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The New York herald., 1875-12-24

GLOBE THEATRE.
Nos 72e and 100 Broadway-vARIErY, at r H. Mat
Lnee at r NJ
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

VOLUME XL........................ s5S
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THIRD AVENUE THEATRE,
Third between Thrtieh and Thirty nrSt trcets
MINSTRELSY aud VARIETY, nt 8 y. M.
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WOODS MUSEUM,
Broadway Of 1hirtieth street-KIT. at p. ~.
10 As r. NJ. Matinee at a. W. y. 5. Chanfrau
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COLOSSEUM.
yhiry-fourth street and BroadwayPRUSS SIEGE OF
PARIS. Open from r. NJ TO T. NJ and IRON 30 7. NJ.
tn r. NJ,
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wALLACKS THEATRE,
Broadway and Thirteenth street.-BOSOM FRIENDS, as
p NJ closes ~ 10 As Y. NJ. Mr.. John Gilbert
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SAN FRANCISCO MINsTREIs,
" Opera House, Broadway, corner Of Twenty ninth
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-12-28

The Democratic members of the lower
House of Congress, in their haste to fill the
Offices Immediately under their control, have
overlooked important facts. There are in
the departments a number of Democratic
office holders, and each Republican official
discharged by the House finds place in some
executive office at the expense of Demo-
crat. 1t is the system that works. The DEM
ocrats have adopted the system, and they can
not complain of its workings.
Mr.. Cowles is not member of the secret
order described by the Herald; he did not
attend any meeting at the st. Nicholas last
week; he never was deputized to visit Wash
ington for the purpose of initiating Mr.. Blaine
or any one else--he never initiated anybody
in his life-never exchanged word with
President Grant on the subject of any secret
order,-in fact has had no conversation with
him on any subject since last May, and there
is no foundation whatever for the story of his
going to Washington on any such mission.-
Cleveland Leader (Mr. Coaoles, Editor.)
If the Yale and Harvard crews had been in
the habit Of winning since they have been in
the rowing association, their withdrawal
might be serious disadvantage to it. Under
the circumstances, the association will still
be very strong without them, and the effect
will be most sensibly felt by the boating inter.
est in these two colleges. 1t appears to be
an effort on their part, after undergoing a Sc
ries of defeats by other crews in the associa-
ton, to avoid further risks of that sort by 60
ing back to the old days of Winnepesaukee
and Quinsigamond, and having exclusive
races with each other. Better reasons than
this may be given, we dare say; but there is
the record. The withdrawal this year is a
great mistake. The decision of Yale appears
to be final. We hope Havard will reconsid-
er.-Boston Advertiser.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-12-28
News and Other Items.

Henry Stiles, the first white person born in
Cincinnati, o., died at East Bay, Mich, We'd
nesday.
Gen. Sutter, famous as the man on whose
land IN California gold was first discovered, is
poor, and 80, and,living in Litiz, Pa.
The Russians are beginning to turn their at
tention to the advantage of connecting st.
! Petersburg with China by means of telegraph
across Siberia.
DIR. Robinson of Port Jarvis, N. Y, pro-
poses to exhibit flying machine at the Cen
tennial, enabling one to travel 100 miles an
hour.
On Friday next the people of Quebec will
celebrate the centennial anniversary of the re-
pulse of Gen. Montgomery under the city
walls.
An oswego family have issued invitations
for silver wedding and enclosed little card
bearing the timely warning, "Please avoid dol
lar stores"
Since ex-Treasurer Spinner went to Florida
the alligators have all got the jim-jams from
looking at his signature, which he carelessly
left ON the sands of a bayou.
The trial at Leavenworth, Kansas, of EN-
bry, for the attempted murder of Col. d. r.
Anthony, editor, postmaster and brother of
Susan B., ended Friday. in a verdict of ac-
quittal.
Sojourner Truth says in published letter: 81
am endeavoring to obtain little money by the
sale of my book. can not go around now.
am too lame. My limb is getting along very
fast under the treatment of horse doctor-all
other doctors failed. wanted to be at Phila-
delphia in May, before the great rush, and
trust some of my friends will provide place
for me-"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-12-28
Current Notes.

