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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-10-27
For E. P. Walker Engine Co.

BARGAINS NEVER OFFERED BEFoRE.-1000
yards of silk-web velvets selling at less than
half their actual value. Black at So %, 50 80,
SA75, %, $3.50, and the very best ST. actual
ly worth SO. Colored velvets in all new fall
shades, nice quality, 80 %; splendid quality,
1878; very best, $4.3S; selling elsewhere at
w. 81. Black and colored ,gros grain and boiled
trimming silks retailing at wholesale prices.
Don't delay as the goods are advancing and
colors growing scarce. Call and examine at
P. LATNER's, $50 Congress st.
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PIANO SALE-Our citizens are to have an
opportunity to purchase first class piano at
their OWE price this morning at salesroom No.
b Exchange street. The lot comprises twenty
of the very best instruments which are forced
onto the market owing to bard times. They
contain all the modern Improvements and will
be sold without reserve. The pianos were ex-
hibited yesterday and were highly spoken of
by those who examined them. The makers
are Pease & Co., Hardman, Won Minden, of
New York, Jewett & Co., Hall 8 Sons, Batch
elder, and Vose, of Boston. Through the kind
ness of Mr.. Hicks, the manager of the sale, and
Miss Hunt, the accomplished pianist, those
who attended the art exhibition last evening
enjoyed rich treat. The instrument used
was one of Pease & Co.'s, and Miss Hunt
brought forth excellent music from it, She
will be in attendance at the sale today.
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Agents Wanted for every Town.

A handsome octave vol. illustrated.
NOW ready One canvasser Is taking
over 100 subscribers per week. Every
family in the State should possess a
copy. For territory and terms ad-
ldress
B. B. RUSSELL, Publisher,
IS Cornhill, Boston.
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200 PAIRS BLANKETS, perfect, only 1926 at
Lsach's 1874 Middle street.
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FIRST class coat makers wanted at SO Ex-
change street. P. O'DoNNELL.
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Portland Widows Wood society.
ANNUAL MEETING.

fINHE Annual Meeting of the Portland Widows
Il Wood Society for election of officers and for the
transaction of any other business that may come be-
WEDNESDAY EVENING" October 81, at u O'Clock.
G. c. HAYES, Secretary.
Portland, Oct 20, 1875. oct2ld1w
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VIE undersigned desire to purchase two million
size to be delivered during the ensuing wear at he;y
FACTORY on Commercial St.. loaded on the cars Of
any railroad leading into Portland "
oct27d3w PORTLAND STAR MATCH CO.
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N 0 I G E i.

A S my wife, CARRIE E. LANG, is living apart
- from me without my consent, and without any
Ior ner and all persons are notified not to give her
Portland, Oct. 26, 1875. oct27d2w#
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11

PRESIDENT GRANT's Third-term let
ter is occasioning considerable loud
talk. Senator Dawes tells New York
Herald interviewer that for the past
two years he has regarded it as dan
gerous to the Republican party that
Grant had not shown his hand. ''Now
that he has spoken" added Mr.. Dawes
emphatically, cit is more to be re-
GREETED than ever that he has not
spoken in an unmistakable manner in
stead of the equivocal language con-
tanned in his letter. The question in
my mind is more complicated and I'M
settled than ever, and it would have
been much better for the party If he
had never written such a letter. "
Mr.. Wendell Phillips regards the let
ter asa welcome omen that Grant will
be renominated in '76. "Grant," he
says sis emphatically the man for the
next President. I scout all this pratt
tie about Cancellation" Blaine and
Morton, he thinks, are strong men,
but they cannot carry the nation. II
Grant does not allow the use of his
name, in Mr.. Phillips opinion, the
Democrats will elect their President.
If New England were privileged to
furnish the President, he concludes,
no friend of the negro race and Of q
prompt national paci6cation would
dream of suggesting any other name
than that of Gen. B. F. Butler.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11
southern RecuperatiOn.

