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The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19

THE New York Herald has sent John
Russell Young to South Carolina to write up
affairs there, and he is doing it. As yet he
has not been able to find a single Democratic
negro. He attributes the existence of the
color line to the native whites of the state.
The native whites have made no effort to
gain the confidence of the negro, and have
from the first made war upon him as voter.
So he has been thrown back upon his North
ern allies. 1t has become evident to him
that only by keeping the Republican party in
power could he have any guaranty of his
own rights. He looked to Georgia, where
with population of $685. 1926 whites aud 545-
142 blacks, the negroes have been virtually
stamped out. In that state, as Mr.. Nordhoff
tells us, the negro is afraid to vote, is not in
many places allowed on the jury, and in con-
sequence $4,000 black men have left the
state. The South Carolina negro knows
that he will be similarly treated, that he will be
virtually disfranchsed if the Democracy get
into power, and he insists with the passion
ate instinct of self-preservation upon the
maintenance of the color line. Who can
wonder at it?
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19

The testimony against the management of
the Post-Ofice department, taken thus far
in the hearing now in progress before the
house committee on post-ofices and post
roads, is that of the class of men called by
Governor Jewell "bummers," who were dis
charged by him as soon as their bad charac.
ter was ascertarned. The chief instigator of
the investigation is Holbrook, discharged
special agent, now clerk of the committee on
expenditures in the Post-Ofice department.
The men are now doing what they can to
"get even" with the Postmaster General, and
by examining their testimony in the light of
this fact its real value will be determined.
The Postmaster General has yet had no Of
fetal notice that his department is ON trial
but it is said that the committee intend TO
summon him.
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19
Recent Publications.

AMONG MY Books. By james Russell Lowell.
Second Series. Boston: j. R. Osgood & Co. For
sale by Bailey & Noyes.
Since st. Beuve's death Lowell is easily first
among purely literary critics. To wide knowl-
edge and catholic sympathy he adds liveli-
ness of apprehension, delcacy of perception,
and depth of insight possessed in no fuller
measure by the Frenchman. His splendid die
tion, power of epigrammatic statement, and
sparkling wit give to his criticism an mex
pressible charm, and to these graces of manner
are joined genius for simile and comparison,
a command of fgurative speech little less than
marvellous. If we hold with Emerson that the
poet is he to whom fields, waters, skies offer to
clothe his thoughts in images, he who can de-
tect essential resemblances in natures never be-
fore compared, he who discovers that what
men value as substances have higher value
as symbols, that "nature is the immense shad-
ow of man" and that ''the light, skies, and
mountains are but the painted vcisstudes of
the Soul, then Low ell is of the greatest Of the
poets.
This wonderful gift of comparison makes
itself evident in almost every page of LowelPs
latest book. Listen to these: Thoughts are
never draped in long skirts like babies if they
are strong enough 10 go alone" "Milton can
not certainly be taxed with any partialty for
low words. He rather loved them tall, as the
Prussian King loved men to be six feet high in
their stockings, and fit to go into the Grena-
diers." Again of Milton: "He was strate-
gist rather than drill sergeant in verse, capa-
BILE, beyond any other English poet of putting
great masses through the most complicated ev-
olutions without clash or confusion, but he was
not curious that every foot should be at the
same angle" Once again of Milton: "It is
wonderful how from the most wIthered and
juiceless hint gathered in his reading, his
grand images rise like an exhalation. How
from the most battered old lamp caught with
that huge drag-net with which he swept the
waters of learning, he could conjure tall
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19

In its business review the Nation says:
There have been several failures of import
ance in the anthracite coal trade, and these
have certainly done nothing to strengthen
the combination which controls the mining
and transportation as well as the market
price OF coal. The principal members of this
combination deny that there is a prospect Of
its disruption, and say that the trouble, which
is confined to middlemen, and is only of in
direct and slight importance to the combina-
tion, does not and will not weaken the latter.
There have also been an unusual number Of
mercantile failures in Boston, traeeable re-
motely to the losses by the great fire and to
the panic. These failures, accompanied by
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19
A LETTER has been received from Hon

