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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27
Troubles of a Hotel Keeper.

A New York correspondent relates the
attempts made in that city to swindle Mr.
A. L, e. Dodge, formerly of Waldo county
and more recently Of Washington. ID. G
The letter says
Amasa 7. c. Dodge, formerly well known
hotel keeper in Bangor Maine, lately bough
the Tyler House in New York lie claims thai
few rooms were shown to him as samples o
the entire establishment and he contracted tC
give $4,000 for the furniture and good will
He was to pay $4,000 cash and give notes TO,
the remainder. He did not notice a clause IN
the written contract. by which accounts alread,
paid were declared forfeited in the event of fail
ure to pay his instalIments punctualv. The
$4,000 cash was paid, as was also $1,000 for two
months rent.
Mr.. Dodge took possession, and then found
as he claims, that the property was not as val.
liable as represented. Then Just before the first
rent and installment became due. the former
owner, named Walker, presented IA bill for
$4,000 for goods, wares and merchandise fur.
nished and services rendered. Mr.. Walker was
sent away with his claim unsatisfied A day
or two afterward one of Sheriff Connor's Dep
uties arrested Mr.. Dodge under Judge Davis's
order, at the suit of Mr.. Walker. Walkers af-
fidavlt averred that Dodge owed $500, which
debt he contracted upon the representation that
he was worth $4,000 above all liabilities. Mr..
Walkers affidavit further declared that Dodge
had sent his personal baggage and effects to a
hotel preparatory to his departure from the
city,
Mr.. Dodge was thereupon flung into the Lud-
low Street Jail. At length he secured the SER
wees wee. Of b. F. Mudgett, a lawyer, and Walkers
claim was proved spurious. The plaintiff could
not prove an item. excepting one of less than
500 for liquors in the bar, and whatever his
commissions for negotiating the sale might be
worth. Mr.. Dodge was freed from Ludlow
Street Jail just twelve days after his arrest. He
az once turned hir the tables upon Mr.. Walker by
by Justice Flammer, Mr.. Walker was reG,,ired
ury. r
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27
Some Little Mistake.

When the Prog. Age hasn't time to in
vent lies of its own, it copies them from
other papers. 1t recently assalled Mr.
Morrison, of Illinois, Chairman OF the
Committee of Ways and Means, and in
simulated, because he had never made q
SET speech, that he was incapable OF one.
We called attention to the fact that Mr.
Morrison was shot through the lungs in
the late war. and that the wound incapac-
itated him from a prolonged use of his
voice. The Age refuses to publish that
fact, But it goes on 70 sill further lying
Injustice by copying other talsehoods from
Chicago paper. That paper says Mr.. NJ,
in making up his biography Tor the pres
ent Congressional directory, changed it
from the former one, by suppressing his
military record, and insinuates that he did
it to curry favor with rebels. Also that he
appointed for clerk of his committee a
this Hambleton bitter rebel but one who
applauded the assassination OF President
Lincoln, and who exhibited his admiration
OF a coward and q murderer by chriStenin9
his son John Wilkes Booth Hamdleton"
The Washington correspondent Of the
New York Herald, in speaking of the re-
action in favor Of the Democratic position
that is taking place since the debate, says
The reaction makes the more Roadway as the
baseness of some of the charges used for party
purposes is revealed. For instance, it was said
that General Morrison, chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee, had suppressed his mil
itary record out of Difference to his Southern
colleagues, when the fact is the alteration in the
Congressional Directory" from last year was
made to bring the sketch of his life within the
limit prescribed by the publisher. OF piece
with this SANDER was the story that the clerk Of
the same important committee, DR.. Hambeton,
had Il tavorte child which he named John
Wilkes Booth, after the assassin of President
Lincoln, when the fact is that the child was
christened John Wilkes simply, and in honor Of
an uncle Of DR.. Hambleton.
Of course the Age will never make any
retraction 1t never does that, and believes
thoroughly in lie we'll stuck to-
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27
Opening OF the Blaine CAMPAIGN,

