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The Portland daily press., 1874-12-25
Books Received.

The Houses of Lancaster nnd York, with
the Conquest and ILoss of France. By
James Gardner, editor of "The PASTOR Letters.''
One of the Epochs of History series. Cloth, 262
pp., five maps, price 81 New York: Scribner,
Armstrong 81 Co. Portland; Loring, Short q
Harmon.
Caleb Krinkle. Story of American Life. By
Charles Carleton Cofin--"Carleton." Cloth, 500
pp., price s2 Boston Lee & Shepard. Portland;
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The Logic of Reason, Universal and Eier-
nal. By Laurens P. Hickok, d. d. LII. d. Cloth,
1872 pp., price SO. Boston Lee & Shepard. Port
land: Loring, Short g. Harmon.
sowed by the Wind or the Poor Boys Fortune.
BY Elijah Kellogg. One of the Forest Glen SERIES
Cloth, 2s2 pp., illustrated. Boston: Lee & Shep-
ard. Portland: Loring, Short s. Harmon.
That Queer Girl. By Virginia F. Townsend.
One of the Madenhood series. Cloth, 299 pp., il
lustrated, price 81 80. Boston: Lee 6 Shepard
Portland: Lorng, Short & Harmon.
Our New Crusade. A Temperance Story. By
BY Edward E. Hale. Cloth, 2s7 pp., price 81 25.
Boston: Roberts Brothers. Portland: Loring.
Short & Harmon. .H
The Vatican DEGREES in their Bearing ON
Civil Allegiance; Political ExPosiuln-
tion. By the Right Honorable W. E. Gladstone.
To which are added history of the Vatican Coun-
ell; together with the Latin andIEDgsh text Of the
Papal Syllabus and the Vatican DEGREES. By the
Rev. Philip Schaf, d. d. From his forthcoming
"History of the Creeds Of Christendom." Cloth,
1853 PIP. New York: Harper & Brothers. Portland:
Loring Short g. Harmon.
The Ugly-GirI Papers; or Hints for the Toilet.
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The Communistic Societies of the United
states; from personal visit and observation: in
Guiding detailed accounts of the Economists, Zoar
ties, Shakers, the Amana, Oneida, Bethel, Aurora,
Icarian and other existing societies. their religious
creeds. social practices, numbers, industries and
present conSition. By Charles Eordhoff. Cloth,
439 pp., illustrated. New York: Harper s. Broth
ers. Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon.
Remains of Lost Empires: Sketches Of the
ruins of Palmyra, Nineveh, Babylon. and Persep-
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ian Himalayas. By P. V. N. Myers, A. M. Cloth,
531 pp., illustrated. New York: Harper & Broth
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The Portland daily press., 1874-12-25

ELSEWHERE we publish the statistics OF
shipbuilding in the Bath district for the year
1874, which completes the returns to the
PRESS from the various collection districts in
the state. A recapitulation shows that POI
vessels have been built in the state during
the year, having an aggregate tonnage of over
1872, 800 tons. Last year the number of ves-
sells built was 235, with tonnage OF about
10000. In 1872, the tonnage built
was estimated at 10000 tons. These
figures will serve to indicate the rapid revival
of this great industry Of our state. At $50
ton, which is moderate estimate of the cost
of building, it will be seen that the product of
Maine ship-yards in 1874, is $6,619,OO0. Un-
less there should be a general revival of busi-
ness before next summer, another season OF
so great activity in ship-building can hardly
be expected.
The Portland daily press., 1874-12-25

A WASHINGTON special says that the
House on Wednesday would have been hope
lessly entangled in the net of its own rules
had not Speaker Blaine been at hand 10 help
it out Democratic aspirants for the Speak
ership should be taking lessons in House rules.
1t may not be convenient for Mr.. Blaine as
the leader of the minority to render such as
sistance.
The Portland daily press., 1874-12-25

