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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-17
RAILROADS.
PORTLAND s. ROCHESTER, RAILROAD.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT

Essss Passenger trains leave Portland for
-alI-,gp.9Rochester and intermediate stations at
,.....----- 80 A. NJ, 13O and 415 P. NJ. making
connection at Rochester with trains for Boston,
over Boston q Maine and Eastern Railroads. Also
connect AT Rochester with Dover and Winnipiseogee
ha,roau LOT Alton Bay, and with Portsmouth, Great
Fai Hs1 ana po conway Railroad for Conway.
100 A. NJ. ~ M. and P. M ""' '''S
Inc ~ O'Clock train making direct connection al
Sa sOston WIZ trains trains from Boston, leaving Boston
Leave Portland for Saco River at 6 On p M
Leave Saco River for Portland at $50 A. M.
Stages connect as follows: "
At Gorham for West Gorham Stardisb o,, A.,
Limngton, daily. anu NO.
and Limington daily. DO--i' H"sis
AT South WATERFORD for Ross Garner ond Don,,s
Mills daily. anu lam
At Centre WATERFORD fer Limerick, Parsonsaeld
WILLIAM H. TURNER, Superintendent,
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POETRY.
The Puritan Blossom.
PRovIDENcE--1640.

Good Master Roger Williams saith
Methinks if Richard Wilde could know
That Master Williams deemeth SO,
Then could bear it all.
Yea, though my mother, dearest soul,
Now am like to die,
Doth labor with me day and night
To set mine earthly cares Alright,
One care must pass by.
o bitter-sweeting day Of spring,
/ shut my heavy eyes,
And see again your gracious bloom,
The mystery of your wildwood gloom,
The glory Of your skies.
Sweet Mistress Loveday, in thy prayers
pr'ythee give me part!''
o goodly voice that haunts me so,
Odear dark eyes, will We not go
From out my failing hear!
IT'S many days that for mine end
A-longing have lain.
NV mother weeps and prayeth sore;
The more she prays hear the more
That kindest voice again.
Our godly guide doth give me hope
That Heaven accepteth me;
Alas! / fain would joy in this,
Yet still one care forbds my bliss
And dims eternity.
know not if he loveth me,
Yet lives he in my heart;
1 can but turn me unto death
And prayer, remembering what he saith
Therein give him part.
Good Master Williams whispers soft,
"She hath heavenly call;''
Methinks if Richard Wilde could know
That Master Williams deemeth so,
Then could | bear it all.
Nellie AZ. Hutchinson in Harper's Magasir
v September.
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BOSTON & MAINE
RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, Aug. 3, 1874.

ysz=ss55s=-,s-r Passenger trains will leave Port
land for Boston, at Gas, go a. M
s-wI--saa=s315 600 p m. Returning, leave Bos-
ton at 8 10 a. M, 1890, $3.50, 600 D. m.
For ScarborO, Blue Point, Old Orchard
BEACH, sae0 and Biddeford at els, 80, 10 %
a. M: 10. 3l5 500 p m. Returning leave Bidde-
ford at 75l, II 20 SO a. M, 4.35. 1896 925 p m.
For Great Falls at 615, 9.1O a. M, sis, 6 90
p. m.
For Lowell (via Lawrence) at CTS, 9.1O a. M,
3.15 p m.
For Portsmouth (via Dover at SIS a, M
For Concord aud Manchester (via New
Market Junction) 6.15 a. NJ, $40 p, M, via Law
renee at 9.10 a. m.
For Rochester, Alton Bay, WOIfbor-
0ngh and Centre lsarb0r via Dover 81 VIM
nipseogee T. Il. and Steamer Mt Washington at
$40 a. M. 1915 p. m.
Parlor Cars on trains leaving Portland 91O a. m
3'lS P: M; Boston s.l5 a; M, 500 p. m.
JAS. I. FURBER, Gen. Superintendent
S. II. STEVENS, Gen. Agent, Portland.
au1 IF
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STEAMERS.
PORTLAND, BANGOR 6 MACHIAS
Steamboat Company.
SUMNER ARRANGEMENT.
Fgw6a SEvussgAs Enops w aAEx