AUGUSTA, Jan 90. At legislative caucus
held this evening Nelson Dingley, Jr., John L.
Stevens, Josiah H. Drummond and Francis
Cobb were unanimously elected deegates-at-
large to attend the Republican National Con-
yention, and Daniel Stickney, Joseph Fl. Frost,
J. w. Spaulding and j. NJ. Andrews were
elected alternates. The following resolution
was passed without dissenting vote.
Resolved, That James G. Blaine is the unanimous
choice of the Republicans of Maine for President.
A committee of one from each county was
raised to report plan of organization of a
central campaign club The caucus adjourned
for two weeks, when the committee will report.
This formal presentation OF the name
of Names candidate for the Presidency
has been for some time expected, and
opens the ball with the first resident can
didate for that high Office which any party
has put forward. The fortunes of Mr..
Blaine, as they wax and wane in the
campaign, will be watched with interest
by political friends and foes. 1t is unfor-
tunate tor the candidates chances that he
is to be confronted by his recent record
as an -paciticator; for the sober second
thought of the people cannot fail to real
ize that the great want OF the country is
union OF feeling and sentiment as well
as of fact, and that he who conspcuously
and persistently labors to create or widen
breach, is not the man for the head OF
the government. This feeling cannot fail
Of recognition by the politicians who will
control the nominating convention. and
the chances of radical success are too
slender to carry an aspirant so weighted
There will be no lack Of candidates at
the coming Republican Convention, but
there will be need of culling them care
fully to find man OF ability, untainted
by the prevailing corruption, and suffi-
GENTLY free from the narrowness and ln-
| tolerance of sectionalism, to be risked be-
fore the people. The demand for availa-
! bility has been very fatal to the leaders Of
the Republican party and its predecessor
the old Wing organization. Clay and
Webster were obliged to give way to
| the mediocre Harrison and the military
Scott. In the Convention of 1860, avala-
| bility killed Seward, Cameron, Bates and
| Chase, and brought forward the compar.
atively unknown Lincoln 1t is not I'm.
| likely that this history will repeat itself
| at Cincinnati next June.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27

War, they tell us, is raging at Washing
ton in the Maine delegation, According
to our correspondent there, the parties in
the conflict are Senator Hamlin of Maine
and Mr. Plaisted, the Representative of
the Bangor District, and the fight is said
to exceed in bitterness anything of the
kind in Maine politics for years. Mr.. Ham
lin, it is represented, aims to defeat Mr..
Plaisted and elect Lewellyn Powers Of
Aroostoob next autumn; consequently he
is trying to get all the offices in the dis
trict away from Mr.. Plaisted and his
friends The first contest, which has been
over the postmaster at Houlton, had Just
terminated. Ilamlin is accused of gross
duplicity in getting William l.. Boyd ap-
pointed Mr.. Plaisted advocated the APP
pointment of F. w. Pierce. IIamlin and
Plalsted went to the PostmasterGe General,
and each admitted that the candidate of
the other was personally respectable and
unoblectionable The Postmaster-g general
favored Hamlin's man and the President
wanted to crafty Mr.. Plaisted. When
Hamlin found that he was going to be
beaten, he preferred charges of snug
Cling against Mr.. Pierce This enabled
him to get Boyd appointed. Pierce and
several others swear that this is false, and
Plaisted is preparing to pay off the Sena-
tor for his trick when the opportunity
comes. Several of Hamlin's colleagues
denounce his action in this case as one of
the meanest of all his performances. Bos-
ton Herald
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27
Such men in the United States Senat

AottNb lIiCl III lllG I LLlttt SLttltS t1Clltlt
as the Democrats have recently elected
will do honor to the country Hon j, b
Beck of Kentucky and Hon. l.. q. O. La
mar of Mississippi are statesmen from
whose broad views, liberal minds and
conservative tendencies the country has
much TO expect.
Col. Osgood, manager of the Augusta
Lyceum, has invited the members Of the
Editorial Association to attend the reading
by Mrs. Scott Siddons, on Friday evening
The Portland hen show is considered
to have been success, although there
was good deal of fuss and feathers about
it. The Penobscot valley was not repre-
sented to any extent.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27

CARyER's IIAHEoE. Mr.. Hartwel the gov
eminent store-kceper has resigned, and will 20
west. \ Mr.. Roberts, son of eN-colector Il.
NJ. Roberts Of Stockton has been appointed to
the po>iton....P propose to build here
next season Il large vessel, Il brig or bark
which is probably as such one can easily be
taken ur....It is reported that Gloucester firm
will bring six Ur eight vessels here next sum-
mer, and set up a fishing firm Fishing was one
of the earliest industries of the island before
the granite quarric> were worked. II learn that
only native and naturaiZrd citizens will be en-
ployed here in tutuIc....A new and large der
rick has been erected on the wharf ut Hurricane
Island, that will weigh L stone of twenty i've
tonS.....Thc days have heightened sufficiently
to make q half hours more time, aud govern
ment workmcn now put in eight and three
fourth hours as Il days work.....Mr Turner
the school teacher, has opened an evening
school for those who are unable to attend the
day session. Marble and iron mines have been
discovered on Isle att Ilaut, and Il company
from this place have gone over prospecting. If
found i'll paying quantities they will he worked
1.-The workmen are paid off monthly. and
last week was pay week. The wages amount
to about so 900 per month.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27

