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Valuable Iron Works
FOR SALE.

TTyHE Iron Works known the Portland Machine
Works are offered for sale. This property oc-
cupies about an acre of land on tide water on Com
mercial St.. in Portland, and comprises large
Machine Shop, Foundry and Pattern Sop. Boiler
Shopsand Blacksmith Shop. There Is full compile
ment of Towslfor heavy work and general Machinery
and large assortment OF patterns.
The concern having been long. established has
large and constantly increasing list OF customers IN
New England, and Canada, and is now running on
full time on orders. more favorable opportunity
for investment is seldom offered For further parti-
culsrs apply to the proprietor at the Works.
W. H. FESSENDEN, Proprietor.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY,
Rock RinderS,

Booksellers and StatiOners.
HOYT. & FOGG ,No.9l Middle street,
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Agents Wanted,

NOR something wanted By Agents. Avail yourself
Il Of this opportunity. See sample or address
S. g. FLAISTED,
157 Commercial St.
feb24*1m Portland, Maine.
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THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS
THE MAINE STATE PRESS

TERMS: Eight Dollars Year In advance. To
mail subscribers Seven Dollars Year if paid in ad
vance.
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WANTS.
Wanted.

Wanted.
A POSITION to sing in church as soprano In
N quartet choir. Address Post Office Box 1891,
Portland, Maine. marou
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A SITUATION in a Store. or to drive Team,
n by Young Man, who is not afraid to work,
Address F. S., Daily Press Office.
NAL d1W*
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Situation Wanted.
DY MAN that understands working in Garden,
ID and taking care Of Horses, Cattle and Fowle.
Good reference given. Address
ma4d1w* A. B., This Office
New-York tribune., 1875-12-23
THE BISNOP AGAIN.

A few weeks ago they were calling him Gil
"Haven" in Methodist circles, and in other
circles they never talked of him at all. Now
his fame has spread over two hemispheres ;
bis opinions are weighed and discussed by all
the newspapers; and preachers meetings and
other church assemblies hold solemn sessions
to consider him in his political and denomi-
national aspects. The man WHO persuaded a
convention of ministers to pray for the Third
Term becomes all at once large figure in the
public eye, and premises if they keep on discuss
ing him, to develop into a historical character.
Certainly Bishop Haven is not disposed to let
the subject drop. He comes forward again as
the champion of President Grant, and this
time he is heard through the columns of The
Independent in the assumed character of a
mourner over the grave of Henry Wilson.
If he spoke in Boston only in the accents of
PRAYER, he thunders at us to-day the menaccs
and awful warnings of the prophet. Henry
Wilson, he tells us, died because he withstood
President Grant. "Chasc and Greeley
"and Sumner and Wilson are tower
"ing warnings to the American people
chow they consider the work of renewing the
Gland accomplished, and set themselves against
&" him whom God hath selected for this re-
"newal." This gives us reason to infer that
Bishop Haven has received special advices as
to the effect of his prayer in Boston If his
information is correct the political situation of
course is greatly simpliiied. We have no need
to vex ourselves any further over matter
which Providence has taken out of our hands,
and it would be rank inlpiety to object
TO the reelection of Gen. Grant in
1876, and indeed in 1880. and so
Oh, till the country is entirely renewed d,-plans
New-York tribune., 1875-12-23
CARING FOR SICK CHILDREN.

