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The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20

FINE WRITING After reading the follow
log, who is the croaker who will dare say that
fine writing in newspapers is lost art?
MoRd y last, town meeting day was as damp
distgreeable and well calculated TO dampen
the ardor of aspirants for fame as one might
wish 10 see. Persons having no business to
transact would be likely to spend such day in
the house, and in 50 dong they would pursue
wise cour.e Yet a stranger to have gaz np-
on the concourse of people that thronged the
streets on that eveutfu day wonld have won-
dered what could be the cause of all the troub.
lie. The lame, the halt, the blind, the grave,
the gray filled all the sidewalks and the main
highway. Around the City Hail the sureing
throug belched forth their wrath In accents
deep and long SaufOrds iair sons the stsl,
wart and he brave, came in full force to die
Springvae grave. Ambitious tre filled every
breast, proud shoulders bore the bemlet and
the ciest, the clashlng srmor and the din Of
strife, the cry OF "uood," warm gushing blood
was rife Peal upon peal burst iron ten thou
sand guns, all undismaged Sinford's sturdy
sohs For victory or de 9TH came they prepared
ana ceath ihey got. And though they shared
defeat 'twixt high and low tue same, some are
deslrous OF pusthumuus fame. Ou bIstory's
NO wing page recorded sand those grand events
that honor do the latd and more than th'
IS written sometniug worse, II thuse old fossied
clods woh'd have ~ heAIse, whose carcsses
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20
Grand 8armabee Concert,
CITY ADV ERTISEM ENTs
City of Portland.

If BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN,
March 6, 1876, !
ORDERED, That the City Clerk give notice by
" publication in the daily papers printed in this
City required by law, to all parties interested in
Sidewalks constructed during the past year, that
this board at time and place to be fixed in said
notice. will hear all parties interested in the
ments made for their proportion of the cost of same,
and will thereafterwards proceed to establish the
assessments on said Sidewalks follows, viz:
On Thomas Street, east side, from Pine to Spring
Streets.
Pine Street, south side, between Emery and
Thomas Streets.
May Street, east side, between Danforth and
Spring Street.
Cumberland Street, south side, from Green to High
Streets.
Emery Street, east side, between Spruce and
Spring Streets.
Green Street, west side, between Cumberland and
Portland Streets
Smith Street. west side, between Cumberland and
Oxford Streets
Plum Street, east side.
Adams Street, south side.
Pearl Street. east side, near Laurel Street.
Lincoln, No. %.
Cross Street, east side, near Middle Street,
Franklin Street, west side, between Fore and
Middle Streets
Spring Street, south side corner Nav Street
Congress street. north side, corner Congress Place
Portland Street, corner Brattle Street
Brattle Street, east side.
Fore Street Eastern Promenade, east side
Washington Street, east side.
Read and passed.
Attest. IL. L. ROBINSON, Clerk
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20

The movement to encourage immigration to
the South seems to have engaged the serious at
tentiop OF the most prominent and Influential
people OF that part of the country. The recent
convention for the encourage ment of mmlgra
tion at New Orleans, at which representatives
from eleven states were persent, called cut soue
OF the best business talent of the South, and
even jeff Davis auo General Wade Hampton
made themselves useful in it. A special effort
was made to dsabuse the public mind of the
impression that life and property are not safe
at the South.
Robert Dale Owen has partially recOvered
his health, and is about to sail for Europe oo a
pleasure tip.
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20
Current Notes,

Mr.. Richard Fl. Dane, Jr., represents the
respectabilty, The culture, the high moral
purpose of the state, and its determination to
to make Butlerism and Belknapsm hereafter
impossible in public life. His rejection under
these circumstances will prove very slgnfi-
cant event in politics. s.--BOston Trduscript.
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20

WHO will vote on the Maine Central stock
at the Augusta meeting next Wednesday
owned by the expiring Eastern Railroad
Company? Will those gentlemen who came
this way last March to teach the Maine rail-
road men how to run road, be in Augusta
next "Wednesday? Will they put on those
airs of year agoP Are they entirely satisfied
with their own experiment in railroad man
agement?
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20

EVERY regular attaehe of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley
ruleh Edtor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon US by demandiu,
credentials of every person claiming TO represent our
iOnrnal
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20

IT is quite evident that Mr.. Clymer risked
the impeachment of Be)knap and his civil
prosecution, and let the witnesses leave the
country, in order that Pendleton might be
shielded from exposure. That is the true
Democratic method of investigation, shield
your own rascals and expose those of the 9TH
Pr nartV
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20

