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The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

..Perley" says that it is daily becoming more
evident that the southern secessiOnlsts are strv-
ing to regain the political status which they lost
| on going to war, and it will not be long before
northern doughlaces will again bid for their
| favor, forming parties, which like the democracy
| before the war, shall only contain enough MEM
bers in this section to hold the federal officers
Portland Advertiser.
1t is more than probable. in our judy
ment, that such a plan may succeed If
the radical notion of keeping up sectional
agitation for party purposes is continued,
it certainly will. When the administration
party had enfranchised the negro, and
counted the colored population fully in
the basis OF representation, it supposed
| that the southern vote for all time was al
its command. Such 4 result is not in ac-
cordance with the examples of history.
The attachment to sections and sectional
interest is strong in people of all races
and as much so in the negroes as in any
other people The animosities engendered
among the people as the south by the war
have nearly spent their force. and the dis
position to give support to northern ideas
and carpet bag adventures is going with
it, Home interest local wants, pursuits
and gains must very soon assert their
sway. The more intelligent among the
negroes will soon perceive that devotion
to Yankee ideas, and making Of them
selves mere camp-followers to carpet
baggers, will not furnish the bacon and
homny necessary to existence. And they
cannot fail equally to perceive that the
true interests of all southern people, white
and black, will be found in standing unit
eddy together for southern rights in their
new aspect against any and all aggres-
slons. The result must be an united, dis
ciplined and powerful party, under the
leadership of the best minds of that Sec
ton
The former slayeholding States gained
seventeen representatives in Congress by
the increased basis that resulted from
counting the negro population as provided
in the amended constitutions This is two
thirds as many rs the whole representation
of the six New England States. Add such
compact and powerful party TO what our
contemporary is pleased to call ''northem
doughfaces,' and You have the old demo-
cratic party restored, shorn Of its destruc-
tive element of slavery, controlling the
public policy and giving the nation a new
and vigorous life. This would be Won
derful but not unphilosophical result from
all the designs and labors OF radicalism-
a new example that good may result from
the devices Of evil
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08
Me llinnNn

ne supreme Court but would take it from
We Chicago Convention.
Your address has undoubtedly done much 10
diminish what little confidence was left in the
government as protection to our personal
rights; We cannot help but feel that the secllr-
ny OF flie, liberty and property must be fearful
" slender IN country where citizen OF your
rianaihg can openly say that the owner and
tinker of the little bell was a statesman whose
r. Example ought to he universally copied
on are leader of the party calling itself
Liberal Republican," whose platform is Il pro-
lest against iniquity in high places, and whose
movements are a struggle for the restoration
Ut honest government. J our compatrnts know,
# you do not. that the evils they deplore were
introduced by the man yon advise them to imi
!ate. The party you oppose for its hidcouS
corruption has but fashioned its moral and
political principles upon the model which you
now declare to he full of beauty and goodness.
Your personal consistency is nothing: but to
,u back in this way. moi only on vour friends
tNI Nonr country. is 100 bad j. s. BIA,E
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

The CUSTOM HOUSE, SCANDAL. Tn.
New York Tribune offers the following
comments on the recent seizure of tn.
books of prominent firm in Boston:
1t seems 10 be now We'll ascertained thar
the Government has been paying the Gus
tom House clerk of Jordan, Marsh Il Go
tor long time To betray and disgrace tba
firm who gave him their confidence
Whether the payment has been made di-
rectly to the clerk himself, or indirectly to
ms brother, whether it has been a weekly
stipend, or the promise of share in the
booty conditional upon u seizure, makes
very little difference. The position of the
clerk and the Government has practically
been just this; while the clerk has been
hired by the importers to manage their
transactions with the Custom House. the
Government has brbed him to commit ir-
repularities in those transactions. and then
to denounce the very offences he has been
instrumental in committing. We do not
accuse Jackson of doing these dishonora
BILE things we do not know precisely
what share he has had in the business
but we do say that the Government hos
laid the temptation in his way, and offered
him large reward if he would be
rogue and We think it is very dirty WORT
for any government to be engaged in,
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08
GenoraIties.