One of the chief arguments for the election
Of Mr.. Kerr was that he was the uncomprom-
ising and infexibe foe of all subsidies. Yet
it is agreed on all sides that his Committee
on Pacific Railroads is made up in the inter-
est of Tom Scotts big grab.
The Virginia Congressman, Dennison,
whose vote in favor of third term surprised
his constituents, is one of the pets of the
Independent press" He ran in opposition
to the polished gentleman and strong Repub-
lican, Judge Poland, and his defeat of the old
stager. was at the time regarded as great
triumph for ''independency."
The Springfield Republican gives out the
following good one: ''The Albany Argus is
even more amusing than Gilbert Haven. 1t
announces that the Republican party has
'decreed the secularization of the State and
can take no step backward it must work its
work of desolation.' Sunday and the Bible
and the chaplain are doomed. 1t is the prln.
ciple OF the Commune exclaims the agitated
Argus.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-12-28
Dominion Notes.

Several Dominion papers are urging botanic
survey of Canada in order that its people may
know something about the agricultural re-
sources of the country.
The fishing business is brisk in St Andrews.
The herring have come into the bay in large
quantities, and many boats find paying en-
ployment catching them. The winter fishing
is becoming quite as profitable as in any season
of the year.
Space at the Centennial Exposition has been
applied for by the following parties in Saint
Stephens: Mr.. Broad of Midtown, for axes and
other edge tools; by Mr.. Henry L. Lovejoy, for
samples of fret and jig saving: and by Messrs.
j. w. Moore & Son, for specimens of cabinet
work. Besides it is expected that Messrs. De-
Wolfe s. Co. will forward few of their ele-
CANT carriages and sleighs.
The claim advanced by the Canadian press
that the United States ought to pay England
S10,0O0,0O0 per annum for the privileges with
regard to fishing, granted :under the treaty of
1871, appears scarcely tenabe, when it is con-
sidered that the product of all American fishe-
ries, exclusive of whale, received in the customs
districts of the Country for the fiscal year of
1875, was only SIC, Az, ,252, and that the effect
of the arrangements made by the high joint
commission have been highly beneficial already
to the Can adams.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-12-28

If the Hon. S. S. Cox, now chairman Of
the House Committee on Banking and Cur
rency, was hard-money man last summer
he didn't realize it. In reply to the assertion
that he was, the Cincinnati Enquirer says:
We feel called upon to say that this is rot
true. Mr.. Cox is not man to be controlled by
the New York money rings We have letter
written by him under date of New York June
19, 1875. 1t was Just after the Ohio Democrat
ic convention. Mr.. Cox says: st is for me
here to make the Ohio platform understood. 1t
shall not be misrepresented. l have no affilia-
tions with those who desecrate our temple as
money changers. Sometime the Enquirer
puts me down that way. Such men are neith-
er for me for Congress nor Speaker"
This utterance is worthy of Jack Bunsby,
and the man who can obtain from it any idea
as to which side of the currency question Mr..
Cox belongs is coniurer. Apparently the
little joker belongs to both.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-12-28

On economy, we are told from Washing
ton, the Democratic party is to stake bold
position, for that simply ens5arrasses the Id
nainistration." Exactly; it is very easy to cut
down other peoples expenses! What if they
are cut down below the absolute needs of the
Government-no matter so long as it only
cripples those who are responsible and doesn't
cut off any Democratic supplies. Economy
is an excellent thing and ought to be en-
forced; but the kind of economy which sim
ply aims to embarrass the Government is not
so commendable and will not impose upon an
intelligent people.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-12-28

AND now it is said that Mr.. Fernando
Wood is practically chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee. He has been ap-
pointed chairman of subcommittee to de-
vide the business of the committee and will
because OF the ill-health and inability of Mr..
Morrison present all the important matters
of the committee to the House. Fernando
Wood then is the leader of the Democratic
House in disguise.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-12-28

CINCINNATI, like some other cities, aspires
to severely classical taste in music, and will
have none of your common melodies. The
conductor of one of her orchestral concerts
had reason to suspect the genuineness of her
enthusiasm, and so placed upon his pro-
gramme the "Chanson Negre," which pleas
ed bis audiences nightly. Now they want
to mob him, for they have discovered that
"Chanson Negre' is nothing but the sold
Kentucky Home," which is not classical, to
anV marked extent
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-12-28
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. ss. 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-12-28

EVERY regular attaehe of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
inurnal
The Portland daily press., 1875-05-26
vtuyeR TELEGRAHEs