To the Edftor or The Tribune
SIR While the children are looking forward
joyfully to Christmas Day with its carols and ito
many beautiful gifts and great happiness and adults ars
the less expecting To give and receive many pres
and much pleasure let them not forget Chrss poor
and sick and needy hIy attention has been ospe
cialy called 10 the Free Hospital for Children" where
is needed more particularly warm clothing. bed lnen
old linen, and money.
In the spring they want to build hospital. and
they need large quantity OF bricks. ask readers
10 send them some as Christmas present." They need
not send clay bricks, but send the money buy the
" bricks" IL every chlid would send Christmas 10
cents TO purchase one brick for the building aud
every adult would do the same better yet send 90
cents FOR bricks, not only would this Christmas be- q
merry one, bat thousands Of children IN years
would have good cause 10 call Dee 25 1870 Blessed
Christmas Day" beautifully illuminated card Is given
to the purchaser OF brick" certifying that the pos
SCISSOR has placed one brick in Saint Marys FIoe Os
pal for Children. at No. iO7 West Thirty y-lourh ST.
New-YOrk City" 4.
New 0rk. Dec. 81, 1875. 4.
New-York tribune., 1875-12-23
PUBLIC OPINION.

The suggestion of the correspondent Of The
NEw-YoRK TRIBUNE 20 make Mount Vernon a summer
residence for the President is not very bad de. The
inspiration which one mig get irom the place would 10
heathy.-lSyTacuse Standard (RepD
Gov Tilden is not so much spoken of as a
candidate for the Presidency ~ he was Inys-
terous way he has lost prestige, and there Is dpcpunng
conviction that he is not IN state o. health sufficient
risk the Presidency with hin.-lCncnnati Commercial
tIndD
The 1S men who refused to vote for the anti
thrd-term resolutions might "chip In" h.H dollar
apiece and make for Bishop Haven that $40 e would
have got If he had written out his views fOr 1aF NEW
YORK TRIBUNE. Shepherd and Baocoak would help
(BOstOn Herald (lnd.)
We think we do not misrepresent the feeling
obnoxious idea oi third term. Gen. Grant would De pre-
ferred by great majority ot the Republicans any
named who Is likely 10 be named, in connection with
the position.--lSt Paul PioneerPrcss Gnd.l
The Chicago Tribune continues to be rs agitated
about the results OF the N0r. as tho proyertal hen
with chicken. II is afraid the dreadful Democrats
will 0verturn them That aO'c i0,ua. viii ~ Wo.ryiag
abOut the Law OF grayati0n or the procession Of tie
equinOXes. neXt-aDd with equal rel,On.-isprin gold
Republican
BY rejecting Mr.. Ferry President of the
Senate the Republicans Of thai body have settled the
doubt TO who would nc Grants successor the event
OF their colleague at the RISK OF possible sotmOney
President. II would II the Senate had iorgotien
It's experience with one Andrew J0LnsonUucI Herald
tRepD
THE TRIBUNE is dcluding itself when il sup
Republican National Convention viii be against senator
CoHkling. THE TitIBI may well understand that
If Senator COnlng has ah 10 have MS 10 before
will have the united delegation. Gentlemc who ckpcct
TO be struck with PresidenGa lightning should make
mistake about Senator Conkngs relations with the New
York eiegaton.-lCommerclal Advertiser (N. y. Adm
Or.tnl
New-York tribune., 1875-12-23
GRANT AND CUBA.