An entcrprising Massachusetts, farmer gives
chrome TO every purchaser of a load Of
manure.
Water will find its level. In Marion, Ohio,
John {. " ater was last week married to Caro-
line Level.
Waldoboro LOST in very sudden manner two
of her best citizcnS-Mr Geo. Enoley and Mr.
Jacob Dreamer
Geo. Mcintosh, of Ellsworth, was killed by
falling tree while numbering on the Union
river, Jan. ls.
The sheriff seized thirteen boxes of liquor
from the office of the Eastern Express Company
at Rockland, Tuesday.
A steyedore named Owen Griffin, fell sixty
feet into the hold of q vessel, at Portland, Satui-
day, and died SUNDAY morning.
j. W. Lang proposes to establish Il printing
office and publish paper in Cherryfield if Suf-
lirient encouragement Is afforded him.
Tie fibre for paper-makiug is now made IN
quantity from the cane or reeds which grow %
abundantly in Virginia, Dismal swamp.
Reports from Castinc state that the calls fnr
teachers for the best schools are much in excess
II the ability oi The eastern normal school ~
supply.
The first exhibitions of,h Maine Poultry A.
Sociaiou viii b. held IN Portland, beginning
ON the 18TH inst over $4,000 are offered III
premiums.
There Is 4 great ,qualhle gong on over the
Calais Dictatorship. As there is 4 fat salary
and nothing to do 1bcronle~t among the faithful
Is very spirited.
MeSSrs. Iunt, contractors, who have charge
OF the masonry of the Bucksport X Bangor
railroad bridge, are intending to resume work
he lfsl OF nest month. Wig.
The dead body of an infant was found ON the
ice At Auburn last Wednesday morning. When
found Il was IN a coarse bag, and had cl tenty
lu>i been thrown over the bridge.
fho Worcester Spy rigymcs NJ twenty three
deaths BY drowning in Worcester county ia
1913. and tWenty-one persons killed lay being
rlin over by The various railroads.
opauldne. of NnsIow, convicted of rape III
llaoWcll, and Samuel Hill. convicted of arson
in Portland, have been pafionrd BY GOV.
fcrhtm and released from the State Prison.
y man was turned out of the gallery OF II
Memphis theatre, the other night, for calling
'nt 70 Mis~ lydia Thompson, 3" Bully for yon-
o'u '"N-'op' '"od l"rdy. look at her kick!"
The \. y. Tribune speak, freely cot that
most contemplate Of Great res. Il Salared infor-
mcr--;l man whose whole life is IL lie and who
makes hi living by the ruin Of other people"
On "Wednesday evening, Mr.. caleb X. Run
nelk Of NeWneld, a Well-kn0Wn stage driver,
% Years old, dropped dead ia the office OF the
United state Hotel, IN Portland. Of heart dis
ease.
III New York the record, OF the coroner's
office ipt The wear, show itty->iN deaths by
homcide.-a little more tlIan one 4 week-and
only two by ''iudiclll hanging" Comment j.
unnecessary.
Nj Eugene Good, Engineer on The steamer
katdhdin had his coat stripped otland was bad
lv bruised. 10y coming in contact with the belt
OF the blower in The engine room. saturday
morning.
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

The steamer Ohio, from Philadelphia Il
Liverpool, OH her last trip, took out 200 car
wheels American car-wheels are acknowl-
edged by English makers to be OF superior
character, their excellence being attributed ia
the peculiar method of manufacture involving
the use Of charcoal iron.
The Sentinel says two Calais boys named
Whitenock and Thompson, who were cunning
and camping, at Red Beach, Robbinston, were
powder. Thompson undertook 10 pour some
from the flask on a hot stove, when the whole
exploded. 1t Is thought that both Of his eyes
were burned out.
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

An interview has been obtained by the
Boston Globe with the Hon r. A. Jenckes,
of Rhode Island, on the subject of the
present bankrupt law, of which he is the
author. Mr.. Jenckcs had studied carefully
the OFT amended bankrupt laws Of Great
Britain and France, and constructed the
United States law as he believed to en-
body the best acts on the subject. He more
than intimated that the attack on the law
springs from the interested motives of 4
certain profession 1t had to a great eN-
tent interfered with the calling Of class
of lawyers whose legal services were
limited almost exclusively to collections.
He characterized the bankrupt law as "a
business mans law and not a lawyers
law" 1t adjusts the rights of all the
claimants equitably and simultaneously,
SO that the creditors shall fare alike, and
the litigation be reduced to the minimum
quantity. A lawyer in Providence was
heard to say Of the bankrupt law, 1T is a
good thing for the business men, but a
poor thing for the lawyers The first
| amazing dash Of the House does not prove
that the bill for repeal will sail through on
the top of the wave. The impression OBJ
tanned from Mr. Jenckes was that it would
hardly pass the Senate 1t is intimated
that the bankrupt law has defects, but the
general expression is in favor of amend
ment rather than repeal.
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08
A Senatorial Bad Egg.