The views Of Gov. Tilden on the finan-
cial and business affairs of the country.
which we copy to-day from his annual
message, are thoroughly sound, and such
as the country must rely upon for the re-
turn of prosperity. They are commended
to the careful consideration of men of all
parties. 1t is by reason of wide depart
ure from such maxims that we are now
suffering hard times and the depression of
all business interests The remedy lies
simply in listening to such clear headed
advisers as the Governor, and reversing
the machinery.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27

\ lady member of a family in Machas more
than year ago while ''stirring up straw
bed lost a ring from her finger. Strict search
was made but the ring could not be found. The
straw was emptied in the spring in the stable
and used as bedding for horses, and thrown
upon the manure heap; the manure was haul
ca about three miles and used on a potato lot.
The crop of potatoes was dug and celared. and
last Tuesday, as the man was cutting some of
them to feed his horses his knife struck upon
some hard substance, which on investigation
proved to be the identical ring lost in the straw
bed more than year previous.
One of Denison's paper stock houses at Me-
chanc Falls, was burned Saturday night. Loss
200; insurance, $4,000.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27

1t looks well for the passage of the bill
approprlatlng one and a halt millions tor
the Centennial exposition. The Southern
ers will generally favor it, although few
may be restrained by doubt of its consti-
tutlonality. Those voting affirmativelv
will decidedly rebuke the unpatriotic
course OF Republican members in regard
to amnesty. Senator Gordon, Dem. OF
Georgia, iavors the bill on the following
grounds: First, because no section is so
deeply interested in the proper celebration
and re-establishment of the principles of
l''6 and in the restoration of good will
IN the country as the South secondly, be-
cause the proposed appropriation would
cost only about three and half cents per
capita in the United States; thirdly, that
Pennsylvania has paid four and half mil
lions of the five millions already expended
and that it would be unjust to make that
State pay more. whereas the appropriation
by Congress would perfect the national
character of the celebration; fourthly. that
the foreign nations having accepted the
Invitation to come, the reputation of the
Government is involved in perfecting the
arrangements.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27

In answer to resolution OF the House
Of Representatives, the President has
transmitted copies of the correspondence
with the Spanish government concerning
Cuban affairs. 1t sustains previous asser-
tious that there is nothing OF an untriend-
ly nature existing between the govern
ments, and no cause for rupture
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27

The public having nearly recovered
from the effect OF the Kennebec Journals
story of the loon with his feet frozen into
the ice, that paper proceeds to further re-
late the marvels OF the river, as follows
4 hunter in this city chased Il fox on to the
ice in the river; the fox fell through breath
ing hole, was drowned, and afterwards was
tished up by lone fisherman prospecting for
Thomas Gods.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27

Even Blaine was for amnesty as far back
as 1867. and so much in earnest about it
that old Thad Stevens gave him lashing
for his liberality This was the way the
old Pennsylvania put It
The amendment of the gentleman from Maine
lets in vast number Of rebels and shuts ont
aoJody. All [ ask is that when the House
comes to vote upon that amendment, it shall
understand that the adoption of it would be an
entire surrender of these States (the South
into the hands of the rebels. 1t is proposed
step towards universal amnesty and universal
Andy-JohnsoniSm.
And it has taken Blaine ever since TO
get his mad up,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27
The Union Soldier" Question