A curious bit of news comes to us from
Washington. About a week ago, so the report
goes, a number of leading Republican mem
bers of Congress held a private caucus on the
Cuban question. Some information which had
reached these gentlemen from the White
House led them to think the Spanish situation
much more critical than the Presidents mes
sage and the surface indications at the State
Department made it appear. The suggestion
of Intervention conveyed to their minds
a plain threat Of war. Among the
members present was gentleman OF
great influence in the party and OF marked
political sagacity, who said year ago that a
Spanish war was held in reserve as the last
trump card to play in the third-term game.
The caucus might be called an anti-Cuban
Junta The participants were, we are told, not
only opposed to any action threatening a
breach of peaceful relations with Spain-they
were determined to resist to the uttermost all
movements looking to annexation, or even to
a protectOrate over the island, as the
outcome of friendly negotiations. We do
not want Cuba at any price or at
no price, was the view expressed at the
meeting. One of the members, it is said, de-
clared that if the island were offered as free
gift to the United States, accompanied by gold
enough to pay our entire National debt, he
should oppose its acceptance. The purpose of
the Congressman who were at the gathering
seems to have been to serve a notice upon the
Administration that if it still cherished de-
signs upon Cuba it would have to prosecute
them without the aid of the leading Repub-
lcans in Congress. Such a notice, we are
told, was duly seryed-with what effect we
shall see hereafter.
We are in the dark os to the nature of the
information which was deemed of such an
alarming character as to call for the gather
ing referred to, but we are certain that few
plain words of advice to the President from
prominent Republicans can do 10 harm at this
time. Gen. Grant ought not to need to be
told that the Republican party has no desire
to see him play the part of q meddler in the
West Indies. If he keeps track Of the pro-
ceedngs of Congress he will remember that
resolutions for the recognition of Cuban bel
Igerence and for intervention have invariably
proceeded from the Democratic side, and have
uniformly been put to rest by the Republican
majority in the pigeon-holes of the Foreign
Affairs Committee. The Democratic party
may 1alrly DE accuSeu OI u uesHc loI CcTIi-
torial extension southwark, and of special
penchant for Cuba but such charge cannot
be laid at the doors of the party to which the
President belongs. Evidently he must drop
the Cuban business or seek aid among his
political adversaries. The South appears to
favor annexation warmly, and in the North
there are many Democrats of influence who,
like Mr.. Cox, have been trying for years to
get the Government in some way to put its
fingers into the Cuban mess. Is Gen. Grant
contemplating an alliance with the Opposition,
or will he heed the protests OF his party
friends
New-York tribune., 1875-12-23
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SAVINGS BANks-3d Pa0e-6th column
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unus; FE, ALEs-7h Pdqe-5th and 6th Columns
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New-York tribune., 1875-12-23
THOH4,g C1RIHE,

IHOM1S C1hL1LE
1t chances sometimes in this little world that
the prophet wins due honor in his country and
his generatiOn-that men bow down before the
kingly crown of character and genius before
it grows bright with the exceeding brightness
of larger and wiser life. Happy is he who
finds and deserves such reverence, but not so
happy as they who have clear eyes to recog-
nize hero and the generous will to applaud
while applause can still be precious The
night when no man can work draws near Tor
Thomas Carlyle, and the cleverest men and
women in England have tried to acknowledge
before its shadow falls the heavy debt they
owe him. The letter of eloquent appreciation
in which they have done this is a notable one
to come from the calm and menthusiastic
English but half a lifetime of work like Car
lyle's is not to be regarded lightly. AS rugged
as his own Scotch hills, as keen and i'm
petuous as the winds that blow about
them, as clean and wholesome as the heather
on their slopes, that work has been one of the
lights OF the Englsh-speaking world. Not
always, perhaps, as right as he was strong, the
Scotchman's passionate and impatient desire
for what was absolutely honest and true IN
life and literature yet filed all he wrote. Man.
kind has been the better for him that he has
never been content to pass careessly and un-
touching their hollow, craven images. His
blows have fallen not in bitterness, but with
manly heartiness, and if they have sometimes
been aimed unwisely it has not been in willful
blindness. Writers especially owe him a genial
gratitude. Long ago he taught how weighty
was their work, what dignity hedged them
round, what grave and noble possibilities lay
with them Himself a priest in intention, and
almost poet in expression, he has succeeded
as much as any writer OF his time in winning
honor for the guild which he has so esteemed
The days of Carlyle's extreme popularity in
this country are passed, but it is something to
say that one of the absolute conditions OF
culture is knowledge Of his work. The
American sophomore does not indeed rave III
"Carlylese as of old he was wont TO do, but
probably few men or women, boys OF girls,
who have got beyond the a, b, { OF novel
and cookery-bOOk, have left unread those
fascinating pages. 1t may be that once read
the books, whether history, essay, or biography,
gather dust on the library shelf, but what they
have taught of manliness, sincerity, and
genuine earnestness, remains a vital power in
the world. Thomas Carlyle has spent the
greater part of his eighty years In teaching
his fellows to hate shams and to fulfill the
highest spiritual laws that have been given
them and long after the quaint and unique
fashion of his words have been forgotten that
large and intense mind will work its will.
New-York tribune., 1875-12-23