Il is astonishing how rapidly the re-
constructed States recuperate when
they are relieved from the rule OF the
carpet uaggers aud their allies, who
have done so much to paralyze the
trade and Industries of the nation by
impoverlshing the States where they
have held control. Here is Arkansas,
where the people had been reduced to
the verge of despair by the exactions
of the carpet-bag crew who so long
maintained themselves in power by the
most outrageous frauds and the assis-
lance Of the administration, already
paying up lbs debts, though only few
months have elapsed since the people
recovered the right Of self government.
The landowners, notwithstanding
their poverty, are surprising the tax
collectors by the Promptness with
which they respond to the demands
made upon them. The board OF fl
nance have paid up the debt due the
Union Trust company Of this city,
amounting to nearly fifty thousand dol
lars, and they have taken in a large
number Of bonds hypothecateds several
years ago. By the first Of next month
the State Treasurer expects to be able
70 pay the interest due on a large
amount Of bonds, and in the business
Of private individuals the prospects are
equally encouraging. Yet, if Grant
could have induced Congress to yield
to his vishes, the United States army
would have been used TO remand Ar
kansas to the rule of the unconscion-
able rascals ~bo oppressed and plum
dered them until they we're almost
helplessly ruined.-NcU York Sam.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11
NOTES PREPARATION

In several of the counties of The
State candidates for Convention have
already been nominated by the Demo
Gratis and in most of the others meetings
have been called for the purposes of
organization. Soon all over the State
the Conservative masses will present a
solid front, and stand in battle array.
The enemy, though defeated, are
willy and crafty, and are quietly Or
ganizing for a stubborn fight. By
adopting the "Do Nothing" policy they
hope to win over to their ranks those
of our party who we're opposed to the
call of Convention at this time from
prudential reasons. But this will not
answer, and they reckon without their
host. The Radical party of North
Carolina is yet reeking with corrup-
ton and fraud, with ignorance and in
efficiency, with carpet-bagism and
civil rights, and the people of the
State feel now too keenly the Cypress
ion of heavy taxes, exhausted re-
sources, paralyzed industries, poverty
and bankruptcy, to trust them again
with the control of affairs. Even their
promises to "Do Nothing" will not
win support. They feel that it is vital
ly necessary to do Something" to
relieve themselves of the burdens
which now weigh them down.
The people demand and will have a
Constitution and a government IN
der which the rascaiities of Littleield
and Swepson will be impossible;under
which the exploits of Kirk and Bergen
will entail other punishment than
the impeachment and conviction Of a
Governor; and under which such men
as Tourgee and Watts and Cloud and
Logan will not disgrace the judiciary
of the State.
We must infuse new life into the
old State. Harpies have fastened up
on her vitals, and INSTRUCTED the life
channels. Her system needs a new
supply of fresh red blood, and this
can be obtained in no other way than
by change in the organic law itself.
We must strike at the very root of the
evil, if we would have permanent re-
lief.
Our people know and appreciate
this fact. In all portions of the State
they are getting ready for the impor-
tant work before them. And they in
tend to do it well. We expect soon 10
publish a list of candidates, whose
names will give assurance to all that
the people are in earnest, and fully
appreciate the purposes for which the
Convention is called.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11
From the New York Sur
Luck of the Carpet.Baggers

The carpet baggers seem to be COM
ing to grief. Stephen W. Dorsey, of
Vermont, who claims to be a Senator
from the Stare OF Arkansas, was re-
Gently obliged to surrender a shoddy
residence ut Washington procured
from Boss Shepherd. It was gotten
up in gorgeous style, after the pattern
of Grants brilliant court, and was one
of the centers of attraction for the re-
fined circle who throng the salons of
the Washington ring. And now comes
the sad news that j. Hale Bypher, of
Pennsylvania, who sat as Grant mem
Der Of Congress from New Orleans
without a color Of legal right, has gone
into bankruptcy, with a showing of
seven hundred and thirty-two dollars
for his assets IN failure Of one hun
dred and forty thousand dollars. He
splurged at the capital like the best of
his set, and last winter, when his
name appeared on the list of honorable
Republicans who received q share of
the subsidies they voted, the innocent
Sypher rose and explained that his
private fortune justified his costly style
of life. Since then the fortune ap-
pears to have vanished from the view
of carping creditors. The nisfortunes
of Hon. George E. Spencer are already
known by the revelations of the Post
Office Department, and committee of
the Alabama Legislature has lately
shown how the United States Senators
were made to order, with a mixture Of
the army, Intimidation, public money,
KuKlux shams and distribution of
patronage The return of peace, of
something like self-government, and
the withdrawal of troops from Arkan-
sas, Alabama and Louisiana, appear
to have had . most damaging effect on
the prosperous patriots who fattened
on the discord and disorder which
they kept up by falsehood and fraud
as . means of subsistence
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11

