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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-12-24

HARNEsSIN NIAGARA FALLS
From the New York Bulletin. Now
adays, we are SO accustomed to an
nouncements of stupendous engineering
undertakings, that such are usually
looked upon in matter of fact sort of
way and forgotten. We now have an
other example nearer home, but in ac-
tual course of being accom- plished. 1T is
proposed to utilize the immense water
power Of the Niagara Falls for the pur-
pose of transmitting compressed air to
Buffalo. A company has been formed.
with greater part of the capital paid in,
and operations have been commenced.
The principal part of the machinery
will be located near the waters edge,
below the Falls, in the vicinity of the
Bridal Veil. The remainder will be on
the bank Immediately above. The prac-
tical working of the machinery will be
briefly as follows: After the water in
the reservoir on top of the bank is high
enough to reach the bend of the syphon,
1t viii! escape down pipe to the air cyl
inders below. The pressure thus obtain
ed very soon closes automatic valves
There being no escape tor the water
which continues to pour into the cylin-
der, the air which 1t contains is COM
pressed by the volume of water from a.
bove, until it has as much expansive
power when released as steam. The ca
pacity of the reservoir and of the cylin-
ders will be exhausted by the time the
desired compression has been obtained
below. While the reservoir is again
filling with water, that in the cylinder
| is escaping, so that when the bend in
the syphon Is reached, the contents OF
| the cylinder is exhausted, and it is ready
for another charge. The operation is re-
peated at regular intervals in each cyl
inder, and there being several of them,
a continuous charge ofhighly compress
ed air is secured. With this the projec-
tors propose to supply Buffalo with an
almost unlimited supply of compressed
air by means of pipes, and at a merely
nominal cost,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-12-24

MEADE r. WHITE.
w ATTORNEY. .AT-LAW,
STAUNToN, VA,
yiil practice in the Courts of Augusta, Rock
fngham and Highland.
Refers, by permission, to the Law Faculty OF
the University OF Virginia.
OFFICE on Courthouse Alley. feb 8-Iy.
ESMEsTDN A Baylor,
ATTORNEY-AT-I4AW,
A7sd Solicitor in Cgtdnce,y, STAUNToN, VA,
practices in all the Courts of Augusta and ad-
jpining counties.
CFTICE-The same formerly occupied by his
father, Col. Geo. Baylor, decd. On Augusta ST.,
opposite the Courthouse. no21
VTyM. n. fcALLESTER,
w ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
WARM SPRINGS, VA.
Courts-Alleghany, Bath and Highland, Va,
nd Pocahontas, West Virginia.
AsSpecial attention given to collection of
claims and proceeds promptly accounted for.
dec 23-tf
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
The York Greenbackers,

The Greenback County Convention at AL
fred yesterday goes to show that the new
National party has, despite its high preten-
tions, already fallen under the control of the
professional politicians. Protesting to reject
ofice-holders it accepted men who have been
in the public service for years. Claiming to
represent the producing classes it put for
ward men who (adopting the language of
one of its speakers) maintain themselves at
the expense of producers the exchangers,
money-lenders and note.shavers. Assuming
to be convention of taxpayers it was con-
trolled by tax-eaters. Jublantly proclaiming
that 1t was opposed to both the old parties it
permitted Democratic politicians to assume
its management and work it in the interests
of the Democratic party.
The candidates named by the convention
are nearly TO man, men who have sought
favors at the hands Of the old parties and
have been repulsed from motives of principle
or policy. In some instances they were
thought unfit for the positions to which they
aspired. In others past conventions had not
dared to bring them forward because of their
unpopularity or weakness with the people,
But this convention constituted itself an
asylum for the men who have gone by ir
politics and adopted and championed the
political failures of the last decade. There
is scarcely one of the candidates who has no.
been an ofice-holder or candidate for office
before every convention held in York county
during the last ten years. The resolutions
were with one exception those passed by the
Lewiston Convention, the additional
resolution, condemning the use of money il
elections, was offered by man who has the
reputation of driving extraordinarily sharr
bargains with mercenary voters, who is re-
ported as boasting that he has bought more
votes at lower prices than any other politi
clan in his section.
The body of the convention was made up
of honest men, good citizens, who believe
they have real grievance and desire its re-
moval. But at no time did they have posses
sion of the convention. AT the outset it was
taken charge of and run by political strikers
seeking only to benefit themselves. They
found it easy to control an assemblage un-
used to political manipulations and inexpe-
rienced in running the machine. They were
Democratic politicians, aided by few disap-
pointed Republicans, all thoroughly familiar
with caucuses and conventions. Using with
ingenuity the claim that they could bring
the Democratic party of the county to the
support of the nominees, they persuaded the
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
Current Comment.

