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OK Q &O0 perda at home. Terms free. Address
W. & ~AO GEO. ST1NsoN 4 Co., Portland, Me.
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-22

the principal cities. There is no doubt that
If an election for state officers were held TO-
morrow Pennsylvania would reverse the YER
dict of last ll.-PhiI0delphia Press.
Mast comes out unusually strong in Har-
pe's Weekly. One picture represents
a rough looking old fellow with a whis-
key bottle and copy of the civil rights bill
before him, and an agonlzed expression OF
countenance, giving vent to his despair
in the words, "Now 1 must marry my
daughter to Niger" Another depicts Mr..
John Young Brown of Kentucky as a furi-
Gus panther, striking viciously with upraised
paw at Ben. Butler, who stands unterrihed,
while Fernando Wood and Sunset Cox are
holding back the ugly beast by the tail. One
clerk hides behind his chair, and OF another
only the heels are visible as he dives tor sale
ty under the desk. Mr.. Blaine raps furiously
meanwhile, with his gavel, and vociferates,
Gentlemen, you must not let your wild AMI
mails loose till the next session."
After the fourth of March, Mr.. McCreary
of Kentucky will be the only remaining men,
Der of the United States Senate who voted
against the impeachment of Andrew john
son.
The New York papers announce that CDR.
James Wood and DR.. Clarke, who were ap-
pointed commission to report on William
M. Tweed's condition and treatment on
Backwelps Island, have advised that he be
permitted to remain on duty as orderly in the
hospital, and be treated as such," which
suggests the frequent order of an excited
Yale or;-"Disperse, young gentle
men, disperse, or you will be treated as
such.'
So far as Louisiana is concerned there are
apparently but two courses upon Congress |;
either to order new election or to pass a
bill recognizing the Kellogg government, which
has now for two years been the de facto gov
ernment.-Hartord Courant
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TERMS $500 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE.

by robbers. To restrain the robbers and TO pro-
tect the pesceable inhabitants of the neighbor-
hood from their inroads, it was usual for tho
crown to appoint an officer, who was called the
steward OF the Chiltern Hundreds. Though
the Deech forests remain, the robbers have
Withdrawn from them to the more perfect se-
clusion of the slumssof East London, and the
Office is now an obsolete sinecure, and but for
the secondary object of enabling a member of
parliament to adopt roundabout way of
resigning his seat, it might be abolished to-
morrow.
But we cling to our fctions, and for the last
century and quarter, whenever a member of
the house applies for the Chitern Hundreds,
1t is granted generally, though not invariably
on the understanding that the member instant
ly resigns it, and, his seat being vacated by his
acceptance of office, new writ is issued for
the constituency which he had represented.
This roundabout process has just been gone
through by Mr. Nelly, the member for Stoke
upon-Trent among the potteries in Stafford :
shire, chiefly remarkable for having been at
one time represented by Josiah Wedgwood, a
descendant of the creator of the celebrated
WedgWood ware
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Current Notes.

The XLIII Congress has been little better
than King Log toward the South; but if it
will not, acting or failing to act, lend aid to
a King Stork region, it may yet win some
gratitude. If its members shall need to con-
fess, "We have left undone what we should
have done," let them not have TO add, ''We
have done what we ought not to have DONE"
The Christian Union.
Under the rather revolutionary phrase of
'clean out the carpet baggers," the Post and
Mail of Chicago call attention to the fact
that out eff 240 members of the Illinois legis-
lature less than one seventh were born in the
state.
The town elections throughout the state
seem to have been generally favorable to the
Republicans, the party making large gains,
compared with the vote in November, in all
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-22
Weather and Morals.