The statement of Col Fitzhugh, door
keeper Of the house, rather takes the wind
out of the Republican sails en- the Union
soldier" question. He says he has made
sc appointments and that 81 of the APP
pointees took the iron-clad oath, Twenty
five out OF the Sc were Union soldiers, 10
confedel ates and two veterans of the Mex
lean war. Col. Fitzhugh also states that
the door-keeper of the Forty third con-
gress had only y Union soldiers on roll
OF l5S. The roll of the present congress,
it should be borne in mind, has been cut
down to So. So the Democratic door keep
er, in roll little more than halt the size
OF that of his predecessor has appointed
four more Union soldiers
A Democratic paper remarks in this
connection that if there is any harm in the
| appointment OF ex-contederates to office,
President Grant is specially worthy of
blame. He appointed Longstreet and
| Alderman, and has never been known to
turn cold shoulder to any guerilla sent
him by his friend Mosby. Indeed, the
| convention which nominated him the Sec
ond time was presided over by notable
ex-confederate in the person of Judge
Thomas Settle OF North Carolina. who
displayed wonderful alacrity in desert
ing his former associates as soon as the
Southern cause was lost. The president
fastened to tell the country that he had
provided for all the Union soldiers dis
missed by the Democratic house, but the
country would be very glad to know
when he has ever omitted one of his own
innumerable kindred in the distribution
OF the loaves and fishes forthe sake of "the
boys who wore the blue"
The Prog Age, although it refuses to
say whether or not it favors third term
does not hesitate to put its foot in a trap
that is quite as serious. Thus in a recent
issue it gets up its indignation on the am
nesty question to the point of the follow
ing very decided talk
It is amusing to observe the disgust of the
political snobs and old grannies at the refusal
OF Mr.. Blaine and the other Republican mem
bers of the House to keep step to the tune of
the northern Democratic doughfaces upon am
nesty to JEFF. Davis.
The editor of the Age probably didn't
know that one of these snobs, old gran
MES and doughtaces has his residence at
the White House. In his annual message
of two years ago, Gen. Grant said
l renew my previous recommendation TO
CONGRESS for general amnesty. The number
engaged eng IN the late rebellion yet laboring I'M
keep up constant irritation. No possible
danger can accrue to the Government by re-
storing them to eligibility to hold office.
Our neighbor can now get on his knees
and beg pardon
"A Portland man is deliverinp a loc-
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27

"A Portland man is delivering a lee
ture on hard times. There's plenty OF
material just now.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27
Sawdust and Diplomacy.

Almost every other kind of ring being
represented in the national administration
we now have the circus ring. The Court
Journal at Washington has this announce
ment-
Mr.. Henry Nisnaud has been appointed Sec
ond secretary of the American legation in Par
is, succeeding Mr.. Gratiot Washburne, who
has been appointed secretary of the United
States legation at st. Petersburg.
Mr.. Gratiot Washburne, who is thus
promoted to the secretaryship OF our st.
Petersburg legation at the snug salary of
$4,000 per annum in gold, is the son OF
the present American minister at Paris.
The operations of his genius are not en-
tirely confined to diplomatic pursuits as
the following curious advertisement in
the New York Clipper of Oct. 80. 1870,
will show:
WANTED
For j. w. Myers Great American Circus,
Paris. France, the palace circus of the world,
| containing eighty-tWo iuXuriousy furnished
private boxes, and seating capacity Of seven
thousand five hundred-A FIRST-CLASS BARE
BACK MALE AND FEMALE RIDER.
Address, stating lowest terms and business,
GRATIOT WASHBU
No. IA East Fifteenth St., New York,
Up to November %.
If, as we are informed. Mr. Gratiot Wash
burne obtained from his father leave of
absence for the purpose Of coming home
to look after bareback riders, and drew
one salary from the government as second
secretary OF legation, and another salary
as accredited agent Of 'the Great Ameri-
can Circus''-what are his claims to the
position Just assigned him? This is a
| question which the people have right to
ask, and which somebody should answer
without unnecessary delay. 1t the coun-
| try can furnish no better stuff han circus
agent Tor secretaries of legation, in the
name OF common sense and common de-
cency let the legations be run without
| secretaries,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27
THURSDAY. JANUARY u, 1876.
WILLIAM H, SNIP SON

ADMINISTRATORS, EXECUTORS and GUARDIANS
desiring their advertisements published in the Jour
nal will please state to the Court.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27

SUBSCRIBERS desiring to have the address o
papers changed must state the Post Office to which
the paper has been as well as the one to which
il is to go.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27

REBATES & LOCKE, "a Park Row, New York
are authorized agents for procuring advertisements
for the Journal.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27

FAsTPoRT, Jan. 81, Mr.. Storrs Bradford
and Mr. f. i. Shedd We're broken open last
night in the rear. There was nothing in Brad
ford. There were ten dollars in Shetld, who
tried to keep it. Bradford is safe, but attempts
to repair him We're unsuccessful Money no
object.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1876-10-12
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