Mr.. S. j, Tilden has his eye on both Thur.
man and Hendricks. The old man is giving
the boys plenty Of rope, but keeps a tight
grip on the windlass.- Enquirer.
The Mobile Register insinuates that Gen.
Sherman may be punished for his recent
speech at West Point by having Hancock
made general of the army.
If this were the last of the XLVth Con.
gress, we might vote ourselves well out ofa
bad scrape. Unfortunately the same body
reassembles next December and the country
will hardly have drawn breath of relief be-
fore the trouble will begin again. 'Such is
life. e."-BufaEo Express.
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph demands that
the Southern people shall be paid for their
emancipated slaves. And before the ad-
journment of Congress sixty-one members of
the House voted against a resolution for
constitutional amendment forbidding the
payment of rebel war claims.
A Republican convention in his old county
in Ohio having heartily indorsed the Hon.
John Sherman, he has written letter of
thanks, in which he says: Especially in this
Louisiana matter know my conduct is be-
yond reproach. did nothing that 1 have
the least cause to regret, or that l would not
do over again, If possible, with greater ZEAL"
One J. B. Thorp of the "Jesamine Female
institute" Nicholasvile, KY, formally an
nounces himself candidate for superinteDd-
ent of public instruction on the Democratic
ticket, and proclaims his ''points." He has
been lifelong Democrat, never scratched a
ticket, is "Kentuckian by birth, education
and residence" has been principal of three
prominent female schools in the bluegrass
region, and is practical" if nothing else.
Congressman Lynde, of the Milwaukee
| district, has better excuse for supporting
Proctor Knotps amendment prohibiting the
President from using the regular army as a
posse comitatus than most of his Bourbon
colleagues. During the late unpleasantness
| with the South draft riots occurred in every
| one of the counties that now compose Lynde's
| district, and in each case the militia had to
be called out to quell the disturbance and
| protect the officers. Lynde is looking after
the security of his constituents. They had
his sympathies then as they have his protec-
tion now.-Chicago Tribune.
The Maine Greenback party has succeeded
in picking out candidate for Governor who
is direct contradiction of the platform on
which he stands. The resolutions call for a
reduction in officials salaries and denounce
all bondholders and demand rigid economy
every where. Major Smith, the candidate,
has a consistent record as supporter of a
higher salary and large appropriations for all
sorts of purposes, and he is generous hold
er of the despised bonds. 1t has always
been popularity of the Labor Reformers
that they have picked out for candidates men
who have never worked at all save with their
tongues. II will soon become as general a
rule that the enemies of bondholders are best
pleased with bondholder as their exponent.
N. Y. Tribune
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
british Mail, London.J
American Advertising,

The Americans beat us hollow in the matter
Of advertising, and it is our firm belief that in
the United States the advertiser gets far more
value for his money than the manufacturer
of any other nation under the sun. With them
advertising is reduced,as one might say, to one
of the fine arts, s,whilst in Great Britain we still
appear to be even yet in the dark ages of
advertising life. There are many reasops for
this, into which we cannot enter here. suffice
1t to say that the American is more jadicioust
and persisten in what he does. He feels that
with SO many competitors springing up ne must
keep himself we'll towards the front in the
commercial world, or else that IL time he must
inevitably "snuff out" AS also the home de-
mand gets overtaken, as It is, by too large sup
ply, so does he extend his advertising opera
tions, and at the present moment in many of
our British coloDies-markets which ought to
entirely our own-Yankee Emotions" are far
better known than many of our own specialties
far more suited to the locality. simply because
practical Illustrations and wel-written adver-
tisements meet the eye of the consumer in al
most every newspaper.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