sgess The Steamer LEWISTON,
~ ss 81 s Ssh: 5P #S:; b; w Z.
S--zs1s :s-=-=--~sS and Friday Evening. at
40 O'clock or on arrival of Express Train from
Boston, commencing May 18th, 1914.
For Rockland Castine, Deer Isle, Sedgwick, So.
West Harbor CMt. DESERT. MillbIdge, Jonesport and
Maehasport
Returning. will leave Machasport every Monday
and Thursday morning at O'Clock touching above,
arriving in Portland same night usually connecting
with Pullman Train, and carly morning Trains for
Boston.
The Lewiston will touch at Bar Harbor, Mt. De-
sert0 each trip from Juns 18th to Sept 18th in addi
ton to her usual landing at So. w. Harbor, during
which time the Lewiston will leave Machiasport at
4,30, instead Of A. M.
The Steamer CITY OF RICHMOND, Can't. C. Kill,
BY, Will leave Railroad Wharf every Monday
Wednesday and Friday Evenings, at 40
O'ciOek on arrival OF ExpressTTain from Boston.
For Bangor, touching at Rockand, Camden, Bel
fast SearsPort Sandy Point, Bucksport, Winterport
and Hampden.
Returning will leave Bangor every Monday, We'd
nesday and Friday mornings, at O'clock, touching
at the above named landings arriving in Portland at
5 o'clock p. m.
For further particulars inquire at Railroad Wharf
Portland
CYRUS STURDIVANT, General Agent,
Portland, May 1874 myiSN
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KNOX & LINCOLN RAILROAD

DireC rail route to Wiseasset, New
Castle, Damariscotta, Waldoboro
ss.wvr,nsy,=az=4l.,zza-sWarren and Rockland.
No change Of cars between Portland
and Rockland.
Steamers leave Rockland for all points on the Pc
nobscot river, Machias, Mount Desert Vinal Haven.
Hurricane and Dix Islands.
Leave Maine Central Depot at TO A. NJ and 90
Pm.
Stages connect at Rockland for Camden, Lincoln
vile, Northport, South Thomaston and st. George
daily. At Rockland for Union, Appleton and Wash
ington, Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays.
At Tnomaston for ST. George daily.
At Warren for Union, daily.
At Warren for jefferson and Whitefield Mondays
Wednesdays and Fridays.
At Waldoboro' for North Waldoboro', Washington
and Liberty daily.
At New Castle for Bristol and Pemaquid, daily.
Freight Trains daily and freight taken at low rates
jv29dtf G, a. COOMBS Sun't
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For Little Chebeague !

nN and after MONDAY, June 29th, 1874 t
W steamer win run follows:
Leaving Great Chebeague at a. m. and p. m.
Leaving Little Chebeague Island at 1890 a. M, ~
m. and p. m.
Leaving Franklin Wharf daily at a, M, p. M,
and p. M.
Fare for the round trip so cents.
The Sunny Side Hotel on Little Chebeague has
been thoroughly renovated aud reiurnisbed and is
first class in every respect The tables of this Hotel
will be supplied with al the delicaces of the season.
Charges reasonable.
Sailing and fishing parties furnished with boats
and all needed appliances.
ju3Odtt BoARDMAN &>JENKS, Proprietors.
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CURRENT TOPICS AT THE CAPITAL.
WARRINGTON, Friday, Feb. n, 1874

EXTRAORDINARY ACTION OF SECRETARY RICHARDSON
REGARDING THE sANBORN CONTRACTS.
The letter of tho Secretary of the Treasury send
ING 70 the House the Sanborn contracts and accom-
panyng papers has been printed and makes docu-
ment OF 228 pages. Members of the Ways and Means
Committee assert that the document does not IN
clude it purp0rs TO- copies In full OF all contracts
made under the authority of the Treasury Depart
ment in pursuance of the provisions OF the hrst sec
ton of the Legislative Executive, and Judicial APP
preparation BILL approved May s. 1872; also. copies OF
all correspondence and orders of the Department re-
ating TO said contracts and schedules showing the
entire amount of money collected Under their con-
tracts by Messrs Malcolm Campbell, John ID. San
born and John Clark, respectively, and how sald
moneys have been disposed of. Among the things
omitted are said to be the name of the Hon. Samue
Hooper, which ought to appear in the list loi Credlt
Mobilier stockholders from whom Sanborn under
took TO collect income taxes; the order from the
Treasury Department to all officers Of internal rev
TO assist Sanborn and the letter of Commls-
sioner of Internal Revenue Douglass, protesting
against the mode of collecting taxes The Ways
and Means Committee will probably report another
resolution calling for the remainder OF the papers
The action OF the Secretary of the Treasury III tins
case is considered most extraordinary.
THE PAY DEPARTMENT or TIE ARMY.
Tho Military Committee spent considerable time
this morning discussing the organization OF the pay
department of the army. There has been strong
pressure to have this department filed up to the old
standard The Committee decided to apply to it
their general rule of reduction, and to provide for
the payment Of the troops by drafts on the Treas
ury, to be sent by tho department paymasters to
the commandments Of posts for the officers and men
under their charge-a system similar to that by
which pensioners arc now paid. 1t now costs 81
per man to pay the army, while under the proposed
system it is believed that the expense would not ex-
coed 81 At isolated posts where Treasury drafts
cannot readily be converted into money the present
system of pay will have to be retained.
no, Regular Report Proe,dtngs 80 Second Ps7'
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WASHINGTON.
! THE DISTRICT RING.