The people OF Oregon have taken up
the case OF Senator Mitchell Of that State
in deep earnest, and have sent 4 memorial
to be presented 10 the United States Sen
ate, making a terrible arraignment OF
his personal record to the following effect
1t is addressed in printed form to the
Senators of the United States and upon
alleged information and belief, reciteS:
LIST. That John Nipple was recently elected
to the United States Senate under the assumed
name of John Nipple Mitchell.
ID. That said Nipple was formerly a school.
teacher in Butler county, Pa, where he seduced
one of his scholars by the name of Sarah Hoon
whom he was afterwards compelled to marry
after the birth of Il child
in Butler county, Pa, where he seduced !:
school teacher named Maria J. Brinker, and
ran away with her to the Pacific coast taking
with him $4,000 in money belonging to the eli
ents of himself and partner. leaving behind his
wife, pennless, and two children.
4th. That he lived with Miss Brlnker as hel
husband iii San Luis Obispo, Cal, and in 1861
abandoned her in San Francisco, and, taking
his eldest child by his first wife, left for Oregon
Upon his arrival in Oregon. he represented
himself as a widowcr from Pittsburg and thai
his wife had recently died in San Francisco.
9Th. That said Nipple on Feb. 18th, 1862
married Miss Matte Price of Portland, Oregon
with whom he lived in bigamy until April, 1869
when his first Wife, Sarah, obtained il divorce
from him.
9th. That when he first ran away from But
Ter county, Pa, with Miss Brinker, he assumed
the name Of John II. Mitchell, by which he ha.
since been known.
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

DR.. Jordan is exhibiting the Great
Golah to the people of Lincoln Comfy
On Sunday eight the store of Ward Bros
in Lewiston, was robbed Of 5000 worth Of
clothing by some scamps who broke in
Although there continues to be much op-
position to Williams as Chief Justice, the
general opinion is that he will be confirm
ed May general opinion for once be mis-
taken.
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

1t is reported that Schuyler Colfax is
coming back to Congress from Indiana
Nesbitt is dead, so if anybody takes a fancy
to send Schuyler q thousand dollars at a
time, he will have to be some other man
The steal by the Treasurer of the In
sane Asylum amounts TO about $500. II
has been refunded, and the official dis
charged
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

The administration deserves credit for
one good appointment. As minister 10
Spain, Caleb Cushing is the right man in
the right place. A thorough scholar, an
able lawyer, soldier and diplomatist,
he is capable Of giving to the country the
benefit of ripe experience and one of the
coolest and clearest Of heads. His latest
conspicuous service was on the Geneva
tribunal, where his vast learning and ex-
haustive familiarity with the law of ma
tions, gave the United States ease an in
calculable advantage. President Grant
makes graceful recognition of Mr.. Cush-
ing's great ability by stepping outside of
partisan ranks to give him an honorable
post.
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

The lrail support on which CASTELAR,
leaned, as President of the new Spanish
republic. has been swept away, and the
power has passed 10 other hands And
with this event probably ends the dream
OF a republic in Spain The people there
the guardianship Of themselves. This is
not the time nor is Spain the place in
which TO establsh.a republic on the ruins
of Il monarchy. Spain needs the strong
hand Of an emperor, backed by military
power, as the only means Of preventing
Spmiaras from cutting each others Threats
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