"Ihe uery man OF all others who has the
deepest interest IN a sound currency, and
,oho suffers most By mischierous legislation in
money matters, Is the man avlo earns his dai-
ly bread By his daily toll. a deprecated cur
reacy, sudden changes of prices, paper money
falling betaoeen morning and noon, and fal-
ling still lo,oer 5etween noon and night, these
things constitute the uery harvest time of spec
ulators, and Of the whole race Of those aoho are
at once idle and crafty. " a disor-
dered currency is one of the greatest political
evils 1t Hundermines the uirtues necessary for
the support Of the social system, and encour-
ages propensities destructive to its hnppixess
1t aodrs against industry, trugality and econ
o1ny, and it fosters the eeil spirits of ertrap-
dgance and speculation. Of all the contri-
uances for cheating the laboring classes Of
mankind, none has been more efectuol than
that avhich deludes them ,uith paper money.
This is the most efectual Of Intentions to fer
tilize the rich man s fields By the speat of the
poor mans 6ro,o. Ordinary tyranny, oppres.
sion, ercessire ta1ation, these bear lightly up
on the mass OF the community, compared ,o;th
fraudulent currencies and the robberies COM
mitted By deprecated paper" r."-Daniel
Webster
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

THE Shoe and Leather Reporter contains
some needed words of warning to BUYERS and
sellers: "Misrepresentations or conceal.
ments about the quality of goods are," is
says. "foolish, because they generally cost
great deal more than they come to. The
buyer, as rule, gets the goods and has abun-
dant opportunity to test their quality before
he pays for them. He is morally certain TO
magnify any defects he finds, and to obtain
as much allowance as he is entitled to, with
tendency to more-so the safest plan for the
seller, putting it simply as matter of expe-
diency, is always to deliver as good quality in
every respect as he sold, and better, if any.
thing. Similarly, buyers are very short
sighted when they make exactions that are
net warranted by tho facts. They NAV chin
Off little triie here and there In their bills,
and save pittance, row of interest by
changing date, anon of principal by claim
ing reduction, but that is kind of sharp
practice that occasions more vexation than
profit. Such proceedings soon bring a man
into bad odor, and he cannot buy as well as
his fair dealing competitors do. He NAV
fancy he can, but he is mistaken. He is
under ban, whether he is aware of it or not.
There is nothing to make him a favorite in
trade circles but his money, and the people
who trust him cannot tell when he may take
notion to save some of that, by suspending
and compromising their claimSO
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
JAMES BUCHANAN.

"Such medium (irredeemable paper mon
ey,) has always been liable to fuctuation. Its
value is constantly changing; and these
changes, often great and sudden, expose in.
dividuals to great loss, are the source of ruin
GUS speculations, and destroy all confidence
between man and man."-Chief Justice Mar.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

TIE friends of ex-Secretary Robson state
that the recent paper, read in the House by
Mr.. Whitthorne, was unauthorized by any
committee. 1t was personal document, land
the report of the Committee on Naval Affairs
recommending the payment of all bills, was
passed by an overwhelming vote of the
House, and unanimous vote of the Senate.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
For sale.

nN Old Orchard Camp ground, first-class COT
" TAGE, situated on Sth st. Also new HOUSE
779 Congress St., ahd house lots on Cumberland st
Portland. Apply to VIM. HAGGETT, TT Congress
St, Portland, Me- je25dlw*
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

THE sins of omission of the Forty-ffth
Congress have been as bad as its sins of
commission. One of the worst of these is
the neglect to devise some means of making
another electoral controversy like that of
1851 impossible. Certainly this doesn't
look as if the Democrats abhorred revolu-
tion
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

ga return to specie payments at the earli-
est possible period compatible with due re-
gard to all interests concerned, should ever
be kept i'm view. Fluctuations i'm the value
of currency are always injurious, and to
reduce these fluctuations to the lowest pos
sible point will always be a leading pur-
pose I'm wise legislation. ConvertibiIity,
prompt and certain convertibility into
coin is acknowledged to be the best and
suresS safeguard against them.
ARR m AM UUNrAUN
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE ge.