THE miserable Belknap deaouement has
started up the slander-mongers afresh. 1t is
not now left to the House Committees to hunt
up testimony against cabinet officers but
anonymous writer's all over the country are
not happy if they cannot wing game as large
as cabinet officer is considered to be. Sec
retary Fish has not yet been assaulted but we
shall not be surprised to find dispatch in
to-morrow's paper charging him with recon-
nending the appointment of Andrew Jack
son Toodles, counsul to Timbuctoo, in con-
-ideration of $25, or under extensive head
ines, read rumor that Postmaster General
Jewell has taken dozen old mail bags and
old them 10 the junk dealer. Already an
anonymous New York Herald correspondent
10 the whiskey ring religion writes that S-cre-
tary Bristow forced fraudulent mule claim
through and took hold of the proceeds even
while he was a government official. The only
element of truth about the story is that Sec
Fetary Brlstow in the practice of his profess
|io1 obtained payment for few mules taken
by the government during the war from
citizen OF Kentucky. At that time, Col.
Bristow was not in the government employ;
The claim was regularly allowed being well
substantiated and he received the commis-
sions paid in such cases. If these fellows
who get livelihood by this sort of business
are not little less enterprisiug they will
spoil their vocation.
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING.. MARCH 20. 1875

we do not read Anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are In
all cases ndispensa ole, not necessarily publication
but as guaranty Ct good faith.
we cannot under take to return or reserve commu-
ncations that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20
WOULD NOT BE WITHOUT
VEGETINE

The great benefit have received from the use of
VEGETINE induces me to give my testimony in its
favor believe it not only Of great value for restor-
ing the hah but preventive of diseases peculiar to
the spring and summer seasons.
would not be without it for ten times its cost.
EDWARD TILDEN.
Attorney and General Agent OF Massachusetts of the
Craftsmen's Life Assurance Company, No. 80 Sears
Building, Boston, Mass.
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20

ANTE MARSH his name was Hester Cly-
mer, M. G. Since Marsh and Pendleton, ir-
reverent and wicked persons suggest Clymer
Heisted as most appropriate.
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20
STATE OF MAINE

STATE OF MAINE,
COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND SIS.
l., Charles Payson, Cashier ofthe above named bank
do solemnly that the above statement is true
to the best ofmy knowledge and belief.
CHARLES PAYSON, Cashier.
Subscribed and to before me, this 18th day Of
March, 1876.
CHAS. 0. BANCROFT, Notary Public
(Seal)
Correct-Attest.
JACOB MCCLELLAN, ~
GEo. S. HUNT. Directors.
WINTHROP S. JORDAN,)
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20

LIABILITIES.
STATE OF MAINE. |

I, B. G. Somerby, Cashier of The Canal National
Bank of Portland" do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true the best of my knowledge
and belief B. G. SOMERBY, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this Seven
teenth day ofMarch, 1876. GEO. G, PETERS,
Justice of the Peace.
Correct-Attest, VIM. HAMMOND,)
F, W. BAILEY, ! Directors.
JOHN N. LORD,
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20
II. I. ROBINSON, Clerk
City OF Portland

City OF Portland.
CITY CLERKS OFFIyE,l
March H. 1876. I
IN pursuance of the foregoing order, hereby give
IL notice that on MONDAY, the third day of April
next, at seven and a half o'clock P. M at the
Aldemen's Room, in City Building, the Board of
Mayor and Aldermen will hear all parties nteres-
ted in the Assess ents above referred to- and will
thereafter establish the same.
Per order
d l. ROBINSON, City Clerk.
ma13 did
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20

Is published every THURSDAY MORNING Gt $3.50 a
year, if paid in advance at $500 year.
RATES OF ADvERTIsTNG One inch of space, the
length of column. constitutes square"
$i50 per square daily first week; rs cents per week
after; three insertions, less $1.O0; continuing
every other day after first week. 80 cents.
Half square, three insertions. less, rs cents;
week. Sl00; 80 cents per week afCer
SPECIAL NOTICES, one third additional.
Under head Of "AMUsEMENTs' and "AUCTIoN
SALES, $500 per square per week; three insertions
or less, S1.50.
Advertisements inserted in the ''MAINE STATE
PRESS" (Which has large circulation in every part
OF the State) for 81 90 per square tor first insertion,
ana 50 cents per square for each subsequent insertion
Address all communica tons to
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co.
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20
The Payne CapitulatiOn.