The sum OF $50, 200 is fortune saws
the Chicago Tribune. Its possession, prop
erly invested, assures large family ali
the comforts and many of the luxuries of
life. 1t can be invested in bonds and
mortgages of absolute security at the net
profit of $1,000 year. 1t will carry on
business Of $250.00O year, and afford,
aside from the profit it earns, employment
to score of men, 1t is what thousands
of educated men toll for as the result of
conscientious and laborious lives and then
do not attain. 1t would furnish the means
of support for 800 families during the hard
winter coming upon us, who will actually
suffer for want of proper shelter, fuel, and
clothing Yet, in these times, when every
individual feels the necessity Of economy
more than ever before, when the president
himself recommends retrenchment in pub
networks, and when the government must
contemplate the emergency of issuing
new bonds to pay the interest on the debt
it already owes, the majority in congress,
through their committee, decide that The
president ought to receive the sum of
$50 900 year
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

Subscribers are requested to take notice Of the
date on the colored slips attached to the paper 1t
is the only form of receipt used. For instance
u May - means that the subscription is paid to that
be changed to correspond, and SUBSCRIBEKs ARE
REQUESTED TO SEE THATTHEIR DATES ARE
CORRECT. Subscribers in arrears are requested to
forward the sums due
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

a-BATEs & LOCKE, 81 Park Row, New York,
are authorized agents for procuring advertisements
for the Journal
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

Our Burnham correspondent writes that Rev.
Ephraim johnson, of Pittsfield, and his son
aged Is years, were at work IN the woods
swamping a road, the Elder made Il false clip
cutting the boys foot entirely of above the toes
except the SKIN on each side. DIR. j. G. Manson
dressed the wound and thinks the foot NAV Dos
sbly be saved.
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

SUBSCRIBERS desiring to have the address Of
papers changed, state the Post Office to which
the paper has been as well as the to which
il is to go.
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08
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WILLIAM H, SNIP SON

ADMINISTRATORS, EXECUTORS and GUARDIANS
desiring their advertisements published in The Jour
nal will please so state to the Court.
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

The friends OF Attorney Gen. Williams
attempt to shield him from the carriage
stealing charge by crying out that some of
his predecessors have done the same
thing. That is no excuse at all. TO 4
mind sufficiently clear and upright to as
pire to the position of Chief Justice, a
wrong should be a wrong, which no
amount OF precedent can justify. 1t was a
piece of positive dishonesty to procure a
carriage and draw from the treasury $1,000
to pay for it. The stirring up which this
matter has given discloses similar prac-
tices in other departments, We are glad
of it. Let them all be exposed, and we
shall perhaps learn some of the reasons
why the expenses Of government have so
enormously increased Of late years. Smoke
them out. by all means
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

The failure Of the crops in Bengal must
have an influence on the price of bread
stuffs in this country by drawing uponlhe
supplies of southern Russia, and it is by
no means impossible that direct shipment
from this country might be profitable. A
population of forty millions, nearly equal
to that of the Uuited States from Maine to
Florida and Portland to San Francisco, is
on the verge of q terrible famine. The
British authorities have offered advances
to non-otficial land-holders and planters,
both native and foreign, to send food into
isolated localities and distribute it cheaplv,
the loss eeing borne by the state. They
have also sent orders to Madras and Bur-
nah to buy rice and send it to Bengal
gradually But it seems that whatever
Madras can spare may be absolutely need
ed for other places.
The London Economist says that the re
ports Of the impending famine in Bengal
which have been coming in since the frs,
alarm was sounded, ''haye crystallized in,
to a conviction that a calamity without
parallel in the history of British Indi.
must fall upon the most populous anc
most helpless Provinces Of that empire
and that il may seriously affect the rev
enues of England
Some of the New York journals claim
it is worth while for our merchants TO con
slider whether in the cheap freightage OF
fered by our outgoing vessels in th
Chinese and Indian trade a profitable
market might not be found for a part of
our surplus flour. corn and corn me2l
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

&1-In sending money, state THE POST OFFICE
to which the paper is sent .~aA
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

The newspapers with new dresses are all
very happy. Whoever saw anybody with anew
dress that wasn't? Boston Post.
4 man in this region once got q suit OF
tar and feathers, and though the fit was
excellent, still he wasn't happy
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08

The Goldfish war, in Stockton, has sub
sided. Barnabas, finding that he had
stirred up a big hornets nest did not dare
to proceed with the removal OF Postmaster
Frye, and has hauled off for the present.
We warn that official, however, that the
cessation is only temporary, and that Bar
nabas will lay secret and GINNING snares
for his feet in the future. Let him he
careful and vigilant.
The Republican journal., 1874-01-08
Missouri papers tell of the narrow cscs