ADDITIONAL FACTS REGARDING THE PAVING CON
TRAcTs-How DE GoLYER AND MCCLELLAN OBJ
TANNED AN AWARD.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRBUSEl
WASHINGTON, Feb. H-One by one the facts IN
regard to the management Of the District Ring are
coming TO light II may be remembered that among
the letters printed month ago, disclosing the Tor
nation of the District Ring, was one from Geo. X.
Chittenden, who was impOrtuning Mr.. Huntington
TO secure bin contract, Mr.. Chittcndon repre-
sented the firm Of DeGolyer d Mcclellan, the owners
of the patent pavement known as DeGolyer No. 2
This firm sent Mr.. Chittenden to Washington in the
Spring of 1872 to secure them contract.
His letter of Feb s, already printed, shows
the means he used. After Mr.. Huntington's
death, ChIttendens letters show that he engaged
to assist him gentleman then holding a Federal
Office in Washington, and now a member Of Con
gress, and the editor of one of the Washington Sun
day newspapers. But ex-Gov. Cooke was, az Mr..
Chittendcn says in letter to Mr.. Mcclellan, dated
May 80 1872 bis principal reliance after the death
of Mr. Huntington Stll, be was not successful I'M
til he engaged one Of the most influential members
Of the House and the chairman of one OF its most I'M
portant committees to appear bcf re the Board for
HIM, with q written opinion sustaining the dc
Golyer patent and demonstrating the value of the
pavement Letters showing all of these facts will
be produced before the Investigating Committee.
InHJune, 1872, a contract was awarded to DeGol-
yer and Mcclellan. to lay two hundred thousand
square yards Of pavement at three dollars and fifty
cents per square yard. AZ soon as this award was
made, MI Chittenden telegaphed to his principals
in Chicago that he must have at once, $4,000 in
cash and $4,000 in negotiable paper. The demand
was complied with. OF cash, Chittenden kept $4,000
for his own services and expenses $1,000 paid
to a member of Congress; and $4,000 was used to
pay for the opinion above referred to OF the news
paper editor and another person whoselname is not
known. The negotiable paper was discounted by a
Chicago bank, after passing through tho hands OF
one Kirkland. gentleman now connected with
the De Golyar.M Clellan Company will testify that
the pavement could be laid for one dollar and half
a square yard.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-28
FRANKING SCHEMES.
TIE DEFEAT OF THE PACKER BILL CONSIDERED FINAL
PLANS FOR DIsPOsING or THE CORDS or DOC
UMENTs IN THE CAPITOL

TIE DEFEAT OF THE PACKER BILL CONSIDERED FINAL
PLANS FOR DIsPOsINo OF THE CORDS OF DOC
CMENTs IN THE CAPITOL
fBY TELEGRAPH TO rIIE TRrBUSE.l
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The friends Of tho Packer
Franking bill appear for the most part to regard It's
defeat yesterday as final They made no decided
effort to-day to reconsider the vote by which it was
rejected. Mr.. Tyner gave notice OF his intention to
make such motion. but afterward changed his
mind and told the House that on reflection be had
decided not to try to have the bill revived but that
he should instead move to suspend the rules on
Monday in order to pass a separate bill
the sections restoring tho privilege of free ex-
change to newspapers and that OF circulation
free of postage within the counties where published.
There will be no difficulty in passing these pro-
visions when they are put to vote by themselves,
unless the friends OF fTanKng conclude to oppose
them 1t would be shrewd policy on their part to
do So because if the country papers get the prvi-
legesthey are clamoring for, the movement for q
restoration of the privilege of Thanking to members
will have 10 stand on its own merits, and VIII be
greatly weakened. Just before the House adjourned.
Mr. Shanks made the motion to reconsider which
Mr. Tyner decided not to make, but did not press it
10 vote 1t is not likely to carry. To revive a
beaten bill in this way is never an easy undertaking.
If the defeat of the Objectionable measure proves
10 be final something muht, neVeTtneicSs DO uone 10
dispose Of the cords Of public documents that ill
the basement Of the Capitol and of the additional
cords that have already been ordered from the Gov
ernmept printing mill About 100000 vol
urnes are said to be stored in the Cap
itol. and $4,000 copies Of the Agricultn-
Reports Of 1872 and 1873 were ordered printed
a few weeks since by the House, though the
resolution has not been concurred in by the Senate
All these books cannot well be thrown away, after
80 much money has been spent in providing them.
There are two plans talked of for distributing
documents. One is to appropriate money enough to
nav the postage on them. The amount could go to
swell the income of the POST Office Department and
wonld not therefore be money thrown away. The
other is the plan proposed by Mr.. Kasson, with
some modification. 1t is in substance: Let the
Public Printer send circular monthly to every post
Office III the country giving list of the document
he has on hand and the price, including postage,
for which they will be sent to all applicants The
price should be established by law at either the full
cost of the documents or some fixed proportion of
the cost Mr. Kassons bill provides that the disri-
button shall be made by the officers Of the House
aud Senate on applications forwarded through MEN,
bers and Senator's which is Objectionable because
Congressman ought to be relieved OF all labor and
responsibility III the matter.
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MORMON LEGISLATION.
Mr.. Mixes UTAH BILL REPORTED IN THE HOUSE
THE MoRMoNs PLACED COMPLETELY AT TIL
MERCY OF FEDERAL OFFICIALS.

