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HENRY r. SIBLEY, Adjutant General.

The FUNNY MAN OF THE DETROIT FREE
PREss.-C P. Lewis is the wag of the Detroit
Free Press, says an exchange, referring to the
funny men of the press. During the past three
years he has written some of the finest touches
of sentiment and human nature in his police
court proceedings that have ever appeared In
the United States. Unlike Bailey, he did not
inherit his wit; unlike Mark Twain, 1t did not
come to him through associations. The truth
is it was blown into him. He was an ordinary
stupid country printer about Ann Arbor and
Lansing, Mich, till he took it into his head 10
go on tramp" Afterfooting it to Louisville
he engaged to work bis passage on a steamer to
New Orleans. The first day out the steamer
blew up. Lewis, one of the victims, was badly
SCARED and crippled; but as soon as he got able
to write he sent an account OF his experience
and sensations in being blown up to to the De-
troit Free Press, which at once established his
reputation as versatile genius On his return
home the Free Press took him on its columns
as items man. The leading editor said the 9TH
er day that he had to watch him like hawk;
for about half the time, like old Milton, he
clings lovingly to the fiattest emanations of his
brain. Lewis writes good deal for the East
ern weeklies over the signature OF IN Quod
"a bourgeois em quod" he says, "as it is worth
less in a printing Office except in its own line.
for it won't Justify with any other type
Lewis will probably last some time.
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THE TRIPLE FIRM.-The great book houses
are growing proud, and are betaking them
selves, one by one, from the dingy establish
ments which they have occupied for years, to
new and elegant quarters. The latest instance
is the triple house of Scribner, Armstrong &
Co., Scribner, Wilford & Armstrong, and
Scribner & Co. The rapid increase of business
done by these firms has necessitated an en-
largement of facilities and they have trans
ferred their importation, publication and sale
departments to 743 and 745 Broadway. where
it is said, they have fitted up the neatest and
most convenient establishment in New York,
and one especially adapted to the publication
of their magazines.
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money of the Society was expended. 1t
further asserts that we took an entire column
TO give them the advice we did. That's a
sander, most venerable Farmer. It was just
half column, no more. Even the Maine
Farmer couldn't well get along without the
PREss-not well, we say; for in recent
issue we noticed that more than three-fourths
of its column Of state news was taken bodily
from this every day sheet. We are glad of it.
for we esteem such an appropriation as a
proof of confidence in our discretion, and we
are comforted with the thought that the
Farmer editor saves time in so doing, which
is doubtless devoted to agricultural studies
and to the elaboration of tne report OF the
Secretary of the Board.
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IT appears from special despatch to the
Boston Advertiser that the Postmaster-Gen-
eral has discovered frauds in letting contracts
for mali bags, AMI although they are not on
as great scale as those for carrying mails
lately exposed, they are of such magnitude
as to warrant an extended Investigation Re-
pairs of mail bags have cost from eighty to
one hundred thousand dollars annually, and
a large part of this has been overcharge.
Hereafter all repairs will be done at depots to
be established by the department, and for
the purpose of beginning this work under the
immediate supervision of the department
three depots will be opened at once, one at
New York, one at Washington and third
at Indianapolis.
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CHURCHILL county, Nevada, has been SO
fortunate until recently as to need ne Jail, for
It has had no criminals. But fortnight since
foreigner, straying within the county limits,
did some bad thing, and was arrested for it.
IN default of Jail he was sunk in mining
shaft, 200 feet below the ground, where he
is now confined, awaiting trial. Three times
day he is taken to the surface and fed, and
then sent back to solitary confinement. The
Nevada people are said to be well satisfied
with their substitute for prison.
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The Maine Farmer will pardon us for
neglect. The fact is, we don't read that ex-
cellent journal, advertisements and all. We
regret to notice that it is in bad temper-that
it has been dressing its agricultural locks with
thistle seed and burdock burrs-a fact which
mars its sage advice that we mind our busi-
ness and let agricultural matters alone. 1t is
angry because things generally don't go in
the old way. The state refuses to pay the
bills of its reporter at Lewiston last fall.
The Agricultural Society is out from under
its thumb. So it turns on us and calls us
amiable and advises us to mind our business.
What did we do? Merely suggested that it
wasn't just the thing to attempt to stir up
enmity between Portland and Lewiston, and
that it should publish the report of the
treasurer of the Agricultural Society, so that
fifty thousand farmers might know how the
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THE St. Louis Globe, which is skeptical and
iconocIastic journal, looks upon Spring as
myth, as a tradition, reminiscence of some
fairer cline. Gas pure matter of fact"
saws the Globe, ''there is no such thing as
Spring. What we call Spring would by any
other name smell quite as sweet. The whole
spring business, as we are wont to talk Of it,
is a whim, a.dream, fraud. The mellow
voiced robin lives only in the rhymes Of the
verse-makers; the suggestive lilies and hya-
cnths are mainly affairs of faith; and the
mercurial young sheep that goes skipping
over the emerald meadows is but shadowy
emake-beleve." In sober truth, we never
hear or smell or see these typical institutions
during the period that claims them for its
own. They exist only in books and pictures
and in our own ensnared and swinded fancy.
No man has ever lived long enough 10 see with
his own eyes the Spring of the poets and the
painters. The process of resurrection in ma
ture is not a slow-unfolding floral panorama,
with free-concert accompaniment. 1t is view
less, noiseless and terribly prosaic. The mud
slush, the raw gales, the sky of agitated
gloom, are its true symbols; and our pet signs
are but accidents and Irregularities, when
they are not mere freaks of the imagination.
The real awakening has in it nothing of the
smooth and winsome graduation that we fond
ly mpute to it. We cannot foretell the time
of its coming. We cannot trace the steps of
its progress. The shrewdest of US dare not
attempt to prove that we have felt its tender
influence, or beheld its quivering luster. We
only know that when it does come, 1t comes
suddenly, in great gush of light and heat
and bloom. And that is not Spring but Sum-
uarC
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THE PRESS
MORNING, APR. IA, '75

