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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

FISH AND FISHING. The Ellsworth American
reports Snets running plentitully and quite
business done in dipping them Holsters small and
not abundant When the sardine factories in
Eastport are in full blast between three and four
thousand dollars are paid out every Saturday to
laborers in, and connected with the factories
The W ing says that the salmon at the Broad
street ncubatory house, Bangor. are now rapidly
Matching and thousands of dlmnutlve fish can be
Seen under the ways darting about The entire
lot Of sea salmon will be Matched soon it is thought
and be ready for distribution about Nav 10Th. al
lowing the usual time, 30 days for the ABSORPTION
OF the yolk sack These salmon will be placed in
the Penohscot river, with the exception of one lot
which will be put IN the Saco near its head waters
III New Hampshire The land locked salmon too
are doing finely. and with warm weather will
hatch on time The Rockland Courier reports
HOLSTERS small but plentiful large quantities are
caught near Owls Head 49,. Seth Green says the
lakes and ponds Of New York, properly cultivated
would annually produce fish of the value of thirty
five millions Of dollars. Mr.. Alden Condor of
MatIricus, has published pamphlet giving marks
and directions for finding fishing grounds in the
vicinity Of that island. He has tshed on the
grounds for 30 years The steamer Cambridge
had on freight from Rockland til inst 300 bbls of
Holsters, worth IS perbbl in the Boston market
A Lewiston fish dealer is collecting statistics in
regard to the amount and kinds of fish sold in the
city the several species Of fish which nhabt the
brooks and ponds in the vicinity how many of
the above are sold in the market, etc These sta
tistics collected in answer to long category
sent ont by Prof. Baird, Of the Smithsonian lnsti
tute, to all cities Of over 10000 inhabitants The
facts collected in this way will probably be used in
connection with the census Work began in the
Camden sardine factory last week . The first
trout Of the season was caught in the Androscog
sin Thursday -. The Boothbay canning factory is
doing good business Week before last about
10000 cans we're put up, one boat bringing in "A,
600 pounds of Holsters Smells have been caught
at the mead Of Franklin Bay in large quantities
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

we need fear no competition from any
quarter
But it may be said that our ship build
ers are small class: why should they be
entitled to special projections The ques-
ton is not limited to the ship builders or
even the ship owners. 1t has wider sig
niticance-a national Importance. For the
ocean carrying of freight, passengers and
mails we paid last year over $40, O00O 900
to foreign ship owners. In the last tif-
teen years we have paid over one thous-
and millions in gold out of the country in
this way, and at a time, too, when gold
was at premium, and we sorely needed
It, This drain goes on and grows with
our trade. Is it not worth while-is it
not imperative that we should at least
make an effort to retain this gold in the
country: that we should carry our prod
ucts to foreign markets in our own ships,
built in home yards, and manned by our
own seamen? Look at the matter from
another point of view. Mr. Roach says
Take the history of the three wars we have
fought for independence, for equal rights the
sea, for the preservation of the I MON, and | ask
YOU could we have afforded then to be dependent
upon England for ships and If we had been de
pendent what would have been the result! To
simply point ont the effects of such condition in
our late civil war: Where lay the strength Of the
North las it not chiefly in her ability to at
send sixty thousand trained men from the private
shipyards into the navy yards; to send thousands
more OF skilled mechanics into the arsenals and
in the private shpyards to build the NINETY days
gunboats besides being able. through the work of
those left at home to supply the wants of the PEG
pie and support our armies in the field OF what
value was it to us that we were able to send out
the little Monitor from private shlpvard in New
York in one hundred days! Had she been four
days later the capitol of the nation would doubt
less have been captured
Where lay the weakness of the South Was it
not in her undeveloped condition, without ship
yards or engine works, rolling mills, factories
or the means in any way to supply the wants OF
her people or maintain her army either in cloth
ing or implements of war : She never surrender
ed until we blockaded her coast and shut off her
chances to get supplies from England. In
three wars what should we have done bat for our
ability to build ships
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21
The Surly Senator.