MP. MIXES UTAH BILL REPORTED IN TIE HOUSE
TIE MoRMoNs PLACED COMPLETELY AT THE
MERCY OF FEDERAL OFFICIALS.
IBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUEEI
WASHINGTON Feb. 27-The Committee on Terri
tories agreed to the Utah bill of their Char
man. Mr. Mckee, and it was reported to the House
TODAY and recommitted to await the regular day Of
the Committee The bill is, with the exception Of q
few slight changes identical with that known as the
shamplain- Newman bin. which was before the
Judiciary Committee last session. II Congress con-
cludes to adopt the stamping out policy toward the
Mormons no more efficient measure for the purpose
could well be devised than this.
The kernel of the whole volumnous bill is found
in section providing that in all cases Of prosecu-
ton for bigamy il shall not be necessary to prove
either the first OF subsequent marriages, but proof Of
cohabitation with more than one woman as husband
and wife or the declaration Of the man that such
women are his wives shall be sufficient for convic-
ton This section makes it possible to convict q
majority of all the male citizens of the Territory Of
feony and send them to the Penitentiary, provided
the judicial forms Of trial be gone through with.
That there may be no difficulty here the bill sweeps
away the whole judicial system OF the Territory and
throws all criminal cases into the United States
oourts where the marshal and clerk are to have sole
power of selecting juries and the United States Dis
Attorney and bis deputies are in oil cases to
prosecute.
Having thus provided the machinery for convict
inc such of the MormoDs s the United States
officers choose to prosecute the difficulty about find
ing prisons enough hold them all is obviated by
provision authorizing the confinement in any mill
tary prison or camp the idea being. apparently, to
establish stockade--a Camp Douglass--for the un'
fortunate followers Of Brigham Young, where they
can Ibe guarded by soldiers. The next proceeding
!, To dispose of the property Of the convcts which
the bin provides may DO divided among the wives
of the guilty polygamists, IN such manner ~ the
conrts may direct --...... 10 -
Thas ~ suhjostioa Il Ne Nesppns - The power
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Of the Federal officials may BIO complete, the bill
prohibits any person praoticing poiygamy from
voting or holding Offices; repeats the entire body OF
election laws Of tho Territory, including the Woman
Suffrage act, and also the act Incorporating the
Church of Latter Day Saints II the bill should be-
come alaw few Federal officials in Utah would
have almost absolute power over the liberty and
property Of all Mormons who are polyaamists' and
could, il thew chose extort back-mal from them for
RETAINING from prosecuting them, or could drive
them from the Territory and practically coniiscate
their property.
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VOL. XXXn.... o'lO,G GS.
JAYNE'S VICTIMS.
THE WHOLE SYSTEM OF CUSTOM fo0'"
p1uNpERING REVEALED.