Payne's capitulation to the infationists, as
the Authorization bill adopted by the Dem
ocratic caucus is justly called, looks worse The
more it is examined. 1t does away in effect
with the sinking fund, which provides that
the coin set aside in accordance with the act
authorizing such a fund shall be applied with
in each fiscal year to the purchase or pay
ment of one per cent. of the public debt.
The supposed provision for specie payments
has no effect on the volume of legal tenders,
and depreciatory effect on their value, for
the act repeals previous act containing
much more radical provisions for resumption,
and there is no assurance that the accumula-
tion of gold will go on, as such continuance
depends entirely on an act of Congress which
the infationists, with their customary disre-
gard of faith and pledges will repeal if they
ever have the power. 1t does away with the
direct preparation for resumption which re.
quires that if circulating notes be issued to
national banks eighty per cent. of the in.
crease shall be withdrawn from the legal
tender notes outstanding. By the provisions
of the Payne bill all addition to the bank
circulation is so much absolute addition to
the currency. 1t lets loose and adds to the
circulation hundred million dollars of green
backs now locked up, and thus initiates the
circulation to that amount. 1t is repudia-
tion bill in that it repeals the pledge to re-
sumo in 1879. That is, it repeals promise,
and in what respect repeating promise
differs from repudiating promise no one can
tell. Congress has passed two acts relating
to legal tender notes, one directing their issue
as promises to pay, emitting the date of pay
ment, and the other supplying that omission.
The repeal of the first act, the promise to
pay would be generally acknowledged to be
rank repudiation. How the repeal of the
second act promising to pay at stated time
could be less dishonorabe, honest men can
not conceive. In short the Payne bill is an
anti-contraction, anti-resumption, imitation
measure, and yet there are Democrats, call
ing themselves advocates of an honest cur
fency, who claim that tine adoption of the
Dill IN caucus is a triumph for hard-money.
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20
MIR CYRUS COLE Of Cape EIizabeth,

having purchased the right to said chun for the
State of Maine. except the counties of Penobscot
Aroostook, Washington, Hancock and Waldo, is nov
prepared 10 dispose of comfy rights at fair rate,
aId in few weeks will be ready to fill orders for the
churn. The inventor has sample ehuIn on exhlbi-
tion at the City HOTEL where be is ready to explain
its operation to any who may call.
ma14 d1w&w2w
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20
THE
Sprague Churll ] |
EE1HE

TENHE undersigned having seen the operations of
IL the Sprague Churn, now on exhibition at the
City H Oael IN Portland, hereby certify that a
prime quality OF Butter was produced from ordinary
cream inside of three minutes and half, and that
the same washed and salted in first rate order
with the churn without the assistance of the hands,
We consider the Spragne Churn the best in use and
cheerfully recommend it to the public
W. D. Ames. of Nutter Brothers s. Co.
S. III. s. A. r. Doter, Planning Mill and Lumber
Dealers.
Alfred Woodman, Dry Goods.
F. o. Sawyer, Fish Dealer.
j. w. Sawyer, Fish Dealer.
The Portland daily press., 1876-03-20
THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS,
Published every day Sundays excepted) by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co..
The MAINE STATE PRESS
AT 100 EXCHANGE ST., PORTLAND.

TERMS: Eight Dollsrs a Year in advance ]
mail subscribers Seven Dollars Year II PAID IN a.
vance.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-06-10
Australasian News.

SAN Francisco, June 5-The Sydney
(Austraha) Herald Of May furnishes the
following
Favorable reports have been received
from the gold neIds ia various parts Of
the colony.
The HOdginson river gpld fields, re-
ported 50 rich, have proved failure, and
there is much distress Ia consequence
among miners.
Nine earthquake shocks have been felt
in the south Or Canterbury aud the east
ern part of Otaga, in New Zealand.
Custom House returns show largely
increased exports 70 Australia, and reduc-
ed imports thence.
Considerable interest is DeinR mani
Tested on the question ot uui i1ratlon .
the colonies
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-06-10
Prison Labor.

Mr. Chas. Fl. Leitchman, of Marble
head, recently delivered lecture on ''The
Wrongs against Labor and their Rene
dy," at the Townhall, Spencer, Mass. In
the course of his lecture he said
"Prison labor was the assassination of
honest industry. II affects manufacturer
and workman alike The former by cor
ruption Of sales the latter of prices Of Ia
Dor. All should join in uprooting this
dishonest and pernicious system. Fifty
per cent. OF this outrage upon honest men
is the result Of ignorance. There are 43
large prisons in the United States, not
counting county jails, houses Of correction.
etc, and the income from % prisons in
1873 was 81, ,413, ,073, and from labor in
these prisons, 81, 1923, 1888 At forty cents q
day this represents 3, ,322, 205 days. At
300 working days year this will give
1000 boot-makers nearly FIVE and half
years Of constant employment. not taking
into account the damaging effects upon the
honest industry of the working class
Boot and shoe makers had to compete with
criminals whose labor was contracted for
at from % to 40 cents a day.
He then referred to that greatest Of all
vices, Intemperance, as being one cause Of
misery tending to hurt the trade. 1t was
essential that the working men should
save their money IN order to form build
ing societies and different societies of CO.
operation. He regarded cooperation in
its various forms, as being the only plan
by which working men could hope to at
tain and keep respectable position in the
world. After explaining the cooperative
system, he came to the principal topic of
his lecture-that of organization and the
Knights of st, Crispin. He advised every
boot and shoemaker to join the order at
once. The order vas purged from all the
errors and defects Of the old order. 1t
was now organized in a spirit of justice
toward both employers and workmen. A
board of arbitration was organized to settle
all disputes, and the employer was repre-
sented as well as the employees. There
was no danger Of getting into the riots and
strikes for former times. He held that the
order was necessity to protect both the
prices of the sales OF the manufacturers,
and the rates of pay Of the workmen."
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-06-10
Curiosities Of Cameron's March.