Senator COnklmg's voice is for war
against President Garfeld's administra-
ton, as it was against that of President
Hayes. But this really concerns no one
very much, unless it be Senator Conkling
himself. He caused some Slight annoy
ance to President Hayes, it is true, but
since then he has lost some of his DEM
ocratic allies, and can no longer control
a majority OF the Senate. President
Hayes tried to conciliate the domineering
New Yorker, but soon found out his mis-
take. Nothing short of virtual abdica-
ton in favor Of Conkling would have Sc
cured the latter's condescension. The
same problem has been presented to
President Garfield He had either to
submit to Conkling's dictation or brave
his open wrath; and be has taken the
latter course, us his we'll -wishers hoped
and believed he would do. The nominal
ton Of Judge Robertson to the New York
c0llectorship has been chosen bv Mr.
Conklng as a basis for his hostlities
against Republican administration. and
the President certainly need have no re-
grets or fears concerning the issue pre-
scented. Judge Robertson is, in the first
place, in every way competent for the
position, and in the second place, he is as
good Republican as Mr.. Conkling or
any of his followers. His appointment
is, furthermore, satisfactory to large
majority of the Republicans of New York
But it is not satisfactory to Senator
Conkling, and he hopes, with the aid of
some of the Bourbon Senators to defeat
the nomination. This he will hardly be
able to do. The fact is that Senator
Conhllng's egotism and vanity have got
the better Of him. Bob Ingersoll has cor
rectly described him as "a well dressed
sneer.' He has made a study of the art
OF insolence. 1t characterizes his bear
ing, his expression and his language, and
All his abilities are eNerted in this direc-
ton. He is quite indifferent to legisa-
ton affecting public interests. 1t is only
in executive sessions, and when he wants
to demonstrate that he is bigger man
than a Republican President, that his
voice is heard. Disturb the tenure OF
office OF one of bis followers and he dons
bis war paint and rushes into the thick
est OF the fight: but when the Republ-
can party and Republican measures are
assalled in the open Senate, his voice is
silent and he manitestS his Indifference
IN manner which would do credit to a
star actor For President Garfield to
yield to the dictation Of such a man
would be a confession of weakness. and
to make his administration a mark for
contempt. The repeated assurances from
Washington that he will ''stclln are there
fore very gratifying. 1t would be still
tratlon had resolved to assume the az
gresslve and to take away from Senator
Conkllng whatever Federal patronage he
now has. He would be all the better for
little wholesome discipline. The coun-
try has been surtetcd with his sneering
and snarling.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

The BosToN MARINE Insurance COMPANY. bv
ITS last increase of capital of another half million
81 collars paid IN cash is placed in the highest
standing as the second largest purely marine in.
surance company in America The paid up capital
OF the company is now one million dollars assets
over two millions, and net surplus of over four
hundred thousand dollars. The net earnings of
TINS company have averaged since the commence
ment of its business, one hundred thousand dollars
per annum less than half of which has been diyd
ed among stockholders, the balance being placed
TO surplus account. Principal offices are at II
State Street, Boston. and 43 Wall Street. New
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

The doctrine asserted by Judge j. :.
Black and others, that q State Legisla-
ture may at will regulate the fare and
freight charges of railroads Incorporated
by the State, and which is in some de-
gree sustained by decisions OF the Su-
preme Court, is very clearly shown by
George Ticknor Curtis, in an article in
the North American Review for April on
"Ihe Ownership of Railroad PROPERTY"
to be an uniust and arbitrary exercise of
power. The theory upon which this ac-
ton is predicated is that railroads being
dedicated to public use, ''must submit to
be controlled by the public for the com
mon good" If this principle applies to
railroads, it must also apply to other
common carriers, and indeed to all kinds
OF business which receive public patron
age. There is a good deal of demagogery
behind this discrimination against rail
road corporations. The popular side is
always that opposedto corporations. But
this ought not to operate to the detri-
ment of chartered rights and property
interests. If, as many profess to believe,
corporations are an evil, they are certain
ly necessary evil, and but for them this
country could not have attained the po-
sition it occupies to-day among the ma
tons of the world.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

SHIPPING ITEMS The little steamers y ellie
Kane and Little Buercup we've launched at
Cakes yard, Brewer. Thursday. in the presence OF
a large concomse Of spectators The boats were
let of the ways at about quarter past ten o'clock
they Slid into the water gracefully and without ac-
cldeht---. The Polly, a small schooner owned by
Lewis Arey of South Thomaston, which is repair
ing at Rockland, Is said to be77 years old She
was built ID Ain"sbury Mass . The price of lime
has dropped to 90 cents per cask in New York, and
frelghts from Rockland 10 that port are dull at 20
cents per cask 1t appears that the remarkable
Car Of Russia, is likely to prove complete fail
ure. AT present she is lying at Ferrol in Spain
waiting for repairs though it is her first voyage
MeSsrs W Ii Sargent q Co, and Capt VIM
b Tower Of Sargentville are about to commence
building three masted schooner of about 300 tons
burden, to be used in the hard pine trade She
viii DC built with a centre board, in order to 90
over southern bars The firm of Goss SAWYER &
Packard at Bath, Me turns ont more wooden ton.
mage than any other concern in the world 1t has
about 500 men employed in its yards, in addition
to large number in the forest getting out ma
tcrial- The largest ship ever constructed in Bath
will be built by Albert Hathorn the coming sum
mer She will be Of the following dimensions
Length Of keel, 226 feet breadth 43, feet depth
. feet She will register 300 tons Building
operations will be commenced the latter part Of
next month,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21
Death of Lord BeaconsfieId.