President Grant will attend commencement
exercises at Cornell.
An extensive lumber firm of Toronto has
closed the sale of 100000 feet OF lumber to
parties in Whitehall, N, Y.
Gen. Hawley is soon to take upon himself
the active direction OF the Cehtehhial'
The denartments at Washington will be
closed Decoration Day.
Hon, George Vail Of Morristown, N. j.. died
Sunday evening, aged II. He was twice in
Congress
The Washington Light Infantry Corps will
participate in the Bunker Hill Centennial.
Tbe annual examination of cadet midship-
men will not take place this year till the 10th
of June.
A reception was rendered to Dr. Peters, the
astronomer, yesterday by the students OF Ham
ilton College.
A meeting of the committee Of arrangements
of seventeen hank cashiers, from different parts
of the country, met in New York yesterday,
and neriected arrangements for the convention
at Saratoga
Ameeting of the Pacific Mail directors is o
be held to-day, to take into consideration meas
ures to be adopted in view of the fact that he
Panama directors refuse to negotiatg Tor re-
sumption OF the contract which terminates on
July 9th.
Some 27O miners arrived at Cheyenne Satur-
cav ana monday, anu JUiueu Val popIOi oldCh
Hills brigade The government surveying par
ty left Monday, and it is thought the miners
will follow in their train.
Rev. Henry Lake, formerly a jealous de-
nouncer of the public schools, and priest of
st. AIMS Catholic church in New York, has
recently abandoned the pulpit, married a
wealthy young lady of Laramie, and settled
into mercantile business in California
The Odd Fellows of Canada held grand
celebration at Whitby, On.orio, at the dedca-
tion OF new Odd Fellows hall. Schuyler
Colfax delivered the Grafton.
The annual examination of cadet midship-
men of the naval academy will not take place
this year until the 10th of June, and will close
about the 20th, after which the graduating
class will be granted brief leave OF absence.
The Portland daily press., 1875-05-26
THE EGRASSHOPPER PLAGUE.
Reasous why the Destruction of Last
Year will not be Repeated.


Year will not be Repeated.
NEW YORK, May 25.-W. M. Grosvener of
Kansas, writes concerning grasshoppers, that
little knowledge concerning them will Danish
the fears that are now prevailing. lie says
that west of Kansas there is some destruction
and great panic Over very wide area the
farmers are alarmed, and in some quarters are
even abandoning their fields. The grasshop-
pers, so called have appeared in eastern Kan
sas and few counties on the western border,
and though young, are destroying the crops and
gardens mercilessly. He says, however, the
facts are these: First the destroying insect is
not grasshopper but the young of the Rocky
Mountain locust (acridium sprectus,) Matched
this spring from eggs deposited during the
have appeared in the narrow belt already de-
scribed, but will not get wings nor be abe to
travel much beyond it before the latter part of
June. Third, the young locust hatched in this
climate is, neither as active nor as voracious as
the original stock, cannot reproduce itself, has
already begun to die off in great numbers, and
can still less endure the uDgenial climate fur
ther eastward. Fourth, no injury of cohse-
quence is to be apprehended at any farther east
than Sedalia or Des Moines, and even west of
that line the damage will be much less than it
was in the same localities last year. The
grasshopper does not 60 further east than ITO
west of Washington. They breed In the high
and dry plantations and valleys of Montana,
Wyoming and Colorado, and at intervals OF
seven or ten years swarm and fly on the wind
eastward, ending in a feast on the grain of the
west, and then their sure destruction. Millions
perish before the eastern limit is reached; mil
lions more, as they push forward, become ex-
bausted, and the invasion OF 1866 and that OF
1874 terminated almost precisely in the same
counties. Grosvener considers the proclama-
tion of the governor of Missouri unnecessary,
and has only created needless panic.
The Portland daily press., 1875-05-26
BY TELEGRAPH.
MATTERS In MAINE.
That Sea Serpent Seen Again.
He Reveals Himself to SacO Fishermen

SACo, May 25.-Orin f. Hutchinson and his
father of Saco reports seeing sea serpent eight
miles from Wood Island light 1t was black
on the back, white beneath and as large round
as hogshead. 1t came up twice, having his
head fifteen or twenty feet above the water.
The sea was SO rough they could not see his
length. He was seen in the vicinity of the
place where the Portland fishermen recently
reported sea serpent
Law Court.
Especial to the Press.]
AUGUSTA May 25-The law term of the S.
J. Court for the Middle District convened. in
this city today. Present, Chief Justice Apple
ton, Associate Justices Walton, Dickerson,
Barrows, Danforth Judge Peters is expected
tomorrow Several cases from Somerset coun-
ty were heard. Attorney General Plaisted is
in attendance upon the court. S.
Maine Homeopathic Society.
ITO Associated Press.l
v BANGOR, May 25- The ninth annual meet
ing of the Maine Homeopathic Society was
held here today. An able address was deliv-
cred by Moses Dodge, M. D., of Portland, pres
ident of the society, on "The Past, Present and
Future of the Homeopathy" Several impor-
tant subjects were discussed, and the following
officers elected for the ensuing year:
Sumner II. Boynton, Rockland, President.
d. p. Graves, Saco, and 7. l.. Bradford,
Skowhegan, Vice Presidents.
ID. G. Perkins, North Vassalboro', Recording
Secretary.
j. B. Bell, Augusta, Corresponding Secreta-
ry.
VIM. Gallupe, Bangor, Treasurer.
Censors-Wm. Gallupe, Bangor; Fl. b.
Eaton, Rockport; Geo. z. Jelferds, Bangor;
d. p. Graves, Saco; NJ. S. Berry, Bath.
Three members have died during the year
and two new members were elected. The
next annual meeting will be held i'll Portland
the fourth Tuesday in May, 1876.
Hot Weather
This has been by far the hottest day of the
season, the thermometer standing 900 in the
shade at noon.
Art Exhibition,
The first spring exhibition of the Bangor Art
Association closes tomorrow, having been
alike creditable to the artists and to the city.
The Portland daily press., 1875-05-26