we do not read anonymous etters 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.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

"Capital may be produced by Industry and
accumulated by economy, but only juggers
will propose to create it by legerdemain tricks
with paper."-Thomas Jefferson.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS
CITY OE PORTLAND.
CITY MARsHAL's OFFICE.
Vnna. 90 1910

CITY MARsHAL'S OFFICE.
June %, 1878.
AWNERS of Trucks, Drays, Wagons Carts OF
" other vehicles, which shall be used in this city
for the conveyance from place to place, within the
city, OF WOOD COAL LUMBER stone, bricks, sand, clay,
chandise, building material any other article or
thing whatsoever. are hereby requested to present
their teams or inspection and to receive their licenses
and numbers for the year commencing July /, 1873,
at the hal shas office, from the 9th to the goth Of
july, 1878 failure to comply with this notice will
subject the delinquent TO penalty.
G. K. BRIDGES, City Marshal.
iao5
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

1t (paper money! tends to aggrauate the
ineqssaiity Of fortarsess TO make the rich
and the poor poorer, to multiply nabobs and
oaNpers, and to deepen and widen the gulf
aohich separated Dioes from Lazarus. Tnon-
as Il. Benton.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

Paper emissions by the government are
of a nature SO Liable to abuse, 4 may say
so certain TO be abused, that the wisd om 4
the government will be shown by never
trusting itself w th SO seducing and dan
gerOus power.''
ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

--As y worry x...H source of strength
and security, cherish public credit. One
method of preserving il is to nse il as
sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions
of expense by cultivating peace, but re.
membering also that timely disbursements
10 prepare for danger frequently prevent
much greater disbursements to repel il
avoiding likewise the accumulation of
debt, not only by stunning occasions Of
expense, but by vigorous exertions in time
of peace 10 discharge the debts which un-
avoidable wars may have occasioned, NOT
unxenerousiy throwing upon posterity the
burden which we ourselves ought TO bear,
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

Irredcemable paper money "converts the
business of society into n mere lottery; and
when the collapse comes, come il must
il casts iaborers ont of employment. crush
es manufacturers and merchants and
ruins thousands of honest, industrious
citiZens.o
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigDed 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 our
Ournal,
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

a paper currency is great curse to ana
people and a particular curse to the laborer
of any country, for its depreciation al,oays
falls up0n the labOrer.-Andrep jackson.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

GLovER's investigating committee found
out that Morrison's New Orleans committee
started from Washington with over hun
dred dollars worth of champagne and Old
Stag whiskey purchased at the government
aynnncn
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

The average college graduate sheds the
good advice given him in the presidents
baccalaureate as thoroughly as a ducks
back the water.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

THE Camden Herald thinks that if the
Nationals do not win this fall the cry will be
"Vire la Conamune". The Herald should
be printed in red ink.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

THIS is the season of the year in which the
newspapers usually descant at great length
on the best material to dress the girl graduate
in. The subject has been very much neg
lected this year.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
House for Sale.

g. A nice House with modern improvements.
@:;: very pleasantly situated on one of the best
@sAAstreets in the Western part of the city. In
quire of w. G. COBB,
je21 If % and 80 Pearl Street,
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

THE Potter committee have decided to le
Butler investigate the Harlan McVeagh com
mission.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

"The loss aUlaich Anaericd has sustained, since
the peace, from the pestilential effects of ire
deen,abte paper money, on the necessary conf
dence bet,ceen men, on the necessary confidence in
Mepublic councils, on the industry and morals of
the people and on the character of republican goo
ernnaent constitute an enormous debt against the
States charyeabIe soih this a,aadussed measure,
achach must remain unsatised, or rather it is an
accumulation ofguih actich can be eapiated no
otherwise than By voluntary sacrifice on the al
ar of justice of the poooer aohich has been the in-
str1s1aent cf t-Jdmes Madison
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

THOMAS A. JENKs is not captain of the
Horse Marines. Agnes is captain. Thomas
is only private.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
City of Portland.