The Statesville American says
considerable capture Of cfooAeu
whiskey, this week, was made III ~
adjacent county and brought 10 'n''
place by revenue officials.
The Rockingham Spirit says: ADous
a month ago in Wolf Pit township, ~
this county, a colored man by 1no
name of Sandy Mccormick, got lnc -
domestic broil with his wife, WDlCn
e..de,7 by the woman drawing a JACK
KNIFE nnd r!unging it into SANDY ~
back, breaking off the blade IN the
wound DIR. Covington was cailea'
aud after considerable difficulty sue
ceeded in extracting the piece OF XIII i.o
blade, and the wound, although quiz
severe, the doctor did not think "ou .,'a
prove fatal. But 1t seems thai ~ ~
wound has not healed properly, anu ~
was reported on our streets this wien
that the man had died of his injuries
Every one remembers the nolu
stand taken by Maj. Foote last VINE.
when he and MIR. W. b. Glenn shoo.
off the dust of Radicalism aad GU
loose from the Republican party ,s us
the Civil Rights question. ihey "o h.
unsparingly denounced by the he pub
Iican papers, and their political ae eare
proclaimed. These gentlemen w. s'as
ready to accept the issue, and as tnf ii.
had acted console ntiously, were wa 40
ling to abide by the result we e. a
glad to learn through letter lros'
Major Foote, to the Raleigh Ne~ ~
that he is sustained by the peoplo
Wilkes in the most enthusiastic way,
He says: 81 am proud of my po ;s all
ere Yadkin, too, is ~"
right, and so is Glenn. You III .ha
see a Radical from this county IN 'no
Convention. Look for two good Oon
seryatiye men from Wilkes"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11
CESA RTSM.

We copy in full the letter of Sx-Sen-
ator Johnson, of Maryland, TO the New
York Herald on Grants ''third term
letter." Mr.. Johnson is one of the
foremost statesmen and jurist of the
country, and his acute analysis of this
now famous letter will be read with
interest.
MIR. Johnson's strong presentation
of the "unwritten law of the Republic"
against a third term will be accepted
by the people as definitely settling the
question, without an amendment to
the Constitution as urged by Presi-
dent Grant as necessary for that pur-
pose.
Nor is the letter the less readable
from the vigorous and timely exposure
of the Presidents vanity in supposing
that crisis may arise when it might
be disastrous" or even ''unf ortunate'
that any one else than himself should
be President. If theprosperity, much
less the independence or freedom of a
people be dependent upon the Presi-
dency of General Grant or any one
man, then are the foundations of the
Republic built upon sand, which can
not long Withstand the rains and
storms of political revolutions. The
death of Lincoln at the time and in the
manner it happened, and the accession of
Andrew johnson, all combined to show
that the peace and prosperity of the
country is not dependent upon any one
man. Nay, as it has prospered during
the administration of General Grant
and the legislation of Congress during
the past few years, proves that its
march is onward and upward in spite
of bad administration and wicked
Congresses.
If then the United States could
withstand the assassination of Lin
coin, just when the Union was torn
and trembling, it can do without
Grant, when majority of the people
have expressed at the ballot-box their
utter condemnation of him and his
party, and when every industry in the
country is paralyzed from the errors
and evils of his administration.
But regardless of what Grant may
mean by his letter, or what may be his
real purposes, the question is practi-
cally settled. There can be no candi-
dacy for third term. Washington
set the example, and his spirit of true
patriotism still animates the hearts of
our people. Away then for all time to
come with Casarism.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11