BEFORE taking recess, Congress cid
good bit of work. The Senate has passed
better financial bill than it was thought pos
sible from its action the last session. The
House has got through with two of the ap-
preparation bills, declared against subsidies
and is ready to take up the Senate finance
iii
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

cepting these bills, Lizardi e Co. failea
and the defendants, the Citizens Bank, do
manded of the Crescent City Bank indem-
nifty against loss as the holders Of the bills.
This indemnity was given in notes, billa
and evidences Of debt, amounting to
Sl5O,OOO, and that at the time of this trans-
fer the Crescent City Bank was insolvent.
Bill prays that in view OF this fact the trans-
fer be considered null and void.
The Citizens Bank in answer alleges that
funds were advanced ty it to Lizard & Co.
to meet the bills specified, and that by the
failure of Lizard & Co. the Crescent Citv
Bank became liable for the said bills.
fhe case was yesterday morning decided
by Judge Woods, after a lengthy review of
the facts and the law bearing thereon. Ha
decided " that the transfer by the Crescent
City Bank to the Citizens Bank of the note.
bills, ETC., mentioned in the bill of COM
paint, was made in contemplation of in
Solyency, with view to the preference of
one creditor to another, and is therefore null
and void"
United States District Court.
JOHN PAISLEY VS.. THE MISSISSIPPI AND Do
MINION STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
libel was filed In this court Yesterday
by John Paisley against this we'll known
line of steamers for $500, damages accru-
ing to the libelant by reason of the loss Of
his baggage on the steamship Missouri.
which went ashore on Gingerbread Shoals.
AS this involves many new questions, it's
decision will be looked for with interest bv
the travelling public.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28
What Mark Twain Thinks Of the Royal
Bride.

Mark Twain in his "Innocents Abroad"
thus describes the Duchess of Edinburgh a.
she appeared about seven years ago: "Du-
ring the imperial reception whoever chose
stepped forward and spoke with the modest
little Grand Duchess Marie, the Cars
daughter. She is fourteen years old, light
haired, blue-eyed. unassuming and pretty.n
Further on the historian says of the grand
shoes: II was glad to observe
that she wofessas own hair, plated in thick
braids against tlisback of her head, instead
of the uncomely thing worn by Americans,
which is about as much like waterfall az
cow discovered ham is like a cataract.
Taking the kind expression that is in the EN-
perors face and the gentleness that is in this
young daughters, into consideration, won
dered if it would not tax the Cars firmness
to the utmost to condemn duplicating
wretch to misery in the wastes of Siberia Il
she pleaded for him. Every time their eyes
met, saw more and more what power
that weak, diffident school girl could WELD
if she chose to do it. Many and many
time she might rule the Autocrat of Russia,
whose lightest word is law to seventy mil
lions of human beings. She was only girl,
and she looked like Thousand others have
seen, but never a girl provoked such novel
and peculiar interest in me before. A
strange new sensation is rare thing in
this humdrum life, and had it here.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28
A Street Idyl.

wind-shaken lilies, siIver-belled and sweet.
Pearls floating down the dusty London street;
Embodied dreams; resurrection bright
OF some foregone forgotten, lost delight
Who drew them from their dusky, cool retreat,
Where they could hear the Springs first pulses beat
In deep green woods. or by the silvery CLEAN
OF some slow ripping. forest Swallowed stream?
Where are they drifting in that snowy dress?
To make death tender with their loviiness;
Or stir within some weary, death-coId breast
Thoughts which the dull hard world had laid to rest.
Will they reflect their image clear that lies
In the soft depths of little children's eyes?
Or will those chalices of silver bells
lmprlsOn tears within their fragrant cells?
Ch, myriad voiced, beneath the summer sky,
To some song, to some a bitter cry
Pass to your mission. while / hear the beat
Of Angel footsteps futter from the street.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

Charles Francis Adams, Jr.,. was in New
York last week. He says that, so far as he
or any member of his family is concerned,
his father is not a candidate for the
Senatorship of Massachusetts,. Whether
he may become one or not is at present I'M
certain. A few days ago some members of
the Massachusetts, Legislature waited upon
Mr.. Adams. Jr, and asked him how they had
better approach his father on the subject.
They wished to tender him the nomination.
at ALL or if they wished him to fill a necessary
gap, to call him to it by right of eminent do
MAN, and await his answer.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