1t Is a cold winter-there is no more doubt
about that than about the we'll authenticated
decease of Marley. Cold toes and frosty nos
es, from the Chesapeake-ws had almost said
from the Gulf of Mexico--to the st. Lawrence
and so northward to whatever open polar sea
there may be, attest it. An icy coast, vessels
frozen in, travel interrupted, bursting water
pipes, sleighrides to the islands, the prosperity
of coal and wood dealers, the frequency of
insanity and suicide among ice-cutters, the pre-
prevailing testiness of the public temper and
the high electrified condition of the legislature,
resulting in the emission of succession of
sparks and the repelling of constitutions i
amendments, anti-hanging bills and other
positive matter that comes within range of
its negative influence, afford all of the confr-
nation which is needed. q
The physical results OF cold weather are no.
ticeable enough, but the moral influence is not
to be overlooked. Cold has for its moral cor
relatives narrow views, hard temper, a cold
heart and deadened sympathies. 1t seems
probable that well-established "January
thaw' would have ensured the abolition of
hanging, while a reasonable February would
have rescued at least half dozen of the con-
stitutional amendments and handed them ten
derly over to the people. But how can you
reason with man whose fingers are smarting
and who has this very morning frozen his
ears? ga hungry jury always finds for the
plaintiff" and a frost-bitten legislature will
impatiently reject an appeal to its reason, jus
tice or sympathy. So obvious a principle as
that representation shsuld be based on popu-
lation and that imaginary geographical lines
are relatively unimportant, even when they
divide town from country, is instantly chilled
and withered by the frosty legislative breath.
Honorable members dance on it to warm
their feet.
But cold weather has played an important
part in history more than once before. Napo-
leou would have conquered Russia and there
would have been an end of the Bourbons, if
the winter of 1928 had not heen much
like that of 1875. The reformed constitu-
tion of Maine is not the first fourishing and
promising fruit-tree that has been winter
killed. Let us now console ourselves. The
spring is coming with its birds and flowers,
and the human mind-nay, that variety of it
known as the legislative mind-will thaw
with normal kindliness aud reason. Already
we have promise of something better, and
the mercury, tired of skulking around below
zero, feels the yernal influence. Hamlin is
senator, Gordon and Wagner are as good as
hanged, and we must jog on for years to
come in the old-fashioned, numbering, SPRING
less-but stout and reliable-constitutiona
vehicle which was provided by our fathers.
The spring will not restore the dead to life,
but it will provide flowers to scatter on their
graves. And henceforth may better kncwl-
edge of meteorology and more scientific
prescience enable us to avoid setting out our
tender plants in seasons so unpromising.
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Hcw to Get Out of the House Of Com.
mOnS

IuUuS.
The London letter to the New York Nation
says:-It is curious to notice from time to time
how strongly English institutions are influenced
by fictions and traditions which have no sub
stance in them, but which nothing short of a
revolution would induce English people to
change You find them in all the paths and
even the by-ways of English life, and in every
profession and nearly every trade. But not to
dwell upon subject which might be spun out
almost indefinitely, lei me take one of the
most common and least understood of these fic-
tions, viz, the stewardship of the Chiltern
Hundreds, and explain what it means. If,
suppose, a member of any representative body
in any civilized country of the world wishes to
cease being member, and to retire into pri-
vate life, he sends in his resignation, and there
is an end to it. Bat a member of the British
house of commons cannot resign his seat. He
may become disqualified frnm sitting in that
assembly by accepting some place of honor or
profit under the crown, or by some other eau Sc
but parliamentary law does not permit him to
resign. If. therefore, member desires ito re-
tire from the house, he must set about and find
an office which he can ask, even from his polit-
ical opponents, without much risk of refusal,
and. having got his Office, he is disqualified as
q member of parliament from sitting in the
signing his Office, he is at liberty to re-
tire from public life. 1t seems round
about way of doing simple thing but
1t is the only way of doing it. The steward
ship of the Chiltern Hundreds is the office gen
orally applied for in the circumstances. Inc
Chltern Hills are in the center OF Bucklng-
hamshire-Mr. Disraeli's county, and Buck
inghamshire is perhaps the most benightea
county in England. The county people there
know ali about Hampden, and some-
thing about Oliver Cromwell, but about more ,It'
ignorant. If you speak to Notwithstanding
peasant, for instance, about bout. the >, e Prince
Won. and if he answers at all, will show that
his mind, or what for courtesy we will cal his
ment'' if it suggests any sort of idea to such
peasant, suggests old traditions which
he has heard from his pIogenitors
of the long parliament and the
protector But, however backward the Buck
inghamshire rustcs may be;in the appreciation
of modern history, they have their Chiltern
Hills, covered still with beautiful beech forests
and in the old days these forests were infested
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-22