NEW YORK. May -Evenine.Cotton market is
dull at 1c declme sales $50 bales Midding uplauds
at 16c forward deliveries i'll fair busines at 1-32
decliue. Flour-receipts 1921 bbls; the market is
dull and prices strongly IN buyers favor sales of H.
700 bbls Superne Western and State at 20 20 90;
extra Western and State at 05 "a 40; choice extra
Western and State 40 q rs; White Wheat Wes
tern extra at 70 % 50; extra Ohio at 05 az 80;
extra st Louis at 5 40 a 5ncludng 2i0O bbls ship
ping at 10 q 81; 1900 bbls extra mill flour
at prices within range; the market closing dull;
Southern -four at 5 10 a s 25; Rye flour firm at 40
@0 co. Cornmeal is in buyers favor at 8 rs q 20.
Wheat-receipts 67,56o bush; the market is a &c
lower with very moderate export and home trade
demand notwithstanding the decline holders general
ly are not pressing to realize qnte strong yes
terday; sales $1,000 bush; IA for No 2 Chicago in
store and afioat; 16 for No Milwaukee aoat; 81
"a "a for No Spring; II q q tor ungraded Iowa
and Minnesota Spring: 1 80 "a 81 for Winter Red
Western; 3S a 40 for Amber Western; 30 q Al
for W hte Western also 80, 900 bush No Milwaukee
seller June reported at 49, 10000 bush seller June
at IA contracts OF severai loads settled at Is, and
closing seller June at "a. Rye is quiet at O5 for
Canada in bond 1 10 for State Barley is quiet. Bar
ley Malt is dull. Corn-reoeps of 3l.200 bush the
market is heavy and lower; sales $4,000 bush; IA g
76c for soft new Western Mixed, II a SOC for good
to prime Western; 76 q SOC for inferior to prime new
Yellow Western 7Sc for new sail Western Mixed in
store Sic for White. Oats-recepts 19,05O bush the
The Portland daily press., 1875-05-26
F OR E I q N.
French Assembly.


PARIS, May 25.-The Assembly day elect
ed thirteen members of the new comm ttee of
thirty. All belong to parties which support the
present constitution. Among them are La
boulaye, Cezaune, Ricard, Ferry aud Pickard
The seventeen other members remain to be
elected by a second ballot, as none of the can
didates received an absolute majority. Among
the candidates were Gambetta and two depu-
ties of the Right. No Bonapartists offered
themselves for places on the committee.
More Cardinals.
ROME, May 25-[New York Herald Special
In the consstory to be held June 24th, Monsig-
nori Pacca, Vitelleschi, Simeoni, Antici, Mat
tais and Serafina, bishops of Viterbo, will be
created Cardinals. Cardinal McClosky is ex-
neeted in Rome before the consistory to choose
" The Pope WAS i'll yesterday and is not better
this morning. On Saturday last he received as
usual many deputations.
Foreign NOfes.
The upper house of the Prussian Diet has
nassed hills for the suppression of converts and
relative to the administration of church affairs,
The Portland daily press., 1875-05-26

WATERTowN, May 25-Cattle Market.-Receipts Of
$50 head The advance noted on Cattle last week
was not held this morning. Cattle from the West
quality, the supply being more abundant and warm
weather setting in the market unavorably a.
of choice at 10 80; extra at 10 90 q 10 25 first quail
ity at 10 q 30; second quality at 90 @ 90; third
quality at 5 so @650.
Sheep and Lambs-receipts 978 head. The supply
is light from the North; trade slim but being reluct-
ant to buy; sales made at ac Decline Sheep sold in
lots at 90 a 80 cash; extra IS q 90. Sheared
Sheep at 53c y tb; Spring Lambs sold at 10 @1fc
N
The Portland daily press., 1875-05-26