of course Of reformed Civil Service,
ia the removal Of Mr.. John James Piatt
from the Office of Librarian OF the
House, and the appointment in his place OF
person named Rice, of whom it is said by
way of description that he is an ex-member
of Congress, and by way of recommendation
that he Is from Kentucky. This was u pretty
long stride in the direction of reform. Piatt
was q very dangerous man IN the Library he
is poet; has written books; it is barely pos
sible that he may at some time in his life nave
voted. and if he did the chances are that he
voted the Republican ticket. bad mana
very bad man to have in Library. And then
here was Rice-Rice of Kentucky, ex-COngress-
man Rice-and Rice was leaning against post
without anything to do and getting no pay for
it, when lie might just as well be supporting the
Constitution in some place not so much exposed
TO the weather, where the labor was hight and
the pay certain. SO ont goes Plata dangerous
man among books, because he has made
them; and in comes Rice-Rlce of Kentucky,
q conservative man who knows that the essen
tial quality of library consists in having big
books at the bottom and little books at the top.
The people look on at all these grand move
ments with unallOyed satisfaction. Ihey
listened to and read all that was said and
printed on the subject in the campaign
of 1874, and were convinced OF the
necessity of reforming the Civil Service by
requiring capacity, faitlfulness, and integrity
of public officers, and making these and not
party services the test so they brought in
this Congress. And this Congress brought in
Mr.. Adams of Kentucky as Clerk. And MIR.
Adams is bringing in the rest of Kentucky so
far as he can. 1t is a very exhilarating spec
tace. this asserting out and establishing in
comfortable places the large and snuOus pro-
cessiOn that comes out of Kentucky and
moves with set purpose on Washington. And
this removal of John James Patt and
appointment Of Rice-how it thrills the hearts
of grateful peope-how the Democratic
party must rejoice at it-how proud Mr.. Clerk
Adams must be of it! And Rice-well never
mind Rice. And yet we do sort of wonder
whether Rice had to be sent for away out
in Kentucky, or whether he happened provi-
dcrtially to be right there in Washington
when the appointment was made
New-York tribune., 1875-12-23
TOYS.

One charm of Christmas Time is that those
who cannot buy or do not care to, may gaze
their fill at the shop show windows radiant,
glorious ghtterng, and seven-hued. Little
paupers, shvering and shabby, may look at
tho gorgeous drawing-roOm dolls, and poor
small beggars at the hobby horses which they
never will ride. For little while the public
gets kind of possession of all that
is dainty and all that is magnii-
cent; and of this the girls and boys
have their gratuitous share, in sweet and
errant fancy, driving gO-carts, stirring up
tigers, playing all manner of games, fondling
rhinOceroses and camels, performing fantasias
upon rattles, arranging prosperous and pleasant
villages, marshaling wooden armies, and going
to housekeeping in the most cOmmodiOus baby
houses. What tho luckiest of the little ones
get is really nothing to the Opulence of fine
things which they do not get, and while they
look, hardly dare to long for. Only the eyes
which will not be controlled are involuntarily
wistful Of fcOurse, if teasing could purchase, all
the tiny groups peeping in at the windows
would go home heavy laden. But mere seeing
for time is a satisfaction. These toddlers
are not very old, but they are wise enough
W ulooH any 'iouSti' III
fact, the very magnifcence of the display
astonishes them into kind Of dumb
moderation. They gaze at the gloriousness
as poets do at the stars, or half-starved
street Arabs at the tempting set-Out of cook
shop. They have consOlatoTy notion
that st. Nicholas is looking about, and will do
something for them at the proper time; and
when upon Christmas morning each receives
that something for bis very own, trife as it
may be, it will be greater to him than all the
invoices of all the jobbers.
We have sometimes puzzled ourselves to
comprehend a child's exact notion Of toy.
Perhaps their satisfaction with their play
things is one of the strongest examples which
we have Of the force of the Imagination. The
boy who screams for Joy when he receives a
miniature elephant is no fool. He has seen the
real creature ct Barnum's, and with tremulous
hands thrux candy into the nozzle of its
waving trunk. He has seen genuine Bengal
tiger with his fine open countenance full of
teeth, and he is not at all alarmed by
this dummy. which he soon finds has
New-York tribune., 1875-12-23
PERSONAL.

