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The Portland daily press., 1877-08-16
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST le.

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.
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Reception Hall, City Building,
PORTLAND, Thursday, August 16, 1877,

At 10 o'clock A. M, for the purpose of nominat-
ing four candidates for the Office Of State Senator
County Commissioner, Register of Deeds, Treas
urer. Also to choose County Committee for the
year 1875 also to act upon any other business proper
to come before the convention.
The basis of representation will be as follows:
Portland and each of the several Towns in the County
will be entitled to delegate and for every rs
votes cast for Selden Connor for Governor last year,
fraction Of 40 will be entitled to an addi-
tional delegate.
This basis will give the following number of dele
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lack of rain was felt. The country has had
no such wheat crop in many years. In most
Western states this crop is fully one-fourth
above average-thirty bushels to the acre not
being an uncommon return. This is es-
pecially true in Michigan, where mlllers now
look for their choicest grades.
The Portland daily press., 1877-08-16

OUR people will learn with deep regret that
Senator Morton's illness is much more severe
than at first thought. He has had stroke
of paralysis, and is hopeless cripple.
The Portland daily press., 1877-08-16
THE American missionaries are spoken of

THE American missionaries are spoken of
in warm terms OF praise by an Asiatic cor
respondent of the London Times for their
care of the wounded in the late battles in Ar
mepian Turkey. Two of them, Messrs.
Pierce and Cole, have gone to the front to
assist the over-worked doctors in their dis
tressing labors, aiding the surgeons in re-
placing bandages, washing wounds, nursing
the sick, and distributing unknown luxurfes,
such as fowls, meat, eggs, tobacco &C.,
among the men. After the massacres of the
Bulgarians by the Bashi-Bazouks the Ameri-
can missionaries repaired to the desolated
towns with money and provisions, and saved
thousands from perishing by want. When
the cholera was raging at Constantinople in
1865 they were everywhere, bearing succor to
Mohammedan and Christian alike.
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THE MAINE STATE PRESS
ENTERTAINMENTS.
Knights of Pythias of Portland.

Members Bramhall, Munjoy and Pine Tree
Lodges are requested to meet at Pythian Hall,
THURSDAY NOON, August 16, 1877, at - sharp,
in uniform, for two days Excursion to Bridgton,
Me.
Excursion will leave via P. & o. R. R. for Lake
Sebago; at the Lake by steamer passing through the
Lake. up Songo River, through Brandy Pond and
Loug POND to Bridgton. Supper will be served
Immediately on the arrival of the boat. Returning,
leave Bridgton August 18th.
Fare for round trip from Portland to Brdgton
and return, including Supper, Lodging, Breakfast
and Dinner $3.50; Ladies $3.50.
MUSIC BY PORTLAND BAND.
Every X. of p. is invited, with or without a
uniform. Members wishing tickets for their friends
can procure them of the Committee
Drill meeting Wednesday evening at X. P. Hall.
COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS: Pine Tree
Lodge-Wm. P. Horrie, H. A. Mcdonald, Jabez
Poor, Wyer Greene. Bramhall Lodge Chas. W.
Bean, Chas. w. Davis E. G. Milliken.
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REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
FOR GOVERNOR:
CONNOR
OF Augusta.
Cumberland Co. Republican Convention.

The Republicans Of Cumberland County and all
Others who intend to act with the Party in the Sep
tember election invited to send delegates to con-
YentiOn TO be held in
The Portland daily press., 1877-08-16

WHATEVER else is contingent, abundant
crops are assured-not in isolated localities
aone, but in nearly every state and territory
in the Union. And this abundance includes
nearly every agricultural product as well as
every section of the country. In some locali-
ties corn is an exception, the latter rains not
having been sufficient to keep up its early
promise. In localities, also, the same thing
is true of late potatoes, while the early varie-
ties generally reached maturity before this
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EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned 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
Journal
The Portland daily press., 1877-08-16

THE man on horseback has gone out ol
Maine politics, and he takes with him all the
fun of the campaign.
The Portland daily press., 1877-08-16