A woman in Manhattan, Kansas,
wished to plaster q room, but she
could buy only the lime and sand.
Then she sheared her dog to get hair,
put the plaster on herself and paper
ed the walls. That's the way grit
works in Kansas.
The will of Miss Mary Telfair, a
daughter of Ex-Governor Telfair, Of
Georgia, who died last week, aged So
years, was filed in Savannah on Satur-
day. Several munificent requests are
made to societies The Georgia His
torical Society about $175, 500, indie
pendent Presbyterian Church, Savan-
nah, $50, 600, and Presbyterian Church,
Augusta, $4,000. The Eodgson In
stitution and Telfairville Christie n
Church have also legacies. Endow-
ment of Telfair Hospital for females,
endowment of Telfair's Academy of
Art and Sciences and numerous per.
sonal legacies are made, including
handsome requests to colored family
The estate is vslued at over
one million dollars.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11
ANOTHER SCANDAL,

A Washington dispatch says: cit is
understood that seious charges in con-
nection with the Chorpenning claims,
and other matters, affecting high Off
Gals in the Post Office Department,
and also involving a Senator, were
laid before the President one day last
week Considerable surprise was ex-
pressed by the President at the nature
of the charges, which are now being
investigated
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
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It seems that the newspapers of the
South gushed too much over Miss Anna
Dickinson when she came to this sec
ton on a lecturing tour short time
ago. She is making the return u suaI-
ly made by people of that stamp. The
Southern people generally have no
use for strong-minded women, and
give little countenance to female lee
turers. But when Miss Dickinson
visited Richmond, Wilmington, Char
lesion, Savannah, Atlanta, and other
Southern cities, she was received
with the utmost kindness. Her
praises we're sung in the news
papers, and every exertion made
to secure her profitable houses. While
here she was all smiles and fair words.
Now, after returning North with peck
cts full Of Southern dollars, she pro-
poses to turn an honest penny by
abusing her entertainers. She is az
nounced to lecture in Chicago on s'The
Ostl AGITATION of Northern Whites from
the Southern Family Circle" It is
thousand pities that Miss Dickinson
was not severely "ostracised" when in
this section. The Courier Journal
makes good point when it says that
the gentle Anna seems to think that
''Southern housekeepers should keep
inns for all the tramps who
come along"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11
A BANKRUPT CARPET

The telegraph has announced the
bankruptcy of J. Hale Sypher, the
carpet-bag Congressman of Louisiana.
Sypher and his partner owe over
$1,000 and acknowledge the posses
sion of less than $4,000 assets. His
personal debts are $16, 500, to meet
which he has left at the mercy of his
creditors the magnificent amount of
$732i What has become of the re-
mainder is a tough question. 1t is
hardly likely that it was used to foist
himself, as for years he has done, on
the people of New Orleans as their
Representative for it was quite prob
able that Sypher was sharp enough to
saddle the cost of that operation on
the State and Federal Treasuries--that
is, on the people he misrepresented
and aided to Cypress. He is the man
whom the Republican Committee on
Elections, after Ben Butler had got
him seated as having a l1rinaa .facie
title, allowed to fill his seat and vote
for the gag rule, the force bill, and
other infamous measures, and then at
the very end of the term, in February
last, they reported that he was return
ed by fraud, and unseated him despite
his piteous plea1ings. Whether he
used his plantation to keep him in
Congress, or his seat in Congress to
keep up his plantrtion, the Register
in Bankruptcy may be able to discover;
but his claims to both prove equally
unsound, When his brother carpet
baggers come to the test, most of them
Will be apt to make similar showing.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11

WHAT MANUFACTURING DOES.
The little town of Durham on the
North Carolina Railroad in the county
of Orange, says the Raleigh NeaUs, is
an example of what sagacious applica-
ton of capital and industry will do for
people. Ten years ago Durham was
known only as way station on the
railroad, and getting offplace for the
University at Chapel Hill. To-day it
is literally in every mans mouth, a
familiar name all over the United
States, and not unknown to the ends
of the earth.
What has made this mighty change?
Nothing but the introduction of man
ufactures. True, it is mainly confined
to one staple. But the manufacture
of that staple moves the springs of a
hundred industries. It stimulates the
farmer in the production of a crop
which he sells at good prices almost al
his very door. 1t gives employment to
/ hundreds in the conversion of the raw
material into the manufactured article.
1t gives work to the carpenter in the
manufacture Of packages. It gives activ-
ity to thousand needles in the ma kine
of bags.
1t draws population, and to meet their
wants. mechanics are called in to con-
struct houses. The increase of popu-
lation necessitates the increase of
mercantile establishments, and the
necessities of this increased popula-
ton beget other trades, industries and
manufactures. Everybody is busy.
Everybody finds employment. There
is no idliDg, no lettering, no complaint
of dull times.
What is true of Durham may be
true of every town in North Carolina.
And it may be recognized as a fact
that North Carolina will not prosper
as she ought until she becomes indie
pendent, until she keeps more of her
money at home. And she can never
do this until she embarks in manufac-
lures, which are not only profitable to
stockholders, but which, by setting
other industries in motion, WHY the
whole population.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11
As an illustration of the service re