LONDON, April -. Beaconsfeld had very
serious relapse during The night and died peaceful
ly at ) O'Clock this morning He was perfectly
conscious to the last Drs. Kidd and Quain and
Lords Rowton and Darlington we're present when
Lord ReacOnsteld died
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

supplement is issued with this number of the
Journal. containing the laws Of the State passed
by the SiXtieth Legislature.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

The Rum Fiend is stalking abroad" in Bridge
ton, as We learn from the News and ''rowdyism
has been rampant" Cause and effect are here in
Dictated
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

In an article on the poet LongteloW
(North American Review for ApriD An
thony 'Trollope, after stating that Long
fellow had never seen the country de-
scribed in the poem of Evangeline, says
that in his own writings all his clergymen
"have been but pastors and parsons of
the imagination" and then adds: $50 it
has been with LongfelloW, and | doubt
much whether those who 90 southwark
down the Mississippi will find the scenes
which he paints" This is an erroneous
conclusion on the part Of Mr.. Trollope
If Mr.. LongfelloW did not see with his
own eyes the regions in Nova Scotia and
Louisiana, described in the poem, he saw
them through the eyes of others, and the
details are reproduced with almost Il
Photographic accuracy. The site Of ''the
little village of Grand Pre- may be visit
ed to-day, and its surroundings are Just
as l-ongtelloW has painted them. So
with the scenery of the lower Mississippi
tits depicted in the most truthful colors,
and with perfect accuracy in detail.
There is no difficulty whatever in finding
"the scenes which he NongfelIow) paints. -
OF course we must accept Mr. Trollopes
statements concerning the pastors and
parsons who figure in his own writings,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

Last weeks storm was very severe along the New
England coast and many marine disasters are re
ported
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

Senator Davis, OF Illinois, is endeavoring 10
build up David Davis party for 1884
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

The United States Senate is healthy beer gar
den now, and only one month OF Garfields admin
istraton. Dem. Ex
The Democratic bier is visible there that's all
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

NEWSPAPER NOTES. The Maine Farmer has a
new Campbell press, and the conductors will
spare no pains to make the Farmer a model paper >
The Daily Newspaperrecently started in Bangor.
has gone up mir Will am Eaton, who has
been connected with the Maine Farmer for thirty
seven years has retired. He is nearly eighty three
years Of age The Bar Harbor Tourist will be
enlarged and published twice week, as last year
The first number this year will be issued early in
May The Damariacotta Herald isenlarged by the
addition of column to each page. The Satur
day issue OF the Bath Times lis bright and newsy.
The Christian Index religious paper published in
Atlanta Georgia, has font of type cast from bull
let's used by tho Union and Confederate armies be-
fore Sherman entered the city
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

A reader of the Journal thinks we were in error
IN stating that b. F. Butler was Attorney General
of the United States from 1881 to 1884 and saws:
He was appointed Nov. 18th, 1888, and served
until the appointment Of Felix Grundy, 1885. y
We considered the authority on which our state
ment was made to be good, and it is confirmed by
Appletons Encyclopedia which ought to be cor
rect
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

The following is the Republican policy,
to be developed in legislation next De-
cember, as stated by a leading Senator :
awe are for protection to home industry,
foTinternal improvements, for a revival of
our foreign commerce by proper aid to
American ocean steamers. We are for
developing the country" This is q policy
it would be difficult to improve upon, and
which should commend itself to all pa
triotic citizens
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

Cony Island is to have new pier to accommo
date the clamorous multitude who visit that sum
mer paradise Paradise and the pier, Ell
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

The Bath Times prints the following under tie
heading of business in Maine
The wife of Mr.. c. NJ Davis OF Newfeli, gave
birth to three boys last week They are all bright
and the mother as well as could be expected
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

Isn't it most time that Cape Cod canal
project thawed out i?
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

Scion Chase has been talking in Illinois
No doubt the people out there are Ill o noise
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21
The Rev. Mr. Ramsde Presbyterian clergy