during the week. Services on the grounds
Sunday, August 26th.
A Temperance Camp Meeting under the auspices
of the West Oxford and Carroll County Temperance
Alliance will commence at same place MONDAY
p. NJ August 9th, aud close Friday evening,
August 3lst.
>. Reform Clubs. Temperance Organizations and
Temperance workers cordially invited.
The meetings Tuesday Will be conducted by
Reform Clubs, under the direction Of j. X. Osgood
ESQ.,. of Gardiner.
Wednesday, Good Templar day, Ex-Governor
Sidney Perham, G. W. G. T. presiding.
Thursday, the Womans' Christian Temperance
Union.
Friday, Children's day.
Gen. Neal Dow and a large number of other
prominent temperance workers will be present and
address the different meetings.
Board per week $50; Board per day $1.00;
Breakfast and supper each 40 cents; Dinner so
cents; Lodging per week $15O; Single Lodging 80 cts
Good stabling for horses at low rates.
Railroad fare from Portland, Sebago Lake and
intermediate stations to Fryeburg depot and
return SIPS; from all other stations on p 81 O.. Il.
r. half fare.
Transportation from Depot to Camp Ground and
return 30 CENTS Trains leave Portland at $50 A.
M, LOS and $50 P. Nj. Returning leave Fryeburg
Depot for Portland at $40 and 1I.O2 a. m and 4.20
p. m. GEO. l.. KlMBALL, Secretary,
Address for the present, Fryeburg, Me.
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Vacancies in delegations can be filled only by
actual residents of the towns they represent.
The County Committee will be in session at the
Hall at O'Clock in the morning of the day of the
Convention, and will there receive credentials of DEL
egates.
ID. W. MERRILL,
HENRY G. BREWER,
MATT. ADAMS,
JOHN WOODBURY., Republican
r. G. SoRIBNER, : County
GORDON r. GARDEN, Committee,
ISAIAH s. WEBB,
ESAM'L DNGLEY, Chairman,
L. B. CHAPMAN, Secretary.
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NOTICE TO STOCK RAISERS'

A meeting of the Executive Officers of the New
"A England Agricultural Society, held at Port
land July 2Otb 1871 it voted that class Four
Nos. a. 25 and 26, the premiums for sheep should
read instead of 1.-TWO years old and under three" as
advertised in the published Premium Iist-"two
years old and upwards
Also that in all cases, the exhibitor OF horse or
horses and drivers having paid the entrance lee,
should be entitled to card of admission.
Iy26dtf DANIEL NEEDHAM, Secretary.
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The LARGEST andaBEST i'm the
Worlds!
81 years experience has shown it
10 be not only the SAFEST but
the CHEAPEST.
Its Income for 1876 was
$2O,OI4,26O.34.
Gain i'm Assets the past year
$3,5OO.OO.
Its receipts for INTEREST i'm 1875
was 100000 more than its
death losses.
Its SECURITIES are BETTER,
Its DIVIDENDS LARGER, EX-
PENSES SMALLER than any
other Company.
Many of its Policies have doubled
I'm amount during the past 20
years, and the Cash dividends,
in many cases are MORE THAN
THE ANNUAL PREMIUM. these
policies being Self-suStaining.,
No other Life Company i'm this
Country, or the world. has fur.
niShed such results. there being
no Stockholders TO CONSUME
ITS EARNINGS, NO PREMIUM
NOTES, no accumulating inter-
est to pay.
The following are the results of Policies now
in force at this Agency and such are the actual and
uniform results of insurance with this Company
dt viii be seen that all these Policies have than
doubled in amount.
Dividends declared yearly in Cash and may be
used In payment OF premiums it wanted.
The Portland daily press., 1877-08-16
Portland District Camp Meeting,

Commences MONDAY, August goth. and continues
during the week. Services on the grounds
Sunday, August 26th,
National Republican., 1877-10-27
Rad ms m Regular Diet.

What nonsense is this they are talking In Wash
hston about resisting the confirmation of MIR.
HnLIARD a. Minister Of BRAZIL because he was an
earnest seceSSionist2 II has been six months since
they swallowed a substantial camel In the place OF
Mr.. KEY, an avowed rebel from beginning to cud
and vehement supporter Of Mr.. TiLpEs, whom
they put into the Cabinet. After that is 1t worth
while to strain at such gnsts as the Brazilian
mission Mr.. HILLIARD's influence at the South
for good while has been in favor of peace, good
order, friendship with the North and a cOmservS-
tive Republican party. Mr.. KEYS was just the
other way So long As We can stand.Mr. KEY IN
the Cabinet what is the use Of making fuss about
Mr HIiiIARD7-N T. Tribune.
Our New York contemporary makes a
good point on Mr.. KEYS introduction into
the Cabinet, but il must recollect that his
appointment was among the youthful in
discretions" of the administration. That,
Hike the Southern policy, is an accomplished
fact, and is not likely to be changed; but
because an early mistake has been over
looked, that affords no reason why Others
not yet accomplished should follow in rapid
succession.
National Republican., 1877-10-27
Gen. Grant In England.

