth of bonds, mostly held by the signers of
this protest, was issued by his predecessor to
the Chattanooga Railroad without adequate
consideration to the State, and that two and a
half millions worth of these bonds were issued
in the night and hurried out of the State on a
special train there being no record of them in
any office in the State. He claims that many
holders of the meritorious bonds have isignifed
their acceptance of the scheme.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04
The "CorrectOr'' still Uncorrected and
Impenitent.


To the Editor Of the Press:
In yesterdays PRESS, my friend "F. N. D."
an able and active member of the Executive
Council, very courteously attempts to correct
the closing sentence of my communication of
Monday wherein I said, Sand one of the last
acts of Gov. Perham was the pardon of another
capital offender, after life imprisonment of
five years." Thereupon 'F N. d." proceeds
to say: "Such was not the fact. The man was
convicted of another crime; and the only sem
tence the law then neutrality-suspicious.
for life-was imposed. Since then the law has
been changed" &c.
Shakespeare says:
'''Tis conscience that makes towards of us ALL
And like the overmodest young lady in the
classic tale, "the case he is thinking of is not
the case was speaking Of"
The Honorable Councillor" another oppon-
ent of the gallows, who is serving his third
year, has been concerned, it now seems, in help
ing Gov. Perham pardon more ''life sentences
than I, in my simplicity, had suspected. His
conscience evidently calls to mind some of
the recent rape pardons, while 1 alluded to til
early release of ''cdpital offender
He only remembers somebody who was s,n-
fenced to perpetual imprisonment but in fact
served out what statistics show to be about the
average length of s'life sentences in New Eng
land-fve years, while the man bear in mind
was sentenced to death. In the case no 70
me mbers he says the judge who pronounced
sentence recommended his pardon, while in the
case remember, the sentence was pronounced
by myself Gov. Chamberlain finally commut-
ed that sentence to imprisonment for life, and
Gov. Perham and his Council, less than four
years after, set him free, without any interior
ence on my part one way or the other.
1 have not undertaken to express any opinion
upon the wisdom or expediency of the action of
either Executive, but repeat what 1 did be-
fore, that the action of Gov. Perham, aud his
Council is in flat contradiction of 'Tromp lie
Morte' s, assertion that the opponents of capital
punishment inMane are opposed to the pardon
of capital offenders and are in favor of greatly
restricting executive pardons.
Right or wrong, they are not content with
saving capital offenders from the gallows, but
as soon as they have succeeded in getting their
sentences committed to their favorite penalty,
imprisonment for life" they then begin with
some courage, the work of settiug them at large
by second exercise of the pardoning power, and
that on so wholesale a scale, that Councillors
of the ability and accuracy of my friend stF.
N. D." forgot particular cases within sixty
days.
1 wish "F. N. D." would for once make
clean breast of it and let us know how many
more s'life sentences were pardoned during
the closing months of the last year, for the sta
tistics would be valuable to writers of the
Tromp-le-Morte school, CW.G.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04
Senate Stationery.

several weeks since we repeated state
ment of the Boston Advertiser relative to the
expenses of the United States Senate and the
material used by the senators, embracing gold
tooth picks, wedding envelopes, gold pens,
tooth brushes, soap, sponges, etc. On Mon
day of last week, some senator fell upon the
article of the Advertiser and read from it to
the Senate. Quite a debate followed from
which may be learned that the articles above
mentioned are sold to the senators or rather
charged to them against the $l25 allowed
for newspapers and stationery. All that can
be said against the Senate stationer's store is
that his stock is too extensive for the good of
the traders outside OF the capitol, and may Of
fer temptation to the inexperienced sena-
tor to expend his $125 in useless knick knacks
when it should be laid out in newspapers.
The Senate has taken this view of the case
and hereafter, the stationery clerk will only
offer to the senatorial purchaser plain paper,
pens ink and mucilage. Perhaps he will keep
the eighty-two pounds of sponge, for this ar
ticle, Senator Morrill, of Vermont says, is
needed to cleanse the marble steps and halls.
oS PuOiiS VIII esioO DO Siou W iOoAh ohoo oAlO
members of the Senate pay for their own
horse car tickets.
One statement of the Advertiser, however,
demands a correction On its part as it does
the Senate great injustice, and that is the one
made in the same article which in round
bers, made the expenses of the Senate $780,
00Oin 1872 and 81, 900, 900, in 1873. The I'D
Uertiser was led to make this mistake probably
by hasty examination of the report OF the
Secretary Of the Senate, who by law was re-
quired to make his account ofexpenditures to
conform to the fiscal year which euds June
Both instead of December Both as had been
the custom of that official. The first year of
the change was 1872, consequently the Secre-
tary made his report of estimates and expen-
ditures for the last six months Of the year,
for which period the amount was $47O,0
In 1873 the expenditures were given for full
year and were about million dollars, which
period included the long session.
Had these statements appeared in the coll
umns of a less responsible journal than the
Advertiser, they would not have been credit
ed but sanctioned by SO eminently fair and
candid newspaper, they have doubtless Great
ed a painful impression in the minds of thou
sands of intelligent people.
The worst thing about such representations
is that when people get an idea that the best
journals make random statements, the infu-
ence of the press to correct abuses and aid
reform is irreparably impaired if not entirely
destroyed.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04
SPECIAL NOTICES.
lime Tests The Merits OF All Things.