MINNESOTA is beginning to be alarmed
about its "Pine Land Ring" 1t is alleged
that certain men in Minneapolis have been
enabled, by collusion with the Surveyor Gen
eral, to acquire about three-quarters of all
the immense pine forests of northern Min
nesota. This gives them virtual monopoly
of the entire timber interest of the state.
The land, which is now worth about twenty
dollars an acre, cost its fortunate possessors
considerably less than the government regu-
lation price Of $1.25 an acre, it is said.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-22

THE inquiry into the election in the Nievre
has been the means of discovering the great
extent to which the Bonapartist intrigues
have been carried in France. 1t appears that
the central Bonapartist committee are in cor
respondence with representatives Of depart
ments who obey the instructions transmitted
to them from Paris. So complete is the Or
ganization that all the functionaries des-
tined to occupy any position whatever on the
restoration of the empire are already desig-
mated. The extent and ramifcations of the
conspiracy have greatly alarmed the govern
ment.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-22

CERTAIN members of the Connecticut
Democratic State Convention appear to have
INDUCED themselves in a sinful game. One
of the delegates rose and said that dispatch
had been received from Governor Ingersoll
saying that he was in the hands of his
friends. Another delegate thereupon said
that dispatch had been received from Col.
Loomis advising his friends to vote for Mr..
Ingersol So that gentleman was renomi-
ernor Ingersoll nor Col. Loomis sent dis
patch. and that the whole performance was
''put up' by few leading politicians. Such
is the auspicious beginning of "reform' in
Connecticut.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-22

NEW ENGLAND AMATEUR PRESS AssocIA-
TIoN.-The second semi-annual convention of
the New England Amateur Press Association
was held at the Rockingham House, Ports
mouth. N. H., Friday. The meeting was called
to order by the President Irwin Besse of Pea
body, Mass. The roll was called, and fourteen
members answered to their names. After the
usual routine business, the Association pro-
ceeded to the election Of officers, which result
ed as follows: President, @. Kendall, Boston,
Mass 1st Vice President. w. e. Gilmore, N.
H.; I'd Vice President, w. f. Stark. Dover, N.
H.; Sd Vice President, f. H. Pinkham, New
market, N. H.; Secretary, o. N. Flanders, Man.
chester, N. H.. Treasurer, +. H. Challis, Man
chester, N. H.; Official Organ, the Pioneer,
Portland. Me-, Association Printers, @. Il. Will
liams, Portland, Me.
After the election of officers the Association
adjourned to a banquet Speeches and toasts
were indulged in, and o. N. Flanders read an
original poem, written expressly for the occa-
sion. f. a. Pinkham, Newmarket N. H., also
read an ESSAY,
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AMONG the names of Democratic repre-
sentatives in Congress appended to the ad-
dress to the Southern people urging forbear-
ance and moderation is that of John Young
Brown, who has just given so striking an il
ustration of these two qualities. Certainly
consistency is not one of the Democratic
family Jewels.
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THE patriotic Cubans in New York, pat
riots of the Artemas Ward stamp, who send
men to beg money for Cuba, but who neither
60 nor give, have held another meeting Of
late. They conclude that small expeditions
are better than large ones. They will do well
to come to the conclusion that no expeditions
are even better than small ones.
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MONDAY MORNING, FEB. %. 1873