A LETTER has been received from Hon.
Godlove s. Orth, Minister to Austria, in
which he says: eff / am nominated for Gov
ernor of Indiana by the Republicans 1 shall
at once return home to enter vigorously upon
the canvass; but do not want my name
presented unless there is a strong probability
of my being nominated" There is an al
most absolute certainty that Mr.. Orth will be
the choice of the convention, and that the
Austrian mission will be vacant after Tues
day next. Nothing is known as to who
will succeed Mr.. Orth in the Austrian Mis-
sion
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19

The short but important report of Pro.
fessor Curtius of Berlin upon the recent dis.
coveries at Olympia, which DR.. Robert P.
Keep has just communicated to the Ecening
Post in an English translation, will rouse the
enthusiasm of all lovers of art. The sys.
tematic labors of the German explorers, who
began in October last the herculean work of
removing the deposits with which the Alphe-
US has fortunately covered the ruins of Olym-
pla, are now crowned with success; and this
bulletin of Professor Curtius, with the tele-
graphic accounts which supplement it, seems
to show that we are on the eve of archeo.
logical discoveries more important than any
which have been made since Herculaneum
and Pompeii rose from their ashes. The
results already gained prove that there has
been no such wholesale destruction of the
works of art which adorned and surrounded
the thmp'e of Zeus at Olympia as many
feared, and that Curtius was amply justified
in directing the attention of the German
Government to this famous spot. The mud
of the Alpheus has been far gentler protec-
tor of treasure Of art than we're either Turks
or Venetians, and the British Museum is now
likely to have formidable rival in the new
museum at Olympia. 1t is well known that
the German Government has promised to
leave every work of art which may be found,
except. perhaps, duplicates, in the possession
OF the Greeks. Among the first relics found
Was three sided pedestal of statue, with
an inscription showing that both the pedestal
and statue of Victory which stood on it
were erected by the Messenians of Naupactus,
from "spoils of war;" as votive offering TO
Zeus, and that the sculptor was Paeonius of
Mende in Thrace, who (the inscription adds)
made also some of the pediment statues of
the temple itself, having beon victorious in
competitive contest for the honor of furnishing
them. Paeonius was contemporary OF
Phidias and from being mere anne known
only to arch@ologists, he must henceforth
take rank among the first sculptors of the
Periclean age. The next day was, found the
statue of Victory itself, which has excited
great admiration even in its mutilated condi-
ton. Its head and arms were still wanting
at last accounts, but when every day is bring
ing heads and arms in abundance to light,
there is little doubt that the goddess will soon
be complete. The scholars who superin-
tended the excavations at once recognized
this statue as the identical one mentioned by
Pausanias who states (probably on the au-
thority of the inscription now discovered on
on the pedestal) that it was the work of
Paeonius of Mende, and was erected by 'the
Dorian Messenians, who had received Nau-
pactus from the Athenians."
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19
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The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19

The Indiana Greenback Convention has
nominated Mr.. Landers Democratic represen-
tative for Governor, fact which the Argus
does not care to convey to its readers. Mr..
Landers replies with letter accepting the
nomination. He says he las no hesitation
in identifying himself with this movement,
because the platform is Identical with that
adopted one year ago by the Indiana Democ-
racy, and that upon which he and his Demo
cratic colleagues were elected to the present
ConpraSs
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19
All Diseases of the Blood.

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The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19

the Winslow-forgery disclosures, have created
in Boston degree of distrust which, for the
timebeing, seriously affects business there.
Outside of New England there is what the
market reports call can improved feeling"
this being most apparent in the Western cit
les. The foreign commerce, however, of New
York and of the Northern Atlantic parts DUR
ing the expired part of the present year,
show an important gain over last year; the
imports at New York alone having been $5,-
900, 900 more in January than in the corre-
spending month year ago, and the exports,
exclusive of specie, about $2,5OO,000 more.
At the Stock Exchange there has been fur
ther advance in securities which are bought
for investment, as we'll as considerable rise
In shares which are chiefly, if not entirely,
dealt in by spectators. The action of the
Wisconsin Legislature lone branch of which
has passed the bill repeating or modifying
the Potter Aet) has given strong support to
the upward movement. The gold price of
800 greenbacks ranged during the week be-
tween $500 and $500.
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19