pIINDERING REVEALED
r.>,rSTs Ry ROBBED HEH
CHECKS FOR LARGER AMOUNTS '
ror PAN INTO THE TREASURY PAID ~ 80.
Yux BALANCES sToLEN-LAwfkHo h"' $50
nv THE MERCHANTS IN CoLLUsioN WIZ -,
ppoTIrs or THE SPIES AND liihiH 'o'rhD
xRsrEs IN THE CUSTOM HoosE~N -,
usroRy FOR NEw-YoRK MERCHANTS io READ
r,,n.o,;on IN last Wednesdays TRIBUNE OF a
,.u oA1c;al list of tho merchants OF new 'orN anu
po.,on who lad been plundered by inc sp'es an" 40
DoS'o" a., C,s,on- house out of above Si0OO'Ooc
In less than five years, during whien INC =,
law has been in force, created mucn eAoi'0i"V"'
mercantile circles and in the Unlteu ot"'o' 80
and Custom house. The publication Oh d. W. Jay
49,, Of RESIGNATION gave great encouragement W
tba merchants who, although some"n"' '"''
ao,ad nv the report that Jayne hau foSis"'"
9TH a view 10 the establishment OF an inlo'"
inc Rureau and the organization OF N''P
~ Spies. spoke freely OF their wrongs anu
tho infany of the system under Whch 'ney n"n
heen robbed. The story that Jayne Wono esti'oi'Sh
~ q brrcon was generally believed, as it was
-, ,hat tho Custom honse officials who derive
orc revenue rs their share in Jayne's transactions
,ho from all other sources, would encourage him to
.on,;nuo 10 long as the law under which seizures
,roro made continued on the statute books. The
sxc;tcmsnt in the office Of DistrictAttorney Bliss
was very great when IL was learned that be bad
tr,n;sbed the clue which had led TO the damaging
revelations IN THE TRIBUNE and the investigation
which had been begun by Congress.
The publication already alluded to has led TO
.ome startling revelations as to the extent to which
jayne has plundered the merchants and the manner
m which he carried his Infamous business critl-
cal examination Of printed report Of the Secretary
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Of the Treasury hhows that Jayne had almost
monopoly of the branch of the business oil seizing
importers books and hunting through thom Tor
technical frauds on the revenue He left to others
the improbable but legitimate business OF
capturing smngglers and seizing oontraband
goods on steamers and devoted himself
almost exclusively 10 the bnbng OF clerks
to betray their masters, alter their books, OF make
fraudulent entries at the Custom house as an excuse
for seizing their books Although he was informer
in only few dozen out of the $500 seiznres re-
ported it will be found that Jaynes share was the
lions, and that he received as informer S2o,l6 :"
or about onethird of the whole amount tSSt9,A6 ~
paid in four years and q half to informers in only
two ports of the country II viii also be seen from
the following table that he received over ten times
as much as was paid to Col Frank f. Howe the
next largest recipient of moieties:
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Total paid to FIVE informcrs 49,. sais,Ies os

The Treasury report If only TO Dec. O. 1873, and
does not therefore. show all Jaync's receipts; the
Woodruff and Robinson case, for instance, has since
been decided, and in that Jayne received $4,000
Besides, rs viii appear from statement below,
Jayne sometimes turned into the Government
smaller sum than he received in settlement His
profits in this way are of course, ncaculabe. 1t is
generally understood that there is TO be deducted
from his profits per cent which it is currently re-
ported he pays to his Congressional partner'-of
course rs a retainer.
The following table comprises the principal OF
Jayne's cases. They are the work Of less than four
years. as Jayne was not the earliest. though the
most successful of the spies. 1t will be seen that
many of the names below differ from those Of the
official report. The latter document is full Of errors
in the names, evidently intended to mslead.
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these three tables and prove the figures.
IrC
llha.aEQ a.

II will be seen that the present incumbents, Col
lector Arthur, Naval Officer A. H. Latin, and Sur
veyor A. b. Cornell have received the largest
amounts and the fact will be noticed ct once that
they have been disproportioned to the receipts Of
their predecessors in Office. The business has evil
IDENTIFY been rapidly auqmenting, but unhappily for
the officials of the Custom-house Jayne has killed
the goose which has laid the golden egg.
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THE LOUISIANA FUNDING BILL.

Nyw.ORLEASs Feb. 27--Judee Wood issued
,s mor,ng full restraining orders IN the cases OF Nc
Inlav st The State Auditor and Stern Brothers agt
The same forbiddng the defendant until the 9Th Of
msrh aud iii further orders OF the Court from s1eou
ing the Funding bill.
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DErRoIT, Feb. Ex-senator Chandler has
brought suit against The Detrou Free IRE" i'f hoei'
claiming s,0 600 damages The alleged libel In spe
ci.i di.natch from Washington, Feb. 90 charging M
Cs.L.sr gtA i,tc, c..,..s ara c-saeeiuI ceII-sI =.
ia neusaA ahnnkeS,