The principal discoveries made by Lieut.
Cameron on his fourth journey across the
continent of Africa were made known be-
fore the explorers arrival in England, by
tine letters which he forwarded from Ben
guela. They entitled him to hearty vel
come in London, and he has received it.
The Royal Geographical Society invited
him to address them at a special meeting
held in larger hall than their own. to
accommodate the throng Of listeners, and
presided over by . royal Duke, who intro
dnced the speaker; ana at the close Of the
evening he was awarded the Society's gold
medal, the highest honor Of geographical
science.
Lieut.. Cameren's speech was interesting
in its details, though its main features
naturally lacked novelty, owing to the
previous publication Of his letters. The
skeleton sketch Of exploration is now filed
in, however, with lights and shades and
colors which make it effective, and we
learn something about what q walk of
three thousand miles through the interior
Of mysterious continent really is. And
it is a serious affair, though sometimes
funny enough. At least the Royal Geo
graphical Society seemed to think it was
funny, for they roared with laughter ut
the statement that in Ugogo the chief and
all hands were drunk and would not allow
the party to pass on the day they arrived,
and the next day the chief would receive
the tribute only through mis- prime minis
ter, and he was too drunk to transact any
business, and so it went on from day to
day. More amusement was caused by
Lieut.. Cameron's account of the people
Of Uguhha. He said they were distin-
guished by the peculiar and tasteful man
ner in which they dress their hair, and BY
the elaborate tattooing on the women'a
stomachs. Their clothing then appeared
to him remarkable, but, compared with
what he saw further on, was ample. This
remark excited great laughter.
In another tribe the women arranged
their hair in most extraordinary manner
with head dresses looking like an old,
fashioned bonnet with the back out, and
long ringlets falling over the neck. Thil
was in district west of the great Tangan
yika lake, and where the expedition hrs
encountered hostilities from the natives
The leather coat which Lieut.. Cameror
wore saved him from being wounded by
the ARROWS which were suddenly showereC
upon them as they wers traverning slriI
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-06-10

improve and elevate the working classes.
1t includes also a school Of design for
females, now attended by 200 pupils q
free reading room and library, resorted to
by about 500 readers of inventions, and a
polytechnic school. The evening schools
are attended by 2, 900 pupils, mostly young
mechanics, who study engineering, min
ing. metallurgy, analytic and esynthetic
chemistry, architectural drawing, and
practical building. There are also for wo-
men q school of telegrsphy, which, in four
years, has sent out 307 operators; a school
of wood engraving, and a school Of pho
Biography; all of which are free and are well
attended. These schools employ upwards
Of 80 instructors"
The expenditures of the Institute for all
these purposes, of course, must be large.
For years they have considerably exceeded
800 600 annually, to meet which the rents
Of those parts of the building not used for
the purposes of the Institute, together
with interest in .t.o cass. endowment, are
appropriated; but when these fall short Of
the requirement-as thus far they have
done, by large amount, almost every year
recourse is had to the private purse Of
thC AioOioi loiHuCAJ oAu thho Hos hOfCA
yet been closed to the wants of this school
and those who freely enjoy its advantages.
His ''inextinguishable desire" to do good
to others still burns on, brightly as ever, in
this, the eighty-tifth year of his age;
nor, assuredly. will it eper be
quenched. How earnest this
yet impels him to speak and work
our readers may judge from the vigorous
letter, which We give in other pages,
in which he advocates a Just and
sound currency, which, if it were adopted,
he, with reason, believes would ac-
complish more good for his county
than almost all other means combined.
The day is not far distant, we trust, when
his country men will justify his judgment
in respect to this as fully as they have in
respect to the steam engine and tele-
graph, whose introduction he urged, with
purse and pen, when the "wise ones"
called him and his coadjutors fools for
doing it. Till that day comes he will at
least have the Consciousness Of having
done what he could ITO fix the attention
Of the American people on the appalling
cause that has so effectually paralyzed the
varied industries of our country" Our
readers who have seen his genial face will
not forget it; those who have not will
thank us for the best likeness We can give
on this page of one who has 80 truly
proved himself a friend of the People.