A young woman at Cape May courthouse
follows cunning, claiming, ceiling and all
the pursuits of the masculines around her,
and with success, excelling the best Of them.
She can row a boat and make it fly through
the water. An informant says he was gun
ming, and two broad-bills wild ducks) flew
by his decoys without alighting; but as they
passed her boat she brought down both, one
with each barrel of her double gun.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

Careful statiticians show that the amount
daily bestowed upon street beggars in New
Orleans exceeds what is paid in the same
length of time to city teachers, preachers,
or to any other class excepting, perhaps.
members Of the Legislature.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh will
have 100000 year, two magnificent resi-
dences in England, two establishments in st.
Petersburg, the freedom of Windsor Castle
and Buckingham Palace; they will have
stables filled with an ample choice of horse
flesh; that the royal boxes at the theatres
and opera will be at their disposal, and all
the best places on grand stands and ceremo
mails will be at their service.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

They are getting in the habit of shooting
judges up in Arkansas, and this is undoubt-
edly the best thing that can be done with
them, where they are no account. The
average judge of the period does little
but assist in the discharge of criminals, and
his principal duty is to show the impunity
with which laws can be broken.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

The news from Massachusetts, shows that
while there were in the Legislature larger
number in favor of Judge Hoar for the Sen
ate than for Dawes, Adams, Banks, or any
of the others mentioned for the distin-
guished seat, yet there were not enough OF
one mind to warrant decided expression as
to who the man will be, looking on from
this distance
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

The interests of the country languish be-
cause of the dawdling and indecisive course
at Washington. Business does not know
upon what to calculate Is the currency to
be increased or nots Is the measure OF ya,ue
to be changed or mott Are prices to be
varied or not! These are questions touching
the very lite of trade that nobody can an
swer. and so men wait and watch.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

The usual presents made to Apache parents
In exchange for their daughters are horses
game, firearms, blankets and trinkets. Some
girls, daughters of chiefs, cost as much as
Twenty-Five horses. not on account of their
beauty but for the honor of the thing.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

A HABEAs CORPUS CASE.

Long before the opening hour, Judge
Lynch took the bench to hear the petition
of Milton Robinson, asking that cause be
shown why his body should not be released.
Attorney General Field represented the
State but showed the effects of his late ILL
ness
The applicant for the writ it appears was
appointed land and timber agent by the reg
lister of the State land Office, to settle claims
and to prosecute depredatOrs on the public
domain in the parishes of Vernon, Calcasieu
and ST. Landry. He claims also to be d dep
uty marshal. The charge against Robinson
is that he is fugitive from justice. The
case was going on when our report closed.
First District Court.
The Grand Jury has made the following
returns:
John Donahue, assault with intent to kill;
a true bill.
Thomas Green, Jerry Urley and Harvey
Marcelin, tresspass; true bill.
J. w. Jones, obtaining money under false
pretences j; a true bill
Thos. H. Duffy, Mrs. Duffy, Geo. Duffy,
VIM Matte, Jas. Gallagher, wilful and cor
rupt perjury, a true bill. This case arose out
of the CrOnan arson case. The parties ac-
cused, being the same ON whose testimony
CrOnan was indicted.
VIM. Howard was convicted of larceny.
In the case of Harran Foreman, charged
with assault with dangerous weapon, the
Jury failed to agree, and mistrial, was
entered.
A nolle prosequi was entered in the case
against John Snapper, charged with assault
with dangerous weapon
United States Circuit ourt.
In the case of Charles Case, receiver, vs..
John S. Walton, the jury returned = verdict
of $1,000 damages against defendant yester-
day afternoon. The suit was based upon
defendants liability as stakeholder of the
First National Bank.
Charles Case, Receirer Crescent City Ma
tional Bank. rs. Citizens' Bank.-This is a bill
in equity. The bill in substance AYERS that
between the first day of December, 1s72,
and the sixth of February, 1873, the Cres-
cent City Bank drew bills of exch' nge of
f. Iizardi & Co, of London, amour ing in
the aggregate to t26,5Ol; that, alter &C
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