It rs refreshing and delightful, in reading
the frequent reports of Gen. GRANTS
speeches and the entertainments given him
abroad, TO see that they have not turned his
head, converted him into a snob, or fattered
and taken out of him his generous Ameri-
can principles and American sentiments.
1t is well-known fact that, while profess
ing great friendship for this our country and
its people in general, the prevailing almost
universal sentiment of the English is hos
tile to everything American in detail. They
were opposed to- slavery in the days when
that institution was powerful and its sup
porters controlled the policy of the Govern
srnment, and they were equally opposed to
the war against secession, which was to save
the country from dismemberment and for
over Danish slavery from ats territory. They
are opposed to our system of universal suf-
ffage and to the equality of the people, and
they express great horror at our railway
cars, In which all passengers are placed in
the same Carriages" as they call them,
wtthout distinction of caste or class
Above all, they obj, t to our tariff, which
makes 1t possible for us to be the manufac-
suren Of our own goods and keeps out Of
our markets the goods which they want to
nshe and sell US ut q great profit to them
solves Il is the experience Of every trav-
sier that about the first thing an English
National Republican., 1877-10-27
The Duty of the senate,

We trust that the President is not going
it blind on his appointments. 1t is little
surprising that he should yield his conf
dence so implicitly to WADE HAMPTON,
ALEXANDER STEPHENS and Senators HILL
and LAMAR; that he will swallow any pill
they may commend to his lips without an
attempt to analyzs its component parts.
HAMPTON recommended the appointment
of Judge NoRTHRAP rs district attorney of
North Carolina, and his recommendation
was received without examination, question
or discount, and the appointment
has been accorded to the wishes
Of the usurping government Of South
Carolina. 1t is represented that Mr.. STONE,
who has been removed at the instance OF
HAMPTON, is n capable and efficient officer,
whose only fault is that he is straight out
Republican. There is no cause for his re-
moval except that WADE HAMPTON de-
sired it. He has determined to OstraCise
and drive out from the State every true
Republican, and is using the Presidents
confidence in the furtherence of his de-
signs.
Slntt tnt utltntlOu VI mas
been called to the "true inwardness" of this
case he is represented as having stated that
the Senate would have chance to review
the appointment, and in this and all cases
where the Senate should have information
concerning nominees which the President
did not have at the time OF making the
nominations he would be gratifed to Lave
such information applied in the action of
the Senate.
The appointments of the Minister to
Brazil and the Marshal of Georgia are of
the same family, and should challenge the
closest scrutiny of the Senate. 1t is now
intimated that the President is desirous
that the Senate shall take notice of the case
Of NoRrHRUP and reject him. We have rea-
son to believe that the Senate does not de-
sire to be placed in q position where it shan
be called upon to antagonize the nomina-
tons OF the President We have every rea-
son to think that the ma ajOrity of the Senate
will wage no factional war upon the nomi-
nations he may make That they
should be surprised that Republicans
are removed from Office whose "per-
sonal character remain untamished, and
the performance Of whose duties have
been" perfectly satisfactory" against whose
integrity aud ability no charges have been
sustained if made, and who are above re-
proach, and that Democrats and Republi-
cans in no degree their superiors are nom
mated by the President to fill the places
| TINS made vacant Ia mot strange. that thew
should feel that great wrong has been done
to the civil service OF the country, and to
the party which elected the President, by
this line Of policy, ia very natural, and il
this course shall excite opposition and lead
TO rejections in all such cases it need not ex-
cite surprise in any quarter.
This dissension on the palt Of the Re-
National Republican., 1877-10-27
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Howard, Miss Howard, Master William Howard, Cal;
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souls, lIennier, Barnunis Show; II D Bowman, n Y;
cSmstScE c6sa$S Il Adams, Xsi jc: Snltn. y Tsn i
n n g ,GTsgE, Pa 4 Dawson VA Knui, Cincinnati
Ndtionai-w Trevor, N Y; II II Booman and wife
Va Adams dams and ~ = , GhalimHn Pa; H99I Hender
Minor, Pa; s Bryse. and wife, Md; " j Chapman
P% Il Eg!.! MN n i.Ppli,; ., Y n Hand end /!
Frost, chicago, and Malone and wife Gal.
=, 4rlfngtonn 70 I'D. .Ds n@erriGk' @ \; HonJ Houston
iiousrn. M'c % NONE wife a% and % daughter
Columbus, q q " Fulton and wife, Fulton, X I!
| Y, and Storrs and daughter, Liverpool, England.
| RiGOs-f II Caswell, Boston; c Clayton, Y; NJ
| II Philip, N Y; Hon G Foster. Ohio; A Tod Liver
pool, Eng 7 larrain, chill; W FTost, Phila u Lar
rain, Ghilii Lewis bsrrain HhlE ! kendrick an!
dsnce; L J Brett and wife, Newark, N ]; A Emery
| Maine.
| Hollldaysburg, Va NV Bunnell annex to Barnum
@ w Adams, ia; Mr. and Mrs kiPper, philadell b."
and thrty.nine members Of the company attached 4
| Barnums show.
Mfeiropoii,dn.-w Miller N Y; Fw Wood and wifi
| Pa; J Hale, Md; Y. NJ. Whitte and wife, Va v III
| lery, U ) N; II Plante, N Y; DIR Scott, Nd; l.
| Whttlc, Ga.
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| Hlllinrd, I. Webb, N Y; Lippitt, Hartford; W
| Whlpple, L II ROgers, Ohio; X Dudley. Neb.
National Republican., 1877-10-27
PERSONAL.