THIRTY YEARS is certainly long enough time to
prove the efficacy of any medicine and that the Pain
Killer is deserving of all its propretors claim for it is
amply proved by the unparalleled popularity it has at
tanned. 1t is sure and effective remedy 1t is sold
in almost every country in the world needs only
be known to be priced and its reputation as med
icne Of Great Virtue is fully and permanently estab
lished. 1t is the great Family Medicine of the age
Taken Internally. it cures Dysentery Cholera Dar-
rhea, Cramp and pain in the Stomach, Bowel Com
plant, Painters Colic Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia,
or Indigestion Sudden Colds Sore Throat and Coughs
Taken externally, it cures Bruises, Bois, Felons
Cuts Burns, Scalds, Old Sores and Sprains Swelngs
of the JOINTS Tcothache Pain in the Face Neuralgia
and Rheumatism, Chapped Hands, Frost Bitten Feet
SC.
Pain is supposed to be the lot of poor mortals as
inevitable as death, and liable at any time to come
upon us. Therefore, it is important that remedial
agents should be at hand to be used on emergency,
when we are made to teel the excrucatng agony of
pain, or the depressing influences of disease. Such
remedial exists in Perry DAVIS "Pain-Kiler" the
fame of which has extended over all the earth.
Amid the eternal ices of the Polar Regions or beneath
the ntolerable and bnrning suns of the tropics its
virtues are known and appreciated. And by it suf-
ferng humanity has found relief from many of its ills
The effect OF the Pain Killer upon the patient when
taken internally in of Cough Cold Bowel Com
plant Cholera DysenteIy and other affections of the
system, has been truly wonderful and has won for it
name among MEDICAL preparations that can never
be forgotten. Its success in removing pain as ex
ternal remedy in of Burns Bruises, Sores and
Sprans, Cuts Stfngs of Insects, &c., and other causes
of suffering has secured fort the most prominent po-
sition among the medicines of the day. Beware of
TT
Davis Vegetable Pal l-Killer, and take no other.
nH- Sold By Druggists and Grocers. fe3eodSw1m
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04
The Foremost Tonic of the A &c.

Taking into consideration the character of is
vouchers the history of its cures and its immense
annual sales, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters may be
fairly entitled the Foremost Tonic OF the Age 1t is
not only tonic but constitutional and local alter
alive, and its tendency is to substitute healthy for
diseased action throughout the system If the stom-
ach is feeble and torpid produces vitalizng i'm
preston upon its mucous tissues. No sooner has the
dyspeptic swallowed dose Off than he knows by
his sensations that his stomach has received on
of vigor. 1t increases the desire for food and the
ability to digest and assmate it. If the liver is der
ect it improves the condition of the organ and i'm
parts to 1T new and healthful impulse The bowels
being obstructed it promotes the flow of bile into the
intestinal canal and thereby relieves them and
tabshes their natural action. Its effect upon the
blain the nerves and the kindneys equally saluta
tory In short, it tones, alters and regulates the
whole system.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04
STATE NEWS.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY