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley t.
Pullen, Editor All railway. steamboat and hotel
managers will confer a favor upon us by demanding
credentials OF every person claiming to represent
Journal as we have information that several 'bum-
mers" are seeking cOurtesies in the name of the
PRESS, and we have no disposition to be- even pas
sively, party to such frauds.
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We do not read anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but guaranty OF good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nieations that are not used,
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EnlDiOymenf.

II WANT 1000 agents to canvass for the COM
PIETE HERBALIST, and THE GROWING
WORLD 1 will give such terms and furnish such
advertising facilities that no man need make less
whether he ever canvassed before OF not. Address
DR. O. PHELPS BROWN, No. q Grand street,
Jersey City, N. j., and full particulars will be sent
by return mail apr1d&w1m
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Tenement wanted.

10y gentleman and wife tenement of from 8 to
ID rooms furnished or unfurnished. Two of thu
rooms must be large and facing south OF west Ref
mar19tf L. R., Press Office.
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Wanted.

GENTS, male and female, to sell one of the best
n selling articles in the market. Something ev-
cry family, store and house will buy Ladies can make
money selling th ese goods. Would like general
kind of men. smart man can make from $5 to $40
day. Call, or send 35 cents for sample and cir
eular W. H. Mann q co,
Union House, Temple St., Portland.
PO Box 1414 apr8d6wtf
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Gov. Dingley Declines.

Elsewhere our readers will find note from
Gov. Dingley in which he announces his de-
termination not again to be candidate for
reelection this fall. Last fall he indicated to
many personal and political friends his inten-
tion of retiring at the close Of the present
year; but in Difference to their wishes
he has deferred final decision until the
present time. 1t is needless to add that he
has come to this conclusion against the re-
peated requests and solicitations of leading
party men in all parts of the state, and we
have no hesitation in saying that more than
three-fourths of the Republicans in the state,
embracing nearly every man who has the
public interest at heart, will most deeply regret
that Gov. Dingley has come to the conclusion
he has reached and announced.
During the past three months, Gov. Ding
ley has received earnest requests from many
of the most prominent Republicans of the
state that he should tagain accept a nomina-
ton which would be accorded him by accla-
nation; but he urges that his own private
business demands his personal attention, and
expresses growing desire to return to the
full control of his influential journal. un-
trammeled by the restraints of official posi-
ton and uninterrupted by the responsible
ties and perplexities which attend the chief
magistracy of the state.
Gov. Dingley has brought to the guberna-
torial Office that industry, that scrupulous
care of details and that conscientious dis
charge of duty which have characterized
him in private lite and made him SO success
full in his business. He has not been content
with the seeming performance Of his duties
but has, from the first, set himself to the diff
ficult task of applying to public affairs the
same care and oversight that successful men
bring to their private affairs. He has fearless.
ly set himself to the work Of bringing about
reforms in the administration of public affairs
and has advocated measures for the reduction
and equalization OF the public burdens. Nat
ural.y enough, by pursuing this policy, he
has come into collision with those who have
less rigorous notions and whose personal in
terests have been interfered with. This num-
ber, hewever,is small and where he has made
one enemy of this despicable character he has
| rallied about him hundreds of the best men
| in the state. Indeed, we may safely assert
that with seven-eighths of the Republicans o.
the state Gov. Dingley stands better to-day
than when he received the flattering nomina
ton at Bangor in 1878: and further we pre-
| dict that he will in the future be accorded
place among the names of those who have
most diligently, conscientiously and ably
served the State of Maine in the honorable
| Office OF Governor.
| As journalist, we most cordially welcome
him back to the fuller participation in the du'
ties, responsibilities and honors of conscien'
tious journalism where he has been so con-
snicnous and faithful in the past.
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WANTS..
WANTED.

gFyHE Ladies to know that the great French System
Il OF Dress Cutting will be taught for a few days
longer at United States Hotel, Room Sc. Every
dressmaker should know how to manage and design
trimmings, saving two-thirds time. Trimmings cut
free Tuesday to test the system. Headquarters 7eS
apr13 uot'
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Wanted.