EtAhas become potent to the world that there is no
medical practitioner of eminence who has failed to
recognize the immense value as q curative agent OF
Hunts Remedy. This invaluable preparation
has attained wide spreading popularity from the
extraordinary triumph it has achieved over kidney,
bladder and gandular diseases, whether chronic or
otherwise, gravel, diabetes, errors OF youth. ex-
cesses, and all complaints of the urno genital Or
gans in either speedily disappear by its use.
ffy21 deodSw1w
The Portland daily press., 1875-05-26
Dry Goods Market.

NEW YORK, May 25-The Bulletins weekly re-
port of the New York dry goods market is follows:
The trade movement was slow and dragging with
the commission houses and importers. The jobbing
trade unsettled by break in prints, same styles
being offered as drive at 81 a g. although agents
prices unchanged. Aliens shirtings reduced
at "a. Cotton goods were quiet at generally un-
changed prices although Linwood Gold Medal, Fear
less, Ballou and WhitnsWlle bleached shirtngs
reduced &c. Corset jeans were fairly active. Payer
cambrics broke to &c. Foreign goods inactive.
The Portland daily press., 1875-05-26

YANKToN, Dakota, May 25.-Chas. e. Sales,
the refractory member of Wharton's Black
Hills party, who refused to sign the parole, had
a hearing before the United States Commission
er to-day, having been turned over by the mill
cary to the civil authorities. His case will be
d cldtd Tomorrow. A great many of the cap
tured parties are here waiting for the treaty to
be arranged.
The Portland daily press., 1875-05-26
Awnings Tcuts, Flags, Boat Sails
Covers, Canvass EesteTiHgs,
Dec0r;ltiOssS, &C..
40 1-2 EXCHANGE STREET,
+. "A. L E A V I II t -
Inc2 sneOd
Is Your Life Worth Ten Centss

AtuE AsAt w OEEh Vh Ochtsf
Sickness prevails everywhere, and everybody COM
plains of some disease during their lite. When sick,
the object is to get we'll Now we say plainly that
no person in this orld that suffering with Dyspep
sa, Liver Complaint and its Effects such as Indges-
ton, Costiyeness Sick Headache, Sour Stomach,
Heartburn, Pal!itation of the Heart, Depressed
Spirits, Biliousness, &c, take GREENS AUGUST
FLOWER without getting relief and cure If you
doubt this, go to your druggist and get sample
bottle for 10 cents and try it, Regular size
rs cents. Two doses VIII relieve you.
w. f. PHILLIPS Sc CO., Wholesale Agents,
SEES TT&S&weow1y
The Portland daily press., 1875-05-26
Ghicug0 GnttIe Market.

CHICAGO, May 25.-Catte-little doing and easier
but not quotaby lower; receipts 250O head; fair to
extra shipping at so q 70; stockers at 25 a rs;
through Texans rs a %, closed with pens full
shipments OF 5000 head
Live Hogs inactive an weak; tending downward
receipts $500 head at 25 q 40 for light; heavy at
725 a 60; shipments 1000 head.
Sheep inactive and nominal; receipts Of 200 head
Shorn at SO q 30.
The Portland daily press., 1875-05-26

WASHINGTON.

The Effect of Encrea ed Postage on News
papers.
WASHINGTON, May 25--The law in relation
to prepayment of postage Oh newspapers at the
office where published, which came into opera
tion Jan 1st will materially reduce the income
heretofore derived from that source. From es-
Inmates made as to the results already known,
it is thought that not more than half the
amount will be realized from postage on this
class of matter as was received under the old
law.
Treasury Balances.
The following are the Treasury balances of
to-day:-Currency, 50, ,722, $1,000; special deposit
of legal tenders for redemption of certificates of
deposit 56 095 600; coin S92, 062, ,067, including
coin certificates, $50, 0,414 800; outstanding legal
tenders, $378, ,05l, ,760
The Portland daily press., 1875-05-26
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL,
Portland Wholesale Markets.

TUESDAY, May 25.-Gran took a sudden fall to-
day. Mixed corn is worth 92c; Yellow 93c; Meal 9Oc
and Oats II q 7sc. The market is steady at these
prices Pork and lard dull. Hams are quoted at 14c
Molasses is dull with change in prices. Fish re-
main unchanged both in prices and demand Sugar
is off little aud granulated is quoted at 1O5c, Coffee
A 101c, Extra G. 1Oc. Teas are unchanged.