ANDR0SCOGGIN COUNTY.
The City Council of Auburn have appropri-
ated $4,000 to build new grammar school
house.
Sixteen thousand dollars has already been
subscribed to the stock of a cooperative shoe
mandatory in North Auburn.
The Lewiston Journal reports that one Con-
MOI, prisoner about to be put on trial, escap-
ed from the court room Monday afternoon, BY
mixing up with the crowd.
The Journal says the Auburn Council has
settled the salaries of the city officers for the
next official year as follows:-Mayor, 5000; Au-
ditor, $50; City Clerk, $3.50; City Treasurer,
$3.50; Assessors, $3.50; Overseers of Poor, $3.50;
Street Commissioner, 5000 reduced from $1,000
experimenting School Committee, $500; Clerk
Common Csunci $40; Liquor Agent, $500;
firemen of steamer, $50; steward of steamer,
Co., 1926; steward Of Excelsior Engine Co,
$50; Chief Engine r, $50 The salaries are to
be paid half semi-annually.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The spring term of the Eastern State Nor
NAL School will begin on Monday, Feb. 23d and
continue fourteen weeks.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Col Masters of Hallowell, has superintendent
the printing of the" Maine Farmers Almanac"
for fifty years.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
Durleign is DEAD. SEND hearSe by train to
Skowhegan, Wednesday," was tha despatch
that startled placid gentleman of Raaear ana
day last week. In a few minutes he recOllect-
ed that he had horse at work in the woods
and that Burlegh was his name. He sent an
other horse to Skowhegan, which answered
every purpose, says the Wing.
The Wing says there is so large an amount
of anchor ice in the Penobscot, between Bangor
and Brewer, that WHEEL the tide is out the sur
face of the ice in the middle is much higher
than near the banks.
A remons trance against the granting of a
charter for a railroad bridge across the Penob-
scot river at Verona. is in circulation for Sig
natures in Bangor, and a special meeting of the
City Council has been called with a view to in
structing the Representatives in the Legislature
to oppose the proposed charter.
IN GENERAL.
Patents have been awarded to Maine citi-
zens as follows:-S. L. Gould, Gardiner, sbelt
tightener''; N. Tenney, Portland, "powder
key Chas. F. Washburn. Portland, ''bllliard
register #. Leyford, Augusta, ''clothes dryer !;
9. s. Weber, Bangor; 'svalve for railroad
tanks'
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04
Explanation.

To the Editor of the Press:
1 have reason to believe that have been
misled as to the case referred to by c. w. G.,
and that my statement will not, in all points,
apply to the pardon be had in view. In any
event, it was not a murderer that was par
doned; and, as that was the fact desired to
make most prominent, the error was led into
is of little consequence. END.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04

The public will watch with some interest
the attempt of DR.. Dio Lewis and his asso-
ciates to stop rum-selling by holding prayer
meetings in rum shops. 1t is a novel remedy
for the greatest curse to society and may sue
coed where other agencies have failed.
Doubtless the persistent efforts of large
band ofpraying people can make it very disa-
greeable for the average grog seller, but he is
tough customers vertable pachyderm with
out a particle of sentiment, and can stand a
great deal of annoyance. We fear that he
will prove too many for DR.. Lewis and his
friends
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04

MONDAY night large and influential
meeting was held in Boston to protest against
the action of the School Committee in GUST
ing the ladies elected to places on the board
at the last election. Men of both parties and
of influence, discussed and condemned the
action of the majority of the Committee.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04

So we are to have an investigation of the
affairs of the District of Columbia, and WASH
ington correspondents say that the Commit
tee is one that will make thorough work of it,
That is what is demanded. A political party
is responsible for the wrong-doing of those
whom it puts in power only so far as it
shields them. 1t is possible that there has
been no wrong-doing by District officials: if
not, so much the better for them. The truth
can only be aseertained by thorough inves-
tigation. "Boss Shepherd" appears very
cheerful at the prospect, while Congressman
Eldridge (Democrat4 who has long been a
member of the District Committee, declares
that committee of angels could not satisfy
the Washington carpers. In passing, it may
be suggested. that committees of that character
would be out of place in so nice place as
even Washington is represented to be.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04

IT looks as though Mr.. Gladstone and the
Liberals are making sufficient losses in the
Parliamentary elections now taking place in
Great Britain to give the Conservatives with
the 'Home Rule' members in Ireland, ma
jority in the next Parliament.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04