As an illustration of the service rem
dered to commerce by the introduc-
ton of improved mechanical appara-
tus. the following statements regarding
the famous Butte Docks at Cardiff is of
interest At those docks the machine
~ for lifting out ballast and putting in
coal is said to be 80 efficient that a
steam collier of fifteen hundred tons
can enter the basin at high water on
one day, discharge her ballast, take in
full cargo of coal, and leave at high
water the following day, thus unload
ing and load ng up in less than twen-
ty-fOur hours.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11

ter again into the work of ,to
deavor to bridge the blcodv =. En-
Strive to cement anew tn. cnasn.
friendship between the sectio,.' 'es Of
call the common glories of orr oo Re-
How this month a centurv antry.
proclaimed independence at ago We
lotte; how we rescued Boston thar.
the hands of the despot: hol lfon
Saratoga we defeated and CIV aow at
Bnrgoyne; how, at yorktown pTCnred
wallis surrendered his sword. oofn.
New Orleans, Jackson beat h no~, at
famous legions that had renderaa 9k ~ the
hngton immortal; how Mexicua vel
added new glories TO our co con- out
fame, and gave us an empire as au
herltance. Learn to cons;dsr a' H.
great war as only an event in tho The
tory OF our common country ms-
remember always, that He :, aud,
we look for all the BLESSINGS ~ sh 10.
who indeed hath graciouslv one an NE.
us the portals to a glorious imr-a'uto
lty-He to whom we humblv banJ 'ai-
knees, supplicating forgiveness. ouf
as we forgive, remember that H. 1 even
commanded, saying, Blessed he A a.
Peace-makers. NC LIE
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11
NADIA auynaily. In the parishes the

made annually. In the parishes the
tax collectors, who have more or less
to do with the assessments, received
ten per cent of their collections, and
in many cases it has been proved that
they received taxes in greenbacks and
turned them in deprecated scrip.
The city of New Orleans, being largely
Democratic, has been afflicted with
double set of assessors and collectors
one for the State, the other for the
city. The States annual assessment
of property in New Orleans cost, in
1871, 500, 600. Last year the asaess-
ment and collection of the State
tax for New Orleans cost $175,-
600. The result of all this is
that property in New Orleans is
almost worthless and totally unsala-
Bile. Nobody likes to be taxpayer.
A house and lot assessed for $36, 900
was sold last month for 81 ZOO. Good
residence property has fallen, since
1868, more than fifty per cent. in val
ne. Rents produce very small net in
come. Several years ago the Legisla-
ture was persuaded - pass law that
the parish tax should not exceed the
State, and q member of the New Or
leans ring showed Mr.. Nordhof this
law to prove that the complaints OF
exorbitant taxation in the country par
ishes must be without foundation. He
forgot, however, to tell him of another
law which allows the holder of parish
scrip to sue the parish, and directs
the Judge. in case of such suit, to lay
a special tax on the parish for the pay
ment of the scrip. This is continual
ly done, and the business of buying
rp deprecated parish scrip, with the
object of forcing the parish to pay il
by getting a Judgment against it, is Sc
common that several tax collector
have admitted that they did it. 1t ii
| perfectly safe speculation.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11

The women of Providence, r. l.,
after waiting in vain for the men to
make a demonstration, have decided
to celebrate the 103d anniversary OF
the burning of the Gaspee, which
falls due on Friday. There will be a
clam bake, a boat race, military dis
play, and the confagration of boat
on the neighboring pond, as vivid
representation of the destruction OF
the British vessel lob years ago.