Edwin Forests mansion in Philadelphia has
been sold for $9sOOO 1t is to be turned into club
house.
The fifth centenary of Boccaccio's death was
observed by ae at CertadO, Tuscany the place OF his
birth and death.
The Washington elm at Cambridge, under
which Washington stood when he took command OF the
Continental armies is decayng rapidly. The excava-
tions of the municipal government for sewer building
have cut and undermined its roots that the famous
tree is In danger Of falling at any time.
AlansOn Palmer, who, q few years ago.
owned some of the finest steamers the great lakes
and whose great wealth made him of the powerful
citizens of Buffalo, died the other day in an insane
asylum pennilcss and crazy at the OF 81 years. He
lost his wealth in reckless speculation
The Hon. George Bancroft told a reporter of
The Thiadephia Hen recently, that the coming Centen
NAL Exhibition would in every respect excel any inter-
national exhibition ever before given. He thinks 1t will
astonishing extent Mr.. Bancroft thinks next Pges
DENTAL campaign will be the most exciting one of
history.
Prince Bismarck received an autograph letter
from tine Emperor william. condoling with him on the
premature death OF Count Euenburg. who was shortly
to have married the Princes daughter. The Crown
Prince OF Germany added his condolences and the Kngs
Bavaria, Saxony and Wurtemburg sent theirs by tele-
graph All the chief officers OF state and high officials
health and express their sympathy with him.
1t is now thought that the expenses of the
Prince OF Waes's visit to India will be much larger
than the estimates that supplementary grant will be
needed to meet them Tho correspondent OF The London
Times writes: The estimates for travelling in India
have been justified. and Greece and Egypt have been
done for tire sums which were put down for them but
the the Princes 'tosheekana sure-rooIn
has been very much more heavy than expected not
withstandng the extreme and pains OF the officers
charged with the distribution; and this head alone
is said, there will be a large deficit"
Mr.. Gladstone wrote as follows to cor
respondent who asked him TO introduce bill for tie
inspection OF converts: conceive that no institution
should be allowed in this country which restrains the
personal liberty commonly understood it's members
or inmates; but am not cognizant the facts with
respect to tho liberty OF the inmates OF nunneres on
which the justification Of the you suggest would
have TO rest and could not therefore. undertake. TO in
trOduce measure the subject. even were taking
larger share than Is actually the in the general es
latiOn oi the country"
New-York tribune., 1875-12-23
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Republicans are more pleased with
Speaker kerr's committees than the Democrats are
The New-Hampshire Legislature, TO be elected
next March is TO choose United States Senator to sue
ceed Mr. Cragn Candidates sprnging up by dozens
In every corner OF the state Senator Cran hopes
sent back again In case the Legislature Is Republican.
The election of Moses and Whipper to the
Bench was too strong dose for the chief Repub-
lican organ OF South Carolina to swallow in silence.
The Columbia Union Herald the only Republican news
paper in the State OF any account thus protests From
end OF the country TO the other South Carolina Re
pubioanlsn will once become stencil in the nos
trs OF OF all parties. This viii be deemed OF little
present by the poor fools who have signed the