Cid at London 10th ult, Ellen Goodspeed, Otis, for
Cardiff.
for Martinique.
Ar at Dublin 18th ult, Humboldt. Drummond, from
AT at Auckland. NJ. Oct &c, Gemsbok, Bunker, for
AZ at Newcastle, Nsw, Nov Goth, Madawaska,
Smith. Melbourne. (and sid Dec LIST for singapore);
3Oth Flying Eagle, Crowell, Melbourne.
Ar at Sourabaya Dec 8, Henry Buck, Blanchard,
Samarang.
Falmouth e.
Sid FIN Calcutta Dec 20, Nonantum, Knowles, for
Boston.
Sid I'm saugor Dec 8. Mt Washington, Titcomb, tor
Ar at Bombay Dec %, Limerick Lass, Yeaton. I'm
Singapore.
Sid I'm Gale Dec 81, Zouave, Rowell, Rangoon.
Ar at Bordeaux 18th ult, Anna Walsh, Lawrence,
New Orleans.
SPOKEN.
Jan &c. lat q 81 ion So TO- sch Annie Murchie from
Philadelphia for Porto Rico, Is days out.
Jan 49, on Cape Clear. ship Dauntless, from San
Francisco for Liverpool.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04

memphis IS now indeed a stricken citv She
mas nad IN turn the epzootici cholera su.I,
pox, yellow fever, diphtheria, carnst. ha sinai
and scalawags, and now, to cap the c,;,sss
comes anegro police. And this. too :.
chosen home of JEFF. Davis. :" 'ne
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04

QULP says that so far as he can judge
from the communications in the papers, capt.
tai punishment and lobster legislation are the
exciting topics at Augusta. He takes the
most interest in the latter as practical
economist.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04

AMONG many remarks yesterday, respect
ing the weather, we do not remember of any
one who recalled the fact that it was an open
winter, or one who was cheerful over the
prospect of May weather in March.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04

A REDUCTION of the public debt for the
month of January is surprise after the ex-
perience of the past two months.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty OF good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
munications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04

NEW YORK advices state that business is
looking up and there is a prospect for a issfr
spring trade.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04

Seventy-five per cent. of the sickness of
New York, and probably ninety per cent of its
crime, comes from the tenement-house popula-
6sn.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04

any, shall be entitled, in equal parts, to one
tenth of the net proceeds, or, if there be no in
former, the selling officer shall be entitled to
the whole of such one-tenth. 4. That provis-
ION may be made for special fund, to be ap-
Piled under suitable restrictions, to the COM
pensation of private persons affording infor-
nation which shall enable the Government to
detect and punish frauds upon the customs
revenue other than those involved in actual or
attempted smuggling. 8. That the law au-
thorizing the seizure Of books and papers be SO
amended as to afford due protection to the
rights OF private parties. 6. That no compro-
mise OF any tine, penalty or forfeiture accruing
from violation Of the navigation laws shall
be lawful until after judicial investigation of
the facts. z. That the compensation of Gus
toms officers be graded IN accordance with the
Importance and responsibility of their respec-
tive positions,
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. 4. 1874

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley :.
Pullen. Editor. All railway, steamboat anu liz
managers will confer favor upon US by deina o,r
credentials Of every person claiming to REP, s,,,,
journal, as we have information that se'e - a..
mers' are seeking courtesies IN luz ~ 'A0
PRESS, and we have no dispos,lio" w wv ''A p"''
siyely party to such frauds.
The Portland daily press., 1874-02-04

CHARLES HOUGHTON
VIII be sold at auction on Wednesday, Feb 25 1874.
at clock p. NJ, at the Glass Works Wharf, Port
land, (unless previously disposed off,
Said Steamer is go tons; length 142 feet; breadth
22 feet inches 2Sinch cylinder n feet streke Can
be put in condition tor business at short tce Can
be seen at any time at the wharf named above.
For further panic inquire of W. W. Harris,
145 Commercial street. William Ross, 179 CONNER
cial street, or CYRUS Sturdivant. Railroad Wharf,
Portland, and Capt. e. W. Davidson, 2io CONNER
cia street, Boston.
Portland Jan. 81, 1874. tfeb26