MALE AND FEMALE canvassers by the propri-
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character and address requisite. Arrangeme mt
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For Rent

r OVER tenement in House No. Orange Street
IL Very desirable. Apply to
A. C. BARKER,
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Rooms Wanted.

TWO or three good rooms, well located, unfur
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COMPREHENSIVE.
COpartnerShip.

TEyHE undersigned have formed copartnershh1P
Il under the firm name of SKILLlN q NOVEL;
and will carry on the Stationery and Fancy doous
business and the manufacture of Picture Frames at
the stand of S. H. Colesworthy 226 Federal st.
GEORGE e. SKILLlN,
EDWARD C. NOWELL.
anr12d1w
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Board.

TWO or three boarders be accommodated with
i board in private family. Rooms newly fur
nished. Inquire at A st. Lawrence street.
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BOARDING..
Board,

BOARDING at 223A CUMBERLAND ST., corner
ID Wimot, Also table board. oc5tf
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1.-TWO Gentlemen or a Gentleman and his Wife can
Il be accommodated with first class Board and
Rooms at No. 20 Brown Street. my19dt
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Wanted.
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Wanted.

A PRACTICAL business man, and good ac-
"A countant whose time is not fully. occupied
would like employment for some hours daily at a
moderate compensation. Address
ap12dlw* "KIRKLAND," This Office
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Wanted.

TEyHREE ladies of energy and ability to fill vacan-
Il ces in our subscription department. Apply to
SKILLIN & NOW ELL,
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Memorial lay.

up their school knowledge for use during the
coming year.
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Brick House to be Let.

nN Wilmot street. Contains ten rooms, in good
" order, Gas and Sebago water. Rent 1925
Caboon Block, corner Congress and Myrtle streets.
an12 div
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Dress Maker Wanted.

NNE fully competent to take head charge of a
~ shop with first class trade Ono other wanted. }
Address HENRY PLUMMER,
ap7deod3t Skowhegan, Maine.
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PLEASANT unfurnished front room and side
IL room with board at rs FREE ST.
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RATES OF ADvERTIsING One inch Of space, the
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MARK KTwAIN'S LAST LAMENT
Twain, in the August atlantic, mourns
over the diminished length of the Miss
issippi in this strain: The Mississippi
between Cairo and New Orleans was
l,2l5 miles long 176 years ago. 1t was
l,040 after the American Bend cutoff
(some sixteen or seventeen years ago.)
1t has lost 81 miles since. Consequently
its length is only 973 miles at present.
In the space of 176 years the Mississippi
has shortened itself 242 miles. That is
an average of a trifle over a mile and a
third per year. Therefore, any calm
person, who is not blind or idiotie, can
see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian pe-
riod, just million years ago next No
vember, the lower Mississippi River was
upwards of 100000 miles long, and
stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a
fishing-rod. And by the same token any
person can see that 742 years from now
the lower Mississippi will only be mile
and three quarters long, and Cairo and
New Orleans will have Joined their
streets together, and be plodding COM
fortably along under q single Mayor and
a mutual Board of Aldermen. There is
something fascinating about science.
One gets such wholesome returns of con-
lecture out of such trifiing investment
of fact
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Entered, according TO Act OF Congress, in the
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The Boston Post says there are only
Al, 200 lawyers in. this country. The De-
troit Free Press exelaims that itthought
there were 100000, with Texas to hear
from.
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SOLDIERS
WAR CLAIM AGENCY
No. "a MONTGOMERY BLOCK,

w II. AIKEN, Attorney-at-Law, and Com
w mander of the Grand Army of the Re
public in California and Nevada, will give
promptattentiOn to the collection of Additional
Travel Pay, now due California and Nevada
Volunteers, discharged more than three humid
red miles from home. Soldiers can depend on
fair dealing Information given free of charge.
When writing, enclose stamp for reply, and
state company and regiment and whether you
have a discharge. Congress has extended the
time for filing claims for additional bounty
under the Act of July 2S, 1866, TO January, 1875,
so that all such claims must be made before
that time. Original Bounty of 500 has been
allowed all volunteers who enlisted before July
2nd, 1861, for three years, If not paid the same
when discharged. Land Warrants can be OBJ
tanned for services rendered before 1855, but not
for services in the late war; Pensions for the
late war and war of 1872 obtained and increased
when allowed for less than disability warrants,
but no pensions are allowed TO Mexican and
Florida war soldiers. State of Texas has grant
ed pensions to surviving veterans of Texas rev.
Olution. New Orleans and Mobile Prize Money
is now due and being paid. w. II. Aiken also
attends to General Law and Collection Busi-
ness. 4-l-6m