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate counersigned by Stanley t.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every 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, a 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 Indispensable not necessarily publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nieations that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-22

THE original manuscript of the Declaration
measures to preserve it are taken, be num-
bered among the things that we're. The sig
natures are fading, and will in short time
be oblterated, and the ink in which the body
of the document is written is beginning to
fade. Very likely the Declaration will have
entirely disappeared by the time we celebrate
the hundredth anniversary of its publication.
Ingenious and patriotic Americans are called
upon to discover some preparation that will
arrest the disappearance of the signatures.
Here is a fine opportunity to earn gratitude,
glory and pelf.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-22
Washington News and Gossip.

GATHERING OF LEADING LIBERALS.
During last week a number of leading Liber-
ais of New York and other states gathered in
Washington and consulted with Senators Fen
ton and Schurz. The conferences do not seem
to have been confined exclusively to themselves,
but to have included quite number of promi-
nent gentlemen who, though not having SYM
pathy with the Cincinnati movement, seem to
be IN accord with the opinions there announc-
ed, which they supposed to be tending to inde-
pendent political action by the people.
THE ARMY BILL PASSED.
The army bill went through without serious
obstruction or material amendment Friday.
The anticipated political debate was quite mild.
Nobody tried to get in a two years appropria-
ton, and Mr. Cox's amendment against tina use
of the army for political purposes made no
trouble.
sToCKwELL AND THE PACIFIC MAIL SUBSIDY.
Alden B. Stockwell, the ex-President of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, is UNDER
stood to be contemplating an early return to
this country to vindicate himself from the
charges made against him by Rufus Hatch and
the other directors of the Pacific Mail Compa.
ny. The gentleman who acts as private .coun-
sci to Mr. Stockwell in the litigation, troubles
and settlements growing out of the alleged mis-
appropriation of funds of the Company. says
that his client had been expected to arrive home
some time last week, but had been kept back
by pressure of business. 1t 10 now anticipated
that he will come shortly. The Pacific Mail
managers say, however, that if Stockwell does
come, it will be after the Congressional investi-
cation is over. some who are supposed to
know Mr. Stockwelrs character well say that
he is unwilling to come here and undergo any
bullying by Mr.. Hatch, as the latter has threat
ened all sorts of proceedings to make Mr..
Stockwell give up money.
THE EADs BILL.
The passage by the House of the Eads bill
for the improvement of the mouth of the Mis-
sssipp by the construction of jettys at the
Southwest pass, is quite triumph for the St.
Louis capitalists who are backing up the
scheme and who expect to make good deal Of
money out of it. The price to be paid by the
government is $8 000, 900, but it is to be paid in
instalments, the first 100000 not to be paid
until a depth of channel of twenty two feet IS
obtained. This is to be increased two feet
every year until it is thirty feet deep, and
thereafter the contractors are TO have $150,000
year for maintaining the jettys and keeping
the channel open.
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To Let.

nFFICE in Casco Bank Building. Apply TO
" VIM. H. CONANT, Treasurer's Office,
Portland g. Rochester Railway, 1871 Middle st.
jazz dt
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To Let

0NE half of double Brick House, ten rooms
" Pleasantly situated on Danfortb Street, No. 80.
Possession given October LIST. Enquire of S. W. ROB-
INSON, Real Estate Agent, 205 Middle street.
Portland, Sept. 30, 1874 diff
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ESTABLISHED JUNE 20. 1862. VOL. Is.
WANTS..
| Sifuafi0u Wanted.

A Salesman or Book-k keeper by young man who
N has had years. experience in dry goods and
who understands book keeping by single and double
entry Good references given. Address
feb20#iw Tf WATT. P. o. Box 1855
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FOR SALE !!

