Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-07-17

grand ovation on their arrival at Portland. Ore
gon among the guests present being ex-Senators
Corbett and Nesmith Ben Halliday Representa-
tive Williams and great many leading citizens
and ladies'
There was an economical farmer in Athol.
Mass, who was rich, of course, and be stopped
his newspaper because be found it on file at a
hotel reading-room, where he could, b~driying
two or three miles read it gratis. Unfortunately
the next thing was that the hotel stopped the
newspaper, too.
The Philadelphia Press says that while there is
depression ia the dry goods trade, the manufac-
lures of that city are in remarkably hourishlng
condition, some of them doing a better business
than at any previous period. The production this
year is estimated at 5000 600 600, against Sjj2,
100000 last year
General "Stonewall" Jackson. though famous
for his pety, did not scruple to take a sound nap
in church. 1t is related Of him that during the
invasion Of Maryland, on Sunday night he rode
three miles in ambulance to attend church in
Frederick, and then fell asleep as the min
lister began to preach; his head fell upon his
breast, and he never awoke until aroused by the
organ and choir. lie could sleep anywhere and
in any position, sitting in his chair, under fire. or
on horse hack.
The hardness of the Russian army is cursusly
explained by the London Spectator. 1t says that
the staff has got the campaign of 1870 on the brain
ii wants to move hosts equal to the German ones
with the same precision, the same unfsiling sue
cess, and the same earthquaky results it aims to
do everything on a gigantic scale, and to move
men by the hundred thousand across broad river
but finds that the task involves difficulties only to
be met by grievous expenditure of time. The
Russian forces fight we'll, man~uvre well, and are
well directed; but there is want of go about
them, disposition to have everything prepared
as if an army were match, n tendency to wait
for overwhelming masses of artillery, which re-
vcas a certain want of self-confdence not to be
anticipated in conquering people.
1t is estimated by Mr. Charles II. Marshal.
whose house is one of the Oldest shipping con-
Germs of this port, that 10000 tons OF shipping
ale lying idle in the narbor of New York. Mr..
Marshal is well-known as a free trader. He be-
lieves that enterprise should be free air, and
that sound currency and free trade would restore
the country 10 prosperity at once. is therefore
interesting to find that he thinks a repeal of the
navigation laws would not At this time be bene-
fit to American shipping. Navigation languishes,
he says, because trade is dull, and TO repeal the
shipping laws would simply bring foreign vessels
here in fleets, to register at our ports without real
transfer of ownership and to subject our own
shipping houses to a new and hurtfu competition
Shoald trade revive, laws granting the right to
buy ship stores free of duty, as in England, and
relieving vessels from our heavy consular exsc-
tions abroad, would be az important aid in putting
the American master on an equality with his for
eign competitors, but in his view a greater one
would be the ability to buy iron ships equally as
cheap as merchants of other nations. For the
present, however, the ship owners Of tie United
States are best off with the laws as they are al
present. Tribune.