The Rev. Mr.. Ramsdell, Presbyterian clergy
man of Washington, d. c. recently took for wife
a member of the Roman Catholic Church This
has caused great commotion at the national CAP
itol. Mrs Ramsdell attends the morning service
in her husbands church. but attends mass and the
confessional IN her own church. portion of the
congregation have had the pastor on trial before
the Presbytery for marry ing outside the pale of
the Christian church, but the result was favorable
to Mr. Ramsdell, and so the case will be taken to
the Synod, which meets in Baltimore next Octo-
Der, and from thence 1t will go to the Genera! As
sembly, the highest Presbyterian court in the
land 1t Is SAID that no case involving the ques
ton at issue has ever been considered by this
high church tribunal and it must naturally attract
good deal Of attention So far as the general
public is concerned it will no doubt decide in ia
vor Of the pastor Perhaps in marrying Mr. Rams
dell may have dashed the hopes of some of the
female members of his congregation. and hence
his persecution The poet tells us that
Heaven has 10 rage like love to hatred turned
Nor hell fury like a women scorned.
"A Son OF the Sea sings in the Waterville Mail
Of the Joys of the Ocean,, and concludes with the
following liberal invitation
Then quit these land sharks that on earth
Cause trouble and commoton
Ana roam with me, content and free,
pom the boundess ocean.
Is the poet skipper of mudscow-or what kind
Of craft does he propose to take his passengers
in We should like to know before we get our
kit ready
Gath George Alfred Townsend) says that -four
hths OF the Southern press is either ncendiary or
stupid, bgoted or silly" The Mobile Register re-
torts that the Southern press, or at least large
portion Of it, thinks he (Gath) is conceited ass :"
Nov let Eli Perkins say something
The Galveston tTexas) News. Democratic
paper, and one of the most influential and widely
circulated journals in the Southwest backs up Ma
hone in his fight with Southern Boulbonism, and
the Nicksburg Herald subscribes to the indorse
ment But the Prog Age is defender OF South
ern Bourbonism.
The Union Chronicle of March Is, and the Lew
iston Gazette OF the same date reached this office
Oh Saturday last 1t is said that woman is at the
bottom of every difficulty but in this instance the
mails seem 70 be at fault
An editorial writer on spring topics speaks of
the shad and the swallows coming "twiterng
Northward from their winter home in the sweet
South. Perhaps these singing fish were merely
practicing the scales
Oh no, they were % the high C's.
The Bath Times prints the following under tie
heading of I}nsinpss in Maine"
The wife of Mr.. c. NJ Davis OF Newfeli, gave
birth to three boys last week They are all bright
and the mother as well as could be expected.
Cony Island is to have new pier to accommo
date the clamorous multitude who visit that sum
mcrparadise Paradise and the pier, eh.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

The Machias Union recently published some ex-
tracts from an account book and journal kept by
Nathan longfellow who came to Machias in 1867
The following will show the prices and orthogra
ply of more than century ago. In Sept 117s
items are charged as follows
To Black Silk Handkerchiefs at 42d Sr.Ss
To scan of silk and stick OF twist I2s
To Id tea, at. ia
10 2o4 lbs OF browne sugar, 23t: lbs.
In May, l779 among the charges are
To /! mogs flip l2s to , quortes mo
., lasses ols., Be: 90
10 mug Ioddle; TO quorte rom, 30 l2s
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

The Galveston tTexas) News, a Democratic
paper and one of the most influential and widely
circulated journals in the Southwest backs up Ma
hone in his fight with Southern BouIbonism, and
the Vicksburg Herald subscribes to the inIorse
ment But the Prog Age is defender OF South
ern Bourboplsm
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

A Republican Senator, whom Charles
Nordhoff, the special Washington CORES
pondent of the New York Herald vouches
for as "a candid and moderate man."
thus explains the object Of the Bourbons
and the policy of the Republicans
During the Presidential canvass Senators Bayard
Hampton and others went into Virginia denounc-
ed Malone and declared 1t the duty Of every Dem
ocrat to vote against him; and now that Malone
has taken them at their word and has left them he
IS again denounced as traitor and wretch
for one, do not mean to be deceived by this pre-
tence. 1t IS plain to me that the aim of the South
ern leaders is to crush out white opposition, as
they have already crushed out black opposition.
and to perpetuate and make permanent that polit
zeal monstrosty known as the solid South The
very spirit in which they have attacked Malone
and in which they speak Of and deal with indie
pendents III the South proves the absolute neces-
sty of breaking this Southern solidity at once and
at all hazards
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

The Union Chronicle of March Is. and the Lew
Oh Saturday last It is said that woman is at the
bottom of every difficulty but in this instance the
mails seem TO be at fault
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

Gath George Alfred Townsend) says that -four
hths OF the Southern press is either incendary or
stupid, bigoted or silly The Mobile Register re-
torts that the Southern press, or at least large
portion Of it. thinks he Gath) is a conceted ass"
Nov let Eli Perkins say something
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

An editorial writer on spring topics speaks of
the shad and the swallows coming ''twitterng
Northward from their winter home in the sweet
South Perhaps these singing fish were merely
practcing the scales
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

At midnight Sunday, the ninth decennia census
OF Great Britain and the seventh of Great Britain
and Ireland under the authority of Parliament,
was taken 1t is estimated that the population
will reach 81, 000, 900.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

BY the will of the late Stephen y StockweII
$4,000 is left to the Massachusetts Homo path ic
hospital for free bed for sick and destitute
printers $1,000 is left to each of several mission.
AIRY and charitable Institutions