GABRIELLE GREELEY Is vcrv beautiful.
THE worst thing about Gambetta is that he
weRrs his hair long.
The Rev. Dewitt Talmage has resigned the
edtOrshIp Of the Advance.
THEY have q ladies lager-beer parlor" in
Boston. "Culchsh," you know
EsTRADA, tho captured President of the
Cuban Republic, will be sent 10 Spain.
HENRY BARTH, a newly appointed West
Point cadet, has become heir TO s25,OO0
TEE schoharie Repubiioan (which is Demo-
cratlc) calls Tweed "a lyer and purserer."
The cheating butcher will have his punish.
ment meled out TO him in another world
The Hons. Hilary A. Herbert and James
Taylor Jones' Of Alabama, two of the most capable
msmbeTs Of the present Congress, on the Demo-
cratic side have taken rooms for the session with
National Republican., 1877-10-27
Compensation for the South.

The Augusta, (Ga.,) Chronicle is thor
oughly reconciled and placated after the
Southern fashion. It now reminds the peo-
pie of the North that if they "had kept at
home there would have been no need of
losses incurred in suppressing rebellion so
Called and it adds: What is more, we
are going to get compensation. Our moral
triumph over SUMNER, STEVENS & Co. is
secure our national victory is to come"
This jeer and taunt may be justified. The
attitude of the South toward the North
under the policy of pacifcation and concil-
iation, with all its offensiyeness, may per-
baps be maintained in the future, and the
vaunted victory claimed may yet come; but
h will be when there is no North
70 rebuko insolence and avenge
wrong The great trouble now arises from
ths fact that the South was not sufficiently
chastised and subjugated by the war. If,
after conquering the armed rebellion, the
hng-leadeS had been hung, as the crime of
treason against the Government demands
If the balance of the rebels had been held, as
they deserved, under the bans of non -citi-
senship during their natural lives; if they
had been allowed to live on Southern soil
and breathe the free air of this Republic,
protected in their property, lives and the
pursuit of happiness, Invested of the politi-
cal rights they had so richly forfeited
then this great nation would be at peace
within itself, and the troubles and insults
that are now heaped upon it by a disre.
gard of law and right would not
menace the present or future of the country
The truth is the clemency of this Gov
ernment is being abused and reviled daily
and the Southern policy of the administra
ton is regarded as weakness on its part
under which the slumbering spirit Of rebel
hon is aroused and the nation is menaced
with fresh troubles and dangers.
If the people OF the North came to under
stand that the South is to strike out fo
compensation from the national Treasury
for the losses incurred by the war to crusi
rebellion-if they became satisfied that tn,
policy of pacifcation and reconciliation
means this-in thirty days the North woult
be US solid against the South as it was from
1851 to 1865 If the South desires thi
division and collision on geographical line
n will be accommodated as soon as it put
itself in an attitude to challenge an en-
counter
National Republican., 1877-10-27

publicans in the Senate 10 in no degree
sought or provoked by the Republican Sem
ators. They are ready TO meet the Presi-
dent on any fair, jus. and honorable ground,
and to answer any wish on his part that is
consistent with good faith to principle and
the well being Of the Government. We
should regard it as palpable dere,iction Of
duty on their part if they should yield their
approval to proscriptive line of policy
that removes capable and honest Republi-
cans from Office and places in their stead
the enemies of Republicanism or Republi-
cans who are not their peers in any regard.
1t now belongs to the Senate to see that the
true principles of civil service are asserted
in making appointments and changes, and
we have no doubt the Republican Senators
will discharge that duty with the strictest
fidelity.
We think something is due from the
President to the Republican majority in
the Senate in the way OF making nomina-
tions that he knows are not obnoxious to
their sense of propriety and if he finds he
has been deceived and betrayed into making
appointments inconsistent with political
good faith, instead of leaving such names
to be rejected by the Senate, he should
promptly withdraw them and avert col
lision. But if his reported interview with
recent delegation Of Republicans from
Baltimore ON the subject of appoint
ments in that city is trustworthy,
the position of the President is with
out parallel, and indicates purpose
on his part to precipitate a controversy if
not breach of friendship with the Senate
majority. He is reported as having said to
Mr.. WAKEFIELD that the Maryland appoint
ments us he had made them would be sent
to the Senate; that he would not attempt
TO interfere in the smallest degree with the
action of the Senate or to influence the
views Of individual Senators; that he
thought it was too late to reconsider his own
action, but when the nominations were in
the possession of the Senate the entire re-
sponsibility must rest with them to con-
firm or reject.