CITY MARsRAL's OFFICE,
june 90, 1878.
OWNERS OF Hackney Carriages are hereby re-
" quested to present their teams for inspection.
and to receive their licenses and inspection cds for
the year commencing July i, 1878, at the Marseal's
Office MONDAY, July sth from to 12 a. m. alAI
from to o'clock p. m.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
City of Portland.

NOTICE is hereby given that the 'Joint Standing
IN Committee on Laying out New Streets" to
whom was referred the petition of Frank Smonds
that part of Federal street the northwest side
thereof, from India to Hancock streets, be dscon-
tinued said committee will meet at junction of Fed
eral and India streets, on WEDNESDAY, the twen
ty-sxth instant at o'clock P. NJ, to hear all par
ties interested and then determine and adjudge if
public convenience requires that that part of Federal
street should be discontinued and if they should go
adjudge will then and there discontinue that part of
Federal street aud fix the damages required by
law.
NJ. nj. BUTLER,
JAMES e. HASELTINE, Committee
ISAAC ID. CUSHMaN, on
ALBERT SMITH, Laying out
ISAAC HAMILTON, New Streets,
JACOB w. ROBINSON,
jelS dtd
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
Examination of Teachers,

CONGRATULATIONS VI II CHOEECHSt
YsfHE Committee on Examination of Candidates
n for Teachers OF the Public Schools of Portland
will hold a session at the High School Building on
the first day of July next at 10 a. M Persons de-
srous of positions teachers in the public schools
not having taught in the city the past year, whether
holding certificates or not, must present themselves
for examination as above. THOMAS TASH,
Superintendent of Schools.
Portland, June 4, 1878. je5td
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
For Sale or to Let.

nCEAN SPRAY HOUSE. at Old Orchard Beach.
" Inquire of A. DAME. at Depot E. ID. NOR
TON, 81 Exchange Street Portland, or G. w. SAW
IN, Union Hotel, Watertown, Mass.
je2O DIFF
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE

delegates to sacrifice principle to expediency,
and put in nomination grotesque and in
congruous ticket.
The intrigue which enabled the political
strikers to control the convention, though
seemingly a success was really failure.
Neither of the old parties will care to take up
the men it has rejected year after year. A
coalition is impossible. The Republicans
end the Democrats will nominate their can
didates, utterly Indifferent to the nomina-
tions made yesterday. Nor will the Green
back candidates command the support of
their own men. Nor few of the delegates
left the convention satisfied that a trick had
been played upon them and disgusted with
the trade that was made.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
TO LET.
Good Rent for a Dressmaker,
Tailor, Or Hair Dresser.

nVER book store, corner Oak and Congress SITS.
" Six rooms, gas and Sebago water.
Also nice rent on Brackett st.
ie15d2w* VIM. H. JERRIS, Cahoon Block.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
To Let.
To Let

nNE of the most desirable rents on Congress St.,
" oIposit the park, No. 1856. Apply to l.. TAY-
LOR, High street Wharf. jeSdtf
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
WANTS.
WANTED.

a YOUNG man with experience desires a situa-
"A tion in the Wholesale Grocery or Boot and
Shoe business Can keep books-Single or Double
Enty-and will make himself useful. Address
'SITUATION'
je2sdlw* Box So, Norway, Me.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
For Sale or Exchange.

GEVERAL desirable and well located houses ii
- the city-will sell low or exchange for goot
farms. Inquire of JOHN c. PROCrER. je2td3w
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
Fer Sale i'm Deering.

For Sale =
The new and thoroughly built
house Ellsworth ~. Very pleas
antly situated; i'm the healthieSt
part of the city. The best bargain
i'm tllc market this season.
Apply ON the premises.
j, ks. AVERILL.
juy31 diff
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

FElHE house No. 1s High St., between Danforth and
IL York. JONAS W. CLARK,
je5dtf 558 Congress Street.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26
THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS,
THE MAINE STATE PRESS

TERMS: Eight Dollars Year in advance. T
mail subscribers Seven Dollars Year if paid in ad
vance.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-26

CONvENIENT for small families Sebago watt
" and good sewerage. Apply TO E. j. WHIT
NEY at this office, or W. H. CONANT at P. & r. /
Office, near Grand Trunk Station. my22dtt