No more divorces secured without pub
licity" in Illinois. The bill which has
finally passed both Houses of the Legisla-
ture, and been approved by the Governor,
requires that all evidence in divorce cases
shall be given in open court. This ends the
underground trickery of the Chicago divorce
shysters
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

The House Committee on Appropriations
a few days ago agreed to insert an item of
fifteen thousand dollars in the deficiency APP
preparation bill, to be used in carrying on
the work of Foolish propagation.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

An observer says that it is curious that in
popular libraries novels and romance consti-
tute three fonrths of the books taken out.
In the circulating library it is literally true
that truth is stranger than fiction.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28
We heartily concur inthe following, which


we take from the st. Louis Globe:
General Butler is credited with having
said that we had too many newspapers in
this country, and we can hardly wonder at
his having said so, in view Of the exceed
ingly frank and unreserved manner in which
the newspapers have expressed heir opinion
of the General. If he thinks we have too
many newspapers, the newspapers have not
been mealy-mouthed about saying that we
had altogether too many Buffers. If he
should demur that we have only one Butler,
whereas we have some five thousand news
papers, it would still be permitted to be-
lieve that the one Butler far exceeds any
number of newspapers in his powers of mis-
chief, and, we might consent to a partial
diminution of the number of newspapers,
nothing less than a total suppression of
Butler would appe:se the great protest
which goes up against the great nuisance.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

INTEREST ON MoNEY.-The' Virginia Sem
ate has passed the bill fixing the legal rate
of interest in Virginia at six per cent. The
bill had already passed the House and now
goes to the Governor, who will most prob
ably sign it, The penalty of higher rate,
will be forfeiture of the interest charged.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

The alleged facts touching the famine in
Bengal are appalling. The rice crop failed
in one of the most populous districts last
season, and we read that in fifteen districts
26 ,OOO. 900 people are now in want of food,
while in others not far removed the scarcity
is being seriously felt among 14,Ooo,ooo
more In an estimated population of 65,-
100000 there is a supply of only 300, 900 tons
of rice. 1t will take 100000 tons to get
them through another harvest.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

While negro plowman was quietly fol-
lowing his horse along the furrow in Coffee
county, Tenn, the horse suddenly vanished.
Examination revealed a cavern filled, to
within seven feet of the surface of the earth,
with running water, twenty-five feet long
and fifteen feet wide. Into this the animal
had fallen by the breaking in of the crust.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28
Both Wendell Phillips and Carl Schurz
are to deliver eulogies of the late Charles
Sumner, in Boston, within a few weeks.

A" strictly correct young man is missing
from Salesburg, Ill. As he had 500 on his
person and policy Of $1,000 on his life, foul
play is suspected.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

We have become 50 used to seeing the
brands Of Massachusetts and New England
mills, that our people would doubtless get a
little frightened if our merchants should lay
before them choice bolts of every style and
grade of domestics, differing only from the
Granite State mills and other brands in hav-
ing a Southern trademark. For instance, a
Louisiana cotton factory sells it's manufac-
lures to house in Philadelphia, and the
same goods are then brought back to New
Orleans and redistributed in the country.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

The Grand Duke Alexis has made the city
of ST. Louis present of some choice varie-
ties of Russian grape vines.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

Andy Parle has introduced brand of
Bald Mountain whisky to the denzens of
st. Charles street. 1t is SO volcanic in its
nature that it can be heard to hiss as it goes
down.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

The great financial battle of contraction
or expansion has been fought through both
houses at Washington, and the advocates of
have won. The maximum
amount was fixed in the Senate at $780,
ono OOO
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

The Iowa Legislature has enacted law
against baggage smashing. law against
carpet-bagging would be about the thing in
Louisiana.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

Two curtains, each of distinct and diff
ferent pattern, are now considered proper
or DRAWN groom windows in New York.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

Russian Mennonites, sixty thousand in
number, offer to buy of the United States
Government twenty-five square miles of
land and pay ten per cent. down. Ten
thousand will immigrate this year. The
Mennonites, or Menists, of Somerset county,
Pennsylvania, have been settled there many
years, and converted She glades into gar
den. They are peaceful, frugal, temperate
ners, but models of what rural population
ought to be, and well deserving the study
of philanthropists, historians and political
philosophers.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28
TheCourts.