A GOOD family horse. Color black. Seven years
IA old and sound, Weight one thousand pounds.
Perfectly kind and not afraid OF the cars. Can be
at the stable of George Green, 62 Pine street,
who is authorized to sell. The horse is to be sold
horse flesh. feblSdf
TOB PRINTING of every descriptf,p peatly
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To Lease.
To Let.

A BOUT February first the Stores and Chambers
N on Union St., now occupied by Caldwell 81
Hodsdon, and Whitney g. Thomas. Apply to
ja11dtf ST. JOHN SMITH.
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HNHREE Good Tenements to Let One for 500, one
Il for SIS, one for $40 per month. Apply to
w. W. CARR,
dec21dtf 1877 NewburySt.
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FOB PRINTING of every description neatly
executed at this ofioe.
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Evening Tickets 80 cents, for sale at Dresser, Nc
Lellan g. Co.'s At Exchange Street. febl8d4t
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Agents Wanted

OtAN make $5 to $40 day. 1t costs nothing tt
u try Call or address, j. A. RUSSELL, E
oa feb6E3w aa 126 Exchange St.
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BOARDING at 2235 CUMBERLAND ST., corner
ID Wilmot, Also table board oc5
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-07-02
To st. Marys and Return.


Quite n number of the Masonic fra
ternity and others, including the Find
lay Cornet Band, went over to st. Marys
onl the oath inst. in response to the invi-
tation of the Masonic Lodge of that city,
to participate in the celebration of St.
Johns Day. Upon boarding the train
on the l.. +. & l.. Railway, we found
quite large representation of brethren
and Others from Fremont and Fostoria,
including the Fostoria Cornet Band, the
members Of which (by the way seemed
as proud of their new "Star Spangle
Banner" uniforms as boy is Of n new
top. The crowd was not so large but
that there was plentyebf CARTOON, and
the ride was an exceedingly pleasant one.
At Lima the train was boarded by the
Knights of 6hawnea Commandary, in
full uniform fine looking body OF men.
We IA $50 here received an addition to our
musical force in the shape of the Lima
COrnet Band. Arriving at st. Marys
which is an antiquated looking city of
some 1000 souls, spread out over about
three or four square miles of territory,
tie brethren were formed ia procession,
headed by st. Marys Lodge, and march,
ed and counterInarchcd through tlIc
principal streets for upwards ofan hour
When the procession started we estimat-
ed the thermometer to be some where in
the eighties, and it kept rising gradually
Gn our estimationl at the rate of about
degree aminute. When il halted there
was a countless number of wilted shirt
collars, and an equal number of parched
throats. Those who 'look not upon the
wine when it is red, sought 10 clear
their throats with cOpious draughts of Il
vilIainous compound which the vendors
called lcglpnade. Then Gegan lhe strug-
gle for dinner. The arrangements for en-
tertainlneHt wore Ia no sense adequate
ed to the number to be entertained, and
the individual efforts to get n ''squdre
mear'degeneratedi into an indiscrim!nate
scramble. The Knight Templars Were
formed in line, preparatory TO marching
them to the place allotted TO them at the
tables, but while they We're waiting tlie
word of command, the tables ware filled
by the hungry and impatient crowd.
One of the FindIay Knights had haen
warmly eongratulating himself upon the
fact that the knights We're to have the
first chance. We saw the same gentle
man break ranks at the last moment,
and by a desperate flank movement,
capture the last plate at the last table.
The slaughter of 'eatables WAS terrible.
One gentleman from Findlay is said TO
have eaten SIXTEEN pieces of currant and
rhuharb pie by ACTUAL count. After
dinner, the procession wGs reformed
and marched to the grove, where an
excellent and appropriate address was
delivered by CIV. Andrews, of WapaISo-
meta. After the address, the crowd was
entertained for short time by some
very fine music by the different bands
present. This endeS the programme for
the day, and We We're soon on the way
home as fast as steam would carry Us.
where we arrived in due time, tir. Il, but
on the whole, well satisfied with our
days enjoyment.