SYMPTOMS-Wanto of appetite, rising of food and
wind from the stomach acidty of the stomach heart
burn, dryness and whiteness of the tongue in the
morning, sense of dstenon IN the stomach and bow
els sometimes rumbing and pain costiveness, which
Is occasionally interrupted by diarrhea paeness of
the urine: The mouth is clammy, OF has sour or
brash, papitaton of the heart, headache and dsor-
ders of the senses, as seeing double etc. There is
general debility, anguor and aversion to motion; de-
lection of the Spirits disturbed sleep and rghtful
dreams.
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. 10, 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communI-
cations. The namG and address of the writer are In
M cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty oi good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19
APPRECIATION.

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III. r. STEVENS:
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Yours respectfully,
MRS. A. A. DINSMORE,
10 Russell Street.
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19
What I Know About Vegetine.
SOUTH BOSTON, May Q, 1870.

SOUTH BOSTON, May 9, 1870.
Fl. R. STEVENS, ESQ:
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1856 Athens Street.
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19

THE constitution of the House Democrati c
committee on the finances is given as folio VS. !:
Said to be for hard money, seven; known to
be for soft money six. Of the seven, GER
tainly not wise men, the majority are in
favor of the Payne bill, bill which provides
for the repeal of the resumption act, and
makes no provision for hard money. The
committee seem to have been appointed with
the view of securing favorable report ON
the Paine bill, and it was feared that no New
York representative could be induced to in
dorse that as hard money measure. As
even those members of the committee who
are reckoned on the side of specie payments
are in favor of the repeal of the resumption
act, it may safely be inferred that the caucus
bill will be such a measure of compromise
as the infationist will be very glad to accept.
Once repeal the solemn pledge to resume in
1879, and the country is all at sea again on
the question of its finances, with an even
chance of the attempt being made, as far as
legislation can effect such purpose, to flood
it with another hundred millions or so of in
convertible notes.
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19
Gained Fifteen Pounds of Flesh,

SOUTH BERWICK Me-, Jan. II, 1872.
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Yours truly,
THOMAS E. MOORE,
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The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19
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She was also troubled with dyspepsia and general
debility, and has been greatly benefited.
THOMAS GILMORE,
2294 Walnut STRAIT
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Fullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon US by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19

CARL SCHURZ writes from New York to
his paper in st. Louis, the Westliche Post,
that he is disgusted with the imbecility of
the Democratic majority in Congress. He
says, ga spectacle of helplessness more mel
ancholy than the Democratic majority In the
House of Representatives now offers can
scarcely be found in the history of parties.
What great things were prophesied when
this party should get into its hands even a
part of the power of Government! And now
the possession OF this power in the House Of
Representatives has only afforded new op-
portunity fer one moral overthrow after an
other, until the best heads of the party curse
their victory in the year 1874, because it has
only brought their impotence to light and in
spired their antagonists with new vitality.
And yet we see the machine managers busy
at work, not to carry through the nomina.
ton of one of their best men for President,
but that of some one who entirely represents
the want of substance and principle in the
party, in order that in this way they may
keep the old concern somehow together"
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19

THE New York Tribune suggests a word
of caution in regard to the matter of house
decorations, in good time. The subject of
chairs, rugs, bric-a-brac, pottery &C., has
been entirely overdone in the magazines, and
books even that have been written. Things
that our fathers cast aside now command fabu.
lous prices. The household art department in
the magazines is more eagerly turned to than
the fashion col1mn. The American has not
been in the habit of regarding his house as
place for the display of art. The revival of
medieval ideas and pre-Raphaelite reform,
tints and effects are all Greek to him. The
horse-hair parlor suit which has been mat
ter of pride with him is now derided as bar
barous, while the old settle is brought down
from the garnet and praised as specimen of
high art. Although this clamor may lead to
some little progress in taste among few peo-
pie, yet it is matter Of fashion which the
majority ignorantly follow as they do other
fashions. The number of dry-goods-box
houses and sham villas that cover the conti-
nent testify to the perception of form and
SOioA Va ohO dfCloSC auCfICdus 10 carly
these ideas of Eastlake designs, Morris wall
paper and Persian rugs into these houses
without knowledge Of the simplest rules of
art, material to work with or money to pay
for it, is ridiculous. Cheap imitation they
learn can be made at home without money
or skill. But this is not art Is it not better
to wait until the eye is trained, until we have
the money to pay for the ''real articles"
and not the imitation? Do not rush into
this fashion more readily than into other
ridiculous fashions. Do not destroy the SOL
i'd comforts of home by substituting 'syellow
muslin bound with red cal ico'' in place of
doors. or ''turn your snug closets into open
cabinets with the edge Of the shelves trimmed
with gilt lace and forest leaves" The pri-
vacy of home should not be invaded. The
sham and tinsel will not deceive yourself, and
you are the ones for whom the changes are
made. Advance in the right direction can
only be made by patient study of art and
not by following the fashion.
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19
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Notes..