D. w. Taliaferro has brought suit against
Joseph Hernandez, F. H. Hatch, John w.
Sinnott, Alexander Walker, f. C. Hancock,
George Wood, Thomas Barnes and Chris.
Mehle, late firm under the style of the
Herald Company, for the sum OF SAIL 60.
The plaintiff is the transferee of certain
claims held against the Herald.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

The woman, it seems, are resorting to one
to securing trade-that of tickling the palate
in order eventually to reach the purse. A
popular milliner in New York has issued
cards, gotten up in the highest style of the
art, for an opening of Partisan styles at her
residence on Easter Wednesday. There is
to be music, dancing and refreshments, and
gentlemen are included in the invitation.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

j. Thomas H. Hunt, lawyer of considerable
ability, was in Utah, waiting to prosecute
Mexican. Hunt, having copiously quaffed
the flowing bowl, was asleep in the saloon,
when body of armed men, painted and at
tired as Indians, broke in, and installing the
lawyer for the prisoner, put chains on him,
and, passing rope over one of the beams,
put a moose around his neck and drew him
up. But for the great bravery and presence
of mind displayed by the Deputy Sheriff.
who, at the peril of his own life, rushed in
and cut the rope, the lawyer would have
been successfully hanged.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

Proceedings in bankruptcy have so increas-
ed of late that important points are daily
coming up for decision. One important in
quiry is, where bankrupt's estate leaves a
surplus over and above the debts proved
against il, are the creditors entitled to in
terest up to the date of payment This
point was years ago submitted to the courts,
which decided that such interest is allowa-
BILE and should be paid up to the day Of the
payment of such claims respectively. There
is nothing in the bankruptcy act that would
seem to prohibit such payment when there
signee to do so.' This is said also to be the
rule of the English law.
Owing to the bars at the mouth of the
Mississippi, there has been a tax of fifteen
cents on bushel Of wheat, and fifty cents
on = barrel of -four on an outward cargo
from New Orleans. The value of the ship
ments of -four and grain from New Orleans
fell off from 1856 to 1860, inclusive-of
wheat, from 1,OO6, 733 bushels to 2l69 bush
els; of flour, from 251 sol barrels to 6O,54l
barrels; and of corn, from 2, 41, I'll bushels
to 224,3S2 bushels; whereas from Chicago
the shipments of wheat and flour from 1856
to 1860 increased from 9,4l9, 800 bushels to
Il, 49,, S57 bushels, and the shipments OF
corn from 1l129,66s bushels to 1890. 113
bushels. In 1865 and 1869 the exports of
wheat from New Orleans amounted to 49,
Gil bushels.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

A company of Algerine dancing girls, four
in number, are now exciting considerable
degree ofinteresti in Paris. The eldest, Fora,
wears magnificent coronet of diamonds,
and is said to resemble a Japanese idol.
Each girl rises and dances in turn, then two
more repeat the dance with variations.
over the floor without seeming to leave the
surface. The body is swayed from the hips,
and pieces of red elk are swayed by the
dancers The contOrtions become more CON-
pick and the movements more rapid as the
time of the music increases From the &C
count one would judge that the dance is of
rather a voluptuous nature. 1t is termed the
Oriental cancan
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28

is almost an insult to ask this question. 1t
will be affirmatively answered all over Our
city by all classes of our citizens. Let us
try another question viii, may not be an.
swered SO easily and so promptly. Why do
we not have cotton-mills? Have we not the
raw staples Yes, we ship it bsnce to the
North. Have we not the capitals Yes, in
abundance, for at least one large mill with
all modern machinery, without withdrawing
dollar from other pursuits. Have we not
the labor!