Missouri papers tell of the narrow escape
81 little girl Is years of age from being
buried alive, recently, in st. Joseph The
health of the child had not been good for
several months. and three weeks ago she
startled her mother by saying that she
could see her dead sister. who came near
her and spoke to her, telling her she would
make her well. Her mother tried to make
her dismiss the subject from her mind, but
the child continued describing her spirit
sister, saying that she was standing near,
dressed in pure white, her face bright and
shining, her hair illuminated with silver
light, and golden dew drops dripping from
her wings. While talking her strength
gave way, and she sank away as in death.
The body was kept thirty hours, during
which time no sign of returning life was
noticed. The final look at the remains
We're taken, the coffin was sealed up and
placed in the hearse, and the little cortege
started for the grave. After proceeding
some distance the quick ear of the sad
dened mother caught the echo of the iamil-
lar cry and she gave expression to her sus-
picion that it came from the coffin of her
child, and in compliance with her wishes
the hearse was stopped and the coffin
drawn out The coffin was quickly opened,
and the child found to be alive, to the
amazement and unspeakable delight of the
parents. In her struggles she had nearly
torn from herself her death robes. She
was quickly taken from the coffin and
carried into the house of a French lady at
hand, where they bathed her in vinegar.
She recovered her strength rapidly, and
in short time was taken to the home
which she had left only few hours before
an apparent corpse.
Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-04-20

AN ELOQUENT TRlBt TE.-- Hon. X. b. E.
! liltt, member of the llose of Representative S
from South Carolina delivered an eloquent and
feeling tribute tn the memory Of Senator Sum
TIER, in Boston, On Monday last. We have
rarely read mnie beautiful production, the
concluding PARTON of which is as follows.
"ru have lived such a | f. was glory enough.
-Succ 'ss was not needed to pei feet its star OF
bright Immortal beauty, but success came. hat
amazing contrasts dill his life witness. He
heard the hundred guns which Boston fired for
tie pa age of the fIgi ve.s!ave act, nd lie saw
Boston sending forth with hOnur5 and blessings
n regiment Of fugitive slaves to save that Union
which the crime of her Webster had imperilled.
He saw Franklin Pierce employing the power
OF the nation TO force back her helpless fugitive
| to the will If slavery, and lie saw Abraham
| Lincoln write tie edict of emancipation. lie
| heard fancy declare that the black man had
| no rights which white man was bound 10 re-
sprc, aul lie welcomed R4ve to his seat as a
| senator of the United States. But as defeat
| ruul not dImpen his ardhr, so suceass could
| not abate his zeal. He fel while bearing aloft
| tue same banner Of human rights, which,
! twenty y-rlghl years before, he had uniul led aud
| lif,ed IN this hall. The blessings Of the poor
are his uirels. One sicred hought daily presid-
| ed over his life, inspiring him in youth, guiding
| him ia manhood, aud strengthening him in age
Be ii ours To walk in The light ofhis pure exam.
| pie. BE it ours TO copy his stainless integrity
| his supreme devotion TO his county, his pro.
! found faith in truth, and his uncnnque able
moral enthusiasm. Alicu, great servant and
apostle of liberty, il others forget thee thy fame
| shall he guarded by the millions Of all emhnci
| pAted race, whose gratitude shall be more Ell
during than monumental marble or BRASS"
Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-04-20
RELIGIOUS.

1t was the evening before great conflict
Capt. Partridge and a friend were talking to
gether till near midnight. Before parting Capt
P. repeated these words:
sin islands of that far-off sea,
Which moltals call eternity,
There dwell the bright, the pure, the free,
Fer blooming there;
And swiftly roll the golden hours,
Beneath those bright celestial bowers,
Whilst fragrance from immortal flowers
Fills all the air.
1t is the souls Celestial Home,
Where gifted spirits freely roam,
Beneath the wide majestic dome
Ofradiant skies"
The friends parted. The next morning the
battle opened. The brave young captain fe II
lie fell' we trust. in the hope of the Gospel
and, If so, quaf1s the fragrance OF those peren.
nial flowers, and fingers beneath those happy
bowers where sin and sorrow never come