j. X. Osgood s. Co. have now published
Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish,
and Mr.. Fields essay on Nathaniel Hawthorne.
in their Vest-Pocket Series. By reason of
their moderate length both are admirably
adapted TO this form of publication. This
House is doing the public positive favor in
publishing the sayings of our favorite authors
in such shape that we can have them always
with US. Next to friend at ones side to talk
to, is book in ones pocket to read. We can
become intimate with our authors only as wa
frequent their pages. and the vest-Pocket
Series is making this possible for the busiest Of
us. The delicate tint of the paper and clear
ness of the type are pleasure to the eye, while
the strong but flexible binding gives confidence
to the feel" The subject matter of these two
volumes needs no comment here.
1t is proposed to publish life of the late DR..
). G. Howe in raised letters for the use Of the
blind-certainly a most fitting monument.
The same biography will bs printed in the
usual manner in memorial volume, together
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19
$500 REWARD.

A REWARD of Five Dollars will be paid
lead to the conviction of the BO,s who defaced his
stable on Russell Street, last Saturday afternoon,
Feb. 18th instant. G. w. BELKNAP.
Portland, Feb. II, 1875. teb14d1w
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19


Insurance i'm this Company COSTS
LESS as its DaVIDENDs are LAKGER
than those of any other Company.
Dividends declared and paid In cash af
the eud of first year, and annually there
after.
Hts securities are BETTER-its Ex-
pemses MALLER than any other.
Many of its Policies have nearly doubled
in amonnt during the past 30 years, and
the CASH Dividends in many cases. are
more than the Annual Premiums, SO that
IN a few years Policies become seIf.sus.
tanning. No other Life Company in this
country, or the world, has shown such re-
suits, or presents such adva ntages for In
surance this.
f. S. WINSTON President
RICHARD A. NCCURDY, Vice Pres,
JOHN M. STUART, Secretary,
VIM. H. G. BARTLETT, Actuary.
w. I'D. LITTLE.
General Agent for Maine and New
Hampshire,
Stanton Block, 81 Exchange Street,
feo4 PORTLAND. .d3w
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From the Undivided Surplus Dividend will be ap-
portoned to each Policy which shall be in force at its
anniversary in 1876.
have carefully examined the foregoing Statement
and find the same correct.
ISAAC F. LLOYD, Auditor.
January 18th, 1876.
NOTE.-By act of the Trustees the membership of
this Company is limited to one hundred thousand in
sured lives.
Increase in net assets for year 1875 So 3S4 224 6J
Income from premiums and inter-
. est: .:.:....:....... !; :: 30 400, ,9ss.6
Receipts for interest over death
claims and endowments due ard
not due, or paid in advance in
1875. Observation-Disclosures. as3,9I4.ss
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19
THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS,
Published every day Sundays excepted by the
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co.

AT 1O9 EXCHANGE ST., PORTLAND.
TERMS: Eight Dollars Year in advance. 10
mail subscribers Seven Dollars Year If pad IN ads
vance,
The Portland daily press., 1876-02-19

Any party in want of Office Desks
ol any style we are now prepared to
furnish them at manufacturers whole
sale prices We will sell splendid
holl Top Desk with the entire system
OF drawers opened and closed by one
lock- on the combination principle.
Price $4,000 Retail price Sl3O 90.
About the first of Feb, we shall be
prepared to furnish all styles of Show
Cases at manufacturers prices; 25 per
cent. lower than they have ever been
offered in this city.